The Other Way Around

Chapter 1

Twilight Sparkle was finally ready to perform her new teleportation spell. If it worked, she would be standing in the Canterlot castle courtyard. She had already set up on an open hill, thankful it was Springtime, with the warm air and chirping birds. She laid down within her circle, surrounded by a myriad of highly complex and carefully drawn runes. She began to cast the spell, picturing her destination and focusing heavily on that image. She could feel her spell working, her body about to be pulled through space. It was then her ingloriously energetic friend Pinkie Pie bounded up.

"Hi Twilight! Whatcha doin'? 'Cause I was thinking you, me, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash and Spike would get together and do something!"

Twilight's concentration faltered under the party pony's verbal assault as the images of her six friends flashed into her mind. Just as all six images were present, the spell reached it's climax and released, throwing all seven ponies into the void, ripped from whatever tasks they were previously performing.

Twilight woke up first, the other six following soon after. They got up, and looked around. They were in a small town, like Ponyville, but the houses were more... Modern, and instead of walking paths, wide black stone paths with large, noisy contraptions traveling on it were in it's place. It was still Spring, where ever they were. They themselves were in the lawn of a particularly large house with a few trees in the yard.

As soon as Pinkie was awake, Twilight went on the attack. "Pinkie, what were you thinking!? Couldn't you see me performing that spell?!"

Pinkie looked down with a frown, then immediately perked up and said "Oh Twilight! You worry too much! I mean, nopony's hurt, right?"

Twilight sighed and stated "I guess you're right Pinkie. I'm sorry for yelling."

Applejack spoke up "Well, that's all fine and dandy, but Ah'm pretty sure were not in Equestria anymore, Sugarcube."

Rarity asked "Well, can we at least see if anypony is in that house over there?"

They all agreed to that and walked up. With one final nod from her friends, Twilight rang the doorbell.

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I was sitting on my couch in the living room, playing Halo: Reach on my XBOX 360 online with my friends. One of them was a brony like me, and the other was not a brony, but still liked and respected me, as well as being my neighbor. We were playing team swat on the blue team on the map called Pinnacle, and we were kicking the red team to the curb, with our team having 42 kills to their 29. My non-brony friend and I went in army-of-two style while my brony friend provided supporting fire. My non-brony friend and I had changed our service tags to BAN3 and BON3 respectively, and we called each other as such.

"Bone, on your right!" I turned and headshot some noob trying to snipe me. We continued towards the multi-level sniper tower on one side of the map. Keeping that tower gave whichever team controlled it a huge advantage. It was currently controlled by the red team. We made our way to the front door, where a red noob was camping in the corner. Thankfully, Bane was skilled in close quarters combat. With a quick pistol shot and smack to the face, the red player was no more. While he was handling that noob, I went upstairs and assassinated the red player sniping at the top level. I sniped a few more red players that have respawned on the opposite side of the map, and the game's announcer stated "Game Over." As we congratulated each other on our crushing victory, my doorbell rang. I told my friends I would be back in a minute, and got up to answer the door. When I opened it, I almost shat bricks. There, standing in front of me, was the mane six and Spike.

I said in a most intelligent manner "Uuhhhh..... " as my eyes bulged out of my head.

The ponie's (and dragon's) eyes were bulging similarly.

Finally, I shook my head to clear it and said "S'up."

Spike smiled and said "Doin' good, bro."

I grinned and said "Ladies, won't you come in?" as I stepped aside. They entered tentatively into my house. They relaxed when they saw the inside of the house was more or less familiar. As they were taking in the scene, I ran over to my living room and quickly put my headset back on.

I said quickly to my friends "Guys, you won't believe who just walked into my house!"

My non-brony friend had gotten off while I was away from the mic, leaving only my brony friend, who I called Timber, in the party with me.

He asked "Who, man?"

I released a fanboy squeal and answered "The Mane Six."

He chuckled and stated "Don't screw with me bro."

"No, really! Go to video chat, I'll prove it!"

"Alright man, see you there."

I set my mic so Timber's voice would come through the tv, then I grabbed my videocam and hooked it to my console. I went to video chat, and called into the other room "Hey, guys, come here!"

I held the camera at the door and filmed the ponies as they walked in. I heard out of the TV "HOLY HELL! Okay, I believe you. And bricks have been shat in the process."

The ponies cringed and looked around for the sound of the voice. "Hey," I said. "Lookie here." I tapped the TV screen. My friend had his own video feed up, and waved. "Yo. How's it goin'?"

Twilight asked "Are you really small and living in that box?

Timber and I busted out laughing. "No, I'm normal sized. Think of this as a window so you can see me. That camera my friend there is holding is like my eye so I can see you. It's called video chatting."

They still looked confused, but less so. Applejack looked like she had a headache. "Uugh, Ah can't keep up with all this fancy techno mumbo-jumbo."

Rarity asked "Well, since we're here, we might as well find a place to stay tonight."

"You seven can stay here." I offered. They nodded, and Twilight stated "You're very kind..."

"Jacob." I finished. Timber said "You can call me Timber, Twilight. I call Jacob Craterfist."

They looked confused. Twilight asked "You know my name?" I chuckled and answered "We know all your names, and all about you guys."

Rainbow Dash looked at me hard and began to ask "Are you-"

Timber and I said in unison "We're not spies."

I quickly explained the show and the Internet in a nutshell.

They still had confused looks, but Spike walked up to the TV and said "S'up, brother."

Timber pounded his chest with his fist twice, then pointed at Spike.

My cell phone ringed then, I answered and it was my dad. "Hey, Jacob. I'm ordering pizza, what did you want?"

I answered "Make it a supreme."

He said 'Okay', and hung up. The ponies were looking at me funny. "My dad called. He's bringing home pizza."

Twilight asked "Wait, how will your parents react to us?"

I said "Oohh, that may be a problem." How was I going to explain six talking ponies and a dragon to my parents?!