United States of America

Somewhere in Washington

One year, and eleven months before Southeastern Equestrian succession

In a forest, somewhere in Washington, a small, bright wormhole opens up, and practically spits Twilight Sparkle out.

"OOF!!" Twilight exclaimed as she fell face first into the ground.

"Ugh, that was rougher than I thought it would be" She said as she picked herself up, and scanned her surroundings.

"So this is the new world? ... Looks a lot like the everfree forest" She said with a hint of nervousness.

Nervousness that she quickly squashed.

The portal must've just landed her in a forest, after all, she didn't know where exactly the portal would open.

She and Luna would just need to hike for a bit, in order to find civilization.

...

"Wait, where's Luna?" Twilight thought out loud.

As she said that, twilight looked around her surroundings once again, only to find the absence of the lunar princess.

...

"it's fine! She must've just appeared somewhere else" Twilight said as she mentally decided on a random direction to head in.

"I'll probably just see her once I get back, unless she gets caught up with something"

Dotting in a mental checklist where the portal was, Twilight started making her way west, hoping the forest wasn't too vast, or that she didn't accidentally go deeper into said forest.

Some time later...

Twilight had deduced, that if there was civilization on this planet, they're forests were extremely similar to the everfree forest, in the sense that the weather seemed to be random, and erratic.

Throughout her trek, she had also come across seemingly manually made trails.

"If I just follow these, then they must take me to a town, hopefully" Twilight said as she continued walking.

'I want to at least establish contact, before returning to Equestria, unless it starts taking too-' Twilight thought to herself before she was startled by a bush rustling.

Twilight quickly went and hid inside another bush, hoping to avoid whatever animal might be near her.

'Who knows what kind of beasts may live in this unknown forest...' She nervously thought to herself as the beast In question came into view.

'A, deer?'

The deer was just, standing there, not doing anything.

...

'Should I say hello?' Twilight thought to herself.

Although deers were one of the many sentient species living in Equi, the deer she was looking at was acting, strange.

Almost like it was one of Fluttershy's animals.

'Maybe deers aren't sentient in this world?' Twilight thought as she suddenly spotted.. A red Dot?

'Huh?'

The red dot was quickly moving around the deers body, stopping on its forehead.

'Does he not s-' Twilight thought to herself, but stopped when there was a sudden ear piercing-

*BANG!!*

And the deer fell to the ground, blood gushing from it's head.

Twilight didn't move for a solid twenty seconds, trying to process the fact she just saw something die... Just like that.

'What even, happened?'

She racked her head for an answer, was it the red dot? Did that somehow kill the deer? It must have, there was nothing else, but how?

As twilight continued to think of a reason of the deers demise, in order to not think of the actual dead deer, a second figure stepped into view.

And this one, was vastly different.

And in twilight's eyes, far more threatening.

It was tall and bipedal, with hands resembling those of a minotaur, only smaller.

It looked scarily similar to the humans of the mirror world, only some of it's proportions were off.

Twilight couldn't see it's face, as it was covered by some sort of mask, and the figure wore dark clothing.

The figure was wearing a hat, with text on it, but twilight couldn't make it from where she was.

And in the figures hands, was some sort of staff.

It was black, looked metallic, and was producing the the red dot that twilight has already garnered a fear of from the top of it.

The man walked over to the deers body, and kneeled down.

"Hm, guess the purchase was worth it" The figure said as he placed his weapon to the side, and took out a small black rectangle from his clothing.

From the voice, twilight could guess that the figure was a male, and sounded relatively young.

The figure placed the rectangle, wich she deduced was a phone, up to his ear, and began speaking, in perfect ponish.

"Hey guys, are you coming? Yeah I'm here, already killed a deer too"

The figure sat down with his back to twilight, as he continued talking.

Yeah the guns pretty cool. Sure, I'll let you use it. Are you bringing your dad's revolver? .. Sweet.

Twilight decided that whatever this thing is, was not friendly, and that she should probably go back to the portal.

She started to slowly crawl back as the man continued talking.

*Snap!*

'Of course...'

The figure quickly turns around, eying the bush that made the noise.

"Hold on, I'll call you back" The man said as he hung up his call, placed his phone back in his pocket, and grabbed his rifle.

He stood up, pointed the rifle at the bush, and pulled the trigger.

*BANG!!*

The bullet flew by twilight, gracing her flank, leaving her with a stinging cut.

