it's the year 2156 mankind has flourished and overcome all known illnesses such as cancer and aids and many other problems such as global warming and overpopulation. so far the world has known peace since the great war of 2116. and mankind has also made great strides in the field of science.

recently scientists have discovered and alternate dimension that houses the imagination of mankind. this dimension is broken up in sub-dimensions. the sub dimensions are small groups of imaginative characters or creatures that share similar qualities. we have noticed that not only imaginative beings but also worlds that we've been monitoring but it also seems the world from cartoons, movies, books, and other means of entertainment have found their way into the world of imagination.

we recently discovered a wormhole that can take us to any place in our imagination. we call it the dream arch. NASA has been working on it to link to the wormhole for quite some time. they finally finished and the test run is tomorrow.

My name is alex wesson. im a security escort for the scientists heading through the arch. so i should start getting ready for the big day tomorrow. i got to bed early so i could wake up and get ready. i dreamt of being in my dreams when we go through the ark. but then again if i dream about going into my dreams what would that look like.

i woke up to the sound of my alarm clock. i proceeded with my regular morning routine. i got up, showered, made breakfast then i hit the road. i got in my car and played some classical music like the beatles and some AC DC. i soon came up on the lab where the ark was housed.

you may think why im driving a car and not some kind of hover craft. well they tried that. i was at one of the test labs for the new hover cars. mistakes were made and accidents happened. in the end the idea was abandoned and nobody spoke of it again.

i soon arrived to my station at area 51. parked my car, got out, and headed into the facility. ever since the war of 2116 area 51 became less more of an open facility. it was part of a treaty signed with britain that our governments are to be more open and less discreet. but we still have our little secrets and i'm sure they do too.

i went in checked out and was given my standard equipment. A GX 84 plasma rifle, and a standard p50 concussion pistol. the thought of a security escort was a bit of a shaky subject but some tests have showed that our imagination might not be the safest place in the world or in this case the multiverse.

so after various procedures and protocols there i was one of three escorts in a team of ten men and women. and there we were right in front of the arch. i was designated to go in first and call the all clear. i heard the science guys mumbling about coordinates and blurting out some miscellaneous numbers.

well it was finally on the arch began to glow and spin and flash. to be honest i didn't think any amount of training could prepare me for this. the scientists however were completely calm. they didn't know the bad news though. the reason we have a security escort is because we're not completely sure where in the land of imagination the arch will take us. it could be anywhere from a book to an R rated movie. so this definitely presented a problem.

i stepped into the center. and waited for the count down

"5...4...3...2...1..."

"activate final transportation procedure." one of the scientists said.

i closed my eyes and waited for something to happen but nothing happened. i opened my eyes to see what was happening. the scientists were waving or something but the arch was far too loud. then the siren went off the arch started sparking and then there was a huge flash and everything went white. i could see all of my memories flashing before my eyes and then some. the light just kept getting brighter in my eyes but then it was dark.

i could feel myself falling and falling into a pit of endless darkness. then i felt a thud and knew i had hit the ground. i should have been killed i should at least be in terrible pain from the way i was falling. but i was just fine.

when i opened my eyes it was still dark but at the same time it was bright and colorful. i stood up and looked around and it looked like i was in some sort of cartoon. i was stuck in some kind of forest. i bent down and grabbed my rifle and started into the woods. i started looking around but there wasn't much it was just another dark forest. i continued to wander around until i was startled by a large growl. in a wall of darkness i could see a pair of green eyes.

i tried to get a closer look but the beast growled and tried to warn me off. i walked closer anyway. the large creature emerged from the shadows. it had thick green scales and large jagged spines on its back. it looked like some kind of giant lizard. i tried to scare it away with a warning shot but it only seemed to make the situation worse.

before i could fire again the beast released a torrent of flames from its mouth. before it was too late i jumped out of the way into some of the plantlife hoping that i could get away from the evil creature. the creature shot another wave of fire in my direction. i knew that hiding wasn't going to work because soon the surrounding area was completely of fire. i stepped out of my hiding spot behind the dragon and emptied half a clip into its back.

