A month had gone by and Cole still hasn’t heard from the secret operations, now known has W.S.A. He was pacing around in his room that lay deep within the Rockies for he wasn’t allowed to mingle with the public, he sat on his bed. He has never felt pain or fear, never felt real love or sadness, only the feeling of hatred and loneliness boiled deep within him. Using only these two emotions to fuel him and keep him going, his anger was for some reason boiling now, and before he went into rage the phone rang. The chief was on the other line saying, “Agent, you have been assigned your mission, the device has been built and we need your presence, all will be explained on arrival.” And he then hung up. Cole didn’t know how to feel, it felt as though he should get there as fast as possible for something was interesting him.

A few minutes later Cole entered the laboratory and in the center of the room was just a capsule, nothing spectacular like Stargate or Star Wars, just a pod big enough for him, all that was inside was a form of strap you wear on a suspension roller coaster. In front of it was the chief and a scientist waiting to greet him, as he approached he showed no fear of what it would do, he only cared about getting the mission over with. The chief then said to the soldier, “Agent, this is probably one of the most important missions of your life and one of the greatest moments in human history. This device won’t take you anywhere in our universe, it will take you to another universe entirely. This presents an opportunity for mankind to spread once our sun has died so we can continue to live.”

Cole simply looked at him and said, “I care why?”

“Because you will be the first human to travel through an inter-dimensional portal, and we chose you because God knows what dangerous creatures are on the other side waiting to kill you. Knowing you, you would be able to handle that. So we are giving you some of the agencies best weapons, all stashed in this de-atomiser case so you can fit infinite amounts of objects in there.” With that scientist began pulling out weapons of all sorts, rapid firing pistols with explosive rounds, rapid firing grenade launchers, a folding RPG, a standard assault rifle, a sniper rifle, and a ghillie suit capable of blending the wearer and any objects he/she is carrying into the surroundings, all from a case that looked like it could fit into his pocket. Then after being showed all of these weapons he gave the agent a book and a pencil and told him to journal any of his findings.

“And one final thing, Cole” the chief said, “Wear this mask, because our speculations are that the air they breathe there might be unsuitable for our lungs. Good luck agent.” With that the chief saluted Cole as he suited up in an all black suit, when he put it on a wave of turquoise swept over his suit through small cracks to show it was working. Then he packed all of his weapons into his de-atomiser case and attached it to his belt. He then walked in to the pod, once he was strapped in a little screen in the corner lit up with a number pad. Cole was given the code to punch in on a piece of paper, once that was done he turned his oxygen mask on. Before the door closed on the soldier the chief said to him, “you have a week in there before we pull you out, if there is any sign you are in danger then your shit out of luck. Oh and one more thing,” the chief handed him a suicide pill in a small container, “if all else fails.”

With that the doors closed on Cole and he began to hear a hum, A voice began to count down till ejection, then the humming grew louder and louder as the numbers counted down from ten. The voice said in a feminine tone, “Ten… nine… eight… seven… six… five… four… three… two… one… prepare for ejection. He suddenly felt his body being stretched and burnt alive from the inside with a crusing feeling to it as though he were on a rocket elevator traveling at light speed. Then everything began to shake and the humming grew louder, he felt like his head was going to explode and he let out a painful scream as he felt his body being torn apart atom by atom. Then once the humming became a deafening tone he lost consciousness.

******

Meanwhile in Ponyville, it had been a month since Pinkie’s atomic seizure, everypony was wondering when it was going to happen today, well those who were aware of her seizure had even happened were wondering. Twilight knew it had been a whole month and ran out to the balcony of her tree and looked to see if anything has happened, nothing. She came back into the room and turned to Pinkie and said in a slightly triumphant voice, “Well Pinkie for once your Pinkie sense was wrong, I can’t believe”

Before Twilight could finish her sentence Spike ran up to the lavender pony and shouted out, “Twilight! Quick! The Sky! It’s ripping apart like a piece of napkin!” Spike then ran under the bed as there was a huge cracking noise that ripped through Ponyville loud enough that it could be heard from Canterlot. The sound had a bit of a rippling effect.

