Chapter 02 - The three foresters

DISCLAIMER: I don't own 'My little pony: Friendship is magic', i only own the OCs. MLP:FIM is property of Hasbro.

"Breaking news of 'radio S'… On yesterday's election held in United States of America, Scott Storm won and became the new president of this country transition the new president of USA said that USA and Serbia will have a good collaboration in resolving all problems between this two countries, mainly the question about Kosovo independence transition in traffic accident that happened in JNA boulevard, two people got light injuries. The traffic jam lasted for 30 minutes until everything was cleared out. transition Novak Đoković won a match in quarterfinals against Tommy Haas, and Andy Murray awaits him in semi-finals of Masters Tournament held in Rome transition today's weather is cloudy. Temperature, unusually lower for this time of the year, with max temperature of 16 degrees Centigrade… find out more information in today's main news in 3 PM" Radio was on in the forest cabin.

One of the two men that were in the cabin at the moment turned off the radio. "Man … can't believe that THAT jackal won the election… and who the hell holds an election on work day?" he murmured to himself.

His name was Darko. He-s a skinny man, 25 years old and he works as a forest ranger. He's colleague, named Slobodan is 33 years old, and he's married as the ring on his finger indicates. He is shorter than Darko, and he's also skinny.

There was also a third worker here, who works in the same sector, but he was out on the terrain at the moment. He's name is Miljan (pronounced Meel-yan), and unlike the previous two, he is a lot larger in body mass, but he-s as tall as Darko. And he is also married, married young, in fact. He is 25 years old and got hitched as soon as he finished the college a year ago.

All three of them were friends for the whole duration of college. Although Slobodan was 8 years older than them, he attended it in the same year as them. And faith brought them to work together as well. But faith got more in store for them. Little did they know about the events that were about to happen.

And this day was Friday, somewhere in the month of May. Their work hour was about to end.

"Man… can't wait to get out of here…" Darko said "I just wanna go home, and sleep for the whole weekend!"

"You said it…" Slobodan replied "I hope Miljan is going to be back soon, so we can write down the data for today, and blast. You will be driving the 'Rabbit' today."

Darko nodded. The name 'Rabbit' is the name given to their Ford Transit. The aged, green van, which was the property of 'Serbia forests' company, but they were free to do anything they want to it, as long as it remained drive-able. Of course, they had to maintain it with fuel, tires, and parts. And the vehicle got the name 'Rabbit' when all three of them were piss drunk. That night, Miljan took an empty bottle of beer, and smashed it against the van declaring the name like you would declare a name of a ship, while Darko and Slobodan cheered. That night they spent the whole night in the forest drunk.

A bit later, Miljan entered the cabin. He had a pale expression on his face.

"Dude…" he started, while trying to catch his breath. He looked like he was running.

"Okay, calm down, man." Slobodan approached him. "What happened?"

"There… in the forest… big ball of light…" Miljan was panting after every segment of this sentence.

"What ball of light?"

"Big ball of light… and it's buzzing, and shit…"

"Did you smoke pot while on duty, AGAIN?" Darko joined the conversation.

"Dude, when I smoke pot, I only get dizzy. I only trip when I shoot acid, and I'm not into that anymore." Miljan explained.

"Then show it to us" Darko got up.

"Okay, follow me" Miljan left the cabin with other two of his friends towards the forest.

They were walking for a while until they reached the plateau. And there was indeed something.

"Dude, it's even bigger than before!" Miljan noticed "It was a ball of light when I left, and now it's a disc!"

For the safety purpose, they were hidden in bushes while starring at this thing. Each one of them tried to come up with a logical explanation for this, but they couldn't.

"Welp…" Darko broke the silence, speaking to Miljan "sorry for making presumptions?"

"Told you so." Miljan replied. "Hey, has anyone brought the binoculars?"

"I did." Slobodan pulled out his binoculars from his working bag.

"What do you see?"

"It looks like a hologram or something."

"Really?" Now Darko joined the conversation "From here it looks like a very miniature version of Milky Way galaxy. Gimme that!"

Darko grabbed the binoculars from Slobodan's hands. "Hey, easy with that. You almost suffocated me."

"Hey! Who are those guys?" Darko asked ignoring this remark.

"What guys?" Now Miljan grabbed the binoculars.

"Damn it, guys! Why don-t you bring your own equipment?" Slobodan got annoyed.

"Holly shit, man!" Miljan murmured.

"What!" The other two yelled in unison.

"Those are the feds!"

"Huh?"

"The FBI, man! What the fuck are they looking for in Serbia?"

"FBI? Here in Serbia? Lemme see." Now it was Slobodan's turn to grab the binoculars while someone else was using it.