the beast roared in pain. i swatted me with its tail. the impact made a large thud as i went flying through the air and into i nearby tree. the beast roared one more time and crawled away in pain. i sat the badly wounded. I'm very certain that hit broke one or two of my ribs. i reached into my bag pulled out some cloth and water and cleaned out my cuts and scrapes. then pulled out a stim pack and injected it into my chest. that should probably fix my broken limbs in about an hour. still hurt and exhausted i shut my eyes and drifted into sleep.

after a while i could hear some voices in my head but i thought i was just dreaming. but soon they started to sound real but they were blurry. maybe they were my team mates or the other scientists. i tried to force myself awake. i managed to open my eyes but everything was too blurry. all i saw was a mess of colors. i could hear the them talking though

"HEY! what's this?"

"i've never seen anything like it."

"ah reckon its sum kinda monkey or sumthin"

"oh my it's clothing is absolutely atrocious"

"i've never read anout anything like it."

"uhg c'mon it's probably just dead lets get going.".

"uhhg, wait...WAIT" i muttered out trying to see who the company was.

"HEY! its ok" one of them said. still trying to assess the situation i asked again.

"who's there, where am i."my vision finally started to focus and i could make the shape of their faces. there were six creatures standing over me there was a purple one with a horn, an orange one with a hat, a pink one with curly hair and a huge smile, a white one which also had a horn, a yellow one with pink hair, and there was one with rainbow colored hair. i slowly stood up and towered over the six creatures before me. they took a few steps back and could only look up in shock and confusion.

i looked at them and they...looked like horses. but they were incredibly small. they stood maybe up to my waist at the most. they looked rather familiar the shapes and colors where similar to something at our world. i just couldn't put my finger on it.

"uhm hello...uh...mr?" the purple pony said. the voice was recognizable but i still couldn't think of it. it also sounded female. she seemed confused but then again so was I. well atleast i know for sure they speak english. i still wasn't sure how to approach the situation so i just stood there.

"maybe he doesn't understand you" the yellow one said

"uhm hello," i said "who are you?"

"HI IM PINKIE PIE!" the pink pony suddenly appeared in front of my face.

i stepped back in shock. i stared at it and breathed heavily. it looked like the pink pony was confused by my reaction. i didn't make much of it though and i started to pay more attention to the other five.

"anyway... my name is twilight sparkle" the purple pony said.

"im rainbow dash" the rainbow haired pony said .

"oh that's clever" i thought in my mind sarcastically.

"mah names applejack."the orange one said.

"i am rarity." the white one said.

"and...uhm i'm...fluttershy."

"who are you?" asked rainbow dash.

"the names alex...Alex Wesson"

"where did you come from?" asked twilight .

"well thats a bit of a tough question, where to start well..."

"hey what's that,"pinkie said interrupting me "and that and that and that?" she continued pointing at the various tools and weapons on my body.

"uh well this," i said holding up my rifle "is my primary weapon then i've got my secondary pistol, extra ammo, grenades, 9 bangers, and a flashlight"

"wait im confused what is all this stuff" twilight said as she walked up to me and examined me. "i've never seen this kind of stuff before" she continued

"well everything but the flashlight is a weapon"

"why do you have so many weapons with you." the rainbow haired horse said. i looked over to her and it took only a second to notice she had wings and was flying. this was a bit shocking. "well!" she said staring at me viciously. i didn't really know how to approach that question delicately but before i could the purple horse interrupted.

"so what's a flashlight" twilight asked. i grabbed my flashlight and turned it on when the light hit the ground they all stepped back except and rainbow haired horse with the wings. she sort of just floated there. and the yellow one jumped into the air about 4 feet and flew away. apparently she had wings too.

"WOW! i've never seen anything like this"

"what kinda fancy magic is that?" said applejack.

