Author's Note

Hello Everyone this is the revised version of my intro. I developed my writing ability and decided to go back and improve it. I hope you enjoy the changes I've made.

Prologue

A lone man limped his way through the woods he found himself to be in now. He looked like he survived a disaster with his black pants dirty and even having a hole in the right knee revealing a metal brace on his leg. The grey argyle pullover sweater he had on was just as dirty with a white shirt with a torn collar on under it. His hair wasn’t better being disarrayed, showing signs of being slicked back at one point. The dark brown hair dye in his hair that was beginning to wear out revealing his normal light brown hair color. He continued to limp until he reached a clearing in the woods to reveal his most unusual craft, a reversed engineered flying saucer.

The craft was fitting as the man also known as Henry A. Safon the Second was quite an unusual person. He was an immortal man who along with at least two others, his brother and best friend has gained his immortality though means even he’s not too sure of. All he really knows is that he has looked to be in his early 30’s since he was in his early 30’s despite being well over 1500. Because of this immortality, he has been able to gain quite a vast array of skills from thievery, to a couple instruments, military skill, mechanics and physics. That skill in mechanics in particular has allowed him and his brother to craft such a device after ‘losing’ the original.

The saucer itself was a rather small compared to similar crafts one would see in an old 50’s b-movie, looking like it was meant for personal travel rather carrying a team of would be invaders. However that wasn’t the only difference in it’s design. It appeared to have been built by human hands rather than extraterrestrials. All the dimensions built to be usable by an average sized adult human male. The exterior decorative designs also showed the taste of human hands with the whole thing painted like a black 1970’s muscle car with a large flaming bird symbol on the top. However all the hard work was hard to appreciate due to the fact that it looked like Safon flew the thing through a war zone on free ammo day.

He climbed on top of it and opened the glass dome on top to allow him to get in. Inside the differences from a typical saucer didn’t end. All the electronic components were all of different eras throughout the late 20th century and early 2000’s, from a 1972 Magnavox Odyssey controller serving as external camera controls, to a 1985 Quasar portable tv serving as the monitor for the cameras, a 1970’s Sony stereo system supplying music through mixtapes and even a 2002 Toshiba Portégé 2000 acting as a ‘brain’ for all the systems. The control chair didn’t even look like the kind of thing someone would put in a flying craft, instead it was an old ratty recliner he just stuck in there and never bothered to replace.

Safon sat in the chair and began to activate the laptop. “ Lets see here,” He said to himself as it started to boot up. The laptop booted up and had many windows on it that pertain to various functions of the saucer, “ Alright where are you. Systems are…. func….tional to an extent I …..guess,” He said sounding unsure at the red flashing ‘danger’ on the window.

“ It should last me a trip.” He told himself going through the other windows before spotting the one that controlled his trans-dimensional device, “Oh crap, I don’t need you anymore,” He dragged his cursor to the top intending to close it. However unknown to him, in his haste he just minimized it.

He continued to go though the programs before deciding the saucer should hold long enough for one trip. He slid the laptop out of the way and opened a compartment under it to pull out flight controls. As he pulled them out he flipped a couple other switches causing the saucer to activate. The controls started to light up with life as the saucer itself began to rise from the ground. Grabbing the controls he took control of the rather rocky flight. It was clear that he should take as little time returning home as possible.

As he flew the saucer his cell phone began to ring. Carefully reaching a hand into his pants pocket he pulled out his 2005 Motorola Razr and seeing it was his wife he answered the call.

“Hi honey. I’m glad you called because I have good news. That arrogant prick is gone.”

His wife’s voice came through the speaker, “Augustus told me. Are you on your way to the manor now then?”

“Yeah I am. Are Vincent and Elizabeth with you?” He said while trying to fly the saucer one handed.

“Yes. I would put them on but they still don’t want to talk to us,” She said sadly.

Safon sighed, “ Honey I know it’s painful and you know why we did what we did. Just,” He sighed again, “Just let them get it out of their systems and we’ll try to make up for it later. Ok?”

She sighed also, “I know. Just get home and we’ll go from there.”

“I will,” He said before the saucer came to his mind. “Oh before I forget call Bill and Augustus over. This thing is falling apart.”

“You aren’t flying that thing home are you!!!” She asked concerned.

“Of course I am. Don’t worry I put some duct tape on the reactor to hold it. Should last long enough to get home. Now I’m flying this thing one handed so I’m going to hang up.”

“I hope so. Just be careful.” She said concerned as she hung up.

After he hung up he slid the laptop to the side of the controls to check the gps and see where he was. As checked a large red warning took up the screen saying “WARNING REACTOR CRITICAL!!!!”

