Through the wormholeby timothy2400ChaptersThe Introa different placemaking friendsParanoia of losing a new friendIntroductionEven more friendsjust a talk and some infoThe IntroIt is winter 2012, it has just been my father’s birthday yesterday which means that it’s the 5/11-2012. some has already decorated their homes for Christmas, but nothing too outstanding nothing like the ones in the US. I live in Denmark, more precise in the north west part of Copenhagen I’ve always been the silent type, but the past year I have been even more quiet. The 15th of December I became a brony, i started fantasizing about a better world, a better interaction with the public from everyone and i started being nice to everyone and it eventually came back. I was a 17 year-old virgin, now I have a girlfriend her name is Michelle and lives around one hour from where I live (that means she is from the countryside) I am in the Danish gymnasium the American equivalent to senior year of high-school and college, in 2.g I’m in the z line which means that I study math, physics and chemistry mostly. There is also something very special about me I have ADD and Asperger syndrome both mental handicaps, but luckily not noticeable. I was just trying out my new experiment I setup at home, don’t ask me how I got the idea to make a portal (not handheld) or where I got the ideas to make the schematics, or even the math that is involved in the whole project, I didn’t really care what happened to me if I should mess it up. I thought that the world I was living in, was a dark, unforgiving, dull world so I just wanted to get away, one way or the other. I guess you can say that I was a bit depressed and I wanted to end every misery in my life, I had a good life except that I hated my family although they only wanted to help me. My father, oh my god where to start? well around three years ago he collapsed with a brain haemorrhage, around one month after the incident he came home and we all noticed that his personality had changed, he was more aggressive and easier to “piss off” My mother, now she is the kindest PERSON I have ever known, but the downside of her was her short temper and her obsession that everything has to be perfect. My sister is the biggest mood killer of them all, I don’t really want to go into any details, I can tell you the reaction she had when she found out I was a brony (my parents don’t know for some weird reason), it was “GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYY !!!!!” so I didn’t really care because I heard it so many times before, I just did the best thing I could do as a brony in this situation, I said “thanks but I’m not gay” and hugged her. luckily I don’t live with any of them anymore. Around 3 months ago I moved from home, the biggest relief ever! I have wanted to move out since things started getting weird at home such as me not being allowed to see my girlfriend in the weekends and stuff like that. Therefore I found the Danish institution who specializes in apartments for studying youngsters called sputnik kollektiverne (sputnik multi-occupied flats in English) and they had an apartment that I could rent for not much money. When I moved in I found out that some of the few friends I had actually also lived there, I wanted to get settled in so I threw a party for near friends only so that they could see where I was living and how. I always liked science, sci-fi and stuff alike, and because of that I really liked the idea of teleporting and portals, I decided I wanted to try and experiment with it. After around 1 and a half month in I started to have some equations that seemed to make it possible in real life to make portals to other places, and when I had the materials and some help from my studies and my friends I tried to begin the build. After around 1 and a half month after that my portal was ready and I decided to test it out myself before revealing it to anyone I plugged the oval ring of metal with the stand into the wall and suddenly wind began blowing from nothing, I had no open windows or doors, the only thing I figured was that it had worked, for a reason I figured that if it went wrong and I got trapped I probably had to pack some stuff. I began packing the essentials, three sets of clothes one for warm weather, one for cold, and for some reason I packed my only smoking, I also went out to get a generator and a transformer so that I can get power for my computer and other electrical devices. The generator and the transformer was in a bundle so that they were on a wagon, there was a normal power outlet on the transformer so that you could plug almost anything into it. I also went to get 2 petrol tanks of gasoline to power the generator for a while when I get wherever I got to I got home from shopping for more essentials such as a gun and a knife (after getting a permit for it), it has now been 2 days after plugging in my “portal” and I was getting exited. please leave some response a different place“Man, I hope this works” I think to myself the oval of metal plugged in to my new laptop. I pushed my transformer wagon through the portal and it disappeared right in front of my eyes. I was stunned as I didn’t expect it to work since there was no visual effect inside the portal I then threw my gasoline and my sleeping bag through I took on my backpack my thin coat on and prepared to go through. I first tried to put my lower arm trough at first, when I saw my arm disappear I got scared but I still felt that my arm was attached to the rest of my arm at the elbow, the place my arm was, was warm and cozy, I tried to retract my arm but I couldn’t, I was locked in the position or I could go through. I had my cell phone on me and I tried to get it out of my pants pocket to write a message to my friends, when they got it they came straight to over to me, when they got inside they looked terrified when they saw me standing with half of my arm missing in the portal that still did look like nothing was happening, they tried to pull me out when they accidently pulled my shoulder out of its socket, they gave up and considered cutting the power, but before they did I told them that it would probably cut off my arm (my right arm and I’m a righty). I decided that I would go through and I told them that I would probably not return but I will try and make contact, due to me not being able to pull my arm out I concluded that it was a one way portal, I didn’t want to go and still I wanted to, thoughts flooded my head as I almost panicked; “what would my friends do?, what will my family think? No my family doesn’t care about me then I don’t care about them!, what will happen to the portal?, would the government try and get its long and nasty fingers on it?” I rang my girlfriend and told her to get her ass moving and come to me, my friends left as my girlfriend arrived with a look of horror on her face as she saw me. I told her to unplug the portal when I was completely through, sadly I also had to tel her that I wouldn’t be coming back, we both cried in each other’s arms I also told her that she couldn’t come with me as I didn’t know what was in there, she told me that she was going to be sad for months, I then told her that she shouldn’t be as I would probably survive but be out of reach for an unknown amount of time, I also said that she should take good care of herself and the portal MUST remain hidden, or at least she should make a huge amount of money off of it as she could sell it to anyone she would like but she must tell the person she sold it to that is only was a one way portal The portal that enveloped my arm was slightly buzzing and I decided the time was neigh I said “remember that the portal only has a 1 in 1000000000000 to open a portal to the same place twice and the chance of it being in the sky is 33.33% the same with being able to spawn underground and on the ground, that divided with the chance of actually being a place where there is air and survivability for humans” I turned my face away to go through the portal, as I went through the portal I felt a surreal tinkling sensation where the portal touched my skin I came through with my eyes closed in fear of what I might find, I noted that the orange glow I saw through my eyelids was fading as I went through the portal, that had me thinking about the fact that I had a chance to be under ground The thought was quickly wiped from my mind when I felt a slight breeze that meant I was on ground since I wasn’t falling as soon as I was through the portal, I slowly opened my eyes to look upon the new world. It was a dark and warm, but beautiful, there seemed to be more color, the moon was different from what I was used to, it was bigger, more yellow and it seemed at it had almost no craters in it. I was in the middle of nowhere I couldn’t see anything for miles, except something that looked like a train track but with golden beams instead of iron, I stared for a while and began to walk. I was around 2 and a half kilometer from where I started when I suddenly heard a familiar sound behind me, the sound of