Note: Hey everyone! So, I know I said I would wait a couple of days to post the next chapter, but I decided to post it today anyway as a form of an apology for something. What is that something, you may ask? Well... it is because I HAVE BEEN SPELLING APPLE BLOOM'S NAME WRONG THIS ENTIRE TIME. How is that even possible? Anyway, one awesome guy caught it and pointed it out, so I went through all my chapters and fixed the errors. Please forgive me for my extended bout of incompetence and don't forget to R&R!

Dimension: My Little Pony

Planet: Equestria Earth

Specific Location: Everfree Forest

Time: Five days after the arrival of Miranda

Franklin looked down at his pony form, blanched, and immediately shape-shifted back to a human form. The form stuck out in the surroundings like a sore thumb, but it seemed to fit Franklin just fine.

Daniel, on the other hoof, seemed to like his new form fine: he was a dragon, twice the size of Princess Celestia, with black spikes, a grey underbelly, and red scales covering his powerful body. He grinned, which looked quite fearsome on his new face.

"This is pretty awesome," said Daniel, admiring his claws.

Franklin transformed back into a pony, conjured up smart phone, took a selfie, and then changed back into a human. He then looked at Daniel, "I look like a freaking idiot. Why do you always get it good?"

Daniel rolled his eyes and snorted out a blast of fire. "Yeah, the tragedy. Anyways, we need to get moving. Night Shade is in that town over there."

Franklin grimaced. "Great, from what I understand, that place is inhabited by ponies. We obviously are not ponies. You are a dragon, I am a human, we in no way will blend in."

"Then I suppose we should both shape shift into pony forms," said Daniel.

There was a pause. "Screw this," said the two in unison, and they strolled off to Ponyville.

"You know, it would be a lot cooler if we were flying," said Franklin, giving Daniel a side-long glance.

Daniel, who didn't take his eyes off the town, replied, "You put one foot on my scales, and I will pound you into the ground."

Franklin shook his head. "My, someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed, er, nest today. Do dragons have naturally soured dispositions?"

"Shut up," said Daniel. Soon the forest had cleared around them, and they began to near the border. No pony had yet noticed them. Suddenly, there was a cry of distress. Cheeriliee, who had been on her way to the Ponyville schoolhouse, noticed the two. She stood stock still, quivering.

Franklin strolled up to her. He gave her a flourishing bow, took a hoof and kissed it and said, "Greetings fine madam! How are you on this fine day?"

Cheeriliee feinted. Franklin crossed his arms indignantly. "Well look at that! No respect…"

Daniel chuckled, "I am sure we're a sight. But I'm not changing forms."

Franklin rolled his eyes. "Well, neither am I. Soooooo… I guess we will have to get used to ponies having heart attacks around us. Heh, its kind of like that punching zoo I once visited in the Explosm dimension."

Daniel gaped at him. "Punching… zoo… What?"

Suddenly, voices from afar alerted them that a group of ponies were approaching. Franklin and Daniel glanced at each other, nodded, and dove into a bush. It was totally obvious Daniel wasn't hiding very well, as his whole back stuck out of the foliage, but they didn't move either way. They peeked through the branches at the group coming around the corner: It was Night Shade and the Cutie Mark Crusaders.

"This is the way to our schoolhouse!" exclaimed Sweetie Bell to Night Shade, who seemed to, for once, be completely enjoying his company, "Our teacher is Cheeriliee! She is wonderful!"

They then noticed Cheeriliee, who was still unconscious. The four stopped and looked at her. Night Shade quickly trotted up and checked her pulse, and pulled back an eyelid. He then turned to them, "She feinted out of fear. Is there anything scary around here that I should know about?"

Apple Bloom shook her head, "No! I ain't seen nothing around here scary enough to take out Cheeriliee like that!"

"Except for that poorly hiding dragon over there," said Scootaloo casually.

Daniel immediately tried to sink lower to the ground, but it was too late. The CMC and Night Shade were over there in a flash.

Daniel sighed and got up. "I am a fearsome dragon! Run for your lives!" he said halfheartedly.

Night Shade just looked at him. "Are dragons here… always like this?"

