When worlds collide

by Derk396

The plot thickens...

I strode out of the hospital and I looked at the note which had Ditzy's address, it was nothing more than an arrow pointing right and a small number. "three?" I asked myself. When I looked to my right, I saw a row of houses a ways away. So I followed the note, "head right as I leave the hospital and go to the third house." I stopped in front of a house that vaguely smelled like muffins, hesitantly I knocked on the door with my hoof.

"Coming!" I heard a familiar voice shout followed by a loud crashing sound "I'm okay!" she shouted through the door. When she finally answered, her mane was messed up and her feathers were ruffled, behind her was a large plant pot smashed on the ground. "Sorry about that" she said looking back at the mess "I guess I'm just a klutz" she said finally facing me. "Hey! It's you!"she shouted happily "wow, you were in the hospital for a whole week, what happened? I came home to find Dinky crying and you just lying there. She said that you said it was from shock, so that's what I told the nurse and..."

"Wait... Ditzy," I said cutting her off. "Did you say I was out for a week?!"

"Well, yeah!" she said with a slight smile "it was eight days really, but still!"

"EIGHT DAYS?!" I yelled in surprise

"yep, you must have been really tired!" she said happily

"Ditzy... I need to tell you some things, may I come in?"

"Sure! But, first I need to tuck my little girl in for the night" She said as she walked back into her house inviting me inside. Once inside she grabbed a plate and a muffin and gave them to me. When I looked at her quizzically she said "Everypony in ponyville has had one of my muffins at least once and you mister" she stopped to point a hoof at me "didn't eat the last muffin I gave you" she finished as she moved into Dinky's room to say goodnight. "Dinky..." she whispered "guess who stopped by?" the little unicorn seemed surprised that there was a visitor this late. Ditzy motioned for me to come and say hello. I slowly walked the hall and peered my into the room so that my head was just barely visible. When the filly saw me she started to cry slowly at first and then she got a little louder. I looked at Ditzy with a sorry expression on my face, "well, go in there," she whispered to me "she thinks that she hurt you." slowly I walked into the room and sat on the edge of the bed, with Ditzy's permission I picked the small unicorn up and started to cradle her in my arms. Once Dinky calmed down I heard Ditzy start to sing in a light mother-like voice "You are my muffin, my only muffin, you make me happy when skies are grey, you'll never know dear, how much I love you, please don't take my muffin away." Dinky started to nod off and Ditzy told me to join her. I, with a slight country accent joined in "you are my muffin, my only muffin, you make my happy when skies are grey, you'll never know dear, how much I love you, please don't take my muffin away..." we both trailed off, the little filly was snuggling up to me, sound asleep. Ditzy came over and lightly kissed her forehead and whispered "goodnight my little muffin" I laid the sleeping unicorn back down and I tucked her in. We walked into the kitchen so I could explain the situation I was in. After several minutes of discussion Ditzy finally understood, "So, let me get this strait..." she said and took in a large breath "You were once something called a human and you stood on two legs and had hands instead of hooves, you touched a device made to bring joy but somehow was transported into an alternate yet parallel dimension where ponies are the dominate race instead of humans and now you need to seek an audience with princesses Celestia and Luna because apparently they are those only things that bears some sort of common anatomical structuring and you want to find a way to travel back to your dimension and!" she said taking another deep breath "not only do you have to make this trip fast as you fear the longer you wait the harder it will be to get back, but you must also do it covertly so that you are not seen as an enemy to the crown, imprisoned and have a slim to none chance of returning home... Right?" my jaw dropped underneath that thick exterior was a sweet, caring, intellectual and... Before I could finish that though I heard a small ding and Ditzy jumped up out of her seat and quietly exclaimed "MUFFINS!!!" in no time there was a tray of steaming muffins right in front of me. She grabbed some butter and a knife and offered me a fresh buttered muffin. I couldn't say yes fast enough and before I knew it we had devoured the tray, even though the muffins were all gone she still seemed really happy, and in seconds, I knew why. She had produced two more trays of muffins. "Okay... Muffin eating contest starting... NOW! She was lightning fast and although it was hard I somehow kept up, muffin after muffin falling into my mouth. We were both on out last muffin and it was going to be close... I... Lost, she beat me by a hair, more precisely a bite. Ditzy was, is, and always will be, the Grand Muffin Champion! Full, and getting tired I remembered rarity and my disguise, I quickly asked Ditzy if she could take me to Rarity's house. She nodded and we headed out the door, she started to flap her wings and she took off slowly circling my head, "C'mon! We've got to get going" she said

"Ditzy, in case you forgot, I was a human, I can't fly!"

"yet!" she said as she landed "alright then, I guess were running" soon the two of us were galloping into the night. We finally arrived at what alleged to be a boutique.

"here it is" Ditzy said

"Alright, you want to come with?"

"I would but unfortunately, it's not open. It closed over two hours ago.

"hmm..." I said thinking about my options when I remembered the blue token. "Let me try this real quick" I knocked on the door and all was silent for a bit then I heard some groaning from the other side of the door, soon I heard lock after lock after lock be unlocked/unbolted/and disengaged. Finally a white unicorn answered the door, her mane was messed up and it looked like she just fell out of bed. "I am sorry to wake you ma'am but by any chance are you rarity?"

"Yes?" she said with a but more interest.

"what can I do with..." I said as I produced the token "this?"

"How..? Where..? Come inside, fast." she said as she turned around and walked back indoors.

"C'mon Ditzy," I said to the grey pegasus. Suddenly Rarity stopped and turned back around.

