Easy Access, the Story of Quill

by Graphite Quill

The Compromise Pt.2

Author's Note:

Boop! Another update that took forever, hope you enjoy! Probably more than a few mistakes as I didn't have time to give it a good comb over, feel free to point them out in the comments.

"Fucking waste of my vacation days." I grumbled to myself as I led the thief into the living room of my house. After he stood up from being launched into me he wouldn't shut up long enough for me to catch up with what he was saying so i just started leading him inside to wait for him to calm down. Nearly 20 minutes of fiddling around on my phone later I noticed the silence and looked up to see him digging through his pockets only to pull out a few half dollar sized gold coins.

"See! I think it's real! If I was going to stay here I'd be rich after selling them!" He said excitedly. "Oh ya I still need some stuff for when I go back so I might sell one or two."

"What in the hell are you even talking about? Just calm the fuck down and start again." He was about to start jabbering on again but I interrupted. "Stop. Slow down and just give me the important details, I don't care about what you did there i just want to know what you meant when you said you were sent somewhere."

"Sorry, I just get excited super easily. Ok, when you first pushed me in I was scared out of my mind. I didn't pay much attention to what was happening I was mostly just screaming with my eyes closed." He paused for a few seconds to put the coins back in his pocket and pulled out a few other things like his phone, wallet, and strangely enough my wallet though it looked a bit more dirty than when I sent it through. "It felt like I was going down a water slide almost and it went on for a few minutes but then it felt like I hit a wall at high speed but was still moving. I don't really know a good way of explaining it but everything hurt like hell but it only lasted a few seconds. After that though I felt really strange like something was off, it was weird. Not long after that I felt myself slow down but as soon as I opened my eyes I became really good friends with a stone wall." He started rubbing his face almost like he was remembering when he 'met' the wall. I laughed.

With a glare in my direction he continued regaining his excited appearance. "I don't know how long I was out but after I woke up and figured out how to use my legs, I made my way outside of the building I was in. I shit you not there was hundreds of small horses wandering around every color of the rainbow! Some were even wearing clothes and talking! It was like some weird acid trip, I didn't know what the fuck was going on so I just started wondering around-"

"Hold on." I interrupted again. "Small multicolored horses? Are you sure you didn't hit your head too hard?"

"Well I was seeing them the whole time I was there and I've never heard of a concussion that causes hallucinations for a whole month." He seemed to get a look of concentration on his face. "Now that I think about it, I've seen something like them before on a cartoon my little sis used to watch. Anyways," My eyes widened a bit at that, all this is sounding so ridiculously impossible but I saw him get taken somewhere and he has no real reason to make this shit up. "I wandered around in this HUGE horse filled city, talked to the few locals that didn't ignore me, and even found those coins on the ground. I had more but had to use some of them for food."

"You 'found' those coins on the ground," I gave him a deadpan stare. "and you 'bought' your own food. Somehow I don't believe that you found enough coins to live on the whole month."

"Ok I may have gotten most of my food for free when nobody was looking, but I had no choice unless I wanted to starve." He looked down with a guilty expression that almost made me think he felt bad about it. Almost. "I really did find those coins though. They were on the ground under a bench in an overgrown abandoned park."

"Just why were you under a park bench in the first place?" I continued to stare at him.

"Had to sleep somewhere. I kinda got lost that first day and didn't find the building with the mirror portal until a few days ago. I mostly just wondered around taking in the sights while I was searching for the portal, but when I finally found it I stayed right next to it until it opened a little while ago when I jumped in." I did tell him to simplify it but I have so many questions now.

"When you said you talked to a few of the locals did you find anything out about where you were? Did anyone in the building see you around the mirror?"

"As far as I know nobody saw me near the portal, it was in a kind of storage basement in the employees only area. I never really asked about where I was I was mostly just excited to be talking to sapient horses, but I did hear the word Canterlot thrown around allot when the more uptight ones were talking." Canterlot. That seals the deal for me, somehow I made a portal to Canterlot the capitol of Equestria.