"I dunno," said Scootaloo, "According to Twilight, we know next to nothing about them!"

Then Franklin got up to take a photo of Daniel with his new smart phone. Everyone looked at him.

"Oh… hi!" he said awkwardly, "What, you guys don't have humans here? Um… awwwkkwaarrrdd…"

Night Shade recognized Franklin immediately and facehoofed. "You just couldn't take a pony form, could you?" he muttered.

Franklin pointed at himself defensively. "Hey, looking like a cute little pony is unnerving kid. Especially with all this weird 'rainbows and unicorns' theme going on here."

Night Shade looked at Daniel, who had given up looking fearsome, "Nice look Daniel."

Daniel winked, "I know right. So, who are these three?"

The Cutie Mark Crusaders were just looking at them all conversing with awe. However, when Daniel addressed them, they smiled and waved. "We're the Cutie Mark Crusaders!" exclaimed Sweetie Bell. "Pleased to meet you!"

Daniel dipped his head. "Likewise. Now, Night Shade, can you take us to one of the other dimensional travelers?"

Night Shade frowned. "What… like that?"

Franklin glared at him. "Oh no… I am NOT going to look like some mutated horse! I am staying like this!"

Daniel stroked his chin. "Should I change? I really don't want to cause too much alarm."

"Oh no! Mr. Dragon!" exclaimed Apple Bloom, "You're fine the way you are!"

There was a pause. "Could we ride you?" said Scootaloo, giving him a winning smile.

Daniel pricked up his ears, and glared at them. There was a another elongated moment of silence as neither party broke eye contact.

Finally… "Fine," growled Daniel, "Just this once."

Franklin began to laugh so hard that he almost fell over. Then Daniel smacked him across the face with his tail and he really did tumble heads-over-heels.

"Well, look on the bright side," said Night Shade as he helped the CMC onto Daniel's back, "when we go into town, Sweetie Bell, Apple Bloom, and Scootaloo will make you look less like a threat."

"Yeah, yeah, whatever. Let it never be said that I wasn't a fun guy when it came down to it," muttered Daniel.

Franklin, rubbing his head ruefully, got up and said, "Yeah, I suppose so. Let's get moving before any more weird horses start feinting."

Night Shade shouldered Cheeriliee onto his back and turned to Daniel. "This way," he said, "I'll take you to Joseph Torrus."

Franklin blinked. He then said, "Um… Torrus? I know the rumors reported that he had reformed, but don't you think he would still be a little… um… azycay in the eadhay?

Night Shade shook his head vigorously, "No way. His change is so drastic that it is almost unnerving. He's pretty nice now!"

"Our best friend!" interjected Sweetie Bell from atop Daniel's back.

"Well, great," said Daniel, still feeling a little apprehensive, "Let's get a move on, we're losing daylight."

With that, the group moved off into town. Almost immediately, they ran into Pinkie Pie, Twilight, Rarity, Spike, and Discord, who were on their way to the Ponyville train station.

The two groups stared at each other. "Sup." Said Franklin.

Rarity feinted.

"Sweetie Bell! Scootaloo! Apple Bloom! Who are you with?" exclaimed Twilight in surprise.

Sweetie Bell waved to her happily. "Oh, these are our friends! The pony is Night Shade! He's a dimensional traveler! These two…"

"These two are my friends," interjected Night Shade, "the dragon is Daniel. This… um… human, is Franklin. I apologize for our untimely appearance, as it seems you are all off to somewhere."

"Oooh, a dimensional traveler, how quaint," said Discord, who flashed out of existence, and then flashed in again next to Night Shade. "Do you know who I am, perchance?"

Daniel was the one who answered this. "You're Discordious, I believe," he said, snorting out a short blast of flame.

Discord bowed. "I am. Do my ears deceive me, or am I speaking to the great Daniel Dragoon?"

Daniel nodded his great scaly head. "You are."

Discord winked, "Then I can bet there are probably zero demons alive in all the surrounding dimensions then."

Daniel smiled a little. "I suppose not."

"Waitwaitwaitwaitwait…" said Twilight, "You two… know each other?"

