***POV Jordan***

Twilight was running around like a chicken with it’s head cut off. She was nervous like crazy. Today was the day for her entry exam.

We prepared her presentation perfectly and had honed her spelcasting skills so that it took nearly no effort.

Still she was nervous. She was imagining every ‘what if’ scenario possible and how it could go wrong.

“Calm down Twilight. Relax, we studied together for this remember, everything will be okay. We’ll even come with you to cheer you on. Just be calm, you can do this.” I tried to comfort her with those words but it fell on deaf ears.

“You don’t understand Jordan. What if I fail this test? What if our presentation isn’t good enough? Even the Princess will attend the exam. What if I can’t impress her?” She rambled on.

The exam was going to start at 10 AM. Right now it was 8:30 AM, time enough for some small preparations and a good breakfast. Still Twilight even refused to eat. She was just too nervous.

Everyone else was staying calm because they had faith in her. Everyone except for herself.

I was able to calm her down a bit and got her to meditate for half an hour. Her nerves were calmed a bit, but you could sense that she still was a bit uneasy.

With her calmed down a bit, we all left for the exam.

During our little trip, no one said anything, afraid to give Twilight a panic attack with her being on edge as she was. It took us about half an hour to get to the school.

When we arrived, we got a small info session about how the exam was going to go. First up was the presentation. If it was necessary, Twilight could ask for some help from someone. But she herself should do the most work, she was going to get graded on that.

Second was the magic test. They would get a miscellaneous item on which she had to preform a given task on. No help was allowed with that part.

There was going to be a jury of three ponies. But the solar Princess would arrive either when Twilight was giving the presentation or when she was preforming the given task in the magic part of the exam.

Twilight looked real tense. But she insisted that she was going to give the presentation alone.

“Okay Twilight. But if you need help, don’t hesitate to ask. You can ask for help if you want it,” I said.

“I really want to try alone first. If I can’t do it, I’ll ask for help.”

“Just relax, you are going to do fine. If you need me, I’ll be sitting with your parents and your brother to the side.” With those words said I backed off a bit to let her family comfort her a bit more.

It was a while before we were led to a large room where the three ponies were going to grade Twilight on her performance. Apparently they were teachers in the school here. One pony was even the headmaster. I guess it was the guy in the middle.

“Miss sparkle I assume? Your exam will start in about ten minutes. Please prepare accordingly,” One of the teachers stated.

“Yes sir,” Twilight said shakily. Her nerves were really getting to her. She took the copies of our case out and read one, just to recap what we had been studying. I really hope that she can pull this off without much trouble.

“Okay miss Sparkle. Time is up for preparations. If you are ready to start please begin.”

Twilight nodded but didn’t answer. She just wasn’t sure of herself, yet I’m sure that she could do it. All she had to do was believe in herself. But now she wasn’t even starting with the presentation. After a few minutes she still was refusing to start.

“Miss Sparkle, if you didn’t prepare a presentation, I’m afraid that we can’t continue this exam. Or if you need some help, please ask one of your loved ones for support. It’s allowed for a reason,” The stallion in the middle remarked.

Twilight looked back at us with some hope that someone could share the burden.

“Who should help her?” I asked the family.

“Well Jordan, you two get along great and you are the only one who really knows what the presentation is about. It’ll be best if you go I think,” Night Light said. Both Shining and Velvet were agreeing with him.

With a heavy sigh I stood up and walked towards her.

The first thing I did was give her a hug. She really needed it. Tears were already in her eyes. This was harder for her than I thought.

“Twilight just relax. We can do this. Do you want to start off? Or do you want me to start so that you can follow up?” I asked.

“Can you just start please? I really don’t know how to start or where to start. I’m just so uncertain.”

“Okay, but I need you to pick up after me. I can’t do the entire presentation for you. Just think of it as giving the presentation only for your family. It’ll be easier that way,” I tried to comfort her.

“I’ll try.”

“That is all I ask. Alright let’s do this,” I said while giving her a fist bump. I grabbed the extra copies of the case we made and gave them to the teachers.

