Sunrise over Equestria

9 hours before Dust Platoons arrival in Equestria

Wrangler stirred from his sleep to a man standing over him. "Wh-where am I?" He asked.

The Ranger over him smiled. "You're still in the compound sir, and you're alive. What happened here?"

"I- I don't know. One second we were working on a new design for an atomic collider and the next we were under attack. I tried to run b-but... IS everyone dead?" Wrangler said sitting up and looking around. He put small pressure on his right arm and winced.

"Easy sir, we're the U.S Army Rangers. When we entered there wasn't anyone in the building; only collapsed walls and scuff marks. We found you down here in the basement with some wall on your arm. Now tell us all that happened here." Tate said looking at his arm.

"Well I was in the lab working on the collider when I heard a scream from down the hall. Then the alarms went off and I saw tons of militia coming through the doors. I ran for the door and got down here. Next I felt an explosion and the wall fell on me. That's all I remember before passing out." He told the Army Ranger.

Tate helped him up and they went back to the upper level. Patton radioed the other guys and told them what happened. As they all joined up in the foyer the commanders went to a nearby table and talked of what they found. "Nothing, not a single person or even some blood." Matt said.

"Besides a few scuff marks I didn't find anything... we did find some oil stains and a few warm computers, they were active not to long before after the alarm went off." Walker said looking at the others.

As Patton went to speak a large lurching almost as if an explosion on a ship ripped through the building. They looked around and realized either an earthquake or an attack was happening. They all grabbed their gear and looked around. Patton looked at Tate. "Where is the most stable place in the building?" he asked.

If it was an attack they did not have the man power to survive an attack large enough to shake such a large building. "In the lab down the hall." he said. They all sprinted down the hall to the lab with Tate lingering behind slightly to help Wrangler. They reached the room in under two minutes.

It looked a lot like an empty safe room. As they entered Walker shut the door and secured it tightly. Tate sat Wrangler against a wall and turned around. Without anyone noticing Wrangler hit a button on a panel behind him. A light went off outside the room and many computers lit up. He slid the remote he used to start the engines down stairs that caused the rumbling outside. " Time to test this theory." he mumbled.

He slid the remote into the panel and clicked it like a key. The light went off as a bright flashed went off in the room. In an instant everyone in the room dissipated as they were ripped apart and put back together repeatedly through the time space continuum. Eventually they stopped on one universe and landed on the ground in on of the untamed forest of the place.

Thirty Minutes since Dust Platoons arrival in Equestria

Wrangler woke up and looked around. Slowly he sat up and crawled toward the cliff. Out below spread a great valley of apples. "It worked! We did it! We made a teloporter!" He said jumping up and dancing around, he looked at the passed out soldiers then at the bushes were two eyes peared out. "Who's there?" he asked.

Out jumped a lion with bat wings and a large pincer tail. It growled and pounced at him. He ran down the hill and toward a small cottage in the distance.