Twilight saw an infinite blueness stretching as far as the eye could see. Twilight felt weightless, but felt as if she were falling at the same time. But most importantly, she felt an infinite peace. "Is it working?" Twilight asked unsure of herself. Looking around she only saw light blue, then looked around more, and yet still found light blue. It wasn't until about thirty seconds later when she saw a small hole. Every second it got bigger and bigger. The inside of the hole was now visible, it showed tall trees and small bushes with some grass "Guess we're going to a forest" Twilight thought before falling into the hole.

Being ejected from a blue spiral in the middle of a forest, Twilight hit the ground, rolling and turning, until she was halted by a tree. "Damn, that hurt!" Twilight cursed, standing up and rubbing her left forehoof. Looking up, she saw the same portal, just without the frame. "Good thing it's Summer where we are, too bad it's night though" Looking to her back, seeing her saddlebag, she noticed that her notepads have spilled out all around her "Not off to a great start" Twilight murmured hearing a fritzzy sound from the portal "Oh shi-" Twilight was caught off when she saw Rainbow Dash hurdling toward her at lightning speed.

Rainbow Dash collided with Twilight, launching her backwards hitting a tree. "Ow! Fuck!" Twilight yelled in pain, pushing Rainbow off "What the hell was that for?: Twilight asked getting up, noticing more of her supplies missing from her saddlebag.

"How was I supposed to know I would be coming out like that?" Rainbow retorted, getting a glare from Twilight

"I suppose you're right-" Twilight was cut off by another frittzy noise from the portal "Hell no!" Twilight yelled jumping out of the way, as Rainbow took one big step to her right. Applejack shot out of the portal doing almost the exact same thing Twilight did, but stopped before she hit the tree "You might want to move out of the way" Twilight suggested

"Huh?" Applejack managed to get out, taking her advice as she slowly moved out of the way just in time before hearing another frittzy sound ejecting Lyra out from the portal. Seeing her tumble and stumble, Applejack sighed a sigh of relief

"Ouch" Lyra said after her voyage, the blue spiral quickly closing, until it didn't exist anymore

"Off to a wonderful start!" Twilight mocked as she started to pick up her notepads and other miscellaneous objects with the help of her friends. "Thank you girls" Twilight said, putting the rest of the items in her saddlebag.

"I thought this place would be more exciting than this" Rainbow said looking above, following the high, red wood trees. Rainbow Dash jumped and flapped her wings, but to no avail, she didn't get off the ground "What the hell?" Rainbow yelled

"Remember what I said, Dash? Next to no magic?" Twilight explained, Rainbow rolled her eyes in response

"Why would you want to go to a universe with no magic?" Rainbow retorted

"Why would you come if you knew it had no magic?" Twilight fired back silencing Rainbow Dash as she looked toward the ground. Sighing, Twilight rubbed her muzzle "Look we didn't get off to a good start, but we can make it better" Twilight announced looking at each and everypony there "What we're gonna do is walk in a direction, hopefully find a river then follow that stream, because medieval civilizations were built alongside rivers" Twilight stated patting Rainbow on the back, cheering her up

"And yes, it will be a bit hard doing this mission because we can't fly, and our magic is next to nothing, but we will push to our limits and try our best. I promised Celestia a promise, and I will keep that promise!" Twilight finished her little speech by putting a hoof up into the air

"Laaame!" Rainbow jokingly said with a hoof over her mouth chuckling after her response, the other girls joined her in chuckling a little.

"Let's proceed" Twilight said leading the way being followed by the rest of the group. Walking the same way they were launched out of the portal, they walked for a couple of minutes, that became an hour. During the walk, they had small chat about what they might find, some adult jokes, and complaining.

"Do you hear that?" Lyra asked, as they all halted advancing. Hearing a trickle and a flow of water Lyra started walking again, quicker this time "We've found a river!" Lyra hollered as they all galloped toward the wide river

"Yeehaw! Well, I'll be damned, we did find a river" Applejack replied standing on her two back legs in victory and joy

"Now we follow the flow" Twilight replied as she started to advance to the left, being as that was the way the river was flowing.

"Hey we can time travel in this universe, right?" Lyra asked Twilight, following her

"Of course" Twilight replied shortly

"So that means we can time travel in our universe, correct?" Lyra asked, trying to put two and two together

"Nope" Twilight answered as she looked back to meet the confused gaze of Lyra

"Well, how does that make any kind of sense?" Lyra asked confused, putting her hoof up half way

"I designed the time travel matrix to only be compatible with this universe, that means we can only time travel in this universe any time we want." Twilight looked forward to make sure she wouldn't run into anything "That, and I couldn't figure out a compatible matrix to use on our universe, guess the princesses don't want us to time travel in our universe" Twilight explained, a warm smile spread on her muzzle

"Well, that kind of sucks" Rainbow replied "Hey, I got a question, since we can time travel any time we want in this universe, what if we time travel to the year negative a billion?" Rainbow asked getting a scoff from Twilight

"Yeah right, like the universe is that old" Twilight replied, chuckling "That's impossible"

"Hey! Don't insult me for my suggestion!" Rainbow replied somewhat offended by Twilight as they started going up a steep hill

"Alright, cool your jets Rainbow, I'm just saying that it's impossible for the universe to be that old" Twilight looked back and bopped Rainbow's nose

"You do that one more time-" Rainbow said angrily before being cut off

"Or you'll what?" Twilight replied with a somewhat dickish grin

"Oh I'll-" Rainbow Dash said but stopped her speech being that Twilight stopped all of sudden. A blank face was on her blank face. Climbing to the top of the hill, Rainbow saw what was so mesmerizing as the other two completed the hill.

