Chronicles of an Unknown World - The Awakening

-PROLOGUE-

“Thanks Applejack, for letting me take a shortcut.”

“Daw, there ain’t no favor too big for a friend”

Twilight Sparkle and Applejack were walking through Sweet Apple Acres, leisurely chatting to each other while heading towards Twilight’s destination.

“So where ya'll headed off to again?” inquired Applejack.

“There's a library that's a Kilometer or two away from Ponyville that has a book I want to take out.” Twilight responded. "However, it's a pretty far distance from the mane road, but when I checked one of my maps, I saw Sweet Apple Acres was right beside the location, and well, that's how I ended up here."

The two young mares smiled at each other while continuing towards Twilight’s destination. When there was a break in their conversation, Twilight took a second and look upwards, only noticing now what a beautiful day it was. The sun shone brightly through the leaves of the apple trees, creating a dark-green like shade over the scene. There were all different kinds and types of apples she was passing, each with a bright, healthy colour covering the apples' skin. Red apples, yellow apples, green apples; she was quickly reminded how well the apple family tends to their fields, and how hard they try to keep their crops looking juicy and ready to eat.

The sky was a clear, light blue, probably because of the Cloudsdale Weather Team’s cloud control duties. Twilight wondered if Rainbow Dash was up there right now, helping to clear out the white pillows, but hastily remembered that if Rainbow was, she was either sleeping on the job or procrastinating in some way, shape or form. A flock of cyan and beige birds were flying through the wide expanse, singing their songs so that that all of Equestria could hear. Their notes further increased Twilight’s peaceful state of mind.

Yep, this was the perfect day to take a walk…

The vast array of apple trees ended abruptly, leaving Twilight from the sudden glare of the sunlight. Twilight shielded her eyes, letting herself adjust to the bright rays. When Twilight lowered her hoof, she was taken aback by the gorgeous nature before her.

She stood before large green stalks of grass swaying in the soothing south breeze. The sun’s rays shone brightly off the prairie plants, causing a magnificent but glaring shine effect. The grass seemed to dance underneath the soft, calming whispers of the wind. On the horizon you could see a single, lonely tree, standing in what seemed like the middle of nowhere. Behind the tree was more cerulean sky, clearer to observe than before. Twilight could barely spot a few stray clouds floating in the distance, left there to add balance to the atmosphere.

“Ah, this here’s a new plot of land we’ve just bought. We’re gonna use it to expand our apple tree line so we can get more produce.” Applejack clarified. “Now, before we bought this land, we could only fit so many kinds of apples onto our farm. But now, with the extra land, we’re planning to add all new types of apples!”

Twilight looked towards Applejack while she continued her explanation. She seemed so giddy, talking about how her family was prospering from their new purchase.

(Well, it seems like the nice weather’s affecting everypony today…) Twilight thought to herself.

Twilight looked back up at the sky. She took a deep breath in, and then out, allowing the fresh air of the outside world to fill her lungs. Then, something sparked in her eye. She raised her eyebrow, checking her field of vision for what she saw..

There was something in the sky: a dark blue-like dot, just floating in the open air. She squinted and tried to mentally zoom-in her sight, making sure she wasn’t just seeing things. It was in the same spot, but now, she noticed that it was flickering different shades and colours of blue.

“Hey, Applejack, do you see that blue thing in the sky?”

“…Meanwhile, ah’m gonna see if- wait, beg pardon Twilight?” Applejack responded, snapping out of her talkative trance.

“Do you see that blue flickering dot in the sky?” Twilight repeated, pointing towards the blue dot so her friend could see it.

“What dot? Ah don’t see no dot…” Applejack replied, looking in the direction that Twilight was. “Wait…”

Applejack looked a little bit closer.

“…What in tarnation is that?”

Twilight had no answer. While pointing to applejack, she noticed that the blue dot was moving slightly to her left, and that it was progressively getting bigger and bigger. It now took more of a flame-like shape, with several ultramarine tips coming out of its sides. Also, it had a strange brown circular object in the center of it, with a veil of azure covering it up. After a few seconds, the blue object got to about the size of her hoof.

Twilight felt like she's seen something like the blue ball in the sky before, but couldn't tell what. She was frantically searching the depths of her memory to try and figure out what it was. Attempting to determine whether it was dangerous or not, the overall nature of the blue ball seemed innocent, slowly moving across the horizon with a soft flicker. Twi decided that it was too early to make any assumptions about the object.

