I finally made it back to the castle after my special request from Rarity and finding a job at a restaurant after... some unique meat-happenings, and went directly to the personal quarters to try to figure out the possibility of transferring objects across dimensions. I wanted this for primarily entertainment reasons; my Nvidia Shield had been a practical second arm to me for more than a year. I also wanted to see if I could get away with swapping bodies to negate the use of changeling magic, but I felt that was of lesser importance.

(AN: I'm writing a chapter about trying to collect the same device that I'm writing this story on. Irony is a killjoy sometimes, am I right? Also, shield.nvidia.com if you don't know what it is by now.)

I lay in bed, thinking over and trying possible ways I could try to bring things over. 'You could try willing it to come with.' 'What about just hoping for it?' 'Well, that didn't work, what if we tried it again?'

After several suggestions from Samantha and several ideas of my own, 'DAHH I give in god damnit!'

'So you don't want to take my first real suggestion I presume?'

'WHAT? Those were just flukes???'

'You know I have to mess around with you sometimes, even if to just waste your time.'

'You're going to dig yourself in a hole one day doing that shit.'

'I know, I know. So, ready to learn how to bring your stuff here?'

'Yeah, whatever, just don't be bullshitting me this time.'

After a short trip to my earth/human body, 'Ok, how do I commence bringing my shield?'

'Ok, hold it in your hand, and imagine that it's a part of your soul while I bring you back.'

'Gotcha, shouldn't be too hard considering it's like a sixth limb to me.'

I did as instructed and Samantha pulled me back into what I have come to call the in-between, where I found my shield somehow still in my grasp. "Well, it worked halfway. Let's do the rest of the way now."

"Ok, I've never tried doing this all the way across, so expect something to not go as planned. Having said that, do you still want to try?" Samantha replied, a hint of worry in her voice.

"Absolutely. I'm sure that the worst we could do is mutate into a pony-human hybrid or something" I answered, a hint of sarcasm in my voice.

"Then I guess it's best that we get this over with."

Samantha brought me the rest of the way, where I expected to find myself lying in bed with my devices lying (or falling) somewhere nearby.

However, that never happened. I found myself still standing, but on two legs. In fact, I still felt the clothes on my back. I opened my eyes and looked around, discovering that, to my suprise, I was still in Twilight's bedroom, and I was standing on the bed that I had caught fire to on my first night, and, oddly, I was still human, and my feet were placed on either side of the limp form of a light-orange alicorn mare... wait, that looks familiar...

I was standing over the soulless form of my Equestrian body! In my human body no less. "The fuck did we do, Samantha?"

'Like I said, expect some wierd side effects to happen.'

Unfortunately, the sound of my voice caused a sleeping form of Twilight to wake, and she sat up and gave me a confused expression, all of which I noticed in my peripheral vision. "Star, what are you doing?"

"Remember when I showed you my human form using changeling magic?"

"Yeah, why?"

"What you're looking at isn't changeling magic this time. If you need proof, look down at my feet... err, hindhooves, if you want to use pony anatomical terms."

She looked down as I had instructed, "What in tarterus... the hay did you do?"

I pulled out my shield, holding it up in front of her, "I brought some homeworldly items, and apparently this is some sort of side effect of it."

"I...impossible." Twilight stuttered.

"About as impossible as me getting here in the first place, if you think about it."

"Yeah, I guess you're right. What should I call you when you're like that?"

"Just call me by the name I gave you when I first got here. Sam. Samuel Hayze Lyons, if you want the whole thing." I turned to walk out the door, "And I'm going to go out to Canterlot and discuss how we should deal with this to Celestia, maybe I can move my bodies and such between worlds or something. Wouldn't it be interesting to see a princess of Equestria also be a human prince of Equestria and a dimensional ambassador all at the same time? That is, assuming that my alicorn body renders me as one of the co-rulers of Equestria that is."

"Sta... Sam, I do admit that it would be an interesting to watch you do such things, and yes, I do suppose that your Alicorn body does give you princess... and prince statuses. But I'm not sure how it would work out in the long run. Go have your chat with Celestia, I'm sure she will want to hear what it is you have to say."

"Yeah, because why not? Also, I'm doing show and tell for part of it, mostly to do with the stuff loaded into the thing I waved at you earlier."

"What sort of things do you have loaded into that... fancy black brick?"

"Let's see... Music, Games, Videos..."

Twilight instantly perks up when she hears 'music', "So you have a band in there? How'd you fit a band in there? What the hey, how'd you even fit the instruments into it? That alone defies logic. How do you defy logic? Are the band members your slaves? Does your world support slavery? Oh my god... wait, I'm overreacting. Please explain this before I blow my top."

"Audio is created by movement of theair, correct?"

