Completely Different but Still the Same

Twilight  Sparkle sat in the Palace of Friendship reading the latest Daring Doo book. It was quiet and peaceful for the young Alicorn Princess. She soon marks the page she is on and closes the book. Taking a minute to look up and the fixture above her once belonging to the old Golden Oaks Library where she lived for a long time. As she looked she reflected on her rather eventful life. She had stopped Nightmare Moon, protected the Crystal Empire. Stopped Discord, defeated Tirek and help Princess Lunar stop the Tantabus once it went out of control. Traveld and saved CHS on two occasions. Oh and most importantly became the Princess of Friendship. However it has been a few weeks since all of that just shy of a month in fact.

Twilight's thoughts were interrupted by the clacking sound of Spikes' feet as he ran into the room holding something. "What do you have there Spike?" she asks the young dragon

"It is a delivery from Princess Celestia she said it is a new spell for you." he replies as Twilight opens the scroll and reads it.

"Hrm... a spell to move two objects through dimensions? Sounds like fun!" she says reading it over "Spike get me an apple and an orange."

"Yes ma'am!" he says saluting and running out of the room coming back shortly after with the items Twilight had requested.

"Thank you." she says moving them to opposite edges of the room. "Now would be the perfect time to try this spell out.

"Are you sure Twilight? I mean you just got the thing shouldn't you read it over a few times first?" Spike asks a little worried about his friends eagerness "After all what if you mess it up?"

"Spike sometimes the best way to learn how to do something is by doing it." Twilight says looking at the scroll as her horn glows. Soon both the apple and orange glow with the same aura. the glow gets brighter and brighter soon it was impossible to see the apple and orange. The next thing Twilight knew they vanished and at the same time a misfire of magic hits her knocking her and spike into the wall. The two hit the ground dazed from the back blast. Their vision was blurry and it slowly focused back to normal. When they look to the sides where the apple and orange were they notice they were gone. But when they return their look to the middle of the room a grey unicorn was on the ground unconscious. his dark red mane was long and messy his tail curled around his side covering his Cutie Mark "Uh Spike..."

"Yeah your not seeing things I think you screwed up Twilight." Spike says

"Thanks Captain Obvious..." Twilight says rolling her eyes "Do you think he is okay?"

"How should I know? You're the smart one!" Spike responds as the pony opens a pair of dark purple eyes slowly. it was a groggy look but he soon pulls himself together and looks around.

"Wh-where am I?" he panics "This isn't my home! What happened?!" he looks at Spike and Twilight who were looking rather scared at his sudden outburst. "Oh...uh..."

"Who are you?" Twilight asks

"Me?" he asks "I am Solar Flare the Guardian of Equestria. Who are you and what is this place?"

"Well Solar Flare I am Twilight Sparkle the Princess of Friendship." she replies before motioning to Spike "This is my assistant Spike."

"You're not a Princess...all of the Princesses are gone! they have been since...I...since I failed." Solar Flare sighs

"I am not sure I follow..." Twilight says confused to what the unicorn said

"King Sombra! When he was on the rise I was tasked to stop him I was chosen by fate and I thought I could stop him with the power I had but I failed! All of Equestria is in ruin because of me!" Solar Flare says

"But we stopped King Sombra back in the Crystal Empire." Spike says looking at Twilight

"Did you hit your head or something?" Twilight asks the unicorn

"No!" he says looking at her shocked to why she would ask that "One second I am walking home when I feel strange. I black out and now I am here!" he looks at Twilight and she then suddenly realized what she had done! This pony was from a different version of Equestria. she had read about the possibility that other versions of Equestria existed but now she was seeing for the first time the crossing of two worlds!

"Oh my gosh... I can't believe what I have done!" she yells frantic "I am sorry I moved you from your Equestria to mine!"

"You what?!" Solar Flare asks in surprise "Why?! Or better yet How?!"

"I don't know all I was doing was trying a new spell scroll from Princess Celestia. I was only trying to swap places with an apple and orange but instead I accidentally brought you here! Spike was right I wasn't ready to do the spell! What do I do? the scroll is gone! You're stuck here! And-" she stops as the colt puts a hoof over her mouth to calm her down.

"Calm down. I am not mad Twilight Sparkle." he says calmly "I understand it was a mistake."

"But you realize you are stuck here! I can't send you home!" Twilight yells when he moves his hoof from her mouth.

"Yes I do." he replies "But...there is not much to return to back home. Most of the ponies were wiped out or enslaved after Sombra took over.... you kind of brought me to a better place. I have dreamed about leaving that cursed place and you made it come true thank you." he says turning to walk out "We will meet again."

"Wait Solar Flare!" Twilight says stopping him "how are you going to go out there not knowing anypony? You should let me help you it is the least I can do."

"Thank you for the offer but I will have to decline I don't want to be in debt to anypony later." he replies

"Then why don't you let me help you out as a friend?" Twilight offers and the unicorn looks at her

"I don't need any friends. I am perfectly fine alone. I deserve it for what I have done." he says sternly leaving without giving Twilight a chance to reply.

"Fine without friends?" she asks herself "He is going to have a hard time around here if he is such a lone wolf." Twilight says to Spike "What are we going to do Spike?"

"Should we ask our friends for help?" Spike suggests

"That is a great idea Spike!" Twilight exclaims "If we can show him the true values of friendship maybe we can get him to open up! Spike summon the others!"

"Yes ma'am!" he says with a salute before running off.