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Chardy Agnar, a twenty-year-old man living in Chicago during the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, finds it hard to be hopeful in this depressing time. He lost his job and is hoping beyond hope that he can find a new one before his rainy day savings run out. If only he could have magic, something to make things get better, back how they used to be. Of course, such magic only exists in Chardy's favorite television show, which he is embarrassed to admit to anyone else.

Then, one day, an unexpected visitor shows up on Chardy's doorstep. And everything is about to change because of her.

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I just seen that the new chapter was just uploaded, I was actually reading this since this morning!

This book is awesome!

Imagine this happening to you.

This can go wrong in many ways.

"Um... um..." I stammered, unsure of how I was supposed to react. I mean, it wasn't like there was a guide on how to take care of random ponies who show up in your house who have no memory of who they are or where they came from. Or was there? I made a mental note to check Amazon later that day in case of the off chance that there was something like that. "You hungry?" I decided on, cringing at how generic it sounded.

If that exists, I’m done with mankind.

Thank God, Gill didn't question me. He obediently packed five large boxes of strawberries into a plastic shopping bag and carried them over to the cash register. I fumbled around in my wallet to produce the twenty-five dollars needed, when Gill pulled out his own credit card and swiped it.

That’s a friend right there. The main 6 would be proud.

Good people were hard to find at any given time, especially now, especially in Chicago. To know that Gill had my back gave me another burst of hope. I returned home and fumbled for a moment to fish the key to my apartment out of my pocket. I stepped inside, breathing a sigh of relief to be out of the rain, to find Luster Dawn still sitting in front of the TV. Except the Sunday morning cartoons had been replaced by Fox News, which was talking about politics and the bitter debate over who was going to win the election, Trump or Biden? I, obviously, was voting for Kanye West. He would definitely be a better president than those two other guys.

That’s debatable.

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It has the potential of being something good or something really, really bad, depending on the reason it happened.

"Or... maybe the good people are everywhere, doing acts of kindness so small that other people don't notice them, but it makes a big difference to the people they help. Doing something good doesn't have to be as extreme as someone else buying five boxes of strawberries for you."

ain't that the truth

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i mean thats how i view humanity to quote jor el we're a good people we wish to be we just lack the light to be shown the way. but then we as a whole aren't good people but we aren't necessarily evil either one guy would be willing to follow you into battle one day but put a dagger in your back the next we are not chaotic or harmonious in nature we are both yet neither we i feel are a race of balance neither tipping the scales in one way or the other

Luster was still glued to the TV screen. I guess that there wasn't a very good equivalent to television in Equestria, but still, she lived in a world of magic! Certainly, technology paled in comparison to that! I had to remind myself that she didn't remember Equestria at all, and this probably seemed like magic to her.

That’s debatable.

"Pizza. Welcome to the amazing world of fast food."

Does dominos even count as fast food?

She sighed contentedly before greedily grabbing a slice and swallowing it whole, pepperoni and all.

I guess she forgot she’s a herbivore.

A quick word about my girlfriend. Her name is Lissa Soldier, and her father is rich. Really rich. He owns a line of magazine publishing companies across the U.S. and isn't exactly pleased with his daughter's choice for a boyfriend. But Lissa has a rebellious streak that comes from her mom, who died when Lissa was only a teenager. She's been meeting with me in secret for the past few years and is the only reason I haven't become homeless. She lends me money to help pay for the bills, but she can't give too much, or it'll look suspicious. She's just about the best girlfriend anyone could have, except for one thing: she despises bronies.

Well, every person has positives and negatives.

A couple years back, she and I were walking down the street, when we saw a sign advertising the Whinny City Pony Con, which was taking place in a few days. When she saw the sign, she snorted and said something about "stupid adults liking a kids show. It's supposed to be for little girls, not some teenage guys in their early twenties."

Actually, I think there’s a way to counter this.

I opened the door to my apartment, and, even though it was way past the time when Luster should have been in bed, there was still light coming from the television, indicating that she was still watching the news. But she was strangely quiet. I didn't hear any of the shouting or yelling or muttering to herself about how stupid these people were that usually accompanied her watching a news broadcast.

Oh boy.

StormXF3 didn't create "My Little Dashie". It was originally from this fan fiction. Check it out for yourself.

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Oh. Thanks for clearing that up for me. I did not know that. :twilightsmile:

"Why did I ever trust you?" Luster's voice was full of rage and had reached the point of shouting. "You're no different from everyone else I've ever met. Maybe I could have met someone actually trustworthy if you hadn't been so much of a selfish jerk! "

So she’s met others?

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Not scream and expose myself. Not only did he cause a scene, but he also basically revealed that he knew about the unicorn in front of the police and possibly the fbi.

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You were asked what you would have done, not what you would NOT have done. So, what WOULD you have done.

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Oh my bad. For starters, I would walk around the park, because I assume although your not allowed in the park you can still walk around from the outside. So I would do that and see if I can find her. If that doesn’t work I would look somewhere else.

Luster Dawn, just calm down and apologize… I don’t like fighting all that much… (I know it is only a story, but what if the one who took care of Luster Dawn and Luster Dawn herself, then I would be kinda afraid..)

"I'm not a magic expert," I said. "It's not like Hasbro made a magic guide to sell along with show guides and all that."

They should probably think about that.

Lissa sighed and stood up, hunting around her apartment for something. She came back with a notebook and a pen and handed them to me. "Start writing down everything you know about Equestrian magic," she said, the look on her face so serious that my spirits lifted enough for me to almost laugh, as I remembered the whole thing about Equestrian magic in the Equestria Girls movies and specials.

I don’t remember them saying anything.

My spell knowledge was lacking, but I knew that you could say the words out loud or inside your head, and you had to envision clearly what you wanted to happen, and the words of the spell had to be related to whatever you were trying to do (obviously).

Really?

All in all, I was still impressed Lissa managed to pull that off. But she hurried out into the streets where the press was gathered around the Bean and started screaming that she had seen an insane man chasing after a malfunctioning unicorn robot to protect the world. The press ate up her every word as she went farther and farther into crazy details that never actually happened. Lissa reminded me that, if a rumor was more interesting than the truth, people will act like the rumor is the truth.

The sad truth about reality.

"I think I've been judging this show pretty unfairly," Lissa struggled to admit. She never liked to say that she was wrong. "I thought it would be boring and childish and lame. But I trust you, and if you like this show, then I think that means it must have at least some redeeming qualities. So... I don't know. After our little adventure, I saw that Luster was a decent character, and that this Equestria has some pretty good lore and story behind it. So... I think I'll give it a shot. You coming?"

This is the soulmate that everyone needs.

I trudged back to my room, locking up my secret and vowing to forget it for as long as Luster was here. I lay down on my bed, knowing that this was impossible. How could I forget the show that had changed my life? A bad feeling began to grow in my stomach when I had lied, and now it only grew worse. I knew what I was doing was wrong, but I couldn't bring myself to make it right. This pony could be the cure for everything; what kind of person would let that go?

So you are going to use her?
Thats not right!

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It was ok, but I really want this story to be longer and a better apology scene

"Or... maybe the good people are everywhere, doing acts of kindness so small that other people don't notice them, but it makes a big difference to the people they help. Doing something good doesn't have to be as extreme as someone else buying five boxes of strawberries for you."

Luster just dropped FACTS

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