metal against metal in a grinding motion I turned to see an old fashioned train with a single light in the front. The wheels started squealing and the train slowed down, stopping me dead in my tracks I was surprised that the train would stop anywhere else than its station, I then turned to get a good look at the train thinking that it was weird to see a train in pink. Next thing I know there is a grey conductor pony asking me what the hell I am in a southern accent almost matching Applejack’s but in a male version, my thoughts was exactly: “you’re kidding right? I am probably just sleeping” I looked confused at the stallion asking If he had never seen anything like me before to that he answered “of course not you are not from here are you??” To that I could only answer with a question: “and where exactly is ‘here’??” “well exactly right now you’re in the middle of nowhere” he said with a grin “but if you’ll help me shovel coal then I’ll give you a ride to Appeloosa” “You are telling me that I am in equestria??” I asked already knowing it “juuuup where’d you think you were ?” he said kinda like Big Macintosh only putting the empathies on the ‘u’ instead of the ‘e’ “Could you do me a favor after that I promise I will help you?” I asked in disbelief “It depends” he answers sounding a bit nervous “Could you be so very kind as to slap me as hard as you can in my face?” He answered in a surprised and confused voice “uuuuh you’re weird … why would you want me to do that?” “Because I think I’m dreaming!” I said loudly, almost screaming The stallion panicked and slapped me, I felt the excruciating pain spread across my right cheek clearly crushing my cheekbone with his hooves “I didn’t expect hooves to hurt THAT much” I thought to myself, groggy from the slap I took my stuff and boarded the train while asking “is this train by any chance going past Ponyville?” The conductor pauses what he is doing and answers “how come you don’t know you’re in Equestria but you want to go to one of the local cities that almost nopony has ever heard of?” making friendsI boarded the train and we got going again, it turned out I was the new ‘coal shoveler’, fancy title to get right away, right? “Well … first off what’s your name?” I ask the grey stallion. “my name is Dusty, what is yours?” he answers “I’m Timothy, you didn’t answer my first question, are we going to ponyville?” “we will go through ponyville, but that’s on the way back since we’re just coming from there” he answered confused while he looked at me as if I was stupid “do you even know where to go to?” I looked at him saddened by the comment, it made me realize that I am the only real ‘person’ here. With a little tear in my eye I slowly shook my head in a circle motion, indicating that I somewhat knew. Amazingly enough he understood it as just that, he slowly went towards me kindly helped me off of my behind as I sat on the floor of the locomotive steering house and gave me a manly hug as in an I-feel-your-pain-bro kind of hug, I then went on to explain myself to him as there was almost nothing to do, I only needed to throw some magical-coal into the green flame-engulfed furnace in the cabin. I explained that I was from another world and probably also another dimension, that my specie is possibly light-years away and there is no chance for me to return to my own world, that I have a family and friends back home but I would never be able to see them again. I wanted to go home, but then I remembered how my family is, or rather was because now I have no family. And to be honest it’s great, I can decide myself where, when and why I want to go, I missed my girlfriend though she was a bit demanding sometimes but nevertheless I loved her, and sadly I had lost her, forever. I couldn’t be sad for long as dusty made some really random stuff to make me think of something very different than what I was. We then stopped in Appeloosa, and as I really wanting to stretch my legs because I couldn’t do it on the train since it was just slightly too low, It was only then I noticed that ponies are not that much smaller than people, nor where they bigger, dusty were slightly lower than my shoulder when he had his head up. Dusty gave me a puzzled look as he was trying to solve a mystery of ages when I looked at him with a smile and said “well then you know something about me, why don’t you tell me about you?” He sighed and was about to say something when someone came to the entrance of the locomotive, he seemed familiar but not to the point of recognition, he had a classic train conductor outfit on (you know, the blue and white striped from the old movies and cartoons) and with that he also had the apple shaped hat in the same color scheme and he had a dark grey-ish coat and a blonde and dark blonde mane. He looked shocked and was speechless when he saw me, he quickly entered the cabin of the locomotive, shut the door and pulled down the little curtain that hung above the window of the door, he immediately rushes to dusty whispering something into his ear that makes dusty push the conductor away from him and look to you worried. “What’s wrong?” I asked, probably looking rather sad or hurt. He then sat down next to me and asked with a very serious face: “what do you eat? I hesitated to answer and looked at him with a smile being sure not to show my teeth so he wouldn’t understand it as a threat, then he turned to look at the conductor reassuring for some reason, when I decided to answer the question with a bit of fear in their reaction “a am actually an omnivore” they both look at me in confusion I continued my sentence “or rather, my species are omnivores, I am what we normally call a vegetarian, that means I am a herbivore and that means I eat things you eat, but my species normally eat both meat and plants, I know what your concerns are and I will not harm a living thing on this planet” they both looked much more relaxed as they understood I would not try to do anything harmful to anyone, or “anypony” as the driver had said at some point." We were just sitting on the floor talking about the differences in our worlds when the actual conductor stood up and said “it’s time” when he went out the door, the driver standing up and shovels some coal into the furnace asking me to take over again after a couple of scoops and when I had a good rhythm and had scooped a couple of loads I almost fell over when the train pulled forward, after regaining my balance I continued scooping. Paranoia of losing a new friendMe and dusty where talking a lot between the stops, it only a necessity when he told me there is around 3 hours between each station. We had been driving for around one hour when I said “hey dusty? Uhm … how long is there before we get to ponyville?” he turns to me and answers “well there is a long time to be honest, we have to get to Fillydelphia and then make a u turn to go back and from here we have to stop in Manehattan too, so there is at the least 16 hours until we stop at ponyville and that is including the stops of 30 minutes at each station, so if you want to get some sleep, which I recommend you do not knowing the time difference between here and earth, you can go and sleep in my bed in the first coupé on the right” “thanks mate, I REALLY appreciate it” I said with a smile “oh, and thanks for being so kindhearted” He smiled and said “no problem, bro. I’ll always help if anypony in need” while holding his hoof out, I assumed he wanted to ‘brohoof’ me and I curled my fingers into a fist and hit his hoof, where after he just looked confused at me slightly grinning in a: what-the-hell-are-you-doing? Kind of fashion. Again smiling I tried to answer his unspoken question as best I could: “it’s like shaking hands where I come from, except it’s only between friends, which I hope we are by now?” I watched him as a smile blossomed up on his face when he leaned in to hug me, I saw him getting a tear in each of his eyes just before his embrace came over me hugging me friendly. Being confused I returned the hug and padded him on the back while hugging him, he gave a muffled sob as he started to loosen the grip around me. When we broke the hug, he looked at me with teary, red eyes smiling oddly enough. I figured from this that the tears he had shed were tears of joy, I smiled back at him about to ask a question when: “I’ve never had a real friend, I hope you aren’t going to abandon me as all my other friends have” he said with a look of sadness in his eyes. I pushed him away from me a bit and gave a sad look towards him, he only felt worse, I then said “you know I can’t stay on the train with you, right? I mean I’d love to be your friend and come and visit sometimes but I can’t if you live anywhere else than ponyville ‘cause that’s where I want to settle down” to my surprise he became happy again and with a huge grin on his face he went to control the train once again, we had arrived at Manehattan and the break here was changed to an hour instead of thirty minutes. I was not pleased to hear that, it meant more time before I came to ponyville. My