A/N: I'm so sorry for taking so long. Things came up and I lost interest, but I finally pulled it together. I know it's not much yet, and ceartainly not my best, but hopefully I'll do better next chapter. Review, please!

~Max

Something had changed during that visit. Something I didn't quite understand.

Before now, we were outsiders. I had royally fucked up our experiment and sent us hurtling into a fictitious world. I had no idea what we were going to do, but sit around and flirt with characters.

My passion is mystery, the Doctor had said. Ghosts? I'm there in a flash. The thrill of the hunt is absolutely euphoric! He was a lot like me; the Doctor wanted to chase down the unkown and confront the mysterious and odd. In our world, there was truly nothing more mysterious or odd than an entire TV series proving to be real, somewhere. And we were there now.

Maybe the Doctor was content chasing the unknown in his own universe. But what me and Jordan had here was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. We were quite literally holding the key to a million different adventures, a million different faces, a million worlds, all in the form of a tiny piece-of-crap gun I had hodgepodged together for 5 years.

And I certainly wasn't about to turn down an offer like that.

"So, what do you want to do?" Jordan asked.

"I'm not sure. Maybe we could get something to eat. I'm starving."

"Alex, we have no money."

I checked the satchel for some reason. I probably should of mentioned this earlier, but the satchel traveled with us. In there was the stuff we had packed, plus my smartphone, laptop, and solar chargers for all. Huge fucking shocker: No bars or wifi.

"You're right. Hm….."

"Oh! Hi! You're the new ponies, right?" I looked up sharply to the familiar voice. Twilight Sparkle. Shit.

I guess it's unavoidable. I nodded, muttering, "Yeah." She looked a tad taller than on the show, and her hair was in a slightly different style, but otherwise the mare looked identical to the one we saw on the show.

"I'm Twilight Sparkle, but you can call me Twilight. Do you live nearby?"

My mind went blank. I could have said Hoofington, but that doesn't account for where we would be staying during our… 'visit'. "Uhhhhh…."

Jordan came to the rescue. "No, actually. We travel a lot, kind of like…" he stared into space.

"…like explorers? Charters? Merchants?"

"Merchants! That's it! Sorry, brain went kerplunk for a second. Yes, we're merchants. We just find homes wherever they're available."

"Well, you're welcome to stay at my place for a few days, or however long it takes." Twilight responded to that very quickly. A little too quickly. She obviously wanted us to stay with her, but why? It may have been because of how charming, smart, sensitive, funny, and sexy I was.

But, knowing Twilight, it was probably because she knew something was strange about us, and wanted to investigate.

"Um, sorry, I don't…"

I butted in. "That sounds like a great idea! You live in the big library, right? The one in the tree?"

"That's the one. See you there whenever you're ready." She happily trotted off.

Jordan looked at me, anger spreading across his face. "What the hell was that? I thought we said 'NO Mane 6'?"

I retorted, "UNTIL we get our bearings, which we have."

He sighed. "Fine. But if anything happens, it's your fault.

And so, having nothing better to do, we trotted out after her, and we arrived together at her treehouse.

"Do you like tea?" She asked as we settled down in the main room. "Don't much care for it, but Alex loves tea," Jordan honestly replied. I nodded and smiled.

"Oh, okay. I've got a bit of apple cider too, from my friend Applejack. She's really good at making it."

Twilight led us to the main room, where we sat down to drink and talk.

"So, how'd you get here from Hoofington?" She started.

"Um, we…" I froze. SHIT! Hoofington is miles away from here, and we came from Everfree Forest, not the train! Pinkie Pie saw us come into town, so she would've told Twilight.

Twilight must've seen the look on my face, because she quickly changed the subject. "Not to be intrusive…"

Jordan smiled. "No, no! It's fine! We love telling stories! In fact, wanna hear a crazy one I know about?"

Twilight smiled. "Sure!" I looked at Jordan. I wasn't sure exactly what he was doing, but I was a bit worried.

"Okay, so our story opens on another planet. It's a lot like Equestria, but with one HUGE difference: It wasn't inhabited by ponies."

Twilight was confused. "How could there be no ponies?"

