*Shadow is now Online.*

Ishtaba: Sup Shadow

Shadow: Hai

Quigzerz: Haif

Shadow: o look a quigzerz

Quigzerz: lol

Shadow: so how are things

Ishtaba: things are same as usual

Quigzerz: Cuban still gone?

Ishtaba: ofc quigz, that fag hasn’t logged on in months. I say he’s dead.

Trey: Ish wtf

Ishtaba: Trey he’s not even answering texts, even storm’s erection spam hasn’t gotten his attention. If I’d gotten that much spam I’d at least tell him to stfu but he hasn’t.

Shadow: I just had the funniest thought.

Ishtaba: And that is?

Quigzerz: That Godson finally played conductor with his waifu?

Shadow: yeah close enough

Ishtaba: lmao he was always trying to prove he wasn’t faking those pictures.

Quigzerz: fck idfk how to use photoshop even, but they look real.

Ishtaba: It’s been months and you STILL don’t believe it’s photoshopped?

Quigzerz: bra have you SEEN them? They honestly look real.

Trey: What pictures?

Ishtaba: Have we not sent trey the pictures?

Quigzerz: fck if i know

Shadow: Not that I know of…

Ishtaba: LMAO TREY’S STILL OUT OF THE LOOP

Trey: Wait what loop?

Quigzerz: Fruit loops, trey. Fruit loops. :3

Ishtaba: Shadow send him a couple of pics.

Trey: Pics of what?
Ishtaba: Okay so do you remember that dare that Godson did for Shadow
Quigzerz: Now i want cereal…
Trey: Not really…

Ishtaba: k basically Shadow dared Godson to take over the world of My Little Pony

Trey: wtf?

Ishtaba: About 5 minutes later he comes back and says he did it, and then sends some pictures.

Quigzerz: Isn’t five minutes enough proof he didn’t photoshop the pics?

Ishtaba: nah man he must’ve had them prior to the dare.

Shadow sent PonyPics.zip

Shadow: photoshopping pics of himself into Equestria before I dared him? Yeah no that doesn’t sound like him.

Ishtaba: Then what do you think happened?

Shadow: idfk

Ishtaba: exactly

Trey: idk, they look photoshopped.

Ishtaba: SEE I TOLD YOU THEY WERE PHOTOSHOPPED

Trey: but

Ishtaba: Sh*t he said ‘but’.

Trey: at the same time they don’t.

Ishtaba: the f*ck trey, you can’t say they’re both photoshopped and not photoshopped.

Trey: idk then

Shadow: gg

Ishtaba: welp I’m the only one who believes they’re photoshopped.

Quigzerz: Has Storm seen them yet?

Ishtaba: idk actually, shadow just sent it to the entire chat so storm could be looking at them even as we speak.

Storm: Yeah they’re photoshopped.

Ishtaba: AYYY I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO SEES IT

Shadow: wat.

Quigzerz: waht

Storm: Thing is they’re photoshopped so good to the point where it DOESN’T look photoshopped.

Ishtaba: lolwhat

Storm: I’m surprised those “experts” that Shadow sent the pics over to didn’t notice it.

Shadow: You’re forgetting I photoshop 24/7 too, storm. I'm one of the "experts" who checked it.

Storm: Then how did you NOT notice these are photoshopped?

Shadow: How DID you notice they were photoshopped in the first place?

Storm: If you want I can send you the evidence.

Shadow: Yes, I would like you to show me where the evidence of it being photoshopped is.

Storm: k just a minute

Ishtaba: PROVE HIM WRONG STORM, DON’T MAKE ME LOOK LIKE AN IDIOT

Quigzerz: Fck if i know, He might be wrong tho

Ishtaba: quigz please don’t jinx it ;n;

Quigzerz: lol

Storm sent evidence.zip

Storm: There you go. There should be a imperfection right around Luna’s right (facing you) wing.

Shadow: Storm. I don’t see any imperfections, you sure it's not just your sh*t monitor dropping pixels?

Ishtaba: SH*T QUIGZ WHY’D YOU JINX IT

Quigzerz: lol

Storm: My monitors aren’t sh*t, maybe it’s just your pixel perfection.

Shadow: yeah no I still don’t see it…

Storm: Ish, you see it, right?

Ishtaba: o.o

Quigzerz: Storm I don't see anything wrong.

Ishtaba: Yeah Storm I don’t see it in this picture.

Storm: Right, f*ck it, call me up whenever we’re done talking about photoshopped pics.

Storm is now AFK.

Trey: Well… that happened…

Ishtaba: GG

Quigzerz: lol

Shadow: k well I’mma brb

Ishtaba: k cya

*Shadow is now Offline.*

Shadow closed the skype window, blocking off any form of communication with anyone who wished to talk to him. He looked back at the ‘evidence’ that Storm had sent him, zooming in and out, trying to see if he could find any imperfections that his friend had claimed to have found so easily.

“I dunno what he’s talking about…” He thought. “There’s nothing here. No imperfections, nothing. It’s completely legit…”

The only problem with his investigation, despite it looking convincingly real, is that it shouldn’t.

