Year: 1945
Location: Waffenfabrik Die Glocke, Somewhere near the German-French border
Subject: Reichsphysician-SS Heinrich Reynalch, 33
A bell rang, followed immediately by sirens. Men in white lab coats looked up from their work in exasperation, then back down.
"Hurry men, hurry! They are coming!" yelled one man. "We have to get out of here!"
As the men hurried through their work, they could hear the sound of the Russian rockets crashing around their factory. Parts of the walls shook and dust fell from the cieling. Heinrich ran up to the device that was supposed to be functioning. It looked like a stone hedgerow, with a bell in the middle and platforms on the sides. Rushing to a power switch, he looked back. "Is it ready yet?" he yelled. "Not yet!" a man yelled back. Heinrich growled. Listening intently, he could hear the Russians yelling outside the factory. They were closing in and the sounds of gunfire could be heard. The elite Waffen SS guards near the door were slowly edging away from it and approaching the scientists.
"It is ready!" the man yelled. As the team of about 6 scientists and guards ran to the device, an explosion occured, blasting away the door that sealed the room. Russians could be heard yelling and the sounds of men running were very loud. Heinrich looked at the device, then pulled the switch. Rushing into the device himself, electricty began to envelope the group. As the Russians ran into the room, all they saw was a bright flash of light, followed by an enormous explosion that blew apart the device that the scientists had run into. However, the scientists themselves were nowhere to be seen...
Location: Ponyville, Equestria
Twilight Sparkle sighed in content. She had just woken up and already she could hear the birds chirping. Looking over, she smiled at the still-sleeping form of Hans next to her. Kissing his cheek softly, she arose out of bed and began brushing her hair. When she was finished, she looked out the window. Seeing the progress of the town hall's construction, she smiled. It had been a week since the horrors of those soldiers in Equestria had ended. the town had recovered fairly quickly and ponies had been going about their normal lives again. The remains of the tank had been cleared away, as well as the bodies of Edward and kruger. twilight shuddered. She had accidentally seen what was left of Kruger. As far as she knew, the bodies had been left in the Everfree forest for the creatures that presided in there. brushing her hair one more time, she left her room and went downstairs to make breakfast. Making a cereal out of oats, she left some for Hans and started to read a book she had started. Hans had adapted rather well to being a pony, she thought happily. Of course, she still had a bit of a problem with eating grass and hay, but he still ate other things like apples and carrots. Spike was away in canterlot of official business for Princess Celestia, so Twilight had been able to spend some time with Hans and got to know him alot better. Hans was also adapting to Twilight's language better. He was able to speak near fluently, and he in return had started teaching Twilight his native language. Just for laughs, one day she had gone out and started yelling at Rainbow dash in 'German', as Hans called it. Rainbow had frozen up for a second, realized it was Twilight, and had given her the dirtiest look possible. Giggling at the memory, Twilight waited for Hans to wake up.
Hans twitched and opened one eye. The sunlight shone through Twilight's window and it blinded him for a second. Yawning, he sat up and looked over. "Twilight must be up already" he thought, laying back down and stretching. Yawning again, he rolled out of Twilight's bed and onto the floor. laughing silently to himself, he sat up and glanced out the window. "Looks like the new hall is coming along fine." Smiling, he got up and made to walk out of the bedroom. However, a huge explosion near the Everfree forest and a loud exploding sound made him jump 10 feet into the air.
Twilight fell over as the huge explosion rocked through Ponyville and made everything shake. Getting up, she saw that a few books had fallen out of their places on their shelves. Sighing unhappily, she trotted over to the door and looked out. Quite a few other ponies had the same idea, as Twilight noticed every house had a pony looking at the Everfree forest with worry. Twilight's eyes widened. "Oh no..."
