After the apocylpse sometimes the mirror between worlds can be the only escape.
Sometimes the universe can be a cruel mistress a lone survivor finds himself in a place un-infested with the walking dead. But adjusting is never easy. Maybe the friends he has made will help him as he heals from the scars that his home caused. Or will the dead follow him into the perfect world he seems to have found himself in.
I do not own or any part of My Little Pony, Team Fortress, or The Walking Dead. They are owned by their respected owners.
Chapter one: The world as it is
A tree creaked as wind rustled the brown and red leaves in its branches. Inside said tree was a decaying tree house. Once painted red now was the color of old wood brown and a dark yellow. Below was the remains of a rope ladder. The tree overlooked a yard and a house, the wind also whistled through the broken windows of the partially burned house.
The neighborhood around the house was a mix of burned, bombed, and decayed homes. Cars where scattered some in the garages others in the drive way and some on the cracked asphalt road. The sounds of a few bugs was heard in the wind as they continued their daily lives. But the sounds of running feet soon disrupted there noise making.
A lone figure sprinted past the dilapidated cars and through a house running from a horde. The figure entered the house and quickly closed the door before the shambling corpses reached him. With the door shut he moved a large grandfather clock in front of the door. The clock gave a lour clang as it fell at an angle in front of the door. He turned and began to run out through the backyard. Hearing the horde had reached the house and was trying to get through it.
The figure ducked through a broken part of the fence before sliding down the embankment before heading through the forest. The trees rustled as wind blew through them. Soon the sounds of the undead stopped ringing in his ears and he took a moment to rest. He checked his left hip where a bullet had lodged itself on his pelvis bone. He gritted his teeth before continuing on his journey through the forest.
The man was dressed in faded camouflage pants and a faded olive colored shirt. He looked around keeping an eye out for any undead which wanted to turn him into a meal. He continued on and the trees cleared some and he saw a police cruiser which had crashed on the flat part of an embankment. He approached cautiously, wary of any passengers inside the vehicle.
He moved past a decayed corpse and noticed a slight metallic shine on the ground near the cruiser. Eyeing it cautiously revealed a rusted shotgun, the action back showing a jammed shell in the action. He ignored the gun and looked into the vehicle looking for any weapons that would survive the years since the crash happened. He moved around to the back and looked at the trunk. It was shut so he pulled out his trusty crowbar and levied it open.
The trunk creaked open to reveal an empty compartment. Sighing the man shut the trunk and headed up the embankment trying not to slide back down the steep ground. Reaching the top of the hill he peered cautiously over the top checking to make sure nothing was waiting in wait for him. with his vision clear he stepped out of the shade of the forest and onto a highway long forgotten since the outbreak.
He pulled the compass tied to his vest up and checked his direction. Finding north he moved away from city behind him and continued up the road. The highway was packed on his side with numerous cars. Most of them burned or heavily corroded by rain the insides long turning into mush or decay.
He sun beat down on him as he continued up the road. Several corpses where sprawled out on the road most seemed to be decayed from age. Some looked relatively fresh, He avoided them as much as possible in case they wanted to chew on his leg. The roadway was often home to large hordes moving around in the world that was once so familiar to him. The road twisted more towards north and an exit appeared ahead of him.
He marched up the roadway reaching the top and moving away from the approximate direction from the neighborhood he had escaped the horde. His feet crunching glass, as a small bell chimed in the wind when he brushed past a fire truck and a piece of wood fell. He continued to head through the roadway coming to an intersection and headed through it not noticing the large group of undead coming out of a building. He did however notice the insects going quiet. He turned and saw the horde noticing him and start to go towards him.
The man brought up his rifle and began to squeeze of rounds. His G36K recoiled into his shoulder as the undead ranks began to thin. unfortunately his silencer was on its last leg and the noise rose steadily and soon other undead began to come out of their various places. The bolt racked onto an empty chamber and the man hit the mag release lever and pulled a fresh one out of his tac vest and put it into the mag well. Working the bolt with ease he began to fire again backing up slowly out of the intersection.
A quick look behind him confirmed his worst fears as a group was coming up that street as well. The only escape route was a house in front of the horde. Running as fast as his legs could carry him he ran into the house slamming the door shut behind him. Seeing a large marble top buffet in front of him he pushed it in front of the door. turning around his eyes saw more infected flop into the house from the back yard. Seeing no way out but down he ran to the door to a basement and shut it.
