Episode 1: The Soul Spectrum Dimension Part 1: Into the spectrum

Garion and Aaron looked around them. A couple breezes met their noses with scents of spring. The two humans wanted, to explore the world they were unfamiliar with, but being confused as they were from the experience with the odd yellow creature, the two humans both agreed to leave it alone and go somewhere else.

Garion suggested looking for the opening of their apartment first, because he thought that they should know more about the situation before they explored the world.

Aaron scanned the horizon, shading the sun from his eyes with his hand, and eventually spotted a rectangular shape off in the distance.

Garion hastily approached, with Aaron following behind. They found themselves facing a door frame that was undoubtedly, the open door to their apartment. It stood straight up in the air from the ground and nothing else from their world showed.  Garion bubbled inside and cringed at the same time; the thought that inside the frame, was their apartment and entire world.

“Well,” said Aaron looking inside, “It’s good to know that we can get home now.”

“But you are thinking of staying here, right?” said Garion.

“Well, duh. Of course. I’m certainly not going to go back in there to fix disaster you just caused us…...What are you doing?” Aaron asked.

“Just locking the door to make sure nothing of this Universe gets in ours,” said Garion, who cautiously reached in with one arm to pull the door closed. As the door locked into place, the smokey fragrance of their apartment disappeared from existence, allowing the small flowers clustered on the ground to take over the atmosphere.

“You’re trying to keep them out? And here we are invading their world,” nagged Aaron, “Alright, I know you want to get all freaky and happy about all this, but I’m not going to be an idiot and frolic around naïve in a world I know nothing of. At least not yet."

"Whoever said that we were going to frolic?" asked Garion. Only then had he began to notice the increasing feeling of freedom and release now that he was there.

"Well you look like you're about to, especially with that big, dumb smile on your face."

"Can I not be happy!? Especially at a time like this?" Garion protested.

"Well, there could be insane dangers here,” Aaron tried to reason.

“Are you kidding me? In this world?” Said Garion, nudging a small cheesy little blossom on the ground with his foot.

“Well, this is all you can see at this moment, right? This is an entire universe that we just walked into. We shouldn’t even be casually standing here.”

But Garion had already lost interest in what Aaron was saying, due to the magical doorframe that he beheld before him.

Garion played around with the object, opening and closing it, while looking at different sides of it. He came to the conclusion that only one side lead to Earth, in contrast to the backside, which was no more than an ordinary swinging plank of wood on hinges.

“Hey, I left my phone inside,” announced Aaron, who had been leisurely watching Garion jacking-around with the door.

“I have mine in my pocket,” Garion responded, pulling out the iPhone and was bewildered to see that not only did he have a connection, but that the phone was also charging itself.

After the brief moment of amazement it had finally occurred to Garion that they had been wasting several minutes from obsessing over lame, typical objects from their own world, when they had a whole bran new universe laid out for them.

“Do you see that over there?” Aaron asked, peering over towards the low end of the valley amongst a few trees where a windmill could be seen spinning along with other low buildings clustered around it. “I think we should take a look at that place first, in case it gets dark and we have to find a place to sleep.”

So Aaron and Garion wasted no time in following the path to the upcoming town.

There was a sense of inevitable greatness within the atmosphere around them, as if something huge or life-changing was set ahead of them, where they were about to walk into. Garion pushed that thought aside, because he decided that he already changed the moment he believed in what he was seeing. The chirping of birds resonated in his ears as they came near to the town.

Garion was humming some random song to himself when Aaron pulled him aside, inside a random bush. Despite the fact that it was a cartoon, it still felt like a real bush. What made Garion yelp, however, was how it absorbed them in, seeming to become a cloak around the two humans, like that of a typical cartoon. “What the heck are you doing?!” said Garion, uncomfortable with random twigs poking at him.

“SSSHHH! Quiet!” said Aaron, peering outside through a small hole that appeared when he pressed his hand against the inner “wall” of the bush. “Did you see the color on bridge? And the buildings?”

Garion peeked outside. “They look like typical renaissance cartoon buildings to me,” he said.

