War Zone-Equestria

The two girls went downstairs and found the others sitting down and chatting. All except Spike who had run to Sugarcube corner to grab something Pinkie left behind.

Applejack quickly got their attention. “Listen everypony; give the party a rest for a bit. Twilight’s learned a new really big spell, and she’s gunna show us all how it works.”

Rarity looked at Applejack and sighed though, because as usual Applejack seemed to rush straight to the point and didn’t mention anything of the little details like what the spell did.

“What exactly does this new spell do Twilight? If it’s a powerful one are you certain you’d want to show us in here.”

“I’m not really sure I’d like to show you girls at all. It seems like it would be really hard for me to perform, it could be dangerous.” Twilight told her.

“Umm, Twilight? Why would it be dangerous? If you don’t mind me asking that is…” Fluttershy asked in her usual quiet voice.

“Well it’s an inter-dimensional travel spell. I can use it to transport us to another version of Equestria. It’s just I don’t know what to expect if I perform it. Each dimension is always different from the other, so I’m not sure what could be happening there.”

“What? Really?” Pinkie asked her just to confirm she heard what she heard.

“Yes, but like I said, it could be dangerous…” Twilight tried to continue.

“Oh my gosh! That’s awesome! We should go there! There could be another me!” Pinkie jumped around on the spot trying to contain her excitement. The idea seemed amazing to her, but everypony else didn’t think so much of the idea.

“Maybe we should stay here…” Dash said objecting to the fact that Pinkie Pie could be right.

Twilight new that Dash was referring to what Pinkie said, but continued “Well I would like to stay here. The letter that was written above the spell said that the last time the writer was in the alternate Equestria, a war had started. It doesn’t give any evidence to say he made it back to this Equestria.”

“How long ago was the book written?” Rainbow Dash asked.

Twilight looked inside the front cover where a date was usually written at the bottom of the first page, but there was no date there. She assumed what she had read and put her knowledge to an estimate. “There’s no written date, but the note in the back sounded like it was written only 2 years ago, around the time when we changed Luna back to normal with the elements of harmony, and her and Celestia stopped fighting, but the events in the rest of the book and the beginning of the note range up to over 1000 years ago.”

“That’s not possible Twilight. Only Alicorns live more than a thousand years.” Rarity reminded her.

“Rarity… This Pony invented Inter-dimensional travel. He could have been capable of anything.” Twilight told her, which somehow made sense to Rarity “Still it seems unlikely that a unicorn would be able to forge a spell to keep himself young for that long. Wait! If he is still alive maybe we can find him and I can learn the spell! I would never have to worry about growing old or frail! Do it Twilight you have to!”

The others seemed to ignore Rarity’s statement, some of them rolling their eyes, and as usual just turned to the next pony that had something to say which in this case was Rainbow Dash.

“How can you be sure of the time frame?” Rainbow Dash asked her.

“Well it’s just that two dimensions must always be different, and in the alternate one in the note, the writer’s name is Malcolm Hoof. He travelled to the alternate Equestria when the massive fight between the Princesses began in this one, one had just ended there, but the note says that a war also started in there, and it doesn’t say wether he made it back to our dimension or not. So I’m just assuming a war started there just as this one ended. That’s why I don’t want to go. What if there is still a war there?” Twilight responded.

“You never know Twilight; a lot could happen in 2 years.” Fluttershy told her trying to reassure her.

Twilight started to take in what her friends had been saying.

“I’m still sceptical here, but ok. I’ll try the spell, but only because you girls want to see it. I don’t know what could happen though, so I need all of you to back up.”

The other girls nodded and moved away from her as asked, but still watched her with enthusiasm waiting to see everything that would happen.

Twilight closed her eyes, and started to focus as her horn suddenly lit up with energy. She started clenching her teeth and focussing even harder. ‘This is harder than moving an Urca-minor’ she though to herself, struggling to concentrate on the spell. Her horn was now blazing with unstable energy. It was throwing sparks and energy everywhere. Although it had still been just under a full minute, the spell was causing Twilight what felt like hours of unending grief, when suddenly, as Twilight felt like the spell was going no-where, She was thrown backwards, as the magic disconnected with her horn and became suspending in mid-air still blazing about with spectacular purple and magenta explosions. Twilight looked at the magical ball before her as it widened and connected with the ground. The middle of it began to swirl inwards. Twilight suddenly realised that she’d done it. She’d opened up another dimension.