Inside the dark basement he flicked on a helmet mounted light and turned around to see a large door that had various locks and had the sounds of banging infected on it. The man locked as many locks as he could before heading into the basement. Said basement was large larger than the house above it. On one of the crates lining the wall was scribbled Mann Co. He didn't it though as he looked for a way out.
Finding a workbench he found a sword he stuffed the sword through a loop on his backpack before continuing his search. Though in one of his ears he heard a whisper of "Heads." he pushed the sound out of his head finding a notebook. opening it he saw various sketches before he put it in a pocket and looking around. he saw a large machine which seemed to be held together by spit and duck tape. A dead man was leaning up against it.
The man wore a hardhat and had scrawled in blood on the floor. "Hit it!" the man looked at the device if it could be called the before grabbing the wrench out the man's hand and hit it. Despite looking like it was held together on wishes and dreams it started to whir pulling power from something. noticing that he was no longer alone in the basement he ran into the delve hoping it would somehow make death hurt less.
(_(=)_)(Takes place after the episode Fall Weather Friends.)
Samantha "Applejack "Apple laid her head back onto the shore line of the creek bed as she relaxed her muscles. The past week had been hell as she had competed not only in a Iron Woman competition but a marathon after that. sighing she gently pulled a hand out of the water to rub some dirt off of her chest that had avoided several showers since the mud pit.
Sighing in happiness she smiled nothing could make this moment worse not even an attempt from her sister figuring out what she wanted to do could put a damper on her mood. The river rushed past putting her into a even more relaxed mood. Even the animals seemed to be singing a song to relaxation. A large splash of water interrupted her relaxing as it crashed on her head. "Gosh darn it dash!" she yelled whipping water of her face. but instead of the dyed hair of her friend came a helmet with a flashlight attached. Her head tilted to the side looking at the man in front of her. "Medic." the man said before slipping beneath the water.
Applejack blinked before she tried to grab the man. Who was being pulled down stream, She started to swim towards the spot where he was as his body started to float atop the now rushing rapids. Her strokes where powerful and she gained ground on the floating man trying to reach him before he possible drowned.
High above the two was one of Applejack's friends. Isabelle "Rainbow Dash" Williams, rested on a cloud enjoying a nap when she heard her name being called by Applejack. Looking over the side she saw Applejack swimming towards someone who was caught in the rapids. Quickly she slipped off the side of the cloud and spread her wings trying to help reach the person before they drowned.
Applejack was first to reach him as she grabbed onto him and began to paddle over to the shore line to push him out of the water. Dash arrived and began to help her by making sure his head was above the water until they could get him to the shore. The two made it to the shore and hoisted the man out of the water. Dash dragged him further out of the water while Applejack got out of the river herself. Both of them looked down at the man and could see that he was not breathing. Applejack began CPR on the man trying to get him to breath.
"Dash go get help Nurse Redheart should be in the hospital." Applejack said trying to wake the man up.
The man coughed up water and started to really see again when he saw Dash take off noticing her wings. He looked back up at the blue sky and sighed. "So this is heaven." he said before passing back out.
AN: The story takes place in an alternate reality for the ponies where there human but still do some of the things they do in the show like Rainbow Dash can still fly and has wings I just wanted to see some more human features and emotions in the characters. Also this is version Two of it as the first submission didn't apparently have enough of a tie to the ponies. So slight rewrite at the end as the mod who read it at the time could not tell it was inside the pony universe at that point. Howdy everyone Southern_Mercenary here with my first story. wow you have no idea how long this idea was floating around in my head. Yes I put references in this but I'll try not to have to many of them floating around but some will serve plot convenient ideas and where just too good to pass up. QED. "Geoff looked at the crowd of Changelings in front of him that had taken his shape he pulled the Eyelander out of its sheath before putting one finger into the air and yelling. "THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!" Before charging into the crowd of them who had puzzled looks on their faces before heads started to fly. " Also if I could possible get an editor that would be awesome. Also I'll try to update once a week if possible.
Nurse Redheart looked at the chart for the man that had been brought into the hospital by Applejack and Dash. There wasn't much information on the chart of the man named Geoff based on metal tags they had found on him. The tags had an ID number and blood type as well as some abbreviations that didn't make sense to any of the doctors.
She sighed and check on the patient, Geoff was lying on the bed under a chemical coma. When he had been brought in he had some nutrient problems and some dehydration issues, and on top of that he had a serious blood infection. Which despite the doctors using the best antibiotics available was resisting heavily.