She sucked in her breath through gritted teeth, and before she could do anything else, the man uncovered her hiding spot.

"Who is trying to scare me he-" The man started to say, but stopped when he got a good look at the lavender pony.

Twilight was frozen with fear, the staff the figure was holding, wich she was sure killed the deer, was pointed right at her.

"What, the hell?" The man asked, baffled.

He slowly lowered his gun, confused by the seemingly impossible discovery he just made.

"Did I just find an honest to god, unicorn? Am I tripping bro?" The man said, flabbergasted, as he stood there, unmoving.

Even though twilight was still fearful, she hoped that this, strange human, was nice, and reasonable.

Even though he did just killed a deer and used the same weapon to attack where she was hiding, without hesitation..

"H- hello, my name is-" Twilight started to say, as she stepped out of the bush, before getting cut of by the jumped man.

"Holy shit! And it can talk?!" He exclaimed as he held the gun with one of his hands, while the other scratched his hat covered head.

...

"Um-" Twilight attempted to say, before getting interrupted again.

"Is your magical pony town, invisible? Like the smurfs?" The man started.

"Or, are you some sort of government science experiment?"

"Science experiment? No, I'm- my name is Twilight Sparkle" She said.

"Twilight sparkle... And how'd your pop's come up with that one?" He said with a laugh as he reached back into his pocket.

"Eh, well, it doesn't matter if their looking for you or not, I'm still gonna turn you in" He finished, much to twilight's dismay.

"T-turn me in?" She nervously asked as the man went into the camera app, and stared taking pictures of her.

"Yeah, don't take it personally"

Twilight could see that her first contact was going badly, and that she needed to return to Equestria.

Hopefully, wherever Luna ended up, she met some friendlier people.

"I'm sorry, mr.."

"Owen, pony Lady"

"Owen, well, I'm sorry mr. Owen, but I really should be going back.." Twilight said.

"Back? I don't think so, you're staying right there" Owen said as he pointed to the spot twilight was standing on, and tightened his grip on the gun.

An action that did not go unnoticed.

"Where do you even need to go to? C'mon, let's talk, tell me more about you're self" Owen said as he started typing something into his phone.

Twilight decided to play along for now.

"Ok, you already know my name-"

"Do you know what state your in?" Owen asked.

"N- no" Twilight responded.

"Ok, interesting" Owen said as he placed the phone back into his pocket.

"Why are you here?" He asked.

"Um, I had actually come, hoping to establish first contact-"

"First contact? So, your an alien? Hm, aliens look like girly pony's, interesting..." Owen said as he went into thought.

...

"You said you needed to go somewhere, right? Is it your spaceship? Or whatever the hell you used to come here?" Owen asked.

Twilight considered lying, but, where would that get her?

"Yes" She answered.

Owen nodded.

"Ok.." He said as he raised his gun, and pointed it at twilight.

"Lead the way" Owen said.

Twilight's anxiety spiked again once the gun was pointed at her again, but she kept her cool.

At least, she tried to as the two started making their way back to the portal.

Some, more time later

"Hey!" Owen screamed, startling twilight.

The sun was going down, and Owen was getting worried that this purple pony was leading him to a trap.

"Where the hell are we going?" He asked.

"We're going to the portal, like you said" Twilight answered, irritatedly.

Now that more time has passed, twilight had just added Owen into the list of no good villains, who were just evil, to be evil.

Owen seemed more violent than the rest, but still.

"Alright, let's just, hurry it up, ok? I've gotta get back soon" He said as they continued walking.

Twilight just sighed.

They eventually did make it to the portal, with Owen staring at it with awe.

Twilight was trying to find a way to defeat Owen, and his deadly weapon.

During her time here, twilight found out that her magic was far weaker, with levitation being the only viable spell she could perform.

But if she can get him to equestria, then she and the princess could subdue him more easily.

"Well here it is, that's how I got here" She said.

...

Owen took out his phone, and started to record.

He seemed nervous, as his arm was shaking a bit.

"If I'm not showing you this video, then that means.. something bad happened to me. This is a message to the United States government, i- I've made contact with an alien race" Owen started saying as he then panned the camera over to Twilight.

"I know I may be doing something dumb, but, they may be planning to do something to us, like, invade us or some shit" He continued as he panned the camera back to the portal.

