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// Chapter III. Beyond the Mysterious Beyond 
// Story: Shades of Other Realities 
// by Seluxity 
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A marker board as well as several colored markers were prepared in advance. There were four of them: black, blue, green, and red. Twilight Sparkle picked up the blue. She knew, of course, that I would ask questions. All answers were are prepared, it remained only explain, Ah and me, respectively, listen.

If there were such teachers in schools or universities, I would not miss a single class. Although, I must admit, in high school I always came to lessons, no matter what state I was in, even when I was sick. It didn't matter if I liked it or not. It was a habit that got me up to school every morning, made me do all the things that every student usually does.

School, however, has never been for me something bad, something negative. I used to talk about how much I hated her, but in fact, I treated her with warmth. Indeed, school was for me a place in which I could escape from the serious problems that life faced me. Yes, I had no real friends for a long time, but I loved my classmates. Love, perhaps, and now. A lot of people hate their class, but I wasn't. Perhaps never. I didn't need them to be my friends. The main thing – that they were. Parting will be very difficult.

Twilight drew a circle with a marker on the blackboard. An ordinary, unremarkable circle.

"Imagine this is your universe."

I nodded. Well, here is the most blue figure is my universe. The one I was supposedly born into, and definitely lived in for almost eighteen years.

The girl made a second circle. But this time she used a green marker.

"There's another universe. The one beyond yours. You understand?"

"Of course."

I knew astrophysics pretty well. At a younger age, I was actively interested in it, but in recent years, the vector of my interests has somewhat changed direction. Good or bad? I think that's definitely not bad.

To hear me say it, I a Marty Sue, not a normal teenager. Musician, quite is a clever, well-read, still and geek in addition. What is missing is success in sport to complete the picture. For example, the best player of the school football team. And that, I not times similar represented. Here I run with the ball on the left flank, for I am right-handed, remove one defender, immediately the second. I shift to the center, make some cool feint a' la Neymar, hit the ball and hammer it into the goal.

The commentator is beside himself with delight, the stands roar with joy. I'm running with the ball in my hand, running to celebrate with my teammates. My ball is decisive. Victorious. I bring success to my team.

In my fantasies, I often imagine a group of cheerleaders standing outside the field and ready to celebrate. However, this could only be if I studied somewhere in the United States of America and played American football.

"This is our universe. The one in which we exist and in which you have fallen. It's called the multiverse. The universe may be bounded by invisible boundaries, but not space itself. Matter is, if you follow the logic, can not be finite. So there are an infinite number of such universes."

Sparkle adjusted her glasses.

"Well, that's all speculation. I mean, about countless different universes."

I listened carefully. The other girls were here with me.

"Well, we managed to create a passage. The tunnel, if you will, is not so important as its name. A portal between two different universes. Wormhole, wormhole. A breach in the continuum. One end of the tunnel is here, in this lab, in our universe. Well, the second is in your world. Thus, we were able to connect our dimensions and create a corridor through which you can pass. A portal, if you will. Like in science fiction novels or movies."

Portal. That word sounded so special to me.

"Both the entrance to the corridor between universes were formed at the same time. From the point of view of astrophysics, one end could not be formed. Otherwise it would lead nowhere. And the point of existence of the portal is to lead somewhere. Right?"

I nodded. Twilight Sparkle, Sci-Twi, as she was known, smiled. She obviously enjoyed telling him all about it.

Smiled such a warm, sweet smile. Her eyes were large and intelligent, peering through thick glasses.

"When the portal finally appeared, we all decided I should follow you."

Twilight with the same green marker connected two circles, symbolizing two universes, a straight line. The straight line that marked the wormhole, the corridor.

"It was a little scary at first. What if something goes wrong? Anything can be. We have only encountered passages of a magical nature, but not of a scientific nature. That's why everything was so uncertain at first."

"But we knew we could do it," Sunset Shimmer said. Her red-and-yellow hair looked even prettier now than in the cartoon. Delicious strands that I wanted to admire and admire, they were so beautiful. The feelings I had for her. They're wonderful. In that I had them, I was very lucky in my life. Lucky as few people in the world.

We knew what would happen. They believed it would work. Whatever you call it, they must have had good reason to come to my reality for me. Here's what else to find out.

"I think you understand."

I nodded in response. Yes, the explanation regarding the displacement between the measurement was complete. As much as it was possible under the circumstances.

Yes, astrophysics is definitely very entertaining. Such a gigantic space for reflection. For hypotheses, for theories. It was good that I, on the whole, had an idea of what it was about.

An interesting thought occurred to me. If Twilight Sparkle and her friends were able to build a portal to another universe, then maybe someone on my planet, on Earth, could do it? And he did. But governments are carefully trying to hide it from everyone. Indeed, humanity is not yet fully prepared for such a truth. People are much more comfortable living in a shell. Inside the shell there is an already established order, already established rules and everything goes on as usual, without global changes or discoveries. Comfort zone, that's what this shell is called.

I can't say I didn't live in my shell. Opposite.

However, I am not fond of conspiracy, so about this almost did not think. In the story of Stephen King, 'Fog', the military and scientists broke, so to speak, a window into another world, where a huge number of different terrible monsters came from. 

"I think there are other questions you'd like to ask. Yes?"

"Yes, of course."

In fact, I wanted to ask her a lot, but I clearly identified for myself two main, two main questions. The rest is not as important as this. All he had to do was decide which question to ask first.

"Why did my body change so much when I got here?" I asked.

"I've been doing research on the subject," Twilight told me. In these clothes she looked like a young mad genius. "That's what I understand. The structure of particles in each of the universes is different. They take completely different forms, based on the elementary laws of this or that world. Atoms in one universe can form a certain structure according to the simplest laws of physics in force in it, but in another universe a completely different structure. The particle structures in each universe are different. That is why your body structure could not be preserved in this dimension. That's why your body changed and became like ours."

