Chapters The pounding in twilights head got sharper every beat. The air around her became more and
more obsolete. She uncontrollably inhaled huge gasps of nothing… and exhaled an equal amount of
nothing. No book has ever covered this type of torture, no book has ever covered this type of chaos…
1 week ago... It was a bright and sunny morning. The suns rays were penetrating the window
above twilights bed. Even though her eyes were closed, her lids couldn’t help but turn yellow and
uncomfortable. Being annoyed by this, she spun around and buried her face in her pillow to block out any
sign of light.
“Hey Twi! Are we gonna go to Rarity’s today? Cause I was thinking…” Spikes voice broke the
sound barrier of complete silence.
“Not Now Spike!” came a groaned, muffled voice that emitted from twilights pillow.
“But you said we were going to go over today! I was going to give her this ruby.” he said pulling
out a small yet elegant ruby that would’ve made even the dullest of ponies in awe.
Twilight picked up her head to reveal a crazy haired, almost hangover-ish face. “ Sorry Spike, its
just that I spent all night reading this very interesting book.”
“Well, what was it?”
“ The Teachings of Time and Space continuum. It was written by Princess Celestia’s parents
themselves.” she said with enthusiasm, as to show that she was very advanced. She then remembered
about showboating and shook her head at her self in shame.
“uhhhh, sounds interesting… so we can we go now!?” replied Spike trying his best to try and get
Twilight to bring him to Rarity’s.
“hmmm, well I guess I can drop you off over there. You know, got to make every pony happy!”
she said with a slow, coarse morning voice and rolled out of bed. Literally. She laid on the floor with her
blanket still wrapped around her, using her muscles that she can feel, but at the same time cant feel at all,
to pick her self up.
Twilight and Spike were right outside of Rarity’s. They had taken a long time to go a distance
that wasn’t very far, due to Twilights slow daunting. Spike knocked a few times to get a “Come on in.”
from behind the door frame. They opened the door to find Rarity stitching a new dress.
“ I thought you were free today. Sorry, didn’t mean to bother you. Me and Spike will be leaving
now.” Said Twilight trying to avoid staying over and chatting with Rarity. She had nothing against her
personally, but she did talk a lot about things Twilight could care less about.
“Oh, darling. This is just a side project of mine, a little something something I wanted to fix up
until you two arrived. So, tell me, how’s it been Twi? I feel like we haven’t talked in ages…” She put
down her tools and walked up to Twilight who was now worried that she would actually have to talk to
her. But Rarity was her friend, and she had to make her happy.
“Well,” she said cutting off Rarity before she could explain her whole life story.” I’ve been
reading, and well… reading.”
“hmm, Darling, you simply must get out more. In fact, how would you like to attend a concert
with me this evening?” she said putting a hoof on Twilight’s shoulder.
“Well, I don’t know. Last time I went to one with Rainbow Dash, my ears were ringing for a
week!” She said rubbing her ears, still feeling the ringing as if it was yesterday.
“uhh!” spitted Rarity with grimace all over her face,” I’m not talking about those ones like The
Discord Wears Prada, I prefer more elegant, and royally satisfying ones. The famed Octavia will be
performing in town hall tonight. You just have to come.” she said with a wide grin right up in Twilights
face.
“uhh, who’s that?” Twilight said with a confused look. Rarity gasped, stood up on her hind legs,
and collapsed onto the floor. Twilight found this as a perfect getaway while Rarity was closing her eyes,
and paralyzed in shock.
“ Hey Rarity! Look at what I got for you!” Spike busted in, flailing the ruby in front of her face.
She opened one eye to see what in Equestria he was talking about. She saw the bright, dazzling sparkle of
red and instantly stood up, with a smile and took it from Spikes hand.
“oh my!” she said holding the ruby in a shaking hoof,” Spike, how thoughtful of you.” she
reached in and kissed his forehead. Spike, now somewhat used to being kissed by Rarity only blushed and
scratched the back of his neck. Never mind, he couldn’t help but fall backwards after a few seconds.
Rarity giggled at him and picked him up back to his feet. “ How would you like to go with me to the
concert?”
“ Like a… a… date?” he said wincing at the word ‘date’ as if he felt like he would be ridiculed.
“Precisely.” said Rarity giving off a sexy smile.
This time Spike actually fainted. Rarity couldn’t help but laugh at his cuteness. She looked back
up at Twilight with a ‘sorry’ expression. “ I hope you don’t mind if I didn’t get you a ticket. I mean, you
can still attend, but…” she said trying to apologize to Twilight for giving Spike the chance to see
Octavia’s performance.
“Oh, don’t worry.” she said breaking off Rarity,” I got some more reading to do anyways. This
book has very complicated concepts and what not.” she spun her body around to walk out the door, until
Rarity popped in front of her.
“Twilighttttt.” she said in a whining voice,” Don’t lock yourself up there all day. How about you
consort with Pinkie. She will keep you up and moving.”
