Twilight's Travels In The Multiverse

Twilight groaned as she awoke to the sounds of trees rustling in the wind and birds singing. Opening her eyes, she found herself in a forest. Looking down she saw that she was once again a toddler of four years age.

Twilight’s eye twitched and she let out a long suffering sigh, unlike her previous excursion into another world, the clothes this time were radically different from her home, but at the same time it was similar to human formal clothing, a long lavender dress that hugged her figure. Standing up, Twilight dusted herself off and looked around. Before trying her higher tier magic, she used the gem finding spell as it was generally harmless and didn’t require a target.

The ground glowed, revealing where there were gems nearby, causing Twilight to smile.
“Okay that’s magic check, let’s see what i look like shall we?” Twilight summoned a mirror and inspected herself, not much had changed her iris’s despite remaining magenta had grown darker, her navy blue hair with it’s magenta and purple highlights swayed in the wind.

Once again she looked around and began to try and shift into her dragon form, her dress melted away as she transformed into a miniature version of her dragon form that now barely reached nine foot. “I guess I have to age before I am my glorious self again,” She lamented with another sigh and paused, I wonder when I took such pride in being a dragon, I suppose five hundred years as one eroded my twenty years spent as a pony and my twenty four years spent as a human,

Twilight shrugged and got to digging, I want to get myself some of this world’s currency.
As she dug, she came across a vein of jagged purple gems, they were in huge quantities along where she had dug and she began using her claws to ‘mine’ them, they gave off a strange energy and an electrical current crackled around the gem deposit. Twilight pulled a bag out of her pocket dimension inventory, which luckily still existed. This was her bag of holding, named after a popular human rpg which she had played that was ridiculously close to her own world’s Oubliettes and Ogres.

She began dropping in the strange gems. I best find a way to research these gems. They look like Quartz, however, they definitely aren’t the same.

While she mined, she hummed a merry tune, during her excavation, she also found some ten carat sapphires, diamonds, and emeralds. Some really red rubies that she doubted would be worth much, subsequently she ate them with a satisfying crunch. Mmmnn cherry. Twilight thought to herself in oral bliss.

She was so enraptured that she almost missed the young man standing below her in awestruck fear. Almost.

She felt the prodding in her mind as the man looked determined, How dare he!

“What do you think you’re doing, morsel!?” she growled while mentally shoving the man’s attempts to get inside her mind, away. The man shuddered and backed away, stumbling as he reeled from Twilight’s mental attack.

“You have a lot of nerve to try and invade my thoughts, mortal!” Twilight added as the man finally realised his folly. “How would you like to have your private thoughts invaded, hmm?” she asked rhetorically as she used her magic to dive into his mind. What she felt gave her great pause. She blinked owlishly Wait, what kind of person has no mental barriers against intrusion when they intrude on other’s minds? Twilight thought as she read him like a book and found herself conflicted. So I am on the planet Betazed, home of the Betazoids, a telepathic and empathic humanoid species similar to humans. She found out a lot about the culture and the strange crystals she now possesed.

While Twilight was busy having her revelation, the poor Betazed man was begging for forgiveness and sobbing openly. His behavior made her uncomfortable.

Twilight sighed and poked the shivering mess below her, “Look, I am sorry I lashed out, I am not used to people attempting to read my mind. Just don’t do it again, okay? I didn’t know about the whole Betazoid thing,” Twilight apologised sheepishly.

The man ran away in fear, leaving Twilight alone again. Good going Twilight, traumatise the first person you meet in this world. You could have had a better first day but nope, you had to just fuck it up … . I miss Equus. I had better turn back into my new Betazoid form I got to replace my default elven form, before I meet another person on this planet,

Twilight made her way to the closest town. Betazoid architecture was focused around curves, circular or rounded buildings. Aesthetically it was similar to Canterlot, but without the sun imagery, purples and golds, with their buildings being colored in earthy colors of greens, browns, or white. As she made her way towards a local jeweler that she found using her gem finding spell, she noted that it was a domed cylinder with a terracotta roof and a single door into the establishment. With her sack in hand, she entered the establishment. The shop was filled with gems of various sizes and cuts behind cases of what looked like glass. Behind the main counter stood a Ferengi, the Griffons of this world, Twilight sighed internally, I hate dealing with griffons. Always after bits for every little thing.

“Hello sir, I have a trade proposal for you.” Twilight shuddered at the faux smile he gave her, I do not need to be an empath after Celestia taught me to see through nobles and of course my own centuries of experience.

“Oh how wonderful, young lady, what is your proposition?” The ferengi asked far too cheerfully.

