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// chapter 5: question time (actual chapter) 
// Story: Strange New World 
// by moltendaniel 
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AN: turn page to have black background or you’ll have a hard time reading some of the text
Blue is Luna
Red is the foal
Yellow is Celestia
Purple is Twilight
Light pink is Fluttershy
Pinkie Pie wont have a colour as there is only 1 pink on here and Fluttershy has it
Orange is Applejack
Cyan is rainbow dash

“You are a pony, more specifically an Alicorn.” The foal was just about to ask a question until Celestia continued her explanation.

“An Alicorn is a pony that has part of all three of the pony races combined together. We have the strength and endurance of an earth pony, the weather manipulation and flight ability of the Pegasi and the magic of Unicorns. Being a mixture of all the best traits of the 3 pony species we are incredibly powerful and are larger than all other ponies to accommodate our powers. Do you understand so far?”

“Yep, I think I got it…I’m trapped in some bullshit Greek mythology. And before you ask no I’m not going to tell you about the mythology or the Greeks as my history sucks and I never really paid attention in school when I was actually there.”

Twilight looked a little shocked about the thought of not paying attention in school, but even more shocked at the fact that he didn’t always go to school. She wanted to question him about it but thought she best let the Princesses ask the questions for now. Thankfully for her Princess Luna brought up one of the questions she wanted to ask.

“What dost thou mean when thou said-“

“Lulu, you’re speaking in old equestrian again.”  Said Celestia stopping Luna so that the foal would hopefully be able to understand. Luna was going to voice her embarrassment at her slip up and at being called Lulu in front of others but the foal started to giggle again and much to Luna’s amazement, defended her right to speak the way she likes.

“Don’t worry about it and let her speak how she likes. It just sounds like old English to me and it’s easy to understand what she’s saying if you actually listen. I mean seriously, dost thou, it’s just the same as saying do you or did you.”

Celestia wanted to tell the foal off for encouraging Luna’s use of old equestrian, but before she could Luna rushed over to the foal and hugged him. The foal suddenly looked extremely nervous, much to Celestia’s amusement.

Luna couldn’t be happier, she finally found somepony that not only didn’t care about her occasional slip up but actually stated that they didn’t mind. After last nightmare night Celestia had ordered everypony in the kingdom to tell Luna off every time she slipped into the old ways. The embarrassment she had to endure being told off by not only common ponies but also young foals as well was almost too much to bear. But this foal had actually accepted her ways and even encouraged her. Luna was right; this is the start of a very beautiful friendship.

“O—kay….. This is getting awkward. Do you mind letting go? I’m kinda suffocating here.” And with that being said Luna immediately let go with a blush starting to form on her face. Celestia and Twilight giggled at the display and the foal didn’t know what to think about it.

‘Okay well that was weird. Still though, how the fuck can a blush appear through fucking fur….you know what, fuck it, land full of magic. Magic is fucking bullshit and so is this fucking world…….I miss the internet already’ were the foals thoughts after he’d finally regained control of his brain.

“So “Lulu”" giggled the foal. “What were you going to ask before you were so rudely interrupted?” When he said rudely he shot a joking glare at Celestia with a grin plastered all over his face. Celestia scowled slightly at this but refused to rise to whatever challenge the foal was giving to her. Celestia could tell when somepony was trying to get the better of her temper and it wasn’t going to work this time. Although, the foal was good at it so Celestia decided she would need to try her hardest to keep calm when the foal was around.

Twilight was getting even more annoyed at the foal. He dare insult the Princesses like that and find it funny. Oh how he was in for such a talking to when they were alone together.  The steam coming out of her ears was not unnoticed by the foal or Celestia. The former decided to ignore the impossibility of it all and just smirk at the fact he was making at least one of them mad and Celestia just worrying what Twilight would do to the foal when they were alone….oh well, he deserves what’s coming to him she thought.

Blushing even harder at being called Lulu by the foal, she decided to ask her question again.
“We thank thee for thy kindness. Our question was what dost thou mean when thou said thou hardly paid attention when thou were actually at school?”
AN: this was a bastard to do as I cant do ye olde English at all. After this chapter I may just slip in twilight giving luna proper English lessons but skip it and say she had them just to make it easier to type her dialog.

The foal took on a rather neutral look at what Luna had asked. Sighing, he decided there was no point in hiding anything.

“I had a pretty shit school life. Most of the teachers were arseholes and neither bothered helping me and just gave me hell because I misbehaved a lot more than others did because of my ADHD. Before you ask it stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. The high school I went to was supposed to have someone there to help me concentrate and keep me in line and my mum had been telling them years before I even went there that I had problems and needed more help than others.

They were supposed to let all the other teachers know that I had ADHD but they never did. Some of the teachers only knew because I told them myself and even then, some of them said I was lying to get out of trouble, some of them treated me like I was an idiot and one or two of them treated me even worse. There were only 3 teachers that actually helped me.

