The ponies were devastated. Thankfully, they had all escaped to the castle unharmed, all but

two. DJ and Twilight were gone. Cadence and Shining Armor were heart broken, finding comfort in each other’s embrace. The others simply cried to themselves, broken up at losing their friends again. Nyx and Spike had looks of defiance, however. Nyx refused to believe that both of her parents were dead, shouting that they would come back. Spike thought the idea was too ridiculous. He believed that DJ had told the truth about his encounter with Death and knew that he would never go back. The others simply believed that the two were in denial.

That was until green smoke poured into the throne room. The ponies gasped as the gas took form and revealed itself to be DJ’s friend, Genie. “Greetings, little ponies,” he said with a smile. “Would anypony mind telling me where I could find DJ? I fear that something may have happened.”

Applejack strode forth and told Genie the truth. “Genie, you’re right something did happen. Sombra killed DJ and Twilight. I’m sorry.”

“No that’s not it,” Genie replied with a dismissive wave. All of the ponies’ jaws dropped at his emotionless reaction to losing a friend.

“Pardon me, Mr. Genie,” said Rarity. “But aren’t you at least a little bit upset about DJ and Twilight’s passing?”

“Why would I mourn those who still live? Doesn’t make much sense when you get right down to it.”

“Wait, what?! Twily and DJ are still alive?” asked Shining Armor with hope in his eyes.

“Of course they are still alive! Dark magic is powerful this is true, but not even that form of magic can kill so easily. There always massive repercussions for those spells and they aren’t pretty, believe you me,” he said with a humorless laugh. “No, the reason I am here is that I felt a flux in my magic. That usually is not a good thing.”

Nyx approached the wish granter. “Mr. Genie? Do you have any way we can contact my parents?”

“As it would happen I do!” He pulled out a small little disk that looked like the symbol on her father’s omnitrix. Genie started to tap something into it. After a few minutes, he gave the device a frustrated look. “Well, this won’t do! Stupid thing, never works when I’m roamin’. Apologies, but for some reason, I can seem to connect to DJ’s omnitrix. That is definitely not a good sign. I can still tell that it’s active, but I can’t find where they are or how to get in touch with them. I’ll keep trying though.” The ponies watched on with hope as the genie continued to fidget with the only way they could talk to their friends.

**********

DJ was freaking out. It was night time, pouring rain, lighting and thunder rolling overhead and he and his wife were not only transformed into humans, but they were back on Earth, too. “No, no, no, no, no! How is this even possible?! Genie said that I can never return to Earth, his magic would keep it that way. There is no way that Sombra has more magic than Genie, so why did his spell send us here?!” He walked back to Twilight’s unconscious form, still trying to process what was going on. Then, his wife let out a groan of pain. He rushed to her side.

“DJ?” she croaked out. Her voice sounded pained, and she wasn’t able to talk easily. “DJ, it hurts.”

DJ began to run a hand over her body, hoping to find where the pain was. She screamed softly when he touched her side. Where she had been blasted by Sombra. DJ cursed under his breath for forgetting that his wife was injured. He needed to find help, now! He ran to the edge of the park and began to look around. Something was familiar about the area, but DJ couldn’t place it. That was, until a lightning flash illuminated the house directly across the road from the park. DJ’s eyes widened in recognition and he rushed towards the home. When he hit the drive way, he nearly ran into the vehicle parked out front. Yes! That means he’s home!

DJ ran to the front door and began to pound on the door. “Hey! I need help!” Then he began to pound harder after a thirty second wait. “Hey! Ginger, I know you’re up, damn it! Get out here and help a brother out!” A minute later, the door to the house opened up, revealing a young man with medium, red hair. This was Wayne, DJ’s best friend on Earth. The two hadn’t known each other long, but their friendship was strong. Wayne was very similar to DJ, similar interests, similar mannerisms. The only difference being that Wayne had very little control over his anger and was prone to go into rage fits, usually destroying the walls in his house or bruising on his own body. The twenty-something year-old’s eyes widened at the younger man standing in the rain.

“No, fucking, way. DJ? Is that really you?” he asked.

“No time for a reunion, Wayne. I need your help. Grab your shoes and come with me, hurry!” The older male, Wayne, slipped on a pair of shoes and followed his old friend out of the house, back towards the park.

“You want to tell me what this is about? Like, where you’ve been for the past year?” They arrived at Twilight’s location. “And who this is?”

“Not now, Wayne. She needs help! Can we take her into your house?” Wayne hesitated. “Please, man. I need to help her!”

