The sun was shining down on the innocent dwellers of Ponyville that morning as they left their homes to start the daily rut of work and some-such. The sound of small conversations and whining foals being taken to school was permeating from the streets in a pleasant manner to many of the villages inhabitants that spoke volumes of how they enjoyed their peaceful monotony. If you knew what made Ponyville special though then you would understand why this was what they enjoyed; whether if was the fact that the village was nestled right next to the dark and mysterious Everfree, with it's fierce monsters or twisting trees; or the fact that the village was populated by some of the strangest ponies living currently; but many thought that the cause of most of their strange lives was the fact that 6 individuals lived in this very village that had saved the world more than a few times and caused just as many problems as well.

One such individual was probably the most peculiar of them all, because while a certain pink mare broke the laws of physics, she had lived in Ponyville for over a decade and already become a normal sight for the town. No, this mare was a certain scholar with a lavender complexion, a dark dull blue mane and tail with purple and pink highlights flowing down the length, and a starburst cutie mark. Her name was Twilight Sparkle and she was the recently crowned princess of '-insert title here-'. She had started her time in Ponyville as the town librarian and local 'smart pony' and had ended up as an Alicorn and saviour of the world many times over. Her time in ponyville was spent helping ponies and hindering ponies (although she didn't like talking about that one time).

Currently she was tutoring a certain previously homeless stage magician with an superiority complex and a penchant for speaking in the third person. When the stage magician had first come town she had been given a mixed reception, with some of the adult ponies and a majority of the foals loving her, while a portion of the adults disliking her for her boasting and proclamations of being the most powerful unicorn in all of Equestria. After a couple of ignorant foals decided to bring a Ursa Minor into town so that the magician could vanquish it, was it revealed that her skills were far more lacklustre than she had stated and the Ursa decided to destroy her home and ruin her career. Twilight, being the caring mare she was, decided to help the mare in need by offering her a place to stay while she could get a new cart and finding a job. This was met not only with objections from the town but the mare herself, but Twilight insisted and the Light blue ex-magician relented.

After a few weeks of no luck, Twilight had offered the light blue mare, named Trixie, magic lessons so that she could try to get her magic career back on track instead of finding a different job. These magic lessons had gone on for a few months before twilight offered to be Trixie's full time tutor which she agreed to after a bit of thinking. Two years later they were still learning new magic, but at this point they were learning about new magic's at the same time which lead them to end the tutorship and instead become study partners, unravelling the mysteries of science, one study binge at a time.

"Okay Trixie let's get going and test this spell out!" Twilight shouted up to the second floor with barely contained excitement. Her and Trixie had recently found out how to teleport other living beings without the caster having to teleport at the same time.

"Did you remember everything Twi?" the voice of a young purple drake said from atop Twilights back. Spike the Dragon was Twilight's helper and 'sort-of-son' who she had lived with for most of her life. He was not very big or very smart, but he made up for that in his heart which was argued to be the biggest of all of Ponyville because of how he was willing to do anything for his friends and 'sort-of-mom'. "I've got to meet up with Sweetiebelle and the others later on and I would like to get this out of the way so that I'm not late."

"Don't worry spike. From what Rarity told me, Sweetiebelle is at the park where we will be doing the experiment right now." Twilight said with a small giggle as spike's face lit up at the news that Sweetiebelle would be there. Many ponies outside the cutie mark crusaders assumed that spike and Sweetiebelle had crushes on each other, but the reality was that they had more of a brother sister relationship since an incident in the Everfree that they refused to tell anyone the details about.

Just as Twilight was about to call for Trixie, hoof falls could be heard coming down the stairs.

"Trixie is coming, don't worry." Came the call from behind them as Trixie descended the stairs and into the main hall of the library.

"Trixie, your speaking in third person again." Twilight said.

"Oops, sorry." Trixie replied.

"You got everything you need then Trixie." Twilight asked the blue unicorn.

"Of course, let us be off then." Trixie said as she, Twilight and Spike left the library for the park.

"Is the spell matrix ready Trixie?" Twilight called over from the centre of the rune circle. The spell required runic preparation to work at the current time to guide the teleport from point A to point B. Normally when a teleport is cast it teleports the caster and whatever they want as well, this worked because the caster would be there to give the spell guidance to where they wanted it to go. Without the spellcaster being inside the teleport, it didn't have that guide so they had to use runes to fill in that gap.

"It is now Sparkle, I am ready to cast the spell when you are." Trixie called from her power rune. The rune she was standing on was used to connect the two teleport points together so that they wouldn't teleport to any other teleport runes in the area (Even though there where no other teleport runes in the area.).

