Shattered Dimensions: Forgotten Shards

“Ugh, my head… what the hell happened?” Drayke groaned, sitting up beside me as he rubbed his forehead with his palm. Twilight had tried casting a teleportation spell she was testing on us, and it ended up knocking us out and sending us to some unknown location - or so we thought. I took a good look around, confused by my surroundings.

“I thought we had teleported, but it looks like we haven’t gone anywhere,” I remarked, noting the buildings that surrounded us were, in fact, from Ponyville; it was as if we hadn’t moved from our spot in Ponyville Park at all.

Drayke rose to his feet and took a good look around. “Where did the others go?” he asked impatiently. “I’m going to be pissed if they just left us out here; I still haven't quite learned my way around this  place…”

I shook my head slowly, noticing some ponies were coming by to investigate, all with curious looks on their faces; they acted as if they had never seen me or Drayke before, even though we had been living here for several days. Just then, something hit me.

“Drayke… do you notice anything… strange?” I asked, slowly standing as a curious crowd gathered around us.

Drayke let out an empty laugh. “We’re surrounded by colorful, talking horses, Allen. You’ll need to be a little more specific than that,” he said dryly.

I rolled my eyes. “I mean, do you notice a strange lack of girls in this crowd?” I whispered, trying to keep my voice low as the ponies got closer. Drayke took a good look at the crowd, his expression showing that he, too, noticed this.

“Yeah, that is weird,” he murmured. “Weren’t there a lot more chicks here than dudes?”

“What the hell is all the commotion?!” a loud voice demanded. The crowd parted slowly, and a lone figure strode toward us.

“This can’t be possible,” I said, awestruck, as a blonde, long-haired woman stopped just a few feet away from us. She looked us up and down with a suspicious expression.

“Who are you? Where did you come from?” she asked hotly.

I stared. “I… uh…” I trailed off, unsure of how to react. How could there be another human in Equestria? There was no way this could be real.

Drayke stood up and ran a hand through his hair, giving the woman a smooth look. “Well, hello there, beautiful,” he said in a silky tone, “I never believed in heaven, but I think I just found an angel.”

The woman glared at him. “Back off, jackass; I’m not the kind of girl to sleep with the first guy I meet in this place,” she growled.

Just then, a gentle voice spoke behind her. “Daysie, please,” it said, and the woman stepped aside to reveal a short, dark-grey alicorn, just slightly smaller than I was. She had large, brown eyes, and a short mane of a similar tone. “Sorry about her; she can be a little harsh sometimes,” she apologized with a laugh. “My name is Alice; who are you?” she asked warmly.

I looked around at the crowd, starting to realize what was going on. “My name is Allen, and this is Drayke,” I explained, gesturing to the human beside me that was still casting flirting glances at Daysie. “Uh, Drayke, you may want to stop hitting on her,” I whispered humorously.

Drayke shot an angry look at me. “Don’t tell me what to do,” he shot back, but slowly realized I probably knew more about what was going on than he did. “Why?” he added cautiously.

“Because that girl is you.”

Drayke and Daysie both widened their eyes. “What?!” they asked, studying each other closely to see if this was true.

Alice nodded thoughtfully. “It looks like you two don’t belong here, huh?” she asked softly.

I shrugged. “Well, yes and no. We also live in Equestria, but not this version. It looks like this universe is exactly like our own, but everyone is the opposite gender,” I explained.

Drayke shook his head disbelievingly. “That can’t be right,” he said slowly.

I rolled my eyes. “Come on, Drayke,” I sighed, “‘Allen’ and ‘Drayke’? ‘Alice’ and ‘Daysie’? It’s obvious that we’re in some kind of Rule 63 version of our own universe,” I said with a laugh.

Drayke and Daysie raised both raised an eyebrow. “What’s ‘Rule 63’?” they asked in unison, and glanced at each other in surprise.

“Rule 63 is one of the rules of the internet,” Alice and I explained in unison, smiling at each other. “‘Every male counterpart has a female counterpart, and vice-versa’.”

Daysie looked at Alice questioningly. “So… you’re saying that he is me… as a dude?” she asked slowly.

Drayke looked at me in a similar manner. “You’re telling me that this chick is me according to this ‘Rule 63’?” he asked disbelievingly.

I shook my head. “No, Rule 63 only applies to the internet,” I explained. “This is just a parallel universe where everything is exactly the same, except anyone that is a male in our world is a female here, and any females in our world are males here.”

Drayke nodded understandingly. “So…” he trailed off, stepping smoothly by Daysie and putting an arm around her, “I guess we’re perfect for each other. Wanna go out sometime?” he asked, grinning cleverly.

Daysie glared at Drayke and slammed her foot into his shin, knocking him to the ground. “Fuck you,” she spat as she walked away.

Drayke looked up, still grinning as he held his leg. “So is that a yes?” he asked teasingly.