bag and the other equipment I had brought did not get left behind when I was taken onto the train, it was safely locked away in dusty’s cabin, in the first wagon after the coal wagon. I was wandering around just inside the door of the locomotive alone, while thinking of the time it would take to get to ponyville when someone or rather somepony (I have to get used to saying that) slammed through the door, it was dusty his hat nowhere to be seen as it had been flung to the other side of the locomotive as he had stopped in the entrance. He looked horrified and as if he was in panic, he shoved me into the coal pile on the wagon behind the locomotive and began using his magic to cover me up as he told me to be as still as a rock until he came back to get me, he didn’t tell me why but I did as he said. He knew more about this than I did. Moments passed as I was half lying half sitting inside the green coal pile, I couldn’t breathe really well and had to get my head out soon, but I still heard voices seven different voices to be exact, one of them dusty’s and the others were some I had never heard before, all male. I heard the door close and I popped my head out to my surprise nopony had left ‘shit, here goes my time in Equestria, well it’s been fun so far and it’s better to go out with a smile ’ I thought to myself as all seven ponies were now staring at me. I heard one of the colts almost wisher “oh my” as he backed away the others closing in on me. I decided I wanted to face my doom in full person and I stood to gain my full height again, the five ponies’ jaws dropped as I were around one fifth maybe one fourth taller than each of them the one shy one hiding in the corner cowering beneath his left wing. I spoke clearly as the ponies regained their composure “I do not want to hurt anypony” waving my hands in front of me in a defensive manor. This turned out to be a good way to gain some of their trust also with dusty taking my side, it all seemed to be going well, the purple one spoke as the first one “well how can we be sure of that?” I looked at him and said flatly “Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye.” They all looked at what looked to be the male version of pinkie pie who was jumping looking really happy, when he realized that everypony was staring at him he stopped jumping but still looked happy as he asked “well I guess we CAN trust him”. The male version of twilight looked at me in worry, “where do you know that rhyme from?” he asked with almost deadly seriousness. I blushed and looked nervously at the Fluttershy male who was coming out from his hiding place in the corner and then around the floor and ceiling as I answered “Y-you know … that’s not really important, what is important is what will happen to me?”. The six ponies looked at me as I tried to introduce myself. Introduction“My name is Timothy Cramer and I am a human from a world far, FAR away from here luckily” I extended my arm to try and shake hand and hoof accordingly with the colt that looked like twilight. He didn’t respond in the way I had hoped for as he turned down my handshake or … hoofshake in his case, then he said “hello timothy, my name is Dusk Shine is there anything shorter that we can call you?” “Could I get to know ALL of your names? And please call me Tim” I said with a grin. Each of them seemed to have the same personality as their female counterparts. All of them agreed to shake hands and tell their names except the yellow pegasus they were, Dusk Shine, Rainbow Blitz, Apple Jack, Elusive and Bubble Berry … I figured I had to take the approach on the only one left, I got down on my knees and walked slowly on my knees towards the yellow pegasus, he let an “Eeep!” as I grabbed him and gave him a friendly hug saying “hey, don’t be shy” he sighed lightly as he hugged me back with hesitation, I let him go and asked “better now?” he nodded slowly and said very quietly “uhm m-my name i-i-is Butterscotch”, “a pleasure to meet you butterscotch” I again held out my hand to get a shake but this time I did, not with a firm grip though. Dusty shook hooves with them as well and we talked for a bit about where I come from and what my species normally do to survive where my world is and how I got from my world to here. I also told them about my friends and my girlfriend where they used marefriend, I didn’t want to disturb them with the story of my family just yet, it would have to wait until I became friends with at least one of them if I even did, they seemed … I wouldn’t say hostile more frightened than anything else. “That’s quite some story y’have there” said Apple Jack with a bit of a frown, I assumed that he thought I lied. “I tell you, that’s what happened!” I said defensively while looking to the others. “well I have not read that it is impossible” Dusk said looking upwards to the right as if we was pulling pages of some books down from his mind. “look at it this way, pay attention to the detail it was told, it takes quite some imagination to come up with a lie of that size and quality, and if he can tell us the exact same thing in a week then we know he didn’t lie” Bubble Berry spat out before anyone else could react then beginning to jump in the same place. “Maybe you are right mate, on the other hand if he is speaking the truth he has nowhere to go” stated Elusive “do you have anywhere you are headed to?” “Well I wanted to go to ponyville and meet the elements, yet I still don’t know as my friend here needs some company” I said while resting my arm on the back of dusty. “You might be able to do both” dusty said while trotting over towards the steering mechanism of the train, confused I then asked him “what do you mean?” while watching him turn some handles and such with his hooves, this confused me since he was a unicorn. Why didn’t he just use his magic? “I live in ponyville” he said “and I might be able to get a replacement for the train so that we can hang together” he smiled towards me and looked with asking eyes towards the male elements of harmony who nodded slowly once in unison. Both dusty and I began to smile at this. When the joy had subsided a bit I asked where the male elements were headed, dusk responded “we actually don’t know yet, we just planned for a spontaneous field trip to Celestia knows where, speaking of ‘where’ where is all of your gear that you said you gathered?”. “Oh that, it’s in the cabin, you want to see some of it?” I asked Dusk when I thought to myself ‘I knew if he was as curious as twilight he would be bursting on the inside of sheer excitement when making a discovery this big’, Dusk came closer looking in the direction of the wagon just past the coal wagon and said “I would love to” with a smile on his face. When I was almost at the coal wagon the train jolted forwards knocking the feet away from under me, I fell face first towards the couple between the coal wagon and the first passenger wagon of many. Luckily Dusk was able to stop my fall just before I got hurt by creating a force field between the two wagons so that I could land safely. I then got back up thanked Dusk and went into the first cabin on the right where all my stuff was. We got inside the cabin and closed the door to get some more space in the room, there were only a small table with a sofa on either side. As we sat down Dusk gave a little sigh as if he had needed to get away or having had the need to sit for quite a while. Even more friendsWe sat down and looked at my smartphone, which was a HTC one X, he was absolutely fascinated by the little thing just from looking at it and how small it was compared to what I said it could do. There was a lot to explain such as power, touch screens, even computers themselves and probably the hardest of them all …the internet. So when i heard how much I needed to explain even to Dusk I told him that I would wait to explain it until we got to ponyville and met up with twilight and the others. And with that said I stood up turned off my phone and put it back in my bag to save on power since I now had a limited supply, maybe I could get twilight or dusk to study the battery, power adapter and generator to come up with some way to power it for eternity just so that I could charge all of my stuff. I got out of the cabin Dusk following close behind, we got over the mountain of coal and saw that the others were sitting on the floor in the locomotive chatting, inclusive dusty, who was now steering the train with his magic and elusive helping him to shovel coal with his magic of course. They noticed us straight away and asked what he had been doing for the past thirty minutes, I answered “we have been looking at some of my world’s stuff, technology and advanced things alike” with a grin back at the entire group who now looked confused. Apple Jack opened his mouth and said “in equestrian please” looking at Dusk with a raised brow. “he showed me some of the stuff the human race has made to make life easier” dusk answered with a alight bit of excitement in his voice. Blitz yawned while saying “boooooring!” I looked at him