PoV: Twilight Sparkle

I walked on the crystal street towards the palace to see my brother and sister in law. It's been two years since me and my friends came here and it still takes my breath away.

“Ya do this every time you come here sugarcube, ya need a camera?” Applejack asked. She stood beside me and looked at me with a smile. She wore her normal clothes, plaid button up shirt that was tied at her mid-draft, a brown jacket over that and Jean shorts with her trademark boots and hat.

“Yeah I don't think that's a good idea, Pinkie got her hands on her camera,” Rainbow replied to her. She wore a black tank top with camo shorts that came down to her knees. She also had a pair of goggles that hung off her neck and a tool belt.

“Hey! Why did you have to say that!?” Pinkie said. Rainbow stared at her.

“You took it and said that you'll fix the flash on it and smashed it, why did you use a hammer to fix it?” She asked. Pinkie crossed her arms and huffed a bit. She wore a white shirt with the words ‘Life's a party!!!” with some jeans.

“Honestly darling, I think you should stick with cooking,” Rarity said. She wore a white dress shirt and a purple skirt with three diamonds on the side. She looked at me and frowned. “Twilight dear don't you have anything more… stylish?”

I looked at the clothes that I was wearing, I wore a shoulderless dress shirt with a six-pointed pink star with five white stars burst on the end of it with some black pants.

“What's wrong with them?” I asked. Rarity shifted a bit as she looked me over.

“It's not that they don't look on you darling because they do, it just that they look very… simple,” she said. I rolled my eyes at her.

“It's because I don't have any other clothes that fit me, both of size and the fact that I got wings now," I said as I unfurled my wings.

“Oh, well then I guess I have to make you some more, hmmm since you have grown I guess I have to re-measure you again,” Rarity said.

“Umm, I think that you look lovely today Twilight,” Fluttershy said. She wore a light green dress with a sunflower on the end of her dress. I smiled at her.

“Thank you Fluttershy,” I told her. I felt something pulling at my shirt.

“Umm Twilight, why are we here again?" Spike asked me. He was a half foot smaller than him and he wore a dark black shirt with jeans with a chain on two of his belt loops.

“I told you, Spike we're here to visit Cadence and my brother, also get some tips on being a princess, I still really new to this," I told him. It's been a month since I turned into a princess but it was still shocking.

“Oh right sorry, well we're in the Crystal Empire the place I saved, hey have I told you how I did that?” this made my eyes roll.

“Yes you have, ten times, on the train ride up here also I was there,” I told him. He chuckled a bit and we continue walking. After a few minutes, I heard a gasp from behind me.

“Goodness me, what happened here?” Rarity asked. I turned and saw what she was looking at. The whole street was torn up with a giant Fissure in the middle of the road. At the end of it was a building with a giant hole in it. What could have done it?

“Hey! What are you doing here, civs are not allowed around here!” I heard somepony yell. I looked to see a guard marching towards us, he didn’t look happy.

“Is there a problem?” I asked him. He glared at me for a moment.

“Just like I said before, civs aren’t allowed around here, so I would like you all to leave,” He said. Rainbow glared at him.

“Do you know who we are.” She retorted. The guard shifted his glare at her.

“No, and I don’t want to know, now leave before I make you leave.” He replied. Before I could do anything I saw another guard walking us toward us.

“Private what are you doing, aren’t you supposed to stop any civs from getting near here?” he asked.

“Yes sir, I’m just doing that now sir,” The private said as he glared at us. The other guard looked at us and gave us a once over then back at the private.

“You know you are talking to the ones that save Equestria multiple time and one of them even saved the Crystal Empire from the return of the Tyrant Sombra, and final the newly appointed Princess,” He said. The private blinked at him then look at us. Pinkie waved at him, grab one of my wings and extended it out and pointed the convenient statue of Spike holding the Crystal Heart. He paled at this.

“Umm…”

“Just, go back to your post and let me deal with this,” The guard said. The private quickly saluted and ran off. The guard pinched the bridge of his nose and looked at us with a smile. “It’s so hard to get the new recruits that have a good head on them, so what can I do for you, Princess?”