I was about to start when the doors opened up. A massive pony came through, at least twice the size of an adult pony. From the way her face was shaped, you could tell she was female. Her fur was this perfect white coat with a massive horn, way longer than a normal horn. She had wings as well. Her mane and tail was made out of four colors (Light blue, pink, light green and a more deep blue). Both of these were flowing in a non-existent breeze. She had a cutie mark in the shape of a radiant sun.

This was like the big mamma of all ponies. This was probably Princess Celestia.

“I hope I’m not too late,” She said.

“Of course not, your highness. Both miss Sparkle and this creature were about to start their presentation,” The middle stallion said.

“Oh, good.” And with that she sat down next to one of the teachers.

“Now sir. Before we can allow you to aid miss Sparkle, we need to know your name and your relation to miss Sparkle,” The middle stallion stated.

“My name is Jordan Eckhart. I’m a human. And I’m a friend of Twilight Sparkle,” I responded. I could see the curiosity in the eyes of the Princess. But it was hidden behind a mask of neutrality.

I gave her a copy of our case just for good measure and politeness which she thanked me for.

“Greetings everypony. I would like to ask you to hold your questions off until the end of the presentation. After the presentation Twilight and I can take turns answering your questions. And then we can continue our presentation without any interruptions,” I started off with.

“That seems fair enough, " The Princess commented. The teachers quickly agreed with her.

“Okay, thank you. Today Twilight and I are going to talk about electricity.” That’s how our presentation started.

“We are going to talk about AC specifically. Since there are pro’s and cons for both AC and DC. But we saw that AC was left out in the books we researched, so we chose AC.” I said just those sentences and you could see the doubt in their eyes. Time to ace this.

I talked about how an AC power grid could connect the entire city without any problems. The improvements that could happen to the existing train network. I needed a part in our presentation where I could just sell this to them and get their attention. Let’s just say I really got their attention.

“So we calculated a small case for the connection of a few homes with a stable power grid.” While I was explaining, I looked at Twilight. She needed a bit of guidance for this.

“Twilight could you write down the different formulas we used for the different calculations,” I asked trying to involve her into our presentation.

She got her piece of chalk and started to write them down quickly on the blackboard while I explained a bit further.

“The biggest problem was trying to figure out what we would be doing and how. And for that we needed a theoretical base. Twilight could you please explain what the different formulas are and what they are used for?” And with that she took of.

She explained every formula perfectly. From the preservation of energy to the calculations of electromagnetic fields. Each one carefully explained what they were and how they were used.

With those explained I took over again.

“Now that we know the basics of our case. We still need to think about a very important aspect. Safety. We need to make sure that our power grid is secure enough so that no accidents occur,” I continued.

I started to explain everything about safety and other regulations. How to deactivate a circuit safely when it’s overloaded ( with the use of a bi-metal that starts to curve when it heats up, that way you can push open a switch and open up the circuit). How to deactivate a shorted circuit (With a electromagnetic switch). Insulation around wires. Etc.

And then came the last part. I let Twilight handle this part.

“Now that we have most of our power grid down, we still need the most important part of our grid. A power-supply,” Said Twilight, “We decided that we could use solar energy, convert it and make it stable enough for a power grid.”

With this sentence the teachers and the Princess their eyes widen. This was probably a alien concept for them to understand.

Still, Twilight explained the concept of solar panels and how they worked. How they could make for a stable power-supply. How to manufacture them. Etc...

And that was our presentation. (Stop music)

“Any questions?” Twilight asked.

Middle stallion: “How efficient do you think these solar panels, as you call them, are going to be?

“If you place them in a efficient way with the correct angle and everything it could be from 15 to 22% efficient, but we haven’t thought about implementing magic to boost these panels,” I answered. I think he became a bit pale with that answer.

First mare: “Is it really necessary to change our existing network to this? Is what you are suggesting truly safe? Can we make it work on DC?

Twilight answered these. “Our existing network has quite a few flaws, there is a realistic chance that every little network can cause a fire or other issues because of the ‘no insulation problem’, which could be disastrous. What we suggested has way more safety regulations than anypony thought about implementing in our current power grid. We thought about a lot of different things that could occur and tried to solve them, which is more than we can say about our current situation. And as final answer, we can’t make it work on DC. With DC we have nearly no access to electromagnetic fields which are necessary for most of our equipment.”