Twilight looked at Pinkie Pie with a panicking look, “We have to get the others; maybe the elements of harmony will be needed.” Twilight said as she was heading for the door.

Within minutes, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Twilight were watching the sky when all of a sudden a small object came zooming out of nowhere breaking the sound barrier and bending light behind it, Rainbow Dash had the idea of going after it to see what’s up, “I’ll try and stop it” she said bravely and she took off, a few seconds later she had managed to catch up to see that it was the egg shaped object with a window on one side, inside it was this black monster waiting to be hatched. Rainbow Dash was too startled to notice the rock in front of her and she crashed with a large, “OOF!” and the egg continued its death course until it crashed into the Everfree Forest with such a tremendous explosion that the nearby lake’s water created an inland tsunami. Luckily nopony was injured, well except for Dash.

The other ponies decided to run after the object to see what it was and help Rainbow Dash.When they caught up to Dash she didn’t say anything, she shook her head and got back onto her hooves, when they reached the Everfree Forest everypony rushed through, Fluttershy had a few troubles entering but she managed after a few minutes of comforting and encouraging. Once they arrived to the crash zone they noticed that it was an egg like container but with a weird creature behind the broken glass.

“Fluttershy, help me see if the thing is okay.” Twilight said and as they approached it Twilight could hear faint breathing “Quick, we have to get him out.”

A few minutes of struggling and teamwork later, the creature was moved away from the crash to safety, “We have to get him to the hospital.” A nervous Twilight said staring at this visitor. Twilight wondered to herself how this thing could be a good thing, it had already caused havoc to the entire town and it wasn’t conscious.

*****

When Cole opened his eyes again he was no longer in his capsule, his vision was blurry too. His entire body numb, a wave of thoughts swept over the soldier, what if I was paralyzed, what if the enemies were going experiment on me (He had a bad experience with the anal probe, but who doesn’t). When the soldier tried to move his arms, he was reassured with movement from them, it took him a few minutes, but he finally managed to get up and out of bed, he started walking down the hallway with shaky legs when he heard English being spoken around the corner. What if his mission wasn’t successful? Where was he? Did Albrecht trap him in another facility(he’s been the agencies’ arch nemesis for awhile, it started out when he refused to pay several parking tips and one thing led to another and he was becoming a terrorist)? His spy skills kicked in and managed to go undetected, the enemy the enemy couldn’t see him. The completely invisible agent managed to sneak past security by crawling through the air vents as silently as the air that traveled through them. After a few hours of crawling his way through a labyrinth of pipes he managed to get outside, the sky was blue as a cartoon, not a single cloud in the sky, the birds were singing, and the sun warmed everything it touched. Cole didn’t care about these things, all he wanted to figure out was if he was somewhere else on Earth or if he was in a different universe. Cole crawled out of the air vent and onto the roof, he looked around for any city he recognized, but nothing. He was in the middle of nowhere in a country town.

Suddenly he heard alarms blaring, he figured it was because of him and he dropped from the roof and fell about twenty feet or so. Before he landed, his suit immediately kicked and lit up with a turquoise glow, he landed without experiencing any pain. Once he was reoriented he ran for the forest at superhuman speeds, he checked for his de-atomiser case but realized it wasn’t with him, it must have been left back at the pod, he thought to himself. He had to turn off his suit because he understood that his suit had limited energy, so he went looking for a form of transport because travelling on foot would be useless because the pod could be miles away. After a few minutes of searching he poked his head out of the trees to see a small horse in a clearing sleeping there, or rather a pony sleeping, “It’s small, and odd to be cyan with rainbow mane. It must be torture to have kids do that to you, but it will have to do.” Cole snuck up behind it without making a sound, not even a branch under his foot snapped, and he got ready to jump it. Once he jumped on it he was greeted with the loudest scream he ever heard, the pony bucked and spun madly while Cole tried his best to get hold of it, “Shut up you fucking mule!” Cole yelled out.