smiling, he smiled back. Suddenly Elusive asked “why are you actually even here mate?” now moving my eyes to him I stared him in the eye and said “to be honest, I have no freggin clue” i smiled happily, I really wanted to stay. “I really want to stay so please don’t go running to Celestia or Luna about me” I said while looking begging. “We won’t, we promise” they all said in unison, I thought it was just to make me happy, well it worked I now had the widest grin I have ever had on my face. After about 2 and a half hour we were nearing the next destination: Los Pegasus I couldn’t stop thinking of Las Vegas or Los Angeles but mostly Las Vegas, when we arrived my suspicions were confirmed, it was Las Vegas but in smaller scale and with what looked like more guards except these were unicorns who zapped all earth ponies why? I don’t know, so I asked Butterscotch who only looked in the other direction shyly. We were not going to be here long since the train was scheduled to departure after 30 minutes. I began to watch the ponies flooding the train I noticed two in particular an orange and yellow and a dark and light blue Pegasus, I didn’t recognize them at once so I asked blitz who they were where after he disappeared in a flash of the rainbow’s colors. “It must have been them” I said quietly to myself, now smiling. “is blitz always like that? Or is it only when he sees a wonderbolt?” I asked with a grin to the other mane 5 who were still standing behind me chatting. Dusk’s jaw dropped while he looked straight at me “you have got to tell us how you know all of this, because you apparently know something and somepony in this ‘different’ world as you put it” “I will tell you when we get to ponyville, by the way their names are Spitfire and Soarin’ right?” The others now dropped their jaw and dusk’s hit the floor. “I take that as a yes” I answered my own question smugly “hey blitz, wait up” I screamed running after him but he didn’t hear it. Eventually I got closer to the multicolored stallion flying in the air near some people talking. When I got closer I saw who it was, it was Spitfire and Soarin’ they were talking like they were the best friends in the whole universe. I got over blitz and into their field of view, they both flinched at the sight and cowered. “should have seen that coming” I said smiling to blitz while the two cowering pegasi who were looking frightened and confused, I turned back towards the pegasi from blitz they were both still looking scared. “are you scared of me?” I asked them with a lifted brow. “no the wonderbolts are not afraid of anything, right?” blitz answered for them “I think they should answer themselves” I said still playful and happy in my tone. “a-actually a bit” Spitfire answered. “I figured” I said while blitz were looking very questioningly at Soarin’. “Well should we go to the others?” I said waving my hands in a motion that gestured them to follow me. They actually followed me, I thought it was in fear of what I would do if they didn’t, although blitz didn’t follow me out of fear he was my friend. We arrived at the locomotive and the others again, they were all looking confused at the two wonderbolts who trotted behind me followed by blitz as we got within eyesight. The 6 other ponies’ jaws hit the floor, we got over to the 6 and sat down. Now the locomotive was getting crowded we were now 9 ponies and one human in this relatively large cockpit, relatively. The two new ponies now stared at me in wonder untill one were brave enough to ask “what are you?” spitfire asked. I looked at her and answered calmly: “I am a human, a sapient specie from another planet, probably from another galaxy or even another dimension” Both of the wonderbolts looked confused at me as they had seen a ghost. Well I was pretty much a ghost in their eyes. just a talk and some infoafter having told them a part of my story, that being my childhood not really getting to the portal part yet, the train departured from las pegasus and we were now on our way to fillydelphia. this was such an obvious reference i didn’t even have to think about where it would correspond to. i looked at the group and then over at dusty, who was the one who had yelled at the top of his lungs, “NEXT STOP FILLYDELPHIA”. I began to laugh. the ponies looked really confused now, even the two wonderbolts had changed their expression from fear to confusion. now that my laughter was dying down i got the full attention of every pony in the locomotive without even asking for it, i sat back up because i literally ROFL’d, well at least fell from a sitting position to a lying position and i looked back at the confused ponies. “what the hay is so funny about fillydelphia?” Apple jack asked with a lot of his confusion audible in his voice. i began to look at dusk as i figured that he was the wisest when it comes to geography and bookworm stuff and i asked “you know anything about my world other than what i have told you?” he shook his head to confirm my theory. nopony knew about earth, or my entire universe for that matter “well then it turns out my math was wrong” i said looking to dusk with a toothy smile. he actually gulped and asked what i meant by that, “well …” i started “i made myself get here, i made a portal, i didn’t think it had worked until some of my equipment accidentally fell into it since there was no visual abnormality, i then got my arm stuck in the portal and had to go through because i had accidentally made a one-way portal, where i come from there is not one ruler there are multiple, one in each country, and one in each city, see i come from a country called Denmark where we have a queen for a ruler but now that we have an elected representation for the government so the queen doesn’t have any jurisdiction. So the point I’m getting at, is that your cities’ names actually sounds a lot like some of the cities back on earth such as manehattan almost sounds like manhattan, los pegasus sounds like las vegas or los Angeles and then this fillydelphia well it’s the same philadelphia it depends as of how you spell it” They all looked more understanding now that they had been enlightened, and Apple Jack even laughed. Then the whole conversation turned and we went to talk about technology, dusk looked at me suggestively almost implying that the others didn’t know what I meant by technology, I understood what he meant and I pulled out my smartphone I had had in my pocket and began to show them some document writing programs, music, and stuff alike. I didn’t want to show them any pictures just yet, that would have to wait until I was emotionally prepared to go through the pictures of my friends and girlfriend, to hell with the rest of my family except my grandparents on my mother’s side, who I had a lot of respect for and cared for. Sadly my grandfather was diagnosed with cancer in the bones and this winter we had gotten the message that he had leukemia (cancer that spreads), it was now infecting the rest of his body, and the doctors couldn’t do a single thing to prevent that or even slow down the virus. Well we had basically gotten the message that he only had months left, even the thought still brings tears to my eyes. The train had jolted around the time where Apple Jack asked why I laughed, dusk was just sitting there looking like he was in awe over something, I followed his eyes and they went straight to my hands and the device I held in my hands, or more specifically at my hands. He was just observing how will I manipulated the device in my hands to make it do as I want, this was when I realized that all the ponies except dusty who was busy steering the train, was doing the same. It began to feel a little uncomfortable and there was a strange silence setting over us. I locked my phone and put it in my pocket along with my hand, and the other hand slid into its respective pocket as well, I looked uneasily at dusk trying to break his gaze and make him do anything other than stare at where my hands were just two seconds ago. They all shook their heads at once, all in unison making the whole situation that much weirder. They all looked as if they had been under a spell of some sort, and me putting my hands away had broken it. Spitfire blushed, who knew what was going on in her head. The stallions then looked to my face and saw my expression; an uneasy smile with a very nervous undertone. Dusk then spoke up “sorry for staring like that, it’s just … your talons, or whatever you call it just looks so much different than any other creature un Equestria” I wanted to answer the underlying question with sarcasm but I remembered that It wouldn’t do me good because the really didn’t know what they were called. “They are called hands” I answered sounding a bit exited. Frankly, I was, I was excited to learn them about my species and my species’ culture and all that goodness, I mean wouldn’t you be just a little exited if you were teleported to another planet, maybe another dimension and met SEVERAL sapient species, that were interested in you, your culture, and everything about man kind ?
