Best Friends In Equestria

-Frank's Point of View-

Finally, I was able to move out of my parent's house to join up with my best friend Drake.  With everything that was going on during this month, it's been a rollercoaster ride for the both of us and our families.  We both have jobs that can support us to pay off the monthly bills, however, I was recently let off of work because they were losing money during the 'dry' season of Summer.  It sucks.  I've had to rent a truck to move all of my belongings to Drakes and now I have to break it to him that I will be jobless for a short time until I find a new one.

I drove into the garage, turned off my car, and headed inside.  The house itself was quite an amazing feat for Drake, he was able to buy this entire house with the money he saved up from when he was ten.  I believe it was something that his dad suggested and I guess he took it to heart.  There were three rooms, living room, kitchen, an attic, and a basement.  The third room was dedicated to a gaming room.  We had games that ranged from Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony; we would play any game almost every evening when we had the chance.  I heard clicking from the game room and saw that Drake was getting his ass handed to him with Princess Peach and Princess Daisy from Mario Party.

"Dude, I'm telling you that game is rigged with those two." I sigh and place my bag next to the couch.

"And I'm telling you that's bogus!" He pushed another button and his Wario character landed on Peach's trap and all of his coins were gone.  He shouted, "Oh!! Come on!!"

I chuckled as it deepened into a hearty laugh, "Told you."

He nearly threw his controller into the ground, but calmed down a bit and started to laugh with me, "Those bitches!!"

"Oh, now you believe me?" I smirked a bit and he nodded.

"Mario Party is hacked by those two...."

"Let's agree to never use them again, agree?" I asked.

He snickers and smiles, "Sure."

I sigh as my laughter subsided, "So, other than losing your place in that game, I have some bad news."

"Oh god...  Did you get a girlfriend?" He asked, "Do I have to wear ear plugs?"

I shook my head, "I wish that were the case, but I was laid off of work because the company wasn't making enough money for the summer."

"Ah, man, that's a total downer." He facepalms.

"So money is going to be tight for me until I find a new one," I explain.

When Drake was going to say something, there was a huge explosion that shook our house.  The floor, walls, and the very air began to vibrate around us.  I tried to get up but fell to my knees in sudden pain.  What was happening?  An earthquake?  An asteroid?  Whatever it is, it's making us lose our breath as Drake collapse's onto the floor and which I join him.

I've experienced earthquakes before when I was living in Japan, but this...  This was unnatural in all sort of fucked up ways.  The feeling of my body being numb all over really made me uncomfortable.  I look outside to see that it was still daytime or was it morning?  A groan escaped my mouth as I tried to get up.  Luckily, I was able to make it to the couch before throwing up into the trashcan next to it.  Welp.  My breakfast and lunch are now gone.  I heard Drake get up and there was a gurgling noise from his mouth, I slid the trashcan to him and he profusely throws up into it.

I pat his back as he spat out the extra bits, "What the fuck happened?" He asked.

I shrugged my shoulders, "I have no idea." I looked out the window and my eyes widened, "Um...  Did you grow or ordered some jungle plants from amazon or something?"

He looks at me quizzingly, "No....?" He said as he looked out the same window.

What he and I saw together, there was dense forest right in his backyard and he immediately runs out the front door to only shout out my name.  I ran after him, feeling a bit nauseous from before to only see that the familiar street was gone and was replaced with a small cottage town in the distance.  I gulped down some throw up mixed with spit to recognise a castle made out of purple crystal.  I drop to my knees as I take in all the wonder and the sheer confusing thoughts going through in my mine.  One statement, however, was able to escape my mind.

"We're in Equestria....  Close to Ponyville..." I say aloud.

"Oh....  Boy..." Drake said.

"You alright dude?" I asked.

He smiled and snickered, "Is it wrong of me to think that I want to sprint to Rarities Boutique and propose to her?"

At first, I was tilting my head to the side to then laugh, "Well, surely you'll cause panic to this little town and maybe give Rarity a heart attack."

He smacked his forehead, "God!!  I don't want that to happen."

I look to the distance to see seven difference figures running towards us.  I focused my eyes to the figures to see that they were a mixture of purple, white, orange and pink...  My eyes widened, as I mentally snapped everything that happened, with the combination of fanfiction, into a nice solved puzzle. 'Of course, they would be coming here because what happened to us back there wasn't natural, it was probably magical!' I thought as I tapped Drake's shoulder.

"We need to sit calmly..." I say as I sat in a crisscross.

"Why?" He asked as we heard light rumblings from the ground.

"They're here..." I stated as I recognised Twilight, Rarity, Spike, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Starlight Glimmer heading towards the house.  My friend was about to get up, but I grabbed his shoulders, pulled him down to where he landed on his butt.  "Don't want to look like a threat, do we?" I explained lightly.