“There is no way that he---” He attempted to speak, before being interrupted hears the crashing of pots and pans falling onto the floor as his cat flips shit. “DA HELL YOU DOIN’ CAT?” He yelled, quickly getting up as he races out of his room full speed at the cat, going for an amazing field goal, substituting a ball for the cat in the distance.

Unfortunately, his clumsiness takes over, and he trips on air flying through the air. He closed his eyes as he braced for impact onto the tile floor, instead of hitting the ground, he feels like he is falling for a moment. As soon as he opens his eyes, he smashes his head onto a rock as the rest of him lands on what felt like soft, plush grass.

“...the magic signature seems to be stronger around this area… but I can’t seem to get an exact location on it…” A female voice spoke.

“Right.” A male voice cut in, pausing shortly before speaking up once more. “So... whatever it is, you said it was similar to the spell you used to get me here… If that’s the case… what are the chances of something… or someone falling through?”

“Uh… I’m not exactly sure. Wherever it is, it’s travelling quite a lot.” The first voice replied. “The odds of someone falling through it are increasing and decreasing as it goes…”

Shadow groaned softly as he slowly removed his face from the rock. Rubbing the area he’d get a bruise later, he looked up in front of him, noticing another human not too far away. He slowly began getting up until he stood on his two legs.

“Of course they are…” The second voice groaned, which Shadow was able to identify belonging to the human in front of him. “It’d be just my luck if someone I knew fell through it…”

“If so, we may not be able to return them home, regardless if you know them or not.” The other voice spoke again, though Shadow didn’t care to look who it was, but instead focused on walking up to the man in front of him.

“Yeah, but I’d probably be better working with someone I don’t know, rather than someone I do know.”

Shadow tapped the human on the back. “Um, excuse me. Do you know where the fuck I am?”

The human turned around slowly, bracing himself for the worst case scenario. Then, he narrowed his eyes at the sight of Shadow.

“Of course it’d be you…” He sighed deeply, a sudden rush of guilt seeming to fall onto his face. Shadow immediately identified the man in front of him. “Well, better you than Ish, I suppose…”

“Jorge?” Shadow stepped back in awe. “Is that really…” He quickly looked around him, noticing the world he stood in looked like the edited pic— "So it is real?!"

“Wow…” Godson went wide-eyed. “No one’s called me that in… what… a year and three months, now?”

“Isn’t your name Godson, though?” The voice behind him asked. Shadow looked at the being behind him, realizing exactly who it was.

"Wait... There is no way..." Shadow gawked, "Twilight is here...? So... I really am in Equestria.."

“And here I thought you’d say something along the lines of—”

“Am I dreaming?” Shadow interrupted. “There’s no way this can be real… right?”

“Annnnd you beat me to it…” Godson crossed his arms. “Hate to tell ya, but you’re not dreaming.”

Shadow looked at the alicorn mare behind Godson, and quickly remembered something that might be important. "Oh shi.. Jorge.. Does she um.. Know about the bet..?" He inquired, gulping in fear.

“Hang on a sec…” Twilight interjected. “Didn’t you mention a bet once, Godson?”

“Maybe she wouldn’t have remembered, had you not just mentioned it.” Godson rolled his eyes.

Shadow’s eyes shrank to the size of peanuts. “Well…” He spoke softly. “Can I just say one thing?”

“Shoot.”

“I’LL BE SEEIN' YA AROUND!”

In an instant, Shadow bolted off in the opposite direction, only to trip over the rock he’d previously landed on.

“Yikes…” Godson winced, merely watching him land on the ground caused him a small amount of pain. “That’s… gotta hurt…”

"Someone really needs to remove this damn rock..." Shadow grumbled as he slowly came to stand on his two feet again.

Twilight’s eyes widened as soon as she remembered what Godson had told her a long time ago.

“Is he the one…” She raised an eyebrow. “Who dared you into taking over Equestria?”

“Pretty much.” Godson nodded.

“He’s the idiot that had you taking over Equestria for!?” Twilight shouted.

Godson simply nodded in response. “Oh. And by the way, you owe me 20 bucks, you Canadian retard.”

“Oh fuck no, not with the dollar values as they are now. Knowing you, you want $20 USD, I ain’t giving you just about $40 CAD” Shadow crossed his arms.

“Well you owe me something, then!” Godson grumbled. “Ah well, your money’s useless here in Equestria… I learned that the hard way…” He rolled his eyes.

“I’ll just get your waifu to suck your—”

Godson’s eyes widened, almost enough to compete with Twilight’s eyes. “H-How about we talk about that later…” He interrupted, nudging his head at the alicorn behind him.

“What the heck does waifu mean?” Twilight tilted her head to the side.

“Uh, nothing. It’s just a term that the two of us are familiar with.” Godson shook his head. “It’s nothing that important.”

Shadow looked down, shaking his head with a soft grin on his face.

“Anyway…” Godson attempted to change the subject. “Do you have any idea how you ended up here, Br—”

Shadow slapped Godson’s mouth with his hand. “Say my real name, and I’ll stab you.” He whispered.

