Commander Twilight Sparkle blinked several times before looking around the room she found herself in as the rift snapped closed behind her. This certainly wasn’t what she had expected to see when jumping back home, if fact none of this looked like the EMSD, or an EDF facility much less anything in Equestria to begin with.

Twilight was standing in a large room that had a second story that was just a catwalk that ran around the edge of the room. There were many creates and barrels stacked in the room leading the mare to believe she was in some sort of storage room. Looking around once more she approached one of the creates and looked it over, it was sealed with some sort of symbols running along one side that looked like it was meant to be read by a computer. With it being sealed the Commander had no intention of opening the create in case it was meant to store some sort of biological weapons or something of the sort.

A soft hiss on the far side of the room drew the mare’s attention in that direction but do to the creates she could see what it was. “Ok, the energy anomaly came from this storage bay, start scanning and be careful.” A voice said and the Alicorn heard some sort of rhythmic beeping she assumed was the scan. Not knowing who these people were the mare pressed herself to the create and started to move deeper into the room to put distance between her and the unknown speaker, she knew there had to be at least two but without being sure she needed to find a way to safely observe them without being detected.

“Sir, I’m picking up an unknown lifeform moving away from us.” A second voice said and Twilight froze mid step.

“Is it in the room?” The first voice asked.

“Yes sir, though it has stopped moving, I think it heard us.” The second voice said. “Should we call security?”

“WE can’t be sure if it is dangerous or not but…” The first voice said and Twilight heard another beep. “This is Ensign Mahoney to security; we are picking up an unknown life form in cargo bay three.”

A moment later a third voice spoke. “Understood Ensign, sending a security team, be careful you two.”

“Understood, me and Dobbs will wait here.” The first voice said. Well that answered the question of how many were in the room but that number was going to increase whenever the security team arrived. Twilight estimated a four or five man squad so that would put the number up six or seven, though since the two in the room called security it meant they were either unarmed or untrained to fight so she had an advantage.

Twilight needed to get out of the room before the guards showed up and find out where she is. Turning around she started walking back towards where the voices had been. “Sir, the lifeform is approaching us.” The second voice said and Twilight could hear the nervousness in the voice. Defiantly not trained to fight.

“Stay calm Dobbs, it’s probably just wandering around, most likely some animal got in a create we brought onboard at the last planet we visited.” The first voice said and Twilight paused. Planet? Visited? What were the two of them talking about? Her curiosity now firmly peaked the mare started walking once more.

“Sir it’s getting closer and keeps pausing when we speak, I think it knows we are here and is taking a direct route towards us.” The second voice said sounding more nervous.

“It’s probably just an animal that’s curious about our voices; security will be here any moment.” The first voice said.

“It’s right behind that create.” The second voice said and Twilight rounded said create and faced the two speakers, one of them she immediately identified as being human but the other was completely unknown to her. The being walked on two legs and hand hands like the human beside it but there was where the similarities ended. It hard light blue skins and was completely hairless, from between its eyes ran some sort for small ridge up the center of its forehead and off over its head, it had two eyes that where white but only had irises and nothing more, this was the one pointed towards the crate Twilight had just stepped around with one hand while the other held some sort of device that had flashing lights on it and was making the rhythmic beeping sound.

All three being looked at each other as time seemed to stand still, one being in dark green combat armor, the other two in some sort of clothing that was mostly black except for their upper chest was yellow. “See….like I said it is an animal.” The human said and reviled to have been the first voice Twilight had heard.

“If it’s animal why is it wearing armor and a helmet?” The second one asked not taking his eyes off the mare.

The Human looked back at her and Twilight could see he was starting to share in his companion’s nervousness as he took in the sight of the militaristic mare. Twilight took step towards them and they stiffened, so she took another and they took a tentative step back watching her. Well this is amusing. She thought and smiled.

“I don’t think that is an animal.” The blue skinned one said. a moment later the wall behind them split down the center with the soft his as before and two bipeds walked in, one human the other almost human but has some sort of ridge on the bridge of her nose, though what Twilight payed more attention to was the fact the two comer had some sort of small gray and black objects in their hands and though it didn’t look like what she was used to she could easily identify them as weapons.

