//------------------------------// // Chapter 2: First Days // Story: Through the Looking Glass // by Electuroo //------------------------------// Through the Looking Glass (MLP) Chapter 2: First Days As the sun started to rise from the sky over Ponyville a strange beeping sound was coming from Twilights home. Rainbow Dash fast asleep heard it over and over again getting louder with every beeping. She covered her head with her pillows to block the sounds while Spike seem to just ignore it or completely unaware of it and Twilight trying her best to ignore it but both got up when it stopped all the sudden and peered over to the guest bed to see the yellow pony was the one that pressed it and seem to not be aware just sleepily went back to the bed and fell asleep again. “Ok… what was that sound, where’d it come from and how did he stop it?” Rainbow Dash said sleepily looking at Twilight. “Beats me, I am surprised he wasn’t aware that where he was” on cue to when Twilight said that his eyes snapped open and sat up looking over himself with panic setting in. “What the hell is going on!? What the hell happened to me!? And…” Rainbow Dash put over both of her hooves on his snout shutting him up with him staring at her eyes. “Cool it will ya!” she whispered “We not sure what happened or how it happened but if you scream any louder you will wake all of Ponyville up.” He gulped a little “Now relax and take a deep breath” She moved her hooves and relaxed a little “Right…” he replied taking a deep breath “Panicking isn’t going to solve nothing… it will just make things worse…” he said to himself looking to Rainbow Dash “Do you have a mirror?” She quickly got one and held it up with her hoof “There you go” he looked at himself and blinked a few times. “You’re kidding me… the very drawing Luna Flint did of me is what I became…” he stared at the mirror looking at the bolt shape style colour on his tail and mane. “Wings as well…” he moved them “This is either a very realistic dream or that crazy magically mirror that pulled me in did this to me…” “I think it something to do with you crossing to our world from yours, the magic transformed you into a suitable style that would match our world” Twilight said to him walking up to him and around him “So… what is your name?” “Wayne” he answered “Rain? You got three bolts on your cutie mark.” Dash said with a frown “No Wayne… W A Y N E” he replied a little irritated by this “That doesn’t sound like a name that would work, they would figure out something odd about you instantly” Twilight stated He turns to her with a raised eye “Say what? You’re saying my own name would raise suspicion? Not like my furry nickname of Electuroo would work…” “Electuroo? That sounds like a great name and it match your style all the way from your head to your tail” Rainbow Dash said in an instant with a grin “Just take me back to that crazy mirror so I can go home…” he grumbled “Not possible, whatever the connection was between you and Rainbow touching the mirror is something to do with the looking glass and that it closed…” Twilight said to him Electuroo turns to her “Then what the hell do I do now then? Before this morning I was a something that walked on two feet, had hands and not front hooves and surely didn’t have wings… all and all I have no idea how this body works” he said raising his front hoof and slamming on the bed with a very annoyed look like a thunder cloud was over him. “You know Twilight he has a point on all three cases. If that old book showed what was right… wait” she turned “You did walk on all fours when you turned that noise off” Rainbow Dash said to Electuroo He turns to the phone on top of the bag “My mobile phone? All I did was turn the alarm off… not sure how with these big things” looking at his hooves then back at Rainbow Dash. “Here a question for you why is everything look like a flat colour?” he said looking around “Flat colour? This is how it normally look” Twilight said back to him. “Right… different laws of physics” he rubbed his head a little then got up taking one step after the other he managed to walk over to his phone and finding a quill he picked it up and tap the screen it lit up and showed a picture of his true appearance. “That what I looked like” he mumbled with the quill in his mouth. “Whoa now that something you don’t see every day. So that what you looked like?” he nods “Hey Twilight look at him and the background, it looks really dark and light all in one. The colour looks a little bland” “Yeah it sure does, so that what his reality looks like, talk about a twist” Twilight said and they heard it ringing “What is that thing doing?” ELecturoo blinked “It can’t be… that my mum calling… but that in a whole different world…” he push the answer button with the quill and put it on video call. “Mum?” “Wayne?” the lady on the image that saw said as Twilight and Rainbow Dash both looked at the screen “Why am I staring at three ponies…” “Not sure, just woke up…” he replied looking to both ponies then back at the phone. “Long story short I think I ended up in Equestria at Ponyville…” “Erm hi, I am Rainbow Dash and that Twilight” Rainbow Dash waved