The Mechanical Menace

Twilight Sparkle had done teleportation spells many times before, sometimes even resulting in a human to appear right before her very eyes. But nothing could've prepared her for what was to come.

"Okay, you can do this Twilight Sparkle. Just a simple spell." , said Twilight as she hovered over a book, studying it with great precision. "We don't want a repeat of last time.", she mumbled , thinking back to the time she teleported a giraffe into her house by accident.

As Twilight rose from the book she started to focus. Focus so much that it blocked all other audible sounds out. Even when the CMC knocked on her door to see if they could talk to her, Twilight didn't even notice them, much less take action. Her horn began to glow, dimly at first, but then rising up and became a brilliant magenta light. As she reached her peak the room exploded with a burst of light and Twilight fell to her hooves. She regained her stance and squeed in delight as she saw the dazed human sitting on the floor in front of her. Now make no mistake, Twilight had seen humans before, so she was a bit frightened when she noticed something about this human in particular. He was..... different somehow....

But Twilight being in her state of delight shrugged it off and aproached the confused human. "Oh, almost forgot!", Twilight squeed with way too much enthusiasm as she went over to a table and got a pad and quill. She then began to approach the human once again.

She froze in her tracks as she didn't hear anything coming from the human. Not a word at all. She was VERY suspicious at this point. Not only do humans usually talk frantically when they end up in Equestria, but they scramble around like crazy. This human hadn't done either, in fact he sat in the same place as when he arrived. Twilight putting together the pieces of an incomplete puzzle approached the human with caution and decided that he must be scared or well mannered. She was dead wrong.

"Uhm, what's your name?" Twilight asked, now with a look of uncertainty in her eyes.

The man did not reply.

"Excuse me? I asked your name." Twilight said with a bit of resentment in her tone, as she was getting impatient with her mute guest.

No reply again. Instead the man got up, and turned to Twilight.

Twilight was taken aback at what she saw. The man's entire left side had been completely incinerated. In its place stood a hulking mass of metal and wires. And where his eye should've been on his left, was replaced by a glowing red ball that stared into Twilight's very essence.

"W-w-w-w-What are you?" Twilight mumbled , barely able to breathe at the amount of fear welling up inside her.

The machine started to limp toward her, clanking all the way.

RUN, YOU'VE GOT TO RUN!!!! GET AWAY FROM HERE! ANYWHERE BUT HERE!!, Twilight thought as her instincts kicked in.

"TWILIGHT!!! Y'ALL GOTTA COME OUT HERE! GUMMY IS TRYING TO EAT SCOOTALOO!!!!", Applebloom shouted as she banged her hoof on the door. Moments later she was knocked over by a hysterical Twilight, who had kicked the door open.

"Twilight? Why are y'all so wriled up?" Applebloom asked without hesitation after getting back up.

"Applebloom? Good, alright I've got a job for you. Go get everypony in town and assemble them in the town square. Don't ask why, just go!" Twilight blurted out as she slammed the door behind her shut.

"What? Well, okay if you say so. But first we need to get Scootlaoo o-" Applebloom stuttered midsentence as Twilight flung Gummy off of Scootaloo with a a clear look of urgency in her eyes.

"GO!!" Twilight shouted as Scootaloo got to her hooves and rejoined the Crusaders.

"Okay Twi', we'll do our best, maybe even get our cutie marks!" Applebloom's face lit up as she said the last part, and then cantered off with her friends, with a determination to accomplish this mission.

Twilight was thankful that it was only  matter of time before she could get the town to safety. But for now she had more immediate problems in mind.

Twilight continued to hear the clanking for about a minute or so when it stopped. She wondered what  had happened.

This thought was put to rest as the terminator pulled the door off its hinges and sent it flying across the front of the library. Twilight barely had time to duck as he hurled the heavy piece of wood as if it was piece of paper. What scared her even more was that he had done it with one hand. As soon as the robot started to move again  Twilight bolted off in the direction of Sweet Apple acres

She didn't know what she had teleported here, but it was not friendly. Twilight thought about something that could've doomed her and her friends as she ran. She forgot to stop casting the spell. Noticing this she looked up and noticed her horn was still glowing. "EEEEK!!!!!" she yelped as she desperatley tried to stop casting the spell. She came to halt and fiddled with her horn for a while before giving up.

She ran towards Sweet Apple Acres and couldn't help but think how many of those thing would be teleprted here before her spell stopped. She had wittnessed the raw power of one. Dozens, or even hundreds could destroy Equestria entirely. She shuddered at the thought, and put it in the back of her mind as she ran to get help.