UNO!
Alfred had stared at the words trying to decipher them for the past half hour. Everytime he tried to disspell them, they came back within seconds. It almost burned his eyebrows at one point. Since he was already unable to move forward temporally, he prided himself on what looks he did have. However when he called for Discord, the only thing he could think of that could pull off this level of enchantment, he was amazed to find out that it wasn't the spirit of chaos, though Discord did have fun messing with both the spelling of the words as well as the color. Alfred eventually decided to see why the words were there and figured them for some kind of message delivery spell, so he reached out and touched them...
...Yeah we all know where he winds up now. So he's there and sees the earth pony, two humans and unicorn in front of him and the girls off to the right staring at the guys both worried and scared.
"Looks like he's almost finished calling his small posse together," said the stallion unicorn.
"Sure seems like it, but he does realize that the last one he has marked as canceled and might get banned for a few days for adding another chapter, right?" Roseshield said, casting a quick look up to the ceiling.
"He who?" Alfred asked the group around him.
"Author. This is all one big joke to him. He's doing this to get back in his stories," Jackson replied.
"Speaking of which, Author, don't introduce that character that you want to introduce into the first story of this stupid chapter chain you did," Blackdust said up at the ceiling.
"Um..." Alfred turned to the two hiding behind boxes, "What are they talking about and who or what are they talking to?"
"Well... According to what Jackson said, this is a fanfic... A story somebody from Earth made because they liked something that much..." the mare replied.
"Uh-huh. And why is it that we're on earth right now?" Alfred asked in a disbelieving tone.
"We're not..."
"Then where are we?"
"Equis. But the human side..." the girl replied this time.
Well that explains that... Alfred thought before turning around and almost running straight into a fist held pointed at his face.
"Careful... You might get hurt if you let your guard down for even a second," Jackson said.
"If that's the case, then let's see how you deal with magic!" Alfred said, trowing his hand in front of Jacksons face and casting a light spell meant to blind him.
"HEY! No fighting yet!" a guy said, coming into the warehouse back door, next to the ritual spot. He wore a blue faux leather jacket with a black shirt that had a cloud of gears and cogs that were spitting out white sparks where the cogs met, as well as blue jeans and sneakers. His hair was sky blue and he had a very light tan, barely apricot in tint while his eyes were black so it looked like he had no irises at all. He had silver, not just in color, bracelets on his ankles, despite obviously being bracelets.
"And you are?" Roseshield asked.
"His name is Rip Bluehouse. Author, I told you not to introduce him in the specialty chapter!" Blackdust answered.
"So is he aware of the wall, or does he break it?" Jackson asked, waving his hands around to try and find a box while the sudden burst of light faded from his eyesight.
"I'm aware of it, I just choose to ignore it," Rip replied, using his foot to kick a crate over to him.
"M... May I go home now...?" Azuran asked from a corner of the small space they were in.
"NO!" Everyone in the building, that means Adagio and Aria plus everyone in that small section, yelled at him in perfect unison that would never again be repeated.
"Besides, he's going to the next bit anyway." Thank you Roseshield.
What he said.