You crawl head first into the impossible tunnel. The walls are as smooth as glass, but feel sturdy, and seem to pulse with some sort of gentle beat. As you crawl deeper into the tunnel, a warm breeze brushes past your cheeks and you smell the faint aroma of fresh apple pie mingling with the scent of wildflowers.
"I'm sure I'll run headfirst into the wall any time now," you say to yourself, though you're aware that you seem to have crawled much further than the distance of the tunnel opening to your wall.
"Maybe I already ran into the wall and hit my head and I'm dreaming," you think to yourself. "Maybe I should turn around."
However, just as you're hesitating, it's as if the tunnel suddenly tilts downward and you feel yourself begin to slide towards the opening facing the meadow. Faster and faster you slide as if gravity itself is increasing as you plummet. You try to slow yourself, to stop your descent, but there's no purchase for your hands on the smooth glassy surface of the tunnel. In a moment you're flying through the air, tumbling head first into a grassy knoll, and after the stars and clouds clear from your eyes, you find yourself staring up into a pale blue sky.
"Oh wow! That was really neat! Where'd you come from? Are you all right?" a high pitched voice seems to ask every question at the same time.
"I'm, yeah, I'm fine," you say as you turn your head to look towards the sound of the voice.
"Are you behind the... the uh... the pink pony?"
"Oh, silly! Did you hit your head really hard? I am the pink pony!" she says. "My name's Pinkie Pie and these are my friends, Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Apple Jack, Fluttershy, and Rarity!"
You sit up slightly and look at the other incredibly odd colored ponies the pink one is gesturing towards. Purple, sky blue, orange, yellow, and white with a purple mane - all quite certainly not normal pony colors.
"Pinkie Pie, dear, please do calm down. The poor fellow is probably confused enough from that fall. Oh, you poor thing. We saw you come hurtling out of the sky. However did you get there in the first place?"
"I, uh, there was a tunnel and um-" you try to explain but every thought feels fuzzy and distant. "Are you really talking ponies?"
"You must have hit your head hard," the purple one says. "What other kinds of ponies are there?"
"Normally, they don't talk..."
"Well you're a pony and you talk," the sky blue one says.
"I'm a what now?" you ask as you look at the ponies around you and then at your hands- no not your hands. You're not sure what these hooves are doing at the end of your arms or why your arms are covered in a fine red fur.
"Maybe we should get him back to the Ponyville Hospital," the yellow one, Fluttershy, says.
"I think you've got a right good idea, Sugarcube," Apple Jack says with a country drawl.
"I- I don't think I should go anywhere. Look, the tunnel," you look around to point out the tunnel to these strange, talking ponies, but can't see it anywhere at all.
"It was right here! You saw it right?" you ask as you try to stand, but fall back to the ground. Attempting to stand on two feet, or hooves, was probably a bad idea.
"All we saw was you falling out of the sky," Twilight Sparkle says with more than a little concern in her voice. "Why don't you try to calm down and tell us what happened. Let's start with your name?"
"My name is... um... my name..." you press your hooves into your temples. "I know my name... it's... it's..."
"Well, that tears it! We gotta get him to the hospital now!" Apple Jack says sternly.
"You're right! Dash, you fly ahead and tell them we're bringing in an emergency."
"Right Twi!" the pale blue pony says before sprouting wings and flying into the sky.
"None of this makes sense," you say as you continue to grasp your temples and try to understand what's going on.
"Can you walk? If you can't, then we can build a stretcher, right AJ?" Twilight asks.
"Sure can," Apple Jack says.
"I don't know if I should go anywhere... The tunnel should be..." you start to say.
"I think you have more important things to worry about than a tunnel," Twilight says sternly. "AJ, you, Fluttershy, and I will handle building the stretcher. Pinkie and Rarity, will you two keep him company and make sure he doesn't get any worse?"
"Oh, but of course we will," Rarity says.
"Sure thing, Twilight!" Pinkie Pie says in very nearly a chirp.
Choose your pony adventure:
Go with Twilight Sparkle and her friends
Stay right where you are and hope for the tunnel to open again