Then, it suddenly hit her. She's seen exactly the same thing as she was seeing now, except at a different time of day. Her memory brought up the many astronomy books she's read in the past, noting that the blue dot looked slightly different than the books described them to be. The purple unicorn recalled seeing similar flaming objects tear through the night sky through her telescope.

It had to be some kind of meteor! There was no doubt about it, the blue flickering points coming out the side of it was the flames of the object, while the brown circle thing in the center was the meteor itself. It was slowly moving to Twilight's left and was becoming bigger because…

Twilight’s eyes widened in fear and shock.

It was headed right towards them!

The sapphire comet was approaching the two mares at a surprisingly quick rate. At this point, it was about the size of a fully grown stallion’s body. Twilight could easily depict the number of flames that flickered off the meteor. It was then that Twilight realized that the meteor was not completely circular, but in fact, some kind of straight, arrow-like shape. The librarian started to doubt that it was made of rock due to the abnormal shape and form the meteor took.

Twilight and Applejack stood there, gawking at the shining blaze before them. It took a few seconds for one of them to register the danger at hoof. Twilight suddenly screamed “RUN!” and telekinetically grabbed Applejack.

The magician scrambled for her life while Applejack floated behind the purple mare, still transfixed on the meteor. Twilight did not look back, but instead tried to multitask by activating her magic reserves and casting a motor-acceleration spell on herself, immediately increasing her running speed.

She ran. She ran while her subconscious was panicking, trying to figure out a way to get out of this situation. Her teleportation spell wouldn’t give her enough distance to get away from the danger area, unless she used a long-distance spell, which would take precious seconds to power up. A shield spell would do her no good as well. Twilight bet that since the meteor was traveling at several hundred miles per hour, it would squash her like a bug, with or without a shield. The only thing that she could do was keep running while the motor-acceleration spell was still in effect. She almost held a telekinetic death grip on Applejack, trying her best not to lose her friend. Of course, Twilight only thought for a matter of seconds before deciding that running and hoping that they wouldn't get crushed was the best option. In those few seconds, the meteor was already several hundred meters from the ground, but was still hurling at the two mares at an extreme speed.

Soon after Twilight started running, she felt a shaking sensation and her hooves left the ground. There was a large flash of light, and a deafening *BOOM* coming from behind her. Twilight’s senses did barrel-rolls; her sense of direction thrown off, her balance telling her that she was upside-down and her nerves saying that she was being squeezed by an intense pressure. The only thing that the unicorn knew for sure was that she was currently soaring in midair, launched by the explosion and impact of the meteor.

Her surrounding seemed to come to a screeching halt, with dirt floating in mid-air and dust suspended in space. Time slowed down for her and her thoughts. She lost track of time, place and meaning, and was only aware of her own presence. There was nothing around her, except for the whiteness that was the innards of her daydreams. She was floating, but she knew that in reality, that she was in fact, falling. Her eyes were open, but she was blind. The world around her was being seen not by her sight, but by her mind.

Suddenly, there was a deep purple colour that flashed out in front of her. It hit the back of the white universe with a bell-like sound. It was like a paint drop; creating a purple that only she knew too well on the back of the wall. Then, there was a voice. A single note of an unknown entity cried out to her. At first, it was gibberish to her ears. But, slowly, her mind started to unravel its cryptic message, which sounded like:

“Hello.”

The voice that called out to her was that of an aging stallion’s. It wasn’t such an voice that Twilight wouldn’t consider it exactly old, but it was such a voice that made Twilight calm and peaceful, for she had a feeling that the entity that was talking out to her held all the knowledge of Equestria itself. She started consider if it was just a fake illusion caused from the meteor’s explosion, but retracted the thought when it started talking again.

“This is a telekinetic message, pre-recorded so that there were no mistakes during this transmission. Do not try and converse with me, for I shall not respond.”

There was a long pause.

“Element of magic, you have been placed in the middle of a destiny that was not meant to be. The resulting consequences is that you are the one responsible for the fate of your planet.”

There was another long pause. Twilight would have loved to analyze the situation, but for somewhat reason, her mind could not function properly in the universe that she was floating in. All she could do was blankly stare at the purple wall while listening what the voice had to say.