What they were looking at was not a village, nor a town, nor a city, but was a megalopolis about half a mile away. It had dozens of soaring skyscrapers in the middle of the city, hundreds of feet into the sky, each one of them were lit up with artificial light. Passed the city was an ocean as far as you could see. To the left, you could see tall, white structures that looked like windmills, but much more advanced. There were hundreds of them, not only that but there were some in the ocean as well. To the right, you could see the city stretch on and on.

"Thought you guys said we was in the medieval ages" Applejack broke the silence, still looking at the city 'Not the futuristic age"

"I thought it was the year 2047 when they were in the medieval ages, boy was I wrong" Lyra responded, not taking her eyes off the city

"T-this is astonishing!" Twilight yelped, jumping into the air "How did they manage to do this without magic?" Twilight asked nopony in particular, grabbing a feather, ink, and a notepad with the weak magical power she had to write down her findings. Twilight looked up and down several times, trying not to miss a detail in her description. Somethings she just wrote down like Advanced windmill: Use: Unknown

"What's that darn trail right there?" Applejack asked pointing at it with a hoof. It was a long, wide, black trail that left the city heading towards the left.

"I have no idea" Rainbow replied, sitting down

"...How do we proceed?" Lyra asked the leader

"Um... Hmm... Let's see... Uh...." Twilight stammered trying to think of another step to their shattered plan "I've honestly no clue" Twilight admitted "And we are not going back" Twilight stated

By now, they're all sat down, observing the city. Twilight heard her stomach rumble "Hmm, never noticed" Twilight talked to herself pulling her saddle bag from the left side in front of her. Opening the right side of the saddlebag, it revealed the food that was packed. There was cooked hay, daisies, tulips, tomatoes, and an abundance of apples. Picking up the daises in her magic, she began to eat them slowly "Should've eaten before we got here" Twilight told everypony

SNAP

Everypony turned around instantly when they heard the twig snap. Looking down the hill, they saw a tall, bipedal being. It's skin was a peach-ish color, it had small eyes, no muzzle, and the only visible fur it had was atop its head, above the eyes, the upper lip, and the entire chin. It's fur was a dark brown, and for what it was wearing. It was wearing a teal trench coat, black pants, black boots and its mane was a quiff hairstyle

It took a few long seconds before it did something. It put its forearm up to its mouth and whispered "Are you sure this is the time anomaly? Yeah, but... It is? But how? These things don't even-"

"Hey!" Rainbow yelled suddenly, getting its full attention. Twilight put her saddlebag back on her back, she noticed the accent of the creature was a little like an Equis accent

The thing looked at Rainbow "Dear God, they can talk" It said a little louder in disbelief

"Just who are you?" Rainbow asked, stepping one step forward, the human put its arm down to his side

"Who am I? Just who are you? Who and what are you doing here?" It said a little louder. Hearing the deep voice it was obvious it was a male.

"Oh my goodness" Lyra said, looking at the figure before them

"Alright let's just calm down" Twilight stammered putting her hoof up toward the human

"Yeah, let's do that. After you explain to me what you are and why you're here" The human retorted, clearly not trusting them

"Well, we're here because we're trying to study your species" Lyra explained gaining a glare from the human

"And how exactly did you get here?" He asked, calming down just a tad

"Wait, wait, wait, wait, that's not how it's gonna swing here, a question for a question" Rainbow stated, crossing her forearms

"Oh, geez, we're gonna be here all night if we do that" He said, Rainbow glaring at him aggressively "Okay, okay, if you insist, ask away" It bowed jokingly

"Good to see they have a sense of humor" Twilight thought getting a notepad out of her saddlebag with her magic.

"Hey, now what the hell did you just do right there?" The human asked, pointing one of its fingers toward Twilight. Applejack coughed into her hoof, reminding the human said "Right, go ahead"

"First of all, how did you find us?" Twilight asked, getting ready to write as fast as she could

"Right, I suppose I should answer that. So I am a rogue time traveler. I was working with the Time Preservation Administration before I became rogue. Their purpose was to protect the history of the human race, but they became corrupt. A couple of years ago, their organization collapsed and they were scattered all throughout time, from the beginning of the human race itself, to the far, far future." The human explained taking a step further, making hand gestures throughout the short story

"Interesting..." Twilight mumbled, writing word for word on the notepad" "You travel through time?" Twilight asked, getting a nod from him "Right, what time era are you from?" Twilight asked, looking up at him with hungry eyes for knowledge

"I come from the thirty-second century" Saying this, they all looked at him with shock

"So what are you doing here?" Rainbow asked pointing at him

"Ah, ah ,ah, remember, question for a question? I just answered two, so it should be my turn" He mocked putting a sly grin on his face. Rainbow's face went red with anger, she got played by her own game,

"Very well" Rainbow thought "Proceed" Rainbow said aloud, her anger subsiding

"How did you move those objects without even touching them? You don't seem to have the technology for antigravity, let alone, you don't even have a pen that this time era uses" The man said in disbelief

"Magic" Twilight responded simply.

