> 601 Corn Neck Road > by AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > CH. 1 The Storm, The Portal and The Pony. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 5:52 PM Date: Tuesday January 2, 2024 Location: Block Island, New Shoreham, 601 Corn Neck Road, Rhode Island, USA POV: Carl Votomopa I turned off the engine on my 1957 Black Thunderbird and checked the weather on my phone. Of course I would not expect it to change in the past 5 minutes. I was very surprised however that it went from 22 degrees to 15 and the sunny conditions all day changed to 100% rain. Of course I could've looked out the window but I was busy admiring the beautiful Atlantic. "Damm," I said " I didn't know conditions could change this fast." I stepped out of my car and hurried into my house, feeling the first sprinkle of rain at my heels, and put my coat up on the rack. " Now let's see," I checked my pockets to see if anyone pickpocketed me while I was at church. 'ok… ID? Check, credit card, check, money, check, everything else, check. Alright. I'm hungry.' I headed off to the kitchen in search of food. " Ahhh, dammit, all out, I gotta go to the store tomorrow," I picked some bread up from the bread box and toasted and buttered it. "Mhhhh, buthered thoast, the beth thing in the wrld," I said while having my face full of buttered toast. I walked to the second floor of my modest 2 bed 2 bath 2 story house (3 if you count the basement) and headed straight to my computer. Now what most people think I am is a highly religious, highly patriotic gun owner that works at the ferry ticket office and drives a very outdated car. What I really am is a BRONY highly religious, highly patriotic gun owner that works at the ferry ticket office and drives a very outdated car. I immediately put some Doom music on and start scrolling through FimFiction. A few hours and story's later I get up for cleaning my various guns and getting ready for bed. After I finish cleaning myself and my beloved guns I look at the weather again and see it has gotten worse. "I should really get my car in the garage." I step outside clad in full coat and rain jacket armor ready to battle the wind and rain with keys in hand. I sprint to the car, get inside, start it up, and get it in the garage. As I'm sprinting back to the house I fail to hear the crash coming in direction of my garden shed. I get inside and get in bed, ready to deal with whatever tree the storm throws at me. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 5:52 PM Date: Tuesday January 2, 1010 Location: Canterlot Castle basement, Canterlot, Equestria POV: Twilight Sparkle "Its almost ready Twilight!" I heard that call coming from the floor below me "OK!" I called back "I'm just making some final calibrations to it!" "Alright and this knob goes in.... this position, and this lever goes down annnnnnnnnd done!" "The panel is ready Lyra!" "OK, just gotta weld a few more pieces together and were ready!" "Are you sure you have to go alone?" Princess Celestia asked, " Me, Luna and your friends can go with you." "No," I said vigorously. "I have to go alone." "But why Twilight, why can't we come with you? You'll be safer that way." "No Princess, if you all go, then you might come under extreme danger, and I don't want that, Besides I made all the necessary calculations, I'll be fine." "Ok then, your choice, you have been ruler for a year anyway." "It's ready Twilight! Come on down!" "Alright! I'm coming!" I flew down to the platform hosting the Interdimensional Magical Portal, IMP for short, and gave the go ahead for Raven to start powering it up. It started to emit a low hum, then it increased to a thrum, then a low wind started to pick up around my hoofs, then the portal emitted a roar of power and magic. I stepped forward, then hesitated. "One small step for a pony, one giant leap for pony kind!" Then I stepped trough the portal. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 9:26 AM Date: Wednesday January 3, 2024 Location: Block Island, New Shoreham, 601 Corn Neck Road, Rhode Island, USA POV: Carl Votomopa I awoke the next morning wondering why my alarm didn't go off. Then my groggy mind remembered that I didn't have work today. I got out of bed ready to take on the world. Not really. I slogged to the bathroom to shower and then put my cloths on. I looked outside to see what the damage was. It wasn't really much, just some broken branches, boats washed up from the pond, but what really stood out, was the semi large crater where my shed was. I decided ill go investigate after I had my morning coffee. I went down to get coffee and make breakfast. I ate my piece of bread that was my breakfast, checked the temp, put a coat on, and went outside. "Wonder what it is. Probably a large shark or somthin'. Nothin to be worried abou-AHHHHHH! WHAT IS THAT" What I see in front of me looks like a little multi colored horse. While I'm trying to identify what it is this is a great time to tell you about our sponsor betterhe- nah, I'm just messin with ya. Now back to the story. While I'm trying to identify what it is my brain finally woke up enough to jog my memory of the past 14 years. "... Why is Twilight Sparkle unconscious in my backyard?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 8:32 PM Date: Tuesday January 2, 2024 Location: A few feet east from Block Island, New Shoreham, 601 Corn Neck Road, Rhode Island, USA and a couple hundred feet up POV: Twilight Sparkle I was buffeted by the winds again. Any magical resistance to the winds and rain was for naught. The storm was to strong. 