One day in a fertile, beautiful land known as Equestria, there were seven ponies and a young dragon traveling along the streets of a vibrant and prosperous city known well as Canterlot by order of their loving and cherishing ruler named Princess Celestia. It has been several months since the defeat of Queen Chrysalis - after she captured them along with a few of their other friends and family. Thankfully, their newest friends Starlight Glimmer, Trixie, Discord, and Thorax came to their rescue and saved them all from what could have been a complete catastrophe.

As they traveled to this prosperous city, they talked to each other as to what the princess had in store for them. Twilight and Starlight Glimmer, in particular, was the most excited out of all of them. However, the rest of them seemed anxious as to what the princesses needed with the Elements of Harmony, and a few of them were not so excited to be away from home for quite some time.

“Ah wonder what the princesses need us for at a time like this,” asked Applejack.

“I’m not quite sure either,” answered Twilight. “but if it’s a task that the princesses know we can handle, then I’m sure it’s nothing to worry about.”

“You got that right,” replied Rainbow Dash. “There hasn’t been one problem that the seven of us can’t solve together.”

“Ooo, this is so exciting that I can hardly breathe!” exclaimed Pinkie Pie.

“Try to hold your excitement until we arrive, Pinkie,” Spike replied.

“Well, I sure hope that it won’t take us too long,” said Fluttershy. “I’m just so nervous about all of my animal friends back at home, especially Angel.”

“Ah, don’t worry Fluttershy,” Applejack responded. “Ahm sure that Zecora will take good care of all of your little critters.”

“The only thing that I think is strange is that the princesses also asked us to pack up with some necessities for our summoning, almost like we're going on an outing,” said Starlight.

“Well, thank Celestia I came prepared for this sort of thing,” declared Rarity as she carried a larger saddlebag than everyone else.

“Uh, Rarity, ya’ do remember that she told us to pack lightly and judging the size of those bags, ah wouldn’t consider that ‘packing lightly’ to be honest,” retorted Applejack.

“Relax girls,” Twilight said calmly. “Whatever the princesses need with all of us, I’m sure it’s nothing to worry about really.”

“Yeah,” replied Starlight. “I mean, what could go wrong?”

Everypony except Starlight looked at each other with nervous glances, knowing that they have gone through many tribulations fighting evil across Equestria. Despite this, they were determined to get the job done.

Inside a long, tall room in the stronghold with various stained glass art, where a white alicorn named Princess Celestia paced back and forth - waiting patiently for the ponies that she had summoned. As she remained, she stooped walking only to look up at a particular stained glass window. This window portrayed Twilight crowned as the Princess of Friendship. Celestia couldn’t help but smile, knowing that that alicorn has come a long way to earn such a brilliant title.

Once she heard the sound of the hallway doors opening, she immediately turned her head towards a group of ponies and a young dragon.

“Princess Celesta, it’s so good to see you again!” praised Twilight as she galloped close to her presence.

“My prized pupil,” called Celestia. “It’s always a pleasure to see you, as well as all of your closest friends.”

“Well, of course,” exclaimed Rainbow Dash, “I mean who wouldn’t accept a request from one of the princesses of all of Equestria.”

“You got that right, Rainbow Dash!” replied Pinkie Pie in a bubbly attitude. “You would have to be a big party pooper to do that!”

“Well, though I’m glad you’re all here, what I am about to tell you is something of uttermost importance,” stated Celestia.

“So, what is it that you need all of us for?” asked Starlight.

“Twilight,” Celestia said as she faced Twilight with a serious expression. “You know about the possibility of multiple worlds far beyond ours, right?”

“Well, yeah,” Twilight answered. “I have traveled a few times to this one world through that magic mirror to stop and reform Sunset Shimmer.”

“Yes,” replied Celestia. “but I’m sure that this world is different than the one that you have traveled to before.”

“Really, how so?” Twilight asked.

“Quite,” Celestia responded. “However, this world that I’m about to show you is one that is in great jeopardy.”

“What do you mean by that?” Starlight questioned.

“Come, I will show you.”

