My Little Pony & Ben 10: Cosmic Crisis

A deafening roar was heard when the doors that served as entrance to the throne room were opened wide and the six mares entered into the Hall galloping at full speed, sweating and breathing with difficulty.

"We came as fast as we could, Princess. What is happening?" Twilight Sparkle reached to say as he neared his former teacher and her younger sister, panting and trying to recover the lost air from her lungs. Their wings, fatigued by having flown many kilometers from Ponyville until Canterlot relentlessly, felt like two huge and heavy bags filled with stones. Having to load somepony who often consumed vast quantities of sugar like Pinkie Pie during the whole trip had not made things easier for her.

“Twilight!” Princess Celestia yelled with relief, hugging her former student with her majestic, big white alicorn wings. “Thank goodness you are finally here! I was starting to worry”.

"Indeed. You have arrived at the right time, Twilight Sparkle" Princess Luna replied with her usual and characteristic real accent, pointing out a certain corner of the room with her right fore hoof. "Our problem is right there".

Twilight turned his attention toward where Luna was pointing, and what she saw left her speechless. A few meters away from the thrones of the two rulers of Equestria, what seemed to be a huge portal with a multi-colored aura that was starting to expand more and more, threatening to devour the entire room on its way.

“Ooooh!” an innocent, dazzled Pinkie Pie exclaimed, bouncing on her place, “Pretty!”

“What in the hay is that supposed to be?” Rainbow Dash managed to shout both amazed and scared at the same time. Her pink, magenta eyes had never seen anything like that before.

"We have no idea” Celestia admitted, sighing in defeat. “It came out of the blue one or two hours ago, and we have made the impossible to make it disappear since then, yet we are still sensing an unknown presence coming from it”.

Twilight ignited her horn, slowly trotting right towards the mysterious, unstable energy field. Her eyes glowed with a pinkish glow and her mind began to search beyond until something stopped her for going any further, breaking her concentration and sending her back to the throne room, with her friends and the princesses behind her. Whoever that presence belonged to, it was strong, colossal and it was certainly not from a pony.

“Yes” she finally said, “I could feel it too”.

“Well, whatever it is, I must say I adore its multi-faceted color palette!” Rarity moaned, taking a look at the many colors the strange portal had started to acquire.

“Um, Rarity” Fluttershy said with deep concern reflecting on her face, “I don't think it's time to admire but rather to find solutions”.

“Oh, yes!” the Element of Generosity quickly answered, coming back to her senses with noticeable embarrassment. “I'm sorry. I think I was just hypnotized by such a beautiful-yet at the same time horrible-visual spectacle”.

"Ah don't know what ya think, Twi” Applejack hurried to say, reaching her friend and putting her left fore hoof on the lavender alicorn’s right shoulder. “But right now mah sixth sense is tellin' me that we should all stay as far as possible from that thing 'til we know what it is. N' Ah'll gladly comply”.

“You're right, AJ” Twilight said, still looking at the seemingly unstoppable portal-like energy field, then turning back to Celestia and Luna with a frown. “Maybe we should call Sunburst and Starlight for assistance. I know they are a little tied up at the moment helping Thorax with a certain delicate affair in the Changeling Kingdom, but…”

But the Princess of Friendship would never end that sentence. She was taken by surprise with the shudder of the floor. The energy field grew wider and everypony rapidly stepped back, shaking in fear.

Suddenly, what it seemed to be a giant brownish, five fingered hand came out from the energy field. Seconds later, an enormous head with light green eyes and a titanic torso followed it.

Both Rarity and Pinkie Pie screamed. Luna and Celestia adopted a fight stance, with their wings and horns ready to fight. Fluttershy instinctively hid behind a defiant Rainbow Dash, trembling and paralyzed by fear. Twilight’s mind, on the other hand, was blank. She could not comprehend what she was seeing.

"You!” she managed to affirm, “You're the presence I felt!”

"What in tarnation?!” Applejack cried out in shock.

"I don't know who or what you are supposed to be” The giant head bellowed with a strong, raspy voice, finally stepping out of the portal, revealing itself as a gigantic, bipedal talking reptile who was big enough to touch the room’s ceiling. “But you better get out of my way, or I’ll smash you all until I find him!”

Twilight had unconsciously started to shiver. Then, she remembered her manners and decided to greet their newcomer, willing to risk it all.

“Twilight, darling!” Rarity yelled. “Stop! What are you doing? Stay away from that…..that thing!”

“Don't worry, girls” Twilight said without turning back. “Trust me. I know what I’m doing. Just step aside until I tell you it is completely safe”.

Celestia and Luna looked at each other and nodded. The two princesses strongly believed in Twilight's judgement, especially after all they had experienced with her and her friends in their lives the past few years.

