Dimension After Dimension

ALMOST A YEAR AFTER ARRIVING

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It was the middle of the night. There was no noise outside. The only noise I could hear was Minuette's light breathing. I was confused. I had woken up due to a noise - seemingly from downstairs.

I could hear nothing now. I admit I was a little scared, but if whatever it was, I hoped I could fight it with Rainbow Dash-like courage.

However, there was silence again.

I had put my head down and as I had closed my eyes, I had heard the door squeak and a sound rush by. I woke with a start, but still couldn't see anything. I heard a sound from behind and as I had slowly turned to face it, the thing swung something and I must have fallen unconscious.

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I blinked. There was a blinding light shining down onto me. I couldn't move - I was shackled to a table like bench made from thick concrete. I turned to the side and saw Minuette in the same condition as me. I shouted her. Nothing. Her eyes were closed but thankfully she seemed to be breathing. There was a sound of something moving and a shadow that didn't look like a pony. Suddenly, a face appeared. It took a few seconds to realise that it wasn't the face of a pony. It was a strange biped creature and it walked towards us on weird, long legs. It was wearing some weird clothes but before I could take too much in, the thing spoke.

"Hello Winter Rush."

"Who...who are you - what are you? How do you know my name? What do you want with me?" I cried.

"So many questions; All of which will be answered shortly." It replied. "I see that your friend hasn't woken up yet. Let's get her awake shall we?"

The creature turned to Minuette and slapped her across her face.

"Don't you dare hurt her!" I shouted.

"Aww, young love; How sweet." It said sarcastically.

Minuette still hadn't stirred. He slapped her again. Still nothing. This time he got a large box with wires connected to it. He jabbed the other ends of the wires at Minuette's body. She woke with an ear-piercing scream.

"An electric shock always works." He laughed.

"Where am I? W-Who are YOU...?" Minuette screamed.

"Because you are both wondering, my name is Andrei Dimitriev and I am not from your...world. I am not a pony. I am a human and you are on Earth."

We stared blankly at him.

"We made a portal to...the unknown and ended up in some pony-land. You may have noticed that your town was very quiet, even for 2 O'clock in the morning. We captured many of your friends, including you two."

"Where our our friends? Can you let us out of here? We will tell nopony anything that has happened." I cried.

"You obviously don't understand. We have captured you and you will never be let out. You will be used for scientific research."

"Сэр, Радуга не спать." Spoke a guard, hidden away in the shadows.

"В здесь." Replied Andrei.

(Roughly translated, due to my limited knowledge of a similar dialect I had heard and studied in Equestria, this meant; "Sir, rainbow one awakens." "Bring in.")

Promptly, a table was wheeled in with a familiar pony shackled to the top.

"Lemmie' go!" It cried.

"Sis!" I shouted.

"Oh, she's your sister? This could be interesting..."

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The human carried on talking and eventually we were unshackled and walked at gunpoint along many corridors and finally into a cell. The door was slammed shut and we were left.

We saw Rainbow Dash being brought to another cell further down the corridor through the tiny window in the white metal door.

The cell was around 7ft X 7ft wide and around 8ft tall. It was modern-looking with white metal walls with curved edges. There were glowing blue lights embedded in the roof and there was an uncomfortable looking bed pushed up against a wall.

"I-I can't get my head around this." Sobbed Minuette.

"Neither can I. Come here Min." I hugged Minuette.

Her body warmed me slightly - it was comforting having her by my side. She started crying.

"Come on Min, we're gonna get out of here. I promise I will get us out."

"I put my faith in you Rush."

I scanned the room to see if there were any obvious exits. There weren't.

"If we are let out for anything, we need to look for a chance to escape; a grille, an unmonitored corridor, a place without guards, etcetera. And when we see something, we need to make a quick escape without screwing things up."

"I do hope that it works. I really do."

"If we do screw it up, we'll be tortured, or even killed."

"Why don't you escape and I distract the guards so that when I return to my cell, you can come back and get me out, as well as all our other friends."

"There will be an armoury in this place, so I'll stock up there first and then come here."

"Sounds like a plan!"

We kissed each other and fell asleep on the cold, hard bed.