The pony stopped moving the instant he said that, “Wait wait wait… did you just call me… a mule?” The pony said in an angry, tomboyish voice. Cole understood that it was angry, and that it was about to kill him somehow, but he didn’t understand how in the name oh holy fuck it spoke to him. Before the soldier could get off the pony suddenly spread wings and took off with Cole on it’s back. Now Cole had to figure out where he was, why this pony can talk and where the fuck it got its wings. The pegasus was beginning to move faster and faster, the last time Cole had been moving this fast was when he was in a special jet, “You know who you just called a mule?” the raging pegasus shouted over her shoulder, now traveling at super sonic speed.

“A talking horse?” Cole shouted back.

“Very funny, chump, well this is where you get off, see ya paly!” With that the cyan pegasus flipped upside down and before the soldier could react he was falling towards a lake without a parachute. From his estimations he was falling from about thirty thousand feet. Luckily Cole was prepared for anything and spread his arms and legs like a flying squirrel, but realized to the horror he hadn’t packed a base jumping suit. His impact resistors won’t work for water so long story short, he’s fucked.

“Oh you’ve gotta be fucking kiddi-.” Before he could finish his sentence he impacted in the lake with such tremendous force he was knocked unconscious, the water exploding up into the air with a loud SLAP.

In what felt like an instant he opened his eyes up to see now six odd coloured ponies. An orange, white, a pink coloured pony, lavender, a pale yellow pony, and the cyan Pegasus he encountered earlier all looking down at him. As he slowly opened his eyes the orange one said with a bit of a western farmer’s accent, “Boy, that was one mighty fall ya took there, you okay sugarcube?” As he began to get up, the others dawned looks of worry, either they were afraid of this strange new creature, or they cared for him. Cole took a look around the room he was in, he was in a sort of cottage, rodents infested the place, squirrels, birds, rabbits, and some other small creatures crawled through the area into holes scattered around the place. The walls and the ceiling were made of wood, and the couch he was lying on was rather comfortable, but he had to get up out of it.

Once he sat up the lavender pony then turned to the cyan with a look of anger and said, “Well Rainbow Dash? What do you have to say for yourself?”

Rainbow Dash just shot back at her, “Hey, he called me a mule!”

“You dropped him from the sky!”

“Serves him right.” Rainbow snorted.

Then the lavender pony nudged Rainbow with a look of frustration to get the cyan pegasus to say, “Fine, I’m sorry, yeesh.”

“Well, now that apologies have been made I think we’d better introduce ourselves. I’m Twilight Sparkle.” The lavender pony said.

“This is Applejack.”

“Howdy do?” The orange one said with a smile.

“This is Rarity.”

“A pleasure meeting you, dear.” The white unicorn cooed.

“This is Fluttershy.”

“Oh… umm…hello?” The pale yellow pegasus squeaked from behind her hair.

The lavender unicorn pointed to the smiling pink one and said, “And this here is Pinkie Pie.”

The pink one started bouncing all around the room talking at a million miles an hour saying, “Hi, I’m Pinkie Pie but you can call me Pinkie *gasp* you must be why my tail was twitchy-twitchin’ you’re not from around here are you? I should have a big welcome to Ponyville party just for you it’s gonna be soooo much fun!”

“And uhh… this is Rainbow Dash, you’ve already met her.” The lavender pony said pointing her hoof ant the scowling cyan pegasus.

“Hey.” Is all she said, she didn’t even bother to look at him. Cole could already tell that he and Rainbow weren’t going to be exactly the best of friends.

“So, what’s your name?” Twilight asked pointing to Cole.

“I’m Cole.” He said with no emotion at all.

“Colt?” The nuclear powered pink pony asked, turning her head 180 degrees.

“No Cole! It’s only Cole nothing else” The soldier said with a hint of frustration. So far he didn’t like the pink one. Then once that was over Cole got up and asked, “Where is the nearest human? I need to find out where I am.”

“What’s a hoo-min?” the pink one asked again bouncing up and down.

“That answers that. So are ponies the dominant species on this planet?” Cole asked again walking towards the door.

“Not just ponies,” The lavender pony began, “pegasi and unicorns like me live here.” The lavender pony said matter of factly.

“Well this proves that it worked, so how did I get here?” Cole said before he walked out the door, he wanted to make sure he wasn’t screwed and that he could get his supplies.