“ I said I want to read!” Shouted Twilight to a shocked face. “ I, I… I’m sorry.” she walked out
the door and made her way back to her room, she really didn’t want to read, but she did need to take a
nap, and that was the only way to gat Rarity to shut up, she thought.
She made it back to her room, and flopped back on to her bed. She surprisingly had no feeling of
guilt inside of her… at least not yet. All she could feel right now was fatigue, and that was enough to get
her to forget everything else. Maybe later, when she was well rested, she would go fix things up. Until
then, she let the invisible forces of the sandmare to drift her off to sleep.
Many hours later... The air was cool, crisp, and dark. The window which was beaming with
sunshine was now glowing with the moon. Twilight loved this feeling from behind her eyelids. In fact, she
didn’t want to keep them closed anymore. She sat up in her bed completely refreshed. She cracked her
neck and stretched her back to give her even more energy that she had stored up through her long nap.
She looked at her clock to check the time. 8:36 at night! She had slept in for a good 11 hours, and now
she wanted to get up and moving. She walked downstairs to greet Spike, and apologize for the way she
was acting earlier, but when she got to his bed, he was gone. All that was there, was the book with a crystal bookmarker, handcrafted from her generous friend Rarity.The concert! That’s where he was, and that’s
where she was heading. Not only did she have to apologize to him, but also to Rarity for acting like a jerk.
On her way out she looked back to make sure everything was clean. Owlicious always did a great
job when Spike was gone, but she just wanted to make sure for herself. There it was. The book. The book
of infinite knowledge… only understood by 2 Princesses, and almost deciphered by a few scholars such as
herself. She couldn’t help but stare at it. Its blue cover, encrusted with diamonds of all sorts, and 2 cutie
marks that were a complete enigma to her. Everything that was everything was in that book, she just
couldn’t figure it out. Not only was it in old Equestrian,( which she knows a great deal about) but it said
things that just made no sense at all… at least to her. She shook her head and aimed out the door, letting
the book lay on the floor, undisturbed.
She made it to town hall to find a huge crowd. She was a lot more popular than Twilight thought
she would be, and it would take a long time for her to find Spike and Rarity. “ excuse me,” “Pardon me,”
“ oops, sorry,” she maneuvered herself through the crowd very poorly, stepping on other ponies hooves,
and what not. It wasn’t until she heard a certain voice nagging at her, did she turn around and see the
pony she bothered.
“I dare say, you should watch where you are walki… Twilight, is that you?” blurted out the
white unicorn.
“Rarity! I cant begin to say how sorry I am!” Twilight said before Rarity put a hoof to her mouth.
“Apology accepted,” she said with a gentle smile,” Spike told me how you were cranky, and I
should’ve seen that and stayed out of your business, so I too am sorry.” After Rarity had finished the 2
friends hugged each other tight, and long. Spike, who was sitting right next to Rarity the whole time made
a gagging noise.
“I’m sorry to you too Spike.” Twilight grabbed him and they had a group hug right in front of
everyone else.
“ugghh! Twilight! This is gross! And In front of everypony!”
As Spike finished that, Rarity quickly let go and sat back down with an extra regal posture, she
looked sheepishly to her left and right as to make sure no one saw this ordeal. Twilight gave a small little
chuckle, and then Rarity couldn’t help but give in. The 3 friends sat through the rest of the performance
enjoying the show, and occasionally having small talk. Once the show was over they all left to Rarity’s to
have a little more fun before they had to go to sleep.
“Oh, Twilight. You are such a joy to be around. How about we have another get together like this
again. By the way, how did you get in without a ticket?” Rarity asked while walking with her 2 friends.
“Hey! What about me!” piped in Spike.
“And Spike, I had a lovely time with you. We simply must schedule another date.” she put extra
emphasis at ‘date’ and gave him a small peck to the cheek. His eyes became love drunk and he held his
hand to his cheek, giving a goofy smile.
“ Hehe. Well, I don’t have anything to do next Saturday. I would do it earlier but that book… its
just so complicated.” she said regretting that she brought it up.
“oh, don’t worry, you never bother me when I have important things to do, so I want bother you!”
she said giving a warm smile and hugging her lavender friend.
“ Please. Well I’m off when ever Rarity! And I don’t think I can wait a whole week for our next
date!”
“I’ll tell you when I’m available spikey wikey.”
They finally reached the Carousel Boutique and dropped off Rarity. The master and her assistant
walked back to the library to continue reading. Spike though was very tired and fell asleep as soon as he
got there. Twilight however was wide awake, and decided to write a letter to the princess.
“Dear Princess Celestia,
Today I learned that you cant just lie to your friends and make excuses to get out of things you
don’t want to do, you have to tell them why you don’t want to do something, and let them try to
understand you. This might be a bit off topic, but I need some tutoring on the book you gave me,
by the king and queen themselves. I know all the knowledge in there, shouldn’t be open to any
ponies except for you and Luna, but I only ask for some guidance, to make sure my assumptions
on a subject are correct or not. Hopefully we can work something out,
Your faithful and curious student, Twilight Sparkle”
Twilight rolled up the scroll and put it on her desk for Spike to send when he is awake. Until
then, she would continue reading her book and try to further understand its contents. She flipped open the
book to find see the title written above the 2 strange cutie marks. One was an ‘A’, why would a cutie mark
just be an A? the other was an upside down ‘U’ in which two lines hooked out.
