From one world to another
Chapter 3

‘What’s going on?’ I thought as I woke up. I immediately recognized the place. It was the room in the S.P.P that I was put in when I managed the weather,

‘So wait, was that all a dream? If it was, then that was a really lucid dream. Oh well, I better ask Celestia when I got back.’

I got up out of the pod I was in and started walking towards the front door, content with asking Celestia what happened. As soon as I opened the door however, whatever question I had died before reaching my lips. The entire room was destroyed. Terminals and lights were smashed, loose wires and pieces of scrap, and the once pristine walls and floor were now covered in soot, marks, and craters.

“What the actual shit happened?!? Celestia? Celestia!!”

After getting no response, I galloped out towards one of the balconies, hoping to find something there.

I should’ve stayed inside.

The entire land around me was a scarred battlefield. It looked even worse than the original wasteland back when I had left Stable 2. Off in the distance, I could see Manehattan burning in flames while off to the west were several explosions, each lighting up the dark dusty horizon. I than heard the screeching of metal and explosions above me. Looking up, I saw a Raptor slowly descend towards the ground, smoke and fire billowing from the main windows or holes in the ship.

I saw what caused that damage almost immediately. The best I could describe it was some sort of shadow dragon, about a third the size of the raptor and looking at me with glowing red eyes. Before I could react, it flew over and landed a claw on me, pinning me against the floor. The last thing I saw was it screeching as it dived it’s head toward me.

I woke up again, this time inside some sort of cot. After making sure I wasn’t dreaming again, I took a look around the room and recognized where I was, Zecora’s hut. ‘So THAT wasn’t a dream...well shit.’ I thought, remembering all that happened before I fainted. As I was trying to sit up and think over what I was going to do, I heard a door open in one of the other rooms, followed by hoofsteps. Well, better late than never I suppose, let’s get this over with.

Before she entered, one other thing I noticed was that all of my equipment was placed off to the side of the room, except for my pipbuck of course.

Before I could get any of it however, Zecora entered the room, a look of slight surprise and happiness on her face. “I see that you are awake. Tell me, do you need anything before I begin, for your sake.”

After shaking my head, she then said her own name and asked my own.

“I’m Littlepip, it’s a pleasure to meet you, miss Zecora.”

“Well, now that introductions are out of the way, you probably want to know where you stay?”

I already knew the answer to that, by I decided to say yes anyway.

“Well we’re currently in my hut in the Everfree forest, to come in here willingly means that your knowledge of it’s dangers are poorest. If you are in a good situation, mind if I ask a few questions?”

I decided to ignore what felt like a slight insult and tried to work around answering her questions. I answered what I could truthfully, but improvised for other things, especially where I was from. I said that I was from an old cabin out at the edge to the frozen north. I never knew my dad, and my mom had an alcohol problem. When I was old enough, I struck out on my own and became a sort of travelling inventor/mechanic. When questioned about my weapons, I said that they were to defend myself in case I was attacked by some sort of creature, and demonstrated using the 10mm pistol I had. She asked why I was here in the forest, so I replied that I had heard about some interesting material that could be used for my inventions, but failed to find anything in the end.

Zecora was more observant than I thought because she noticed that something was odd with the skin around my pipbuck. I told her that I had once found some sort of fog that was very dangerous and had fused the pipbuck with my leg. After helping her get over the initial shock about it, I asked her a few questions of my own to try to learn about where and when I am. Apparently, Ponyville is a short distance away and the elements had defeated Discord just a couple of days ago.

“Well, thank you for helping me Zecora, but I better start heading to Ponyville before it gets dark.”

“Ah, of course, well I wish you luck on your trip there as the forest is quite dangerous, although with what you’ve shown me, any confrontation will be victorious.”

As Littlepip started trotting away, Zecora wondered what exactly was with Littlepip. While much of her story had been true, there were still parts that felt off, as if she was keeping something from her. That wouldn’t of bothered her so much if it weren’t for the look in her eyes. While they were filled with kindness and compassion, they also had wariness and experience that she’s never seen before. The closest she could even get are some of the more hostile zebra tribes back in Zebrica, and even then there wasn’t much to compare.

‘She may not be a problem now, but keeping an eye on her would be worthy of a vow.’

Title: Back to littlepip

I continue trotting down the path that Zecora had told me about and showed me on a map. As I started down it, I glanced at my pipbuck and stop dumbfounded for a second at the fact that the path was now shown. The fact that it updated wasn’t a problem, it was that it updated a path. Now that I looked closer, I could see that many other roads and paths were gone, along with most of the locations set onto my pipbuck. The only ones I even had was Ponyville, Zecora’s hut, the clearing that I woke up in, and the one that I found Zecora in.

I continued trotting on for a few minutes, trying to think of how the path was created on the pipbuck. After a bit, I concluded that it was probably some unknown feature, although what got me the most was that some of the roads and pathways on the digital map were still there.

‘Huh, so it only seems to show the ones that have been built. The others aren’t around because they were built in the futu-’

All of a sudden, all that’s happened within the last 6 hours or so caught up to me. I had gotten into yet another battle, travelled back in time and met Zecora, and am now wondering through an unirradiated forest to pre-war ponyville. What got me the most though was that I was stuck here for the foreseeable future. Celestia, my friends, everypony who looked up to or counted on me, Homage…

I sat down and let it all out for the next 10 minutes, crying out my pain and newly found sorrows. Once I was finished with my slight breakdown, I calmed myself down and tried to think about the positives. Thought: ‘Well, it is pre-war equestria after all, there’s still quite a bit of opportunity to experience. Plus, I get to meet ponies who are mostly now dead. Heh, I bet Velvet would be beaming with envy if she found out. There might even be a way to send me back, who knows?’ I then realised something very important.