As they followed Celestia, the seven ponies and young dragon all looked at each other with uncertain expressions as to what the princess was about to show to them.

Two other alicorns named Princess Luna and Princess Cadence stood in a large, circular room made of marble and stone. On the other side of the room was a large window that seemed to reflect what looked like another world. The two alicorns stared into the mirror, examining the world that lay on the other side.

Their ears perked up once they heard the doors open. Behind the doors, they saw Celestia, Twilight, and all of her closest friends.

“Princess Luna, Cadence!” cheered Twilight.

“Twilight, ” called Cadence. “It’s so good to see you again.”

“What’s going on?”

“Wait, is that a mirror?” Starlight questioned.

“Yes,” Luna responded. “This mirror allows us to see through the rifts of time and space to view worlds far beyond ours.”

“You mean like the one Twilight used to chase after Sunset Shimmer?” Rainbow questioned.

“Yes,” Cadence added. “The only difference is that this mirror allows us to see across many other worlds different from the one Twilight used to go to; and there is one world, in particular, that seems to be in such great danger.”

“But what kind of danger?” Starlight asked.

“Look.”

Everypony looked into the mirror on the stone wall to see the image more clearly, observing another world somewhat similar to theirs. The picture was slightly blurry, but they could see what appeared to be massive stone walls, which seemed to protect what looked like a giant village built with large homes and structures made of stone and wood. On one side of the barrier, there appeared to be a gateway which had a massive hole blown off. Coming through that hole were giant, hideous, bipedal creatures that had no clothing of any sort. They seemed to be wandering around the village where smaller bipedal creatures similar to them were fleeing in fear.

“Wha-What are those things?” Twilight wondered.

“It’s unlike anything we’ve ever seen before; just what is this place?” Starlight thought out loud.

“At the moment, we are not entirely certain,” Luna replied.

“But what in tarnation are those varmints?” Applejack asked.

“We’re not quite sure,” Cadence responded. “but whatever they are, they’re up to no good at all.”

“Whatever do you mean?” asked Rarity.

“Look down there.”

All of the ponies including the young dragon looked into the mirror to see one of those creatures that was roughly ten meters tall was staring at some other creatures that greatly resembled those giants. The only difference was that they were much smaller in size, they wore clothing, and appeared to have intelligence- unlike the giants that tried to catch them. They also had different haircuts and facial structures. What fascinated the ponies the most was not the look of these remarkable creatures, but what they were wearing around their waists.

They examined one of the creature’s thighs; there were long, slim, metal boxes with four slots at the front ends of them and a metal canister bolted above it that connected to a metallic, hourglass-shaped device affixed to the lower back via a pair of wires on both sides. There were also handles with triggers and cables attached to the hourglass-shaped machine where a pair of swords with diagonal stripes ran down into the blade.

As the small creatures began to run across the rooftops, wires shot out of the strange device on the side of their waists towards other parts of the buildings and structures with a stream of gas escaping from the back of the machine. The creatures continued to swing and fly through, over, and across several buildings of the town until they started to reach the giants that seemed to be after them.

“I know these creatures,” Twilight said. “Those are humans, like back in the other world that I traveled to before.”

“So that’s what they look like.” Rarity responded. “Well, I must say, those uniforms look quite ravishing.”

“Oh,” Pinkie exclaimed. “That looks super duper fun!”

“Ah don’t know Pinkie,” Applejack responded. “Ah’m pretty sure they’re not trying to have fun.”

“You’re right Applejack; they’re not,” Cadence said.

“Really,” Fluttershy asked. “Then, what are they trying to do?”

“Continue watching,” Celestia said.

As they all looked back in the mirror, they saw a giant pounce at the humans. The humans quickly reacted and evaded by pulling back with their gadgets. They landed on the rooftops of a building far from the giant’s grasp with one of them just hanging on the edge. They thought they were all safe for the moment- but when the humans looked at each other, they realized that one of them was missing. When they looked back at the giant, they saw one of their allies held in the giant’s mouth.

“Wh-what is it…” Starlight said in trembling fear.

Before anypony could respond, the giant swallowed the human right into its gullet down into its stomach.

