When a book on chaos magic winds up in Twilight Sparkles hooves she belives she can master it. Meanwhile a group of trained N.C.I.S agents just finished up a mission. What will happen when these to forces meet?
While Twilight Sparkle was trying spells found in an old book on chaos magic she is sucked into a vortex the spat her out somewhere she knew nothing about. The world of NCIS.
She meets a team of criminal investigators who learn about who she is, and now she is forced to put her trust into them.
Now, with her new friends, she must find a way home while solving crimes, murders, and enduring all the DiNozzo jokes she can handle all the while hiding her true identity from the others.
Can she keep from getting captured, shot, or going insane long enough to get home, or will her time with the NCIS team be the end of her journey, permanently.
Cowritten project by Me, Rainboom, and Draco. This was Draco's idea and I learned about it through a art request!
Cover art was made partly by me, but will be changed in the future!
Twilight Sparkle had just found a unique book written about chaos magic and wanted to understand it more. She had sent a letter to Princess Celestia about the book on chaos magic and asked if it would be alright if she studied it. After she received a response to her request, with the addition to not attempt any spells she came across without supervision from Discord, then she could study the book.
Over the course of a few weeks, Twilight found more theory about chaos magic and how it worked. The author of the book went into detail about how chaos magic seemed to have a mind of its own, something Twilight seriously doubted, but before she could wonder who wrote the book she found a few spells the author said could be used with less magic cost than the usual magic.
The first few spells the book held seemed to be variations of her regular spells like levitation and transformation. It also had a teleportation spell that was said to be able to teleport anyone great distances without disorienting them.
Testing the first two spells, with Discords help, of course, Twilight began to feel strange but shrugged it off thinking the author was wrong about the cost effectiveness of chaos magic. Before Twilight could start on the teleportation, she was interrupted by her stomach growling up a storm.
“Hehe, Whoops forgot to get something to eat before starting reading,” Twilight giggled sheepishly. “Spike!” She called to her assistant. When she didn’t hear anything, she called again. “Spike?” Twilight then remembered that she had given spike the day off so she could study in peace. Seeing that Discord was not around, and Twilight felt she had a good handle on the chaos magic she figured she could both test the spell and get something to eat at the same time.
While gathering the necessary magic, the door to the castle flew open, startling Twilight just as the spell was finishing. With little more then a gust of the wind and nary a sound Twilight Sparkle was gone before the one that opened the door could see anything.
“Twilight I'm back,” Spike called to the now empty castle, unaware of Twilight's fate.
“What happened,” Twilight groaned out loud as she tried to stand up. She stretched out her wings and nearly blacked out from the pain in her wings. It felt as if somepony had tried ripping out her wings and gave up after they wouldn’t come loose. Even her horn felt as if somepony was shoving a railroad spike through her head.
With her wings out of commission for the time being and most of her magic depleted Twilight took note of her surroundings. “Where am I?” Twilight said as she finished checking herself for injuries and discovered that as well all the various cuts, scrapes and bruises that covered most of her body, she no longer looked like a pony. Twilight Almost panicked when she looked at herself and wondered how she was turned into, whatever she was and what the two lumps on her chest even were.
Taking note of how the building looked nothing like back in Ponyville, Twilight started to search for clues as to where she was while trying to remember how she got there, stumbling due to having to adjust to walking on two legs after learning that whatever she was, were bipedal. So lost in her thoughts, Twilight didn’t notice the sound of the car quickly approaching causing Twilight to stumble backward and hit her head on a loose brick. The next thing Twilight knew was falling to the ground and blacking out.
The N.C.I.S team had just finished up quite a weird case, and they were tired from the travel. Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs was on his way home. As he drove, he noticed a naked 18-year-old girl lying in the street and quickly stopped. Grabbing his gun, and a blanket he had in the back seat, he ran up to the girl. He was making sure she was still breathing after seeing all of her injuries, and, to his relief, she was. He wrapped her up in the blanket and put her in the backseat before calling his team back to the office.
“DiNozzo, call the rest of the team and meet me back at the office. I found a naked girl lying on the side of the road, and whatever happened to this girl, she might be in trouble.” Gibbs explained to Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo.
“You got it, boss. We will all meet you there.” DiNozzo replied to his boss, calling up the other members. Gibbs then drove back to the office, carrying the girl up into the office. He grabbed a spare set of clothes and put them on the girl before the rest of the team arrived. “Well Gibbs, were here.” Special Agent Caitlin Todd said as she entered the room. “Is that who we need to help?” She said, looking towards the unconscious Twilight, still maintaining her human form.
“Boss, I never took you for the type to search for girls on the side of the road,” Tony said in his usual mocking tone. Gibbs just stared at him, and Tony knew when to shut up.
“Well, guess you want us to find out who she is?” Special Agent Timothy McGee asked.
“Yes, she didn’t have any ID on her. I want to know when she was attacked. Where’s Ducky?” Gibbs asked and told his team.
“Right here, Jethro. What do you need from me?” Donald "Ducky" Mallard, the Chief Medical Examiner, asked.
“I want to know how bad of a state she’s in, and if she is going to wake up anything soon,” Gibbs explained to him.
“Well, don’t you think it’s a good idea to bring her to a hospital?” Ducky brought up.
“She seemed in enough pain as it was Ducky and the office was closer than the hospital. Todd..” Gibbs was about to explain.
“Find out who she is. Got it boss.” Kate said before going to her desk.
“I will find out what she was doing around that area, and if any cameras picked up anything,” Tony said before going to his desk.
“I guess I will work anything that has happened in the area before?” Tim asked.
“Well?, Get to it then, McGee,” Gibbs told him, pointing towards the desk.
They worked at it for several hours, but could not find any information about who she was. They searched all sorts of databanks, but none of them had anything.
“Please tell me you have something. Any of you.” Gibbs commanded his team, hoping for some answers.
“Well, I can’t find any info on her from anywhere. It’s like she doesn’t exist in them.” Kate said.
“There were no cameras in the area,” Tony told him.
“And no previous activity in the area,” Tim added.
“At least give me something!” Gibbs yelled at them, annoyed,
“We're trying boss, but there is just nothing. It’s like someone removed anything and everything about this girl. But we’ll keep looking.” Tony told him. Gibbs looked at them and headed down towards Ducky’s autopsy room, where the girl was lying on a table.
“You called me Ducky?” Gibbs asked him as he walked in.
“I was about to call you. I can confirm that the girl is in no real danger, and although she has a lot of injuries, most of them are just superficial and should heal relatively fast. There was, however, one set of injuries that have me baffled, ” Ducky explained to Gibbs as he pointed to the two injuries on her back. “These two injuries here have no explanation for what caused them. It’s like she had something attached to her back and whatever happened to her either tore them out or cut two perfectly straight lines. And here’s the weird thing about these injuries,” Ducky said as he pulled out what looked like a purple feather from within the wound. “I found these within both injuries, and these are actual avian feathers from some unknown bird species,” He said when the girl he was examining let out a pained groan and started to wake up.
“Ugh. My head. Where am I?” Twilight said as she awoke and looked around her surroundings. When she saw the concerned look of the creature in what looked like doctors clothes and the stern glare of the other that looked like a guard captain she quickly tried to back up, but let out a wince as her injuries let her know that she wasn’t going anywhere for a while. “W-who are you,” She said in a pained whisper.
“Stay calm my dear; I need to make sure you are in peak health,” Ducky said as he went over to her. “You were found unconscious on the side of the road.” Twilight pondered and this, and came to the conclusion that the creatures she was speaking to were at least on the same intellectual level as her.
“Can you tell me what happened. Your name?” Gibbs asked her as he walked over to her. Twilight wasn’t sure it was a good idea to tell them the full truth. As she was trying to think of what to say to them, Gibbs Thought it strange that this girl seemed scared of the fact that she was around other people. Just as Gibbs was about to voice his question the girl spoke.
“I don’t remember. My name is Twilight. Where am I?” She asked.
“You are in N.C.I.S headquarters Twilight. I found you on the road covered in injuries.” Gibbs told her. He knew something was off with this girl considering the lack of clothing when he found her but decided to take it easy on her for now, at least until he knew more about her.
