Equestria Bound

“What a beautiful day to take a walk around Ponyville!” Twilight Sparkle said as she walked around the corner of Sugarcube Corner. She started humming a tune as she trotted down the sidewalk.

As she walked past the entrance to a back alley, she caught a flash in the corner of her eye and her trotting and humming came to a grinding halt. She looked to her left down the dark alley with a startled “huh?”

“Hello? Is somepony there?” She asked, somewhat nervously.

No response came from the darkness.

“I'm starting to believe Spike was right about me being crazy. Oh well.” She said with a distressed voice.

She was ready to pretend that didn't happen and walk away happily, until she heard a moan from the alley, behind a dumpster. The possibility of her imagining that moan was zero, she wasn't crazy... well that is debatable.

“Hello? I know somepony is back there! Show yourself”. Legs shaking and body sweating, Twilight inched toward the dumpster. Who or what was behind that dumpster? She just had to find out.

A black hoof quickly reached out in front of the dumpster, scaring poor Twilight motionless and speechless. The hoof slowly dragged the rest of the body out from behind the dumpster, and the black-as-soot mare looked up at Twilight with redder-than-blood eyes. The mare's mane and tail were the longest ones Twilight had ever witnessed. It may have been possible to wrap the mare's body fully with the mane. The tangled, dirty mess of a mare slowly closed it's eyes with a tear and stopped moving with a huge sigh.

“Oh my Celestia! Oh, what do I do!? Uhhh... uhhh... I g-g-guess I'll teleport with her back to the library and let her rest up and cover her wounds... Ohhh, this is bad! Why do I always get myself into these messes?”

Frantically, she ran and grabbed her hoof and used her horn to teleport back to her library.
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A couple hours later, the strange mare finally opened her eyes. She was laying in a bed in what seemed to be a tree house.

“ehhhhhauuuugh”. The black mare slowly opened her eyes. “Wah? Where am I?... Dear God WHAT am I?”.

She looked around the room, everything she saw, even herself, looked foreign. Trying to get out of bed, she staggered and fell with an “augh!”. Her back left leg was wrapped with bandage.

That purple creature. She thought, Whatever it was, helped me. Is this the feeling of gratitude I've heard so much about? Interesting... I have to find her and tell her I... appreciate...

Her thoughts came to an abrupt end as she heard something come up the stairs. Could it be that purple being that gave her this new feeling? She could only have her hopes up.

knock knock

The door opened as Twilight looked upon a helpless, upside down mare with “embarrassed” written all over her.

“You appear to be in quite a predicament, miss.” Twilight said with a face as straight as a straight line.

“uhh... yeah... could use a hand here.”

Use a hand.

“Hand? I don't believe I follow. You're obviously a pony, yet you speak like a dragon.”

“Pony. Huh. So THAT's what I am? A pony? Figures.” The mare said as she rolled her eyes.

“I take it you're not from Equestria are you?” Twilight said, raising one eyebrow.

“Equestria? Where's that? I have no idea where I am. I am not originally a... pony... either.”

“What? Then who are you? What's your name? Where are you from? I need answers!” Twilight began to sound impatient.

“My name... I don't have one officially, I was called something, but I'd rather not bring it up. As for location, I am originally from America, which is on Earth, to let you know.”

“No name? I guess I can come up with... Wait... EARTH?” Twilight nearly jumped on her with a shout.
“Earth!? Like, the place where humans live!? I didn't know they existed!”

“Well, yes, they do, in fact. Most humans I knew were nice to me, but one... I can't even say his name. He saw to teach the newly born ultimate power evil, and use it to delete everyone who didn't like him. I was sent through a phase distorter that a doctor gave me to avoid his wrath, but he is very persistent, and even here, in another dimension, I still don't feel safe.” The mare looked around and out a window.

“That's hard to believe. “Phase distorter”? “Ultimate power”? Please. That just sounds like a tale from a book.”

“Then ignore my story. Believe it or not, that man is after me, and everyone I know.”

“Everypony.”

“What?”

“The correct term is “Everypony” here.”

“Whatever.” She rolled her eyes.

“Oh yeah I need a name for you.”

“Can you give me examples of names here? I'm kind of hoping they aren't as cheesy as I imagine.”

“Uhhh... Well my name is Twilight Sparkle, there's Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie to name a few.”

“... Could be worse. Could be “Albert Andonuts”. So what name will you give me? Don't be too cheesy.”

“Well, a pony's name usually reflects either their personality, looks, or Cutie Mark, which is near your back leg on both sides of your flank.”

“Heh. Flank. Anyways, what do I have on my...?”

Nothing. Blank. She was a “blank-flank”.

“Nothing. I have nothing. Why do I have nothing, what was it, Twilight Sparkle?”

“Well a pony earns theirs through a special talent. What are you good at?”

“Uhhhh... I don't know. I don't really have anything I'm good at. Never did.”

“Well, you'll find it eventually. Anyways, names. Red hair... Red eyes... Almost pitch black body...”

“Call me anything related to fire and I will hurt you.”

“How about... Ruby Black?”

“... Not bad. I'll take it for this world anyway. Oh yes, Twilight.”

“Yes?”

“I'd like to thank you for what you did. I appreciate you not letting me cry and rot in that alley. You... Uhhh... Made me feel appreciative for the first time in my life toward anyone. Nobody cared enough to help me.”

“You mean you never had any friends? That's horrible!”

“I thought I did, but... It turns out that they hated me more than anything...” A tear ran down her face as she stared the ground down.

“Ruby, that's a horrible feeling. Let me be your friend, I'm very friendly.”

“You... Would do that for me? I bet you wouldn't if you knew the real me. This? This is just a shadow of my true self.”

“Shadow? What's the real you like?”

“I'd rather not talk about it. Those days are gone, though.”

“Listen, Ruby, let me introduce you to my friends in Ponyville. I'm sure they'd be glad to meet you! So get up and let's get going!”

“Really? Well, if you say so.”

Ruby attempted to stand back up and walk, but fell flat on her face.

“... Can I get some training on walking on all fours first?”