Flutter Across Worlds

~The Next Day~

Fluttershy's ear twitches slightly at a distant sound. She curls up into a ball, before eventually waking up. "H-Huh..? Oh, that's right..." she says to herself, now remembering that she is still in that other world. She takes a moment to look around the room. A simple room. Empty of a majority of its original belongings, courtesy of Chris' parents. Eventually, her gaze comes to rest on a ball of black fur resting on the bed. "Um...G-Good Morning..?"

The ball of fur, formerly known as Belle the Cat, lifts up her head to look at Fluttershy. "Mrrooow."

She smiles and scratches Belle's ears. "Such a cute kitty....?" Her ear twitches at the distant noise she had heard before. She carefully climbs off the bed and looks around. Realizing it is coming from outside the room, she makes her way into the hall. She looks down at the end of the hall where the source is; a door that is open a small bit. She yawns sleepily and makes her way down the hall and peeks inside. The noise is much louder now that she's closer. Sounds like...poor quality sound effects of something hitting the ground, as well as an occasional low-quality voice saying 'yes', some banging noises, and some squeaks. She pushes the door open a bit more until she can see Chris sitting on his bed. He is holding a small, gray controller and pushing certain buttons. He's also talking to himself quietly, and he has a pair of headphones on his head.

"Stop...freaking blocking...Let me shoot the ball...Yes!" He quietly cheers for himself until he finally sees Fluttershy standing at the door with a confused look on her face. "Oh..!" He pushes a button on the controller and pulls his headphones down. He obviously has his music up too high, as now him and Fluttershy can clearly hear the music coming out of it. He quickly reaches down and pushes a button on a CD player on the other side of him, then looks back up at her. "Uh..hey. You're up early..." He glances at a digital clock on the TV. "...Early-ish."

She yawns and hides half her face again. "D-Did you sleep well..?" she says timidly.

He shakes his head. "I didn't sleep. Couldn't sleep actually. I stayed up all night playing video games." he says as he holds up the controller for him to see. "I keep forgetting how fun NBA Jam really is...Erm, sorry. You probably have no idea what I'm even talking about..."

She enters the room and looks up at the television screen. "W-We do have games in Equestria, but nothing like this..."

With her attention diverted away from him, he reaches behind him for his Fluttershy plushie and stuffs it behind his pillow. "Really now? We have those too, though they're pretty much outdated. We've evolved the world of video games so much that we even have gaming consoles that can be put right inside our homes. This is one of the older consoles though, but its right up there as one of the best. The Super Nintendo." He points down at the grey system on the floor.

"W-Wow...Your world is so advanced..." She giggles to herself. "Twilight would love to see this world."

"Heh..I bet she would." He puts the controller down, gets up, turns the console off, then stretches his arms and legs. "Ooooookay. How about some breakfast? I can make pancakes."

She smiles a bit and nods. "O-Okay.." She moves aside to let him leave first, then quietly follows him down the hall and into the kitchen. The looks around the house as she goes, taking in all the sights and strange devices here and there. "S-So..um..I-If you don't mind..can you tell me how you know about Equestria now? I mean...if you want to..."

"..." He silently gets out the pancake mix and starts cooking. "That...might be difficult. I'd have to explain other things beforehand. I suppose I can skip to the point for now and give deeper details later...Is that okay?" She nods nervously and he continues. "Well...Imagine there is a...let's say a story...Imagine there is a story you really like. That lots of people really like. Like..Daring Do for instance. Everyone knows Daring Do is a fictional character, right?" She nods. "Well imagine if that character suddenly came into your world and fell off your roof."

"..." She stares at him for a while, trying to take in what he just said. "Y-You mean...I'm a fictional character in a book..??" She frowns at the idea, and looks almost sad.

"Well..Not quite a book. That's where the extra details come in." He serves the pancakes on a couple plates at the table. "Let's eat first, then I'll explain more."

They spend the next half hour eating, and Fluttershy even offered to feed Sam and Belle. Chris was more than happy to let her, and had plenty of fun just watching her interact with his pets. This is probably the last thing I should be thinking about...but holy crap this is really awesome! A while later, after cleaning the dishes and everything, Fluttershy and Chris take a seat on the couch and Chris goes back into explaining things.

"Now...here in this world, you and Equestria are very famous. We have a thing called television. It lets you see things that are being recorded from..just about anywhere. Some of it is animated. Cartoons. That is all fictional stuff...or at least until you got here. There is a show in this world called My Little Pony. For years and years it has been called a stupid show made for the sole purpose of selling toy ponies to little girls. Then the series was recreated in the year twenty-ten....Or maybe it was twenty-nine. I forget. Anyways. A few years ago, a brilliant woman named Lauren Faust created a whole new world in her mind and it very quickly became a hit with the world. Especially grown men, like myself. Bronies, we're called. But that's beside the point. This show is about all the big, important stuff that happened to you and your friends, starting with the day Twilight Sparkle moved into Ponyville. It doesn't show anything between, of course. Or any private moments or whatever. It was made for a young audience after all. Pretty much about you and your five friends learning about friendship and stuff like that. The thing is, everyone believes it is just a genius fictional show created by a woman with an amazing imagination...but apparently there's more too it. I could try to explain the multi-verse theory or whatever its called but I don't know much about that..."

Fluttershy had been entirely silent through the explanation. Mainly out of shock. Mouth and eyes wide open, sweating...yeah, she's a bit freaked out by this. "Y-You mean I'm...fake..?"

"...? N-No. No no! Crap I should have expected that." He pinches the bridge of his nose. "Don't let your mind go down that path alright? It'll only make you sad again. This world only believes you to be fake. Clearly you're real though, since you're here right now."

"O-Oh..." She looks down in thought and frowns. "W-What was that about the..m-multi-verse..? I think I've heard Twilight talking about it once or twice but I never understood it..."

He cringes a bit. "Aaand this is where I start to feel stupid...I know next to nothing about it. I do know that it involves a theory that any world has a parallel or something, and that there are an infinite amount of alternate dimensions, or universes, or worlds..whatever you wanna call it. I suppose anything that could have happened has actually happened in a parallel world. Like maybe there's a parallel to Equestria where you and your friends never defeated Nightmare Moon or something. Plus with infinite amounts of worlds I suppose Equestria is likely to be one of them..." He smiles a bit. "Hey. I actually explained that pretty well."

You can just see the swirls in Fluttershy's eyes. "I-I'm so confused..." she says as she scratches her head.

"Uh...Long and short of it, Equestria is a different world entirely and it just happens to be a work of fiction in this world..." he says as he spaces out for a moment before face-palming. "I should have just said that instead of explaining alternate universes..."

"T-That is easier to understand...So h-how do I get back home..?" She looks up at Chris again with a half hopeful face that he might know a way.

However her hopes are dashed when he shakes his head. "I'm afraid I really have no idea. This has never happened before in this world." He watches Fluttershy look down again. Thinking she was about to tear up again, he speaks fast. "O-Oh but that doesn't mean I won't look for ways..! Plus like I said yesterday, your friends will also be searching for ways to bring you back! They will probably have even better luck with that since your world has magic when we don't."

She looks up at him again. "Y-You really think so..?"

He nods. "Absolutely. I swear on my life, you will make it back home. I don't know when or how, but I will make sure it happens.