"Wow. This is trippy." I said. Of course, I was travelling through a portal that reminded me way too much of an iTunes visualizer. "Yep, super trippy."

The only thing I could wonder, was where was this portal taking me? I literally just opened it without thinking about it, just wanting to get away from Ms. Purple. I couldn't really even comprehend what was going on. Like, seriously, how did I do that? Where am I going? Will anyone help me?

"I need help. I really need help." I said to no one. "Just let me out!"

Why does the universe hate me sometimes? I ask this because just as I said that, the other end of the portal opened up.

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"Ow." I groaned.

Why the portal opened up ten feet above the ground, I'll never know. All I do know, is that that HURT. At least it put my cloak back on me.

As I looked around I saw virtually the same thing that I tried to escape from. Except, there was no purple pony. Instead, there was… an arrow coming at my head?!?!

“Get down you idiot!” said a cloaked figure as I got shoved to the ground.

“WHAT THE HELL?!” I screamed at the figure. “Who are you? Where am I? WHY WAS I ALMOST SHOT?!”

“Drake Blackwood. Equestria. Your-” said Drake.

“WHY ARE THERE GRIFFONS HERE WITH CROSSBOWS?!?! THE FUCK IS GOING ON?!” I screamed as I tried to force myself up.

Drake sighed as I saw him raise his right hand and slap me across the face “Listen pal, it’s rude to interrupt someone, trust me I’ve been there. Right now I can’t explain everything, but we need to get to that dome over there” he said pointing to a pink dome around a treehouse across the battlefield.

As we ran, I noticed a weird metal gauntlet on his left hand. I noted to ask him about that later, as it was probably a bad idea to ask him while we were in the middle of the freaking battlefield.

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When we finally got under the dome I had a good look around. The village that I had appeared in at first was utterly destroyed. If there wasn’t a pile of rubble, there was a building on fire. I could see a few buildings that were like the one that I was near, what with a bubble over it, protecting it from the battle raging on. I couldn’t believe that this is what was going on. Where was I? Is this the same place I was? Was it a new world or some sort of parallel dimension? What was going on here? Yet, all that had to wait, because right then I noticed that the building I was standing next to was the same one that I had met purple smarts at.

One thing in my mind engaged at the moment…..

Panic Mode: Engaged

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!” I started screaming before getting backhanded by the metal gauntlet on his left hand.

“Stop screaming you dolt. Next time I’ll just knock you out” Drake said as I saw him rub the bridge of his nose annoyed.

“OW!” I yelped. “Sorry, I needed that. Anyways, what’s going on here? What happened to the town?”

“To put it simply, I did, but also I didn’t. The Griffons and Diamond Dogs caught wind of a weird bipedal helping the ponies with strange powers and wanted me for different reasons. Sun Queen told them no and well, they decided to use force to get me. Simple really, but a pain in the ass.” Drake said as he shrugged his shoulders.

“Sun Queen? Ya meen the white alicorn? I’m sorry, but I’m still new to this whole ponies rule the world thing,” I said. “Also, if what you’re saying is true, I have one question.”

“Yes, the white alicorn. Her name is Celestia, ruler of Equestria along with a blue alicorn named Luna. So what’s your question?” asked Drake.

“Well, since Alicorns are basically gods…. why go after you instead of them?” I asked. “What makes you so important and special? That is, not to sound so pretentious.”

“Put it simple, I have powers this world has never seen and thus makes me a bigger target…. that and I don’t have a menagerie of guards protecting me or the power of a celestial body”

“Oh….. I see. How did you get here anyways. Matter of fact, how did I get here? Who are you?” I demanded from Drake.

Drake just simply smirked “This weird talisman brought me here” Drake said as he held up the necklace around his neck. It was a silver necklace with a simple chain lanyard to allow it to dangle. In the center of it was a light purple gem in a pentagon looking pendant that seemed to glow with a light blue shade under it. “Bought it off a merchant and next thing I know I’m in talking pony land.”

“Hold up. Did that merchant happen to look like that guy from Resident Evil 4? Creepy hooded guy and so on?” I asked.

“Yeah, even had that same creepy voice that made me want to shoot him everytime he popped up” Drake confirmed. “As for how you got here, I got no clue pal, probably took a messed up spell or something.”

“My portal? I don’t think that was a spell… It was more like me just sort of ripping a hole in…. something……” I said.

“As for who I am, I already told you. Name’s Drake Blackwood, the Ancient Summoner” Drake said as he looked at me and extended a fist.

I could only guess he wanted a fistbump, and took him up on his offer. “I honestly can’t remember who I am. All I remember that I was supposed to be at anime expo with my friends playing D&D. I was their dungeon master.”

Just then, what looked like a bottle came soaring towards us and bounce off the barrier protecting the building. The second it hit the ground flames spread everywhere outside of the forcefield. Drake looked at the battlefield “Damn Diamond Dogs. Quick inside!” he said to me while dragging me inside.

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The second we got inside I saw…. weird humanoid things? Were those anthros? Anyhow, they were all huddled around and concentrating on…. something. There was an anthro dragon over by the window keeping lookout. Well this is a lot different than the pony world I was on…. I guess I did end up somewhere else.

“What are they doing?” I asked Drake.

“Maintaining the barrier and with Twilight as the main caster. They’re channeling their magic to her so she can keep the barrier supported” Drake said as he seems to rummage through books looking for something.

