Twilight wasn't sure how to start mining. Pretty much everything she knew about it came from Guide, and all he said was that you can find ores underground and that you had to kill some slimes to make torches. She was sure there would be a cave somewhere around here so she didn't have to go to the trouble of digging a mineshaft, but she knew she'd need torches in order to see anything, and she still had to kill something in order to get some.

That led her to the internal debate of whether she should kill slimes, even if they did want to kill her. It wouldn't be very easy for her, as she despised the thought of killing. Sure, she had killed that one zombie, but that didn't really count since it was already dead and obviously evil. But the slimes might be alive, unlike the zombies, although they too wanted to kill her. And there might be other slimes out there, and they might all want to kill her. Despite this dilemma, Twilight allowed herself to have a tiny bit of hope. Maybe it was just that one slime and the others are nicer. Or maybe it was just a misunderstanding.

At that moment, Twilight looked up to see a cute bunny looking at her with its beady little eyes. Twilight was pretty sure Fluttershy would love to see what an alien bunny looked like. As she trotted over to the bunny, she realized that she still had to find some way to get home.

Maybe this bunny can help me, Twilight thought. Probably not with anything important, but maybe just by being cute? As she pet the bunny, Twilight wondered if it might help her reconcile her thoughts.

At that moment, Twilight heard the schlorping of a slime. Twilight looked up just in time to see the slime do a mighty bounce onto the bunny, causing it to explode into bloody bits of flesh which slowly faded out of existence. That settled it in Twilight's mind. All slimes were evil. All slimes must die. Taking out her sword, Twilight charged at the slime.

The last time Twilight fought a slime, she was in a rage and didn't do very well at defeating the slime. Now, however, she tried to see a pattern in the slime's attacks, which was actually very easy to spot. Twilight timed her swings so that the slime would hit her sword in the middle of a bounce, knocking it away. After a few suspenseful seconds of this tactic, the slime exploded into a shower of slime and, strangely enough, a few coins. She had done it. She had killed something.

Ironically enough, the bunny did help reconcile her thoughts. But that only happened after the slime killed it. Twilight decided she didn't want to try mining today. Instead, she turned back around and went into the shelter she made. Once inside, she collapsed into a ball of fur and tears.

Back in Ponyville...

The whole town was abuzz with the news that Twilight had been pulled into an evil dimensional portal thing. When the Princesses had been notified, they said they would do everything in their power to get Twilight back from wherever she was taken too. With that said, the local populace waited, hoping this would be over soon, like pretty much every other strange thing that happened in Ponyville.

And then the zombie fell from the sky and immediately tried to eat the pony closest to it. Unfortunately for it, the mare it tried to eat was none other than the pony known as Applejack. When the zombie eventually slammed rather harshly into the side of a wall, it dissolved and dropped a few coins which some passerby eagerly picked up.

A few minutes later, a slime fell from the sky and engulfed the head of a different pony. It was immediately slurped up into the mouth of the pony we know as Pinkie Pie.

"Mmm! Tasty!" Pinkie said, licking her lips. She then spit out a few coins and a few bits of gel. "But those aren't... Oh well!" She continued her trip to wherever she was going, not noticing when some more passerby picked up the coins, but mostly ignored the gel.

Back in the other universe...

Today, Twilight thought, would be the day she finally attempted mining. She wasn't too confident in her abilities, but was also certain she would gain confidence through practice. So Twilight set out to find a cave and do some spelunking. Any slimes she met along the way were killed immediately, and their gel turned into torches.

Ponyville

A few more slimes fell from the sky. All of which fell into a conveniently placed tarp which bounced them away from where they should have landed and into the chimney of a nearby house, where they promptly burnt up.

Other 'Verse

Eventually, after a minute of walking and trying to jump over mountains, Twilight came across a sizeable hole in the ground. Seeing that the hole seemed to go straight down, Twilight decided this would be a very good time to experiment with these wood platforms she could craft.

...until the slime snuck up behind her and knocked her into the hole. Twilight quickly got a torch out to see if any monsters would sneak up on her from the multiple paths. Seeing none, Twilight put down the torch and prepared to go into the cave.

...until the slime from before landed on her, decapitating her and making her drop some of the coins she picked up. Twilight was, understandably, getting really tired of slimes constantly getting her killed. She also briefly wondered how a slime could possibly decapitate her, but decided to file that question into the "just doesn't make sense" folder.

