Quest

-Traveler-

I can hear it... I can hear it! The universe! It is crying! A plea! A cry for help? But what can it mean?

Maybe an event is coming? An event that will shake the mother of creation to it's foundations? A cruel fate? A hero? And maybe allies to aid? Enemies to test it's strength, and tear the whole of reality and meaning?

Maybe... Maybe it is the arrival, the arrival of the traveler from our brother! Yes! I see it too! The one colored pink and yellow! The fools who seek answers!

Like all the others?

Yes! Creatures who climb high for a cure to their curiosity! Who crave for adventure and friends... will they survive their fates?

Pinhead and Dirty Dan? Probably not.

Rapid questions swirled in Rainbow Dashes mind as to what the hay happened to her in the instant she stared at the spiral of blue in front of her. The explosion propelled her into the hard dirt, and after a minute of pain, she was completely bewildered. Magic? Or maybe Discord's work? The blue mist circled around itself, creating a large ball of light. The intensity brightened and she had to shield her eyes from the painful beams. An implosion sequenced afterwards, taking in a large chunk of land with it. It was replaced by two forms, blobs, one pink, and the other a squarish yellow that fell to the ground with a light thump.

"Man! What a rush!" said Patrick.

"W-wha? Who said that?"

Although hurt and confused, the rainbow pegasus scrambled up and looked into the small crater a few feet from her hooves. She stared at two figures getting on their feet, each wearing a white jumpsuit and glass domes over their head, with water filling the entire circumference. One of the creatures looked at Rainbow Dash in surprised and smiled.

"Hello!" It said.

Rainbow Dash screamed and sped towards Twilights library.

Patrick saw the alien above him fly away in a haze of cyan blue. His eyes were wide, but his expression said otherwise.

"Oh my gosh! My first life form! I must write this down! Spongebob! Mind getting the giant paper out of my bag?"

Spongebob tried to get on his two feet, but the shock from the travel to the current universe shook his mind to the stem. He felt nauseated and sick.

"You're already tired Spongebob? Come on! We still got a full planet to explore! Onwards!"

Spongebob fell on his face.

Rainbow Dash could feel the sound barrier breaking behind her as she flew head first through Twilight's bedroom window. Or maybe it was the sound of one of her bones breaking? She wasn't sure. Although she expected to crash into Twilight, she instead sped into the wooden floor. Twilight, who was comfortably reading on her bed, jumped in surprise as glass shards flew everywhere , fortunately not hitting her, and her Pegasus friend sticking out of the floor like an arrow. After a few seconds of realization, followed a bit of disappointment.

"Rainbow Dash? Really? Again?! This the fourth time this month that you broke my window! And now my floor?! Repairs to this library aren't cheap!"

Rainbow Dash popped her head out the wooden floor with little effort, and looked at Twilight dead in her eyes.

"Rainbow? Are you oka-"

She was silenced by a blur of blue, and her friend an inch from her nose.

"T-twilight! Aliens are attacking Ponyville! I just saw them! They were standing on two feet, and had white suits with glass helmets filled with water! They flashed here from an explosion and... and... you're just gotta come and see! Maybe we can warn Canterlot before they multiply!"

Rainbow Dash tugged at Twilight's hoof and strained her out the door, but Twilight stood her ground and instead looked at her with a uncaring expression.

"That's probably just Flim and Flam coming back to cause more trouble to Ponyville. Or Discord screwing around with reality! OR maybe you just had another cup of apple cider after- maybe- six or seven?"

"OK, for one thing, that is a stereotype! And two- I'm serious! We should get the royal guard! Or the Princess or something!"

"Rainbow, I'm sure there is nothing to worry about, Ponyville is a village filled with purity, peace, and-"

"Hello, surface dwellers! We hail from the ocean!"

Twilight hooked her attention outside and saw a crowd of ponies circled around a crater with two odd creatures standing in the middle, described as what Rainbow Dash explained.

"Spike must have drugged me..." She muttered.

This has got to be the work of Discord! Twilight thought as she pushed herself past the growing crowd. Rainbow Dash-still in her shock-decided to stay back at the tree house, watching her investigate. And yet she was the pony who discovered all this?