“No, you numbskull. Look at the doors and windows!?” said Aaron. “They’re pink!”

“So?”

“With hearts……..All over…….In random places...” Aaron hissed.

“Are you really complaining about something like that? Grow up, man,” said Garion, who pushed the leaves aside so he could get a better view of the buildings across the river. “Is that a Giant Cake?” asked Garion.

“I think that’s a house.”

“Really? I like this place already,” Garion joked, but Aaron didn’t seem so amused at it. “Dude, if this is going to be a love-filled-town, then I’m sure we’ll be bound to find a place to sleep tonight. Better this than home, any day,” he stated. Garion then pulled himself out of the bush, and glided across the bridge in front of them, leaving Aaron behind to follow.

He was glad that he wasn’t going to have deal with Earth anymore, even though he knew he had to be careful. But for now there would be no sorrow. No more late night shifts! No more staring up at the stars at night wishing for something... more. No more bullies, for now. Here was a miracle that he was able to smell, hear, and see with his own two eyes. It was the greatest gift he could ever imagine receiving.

The community looked friendly as well. Everywhere he looked there was sunshine, blue skies, and summery trees. What kind of people here could possibly be cruel to him, if they kept everything as happy and beautiful as this? He didn’t want to hold back; destiny was waiting.

His eyes became a glass window, and he watched himself run faster and faster. Once he finally reached the trees, he closed his eyes, breathing in the fresh spring air. After two seconds, his eyelids opened up, and he found himself staring dumbfounded…

Aaron on the other hand, was lost. He didn’t know what to think, and probably leaning close to the ‘I must be going crazy’ side of the situation. Now that he knew he was not just imagining himself walking in a fairy land with no apparent reason, he was pretty ticked off at Garion. He seemed to be growing a strong reputation for running straight into dangerous situations with utter enthusiasm all over today.

It was also ironic concerning that usually it was him who had the spontaneous attitude normally and Garion was the boring person who constantly kept to himself, reading books, listening to music, and drawing rather than interacting. Now Aaron had to catch up with him. Quickly he followed Garion down the path as quickly as he could manage, over the small pink bridge, and to where he was now standing.

“Hey, Garion! Be carefull! We don’t know what kind of people we may run into-” Aaron stopped.

The two humans stared in disbelief.

“Uhhh…”

Everywhere around the town, on the streets and in the houses, and in between the buildings were little creatures that appeared very equine, but also just barely humanoid, as they had human-like manes dressed in humanoid fashions. They came in every freaking color that Aaron could think of; at least the lighter shaded ones with some darker tones, but very few blacks, reds, dark browns or greys.

Their hooves appeared to end in stubs, with the bottoms cut in a flat shape which confused Aaron because it was solidly colored and made it almost look like there would be fuzz all over. Even so, he spot one big red pony pulling a cart whose fur on his hooves receded back to show yellow bottoms which told him that they were in fact hard and not plushy.

They were also a bit small, the average standing maybe as tall Aaron’s chest from the top of their heads.

It was clear that they were civilized beings, who imitated the lives of humans.

Some of them wore clothes and some of them didn’t, which Aaron didn’t know what to say about.

Stranger yet, they each had a particular symbol on their butt that was different than all the others. Bowling pins, Clocks, flowers, bubbles, cheese…. They each showed up on the sides of their flanks.

They had freakishly big eyes that took much of the space on their faces, which at this current moment were aimed straight at Garion and Aaron.

For the last five minutes, Garion had been standing with his mouth open, but now he decided that it was time to act. It was obvious by the looks of the creatures that he and Aaron were aliens here.

“Um…Hi-” Garion attempted to say hello but Aaron hit him before he could begin.

“Don’t! Remember what happened the last time you tried to do that?” Aaron rasped. He then turned slowly towards their audience.

He threw a piece sign.

Suddenly Aaron was knocked in the shin by a speeding scooter from behind. The small orange filly, who had been riding it at the time, tumbled off and fell to ground six feet away from Aaron.

