From Friends to Fur

'RingRingRing! RingRingRing! Phone Call! Phone Call! RingRingRing! RingRingRing! Phone Call! Phone Call! RingRingRing! RingRingRing! Phone Call! Phone Call!' The persistent sound of a phone rung within the dark room of a college dorm as its owner scurried around looking for the phone before it went to voice mail.

"Where is it? Where is it?!" He searched under the far from neat blanket of his bed where he had previously left it. He eventually found it. "Finally! Ooh! A Skype call!"

-click-

"Sora! Hey! Long time no see!" The owner of the phone spoke to his friend on the other side of the call.

"Matt, we were just talking to each other in the café not five minutes ago." Sora replied through the phone.

"What? Five minutes is a long time!"

"Oh hush, you!"

Sora was another college student and a longtime friend of Matt. Ever sense the two were in preschool they have been friends. They basically grew up together! And what kept them together as friend for so long?...

"Hey! Bet 'cha can't beat me in a battle this time!"

"One v One?"

"You're on!" Matt proceeded to pull out his custom Pokémon skinned 3DS equipped with Pokémon Y and turned it on.

... Pokémon! Ever sense the release of the first two games, Sora and Matt would constantly trade, train and battle to see which of the two, was the best. They would always look for each other before and after school so that they could hang out and just play Pokémon with each other and the further the technology of gaming and Pokémon advanced the easier it was it was to battle with each other. Especially when Pokémon became available to the Nintendo DS. They no longer had to be within the same room as each other thanks to Wi-Fi connections. No more cords holding them down. They were able to go virtually anywhere and play Pokémon with each other and with the addition of the 3DS and Pokémon X and Y, there adventures became even more incredible.

"Go! Glaceon!"

"Go! Eevee!"

"Urgh! Eevee again?" Sora groaned.

"You should be one to talk! You're still using that same old Glaceon that you always use!" Matt complained.

"What? You know Glaceon's my favorite!"

"And Eevee is mine!"

"At least Glaceon is actually competitive!"

"Eevee is adorable!"

"Glaceon's a beauty queen!"

"Eevee is-" Matt was rudely interrupted.

"Oh would you both please shut up! Can't you see I'm trying to work here?!" Brad, Matt's room-mate and science genius, yell at Matt. Brad had been working on a major scientific achievement that would blow the minds of many.

"Sorry, Brad" The two apologized shyly.

"Hey Brad, are you almost done with that thing yet?" Matt asked curiously.

Brad nodded. "Just about. I just have a few screws to tighten and it should be ready." Brad turned around back to his machine and continued working on it.

"Oh, AWESOME!"

"What? Oh come on. Matt, can you please tell me what it does now?"

"Not yet! I'll let you know later but for now, let's battle. Eevee! Use Shadow Ball!"

Nearly caught off guard, Sora quickly retaliated. "Oh yeah? Glaceon! Use Sheer Cold!"

It’s a 1-hit K-O!

"What?! How do you always hit me with that?!"

"MMMagic."

"It's finished!" Brad shouted as he stood up from his seat. "I gotta go tell Professor Maple!" Brad quickly ran out of the dorm room and towards his Professor.

Matt looked down at his phone and simply said, "If you wanna see the most awesome thing in your life, then come to my dorm now."

"What?"

-click-

Matt hung up his phone and just stared at Brad's finished machine. "I can't believe he finally did it."

Sora was running down the hallways towards Matt's dorm room. "I can't believe I finally get to find out what that thing does. He better not be trolling me!" When she finally reached Matt's door, she lifted her arm and knocked on the door.

Knock. Knock. Knock.

She didn't have to wait long before Matt opened the door for her. "Took you long enough!"

That one sentence nearly infuriated Sora, luckily for Matt, Sora had grown accustom to Matt's antics. "Yeah. Well, I brought my DS just in case this machine isn't as 'amazing' as you say it is."

Mat moved out of the way to let Sora in as knowing grin crossed his face. "Oh-ho-ho! This is even more amazing then I said it was." He led Sora over to the round machine sitting on Brad's desk and gestured to it. "Say hello to the portal to Ponyville!"

Sora gasped in shocked excitement.