Bang. Twilight heard something hit her roof. Scared, yet curiously, she walked up the stairs to
find out what had caused the noise. It was dark. It was quiet. The only sound that was emitted was from
Twilights hooves walking up the stairs. She reached her room and felt a chill at her back that she’s never
felt in this room before. In fact, she’s never felt that chill except when…
“Twilight Sparkle,” came a booming voice from the dark,” We must talk…” Out of the shadows
came the beautiful princess of the night…
“About what?” said Twilight, only giving a quick bow. In fact she almost never gave a real bow
to either of the princesses. After spending so much time with Celestia, she considers herself as an almost
equal to them. But she still knows that they are the alicorns with eons of experience, and she was still a
unicorn still learning about friendship.
“That book. It seems you are very interested in it.” Luna exclaimed without a smile, and an eager
look in her eyes.
“umm, yes” Twilight was cowering back like Fluttershy would’ve done to anything that scared
her.
“ And you request for my sisters assistance in the matter?” same questioning, and slightly
accusing tone.
“umm, yes!” Twilights voice squeaked at ‘yes’, while sweating beads.
“ If its my sisters assistance you seek, then you shall be disappointed when I assure you that she
will not help.” Luna pulled out the same book from behind her.” I too, don’t fully comprehend this guide
to the universe. Not only because I’m younger than my sister, but when your banished to the moon for a
thousand years, you tend to forget things that you learned long ago.” Luna looked down, now forming a
sad face. She held back the memories and stood tall again, just like the princess she was supposed to be.
“If you don’t mind Twilight Sparkle, may we mutually assist each other in learning the contents?”
Twilight was able to see the fear, and sorrow in her eyes and felt sad for the dark alicorn, she
knew a thousand years was a long time, but it just hit her, how it must’ve felt to be alone, cold, and
nothing to do, let alone read! And air… there was nothing out in space… nothing. This made Twilight
feel worst. The whole fact of not knowing what Luna went through made her seem much more vulnerable.
She had to help.” Of course, Princess. What ever you want.”
“Thank you Twilight Sparkle!” Luna’s face instantly turned happy and she hugged Twilight very
hard.
“No…Problem!” she said in between tough, exasperating breaths.
Luna let go of Twilight and set her down on her bed. Luna hopped in to it too and made herself
comfortable, shaking left and right until it was just right. Even though she was much older than Twilight,
she was still a filly in the inside, well, sometimes. Twilight, having being in the same bed as her teachers
sister, made it very awkward, and hard to pay attention to the book.
“Wow. I guess you haven’t learned much about proper space for a pony.”
“hmm? It is royally correct to be this close to a family member, and, or a good friend.”
Twilight had never thought of Luna being a friend, and definitely not a family member! But
Celestia was like her mother, so it works out in the end… kind of.
“Now, I was wondering if you could help with this section. Its about something called… worm
holes.” said Twilight pointing her hoof to the sections title. Luna gave a small smile.
“ Twilight! That is one of the easiest concepts within it! I guess it shall not hurt if I explain it to
you.”
“ I kind of wanted to learn my self. You know, so I can remember it more. I just want you to
make sure my assumptions are correct, and if they’re not, I’ll go back and figure out where I went wrong.”
“I see. No wonder my sister thinks so much of you. You are a brilliant student, but you must
understand that this book is very complicated and that you must know this section before you continue to
all the others. If you spend all your time on something so elementary, you’ll waste not only yours, but my
time as well.”
Twilight sat there and thought. Luna did have a point, She didn’t want to spend her entire life
figuring out the easiest part of the book. She needed help with this one, and this one alone. In the future
she would learn it herself. “ umm, go ahead.”
“ Well, The basic notion of an intra-universe wormhole is that it is a compact region
of space-time whose boundary is topologically trivial but whose interior is not simply
connected.(thnx to wikipedia) In simpler terms, it is a way to travel to different time
periods, and quite possibly different dimensions.”
“Whoa.” Twilights face was in awe. She had not looked this way since she was a filly learning
about trigonometry. “ And how exactly are they made?”
“Well, before me and my sister were born, only our parent could make one together. They’ve
made several in their lifetimes, and that is the reason we have the technology we have today. Have you
ever noticed why we have electricity?”
“hmm?”
“ Forget I said that! See I cant talk about it, because it might disrupt the pattern of our universe!
But then again, you are a smart little unicorn who can hopefully keep her snout closed.”
“Yes mam!” she said really fast, so that Luna could further explain about the subject.
“ Anyways, they gathered a lot of information from other universes and time periods, but once we
were born, they had stopped. I myself do not know why, but that’s what I’m trying to figure out, along
with countless other things in this book.”
