Find Her, Stay With Her

Celestia had managed to summon Twilight over to Canterlot Castle fairly quickly, and with their combined power, the two were able to give enough power to the portal to make it functional once again. She promptly entered, but before doing so, looked back at her student.

"Be sure to stand back, in the event anything dangerous comes back with me." Celestia said.

"Okay." Twilight said.

With that, Celestia proceeded through the portal, and after passing through an exotic realm of gold light briefly, she found herself in Kyle's mansion. However, the three inhabitants were nowhere to be scene.

"Kyle Schaeffer, are you here?" Celestia called out.

There was no response.

"Oh, dear... what if they are all in peril, now that Lyra is back to her original form?" Celestia asked herself.

She knew that Kyle and Jan were nice humans, and did not want to do anything malevolent towards any ponies... but she was still uncertain about other humans. There had to be a way to contact them... and it just so happened, there was.

Celestia happened to spot Kyle's backup cell phone sitting on the counter, plugged into a USB adapter. She knew that human phones looked like that... but she never understood how they worked. Regardless, she had to give it a try.

“Hopefully, these work something like the landline phones in Equestria...” Celestia said.

Kyle was flooring his vehicle, which he found was not accelerating quite as fast, almost as if there has been some added weight to the vehicle. By now, there were several police cars a couple hundred meters behind them.

Lyra had woken back up, feeling fairly achy, as well as confused.

"...Agh... K-Kyle..." the Unicorn mare began. "...What's... going on...?"

"Right now, we need to get the hell outta here! The cops are on our tail!" Kyle said, urgently.

"Driver, pull your car to the side of the road, shut off the engine, and hold your hands out the window!" the vanguard police car shouted over the intercom.

Kyle did not listen, and kept driving fast, swerving around the other cars who were pulling off to the side of the road upon hearing the sirens and seeing the flashing lights of the police cars. Lyra happened to recall the brief run-in she had with the cops, but did not remember anything else.

"What happened?" Lyra asked.

"I had to beat them up to get you back, because they were trying to kidnap you!" Kyle said.

At that moment, Kyle's phone, linked to the Bluetooth of his car, began to ring.

"What the hell? Who's calling me?" Kyle asked, answering. "Hello? Kyle Schaeffer here!"

“Hello? Hello-hello?” came a female voice. “Is this working? Do you hear me?”

Kyle recognized the voice.

“Princess Celestia!?” he said.

"Ah, yes! Kyle Schaeffer!" Celestia responded. "May I ask where you are right now?"

"Well... we're close to home... however... we've got a bit of a problem." Kyle said.

"Why is that?" Celestia asked.

"Because..." Kyle began. "...we have the law enforcement of our community chasing us because they were about to take Lyra away, and I stopped them."

"What!?" Celestia asked. "But then... if they are after you, there is no guarantee that I can bring Lyra back to Equestria safely! If the human guards end up harming me... I don't think I would have the strength to invoke the magic needed to return!"

Kyle was trying to think fast about what to do. And then... the perfect thing came to his mind.

"Princess, what if..." he briefly trailed off. "...what if you brought all of us to Equestria with you?"

The cops were gaining on them. Ed and Danny, having woken up, were both trying to sit silently, both of them anxious about being caught by the police once again... but both of them were also confused as to what the hell Kyle was even talking about.

"What are they saying? Who's 'Princess Celestia'? And what's 'Equestria'?" Ed asked quietly.

"How am I supposed to know?" Danny whispered back.

Up front, the conversation between Kyle and Princess Celestia continued.

"You? Come to Equestria?" Celestia said, confused. "I really don't know... we have no way of knowing the consequences that would result from humans merely existing in a universe they did not originate from."

"It could be just the thing we need to get away from the police, and this world, forever!" Kyle said.

Lyra was next to speak.

“Your Highness, please...” Lyra said. “...he's too pure for this world. I've seen how humans are... and Kyle and his mother are both too kind to deserve any more unfairness from other humans.”

"Hmm..." Celestia hummed. "Perhaps... alright. I'll do it. I'll bring Kyle and his mother back with us once you arrive. From there, we'll work out what to do."

"Okay! Thank you, Princess! We'll be there in a few moments!" Kyle said.

"Alright then, please hurry!" Celestia said.

Kyle hung up his phone with the button command on the steering wheel, and looked in the back seat at his mother, who looked a bit bewildered.