Everypony’s eyes widened in terror and dread as to what they had just witnessed. Fluttershy, Pinkie, and Starlight screamed at the brutal and gruesome act; Rarity fainted almost in an instant, Twilight, Applejack, Celestia, Luna, and Cadence covered their mouths with their hooves with tears starting to fall from their eyes.

“D-did that thing just...” Applejack trembling in absolute fear.

“It just ate that poor human!” Rainbow shouted. “That is so not cool!”

“What in Equestria is this place?” Twilight whimpered.

“This place,” Luna spoke. “is a whole nother world that is suffering dearly from these monstrosities.”

Once Rarity regained full consciousness, they looked back at the mirror to continue watching the scene. They saw a human with brown hair and a sinister scowl cry in anger at the giant while it started to use the device to chase after it. The other humans saw the boy go after the giant and chased after him, urging him to stop. The human did not listen. It continued to swing and fly through the town towards the giant that ate the other human. As the human was about to slash it with his swords, another giant from below lunged at him and bit his left leg clean off. The others gasped again in terror as they saw the deprived human tumble across the rooftops at high speeds until he finally came to an abrupt stop.

“Why… Why are they doing this?”, Spike asked in great horror and confusion.

“We are not entirely certain,” Celestia answered.

“But, what’s the point of showing us to all of this?” Starlight asked.

“What we are about to ask all of you will be a surprise, especially after the horror you have all seen, but I truly believe that you and your friends are capable of handling it.”

Twilight and all of her friends waited for an answer as to what the princesses asked them here.

“What I need all of you to do, is to travel to this world and fight alongside these humans.”

“WHAT?!” exclaimed Twilight and all of her friends, including Spike.

“You want us to go and fight those things?!” Rainbow yelled pointing a hoof at the mirror towards one of the giants.

“Now, why in tarnation would we do that?” Applejack added.

“What if we meet the same fate as them?” Rarity cried.

“Please,” Cadence pleaded. “Let us explain. We’ve known about this world for several weeks now, and we wanted to know how this world operated; after weeks of observing, it seems that these humans are in great jeopardy and despair. They are losing family and loved ones left and right, and we couldn’t help but feel grief and distress. So maybe with your knowledge of friendship can help give these humans a glimmer of hope against these abominations.”

“Not only that,” Luna added, “but these large creatures may not be a threat to you ponies because we believe that these giants mainly prey on humans; after perceiving that they only feast on humans and humans alone. After weeks of observation, this led us to conclude that these monstrosities do not eat humans for nourishment, but for killing for sport instead. Can you not see that these poor humans are fighting with their lives on the line for the sake of their survival? They still fight alongside each other with a burden of hope, despite them being drawn to the brink of extinction.”

Twilight and all of her friends gasped in fear as to hear what Luna stated about those monsters. Killing for the sake of sport was no doubt an evil thing to commit, no matter what the reason. However, watching all of these humans perish would assuredly break their hearts.

“I still don’t understand though,” Starlight wondered. “Why would you ask us to go in such a terrible place?”

“Because I believe that together you ponies can do the impossible by coming together as friends to face against all the odds, as you have done several times over, by defeating many evil beings and dark forces with the magic of friendship. Plus, contacting this world would no doubt give us a chance to learn so much about their functions and beliefs. Imagine what we can learn from them and what they can learn from us.”

Fluttershy noticed something in the mirror and gasped so suddenly.

“Look!” she cried.

Everypony turned back to the mirror to see the human that had his leg bitten off swing towards a giant with a massive beard. The ponies were astonished to see the boy still trying to fight, despite losing his leg. He zipped right into the giant’s mouth and tried to reach for something. All of the ponies wondered why he was trying to go into the giant’s mouth. With all of his strength, he yanked a human that appeared to be shorter along with long blond hair out of the giant's mouth onto the roof of a nearby building. Rainbow Dash, in particular, was astounded to see the boy’s courage.

The other human tried to pry the giant’s mouth open with his right hand and whole right leg and then reached out to the blonde-haired human with his left. The blonde-haired human made a desperate attempt to save his friend, only for the giant to bite down, causing the human’s left arm to be severed off from the giant's mouth as it swallowed him whole.