Gibbs was also wondering how this girl wound up in the alley naked where he found her when it was a dead end. As he pondered, this Ducky asked Twilight if she remembered anything else. When the girl, Twilight, said that she didn't even know how she got here, alarm bells started ringing in Gibb's head.
Ducky just looked at the poor girl as if she was suffering some form of amnesia and couldn’t remember anything other than her name and nothing else. “Do you remember where you live or anything like that,” he asked in a friendly and hopeful tone.
Now Gibbs would usually give someone the benefit of the doubt if it looks like they had no idea what was going on, but here was a girl who looked to be about seventeen or eighteen who was looking extremely nervous about this question and started to sweat a little. What she said next, plus the way her eyes looked to everything but either of them, clued Gibbs into the fact that either she wasn't being truthful or was afraid to remember. The only question now was why.
“I don’t remember where I'm from,” Twilight said as she tried to deny that where she was from was a world of magic ponies. She didn't want them to think she was crazy or hallucinating when they were nice to her.
Gibbs had enough evidence to realize that something about this girl was very off, almost enough for Gibbs to make her reveal what she was hiding and why right then. "Twilight, would you mind waiting here for a moment?” Gibbs asked her as she was trying to get her feet under her. The way she wobbled was strange as well, making it seem like she never stood up before or had walked on all fours like an animal for most her life.
“Sure, but may I ask why, Mr?” She said and asked at the same time.
“Special Agent Gibbs, and I just want to make sure your safe and everything is okay. Also, I need to speak to someone to look after you while we try to figure out how we're going to help you.” He explained. Twilight heard of agents before, and she was curious where she ended up. She still thought it best to hide her true self until she knew she could trust these, whatever they were called. She got up from the cold table and stumbled around a little before finding a seat just in the hall.
“I’ll send someone over with some clothes that fit in a moment,” Gibbs said as he and Ducky left the autopsy lab and entered the elevator.
As they headed to Abby Sciuto’s lab, Gibbs let his suspicions be known to Ducky. “Did you see how she acted when you asked where she was from, Ducky,” Gibbs asked as both him and Ducky entered the lab. “Whatever happened to her left her scared enough that she had to make up a story that she didn't remember.”
Before Ducky could form a response, Abby ran over to them in her usual manner. “Gibbs, Gibbs, Gibbs!” Abby yelled while running over to the two, grabbing his hand. “Is is true? What they said about the girl?”Abby said in her usual hyperactive way.
“Yes, Abby. Can you do me a favor and bring her some spare clothes? As well as look after her while we try to find some more info on her and where she's from.” Gibbs asked her.
“Of course! You can count on me.” Abby said, grabbing a spare lab coat and headed off to autopsy.
Gibbs and Ducky seemed to have the same thought after Abby left. ' i have a bad feeling we just made things awkward.'
Meanwhile, back with Twilight, when the two creatures left the room she was trying to remember how she got here and where she ended up.
She was close to panicking when she found out that her magic was incredibly weak here when even a simple levitation spell made her head hurt. She soon found out, however, that when she focused her magic through one of her odd foreclaws, it didn't make her head hurt nearly as bad.
Before Twilight could attempt any stronger magic, she was startled by someone entering the room while she was levitating a strange looking stool causing her to lose focus on her magic. Gravity quickly returned to tell the seat she had been levitating that it could not fly, and it clattered to the floor in a spectacular fashion.
Abby just stared at what she had seen; This girl had apparently been levitating one of the autopsy stools that sat around the table like magic.
"How did you do that?!" Abby exclaimed as she moved quickly into the room before the girl could run. "How were you making the stool float?! Was it magic?! How can you do magic like that?! Can you teach me how to do that?!" Abby said excitedly all in a single breath. To Twilight this girls hyperactivity reminded her of Pinkie Pie and made her feel a little relieved about that.
"W-what do you mean m-magic," Twilight said trying to dissuade this girl into thinking she said reminding herself after hearing what this girl had said about magic.
DiNozzo had once described Abby while under the influence of a truth serum as "a paradox wrapped in an oxymoron smothered in contradictions in terms. She sleeps in a coffin. Honestly, She's the happiest Goth you'll ever meet," but Abigail "Abby" Sciuto was far from dumb, and she knew a lie when she heard one. "
I'm talking about the fact that you were making a twenty-pound metal stool float in the air like it weighed nothing is a clear indication that you know how to do magic." Abby pointed out with logic.
Twilight knew she was caught, but she didn't know what this creature would do to her, nor did she want anyone else to know. However, before Twilight could utter a single word her body was suddenly wracked with a tremendous amount of pain that had her doubling over doing her absolute best not to scream or pass out from the pain.
Abby for her part was in shock at what was happening right before her eyes. When it looked like this girl was about to explain how she was able to do magic like she could she suddenly doubled over in pain. All Abby could do was watch in horror as the girl’s body slowly morphed into some kind of unicorn/pegasus hybrid. When it looked like the transformation was complete, this little horse/girl swayed for a few seconds before falling over into unconsciousness.
In a small Washington, D.C. field office in Washington Navy Yard, Washington D.C, a frantic Forensic Scientist named Abigail "Abby" Sciuto was panicking when the girl she was supposed to look after suddenly doubled over in extreme pain and blacked after turning into a small unicorn/pegasus hybrid.
'What is going on?! How did she turn into some animal?!' Abby Screamed in her head. She had taken the time to lift this small creature onto one of the tables before starting her little freak-out. 'how am I going to explain this to Gibbs? Worse what will I tell the others if they come down here and discover this creature? What else can go wrong today?' Abby finished with a groan.
It was at this time that it turned out that fate was listening to Abby's internal rant because after she finished uttering those words the elevator opened to reveal Anthony DiNozzo, an NCIS Senior Field Agent and a former Detective, entering the lab.
"Hey, Abby you down here?" DiNozzo called out when he came in wondering what was taking her so long with this girl. He was, however, hoping to get to know the woman they brought in a little better though before they sent her home or something.
Abby hearing Tony walking toward the door quickly ran out the door to intercept him so he wouldn't think she was bringing stuffed toys to work with her. "Tony? W-What are you doing here?" She stuttered in her best not-suspicious-at-all voice as she could manage.
Most people would describe DiNozzo as a "Charming Goofball." Others have called him a movie buff, a jock, and most of all a womanizer, but if there was one one thing Tony was not, was blind or dumb. Being a former police detective, he developed an ability to read a lot of body language and could tell when someone was either lying or trying to hide something, and Abby was most definitely trying to hide something.
"So what are you trying to hide in there Abby?" Tony asked in his usual snarky voice. His expression soon turned serious when he asked, "Where's the girl Gibbs said was out here in the hall?" While Tony would generally give someone a chance to make an excuse to justify themselves, he wasn't about to let an unknown person wander through the place without supervision.
Abby was still sweating and trying to come up with an excuse to get DiNozzo to leave when the unthinkable happened, The girl/creature stirred and let out a pained groan. With DiNozzo wondering what that was as it didn't sound human, Abby rushed back into the lab to check up on the girl. In her haste to get back to Twilight, she forgot to close the door, so she was understandably startled when she heard DiNozzo say, "Abby, What is that and how did it get in here and where is the girl?"
Abby squeaked when she turned around fast enough to make her left hand accidently slap the pony-like creature causing Twilight to let another groan. Hearing Twilight groan like that caused Tony to try and get Abby away from it, but was surprised when Abby turned back around and apologized to it like it could speak back and began asking it questions like, "Are you okay?" or, " How many fingers am I holding up?" To say that Tony was confused would be an understatement.
The confusion skyrocketed when he heard the last thing he expected to hear from this creature, "UGH, What happened and why do I feel shorter all of a sudden?" It said as it woke back up from where she was sitting. She looked at her hands and saw hooves once more. She smiled.
“What?! Oh ,Thank Celestia! Maybe this was all just a bad dream.” Twilight said, looking around. To her dismay, she was still in the medical ward where she met the others, and there were the same bipedal creature that reminded her of Pinkie, but who was the other on? And why was the blockier one looking at her she was going to eat his brain or something?
