As Twilight ran into the Everfree forest with saddlebags full of notes and various astronomy books in tow the moon is at its peak in the night sky.

“Oh, where could it have landed?” Twilight asks no one in particular as she began looking around for an impact site. Surely something that large would leave a sizeable impact zone, She thought to herself.

She looks up and sees something smoking creating pillar of smog in the air, as she follows the plume of smoke she soon finds out that it isn’t a comet at all, but a….

“A ship!?.”Twilight blurts out as she reaches the crash site of not a comet but a spaceship with smooth curves and a bright grey exterior with an open hatch in it and as the smoke clears she soon finds out that the ship's pilot was nothing she had ever encountered before, sure she had fought changelings and but nothing could have prepared her for this.

“Hello? A-Are you okay?” She asks, but no response. “I-I’m coming in.” She announces as she takes a tentative step towards the ship.

A spaceship? Where did this come from, who’s inside it, why are they here wha- a low groan from the ship's pilot catches her attention as she sees a pale white pony with a blue mane reach out of the cockpit towards her which only piques her curiosity even more, but first she had to help anypony inside, questions later, helping now.

“Oh my, are you okay?” She asks to no response as the pony piloting the ship collapses and passes out. With time ticking by she just put down all her notes and levitates the pony from the ship and takes it to the library where her old laboratory was when she was studying Pinkie Pie’s ‘Pinkie Sense’.

She quickly darts down the stairs and puts the pilot on the examination table as she checks it for injuries sustained from the crash. After ten minutes of checking the pony for injuries she discovers something she had never seen before, first of all, he..or...she has a long, lion-like tail and it’s mane seemed to go down the spine.She also found two short little nubs on the pilot's head under it’s mane, she pokes and prods the two nubs only to have one extend out into a long antenna, she pokes the other one and the same happens there too.

“Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh this is amazing! A pony from space and it lands just outside of town! The possibilities, the technology, the cultural exchange of ideas and philosophies an-. Her train of thought is once again interrupted by a stir of a hoof from the pony on the table, its eyes flutter open for a moment only to have the examination light blind it and this time it passes out for good. For the rest of the night Twilight studied and took copious amounts of notes and theories about the pony in question and debates on whether or not to tell the princess about it, or who knows maybe they already know about it and thought this could be a great friendship lesson. A friend from beyond the stars, a first in Equestria, no, the first contact with another being from another world would be a world first, this just made Twilight giddy with excitement as she bounces in place thinking of all the things it could teach her. With all these ideas bouncing around in that little head of hers she almost forgot to tend to the injuries the space pony has from the crash. She went to check for broken bones but when she examines its limbs they flop around like big noodles, this worries her and intrigues her at the same time, what if it broke all of its bones, what if it has no bones, how does it walk, how does it talk, would it even speak common? There were so many topics spinning around in her head it was giving her a headache.

Eight hours of research and joy filled adorableness later…

“Twilight! Twilight?! Where are you?” Spike calls out as he explores the crystalline castle, searching for Twilight, obviously. As Spike searches he wanders out of the castle onto the balcony where he last saw her. The first thing he notices when looking for his friend is that for some reason the telescope was pointing down, he looks through the telescope and sees smoking wreckage, seriously, after eight hours it was still smoking...Anyways, this immediately draws his attention and must find Twilight immediately. He runs around in a panic looking for her and then remembers something, wait, all her sciency stuff was in the basement beneath the library, he thinks to himself, she must be there!

He rushes down the stairs and into the library calling for Twilight, and as he reaches the door and reaches for the knob Twilight slowly opens the door.

“Twilight Twilight! There's this big ship thing in the Everfree and it looks really cool, but never mind that there’s an alien in it, it says so in all my comic books.”

“Shhh Spike, you’ll wake our guest.”

“Say what now?”

“The pony that was in that ship was injured so I took them down to be examined and I have a whole book of observations and notes about them!” Twilight proudly exclaims as she levitates a large pile of scrolls and a small ledger full of well...notes…. yeah , moving on…

As the two talk rather loudly as they discuss their new guest and the various appendages it may or may not have, it begins to wake up, it rubs the sleep from its eyes which were solid azure blue, the then two antenna retract back into its head. As it awoke, it couldn't help but notice some bandages over what seem to be a few cut. The alien figured that it'd question this later. It started to get up from the table and then limps its way up the stairs following the light in an attempt to get out of the cold dark basement. Just as it makes it to the top of the stairs Spike's eyes go wide.

“Spike? What are you staring at?”

“B-Behind you!”

“Wha- Ahhh!” Twilight turns about face and screams and takes a step back scarring their guest in the process causing it to cower in fear beneath Twilight even though it stands a good ten inches taller than her.

“Ummm Twi?”

“Yes Spike?”

“Care to explain this?”

“Well….”

As Twilight explains the events that leads up to this point the alien eventually calms down and just sits there for a moment before heading towards the door.

“Ah ah ah, you aren’t going anywhere, we don’t even know anything about you yet!”

At this the alien just tilts its head slightly as if it never heard Equestrian before.

“Can you understand us?” Twilight asks bluntly, this just gets the same reaction, except the alien points towards Twilight's horn, “Yes that is my horn.”

Before she can fully react, the alien extends its antenna and touches Twilight on the forehead and telepathically links with Twilight, as it happens Spike's eyes go wide in fear but before he can react Twilight holds out a hoof to him which he takes and then also links with the alien.

“Hello?” Twilight thinks.

“Hello, where am I?” The alien asks in an echoey voice

“You’re in Equestria.” Spike answers.

“What solar system is that in?”

“I-I don’t know.” Twilight mentally stammers.

‘Who am I, how did I get here?”

“I don’t know that either…I found you at your crashed ship and...” Twilight answers.

“I don’t have much time, I am weak, I must recover from the crash, I will be down there resting, good bye for now.” The alien says telepathically before it retracts its antenna and then heads down the stairs.

“That was weird…” Is all Spike has to say on the events that just transpired.

“Yeah…”

And with that day one of the alien’s adventure in Equestria comes to an end, but many more will follow.

Author's Note

My friend helped me with this chapter big time.
I give him TONS of credit.
Friend's account: https://www.fimfiction.net/user/Some+Guy+Who+Writes