"My phone password is seven, six, four, eight. You know, just in case, i don't make it... I'm- I'm sorry" He finished as he kneeled down besides a tree, stopped recording, made a call, and placed his phone in the dirt, so it would stick out.

Owen stood back up, and faced twilight.

"I've got a question" Owen asked.

He didn't wait for twilight to respond before he started asking.

"Do you know what this is called?" He asked, gesturing to his gun.

As tense as twilight was, she answered.

"No"

She could see him place his second hand on his weapon, almost as if he was preparing to use it.

'What is he...'

"Good, good, well.. goodbye" He said as he suddenly aimed his rifle at her.

Twilight barely had a second to react before Owen pulled the trigger.

*BANG!!*

The bullet hit her leg, causing her to scream and hit the floor.

The pain twilight felt was, immeasurable, but, doable, since it was just the leg.

Still, by Celestias flank, it hurt like fucking hell.

Owen ignored twilight's cries of pain as he looked back at the portal.

Twilight looked at the sight through tear stained eyes.

'Oh no...'

She couldn't let him get through, the destruction he could cause with that thing...

Twilight gathered all of her strength to stand back up, and activated her magic.

She slowly made her way over to Owen, who seemed to be checking something on his gun, as her magic picked up the closest rock she could see.

And hit him over the head with it.

She would normally never do something like this, if she could, befriending Owen would have been her solution, but the way he's acted, and what he's seemingly planning to do next...

"Agh!!" Owen exclaimed as he stumbled forward, with his hat being flung into the portal.

"The fuck!?!" He screamed as he turned around.

Only to be met with a buck to the stomach.

"Ghrg!!" He wheezed as he fell to his knees, dropping the rifle.

"I'm so sorry Owen, it's just that" Twilight started to apologize, as she weakly walked over to the man.

Before being met with a fist straight to the muzzle, sending her tumbling backwards.

"Fucking, bitch" Owen seethed as he pulled a butterfly knife from one of his pockets.

Twilight couldn't even begin to pick herself up, before getting kicked in the ribs, making her scream with pain.

"I knew this was a trap, I Fucking knew it!" He said as another kicked was delivered to the downed pony.

Twilight tried to catch her breath, but failed due to the continued onslaught from Owen.

"Once the military finds out about you little bastards, it'll be over for you!!" Owen said as he plunged the knife onto twilight's flank.

Another gut wrenching scream followed, but Owen ignored it, as he placed his boot on twilight's head.

"p- please..." Twilight weakly spoke out.

Owen, started to apply pressure.

"This, is what you get.." He said as he continued to step on twilight's head.

Twilight was seeing her life flash before her eyes, all of her memories, with her friends..

"When you mess.." Owen continued, more pressure applied.

Twilight's vision was starting to darken, as she was desperately searching for any escape, with one seemingly found.

She activated her magic..

"With the United States of Fucking America!!!" Owen screamed as he started to fully crush twilight's head under his boot.

*BANG!!*

*BANG!!*

*BANG!!*

*Thud*

...

Twilight stayed there, unmoving, for what felt like hours.

She slowly, aganizingly slowly, stood back up.

The forest was dead silent, as she looked around her surroundings.

Her head suddenly stopped when she spotted Owen.

His, unmoving, lifeless body.

She also spotted the weapon, on the floor, with smoke coming out of its barrel.

"O-, oh dear Celestia.." She said as her eyes started to swell with tears again.

It was too much, she emptied the contents of her stomach onto the ground, as she stared to audibly cry.

"I'm sorry! I- I didn't mean too!" She exclaimed as she continued to let her emotions out.

Her moment of mourning was interrupted as she noticed a small, but bright light.

She looked over to where the light was coming from, and spotted Owens phone, as it was transmitting a call.

She walked over to it, enduring the pain from her ribs and flank as she did so, and grabbed the phone with her magic.

The screen showed 911

In an act of fear, twilight smashed the phone into the ground.

She wanted to leave, she wanted to go home, she just wanted to be by ponies she knew.

Twilight made her way back to the portal.

She muttered "It was a mistake to come here..." As she entered the portal.

One hour later

By the time the police arrived, Owen was long dead, and the portal was gone.

From what the dispatcher that was on the call with him was saying, there must be proof of what happened to this kid on his phone.

The phone was broken, but that was just the screen. Once they transfered the SIM card, they should be able to find out what exactly happened to him.

Author's Note

Dam, Nobody's reading this.

Is it that bad 💀

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