Two Wastelanders and A Pony

"The Wanderer!" Twilight shouted "I put a sleep spell on him that was only supposed to last for two hours! He's probably awake by now!"

"Who?" the human sitting before her asked "Listen, girly. Maybe you should just slow down and explain everything a little more clearly to me."  But Twilight was still in panick mode.

"I didn't lock my basement door!"

"Say what?" the human raised an eyebrow.

"I didn't take his weapons!"

"You-"

"By Celestia! I left Spike alone, with him in the house!"

"By who-?"

"This is bad, I-" SLAP! Twilight felt the sharp sting of the human's hand across her left cheek.

"Get a hold of yourself, woman!" the human was almost shouting when he said this "Slow down and calmly explain to me what you're talking about. Let's start with your name. Can you tell me your name?" Twilight was still a little panicky, but she managed to calm down long enough to start aswering his questions.

"Twilight Sparkle" she said shakily.

"And just who and/or what are you Miss Sparkle?"

"I am a unicorn, the personal student of Princess Celestia, and the bearer of the Element of Magic", was her shocked and automatic reply.

"No idea who or what any of that is, but we can get into that later. Now what exactly are you doing here Miss Sparkle?"

"I came looking for the Courier. I need him to-....... Oh my gosh! You're him!" her face lit up with excitement and her sense of panic vanished as she recognized the human before her, "You're Darren Ross!"

"Yes. Yes I am." Darren said with a sigh, "Now back to my questions. What's this about a wanderer stuck in your basement with his weapons and someone named Spike?"

"Not a wanderer!" Twilight said sternly "The Wanderer! He's a hero, like you. In his home, in the Capitol Wasteland, he's defeated many evil people and creatures and he is an unstoppable force for good! I need the both of you to help me back in my home and I picked him up first. I didn't have time to explain anything to him, so intead I just knocked him out and came to get you." Dozens of questions were running through Darren's mind as the 'unicorn' spoke, but he decided to keep cool and play along.

"Well," he said "if this 'Wanderer' is all that you make him out to be then I'm sure that, wherever he is, when  he wakes up he will keep a cool head and act rationaly."

Applejack trotted hurriedly through the streets of Ponyville on her way to her friend Twilight's library. She and her other friends hadn't seen her outside of her home in days. Spike had come out occasionaly and according to him Twilight was busy with some big project that she wouldn't tell him about. She would rush about the library, grabbing this book or that, without any obvious connection between her choices. Then she would dash off to the basement and lock herself in there for hours at a time, once even spending a whole night down there. Every once in a while she would send Spike out for supplies and such but she would never come out herself. She claimed that she was too busy. But today Applejack and the others had decided that enough was enough.

Twilight needed to take a break and spend some time outside of the library or she was going to work herself sick. Applejack and the others had agreed to meet at the library with Spike and catch Twilight when she came out of the basement to grab more books. Then they would make her tell them exactly what was going on and get her to go outside with them for a bit. Applejack made it to the library and placed a hoof on the door, preparing to go in. She knew that Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy were already there, and Rainbow Dash would be along as soon as she finished up some of her weather related duties. As Applejack prepared to go inside she heard a loud, BANG, and saw a flash of light under the door. There was a horrified scream and raised voices. Without thinking, she flug the door open and was faced with an unusual sight.

Off to the right, Fluttershy was lavishing attention on a rather large dog that was attempting, and failing, to look ferocious as it enjoyed having it's head scratched by the gentle mares hooves. In the center of the room, Spike was attempting to revive a fainted Rarity next to an ugly black blast mark in the floor. To the right, Pinkie was wrestling a metal clad two-legged creature for possesion of a shiny metal devise that was smoking from a hole at one end. Pinkie was shouting something at the creature that sounded like, "Where is she?! Where is she?!". The creature, on the other hoof, had it's head turned towards Fluttershy and the dog and was shouting, "Dogmeat, you traitor, no fraternizing with the enemy!"

"You're right." Twilight said, calming down a bit more, "I'm sure that he'll be perfectly fine after he has a minute to assess his situation. Now I just need to get you home to get this all straightened out."

"Um... Ookaayy...." Darre said carefully "If you need help with something then I'm happy to oblige, but before we go anywhere I think I'm going to need a better explanaition of what's going on."

"No time!" Twilight shouted. She sprang to her hooves and Darren stood up, backing away a little.

"We have to go now!" she continued.

"No looky here, I aint just gunna-" he paused as Twilight's eyes and horn began to glow, "Well that's new." They vanished in a flash of light.

When Darren's vison cleared, he looked around and found himself to be standing in a library next to Twilight. His gaze was immediately drawn to a scene in one corner of the room. Four brightly colored, creatures similar in size and shape to Twilight, along with a small purple gecko and a dog, were stading around a power-armored man laying on the ground with his hands and feet bound before him, with an apple stuck in his mouth. The man was glaring daggers at the creatures, who hadn't yet noticed Darren and Twilight standing behind them. Without hessitation, Darren shouted, "Would somebody please explain what the fuck is going on here?!" Five pairs of angry eyes turned to glare at him while the human looked up hopefully at him. Darren didn't like the looks the creatures were giving him.

"Shit."