A New World Discovered

Twilight was over completely and utterly over the moon right now! Cause right now, she was sitting in some kind of unusual building that was built just a few feet from the old, ruined castle, and was surrounded by five bipedal creatures that she’s never seen or read about, along with the two strange metal skinned creatures with the little ones flying around. At first Twilight was scared out of her mind when two of the bipeds came to her, and actually guided her to the source of the strange sighting that she snuck out to try and see what was going on. But once the unicorn saw that none of the creatures wanted to hurt her, she allowed them to guide her through the forest safely until they made it to the creatures metal home.

When Twilight was brought to the creatures home she studied them all as best she could, noting in how the bipedal creatures shared many physical traits with ponies. With the main differences being their heads, having no fur, tails, wings, horns, or pony legs. and the clothes that all of them were wearing were all varied from one individual from another.

The leader of the group, the tall female creature with the long curvy mane and glass, seemed to be dressed up in something that looks like a business suit. The creature that walked beside her during the trek through the forest was more, bulkier in that it was wearing some kind of strange armor with fabric covering it, and it was caring a strange black object in its hands. The other members of the group were also quite interesting to look at as well. The third member of the group was probably the tallest compared to the rest, just a head taller than the bulkier possible soldier of the team. And it was dressed up in some fairly casual looking clothes. The fourth creature was about the same size of the female with the long curly hair, and was dressed up much like the solider, but what really made Twilight take interest in the creature was the metal mask it had. and then the final member of the group was defiantly the smallest of them all, and was the most scrawny, and its clothing was like the tall one being all casual except for the gloves and goggles it also wore.

But as much as Twilight was positively delighted to meet such strange, new creatures, she was a little perplexed. None of these creatures seemed to speak Ponish, or any other language that Twilight is familiar with. Yet Twilight remained intrigued by these strange creatures, even more so with their home which was unlike anything that she’s ever seen. The whole structure was completely made out of metal, from the walls to the floor, everything was polished metal. Aside from the overall construction of the building, there were other tings in the building that were just strange. Like the large rectangular picture frames along the walls, all of which had extremely shinny images on them…images that shifted and swirled. It was actually mesmerizing to watch though.

“Just who are these creatures? And what are they doing here in Equestria, or more importantly where did they come from.” Twilight muttered quietly to herself as she focused attention back on the creatures, and seeing that they were still in a rather heated conversation with each other.

“If only I knew what they were saying.

Just as Twilight thought about being able to understand these creatures, an idea came to her. well, more like a thought really. The unicorn then started to dig through her satchel before pulling out one of the books inside. The book in question was a typical tome of magical spells that Twilight reads to mostly pass the time, but now with the book in hand Twilight started to flip through pages, looking for one entry in particular that she thought she remembered seeing in it. Or at least hoped this particular book had the spell she was thinking of.

“Ah-ha! Here it is.” Twilight said a bit louder than her previous hushed words. Looking up for a moment Twilight checked to see if the creatures caught her little outburst, but they were still engaged into their personal talks.

Looking back down to the book she was holding, Twilight started to read up on the spell she had opened up, which was a translation spell. Or at least a rudimentary version of the spell. Twilight’s never tried using such a spell before, as Equestria rarely, if ever, meets other species or races that don’t speak Ponish themselves. Luckily though Twilight was quick study so learning the spell shouldn’t be to hard, although using and casting the spell without any practice was another story, and since she doesn’t want to frighten these new creatures she was going to have to get this spell right in one cast. So Twilight read the spell down to the last syllable, mesmerizing every spell component and sequence there was, until she had everything committed to memory.

‘Okay. Now to see if this spell will actually work on them.’ Twilight mentally internalized as she quietly stuffs the book back into her satchel.

“Here goes nothing.”

Twilight took in a short breath before lighting up her horn, and began casting the spell on the creatures. They were all startled and started to panic as all of them started to develop a purplish glow around them, and they all looked towards Twilight, some looked panicked and confused but the soldiers looked ready to attack Twilight! But as the two made their way over to Twilight, she heard them speak Ponish!

“I told you it was a bad idea to bring this alien here! It’s trying to attack us!”

“No wait!” Twilight quickly said as she stood up from her seat and held her hands out!

“I wasn’t attacking you; I was casting a translation spell so we can understand each other, I swear!” thankfully Twilight’s words seemed to catch the creatures off guard as they all looked at her with shocked expressions. That’s when the creature with the curly mane took a few cautious steps forward towards Twilight, but was stopped when the bulkier soldier stuck his hand out in front of her.

“You…can understand us?” the female creature asked in a calm, bewildered, yet soothing voice as she looked at Twilight with wide eyes.

“Yes.” Twilight answered quickly. “I used a basic translation spell so that we can understand each other on a fundamental level.”

“A translation spell?” the tall slender creature said as he looked himself over for a second before looking back at Twilight with a confused expression. “You mean you used, magic on us?” Twilight just nodded her head.

“Incredible! Actual magic!” the smaller creature said in an excitable voice. “We just witnessed actual legitimate magic being used, this is an incredible find!” Twilight seemed a little curious on how excitable the small creature sounded, especially as it seems she’s never witnessed magic. Or even heard of it.

“Is magic not common where your from?” Twilight asked. The leader of the group shook her head.

“Where we’re from magic is make believe, not real.”

“Not real! But how is that possible?!” Twilight asked in utter shock.

