The Incident
Chapter 3: Yes, it’s Real
“Man that was one weird dream. I mean it was kind of cool to meet Twilight and see Fluttershy but good old Earth is where I want to stay.” Matt groggily thought as he woke up. He could he the serene sounds of birds chirping right outside his window.
“Birds! I live in the middle of the city there are no birds here. I better go look.” Matt sat up, opened his eyes, and saw not his bedroom in his apartment but one in a small cottage.
The memoires of the day before hit Matt like a freight train. “It wasn’t a dream I am really in Equestria. I died. I died in a horrible accident on that elevator. I will never see any of my family or friends again. I won’t be able to go to one of my brothers collage games. I won’t write a program ever again. I died and someone thought it would be a greaght idea to give me a second chance and live here. It would have been nice accept for the fact that I have to live knowing that everybody thinks I am dead.”
“No. No. No! No! NO! This is not right!” Matt screamed at the top of his lungs. The ponies inside the house heard the yelling. They were soon running up the stairs to see what the cause was. Twilight burst through the doorway.
“Matt what’s wrong?” Twilight looked around the room for the cause of the outburst. She could only see Matt sitting straight as an arrow in his bead. Matt’s face held an expression of both great sadness and fury. A person got the look when a tragic accident occurred.
“What’s wrong? I’ll tell you what’s wrong! I’m DEAD! I died in an accident and got transported here. I will never be able to see anyone I have ever known ever again. I will NEVER be able to see my home again. Never. I am however stuck in a world filled with magical talking horses. That is what’s wrong.” Matt put all of his anger at his situation into those words. Now with all his anger vented there only sadness was left. He broke down weeping into his hands as he slumped down into the bed.
“Matt you are not dead. I can assure of that. Unless being alive is different where you come from.” Twilight calmly said in an attempt to pacify Matt.
“Here maybe but I am dead back home.” Matt spat bitterly. “My body is sitting at the bottom of an elevator shaft mangled beyond recognition.”
“No it isn’t Matt. You see I was experimenting with an extremely powerful teleportation spell. I lost control of the spell it reached critical mass and decayed. The spell managed to open a portal. You flew out of the portal at great speed and crashed into the ground. You were passed out for three days.”
Twilight let the information sink in. Matt visibly brightened. “I am not dead after all. A sell brought me here. Spells are reversible that means I can go home.” Matt sat up elated and winced from the sudden movement.
“A spell can be reversed right? You can send me home. This is amazing! I am so sorry for my outburst right then.” Matt told Twilight.
“Matt it is not that simple. The spell that sent you here was experiencing magical decay. The affect of the spell was completely random. It will take years for me to begin to study the decay pattern and even longer for me to recreate the spell reverse it and send you home.”
“Oh. Well then at least, I can still get home eventually. Until then however I will make the most of living here.” Matt’s sprits were still high as a kite from the news that not only was he not dead but he could also get home in just a few short years.
“Matt may I ask you a question?”
“You just did Twilight.” Matt burst into laughter at his bad joke.
“Well then can I ask three?” Twilight responded.
“You already… Wait did you say three? “
“Yes I did Matt.”
“Fine you outsmarted me. Ask away Twilight.”
“Why did you not freak out like this yesterday when you woke up?”
“The answer to that question is very simple Twilight. I thought I was dreaming. Then I woke up this morning and remembered the elevator and I just lost it. I could not handle the fact that I would never be able to go home again.”
“That is a very justified reason to freak out. I have had bigger freak-outs over less. There was this one time I forgot to send the princess a friendship report and I totally lost it. I thought that if I didn’t send one then she would send me back to magic kindergarten. I could not find a friendship problem to fix so I created one. I enchanted my old doll with a want it need it spell. The entire town went crazy trying to get it. Compared to that your out burst was minor under the circumstances.”
“No I guess it is not. If it is not to big a problem could give me another pain relief spell my leg is acting up again.”
“Sure just let me do a quick scan first to make sure you a healing right.” Twilight’s horn glowed with its soft purple and Matt felt an odd sensation.
“Hey that tickles.” Matt said in between bursts of giggles.
“Hold still. I am just about done.” Twilight instructed Matt, “There all done. Everything looks like it is healing and your magic sickness is getting better.”
“Magic sickness, what’s that?”
“When an organism is never exposed to magic then suddenly expose to huge amounts of it, like you, it can get very sick as its body adapts to the magic. Don’t worry it will be gone in a few days a week at the most.”
“That is good to hear thank you Twilight.”
“No problem Matt. I’ve got to get back to the library now but if you need any thing feel free to call down to Fluttershy she will help ou with anything you need.”
“Can do Twilight. See ya later.”