'Why would anyone let this storm form?' I thought. Everything was fine up intel a few hours ago. I just popped up above an unknown huge ocean in this alien world. There was a few moments of panic I regret to say where some of my most shameful moments until I remembered I had wings. I was flying peacefully over it for a couple hours until a huge storm appeared out of nowhere. It was like this was the Everfree Forest 2: the water update. Anyways, back to what I was doing. I could barely hear it, but I thought I heard waves crashing up against a shore a few hundred hooves down. I stopped just for a second to listen. That was a mistake. An updraft took me by surprise and before I knew it, I was plummeting towards the ground at blistering speeds. I saw a wooden roof for a split second, and then, there was darkness. > CH. 2 The Man and his Pony > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 9:30 Date: January 3, 2024 Location: Block Island, New Shoreham, 601 Corn Neck Road, Rhode Island, USA POV: Carl Votomopa "... Why is Twilight Sparkle in my backyard?" Those where the first words out of my mouth after my brain rebooted. Then several more seconds passed in witch my brain rebooted a few more times, it reset and it made this noise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0 I then finally regained some control of my mind ( a small part was still trying to process that my favorite cartoon character is in my backyard) and figured that to make a crater like that she must have fallen a few hundred feet at least, so I dragged her into my house while trying to avert my eyes from her more... private areas. Once I got her on the couch I checked her over. I got first aid 101 in high school so I somewhat knew what I was doing. Its been at least 25 years since I got that training so I'm very rusty. But I know to check for any cuts or gashes. After a quick onceover I was amazed that she only got a few bruises, scratches, and minor cuts here and there. I put Band-Aids on the cuts and disinfected the scratches. My coffee was all but forgot by then as taking care of fucking TWILIGHT SPARKLE woke me up enough. I went to go get a pillow and blanked for her to rest on my couch and an icepack for her head. Getting the icepack from the freezer reminded me that I have nothing to eat. I went to go get my coat and winter boots because the storm blew in copious amounts of snow last night. I grabbed my keys and trudged to the garage to start up the car and open the garage door. I then turned the heater and radio on and drove to the grocery store to get some... what was it? "Milk, eggs, sausage, orange juice, goldfish, popcorn, spinach, mac-n-cheese, Kellogg's strawberry cereal, cheerios, and Frosted Mini Wheats," I said my grocery list out loud to tunes from Justin Bieber on the radio. "K, Lets do this. I am very introverted, I have no idea why I chose the job at the ticket booth, but I can handle this. Lets-a go." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 9:44 Date: January 3, 2024 Location: Block Island, New Shoreham, 601 Corn Neck Road, Rhode Island, USA POV: Twilight Sparkle "Ughhhh, my head. Where am I?" I say to no response whatsoever from the unknown surroundings. I open my eyes to see a strange black box in front of me and chairs that look way to big for a pony. It looks like I'm laying on a couch it what seems to be a living room by the looks of it. I look down and see that I have multiple Band-Aids in my body. I feel my head and there is an ice bag on my head. It seems my rescuer took care of me while I was unconscious. I should thank them later. Good thing my alicorn instincts kicked in and started healing me right away. Right now it would take a few hours to fully heal. I decide to explore the strange, to big, house before me. I hop down off the couch and notice strange metal and wooden sticks mounted above the black box. I decide to investigate them later. I trot over to what seems to be the dining room with a table, chairs, and a vase on the table hosting flowers. They all seem to big for a pony to sit on or grab onto with their hooves. I notice a strange rumbling coming from outside. "Huh? What's that?" I mumble while trotting over to the window to check it out. It seems its a strange black carriage with somepony inside it. Its emitting a rumbling that I deduce is coming from whatever powers it as there are no pony's in front pulling it. When the pony steps out I notice it looks nothing like a normal pony. For one, it walks on 2 legs, it has pale pink fur, which I now notice is skin, and it wears clothes that go all the way around the thing. "I think I should hide, its capabilities are unproven, it could lift a mountain for all I know, and it might be dangerous." I decide to hide under the coffee table. It seemed the best hiding place at the time. I was very short compared to that semi giant. It must be at least 12 hooves tall! Much taller than my 6 hooves. But Celestia could rival him in terms of height. It wont be much but it would be something. Anyway, back to hiding. It took some keys out of its pocket and locked the carriage door. "I should be taking notes," I mumble "with locks on doors the carriage robbery rate would drop significantly!" I could hear him step on the porch, unlock the door, (I had a little brain wave trying to figure out how to fit a lock into a thin door) and step inside. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 9:45 Date: January 3, 2024 Location: Block Island, New Shoreham, 601 Corn Neck Road, Rhode Island, USA POV: Carl Votomopa I step inside the house and lock the door behind me. I look towards the couch to see if my visitor was awake. She wasn't there. "AHH! Where is she!?" I shriek. "She could've gotten hurt! Or got kidnapped by the government! Or-!" "She could right under the coffee table the whole time." "...wut?" I look down to see a little pony poking her head out from the coffee table to look at me. 