“Ok then…” I said. I noticed his gauntlet again and, since we weren’t in danger anymore, “What’s up with that gauntlet of yours? What’s it do?”

“It’s my tool. It helps me protect Ponyville and my friends from those that wish to do it harm. For more info read this” Drake said as he held out a large, thick, coverless book. He walked over and placed it before me. The title read Drake’s Gauntlet by Twilight Sparkle and I saw Drake grin “Three hundred pages over it pal” he said with a chuckle.

“Screw that!” I yelled at him. “Couldn’t you just show me what it does? I mean, I don’t have that kind of attention span buddy.”

Drake shook his head “Sorry I can’t. Got to save up my power for if they break through. All the magic details are on pages one hundred eighty-four through one hundred ninety-two” he said. Before I could ask more, he walked over to the weird anthro looking pony that looked like purple smarts, only, she didn’t have wings like she did. Was that actually the purple alicorn I saw before? Did these anthro ponies not have wings?

“Hey, wait up. Who is that?” I asked.

Drake stopped, turned to face me and said, “Twilight Sparkle, who else?”

“And she is?” I inquired.

“The pupil of Celestia? What, don’t you have one wherever you came from?” Drake asked as he walked to Twilight and sat down next to her. I saw his gauntlet rise and rub her back, as if trying to help her relax or something.

“Yes. It does. I just meant what is she.” I explained. “The population doesn’t look like anthros from where I came from. Also, shouldn’t she have wings? I mean, where I came from, she was an alicorn. Not an anthro….. whatever she is.”

Drake seemed to stop as he heard what I said. He stood up and walked over to me as he whispers “Shut up about that. You want to mess up the future?” he asked in a hushed whisper.

“What do you mean the future?” I asked in a quiet voice. “I don’t understand. First I was on Earth worrying about getting to a meet up at Anime Ex, then I’m here. I don’t really remember much else. Sorry.”

Drake just nodded “Listen. The world we are in is a tv show in our world called My Little Pony.”

Now let me stop you there, dear reader. Because, as much as I could remember, which was very little, that was not part of it. But still, it sounded so familiar.

“My….. Little…… Pony……..” I said quietly.

……. Oh damn it. I remember that……

“WHAAAAAT?!?!?” I screamed at the top of my lungs.

“Quiet!” Drake shouted at me as his metal gauntlet clamped my mouth. He looked over as the anthro pony seemed to waver a bit. His eyes turned back to me “I swear if the barrier falls because of your scream, I will go Necrophos on you and plague you to oblivion!” he quietly yelled at me “Understood?! I will not stand by and let innocents get hurt because of you” he finishes.

“Sorry. Jeeze.” I said.

“Look. I’ve watched the show and where we are now is within Season 2, a long way from the alicorn version which appears at the end of Season 3. If your Twilight has wings then you are either in Season 3 or 4, a good year or two ahead…. was your world attacked by some monkey/centaur thing?” Drake asked me quietly.

“Well, there was no crystal tree, so Tirek hasn’t been there yet. But I did see that Discord was walking around in the open.” I said in hushed tones.

“Okay then that means you are in between Season 3 finale and the start of Season 4. Sorry for the quiet, but she works better when she can concentrate. She also seems to be more relaxed when I’m around” Drake said as he glanced by at Twilight.

“Ok then…. You have a place where I can put my cloak?” I asked.

Drake simply nodded as he showed a coat rack. He soon returned to sitting next to the anthro pony and resumed to rub her back slowly, leaving me to my own devices.

I walked over to the rack and proceeded to take off my cloak and placed it on the rack. I saw the same pale as heck hands again. What was up with that? I mean, it’s like as if I was…..

“I’m a changeling…” I said quietly.

“You say something?” Drake asked as he looked over at me. I saw his eyes go wide a bit as he ran over and hastily tossed my cloak back over me.

Twilight looked over at us. “He’s indecent” Drake said quickly as she turned back around. I saw him look at me “Okay now a question of my own. What the hell are you?” he asked quietly.

“I’m a changeling,” I said to him. “What’s wrong with…… oh. Sorry ‘bout that.”

Drake just nods fast ‘Yeah. The changelings haven’t show up yet. Like literally this is between episode four and five. Evidently time acts differently between our world and this world” Drake said as he looked at Twilight and sighed. “Just… read the report and please try not to screw up the timeline. I do not want to get mooned because of it” he said as he walked back to do the same thing as before.

“Huh. Well then…..” I muttered. I walked over to the window and looked outside. I couldn’t believe what I saw.

“Hey Drake?” I said.

A long inhale was heard in response. “This better be important or I will toss you out of this barrier” Drake said with a hint of annoyance alongside a soft giggle from the mare next to him.

“What’s the weirdest thing you’ve seen?” I questioned him.

Drake looked over, “On this planet, or our planet?” he asked.

“Just in general…” I said.

“Well I say a group of Minotaur do a Equestrian version of… what was that song?.... Oh yeah! The Numa Numa song while dressed as dragqueens” Drake answered.

“While I admit that that is indeed weird, it’s wrong.” I said.

“Then what is it?” Drake asked.

“Blimps.” I said pointing to the sky.

Author's Notes:

Thank you to Hekkar for the crossover. Go check out his story if you have the time.
You can find his story here.