One Visitor

Chapter Three:

First Impressions

“There’s the smoke, coming from just over there. Just one last teleport,” Twilight
said to herself, and she teleported once again, finally beside the thing that had fallen from the sky. Looking at it, there were many more flames around it than she had ever seen around any regular meteor. It was as if there had even been an explosion around it, although she didn’t know how that could have happened.

Her alicorn eyes picked up a small movement coming from it. The difference was
that this movement was no flame, but something else… inside it. What…? It’s hollow?? What was… Her eyes opened wide as she realized that the movement had come from a window. She let her jaw drop open, realizing that this was much more than a meteor.

Then, that movement may have been… She galloped towards the window of the object, as close as she could without running into the flames. Once she got as close as she could, she teleported into it. She started coughing after her very first breath, being overwhelmed by the sudden smoke and heat. Beside her she saw the shape of whatever she had just seen move, while the flames crawled towards her from her front. Her horn glowed, and the fire was forced to retreat from a gust of wind. She knew it wouldn’t be long until the flames were back where they were again. Looking at the shape again, she took hold of it and herself, and teleported them both outside, to safety.

He opened his eyes. What.. where am I…? he thought, slowly starting to look around.
He saw that it was early dawn, and there weren’t many trees or plants to break the landscape. He was lying back down on a hard ground covered in grass which was struggling to survive. Pushing himself up a little, he saw that the pod was off a few meters to his left, where it still had a few flames around it from the crash. His last memory of finally losing hope came back to him from seeing it. How did I… How am I alive…? he wondered. Taking a look to his right, he saw something stranger than he had ever seen.

Twilight paced back and forth frantically, still wondering what she could or should do.
She had looked at the.. thing.. she had saved from the object, and found out that it was, in fact, alive. Now she still wondered, after a few hours, what it was, what it would do when it woke, where it came from, what to do- “H.. Hello…?” it said to her. She jerked her head to look at it, stopping dead still. She could see fear, confusion, in it, more than anything. Slowly, she let go of her stiff standstill to walk towards it.

She deliberately made every step she took take time so as to not frighten this thing
even more, if she could help it. As soon as it started to look more scared, she stopped. “What are you…?” she asked it. It’s face changed to show surprise as soon as she spoke to it. “You can talk?” it asked her incredulously. “Well, yeah..” she responded with a dull tone. It didn’t seem very bright. “Wh.. what are you? What is this place?” it asked, glancing at it’s surroundings. “This is Equestria. I’m an alicorn,” she said to it, although her answers didn’t seem to satisfy it. She figured she could save her own various questions until this thing was in a better state of mind.

“Equestria…? Alicorn…? What… is this a dream or something? Am I dead?” it asked her. She rolled her eyes, responding, “No, I don’t think so… Here, uh.. We should probably go and talk in a better place than this,” she said to it. “What places are there?” it asked her. “I’ll show you,” she said to it, starting to smile. “Just don’t start panicking as soon as we start to go…” Her horn glowed as it asked, “Why wou-” He was interrupted by her teleporting them both across the landscape, on the way to Canterlot. She made sure to only teleport to places where no one would be, because he had in fact started screaming as soon as they started.