Lost in Equestria

Doctor Kennedy and his assistant were blinded by the continuous flash of green light, the antenna’s controls continues to shoot sparks out of the console.

“DOC!!!” His assistant screamed through the rumbling. “WHAT’S GOING ON!?!”

“I DON’T KNOW!!” Doc Kennedy shouted in return. The thunderous noise continues to rumble.

After what appears to be like an eternity of loud noises but was really thirty seconds and just like lightning the green flash disappears and fades away, followed by thunder noises. Doctor Kennedy and his assistant slowly got back up on their feet and they looked up in the sky just to see the storm cloud hovering over the base. Lighting was seen shooting out of the clouds followed by thunder. The Doc and his assistant then took a look the controls which are in flames now.

“What’s the damage on the tower?” His assistant asked Doc Kennedy before the circuits of the antenna shot out green sparks out and shorted out. Kennedy ran to it to inspect it.

“Damn!” he cursed as he hit the antenna frames in frustration. “The Photonic Generator is fried completely. It was overloaded when the lightning bolt struck the tower long enough to fried the entire generator beyond repair. It’s gonna take me two months to make a new one.”

He signed as they begin to lower the elevator back down to the lab.

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Colonel Anderson sat on the edge of his bed rubbing his eyes from the blinding flash of light he have witnessed. What was it he wondered? He was just about to go to sleep when it happened and when he looked out the window the green flash of light blinded him temporary which caused him to fall back down on his bed.

After he rubbed his eyes, he gets up from his bed and looked out his window again, everything seemed normal, the storm continues to hover over the base and shooting out lighting and commencing thunder.

“It’s gotta have something to do with Doctor Kennedy.” He said to himself and he begins to go back to sleep but realizes it’s no use until he finds answers, he gets back up, put his uniform overcoat and his shows on over his robe and heads out of his bedroom and heads down to the lab. Just as he reached to the laboratory door he raises his fist up and knocks on the door three times.

“Hold on, just one moment please!” A voice is heard followed by sounds of a shelf falling over and hitting the floor followed by yelling. After a minute passed the door opens and Doctor Kennedy is scene.

“Um….Kennedy? What the hell was that out there!?” Anderson asked, he had an angry tone in his voice.

“Nothing to worry about Colonel Anderson” Kennedy answered. “Just an experiment gone wrong, that’s all.”

“Experiment gone wrong? That green light almost blinded me!” he shouted.

“I’m so sorry Colonel, I just don’t know what went wrong.” He continued. “My assistant and I are trying to find a way to protect power plants from lightning storms.”

“And?”

“And it was a success….at first, and then suddenly the lightning bolt appears to be charging the tower. I didn’t made it to recharge like a battery...”

“Yes, Go on…”

“Then it began to glow green and shot up in the sky. My calculations did not predict it, and then it shot back and created a small green orb.”

“OK, we’re getting close...”

“Then it begin to expand and engulfed us, after a while it stopped.”

“Hmm…Are you sure it didn’t do anything?” the sleepy commander asked.

“I don’t think so.” The doctor answered. “It didn’t vaporize us into billions of pieces or anything.”

“OK….Just...Don’t do it again.” He said as he leaves the laboratory. Doc Kennedy closes the door and accidently trips over a chair and tumbles onto the floor.

“Great Einstein’s ghost.” Kennedy exclaimed as he landed on the floor with a thud.

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The two cops’ regained consciousness after that green glowing orb engulfed their car. They both got out of their patrol car and checked to see the damage the orb may have caused, and strangely everything seemed normal as if nothing happened. The windows of shops hadn’t ever been cracks. None of the multitude of cars and trucks in the streets seemed damaged. And those who have walked out of their homes to see what was the unknown green light weren’t hurt either.

“What did you think happened Sarge?” Nick asked while looking around. “It doesn’t seemed it have done anything harmful to the town.”

“No, it doesn’t seem too.” Carlson responded with a hint of concern in his voice. “But that still doesn’t explain where that green light came from.”

“It looked like it came from Fort David.” Nick added. “That’s the location of that military base and who knows what they’re doing up there.”

“I guess so…” After looking around and inspecting the patrol car they both got back in and Carlson radios the station.