“Alright fine! But you owe me one hell of an explanation for all this shit!” Together they lifted Twilight over their shoulders, being mindful of her injured side, and walked her back to the house. Once they were inside, the two of them helped Twilight into a bed down the hall. After DJ made sure she was comfortable, he lifted her shirt to inspect the damage on her sides. He let out a breath of relief when it was just a really bad bruise. Luckily, Wayne had a first-aid kit in the house, because of his rages, and DJ was able to wrap Twilight’s sides in gauzes. Once he was done, he and his best friend retired to the living room. DJ sat on the couch, Wayne in a chair across from it. And the talk began.

“Alright, time to spill, dude. What the hell is going on? Who is that girl in there? Where have you been for the past year and a half?”

“You aren’t going to believe me,” said DJ.

“Dude, I play video games and watch TV for a living. Anything you say, I’m pretty sure I can handle.”

“Right, forgot about that. *Sigh* Well, you know that TV show, My Little Pony?” Wayne shook his head slowly. “I ended up there. I’ve been staying with the characters from that show for the past year or so. It’s been one of hay of a ride, I can tell ya that. Ha! So much has happened, man. I really don’t know where to begin.”

Wayne gave him a hard stare. “You’re serious? You’ve been living with ponies? That sounds boring.”

“You’d think, but it’s been pretty fun. I definitely know how to keep myself occupied there. You see, the January that I disappeared, well, I was visited by a genie. Crazy, right? He gave me three wishes, with the only catch being that wish number three had to take me to another world. So I fulfilled some things and packed my bags for Equestria! And I can prove it!”

“Then prove it!” Wayne dared. DJ unclipped his blue lightsaber and ignited it. Wayne’s eyes lit up as he saw the glowing blade. DJ then took the liberty and ran the sword right through the couch. When he took the blade back out, there was a smoking hole in the piece of furniture. “Woah! Holy shit, a real lightsaber! This is crazy!”

“I know, huh?” replied DJ. He deactivated the sword and returned it to his belt. “It’s been so great being there, Wayne. I finally have tons of friends who legitimately care about me. No offense dude, but you are pretty much it here.”

“None taken.”

“And to answer the question about the girl, well, let’s just say you have royalty in your house, my friend. That is Princess Twilight Sparkle sleeping in there.” DJ smiled as Wayne’s mouth dropped.

“No way! Isn’t she one of the main characters or something? What she doing with you? You her body guard or some shit?”

DJ laughed. “Hahaha. Nnope! I ain’t a guard Wayne, but it is my job to keep her safe.” Wayne raised an eyebrow. “Dude, she’s my wife!” Back to shock and disbelief!

“You’re a mother fucking prince?! You lucky son of a bitch! Congrats, man! Never knew you had it in ya, but I guess I know why now.”

DJ smiled lovingly down the hall. “Yeah, it’s been one helluva ride, man. Even when I became a pony, things were always amazing as long as she was around.”

“Oh great, you’re a pony, too. Get out my house ya girl prick!” Wayne quipped with a manic smile.

“Buck you! I am going to go check on my wife.” DJ got up and strode on in to the bedroom. Twilight was still asleep, but looked better than she did. He tried to stir her awake. “”Twi? Come on, hon. I need you to wake up.” Twilight began to stir and her eyes fluttered open slowly. She turned her head and smiled as she saw her husband.

“Good morning, DJ. You’re up early, did you make breakfast?” she asked groggily.

“No, Twi. We have a situation.” Twilight began to wake up even faster. “Hon, we are on Earth. We’re in my home town.” Her eyes bulged. “I don’t know how, but I think we have a bigger problem.” DJ then showed Twi something that he had realized as he helped her inside. She gasped in shock.

After a moment, she spoke, “We need to get back home.”

“We will,” DJ assured her. “But for now, you need to rest.” He kissed her cheek as he laid her back down on the bed. “I’ll wake you up in the morning. Feel better, Twi. I love you.”

Twi snuggled back into the bed and her last words before she was blissfully asleep were, “Good night, my love.”

**********

The next morning, Twilight awoke to the sound of conversation. She slowly sat up and examined her new body. It was very similar to the one she had at Canterlot High, but had peach colored skin instead of purple. She tried to stand and succeeded, though there was still and stinging sensation in her side and was wobbly due to not walking on two legs for nearly two years. Twilight made her way out of the room and towards the voices coming from the other room. One was very familiar, while the other was unknown.

“…So let me get this right. The two of you were in an epic battle of good versus evil where you were winning until the bad guy threatened to kill your wife. Then he blasts the two of you and the next thing you know you’re in the park across the street. …BULL SHIT!!”

“Heh, heh. Nnope. It’s all true, man,” replied DJ. Then he looked up as a Twilight entered the room, holding the wall for support. “Twi!” He shot up off the couch and approached her with concern. “You shouldn’t be up.”

