The Sky is the Limit

I don't know how long I sat there crying in her empty embrace. You never know the full gravity of a situation until reality hits you like a raging bull. I cried for what felt like hours repeating the only word that could break through my denialist state.

“No,no,no,no!” I yelled, rocking ever so slightly. “This isn't real! It's all some messed up nightmare!” I looked up at her... Twilight, as she looked down on me with sympathetic eyes. “Please, tell me that this isn't real.”  Her ears dropped as she let out a heavy sigh. I already knew the answer. I am going to be trapped in a strange world with no other people but me. I wiped my dried tears away and rise to my feet. “How did I get here?” I asked coldly.

She looked down to the little purple man then back at me. “We found you on the floor in my lab.”

“Can you take me there?”

“W-well yes, but I don't... ”

“Please!” I begged, my voice cracking slightly. She didn't say a word and proceeded out of the door. I followed closely behind walking like a lifeless husk. I don't belong in this world, I can't live with these horses. I just wanted to get home at any cost no matter the depth. We entered a large room full of scientific equipment. Beakers sat organized on a desk, various machines lined the walls, and journals were stuffed into various bookshelves. She led me to the far end where a mirror stood emitting a deep continuous hum.

“Here's where we found you.” she pointed her hoof to the area in front of the mirror. I approached the mirror looking deep into it's pulsating spirals.

“We've tried to go through it, but it's sealed off somehow.” Twilight said. “I don't know how many spells I've casted. Nothing can open it.” I balled up my fist and punched the mirror causing it to teeter slightly and Twilight to flinch.

“This is it then, I'm stuck here forever.” I drearily spoke, barely above a whisper.

“Don't worry Regional.” she rubbed her head on my leg, stabbing me with her horn.

“It's Reginald.” I answered flatly.

“Sorry, Reginald. I promise to get you back home, and my friends will help!”

“Don't make promises that you can't keep.”

“Come on Spike, let's go get the others!” she shouted with determination.

“R-right.” the little purple... Spike, answered.

Within moments I was alone only accompanied by the hum of the mirror taunting me as if it knew what it had done. It laughed at me. It lured me into this world on purpose and now it's gloating, flaunting it's victory in my face like a trophy. Filled with blind rage I attacked the mirror, punching and kicking violently while screaming at the top of my lungs. I didn't care who or what heard me. All I wanted to do was make this inanimate object pay for what it did. I had a loving family and friends. I was at the top of my class. My future was going to be brighter than the sun and that damn mirror ruined it!

I stopped, fists red as a tomato and breaths heavier than lead. I picked up the mirror and set it back in place then I curled into a ball and cried again.

“Why! Ugh, I'm crying like a baby, but it... Aaargh!” I yelled into the empty room. Sprawled out on the floor I began to calm myself and regain my composure. “I wish I could tell them that I'm okay.”

I got up off the ground and wiped my tears. Then I caught something out of the corner of my eye. On a nearby table I saw what looked like glasses, but not just any, my glasses. I rushed over to the table and put them on with no hesitation. “Finally I can see perfectly again!” I cheered. “Surprisingly without a scratch, and they're clean.” With my vision restored I saw that my things were on the counter next to the table. My pants, shoes, socks, even my underwear were all laid out and organized, and my phone. I stared at it as if I had found it after several years of separation. I picked it up and examined it. Other than the crack or had when I fell it was visually okay, but I didn't know if it would work.

Hesitantly I pushed the power button, and the screen flickered on. Something was strange though. It had a full battery but in the cave it was near death. I unlocked the screen and went to my pictures. Hundreds of photos still there nothing altered or changed. Pictures are a small instance of the past that will live on forever like a memory. One tear rolled down my cheek and landed on the picture of me and my family in the Rocky Mountains. I put it down. I couldn't bear to look at the image anymore.

“Okay, time to get dressed.”

About ten fifteen minutes later I was dressed in my full street attire. A black puma polo with a red open flannel shirt and blue jeans with heavy snow boots. “Ah, that's more like it.” I said while looking over myself.

“You guys aren't going to believe this. It calls itself a human, but it goes by Regionald.”

“Ah' hope that ya' didn't drag me away from work to see one of your silly creations Twilight.”

“I didn't make this it just appeared in my lab... On the floor... And, well you're going to be amazed.”

“Ha, it's gonna take more than an egghead science experiment to impress me.”

I stood listening to an ensemble of feminine voice approaching the lab. I didn't know what to do so I waited for whatever wise this strange world had to throw at me. Then entered Twilight and five other ponies. The tension in the room was thick enough to cut with a knife. They stood dumbfounded just staring at me.

“What do you think?” Twilight asked smugly.

“Yup, that's it. Twilight's give crazy scientist on us.” the blue one shot.

“No I haven't!” Twilight defended.

“That's obviously a mutilated manticore.”

“No it's not! It is a human from... Where are you from?”

“Oh come on, you expect this thing to...”

“I'm from E-earth.” I answered nervously.

They all fliched in surprise except for Twilight.

“Did that thing just talk?” the white unicorn asked.

“Yes it did. Are you a boy or girl by chance?”

“I'm a guy.” I answered flatly.

“Okay, so yes he did Rarity.”

They backed fearfully away from me.

“Girls don't be scared, he's as harmless as a little bunny.” Twilight defended. At that point the blue one flew over and landed in front of me. She circled me as if I were going through an inspection.