"Wait, wait. What did you mean earlier when you said you were going back? What makes you think I'm going to just let you back through?" I said with a scowl. Had I known I was sending this thieving idiot to the innocent Equestria I'd have thought twice before shoving him into the portal.

His face morphed from confusion and anger to a smug grin. "I like it there. Nobody needs me here nor do they care if i'm gone, and I already made friends there. You will send me back because if you don't I'll tell this whole world about whats going on in your garage!" He looked so happy with himself, like he just guaranteed his return to Equestria.

"I hate to have to burst your bubble kid but 'a magical land of talking ponies'? Who's gonna believe that, let alone that I built a magic portal in my garage that leads there. Plus you're lucky I haven't called the cops and had you arrested for breaking and entering. I still haven't decided on rather or not I'm going to let you go yet." At the last few words I lifted my shirt a bit to show my holster for the same gun I had pointed at him a month ago. Am i being a bit harsh? Maybe but that look of utter defeat on his face was worth it. I know I'm an ass, get over it.

"So what, you're just going to keep me locked up in your house? Just call the cops and get it over with." He said with crossed arms while sitting back with his eyes closed. I just barely heard him whisper,"I'm sorry Gilda."

Damn it. What the hell, why not. I don't plan on being on my best behavior in Equestria anyway. "You've got one month to prepare. Keep this quiet and be back here exactly one month from now. Bring whatever you think you'll need, and don't be late."

-=-=-=-=-=-=-==1 Month Later==-=-=-=-=-=-=-

"I hope that idiot forgot." I'm already regretting my promise to let this kid come with me. A noise outside the garage door broke me from my brooding.

"Too bad for you asshat I could never forget my time there! I'm ready when you are!" I swear this kid is related to Rarity with how many bags he was carrying with him.

"Did you bring your whole house? Damn kid, we gotta get some shit straight. I have no idea how this thing works or if it even will with 2 of us going through. We are not taking all that shit with us. I don't want to overload this thing and get stuck there." I only have one duffel bag compared to this kids 2 suitcases, duffel bag and the backpack he was wearing.

"Ya, I didn't really think about that. I can do without most of this anyway, I at least want the backpack and this duffel." He says after dropping the rest of the bags next to the door. "Is that all your taking with you? One bag?"

"Yes, I'm only taking what I need nothing more. Clothes, some food, portable solar charger, phone, notebooks, pens, and a few mechanical pencils. What are you bringing?"

Laughing he says, "Dude you're not gonna need the clothes, and I'm bringing my PC, extra battery packs for charging everything, phone, tablet, and a bunch of survival stuff."

"Woah, hell no. The phone and battery packs are fine but the computer and tablet is staying. We need to keep our tech out of the public eye so we don't change the tech level of their society. We can't take anything that we can't hide in our pockets. Also why do you need the survival gear in the city, and why wouldn't I need clothes? I'm not going to walk around naked."

"Your the boss I guess." He didn't sound happy but put the duffel bag down anyway. "How about we make a deal. If I keep out of trouble, get a job, and gain your trust can I bring my PC next time we come here then go back?"

Doubt that will happen. "Sure kid. Now whats this about the clothing thing?"

"You won't need them, but i'd change the the ones you're wearing if I were you. Didn't I mention that I woke up as one of them?" He said while looking at my jeans and green shirt.

If my hand had hit my forehead any faster i'd be out cold. "Why didn't you mention that from the beginning! I would consider that one of the most important details."

"Sorry must have just slipped my mind."

Comments

[NotSuspicious366]

Angry, Promiscuous Man and Chill Burglar's Adventures Through Time and Space: the Novel

[tsaukpaetra]

..... But he says he was at avid watcher and based the design off the EG portal. Why would he not at least guess that was a very distinct probability? Bwah?

[ramdom_player201]

If the portal causes a power outage every time it is opened, and needs to be opened manually from the earth side, how're they going to get back?