A beautiful day in Equestria, it was, as Celestia's glowing orb had risen over the lands. Everypony began to wake up and got ready for today. Foals were getting ready for school while stallions and mares were getting ready for work. This was the everyday life of every pony, but, sometimes, there would be some phenomenon that would occur in the country, but it mainly occurs in a place called "Ponyville" where strange stuff happens all the time.

Up and early, Princess Twilight Sparkle was getting ready for a special occasion. stretching her wings, she walked over to the windows to open the curtains and tried to wake her assistant, Spike, from his sleep. "Spike, it's time to wake up," she said, but Spike didn't budge. He was too sound asleep to be awaken.

"Oh, Rarity, tell how much I mean to you," Spike started talking in his sleep and having the one dream he loves. Frowning, Twilight didn't have time for Spike's sleep talking. The young alicorns' horn glowed as a field of magical aura engulfed the baby dragon, lifting him up into the air and waking him up from his dream. Spike woke up with a confused look on his face.

Looking at the face of his caretaker/employer, Spike greeted while rubbing the back of his head, "Twilight, why did you wake me up for?" Twilight placed Spike back in his bed while arching one eyebrow.

"Don't you remember, Spike. We're going to the park for a picnic with the girls," the alicorn princess replied. Spike let out a loud yawn as he walked out of his bed. He looked at his alarm clock and turned to Twilight. "It's 6AM in the morning. Nopony's going to be at the park in this hour, except for Big Mac, I think," deadpanned Spike.

Twilight shrugged her shoulders and commented, "Well, you know what they say 'the early bird gets the worm'."

With her saddlebag around her waist, Twilight and Spike walked out of the Golden Oak Library to do some shopping for their picnic. Twilight was excited about it while Spike, on the other hand, wanted to go back to sleep. The alicorn and her assistant were at the marketplace. She wanted to get something for the picnic so that she and her friends would enjoy together; however, since it was still early, not many ponies were at the market to begin with. Only a number of about thirty bystanders were out shopping. From stand to stand, Twilight purchased the following items on hers list:

"Lettuce"

"Tomatoes"

"Asparagus"

"Cheese"

"Dandelions"

"Roses"

"Pasta"

After she finished her grocery shopping, Twilight was ready to head home, but she needed to wake up Spike who was sleeping on top of a box filled with onions. By the time Twilight and Spike returned home, it was already 8AM in the morning.
"Looks like we have everything we need to make 'vegiravioli' for the picnic, Spike. Now, I'm going to need your help in making the dish," Twilight said as she looked back at Spike. Then, suddenly, the sky started to turn a greenish color of black. Everypony looked and were astonished, yet alarmed, by the occurrence. "What's up with the sky, Twilight? It was blue a second ago."
Twilight's jaw dropped from the sky's sudden change in color. She responded to Spike in a uncertain tone of voice, "I'm not sure, Spike, but I don't think this is normal. We have get back and warn the-" unbeknownst to them, a large bolt of blue lightning struck down in an area five feet away in the east from where they were standing, followed by a large gust of wind. "That can't be good."

Twilight told Spike to "hop on" and soon dashed to where the lighting struck. "Hold on, Spike," she said, extending her wings and preparing to take off into the sky. She watched the blue lightning and was intrigue. usually, lightning doesn't strike in the same place...twice! but this was an exception because instead of striking the ground twice, the lightning bolt struck four times, leaving a large crater located in the park, on the spot of where Twilight and her friends were supposed to have a picnic. Flying past the alicorn princess was a colorful blur flying even faster than Twilight Sparkle, herself. It was so fast, it caused the young alicorn to spin around until she stopped. Twilight knew what that blur was and shouted "Rainbow Dash" right to it. The blur stopped and revealed itself to be the cyan, rainbow-maned Pegasus pony, Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow Dash turned around and responded in an excited tone of voice, "Twilight, did you see that?! The sky turned green and now a bolt of blue lightning struck the ground! It was so awesome! Well, not as awesome as me because I'm 20% more awesome that, but it was still awesome! So, I saw it from my house and came down to get a closer look!" She was so excited, it was almost close to Pinkie Pie's.

Speaking of which, Pinkie Pie appeared, hopping below where the two were floating and she wasn't alone. Rarity, Applejack, and Fluttershy were right behind her. They tried to keep their hooves on the ground at all times, but it was hard because of the powerful windstorm. Applejack was peculiar about this strange event like the others and began asking the young alicorn, "Twilight, what in tarnation is going here? Ah was gettin' ready to buck some apple at Sweet Apple Acres when, all of a sudden, the sky started turnin' green and a bolt of blue lightnin' hit the park."

"The lightning strikes were so scary, many of the animals I was taking care of became frightened," Fluttershy remarked in her timid tone of voice. "I hope nopony got hurt."

"Twilight, darling, do you know what's going on?! If don't do anything about it, soon, all of Ponyville will be destroyed!" Suddenly, a clump of mud appeared and struck Rarity in the face. She screamed " Ah, it's in my hair!" and ran back to the Carousal Boutique to wash it off.

Now, Pinkie Pie had a different view. Flying in the gusts of wind, Pinkie Pie was having fun as she glided in the air. Come to think of it, she was a natural at gliding, "Wee! This is fun! I don't why your' all complaining!" until she got hit by a tree. "Never mind!"

Landing on the ground, Twilight and Spike, along with Rainbow Dash, walked up to their friends and said to them with a puzzled expression, just like the ones they had, "I don't know what's happening, girls, but it seems that there is a rift in the magical plane. In other words, something is coming into our world and I don't think its friendly."

Twilight, along with her friends, excluding Rarity who wasn't with them at the moment, started to notice how the windstorm was dying down and, also, the lightning strikes had stopped, as well. Then the sky started to turn blue, again. When it was safe to say it, Twilight and her friends walked closer to the crater and were surprised as to what they found in it.

In the crater was a creature with an appearance that seemed "alien" to anypony. It looked about 5-foot-6 in height with its skin having an olive colored tone and its face somewhat triangular in bonestructure. it was completely hairless, having a black mane with blonde bangs as an exception. Lastly, it was fully clothed, wearing clothes consisting of a pair of blue jeans, a white-buttoned shirt with a green jacket over it, and a pair of black boots with straps on it.

"What do ya reckon' it is, girls?" inquired Applejack.

"I don't know, but I can tell you that it's not from our world," replied Twilight.

"Wow, look at it, its got paws just like me," Spike stated.

"I wonder if we can keep it, if that's okay with you, guys?" Fluttershy asked, meekly.

"Heehee, its is so funny looking!" Pinkie Pie started to laugh from seeing the creature in the crater.

They then saw the creature was injured, noticing the blood on its forehead and chest. They didn't want to see it die. Twilight and her friends tried getting the creature out of the crater and took it to the hospital. From the looks of it, Twilight could tell it was sentient, which means she wanted to ask it a lot of questions.

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