She looked at Geoff and checked several devices plugged into him. Everything was getting better if the machines where accurate. But he would require medicine to insure that the infection would stop. But she had other patients to look after and a comatose man no matter how mysterious he was at the time came after the hurt people she was charged with watching.
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Applejack heaved another bushel of apples onto the family truck before she headed to the house to wash up quickly before she and Abigail, who liked to be called Applebloom, went to the market. Her boots clanked on the old wood porch before she opened the screen door. In the foyer was a hat rack on which she put her father's, now hers, hat on.
She smiled at Granny Smith in the living room as she passed the entry way into the room, before climbing the stairs towards her bedroom and bathroom. She passed Applebloom's room and saw that she was there with her friends who where giggling at something. She smiled before continuing on to her room and shut the door. She took off her clothes and walked into the bathroom which was connected to her room near her closet.
She turned on the hot water and waited for it to heat up before stepping into the warm stream of water. She took a bar of soap and began to rub it on a cloth before cleaning herself. Finishing her cleaning she hosed off the suds and moved onto her hair. Making sure to shake out anything in it before she lathered it in shampoo. Contrary to Rarity's thought process she did take care of her hair she just didn't put as much time into it as she did.
Finishing her shower she toweled off before heading into her room to get dressed. She put on a similar outfit to what she was wearing before the shower but slightly newer and nicer. It was always a good idea to look nice before heading to market. Putting on her boots on her bed her mind wondered some. Maybe after the market was done for the night she would check on the man she had rescued. She felt responsible for him until he was awake but in the mean time she walked to Applebloom's room.
"Applebloom are yawl ready to go?" She asked
"yah sis wher ready." Applebloom said.
"Then come on." Applejack said motioning with her hand towards herself.
The trio of girls rushed out the bedroom and headed towards the truck. Applejack followed behind walking while they ran. Applejack grabbed her hat and put it on her head before heading out the door and seeing the trio fight over who sat where. She chuckled at their antics, reaching the truck she opened the driver door and got in.
The truck started with a small cough, Applejack sighed the crystal would have to be checked later but it should still work just fine, She thought. The truck crunched on the gravel road that was in front of the house before degrading into a dirt road that lead towards the main road leading into town. The apple trees on both sides of the roads where barren of apples as harvest was a approximately a month ago.
The truck stopped at the gates to Sweet Apple Acres before turning left onto route 12 towards Ponyville. The truck stopped most of its sputtering and coughing now that it was on a smooth asphalt road. There were a few cars scattered on the road as Applejack continued her drive towards the city. looking up a bit she could see Rainbow Dash flying around practicing.
(_(=)_)
High above Ponyville Rainbow Dash was soaring through the air. She turned several of her outer feathers to roll through the air feeling the high-speed air in her face. Flying always made her spirits soar, and made her smile, particularly when doing tricks. She looked down and saw Ponyville and the surrounding farms stretch-out below her.
She drew in her wings to dive towards a large tree near the center of the city. The wind rushed past even faster as she reached maximum velocity of free falling before she reopened her wings to glide into the tree turned library. Her sky blue wings where wider than most seraphim's, but still not at large as the Princesses.
The tree was carved into a library shortly after the town was founded, But dash didn’t care about this as she crashed through the branches into the upstairs part of the library. Clementine "Twilight Sparkle" Everett rushed into her bedroom to see Rainbow Dash partially lodged in the tree's branches.
"Sorry was trying a trick and well you know." Dash said waving
"You've got to be more careful Dash." She said trying to get her out of the tree. Giving up doing it manually she raised her right hand and concentrated. A light purple aura enveloped Dash and she slid out of the branches onto the floor of the library.
"Thanks for that. Any news on the guy I pulled out of the river?" She asked.
"No, or at least not here. I checked with the Office of Births, Office of Housing, and Office of travels and nothing. No record of a Geoff Lowe in Ponyville at anytime in the past."
"Then how did he end up in the river nearly drowning." Dash asked.
"I'm not sure dash you're going to need to talk to him about that." Twilight said picking up some of the branches and leaved in the room before tossing them into the trash.
"Well he's still in a coma I think." Dash said looking out the window seeing the roof of the hospital in the distance.
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Geoff opened his eyes blinking and trying to see something. His vision was blurry and his left hand went to check his head and neck area for his goggles. Not finding them he tried to check for his glasses case in his pants. Looking down he saw that he was wearing a hospital gown.