"Preposterous! Impossible! No way! And plain out, what this generation likes to say, plain out bullshit!" The angry human protested against Twilight's statement

"No, it's magic" Twilight reassured lifting the notepad in her magical aura

The human walked up to them in shock "In all my thirty year life, and all my time traveling, I've never seen anything like this" He remarked, walking up to the notepad, grabbing it out of her magical field, breaking it "Where did it go?" He asked, frozen looking at the notepad in his hand

"Our magic is really weak in this dimension, so anything stronger than the magic itself will break it" Twilight explained, taking the notepad from his hand with her hoof

"Magic... weak... dimension..." The human repeated looking at the palm of his hand, being lost in his own thoughts while being oblivious to everything else "Dimension?" He said, louder this time, being broke out of his thoughts and into reality.

"Yes, we came from another dimension, to this time era" Twilight explained dotting more information on the notepad

"May I ask why you would come to this universe and to this time era?" He asked, taking a step or two back away from them.

"Why, we came to this universe because I wanted to study your species, as in science, accomplishment, and most importantly, history" Twilight explained "For why we came to this time era, we thought this was your species medieval ages, but we were clearly wrong" Twilight said shamefully, looking down, her ears drooping

"Study my species, for another" He said to himself putting his right hand up to his chin "Say, how about we make a deal?" He proposed, Twilight's face lighting up at the words "I have a time traveling vehicle that can go to anywhere and anywhen on the planet Earth"

"What's the deal?" Lyra asked, her hopes raising

"How about we share our history with each other? I'll time travel to the most important events in our history, in exchange for the knowledge of your culture and history" He said with a slight smile, turning back

"Hmm" Twilight thought for a couple of seconds "Here you go a little deeper into the forest so me and my friends can talk about this in private" Twilight explained, nodding and with an Of course he walked off

"What do you guys think?" Twilight asked looking back at her posy

"In my honest opinion, if we want to learn anything about these creatures, I say we should trust him" Applejack honestly said, putting a hoof up to her chest

"I agree, the only thing I came here is to learn about everything about humans" Lyra responded

"This stuff does look pretty awesome... Oh, what the hell, why not?" Rainbow Dash agreed with the majority

"Alright let's go!" The human cheered running up the hill

"W-wait, how do ya` know what we said?" Applejack asked, stunned by the action

"Advanced hearing" He said bending down in front of them and turned his head to the right to reveal a small, metallic, device in his ear lobe. Twilight writing the information down, he started to advance down the hill "What are you waiting for? Let's go!"

"Staying back a few seconds Twilight whispered as quietly as she could to her friends "If he trys anything, be ready" They nodded as they began to follow him to approach their destination

"Where are we going?" Rainbow impatiently asked

"Hold your horses," - he let out a chuckle "we're just going to my vessel" He finished "But while we're on the way, can we get names in order?" He asked, looking back to see the small four ponies

"Oh" Twilight responded "Well, I'm Twilight" She put a hoof to her chest "This is Rainbow Dash" Twilight declared pointing towards Rainbow "This is Applejack" Twilight pointed towards Applejack, she tilted her stetson with a howdy "And that is Lyra" Twilight finished off

"Some weird names... Well, it`s nice to meet you, my name is Zaine, but my used-to-be friends called me Captain Zaine" Zaine announced looking forward, following the natural path that headed deeper into the forest

"Don't insult my name" Rainbow retorted back

"I wasn't insulting, weird doesn't directly mean an insult, in fact, I think your guys' names are kind of cute" Zaine responded,, the smallest of blushes appearing on Dash's face

They continued their journey to the so called vessel for a couple of minutes, Zaine put his hand up, indicating for them to stop. They entered an empty part of the forest, a plain spot with only grass, and no trees spanning at least two hundred feet

"Here we are" Zaine said, stopping to a complete halt. Confused gazes spawned on the four mares

"Um, I don' mean to be a pest, but there's nothing here" Applejack clarified, Zaine lifting his right fore arm right up to his eyes. There was a glass screen on his left arm, containing statistics and commands, Zaine pressed the top left command module with one of his fingers, then settled his arm down again. Slowly appearing out of nowhere, his supposed vessel became a reality

"Cool..." Rainbow cooed

Author's Note

The mature tag starts to take place in this chapter with profanity. This will increase over time, trust me.

Also, another chap over 3,000 words? I'm doing alright!