Into the Portal

August 29th, Friday. 11:36 am

"And were done!" Twilight swept back a pile of dust outside and closed the door behind her.

"That was grueling and overwhelming." Rainbow sat up and stretched.

"You didn't even help clean." Twilight walked over and placed the broom into the nearby closet.

"I meant sleeping on books. I ain't cleaning anything here. That's stupid."

"Say what you want. We need to go search for Sombra now. It's a large world so we need to start as soon as we can."

After waking up The rest of the girls, Twilight led the group outside into the bright world.

The wind was low that day but still swept leaves from trees, sending them flying through the air. The sky was clear as glass and showed the sun shining bright.

"Wait, i thought Celestia wasn't here." Rainbow looked up and shaded her eyes with her hand.

"It's different here. It has to do with gravity and space."

"We'll I don't care."

"I thought you wouldn't."

Rainbow smirked and started to walk down a barren sidewalk.

"Where is everyone?" Rarity looked around for a sign of humans but found none.

"We'll most don't live near here I suppose, and others are attending school." Twilight looked around and found a bus depot with times strobes across the encased paper.

She slid her finger over the times and found one for twelve o'clock.

"We'll have to wait a while. The library's clock says its about 11:40."

"That'll take forever!" Rarity walked under the depot and sat on the empty bench.

"In the meantime lets see if we can use any kind of magic." Applejack pulled Twilight over to a pile of leaves and pulled out a fallen apple.

"Try." Applejack pointed to the apple on the ground.

"To levitate? It won't wo-"

"Try."

Twilight let out a sigh and tried to move the apple. She pointed her head forward and closed her eyes tight. The others stared at the girl straining herself to move the apple.

"Ugh! It won't work! Magic just can't be conjured!" Twilight lifted her hand to point out the apple and saw it move.

She began to walk around with her hand in the air lecturing about the human world, the apple leaning to every direction her finger pointed.

"Twilight! Look!" Pinkie pointed at the feathering apple.

"What!?" She turned around sharply and spotted the apple moving.

"By Celestia..." She walked up and pointed back and forth, watching as the apple moved with her.

After a while, Twilight began moving leaves and shaking branches with her hands. Rarity herself tried and saw that she too can make some rocks roll onto the sidewalk.

"Guys! The bus!" Applejack pointed to a large vehicle pulling up.

Twilight and Rarity dropped what they were doing. Leaves and rocks stopped immediately as the bust came to a halt. The six walked up and waited as the driver pulled the door open.

"We'll by the beard. It's my lucky day. Where you ladies headin'?" The large man wiped crumbs from his mustache and swept his hand on his shirt.

"Eeeeewww." Rarity whispered to herself and cringed.

"Uh well where do most poni-.. People. People go?" Twilight looked up at the man who was still looking at their features.

"We'll there's the Capitol, downtown, the amusement park, the zoo. I can take y guys on a tour if you'd like."

"No th-" twilight hit Rarity's stomach before she could finish.

"That would be terrific."

The driver smiled as the girls filed into the bus. All of the seats where empty. Each had a different feature. The front seats where worn down and ripped in some areas. The middle seats had stains on their respected windows from people breathing on them. The back was dirty and covered in stains.

"The front is always the best for a tour." The driver patted the seat behind him and smiled.

"The front it is." Twilight sat down, followed by the others clamoring into the front area.

"First stop, the Capitol." The driver closed the door and craned the stick into first as the bus slowly moved along the road.

After fifteen minutes of hearing about the driver's life and divorces, try arrived at a large building with a rounded roof and steeple. The girls awed at the fairly large building.

"This is where lots of court and law officiated crap happens. Wait til I show you our next place." The driver hung a left and pulled down a one way road filled with cars.

The more they drove down the crowded road, the taller the buildings got. Each had the same, blocky style, but when they hit the heart of downtown, buildings began to look more different. Some were winding and tall. Other flat and curved.

"This is the place you go. Downtown shows off everything thats officiated with our home. And it's home to the Wonderbolts, our flight team. They fly F-16s over games and other ev-"

"WONDERBOLTS?!" Rainbow sprang from her chair and stopped herself with the driver's.

Billboards of the team where covering building sides wherever they looked.

"Don't miss the annual Flight Show, starring The Wonderbolts!" Rainbow read a nearby billboard and jumped with joy.

"Oh Twilight we just gotta go!"

"No. We have a task that we need to complete."

Rainbow gave Twilight a pout face and puppy dog eyes.

"I said no."

"We'll fine." Rainbow slunk back to her seat and folded her arms in disappointment.

"Anyways over there is the club. The hip new artist there is Vinyl Scratch, but her stage name is DJ PON-3. I'm not into that dubstep crap but she's a really chill chick. Downtown is filled with clubs, party people, shops, and basically everything you need. Now here is the amusement park, Ponyville.

"PONYVILLE?!" All six flung to the side window, squishing their faces up to the glass.

"Ya. Anyone who's anyone knows Ponyville. Although there are people who hate it since its really just for little girls, it has many people coming around to see a world of it's own."

"Can we stop by this park?" Twilight looked up at the driver, who smiled in the mirror and turned down the road heading for the Park.

The bus screeched to a halt. The door flung open with a creak and out stepped the girls.

"We'll be back, unless you want to come with."

"Sure!" The large man clambered out and wiped his shirt of crumbs.

“I don’t think we’ve been introduced, my name is Twilight Sparkle.” She held out her hand and was met with his.

“Big McIntosh.”