Nobody to Most Wanted

It was just an ordinary day in Equestria: the sun was out, non-nocturnal wildlife was out and about, the weather was the perfect balance between warm and cool, many were enjoying the leisurely weather, and, as usual, the Everfree Forest stood dark and imposing. Except, today was going to drastically become unordinary, more so than when the Elements of Harmony had to take action.

A white portal massive enough to span the entire Everfree suddenly opened up just above the forest's treeline before slowly descending on the forest, enveloping every last blade of its grass as it covered the entire ground. The mysterious portal paused for a few seconds, before beginning to slowly rise again... and revealing something much different as it did.

It began to reveal... buildings; buildings that appeared to be made of concrete. While concrete structures were relatively new in Equestria, these ones appeared to be much more advanced: though they also had windows, they were all varying sizes, with the shorter ones being fully revealed within 10 seconds, and the taller ones seeming to keep extending infinitely into the portal.

With the buildings came roads, ones that appeared to be composed of an unknown, black, stone-like substance (asphalt). Most of the roads laid flat against the ground, only rising and falling with the level of the ground underneath, but a number of them were in the air, held in place by cement pillars.

Additionally, there were railroad tracks, extra long roads (freeways), large, multilevel concrete structures (parking garages), and numerous alleys, warehouses, and bridges. Dotted throughout the mysterious city were oversized wooden boards (billboards), and black gates with red "RESTRICTED AREA" warning signs (security gates).

On the streets were countless large, moving, relatively loud machines that appeared to be made of metal... yet none of them looked like regular carriages or chariots, and they rode on metal wheels wrapped with black rubber (automobiles). Though unknown to all but one Equestrian resident, most of them didn't look special, being painted a single, glossy-but-often plain color. A much smaller number were painted black and white, decorated with numbers and words painted on their exteriors, multiple antennas, a brush guard on their front with one small red and one small blue light, and a light bar on their tops: one side was all red lights, the other side was all blue lights.

Finally, also dotted throughout the city were a number of other machines, in some cases, more than one of the same machine was in a different location, but all of them were unique... and they looked fast, sometimes adorned with different-colored patterns on their exterior, but all with badges that identified them as no ordinary machines of their type.

Vantage. SVT Raptor. SRT8. Countach. ZR1. Mustang. Lancer Evolution. Viper. R8. B2. Continental. M3. Carrera S. GT.

These were just some of the names of the dozens of beasts that silently laid in wait, waiting for the right pilot to come along and take control of them.

Finally, the tallest buildings were uncovered by the portal, which continued to slowly rise, before rapidly shrinking and disappearing in a brief flash of light.

And there was only one pony that witnessed this, who immediately bolted off towards Ponyville to inform the town's librarian after the whole spectacle ended.

*   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *

Very few were surprised to see a certain pink, poofy-maned earth pony mare streaking through the towns streets, and fewer, if any less, were alarmed by the urgency in her voice; she often made a big deal out of things not many viewed as being serious.

"Twilight! Twiiiliiight!" She shouted at the top of her lungs.

Twilight, who had been silently reading a book and jotting down notes on a separate piece of paper, was so startled that she drew the quill she held in the grasp of her magic in a large swiping motion; good thing she had lifted it off of the paper, otherwise it would have been a very bad day for her.

"Pinkie!" She snapped irately. "How many times have I told you to not startle me while I'm studying!?"

"I'msorryTwilightit'sjustIsawsomethingamazingandIdidn'tknowwhatIshoulddoso-" The hyper earth pony in question still spoke loudly, only now at a mile a minute, before being cut off by a purple hoof covering her mouth.

"Slow down, speak at a normal pace, and use your inside voice." The purple unicorn said flatly.

"I'm sorry Twilight it's just I saw something amazing and I didn't know what I should do so I came here to tell you!" Pinkie responded at a slightly lower volume and moderately slower pace.

This caught Twilight's interest.

"What did you see?" She asked with a hint of weariness.

"I saw this huge glowing portal open up over the Everfree Forest, and it lowered and covered the entire forest and made it disappear, and then it moved back into the air and revealed a whole city as big as the Everfree!" Pinkie still managed to keep the volume of her voice slightly below a shout as she excitedly explained what she had witnessed.