“Aagh! Son of a [FISH]!” he bellowed, falling to the ground, gripping his leg in agony.

Garion, still lost in his trance, watched as the orange filly ran away screaming, causing exaggerated distress to the rest of the population.

Ahhh!” They all shouted as one as each and every one of them darted all over the place, knocking over flower stands, picking up little...fillies, and running into random buildings.

They panicked, they screamed, they ran. Soon enough, shops were abandoned, carts were left unattended and Aaron and Garion were alone on the deserted streets.

“Gosh, why does this keep happening?!” asked Aaron

“We’re not really that hideous, are we?” asked Garion, pondering their silly way of defending themselves under attack.

Earlier before, Garion had said that they looked like flat geometrical shapes. He was actually joking. They actually looked very close to their normal world selves, if only they weren't cartoons. They could also perceive distance as well as feel textures around them that they couldn't see with their own eyes.

Garion was feeling slightly nervous. Hearts… Pink… Flowers… Sparkles… Rainbow colored…monsters. “Dude, Ponies,” he said, trembling with dread, “They’re My Little Ponies.”

“Uh, no. They’re not,” stated Aaron assertively, “Everyone knows that My little Ponies have noses much bigger than that. I’m just gonna say that these are just little multicolored equines that wear clothes and live in houses. They also like putting feminine touches on everything.” He looked up at a high-ish window on one of the straw-roofed buildings. Ponies were staring down at them.

“The Horror!” they said.

“The Nightmares!” they said.

“What do they want from us!” a little one said.

Garion looked down and thought, 'well so much for a nice happy town of….humans'. He looked at Aaron and said, “Well I know somebody has got to be in charge of protecting this place. I would wonder how a town like this would last for very long. Eventually we must run into somebody who would be brave enough to confront us.”

“That dastardly little shmuck. Why did it aim for my shin like that? There is no way it could have not seen me standing there!” Aaron grunted, still gripping his leg.

But despite his angst, he hurry to limp forward when Garion began moving amongst the fallen carts and over the exaggerated wreckage of fruit stands and booths. Not bothering to look at the strange creatures inside the houses, he came upon quite a few instances where he actually felt kind of bad for just marching through their town and scaring them all silly like that. Maybe he shouldn’t have pushed himself into places that he didn’t belong in, where the people who thrive there don’t have any notion of what is currently happening around them.

Aaron noticed something about the creatures in the windows that he didn’t see before. Some of them had short spiraling horns on their heads and some had small wings on their sides. Ok, so that was kind of cool. The fact that this world contained Unicorns and Pegasus’s was enough to make him think if there was a connection with the old mythology in ancient times.

Garion continued trekking around until he passed by an unusually large tree 30 feet away that appeared to actually be a house with doors, windows, and balconies. All of a sudden the front door to the tree house burst open and a lavender colored pony ran out.

“Alright, you fowl creatures!” she yelled, “Turn around and head back where you came from, or…I’ll do something you’ll hate!” she was a different pony. She had Both wings and a horn which stuck out through her straight navy blue mane which contained a pink and purple highlight that went straight down. It was the same with her tail. Her Mane was cut evenly to appear that she had bangs, and she possessed large, sparkling violet eyes that Garion beheld with sheer, udder amazement from where he was standing.

“Wait a minute! She’s a Unicorn! No, a Pegasus? She’s a winged, unicorn….thingy!” said Aaron, ecstatic.

“She looks, different,” muttered Garion, who couldn’t seem to think of anything around him, except for the wind blowing in the mane of the unicorn in front of him.

“She looks ticked!” said Aaron, trying to pull Garion away from the scene.

“Yeah, well…uh…I guess I would be too if...but anyway, those eyes…. She looks more intelligent than the others. Why?”

“Why? Why are you asking me why?” asked Aaron, oblivious to the pulsing orb, glowing from the Unicorn’s horn.

“I...don’t…know. But…I don’t care,” was all Garion could say, completely in the prison of his own trance. In the five seconds that followed, he watched as the unicorn’s expression went from confident, to suddenly in alarm, as it appeared that she had lost control of the power that she was emanating.

