As the rain pelted my window I gave a long sigh as turned in the quest I just finished in my game. I was on my 360 playing borderlands 2 with my final class that I needed to max out and I was just barely under the OP 8 mark. My laptop was open next to me on my desk, Skype was opened up and some of my friends and I were in a group voice chat. We had decided to have a weekly Skype call to stay in touch with each other after we graduated from high school and moved away for college. In the call was Jack, Selene, Dave, and Ricky not including me. I was so caught up in my game trance that I hardly heard Selene nearly shouting at me from the call.

“Hey! Earth to Joel!!!” Her voice was a bit high pitched, but that was mostly due to her crappy microphone that she used.

“Hmm?” I mumbled as my attention slowly pulled away from my game as looked back to my laptop.

“Jeez man, you’re as hard to reach as ever when you get like that. Let me guess, your Psycho now?” She asked and I gave another mumbled answer. “Well think of it this way, he’s the last one left for you right? After he’s done you can move on to a new game.” She told me, not that it helped much considering I still had a little while to go before I’d be done. See when I play a game, I HAVE to finish it completely otherwise it’ll drive me nuts.

“Hey Joel it could be worse…” I heard Jack’s voice come in as I now paused my game and was now focusing on my laptop. “…Your save files could have been corrupted and you have to start over again.”

“I’m guessing you’re talking from experience now jack?” I asked and he gave a grumble which told me he just found out one of his games got corrupted recently. “What game?”

“Dream drop distance.” Me and Selene gave out a pained ‘ooooh…’ cause we both knew that Jack was a kingdom hearts nut-job and could play those for the rest of his life and be happy. “Yep, found out the other day and had to start over completely.”

“How far are you from where you were?” I asked as I went back to my game and did some inventory arranging.

“Not that far really, I’m just missing a keyblade or two now but I’ve gotten everything else back.” He said as I could hear the sound of his 3DS through his mic.

“What about you Selene? What’cha playing?” I asked as I went to an ammo dump and sold all the useless guns, relics, shields, and grenades I had.

“Mass Effect 3.” I heard her say and I then caught Dave giving off a groan. “Hey just because you hated it doesn’t mean I can’t like it!”

“The game was complete crap!” Dave complained as I once again decided to tune out of the Skype call and get entranced with my game again. Whenever Dave decided to rant about something, normally it was going to go on for a good ten or twenty minutes. I only turned my attention back to the call when Jack’s voice came into the mix.

“Okay ladies I think we can hold off on this discussion till another day.” Jack said as Dave and Selene finally broke the argument.

‘Thank you…’ I thought to myself since I didn’t want our Skype call to go to waste. “So Dave, what are you playing then?”

“Halo Wars. I’m about three thousand points away from reaching general rank.”

“Took you long enough.” I taunted, since I had reached the rank of general in that game three months ago.

“Hey shut up! Most of us didn’t have the luxury of taking a semester off from college like you did!”

“Aww come on can you really blame me?”

“Yes!”

“Fair enough.” I laughed as Dave mumbled something. “What about you Ricky?”

“Ratchet and Clank deadlock.” Ricky’s voice finally came over my laptop.

“Damn dude, I almost forgot about that game. Man was that game fun…” I mumbled to myself as I got lost in nostalgia for a minute.

“Hence why I’m playing it again.” Ricky’s voice came over again and I gave a chuckle before a loud boom of thunder echoed outside.

“Damn it’s storming like hell over here…” I mumbled aloud.

“They say it’s all over the state right now.” Selene said as I heard the sound of an explosion coming from her game.

“Yeah I know but, damn…” I said as I watched the rain beat against my window harder and harder as the wind picked up outside.

“Well…supposed…better…” Jack’s voice came up, fuzzed out by static before Skype notified me that I had been kicked from the Skype call and my 360 notified me I was no longer connected to Xbox live.

“Damn internet connection…” I mumbled under my breath as I gave a sighed before pulling out my cell phone only to find I had no service. “Aw crap…” I said as I saved my game and returned to the main menu just in time as my power went out. Groaning as I sat there in darkness I looked at my phone and did the only thing I really could do at this point. I went under my videos and watched some MLP: FIM that I had download beforehand in case of things like this. I watched one episode at first, then one turned to two, two to three, and soon I found that I had drained my two hour high performance battery. I gave another groan as I looked at my phones watch before I finally turned it off with 2% battery life left. It was exactly midnight, time for bed anyways I guessed as got up from my seat, only to be blinded by a bright white light coming from my TV. “What the f…”

Blackness, nothing but blackness was all I could see, nothing, no lights, nobody or anything. Just blackness of a void. But I could hear something, or rather someone, a soft distant voice that seemed vaguely familiar. The voice soon turned to multiple voice, all of them were soft and distant and I couldn't make anything out of what they were saying. I slowly regained feeling of my body, I felt like I was being pressed with the weight of a boulder and my head ached like a motherfucker. I finally gave off a groan as I guess I came back to the world of the living.

“Shh! It’s waking up! Hide!” I cautious female voice said just barely loud enough for me to hear her. I shifted around a bit and found that I was lying in a bed with a blanket over me. My eyes slowly opened to see a roof that was clearly not my houses and a window to my side, beaming sunlight right into my face. Slowly bringing myself to sit up, wincing at the pain of doing so I felt a cool breeze hit me and my eyes shoot back open. I was shirtless, on top of that I was in a pair of black pants that I wasn’t wearing before and I had red flames painted across my, six pack?! I had freaking six pack abs with flames painted over them! Not only that, my right arm had been wrapped up in bandages with a few stains of blood on them. While my left arm had some type of metal gauntlet on it, I frantically searched the room and spotted a dresser with a mirror on it against the wall. I got out of the bed I was in a little too quickly as one of my legs gave out and I stumbled to one knee. I must have been laying down for a long time, I had to wait for blood to flow back into my leg before I was able to stand. Once I was able to stand I hurried over to the mirror and frozen in both horror and disbelief.

I had a buzz saw in my head and the Krieg Psycho mask, I WAS my character Krieg from borderlands 2. Reaching up I poked the buzz saw in my forehead gently, and to my surprise, felt no pain. I figured it was best not to mess with it, I might end up killing myself if I move it around too much. I fully inspected myself and found that my assumptions where right, by some way, shape, or form, I had turned into my psycho class right down to the skin and head I had on in the game. I pinched myself a few times and the pain it caused assured me I wasn’t dreaming, but how…

“Um, excuse me…” I timid female voice called out to me and I quickly pulled a one eighty and once again found myself in disbelief at what I saw. Right in front of me stood a yellow Pegasus with a pink mane with three pink butterflies on her flank. “Um, I’m, uh sorry but you really shouldn’t be up, you’re hurt very badly and…” Her voice was borderline trying to be caring and protective, but also filled with fear as her legs wobbled under her.

“Fluttershy what are you doing! It’ll eat you!” Another voice called out from under the bed I was laying on. Underneath was Pinkie pie, Rarity, Rainbow dash, and Applejack. What the fuck was going on?! I was in the same room as five of the mane six from mlp?! Could things get any more messed up?!

‘NIPPLE SALADS!’ ...oh fuck no…

Author's Note

So this was a very quick chapter I'll admit, but i was so excited to start of my first fimfic. The following chapters will be (hopefully) MUCH longer then this one, but i needed to get the base of the story grounded in first which is why this chapter only took me about two hours to make. I would love to hear feed back from you guys so please leave me a comment or two so i can improve!