“Or not. Great. I was hoping it was just a dream i had caused myself reading three days straight...again,” Twilight mumbled to herself. DiNozzo looked at Abby, who was just staring at this creature and quickly grabbed her dragging her away from Twilight before grabbing his gun thinking that it was controlling her or something. He had seen the ‘Invasion of The Body Snatchers’ before and if this thing was capable of something like that than they needed to get rid of it soon.
“Ahh, Tony, What are you doing,” Abby protested to the quick and somewhat forceful pull as DiNozzo drew his gun.
“Get away from it Abby, it could be a body snatcher of some new breed of alien mutant. Why are you here alien. And where is the girl! And don’t think i won’t know when you are doing you freaky alien mind trick and i won't hesitate to shoot” Tony asked her, aiming it at her.
“What?! Alien? Girl?” Twilight hastily replied, though quickly mumbled something to herself ”What’s a girl? Was that the creature i was turned into when whatever happened to me brought me here?”
“Abby get Gibbs, if whatever this thing is, is dangerous than i want to at least be sure it's not going anywhere.” Tony half-whispered, half-shouted as he got ready to pull the trigger of his gun.
Abby quickly snapped out of her stupor and quickly placed herself between DiNozzo and the creature. “Tony stop, that is the girl we rescued,” She said while shielding the creature. “I was in here when it happened, one moment she was fine, well as fine as someone covered in injuries can be, but then she doubled over in pain and, ‘morphed’ i guess you could say, into that,” She explained, “It’s true Tony.” Abby said when she saw the sceptical brow being raised
“Are you sure it’s safe Abby?” Tony asked. “She might be some covert alien spy.” This reminded Twilight of Rainbow Dash as she said almost the same thing when they first met.
“But, she’s so cute! Look at her wings! I don’t think they're fake and earlier she was levitating a twenty pound autopsy stool like it weighed nothing.” Abby added in, split between wanting to go and hug Twilight and getting Tony to believe in the occult and magic.
DiNozzo still couldn’t believe what he was hearing. This strange creature sitting before him had claimed to be the girl that was found earlier and Abby was saying that it could use so form of mental control over a 20 lb twenty pound stool like it weighed nothing. All Tony could do was sigh and shake his head ruefully, “Well there goes my chances again on getting a pretty girl to go out with me,” He said while holstering his gun, “Abby could you go make sure that no one comes down here so i can she can tell me how she got here.”
Sure thing Tony!” With that Abby rushed to the elevator to make sure the coast was clear.
“I really need a drink,” DiNozzo Sighed as he turned to fully look at the horse/creature/thing. Upon examining the creature he could see all the injuries that he remember seeing on the girl, further cementing the fact that this creature was in fact the girl they found. ”Well then can you tell me whats going on and why you here? I really don’t like being left ‘out of the loop’ as they say and the is giving me a headache just thinking about it.”
So for over an hour Twilight explained who she was, what she was, where she was from, and up to her most recent memory, “The last thing i remember was having breakfast with Spike, my number one assistant, before giving him the day off to do some re-shelving of my castle library. Everything after that is a blur.” Twilight said, finishing explaining to the thing to ‘Tony’; She was still confused on what the creature was, but judging by the name it was a he, how she wound up in this world.
“So, you're a magical pony princess from another world and don’t know how you got here? Yep, I’ve gone mad.” Tony said, not believing what he was told. Heck he was close to thinking he had fallen asleep at his desk after the case they were on earlier that day.
“I Wouldn’t say that DiNozzo, even mad people are right sometimes.” A voice spoke from behind him causing DiNozzo to jump and turn to see who snuck up on him, only to pale as he saw Gibbs smirking, while Abby hid behind him with a pouting look on her face. “So care to explain why i found Abby up top sneaking around trying to keep me from coming down here to check up on Twilight,” He said while keeping Abby from sneaking off, “Speaking of, where is she, i want to ask her a question.”
Twilight’s ears perked up at that and made her way around Tony to see the creature the found her looking at her like he was trying to determine whether to it was better to simply give her a carrot, which she would like since she haddn’t eaten since breakfast, or if what he was really there. “Um, hello, thank you for helping me.” Twilight said with a light blush due to the awkwardness of the situation she was in.
Instead of disbelief he simply said to DiNozzo, “DiNozzo, make sure you clean up after her.”
“So, this was certainly unexpected, but it certainly does fill in all the holes,” Gibbs said, still looking at Twilight, now a pony.
“I’m still not sure we can trust it. After all, it did hide from us.” Tony said, eyeing Twilight.
“Well I’m sorry, but I woke up as a thing I’ve never seen in a strange world with no memory how I got here. Sorry for not telling you the truth. I was scared out of my mind!” Twilight yelled to Tony.
“It’s ok Twilight; we get it. I trust you.” Abby said, going over to Twilight, hugging her. Twilight still wasn’t sure what this thing called ‘Abby’ was, but she felt a home with a good hug.
“Well, how about we keep this in between all of us until we know more. I will have Twilight here live with me so I can keep an eye on her.” Gibbs said, grabbing Twilight’s hoof before picking her up.
Twilight quickly blushed and asked, “What are you doing!”
“I need to get you out of here, so I am going to cover you up and carry you out. Problem?” Gibbs asked her. Twilight didn’t say anything before walking away, being carried by Gibbs. She hated that, but she knew why he was doing after. After being covered up by a blanket, Gibbs carried Twilight into a strange machine that looked like the same thing she saw earlier. She was put on a seat before Gibbs closed the door and started it back up. The machine took off, and they began to drive along the road. Twilight just stared at the thing called ‘Gibbs’ not sure what to say. The ride back to his house was both quiet and awkward, and Twilight used this time to gather her thoughts. They soon arrived at a home, and Gibbs went over to Twilight, picking her up once more. He carried her inside before closing the door, setting her down.
“Well, here we are Twilight,” Gibbs said, going into the kitchen to grab a drink. “You thirsty?”
“I haven't had anything to drink in Celestia knows how long. Please. Do you have water?” Twilight asked, keeping it simple.
“Of course,” Gibbs replied, grabbing a glass and handing it to her. Twilight used her magic to levitate the glass and take a long drink from it, which made her feel better.
Twilight then stared at Gibbs more, who was still looking at her with a strange look. “What? Is there something on my face?” Twilight said as she wiped her hooves across her face.
“No, there's nothing on your face, but that wasn’t what I was looking at, I was looking at something that I thought only kids, and Abby, believed in,” Gibbs started, not sure how to say what was on his mind. Twilight perked her ears and tilted her head in confusion, wondering what this mythical creature was. “You,” Gibbs merely pointed out what he was looking at, “And magic, in general, are what I thought could only exist to the delusional or the innocent, yet here you are proving that both are in fact real. I’m Still trying to wrap my head around the fact that magic is talking pony, never thought I would ever utter something like that, and that said pony is a princess to boot, it’s a lot to take in.” Gibbs explained, looking at Twilight some more. Twilight thought about this and replied back.
“I never thought I would go to a new world with technology and creatures I have never seen before. I don’t even know what this world is like or how it works. I still can’t remember how I got here, and my friends are probably worried. Heck, without me, my home is likely in danger, and who knows what is going on!” Twilight began to cry, tears flowing down her face. “And I’m scared out of my mind here! I feel alone, and I don’t know who to trust.” Gibbs thought about this for a minute and went over to the crying mare.
“I had no idea you felt this way Twilight. Don’t worry, with me around; you will be safe, and we'll make sure you get home.” Gibbs explained, hoping to calm her down. Twilight looked up to Gibbs; her ears still perked down.
“Thank you. I’m sure everything will work out fine. After all, I can use this time to learn something new!” Twilight said as she got up, happy to think about something she loves.
“I hope you're ready for training starting tomorrow,” Gibbs said after giving Twilight a chance to calm down.
Twilight was confused about that, ‘What? Training? Why is he talking about training?’ She thought as she looked at Gibbs’s outstretched ‘hand,' I believe it’s called?’ “What do you mean by training?” Twilight asked when she couldn’t find the answer herself.
Gibbs told Twilight that as long as she was here, that while they would protect her, she would need to be able to help them in important cases.
However, to not look suspicious to any of the others, she would need to go through a full week of training through the N.C.I.S Training Program at the Academy. In order for Twilight to even attend the academy, she would need a new identity so that when her background was looked up nothing would seem out-of-place and she would appear to have been born of this planet as a human.
