Ace woke up in his house, all seemed normal.
Then he heard that something. He got out of bed, and galloped down the stairs. Somepony was in his house. Didn't they know he was here?
"Why are you in my house?" Ace said halfway confused and halfway frustrated. The pony jumped at his voice.
"T-they didn't tell me this house was haunted!" The mare dashed out of the homestead, terrified.
"Well that solves that." Said Ace to himself mostly. He trotted tiredly out the door and into Sweet Apple Acres. He checked if Granny Smith needed anything, and went to work picking the apples off the trees with his magic. As he did this, he thought some more about his new self awareness.
"Am I even a unicorn given that I'm intangible? Am I even a pony?" He thought.
"What am I?" He finished picking the trees for the harvest, checked if Granny Apple needed anything else and went to Twilight's library. Spike greeted him like how he usually did, let him inside. Twilight was asleep at a table littered with research papers, some tea from Sugarcube Corner and a quill dipped in an ink vial. Ace trotted over to the papers, and read some. An unsent letter read:
'Dear Celestia,
Today it has come to my attention that my friend, Ace Sparks is apparently some kind of ghost. I will try to find some way to fix this.
Yours truly,
Twilight Sparkle.'
He read an unrelated, crumpled up letter.
'Dear Celestia,
today I learned- Never mind, she isn't going to read this...'
She woke up.
"Oh, hi Ace... Didn't expect you here today."
"Do you still think of me as a pony?" He said, clearly upset by the letter. "Or am I just some kind of ghost, a thing..?" Twilight's eyes widened, surprised.
"Well, of course I think you're more than that!" She stated quite loudly, surprising Spike, making him jump. "That's just a simple letter!" She said, using magic to put it in an envelope and seal it. "I've been trying to find a solution to this problem," She continued, "I've figured out something, I've figured out a kind of... suit that covers your full body, so everyone can see you." She was about to continue, but then Ace interrupted her.
"A mask? No thank you." He said, almost instantly rejecting the thought. "But thanks for the consideration." He was about to go home, when Twilight noticed something. Ace was just trotting out the door.
"Um, Ace! wait!" she called. Ace turned to look at her.
"What?" He inquired. She pointed a hoof at him.
"You're glowing blue!"
"I am?" He looked at his hooves, it was true! They were glowing! "Does this mean that ponies can see me?" The glow turned green. Twilight noticed the change in color.
"Um, I have something to tell you. You're not my friend anymore." She said. Ace's glow changed from green to red.
"What?" He asked.
"Not really, just testing a theory." She continued. "It seems you glow a certain color in accordance to your emotions!" She observed. "I only said I wasn't your friend to test it, sorry!"
"It's fine." He said, still slightly confused. "Anyway, I'm going to go see if this glow is visible to other ponies."
"I'll come with you." She said.
He trotted to the square to test the glow, everypony around stared at him, confused.
"What is that?"
"What's the glow about?"
"Are my glasses broken, or is that a glowing green silhouette?"
Ace decided he'd speak. He walked to a box and stood on it, for a better profile among the crowd. Then he spoke.
"Everypony, you may not know me, but I have been here for quite some time... My name is Ace Sparks."
"Now, before everypony here freaks out, let me explain." More passerby looked his way. "I am apparently some sort of manifestation of magic in the form of a pony, with the personality and figure of one, too..." They all fell silent, save for a few clearing their throats."At least that's what I've been told." Everypony stared at him, listening intently. "I feel emotions, breathe air... Like any other normal pony, But I am intangible to ponies who don't know me, and yet I'm real to friends and family..." A filly pointed him out to their mother, the mother telling them that it's rude to point. "With the help of Princess Celestia herself, and Twilight sparkle, along with some other ponies, you know who you are... And now, You all know me..." He stopped glowing, yet everypony still looked at him. Could they still see him? he cantered to the left, then to the right. Eyes still followed him, he must be visible! He felt ecstatic. Some colts and fillies raced over to him and looked up at him.
"How did Twilight Sparkle help you, mister?" one asked.
"Well, she reassured me to go out and talk to all of you after noticing that I glowed..." Ponies kept coming to ask him about what happened... For the first time, he felt like he knew the town. Twilight galloped over to him and hugged him tightly.
"Ace, that was such a great speech! Did you come up with that on your own, on the spot..?" She asked, astonished.
"Well, not exactly... He continued. "You see, when nopony knows you for a few years that drag so slowly when you have nopony to talk to... You kind of make speeches due to a lack of other things to do..." She nodded. "It's getting pretty late out, see you tomorrow." Ace said over his shoulder. And so he went to his home and took a well deserved rest, tomorrow was going to be big.