"magic? what do you mean magic...it's just a flashlight." they all stared at me in confusion. i spent at least a half an hour explaining all of my tools and weapons they didn't seem very happy when i started to tell them what i use my rifle and pistol for. i asked them where they lived and they told me they lived in ponyville.

they told me that an evil pony named nightmare moon has made the night last forever and that they are on their way to an old castle to find these things called the elements of harmony or whatever.

"Hey why do you come with us." the pink pony said enthusiastically.

"hmm...i don't see why not." the purple one said."do you want to come with us?"

it was definitely an interesting offer and it's not like i have anything else to do. besides i should try to learn as much as i can from this world. and hanging around with these...uh...ponies are probably the best way to do that. i went to take a step and felt a horrible sting in my right leg. i must have sprained it when i was fighting the dragon. i couldn't feel it then but i sure can feel it now.

the purple pony noticed that i was limping and spoke up.

"wait a minute. you're hurt." i knew she was talking to me.

"no, i'm fine."

"let me heal you i just learned a spell of minor healing."

"Spell?" i said in confusion. but before i could continue she closed her eyes and the horn on her head started to glow. she walked over to me and touched her horn to my leg. there was a bright light and i could feel the pain in my leg slowly fade.

that's when it hit me. i knew what this place is. i have been sucked into the T.V. show my little pony friendship is magic. it makes sense now. the only way i know this is because my daughter jenny loves the show. she watches it all the time. she usually makes me watch it with her but i often don't pay much attention. i decided to play it cool and thank twilight.

we started to make our way through the forest when all of a sudden the ground broke underneath us. we started sliding down the mountain. i saw a cliff ahead of us so i tried to keep myself from falling but there was nothing around. i soon felt myself in a free fall but i managed to see a root sticking from the side of the cliff and i grabbed onto it. i looked up and saw rainbow dash and fluttershy carry down pinkie pie and rarity. i then heard someone scream. i looked up and saw twilight falling down. i reached out my arm and managed to grab her. she didn't weigh much. and she was surprisingly soft and squishy like a looked dazed and confused. i threw her over my shoulder and started to climb down i could see applejack jumping down from ledge to ledge heading down too. i reached the bottom and set twilight down.

"thanks alex." she said giving me a big smile.

"well what was that nonsense all about." said applejack.

"That wasn't very fun." said pinkie pie.

"we should probably watch our steps from here on out." i said. i looked towards the six ponies who nodded in continued through the forest wondering how a mountainside like that could just collapse. we were then interrupted by a deafening roar. in the middle of the path was a lion looking creature with a scorpion tale

"a manticore!" they all shouted.

i quickly pulled up my gun and tried to scare it away with a warning shot. it didn't work it just made it mad. i looked back and saw the six ponies looking at my gun in confusion. but there was a more important matter right now. i looked back at the manticore who was only about five feet from me now.

i jumped out of the way but one of the manticores claws cut into my left arm. i howled in pain and fell to the ground. i grabbed a flash grenade off of my belt. not thinking of how the ponies would react to it i pulled the pin and threw it. it landed right under the manticore and the ponies stared at it awkwardly. thats not good.

"close your eyes NOW!" i said before the flash could go off. i put my arm over my eyes and looked away and so did the six ponies. the flash went off and the manticore roared intensely. it fell to the ground and started to thrash about. in the confusion the manticores tail lashed out and jabbed my left leg. i yelped out in pain.

i was getting mad now. i looked around for my rifle but it was tossed to the side. i started to make my way over. the other ponies were still dazed and confused from the flash. it looks like some of them didn't cover their eyes well enough. i finally got to my gun.

i picked it up and pointed it at the manticore. i pulled the trigger but all i heard was a click. i ejected the empty clip and replaced it with a new one. i pointed the newly rearmed gun at the manticore but the yellow pegasus pony jumped on me and pushed the gun away before i could fire

"NOOOO! Don't hurt him." she said. she then started to walk over to the snarling beast which was recovering from the flash

"get away from that thing its vicious."

