My Little Pony From One World To Another And Back! by NickClash BCommander

by NickClash BCommander

Making A Living

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Meanwhile, in an abandoned building in Canterlot, 47 Changelings that were loyal to the late Chrysalis were now plotting their revenge against The Elements and the humans. Even though the queen herself was dead, these Changelings were still loyal to her and her ideals and right now, they were in a very sour mood.

After barely surviving the destruction of The Hive, they were now the only other surviving Changelings (excluding the other Changelings that had betrayed them and joined forces with their enemies). With their ruler and home gone, they had been forced to temporarily take shelter in the long-abandoned building, which had previously only served as a hideout that Changeling spies had used while gathering intel on Equestria, the princesses, The Elements Of Harmony and Canterlot. But now it would be their new home until they were ready to make their next move and get payback on their Equestrian enemies.

However, this time they weren't working alone as just yesterday, they had been approached by a mysterious individual, who offered to take them under his wing, while also providing them the means to take their vengeance on The Elements and the humans. The guy and his motives, though, were questionable and the Changelings weren't entirely sure if they could trust him or not, but at this point, they had nothing else to lose.

"Get ready humans and you, dumb Elements! You will regret crossing us and you will pay dearly for it!" one of the Changelings angrily vowed.

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"You really mean that Rainbow?" Applejack asked. "You really feel that way about Tony?"

Rainbow Dash didn't say anything, but instead just nodded her head.

"But Rainbow Dash, you know how rude he's been to us!" Twilight reminded her. "Everytime we've tried to be friendly or tried to get to know him better, he keeps lashing out at us and being a real jerk!"

"More like a real meanie!" Pinkie Pie added.

"I know, but-" Rainbow said, but was cutoff.

"Look, Dash, I don't think he's your kind of pony...err, I mean human!" Rarity spoke. "He's very impolite and disrespectful and he has no manners! There are plenty of young, handsome and kind stallions out there that you could-"

"I KNOW!" Rainbow yelled, which caught her friends off guard. Rainbow, realizing that Tony and the other humans were just down stairs and probably heard her outburst, calmed down and lowered her voice. "I'm sorry I yelled like that, guys, it's just while what you said is all true, everytime I look at Tony, it's like I'm looking at my own reflection! He's tough, brave and is proud of himself just like me!"

"Rainbow Dash, there's still so much about him and his life that he hasn't told us yet! And he's made it quite clear that he'll never tell us about his past either!" Twilight replied. "Besides, if you're really gonna start a relationship with him, then you really need to think this through and take things one step at a time."

"Then, that's what I'll do!" Rainbow said.

"I can see that you're serious about this, sugarcube, and there's nothing we can do or say to change your mind and if that's the case, I won't stop you!" Applejack spoke.

"Neither will we!" the rest of the Mane 6 shouted in unison.

Rainbow didn't say a word and neither did her friends. There was no need for them to say anything else. Rainbow knew now that her friends would support her sudden interest in Tony, even though she hardly deserved a mean man like him.

After a minute of silence and making her friends Pinkie Promise not to tell Tony or anypony else about her secret crush on Tony unless either Rainbow tells him or Tony or anypony else figures it out first, Rainbow and the rest of The Elements agreed to keep Rainbow's secret between them for now before they went back downstairs and got ready to give their gifts to their human friends. Pinkie Pie went back to her usual excited party pony self and couldn't wait to see what the humans thought of their gifts when they opened them.

The gift opening portion of the party went by fast as the group of 12 humans opened all their gifts to find that they had been given more new clothes, except this time, instead of pajamas, they now got clothes that they could wear during the day as well. They were nothing too fancy, but it was nice for them all to have more clothes that they could wear during the day, too, and not just the same clothes that they had worn back home and ever since they came Equestria in, with the exception of their new pajamas that they had wore at night just recently.

Everyone, except for Tony, thanked Pinkie Pie and her friends for the new clothes before everyone and everypony decided to call it a day and with that, the party ended. But before the 12 humans could go to bed, too, like their new pony friends, Michael, John and Ned told the others that they had to talk about some important stuff first.

