Philadelphia, PA
November 14th 2012
"Humans are the dumbest things to ever exist on the planet!" Khalil blatantly stated to his friends.
André just watched as he talked nonsense, "That doesn't even make sense…" he said shaking his head.
"It does make sense," he defended, "maybe not to ya'll but to me it makes complete sense! 100%! Humans. Are. DUMB!"
"Do you ever listen to yourself talk?" Babe asked with the little bit of patience he had left.
Khalil just flagged the two off, " Whatever man, get out of my face! We take things and we make it worse, I'm sorry that I'm a Human!"
"Okay, then how about you commit suicide?" André coldly suggested, "Get rid of all your pain and suffering as a Human then."
"You know what," Babe said, "forget it. I can't listen to any more of your crap."
There was defiantly negativity on the basement floor of the house André, Babe and all their friends were in. Today seemed like just another day…they would all get together, sit around and play games. Argue over small but more so in a funny way. Today was different…André, Babe, Denvor, Khalil and their friend Will were sitting around each other playing on the Xbox 360.
It was getting late and most of the night was spent arguing, mainly on Denvor, Khalil, André and Babe's end. Babe stood up. He was frustrated at what Khalil was saying. He went upstairs and was ready to leave the house.
"The Human race needs to be judged! If the covenant was real I would want them to come down to Earth and judge us all!"
Khalil followed behind Babe to make sure the doors were all locked and secure behind him. However the two continued arguing outside on the porch.
André heard the two through his ear phones and became even more annoyed at the stupid and pointless arguing they were doing. "…Just shut up." he thought to himself but it was no good, he was still able to hear the pointless arguing among the two even from down in the basement. André took out his cellphone. He was preparing to send a text to Babe.
To: Babe
From: André
Message: Yo, wait for me out on the porch. I'm leaving out with you. I can't him and his pathetic speeches.
He hit send and the message was sent. He packed his bag and threw it on. He went upstairs but not before saying bye to Denvor and the others. He reached the front door and brushed passed Khalil and Babe who were still arguing. He tried paying them no mind and walked down the street.
"Yo, whatever man! Get out of my face!" Babe shouted.
Hearing Babe's yelling made him even more annoyed, "I seriously can't take him anymore…." referring to Khalil.
Babe left the porch and followed behind André. He sped walked in an attempt to catch up with him. Seeing Babe trying to catch up André slowed his walking down, "Wait up, Dré!" he called out.
André slowed his walking down, allowing Babe to catch up, "…How do ya'll put up with that?" he asked in a serious tone.
"I don't." Babe answered, "He just talks a lot of bull and it irritates me. I don't put up with it."
André shook his head, "Sure, but, I can't stand it."
"Just let him do whatever he wants." Babe said as he looked over to André, "Let him figure it out all on his own, it'll come back and hit him hard in the future."
"Maybe." André looked at Babe in return, "We may just need to find a new hangout partner. I seriously can't stand him much longer." it was evident André was really fed up with his friend and wanted nothing more to do with him. They've had disagreements and even arguments in the past but dealing with it all just seemed like a complete waste of time.
Babe was a bit surprised at André's suggestion, they've been friend's for years, " I don't know, we have our disagreements and as much as nearly everything he talks about gets me mad, I'm still his friend."
His words didn't mean much to André, "Yeah, well…for you. Not for me, until he change his ways I don't even think I can call him my friend."
Babe shrugged his shoulders as he and André come to a crossroad. Babe went one way and André went the other. André was staying at his grandmother's house which was only around the corner. He quickly got back and made it safely inside. He placed his book bag down in a rocking chair and got settled in.
He was tired and still a bit frustrated. He went into the bathroom and took a warm bath, hoping the relaxing water would take his mind off of his frustration. After the bath he was calmer but he was still bugged. The human race judged and for such an unfair and self-righteous reason, he wasn't sure if his friend really thought like that but just the thought of it kept his mind worried.
His mind was made up. He didn't want to be friends with a bad influence. He went back to his room and cut off the room's light. As he laid in the dark, he stayed in thought for a brief moment before reaching for his cellphone and using its internet on it to go to Ponyhoof. He writes on his virtual wall:
"Life doesn't pay to be ignorant. I gotta get a new friend, I can't take this."
He put his cellphone into his night pants pocket and painfully drifted off to sleep…the feeling of having to hate one of your closet friends was one of the things he hated the most. Soon he found himself asleep…
"The binds that once tied are now fragments left to be picked up…" a mysterious voice spoke from nothing.
