December 6th, 2023, 8:24 pm

New L.A. front gate.

I already packed up a little food and water to head back to the Crack, luckily Ramirez was nice (tired) enough to let me in the armory. With my Dragunov and Revolver at the ready, I drove through the gates of New L.A. I did lie to the gaurds saying it was more "Official Business" but they were also nice (tired) enough to let me through without question.

This drive only took me about an hour to get to The Crack, no goons or bandits in sight, lucky. The pulses were not there any more, which would be useful, but also sad because the patches of grass around the area are already starting to wither away.

Time to figure out if i'm crazy or not...

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December 6th, 2023, 9:31 pm

Everfree camp

Twilight woke up to the dark winter night, snow starting to fall, a thin layer on the ground. She rose from the small bed she was resting in, the scarf she was wearing before being sucked into a portal thingy next to her. Placing it around her neck and heading outside.

The researchers decided to call the odd portal a "rift between worlds" where two worlds, dimensions, whatever intwine. The pulses were each world giving off it's enviroment(and creatures) to the other world, suggesting it is doing the same on the other side. For all the researchers did find, it gave ZIP ZERO information to what the hay she met on the other side, why? Cause none of the researchers were brave enough to traverse the other side of the rift, though Twilight was.

There was a pretty large tent covering up the rift, why it's there Twilight can't figure out. Though she went into the tent anyway, since nopony wanted to keep close to the rift the tent was vacant, a huge advantage for her. She wasted no time, closing her eyes and stepping into the porta- rift.

Where she would be met by the same being from before...

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I had my Dragunov in my hands and ready to fire when I stepped into the cave, the oddest part though was that the grass, vines and tree from before have dissapeared, not one trace of nature here. Now it is all pure rock.

To my surprise(and somewhat relief) the glowing portal thingy was still there, my plan was to hopefully peek through the portal, figure out where that horse thing came from. Taking a few steps forward, i'll tell the truth I was a little afraid, I was about to step into what could be a death trap.

I didn't get close enough before I saw that purple....hoof appear again.

I was lucky I didn't have my hand on the trigger this time, so I didn't pull it when my surprise came. The purple horse was back, and once it saw me, and my Dragunov. It took a few steps to the side cautiosly, it wasn't showing any type of agression, or terror. The horse looked more curious than scared.

"What the hay are you?" I could hear it ask, still surprised it could talk.

"I could ask the same thing" I say back, it's horse ears went down when I said that, it also kept glancing from my face to my Dragunov, pretty sure it's wondering if i'm gonna shoot at it again.

"I asked first" I couldn't believe i'm now bickering with a horse, of all things! If it was a normal looking monkey than I could at least think tests on monkey intelligence have worked.

"I'm Jared, a human."

"My name is Twilight, a unicorn, it's nice to meet you Jared." The response surprised me, "Twilight" was speaking friendly, like I totally wasnt holding a gun at it, but it took no attempts of hostiliy, I can atleast say it isn't trying to lure me into a trap.

"There's no such thing as Unicorns, or talking horses." I say back, this time Twilight looked irritated.

"Well you are looking at a talking Unicorn, and i'm not a horse, I am a pony." She explained, gosh dang I still feel like i'm insane.

"What if i'm hallucinating right now? How can I know i'm not insane?" I couldn't think of anything else to say, Twilight gave me a "your an idiot" look.

"Mr. Jared, I can completely assure you are not hallucinating. I am a real pony." That's hard to believe...

I lower my gun, though I still think i'm hallucinating, but it looks like Twilight can speak full english, so conversing shouldn't be an issue.

"Ok then, why did you come through a wierd looking, unatural portal to pop up here?" I ask, twilight giving some thought on how to answer. Luckily both of us can see eachother clearly because of the glow of the portal.

"I came through the portal looking for answers, the portal I cannot explain, can you tell me why you just happen to be in front of this porta- I mean rift? Also where in the name of Celestia am I?" I had no idea who this Celestia was, but I could at least answer the questions.

"I guess I am here for the same reason you came back through, and you are just outside Los Angeles, a city in the state of California. Right here in the United States of America."

"Would you know the planet we are both on?"

"Earth"

"So I am not on Equis anymore..." That confirmed something, this pony aint from this world. We both end up going silent, soaking in the information. Twilight was the first to speak up once more.

"May I ask you a few questions?" She asks

"I think it would be ok, as long as they arent offensive." I reply, Twilight right away replying "no promises". Then finally asking her first question.

"Could you tell me about your race? In return I will tell you about mine, only if you want."

I scratch my chin for a moment, figuring out how to answer that with as little words as possible.

"Greedy, violent, destructive, power hungry creatures who fear anything they cant understand, and will do anything to start understanding them." Twilight widened her eyes at my short explanation, truthfully, this is what I believed was our race was before the apocolypse, and I think i'm like this as well, even if I dont show it.

"So, you would do anything to understand the unknown, like with violence?"

I nod "Most of our kind will I bet, we are sick creatures."

"You count yourself as sick then?"

I nod again. Twilight looked truly disgusted, I'm not surprised though. After a few moments her face softens a little, fixated on me.

"Well, from what I see, you haven't tried to understand me with violence, so that's good." It was nice to here I was a total vicious creature, like I think everyone is. Even my scavenging team.

"I wouldn't fully say that, I did shoot you the first time we met." Twilight cocked her head at me curiously.

"Shoot? Was the loud bang you shooting at me?" Twilight asks. I nod, taking out my Dragunov again.

"Yeah, this is a gun, pulling the trigger makes it shoot a bullet, that bullet if it were to hit you would have killed you."

"What?! You mean you almost killed me? Why would there be such a vicious weapon?!" She says, I just brang up my eyebrow, going back to how I explained what humans were, it made sense to her now. "Oh..."

"Humans have no way to protect themselves, so our kindinstead create weapons to use instead. The weapons we have made are....quite sick." I say, judging how many toture contraptions humans have made, I wasnt lying.

"You mean you don't have magic to fight with or wings to escape?" Twilight asks, I shook my head. "So you only have those....wierd tentacle hooves" I already, and I end up looking down. They do kinda look like tentacles I guess...

"These are hands, they make it easier for humans to do certain tasks, such as handling a gun, or repairing a car." I say, Twilight looked at me quite confused.

"What's a car?"

For the whole night I find myself talking to this pony, telling eachother about our worlds, apparently Twilight's world "Equis" has a select few items that come close to human technology, Twilight also taking a fascination in learning about our advances. Some of the technology humans had ponies couldn't, having different elements than Earth. After a long talk, and becoming comfortable with a completely different intelligent species, we decided that we would meet again next week, I would say this day was quite eventful, and surprisingly pleasant.

It's time to get back to New L.A. before anyone notices i'm gone...

Author's Notes:

What the hay? 15 thumbs up? 0 thumbs down? Serious? WOO HOO!!! I'm making a good story! \o/

Anyway this took longer than expected, sry, hopefully you are all liking how the story is developing. Except ideas for this story are getting hard to think up for me...

So I wanna try something, tell me some suggestions on what should happen next, let the readers decide Jared's fate, will he be forced into Equestria with no way to return? Should I go Game of Thrones style and kill everyone? Tell me what I should do!