While Twilight protested to have her identity changed, Gibbs told her that most humans don’t have names like hers. Eventually Twilight relented with the exception that she have her name be considered a nickname. Gibbs was okay with that, and so Twilight Sparkle became Talia ‘Twilight’ Sparks.
Gibbs then told her that he would have the paperwork set up so that she would be in his squad as a part of her internship and therefore be able to train ‘under the radar,' so to speak. She would be able to stay at the office while he, Abby, and DiNozzo could find a way to send her home, as well as having a space cleared in a small storage room so that she could keep hidden from prying eyes.
What Gibbs told her next, though, made her shiver. She was told that she would need to complete a Forensic course as well since she would be working closely with Abby and Ducky and would have to encounter death on a daily basis.
It was at this point Gibbs learned a little about Twilight’s world. To him death was just another day at the office, sure it was sad to see a life ended in ways sometimes too painful to remember, however at the end of the day the world still went on like nothing happened.
For Twilight However, death was as rare as winning the lottery, it almost never happened. If Twilight’s world was truly this peaceful, then how did she end up here, or more importantly, who sent her here.
Meanwhile, in Equestria, Princess Celestia was starting to get worried about Twilight as she has not received any updates on her progress on chaos magic. Just as she was about to send Twilight a letter wondering about her progress, a letter appeared in a flash of green fire. Celestia smiled at that, thinking that Twilight was just caught up in her studies and only fell asleep studying. Her smile quickly changed to a frightened look as she read the shaky writing from a worried dragon.
Princess,
Twilight’s missing and nopony knows where she is. Not even Discord and he’s the one who found out.
Please help.
You're worried dragon friend and number one assistant, Spike.
The last thought that went through Princess Celestia’s head before she blacked out was ‘Oh Buck.’
"...Es!" What sounded like a voice shouting from a hundred miles away trying to talk through a cloud. ".ince...! Pri...ess....es.ia.." With each minute the voice was getting clearer, as the fog of darkness that was clouding Princess Celestia's mind was starting to lift. "Pri..ess Celes.ia..! Princess Celestia!" With one last struggle, Princess Celestia's eyes started to flutter open allowing her to see where she was.
All she could see were multi-colored blobs that slowly came into focus, revealing that she was still in the throne room surrounded by the concerned faces of her guards, the element bearers, and sister. Luna looked like she was ready to swear vengeance on whatever caused her to pass out, though she highly doubted that the letter would survive the encounter long enough for her to interrogate.
At Remembering the message, Celestia Jumped to her hooves as fast as she could, though she stumbled trying to regain her footing, and rushed to her sister, whose concern only doubled. "Luna! Twilight's missing!" “WHAT?! Princess Luna and the element bearers exclaimed in a voice that was a close match to the ROYAL CAPSLOCK VOICE,” Pinkie exclaimed, much to the confusion of everypony in the room.
“Uh, Sugarcube, who are ya talking to?” Applejack asked, confused by Pinkie Pie’s sudden exclamation, before she decided it was Pinkie and not question it and turned back to the princesses, “And What do you mean Twilight's missing?! You mean she's not here!”
“I meant what I said, Twilight is missing.” Celestia said with a look close to guilt, “A few weeks ago, Twilight found a book written about the elusive chaos magic Discord wealds and asked if i would allow her to study it,” It was here that Celestia sniffed away some more tear that threatened to form, “I thought that if she was going to attempt chaos magic that Discord should be there to at least contain any wild chaos that could, or would, form. I received a letter from Twilight saying that she was progressing faster than she thought she would and was practising with the spells she knew before going to the next spell...” She shifted her face from sad to worried as she trailed off, unsure if she should reveal this last piece of info, then thought how worried they were and spoke, “That was two days ago. Last night I got a message from Spike indicating Twilight was missing and hasn’t been seen since.” By this point faces of Luna and the remains mane six expressions, had gone from worried to distraught as she continued fearing for her student.
In years past, Princess Luna has only seen the sheer panic on her sister's face once before; The day she became Nightmare Moon. To see her in such a state again showed Luna that to Celestia, Twilight was more than a student or fellow princess. The look on Celestia's face was that of a mother losing a foal. They both sat and watch and knew the best course of action was to summon Discord.
Twilight didn’t get much sleep during the night, as she was too focused on working on an illusion spell to make her look more human. She knew she needed to look more human in order to be around her new friends easier, and she wasn’t sure how it worked. Soon, it was already morning, and she could hear Gibbs.
“Morning Twilight? Were you up all night?” Gibbs asked her as she made a cup of coffee.
“I am practicing a new spell in order to help blend in better. I tend to, go a bit overboard, when I study, heh.” Twilight explained, still a bit tired. Gibbs just shrugged and continued.
“Well I hope your ready, we will begin training today. We will need to make sure you blend in better, and that’s the only way to. Eat some breakfast and let’s get going.” Gibbs told her, handing her a bowl of oatmeal.
The meal was quiet and Twilight was busy thinking about what kind of training she was going to have to do. After breakfast, they got back into the care and drove to the office. Gibbs told them to meet in a different place than normal to give them time to prepare. Tony, Ducky and Abby were standing in the garage they were supposed to meet at. “Alright boss, how do you want to do this?” Tony asked as Gibbs got out of the car.
“I have a solution or, rather, a temporary one.” Twilight told him. “I have a spell that can make me look human for a certain period of time, so that should make this easier.”
“I thought you were just pulling my leg about a unicorn-pegasus hybrid, but I guess they do exist. You said you had a spell that would make you look human? Well, I won’t question it anymore. Go ahead.” Ducky said.
“Actually I’m an Alicorn, a mix of earth ponies, pegasi, and unicorn. Though right now the spell I’m about to do will make me no longer look like a pony; At least it will hide the fact that I’m not a, human,”Twilight said as she lit up her horn. Soon, a purple glowing cocoon enveloped her, and once the light died down, Twilight no longer looked like a pony, but what she looked like when she was found, with a few minor differences. At first glance Twilight looked as she did before, but if you looked closer you would see that her hair, while still having the pink and purple highlights, now looked as if it was dyed instead of natural. Gibbs had explained to Twilight that humans didn’t have hair that came in those colors naturally and explained that to blend in she would have to change her hair color. Twilight had been about to protest changing her hair color until she remembered what Gibbs said about hair dyes.
The other changes Twilight made to her illusion was to give her a set of clothes that would make her look, at best, like she was a school librarian.
“H-How do I look?” Twilight asked after not getting a response for a couple minutes, “I Didn’t make myself naked, did I?” Twilight said looking at herself to make sure.
“N-o-o, you didn’t. You look like a school librarian. That is amazing.” Abby said, a look of shock still on her face. “If I didn’t know what you were before hand I wouldn’t have even given you a second glance.”
“Great! The spell work. I can only hold this for so long however, so we will have to wait until it comes back.” Twilight explained to them, “If I need to I can also make the illusion capable of interacting with physical objects, at the cost of it lasting shorter than it would normally. By the way who is he?” Twilight said while pointing to Ducky.
“You’ve met me before Twilight. Remember when you first woke up? That was me.” Ducky pointed out, and he wasn’t surprised.
“Oh, the doctor who talked to me? You look different and I don’t remember you well. Might be a part of trauma I guess.” Twilight answered, still a bit confused. “How did you find out what I was anyway?” She asked. While it was nice to have another person who knew what she was, she was also nervous when she had heard what Gibbs had said that their government might do if anyone outside those who already knew, learned of her secret.
“I found out after I came back to the autopsy room. Dinozzo here was going on about losing his mind seeing talking pony princess aliens.” Ducky chuckled. Dinozzo just face palmed at how he thought was alone when Abby left the autopsy room. “After asking what he was talking about, and noticing his shifting expression, I put two-and-two together and figured that the girl we found, AKA you, was not as she seemed. Don’t worry though, I won’t try to figure out how you tick.” He said, though with a bit of humor at the last part of his sentence, “Oh yeah, before i forget, Abby what was it Jethro asked you to do earlier?” Ducky said as an afterthought.
