Today was the day! After waiting all week, our order has arrived! But first let me introduce myself, my name is Eric Carter, I live in a small apartment in Tennessee with my sister. You see six months ago our parents split, so she came to live with me until she got use to it.
We were supposed to go to Comic-Con this year, but after Covid welllllll. Let's just say all our work was for not. However Emma (my sister) wanted to finish our costumes, she would be going as Mystique, and I would be going as Magneto. We had created our own costumes, except for Mystique's yellow eyes and Magneto's helmet, well that's a lie. We built a Magneto's helmet, but it was shit, so we ordered one instead.
Well back to the present, Emma had gotten to the door first and grabbed the package. Quickly opening it she pulled out her contacts before handing the box to me. I reached in and pulled out my helmet. Ohhhhh what a helmet it was, curved on the sides it looked like the one from the original movie (And in this day and age, it's hard find one of those) it caught the light perfectly, and when I tried it on, it fit perfectly.
"Come on! Let's go try on the full costumes!" Emma said, dragging me behind her. I chuckled, even though she was seventeen, her inner child had never changed. She pulled me over to the closet where our masterpieces waited to be finished. Emma's was a skin tight body suit I had drawn little scale like patterns on. I was a bit of a crafter, and I didn't think it looked to bad. Mine, however, was a work of art, the gray uniform, with high, military dress style boots, the leather gloves, and a gray cape with a red inside.
Emma had pulled her costume out and ran to the bathroom to change, while I quickly slipped into my room. A few minutes later, I was in my costume (minus the helmet) waiting for Emma to come out.
"How do I look?" Emma asked, walking out of the bathroom.
"Great," I answered, "Me?"
"Amazing," Emma said, "Now for the finishing touches." She ran toward the dinning room kitchen, where we had set up what looked like a movie star's makeup trailer.
Quickly sitting in the chair, my sister exclaimed, "Me first! Me first!" Chuckling, I started on her makeup. Now, I know what you thinking, 'Me? A guy? Doing makeup?' Well, yes, yes, and yes, see I always wanted to work in show business as an actor, but if not I figured I could get close enough as a costume designer or makeup artist. Also it never hurts to have that talent when you want to go as Harvey Dent to Comic-Con. I had also started teaching Emma how to as well.
With an ease I had picked up over the years, I expertly colored her face, hands, and feet a deep navy blue, before putting darker spots on her forehead. I didn't need to dye her hair, as we had done that a few hours ago, hers a crimson red, while mine was a light gray. It took an hour and a half, but I was done. Now it was my turn.
Switching places, I now sat in the chair, as Emma did my makeup, well not full makeup, just darkening some wrinkle lines, making me look older, It only took half an hour for mine to be done. Grabbing a handheld mirror, I praised Emma's work, she had done well.
Suddenly, my fingers slipped, and the mirror fell to the floor and broke into a million pieces.
'I broke a mirror. Seven years bad luck. Eh, that's just a myth.'
After cleaning up the broken glass, We got ready for the piece-de-la-resistance. I put my helmet on after helping Emma put her contacts in ever-so-carefully. I must say, I think we look great. Emma wanted to take a picture, to show her friends, but as I reached for my cellphone, which was on the counter, I began to feel light-headed. I put my hand to my temple and closed my eyes.
"Eric." Turning, I saw Emma looking woozy as well. Before I could tell her to sit down, she passed out and fell to the floor. That was the last thing I saw, before I passed out, well besides the floor coming up to meet me.
* * *
Celestia was sitting on her throne, signing paperwork, when she felt a magic surge come from the Everfree Forest. Quickly, she handed (Hoofed? Levitated?) the paperwork to her assistant, Raven Inkwell, before quickly writing a letter to her student in Ponyville.
Her sister had just been returned to her, so what could it be? Not Discord, he was still in stone. Not Terik, he would have had to get past Cerberus, not an easy task. Not Sombra, as it's way too south for him. She just hoped whatever it was, it was friendly.
* * *
I groaned as I came to. My head was spinning, and I couldn't remember a thing.
'I'm not drunk. I haven't touched a drop of alcohol since . . . let's not go there. I shuddered, remembering the 'Hose and Duck Incident' as my friends called it.
Looking at my hand I saw it was gloved, suddenly it all came flooding back to me, The costumes, the makeup, the package, and finally fainting.
Lifting my head, I saw Emma, still out cold, sleeping on a bed of grass.
Well, at least she's . . . wait A BED OF GRASS! Jerking my head around, I realized we were in some kind of forest, that didn't worry me, I grew up in Camden, what worried me was how we got here. That and if there were any poisonous snakes around here.
Suddenly, I smelled something. Looking around I deduced where the smell was coming from (my nose works like that) It was coming from everywhere. Which either meant, we were the cause of the smell, unlikely, or we were surrounded by whatever was making that smell.
That's when I saw the eyes, glowing green, about a half dozen surrounding us. Then one of the pairs of eyes came out of the shadows, to revel, a Timberwolf! And not when a southerner says timberwolf, I meant a real timberwolf! made completely out of wood.
'Impossible! Timberwolves only live in . . .' It all clicked, many fanfictions I had read, shady site that has stuff no one else has, 'I'm in Equestria!'
Now normally, I would be thrilled, ending up in Equestria is a brony's best dream (Which me and Emma are) but when your surrounded by Timberwolves, you don't really feel the excitement. Then I remembered.
'I'm Magneto! Master of Magnetism! This shouldn't be a challange.' slowly, dramatically I lifted my hands, will all pieces of metal nearby to rise.
