A man was hunched over a collection of metallic rings that were wrapped entirely in a web of copper wires. Green sparks danced across the metal that would make a Geiger counter breakdown and steam shot violently out of several mechanical devices around the area, all of which appeared to be made from salvage. As the humanoid carefully examined the full length of the odd contraption in front of him occasionally he would stop and apply an additional length of wire to a ring or he would tighten a screw that sat a little too loosely for his liking.

A loud and drawn out exhale came from the man as he straightened his stance and let his gaze linger once more on the collection of random metal and wires that he had designed, his weary gaze running over all the various details of the metal monstrosity for flaws. “That should do it, perhaps a bit variable in regards to the exit portal which isn't the best thing, but I want off this god forsaken rock. I could hardly care where I end up, whether it be drowning in water or melting in lava anything is better than this sphere.” He spoke to himself, if anyone had been listening they would have thought him crazy, of course there wasn't anyone though. There hadn't been anyone in a long, long time.

The inventor looked up at the slab of scrap metal that formed the roof to his little shack. Occasionally, he liked to believe that beyond that metal roof was a bright blue sky with the old yet familiar comfort of fresh sunlight that drifted down through the atmosphere and warmed his skin. His belief was ill-founded and he knew it, beyond that roof was the ever changing, yet always the same, mess of a ceiling composed of brown clouds. No sunlight ever got through, everything had been dead for so long that the memories at the back of the man’s mind of the yellow orb in the sky were more vague dreams then actual recollection.

With a shake of his head to break the thoughts the man turned his attention back to his work. “Dimensional folding though, quite an epiphany that one was. I never would have theorized that if it weren’t for that brainspark. Still not entirely convinced that it’s possible, probably isn’t, the sheer idea of such a dramatic tearing of the laws of nature sounds like god’s work.” The man frowned at his own words, god’s work. That was a phrase that had come into use just before The End, everyone believed their weapons were doing god’s work. Irony at it’s fullest, as always.

“Well, no sense in putting this off I suppose.” The bipedal said as he strode purposefully toward a monitor that hung loosely on a nearby wall and had a series of wires running into and out of it. With a flip of a switch a hum filled the room as energy began to flood over the wires and into the collection of scrap metal that the man had put together, a blue light began to circle around the rings and soon shot into the air forming a cylinder.

The man gathered the items he would be taking with him, just a bag with a few random inventions that he had managed to pull together in case he needed them. “What was that saying again? Ah yes,” he said as he turned to face the portal that had been created. “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” With those words the bipedal threw himself into the blue abyss. The chunk of rock was left to spin onward around the sun, carrying nothing but the empty whistling wind and yet it continued to spin, on, and on, and on. Into the dark eternities.

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The moon princess had just finished setting the luminescent sphere for the new day as her sister raised the sun. Luna had always been more of a nocturnal pony unlike her sister and was in her room preparing to lay down in her bed for a well deserved nap for the day while Celestia took care of the business for the capital.

Luna stood by her bed and was about to sleep when a blue glow began to pulse like a heart in a corner of the room, her sleepiness momentarily forgotten the younger ruler carefully approached the odd orb. Her slow gait had just lost its hesitation when electricity began to shoot around the room energetically crackling through the air as it was released. The blue alicorn dropped to the floor and brought her limbs in underneath her while ducking her head.

Just as quickly as it had come the electricity stopped and the blue glow faded leaving the room to the domination of the smell of ozone, the red from the rising sun, and the ticking of clockwork. The princess had just come to the realization that she did not own anything in this room that ran on clockwork when a voice broke through the relative stillness that had fallen. “Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to scare you, the portal must have given off quite the show on this end, now that I think about it. Must have been quite the scare for you. There, there.”

Inventor had spent a period of time upon leaving the portal to stare out the nearby balcony at the rising sun, the sun was actually there, the sky was highlighting into a blue hue as the yellow orb rose above the edge of the land, and the sun was really there. It was only a few moments after this that he noticed the rather tall horse which appeared to have a horn and a pair of wing that was laying on the ground in front of him, he was promptly hit by curiosity towards the odd body shape but passed it off as a dimensional inconsistency. Shivers were running through the creature and Inventor realized his exit portal must have been quite the sight to the animal. With a final glance around the room the man spoke in an attempt to try and calm the animal.

Luna’s eyes snapped open at the voice, some random pony had wandered into her room while she was curled on the floor and was spouting nonsense about portals and treating her like a foal. She rose to her full height to yell at the impudent foal who had snuck into her room. What she saw made her stop dead, it wasn’t a foal who stood before her, no it wasn’t even a pony. Instead what stood before her was a bipedal creature that stood at her height and was looking into her eyes as she looked into his. An expression of pure joy covered the face of the creature, like all his wishes had just come true.

“What are you?” Luna finally managed to ask through her stunned mouth. The bipedal creature looked at her with an eyebrow raised before leaning to the side to look behind Luna he briefly took note of the mark on her flank but decided to leave it for later. After a second or two he straightened back vertically and looked back to her face. A smile slowly spread across his face as he took in and analyzed the information of what he was indeed seeing. Luna for her part returned a look of a raising eye brow at the creature's odd actions.

