A Way Into Paradise

First Contact

"Mmmmmm. What's the time? Oh just great. 3 am. Thanks a lot brain. It's a good thing I don't have work tomorrow.", I think as I wake up and take quick look at my clock. I try too fall asleep again but my efforts prove fruitless. "Now I won't be able to fall asleep for hours again.". I get up slowly. " Who knows, maybe drinking something will help me.", I think making way my kitchen. I open the refrigator and take out some ornge juicce. I start to drink when I notice some kind of purple purple shimmer to my left. I stop drinking an take a closer look at it. Then from one second to the other it widens and a purple something appears out of it. "The heck?!?", is all I can say before it lands right in my face and sends me about 4 feet flying, spilling orange juice everywhere. The next thing I realise is that there's fur in my mouth, from what I'm seeing purple fur.

" Oh Celestia, I'm so sorry. Are you okay?", the thing asks as it gets off of me.

"Well besides the fact that there's orange juice spilled everywhere, yeah I'm okay.", I say while getting up. Then I looked at what hit me.

"I'm on crack. Definitly. Or on some other hardcore drug. That's the only possible explenation for you.", I say to the purple thing standing in my kitchen.

" No you're not. I just ran a quick spell too see if you're really okay. And I can say that your body is free of any substances that would cause hallucinations. So yes, I'm real. Also, it's not nice to say that someone does't exist, you know.", the unicorn says. " My name's Twilight Sparkle and I'm a female unicorn by the way. Whats your name?"

"Why would I listen to you? You're a hallucination! A project of my drugged mind! Why in the heavens should I believe you? It's already bad enough that I'm talking to you!" I say, interrupting her.

"What can I do to make you believe that I'm real?", she sighs.

"I'll go back to sleep now. If you're still there in the morning I'll believe you.", I tell her.

"Nothing easier than that. I can actually help you fall asleep again. Would you like that?", she asks.

"Well why not." I tell her, going back to my room. As I lie down in my bed, she enters my room and her horn starts glowing.

"Sleep well.", is the last thing i hear before drifting away.

When I woke up again it's a more normal time to get up. Well, it's 10 am. But that's still better than 3 am. I decide to get breakfast before planning out the day. As I enter the kitchen she's already in there, looking throug each and every drawer there is. "Okay. You win. Since I doubt that crack would survive several hours of sleep, I'm going to believe you exist. I still have no Idea how you got here tough. Oh and sorry for being so rude to you tonight. My name's Alex, by the way." I tell her.

"Oh there's no need for you to apologise for that. Judging by your reaction there aren't any other ponys in this world?" she asks.

"Well ponys DO exist, but without any horns. And they can't talk. Also they're not so brightly coloured. Usually they're brown or black or white. So where do you come from?" I ask her while making myself some coffe and sitting down at the table.

"I'm from the land Equestria. It's a place inhabited by Earth Ponys, Unicorns like me and Pegasi. It's ruled by the Alicorn sisters Celestia and Luna which have both wings and a horn. They raise the sun and the moon. I live in ponyville, a small town. The main city where Celestia and Luna live is called Canterlot. Most ponys are friendly too each other, of course there are some expections, but it's a really nice place all in all. And I know you said you'd believe, but you're very calm for someone who just met a new species." she says, looking up.

"Well what am I supposed to do, freak out again? I think I did that good enough seven hours ago. Now I'm just curious about you and the place you're from. So, why did you come here?" I ask slowly waking up.

"Well, I experimented around with a new type of teleportation spell I invented and ended up here"

"Wait. Teleportation spell? You can use magic?", I say, raising an eyebrow in disbelieve.

"Well, yeah. As I already told you, that's how the sun and the moon get raised. We can also control the weather with it. You mean you don't have magic?", she asks, her eyes widening.

"No we don't. All of the things you just mentioned happen naturally. We can't control the weather and the sun and the moon come up by themself. Well, technically our planet just turns and different places are getting sunlight. The moon rotates around Earth."

"Huh. That's certainly interesting. Well if I'm here already,why not learn more about this place. So in which country are we at the moment?", she asks, her eyes sparkling.

" Well at the moment we are in the United States of America, U.S.A. for short. The continent we're on is called America, which is mainly divided into North, South and Middle America. The other continents on the planet are Eurasia, Africa, Australia and Antarctica. Expect for the last one there are lots of people living on each one. I could go into detail, but i think an atlas will do better work than I can. I'll go get one. You just wait here.", I said as I got up. I went to my room and started looking for one. When I finally found it, I went back to the kitchen but Twilight wasn't there any more. "Twilght?", I called out. Then I heard her call me from the balcony: "I'm over here! This view is amazing!". In the beginning, I didn't care but then a thougt hit me. I rushed there as fast as I could.

"Twilight! Get back inside, now!"

"Why?"

"NOW!". She lowered her head and trottet back inside.

"Sorry for yelling at you. But it's really not the best idea for you to go out.", I told after I closed the balcony door.

"Why? What's so bad about going outside?", she asked.

I sighed. "You do remember how I reacted when I first saw you?". She nodded. "Well, if a lot of people saw you, they'd probably react differently. If it got out that there's a unicorn in my flat, it probably wouldn't have taken too long before someone showed up who would want to catch you and probably experiment on you. You'd probably be put into some small cage and held captive there. Also, I would probably get into trouble as well."

She smiled slightly. " thanks for caring about me. But I'm a magical unicorn. If they don't have anything to surpress my magic, then I could just teleport away. And if they would go after you, I'd just take you with me."

"You can do that?", I asked with my mouth open.

"Probably."

"Can you take me too Equestria as well?".

"Why not? Would you like to go there?".

"Yes, very much actually.".

"Then let's go. I can show you around and we can compare some things from our worlds maybe?", she said, her horn beginning to glow.

"Sure.", I said as I stood next to her.

We disappeared in flash of light.