Thirty minutes later they all reached Ponyville, and each pony went their separate ways at that point.
"Well here is our town." Twilight said, as her and Stranger walked under the freshly risen moon. "The library is just up ahead."
"Thanks again for letting me stay with you Twilight. I don't know what I would have done if you and your friends hadn't shown up."
"No trouble, I just did what any pony would have done." She replied as she used magic to open her door.
"Wow this is amazing!" Stranger said happily staring at the many shelves of books that were carved into the tree. "I love reading. Seeing all these books just makes me what to forget about sleep and read." A big smile formed on Twilight's face because she had spent countless nights doing just that.
"So, you like to read and learn." Twilight said happily thinking how strange it was that even though she and Stranger were so different they also had many similarities. "See you just remembered something else about yourself!"
"I never forgot that! As I said earlier the reason I build that portal was to find other worlds in the hope of creating technology trades and making new friend that share the same passion that I do."
"Well you made six friends already and I'm sure you will make many more, I love reading too but you really should get some sleep."
"I don't think sleep will help me remember anything but reading books might." Stranger answered, hoping Twilight would let him read a book or two. Twilight laugh a little and used her horn to pull down a book.
"Here is a book about magic; you seemed to be curious about it."
"Thanks!" Stranger replied excited as he sat down and started to read it. "While you're at it do you have any books on your culture?" Twilight pulled a book off the shelf and gave it to him. Stranger sat it on the table. "Ok, sorry to keep asking for books but do you have any books on the three different types of ponies, all and on cities and government, what about geography and wildlife?"
"Wow." Twilight said laughing and pulled the books he wanted from the shelves. Twilight and Stranger spent hours reading and looking over the books and sharing different information about each other's worlds. Stranger often had a hard time remembering things but he shared what he could.
"So," Stranger said. "You're a student of the ruler of Equestria Princess Celestia?"
"Yes." Twilight replied as she used here horn to pour some tea for her and Stranger. "I'm here studying the magic of friendship. Princess Celestia is my friend and mentor she raises the sun and her sister Princess Luna raises the moon, and together they maintain harmony in Equestria."
"Luna." Stranger replied a little surprised. "I thought I read something about her being evil."
"She was for a short time." Twilight replied, "but the elements of harmony ýou read about earlier turned her good. So, enough about my world do you remember how your leader is like?"
"Well Twilight my world is not as good as yours is. It has five different lands and all each of them does is train soldiers called Shinobi to fight and kill or steal resources from other nations, and war often breaks out over minor disagreements." Twilight was shocked by what she heard. Could a world like that really exist?
"That sounds horrible." she said sadly "I'm sorry you have to live in a world like that."
"Well it definitely has its problems." Stranger replied, "but discovering your world has given me some hope that there is a chance that one day my world will end up like yours."
"Well" Twilight said. Trying to thinking of anyway she could help Strangers world. "Maybe me, my friends, and Princess Celestia could go back with you to your world and share what we know about friendship and harmony. I'm sure the Princess would love to meet you." Before Stranger could reply the door opened and light entered the room.
"Hi Twilight." Spike said. "I'm back."
"We must have stayed up all night." Twilight said laughing. "All well. Spike I want you to meet my new friend!"
"Umm Hi." Spike replied a little confused. "What kind of creature is this Twilight, and where did you find him?" Spike sat down and Twilight explained all the events that had occurred to Spike while he was gone.
"It's so neat that there are actually other worlds out there." Spike said amazed. "So what's next Stranger, are you going to be living in Ponyville?"
"To be honest now that its light out and I remember more about myself I kind of what to go back to the area that you found me in and look it over to see if I left anything behind."
"Well ok," Twilight said a little surprised, "but are you sure you want to leave so soon? I mean I thought I could show you around Ponyville today, and introduce you to Princess Celestia later."
"Twilight I'd love to see your village and meet your Princess now, but knowing me I probably brought important information with me and I do not want it to get destroyed. I might have even brought a book along about my world."
"Well if you can find me a new book." Twilight said jokingly "We should leave imminently! Spike can you please put these books away? We should not be gone long."
"Sure." Spike replied. "Have fun."
Half an hour later Twilight and Stranger had returned to the spot where the portal had opened.
"So what are we looking for exactly?" Twilight asked. As she scanned the surrounding area for anything unusual.
"Something that does not belong in your world I guess. I am not really sure if I even brought anything." Twilight and Stranger spent the next ten minutes searching the area for anything that might belong to him. Twilight was beginning to think that the whole search was just a wild pony chase when she spotted a brown backpack in a bush in front of her. She used her horn to pull it towards her, but when she did the strap came lose and the contents spilled out which was a scroll, a book, and some food and water. Twilight got excited because she knew this was not from any pony.
"Stranger!" she screamed exited. "I found something!" A few seconds later Stranger showed up and looked at the pack.
"I remember this! It's my work pack, in fact seeing that helped me remember everything!"
"That's great! So, what is your real name?" Twilight ask anxious to finally learn it.
"Kabuto." He replied happily. Kabuto then picked up the scroll and opened it.
"What are you doing?" Twilight asked as Kabuto started to make a hand sign. A few seconds later he slammed his palm in the middle of the scroll. Twilight shielded her eyes as blue light started to come from the scroll, small bits of electricity went out in all direction. Twilight quickly took cover and turn to see what would happen next. A few seconds later the electricity and blue light stopped and a large blue portal was opened. Twilight's eyes grew wide with amazement at the sight before her.