Once they were all inside Twilight's house and were in their sleeping bags and pajamas, Gary asked Michael, John and Ned, "What is it that you want to talk about?"

"Oh, nothing, Gary, except that we're still stranded on another world, if not a different dimension altogether and none of us have even tried to get home yet!" Michael answered.

"Right!" Gary replied, though it was obvious that until just now, that had completely slipped his mind due to everything that had happened lately and he wasn't the only one!

Michael facepalmed in frustration as he realized that only he, John and Ned had remembered that for days now, they had been stuck on the world of Equis and needed to return to their world! "Wait! Did you all really forget about our world and that we need to go home!?" Michael shouted.

"Well, for a little while I did, but-" Eddie spoke nervously.

"But what!?" Michael yelled.

"Michael, give my bro a break! He can't help us get back to Earth!" Gary defended his little brother.

"Gary, please understand that this is very important! Ever since we arrived in Equestria, we have made little to no progress trying to return to our world! We're not on vacation on some tropical island in the Carribean, we're stuck on another world! We don't belong here!" John reminded him and the others.

"Well, what do you expect me to do about it!? In case you're not aware, we don't know how to go back! We don't even know where exactly our world is!" Gary shot back.

"Maybe Twilight and her friends can help us and if not them, then perhaps Princess Celestia and Princess Luna can!" Ned said.

"I have to agree with Ned there. They're our best bet to getting home at this point!" Stan agreed.

"But that one pony, Three Leaf, told me that not even the most powerful teleportation spell could help us!" Eddie said.

"We need to at least try!" Ned replied. "Personally, while Twilight and the others have been very friendly and hospitable to us, I don't want to stay here forever! I plan to follow in Stan's footsteps and become one of the next greatest minds in America!"

"You think that's bad? Our 3-Day vacation at that log cabin has already been over for awhile now! Our parents surely have noticed that me and my brother haven't come home yet and they're probably worried sick about us!" Gary said. "When we get back, they're gonna be so happy and so upset that we just disappeared that I think that they're gonna invent a new type of punishment at our house and whatever it will be, it's gonna be much worse than mowing the front lawn!" Gary and Eddie weren't looking forward to that a bit!

"Same here!" John admitted.

"My life back home sucked! When I turned 18 and graduated from High School, I was kicked out of my family, just for being seen as an embarrassment to them and everyone kept calling me a big 'fattie'!" Jeff revealed.

"I need to continue practicing my cooking if I'm ever gonna be a master chef!" Claire spoke. "There's so many dishes that I want to make, but I can't make them here because they all require meat, which the ponies don't sell or consume here for obvious reasons."

"Do you think the Elements or the princesses can really help us, though? Don't forget that until awhile ago, they never even heard of or have seen a human before!" Alice reminded everyone else.

"We'll worry about that tomorrow!" Ned spoke. "For now, let's get some rest and we'll see what happens next."

Michael then turned to face Tony, who hadn't said a word for awhile now. "Well, Tony, is there anything you would like to say! Do you have any smartass remarks that you wanna share with us or are you just give us the silent treatment now instead?" Michael asked.

"No. I just don't feel like talking right now, is all," Tony said silently. "Now, please don't bother me, I'm going to bed."

"Aha! You just said, 'please'! So you can be nice, afterall!" John pointed out.

"Not another word!" Tony warned as he laid all the way down into his sleeping bag and turned himself around so that he wasn't facing any of the others.

After that, no one said anything else and the others all soon drifted off to sleep as well. They needed to rest for whatever they were gonna have to deal with tomorrow.

-The Next Morning-

Everyone and everypony got up at the same time as they did before the previous day after having gotten a good night's rest. The group of 12 humans all got dressed and twilight and her friends were already at the front door, ready to take them over to Applejack's for breakfast again.

Before they could leave, though, Michael, Ned and John got their pony friends' attention and asked them if they could have a talk before they went and got breakfast. "Sure thing, guys! What is it that you want to say?" Twilight asked.

"Twilight. You, your friends, the princesses and the rest of Equestria have been very kind and generous to us and we thank you for helping us and giving us a place to stay, but we can't stay here!" John spoke.

