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

-Some Time Later-

In Equestria, for the 12 humans, days became weeks and weeks turned into months. Thanks to their new business of showing movies from their world, they indeed were making a living!

John and the other humans had explained to Twilight, her friends, Applejack's family and the Cutie Mark Crusaders that if they were gonna be staying in Equestria for the forseeable future, then they had to start earning their keep like everypony else in Equestria did. Also, it just didn't seem right to keep going to Applejack's place for breakfast everyday to get free and tasty food that both they and their pony friends could all eat and enjoy.

The 12 humans had heard how hard-working and honest Applejack's family was from Applejack herself, Twilight and the other Elements and after treating them to so much free and delicious food, it was only fair that they did something for them in return. Of course, none of the humans had any money, or at least not any that could be used in Equestria, so they couldn't just pay them for all back for the food that they had been given or for anything else that they would need in the future either.

And now that they thought about it, they were gonna need to start earning Equestrian money, Bits, if they were gonna be able to pay for or afford anything in this amazing, colorful and magic-filled world that they now lived in. They couldn't keep expecting to continue to get stuff for free, even as nice as the ponies and the princesses were.

Plus, when the humans found out that Applejack's family needed to make more money to pay for things like fixing up the old, family barn or getting Granny Smith an operation to fix her back and get rid of her terrible backpains, they decided that they had to earn money not just for themselves, but also for their new pony friends as well. Fortunately, the 12 humans already had something in mind that would help them achieve just that.

To think that all John and the others had needed was Ned and Stan's brains and Twilight's magic, as well as a movie projector and a blank movie screen. Next, they had to figure out how to play all the movies and shows on the DVDs that Gary and Zach had brought with them and figure out how to convert them from playing on a DVD player to the movie projector instead, which had proved to be a bit of a challenge at first. There had also been the matter of what would be the power source for the movie projector. But in the end, they succeeded and once they had tested the projector to make sure that it could play all the movies without any problems, Twilight easily solved the issue of finding a power source for the projector when she revealed that she could cast a spell on the projector that would keep it charged and fully operational for up to 10 hours each day without wearing herself out.

The next step of their plan had been to find out where they would set up the movie projector and blank screen at. After talking with Applejack and her family and getting their permission, they had all decided that they should show any and all movies that they played on Applejack's farm.

Rarity had agreed to be the one who would be in charge of selling tickets at the front entrance of the farm for any ponies who wanted to get in, while Pinkie Pie and Applejack's family would serve and sell snacks when they played their first movie 'Kung Fu Panda' to the public. All that had been left after that had been to advertise and promote the movie at Applejack's farm, so Rarity and Rainbow Dash had agreed to hang up signs across town, along with the Cutie Mark Crusaders, who hoped that doing this would help them finally earn their Cutie Marks and well, you know the rest.

Now, the humans and their pony friends had made so much money from all the movies that ponies kept paying to see at Applejack's farm everyday that not only had they been able to pay back Applejack's family for all the free food that they had given them and allowed them to get the barn fixed and make Granny Smith's back as good as new, but the 12 humans had all bought houses for themselves, too, so that they didn't have to keep staying at Twilight and Spike's house anymore. All of them now had their own homes to themselves, except for Gary, Eddie and Zach, who shared one house together since Eddie and Zach were too young to live on their own and Gary wanted to stay as close to them as he could just in case they encountered anymore dangerous people-err, ponies like the Changelings or the late Queen Chrysalis.

Out of everyone else, Tony was the happiest to get his own place to stay as now he could finally get a little peace and quiet and not have to be around the others or the Elements all the time and he could just have some time to himself. Like the others, Tony had been given his share of the profits that they were making off of showing movies to all the ponies who paid to see them at Applejack's farm and Tony was free to use the money that he got however he chose to. Tony would've been even happier had he finally not ran out of beer and cigarettes after having drunk the last of his unopened beer bottles and smoked his final cigarette. This new development frustrated Tony greatly and as a result, he had to find some substitutes to replace them.