Thought: 'I could stop the war before it even started.’

I didn’t know what that would do to the future, but if I could stop it from happening, then tens or even hundreds of millions of lives could be saved. I calmed myself down, telling myself that I’ll have plenty of time to stop it. ‘After all, it’s pre-war Equestria. What kind of deadly dangers could there be?’

The universe then decided that I’ve been lucky too much and that it was time to make a change.

I heard a scream up ahead in the forest, sounding like a young filly’s. I immediately stopped thinking and sitting and galloped towards where the scream came from. I wasn’t sure if I would be able to track it at first, but several shouts and large action: ‘thumps’ and action: ‘rustles’ helped guide me.

After a little bit of running through the brush and leaves, I finally come across yet another clearing not too far away from the edge of the forest. At the opposite end of the clearing were three little fillies backed up against a large rock. Advancing on them were half a dozen timberwolves, slowly sneaking towards them and relishing in the fear coming from their newly found prey. ‘Not if I have anything to say about it.’ I thought, levitating out my 10mm and firing into the air, causing both the fillies and wolves to yelp and look around at me.

“You leave those fillies alone. If you want to get to them, then you’ll have to deal with me first.” I yell, readying my carbine saddle and levitating out my sword, IF-9, and sub-machine gun, all aimed at the wolves. We stared at each other for a few moments before one of them decided to break the silence by leaping at me. This didn’t end well for it though, as it’s head was torn apart as the IF-9 fired two buckshot rounds into it’s face.

Shocked silence stayed for a few moments longer, then all hell broke loose. The remaining five wolves suddenly charged at me, hoping to overwhelm me before I could take anymore of them down. Lucky for me, I had positioned myself so no stray bullets could hit the fillies, so I went all out with my weaponry.

I primed and fired my carbines and 10mm pistol, hitting killing one of the wolves and hit the leg of another, causing it to shatter and send the yelping wolf down. I dodged right as one wolf dived at me and blocked the swing of another with my sword, pelting the latter one with my sub-machine gun and literally destroying it. In then backed up slightly as the two remaining timberwolves regrouped and ran at me from opposite directions, thinking that by doing this, they’ll confuse me and focus on one of them. What they didn’t expect however was for me to jump up at the last second, causing them to crash into each other. I used my magic to give me a slight boost as I aimed down my IF-9, firing half a dozen rounds into the two wolves, ending them.

After landing, I checked the remaining wolf and saw that it had shattered as well. After putting my weapons away, I trotted up to the fillies, who had been watching me this whole time in awe. However, when I got close, they screamed in fright and tried to back up even more. “Oh come on, I’m not THAT scary, am I?” I ask, looking at them with a confused and slightly annoyed look. If I was covered in blood I would understand, but all I got was a little tree sap on one of my forelegs.

“Behind you!” One of them, an earth pony, suddenly shouted at the same time as a heavy crash happened behind me.

‘Wha-’

*smash*

Before I could finish my thought, I was hit in the back, sending me flying about 60 feet until I crashed into a nearby tree. Luckily I had slowed myself down at the last minute, otherwise I’d have broken my back. As it was, I’m pretty sure I got a couple of broken ribs from the crash. Looking up, I saw a timberwolf, bigger than a vertibuck, approach me. I then remembered something that Fluttershy and Velvet had mentioned a couple of years ago during one of their discussions. Apparently, If enough of them had fallen, all of the remaining wood scraps could form up into a much larger timberwolf.

‘Can’t believe I forgot about that.’ I thought as I narrowly dodged a strike from one of the timberwolf’s massive claw. I then pulled back out my sword, as well as my energy shotgun and plasma pistol as a plan started to come into my mind. “Come at me you deformed tree!” That got it’s full attention and anger as it started to charge at me again, howling all the while.

‘Aaaaaaand now!’

I used some of the last of my magic to send myself high into the air, aiming to landing on it’s back. The wolf was quicker than I thought though, as it jumped up slightly and hit me with it’s claw, searing deep scratches into my chest. Yelling in pain, I collapse back onto the ground. I try to get back up, only to be pinned down by the massive, beast, staring close at me with it’s green, magic eyes, looking slightly confused as I gave a big grin.

‘Bullseye!’

I levitate over my magical shotgun and plasma pistol, shooting each into one of it’s eyes while I used my sword to cut the claw pinning me down off. All of this caused the timberwolf to jump back a bit in pain as it held it’s face with it’s one remaining front claw. Taking advantage of this, I fired multiple shots from my plasma pistol at the beast while throwing two grenades. Due to the timberwolf holding it’s eyes and trying to block the plasma shots, it didn’t notice the grenades until I used my magic to force it’s mouth to open, taking the opportunity to throw the grenades down it’s throat. A few seconds passed and then a suppressed ‘boom’ was heard, followed by the timber wolf exploding into pieces.

Silence reigned over the area for a full minutes until

“That was awesome!”

Starting to shake, I noticed the three fillies run over to me as I put away my weapons, securing them in my saddlebags before trying to focus on the kids.

“I can’t believe that you did that! One moment, the timberwolf was holding you down and ready to eat you, but then 'bang' and 'bam' and 'boom' and you took it do-” the filly who was talking, who I noticed was a pegasus, was interrupted by the earth pony that had tried to warn me earlier

“Are ya ok miss? You seem pretty banged up.”

I tried to stay up but I couldn’t any longer. I fell over and hit the ground, quickly losing conscious. A sudden thought hit me though.

‘Wait, aren’t those filli…’ I couldn’t finish it as I fully fell asleep, not even hearing the shouts of ‘get up’ or cries for help as I yet again blacked out.

Author's Note

I got nothing to say except that I'm happy that I managed to make this one about a thousand words longer than the previous one. Enjoy!