There was no warning when it happened. Nothing.
No sirens, no yelling or screaming, no announcement over the radio or television broadcast, no one posting anything about it on the internet. No religious groups shouting nor crazy conspiracy fanatics babbling.
It just happened.
The rest of the world outside of North America just went silent.
It was a warm day in many places across the continent. White puffy clouds lazily drifting wherever the jet stream blew, our sun, Sol, giving off its warmth onto our Mother Earth. Birds chirped and dogs barked, chasing after a frisbee thrown by a child. People moving along with their lives, vehicles gliding down roads, some blasting music of varying genres.
Everything was business as usual, an average scene across the continent.
Then, at 12:00pm UTC (Noon, Universal Standard Time), it happened.
All satellites not built or launched by the US, Canada, or Mexico stopped broadcasting completely. Or, that's what we thought.
Suddenly the entire world outside of the continent went dark.
No radio broadcasting, no outside internet, GPS only had data corresponding to the North American continent. Google Earth only showed North America, everywhere outside of its nautical borders were black, with strange markings on it.
There was confusion across the continent.
The US military thought it to be an attack to keep America un-informed of the happenings of the outside world.
That is, until the President checked his phones, which were wired directly from the White House to various other NATO members.
Only Canada and Mexico picked up the call, just as confused and worried as the US President.
At the same time, above the planet, the ISS, which was still functioning, began to broadcast a livestream of the Earth.
The stream began as usual, the NASA logo appearing on screen, before the actual video started.
What was shown was not anywhere on Earth.
The continent shown was very tall, mountain ranges toward the center, and rivers and valleys crossing the landscape. The strangest part of the continent was the fact that it didn't follow geological evolution. Mountains where they shouldn't be, and deserts where geologically speaking there should be forests. One spot on the continent looked as if someone dropped a bucket of white paint, and was where humid and warm temperatures should be, instead it was mostly a cold barren wasteland with the odd patch of grey and purple. Strange swirling clouds and grey/brown patches across the land caused more confusion. The strange plots of land were determined to be villages and cities by one of the astronauts, and the clouds seemed to move in structured patterns. As the ISS crossed the planet, this seemed to be a common theme.
There was something outside of North America, and it wasn't Earth.
The broadcast didn't stop until the ISS orbited the planet 4 times. And everyone who had access to the stream watched the entire thing.
4 large continents, not including ours. Each with towns and villages, unusual terrain and weather patterns.
The following week was filled with nothing but news of the ISS and mapping satellites capturing pictures of the world below.
They were not Human, that was established when an un-manned drone flew above the first major continent to the west of us.
There were many different creatures, some large, others small. The sentient ones however were more equine, sporting horns and wings, a few with both, many without either.
Unicorns, Pegasi, regular horses, and some weird amalgamation of all three. Some suggested calling them Alicorns because of their unusual features.
The other creatures that lived among them reminded many of the Pokémon franchise, some even displaying features and abilities that the fictional Pokémon have.
These equines live a rather peaceful lifestyle. No large armies were spotted in a vast majority of the continent, some having large but primitive militaries. We assume they have different countries with different standards regarding military.
There was much to learn before First Contact.
Weeks dragged onto a month, then two, then a year had passed, and we knew from stray pirates what the names of some of the countries were.
Equestria was the planet's most powerful and prosperous nation, the one with the near non-existent military ruled dually by Princess Celestia and her sister Luna, with another princess (unknown what purpose she has). It was located 600 miles west of the West Coast. (Hawaii came with and was now located a mere 300 miles from the Mainland.)
The Crystal Empire was the spot of white towards the Northeast of Equestria, and was mostly a winter wasteland. Ruled by the niece of the rulers of Equestria Mi Amore Cadenza (Cadence)
Griffonia was ruled by a griffon (Name unknown) and was to the northwest of Equestria.
The political relations between these 3 countries were similar to the relations between Canada Mexico and the US. Griffonia was the Mexico of the 3, The Crystal Empire was Canada, and Equestria was the United States (without the military).
It seemed as though the American Continent was photoshopped from Earth to this new world, a world straight out of the "My Little Pony" TV series.
Many fans of the show were ecstatic, others were wary and worried of the implications of what would come.
Some of the most advanced drones flew through the villages and towns across Equestria, viewing pokemon and ponies alike, listening into conversations, and gathering information about this new world.
The Equestrians were still struggling to adapt to their new companions, whom arrived a month before we did. Many of the Pokemon were supposedly former humans, humans whom were considered kind enough to be saved from the Old Earth by Arceus.
From what we gleamed from various conversations and writings the drones captured pictures of, Humanity on the Old Earth was cruel. We looked at the Pokemon Franchise more closely than ever to help us understand some context we were missing.
Arceus was imprisoned by ancient human mages. During his imprisonment, he saw Humanity use his beloved Pokemon as tools rather than companions. This infuriated him as time went on, and when Man invented the Pokeball, Arceus nearly lost his mind to rage.
Time went on and eventually he was freed. Emotions clouded its judgement, and he decided Humanity's time was up. He gathered all his legends and voted on a way to terminate Humanity. They ended up saving those deemed worthy, and moving all of the pokemon and the worthy humans to this world. But he didn't ask permission and ended up terrifying the native population.
Which leads to recent events.
The drones watched a legendary (Lugia) wash away a beach when he played a little too hard with other pokemon.
This event leads to growing tensions between the Equestrians and the Legendary Council (That is what the drone saw in a newspaper so that is what we are calling them now).
Arceus tries to apologize but rowdy ponies won't give it a chance to speak. He eventually has enough of the yelling and proceeds to raise his voice, silencing the crowd. He apologizes for Lugia's behavior and says that Lugia will repair the beach for the Equestrians, which satifies them for the time being.
The Griffons are very headstrong on using the pokemon in their military, making them a greater threat if they were to declare war upon any NATO member.
The Crystal Empire is stagnant in many ways, but human turned pokemon try to help with fixing the Empire's stagnation problem.
The United States calls for a meeting amongst the NATO members to discuss First Contact.
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US: We need to discuss First Contact.
CA: …
MX: …
US: Well, we feel the time is right, and if we do Contact now, and get all that out of the way, we can tackle the whole "Arceus hates Humans" problem.
MX: Sounds good.
CA: Ditto
US: You two need to participate more.
MX: You're the strongest of us three and we wouldn't stand much a chance against any legendary who comes our way.
CA: Yeah, we'll back you up but you are leading this.
US: Ok? Well if I'm doing First Contact then I'll only represent myself and you two can introduce yourselves later.
MX: Nice
CA: Seems like a foolproof plan. Good Job US!
US: *Facepalming* I swear I do everything in NATO.
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