//------------------------------// // Chapter 11: Reunited // Story: The Boeing 777 owner and the Alicorn: Volume I // by Island_Dancer96 //------------------------------// In Equestria, Twilight's friends were all mourning over the fact that the search for her has been called off. "I'll miss Twilight." Spike sniffed. "I'll miss her too, Spikey Wikey." Rarity sniffed in Spike's embrace. Little did they know that in the space of a few hours, they would be reunited with her and make a new friend. Elsewhere in the skies over Equestria, in a flash of light, Jason's Boeing 777 appeared out of nowhere. It continued to spiral before mysteriously leveling itself off. In the cockpit, Jason and Twilight were slumped in their seats, their heads were resting on the headrests of the seats, unconscious, but restrained by their harnesses. Although severely and completely disorientated, Jason and Twilight were still alive. Slowly, but gradually, the two regained consciousness. Their eyes were just beginning to open. Jason and Twilight groaned as they slowly came to and lifted their heavy eyelids, their vision was still a little bit blurry at first but eventually it cleared up. Their heads still hurt though as they lifted them off their seats and sat up. "Ooh… my head…Twilight, wha-what happened?" Jason groaned, rubbing his forehead. They were both very groggy and very queasy from their spiraling flight down the rainbow tunnel. "OoOOooooooooh, Jason are you okay?" Twilight asked him, rubbing her head. "I'm fine, Twilight." Jason moaned. After shaking the last bit of dizziness from their heads, Jason and Twilight had finally regained their bearings, and were taking stock of their new surroundings. They saw that they weren't flying over the Gulf of Mexico at night anymore and that instead they were flying over perfectly grassy rolling hills with no brown spots. They also noticed that they weren't in the real world anymore. "T-Twilight...where..are we?" Jason asked Twilight. "I don't know how, but we're in Equestria now, Jason." Twilight replied. Jason looked around and saw that everything, even his own plane and he and Twilight were animated. "T-T-This is impossible, Twilight! It can't be!" Jason cried. Jason started examining himself, but he only started hyperventilating. "Jason calm down!" Twilight said. "Twilight, am I still human??" Jason asked. "Yeah, you are. But your ears are different." Twilight said. "My ears?!" Jason asked. Instinctively, he reached for a mirror that he kept in the cockpit. But just as he opened it, he saw that his hands had a border on them, "I'm- I'm…animated!" Jason said, looking at himself in the mirror. In the mirror, Jason saw that even his facial features were animated, he was astonished! "Jason I have to admit, you do look kinda cute animated." Twilight replied, giggling. "I do?" Jason asked. Twilight nodded and kissed him. Jason rubbed the spot where Twilight kissed him, feeling heat rushing to his face. Out of the corner of his left eye, Jason saw a small village below him. "Is that Ponyville?" Jason asked himself. "Yeah, Jason it is." Twilight replied. Jason climbed from 10,320 feet to 11,100 feet, leveled off, and started circling. Jason looked out his cockpit windows and saw the one village that over the past 4 years he became familiar with, Ponyville. Meanwhile, on the ground, the roar of the 777's Rolls Royce Trent 800 engines filled the skies above Ponyville. Spike, Rarity and their friends were still mourning the loss of their friend Twilight at Sugarcube Corner when they heard the roar of the engines. Applejack ran to the window of the bakery and she saw Jason's 777. "RD, what is that thing?" Applejack asked Rainbow Dash. The cyan Pegasus ran over the window and was astonished by the sight of the twin engine plane flying over the town. "I don't know, but I'm going to go get a look at it." Rainbow Dash said before flying out the door and climbed towards Jason's altitude. After a few minutes of flying, Rainbow Dash finally reached 11,100 feet, the altitude at which the Boeing 777 was flying. "What....is..this thing??" Rainbow Dash asked, seeing Jason's 777 up close. Jason kept circling Ponyville, but as a precaution to make certain he didn't hit anything, he climbed from 11,100 feet to 12,300 feet. Then Jason saw a perfectly flat open meadow clear of trees that was long enough for him to land on it. "Twilight, I'm gonna shoot for that meadow!" Jason said. "Okay." Twilight replied. Jason turned away from Ponyville and set a course that would take him right for the flat meadow. Soon, he began running through the approach and landing checklists. Minutes later, both checklists were completed, and Jason set the landing gear lever to extend. Rainbow Dash watched in awe at the undercarriage as it extended from the bottom of Jason's 777. "Whatever this thing is, for some reason, it lands on wheels!" She said to herself. Jason lowered the flaps and deployed the air-brakes to control the plane's speed. Jason tightened his harness and braced himself for landing. "Alright, Twilight, hang on tight, we're going in!" Jason called out as the plane got close, all the while pulling back on the throttle handles to idle, and leaving one hand on the yoke and the other hand on the reverser handles. As Jason's 777 dropped past 500 feet, Twilight braced herself for the inevitable