“We found you in a white egg sort of thing, if you ask me it doesn’t match your style.” He white unicorn told him; of course all she cared about was fashion. But now that Cole knew his pod was here he could start documenting his findings.

“Well as much as I want to stay, and not that I do,” Cole whispered under his breath, “I have to go get my supplies, can one of you show me where it is?” Cole wanted to just get away from these annoying ponies, the pink one was too much for him, if she continued to bounce he would go apeshit.

“Well it’s in the,” the yellow pegasus gulped down her fear, “the Everfree Forest.” Cole was really annoyed and confused now, how could they be afraid of a forest, it has the word free in it and isn’t free a good thing? (At least in his universe it was)

Cole bent over to get close into the yellow pegasus’ face and said to her with a snarky attitude, “Well then I guess your not coming now are ya?” the yellow pegasus hid behind her long pink hair like a child would hide behind their mother’s leg. The yellow one wasn’t the only one afraid of the forest, the others were shaking too.

The yellow one was probably extra terrified because of how Cole got into her personal space but she managed to sum up the courage to say, “Oh but I do want to go, but we don’t usually go in there alone,” She looked behind her at the others giving her encouraging smiles.

“So what, are all of you going to come now?” Cole was hoping this wouldn’t happen, but the sooner he gets away from these ponies the better.

“Well yeah, it aint natural in there… it aint safe fer nopony to be travellin’ in there alone.” the orange pony said to him. Cole just noticed the orange one was wearing a cowboy hat… really? Cole was seriously wondering what gas his mask was feeding him because he might be on the acid trip of the year. Cole also wasn’t afraid of what could be lurking in there, if he was man enough to suplex a fucking alligator and uppercut a bear he was man enough to walk into a fucking forest. Even if it was dusk.

“Well then let’s get our asses moving, I don’t want to be here and I’m pretty sure none of you want me here either.” Cole said bravely, he really hated these ponies so far.

As everypony left the cottage Twilight thought about this new creature, she really didn’t like him and was glad he wanted to leave, cause so far he caused havoc in Ponyville and forced everyone to help him again with no thank you from him. Yet she had a feeling that he wasn’t like this because he wanted to, there was another reason. All she and her friends had to do was just keep showing kindness and hope for the best. (LOVE AND TOLERANCE)

Later in the Everfree Forest the ponies were all cowering behind this new visitor, Rainbow Dash noticed how he wasn’t the slightest bit scared and thought to herself, What an idiot, he has no idea hes walking straight into the most dangerous place in Equestria. Pinkie began bouncing beside Cole asking him a million questions, “Why is your name Colt? Where are you from? You’re not from Ponyville are you? Where in Equestria are you from? Are you even from Equestria? Are there ponies where you’re from? Do they throw parties like me?”

Cole lost it, a vein visible on his forehead he turned to the pink pony and shouted in her face, “Oh my God almighty shut the fuck up! You ask too many fucking questions, if you ask another question I swear to Christ I will take my fist, shove it down your throat and pull your fucking vocal cords out!” As Cole was shouting and motioning all the actions, a dark creature was sneaking up behind him which made the ponies shake in pure fear. Cole thought he had finally got his message through their skulls when he felt something drip onto his shoulder.

“Chimera!” The ponies screamed. Cole felt the breathing on the back of his neck and turned around to see a creature with the head of a lion, the hind quarts of a goat, and a serpent for a tail (holy fuck that must have taken one hell of an orgy to make). Cole was blind with rage, his suit fired up as he roundhouse kicked it in the face, the suit gave him extra strength and helped kick it into a nearby tree hard enough to crack the tree. Cole walked up to the animal now even angrier, grabbed it by it’s throat and brought it close to his face and yelled at the top of his lungs, “Keep breathing down my fucking neck and I will tear out your lungs and make you eat them, I WILL EAT YOUR FUCKING HEART!” With that he threw the creature at another two trees hard enough to break them both. The chimera got up and growled at him, trying to scare Cole but he just shouted, “I WILL MAKE YOU MY BITCH!” The creature obviously outgunned scampered off tail between legs, not wanting to mess with this stronger creature. Cole then dropped to his knees in exhaustion as his suit powered down. The adrenalin finally out of his system and now a lot calmer, he turned back to the wide eyed ponies.