"its not vicious he's just grumpy" she said petting the large beast on the head.

"aren't you boy" she started caring to it and bandaged up its wound. it was only grumpy because it had a thorn stuck in its paw. the other ponies came over to me to see if i was alright. i took off my jacket to see the damage. the others stopped and gasped. i looked down and almost fainted. that manticore nearly tore my arm off.

i sat there in shock. the sudden rush of combat was fading and my body stopped pumping adrenalin so the pain start to come into waves. i fell back in pain grasping my arm. the slash tore through most of my skin and cut into the bone. the cut was very deep.

"gha...FUCK!" i shouted. i looked at the ponies but they only seemed confused as to what i said. then i remembered that this is a kids show. supposedly there is no sex, drugs, or violence. well we can already rule out violence. i'm starting to think my presence here is starting to change this world or some bull-shit like that.

twilight closed her eyes and her horn started to glow she brought it to my arm and started to heal it but the wound was too great and it couldn't completely close. but it wasn't much worse than it was before. she also healed my leg too. i got up and grabbed my bag. i left my jacket because it was of no use now. but i kept my vest on no use wasting good grenades. who knows i might need them.

we started to wander into the forest again and left the manticore to its business. we continued to walk and walk. there wasn't much talking because there really wasn't much to talk about the whole trip has been kind of awkward. i just hope the boys back at area 51 can pull me out of this. oh the stories i would tell.

"uhhg my eyes need a rest from all this icky muck." said rarity. after she said that the brush of the forest thickened and it became darker."well i didn't mean that literally." i pulled out my flashlight and turned it on and flashed it forward. they still seemed pretty amazed by the flash light. i pointed it forward at a tree and everybody screamed. the tree had a scary looking face on it but i wasn't particularly freaked ponies kept screaming but then they were interrupted by someone laughing. it was pinkie pie

"pinkie what are you doing RUN" said twilight.

"oh girls don't you see" she replied

suddenly there was a strange tune in the background and the pink one started to sing and dance and hop around, eventually they were all singing and dancing and laughing i just stood there watching and i thought to myself "what the fuck". suddenly i started to snicker to myself then i was giggling and then i was laughing. something was making me laugh. trust me i wasn't laughing on my own. when you're working with scientists as a marine who doesn't know shit about nothing and isn't paid to you often forget how to laugh. but i seemed to just enjoy myself. about 2 minutes of laughing i gave up my will to fight back we started walking through the forest STILL LAUGHING somehow. we made a turn and were stopped by pinkie pie. she stopped at a raging river.

we looked over and knew there probably was no way to cross. we were all of a sudden drenched with water. i was soaked. there was something crying in the river. i looked over and there was a raging sea beast making tons of waves. i fired two shots and scared it out of crying.

"WOULD YOU GET RID OF THAT THING!" rarity said shoving my gun to the ground. she was probably right. if this is a show i might be screwing it up.

"what's the problem mr." asked twilight

"oh i don't know," the sea beast said "one minute i was sitting here minding my own business when all of a sudden a tacky little cloud of purple smoke whisked by and tore off half of my beautiful mustache."

"and this is a problem" said rainbow dash

"of course its a problem, i mean look at his beautiful mane."

"oh i know"

"his gorgeous scales"

"oh i knoooow"

"all ruined without his beautiful moustache."

"oooh i knoooow"

"i cannot let such a crime of fabulosity go uncorrected" rarity grabbed a scale off of the great beast and held it high. honestly i thought she would cut it but she sliced off her own tail and used her magic or whatever to fuse it to the sea beast giving him the worst mustache i've ever seen on anything.

"rarity your tail."

"oh it's quite alright, short tails are in this season anyway" they started to make their way through when the beast picked them up and put them on the other side so they wouldn't get wet. but he left me on the other side. i guess i deserved it for shooting at him.