“Perhaps we should introduce ourselves, and tell you what we are…and where we came from.” the leader said before gesturing Twilight to sit back down as she sits in a nearby chair, while the other creatures either stood or sat down next to them.

Once everypony was situated Twilight listened with baited breath as the creature spoke about where she, and her fellow creatures came from, and who they were. and what an incredible tale the leader of these creatures was telling. this group of creatures apparently are not from Equestria, or the planet itself, they were instead travelers from another world! Explorers that sail the endless expanses of space in their ship, which was actually what the building they were all in actually called.

As they traverse through the vast void of space, studying every planet that they come across and see if its inhabitable, or be used as an agricultural hub in case their home world is stricken with famine, or something terrible happens. And Twilight’s own home world was just their latest discovery, but according to what the groups leader, Henriette, was saying the ponies were the first actual alien life forms that they have meet. Now originally the group was to study the ponies from a distance, and see if they were peaceful and if it was possible to establish political ties, but with the patrol of guards that was sent to investigate them they thought it would be better to be more direct. And since they’re strange creatures, which were actually robots, have had encountered Twilight once before and saw that she was also trying to study them, Henriette made the decision to bring Twilight to the group to try and establish communication.

“And that is our story Twilight.” Henriette said as she finishes wrapping up telling the unicorn everything about the group, and their mission.

“This is…wow. I honestly don’t know how to react to this.” Twilight said as she took some time to absorb everything that she was told. “So, what happens now?”

“Well for one thing, we would like to know if your people have some kind of diplomatic leader we could meet with, and explain to them everything we just told you.”

“Of course!” Twilight all but shouted as she jumped up to her hooves. “I know the royal family personally, in fact, Princess Celestia is my mentor when it comes to magic.”

“Well she be willing to meet us?”

“Certainly. I can even write up a letter, and send it to her.”

“And how do we know your not just playing nice, to lure us into a false sense of security.” The bulky soldier, who Henriette introduced as Kiburi, said in a skeptical tone as he gave the mare a cold stare.

“I would never do that! no pony in Equestria would do that to any creature for no reason.” Twilight argued.

“And how can we believe you?”

“Kiburi that’s enough.” Henriette said in a commanding tone as she stood up. “I doubt Twilight would do such a thing.”

“As head of our teams security I’m only being cautious.”

“I understand but we—” As the two humans debated with one another, Twilight’s ears were assaulted by a blaring siren sound that just started going off.

“What’s going on?!” Twilight asked as she looked at the group of humans, and watched as the tall human called John rushed over to one of the walls with the picture frames, where they spiraling images turned into…Twilight wasn’t sure what the new images were. but she was amazed that they fact that the images changed at all.

“One of the proximity alarms just went off, it looks like those ponies guards sent to look for us are in a spot of trouble.”

“Where?” Twilight asked worriedly.

“Northwest of our location…and it seems that they’re in a fight with something big.”

“We have to go and help them!”

“Kiburi you and Andrew go with Twilight, John take control of Lucky & Aria you take control of Observer.”

Twilight was impressed in how effectively the group reacted to Henriette’s commands, with the two soldiers grabbing their weapons while John and Aria sat down in front of the frames, where they started to fiddle around with the machines in front of them. a second later the mechanical wolf named Lucky started to run out of the ship, with the soldiers and Twilight following behind it and Observer flying overhead.

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“Try this on for size!” Aegis shouted as he picked up a large rock and chucked it at the massive cragadile that was trying to turn him and his fellow guards into an afternoon snack. But the rock was smashed to pieces by a simple tail whip from the large stone hide reptile.

“Lance don’t give the thing ammunition!” Zephyr shouted as she bobbed and weaved through the pieces of rocks that were sent towards her way.

“My bad!”

“Everypony fallback to the ridge!” Flare shouted as she casted a shield spell to black the cragadile’s charge, but like with the rock the large reptile easily smashed right through the shield spell.

“Lieutenant!” Nosedive shouted as she dove towards the groups leader, and snatched her up before the cragadile was able to get its jaws around the unicorn. “Could this day get any worst for us.”

Just then as if from nowhere a horrible guttural howl roared out from the forest, causing Nosedives ears, and her fellow guards to ach in pain along with the cragadile. Then from the tree line the guards watched as the skeletal wolf came bursting out of the foliage, and tackled the cragadile and actually managed to shove it a good four feet. The guard ponies then watched as two strangely clothed creatures came bursting out of the trees, followed by none other than Twilight Sparkle! But the guards attention was quickly brought back to the cragadile, as it and the skeletal wolf started to wrestle with one another. Yet the wrestling match was quickly over with as the wolf leapt off the cragadile, and the guards then heard rapid ‘brrrt’ sounds, and again seeing the small flashes of fiery sparks that they saw before just peppered and harassed the cragadile. Eventually the large reptile up and left the guards, and the other creatures as it turned tail and started to waddle back to where it came from.

“Is everypony alright?” Twilight Sparkle asked all the guards as she approached them.

“Yeah we’re fine.” Flare said as she was placed back down on the ground.

“Bat what are you doing in the Everfree Forest Twilight? The princess gave you explicit orders to remain in town.

“I know, but I’ve discovered something that all of you might want to know.” Twilight said as she gestured to the two strangely clothed bipedal creatures and the wolf. Flare and her subordinates all gave each other an unknowing look before looking back to Twilight.

“Very well, let us see what you have discovered.”