Somewhere Over The Rainbow, I'm Screaming

(???) POV

"Yes! Finally, after a millennium of exile, I am finally free at last! Free to reclaim what is rightfully mine! I hope you've prepared yourself, 'sister', because I have waited a long time for this day. The day, that day ends!" I declared, before letting out a long awaited laugh of triumph, knowing that my time had finally come. I would reclaim what was so rightfully mine, and take vengeance on the one who foiled my perfect plans! My perfect night!

"That fool loves this body too much, and couldn't bring herself to destroy it. How weak. But now? Her weakness shall be her undoing. Oh yes, my time has come. My time has finally come. And nopony, not even Celestia, not even the Elements themselves will be able to stop me this time."

Elsewhere

It was a beautiful Summers day in Equestria. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, and the Kingdom was yet again enjoying another day of peace and harmony. For one new resident, however, this wouldn't be the case. Unbeknown to the Kingdom, a phenomenal event had just occurred. A portal of sorts had just opened up, and had just dropped one unlucky individual screaming, headfirst, into his new life.

"UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK-Oof..Aah, hell.." Yeah, I've had smoother landings.

After what felt like an eternity of freefall, my body had finally decided that being a bird had fallen out of fashion, and decided to reacquaint itself with the all to familiar ground. Of course, it had to do this in a way that would most likely become common for me later on, that being via falling face first. Allowing the pain from my rough landing to subside, I lifted myself up from the ground, and took a good look at my new surroundings. As one could expect, I was pretty fucking confused as to where in the hell I was, as last time I'd checked, the Weston Estate was not an empty field surrounded by a fucking forest and a couple mountains..... 'Wait a fucking moment.. Is that..? Okay, what the fu-'

"Is that a fucking castle? On the side of a mountain? That's a castle. That right there, is an honest to god. Castle. A castle, built into the side of a mountain. A FUCKING MOUNTAIN? How in the FUCK? I may not have passed my Physics A Level, but I sure as hell know that that right there is complete and utter bullshit!"

Oh, go eat your heart out, Newton. Putting a hand through my hear, I let out a long winded sigh, thoroughly confused as to where I was, and how I'd gotten here in the first place.

"Oh Alex, what the fuck have you gotten yourself into? You're seeing shit, mate. You are in some sort of fancy fucking coma, whilst one of your kidneys is being auctioned off to some Mexican Drug Lord. Mum would be so proud."

My self-banter was cut short, however, by a shadow passing over me. Looking to the sky, I found myself looking at something that further baffled the everliving shit out of me. A carriage. There was a flying carriage in the sky, drawn by what appeared to be armoured horses, heading away from fucking mountain Hogwarts.

"Yeah, no. I'm drawing the line here. I'm trapped in my own fucked up head. There is no other reasonable explanation that answers how fucked my situation is. Gravity defying castles? Flying horse drawn carriages? This is insanity made goddamn manifest. Welcome to fucking Narnia, Alex. Population: My fucked up psyche"

Out of nowhere, I was struck with grand idea that had no possible chance of backfiring whatsoever. "

"Why don't I follow that carriage? It must surely lead to civilisation, and I can probably get some sort of answers as well. Or alcohol. Why not both?" I said. And with this newfound resolve, I began what would hopefully be a short trek to the nearest pub wherever that flying taxi was heading towards, and also getting some answers to help my brain figure out what the fuck is going on.

Later That Day

It turns out that my mind's definition of 'short walk' is actually, like, a good day and a half from Point A to Point Don't-Fucking-Know. Granted, I wasn't exactly going very fast, what with me still being confused as all hell and spending most of the walk trying to figure out what could have led to this point, but still. I'd almost given up any hope of ever finding wherever that carriage had gotten to, thinking it must have flown to a different continent or something. But after how many hours of pure walking (and resting, and screaming in frustration), I'd found myself overlooking something that almost caused me to cry in pure joy. Almost.

"Oh my god YES! BUILDINGS! PEOPLE! FUCKING A!" I cried, ecstatic over the fact that I'd actually found what appeared to be a rather sizeable little town. Now all I need to do is hope to god that they either have some form of communications, because it appears to me that this place isn't exactly the most modern of places. Trying my absolute hardest not to have a repeat of yesterdays events, I cautiously descended the hill, making sure I didn't slip and break my neck along the way. Thankfully, I reached the bottom without too much trouble, and began heading towards the town. 'I don't know how long it's been dark, but I've been out here long enough, and hopefully it should be morning soon. Whilst it may be nighttime, I'm sure there's still some people walking about doing whatever it is they do in a 18th looking tow- Holy shit was that thunder? Oh joy, a storm is just what I need. Thank god I've reached this place then, wouldn't of helped to be stuck in a storm out in the middle of nowhere. '

Crossing into the town, I noticed the sheer absence of.... well... people. There were no signs of people at all, it was literally like a ghost town.

"Hello? Anyone? Anyone at all?" I shouted, hoping that somebody was around to hear me. Silence. Looking around the still empty town, I got no response. Continuing to survey the area, I noticed something rather strange.

"Does this town worship horses or something? Oh Jesus Christ, am I in some backwater country who haven't even heard of Science yet?" I questioned. The town had multiple statues of horses, signs with horses, everything. "Oh man, is this one of those Native Indian camps or whatever? Reservoirs?" Suddenly, my attention was drawn to the sounds of laughter.' So, there ARE people here. That's a good start.' Looking for where the source of the laughter came from, my eyes came to rest on a circular shaped building, with a closed set of wooden doors.