"What?" he asked his voice scratchy from lack of use in the past few months.
Geoff heard the soft beeping of medical equipment as his nearsighted eyes scanned the room trying to find something to use as a weapon just in case. Sitting up and groaning as his wounded hip sent an ache through his body. He tried to see if someone had put his case out, though he wasn't expecting it. Though to his surprise he saw a black object that looked like his case.
He opened it reveal his glasses, he quickly dawned them and the world came into focus. Looking around he saw that he was hooked up to several machines. Geoff started to tear off monitors from his chest and he took out the needles in his arm grinding his teeth some as he did. He stood up and looked around trying to make sure that he was alone in the room before trying to find some clothes or at least boxers. He noticed the open window and saw the green trees of a city.
Slowly he walked to the window and peered out seeing the city in front of him. He noticed people walking in the street not lurching like the undead. He slid to his knees and slowly started to cry, his mind going a mile a minute. He had for at least now found peace.
A.N. Hay everypony thanks for reading my story and sorry for the delay. I've gotten sick lately and wasn't in the mood to write. Also those who have mentioned things about my last chapter. Thanks for the feedback. If it is really clique sorry, I now it was a really common idea, but I think i can take it into a different direction. and about details well I've heard to different sides to this one side saying I'm putting too much and now too little. trying to find a middle here. but thanks for reading.
Geoff looked back up and out the window, the town it seemed was perfect cut grass, people playing, and animals on leashes. Though the last one he chuckled that he even noticed it really. He smiled he was safe for the time being at least. At least he thought before his attitude turned sour. Geoff breathed a sigh before continuing his search for pants.
Geoff opened one of the doors on what looked like a built in wardrobe in the wall. On one of the shelves was a pair of pants and other lower garments. He quickly grabbed the boxers and put them on before donning the socks. His feet now warm he put on the jeans. While he didn't like jeans or wore them much even after the end he would if he had too.
Looking around again he tried to find his boots lacking those he put on the slippers that where in the wardrobe. looking in all the compartments he saw that none of his gear or equipment was present. Sighing he closed the doors before walking to the door. He opened it slowly listening for the dead just in case and looking for guards or other medical personal.
Seeing none in the hallway he crept out the door and into the hallway. The hallway was wide but not as wide as a school's hallway. Given the size he still kept close to a wall, looking around he saw the nurses desk and headed away from it looking for the stairwell. He saw the signs at the far end of the hall and the nurses' station was between him and it.
Sighing in irritation he snuck closer to it. Listening he heard the nurse talk to someone on the far side of the counter. keeping low he crouched walked to where he was under the counter. Listening again he heard no new noises and he continued his sneaking. Reaching the next gap of concealment he briefly looked around the corner and saw a nurse in a standard nurses outfit. Her hair pulled back in a tight bun.
Quickly Geoff snuck through the gap and to the next wall from there he stood back up and kept quit before heading to the door. When he reached it he smiled before opening it looking down he saw an exit to the outside. He descended the stairs and headed out the door but not before he realized it was an alarmed door. With the alarm shrieking he ran out into the town.
(_(=)_)
Twilight and Dash where both walking towards the hospital when they heard the alarm. They also noticed a man running from the hospital in jeans and a hospital top. Though they focused their attention on the hospital and moved towards it. Already though the fire department was on the way as the siren could be heard in the distance.
"Nurse Redheart what happened?" Twilight asked looking around.
"Someone opened one of the fire escape doors." She replied doing a checklist of patients.
"Was there a fire?" Twilight asked concerned.
"Not that I could tell none of the detectors went off but they could have been defective."
" Could be."
"And on top of a possible fire one of the patients is missing." Redheart said sighing.
"What? who?" Twilight asked thinking of the man that she and dash had seen.
"By current looks it’s the man Dash helped to bring in."
"We saw someone running from this direction when we were coming up."
"He was running? either he's healthier than we thought or scared out of his mind."
(_(=)_)
Geoff hid behind a corner of a building and peered around trying to find someplace to hide for the time being. It was better to hide for the time being till he found out more about the place, Last time he hadn’t he almost got ate by a group of cannibals. He shivered at the sight of a friend being slowly roasted over a fire still alive screaming through the gag. Looking around again he noticed a library sign in the distance.