'Awwwwww! so cute! I just wanna squish you and pet you and pamper you so much! your so cute!!!' I said in my head. "You think I'm cute, don't you?" "I-what-when-no nonono I don't find you cute, just... very good looking. Yeah very good looking!" "Yeah you do." As I stutter into silence I wait a few more seconds to say "Yeah... I do think your cute." "Thank you for being honest," Twilight says, "now lets get to business. First of all, where am I?" "Uhhh you want the long version or the short version?" "Long please. Thank you." "Ok uhhhh so we are at Block Island, New Shoreham, 601 Corn Neck Road, Rhode Island, USA. You got that?" I look at here for long enough to see a notepad and quill disappear into nothingness. "Whoa how did you do that?" "Do what?" Twilight asks in confusion "Making the notebook disappear." "Oh, that's just magic! How do you not know? Everypony on equiss knows about magic." "Uhhhh, I don't think you know where you are, you see, your on earth. We don't have magic anywhere." > CH. 3 Princess Celestia > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 8:22 Date: January 3, 1010 Location: Canterlot, Canterlot Castle, Basement POV: Princess Celestia " She should've been back by now, she said it would only be a few hours, its been more than a few hours!" I said while pacing around the portal controls. " Tia, calm thyself, she probably ran into a little trouble, but she's the ruler of Equestria! She'll be fine," Said Luna by my side. "But that's what I'm worried about! She could've been knocked unconscious! Been fatally injured! Or-" "Tia! She's fine! She's been in worse situations than this! She's fought a magic eating centaur for Faust's sake! She. Will. Be. Fine." *sigh* " Maybe your right, she has been in worse situations that this, she'll find a way out of this," I said reassuringly "Come, lets get some cake." " Now that's the right mindset!" Luna shouted " I got a ton of chocolate cakes ready for thou in the dining room." " Thanks Luna, your a real lifesaver." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 10:00 Date: January 3, 2024 Location: Block Island, New Shoreham, 601 Corn Neck Road, Rhode Island, USA POV: Twilight Sparkle I stood there, stunned beyond belief, at the fact that a species has never heard of magic, the driving force of all life to my knowledge. I quickly checked the surrounding ambient magics in the atmosphere, only to get more horrified to see that there was no magic here just like that strange creature said. I checked another time, and another, AND ANOTHER, but there was nothing. The only magic I could detect was the magic I had brought with me through the portal. That was the only reason I could teleport that quill and paper from my saddle bags to write what he said down ( I determined that he was male by the tone of his voice). "Hey, Twi, you in there?" I could faintly hear him talk to me through the swirl of emotions and shock enveloping my brain. "Huh... what? Oh yes I'm fine." I lied, I didn't want him to be concerned, " So, uhhhh, tell me, how did your species survive without magic?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 10:04 Date: January 3, 2024 Location: Block Island, New Shoreham, 601 Corn Neck Road, Rhode Island, USA POV: Carl Votomopa I wasn't fully sure if she was telling the truth, judging by the fact that when I waved my hand in front of her face, she didn't flinch at all. But disregarding that fact in favor of her mental health, I focused on answering her question. "Hmmmm... well I cant explain the entirety of humanities evolution in one sitting, I can definitely tell you that we can survive without magic, and I have a few history books lying around here somewhere, you could check those out." I said enthusiastically. 'thank god I put the war books and horror books on the top shelf, though she could just fly up or teleport them down. Fuck.' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 10:06 Date: January 3, 2024 Location: Block Island, New Shoreham, 601 Corn Neck Road, Rhode Island, USA POV: Twilight Sparkle Hearing that a species could survive without magic was another blow to my mental state, but I just managed to not space out this time, and was enjoyed to see that he has history books on his species! "Oh thank you so much! I cant wait to take a look at those history books! So where are they?" "There over there, by the door." "Thanks!" I said walking over to it, "Though now that I think about it, I never got your name?" "Oh" he said "It's Carl. Carl Votomopa." "Thanks!" 'strange name', I thought, 'though its to be expected, he is an alien, after all expect the unexpected.' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 12:59 Date: January 3, 1010 Location: Canterlot, Canterlot Castle, Basement POV: Lyra Heartstrings I welded a few more pieces back on to the portal, Some fell off with the huge, constant magical discharge it gives off when activated. I welded even harder to make sure that they don't fall of again when Princess Twilight comes back. 'y'know, I wonder were this leads' I thought to myself ' It could lead to a world full of humans for all I know!' I was getting giddy imagining Twilight in a world full of those amazing creatures when I was interrupted by somepony above me. "Hello? Hellooooooooooo!" "Yeah?" I said "What do you want?" "Are you Lyra Heartstrings by any chance?" the mailmare above me said. "Yes I am." "I have a letter for you, It's from.... Bonnie." "Oh?" "why would she mail me something?" I said under my breath."She would have no reason to mail me anything except for something urgent. " "OK! Just put it here. How much is it?" "5 Bits." "OK. Here." I said, giving her the said bits. "Alright! Here you go! Bye!" she shouted to me, rushing out the doors "Bye!" I shouted back "Now lets see what she wrote me about." I said, opening the envelope. "Dear Lyra,.....Please come back.....ants invading the house.......THEIR SENTIENT?! Sorry portal, but I gotta go home. THERES SENTEINT ANTS INVADING MY HOUSE!!! I ran out of the portal room and locked the doors behind me, told the guard's to keep an eye on it, and rushed out of the castle. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 2:58 Date: January 3, 2024 Location: Block Island, New Shoreham, 601 Corn Neck Road, Rhode Island, USA POV: Carl Votomopa She's been on those books for almost 5 hours now! I didn't know I had that many history books! OR maybe there just long, and she hasn't finished one yet, though she is Twilight Sparkle, she probably finished all of them and is reading the other books on that shelve, with the practice she had, reading books her whole life. "Hey Twili-" I hesitated, as she hasn't told me her name yet "Uhhhh, purple horse? Aren't you hungry? You've been at that for 5 hours now." "Oh! Yes I do want some food, and for your information my name is Twilight." "Ok, what do you want?" "A salad is fine." "M'kay." I said, digging around in my fridge, looking for lettuce. "D'you want any dressing?" "Uhhhh, I'll have Italineighin, you have that right?" "No, I don't, but I have Homemade Italian dressing. It should be the same." "Ok, I'll have that then." "K" I said, getting the dressing and cutting the lettuce into a bowl. After making the salad and pouring the dressing on, I gave it to her. "Say, I have a question about your diet. Your species diet that is." I asked "Oh? What is it?" "Do you eat meat?