Brave New World, Discord's Revenge

"Where the hell is he?!" Ebony yelled.

Her three friends looked at her. They had been  dragged by the Professor, Owen Lambert to the basement of his house. He told them to wait there while he went to get someone else. The room was dark, cold and crumbling slightly.

"Well...we did say he was insane..." Tom replied. Tom was Ebony's boyfriend, and he loved her dearly...even if he didn't care for Owen much.

"Don't be mean to him!" snapped Sam. "He'll be here...I hope." Sam was Owen's best friend and had known him a while now. He didn't appreciate it when people made fun of Owen.

"To be perfectly blunt, I'd like to know what this thing is?" Aimee said. She was also Owen's friend too, but could sometimes see when he was about to go crazy. She pointed at a huge ring of metal with bits of wire and cogs sticking out of it. "Any ideas?" she asked.

Thunder rumbled outside. The year was 2012 and a few days ago the Earth had started to tear itself apart. Volcanoes and earthquakes had ravaged the globe. The apocalypse had arrived and they were stuck in some dingy room.

"If he doesn't have a good explanation..." Ebony sighed.

The door burst open and everyone fell silent. A boy walked down the stairs. He was small, dressed in a black trench coat with a matching top hat that shielded and hid his eyes. He wore black leather gloves and In one hand he held a strange looking key...

Ebony wanted answers. "How? Why are we all here?" She questioned.

"I'm glad you asked" Owen whispered, speaking for the first time. "This my friends!" He span around his arms pointing toward the big circular piece of metal in the corner of the room. "...is a Trans-dimensional portal opener!" He stuck the key in a hole in the circle and turned it.

A low whirring noise was made before a small screen switched on.

Tom looked at Ebony and made a "cookoo" gesture, pointing at Owen. Ebony sniggered silently.

Owen was messing around with buttons and switches until finally...

"Stand back."

A bright blue sphere erupted out of the center of the metal circle.It span wildly, threatening to pull everything into it.

Owen turned around, a grin stuck to his face.

"Well?" He grinned. "What do you think of that?"

The other's jaws had dropped. They couldn't believe that he had actually opened some sort of rip in the fabric of space.

"Where does it lead?" Aimee asked enthusiastically. Sam was still glued to the spot, thinking if this was just a really, crazy dream.Tom was gawping at Ebony, unable to believe what had just happened. Ebony stood there sullen. She was still trying to grasp at the concept of a portal across space though. The idea seemed too silly.

Owen smiled. "It leads to a place very dear to my heart..." He pressed a button on the machine labeled "Molecular structure alter-er" He grinned as the blue sphere turned mauve.

"Do you want to come in?" Owen asked kindly..."It'll be a..."

CRASH!

The floor opened up to reveal hot lava spewing up from the Earth's core. Cracks appeared in the ceiling and the lights went out.

"Through the portal! NOW!" Owen screamed as the room was thrown into pitch black, the portal being their only source of light.

Aimee didn't argue, she just lept in.

Sam thought for a second or so, then he jumped through too.

Ebony looked at Tom. "I trust him, don't worry." she kissed him then ran through the sphere.

Owen looked over at Tom, who was caught by lava flowing up from the Earth's core.

"Come on!" He yelled, narrowly avoiding a chunk of falling concrete. "You can make it!"

Tom lept up and jumped through the portal. Owen turned round for one last look at his home. He smiled wildly then walked, calmly through the sphere, right before the whole street collapsed into the hot, molten death...

The Earth pulsed with energy, several times before the planet imploded and collapsed in on itself. Lava broke free of its rocky prison and flowed, freely onto the now dead surface of the planet, covering it whole.

***

Owen was the first to wake up. He sat up and put his hand against his head, that was one heck of a headache. He opened his eyes realising that he no longer had a hand. Instead in its place was a beige hoof. Owen smiled. "I didn't think it would work again..." he said with disbelief.

He looked around, to see if any of the others had regained their consciousness. No-one else was awake yet. Silently satisfied with what he had done, he put his head on the ground and fell asleep once more...

"OWEN! OWEN! WHAT DID YOU DO?"

The Professor woke with a start. He looked around lazily and saw five other ponies staring at him. The first had a black coat with a purple and white streaked mane. his hair covered his eyes and his wings were folded up. The second had long, flowing black hair with a white coat. The third and fourth were holding each other tightly, I guessed that they were Ebony and Tom, Ebony had a light brown coat with short beige hair and Tom had a white coat with a blue mane, much like that of a royal guard. They were both pegasus ponies.

I turned to the pony that had shouted at me. This had turned out to be Ebony. She was pointing her wings at me menacingly.

"What. Have. You. DONE!?" she questioned.

"Well...Isn't it obvious?" Owen replied, sitting up. "I've brought us all to Equestria." He pointed behind them.

All five friends turned around to look across a beautiful scene. They were standing at the edge of the Everfree Forest, overlooking Ponyville. Pegusi were flying across the horizon, insuring that no cloud were going to spoil today's sun rays and earth ponies trotted around on the earth, going about their everyday lives.

"Well." Sam sighed "I have to say, I'm impressed!"

Owen thought about it "Of course he'll be impressed. He's a brony! As is Aimee. Guaranteed that she'd be impressed too...Which only leaves Ebony and Tom..."

He looked over at the two of them. "Look, you may not like ponies, but at least I saved you from the end of the world."

They both seemed to think about this and after a few seconds nodded their appreciation. Tom was upset however that he had lost his home and most things that he had held dear to his heart, aside Ebony.

"Good." Owen said. "Now then...who'd like to meet my good friend...Twilight Sparkle!?"

Aimee, Sam's eyes bulged at the thought of this. Meeting THE Twilight Sparkle?

"What an honour!" Aimee yelled, hardly containing her excitement. Ebony and Tom looked at her, puzzled.

Aimee shuffled uncomfortably, crossing on hoof over the other.

Owen tilted his head an looked at her, smiling. Ebony suddenly sighed. She knew what he was doing. Back in the human world, whenever Owen cocked his head to one side, it meant he was thinking about a certain subject WAY too much.

Owen, sarcastically shot her a look of hurt to annoy her.

Sam blew the hair from his face. "Can we go and see...Rainbow Dash?"

Owen tilted his head again. "Rainbow's his hero, of course...this will take a while to get everyone settled in...what with everyone having there own favorites and all."

"Very well, Sam. But first we shall see what we can do about accommodation! Follow me!" Owen yelled triumphantly.

"Once more into the breach! A brave new world awaits!"