“Huh? Oh, He asked me to set up a full background on Twilight here to make it seem like she was born on earth. Namely where she was born, her name, occupation, history, whether she has any diseases, those sort of things,” She said, listing off what she would be doing getting Twilight set up for her extended stay till her people can find her and bring her home, or till she can find a way home herself. They all then headed to Abby’s lab, where Twilight would learn about her new life.
Twilight was standing in short line along with other trainees. To begin training in the first place, she had to pass an interview. Abby helped Twilight practice her new made up backstory and a way to answer all the questions. She wasn’t sure she would be able to lie convincingly, after all, the only one that was a worse liar than her was Applejack.
Twilight also wasn’t sure she would be able to keep her illusion up during the training segments that required her to hold things like weapons, which still made Twilight shudder thinking about it, as she would have to pump more magic into her spell just to keep it stable.
Luckily Twilight did a little magic practice on the way to the Academy and was able to increase the amount of time she could hold the spell. She managed to raise her interactive illusion from thirty minutes to two hours while raising her regular version to five hours, however, she would get tired faster if she kept them going longer than necessary and she would run the risk of blacking out and the spell failing if her concentration was broken due to the strain.
“Greetings, My name is Sergeant Gordon Morris. I will be conducting this interview to see if you will be qualified to join the NCIS special forces. Name?” The gruff voice of the interviewer asked Twilight, who had been sitting there for over an hour already. She was surprised when the person doing the interview sounded and acted like her brother, Shining Armor.
“M-My name is Twi, uh, Talia S-Sparks,” Twilight said with a stutter. Even though Abby and Twilight went over the name a few times, the fact that they decided on making her real name a nickname she would sometimes stumble and almost say her name instead of the made up one.
The only thing Morris did was raise an eyebrow. He had been briefed on this girl's life before she came in for an interview so he had attributed the stutter as her overall nervousness and caution around strangers, poor girl.
"Well Miss Talia, it says here that you were born in a small town in Virginia. Could you clarify what its name is and why you left?” Morris asked in a skeptical tone. It wasn't that he didn't believe her, but he found that places that aren't on a map tend to be destitute or abandoned.
"Its called Ponyville, and yes I know how it sounds, but that's because it mostly specializes in horses," Twilight said, leaving out that the horses were the ones who built the town, “As for why I left, i don’t remember much about it, but what i do remember was the sound wind coming from behind me and a sharp pain in the back of my head.”
Twilight just looked as he saw the man writing something done on a small piece of paper.
“Alright then Talia, it also says you grew up in an orphanage?” He asked, looking on.
“Yea, I never knew my parents. I was always working around the house, and I don’t think many people liked me much. A ma-man soon found me on the side of the road and told me I ran away from the o-o-orphanage. I didn’t really trust him, considering the splitting headache i had, and I was already in his tru-truck when he talked to me. However, he soon forced me to not talk or things would be wo-wo-worse. I wasn’t sure what to do. Didn’t help that he would wh-wh-whip me when I didn’t listen to him or that he was threatening a young blind girl and her mom. I was forced to leave quickly when he threw a k-k-knife into my shoulder. The pa-pain was unreal, and I knew I needed to escape.” Twilight explained, hoping to explain the scars Ducky found earlier, to the man, who was also writing down more info.
“I am quite sorry to hear that. How did you escape this man?” He asked her once more, hoping to get the full story. He had heard about that case, A man kidnapped the wife and the young blind daughter of a Navy captain, who, on his computer, received a demand for $2M. Hard to believe that this same man kidnapped the girl in front of him from a small town as well.
“Well, I managed to get a hold of some of his sleeping pills one day. I put them in the food I was forced to make him, and he soon passed out on the spot. He woke up before I could help the other two and although I didn’t want to leave them, I was too scared to do anything but run. I didn’t stop till i was sure that that man would never find me again and passed out in a dead-end alleyway; That’s when Gibbs found me. I was fourteen at the time, so Gibbs said i could stay with him till we could find where I was from,” Twilight said. What made this a believable lie was that she was speaking the truth at the last bit when she said that Gibbs would let her stay with him till they could help her find a way home.
“Alright Talia, I’m sorry about re-opening old wounds but thank you for answering to the best of your knowledge,” Morris said while straightening out the paperwork on his desk before continuing, “Now, I know that most people would think this was the end of an interview but for the sake of the NCIS we have to check every applicants backgrounds thoroughly, so with that in mind my next question is where did you go to school. It can’t have been easy getting an education while being held hostage,” He said.
Normally when someone talks about their past they will sometimes leave out details of those they think are unimportant, but Morris had a strange feeling this girl was not telling him something. She was too precise with her words and acted as if she had rehearsed them. If he had blinked then he would have missed Talia’s eyes widen just a fraction wider and fill with fear, before becoming masked by an outward calm, but now Morris knew she was hiding something. Something that terrified her.
“You're right that it wasn’t easy to get an education in those circumstances. Mostly, while at the orphanage, they taught me classes there. While I was with t-that man, he didn’t let me leave the house, as if he was afraid someone would recognize me, so I had to homeschool myself while he wasn't home. Once I escaped, Gibbs helped me attend Washington Math/Science/Technology Public Charter School, where I had to work extra hard to make up for my lost time. I always liked science. I even had a small lab back at the orphanage when I was there, Though the matron didn’t like the fact that most of the time she came in to see burn marks on the sheet when an experiment went wrong,” Twilight explained, hoping they put her in the system, as she was told.
Morris looked like he was about to ask another question when his phone went off. “I better take this miss Talia, thank you for coming to see me today and hopefully we can get you into the academy proper by this time tomorrow,” He said getting up and extending his hand toward Twilight. Twilight took his hand and shook it, and he soon saw her leave.
Once the call was finished, he begun to think about what he was told. “I wonder why she lied about the school that she never went to. Maybe some form of escape perhaps? No one could have gone through what she did and come out without nightmares. Or scars. And why did it feel like I was grabbing nothing even though I shook her hand? Plus for a girl with amnesia, she sure knew a lot about her past. I’ll have to watch her.“ Morris said as he looked over the letter that was sent to him by none other than Gibbs himself. The letter was short and to the point, just like Gibbs, but it was the content that worried him greatly and Morris knew there was more going on with this girl than what he was told.
The letter only had four short words in it, but it was enough.
Please keep her safe.”
Twilight left the building, thinking about her next plan. She needed to set up a place to live, as she didn’t want to be stuck with Gibbs, he’s done enough for her. She began walking while mentally searching through all the spells she knew, and came up with the perfect solution. She just hoped Gibbs would allow it.
For three months the Elements of Harmony, Discord, and the Alicorn Sisters searched for their friend, Princess Twilight Sparkle.
For the Element Bearers; they searched all of Equestria, thinking that the spell she was working on simply teleported her somewhere on the planet.
For the Celestial Sisters; they searched the cosmos, hoping that she was found on one of the many friendly inhabited planets in the universe with the locals trying to find a way to bring her home.
Discord, however, searched the multi-verse, thinking back to how teleporting with chaos magic could be. If he could lock onto Twilight’s magical signature then he may just be able to bring her home with little problem.
For the three months they searched, news of Princess Twilight’s disappearance started to spread. It got even worse when the rumors of ponies spotting the missing princess started showing up.
Some even went so far as to impersonate the princess, thinking they would somehow manage to become royalty by tricking the Element Bearers.They always failed though. Even if they managed to fool one or four of them, the Element of Honesty would spot the fake almost immediately, and should they manage to get past her they would still have to get past her ‘pet’ dragon.
It was thanks to most of the idiots thinking that Spike was a pet that he could see the deception for what it was. There were a few who were nice enough to not lie or treat Spike as a pet, but still were found out every time. Those ponies at least had the decency to try to comfort him while they searched for Twilight. Some of the nicer ponies even stayed even after they were found out to help Spike with his chores as he wanted to make sure that the castle was clean when Twilight returned.
Both the Elements and the Sisters had no luck finding her, however, Discord managed to find a faint signal. It was a laced with chaotic fluctuations though so getting a lock on it would be tricky, but if he managed to stabilize the connection long enough to send something through, then they might be able to trace where it and Twilight wound up and start figuring out how to bring her back. With this news Discord summoned the Elements and the Sisters to tell them what he found.
