A Unicorn on Earth

Twilight had spent a little too much time in her library lately, more so than usual. I mean, of course it was like her to spend time there, but not so much that we didn't see her for a few days. I didn't think too much of it, maybe she was working especially hard studying for a test, or potentially just... Being Twilight. Nothing too drastic had been happened over those few days, so we didn't bother her. To be honest, I didn't expect her to bother ME so drastically.

"RARITY! I need your help!" Twilight busted loudly through the door, so much so the mannequins shook around her.

"Twilight, darling, what ARE you doing?! We haven't seen you in days and you suddenly have the gall to bust through my door, with no warning! You could have at least knocked first! We were getting worried!" I never liked to be bothered when I was working, as long as it was for a good reason, "What could you possibly need my help with anyway, unless you wanted to sort your mane out!"

"It's not that, if I explained it to you and you listened, I'm sure you'd understand, so just shut it and listen to me!" Twilight exclaimed, smoothing out her mane to make it more presentable, "The reason I've been inside so much, is because I've been reading up on different Universes! They could potentially exist and I think I've figured out a way to make a portal to one, so we could prove it! But I need another Unicorn's help and you're the one that's closest to me, in terms of friendship and of walking distance!" Twilight stood there at my door, looking visually tired, "That's why I need your help!"

"An experiment? Darling, you know that they go awry a lot of the time and I'm not sure I want to be on the receiving end of the blow- back from one of those experiments." I shook my head, but Twilight persisted,

"Come on! We could make a break-through!" I sighed,

"Fine, but if this goes badly, it's all on you." Twilight beamed,

"YES! I mean... Thanks! Now come on, follow me!" She turned and began trotting and quite a pace, of which I had no trouble keeping up with, towards her library. Of course it had to be there, it was almost like any other place for practising magic was inadequate to her.

After arrival, she slammed the door when I'd barely managed to get my back-left hoof inside, thankfully it didn't make contact. She opened a large, bulky book that lay on the table. Did she even bother to wipe all the dust off the cover before opening it? I would have, but this was Twilight we were talking about. "Now Rarity, I need you to connect with me in some way, it's really difficult to explain what I want you to think of right now and we NEED TO GET THIS DONE NOW!"

"Darling, have you not had much sleep lately?"

"Of course not! Not when there are whole Universes that are waiting to be discovered! Who knows what we could find?" And with this, our horns connected and started glowing. Mine glowed involuntarily of course; I had no idea what I had gotten myself into. Then there was a strange sensation. It felt like a flood of knowledge entering my head within an instant and I could actually comprehend what Twilight was talking about, which certainly did save some time.

When I had finally recovered from the flood of information and sifted through it all, Twilight was tapping her hoof impatiently, obviously waiting for me to catch up. I faced her and nodded, "That was certainly... Interesting..." was all I could muster at this point in time. Twilight only rolled her eyes, "You know the spell I dropped in there? I need you to use that with me. It should open up a portal."

"Are you sure this is safe Twilight, I mean-"

"Uh, yeah... Sure..." I would have believed that if it came from Applejack, but I wasn't faced with the Element of Honesty here, was I? I sighed. I might as well keep going, I'd already got the knowledge and it'd be rude for me to just turn and walk out now after I agreed beforehand. "3... 2... 1... Now!"

We both began to cast the spell, it didn't take too long before there was a bright light before us and it appeared to be a split of some form, getting larger by the second, but Twilight's determined expression told me to not stop. I hoped this was the result she was looking for, I certainly didn't want anything nasty to enter this world.

Soon enough, a large rippling portal was there before us. I could see a clouded room, but I couldn't make out any of the features exactly, but I think I could see sofas and curtains. I looked over at Twilight and it looked like she was about to explode with excitement. She began jumping up and down, the likes of which I'd only expect from Pinkie, "It worked, it worked! Rarity, do you know what this means?!"

"Not in the slightest darling."

"It means, we've proved the existence of other Universes!"

"And what do we do with this portal now? Does it close after a while?"

"I guess..." Twilight scratched the back of her neck and I groaned,

"You mean you didn't know?"

"Not really, but I can't know everything there is to know about portals though, can I?" As she said this I rolled my eyes and the portal began to shimmer and clear up. I stayed stationary, I didn't want to go anywhere near the thing, but Twilight... She began walking up to it! "Twilight, what are you doing? I-it could be dangerous!"

"It'll be fine! Come and help me look in, see if you can find anything of interest!"

"No chance darling, I've already helped you open it, I'm not going anywhere near it!"

"If there was any danger, it should have passed by now. Don't worry so much, hey, I'll even put my hoof in to prove it!" At this point, her hoof strayed too close to the portal for my liking, so I quickly ran up and shoved it down, "N-no no! It's okay Twilight, I believe you!" I looked up at the portal out of curiosity, seeing a crisper image, when out of the room's window, I could see a strange, metal construct roll by. It had wheels, but it wasn't pulled by any ponies at all, it just... Went forward as if pulled by something invisible. "T-Twilight, did you see that?"

"See what?"

"I-it was like a chariot, only not a chariot and it wasn't being pulled by anything!" At this remark, a grin began spreading across Twilight's face. "Wow, so the world there must be really different! And possibly more advanced!" I couldn't believe her enthusiasm! We knew nothing about this world and she was already obsessing over it! I did not like the look of that metal construct and here she was, getting all worked up about it! It could potentially be dangerous, I thought Twilight was supposed to be the calm, composed and sensible one, but when she gets worked up about something, she just cannot be reasoned with...

This was when the portal started to shimmer even brighter and some books began to fall off the shelves and being right next to it did not help my confidence. It shimmered even brighter and got slightly bigger, some of the books around were now swirling around the room, throwing loose pages everywhere, "T-Twilight, what's happening?!" I knew something'd go wrong!

"I-I don't know! Come on, we gotta get out of here!" Twilight went towards the door, but I was remained still with fear, the portal eventually swallowing me up in a blinding light. The last thing I heard was Twilight yelling my name.