Luckily for Tony, their happened to be a bar in Ponyville where he was introduced to a popular Equestrian beverage that's quite similar to beer called, 'Cold Fury'. As soon as Tony tasted it, he knew that he had just found his new, favorite, alcoholic beverage. "Damn! This is even better than any beer that I've ever had!" Tony spoke.

Tony then turned to the bartender pony, paid for his first bottle of Cold Fury and told him that he would like 6 more bottles of Cold Fury to-go. And that is how Tony ended up becoming a regular patron of that bar and solved his no more beer problem.

As for smoking, Tony was out of luck since nopony made cigarettes in Equestria nor any lighters to light them with. However, Tony loved drinking Cold Fury so much that for the first time, he didn't really care.

Claire had bought a cookbook from a local shop in the town marketplace as well as some food and other ingredients and continued to practice and develop her cooking skills even further. She also got a job at Sugarcube Corner and helped the Cake family bake and prepare all their desserts and other sweet treats to sell and serve to all the customers. Before long, Claire's cooking became so popular that she was offered another job at the fanciest restaurant in Ponyville as one of the head chefs! But what solidified Claire's famous cooking reputation was when she introduced Ponyville to French Fries, which soon got the attention of all the other ponies throughout the rest of Equestria as well! Once ponies took their first bites, they couldn't get enough of the stuff and French fries became the most popular item on the menu there! Everypony was surprised with how much this human food was. They had already known and had fries made out of hay, but they never thought that you could make fries out of potatoes and boy were they so good!

Gary continued to stay close to his little brother at home and at his job at the movie theater at Applejack's farm. However, Gary didn't want Eddie and Zach to miss out on getting an education, so after talking to Applejack, she recommended that his little brother and Zach go to the school at the local Ponyville Schoolhouse. Eddie and Zach, of course, didn't like this, and didn't want to go to school, but Gary would have none of it and enrolled them there anyway.

On Eddie and Zach's first day of school in Ponyville, they were surprised to see the Cutie Mark Crusaders there, too. After talking with them for awhile, they began to get along and soon became friends.

Then, there was the teacher, Miss Cherilee, a female, light-purple, earth pony mare with a light-pink mane. She was very kind and helped introduce Eddie and Zach to the entire class.

When class began, Eddie and Zach thought that it was going to be boring, but to their surprise, they ended playing some really fun games and participated in various activities that were very educational at the same time. It wasn't long before they actually began to enjoy themselves and they both hated it when school was over and it was time to go home.

When they went back to school the next day, this time they couldn't wait to learn, have fun and continue making friends with the Cutie Mark Crusaders and their other classmates. They had thought school was boring, but they had no idea that in Equestria, ponies were educated in a way that made learning fun. School in Ponyville was going great for them!

That is except when they got bullied and made fun of by Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara, two other classmates who liked to pick on them and the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Silver Spoon was a gray earth pony mare with a light-gray mane, while Diamond Tiara was a pink pony with a light-purple and white mane.

The Cutie Mark Crusaders had told Eddie and Zach about them and that Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon often teased and mocked them just because all three of them didn't have their Cutie Marks yet and to add insult to injury, they would call them, 'Blank Flanks', which was what those two called ponies who didn't have their Cutie Marks. Eddie and Zach knew how Apple Bloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle felt as they had both been bullied, too, back on their world.

Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon couldn't really call Eddie and Zach Blank Flanks since they weren't even ponies nor were they even from Equestria for that matter, so instead they just rudely insulted them by making fun of their appearances and called them, 'Freaks' or 'Hairless monkeys'. Despite this, though, Eddie and Zach still enjoyed going to school in Ponyville and just learned to ignore Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon as they refused to give them the satisfaction of letting them ruin their time at school.

Eddie and Zach continued to be friends with the Cutie Mark Crusaders and after school, would sometimes join them on their little adventures to try to obtain their Cutie Marks, which all failed. Eventually, they became such good friends that the Cutie Mark Crusaders were even thinking about letting Eddie and Zach become the newest members in their group!

