Enlightening Equestria

Twilight Sparkle took a deep breath.  Just a few steps.  That's all she had to take.  Then try and not make a species with billions of beings with really big guns angry at here.  Not that difficult, right?

She lifted a hoof to wipe away the sweat on her brow.  Okay, just pretend you're walking through Ponyville.  A really short walk while passing by a lot of huge tower-like things that look pretty intimidating.  Just like Ponyville.   Deep breath.

For crying out loud, you are a princess of Equestria! You can do this!  She took a hesitant step forward.  Then another.  And another.

How does Rarity like dramatic build up like this?!

She gazed up at the portal in front of her.  She still thought that Celestia should have been the one to do this, but apparently, she was actually somehow more qualified when it came to creatures that valued intelligence as much as these ones did.  Celestia has thousands of years of experience!  How does somepony with that up their sleeve not have more intelligence than her?!

...nobles...

She could see the details of the portal now.  It shimmered from the light reflecting it and was surrounded by a stone frame.  It was also purple.  That was completely optional to the ponies who made the thing just minutes before, apparently they wanted it to suit her.

One more step and she'd have to touch it.  She was shaking with the implications.

Okay.  Now just move your hoof forward.  Good, let's go further than a millimeter this time.

It felt cold.  The color made her feel like it would be warm, or maybe not any difference at all, but she had already been told that this world couldn't control the weather and she was going onto it when it was fall for them.

She had the upper half of her forearm in now.  She knew she couldn't keep moving her head back while the rest of her body moved forward, but she tried anyway.  She could feel the ground where her hoof had fallen at.  It felt like stone, but with pebbles stuck on the surface of it.

Now her nose was touching it.  Too late to stop now.  She hopped in the rest of the way.

The camera had zoomed in on the portal.

"As you can see, it appears to be a portal.  Why i-

"Oh my God, it looks like something is coming out of it!  John, we may just have extraterrestrial life coming to Earth!  It looks as if it's purple.  And... is that a hoof?  My God it is!  I just don't know what to think!"

This was one of the many reporters in the middle of times square trying to show the world what was happening in Time's Square.  The crowds behind the police tape only got louder as they saw more and more of what came out of the portal.  It was slowly coming out of it, and then suddenly it just jumped through.  There was dead silence once it came all the way through.  It was a purple pony with wings and a horn.  It only came up to a man's waist, not including the horn.  If people had known about magic at the time, they would have noticed that light shimmering all around her that kept her from diseases, toxic air, and translated and magnified her voice along with several other things.  It had a surprisingly human face, if you exclude the gigantic eyes, muzzle, ears, and purple fur.

With a determined look, it actually spoke!

"Hello, my name is Twilight Sparkle.  My race has managed to find a sentient species that we would benefit contact with, you!  Congratulations!"

Dead silence.

"... Yes, well, as long as you don't shoot us then you can go through that portal-" she raises a hoof towards the portal behind her "-and make contact with the first intelligent lifeforms, other than yourselves, your kind has ever seen.  At this point, if anything goes further with any form of contact between us, it'll be by your choice, because only beings with the knowledge of what I just said and good intent can go through that portal.  So, uh, good luck with the decision making process!  You have exactly one of your weeks and any being that can hear what is coming out of my mouth right now can understand the meaning behind it."

Dead silence again.

It gave an awkward smile and slowly backed back into the portal.

"Well,  that went well!"

At that point in time, people all over the world just said their language's equivalent of "HOLY FREAKING SHIZNIT, WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!"