“Oh shit,” He said to himself as he heard an explosion in the lower level of the saucer. The explosion caused a fire to come up through the opening to the lower level and it quickly got around the cockpit. “Fuck,” He screamed as he looked at the laptop going through the programs looking for the emergency shutdown. As he went through the programs without really paying attention he clicked one he didn’t want.

The Screen then flashed “TRANS-DIMENSIONAL DEVICE ACTIVATED”

Safon’s eyes grew big, “What fuck no!!!!” He tried to shut it down but it was too late and the device was beginning to send him to an archived dimension.

In Equestria’s capital city of Canterlot two unicorn royal guards stood at their post on the city walls in the middle of the night during a heavy rain storm.

“Damnit why did the pegasi have to make this a fucking monsoon.” The younger guard complained as he readjusted his raincoat.

“I don’t know, something about lack of rain last year I think,” The older one added not really paying attention as he looked through his binoculars for any dangers.

“Well they better make up for it soon I don’t think I can handle another night like this,” He said before turning to his partner, “See anything?”

“No not really. Anything on your side?”

“I don’t know let me see,” The young guard levitated his binoculars to his eyes. As he looked he saw a light in the sky just under the clouds. “Hey would anypony be dumb enough to fly an airship in this?”

“Huh?” The older guard responded before moving next to his partner, “ I don’t even think you can get that far in one in this weather,”

“Well, Somepony must have…” He said as he zoomed in on the binoculars. As he zoomed in he saw the light get bigger and bigger until it was close to the mountain. “Holy shit I think it’s going to crash!!!!” He yelled.

The older one looked through his binoculars and saw it was no kind of airship he’s ever seen, “Damn it don’t look like one of ours!!! We have to sound the alarm,” He shouted as he ran to the mechanical alarm at the post. Using his magic he cranked the alarm causing it to sound and alert the whole city.

Celestia awoke to the sounds of the alarms going off. She quickly got out of her bed and ran out of her chambers to see Luna running towards her.

“Sister!!” Luna called as she approached Celestia.

“Luna what’s going on!?! Are we under attack?!?” Celestia asked in a panic.

Luna took a second to catch her breath, “I don’t know all we know is that a metal craft has crashed into the nearby woods,” She said making sure her sister heard the part about the craft.

Celestia’s eyes grew big at the description, “You don’t possibly think it’s him do you?”

Luna looked at her sister with uncertainty, “ I’m not sure, Captain Stonewall is out there right now with a search party to find the crash site,”

Celestia cleared her throat, “We’ll have to see what he finds then won’t we?”

“It looks like we will,” Luna replied as she looked out the hall window to the forest.

“Arr…” Safon groaned as he woke up. “Fuck my head…..” He groaned more as he started to get awareness of his surroundings back. He looked around to find himself still in his seat in the saucer, but the saucer’s dome was shattered and still mostly on fire. “Holy fuck that’s bad.” He said to himself.

He climbed out of his chair despite the pain. As he got out of the chair and to the top of the saucer he felt a familiar pain.

“Argh, goddammit!!” He yelled clutching his stomach. “What the fuck why am I…..SHIT!!!” He yelled out as he realized the trans-dimensional device sent him to another dimension. Having not planned this he was unprepared for the pain crossing dimensions can cause a person. “Christ…” Looking around in the heavy rain he saw some light in the distance and started to head in their direction.

“ALRIGHT EVERYPONY SPREAD OUT AND SEARCH!!!” Captain Stonewall shouted to the other guards as the unicorns used light spells and the pegasi and earth ponies used lanterns to search the area.

“Sir!! I think I found something!!!” One of the earthpony guards shouted shining his lantern towards a large trail of destruction caused by the craft crashing.

“Follow that path!!!” Stonewall shouted.

The guards quickly followed the path and came across the craft that crashed. None of them have ever seen a craft like that in their entire lives. It was so unlike the suspended airships that were semi common in equestria being a single round saucer made of metal rather than wood and cloth.

Stonewall cleared his throat getting the guards attention, “Find out who was piloting this…..thing…..” He stopped as he heard painful coughing coming from the woods nearby. Silently signaling the others they slowly approached the source of the sound. As they got nearer they saw an outline of a figure leaning against a tree. Stonewall nodded and the unicorns shined their light spell at the figure and got the shock of their lives.

Safon shielded his eyes from the light shined on him and took a look at the people who found him to find that they weren’t people but equines. Safon wasn’t surprised at this having been to universes populated by equines pretty close to these ones. That and also at this point he didn’t care due to the pain he was feeling. So he decided to try and speak to them.

“He….llo…? Do….y….ou und…..er...sta...nd me?” He asked between coughs.

The ponies looked at him with shock before the one standing in the middle spoke up. “Yes….I understand...you….Who or what are you?...” He asked getting past his shock.

“M...y name is He...nry….a Sa...fon…..” Safon managed to get out before succumbing to his wounds and passing out.