Break the Dawn

Cool grass brushed across my face as I lay in the field, darkness creeping up on my eyes. The were birds singing, leaves blowing, but I didn't care. I'd been through the worst tortures in my life over the last week, and I was too far gone. My throat stung from lack of water, my feet crying out equally loud. As the last vestiges of light slipped from my mind, I thought back to why I had even bothered with this ridiculous enterprise.

"So, you basically have no idea where we'll end up?" The man shook his head. I placed my head in my palms, trying to think through everything that had been said. "But you are sure we'll be able to get back, right?" He nodded. It occurred to me that I had never heard the man's voice, or even his name. "Fine. I'll be your guinea pig. Maybe wherever I'm going will actually be worth going to." He nodded his approval.

I laughed at myself for believing something so ridiculous. Believing that there might actually be somewhere in this world I might actually be loved. I regretted it a moment later as I began to cough, my lungs having reached their own limit. I used every bit of strength in my possession to roll myself onto my stomach, begging my body to just make this last effort. I placed both arms under my cheek, and my eyes closed. Peace at last.

"-ike! Spike! Get my notebook!" My eyes refused to open as of yet, but the voice was feminine. Very commanding, but also smooth and somewhat refreshing.

"Which one?" A deeper voice, definitely a boy, but not a man. "You've already filled up twenty over the past two days!" I heard a slight humming noise, then a flipping of pages. "Oh. Sorry, Twilight."

"It's alright. But I do need you to jot down a note to Princess Celestia. Tell her that the specimen is finally waking up!" Well, if I were to build a sentence to induce panic in any logical being, it would look a lot like that.

"Right. I'll be back." Footsteps, then the sound of scribbling on paper. I tried my eyes again, with a little more success this time. I managed to get them wide enough to see a blurry outline of a bookshelf just a foot or two behind me.

"Aha! Good to see you finally open your eyes." The feminine voice again. I blinked a few times, finally getting my eyes to work at full capacity. Next was the task of actually looking around. I turned my neck, somewhat enjoying the crackling sensation that came with it. Less enjoyable was the brief sensation of terror I underwent upon realizing I simply must have gone insane. Staring directly into my eyes was a small plum colored unicorn. I blinked again, trying to dispel the effects of whatever drug I'd been placed under, but to no avail. In fact, it now came to my attention that the unicorn had wings. Great. I was now in what appeared to be the personal research facility of a purple winged unicorn. And here I was thinking the seventies were over.

"Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Twilight Sparkle." Her head snapped to the side, and she began to bow to something I could not see. She stopped her bow midway, blushing ever so slightly, and stepped aside.

A slightly deeper, but still definitely feminine voice rang out before its owner came into view. "I am Princess Celestia, ruler of Equestria. We welcome you to our fair land." Ok, this I had to see. I swallowed, getting ready for what I was about to do to myself, and sat up, turning my legs so that I was sitting on the bed. There was another one. Another winged unicorn, this one considerably taller. I took careful note that Twilight only came up to my mid thigh on all fours, while Celestia came up just past my solar plexus.

Next was the voice. I cleared my throat and spoke for the first time in what felt like ten years. "My name is..." I had to pause. Partially because my throat was burning still, but also because I felt like my real name simply wasn't enough. Even so, I came out with it. "My name is Don Carr. I am the first part of an envoy sent here to alert the residents of this world that mine does indeed exist." Twilight tipped her head a little, obviously finding some flaw with my statement.

"Why were you out on the border of the Everfree Forest, then?" I nodded slowly, trying to word the story correctly in my head before speaking it aloud.

"My world exists in such a different place from yours that in order to travel here we were forced to use a special device. This device, through many processes I don't understand in the slightest, teleported me here. I have with me another device which serves the same purpose, and which I probably would have used had it not been broken in transit." I reached down and grabbed the backpack laying on the floor beside me. Inside was a cube around six inches on every side. "This is the device I was sent with. I can't promise I'll explain everything correctly, but here's the gist of it. This box basically generates infinite mass. It vibrates at such an intense speed that anything holding onto it when it reaches it's maximum speed will be dragged right along with it to wherever it decides to go. One of the weirdest things I ever did see." They were both staring at me blankly now. Great job, Don. You're officially a genius.

"So, you utilized the loophole in Master Crash's second law of velocity in order to get here? Wow, even I didn't think it could be used like that." Twilight had a hoof to her mouth. A hoof. I shook myself. For some reason I had started to sink into a feeling of normalcy whilst talking to winged unicorns in a land across the universe from my house.

"I hate to be rude, but I really do need to get back to my own people. The date for me to return was almost three days ago." They both nodded. Celestia spoke up now. Her voice really was very calming. No wonder she was a princess.

"We will be glad to offer you any assistance we can in returning you to your home. I can only hope that soon both of our peoples will be able to coexist." You and me both, sister.

"Well, I don't think I'll need too much to fix this. The problem seems to be mostly mechanical. I just didn't have the proper tools back there." They nodded. "Yep. Just like I thought." I was no genius, but I had worked enough on cars to know when a component needed replacement. Great. "Where might I go about finding a small supply of copper?" Twilight thought for a moment.

"Well, you could probably find some down at Carousel Boutique. I'm sure Rarity stocks some copper buttons." Suddenly a small, lizard-like thing ran into the room, his pupils dilated almost dangerously.

"Did somebody say Rarity?"