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// AHHH THE PORTAL!!!!!!!!! 
// Story: BAM! Just like that. 
// by Leonardo Dicloprio 
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Chapter 3							
AH THE PORTAL!!!!!


Spectrum woke up the next morning in a giant pile of mares. They were all asleep. They must have been extremely tired after the unbelievable things that they had done the day before, right there in the middle of Cloudsdale. He flew up, hovering about twenty feet above the cloud floor of the unbelievable city made of clouds, and took a look at the giant pile of mares.
"Wow," he whispered to himself, "What is that? Three days in row, now? I need to take a break from this, or...it's gonna fall off."
Just then Rainbow Dash zoomed by, blowing Spec's Hair back. She was going the fastest he had ever seen a pony go since that one pony rode him super hard. What was that mare's name? It didn't matter. Rainbow Dash was his target now. He was gonna do it with her. SOON. Spectrum got a running start to fly up and talk to her. Then, when reaching the end of the clouds, he took off after Dash. He flew as fast as his wings could carry him, but Rainbow was going much faster. He pressed on, it was painful how fast he was going, but he just couldn't seem to catch up. 

All of a sudden, there was a huge explosion in the sky. Spectrum didn't realize what it was from. He thought a building might have exploded, and looked around for fire, but when he looked up, he saw what had actually happened. Rainbow Dash had done a Sonic Rainboom. She was going extremely fast, increasing in speed every second, with a rainbow trailing behind her from her tail. With out warning, Rainbow Dash went at a dangerously extreme speed, opening up a portal in the sky. Rainbow Dash couldn't slow down, and was violently sucked inside the portal. Spectrum desperately tried to slow down, struggling to pull back so he wouldn't fly straight into the giant, swirling, purple vortex leading to, who knew where. But it was to late.
Spectrum zoomed into the portal, flying through time and space. He looked at his hooves. They were growing and shrinking. He could feel himself getting older and younger at the same time. It didn't make any sense to him at all. He could suddenly see his own eyes, as his body morphed into weird forms and his face stretched through the portal. He looked back to see his flank a mile away, stretched beyond sight. He felt sick to his stomach, he felt like just laying down and dying, he felt...good.
It seemed like an eternity before the portal began to come to an end. He let out a deep sigh as the sound of the whining portal began to die down. Spectrum found himself in a world of which he had never seen. Everything was...darker. It wasn't bright and cartoony like the world that he knew and loved. And there were strange creatures like he had never seen. They walked on two legs and stood upright. Several of them only had fur on the top of their head. He was afraid of this strange world and wasn't sure where to go or what to do. He felt like everything was watching him. Everything was made of stone, and the ground was black and tough. It was then that he heard a huge roar coming from behind him. He turned to see a strange, red, metal object zooming at him very fast. Spectrum panicked, and sprinted for the nearest building, so he wouldn't be seen or attacked by this loud, hostile machine. The building that he ran to was made of bricks. It was a very large building with a few smaller beasts crawling around on the two legs that they had. These beasts were colored, just like the ponies from Spectrum's world, but their colors were very limited to tan and dark colors. He hid in a nearby room inside the building. He could hear the sound of talking and several more metal machines screaming outside.
Without warning, a sound rang out. It was remarkably loud and it caused Spectrum to have to cover his ears with his hooves. Several bells, all ringing at once, crept into his head and have him a head ache. After a few seconds, the sounds of the bells subsided and the hallways of the complex that he found himself in were filled with the voices and laughter of what sounded like thousands of young mares and stallions. They spoke English. He could understand them. Most of them spewing vulgar language, some talking about mares, some talking about games, some about school. It reminded Spectrum of his old elementary school when he was a young foal. He missed it. He missed Cherilee. He missed his world. What he knew to be real no longer seemed real. Spectrum laid down on the floor, overcome with fear. He looked around to see that he was in a dirty room with pipes and white bowl things. He hadn't really gotten a good look at the room until now. But now, he wasn't really in an exploring mood. He had to find out what had happened to Rainbow Dash. She had flown into the portal after all, and he had to help her. It was then that the voices of a few mares and stallions, or at least it sounded like some, caught Spectrum's attention. They all were talking about school and what they were going to do after school, but it wasn't the subject of which they were talking that interested him. He was interested in their voices. They sounded like his friends. He pressed his ear against the door, so that he could hear better. It was very loud outside and difficult to pinpoint on specific voices. He heard what sounded like his own voice...along with Crestfallen, a darker red, stallion, unicorn friend of his with a chestnut colored mane, and some other of his friends as well.
"Could they really be out there?," Spectrum whispered quietly to himself, "why are they not freaking out? Did they go through the portal after me? WHAT IF THEIR IN TROUBLE?!" He had so many questions but no time to think them through. He decided that he would have to go out at some point, and now was a good a time as any, especially considering that his friends could be in danger and Spectrum being the devoted, courageous pony that he is decided to go help. He stepped forward, slowly and cautiously reaching his hoof out for the door. Then he stepped back. It sounded like there were so many of these things. He could be ambushed. Spectrum thought for a minute, then the voices slowly got quieter. Now was his time to move. He reached for the door once more. Right as he was about to open it, one of the furless beasts stepped in, head down, looking at a small plastic machine in his hooves. Spectrum hadn't really realized until this point that these were not hooves that these things had. They had wiggly things on the end instead of hooves. The creature had on a black jacket, had chestnut hair, and shiny black glasses. Spectrum froze. The beast looked up at Spectrum, jaw dropping to the floor when he saw the red pony with a blue and green mane and yellow and orange tail standing before him. Neither of them could move. They stood there for about a minute before the beast spoke.
"You're...you're a pony...," the beast said, shoving the red device into his pocket. Spectrum was curious as to what the, possibly dangerous thing was, but now was not the time. He couldn't use it if it had been put away, anyway.
"Yes I am," Spectrum replied,awkwardly, after a small pause. Neither of them spoke for another minute.
"Uh...what are you doing here?," asked the beast, still shocked but also looking slightly thrilled to see Spectrum, "oh and sorry, my name is Dit...I mean, Luke. Sorry my mind is on other things," he said, reaching his wiggly tipped leg out to shake Spectrum's hoof. Spectrum stepped back, pulling his hoof towards his body, not wanting to shake hooves with this thing. "You don't need to be scared," Luke said, "It's not like I'm going to hurt you."
"Forgive me if I have difficulty believing you," Spectrum said a little angrily, "I don't know how I got here, and you...things are a little freaky." Although it was difficult for him, Spectrum reluctantly reached out his hoof. "I just kind of...appeared here, through... a portal and ran inside this building. I was about to leave because I thought I heard my friend Crestfallen, but it just turned out to be your voice."
"Crestfallen?," Luke asked, "that's a interesting name."
"Yea?," Spectrum said, "we don't really have names like...Luke where I come from."
"Which is where exactly," He asked.
"Cloudsdale," Spectrum said proudly, "only the city housing the greatest flyers in all of Equestria!" Then Spectrum remembered Rainbow Dash and began to panic.
"Equestria?,"Luke asked, "I think there are some people you need to meet."