a hoof at her. “Nice to meet you… Wayne it been almost weeks since you’ve been missing…” he stared at her image then at the time details “It has…” he turned to the others “How long have I been in this place?” Both looked at each other then turn to him “A week, but we couldn’t wake you, you was out of it… we managed to keep your strength up and feed ya but you seem to just mutter half the time” Rainbow Dash answered “But why now did the phone thing work now?” “Well I am not sure, but I am glad your ok my sweet. Now the Police been working around the clock to try and find a way to reopen that mirror but so far nothing, but they have found more magically gate ways to that world in other parts of our world… it almost as if at one point crossing between worlds was as easy as 1 2 3…” “Wait you’re saying this magically mirrors was all over Equestria? Too? But why are they showing up now?” Twilight looked at the phone “Till a week ago there was none of these mirrors…” “Something that happened a long time ago must be awakening… we will have to figure this out…” she sighed “I don’t want to hang up but I must, I am going to do what is needed here to figure this out. Wayne be careful…” “I will” she smiled then hanged up and he sighed “So it wasn’t just bad luck. What have I got myself into?” “Not sure but till we figure this out best to stay with us, Rainbow Dash can you teach him to fly?” Twilight asked “Sure can” she smiled “Come on Electuroo time to show you around” He looked at her “Do I have a choice?” “Nope” “Thought so” he hung his head a little “lead the way… just don’t go to fast still getting use to all this four leggedness and Twilight don’t touch anything in my bag…” “Promise” Twilight replied “Now go and have fun and I will do research on this” “Come on Electuroo, I’ll take you on a personal tour of Ponyville and surely the others be happy to hear your recovered from your illness” Rainbow Dash said walking to the door with Electuroo walking behind her. He thought about what she said “In a manner of speaking it was but why did mum sound very unsure when we said a week” he started to wonder a little. “Aw don’t worry so much, everything going to be ok” Rainbow Dash opened the door and they left and he saw the town from a first person view for the first time. “Cool huh?” “Yeah it is” he looked to his left then to his right seeing all the different type of ponies walking around “Gives a whole new meaning of seeing things with your own eyes” he smiled a little. “So where be going first then?” Rainbow Dash took the air “We can cover more by flying” Wayne looked to his wings and open them then closed them “I think I should take things a little easy at the moment, if I push myself I could get hurt doing so” he said looking up at her. Rainbow Dash saw his point and landed “Fair enough, slow and easy it is” Wayne blinked “But I thought slow and easy is too boring for you? You’re the one that likes the action, the speed and the now” Rainbow Dash laughed a little “You sure know a lot about me Electuroo, but for you I can, since you just woken up from that real bad illness that me and Twilight did everything to keep you well enough to pull you through” Rainbow Dash smirked then thought about something “So who else do you know here in Ponyville?” Wayne thought about it “Well I know it a small town with an apple farm not too far from here run by Applejack another of your friends” she nods with closed eyes “Then you have Fluttershy a shy pony who very good with animals and live in a cottage close to the Everfree Forest” “Well it seems he well versed in knowing about us Rainbow Dash” both of them turn to see Rarity standing before them with a bag hanging over her sides “My name is Rarity my dear and such a handsome pony you are, I saw you when you was really ill and thought I do my part and since fashion is my area of expertise. I repaired and made your jacket a lot more coming” She used her horn magic to pull it out of her bag to him, he sat there and held it with his front hooves “Wow it good and new with a hint of general simple taste” he smiled putting it on then showing the girls as he twirled around “So girls what you think?” “Indeed simple worked wonders for you and handsome as ever, so what is your name?” Rarity asked Rainbow Dash piped in “His name is Electuroo and I am taking him on a tour of the place” she said taking off to the sky and then landing again “But since he just recovered from his illness we taking it slow and easy” “Ok have fun, I got fashion work to do” she trots off by them back to her shop. Wayne saw Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Twilight and Spike; he knew that Fluttershy and Applejack are most likely busy so that left only one “So the only one that I didn’t mention was…” “SURPRISE!!!” “AHH!” Wayne leaped with sudden speed but next thing that happened made by Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie watch him bounce off building to tree to building in a speedy bounce of yellow lightning and hit the ground in front of them with a burst of electrical energy doming out and passing over Rainbow Dash and her mane instantly shot up from the static