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 3:12 Date: January 3, 2024 Location: Block Island, New Shoreham, 601 Corn Neck Road, Rhode Island, USA POV: Twilight Sparkle My mind was reeling for the 2nd time that day. Ponies? Eating meat?! What a ridiculous question! Of course we don't eat meat. All quadruped species with the exception of the beaked ones like Griffins and Hippogriffs are herbivores! "No! Of course we don't eat meat! All quadruped species with the exception of the beaked ones like Griffins and Hippogriffs are herbivores! What ever gave you the assumption that we do?!" I said. "I was just wondering!" Carl said while raising his forearms- no Arms in the air. "Ok. But, I also have a question." "Shoot." "Does your species eat meat? Because I see normal teeth, then canines in your mouth when your talking." "Yeah we do eat meat." He said with an air of resignation. *gasp* "How horrible! The killing and eating of innocent animals! How could you do such a thing!" "I don't do it! Other people do! And besides, we make it as painless as possible, They don't even know!" "But don't they protest?! They must reject to being dead?" "What? They don't protest. They cant think for themselves except to eat, drink, and rest." "What do you mean they cant think for themselves? All animals, whether big or small have some resemblance of pony sapience." "That might be true on your world, but here? Its a lot more different that you think." > CH. 4 Voyage of the Cessna 172 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 3:15 Date: January 3, 2024 Location: Block Island, New Shoreham, 601 Corn Neck Road, Rhode Island, USA POV: Twilight Sparkle "Oh... well... OK then, show me. Prove to me that animals here are just mindless beasts." I say to Carl. "OK, but you'll have to wait until tomorrow to see any animals except dogs, birds, and cats. I have a friend in Maine who has a ranch with a bunch of animals." "OK, but what is this Maine? Some kind of country?" "Oh no no no Maine is not a country, its a state. You have states where your from right?" "Uhhhh, no, but we have provinces, I think that's similar." "OK good, but if you want to know where Maine is I have a big map of the world in the basement." "OK, thanks, but let me eat this salad first." "OK, enjoy your meal." Carl said, walking away to do who knows what, leaving me alone with my salad and my thoughts. 'I wonder what this planet looks like, It could look exactly the same to equiss for all I know, but that is a very very very very almost inconceivable chance, so it may look more like a big blob of landmasses, or one continuous one that stretches' around the whole planet with a gigantic lake in the center. Or-' as I go into more and more theories of what this planet looks like, I don't notice my salad was already done and that the sun got closer to the horizon faster than it was supposed to. "Oh, salads done, that was quick. what time is it?" I look around for a clock and see a weird screen? It seems to have the time on it, but a whole landscape behind it. It then suddenly changed from a frigid winter landscape to a tropical island landscape. "Whoa, what was that? How does that happen? Maybe its a illusion charm? No, it can't be Carl said his people don't have magic. Maybe its technological in nature, if so, Humans are very advanced in comparison to Equestria. Anyway, what time is it? 4:01?! How long was I thinking?" I shoot a quick glance out of the window, to see the sun is in the wrong place it should be than from where it should this time of year. "Who controls the sun in this world? They are very irresponsible on how to control it, its not in the right spot. CARL!" I yell, hoping to get a response from him. "yeah?" I faintly hear from upstairs ( I haven't gone up there yet, I should soon.) "HAVEN'T YOU NOTICED? THE SUN IS IN THE WRONG SPOT!" I hear nothing for a few seconds, then a door opening and his irregular hoofsteps stomping down the stairs. "What do you mean the sun is in the wrong spot? Its in the right spot for this time of year" he says irritably. "The sun should be higher than that, that sun is half of where a sun should be." "Well our sun is different that your sun it seems, how does your sun work?" "Well its very complicated, First of all,-" "I want the short version please, I don't understand all this nerd shi-crap, I don't understand all this nerd crap." He cuts me off. "OK then, so basically I grab the sun with my magic, and pull it across the sky." "What? Its very simple! you should know this. Doesn't somepony here control the sun?" *Sigh* "Twilight, no-one controls the sun, the sun moves on its own." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 4:02 Date: January 3, 2024 Location: Block Island, New Shoreham, 601 Corn Neck Road, Rhode Island, USA POV: Carl Votomopa Honestly, I'm just playing dumb for Twi's sake. I know perfectly well how the sun works in her world, I just don't want her to know I know because that will cause her to think I'm spying and trying to trap her here because in her mindset, if I know what's going on on her planet, then I know how to get there, and I'm purposefully hiding it from her. Anyways, after a brief explanation on how orbital mechanics work ( I listened in high school, I know, I'm smart, clap please) I got dinner for both of us. I decided to go vegetarian for this one. Because I have an intelligent herbivore in my house, and made more salad. *clink, clank* "So... did you get to see the map?" "Oh yes, I did, while you where making dinner." *clink* "How was it?" "Honestly? Very shocking. Finding out that your planet is 8,000 miles in diameter is very disorienting." "Oh?" "Yeah, our planet is only around 3,000 miles." 