Ep1: The Technicolor Kingdom PART 1: Into the spectrum

Episode 1: The Technicolor Kingdom Part 1: Into the spectrum

Garion and Aaron looked around them. Here was a world that didn’t quite shout out “danger” and it seemed predictable that anyone would want to wander in a landscape like this.

They both decided not to explore the cottage with the odd yellow thing that had run off, because whatever it was, it didn’t appear like it would be much help to them.

They first decided to look for their house, because they realized that they had been walking without knowing when the universe was swirling around them, so they may have just simply wandered away from it rather than losing it.

Aaron eventually spotted some kind of rectangle off in the distance, which turned out as they approached, to be a door 7 feet tall and 4 feet wide. It was just a door frame standing in the middle of the ground with the door inside. And it was still open. Looking through they could see their living room on the other side; A portal between two dimensions.

“Wonderful,” said Aaron looking inside, “It’s good to know that we can get home whenever we want to. Although now, I assume that we’ll meet a fawn and have to defeat a white-witch or something and become Kings.”

“Dude, we’re not going back in there. Not now,” said Garion.

“Well duh, of course. I’m sure certainly not going to be the one to pay for the disaster you caused us……What are you doing?”

“Just locking the door to make sure nothing of this Universe gets in ours,” said Garion, reaching in with one arm to pull the door closed. He didn’t step in the room and probably would have used a stick to reach the doorknob if he could. He held onto the nagging little fear that if he walked in, the world would disappear behind him and he would never have another chance. He knew the rules, He read Narnia.

“You’re trying to keep them out? And here we are invading their world,” said Aaron cynicaly, “Alright, well you may be getting all freaky and happy about all this, but I’m not going to be an idiot and frolic around naïve in a world I know nothing of. There could be insane dangers here.”

“Yeah, like this world looks so dangerous” Said Garion, nudging a small cheesy little blossom on the ground with his foot. Garion opened the door, and looked through. Whether it was like a magic wardrobe, or a time-traveling tardis, it was a whole different world through the otherside.

Just as an experiment, Garion went to the backside of the door, which was the side that they didn’t come out from and opened it. It just opened like a typical doorway in a non-magical world and only revealed the side where Aaron was standing, but when Garion walked around or peeked his head through the front side, the door appeared closed. He then closed the back and opened the front, so that they could see into their apartment and then walked around the door frame to the back. It still appeared closed on this side. It was like there were two doors in the same place, one being an active portal, while the other was an inanimate object, and yet both doors were the same object.

“Try pulling both doorknobs. See what happens,” said Aaron.

Garion put his hands on each side of the doorframe, cupping his hands over the knobs and attempted to turn them when the world suddenly began flashing and trees were looking distorted. Garion immediately stopped and yelped, for his mind had felt like it was being stretched apart. Everything instantly returned to normal once he let go.

“I don’t think today’s a good day to divide by zero, Aaron.”

“Yeah, don’t ever do that again,” said Aaron, who had his hands upon his head, like he was trying to contain his sanity. “Hey, I left my phone inside. Do you have yours? Check your connection and see if you still have it here.”

Garion pulled out his iphone and was amazed to see that not only did it say it was connected, but it was also charging itself! After a brief moment of amazement it had finally occurred to Garion that they had a whole new amazing world laid out right before their eyes that they could explore and yet here they were obsessing over lame, typical objects from their own world.

“Do you see that over there?” Aaron asked, peering over towards the low end of the valley amongst a few trees where a windmill could be seen spinning along with other low buildings clustered around it.

So Aaron and Garion wasted no time in following the path to the upcoming town.

They were approaching a creek that contained a small bridge going over it and a path that would lead from it to the town on the other side.

Garion was humming some random song to himself when Aaron pulled him aside, inside a bush. It looked like a green blobby thing with a few leaves painted in random places, but felt like a real bush. Even more surreal, it absorbed them in like a typical cartoon where a character would dive in a bush and maybe pick it up and sneak around while spying on somebody. “What the heck are you doing?!” said Garion, uncomfortable with random twigs poking at him.

“SSSHHH! Quiet!” said Aaron, peering outside through a small hole that appeared when he pressed his hand against the inner “wall” of the bush. “Did you see the color on bridge? And the buildings?”