The pulse from the horn quivered and flashed until it shot out a beam of white light. For whatever reason, neither one of them had the common sense to evade. In the next half-second, it enveloped them in a swirling cloud of purple and red. The feeling that the two humans felt was similar to that of their bodies being condensed inside a box, but then it was replaced with a feeling of absolute lightness. It all only lasted for a brief second. The feeling quickly died away, and they found themselves standing once again on the dirt street.

“Why the heck did she shoot us?!” exclaimed Garion, freaking out now. He looked down at the ground, seeing that it was closer than normal, “AHHHHHH! Son of an ugly mother lover! She freaking shrunk us!” They had indeed, although not by much. They were only about 7 inches shorter than they were before. Ironically, it appeared that they were more in scale with the ponies around them.

The two humans weren’t allowed to panic for very long, though. The purple Unicorn looked like she had been trying to fly, but apparently didn’t know fully well how to, and tumbled down from six feet in the air. She resorted to running which seemed easier in the first place, and when she finally approached them it was evident that they were both equally as tall. “What! That shock spell was supposed to make you laugh hard enough to send you running away!” she hollered, coming to a stop, “ I must have not focused my quadra-senses to 38 units of sparkle-” Then she stopped and just stared at the two.

Garion stood there frozen in place when the unicorn approached. Now that they were eye to eye level, she actually appeared intimidating in some odd way. She glanced at Garion, then switched to Aaron, and then back to Garion.

“WHAAT!?” she screamed, “How did you…what? Ahhhhh!”

Aaron had enough, “ALRIGHT FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! WILL SOMEONE JUST TALK TO US FOR ONE MOMENT?!!!”

“Omygoshomygoshomygoshomygosh!” She continued bellowing, suddenly happy, “How did you get in Equestria!? I thought that the Mirror Portal was Closed! The moon passed over! We wouldn’t be able to have contact for another 30 Moons!”

“Uh, what?” said Garion sadly, “I’m so confused.”

“Humans! This is so amazing! Not that I’d ever want to be one again, but the fact that you made it into my world… How did you guys do it? How did you get through? Did you go to Canterlot high?”

“What? What? What?! Please slow down!” bellowed Garion, somewhat losing himself to insanity.

“No! First, why did you attack us?” Aaron asserted.

“Because you were attacking the town!” answered the Unicorn.

“No we weren’t! Your blasted children attacked my leg!”

The unicorn looked up at the nearest building and noticed the orange filly silently retrieving her scooter from the ground, “Oh dear,” Looking down in frustration.

“It was only that I screamed an obscenity, that the rest of your town freaked out,” Aaron commented.

Twilight then looked at him, carrying an irritated expression, saying, “Well then, don’t scream obscenities.” Afterwwards, she muttered, “I apologize, for the chaos. And for shrinking you.”

“Yeah, what is up with that? Change us back!”

Garion somehow didn’t catch the last part of this conversation, because he had been daydreaming about mountains, chocolate, and rainbows. He finally tuned back to reality, when the unicorn suddenly perked up and exclaimed, “No! That’s not what I’m talking about. This town did the same thing when Zecorra the zebra first came into Ponyville.”

Garion looked at Aaron and thought, ‘Zecorra the zebra?’

Aaron returned him the look, thinking, ‘Ponyville? Good lord’.

“They’ve been pretty good not judging others since then, but I remember that the first time I saw a human, it was pretty terrifying. It was myself actually, but I’m going to fix this!”

Garion tried to pay attention, but he sick of just standing around and talking. He couldn’t help it, having attention deficit disorder and all.

“I was in the middle of an experiment when I heard all the shouting and mayhem outside, so I just naturally thought that there was a danger or a problem. When I saw you, I automatically thought you were an enemy. I didn’t know. But I just HAVE to know how you two got here. I mean, without any magic, how could a few humans could do it?” said the pony with a happy smile.

“As if we know,” said Aaron.

“Come on, we can introduce ourselves at the library. We’ve been standing around, doing nothing but jabbering. I can only imagine how much confusion you both must be in,” Twilight inferred.