The two new comers blinked and the one with the nose ridged raised her weapon, that was all Twilight needed for her instincts to kick into overdrive. She closed the distance between her and the group of aliens and humans and slammed her shoulder into the alien female knocking her back. The human tried to raise his but The Commander shot her hoof out and struck his wrist, feeling the bones break from the impact of her steel hooves causing him to drop his weapon and stumble back.

The other two in the room simply dove for cover. Twilight spun, expecting more guards to rush her but found the path to the door clear, had they really only sent two? No matter. Not wasting time Twilight leapt through the door and took a right and galloped up the hallway.

The hall was well lite and carpeted as well as wide, and none of it looked remotely like something she knew. She wasn’t sure where she was going, her retreating from the cargo room had been purely instincts and training, the only thing that had stopped her from killing the two armed guards were the fact she didn’t know if they were actually hostile or nor and the fact she needed to know where she was. Which meant attacking two guards and galloping away like a criminal probably wasn’t the best way to make a first impression on this alien alliance.

Twilight skidded to a stop as she caught the fainted glimpse of a flash in an archway she had been about to go through. Carefully she reached a hoof out and the empty space turned blue and she jerked her hoof back as she received a minor shock. She turned and looked at the arch behind her and reached for it and received the same shock. Some sort of shield trapped her.

She looked around; being trapped like this was making every fiber of her being cry out to escape. Not wasting anytime she lite her horn and fired a magical best at the shield that had blocked her path. It activated and blocked the blast but she kept it up and poured more power into her horn and slowly the shield started to flicker till it finally collapsed and she galloped on.

She saw another flash before her and sent another magical blast into the shield and it to collapse. As she galloped on she saw two more of the armed bipeds, neither of these humans but she didn’t waste time taking in details. They raised their weapons a moment before Twilight powered through them, knocking them to the side with ease as her cybernetics legs carried her forward like a freight train.

As she ran she saw a door that stuck out do to being made of what appeared to be wood and having two glass windows in each door, just beyond that was four more of the guards who raised their weapons. Twilight ducked the first….beams the weapons shot, where they using magic? No matter, Twilight rolled towards the door which opened on its own when she got close, much to her surprises, and leapt through, only t skid to a halt as she found herself in what looked like a mess hall with a lot of aliens, though at least a third were human the rest were defiantly aliens and all of them dressed in the same uniform though they had different colors, most likely details jobs she assumed.

The large group of aliens stared at the Alicorn in surprise who stared back with surprise and determination. The spell was one more broken as the doors behind the mare opened to admit the guards who had fired on her in the hall. Twilight dismissed the group of aliens in the room for now as none of them appeared to be armed as she turned to face the guards quickly switching to bipedal mode which seems to have caught the guards by surprised as they froze for moment giving Twilight enough time to unsling her SMG and take aim.

She pulled the trigger and sent a small volley of bullets over the heads of the guards causing them to drop to the ground as Twilight back pedaled. She didn’t want to harm them for now so she was aiming to suppress them till she found a way out of the damn room; this was no place to fight with so many unarmed aliens.

Twilight back struck a table stopping her retreat and she turned and sprinted for a door she saw across the mess hall, passing startled aliens who made way for her. As she neared the door it opened and admitted another three of the guards who raised their weapons. If not for Twilight reflexes being augmented by her cybernetics shed have been toast right there she was sure. Instead she barely leapt to the side and over the counter into the kitchens, startling a strange cat like alien who back peddled further into the kitchen in surprise.

Twilight sat with her back against the counter, SMG clutched in her hands as she ran through her options, she could surrender, but she was physically unable to do that. There may be another exist from the kitchen, though that was 50/50.

She could always fight, though she was trying to not kill anyone till she knew they were actually hostile but that option seemed to be becoming the only option available to her. She had one last chance to get out of here without a body count. Calmly she pulled a flash bang form her pocket dimension and saw the car-like alien’s eyes widen as to him it probably looked like the object just came from nowhere. She pulled the pined and tossed it over the counter. She heard shouts of armor from the aliens a moment before she heard the flashbang detonate.