“Inside the meteor, you will find the contents of the things that you will need to save your world. It is your duty as the element of magic to help teach, guide and grow the seed that is deep within the meteor. Once the seed has grown enough, he will take full control, and understand what is necessary to save your world. Do not leave him alone, for he himself is alone in his own being, and will need your company to survive. However, out of all the orders that I have instructed for you to do, there is one thing that you must never fail and never forget.”

Silence.

"You alone, are the only one who complete this task."

Yet again, there was another pause. Twilight had noticed that the voice was slowly changing from a scratchy, old stallion to a slightly higher pitched of a young stallion. Also  at this point in time, she could actually think simple thoughts, when compared to before, she couldn’t. She felt as if her senses were slowly coming back to her; her eyesight becoming clearer, her ears starting to ring and her nerves starting to release the pressure that was holding her in this universe.

“He is waking up. You must hurry and retrieve the contents of the meteor before it’s too late. I must go. I will continue to watch you, and wish for your success.”

The colour on the wall in front of Twilight had become a subtle blue. Twilight watched it transition from her favorite colour to the one appearing to her now. She wondered what significance it had to the conversation that she was in.

“Good bye.”

Twilight suddenly had a surge of power go through her head, and managed to ask a question she wanted to ask the entire time using telepathy:

“Who are you?”

Twilight’s senses came rushing back to her as a tidal wave of emotions, sounds, pains, feelings and smells. She was suddenly aware of her situation, and found herself flinging downwards towards the ground from midair. With only moments until impact, Twilight didn’t have enough slow her decent with magic, let alone trying to brace herself. She hit the earth with a sickening *whump*.

Pain erupted from Twilight's back as she did a small, pitiful bounce off the bare dirt. She then progressed to rolling on the ground, unable to stop her momentum. Every time there was a rock or a jagged part of dried mud that was in from of Twilight, she would just roll right on over it, or in some cases, right thought it. Small pricks of stings started to poke at her sides, not to mention the soreness that started to arise in her right front leg. Large amounts of rubble from the explosion were pelting at her. She barrel rolled for several gruesome seconds until she slid to a stop, ending Twilight’s onslaught of agony and bringing a moment of peace to her body.

She didn’t move, or breathe for a few seconds. Her mind was trying to get past the fuzzy haze that was her own wounds. When she did decide to inhale some oxygen, all she got was a cloud of dust and airborne dirt. Coughing and sneezing, she slowly opened her eyes to a squint while trying to focus on the surroundings before her. She groaned as she painfully rolled to her stomach and tried to get up. She wasn’t acting by her own thoughts anymore, but rather her primal instinct for survival. Her vision faded in and out while she got to her hooves, almost falling forwards from imbalance in the process.

When she was standing, she shook herself out of her stupor and got her brain to work. Her eyes started to focus themselves on the devastation around her. Twilight was comparing everything she saw to what she remembered a few minutes ago. No longer were there swaying green stalks of grass, or a bright blue sky to light up the pony’s day. In their place was a vast barren brownness, stretching as far as the eye could see. To Twilight’s left: dirt. Behind Twilight: dirt. All around her: more dirt. Even the air was covered in flying dust and earth, still trying to settle after the rumble that shook them up in the first place. There were a few piles and hills of randomly placed dirt, created after the meteor blew large amounts of the ground to different places. The lighting around Twilight was darker than she remembered. With the sun nowhere to be seen, there was just barely enough light for Twilight to see more than 20 feet in front of her. She then realized that there was a strange blue glow coming from the direction that the meteor hit. She immediately started walking in the opposite direction, keeping a sharp eye for what she was looking for next.

Her friend.

“App-Applejack! *Hack* Appleja-*cough*jack!” Twilight called to the surrounding area. The dirt in the air caused her lungs to clench in detest.

Twilight looked around the newly formed wasteland with anxiety in her eyes. There was nothing left alive in the path of the explosion, not to mention the path of the meteor. No sound came out from the world around Twilight; no chirp from a bird, no whistle from the wind, no leaves ruffling from said wind. It was almost virtually silent, except for some pebbles and dried up mud pieces landing here and there, creating crackles in the noiseless farm. It made Twilight even more desperate to find her friend, in one piece or not.

“A-A-Applejack!?!”

