The Events take place during season three.
Prologue.
He made his way down the street at a slow pace, his hands resting inside his pockets, as he continued. It was a normal, hot day in the summer. Most other people would be in their houses, with the air conditioning on, or swimming at the local pool center in town, but not him. Instead, he decided to just take a walk. His name was Zachary. He was a six-year-old child living in the state of California. He didn't have that many friends to hang out with, so you could call him the loner type.
He was the kind of kid who liked learning. He knew a lot more things than most kindergarteners knew because he read more books. As he made his way down, he saw the side of a building with two doors on it. One of them was a boys restroom, the other one was for girls. He felt something in his bladder. He needed to go.
He made his way to the door and went inside. As soon as he went inside, his nostrils were hit with a putrid smell.
"Ah..." He gagged. The bathroom was old, dirty, with some graffiti and missing floor titles. It was clear that no one had bothered to clear the bathroom in a long time. He put the top of his shirt over his nose to try to block out the smell. He made his way to the stall and went inside. After a few moments, the sound of the flushing toilet could be heard, as he left the stall. He went to the sink and looked at the broken mirror. It looked like someone got frustrated over something, and punched the mirror, in return breaking it.
He looked at his reflection, with an emotionless look stuck to his face. He wasn't normal. Most six-year-old he sees at his school is overly happy. They get excited over normal things like lunch, and they play around, laughing, crying, all of that. However, when it comes to him about these things, he just doesn't care. He doesn't get excited about lunch, nor does he play with the other kids. While he does cry sometimes, it's not because he tripped, or lost a treat in his packed lunch, it's for a different reason.
"Uh..." He sighed. He didn't know what to tell himself. To make this feeling to go away, or to make him feel like he actually fitted in, he just didn't know what to tell himself. "What can I do..." He asked himself. He stared at the reflection in the mirror. He backed away from his reflection and left the bathroom. He started the cycle again. Walking down the road, with that same blank stare on his face.
This time, however, something was going to break the cycle. He walked until he found the entrance to a small forest. Just like all the other days in summer, he would walk through this forest. He entered through the dirt covered path that was always there before, but something seemed... off. The paths pattern seemed to be different.
"I don't remember it being like this..." He noted to himself. Not only that but just the way it looked. It looked a little bit more colorful, more bright. It was definitely strange. Zachary just shrugged it off. He thought he was just seeing things, or some other explanation he didn't know. He started to make his way down the path, his footsteps could be heard from a short distance. There was a sudden feeling inside of his chest. He didn't know what it was, nor where it came from. It felt supernatural to him. He pushed the feeling aside as he thought about his destination. The library. He had a membership card that let him get access to all the books he wanted. He read books about certain things on the world, books way higher up compared to his age. He couldn't remember the last time he actually read a nice book that was meant for his age.
He was so lost in his thoughts, that he didn't even realize that everything around him was starting to change. The trees, the grass, even the sky was starting to have a more colorful shade. It was even starting to look more cartoony. As soon as he realized this, he stopped in his tracks.
"What the...?" He said to himself, as he looked around at his surroundings. Everything was different, even the shape of the trees was different. They were thicker than before. He swiftly turned around, and everything behind him also turned into this colorful version of his world. Did he also turn into this? He looked down at his hands, ad they seemed normal, but he couldn't be too sure.
It was like he went through a portal, a portal that was now gone. He felt like he couldn't go back. Even though he was almost as smart as someone who would be in fifth grade, and he was still different from most other children, he still had a lot of stuff in common with them. He still had the same amount of fear and childlike properties like any other six-year-old besides being extremely happy on most days.
His breathing became heavier, as the fear of the unknown crept up his spine. How could everything change in an instance? It seemed to be impossible, though, at the same time, it wasn't.
"S-should I turn back...?" He began to question himself. He was thinking about it, that was until he had to come to a halt. He came across a ravine inside the ground, with a staircase leading down inside of it, however, there was another thing interested in it. There was a bright, glowing light in it, which was tempting to go down and investigate the strange glow, He gave in to the temptation.
Zachary carefully made his way down into the ravine, careful not to slip or fall down. Eventually, he made it to the bottom. He got a good look of what was inside the glowing light. It looked like some sort of tree. It looked like it was made out of some sort of crystal, but he couldn't be sure. It felt like it was calling him, urging him to touch it even once. He couldn't explain it, but he decided to go up to it. The closer he got to it, the more the light disappeared, and he could see more clearly.
"I wonder what it feels like..." Zachary wondered as he reached his hand out. As soon as he felt it come into contact with his hand, an image appeared for a split second. He couldn't make out everything he saw, he barely saw what the image was. The only thing he saw was a flash of white, with something purple in the middle. He didn't know what it was, the only thing he could make out of it was that it was purple. The flash scared him and he started to run up the long staircase. He ran out of the ravine and just kept running. He didn't know what direction he was going, ad he didn't really care. He ran and ran until he found another thing. A Clearing.
He was finally out of the forest, in a place that he still didn't recognize.
"What's happening to me...?" He asked himself. He looked around for anything or anywhere he could go to in order to get some sort of help. He saw what seemed to be a village in the distance. He went towards the direction of the small little town to seek the help that he wanted. He was coming closer and closer to the village. So close, that he could see movement from people. Wait no, there were not people. Did they look like... horses? It was confirmed when he got close enough to see them walking around. He stood there, froze. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. No humans, just ponies. Some had wings, others had horns, and some had neither. He just stood there, observing the colorful ponies, until one of them noticed him standing there. She gave a confused look, before saying, "Hello?"
Zachary started to run the other way again.