“What happened here?” I asked him. He frowned and looked at the street.

“That… that I can’t say.” He stated. I heard Rainbow groaned at that.

“”Oh come on, you just said that we’re the heroes of Equestria and Twilight is a Princess, why can’t you tell us?” She asked. The guard frowned at her.

“It’s not that I don’t want to it just that I can’t tell you something that I don’t know, I found this out a few hours ago,” He told us.

“Aren’t ya’ll suppose ta be reacted faster ta things like this a bit faster?” Applejack asked.

“Well yeah but it’s kinda hard when most of the guard is looking for the Princess that went missing, and before you ask she has been found and is safe.” He added as he saw my look.

“How did you find her then?” Rarity asked.

“Well it kinda involves what happened here, what I was told from eye witnesses is that one moment everything is normal then the sound of breaking glass was being heard and the creature came crashing in, literally, and hit the wall of a building. Luckily there wasn’t anypony living in it so nopony was hurt, then Prince Shining came with a squadron of guards and took both Princess Cadenza and some hairless creature to the hospital,” He explained. I stared at him.

“Where is Princess Cadenza now?” I asked him.

“She’s in the palace, want me to escort you there?” He asked. I shook my head.

“We’re fine, come on girls,” I said. We left the guard and headed towards the Palace, I have a lot of questions for my sister in law.

Taliyah

Did I mention how bright this world is? Like wow, the colours just pop out. Back at home everything is so bland and darker but here it’s just so colourful. I could sit on my floating rock with Mr. Nibbles on my lap and stare at the wall forever. Yes you heard me right, I was sitting on a floating rock, crystal really, I wanted to see how long I can do this.

“Are you sure this is safe?” I heard Cadence asked me. I looked at her and saw her sitting on her throne.

“Well I haven’t fallen yet so it’s pretty safe,” I said to her. She stared at me for a moment.

“Well I don’t want to be rude but can you please stop floating and you the crystal back, it’s part of the floor,” She told me. I looked down and sure enough, there’s a big hole in the floor.

“Whoops sorry,” I said as I floated back down and place the crystal back in the floor. I held Mr. Nibbles in my arms and looked at Cadence. “So when will you sister in law and friend will get here?”

“Oh soon enough,” She told me. Just as she said that the doors opened and six ponies walked in. Remember what I said about colours, well the first two that caught my my eye was the neon pink one and the blue one with the the rainbow hair. I think I’m getting nauseous with all the bright colours I’m seeing. Another thing that caught my eye was the purple one, she was staring at me with an odd look. I shifted a bit at her gaze, starting to feel uncomfortable.

“Twilight, it’s so good to see you again,” Cadence said as she walked passed me and give the purple unicorn, no wait she has wings too so alicorn, a hug. I’m guessing that her name is Twilight as well.

“I should say the same to you,” Twilight said. I watched them talk for a minute when something yellow moved out of the corner of my eye. I turned and saw a yellow pegasus with pink hair wearing a dress, she was staring at Mr. Nibbles who I was holding.

“Who’s this little cutie?” She cooed. She started to pet Mr. Nibbles and he seemed to like it, he’s not biting her but I don’t think poro’s bite, they are too cute and fuzzy.

‘Mr. Nibbles, sure it’s not the greatest name but oh well,” I told her. She offered to hold him and I pasted him to her. She petted and cooed at him which made me smile. I felt a tap on my shoulder and I turn to see Cadence looking at me then she turned to Twilight.

“Twilight, this is Taliyah she’s the one that found me and brought me back here.” She said. Twilight smiled at me and did a once over.

“I don’t want to be rude but can I ask what are you?” She asked. I shrugged a bit.

“I’m a human with magical powers,” I told her. She tilted her head a bit, which I thought was kinda cute. I blinked at that and shook my head, where did that come from?

“What’s a hue-man?” She asked me. I sighed and pointed at me.