“You just fought off a chimera…” The lavender unicorn began, “nopony is brave enough to fight off a chimera bear hoofed.” The ponies were all impressed with Cole’s bravery, except for Dash; she thought to herself, He got lucky. As soon as Cole came back to his senses he realized that his oxygen tank had been punctured and he was beginning to panic as he lost oxygen. Cole was, for the first time in his life, afraid of dying. The ponies began to crowd around him but didn’t know how to help. With Cole’s last few breaths he decided to take off the helmet to show them his face. He had grey brown eyes and wavy dark blond hair that was cut short; he had a dimple on his chin and had a very square jaw. He held his last breath and stood up to show them what he really looked like. (So dramatic isn’t it?)

Cole’s heart began to panic, he was going to suffocate and his body took over and made him let go of his breath. Cole gasped for air as he fell to the ground and began tossing and turning, feeling the pain of the neurotoxins in him. The ponies just looked at his odd dancing and Rainbow dash thought to herself, what a baby. Cole then realized he had been doing this for almost a minute, he was breathing oxygen. He jumped to his feet brushed himself off and said in a calm voice, “That’s what it would have looked like if your air was toxic to me.” Cole didn’t feel the slightest humiliation in what he had done.

“You’re loco in the coco, you’re funny.” The pink pony said bouncing away, “Follow me.” She said waving her hoof in her direction.

After only ten minutes of walking the group had finally managed to get to Cole’s pod. The white egg object was in the center of a crater that would take thirty seconds to run around. Cole found his de-atomiser case in the pod and attached it to his belt, he turned to the pink bouncing pony and said to her, “I apologize for the way I shouted at you.” Cole didn’t mean it; he just felt it necessary to break the silence.

“It’ okay, you just got mad that’s all.” She said back to him in her happy bubbly voice. Cole began to pull a tent out of his de atomizer bag and began setting it up beside the crater.

“Uh what are you doing?” The orange pony asked with an extremely confused look on her face.

“I’m setting up a tent for the week.” Cole was impressed at how they didn’t know what a tent was yet knew how to make houses.

“Out here? Remember what just happened back there?”

“Remember what I did back there? I can survive this.”

“Sugarcube, it would be the least ah could do to let you stay at Sweet Apple Acres for tonight.” The other ponies liked the idea of letting him stay at their places for the night, after all he saved them. After a brief discussion the ponies came to an agreement.

“We decided that we will let you stay at our houses for the night the entire week you’re here,” The lavender pony said to him, “the order would be Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Me, and then Rainbow Dash.”

“Hey, I’m not letting him sleep at my place, besides only pegasi can stand on clouds.” The cyan Pegasus shouted. Cole could tell that this Pegasus is going to remember the mule incident forever.

“Well, uhh….” Cole began. He wanted to find an appropriate way to say no.

*****

An hour later, Cole was setting his de-atomiser case on a table while Applejack put a tray into the oven (how did he get talked into this). When the unpacking was over, Applejack gave Cole a tour of the farm.

“This here’s Winona,” Applejack pointed towards her dog, he seemed rather happy to see her, “and this here’s mah lil’ sister Applebloom.”

Then a small yellow pony with a rose coloured mane came from behind Applejack’s legs and looked up at Cole saying, “Um… Hello.”

Once the meet and greet was over at Sweet Apple Acres, Cole and Applejack sat down next to the fireplace with an apple pie that she baked herself. Cole reached into his pocket and pulled out a silver rectangle and popped the top off, with that a small flame appeared and he set the logs in the fireplace on fire.

“Oh wow, what’s that y’all got there?” Applejack asked with a wide look of curiosity in her eyes as she pointed at the lighter with her hoof.

“It’s a lighter, everyone from where I come from has one.” Cole said handing it to her, “Be careful, I don’t want to be responsible for a forest fire.” Cole said to Applejack, who was just flicking the fire on and off.

“Aw shoot, don’t worry ‘bout me, sugarcube.” She said with a bit of laughter. Once she was done playing with the silver rectangle of firey fire she handed it back to Cole and asked him, “We haven’t heard one single thing ‘bout where y’all are from, what’s it like there?”