“I… I, I cant even begin… what… how…” Twilight had a confused look on her face, not
something she gets a lot when it comes to physics. “ Can you make worm holes?!” she said full of
curiosity and intensity!
“Well, you know how my parents represent space and time. Sister and I were both lucky enough
to get both of there genes separated equally. The sun and the moon are both in space, and they both are
used to tell time. But then again, time is an illusion…”
“WHAT!”
“Oh, my. Sorry, well that’s a sneak peek at later sections.” said Luna worried that she might be
giving Twilight too much knowledge at once.” Back to hereditary, we can both use our magic to
fully enable a stable wormhole. But she deemed it too dangerous to make, so we’ve never tried it before.”
“Why not? Why is it dangerous? I want to know more! MORE!”
“ Are you sure you can handle more?” Twilight nodded her head vigorously with a crazy look in
her eye.” hmm, ok. Honestly, I don’t know why? Its only the unstable ones that are dangerous, and those
are only made if one of us tries to make a wormhole alone.
“You can make one alone!!”
“ Yes, yes we can. But in an unstable wormhole, you cannot create a window, such as how long it
will last, what date and time it leads to, what dimension it leads to, if you can go in or out, how big or
small the portal itself is, and many other minute, yet important factors.”
After that, Luna didn’t have much else to say, and Twilight didn’t have much else to ask. There
was a silence that filled the room. It could’ve been considered awkward, but to both of the ponies, it was a
beautiful silence that made the world seem a lot simpler. Twilight was generating how her world was in
her head. She knew almost all the physics that existed in Equestria, except for the Everfree Forest, but
other than that nothing confused her. But this wasn’t about Equestria. No, this was much more! These
were physics that every world had. Every galaxy… every dimension… every universe. This is what
connected them all. Twilight was now determined to forget about the rest of the book, and devote every
empty brain cell in her already overloaded head, to learn about other dimensions. Friendship itself can
wait until she solved the mystery of the universe…
Twilight woke up the next morning much easier than yesterday. She had stayed up late last night,
but that was because she had the energy, not because she forced herself to be. She looked up at her
window to take in the sun’s warm blanket over her face. Once she was done getting rejuvenated she
turned to get out of bed, but something was there. Luna! Oh wait… she remembered everything now. The
meeting, the story, everything. It all flashed back into her mind as she saw the sleeping beauty lay on her
bed. She usually had a dark aura about her, but now, as she slept, she looked like that of an innocent foal.
She was so vulnerable, any pony could’ve just came and kidnapped her because of how unprotected she
was. But she felt safe, she felt loved in that room. After spending countless nights on a rock, sleeping on a
bed with a ‘family’ member must’ve been an amazing feeling for her.
“Oh, my, it seems as if I accidentally slept here. I apologize.” she said waking up startled.
“Don’t worry about it, your welcome any time.” Luna started blushing and got off the bed. She
shook herself to try and wake up and get a royal posture, embarrassed about sleeping with a mare she
hardly knew.
“Well, I don’t plan on sleeping with you if that’s what you mean, but I will be back to check up
on your progress on the book. Goodbye my subject, and good luck.” she said right before she opened the
window to the balcony and flew off towards Canterlot. As the things rushed back into her mind she
realized she needed to get back to reading. Especially if she planned on mastering the theory of
wormholes and dimension crossing.
She walked downstairs with her book so that she can read it on her desk, where she would
probably be at for the next week. She did tell Rarity she’ll hang out with her. She decided to make a few
exceptions to postpone her studies if it came to friends. But since nothing was planned today, she would
take this time to study more.
A few hours later... She had spent the last few hours reading the exact same paragraph over and
over. Every time she read it, she came up with a new hypothesis of what it meant, only to figure out it was
wrong, because it would go against the things Luna had said. Casimare effects, nieghxotic matter, black
holes, Einstallien, all the doctors and names were so new to her. But after reading them over hundreds of
times, she could say that she knew these things and ponies personally. But she would keep drawing out
equations on paper, and then crumple them up for Owlicious to throw away, and Spike to give her a new
sheet, so that she can repeat.
“Twilight, are you sure this is healthy? I mean making lists about lists about lists is one thing.
But time travel, world hopping, worms that eat holes out of you! Doesn’t that seem a bit crazy?”
Twilight slowly turned to Spike with a look of sheer anger on her face and gave off a growling
noise. Spike winced at the growl and got back to fetching more sheets, worried that Twilight s getting a
bit too obsessed. He brought the new piece of paper to her, only to get it snatched up like a homeless pony
would take a coin bag. After a few minutes of silence and writing an unexpected shriek unfurled from
Twilights throat.
“I GOT IT! I GOT IT! I GOT IT!” she said skipping in circles, and looking as happy as can be.
You would’ve never thought she was on the verge of insanity a few minutes ago, but she was. Spike was
relieved she found what ever she was looking for before she did something she would regret.