“Yes!”

“Well, I might be able to find helpful information in my books if anything else.”

She ran them back toward the tree. A sign with the image of a book stood outside.

“This tree is a library?” Garion remarked, stating the obvious.

“Yep! It’s the library where I work. I live here as well!” she said cheerfully.

“That’s cool.”

Opening the front door, she stepped into a wide circular room that was the internal trunk of the gigantic oak. All of the main features of the house seemed to have been grown in with the tree, such as the curving staircase following the wall and the bookshelves lining the walls themselves. In the middle stood a table. There, a wooden carved equine statue head sat on top.

Garion noticed the illumination from her horn when two cushions suddenly flew through the air. It could have just been his imagination, but he could have sworn that she was controlling the pillows. Considering that two random flying pillows didn’t seem to scare at all, he decided to settle with that conclusion.

Unfortunately, Twilight had been so excited, that she accidently knocked Aaron in the head with a cushion, and caused him to fall to the floor. She quickly placed the pillows down on the floor in front of them, offered as seating. “Sorry about that, I was just being a little clumsy,” she stated.

Aaron just gave Garion a disgruntled look, and sat upright on the floor.

“Let me just calm down for a moment,” She apologized. Sitting back down, she took a deep breath, moving her front hoof like an arm to and away from her chest. Aaron was still rubbing his head from the impact.

She slowly explained, “First let me introduce myself. My name is Twilight Sparkle, but you may have already known that, as I am the one who saved your world from possessive enslavement from a pony named Sunset shimmer who snuck through from this world into your world as a human and blah blah blah blah blah blah something about a mirror blah blah blah a crown....”

Aaron attempted to share glances with Garion, but found that he couldn’t because the human was too busy staring intently at the crazy unicorn, evidently trying to understand what she was saying, but having severe difficulty.

He chuckled to himself as this whole situation was kind of funny. One moment he’s living his life on Earth trying to get mental inspiration from watching a Baccano anime thinking about the easiest way he can get a job to support his financial problems, and then the next thing he knows, he’s in a rainbow world sitting in a tree watching Garion sweat himself to death, trying to understand a purple, talking Unicorn.

“….And so, we left Sunset in the arms of your world so you can teach her how to actually make friends the right way,” finished Twilight Sparkle, after a quick five minutes of exposition, “You must know who I am.”

Garion only blinked and said, “Uh, ok. I don’t know what crazy world you fell into, but there are no multicolored humans like that in my world. Humans don’t come in blues, greens, or purples. They occasionally dye their hair color but no excessive amounts of rainbow people or knee-high boots, sorry.”

“Sure there are,” Twilight lingered, “I was there in one of your ‘School’ cities. By that I mean Canterlot.” She seemed pretty sure of herself, and wore a tone of self-intelligence within her voice.

“What? School cities?” retorted Aaron “You are making zero sense.”

“Ok, let me put it this way. This is something that one of our scientists have theorized. It is called Parallel dimensions. While they normally don’t exist in a natural state, the law of the parallel universe is that two worlds are different but follow the same direction of events and plotlines. For example, our princess is the ruler of this country and in your world she’s a principle but she’s a human because of the range of blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah….”

Aaron put a hand to his head. 'This may take a while.'

“…..And so since Equestria is big and takes up a third of our world, and Canterlot high is a small building, that must mean that your world is very, very small in scale to ours. Cities in our world would be buildings in yours, and countries in Equestria would be cities in your universe. I think that chances are, that word would be able to get around easily in a world that small. So you must have heard about me,” she concluded.

“Nope. Not at all.” said Aaron.

“I think that we would have most likely heard about a school with so many peculiarly named students at some time,” said Garion, “And certainly about a giant demon trying to take over the human race and another alternate dimension, just saying.”

Twilight Sparkle appeared slightly distraught about hearing this.

“But we didn’t. Sorry,” apologized Garion, understanding that the Unicorn/Pegasus hybrid was trying desperately to understand. “Our world is much bigger than a few highschools.”

