Equestria: Across the Multiverse

Jaunt 1.0 - Trooper924 First Jaunt Arc Pt 1

The ponies emerged from a puddle on the ground. Rainbow Dash looked around and gave her assessment of their surroundings.

"It's just a field."

"It's not just a field, Rainbow Dash," Twilight Sparkle said as she checked the portal caster. "It's a field in an alternate universe! This is a major historical moment!"

"It's still just a field though," muttered Rainbow Dash, sullenly kicking a flower. "I was hoping the first universe we visited would be, like, ruled by evil warlord versions of us or be populated by snakes or whatever."

"That's....an interesting thought," Rarity said, involuntarily shuddering at the thought of a world inhabited by the slimy reptiles.

"Snakes are nice," Fluttershy added timidly.

Behind them, the portal closed with a shoom. "Well, that's it then," Applejack said. "So, just what are we gonna do fer the next two days?"

"I've already thought of that," Twilight said brightly, momentarily forgetting about the portal castor. She pulled out a list from her saddle bags. "I thought that first we should collect some soil and water samples, have them prepared for analysis. Oh, we should collect plant samples too - !"

"And we can go to that cool party in that town over there!" Pinkie said excitedly.

Twilight blinked. "What?"

"That town over there," Pinkie said, pointing. And indeed, there was a small village off in the distance. "My Pinkie sense tells me that a huge party is about to start there! So can we go there? Can we? Can we? Can we?"

"Um..." Twilight looked down at her list as Pinkie bounced around her. "We weren't supposed to make first contact until at least Step 543 on the list...."

"Come on, Twi," Applejack said, walking up next to the unicorn. "Wasn't one of points of this whole shindig to meet new friends?"

"Well..." Twilight took out a pair of binoculars from her saddlebags and took a look at village. She noted that the buildings seemed to be a mix of Griffon and Diamond Dog architecture as well a few others that Twilight didn't recognize.

"Alright," she said finally, putting away the binoculars. "But we'll take things slowly. We keep a low profile, stick together and try to avoid talking to anyone until we can learn more about this world. And at the first sign of trouble, we leave immediately."

"Yipee!" Pinkie squeed as the group started towards the village. "Trans-dimensional party, here we come!"

= = =

From a distance, unseen by the ponies, a cloaked figure watched them go.

"Strange visitors....what a curious mystery," she muttered, then she shook her head. "No, they don't matter. I must focus on my final victory."

Then she dissolved into mist and disappeared.

Jaunt 1.1 – BrutalityInc First Jaunt Arc Pt 2

Twilight’s Notebook - Day 1 of Jaunt

“… We entered the village from one of the side roads, avoiding any potential encounters with the denizens before melding unnoticed into the crowds that had gathered in the main street. Under the hats and cloaks we brought specifically for these occasions (Plus Rarity’s and Pinkie’s supplies of accessories), we were largely ignored by the locals, their attention diverted by their celebration of a festival.

Now inside, we were awarded a better look of the village than it would suffice with long distance observation. Just what we have seen, heard and recorded hints at the potentially vast differences between the world we were visiting and Equestria from whence we came, although we should remind ourselves that this is merely one settlement, and what find here might not be representative of the whole land. There are several noticeable features, when compared with Ponyville:

For one, this village is much more cosmopolitan; as highlighted by the architectural features from afar, there is a sizable population of griffons and diamond dogs living in the village. Although they are not of breeds that are either common or we could even recognize from experience or books back in Equestria, they all possess the same general biological traits as those back home. There were even a few deer in the crowds, one of which bumped into Pinkie Pie. From initial observations, they seem to get along well.

There are, of course, ponies in the mix, which I consider a blessing as we would otherwise stood out like a crystal ewe among a pack of timber-wolves (Not that I’m comparing the griffons and diamond dogs to the predators, just for the record). Similar to Ponyville, many of them are earth-ponies, with a few pegasi and unicorns in between. Like us, they possessed pastel-colored coats, tails and manes, and even have cutie-marks like us. Their uncanny similarities with us ponies in Equestria are such that, if we didn’t know that we have landed in another universe, it would be virtually impossible to tell that these ponies are not from Equestria.

Another notable difference compare to our Equestria is that this society seems to be firmly medieval; all the denizens wore leather and wool-based clothing that would correspond with those worn in the Equestrian high middle ages, although many prefer to go out naked like we do. There were a few ponies-at-arms apparently from a nearby town, headed by an armoured male griffon, and a younger female griffon which base on her looks appeared to be related to him. Both they and the villagers' mannerisms and habits also resembled medieval life as uncovered by historians and archaeologists, although the local culture is sufficiently alien enough compare to medieval Equestria that I was not able to immediately recognized them as such.

There were no paved roads, no street-lamps, no fire hydrants and water pipes, or even a sewer-line, beyond dirt paths, a few torches, a well and ditches, all which suggests the absence of a modern infrastructure found even in Ponyville. There were not even glass windows on buildings except, from what we later discovered, a chapel which besides the market served as one of the few public places around which life in the area revolves around (More on the religious/spiritual ways of life of the locals later). The locals lack the modern commodities, tools and appliances that we had long taken for granted, which points to a lack of industrialization compare to Equestria.

All these conjectures are backed by the fact that, as we observed earlier, there are considerable farmland surrounding the village and across the river to the west of the settlement, but no structure resembling either a factory, workshop or even a windmill in the area, all of which strongly suggests a land- and agricultural-centred economy that form the heart of many pre-Industrial societies. I suspect the political system is also strongly feudal, unlike the more modern constitutional monarchy of our Equestria. If so, given today seemed to be a very special public occasion, I suspect we shall soon encounter the local lord, baron or whoever is in charge of the fief which this village seems to be the heart of.

One thing needed to be noted before I continue is that we encountered a problem which might also appear in future jaunts in other worlds, one which strained our ability to comprehend or interact with the locals, or find out more about the place we arrived at, at least until we found their equivalent of an inn, which was ran by a young teenage colt and his mother…

Jaunt 1.2 - Grogar-the-oneser First Jaunt Arc Pt 3 (With edits/polishing by me)

"Rarity, will you stop that!" Applejack said, annoyed. "I thought you would be happier since you like medieval-time clothing."

"It's true I like the clothing. It's the plumbing situation I don't like." Rarity said.

"Oh come on, it can't be that bad." Applejack said as they were sitting in the room while the others get food.

"It's smells like someone died in there!" Rarity snapped. "There were literally a colony of flies that shot out when I opened the door.

"Calm down Rarity, we won't be staying here for long." Twilight said. "This is just a first stop."

"HEAHERAEHREWSGSSDJTHSRE!" Pinkie nodded with her cheek bulging with food.

Jaunt 1.3 - zaku789 First Jaunt Arc Pt 4 (With edits/polishing by me)

"Pinkie, I get that you like treats from the carnival, but you'll ruin your appetite for for lunch. Plus, eating with your mouth full is uncouth." Rarity said, but with a slight grin to her voice.

