Sparkle's Witness

by deandean1125

The story

Sparkle’s Witness

It was a quiet day in Ponyville. Twilight Sparkle, the element of magic, had called her friends to her new castle to witness a spell that she had been working on. The five ponies, Spike, and Discord were in attendance. Twilight greeted them and spoke of her new spell.

“Today,” she began, “I have made a new spell which can allow us to see into other worlds.”

Her friends listened intently as she continued.

“This spell will show us a period of time on a single planet. There is this one planet in particular which had my fancy. Said planet is called ‘Earth’.”

The others still listened, Discord more-so.

“Excuse me, Twilight,” Discord began, “When you say ‘other worlds’, do you mean we can interact with them?” He said, hope in his voice.

“No, Discord, no,” She said, knowing the Draconequus’ intention.

Discord slumped back, but still listened.

“As I was saying, we will be able to see into other worlds and their inhabitants. Are there any questions?”

No one said anything.

“Well then,” she said, “Let’s see what we can find.”

She cast the spell; with a bright flash of light the entire room transformed into what looked like to be fields with luscious green rolling hills on each and every side. The landscape was beautiful, but that changed when a loud BANG was heard from behind the group. They looked back and saw bi-pedal beings, almost like apes minus the fur with long stick-like things in what looked like their hands. A man was leading the apes. He was wearing green pants and a green jacket with buttons on each side and down the middle. The man had a scar under his right eye and long-ish blonde hair; he spoke in a strange accent.

“Rifles, MARCH!” The man shouted. Other men in green advanced, following the apparent leader.

Twilight had seen beings like these before, humans, they were called. She remembered the time when she was on Earth for a few days.

The blonde-haired man lead what looked like an attack? They advanced towards a small looking bunker with men in blue on the top. Some of the others in green wore a cap with the number “95” on the front.

Flags flew in the wind as an army emerged from the hills behind the ponies. They wore red, some on horseback, and others on foot.

“What is this, Twilight?” Fluttershy asked.

“It would appear some sort of battlefield.” Twilight responded.

Discord looked around in awe, never in his time had he seen such a thing. Spike observed his surroundings, it all seemed so real.

More exploding sounds, this time coming from the bunker.

“Alright lads, if our intelligence is correct, than Napoleon is in there!”

The men screamed in delight, finally, to take Napoleon after so long! The Eagle taken at Talavera was an accomplishment enough, but to get Napoleon Bonaparte was going to make the company heroes!

The friends were confused; who was Napoleon and why did they want him so much?

The men continued to march forwards. Explosions were right by them now, men went flying, some lost their limbs and others were completely torn apart. The friends looked around as they realized that they were in a war-zone. Small puffs of smoke blew out from the stick-like things that the humans had in their arms. When one fired, they had to reload.

“Bite, pour, spit, tap, and aim!” The blonde-haired man said. The men did as such.

Discord pulled out a stopwatch from Celestia-knows-where and started the count. After every shot, they would reload using this method.

“Three a minute,” Discord said in astonishment.

The men continued their advance, some being lost to the explosions in the ground. Blood splattered on the others, the ground stained with it.

The friends couldn’t believe their eyes. Fluttershy was on the verge of tears, Rainbow Dash’s mouth was agape and Pinkie’s normal ecstatic countenance was shattered. No one could believe what they were seeing. The men in green reached the bunker and began to scale its walls.

“Come on, men!” The blonde shouted. “We’re taking Bonaparte to England!”

They continued to climb, the other soldiers doing the same. Twilight didn’t understand who this “Bonaparte” was or why they wanted him, but by the sound of things, she could only imagine what he had done.

The men continued to march, two flags flowing in the breeze; one which looked like a red star with a blue background and the other yellow with a sort of insignia on it. Whistling and exploding filled the air as men flew up and slammed back in to the earth, never to move again.

Twilight couldn’t comprehend what was being fought for when Discord’s voice broke through her train of thought: “Twilight? Perhaps we should return to the real world, I don’t think that we can handle much more of this.” Twilight agreed and the room turned once more into the throne room from before. Rainbow Dash, Pinkie, and Fluttershy were utterly destroyed at what they had seen.

“I’m sorry you had to see that,” Twilight apologized. “I never realized how bad this was.”

“Now, Twi,” Applejack said. “Ya couldn’t have known what it was goin’ ta be like.”

“Yes, but I should have checked had a test run to that specific time and place, I mean, look at Fluttershy, she’s completely crushed by what she saw.”

Indeed she was, tears were flowing down her face as she held onto Discord with a death-grip. The Draconequus did his best to calm the butter-colored mare, but to no avail.

“Maybe you should all go home, it’s been a bit of a long day,” Twilight suggested
.

Her friends agreed and, one by one, walked out of the castle and on to their homes. Discord being the last to leave.

“Even I wouldn’t do something like that,” He said in an almost mourning voice.

“… Long day,” She repeated. “A very, very long day.”

Author's Note:

After reading a story a while back, I decided to make something slightly like that, just minus the technology

Comments

[Rugby Brony]

This is a good short story, although barely above 1,000 words, I enjoyed it, thumbs up!

It reminded me of Napoleon Total war as well, and 3 shots a minute is pretty accurate for a very skilled musket user, but yeah, this reminded me of that game which I love. Kudos!

[Celestias Paladin]

Not a crossover I ever expected to see, though in all honesty kind of disappointing with lack of interaction between the worlds. But still the crossed worked and it is a crossover I would like to see more of.
4458472
Not muskets, rifles and if you want to read more of the era the Sharpe's series is a good as it is both books and movies though the movies are far harder to find in the US. But yes three shots a minute is pretty damn good

[Celestias Paladin]

[Rugby Brony]

4458865
Were guns machine rifled by the time Napoleon was around? Oh whoops I forgot so, because they began to use rifled muskets, even though the Minie Ball wasn't invented yet, variants of it predated it around Napoleon's time. Very interesting

[Celestias Paladin]

4460195
Yep, rifled firearms had been around for a while though they really weren't used for actual combat until Bony tried to take Europe. In fact Sharpe's unit was the 95th Regiment of the Foot, the 95th Rifles.

Though if you are interested in the era, or at least that century you might want to take a look at reenactments that pop up in your area.

[Rugby Brony]

4460540

1800's are exciting for sure, War of 1812, Crimea War, American Civil War, Napoleon's Empire. However, I am more of a 1700's type of guy, it was so exciting seeing Prussia tough out battles it shouldn't have won, the British going all out empire mode, and the rise of the USA. I have great respect for these two centuries though, although the worst wars were fought in the 1900's.

[Celestias Paladin]

4461455
Rev War and French and Indian War?

[deandean1125]

4458472 I highly appreciate your feedback, mate.

[deandean1125]

4458472 For Sharpe's "Bite, pour, spit, tap, aim" method actually sacrificed accuracy for rounds per minute. It wasn't ideal.

[deandean1125]

4458865 It was stated early on that they couldn't interact with anything else, it was basically a projection.

[Rugby Brony]

4461645
I didn't mean to say accurate when I typed it lol
I meant to say quick, as the quickest I ever got with a flintlock was 2 in a minute, but even though it was inaccurate a whole line of troops in formation doing fire and advance was devastating.

[deandean1125]

4461685 Fair point.