'How' I thought ' never mind, its magic.' "Ok, did you find Maine?" "Yes I did, and the spelling and sounding of Maine is very similar to the sounding and spelling of our Mane." "Hmmmm!" *Clink, clank* That was the only conversation of the dinner. There where some little points here and there but they where to insignificant to mention. After dinner we went our separate ways. I went to get washed up and Twilights went off to read more books or something. The next time we met was when I was cleaning my guns. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 5:00 Date: January 3, 2024 Location: Block Island, New Shoreham, 601 Corn Neck Road, Rhode Island, USA POV: Twilight Sparkle While I was looking around upstairs I stumbled into Carl's room. He was sitting on his bed, Cleaning a black stick similar to the brown sticks in the living room. "What do you have there Carl?" I ask. "You don't wanna know." He said "Why?" "Just 'cause. And these are very dangerous." *chuckle* "How can a stick be dangerous Carl?" "You really wanna know huh?" "Yep." "Well wait until tomorrow, and ill show you what these "sticks" can do" Carl said while making a strange motion with his pointer and index fingers. "Ok then, I guess ill get to bed then." I walked back to the couch, climbed under the blanket, and went to sleep. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 5:05 Date: January 3, 2024 Location: Block Island, New Shoreham, 601 Corn Neck Road, Rhode Island, USA POV: Carl Votomopa "OK then, now that Twilight is asleep, I can make phone calls to Mark and my boss." I put down the M16A2 I was cleaning and picked up my phone. I called my boss first to see if I could not come in tomorrow, He said yes. We don't have much any ferries booked tomorrow anyways, and I then called my friends Mark. I told him about Twilight making a crater in my back yard (he is also a brony) and told him to not hint that we watched the show. I also told him that we are coming tomorrow so he better be ready. "Alright, now to doom scroll on my phone for 5 hours until I go to sleep." I proceeded to doom scroll until 2 in the morning. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 7:00 AM Date: January 4, 1010 Location: Canterlot, Canterlot Castle, Celestial Bedroom POV: Princess Celestia "She's not back yet." I say as I stare out the window into the sprawling urban center of Canterlot. "I should send a letter to her friends telling them to come here. Were going through. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 7:00 Date: January 4, 2024 Location: Block Island, New Shoreham, 601 Corn Neck Road, Rhode Island, USA POV: Carl Votomopa I was having a perfectly normal dream about a centaur that has an F-35 and uses it to terrorize Zimbabwe when I was interrupted by the sound of my dastardly alarm going off. I grab my phone and fumble with it until I turn the damn thing off. "Alright, time to make breakfast." I say as I crawl out of bed as slow as humanly possible due to my tiredness and creep downstairs, trying to not wake up my special guest. I stand for a while in the kitchen trying to decide what to make. I eventually decide to just make coffee first as I'm to tired to do anything else. I use the manual crank one instead of the electric one because the noise will wake Twilight up. After I drink my coffee I just get some cheerios. instead of making something. As previously stated. I eat my cereal as I get water and snack for the 4 hour plane ride to Bangor, the closest place that has an airport to where Mark lives. I get my plane keys and stuff them in my pocket. By this time Twilight is still asleep. "Ahh, fuck it." I whisper, going over to shake her awake. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 7:13 Date: January 4, 2024 Location: Block Island, New Shoreham, 601 Corn Neck Road, Rhode Island, USA POV: Twilight Sparkle I woke up abruptly to a shaking sensation on my back. Strange, Spike wasn't normally that strong. I then remembered the events of the past day and shot out of my couch. "What! What is it," I say nervously. "I was about to leave you on the couch but we gotta go. Airport's gonna open soon and I wanna get there as soon as possible. Its a 3 and a half hour flight." "Flight? I thought your species didn't have wings?" "Oh no we don't have wings. Its more complicated than that. But I'm to tired now to explain it so you should just see it for yourself. But you'll have to hide in my bag." "Hide in your bag?! Why?!" "If other people see you then they will freak out and call the police or animal control. I don't want that to happen." "Oh, ok. But how will we get to Maine? Will we walk?" "No, its to long to walk to Maine. We'll fly." "But you just said that your species don't have wings?" "God dammit, I said I'll explain when we get there. Now lets go." "Ok, just let me climb in." "Ok." I climbed into his bag. Good thing it is so big, or else I wouldn't have fit. It was full of things like food, water, and other essentials. I zip it up but leave a hole so I can breath and so I can see what's going on. "Dang, your heavy. OK let's go." Carl walked over to the front door and went out of the house. I was hit with the smell of sea salt immediately after the bag got outside. He walked over to the strange carriage I saw him get out of the day before. He unlocked the door and got inside. He set me down in the passenger seat and put a strange contraption on the bag. "Hey Carl?" It came out a bit muffled because of the bag blocking some of the sound but it came through well enough. "Yeah?" "What is this thing we are in? And what did you put of the bag?" "Oh this is a 1957 Thunderbird. It can clock up to 121 MPH and has a range of 28,000 miles. I don't use it on long trips due to its age, but its good for getting around the island. And the thing I just put on you is a seatbelt. It prevents you from flying out the windshield when I brake extra hard when were going fast." "Ok, thanks." We