"See, you're perking up already. Now all we have to is wait for Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy to get back here with the food, and we'll be set for tonight on what I'm sure will be a fun adventure." Twilight said happily.

Four hours later...

"How did we all end up here?!" Twilight shouted with shock, as they were sitting in a jail cell.

"Well there's a funny story to that." Rainbow Dash said, blushing with embarrassment.

"She punched the visiting baron's guards." Fluttershy said blandly.

"WHAT?!"

"I thought they were bad guys! They were wearing black armor with a purple tint to it!" Rainbow said defensively. "Plus one of them was near the owner son looking ready to grab him so - !"

"Oh! Did it turn out that the guard who was attacked was actually one of the boy's relatives?" Pinkie asked.

"Yep." Fluttershy said. "It was his uncle to be precise."

"So that means, when Rainbow attacked, she literally struck a guy who just wanted to hug the nephew he hasn't seen in a while." Applejack muttered.

"And the reason we're all stuck here is because rainbow is charged with assault, with us as accomplices." Rarity added with a tone of annoyance.

Jaunt 1.4 - Alex Warlorn (With edits/additions by me)

Twilight’s Notebook

"Inevitably, as we travel the multiverse, making friends, helping worlds and bringing back knowledge and goods back to Equestria, we found ourselves encountering many unsavory characters who have less than noble, if not downright horrid intentions in their use of interdimensional travelling capabilities.

We encountered one group of such individuals early in our travels. What made this one particularly unsettling to us, even to this day, is that we know full well exactly WHO they were. And what they were doing was horrible almost beyond words ..."

= = =

They appeared in a bright pink painfully colored and sugary sweet town. A sign nearby with the cheerful words, "Welcome to Ponyville"... if most of the houses hadn't been blown open, and others had burned to the ground.

"Looks like freakin' Tirek happened to this place." Applejack said.

"Don't even joke darling," Rarity said.

"NO! Why did you come back!" It was ... a pink mare, who sort of looked like one of Pinkie Pie's clones when she made that 'crazy face'... in fact, she had a cutie mark similar to Pinkie's too, except her mane was light pink and her coat was dark pink.

"Come back? W-what do you-" Twilight began to say.

"YOU ALREADY TOOK MINTY FROM ME! What more do you ... you... you not-good-ponies want?!" The other Pinkie Pie broke down sobbing. "I... I WON'T tell you where the others are! Just... just make me not-alive... so... so I can be where Minty is..."

Then... another portal opened... with an identical mane six. "I just know we missed some of those abominations the last time we were... who the hell are you?" The other Twilight Sparkle demanded, raising an eyebrow at the first Twilight Sparkle...

Jaunt 1.5 - zaku789 (With edits/additions by me)

"Stop, stop!" Applejack interjected, annoyed.

"What?" Rainbow Dash blinked.

"You described a world where the Megan was evil, a crapsaccharine world where ponies want to lynch us, and a sugar sweet world which an evil version of us was attacking, seeing it and everypony in it as abominations, and then we show up to fight them." Applejack said "Don't you think all that sounds like a bad fanfic, or at the least a grim-dark one?"

"It could happen! It's a big multiverse!" Rainbow Dash said defensively. “For all we know, this could be happening somewhere right now!”

"Why would you want that to happen?" Twilight asked.

"Well, not the horrible stuff I mentioned. I mean us appearing and stopping evil them before they do all that stuff in the last world." Rainbow Dash clarified.

"What about the other three?"

"Well we stop the evil Megan and her family, show them the error of their evil ways, convince the crapssacharine world to drop the first part of the name and maybe.... I don't know, convince them to be good people." Rainbow Dash said with a shrug.

"It's amazing what goes on in her head sometimes." Rarity said with everyone nodding.

= = =

Meanwhile, in a different world-line...

"Well.... we did it, we defeated evil us, convinced some of Hydia family to turn good, and in return they gave us this potion so that the 3.5 world can live again." Twilight said calmly with all her friends, looking battered and scarred, but satisfied as they view 3.5 ponies playing peacefully with that world, with Pinkie playing with Minty.

= = =

“Anyway, let me finish before you judge!” Rainbow Dash admonished, waving off the nitpicking, “As I was saying, so there they were, us Mane Six and our counterparts, standing off, and the other Twilight demand to know who our Twilight here is…”

Jaunt 1.6 - Kendell2 Magenta Diamond Arc Pt 1  (Crossover/Fusion with Steven Universe)

Twilight's Notebook

The membranes between worlds are...strange. Sometimes, they form natural links between them. Other times, they form brief natural connections. Rainbow Dash insists on calling these worlds 'Crossovers'. A strange but accurate term.

The Mane Cast, to their relief following several other Equestrias that were wildly different or frightening, emerged from a portal to find themselves in a world that seemed identical to their own, at least on the surface.

"So we go from crazy alternate worlds with more Griffins and Diamond Dogs than ponies and other crazy places to...home?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Things aren't always what they seem, Rainbow Dash," Twilight said. "None of these worlds CAN be identical to ours, something must be different..."

"Hey girls!"

The group blinked, turning to see a small human child with black hair, blue jeans, and a pink shirt with a yellow star in the middle of it run up, waving.

"Ugh, can't we ever NOT skip straight to 543!" Twilight complained.

The little boy blinked. "Wait, uh, Rainbow weren't you back there?" he asked, pointing the direction he'd come from.

"There you are!" said a second Rainbow Dash, flying over, followed by Diamond Tiara, another, darker skinned human girl about Steven's aged, and several ponies the group hadn't seen before.

One was a tall, powerful looking reddish purple unicorn about Big Mac's size wearing pointed shades, her mane like a square afro and a star over half her chest, with two gemstones that seemed to be a part of the inside of her legs, as close to her hooves as possible. Another was a purple, much shorter long haired pegasus with a purple gemstone that seemed to be a part of her chest. A tail, white unicorn of Fleur's build with a well kept yellow mane, a white pearl on her forehead directly below her horn followed shortly there after.

"Whao..." BOTH Rainbow Dashs said at once.

"Wait for me!" yelled a small, green unicorn with a triangular peridot gem on her forehead and a yellow visor over her face, her mane forming a rounded triangle, trying to catch up. A blue Earth Pony with a gem in the middle of her back followed slowly behind her, seeming to want to keep her distance.

"Whao... is it just me or am I seeing double?" the purple pegasus questioned.

"So you're from another universe?" asked the young girl, who was named Connie, the group now in the park. "So that means multiverse theory is true?... Well, beyond the three universes interlinked here."

Twilight nodded. "We've actually been to a few of them."

"That is so cool."

Twilight, apparently BOTH Twilight and the native Twilight, seemed to get along well with her.

"So, you're like...alien rocks?" Rainbow Dash asked, thankfully the fact they'd ALREADY met the native versions of them had smoothed things over.

The small green one, Peridot rolled her eyes. "We're crystalline alien lifeforms who project a holographic physical form...except Steven who is a hybrid."

