Act 0: Nulla, Prologue: Before the Coming Storm

So here we are; on the edge of all things, with friends and family dead and lost, countless fallen to this enemy that bombarded our gates and seized our homes, we have loved ones to mourn and the hordes of the enemy to slay, but in this brief respite, what do we find ourselves doing? Not much, in all honestly. Here I am, writing this for you all to read and for the survivors we protect to read, so they know of our lives and so we can be remembered as the people, or rather, the ponies that we are. The times I have rewritten this introduction of this story go beyond counting, and one of you would have stopped me had I told you my plans. Giving me that old speech you gave me so many times before. But here I sit, ignoring it again whilst I write how everything began, and the actions that lead to this day.

Where should I begin? That is probably the real question, there is no way to keep every pony happy so whatever I say will most likely piss somebody off. Ha, after all this time, I still haven't gotten used to the proper pronunciations of this brilliant land. But I'm sure after our time here I will get used to it.

I suppose I should start at the true beginning, me on Earth, and how Our Princess came down from the stars and took me away to this world we once knew. Of course, not all of you were there at the start and even in our final days we still managed to gather allies. There will be times I will miss out parts of the story from then to now, and I am sure one of you will mostly take the reins, as it were, when my memory eludes me. There will also be times I keep things quiet; such as, my real name. It wasn't always what it is today and I am sure the oldest friends among you know that, I will keep that private due to my own personal preference. A few, mature scenes may be skipped as well, and only written down if either the secondary party agrees people, ponies, should know. If not, I will mention it, but not in the detail the perverts among you may agree with. I know the following chapters and words will get me into a lot of trouble with a lot of high-up ponies, socially or personally, but know. That even to this day, I am loyal to Equestria, and to you mostly.

So anyway, with the introduction done and the scene set for a pretty bumpy ride, I use my little experience I have in writing and hope this doesn't go to shit. Hell, none of you may ever read this, if I believe it too personal and just hide it from you. Where I would hide such a thing where we now hold ourselves I will never know. Anyway, let's start right at the beginning of this tale of adventure, at the time before The Fall and before I was even with any of you. Let us begin, on the day my life was thrown upside down and spun around. For better or worse.

Have you ever had one of those days, you know. One of those days where you would plan to just bum around and do absolutely nothing because you fucking deserve it. But then fate intervenes and you have to go to pick someone up or something? Yeah, well imagine one of those days, but times the 'wat' factor by ten. That was my day.

The plan was simple; wake up around one in the afternoon, turn my laptop on and piss about on games all day until I was hungry and have some microwave meal, yes I know my life sucks, but this is my life so shut up. So when I open my eyes, I do just that. Get up, still in the top from the previous few weeks and some pants. I must have looked really attractive right there. Rubbing the sleep out of my eyes and just lying in my pit I stared at the ceiling. Yep, still white.

Now, trust me when I say, I am not a morning person, but I am more of a computer person than a 'hating mornings so won't move' person. So when I stood up and almost passed out again from the dizziness that I received, my attractiveness level must have shot through the roof, but my rule was if I didn't have a girlfriend to impress, why impress everyone with shit that is holding me back from wasting my life?

Deciding it was best to just sit down; I picked up my phone and started checking all the sites that I used. Nothing, obviously. It was then I heard a very strange and very feminine cough from somewhere behind me, now. My room isn't very big, the apartment I am in isn't very fucking big, so when a woman coughs behind me, not only does that make me jump a little, but begins to make me question what the fuck happened last night? I just went to bed, the fuck happened between then and now? After a lot of pause and another awkward cough, I turned around and was face to face with what looked like a white horse. It, well, she, had pure white fur and sparkling multi-coloured hair, flowing unnaturally. There was a large horn coming out of her head and two white feathered wings at each side of the horse’s body. I just stared at the horse, rubbing my eyes slightly to refresh my vision.

"Good morning." The horse said, I just continued staring, standing here in a T-shirt that would walk to a washing basket if I took it off and some underwear, if I really was seeing shit then I think it was about time I changed my life views and goals. It was only when the horse spoke again did I do a double take. "Sir?" The horse asked, tilting her head at me. I continued to stare, until I needed to blink, then rubbed my eyes once more and looked at the pony. Fuck it.

“Is this real?” I managed to say, the horse stepped closer to me, I backed up as she did and I honestly thought it was going to bite me or something. She looked me over and noticed my obvious lack of trousers.

“I see you are prepared for the day. Yes creature; this is real.” The horse said eventually. I stepped back again, hitting something with my ass. Crap I was cornered.

