The trip lasted an undefinable amount of time, and only one thing was for certain. The portal didn’t really care very much about where it dropped her off. As she landed on the floor of wherever she was like a sack of potatoes.
It was dark, it wasn't that the room wasn't lit, it was just that the atmosphere felt heavy. Almost like the cries of many people went unanswered just before they were cut down. It was unnerving. To say the least
Twilight picks herself up from the floor of the room, dusting herself off. ‘Where am I?’ She thought to herself after making sure everything was safe and nothing hurt.
“So she did hold up her end of the deal then. Good…” Twilight quickly turned around to face the voice behind her. It was a biped wearing a hood. If it weren't for his voice she would think he was a human.
Even with a million thoughts racing through her head Twilight still spoke up. “Where am I? And what do you mean a deal? This better not be a trap or something!”
“I don’t wish to rush you, but we are on a timetable here. I cannot hold my other half forever. And frankly I'm impatient as it is. So hurry up and run me through, do you need a lance?”
Now is when she speaks up. “Wait what?! I don’t kill things! I've never done it once in my life! And I won’t do it to a stranger I just met! That's murder at its core.”
The being is quite silent for a moment. Before angrily speaking out. “You are your goddess’ student are you not? Then I am certain you know how to fight. This is bigger than you and you WILL slay me if you know what is good for you!” During his rage, he poised his arm to hit Twilight with his hand. After a cursory glance at his hand, he drops it back to his side and paces around the room.
Twilight then says. “I’m sure that we can just figure this out if we-”
“Shut up, I'm thinking. This isn’t the first time I’ve been lied to and I am certain it will not be the last. But I do not have another plan for this universe…. Hm….” The creature takes a short glance at Twilight before grinning and creating some items for himself
“What are you doing? It looks like alchemy.” asks Twilight
“Something of the sort my dear pacifist. I don’t have the same magic I used to. Or at the least roaring is less than useful. Feel free to skewer me at any time, there is a nice selection of lances on the floor.” The entity says
Twilight looks around at the discarded lances, picking one up even to get a feel for it. Before dropping it on the floor like a disgusting bag of feces.
“Shame, that you live under such a protected rule. I assume she told you nothing about her little dealings with me? How I helped her regain control of her nation and she promised me anything in return. Is it so difficult to just skewer me and get on with your life?” He asks
Twilight ponders for a moment “I’d never be able to forgive myself for killing someone. I’m sorry for not killing you?”
“Then we must take matters into our own hands now. If it were as easy as killing myself I would have done it by now. But now I guess we must toughen you up” The being laughs greatly and ominously. It was unnerving, to say the least.
Twilight takes a few steps bag from the being. “What do you mean by that…?”
“You’ll see. And don't try to leave. If you leave the room I cannot guarantee your safety. There are a lot of dangerous things out there.” The being says with a clear smirk
Twilight still checks out the door before closing it quickly and leaning against a pillar. “This place is terrible…”
“That is certainly what happens when you successfully stop destiny from happening years in advance. But you will come to amend this in the future whether you want to or not.”
“You can’t force me to kill you unless you literally control me to do so” Twilight retorts, less than pleased with the current situation.
“I doubt my other half would stay asleep if I tried that. No.. you are going to do it of your own volition. And you can help another world in the meantime. Now come over here.”
Twilight quickly hides behind the pillar. “No! I don't want any part in your insane schemes! Even if Celestia promised you my help I have no intentions of killing anyone!”
The being is completely missing from his spot. Twilight looked around to try and spot him but there was no sign of him. Until he laid a hand on her shoulder. “Shame that you have no choice in the matter, blame your teacher for promising something that you didn't want to participate in. Because if you do not fight, you will die.” With a quick pull of his arm, he throws Twilight to the ground.
“Think of it this way, you'll be saving many lives in this other universe. The royal families could use a good war horse.” A loud roar echoes throughout the room an invisible force of magic lifting the young alicorn princess.