burst. “Catch the number of that pony…” Wayne said in a daze lying there with his eyes twirling around. “Oh I am so sorry…” Pinkie Pie came up to him “Are you ok?” Rainbow Dash was trying to pull her mane down but it kept sticking right up again “Is he ok!? Look what you made him do to my mane! It like a dozen balloons was rubbed on it” Pinkie Pie was giggling at her mane style now then Rainbow Dash paused and look to Wayne “Electuroo what did you do there? I never seen a lightning bolt bounce like you just did…” then the name suck in and smiled and burst out laughing “I should of hahaha realized hahaha, the name hahaha” she fell over on her back killing herself with laughter Wayne slowly got up shaking his head “Pinkie Pie I guess” he rubbed his head a little with his hoof. “Yep that me” she bouncing around him “So your Electuroo? The one that was really ill, I am going to pull a party for you since now your all better” Pinkie Pie still bouncing around him. Wayne smiled a little feeling a little nervous “Thanks but you don’t have to.” “Don’t you like parties?” Wayne sighs “Fine you can just for eight ok…” “Eight, why? Oh you mean us, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash and… oh this is going to be fun, I will get it set up in Twilights! See you later!” she dashes off in a blur past him. Wayne laughed a little “seeing that hyper cheerfulness in person is amazing but wish she didn’t did that to me though, I have a real fear of sudden loud and unexpected loud noises” Wayne turn to Rainbow Dash as she calmed down from laughing “Looks like your mane back to normal, sorry about that, I haven’t got a clue how that happened” “It must be your signature move and your talent seems to do with flying since not only your almost as fast as me but you can bounce off walls as a lightning bolt, that really cool. I would love to see that again but not in town, you most likely will break something” Wayne looked around and saw what Rainbow Dash meant and both started laughing as they walked on to continue the tour. Throughout the whole day Rainbow Dash took Wayne on a tour enjoying their talks and the tour, Wayne got to meet Applejack and Fluttershy in person or shall say in pony and they all seem to had played their parts it his recovery, he knew that they was all great friends but to help someone that completely out of touch of their world was amazing to be said. But he wondered if only Rainbow Dash, Spike and Twilight knew the truth of how he got to their world and where he was truly from. On the way back to Twilight’s home as night sets in Wayne thought he explained how his world is compared to the world he been in and how much he enjoyed it so far. “Rainbow Dash my world is so much different to yours, here my imagination is on fire like nothing before, I could think of so much possible things and so much to do… back at home all I could do is just type up a story, draw drawings and play mainly video games. As well work at a fast food restaurant on almost daily bases” “Sounds really downed” Rainbow Dash didn’t really like the sound of his world. “Where I live the United Kingdom, made up of four countries part of a small corner of the Earth, it just that there is so much chaos, fighting, death and financial trouble that I have no idea what will happen now with the discovery of true magic… religion over there might think of it in so many different ways as either good or bad and maybe more bad cause it was discovered on a western soil…” Wayne sighs stopping for a second looking up to the sky. “I do have those moments of going out and having a great time but still worrying about how much it will cost me.” He turn to her “Sorry to lay it all on you like that but there is also a lot of good things in my world too, large areas work together to make lives better for others, worldly beauties of landscape that breath taking and the people… many create conversions that others go even it happens maybe once a year or twice. There people that smile and enjoy their lives taking each step as it comes and friends that I wonder what they up to right now… the internet connecting so many from different corners of the world.” “Inter what?” “Internet… think of it as a massive library planet size that anyone can access to it huge information anywhere on the globe with a connection via technology like my phone connecting to my world somehow… still trying to figure that out” he rubbing his head with his hoof “Sorry I am kind of getting a bit talkative again… I tend to do that ramble on… if it annoy you just let me know” he feeling a little downed that he started to go into overly explaining something. Rainbow Dash just smiled and gave him a hug then backed up “It fine, at least you got that all off your chest” she taps it with her hoof “Now let’s get back to Twilights and enjoy that party Pinkie Pie said she’ll set up for you” “I’m expecting it to be dark and them yelling out surprise” he laughed a little “Knowing her your right” Rainbow Dash laughed as well as they opened up and the room was dark and then the lights came on with everypony yelling out “Surprise!” both of them looked at each other and laughed