“Look this is the equation” She stuck the paper in front of Spikes face so close that it toched the
tip of his nose, showing a very confusing line of numbers and letters.
“uhh, very interesting Twi, well can we go outside now?” he said moving the paper from his
nose.
“Well, I guess I should treat my self to something. Where do you want to go?”
“You know where… hay fries, extra crispy.” he said trying to act cool and slick. Twilight just
giggled and opened the door to take him to his favorite café. She looked back at the book, but this time she
didn’t need to stare at it. She had found its secret, well, one of its secrets. But that was good enough for
her right now. She looked away with ease and closed the door behind her, finally relieved that she had
accomplished a huge feat in one day.
At the café, Spike was scarfing down the fries with so little manners. Twilight had a small salad
to fill her up with energy, but not to where she would be tired after eating. She did need to go back and
practice the formula a few times just to make sure it was accurate.
“Hey Twiiiiliiiight! Look what I found!” came a squeaky voice out in the distance
“I know who that is.” exclaimed Twilight with a smile.
A pink earth pony came bouncing into view all the way to the table they were sitting at. But she
had something on her back. Riding her back! Twilight didn’t notice it until she was a few feet away.
Twilight gave the strange creature a strange stare.” Look, it’s a bigger, not as cooler version of Gummy!”
said Pinkie Pie holding the green, skinny, bipedal, reptile in front of Twilights face.
“Raaah!” it opened its mouth to reveal a row, top and bottom, of small, sharp teeth.
“Ahhh, I think he likes you! Just don’t get too close to him, he bites like Gummy, but he has sharp
teeth. But there small. But there still sharp. Does it matter if they’re small or not?” Pinkie kept talking
and talking, because of how excited she was at that moment.” Do you know what it even is?”
“I cant say I do. But I might have a book of it.” Twilight got up and galloped back to the tree,
Pinkie following with her new friend, and Spike trying to catch up while eating his fries.
They made it inside and Twilight went straight for her shelves. She looked at all the names of her
books to find something that could help. “ Hey, would this one work?” Pinkie said holding up a book with
a fossil footprint on it.
“Prehistoric creatures of Equestria. Let me check.” She was flipping through pages while Pinkie
was blowing into its stomach trying to tickle it. “ Aha! That Pinkie, is a compsagnathus, a small dinosaur
from the late Jurassic period. Usually in packs… chicken sized… carnivorous!! Pinkie, get that away from
you!”
“I taught him not to bite me. Look.” she put her hoof in front of his mouth and it did nothing.
She even started petting it, and all it did was lick her. “ All you need to do is give him cupcakes every few
minutes and he’ll be nice to you! Aren’t you such a good dinosaur Mr. Compy!” Pinkie was now treating
it exactly like a dog. She even gave him a nickname!
“uhh, Pinkie, I don’t think you should get too attached to that thing. It might not be safe.”
“But he’s such a nice dino. Oh yes he is. Oh yes he is!” now she was talking to him like a baby.
“He sure is.” said Twilight in an obviously sarcastic tone,” Maybe Spike can play with him while
I do some important business.” She walked off not realizing Spike hasn’t come inside yet, and still not
gaining the common sense needed to know that there is a long extincted creature in her tree. But it was
Pinkie, so she didn’t really question that matter. She just headed over to her desk so that she can fit some
numbers in that equation she had made.
“Where is it!?” Twilight screamed as she came to find the desk only occupied with the book. “ I
cant remember the equation. Who has it? Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!” she started galloping
around the room checking high and low for a piece of paper she knew wouldn’t be in that library
anymore. Pinkie just stood there staring at Twilight with a blank face. After a course of a few seconds it
instantaneously switched to an accusatory one.
“ Do you have it Compy? Well ANSWER ME!” she screamed at her pet dinosaur. He cocked his
head to the left. “ oh okay. He doesn’t have it.” now turning happy.
“Now’s not the time to play Pinkie! Help me find it.” she said still looking everywhere.
“uhh, Twilight. There’s a note here for you.” Pinkie said pointing at a note that was underneath
the book. The next thing Pinkie saw was a purple flash and out appeared Twilight. She used her
teleporting spell almost regularly now, she even spent an entire day without moving a single hoof one
time. But that wasn’t an issue to be worried about now. She picked up the note and read aloud…
“Dear Twilight Sparkle,
I cant thank you enough for this equation you were able to get. With this, I feel confident I can do
it myself now. I will report back to you once I have made a successful worm hole. Until then,
study the other subjects for me.
Your princess of the night, Luna”
“So?” said Pinkie with a confused look.
“Pinkie! Don’t you see! She’s trying to do something she cant handle, and she doesn’t even know
it! Next thing you know things unworldly will come here!” after saying this both of the ponies turn to look
at Compy.
“Raaah!”
“Oh, no.” Twilight’s heart skipped a beat. She knew Luna would fail, and the evidence was right
in front of her. “Pinkie, where did you find him?”
“Walking around sugar cube corner. Why?”
“That must mean wherever Luna put that wormhole, its close to Ponyville since we were only
gone for about 15 minutes.”
