Tesla high was abuzz with activity. Everywhere parents fussed over their children while GD experts looked them over making sure they were okay. Where there had been a part of the school was now a gaping hole that was now roped off and was being inspected by several men in hazmat suits.

Alison bit her lip as she looked over the activity. Mentally she was berating herself for being unable to keep Zoe safe. At the sound of a car, Alison paused her mental beration. Turning, she watched as Henry's car pulled up and Henry stepped out.

"I got your call Alison." He spoke as he walked up. "What was it you wanted me fo-!"

Henry stood there as he caught sight of the chaos at the school.

"Henry." Alison said after a minute, calling Henry out of his stupor. "I called you here because I have reason to believe this has something to do with your transporter."

"What happened and how is this connected to my transporter?" Henry asked in full analytical mode.

"A chunk of the school was engulfed in a ball of magenta and white before it vanished, taking the chunk of school with it."

At that Henry's face turned dead serious. "I want you to begin scanning for any clues to where it went." Alison finished.

Henry nodded. He then returned to his truck to collect his equipment. As he moved to the site Alison spoke.

"Henry. Zoe was in that part of the building. Please tell me there's some way you can tell me she's alive."

Henry nodded understandingly. "I'll let you know when I've got anything."

/

Jack rushed to the schoolhouse and threw himself at the warped wooden door. After a couple rams he finally forced it open. Inside the schoolhouse Carter saw that the chunk of Tesla high had materialized vertically in the middle of the schoolroom, almost filling the whole room. Finding an opening, Carter climbed into the chunk of high school. Because the building was vertical and unsteady, Carter braced himself before calling.

"ZOE!" He shouted up the strip of building. Nothing but an echo in response. Bracing himself against the wall, Carter began to climb upwards calling all the way.

"ZOE!" Silence. "ZOE!" More silence. "ZOE!" At this point he'd climbed almost to the top of the building. Just as Carter was wondering if it was a good or bad sign that she wasn't answering a voice reached his ears.

"DAD?!" Carter's heart lept to his chest as he heard his daughter's voice coming from the classroom in front of him.

"ZOE?!" He answered as he climbed towards the voice.

"DAD I'M UP HERE!"

"I'M COMING, JUST STAY PUT!" By then Carter had reached the door and saw Zoe's panicked face in the window.

"Dad what's going on?!" Zoe asked as he began to kick at the extremely warped door.

"I'm not completely sure and what I do know is a long story I'll explain later. But right now...I need to..get..this..door open."

Zoe's eyes widened as she opened her mouth to say something while she pointed behind him. Before she could say anything however, a woosh sounded next to his ear followed by a bang and a crack. Blinking, Carter saw two orange hooves planted on the door, a crack across it. The next instant the door flung open sending Zoe tumbling out of the room. Without thinking Carter reached out and grabbed her, his grip on the hall slipping and sending them both sliding down the inverted building.

Flailing, Carter's hand brushed against something soft. Automatically he snatched it and held on tight. Almost instantly, their fall began to slow to a stop. Now that they were steady Carter was able to see what exactly had happened. In his hand, Carter saw that he'd grabbed what looked like a fistful of color.

Blinking he saw that the fistful of color was in fact rainbow colored hair. Looking up he saw that he was actually holding Rainbow Dash's tail. The pegasus in question was in fact flapping her wings furiously while clinging onto one of the open classroom doors. At the realization that he was pulling on the mare's tail, Carter almost released it. The fact that she was keeping them from plunging to a painful and possibly deadly drop kept him from actually doing it.

As Rainbow pulled them up, Carter looked around and spotted Applejack not too far away. Surrounded by a baby blue light, she floated down at the same pace. As he thought about it though, he guessed that it was Applejack who'd kicked the door in. Finally Rainbow pulled them up to the doorframe where Carter set Zoe next to him. He then released the tail smiling sheepishly as Rainbow settled next to him as she rubbed herself.

"Sorry about the tail." He apologized. Rainbow however just grinned at him.