"Oh...so you're not normally ponies?" asked Rainbow asked.

"No, this is...ugh, how did Steven put it? 'A form you are comfortable with...did I say that right?" she asked, looking to the young boy, seemingly looking for approval.

"Yeah! I saw it in a movie once!" said Steven happily, seeming like your normal kid..

Twilight looked to them. "So what do you really look like?"

"Are true physical forms resemble humans," Pearl, the tall unicorn, explained, seeming a bit cautious about extradimensional visitors, but Steven HAD asked her to give this a chance. "Our true bodies are simply our Gems."

"Yeah, on Earth, we look like this!" the purple pegasus, named Amethyst, her physical body turning into purple energy before transforming into a short human woman with the same coloration and wearing a purple outfit.

Peridot gave an annoyed sigh. "That is still a massive waste of energy to just switch back and forth. Staying in a single form is much more efficient if we have to disguise ourselves!"

Half-way through, Amethyst turned into a purple version of Peridot's pony form and mimicked her.

Diamond Tiara cleared her throat.

"Oh, right. DT always looks like that," said Amethyst.

"What?!" asked most of the visiting group.

"I'm a Gem," Diamond said, in a mixture of hesitance and...well, DIAMOND TIARA. She turned around and pushed her mane up, revealing a diamond shaped Gemstone in the back of her neck that was the same color as her fur.

"Well...didn't see that comin'..." Applejack said while the others looked shocked.

"I take it I'm NOT a Gem where you're from?" Diamond asked, merely getting a headshake. She gave a sigh. "I don't know if I'm happy or upset about that..."

"But, how?" Twilight asked.

"My mom and Pearl found her back on our world a long time ago and sent her over here using the Rainbow Bridge to hide her from some really bad Gems," Steven explained.

"Why?"

"Cause she's apparently the Gem version of an Alicorn," the native Rainbow explained. "Or something."

"She's a DIAMOND! How hard is that to remember?!" Peridot asked, seeming to take that fact anything but lightly.

"We don't know WHY she was there," Pearl explained. "Peridot theorizes the Earth just happened to have an extremely rare material needed to make a Diamond and even the other Gems didn't realize what they'd created."

"But if she's one of you, why is her true form a pony?" asked Twilight.

"Because I WANT to be one," Diamond clarified. "Do I NEED another reason?"

"...I guess not..."

"To be more specific, a Gem's physical form is dependent on their personal preferences," Peridot explained. "She spent her entire post emergence period disguised as such on orders before being put back into Equus' soil to continue growing, then being raised as a pony rather than as a Gem. Absorption of native mana and magic also allowed her to obtain what you ponies call a 'Cutie Mark' naturally. However, she's currently in a compact form, her true size would be roughly twenty feet tall."

Twilight blinked in confusion and looked at Diamond.

The little filly blushed, which apparently she could. "I don't know how to use my powers yet, alright? I only found out I even WAS a Gem a few weeks ago!"

"I see...This world is rather interesting. The divergence point is merely one pony being a different species...and the presence of other worlds."

Jaunt 1.7 - Grogar-the-oneser (Toy Story crossover/homage)

"I know how it happened, I just want to know how we can make it unhappen!" Applejack snapped. Each of them were transformed into toys the moment they arrived, for some reason, and were standing in a yard. "This is just too weird."

"Still, it's quite interesting, and this is coming from someone who experiences changes quite a bit." Twilight admitted.

"Yeah, it's cool!" Pinkie said giggling, but turned serious, "As long as were not in a bad yard."

"What?" Rainbow dash said, confused.

"There are two kinds of kids when it comes to toys; the ones that take care of them, and the ones that are destructive." Pinkie explained.

"Oh come on Pinkie, your being far too dramatic." Rainbow Dash said.

= = =

"AHH!!" Rainbow Dash screamed as she hit a dartboard. The kid that found them shot them from a slingshot.

"I warned you, Dashie!"

Jaunt 1.8 – MtangaLion First Jaunt Arc Pt 5

Rarity sighed. "Honestly, Rainbow Dash.  Here we are, actually exploring another world, and you're fantasizing about some entirely different fictional adventure?"

"Only because I'm *bored* of sitting around in a jail cell."  Dash leaned closer, lowering her voice.  "Can't you magic the keys to our cell over here?"

"I did try, darling.  I shudder to think what manner of medieval vermin might be infesting my coat at this very moment.  However, the entire cell seems to be lined with cold iron."

"I could probably overpower it," mused Twilight.  "Of course, the feedback might tear the whole jail apart, and we're sort of trying to make a good impression."

Before they could make any further escape plans, the door leading to the cells clanged and swung open on creaking hinges.  A wolf-like Diamond Dog and a rough-looking earth pony colt entered first, taking up guard posts.  Then a female griffon resembling a raven and a gray tabby cat approached their cell... the officer that they'd noticed before.  All three of them were equipped with well-worn practical metal armor.

The griffon twitched, squinting at them with one eye, then the other.  "Ponies attacking nobles.  Now I've seen everything."

"Please, this was all just a big understanding," said Fluttershy earnestly.

Pinkie Pie grinned squeakily.  "Would an apology song help?"

"I'm really sorry," said Rainbow Dash.

Applejack nodded.  "She really is."

The griffon jabbed a talon towards them.  "Yeah?  Well, we'll see about that, when our wizard figures out what that cannon thing you had is supposed to do.  If it's one of those lame party cannons, you get off with a warning, but if it's a real weapon..."  She smirked and scraped her talon along a cell bar, making a horrible screeching sound.

The griffon blinked and inclined her head, noticing something.  "What's that you're hiding under your cloak?"  She glared at the earth pony guard.  "Why didn't you take those?"

"Who?" asked Twilight.  "Wait... me?  But..."

The griffon officer drew her sword and slipped it between the cell bars, flicking Twilight's cloak aside to reveal that she had both a horn and wings.  "By the dragons..." hissed the griffon.

The Diamond dog yipped!  "N-Nightmare!"  He drew his own sword, snarling and advancing on the cell.  The earth pony soldier snorted and pawed at the stone floor.

"No, wait!" cried Twilight.  "I'm not a Nightmare, I'm an Alicorn!"

"Whoa, whoa whoa!" shouted the griffon, snapping her wings open to wave the guards back.  "Do you really think this cell could hold a Nightmare?"  Watching Twilight like a hawk, she drew a coin from a pouch and flicked it into the cell with them.  "Let's see your magic, pony.  Just lift the coin, and no funny business."

Twilight was confused, but she did what she was asked, lighting her horn and floating the coin in her usual violet aura.

The griffon relaxed, slightly.  "There, you see?  Nightmares can only use Dark magic.  Everybody knows that."  She snapped her talons.  "Get some more soldiers here.  The captain needs to see this... Alicorn."