"ya kinda deserved that for shooting at him." said applejack

"yeah i figured that." i started to make my way across but the rapids picked up again and i slipped and got whisked away. i managed to grab onto a rock and get above the water but i wasn't even halfway across. i dove back in and used the rocks to help me. i managed to make my way across. i hit the ground for a second to catch my breath and then i got up. we continued on our way to the castle we managed to find it but the bridge over the gap was broken.

"how are we supposed to get across now?"said twilight

"uhm duh with these." rainbow dash said extending her wings. she flew down the gap and grabbed the bridge. and went to the other side. suddenly a thick fog started to form obscuring my vision. i saw three other ponies in some kind of uniform talking to rainbow dash.

"oh no." twilight said. "alex do you have anything to clear this fog with?"

"uhh yeah i do" i said. i reached into my bag and pulled out a flare. i popped the cap and threw it across the gap but the fog didn't clear. rainbow dash then flew back over and told us the bridge was safe to cross. the six ponies made their way across.

i stepped onto the rope bridge and it started to shake and creak. i slowly made my way to the middle of the bridge. one of the boards under me broke and my leg fell through. i pulled up and the ropes gave in and collapsed. i grabbed one of the broken ropes and put my feet out and stopped myself against the canyon wall .i looked up and saw twilight and rainbow dash stick their heads over.

"How many times are you going to get yourself killed today" said rainbow dash.

I'm not even going to respond to that. i grabbed the planks of the broken bridge and climbed up it like a ladder. i quickly made my way to the top so that the bridge didn't break again and i fell to my death. i pulled myself up and brushed myself off. and with that over we headed towards what looked like an abandoned castle.

we walked inside and it was dark. we walked around a few hall and corridors before we found a large open room with some kind of monument in it. it was quite a large monument with some strange stone spheres being held up by it.

"look that's them." said twilight. her horn started to glow and she levitated them over to her. she sat down and began to concentrate. she told us to let her concentrate so i walked over to some of the walls and windows and looked at the pictures inscribed on them. i had a feeling that these things told great stories of something if only i knew how to read in their written language.

suddenly there was a bright flash and then it was gone. i looked behind me and twilight was gone.

"where is she?" said rarity.

"i dun know?" said applejack.

"girls look." said fluttershy pointing over through a window. in a tower far from the window there was a bright flash. she must have teleported or something. without hesitation we set off into that direction. we ran down corridors and hallways until we got to a giant stone staircase. i made my way up the stairs but the others quickly outran me.

"hurry up slow-poke" said rainbow dash.

i started to run faster but something caught my vest. it was some kind of branch of something. i tugged and pulled. i got free and looked back. it was a branch. and on the branch was some kind of pin...OH SHIT. i quickly threw the vest off of me but it was too late one of my flash grenades went off and i was blinded. next thing i knew i was falling down the stairs.

i hit the bottom and still couldn't see. i slowly got up and assessed the damage. nothing was broken my eyes just hurt. i got up and rubbed my eyes. took a minute to catch my breath then headed back up the stairs. i finally reached the top and and walked into some kind of giant throne room. i looked over to twilight and the others and they were floating in the air glowing.

across from them was another pony but she was much larger than them almost my height. she was wearing black armour and her mane was kind of freaky. it was like staring into a starry night sky.

the six floating ponies then formed into a single mass of light. i had no idea what was happening all i knew was that there was going to be a flash and a good chance that i might get hurt again. just when i thought things couldn't possible get weirder they did.

the great ball of light grew brighter and shot some kind of giant rainbow beam into the air and down onto the bigger pony. the bigger pony was then engulfed in a tornado of colors and light. there was another bright flash and i was thrown against a wall, just as i predicted. the impact was very hard and i was knocked unconscious.

i didn't dream but i only stared into an unending void. at the end of the void was a bright light which only grew brighter and brighter. soon i was engulfed in light. i could feel its warmth as it covered me and healed my it stopped and everything was dark again. i could feel myself coming back to reality or so i thought.