“Ngh. Let me go!” With a quick burst of magic, she manages to escape her entrapment and exit the room, taking chances with the area outside rather than stay and certainly get entrapped by the situation. The being simply stands there as she exits the double doors, allowing her to escape and exit into the strange world outside.
The world outside is a barren wasteland, with few spots of green and much of the land not even connected. Floating islands everywhere with little to no way to cross aside magic or flying. Rushing out of the castle’s front door into the red skyed outside area. Twilight quickly looks behind her to be sure she is not being followed or worse. She then takes a moment to get her bearings of the area before leaving. Flying to another island where she hopes that the monster inside the castle would not follow. Although she has an aching feeling of being watched the entire time, she feels confident in herself enough to survive a day or two while she figures out a way to return home. If not at least get a word home via magic. Landing on the top of a mountainous island, she finds a cliff where she can stay quietly and hopefully focus to get her bearings.
‘I should be safe up here… for now.’ Walking over to a tree she places her bags down and sits down letting her mind finally process things.
This was an absolute mistake. Processing everything quickly stressed out the already stressed mare causing her to freak out rather brilliantly and quickly. This ended up requiring her to take quite a few moments to pace around, sweating just as much as she did when the yaks were in town for peace talks. Granted though a war with Equestria is usually considered a stupid decision and frankly she shouldn't have been so worried, but even then war still costs lives, something she never wants on her hooves.
“Ok, okay Twilight” She takes a deep gasp as she attempts to calm her nerves.
“I can figure this out. I just need to focus and stop freaking out, even if there is a super powerful monster blocking the only place I know I can possibly get out and frankly I have no idea where we are and he even said it was dangerous out here. I'm sure I can figure this out before anything bad happens. Number one thing is to find food and water. To replenish the stocks.”
Grabbing her bags, still on edge, she heads down the mountain, looking for any evidence of a river or something with water. Having read in a book once that moss grows closest to water, she walks until she reaches a damp area. Following simple queues from the forest, she eventually makes it to a series of waterfalls which dump into a lake. Which of she is standing near. Large towers placed on either side of the waterfalls connect the three islands. Quickly trotting over to the lakeside, she sits and takes a nice long drink of water before filling up a bottle she brought along. “Berries. There have to be berries of some sort.”
Looking along the waterfront and the small treeline to find anything edible. She quickly finds some blueberries which she picks, and after a quick magical scan, scarfs down hungrily. She picks as many as she can fit into her bag before continuing on her path towards the towers.
A snapping of a twig alerted her quickly to the beings behind her. Almost translucent beings that are nearly invisible to the naked eye. But, their hostility was quite obvious, and it was not something Twilight wanted to face head on. “Ponyfeathers!” Quickly running to the tower at a speed that would impress many ponies back home she hides inside the large tower. The beings outside only getting closer and closer.
‘I saw archers… if I want to get out of here in one piece, I’m gonna have to get a ton of speed… The very top of the chain of islands should be perfect.’
//-Escape the enemy-//
Twilight quickly pulled herself from her hiding spot, arrows raining into the tower with frightening accuracy as she climbed to the top. “Why do you want to kill me?! I'm just trying to get out of here!” Twilight screams out as she heads to the next section of land. The second island is mostly a lake, with little land. And on that little land are two very large beasts of the same nature as what are following her. They seem to be wearing armor, heavy armor.
“On the table Twilight.” A familiar voice echoed in her head as she looks there. A small tube of a blood red liquid.
“And why would I tru-” A crash downstairs answers for her as she grabs and downs the liquid.
She nearly spits it out. “Agh… that was blood!?”
“Quickly, outside. Its effects will not last forever.” Said the being
“And why are you helping me?” Even as she is speaking she exits the tower.
“Because I need you as much as you need me at this moment. And you WILL help me.”