The rude teachers were probably the best part about that fucking school. Nearly every single person in the school tried beating me up every day. At one stage in school some of them tried to fucking kill me because of some bullshit rumour that was spread about me taking the piss out of someone who had just died. The school kicked me out at that time for “my own protection”. I can’t really remember much about my school life because I forced myself to forget about it. I only know of some of the shit that happened.

Also imagine this, someone tries to fight me for no reason other than they are bored and want to the deck the shit out of me. We were in the middle of class and he keeps trying to punch me so I just keep moving out the way letting him trip over himself. The teacher sees this and gets me kicked out for fighting and the guy gets a break time detention. The schools principle and vice principle would always take any excuse to kick me out.

Now I’m not going to say I had the worst school experience in the world, I know some people who had it worse than me due to various reasons and I know there are a lot of people in the world that have had it way worse than I did, but that doesn’t mean I don’t like it at all. That’s pretty much all I can remember of that shit hole….what?”

The foal looked to the others to see tears in their eyes at what he said. And the foal just looked bored. Celestia, Luna and Twilight all wanted to hug him and comfort him but didn’t know how to do so. They were going to say something to him but didn’t know what. He beat them to the punch though.

“Oh geeze cry me a fucking river. I don’t care about all that so don’t go all sentimental on me, I hate that crap.” The foal looked over to the window when he saw something and spoke again to the still crying ponies.

“Can you do me a quick favour please and open the door. I can’t exactly do it as I don’t have hands anymore apparently.”

The ponies crying slowed to a stop after a minute and Celestia decided to listen to the foal’s request. The moment she did he tried jumping off the coach and onto the floor but fell on his face. Everypony was about to go and help him up but he crawled to his hooves and started walking to the door whilst mumbling something about hooves, quadrupeds and his body being stupid.

He finally made it to the door after walking like a young foal that had only just learnt to walk. He put his head outside and Twilight only just realised how late it was as the moon was out. She didn’t even realise that Celestia had lowered the sun and Luna raised the moon. Her thoughts turned back to the foal whose head was still outside the door and wondered what he was doing until he spoke.

“Either you lot freeze your arses off outside and eavesdrop or get in here and listen. I don’t particularly care what you do but I don’t think Celestia, Luna and…Twilight was it?” he turned to Twilight for confirmation and received a confused nod from her. When she nodded he turned back to the door and continued.

“Like I was saying, I don’t think they would like it if you froze to death……I just fucking realised you guys are covered in fur so I doubt that would happen. Well fuck. Oh well, just get in here.”

And with that said he turned back into the library and walked towards the couch. The others were kind of confused as to why he was talking outside the door but then they realised it the moment Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie pie, Applejack and Rainbow Dash started walking in the door with embarrassed smiles on their faces, except for Pinkie Pie who strangely enough had a smile on her face.

“How did you know they were out there?” Celestia asked with bewilderment. How could the foal have known they were out there? The answer he gave made Twilight facehoof for not noticing.

“They’re kinda hard not to miss when they have their faces shoved up against the window….well except for Twilight here. So who are all you lot?”

Celestia giggled at Twilights realisation and all the others except Pinkie looked extremely embarrassed at their actions.

“Ah’m Applejack. I run sweet apple acres with mah brother Big Macintosh, mah gran’ma Granny Smith and mah little sister Applebloom.”

“My names Rainbow Dash, fastest flyer in all of Equestria and future Wonderbolt.”

“Um….I’m, Fluttershy. And……um…..i-i-I look after t-t-t-the animals around here.”

“HI-IM-PINKIE-PIE-AND-I-CAN’T-BELIEVE-IM-TALKING-TO-AN-ALIEN. YOU’RE-SO-COOL-WHAT-DO-YOU-LOOK-LIKE…I-MEAN-WHAT-DID-YOU-LOOK-LIKE-CONSIDERING-YOU’RE-A-PONY-NOW. WHAT-DID-YOU-LOOK-LIKE-BEFORE-DID-YOU-HAVE-TENTACLES-AND-HAVE-GREEN-SCALY-SLIMEY-SKIN-AND-HAVE-GLOWING-RED-EYES-AND-BREATHE-FIRE-AND….

And so Pinkie Pie carried on for a few moments while the foal kept getting more confused and the other ponies apart from Celestia and Luna kept a constant facehoof. After Pinkie had finally calmed down…and by that I mean a zipper appearing where her mouth is which confused the foal for only a moment until he remembered this world has magic which he was incredibly thankful for. 

Whilst Pinkie continued rambling, Rarity introduced herself to the foal. Twilight, Celestia and Luna had also formally introduced themselves. The foal didn’t know what to think when Luna and Celestia had said that they raise and lower the sun and moon. He was dumbfounded and decided there was no point in them lying to him, so he decided to just go with it until he could prove or disprove them. After they had finished introductions and Pinkie stopped trying to talk, the zip that was her mouth was removed and Celestia had asked the foal to introduce himself to them since he knew they were. His reply came as a bit of a shock.