"Kyle, honey..." she began. "...what's going on? Where are we going?"

"Let's just say... we're gonna be going to the best kind of world you could imagine." Kyle said.

"Isn't it what you want?" Lyra asked. "Wouldn't you like to come to my world and see what it's like?"

“W-well... I don't really know...” Jan said.

Kyle looked at her again.

“Mom...” he began. “...don't you remember telling me that you would give anything to have a fresh start? A new beginning? A chance to go somewhere else and live a new life?”

Jan nodded. “Yes...”

“Well, this might be our only chance to have just that! In the best way possible! We won't just be in a different state; we'll be in a different world! And it will be inhabited by creatures who are far nicer than most people in the world we've wasted our lives in!” Kyle said.

Jan darted her eyes around, and then looked back at the gradually-growing number of police vehicles pursuing them. She realized that they effectively had no alternative; even if they did escape the police by a miracle. There's no doubt that they had gotten Kyle's license plate number, so they would get a warrant to arrest him on his property. The only way to avoid facing any kind of trouble would be to go to Equestria, where nobody from this world could ever get them.

"O-okay... I think it's our best option at this point..." Jan said, slightly nervous.

“Alright...” Kyle said, moving his hands higher up on the wheel. “...let's do this!”

He floored the car.

The speed he reached was well beyond the grade of the tires he was using on his SUV. Fortunately, however, if things went according to plan, there would be no need to ever use his car again. They were speeding along the freeway at nearly one-hundred-and-twenty miles per hour, the cops following several hundred meters behind them all the while. Kyle had to have a very fast reaction time to swerve around the cars in his path. Fortunately, with a bit of concentration, he was able to use his special ability to aid in his aversion of the traffic.

A police helicopter was now airborne, following directly above the squad of cars and armored trucks that were pursuing the three. By now, there would be no way out of several years in prison, as well as several high fines, if there was no way for them to go to Equestria. However, knowing that Celestia would be waiting for them, that would hopefully not be the case. Still, he had to keep the speed up if they were not going to be apprehended.

Kyle pulled off of the freeway onto the exit needed to reach his mansion, still going nearly double the speed limit and risking sending his car into a rollover. The cops were still hot on their trail, gradually getting closer.

Kyle looked over at Lyra in the passenger seat, and the young mare looked extremely worried. She happened to glance over at him... and he held out his hand towards her with a rich look of determination on his face. It was clear that he wanted her to trust him. Slowly but surely, she brought her hoof into his hand, and he closed his fingers around it, holding onto it while he continued to drive using his free hand and knee. They were about to arrive at his house any moment now, where Celestia would be awaiting them.

This was it...

This was what twenty-five years of Kyle Schaeffer's life had culminated to...

He was finally going to leave the world that chewed him up and spat him out...

He would get to escape with his lover into a better world where they would be eternally happy...

And he was going to do it with his long-lost mother...

They made a sharp turn into the driveway, plowing down the gate, and causing one of the front tires to go flat. All of them saw an alarmed Princess Celestia standing right at the edge of the stoop. Kyle rolled down the window and stuck his head out.

"LET'S GO NOW!" he shouted.

Celestia immediately charged her horn as Kyle slammed on the brakes just short of hitting his porch, and right as the first police car was about to ram into Kyle's car from the back side... there was a flash of bright light...

The next thing the three knew, they were in a fairly large, cartoonish-looking chamber that seemed fairly archaic in design. The car stopped just short of hitting a wall at the edge of the large room, and there was a scraping of metal behind them.

They looked back to see the front of a police car; it appeared to have been separated just short of the passenger cabin, with the cut-off portion white-hot as a result of the molecular separation that occurred during the teleportation process.

Kyle, Jan, and Lyra all let out relieved sighs.

"We... we made it..." Lyra said as she looked around.

As Kyle himself examined the location, he made it out to be something that would indeed appear in MLP. There was not an ounce of doubt in his mind that they were now in Equestria.

...I... I can't believe it... we made it! We ACTUALLY MADE IT! WE'RE IN EQUESTRIA! Kyle thought, triumphantly.

Something that, he knew deep down could never happen, has just been made possible by a miracle. No chance he could ever die upset over anything anymore.

A few seconds later, Princess Celestia came over to the side of the vehicle, and Kyle rolled down the window.

"Well..." Celestia began. "...I bid you welcome to Canterlot Castle, Kyle Schaeffer."