Garion peeked outside. “They look like typical renaissance cartoon buildings to me,” he said.

“No, look at the doors and windows you idiot!?” Said Aaron, “They’re pink!”

“So.”

“With hearts……..All over…….In random places..,” Aaron hissed.

“Well if it’s all girly, why are you acting all like Solid-Snake? Wait, is that a Giant Cake?” asked Garion.

“I think that’s a house.”

“Hmm, weird. I like this place already. Well, to be honest, we're more likely to find a place to sleep for free in a town filled with hearts than the city filled with knives. Better this than home, any day.” Said Garion, who then burst out of the bush, and walked across the bridge, leaving Aaron behind. He was just so glad that he wasn’t going to have deal with Earth anymore! No more doubt! No more staring up at the stars at night feeling lonely. No more dealing with cruel people who cared for nothing other than what they wanted for their own. Here was a miracle he was walking through. It was the greatest gift any man or women could ever receive from God.

The place looked friendly enough. Full of sunshine, blue skies, summery trees and happy windmills. What kind of people here could possibly be cruel to him here. He didn’t want to hold back. He quickly ran up to the town and closed his eyes, breathing in the fresh spring air. Then  he opened his eyes, and stood there dumbfounded…

Aaron on the other hand, was not having such a wonderful day, despite the pleasant change in the normal earthly routine of everything magical being just imagination. And now that he knew that it wasn’t imagination, he was pretty ticked off at Garion who had seemed to be growing a strong reputation for running straight into dangerous situations recklessly with utter enthusiasm all over today.

It was also ironic concerning that usually it was him who had the spontaneous attitude normally and Garion was the boring person who constantly kept to himself, reading books, listening to music, and drawing rather than interacting. Now Aaron had to catch up with him. Quickly he followed Garion down the path as quickly as he could manage, over the small pink bridge, and to where he was now standing.

“Hey, Garion! Be carefull! We don’t know what kind of people we may run into-” and then he saw what Garion was staring at….

“Uhhh…”

Everywhere around the town, on the streets and in the houses, and in between the buildings were little creatures that appeared very equine, but also just barely humanoid, as they had human like manes dressed in humanoid fashions. They came in every freaking color that Aaron could think of; at least the lighter shaded ones with some darker shades, but very few blacks, reds, dark browns or greys. Their hooves appeared to end in stubs, with the bottoms cut in a flat shape which confused Aaron because it was solidly colored and made it almost look like there would be fuzz all over. Even so, he spot one big red pony pulling a cart whose fur on his hooves receded back to show yellow bottoms which told him that they were in fact hard and not plushy.

They had readable facial expressions and their “faces” were so due to the fact that they had abnormally small noses for horses. They were also very small, the average standing maybe as tall Aaron’s chest from the top of their heads.

They seemed to be civilized, obviously, with the houses and all and apparent busy lifestyle that Garion had intruded on. The buildings were built halfway to their scale as oddly some objects like tables were human sized while Doorways and rooms were short for their size. Some of them wore clothes and some of them didn’t, which Aaron didn’t know what to say about.

             Stranger yet, they each had a particular symbol on their butt that was different than all the others. Bowling pins, Clocks, flowers, bubbles, cheese…. They each showed up on the sides of their flanks.

They had freakishly big eyes that took up a lot of space on their faces, which was creepy because every single one of them were staring straight at Garion and Aaron at this moment.

They all stood there frozen in whatever thing they were doing looking at the two creepy looking creatures that stood menacingly before them.

Garion was just standing with his mouth open.

Aaron thought he might as well join him.

“Um…Hi-” Garion attempted to say hello but Aaron hit him before he could begin.

“Don’t! Remember what happened the last time you tried to do that?” whispered Aaron.

Aaron turned slowly towards their audience.

He threw a piece sign.

“Ahhh!” They all shouted as one as each and every one of them darted all over the place, running inside random buildings, closing doors, knocking over flower stands, picking up little…whatever  they would they call their kids.

They panicked, they screamed, they ran. Soon enough, shops were abandoned, carts were left unattended and Aaron and Garion were alone on the deserted streets.

