The Great Equestrian War

The man, Eric Jeris, had not intended for what had happened to happen. As he flew through a deep, blue hole, watching stars pass him by, he wanted nothing more than to be able to change what he had done. Dang it, Mr. Dream had given him a camera, so he shouldn't be angry at him for using it. Then again, he was told not to use it in close distance. At the least she could have left Mr. Dream's camera alone, he thought. That thing was pretty high quality, he didn't want to imagine to bill he would receive in the mail.

As he reached the end of the wormhole, he could hear conversation, then he was tossed to the ground, grunting as he hit the dirt. The conversation stopped. He could only hear a gentle breeze. He climbed onto his hands and looked around. He was back in the tent that held the portal, a long line of bronies leading up to the metal infrastructure of the Equestrian Portal. Next to it, at a control panel, was the 14-year-old boy running the whole thing, Wevilious Dream. He, along with everyone else, stared blankly at him on the dirt.

"You used the Emergency Bracelet?" Mr. Dream asked from the control panel. Eric only nodded. "Why?" Eric looked to the ground for a moment, then back up at Wevilious. "Because Twilight caught me taking pictures." Mr. Dream's eyes widened, then he stormed through the crowd and grabbed Eric by the neck, lifting him up above himself until Eric's feet barely touched the ground. "She caught you?! What do you mean, she caught you?!" Eric struggled to breath. He grabbed at Mr. Dream's hands and kicked his legs, but the boy didn't even move. Eric's face was starting to turn red when Mr. Dream dropped him to the ground.

"Get out." Eric rubbed his hand on his neck and looked up at the adolescent. He had said the words calmly, as though it were a normal conversation. "Get out, and never come back. You're banned." Eric thought, So I'm "Banned From Equestria?", but he didn't find the situation funny. He turned and ran out of the tent, the bronies' eyes following him all the way out.

"Twilight? Twilight Sparkle?" Rainbow Dash asked, rousing the princess from her daydream-like staring. "Oh, huh? Oh, hi Rainbow." Twilight was sitting down on her front porch, looking out at Ponyville in it's usual daily schedule. "What're you so interested in?" Rainbow asked. Twilight momentarily looked back out to the town, then to Rainbow Dash. "Have you noticed the sudden wave of tourists?" She asked. Rainbow looked out to the street and glanced around, then back at Twilight. "What do you mean?"

Twilight pointed out to two ponies, a couple, probably, and said, "Just look at them for a moment." Rainbow did and realized that they were apparently fascinated by the buildings. They also had little black devices strapped around their necks. "So? It's Ponyville, the newest Princess lives here, in an awesome castle!" Rainbow exclaimed while sweeping her hoof in an arch over the castle behind Twilight. Without looking back at it, she questioned, "Yeah, but why now? Those things happened months ago and the talk has almost completely vanished."

"Hey, it's tourists. They could've come from the other side of the planet for all we know! It certainly would've taken them along time." Rainbow replied.

"Yeah, okay. But why are they so fascinated with all the ordinary buildings? Don't they have houses and restaurants where they come from?" Twilight retorted. Rainbow did find that a bit odd, but she felt like Twilight was heading somewhere. "Okay, yeah. What do you think?" Twilight froze for a moment, then shamefully admitted, "I don't know."