Jaunt 1.9 - Grogar-the-oneser and BrutalityInc First Jaunt Arc Pt 6

The Mane Six were escorted to a room above the cell they were imprisoned in. Cold iron bars were replaced with an arrowslit of the village keep, from which the afternoon sunlight filtered through. Straw bed was replaced with a table and chairs, next to a weapons rack and barrels containing what Twilight suspect to be oil or wine, based on the smell, either to pour out at invaders or between meals.

The guards’ room wasn’t the captain’s; he and his stallions had a much better chamber back in the baron’s castle. But there was no place else to conduct an interrogation. Applejack noticed that he was big, rough and sturdy in terms of built even for a griffon, of a breed being crossed between an eagle and a mountain lion. Rarity noticed his finely face and beak is marred by a few scars, complemented by white feathers that seems to be starting to grey from age, and some parts of it stained with dots and patches of… something oily black that they couldn’t recognize.

"So you are supposed to be a what?" The captain asked irritably. His gruff voice betrayed his annoyance at the motley group before him. After all, the blue pegasi did attack one of his ponies-at-arms, and offended by calling them ‘bad-guys’.

"An alicorn." Twilight said calmly.

“An alicorn… never heard of any known tribe of ponies called alicorns.” The griffon captain said. He picked up a stylus begin to write down the information on a few papers under candlelight, "How do I know this isn't some very elaborate hoax created by a nightmare to attack this area?"

"Believe me when I say me and my friend would never let a nightmare harm anyone. we might try to cure them, but not work with them." Twilight replied.

"Cure them, HA!" The captain laughed harshly, perhaps a little too harshly. There was a palpable hint of bitterness. "There’s no cure when you become one of those things. Next you’ll be saying Draconequus are real."

"They are real, we met one who was our enemy and later... well, I guess you could say friend who likes to push our buttons." Pinkie added.

"Right..." The captain muttered, giving a look at Pinkie like she had grown two heads.

“Wait, wait, wait, back up a bit,” Twilight interrupted before the conversation could go further, “You know what a Draconequus is, but you never heard of an Alicorn?”

“… Your point?” The griffon captain asked, confused.

“… Excuse us for a second.” She asked, before pulling her friends closer in a huddle, the chains binding their hooves rattling as she did.

“Now, I know this may sound crazy, but between his ignorance of what I am and how differently the Nightmares seems to behave here, I think we’re dealing with a reality where some creatures we faced either doesn’t exist, or exists differently from what we know.” Twilight whispered to her friends.

“Tell me about it.” Applejack muttered, “Knew something was different the moment his second says she don’t know nothing about. I suppose you want us to be cautious at how we throw them terms around, in case they get wrongly suspicious?”

“Pretty much, yes.” Twilight confirmed, “For all we know, a Nightmare here doesn’t mean something as powerful as Nightmare Moon. Maybe they are fragments of some defeated evil overlord, or non-corporeal brain parasites from space, or the monstrous by-products of some mutagenic curse that can spread like a disease…”

“You mean like zombies, or werewolves, or vampires?” Rainbow Dash supplied.

“… Something like that.” Twilight concluded. “Which also means if one of those things shows up, we won’t actually know how to deal with it. We must not rush into a fight with them until we do.”

“Still doesn’t explain how they know the of the draconequu.” Rarity pointed out, “Even assuming it is not something like Discord, what are the odds of two species in completely different universes sharing the same name, with the same pronunciation? Even the ponies, diamond dogs, deer and griffons here refer themselves with completely different names in their own language!”

“Could it be that Discord, his counterparts and fellow quus go dimension-jumping too?” Pinkie Pie asked. “Maybe he or other-he visited centuries ago and we didn’t know it!”

“Its… certainly possible.” Twilight admitted, shuddering slightly at this almost certain possibility, “But if our Discord had done it, he would had told us about it by now!”

= = =

“You meant to tell me that you went hopping around in other universes this whole time?!” Princess Celestia exclaimed, back in Equestria.

Discord crossed his mismatched arms, “Well, you didn’t exactly ask, did you?”

“Do you have any idea how convenient for every-pony it would had been you told us earlier?” now it was Shining Armor’s turn to exclaim, “We wouldn’t have to worry about my sister and her friends stuck in dangerous worlds if you could just snap your claws and bring them back!”

Indeed, Twilight nor her friends had been reporting in on schedule as planned, and that has gotten every-pony worried that their first jaunt is already meeting disaster literally a few hours in; If silence persisted on a second scheduled interval in a row, a rescue mission would be readied and launched the moment the two day ‘barrier rebound period’ ends.

Discord had popped in when the distinct possibility of Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie in danger appeared, leading to him unintentionally revealing that he used to go jaunting all the time.

“Well it’s not as easy as snapping my claws! Well… maybe it is for me, but even my powers have limits.” Discord explained, “For one thing, it suffers the same restrictions as the Portal Caster with the whole membrane rebound thing, so I can’t exactly just go after them for at least another day and a half. I know, I tried before! It all ends in me hitting a wall.”

As if to demonstrate, Discord tore a white glowing tear with his claws, and launch himself to it like a pony-cannonball, only to hit something akin to a wall with an audible ‘SMACK!’, and his cartoonish-ly flattened form sliding off the closing portal.

“Well, can you teach us how to cast the spell required, or at least help us make one?” Princess Celestia asked, “Doing so would allow even more practical travel across the multiverse, free from the restrictions of the Crystal Mirror or even a Portal Caster.”

“Well, I had shown you when I tried throwing Fluttershy’s hippie friend what’s-her-name into the Puppet Dimension. But even that’s not easy.” Discord said while inflating himself back to normal form, “My magic could do it, but you forget; it’s CHAOS magic. It is unpredictable, as its whole shindig is entropy, the breakdown of order to disorder, the end of rules, laws of physics, flow of causality and even common sense. And without those structures or guidelines that govern reality, anything improbable or could go wrong can, and eventually WILL, happen, and I’m the only creature I know who could reliably cast it without say exploding, turning into a pot of petunias, appearing in the heart of a sun, or falling head-first into a manure pit (Usually because I can survive and undo the damage easily). And since it’s unpredictable, even I have no control of where I ended up.”

“So how did you do it without getting lost or blown up?” Shining Armor asked, confounded.

“Well, I usually just do so by casing the magic, and then undoing it when I got bored toying around in that other world and let home universe pull me pack. Not always reliable, mind you. One time, I got lost the connection and got lost in another universe. I have to snap my claws for over five hundred years, non-stop, hopping over countless millions upon millions of universes before I landed back here by chance.” Discord said, rubbing the back of his head, “That might explain why I stopped going on interdimensional field-trips.”

= = =

“Are you mares just clucking like hens there, or are you making an escape plan while thinking we can’t hear you?” The green stallion-at-arms standing next to his griffon captain growled. Some of the Mane Six flinched at that slur, but none of them dared do anything; not when they were surrounded by several more of the stallion-at-arms

“No, we’re not. There’s been enough misunderstandings.” Twilight said, turning to face the captain, “Let me be clear with you that we apologize for our previous behaviour, and swear, with all here as witness, that by all that is true that I am not a Nightmare, but an Alicorn, and as such will do everything in my considerable power as such to protect as many as I can from Nightmares, whatever they may be in this land.”

