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// Prologue  
// Story: Trapped Behind the Screen 
// by Electronic Pony 
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	‘Three months of winter coolness, and awesome holidays!’
‘We've kept our hoovsies warm at home, time off from work to play!’
"Good ol Winter Wrap Up," Jeffrey Noman thought happily to himself. "The classics are always good to go back to."
Jeffrey Noman was your average everyday guy, except for his most regarded trait of liking a cartoon meant for girls, which people used to describe him as anything but average. He was an avid fan of the show, and was struggling through it's current hiatus.
Aside from this quirk, he was, quite honestly, no one special. He worked in an office of no prominence, had no friends of great social stature, and never did anything out of the ordinary.

But something very out of the ordinary was about to happen to him.

There was a knock at the door, followed a few seconds later by the start of an engine, and a car driving into the distance. 
“That must be my new computer!” Jeffrey was filled with excitement at the thought. “But wouldn’t something as expensive as that require a signature?”
Paying the thought no heed, Jeffrey continued to check his doorstep. Sure enough a heavy brown package was lying at his doorstep. Jeffrey practically threw it on his table inside, and ripped open the packaging like a child eager to get to the prize at the bottom of the box. When the shroud had been removed, Jeffrey lifted the piece of technology from it’s box and immediately started to hook up all the wires and plugs in the correct places. He worked deftly, and soon the job was finished. He could hardly wait to push the button, and bring his machine to life. He pressed the button, and waited.
The new system booted up perfectly, and welcomed Jeffrey with a soothing, “Hello.”
“How may I assist your technological experience today?” it continued.
Jeffrey considered this for a moment. “It’s pretty late,” he thought. “I’ll just finish my last episode for tonight, and figure all this out tomorrow. Please resume the last program running on the previous system,” he said the last part out loud, and rather eloquently. 
“Did you say ‘Please immerse me in the last program running on the previous system?’” the computer replied.
Jeffrey wasn’t aware of the mistake he was about to make. “Sure, whatever you say,” he said absent-mindedly.
“Now immersing you in the previously running program…” the machine started to heat and vibrate with the end of this statement.
“Could it really take that much power…?” Jeffrey thought, and sat down in the chair at his desk, when suddenly the image on the monitor started to shine a beautiful white light, as if something were about to descend from the heavens. A strange force started to pull him towards the screen, and the last thing he saw was Twilight Sparkle trying her best to find her place to help wrap up winter.


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Walter Swainbeck‘s chair creaked from it’s old and weary components. It was a chair that had been in his family for as long as he could remember. It hadn’t been through much else than all the years it had seen.  Walter was using it now as a desk chair, probably one of the more exciting occupations it had ever held.
Walter also happened to be watching the same episode that Jeffrey had been that night, but he was just starting on his magical horse journey, so unlike Jeff, it was his first time watching it.
“God, I still don’t know why I like this show,” Walter thought to himself. “But hey,” he chuckled, “at least I’m not alone.”  
Rarity was just finishing helping Fluttershy wake up all the animals for spring when suddenly a dark green Earth pony stallion walked onto the screen on both of it’s hind legs and ran awkwardly towards Walter.
“That’s odd,” Walter thought, staring at the green horse as he got closer. “What could this possibly be?”
The pony finally managed to get up so far that his face was almost coming out of Walter’s monitor. “Help me! Can anybody hear me?!” he wailed. “My name is Jeffrey Noman! Somebody, get me out of here! I just want to go home!”