Leaving Reality

Twilight eyed the white bag in the alien known as Lewis's hand.

"A...jelly baby?" He nodded once and put on another smile.

"Yes, they're really good, try one." He said in an encouraging tone.

Jelly babies make for good diplomacy, he thought as Twilight reached out a lavender hoof to examine the treat.

However she never got to, as both the alien and his box vanished in a bright flash of blue and gold.

A few hours earlier...

Celestia was worried.

A new presence had made its way into Equestria. What it was she was not sure, and that was what made it concerning for her. Having lived such a long time, there were few things the sun goddess did not know. She racked her brain for what it could possibly be, the only thing it reminded her of in the least was...Discord.

She shuddered at the thought of his return once again. It didn't feel exactly like Discord's presence, so incredibly chaotic, but it would be like him to try and come up with an unknown just to throw everypony off.

And Celestia could sense two objects that radiated this unknown quality, one more strongly than the other. She had spent the majority of the day pondering what to do when a thought struck her; she set out looking for her sister.

It didn't take long to locate the lunar princess, she was located where she was most of the day. In her room. Napping.

Celestia eased her way into her sister's room.

"Luna? Could you help me with something?"

"Sister, you know I prefer to remain nocturnal." Came the muffled reply from the four poster bed.

"Luna please, it's important." The seriousness of Celestia's tone immediately woke Luna. She got up and walked over to her sister.

"What do you need help with sister?" Inquired the midnight alicorn.

Celestia explained the the two new presences she felt earlier in the day.

"I admit I do feel something new in Equestria, but what do you need my help for?" Celestia smiled.

"I want you to help me summon the whatever these knew beings are by teleportation." Luna looked down towards her hooves.

"Tia, you know my magic hasn't been very well lately..." Celestia moved her head down and nuzzled her sister.

"I know you can do it Luna, I'll help you." Luna looked back up towards her sister.

"Could I summon the lesser of the two...things?" She asked. Celestia smiled at her sister.

"Of course Luna, do you want to start now?"

"Give me some time to prepare, I am not accustomed to being up quiet so early." Celestia nodded, as long as no reports of mass chaos in Equestria came in, she would allow her sister the time she needed to prepare. She left her sister's room to give her the peace and quiet her sister would need.

"Are you ready Luna?" Celestia asked. They had decided it would be best to try and summon the objects to the throne room. While Celestia could very well have assigned a team of unicorns to the task, she felt it better to try and bond with her sister, something she felt she had not done enough of since her sister's return from exile. She had even sent the guards away, this was something she wanted to do with her sister and her sister alone.

"Yes Tia, we are sure we can do this." Celestia shook her head with a grin on her face, Luna had a habit of switching between ancient and modern Equestrian dialect when she became truly serious about something. Luna's confident look confirmed her words, and the two sister's closed their eyes as their horns glowed, focusing on bringing the two objects to them.

In a gold and blue flash, a large blue box deposited itself in front of the sisters, landing with a thud. Celestia and Luna observed it silently before Luna voiced her thoughts.

"Sister, where is the second object you sensed?"

"I am not sure, it should be here."

At this time the second object, though more commonly known as Lewis, was hiding behind the large blue box. Due to a stroke of luck, they had appeared with the doors as well as the human facing away from the two princesses. When he and his box appeared, gravity had taken hold and forced Lewis into a seated position with his back against the doors. He sat there wide eyed with a death grip on his bag of jelly babies, trying to process what just happened.

Okay, flash of light when offering Twilight jelly babies, and now I'm here. He took a glance around the, unbeknownst to him, throne room. Did she do this? No wait, there were two voices that were definitely not Twilight just now, did they bring me here? Must have I suppose, if they sensed me, but how did they manage that? Lewis mentally sighed. When is reason going to return from its lunch break?

Not wanting to make his presence known quiet yet, Lewis opted to stay silent a little longer to discover the intentions of the two voices he heard.

Celestia and Luna looked upon the box from their respective thrones, trying to figure out the significance of it and why they would each be able to sense it.

"Have you seen anything like it sister?"

"No, I have not, I'm curious as to what its purpose is. Does it perhaps police an area?"

"Perhaps, do you think it to be harmful?"

"I doubt it, it appears to be just a box."

While Lewis definitely knew he had heard those voices before, he could not place their owners.

It would be a lot easier to recognize them if they called each other something other than sister.

"But we should still be on the lookout for the second object, we might have to employ my students help for this. I'm sure Twilight would love an opportunity to study this."

Student...Twilight...Sister's.. It finally clicked for the human. Oh! Well that explains a lot; they weren't trying to steal my box or study me, they just wanted to make sure that I wasn't some sort of monster. He glanced around the throne room once more. I feel like I should have realized that sooner. Oh well, I suppose teleportation makes my brain a bit scrambled.

Lewis thoughts were interrupted at the metallic sound of Celestia's and Luna's hooves walking on the marble floor to the other side of the box.

Oh crap, it looks like I've been spying on them doesn't it? What do I tell them, it's just a box? A temple? No, I should just answer their questions honestly. As honestly as I can at least. He looked towards the bag of jelly babies still in his grasp. Hope they like jelly babies.

It suddenly registered with him that the sound of the sisters hooves were no longer echoing about the room, he turned his head from the bag of candy to his left, and was met with the sight of princess Luna.

Of course, she might be called something other than Luna, but I'm pretty sure that's her.. The human found the mane that flowed with a lack of wind to be somewhat hypnotizing. He smiled nervously at her, to which Luna narrowed her eyes at him. Ouch, wasn't Luna supposed to be all nice and motherly and whatnot? Or am I thinking of Celestia? Oh well, multiverse.

"Um, hello." He said in a very nervous tone, still smiling.

"Thou shalt address us as princess Luna, strange creature!" Luna shouted as a normal pony would, not using the royal Canterlot voice (something that took much training from her sister).

"Sister, that is no way to treat a guest." Lewis turned his head to see the slightly taller princess Celestia.

"Ah," He said, standing up. "You must be the ones that brought me here." The nervous demeanor had vanished from his voice. Celestia nodded once.

"Yes, I princess Celestia, and my sister, princess Luna, summoned you here." Lewis was grateful that she didn't put any extra stress one the word 'princess'.

"How?" He said in a curious tone. Celestia raised her eyebrows slightly.

"Don't you want to know why we summoned you?"

"To make sure I wasn't a threat, correct?" Celestia nodded.

"Yes, that is why we summoned you here." Celestia said. Wasn't Luna the one that had the trouble with 'we' and 'I'? Or did they both bring me here?

"Okay, um, just curious, but how exactly do you plan on going to do that?" Celestia and Luna both held their stoic expressions.

"We are going to look inside your memories." Lewis gulped nervously.

I'm screwed

A/N: Wow, been a while since the last update hasn't it? I think I completely rewrote this one several times, despite how short it is. The next chapter will hopefully not be delayed as much. Hope you all enjoyed.