“We’ll see.” Twilight simply responds before noticing a small glow on a location. She stands on it and a large power flows through her body. A blast of freezing wind hits the waters nearby, freezing them completely over. A second blast destroys the tower that the beings were climbing up. Causing them to retreat across the lower lake and ascend through the second tower, buying Twilight more time.
Slip and sliding on the ice, she quickly makes her way across to the next set of towers. Almost home free she arrives on the third island only to run straight into one of those… Things, riding a pegasus. Quickly avoiding the resulting attack, the being does not stop its assault. Intent on skewering the alicorn at any costs. Finally, a strike that Twilight knows she cannot avoid is directed at her. Feeling something appear under her, she pulls up with her hoof to attempt a block only instead narrowly stabbing the opposing being. Stopping it just before it could slay the princess. Standing there, stunned, Twilight has an intense amount of thoughts circulating through her head.
“MOVE TWILIGHT!”
That was all she needed, she quickly took her leap off the island. Partially noticing a grave on top of it as she quickly took a nosedive to gain speed and would fly back to the castle…
‘Who’s Corrin…?’
Arriving back at the castle. She takes a deep breath before entering, back into relative safety.
“It is time. Are you ready?”
“No, but I don’t exactly have a choice. Now do I?”
“No, you do not. On the bright side, you’ll come out stronger for it.”
A force grabs the mare, transforming her, keeping her coloration but losing her cutie mark, and her voice. The excruciating pain of the transformation forcing her to the blackness of sleep.
The being walks over to the unconscious alicorn. Looking at the necklace that Anna gave her. He smiles. “Then to Hoshido, you will go. You are now bound by the fate that my Son/daughter will set out for you as I T̡̪̻̯̭̞̤̻̎̑͡ĥ̨̞̻̲͉̠̪̠̪̱̃ͧͪ̆͝e̝̬̳̔̆ ̴̫̣͓̫̲͓̦ͪ̉̉ͩͤ͡S̖͚̯̓̐̌̂͒̓͟͞ͅị̖̜̥̙̥̌͐͂̏ͨͦḽ̪̗ͪ͒̂͜e̢̼̣̙̖͔̤ͮ̃ͨͮ̓̐͡n̡̟̥͙̙̻̍̾͒͂͒̾̔͆t̰̭͇̪͈͛̊͂̆ͫ̍͟ ̴̥̼͎͍̟̲̱ͪͤD͍̮̻̜͎͈̯͉̆̉ͩ̾̄̆͐͝ͅrͬ͜͏͖̳̺̫̤a̱͙̺ͣ̓́ͧ̾ͫ̓͌̿g̷̪͙̣̙͈̮͍̑͂̔ͧͦ̋ͧ͢o͍̤̖̝͉͇̩̮ͭ̿̈́̄̿̑̊ͨ̒ͅn͋̾̾̊̆͊̈͐҉͕̀,̺͙͔ͫͪͨ̇ͣ̇ ̷̰̲̻̼͚̤̭̈͑́͊͑̔̑͘Ä͇̣̦͕̈̃n̶̯̫̖̟̙̜̪͌̚͘ͅā̡̬̗̮̼̘̻ͨ͌̈ͦͮ͋̎ͪ̕n̶̠̱͉͖͙̟ͭ̈̋ͥͬͯ́́̚͡k͍̖̰̞̤̒̎ͨ͘o͋́͏̯͍̻̺̺s̷͓̝͕͕̝̫̳͛͐́͗̍̓ͮ ̴͕͈̪͛̂̑ͤ̋ͬD̨͙̗̻͉̰̂͗̕͠ė͘҉̗̟̥̜͍̪̻̗̭c̵̡̙̲̄̂̇͊̚r̷͎̟̞̞͔̯ͬ̄̑̎̌ͮ̚e͚̞͂̂̿̌́̊è̹͍̰͗̑͊̌̒̒!͎̹́̒̄̈́ͫͭ͌͆́ͅ It will be done.
A slight whoosh and the large alicorn was whisked away. To another world and another time.