impact. Seconds later, the plane hit the grassy ground hard. Amazingly, despite the 777 being fully loaded with fuel, the entire landing gear, including the tires, absorbed and shrugged off the colossal impact. It was a hard landing, but it was one that the plane was designed for. Jason immediately deployed both thrust reversers and the spoilers. As the fully fuel laden Boeing 777 decelerated, with Jason's hand still on the thrust reverser handles, he turned to see Twilight looking out the windows on her side of the cockpit, smiling. "Twilight." Jason said to the alicorn. Twilight turned to him, still smiling. "Welcome home, sugarcube." Jason said, smiling. Twilight leaned over and kissed Jason on his cheek. A minute later, the plane finally came to a grinding halt. "Holy Celestia," Jason said, leaning back in his seat and undoing his harness. "We did it, Twilight. We did it." "Yeah," Twilight replied, fatigue now taking hold after the harrowing landing. "We did." She rasped. "Now let's get the plane secured." Jason said, grabbing the operating manual. "Alright, I'm going through the after-landing checklist." Jason's tone was businesslike, though he couldn't keep the fatigue out of his voice. Soon, the engines were shut down and the plane was powered down. "Twilight, I'm going to go look at the landing gear for a bit and then I'll be back, stay put." Jason said. He stepped out of the cockpit, opened the forward retractable stairs and stepped outside the plane. Upon close inspection of the landing gear, Jason breathed a sigh of relief, all 14 tires were still intact. "Okay, we're good, despite having a full fuel load, the landing gear is still intact and in one piece." Jason said, wiping a bead of sweat from his forehead, but unbeknownst to him, he was being watched. "Rainbow Dash, who is that?" Spike asked. "I don't know, Spike." Rainbow said confused. "And why is he walking on his hind legs?" Rarity asked. Jason soon stepped back into the plane. "Okay, Twilight, the landing gear held up, we can get off now." He said walking into the cockpit. "Okay." Twilight replied. Jason went over to Twilight's seat and undid her harness. The moment Twilight's friends saw her step off the plane with Jason, they immediately galloped over to her. "Twilight, where have you been? We were so worried about you! Do you have any idea how much you put us through?" Rainbow Dash asked. Twilight shrugged. “I know but, what are you doing here?” she asked. “How did you even get back?” Rarity asked. "Twilight, are those your friends?" Jason asked. "Twilight, who is this?" Spike asked, pointing a claw at Jason. "That's my coltfriend, Jason Sanford." Twilight replied. After a proper introduction, Jason, Twilight, and her friends started walking to Ponyville. As Jason, Twilight and her friends walked into the outskirts of Ponyville, a random mare named Lyra Heartstrings looked at him with a deranged look in her eyes with a smile. "A-a-a-A HUMAN!" She said excitedly as she ran up to Jason. "Excuse me sir. But are you a human?" Lyra asked, grinning. "Uhm, as far as I know...yes I am." Jason said. "I KNEW IT! HUMANS DO EXIST! THEY KEPT SAYING I WAS CRAZY!" Lyra gushed and swooned a little. "I'm so sorry about that, Jason, this is my friend, Lyra Heartstrings." Twilight said, noting Jason's surprised reaction. "Oh, hey Twilight! I was just gushing over this Human that is with you, you thought I was crazy, and there was no such thing as humans. You stated that Humans were mythological but guess what? This boy is a REAL LIVE human!" Lyra gushed before fainting. After a long walk, Twilight finally reached her castle. "Spike, take a letter please, for the Princess." Twilight said. "Dear Princess Celestia, I'm happy to report that I've returned to Equestria and I'm alive and well. I'm also happy to report that I've found myself a very special somepony. I'm awaiting your response. Your fellow princess, Twilight Sparkle" Spike sent the letter. Within minutes, Princess Celestia responded. "My faithful student, I'm happy to hear that you found a special somepony and I would like to meet him tomorrow in Canterlot. Yours truly, Princess Celestia." Spike said, reading the letter. So far, Equestria was what Jason expected it to be. He was with Twilight's friends, telling them about what he and Twilight had gone through. His and Twilight's spiraling flight down the glittery rainbow tunnel was very nauseating, and even 6 hours later, the effects of said spiraling flight were still lingering, and they were still feeling a little bit groggy. "Twilight and I were in the air for a good 2 hours, and I looked at the navigation system display and I saw that we were halfway across the Gulf of Mexico. Then the whole plane started shaking, at first I thought it was the stall alarm, so I increased engine power, and put my plane in a slight dive to gain airspeed. I descended from 10,600 feet and I got to about 10,220 feet when this bright glow out of the corner of my right eye got my attention. Because it was so bright I noticed it right away. But then, this bright flash of light came along and before I knew it, we were spiraling down this rainbow tunnel and we wound up here." He explained. Later that night, after a rather lengthy explanation, Jason, Twilight and their friends were asleep, they needed their rest, knowing that they had a big day tomorrow.