As for Gary, John, Ned, Michael, Stan, Jeff, Alice and Roxanne, they all had their hands full working at their movie theater at Applejack's farm. Word had quickly spread of all the interesting movies and shows that they played there ever since they had aired their first movie 'Kung Fu Panda' to all those ponies, who in turn, told many other ponies about it and then they told more ponies and so on and so forth!

All in all, though, the 12 humans now had nice and happy, new lives in Equestria! Despite missing their families, friends, homes and their old lives back on Earth, the 12 humans were enjoying themselves and their lives in Ponyville a lot!

It wasn't long, however, before they changed their minds about showing movies everyday and instead opted to do it only twice a week so that they wouldn't go through all their movies and shows that they had so fast. So many ponies started showing up, that they even had to start a new policy where all ponies had to buy their tickets in advance and make reservations or lose their seats to anypony else who got them instead.

After awhile, the only movies that they had not played yet were Halloweenish and Christmasy movies like Goosebumps and How The Grinch Stole Christmas, but they were saving both of those for the right time for obvious reasons. Knowing that they needed more movies to show to the crowds of ponies as they all were aware that it become boring and repetitive to just keep showing the same movies over and over again and thus, they would lose their huge audience and all their revenue unless they did something, so the humans turned to Twilight for help and asked her if she knew anything that could help them.

Twilight shrugged and said she honestly had no idea.

Everyone seemed to be at a loss and were about to head back to Applejack's farm and prepare to close their theater when Ned and Stan both thought of something.

Ned took out his cellphone, turned it on and showed it to Twilight who was quite fascinated with it. "Hey, Twilight! I used to download a bunch of movies and shows onto my phone when I was back on Earth and I still have some on my phone now," Ned revealed. "Is it possible to-"

"I don't know what exactly what 'download' means, but I think I know what you're thinking," Twilight replied, having guessed what he was gonna ask her. "But not only can I use a spell to show all the movies and shows that you have on your 'phone' right now, but I can also use a second spell to make it so that I can also allow us to use and play everything else that you've ever had on your 'phone' before, too!"

"That's fantastic! We'll have a lot more movies and shows to use at our disposal now!" Ned spoke.

"Don't forget about me and the others! We have phones as well and I've done my fair share of downloading and I'm sure the others have, too!" John reminded Ned. "That's not even counting everything that I got to watch after I got Netflix on my phone, too, so if we can use all the content from Netflix, too, then we'll be good for a long time!"

"Good! Then, it looks like it's settled then!" Stan agreed.

"Hey, everypony!" Ned, John, Stan and Twilight heard Pinkie Pie and turned to see the pink, earth, party pony bouncing towards them like a kangaroo!

"Hi, Pinkie. It's nice to see you," Twilight said, noticing that Pinkie was still bouncing up and down. "What's going on, Pinkie? Why are you so jumpy-well, jumpier than usual today?"

"Why?" Pinkie Pie answered. "Because tomorrow night is Nightmare Night! Woohoo!"

"Oh, yeah," Twilight spoke as she realized that she had been so busy with her 12 human friends, the movie theater, everypony and everything else that she lost track of the time. "You're right. It's already that time of the year again."

"And a couple months after that, it will be Hearth's Warming Eve and Hearth's Warming Day!" Pinkie Pie shouted in excitement. "I'm, so, so excited!"

John, Ned and Stan were confused as they had never heard of this 'Nightmare Night', 'Hearth's Warming Eve' and Hearth's Warming Day' before. "Uh, what's Nightmare Night?" John asked Twilight. "And Hearth's Warming Eve and Hearth's Warming Day?"

-Earth. Months before the current time in Equestria. A day after John, Gary, Michael, Ned, Claire, Alice, Tony and Eddie's 3-day vacation at the log cabin ended.

To all my readers, just to avoid any confusion, time on Earth and Equestria moves at the exact same amount of time. This next part is only to show what happened after John, Gary, Ned, Michael, Alice, Claire, Tony and Eddie were sent to Equestria. Right now, in Equestria, during this next and last scene of this chapter, it hasn't been long after their arrival there, much less has been months or even weeks yet. With that said, during the final part of this chapter, not much time has passed on both worlds. Now, that that's out of the way, the story continues now!

