Alex landed on the ground in the Everfree Forest.

“Ouch. . . .my butt, C’mon Discord! Was that really necessary?” He glared at the God of Chaos.

“Necessary? No it wasn’t, fun? Yes it was, a lot!” He laughed.

“Why do I even ask?. . . Ok, now tell me, what are we doing in the Everfree Forest and what exactly do I need to do?” The young man questioned while dusting his pants.

“Hohohohohoho, I already told you my dear Alex, I need you to kick another human’s butt.”

“Uh? I thought I heard wrong before but I didn’t, is there another human besides me in Equestria?

“Not exactly, you haven’t notice? Well I’m not surprised, this Everfree is just like the other one.”

“This Everfree? . . .wait! now I remember, you pulled me to that portal and. . . ohhhhh! Are we in another . . . .”

“Yes Alex, we are in another world, another Equestria to be more précised.”

“What?! wow! That’s amazing! I knew you could open portal to new worlds but this is just awesome!” Alex beamed. He would have never believed that he would be on another Equestrian world. How awesome is that!?

“You knew?” He asked, actually surprised by his excitement.

“Discord. . . you tried to send TreeHugger to another dimension, remember?” He asked.

“. . . . . right." Discord said a little disappointed, Alex reaction wasn’t as good as he was expecting, he would had like to see him freaking out, by the other hand, this would make things easier to explain. He snapped his finger and summoned a sofa, a movie proyector and a screen.

“Now sit my little human, time to tell you what you need to know.”

Alex and Discord sat on the sofa and Discord summoned some popcorn.

“You see my dear human, as there are many Earths as you already know, there are many other diferent worlds including other Equestrias, very similar to each other, almost identical, as you did with our Equestria, many other humans maybe from your Earth or others, they managed to get to those Equestrias, this world is one of them, humans are very rare here.” The god explained.

“I see, just like me.”

“Exactly! Now, obviously, there is a Discord in this Equestria, a really nice fellow I must say, too bad he still is evil.”

“Wait wait wait! What you mean with 'he's is still evil'?”

“Well. . . contrary to me, he was never reformed and he is in his stone prison right now.” Discord answered.

“Ok. . . .so how you manage to meet him?” That was one thing that crossed his mind. How could his Discord met the other if he's still trapped in stone?

“Hahahahaha, my dear human, no matter in what dimension or world we can be, the dracoenous are powerfull creatures, even being stone by the Elements, there are still some things we can do, of course we can use our magic to interact with the physical world as normally we do it but we can still abandon our bodies to entertain ourselves and do a little pranks with the few magic we have left, and of course we still can break the dimensions’ rift, that’s how I meet that cute fellow." He explained.

“And. . . well, if he is you and all. . .he hasn’t ask you to help him to get free from his prison?”

“He can’t ask me that, and even if he did, I wouldn’t help him, first, because I’m good now. . .almost and second, believe it or not, there are some rules across worlds and one of them, to be honest maybe it’s the most important, is that we, the chaos creatures can’t interfere directly in the affairs of other worlds.”

“Who wrote those rules?”

“That information I can’t tell, there are beings that is not a good idea to mess with, trust me and please don’t press the topic.”

“Ok, at least I don’t have to be afraid to seeing more of you in my home. . .no offense.”

“None taken, well. .  .back to the topic, you see this world’s Discord and me made a little bet.”

“Hmmmm, what kind of bet?”

“We want to see which of you is the best human, of course my money is with you.”

“Discord. . . don’t tell me you really want me to . . .”

“Yes! We want you to fight each other, a little match, not a deathmatch of course.”

“So you brought me to another Equestria with its own human and you want me to pop from nowhere and ask him to fight me?”

“Exactly! I’m glad to see you get these things quickly!”

“What If I say no?”

“Yes, you may say no but remember, you promised and I still have the perfect gift for your marefriend.”

Alex thought for a moment. He didn’t have to do this and there was still time to get a nice present for Fluttershy. . . but if he was honest with himself, this adventure was so good to let it pass, once again his adventure feeling crushed his common sense.

“Let’s just say I agree. . .what If I lose, will I still have the Diamond?”

“hohohohohoho my dear Alex, of course you won’t, I will only take you back to our Equestria and our business ends there.”

“So I must win to get the reward uh?. . .(sigh) ok, let’s do it.”

“Excellent! Now let’s see what you are facing, his name is Daniel Blaze.”

Discord turned the proyector to show Alex his target, the movie showed a human like him, he wasn’t an old guy, quite young to be honest, one of the first things he noticed was that he had black wings, at first he thought they were fake but no, another thing was his sword, it looked like it was made of diamond. . .maybe an especial alloy but what really took his attention above all was the fact he had. . .ninjutsu abilities?

“From what Naruto’s universe this guy was taken out?” He thought to himself.

He seemed to have control over the elements, the video kept showing images about his accomplishes, the monsters he defeated, the ponies he had met. . .they were antrophonies. . . .WHAT? ANTROPHONIES? A Smile crossed his face, it was shocking but at the same time it was awesome, so many fimfictions he had read about antrophonies and now he was in a world full of them. The video ended and Alex just stood there, not saying a single word.

“So what you think Alex? You think you are up to the task?”

“Hmmmm, are you sure I can beat him? I mean dude. . . he has tons of abilities.”