Damn she just destroyed her questions. It even appears that the mare in question took a bit of offence to the answers.

Final question came from the Princess herself. “From where came the idea of using solar energy? And how much time did it take to make this presentation?”

“We noticed that the sun gave off heat. Heat that went to waste in certain places. So we thought if we could convert the heat together with the solar rays into a useful energy, that it might be something worth doing. It took us about a week to create this presentation,” I answered. Maybe not the complete truth, but it was the basic idea behind it.

“It was a very good presentation. I think both of you are suitable for joining the school,” She said. Wait, wut?

“But Princess, only miss Sparkle was entering the examination,” The middle stallion said.

“I know, but it is obvious that the little one taught miss Sparkle what she knows about this subject. Am I right in assuming that little one?” She is good.

“Yes, that is true. For the past week he has taught me all I know about electricity,” Answered Twilight.

“So it is true. It seems the little one is quite intelligent. You see headmaster, he seems like top student material as well,” Celestia continued quite smug.

“Sigh, very well,” said the middle stallion, “both of you passed this part of the exam.”

The smile on Twilight her face was worth gold at this point. She was so happy that she even did a bit of a victory dance.

“I told you you could do it,” I said.

I got a bear hug from her as a response. “Thank you so much Jordan.”

“It really was no problem, but you are not out of this yet. But I think that the second part of this exam is going to be much easier. Just relax and you can do it.” We really needed to get her self esteem a bit higher in the future.

“Okay, you’re right. I can do this,” said Twilight with some new found courage, “Do you have an idea what spell that I would need to perform for the exam?”

“I have no idea,” I said.

“We are going to take a ten minute break from the exam. After that we will resume the exam and start off with the magic examination,” Said the headmaster.

I took this time to relax, while Twilight went to her family. I could hear them congratulate her while she got hugged by both her parents and her brother.

Maybe I can do what I loved to do here in this world. I always wanted to be of significant technological value to the world. Maybe I can implement certain things in this world.

**TIME SKIP**

After the break the teachers, the headmaster and Princess Celestia sat back down again, while Twilight and I waited in front of them.

“Now we will start the second part of the exam. Your assignment miss sparkle is...” The headmaster waited so that he created some suspense.

“...To hatch this egg,” he said.

From behind their desk they levitated a very large egg forward. It was even larger than an ostrich egg.

“Twilight? What kind of egg is that?” I asked.

“It’s a dragon egg, the shell of those eggs are really magic resistant. I don’t think I can do this Jordan,” she said really afraid.

“You can do this, just think of the basics that we learned. If that doesn’t work, think outside the box. You will pass this as well,” I said with some doubt in my voice.

And so Twilight started on her spell to hatch a dragon egg.

1...2...3... Nothing was happening

4...5...6... Twilight got frustrated and put more power in her spell. No change.

One minute had passed. Twilight put even more power in her spell. Nothing happened.

Suddenly a massive explosion happened somewhere outside. Everything was shaking like there was an earthquake. I recognized the sound and the effects of the blast. Something broke the sound barrier really quickly. Fighter jets did this one time near where I used to live. Windows nearly shattered and electrical equipment broke.

This time however, the windows just shattered. I was pushed off my feet and onto the ground. This explosion scared and disrupted Twilight so much that she instantly had a magic surge. Her magic went haywire for a little while.

Everything was enveloped in this purple static field, the same field I saw at the company I worked at. Twilight her parents were changed into plants. The egg hatched a very large baby dragon instantly that broke through the roof. Small things got blasted across the room. Chaos was everywhere.

It was only for a few seconds until Princess Celestia made a barrier that dispelled most of the rampaging magic. She then used her magic to reverse some of the effects. First Twilight her parents back to normal. The next thing she tried was turning the dragon back into the egg or make it a lot smaller.

The dragon was shrinking. While it was shrinking it turned around to face Celestia and hit me with it’s tail. I went flying across the room into the wall.

The last thing I could see was Twilight’s surge ending and her calming down.

After that everything went black.

Author's Note

This was actually the first chapter I started writing for this story.
Fair criticism is always appreciated. I you have any suggestions, I would love to hear them.

Have a good day.