A Fractured World

(Nevada Desert. Present Day)

“Bill, we have been driving for two hours. Just admit that you’re lost.” Sasha moans as they drove down a seemly endless highway. The two had agreed to elope to Las Vegas but due to some poor planning and angry friends, they were having to hoof it. Bill swore he knew the way but the hour long drive in the open desert has proven otherwise. Sasha looks at the gas meter and saw they had a half a tank left. “Come on, Bill. We need to turn back.”

“Alright, but I swore it was only an hour away.” Bill sighed and started to turn the car around. At that very moment, a large flash lit up the night sky causing Bill to swerve and slam on the brakes. Sasha grabs the side of the car and lets out a small scream of shock.

“What the hell was that!?!” She shouted as the car screech to a stop.

“I don’t know. A plane crash?” Bill answered as he put the car in park. He opens his side door and before Sasha could respond, jump out of the car.

“What are you doing!?!” She yelled, unbuckling and starting to get out. “You are not going to check it out, are you? It could have been a bomb.”

“Or people could be hurt,” he said before jogging towards the open desert. Sasha groans in frustration and pull out her phone. Seeing she had no bars, she swore under her breath and follow after Bill. She didn’t have to go far as she saw him standing only about thirty feet away from the car. He was staring at something but Sasha couldn’t see due to him blocking it.

“Bill, what are you looking..?” Sasha stop short when she saw it. It was a small hole, it seems. It was about seven feet tall and five feet wide. Shape like an oval with one peak about an inch off the ground. She notices that on the other side of this shape was a desert but unlike their side, it was bright and sunny. But that wasn’t what caused Sasha to stop talking. On the other side was two animals that Sasha never saw before.

They look like horses or more like ponies but their color was all off. One had a light cream color coat with a two color mane of blue and pink. While the other one was a light blue with a matching mane with pieces of light fur. The light blue one had a small horn and seem to be staring at right them.

“Oh my god.” Sasha mutter softly “They…are so CUTE!” She jumps up slightly and claps her hands. “I’m calling that one Candy Cane.” Pointing to the two color mane one. “And that one Little Blue.”

“Call me that again and see what happen.” The light blue unicorn said angrily. Sasha's eyes went wide and she took a couple steps back.

“Oh no.” The cream one said as Sasha inhaled deeply and scream as loud as possible.

(Nellis Air Force Base. Five minutes ago.)

Private Emilia Shav was sitting in front of one of the monitoring computer and going out of her mind. When she first heard that she was going to be at the station near the fabled Area 51, her ten-year-old-self jump for joy. She heard the stories of aliens and UFOs, thinking now she was going to see what all the hype was about. Well, you know what they say about hype. So now she was sitting in front of a large computer, watching it beep every few minutes. She sighed and look at the clock on the wall. 10:10 P.M.

“God, can’t this get any worse?” She mutter to herself. A loud beeping noise suddenly went off, causing Amy to jump in shock. She searches the control panel in hope of shutting whatever was causing the noise before…

“Private Shav, what in Sam hell is that rackets!?!” A loud voice shouted from right behind her. It was her Sargent and the biggest prick in the world, Sargent Ronald Larson.

“Sir, something causes the computer to go off.” She said quickly, hitting a couple buttons.

“I know that the computer is going off.” He growled. “My question is why is it going off?”

“I’m working on it, Sir.” She answered as she hit a few more keys and a window opens up. “What the…”

“What is it, Private?” Ronald said, leaning down to look at the screen.

“What going off is an old program, set up in the eighties,” Amy answered, opening the window. “It Project Wide Eyes. It was set up to pick up a large burst of energy that could be used to send messages other than the regular ways. In the spirit of stopping those Commies.”

“Alright, then what causing it to go off?” Ronald asked, a little annoyed.

“It seems that a large burst of…” Amy scroll down and was a little taken back by what she saw. “Magnetize energy.” The computer made another beep and she looks up again to the screen. “No. Wait, it now…Solar energy? This doesn’t make any sense.”

“Alright, how much energy is being produced?” Ronald asked, signaling a couple of soldier to come over.

“About…” She hit a couple keys and her face drop. “That make no sense.”

“How much energy is it producing?” He asked her again. Amy turn and her face was a pale white.

