Just a Normal Day

My name is Tyler. I'm your average teen that is fresh out of high school. Now I'm going to describe my looks. Not that they are important. Any ways I'm about 6"1 and about as skinny as a skeleton despite weighing 200 pounds. My hair is natural brown but I've dyed it blue for no reason whatsoever. It goes down just past my shoulders, as it has since I was 6. This being why my nickname through ever grade up until grade 11 was "The Girl". Yea I know ain't it original. The name Tyler also didn't help my there. Great, now I'm off track, back to my looks. My only defining feature (Other than my hair) is my eyes. While most people have brown or blue eyes, mine are magenta. Why they are like this I don't know but it does earn me quick a few compliments as well as a lot of bewildered looks. But that's enough about me, for now.

Now for a short history lesson, which will contain very important details sooner or later. So, currently it is the year 2031 and just 19 years ago scientist made an amazing breakthrough in studies to deal with DNA. They had successfully merged human DNA with the DNA of an eagle. This lead to the successful merging of human and fish DNA. So by 2014 we had 3 sentient species on Earth. You following? Good here's where it gets confusing. Humans, Bird-men, and the Mer-people had been living in peace for 4 years. The Bird-men help keep certain ecosystems intact while the Mer-people kept the oceans clean and full of fish. This was all fine and dandy till the Mer-people stopped supplying us with fish. The Bird-men who mainly lived off fish blamed the humans for this. Thus a war broke out. The war waged on for roughly 6 months, I know it's short. Humans had a distinct advantage in the way of weapons making quick work of their foes. The only ones spared were a handful of Bird-men and Mer-people scientist. History class is now over.

Fast forward to last week where some doctor up in Canada engineered a new sleeping pill. An ad was put into newspapers globally looking for testers. They only had to have 1 qualification. Severe insomnia. Their reward for testing it? 10 000 in cash in the form of whatever currency your country uses.

"You know that actually sounds like a something I could use," I think to myself as I read the ad "10 000 dollars for taking 1 pill. Easy. Even better if it works. Haven't slept in a week." With that I called the number on the add and signed my self up for a test to which I believed nothing could go wrong. I mean it's taking a pill, how hard is that?

Fast forward another 6 days to yesterday,

"Thank you all for coming today," starts the doctor "My name is Doctor Birdsteen worlds finest doctor."

The first thought to run through my head upon hearing the name is shock. Doctor Birdsteen had been 1 of 5 Bird-men doctors left alive after the war.

"Now then if you could all follow me into the research centre we may begin to distribute the pills"

Now me and 16 others had showed up for the experiment. But I had my doubts if we could all stay. The facility look to be about the size of an average house. It was clear that if they had to cut people out of the experiment they would cut out certain people like Mark, my friend who also suffered severe insomnia. Why would they cut him you ask? While he wan't that tall, only about 5"4 he was round. Even though he only weighed about 250 pounds he had the circumference of a medium sized exercise ball.

"It appears we don't have enough rooms to accommodate all of you..." began Birdsteen "Well I'm sorry to say but we will have to send 7 of you home.... let's see here. You, you, you, the short, fat one in the back, the guy with the afro, and you twins. I'm sorry but we cannot have you participate in the trial but allow me to give you a small sum of cash to apologize for the waste of your time, oh and I shall pay for tickets home for all 7 of you."

Fast forward another 2 hours and past a farewell to a very pissed off Mark,

"Now that that is settled please follow me to your rooms where you will receive your instructions."

With that the 10 of us follow the feathered man to our chambers for testing. Now the chambers were all linked together so really we went into on then dispersed through the doors to the next room. Each room look relatively similar but they all had a little detail to make them unique. For example room 3 had a picture of a flower while room 8 had a window. I got the last room which was like rooms 1,2,4,5,6,7 and 9. A simple room that was about 5x5 that contained 1 single sized bed, a bedside table with a lamp and a little box the contained a toilet, sink and mirror. Next to the lamp was a small sheet of paper with a bottle of pills and a glass of water on top.

"Instructions for pill usage:" I read aloud "1. Take 2 pills with water within 5 minutes of going to sleep. 2. Sleep on your back. 3.Clear your mind. 4. Enjoy a peaceful night of sleep." With that I opened the bottle, grabbed the pills, and downed them with the help of water and hopped into the bed. It took me about 2 minutes till, for the first time in a week, I fell asleep. Only aware of a small tingling sensation throughout my body. I was blissfully unaware of what was to come, If only I had looked at the bottle...

                                                                ~Meanwhile in Equestria~

Twilight was sitting on her couch in the Golden Oaks library reading a book. Not just any book though, this book happened to be from the Star Swirl the Bearded's section of the Canterlot archives. What was the book about you may ask? It contained his notes in regard to his research in the possibility of other worlds and/or dimensions. When Twilight heard about a book with details on the prospect of other worlds, she being the egghead she is, had to get her hands on it. She had just gotten to a part where it talked about a spell that in theory opened a portal to a world called Earth in a dimension parallel to hers.

She had begun casting the portal spell when a certain purple dragon came running into the room.

"Twilight what are you doing up still?" he asked "It's 3 in the morning you should probably get some sleep tonight so you aren't to tired to do that thing."

"Spike what thing?"

"You know the thing you have to do in the Everfree forest for Princess Celestia."

"Oh yea thanks for reminding me Spike. No wonder your my number 1 assistant." and with that Twilight headed up the stairs into her room. Out of the corner of her eye she thought she saw a flash a red and blue out by the Everfree but she simply pushed the thought away thinking that staying up so late was causing her to hallucinate.

                                                                ~In the Everfree Forest~

A lone manticore was prowling through the trees searching for a late night snack. Suddenly, a bolt of lightning struck a mere 20 feet away from it. Seconds later as if a huge explosion had gone off a bright flash of red an blue engulfed the area. The manticore fled the scene not wanted to disturb whatever had caused the blinding light.