knowing they was right on the mark. Throughout the evening they all had a great party enjoying themselves and getting to know a new friend Electuroo a childhood friend of Rainbow Dash from the cover story that was created and surely enough it worked but Wayne felt uneasy about the lying but as Twilight had pointed out the less they know about it for now the better till they could fill in a bigger picture. So upon Rainbow Dash’s suggestion he enjoyed himself with the girls and Spike having a really fun time at the ‘Got Better’ party that Pinkie Pie thrown for him. Later that evening as Rainbow Dash, Twilight and Spike cleared up the mess, they allowed Wayne some time to call his mother via the phone and what made it strange is that the phones energy seems to keep strong no sign of it losing any energy at all. “Hi mum, just calling to say how much of a wonderful day I had, it went a lot better than I thought it would and really taught me a lesson that friends can surely come in all shape and sizes” he laughed a little “And find out that even here I got some talents like bouncing off things like a lightning bolt” he said to the phone. “It good to hear your doing well son but things here got a bit hairy of late… since the discovery of this magic it seem to awaken a sleeping giant, I… well the family living here in the same place as that mirror, we go back every so often back to our own house, but mainly stay here and hope we could bring you home.” She said to him with a small smile but continued to speak with some concern “When I said weeks last time I meant months… It’s been 2 months since you went through the mirror yet only a week gone by there…” Wayne hung his head with a sigh “I thought so, it sounded a bit off when you said weeks with that voice of yours. But why keep it from me?” “Cause I want to bring you hope Wayne, the Royal army is here keeping the house safe and yet the mirror is unmoveable and unbreakable” She said remembering the reinforced hammer that shattered into a million metal pieces. “One of the soldiers lost the power to use his legs after the hammer shattered… that thing is powerful and that magical barrier protecting it stops anyone from getting near it or to touch it…” Twilight appeared on the big screen from his mum’s side of the screen “Hi did you say a magical barrier protecting it? Didn’t you use a cancelation spell on it?” Wayne turn to her “In our world magic hasn’t really been used since about 1000 years ago during the legendary times of King Arthur of his powerful wizard Merlin, something happened back then that caused everyone to turn their backs on true magic as legend says” Wayne explained to Twilight about their world. “Wow and about 1000 years ago was the same time that magic really came to it peak and still grows today. So it a manner of speaking both worlds seem to be a mirror of one’s reflection” Twilight stated to them. “Wait wait you’re saying that one world has magic while the other has none and now the magic returning to their world through these 'Through the looking glass' mirrors?” Rainbow Dash said piping into the talk. “Sorry, what’s your name?” Twilight had to ask a complete different question. “Mich you can call me and I think you two got something going there… I will have to get back to you on this, with this new information I am sure the scientist here could use it in their research on Merlin Magical myths” Mich was about to hang up then said. “If the passage of time is going as fast for us as I think it is, you most likely will call me in a week’s time your time and it be almost 2 months in our time” Twilight turn to Wayne “Is that true?” he nods “Wow not only magically linked between this world and your world but we both out of time with each other… that going to hard on both of you…” “It sure will be but I think we can manage.” Mich replied then thought about Rainbow Dash “Rainbow Dash” “Yes ma’am” she saluted with a hoof over her head and Mich laughed a little Mich then said “Take care of my son alright. I know time may move slower for you to your view but I worry for his safety and knowing his got a friend to keep him out of harm’s way mostly will put relief on me” “You can count on me, I will get him flying in no time and get him to help me out in my duties to Ponyville” she said with a grin looking over to him with a narrow look. Wayne gulped “Why can I see this going to be one heck of a crazy and hard week for me…” “Alright good night and take care” they nod and she hanged up the connection sitting back and looking over to the General standing by the door “Anything?” “More then you like to know… that book three more pages just appeared from blank to fill in a flash of dazzling light. This is going to scare the hell out of everyone in the world… the politicians all over the world already on edge with this magic mirror… it surely can’t be ignored as well as more of these mirrors appearing” Mich signed sitting back then turn her head quickly “Wait did you just said another?” “Yes in 6 months time” he gave her the book and she looked at it “Where is the next mirrors location?” He sighed “in the one place we wish it wouldn’t appear in…”