Twilight Sparkle makes a grand mistake.

Twilight Sparkle closed her book. She then used her magic to levitate it over to Spike, who was putting the other books she had read back Into their proper places on the shelves. He did the same with the book he was given, and then waited for his next task. He knew that Twilight was reading the books for a reason, and he probably was going to help her with an experiment. Twilight then stood up and looked at her assistant.

"Spike, Fetch me my quill and paper, please."

Spike then ran upstairs to her bedroom, and grabbed them before going back downstairs and handing the two items to her. Twilight placed them by her side, so she could reach them when needed.

"Uh, Twilight? I've been meaning to ask; why have you been reading all those books lately? You haven't given me any reason for finding those books, you just asked me to get them for you." Spike asked, wondering what the unicorn was planning.

"Well Spike, do you remember that time we stepped through that mirror into the human world?" Spike did indeed remember that fiasco. He wasn't too fond of being turned into a dog. "Well, I've been wondering lately about other realities. The one we went too couldn't have been the only one. And now I know how to study these other realities!" Spike was about to raise a question as to how she knows this, but Twilight continued before he could. "You see, I've been studying on how to observe others with my magic. I learned I can open a.. Window, of sorts, to do just that. And I think that, with the right amount of magic, I can maybe look into other realities!" Twilight finished, looking excited at the prospect of looking into other universes.

"But Twilight, are you sure that's a good idea? I mean, what if something goes terribly wrong? What if you accidentally open a window to a bad reality? What if you let someone into our reality?!" Spike asked, concerned, his mind racing with worse case scenarios. He never thought about other realities, but now that he is, he was wary of what could be in them, and what could happen with this spell.

"Oh, come on, Spike. What's the worst that could happen? It's just a window, after all. It's not like I'm trying to go to another reality, or anything." Twilight said dismissively, ignoring the baby dragons qualms. In reality, she had thought of all of his suggested scenarios, but she decided that the risk was worth the possible research and data that could come from the experiment.

She then planted her hooves firmly on the ground. "Stand back, Spike. I'm not sure what would happen if you got hit by the spell." Spike did as she asked, watching her cautiously as she begun to power up her spell. She allowed herself to gather power for a moment, closing her eyes as she exerted herself, before shooting out a beam into the middle of the room. The beam hit a bookshelf, and then spread into a oval of magic, almost as if she was looking through the bookshelf. Instead, however, what was being shown was much different then what would be through the bookshelf. What was shown was a large, run down warehouse, with a single human crouching in the middle of it, his back to the window that Twilight made. The unicorn opened her eyes to see what was in the window, and saw the human in the warehouse. She then donned an excited look, as she gave a final burst of magic to sustain the window. She took a moment to compose herself, as it took a lot of magic to open up the window, and even more to keep it open. She then picked up her quill and paper with her magic, and trotted over to the window to take notes on what was on the other side.

However, just as she got close to the window, it dissipated, not having enough magic to keep it open any longer. She frowned, as she actually began to hear the human speaking, presumably to another human out of focus. That upset her, as perhaps she could learn a few things about the universe that the human was in just by listening to him.

Spike, on the other hand, was pleased that the window closed. He wasn't sure what the human was doing, or where he was, but he was glad that nothing had went wrong. He quickly turned wary again, however, as he saw Twilight prepare to perform the spell again.

Twilight put a lot more strain on herself this time around, as she intended to use a great deal of her magic in order to keep the window open for a longer period of time. She closed her eyes and began to sweat as she built up the magic, before launching the spell once again, at the same bookshelf. The window made was bigger then before-only slightly, however- but other than that, there was no visual difference. The window showed the same scene as last time; a human crouching in the middle of a run-down warehouse. Twilight, like last time, gave a burst of magic to keep the window open. After, she stopped using her magic, and collapsed on the floor, worn out.

"Twilight!" Spike shouted as he rushed to her side. He then helped her up on her hooves, struggling to do so due to his smaller size, and gave her a worried look. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, Spike. Thank you." She said, tiredly. "I just won't be able to use my magic for a little while. I'm fine, really." She said, giving him a reassuring smile.

Spike gave her a doubting look for a moment, before backing away and letting her stand up on her own. Although she was a tad shaky, she looked more or less fine.

She walked over to the window, hoping to hear the human, assuming he was still speaking. He was, and she was at first glad about that fact. However, as she got closer, and was able to make out what he was saying, she got less glad, and more perplexed.