Checking his six he dashed towards the sign and trying to find the library itself. Seeing a large tree that looked like it had been turned into a library he ducked inside. As the sign said it was a library, Geoff whistled softly at the impressiveness of the building. Designed and built to look like a tree, impressive with realistic looking rings on the ground. Geoff continued to look around the place before seeing a staircase going up.
Climbing the stairs cautiously, Geoff made his way up the stairs. Reaching the next floor Geoff kept his back to the wall before sliding into the room. Had he had a weapon it would be at the ready but for the time being he was just being cautious. Looking around he saw that this was a bedroom, a small bed pushed up against a window in a small alcove. The room was definitely feminine judging by the cleanliness. Geoff noticed a small basket on the floor he wondered over to it wondering what was in it.
"It's probably a cat." Geoff mumbled looking into the basket. Geoff saw what looked like a large lizard. Curious he poked it lightly, the hard scales didn't budge but the lizard moved and yawned.
"Twilight?" it asked, Geoff started to hyperventilate hearing that , a creature a lizard in his opinion was talking.
"What?" Geoff asked blinking heavily.
"You're not Twilight." the creature said looking at Geoff.
"No. I'm Geoff." Geoff said checking his own temperature.
"I'm Spike." The creature said extending a hand.
"I guess pleasure to meet you." Geoff said shaking the hand noticing the three claws in a rough hand like pattern.
"When is Twilight getting back?" Spike asked crawling out of the bed.
"Not sure." Geoff said "Um what are you?"
"I'm a dragon what are you the Easter bunny?"
"A dragon? well that throws a wrench into my idea of where the hell I am."
"Spike I'm home." came a voice from below.
A.N. Chapter three everypony. trying to showcase Geoff's ninja abilities as well as why he is cautious given where he is at.
Geoff's head snapped towards the stairs and his breath hitched in his throat for a second before he calmed some and began to focus. He backed up towards a wall and breathed calmly, Spike on the other hand had gotten out of the bed and headed towards Twilight. Geoff tried to will himself invisible for the time being, while he knew he could not he did however hoped to be not noticed.
Time slowed down some as he waited hearing Twilight as Spike had called her coming up the stairs. Breathing in much the same way that he did while shooting at distance and waited. Seeing the dark skin of Twilight coming past he pounced. His jump force and mass forced Twilight to the ground. Quickly he turned her over onto the ground and put his hand on her mouth, her eyes wide with fear.
"Listen I don't want to hurt you all I want is answers okay? Nod your head if you understood" Geoff said, several seconds later Twilight's head nodded.
"Good I'm going to move my hand now don't scream." Geoff said moving his hand but keeping Twilight on the ground with her arms pinned.
"What do you want to know?" She asked.
"First where am i?
"Ponyville." Twilight responded all the while Spike was inching towards the stairs to get help.
"Ponyville? Who named this place a 5 year old?"
"Ponyville has a long and rich history which includes several harvest seasons that beat all other records." She responded seeing Spike at the stairs and heading down them.
"Whatever who is in charge of the town?"
"Mayor Marian."
"Whose never mind is there anyone over her? It is a woman right?"
"Yes and there's the princess."
"Princess? Who the fuck sets up a monarchy in this day and age?"
"Princess Celestia has been the Princess for thousands of years."
"Is that she tells you that she is some god? Oh boy the indoctrination must take forever here. What weapons and troops do you have? Any regulars or all militia?"
"What no she has been ruling for thousands of years. She raises the sun every day."
"Please the planet moves around the sun do to gravity and gravity wells. And since the planet rotates we also have day and night. Not some pretty little princess who likes to control people's lives." With that Geoff smirked in Twilight's face.
"Yawl better not have insulted the princess!" Came a voice from in front of Geoff, Looking up he saw a tanned freckled face but in front of that was a raised boot. With a grunt the new girl kicked Geoff in the chest. Despite putting her full force into the kick Geoff only went a few inches as he fell off of Twilight. Landing on his butt he rolled backwards some of his own accord and stood up his fists in the ready position.
Geoff would have started to fight the girls had it not been for the fact he started to float a few inches off the ground. And while he was floating it was not a gentle floating his whole body seemed to go in several different directions at once. Mainly back to the ground. He looked to see Twilight with an arm raised and fingers spread with a look of concentration on her face.
"Now my question becomes how am I floating and why does it seem to be so hard for me to float. Or did I hit my head sometime within the last few seconds?" Geoff asked.
"I'm levitating you until the everyone gets here." Twilight said.