Jordan raised his hoof. "I didn't say there was no ponies. I just said ponies didn't inhabit the land. The inhabitants were these strange creatures called 'humans'…"

He went on to tell of this mysterious planet called 'Earth', where all the weather formed by itself, animals and plants ate each other to live, vicious beasts roamed the land, and life was near-impossible. It was where strange monkey-like creatures called 'humans' roamed the land. He told of their weakness and helplessness, and of their courage and perserverance, and how they evolved to be the most advanced race in their world.

The studious mare was clearly interested. I had to hand it to Jordan, he knew what he was doing. Jordan was telling their entire story to Twilight in the form of a story, and then we would shift the story from fiction to reality, making it easier to cope with.

"They also made huge buildings that stretched miles in the sky. Humans called them 'skyscrapers.' They made tiny boxes that could record someone's voice and send it thousands of miles away to another box. People could have entire conversations without leaving their homes.

Twilight had an amazed look in her eyes. "That sounds so interesting! These humans must have been pretty smart. What else did they have?"

Jordan grinned. "They made huge metal tubes with fake wings, called planes. It could carry a ton of people at once, and they'd fly all over the place. "He continued to tell of the human's achievements, while Twilight listened in awe and sipped her tea.

When the tale was over, Twilight rubbed her chin with her hoof. "That was a very interesting story. Thanks for sharing it. I may have to see if I can find some books on humans and learn more."

I could see by the look on Jordan's face he was about to drop the bomb. "Why learn from books when you can talk to the ones right in front of you?"

At first, Twilight was confused. She gave us a quizzical look. "I'm… not sure I follow you. How can you be humans?"

I stepped in. "We're not… not anymore. I don't think we've properly met. I'm Alex Monroe, this is Jordan Strithe, and we just invented a device that lets us travel between worlds." I held up the apparatus.

Still pokerfaced. "Are… are you joking?" She wasn't sure whether to believe us.

In response, I pulled my Android out of my satchel. "This is one of the boxes Jordan told you about. It's called a telephone." I awkwardly unlocked the screen with my hoof and opened some random apps. Her jaw dropped to the floor. "…Wha...I don't even…"

"Believe us now?" Jordan asked, grinning as Twilight handed the phone back.

Twilight slowly nodded.

The next hour was spent munching on crackers, sipping our tea, and answering over 9000 questions about our culture. Any time we tried to ask her something, she hastily answered and turned the conversation back to us.

All this time, she kept refilling our tea every five seconds and trying to make our seats comfy.

"Um, Twilight?" I asked.

"Yes, Mr. Alex?"

"Um, you can call me Alex. We're not, like, gods. Just visitors." She blushed and sank back to her chair.

I said casually, "The phone also plays music."

Twilight smiled. "Cool! Could you show me?"

I put on a surprise track. The beat began to play.

"This sounds like something DJ-Pon3 would make," Twilight noticed. "It sounds cool."

Discord's laughing filled the room, causing Twilight to yelp and scurry for cover, looking around frantically. "It's just the phone. This song's about Discord."

"But how'd you get his voice on there?" She asked innocently.

Holy mother of god.

I dun' fucked up.

"It's, um..." Jordan was at a loss too. We had no choice but to tell her about the series. The mare took it surprisingly well.

After another round of questions, I pressed play on the song again. 'Discord' by Odyssey Eurobeat once again filled the room. I decided to sing along.

"I'm not a fan of puppeteers, but I've a nagging fear,

Someone else is pulling at the strings,

Something terrible is going down, through the entire town,

Bringing anarchy and all it brings."

Jordan gave an impressed whistle. I guess I'm really good at singing.

"I can't sit idly, no I can't move at all.

I curse the name, the one behind it all..

Discord, I'm howling at the moon,

And sleeping in the middle of a summer afternoon.

Discord, whatever did we do

To make you take our world away?

Discord, are we your prey alone?

Or are we just a stepping stone for taking back the throne.

Discord, I won't take it anymore,

So take your tyranny away!"

Discord's laughing once again filled the room. But that wasn't supposed to come in until later in the song. I snarled. Did I have one of those fucking dubstep remixes again?

But the laughter wasn't coming from the phone. A window blasted in, glass flying everywhere. We ducked for cover behind a couch.

"Oh, bravo. My own theme song? How generous of you."