Daniel nodded again. "Yes, Discord usually stays here, but he did show up to aid me totally on accident during a firefight two hundred years ago."

Franklin looked at the sky and interrupted, "I'm sorry to ruin this heart-felt reunion," he said, "but if you four are going to be going off somewhere…"

Spike, who had originally not been able to see behind all of the luggage he was carrying, dropped it and saw Daniel. His mouth dropped. "Wow!" he exclaimed, "Another dragon!"

He ran up to him and looked up in awe. "You look awesome! Are you from the dragon herds of the north?"

Daniel smiled down at the dragon baby and said, "I'm sorry, but no. I'm actually a dimensional traveler, but my body chose to take this shape when I arrived here."

Twilight looked at Franklin, meanwhile, and said, "You're a human!"

Franklin raised his eyebrows, and began to inch away as Twilight approached him. "Um, yay? Great. Soooo… how do you know about that?"

"I was one too myself once," she exclaimed, "I went to another world, where I was transformed into a human, and met all these other humans!"

Franklin continued to back away, pointedly dodging Twilight's attempts to prod him. "That's amazing! Could you stop doing that?"

Twilight blushed, "Oh… I'm sorry."

Franklin rolled his eyes. "Think nothing of it. Are you going to go off catch a plane, or train, or cab or something now?

Pinkie nodded, "We most certainly are! Oh! Nighty-Wighty! You're cake and balloons are waiting at Twilight's Library now!"

Daniel glanced at Night Shade. "Nighty-Wighty? Okay…"

Night Shade facehoofed again. "Yay, thanks Pinkie Pie. I was actually heading there now to see Sunset Shadow."

Twilight looked at Cheeriliee, who was starting to awaken. Night Shade gingerly set her down. Suddenly the magenta pony rocketed up. "Dragon! In the dungeon! I thought you might want to know… Huh?"

Daniel smiled at her in the gentlest way he could possibly manage. "Sorry about that. I forgot that I look terrifying."

"He means awesomely terrifying," corrected Franklin, who helped her up, "As for me, just consider me more awesome, that's usually how things go down around here."

Cheeriliee blinked at him. "What are you?"

Franklin gasped in mock dismay as he said, "What am I? What am I? I am a human, and I have a name! My name is Franklin Montgomery, thank you madam."

Cheeriliee, though she was still a tad bit flustered, caught on and gave him a smile. "Pleased to meet you, Mr. Montgomery."

Franklin lifted one of her hoofs and kissed it elegantly. "Please, mademoiselle, call me… Frank."

Night Shade began to laugh, and Daniel snorted out a blast of flame. Franklin felt the heat of the blast as it just skimmed past his head. He released Cheeriliee's hoof and straightened up. "Well… that's my signal to go. I do apologize for any inconvenience on my part."

Daniel wrapped his mighty tail around Franklin and dragged him off as he thundered slowly off into town.

"We really have to get going. When you wake up that white pony, pretend no one she knows was riding me. In fact, pretend we never existed," said Daniel grumpily.

Franklin waved, and mouthed the words "call me" to Cheeriliee as Daniel dragged him away.

Pinkie Pie waved enthusiastically back at the receding figures of the other group as she yelled, "Have fun causing total havoc in Ponyville! Don't forget to write!"

Twilight rolled her eyes as she helped Rarity up.

"Wha… what happened Twilight?" Rarity said as she shook her head.

Pinkie smiled at her. "Oh nothing, just a large, giant, humongous, colossal dragon-"

"What Pinkie means is that we saw nothing of importance," said Twilight, covering Pinkie's mouth with a hoof, "Right Discord?"

Discord placed a paw over his heart as he said, "Perish the thought! We saw absolutely nothing on our way here. Just some birds that looked remarkably like the Cutie Mark Crusaders riding a dragon! Nothing out of the ordinary."

The hint flew completely over Rarity's head, fortunately, and she nodded. "Oh dear, I have no idea what came over me. Anyway, let us be off, darlings! We have a train to catch! To Bray!"

With that, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Discord began to move off at a lively pace towards Ponville's train station. Twilight slowed down and let Spike catch up.

