Twilight, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Fluttershy, and Rarity were all hanging out over at Sweet Apple Acres playing games one breezy summer afternoon in Ponyville.
“So, you said Rainbow Dash couldn’t make it Fluttershy?” asked Twilight wondering.
“Yeah, she said that she was too busy practicing her new air trick. I think she called it a Mach-3 triple loop nose dive…” answered Fluttershy softly.
“Wow, sounds great!” said Pinkie Pie excitedly while bouncing up and down.
“Anypony up for a game of horse shoes?” questioned Applejack to the party.
At that moment the five friends heard a loud roaring sound as something flew over their heads. They all looked up spontaneously to find out what it was. At first they thought that it was a dragon, but quickly dismissed that idea. It was grey with two wings and flying fast! The friends had never seen a creature like it before.
“Look, something is chasing it!” exclaimed Rarity pointing at the sky.
As they all strained to see what was that was following this strange creature it suddenly did a nose dive towards the ground.
“It seems as if it’s trying to shake the thing following it,” observed Twilight.
As the creature and its follower came closer to the ground the friends gasped as they all realized that it was Rainbow Dash who was chasing this thing.
“Why it’s Rainbow Dash!” uttered Applejack, “But what in the hay is she chasing?”
As the creature neared the ground it suddenly pulled up out of its nose dive and shot straight back up into the air. Once it got some altitude it leveled back out and did a 180 degree turn. Rainbow Dash was no longer following the creature; the creature was following Rainbow Dash! Then, all of a sudden, there was a loud zapping sound. Some type of red energy beam shot out from what the friends supposed to be creature’s mouth! Narrowly dodging the blast Rainbow Dash lost speed and unintentionally pulled up beside the flying thing. She looked over at it and a surprised expression suddenly appeared on her face.
“What in Equestria is she doing!?” exclaimed Twilight.
Using great carefulness Rainbow Dash slowly drifted over top of the creature and then landed on it!
“I can’t look,” cried Fluttershy covering her eyes.
Once on top of the thing Rainbow Dash raised hind legs and slammed them down onto the creature with great force. When nothing happened she continued kick over and over again until what looked like smoke started to rise from it. She quickly jumped off of its back just as it burst into flames.
“Whoa, I’ve never seen a living thing catch fire before! Well, except for a phoenix…” said Pinkie Pie wide eyed.
As the creature plunged towards the ground uncontrollably there was an abrupt popping noise as something ejected from within it. As the ejected object continued to plummet towards the ground the creature suddenly exploded with a deafening blast. Rainbow Dash, still hovering in mid-air, didn’t seem to care about the dead creature; instead she did a nose dive for the falling object! Both of them disappeared behind the apple trees as they neared the ground.
--In the Apple Orchard--
“I’ve got to catch it before it’s too late!” thought Rainbow Dash as she neared the ground.
The falling thing discharged something from it back that seemed to have slowed its falling speed down by a lot. The thing then landed in a tree and sat there motionless. Rainbow Dash landed next to the apple tree and looked curiously up at the strange thing. It appeared to be ensnared by the tree’s branches. She watched it closely but kept out of sight.
“What the hell was that thing!?” blurted the strange creature as it thrashed about in a hopeless tangled mess, “I’ve seen many things in my life but nothing like that before!”
“Everything was going fine until the commander told me to detach from the group and head back to the Atropos. Ugh, this is just great…” it said sarcastically, “I’m stuck in what seems to be an apple tree on an alien world! Oh no, what if that weird monster thing comes back? All I have on me is a pistol, and if that thing was strong enough to bring down an F-56 fighter jet then I don’t think a pistol will help very much. Well, now that I think about it it kind of looked like a horse. Oh great, a flying horse! What’s next dancing buffalo?”
“Buffalos don’t dance…”
“W-what?! Who said that?” stammered the unknown creature.
“I said buffalos don’t dance,” replied Rainbow Dash stepping out of the shadows.
“Whoa, it’s you again! You’re that thing that knocked me out of the sky!” exclaimed the creature struggling to get loose.
