Equestrian Bats: An MLP/Silverwing Crossover

Twilight was excited. More excited than she has been about anything else in a long time. She had done it. After all that time researching and experimenting, she had finally done it. She was also excited to show her friends the fruits of her labor.

Soon enough, all of her friends were gathered at the statue that acted as the portal between their world and the pony world of Equestria. But the statue looked different.

The statue was hooked up to a large Frisbee-shaped device by a series of wires and tubes. In the middle of the device was a small orb that gave of a rhythmic pink glow.

Sunset Shimmer, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash all gathered at the statue per Twilight's request to see what is is she'd gathered them all to see.

"Alright, Twilight. What did you want to show us?" Sunset asked her bespectacled friend.

"I just wanted to show you my new multidimensional portal device" she said with a Pinkie-like smile.

"'Multidimensional portal device'? Darling. remember what happen the last time you tried to fuse magic with technology?" Rarity asked.

"That was just a slight miscalculation brought on by a mind boggled by three days without sleep" Twilight said.

"'A slight miscalculation'? You almost turned the school into a smoking crater! Mr. Doodle is still sore at you about that, sugarcube" Applejack responded.

Twilight winced at the memory of that disaster. "Hopefully his hair grows back. And that he gets out of that wheelchair. And that his urine won't be bloody. And that he can get a new liver"

"I should throw him a 'Get Well' party to cheer him up!" Pinkie exclaimed.

"Somehow I get the feeling he wouldn't appreciate a Pinkie party" Rainbow said to Pinkie.

"Girls, we're getting off track. We're her to see the new device Twilight made" Fluttershy said to the gang.

The girls' attention was now completely on Twilight. She gesture to the device laying on the ground.

"Girls, what if I told you that this device could allow us to travel to other universes in the multiverse besides Equestria?" she asked.

That had the girls interested to be sure. Twilight continued her presentation.

"If I turn the dial on this device, it'll select a new world for an outside observer" she stated.

Twilight turned the glowing dial on the device to demonstrate. The portal had a very visible reaction. The portal switched from Equestrian pink to another world's indicating color, which was blue in this case.

"That's so awesome Twilight!" Rainbow exclaimed with a fist pumping the air

"That's a rather lovely shade of cerulean" Rarity noted.

"It's sooooooo pretty, Twi!" Pinkie shouted.

"That is rather amazing that you've changed the portal to lead to another world" Sunset praised.

"Uh, Twi. Is the portal supposed to be glowin' like that?" Applejack asked.

Before Twilight could respond, the portal absorbed them all in a bright light. After being momentarily blinded by the light, the girls all began to get the weirdest feeling of their bodies somehow changing. Then everything went black.

Twilight woke up with the feeling of having the best sleep of her life. She couldn't really make out her surroundings, but she felt like she was being wrapped in a warm blanket.

However, once she shook the sleep out of her eyes, she realized that she wasn't in the same surroundings she and her friends were recently in. From what she could see, she was in what looked like a badly made wooden shed. The wood was very splintery, rotten, and uneven.

She looked around to really get her bearings and discovered something even more bizarre: she was covered in fur and was hanging from the very wood she was surrounded by.

"What?! I'm covered in fur?!" she exclaimed.

She checked herself further to see that her arms have changed into wings. Her arms and fingers have gotten longer and have membranes of skin forming between them.

The wings clinched it. She was a bat! She was an actual bat!

"I'm a bat?! This... is strangely cool. I wonder what species I am" Twilight said.

She looked down at herself to see black fur with a decent amount of silver fur within.

"So, let me get this straight: the device overloaded, and transported us to to a new world as well as turning us into bats?" Twilight asked herself.

Speaking of which, she had finally realized that she needed to look around for the others. But first, she needed to look for a way out of her apparent roost.

"Wait, since I'm now a bat, I can use echolocation"

She tried to send out a call. The results were phenomenal! In an instant, the entire inside of her roost, a hollow tree, was illuminated with picture-perfect detail. She could make out everything in that hollow tree. Twilight could make out the individual nooks and crannies of the trunk. She could even see the thin spider web at the bottom of the hollow.

"This is amazing! It makes me a bit jealous that humans can't do this!"

Now she wanted to play with her echolocation a little bit. She sent out more calls to make out the full layout of her roost. When she turned her calls upward, she could see that she wasn't the only bat in this roost.

There were six other bats in the roost. From what she could see, they were all of different species. They were all asleep with their wings held to their sides.

"I should see of I can communicate with them to see if I can make out what's going on here" Twilight said.

Using her thumb claws, Twilight crawled up the walls of the roost to get to the other bats. She made her way to the closest bat, an eastern red bat, and gently nudged her awake with her muzzle.

"Excuse me, but can you tell me where I am? I'm kind of lost" Twilight said in a soft voice so as not to disturb the other bat too much.

"Mmmmm, Twilight, just let me sleep" the red bat said in a familiar voice.

Twilight recognized that voice instantly. Sunset. Sunset has changed into an eastern red bat.

"Sunset, wake up! You gotta wake up!" Twilight said shaking her friend with her wing.

Sunset woke up with some instinctive flapping of her long and pointed wings. She looked around and looked at Bat Twilight.

"Twilight?! What's going on?! Why are you a bat?!" Sunset asked in panic.

"Well, you're a bat, too" Twilight replied pointing to her with her thumb claw.

Sure enough, Sunset looked down at herself to see that she too was a bat.

"What happened Twilight?!" Sunset asked in panic.

"The best conclusion I can come to is that we were transported to a new world and were changed into bats"

This new intake of information was quite a lot for Sunset to take in. They got transported into a new world and were changed into sapient bats. What in the name of Jeebus Christopher was she supposed to make of this?!

"Well, I guess this isn't the worst thing to happen" Sunset said after a while.

"Come on, let's go wake up the others" Twilight said.

Both Twilight and Sunset crawled up to the others and woke them up one by one. After getting over to the initial shock and disbelief, Twilight managed to explain the current situation.

"So, we got transported to a new world due to the device overloading and got turned into bats?" Rainbow asked.

"Yeah, that's basically the long and short of it" Sunset replied.

Now that the explanations were out of the way, everyone took the time to look at their new forms.

Applejack was a Pallid Bat, a desert-dwelling species that eats large insects and arthropods such as centipedes and scorpions. Her pale fur, large ears, and large dark eyes made her look adorable. Pinkie was a Hoary Bat, a species that can found all over the western half of the United States and is the only bat species to be found in Hawaii. Rainbow Dash was a Brazilian Free-Tailed Bat, which can fly even faster than peregrine falcons when flying horizontally at speeds of one hundred miles per hour. Rainbow's eye's lit up when Twilight told her that bit of info. Rarity was a Tricolored Bat, a colorful species found in the midwest. Fluttershy was a Gray Bat, an endangered species found throughout the southeast US.

Once everyone was done looking over their new bodies, they had begun trying to come up with a game plan.

"Well, how are we going to get back to our own world?" Rainbow asked.

"It's not like I'm going to be able to build a new device with this form" Twilight responded.

"Can we even still use our magic?" Fluttershy asked.

"Somehow, I don't think we can use our magic as bats, Flutters" Applejack answered.

"Well, we're not going to get any answers just roosting in here" Twilight said. "We should all go outside and see if we can get our bearings"

Twilight and the others crawled up to a hole in the tree to look outside. It was night, the perfect time for bats. Judging from the warmth in the air, it was summertime. Twilight and the other girls sent out calls to look around. It seemed like it was just regular forest as far as their calls could tell them.

"Well, we're definitely not at Canterlot High anymore" Sunset said.