SGA meets the ponies

Another normal day was beginning in the ancients city of Atlantis. John Sheppard had made plans to show Ronan more points on how to hit a golf ball correctly instead of with one hand. Tayla was talking to Dr. Weir in her office about how her visit with her people went on the main land. And McKay was being his usual self and messing with every computer that he came too, hoping to find something that he could improve in the systems. That is until he went through the dialing computer and found an address marked with the word EXPERIMENT as the title.

"Huh, that's strange." McKay said finding himself then thinking of the possibilities of finding something like a ZPM, he then radioed his team and Weir for a meeting in the conference room.

"Ok, sorry about getting everyone here so quickly but I found something that you all might find interesting." informed McKay.

"Please, don't keep us waiting." Sheppard said sarcastically.

"Right." McKay respond putting an image of the address on the big screen monitor they had in the room.

"That's it, a stargate address?" Sheppard asked

"we see those all the time." Ronan said with annoyance

"Yes, but there's something different about this one." McKay replied. There was a moment's pause.

"Are you going to tell us what it is?" Weir asked

"Yes." said McKay pointing at the ancient text on the screen. "This says experiment, just think of what we could find there."

"a ZPM?" asked Sheppard

"Maybe." replied McKay while everyone stared at Weir for the green light.

"Ok, but be careful, we don't want to get into something dangerous. Remember other experiments done by the ancients? They didn't end well, did they? informed Weir

"Right, I'll make sure to take extra precautions this time." McKay said as he left the conference room to prepare a MALP for recon.

The team went and got ready to go as usual, checking weapons and grabbing C4 in case of emergency. Once ready they met in the gate room and McKay began to give the general rundown of the planet.

"Receiving telemetry." McKay said as one of the monitors went from static to a picture that resembled something like a cartooned forest.

"Are you sure were receiving live feed?" Weir asked as McKay checked the readings.

"Yea, that's it, but it can't be...that doesn't make sense." responded McKay

"It looks like a cartoon, Rodney. Are you sure were getting a direct feed, remember the mission report from SG1 about how the MALP feed was replaced by a fake projection?" Sheppard said still trying to make sense of it.

"I'm serious, I've checked three times now. This is the real thing." McKay said.

"Maybe this was what the ancients experiment was, to create a world similar to this, cartoon." Tayla suggested struggling to understand what a cartoon was.

"I wouldn't put it past them." Weir said now looking at McKay. "Is it safe?"

"Let's see. Viable atmosphere, decent temperature, no measurable toxins, and...huh, barely any UV rays reaching the planet's surface, like less than one percent." McKay said with amazement.

"So it's safe?" Weir asked.

"Well yea, it's almost your perfect environment." McKay said with a shocked tone.

"Ok, let's get going." Sheppard said as he started towards the gate.

The rest followed and once through the shimmering portal they each had a resemblance to the style of the forest.

"Ok, this is weird...McKay are we cartoons?" Sheppard asked while looking at the design of the trees.

"huh, I guess so." McKay replied taking several readings of the surrounding area.

"But how's that possible?" Sheppard asked

"Well it's possible that the ancients figured out a way to transform the environment this way as well as anything that came here. But why would they do that?" McKay started to mumble to himself

"Hey, there's smoke coming from that direction." Ronan said as he pointed at a dark smoke cloud lingering in the sky.

"Alright let's go check it out." Sheppard said as he put on his sunglasses and began to walk.

As the team exited the forest they found a small town in ruins and with some of the buildings on fire.

"Wraith attack, I'm picking up lot's of traces of wraith weapons fire. They most likely did it from a hive ship in orbit." McKay said as he continued to scan the area.

"Alright let's see if there were any survivors." Sheppard said as he moved towards the village

The team found a sign outside of the small village that read, Ponyville but was burned and on the ground.

"perhaps their main trade was horses." Tayla said walking past the sign

"I don't know, but it looks like these people won't be doing much more trading." Sheppard said and at the end of his sentence something started to stir under the rubble next to them, each of them raising their weapon to meet it, but what stood up was a badly injured purple unicorn.

"McKay, what am I looking at?" Sheppard asked but before he got an answer he was interrupted by the purple pony.

"Please, don't hurt us anymore...we don't even know what we did to upset you so much." she said struggling to keep standing. "And what did you do with my friends..." just as she finished her sentence she passed out on the ground.

Tayla and Sheppard went to the pony quickly and started to inspect the wounds.

"It's a horse!, A cartoon talking horse." Sheppard said starting to put bandages on the ponies wounds.

"And this doesn't bother you at all!" McKay said still hold his gun ready for anything.

"Rodney it's hurt and I think we're the only ones around who can help. And put your gun away, I don't think it's gonna bite you." Sheppard said turning back to the injured pony.

