Anon-A-Miss: One Girl's Heroes

"Okay folks, give me a run down of what we are dealing with here."

"Well, mein freund, all of the fires are out and the girls told me the ship is still structurally sound, but we burned out several components we will need to return to the In Between, as well as materials we will need to repair the engines if you want her fly more that a couple hundred miles before they burn out. At least the cloaking and stealth fields are perfectly fine or the local government would be all over us by now."

"That might be a problem since on this Earth it is mid december 2014, so the tech is pre everything...Like pre picotech, pre nanotech, pre Helium-3 or Thorium reactors, etc, etc. The point is tech wise these idiots are still burning fossil fuels and believe solar and wind will save them. Thankfully their pre true A.I. so their internet security is a joke, but otherwise we will either need build what we need or find a portal to call for help."

"So science isn't going to fix this anytime soon. What about magic?"

"Like mostly deadsville, but someone did set off two huge magic flares in the past few months and I can like feel a portal, but those flares are totally making pinning it down impossible. If we can get me right on top of it I can totally get either Damia or my dad to give us a hand."

"Wait, you said two major flares in the past few months? Would one of them look something like this?"

"Whoa, that's like high end mega level spell casting by an archmage or a demigod."

"Where's that at?"

"A high school in a city called Canterlot, about 50 miles from here."

"Hmm... Okay, here's what we are going to do. 1) we scout out this city and find somewhere to put the ship. 2) We start figuring out how to repair the ship as a plan B. 3) We find a way into that school and find this portal as plan A. Any questions?"

"Yeah, anyone besides me, this big lug over here, and our intrepid leader have teachers licences? I mean I am all for doing this, but finding the portal will take a lot longer if we have to break someone out of jail because someone called the cops on a strange pervert poking around a school full of kids."

"Well we have several members of the 21,000 on board and they are all around the age of your average highschooler and then there is that kid we picked up on the last Earth we were on. She might be too young as a student, but as the kid of one of the ones going in would be able to wander around while 'Dad' finishes up some work. Maybe getting her out of the ship and doing something might help her get past what happened."

"I'm not sure there is a 'get past what happened' when it comes to being the only person to survive global xenocide at the hands of an alien race, but maybe doing something might begin the healing process. Dammit, wish we had brought along one of the others who knows how to deal with this kind of thing."