Twilight managed to pass by to the front. Onlookers stayed quite a space between these creatures, and already ponies where getting more than scared. Even Twilight didn't believe it. A bipedal stumpy creature clothed in a white jumpsuit, with a companion mostly resembling A walking squiggly rectangle.

Yep. Discord.

Although Twilight felt it was needed just to blab, and force Discord from wherever he was videotaping this, she-for her own pleasure-decided to humor the chaotic god, and also to know more about what he conjured up.

"What are you?" Twilight asked.

The taller one-who now to Twilights philosophy looks more like a poorly drawn star-drew his attention to her and away from the awestruck crowd. Through the glass, she could see a smile grow on his (or its) face. "Hello!," he cheered, "It is a pleasure to meet your...um... Spongebob whats the smart word for 'friend' again?"

"Acquaintance?"

"What he said! My name is Patrick, and he is Spongebob. We hail from Bikini-Bottom from underneath the ocean from a distant universe!" Patrick emphasized his last few words by waving his hands around.

Twilight grimaced. Weirdly shaped, stupid creatures that could alternately bring more trouble to her and Ponyville. She knew in her heart-as well as the hoof that will be swung towards Discords face-that she didn't want them anymore. Plus she didn't like to be interrupted by her afternoon reading time.

Twilight's horn glowed purple as she cast the summoning spell, and in a flash of lavender light, Discord appeared... in between a horrid sight of him clipping his toenails.

"Oh, what is it now?! You know, I am getting a bit tired of you constantly summoning me! So, what horrible dilemma-that you will purposely blame me for-are you into now?!"

Twilight pointed towards the two stupid creatures.

"Oh, pooh"

"Now, I know I'm very infamous for creating chaotic phenomena, like my name entails," Discord paused to take a small sip of tea, "I swear to Princess Sunbutt, I didn't do it this time!"

Twilight was across the library in her own seat and crossed her hooves. She didn't have any doubts. None to her fantasy.

"Twilight, this isn't even my type of chaotic style! My type is usually sly, open, and big. This is too sad of an attempt! Plus, you cannot deny that I am reformed..."

Twilight darted eyes at the creatures on the opposite side of the room, flipping through books, and yet seemed to not have no interest in reading them. A part of her conscious and mind spoke up. Discord is reformed after all, he doesn't create magical chaotic evil anymore... or as often. Twilight relaxed her shoulders and stared at the two. Another question now crossed her mind- What are they?

She remembered them explaining that they came from a distant universe...

Impossible.

These two looked as if they had the raw intelligence of a broom stick, not even extremely quick-witted Extra Terrestrials as she would think. But then again, they merely appeared by an implosion, A blue stellar teleportation? And Equestrias nearest oceans are hundreds of miles away. Could she be in the presence of aliens? Or gods?

Doubt It.

"Um... excuse me Mr. Patrick?"

Patrick lifted his head from the book.

"Yes Mrs Talking land animal?"

Twilight frowned.

"Just call me Twilight Sparkle. And I... erm... welcome you to the land of Equestria. Where did you say you were from again?"

"Bikini Bottom!", Patrick said cheerily.

"Right... exactly how did you get from the bottom of the ocean to another universe?". Twilight was curious. More than actually. If they weren't woven from the hands of Discord, than what exactly were they?

"Oh, just A simple teleportation device, made by yours truly!"

Simple?! It was simple to jump from one universe to another without completely destroying reality? Simple?!

Twilight leaned back in her chair, and composed one last question to these strangers. If it was the answer she presumed, than she would be morally satisfied... or creeped out.

"Why are you here?"

Patrick smiled.

"To find out the simple question lended to us my the most influential of minds! One that will shake the foundations of this universe from the next to its core!

Patrick pointed straight towards Twilight, and yelled at the top of his lungs.

"Is mayonnaise an instrument, Twilight Sparkle?!"

Twilight facehoofed.

She wasn't in the presence of intelligent life as she had hoped. Merely idiots who made a rift machine by accident, nothing more, but probably something less-as she expected. Maybe if she looked through the library once more she can find a spell to send them back from where they came from. They were going to be a bother, if not removed.

"Do you plan to probe us, you alien menace?!" Rainbow Dash screamed from Twilight's bedroom.

"I can see through your lies!" she continued.

"Rainbow calm down! They come in peace."