"Yes."

"And if you get a surface to vibrate just right, you can create a tone, and the pitch of the tone depends on how fast you vibrate it, correct?"

"Ye... wait, does that 'shield' thing of yours have some sort of automated version of that?"

"Precisely." I pull my shield out and flip the top, going into my music and looking through until I found a personal favorite, Gramatik - Street Bangerz Vol. 1 - Sumthin', "Here's an example of one of my favorites. If you ever get the chance to meet another human from my dimension, expect them to have a completely different taste in music, usually more violent and not as smooth." I started the song.

The song played with Twilight listening intently to it. When it ended, Twilight broke the silence. "That was... different, that's for sure, and maybe a bit... no, very repetitive, but it was still enjoyable. Anything else?"

With that, I got the biggest grin on my face. Eminem - My Name Is would be an excellent song to show off, that song's a classic to me, no matter what anyone tells me. I quickly found it and put it up to be ready to play. With the biggest grin that I could put up, I replied, "This song is a classic to me, no matter what anyone tells me. It comes closer to the style of music that I menioned earlier, but it's still more laid back. I doubt you'd take kindly to some of the gruesome lyrics, but it's still good, even in its own way." I started the song.

As soon as the song started and got past the first chorus set, Twilight immediately looked disgusted at the nine inch nails line. When the song ended, however, she had a horrified look plastered upon her face.

"I assume that I shouldn't give you the chance to listen to the worse stuff?"

"It was... an admittedly catchy tune, but..." Twilight shivered, "Who would want to stick nails in their eyelids, much less try to convince kids to do the same... Who'd want to do any of that stuff? That's horrible!"

"I admit, yes, it's not the best song when it comes to not saying gruesome things, but it's still good to me in it's own way. It's acually pretty funny of a song, especially when you've grown up to know that most of the stuff said in most songs is complete and utter bullshit stories, sometimes even intended as a joke."

Twilight was taken aback, "A JOKE? Why would you joke about gruesome things like THAT? Nevermind, go talk to Celestia while I work up the frame of mind to comprehend this insanity."

And so I turned to leave via window. I summoned the ethereal wings so as to glide down, but was interrupted. "Sam, does your version of humans posess magic?"

I instantly knew she was referencing the wings I had just summoned. "Umm, not normally? I kind of do as of my first dimensional switch, but I think it was likely a side-effect of both being in an alicorn body and learning magic with it. Otherwise humans of my dimension absolutely do not possess magic. Humans have pretty much always survived using technology. My shield here was actually one of the numerous results of technology. Think of it this way, the spears that the guards carry around this place were invented a thousand years ago, and the bows and crossbows that are definitely in the armory have been outdated for at least two hundered. To be frank, our combat technology goes as far as to fire thousands of small metal projectiles every minute at speeds impossible for a crossbow to match with far greater accuracy using explosive powders and automated projectile loading systems. Our wartime technology is infinitely worse, as we could literally flatten a city by the drop of a radioactive bomb called a nuke. Let's just say that you don't want to get on really bad terms with any of the countries on Earth."

Twilight just sat there on the side of her bed, a look of amazement and horror set up on her face. "Well, I... I'm glad we got you... instead of a violent warmonger such as you describe most people as being."

I waved a hand so as to push the thought away, "Most people aren't actually warmongers, Twilight. In fact, the warmongers actually scare themselves out of going to war most of the time due to the high possibility that either side can just drop a few nukes and be done with it in a snap."

"I guess that's good, then."

"Yeah. I gotta be off, I want to get over to Canterlot before midday."

"Ok, I hope your chat... and show and tell... with Celestia works out better than what part of it you had with me did."

"I hope so too." And I was off, choosing to run rather than take the train. What? I needed the fitness, even if it does make me be much later than I wanted to be. It looked to be about the same distance as from my home to my elementary school, and I could walk that distance easy, so I could walk it no probs, right?

Author's Note

This weekend's chapter, done on the spot! Still don't have any editors, but that shouldn't stop me from being creative, hmm? Besides, from the looks of it, most of what the editors will be editing is event holes and pace shifts. I don't think that pace shifts are going to be a problem until the action comes in, whenever it comes in, but until then, I'm taking it slowly and fleshing up the character as well as the environment. I get the feeling that I probably did an accidental PoV change to third at least once, but I haven't gone back to look for it. If you find it, if it exists, then please do tell! Otherwise, I hope that I can make the run interesting, as well as the conversation with 'Tia. From what I've got planned at this moment, and that plan might end up compleely diiferent by the time next weekend hits, the run should be eventful and ridiculously tiring and the chat with Celestia will get... heated, at the minimum. Besides that, enjoy!

EDIT: Updated the insert video here points to actually have the relevant videos.