Chapter 1: Econtra ordo locus
A/N This story will be in Josh's POV. I suggest reading My Little Pony: Horizon, and Watching Equestria Girls before reading this.
"You must be excited. This is your first Princess summit." Applejack said. Twilight was about to answer when Rarity interuptted.
"Where is your crown? You didn't forget it did you?" She asked.
"It's in my bag. I just feel a little self conscious wearing it." Twilight sighed.
"You must be so nervouscited!" Pinkie Pie shouted.
"...What?" The group said in unison.
"It's when you want to jump up and down with exciment, but then you want to curl up into a ball and hid!" She explained.
"I felt like that before." I said.
"When, Josh?" My fiance, Rainbow Dash asked.
"The first time I got shot at." I replied, remembering my time on Earth.
"What do you feel like now?" Spike asked.
"I'm worried about Timber."
"Ah still can't believe that you got a Timberwolf as a pet." Applejack said.
"Well, finding him as a pup and raising him does help."
"Well, you shouldn't worry about our pets. Blitz and Singer are taking care of them." Twilight informed me.
/
We walked into the throne room, and Twilight bumped into a guard. After catching up to the rest of us, she bowed to the Princesses. Luna, Celesatia, and Cadence, whom I had met after the Changeling invasion, greeted us.
"Welcome. You must be tired, so we will begin the Summit in the morning." Celestia spoke. We were ushered to our rooms, and we told each other goodnight. When I entered my room, I faceplanted on the bed and fell asleep instantly.
/
I woke up to shouting.
"She has my crown!" Twilight yelled. I turned into my human form and walked out the door. An orange unicorn with flame colored hair ran past. I knew that I had to figure out a way to stop her, so I teleported farther down the hall. By this time, the rest of the Mane 6 had joined the chase.
As the unicorn past me for the second time, I stuck out my foot, slowing her down enough for Twilight to tackle her into a door. When they entered the room, the crown flew out of the thief's bag and into a mirror. Instead of shattering, the mirror seemed to absorb the crown. The unicorn threw Twilight off of her, and said something I didn't hear before jumping through the mirror.
/
The next morning
"Her name is Sunset Shimmer. She was my student before you, until she didn't get what she wanted as fast as she wanted." Celestia spoke to Twilight.
"What is this mirror?" I asked.
"It is a portal to another world. It will stay open for three days, until the moon reaches its peak in the sky. Then it will close for thirty moons." Luna answered.
"Twilight, you must retrieve your crown before then." Celestia said. The Mane 6 and I stood between them and the mirror.
"You're not going anywhere. Not without us." Dash said.
"I'm afraid I cannot allow that. If we send more than one, it could upset the balance between that world and this one." Celestia sighed.
"What about me? I'm not from this world." I stated. Celestia nodded.
"Very well. You will escort Twilight on her mission." Twilight stepped up to the mirror and entered. As I did, I saw Spike running after us.
/
"Twilight, are you okay?" Spike asked as I woke up.
"Yes, and... Spike you're a... dog?" She said. I jumped to my feet.
"And you're a... human?" Twilight looked at her hands, but I clamped my hand over her mouth to keep her from screaming. She had the same hair style as before, but now she looked like a teenage schoolgirl.
"Spike, what are you doing here?" I inquired.
"I had to follow Twilight." He shrugged. I helped Twilight to her feet.
"Maybe we should start searching in that castle." Twilight suggested, pointing to a building.
"Twilight... That's a school." I corrected, pointing out the sign that said 'Canterlot High. Home of the Wondercolts'. We walked into the school, and Twilight talked to Spike as we checked out our appearances in the glass of a trophy case. I was wearing dark gray jeans, a gray shirt, and a black beanie that did little to cover my now shaggy black hair. I heard a bell ring. Out of instinct, I flattened myself against the wall. Twilight wasn't so lucky, as she got lost among the mob of teenagers.
When I finally found her, she was helped up by a guy with blue hair. I noticed her blush as he walked off.
"Focus." I said, nudging her. We heard someone talking.
"I know you have something that belongs to me! Now, where is it." A teen girl with familiar hair yelled at a strangely familiar teen. Before I could stop her, Twilight stepped up.
"How dare you talk to her that way!" I facepalmed.
"What?" The teen said, turning around.
"I said, how dare you talk to her like that!" They stood face to face for a few seconds.
"You must be new here. I can talk to whoever I want how ever I want." She said finally, wlking off. Again, something seemed familiar. Twilight and I turned back to the girl that had been yelled at.
"That was brave of you to stand up to Sunset Shimmer like that." She said softly. Then it clicked: The bully was the one we were looking for.
"What's your name?" Twilight asked. The girl said something too quietly to hear.
"I'm sorry, didn't quite catch that." Twilight smiled nervouly.