STOMP, STOMP, STOMP, STOMP... The trio all got startled and looked at the front door.
The stomping got closer and closer. It sounded as if it was a dragon, but there were no dragons here this
season, and needless to say, there was a wormhole somewhere nearby. This was something big. This was
something not from here.
“AAAAAHHHHHHH…” A blood curdling scream emitted through the door, and thank Celestia
it ended. But Twilight knew why the screaming stopped, especially when she heard other ponies
screaming afterwards.
“oooh! I wonder what they’re playing? AAAAHHHHHH! Did I win? Did I win?” Pinkie was
making her way to the door until Twilight put a hoof in front of her.
“Shhh. I’ll look out the window. You stay here Pinkie and… Compy.” She tip hoofed her way to
the nearest window, the screaming and stomping louder with every inch she got closer. Once she reached
the window she moved the curtain just a bit so that she can see what monstrosity could be happening.
A giant copy of Compy, but much thicker, except for the arms. Those were still tiny. But its
massive foot would make craters with every step, and some craters even had pony outlines in them. She
gagged. But what made it worst, was that she saw with her own eyes, a stallion was running for his life
until his lower body was crushed. The monster bent down and tore his upper body off, lifted its head up
and swallowed the body with a strand of intestines hanging out from between his teeth. It slurped the flesh
up like noodles. It made Twilight sick enough to faint and fall backwards.
The sky was dark. Not a good sign for Sweet Apple Acres. Applejack looked up into the sky to
see when the cloud would end. It didn’t. The rain clouds seemed to go on forever, never ending in any
direction. It was 3 in the afternoon but it was dark and grey. Surprisingly though, it was not raining. Oh
well, might as well keep farming then. She got back to work with Big Mac in the fields. Apple Bloom was
back at the clubhouse with the CMC. Granny smith should be sleeping right now. Everything’s fine…
right?
“ Does something seem strange to you?” she asked Big Mac.
“I’m not so sure little sis.” he said in his deep, slow, southern drawl which could make any pony
calm. But it wasn’t working for Applejack, she couldn’t stop thinking what could be causing those clouds.
“You know what. I’m goin’ to head on over to town to make sure everypony’s ok, and if they
know what in the hay is goin’ on. You can stay up in here and make sure everything’s okay, okay?”
“Eeyup.”
They parted their ways right there, AJ heading to Ponyville, Big Mac heading to the clubhouse.
AJ stepped a few paces before taking a look back to her protective brother. She was a pony who could take
care of her self, but she always looked up to Big Mac like the older brother he was. He had always tried to
help no matter how stubborn she was. But now it was time to part, they each had their duties, they each
must complete them.
A few minutes later... Big Mac walked between the apple trees with a stride of distress. Now
was not the time to be bobbing and weaving through the trees, but he couldn’t go on an all out sprint, for
he would most likely crash in a tree. A fast-ish trot would have to do. Thunder cracked above him. He
paid no attention to it, but still kept in mind that there is lightning emitting from the dark, mysterious
tempest.
There it was! The clubhouse was in a clear opening, not too many trees around it. With
lightning, that wasn’t a good thing at all. He galloped to the ladder and climbed up with haste, and then
punched the horizontal door up.
“AHH!” the CMC screamed in unison.
“Girls! Its just little ol’ me. No need to worry. Now, we need to get out of here and get to the
house.” He said walking in and patting Appleblooms back.
“mmm. Big brother… ah don’t want tu go outside.”
“Applebloom. Its just a little walk through the orchard, you’ll be right next to me the whole
time.”
“Yeah, but just in case you didn’t know, there’s giant lizards out there!” Scootaloo interrupted.
“Hmm?” Big Mac knew they were a crazy bunch, but with the storm and all, he might just
believe them.
“Look!” Sweetie Belle pointed out the window towards the orchard.
They all ducked down instantly. All 4 of them quickly rushed to the window sill and poked the
top of their heads up, each of their eyes, including Big Macs, were washed in fear. Out there, out in the
once empty, peaceful plot (of grass), were 2 large bipedal lizards walking out of the tree line. They were
about 6 feet tall, had arms relatively sized to their bodies, and a huge, intimidating hook on each foot. The
ponies were dripping sweat like crazy just watching the two monsters sniffing the air around them.
BOOM. Thunder struck again, much louder than before. All 4 of the ponies, yes Big Mac too,
jumped in fear, their manes sticking up like cats. The younglings though, started to give out a little
scream before Big Mac put a hoof on Scoots and Sweetie. Applebloom quickly stopped on her own,
knowing that Big Mac only had two hooves she complied with her brother. She even put a hoof over her
lips so that the other 2 would be quiet. The muffled screams died down to the point where he slowly
loosened his grip on the fillies. They dashed back to the window.
“RAW. RAW. RAW.” one screamed out to the trees.
“Why is he talking to a tree?” Sweetie Belle asked, getting scowls from the rest.