"You wanna go home," Twilight replied.

"Yes," Ned answered. "This has all been an amazing and unforgettable experience for all of us, but we got friends and family back on Earth and we've been gone from them and our world for a long time now! They must've noticed were gone and be quite worried about us by now!"

"I can understand that," Fluttershy said. "I couldn't imagine not being at my home to take care of Angel bunny and the rest of the animals that come to my cottage when they need me! We may not be related, but they're like a family to me!"

"Do you have to go?" Pinkie Pie asked as she was now trying to hold back tears, knowing that soon, the 12 humans may be leaving Equestria and never come back. Pinkie Pie never liked it when she had to say goodbye to anypony forever, or in this case, humans.

"We have to," Alice replied. "We got our own lives and responsibilities back home and we must return to them."

"Oh, darn it! That sucks!" Rainbow Dash complained. The rainbow-maned Pegasus pony was a little disappointed to hear this, even though she and her friends had known that their new human friends would want to return to their world eventually. Rainbow just wished that it wouldn't have been sooner than later as she hadn't even gotten the chance to start her relationship with Tony yet.

"So, Twilight, is there anything you, your friends or the princesses know that can help us return to our world?" Stan asked.

"Well, I don't think you're gonna be able to go back the way you came here, that's for sure," Twilight replied "To be honest, I'm not sure how we're gonna do it."

"You mean we really are stuck here and there's no way to send us back!?" John started to become very nervous.

"No! What I mean is that teleportation spells have been done by ponies many times before in our history, but using spells to transport anypony over extremely long distances is much easier said than done! Nopony has ever been transported to another world or anywhere else outside of the world of Equis, except for Princess Luna, but that was only once and it only happened because Princess Celestia was forced to banish her to the moon for 1000 years to stop her after she became Nightmare Moon and tried to plunge the world into eternal night!" Twilight revealed. "Aside from that, though, me, my friends and many other ponies thought that such an impossible feat was just science-fiction until you came along and proved us otherwise!"

"That doesn't answer my question!" John yelled. "Can you send us back or not!?"

"Theoratically, yes, we might be able to, but-" Twilight replied.

"But what!?" John demanded.

"The only 2 things that I know that might work are either an extremely powerful teleportation or portal spell!" Twilight answered. "Such spells as those would require a lot of magic and I'm certain that I would need the princesses', including Princess Cadence for it!"

"Then get them here and do what you have to do and send us home!" John ordered.

"It's not that simple, John, the princesses, as well as Princess Cadence, already have their hooves full with more important matters at the moment!" Not to mention, there's-" Twilight tried to tell John, but was interrupted.

"More important!? What could be more important than helping us get home!?" John protested.

"John, darling, I understand you and your friends wanna go home, but you need to remember that like us and you, the princesses have their own lives as well as their share of important responsibilities that they need to attend to. Princess Celestia and Princess Luna have to raise the sun and the moon every day and night and watch over Equestria, while Princess Cadence and her husband, Shining Armor, have to-" Rarity told John.

"They only need to help out with one teleportation or portal spell real quick, then we'll be off and they can go and do whatever they need to. That's it!" John said.

"John, the problem isn't about getting the princesses to help with the spell. The real problem is that even if and once we successfully perform the spell, there's no guarantee that the spell will send you right back to your world or that you'll even like where you end up at all!" Twilight admitted.

After hearing this, John and the other 11 humans froze. They didn't like the way Twilight said that last part.

"What do you mean by that?" Ned asked.

"While it's true that we might be able to perform a spell that can help you get back, it's extremely risky and dangerous at the same time!" Twilight explained. "We don't know where your world is and without that vital piece of knowledge, you could end up just about anywhere! It would be like trying to win the lottery, except the odds would be against you even more than that! There would be a one in a trillion chance of sending you back to your world! We don't even know if our worlds exist in the same universe or in two separate dimensions!"

"What if we tell you what our world is like and about our history and-" Ned suggested.