“We don’t have time for me to fully heal, DJ. We need to find a way back home. Do you know of anyone here who knows about magic?” said Twilight.

“Twi, I told you. There is no magic on Earth, not even a little bit. But you’re right that we are running out of time. I hope the others aren’t too worried.”

“Ahem,” said Wayne, with a look of annoyance.

“Oops. Sorry, time for some introductions. Twilight, I would like you to meet Wayne. He’s one of my best friends here on Earth. Wayne, this is Twilight, my wife and the Princess of Magic.”

“It’s a pleasure, Wayne. Happy to meet one of my husband’s old friends.” The two shook hands.

“Nice to see that TV shows do exist. And that my friend could actually get a girl,” Wayne said with a sly smile. DJ face palmed in frustration and annoyance. “You know, there is someone who might be able to help you two out.” DJ and Twilight snapped to attention. “I think my friend Ariella might be able to lend us a hand. She knows more about ponies than anyone else I know, so she might have an idea or two. Maybe even how you two got here?”

“Actually,” said Twilight, “I think I have a theory on that.”

“Well, theorize away, sweet heart,” said DJ with a grin.

Twilight blushed and continued. “DJ, do you remember where Sombra’s spell hit you?”

“I think it was my left shoulder, why?”

“DJ, what was on your left shoulder at the time?”

“Nothing. Except the…omni…trix…” DJ face palmed. “DUH!! The stupid watch was made with Genie’s magic specifically for me. Sombra must have been trying some kind of enhance teleportation spell, probably to send us right to Tartarus’ front door, and when it connected with the omnitrix, it somehow sent us back to Earth. Only something more powerful than Genie’s magic could return me here, so when Sombra’s blast connected, it merged with Genie’s spell and *bam* here we are!” When he stopped his rant, he sat for a moment and spoke again. “Well, this another fine mess we’ve gotten ourselves into.”

“I have to agree with that, DJ,” said Twilight.

“If you two are really in a hurry, then we should probably go see Ariella, now. Come on, I’m driving.”

“I don’t know how I feel about putting my injured wife in that old death trap you call a car,” DJ said with a grin.

“Fuck you! She’s my baby! I finally got a good enough job to fix her, so shut up!” replied Wayne with mock offense. After that quick banter, the three of them piled into Wayne’s car and they took off. As Wayne drove along the Omaha streets, Twilight watched out the window in awe of the city. DJ watched her with a small smile letting her enjoy the modern sites. Wayne spoke up half way to their destination. “So, dude. Are you gonna see your folks before you head back to ponyland?”

DJ cringed at the mention of his family. With everything that had been happening, he had completely forgotten that they were here. DJ hung his head a little and then turned his gaze to the moving scenery. Twilight put her hand in his, a look of hope in her eyes. He sighed and offered his answer. “I don’t know. I probably should, but I don’t know what will happen if I do. I don’t even know what everyone thinks happened to me. I heard that there was a national manhunt, people thinking I was kidnapped or something stupid like that.”

Wayne put on a look of confusion as he focused on the road. “How did you hear about that?”

“Another human appeared in Equestria about three months after I did. She explained that she heard about me from the news.”

“Oh,” was Wayne’s reply. “You really have gone through some shit.” Nobody spoke for the remainder of the trip. They arrived at an apartment complex and Wayne led them to the door of his friend. A girl, older than Wayne, opened the door and was surprised.

“Well, hey there Wayne! Who are your friends?” she asked.

“Hey, Ariella. You are not gonna believe who these two are.”

“Oh?”

“Wait,” said DJ. “I remember you now. Don’t you run the card game club that Wayne and I used to go to?”

“Yeah, who are you…DJ?! You’re alive?!” Ariella exclaimed.

“Heh, I knew someone would have that reaction. Yeah, I’m alive. It’s nice to see another familiar face, especially the one who got me hooked on MLP. You are so about to trip!” said DJ.

“What? Where have you been?” Ariella asked.

“Equestria!” DJ said, leaving that in the air. Ariella put on a look of disbelief and was clearly not amused.

“Seriously? Equestria? Are you two making fun of me?”

Twilight spoke up. “They aren’t making fun of you, miss. It is nice to meet one of DJ’s friends.” She put her hand out in greeting. “I am DJ’s wife, Twilight Sparkle.”

Ariella’s jaw dropped and her eyes bulged. “You have to be kidding me! No way you’re Twilight!”

DJ looked to his wife. “She doesn’t believe us.”

“How do we convince her? I can’t use my magic and neither can you. Your watch is also still completely dead.”

“Don’t remind me,” he said looking in irritation at the device on his arm. Then an idea popped into his head. “Wait, maybe we don’t have to do anything.” DJ then turned to his back pocket and spoke to it. “Guys? Uno? Any of you in there?”