They all reverted their eyes back to the mysterious beings, only to feast their eyes on 4 more
walking out of the tree line. 6 of them! 6! Big Mac figured that was their whole pack, because they started
walking slowly towards the tree house!
Meanwhile... Applejack was walking down town square. She had a right mind for wanting to
get the hay out of there, but she didn’t, she couldn’t. she had an obligation to help Ponyville in its time of
need. She was the iron pony after all. Yes, she considers herself the iron pony still, Rainbow Dash merely
cheated her way through the competition. But that wasn’t relevant at this point! She got her head back in
the game and decided to head into town hall.
BOOM. A loud thunder hit. She jumped, mane standing up just like the trapped ponies at the
clubhouse. She galloped. She didn’t know where. She just galloped. Town Hall was crowded with chairs
and tables everywhere, but no ponies. She knew that she had to get somewhere, but the mixture of
adrenaline and fear, had screwed with her head. There’s a place to hide! Seeing Carousel Boutique
brought a shine in her eyes, and a smile on her lips.
Knock. Knock. Knock. “Let me in! Rarity! Let me in!!”
The door quickly flew open, as a white marshmallow of an arm, pulled her in.
“Shh! Applejack, why on Earth would you scream so loud on such an occasion?! The giant could
be anywhere!” Rarity said quickly moving back to her corner of the room, curled up and paranoid at every
little sound. Applejack walked slowly towards her and curled up next to her, putting a foreleg around her
shoulders.
“What duh you mean ‘Giant’?” She said trying her best to comfort her traumatized friend.
“Oh, Applejack. It was simply horrible! No pony ever saw it coming. A huge dragon like being
just walked in to town and rummaged everywhere.” she said, flailing her forelegs around to exaggerate
her story. But she didn’t need to over exaggerate to strike fear into AJ. She got up, and made her way
towards a window to find this so called ‘giant’. Well, she didn’t see the monster herself, but she did notice
something she didn’t see while galloping earlier. Footprints. Giant footprints. Rarity was right about them
looking like a dragon, this much she could tell by the footprint. But a dragon wouldn’t just walk around
Ponyville, let alone attack ponies!
“Is it out there? Do please make your way back here with me! Pleeeaaase!” She let the last
‘please’ spill out from between her lips as long as possible. Applejack sighed.
“No Rarity. But we do need to find this thing and bring it some justice.”
“How could you possibly think about going out there, and chasing that beast!”
“Well, we cant just sit here and wallow in our own fear!”
“Wallowing. Wallowing! My dear, I am… just… I… oh never mind.” she stopped complaining
and tilted her head down in shame.
“Its arright,” she walked back over placing her hoof under her chin, and lifting her head up, “I’m
mighty afraid too. In fact, I was scared out of mah mind just getting here! But if we work together, I think
we can find the rest of the girls and stop this monster.”
They stared into each others eyes. Applejack, trying to gain Rarity’s trust. Rarity, trying to feel
strong enough to help her friend. “uhh… okay.” She lost her royal accent, and stood up with a weak
smile.
“I knew you would come to right senses. Now, what were gonna do is…”
“RAAAWWWWRR!” A loud scream emitted from the behind the boutique. They each galloped
to the kitchen in the back to see what was happening. Rarity already anticipated what she was about to
see, Applejack however, was in for a life-changing surprise. They reached the kitchen and moved the
curtain to its window. Rarity winced. Applejack stared.
The monster was getting its foot stabbed by an earth pony with a pitchfork. “Die Ye Demon!
DIE!” he screamed patriotically before getting kicked twenty feet away. His body smashed to a wall of a
building and dropped down. He picked his head up seeing stars dance around his face, tongue sticking
out, and neck wobbling to and fro. It would have been a funny sight any other time of the week, but
today… today was not your average get go. The monster walked up to the barely conscious pony and
scarfed him down in one bite.
Rarity was weeping softly, covering her eyes with her hooves. Applejack, still staring, had just
witnessed her first murder, in fact, her first death! Her parents had died before she could remember them,
so she want much affected by their passing away. But she had never truly known what death actually,
looked like, or felt like… She shuddered. She turned around and gave Rarity a hug, not just a comforting
hug, no, she gave her a strong, tight, loving hug. Rarity took her hooves from her eyes and returned the
hug, but not as tight, mostly cause she was weak, not because she was rude.
After a few seconds, Applejack couldn’t help but shedding a few tears herself. She wasn’t
ashamed of them either. She knew she was a strong pony, but even the most awesome of ponies were able
to cry. This much she had been trying to teach Rainbow Dash.
After a few minutes of the tight embrace, the two had slowly began to soften their sobs.
Applejack used her hoof again to pick her head up and look into her, big, glossy, beautiful eyes. Applejack
could’ve swore they were the best pair of eyes she has ever laid hers upon. They stared again. This time,
AJ getting lost in Rarity’s. Rarity, wondering why Applejack was staring at her so. But she liked it.
“umm,” Applejack said, letting go of Rarity, trying to end the awkwardly sensual experience,
“We best be going now… ya know. With the monster being behind us.”