Rainbow Dash tightened her eyes.

"Oh hello! I don't believe we've properly met, my name is pa-"

"I don't care! Just leave!"

"Maybe having Spongebob and Patrick along in Equestria won't be such a bad thing after all!" Discord said while Twilight read through her fourth consecutive spell book. The visitors have been here for hours, and already her patience with them have become shortened.

Her hospitality defeated her when Patrick ripped a few pages out of her books in ''the name of science and research" and Spongebob was helping him too by gathering the information on the giant paper Patrick gathered along with them. Finally Patrick decided to ask the mare: "Do you have any mayo?"

"Excuse me?"

"Mayonnaise... you know, the creamy yellow condiment? I'm going to need it to further my thoughts on the subject."

"And what exactly will you be doing with mayo in this situation?" Rainbow Dash asked. She had built up the courage to come near Spongebob and Patrick, as she now found them not as a threat anymore.

"I'm going to see if it has to power to create a black hole. Do you have any pieces of the space-time continuum lying around?"

"I'm starting to like these guys!" Discord exclaimed. He slid his dragonesque figure next to Spongebob and Patrick and hugged them tightly.

"Maybe these two can be my little helpers in spreading a little caos once in a while, eh Twilight?" that little question eased her gaze at Discord with a wrath-filled look. She had enough ''chaos'' for one day.

"Will it be fun?" asked Spongebob.

"Oh, tons! We can create floating buildings, cotton candy clouds with chocolate rain, and maybe turn the princesses into donkeys once in a while!"

"Princesses?" Patrick pondered. Twilight was the one to speak next. To her surprise she hadn't explained Equestrias system of living yet, nor the rulers.

"Oh that's right! Equestria is ruled by two princesses; Princess Celestia, and Princess Luna. They control the sun, and moon, and raise it each day and night. They even have the ability to wield powerful spells of magic, and are immortal creatures also."

"Fascinating!" Patrick said.

"Magic? I didn't know magic existed in other universes!" Twilight dropped her book.

"Wait, your universe has magic?!" Spongebob scratched his head for a moment in thought.

"I guess, but probably not as advanced as this one seems to be." Twilight pouted, and used her levitation spell to raise her book back into her hooves.

"I would very much like to meet this Princess of yours Twilight!" Patrick said with glee. Twilight raised an eyebrow.

"I'm sorry Patrick, but no. This town is already uneasy with your arrival. If this world was any less... mysterious, then there would be panic. I'm going to spend the next few hours-or possibly days- trying to crush some numbers and get you two back home before anything else happens."

Patrick sighed, and Discord flew back into his seat, and looked at Twilight with a bit of disappointment.

"Oh come now, Twilight! These two need to see the world with their very own eyes! The magic, the cities, and the wonderful sunsets and moonshines..."

Twilight raised her head, and saw Discord poofing himself a travel bag, a small button shirt covered in tropical leaves, and a straw hat with dark glasses.

"And I can't wait to show it to them myself, mind if I help pack?"

She grimaced, which practically forced Discord to sit back down.

"The only time I would get you two to meet the Princess is only when I need assistance finding a spell to get rid of you."

"Wow, that's harsh" said Spongebob. From his spot, Discord slithered next to Twilight.

"Now Twilight, you really must be thinking of what might happen if Princess Celestia found out that you were hiding Equestrias first extraterrestrial visitors from her, right? Who knows-in her rage she might strip you of your princess title!"

Twilight stood to attention, now that Discord had twisted her plan. Could he be right? She thought. These were visitors, visitors from other worlds not known to pony kind. It would be disrespectful to hide them from her royal highness!

"Fine!" Twilight sped towards her writing table and drew out her quill, paper, and ink.

-

Dear Spike,

If you haven't heard already, we have new visitors in Equestria! Please tell the princess and send escorts right away.

Sincerely, Twilight Sparkle

-

She put down the quill and rolled the parchment. Discord eased in and snatched it.

"Hey!"

"Don't get your socks in a twist, Twilight" Discord threw the paper in the air and exhaled a plume of green fire. "I'm just sending it."

"... I didn't know you could do that..."

"Oh please! I'm a god."

"This is gonna be so exiting!" Patrick exclaimed. Spongebob shared his excitement.