“Gosh, why does this keep happening?!” asked Aaron

“Are we really that hideous?” said Garion who was for some reason pondering their odd way of defending themselves under attack.

He had only been joking when he said that they looked like flat geometrical shapes. They actually looked very closely to their real world selves, and everything here, though cartoony, were still 3-D enough for them to perceive distance and such like their normal world dimension.

Garion was feeling slightly nervous. Hearts. Pink. Flowers. Sparkles. Rainbow colored-, “Dude. Ponies,” he said, trembling with dread, “They’re My Little Ponies.”

“No they’re not. My little Ponies have noses much bigger than that. I’m just gonna say that these are just little multicolored ponies that wear clothes and live in houses and like putting feminine touches on everything,” asserted Aaron, looking up at a high-ish window on one of the straw-roofed buildings. Ponies were staring down at them.

“The Horror!” they said.

“The Nightmares!” they said.

“They returned!!” a little one said.

Garion looked down and thought, well so much for a nice happy town of….people. He looked at Aaron and said, “Well somebody’s got to be in charge of protecting this place. I would wonder how this place keeps in order in situations like these. Eventually we must run into somebody.”

So Garion led the way amongst the fallen carts and over the exaggerated wreckage of fruit stands and booths. Not bothering to look at the strange creatures inside the houses, he came upon quite a few instances where he actually felt kind of bad for just marching through their town and scaring them all silly like that. Maybe it was just a metaphorical way of showing how humans were really that terrible of a species. He couldn’t even say hi friendly enough.

Aaron noticed something about the creatures in the windows that he didn’t see before. Some of them had short spiraling horns on their heads and some with small wings on their sides. Ok, so that was kind of cool. There were Unicorns and Pegasus’s in this world as well. What else?

Garion continued trekking around until he passed by an unusually large tree 30 feet away that appeared to actually be a house with doors, windows, and balconies. All of a sudden the front door to the tree house burst open and a lavender colored pony ran out.

“Alright, you fowl creatures!” she yelled, “Turn around and head back where you came from or you’ll learn what happens when you terrorize innocent towns!” she was a different pony. She had Both wings and a horn which stuck out through her mane which was straight navy blue with a pink and purple highlight that went straight down. It was the same with her tail. Her Mane was cut evenly to appear that she had bangs, and she had large sparkling violet eyes that Garion could see with amazement from where he was standing.

“Wait a minute! She’s a Unicorn! No, a Pegasus? She’s a winged….unicorn….thingy!” said Garion, ecstatic.

“She looks kind of ticked,” said Aaron plainly.

“Yeah, well…uh…I guess I would be too if...but anyway, those eyes…. She looks pretty intelligent compared to the others. Hopefully, we’ll get some help from her.”

“Actually, she looks like she’s about to shoot something at you,” Remarked Aaron, noticing the pulsing orb glowing from the Unicorn’s horn.

For whatever reason, neither one of them had the common sense to evade but then again, a cute little violet pony just didn’t throw enough of a threat to them.

The pulse from the horn quivered and flashed until it shot out a beam of white light. When it caught them, it enveloped them in a swirling cloud of purple and red. They felt sort of crazy, probably because they weren’t expected anything like this to happen. At first it was like their bodies were being condensed but then it was replaced with normal density. It all only lasted for a brief second. The feeling quickly died away and they found themselves standing once again on the dirt street.

“Why the heck did she shoot us?!” exclaimed Garion, freaking out now. He looked down at the ground, seeing that it was closer than normal, “Oh my gosh! She freaking shrunk us!” They had indeed, approximately 7 and a half inches smaller.

“Well, there is one bright side behind this,” said Aaron, watching Garion jump up and down like an idiot, “At least now I don’t feel as awkward around these objects.”

Slowing down, Garion remarked,“Hmm. You’re right. We’re in scale now. But what the heck!?”

The purple Unicorn looked like she had been trying to fly, but apparently didn’t know fully well how to, and tumbled down from six feet in the air. She resorted to running and looked better doing so, and when she finally approached them it was evident that they were as tall as the very top of her “hair”.

They were a little shocked to see themselves eye to eye level. Now, she actually looked a little intimidating. She approached and exclaimed, “What! That shock spell was supposed to send you running away! I must have not focused my quadra-senses to 38 units of sparkle-” Then she stopped and just stared at them. She glanced at Garion, then switched to Aaron, and back to Garion.

