The Saga of RK Act 1.

I walked in the forest a little ways out of town. I was forced into mercenary work. Fantastic. I kicked a rock into the hallow farther up. You are such a moron. Why did you agree to fighting for an obviously corrupt politician?

'Because if I did not, she'd convince the town, and possibly the world, that I am the cause of the newly invading monsters.'

Hmm, that's true, but you could have requested for gear. Weapons, arrows, a freaking pitchfork would have done us well.

'If Lyra didn't spout off about our kind being "resourceful", we would have a weapon of some sort to defend ourselves, and now Dash.'

You are dead-set on the idea that you love her, aren't you? She is a completely different species, in no physical way even close to a human! You are remembering Katie, not the winged pony.

'What is it that philosophers say? "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.", and considering you are an emotion that I am having an internal argument with and can't really see, then you don't see what I see.'

Whatever, lover boy. Now then, what are we actually dealing with here... Oh, I see you didn't even bother to ask, idiot.

'Hey, I was reveling in the fact that the most trusted mare in the town had just forced me into mercenary work, and its not really even mercenary work, I'm doing this for free! By definition, I am a volunteer soldier, except-'

Less trained?

'I was going to say less equipped, but less trained works.' I walked down to the hollow where the rock landed. I began to hear a soft humming. Who was that? Somepony from town? I really hope not. I crouched down, trying my best to stay hidden. I peeked through the bush and saw something... different. As though the pegasi, unicorns and earth ponies were weird enough, before me sat a purple unicorn AND pegasus! I stared at her for a moment, not really sure what to do. I noticed that she was apparently reading some sort of old book, the pages yellow and torn at the edges. I wanted to speak with her, but I wasn't too sure how to. If I just jumped up and said 'How ya doin?', she'd surely scream and attack, but if I sat here in the bush, just staring at her, and she got up and noticed me, the same thing would likely happen. But, You gotta take a chance, otherwise, life gets pretty boring. I slowly got up.

"Um... excuse me, ma'am?" I called for her politely. She turned around and gasped in horror. She simply stared at me, mouth wide and eyes full of terror. "Um... I couldn't help but notice that you were reading a book on..." I peered over her shoulder. The book had no title on the cover, only a depiction of a bearded unicorn with a wizards hat. "Um... magicians?" She stared at me, then began to slowly back away from me. "Oh, no no no! Its okay, I'm a good guy!" She then got this very seriously angry look on her face.

"Get away from me!" She shouted. Then, her horn began to glow. "Whoa now, lets just calm down-" Then, an electric purple ball was shot from her horn, striking me in the chest with enough force to send shocks through my body and enough kinetic force to launch me into a tree! I wasn't massively injured, but it still hurt! I lay on the ground, the wind knocked out of me, my muscles twitching from the electrical stimuli.

"Who are you?" She spoke forcefully, making me learn to fear her.

"Muh-muh-muh" I couldn't talk right, my lungs were finding it hard to take in oxygen, and the blunt pain making it harder to think. Not to mention the electrical shocks still causing my muscles to hardly work.

"WELL?!" She shouted, her horn began glowing again. Fear quickly took hold.

"My name is RK! Wait!" I threw my hands in the air, showing that I surrendered.

"Stay here and don't move, got it?!" She yelled at me. I nodded quickly. She took off to the skies, making an awkward ascension. I lied on my back, fearful of her returning and electrocuting me again. I stared at the tree canopy, the pain causing every tiny movement to cause excruciating pain.

Nice one, genius.

'Not right now.'

I heard the faint sound of wings batting against the wind, informing me that my torturer was back, and she brought company.

"Rainbow Dash, you know how to deal with this?" The purple conduit asked Dash.

"OH! Jeez, Twilight, what did you do?" Dash ran up, investigating my body, poking my spazzing hand.

"Why, I incapacitated him! Now we can take him to Celestia to be sent back to his world!" She said with a happy tone of voice. I am pretty sure this "Twilight" is straight up evil!

"Nng!" I tried to respond, but my muscles couldn't move, making speech near impossible.

"Why'd you do that?" Dash held my spazzing arm up and watched as it twitched randomly, fear evident in her eyes.

"Well, he IS a human, after all." Twilight informed Dash.

"Whats that supposed to mean?" Dash looked back, anger evident in her eyes.

"He's a human, a monster. He's different in so many ways..." Twilight argued.

"Remember Zecora? Your lesson THAT day? To not judge ponies by their appearance, but their actions?" Dash protested, standing up for me.

"But a zebra is NOT an ancient agent of Discord!" Twilight retaliated. I couldn't show it, but I was puzzled. Discord? Like a living thing or the noun about us not agreeing and disliking people?

"Ugh... RK is not like ancient humans-" Dash began.

"RK? You're naming it now? Jeez, Rainbow Dash, what has gotten into you? Hes a monster and you are treating him as a friend!" Twilight shouted, pointing a hoof at me.

"THAT'S BECAUSE HE IS MY FRIEND!" Dash screamed, scaring Twilight into silence. I wanted to say something, but I was still incapacitated, keeping me from doing anything but seeing and hearing.

Wow, that changed dramatically...

"... You really do trust him, don't you?" Twilight whispered quietly. She then walked over to me, made her horn glow for about three seconds, and set me free from my invisible trap.

"I... I am so sorry, Mr. RK... Please forgive me." Twilight said, her eyes cast to the ground as I got up.

"Please, there is no need to apologize, I would have probably done the same if a thing that I perceived as a monster sneaked up on me." I reassured her, sitting on my haunches. I looked over to the book on the ground. "What's that book about?" I asked Twilight. She sniffled and levitated it over.

"Some unicorn named 'Star swirl the Bearded' or something." Dash commented as she walked around for a bit.

"Yes, the most famous wizard in all of Equestria, able to cast spells only alicorns once could, proving that there are no real boundaries, only walls our minds set up for our own protection." Twilight spoke with a twinkle in her eye, as though she was talking about her role model. "Ever since I was a little filly, I have always looked up to him."... Oh that's why she has a twinkle in her eye. "Through hard work and dedication, that is how I became an alicorn." She spread her wings, showing them off.

"Um... Ms. Twilight, I actually was wondering if you could help me figure something out." I asked quietly.

"Oh, I will try my best. What is it?" She looked up at me.

"Well, I have reason to believe that I was brought here by means of a rift. Do rifts exist, by chance?" I asked Twilight.

"By speculation, yes. Star Swirl looked into the idea of multiple realities for only a year or two before he disappeared. One could assume that he was conducting an experiment and his tests proved positive, but its really anyponys guess. His notes, however, were turning up positive results." Twilight was deep in thought. Dash, however, perched up on a tree limb. I continued to ask questions.

"So, it is possible that rifts, tears in the space-time continuum, have possibly linked our worlds?" I asked, attempting to wrap my head around this.

"It certainly isn't impossible, as you are here, right now. But the idea is a bit odd... has your species looked into that kind of thing?" I nodded. "And notes suggest that we too have looked into that. Its more than likely that you were sucked through a hole in the continuum. Follow me, we'll talk more and I'll run a few tests, see if you are as ancient as Dash says you are..." We followed her to her house, a giant tree. What occurred over the next few hours changed my life, for better and for worse.