//------------------------------// // PCR (Random) // Story: Varia Visive // by journcy //------------------------------// Prompt #548: "Welcome to Ponyville" “A friendly little community where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful, and mysterious lights pass overhead while we all pretend to sleep. Welcome to Ponyville. OR And now, the weather.” "Hello, ponies! My name is Pinkie Pie--oh, though I'm sure you already know that! I know all of you, after all! But anyway, I'm Pinkie Pie, and this is the Ponyville Community Radio! I'll be reporting all the news of the day to all of you, so get out there and make this a wonderlicious day! "Alright, I'm getting reports of a pack of jaguars that have overtaken the town market! My intern Rainbow Dash tells me that they have been 'totally smashing,' and 'completely wrecking,' and 'utterly ruining' all the market ponies stalls! Well, that's just awful! Somepony should call my friend Fluttershy to go take care of them! "In other news, the town library no longer exists. When my girlfriend Twilight sent me a letter about this, I was really surprised--after all, the library has been around for as long as I can remember! I don't think anypony in Ponyville remembers when the library didn't exist! But she says it doesn't any more. She actually seemed really upset about it, which makes sense, because she lives in the library. I hope she's okay. I'd go check, but I have to keep reading you ponies the news, so Twilight...will...will just have to deal with her no-longer-existent home on her own. "Hey, little fillies and colts! Have you ever wondered why the sky is such a pretty color? Well, I've heard that every night, small little monsters creep out from behind the stars and dump paint all over it! The paint takes a while to get here, of course, because the stars are really far away--and so every day, as Princess Celestia moves the sun across the sky, its light reflects on the paint that's slowly coming towards us ponies here in Equestria! Isn't that neat? "This has been Children's Fun Fact Science Corner! Twilight told me I should start up that segment, she loves science! "Oh, Rainbow just got back from the market, and she's saying that after she went out to get Fluttershy, Fluttershy was able to calm all those jaguars right down! She says that Fluttershy just went right up to all six of them, and fed them some milk from a nearby stand, and then all the jaguars just got really sleepy and curled up with her for a nap! Aww, isn't that cute! I can barely stand just imagining how cute it is! Rainbow Dash also said that apparently Twilight has been circling the library for the past half an hour, her horn glowing with a strange intensity, and her eyes not reflecting any light. Rainbow Dash also said that apparently Spike is nowhere to be seen. "Sounds really cool and neat! I hope Twilight does okay with whatever spell she's trying to cast--but who are you kidding, Pinkie, Twilight always casts spells totally-perfecto! "Now, ponies, I'd like you all to sit back and let me tell you a little story. Imagine that you are sitting all alone--but you're not sad. And imagine that you're alone because all the ponies you were just sitting with suddenly vanished from the room. You didn't see them go, so you don't imagine that they all walked out, but you also can't really remember what you've been doing for the past few hours--you must've fallen asleep! Silly you, falling asleep in strange rooms like that. But anyway, you suddenly realize that you're all alone. You weren't sad before, but as you're looking around, you start feeling even more alone, and you start to be kinda sad about it after all. So you get up and walk over to the door of the room, but after you open the door, you realize that it doesn't lead anywhere! The door opens onto a brick wall! That's funny, you think. How did you get into the room if the door doesn't work? But then you notice a curtain hanging on the wall. So you go over to the curtain, and open it, and you see a window! Looking out the window, you see a really pretty lawn, and some statues--ooh, and I bet they're the silly ones of flamingos Rarity's parents really like! Oh! Sorry. You look out the window, and you see the lawn, and all the statues, and also a large lake in the distance. You don't remember living in a place where there were lawns, or statues, or lakes, so this is all really weird. Just then, somepony walks in the door. Who is that pony? Who walked in the door? Where did they come from? Who are you? How did you walk in the door? Where did you come from? "This has been...traffic! I always like that part. The stories are always really funny. "Anyway, Rainbow Dash dropped by one more time to tell me that the jaguars in the market are gone now...and so is Fluttershy? Wow! Fluttershy disappeared, too? I wonder where she went? But Rainbow Dash says the jaguars are gone, and all the market ponies are putting their stalls back together, so that's great! It would be a real shame if the market was wrecked forever--I really like going to the market! "Ooh--this just in from Mayor Mare's office! Mayor Mare says that any mysterious, strange, odd, weird, peculiar, bizarre, frightening, haunting, terrifying, world-shaking, mind-melting, existence-questioning, or otherwise out of places noises you've been hearing coming from the basement of Town Hall, don't actually exist! Well isn't that great! I'd hate to think anything is wrong with Town Hall, not after Applejack worked so hard for the money to repair it! "And now I think that's a great time to go... "The weather!" ... "Welcome back, Ponyvillians! During the break, I sent out intern Rainbow Dash to collect some more info on just what's going down at the Ponyville Library! She isn't back yet, but I'm sure she will be soon! "In the mean time, I've pulled together another little story to tell you all. It goes like this: "The plants twisted together. The plants pulled apart. The rocks smashed together. The rocks smashed apart. The lights went out together. The lights went out apart. The wind shifted together. The wind shifted apart. The song of the universe came to one final, massive crescendo, and then everything went silent. "Wow, that was a short one! That was finances, everypony! "Oh, and Rainbow Dash is back from the library! She says that when she went to check on the library, she found, much to her surprise, that it exists once again! I thought that was really super, don't you? But Rainbow Dash also said that the library is shrouded in a thick mist, so maybe she only thinks it still exist. Rainbow Dash said that really, the library either could exist, or maybe it doesn't, but since there's this really weird mist covering the whole place, obviously something has changed, and so Rainbow Dash thinks it's probably safe to assume that the library exists again. "Well, I don't know what's up with this whole library thing, but I think I should go check it out! Twilight and I were gonna go to the movies tonight, and I need to see if she's still available! "Goodnight, Ponyville. "Goodnight."