"Hey! You guys stay away from her!" A small dragon called out running up and trying to hit them with fire, causing Ronan to pull out his gun and point it at the baby dragon.

"Whoa, we're the good guys, we aren't going to hurt anyone" Sheppard said, "Right Ronan." he continued as he looked at Ronan now holstering his gun.

"Really? Thank goodness, quick help me get Twilight into the library." the dragon said starting to pick her up, but not being able to carry her.

Tayla gave him assistance moving Twilight and once inside the partly burned library, continued to patch up the unconscious pony.

"So you're a dragon?" Sheppard asked the little purple and green dragon.

"Yea, my name's Spike." he replied, then asked, "who are you? and why are you here?"

"I'm Colonel Sheppard, that's Rodney McKay, Ronan Dex, and Taylas the one helping your friend. We're here on an exploration mission." Sheppard informed.

"Her names Twilight and you're a lot nicer than the last kind of guys who came through here, they had different skin though and long white hair." Spike said

"Yes, well we know who they are." McKay began. "They're called the Wraith and they're life sucking aliens."

"What, life sucking?" replied spike with a look of fear.

"Rodney, you really need to learn how to give a better explanation." Sheppard said looking at McKay

"Sorry I said the truth." McKay replied

"Colonel the pony is beginning to wake." Tayla said coming in from the next room.

"Twilight!" Spike called out as he ran into the next room with the others following him.

"mmm, my head." Twilight said sitting up in bed then looking over at her new visitors.

"Twilight it's ok, they said that they're friends." Spike informed her then told her there names.

"Yea, can you kind of give us an idea of what happened." Sheppard asked

Twilight shook her head, "I was on my way to Canterlot to meet with the princess about a matter that couldn't wait, my friends were-" Suddenly a quick flashback of what happened to her friends rushed into her mind. "One thing at a time." She told herself then continued with her story. "When I got there the princess told me that a threat was on its way, then gave me the box that held the elements of harmony and told me to return to Ponyville at once and prepare for the worst.

Spike left the room then came back with a glass of water and gave it to Twilight and after a quick drink she continued.

"When I got back to ponyville I gave the elements to my friends and we did our best to prepare, but we had no idea what was coming. When it did happen, these things, that I'm assuming were flying ships, came out of the sky and began to take ponies and destroy all of ponyville. They were even attacking Canterlot and I don't know if the Crystal Empire was attacked." Twilight began to grow frantic but Spike calmed her down.

"The first to go was Rainbow Dash, she was trying to stop the ships but one of them took her in a beam of light. Poor Fluttershy was trying to help the animals get away when they took her. Rarity did everything she could to try to help the other ponies escape, but then she was taken as well. Pinkie Pie wasn't easy to take but they hit her with kind of some blast which put her down easy. And Applejack was probably the worst for them, they had to hit her and Big Mac several times before they went down." Twilight finished her story, which left a feeling of remorse, even in Sheppard and his team.

"How did you survive?" Ronan asked

Twilight looked confused towards the question, then realized what must have happened. "I got knocked out by something hitting me in the head. They must have thought I was dead." Twilight replied

"That explains why we found you under that pile of rubble. I believe it was more likely that they couldn't find you." Tayla implied

"I guess." Twilight replied while feeling her head. "Where's my element?, It looks like a crown. Have any of you seen it?"

"No and it wasn't near where we found you." Sheppard replied

"Great, it must have gotten knocked off me and those creatures must have taken it." Twilight said with disappointment.

"What are these... elements you keep talking about?" asked Sheppard

"They're the most powerful weapon that Equestria has." Twilight informed

Sheppard turned quickly to McKay, "what do you think Rodney, could it be useful?" he asked

"Well... I don't know, I'd have to see it before I could make any assumptions." McKay responded

Twilight spoke up immediately, "We only have one set of elements, I'm sorry but you can't have them."

"Well we could reverse engineer these elements, well that is if they're more powerful than what we have available through Atlantis." McKay informed

"Alright, now on to more important details. You said that your friends were taken by the wraith correct." Sheppard asked looking towards Twilight.

"Yes." she responded

"Do you have any idea where they are now?" Tayla asked

Before Twilight could answer Ronan cut in. "Where else could they have taken them? They're in the hive ship that came here. How long has it been since the attack?"

"I'm not sure, maybe an hour." Twilight replied

"Assuming we tell time the same." Sheppard said

Ronan continued, "They'd still be in orbit, the Wraith always attack more than once." he informed

"He's right, I'm picking up a hive ship in orbit around the planet." McKay said messing with his computer.

"I too can sense them." Tayla backed up their claims

"That settles it then...We're going after your friends." Sheppard said with a serious look of determination.