Chapter 1: Entry

Late one night after falling to sleep at the controller I was awoken by forest noises. I lifted my head up groggily, on my screen showed the classic "player kicked" message however something was off. Where my mirror in the corner of the room was a mirror shaped hole into a dense forest. This was odd for living in the suburbs around Los Angelos. I marked it off as a dream and began to walk over to it. I climbed up and through it, right before I went through I though "this is a realistic feeling dre- wait." I had woken up enough to realize how truly odd this was, but not before falling through. The portal was a few feet above the forest floor and I landed with the cracking of leaves and branches. "okay, what the hell." I said, out of pain more than any purpose. I looked around and the portal I came from was nowhere to be found. I was fully dressed since I came home this afternoon so atleast I didn't have to worry about stepping on branches. I decided to figure out where I was. First, is this earth? I looked up and saw the brilliance of the night sky without light pollution. I had seen this before while camping but this was different, these weren't earth's stars, and that wasn't earth's moon. None of the constellations where there and there was barely any craters on the moon. I decided that this was obviously a completely different universe than mine. I started walking and found a small dirt path. It seemed to stretch on for miles both ways. I took a deep breath and headed left. I thought through the potential universes, it wasn't any star wars planet that I knew of. This could be pokemon, I laughed to myself at the thought of me fighting ash or something. I looked for any wildlife, I saw some deer off in the distance, and I saw a rabbit scurry through the brush. Okay, this was obviously something with earth animals. I hiked on through for what must have been hours while brainstorming where I could be. I looked up and the moon hadn't moved an inch since I got here. I stared and tried to figure why. A thought, just a suggestion entered my mind, this might be friendship is magic. No it could be anything, maybe the moon never moves, then why are there regular pine trees instead of some weird alien night trees . Well, maybe it was- no wait. Suddenly it clicked, episodes one and two, nightmare moon makes it stuck at night for awhile, so when the mane 6 finish up that deal night should continue. I immediately thought of the possibilities, reading books with twilight sparkle, chillin out at one of pinkie's parties, or maybe applebucking. I laughed at that. Me? Bucking apples? I couldn't knock apples off of a tree, not without some weird physics. Then that popped into mind, physics. This isn't my world and it doesn't necessarily run off of the rules Im used to. For one it seems that the solar system revolves around here due to the princesses. I heard some commotion in the distance and saw the moon begin to move slowly. Good, they defeated nightmare moon and now day will come. And then another thought hit me. Shit, I had to go up to ponies that I know all about, and act as if they were brand new to me. Maybe I could pull a river song and just say spoilers to their future. Or come out clean with everything about them that humanity knows. I began to come up onto a paved road, it was cobblestone and led into four directions. There was a sign with unreadable text. I decided that somebody must've put graffitti on them. I went left and walked on for about 30 minutes before seeing a town. It looked exactly like ponyville does in My Little Pony and as I looked off at it I realized that I was thirsty and tired. I would deal with the chaos my presence might bring tomorrow but right now I needed to sleep. I went off the road a bit and crawled under a fallen tree. It would provide concealment while I slept and I drifted off, safely hidden under the leaves.

I woke up next morning, fully expecting to be home and sleep until mom woke me up. I suddenly realized that I was still in a forest, and that I was still under the tree. I woke up fully and crawled out from under the tree. I walked out onto the road and looked onto the town once more. It was still there and I was still here, that must mean that Im here for good. Here… forever… it hit me like a bag of bricks, Forever? No wait, no. I had always enjoyed reading fanfics like this but this was different. Those characters always had boring or bad lives, I had friends, family, dreams. I felt too sad to continue, I couldn't go to ponyville like this. I need to sort this out the only way I can. I crawled under the tree once more and laid there. worried for my family being worried about me, I thought of the possibilities, tried to reason out that this is the best thing in my life. But I couldn't, and because of that I cried. I tried to stay quiet and hidden, you can never redo first impressions and by god my first impressions was going to be calm and intelligent. There wasn't any intelligence in this it was just emotion. I didn't need logic, I wasn't spock, I needed help, someone gentle, someone understanding. As if on que I heard a soft voice, "hello?" I regained my thoughts long enough to recognize it as fluttershy, I couldn't think of anything better for me right now than for fluttershy to appear. I replied meekly, "hello"

I could hear her land gently, I heard some leaves rustle as she moved closer to my tree.