Twilight mentally rolled her eyes as she brought out her merchandise from its sack prison.
“Twenty tonnes of Dilithium Crystals, ten pounds of sapphire, and emerald, all of which are of good color, no imperfections or contusion, and cut to perfection.” Twilight explained as she lowered them to the ground. The ferengi near salivated over the gems, before straightening out trying to look as if he wasn’t already counting his money, “My opening offer is four thousand bars of gold pressed latinum,” Twilight stated seriously, the ferengi shop owner made an over elaborate ploy to devalue her haul by inspecting it.

“I happen to know that I could ask you for ten times that amount, and it would be fair given their value, however I don’t want to walk around with that kind of money,” Twilight stated dryly, causing the ferengi to flinch backwards.

“Err, yes everything is in order, could I get you to move on the price? I am only a small time businessman you see, how about three thousand bars of Latinum?”

“Three thousand eight hundred bars,” Twilight responded

“Three thousand three hundred?” The frenegi responded

“Three thousand five hundred, and that’s my final offer,” Twilight replied, the ferengi man grumbled discontentedly,

“Okay, deal. Three thousand five hundred bars.” he replied begrudingly giving his hand to Twilight.

“Out haggled by a little female,” He muttered sourly,

“Pleasure doing business with you …” Twilight smiled happily, opening her sack.

“Dahg,” he stated dryly.

“Can you put the Latinum bars in here, Dahg?” Twilight added cheerfully.

“Of course, Kid, but tell me how you know so much about gems?” Dahg asked as he finished giving her the three thousand five hundred tiny Latinum bars. Twilight smiled and made an over elaborate ruse to take out one of her gems from her hoard but making it look like she removed it from her sack. She then shifted her teeth and digestive tract and then ate the gem in front of him, Dahg’s face paled,

“I am a lithovore,” Twilight smirked as she ate her impromptu meal, “everything in here is food to me.” Twilight explained as she left the store chuckling.

As she exited the store she smiled internally, however, she frowned. Now I just need to find a place to live. Who would I even ask about such a thing?

“You look troubled, child, what is weighing on your mind,” A matronly voice asked her from behind, spinning around she replied, “Can’t you tell?” Twilight tried to smile warmly but the disapproving woman with shoulder length brown hair, her dress was certainly something flamboyant, I bet that Rarity would love this woman. Twilight thought. While the woman kept looking down at her responded,

“Well I could, child, but you have the mental defence of a master and I cannot tell exactly what you’re thinking, I can still read your emotions though and it’s telling me you are worried.”

“I suppose before we actually talk, I should tell you my name.”

“That would be a good start, child,” The woman calmly responded in a welcoming tone.

“My name is Twilight Sparkle,” Twilight introduced herself,

“I am Lwaxana Troi, Daughter of the fifth house, the holder of the sacred chalice of Rixx, heir to the holy rings of Betazed!” Lwaxana introduced herself flamboyantly twirling her hand. Lwaxana grabbed Twilight’s wrist and dragged her along.

“Come along child, you can tell me all about your troubles, over some Bajoran tea,” Lwaxana declared.

Great, well, let’s see where this goes, she seems nice enough. Now if only I could retrieve my wrist without ripping her hand off. Twilight frowned in thought. When they arrived at a small mansion, she was pulled inside,

“Homn!?” Lwaxana called cheerfully, “We have a guest, bring out some Bajoran Tea for us!”

She spotted Twilight looking at her questioningly and explained, “Homn is my manservant, valet, and butler.”

Twilight sat up straight and subconsciously held herself more like a high level noble, so ingrained in her where these mannerisms that she didn’t notice herself doing so until Lwaxana tittered at the display.

“My how adorable, no need to stand on formality, child. Relax,” Lwaxana playfully chided her as Twilight sheepishly took a seat opposite of her, sitting next to a fireplace.

“Sorry, it’s kind of ingrained in me by now. Just give me a moment while I scan for any listening devices, can’t be too careful in a technologically advanced society. Especially seeing as I have to be careful that I don't end up as a lab rat or in a position to be blackmailed later,” Twilight muttered, closing her eyes, she sent waves of her magic out like a sonar, after which she found one. Opening her eyes, she knelt down under the table separating them, and retrieved a mechanical device from underneath it.

Lwaxana glared at the device as Homn entered the room, Twilight’s eyes widened at the tall bald humanoid with greyish skin as he calmly laid down a teapot and cups. “Homn, be a dear and take that listening device from young Twilight here. She found it under the tea table, take it to the authorities and have them add it to the pile,” Lwaxana ordered and Homn nodded. Twilight dropped the device into his outstretched hand, after which he left the room.

Twilight waited a few minutes for Homn to be out of earshot before exclaiming, “Was one of his parents a giant or something, he’s tall!”

Lwaxana chuckled, “His species is normally that tall and voluntarily mute. Also, do you mind explaining how you found that device?” she asked Twilight with honest curiosity in her voice.

“Yes, I can. However, I feel it prudent to explain a few other things first. First of all I am five hundred and forty nine years old despite my body's regressed age.”

