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[no_vampires_plz]

The pony who drags herself into Milliways this afternoon is a sorry sight indeed. Her mane is sticking straight up in a ragged mohawk, held back by a white bandana (or possibly a bandage). The black jumpsuit she's wearing is torn and frayed. Her left eye is covered by an eyepatch, and there's a fresh scar on the opposite cheek.

Once she's a few feet into the room, she looks up and blinks blearily at her surroundings.

"...oh. It's... place. That place. With... them."

You'll have to forgive Miss Sparkle. Going without sleep for a week is starting to catch up with her.

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[says_the_booyah]

Blink.

"What the heck?"

Blink.

He's used to the ponies here. But a pony looking like something out of a bad rock video is something new.

[no_vampires_plz]

"Don't ask," Twilight grunts. "Short version: Time travel sucks."

[says_the_booyah]

"Oh, I know about that." Suddenly it seems less weird. "Last thing I ever want to do is more time travel."

[no_vampires_plz]

Twilight grunts in acknowledgment and heads toward the Bar. She needs to get some nutrition in her before she passes out on the floor.

[says_the_booyah]

"You need any help?" He's not sure what sort of help he should offer a time traveling talking horse, but he can't let that stop him.

[no_vampires_plz]

"Not unless you can send a 'Don't Be A Moron' message eight days into the past without causing a massive time paradox, no." She hefts herself up onto a stool and addresses Bar. "Pancakes, please. With as much syrup as you can legally put on them."

[says_the_booyah]

"Um, ok?" Pause. "I mean, I guess I can't help.

"And I think that would cause a paradox, yeah." He admires her taste in breakfast.

"Bar, make sure it's real maple, and not that cheap sugar stuff." Never hurts to be clear.

[no_vampires_plz]

The platter that appears is actually a shallow bowl, the better to hold all the syrup dripping off of the stack of pancakes. Twilight brightens considerably as she levitates a knife and fork up to start cutting out her first bite.

[says_the_booyah]

Cy just watches, full of questions and knowing this is a lousy time to ask.

Horses doing magic...that is always going to be weird.

Unless it's telekinesis. Which is also weird.

[no_vampires_plz]

After she's had about a quarter of the pancakes, Twilight is a little more awake and thinking a lot more clearly.

"...hey, we've met before, haven't we?"

[says_the_booyah]

"A while back. Maybe six or seven months ago, my time?" How do talking ponies measure time in the first place? "Cyborg. And you're...Twilight?" Her name reminds him of something. A book. Or maybe a TV show.

[no_vampires_plz]

"That's me," she says. "Twilight Sparkle. "It's been..." She thinks for a moment. "Wow. Almost a year for me."

[says_the_booyah]

"Time flows in different ways. Assuming a year even means the same thing for you.

"But I guess you just got a crash course in the flow of time, so you don't need me telling you about it."

All those pancakes are making Cy hungry, naturally.

[no_vampires_plz]

"Twelve months, fifty-two weeks, or three hundred and sixty-five days," she says automatically. "You?"

[says_the_booyah]

"Exactly the same. Except in a leap year.

"How many moons you got?"

Cy orders a comparable breakfast of pancakes. On a plate.

[no_vampires_plz]

"...you can have more than one?"

[says_the_booyah]

"Jupiter has something like 50. Most are tiny, but all orbit Jupiter. Most planets have more than one. Earth's kind of the exception." Pause, again. "Are you from Earth?"

[no_vampires_plz]

"I... really don't know?" she admits. "Our world doesn't have a name as far as I know. It's just 'the world.'"

[says_the_booyah]

"I guess that makes sense. I think that's really what Earth means." Or so he's heard. "But there's one moon and the same length year, and I bet the sun is yellow. That's Earth.

"Only with talking ponies."

[no_vampires_plz]

A small, wry smile. "You say that like it's weird or something."

[says_the_booyah]

"Only talking animal I know is Beast Boy, and he's just a shapeshifter.

"You got any humans where you come from? Or are they, er, not able to talk." Like in that old movie with apes and the primitive men and that dude who played Moses.

[no_vampires_plz]

"Oh, you know Beast Boy? I met him here the other day. --and no, there are no humans in my world as far as I know."

[says_the_booyah]

"You met him here?!

"That stinker! He finally find a door here and he doesn't tell me?" Pause for dramatic effect. "I am gonna kill him!"

[no_vampires_plz]

...oops.

"Um. Don't get too mad at him on my account? He didn't say anything about not telling anypony..."

[says_the_booyah]

"Nah, it's not your fault. He...he's been calling me nuts for two years now. Says I'm making it all up. The least he could is tell me I was right." His anger dims fast. He can save that for BB.

[no_vampires_plz]

"I haven't told any of my friends about this place except the ones who came here by themselves," admits Twilight. "It's... a hard place to explain."

[says_the_booyah]

"Yeah, but I've tried. Raven believes me, since she can feel the magic around me after I come back. And the others just don't say anything. BB's...well, he's my bud and all, but he can be a jerk." Especially now that Cy's going to college and BB is going nowhere.

[no_vampires_plz]

"So can everyone, sometimes," says Twilight. "Part of friendship is forgiving your friends when they are jerks."

[says_the_booyah]

"Didn't I wouldn't forgive him. Only that I'm gonna kill him." He smiles a bit.

[no_vampires_plz]

Wait until you find out that the Beast Boy she met is a different Beast Boy from a different Cartoon Network series.

"Somehow, I don't think he'll appreciate that distinction."

[says_the_booyah]

"He'll just turn into a mouse and run off for a bit till I cool down. We fight all the time." As witnessed by the damage done to the couch over the years.

Looking forward to exploding Cy's head soon.