Twilight was sweating after the intense workout she had just gone through, though just by looking at her now, you wouldn’t be able to tell it was her. She had a build more like Big Mac, and while human, she looked like a slightly buffer teenager. Her hair was now a little shorter, but not enough that you would notice right away.
“Whew, that was a workout. Didn’t think I’d make it over that wall in just ten seconds,” Twilight said as she grabbed a bottle of water the instructors had place around the course for the recruits after the training, “And to think, I’ve only been in this world for a week and I already look like I can beat Big Mac and my brother in a hoof wrestling match. Glad I was able to work on my magic without being seen by the other cadets, or else i may have had to find someplace to hide and lose my only chance to find a way home.”
Before Twilight could begin training her magic again though she was called over to Sergeant Morris’s office to discuss something. “What does he want with me today?” She wondered. It had been a stressful week when Morris found out about Twilight’s secret.
flashback
”Now, Twilight, I have been told that you have never held or used a gun before and I’m sorry for having you do so now,” Morris said with a slight frown to Twilight, “But before you can officially be part of the NCIS you need to be able to protect yourself and those who will look to you for protection,” He said as he handed her a pair of large, strange earmuffs, “Those will need to worn at all times in the firing range to protect your ears from hearing loss.” Twilight followed his lead, and put the earmuffs on, though she had to use a little more magic to both keep the earmuffs on her illusions head and create a barrier around her own ears.
Morris then pulled out a Glock 19 and showed it to Twilight. “This is a Glock 19. It is the standard service weapon for the NCIS. The Glock 19 is effectively a reduced-size Glock 17, called the "Compact" by the manufacturer. It was first produced in 1988, primarily for military and law enforcement. The Glock 19's barrel and pistol grip are shorter by about 12 mm (0.5 in) compared to the Glock 17 and uses a magazine with a standard capacity of 15 rounds. The pistol is compatible with factory magazines from the Glock 17 and Glock 18, giving the Glock 19 available capacities of: 17 rounds (standard magazine with +2 extension), 10, 17, and 19 (standard Glock 17 magazine with +2), and the 31 (standard Glock 18 magazine with +2 removed) and 33 rounds of the Glock 18. To preserve the operational reliability of the short recoil system, the mass of the slide remains the same as in the Glock 17 from which it is derived. With the exception of the slide, frame, barrel, locking block, recoil spring, guide rod, and slide lock spring, all of the other components are interchangeable between the models 17 and 19.” He said while pointing out the various parts of the gun. Twilight was impressed by the sheer versatility of the weapon she was to use both in training and when she was out in the field.
“Now, before we can begin, I need to teach who how to use the gun. Now, this part here.” He said, pointing towards a small switch, “Is the safety. When off, the gun will fire. When on, you can’t pull the trigger.” He explained, soon handing her the gun. Twilight had to use her magic once more to hold the gun. “You never want to point the open end towards yourself and you must always leave the safety on unless you’re ready and willing to fire it.”
Twilight was still nervous about touching any kind of weapon, let alone use one. She has seen what can happen to those who wield weapons of any kind carelessly back when she still lived in Canterlot.
“Now for the sake of training we will be using these dummy rounds,” Morris said hold up two small 9mm bullets. One bullet was a bright orange with the casing also a bright orange. The other bullet was a bright green with the casing also green as well. “These orange bullets are called ‘Safety Orange’, yea I know real original name,” He added last bit when Twilight raised an amused eyebrow, “Anyway, the green bullets are another odd name, ‘Zombie Green’.”
Twilight was looking at the bullets when she noticed something..off about them. “Sergeant, why do the bullets look strange, aside from the color?” She was wondering why they looked like plastic.
“Ah, so you caught that did you,” Morris said, amused that this cadet was able to notice that the bullets were made of a hard plastic, “Yes, these bullets are made of a special type of plastic that is meant to still hurt quite a bit, but will not cause any real harm to people. It can still damage the walls and other surfaces to a minimal degree.” Twilight just took note of that, not wanting to get hit by the bullets in the future.
“So, how does this work?” Twilight asked, looking at the glock, not sure how this thing worked. She has never seen such a weird thing. Using her magic to hold this up was taxing on her as well. It was at this moment that Morris noticed something off about how this girl was holding the gun. From a distance it would appear to be nestled firmly in her hand, but with Morris this close to her he noticed that the gun seemed to be floating just a few inches away from her hands and every so often it looked like it wobbled down through her hand as well. He shook his head thinking it was just a trick of the light and regained his composure before continuing.
“To begin, you need to load the bullets into the gun. To do this, you load them in like this.” He showed her how to load the gun by doing it first. “The next step, you need to learn how to shoot. To shoot the gun, you point it where you want to fire, and pull, slowly, on the trigger.” He pointed to the gun trigger. “Be warned, there is a bit of kick.” After he finished showing Talia how to fire the weapon he pressed a button on the side of the firing range to bring out a paper target that looked like a human silhouette and proceeded to explain where the most damage can be done to ensure that the culprit is either subdued or taken down. “As you can see there five rings on the torso of the target with each ring decreasing in both diameter and radius. Each ring has a score number, indicating how much damage to your target you have inflicted,” Morris said while pointing out each ring and what the numbers indicated, “The seven score ring indicates a body shot that is not only survivable, but also has a chance that the culprit can still get away. The score eight ring is the same as the seven, but with the added chance of slowing down your target. Score nine has the chance of being a crippling shot, stunning your target long enough to capture, but with the added risk of inflicting a fatal blow that will kill instead. The last two rings are strictly for kill shots, meant only if there is no other way to subdue or capture the target. Now that we have covered the basics of gun safety we can now move onto the firing phase.” He said before lining up his first shot. And fired. end flashback
‘I still can't believe that gun had that much of a kick that it flung it straight through my illusion, and the fact that I caught the gun when it was way out of reach to the arms. I’m still glad that he managed to listen to my reasoning for the deception.’ Twilight thought to herself over what happened in the first few days of training, when her secret was found out. She was soon going to meet her other teachers, and she had to not let herself fail again.
She had met a few of her new trainers, and the meetings seemed to go well for her. ‘How am i going to be able to blend in if it takes such a long time to complete training?’ Twilight thought after meeting with the people that were going to be training her on subjects ranging from death investigations to crime scene processing, domestic security, unarmed self-defense, and critical incident stress debriefing to multi-month programs on technical surveillance countermeasures, polygraph, procurement fraud, protective service, and year-long graduate programs in forensic science, foreign counterintelligence, and language studies. Twilight thought that just being here for three weeks would be good enough to be able to hide in plain sight long enough to get home or, barring that, a way to hopefully get help from the princess. Just being able to pass off as a full fledged agent for the NCIS could very well take years, and she didn’t want to know what could happen to Equestria if she was gone for that long.
Right now Twilight was on her way to meet the instructors Sergeant Morris had picked out for her unarmed self-defence, crime scene processing and death investigations , and forensic science. After walking from the firing range she came to the building that she was going to meet the final three instructors that would be going over her training. She just hoped that it wouldn’t get any more awkward after today.
Thomas Parker, every-day bragger, fastest sprinter in the academy, and current arm wrestling champion of West-Virginia, was bored waiting for the girl he was supposed to be doing physical training with, namely how to catch a suspect on foot if he runs and not tire yourself out. His brother Aaron Parker, on the other hand, was extremely nervous about meeting this new girl, even though he has trained other cadets before. But then again, even though he was afraid of his own shadow, when it comes to training in forensics and detective work, he’s the best there is. There was also one more person waiting for this girl to show up; A girl that was to be the unarmed self-defence instructor for the new cadet, but not much was known about her, other than she was from Austin, Texas and lived on a horse ranch. Her name was Gwen Taylor, strongest kickboxer in the US and master of several martial arts, including Taekwondo, Jujitsu, and Karate. Sergeant Morris hand picked her for the self-defence trainer for this cadet stating, ‘You’ll find her to be quite similar to what you train daily.’ When Thomas questioned what he meant by that he only said that this was different the other ‘humans’.
“What do you think this girl is supposed to be like?” Thomas asked the other instructors.