“Oh please Alex, you have your own abilities too, not to mention your spells, I think you have good chances.”

Alex thought for a moment, this Daniel guy seemed very tough. . . .but he just couldn’t back away now right? He could be many things but not a coward!. . . .well at least not anymore.

“Ok Discord, I accept . . . so where I will meet him? I believe you already talked to him about this right?”

Discord looked at Alex with confused eyes.

“Discord. . . he knows about the bet too. . .right?”

“. . . . . . .”

“Right?”

“...See you later.” Discord snapped his finger and banished, Alex face palmed.

“So he doesn’t know anything about this. . .C’mon Discord! What you except me to do, just knock his door and say: Hey! I’m Alex! A new human in town and I want you fight you in order to get home and get a nice present for my marefriend. . . really?!”

After a tantrum that lasted a few more seconds, Alex started to walk to Ponyville, hoping it was in the same location as his Equestria, after some steps, a big chest appeared in front of him with a note attached to it, he took it and read it.

“My little human,

Since you are in a whole new world and in disadvantage, I thought these things might come in handy and one more thing, you can’t tell anypony about my participation in all this, do it and we will leave you here for a whole year and no! they will not be able to help you, only us have the power to find specific worlds, it’s nothing personal, we just are not in the mood to deal with Celestia’s moral speeches. Anyway, I wish you luck and I know you already realized why we didn’t tell anything to Daniel. . . .BECAUSE IT’S MORE FUN!!”

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“. . . . .Cute”

Alex said with a sigh and opened the chest, he was speechless for what he found inside, all his gear. . .his DS gear, HiddenBlades, Katanas, Bow/arrows, throwing knives, Elbow and Knee protectors, a new Assasin’s attire and a nice backpack to carry all.

“(sigh) Ok, at least you are not a big asshole. . .just a regular asshole.”

Alex put on his gear just in case, maybe that EverFree forest was as dangerous as the one he already knew. He then started his way, not knowing one particular yellow earth pony who was collecting some herbs had just spot him and ran away to Ponyville.

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Daniel and the rest were having a nice milkshake in sugarcube corner while looking at Pinkie decorating the whole bakery.

“Does she ever gets tired?” Daniel asked. He still can't get around to how much damn energy that pink pony had.

“I don’t think so, sometimes I really believe she is somekind of robot.” Twilight answered.

Everypony laughed at the joke, while Daniel let off a small chuckle. When she was done, she joined them and looked as if she just didn’t do anything, really? how she do it? everypony thought.

“It’s all ready, now we just have to wait our new guest!” Pinkie chirped.

“Wow Pinkie darling, you really outdone yourself this time, may I know why?”

“I don’t know Rarity, I just feel this guest is special, not that everypony is not special but he is special special but not more special than other. . . ohhhh I think I’m having a headache.”

“It’s ok darling, we understand.” Rarity said while stroking the party pony’s mane.

Everypony laughed again, none of them said it but it was nice to have a relaxing day, maybe Daniel wasn’t exactly in good terms with the girls yet but he had to admit he was having a nice time with them, as if fate really didn’t like them. At that moment a yellow teenage pony entered the place, she seemed agitated, it took some seconds for her to recover her breath.

“Applebloom? What is going on sugarcube?” AJ asked her younger sister.

“ha. . .ha. . .ha. . .another. . .human. . .in the EverFree Forest. . .has weapons.. .may be dangerous.”

“What!?” Everypony screamed.

“Another human? And he is armed? This is not good. . .we need. .” Daniel started.

“I’m on my way!” Rainbow Dash said and rushed outside the bakery.

“Rainbow wait!” Daniel shouted but she was already gone. “Damn! Will she ever learn to take it easy in dangerous situations?”

“It’s nice to dream, Daniel.” Rarity said.

He and everypony exited the place as well hoping that this humans wasn’t like Tom or Chuck.

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Alex was walking though the dust road, maybe the safer place in the whole forest, he had to admit it, if he wouldn’t already know, he would had swear he was in his own Equestria, everything was the same, same trees, same sky, almost same Rainbow Dash Flying full speed to tackle him . . . WAIT, WHAT!?

“There you are! What you want here?”

Alex quickly moved aside on time and Rainbow ended in the dirt, that was a horrible landing. She quickly stood up and he could see her well, she was indeed an anthroPony, just like if a pony and a human just did the Fusion, she had the same face as his friend but the rest of the body was almost human, of course not counting the fur and hooves instead of feet, she also had wings and tail, yep definitely an anthroPony and she looked pissed, it seemed her attitude could break the dimensions’ borders.

“I asked you a question! What you want here!?” She demanded

Alex knew he had to take it easy, the last thing he needed was a misunderstanding but still. . . she didn’t need to be so rude.

“What I want it’s not your business, I’m just looking for someone, Daniel Blaze.” He calmly answered.

“Uh? what you want with Daniel, you want to hurt him?” Rainbow was somewhat surprised that this new human knew about Daniel even though they never met, and probably think he's a spy.

“What? no! I don’t want to hurt him. . .just fight him.” Alex face palmed inside, did he just said that? He indeed was going to pay for his mistake since Rainbow immediately rushed to him, she now was furious.

“I knew it, you are evil! Prepare for a good beating!”

“Oh C’mon!” Alex thought before clashing with the cyan Pegasus. "So much for a calm conversation."