Hanging On By A Thread

She walked alongside the one whom she looked up to, who she learned from. Her mentor had a smile on her face, but Twilight Sparkle knew she was unsure of what would come from this.

The doors to a room opened in the castle of the Royal Pony Sisters. This is when Twilight’s mentor looked to her. “Are you sure about this, Twilight?” She asked, her tone being one of concern.

The unicorn nodded, almost hesitantly. “Yes, I’m sure, Princess. This will be a breakthrough in unicorn magic, I just know it.” She smiled confidently.

Long-distance teleportation was one thing, but to teleport across continents and countries was another. Twilight planned on using her magic to port herself to the land of the Gryphons. Of course, no such magic was capable before this. At the very least, Celestia had a mental link with her student. She could tell if something went wrong, but even now, she had an uneasy feeling about her. “If you say so, Twilight, I will not stop you.” The Princess spoke.

“Okay... here goes,” Twilight took a deep breath. The unicorn’s horn lit up, and the spell was cast.

The very first thing she felt was regret. The next, immense pain. This wasn’t normal- teleportation spells weren’t supposed to hurt too much after the first five attempts! She felt like every little molecule, every cell, nerve, what have you, was burning. Twilight let out a silent scream, as she could no longer breathe. Cold hit her like an MMA fighter’s shin-kick. Hard. She opened her eyes, and tried to gasp, but the vacuum of space prevented her from doing anything without wasting her breath. Below her was a planet... and it wasn’t Equestria.

Thinking insanely fast, her horn lit up, and a bubble formed around her body. She let out a loud gasp as air smashed it’s way back into her lungs, warmth returning to her form as well.

The unicorn began to panic, as the planet’s gravitational pull began to take it’s effect on her, pulling her closer to the atmosphere. All she could do was watch- she was at the mercy of gravity now.

Twilight fell, and fell, and fell. Thank Celestia for the spell- it prevented the heat outside of the shield from burning her to a crisp. She was quite toasty, though.

Now on the outside, Twilight would appear to be frozen in fear. On the inside, she was trembling in both excitement and terror.

You couldn’t really blame her- it was a whole. New. World! There could be outlandish creatures, monsters (hopefully not, for Twi’s sake!), all kinds of stuff! They could be civilized, maybe even friendly, and sentient! She could learn so much, but she didn’t know what she could learn! What a mistake! What a worthwhile mistake! This could be the greatest thing that ever happened to her!

Lost in her thoughts, Twilight didn’t notice the roof of a house coming up to meet her. She snapped out of it, and screamed in terror. The unicorn fell unconscious as soon as she made contact with the roof, going through it. The last thing she felt was hitting something soft... and the last thing she heard... was a voice.

“Hello!... Is anybody up there?!”

There, sitting on my bed, was a purple blob. It was almost as big as a great dane. At first, I didn’t notice the hole in my roof.

Then I looked up.

“Fff...”

• - - - Some Time Later...

Once Twilight awoke, she was warm. Wrapped in a blanket, laying on a soft surface. Was it a dream?

'Is this the reeeaaal life?'

'Is this just fantasy?'

'Caught in a landsliii--'

No.

'-escape from reality--'

GOD DAMMIT I SAID NO!

“What the... where am--”

“AHHHHHHHHHHH! GOOD GOD!”

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! ALIEN!”

I was completely unaware that... the thing could talk.

‘Oh shut up, you know what it is.’

WILL YOU SHUT THE HELL. UP!

After cooling down from our scream-fest, I started getting bombarded with questions.

'God, she’s even more annoying then Zach...'

“You can talk? Ooh! Sentient beings! What’s your name?”

“HOW THE HELL CAN YOU TALK?!”

“What’s ‘hell’?”

“GET AWAY FROM ME!”

I stumbled off the couch and greeted the floor with my face.

“Oww... that hurt...”

“What do you eat? Why do you wear boring clothes? Why do you s-”

“More fucking importantly, WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU FROM?!”

“-at is this world called? Why did you fall on the floor? Why-”

I stuck my hand infront of her mouth, blocking all sound from coming out, with the
exception of a few mumbles escaping through the cracks of my fingers.

“What the HELL are you anyways?”

I removed my hand to hear the answer. I’m not sure if I should of done that.

“Well, I’m technically a pony, but more specifically, I’m a unicorn. What are you?”

“I must be fucking dreaming.”

“Well, would you feel this then?”

She hit me in the shoulder with her hoof, and I could definitely feel it.
And it fucking hurt.

“OW! What was that for?”

“To see if you were dreaming, silly!”

‘Captain Obvious to the rescue!’

Just shut up.