The IntroIt is winter 2012, it has just been my father’s birthday yesterday which means that it’s the 5/11-2012. some has already decorated their homes for Christmas, but nothing too outstanding nothing like the ones in the US. I live in Denmark, more precise in the north west part of Copenhagen I’ve always been the silent type, but the past year I have been even more quiet. The 15th of December I became a brony, i started fantasizing about a better world, a better interaction with the public from everyone and i started being nice to everyone and it eventually came back. I was a 17 year-old virgin, now I have a girlfriend her name is Michelle and lives around one hour from where I live (that means she is from the countryside) I am in the Danish gymnasium the American equivalent to senior year of high-school and college, in 2.g I’m in the z line which means that I study math, physics and chemistry mostly. There is also something very special about me I have ADD and Asperger syndrome both mental handicaps, but luckily not noticeable. I was just trying out my new experiment I setup at home, don’t ask me how I got the idea to make a portal (not handheld) or where I got the ideas to make the schematics, or even the math that is involved in the whole project, I didn’t really care what happened to me if I should mess it up. I thought that the world I was living in, was a dark, unforgiving, dull world so I just wanted to get away, one way or the other. I guess you can say that I was a bit depressed and I wanted to end every misery in my life, I had a good life except that I hated my family although they only wanted to help me. My father, oh my god where to start? well around three years ago he collapsed with a brain haemorrhage, around one month after the incident he came home and we all noticed that his personality had changed, he was more aggressive and easier to “piss off” My mother, now she is the kindest PERSON I have ever known, but the downside of her was her short temper and her obsession that everything has to be perfect. My sister is the biggest mood killer of them all, I don’t really want to go into any details, I can tell you the reaction she had when she found out I was a brony (my parents don’t know for some weird reason), it was “GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYY !!!!!” so I didn’t really care because I heard it so many times before, I just did the best thing I could do as a brony in this situation, I said “thanks but I’m not gay” and hugged her. luckily I don’t live with any of them anymore. Around 3 months ago I moved from home, the biggest relief ever! I have wanted to move out since things started getting weird at home such as me not being allowed to see my girlfriend in the weekends and stuff like that. Therefore I found the Danish institution who specializes in apartments for studying youngsters called sputnik kollektiverne (sputnik multi-occupied flats in English) and they had an apartment that I could rent for not much money. When I moved in I found out that some of the few friends I had actually also lived there, I wanted to get settled in so I threw a party for near friends only so that they could see where I was living and how. I always liked science, sci-fi and stuff alike, and because of that I really liked the idea of teleporting and portals, I decided I wanted to try and experiment with it. After around 1 and a half month in I started to have some equations that seemed to make it possible in real life to make portals to other places, and when I had the materials and some help from my studies and my friends I tried to begin the build. After around 1 and a half month after that my portal was ready and I decided to test it out myself before revealing it to anyone I plugged the oval ring of metal with the stand into the wall and suddenly wind began blowing from nothing, I had no open windows or doors, the only thing I figured was that it had worked, for a reason I figured that if it went wrong and I got trapped I probably had to pack some stuff. I began packing the essentials, three sets of clothes one for warm weather, one for cold, and for some reason I packed my only smoking, I also went out to get a generator and a transformer so that I can get power for my computer and other electrical devices. The generator and the transformer was in a bundle so that they were on a wagon, there was a normal power outlet on the transformer so that you could plug almost anything into it. I also went to get 2 petrol tanks of gasoline to power the generator for a while when I get wherever I got to I got home from shopping for more essentials such as a gun and a knife (after getting a permit for it), it has now been 2 days after plugging in my “portal” and I was getting exited. please leave some response
a different place“Man, I hope this works” I think to myself the oval of metal plugged in to my new laptop. I pushed my transformer wagon through the portal and it disappeared right in front of my eyes. I was stunned as I didn’t expect it to work since there was no visual effect inside the portal I then threw my gasoline and my sleeping bag through I took on my backpack my thin coat on and prepared to go through. I first tried to put my lower arm trough at first, when I saw my arm disappear I got scared but I still felt that my arm was attached to the rest of my arm at the elbow, the place my arm was, was warm and cozy, I tried to retract my arm but I couldn’t, I was locked in the position or I could go through. I had my cell phone on me and I tried to get it out of my pants pocket to write a message to my friends, when they got it they came straight to over to me, when they got inside they looked terrified when they saw me standing with half of my arm missing in the portal that still did look like nothing was happening, they tried to pull me out when they accidently pulled my shoulder out of its socket, they gave up and considered cutting the power, but before they did I told them that it would probably cut off my arm (my right arm and I’m a righty). I decided that I would go through and I told them that I would probably not return but I will try and make contact, due to me not being able to pull my arm out I concluded that it was a one way portal, I didn’t want to go and still I wanted to, thoughts flooded my head as I almost panicked; “what would my friends do?, what will my family think? No my family doesn’t care about me then I don’t care about them!, what will happen to the portal?, would the government try and get its long and nasty fingers on it?” I rang my girlfriend and told her to get her ass moving and come to me, my friends left as my girlfriend arrived with a look of horror on her face as she saw me. I told her to unplug the portal when I was completely through, sadly I also had to tel her that I wouldn’t be coming back, we both cried in each other’s arms I also told her that she couldn’t come with me as I didn’t know what was in there, she told me that she was going to be sad for months, I then told her that she shouldn’t be as I would probably survive but be out of reach for an unknown amount of time, I also said that she should take good care of herself and the portal MUST remain hidden, or at least she should make a huge amount of money off of it as she could sell it to anyone she would like but she must tell the person she sold it to that is only was a one way portal The portal that enveloped my arm was slightly buzzing and I decided the time was neigh I said “remember that the portal only has a 1 in 1000000000000 to open a portal to the same place twice and the chance of it being in the sky is 33.33% the same with being able to spawn underground and on the ground, that divided with the chance of actually being a place where there is air and survivability for humans” I turned my face away to go through the portal, as I went through the portal I felt a surreal tinkling sensation where the portal touched my skin I came through with my eyes closed in fear of what I might find, I noted that the orange glow I saw through my eyelids was fading as I went through the portal, that had me thinking about the fact that I had a chance to be under ground The thought was quickly wiped from my mind when I felt a slight breeze that meant I was on ground since I wasn’t falling as soon as I was through the portal, I slowly opened my eyes to look upon the new world. It was a dark and warm, but beautiful, there seemed to be more color, the moon was different from what I was used to, it was bigger, more yellow and it seemed at it had almost no craters in it. I was in the middle of nowhere I couldn’t see anything for miles, except something that looked like a train track but with golden beams instead of iron, I stared for a while and began to walk. I was around 2 and a half kilometer from where I started when I suddenly heard a familiar sound behind me, the sound of metal against metal in a grinding motion I turned to see an old fashioned train with a single light in the front. The wheels started squealing and the train slowed down, stopping me dead in my tracks I was surprised that the train would stop anywhere else than its station, I then turned to get a good look at the train thinking that it was weird to see a train in pink. Next thing I know there is a grey conductor pony asking me what the hell I am in a southern accent almost matching Applejack’s but in a male version, my thoughts was exactly: “you’re kidding right? I am probably just sleeping” I looked confused at the stallion asking If he had never seen anything like me before to that he answered “of course not you are not from here are you??” To that I could only answer with a question: “and where exactly is ‘here’??” “well exactly right now you’re in the middle of nowhere” he said with a grin “but if you’ll help me shovel coal then I’ll give you a ride to Appeloosa” “You are telling me that I am in equestria??” I asked already knowing it “juuuup where’d you think you were ?” he said kinda like Big Macintosh only putting the empathies on the ‘u’ instead of the ‘e’ “Could you do me a favor after that I promise I will help you?” I asked in disbelief “It depends” he answers sounding a bit nervous “Could you be so very kind as to slap me as hard as you can in my face?” He answered in a surprised and confused voice “uuuuh you’re weird … why would you want me to do that?” “Because I think I’m dreaming!” I said loudly, almost screaming The stallion panicked and slapped me, I felt the excruciating pain spread across my right cheek clearly crushing my cheekbone with his hooves “I didn’t expect hooves to hurt THAT much” I thought to myself, groggy from the slap I took my stuff and boarded the train while asking “is this train by any chance going past Ponyville?” The conductor pauses what he is doing and answers “how come you don’t know you’re in Equestria but you want to go to one of the local cities that almost nopony has ever heard of?”