“Oh my! I apologise! I have been calling you ‘child’ when you are old enough to be my great great, great, great, great grandmother!” Lwaxana replied with a horrified expression on her face at her faux pas.

Twilight waved it off, “It’s fine, also, before coming here I was not originally a Betazoid. I was a dragon and before that a human and even before that I was a magical unicorn pony. I have been dimension hopping since I was cast from my home dimension by something masquerading as my brother’s fiance and my ex-babysitter. Needless to say, I want to return home, which is proving difficult as I don’t know which way is home so I find myself stuck randomly hopping dimensions and each time getting regressed into the body of a four year old. Honestly speaking, it is very frustrating,” Twilight explained while drinking the tea Lwaxana had given her during her exposition dump.

“So that pulse was … magic?” Lwaxana clarified.

“Yes, I sent out a pulse of my magic similar to a sonar frequency, it enables me to detect things which might otherwise be missed. Can you also tell me what year it is?” Twilight explained.

“It’s twenty three seventy nine. You’ll have to forgive me but magic isn’t real here, so forgive me my scepticism,” Lwaxana replied patiently.

Twilight shrugged, “I wasn’t expecting you to believe me, tell me do you have anything in this home that could be used to detect technology and or teleports?”

Lwaxana nodded, “Computer?” A beep trilled in response. “Track Ms.Sparkle and scan her for any technology she has on her person.”

“One Ms.Sparkle has no devices on her person,” the female voice of the computer responded.

Twilight smirked, taking a sip as she disappeared and reappeared beside Lwaxana,

“Target shifted through subspace, an unknown energy spike occurred before teleportation, consistent with the being known as Q,” the computer announced aloud.

“Huh, so I go through subspace, interesting. I always wondered where my teleports took me. I assumed that it was through ley lines,” Twilight said before touching Lwaxana’s shoulder and teleporting again, moving to the side of her chair.

“While impressive, and rare, unassisted teleportation isn’t impossible here,” Lwaxana stated as she remained sitting down.

Twilight held her hands out palms up and began conjuring balls of elements; Light, dark, ice, fire, wind, love, antimatter, plasma, lightning, growing greenery, wood, plastic, as well as a black hole appeared in the center between her cupped palms and the elements combined within the black hole as Twilight put up a shield to protect Lwaxana as the lot of it combined into a conflagration that got sucked into the event horizon as the black hole gave off a glow as it reached criticality. Twilight expanded the shield as a huge explosion erupted and expanded outwards as Twilight hardened the shield as a galaxy of stars and a small black hole floated inside the center of it.

Twilight hardened the globe into a mineralized solid and had a tree grow around the orb, “Ta da,” Twilight smirked at the dumbfounded Lwaxana.

“By the four deities! You created a universe!?” Lwaxana cried out in surprise.

“I can do many things, most of which will likely cause you problems, so I won’t perform them here in your domicile,” Twilight explained as she returned to her seat.

“Now onto my worries, I have two main concerns. A place to live and citizenship of this land, as my current form isn’t conducive to wandering about.” Twilight explained as Lwaxana joined her with a frown on her face.

“I can see why you’re worried, let me think,” Lwaxana replied seriously, “tell me, Twilight, how long do you think you will live?”

Twilight let out a long sigh, “Lwaxana, I am a dragon, my lifespan is likely to eclipse many hundred generations of Betazoids so long as nothing does me fatal harm, but I believe I impressed upon you how unlikely that is with my demonstration and before that I was a Japanese human, and prior to that I was a unicorn pony, while largely theoretical until i do it another couple of times. However from past experiences it is safe to expect that if I keep dimension hopping, it’s likely that I’ll never die and I’ll keep taking on the body of the dominant race wherever I land,” Twilight explained.

“Good to hear! Then I have a proposition, how about I adopt you into my family? That would solve both your problems in the most efficient manner,” Lwaxana suggested with a smile.

Twilight twitched. Damn! Right in my weakness! Organisation and efficiency!

“It’s a tempting offer, Lwaxana, but how is the rest of your family going to take it?” Twilight asked with concern.

“Nonsense, they won’t mind! In fact, they’d likely ostracise me if I left you to your problems,” Lwaxana replied.

“Well, I guess I’ll take you up on your generous offer then,” Twilight replied with a smile.

“Mother! We are here, I …” a younger Betazoid woman walked in, her hazel brown hair tied in a ponytail and curled in a curlicue, accompanied alongside a tall man with short black hair and a neatly trimmed beard. The betazoid woman wore a dark lavender bodysuit, with a badge with a delta shaped emblem executed in gold. The man wore a black and red uniform with an insignia on his collar and a badge that matched the woman’s.