"Twi why didn't I buck him across the room?" the other girl asked.
"Not sure Applejack his weight?" Twilight responded.
"Or for some reason the physics causing my atoms to behave are different." Geoff responded crossing his arms.
"How is that possible?" Twilight asked.
"Alternate realities seem like a possibility though that is near impossible but the likelihood is that Applejack as you called her is as weak as a new born kitten." Geoff retorted.
"Why I aughta." Applejack said rolling up a sleeve.
"You know what girly girl come at me." Geoff said opening his arms wide.
"Applejack stop trying to antagonize the poor man just look at the state of his clothes." Came a new voice that came into view as Geoff floated into the proper position. While Twilight looked like milk chocolate and Applejack was tan, the new girl was pale as could be with dark black tresses that looked purplish blue in the light.
"Who the fuck are you?" Geoff asked turning away from the group. "You know what don't answer that just do what you want with me. Especially if you're going to tie me to a pole and slow roast me while I'm still alive screaming to god to end the pain."
By the time Geoff turned back around all the faces where looking at him with horrified looks on their faces. The spell keeping Geoff up stopped and he dropped to the ground.
"So I guess the idea of cannibalism doesn't appeal to you. yawl must have a good food source then." Geoff said dusting himself off and looking at the group.
"Darling why would you think of something like that." The dark haired one said.
"Because it happened…" Geoff thought for a moment. "6 days ago to a friend of mine right in front of me. Small place like this everyone seemed real friendly until the knocked us out. And tied my friend to a poll of course they stripped him first then they put him and the pole over a bunch of wood and doused both of them in gasoline. Went up like a roman candle, screaming pleading to die. All the while I could smell the burning flesh that was his at it charred black."
"ENOUGH!" Twilight said her face showing her queasiness.
"How could someone make a story like that up?" the newest girl said covering her face so she wouldn't vomit.
"Made up. you think that was made up?" Geoff asked.
"Almost." Applejack said steadying herself on a bookshelf.
"Then I guess the scores of dead I killed again I made up in my head. The friends I lost I imagined the being eaten, devoured, or blown to bits rather than face the end. Yah I made that up."
"Stop that's just horrible." Rarity said
"So you think it's all made up. I got shot escaping that place before they could eat me." He said moving his shirt some to show the bullet wound. "Then I suppose this wasn't a raider." he said taking off the shirt to show the three bullet wounds in his gut. "So how do you suppose I go these?" He asked to the girls.
"I don't know I've only seen scars like these after battles." Twilight said. "My brother has similar ones."
"Lucky for him he probably had better armor than I did." Geoff said putting his shirt back on.
"How…how…" Rarity asked.
"How did I live? good medicine and good timing by my people." Geoff answered before he was blinded by a light that came from behind the girls. Shielding his eyes he attempted to grab a smoke grenade on his vest but realized he didn't have his vest on. After the light cleared stood a woman about a few inches taller than Geoff. Her wings spread wide looking at Geoff with a soft furry in her eyes.
"Who the fuck are you?" Geoff asked.
"I am Princess Celestia." she said to Geoff as the other girls where bowed to her.
"Okay so?" Geoff asked unimpressed.
"She's the princess." Twilight responded standing up.
"Yes wings are a little odd but as far as I can tell either someone put something in my IV or I hit my head." Geoff answered.
"Why does every person coming from your universe act so horribly?" Celestia asked.
"Probably because…wait you said my universe, alternate universe?" Geoff wondered. "Okay that explains the shenanigans going on."
"Mulitverse Theory is hard to explain to someone who may or may not even know what it is or how in the real of physics it could work. In a fashion it revolves around the dimensions we know one through three are pretty well known but the fourth is theorized to be time. Fifth by some is location within that universe. Sixth is the rules of said universe. Others will say that the dimensions only work for drawings and other things, but it does work when we talk about the universe as a whole.
Now the seperation between our and your universe seems to be muliple degrees. From magic and science being different to even from what Twilight said the dead. But you need to know that Princess Celestia is a kind ruler and allows anyone displaced from there own universe to stay for as long as they like and if they so wish to retur..." A woman by the name of Lyra as she prefered was cut off at this
"You bet your money i won't be going back." Geoff said standing up in a huff cutting her off.
"Why?" Lyra asked as she had been spared the details of most of his universe.
"The dead just didn't stay dead. They came back and started to feed on the living and i will leave it at that." Geoff said sitting back down on the hospital bed he was assigned too irratated at the machine which had started beeping faster at his anger.