Meanwhile, back on Earth, months before the present time in Equestria and almost a day after John, Gary, Michael, Ned, Alice, Claire, Tony and Eddie were due to arrive back at their homes, two police cars drove through the mountains and down a long, dirt road that led to the deserted log cabin in the middle of the night and parked right outside of it. "Is this the place?" one of the police officers that came out of the first police car asked as he looked at the log cabin and the forest area around it.

"Sorry, Brock, but the directions we were given don't lie. We're in the right place," Brock's partner confirmed.

"Alright, Tom, then let's go in that cabin and investigate," Brock replied. "Those kids never went back home on the bus after their 3-day stay at this log cabin like they were supposed to, their families are getting worried and we need to find them!"

Brock and Tom walked up to the front door of the log cabin, followed by two more police officers from the other police car. Once they were at the front door, Tom knocked on the door and spoke, "This is the police! Is anyone home?"

No response.

Tom knocked on the door again, only this time, even harder. "I repeat: This is the police! Is there anyone here? If so, please say so and open this door!"

Again, no response.

Seeing that they were getting nowhere, Brock pulled out a spare key to the log cabin that he had borrowed from the log cabin's owner and unlocked the front door. Remembering their training, the officers didn't immediately step inside and instead, slowly and cautiously entered with their weapons drawn and ready, in case there was anyone inside, waiting to attack them.

They searched both the first and second floors and it quickly became clear to them that no one was around. Then they noticed Ned's sleeping bag on the floor, all the empty and unmade beds and John's, Gary's, Michael's, Ned's, Alice's, Claire's, Tony's and Eddie's suitcases that they had left behind.

"Okay. That's strange. They left their suitcases and a sleeping bag, but none of them are here," Brock thought out loud. "Either this is some mean joke that they're trying to pull on us or for some reason or they all just suddenly got up and left and didn't come back."

"We've already checked this entire place, so they're not in here. The only other place that we haven't checked is..." Tom said.

"The forest!" Brock concluded. "That's where we're gonna search next!"

"Wow! Hold on there!" one of the two cops from the second police car spoke. "It's dark out there in those woods and this entire area is huge!"

"Sorry, Marcus, but we have a job to do and if those kids are out there, we need to find them as soon as possible!" Brock replied.

"Do you honestly expect the 4 of us to search this entire forest by ourselves at this time at night!? Have some common sense, man! We should wait until morning or at least call for some back-up!" Marcus advised Brock.

"I've already talked to the chief at the station and he gave all of us permission to scan out the area. If we can't find them out here within an hour, I'll contact the chief and request for some search teams to come aid us in the search," Brock answered.

Brock then headed out the front door with Tom, Marcus and the fourth officer in tow and closed and locked the door behind them. Then, he and the other officers made their way into the dark forest with their flashlights on and their guns ready.

After 45 minutes of searching, but no signs of John, Gary, Michael, Ned, Alice, Claire, Tony and Eddie anywhere nearby, Marcus faced Brock and told him, "We've already been searching these woods for 45 minutes now and there are no signs of them anywhere!"

"I know," Tom replied.

"The 4 of us will never find them in the dark like this! We really should wait until tomorrow when it's during the day to do this!" Marcus tried to persuade Tom.

"Look, Marcus, I don't know why you want to stop searching for those 8 missing kids until tomorrow so badly, but we got a job to do!" Brock replied. "We still have 15 minutes left to find them and if we don't by then, then we'll go back to the station and let the professionals look for those 7 young adults and that kid that was with them."

"How about we go this way?" said Tom, pointing in the same direction that John, Gary, Michael, Ned, Alice, Claire, Tony and Eddie had went to investigate that mysterious, bright light that had turned out to be that strange, floating, glowing orb. "We haven't searched in that direction yet."