pull out of the houses walkway and I finally get to see his house from the outside. It's a big, 2 story house with a wrap-around porch and another much smaller house to the right of it that has a doorway to big to live in. On a hook just above the porch there is an unfamiliar banner with 7 red stripes and 6 white stripes with around 50 stars in a blue box in the top right hoof corner. Carl turns some knobs on a strange black and white box with numbers on it. IT suddenly spews out static for a second or 2 until it turns to a pony saying something. "Welcome back to the 95.5 WBRU, where all your classic rock songs are here 24/7! Now lets listen to some tunes!" It changes from that to a strange song coming from it The strange but fun song lasts the whole ride to the Airport. That's what Carl said, but I still have yet to understand his strange mannerism's, like cleaning what looks like metallic sticks, and strange sayings like airport. "Alright were here. Just stay in the bag until we get to the plane, there you can move around." I was relieved to hear that as it was getting quite cramped in here. We walked through the doors and I see Dozens of humans going around. Most to what seems like a diner called Bethany's Airport Diner but some are going to the counter or outside. We head outside to what looks like a strange, small, metal Airship but with the Prop in front and no balloon, instead it has a metal wing structure that sits above the contraption. I deduce that that is the plane Carl mentioned a minuet ago as we are going straight towards it. He opened the door and put me in one of the rear seats, closed it, went around the supposed aircraft, and climbed into the front left seat. Now that I notice, the front is full of more of those weird black screens that I saw back at Carl's house just, smaller. It is also full of knobs, switches, levers, and dials that I cant deduce the meaning of. I climb out of the bag, zip it back up, and take a seat next to it. "Here, take this." He says, hoofing me what looks like a pair of ear warmers. "Why would I need ear warmers?" "They aren't ear warmers," Carl says while taking off his coat, to show a jacket and shirt underneath, "There headphones. The prop gets loud so we need these to protect our hearing and to talk to each other without shouting at the top of our lungs. They are also used to communicate with Air Traffic control. But your on a different frequency, so you wont hear anything except my side of the conversation. Just put the mic, that's the black ball on a stick attached to the headphones, and point it down towards your mouth, Ok?" "Ok, I got it." I say as I'm putting the mic down over my mouth. "Alright, can you hear me?" Carl's distorted voice says through the headphones into my ears. "Yes, I can, but with all the wonderful technology you have you cant make the sound less static?" "I'm sorry but its unavoidable, with interference in the radio wave going around the world several times a second it interferes with the sound." "Ok, but it is very annoying." "Get used to it, your gonna have it on 6 hours today." And with that, we stopped talking for a little while, in such he goes over what he calls a "Pre Flight Checklist", wonder what that is, but it seems to be him checking if the thing still works and if it needs maintenance. At least that's what he said. After that he turned on the black panels that showed themselves to be like what showed the time at his house. Just not time but altitude, speed, and the route. It was around this time that he called out "Engine startup sequence." In which he flicked a few levers and pressed a couple buttons. That triggered the prop in front to start rotating clockwise. He then said "Changing frequency to Pilot Frequency." I don't know why he needs to call everything out, but I think its to reassure himself. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 7:30 Date: January 4, 2024 Location: Block Island, New Shoreham, Block Island State Airport (BID), Rhode Island, USA POV: Carl Votomopa "Hello this is Cessna - 4235, I'm calling in to see if anyone is landing at BID in the next 20 minuets." "Cessna - 4235 this is EJ100 I am landing at approx 7:50 AM local time." "Copy that EJ100 I am holding short of runway 1 0. Feel free to land." "Copy Cessna - 4235 starting my decent from 1,500 feet now." "Copy that EJ100." A few minuets of silence follows that statement until around 7:46 when he calls in again "Cessna - 4235 lining up for runway 1 0 will touchdown in the next 2 minuets." "Copy." During that period he landed at 7:48 and taxied off, where I was free to line up for takeoff. All that time Twilight was moderately quiet, only asking questions about the aircraft and the conversation that just took place. I answered all to the best of my ability. I think she is thinking about stuff now that she has time. "Alright Twilight, hold on. We are about to take off." We take off with no problems. A few minuets pass until I level at 10,000 feet and start our journey to Bangor International, the closest airport to Dover-Foxcroft, where Mark lives. > CH. 5 The Captains Subordinate > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 5:55 Date: January 3, 2024 Location: NORAD Headquarters, North Eastern US Sector, Colorado POV: Captain John Henderson, Commander of the North Eastern US Sector I walk through the aisles of men under my control, making sure that they are taking their job as NORAD operatives seriously, and not playing Solitaire or something. I take another sip of coffee, wishing that we didn't have to wake up at 4 in the morning. 