Elementary, my dear Twilight

"Come on, Twilight!  This is ridiculous!  Can't this wait until tomorrow??" Spike complained.

Twilight Sparkle whipped her head to glare at her assistant.  She had been working all day and now through the night trying to figure out something.  She sighed.  "Spike, we've been through this a hundred times: Whatever this thing says, we have to know.  It just might be monumental."

Said object was floating in the middle of the Golden Oaks Library.  It was very simple, really.  Just gray metal with a weird line that ran across its side that emitted a soft orange light.

But what it extraordinary was it composition: made from an unknown, crystalline-like metal that was unbelievably durable: Spells to determine its age put it at over 1 million years old, yet it showed no signs of its age at all.  It was exactly four hooves wide, six hooves tall, and half a hoof in thickness.  A series of strange symbols were meticulously carved onto one face.  They were arranged so similarly to Equestrian that Twilight was certain it had to be message of some sort.

But who?  Who would use so much of a precious metal just to write a simple message on it?  What did it say?  Why was it here?

Twilight and Spike had been trying to find the answers to those questions, but it was the middle of the night and they'd made no progress.

Spike huffed in irritation.  "Look, I know how much you're interested in this obviously, but why drag me into this?"

"Why do you think, Spike!?" Twilight retorted.  "The object, whatever it is, responds better to your touch."

The purple dragon groaned.  Just his luck.  The one time he needed a good night's sleep the most, fate decided to torture him instead with what seemed like none at all.  The reason for this was because he was going to be helping the love of his life, Rarity, dig up some gems for some dresses she was asked to make.  And he was hoping to ask her out as well.  Spike wasn't a baby anymore; the puberty he had finished undergoing recently made Twilight and her friends describe him more as handsome nowadays.  Plus, some of the mares in Ponyville were starting to flirt with him, but their attempts to gain his interest were politely ignored, thanks to his single-minded focus on Rarity's love.

Twilight ignored him and looked back at the object.  It just continued floating there, almost tauntingly.  She gritted her teeth in frustration.  This thing just didn't seem to want to give up its secrets easily whatsoever.  For a while, she just stared at it menacingly until she finally lowered her horn and shot a magenta beam at it.

A sudden wave of energy pulsed from the object with great force, blowing Twilight off her hooves and slamming into Spike.  They hit the floor with a loud WHUMP.  Twilight's laser wasn't so lucky; it fizzled out upon contact with the orange field.

Twilight was dazed from the impact.  She shook it off and scrambled back onto her hooves.  She turned around and helped Spike up with her magic.  The poor dragon's eyes were rolling around in his eyes and stars circled around his head.  Other than that, he was fine.

Twilight gazed back at the object and gasped at the spectacle before them.

The object's glow had intensified.  Without warning, the thing fractured into a multitude of smaller pieces.

But they didn't fall to the ground.  Instead, they just hung there, suspended in the air and all giving off the same orange glow.  But that light seemed strange...almost as if it was...SOLID?!?!

Twilight recoiled in shock at the revelation.  There was no doubt, these pieces were being held in place by solid light.

Then they started moving.  The pieces began to arrange themselves on the floor, connecting to each other, bit by bit.

Twilight and Spike stared at it with their mouths agape in amazement at it all.  They watched as an outline began to form from the chaos.  It was a massive one, taking up a quarter of the entire library floor.  But it looked odd.

It wasn't shaped in a way that neither Spike nor Twilight could recognize.  Then the outline was completed and immediately more orange light filled in the space inside of it.  Twilight subconsciously noted that it seemed to have a liquid-y look to it, like how water looks in a glass of water.  Then the light abruptly turned blindingly white and the sound of colossally deafening cracks roared from the device.

Instinctively, Twilight and Spike both screwed their eyes shut and turned away from the spectacle.  A few seconds later, it was gone as quickly as it came.

The two of them opened their eyes and slowly turned to look at the aftermath.  The strange object was leaning against the wall next to the front door as if nothing had just happened.  But what lay in its place was what was truly awe-inspiring.

An enormous ape-like creature was sprawled out in the exact position that the tablet/device had just traced out moments before.  It lay face-down onto the floor.

It seemed to be dressed in a dark-blue, garment that covered its upper body and boots on the ends of the creature's strangely shaped hind legs.  Over the blue garment there was another one, this time orange.  Yet another orange garment clothed the ape's hind legs, with a blue belt tied around its waist.  Two smaller versions of the belt were wrapped around its wrists.  But on the back of the orange garment closer to its head was a strange picture emblazoned in black.

Twilight had never seen anything like it; The picture was just a symmetrical image of lines that uniformly formed something, but made no sense to her.

Then the ape shifted and groaned.

Twilight's eyes widened as the ape-thing tried pushing itself up with its forelegs, but they quivered with exhaustion from the attempt.

Twilight couldn't help but feel a pang of sympathy for it, despite it being so intimidating.  For a long time, she just watched it, unable to move a muscle for fear it would alert the creature of her presence.  After an agonizingly long time, it slowly lifted its head.  Twilight barely managed to stifle a gasp of shock.