“I could call you a ‘creature’ too, how would you feel about that?” Was my reply, smart, piss off a talking horned, winged white as snow horse, Shadowfax would be so proud. The horse did actually looked pretty pissed but said nothing more. Stepped back a little I was able to relax, and sit down on the leather chair I had near my bed, not the brightest ideas of mine either.

“Do you know why I am here, cre-” She cut herself of before she said it again and I felt an eyebrow raise. Folding my arms, my reply was simply:

“I presumed my sanity has finally cracked after living alone, working at home and eating cheap shitty meals for so long, but I suppose this is all real and you really are a magical talking horse about to tell me I done fucked up.” Again, the horse didn’t look overly impressed, trying her best at a poker face.

“My name is Princess Celestia, of Equestria. You have something from our world.” She replied. Ooh! I knew what Celestia meant, kind of. Thank fuck for foundation education and Warhammer knowledge!

“So what, Celestia like the sun or Celestial like a leader?” I asked, arms still crossed, the horse raised her eyebrow at me. Charming.

“It started off as one, then the other. Now, will you hear what I must say to you?” Celestia asked, okay, to be fair, despite the fact I raised my eyebrow, she’s talking about some shit right here. Right?

“Go on.” Was all I said. The pony coughed, clearing her throat and I leant back on my chair, raising my arms over my head and around the back of my neck, I was just noticing the golden necklace, crown and gold horse shoes on her person, or horse?

“For reasons that ponykind has yet to understand, a permanent portal has been opened between Equestria and...” She paused, waving a hoof. “Here.” She finally declared. I rolled my eyes but listened still.

Holy shit, I was listening to a talking motherfucking horse.

Meh, could be worse.

“Through this portal, parts of this world and parts of our world are swapping. Causing the gap between dimensions to collapse and shorten, dragging both worlds toward each other. If the swaps are not contained soon, then our planets will be forced into the same dimension and most likely collide, destroying both worlds.” Celestia said, I stood a little out of the chair, no I didn’t understand a word of that but that’s about a good of an explanation as I have ever gotten.

“So what are you doing here? With me I mean?” I asked. She looked at me and paused.

"It would be too hard to explain without me showing you, please, be calm." She said, I nodded and her horn began to glow a bright yellow, I had no idea what that meant so stepped back, falling into the chair I was floating against. She stepped closer and touched me with her bony horn.

What happened next I don't know how to explain, let alone want to explain. I saw everything this pony had seen. And more. I saw magic and spells and great battles between armies larger than anything I could imagine. I saw worlds burn and worlds begin. Life start and grow and evolve, I saw stars and moons all colliding and changing. It was unreal what I saw and I had a killer headache when it was over. I have no idea how long it lasted but I had seen more than enough of whatever she was trying to show me. When it did eventually stop I was coughing up blood, no joke. Fucking blood on my white bed sheets.

After the small, but fucking bloody, coughing fit I sat down and began to pant heavily, trying to catch my breath. Fucking hell woman. I just glared at her. Still breathing heavily.

"That wasn't supposed to happen." She muttered after I began to breathe properly again. I just looked at her, holding my forehead. "I suggest not touching another unicorn’s horn like that whilst you are in this form, and possibly not when you are a pony either. Magic can have. Wild. Effects on some ponies. However I moved of topic, now onto your question.” The pony princess said when she saw me gaping at her. She actually winked. “One of the only few things that made its way from your world to ours are some clouds, they are relatively easy to dispose of, so our side is safe. It is just something small keeping the portal open this side that is the worry. You see, in Equestria, as you have now seen, we have a lot of different magics, one of those is Wild Magic, the raw essence dropped from the atmosphere when too much magic is present in the world. It can’t harm anypony-.” She stopped when I began to laugh at that. “-I see no way in which this is possibly funny.” Celestia grunted, raising her voice a little, it shut me up at least, if you saw what kind of spells she could cast and half the shit I had seen in those few seconds in her mind. Hell, you would too. I coughed a little and chocked out; “Continue.”

“It would appear, some Wild Magic has come here. To you.” She said slowly. Pointing a hoof at me. “There are two ways to retrieve the magic from you, neither I fear you will like.” She added. I looked at myself, in my crap that I called clothing, I didn’t feel like I had any magic in me? Hell would I have known if I could feel magic? What a sudden tug at the chest every now and again or something. Damn boy, I must be a motherfucking wizard!

“And what would these two ways be?” I asked, Celestia’s horn began to glow again, but it stopped suddenly.