making friendsI boarded the train and we got going again, it turned out I was the new ‘coal shoveler’, fancy title to get right away, right? “Well … first off what’s your name?” I ask the grey stallion. “my name is Dusty, what is yours?” he answers “I’m Timothy, you didn’t answer my first question, are we going to ponyville?” “we will go through ponyville, but that’s on the way back since we’re just coming from there” he answered confused while he looked at me as if I was stupid “do you even know where to go to?” I looked at him saddened by the comment, it made me realize that I am the only real ‘person’ here. With a little tear in my eye I slowly shook my head in a circle motion, indicating that I somewhat knew. Amazingly enough he understood it as just that, he slowly went towards me kindly helped me off of my behind as I sat on the floor of the locomotive steering house and gave me a manly hug as in an I-feel-your-pain-bro kind of hug, I then went on to explain myself to him as there was almost nothing to do, I only needed to throw some magical-coal into the green flame-engulfed furnace in the cabin. I explained that I was from another world and probably also another dimension, that my specie is possibly light-years away and there is no chance for me to return to my own world, that I have a family and friends back home but I would never be able to see them again. I wanted to go home, but then I remembered how my family is, or rather was because now I have no family. And to be honest it’s great, I can decide myself where, when and why I want to go, I missed my girlfriend though she was a bit demanding sometimes but nevertheless I loved her, and sadly I had lost her, forever. I couldn’t be sad for long as dusty made some really random stuff to make me think of something very different than what I was. We then stopped in Appeloosa, and as I really wanting to stretch my legs because I couldn’t do it on the train since it was just slightly too low, It was only then I noticed that ponies are not that much smaller than people, nor where they bigger, dusty were slightly lower than my shoulder when he had his head up. Dusty gave me a puzzled look as he was trying to solve a mystery of ages when I looked at him with a smile and said “well then you know something about me, why don’t you tell me about you?” He sighed and was about to say something when someone came to the entrance of the locomotive, he seemed familiar but not to the point of recognition, he had a classic train conductor outfit on (you know, the blue and white striped from the old movies and cartoons) and with that he also had the apple shaped hat in the same color scheme and he had a dark grey-ish coat and a blonde and dark blonde mane. He looked shocked and was speechless when he saw me, he quickly entered the cabin of the locomotive, shut the door and pulled down the little curtain that hung above the window of the door, he immediately rushes to dusty whispering something into his ear that makes dusty push the conductor away from him and look to you worried. “What’s wrong?” I asked, probably looking rather sad or hurt. He then sat down next to me and asked with a very serious face: “what do you eat? I hesitated to answer and looked at him with a smile being sure not to show my teeth so he wouldn’t understand it as a threat, then he turned to look at the conductor reassuring for some reason, when I decided to answer the question with a bit of fear in their reaction “a am actually an omnivore” they both look at me in confusion I continued my sentence “or rather, my species are omnivores, I am what we normally call a vegetarian, that means I am a herbivore and that means I eat things you eat, but my species normally eat both meat and plants, I know what your concerns are and I will not harm a living thing on this planet” they both looked much more relaxed as they understood I would not try to do anything harmful to anyone, or “anypony” as the driver had said at some point." We were just sitting on the floor talking about the differences in our worlds when the actual conductor stood up and said “it’s time” when he went out the door, the driver standing up and shovels some coal into the furnace asking me to take over again after a couple of scoops and when I had a good rhythm and had scooped a couple of loads I almost fell over when the train pulled forward, after regaining my balance I continued scooping.
Paranoia of losing a new friendMe and dusty where talking a lot between the stops, it only a necessity when he told me there is around 3 hours between each station. We had been driving for around one hour when I said “hey dusty? Uhm … how long is there before we get to ponyville?” he turns to me and answers “well there is a long time to be honest, we have to get to Fillydelphia and then make a u turn to go back and from here we have to stop in Manehattan too, so there is at the least 16 hours until we stop at ponyville and that is including the stops of 30 minutes at each station, so if you want to get some sleep, which I recommend you do not knowing the time difference between here and earth, you can go and sleep in my bed in the first coupé on the right” “thanks mate, I REALLY appreciate it” I said with a smile “oh, and thanks for being so kindhearted” He smiled and said “no problem, bro. I’ll always help if anypony in need” while holding his hoof out, I assumed he wanted to ‘brohoof’ me and I curled my fingers into a fist and hit his hoof, where after he just looked confused at me slightly grinning in a: what-the-hell-are-you-doing? Kind of fashion. Again smiling I tried to answer his unspoken question as best I could: “it’s like shaking hands where I come from, except it’s only between friends, which I hope we are by now?” I watched him as a smile blossomed up on his face when he leaned in to hug me, I saw him getting a tear in each of his eyes just before his embrace came over me hugging me friendly. Being confused I returned the hug and padded him on the back while hugging him, he gave a muffled sob as he started to loosen the grip around me. When we broke the hug, he looked at me with teary, red eyes smiling oddly enough. I figured from this that the tears he had shed were tears of joy, I smiled back at him about to ask a question when: “I’ve never had a real friend, I hope you aren’t going to abandon me as all my other friends have” he said with a look of sadness in his eyes. I pushed him away from me a bit and gave a sad look towards him, he only felt worse, I then said “you know I can’t stay on the train with you, right? I mean I’d love to be your friend and come and visit sometimes but I can’t if you live anywhere else than ponyville ‘cause that’s where I want to settle down” to my surprise he became happy again and with a huge grin on his face he went to control the train once again, we had arrived at Manehattan and the break here was changed to an hour instead of thirty minutes. I was not pleased to hear that, it meant more time before I came to ponyville. My bag and the other equipment I had brought did not get left behind when I was taken onto the train, it was safely locked away in dusty’s cabin, in the first wagon after the coal wagon. I was wandering around just inside the door of the locomotive alone, while thinking of the time it would take to get to ponyville when someone or rather somepony (I have to get used to saying that) slammed through the door, it was dusty his hat nowhere to be seen as it had been flung to the other side of the locomotive as he had stopped in the entrance. He looked horrified and as if he was in panic, he shoved me into the coal pile on the wagon behind the locomotive and began using his magic to cover me up as he told me to be as still as a rock until he came back to get me, he didn’t tell me why but I did as he said. He knew more about this than I did. Moments passed as I was half lying half sitting inside the green coal pile, I couldn’t breathe really well and had to get my head out soon, but I still heard voices seven different voices to be exact, one of them dusty’s and the others were some I had never heard before, all male. I heard the door close and I popped my head out to my surprise nopony had left ‘shit, here goes my time in Equestria, well it’s been fun so far and it’s better to go out with a smile ’ I thought to myself as all seven ponies were now staring at me. I heard one of the colts almost wisher “oh my” as he backed away the others closing in on me. I decided I wanted to face my doom in full person and I stood to gain my full height again, the five ponies’ jaws dropped as I were around one fifth maybe one fourth taller than each of them the one shy one hiding in the corner cowering beneath his left wing. I spoke clearly as the ponies regained their composure “I do not want to hurt anypony” waving my hands in front of me in a defensive manor. This turned out to be a good way to gain some of their trust also with dusty taking my side, it all seemed to be going well, the purple one spoke as the first one “well how can we be sure of that?” I looked at him and said flatly “Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye.” They all looked at what looked to be the male version of pinkie pie who was jumping looking really happy, when he realized that everypony was staring at him he stopped jumping but still looked happy as he asked “well I guess we CAN trust him”. The male version of twilight looked at me in worry, “where do you know that rhyme from?” he asked with almost deadly seriousness. I blushed and looked nervously at the Fluttershy male who was coming out from his hiding place in the corner and then around the floor and ceiling as I answered “Y-you know … that’s not really important, what is important is what will happen to me?”. The six ponies looked at me as I tried to introduce myself.