So for the next hour Cole was forced to talk about how society on earth was based on technology and science, he decided to skip the war, famine, natural disasters, terrorism, diseases, crime and fear parts because he wanted to make it sound like he was from a place that was at least half as peaceful as here. He also mentioned that humans rode ponies and were the dominant species because of their opposable thumbs. Applejack looked like she was listening to a tale of absolute awesome; she was awed at the idea of having fields that stretched miles long are harvested in only a day thanks to technology. She loved to hear about the adventures Cole went on, like the time he went to the moon, and the time he went to the bottom of the ocean.

When it was Applejack’s turn to speak, Cole learned about how society here in this universe was based on magic and how “everypony” (that’s what they say here apparently) had a special and unique talent that was represented by the image on their flanks. At first Cole thought it was just a tattoo, but then again, it’s hard to tattoo fur. Cole learned about all the boring adventures Applejack went on, they were nowhere near as good as the adventures he went on in his opinion. (What a dick)

Two hours had gone by and Applejack was beginning to yawn, she brought out a pillow beside the couch and said to Cole with a sleepy look on her face, “Well Colt, we best be hittin’ the hay, maybe tomorrow the fillies and I can show ya Ponyville.”

“Yeah sure, I’d like that” Cole had no idea why he had just said that, and it took him a couple of seconds to convince himself that it was to be polite and for no other reason. Before Applejack fell asleep, she did the last thing Cole expected; she gave him a hug, not just a simple greeting hug you give your grandma, this was full of emotion. She held on for a little while and Cole could feel her blond mane brushing against his chin, Cole didn’t return the favour though, he didn’t see why he should.

“What are you doing?” Cole asked with a confused look on his face.

“I like ya, Colt, no one has ever sat around and listened to me fer that long.”

“But how can you trust me like this, what if I was a flesh eating monster?”

“Well if that were the case, I would be in yer belly by now.” Finally Applejack let go of him allowing him to fully breathe. With that she laid her head on her pillow and began to sleep.

Cole still wasn’t able to get to sleep for another few hours so he took the opportunity to write his findings:

May 6 2013

It’s been my first full day here in this dimension and the physics are almost alike the ones in our universe, except the habitants tend to display signs of telekinesis and mind powers such as flight, levitation, and crafting.

Habitants are of creatures similar to Earth mythology such as Pegasi and werewolves, as impossible as it seems the dominant species are three variants of the equine family, more accurately the pony family: The pegasi, the unicorns, and the common pony. In rare cases have there been reports on alicorns, but only are [resented in the form of royalty.

Chemical compound found in vegetation is similar, if not exact to earth vegetation. Dominant species only feed on vegetation which presents an odd paradox as to why vegetarians are dominant. The ponies here are capable of communication. It is an extremely unlikely coincidence that we speak the same language. So far six of the residents of my current location have volunteered, under pure generosity, to house me for the week.

Before Cole shut his eyes he looked down at the orange pony, now shivering because the fire had died out. Cole had this strange feeling inside him he learned to oppress years ago, but it felt different, he felt he should give her his covers, because he after all had a suit capable of warming him. Cole also didn’t want to wake up the next day to find a dead horse beside him so he gave her his blanket. As soon as he did, the orange pony stopped shivering. Cole then closed his eyes and began to drift away.

He had another nightmare again, it wasn’t like a movie or anything it was just a flash of all these still images of people he’s killed, he saw innocent families watch as their husbands or sons heads would be stomped on by him. Cole wasn’t being entertained by these anymore; a wave of anger filled his veins, as he got more and more enraged, the images were getting worse and worse until he couldn’t hold it. The last he saw wasn’t an image, it was a memory of when he visited an infected hospital and had to kill everyone there, what he remembered was pointing his pistol at a child no older than four. Before he watched as he pulled the trigger on the crying boy he woke up in a sweat. Cole looked around to see that it was still night and Applejack was still asleep. Cole gave himself a few minutes to slow his heart rate down and rolled onto his side away from the sleeping pony. As he closed his eyes he asked himself, “Why?”