“I’m a human,” I told her. It took us a few minutes but they introduce themselves to me, the neon pink one with the poofy hair was Pinkie Pie, the blue one with rainbow hair which is her natural hair colour is Rainbow Dash, the yellow one with pink hair is Fluttershy, the white one with purple hair is Rarity who by the way was asking me where I got my clothes and wondering if she can see them. The orange one with blonde hair and has a hat is Applejack which I bet that she works on a farm since she looks like a farmer. Lastly is Twilight whose full name is Princess Twilight Sparkle. There was someone else as well, a small lizard kid with purple and green scales. His name was Spike and he was a dragon, cool.

“Well now that you’re all here we have to wait on the last two to arrive,” Cadence said. I frowned at her, there were two more? Just before I could say anything two flashes came behind me. I turned to see a tall white alicorn staring down at me. And I took the situation to the best of my ability.

“AHHHH!” I yelled as I launched myself away from her and smashing into a wall, I didn’t say that I was good at it. After pulling me out of the wall I was introduced to Princess Celestia and Princess Luna who I didn’t see due to my freak out. We did some talking and I explained what a human is, I saw some of them go a little green when the idea that I can eat meat other than Celestia, Luna and Fluttershy, I wonder why.

“Well, I think we have a lot to talk about but it’s getting late so we can talk tomorrow,” Celestia said. I looked out of the window and saw that it was getting late and I felt tired. After finding where to sleep and everything I found my room and went into it and fell into bed, passing out right there. Today has been a long day.

After what seemed to be a few hours of sleeping I woke of due to one of the bodily functions that my body has, I have to use the bathroom. After finding the bathroom, by I followed the signs, I did my business and looked at myself in the mirror as I was washing my hands. I saw that I was still wearing the clothes that I came here with, I guess I fell asleep with them. I walked out of the bathroom and turned my head to see another pony running down the hallway. She had yellow and red hair and was yellow I think. I then saw Twilight running after her in a robe of some sorts. Deciding not to deal with it since I was still half asleep I went back to my room and went to bed again.

After sleeping a few more hours I woke up to the sun up. I got out of bed and headed out to the throne room. As I got there I saw that Twilight and her friends, who go by the name the mane six, and Cadence and the other two princesses. They seemed to be talking about something.

“Morning everyone, how did you all sleep?” I asked them. They looked at me and they didn’t look happy, Twilight looked very worried. “What did I miss?”

As it seems somepony by the name of Sunset Shimmer came out of some mirror and took Twilight’s crown which was also something called the Element of Magic, one of six items known as the Elements of Harmony. Without it they would be useless and Equestria would be down one defence. We moved to a room with a fancy mirror in it, the same one that Sunset came and left through. Their plan is that Twilight has to go through the portal and bring the crown back, without help from her friends due to the fact that they might disrupted something about the world if there’s two of them there. But wouldn't that mean sending Twilight there would do the same thing? Ugg this is why I don’t read or watch sci-fi stuff, so confusing. I looked at the mirror and felt some sort of magic coming off it. As I stare at it a thought came to mind, why can’t I go? I’m not from here and I can easily go in grab the crown and get out in the matter of minutes. At the same time I could do something bad and get killed or worse so I kept my mouth shut about it. I looked back at Twilight and saw her talking to Applejack. I overheard some of the stuff they were talking about.

“- and she should have a bath everyday and she should do her homework before bed and that she has her teddy bear with her as she going to bed so she can sleep, and…” Twilight was cut off when Applejack covered her mouth with her hand.

“Twi, it’s alright ah took care of Bloom when she was still a filly, it won’t be any different with her,” Applejack said. I looked at them for a moment, who are they talking about. After giving a hug to her friends and turned to the mirror and walked in. After a moment, Spike ran into the mirror as well, and one did anything about it, not one. Uhhh.

“So what now?” Dash asked. I looked around as they looked at each other.

“No one going to do something about Spike?” I asked then. They ignored my question, I frowned at them. Rude

“I think it’s best that we send you all back home, for now, I’ll send word when Twilight returns,” Celestia said to us. Cadence walked up beside me.

“You can stay here if you want or you can go with Twilight’s friends to Ponyville,” She said to me. I chuckled at the name of the place, but the idea of exploring a different place sound fun. I told her that I would head off to Ponyville with Twilight’s friends. I looked over at Celestia as she asked them to get two chariots ready for us. Cool chariots.