Still no reply. Half of her thought only the worst possible outcome for Applejack, but the other half was in denial, trying to convince herself that she was alive, just out of her vision. Twilight began to panic. She began to limp around, getting used to a throbbing irritation on her back-right leg while searching for anything that looked remotely orange in the area.

“APPLEJACK!” Twilight cried out again.

Nothing. Twilight let a few tears loose before hearing a voice for sore ears:

“Ah-*cough*-ah’m here!” a familiar voice shouted from a distance. Twilight then saw Applejack arise from a nearby pile of dirt, covered in multiple bruises, scratches and mud-spots.

“Applejack!” Twilight ran towards her friend, despite her restrained leg. Both of the mares embraced as they were delighted to be reunited with each other.

“I’m so glad to see that you’re ok!” said Twilight.

“Ah’m glad to see ya too, Sugarcube.”

“I-I-I thought that…That…” Twilight stuttered while choking on her tears.

“Naw, ah’m A-OK, besides, I thought… I lost ya'll fo' sure” Applejack began, her own tears dripping down her face.

The two friends stood still for a minute or two, thanking Celestia that the worst didn’t happen. They hugged in silence, completely at peace once again. At that moment, there was not a care in the world. All that mattered for Twilight and Applejack was that their friend was almost perfectly fine, with only a few scratches from the event that just conspired in front of them. The worst possible situation could have happened, but it didn’t. Instead, lady luck shined upon them (and possibly Celestia and Luna) and the two pulled through.

Twilight was extremely content with the situation at hoof; she was happy, Applejack was happy, everything was happy-go-luck! She felt as if nothing could be possibly better. However, in the innards of her mind, something tugged at her conscious. It was a nagging sensation, something telling her that some kind of duty was not done yet; some business that was not finished. After pondering for a second or two, she then remembered the strange dream she had while flying through the air after the meteor’s impact.

She slightly frowned. She unfortunately could only remember specific parts of her dream, and the other parts that she could not remember were blank, scratched up spaces in her movie-like memories. While trying her best to remember, she also tried to focus on what she did know: the contents of the meteor were extremely important to her and whatever future that Equestria had. She also knew that whatever was in that meteor, she had to take care of it, no matter what.

She made her decision. Her first move after her hug would be to retrieve whatever was in the blue flaming rock that was probably sitting at the bottom of a crater. Then she realized that Applejack might not approve of her moving towards a possibly dangerous object that glowed with an unnatural blue colour. So, she reconsidered her first step and decided to try something else.

But first, she had to break up their little ‘get together’. Hugging Applejack gave so much peace to Twilight that it pained her slightly to break the bond, but when she did, she took a few steps back and looked seriously into her friend’s eyes.

“Applejack… I want your support for something I’m going to ask you right now.”

Applejack was caught off guard at Twilight’s sudden words. What could be on Twilight’s mind? It made Applejack slightly nervous to think about it. Twilight looked somewhat nervous as well. What could Twilight possibly want to ask her with such anxiety? Suddenly, Applejack remembered the meteor. Maybe it had to do something with the meteor! She thought that she could trust Twilight with an intelligent subject such as that. So, she looked right back into Twilight’s eyes and nodded her head, waiting for her to continue.

“I… I’m going to take a look at that meteor.”

The orange farm girl was taken aback by an inquiry such as Twilight’s. The meteor was probably dangerous with some kind of astro-poisoning or something! Heck, they almost got killed by it! Why in tarnation did Twilight want to take a look at the meteor? She couldn’t possibly let one of her best friends’ just march into a stupid situation like that!

…But, then again, she had to try and trust Twilight, maybe just this once. Well, in fact, she has had to trust Twilight with dire situations in the past, so why not one more time?

“A-Alright, but make it quick, ah have a bad feeling about the meteor, and it’s makin' me mighty nervous…”

Twilight nodded her head. “Ok. Now, follow me.”

The purple pony turned around and looked for the faint blue glow that she saw earlier. Not being able to spot it, she started to walk in a random direction, hoping to randomly stumble upon it.

While walking, Applejack had time to absorb the scenery around her. Truth was, she literary woke up 20 seconds before she heard Twilight calling for her, and didn’t really get a chance to see her surroundings. It not only shocked her to see her newly bought plot of land to be in such a devastated state, but it also saddened and enraged her. What the hay did her family deserve to get a random meteor thrown into her farm? She almost cursed Princess Celestia, before realizing that she probably had nothing to do with this.