"Oh~" He just says as he gets comfortable.

The group that was heading towards our house slowed down, but Rainbow immediately landed right in front of us.  Between us, there was silence and she was slightly confused as she tilted her head to the side.  Applejack and the others showed up, but with the same expressions as Rainbow's.

"What are they?" Starlight spoke first.

"I don't know," Fluttershy said, "I've never seen them before.  However, they look similar to an ape maybe?"

Drake chuckled a bit while I elbowed his gut. 'Not the time to laugh at this intense situation.' I thought.

"Ah think they understand us," Applejack said.

I scratched the back of my head, "While that may be true, do you understand us?"

Twilight immediately trotted close to us, "Oh!  You can speak Equestrian?"

I shook my head, "I think the term is English, but yes."

"What are you and your..." Spike looks at the house and looks at Drake, "House doing near Fluttershy's cottage?"

I look to my left then to my right to see Fluttershy's cottage nearly ten feet away from our house.  I turned to them and explained what happened.

Twilight spoke, "Interesting.  You're saying that there was some sort of earthshake-"

"Earthquake." Drake corrected.

"Right, earthquake and you guys lost consciousness to only wake up in Equestria."

"Pretty much." I waved my hand.

"Fascinating," Starlight said as she moved her mane to the side with her hoof.  She whispers to Twilight and she shakes her head and whispers, "They're not the same when that happened."

My eavesdropping was interrupted when Pinkie Pie appeared in front of us and looked our faces, "I sense that these guys know something that they don't want to share."

"Pinkie!" Rarity scoffed, "It's rude to make assumptions on these creatures."

"Um... Not to be rude Rarity." Drake spoke as she turned her attention to him, "We're called Humans.  Also, can I say your mane looks extra curly today?" He complemented which I saw that Spike was grinding his teeth slightly.

Rarity slight blushed, "Oh, you mean this mane here?  I just had the Lotus sisters take care of it during my appointment."

He rested his palm on his chin, "Doesn't matter, it still looks good on you."

I elbowed his side to make him stop and gave him a 'really?' look.  I cleared my throat, despite Rarity trying to hide her blush, "My name is Frank and this is Drake.  It's nice to meet you."

Twilight smiled as she took a breath, "It's nice to meet you as well, my name is-"

"We kno-" I immediately covered his mouth with my hand.

"What was that?" Rainbow squinted.

"Ah think that he said 'We know.'" Applejack raised an eyebrow.

'Oh boy...' I thought as I sighed.  "Thanks, Drake." I whispered as I spoke aloud, "We know you guys from a Television show that is made for kids in our universe."

Their eyes and the expressionless emotion made their jaws drop.  Starlight raised her hoof as she tried to compose herself, "I'm having a little bit of a tough time believing that..."

I sighed and fished for my keys and showed them my key chain of a mini replica of the Elements of Harmony.  There were small gasp's when I showed them the piece then Drake pulls out his phone that has a case with Rarity's cutie mark.  There was a gasp from her and Spike.

"They're telling the truth..." Applejack stated as she adjusted her hat.

Twilight comes closer and speaks, "So you know who we are and with that information, I just have one question to ask of you." I nodded to let her continue, "What will you do with this information?"

I cleared my throat, "Certainly not to take advantage of any of you with it." I raise my hand in the air, "We swear not to let any harm happen to anypony with this information."

"Yeah, what he said." Drake added.

Twilight smiled and look to her friends, "I believe a welcoming party is in order."

Pinkie disappeared into a dust cloud as I see her speeding down the road towards town like the road runner.  That was surprisingly easy overcome....  I think?  I don't know at this point, maybe she was testing us?  Trying to detect if we were unfriendly?

I shook this off and got to my feet.  Drake got up as well and we got the idea of the height difference between us and them.  I'm 6'5" and Twilight and her friends average around 5' tall.  I was feeling a bit nervous and excited because I was in front of Twilight which was making me star struck.  I'm sure that Drake is having the same feeling with Rarity.

Surprisingly, a lot has happened since we've arrived here in Equestria.  Registering as visiting 'foreign' citizens with Mayor Mare at the Ponyville Town hall, actually meeting with Celestia and Luna during the party, which was at Twilight's Castle and since we know them so well, we shared stories about them all.  How Twilight had a break down when she couldn't deliver a friendship letter to Celestia.  Explaining that Applejack needed help, but was Stubborn.  Spike finally achieving the Gauntlet of Fire at the Dragon lands.  Rarity setting up two shops in Canterlot and Manehattan (Drake hasn't seen season six to know, so I filled him in).  Fluttershy teaching her brother about doing something on his own. Rainbow Dash accepting that Tank needed to hibernate during the beginning of winter.  How Pinkie had to come terms with making a party that represents their culture to the Yaks.  Then Starlight, who reconnected her friendship to Starburst while there was a blizzard trying to consume the Crystal Empire.  Once it was getting close to 10 at night, everypony left the castle except, Starlight, Twilight, Spike, Drake and me.