"Let's do this" Twilight said in a confident voice that hid the small amount of fear building in her gut. Trixie's horn then started to glow and twilight felt the runes activate and then- *SMACK*

Twilight fell flat on her face as the teleport runes sent her to it's sister rune a few metres away.

"Ooww" She moaned as she started to climb up from her heap on the ground. She shook her head and tried to orientate herself but before she could regain her composure she was tackled by a light blue unicorn and landed in another pile outside the circle.

"IT WORKED!" An exited Trixie shouted with glee as she hugged Twilight with strength to match Pinkie's hugs.

It took Twilight to realise what was going on, but when she realised what had happened she threw her hooves around Trixie and started shouting as well.

"WE DID IT!" She shouted "WE COMPLETED A SPELL THAT NOT EVEN TODAYS RUNIC MASTERS COULD COMPLETE!" The thing about the spell they had completed was that it had stumped scientific minds for decades. The Theory was sound and the spell had worked with inanimate objects, but whenever it had been tried with a living creature it always backfired and the creature would be teleported to somewhere random nearby. The Reason that Trixie's and Twilight's version had worked was because the runes didn't compensate for the soul in the previous iterations which caused the magical energy to go haywire because of the creatures wants and desires. In their version they had added a rune of soul restriction that stopped the soul from influencing the spell and allowing it to be cast without issue.

After hugging for a few more seconds they realised what they were doing and ended the hug quickly and started to scramble out of the tangled mess they found themselves in. They both stood up, blushing and stayed silent for a few more seconds before Twilight spoke up.

"W-we did it, we finally got the spell sorted out. Now all we need to do is to write up the discoveries, test it out more and finally send it off to the scientific communities and hope they approve." Twilight said with growing confidence as each word left her mouth.

"Ooh ooh, can you do me now." called spike from his game with the cutie mark crusaders. He ran over to Twilight and grabbed onto her leg and looked up at her with pleading eyes.

Letting out a soft giggle Twilight said. "Fine, you can have a go. I need to try casting anyway." As spike ran over to the first rune pad, Sweetiebelle trotted up to Twilight.

"Will Spike be okay Twilight?" she asked with a hint of worry in her voice. "I don't want anything to happen to him."

Placing a hoof on Sweeties head softly, Twilight said " Don't you worry about a thing. Spike will be absolutely fine and will be back to playing with you fillies in a bit." Twilight then turned to spike who had gotten into the centre of the rune and was waiting patiently for her to start.

"Ready to go twilight" he called giving her a thumbs up signifying he was all set.

Charging her horn she linked her magical signature to the rune under her feet and started powering it up. When it reached full power she guided it into the first rune. Almost immediately she felt something wrong, it felt as if a foreign magic was interfering with the runes causing them to alter the destination and even going as far to alter the rune she was standing on to teleport her as well. She tried to shut down the spell but felt the foreign signature powering it instead and just as she felt the rune beneath her transform fully she and Spike were gone.

Twilight tumbled onto the hard surface that met her when she landed, after her failed teleport. Lifting her head up she only got a quick glimpse of where she was before something small and heavy hit her head, causing her head to give the ground another kiss. A small groan echoed from the small object making her realise that it was probably spike that had hit her and that he had ended up in the same location as her.

"Twilight? where are you" She heard Spike say in a quiet voice.

"Dwn hr" Came her muffled reply causing spike to yelp and quickly scramble off her head and allowing her to lift her face off the ground. "Where are we?" she asked to the air, not expecting a reply. Which caused her to jump when she got one.

"My realm Twilight" Came a voice that she groaned at when she realised who had messed with her teleport spell and dumped her there.

"What do you want that was so important to mess up one of my greatest spells to date, Discord" Twilight said as she got up to her hooves and turned to face him.

"Something that means far more to me than that spell does to you." He said in a surprisingly sombre tone, which surprised Twilight considering she had never heard Discord genuinely upset about something. "and I believe that you will agree that it is more important than that spell when I explain what I brought you here for."

"Then what is it that you brought us here for?" Twilight asked with a slight hint of impatience creeping into her voice. Despite the emotion that Discord was showing she had no reason to believe it considering what he was like. "The spell I was working will revolutionise the way ponykind will get places because of the fact tha-"

"SILENCE YOU INSIGNIFICANT FOAL, YOU THINK YOUR PROBLEMS WILL EVER MATCH UP TO THE STRIFE THAT I HAVE GONE THROUGH. I FINALLY HAVE A CHANCE OF SEEING HER AGAIN AND I WILL NOT LET ANYTHING GET IN MY WAY, NOT YOUR SPELL, NOT YOUR FRIENDS AND NOT EVEN FAUSTDAMN CELESTIA!" Discord roared with rage that shook Twilight to her core and made her cower, and made Spike hide behind her. While he was shouting his form had changed to a far more wild version that sent chills down Twilights spine. Discord then proceeded to take deep breaths and slowly revert back to his normal form as his rage died down and was replaced by sorrow and regret.

