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// A friend in another world 
// Story: Project Gateway 
// by DeloreandudeTommy 
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Three months later

You re-enter Equestria, this time having Twilight Sparkle handy to get you out of your suit (she no longer camps out by your suit, now she just walks there every morning), you walk down the road but you see a familiar face.
The green pony you met the first time you came here.
“Excuse me, I have to have a word with you, sir.” says the green pony
“Certainly.”
“I’m not entirely sure how to tell you this, but I think you need to know that I’m a lot more like you than you might think.”
“How so?”
“I know that you’re not from here.  By ‘not from here’ I mean really not from here.”
“Um…okay.”
“Let me just say that I’m from where you are from.”
“I…I don’t think I understand.”
“Come to my house at 3094 Celestian Avenue at 4PM today.  I’ll explain everything.  Don’t let anybody follow you.”
“Anybody?  Don’t you mea-”
You’re cut off by a hoof to the mouth.
“I’m sick of hearing that ‘everypony’ nonsense too.  Just say ‘everybody’ to me, kapeesh?”
“Um, yeah I kapeesh.”

Later that day…

You visit the mysterious pony’s house.
“Hello?  Is anybody home.”
You enter the house, it’s filled with posters.  But these aren’t any ordinary posters.
These are posters for human things.
“Well, you showed up” says the green pony, emerging from another room.
“Why yes, what kind of pony would I be if I didn’t?”
“What kind of person would you be.” Says the pony back to you.
“What do you mean person?”
“Listen, I know you’re not a pony on the inside.  I saw you arrive here last week.  At first I thought that you were just some weirdo from another part of this Technicolor world of happiness, but when I saw you were appearing at normal intervals every day I knew something was up.  So I followed you to your power suit one night and saw that you are what I am, a human in a pony’s body.”
“What!?  But I was the first…how…HOW!?”
“Seven years ago I was supposed to be time displaced to 2024 to see my great grandmother one last time before she passed away, since I was too young at the time to have really known her.  However, something went terribly askew with the time displacer and I ended up not in 2024 New York but here in who-knows-when Equestria.”
She points to the posters on the wall.
“These were going to be presents for my great grandmother so she could see her grandchild.  Please, I beg you, bring me home with you.  I want to see her again so bad.  I want to see my world again!” says the pony.
“Excellent, so why do you have a cutie mark that’s not some logo?” you ask the green pony.
“I guess I was too young when I was displaced or maybe time travel causes you to get a random cutie mark and color when you get universally displaced with a time machine.  I got a lyre, so I decided to go by the name ‘Lyra Heartstrings’ instead of my real name, Barbra Frank.  I never really liked the lyre until I started playing it, turns out I'm actually really good.”
You think for a minute how you could get her home.
“I think I know a solution.”
You call up your supervisor on your Armboy, explaining to your best knowledge the situation and request that you stay the night.
“We’ll need to get you fitted for a hazard suit, do you know anybody in town that could make you a body suit that we could use as a template back home?”
“Now you’re talking!”