Twilight went dead still as her heart skipped a few beats and she stopped breathing for a few moments. The purple unicorn flipped back a couple of pages in the book she had been reading. Did it really?...

"No way..." She whispered softly.

"What way?" Pinkie asked in her usual humorously often-ignorant manner.

"I was experimenting with a spell that would open a portal between two different dimensions and bring through something from the other dimension, and what you just described matches the description of what the spell's effect should look like if it's cast properly. But I didn't intend to transport an entire city, nor did I intend it to do that..." Twilight explained. "Let's go check it out."

*   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *

When the two of them arrived at the site, it was unchanged: the sprawling city was unchanged, hadn't moved an inch, and still had those mysterious metal carriages idly cruising through the streets. It was one of the very rare times Twilight was struck speechless.

"We need to inform Prin-" Twilight finally spoke after a tense silence, but was quickly cut off by Pinkie.

"No we don't." She said simply, making Twilight sputter briefly.

"Why shouldn't the Princesses be the ones we inform?" She asked skeptically.

"Because I know one pony that's seen these things before, come on!" Pinkie said before racing off, forcing Twi to rush to catch up.

"What are you talking about?" The purple unicorn asked her friend.

"I know a pony that explores different dimensions and knows these machines like the back of his hoof!" The earth pony called out over the sound of their hooves thumping against the ground.

"This pony does WHAT?!" Twilight said with very clear shock.

"He'll explain it when we get there, right now, we've gotta move before some ponies get too curious and starts something bad!" Pinkie shouted back, which was enough to make Twilight really push herself.

After about 30 seconds of running, a lone house grew visible in the distance.

"There he is!" Pinkie shouted.

As they neared, Twilight noticed that the smallish, single-story house had a currently open garage, and sitting in the garage was... another non pony-powered carriage, but this one was different. It was small and painted a glossy red, though its roof was very dark gray, almost black. Its wheels were smaller than those on the carriages that were in the city, and as they got even closer, she could see its small cockpit had only two seats. And though it was far sleeker than even the Royal Chariots, it didn't seem to say "fast".

The large panel on top of the carriage's front end (hood) was currently propped open, and there was a brown pony with a black tail hunched over the mass of metal, wires, hoses, and pulleys (engine) that lay in the large cavity (engine compartment). But what made this pony stand out were two large, black, bat-like wings portruding from his back.

"Night Rider!" Pinkie shouted at a volume that was probably higher than necessary, but was still enough to get the pony's attention regardless.

They appeared to be slightly startled, but they turned towards the two rapidly approaching mares anyway. Twilight managed to not flinch at the stallion's (she could now confirm that it was a male) two small fangs and yellow, cat-like eyes.

Yup; this guy was a bat pony.

Twilight found her eyes drawn to his unusual cutie mark, two wrenches crossed behind a wheel, but quickly averted her gaze when she realized that she had essentially been staring at his butt.

"Yeah?" He said in a voice that, while on the deep side, was not nearly as deep as most male Royal Guards.

"We need your help!" Pinkie said, only slightly lowering her voice's volume.

"With what?" Night Rider asked, now sounding slightly annoyed as he laid his ears flat against his head.

"There's a mysterious city that's showed up in place of the Everfree Forest and there are hundreds of cars and trucks roaming the streets!"

The bat pony's ears shot up straight at this information.

"How'd this city get here?" He asked.

"I was trying out a spell that allows the user to bring objects from other dimensions into ours, it ended up being much bigger than I had anticipated, and I didn't know about the city until about a minute and a half ago." Twilight explained.

Rider paused.

"Well, I've heard of small things being transported here from other dimensions, but this is a new one for me." He said.

"I know!" Pinkie said. "You're the only pony I know of that knows anything about autos so we came here!"

"..."

"... Let's go." The bat pony said after a short silence, closing his car's hood and getting into the driver's seat.

"Why do you need to arrive there driving?" Twilight asked.

"Because you need to own and drive your own set of wheels for racers to even consider taking you seriously." Rider replied while firing up the motor. "Now let's move!"