“Oh Deanna, William! Come here, take a seat! I was just talking with Twilight Sparkle about a preposition,” Lwaxana said as she got up to guide the pair to Twilight.
“Mother, when did you sink so low that you’d proposition a child?” Deanna responded with a disappointed frown and William glared at her. Their anger and suspicions were replaced by confusion as Twilight fell over laughing her head off before teleporting herself up right.

“That’s a good one,” Twilight added still chuckling, the couple were now wary of the ‘child’ before her.

“Ahem, sorry, but I am several times Lwaxana’s age. Also, it wouldn’t work out between us and it’s never pretty when you have to bury a wife, I wouldn’t want to add a forty fifth to the list, no matter how charming they may be,” Twilight winked back at Lwaxana.

“Are you a Q?” Deanna asked cautiously, Twilight tilted her head to the side,

“A Q? Never heard of them, may I take a look so that I can see what you mean?”

“Only if I can look at yours, your mental defences are incredible!” Deanna responded, Twilight thought on it for a moment,

“Thank you for the compliment, when you become the magical student of royalty, the nobility tend to get aggressive. Especially as I was a commoner, and yes you may. Just a warning, you may not like what you see. Over five hundred years of life tends to widen your horizons,” Twilight warned Deanna.

“Deanna! Be careful, we don’t know what we’re dealing with here,” William warned her, causing Twilight to turn her attention towards him.

“If I had wanted to cause you harm, you’d be dead before you even walked in through that door, and if you doubt my power turn around, I made that,” Twilight retorted and smirked, while pointing towards the orb she had created from her earlier display of magical prowess and power.

William looked up and said, “Computer, what is this orb?”

“The creation of the being known as Twilight Sparkle, using advance elemental kinesis, she conjured every element, including Anti-matter and a black hole. Using a shield to encapsulate the crucible, Twilight created a miniature universe and changed the shield so that it held it She then altered the entirety of the orb into a mineralized sphere and summoned the tree around the orb to hold it. Upon completion of her powerful crafting, she chose to gift it to Lwaxana Troi.” The computer responded as William looked at Twilight with something approaching awe and fear.

Twilight turned back to Deanna with a warm smile, “Come now, I don’t bite,” Twilight teased with a grin, “kneel and prepare yourself, Deanna.”

Deanna carefully knelt down, her body shaking.

“Calm yourself and relax. I won’t harm you, Deanna, you’ve done nothing to harm me or any others to warrant such judgement. Now, lean your forehead against mine.”

Deanna found herself on top of a building’s roof, she spotted Twilight looking over the side of the edge, much older and Japanese in her ethnic appearance. Twilight turned to face her with a wan smile.

“Where are we? Why are you Japanese?”

Twilight smiled. “This was my form for twenty four years of my life and was my second form. I was in my forties by the time I shifted to my third form if you counted my first life. This was my high school, Tsukuba-daigakuen in Komaba Tokyo-to. In the year Twenty One Ten, I came to this world as a four year old and was adopted by a kind Japanese middle class family, don’t bother looking me up though. It was in another universe, this isn’t my world, not my native one at least,” Twilight answered with a nostalgic smile.

“I chose this first stop as the final gate to the truth, pass through these doors,” Twilight stated, holding her arms outstretched to the sides as a pair of doors materialised. “The left goes to my first life and the right goes to my third, choose which you would like to see first,” Twilight ordered as she watched Deanna frown in concentration.

Finally, she, stepped through the left door, and arrived in a pastel colored land.

“Welcome to my home world of Equus, the kingdom of Equestria and the world which I was banished from by an imposter trying to marry my brother,” Twilight introduced Deanna to the strange vision and sights being shown her. “And this is my true form, or more accurately my original form.” Standing before Deanna was a lavender-coated mare with a unicorn horn, her navy mane was neat with a straight fringe and her mane was wither-length and her tail mirroring her mane-style and its neatness both with purple and magenta highlights striped through it.

Meanwhile Twilight was reviewing, the memories related to this Q person and the more that she saw and the more heard, the more concerned that this being was Discord or at least this dimensions version of him. I did not want to deal with a Discord if I could help it. I have to avoid attracting his attention. Even despite his good intentions he causes more trouble than it's worth.

After a couple of minutes, Twilight leaned back and smiled before Deanna, who lunged forward and hugged her while she was crying tears.

“H-ow? How can you still smile, How can you remain optimistic in the face of outliving everyone?” Deanna asked as she sobbed

“Practice, time, a goal or goals, family. Friends, it all helps.” Twilight returned the embrace and stroked Deanna’s hair.

“Speaking of family, Mother mentioned a proposition?” Deanna asked, once she had calmed down. Twilight stood up and helping Deanna back up and began to reply.

“I have nowhere to go and I am not a citizen of Betazed. I am not hurting, financially speaking. Lwaxana offered to adopt me while I grow up physically. When I am old enough, I’ll start going to school and hopefully I can enroll in the Starfleet Academy.”