“Ah would assume she's stubborn like the horses that ah train back at the ranch. As for what Morris meant ‘bout her being different than most ‘humans’ is ah think she was born with a third hand, or third eye.” Gwen said.
“You crazy? She’s probably some sort of cyborg robot that the government has been hiding and is just now testing out the kinks.” Thomas argued.
“A cyborg robot? Really? Don’t be ridiculous.” Gwen rolled her eyes.
“Hey guys? What if he was just messing with us when he said that?” Aaron pointed out. “True, but come on Aaron, what do you think?” Thomas asked.
“She just more then likely has had a strange life.” Aaron pointed out.
“I still think she's a cyborg robot. Or maybe a spy. Heck I wouldn’t be surprised if she was an alien who somehow came to Earth and is just using the training as was way to hide” Thomas chuckled.
“Seriously? An alien? That's about as crazy as if you were saying that she was secretly a talking pony princess trying to get home.” Gwen replied, sighing at the stupid ideas. They kept going on with this for some time until Twilight walked up to the three of them, her spell fully active once more. All of them stopped talking and looked at Twilight trying to find out just what was strange about this girl.
“Um, hi? Are you my instructors?” She asked them, hoping she was in the right place and to end the awkward staring at her. Just as soon as she was about to speak again Thomas and Gwen just sighed and both handed a twenty to Aaron as his guess seemed to be the closest to the truth.
“Yea that’d us. Are you Talia Sparks?” Thomas asked the girl, still trying to find out what made her so strange.
“Yes. So, what happens now?” Twilight asked them.
“I guess we just go over what we will be teaching you.” Gwen said.
“Yea, and not much else too it. I’m A-Aaron.” He said, stuttering just a bit while introducing himself. “That’s my brother Thomas and that is Gwen.” He pointed to them. “Now that the introductions are out of the way why don’t we continue this conversation at the training grounds.”
Just as they were about to leave the building, a strong wind started building quickly in the room. “What’s going on?” Aaron shouted over the growing gale that threatened to rip the chairs and desks off the floor holding onto a desk that was bolted down to the floor. Thomas and Gwen were in the same situation with them close to being picked up by the hurricane that this wind has grown to. Strangely Talia looked completely unaffected by the gale, but at the same time looked like she was searching for the cause of it. While the others were screaming in shock, Talia was actually walking around calmly looking for the source. Finally after a few minutes the hurricane force winds started to dissipate leaving nothing but scattered papers and scared instructors, yet the girl still looked unaffected by the destruction, but now she was looking through the scattered mess like she was trying to find something. They just watched her search for a period of time until she came across a small scroll, quickly picking it up. “Ok, what just happened?” Yelled Thomas at Talia, getting off the floor while helping Gwen and Aaron up as well,“How was there a hurricane out of nowhere and why were you not effecti-” Whatever else Thomas was going to say was cut off by a blinding flash the engulfed the girl.
Discord was pacing around the room he was in; literally, he was walking around the outside of the chamber while inside it, waiting for his friends and the princesses to show up.
He had finally managed to stabilize the fluctuations of left in the wake of Twilight’s accidental teleportation with chaos magic, locking in both the dimension and location Twilight was and sent a piece of parchment with a tracker attached to it for retrieval at a later date.
Another thing he did was make the letter look like it was just a blank sheet of parchment should there be a member of the constitutional dimension in proximity to her, the only exception would be if they already knew she was alien to that dimension.
Discord only needed to wait for a few more minutes before the rest showed up, having timed it just right to get hit by the door just as it was opened.
“Discord! Are you alright!” Fluttershy exclaimed as she rushed over to the downed draconequus to check for injuries. Everyone else just rolled their eyes at the ‘subtle’ attempt at getting closer to Fluttershy from Discord.
“Of course my dear Fluttershy. I’m as tough as nails!” Discord said before letting off a grunt of mock-pain and sat down again. “Then again, I have been out in the rain for over a millennium, so I’m a bit rusty.” He said with an obvious fake tone.
‘Oh brother, this is even worse than when he thought to give me a bouquet of poison joke was a good first date present.’ Celestia thought as she and the others watched the poorly thought out flirting Discord was attempting while poor Fluttershy was completely oblivious to the flirting. ‘I don’t know whether to laugh at how bad he is trying to flirt, or cry at how clueless Fluttershy is at being romanced’.
Having watched the poor attempt at romance long enough, Celestia cleared her throat and said what the others were wondering as well. “Discord, while it's nice to know that you are ‘feeling better,'” She said while hiding the smirk under her mask, “But would you mind getting to the point of why you called us here in the first place.”
Discord for his part managed to hide the small blush the adorned his muzzle fast enough to not be seen. “Ahem, yes, quite right,” He said while getting up. “You see while searching through the multiverse, I stumbled upon a curious signal coming from a small pocket dimension that has multiple dimensions of its own. That by itself wouldn’t be much of concern for me to look into, but this signal was laced with chaos magic... “ At this, he switched to a more serious expression before continuing, “..And Twilight’s.”
As soon as those words left his mouth, the room exploded; ’leaving nothing but a smoldering crater and ashes’ Pinkie had a strange look on her face and appeared distracted by something.
She quickly brought herself back to reality when she noticed that everyone was looking at her with odd looks. She blushed and tried to shrink down to hide the embarrassment on her face.
“O..kay, that was strange even for Pinkie, but are ya'll saying that you managed ta find Twilight in another dimension?” Applejack questioned, looking hopeful again after three months of fruitless searching the Badlands.
“Yes, but there is a small problem. While I was able to find the dimension quickly enough, the signal was too degraded to be able to bring Twilight back the same way she got there.”Discord said solemnly, hanging his head at that uselessness he felt in trying to help his friend come home.
“It’s okay Discord.” Fluttershy told him, hugging him, “You did what you could.”
“Is there a way to bring her back?” Celestia asked him, hopeful.
“Honestly, I’m not too sure yet. Chaos magic is hard. Even I don't know all there is to know about it,” Discord said, still sad he wasn’t able to do more. “However, I think I am able to send her a letter, and based on the last spell she used, help her out in some way.” They soon all came together and wrote Twilight a letter, and before Discord sent it off, he added his own little touch. He smirked as he sent the letter off in a puff of wind and light, leaving them in the room.
present
The trainers looked around at the papers scattered around the room, trying to find the girl, who was still seemed to be unaffected by what just happened. They looked around after the blinding flash of light, not seeing the girl at all, for where the girl was standing was a large pile of papers, but the girl was nowhere in sight.
“What was all that?! How could a hurricane just spontaneously happen in a closed building?” Thomas yelled, confused to the events that occurred since meeting their new cadet, “And where is that girl, something tells me that she was behind all of this. When I get my hands on her, I’m gonna-” Whatever Thomas was going to do to this girl would be forever unknown when Gwen placed a hand over his mouth to keep him from talking.
“Shh, listen,” Was all Gwen said while looking around the room for something.
Judging by her reaction, Thomas figured she was trying to hear something and took a calming breath, and closed his eyes to focus on whatever was trying to listen. It was faint, but after a few seconds, he heard what sounded like talking coming from around the large pile of scattered papers. After looking over to Gwen, they both nodded and crept closer to where the talking was originating from. Being as quiet as possible Thomas and Gwen strained to make out what was being said.
“--Only way to get you home, but we can do it, you just have to blend in a little longer till we find the right spell,” The voice was male, almost like John De Lancie from Star Trek, and sounded like it was coming out of a recording.
“Hope we can find the right spell to get me home soon,” That was the voice of the girl, Talia Sparks, but who was she talking to? “Thanks for helping with this Discord, I didn’t want to have to rely solely on my magic alone,” Talia said.
Thomas looked at Gwen with a puzzled look on his face. Magic? Spells? Blend in? It seemed like Sergeant Morris was right when he had said that this girl was not like other ‘Humans’. Before springing into action, they were startled when this ‘Discord’ person spoke again. “By the way Twilight, when you see Thomas and Gwen could you tell them that they need to work on the sneaking. They’re just as bad as AJ and RD. Anyway, the spell you need to blend in is at the bottom of this scroll. I enchanted it so that all you have to do is touch the spell to know how to cast it flawlessly. At least as flawlessly as you can with limited knowledge.”