Now, Matt and Sora have been watching a show that was shown on the Hub network called "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" sense the year 2011 when they decided to watch the first episode for fun. That one episode, however, had transformed Matt and Sora into the bronies they are so proud of being today.

"You mean THE Ponyville? As in, My Little Pony's Ponyville?" Sora asked excitedly barley containing her excitement.

This made Matt laugh. "Eeyup! Matt has been working on this baby for a long time now. By the way, Brad's a closet brony."

"What?! You're kidding me! Oh my goodness! And he just finished it?!"

"Wanna turn it on and find out?"

Sora's expression went from surprised to flabbergasted in under a second. All she could say was simply, "Do it."

That was all Matt needed to hear before he flipped on the switch to the machine. The machine then proceeded to make a fairly loud buzzing sound as it powered up to create the portal but eventually, the bright blue light of the portal shined throughout the room. Matt and Sora just stared at it, amazed that it had actually been working.

Matt looked over at Sora who couldn't look away from the trance-inducing portal. "Wanna go through?" Sora continued to look at the portal, only answering Matt with a simple nod. Matt then offered Sora his hand.

Finally being able to look away from the portal, Sora looked at the hand being offered to her. She gracefully accepted it and didn't plan on letting go.

Matt held onto Sora's hand tightly and brought their hands to the portal. As their hands grew closer and closer to the portal, the portal seemed to open up to them in a vortex fashion yet keeping its blue hue.

When their hands made contact with the portal it created a sort of a vacuum effect pulling in many loose papers from within the room. Matt and Sora struggled to keep their footing as the portal was pulling them in against their will until the fell in and disappeared from the room.

The portal machine itself imploded turning all of its expertly positioned pieces into smoldering, shattered crisps leaving the room in a chaotic mess and a scorch mark on the desk.

Then the door to the room opened once more, allowing the sound of Brad's voice fill the room. "... However, my portal is only good for a single use, one-way. So I was hoping that the school could supply me with the proper funding to make multiple portal machines so that no one going through it would get stuck on the other side." When Brad finished his explanation to Prof. Maple, he turned his head and looked at the now nearly destroyed room.

"My word. It seems as if someone set off a small explosion in here." Said Prof. Maple as he looked around the room.

However, Brad didn't look at the room much. His focus was on a scorch mark that happened to be on the exact same spot his portal machine was set before he left. "Someone... Someone used my machine!"

"Couldn't you just use your notes and build another one?" Asked Prof. Maple.

"I can't. I don't have the proper funding to... Wait... No... No. No! No!!! NoNoNo!!! Nooooooo!!!!!!!"

"Brad. Whatever is the matter?"

"My notes!" Brad gestured to an empty spot on his desk. "I left my notes right here when I went to go find you!" He let out a gasp as he realized a possibility of what might have happened. "They must have gone into the portal! Urgh! The vortex from the portal must sucked up my notes! I couldn't build another one even if I DID have the funding!" He fell to his knees as the whole reality of the situation dawned on him. "Fifteen years of just coming up with the portal technology, ten of those years spent searching for the perfect place to go. It's all gone now. All of it. Who would do something like th... It's too quiet in hear. Where's Ma-?" Brad quickly looked back at the scorch mark on his desk. "Oh no! Matt!"

"Brad, what are you talking about? Where is Matt? As a matter of fact, WHO is Matt?" Inquired Prof. Maple.

Brad looked over at Prof. Maple in a fit of rage. "Matt is my roommate and my best friend!!!" Brad calmed down a bit and took to a look of sadness before continuing. "He was my only friend... and now he's gone... forever."

Meanwhile, in Ponyville. A young, lavender unicorn was finishing up some calculations in her basement. "... Carry the two. Divide by pi. Minus one. Perfect! According to my math, this spell should work. Alright, let's just test this out real quick." The lavender unicorn charged up her horn with the calculated amount of magic necessary to perform her spell. She needed complete and utter focus. The slightest mistake could have some serious-

"Hey Twilight! You down here!"

"Waaah!!!"

... repercussions.

A young purple dragon came running down some steps after he saw a bright flash come from the basement. When he reached the bottom of the stares he ran over to the lavender unicorn. "Oh my gosh! Twilight, are you alright?!"

