While unconscious, Twilight had yet another vision, stronger than before...

There has been an awakening...

It's that voice again! She thought."What do you want?!"

The voice was oblivious to her, and continued, drifting through her ears in a wispy baritone.

...Have you felt it?

Felt what? What do you mean?

A torrent of different voices came through again, just like last time. Only they were stronger, and made her whole body shake with fear.

...TRAITOR!

...I will finish... What you started...

Then, some other ones came through, this time familiar ones. It sounded like they were talking to each other.

It's been two years since her expedition! We need to find her before something bad happens!

She's gone now! There's no point in just looking for a corpse!

One of them was breaking up, almost as if in tears.

P-Please don't say that...

We have to face facts, dear! She might be out there, dying or dead. Still, we should bring back the body. It wouldn't be right if we didn't...

What about P-----? We need to hear her opinion this. After all, this is a High Council meeting...

It's no use, sugarcube. She's been in meditation for days now. No use trying to get her to budge.

It's settled then. One of us has to bring her back...

The dream once again faded just like last time, bringing her back to the realm of consciousness, and back among her friends.

When first waking up, Twilight heard voices, but they were fuzzy and unclear, much like her vision. However, they started to become clearer as time went on...

"----ssed her out too much with the big welcoming committee, Sunset!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed, obviously furious.

"Well how was I supposed to know it would send her into a coma?!" It was apparent that Sunset Shimmer was equally mad at the accusation. Though they forgave her after previous...endeavors, sometimes that anger came back, if only a little bit.

"Now now, simmer down you two! Last thing Twilight needs is two friends arguing about how she passed out, okay?" It was clear Applejack took the reins as a voice of reason.

"U-um girls..." Fluttershy said, staring at the girl in question waking up.

"Well it's gotta be explained somehow, Applejack! And I'm pretty sure little Miss 'Ketchup-and-Mustard' here had something to do with it!" Apparently that anger from the past went both ways, especially with a hot-head like Rainbow.

"Girls..."

"*scoffs* Really? Coming from the girl with that oh so flamboyant mane of hers?" Pinkie pointed out.

"QUIET! She's waking up!" Rarity exclaimed, silencing the two, now three people arguing. Fluttershy heaved a sigh following her outburst.

Fluttering her eyes open Twilight stared at each of her friends, still dazed and uninformed as to what was going on. "Hey, what's going on?" She asked, shaking her head to clear the dizziness. The headache she's been having still persisted however.

She began to get up, but rose too quickly, becoming dizzy as a result. Rarity sat her back down on the bed. "Easy now, Twilight! No need to rush things, dear."

Twilight nodded, this time slowly rising up from what looked to be the bed in the Nurse's office. It seemed she fainted and her friends rushed her to the Nurse's office, but like all schools, monitored her temperature to make sure it wasn't a cold or something, then went back to filling out paperwork, assuring her friends that she'd be fine and wake up in a few minutes.

Rubbing her head, she asked the Nurse how long she was under. "It's only been 15 minutes. I've been checking your pulse every few minutes and you seem to be in perfect condition from what I could tell."

Sunset hugged her tightly, after Twilight had some time to stand up for a few minutes. "I'm sorry for stressing you out so much with that welcoming party, Twilight!"

"What do you mean?" she chuckled. "The party was wonderful! I'm not sure why I passed out earlier, but I am pretty sure what's been causing the nightmares and headaches now..."

"You can always count on us to help you with... whatever it is that's going on with you right now!" Rarity exclaimed, soon backed up by supporting murmurs from the rest of Twilight's new friends.

"Still," Sunset started. "It's best if we get to the bottom of this before you pass out again. It's obvious now that it's not just nightmares and headaches anymore." She opened her backpack and handed Twilight her notes on the portal. She gave her a curious look. "Since you fainted, I've been looking at your notes. I think we should go back to your theory about the portal causing these problems. Is there a chance you can meet with me after school to investigate it?"

Twilight nodded, with a determined look in her eye. "These headaches are serious, if my theory is correct. However, I don't think we need to investigate just yet until I'm absolutely positive that this isn't just a side effect of... what happened at the Friendship Games. If it is, I'm sure I'll get over it, just like the incident you told me happened at the Fall Formal..."