She leapt up over the counter and charged towards blinded and deafened aliens who blinked and stumbled around. She ran past the guards snatching their weapons from them and tossing them into the farthest corner from anyone and by the time she was finished the aliens senses were starting to return. Twilight flipped a table onto its side to sue as cover just in case and aimed her SMG at the aliens as they blinked their vision back to find themselves unarmed and held at gun point.

“Hands where I can see them and no one gets hurt!” Twilight barked. the aliens seemed surprised to ehar her speak but quickly put their hands up. “Now then where the hell am I and who the hell are you people?” She demanded. Before anyone could answer a guard that had been hiding around the corner near the door Twilight had entered, thus avoiding the effects of the flashbang stepped out and fired his weapons into her side.
Twilight felt the impact and was sure she was dead as she swayed but then the effect stopped and she was fine, in fact she recognized that feeling. She calmed turned and looked at the human guard who looked surprised. “Did you just try to taz me?” She spat with annoyance, why does it seem like that happens way more than is normal?

The human raised the weapon and Twilight tore it from his grasp with her magic and brought it close to her face as all the aliens stared dumb founded at the weapon wrapped in the purple glow, though none dared move as she still had the SMG aimed as she inspected the weapon. “You mean to tell me this thing is some weird Taser?” She asked no one in the room. “All this time I thought I was in danger of dying and it’s fucking Taser?!” She said in annoyance and hurled it across the room to join the others as she looked at the gathered aliens. “Guess that answers the question on whether or not you are hostile as I don’t think actual hostiles would be trying to use non-lethal methods.” She said as she raised her SMG to aim at the ceiling, she kept her grip on it and her finger close to the trigger as she used her free hand to flipped the table back onto its proper place.

“You can put your hands down now; I don’t really plan on hurting you, unless you do something stupid that is.” She said as she reached up and lifted her visor on her helmet. She watched as the aliens all looked between themselves before slowly lowering their hands and staring at her clearly not sure what to make of this sudden turn of events.

As Twilight watched she suddenly noticed the window behind all of them, more spastically what was beyond the window? “No fucking way.” She said and teleported to the window, startling the aliens that had been closed to it and causing them all to jump back as all the other looked around in confusion for a moment till they saw her now suddenly beside the window her free hand pressed to…whatever it was, she didn’t think it was glass as her face was as close as her helmet would allow.

“This is space.” She said as she stared at the passing asteroid field beyond the window. “This is motherfucking space!” she said and turned to face the aliens pointing out eh window. “Do you have any idea how amazing this is!” she said and blinked. “OF course you do this is your…whatever the hell it is so you must see this all the time.” She turned and faced the window again. “I am in space!” She said and giggled, she had always wondered what it would be like to be in space and now she was standing on a ship, or a station or something actually floating through the vast vacuum. This was one of the most amazing things she had ever experienced. She was so excited she didn’t even care that her wings were shifting on their own to show her level of excitement.

She sensed one of the aliens approaching her from behind and turned to face them lowering her SMG slight just in case he tried to attack. It was the cat-like alien who passed when she faced him and raised his hands slightly to show he meant no harm and Twilight returned the weapons to aiming at the ceiling. “I take it you have never been to space?” He asked in a voice that sounded like he was use to being cheerful.

Twilight shook her head. “Nope, read about it, seen some stuff on it, never actually been myself. “She looked glanced out the window again.

“Ah…well…congratulations Mrs.….” The alien said.

Twilight faced him and gave a mock salute with her free hand. “Commander Twilight Sparkle, Equestrian Defense Force.” She said semi formally, she wouldn’t mention the rest just yet if ever as she doubted it would mean anything to them but what she did say would tell them enough.

“Ah commander, I’m Neelix.” The cat alien said. “Uh….could I ask that you lower your weapon, I can assure you we mean you no harm.”

“That remains to be seen Neelix, till I am sure I am in no danger I think I will hold on to my SMG, thank you.” She told him simply and looked back out the window. “Also I wouldn’t recommend going near those Tasers unless you want to see what a .12mm round will do to you. “She called to the two guards trying to make their way towards the weapons without looking from the window.

She couldn’t see it but she knew she had startled them, what few people knew about Twilight was she had practiced seeing with her peripherals so even when looking one way, she could see and identify what was at the edge of her vision. “So…Commander Sparkle, if you don’t mind my asking. “Neelix said. “Ah….how did you get on our ship here?”