Twilight only had about a minute trip before she caught a glimpse of a blue shine in the corner of her eye. She made a slight smirk and started to gallop (to the best of her injured ability) towards the light. Applejack saw this and started to run after her, briskly figuring out what caught Twilight’s attention. Soon enough, they came to a large ledge with a steep slope that the two slid off of a few times before managing to stay at the top.

There, lying in the center of all the heaps of rubble,

Was the meteor.

The luminescent meteor glowed a soft blue, which was somewhat hypnotizing to the two mares, but was also hard to stare at for too long. It sat at the bottom of the humongous crater that it had just created seconds ago. This crater was easily 20 meters all around, and about 8 meters deep. There was nothing but scorched earth and pebbles around the sides of the crater. At her current distance, Twilight couldn’t exactly tell what the meteor was made out of, or what contents it held, but she did know that she would find out soon. She stepped over the lip of the crater and began sliding down a steep slant towards the meteor.

“Now ya’ll be careful down there, ya hear?” Applejack called from above.

“I will!” Twilight answered back. Hastily arriving at the bottom of the slope, Twilight got to all fours, dusted off her ankles and looked up to her target.

She slowly approached the blue ball, exercising extreme caution, just in case something alien might jump out and attack her. As she got closer, she began noticing a magical presence coming from the meteor. At first it was fairly faint, barely noticeable to the normal unicorn, but then it became stronger and stronger as she tip-hooved towards it. The light became brighter as well, forcing Twilight to squint her eyes before she could get any closer.

The blue glow had a pulse to it. It moved in and out between somewhat bright to immensely bright. Twilight was about to cast a lightshade spell on herself, just so she could observe it easier. But then she decided against it, coming to the conclusion that she might need to store up her remain magical power for something else she might want to do later. She held her front left hoof up, trying to further shield her eyes from the magical glare of the meteor.

She was about seven feet away from the meteor when she was suddenly truly aware of its presence. Right before her was a possibly alien object that had fallen from the sky and had a blue glow to it! It most likely was dangerous! Maybe it was poisonous to even breathe the air that was around it! Twilight never felt more naive in her life! Well, maybe there was that one time at Celestia’s School for Gifted Unicorns, but that was at a completely different setting, in a completely different tone of atmosphere! Never the less, Twilight felt the pressure of finding a meteor from space hit the back of her head like a ton of bricks. She could feel her head pound, her breaths quicken and her heart nearly burst out of her chest. She took one more step towards the meteor…

The meteor abruptly toned down the intensity of its light, becoming a small, blue oval shape. Twilight then realized that there was no rock laying at the bottom of the crater, but instead an object that was floating inside a magical shield! There was no doubt about it, the oval object before her was magical. She had seen it so many times before in her textbooks that the picture of a magical shield was burned inside her photographic memory, so there was no way that it couldn’t be a shield. And boy, this was probable the strongest, most durable shield that Twilight has ever seen! Not only did it fly through the atmosphere at several hundred kilometers per hour and stay intact, but it also flew head-first into Applejack’s farm, and still had enough power to leave a residue of light, which Twilight used to locate the meteor. No everyday unicorn could of cast this powerful of a spell; it would have taken dozens, maybe hundreds of extremely powerful unicorns to have put their magical reserves into a shield in order to make it this firm and sturdy.

It was only in such a dim state for about three seconds. Without warning, it flashed outwards, filling the entire crater with its blue shine. Twilight was knocked to her rump, covering her eyes with her forelegs while squealing. At the edge of the crater, Applejack too had to prevent herself from becoming blind. The meteor gave out a wave of pure magical energy, almost rendering poor Twilight unconscious from the sheer force and power of the magic that came from the meteor. Of course, the wave had no effect on Applejack. The magical shield then shattered into a thousand pieces, shedding the brilliant light it once had. When Twilight opened her eyes, she could see a bunch of tiny light-blue crystals floating in midair, slightly twirling in position. This conspired for a few seconds until the shards flew back into the object in the center of the shield, traveling as fast as the meteor when it was soaring through the air. The object began to give off a blue glow of its own, except it was substantially softer than the magical shield’s glow. After a few seconds, it seems that gravity seized control of the meteor and let it hit the ground. It seemed like the magic show was finally over; the object ceased to glow, and there was no telekinetic grip holding it.