As school went on, the headaches still persisted and the pain varied. Aside from the visions in her coma-like state, Twilight had none throughout her classes, that is until History Class with Mr. Cranky Doodle...

Class began, and all students took their seats preparing for today's lesson. All except for Twilight who, like any transfer student, gets to introduce herself to the entire class, and just like those other people, put her in a spotlight she wanted to avoid entirely.

"I know that we don't normally get transfer students from our rival schools, but I'll make an exception to the rule even though she nearly wrecked the entire school and shatter the dimensional plane..." Cranky began.

"What was that?" somebody yelled from the back of the classroom.

"Nevermind! Darn kids and their sonic hearing... Anyways, please welcome Twilight Sparkle to our school, and no she's not that Twilight, and yada yada yada..." Even the teacher didn't enjoy this, it seemed.

After her brief and embarrassing introduction to the class, she took her seat at the front of the row, near a certain fiery haired girl, who also took History at this hour, ironically enough. Though they had a larger and much more dangerous problem on their hands, Twilight and Sunset were forced to pay attention to the lecture after a very verbal warning from an angry Mr. Doodle.

"Is he always like this?" Twilight whispered to her friend, only to receive a very terrified nod, shocking the young girl.

"You're never quiet, not even like this. What's wrong?" Hastily, Sunset scribbled a note and passed it to Twilight.

I'd stop talking, or cover your ears for a Royal Canterlot Voice session with the most notorious Teacher in CHS!

"Huh?" Twilight said aloud after reading the note. "What does that m-"

"TWILIGHT SPARKLE, EITHER YOU PAY ATTENTION TO THE LESSON I'M TEACHING OR MARCH YOUR KEISTER STRAIGHT TO VICE PRINCIPAL LUNA'S OFFICE FOR DETENTION FOR THE HOUR!"

Guess that answers that... Twilight thought, still trying to recover her hearing.

Sunset giggled. "It's best if you just pay attention in Cranky's class." she whispered, paying close attention to Mr. Doodle's lesson, and whether or not he was paying attention to her whispering.

"Duly noted!" She smiled back.

After Cranky's yelling, the lesson continued without any indication of strain in his voice. "Going back to the lesson, the Roman Empire was the effect of the post-Roman Republic's fall after the Battle of Actium and when, consequentially, Octavian rose to power, becoming the first to adopt the title of "Imperator Caesar" , effectively making him the first Roman Emperor..."

Wincing in pain, Twilight's headache increased tenfold. Looking over, Sunset saw her friend in distress. "Twilight? What's wrong? Are you okay?"

She nodded her head, despite the pain it was in. "I-I think I'm alright. It's just my head again. nngh!" The pain spiked again, this time a vision welcoming her, though now she can hear her friend calling out unlike before, though she still elected to ignore the cries of help from Sunset Shimmer...

Another plethora of voices breached her mind; a jumble at first, but a few stood out and some of them brought small glimpses of scenery.

One came through and brought visions of strange people in white armor and masks. Some had paint adorned on them to establish rank.

"General," One said, adorned in white armor with yellow stripes and designs applied to it. "The droid army is in full retreat!"

Another voice came through and sounded much older, with a grainy tone of voice showing age. Along with this voice brought a vision of pale white hair adorned atop a small and green forehead. The face was blurred, but the ears were large and curved and also had small tufts of snowy hair along and inside them. "Good. Commander Cody, order your men to close ranks. Push them back, we will... Hmm..."

"What is it General?" the Commander asked the mysterious green figure.

"I sense a great disturbance in the Force... Someone reaching out, there is..."

"Is it Skywalker, sir?" The figure shook its head.

"Uncertain, these feelings are. Such is the way of the Force, Commander.

"Skywalker?" Twilight asked. "Who is that?"

"Something powerful there is, breaching throughout the galaxy. Suspect I do, that those powerful enough in the ways of the Force will sense it..." The voice in the vision responded, shocking the young girl looking on. What looked like shrugging, the figure continued. "Commander, I'm afraid our time will be cut short. Needed elsewhere, I am..."

"Yes Sir!" Cody exclaimed.