At those words, both instructors froze when Discord said their names, looked at each other, then bolted towards the pile of papers before Talia could get away. When they reached the papers they jumped to where the girl was supposedly crouching, but strangely enough they both passed straight through the papers clearing them away instead. As they turned around to try and apprehend her, the froze again. Instead of the human they met earlier, there staring back at them was a purple creature that had both a horn and wings on what looked like a pony’s body.
The creature was a dark lavender with a pair of majestic looking wings. Thomas himself was about 6 ft 3 in's yet this creature came up to about halfway up to Thomas’s waist. It’s mane and tail were both a moderate sapphire blue with mild violet and bright rose streaks going through the middle, just like Talia’s. The creatures horn was about four inches long and had a spiral groove going along the entire length.
They all just stared at this weird creature, confused as to what was going on. This thing looked so much like Talia that they could almost be the same thing.
“Oh buck,” Twilight said, seeing her form was back to normal in front of the three. “I can explain this.”
“It talks, and it sounds like Talia. What in the world is going on!” Thomas yelled, almost smacking himself to make him wake up from this dream. “I was RIGHT!”
“Talia?” Aaron asked, hoping it was her.
“Yep, Talia “Twilight” Sparks. Well, where do I begin.” Twilight sighed as she thought about what to say to them.
“How about start with that crazy wind?” Gwen asked, still thinking she was just seeing things but seemed the most calm of the three.
“Well, I believe that this is the easier way to explain this. This is all a dream,” Twilight explained, hoping to make them forget they saw anything. From the perfect deadpan looks they were giving her, she knew that they didn’t believe her. Heck, if it happened to her, she wouldn’t believe her either.
“Yeah, I figured that wouldn’t work.” Twilight sighed to herself. “Well, the wind I can’t tell you because I, myself don’t know what caused it, though if I had to guess, I would have to think that was Discord having fun with a sense of flare.”
“You’re going to have to hold off on explaining who this ‘Discord’ person later,” A voice coming from behind Thomas chimed in, causing those in the room to jump and turn to the sound.
“Right now I want to know how you managed to stop time beyond this room and why every cadet that has come in and left have no memory of coming in here?”
The face of Sergeant Morris was set in a stern look waiting for an explanation from Twilight. Twilight was confused for a moment until she remembered what Discord told her.
” Twilight as long as you are close to these letters I send you, I can warp reality around a little while to help keep you safe. I, unfortunately, can’t help getting you home through that method, but I can contribute to making it feel like home while you’re there until we can find a way to get you home.”
“That would probably be thanks to Discord. The letters he sends will let him control the reality for about a minute, or until it's no longer needed.” Twilight stated, trying to keep from shrinking away out of fear of having to run and hide. “So, that is out of my control.”
“You have mentioned this ‘Discord’ multiple times, who is he?” Morris asked her.
“Well, he’s sorta the Spirit of Chaos back at home,” Twilight answered, sheepishly. “I guess since you saw me, I should tell you what is going on.” Twilight sighed as she said that. She was doing a terrible job at hiding herself, and she knew it. At this rate, she was going to be found out, unless Discord had a plan of some kind. “And, I guess I should tell you the full story to Morris.”
Twilight soon started to explain her tale, from how she arrived and met Gibbs, to meeting all of them. This went on for a while and although time was stopped, time still flew by. Soon, Twilight remembered she still had to leave and remembered what Discord said. She took the scroll out, and touched the spell, soon learning how to do it.
“Anyway, I’m going to re-apply my disguise with another spell. I hope you won’t tell anypon-er I mean anyone else about me. Let’s just get back to the training.” Twilight said, casting the spell to turn back into a human, and hopefully, works better than her last time. When the magic was complete, Twilight felt completely different than before, and for the most part, she looked the same. However, once again, she was naked. Morris quickly ran to cover up the girl from the two men in the room, and she was confused.
“What?” She asked.
“You're naked!” He exclaimed.
“So? I’m always naked back home.” Twilight said, dumbfounded about why being naked was bad.
“What's a big deal? She is just a horse on two legs and looks..like..a human. Oh.” Gwen trailed off as she soon saw what the problem was. The awkwardness of Twilight being naked hitting her full force.
“I’m actually a pony.” Twilight said with enough deadpan to make Maud Pie proud back home.
“Exactly! A pony that has the ability to look like a human.” Morris added. Aaron just covered his eyes, and Thomas just stared, soon making this awkward.
“So, I get to see a naked chick and not get slapped. Worth it!” He said, happy that this happened, even if she wasn’t human. He still got slapped after a few seconds by Aaron who then went to find a spare set of clothes for Twilight.
“Just you wait, I’m going to see titties without getting slapped one of these days.” Thomas pouted, standing off to the side before setting his eyes on Talia again. As he looked at her for a few seconds more, he noticed some off about her back. When he walked around the back of Twilight, he blanched at the sight of two massive scars almost running down the full of her back. “JEEZ! What happened to your back!” Thomas exclaimed, feeling ill as both of her scars looked like she had been set on fire, then had the fire put out with acid and finally cleaned with sandpaper.
Twilight suddenly went rigid when Thomas mentioned the scars, trying to forget the event that caused them. “W-What S-Scars?” She trembled, seeing the events that caused them clearly again in her mind.
flashback “Mommy! Help! It burns! Make it stop, please make it stop!” A young Twilight screamed as her magic circuits were going out of control. end flashback
Twilight was shaken out of her memories by a pair of hands hung her tightly. “Shh, it’s alright nothing’s going to hurt you here.” The voice of Aaron said comforting Twilight while wrapping a jacket around her shoulders. The others who were watching this moved over to a corner of the room so as to not eavesdrop on what must have been a painful memory.
“Anything that can cause scars like those is something Ah never what to imagine. Whatever happened to this girl must have been when she was very young if it caused her to shake like a leave in a hurricane,” Gwen said looking at this girl in a new light and saw something in her that reminded her of herself. “Trauma like that stays with you for life, so it’s no wonder she was trying to hide. The only question now, though… is what else is she trying to hide from?”
After finally calming down and getting some new clothes, Twilight, and the others sat down to go over what was to happen in the coming weeks. For three weeks Twilight would train in unarmed self-defense, physical training, and forensic and detective work.
The first week will be spent with Aaron learning the ins and out of case work, from processing a crime scene to understanding how the victim was killed.
The following week will be spent in physical training with Thomas and Gwen. Thomas would be handling the running and stamina portion of the training while Gwen would manage the defensive and offensive part.
The final week will be spent with Morris learning the how-to of all the firearms she would need to use and identify in the line of duty. With Twilight no longer having to constantly use her magic to stay human could now use that time to find new ways to use her magic in daily operations, and still, have the time to try getting home.
Before anyone could leave the building, another gusting of wind blew around the room, though not as hard as a hurricane again, more like a strong, quick breeze.
Twilight quickly grabbed the new letter with her magic and began reading it. As she read on, though, her face went from confused to concern to finally scared.
Dear Twilight,
This letter is not a good one as I fear we came across some startling news. Without you here, I'm afraid harmony is starting to break down. All the other elements of harmony are there, but without you, the magic to activate it is absent. In response to this, I have asked Discord to do something drastic, as I fear if it were to continue, then even if you make do make it back, harmony may very well be dead.
Twilight almost dropped the letter as she read those words. She steeled herself and continued reading, hoping some good new came from it.
Don't worry too much, though, Twilight. Discord says he has a way to at least slow the degradation of harmony long enough for you and us to find a way to bring you back. I'm sorry to say this Twilight, but this will be the only letter you'll receive from anypony other than Discord for however long it takes you to return when he stops time from flowing for this dimension.
Be safe Twilight.
Your friend and fellow princess, Celestia.
P.S Pinkie wanted me to tell you to make sure to watch out for a particular type of 'slap' when you're talking to 'Gibbs.' Sometimes I think that pony has a screw loose.[/size=7.5]
With the last words of the letter read, Twilight dropped to her knees with a thousand yard stare, as if all the life had left her. She had to wonder what was in store for Equestria once she returned if Discord stopping time would only slow the degradation of harmony rather than stop it. Will Equestria even be the same when she returned? All she could do now was train and hope that the training will be enough.