"Geez! Do you think we are intruding some area 51 stuff here? I mean… the FBI, the swirling disc of light… Maybe they are trying to contact the aliens, and we are spying on them now. Should we be worried?" Darko said, as the other two starred at him in disbelief.

"Dude, if they are doing alien stuff, they are being more obvious than usual. And... just look at them! They are just standing there." Slobodan answered, and continued looking at the feds.

"Let's keep an eye on them. Remember, we are the rangers of this sector, and it is our duty to monitor anything unusual that is happening" Miljan reminded them.

They were spying on them for some time… well, Slobodan did as he was the owner of binoculars. Darko tried to ask for binoculars a couple of times just to get a negative answer from Slobodan "Dude, be patient… I think they are on to something."

"Do tell." Darko said mockingly

"Yep. They are moving towards it."

And the three feds walked in the swirling light and disappeared. The three forest rangers gasped. Swirling light started to shrink, but then grew again, and six rays of blue light started to come out from it. The rays started to materialize. Now there were six naked girls lying on the grass, and the swirl of light disappeared completely.

"What happened!" Both Darko and Miljan jumped.

"There is no longer the glowy swirling thing… now there is… oh… you're gonna love this" Slobodan smiled.

Now Darko and Miljan had confused looks on their faces. "What the fuck are you talking about?"

"Take a look" Slobodan gave the binoculars to Darko.

"Holly shit!" Darko exclaimed with a glee in his voice. "Miljan, look! There are six girls. And they are naked. Take a look before they dress up!"

Miljan took the binoculars. "Wow… why do I feel so dirty all of the sudden?"

"Maybe because we are being voyeurs?" Slobodan suggested.

"Well, you two have a reason to feel dirty, you are married." Darko said mockingly.

"Yeah… lucky you, loner" Slobodan mocked back.

"How do you get six hot girls out from the three feds?" Miljan asked.

And then a lot of terrible jokes started:

"Maybe that swirly thing was some kind of alien slot machine. You enter humans, and you get humans." Slobodan said.

"Slot machine? More like SLUT machine." Darko said with a whistle at the end of the sentence.

"Or maybe it's some kind of interdimensional trade center" Miljan said, and then started to speak in deeper voice "Yo, I'll give you three of dressed humans for six naked ones. Army equipment included."

"FBI, you dun goofed." Darko said and burst into laughter.

"Maybe we should get closer, instead of standing here and talking shit, huh?" Slobodan suggested.

"I agree" Darko said "They don't look threatening as those FBI guys."

"Fine, let's go." Miljan said, as all three of them got out from their hiding spot, and towards the place where the portal was.

As they came closer, they noticed something weird about these girls. They were all now wearing sun dresses now for some reason, although it was cold outside, but that was not it. Their hair styles were… out of this world?

"Man... look at their hair. They look like those chicks from dubstep parties. Just look at all those colors." Darko noticed.

And he was right. One girl had purple hair with darker purple and pink stripe across it. The other one had indigo colored hair. The other two on their left both had their hair dyed in pink, one of them lighter, and the other darker. The biggest sensation was the one with a hair dyed in all colors of rainbow. The only one that seemed normal was the blonde one, but even her hair was too blonde to be natural and she was wearing a frickin' cowboy hat.

"Maybe they are tourists?" Slobodan said.

"Yeah right…" Miljan started with a sarcastic tone. "Like tourist appear in Serbia out of the miniature galaxies every day."

"I'm a bit nervous." Darko shrugged.

One of the six girls (the one with a darker pink hair) noticed their arrival and pointed towards them. The three rangers stopped in place, with their jaws dropped. There was awkward silence for a couple of seconds, but every second seemed to last for ages.

Suddenly, the darker pink-haired girl jumped to Slobodan and grabbed his hand and started to shake it "Hi, my name is Pinkie Pie, and these are my friends Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity and that behind Rarity is Fluttershy. And who are you guys?"

Slobodan didn't know how to respond, and turned to Darko and Miljan looking for help. You see, Slobodan was never good with English; he barely passed the English exam back in college. Darko and Miljan, however were very good with English, especially Miljan who lived in New York for one year.

Miljan stood out "Umm…I'm Miljan and these here are Slobodan and Darko. And do you happen to know anything about that swirling disc?"

"Well, that's a long story." The one named Twilight Sparkle answered.

"Dude, we should take them to our cabin" Darko said "it's freezing outside, and they are poorly dressed."

"Alright" Miljan said and turned to girls "follow us, we can help you."

It was pretty quiet on their way back, Slobodan broke the silence, speaking in Serbian "So, what were they saying back there?"

"They were introducing themselves." Darko answered. "And they have some weird names like Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy and I don't know."