"Sorry." He said looking away from her. "Please continue."
"Alright, now time is often descibed as a stream running free which is true and something people overlook is that streams often run into themselves at times. Which is often where things like deja vu happen and other instances of future sight happening as the person taps into another universe which may only be a few seconds faster than our own."
"Which is why sometimes dreaming the future can happen years or so in advance."
"Exactly." Lyra said smiling before continuing. "The situations of that are simply where universes merge some as they pass and people can get an eye full of what could happen. One should always remember that time is never set and choices do and while sometimes it is small impact on the future. But sometimes even that can be pre detirmed as someone has done it as well." Lyra said sitting down from the large chalk board she had brought into the hospital room. "Did you understand all that?"
"Yep." Geoff said looking at her.
"Really explain it back to me."
"String theory."
"What's string theory?"
"That time is a like rope unwinding at points and choices and instances of major things."
"Pretty much like i said right."
"Very much so. So how much longer will i be in here?" Geoff asked looking around the boring room.
"Only a little but longer the doctors want to make sure that infection is gone before they discharge you." Lyra said looking at some notes she had been given.
"Will they let me walk around outside and get the lay of the land?"
"Oh yes they say good air and exercise will help them tremendesly."
"Good do you mind being my tour guide. Also where are my boots and things?"
"I can get your boots but everything else is being looked over by the guards."
"Why it's not illegal stuf... oh yah different rules here."
"Yes they just want to be careful unlike the last time people came to Ponyville from a different universes."
"What happened?"
"They somehow brought a giant mechanical they called it a tank, that spite out robets roberts something like that and those things attacked the city. It took them and the entire guard regiment here to stop them and destroy the machine."
"A giant mechanical tank spitting out robots." Geoff said dumfounded.
"Yes but this was six, seven years ago."
"Sounds like something out of a game. I swear i heard about something similar."
"Maybe it is that in your universe." Lyra said looking at him.
"Thanks for helping me with my boots." Geoff said standing up and pulling on the shoes the hospital has given him."Where are my boots and things at?"
"The police station."
"Alright let's get me out of this thing and lets go get what they will give me." Geoff said touching the small button for a nurse.
A nurse came in a short time later and helped Geoff take off the coords going to small stones attached to his chest. She also gave him a t-shirt to wear while he was outside. Geoff shrugged on the too large shirt and happily started walking towards the outside Lyra by his side. She made sure Geoff was okay and wasn't falling over.
"I'm fine i swear." Geoff said as they descended the normal stairs towards the front of the hospital.
"I was just making sure i am responsible for you."
"I'm not a kid."
"I didn't say that."
"This treatment implies it."
"If you'd rather i not help just say so."
"I ain't saying that Lyra."
"Then what are you saying?"
"I just want to be treated like an adult not some lost child."
"That i can do sorry for not treating you like an adult."
"It's okay Lyra." Geoff said as they exited the hospital.
"No problem. This is ponyville we're currently on main street. Off to our left is town hall and the courthouse. The police station is located at 5th main. which is a few blocks over."
"Let me guess numbered going east west?"
"North south."
"The sun is to our right. and rising.
"The sun rises in the north and sets in the south here."
"Another difference." Geoff said rethinking his enternal compass.
The two of them started towards the police station Geoff trying to keep in mind where they where going in case he needed to go back. They arrived some time later as very few cars where out and only a few people walking around during that time of day.
"What day is it?" Geoff asked wondering as they climbed the steps to the station.
"Thursday."
"Thanks."
The two of them entered the police station and went towards the counter.
"Geoff Lowe to pick up personal affects." Lyra said to the woman behind the desk.
"Right this way." The officer said standing up showing that she was wearing a long tan skirt like her uniform top.
Geoff followed going into a small evidence locker room.
"Not much crime?"
"Nothing serious." She said handing him a bag of his things. Geoff nodded before whistling the tune to the Andy Griifin show at that. He also started going through what they had given him back which was mainly food and some of his odd clothes he had carried around. Fiding his boots and socks for them he put them on. Tying his boot laces tight he breathed a breath of familiarity as his worn boots felt better than the shoes he had been given. Grabbing everything else in the bag and rolling the bag back up and walking out of the room.
"That it?" Lyra asked noticing the boots.
"Not quite." Geoff said taking his wide brimed boonie cap and putting it on. "Now it's it."