The voice, while mysterious, seemed rather familiar. As he drifted off to sleep he began to recall some events from his past. Strangely they involved My little Pony characters.
Chrysalis looked ahead and saw that the group of friends vanished. Chrysalis won.
"Yes! SO MUCH POWER, I truly am the ruler of all Equestria now!" she laughed loudly, "Those fools thought that they stood a chance against me? Oh well, still, I'm amazed at how much power they had…no point in worrying about it now, the Changelings can now be the-Uh…" she suddenly stopped in midsentence upon feeling a strange feeling deep down inside but it was short lived, she continued, "-Can now be the-UGH! Ah!" the feeling returned but it was more powerful than before,
"W-What's….happening t-to me!? AUGH!" she grunted in pain.
She felt warmness coming from inside of her. Pure white light took form from inside Chrysalis body. She found herself growing weaker and weaker. She collapsed to the floor as the light engulfed the entire room for a few seconds. "W-WHAT!?" She yelled out while panting.
"How's it feel?" a familiar asked as Chrysalis eyes shrunk in disbelief, standing before her was the six mares and two Humans, "How's it feel to have that kind of power inside of you? Was it too much for the dark queen to handle?" Babe asked.
Chrysalis eyes were barely open. Losing most of her power all at once took a major toll on her body, sweat started to roll down her face, "W-Why…?"
Babe smiled at the queen's question, "It's simple, in a world like this darkness can't overcome love or friendship, get real. You absorbed us but the power of love and friendship was just too great for you," Babe thought back on Celestia's mention of his and André's power and finally understood what she meant, he chuckled at the realization, "Princess Celestia was right."
A light flashed ending the strange look back on the past. André, with his eyes closed, was falling down to the deepest depth of the light but the light slowly began turning into darkness as various images of Twilight, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie and Rarity filled his head.
"A dream of My little Pony?" he thought to himself as the Ponies were interacting with him and Babe. He failed to realize that those events were, amazingly, not dream. The memories that were supposed to be erased were coming back to him in his "dreams".
He thought back to his argument with Khalil, "How about you commit suicide? Get rid of all your pain and suffering as a human then." was the last thing he said to him before leaving.
"Did I...really say those things?" he asked himself as if he didn't know his own words. His body began to drown in the cold darkness. While his eyes were closed he knew where he was…..the cold feeling of hate and anger, "Is this how Twilight felt….?" he asked himself, "N-No…..what am I saying? I'm saying it as if she's real….this is real life….and who cares? It's just one….friend. What's one loss when I have a lot more…?"
"If you can't help one friend then you can't save any" an inaudible voice spoke.
While things in the real world have gone to the deep end, Twilight and Spike have just finished doing some food shopping in Equestria. Spike was riding on Twilight's back eating a gem. The food the two had just collected was stored inside Twilight's saddlebag.
"Do we have everything?" Twilight asked her number 1 assistant as he ate his gems.
"Mhm! Everything's accounted for." Spike said with his mouth full.
Twilight smiled in assurance, "Just checking. It just feels like we're forgetting something."
"We're not." Spike clarified, "You've been saying that a lot lately."
Twilight looked back at him, "Huh?" she didn't catch onto what he was talking about.
"'It feels like we're forgetting something.'" Spike repeated Twilight's previous sentence, "even when it's nothing." he added.
"I have?" Twilight asked, "I haven't…really noticed." she looked down at her shadow.
Spike dug his claw into his gem bag looking for the next gem to feast on, "It's a first for you" he mentioned.
"But I have been feeling like something isn't quite right."
"Like what?" Spike asked while inspecting a ruby.
"I can't describe it. It's just…"
Twilight found herself lost in sudden thought, Spike noticed she didn't finish her sentence and waited for a response which didn't seem like it was coming unless he did something.
"Hey, Twilight, are you okay?" The small dragon leaned forward and snapped his fingers repeatedly next to Twilight's ear. Hearing Spike's snapping Twilight shook her head, coming back to reality, "Are you feeling alright?" Spike asked in concern, "You zoned out there for a minute."
"I'm…fine?" Twilight strangely replied yet asking.
Spike scratched his head, "What?"
"No-no! It's nothing!" Twilight laughed, "Sorry to worry you. Let's head home!" she cheerfully said as if nothing weird just happened to her.
Strange mental cases was starting to become normal for Twilight in Spike's eyes, "I worry about you, Twilight." he jokingly said to her.
Twilight just rolled her eyes at his joke, but soon found herself lost in thought again, " Hmp. Hey, Spike."
"Yeah?"
She turned back to Spike once more, "Who were those boys we used to hang around?"