“It doesn't have a tail and it's mane is really short.” she pointed out. “Also why does it stand like Spike.”

“I don't know, and I told you that he is a guy Rainbow Dash.” Twilight declared. I snickered a little thinking “What kind of a name is Rainbow Dash?” Then she flew at me stopping inches in front of my face.

“What the hay is so funny huh!” she scowled

“Uh...nothing Miss Dash.” I replied nervously.

“I'm watching you hu-man.”

When she left my personal space I noticed a pink one with a puffy mane was staring intently at me.

“H-hello,” I waved. “Is she okay?”

“Yeah, Pinkie has like physic sense or something.” Rainbow answered. “Pinkie agree I you okay?” she asked, waving a hoof in her face.

“Wow that was a lot, hehe.” she giggled, snapping out of her hypnotic state. “His name is Reginald Terrell Morris he is from Gary Indiana in the United States of America on somewhere called Earth.”

We looked at her, surprise written on our faces.

“How did you know that?” I she's l asked, absolutely astonished.

“Pinkie sense.” she answered simply.

“Pinkie sense?”

“I don't fully understand it either, but she's helped us out a lot over the years.” Twilight added. “Now the real reason I brought you here was to see if you can help me fix the mirror.”

“Ain't that the mirror that you 'nd Spike when l went through all those times?” the orange one asked.

“Yes, Applejack.”

“And he is what was in the other side?”

“In a sense, yes, but he's a little different.”

“How so?” Rarity asked. Twilight looked at me then back to the group.

“I don't know. He just isn't the same as them.”

“U-um...I have a question.” a yellow shy one spoke up.

“Yes Fluttershy?”

“How are we going to fix the mirror, if you don't mind me asking?” she asked while hiding behind her hair. Twilight looked at me then back to the mirror.

“I-I don't know. I guess I was so excited about him that I didn't even think of how we might get this done.”

“At least you were right about one thing.” Rarity stated while walking towards me.

“What's that?” Twilight asked.

“He is most definitely an eye catcher. I've never seen any creature like this, and these clothes are so unique.” she said with a hoof to my flannel shirt.

“Don't you agree that he is quite interesting Fluttershy?” The one called Fluttershy jumped back a little.

“I guess,” she said quietly.

“Fluttershy stop being so scared.” Rainbow demanded.

“I'm not scared. You know how I am when I met somepony new.”

“Ugh, I thought Iron Will straightened this out years ago.”

“It's airtight, she'll coffee when she's ready.”I said calmly. Soon I was surrounded by four ponies poking and prodding at me.

“Ahem,” we all looked to the doorway. There stood a large white horse with a horn and wings just like Twilight's. “I hope I wasn't interrupting anything.” she declared.

“No, Princess not at all.” Twilight answered nervously.

“So, you're the one that Spike spoke to me about.” she looked directly at me.

“What do you mean Princess?” Twilight asked.

“Spike sent me a letter stating that there was a strange creature here.” she said authoritatively. She surrounded me in a yellow aura and lifted me off the ground. Twisting and turning me in her telekinetic embrace she examined every part of me... Eugh, every part. “I must say, I haven't seen a human in almost two millennia.”

“Wait, you've seen a human before?” Rainbow Dash asked. “We used coexist.”

“What?!” they asked in unison.

“I've never read that in the history books.” Twilight added.  She put me down with the others and sat down herself.

“That's because it was erased from Equestrian history long ago.” she said solemly.

“A-actually there's stories of pegasus and unicorns in Greek Mythology.” I added nervously.

“There's documented records of Equestrians in your history?” she asked excitedly.

“Well, yes and no. We usually see it as fantasy is myth.”

“What! No, it was as real as the sun moon and stars.”  she stood and projected a hologram out if her horn. “Humans and Equestrians had a prosperous relationship. We lived, loved, and played together.”

“Does that mean?” Applejack asked.

“No, that could only happen if a human were to be turned into a pony or vice versa, then again he or she was human so there is a possibility that you have human blood within all of you.” she explained.

“Cool,” Rainbow Dash said while the others shivered.

“You're telling me that I may be part horse?” I asked in slight panic.

“All life is connected in some way young human.”

“Wait, how did our worlds separate?” She hung her head down.

“Sadly that, I do not remember, but it raises the question of how you got here.”

“Twilight said that she found him unconscious next to the mirror.” Rarity responded. I hung my head low remembering the events that led me here.

“Isn't that the mirror that leads to the world parallel to ours?”

“Yes,” Twilight answered in cowardice.

“What happened?” the princess asked while walking over to the mirror.

“I-I...I was trying to create a system that would allow ponies to travel around Equestria. Using the mirrors they would've been able to go anywhere instantly.” Twilight said in shame.

“Mhmm,” she encased the mirror in her gold aura. A few seconds later there was a crescendoing hum followed by an explosion of energy.

“Ugh, It's still open, but it's sealed on both sides.” she said with her hoof to her head.

“What do we do then?” Twilight asked.

“I don't know, but I have a feeling that something on a grander scale is upon us.” she turned to me. “Where are my manners, I forgot to ask your name.”

“I'm Reginald Morris.” I answered.

“You must be starving, come let's get you something to eat.” I followed her and the others out of the lab, taking one last look at the mirror before I left.

Bye guys...