"No, no no no no, NO!" Rarity said "This is a private affair, she cannot be a part of this."
I looked back at Ditzy to see her start to tear-up and turn around. "She knows everything about this and might he able to help me explain my situation, she needs to be here." She turned around to look at me and slowly a smile creeped up on her face.

"Fine, BUT! Ditzy, you are not to touch any of my dresses alright?"
Ditzy nodded vigorously making her slightly dizzy and she followed Rarity and me into the door smacking her face on the doorframe on the way in receiving a chuckle from me and a sigh from Rarity. When the three of us were inside Rarity slammed the door, "What is the big emergency?" she asked looking from Ditzy, to me and back again.

"Well," I started, "I need something to cover my wings." I said nervously

"That's it?" she asked flatly "THAT'S IT!?" she shouted at me "that's the big emergency!?"

"Can you do it?" I asked with concern

"Of course I CAN do it, but why is this so important?"

"I need to hide my wings until I can get to canterlot."

"Alright... Well, I suppose a vest would do... But if your going to canterlot then you might need more. I was thinking a nice vest, complimented by a jacket, OH! Of course, pants as well, some very nice dress pants..." she said switching into fashionista mode.

"Rarity..." I said trying to get her attention, but she just keep on mumbling to herself "Rarity..." I continued as she did.
"RARITY!!!" I shouted

"yes?" she asked

"I just need something practical, for this I am thinking function, not fashion, perhaps just the vest..." I explained

"Your so much like twilight... Alright, so do you want the vest to match your coat?"

"I guess..."

"you... guess..." she sighed "alright, let me see what I am dealing with" she said as I spread my wings for her to examine. "you can put them down now" I did as she instructed and she was measuring everything possible. "You have some massive wings, much, much, bigger than a normal pegasus... In fact..." she stopped to think to herself "the only other pony I have seen with wings like these was an..." she looked upon my long horn that was hiding in my mane. "...alicorn..." she whispered. "Okay, now I'm curious."

"Well, I was back at my home..." I started "... And now I am here" I finished minutes later.

"I suppose that is a perfect reason to be so secretive."

"So how long would it take you to make this vest?"

"Well, your in luck because I have some fabrics in your color, I would say about..." she said but was cut off by a loud crashing sound. "Arrg..." rarity growled. I was chuckling under my breath until Rarity shot me a harsh glance.

"Ditzy, I thought rarity told you not to touch any of her dresses"

The grey pegasus appeared from a back room with a confused look on her face (more confused than usual) "it wasn't me, I was in this room" she said pointing to the room she just exited.

"Then what made all that noise?" I asked while walking to the curtained room. As the three of us went into the room and I noticed a cloaked figure on the floor that had three mannequins on top of it.

When rarity lit up the room Ditzy gasped, "I know that pony! When I brought you to the hospital that pony was watching me and when he saw you he left in a hurry. I went up to the unconscious figure and when rarity moved the mannequins out of the way I tore the cloak off to find an orange pegasus with a blonde mane wearing a belt with a knife on it, and a single curved dagger for a cutie mark.

"This is not good, that cutie mark... He must be an assassin!" Ditzy exclaimed.

"what's a cutie mark?" I asked, Rarity and Ditzy looked from me to each other and started laughing.

"Wow mister, you really aren't from around here." Ditzy said through the laughter.

"Now now Ditzy we shouldn't laugh at his lack of basic, learn it in magic kindergarten, knowledge" she said before cracking up again

"A cutie mark, is a mark that somepony gets on their flank, it shows their special talent in life" Ditzy explained

"So like..." I said looking at rarity "jewels... so, fashion?" and rarity nodded "And..." I started as I looked at Ditzy "bubbles?" I asked.

"It is a long story... But I can tell you on our way to canterlot."

"Okay, so... what's my cutie mark then?" I asked trying to look back at my flank.

"Well... it appears to be..." Rarity started, further examining my cutie mark "Two silver swords crossed downwards over a blue kite shield... What do you suppose it means?"

"I don't know..." I stated

"Well... give my friend twilight a visit when we are done here... She might be able to help you find out. But, we really should be getting back to business, if you have such brutes and ruffians coming after you then you might want to hurry up." about an hour later Rarity had made a vest that perfectly matched my coat, she had even made some saddlebags with my cutie mark embroidered on them. "There... all done" she said as she finished the embroidery on the saddlebags. "This should do it." she said

"Thank you rarity, I hope to see you again" I said as I started to head towards the door.

"Wait!" she said, stopping me in my tracks. "Before you go, do you know how to use your powers?"

"no... But how hard could it be?"

"Let me teach you how to use some basic magic like levitation, it might come in handy"

"Okay..." I said with some hesitance
The training seemed pointless, magic wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. It was nothing more than imagining something happening and then focusing on that thought. In mere minutes I had mastered levitation, and when rarity was satisfied Ditzy and I once again started to walk to the door, only to be stopped once again by Rarity. "Wait!" she shouted

"What now!?" Ditzy asked getting impatient "I need to get back before my little muffin wakes up and finds that her mommy isn't there."

"Well, I just wanted to remind you to go and give my friend twilight a visit, she lives in the towns library, it's a giant tree, you can't miss it!"

"Alright, we will go and check it out, thanks again rarity." I said before walking out with Ditzy. She led the way to the library, a giant tree. "Wow, this is one big tree!" I said in disbelief

"yep," She said with a smile "It's completely hollow, except for the books."

"Well then, let's see if anyone is home..."