“Unit 69 to operator, this is Sergeant Carlson. Do you read me?” Carlson spoke into the CB Radio. Nothing but static was heard.

“Operator do you copy?”

Still no answer.”  He sets the CB radio microphone down and wondered what is wrong with the radio.

"I hear you loud and clear Unit 69." The voice responded.

"There's something strange going on here." He said. "This green orb of light surrounded us and we haven't disintegrated or anything. But I think it did nothing. Over"

"Affermative Unit 69." They sat there in the patrol car still wondering what happened. They both shrugs as there’s nothing they can do until morning so they returned to the police prescient but just as they were about to leave.

“Hey, what just happened?” a voice, they policemen turned and sees a man in his jeans, boots and a tank top. The man was in his mid thirties, well fit and dark hair, he goes by the name of Jack Ryan Johnston, a local of Frankville and owner of the ‘Gun Volunteers of America’ and his father’s gun store. He was once a professional race car driver until the one accident cost him his dream, afterwards he ran his father’s gun store.

“It’s nothing Mr. Johnston.” Nick said to Jack.

“It didn’t look like nothing.” He added. “I heard a loud thunder from my place and when I looked out my window I was almost blinded by this green light. What was that all about?"

“We don’t have the answer to that Mr. Johnston.” Carlson answers. “But whatever it was it’s gone now.”

And with that Jack returns to his truck and heads back to his apartment but however is concerned about that green light and thunder he had heard.

The two policemen returned to the police headquarters.

"Hey Chief. What's going on here." he asked the police chief.

"All of our communications are down, but our CB radios are still intact." The chief said. "But don't worry, we're working on alternative ways to bring them back online."

"Thanks, chief, it's a weird night." Carlson said as he leaves the station. He looks around and sees the street lights and lights of other homes still lit. “But the power is still on, so there’s no power outage.” He thought to himself as he gets in the patrol car and turns on the GPS system. But it reads SIGNAL REQUIRED on the screen. How is this possible? Could it have been a EMP? No EMP is detonated up in the atmosphere and shuts off all electronics. He shrugs and continues their patrol around town to see any unusual activity.

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General Campbell lay on the floor of his office, nearly blinded by that green orb. The chair was knocked over when he stumbled backwards and he fell onto the floor with a thud. He manages to get up on his knees and used his desk to help himself up. Never in his lifetime has he experiences an weird phenomena like this, a green orb that glows and then growing large and swallowing everything in its path. He reaches down for the phone he had dropped when the green orb expanded and dials the number to the operator.

“This is General Campbell, what are the damages to the base?” Campbell demanded, he couldn’t tell if the orb did any damage to the base. The last thing he need right now is several damage to the planes, warehouses and injuries to the personal of the base.

“Uh…no sir, no damage so far but we’re still checking...” The Operator responded. “But some of our communications, GPS systems and satellites are offline. It could be a malfunction or a premature shutdown perhaps…”

“That green orb must’ve knocked them offline, see if you can reboot them and report back to me.”

“Yes sir General.” And with that he hands up the phone, set his chair back up and sat down in it

“What the hell was that?” He thought to himself. Then he turns his desk light on, it still works. If it was an EMP blast the lights wouldn’t work in the base…In fact, it wouldn’t work at all. He turns his chair around and looks out the window once more pondering about that green orb.

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7:00 am: the morning sun rises. Over Fort David trouble begins to brew. The technicians are sitting at the communicator controls all morning and so far no contact has been made. Colonel Anderson wakes up from his bed and opens the curtain and takes a look out the window and sees the sun rising.

Then after a long glance at the rising sun, he switches on the radio and the first thing he heard is static. Anderson turns the knobs to different tunes and messed with the antenna trying to get a signal…Nothing he thought. He then checks on his labtop to find the weather on Yahoo.com, surprising the internet connection doesn’t work.

“What is going on here?” He thought to himself. “The internet connection was fine yesterday. He puts the laptop away, gets dressed in his uniform and leaves to the command center. Hopefully the technicians would help him figure out in all this mess.

Colonel Anderson has arrived at the command center and he sees that it’s very busy than usual, officers are running all over the place and the technicians are relentlessly sent messages on communicators and waiting for incoming messages in responses that didn’t come. Anderson groaned in disappointment realizing that green orb did more damage not to the structures of the base but the communications.