Fluttershy screamed. Whatever had exploded was very close to her house. Diving under her bed, she cowered there. Angel, her rabbit, stared at her with an unhappy expression. Fluttershy stared back. "I am not going to look at whatever it is." she said unhappily. Angel put his face into his paws, jumped up onto her bed and looked out her window. At first, it looked only like a huddled mass on the ground. Squinting, Angel could make out some bodies and varios pieces of metal and stone. Shrugging, he hopped down and gave Fluttershy the 'all-clear' sign. Fluttershy gave a sigh of relief, came out from under her bed and looked out as well. "Oh dear, i'm going to have to clean that up." she said to Angel. Angel nodded, then hopped away. Fluttershy sighed, walked downstairs and went outside. Looking at her birds, she said "Okay little ones, I need your help with this. If we work together we'll have this mess cleaned up fast." The birds nodded their agreement and followed Fluttershy to the mess.
Heinrich groaned. Everything was sliding in and out of focus. Putting his hand to his head, he gave a sigh of pain and tried to roll over. His body not responding, Heinrich just laid there, staring at the... most interesting sky he had ever seen. The clouds looked fake. Rubbing his eyes, he looked again. Nope, those clouds were definitely fake. Heinrich thought for a moment. Maybe he was dead. Shaking his head, he realized that was impossible. "If I were dead, this place would be a whole lot redder." Looking around, he managed to roll over onto his stomach. Bracing himself, he pushed off the ground and looked up... and found himself gazing into the bluest pair of eyes he had ever seen.
When asked about the incident later, all Angel could tell was that he was about to have a carrot when a scream made him look up and a yellow blur rushing through the house nearly knocked him out.
Twilight trotted through Ponyville, Hans at her side. The two were rarely ever seen without each other. As they headed for Fluttershy's house, Pinkie Pie bounded out of Sugarcube Corner to greet them. "Oh hey if it isn't my two most favorites lovers How are you I heard an explosion a few minutes ago are you going to check it out can I go I've got food to share wheres Rainbow have you seen her i have food she wanted." she was silenced by Twilight raising a hoof.
"Nice to see you too Pinkie. Yes, we're heading that way. No, I havn't seen Rainbow yet."
Pinkie nodded. "Okie dokie lokie well if you need me you know where I am."
Twilight turned to nod at pinkie when she saw that Pinkie was already back inside helping a customer with an order. Shaking her head, she looked at some of the ponies walking by her. One of them she remembered as having had a brick thrown at her by Edward. Twilight shuddered. The incident with those men was a touchy topic in Ponyville nopony really liked to talk about. Reaching the edge of Ponyville, she and Hans were treated to the site of Ponyville's #1 DJ, Vinyl Scratch, using her horn to make a nearby tree use its branches to beat a rythm off the ground. "Oh hey Vinyl, what you up to?"
Vinyl gave them a long look through her glasses, then said "The usual. Making fresh beats. However, this time I thought i'd do it with style!" Twilight giggled. Vinyl stopped using her magic and let out a sigh. "I'm bored though. Mind if I hang with you guys for a bit?"
Twilight and Hans shrugged."You can." they both said at the same time, which caused all 3 ponies to giggle.
Heinrich stared... and stared... and stared. Had that creature really just screamed? Shaking his head, he stood up. A sharp pain in his back made him flinch, but the pain soon passed. Remembering what had happened, he took in his surroundings. Everything was rather colorful, he noted. Turning around, he counted his comrades. Still 4 scientists (including himself) and the 2 guards that had been at the door. One of the guards was stirring and gronaing. Moving to the guard's side, Heinrich helped him up and supported him against a tree. The guard slowly came to, and stared around at his surroundings.
"Where the hell are we?"
Heinrich shrugged. "Wherever Die Glocke transported us to. For all I know, we could be in a different dimension."
The guard stared around and rubbed his eyes. Walking away from heinrich, he sat down on a piece of stone, took out a cigarrete and lit it. heinrich sat down on a stone across from him. "You missed me waking up and having something scream at me."
The guard stared at him for a moment. "Sunds serious. You may want to have that checked out."
A groaning sound made them turn. One of the other scientists was waking up as well. Jumping up, Heinrich and the guard helped the scientist to his feet and supported him against a tree. As the scientist slowly came to his senses, he managed to ask "Heinrich? Where are we?"
Heinrich shrugged. "I have no idea, Dr. Mengele."
