Here's the first chapter (the chapter after my prologue). And just to give you the heads up, I only own my OC Pam. Everything else belongs to their proper owners: Hasbro; Konami; Disney; Nickelodeon; Kenneth Oppel/Bardel Entertainment; and Lego. I also don't own the song that was in the prologue; it belongs to Christina Aguilera and the Disney movie Mulan. Other than that, enjoy.
"…e gon…e oka…"
"…o worr…"
"…iss, a…ou alri…" Pam groaned as she felt a hand rub her forehead. At least it…felt like a hand; the palm is all…scaly?
"I…I think I'm okay," she answered, rubbing her still closed eyes. "And…not to change the subject, but…where did you get those weird gloves?"
"Gloves?" asked a low male voice with some Spanish accent.
"She must be talking about my hands," explained a second male voice, this one with a British accent. Pams' confused now. What are they talking about? And why are their voices so familiar?
"Wait," she said when she realized something. "Has anyone seen my glasses? I can't see well without them."
"Oh, here ya go," said the voice of a young boy as she felt her glasses against her hand.
"Oh, thanks," she replied, taking them and putting them on. When she did, she opened her eyes…to find a white snake's head with fuchsia eyes looking down at her.
"AAAAUUUGGH!"
"AAAAUUUGGH!" Pam and the snake screamed for about a few seconds before another voice spoke up.
"Excuse me, but do you mind turning the volume down? Some of us still have headaches to get rid of here!"
"Now, Skrawl, that's no way to talk to a lady," said a second British voice, this one more robotic.
Surprised, Pam calmed down and looked around. She found that she's no longer in the field but in the throne room of Princess Twilight Sparkle's castle from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. She also saw that she's surrounded by a group of cartoon characters she knows so well. There's the Mane Six: the super-smart Alicorn Princess of Friendship Twilight Sparkle; the hard-working cowgirl Applejack; the bashful animal-lover Fluttershy; the hyperactive party planner Pinkie Pie; the fashionable fashionista Rarity; and the tomboy daredevil Rainbow Dash. The baby dragon Spike's with them too; he was the one who handed Pam her glasses.
Pam also saw that Spike's not the only male in the room. The white snake turned out to be Pythor P. Chumsworth, the Anacondrai from Ninjago. There are also: Jaden Yuki and Chazz Princeton from Yu-Gi-Oh! GX; NOS-4-A2 from Buzz Lightyear of Star Command; Skrawl from Chalkzone; and Goth from Silverwing.
Pam then rubbed her head.
"This is one insane dream. I'm surrounded by cartoons." Everyone looked at each other in confusion before Goth spoke up.
"I'm not sure what you meant by that last part, senorita, but I assure you this is no dream."
"Only one way to be sure," she replied before reaching down to her arm and pinching it. "Ow!"
"Oh, goodness," Fluttershy said with shock. "Are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, sweetie," Pam answered her assuringly. "It's just a little pinch to tell me I'm awake." She blinked with surprise when it dawned on her. "Oh, no!"
"What's wrong?" asked Pinkie.
"I'm not dreaming! Oh, please tell me I'm not dead. Please tell me I'm not dead!"
"I'm sure you're not dead, my dear," NOS-4-A2 assured her as he helped her up. "If you are, you wouldn't have felt that pinch."
Pam sighed with relief when she realized that he's right. But then she noticed a couple of changes. NOS-4-A2's cape is missing, revealing his sharp shoulders. Skrawl has a robot-like arm attached to his left side, made of silver and with three claws for fingers. Goth is now the size of a human adult, he's fully healed and well-groomed like he was never electrocuted as shown in the Silverwing episode Friends in Deed, and the band on his left wrist is shinier and looks a bit more golden than bronze.
"Hey," Skrawl then said, "anyone besides me noticed that she's got a wristband on her wrist too?" Confused, Pam looked down at her left wrist…and found the wristband from the basket/pod on it!
"What the—" She held it up to get a better look at it. "How did I get this on me?!"
"I don't know," Chazz answered, "but we got those too." The six males then held up their left wrists to show her their wristbands. Jaden's is crimson red while Chazz's is ocean blue. Skrawl's is forest green while NOS-4-A2's is sunset orange. And Goth's is golden yellow while Pythor's is midnight violet. Pam also saw that Goth's wristband and his metal band are one and the same, and Skrawl's wristband is on the wrist of his robot arm.
"Okay, this is getting weird," Pam replied.
"You think this is weird?" Jaden replied. "I wanna know why you called us cartoons." Pam mentally hit herself at this realization; they're gonna freak out when she tells them the truth.
"Yes, I am rather curious about that myself," Pythor stated, crossing his arms across his chest with a suspicious look in his eyes. Pam didn't like that look one bit; it's practically goading her to not to lie to them. Of course, Pam would never dream of lying to them. She hates lying, except when she must to keep a surprise secret as per request. Besides, Applejack would see right through her lies considering she represents the Element of Honest.