Fluttershy spoke softly "oh dear, are you okay?"

"yeah, just a *sniff* a little home sick."

"where's your home?"

"well…" I laughed weakly, "its in another universe."

I enjoyed speaking ironically at times and humor was my best way to cheer myself up. There was a very confused silence so I continued to talk.

"now, you probably haven't, or ever will, see anything like me."

I saw her hooves from under the branches.

"why? Is there something wrong with you?

"uh, no, its because well…" I thought over my next words, what could I say? I decided that there wasn't much to say so I poked my head up through the top of the tree. My head pushed through the last of the leaves and I was greeted with the fresh air. She looked at me, visibly surprised.

"when I say Im from another universe I mean it literally."

We stared at each other for a few seconds before she spoke up.

"oh, well... I don't know if I can help with that."

This whole chatting thing was pretty calming and I could feel my strength returning. I wiped the dried tears off of my face and raised my hand from the tree and put it out with the intention of a handshake. She looked at my hand before slowly raising her hoof. Finally I gave her a handshake, or hoofshake from which perspective you're at, and cheerily said.

"Hi! Im Tommy and you are?"

"Fluttershy" she responded quietly

"Fluttershy cool," I put down my hand and began to walk out of the tree, "how did you find me anyways" in my head I couldn't help but to think "don't let it be the crying, please not because of the crying, I swear if it was that Im going to catch on fire."

"well," she began

Oh no it was the crying wasn't it,

"one of the rabbits said he saw a strange creature and I was on my way to see what it was and,"

Oh my god, thank goodness it wasn't the crying. Sadly for me, she continued,

"and well, I heard this commotion so."

So close.

I stepped out of the tree and onto the road and looked around, at the town, and finally asked fluttershy the answer I already knew.

"what town is this?"

"ponyville."

Ponyville, wow, I couldn't help it anymore, I couldn't go through and meet everyone and just act as if I didn't know a thing about them. I had to say it, so I said it in the most believable way I could.

"wait a second,ponyville?"

"um, yes ponyville."

"THE ponyville?"

"yes why? Have you heard of it?"

"of course I have, where Im from ponyville is in a book."

"well…"

"and you know what else? That book is about talking ponies, yeah."

"really?"

"now this makes sense, Ive been brought to that world, huh."

"well, thats odd." Fluttershy's voice was getting more and more timid.

"it is. are you by any chance, friends with a pony named twilight sparkle?"

"yes I- I am."

"well that settles it, I have to go meet your friends."

I set off, I heard something faint from behind me, but I kept walking towards the town. As I walked I couldn't help but to feel worried, sure I saw most of the show, but me being here has changed the timeline, now that I am affecting this world, Most of the show isn't accurate, and In the long run. I really only could predict major events up until next nightmare night, after that who knows what will happen.

Authors notes:

This chapter is really longer than I wanted it to be, I should've ended it when I went to sleep but it kept feeling too short. This story will go on until I don't want to type it anymore, at that point I will announce it in the author's notes and have a nice little finale. I do have some concerns about my writing. 1. Im afraid that I will get the characters all wrong and if that happens I will probably say "screw it" and move to a new town and throw in some OCs. 2. I really am afraid of my character getting caught up in what seems to be called "shipping" on this site. This is less of a story as it is what I honestly think would happen If I got stuck in this universe. That's why I have a mental breakdown, and that's why I wrote in all the possible universes for me to be in. a quote I enjoy is "life is 10% what you do and 90% how you react." And so really I will just throw in a story arc so that its interesting to write and to read. This is really more of an experiment in my writing than a full story. If you review then I will probably listen to any complaints or ideas you have. Thanks for reading this chapter and this rant

Authors update:

fixed all of the obvious grammar mistakes. In retrospect this chapter isn't even that long, I'm starting to get chapters stretching into 3,000 words. Fixed a plot hole that I didn't notice the first time through.