“Umm auntie I think using a train would be a better idea,” Cadence said in a worried tone. I stared at her.

“What wrong with that, I think it would be cool to ride a chariot,” I told her. She looked at me for a moment.

“Well, Taliyah it’s just that, well chariots are a source of flying transportation.” She explained. I looked at her for a moment.

“They… they can fly.” I asked her. She nodded as I paled at the thought. I had a thought as I look at her. “You have a map, I can get there on my own.” She nodded and made a map appear. I looked at it and saw that the place is right in the middle of this land. I rolled it up and put it into the bag that I got from Caddie. Saying my thanks, I headed outside of the palace and then out of the city. As I got there I pulled my goggles down and my scarf up and made a piece of stone come up and jumped on it as is moved forward.

I was moving forward for about twenty minutes when I saw something in the sky. I looked up and saw two chariots flying over head, I guess that’s Twilight's friends. I looked down at my board and smiled.

“Let’s see what you can do,” I said as I tried to use her ultimate. Mimicking the motions from the video of Taliyah I heard a loud booming sound and I shot forward. I looked back and saw the ground was moving and making the weavers wall. I smiled and pushed forward to Ponyville.

Best. Ride. EVER! The travel to the town took a few hours but it was worth it, skateboarding had nothing on this. Along the way, I did some tricks and saw the earth move with me, made bridges, extended when I tried to do a jump. I wonder if I can do the same thing that Toph did in the Avatar: Last Airbender? The T.V show not the movie.

The ground changed from being white to green and going through a forest. As I was going along I saw a bunch of clouds grouped up in one place. I also saw pageses there as well. I pushed on and I saw a big mountain with what looked like a city built on it. I guess that was Canterlot that Cadence told me. It also means that I was getting close. After another hour and some jumping over some train tracks I finally got to the town. All I can say is that it was colourful but I’m going to say that for everything. I rode along for a bit until I saw two chariots on the ground and saw the rest of them there. I went towards them and let the stone return back into the ground. I pulled the goggles and scarf away.

“Nice place you got here,” I said to them. They turned and smiled at me.

“Well, it’s home, by the way, why didn’t you want to take the chariots back here?” Rainbow asked. I shifted a bit.

“Well let’s just say that I’m not the biggest fan of flying,” I told her. She frowned at me.

“What do you mean ‘not the biggest fan of flying’, it’s the best thing ever,” She said to me. I was going to say something but Rarity cut me off.

“Darling, I think she’s saying that she’s has a fear of flying,” she told Rainbow. I looked away for them.

“You’re afraid of flying?! But… that...what…” Rainbow stuttered the last part. It looks like she couldn’t compute with my fear.

“Dash, everypony is scared of something. For Taliyah it’s flying, for you it’s being in a close in space,” Pinkie said. Dash looked at her with a frown.

“Hey, Claustrophobia is a common fear for pegasuses.” She retorted. She then started to rub her arms and shivers. “Just the idea of being in a small space with no way out.”

“Well at least that ya understand why she’s afraid of flying, now if ya don’t mind ah need to check on bloom ta see if she didn’t run off with her friends for monster hunting,” Applejack said. She went off toward who knows where. I then looked at Rarity with a raised eyebrow.

“Monster hunting?” I asked her.

“Oh it’s just a rumor really, supposedly there’s this weird monster that wears this top hat that lives in the Everfree.” Rarity explained to me.

“What does it look like?” I asked her. She stared at me.

“Darling, it’s just a rumor,” She told me.

“Well, maybe it isn’t, again I’m from another world so maybe it’s something I have seen,” I said to her. She pondered at this for a bit.

“Well, nopony knows for sure but eyewitness say that it was a big frog or catfish, all that is soiled is that it called himself ‘The River King’.” She told me. I paused at the name, could it be… I turned and headed towards the forest. I heard shouts from behind me but I kept going.