The girl with a straight purple hair interjected "Excuse me, but what are those words? We can't understand what you are talking."

"Oh, we're speaking Serbian." Darko explained "That's our host language here."

"Where are we anyway?" Rainbow haired girl asked.

"We are in Serbia. The city of Belgrade, to be more specific."

"That sounds like Sermareia, and its capital Hoofgrade in our world." The one named Rarity noticed.

"Huh?" Darko was confused "What your world?"

"That thing that brought us here was an interdimensional portal…" Twilight started, but noticed something "Oh, my gosh. Girls, where are our elements of harmony?"

Twilight turned to the rest of the girls. They looked in their bags, and shrugged. Their elements were missing.

"What elements?" Darko was still confused.

"The elements of harmony" Twilight answered with a crying voice "We were supposed to use them to shut down that portal, but the portal dragged us here for some reason, and we lost those elements in process."

"That sounds… bad." Darko had skeptical look as he didn't believe what his ears were registering, but then he remembered that he DID sad the portal. And he wanted to find out more. "Okay we're here."

They entered the cabin. Miljan turned to Slobodan and gave him a piece of paper. "Register this data to the PC. In a meantime, we're going to interrogate these foreigners."

"Oh, man. Why do I have to do it" Slobodan groaned.

"Well… do you want to interrogate them? Good luck with that knowing how good your English is." Miljan said with a smirk on his face.

"Yeah… point taken." Slobodan said while taking the paper from him.

Miljan turned to girls. "Take a seat."

The girls grabbed the chairs. They had a bit of fear in their eyes. Especially Twilight Sparkle who was reading about the human world. They didn't know what to expect, and if they can trust these humans.

Darko noticed their fear as he sat next to Miljan. "C'mon, now, don't be afraid. We aren't going to dissect you, or keep you as hostages. We just want to talk." He said with a cheerful tone.

Girls relieved a bit. "Okay." Darko started. "Tell us who are you, where do you come from, how did you get in here, what was that portal all about. You can start, and we won't interrupt you until you finish."

Girls looked among themselves. They agreed that Twilight should tell him everything. And she did. They told them about Equestria, about ponies, elements of harmony, magic, unicorns, pegasi, about their rulers Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, and in the end about the portal that connects the human and pony world, that appears somewhere else every time it's used.

Miljan and Darko were nodding during the whole interrogation process, trying to swallow what they were talking about. They were pretty much convinced the moment they saw the portal and FBI snooping around it. But stuff like magic ponies, and weather management, and godlike creatures controlling the Sun and the Moon were kind of hard for them to swallow. Outback, Slobodan tried to understand what the girls were saying, but ended up quietly envying his two colleagues on knowledge of the English language.

"So…" Miljan started after the girls finished their story "You are stuck here until you find that portal again, am I right?"

"Yes." Twilight answered.

"And you have nowhere to stay, or documentation or IDs." Miljan asked.

"IDs?" Twilight asked.

"Those serve as identification in this world. If you are 16 or older, you must have the ID card." Miljan explained.

Twilight wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Pinkie. "Hey! I think I saw those!"

The crazy pink haired girl pulled her ID card from her bag. There was her picture on it, the ID number, birth date… everything.

"Well I guess Princess Celestia got us covered there." Rainbow Dash said, and pulled out her own ID card out of her bag.

"Eeyup." Applejack said looking at her ID. And then she pulled out the pair of bra out of her bag. "Still, dunno what this is fer."

Miljan and Darko jumped. Darko said "Well, would you look at the time. It looks like our work hour is over." He then started to speak in Serbian "Slobo! Did you finish the report?"

"I've just finished it." Slobodan replied. "We can go."

Miljan asked Darko with tone down "What are we going to do with them?"

"We should take them with us. I mean, what else can we do? They have no place to stay."

Miljan nodded. "Okay, but they will all be staying in your place?"

"W-What?" Darko's eyes widened.

"Dude, we can't take them to our houses. You think that our wives will swallow a story about six hot chicks coming from some portal? You are single and you have a big house. You must take them." Miljan explained.

"Fine…" Darko scowled thinking how his plan to sleep for the whole weekend was foiled.

"Good boy." Miljan smiled. "Now explain that to them."

Darko turned to girls. "Umm… okay… so… since you don't have a place to stay, I will offer my house for you."

"You will!" All six of the girls yelled in unison. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

The girls jumped at Darko to hug him. Darko sent a pleading look towards Miljan. Miljan laughed, and announced "okay, we need to go now."

The six girls and three rangers went outside. Darko took the keys out of his pocket and unlocked the 'Rabbit'.

"My, oh, my, that's a mighty fancy chariot you've got'ere." Applejack noticed.

"What… this old thing? Fancy? Ha-ha, that was funny." Darko chuckled.

