Elements

Whiiiirr....Whirrr... It was sort of like a wheezing sound. She'd heard it before, but never as... loud. It faded softly. Emerald Blaze walked along the hard cement, her eyes trailing on the ground in front of her as it disappeared under her hooves. With a quiet, yet posh city like Canterlot, one didn't often hear noises. That kind of city was a Manehattan city. But as she walked by, with each tiny second, she realized it even more that that could not just simply be shrugged off as a city noise. She trotted beside an alley, spotting a dark blue box just barely hidden from her sight by the shadows. She heard the door creak as it opened slowly. She ducked out of sight just as she spotted a brown hoof. "An alley?" spoke a stallion's voice. "This is new."

"Normally we land in sight, yeah? Now nopony'll be able to see us." said a mares voice as it grew closer.

"S'pose she did that on purpose." She? Is there another pony with them? That wouldn't make much sense. Emerald Blaze began to walk past the alleyway casually, hoping to discover this duo's names. She whistled, attempting to seem casual. She stopped mid-walk right in front of the two, finding that the stallion was a light brown with a dark brown mane, and an hourglass cutie mark. His eyes were a deep blue, which she would never say out loud that she found rather attractive. The mare was light pink, her blonde mane just barely keeping out of her eyes, with a rose as her cutie mark. "What are you two doing inside a tiny blue box?" the mare looked at the stallion next to her, their eyes meeting with a glint in their eye that was not unlike Emerald's. "Traveling." was all they responded.

"What do you mean?" they stayed silent. "So, what is it with that blue box?" she tried again. No luck. The sun had officially gone down, so Emerald lit her horn with a small green flame. Her horn's flare went out soon. "Shoot." she muttered, trying to re-light it. "This never happens..." When her horn's light flickered, she saw the flustered faces of the two ponies in front of her. The stallion was saying something...she attempted to make out what he was saying. "Don't blink, don't blink, don't blink..." Emerald twirled around, still trying to light her horn. The light died off as quickly as it lit, and the last thing she saw was the face of a stone statue.

"Canterlot is quieter than usual," remarked Rarity, "Even if it is not particularly noisy most of the time." Her friends had established a buddy system; Pinkie Pie thought it would be fun, Rainbow thought of it as lame, Fluttershy, like always, didn't mind, and Applejack just agreed, as well as Rarity. Twilight walked with Rarity, Fluttershy followed Rainbow and Applejack lead Pinkie.

"I simply don't see why we must wa--" Rarity stopped herself when she heard a distant whirring sound. "What in Equestria is that?"

"I have no idea, but it sounds exciting! Let's go!" Twilight grabbed Rarity's hoof and pulled her as she rushed toward the sound which was fading. It wasn't fading because she was getting further away, it was fading because it was stopping. She saw a green tail whip around the corner of an alley, then a whispering voice, whose words she couldn't hear. The two unicorns walked into the alley, and saw nothing but litter. Rarity eyed a blue color at the back of the alley, which seemed to be making a silent noise. She reached out to touch it, and felt a handle. She opened whatever it was that owned the handle, and she saw the inside of what couldn't possibly be a tiny blue box..."What... but... It's... It's... It's..."

"Bigger..." said Twilight.

"On the inside!" they yelled in unison. Twilight galloped inside, and began staring at the console in amazement, leaving Rarity in the doorway of the small box, mouth agape. "This isn't technically scientifically possible, but if this somehow works, there could be more things that are... are..."

"Bigger on the inside..." said Rarity, almost inaudibly.

"Yes! That! Oh, and look at this beautiful craftsmanship! It's like all the bigger was just sort of crammed on the inside..."

"Bigger..."

"Or maybe...smaller on the outside?"

"On the..."

"Ooh! I bet nobody has said that before!"

"Inside..." Rarity squeaked in amazement, before fainting, the upper half of her body hanging over the steps of the outside of the confusingly smaller-on-the-outside box.

"What if I could figure out how to pilot it?!" yelled Twilight happily, sorting through wires. She stopped mid-sort when she heard an angry humming sound that sounded like it was coming from the machine. "Are you..." Twilight began to stroke the console. "Alive? Oh, don't be silly, Twi. This is a machine! It can't possibly be alive..." The blue box hummed again. "Alright, alright. I guess you're alive. But...how? How, how how how? It doesn't say that this is possible in any of my books! Oh... Ohhhh...." said Twilight. "Somepony has to own you! Rari--" Twilight galloped over to Rarity in concern as soon  as she'd whipped around. She pulled her into the blue box, but as soon as she did, she regretted it. The doors swung closed, and the noise that the two mares had galloped to began to start up again, louder and clearer. The machine began to rumble and shake, and Twilight fell, causing her head to hit the floor of the...whatever this box was called. It had a name, right? The last thing she felt was an intense pain on her head before she blacked out.