The Stars At War

    “Spike, run!” Twilight shouts out, waving her front legs in the air. Too late, the being just stares at spike.

    “Emouch!, tresek wooch,” the creature shouts. “Ecoss, ecoss! Spike, still frozen, finally speaks.

    “Um, what?” Spike replies, much to the growing annoyance of the creature.

    “Foroom tres, gress batoom ki?” after still no response from Spike, the being reaches out, Spike tries to run only to be held in place by the beings hand. A red glow appears around the creatures hand and it speaks again. “Foroom tres, gress batoom me?”

    “Hey, I understood that last word.” Spike replies pointing to the creatures face. Another small glow of red light and the creature continues.

    “Foroom you, gress stand me?” Spike nods slowly.

    “A little, can you say more?”, the creatures hand glows again for the final time before it's removed from his head.

    “Can you, understand me?” Spike jumps up smiling.

    “Yes, I can!” the being sighs and holds out its hand.

    “Good, now maybe we can be properly introduced, my name’s Red Star.” Spike grabs Red Stars hand and shakes it.

    “Nice to meet you, my name’s Spike” Red Star nods and goes to stand up, only to wind up back on the floor, “Whoa, are you alright?” Red Star looks at Spike as he rubs his head.

    “Yeah, I'm fine, just bad landing, I think.” Red Star looks around. “Where am I?”

    “You’re in my friends barn.” Spike gestures holding up his arms.

    “Oh, is your friend here?” Red star asks.

    “Well...” Spike pauses while looking back at the hay bales.

    “No matter,” Red Star says getting up again, “...So, what species are you?”

    “I'm a dragon” Spike replies.

    “Dragon, hmm, haven’t seen a dragon in a long while,” Red Star leans forward, “but then again, I probably haven't been to your world before.” Red Star states as he shrugs.

    “So you are an alien?” Spikes eyes widen.

    “If you want to call me that then, yes.” Red Star walks to the barn door, but stops before he reaches the hay bales stacked near it. “Do you feel that?” Red Star asks turning back to Spike.

    “No, feel what?”

    “I feel an energy, faint but close.” Red Star lifts up his hand as he holds it palm out, “hmm,” Red Star’s hand comes to a rest over the hay bails. “There behinds those… things,” Spike runs over and stands in front of Red Star.

    “There's nothing there, just some hay bales.” Spike says as he waves his arms about.

    “Come out!” Red Star shouts, red energy flaring in his hand, “I know you are there, I can sense your energy.” Red Star drops his hand, “look I promise I won't hurt you, you don't have to hide from me.”

    Red Star waits for a few more seconds, then five small heads appear above the bails. “Um, hi.” Twilight says giving a small wave.

    “Why were you hiding?” Red Star questions walking forward, “You have no reason to be scared of me”.

    “Well, you are big.”

    “And scary.” Applejack and Rarity answer one after the other, Red Star notices the looks of terror still on their faces.

    “Maybe we should start again, can you please come out from behind those...Hay bales, I think you call them.”

    The five ponies look at each other, contemplating whether or not to trust him, finally they nod and walk out. Red Star look at them and kneels down so he's eye level.

“Maybe we should introduce ourselves, I'm Red Star.” Twilight looks at his hand and places her hoof on top.

    “I'm Twilight Sparkle, um, nice to meet you, Red Star.” Red Star just smiles and give her hoof a gentle shake.

    “Nice to meet you too, Miss Sparkle.” Twilight giggles, “What's so funny?”

    “You have such good manners, for an alien that is.” Red Star lifts an eyebrow. “I didn't mean it in a bad way, just not expected.” Twilight shuffles nervously.

    “Oh, you get many aliens around here do you?” Red Star folds his arms.

    “No! I didn't mean, I...” Twilight stops as she sees Red Star smiling. “You're messing with me and I fell for it.” Twilight.

    “Yeah, but you handled it well.” Red Star replies, standing up and rubbing Twilight’s mane. “I guess these are your… friends.” Red Star gestures to the others.

    “Yes, sorry!” Twilight stands beside Red Star. “This is Applejack, this is her farm.” Applejack tilts her hat.

    “Howdy, Mr Star.” Twilight carries on to the others one at a time.

    “And these are my friends, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash, there's one more but she's out gathering… Oh no!” Just as Twilight finishes her sentence, the barn door burst open, revealing Pinkie with four guards behind her.

    “Hi, girls, I brought the guards.” Twilight suddenly gives her a look of horror. “What’s wrong Twilight, you said to bring the guards.” Pinkie look up to Red Star. “Oh!” the guards sprint forward, placing four swords under Red Star, who just points at them.

    “Please, don't hurt him, he's new to Ponyville!” Red Star leans down to the guards and looks them over.

    “Twilight, these guards couldn't even tickle me with those swords, let alone harm me.” this causes the guards to redden in anger.