'What's beyond those doors?' I wondered. 'Oh please god, let it be a party. Parties mean alcohol, and alcohol is always nice'. Ignoring the sound of thunder and lightning, which I had somehow failed to notice had gotten much louder the closer I got to the building, I ran up to the set of doors. With a smile on my face, I straightened my hair, wiped down my jacket, reached for the handle and...

...I learnt that the universe, for whatever reason, has a constant hard on for my face being on the receiving end of a lot of punishment. Like the ground, for example. Landing on my back (for once), I witnessed what appeared to be some sort of blue mist exit the building and speed its ass out of the town. 'The fuck was that?' I questioned. Deciding that the only way to find out what in the name of hell was going on around here, with all the horses and misty bullshit, I pulled myself together, took one final look back at my misty attacker as it sped off into the nearby forest, and then turned towards the now open door's, now desperately hoping to get some answe-

"MONSTER!"

"YO, WHAT THE FU-" Once again, I didn't get to finish my shout, as something hard connected with my head, knocking me flat on my ass and sending my sorry self into unconsciousness. My last thoughts however, were off whatever hit me.

'Whoever threw that punch has definitely done that before'

(Twilight) POV, Some Minutes Earlier

'Oh this isn't good. This is bad. This is very very bad!' I cried in my head. I'd warned my mentor, Princess Celestia, about what was bound to happen tonight, and yet she didn't listen! Now look at what's happening!" I cried in my head. Only a few minutes ago, we were all prepared to welcome our illustrious and benevolent ruler, Princess Celestia, to Ponyville so as for her to raise the sun for the celebration. Instead, the Princess was nowhere to be seen, and in her place now stood 'The Mare In The Moon', Nightmare Moon herself!

With many ponies frozen in fear, and Applejack having to hold back Rainbow Dash from getting herself injured or worse by charging the newly returned Alicorn, Nightmare Moon scowled.

"Does my crown no longer count now that I have been imprisoned for a thousand years? Did you not recall the legend? Did you not see the signs?" I knew that story had merit! If only the Princess had listened to me, this whole mess could have been avoided! Gathering my courage, I looked towards the stage.

"I did. And I know who you are. You're the Mare in the Moon – Nightmare Moon!" This elicited even more gasps from the already terrified crowd. Turning towards me, Nightmare Moon looked me straight in the eyes, a look of curiosity across her features. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't terrified.

"Well well well, somepony who remembers me. Then you also know why I'm here." She inquired. Gathering my voice once more, I open my mouth once again.

"You're here to... to... " I couldn't finish, the realisation what her return meant truly hitting me to the core and causing panic to spread across my features.

Laughing at my evident terror, Nightmare Moon turned her attention away from me and to the rest of the town.

"Remember this day, little ponies, for it was your last. From this moment forth, the night will last forever!" Lightning flashed as the dark Alicorn laughed triumphantly, whilst everpony else stood like statues, paralysed by shock and fear. This did not last long, however, when the Mayor's sense of duty overrode her fear.

"Seize her! Only she knows where the Princess is!" Commanded the Mayor. Finally coming to their senses, the Royal Guards sprung into action, their bravery finally returning to them. Their attempts to reach Nightmare Moon were dashed, however, when she turned to face them, scowling.

"Stand back you foals!" She ordered, before letting loose a torrent of laughter and lightning to the poor stallions, sending them crashing back down to Earth, before dissolving into a dark mist and making her escape through the town hall doors.

'Oh no, she got away! Now how are we supposed to stop her- Wait! The Elements! Of course, if I can find the Elements, I can make things right!' With a plan in my head and newfound resolve, I made my way to the now open doors and..

..I was stopped dead in my tracks by what stood before me. A creature, on two legs, face morphed into one of confusion and shock, standing right in the doorway looking

"MONSTER!" Reacting to the shout of one of my fellow ponies, the creature jumped back in alarm, seemingly shocked by what he had been called. Understandable, considering how offended he must have been. What was even more shocking, was what he did next.

It talked!

"YO, WHAT THE FU-" Before the strange creature could finish it's sentence, a rainbow blur dashed past me and connected with the unknown creatures head, causing it to collapse in a heap on the ground. Whilst the hot-headed pegasus continued to celebrate her victory over the 'Monster', I was busy trying to figure out just what in Equestria I was looking at.

'I've never seen this kind of species before. Is it a resident of the nearby forest? Wait! Maybe this is Nightmare Moon's doing! Is it one of her servants? It spoke just a moment ago, so it must be intelligent! And clothes, too!' I had a plethora of questions running rampant through my head, until my ever faithful assistant, Spike, chose this moment to interrupt my train of thought.

"Uuh, Twilight? Maybe we should get this thing to the Library and figure out how to beat Nightmare Moon?" Suggested Spike. Of course! I must deal with the more prominent threat to Equestria.

"You're right Spike" I whispered, "but we can't just leave this creature here. Let's take it to the Library, then I can find out where the Elements are, defeat Nightmare Moon and restore everything to normal!" Picking up the incapacitated creature in front of me with my magic, I galloped to the Library, unaware of the five mares following close behind.