“So what’s the report, McGee?” Anderson asked one of the technicians.

“Nothing yet Sir.” McGee answered. “We’re not getting anything on the COMSAT; they’ve been down all morning.”

“You’re not getting any signals at all?”

“No sir, there’s something wrong with the system. The satellites must be out of range or the signal is weak or something.”

“It’s impossible McGee, we had the COMSAT inspected and they worked find yesterday.”

“Well they’re not working now. But I’ll keep trying.”

With that Anderson left the young technician to continue his attempts to make contact to other bases. Then one of the officers approaches him.

The officer is the in his mid-to-late thirties, and Caucasian skin with light brown hair, and he has an eye patch over his left eye. He’s Lieutenant Jack Keller, First Lieutenant of the United States Army and a member of the Black-Ops team Alpha who have helped kept America and the European Union from harm’s way from terrorism ranging from the War-Torn Middle East to Southern Russia in the late 2000’s and to 2014. He was transferred to Fort David twenty-four hours ago to inspect the activities of the base before begin transferred back later in two days, but after what’s going on he’d doubt that he’ll be in Washington DC.

“It’s been six hours after that strange green flash and I believe it has knocked out all our communications.” Keller said to Anderson. “Nothing works, not the COMSATs, the GPS System, even the telephones aren’t working not to mention the internet and television. The only thing that works around here is the radio."

“Lieutenant Keller…” he said to Keller. “I’m not sure if you’ll believe me but…Do you remember seeing a green flash of light this morning at 1:23 am?”

“Yeah, I remember that. I wasn’t sure what it was. What about that?”

“I’m convinced that green orb have something to do with all of this.”

“So….what should we do about this?”

“If we’re in a place where I don’t think we are…Have a couple of scouts from one of our squads to check the place out.”

“Squads Delta and Alpha are running routines sir.”

“Good Keller, Contact Sergeant Foley and Sergeant Cross to have their teams to scout the area on the ground in North, South, West and East. Also the base still has the radio tower, have the technicians run it and I’ll announce the base to rewire all comlink on the radio transmitters until we find a way to reboot the COMSAT and the GPS system.”

“Ok sir. I’ll do that right now.” Then Keller headed towards the technicians and gives them orders to activate the radio tower. Anderson sighs in concern; he had a feeling in his gut that they may not be in Virginia.

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In Frankville, the commotion begins to arise, well not too much actually but enough to get everyone's attention; nothing works in this big town. There are no signals in anything; the television doesn’t pick up any signals from their TV dishes, internet connections don’t work, even with the wireless routers checked nothing. Even the telephones aren’t working. The power company is checking with these various problems, and they can’t find anything wrong with the satellite dishes and power stations but cannot explained why the signals are not getting to the town. The only thing that still works is the CB Radio connections and just the radio station, and since the town's power stations are cold fusion/solar panel hybrids they said the telephones should be up and running in no time, but they also said since cell phones won't be able to get any signals they'll have to rely on cordless phones and CB radios.

Bruce Johnston sat on his couch with the remote control in his hand trying to find what’s on the TV and so far the dish doesn’t work and it reads SIGNAL REQUIRED.

“How is this possible?” He thought to himself. “I just had this checked two days ago.” He continues to fiddle with his flat screen TV for three minutes ‘til he gave up, got dressed and goes outside to see what’s wrong with the dish and due to his surprise there’s nothing wrong with it.

He then gets in his truck and heads towards Main Street that is three blocks away and sees people at their homes also checking their television connections from their cable to satellite dishes. He also heard commotion as he passes through the neighborhood.

“What the hell is going on here?” He murmured to himself and he continued to drive down the street ‘til he got to Main Street downtown Frankville to see the same thing. The first thing he goes to is the police station, it’s the option he has at the moment. He parks his truck, gets out and heads inside and sees the commissioner of the Frankville Police Department.

“Hey Sam!” Jack said as he sees him.

“Hey Bruce!” The Commissioner responded.  The Commissioner was a friend of Bruce’s. Samuel Berry, he’s in his early forties dark hair and a dark skin. He joined the police force in 1999 and graduated in 2003, in the mid-to-late 2000’s he was promoted to Commissioner of the Police Department.

