Twilight woke up in her castle, feeling really tired and not wanting to work, which is something that is a bit unusual on her since she always likes to work. It was the day after defeating Cozy Glow and stopping her from taking away all the magic in Equestria. She thought that it was that and the whole walk thowards the tartarus to talk to Tirek that left her in that state.

After of ten minutes of laziness, she was finally capable of getting out of her bed and walk thowards on of the castles windows to see outside. She saw many ponies walking and talking with each other, but she also saw other creatures serving them.

Humans. Lots of them carrying stuff over their heads, pulling wagons full of stuff and following their owners around ponyville.

They were like that since a thousand years ago or even more, but not because the ponies wanted. It was because the humans appeared in Equestria in the past and tried to conquer the ponies and other magical creatures. Even thought they weren't magical, they still managed to take a big amount of pony territory by infiltrating into houses by the middle of the night and killing ponies in the middle of the night. After taking a small village they started invading bigger territories using brute force or magical artifacts that they stole from the village.

Just when they were about to take control of the old Ponyville they were defeated and weakened making them totally harmless. After that, the ponies and other magical species decided to use them as slaves, considering them to dangerous to be free.

But the weird thing was how they were defeated.

A few hours before they arrived at Ponyville, the ponies were getting prepared, when a weird and strong light appeared in the sky. It shined for a few second, then fell to the ground and apparently dissapeared. When the ponies searched for it they could not find it.

However, they decided to use the chance to spy on the human troops. But they found them totally hurt and without the strenght to fight.

That light is still a mystery, but many believe it to be a magic that stopped the humans from taking control over Equestria. Nevertheless, they were all glad that the humans were defeated.

Back in the present, Twilight exited the castle and went out to meet with her friends in Sugarcube Corner.

While she walked she sawed all the humans around, some which were also really tired of their hard work.

"Master, all the boxes are in you house and I unpacked them. Can I have a rest now?" One of the humans asked to one of the ponies.

"No you little scum. You will bring from the store more of the boxes of cosmetics that I have ordered. If you don't, I always can send you with other creatures like dragons."

"Ok master." The human left to get the boxes from the store.

When Twilight got to Sugarcube Corner, she sawed her friends coming out of the place.

"...I mean, sure they don't have magic, but it isn't a long travel anyway, it takes like ten or twenty minutes by walking." Applejack was saying.

"Considering how they are feed, I think that even that distance is a big struggle for... Twilight!" Fluttershy exclaimed.

"Hey friends. Why are you out? I thought you were going to wait for me inside Sugarcube Corner." Twilight asked.

"Well, it turns out that the humans that had to bring the supplies for today got tired and even got hurt trying to get here. So there aren't any ingredients to use." Rainbow Dash explained.

"Well that is something bad." Twilight said.

"Althought not as bad as something that happened in the Crystal Empire." Applejack said.

"You're right. This is nothing compared to what happened. I'm just glad that Shining Armor, Cadance and Flurry Heart are okay." Twilight said.

A few days ago, a group of rebel humans tried to enter the castle in the Crystal Empire. They hurt many ponies, but thanks to Cadance and Shining Armor, there were not any lives lost.

"Me too." Rarity said. "I heard that those humans were sent with the dragons due to their actions. I'm pretty sure that it will teach them to not mess with ponies."

"You know, maybe if we tried talking with them, maybe we could be friends with them and not have any more fights and..." Fluttershy started before Rainbow Dash interrupted her.

"Friends!? Come on Fluttershy. I know that you are kind but it is impossible to talk with humans. That why we had to make them our slaves, otherwise they would have conquered us a long time ago. Didn't you hear about the Crystal Empire problems with the humans?"

"But maybe they did that since they are tired of being slaves. And even if we couldn't help them to make a change, they are still slaves, and I don't think that we should be using any type of creature as a slave."

"You may have good intentions darling, but the way we do things is necessary to avoid the humans from taking over Equestria." Rarity told her.

"Yeah. By the way, has any of you heard of the new world rumor?" Pinkie Pie asked.

"A new world?" The other five said at the same time.

"Yes. It is said that the humans come from another world and that the humans we have here are just a fraction of the humans that are in that other world."

"Come on Pinkie that is not true." Twilight said.

"She is right!" The other four said at the same time, even Fluttershy, who looked a bit nervous for a reason.

"Ok then."

After the short chat they decided to go back to their homes since their original plan was totally wrecked.

When Twilight arrived at her castle, she searched for Spike and found him still sleeping.

Guess he is still tired. She thought.

When she went to the library, she found herself thinking of what had Pinkie told them about another world full of dangerous humans. She decided to ignore it since it seemed very fake.

Suddenly, Spike entered to the library with a parchment.

"Oh, I'm glad I found you Twilight. Princess Celestia just sended this message to you." He opened the parchment and started reading. "Dear Twilight, I need your help with something important. Come to Canterlot to talk about it."

"Why didn't you told me?" Twilight said as she got out of the library.

When se got to the castle she went straight to the throne room, where she found Celestia and Luna waiting for her.

"Hello Twilight. I'm glad that you're here." Celestia said.

"Thanks Celestia. So, what did you wanted to tell me?"

"It may be a bit surprising, but a few days ago we detected some sort of magic power in a really old cave. When we sent some ponies to see what was happening they found a weird rock structure that looked like a circular gate. It didn't seem to be magical at first, but after a minute or so it started glowing for a few seconds before stopping. We decided to just forget it since it didn't seem to do much more than glow. However, we detected an even stronger enegy coming from it again so I decided to call you to see if you could find out what is it."

At first, Twilight just stood there with her mouth oppened. Then she said with determination: "Don't worry princesses. I wll help you."

Celestia smiled, happy that she had agreed. Meanwhile, Luna was lost on her thoughts. She didn't think that it was a good idea to be near that place. She could sense something wrong.

I just hope that it isn't anything bad.

In a militar base a human was checking a special portal designed to travel across world. It had a very good design. He looked at it before he said:

"I think that it is time to test this baby and the new armor."

Author's Note

This story takes place after the ending of season 8 and is inspired by the fanfic of "Shouldn´t have enslaved humanity"

Hope you like it.