"That won't be enough!" Twilight replied. "If there is such a thing as a Multiverse, then there are probably alternate versions of your world as well with similar histories! With that in mind, as well as everything else I just told you, it would be wise to avoid making random guesses and wait until we can pinpoint exactly where you came from before we do anything!"

"But-" John tried to protest, but was stopped by Gary.

"Sorry, John, but I'm with Twilight on this one. I don't want to do anything that will not only be dangerous for me, but also for my little brother either," Gary told John.

John, realizing that Twilight and Gary were right, sighed in defeat and said, "Fine. We can wait awhile longer. Just give me a rough estimate right now of how long it might take to find out where our world is so you can send us back."

"I-I don't know," Twilight stammered. "All I know for sure is that it won't be anytime soon! I'm sorry!"

John and the other humans didn't react well to this news and they began to wonder if they were gonna live in Equestria for the rest of their lives and never see their homes or their friends or families ever again! They could only imagine that over the years, people would remember them as the 12 humans who all suddenly disappeared without a trace and were never seen or heard from again like Amelia Earheart or those 3 former prisoners who escaped from the infamous Alcatraz prison!

Realizing that they weren't going anywhere, at least for now, John and the others knew that there was nothing that they could do about it and that they had other things to worry about at the moment. Right now, since it was obvious that trying to go back to Earth was out of the question for the time being, they had to figure out what they should all do now.

They then remembered how much Twilight, her friends and the other ponies had done for them and that they had not only heard them all out and not had them locked up because they weren't from Equestria or send them to a government lab (unless you count The EBI), they had also let them sleep at Twilight and Spike's home at night, given them food to eat, gave them the means to keep up with their hygiene, gave them new clothes and pajamas to wear and had even promised to let them take valuable gems back with them when they managed to go home! The ponies had done so much for them and they hadn't done anything for them yet. If only they could do something nice for them in return.

It was then that John and the others all knew what they had to do. "Hey, Twilight! I know you just said that we can't go home now, but-" John spoke, but was cutoff.

"I already told you, John, there's no way for me or anypony else to get you all home right now! I promise that I'll try everyday to find your world so that I can send you back, but until then, you need to be patient and-" Twilight spoke.

"I know, Twilight. But that's not what I want to talk about now," John replied.

"It's not?" Twilight asked, confused. "Then, what do you want to tell me now?"

"Well, there might be another way that you can help us and maybe help you out, too, at the same time," John answered. "But we need your magic and you, Ned and Stan's brains, Twilight. I think I've got a great idea to help us all make a living!"

John, Ned and Stan all whispered their plan into Twilight's and her friends' ears as they all began to catch on to what they had in mind. "I don't think that will be a problem at all. Just let me and my friends know what you need us to do and when and where it will be at," Twilight replied as she and her friends smiled after hearing what they had just heard.

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Meanwhile, at the Ponyville Train Station, Newsflash had finally arrived and was on his way to his new home in Ponyville (as he had promised he would do so as part of his agreement he had made with the princesses to avoid going to jail). Newsflash had only been to Ponyville once and that was when he was stalking the humans and the Elements Of Harmony to get that big scoop that he needed to save his job and get all those Bits his boss paid him. Other than that, Newsflash was completely new to Ponyville and it would take awhile to get used to the countryside town as opposed to the usual big and busy city of Canterlot that he was used to.

Newsflash remembered that he also had to make amends with the humans, who would surely still be a little sore at him for what he put them through. And from now on, he would have to get permission from the humans, the Elements and even the princesses (if necessary) before took anymore pictures of them and wrote anything else even remotely related to them.

But that have to wait for now. Newsflash needed to get to his new house, unpack all his belongings and get settled in. He would apologize to humans and make it up to them when he had the chance.

-One Week Later. At Night-

Outside the entrance to Applejack's farm, many curious ponies had come after being told that there would be a great show at Applejack's farm. It also helped attendance since there were flyers talking about the show all across town, too!

At the entrance to Applejack's farm, Rarity was running a ticket booth and handing out admission tickets to every pony who paid to get in. "Tickets please!" Rarity heard over and over again as many ponies kept coming and coming to buy their tickets before they headed in to see the great show that they had heard about. Rarity didn't know what to think! She hadn't seen this many ponies show up for one event since The Galloping Gala!