“WHAAT!?” she screamed, “But how did you…Ahhhhh!”

Aaron had enough, “ALRIGHT FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! WILL PEOPLE JUST TALK TO US FOR ONE MOMENT?!!!”

“Omygoshomygoshomygoshomygosh!” She continued bellowing, suddenly happy, “How did humans get in Equestria!? I thought that the Mirror Portal was Closed! The moon passed over! We wouldn’t be able to have contact for another 30 Moons!”

“What?” said Garion sadly, “I’m so confused.”

“Omygosh! This is so amazing! How did you guys do it? How did you get through? Did you go to Canterlot high?”

“What? What? What? Please slow down!”

“No! First, why did you shoot us?” Aaron asserted.

“Because you were attacking the town!” answered the Unicorn.

“No we weren’t! We just walked in and everybody scattered!”

The unicorn looked up at the nearest building and noticed the ponies hiding behind shaking in fear at them, “Oh dear,” Looking down in frustration, she muttered, “I apologize.  I thought this town had all learned not to judge ponies like that. There’s an explanation-”

“Yeah well, oddly enough, we’re not ponies and so I guess we’re not welcome here,” commented Aaron.

The Unicorn quickly perked up and said, “No! That’s not what I’m talking about. This town did the same thing when Zecorra the zebra first came into Ponyville.”

Aaron gave a look at Garion. Ponyville? Good lord.

“They’ve been pretty good about it since then but I guess that the first time I saw a human, it was pretty terrifying. It was myself actually, but we can fix that! I was in the middle of an experiment when I heard all the shouting and mayhem outside, so I just naturally came out to defend them. Sorry about the size mix up. But first I’ve got to know how you two got here. I mean, without any magic, how could a few humans do it?” said the pony with a happy smile

“As if we know,” said Aaron.

“Come on, we can introduce ourselves at the library. The longer the townspeople stare at you, the longer they’ll make assumptions out of you and I need to make it look like we’re together. And I might be able to find information in books if anything else. Follow me!”

She ran them back toward the tree where a sign with the picture of a book stood outside.

“Whoa! This tree is a library!?” Garion remarked. There were just no ends to the surprises here.

“Yep! It’s the library where I work and my home!” she said cheerfully.

“Far out!”

Opening the front door, she stepped into a wide circular room that was the internal trunk of the gigantic oak. All the features in the house seemed to have been grown in with the tree, such as the curving staircase following the wall and the bookshelves lining the walls themselves. In the middle stood a table with a wooden carved equine statue head sitting on top.

She glowed her horn and suddenly two cushions suddenly flew through the air. It was kind of obvious that she was controlling their movements from her horn. Except that she was so excited that she accidently knocked Aaron in the head with one of them and caused him to fall to the floor. She placed the pillows down on the floor in front of them, offered as seating.

“Sorry about that, just being a little clumsy. Let me just calm down for a moment,” She apologized, slowing down a bit. Sitting back down, she took a deep breath, moving her front hoof like an arm to and away from her chest. Aaron was still rubbing his head from the impact. She slowly explained, “First let me introduce myself. My name is Twilight Sparkle, but you may have already known that, as I am the one who saved your world from possessive enslavement from a pony named Sunset shimmer who snuck through from this world into your world as a human and blah blah blah blah blah blah something about a mirror blah blah blah a crown....”

Aaron tried to share glances with Garion but the kid was looking intently at the crazy unicorn, evidently trying to understand what she was saying but having severe difficulty. He chuckled to himself as this whole situation was kind of funny. One moment he’s living his life on Earth trying to get mental inspiration from watching a Baccano anime thinking about the easiest way he can get a job to support his financial problems and then the next thing he knows, he’s in a rainbow world sitting in a tree watching Garion sweat himself to death trying to understand a crazy talking Unicorn.

“….And so, we left Sunset in the arms of your world so you can teach her how to actually make friends the right way. You must know who I am,” Finished Twilight.

Garion blinked a few times before saying “Uh, ok. I don’t know what crazy world you fell into, but there are no multicolored humans in my world. Humans don’t come in blues, greens, or purples. They occasionally dye their hair color but no excessive amounts of rainbow people or knee high boots, sorry.”

