Chapters As I fell into the portal, I can feel my body getting squashed and cracking. It was a horrible sensation, imagine your body getting twisted like soft serve ice cream and have bones inside you cracking and breaking, multiply that pain by 10, no, 100 and you’ll get as close as what I’m feeling now.
And what was on the other side of that portal? It was nothing but seven, thousand , feet of air. I immediately fell as if something was pulling me down.
“AIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” I screamed as I continued falling.
I could see Cloudsdale from where I am but the only thing in my mind was the fear of falling to my death.
In one part of my mind that wasn’t engulfed by my fear, I can hear it saying: spread your wings! I’ve tried to but I’m not a pegasus pony, nor was I a unicorn. I’m just my old Earth pony OC that I’ve drawn many years ago. A white stallion with black mane and brown eyes.
I’m fucked
I prayed that maybe some pegasus ponies will notice me falling from the sky. Unfortunately, I had no such luck.
“Dive head first” Another part of my mind said to me. Well, whatever made me thought of that made me want to facepalm (or is it facehoof?) myself. But I’m desperate for any ideas or suggestions, so without thinking properly, I made myself turn upside down, pointing the ground head first.
I've made a huge mistake.
The moment I’ve realized that this isn’t going to help, another thought shot into my mind.
G-Force
Now my blood is draining from my head up to my hooves and tail, I was starting to lose consciousness.
No, not now. I need to reposition myself!
I tried in vain to realign myself to point my hooves towards the fast rising ground but to no avail. The corners of my eyes were getting fuzzy and I think that it would be the end of me. Just a guy who entered Equestria and died barely 10 minutes after entering.
“I REGRET EVERYTHING! EVERYTHING THAT I’VE DONE!” I screamed for my life.
That was it. Everything went black. I have no recollection of what was happening. I just fainted in mid-air. The last thing I thought before losing total consciousness was:
At least I made it to Equestria …
“So is he alright doctor?”
“Barely, luckily you brought him here in nick of time. Other than the two broken hooves and four busted ribs, I’ll say he’ll be fine.”
“Oh thank you, he was falling from the sky when I found him.”
“Yes, that’s quite a weird place to be for an Earth pony.”
“I hope he’ll be fine, I’m leaving him in your hooves.”
“Don’t worry your majesty, he’ll be alright.”
Uggh, where am I? Am I dead? My head hurts, every part of my body hurts. But even so, I realized I was still alive…somehow.
I’m alive! I’m alive! But where am I? As I opened my eyes, a blinding light cause me to shut them tightly again.
Don’t look at the light, don’t look at the light…
As I laid there with my eyes shut, I can start to feel my skin lying on something soft and fluffy.
Either I’m on a cloud in heaven, or I’m on a bed.
My eyes adjusted itself in the bright light, from a blinding flash, it became more tolerable for my eyes to an extend that I can see what was going on.
The first thing I noticed was that the two of my hooves were in a cast and bandages wrapped around my chest. Touching it causes the most painful sensation I’ve ever felt in my life.
GOD! FUCKING! ARRGHHHHH!!!
I immediately removed my hooves from my chest, then I noticed that the IV drip on my left and the heart monitor on my right. The IV drip was connected to my left hoof and that wasn’t pleasant at all, imagining having a tube running from your arm or limbs with the feeling of something flowing from them. Not a very good feeling.
“Ah you’re awake.” A male voice startled me for a while.
“I am Doctor Quack,” I tried hard not to laugh at his name, “you were brought in here in a critical condition. Luckily, we were able to stabilize your condition before transferring you to the normal ward which you’re in now.”
I never really noticed it until now, but come to think of it, I could see other ponies snoring in their bed or reading a book. I was in a hospital!
“Is it serious doc?” I asked.
“Well no! If you were, you would have been in the ICU now!” Dr. Quack laughed. “You have two broken hooves, four busted ribs and a severed jaw .”
“Wait what?!” I got up from the bed.
“I'm just kidding!” he laughed. “Other than the severed jaw part,that’s pretty much your condition now. I advice to get some rest and drink…”
“plenty of water blah blah blah.” I finished sarcastically.
“Well no, actually, you need to drink this!” He took a brown bottle from the table next to me and opened it.
The smell was enough to make me gag, I’m not sure if I want to take that everyday.