"Uh, well Hello!” she said, trotting to the amazing creature with both excitement and curiosity. “Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Twilight Sparkle, and as the Princess of Friendship it is my royal duty to give you the welcome to the land of Equestria! It is a pleasure, mister…”

"The name’s Humungousaur!” the gargantuan lizard roared, shaking the room with its imposing voice, “And if you don’t tell me where he is right now, I´m going to make this place fall apart in less than five seconds!”

“Uh, I’m sorry, what did you say?” The lavender alicorn asked while sweating. It was at that moment when Twilight noticed something curious in the lizard’s chest: a circular, metallic-ish plate with a green and black symbol, which reminded her a lot about hourglasses.

“You heard me, you….Whatever you are” the lizard roared once more, this time raising up his fore claws and closing them to form fists. “I won’t repeat it. Now tell me where he is hiding or else…!”

“He? Who is this “He” you are ranting so much about, ugly?” Rainbow Dash finally spit out, flapping her wings in the air and ready to attack their unwelcome visitor, only to be dragged out by Applejack, who quickly grabbed her by her rainbow colored tail with her mouth as she had done many times in the past.

“Hold yer flank, girl!” The farm mare managed to say, trying not to choke with the itchy pieces of hair on her tongue.

“Ooh, ooh!” Pinkie Pie said, hopping where she was standing. “He must be referring to Gummy! He must be his lost father!”

“Pinkie Pie!” Twilight shouted, “You're not helping!”

“Or maybe it's his north cousin!” the pink pony continued, oblivious to Twilight’s words. “Or….Unless….Ooh, ooh! I know, I know! He must be…!”

“PINKIE PIE!” Rarity finally snapped. “HUSH!”

“Oh! Oki Doki Loki!” Pinkie Pie answered, now realizing the situation.

“Thank you!” Twilight sighed relieved. Her tense muscles loosened a bit.

“Anytime, dear” the white, purple-maned unicorn replied with elegance.

“Enough talk!” Celestia announced using her royal voice, facing the brown reptile like the fearless ruler she had to show she was. “Who are you and why have you come to our kingdom?”

“Wait a minute!” The lizard spoke once more, this time with a confused look in his face. “You’re talking horses? What the hell? Then that means I´m not in Bellwood anymore!”

“Well, technically we are ponies, but…” Pinkie Pie started.

“Why did you bring me here?!” The beast started roaring again, this time smashing the floor with his fists and making everyone step back. “The Universe is in trouble! Take me back home! NOW!”

“He’s clearly out of control!” Luna proclaimed with an authoritarian tone she used to have when talking about important topics. “Sister, we must seize him immediately if we want to protect our subjects!”

"I have to agree!” Celestia replied, igniting her horn and unfolding her huge wings. “I’m sorry, Twilight, but I think it is safe to say negotiations are over!”

"No!” Twilight yelled. “Princess Celestia, stop!”

But it was too late. The two alicorn sisters were already in the air, both of them charging a magic spell with their horns. And then, they shot. Not many seconds later, two huge beams made the colossal dinosaur scream in pain for a few minutes, until he finally fell back unconscious, destroying the royal thrones in the process. A green sparkle of light filled the entire room for a brief moment, and when the light finally faded away, to every pony’s surprise, the giant lizard was nowhere to be found. Instead, there was a much smaller creature lying on what was left of the stairs.

"Is….Is he…?” Rarity asked with curiosity.

“He'll be alright” Celestia hurried to respond, looking at the fainted young boy with a frown.

“Oh, my!” Fluttershy gasped, trotting to see what had happened with her own eyes, “The royal thrones! They had been destroyed!”

“It is the least of our matters right now, dearest Fluttershy” Princess Luna said, looking at the destruction their opponent had caused. “Although I do appreciate thou concern”.

“Wait a minute!” Twilight exclaimed amazed while reaching Celestia. “Is that a….A HUMAN?!”

“So it seems” The big white alicorn princess replied to her former student with a sharp tone and a cold glare. Twilight had never seen her mentor with that face before. And for the first time in her whole life, she felt afraid of her.

“A human?” Rainbow Dash asked, raising an eyebrow, “But I thought they were nothing more than an old pony legend! They can’t be real!”

“Dash, there's always a bit of truth 'bout legends” Applejack replied, looking at the blue pegasus with a bit of irritation in her voice, “Nopony knows that better than us”.

“Then what is he doing here?” Pinkie Pie hurried to ask, touching the human’s nose to emphasize what she was saying. "Wait, is it a boy or a girl?"

“I don't know” Celestia sharply replied, making the Element of Laughter to step back. “But I will make him tell it to me , even if it is the last thing I do”.