"My name is Fluttershy." While Twilight's jaw dropped, I wasn't surprised. I was a soldier stuck in a land of magical ponies for Gods-sake.
"Sunset said you had something of hers." Fluttershy nodded.
"What was it that you found?" Fluttershy began to tell us about how she had found the crown, stopping only to fawn over Spike when he showed up.
"So do you still have the crown?" I asked. She shook her head.
"But you know where it is?" She nodded.
"Where?"
"I gave it to Principal Celestia." I nodded to her and we began to walk to the Principal's office.
"Oh, and you might want to put your dog in your backpack. That's what I do with my animals." Fluttershy called.
/
Twilight exited the Principal's office. While she had been talking to Celestia, I had taken inventory of my back pack. It had my helmet, NV goggles, and my dual MP22 Combat sidearms. I had quickly shut my backpack, knowing that firearms can get me thrown in jail.
"Did you get it?" I asked. She slung the backpack containing Spike over her shoulder.
"No, but now I'm running for Princess of the Fall Formal." I facepalmmed, again.
"We don't have time for this." I said. She explained her plan. After hearing it through, I nodded.
"So, all we have to do is not only beat the girl who has won the last three years, but also convince the entire school body to vote for you, and to top it off, we need to do it by midnight in threee days." I said.
"Exactly." Twilight said, obviously not getting my sarcasm.
/
We sat with Fluttershy at lunch. She warned Twilight not to run against Sunset.
"She makes life miserable for anyone who is against her." Fluttershy finished.
"I have to do this. Do you know where to find the head of the Party Commitee?" Twilight asked.
"She should be in the auditorium. Be careful, she doesn't take anything seriously." Fluttershy said with a bit of malice, which I found odd.
Twilight tried to eat an apple, but I had to motion to her to show her to use her hands.
/
"There's noone here." I stated the obvious as we entered the partially decorated auditorium. Then, a pink haired girl that looked and acted like Pinkie Pie jumped up.
"Hiya! Are you new here? I'm Pinkie Pie." She asked.
"Yes, we are." I answered, glad that this Pinkie Pie was less ADHD then ours.
"Can you help with the decorations? We need it done by tommorrow night." Pinkie asked.
"Actually, I'm going to run for Princess." Twilight said. Pinkie Pie gasped.
"Why would you do that?" She inquired.
"I need to beat Sunset." She answered simply.
"Did anyone order a dozen case of fizzy apple cider?" A familiar counrty voice asked. A blonde farmer girl set a case of bottles on the table, then began to drink one. An orange haired guy carried six more case through the door.
"Hey, this girl is going to run for Princess!" Pinkie pie exclaimed. The blonde spit out her drink.
"Are you crazy?" She asked.
"What do you mean?"
"Sunset will act all nice and friendly, then, bam, comes the back stabing." The girl demonstrated with two balloons. "The only person more less trustworthy than Sunset Shimmer is Rainbow Dash."
"I still have to do it, Applejack." Twilight stated persistantly.
"Well, ah guess it won't matter ta me. Hey, how did you know ma name?" Applejack asked.
"Well... uh... didn't you say?" Twilight asked nervously.
"Ynope." The guy who was obviously Big Mac said. We left hurriedly. When nobody was around, I Gibbs slapped Twilight.
"What was that for?" She rubbed the back of her head.
"You have to be more careful. We can't blow our cover. Not yet." I said. "I'll go talk to some of the students, see what I can learn. You do whatever you think you need to do."
"Got it." She replied.
/
Over the course of the next few hours, I knew that the groups of the school kept mostly to themselves. The guy that Twilight had met was named Flash Sentry, and his band mates were Dust Storm and Wilson. The Vice Principal of the School was Luna. And Rainbow Dash was Captain of every sports team.
As I walked towards the library, where Twilight most likely was, I ran into two kids that reminded me of two trouble making unicorns from Ponyville. They looked like they were up to no good, so I gave them 'The Stare' that our Fluttershy had taught me. They quivered in fear before running off.
Twilight was asleep in a pile of books, so I had to shake her awake. Spike showed up a few minutes later.
"Hey guys. I found something." He said. He led us up to the back of the top floor of the library.
"It looks like nobody comes up here, so I thought here would be good to sleep." He said, pulling a tarp off of a bed shaped stack of books.
"Hey, I found something earlier. It's called a yearbook. It seems to chronicle the events of a school year." She said. "Look at this." She pointed at a picture of the rest of the Mane 6.
"It looks like they were friends then, but know it doesn't seem like it now." She said.
"Look, I know you care about them, but right now, getting that crown is what is most important." I told her.
"I know." She sighed, looking down.
"We can come up with something tommorrow." Spike said.
"I agree. Let's get some rest." I leaned against the wall and fell asleep, while Twilight and Spike slept on the bookbed.