"Boys?" Spike questioned.
Twilight nodded, "Don't you remember them?"
Spike placed one claw on his chin to think, "Boys, boys…Nope! Can't say I remember any boys." he answered.
Twilight was a bit lost, "I know I'm not making it up. I can't remember their names and I can't seem to remember their faces either." she had a strange feeling of nostalgia of friends she knew she had yet doesn't quite really remember, Spike simply made a face of doubt, " But I do recall meeting two…" she said to the small Dragon.
"You must've just made em up." Spike plainly suggested.
Twilight lowered her head in slight annoyance, "I didn't make them up!" she claimed, "What am I? Nuts?"
"Uh, yes." Spike started laughing at Twilight's weird thoughts and questions.
She sighed, "You're not helping Spike." she was really trying to understand her own current state of mind which was locked on figuring out who these two friends were.
"What? What do you want me to say?" Spike asked with his shoulders up, "I don't remember any two guys we used to hang out with. It's always just been Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash and Rarity." What Spike said was true and Twilight knew it was true but the feeling she had was still there, "Those are the only ponies we mainly hang out with, the other two ponies were probably just a dream you had and it just felt real."
After finishing up his explanation Fluttershy approached the two, "Hi, Twilight." she greeted her friend.
Twilight and Spike faced Fluttershy, surprised to see her, " Hey, Fluttershy." Twilight replied to her friends prior greet, "What're you doing here?"
"I'm just out doing a little bit of fruit shopping. I had to come out restock on cherries and strawberries."
Twilight smiled, "Oh, I see. Is everything alright?" she asked, just trying to start friendly conversation.
"Everything's fine." Fluttershy stated, "Are things good with you?"
"Ye-"
"Twilight's crazy." Spike suddenly joined, cutting Twilight off.
Twilight groaned at Spike's comment while he just chuckled to himself.
"Is everything alright?" Fluttershy asked seeing the troubled look on Twilight's face.
Twilight thought for a second, "Do you ever recall two boys….we used to be around?" she just asked Fluttershy. Twilight took Fluttershy's silence as a state of confusion, "I-I know it sounds weird but-"
"You remember too?" Fluttershy asked.
Spike and Twilight were shocked at Fluttershy's question, Twilight was intrigued that she knew what she was talking but Spike was still lost since he never remembered anyone outside the mane six.
"Wait, so you two remember the same thing?" Spike asked.
"I think so. " Twilight replied to Spike before putting her attention back on Fluttershy, "What's been going on with you?"
"I've been having these strange images pop into my head." Fluttershy explained, " I don't know what it means but these two guys were in it. They weren't ponies but I knew what they were. Their faces were rather blurry and their names were a mystery…but even with all that uncertainty I still knew who they were. It's kind of like a dream."
"You both dreamt of the same two guys?"
Fluttershy looked at Twilight, " You've had the same dreams?"
"Yeah." She answered, "That's…that is so strange."
"Creepy." Spike added.
Fluttershy slightly raised her hoof, "That's not all." she had more to tell her Unicorn friend, "I saw Applejack and Rarity a few days ago and they said they've been having the same images and dreams too. Even though they're just dreams I remember those two."
Twilight and Spike were speechless, "…Our dreams and memories are being shared?" she asked herself, "I have no clue as to who they are but I know they're defiantly not strangers. They knew ours names in my dream."
"They knew our names in my dreams too."
Twilight was now fully involved with solving this strange mystery, "Something strange is defiantly going on here. I'm going to head back to the library to see if I can find anything." she said to Fluttershy with burning determination.
Fluttershy nodded, "Okay. Let us know if you find out anything."
"I will. See you around Flutter-" Twilight's eyes widened.
"Remember what I said. Lesson 1, forget your shyness."
"As promised, Twilight."
"Who cares? As long as you're gone we'll be ok. As long as we know they'll be safe nothing else matters."
"In a world like this darkness can't overcome love or friendship."
"I swear to you all….one day, we'll see each other again."
Mysterious yet familiar voices filled Twilight and Fluttershy's head. The two mares found themselves in a sudden strange daze. All the images and memories of those strange boys were coming back all at once and it was just too much for Twilight and Fluttershy to handle.
They were confused and their minds couldn't take it all in at once. Strangely the two mares suddenly became extremely fatigue and they collapsed to the ground. Spike jumped off of Twilight's back before he fell over with her, "Twilight, Fluttershy!?" he yelled out in horror, "Are you guys okay?! What's wrong!?
The two remained quiet and in a deep state of sudden sleep.