Any object you tried to transfer from your world to ours would change here. 

Now this part is no longer a white spot on my inner map.

I was reminded of the TV series 'Stranger Things', which just talked about moving to another world. The series was our world and a parallel world – the so-called underside.

So, in this series, there was a rather curious attempt to explain why people can not get into another world. 

Let's imagine a rope on which tightrope walkers go to circuses. A tightrope walker can only walk on one side. He can't walk head down, because he's bound to fall. But the insect can move around the rope – for him there is no risk of falling down. The insect sees what is not available to the rope-Walker-man, it sees what man is not able to see. In my opinion, quite an interesting explanation.

Twilight Sparkle picked up a marker of a different color, red. She marked another circle on the Board.

"Now imagine it's Equestria. The one with the ponies."

Do they know I know about this? I know about Equestria and the pony world.

"When we get to Equestria, we change shape. We also become ponies. And vice versa. When ponies move here to our world, they become human. As I said, the particle structures in different universes are different. Equestria is as much a parallel universe to us as your world. As both worlds, ours and the world in which Equestria exists - for your world."

As Twilight spoke, Sunset Shimmer smiled enigmatically. She knew it. Knows about traveling between worlds. I caught her smile out of the corner of my eye. After all, she is insanely beautiful. There's no denying it.

Sci-Twi making your once again changed the marker. There was black in her hand now. She drew them several identical circles around the three main ones.

"This is the rest of the many universes. Their number may be infinite, for, as I have said, matter itself must be infinite."

Yes, she said that, too.

Well, now I've figured out why I changed so much when I came through the portal here. But there was one more important question. 

"I want to know one more thing."

"What is it?"

"How do you know me? How did you know about me?"

There was silence. I was probably expecting an instant response, like past questions. I turned around. The girls looked at me. I looked at them. And waited.

"By magic," Rarity said at last. "We got a signal. And they found out that the signal was coming from you."

"You've been thinking a lot about us," Applejack said. "You often spoke to us in his mind. We knew what you were thinking."

She adjusted her hat on her head and fell silent.

"We knew what you were thinking in your darkest moments," Sunset Shimmer said. "When you were sick, you came to us. You wanted to be with us because you loved us. Loved with all my heart. We could see and hear it all. Everything that was in your heart. Everything that bothered you. Your feeling. Desires and emotions."

It was obvious how difficult it was for them. Talk about it. My eyes were wet again. Her eyes filled with tears. Turns out they knew all about me when I thought I was meeting with them is impossible in principle?

That's why they wanted their plan to work. That's why I was greeted so warmly when I first came here.

"What we learned about you. It touched us so much. We wanted you with us. By all means."

"I..." she fought back tears. "Thanks, girls. I... I love you."

Sunset shimmer stood up and approached me.

I stood up, too. I thought she was going to say something else, but instead she held me close, resting her head on my shoulder.

"And us... we love you too."

Now the other girls came. They hugged me, as did Sunset. Everything inside of me trembled. Feelings, no, rather, a whole storm of feelings, feelings extremely pleasant and very warm. A whole ocean of positive emotions. It was as if I was standing on a beach and the ocean was crashing down on me. I plunged into it head first. I couldn't hold back the tears. There was no need to restrain them. Give vent to their feelings. Long I not gave.

Tears gushed from his eyes in two streams. They were tears of happiness, sweet tears. Feeling like everything I ever wanted was mine. Indeed, this meeting is what I most wanted in my life.

I lived nearly eighteen years. I've lived a lot, I've seen a lot. I know a lot, too. How many desires, dreams that changed with age. There were so many of them, so much I wanted. From simple children's desires to sublime dreams to achieve something in life. But no desire of mine has ever been stronger than this. The desire to meet with their favorite heroines, to be with them. Feeling their touch, touch yourself. Hug, hug, kiss. Feel something so close and native near with a. Desire, stronger which simply not can be. There's no way.

I remembered a song from a cartoon I loved to review when I was a kid. I'd like to see it now. The cartoon is called 'The Land before Time'. To be precise, one of the parts, not the original. Seven, if I'm not mistaken. It's called 'Stone of Cold Fire'. There was a truly magnificent song.

Beyond the Mysterious Beyond out past the smallest light that's twinkling...

When I watched it as a child, I did not expect to hear such a strong and so heartfelt composition.

There, beyond the mysterious distance. Something amazing, something beautiful. Things you can't even imagine. A myriad of stars scattered across the vast cosmos. So many mysteries, so many mysterious and insanely interesting.

I was like Littlefoot with a thousand shining stars in his eyes. But, unlike the cartoon character, I was able to open the veil of the mysterious and, at least one eye, but look beyond the mysterious distance.

You can not even have an inkling of what is going on...

I felt warm. I was with them, I could touch them, I could hug them. I could feel their touch. The ground was ready to go under my feet, and I was ready to take off. I could have fainted, but I didn't. A wave washed over me.

Sunset pulled back a little, as did the other girls.

"We know you," Sunset said. "We know what you really are. We know what you wanted. We couldn't leave you there alone in your world."

"Thank you," I said simply. "Thanks for everything. For everything you gave me. Without you, I couldn't have lived my life. Without you, I wouldn't be here anymore. Thank you for everything. I love you all."

I smiled. Tears stopped running from eyes.

"We're your friends now," Rainbow Dash said.

Friends. What a warm word. What a soulful word.

"Friends..." I repeated.

Yesterday I was living my normal life. But now everything has changed. My life will never be the same again. It will be completely different. Here in this world. Here with my friends.

Friends...

Beyond the Mysterious Beyond...