Introduction“My name is Timothy Cramer and I am a human from a world far, FAR away from here luckily” I extended my arm to try and shake hand and hoof accordingly with the colt that looked like twilight. He didn’t respond in the way I had hoped for as he turned down my handshake or … hoofshake in his case, then he said “hello timothy, my name is Dusk Shine is there anything shorter that we can call you?” “Could I get to know ALL of your names? And please call me Tim” I said with a grin. Each of them seemed to have the same personality as their female counterparts. All of them agreed to shake hands and tell their names except the yellow pegasus they were, Dusk Shine, Rainbow Blitz, Apple Jack, Elusive and Bubble Berry … I figured I had to take the approach on the only one left, I got down on my knees and walked slowly on my knees towards the yellow pegasus, he let an “Eeep!” as I grabbed him and gave him a friendly hug saying “hey, don’t be shy” he sighed lightly as he hugged me back with hesitation, I let him go and asked “better now?” he nodded slowly and said very quietly “uhm m-my name i-i-is Butterscotch”, “a pleasure to meet you butterscotch” I again held out my hand to get a shake but this time I did, not with a firm grip though. Dusty shook hooves with them as well and we talked for a bit about where I come from and what my species normally do to survive where my world is and how I got from my world to here. I also told them about my friends and my girlfriend where they used marefriend, I didn’t want to disturb them with the story of my family just yet, it would have to wait until I became friends with at least one of them if I even did, they seemed … I wouldn’t say hostile more frightened than anything else. “That’s quite some story y’have there” said Apple Jack with a bit of a frown, I assumed that he thought I lied. “I tell you, that’s what happened!” I said defensively while looking to the others. “well I have not read that it is impossible” Dusk said looking upwards to the right as if we was pulling pages of some books down from his mind. “look at it this way, pay attention to the detail it was told, it takes quite some imagination to come up with a lie of that size and quality, and if he can tell us the exact same thing in a week then we know he didn’t lie” Bubble Berry spat out before anyone else could react then beginning to jump in the same place. “Maybe you are right mate, on the other hand if he is speaking the truth he has nowhere to go” stated Elusive “do you have anywhere you are headed to?” “Well I wanted to go to ponyville and meet the elements, yet I still don’t know as my friend here needs some company” I said while resting my arm on the back of dusty. “You might be able to do both” dusty said while trotting over towards the steering mechanism of the train, confused I then asked him “what do you mean?” while watching him turn some handles and such with his hooves, this confused me since he was a unicorn. Why didn’t he just use his magic? “I live in ponyville” he said “and I might be able to get a replacement for the train so that we can hang together” he smiled towards me and looked with asking eyes towards the male elements of harmony who nodded slowly once in unison. Both dusty and I began to smile at this. When the joy had subsided a bit I asked where the male elements were headed, dusk responded “we actually don’t know yet, we just planned for a spontaneous field trip to Celestia knows where, speaking of ‘where’ where is all of your gear that you said you gathered?”. “Oh that, it’s in the cabin, you want to see some of it?” I asked Dusk when I thought to myself ‘I knew if he was as curious as twilight he would be bursting on the inside of sheer excitement when making a discovery this big’, Dusk came closer looking in the direction of the wagon just past the coal wagon and said “I would love to” with a smile on his face. When I was almost at the coal wagon the train jolted forwards knocking the feet away from under me, I fell face first towards the couple between the coal wagon and the first passenger wagon of many. Luckily Dusk was able to stop my fall just before I got hurt by creating a force field between the two wagons so that I could land safely. I then got back up thanked Dusk and went into the first cabin on the right where all my stuff was. We got inside the cabin and closed the door to get some more space in the room, there were only a small table with a sofa on either side. As we sat down Dusk gave a little sigh as if he had needed to get away or having had the need to sit for quite a while.