“Dunno. I honestly do not have a clue who I am.” Stated the foal with no emotion. The others looked at him incredulously for a time. After the initial confusion twilight decided it was time to finally ask the foal a question.

“What do you mean you don’t know?”

“I woke up in that forest and couldn’t for the life of me remember my name. And whilst I’m on the subject of memory loss I also can’t remember any of my family or friends. I know I have some but I just can’t remember them. So I have another question for you, well, more like 3 words….What the fuck?”

All 8 ponies stared at the foal for a time. They didn’t know what to feel about this whole situation. They found a being from another universe that, by the sounds of it, had a terrible upbringing in the middle of the Everfree Forest. He had been teleported from his world to this one, was transformed from his original species into a new one, forgot his name, friends and family which was most probably a side effect of the teleport (although Celestia thought differently) and was injured and nearly killed by a manticore.

Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy, Twilight and surprisingly Rainbow Dash all wanted to hug the foal to try and make him feel better. They wanted to hold him tight until he released all his anger and frustration and until his eyes ran dry. They wanted to be there for him until he forgets all his worries and his troubles and such until he smiled. They probably would have done so if Celestia hadn’t stepped up to the foal and spoke to him once more.

“Would you allow me to scan you for any residual magic left on you from your teleportation and transformation? I spoke to Starswirl who was the pony that created the device that brought you here. He told me of his device and told me what it would do and that unless interfered with then it wouldn’t have done what it has done. It should never have brought you here let alone change you. I wish to also check your mind to see why your memories have been erased or are being blocked. Would that be okay with you?”

The foal looked at her for just a few seconds pondering her request. He wanted to know whose arse he needed to kick for bringing him here and changing him into a fucking pony. The only downside he saw was letting someone read his mind. He didn’t want anyone looking into his mind seeing the things he had done and the things he’d seen in his long-time of browsing the internet, and he definitely didn’t want anyone knowing about the….thing, he had locked away inside his mind. It was always there, a constant annoyance to him, yet he always ignored it for if he ever listened to it nothing good would come of it. After his internal debate about what he should do, he finally gave her a solid….

“yes.”

Celestia closed her eyes and gathered some of her magic into her horn. She started to structure her spell building the layers of variables and structures into it. After a minute her spell was ready and she released her magic at the foal scanning him for any residual magic and simultaneously scanning his memories. She was only looking at the folders of his mind, trying to find the ones that contained his family and friends and more importantly, himself. She eventually came across the memories of his friends. From her experience at using a spell like this she thought something was strange. The folder that was his memories of his friends was incredibly small compared to that from the minds of other ponies. It was the same size as only one other pony she knew. One that shied away from others. It was the same as her beloved students.

Celestia seemed saddened by this but also happy that despite all the bad experiences the foal had had, he still had some form of friendship. She might not know of all the bad that had happened to him but she did know of the struggles he had during his school life. She could help but sneak a peek at it the moment she saw it in his mind. She took but a fraction of a second to look before she promptly left it. There were a lot of memories missing from it. From her impression of it only one fifth of it was actually there.

Trying to get back on track, Celestia stopped her thoughts about that particular folder and went to look inside the folder containing his friends. When she tried to an image appeared before her, denying her entry into the folder. This image made her eyes go wide and she promptly shut off her magic and stopped the spell. It all made sense now. Starswirl had told Celestia that only a unicorn with as much power as himself or more could modify the device since he didn’t want anyone abusing it. But seeing that image had made it clear who had enough power and would want to do anything to it.

Celestia’s eyes opened and she turned to face the others in the room who were looking at her intently. They all wanted to know what she knew, and when she told them what she saw, all but the foal were shocked. What she saw, was a horrid creature. A creature that was a mix n match of other creatures all squished together to create a being of chaos. She saw Discord, sitting in a lawn chair with a pair of sunglasses on, sipping a drink though a straw while he twisted a padlock around on one of his claws.


hey everyone molten here. i now have an editor and proofreader that is going to help me with the story and such and help me in providing his knowledge on how to take the story in the direction i want and what he may want. please give a round of applause to Platinum2094.

now for some bad news. im back at college again and i know these chapters dont come out frequently as i only write when i get inspiration and such as im not good at planning ahead except for the base plot of this story so for a little while it may take longer for chapters to come out but i already have a few chapters kinda planned so as soon as i get to them i may pump out a few chapters quite quickly or just make 1 large chapter.

now i know some people will have a few questions for me about this chapter and stuff but dont worry, you'll find out about them soon enough, especially the thing he's hiding. everything has a reason so far in this story so there may be some things you may not think are intergral to the story but might be so keep your eyes open. although you may not see them like i want you to as im not exactly mentally stable as you can guess by the upbringing which in this story is just some of the stuff that happened to me. so bear with me in some ways. if you dont like some of the things let me know and ill try to work with you guys here.

till next time guys. and thanks again Platinum