//------------------------------// // The Light // Story: Minecraft Ponies // by Jubilee_29 //------------------------------// I sat at one of the many tables in the library, reading a book that Princess Celestia had suggested. The sun had just set, and my friends had already gone home to sleep. Spike was asleep on one of the tables nearby, a blanket tucked around him. As I read, I reached a chapter titled, “Alternate Dimensional Travel” I read on, my magic casting a magenta light over the words. “Alternate Dimensional travel is considered one of the most difficult forms of magic known to ponykind. It requires many elements to cast the spell; some nearly impossible to get, some being the most expensive rarities in Equestria, some having to be created by alicorn magic, making it almost impossible to achieve. The only recorded time it has been achieved was by Princesses Luna and Celestia, but they would not share how it was done. Although, they did say that they did this because a pony they knew as fillies had attempted it. After that, he was never seen again.” I mumbled the last words to myself. “Never seen again? Maybe that pony succeeded and is is in a different universe. Maybe it’s like when I went to Canterlot High! Maybe if he is in a another universe, he was changed to look like the beings of that universe!. I have to find out more. Maybe I could actually achieve travel if I do enough research.” I flew around the library, grabbing every book I could concerning Alternate Dimensional Travel. Eventual, I had a stack about 12 books, not as much as I had hoped, but they still contained information I could use. I read past midnight, ignoring the cuckoo clock in the other room occasionally signaling the time and fatigue that gnawed at my mind. As I reached the final book, my head swum with all I had read. It was fascinating, the concepts, theories, all of the experiments conducted trying to travel. I opened the book with a bit of magic and began reading. Suddenly, the ground started rumbling violently and the sky started lightening rapidly. Is it an earthquake? Is the sun being raised to early? I ran to the window, shielding my eyes as the light and rumbling intensified. This is definitely not normal, the light wasn’t coming from the surrounding area, it was coming from a single point maybe 100 yards in the air “SPIKE!! WAKE UP!!” He shot up, and instantly shielded his eyes. “What the hay? Twilight, what’s going on?” He ran up to me, then backed away, staring into the origin of the light. “What is that?” He asked fearfully. I shook my head. “I don’t know. Get on.” I opened my wings and he hoped on. I ran to the nearest balcony and flew out and into the sky. As I flew, the wind started getting stronger and stronger, until I had to stop or I would be whisked away. I was still over 30 feet away, but I could see little things coming out of the portal, as if trying to escape, but immediately being sucked back in. Spike clutched onto my mane so tightly, I felt a few hairs leave their pores and fly into the storm. “SPIKE, CAN YOU SEE ANYTHING?” I asked, yelling just to be heard above the gale. “NO!! I’M TO SCARED TO OPEN MY EYES!!” I nodded in understanding, and turned to the light, squinting against the light just to see into it. As I looked, I saw many different colors, objects, places even, being swirled on the inside of the point. Wait, PLACES?! I looked again, and sure enough, I saw a tiny glimpse of Canterlot High, students milling through the campus. This was no ordinary magic. This was Alternate Dimensional travel, just like what I was reading about. Suddenly, Rainbow Dash zoomed up next to me, her mane flying everywhere. “TWI! SPIKE!! WHAT THE CELESTIA IS THAT?!” She asked, staring at it in awe. “A PORTAL TO CROSS TO DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS!!” I yelled back. “I THOUGHT THE MIRROR WAS THE ONLY FORM OF DIMENSIONAL TRAVEL!” “I DID TOO!! BUT APPARENTLY WE WERE WRONG!!” Spike yelled, still clutching tightly. She nodded, then her eyes widened. “DOWN! GET TO THE GROUND!!” “WHAT?!” Before I could ask anymore, she had grabbed my hoof and was dragging me down so fast, I had to tuck in my wings so my leg wouldn’t be dislocated. As soon as we touched the ground, the portal exploded in an explosion of color and wind, leaving us laying on our backs, seeing stars. I shook them away quickly and looked back up. The portal was gone, but in its place were nine small black dots, falling quickly through the air. Rainbow gasped. “Those are ponies!!” She zoomed up, leaving only a cloud of dust behind. I followed, Spike still on my back, yelling in protest of going back up. “Spike! We need to save those ponies! If they hit the ground, they’ll die!” He shut up then, and just resumed whimpering. I saw Rainbow grab three, bring them to the entrance of the castle, and set them down. Quickly, I grabbed the remaining seven with my magic and levitated them to the ground, setting them down softly next to Rainbow. Flying down after them, I saw she was weak kneed and panting slightly. “Were they heavy?” “Heavy? I've lifted entire six times their weight before without breaking a sweat!!”, She snorted, then collapsed, “OK, maybe they were a little heavy.” I rolled my eyes and looked at the ponies we had just saved. There were four pegasi, three unicorns and one earth pony, all were passed out. “We better get them inside, before all of Ponyville gets here.”, Spike warned, sliding off my back shakily, “All of them were definitely woken up by that!” I nodded. “OK, let me just send a message to the others.” I concentrated and four purple orbs popped out of my horn and zoomed towards town. “Whoa! What spell was that?” Spike asked. “A spell I found a while new back, thought I’d try it.” I smiled and lifted the ponies up and trotted into the castle, Spike and Rainbow following. "Hey Rainbow. How did you know we had to go to the ground?" I asked as we reached the hospital wing. "Well, I felt a huge gust of wind coming from the portal. So I knew, If we didn't move, we'd e forced down.", She shrugged, "Just instinct to feel that stuff if you clear skies for a living."