The Elements of Harmony and the Savior of Worlds

"Twilight bit her lip and sighed. "Megan... you've been to Equestria before, haven't you." She chuckled nervously and looked away. "It was your reactions to everything around you, as if you've seen them before, and they changed.""

When unusual circumstances breach a hole through space, the Mane Six accidentally reach into a different world. This leads them to encounter a "human" called Megan, along with her family - but as the story progresses, it becomes clear that Megan's not only been to Equestria before, but may well have played a central role in its History. And her role might not be over yet...

The Elements of Harmony and the Savior of Worlds is an ongoing crossover between My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic and the original, G1 My Little Pony. It interprets the new series as being set in the distant future of the original, and examines how "Dream Valley" could eventually become "Equestria".

Originally posted at SpaceBattles. Can be found at Fanfiction.net and FiMFiction.

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The Elements of Harmony and the Savior of Worlds contains examples of:

 * Alternate Continuity: The plot diverges from canon sometime shortly after "Owl's Well That Ends Well".
 * Asskicking Equals Authority: Becoming king of the dragon clans requires, among other things, a Klingon Promotion.
 * Badass: As the story likes to remind us, Megan's first visit to the ponies' world involved her standing up to, and defeating, Tirac himself.
 * King Spykoran the Old is also very much this. Being a dragon helps.
 * How badass is he? When his dramatic entrance scares a bunch of ponies, Fluttershy gets mad and tries to use The Stare on him... and it doesn't work.
 * Canon Welding: Places the original MLP show in the new one's ancient past.
 * Cuteness Proximity: Megan has two daughters. Twilight is a talking pony. Megan warns her to expect this.
 * Fantastic Racism: Spykoran's hatred of the Ursas borders on this, though it's justified by them having apparently killed his family  in a previous raid on dragon lands.
 * First Contact: Technically not the first, but there are hints that Equestria and Earth are headed this way. Though in Earth's case, they already had a first contact of a different kind...
 * Generation Xerox: Not identical, but Megan is nevertheless stunned by Spike and Applejack.
 * Spike's case is justified by.
 * Happily Married: Megan and her husband.
 * Has Two Mommies: The Princess Ponies created Celestia and Luna, and as such, the latter two view all six as their mothers.
 * Heel Realization: Trixie had one in a flashback -- after she was run out of town following the Ursa Minor incident, she initially swore revenge on Twilight for upstaging her. Then she caught a reflection of herself in a puddle and saw how twisted by anger she was. This scared her straight.
 * Historical Hero Upgrade: In-universe example. In the original show, Megan was The Hero. Fifteen centuries of myths have spun her into the "Mag'ne", a quasi-divine figure.
 * Informed Ability: Megan Richards is described as a successful author. Then we get a brief look at My Little Horsey in chapter 16.
 * Specifically, we're shown the first paragraph or so, and it is a fairly accurate depiction of books written with young children in mind, and Megan does outright say that My Little Horsey is a series of children's books; books that target audiences that young, however, are rarely bestsellers, a status that Megan also claims the series holds. This is not necessarily a contradiction; her books could well be a best-selling children's series, rather than a general best-selling series, but it still could have been expressed better.
 * Journey to the Center of the Mind:
 * Klingon Promotion: How one becomes king of the dragons. One must also give up one's hoard, however, resulting in more selflessness than this trope usually involves.
 * The Masquerade: Quickly defied.
 * Mega Crossover: Not as such, but there are a few moments that show the Earth Megan comes from, besides being the one of the 80s' My Little Pony, is also the Earth of Jem and that era's Transformers and G.I. Joe - Word of God has called it "Hasbro Earth".
 * Mind Rape: During his original rampage, Discord performed a particularly brutal one on Morning Glory that left her almost completely unresponsive to those around her. And due to Rosedust isolating the Flutter Ponies after what happened she's been that way for thirteen centuries.
 * Mythology Gag: In chapter 19, two agents discuss how Admiral Hector Delgado (better known as "Shipwreck" from G.I. Joe) claimed to have seen a pegasus, a nod to a never-animated scene from My Little Pony the Movie.
 * Narnia Time: For Megan and her siblings, it's been about two decades since the events of the old show. For Celestia, Luna, and any G1 character who's still alive, it's been around fifteen centuries.
 * Never Got to Say Goodbye: Megan and the original G1 ponies.
 * No Indoor Voice: Princess Luna's traditional royal Canterlot voice is in full effect. Luckily, she tends to only use it to get ponies' attention and to announce things to groups of ponies. Otherwise, she speaks using her normal voice. She will however switch between the two without warning, which catches ponies and humans alike off guard.
 * Parental Substitute: Megan and her siblings, to Celestia and Luna (having raised them as fillies at the behest of the Princess Ponies).
 * Pony Popsicle:
 * Roaring Rampage of Revenge:
 * Shipper on Deck: Mike (Megan's husband) and Applejack are trying to hook up Big Macintosh and Fluttershy. AJ claims she's actually been trying to do this for awhile, but has been hampered by Fluttershy's shyness and Big Mac not feeling that he's good enough for her.
 * Shrouded in Myth: Megan became, in Pony Mythology, the messianic Mag'ne, and we humans became the divine Herd.
 * Spit Take: Celestia's reaction to receiving Twilight's letter about Megan. Luna has almost the exact same reaction.
 * Start of Darkness: When Luna is explaining her transformation into Nightmare Moon, we get a flashback showing how it happened.
 * Took a Level In Badass: He was already showing signs of this in the original show, but
 * Year Inside, Hour Outside: Megan's spent twenty years on Earth. When she returns to Equestria, it's been fifteen centuries from the ponies' perspective.