The ponies were yet again horrified to see the blond-haired human wail in utter despair for his lost ally, completely helpless to do anything. They felt the pain and torment that the human was going through, causing tears to flood their eyes. The image in the mirror faded away quickly.

“My little ponies,” Celestia spoke. “I will ask all of you to look deep down into your hearts, are you willing to go to this world and restore peace and tranquility?”

“Heck yeah!” Rainbow exclaimed. “Let's do it!”

“Rainbow Dash, let's not make any rash decisions. We don’t even know if these humans will let us help them,” Twilight said.

“So how about we earn their trust if that’s what it takes.”, Rainbow replied. “No way am I gonna let those monsters win! I want to help them no matter what. After all, I am the Element of Loyalty, not to mention an official Wonderbolt.”

“Count me in too!” Applejack interjected.

“Me three!” shouted Pinkie Pie. “I wanna celebrate with all of them after their big victory, yippee!”

“I shall go as well,” Rarity said. “I want to learn about their taste in fashion.”

"Well, I guess I’ll go to, even though I’m terrified, but I’m still going to help them regardless,” Fluttershy said softly.

“I’m going too,” Starlight shouted. “If there’s anything you ponies have taught me, it’s doing the right thing for a friend in dire circumstances.”

“Well them, I guessed it’s decided. We accept your request, Princess Celestia,” Twilight declared.

“Eeeee! This adventure is going to be so exciting! I can hardly wait!” Pinkie screamed.

Celestia and the other princesses smiled at them with great appreciation for their service.

“Very well,” Celestia answered. “Before we send you, there are a few things I need to tell all of you.”

Twilight and her friends listened carefully as to what information Celestia had to tell them all.

“Once we use the transporting spell, it will take time to use that spell once again. If you feel the need to come back here in Equestria, it will take time until we can send you back home. So we are talking about several days or even weeks. Twilight, Starlight, and Rarity, the magic in this world appears to be very low on energy, so casting spells there will not be as easy as it is here in Equestria. So using advanced spells like teleporting and such will require you to use almost all of your power.”

“Understood,” Twilight answered with a gentle nod.

“Spike,” Celestia said facing towards him. “I ask of you to stay here with my sister and me. I know you truly want to help Twilight and all of her friends for this mission; however, we need a way to communicate to them while they remain in this world. They will have to stay until they help the humans rise from the giants’ wrath.”

Spike looked very disappointed knowing that he will not be able to join Twilight and his friends of this epic journey that they were about to embark. Twilight walked towards Spike and gave him a gentle hug. Spike hugged Twilight in return.

“Don’t worry, Spike,” Twilight reassured. “We won’t forget about you. We’ll return home eventually. Just listen to the princesses and stay safe, okay?”

“Okay, Twilight,” Spike whispered.

“Here, Twilight,” Celestia said, giving Twilight a scroll using her magic. “This spell will let you send a message between these two worlds. Once you write a letter and use this spell, the message will return to this world through Spike, much like when I return a message to you. So if you need anything, do not hesitate to ask.”

“Thank you, Princess,” Twilight responded, putting the scroll in her saddlebag.

“I trust that you brought the things I requested for you to bring?” Cadence asked.

“Indeed I did,” Twilight answered.

She used her magic to bring out a few books titled ‘History of Equestria,' ‘Anatomy of Ponies,' and ‘Equestrian Geography.'

“Brilliant, Rarity?”

“Yes, princess?” Rarity answered.

“I would ask that you bring only one of your bags with you that you think is the most important, I apologize.”

Rarity moaned in displeasure, fearing that she would be allowed to bring only one case with her from the beginning. She was unsure about which case to take with her until she picked an overly packed suitcase. After she finally pulled one, Celestia turned to Applejack.

“Applejack, take these with you,” Celestia said, giving Applejack a small sack.

Applejack looked inside to see many seeds.

“Uh, are these apple seeds?” asked Applejack. “Ah don’t think I’ll be able to grow apple trees that fast.”