“But that doesn’t make sense,” remarked Twilight, looking down at her hooves.

“Yeah well life wasn’t designed to make sense, Twilight Sprinkle.” said Aaron, suddenly in a sarcastic mood.

“Twilight Sparkle,” stated the Unicorn, slightly irritated now.

“Oh, sorry.”

“Anyway, stay here and let me find a book about the theories of inter-dimensional space. I’ve got to figure this out. It won’t take me that long,” said Twilight Sparkle, who turned around and trotted up the stairs.

As soon as she disappeared above the ceiling, Aaron spun toward Garion and asked him, “Is this going to get us anywhere?”

“Probably not,” he answered.

“I knew it.”

“Well, there is a bright side behind this,” said Garion, “At least now we don’t have to worry about hitting our heads against the ceilings.”

“Just because we’re in scale with their doorframes, doesn’t mean that we aren’t still MILES away from figuring out what is wrong with…with…all of this!” Aaron retorted, gesturing all around him.

Garion simply responded with, “I’m not complaining about it, though.” He then noticed the glare that Aaron was giving him, “What?”

“The next time you buy one of those fireworks, make sure to ask the cashier which next door neighbor universe it leads to, so that next time we don’t land in girly Strawberry shortcake land,” Aaron rasped.

“Equestria; And it’s not that bad. If you don’t like it, here’s the key to our apartment!”

“Why couldn’t we have landed in a Pokemon world or something else?”

“I would hate to be stuck in a Pokemon world.”

“Yeah, well….Fu-”

“DON’T you dare! We’ve got happy friendly ponies surrounding us! Are you crazy!?”

Aaron just paused at this for a moment, thinking to himself, “Yes! So why don’t you go spoon your underwear!”

“Go slap a duck!”

“Go wrestle a chair!”

“Salute a fire hydrant for all I care! Where are you going?”

“To the forest or something.”

“What!? But Twilight said to stay here,” said Garion, watching Aaron slowly approach the door.

“Just face it, she’s crazy,” said Aaron.

“Oh come on! If she’s crazy, then how was she able use recite a scientific theorem to support the un-logical idea of our world consisting of rainbow colored humans?”

“Like I said, she’s crazy. And you too.”

“This place has giant houses made of cake! CAKE, man!”

“I might come back for cake, but I’m not staying here waiting for someone to explain something I’m not going to care about, not that it wasn’t fun enough getting hit in the head with a hard pillow. I’m going to see what the rest of the world has to show before I lose my mind.”

“You’re probably too late,” said Garion, but Aaron had already left the door, “And so am I.”

Debating whether or not if he should be worried, he came back to the memory that most of the creatures they’ve talked to so far have ran away screaming, so Aaron should be fine. Then again, there was Twilight Sparkle who had actually attacked them…

Twilight returned back down the steps, with her tail bouncing slightly behind her as she descended and approached. Her eyes grew wide when she saw that there were no longer two humans in the room, “What happened to that other guy?”

“He left.”

“What?”

“He just left.”

“Why?”

“He got bored.”

“Are you kidding me?!”

“Well he said he might come back.”

Twilight groaned and asked, “Which direction did he go?”

“He said he was going to the forest?”

Twilight’s eyes grew big, “Wait, which forest? The Everfree forest by Fluttershy’s house, or the Sunny glades around where the southern outskirts are?”

“I don’t know. Who’s fluttershy? What does it matter?”

Twilight suddenly ran up close to Garion so that she was just inches from his face, which scared him a little, “Because!” she said sternly, “there are dangerous things out there! Things that can seriously hurt you!”

“Like what?”

“The Everfree forest is one of the most wild and untamed habitats in the surrounding region! Poison joke! Timber wolves! Cragadiles! River boggers! Mudskippers! Wisps, and cockatrices that can turn you into stone!”

“Ok….,” said Garion. This was an unexpected turn that he would not have imagined seeing in this world. Which forest did Aaron say he was going? How serious was a cragadile compared to a human? “I’m starting to worry, now.”