They moved on to the next step: where would the portal be located. In the end, they all agreed it would be wise to build it inside Twilight's castle. And so they began to build. The portal was to stand at about seven feet tall, three feet wide, and four feet long with one foot distance from the actual entrance to the portal. The base of the frame of the portal was enchanted by the Elements of Harmony. Afterwards, they began with cutting. Applejack, Hunter, and, surprisingly to Hunter, Pinkie Pie being the muscle of the operation, began by placing planks in their location. Pinkie Pie inhaled before anyone could stop her. "Ohhhhhhhhh! We're working hard, each one a job, a portal just for you!" Hunter smiled as he saw they all fell into a rhythm of cutting the planks and throwing them into a neat pile. "We work and sing, so much fun it brings, and soon we'll be done!" They began to bring up the planks into their positions and began to magically fuse the planks into a structure. "So much fun, but then we'll be done," Pinkie Pie's song began to dim and sadden, "And then it'll be done, and you'll be gone, and we'll never see you again. How to say goodbye to someone we just met, it makes me sad and I think my eyes are getting wet," the work began to slow, matching the saddened rhythm of the song. "And then, we'll be done."
Hunter was shocked at the drastic turn Pinkie Pie's song took. They all stood staring at Pinkie Pie, and, true to her song, her eyes were glistening. The portal stood, finished. It looked at Hunter expectantly. He took out his canteen and slowly walked up to the portal. He placed it in the center, and the canteen began to glow blue and became suspended at the center of the portal. He looked back at the girls, and he was shocked once more. They stood around Pinkie Pie, trying to comfort her in vain.
Pinkie began to cry out, "I've never had to say goodbye to a friend I just met. Why am I so sad?" Pinkie Pie could not understand her sadness and neither could her friends. They heard hoof steps, and were slightly startled at the sudden appearance of Hunter. He stood tall, sad eyes looking down towards Pinkie Pie. He lowered himself down to his right front knee. Pinkie Pie stopped rubbing her eyes and looked at Hunter. Hunter gave her a soft smile.
"I guess I could stay a while. I don't think there's too much hurry to go back to my world." Pinkie Pie's eyes lit up, and she jumped onto Hunter, both falling back onto the floor, wrapped in a hug. Hunter could only laugh as the girls began to smile at the sight of a happy Pinkie Pie.
"You promise to stay for a while?" Pinkie Pie began to ask, "No, you Pinkie Promise?"
"I Pinkie Promise."
They all shared a hug in happiness. Twilight was ecstatic. She was beginning to feel giddy until she felt something wet on her cheek. A tear of happiness.
The tear began to glow and quickly joined the portal. Twilight's eyes grew larger than plates. The portal turned red, and it began to swirl. Hunter turned around with a smile that immediately fell at the sight of a red portal. He began to feel a pull towards the portal. He grew panicked, and he began to scrape the floor in an attempt to keep himself from moving. He grabbed a hold if a loose tile before it began to rip up, pulling him quickly towards the portal. A pink hoof grabbed a hold of his and slowed him. He looked up and saw the girls grabbing each other in an attempt to hold Hunter. He smiled.
Until a red tendril came out from the portal and took a hold of both of his back hooves. He could see the world slow. He stared at the six ponies that he just met, surprise and shock in their eyes, looked at the pink one he had just made a promise to, and looked at the red tendrils that were pulling him. He then looked at the horn that stood upon his head. He was a unicorn. The fact had not settled, until now. He drew from his horn, and he shot a beam of his magic, unknowingly fused with a certain other type of magic he was gifted earlier in his adventure, and hit the portal and tendrils. The tendrils grew limp, and the portal frame cracked in half, killing the portal. He fell to the ground, exhausted from the magic he expended.
He slowly began to stand. He was helped by his new friends when he struggled to walk. "Twilight, let me see that book." He requested.
"Oh, here," Twilight appeared the book in front of Hunter.
Hunter stared at the book. Back home, the doctors told him he was hopeless. His girlfriend hardly tried to make him feel. But here, in this new world, filled with small, adorable ponies, he could start to feel emotion. And he was not giving that up. Especially to make sure he kept his promise. He took a hold of the book and ripped it in half. The girls stood watching, mouths agape. He tore into the book, his only way back, until only a pile of pieces of paper remained. That, he used a bit of fire to light. And with that, he sealed his fate. Equestria was his new home.