Sunshower

     The next day at the Apple family's farm, Fluttershy was helping Applejack get ready for the adventure they were suddenly invited to go on.

"Are you sure you can come along? I would think that you'd be...busy." Fluttershy said just loud enough for her friend to hear. The two mares were in a tool shed beside the barn. The door was closed, so Applejack could see the entire room, but the sunlight was strong enough to peer though the cracks. Vertical lines of light streaked the dirt ground.

"Oh I'm alright. Don't worry 'bout me. Big Mac's got it covered." Applejack began to chuckle. "An' so does Applebloom, heh! Her grades dropped faster than a flyin' pig, they did, so she's helpin' Big Mac up in the farm." Applejack and Fluttershy giggled a bit. "She's gonna be in a hella suprise when she finds out we gotta surplus of apples this time around."

"Oh goodness," Fluttershy said disappointingly before laughing out loud. "How bad were her grades?"

"Well, thing is," Applejack tried to begin before she burst out laughing, "she wanna get her cutie mark so bad, so she went crusadin' about wit them friends a hers. They were gonna get some...HEH HA...some gangsta cutie marks."

"Oh shi-Hah hah!" They both shouted with laughter, Applejack obviously louder than Fluttershy.

"So, Applebloom and ‘er friends tryin' act gangsta by standing on the roof of the school. Her friends chicken out, though, but instead of bein' a smart lil' filly,"

"Don't tell me,"

"She decided to stand up on the roof her damn self! Ha! She failed for the day and her grade went," Applejack motioned her hoof slowly toward the ground while whistling for dramatic effect. "Best part of that story is,"

"Uh-hu?"

"That's exactly how she got of that there roof too!"

They both exploded in laughter. Fluttershy was left in tears, and Applejack pounded on the ground. After regaining full awareness, Applejack took a sip of cider she had laying on a wooden table to her left.

"Yep," Applejack started, "I'm all set." She wiped a tear from her eye and chuckled.

Just then, the barn door opened. There stood Applebloom in a cast on her left foreleg, and a head bandage.

"IT AIN'T FUNEH!" Applebloom whined audibly. This made Fluttershy almost die of extreme laughter. Applejack spit out all her cider and dropped to the ground and choked on her giggles. It was a scene. Applebloom huffed and trotted away angrily.

"C...come on Fluttershy, we better get to Twi's place."

Meanwhile, at the library:

     Twilight studied the Interdimentional Travel book over and over. In order to make it work, you must stand outside while it's raining and perform the magic spell. However, it cannot just be raining. The sun must also be out fully during the rain. Twilight knew the weather schedule for the week and thought that if she were going through with this, today would be a perfect day. The sun was shining radiantly and yet, there were storm clouds rolling by. The sun was nowhere near the clouds, so a 'Sunshower' would soon ensue.

     Cheerilee had been ready for the travel. She brought along her diamond and wondered what it would look like in another universe. She stared into it curiously and waited for the journey.

     Twilight read the book for the twenty-ninth and final time before she closed it and put it back on its shelf. She sighed and butterflies fluttered about in her stomach because she knew how dangerous the trip could be. Anxiety gave her a headache. Soon the library doors opened, and her five other friends appeared. Twilight invited them in, and quickly jotted up a list of thing for Spike to do when he finally wakes up. She then kindly asked if Rarity could help her prepare a breakfast for him. Twenty minutes passed and everything was ready, so everypony walked outside and waited for the rain.

Rarity was the only pony not too thrilled about getting wet.

"Good heavens, Twilight! We could all catch colds standing around in the rain!"

"Don't worry, Rarity," Twilight assured, "when we get to the other world, we'll be dry."

"Right...other world, " Applejack spoke up "that don't sit too well with me."

"Me either..." Twilight grumbled as she turned her gaze to Cheerilee. However, Cheerilee ignored her and pretended she didn’t notice.

It took almost fifteen minutes before Pinkie felt a drop of rain. She hadn’t said anything since she arrived, so everypony questioned if she was all right.

"Ooo!!! I think I felt a raindrop!! This is gonna be so much FUN!"

"Wow, Pinkie," Rainbow Dash said as the rain picked up, "I thought you were broken."

The sun shined as if there wasn't a cloud in the sky, but the seven mares were standing in the rain that quickly came down in sheets.

"GOOD HEAVENS!" Rarity yelled, trying to speak over the loud roar of the rain.

"THIS IS PRETTY AWESOME, ACTUALLY!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed.

"EVERYPONY HOLD ON,” Twilight yelled, “WE'RE ABOUT TO DEPART!"

"WATSTHAT? YOU SAY YOUR 'BOUT TO FART?" Applejack shouted. "I DIN'T NEED TO HEAR ALL THAT, SUGAR CUBE!"

A flash of ianthine light sparked from Twilight’s horn that engulfed the seven mares.

That's when....