Only for nothing to happen.
Then I remembered. No metal in the Everfree.
"Motherfu-"
As the Timberwolves started closing in, I was looking for an escape route. The four possible ones became three, then two, and both of those very questionable. Suddenly a loud explosion came from behind one of the wooden mutts, causing all of them to run and scatter in fright. The sound was loud enough to wake up Emma.
"Wha-? Who? Where am I?" She looked around, then down, then at me, before calmly asking, "Equestria?"
"Yep."
"Displaced?"
"Uh-huh."
"The site where we got the helmet and contacts?"
"Most likely." I had to give her props for not freaking out. Well not in the usual way.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Emma squealed, "We're in Equestria! This is awesome! Where should we go first? The Chrystal Empire? The School of Friendship? CANTERLOT?!"
"First," I said,, "We should probably thank our rescuer." Turning I saw a familiar looking zebra in a brown cloak.
"Thank you, Miss?"
"Zecora," she introduced herself, "I saw the wolves on the stalking, and I was worried they were after something talking. If I may, what are you anyway?"
"We," I said, "are Mutants of a race called humans, meaning we have special abilities. My name is Eric, and this is my sister, Emma."
"Nice to meet you," Emma said.
"The pleasure is all mine, never have I met somepony so refine. Now is this power, that you did not use instead decided to cower?"
"Well, I have the power of magnetism, so with no metal, I was useless. As for Emma's" Looking over at her, we saw a second Zecora standing there instead.
'Zecora' smirked, before saying. "I can do this." Then a wave of scales went down her form until she returned to her original form.
"I see," Zecora said, "My house is very near. Perhaps you'd care to get away from here?"
"We'd be delighted," I said, "Lead the way." We followed Zecora back to her house, where she proceeded to make us tea.
"Thank you," I said taking my cup.
"If I may," Zecora asked, "Where do you intend to stay? There is a town of ponies quite near, but anything new they fear."
"We'd better get used to it," Emma said, "Even if we are accepted into society, there will always be some who fear our powers."
Quite right," I agreed, before realizing that I sounded like Ian McKellen. Looking into the reflective surface of my tea, I saw that I had indeed changed into the Magneto from the 2000 film. I shrugged, he was one of the better actors to portray him. Suddenly I had a thought, I pulled up my left sleeve, and my eyes widened at what I found.
- Quickly I covered it back up and continued on with the conversation.
"As to where we'll stay, there is a castle near here, is there not?"
"Yes, though it is in ruins," Zecora said.
"All we need is a large supply of metal, and we should be good to go," I said. After we finished our tea, Zecora lead us to the ancient ruins.
"This will be perfect thank you," I said.
"It will be nice to have a neighbor nearby," Zecora rhymed, "That doesn't run when I come by." With that she turned and walked away.
We decided to explore the castle, there was a kitchen, a dinning room, a library, the main hall, the hall of Elements (Now empty) a bunch of other rooms that I didn't see a use for, and finally two bedrooms.
We ended up fighting over Luna's old bedroom, neither of us wanting the larger, Celestia bedroom (That's what you get for both being Luna fans) In the end Emma turned into Sweetie Belle and did 'the eyes' (curse those eyes) so Emma won the room. However I won too, using magnetism, I floated all of Luna's old stuff into Celestia's room, and all Celestia's stuff into Luna's room. (Boy was Emma mad)
Next we decided to start cleaning up. Neither of us wanted to sweep, but we found an alternative. Bendng a piece of metal into a long pole, we tied the end of the old broom we found to inside to it and used that (we took it apart and made a metal broom FYI) Suddenly Emma screamed. Looking over, I saw her looking down.
"What is it?" I asked, urgently.
Looking up at me, she said something that made me fall to the floor laughing.
"I'm naked!"
* * *
"What are doing again?" Rainbow Dash asked obnoxiously. The six of them were searching the Everfree forest for whatever caused that magical surge Celestia felt.
"We are lookin' for somethin' or somepony out of the ordinary," Applejack explained, annoyed.
"I know that. I mean why are we doing it? Isn't this something for the Royal Guard or even the Princess?"
"Princess Celestia sent us to do it," Twilight answered, "She must know something we don't."
"Besides," Applejack added, "have you seen the Royal Guard? They kinda suck at their job."
"True," Rainbow agreed, "A thousand years of peace will do that to ya."
"When did you become so knowledgeable about peace and the military?" Twilight asked.
"The Pegasi were a proud race of warriors. There teachings are still passed down in some houses. That's how we divide inheritance, deicide the leader of a clan and so on, so on," Rainbow said.
"Then how come I've never heard about it?" Twilight asked.
"Most clans don't teach it anymore, because of peace and the massacre of Clan Magnus ," Rainbow mumbled the last part.
"Umm, guys?!" Pinkie said, "My Pinkie sense is a-tellen' me, we should go to the Castle of Two Sisters."
"But, um," Fluttershy said, "It's, um, right there." She pointed to the clearing just ahead, where the castle could plainly be seen. As everypony looked, they could feel something surrounding the castle, a sort of vibe, that none of them liked.
"Um, okay," Twilight said, "What ever it is we're looking for is most likely in there, so we'll check it out and report to the Princess. If it is an intelligent being, we'll try talking to it. Whatever you do, do not engage. We do not want to start a war with an unknown something. Got that, Rainbow?"
"Yeah, yeah, whatever," the rainbow maned mare said.
Then, one-by-one, they walked over the bridged and into the castle.