"Are you kidding me?!" She exclaimed. "That was such a rush! I was rushing up to save you three when I missed! Can you believe it?! Me! Miss! But then you! You're a fast thinker!" At that she jabbed her hoof at his chest. "You just grabbed my tail and I took it from there

"Uh, thanks."

"No problem!" Rainbow said with gusto. Carter then felt a tugging on his sleeve and turn to Zoe who was staring at the blue and rainbow mare.

"Th-th-that horse is talking." She stuttered.

"Oh um honey." He said placing his hand on her shoulder drawing her attention to him. "Just go with it. Its something regular here."

"And where exactly is here?" Panic edging into her voice.

"I'll explain later." Carter promised. "But right now we need to get down."

"Say no more!" Rainbow's loud answer caused Carter and Zoe to jump. "I can get us down, no problem."

With a flap of her wings she hovered in front of them, holding her hoof out to them.

"Just hang on tight and I'll get us down before you can say 'Rainbow Dash is awesome!'"

Carter wrapped his arm around Zoe's waist as said girl stared speechless at the flying horse. As she opened her mouth to say something her father interrupted.

"Yes she can fly, now hold on tight." Zoe's mouth clamped shut with a snap and she threw her arms around her father.

With his daughter secure Carter reached up and took hold of Rainbow's hoof. As she lowered them Zoe stared at Rainbow Dash. At the bottom they were met by Applejack, Rarity and Pinkie Pie. Applejack was looking them over for injuries she could see. Rarity was fussing over how dirty they both were and Pinkie Pie was practically exploding over the massive 'Welcome to Ponyville' party she was going to throw. And Zoe looked overwhelmed by the strange talking horses surrounding her.

Figuring it would be best to step in before his daughter had a nervous breakdown, Carter cleared his throat to call attention.

"Zoe." He began. "I'd like to introduce you to Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash. Girls, I'd like to introduce you to my daughter, Zoe."

At first there was a moment of quiet before the four ponies exploded in exclamations.

"Yer a father?!"

"My my. What a beautiful daughter she is."

"Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh!"

"She doesn't look anything like you."

As the four mares clamored, Zoe turned to Carter fear, confusion and panic in her eyes.

"WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?!"

/

"It's definitely my experiment." Henry reported at Nathan's office at GD. Besides Mr. Stark the room was also occupied by Alison, Fargo, and Jo. "Only it's a little different."

"When you say 'a little', how much do you really mean?" Jo asked.

"A lot." Henry then pulled up a screen displaying white and magenta light. "Before Alison called me, I was able to examine the interfering signal. From what I can tell it's a super powered transmission signal."

"So you're saying someone jacked up their phone before making a call?" Nathan asked incredulously.

"More then just 'jacked up.'" Henry then zoomed in on the magenta color. "In all my years I've never seen ANYTHING like this. It's not just souped up, but it also carries some power of it's own and if I didn't know better, I'd say it's ever so slightly alive. Unfortunately there wasn't much data from the original explosion. Till now."

Henry then pulled up another image of the purple and white light. Only this time it looked less like something that crashed together and more like it was inseparably entwined.

"From my scannings of the residual signal I found at the school, it appears as though when the signals crossed they sort of meshed together to create some new. Something I've never seen. Not only that, but it's almost like it's alive. Not sentient, but alive."

"Well this gets better and better." Stark commented sarcastically.

"Oh yes it does." Henry agreed.

"There's more, isn't there?" Alison asked. Henry nodded.

"I believe I've isolated the source of the signal. Sort of."

"Right. Name, address and if he's a GD employee, fire them. Where'd it come from?"

"Nowhere." They all gave him a questioning look.

"I thought we all agreed it came out of nowhere, Henry." Jo reminded him.

"Exactly. It quite literally came out of nowhere and meshed with my signal causing an overload. The same thing happened on the other end."

"Henry you're not making any sense." Alison pointed out.

"Ever heard of The String Theory?"

"Of course I've heard of The String Theory." Stark exasperatedly answered Henry's question. "It theorizes the possibility of different dimensions."

"Exactly." Henry said triumphantly. There was a long pause before Fargo spoke.