“So, what’s going on Sam?” Bruce asked.

“Well as you’re aware, something strange is going on.” Sam answers. “It appears that reports of an ‘green orb’ have appeared to have knocked out most of our communications.”

“Really? I saw a green flash from my apartment and when I got up this morning my TV wouldn’t work.”

“Well Jack, I don’t know want to think of it. The only thing that works around here is the radio and CB radios."

"Well, good thing I have one of the CB radios and the scanner." He replied.. "I'll see what else is going on around here."

"OK, see you later Bruce." And with it Bruce leaves the police station.

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The United States Air Force base Fort Ripper is also facing the same problem, all of the COMSATs are offline, the Radar is the only thing working at the base but cannot pick up any aircraft within range.

General Campbell wakes up and he looks out the window of his bedroom and sees the sunrise.

Sunrise? Campbell noticed the sunrise from North of the base, as recalls the sun rises at the east side of the base and his window faces the North. Something’s not right; He goes into his closet, opens the small box and pulls out a small compass and he holds it up in his palm and watches the dial move slowly. He stood at the window, the dial slowly moves and it stops at west.

“Impossible!” He thought. “I’m facing north! Why is it facing south?”

He puts the compass away, gets dressed in his uniform and leaves to the command center. Hopefully the technicians would help him figure out in all this mess. Just as he enters the commander center and just as he feared, all of the COMSATs are still offline since that green orb appeared. He later finds out that the radar system is still functional but so far it cannot pick up any aircraft for a hundred miles.

“..So you’re saying that no one knows what’s going on?” General Campbell asked one of the technicians.

“No sir General.” The technician responded.

“That green orb last night may have something to do with all this. Are the choppers ready?”

“Uh…Hold on.” The technician leaves to check on the helicopters. Two minutes passed and he returns.

“Two Bell UH-1 Iroquois Hueys are fueled and ready sir.”

“Good, have then have Red Hawks one and two scout the area to a hundred miles in all directions, and report to me when you receive their discoveries.”

And with that the technicians salutes and leaves again. Now General Campbell is having second thoughts of where they are. If his gut feeling is correct they’re not in Idaho...

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It was a beautiful day in Ponyville, everypony is enjoying the day and the skies are clear, no cloud hung over this semi-happy town.  Ponyville is a colorful town in the land of Equestria where everypony has a smile on their faces. Ponyville is under the protection of two Alicorn princesses, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. Princess Celestia is in charge of raising the sun at daytime and her sister Princess Luna is in charge of raising the moon at night. The two Alicorn sisters live in a royal castle located in a royal city called Canterlot miles away from Ponyvile which can be scene from a distance.

Canterlot sits on the ledge of a mountainside and has a great view of Ponyville for miles. The city holds the royal castle, making it the Capital of Equestria and it is the site of important cultural events, one of the events is known as the Grand Galloping Gala. The city is also home to Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns where Twilight Sparkle began her studies under Princess Celestia ‘til she moved to Ponyville to work her studies of friendship there.

In the middle of Ponyville is a tree, but it’s not just a tree but a library that is housed out in a large, hollowed-out tree. The library is one of the attractions in Ponyville where ponies check out books. Then the front door of the Library opens and a Purple Pony walks out from the library. The pony is a purple unicorn with a dark purple mane and tail with pink streaks in it; the unicorn has a cutie mark on her flank and. Her name is Twilight Sparkle or Twilight by everypony else, she walks out of the library with a sleepy purple/green baby dragon on her back.

“This is a beautiful day, huh Spike?” The purple unicorn asked with her smile.

“Yeah, if you like waking up early it is...” The baby dragon murmured while trying to stay awake. Spike is a dragon and the assistant of Twilight Sparkle since he was a hatchling. When Twilight was a filly, she was faced with an entrance exam for Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns. The test involves hatching a dragon egg, which was Spike at the time. Although at first, she had difficulty drawing magic from her horn; however, the explosion from a Sonic Rainboom produced by Rainbow Dash caused Twilight to unleash her latent power, not only hatching the baby dragon, but enlarging him several times until he resembles a wingless adult dragon, and causing other sorts of mayhem as well. Luckily Princess Celestia takes note of the transpiring events, and approaches the young filly to calm her; the magic is then undone and Twilight returns to her normal state as well as Spike, therefore earning her cutie mark and the hatchling as well as becoming Princess Celestia’s top student.

