A matter of Chaos.

Twilight Sparkle hummed to herself as she balanced a small stack of books on her back, Spike the dragon tailing close behind with a cart stacked high with assorted papers, each with important research information regarding the Pegasus and Gryphon relations. It had started out a normal day, Twilight woe up, met Pinkie Pie for some muffins at Sugarcube Corner, and the helped Rarity with some of her deliveries to clients heading to the Gala.

"Spike, are you sure you checked off the list?" Twilight asked, always one to obey lists and orders.

Spike rolled his emerald green eyes and sighed, pulling out a long scroll from the cart and unfurling it gently.

"Ate Muffins with Pinkie? Check. Delivered thirteen dresses to clients around Ponyville with Rarity? Check. Purchased all scrolls and book related to gryphons, Pegasus, and Alicorns? Check, that's about all that was on today's agenda Twilight." he stated while casting the unfurled scroll on top of the pile.

Spike was never one to do any form of work, much less run all day with Twilight, but he was easily swayed when she told him about helping Rarity. He about drooled onto himself at the mere mention of the white unicorn.

"Well then I guess we can call it a day." Twilight replied cheerfully. she had been running all day, and her hooves were starting to get sore.

"Hey Twilight, whats that over there?" Spike asked, his clawed finger pointing at a shimmering light in the distance, near the road to the Everfree forest.

Twilight squinted and saw the light as well, and looked back to her assistant with a concerned glare.

"I dont know spike, we should go over and see what it is."

for once Spike was excited to do a little extra running, and left the cart behind to tail Twilight. As they neared the light Twilight noticed her horn beginning to glow, the closer they got the brighter it glowed.

"Whoa Twilight, your horn!"

"I know, it seems to be reacting to whatever this light is." she stated with a scientific point of notice as they stepped within distance of the light. The light in question, no more than a foot wide and tall, hovered a few inches off the ground, humming softly as the light from its core pulsated. Twilight circled it and got close, jumping back as a spark made contact with her horn.

"Twilight! are you okay?" Spike yelled.

"Yeah, it just shocked me is all. What do you suppose it is Spike?"

Spike shrugged his scaly shoulders and sat perplexed at the suspended light.

"It kind of looks like a star." He said while pulling a gem from behind his back, gnawing at the shimmering surface.

Twilight gazed at the refracting light, watching as it played a dance of colors in front of her eyes.

"If it's a star, we need to inform Princess Luna and Princess Celestia."

spike stood at attention and saluted mockingly, pulling parchment and a pen from Twilight's sack.

"Tell her we found some kind of light that just appeared here, tell her we're at the entrance to Everfree Forest."

Spike hastily jotted the note and sent it to the princess with a puff of green flame.

"Now what Twilight?"

Twilight almost ignored him while studying the light.

"Take the cart home and get some sleep, I'm gonna sit here and monitor this."

Spike nodded his head and walked back to the cart, noting the shifting hues of the sky as nightfall began to descend on Twilight and the strange light.

~At opposite ends of the Dimensional rift~

A man stood gazing over a circle of runes and glowing glyphs, hoping that the spell would work and the saviors he was trying to bring over would arrive soon. His face was shrouded within a black cloak, which swayed with the small sudden gusts the spell was creating. A tome rested in his hand as he whispered words of ancient power, crossing the void in order to bring them to his own world.

“Just a little bit longer.” He sighed, his voice young yet wise as an old sage.

Chaos was coming to his world, and he knew only the elements of harmony could save it. His mother had told him when the time came, he would know when to summon them.

And time was running out.

~Equestria, outside the Everfree forest~

Twilight had noted the growing size of the light, and backed away a few meters just to be safe, after Spike had left she found herself in the company of Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, who after a day of flight training, had spotted the unicorn observing the strange light. Dash waled over and flew over the light, trying to get a better look at what it was.

"I dont like it. It's totally an alien or something." Dash exclaimed, drawing a sigh from twilight as she shook her head.

"No Dash, its magical in origin, or it wouldn't react to my horn."

Fluttershy remained away from it, trying not to stare at it while nestling next to Twilight.

"It's scaring me." she whispered, hiding behind her pink mane.

"It's alright Fluttershy, I'm sure its not here to harm us."