“A rather bold appeal to a higher power, if an unconventional one. And did someone say that they are an ‘Alicorn’?”

Everyone turned to the entrance of the room, where three figures now entered through. Two were recognizable by the Mane Six: the young azured coloured earth-pony colt with green mane and violet eyes who ran the inn with his mother, his uncle, a larger brown earth-pony stallion-at-arms with silver mane and tail, who nursed a big bruise on his left face blacker than the armour he wore; Rainbow Dash withered slightly from the glare he thrown in her way.

Last but not least who entered the room surprised them; he wore a cloak, which covered him from head to tail until he pulled back his hood to reveal he is a diamond dog, seemingly of a breed resembling a Great Dane Twilight recalled seeing in the Canterlot High verse. A wooden six-pointed star, modest-looking save for a small gemstone, hung from his neck by a string. On his back he carried a leather pouch, seemingly containing various objects shaped like tools and books, embroid on the outside with images seemingly from story books and verses from text that Twilight has yet read.

“Greetings, everyone.” The bruised stallion-at-arms began, “The Pastor asked us to come to this meeting, as witnesses who have had personal contact with our… prisoners.”

“The Baron has requested that I help examine our unusual guests.”

“‘Pastor’ …” Twilight muttered the word quietly, then her eyes widened as she realized something. “You’re from the church we saw, aren’t you? The minister of the village?”

“Very astute!” The big diamond dog yelped, friendly, cheerful and welcoming, even to strangers he just first met. “I am Father Granus, of the Church of the Six Divines, a scholar-brother of the Ascetic Covent, and the ordained minister of the Baron’s fief, incidentally the village’s doctor and teacher as well. Though I see that our young friend, Bren,” He looked over to the young colt standing next to him. “Has yet to introduce me to you back in the inn.”

“Sorry sir, it hasn’t come up in conversation.” Bren admitted.

“It is alright.” He said, smiling warmly, before he walked over to examine Twilight, looking over her.

A few minutes passed, whereupon Granus examined Twilight’s horns and wings - measuring their lengths with a marked rope, holding the gem on his six-pointed star close, which glowed with magic, and looked closely at the feathers with what looked like a crude looking glass - before he passed judgement, “I would confirm with more tests later with the baron’s wizard, though from an initial examination, I would say that, her wings and horn definitely look natural, not a product of dark magic, despite what some of the guards whom I overheard in the hallway kept insisting. That said, I am also at a lost to explain her. She’s abnormal, but not abhorrent.”

“No one here never has seen any pony like me before?” Twilight asked.

“To my knowledge as a scholar, the only pony-like being that has both horn and wings is Suwen himself.”

“Suwen? Is he your ruler?” Applejack inquired

“No, praise be! We had a king, but Suwen of the Sun is greater than any king. For he is one of the Six Divines, those who created this world long before the Regency and even great King Hengroen. And of the mortal races in particular, he was the one who created the ponies.” Granus explained. "If he is what you would call an 'Alicorn', I can say that he certainly isn't one, anymore."

"And why is that?" Rarity asked, curious.

The Mane Six didn’t know it, but the others in the village know he always itches for a chance spread knowledge and teachings of the church. “It is said that when the god of the Sun created his mortal children, the first three ponies, he found them to be frail and vulnerable, and worried they might not survive the world the Six Divines had just created. So, like the other Divines to their mortal children, he gifted to each of them parts of himself; to the first pony, he gave him his horn to wield magic. To the second, a pair of wings to soar the air and control the wind and rain. To the last, he gave his strength, so that they could move the earth. Thus diminished and exhausted, he bound himself to the Sun, where he remained since, watching over his mortal children and the world as the other Divines still do in their own way.”

“With all due respect, pastor, this isn’t a theology lesson, it’s an interrogation!” The griffon captain interreupted, before turning to the group. “Anyways, although you’re seemed to be not a Nightmare, between your unusual appearance and the strange items, clothes and objects you and your friends had brought with you, it’s blindingly obvious that you are foreigners in our land. Which begs a few question.”

“For one, how do you know our language so well?” his lieutenant asked suddenly. At the looks, she explained, “It’s apparent that they cannot have been here long enough to learn our tongue, or otherwise they would had known the likes of Father Granus and the Church. Yet, not only can they speak our words so well, they do so fluently!”

“Well…” Bren interjected, taking out a strangely carved rune amulet from his poach, which the villagers know to be his family’s heirloom “I think I can explain that…”

Jaunt 1.10 - Kendell2 Magenta Diamond Arc Pt 2 (Back to Steven Universe!)

"Though there is ONE power I have figured out," Diamond Tiara (or apparently 'Magenta Diamond', by Gem naming conventions) said, giving a proud look that made it clear she was trying to save face. She focused and threw her mane forwards, her Gem glowing. A regal looking scepter fitting her color pallet and topped by a large magenta diamond emerged, which she grabbed in her mouth.

Twilight blinked. "You can summon a scepter?"

"It's her Gem weapon," Pearl explained. "I believe the Twilight of this universe compared summoning it to your species earning your 'Cutie Marks'."

Twilight cocked her head. "Really?"

The largest Gem, Garnet, nodded. "Every Gem has their own way unique them. "

Pearl concentrated, putting a hoof to her Gem and producing a white spear with a corkscrew style tip. "I rely on focus and concentration."

Amethyst shrugged, pulling a multi-tipped violet whip from her chest. "I just do it when I need it."

Garnet held up her hooves, Gems glowing and causing two red-violet gauntlets to form over her hooves. "I link my mind to the energy of all existing matter, channeling the collective power of the universe through my Gems."

Everyone except Twilight seemed completely lost by this. "Fascinating."

"That's how I do it anyway," Garnet said with a shrug.

"I just...think about what I care about...How I take charge when I need to," said Diamond, looking a bit confused herself. "It's more touchy feely stuff than 'I can just think about it."

"It was the first power I learned to," said Steven, giving a smile as he summoned a rose colored shield with a vine pattern spiraling towards the middle.

Everyone looked expectantly at Peridot, who gave a sigh. "I don't know how, I always relied on my Limb Enhancers...which are still at the bottom of the ocean!"

Amethyst shrugged. "You were a bad guy at the time."

"Well I'm not anymore!"

"So we get special magic involving our special talents, and you get fancy weapons?" The nonNative Rainbow Dash asked. "Kinda cool."

Twilight looked to Garnet, having noticed something during that conversation. "Garnet...if you don't mind my asking...why are you the only one with two Gems?"

Garnet gave a sincere chuckle. "I was wondering when you'd ask."

"Garnet, are you sure you want to tell them about that? Now?" Pearl asked.

"If she's anything like our Twilight, she'll want to understand. And I respect that," the big Gem replied, showing her Gems. "Gems have the ability to combine into something more. In my case, I'm made up of two Gems named Ruby and Sapphire."