“That’s true,” Celestia replied. “However, these seeds are something special. They are enhanced with magic so that they can grow within a week rather than a few years.”

“Wow, these oughta be mighty helpful given the situation these poor fellas are going through. Thank you kindly, princess.”

“Alright then, I believe you ponies have everything you’ll need for this journey.”

“Are you entirely certain that you want to do this?” Luna questions in a solemn tone.

“Do know that you girls are putting your lives on the line for the sake of helping these humans survive this menace,” Cadence added.

Twilight and her friends all looked at each other with stern faces, and all nodded simultaneously.

“Yes, we accept,” Twilight declared.

“Very well, everypony stand next to the mirror and we shall transport you,” Celestia directed.

Twilight and all of her friends walked towards the mirror with their saddlebags with them and awaited further instructions from the princesses. Spike stood behind Celestia waiting for her to cast the spell.

“Now to bring the world back into focus,” Luna stated.

Celestia, Luna, and Cadence brought their magic together and shot towards the mirror, bringing back the image of the city.

“Ready sister?” Celestia asked in a high tone.

“Ready as I’ll ever be!” Luna declared.

The three princesses closed their eyes and focused their magic creating a bright glow from inside the room. They conjured a large sphere engulfing the seven ponies, causing them to shield their eyes from the shining light. The three princesses then used their magic to push the luminous orb through the mirror, transporting the mane seven into the other world. Once they have finally finished the transporting spell, the princesses sealed away their magic. They saw the image of the different world disappear from their sights.

“I have faith in all of you, my little ponies,” Celestia said.

“I just hope that they come back in one piece,” Cadence wished.

“They will. I’m sure of it.”

Dark storm clouds started to form over the city, causing rain to pour down on the district of Trost. The city was in utter chaos, with humans running for their lives from the massive titans. The other soldiers were having trouble keeping the town and its citizens safe. Despite the rain having ended moments ago, their wet clothes were now bogging them down, making them even more vulnerable to those giants. A bell from a nearby tower started to ring, signaling that the evacuation of all of the citizens is complete. The inner gate of the city began to close shut, preventing any other giants from passing through.

A soldier with long, black hair, a physically, well-toned, fit body and a regal complexion with calm, black eyes stood on top of a building. She wore a white blouse and a red scarf around her neck along with her military jacket which had a symbol on both the back, the shoulders, and the left breast pocket. The emblem had a shield-shaped crest divided into four equal spaces with two swords crossing each other. She saw the giants that she had killed evaporate into thin air.

She stood next to another soldier who was tall with a slightly, muscular build. He also had gold eyes and straight, dark blond hair separated down the middle and placed behind his ears. His face was notably slim with distinct cheekbones and light skin.

“We’re withdrawing, Ackerman,” the dark-blonded hair man stated. “Climb up the wall now.”

“I’ll support the vanguard’s withdrawal,” the girl said.

She turned away from him and started to fire a hook towards another building and traveled deeper into the city.

“Hey, Ackerman!” the man yelled, reaching his left hand towards her.

The girl did not listen. She continued to fly across the city, hoping that she will reunite with someone in particular. As she zip-lined through some buildings, she noticed a faint glow from another alley. She quickly recovered by retracting her hooks and landing safely on a different structure.

What was that? she wondered.

Curious as to what that flash was, she moved towards the direction where the light came from exactly. She readied her blades if she would come across one of those giants. Once she reached the alley, she jumped off the roof firing both her grappling hooks on the side of a building to softly land on the street. She hid behind the corner peeking into the alley hearing coughing from what sounded like several girls.

“Hello, is anyone there?” the woman called.

She stopped hiding and went into the alleyway to see if there were still civilians trapped in the city. When she got a better look, her eyes widened, and she instantly gasped in utter shock and surprise. She saw seven creatures that appeared to be colorful, small horses with horns and wings.

“It’s okay, it’s just us, but we’re fine really,” spoke a purple winged unicorn.

“Wha-what are you?” she asked in confusion.

The purple alicorn walked out amongst the group.

“Well, you see, we’re ponies,” the purple one stated.

“Huh?”