We were casually sitting in the dining area, while explaining what happened to us when we were back in our world.  Twilight wrote everything down on a piece of parchment.  There were literally pages and pages of written content that we explained what happened to us while transferring to Equestria.

"Is there anything else that you might have forgotten?" She asked.

"Other than puking our breakfast," Drake spoke, "We felt fine and were surprised that we were on this world while the house was intact."

"Hmmm..." Twilight hummed as she looked back through the notes, "You're also saying that you don't have any type of magic in your world?  Just illusions and from what you could remember from the recorded history of the...  Medieval time era?"

I nodded, "Yep.  It's our only lead to any Magic," I air quoted 'magic' with my fingers.

"We've been through this three times Twilight." Spike yawned, "Can I head to bed now?"

I stretched my body, "Yeah, let's give the dragon his rest.  I'm pretty sure he'll want to try out some gems we have at Drakes house."

Spike immediately sprints out of the room saying, "Goodnight!"

Drake and I laugh at the young dragons antics, Starlight got a smile from it, but Twilight wasn't amused.  I cut the laughing short and got back to focus on the situation at hand.

I cleared my throat, "So, is there anything more you wanted to ask us, Twilight?"

She tapped her hoof against her chin, "Drake," He turned to her, "How do you feel about coming into Equestria?"

He smiled, "It feels like I'm living the dream that anybody would die for back on Earth.  With Frank here, I think I feel like nothing is going to stop us."

"Alright." The purple princess nodded, "Frank, How do you feel about coming into Equestria suddenly?"

I blushed when we made eye contact and mentally shook it off, why did Twilight have to be so cute?  "I feel like I've won the lottery and with that prize, I'm going to spend it with my friend."  I pat Drake back and continued, "Plus, we didn't like Earth for all of the mistakes it made throughout the years."

Starlight looked at us, "What kind of mistakes?"

I glanced at her, "....Wars, revolutions, world hunger, famine, corruption.  All of those are just the small explanations of what's terrible around our world."

This kind of turned things into a dark setting.  Twilight and Starlight's ears drooped a bit from this revelation.

"That sounds terrible..." Starlight whimpered.

Drake made a fist, "For all of its negatives, there are positives to hide it.  There has been a lot of good overall, but it had been overlooked.  Organizations that take care of the hungry and homeless, plus better leaders that run different countries wanting to accomplish peace."

I nod to what he said, "You might say it's a Yin Yang.  A mixture of good and bad."

"Well, I'm sort of glad there is some sort of balance.  However, I do have one more question before we conclude this." Twilight nodded to Starlight as she rolled the parchment into scrolls.

"What is that?"

"Do you ever want to return to you home?  Surely you have families back there." Starlight asked.

Like being struck by lightening, we were put with a serious question fo returning home.  Drake looks at me then I look at him.  He gives me a serious look and I shake my head then he nodded.

"We're not returning home anytime soon.  Our families will miss us, for sure, but if we come back with the house.  We'll have unwanted attention from the press and overall I think staying here would be the best option." Drake explained.

"Now if you had some sort of way to let our parents know that were fine and dandy, then let us know.  A letter and a video message should do the trick so they don't have to go through a double funeral for being pronounced dead." I said.

Twilight tilted her head, "If that is all you wanted then...  I'll try my best to do that for you." She looks at us, "Are you sure this is what you guys want?"

We nodded.

"Drake and I agreed if something happened to us and we get teleported to Equestria together, we're not going to leave this once in a lifetime opportunity." I put up my fist for a fist bump.

He smirked, "I can't believe you just remembered that fricken promise." He fist bumps my fist as I sigh.

"You know what Drake, you know what you are?" I look at him with a serious tone.

He squints his eyes a little, "No, what?"

I smiled, "A big loser at Mario party due to two certain princesses."

He playfully grunt, "Well you know what Frank?"

"What?" I asked.

"You're totally right about that." He laughs.

"I'm sorry did I miss something here?" Starlight wondered, "Two princesses?"

The both of us giggled because they didn't know the hidden jokes of human culture.  Drake waved his hand, "It's a human thing.  Though we could show you what we're talking about tomorrow."

Twilight nodded as she yawned, "Agreed.  I feel like hitting the hay for the night.  It's been an eventful day."

"It certainly has Twilight, it certainly was." I yawned after her.