"Sorry Twilight." Kabuto said turning to look at her, "but the more I remember. The more I realize I have to go back to my world at once."
"But Kabuto!" Twilight said shocked. "You can't leave now! I mean I thought you wanted to see my world, and don't you want to say goodbye to everyone else?"
"I do Twilight." Kabuto replied, "but I have family and friends back home that are worried about me and I want to prefect the portal so it will work properly. The electricity you saw should not have happened and I barely got the portal to stay opened."
"But can you wait a minute and take me to your world?" Twilight replied hopefully. "I can teleport back home and tell Spike where I'm going and let the others know not to worry about me. It should only take a few minutes. Plus I can always come back to my world in a few days."
"Sorry again, Twilight but I cannot guarantee the portal will work again, and I could never forgive myself if you were trapped in my world away from your friends."
"I…I understand." Twilight sighed sadly. "Will you be back soon?"
"I hope so," Kabuto replied. "Once I perfect the portal you can come visit, and I will show you my world and we can spend all night in my library." Kabuto said jokingly.
"I'll defiantly be looking forward to it." Twilight said trying to hold back tears.
"Goodbye Twilight, and thank you for all the kindness you and your friends have shown me. Tell them goodbye for me, and I know this isn't much but here." Kabuto pick up his pack and handed Twilight the book. "This book contains some general information about my world." Twilight smiled and took the book then hugged Kabuto.
"Goodbye for now." She said. As small tears fell from her eyes. "I'm so glad we become friends."
"I am to." Kabuto replied, "and I will be working on the portal day and night until it works properly, and when I come back here hopefully are two worlds can learn from each other."
"I now they will." Twilight said. "Hopefully we can give the gift of true friendship to your world and help its people become at peace with each other."
"I'm sure you will. Good bye for now." Kabuto said as he stepped into the portal. A few seconds later the portal closed and Twilight was left standing alone. The scroll still laid on the ground, but soon disappeared as well. She was sad that he was gone but also was happy that he would be back one day. She used her horn to pick up the book he left her and started reading it as she headed back to Ponyville.
Kabuto emerged in a dark and gloomy room; the only light source came from small touches that were spaced out across the wall.
"So how was this world?" An evil voice asked out of the darkness. "Any better than the last one?" A sinister grin appeared on Kabuto face.
"Much better, in fact I think I finally found what we have been searching for." Orochimaru stepped into the dim light reviling his pale white skin and his yellow serpent eyes.
"Excellent." He replied. "Tell me who are these poor fools?"
"The world I went to is occupied by get this, talking ponies. They call their land Equestria, and they are all very trusting and know nothing about true war which means there completely defenseless." Orochimaru smiled sinisterly. "All and here's the best part some of the ponies can use magic and analyzation of their magic shows it is similar to our chakra. Meaning they will be perfect subjects for your experiments." Orochimaru's eyes gained an evil glee joining his sinisterly smile. "I gained more intelligent as well and recorded all of it on these." Kabuto reached into his pocket and pulled out a stack of cards. Orochimaru took the cards that had the information about magic from Kabuto and started reading them.
"They must be trusting if you managed to get all this information in that short amount of time. Too bad it was place in the wrong hands."
"The unicorn I had the most contact with was a trusting fool by the name of Twilight Sparkles who was happy to share her knowledge with me." Kabuto started laying out the remaining cards on a table. After reading for a few minutes Orochimaru smiled again.
"It's all most sad using such useful power for such meaningless tasks, and living under the delusion everything can be solved by friendship. Won't they be in for a shock when reality comes crashing down on them."
"It will defiantly be a wakeup call." Kabuto replied. "However that probably would not be a good thing. Even though they cannot use their magic as major offensive weapons at the moment there is no guarantee it will stay that way if we conduct an outright full scale invasion."
"You're correct." Orochimaru replied. "The last thing I need is more interruptions. Anytime we try anything here the miserable leaf village interferes, and now even Sasuka is too strong. I need to step into the shadows for a while in a place where I can conduct my experiments in peace and develop more jusu."
"Working in the shadows should be easy enough. As fortune would have it the first pony I came in contact with is not like the others. In fact she's been kidnapping and killing in the area undetected for years. She even tried to kill me when we first met. She probably will be able to get us fresh corpses, and that would make it wise to make an alliance with her."
"Fortune does seem to be on our side with this world." Kabuto knelt down in front of Orochimaru and put his finger on a blank card. A few seconds later a map and writing appeared on it.
"Using the information I gathered I came up with a plan that will allow us to stay hidden, but at the same time give us access to all the magic and information we could ever want. Of course we will still need human test subject from our world so travel back to it will be necessary from time to time." Orochimaru studied Kabuto's plain for a few seconds.
"You are a devious one." Orochimaru commented. "Order all my remaining forces to start conducting it at once."
"Yes, Lord Orochimaru." Kabuto said standing up. "We can be in Equestria by tonight."
"Excellent." Orochimaru replied. "Soon we will disappear from these world becoming nothing but a bad dream to the people of the leaf, let them have their war with the Akatsuki. Meanwhile we will be in another world building up or forces and gaining more power, and then when I am all but forgotten I will return and grid the leaf village into dust!"