“I did it!” she cried with excitement.

The other girls stared in awe at the amazing feat their friend had just pulled off. The girls stared at the magical portal for a few minutes, not sure what to expect. Fluttershy seemed to be the only one who didn’t want to find out what it would do. Finally Applejack spoke up.

“Well… Are we gunna check this here, uhm, other dimension out?”

Twilight didn’t quite want to. “I’m not sure that’d be a good idea.” she said, recovering from losing all the energy she put behind the spell.

“Oh come on Twilight! No point in wasting the opportunity to check out another version of Equestria, besides, you put heaps of effort into the spell. Why let all the effort be for nothing?” Rainbow asked her.

Twilight still trying to make up her mind wanted to say something to argue her point, but it was too late. Rainbow had already flown towards the magical gate at top speed. She disappeared right before the others as she entered. The Portal boomed with power and grew in size, but shrunk back to size almost just as quickly.

“RAINBOW!” Twilight yelled as she saw her friend vanish. “Oh no. What if I didn’t do it right? What if she just died?” Twilight said as she began to hyperventilate.

“She’ll be fine sugarcube.” Applejack reassured her.

“Are you sure?” Twilight asked.

“Only one way to find out!” she responded. She ran into the portal at top speed and vanished just like Rainbow Dash.

“Applejack!” Twilight yelled. She seemed very nervous. She was sweating and nervously trotting on the spot.

“Come on Twilight, lets go see Applejack and Dashie!” Pinkie said as she jumped gleefully into the portal.

Twilight was clearly feeling bad now, she wanted to take it back just for the knowledge that her friends were ok. She almost felt like she was going to be sick because of all the negativity running through her. She looked at Rarity with clearly worried and almost teary eyes, “I-I d-don’t know a-a-about this Rarity.” She said.

“It’s a bit too late to back out now Twilight, if they’re in the other dimension they’ll need you to get back out. You’re the only one who knows the spell.” She told her.

”I won’t be able to perform it again for ages; it really took a lot out of me.” Twilight said.

“There’s not many other options here Twilight. We’re all going to have to go in now. And that means you too Fluttershy” Rarity said turning around and facing the shaking pony quietly moving toward the door.

“Oh, of course, hehehe.” Fluttershy said as she slowly and very nervously shifted back towards Rarity. “Listen I’d rather not…” Fluttershy didn’t even get a chance to finish her sentence before Rarity spoke again.

“See you in there darling.” Rarity told Twilight before jumping in, pulling Fluttershy with her.

Fluttershy gulped and screamed as Rarity pulled her into the portal.

By this point Twilight was distraught. She didn’t know what would happen and certainly didn’t want to find out. But she new she couldn’t abandon her friends now. It was too late to say no. She had no choice but to leap into the portal and knowing that only made her feel worse. She looked at the portal that was now starting to shrink. Taking a heavy breathe she galloped into the portal and held her breathe, as everything around her became dark.

Spike burst through the door just to see the portal vanish. He’d been walking back to the library, when he saw flashing lights of Purple aura flashing out of the windows. He had no idea what to expect.

“Guys? Where are you? Hello?” He worriedly yelled throughout the library. But the sound just echoed back at him from the walls.

He fell over and started to sweat as the scenarios rushed into his head. ‘Maybe, it was just them teleporting somewhere… no, Twilight’s teleporting spells aren’t that large… Or what if they all exploded! No that couldn’t have happened, there’d need to be a reason for an explosion. What if it was a magic spell gone haywire? What if it was lethal? What if they were…’ Spike fought the word entering his head. He knew in his heart the girls had to be alright. But that didn’t stop the flow of emotions clawing at his brain. He felt extremely worried that they would just disappear like that, and rushed outside to look for them, intent on finding them. He would search the whole town if he had to.

But little did he know that even if he’d searched all of Equestria, he wouldn’t find them.