Dear Princess Twilight

It's now the second day for me leaving Equestria and coming to Sear. Things are just like what Abigail said. The air here taste like the Everfree forest, and even when we were in the ruined city, it still smelled like we were deep in the woods somewhere. Wild and untamed. She told us that her world didn't have any forms of magic like our's do and with what I have experienced these last two days of being on the road. I've got no doubt about it being untrue from what I see out the windows of the self-propelled armor transport that Abigail calls 'The Armadillo,' we found on the first day of us coming here along with finding me a set of unused armor and a new unique companion oddly named 'Bill.' An artificially created robot that the humans have made to help humanity. This one specifically used to help soldiers in combat, like opening doors and talking to others via radio. Like the com pieces that Abby showed you.

Also, Princess, I have had my first encounter with the Stranded and the Locust.

From the Stranded, they are a bunch of scavengers that don't want any business with any government and just want to fend for themselves. Abigail even knew a few of them as being former military heroes that did their time before leaving on their own accord to help other survivors that are out there. After all the destruction I've seen, I could not blame them for their decision to do so.

As for the Locust, they are nothing like what I imagine them something similar to what changelings are like, how wrong I was their worse. I no matter how much Abby prepared me and trained me. Nothing could make me ready for the amount of force these things could make. She warned me of the dangers that the Locust possessed and just brushed it off.

We have been fortunate enough to avoid the Locust these last few days as we make our way to the COG HQ on the 'Jacinto Plateau' as Abigail calls it. I have also been a bit worried about her for the last two days. She's been driving this thing for awhile now. Only to stop at places, she called a 'gas station,' to fill up the Armadillo with fuel for its combustion engine. You should see this thing in action Princess; this thing is about as big as a train engine but can go anywhere without any metal tracks. I already read the manual Abby gave me from cover to cover. So when I get back, we're going to be kind of busy in the lab.

Anyway off track from Abby, she's barely said a word about anything unless I ask her something about from what I saw on the road. She just drives on all day till we find someplace to settle down for the night for rest and we take shifts sleeping in the Armodilo's cramp seats in our armor. Abby doesn't want me to take it off and tells me to get used to wearing it at all times, so I am ready to fight at any time.

I suspect it must have been when we first exited the portal. The portals entrance ended up sending us to a place where Abigail was not happy to see. It was the Academy Abby said she attended to become an Onyx guard. She did show me around for a bit, seeing the dorms where she slept and the classes and labs where she worked, which was where we attained my armor, weapons and our robot friend came from.

Abby said we're almost in communications range of the COG. Soon we'll be around more humans. There I can learn more about what's been going on to help Abigail and humanity win the war against the Locust. So close now.

I hope everyone is doing alright back home. I already miss everyone. I plan to return home as a hero with Abigail coming with me. She plans to go back and help us with protecting Equestria, saying that it's a place worth protecting. Also, she wants to retire in our world and help bring new technology's from her world to ours, and move our world forward in a new age of discovery for us.

I'll let you and everyone else know more of whats going to happen when I have a moment to myself. Right now it's about the end my shift so I need to wake Abby up so I can get some sleep. Hope to hear from you soon.

Your friend

Starlight Glimmer

Author's Note

Just a shot to keep the ball rolling for the story for me, as wall as motivate me into moving this story along before the college semester start for me.