Beyond The Rabbit Hole.

"Ugh.. why am I so cold?" Jason asked himself as he attempted to open his eyes,only to close them right after because of how irritatingly bright the light was, so he took it a bit slower and tried opening his eyes again, this time allowing them to accustom to the extremely bright light that filled the.. room? Once his eyes were open he took in the room’s featureless walls,and looking slightly up, he noticed it had a single tinted window, and under that window was a door. He also noticed that his weapons were no longer with him, along with everything else he owned.

All of this combined with the emptiness of the room he was in was making Jason feel vulnerable and overall uncomfortable. He had to find a way out of this room; he went to the door and as luck would have it, it was locked. He tried jumping from the metal table he was lying on when he woke up to the tinted glass window, but that proved to be difficult due to the smooth texture of the wall. Jason was getting anxious now as he knew there was no other way out and started screaming obscenities and threats, hoping to catch the attention of whoever was on the other side of that window. To Jason's surprise someone responded.

"Hello, Jason." Jason heard someone; whom he couldn't see, say.

"Whoa wait, how do you know my name?!" Jason replied eyeing the window, where he suspected the voice to be coming from.

"Well you certainly weren't trying to hide when you kept on yelling it for the world to hear back at the forest." replied the voice nonchalantly.

"Fuck you! I'm not just gonna sit here and take shit from someone who just kidnapped me! Now let me go! I have to go find my friends!" Jason said starting to get annoyed at whoever it was that was talking to him, and was contemplating on kicking the door off of it’s hinges if they didn't let him out soon.

“Calm yourself Jason, I was simply trying to converse with you, but since you wish to skip that part and get down to business, we’ll get down to business. You see, after you were dropped off here, we noticed that we were short the original five creatures, that were reported to us. We didn't expect that there was a sixth creature, so you were a surprise to us.But before I continue, I would like to finish this conversation face to face. So if you’re calmed down enough I will would be delighted to let you out of that room.” the voice said.

After giving it some thought, Jason agreed and calmed down a bit. “Alright I’m calm, can you please let me out now?” Jason asked.

“Certainly.” was all the voice replied with as the door was quickly enveloped in a light yellow color, and was opened.

Jason walked towards the now open door, and into a long hallway though, instead of the bare essentials the room he woke up in was adorned with, the hallway had stained glass windows, all featuring a different design. As early morning sunlight hit the windows, their colors splashed onto the walls creating a beautiful array of colors. At the end of this colorful hallway stood a tall, white, blue green and pink haired, unicorn with wings, and a crown. This, along with the scenery of the hallway made Jason feel kind of disoriented. He felt as if Citra had given him all of her drugs together at the same time. All he could do was stare at the horse as it came closer, and once it got within arms reach, it stopped and spoke.

"Now that I have your attention I would like to introduce myself, my name is Princess Celestia how are you Jason?" Jason still couldn't believe what he saw. There in front of him  was a talking, cartoon-y, white unicorn, with wings.

"Holy shit.. this.. what the fuck is this!?" was all Jason could say; he was feeling a smorgasbord of feelings all at the same time, with confusion being the most prevalent at the moment. He slowly backed away until it spoke up again.

"I understand that you may be confused right now Jason, and that's understandable, waking up in a place you've never been in can be disorienting and rather frightening. But before I say anything else you must understand that we are not going to hurt you, or these friends of yours when we find them." Jason nodded in agreement,but still was wary of this Princess Celestia character."Excellent, but before we leave this hallway, I need your word that you will not bring harm upon my citizens."

"You.. um have my word, Princess." Jason said, fumbling over his words. Never in his lifetime did he ever think that he would be 'giving his word' to a  talking, unicorn, princess, horse with wings.

"Wonderful, now please follow me."  Celestia asked as she turned and went down the hall toward the door, Jason following a short distance behind her.

     8:23 A.M                                             (Riley and the others.)

Riley had woken up to the sound of leaves rustling and people talking.He immediately got up and looked for the source of the voices from where he was, he couldn't see them due to the density of the forest but he could still hear them, so he stopped moving around and stood as still as he could so he could hear them better.

"Oh hey I forgot to ask, any news on that pack of creatures that we saw the other day?" Riley heard one of the voices ask.

"Well yes and no, they didn't find the original pack that we reported on, but they did find one.  From what I read, it's the one called Jason, they plan on sending a search party for the other five later on tonight. one of the voices

"Jason..." Riley had stopped listening once he heard Jason's name. Riley quickly snapped out of his trance and ran to wake up the others who were still asleep."Hey guys wake up! There’s some people who passed by us, they say someone found Jason!" Everyone was up once Riley told them the news. They quickly packed up what little things they had left and began following the trail.