The ape's face was completely unexpected to what she had thought it would look like.

A rough, chiseled face that was extremely pale, like the ape had never seen sunlight in its entire life.  But the eyes were the most striking feature; It possessed a pair of amethyst-purple eyes that dimly glimmered with an unimaginable amount of pain.  But behind that, there was a faint trace of razor-sharp alertness.  The ape slowly scanned the library, squinting to try and penetrate the gloom.

Twilight decided to sneak back to her bedroom, where she kept her writing materials, and warn the Princesses of this event.  She made it about halfway to the hoof of the stairwell when she stepped on a floorboard that creaked loudly from her weight.

She froze.  She gradually swiveled her head to face the alien, only to be seized by terror; It was staring...Straight.  At.  Her.

The two of them blinked in unison.  Twilight's heart was hammering within her chest; What should she do??  She opened her mouth to scream, when the ape shocked her back into silence when it spoke in a deep, baritone voice that clearly was male.

"Twilight Sparkle?"

//Time: Unknown//

//Place: Unknown//

When consciousness returned to Will, it was at an agonizingly slow rate.  Soon, he was able to see again.  The migraine from before had partially abated, but it was still there.  He groaned in pain.  From the fact that his body felt stiff, he must've been out for a long time.  He tried getting to his feet, but only had the strength to maneuver his arms until it looked like he was about to do a push-up.  Even then, they trembled from the herculean effort.

Will lay still to regain his energy.  Finally, he had attained the strength to raise his head and look at his surroundings.  What Will saw confused him greatly.

Instead of being in front of his house or in a hospital as he had expected himself to be, Will was lying in a. . .library?!

There was no doubt; Will was somehow in a library.  He racked his brain, trying to find a logical explanation to this unexpected phenomenon, and why the library seemed vaguely familiar to him.  His thoughts were abruptly interrupted when a soft creak echoed from somewhere behind him.

Will whipped his head around to find the source of the noise.  The sight left him blinking in utter disbelief.

Standing in front, with a look of complete fear on its face, was a lavender-hued unicorn.  It seemed only about four feet tall, but was very technicolor.  Its tail and mane were striped purple and pink, while a red star surrounded by six, white smaller ones was printed on the pony's flank.

Through all of the chaos within Will's brain, he managed to form a coherent thought.  Why does that thing look like I've seen it before?

Involuntarily, Will began racking his memories for an answer.  It cam a lot sooner than he thought, and when it did, he was floored.

Unless he was mistaken, this was a pony by the name of...

"Twilight Sparkle?"  He blurted out the name before he was able to clamp his mouth shut.  The name had an immediate effect on the pony.  Her expression of terror was now mixed with one of confusion.  She was lost on how Will somehow knew her name.

That did it.  Will scrambled to a sitting position ,suddenly feeling a massive surge of panic.  He was in the world of My Little Pony!!

"How?!  How the FUCK did I get here??"  Will yelled.  Twilight cringed at the abrupt volume change in his volume.  The poor teenager went on for a while like that, gibbering rather loudly about his situation, how "it should be scientifically impossible" and "there being no magic that could possibly do this."

Suddenly, an obscure memory was launched to the forefront of his inner eye, halting his tirade cold.  It was a sentence from a book called Physics of the Impossible, by renowned scientist Michio Kaku(Real book, real author).

He inadvertently recited a line from it: " There is a very slight probability that you might just wake up on another planet."

He stared into Twilight's eyes in blank shock.  His mind was scrambling from trying to process such a massive revelation.  He tried valiantly, but in the end, the shock of his situation was just too much for him to handle.  Will's brain finally short-circuited, and he fainted, working his brain so much that he overloaded it.

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Twilight watched the spectacle with a blank look on her face.  This human was obviously lost on where he was, but after catching snippets of his rant, she could tell that she learn a LOT from him...that is, if he could just calm down.  She attempted to keep up, but much of it was too complex or too alien to understand.  Suddenly, he stopped cold as his eyes widened to impossible sizes in realization.

He murmured quietly, "There is a very slight probability that you might just wake up on another planet."

The moment the human uttered that sentence, his face morphed into one of pure horror, like his predicament, whatever it was, was very bad.

The human sat where he was for a long time, gaping like a fish until his amethyst eyes rolled upwards into his head and unexpectedly fell over.

Acting purely out of habit, Twilight caught the human with her magic, then gently laid him back down onto the library carpet.

She sighed in exhaustion due to a lack of sleep.  She decided to go to bed, but she wasn't sure what to do with the human.  Twilight pondered it until she decided to cast a sleeping spell on him, so that way he wouldn't wake up until the counter-spell was invoked.

She cast the spell, and a thin sheath of purple aura surrounded him.  She smiled, that should hold.  Now back to bed, she thought.

Twilight slowly walked back towards the staircase half-asleep from fatigue, when suddenly a loud banging on the front door wrenched her back into full awareness.

The tomboyish voice that followed almost made her face-hoof: "Twilight?!  Let me in!  What was all of that ruckus?"

Twilight huffed in annoyance.  This is going to be a long night.