         The world around girls

         Slowly unraveled

         As a new one unfurls

         The land they have traveled

         No one knew how,

         No one knew why

         But it's happening now,

         As the colors began to cry

         Twilight, Applejack, Fluttershy,

         Rainbow Dash, and Rarity

         Then comes Pinkie Pie

         And lastly Cheerilee.

         Ponyville's where they started,

         Then POOF now they've departed.

     Twilight opened her eyes slowly. She could barely see her refection on the ground. She adjusted her eyes and she could not believe what she was seeing. The ground she was laying on was glowing, but that's not what was amazing.

The colors. They looked so different. Twilight was seeing colors she's never seen before. They all came together so well, it was so unorthodox. The shadows and the textures were unreal. Twilight finally got the courage to lift her gaze to the rest of the new-found world.

Using words to describe what Twilight was thinking would be impossible.

     The rest of the gang was dog piled beside Twilight. They were just as awestruck as she was. Fluttershy wasn't in the pile; she was a bit farther away lying on her back. Her legs were all perked up as if she were in pain.  She probably was. She fell into the new world. Everypony was shocked, and didn't want to move.

Everypony but Cheerilee.

     She was walking around and admiring the sights. From what she could tell, they were in a building of some sort. To her right, there was a desk that was the same color as the floor, which was a glossy ebony. Her friends were laying on a lighted platform of some sort. It was 9x6 tiles of a glowing blue. The platform was strange. It seemed to be translucent with magical crystals shining humbly underneath.

     Cheerilee took a step on the platform. Suddenly, six of the bright blue lights turned red. They made a diagonal red cross from side to side. Cheerilee loved these lights. She walked on the platform more, hoping to create more red lights. Something cooler happened. All the lights on the floor flashed all sorts of brilliant colors.

     Amaranth, cerise, Azure, emerald, violet, gold, teal, turquoise, cyan, magenta, and all other colors that the ponies were unfamiliar with. Everypony's jaws dropped. The sheer amazement kept the hallway quiet. Or at least, Cheerilee thought it was a hallway. It was dimly light by what was probably this world's sun. It was bright out, but it was raining. A sunshower, to be exact. The dimness gave the hall all the colors that Cheerilee could not see more character and definition.

     The glowing platform continued to dance to a beautiful spectrum.

Pinkie was the first to speak up: "Ooo!!! This place is-" She was cut off by a lavender hoof to the mouth.

"Quiet Pinkie! We can't let whatever lives here see us! Who knows what they'd do to us?!"

Rainbow Dash stared at the lighted floor for a good long time.

"Rainbow Dash." Twilight called to her cyan friend, "I need you and Applejack to take Fluttershy and Cheerilee someplace out of the open. The rest of us will investigate what this building is."

"Why can't I investigate?!" The rainbow manned pony objected.

"Wouldn't it be much 'cooler' to find us a secret lair?" Twilight said sarcastically.

"...I guess that sounds pretty cool." Rainbow crossed her fore hooves as she floated in the air.

"Alright! Rarity, Pinkie, you girls are with me! We're gonna go through those glass...window doors?"

Twilight pointed at the glass door surrounded by windows where all the light came from.'

"You mean outside?!" Rarity complained. Twilight nodded her head once and headed for the glass door. She looked at it for a moment, then opened it with magic, holding it open for her two friends. The rain outside was now audible with the door open. Pinkie zoomed out to experience the new world, while Rarity took her time leaving the building.

     When they got outside, the light shined very brightly, and the rain was warm. Twilight looked at the building wall and saw "BEST TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL" on a poster.

A school.

     It was a school. It was hard to believe. Why would a school have to be so big? Pinkie bounced around and found a marble bench. It had words on it so she read them aloud:

"Class of Two, zero, eleven. Look! It's a bench!"

"This is a school? Rarity asked as she read the words on the building herself."

"I guess so. But where are the students?"

     The mares circled around the building, because Twilight presumed they exited via the back of the building. Twilight wanted to know more about the building, so they walked to the front.

     The rain was a strange thing. It was very clear and colors seemed to be enhanced through the drops. Twilight felt overwhelmed, so she tried her best to ignore the sites as they circled the building. However, her attempts were in vain. Her eyes caught these glossy, smaller buildings with 4 wheels on them that resembled a carriage. She didn't know what they were, but she guessed they were for travel.

     The three walked by the building's main windows that were sectioned off by long white ledges. They all looked up at each ledge. To their right, they saw wheat growing high from the ground. They continued walking a bit further until they reached the front of the building. Twilight could tell it was the building's front by reading the big words on its wall:

'W. F. Kaynor Technical High School'

Well, looks like we'll be living here for our journey. Twilight concluded, while still marveling the sights of this dimension.

The spring rain seemed to have ended while the three trotted around the building. They probably didn't notice due to extreme culture shock.

"Let's head inside, everypony." Rarity said, lukewarmly.