“Ok, I have a lot of questions,” said Rainbow Dash studying it closely, “And stop squirming, you’re only going to make it worse.”
“Don’t you come any closer or I’ll shoot!” cried the creature pulling something from its waist and pointing it at Rainbow Dash.
Rainbow Dash jumped up and hovered about three feet off of the ground.
Suddenly the object the creature was holding made a few small clicking sounds before he threw it onto the ground and cried out in desperation, “Jammed!”
Puzzled Rainbow Dash replied, “I’ll help you get down but only if you answer a few of my questions first…”
Realizing that he had no other choice the creature answered, “And what might that be?”
“Well first of all what are you?”
“I’m a human! What else would I be?”
“Human?”
“Wait, are you telling me that there are no humanoids on this planet? Seems like 95% of the time a planet has humanoids on it…”
“Umm, nope. I’ve never seen anything like you before.”
“Ok well, I’m a human, from planet Earth. What’s the name of this place?”
“This place is called Equestria. Welcome, human from Earth. Wait, are you really an alien?”
“*sigh*, Yes… by the way I have a name ya know!”
“And what is that?” inquired Rainbow Dash excitedly.
“Nick…”
“Hi Nick, my name is Rainbow Dash!”
Nick stared at Rainbow Dash as if studying her for the first real time.
“Whoa, wait! Are you a talking horse!?”
“Pony,” corrected Rainbow Dash.
“I’ve been to many weird plants but I’ll have to admit that I’ve never seen a talking horse, err, I mean, pony before.”
“So, what was that thing you were flying in? It was going pretty fast,” exclaimed Rainbow Dash, “Maybe we could have a race some time; that would be cool!”
“Umm, how about you help me down first and then I’ll explain everything.”
After a while of untangling rope and other stuff Nick was finally safe on the ground beneath the apple tree.
“Ok, so let me start from the beginning,” sighed Nick, “I’m from planet Earth. It’s not that far away, only about 7.8 billion light years away.”
“So awesome! How’d you get here?”
“In the U.S.S Atropos.”
“…”
“It’s a fifth generation starship.”
“…”
“A flying machine that can travel to other galaxies!”
“Oh, cool!”
“Yeah, anyway, our ship was assigned to explore this solar system. Strange energy readings were coming from this planet and, when scanned, it proved to be habitable. The strange energy readings showed that transporting down here may be dangerous, so a few of us got into the F-56 starplanes to scout the planet.”
“Danger is my middle-name!”
“Anyway, when scouting the planet we found that there where many cities and towns. The life form readings seemed very strange so we assumed that our instruments were malfunctioning. About half way through the reconnoitering the commander told me to head back for the Atropos because I was no longer needed. When flying back you apparently started to follow me and you know what happens after that…”
“So what was that thing you were flying in exactly?”
“It was an F-56 starplane, basically a mini one man starship.”
“Sorry, I didn’t mean to break it. I was practicing a new awesome air trick when you came zooming by!”
“Ok, so you’re a flying talking pony?”
“Pegasus…”
“Whatever.”
“Anyway, you can zooming by like Kazaam! And I was like, wow, what is that? At first I thought that you were some kind of creature, but when I pulled up beside you I realized that you were inside of it! I still thought that the starplane thing was a creature, and I thought that it was eating you. So, I landed on top of it and started kicking, hoping that it would spit you out."
“Lucky shot kid, you damaged my stabilizers!”
“Sorry…”
“It’s fine, I guess… as long as I can get back to the Atropos somehow.”
“I could fly you up.”
“No, it’s too high. It’s orbiting the planet in space.”
“Oh”
“So, I guess I’ll just have to stay here for awhile until it comes back into range with my communicator.”
“How long will that be?”
“About 1-2 days…”
“Well, until then you’re welcome here. I’ll have to show you around. Twilight will love you! Wait, let me rephrase that, she’ll love to study you.”
Nick stooped down and picked up the clicker thing that he had dropped off of the ground, “Ok then, lead the way!”