The Legend of "The Darkside of the Moon"

Shade rolls out of the portal and slowly stands to her feet. Right before her is… a wall. Well that is kind of anticlimactic. She hears grunts behind her and turns around.

"Ugh. My head," Diamond groans. She tries to stand up on her hooves and stumbles. When she opens her eyes, she sees a tall… being in front of her with black and crimson long hair. If she squints her eyes she can kind of see.

"Shade?" she hears Virga say beside her.

Diamond sees another strange being beside her with dark blue hair.

"What happened to us?" the creature says with Virga's voice.

Diamond examines herself and she discovers that she looks like the one standing up only smaller with not as big of lumps on her chest.

Dinky shrieks.

"Relax," Shade says. Dinky scrambles over to Shade and hides behind her calf.

Diamond looks the way Dinky is staring at and sees more creatures in white lab coats standing a short distance away. She sees one creature walk towards them.

"What an unexpected outcome," Shade voices.

"How can we be Humans?" Nettleglum says out loud.

Shade watches the woman walking towards them. There is something familiar about her. Shade smiles at the woman.

The woman points a quivering finger at Shade, "You. Me? Naked?" She stammers.

"You look familiar. Have I seen you before?" Shade cracks.

"Maybe a mirror?" Virga comments.

The woman faints and crumples to the floor.

"I always knew I was a knockout," Shade chuckles.

"Um, why are there so many of them?!" Dinky cries.

Diamond shakily stands to her "feet" and holds onto Nettleglum.

"Instead of gawking how about you get us clothes," Shade demands.

Several scientists take off their lab coats and throw them at the naked strangers. Shade steps off the platform and picks up five lab coats and walks back to the others.

"Here," she tosses two to Virga, one to Nettleglum, and kneels to dress Dinky.

The others watch and copy Shade. Virga helps Diamond first before dressing himself.

Movement catches the corner of Shade's eye and she eyes the balding, short, portly man walk up to them. Shade did not like the looks of this place. All the consoles and scientists means this place is one of two things: a military base or laboratory. Maybe she is extra lucky and had teleported everyone to a military laboratory.

"Who are you?" the old man asks.

"We are the new interns," Shade quips.

The old man narrows his eyes. "This is a government facility. One, you all do not have the clearance to be here and two, you all appear from a strange phenomenon."

"One, I need to speak with the head of state and two," Shade steps closer to man and stares into his blue eyes, "You do not want me as your enemy." Before the man can speak, Shade adds, "I am a foreign emissary from an alternate universe on a mission to retrieve an item stolen from our realm. My team and I will wait here until I meet with your leader." Shade looks around the man at her doppelgänger in the floor, "You should probably check on her."

"As long as you all stay right there we will not have any problems," the man says and begins to walk away. He barks at one scientists to check on Doctor Bloom.

The scientist, a man in his late twenties, rushes to the woman's side. He looks at her and at Shade. His green eyes register confusion. He gently picks up Doctor Bloom in his arms and carries her away.

"I had hoped for a better outcome," Shade grumbles.

"What do we do now?" Virga asks as he stands next to Shade to watch the Humans.

"Just let me handle the talking," she replies. She walks over to Nettleglum and Diamond, waving Virga and Dinky over. She crouches and speaks low, "We need their cooperation if we are to successfully find and retrieve the orb. I do not know if we are in the same Human world I was previously in. I do know that I am unable to cast spells right now."

"They keep staring at us," Dinky whispers.

"They will live, for now," Nettleglum comments.

"I knew I was going to like you," Shade smiles.

"What are we suppose to do now?" Diamond squeaks.

"Wait," Shade says.

Bweep bweep!

Bweep bweep!

Yawn.

Click clack.

"What?"

"Madame Secretary, sorry for disturbing your sleep. My name is Doctor Corduroy. I am the Director of Science at the Manehattan Institute of Technology."

"What is so important that you could not wait until the morning, Doctor?"

"I believe Equestrian individuals have teleported into the laboratory, Madame Secretary." A long pause and silence. He thinks the secretary had gone back to sleep. "M—"

"I will be there in a couple hours," the Secretary states, the sleep in her voice nonexistent.

Shade chuckles. "That is a cute little dance you are doing, Dinky.

"For your information, I need to go use the restroom!" Dinky hisses.

Shade lips form an "O" of understanding. She stands up and notices the guards shoulder their guns. "She needs to use the restroom," Shade says, crossing her arms.

"Um, Shade?" Diamond tugs on Shade's lab coat.

Shade sighs. "We all need to use the restroom. Would you be so kind as to show us where the nearest one is?"

"Doctor Corduroy gave us explicit details to not let you leave," the guard closes to them informs.

Shade scowls at the man. "If you do not take us to the restroom, I will fucking go over there and shit—!"

Virga clamps a hand over Shade's mouth.

"We would ever be so indebted if you would allows us not to embarrass ourselves any further," Nettleglum speaks up. "Please."

Virga releases Shade before she throws him across the room. Shade snorts aggressively and glares at the guard.

"Right this way," the guard finally says and leads the four strangers to the restroom.