"Alright, I'll fess up," she hesitated. "Just…don't freak out when I tell you." She then took a deep breath, introduced herself, and explained how she knew them from her world. When she finished, she braced herself for the bad outburst from telling them the truth. What she got instead was a barrage of excited (in a good way) questions.
"Do I have any huge fans besides you?!"
"Was my hair okay?"
"How awesome am I?!" The questions stopped at the sudden noise of a loud whistle, and everyone turned to see that it was Twilight who blew a silver whistle before scolding them.
"Will everypony just calm down? Poor Pamela here has been through a lot, and your bombarding her with questions is only making it worse for her." They all calmed down shamefully when they realized that she's right.
"My bad."
"Sorry about that."
"My sincerest apologies." Pam blinked with surprise when Pythor took her hand gently and brought it up to his pearl white lips.
"My apologies to you most of all, Miss Pamela," he said to her with gentle eyes. "I should not have forced you to tell us the truth because of suspicions." He then pressed his lips onto her hand and kissed it gently, making her blush tickled pink.
"Whoa," Jaden said with wide eyes.
"Didn't see that coming," Goth concurred. NOS-4-A2 and Skrawl shook their heads in agreement.
"Living proof that chivalry isn't dead," Rarity giggled with delight. Pam then snapped out of her daze and looked up at Pythor.
"Oh, I…It's alright, Pythor. I don't like to lie to be honest. And even if I did lie, Applejack would see right through it since she represents the Element of Honesty."
"Point taken," Applejack and Chazz replied in unison.
"So someone mind telling me what in the name of Pablo Picasso is going on here?" Pam then asked, turning to the Ponies. "How did we end up here?"
"Uh, that would probably be my fault," Twilight answered sheepishly/awkwardly before getting it all together. "See, during the last couple of weeks—in our world, I mean—there have been some sightings of these strange creatures outside of Ponyville."
"Some of them looked small and cute," Fluttershy stated.
"Some looked mighty dangerous," Applejack added.
"Some looked totally awesome!" Rainbow continued in a cool manner.
"Some looked beautiful and divine," Rarity commented with a dreamy look on her face.
"And some looked just plain silly," Pinkie finished with a giggle.
"Uh, not to be a smart aleck or anything," Pam replied, "but are you sure they're not Changelings in disguises?"
"That's what I thought too," Twilight answered. "But then I used a spell Discord gave me to sense the aura of a Changeling, and it tells me that they are not Changelings. Now you're probably thinking the spell he gave me was a dud since he loves to play jokes. But I assure you it's the real deal; I've even tested it and followed the steps perfectly. Besides, Discord hates Changelings with a passion."
"Yeah, says they give love a bad name," Rainbow added.
"Why's that?" asked Jaden.
"They feed on the love of others and threaten to take over all of Equestria while they're at it," Pam explained. "Anyway, what do these creatures have to do with us?"
"Well, I looked into this book in my library and found this spell that's suppose to 'call forth the answer to our problem'," Twilight explained. "And when I performed it, it brought the seven of you here." Now Pam's more confused.
"Are you sure about that?" she asked before holding up her wrist with the wristband on it. "I thought it was this thing here. When I found it, it gave off a flash of light when I touched it."
"Yeah, same thing happened to me and Chazz," Jaden replied with a bit of thought.
"The Chazz told you to stay away from them," the other boy scolded him.
"The same thing happened to me when I found mine during Dr. Misako's expedition," Pythor stated.
"I too experienced it when I found this 'wristband' just outside mi selva," Goth added looking down at his wristband with an arched eyebrow.
"I found mine just at the outskirts of a city in Nightzone," Skrawl explained with a shrug. "Same thing happened to me."
"As to me," NOS-4-A2 finished, "only I found mine in a dark alley in Tradeworld." Twilight then thought about this.
"Well, it's just a theory of mine, but it's possible that those wristbands were part of the spell…you know, a key. But like I said, it's just a theory of mine. It was the first time I ever used the spell." That's when Pam thought of something.
"Wait, you said the spell was meant to 'call forth the answer to your problem,' right? What kind of problem was it talking about?" Before Twilight could answer, the throne room doors suddenly burst open, and they all turned to see Starlight Glimmer (Twilight's student on the Magic of Friendship) run into the room, a look of fear written into her eyes.
"Twilight! Girls!" she cried. "We got trouble! Ponyville's getting attacked by—"
"LOOK OUT!" NOS-4-A2 cried, tackling her to the side. When he did, a blur of violet whizzed right past them. It then stopped in the middle of the room to reveal itself as…
"A Rogue Doll?!" Pam agrees with Jaden that it is a Rogue Doll; she recognized those violet locks and golden doll parts anywhere. But what's a Yu-Gi-Oh monster doing here? And why is it attacking Starlight? Sure, she was shown as a villain at first by stealing a whole town's Cutie Marks and trying to change the history of the Mane Six and nearly destroyed all of Equestria while she was at it, but that was because her childhood friend Sunburst left her for Magic School after he got his Cutie Mark.
It got worse when the Rogue Doll turned to NOS-4-A2 and Starlight, holding its spear at them to strike them.
