Equestria
Ponyville, Castle of Friendship

Midday

It was a sunny day, and most ponies would prefer to be outside at this time. The weather was nice, the day was new…

Twilight Sparkle was not like most ponies today.

As of now, she was in her new Castle's dedicated laboratory, laboring away at a project of hers. A project that would produce a spell, one that would allow her to artificially recreate the Mirror Portal without need for the portal itself. Right now, Twilight was knee-deep in scrolls and reagents, and she was buzzing about, as if she had one too many cups of coffee.

"And that should be there, and this...there…" she said, with an accomplished smile. "With this, I add the reagents, and finally…"

She fired a beam of magic at the assembled ingredients, and after a bright flash of white light…

And nothing happened.

"Tartarus!" Twilight cursed loudly. "That should've worked! Why didn't it work?"

Twilight was about to leave when she heard a faint noise, like a driving wind. She turned, and what she saw puzzled her. A crack in the air was present, small and circular in shape. It was almost as if the backdrop of a glass wall had been shattered by a thrown object.

"Huh…" Twilight mused. "Not what I was expecting…So, I don't think I factored in the variable of "Mysterious Portal appearing from nowhere" into my theory…Strange…"

Twilight then noticed the time.

"Sweet Celestia, it's three o'clock?" she gasped. "I'm late for lunch with the girls!"

She rushed upstairs in a panic, all thoughts of the mysterious portal forgotten.

"Twilight, where have you been?" Rarity admonished. "You're nearly thirty minutes late! And you're NEVER late!"

"Sorry, everypony." she sighed. "I got caught up in my research."

"That spell you're working on?" Rainbow groaned. "How long has it been?"

"I actually don't know." Twilight admitted. "I'm dead tired and super hungry, if that's any indicator."

"Well, it is Tuesday afternoon, and we last saw you Monday evening…" Fluttershy piped up. "It's been…"

"OVER TEN HOURS!?" Twilight screeched, doing the mental math. "Why didn't you get me?"

"Um, you put a shield up." Applejack said flatly. "Took us a while to get past."

"Ah, right…" Twilight said. "Sorry. Let's get down to business, shall we?"

While all this was happening, Spike was eyeing the Lab door with a curious eye. Twilight had caught him reading comics late past his bedtime, and she had confiscated them all. Spike had checked all her usual hiding spots (Which were phenomenally easy to figure out, even for the baby Dragon.), but so far, no luck. The laboratory was the one place left he hadn't checked. Slipping in, he smiled upon seeing his shoebox stuffed full of comics under the lab sink. Then, as soon as he picked them up, he dropped them and ran out.

"Twilight!" Spike cried, bursting into the room.

"What's up, Spike?" Twilight asked. "You don't need to yell."

"There's a GIANT PORTAL IN THE LAB!" he screamed. "And it's getting BIGGER!"

"I know about the Portal, Spike...Wait, GETTING BIGGER?" Twilight realized. She sped out of the room faster than anyone
could blink. The seven others followed her to the lab, and to their surprise…

Spike wasn't lying.

A much larger version of the portal Twilight had summoned was currently crackling with energy and growing larger by the second. Twilight was currently trying to seal it, with no success.

"Everypony get back!" she cried in panic. "I can't seal it!"

"Get away from that thing!" Rainbow yelled.

"I can't! It'll collapse and that'll end us all!" Twilight panicked. Realizing what she had to do, she used her magic to close and

lock the door, putting her friends out of harm's way. She then released her hold on the portal.

For many ponies in Ponyville, having weird or unexpecting things happen was part of the daily routine.

Having a giant explosion cave in half of Twilight's Castle, though...was not.

A crowd formed at the scene, and out of the wreckage came Applejack, Fluttershy, Rainbow, Rarity, Spike, and Pinkie Pie,
however…

There was no sign of Twilight, the Portal, or a good chunk of her Castle.

Twilight groaned and stood up shakily. Then, she dove to the side to dodge a piece of her castle wall that would've crushed her flat had she not moved. She scurried away from the falling debris and to the safety of a small hill. She took a few deep breaths and reoriented herself.

Then she noticed something she did not expect.

She was now in her human body, and in her school clothes. She hyperventilated for a few seconds, then she managed to calm down.

"Okay, so I'm in another human world, in my human body, and likely no way home." she said quietly. "I should get moving, see if I can find some help."

She stood up and started to walk away, only for a faint buzzing to stop her cold. She turned, and froze.

A large, bee-like creature was searching the area. Twilight would've said it was some kind of bee-monster, only bees didn't have lance-like blades on their limbs. The creature buzzed again, and several more of its kind appeared. Then, Twilight stepped backwards onto a stick, cracking it. The six creatures turned and spotted her, and they started to buzz angrily.

"AHH!" Twilight screamed as their blades glowed purple, and they fired several blasts of liquid at her. Twilight barely had time to dodge them as she dove behind a fallen tree. The leader of the creatures buzzed again, and the others began to pelt her hiding spot with more blasts of purple liquid. Twilight could see the liquid eating away at the wood bit by bit. Twilight, taking a gamble, screamed again.

"HELP!" she cried. The creatures stopped momentarily, then a second voice was heard.

"Torracat, use HEAT WAVE!"

Suddenly, Twilight saw a wave of red energy smash into the creatures. Twilight then realized it wasn't energy.
It was blazing-hot flame. The creatures fell to the ground, defeated. Twilight then saw a hand extend itself towards her.

"It's safe now, come on out."

Twilight looked into the face of her rescuer, a human boy of about her age. He wore clothes suitable for the summer, and at his side was another creature. This one was like a young tiger, only colored blazing red and black. A fiery orb was on the creature's throat, and Twilight swore a small ball of flame was on the tip of its tail.

"You okay?" the boy asked. "It's not exactly safe to run straight into a horde of Beedrill, you know."

"I'm fine." Twilight said, not sure where the conversation was heading.

"I'm Corey." he boy said. "And this...is my partner Torracat."

The "Torracat" gave her a nod and an inquisitive look.

"I'm Twilight." she replied. "Where am I?"

"Well, you're in the Poni Wilds, on Poni Island in the Alola Region." Corey said. "You foreign?"

"Foreign?" Twilight asked, confused.

"What I meant was...where are you from?" Corey asked. "Kanto?"

"No."

"Johto? Hoenn?"

"No to both."

"Sinnoh? Unova? Kalos?"

"No again." Twilight said. "Look, it's a long story. Can we go somewhere private?"

"I guess." Corey said. "You owe me an explanation, though. Alright, I guess Hapu's is close enough."

"Hapu?" Twilight asked.

"A friend of mine." Corey said. "You'll like her."

Corey and Torracat set off, and Twilight sighed before following.

Author's Note

Yeah, I hope this one is better, at least it seems better to me. What do you think?

Next chapter-Twilight and Corey reach Hapu's house, where she explains herself, not knowing unfriendly eyes are watching them. Back in Equestria, the Elements deal with the problem of how to find Twilight.