"I'm not that powerful... Am I?" Reaching out across an entire galaxy... I don't think it's our own. It's just impossible! The young girl thought. We are not technologically advanced enough to get past Mars, and that green figure isn't a Human, I don't think...

Strengthen my mind, I must, if ever I am to discover who is behind the disturbance. The green figure waved its blurry hand in front of Twilight, and the vision pushed back, launching her back to consciousness.

A little hazy, it took her a second to regain focus. "-light? You there?" Sunset asked, worry plastered on her face.

"Y-yeah, I'm here." She sighed, lifting herself up off the ground she was apparently on now. All the students were staring, wondering what happened. It made her flush with embarrassment for a bit. "We need to look at the statue. Tell Princess Twilight we're gonna need her too."

"Alright everybody, quit gawking! It isn't the first time somebody's fainted in my classroom." Cranky said. "Sunset, do you mind taking her to the Nurse?"

"Sure thing, Mr. Doodle!" How convenient... Sunset rolled her eyes.

"And to think I retired from the Navy for this..." he mumbled.

Instead of going to the Nurse's office like they were told, Sunset followed a determined Twilight to her Lab. After all, the bell rang and they both had a free period before school got out for the day. It was a bit larger than the small closet space she was using at Crystal Prep for research, but not by much. Instead of a small closet her previous school gave to her, there was a room in Canterlot High's Library that used to be a Computer lab but due to budget cuts to support the CHS Football team, was converted into a storage area. Still partially littered with some dusty equipment like old slide projectors that outlived their usefulness and out-of-date dictionaries and textbooks, it was still somewhat a cramped space like she was used to over at Crystal Prep.

Walking over to a small desk, she sat down and turned on the computer that sat on it. While waiting for it to load, Twilight explained what happened in the vision.

"There was another one?" Sunset asked. "Did it give you some more perspective on what's happening?"

The computer loaded, and Twilight clicked on one of the various chart making programs, pulling up a recent project titled "Portal Disturbance Rate".

"Ever since that first nightmare I had, I've been cataloging every anomaly that's happened so far; Their potency, the length between them... Everything!" A graph appeared on the screen, showing the potency compared to the rate she's been receiving them. In the graph, there was a red line that stayed level until just after the point when she started to receive the visions. "And this recent vision confirms it!"

"Confirms what, Twilight?" Sunset asked, going over the mathematical calculations and graphs from her own notebook.

She spun around in her computer chair to face her friend. "I think the Portal isn't connected to just Equestria anymore!" She beamed. It wasn't like a nice smile Twilight normally does, this one verged on one more found on scientists that made an impossibly huge discovery. Come to think of it, despite the piles of old equipment scattered about and the little breathing room they had, there were still quite a lot of tools, charts, graphs, and a few empty vials and microscopes strewn about, making it feel more like a small lab with extra bits of an old computer lab, instead of the other way around. "Did you bring the book linking to Equestria?" She asked.

"No, I didn't have time to open my locker when you were rushing me down the hall." Twilight gave a sheepish smile at that.

Suddenly, four electronic pings sounded over the intercom, indicating school was out for the day. "Well, it sounds like you have time now! Hurry up and get the book, then meet me out front near the portal."

Author's Note

So chapter two is done! Hooray! I wanted to add a little bit of chuckles in this chapter. I know it's meant to be a serious story, but I haven't even gotten to the serious parts yet so I wanted to add the part with Cranky yelling in SUPER LOUD volumes.

Though I added a bit of humor in this chapter with Cranky and all, there's still a bunch of information in this chapter that's going to be very important to the plot behind this story (which is gonna be HUGE by the way!) and it's best to pay attention to these visions.

I also know that this is based off of the Star Wars universe roughly, so I am gonna need a large amount of help from you guys to stick with the lore, since I don't know anything past the movies :P. Any constructive criticism or a bit of hints as to how certain things don't fit within the parameters of Star Wars is tremendously appreciated!

Also, if you guys wanna check out the graph for a more visual and dynamic perspective of SciTwi's vision potency, i made a .png file up on my public Drive folder so you can see it! Let's pretend that it's the actual one she pulls up on the computer, okay? ;)
Head over here to check it out!