    “You will kneel, you are under arrest!” the first guard demands, Red Star just laughs. “This is no laughing matter, kneel or we will force you!” the guard barks, becoming more irritated.

    “And how are you going to force me? With those?” Red Star asks pointing to their swords, “I would like to see you try.” Red Star laughs again.

    “You insolent creature!” the guard shouts as he goes to swipe at Red Star.

    The guard lunges forward, all Red Star does is hold up one hand, the guard stops unable to move,

“Let me go!” he demands, his still body quivering in place.

    “Red Star, please!” Twilight begs as she tugs on his trouser leg.

    “OK, fine I’ll let him go on one condition, he doesn't try that again.” Twilight looks at the guard who just nods, quickly.

    “He not going to,” Red Star lowers his hand and the guard falls to the floor, “will you?” Twilight says as she ushers the guards out of the barn.

    “N-no! We will just be going now.” the guard says joining his friends running out the door, only to hear Red Star sniggers.

    “That was fun.” Red Star laughs as he sits on a nearby hay bail.

    “How did you do that?” Twilight asks, Red Star looks up seeing confusion on her face.

    “You mean my talents? I was made with them, I can manipulate them to form force fields, energy beams, or use them to levitate objects of any size.” Red Star answers looking at his hands palm up.

    “So, you can do magic then?” Twilight sits next to him.

    “Magic, no, magic is a common term in the galaxy that is used to explain something that can't be explained. My abilities were manufactured, so they are called talents... but if you want to call it magic, go ahead, I won't stop you.” Red Star looks over to the others and leans closer to Twilight, “um, not to be rude, but why are you and Rarity different from the others.”

    “What do you mean?” Red Star points to her horn, “Oh, you mean our horns! well it's because we are unicorns, Applejack and Pinkie are earth ponies, and Fluttershy and Rainbow are pegasi.” Red Star just nods.

    “So, there are only ponies?” Red Star asks.

    “No, no, there are many different species living in Equestria.” Red Star just smiles.

    “So you call this land ‘Equestria’? Twilight nods an affirmative.”Well, at least I know where I am. Will I be allowed to see more of it?” Twilight puts a hoof to her chin and thinks.

    “Maybe, we could show you but, you might need a disguise.” Red Star looks down.

    “Oh, right, um… Rainbow, could you come here a second?” Rainbow Dash flies over.

    “What's up?”

    “Rainbow, could I borrow your likeness?”

    “Borrow my likeness?” A look of confusion and apprehension spreads across her face.

    “Yes, I need to disguise myself, only way I can do that is by borrowing your likeness and changing myself to look like you”.

    “Why can't you use Twilight?” Rainbow questions pointing to Twilight.

    “Well, you have wings, it would help disguise my flying abilities, if you don’t mind that is?” Rainbow nods her head, slowly.

    “It won’t hurt will it?” Red Star doesn't reply, instead he reaches out and grabs Rainbow by the leg and red light begins to envelope both of them.

    The energy turn both Red Star and Rainbow completely solid red blinding the others, after a few moments Red Stars silhouette starts to shrink, his height lowers to that of a stallion just smaller than Big Mac, his arms contort and shrink into legs, his hands altering to look like hooves and finally two large wings, double the size of Rainbows wing span sprout outward from his back. When the red light dissipates the friends gasp in shock.

Standing before them a pony, sporting the same colors as Red Stars clothes, still holding Rainbow’s leg. Red Star opens his new eyes.

     “Well, what do you think?” He asks.

    “You look great!” Applejack says with almost a slight bit of lust in her voice, Red Star look over to her and she shy away realizing what she just said. “Um, I mean, it looks alright.”

    “Will I pass for one of you?” Red Star looks over his new body.

    “You sure will.” Twilight answers, a small rumbling noise pervades the air. “What was that?” Red Star grabs his belly.

    “That was me! guess this new form is hungry.” He says with a smile.

    “No problem, we can treat you to dinner in town then show you around.” Twilight replies with a grin.

    “Shall we go then?” Red Star gestures to the barn door still open from when the guards ran out.

    “Do you think it's a good idea to bring him into town?” Applejack whispers to Twilight as they fall in line behind Red Star on their way out of the barn. Twilight turns her head and whispers back.

    “Maybe, maybe not... but how often do we get to speak to an alien.” Applejack looks back to Red Star.

    “Maybe you’re right. I guess I’m being foolish, I just hope he doesn't do anything stupid.” Twilight nods.

    “Even if he does, we will be there.”

    “Yeah, but still I have this niggling feeling that something else is gonna happen, and we won't be able to stop it!” Applejack looks up to the sky, she lets out a small sigh as Twilight walks beside her heading to town.

    As the group walks back to town a single small speck glows in the sky, the speck grows larger as it falls through the night air, its color shifting from white to purple as it passes by the farm and lands in the Everfree Forest.