So Twilight made her way back to the cave entrance. Making sure no slimes were around to kill her, Twilight decided the best course of action would be to jump down onto the various ledges. Once at a ledge, she would jump and try to put the platforms off to the side at the peak of her jump. Twilight noticed a while ago that she could jump almost three times her hight, which would be helpful when jumping over mountains or through caves.

Finally at the bottom where she placed her torch, Twilight looked around at the different paths she could choose. Finally, she decided to follow the right wall so she didn't get lost.

After a few seconds, Twilight came across her first ore. Spotting the greyish color, Twilight went over to it wondered how she would mine it. On a hunch, Twilight just started smacking it with her pickaxe. As she picked it up, she determined it was tin and continued her adventure.

A few bats flew at twilight which she tried to bat away. There isn't much you can do with a copper shortsword, however, and Twilight payed for its uselessness with her life. She attempted to run away from them, but they were easily faster and caught up to her, where they cut her down the middle.

Twilight decided she needed a better weapon. Looking over at Guide, Twilight decided he might have some good information for her. Unfortunately, he seemed to still be repeating everything he said earlier, although he did say a little about making a furnace to smelt the ores into ingots. Going over to Guide's crafting tips, she started putting random objects into his "information slot." Whatever that means. Eventually it was revealed to her that she needed stone. Twilight decided she didn't really need to go all the way to the cave to find stone; she could just dig a hole in the ground. So, with stone in mind, Twilight went out, found a nice spot to dig in, and started digging.

It was at that moment Twilight discovered she had dug too far down, and was unable to just jump out. Luckily for Twilight, she still had some platforms on her, and she put them above her to jump onto. Then she realized that, in such a small space, she would have to jump through the platforms, which she knew was physically impossible since two objects couldn't possibly take up the same space.

It then occurred to her that this world is different from hers in quite a few ways. Perhaps she could just jump through the platforms. The skeptical part of Twilight was currently berating her for thinking she could jump through something, but Twilight payed it no mind and jumped. And ended up jumping right through the platform. As soon as she witnessed herself going through it one way, she wondered if she could go back through it the other way Unsure of how to proceed, Twilight looked down as she thought of how to get through. She then felt herself falling and found herself below the platform again. That pretty much silenced Skeptical Twilight, and allowed Twilight to jump back through the platform and out of her hole.

Now back at the shelter, Twilight used her stone to create a furnace. She then used the furnace to turn her ores into ingots, which she tried to craft into something. When she wasn't able to, she went back to Guide and asked him about it. That is when she realized she needed an anvil to do anything with tin. Which meant she had to go mining again. Ultimately, Twilight decided it would be safer to use her mineshaft then try to use the cave entrance, at least until she could get better equipment.

She contemplated just making wooden equipment, but decided against it since the wood probably wouldn't help her much, if at all. She could still use wood for platforms, though, and she would gladly do so. As of now, Twilight was using wood platforms and her pickaxe to make a simple 3 block wide mineshaft, mining any ores she came across. She was able to get some more tin, as well as some iron for her anvil and maybe better equipment then what she planned to make with the tin. She also found a strange glowing red ore, but was unable to mine it no matter how much she smacked it. She decided she would just leave it be for now and continue her mineshaft.

Eventually, after a while of mining straight down, Twilight fell into a small cavern. She lit up the surrounding area real quickly and also made sure she could jump back out before deciding to explore this cave system. She then remembered she couldn't fight back against the bats at all, and decided to instead return to the shelter.

Once again at the shelter, Twilight smelted her gathered ores into ingots and made an anvil out of the iron. And then, using those ingots at the anvil, Twilight was finally able to make herself an iron broadsword which wouldn't get her killed nearly as much as the copper shortsword. She also made herself some iron armor just to be safe, and a chest to store her inventory, which was quickly filling up. With Twilight being a lot more confident then she was earlier, she made her way back into her cave, where she took her first actual step into it.

And heard a clicking sound upon stepping. Twilight looked down upon hearing it and saw a cleverly hidden pressure plate. She then looked up and was greeted with the boulder that ruptured her vital organs. Upon waking up in the shelter, Twilight sighed. This was going to be a long mining trip.

Author's Note

Twilight discovers the joys of being a newbie in a cave system. Enemies, traps, and deaths, oh my!

If any of you reading this story feel something Twilight or anypony else in this story says or does is contrary to how they'd actually act, feel free to leave a suggestion and I will make it so.