As the ponies and people tumbled out of the gold and green portal, they landed on what seemed to be a giant mattress. Through the grunts and complains and whatnot, Princess Twilight heard someone whistle outside of the pile of ponies and people.

"That's a lot of ponies," she heard him say. She poked her head out of the pile and saw someone that made her gasp. It was Starswirl the Bearded! The only strange thing was that he was...human, kind of. He still had his horn, but he had fingers and stood on his back two legs. He was also wearing a brown robe. She looked down and relized that she was basically the same, and was wearing a light blue shirt and black pants. She finally managed to get out of the pile and rushed over to him.

"You're Starswirl the Bearded!" she exclaimed. "How?" Starswirl the Bearded stared at her.

"Yes, I am Starswirl," he said. "You don't need to say the Bearded. What do you mean how?" Twilight tilted her head in confusion.

"It's been a thousand years," she said slowly. "The history books said that you just....disappeared." Starswirl's eyes widened.

"I've been trapped in here for a thousand years?!" he exclaimed. Suddenly Pinkie appeared at Twilight's side. Pinkie was wearing a light blue shirt and white pants.

"Ohh!" she said. She turned to Twilight. "Who's he?"

"I'm Starswirl!" Starswirl said. "I've made a ton of spells!" Pinkie slowly nodded her head.

"You finished that one spell of his, right?" she asked Twilight.

"Yes, that's what made me an alicorn," Twilight said. Starswirl looked at Twilight's back to see that she did indeed have wings as well.

"Another alicorn," he said. "Wow." Toxigo Paralysis walked up to Starswirl. Toxigo was wearing blue pants with a belt buckle with a biohazard symbol and a white shirt.

"Who are you, and why did you bring us here?" he asked nervously. The other people started to gather around Starswirl. "And why are we now wearing clothes?"

"You are in the Void," Starswirl said. "I did not bring you here, but I am glad you are here."

"If you didn't bring us here, then who did?" Fallout asked. He was wearing a black jacket and brown pants. Pinkie kept glancing at him with a strange glint in her eyes.

"The Void did," Starswirl said. "I can't explain it, but the multiverse is in danger! That's why each of you have been brought here. Each of you has a unique set of skills that can help stop the monstrosity that is trying to escape."

"What is trying to escape?" Floriba asked.

"I'm not entirely sure what it is," Starswirl said. "But we call it the Negative Space. It is trying to cause mass panic and destroy everything."

"We?" Candy Burn asked.

"Yes, we," Starswirl said. "I wasn't the only one to be brought here. There were many before me. Now, I know that all of this is sudden and very strange, but that structure over there is the home we live in. It has a few supercomputers that will answer any other questions you have.

"How do you have supercomputers here?" Hidden Darkness asked. "What else does this place have?"

"Follow me, and you'll find out," Starswirl said with a grin.

There was so much to check out. Everyone was surprisingly ok with being in this world, possible because of the various things that were there that may have caught their interests. Hidden Darkness was instantly drawn by the supercomputers and the surprisingly advanced tech that this place had. Meanwhile everyone else got to know each other.

"I'm serious!" Scorched Apple was saying to Rainbow Dash. "We're dating!"

"I'm dating Pinkie," Fallout commented.

"Really?" Scorched Apple asked, sounding a little nervous. "She sawed off my horn in my world." Pinkie appeared and gasped, causing everyone to jump back a little.

"Why?" Pinkie asked, the horror clear on her face.

"There was an evil spirit in her that caused her to do it," Scorched Apple said. Pinkie nodded.

"Don't worry, I don't have any spirits in me," she said. Then she turned to Fallout and grinned. "So I'm dating you in your world?" Fallout nodded.

"We've been dating for a while, and it's been great," he said. Pinkie's grin widened.

"Do we have sex?" she asked. Fallout blushed.

"Yes," he said. "Why?" Pinkie chuckled manically.

"Oh, no reason," she said. "Hey Starswirl?" Starswirl turned around from talking to Twilight.

"Yes?" he asked.

"What is the time like here?" Pinkie asked. "Is it almost night time?" Starswirl nodded.

"Yes, actually," he said. "Don't go exploring past dark. It gets incredible dangerous after night." Pinkie nodded.

"And where are our rooms?" Pinkie asked. Starswirl pointed towards a corridor.

"All are down that hall," he said. "And if you're going to ask about sex, it still works here." Most of the people blushed at that, but Pinkie grinned.

"Good to know," she said. "Good to know."

"You're going to try and have sex with me, aren't you?" Fallout asked. Pinkie smiled mischievous.

"Maybe," she said. "But that can wait until after dinner! Hey Starswirl! Where's the kitchen?"

Author's Note

There will be more OC's portaging in, believe it or not, and there is a good reason for it.