“One way is to force the magic out of your body, which will be extremely painful and will most likely kill you. There is also the added knowledge the magic will just take up another host on this world. And I would rather not have to clean up any gore or hunt down some wild magic to do it again.” I didn’t comment on the fact she basically said cleaning and murdering are on the same level of disgust to her. “Or, you can come to Equestria and live your life there, it won’t be here obviously, and you would get some unwanted attention for your looks. If doing this doesn’t close the portal, well either way you would be forced to stay. But we would also have to find whoever is responsible for opening the portal.” Celestia added after a pause.

"So what, die as a human or live in magical horseland as an outcast? What were the pros and cons here? Die now, not have to worry about the aftermath of the two worlds colliding? Fuck earth, bunch of wankers. But what of the horses? I mean, I owed them nothing, however, nor have they done anything against me.

“So if I come to horseland, it’ll be like a new start? I’ll have to stay there as an outcast, but will live nonetheless?” I asked, seriously, fuck Earth. Celestia nodded. “Alright then, let’s see if this really is real then, obviously that magic thing was a major point to you, but still, actually going to your horseland will completely prove it.”

“It’s Equestria. And the residents where you are staying aren't exactly horses as you would put it. There are horses on my world, but not where you will be going. In my land, most of the residents are ponies.” The princess horse replied.

“Most?” I asked. This could be interesting; Celestia changed her blank expression to a more worried or confused face. Gods they looked a lot like humans, well, this one did anyway.

“I know of at least one dragon taking residence in the town you will be staying in, a baby so you have no need to fear him. There is also a griffin outpost on the borders of Equestria; a few other minor races also live peacefully in Equestria, not many though. Most don’t come to Equestria.” She explained, I just nodded and stood again, getting to the same level as Celestia and not looking up at her.

“I see. When will we be leaving? As fun as this is, I’d rather leave now before I begin to react more at the fact a white horse is talking to me.” I muttered and I shit you not; this horse princess actually fucking blushed.

“We may leave now if you so wish, the spell may take a while to prepare so I suppose you can relax or use whatever that thing is.” She replied eventually, pointing a shoed hoof at my laptop. I turned and just stared at it, the thing had finally loaded and a bunch of icons were loading up of all the shit I had downloaded to use once and now didn’t like.

“Hey Celi?” I asked, she flinched at that but said nothing, just looking at me again. “Would I be able to bring anything with me?” I asked, what I was going to ask is if I could bring my computer, only realising I’d have no way to fucking charge it, unless I found a solar generator suddenly. So I shall just bring clothes and a toothbrush and such. She looked concerned again at that request and looked to my computer behind me, before raising an eyebrow.

“I fear such technology would unbalance harmony in Equestria.-” She began, I held up a hand and she stopped, looking pissed again. I looked back and laughed.

“No, not that. I would have no way to charge the battery in it unless you have electricity?” I replied, she went cross-eyed and twitched her nose around, it was adorable. “I guess not. Well then I really wouldn’t be able to maintain it. I was thinking more along the lines of clothing and something I clean my teeth. It would take me a while to get ready so I suggest you go and prepare this spell of yours.” I cut in, after a pause Celestia nodded and turned.

“Of course, come down when you are ready, I shall prepare the portal.” She muttered and left.

Now, when I said I would take a while, that was one of the biggest lies I could make, as soon as she left the room, I grabbed a backpack from my wardrobe, picked up half a dozen of my favourite tops, a couple jumpers, spare socks and such, a couple of books I knew I would never read, and some shoes. I ran into the bathroom still only half-clothed, cleaned up and shaved that bush of a beard I had and put some proper clothing on. Staring into my mirror I also pulled The Picture off the glass and put it in my pocket. Before laying on my bed, checking everything I had open, nothing important was seen, opened a chat up with a couple important people, but had nothing to say. How do you say you are going off world to another dimension? Hell I was probably hallucinating, I’d go downstairs and that white princess horse would be gone, or I would wake up from some really bazaar as fuck dream. I needed a fucking girlfriend. I heard a strange noise from downstairs and looked at the mirror once more. I’d managed to cut myself whilst shaving and had a small dab on blood on my cheek. I could easily clean it up, but fuck it. There wasn’t much there, just a small nick so it wouldn’t kill me if I didn’t clean it. I stared at the mirror with a smile on my face, some Hard Rock Café top on and a black backpack on, considering there was a lot of shit in there it wasn’t all that heavy. After checking everything was prepared again. I nodded. I was ready.

Let’s see what adventure awaits.

I totally had my DS...