Human History

Spike comes stumbling through the crystal door with the rope grasped in his claws "Here's that rope you needed Twi" Spike informed walking up to her, giving her the twenty feet rope in her magical aura.

"Thanks Spike" Twilight thanked rubbing his head with her hoof. Guiding the rope on her work station, Twilight had a few test items and subject. There was a cinderblock, a lantern, a crystal, an apple, and a little white mouse in a cage. Twilight leans down to the mouse, looking into its eyes "Oh, I hope you'll be okay" Twilight hoped wrapping the first item from the top with the rope. "Now that I've got the cinderblock in... all that I need to do now is kick it in, I guess" Twilight said whilst grasping the cinder block in her magic.

Walking toward the portal, Twilight looks back to make eye contact with Lyra "Got notes ready?" Twilight asked getting a nod to confirm her suspicions. "Alright, everypony backup" Spike backs up with Lyra to a safe distance around ten feet away. Twilight looks at the portal, without second thoughts, she throws the cinderblock with her magic in the portal holding the other end of the rope. The cinderblock makes contact with the blue disc making a slight frizzle noise, within under a second, he cinderblock in engulfed in the portal, traveling into the unknown.

The rope shows great stress being pulled harder and harder. Twilight let's the cinderblock stay on the other side for a minute, then another, then another. "You think we should pull it now, see if it survived the travel?" Lyra asked looking at the portal with the notepad in her magical grasp

"I do suppose its been long enough" Twilight replied grabbing the rope, pulling it backwards as hard as she could. It takes a few strong pulls but she manages to get most of the rope out of the portal. With one final pull the cinderblock flies out of the portal landing in front of Twilight. Jumping back to avoid the object, Twilight inspects it to make sure it's not damaged in any way, shape, or form. To her surprise, the cinderblock is in pitch perfect condition. "Lyra, write down no damage to test item one" Twilight ordered looking at Lyra. Lyra obliges, writing down the exact words Twilight used.

Untying the rope from the cinderblock, Twilight tied it around the lit lantern. Taking the same safety precautions, Twilight threw the lantern into the portal the exact same way she did with the cinderblock hearing the same frizzy sound she heard earlier with the cinder block. Waiting the same amount of time, Twilight pulled in the lantern, a little easier then the cinderblock. The lantern came out flying like the cinderblock landing in front of Twilight. Twilight inspects the lantern to see that, again, are no damages to the object, it's even still lit!

Untying the rope again, then tying it to the apple, as Twilight does this Lyra writes down their findings. "One more test after this to go" Twilight muttered, throwing the apple in the portal.Like last time, the same weird noise, waiting, then pulling it back. And the same result. Nothing had happened to the apple as a result, Lyra wrote down 'living matter such as food can be transported into the portal'

"It seems pretty stable to me..." Twilight trailed off "I guess it's time to test our living subject..." Twilight quietly announced looking over to the black, small cage. "But, we shall do that tomorrow I think we've done enough testing for today" Twilight said to everypony in the room. Turning around she walks to the door, opening it she leaves into the hallway followed by Lyra and Spike.

"When do you want to do the live subject?" Lyra asked Twilight as Spike splits away from them, going the other direction.

"8:30AM tomorrow, Let's hope that it survives not just for the rats life, but for the entire experiment itself" Twilight explained looking at a clock on the right side "5:30PM!?" Twilight yelled in shock

"How is that even possible!?" Lyra asked looking at the clock with the same amount of shock

"It could just be wrong or... it could have been the portal because it deals with time travel, there was a repeating sound when something entered the portal" Twilight at this second blew her own mind "When something enters the portal, the area outside becomes a sort of 'very fast-forwarded' reality"

"Huh, that's... kind of cool" Lyra responded trying to comprehend what sciency jibbery-jabber stuff Twilight spewed out her mouth

"It's astonishing!" Twilight exclaimed. A silence builds between them as they walk through the hall, the only noise being heard was the hoofsteps they were making while walking. After a few minutes of walking the silence was broken by Lyra

"So... what do we do now?" Lyra asked walking toward the main exit at the front of the castle

"I think we continue our day, then we meet up and do the last test tomorrow" Twilight told Lyra with a light smile whilst Lyra opened the door as a surge of cold air races into the hallway.

"I hate winter" Lyra muttered to herself looking at the snow falling onto the ground creating a thin blanket of snow "Anyway, see you later Twi!" Lyra waved goodbye seeing Twilight wave back to her as she walked outside and closed the door

Turning around, Twilight starts to trot over to the library when she all of a sudden hears her stomach growl at her. "Oh yeah, right.." Twilight changes course to the kitchen.

Walking into the kitchen, Twilight sees Spike reading one of his comics on the table

Spike stopped reading and looked up at Twilight "Is it good afternoon?" Spike asked unsure of himself putting a claw up to his chin

"Well it is in the afternoon, I'm pretty sure that's the right terminology" Twilight grinned as Spike put his claw up to his forehead

"That just... makes no sense" Spike replied dumbfounded at the whole ordeal

"Don't worry Spike, I'm also quite confused about the whole time skip" Twilight admitted, Spike lifted his head, making eye contact with Twilight

"There's another thing you don't quite understand!" Spike teased with a grin growing on his mouth

"I, uh, but... You're gonna keep at this arent you?" Twilight deadpanned at Spike, Spike's grin growing larger before he burst out laughing "What's so funny?" Twilight demanded an answer. The only answer she got in return was more laughs. Her face went slightly red with anger whilst her ears retreated to her skull

"Oh my, oh my goodness! Look at your face!" Spike laughed more pointing his claw at her red face.

"Enough!" Twilight yelled at Spike. Spike's laughing simmered down quickly into small giggle fits, until he finally stopped "Now can you please tell me what was so funny?"