At last, Twilight got to take a look at the true form of the meteor without light nor shield blocking her view. She was slightly horrified at what she saw, since she never had seen anything like it before. Although, she reconsidered, and gave herself a chance to check her photographic memory for anything that was in her books that described the creature before her. While focusing her eyes on the creature before her, she could hear Applejack slide and trot up behind her.

“… What in Equestria is THAT thang?”

Twilight shook her head, having absolutely no ideas herself. No matter which ‘Species of Equestria’ or biology book that she recalled, none of them had anything that was like the… thing lying in front of her. It appeared to be either unconscious or asleep for now. Whether it was hostile or not, she could not tell. So far, all she could classify it as was an alien. It made sense to call it that; it came from the sky, it didn’t look like anything she’s seen before, and she might have seen something similar in a sci-fi movie before.

The creature in front of the two mares was easily at least a few feet in length and a foot in width. Twilight was assuming that the alien was bipedal, considering that its legs were lying complexly flat on the ground. Also, it had arms and legs, just like Spike has, so considering that Spike walks on his to back legs most of the time, it was a safe bet that the alien was bipedal. It wore clothes that were outfitted to the upper and lower parts of the body, separately. The top half of the clothes had two holes for the arms, while it had a hole cut out that marked the half-point in the body’s length. The colour of the upper clothing was white, while the bottom part was black. In addition, the bottoms completely covered the creature’s legs, and also had a single white streak running down the side of the right leg. Furthermore, the top had a design right below the neck, which appeared to resemble a device that she saw DJ PON3 wear before: earphones. There was a cord that traveled down to the bottom of the piece of clothing, but was connected to nothing.

Its skin was a light peach colour, with uneven patches of tanned skin adorning some areas of its arms and face. It was wearing white shoes over its hooves, or feet, Twilight couldn’t exactly tell which. Its head was much smaller than any natural being in equestrian; being less than half the size of its body. The mane that stuck to the top of its head was in several long curls and ringlets, which was kind of like Rarity’s mane style, except the creature obviously took less care of it. From a distance, Twilight could easily tell that the mane was dry, greasy and was not combed, even though she knew little about keeping manes clean and stylish. The organism’s miniscule eyes were separated by an equally small nose, which sat right above some blood red lips.

Both Applejack and Twilight let themselves take a minute or two to soak in the visual information that their eyes were sending them. The object that came from the meteor definitely looked alien to them. Although at one point in time, Twilight did relate the creature to several species of apes, but quickly dismissed the thought, seeing as the alien looked way too different to be some kind of strange looking ape. After a few more moments, an earth-shattering crackle boomed throughout the air. Twilight and Applejack immediately looked up to see that the dust and dirt had cleared to reveal an ominous, dark sky, crammed with storm clouds that probably created the thunderclap that the two mares heard seconds earlier. There was a blinding flash that came from the sky, followed by another loud window-shattering sound.

“Now where the hay did those thangs come from?” Applejack asked, slightly ticked due to the sudden change in weather.

Twilight looked back at the still alien. The gears of her head were turning, trying to figure out what was her next best possible plan of action, and what consequences would come with that plan of action. She just couldn’t leave it here, that wouldn’t accomplish anything. She still considered the fact that it might be dangerous to even go within 5 feet of it. Then, she remembered her dream, and realized that she would have to take it with her somehow, whether she liked it or not.

Just then, Twilight felt something tap on her muzzle, bringing out of her brainstorm. She felt another tap, except she saw what was falling on her. It was a raindrop.

“Huh?” Twilight said aloud, looking skyward once more. She felt more and more rainwater drop on her head, back and flank, slowly increasing in number. Soon enough, there was a total downpour that rained upon the weary young mares.

Applejack was slightly cross with the situation. “Well, now that’s just DANDY…”

Twilight turned around to her friend and gave a frown because of the scene around her. She hastily glanced back at the meteor and prepared to make a decision…

Applejack, where is your nearest barn?” Twilight inquired.

“Well, if mah sense of directions is right, it should be not more than a quarter mile that way.” Applejack pointed back towards the bushel of apple trees they recently passed.

“Ok.”