"D-discord?" Twilight stuttered quietly.

"I'm sorry, you didn't deserve that." Discord said "That anger isn't for you, it's for Celestia."

"What did Celestia do that she deserves that much anger." Spike asked from behind Twilights legs.

Both Spike and Twilight flinched when it looked like Discord was about to shout again, but he managed to rein himself in before he could burst. "Chaotic beings are born in times of chaos and survive off of it as well." He stated in way that made Twilight want to start taking notes. "When we are born we need chaos to be able to grow into a being that can survive without chaos for a certain amount of time. I was born in the pre-unification Era and I managed to grow to the point of which I could survive without constant chaos before the three tribes unified under the banner of Equestria. another being was born though shortly before that though and she couldn't survive after the Unification." Twilight gasped as that piece of news hit her. She was about to offer condolences but discord cut her off. "Which is why I started the era of chaos. As much as I enjoy chaos, she needed it so I gave it to her in excess so that she could survive. The time was about to come where she could survive but I had to attend to the two royal pains before hand." His head sunk down and he held it in his mismatched paw and talon. " I got overconfident, I was imprisoned in my stone prison. I used the last of my chaos magic to send her into the space between spaces so that her soul could locate a suitable universe to continue growing. It had been searching for the last fifteen hundred years and it had finally found a location with enough chaos that she could finish growing."

"Why haven't you gone to get her then?" Spike asked as he stepped out from behind Twilight with a curious expression on his face.

Discord then looked up with a face of despair and said "I have tried, I have tried every conceivable way over the last year over and over again, but I am attached to this universe's chaotic signature just as Celestia is to the sun. Which is why-"

"You want us to go and get her" Twilight finished. Discord silently nodded his head with a sad look in his eyes. "We will do it." she said resolutely. She looked down at Spike and he had a look of determination on his face and nodded to Discord.

"It's not that simple I'm afraid." He spoke apologetically. "This world has horrors that will try to kill you, and that is just the animals. The People are far worse, Heck even the world itself will try to kill you." He then looked her straight in the eye and spoke in a tone that lost all it's emotion. "I would rather be stuck in my stone prison again than go there. Which is why I give you my word that if you do decide to go, that when you get back, if you deem it bad enough, I will willingly go back to Canterlot gardens as an ornament."

This comment made Twilight falter. Discord? willing to go back into his stone prison, this meant more to him than his own freedom, but that didn't dissuade Twilight from the task. if anything it made her want to do it more.

"I'll do it" She said with confidence that would put a minotaur to shame. Spike gave a similar reply as well causing Discord to barrel towards them and wrap them both in a tight hug while quiet sobs wracked his body.

"Thank you" He said in a barely audible whisper.

"No problem Discord. What are friends for right?" Twilight said with a kind smile on her face. As Discord released her and Spike from his hug she decided to question Discord on something's. "I need some facts about this place were going though Discord."

"Okay, I'll tell you the essentials." He said quickly "The location I am sending you two is called the Mojave wasteland. It is a war ravaged land and still bears the scars of said war over two hundred years later. It only has one sentient species which goes by the name of humans, and they are a tool using race, similar to the minotaurs and by the fact that they are also bipedal. There worlds magic field is barely tapped into and will be far weaker than Equestria's, but it is still there so your magic, though weaker, will still be usable. I would recommend looking for a human by the name of The Courier, they should be willing to help you out." Twilight had made a mental list by the time Discord had finished speaking.

"Anything else?" She asked as she placed spike on her back.

"One more thing" Discord said as he opened up a portal. "This portal will take you to the Mojave, but it will also give you both a device that will prove invaluable while you are there."

"Okay then" Twilight said as she squared her shoulders "Let's go"

And with that she leapt into the portal with spike holding onto her back, but things were not going to easy like all her other adventures she had been on. No, this one would be harder than anything she had ever done by far.

Author's Note

A Little thing to note, my playthrough of Fallout: New Vegas, which is what I am basing this off of, was a modded playthrough. Which means that here may be some characters that you don't recognise or things that are not in the original game and it's DLC's.

I will provide a the names of mods in my game as they become necessary.