“A talking pony? Now that’s new, quite unbelievable. Never would have guessed at that option upon arriving in a new world,” Here the man barked a sharp abrupt laugh that made Luna flinch. “Talking ponies, very creative are the possibilities of the universe, or would it be the multiverse? Hmm. That would depend on if I jumped universes or dimensions, either way I tore space-time...” The man then turned on his heel with a thoughtful look on his face, as he turned he looked at the location the blue glow had been coming from only moments before.

Dropping onto his knee the man began to search through his bag, metal hitting together emptied into the near silent room as the blue alicorn slowly realized he had completely ignored her question. She returned the idea and ignored his previous statement, opting instead to repeat her question. “What are you!” Luna shouted louder at the bipedal with anger in her voice. The creature had dared to enter her room and he had then proceeded to ignore her without a second though, to say the princess was seething would be an understatement.

The creature paused, but didn’t make a move to look at the princess, for a moment nothing happened and then the man spoke in a tone much more somber then she would have expected, “I’m a human, well,” The man's voice took a bit of joviality as he paused, “Yeah I guess I’m still human, humans were considered to have a common background with the apes by the more scientific community, but that matters little.” Another pause and the lightheartedness was gone, “And as for my name, before you go and ask I may as well tell you that I dropped my original name long ago on the grounds that I didn’t deserve it.”

With a second more the man stood from the ground abandoning his search through his equipment for what he had been searching for, “Let’s try this again shall we? Lacking a name of my own I guess you could call me Inventor, since that is what I do. And your name, my equine acquaintance?” He smiled warmly at the blue alicorn as he proffered a hand for her to shake.

Luna cleared her throat and spoke, watching the man all the while to make sure she wasn’t caught off guard by this strange creature. “My name is Luna, Inventor. it’s a pleasure to meet you.” she said though the tone in her voice shattered any hopes she had of pretending to be nonchalant. She shook the creature's hand hesitantly and with a nod from the biped he returned to his bag and once again continued digging through it.

After a few moments the man stood from the ground and an odd erratic clicking filled the air. Curious as to what was going on Luna walked slowly up behind the human and gazed over his shoulder at an odd device that he held in his hand. The needle on the device seemed to be spinning wildly around, unable to remain in one position for too long. It reminded the mare of a compass gone insane.

“What are you doing?” Luna asked over Inventor’s shoulder, he jumped slightly as his limbs straightened and looked at Luna like he had just realized she was there. The moon princess held a hoof in front of her mouth to try and block out a smile, she failed miserably.

“Well you see, I came here to your world by jumping through the very fabric of space and dimensions. By dimensions of course I refer to alternate worlds that are parallel to ours that we can’t access normally.” He turned his attention to Luna, a look of confusion was clear on her face. The man decided a physical example would be needed.

“It’s like,” Inventor paused and tapped his chin, with a look of eureka on his face he pulled a string from his pants pocket. “It’s like this, pretend that one end of this string is your dimension and the other is mine. Now normally,” Inventor pulled the string taut “The shortest distance between point ‘A’ and point ‘B’ is a straight line, which in this discussion is incredibly long and near impossible to walk on.

Inventor paused for a moment to make sure that Luna was keeping up with his fast paced conversation, with a nod from the princess he continued. “Now what I did,” Inventor put the two ends of the string next to each other as the rest of the string fell into a loop underneath it. “Is I bent the dimensional path and placed both points right next to each other allowing me to easily step over to your dimension like it was just on the other side of a door.”

As a vague look of comprehension dawned on Luna’s face Inventor turned his attention back to his device once again. “The act of jumping dimensions takes a considerable amount of energy, so much so that the backlash from the energy will contaminate an area after the effect. I’m trying to get a read on the energy for future reference but it seems my scanner is being blocked by some form of interference.”

Luna raised her eyebrow, “What could be blocking it out do you think?” She asked the strange biped, the lunar princess couldn’t quite place it but something about him seemed to ooze calm and peace, relaxing even the princess in these odd circumstances.

“I really have no idea as to what could even block it out in the first place, let alone interfere with it to this extent.” Inventor admitted with a sigh as he reached his hand up to push back his short hair. As he did so his scanner was dropped to the ground and before he could bend down and pick it up Luna had subconsciously grasped it with her magic and was levitating it.

The device let out a high pitch squeal and black smoke began to curl up and out of the sides of the metal plating that composed the case. With a gasp the blue alicorn dropped it from her telekinetic grasp and looked hurriedly at the man who was standing still looking at his smoking device. After a minute he turned to look at the blue alicorn with a look that Luna did not expect, it was a look of awe and wonder on his face. “This world has magic? Wait, you have magic?! I don't even, it is magic right, that's just, I don't even know!"

Luna eyed the man with a raised eyebrow, "Of course we have magic, what do you take us for? An alicorn without magic, who has ever heard of such a thing?"

"Oh, sorry, I meant no disrespect, but still, MAGIC!" He continued to repeat himself with louder and louder tones as he looked to the alicorn as if trying to get her to react in a surprised manner. Seeing that that was not going to happen he coughed into his hand, "Right sorry, just umm, never seen magic before."

He looked once more at the alicorn, "BOOYAHSHAKA!" Luna twitched an eye at the exclamation and turned to look at him again, he was annoying, no doubt about that, and yet he had some kind of goofy attraction."Sorry that was the last one, I promise."

(Thanks for the support everypony, its good to know that my work isn’t going to waste. -N64Fan)