Twilight let herself pause for a second, biting her lip while re-considering her decision. The rain continued to pour all around her, steadily turning the crater they were standing in into a bowl of mud. At this point, Twilight’s coat, mane and tail were drenched in water, slowly dripping down and causing mud to splash against her hooves. The purple mare’s bangs were slightly blocking her vision, so she began to lift her hoof out of the brown slop she was standing in, but decided against fixing her bangs, since her hoof was covered in soaked earth.

“Applejack, I need you to lead me to that barn while I telekinetically carry the… meteor behind us. Is that ok?”

“Are ya’ll serious ‘Twi? That thang could be dangerous! Even if ya’ll use your magic to keep it at a distance, it might activate some kind of strange alien doo-hicky on its clothes and fry us like an overcooked apple pie!” Applejack’s face showed her concern.

“Well, would you rather just leave him, or her, or it, lying here, in the rain, at the bottom of an enormous crater in the middle of your farm? Who knows what it will do once it wakes up and finds itself wet in a bowl of mud! It’s best if we just take it now and keep it in a safer place, where nopony will get hurt.”

“Well, where do ya’ll have in mind?”

“I’m going to take it to the library, but first, we need some kind of vehicle to take it with us all the way back to Ponyville. Sure, I have lots of magical energy, but there is no way that I can carry such a large object to such a faraway location. Besides, if somepony sees me carrying around a strange looking creature around Ponyville, that might cause attention, and trust me, the last thing we need is a bunch of ponies freaking out because a librarian and a farmer brought an alien to the middle of a well-occupied settlement!”

Another thunder strike caused the orange and purple pony to jump in surprise and fear.

“Ya’ll got a point there. And ah kinda want to get outta this here rain. Let’s go.”

While Applejack started to trot towards the border between the forest of apples and the ruined field, Twilight was starting to gather up her magical energies to start lifting up the sleeping organism. As her magical grasp enveloped the meteor, Twilight thought back to what Applejack said about the alien having booby-traps on its body.  She took a nervous step back; suddenly paranoid that she might have set something off when she grabbed it with her magic. She waited a few anxious seconds before she here Applejack call out to her from afar.

“Are ya’ll comin’ or what?”

“Yeah, be right there!”

Twilight thought to herself, “Well, nothing’s happened so far. And besides, I’ve already grabbed the darn thing, so there’s no turning back now.”

Twilight magically lifted the organism into the air and let it float a foot or two behind her. Then, she continued off in Applejack’s direction, which was standing beneath an apple tree.

The two mares briskly walked into the field of apple trees once again. The pitter-patter of the raindrops hitting the trees’ leaves could be heard all around Twilight. The leaves were also acting like natural umbrella, somewhat protecting the ponies from the relentless rainstorm. Twilight was starting to get a bit frightened just because of the darkened environment she was in, along with the frequent booming echoes of the thunder which followed the brightening lightning. The apple trees seemed to create more of a bouncing echo effect whenever there was thunder. Twilight felt that the sound of the electricity went through one of her ears, came out the other just to come right back in! She couldn’t escape the bellowing rainstorm, so all she could do was hope that the barn wasn’t too far away.

She timidly checked behind her to see if the meteor was still following her, and if it was still unconscious. To her relief, it was. When she looked back, she could see the outline of her orange cowgirl friend, right in front of her. Twilight wondered if she was as scared as she was too. She couldn’t really tell, because she couldn’t see her face, and Applejack wasn’t talking, meaning that her emotions were a bit difficult to read.

Not soon after Twilight had that ponded that thought, she got her answer. Applejack started to increase her pace, forcing Twilight to a brisk trot. Not more than a few seconds later, Applejack began to break into a light gallop, making Twilight slightly nervous and tired, because of her body trying to balance both her magical and physical strain. Of course, not only was she still recovering from the explosion from the landing meteor earlier, but she also was drained just from analyzing the alien and it’s method of transportation. Applejack suddenly broke into a full-tilt sprint, almost leaving Twilight in the dust before Twilight managed to call out:

“Applejack, Slow down!”

Applejack immediately stopped in her tracks and stood still for a moment, catching her breath even though was wasn’t even legitimately tired. When she heard Twilight catch up to her, she turned around to face her equally exhausted friend.

