It was a normal day in Ponyville… or was it? Things were about to get a lot… stranger in these parts.

Twilight Sparkle had gathered her friends in the trusty abode of her library. The six ponies stood down in the basement while the unicorn prepared for the experiment she and the other Elements of Harmony were doing. Some of the ponies, however, still had some concerns.

“I still don’t see what the big problem is, Applejack,” said Rainbow Dash, pausing to blow her multi-colored mane out of her face before continuing, “I for one have complete faith in Twilight’s magical abilities, and so should you.”

“Ah never said I didn’t trust her,” countered Applejack, “I just don’t feel very… comfortable with this here experiment.”

“Oh, lighten up, cowgirl! This could actually be pretty awesome.” Rainbow said.

“Yeah, I agree with Dashie,” Pinkie Pie said, jumping into the conversation, “Meeting new ponies is always super awesome!” The delight in her voice seemed to persuade the apple farmer a bit more, but she still had doubts in her mind. Applejack walked over to Twilight, who was silently studying some of her notes.

“Hey sugarcube, we need to talk,” said Applejack, her face very serious indeed.

Twilight, sensing the urgency in her friend’s voice, gave a small smile in response. “What is it?” she inquired.

“Now, y’all know how ah’m the Element of Honesty and all?” Twilight nodded. “Well, ah gotta be honest with ya when I say ah’m starting to have second thoughts about this.”

The unicron sighed, obviously vexed by her friend’s frankness. She placed the notepad down and gave her a look of sympathy. “Applejack, I know it sounds a bit… odd at first. I mean, willingly letting another being into your body can be a bit… tough, but this is a major breakthrough in the understanding of how the universe works. If we can successfully pull this off, then it will be the first time in the history of Equestria that we have contacted ponies from another dimension.” Twilight looked away, letting the words sink in before she continued. “When I first discovered the spell, I was originally planning on doing this myself. But we require a total of six ponies to sacrifice their bodies in order for this to work. I can’t think of anypony else besides you guys.”

Applejack shuffled around a bit, obviously still uncomfortable. “B-but…”

Twilight looked at her friend, her eyes full of pleading and her mouth scrunched up and shivering slightly, “C’mon Applejack. For Equestria.”

The puppy-dog face was too much for the farmer. She sighed. “Alright then. Let’s just get this over with.”

Twilight bore a smug smile as her friend walked back into position. Hah, the puppy-dog face works every time.

The six ponies stood in a circle formation, each one facing a pony adjacent to them. On the floor of the basement, Twilight had drawn a giant circle with six mini circles connected to it which each of the friends stood in currently. Twilight herself got into position as she looked over at her assistant, Spike, who was watching from the corner of the room. “Do you remember what you have to do, Spike?”

“Yeah, I remember,” the small dragon said eagerly, “Make contact with the visitors in your bodies and make sure they don’t get into trouble. Easy peezy, lemon squeezy!”

“Oh and Spike, make sure they don’t ruin my mane,” the unicorn Rarity said from across the room, “It took so long to style it, and it would be a shame if something happened to it.”

Spike rolled his eyes, “Sure thing, Rarity.”

Rarity seemed satisfied, but all of her friends gave her a couple of looks. “What?! Is it a crime to care about your own mane?”

Twilight sighed, before turning to the others. “Alright girls, are you all ready?”

“Ready.”

“Ready.”

“Ready.”

“Ready.”

“...”

“Fluttershy?”

“R-r-ready…”

With the confirmation of her friends, Twilight focused her arcane magic through her horn, which in turn started to glow a faint purple. Eventually, she had enough magic built up in horn to release at an enormous level. The bodies of the six ponies started to glow faintly as they were slowly lifted up into the air. An ominous groan emanated from each of the Mane Six as they felt the magic start to numb their minds. Eventually each of them fell unconscious, still floating aimlessly in the air.

Meanwhile, in another universe…

A slouchy and tired-looking man stood in the center of an office room, his hands gently rubbing his own face in frustration. This frustration stemmed from the stress of his job. What was his job, you ask? To play video games, record the footage, commentate, and make that footage into an entertaining video for the internet. Seems simple, right? Well, that’s not the reason he was frustrated, since jobs also meant you had to deal with… co-workers.

The man turned to the only other man in the room, who sat on a comfy looking coach. This man was a bit buffer and taller than his companion, and slightly stockier as well. An entertained smile was plastered onto his face.

“What are you laughing about, Ryan?” asked the older man, obviously irratated.

Ryan shrugged, the bemused look still in his expression. “It’s just… slightly entertaining to watch other people suffering,” he said truthfully.

“You’re a horrible fucking human being, you know that?”

Ryan once again shrugged. “I get that a lot.”

The man still standing groaned and went back to his desk on the other side of the room, where all his equipment was held: an Xbox 360, an Apple IMac, two monitors (one for the game console and one for the computer), and a microphone stand. In fact, all five of the desks shared these items. As a result of five desks, a shelf that held many games, and a comfy looking couch, the room was kind of crowded. But that was the least of the man’s problems.

“When are those assholes going to get here?” he angrily asked, sitting down at his desk, “We were supposed to start the Let’s Play thirty minutes ago.”