Even more friendsWe sat down and looked at my smartphone, which was a HTC one X, he was absolutely fascinated by the little thing just from looking at it and how small it was compared to what I said it could do. There was a lot to explain such as power, touch screens, even computers themselves and probably the hardest of them all …the internet. So when i heard how much I needed to explain even to Dusk I told him that I would wait to explain it until we got to ponyville and met up with twilight and the others. And with that said I stood up turned off my phone and put it back in my bag to save on power since I now had a limited supply, maybe I could get twilight or dusk to study the battery, power adapter and generator to come up with some way to power it for eternity just so that I could charge all of my stuff. I got out of the cabin Dusk following close behind, we got over the mountain of coal and saw that the others were sitting on the floor in the locomotive chatting, inclusive dusty, who was now steering the train with his magic and elusive helping him to shovel coal with his magic of course. They noticed us straight away and asked what he had been doing for the past thirty minutes, I answered “we have been looking at some of my world’s stuff, technology and advanced things alike” with a grin back at the entire group who now looked confused. Apple Jack opened his mouth and said “in equestrian please” looking at Dusk with a raised brow. “he showed me some of the stuff the human race has made to make life easier” dusk answered with a alight bit of excitement in his voice. Blitz yawned while saying “boooooring!” I looked at him smiling, he smiled back. Suddenly Elusive asked “why are you actually even here mate?” now moving my eyes to him I stared him in the eye and said “to be honest, I have no freggin clue” i smiled happily, I really wanted to stay. “I really want to stay so please don’t go running to Celestia or Luna about me” I said while looking begging. “We won’t, we promise” they all said in unison, I thought it was just to make me happy, well it worked I now had the widest grin I have ever had on my face. After about 2 and a half hour we were nearing the next destination: Los Pegasus I couldn’t stop thinking of Las Vegas or Los Angeles but mostly Las Vegas, when we arrived my suspicions were confirmed, it was Las Vegas but in smaller scale and with what looked like more guards except these were unicorns who zapped all earth ponies why? I don’t know, so I asked Butterscotch who only looked in the other direction shyly. We were not going to be here long since the train was scheduled to departure after 30 minutes. I began to watch the ponies flooding the train I noticed two in particular an orange and yellow and a dark and light blue Pegasus, I didn’t recognize them at once so I asked blitz who they were where after he disappeared in a flash of the rainbow’s colors. “It must have been them” I said quietly to myself, now smiling. “is blitz always like that? Or is it only when he sees a wonderbolt?” I asked with a grin to the other mane 5 who were still standing behind me chatting. Dusk’s jaw dropped while he looked straight at me “you have got to tell us how you know all of this, because you apparently know something and somepony in this ‘different’ world as you put it” “I will tell you when we get to ponyville, by the way their names are Spitfire and Soarin’ right?” The others now dropped their jaw and dusk’s hit the floor. “I take that as a yes” I answered my own question smugly “hey blitz, wait up” I screamed running after him but he didn’t hear it. Eventually I got closer to the multicolored stallion flying in the air near some people talking. When I got closer I saw who it was, it was Spitfire and Soarin’ they were talking like they were the best friends in the whole universe. I got over blitz and into their field of view, they both flinched at the sight and cowered. “should have seen that coming” I said smiling to blitz while the two cowering pegasi who were looking frightened and confused, I turned back towards the pegasi from blitz they were both still looking scared. “are you scared of me?” I asked them with a lifted brow. “no the wonderbolts are not afraid of anything, right?” blitz answered for them “I think they should answer themselves” I said still playful and happy in my tone. “a-actually a bit” Spitfire answered. “I figured” I said while blitz were looking very questioningly at Soarin’. “Well should we go to the others?” I said waving my hands in a motion that gestured them to follow me. They actually followed me, I thought it was in fear of what I would do if they didn’t, although blitz didn’t follow me out of fear he was my friend. We arrived at the locomotive and the others again, they were all looking confused at the two wonderbolts who trotted behind me followed by blitz as we got within eyesight. The 6 other ponies’ jaws hit the floor, we got over to the 6 and sat down. Now the locomotive was getting crowded we were now 9 ponies and one human in this relatively large cockpit, relatively. The two new ponies now stared at me in wonder untill one were brave enough to ask “what are you?” spitfire asked. I looked at her and answered calmly: “I am a human, a sapient specie from another planet, probably from another galaxy or even another dimension” Both of the wonderbolts looked confused at me as they had seen a ghost. Well I was pretty much a ghost in their eyes.
just a talk and some infoafter having told them a part of my story, that being my childhood not really getting to the portal part yet, the train departured from las pegasus and we were now on our way to fillydelphia. this was such an obvious reference i didn’t even have to think about where it would correspond to. i looked at the group and then over at dusty, who was the one who had yelled at the top of his lungs, “NEXT STOP FILLYDELPHIA”. I began to laugh. the ponies looked really confused now, even the two wonderbolts had changed their expression from fear to confusion. now that my laughter was dying down i got the full attention of every pony in the locomotive without even asking for it, i sat back up because i literally ROFL’d, well at least fell from a sitting position to a lying position and i looked back at the confused ponies. “what the hay is so funny about fillydelphia?” Apple jack asked with a lot of his confusion audible in his voice. i began to look at dusk as i figured that he was the wisest when it comes to geography and bookworm stuff and i asked “you know anything about my world other than what i have told you?” he shook his head to confirm my theory. nopony knew about earth, or my entire universe for that matter “well then it turns out my math was wrong” i said looking to dusk with a toothy smile. he actually gulped and asked what i meant by that, “well …” i started “i made myself get here, i made a portal, i didn’t think it had worked until some of my equipment accidentally fell into it since there was no visual abnormality, i then got my arm stuck in the portal and had to go through because i had accidentally made a one-way portal, where i come from there is not one ruler there are multiple, one in each country, and one in each city, see i come from a country called Denmark where we have a queen for a ruler but now that we have an elected representation for the government so the queen doesn’t have any jurisdiction. So the point I’m getting at, is that your cities’ names actually sounds a lot like some of the cities back on earth such as manehattan almost sounds like manhattan, los pegasus sounds like las vegas or los Angeles and then this fillydelphia well it’s the same philadelphia it depends as of how you spell it” They all looked more understanding now that they had been enlightened, and Apple Jack even laughed. Then the whole conversation turned and we went to talk about technology, dusk looked at me suggestively almost implying that the others didn’t know what I meant by technology, I understood what he meant and I pulled out my smartphone I had had in my pocket and began to show them some document writing programs, music, and stuff alike. I didn’t want to show them any pictures just yet, that would have to wait until I was emotionally prepared to go through the pictures of my friends and girlfriend, to hell with the rest of my family except my grandparents on my mother’s side, who I had a lot of respect for and cared for. Sadly my grandfather was diagnosed with cancer in the bones and this winter we had gotten the message that he had leukemia (cancer that spreads), it was now infecting the rest of his body, and the doctors couldn’t do a single thing to prevent that or even slow down the virus. Well we had basically gotten the message that he only had months left, even the thought still brings tears to my eyes. The train had jolted around the time where Apple Jack asked why I laughed, dusk was just sitting there looking like he was in awe over something, I followed his eyes and they went straight to my hands and the device I held in my hands, or more specifically at my hands. He was just observing how will I manipulated the device in my hands to make it do as I want, this was when I realized that all the ponies except dusty who was busy steering the train, was doing the same. It began to feel a little uncomfortable and there was a strange silence setting over us. I locked my phone and put it in my pocket along with my hand, and the other hand slid into its respective pocket as well, I looked uneasily at dusk trying to break his gaze and make him do anything other than stare at where my hands were just two seconds ago. They all shook their heads at once, all in unison making the whole situation that much weirder. They all looked as if they had been under a spell of some sort, and me putting my hands away had broken it. Spitfire blushed, who knew what was going on in her head. The stallions then looked to my face and saw my expression; an uneasy smile with a very nervous undertone. Dusk then spoke up “sorry for staring like that, it’s just … your talons, or whatever you call it just looks so much different than any other creature un Equestria” I wanted to answer the underlying question with sarcasm but I remembered that It wouldn’t do me good because the really didn’t know what they were called. “They are called hands” I answered sounding a bit exited. Frankly, I was, I was excited to learn them about my species and my species’ culture and all that goodness, I mean wouldn’t you be just a little exited if you were teleported to another planet, maybe another dimension and met SEVERAL sapient species, that were interested in you, your culture, and everything about man kind ?