“Oh come on Spike,” Giggled Twilight. “You know you love the morning in Ponyville.”

She gives the sleepy baby dragon a smile before continuing down Ponyville, greeting Carrot Top, Bon-Bon and Lyra before heading out of Ponyville and on the trail that leads to a place called ‘The Everfree Forest’. A forest where the unnatural happens, plants grow, clouds move and animals fend for themselves without any interference with the ponies.

“Twilight? Why are we going here?” Spike asked, semi-awake but aware of where they’re going.

“I’m going to get the new potion spell from Zecora, Spike.” She answers. “There’s nothing to worry about.” She continues to trot happily into the forest.

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On the dirt trail north of Ponyville, a small noise is heard from a distance as a small cloud of dust appeared in a distance. Then two strange what appears to be small carriages on it, they appeared to be small stallions only they’re not. The false stallions have two wheels, one on the front and another on the back connected by medium pipes that’s hooked to the body, the handlebars are placed in front to steer the front wheel. The headlight is located under the handlebars which give off a bright light without using a candle. The false stallions have what appears to be a medium-to-small box with unusual parts and a small chain that runs into the spokes of the rear wheel that causes the rear wheel to spin on the small box’s control.

On top they have cushion seats with a black smooth skin over it, sitting on these cushions are strange biped creatures are riding these custom stallions. The biped creatures are covered from head-to-toe with unusual clothing. Their feet are covered with black boots with strong rubber soles, the bodies are covered in unknown clothing that resembles colors of the forest, and their heads are covered with what appears to be helmets. The helmets appears to be round and matches the color of their clothing, their faces are covered with either plastic or glass that extends down almost to the neck. One of the two biped creatures flicked its wrists on the handlebars and the ‘stallion’ revved up a noise that is unknown to all of Equestria and they both headed down the trail that leads to Ponyville. Then from the bushes a grey Pegasus popped its head through the top, she has a lemon-yellow color mane and tail and her eyes were askew and looked around to see what that noise was but only saw a dust cloud. The grey Pegasus coughed from the dust and dives back down in the bushes.

Down in Ponyville, two of the ponies are walking down the street. One is a unicorn with a turquoise mane and a light lime green mane with white highlights, and with a cutie mark of a lyre, her name is Lyra Heartstrings. The other is a earth-pony, she has a pale cream coat and a navy blue mane with a pink stripe. Her cutie mark shows 3 pieces of blue and green wrapped candy, her name is Bon-Bon.

“So where do you want to have lunch, Bon-bon?” the mint colored pony asked her roommate as they continued to walk down the street.

Bon-bon shrugged and replied, “Well, I was thinking there’s that deli down the road. They have this dandelion sandwich that is just superb! Oh, Lyra, you still have that concert this evening, right? What time does it start again?”

Lyra put a hoof to her chin. “Sometime around seven I think. Good thing too because…”

Lyra was cut off as they both heard unusual sounds.

“What is it Lyra?” Bon-Bon asked looking to find the source of the noise.

“I don’t know Bon-Bon” Lyra replied. “But it’s not something I heard.”

“I don’t think anypony heard this.” Then the noise gets louder and then everypony turned their heads and saw the two figures riding unknown carriages headed towards them. Everypony begins screaming and galloping around in fear.

“Oh my….What are they!?” Lyra asked. She's very curious of what she's seeing.

“They’re hideous!” Shouted one pony.

“Everypony run for your lives!” Shouted another as the streets become deserted, Lyra felt Bon-Bon dragging her by the tail and galloped to their apartment and got inside just closed just as the two figures arrived.

They skidded to a full stop and just stood in the middle of the deserted streets of Ponyville.

“Hello.” The creature spoke.

There was no response.

“Anybody here!?”

Still no response, there’s nothing but the sound of wind blowing through the now-abandoned streets of Ponyville.

The two creature looked at each other, shrugged and turned their ‘custom creatures’ around and headed out of Ponyville.

From the window from one of the buildings the Mint Green unicorn peaks her head from the window as they left.

"Wonder what they are?" Lyra asked Bon-Bon before being pulled in and shut the windows closed...