"Come on, guys! Let's go check it out!" Brock ordered as he led Tom, Marcus and the fourth officer with him in that direction of the forest.

Just like with John, Gary, Michael, Ned, Alice, Claire, Tony and Eddie, they soon ended up in that same small, empty clearing where they had discovered that weird, glowing, floating orb. The only difference was that there was now no bright light or any orb anywhere to be found.

Seeing that they had reached a dead end in their search, Brock was about to give up and agree with Marcus that it was time for all 4 of them to head out and go back to the station, but then, Brock froze when he noticed something odd out of the corner of his eye when he had flashed his flashlight straight ahead of him. Without saying a word, Brock rushed over to the same exact spot that the orb had been, shined his flashlight on the ground and noticed some strange markings and drawings of what looked like horses along with what appeared to be a bunch of words written in a strange language that he was not familiar with.

For a moment, Brock thought he was just seeing things, but when he looked down at the ground again, he saw that all the strange pictures and words on the ground were still there. "What the heck?" he spoke as he studied everything that he was seeing.

Then, unable to resist, Brock touched one of the drawings with one of his hands-only for time to seem to slow down around him as his mind became filled with countless visions! Unfortunately, he was seeing so many visions at once, that he couldn't really make out any of them, but if he had been able to do so, he would've seen the one that showed John, Gary, Ned, Michael, Alice, Claire, Tony and Eddie being sent through that portal to Equestria!

Finally, after feeling a headache coming on and his mind being unable to handle all these countless visions that continued to plague and harass him and his mind, it all soon went away just as quickly as it had come as Brock snapped back to reality and heard and saw his partner shaking him to get his attention. "Brock, snap out of it!" Tom ordered as he shook Brock, which he hoped would bring him back to his senses after he had seen and heard his partner scream like he was suffering from both terrible pain and panic!

After 10 seconds, Brock calmed down, no longer saw anymore visions his mind was clear again and became aware of his surroundings and that he was no longer touching any of the strange words or drawings, due to Tom having pulled him away from them. Realizing what had just happened, Brock knew that there was something really big going on here and that finding those 8 missing kids would have to wait!

"Tom, someone else will have to find those kids," Brock told his partner in a very serious voice. "I don't know what the hell's going on, but I just discovered something that requires much more urgent attention!"

"What do you mean?" Tom asked.

"Don't ask any questions!" Brock commanded. "We need to report what I've seen to the Chief immediately! In fact, we'll even need to-"

BANG!

Brock froze at the sound of a gunshot that he had just heard. But not so much because of the sound of the gunshot itself, but rather because he gasped in horror as he saw that Tom had just been shot and had a fatal bullet wound in his chest, which killed the poor officer instantly!

Looking away from Tom's lifeless body that now lay on the ground in a puddle of his own blood, Brock turned to face Tom's killer-who immediately was revealed to be Marcus! After a moment of silence and processing this, Brock's expression morphed into one of anger and hate!

"Marcus! What the fuck!? Why did you just kill Tom!?" Brock demanded with confusion and anger in his voice.

"Because he knew too much and now, so do you!" Marcus replied in a cold voice, which made it clear that he hadn't shot Tom accidentally and that he didn't feel the least bit guilty for killing him or care about any of the consequences he would face for killing another officer in cold blood. "His death could've easily been avoided, had you just listened to me and went back to the station after we left the log cabin instead."

"You motherfucking son of a bitch!" Brock yelled in rage. "Let me guess, you aren't really a police officer and no one back at the station knows that either!"

"Well, congratulations, Brock! You got me there!" Marcus confirmed. "I don't really work for you or the police department and neither does Mitch!" Marcus pointed to his partner, who wore an evil grin, thus, revealing that both of them were crooks and were in this together.

"So you, too, Mitch!" Brock asked, wanting nothing more than to arrest and lock away him and Marcus and throw away the key for their betrayal, deception and murdering his partner.

"Ha! I'm almost surprised that you just found out about this now! How pathetic! If all police officers are as dumb and easy to fool as you and Tom and the other officers at that popsicle stand you call a station, then I think that-" Mitch insulted.