“Calm down, Geoff. I’m sure they’ll be here soon enough,”said Ryan, pulling up a television set with the console attached to the bottom with the microphone, “They may all be retards, but they know when to start to stop fooling around and work.”

Geoff laughed, apparently amused of the idea of calling playing a video game work. But it was true, they were paid for it. “You’re right, Ryan. They’ll be here in a bit. See, this is why you’re my favorite employee.”

“I do my best to please,” said Ryan.

“Wait, he’s your favorite, but not the guy you started Achievement Hunter with?” the door had opened and the voice had emanated from the man who just walked in. This man seemed as stocky as Ryan, but a bit shorter and pudgier. He also bore a strikingly large beard that covered the lower half of his face.

“Jack, where have you been, man?” questioned Geoff.

Jack plainly held up a paper bag as he made his way to the desk. “What can I say? The line at Wendy’s was long.”

“Did someone say Wendy’s? That’s high class McDonalds, you know,” said a much younger man who had also walked in. This man was much shorter and skinnier than his co-workers, with a pair of glasses perched upon his head. “I’m pretty sure it’s impossible to be caught up at Wendy’s. The people who work make sure you are out of that store as soon as possible.”

“Yeah, well, what’s your excuse for being late Ray?” retorted Jack.

Ray stopped, obviously hesitating to answer. “Well… you see… ugh… hey, did you guys see what Gavin and Michael were doing outside?”

“Oh yeah, you saw that too?” Jack said, completely oblivious to the subject Ray was changing.

“What were they doing?” asked Ryan curiously.

“What do you expect, Ryan? It’s Mavin we’re talking about here. They’re butt buddies!” Ray said.

“Well, they better get their asses inside soon,” said Geoff. “We need a Let’s Play for this Wednesday and they need to be here.”

The four men continued to set up for the Let’s Play. After a bit, there was a loud commotion outside. Suddenly, the door slammed open and a man not much taller than Ray burst through, soon followed by another short man who was a bit stockier and, like Ray, wore glasses.

“Gavin, you fuck, get back over here!” shouted the second man, his face red with anger. Gavin shrieked and jumped to the other side of the room, but he was cornered.

“No please, Michael!” Gavin shouted in fear, his British accent still evident in his voice.

“The fuck is going on here?” asked Geoff, who was taking no steps to help his English comprade.

“Michael’s trying to bloody kill me!”

“Oh, don’t be such a bitch about it,” said Michael, “You’re the one who decided to ambush me in the parking lot.”

“THAT WAS FOR FUN!”

“Yeah well, I’ll have lots of fun tearing your limbs apart!” With that, the stronger man lunged and pinned his friend to the ground and proceeded to beat the living crap out of him. The others ignored Gavin’s cries for plead, as this sort of event was normal in Achievement Hunter.

After a couple of minutes had passed, Ray looked down at the two still wrestling on the ground. “So, you guys gonna keep on banging or are we going to get started?”

Eventually, they settled down, standing up as if nothing had happened. “So same time next week, Michael?” asked Gavin, a large grin on his face.

“Same time next week it is, buddy.”

Jack sighed from his desk. “You two are fucking idiots,” he said laughing.

The two men sat at their desks and prepared like the others. Geoff, obviously relieved that they were finally going to get started, started.

“Alright, now that we’re finally all here, we can get started…”

However, as fate would have it, Geoff would not have his Let’s Play that day. Suddenly, a blinding flash emanated from the center of the the room. All six men covered their faces as they were blinded by the flash.

“AHHHHHH! WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!?” screamed Geoff.

“MY EYES!” screamed Jack.

“THIS WAS TOTALLY UNEXPECTED AND HORRIBLE!” screamed Gavin.

“NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!” screamed everybody.

The Achievement Hunters continued shouting as their voices grew distant and faint. The light covered the entire room, and then with a bang, it was gone and the men were nowhere to be found. After a bit, the door opened and a young lady walked in, cheerful and happy.

“Alright guys, I’m here to record Behind the Scenes…” She noticed the empty room and sighed, turning to go back out the door, “Hello? Where is everybody?”

Author's Note

Okay, before people start to hate-hate-hate in the comments, I should probably point a couple of things out:
1) This story is in no way whatsoever intended to be taken serious. This is basically the result of the insane havoc of my mind, and thus, I will try to be as stupid as possible and try to include as much bull crap as I can think of. So if the story seems to be poorly written and/or lacking logic, that's the reason.
2) The reason Twilight and her friends have to sacrifice their bodies is because... well... magic? Or maybe it's because of my odd fascination with anything involving body-switching and/or mind control/takeover. The world may never know.
3) The characters of Geoff, Jack, Michael, Gavin, Ray, and Ryan are all based off of real people. Or at least as real as I think them to be. Honestly, as I have never met nor seen any of these six individuals, I can't actually say that this is what they really act like. I'm merely going off of the way they perform on camera.

Anyways, enough of my rambling. If you like the story, I'll try to update this as much as I can, but with school starting to take more out of my schedule with every passing month, it may be a while between updates. I'm actually almost done with the second chapter, but after that, I'm honestly not sure.
If you have any qualms or issues you would like to address, or if you simply like the story and want to say a couple of nice words, I would appreciate it if you would leave a comment or two. One of the reasons I quit my first story was because not many people left feedback on it. Anyways, I'll be sure to see you guys soon. PEACE!