“Ah’m… Ah’m sorry, Twilight, ah-ah don’t know what got into me…”

Twilight gave a sympathetic look to Applejack. “That’s ok. I just want you to know that I’m behind you all one-hundred percent all the way. I won’t ditch you, and you can count on that.”

“Thanks, Twi.” Applejack wore a tired smile on her face. “Oh! Wait a second!”

Applejack about-faced and walked a few steps forward. When Twilight followed, she began to barely make out an outline of a building. Her spirits instantly lifted when she maniacally rushed towards what she recognized as a barn. She plowed through the front red doors, not considering that they were locked or not. Applejack was shocked to see her normally peaceful pony friend blast through and COMPLETELY OBLITERATE one of HER barn doors. Normally, if the culprit wasn’t one of her best friends, she would have basically murdered whoever pony that dared to break down out of her pieces of property. However, she just grit her teeth and walked into the barn, finding Twilight lying peacefully on a pile of hay with the organism plopped right beside her.

“Ah, it’s sooooo good to be out of the rain…” Twilight cooed in relaxation.

“Umm… Twilight, hate to break eur relaxin’, but ya’ll broke down mah farm door…”

Twilight instantaneously jump up in surprise. “Oh! Oh, I’m so sorry!” Twilight looked behind Applejack towards the broken pieces of the once non-desecrated barn door. “Uh, I didn’t mean to break your door, I guess I got a little carried away. Don’t worry, I’ll fix it!”

“That’s okay. Ya’ll don’t have to fix it today, not with all this rain and alien-landing business goin’ round. Besides, we need to get the alien to eur library. Why did we come here again?”

“Oh, I’ll explain that in a minute, right now I have to fix the door.”

"Ah just said that-“

Twilight strode past Applejack, determined to fix what was rightfully her fault. Applejack watched in wonder as Twilight once again summoned her magic reserves to cast a repair spell on the door. The pieces of the painted wood started floating in the air with a purple glow surrounding it. Then, all the wood chunks floated closer and closer together, until there was two flashed of lights: one from Twilight’s horn, and the other from the center of the focus of magical energy, which was the mass of broken door planks. Next thing Applejack knew, she was looking as a fresh barn door, looking as if it was just built yesterday. She then watched as the door floated and snapped perfectly into the door frame of the barn. It looked somewhat out of place, a completely new door attached to an old, slightly run down barn.

“There! All patched up! Now, about getting a source of transportation…”

Applejack was a tad bit surprised. Not because the unicorn repaired her door, but because she just did it without acknowledging that her friend said not to. Of course, she didn’t mind one bit, but Twilight’s sudden behavior was unexpected.

“Ok, so Applejack, do you have anything that we could use to hide and carry the meteor to the library?” Twilight inquired.

“Hmm… Now lemme think for a moment… Wait, yes, ah think ah have sumthin’ that’ll do the trick…”

Applejack turned to her right and started walking past the pile of hay that Twilight was resting on a minute ago. Twilight followed suit, to see Applejack removing a tarp from an object with two wooden wheels at the bottom. She spit out the tarp and faced Twilight.

“Now, ah think that this here apple cart will just be big enough to hold the alien, and we can cover him with the tarp too.”

Twilight’s face broke out into a wide-eyed grin. “This is perfect, Applejack! Nice thinking! Now, let me just lift the meteor into the thing and we’ll be outta here in no time.”

Twilight quickly levitated the organism into the cart while Applejack threw the tarp back onto the top of the cart. As Applejack got behind the bar that steered the cart, Twilight had one more sudden thought.

“Oh! And one more thing; do you have any raincoats or cloaks that could keep us out of the rain?”

“Umm, yes, ah think…”

Applejack got out of the steering bar, briefly walked out of the room and returned with two black, rubber raincoats in her teeth.

“Great!” exclaimed Twilight. She levitated one of the raincoats towards her while Applejack started slipping on her own raincoat. Once they were both outfitted for the weather, Applejack opened the barn door once and once again got behind the steering bar. Twilight quickly join her by standing to the right of her.

“Twilight, ah just have one more question to ask you.” asked Applejack.

“Yes?”

“What’ll ya’ll plan to do next once we get to the library?”

“Oh, well, I’ll explain that on the way there”

“Ok! Now, let’s get goin’!”

(Actually, I’m gonna have to think up the next part of my plan on the way there…) Twilight thought to herself as she and Applejack began jogging through the Thunderstorm.

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