A man of great science finds himself in a new land, and a new body
Frederick Erin was a well respected astrophysicist and lived a decent life, until he decided to do something incredibly stupid for someone else, now he's trapped on another world. And the worst part, he's not even himself anymore.
I probably should have added this at the beginning but the chapters are written in a short journal like style
To say that I was a good person is to tell a lie. While I wasn't the worst person, I certainly wasn't the greatest. But before you judge me, know that I did one good thing with my life and ironically it was my last. After all, I did risk my life saving the only person who was ever kind to me, and she will never know how thankful I was.
Before I go any further I should probably give you the basics. My name is Dr. Frederick Erin, I'm 32, and I'm from Burford, England. I'm a well respected astrophysicist and I'm the first in creating a machine capable of allowing someone to access the infinite scape of the multiverse.
Me and my partner had designed and created this machine to solve the Earth's resource problem and discover alternate life forms of separate realities, to say we expected it to work was giving us too much credit. The chances of getting the exact reality you wanted was almost improbable, and even then you don't even know what is different there.
The facility that we where in was mainly a research base and had practically next to no security, mostly basic camera's and a single security guard. But we had the benefit of almost no one knowing where we were due to the facility being hidden and secret.
We had been fine tuning the machine and making sure there was no problems with it, we had basically slaved on that machine for the longest time and had recently tested it to make sure it worked with organic matter by sending our test turtle Myron.
Now that you know that, let's get back to what happened. You see, a rogue military force had infiltrated the facility and were demanding that I hand over the codes to the machine, and in a brisk and very stupid action I set the machine to overload and locked myself in the testing zone. And with a wave (and admittedly a stupid look on my face) it went off, destroying the machine and sending me across the multiverse. The worst part of that wasn't me being hurled to who knows where, but was that I never said goodbye to my only friend Ethel. And as I was seeing the mass of colors that was the vortex, I never would have guessed where I had ended up.
When I landed I was in incredible pain (most likely from going through the portal during an overload) and was also feeling very strange, but I knew that that didn't matter at the moment. What mattered was where I had landed, I could very much tell that I had landed in some sort of forest but had no idea how deep I was in it or what creatures were inhabiting it.
I knew that I had to find civilization, but I didn't even know if this universe even had a civilization but it was worth trying to find one. I tried to stand up to start walking but immediately fell to the ground, confused I attempted it again and was met with the same result. I was worried that I had broken my legs on landing, but when I went to check them I discovered that my legs were very different, firstly they were a light shade of blue and were covered in fur, secondly they weren't even human any more and very much resembled an equine in structure.
I immediately knew that something was wrong and started examining the rest of me and say that my arms matched up with my legs, as well as discovering that I was no longer clothed. But that wasn't the worst part, from my examinations I had discovered something missing, something very important, and because of that it tipped the scales and I was sent into panic. "
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!
" I screamed. "What in the bloody god-damned fucking hell happened to me?!!!" I said in an all too noticeably feminine voice. I was panicking really fast and tried to think of how this would happen "Okay so maybe entering the portal during the meltdown might have done more than a slight pain" I said very worried. I realized soon however that I was starting to hyperventilate and attempted to calm myself down. " Okay," I wince at the voice "I am apparently a female blue fucking horse now, but at least I am alive" I state, and from that statement I started to calm down. It was when I calmed that I noticed the sound of rushing water and realized that a stream must be nearby. "Well, I should probably see the rest of the damage." I start semi crawling twords the sound and had discovered that it was indeed a stream, and a big one at that.
I peered into the water and saw a creature not unlike a horse, yet with very humanistic qualities. Firstly the eyes were far too large, secondly the head shape was very soft looking and appeared to be very expressive, and thirdly there was a horn directly in the middle of the forehead. "Oh great, I've become something out of a little girls fanfiction, just great" as I said that I had also noticed that my hair... um, "mane" was somewhat different than what it was before because it was a lot longer and it had two stripes of different shades of blue directly parallel to each other.
"Well, I should probably get moving, no telling how quickly it will get dark" and of fricking course as I state this it was immediately starting to get dark. "God fucking damnit..." I really need to keep my mouth shut.
I wandered for quite a while, but was no luck in finding shelter. Worst off, it was starting to rain. And of course it was very dark, I almost gave up if it weren't for the fact that I swore I heard howling. That quickly quickened my pace, and finally after several hours I found a cave. I knew it was temporary and no doubt was some creatures home, but I had no choice, the howling was getting closer. When I entered the cave it seemed damp and filthy, but when I further explored it I discovered it was rather clean. This was very strange, normally if cave was around a creature inhabited it, but they never cleaned their domiciles. I surmised that perhaps I was in luck and that this hole was uninhabited.
As the rain continued to pour I put my thoughts together. "So, I haven't died and the only way back is destroyed, as well as my form being strange and unique, this could be one hell of a coma dream or it actually worked and I'm in another world" I said. As I thought these thoughts I began to get tired and decided that sleep is a better option, so I picked a relatively dry corner, curled up into a ball, and drifted off to sleep. And right before I fell completely asleep I heard a sound, a faint whistle of a tune I did not know, and then darkness
A smell of smoke and a faint crackle were what woke me, and as soon as I heard it I shot up like a rocket and noticed a piece of clothing had fallen off me. It was a jacket, and a very old one at that, covered in scuffing, stitches, and patches. I was torn from my examination when a sound alerted me. "ehm" said the being and I saw something interesting, it looked like a very old cockatoo but at the size of a human at least and wore all sorts of clothing. "Well if'n yer done gawkin, I'd like ter introduce meself" he said " my name be Sylas Sterling and ye be in my camp". He spoke in a way that many believed old pirates used to speak and moved with pride while speaking his name. "Oh! I'm so sorry sir, I didn't mean to intrude but it was beginning to rain and I am very much lost. You wouldn't happen to know where a town is" I said to him. He looked inquisitively at his claws for a while and then chuckled "aye it be fine lass, ye can stay as long as needed, this only a temporary shelter till I reach me ship" he said with confidence"and yes lass I do indeed know where town is, but yer gonna have to hang by me till then, I've got a bit of stuff to drop off fer I can help ye".
Ah, so it seems that he must regularly visit town to pick up stuff and was on his way back home to drop it off. "Well, while it isn't town I don't mind hanging around you till we get there" I said, and he seemed happy with my words as he proclaimed "Alrighty then lass! Then we have an accord, till me stuff be put back ye will hang with me and then we'll head to town!"
He seemed quite ecstatic at this and began to smother the fire with some dirt and stood up. "Alrighty then! The rain be stopping soon so I'll be taking that!" And he picked up his coat and put it on giving him a very old but authoritative look to him "And we shall be going now, if'n that be fine by ye lass?" He asked. "Oh! um yes, I'm fine enough to leave, let us be off" and with that we strolled into the dying rain, deeper into the woods.