“It producing about 20 megatons of power…and rising.” She said. Ronald turns to the men standing behind.

“GET A TEAM DOWN THERE NOW!” He order.

(Back at the Portal)

“Will some pony shut it up!?!” Lyra shouted as the woman kept screaming. Both ponies were trying to cover their ears due to the high pitch scream she was producing. They were quite amazed that she haven’t run out of air or passed out. The man just stood in shock, looking at the two ponies with an open mouth. The woman stop screaming and took in a deep breath.

“Hey, I think she done…” Bon Bon started to say only to be cut off by her screaming again. They both groan in frustration as they cover their ears.

“That it!” Lyra shouted and fired a spell right at the woman. The spell bounces right off the portal and hit Bon Bon right in the face, knocking her to the ground. “Bon! Are you alright!?!” Lyra ran over to her friend and help her up. Bon Bon opens her mouth but no noise came out. “Oh, right.” With another spell cast, Bon Bon made some gasping sound and look at Lyra with fire in her eyes.

“Why, in the name of sweet Luna’s moons, did you use a spell!?!” Bon Bon shouted.

“I was just using a silent spell to stop the screaming,” Lyra said, pointing at the portal. “I didn’t think it would bounce off.”

“So you decided to fire a spell at it!?!” Bon Bon shouted. “We don’t know if that would just angry them or…” Bon Bon stops talking and look back at the portal. That when Lyra notice the silence. She looks over to see that both the females and male were on the ground, not moving. “Ummm, Lyra. Are they supposed to do that?”

Before Lyra could responded, five figures descended from the darkness. Lyra notice they were human too but that was all she could tell. They were dress in some kind of black armor and faces were cover by a set of goggles. They surround the two on the ground before turning to face the portal. One raised something that was holding and pointed at her.

“Get on the ground, NOW!” It shouted at Lyra and Bon Bon. One right beside it bumped it with its shoulder.

“Don’t be a dumbass, Private.” The other one said, in a gruff voice. “It’s a little horse. It not going understand you.”

“What is with your kind assuming we can’t talk?” Lyra shouted annoyed. Bon Bon cover her ear in preparation for these human to start screaming but instead, the five seem not to reacted. The one knows as Private pull a device from what look like a belt and brought it up to it head.

“Captain, this is Team Poseidon. We have found the anomaly. It seems to be some kind of portal. Over.” Private said into the device. It crackled and then a voice came out of it.

“Roger, Team Poseidon. Are there any foreign life form nearby? Over.” The voice asked. Private look up to Lyra and even though she couldn’t see his face, she could almost hear the disbelief in his voice.

“There is life form on the other side of the anomaly. They seem to be intelligent Equus Caballus creature.” Private said into his device. The others surrounding him chuckle and that when Lyra realize that these human were trying not to laugh out loud. The device click on again and the voice sounded bewildered.

“I’m sorry, Team Poseidon. We didn’t quite get that. Did you say that they were Equus creatures? Like horses?” The voice asked.

“Think smaller,” Private said, his voice shaking in his effort to try to sound serious. Lyra was starting to get annoyed by all this. Did they really never seen a pony or something? The voice cracked over the device again and this time it sounds a bit angry.

“Private, you better not be screwing with me.” It said. Private shook his head and tap his helmet.

“Look on Helmet Camera One, you’ll see what I’m talking about,” Private said. There was complete silent for a minute or two, then the device crackle back to life.

“Alright, Private. Set up a perimeter around the anomaly and wait for reinforcement. Congratulation, you discover a race of the first talking pony.” Lyra’s jaw drop when she heard this.

“It didn’t make any sense.” Lyra thought as some of the humans started to surround the portal. “Human were almost extinct but ponies have conquered most of the planet. And even the part that owns by griffins or yak, surely they would have mention humans unless…” Lyra suddenly put two and two together. The portal was to another world!

“Bon Bon! This portal is to another…” Lyra turn around to see that the two were not alone. Because at that moment, Lyra was facing several spears.

“Step away from the portal.” A Pegasi command, keeping the spear level with Lyra. “This area is under quarantine by order of Princess Celestia.”

“Well, this just got interesting.” Lyra mutter under her breath.