"Oh, what a sad, sad story this is..." The human said in an accent resembling one a pony from Manehatten would have. Twilight raised an eyebrow to this, but continued to listen. "This is so very boring... Tedious, even... And that's terrible... Criminal, even..." The human suddenly stood up, allowing Twilight to get a full view of him. He was fairly tall, and was wearing a boiler suit, along with gloves, and boots, for starters. He also had incredibly long, blonde hair. But what caught her eye most was what he had in his hand. An enormous, black monkey wrench, that was nearly as large as he was. He tossed it in the air and caught it, as if it were a ball that he was idly throwing, and continued to speak.

"This cannot do!" He said loudly, gesturing wildly. "I will not allow this tedium to eat up my life! I gotta go do something, break something, anything!" He practically shouted, throwing his wrench in the air more violently than before. Twilight thought this was very strange, and slightly concerning, but she listened on, curious as ever.

"Oh, but what is there to do? My boys are gone on a job, and I'm left to sit here, wallowing in my own boredom! Oh, such a tragic story! Such a very, tragic story indeed! What's the point of making me live though such a sad story? What's life doing to me?!" He shouted, still gesturing wildly, beginning to speak faster and more frantically. "Why would this happen to me?! I can't comprehend it! And if It can't be comprehended, then why do it at all?! Right?!" The human began to turn around, still wildly gesturing. "So why? Why?! WH-" the human stopped as he looked in Twilights direction. His looking her way revealed himself to have blue eyes; plus, it revealed that his hair mostly covered one of his eyes.

Twilight raised an eyebrow at this as well, but simply figured he saw someone come in from the same direction as her. After all, the window was supposed to be one-way. She  hoped that the other human could provide more Information then the blonde one, as she could piece together only that the human was bored, and that was a bad thing to him. A small part of her, though, was utterly fascinated by the human's rantings. She was no stranger to them, as she was friends with Pinkie Pie, who has a tendency to ramble on. But the humans ramblings were different; more disjointed, and unhinged, like a mental patient; and Twilight couldn't help but be fascinated.

Twilight soon began to get nervous, however, as the human simply stared In her direction. She thought that if someone else was In the room with the human, he would've greeted them by now. But he was simply staring, almost as if he was trying to figure something out.

Spike, too, began to get nervous. He was already wary to begin with, but now that the human had dead stopped his rambling and was looking in his and Twilights direction, he wanted to close the window as soon as possible. "Twilight..." He said, cautiously.

The human cocked his head when Spike said Twilights name. He then began to smile; not in a warm, or friendly way, but more in a malicious way.

"Well now, it seems this story has changed from one that makes me sad, to one that interests me greatly." The human said as he began to walk towards Twilight.

Twilight just stared, open mouthed, for a moment, before shaking her head to snap herself back to reality. She began to scoot away from the window as the human got ever closer. She wasn't sure if he could do anything, but she didn't want to be too close to him, now that she knew that the window wasn't one way.

Spike ran up to Twilight, getting behind her for protection. "Uh, Twilight? Can you close it?" He said, trying to remain calm, but worry seeped into his voice nonetheless.

Twilight nodded and tried to use her magic to do just that, but instead of the window closing, her horn just let out a few sparks. She stared at her horn for a moment, before trying to do it again, as she noticed the human was close to the window now. It produced the same result; nothing by sparks.

"N-no, I can't. My magic is still worn out from casting that spell." She said, worriedly, as the human reached the window. She still wasn't quite as worried as Spike was, however, as she was certain that he couldn't do anything; it was just a window, after all. Something to look out of, but not enter, or leave, through. That is, until the human reached into the window, and grabbed it's side to help himself get through. Twilight gasped at this, as the human stepped through the window- which she now knew also functioned as a door, with the magic she put Into it.

The human, still smiling, pointed his wrench at Twilight and Spike, who were staring at him worriedly, knowing they couldn't really fight back if he attacked.

"You know, I've broken a lot of things... Cars, people, all kinds of things. But you know what's an absolute shame?" He said as he put his hand over his face. "I've never had the chance to break a horse... And, well, technically you're a unicorn, I think what we have here is a prime opportunity to fix that. Don't you think?" He said as he took his hand away from his face, revealing a near Cheshire cat-like grin, and mad eyes. He gripped his wrench in both hands, and lunged towards Twilight.