“Once every 6 hours. Try it.” He said, bring a spoon with a purple goopy liquid in it.
“BLEH!!!! WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?” I recoiled at the taste of the medicine once it touches the tip of my tongue. I was trying hard not to puke.
“Language! Mr…. what’s your name?” He asked.
“Umm….”
Shit! I forgot to give myself a name!
Doctor Quack was looking at me, waiting for a response.
Think quick! Think quick!
As stupid as it sounds, it was the only name I could think of.
“Moon Gazer,” I said, “My name is Moon Gazer.”
“Mind your language Mr. Gazer, the hospital does not appreciate foul languages.”
He was about to leave when he turned and said to me.
“Moon Gazer huh? It compliments the pony who found you falling from the sky.”
“Um..doc, who excatly saved me?” I asked
“Why, Princess Luna of course! She brought you here on her back!”
“I…I...I...gah..mupoawfasdwawdatoy..w..w..w.wah?” I can feel myself getting faint as I spoke.
Then everything went black again.
The year was 2021; I was lying on my bed in my room, eating a breakfast muffin even though it was clearly night time. 10:33pm to be precise.
Life was going average, at least I have a stable job and a roof on my head and that’s already a huge privilege since job and room vacancies in the cities are usually taken first by foreign workers.
Stupid government and their so-called foreign talent plans.
I looked around and saw a stack of letters addressed to me. Never got a chance to read them, why not now?
Bills, bills, bills, bills, ads, ads, ads, ads, a USB flash drive in a small parcel and… wait. A USB flash drive?
Finding a USB flash drive in the middle of the Technology Revolution was a surprise actually, considering how everything related to media storage were replaced by Nano-Drive™ since 2014.
Let’s plug this in and see what’s on it.
Turning on my old PC, the only working PC left with USB ports , I plugged in the flash drive and saw an .exe file named “MLP”
The 3 letters alone were enough to remind me back of a happier time. It was a time back in the first decade of the 21st century.
Back in the first decade of the 21st century, there was a burst of interest in a show called “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” with male of age 13-40. Those males who took interest in the show called themselves bronies and pegasisters for the females. I was one of them, the bronies.
However, the brony community has stopped and disbanded a few years ago after the airing of the final episode and season. Only a few of the bronies still stood today, it was a sad day for the brony community. I still held on to my title as a brony, pushed by my love for the show and my love for one particular pony.
Modern technology allows humans to do something they couldn’t a few years ago. The complete view of the observable universe. Accurate prediction of star systems history. I however, put that technology to good use.
The .exe file opens up with no problem; it was just a short video about quantum physics and other sorts of bullshit you will find on the internet with the occasion of My Little Pony scenes. After a good 9 minutes, the video ends, a button pops up prompting me to continue.
And continue I did…
Chapter 2: Divided by Zero
Clicking the “Continue” button leads to a pop-up, it was blank at first, and then it started to show numbers and calculations on the screen. It began with just 3 letters, E, T and A. Then it continued with equations and calculations, formulas and such. The numbers were starting to hurt my brain when another pop-up appeared.
What the heck is this?
It was a program, with graphs and more equations, but the one part that strikes me the most was…
It was a 3D graph, about the equation!
Then suddenly, it stopped. The math froze at the final line of division and the graph was starting to glitch out. Feeling suspicious, I moved my eyes closer to the monitor, at the numbers both programs stopped at. The last line of digits were to be divided by zero and the 3D graph was at tan(89.9)
No wait, the number was getting longer to tan(89.999999999999999999999)
And to be divided by zero?
Oh fuck.
I closed my eyes and wait for what was to come.
BOOM!
The computer literally exploded into pieces, shards of what used to be the monitor grazed my arms.
Owwww!
Holy shit, the room was in a mess, the once white wall was darken charcoal black by the explosion and the motherboard was in flames! But what struck me the most, was a swirling purple and pink circle forming on my wall. It was getting bigger before my very eyes! The spiral continued to expand until to reached a point where the top and bottom touched the ceiling of the room.
A portal, round and swirling with purple and pink with occasion sparkles was on my wall! This is getting crazier and crazier, but somehow, inside of me, I was getting excited. Could this be what I was searching for? Could this be? Without thinking, I stepped inside the portal, hoping to find the other side…