Twilight turned her head at the sound of running hooves, and saw her other friends, Rarity, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie rushing towards them.

"What in the sweet name of apples is that thing?" AJ exclaimed, pointing at the light rather dramatically.

"It looks like a disco ball! are we having a party?" The ever chipper Pinkie asked.

"It would look great on my new dress, can you move it?" Rarity ogled and awed.

"We dont know what it is, but i have a feeling the princesses would know."

As if calling on Celestia's name herself, the six looked up to the sound of majestic flapping wings and spotted the royal sisters themselves descending and landing next to Twilight Sparkle. The six bowed to the royal princesses of the sun and moon, and received a slight curtsey in return.

"Twilight, is this what you called us here for?" Celestia asked, her sweet voice easing the fears of all the ponies

Twilight nodded and surveyed the light, noticing the pulses coming faster and brighter by the second.

"We thought it might be a star, Luna, can you tell us what this is?"

Luna approached and lowered her head closer to the light, drawing away as it crackled to life.

"I'm afraid I would not know what this strange enigma must be." she explained, standing next to her sister and looking t her for support.

Celestia looked at the light and closed her eyes, her horn glowing a golden aura as she encompassed the light in a field. when she finished the light suddenly grew brighter than it had before, engulfing the ponies and the princesses in a piercing white light.

"Whats going on!" Was all Twilight could ask before they vanished into thin air.

~At the other side of the rift.~

The man called out in the ancient language, feeling the thrum of power as it resonated from the glyph. His power reached out and he felt the life forces of seven, and prayed that these souls were the elements he desperately needed. The glyph suddenly flashed a light more brilliant than any sun, and the man covered his eyes to shield himself from the brilliance.

“Wha- Where are we?” He heard a distinctly female voice, educated but frightened, call from the room.

He looked and paused in shock, eight women all sitting on the rune, and all looking around with disbelief.

“Well I don’ like this one bit, felt like a crate o apples fell on my head.” One called from the floor, rubbing her eyes and readjusting her leather cowboy hat. She looked down at her hands and her pupils shrunk, and as if having the same thought, all of the women began to scream. One, with long curled purple hair, gazed at herself and begun to close her eyes, clutching her head and falling over.

Others, like the pink haired girl, slender yet full of life, stared at her hands and smiled, moving each finger individually.

The man, now as confused as they, tried to speak to calm them , but when they saw him approaching, they huddled together and screamed even louder. The apparent leader, a tall curvaceous woman with flowing neon hair, stood and looked at the screaming women, and stamped her bare foot on the ground.

“My little ponies! Silence!” she yelled with a tone of superiority.

All stopped as she smiled slightly and turned to the man, approaching him until she was within inches.

“What is the meaning of this?”

The man stood up as tall as he could and pulled back his hood, revealing a face as young as twenty, but with eyes of an ancient seer. His long brown hair fell back into a knot, and he looked from his tome back to the princess.

“Princess Celestia I presume?”

Celestia nodded her head and looked to the others, not showing any sign of surprise in their new forms.

“I would formally welcome all of you to my world, but discord has by now sensed your entering of our world.” He stated calmly, while closing the book and placing it beneath his arm.

“Discord? But we froze him in a stone prison!” Twilight, forgetting her new body, boldly explained.

“His physical form yes, but he has escaped in spirit and trekked into my world, and I need you to help me stop him.”

Celestia grabbed hold of her sisters arm and hoisted her up on  shaky legs.

“Before that I believe you owe all of us an explanation, and your name since you seem to know a lot about us.”

“Fair enough, my name is Garn, and I know you two are the royal princesses of Equestria.” He paused and looked to the others lying on the floor.

“And I suppose those others are the elements of harmony?”

Celestia nodded and placed a hand on her hip, looking Garn over before crossing her arms.

“Perhaps we can discuss more when we are moved to a more warm area?”

“Well I didn’t expect you to become human during the trip.” He paused and blushed as Luna finally mastered standing and covered herself.

“Or that you’d be without clothes.”

Celestia looked down at herself and nodded her head.

“I suppose a new attire would be suitable, do you humans wear clothes all the time?”

Garn nodded.

“I’ll go get you all some clothes, then we can discuss what goes on next.”