"Rubies and Sapphires do go well together..." said Rarity. "But...that is quite the bombshell..."

"Got that right," said Applejack. "Ah can't imagine just...bein' the same pony as somepony else."

"It comes natural to me," said Garnet, giving a smile. "But I'm kinda special. Ruby and Sapphire are in love, and this is how they express it."

"Well, that's taken lovers bein' inseparable tah a whole different level..." Applejack remarked, seeming to try and wrap her head around it.

Twilight got a gasp of realization. "So fusion for you is like being married?"

"For me, that's a good way to put it," said Garnet, seeming HAPPY that Twilight had gotten it. "I am neither Ruby and Sapphire, or just Garnet, I'm their love for each other."

"Ooh! When's your anniversary?! We can come back so I can team up with myself to throw you a BIG anniversary party!" Pinkie exclaimed excitably.

"We haven't really thought about that, the calendar was different," Garnet explained. "We'll get back to you on that."

"Darling... or darlings... which do you prefer?" Rarity questioned, trying to be polite.

"Darling, please," Garnet replied, her tone sounding like she'd expected that.

"Darling, I think that's quite romantic," Rarity replied, and seemed to mean it.

"So did our Rarity," the fusion replied. "Each fusion is a representation of their component's relationship."

"Pearl! Amethyst! Maybe you should show them Opal! Or you and Garnet show them Sardonyx!" Steven suggested, suddenly becoming very excited.

"I could try..." Diamond Tiara suggested.

"Fusion is a tad advanced, Diamond," Pearl replied. "...But it might be a good idea to show it for Diamond's sake. She's only seen one fusion so far..."

"Oh yeah, let's mash it up!" Amethyst shouted, looking excited.

"Sugilite is too unstable," Garnet replied. "But Opal should be perfect."

Amethyst shrugged, but still seemed in an upbeat mood. "Alright, shall we?"

Steven looked to the ponies as both Gems reverted to their true humanoid forms. "They used to have a lot of trouble fusing before, but then I got eaten by a giant bird and they fused to save me...oh, and then we found out Amethyst had some problems and worked them out...it's kind of complicated."

Pearl and Amethyst bowed, their Gems glowing in sync with each other.

[=Steven Universe Soundtrack - Amalgam=]

Both Gems did a dance, Pearl's quite refined and Amethyst's less so, but both seemed to mesh well, ending with a spin where they grabbed each other's hand back to back.

Both's bodies turned into a white light and merged together, rising up and forming into a roughly ten foot tall woman with a blue and yellow outfit, a piece with a yellow star hanging from the front down to her ankles, her pants a light purple. Her skin was a middle color between her components, and her yellowish hairr hung down her back in a huge ponytail. The most notable trait (other than her facial features being a merger of her components) was that she had four arms. Her gemstones had also changed color to match her new designation.

Opal looked down at them and gave a smile. "Hello."

"Whao..." said Rainbow Dash. "That is kinda awesome..."

"She's quite beautiful...well, I assume she is by your species' standards," Rarity replied.

Opal kneeled down. "Thank you, Rarity."

"Wow! You're really tall! Like I mean REALLY tall!" said Pinkie Pie exclaimed, seemingly trying to measure herself compared to the fusion.

Opal gave an amused chuckle. "I know. I have been called a giant woman in the past..." she said, looking to Steven who gave a smile and got stars in his eyes as the ponies looked at her in amazement.

Twilight noted that the voice was neither Pearl or Amethyst's, but a unique voice. "So...Opal is it? What's it like being you...?"

Opal looked thoughtful. "I feel at peace. Amethyst is like a flame, wild and roaring, Pearl is like a ice, ridged and focused. I think I'm like water. Fluid and serine. Especially now."

Twilight cocked her head. "Especially now?"

The fusion nodded, giving a smile. "Amethyst and Pearl...they used to struggle so much when they formed me. I was stable...but felt fragile. Like the slightest nudge would knock me apart...now I feel stable, strong."

Opal looked to Steven and ruffled the child's hair with one of her arms. "Thank you, Steven, for helping them. I feel much better than I have for a long time."

Steven chuckled a bit. "You're welcome! I was just trying to help my friends."

"I know..." Opal looked back to the ponies, then gave a chuckle. "I can feel Amethyst blushing. I suppose I should go before I say something too embarrassing. I admit, I can be a bit forgetful sometimes about what I decided not to say out loud when we were apart. Farewell"

Opal waved and then seemed to poof back into Amethyst and Pearl, who were in the same pose they'd fused in. Amethyst blushed. "Uh...I guess it's a little better to be Opal when we're not arguing in her head..." she admitted, with an usually reserved smile.

Pearl gave a smile as well. "It certainly is..."

Jaunt 1.11 - Alex Warlorn (G1 MLP Crossover)

Twilight and her friends stepped out what looked like another world mirror. They were in what looked like a large white and pink castle.

Magical alarm runes went off at once.

And in teleported a white Alicorn with five blue flowers for her cutie mark, waving blue mane and tail, and wearing golden regalia and four golden horse shoes.

"My oh my... who are you my little ponies? If you wanted to use the cloning mirror to give yourselves children, all you had to do was ask." The Alicorn said politely.

"Cloning mirror?" Pinkie Pie looked back but quickly looked away again remembering the Magic Pond incident.

"Yes my little ponies, single parents and infertile couples use the magic mirror to create clones of themselves who are a foal's age with a basic education to talk and move and who their parent is." Said the Alicorn calmly.

Twilight tried hard NOT to think about if this mirror worked the same as the mirror pool and the moral implications of what she'd done to find the real Pinkie Pie. Even if this held great magical possibilities.

"Hi, who are you? I'm Pinkie Pie." Pinkie Pie asked.

"You don't know me little pony? I am Queen Majesty of Ponyland." Her hooves and horn glowed. "You're from another world aren't you?"

"H-how did you?" Rainbow Dash sputtered.

"I read your minds. It's a gift of one of my golden horse shoes. Forgive the intrusion... but I felt ponies I'd never seen before suddenly appearing in my castle near a delicate magical artfiact, and it would help along."

"Uh would you mind not doing that again? I prefer my private thoughts stayed private." Rarity asked.

"I shall do my best little pony." Queen Majesty said politely and bowing.

"Ah ain't got nothin' ta hide." AJ said proudly.

"I think it's best for your wits you DON'T read my mind." Pinkie Pie said.

"So why have you come here? Is your world faced by a great evil, and you come seeking heroes to aid you in your hour of need?" Majesty asked.

"Uh... nothing like that," Twilight said. "I am Princess Twilight Sparkle. And I merely seek to share knowledge between various worlds."

"The horns and wings were a dead give away as well that you were something else, or I would have recognized you." Queen Majesty said. "So your mother sent you on this quest?"

"Uh... no, Equestria doesn't have a queen. The four princesses rule it equally."

"Ah! So your sister share the kingdom fairly after your mother's passing?"