Wayne and Ariella looked at DJ like he really had gone crazy. That was, until Uno few out of his back pocket and grew to full size. “Yeah,” he said. “We’re still here boss. Did you need something?”

“Nah, just wanted you to meet some friends of mine. Wayne, Ariella, meet Uno! He is one five Discords that the original entrusted me with as assistants. They are a really big help.”

Uno floated over to the two humans. “Good to meet friends of the boss.” Both of them had their jaws on the ground. “Not very talkative, are they?”

DJ chuckled at that. “They’ve just never seen a draconequus. You would definitely be one of the strangest creatures on the planet right now, my friend.”

“Oh. Interesting. Well, if you’ll excuse me, boss, the boys and I got some things to do. Call if you need us,” he said as he slithered into DJ’s back pocket once again.

“Will do,” DJ called to him. He turned to his dumbstruck friends and addressed them. “Well? Believe us now?” Ariella nodded her head without saying a word. “Great! May we come in? We need some help.” Ariella led them into her home.

Twilight looked around her house and was amused by all the posters and all the memorabilia from her world. Twilight then looked at her bookshelf and was in awe. “What are these things on your bookshelf? They’re clearly not books.”

Ariella looked at her and giggled, “They are called DVDs. They are movies on discs that you can watch, I have every season of My Little Pony. In fact, I am watching season 4 right now if you would like to watch.”

Twilight kindly replied “No thanks I don’t think I need another headache, I’m still trying to figure out how DJ was able to watch us in the first place.” Ariella led them to a room with red and gold curtains with an open window. The breeze whipped the curtains around the room and filled it with the sense of nature. Twilight couldn’t hold it in “I love this room, it feels so serene and quiet, perfect for reading a book.”

Ariella beamed “Thank you Twilight this is my favorite room in the house. I’ve made sandwiches and some tea if you are hungry.”

DJ jumped in a chair and rubbing his hands together he said greedily “Don’t mind if I do.” They all sat in silence and when everyone was finished Wayne looked at Ariella.

“I have a favor to ask you Ariella. You are the only one I can think of that has so much knowledge of the pony world.”

Ariella looked at Wayne slightly embarrassed, “I would love to help, but I have no idea on how to get back there. Otherwise I would have left here a long time ago. DJ how did you even get here?” DJ told the long tale and left her silent for a long while. After some thought she opened her mouth “There is one thing I can think of. DJ, you told me the Discords are friends of the genie, don’t you think that maybe there is a way they can communicate. How did the genie even find you?” DJ contemplated when Uno came out of his pocket and stood on the table.

“Uno what are you doing?” DJ asked.

Uno looked at DJ and said “She has a point, I don’t know if I can but maybe I can put a signal in the realms the genie may be able to find us.”

Twilight said, “It’s worth a try.” Uno scrambled up on the window sill and starting glowing a bright green color. Several minutes passed and nothing. Uno looked downtrodden and gave a small shrug.

“Was worth a shot.” Uno retreated back into DJ’s pocket with his brothers. Ariella looked at him with a sad smile.

“I’m sorry you two, I honestly thought that would work. Wish I could be more help, but that was my only idea.”

Twilight nodded in kind. “Thank you for your advice, anyway Ariella. Anything was worth a try and we really appreciate it.”

DJ looked at his wife lovingly and hugged her. He turned back to his two Earth friends. “Ain’t she somethin’!” Twilight blushed feverishly. “Twilight is right, though. Thank you for everything.” DJ then sighed in exhaustion. “We should be going. Until we think of something else, there are a few certain people that I should go and see. I just hope that things go well.”

Twilight gripped her husband’s knee tight. “I’ll be right here, DJ. We’ll do it together.” DJ smiled appreciatively at her.

As Ariella showed them out, she said, “I wish you the best of luck and I hope you have a good life in Equestria DJ. Enjoy it.”

“I will. Thanks again, Ariella. Come on Ginger, drive us home!” said DJ.

“I am NOT a fucking chauffeur! Now get in the damn car!” Wayne yelled back as they got to the car. They waved to Ariella as they drove off to another side of the town. Twilight watched DJ through the whole trip, looking upon him as his chest rose up and down. She was worried about him, and for a good reason.

It was roughly five o’ clock as they pulled into the driveway of an ordinary home in West Omaha. The house was white in color with a brown trim. They all got out of the car, Wayne going to the door with Twilight and DJ following behind. Wayne rang the doorbell and DJ stiffened. Twilight gripped his hand even tighter, trying her best to reassure him. They heard a sound coming from behind the front door and it began to open.

DJ inhaled sharply, not wanting what was about to come. He had one thought as the door opened. Time for us to meet my family, once again.