"Wow… a dragon!" exclaimed Spike in muffled tones as he carried Rarity's luggage, "I can't wait to see him again!"

Twilight smiled, "I'm sure you can't, Spike. They should be at my place when we get back. Hopefully Sunset can keep every pony under control until we get back."

With that, they all trotted off to see Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Discord off to Bray.

Meanwhile, Daniel and Franklin were causing havoc. Most ponies just quickly galloped into their homes and shut their doors as they all approached, but a few choice ponies simply fell over, unconscious. However, there was not too much of an uproar, since most of the ponies simply feinted without a sound. A few choice ponies, though, approached the group.

"Apple Bloom," exclaimed Applejack in indignation when she spotted her sister, "What in tarnation are y'all doin' up there?!"

Apple Bloom smiled innocently down at her sister and waved a hoof. "We're just fine sis! Daniel here is giving us a ride!"

"A ride?! He's a dragon!" exclaimed Applejack back.

Daniel snorted some flames in frustration as Franklin said, "He is. But don't worry, he's a harmless dragon. I don't even think he knows how to fly. Hey Daniel, do you think you could breath fire?"

"Not that you would want to try to right now," interrupted Night Shade.

Applejack looked at Franklin in suspicion. "What are you?"

Franklin rolled his eyes, "I'm a human, and a dimensional traveler. I refuse to look like a pony, so can everyone get over it? Look, Apple Bloom's sister, we are not here to barbeque your sibling, we're here to see Joseph Torrus."

Applejack blinked. "Who what now?"

"He means Sunset Shadow," said Night Shade.

Applejack nodded slowly, "Okay… but I'm coming with you!"

Daniel looked at the other pony, Ditzy Doo, who was looking at him too in surprise. "I don't suppose you want a ride too? Sorry, we're all out of room. Call back tomorrow."

With that, the group went off. As they approached Twilight's library, Night Shade knocked on the door. Sunset opened the door. He blinked, "Applejack," he said, "Why the hell is there a dragon in outside Twilight's house?"

Applejack shrugged. "I dunno. This here is Night Shade, he knows."

Sunset facehoofed. "Night Shade…"

He then looked at Franklin. "Great… Franklin… And is that… Daniel?"

He looked at the dragon. Daniel nodded. "Who are you again?"

Sunset grimaced. He then said, "I'm Joseph Torrus."

Daniel immediately glared coldly at him. "Joseph… It's so… nice to see you again."

Sunset stared evenly back. "I agree. Be careful Daniel, you have my friends riding your back."

Franklin broke the tension. "Hey! Joseph! It's so AWESOME to see you again buddy! When did we last meet? It was like when you were blasting that moon to pieces right? Totally rad if you know what I mean… heh…"

Sunset smiled calmly as Fluttershy poked her head around the door.

"Oh my," she said as she spotted Daniel. She immediately hid behind Sunset, who stood squarely in the door to protect his wife.

After a while, Daniel sighed. "I'm sorry," he said, "It's just you tried to kill me last time we met."

Sunset nodded. "I know, I am sorry. I was a different person, but I have changed. If you want confirmation, ask any pony in Equestria."

Franklin tried to break the tension again. "Cool! Nice place right?"

Sunset turned to Franklin and winked. "I know right? So, what are you guys doing here?"

Franklin winked back. "Oh, we died, and fate sent us to the land of Equestria to protect it from a great evil! Just kidding, we came here because the arch-demon Malpas had told us the Legion had destroyed this place."

Sunset nodded, "Night Shade told me a bit about that. Operation Astrol, as we know it, was never completed. It seems that Legion lied to the Grand Demon to achieve some other plan that he deemed of greater importance. So much so that he held his life in lower regard."

Daniel settled down as he let the Cutie Mark Crusaders hop off his back. "We really have no other plan of action now."

Suddenly Flaming Star joined the group. He turned the corner and stopped dead in his tracks. He looked at the group outside Twilight's library.

"Oh… Well… This is new," he said.

He then spotted Franklin. "Oh my god. Franklin Montgomery… you're not dead… I think my heart just skipped a beat."