"Guys, look out!" Pam cried, rushing up to them. As she did, something awoke inside of her, a need to unlock an unknown power inside of her to fight the monster and help the two in trouble. And out of instinct, she followed her need and unlocked the power.
"Duel Power…UNLOCK!" Her wristband then started to glow into a silhouette made of rainbow colors changing like an aurora borealis. Then it started to grow bigger before it stopped glowing, revealing a normal-sized Yu-Gi-Oh GX Dueldisk (Card Zones and all) that looks as though it's made of rainbow-colored opal. Pam doesn't appear to have noticed as she stepped in between the Rogue Doll and its victims while loading a deck of cards she has in her belt's packet into the Dueldisk (she'll never know when she might be challenged to a Duel game while she was running away). The Rogue Doll stopped with surprise as the human drew out six cards for her hand, but she didn't noticed the sudden fear on its emotionless face as she looked down at her hand and took the card she wanted.
"Chiron the Mage, Attack Mode! GO!" And on "GO!", she slapped the card onto the middle Monster Zone. Then the LP counter/crystal orb glowed before a light shot out and took shape. When the light vanished, standing before them was the armored centaur with the red-orb staff.
"Chiron," Pam called out to him, "take down that Rogue Doll!" The centaur then aimed his staff at his opponent, the red orb glowing gold before firing a golden beam of light at the Rogue Doll, striking it and sending it flying across the room before crashing into a wall.
"Oooh…" Everyone's surprise immediately changed into cringes/winces of pain.
"That's gonna leave a mark in the morning," Skrawl groaned to Rainbow, who nodded with an agreeing nod. They all then watched as the beaten monster suddenly glowed before popping with a puff of smoke. When the smoke cleared, it was gone, and in its place is its Yu-Gi-Oh! card, which floated to the floor like a gentle feather.
"A card?" Spike asked, going up to it in shock and picking it up. "It turned into a…card?"
Probably what happens when you beat it with a stronger monster," Jaden answered. "I mean, Rogue Doll has 1600 Attack Points while Chiron has 1800, so the odds were in Pam's favor." The others turned to him with confusion.
"How did you know all that?" asked NOS-4-A2.
"Never mind that!" Skrawl cried, holding his arm out at Pam and Chiron. "How the hey was Pam able to bring up a monster like that?!" Hearing this, Pam snapped out of it and turned to Chiron, who only gave her a warm smile and a noble nod.
"Whoa!" she exclaimed, running her gingers across his horse back. "How did I do that?"
"You mean you weren't aware?" Starlight asked as Applejack and Fluttershy helped her and NOS-4-A2 up.
"No," the human answered, turning to her with a shake of her head. "When I saw you and Nos in trouble, I reacted on impulse like I knew how my wristband works although I just got it."
"Must be the band itself that made you learn how they work," Twilight explained. "You know, through telepathy or something."
"Yeah, but I'm with Nos on what he asked," Rainbow replied, turning to Pam, Chazz, and Jaden. "How did you know about these creatures and cards and stuff?"
"And what, pray tell, is with that 'Nos' nonsense?" asked the annoyed Energy Vampire.
"Well to answer your question quick, Nos," Pam answered, "I personally thought the second part of your name was more like your last name. So I just called you Nos for short because of that."
"I…guess that's understandable," the one now nicknamed Nos replied.
"And secondly," Pam continued, "Chazz, Jaden, and I know about these monsters because they're monsters in a card game in our world."
"Ooh, like Go Fish?" Pinkie Pie asked delightfully.
"Uh, kinda but more…strategic. Way more strategic."
"What can be more strategic than Go Fish?"
"Do you even know the meaning of the word?" asked the offended Jaden. Goth elbowed him in the side with a scolding glare. "Oh! What?"
"Anyway," Pam continued, "in my world, it's also a video game and an anime/manga."
"What are an anime 'n' a manga?" asked Applejack.
"Well, they're—" Pam stopped when she realized something. "Oh, my gosh!" She turned to Starlight sharply. "Star, did you say Ponyville's under attack?!" The Unicorn's eyes shot open with shock.
"Oh, no…I did!" She then turned to the Mane Six. "Those creatures we've been seeing lately are attacking Ponyville!"
"WHAAAT?!" everyone cried in unison. Rarity immediately began to faint.
"Ooohhh…" she moaned, her front hoof against her forehead dramatically.
"Whoa, there," Skrawl cried as he and Spike caught her quickly so she won't hit the floor.
"We gotta check this out!" Pam cried, running out of the throne room.
"Pam, wait!" Twilight cried, running after her. The others immediately followed.
"I don't know if your new girlfriend is a temeraria or just plain loca," Goth said to Pythor as he flew beside him.
"Girlfriend?!" Pythor cried, a blush starting to form on his pure white face. "We just met!"
"Then what's with that kiss on the hand back there?" Skrawl teased.
"Trust me when I say that whoever said chivalry's dead obviously couldn't get himself a date for the prom."
"Point taken," Skrawl and Nos replied in unison.