The Hub

A purple unicorn, one of the many of equine races in the world she hails from, tumbles horn over rump into a white void that stretches on for miles and miles. The unicorn rolls and finds herself upside down on a stretched out couch, eyes rolling around comically as stars dance above her head. A groan escapes from her lips as she tries to regain her senses and remember what had led her to this point and more importantly figure out what this point is. She shuts her eyes and rapidly shakes her head causing the stars to fly off in various directions. When her eyes open again, she is greeted to a set of magenta eyes.

"Hi!" The owner of the eyes yells excitedly before she feels hooves pick her up, flip her around, and plop her right side up on the couch.

Confused and dazed, the unicorn known as Twilight stutters out a hello as she tries to take in the appearance of the creature before her. Hooves grip on to her own.

"That was a pretty awesome tumble you had going on, but I think you wanted to tuck your head in a liiiitle bit more in order to get that perfect roundness so you can have a more comfortable roll! Then again, you always got to take into account the whole issue of horn protocols which will make it almost impossible to get that perfect roll. The best option would probably to get rid of it if you ever decide you wanna go for another super awesome mega perfect tumble the likes of which nopony has ever seen before! We'll make it to the big leagues of tumble tumblers and rake in all sorts of dough! Bits? Cash? You know what I don't even know what our monetary value is... But! That is beside the point for I-!"

"No! Bad Pielight! Bad! Leave the new pony alone." A purple alicorn, a pony or horse that has both functional horn and wings, screams flying down spraying a water bottle at said other purple earth pony.

Pielight arches her back impossibly like a cat despite her equine form before hissing and skittering off into... nothingness? The purple unicorn has to blink for a moment before realizing that there is more to the nothingness. An expansive place of various rooms and doors. Furthermore, there seem to be hallways and walls leading all over the place with stairs seemingly placed around randomly leading off into who knows where. The current area that the unicorn finds herself in is, in fact, a lot more colored and filled then she first perceived. There's the couch she finds herself at, table, counters, fridges, a weird box with a screen attached to it and an impossible number of... herself?

The alicorn sighs and looks apologetically at the starting to panic unicorn.

"Heh... Sorry about that... She gets like that some of the time. You should see how some of the others would've reacted if they were the first to find you. At least she brought you further... in I guess. I was actually going to try to be the first to welcome you, buuuuut she beat me to the punch."

As the Alicorn speaks the unicorn looks over the form of herself in which she would've never imagined herself being. She is fully equipped with a longer horn, a pair of wide wings, and a blue crown that seems to float above and move with her head. The unicorn looks at her hooves as the Alicorn tries to get her attention, but she simply closes her eyes and ears to the world before striking a hoof against her face in an attempt to jolt herself awake. She is only awarded pain and the slow realization that this is far from a dream. Or she might attempt to delude herself into assume that this is in a coma induced state.

The alicorn summons a purple glowing hand and makes it perform snapping of the fingers in order to gain the unicorn's attention.

"Twilight! Twilight! Stay with me or I guess us girl."

Twilight shakes her head and gazes from the hand to the Alicorn.

"You need anything?" The alicorn asks sitting beside Twilight and draping a wing over her, "Water, milk, soda, booze? We've got it all here. Food as well."

Twilight shakes her head slowly as she tries to catch the breath she never realized she lost. Her mind is swimming with dizziness and questions, but she has no idea where to start.

"Ya sure? I promise it'll probably make things a bit easier to process. A lot of the... usses that are here right now have been in the same position as you. I'll answer a few of the basic questions they ask. One, I don't know how you got here, but I can teach you how to leave and come back whenever you wish. Two, yes they are all variations of us both good, evil, and in between. Three, the only danger you are in is getting hurt physically and emotionally because you can't die here. Be it as many have tried, you can't actually kill or be killed. You can come pretty close to it, but all wounds will eventually heal. Well, except for the emotional ones. Four, yes my name is Twilight but each Twilight has a variation they go by be it Pielight, Dusk Shine, or Dawn. There is something about each Twilight that makes them unique to their world, and almost all of them eventually find themselves here. Five, no I don't know if there is a version of something like this for our friends. But! If there is such a place, I'm pretty sure the Pinkamena version would have figured out how to get to all the other ones to throw a giant party. Then again, we do have some Pinkie versions of us on the work of doing something along that line..."

"No matter. You make call me Grand Twilight. You'll recognize me due to my blue crown, but I do occasionally patrol with Guardlight and spend my time at events with Queen Twilight. Those two you'll most likely be able to pick out in a crowd. I do recommend taking everything in at your own pace so you don't get overwhelmed by everything. I'll be with you for now and just tell me when you're ready to go on to the next stuff."

Twilight sits there quietly just digesting the information. She slowly proceeds to nod her head and looks towards Grand Twilight, "I'm ready."

"Good! Now, what would you like to learn first? How to travel around her effectively or how to leave and return?" Grand says smiling warmingly.

"I suppose how to leave and return first would be important."

"Right. It's pretty simple actually. Just think of home and will it to you. A door will appear before you to allow you and only you through. Each door is built that way as a sort of safety protocol to prevent the changing of worlds by various other Twilights."

"M-Makes sense. So I just." Twilight closes her eyes and proceeds to think of her world and where she was before. She feels something well inside of her and she forces it forward.

She opens her eyes to see a red door before her.

"It worked!" Twilight exclaims examing her crimson red door, "And all I have to do is just... is... is something wrong?"

Twilight shrinks back at Grand's glare at the door before the two. There seems to be a very bitter look mixed with something of pity.

"Tell me. What were you doing before you stumbled here." Grand asks.

"I... I uh... well I had just broken out of a trap that was laid out by our world's Sombra. Apparently, he was pretty malicious and had crystal like guards poised to kill anyone that tried to enter into his locked rooms under the Crystal Kingdom. Well, I was running to get away when I tripped over a trip wire, but instead of anything happened I wound up here."

Grand takes a very deep breath and looks deep into Twilight's eyes.

"You'll die if you go home. It might not be right away, but you will die. Whether a painful death or a clean death I don't know. But your door is marked for death. Twilights that come in here with red doors are Twilights that generally never return when they go home. That applies to you as well. Whether you take the chance is up to you, but stay here for a while. Your world will not continue while you are no there so you have no time limit for how long you want to stay away."

Twilight eyes go wide at this bit of news brought to her. She looks towards her door her chest tightening in fear.

Grand sighs and shakes her head, "I know what it must be like. There aren't many good worlds out there. So many Grimdark places, but there are quite a few good ponies and creatures here. You just gotta know where to look. I can take you to your own personal room if you like.

"Y-Yes please." Twilight barely whispers.