"No! Uh! Only two Princess are blood sister. And me and the other princess are sister-in-laws."

"So you become on land through an arranged marriage?"

"WHAT? No! I... uh... I just want to say first, it's nice to meet a FRIENDLY face after some of the worlds we've visited."

"It is my honor." Queen Majesty bowed lowly to the ponies letting her horn touch the floor. "Princess Twilight, if you've come here to share knowledge, then let us discuss somewhere where you won't accidentally have a new life to look after."

"Uh, good idea," Rainbow Dash said.

Rarity resisted the temptation to look into the mirror, being the de facto mother of her little sister was more than enough.

"Then please follow me. Dream Castle's drawing room is this way, and I share my land's history and people with you, and you can do the same."

The Alicorn Queen led them out of the room of the magic mirror, which had stack of blank birth certificates on the other side of the door.

On their way, the ponies pass through what Majesty called her 'Trophy room.'

The Elements of Harmony looked around uncomfortably, seeing the mounted heads of... Tirek, a goat like creature with a bell around his neck, Chrysalis and several changelings, Sombra, Radiant Hope, the Umbrum Rabia, Cloud Gremlins, the Diamond Dogs, four hydra heads, Garble The Dragon, and Discord and Starlight Glimmer!

"Admiring my trophies? As Queen of Equestria, I pride myself on eliminating all threats to my little pony's happiness and safety." Said Majesty with a polite smile.

"Uh... where are your guards?" Twilight asked observantly noting the lack of ponies in armor.

"I don't need them." Majesty said warmly. And for a moment Twilight felt enough raw power coming from the mare to make her horn hurt.

Fluttershy looked positively green, with one eye twitching. Looking ready to puke, faint, or scream in rage.

Applejack was as pale as a ghost.

Pinkie Pie's hair had gone straight.

Rainbow Dash's brain looked like it was had stopped working.

"Uh... your majesty... have you ever considered... REFORMING your threats to Equestria?" Rarity said as carefully as she could.

"I reform them all the time, into trees, bubbles that pop, portraits I paint over..."

"Uh, no I mean, let them learn friendship and harmony, and let them contribute to society?"

Queen Majesty let out a heartfelt laugh. "Why would I ever give villains a chance to cause trouble a second time? I did that once with a goblin... and he got my son involved into a kidnapping scheme... never again."

Jaunt 1.12 - zaku789 (Edits by me)

"I must admit sister... it's tough to see Mimic being the great grand-foal to Majesty." Luna said.

"Well, the golden horse-shoes says otherwise, dear sister." Celestia stated, lifting a forehoof up to inspect one of said golden horseshoes.

"Be serious sister, you and I both know Majesty has VERY little mercy for those she deemed a threat. I can count at least some on my wings, and they're barely in the single digits." Luna recalled.

"Yes well, I admit she wasn't exactly the nicest to enemies." Celestia shrugged.

"Nicest? She was known as the 'Bloody Shield of Ponyland' to her enemies." Discord said as popped in. "Anywho, why the sudden discussion about Majesty, anyway?"

"We were discussing the possibility of timelines that have others in control of Equestria. Her name just popped up." Celestia reminded, "If there are any particularly powerful ponies of old who could had achieved immortality and reign over Equestria to this day, it would be her."

'Hmm, odd, but I doubt they would see her. I mean, I'm a spirit of chaos, and I doubt the chances they meet her." Discord said uncertainly.

Meanwhile...

"Let us agree that mare is way too aggressive, and hopefully avoid this world again." Twilight said as they each enter the portal away from Majesty's world, carrying with them copied tomes and commodities that Queen Majesty was happy to share with them.

"Agreed." Rarity said.

"Sounds fine to me." Applejack added.

"Did she really have to mount the heads?" Pinkie asked, completely disturbed at the prospect as the others entered the portal.

Jaunt 1.13 - Kendell2 Magenta Diamond Arc Pt 3

"Hmm...so this is the decide you used to travel between alternative realities?" Peridot asked, looking at the portal caster.

Twilight nodded. "Yes. We used magic from a pre-existing portal."

"It's definitely more advanced than I expected to see..." Peridot replied, the small Gem looking it over closer. "Some aspects of it run on similar principles to our interplanetary warp technology in distorting the fabric of reality, but in an entirely different way. Admittedly, I'm impressed."

"Thanks. Though was are having an issue with the recharge time," Twilight explained.

"Hmm...I can think of a few potential upgrades...unfortunately all of them involve technology I currently don't have access too," Peridot replied, seeming annoyed, though Twilight got the feeling of Trixie being disappointed she couldn't show off about something.

"You built a giant robot in a barn," Amethyst pointed out. "What's the problem, Peri?"

"The only power sources that I could think of would require the same power source as our ships and temples, which I simply cannot access here. Plus, there's the question of whether or not other universes will allow it to continue functioning."

"Oh yeah...and didn't your entire ship blow up when Garnet tossed Jasper into it too?"

"Yes. It was a reactor, what do you expect?"

"Nah, that's about what I expected," Amethyst replied. "I don't know science, I'm more into wrestling."

Applejack blinked. "Wrestlin'?"

The purple Gem smirked. "Oh yeah! It's my thing! Do it all the time back home, and Cheerilee introduced me to a league here."

Rarity gave a shifty look, not knowing how many beings present knew Cheerilee's twin sister was a professional wrestler.

"Not gonna lie, ponies are a lot more fun to wrestle with," Amethyst said.

"Why?" Applejack questioned.

"Cause wrestling ponies is a challenge," Amethyst replied, giving a smirk. "I get to do whatever I want in the ring and no one cares either way, but it's a bit more of a challenge here. It's a bit more fun when I don't have to hold back and STILL have to try."

Applejack got a bit of an intense look. "Ah'm inta wrestler , ya thinkin' what Ah'm thinking?"

Amethyst got a smirk in return. "Oh yeah, bring it on!" She shapeshifted into a stallion about Big Mac's side with a black leotard and purple mask.

"Uh, are you sure this is a good idea?" Rarity asked.

"Earth Ponies are much closer to Gems in terms of strength and durability than humans are in our home world," Garnet explained, as the two marked off an area and started wrestling with each other. "Amethyst has actually lost matches here, we think it's good for her."

"Humans can fight us evenly or even defeat us, but they need proper training," Pearl explained. "Against some...inexperienced underground wrestlers, it's decidedly not fair. I still think it's uncouth, but it is an outlet for Amethyst."

Amethyst body slammed Applejack and tried to give her a flying press, but the Earth Pony rolled out of the way and did a flying elbow drop of her own onto the Gem and getting an off out of her.

"Amethyst likes playing a Heel," Connie explained. "That's what the wrestling manuals I've looked up since learning about it said anyway."

The two exchanged moves...until the earth started shaking and exploded upwards.

"What in tarnation?" Applejack asked, getting up and blinking.

A huge dark green scorpion like creature dug its way up out of the ground with a screen, red crystal forming it's joints, fangs, and stinger. In the center of its head where eyes would normally be was a Bloodstone gem.