Twilight, who had fallen on her back after the dragon had broken her focus, got up and lectured the dragon. "Spike, how many times have I told you not to bother me when I am working in here? Something dangerous or horribly wrong could have happened. Wait." Twilight frantically looked around her basement laboratory for anything that might have been odd or out of place. Luckily for Twilight, there wasn't. She let out a relived sigh. "Good. Nothing bad happened." She looked over at the young dragon. "You were lucky this time Spike. Nothing happened."

However, something did happen. Twilight's spell might not have affected her lab, or rather Ponyville for that matter, but it did affect two people that were currently traveling to Ponyville.

Meanwhile, from within the portal, Sora and Matt traveled what seemed to be forward at what seemed to be a very high speed. However, something was off. Both of them had been going forward for about five minutes and after the initial jolt of adrenalin, it was a seemingly slow process.

"Hey, Matt! How long have we been in this thing?!" Shouted Sora screaming over the strange sounds of the portal.

"I don't know! But you'd think a portal would be, you know, faster?!"

Suddenly, both Matt and Sora felt something seemingly pulse through them.

Matt, with an expression of shock and concern looked over to Sora. "Did you feel that?!"

"Yeah! What was that?!" Sora asked a bit fearfully.

"I don't know! Maybe it means we passed the halfway point!" Then Matt noticed a light emanating from within Sora's pocket. "Hey! There's something glowing in your pocket!"

Sora looked down at her pocket and saw the glow of... something. "What is that?!" Then she looked over to Matt and noticed a similar light emanating from his pocket. "Matt! You have one too!"

Matt looked down at his pocket and noticed a similar glow that he saw was in Sora's pocket. Then both of them, curious about what the glow may be, reached into their pockets and pulled out their... DS's?

Somehow their DS's were glowing. Matt and Sora were unquestionably puzzled by this. How in the world were their DS's glowing? Why were they glowing? What was going on? But their thoughts were cut short as lightning strikes coming from the edges of the portal's walls engulfed their DS's causing them to hover in front of their owners.

This puzzled them even more. But as soon as they tried to reach-out for their game systems the glowing and the lightning grew brighter and stronger. They grew so strong that Matt and Sora weren't able to look at it.

Then Matt and Sora felt two explosions and the light all of a sudden disappearing. They looked all around them and they were not able to believe what they saw. All around them floated every single Pokémon that ever existed.

But unfortunately for them, they weren't able to enjoy the sight of these wondrous creatures. As they reached the end of the portal a bright light blinded their sight and they both felt something strange happen to them.

When the light subsided, Matt opened his eyes. He regretted that decision as soon as he made it. The first thing that he saw was the ground. Unfortunately for him, the ground was a good 10 feet below him.

“Oh no. No. No! NO! NO!!! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!” Matt let out a terrified scream as gravity took hold and started pulling him straight for the ground.

“Urgh!” He hit the ground with a large thud. Pain shot all through-out his body. “Ow. My… everything.” Still in pain, Matt tried to pick-up his body. The only problem with that was that it felt really weird. Usually Matt would use his knees as a sort of checkpoint while using his arms to pick up his body ending up in a crawling position. But this time, his body felt as though it skipped that step. Matt still had his hands on the floor from picking himself up, but somehow his feet were touching the floor instead of his feet. What was even weirder was the fact that his body wasn't in some awkward position to keep him standing like this. It was as if his arms and legs, somehow, became exactly the same height. He eventually ignored it and continued his process to stand.

Matt soon found out that standing up on two legs became really awkward and very uncomfortable. Luckily for him, the crawl position he tried earlier felt quite comfortable and, somehow, natural. “Okay. Something weird is going on here.” Matt just took a breath to calm himself down and looked onward.

That’s when he noticed how close he was to the ground. While it is a given that if he was in a crawling position that he’d already be closer to the ground. But this was different. If Matt was crawling, he’d be about 2 and a half feet above the ground but instead, he was only a foot off of the ground. He was short… or shrunken… or just smaller?

Curious about his new found height to look at feet… “What happened to my feet?!” Well he would have looked at his feet, only, they weren't exactly the feet he remembered. Instead they were short stubby things covered in fur. He picked up one of his feet and took a good look at it. “It’s… It’s a… It’s a paw?!”