Rarity, rubbing her mascara off her face, “oh yes! Indeed. Lets go.” Rarity had secretly regretted
saying that, for she wanted to stare into her eyes again. Those green pearls that laid in sea of red, because
of her crying. Rarity had blushed to her self, lowering her head as to make sure Applejack didn’t see her.
But than again… Rarity coughed.
“Is something wrong?” Applejack said turning back to her deceptive friend. Rarity had used this
time to stare back into the orange mares eyes. They both got lost again. Rarity’s breathing had begun to
get heavier. Applejack started to tremble ever so slightly. Rarity’s heavy breathing had become more
noticeable once her chest started to heave in and out. Over and over. Applejack opened her mouth slightly,
as if to say something… but nothing could come out. Rarity let her mouth open a bit, her lower jaw
shivering. It had become 6 minutes and the two were still standing a few feet from the other. Staring. But
to the two mesmerized mares, it felt like hours. Rarity took a step with one hoof. Applejack followed suit.
They had went back and forth, walking very slowly towards each other until they were a nose to nose.
Rarity opened her mouth a little larger, Applejack followed. They were both shaking now. Neither knew
what they were even doing. It was as if they had been brain dead, only doing what they knew was
inevitable at this point. Rarity tilted her head sideways slowly. Oh, so slowly. Applejack licked her bottom
lip softly. Rarity closed her eyes. Applejack swallowed hard. They’re faces inched closer and closer. Their
breath hitting the others mouth. Applejack, with her own eyes still open, saw Rarity’s tongue creep out
from her mouth. They got closer and closer. The tip, the very tip, of their lips barely, just barely, met. The
feeling of their wet…
“Rarity! Are you in there?” A voice came from the front door.
The two mares instantaneously drew away. Both looking down to the ground, and blushing, no
burning, red. “Hello?” Rarity still in shock at what she had been doing a few seconds ago, couldn’t help
but stare at the floor. Neither of the ponies dared look at each other, nor did they want to talk. But they
both knew that Rarity would have to let this pony in. “Rarity. Please open up.” Rarity made her way to the
door, still silent, and looked through the peephole. It was her neighbor. The young colt who had drove
them to the Gala last year. She opened the door very slowly. The colt, who had expected a welcome was
scared to enter the ominously opening door. Rarity hadn’t realized that she was hiding behind the
doorframe when she opened it, causing the colt to think it was a ghost. “I’ve seen this way too many times
in Hollyhooves!” he ran away.
Neither of them cared that he left, they did just want to be with each other, but at the same time,
didn’t want to even look at the other. Rarity closed the door, and walked her way back to Applejack. Both
of them looking down and repenting. Rarity wished she could start over. Applejack, however, being a
mare of good morals, hated her self. It was a long silence.
A few minutes earlier... “Twilight! Wake up! Pretty please!” Pinkie said shaking Twilights still
body. She had lost Compy a few minutes ago, and now was all alone. She hated being alone. Tears were
forming beneath her eyes. The library had no lights on, and the grey skies outside made it even darker in
the hollowed tree. She was still able to see wall to wall, but everything in between was engulfed by
shadows. Pinkie didn’t care for the dark to much, but being alone in the dark was a different story. She
cuddled with Twilights body, trying to feel more secure, even though if something did happen they would
both certainly die. But for some reason, Pinkie found her self safer clutching Twi’s body and hopefully
going to sleep with her. Hopefully, if they do die, they could leave this world together.
Pinkie was beginning to close her eyes and go into a deep sleep (Pinkie sleeping?) until,
“RAWWWWWRRRR!” the loud scream had emitted through the atmosphere of Ponyville. Twilights
eyes shot open to the rambunctious sound. Her pupils tiny, and then settling back to normal size. She
started to get up until she felt a restraint around her waist. With a puzzled look, she brought her head
down to see two pink forelegs wrapped around her. She twisted her head back to see her friend with a
huge smile. Twilight clearly disturbed, tried to pull away from Pinkie before she realized Compy was
gone.
“Uhh, where’s your little friend?”
“oh, him. He’s old news, he ran away about an hour ago, so I decided to cuddle with you, and
now your awake, and now I’m happy!” she said letting go of her lavender friend, “oops, sorry.” she said
finishing with a slight giggle.
“Well, okay…” Twilight knew Pinkie was random, but holding her in her sleep was a little too
weird. “Oh, yes, that is a Tyrannosaurus Rex out there. Now Pinkie, time to get serious. We need to find
the other girls and stop this madness!”
“But what if he’s not mad? What if he just wants to go home, or, or he wants to play with us, but
he doesn’t know how to do it right!” Twilight face hoofed and walked to her doorway.
“Now that scream was pretty far away, so now we know we have enough time to get to Rarity’s.
Then we’ll get Fluttershy. And hopefully Applejack will be safe and secure at Sweet Apple Acres until we
reach there too. Lets go girl.”
“Wait! I need to go to the restroom first!”