“Sure there are. I was there in one of your “School” countries,” persisted Twilight. She seemed pretty sure of herself and wore a tone of self-intelligence within her voice.

“What?”

“Ok, let me put it this way. This is something that one of our scientists have theorized: parallel dimensions. While they normally don’t exist in a natural state, the law of the parallel universe is that the two are different but follow the same direction of events and plotlines. For example, Our princess is the ruler of this country and in your world she’s a principle but she’s a human because of the range of blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah….”

Aaron put a hand to his head. This may take a while.

“…..And so since Equestria is big and takes up a third of our world and Canterlot high is small, that must mean that your world is very, very small. So chances are, word would be able to get around easily, so you must have heard about me,” she concluded.

“Nope,” said Aaron.

“I think that we would have most likely heard about a school with so many colorfully named students at some time,” said Garion, “And certainly about a giant demon trying to take over the human race and another alternate dimension. But we didn’t, sorry. And our world is definitely much bigger than a few highschools.”

“But that doesn’t make sense,” remarked Twilight.

“Yeah well life wasn’t designed to make sense, Twilight Sprinkle,” said Aaron.

“Twilight Sparkle.”

“Oh, sorry.”

“Anyway, stay here and let me just go find a book about the theories of inter-dimensional space. It won’t take that long,” said Twilight sparkle, who turned around and trotted up the stairs.

Garion saw Aaron looking at him weird, “What?”

“The next time you buy one of those fireworks, make sure to ask the cashier which next door neighbor universe it leads to, so that next time we don’t land in girly Strawberry shortcake land.”

“Equestria; And it’s not that bad. If you don’t like it, here’s the key to our apartment.”

“Why couldn’t we have landed in a pokemon world or something else?”

“I would hate to be stuck in a pokemon world.”

“Yeah, well….Fu-”

“DON’T you dare! We got happy friendly ponies surrounding us! You crazy!?”

Aaron just paused at this for a moment, thinking.

“Yes! Why don’t you go spoon your underwear!”

“Go slap a duck!”

“Go wrestle a chair!”

“Salute a fire hydrant for all I care! Where are you going?”

“To the forest or something.”

“But Twilight said to stay here,” said Garion

“Just face it, she’s crazy.”

“Oh come on! If she’s crazy, then how was she able to use a seriously scientific theorem?”

“Like I said, she’s crazy.”

“This place has giant houses made of cake! CAKE, man!”

“I might come back for that, but I’m not staying here waiting for someone to explain something I’m not going to care about, not that it wasn’t fun enough getting hit in the head with a hard pillow, but I’m going to see what the rest of the world has to show before I lose my mind.”

“You’re probably too late,” said Garion, but Aaron had already left the door. Debating whether or not if he should be worried, he came back to the memory that most of the people (or ponies as they all are apparently) they’ve talked to so far have ran away screaming so he should be fine. Then again, there was Twilight Sparkle who had actually tried to attack them…

Twilight returned back down the steps with her tail bobbing slightly behind her as she descended and approached. “What happened to that other guy?”

“He left.”

“What?”

“He just left.”

“Why?”

“He got bored.”

“Are you kidding me?”

“Well he said he might come back.”

Twilight groaned and said, “Which direction did he go?”

“He said he was going to the forest?”

Twilight’s eyes grew big, “Wait, which forest? The Everfree forest by Fluttershy’s house or the paradise glades around where the southern outskirts are?”

“I don’t know. Who’s fluttershy? What does it matter?”

Twilight ran up close to Garion so that she was just inches from his face, which freaked the heck out of him, “Because!” she said sternly, “there are dangerous things out there! Things that can seriously hurt you!”

“Like what?”

“The Everfree forest is one of the most wild and untamed habitats in the surrounding region! Poison joke! Timber wolves! Cragadiles! River boggers! Mudskippers! Wisps, and cockatrices that can turn you into stone!”

“Ok….,” said Garion. This was an unexpected turn that he would not have imagined seeing in this world. Which forest did Aaron say he was going? How serious was a cragadile compared to a human? “I’m starting to worry.”