I drop the sign, but it seems to fall in slow motion. Then everything speeds back up, and I back out the hole. All I can hear is a loud ringing in my ears, everything else is just a distant hum.

"Josh... Josh!" Finally Twilight's voice becomes clear again. "What happened! What's down there!" Now she's grabbed my shoulders and is looking me directly in the eyes.

"Y-You lied to me..." I just barely whisper. "YOU LIED TO ME!" I yell as loud as I can as I throw Twilight off of me. She tumbles backwards several feet and looks up at me in shock. "How did I get here Twilight! Tell me the truth!"

"I-I already told you! I messed up with a teleportation spell, and it leaked into your universe and brought you here!" Twilight yells in defense, tears forming in her eyes.

"Bullshit! This isn't some alternate dimension! We're still on earth! We're in the future!"

"What!? That's not even possible! Even if I had used a time travel spell, there's no way it could bring you here permanently!"

"Then what the hell happened!?"

"I think I can explain..." A deep voice says out of nowhere. Everyone around goes quiet. I look around, but I can't even find the source of the voice.

"Who the hell? Who said that?" I yell as I spin around rapidly.

"Why it's only little old me..." The voice comes from every direction, making it impossible to pinpoint the location.

"Twilight... What's going on?" I look at Twilight only to find that she isn't moving a muscle. As I look around, I notice that nobody else is moving either, even some of the pegasi are frozen in mid-air.

"It's true that Twilight didn't bring you here..." The voice says as it seems to float around me.

"Then what did!?"

"...Me. I only used Twilight as a way to cover up my actions... I had you, and everyone else believe that she was responsible."

"Wha... Who are you!? What do you want with me!?"

"Oh you will discover your place soon enough, little human. You will find me soon enough... Meet me in Canterlot, we'll talk there... Until then..." And with that, I heard a faint whooshing sound like the air around me was flowing away. Everything starts to go back into motion. I just stare at Canterlot for a few minutes as I'm dragged out of the crowd by Twilight and Rainbow. I never take my eyes off the mountain and I don't answer any questions the two mares ask me.

"Twilight..." I mumble.

"Yeah!? What's wrong Josh!?"

"We... We need to get to Canterlot... NOW!"

"Al-Algright but, why?"

"Just get the others ready to go!" I yell as I head to the library. I plan to pack and make my way to Canterlot as soon as possible. I burst through the door and head for my backpack. I pack some food and my gun, along with some ammo that Twilight was able to duplicate. I hop on the motorcycle which thankfully has a lot of gas in it due to not being used much.

I roll the bike out the door and start the engine. I floor the thing to the train station as fast as I can go. I arrive just minutes later and find the girls and Amber waiting for me.

"Josh! What's going on?" Amber yells as she sees me approaching. "Why do we need to go to the city on the mountain?"

"I'll explain later, but we have to go now! This is important to me." I explain as the train pulls in. Realizing the train will take a while to get there, I decide to just use the remaining gas in the bike to get there faster.

"I'm taking you with me." I say pointing at Twilight. "You know the most about magic, and I think that's what I'm dealing with.

"Uh, okay?" Twilight says as she hops on the bike and places her front legs over my shoulders.

"The rest of you, take the train. I'll explain what's going on when we get there." I say as I start up the engine again.

"Wait! I'm going with you!" Rainbow yells as everyone else boards the train.

"There's no more room." I say simply as I rev the engine.

"Then I'll fly! C'mon!" She yells as she flies in front of me.

"Fine just keep up!" I yell as I floor it towards Canterlot. Why does this... voice want me to come to Canterlot? Why did he bring me here? What did he mean I would find my place?

We finally arrive at the Canterlot train station. I ditch the bike as it's now running on fumes. Twilight has us follow her to the castle where the princesses supposedly are. I'm surprised they haven't tried to investigate my arrival yet, as there's no doubt Twilight has told them about me considering one of them is basically Twilight's mentor. In my world, which I guess this still technically is, if a pony were to appear out of nowhere, the government would want to capture and examine it. Why hadn't they done the same to me or Amber?

We arrive at the castle's entrance only to be stopped by a pair of guards. Twilight explains that it's an emergency, and tells them who she is. We enter the castle, and Twilight leads us to the throne room, hoping the princesses will have some information on what actually happened. I explained to Twilight that time had literally frozen back by the hole, and that some weird voice was just flowing around me that said I had to meet it at Canterlot.

"That... doesn't sound like a good thing." Twilight says as we wait at the throne room doors. The other girls run up about fifteen minutes later, and I explain to them what's going on.

"Well let's go find out what happened!" Rainbow yells as she pushes open the throne room doors. There, on the thrones, are the two princesses that Twilight had described to me. One was really tall, about my height. She had a white coat with a flowing mane that seemed to just move on it's own despite the lack of wind in the room. The other, was smaller than the first, but bigger than a normal pony. She had a dark blue coat with similar hair that just seemed to move on it's own.

"Twilight... it is good to see you again." The white one, who Twilight informed me is Celestia, says.

"Celestia!" Twilight yells as she sprints past us, up to the throne. The two princesses leave their thrones and meet us halfway.

"These must be the... humans that you informed us about." The darker one, who is apparently named Luna, says as she points to Amber and me.

"I'm Josh." I say politely as I hold out my hand for them to shake. "And this is Amber." I say as I push Amber out from behind me. "It's a pleasure to meet you."

"Likewise, however, we need to discuss something important with you all." Celestia says in a calm yet serious tone. "About two months ago we noticed a... disturbance in the magic around Ponyville. We felt it again about a week or two after the incident as well. However, the second time we felt the disturbance, it was not like the first at all. The first fluctuation in magic felt all too familiar to us, so we set out an investigation around the one thing that could have caused that kind of magic.

"Princess... you aren't saying..." Twilight says with a gasp as she puts a hoof over her mouth.

"Yes, Twilight, we have reason to believe that Discord is free once again. We also believe that he is the one that brought young Josh to our world." Celestia says with a stern look. "We knew it was only a matter of time before you found this out, and it is urgent that we find, and capture him once again."

"That's the thing though." I say with an annoyed look. "This isn't a different world than mine! This is my world, Amber's too! While it is true that I thought Twilight brought me to a different dimension, I now know that I was brought here from the distant past. I was contacted by this... Discord, whoever that is. He told me to find him here, so he must be close by!"

A dark, ominous voice emits from behind us as we notice a creature, much taller than me or Celestia, looking down on us.

"Oh... I'm closer than you think..."

Author's Note

The next major plot of the story takes off! Woo!

The next chapter will be normal length, but I hope to make the one after be really long (By my standards anyway.)

As always, hope you enjoy!