“Ugh, fine.” Godson rubbed his now sore mouth. “Username, then?” He whispered back.

“Of course, it sounds cooler.” Shadow nodded.

“Eh, alright then, do you have any idea how you got here, Shadow?” Godson raised an eyebrow.

“Well...” Shadow replied slowly, rubbing the back of his head. “I went for a field goal kick on a cat and tripped on air and fell, but I fell on that damn rock instead of my floor”

“Animal abuse, much?” Godson chuckled.

“Hey!” Shadow pointed a finger at the laughing man in front of him. “In my defence… He knocked over my tacos”

“Oh, Taco abuse and animal abuse.” Godson’s chuckle slowly turned into laughter. “Oh man, that would’ve been great to see…”

“Can somepony explain to me what’s going on?” Twilight cut in, walking up to the two humans. “From what I understand… You’re the idiot…” She poked Shadow’s stomach. “...who dared this idiot?” She pointed at Godson.

“Hey!” Godson snapped back. “Back then, I had my pride to take care of!”

“Pride? You never had pride to begin with, Jorge.” Shadow commented, only to be poked again by Twilight.

“Still waiting on an answer…” Twilight growled, growing more impatient as time went on. She then quickly caught notice of something, and looked at the other human. “And what’s this whole ‘hor-hay’ thing?”

“Huh?” Godson looked at the alicorn mare with a confused expression. “Oh… It’s… uh...”

“Its his real name,” interrupted Shadow, “Did he never tell you what his real name was?”

“Don’t even get me started with you, ‘Shadow’.” Godson retorted.

“Hold it just a second…” Twilight cut in once more. “Your ‘real name’?”

“gg Jorge.” Shadow added in. “You’re fucked now.”

“Don’t think you got off so easily!” Twilight turned to face him.

“Well if that stupid rock wasn’t there, I would’ve been long gone by now!” Shadow countered.

“It’s not even the rock.” Godson closed his eyes as he shook his head. With a deep breath, he sighed. “Twilight, the portal’s moved… hasn’t it…”

Twilight looked up at her horn, which was no longer glowing. “Oh boy…” Twilight groaned. “Check your phone, see if you still have signal.”

Godson grabbed his phone from his pocket, bringing it close to his face. He opened his eyes, looking directly at the signal status.

“Barely.” He monotoned.

“Uh… Can someone explain what’s going on?” Shadow asked dumbfoundedly.

Twilight looked at the confused human. “Oh. Well, basically, there’s a portal connecting both Equestria and your world, and it’s moving around in both worlds. It’s likely while you were running, the portal was lined up perfectly for you to fall right through.”

“What she said.” Godson pointed a thumb at the mare next to him. Quickly shifting his attention back to his phone. “Hm. I wonder if I could make use of this signal and the portal moving around…” He muttered to himself, quickly putting his new random plan into action.

Twilight shrugged at his current actions, despite not having her ‘Jorge’ question answered, she worried more about the idiot that fell through the portal.

“You know you still haven’t answered my question, right?” She inquired.

“What question? You asked a question?” Shadow blinked.

Twilight narrowed her eyes. “Don’t you dare play dumb with me, ‘Shadow’...”

“I’m not... I legitimately forgot already...” Shadow replied with a shrug.

“That quick?” Twilight cocked her head to the side. “Geez…” With a roll of her eyes, she looked back at the Canadian. “Are you the idiot who dared Godson to take over Equestria?”

“Uh… Maybe...” Shadow answered, looking side to side for an easy way to escape the wrath he feared would come.

“That explains everything.” Twilight’s horn glowed, as Shadow braced himself for the worst possible thing to happen.

Luckily for him, the worst thing he imagined would happen, didn’t happen. Instead, he felt a soft tingling on his arm.

“Twilight?” Godson spoke up. “The heck are you doing?”

Suddenly, Twilight’s horn stopped glowing. “There.” She smirked. “You two aren’t worth the extra effort, so I just did something else instead.”

Shadow immediately lifted his sleeve, looking at his arm, with the word “IDIOT” tattooed on it.

“Of course…” Shadow sighed.

“What’s it say?” Godson asked curiously.

Shadow reluctantly showed off the tattoo on his arm, only for Godson to spontaneously burst into laughter at the sight of it.

"It's not funny..." He groaned.

“You're right! It's hilarious!" Godson said through laughs. "Oh geez. That’s great.” His laughter slowly died down. Then quickly realized something. “Wait…” He looked at his own arm, the words “BIGGER IDIOT” tattooed on it.

“DAMMIT TWILIGHT” He shouted. “WHAT DID I DO TO DESER—”

“Jorge.”

“WHAT?” Godson looked at Shadow. “CAN’T YOU SEE I’M YELLING HE—”

“She’s gone, dumbass.”

Godson looked at where Twilight used to be standing, only to find Shadow was right.

“What did yours say?” Shadow asked.

“Screw you, I’m not telling.”

Author's Note

Whew, Arc 2. This one's gonna be quite the story, now.

"A Shadow's Tale" is gonna be a three parter. So, be ready for the next two chapters. :3