It took me a bit of looking and walking but I found what I was looking for, a river. It’s a good size one at that and I also saw a small dock with one lantern with a bell. I walked to the dock and stared at the bell, there was a piece of rope on it. I took the rope and began to ring it. I waited for a few minutes to see if I was right. The water was still for some time but I then saw something moved in it, then I heard something laugh. I looked around to see who it was when something jumped out of the water. It slammed on the docks which was surprising that it stayed together. I stared at the creature in front of me, I knew who he was, he was a pain it the ass support to fight against in the game

“Tahm Kench,” I said to him.

He laughs at me. I heard his laugh before in the game but hearing it now is down right scary. He took his top hat off and bowed to me.

“Hello my dear, it’s so nice to finally meet you,” He said to me. His voice… sounds very soothing, in a very creepy way.

“Hello Kench, what are you doing here?” I asked him. He chuckled at me.

“Oh you know, traveling from place to place and tasting other place meals,” He told me. I shuttered at the thought of the meals that he has eaten. He then tilted his head at me. “Now the question is why are you here my dear.”

“I heard a rumor and got curious to see if they are true,” I told him.

“Really, well I think there’s something else to this, maybe… information,” He said. He leaned in close enough that I could smell fish on him. “Information about… your brother.”

I didn’t say anything, I been down this route before and look what happened, I been sent here. But as much as I don’t trust him the idea of him knowing something is tempting. So I take the bait.

“You know something about him?” I asked him. He chuckled at me.

“Of course, I do, everything goes down the river and everything comes to me,” He said. I bit my thumb as I thought of my options.

“Do I have to pay for this info?” I asked him. He chuckled at me.

“Normally yes, you do but you are new to this world and you caught me in a good mood so let’s say the next two things are on the house,” He told me. I narrowed my eyes at him.

“Alright, what can you tell me about my brother,” I asked him.

“I can tell you that he’s alive and well but not the same from you are used to, he lived for a long time and in that time, he changed,” Tahm said. I frowned at him. I’m happy that my brother is alive but the fact that he’s not the same from I’m used to makes me iffy.

“Can I see him?” I asked.

“My dear, that is something that I can’t do but I know of a way to make it that you can meet him,” He then pointed at me. “I want you to make something at is connected to you.”

I frowned at that, what did he mean by that. I looked around and saw some stones which gave me an idea. I went over and picked up a rock that was the size of my fist. I put both hands over it and closed my eyes. I felt the rock change its shape in my hands. I opened my eyes and removed my hand to see what I got. It looked like the Shurima symbol that I saw in the game.

I went back and showed him what I got.

“Would this work?” I asked him. He shrugged.

“I guess so, you could have used anything really now you should give it a message, it’s going to be your calling card,” He told me. I looked at him with an odd look.

“Why?” I asked him.

“Well if others are going to get their hands on it and call you for help they need to know who you are, keep it short,” He said. I looked at it for a minute and thought of a message.

“My name is Taliyah the Stoneweaver, if you need help with anything just give me a call, Oh! And I’m a good guy.” I said to it. I felt it hum a bit and stopped. “Alright, now wh-”

Just as I was saying that his tongue shot out and grabbed the item from me. It shot back and he ate it. I blinked and stared at him. Wha….

“What just happened?” I asked him.

“What you have asked me to, I made it that you could meet him. What you made is a token, what you are is something called a Displacement, a being that can travel through worlds.” He said. He waved his claw around in the air for a bit. “Just to keep this short there are millions of worlds like this one but different at the same time, your brother is in one of them and soon he’ll get your token and maybe you will as well.” He then moved towards the water.

“Wait, if you said that he’ll get it then why did you just eat it,” I said to him. He looked over his shoulder at me.

“Because my stomach is connected to the void, I just sent it into the void now I’m leaving since my job is done, if you want more information then bring me something of equal or greater value.” And with that, he jumped into the river and left. I stood there for a moment and sighed.

“Well, that was something,” I turned around and headed back to town. “I guess I should start checking out this world then.”

Author's Note

Token's out, crossovers are open, send me a PM if you want to do a crossover.

As you can tell this story timeline is during the EG movie, I thought it was a good place to set it.

See you all in the next chapter. :)