"Alright, alright! It was just your face after I said you didn't understand something!" Spike quickly explained only getting a 'I don't trust you' face "I swear! I Pinkie promise!" Spike stammered quickly doing the promise

"Eh, Okay," Twilight simply replied, her face returning to normal. Walking ti her kitchen counters, she asks "Should we have breakfast, or supper?"

"Why don't we just go out to eat?" Spike suggested closing his comic and standing out of his chair

"That's actually a good idea, when was the last time we did that?" Twilight asked, getting a shrug in response. "Where do you suggest that we go?" Twilight asked exiting the kitchen with Spike

"I was thinking Hayburger" Spike suggested, gaining a shiver from Twilight

"Let's hope some children won't spy on me this time" Twilight told Spike gaining a chuckle from him. They both start their walk to their destination

Twilight and Spike return home, opening the crystal entrance. They both walk into the castle dragging light snow into the building. "Why did it have to snow?" Twilight asked no one in particular, looking at the snow falling down that had increasingly gotten heavier before Lyra had left. The sun had set about an hour ago, Twilight glanced at the clock "8:45, we were really gone for that long?" Twilight asked looking back at the past few hours.

"I guess so, I just can't get over that weird time skip thing" Spike replied Twilight instantly shot back with another reply

"Hey, speaking about the portal, I'm gonna go check on it" Twilight informed as she started to walk toward the location the portal was present in

"Alright Twi see you when you need me again... I guess" Spike hollered over to Twilight walking the other direction of her. Twilight trotted through the labyrinth of her castle walking passed door after door. Thinking to herself about how her day has gone so far.

Walking up to the throne room Twilight could hear a light chatter of familiar voices. "I still wonder what this thing is" A raspy voice asks

"Well, whatever it is, I don't think Twilight would appreciate us being here with it on" A southern accent called out. Speeding up her walking, Twilight stops at the closed door and opens it. She sees all of her friends all in their thrones looking at the weird frame before them, pondering its existence.

"I see you've all found my surprise" Twilight said with a blush appearing on her cheeks as they all nod their heads. "So, want to tell me why your all here?" Twilight asked with a smile, looking at Lyra's and her masterpiece before teleporting in her own throne

Fluttershy was the first to speak up "Well, we all came around 7:00, to check up on you, you haven't been outside all day, so we did what any good friends would do, check up on you" Fluttershy explained using hoof gestures

"Well I appreciate that girls" Twilight responded as Rainbow gives Applejack a glare.

"So, uh, what's this thing?" Rainbow Dash asked from her throne pointing her hoof at the object on the table. It no longer had the slight breeze it had, it was very likely just getting used to the conditions in the room.

"Well that, Rainbow Dash, is a portal to another realm" Twilight swiftly explained, all the heads in the room instantly look at Twilight with surprise in their eyes

"A portal? To another realm?" Applejack repeated Twilight, Twilight gave a nod in response "Mind tellin` us where it leads?" Applejack asked tilting her head

"Have you ever heard of the species human?" Twilight asked getting dumbfounded faces in her field of vision, looks of the unknown plastered on their faces "Well,, humans are bipedal beings no snout,, no long ears, the only type of fur you can only see at first lance is atop their head, no tails, they wear clothes, and live in a world that controlled by physics, not magic" Twilight finished off, the faces of confusion turn into... bigger confusion

"Well they sound just marvelous, and this portal allows you to visit them?" Rarity asked interested in the subject

"How do you know about these creatures, Twilight?" Fluttershy asked, getting more and more into the conversation

In the old library in the Everfree Forest, I came across a book that had stories about humans, it was mainly about how they lived and what they did. It left so much out that I want answered like, science and history. So a couple of months ago, Lyra, who was an anthropologist, and I started a partnership to build an interdimensional time-traveling portal to observe or even interact with them" Finishing her lecture, the entire room seems intrigued by this information

"So you mean to say that we`re gonna go to another dimension and time travel at the same time? That sounds so cool" Rainbow remarked, thinking about the possibilities

"Yeah, but you see, the portal is still in the testing phase. We have sent inanimate objects and live material into the portal and successfully gotten it back with no damage, we just haven't tried a living living subject" Twilight explained

"What do you mean by 'living living?'" Fluttershy asked with concern

"I mean an animal has to be tested to see if the portal is safe to cross, we need to take that step so we know it is in fact safe" Twilight explained watching Fluttershy's ears droop "Look I know it's gonna be hard trying this out, but we need to" Fluttershy thought to herself for some time before darting on a decision

"I... I guess you can use a lab rat..." Fluttershy granted her access looking at the portal

"Thank you Fluttershy, it means a lot" Twilight thanked solemnly looking into her eyes with pure truth behind her own eyes

"When are you going to test it out darling?" Rarity asked, impatience growing inside of her soul

"Tomorrow at 7:30AM" Twilight said almost instantly. With most of their questions out of the way one by one, they all leave to retreat to their homes until it's just Fluttershy and Twilight in the crystal room.

"Please promise me the subject will come back... alive" Fluttershy pleaded quietly. Twilight saw her eyes slowly changing to saddness

"Fluttershy, I promise that nothing negative will happen to the little critter I test on" Twilight assured Flutter whilst she got out of her throne and next to Fluttershy putting a hoof on her shoulder.

"Thank you Twilight" Fluttershy thanked, hugging her as her sadness diminished quickly. Twilight hugged back in a tight warm hug, only what true friends wold do to each other. "See you tomorrow at 7:30" Fluttershy whispered into Twilight's ear. Getting up, Fluttershy heads to the door and leaves.

Twilight looks at the portal for a period of time "Soon..."