"How dare you disrespect the police department by posing as police officers and killing Tom! I'll make it my life's goal to make sure that you two rot in prison until you die!" Brock shot back.

"Too bad for you, Brock, because you don't have much of a life left to realize that goal!" Marcus said as he chuckled to himself.

"If you kill me and me and Tom don't return to the station, or at least report back, the rest of the force is gonna come here and launch an investigation and when they found out about what you've done here, you'll have them and every-" Brock warned, but was cutoff.

"We'll see about that!" Mitch replied. "But we've already wasted enough time with you and your stupid partner! So I think it's time we end this little discussion."

Marcus then aimed his gun at Brock, who could do nothing to save himself. Sure, Brock was armed too, but his gun was still in his holster and he didn't have enough time to pull it out, turn it off 'Safety', and shoot. Even if that was the case and Brock did managed to take out Marcus, Mitch was also armed and would be the one to end his life instead!

"What do you have to gain from doing this, huh!?" Brock demanded.

"Like I said before, you know too much," Marcus answered. "You aren't telling anyone about you've seen here!"

"Wait! This is about all that strange writing, drawings and visions that I saw, isn't it!?" Brock demanded. "You didn't want me, Tom or anyone else to come here and discover any of that! That's why you kept insisting that we not go into the woods and go back to the station this entire time! You don't want anyone to know about this!"

"And that's exactly how it shall remain!" Marcus shouted as he pulled the trigger on his gun and fatally shot Brock in his head, which like Tom, also killed him instantly!

With both Tom and Brock dead, Marcus put his gun back in his holster, turned to face Mitch and told him, "Dispose of their bodies while I make a phone call."

"This being a police officer has been torture for me, Marcus! I don't know what I hate more, having to wear this stupid uniform and badge or having to take crap from that jackass called a chief at the station!" Mitch admitted. "Honestly, I can't wait until I can ditch this dumb get-up and job!"

"Fortunately, for you, Mitch, and myself, neither of us will have to do this for much longer," Marcus replied. "As soon as our little job here is over, we won't ever have to work or dress up as police officers again or return to that bloody station!"

"What about the other officers and the chief at the station? It won't be long before they all come here to investigate not only the disappearances of those 8 kids, but also, Tom and Brock," Mitch reminded Marcus. "Not to mention, won't we look suspicious if we just quit our jobs and leave the force shortly after Tom and Brock go missing, especially since we were with them on the same case together? What do we do about them?"

"Relax, Mitch. Before we drove here, I got us some men working on the inside and they'll make sure that neither the chief nor any of the other officers cause us any trouble," Marcus reassured Mitch. "If worse comes to worse, we could always just make them 'disappear' and have them 'replaced'! You know what they say, 'Curiosity killed the cat!' So if they know what's good for them, they'll keep their noses out of our business and not do anything that they'll regret!"

"Now, hurry up and get rid of those damn bodies already! They've only been dead for two minutes now and I swear that they're already beginning to stink!" Marcus ordered as he pulled out his phone from his pocket.

Mitch did as he was told and got to work on taking care of Tom's and Brock's lifeless corpses. Mitch didn't mind that he had been given the task of dealing with the bodies since this was by no means the first time he had done this kind of thing, but regardless of that, he still wore gloves and made sure that he didn't get any blood or any other bacteria on him.

As for Marcus, he dialed a number on his phone and waited until he heard a voice on the other end of the line. We don't hear who is talking to him, though. But what we do hear is Marcus, who tells the unknown person with him on the phone, "Boss! Tom and Brock wouldn't listen and head back to the station. We did what you requested we should do if they didn't. Mitch is currently getting rid of their bodies as we speak."

Again, we don't hear who's talking to Marcus. "I understand! We'll have this entire area completely blocked off from everyone else! No one but us will be allowed in and out of here!"

Once again, we do not hear Marcus's 'boss' voice. "That's correct, boss! After 8 years, another 'Breach' has happened!" Marcus announced to his boss over the phone.