"Are you suggesting that the signal originated from a different dimension? A different world?"

"Exactly."

"Henry that's not possible. Nobody's been able to prove the String Theory right."

"Nobody's been able to prove it wrong either. Until now." Excitement was evident in his voice. "Somehow, my signal and another signal from another from a different universe punched through the separation between dimensions, crossed between each other and created a rift."

"A what?" Jo asked.

"A rift." At this point Henry's voice lowered. "Not only have the two signals created something new and alive, but they've also created a rift. What happened at the school was the rift pulling a chunk of the school to other side."

Alison let out a sigh. "So Zoe and Carter alive?"

"Yes. But soon enough that won't matter."

"That..doesn't sound good."

"Thank you Captain Obvious." Nathan sighed at Fargo. "So what are we looking at here?"

"Well according to my calculations the rift is already expanding. It will suck in more and more things before eventually the two worlds will collide."

"Doesn't sound too bad." Jo commented.

"In Eureka, its anything but."

"What will happen Henry?" Alison asked.

"Well, theoretically speaking the two universes will probably either fuse together or destroy each other."

At that there was silence. "You don't mind if I wish for the former rather than the later would you?" Fargo finally asked.

/

Celestia jumped at the bang of the door of her tower as it slammed open. Dropping her book she turned to the door. There standing in the doorframe Celestia saw Spike.

"Spike! I didn't know you-." Before she could finish, the little dragon rushed forward and latched onto her leg. And where his face was she could feel wetness.

"Spike, wha-."

"Something bad happened to Twilight!" He shouted out before she could finish.

Alarm and confusion shot through the celestial ruler. Regaining composure, she pried Spike off of her. Using her magic to lift him she saw fear and worry in his tear stained eyes. Placing him on her bed she settled next to him and offered him a hoofkerchief.

"Now please Spike, explain." She asked as he wiped his tears and blew his nose.

"Well." He sniffed. "This morning I came to Canterlot to help Twilight with an experiment with a new spell. A communication spell. We'd already tested over short distances and we were preparing to test long distance. Well, I was at the Sparkle house when the test started. It was going very well. The ball of magic that would allow us to talk face to face was beginning to form when suddenly it began to destabilize and warp with some sort of white light then it blew.

"Fortunately Twilight's parents weren't there when it blew. I had to tell them the scorch marks on their wall was my fault. But the trains have stopped till tomorrow and I've sent fifty letters with no reply." At this point Spike was beginning to breakdown. "I'm so scared and didn't know what else to but come here."

As Spike cried Celestia blinked and passed him another hoofkerchief. At the end of his story she felt knots of worry tie themselves in her stomach. She opened her mouth to say something to comfort him when something caught her eye. An arch of white and magenta electricity curling around the window sill. Before she could say anything about it however, a reverberating thud shook the entire tower.

With a snap and a crackle the walls of the tower were covered in more arches of the magenta and white electricity that seemed to solidify into a sort of wall of electricity.

"W-what's going on?!" Spike asked in alarm as he once more clutched her leg. Instantly she pulled the little dragon closer.

"Stay close." She told him as she eyed the strange light. "I've never seen anything like this before."

/

Luna sat in her tower drawing sketches for tonight's night sky. She was considering shooting stars when she felt a thud and heard a strange crackling sound. Looking out her window she saw great arches of white and magenta electricity covering the entire tower in a strange light. Alarmed she flew out her window to the tower.

As she flew however, the tower vanished just as Luna flew reached it. Confused, she paused in the middle of where the tower was.

/

By the time they reached the hospital Carter had finished explaining everything to his daughter and the ponies.

"So ya think that this 'Henry' has something ta do with what happened?" Applejack summed up.

"Not think. Know. The explosion that brought me here was white and magenta. And according to that Miss. Cheerilee wasn't it?" Applejack nodded affirmation. "Anyways according to Cheerilee that chunk of Tesla high appeared with sparks of white and magenta electricity."

Carter paused. "Maybe what happened to your friend is also connected."

"What makes you think that?" Rarity asked.

"Well think about it, she's in that hospital because according to the neighbors there was an explosion."