'Why do they even have this ridiculous schedule?' I think, 'We all live in the complex anyway, it's not like we sleep in a motel 45 miles awa-' "Sir!" My thought prosses was interrupted by someone calling me for something, Private Eric Bethins of Strange Weather Anomalies I think. I walk over to his workstation, leaning over his shoulder to see what's on his screen. "What is it Bethins?" "The report about the unexplained storm over Rhode Island just came in! It says that they detected an aircraft of unknown design and origin was downed near Block Island last night! It has an alien appearance, almost a little horse with wings. The CIA is asking if we should send some MiB's to go check it out." "Little horse with wings?!" I say in surprise, "Now that's just ridiculous! But just in case, tell them to send over a couple, we don't know what we're dealing with here. For all we know this is some prelude to an alien invasion. I'm going to call General VanHerck to see what he thinks." "Yes sir!" He immediately starts dialing the number for the CIA, telling them to send over 2 MiB's to check it out. I meanwhile, was heading towards my office to make a call to Commander in Chief of NORAD General Glen D. VanHerck to tell him the situation. "You just interrupted a very important thought prosses I was vey hooked on, so this better be good "Hello sir, this is Captain of the North Eastern US Sector John Henderson, we just received a report about the unexplained weather anomaly over Rhode Island. They say an aircraft of unknown design and origin was downed near New Shoreham, we already authorized the sending of 2 MiB's to the island to check it out, see if it is Russian or Chinese, I'm sending the report via E-mail right now." I clicked a few buttons on my computer and sent the full report to him. "Hmmm... ok this seem to warrant investigation, I approve of your decision to send men over to investigate. I'm going to call the President, see if he approves. You are dismissed." "Sir." I put the phone down and looked at the picture of my kids on my desk. "I hope this is a false alarm," I mutter under my breath, "I would hate to see you two dead." I take another sip of my coffee and start patrolling the aisles again, all the while thinking about my family. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 8:01 Date: January 4, 2024 Location: Airspace over Boston POV: Twilight Sparkle "Wow..." I say under my breath, looking at the gigantic metropolis below me, "Its so big, much bigger that Manehattan." *Snort* "You think this is big? You should see New York. Now that's big." "What?! How can anything be bigger than this?! This is the biggest city I have ever seen!" "Boston is only a kinda big city in my opinion, it only had a metro population of 4 million, but I guess living near one of the biggest cities on the planet skewers with my perception a bit. Eh whatever." I could only stare in shock at Carl, who was controlling the best piece of technology I have ever seen like he didn't care, and wonder how big of a city he lives near could be if this was 'kinda' big. "Can we go there? I want to see how big it is!" "Sorry, no can do Twi, it would only add more time to our flight, and we would get very low on fuel, so yeah, we can't." "Awwwwww." I was disappointed that we couldn't see it, but hearing my nickname being said by Carl really gave me a sense of loneliness. I have been so preoccupied with everything that happened recently, with the storm, Carl, all this amazing technology, that I didn't give much thought to my friends. I'm starting to miss them, I hope they know where I am right now. I sit back and think about them while we speed at unbelievable speeds through the air, over an unbelievably big city. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 8:10 Date: January 4, 1010 Location: Canterlot, Canterlot Castle, Equestria POV: Rainbow Dash I fly into the big room that Celestia said to go to, no idea why, and see a weird metal circle thingy in the middle. "What is that thing?" I say, while my friends run into the room behind me. "It looks like a giant, metal donut." "OH oh oh, I know what it is!" Pinke says, "It's a giant interdimensional portal that takes us to different worlds and dimensions via a lot of electricity and magic pumped into it every second it's on to make sure that it doesn't collapse by the massive power output it needs! What, that's what it is, isn't it?" Everypony, including me, was staring at her. "That... is fairly accurate Pinkie, maybe scarily so, considering that you have never seen it before." Celestia says in shock. "Thanks! I aim to impress!" Pinkie says, oblivious to us still staring at her. "Anyways, yes, this is an interdimensional portal, capable of transporting us to different dimensions for the interest of science. And Twilight is lost in one. We are going to get her back" We all gasp in surprise, pinkie more so because... well... pinkie. "Now, I understand if you don't want to go through, the risks acco-" "Were ready, what do we need." I say. "Well, preferably lots of water, food, and some supplies to build a shelter. We don't know what's going to happen, so its better to be prepared." "Yes ma'am. Come on girls, lets go get prepared!" We all rush out of the room, ready to get whatever we need. *Insert epic training montage here* We all rush into the portal room, with everything that we need. "Were ready!" we all say at once. "Good, now, Raven, power it up." Celestia said, and the portal started emitting a strange noise, something between a choir humming and a distant train whistle. "Now, we have no idea where we are going to come out, so be prepared for anything." We all nodded and braced ourselves, getting ready to step into the unknown. We stepped through as one, having no idea what would come next. > The City of Angels > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 5:42 AM Date: January 4, 2024 Location: Northwest side of Mount Lee, California POV: Princess Celestia We landed on what appears to be the side of a mountain, judging by what looks like a very large city below us, showing that this world is inhabited and either multiplies very fast or are severely technologically advanced compared to us. I look around to see if any of the girls landed near me and are alright. They look OK so I decide to see if we can hear each other. The violent pressure changes associated with moving in between dimensions with varying levels of internal pressure can be quite... violent should I say so myself. "Is everypony alright? Can you all hear me?" "Yeah were fine, I think. Mah heads ringin' a bit," says Applejack, "but