Inside Applejack's farm, ponies were buying popcorn, sweet snacks and other tasty treats from Pinkie Pie and Applejack's family members as they passed them by while they took their seats on rows and rows of benches. Right in the middle of them was an old-fashioned movie projector that had undergone some special 'modifications' thanks to Ned, Stan and Twilight. And right in front of everyone and everypony was a large, blank screen you would expect to see in movie theaters!

After awhile, Ned, Stan, John and Twilight appeared and slowly stepped over to the projector until they were standing right next to it. "Good evening, ponies of all ages!" John began. "Tonight! As promised, you will be treated to a great show indeed!"

John then let Stan take over. "You are about to witness what we have achieved and it's all thanks to our human technology..." Stan spoke before it was Twilight's turn to take over.

"And unicorn magic!" Twilight finished.

After Twilight said that, Ned announced, "You've all seen movies before, but you've never seen any quite like this one!"

Once Ned told this to the audience, the movie projector turned on and the large, blank screen in front of everyone now showed trailers for upcoming movies that nopony had ever heard of (except the humans, that is) and not only that, but everything on the screen was in color and not in black and white like all movies in Equestria were! For a little bit, everypony, except the humans thought that they already were watching the movie and were quite confused about what it was about when the screen kept changing from trailers to previews, but not long after that, the actual movie began and this became obvious to everypony when the official opening and title of the movie appeared on the screen! On the screen, the title read, 'Kung Fu Panda'!

Everypony, especially the audience were amazed and completely entranced by what they were watching. They were quite surprised when the movie transitioned from its 2D opening to CGI and learned that Po being a legendary warrior had only been just a dream and that in reality, he was just a regular panda, who lives with and helps his stepdad, Mr. Ping, with his noodle shop, while Po secretly wishes that he can become a great Kung Fu warrior for real!

The movie, the plot, the setting and all the characters didn't have as much of their attention as the fact that they had just been introduced to CGI, a new type of animation that until now, they had never seen or heard of before, much less knew that it existed! Sure, everypony was familiar with traditional 2D animation, but they had no idea that there were other ways to make cartoons other than that! 'What the buck is this!?' the audience all thought in unison.

"Wow! That's one dangerous Snow Leopard!" a brown, earth pony stallion said as he pointed to the movie's villain, Tai Lung, who was making his escape from prison and had now just made mince meat out of all the guards! "I certainly wouldn't want to run into that guy in a dark alley!"

"Tai Lung, you big bully!" Scootaloo spoke angrily as she and the other Cutie Mark Crusaders glared at him on the screen as he beat up Master Shifu and broke Master Oogway's staff.

Not long after this, though, everypony cheered as Po was now fighting Tai Lung and unintentionally making a fool of him at the same time. Pinkie and many other ponies bursts into laughter at the part where Tai Lung's face came into contact with Po's butt. "Now, that's what I call a headbutt!" Pinkie chuckled. "This is definitely my favorite chapter of this story so far!"

"Goodbye and good riddance, Tai Lung!" Applejack shouted as everypony saw Po use the powerful Wuxi Finger Hold on him, ending his reign of terror for good!

Once the movie was over, there was silence for a few seconds before everypony turned to face Twilight, Ned, Stan and John and began to cheer! "You weren't kidding! You promised us we would get a show and you gave it to us!" a brown earth pony stallion said.

"Yup!" Applejack's brother, Big Mac, replied.

"I don't know how you guys did it and I've never seen or heard of a movie like 'Kung Fu Panda' before, but I thought that was awesome!" a blue unicorn mare admitted.

"You gotta show us that movie again! My wife and fillies have to see it!" a gray Pegasus stallion begged.

"Then, all you need to do is keep coming and giving us your Bits and you can watch that movie again and again and more!" Ned replied.

"There's more!?" another random pony asked.

"So much more!" John confirmed. "In fact, our next movie will be on tomorrow night, so please feel free to come and buy your tickets and enjoy yourselves because starting today, we're gonna be making a living by doing this!"

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