"Who's pullin' it?" Applejack asked.

"No one. It has internal combustion system." Darko answered.

"An internal, what now?" Applejack looked at him with a confused look.

"AJ, remember Flim and Flam? I think they have something similar." Twilight said.

"O' right…" Applejack nodded and then scowled "those no good rodeo clowns…"

The girls entered in the back on the van, and the rangers took the front seats. And they took off towards their homes.

On the way back Miljan explained to Slobodan details from interrogation, and how Darko will be a host to them.

"Well, well, well, Darko." Slobodan smirked. "It looks like you've hit the jack-pot."

"Dude, nothing's gonna happen." Darko blushed.

"Oh, c'mon, man. This is your opportunity to find someone special." Slobodan pressed on.

"No!" Darko yelled "I've just met them, and I told you million times. I will never get married!"

"Okay, okay. Don't get upset for no reason." Slobodan frowned. "And concentrate on the road."

"But you gotta admit that they are hot." Miljan teased.

"I can agree on that." Darko said. "still, they are some alien chicks from other dimension."

"That might be a good chance for you. Since you can't find a perfect girl in this world, you can…"

"Can't hear you!" Darko interrupted Miljan "Concentrating on the road!"

"Fine. I give up." Miljan said, and then murmured devilishly "for, now…"

In the back of the van, the six girls that were previously ponies also had a conversation.

"They aren't so bad." Pinkie said "I think they are even silly."

"I still don't know if we can trust them." Rainbow Dash said.

"That one named Darko is offering us his home." Rarity turned to Rainbow Dash. "Which is very generous of him.

"Yeah… trust the guy that is named 'Darko'" Rainbow Dash said sarcasticly.

"It will hafta do, Dash." Applejack said "I mean, what in tarnation would we be doin' now? We're lucky enough fer them to find us."

"I also think they're nice" Fluttershy said in half-whisper.

"I guess you're all right." Rainbow Dash sighed "Sorry guys, I'm still trying to deal with the fact that I don't have wings in this world."

"What are we going to do about the elements of harmony?" Fluttershy changed the subject.

"To be perfectly honest… I have no idea" Twilight shrugged. "We will just have to wait for another portal to appear near us, which could take years."

All of the six girls shared sad looks thinking about Equestria and their families and friends there.

"Hopefully, Princess Celestia will find us tha way outta here." Applejack tried to comfort them.

"I, too, hope so." Rarity said, everyone else nodded in agreement.

In front part of the van, there was silence, as the three foresters were thinking about all this things about parallel worlds. They were, also thinking how to help the girls to find their ways back to their world.

Darko broke the silence. "Miljan, I will drive to my house, and you take Slobodan home. I want some spare time to tidy up the rooms for the girls."

"No problem, man." Miljan said.

"You two could drop by this evening, so we can start sorting this out." Darko continued.

"Okay, but I don't know how to help. You know that I don't speak English very well" Slobodan had a concerned look on his face.

"Bring Danica over." Darko suggested. "We will explain everything to her. She's smart and stuff, she will know what to do."

Danica is Slobodan's wife. And she was Darko's friend from high school. Danica and Slobodan started off as good friends, but realized they are meant for each other by the time of the third year of college.

"Should I bring Dragana over as well?" Miljan asked referring to his wife.

"Yeah… The more, the better." Darko agreed.

When they arrived to Darko's house, Darko got out from the 'Rabbit', and opened the back of the van for the girls. "We're here. Come this way."

The six girls entered Darko's driveway, watching at the big house in awe.

"Take care now!" Slobodan exclaimed to Darko and then smiled devilishly. "And don't do anything naughty!"

Darko flipped him the bird, causing Slobodan to burst in laughter.

Darko turned around, and saw the girls waiting in front of the door. He pulled out his keys, unlocked the door, and let them in.

As Darko entered after them, a wave of realizations started to hit him.

"Damn, I will have to make food for seven people now… and they were ponies, which means they are all vegetarians… and I don't have any clothes for them… I will have to give them my clothes… and I will have to do all that laundry… well thank you, Miljan and Slobodan for this, I really appreciate it." He thought to himself. "Well, I might as well start with chores now."

Sorry for the delay, had some college work to attend to, leaving no time for this story, and I was tired every day. So we met the three foresters or forest rangers, whatever you like to call it. Darko is a self insert character of mine, and Miljan, Slobodan, Danica and Dragana are all inserts of mz friends. That's what we writers do, when we can't come up with a brand new character, we insert those based on someone we already know. :)

This was a fun chapter to write. More fun than last one. And I think I'm going to have even more fun with next one, so keep an eye for updates and read and review. :)

Wish you all the best,

~HCN