otherwise, were good." "Ok, good. I think we should go to the top of this mountain to get a good look at where we are." I get noises of agreement from them all and we start the short walk up the mountain. A minuet or 2 later we reach the top, and are immediately awed by the sight before us. A absolutely humongous city is below us, with skyscrapers that look like they reach to the clouds. The lights generated by the megalopolis and sign below us block out the stars completely. Now to take a look at the sign, it seems to say 'Hollywood', though I could be wrong. Its a whole other planet after all. The natives most likely have a completely different spelling and speaking system we do. "It's... beautiful." Rarity says, awestruck by the city below. We gawk a few more minuets before voices sound out from behind us. "Hey Jeff, you see that?" "Yeah, looks like a big horse and smaller mini horses. Let's go check it out." "I think we should go" whispers Rainbow Dash, "They could be unimaginably strong." "I agree, lets go towards the sign and hide in the bushes, we'll make a plan there." We head down the slope to a big bush a few feet from the giant 'Y'. There we discuss our plans for finding Twilight and somehow hiding in a huge city full of the 'natives' as I've dubbed them. "Ok, here's what I've come up with," I say, "I have a spell that makes us look exactly like the natives of a foreign country, or planet I should say now, though it only lasts a few hours until it wears of. Though it can be used an infinite amount of times, so we shouldn't be worried about running out. There is a possibility that this world has no magic, but my reserves are big enough to last a few months." "That seems like a good idea!" Pinkie said." "Not so loud. You might alert them." Applejack said in a stern tone. "Oh sorry. I meant,that seems like a good idea!" "Thank you Pinkie Pie, now I need to see females of this species to activate this spell. Did any of you bring a camera?" "I did." Fluttershy says, producing a camera from her saddle bags, "How many pictures do you need?" "One for each of us. Thank you." "ok." "Alright, Rainbow Dash, do you think that you can take 7 pictures of the females of this race without being detected?" "Yes, yes I do." She announced confidently. "Good, here's the camera." I say as I give her the camera. "Be safe, please." "Will do princess." Rainbow says, saluting me. She flies off into the night, towards the city below us, while we get settled in to wait for the sunrise, seeing the first traces of morning in the sky above us. 'Oh Twilight,' I think, 'I hope your safe.' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 8:42 AM Date: January 4, 2024 Location: Airspace over Massachusetts, New Hampshire border POV: Twilight Sparkle "Gah, what was that?" I say, as a dull but intense pain hit my forehead for a split second. "What was what? Are you alright?" Carl say, concerned. "No, I'm fine. Its nothing." "Hmmmm. Ok, I'm not the expert on your body, you are. What am I to give advice to an alien about their body. I'm not an alien! Well at least, I'm not an alien to me because... well... I'm me... and to me, your the alien, but I'm also the alien to you and... well... I-ill just stop talking now." We continue flying in silence for a few more hours, only interrupted with me asking questions about the plane and having a short breakfast because we left in a hurry this morning and didn't have enough time to eat. A bit after that, Carl starts descending the plane, telling me that we're nearing the airport that's closest to his friends farm. "BGR Airport this is Cessna - 4235 request permission to land runway 3 3 speed 6 0 knots heading 5 0.6 0 degrees north 0 6 5.99 degrees west copy." "Copy Cessna - 4235 you are clear to land runway 3 3 reduce speed 5 6 knots heading 4 7.7 9 north 4 8.7 3 west copy." "Copy Cessna - 4235 runway 3 3 speed 5 6 knots heading 47.79 north 4 8.7 3 west. Have a good day." I was listening with rapt attention to the whole exchange. I had no idea what they meant with all those numbers and headings and speed and I was wondering what he meant with "runway tree tree" and "fife six" and everything else. But I just told myself that he will tell me what those mean later. For now he was banking left and kept going down until we broke through the clouds and I could see an airport the size of Ponyville coming up in front of us. "Wow...," I say in a whisper, "That place is a big as Ponyville." "Hmm? What did you say? Ponyville? What's that? Never heard of it." "Oh! Right. Well Ponyville is a very important town to me. Its not a big town is any circumstance but it is quite medium. And as I saw the airport was bigger than it then I was rightfully astonished that a single complex by the looks of it, is bigger that the town! 2 times bigger I think!" "Oh! Nice. Though the airport is not a single complex it is close to that. Anyways, I need you to get back in the bag when we touch down. I don't wanna risk anything. There's a lot more people here than at New Shoreham." "Ok." I say, as we line up on the runway, take a final pitch downwards, and land. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 10:28 Date: January 4, 2024 Location: In a bush near the Hollywood Sign, Mount Lee POV: Princess Celestia It took a few hours to get all the pictures. We are on a huge mountain after all, and I had collected enough data to generate the pictures of what we will look like. It would be about the same look as the ones in the pictures but different enough to not draw attention. There is a chance we might run into one of the natives who know the others but we can just explain it was simple coincidence. "Ok, are you all ready? It will be a little disorienting." "Were ready." they say in hushed tones. "Ok, good. Here we go." As my horn flares up, I get a picture of each native persona they will have and give it to the respective pony, including me. As I feel the changes coming to my body, I think of Twilight, and of the pain she might be going through right now. 'We're coming for you Twilight. Just sit tight and we'll be right there.'