Twilight looked from the window back at the alien. “Haven’t the slightest idea, I thought the rift as supposed to take me home, instead it dropped be here.” She gestured to the mess hall.

“Rift?” Neelix asked with confusion, but before Twilight could answer one of the doors to the mess hall opened to admit a human female being escorted by dark skinned humanoid with pointed ears dressed like the guards. The women on the other hand wore a style of uniform the mare had yet to see being that hers was red rather than yellow or blue and she carried herself with authority.

Twilight faced the officer who looked around the room at all the aliens standing around and the pile of Tasers in the far corner before her eyes settled on the Alicorn that had disarmed her guards. “I am captain Janeway of the Federation Starship Voyager, why have you attacked this vessel?” Janeway demanded.

Twilight raised an eyebrow, she wasn’t just any officer, she was the one in charge it seems, that is if this universe’s navy was like the one back home. “I haven’t attacked this vessel, believe me, if I had then we wouldn’t be standing here having this conversation and there would be a lot more bodies.” Twilight said and the Captain glared at her. Twilight raised a hand to calm the officer. “I have no idea why I am here and I can assure you my presences here is not my choice, I’d much rather be in my office back home.”

“Then why did you attack two of my security officers?” Janeway demanded once more, it was clear to Twilight she was angry about that, much like Twilight would have been. Twilight officially decided she like this women somewhat.

“Self-defense, they aimed a weapon at me and I reacted, I made sure not to do anything permanent.” Twilight explained. This seemed to satisfy the Captain as she relaxed slightly.

“Very well, but why are you holding my people hostage?” She gestured to all the unarmed humans and aliens still standing around the room.

“I’m not, they have been free to go the entire time, and it’s their choice to stick around.” Twilight said and shrugged. “The SMG is because I still don’t know if you people are friendly or not though I am leaning more towards the friendly option.”

“If what she says is true.” The dark skinned alien said in a slightly deep detached voice. “Then I believe there has been a misunderstanding Captain.”

“I believe you are right Tuvok.” The captain said looking at this Tuvok alien before looking back at Twilight. “I must apologize for security confronting you as they seem to have and I can assure you we mean you no harm, we are peaceful explores who are just trying to get home.”

Twilight nodded and looked around the room one last time before slinging her SMG behind her back. “Very well, I’ll take your word for now, not like I have anywhere to go anyways as I have a choice of this ship or the frigid vacuum of space and I am rather fond of being alive.” She said and she heard a couple of the aliens softly chuckle at what the mare had said.

“I must say you are taking this rather way…” Janeway said leaving it open for a prompt.

“Commander Twilight Sparkle of the Equestrian Defense Force. “She introduced once more. “And this isn’t the first time I’ve found myself where I shouldn’t be and the third time I have seen humans so I’m more or less used to it. That and you are a hell of a lot nicer then the first ones I met.” She said causing the Captain to blink in surprise.

“You’ve met humans before?” She asked with some confusion in her voice.

Twilight nodded. “Yes I have, a few times even been to Earth, long story.” She said. “Actually what did you say earlier when introducing yourself? I got this ships name is Voyager but what was the rest of what you said?”

“We are representatives of the United Federation of Planets and this is one of our exploration vessels.” Janeway said.

Twilight nodded. “Alright, was making sure you didn’t say Federal cause then we’d have a problem.” She said and looked around. “Anyways I don’t know about you but it’s been about 10 hours since I last ate and the smells coming from the kitchen are taunting me so I was wondering if we could continue this meeting over dinner.”

Janeway couldn’t hide her amusement as the mare looked at the kitchen once more. “I suppose we could see what Neelix has whopped up for us today commander Sparkle.”

Twilight nodded and smiled at the captain, lease she was going to get food and could learn more about this group and enjoy some downtime as everything seemed to be peaceful in this reality. Twilight was going to enjoy a little R&R while she waited for the rift to reopen and learn about an advanced alien conglomerate, this was going to be fun.

Author's Note

Crossover: Star Trek: Voyager

Well Twilight has landed in a rather interesting place, now what could out good Commander get up to on a highly advanced Starship flying through space on it's journey home? Surely this will eba ice peaceful visit for everyone's favorite military maniac