They didn't need to run far before seeing two ponies. Both were weirdly colored and had on outfits that resembled a park ranger, hat and all. They noticed that both sets of pony ears swiveled in their direction, before both ponies turned around and faced them. One remained still, the other had the look of realization on it’s face as it stared at the pack of creatures in front of it.

"It's okay just don't move and they'll move on." one of the ponies said to the other, as one pony froze in place. The other pony chuckled and told the other to knock it off and that it was overreacting.

"Now that's no way to treat somepony Maple! This is the pack of creatures that I reported to Princess Celestia about. If they are anything like their friend, then there is no need to worry!" the other pony said trying to reassure the one known as Maple.

"Bu-" Maple was cut off before she could say anything more demeaning.

"Excuse my partner she's still in training; my name is Park Ranger: Trail Composer, and my partner is Ranger Cadet: Maple Drizzle." explained Trail Composer.

The group of five humans were shocked that the voices came from these ponies and not other humans. But they needed to know what happened to Jason, and at the moment these ponies were the only ones who could tell them.

Liza spoke as softly for she did not want to scare Maple Drizzle anymore than she already was, "It's okay there's no need to be afraid, we just want to know what happened to Jason." Liza's soft voice seemed to have the desired effect as the pony known as Maple Drizzle seemed to relax a little.

"Well we were heading to our office anyway, the report that Princess Celestia sent back to us is there. I read it already,though I can't remember what it said in detail, but  I do know that they have your friend Jason at the castle. Follow us, and we'll take you there so you can read it for yourselves." offered Trail Composer as he and Maple Drizzle led the way.They followed close behind as the two ponies led them to the park office, breathing a sigh of relief now knowing that Jason was fine, Riley and Liza especially.

11:01 A.M.                                                          (Jason)

After Celestia had explained her reasoning for as to why she had Jason  in the room, along with answering any question Jason asked her, she began to ask Jason questions of her own.

“So if you and your friends aren't from Equestria, then where do you come from?” Celestia asked

“Well, my friends and I are from Santa Monica, California. That’s a city, in a state, in a country, on the planet Earth.” replied Jason, not feeling up to give a lesson on humans and their homeland at the moment.

“So, if you’re from another planet entirely then how did you end up in Equestria? It’s not normal for a creature to pop into existence on a foreign planet .” Celestia asked.

“Well I’m not really sure myself you see, we were headed back home on a ship, this was after  leaving Rook Island. We were almost to Hawaii our first stop, when we had experienced a nasty sea storm that capsized our ship. So before the ship capsized, I gave my friends and I one syringe each and hoped for the best. A last resort of sorts, I've never would have expected that it would take us to an entirely different world.” explained Jason.

“So wait, what does a syringe have to do with ending up here in Equestria?” Celestia asked.

“Well like I said I’m not sure, the syringe I’m talking about had effects that would allow the one who injected him or her self, a limited amount of time where they were immune to being hurt or injured, so basically ‘immortal’ in sense, but only during the duration of the effects.” Jason explained.

Celestia was astonished to say the least. Even with magic Equestrian medicine was not up to that level of ingenuity yet. She was then asked a question by Jason, which derailed her train of thought.

“You know speaking of syringes, where did my stuff go?” Jason asked.

“ Oh that yes, we are almost there.” Celestia said.

By the time they had arrived Jason had gotten little if no stares which surprised him. He was expecting to see some scared reactions from the ponies who saw him or something but it seemed as if they didn't notice him.

“Well here we are.” said Celestia pointing her hoof toward a caged booth with a pony working the counter behind the cage.

Jason approached the cage and had all of his weapons and belongings returned to him. One by one he was handed each item, and indeed everything was there. Once he put everything on him, Jason felt as if everything was getting back on track, slowly but surely.

Celestia noticed that the mail courier was coming toward her with haste.

“ Princess! I have an important letter for you!”  the mare said as she gave the letter to the Princess and went on her way to deliver the rest of Canterlot’s mail.

Jason asked Celestia what the letter contained, after she skimmed it she handed it Jason to let him read it for himself. A look of excitement crawled upon his face as he finished reading the letter.

“My friends are alright.. I have to go and see them!” Jason exclaimed as he started running in a random direction, thinking it was the way out.

“Jason.” said Celestia.

“Yeah!?” Jason shouted over his shoulder as he started running down the hall he presumed led out of the palace.

“You’re going the wrong way.” was all Celestia replied with as she waited for Jason to return.

“Oh.” Jason said as he realized that she was right and went back to her as she led the way they were supposed to go.