[color=violet][h2][center]Twilight Sparkle - Mahora[/center][/h2][/color]

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[color=violet][i]Not good... this was not good... notgoodnotgoodnotgood!... That's exactly what this was, anything 'but' good!... What... is... HAPPENING?!'[/i][/color]

There she had been, just enjoying her morning coffee which was typically a requirement of energizing her enough to make the day go well, when the world had just vanished from around her and left her plummeting what would surely have been a fatal distance to the ground well beyond terminal velocity. Yet aside from being a rough landing it hadn't seemed to really injure anything, which she wasn't sure if it was supposed to be that way or if she should attribute it to earth pony qualities at play.

Now here she was laying in a crater with her hair an unbrushed mess and a bruised backside, staring up at an unfamiliar sky as well as foreign buildings around her, more buildings farther in the distance, and even a tall black thing far enough away that she couldn't make out details on it. She was also vaguely aware of her coffee cup sitting next to her in the dirt, still half full, but she now possessed a vastly more invigorating problem than morning drowsiness and was unfortunately teetering on the edge of an episode.

That was about when her brain sortof 'clicked' and she took a deeeep breath, pressing a hoof to her chest and exhaling while pulling it away... Rinse... and Repeat... Ahhh, glorious breathing exercises, they might be mostly symbolic but if it works then works!

In the next moment she rolled over, beat her wings, and took to the air with her partial coffee in tow, already taking a sip from it as she slowed to a hover high enough to get a view of the environment... It only took a few moments both to drain her coffee [color=violet][i]'ahhh, glorious coffee'[/i][/color] and to notice the seemingly patchwork nature of the land around her which gave her a single glaring idea for how this happened that simultaneously annoyed and calmed her. She banished her coffee cup to somewhere and proceeded to shout [b][color=violet]"DIIISSSCOOORRRD!!!"[/color][/b] It wouldn't be the first time she'd done it, she'd noted some voices nearby in passing but had ignored them in favor of her 'favorite' immortal annoyance.

[i][color=brown]'don't look at 'me' purplesmart. I'm going to bypass the inevitable time-wasting disbelief and pre-empt you by pointing out that I had nothing to do with this and am completely unable to bring you back. you can only hear me because of the lingering trail and that will be gone in a few seconds.'[/color][/i]

Welp... That put her at a loss [color=violet]"um... I... whu?"[/color] it was weird enough to hear him in her head, but to hear him sounding 'serious' disturbed her more than anything else.

[i][color=brown]'elegant as always... I'll let your friends know you're alive and we'll all try to do what we can, but you're probably on your own since even 'I' can't slow down the narrowing trail. Good luck Sparkle Butt, You're tougher than you think you are.'[/color][/i]

Then silence, into which she whispered as she felt the weirdness of even his 'voice' vanish completely [color=violet]"I... Discord?..."[/color] it was a terribly meek tone, surely nobody else would have heard it... 'That' honestly terrified her, that someone she knew to be able to warp reality with a snap of his fingers couldn't even maintain a way to talk to her. Now she really was on the verge of a proper break-down born of ignorance of her situation and panic for the sake of panic... when she heard someone shouting quite loudly and it ripped her attention aside [i][color=violet]'YES! 'that'! Focus on something else, don't start losing control, someone else probably needs help too!.'[/color][/i]

At least, that was the primary thought in her mind until she actually spun around to get a look at the general area of the voices below... [color=violet][i]'wait... Humans?! well, not the ones I saw, but they're just too similar not to be humans, but I'm obviously not in 'that' world, the mirror wasn't even hooked up, and Discord wouldn't have nearly as much trouble peeking over into 'that' world.'[/i][/color] That was enough of that, she started gliding down towards this strange creature, noting the others nearby but pegging him as the one who was shouting.

It was a taller one, and strangely built... was it male? probably, it didn't have any of the female human characteristics she was familiar with, but it was definitely bigger than the males she'd seen too, so maybe it was another type of gender... Celestia's orders be damned, she needed to study other species more when she got back, humans especially, only ever seeing the ground of a single school is not suitable for a comprehensive understanding of an entire species. That was neither here nor there, she wanted to see if this one was in trouble, but he seemed to be armed... she thought? It was hard to tell if most of those things on him were weapons, but one thing clearly resembled a sort of scrapped together axe thing.

Either way, it was enough to keep her focused on hovering several meters away, ready to fly or teleport away if he suddenly came after her and putting on an admittedly uneasy and halfhearted smile as she called out [color=violet]"Erm, excuse me, but are you in trouble sir? and why would anyone be trying to stab you? You seem... intimidating enough to stop ideas like that."[/color] Well that was dumb! It's rude to call people intimidating like that, now what if he takes offense and does something mean back?!

Poor Twilight was just not on her game right now.

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[h2][color=darkred]Big Boss - Somewhere in Mahora[/color][/h2]

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Another arrival's landing was far less bothersome. In-fact, He kindof just returned to focusing on the world around him, realizing that he was half-buried in settling dust and dirt with a cigar still sticking out of his mouth... [color=red]"Ugh... Did I zone out and get buried? I need to rethink these cigars."[/color] funny the possibilities that open up when you smoke a cigar laced with a drug that alters your perception of time huh?

Indeed, he hadn't even noticed that he'd been dropped out of the sky, for his mind it had blitzed by so fast it was like little more than a flash of a dream, but it was time to come back to reality to get himself situated.

It only took a quick check to realize his gear was all still intact and he had not actually been captured and stripped down, he was just laying half-buried in a crater of some kind... with some voices audible somewhere nearby, something that spurred him into greater action as he suddenly rolled over and began scrambling up to the edge of the shallow crater so that he could peek over... Insufficient sight-lines.

He quickly rolled over the edge and sprinted for the nearest object of cover, being the corner of some jumbo sized red-building, which he pressed firmly against to peek around the edge... [color=red][i]'what the hell?... Did someone drug my cigars again? what kind of crackpot hallucination is 'this'? flying... horse things? big monkeys?... Did that girl have a monster coming out of her skull? Why do I feel like this would make Huey squeal like a school girl?... Still, it's not the weirdest thing I've seen so far.'[/i][/color] for the moment he simply checked and readied his Riot SMG and settled in to listen to the conversation, hoping they would provide some insight into what was going on.