There was a pause. Then Flaming Star laughed. "Wow! I can't believe it! You're alive! We're not alone!"

He went up and slapped Franklin on the back. Then he noticed Daniel. There was a deathly pause as Flaming Star recognized who he was looking at.

"Daniel." He said tersely.

"Firstborn." Said Daniel back.

Sunset facehoofed. "Wow, Daniel, you really got to work on making friends more often. Did you not get along with the firstborn either?"

"No, no, he's okay," said Flaming Star, not taking his eyes off Daniel, "it's just we don't see eye to eye sometimes… most of the time."

Daniel sighed. "Look," he said, "I'm not here to stir up hostilities, heaven knows we have enough, we have a major issue coming up, and I need to talk about it with you."

Night Shade spoke up, "Um… hasn't Pinkie Pie prepared a party for me in that library?"

Sunset brightened up. "Oh yeah… that. Come in every pony!"

Night Shade eyed Daniel. "Um… how is he going to fit?"

Daniel winked. "I am not changing my form. I'll hang out here."

Flaming Star, who still was looking at Daniel then said, "Oh, I'll stay out here with him. We can discuss these 'major issues.'"

Sunset rolled his eyes. He and Fluttershy threw the door open and the ponies and Franklin moved on into the house. In a few moments, the festivities commenced with the Pinkie party.

While this was going on, Daniel and Flaming Star sat outside.

"Well, what is it that you need to talk to me about?" said Flaming Star.

Daniel took a deep breath. "Remember the battle of the white planes in the Warriors dimension?"

Flaming Star's eyes darkened. "The creatures from that other multiverse. Why do you speak of them out in the open?"

"They're back," replied Daniel, "my team and I encountered one a week or so back."

"This is grievous news," said Flaming Star, "are you positive?"

"Positive."

Flaming Star was about to say something else when he was joined by Twilight and Spike.

"Hello every pony!" said Twilight brightly, "Why aren't you two inside?"

"I can't fit," said Daniel as he began to shift uncomfortably away from Spike.

"I was here talking to him," added Flaming Star, "Are you going to join the rest?"

Twilight smiled and sat down next to him. "No, I will be fine out here with you two. How about you Spike?"

Spike waved his claws in a general direction. "Yeah, yeah… I'll be fine. Daniel, can you breath fire?"

Daniel grinned awkwardly. "I have no idea. I don't think I should try though."

Flaming Star sat, staring blankly off into the distance as he contemplated the information he had just received. He turned to Twilight, "Are you ready for our journey to the Frozen north?"

Twilight smiled and hugged him. "I'm ready whenever you are."

Abruptly a scream erupted from the house, "DEMONS! THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!"

Immediately Daniel's eyes lit up with deadly fire. His ears pricked up and he scanned the area. "Where?" he snarled.

Flaming Star frowned. "That's Miranda. The other dimensional traveler."

Daniel narrowed his eyes. "She doesn't sound very well…"

Flaming Star bit his lip. "She isn't right in her mind right now. Nightmares and the like, you understand."

Daniel's eyes softened. "Could I… could I see her?"

Flaming Star nodded. "Come around the back. You can look through the window."

With that, Daniel went around the library to look on through the window as Twilight and Flaming Star went to comfort Miranda from the inside. The pony was tossing and turning in a feverish frenzy as she muttered about torture and demons.

"Is there anything we can do for her?" said Night Shade, his eyes full of pain for Miranda.

"Nothing that I can think of yet," said Flaming Star, "she's been teetering between sanity for a bit now."

"No... no… no," muttered Miranda, "you will never get anything from me… You will only get my personal information, you hear?! Miranda Arkine. Dimensional Orientation: PD-7. Power tier: 7. 79th generation."

Franklin's face turned deathly white. "What did she just say?"

"Her personal info," said Night Shade, "Miranda Arkine."

Franklin began to tremble. "That's my sister."

Note: Franklin has a sister?! I am apparently really good at cliffhangers. Oh, by the way, don't forget about reading the "The Ultimatum" chapter, it appears some people have skipped over it, thanks! And thanks for all the feedback! You guys are awesome!