"You think she has something to do with the explosion and the schoolhouse?" Pinkie asked.

"Its very possible. So what was she doing?"

They all shrugged. "Hard ta say. She didn't say anythin' about any experiments. But that probably because she didn't wanna reveal it till she had it right. The only pony who would know anything would be her."

"Or Spike." Rainbow added to Applejack's explanation. "Which reminds me, where is he?"

/

"So how do we close the rift?" Alison asked.

"Still working on that." Henry then pulled up a scanner. "However there is a bright side. With the readings I've gotten, I've been able to put the info into my scanner here. So when the signal resurfaces we'll know."

Suddenly the scanner let out a high pitched screeching whine. Then a thud shook the ground quickly followed by a crackling and the screams of several people. When things finally felt steady they looked to each other before getting up from where they'd fallen, they rushed out of Nathan's office. Right there in the middle of GD was what looked like a massive tower of smooth white stone that seemed to have been jammed through the roof and down several floors. Like a spear.

All around them, as the people ran around confused and panicking, they simply stood there gaping at the new addition before Jo finally spoke up.

"Well, it works."

/

"Spike! Hey, where are ya?" Rainbow called out as she rummaged around Twilight's upstairs.

"Spike? Where are ya little fella?" Applejack called as she rummaged around downstairs.

After Rainbow's comment back at the hospital, Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Carter had gone to find him. Leaving Zoe with Fluttershy and Rarity who'd promised that they'd take care of the shell-shocked girl. Pinkie Pie however had disappeared in a Pinkie shaped cloud of dust. After being assured, sort of, that it was 'just Pinkie being Pinkie' Applejack and Rainbow began to search for the little dragon ('of course he's a dragon.')

First they looked around town, checking all of his usual haunts. Nopony however had seen him. Finally they ended up back at Twilight's 'treehouse'. As Applejack and Rainbow looked around the house, Carter had gone out to ask the neighbors.

"So Carter seems nice." Applejack nodded at Rainbow's comment.

"Yeah. He's a very decent dedicated feller. Ah can see why he's Sheriff back at his home."

Rainbow smiled as she flew closer to her. "So you like him?"

Applejack's eyes widen as she dropped what the book she was holding. "WHAT?!" She exclaimed. "That-that's jus' disgusting! What kinda mare do ya think Ah am?!"

Above her Rainbow was rolling around midair as she held her stomach laughing. "I was just teasing yo AJ." She gasped out between chuckles.

Applejack looked up at the chortling pegasus, a look of annoyance on her face. "You are unbelievably foalish." She finally said.

Before either Rainbow of Applejack could say anymore, Carter entered. "The neighbors say that Twilight took Spike to the train station." Carter then paused at the sight before him. Rainbow was chuckling while Applejack had a look of intense irritation. "Did I miss something?"

"Nothing but a foalish prank." Applejack's tone was clipped as she shot a look at Rainbow who suppressed a chortle. Carter blinked and decided that he didn't want to know.

"So where do you think Twilight would send Spike?"

"Probably Canterlot." Applejack suggested

Rainbow nodded agreement. "She and Spike used to live in Canterlot before they came here two or so years ago. But once in a while they do return. Like during the Grand Galloping Gala or that wedding. And remember that time Spike visited on business. Still don't know what kind of 'business' could take the little guy to Canterlot. Probably a convention or comicbook store."

"Well let's go see if you're right." As they stepped out of the library however, a shadow passed over them.

Looking up, Carter watched as a large dark blue alicorn glided down and landed in front of them. Unlike other ponies she was much taller, her eyes level with Carter's. Her mane and tail sparked like a night sky as it rippled like there was a constant breeze blowing through it.

Automatically Applejack and Rainbow Dash bowed their heads. Other pony passerby's however curtsied. The alicorn however didn't notice. Instead she looked her icy blue eyes on them and stomped towards them. She then paused a few feet in front of them before speaking in a reverberating loud voice that pushed them back a couple steps.

"WHAT IN THE NAME OF CELESTIA'S SUN IS GOING ON!?"