Chapter one: The unicorn device

Canterlot, Equestria

January 17th, 2728 (UNSC calendar)

Terminal Velocity threw his backpack onto his couch and sighed. He had just gotten back from his job at Celestia's school for gifted unicorns as a security officer.

He removed his security barding and tossed it next to his backpack. He went over to his fridge and grabbed a sarsaparilla, popped the cap off and slugged down the soft drink.
He plopped down in his chair and picked up his coffee from the morning. It was cold now but he didn't mind.

"Ugh." He said.

He had just gone on vacation. He wanted to visit his old friend Twilight down in ponyville for about a week. The day had been terrible. Twice he had wrangle up some drunk teenagers that were vandalizing the school.

Suddenly a dark purple mare with a blond mane and violet eyes walked into the living room from the bedroom.

"Hey, Terminal." Rain Chaser, Terminal Velocity's girlfriend said.

"Hey, Rain Chaser."

"How was your day?"

"Terrible. Dumb kids tried to break some windows."

"Teenagers these days."

"Yeah. Hey i'm gonna go see my friend Twilight down in Ponyville. I hope you don't mind."

"No not at all." Rain chaser replied.

"Alright thanks."

"I'll be waiting for you when I get back." Rain Chaser kissed Terminal on the lip.
"Ok, be back in a few days, honey."

Terminal opened the door to the apartment and took to the sunny blue skies of Equestria.

Ponyville, Equestria

Terminal landed on mane street. He chuckled a bit at the streets name. He trotted down the road past city hall and towards the Library where Twilight lived. The library was a tree quite basically that was hollowed out with a room upstairs and a library downstairs.
Terminal knocked on the door.

When the door opened it revealed a small purple dragon with green scales.

"Twilight! Someones at the door!" He yelled.

Twilight a lavender unicorn with purple hair with a pink stripe came rushing down the stairs.

"Twilight!" Terminal exclaimed.

"Oh hey Terminal. You here already?"

"Yeah. So what you been up to. It's been a while."

"I've just been working on a project the princess gave me last month."

"Oh yeah. What's it about."

"Oh no." Spike said.

"Well..."

Canterlot Castle, Canterlot

One month ago

Twilight strolled into the throne room. On the large throne at the end of the room was Princess Celestia the over 1,000 year old ruler of Equestria. She had a snow white coat with a waving mane of many colors.

Beside her was Luna the co-ruler of Equestria who had a dark blue coat and a shimmering blue mane.

"Welcome, my faithful student." Celestia said.

"Hey Princess I got your letter. What is it you want to tell me?"

"Well not many know the true history of Equestria from the ancient times a thousand years ago. I will tell you these things and give you an assignment."

"Ok princess. I love a good history lesson."

"Good, long ago during Discord's reign over the land Luna and I were born on an Island off the coast of Manehattan. The island is forbidden today and is patrolled by ships and Pegasi as it contains the reason of life here in Equestria. Why we're all here. Luna and I were Alicorns as you can see and we're 2 of the only 3 in existence. That is because we were born on the island. It contains the most powerful magic in all of Ponykind. The rainbow factory in Cloudsdale has only one of the magical crystals from the island and it hasn't stopped working since. But anyway. We were taught by the resistance that we could someday defeat Discord. We went on a quest to the crescent Island to retrieve six crystals. We arranged them in a pattern and used our magic combined with the energy of the island to create the elements harmony. They are truly crystals from the great island. We used them to cleanse evil from our land. We turned Discord to stone and Sombra to shadow. And eventually we used it to teleport Luna to the moon. The island is the place of origin. I've discovered that an alien species brought us here. Come follow me I have something to show you."

Celestia went over to her throne and pushed a hidden button. The floor opened up to a stairwell similar to that in the crystal empire. Celestia, Luna, and Twilight descended down the stairs. At the bottom of the stairwell was a door. Celestia opened the door and it revealed a large metal pod. It was crashed into the side of the mountain. The entire city was built around this great metal pod.

"What is that?" Twilight asked.

"This is where the unicorns were born." Luna replied. "We were once all like earth ponies from another world. We didn't look as we were now. But ana alien race was bringing us somewhere with machines that ran on pure magic. They wanted to save us from something but I don't know what. You are now the fifth pony alive to know about our race's origins. Similar pods are buried in Manehattan and Las Pegusus. They were the place of birth for the other types of ponies. All of the other creatures such as the ones from the Everfree were born well in the everfree. The temple for the elements is built upon four of these pods."

"I don't understand. What does this have to do with me?" Twilight asked.

"I want to make contact with the outside world. But first we need technology we don't possess. I want you to create a teleporter. A device that will allow us to travel anywhere on the planet even if they don't have magic. I will give you amy recourse you need. I have a chest of crystals from the crescent Island.

"Ok Princess I'm on it."

Ponyville, Equestria

Present day

"...So I need your help to test the teleporter." Twilight finished.

"Ok. Where am I going?" Terminal asked.

"Just across town." Twilight replied. "Follow me."

Terminal and Twilight walked into another section of the library where there was a strange stone device. 3 pillars rose in a triangular pattern. At the top of these pillars were magic crystals. In the center on the bottom of the device was a large blue circular crystal. It was the same color as the element of laughter.

The control panel was metal and had many buttons and panels. It had the logo of SHI on it. Obviously provided by Lyra.

"Just stand on the blue focusing crystal and we can begin." Twilight said as she put on some scientist goggles.

Terminal stood on the light blue crystal. It began to glow as he stood there. Beams of magic connected the 3 crystals on top of the spires. The teleporter began to whir with sounds.

"Ok hang on just gotta adjust this..." Twilight said as she fiddled with the control panel.
Suddenly the panel sparked and the whiring accelerated. It sounded like a fan on high times 10.

"Uh. Twilight."

"Stupid Ministry of Technology junk." She hit the console.

Tendrils of magic began to form around Terminal.

"Don't Move Terminal!"

"Twilight!"

Suddenly the sound of a transporter accured and a bright flash blinded Twilight. And Terminal was gone.

"Uh oh." Twilight said.

UNSC orbital scanner satellite, in orbit around Earth

The satellite was operating on a skeleton crew as most people were out on exploration missions or were getting ready to go on the Infinity-IV.

Ensign Lafler was on his station sipping a Dr. Pepper. Suddenly a ping appeared on his console. He detected a large RSN burst in Detroit.

Lafler did a spit take and scanned for explosions as RSN could be used in Nukes. It was a small burst on Adams, street. No fires. Just a pure burst of RSN. Lafler noted it as an minor anomaly in his logs and continued scanning for other anomalies.

A/N This takes place after magical Mystery cure. Instead of Twilight going all Alicorn she got invited to the castle to help construct a teleporter