"It's a corrupted Gem!" Steven exclaimed, the Gems activating their weapons...except for Peridot who fell back.

"Corrupted Gem?" Twilight asked as the two Rainbow Dashes flew around, distracting the monster with fly by kicks. "That thing is one of you?!"

"Yes, but over time it's become battle damaged and corrupted," Pearl explained, producing a sword and handing it to Connie, who stood side by side with Steven and his shield. "A few of them ended up sneaking over the Rainbow Bridge over the last 5,000 years."

"We need to poof her so we can send her Gem back to the Temple, then maybe someday I can help her!" Steven exclaimed.

"Poof?"

"He means destroy its body," Pearl explained, dodging a sting while Steven blocked a swing of its claw and Connie slashed into its limb. "Deal enough damage and it will retreat into its Gem."

Fluttershy would normally complain about the fact they were attacking an animal...but her sense meant she could tell it WASN'T.

Twilight gave a blast of magic into the monster and sent it staggering back before having to put a forcefield up to block its stinger.

"Hey, Applejack, fastball special!" Amethyst said, shapeshifting into a ball.

"Uh...sure..." Applejack said in confusion. She bucked Amethyst at the Corrupted Gem, the Gem shapeshifting back to normal before doing a spinning attack, slamming into it head on and knocking it back.

The monster screeched and tried to sting down on Steven and Connie, but Steven blocked with his shield...

The river next to the park lifted up in the form of a giant arm and punched the scorpion, sending it flying backwards.

"Thanks Lapis!" Steven called to the blue Gem who hadn't interacted with anyone.

"You're welcome, Steven," Lapis replied.

Jaunt 1.14 - Alex Warlorn

Back in Equestria, the ponies on watch were shocked when a new pony emerged from where the portal had been used. She was an Earth Pony, with a green coat. Her mane was also green with an orange streak. Her eyes were lavender. Her cutie mark looked like a round yellow mirror frame with a blank orange surface making it look a odd sun flower. She had on saddle bags. She also had a tiny mirror frame symbol on her cheek. Her tail base was tied up with a light pink ribbon.

She first looked around happily but then looked rather shocked to see ponies naked without a bow at their base. But she was here to make friends, not judge them. She politely put away her magic mirror (she made it herself with Magic Star's help) she had asked to find the exit point they should use.

"Hello strange ponies of another world! I bring you words of peace and friendship from Ponyland! My name is Mirror Mirror of the Magic Message ponies. After having been host to your emissaries from your world, our protector and leader Queen Majesty has desired to return the message of friendship.  share our knowledge and wisdom! I hope we all become fast friends!"

"Uh..." Spike HAD TO ask. "Why are you called, Magic Message Ponies?"

"Oh, that's easy!" She showed off her cutie mark... and a human witch appeared in one... then it shifted to a princess. ""We carry messages within our cutie mark. I carry fairy tales and stories...  Wait a minute! Spike, is that you?!" Mirror Mirror hugged and snuggled him. "You're a cute little dragon no matter which universe!"

"Well.. got the cute part right at least. Uh, do you know where MY friends are?"

"I dunno, but I can ask my magic mirror... hmm, they seem to be talking to magic rocks."

Jaunt 1.15 - Grogar-the-oneser (Crossover with Fraggle Rock. Edits by me)

"Hmm.... odd." Twilight muttered as she looked around the ground carefully. "This place isn't Equestria, yet I feel that multiverse-permeating magic is strong here."

"Umm.... twilight." Rarity said, her eyes pinpricks.

"But I don't understand; this place seem normal enough. Granted, it's in a huge cave system, but other than that..."

"Twilight." Applejack said.

"Not now! I'm trying to figure out what this place is..."

"So it's alright that Pinkie eats a bunch of buildings made by little green people." Rainbow Dash stated.

"Yes, yes - WHAT!?!" Twilight shouted as she see Pinkie eating what looks like a skyscraper with a bunch of six inches tall green ant humanoid watching.

"PINKIE! STOP!" Twilight shouted as Pinkie stopped eating half the tower "Oh, I'm so sorry my friend was eating that, I profusely-"

"Hey, why are you apologizing for her enjoying that skyscraper?" One of the inhabitants asked.

Records scratched. Twilight brain fizzed.

"What? but your work -"

"Exactly! With her destructive feasting, we're free to start new constructions, So she just did us a favor." Another said, sounding quite happy.

"You gotta try these things, Twilight, they have a good radish after-taste." Pinkie stated as she pushed it in twilight mouth."

After tasting it a bit, Twilight's eyes widened. "Huh, this taste surprisingly good."

"Of course it taste good! We Doozers take pride in our craftmanship as well as its edibility."

Jaunt 1.16 - morion87 Unknown Power Arc Pt 1

Twilight's Notebook

In all our journey's across the multiverse, one Equestria in particular stands out for me. At that point, I had figured out a way for the device to teleport us to wherever we wanted. The first clue something was very wrong was where it, quite literally, dropped us. Everything after, just made it even weirder.

Even now, I fear for them like no other.

= = =

Deep in the Everfree Forest, outside the ruins of the Castle Of the Two Sisters, the air seemed to shimmer for a minute, before, from out of nowhere, the Mane 6 were dumped unceremoniously in a heap.

Rainbow was the first to recover.  "Twilight. I thought you said that wouldn't happen again!"

"I did", Twilight huffed. Taking out the Portal Caster, her brows came together in confusion. "Something's not right. There is massive interference here. Its messing with the portal. More than usual."

"Well, where is it?" Applejack asked.

Twilight turned green as she answered. "We're standing on it".

Every-pony immediately jumped back. Looking down, they were horrified by what they saw. Dead grass.  But not just dead, it looked, like decayed flesh. The ground around it looked diseased, not the normal brown, but black and purple.

Looking around, they felt sick. All around them: dead animals. But, deformed. One had two heads. Another, tentacles in place of feet. Yet another had too many eyes. Many more just barely resembled anything at all, but mounds of flesh.

Fluttershy let out a horrified whimper. "What - what happened to them? How could anything do this to them"?

"I... I don't know," Twilight said, sounding like she wanted to throw up. "I've, never heard of anything like this".

"Maybe it has something to do with that big green rock over there", Pinkie said, pointing off to their right. Confused, they looked at what Pinkie was pointing at.

Sure enough, there was a huge rock sticking out of the ground. A sickly shade of green, it hurt their eyes just to look at it. Just as they intended to get a closer look, a voice interrupted them.

"If you value your lives and sanity, do not get near that thing".

Turning around, they came face to face with a squad of Solar guards. Upon seeing Twilight, they brought their weapons to bear.

"Drop your disguise now, Changeling, and you might live to see the sunset", one said.

Twilight was shocked. "But I am Twilight Sparkle!"

"Likely story." another guard said.

"And why's that?", Rainbow asked.

"Because Twilight Sparkle disappeared 6 months ago."