//------------------------------// // Doors open from both sides // Story: The Arrival of a Brony // by Thebronywithin //------------------------------// “What do you mean, ‘She was Serious’?” I ask with a look of Bewilderment on my face. “Well, about a week ago, I got a letter from the princess, stating that she wanted us to start a new hockey team, but I never thought she was serious!” Twilight responds, with a look of confusion and concern on her face, at least from what I can tell, it’s a pony after all. “Wait, wouldn't your Princess only send you something if she meant what she was saying?” I raise my eyebrow in accusation and uncertainty. “Well, she kind of has a reputation for pulling a few tricks here and there, and this seemed to ridiculous to be true, but the letter she gave you only proves that she wasn’t joking!” Great, fanfictions have ground here, AND Trollestia, what’s next? “BARK!” a noise from behind calls. I turn around and open my arms as I call out “Doodle! Come here boy!” shortly after Doodle comes running out into my open arms. “Everyone, this is my dog, Doodle!” I show him to everypony, hoping to make it more clear that I mean no harm. Just then, I see a yellow and purple blur darts out of the crowd, and stop right in front of me, it was Fluttershy, but best to keep my knowledge of them hidden, like I told myself earlier, but before I can say anything, she starts to speak. “Oh, he’s so cute! I’ve never seen a dog as adorable as this one!” She says in her ‘soft but normal’ voice. “I mean, I’ve seen animals cuter than this, but not a dog that’s cuter than yours!” “yeah, that’s what we thought when we got him” I reply to her comments. “his ‘cuteness’ is why we got him!” “Aw, thats so adorable! how old is he? he can’t be more than a couple of years old!” Fluttershy continues. “I mean, he’s so small and energetic!” “He’s about ten years old” I reply casually, not expecting much of a crowd reaction, which I got anyway. “HE’S TEN YEARS OLD!?” Twilight is freaking out right now, I can tell, her hair’s starting to fray, and that’s never a good sign. “Yeah, is that a problem?” I inquire with genuine interest. “well, I, um, maybe, hmmm” Twi seems lost in thought, like I just put a puzzle in front of her that she needs to figure out to continue with life, at the same time, causing her a bit of embarrassment. “Why is it such a shock that he’s ten years old?” I’m past curious, I’m borderline confused. “Well, most dogs with that much energy are very young, when he came running out, we all assumed he was a lot younger than he was!” Fluttershy interjects. “Never assume, it usually ends bad.” now I’m being funny, I just have the best smirk on my face as I say those words. “You know that turtles and tortoises are known for being slow, right?” I ask, trying to play on my ‘assumptions’ comment a bit. “well yeah, they do EVERYTHING slow!” Rainbow Dash says down to me, hovering above her friends. “Not true, they are very fast swimmers, they can swim up to 12m/hr or 20k/hr.” I’m still being funny, but I am also giving them information. “another example of things you assume, but aren’t true.” “W-What?” I’ve done something really funny now, I’ve confused Twilight, I bet that’s a first. “H-How could you, where did, why are you able to give such exact measurements of speed?” That wasn’t what I thought she was confused about, but it’s funny to me all the same. “What, it’s not like thats common knowledge or anything, but a lot of information is available on the internet” I say blankly, knowing that I’m going to be bombarded with questions. “Wait, what’s ‘the internet’?”Everyponys favorite egghead asks with genuine interest in her voice. “The internet, trying to explain that is like explaining how speakers work, its possible, just bloody difficult.” We all know this, the internet is made up of over a million websites with more being added everyday. “The internet is for one, a source of information, with databanks that if it were printed, could fit thousands of libraries, and then there’s the entertainment, things like music, movies, and art are also very prominent on the internet, I could go on, but I’ve covered all that needs to be covered, the rest is, stuff you don’t need to know.” “That’s just.” I think I broke Twilight with the amount of information I said was available. “wow” The ponies who had gathered around my room were starting to leave to do the various things they had on their plates for the day, only a few stayed behind. “Yeah, and its all easy to find as well” Now I’m just teasing her, we’ve all seen the show, she’s always unable to find SOMETHING in her library. “no fumbling around with books, sections, or chapters, just straight to what you need.” “H-how does that work?” Twilight’s starting to get curious, good, it means she wont be going crazy. “Oh, it’s simple really, you just enter in what you want to search, for example, lyrics to a song you heard at the club last night, and it’ll find the song you’re looking for, I don’t know HOW it works, I just know that it DOES.” Satisfied with my description of google search, I turn to Twilight to see her reaction. “What?” “Just forget it, it’s the magic of technology that makes it possible, just leave it at that” Honestly, after my description she DIDN’T get it? Oh well, I guess I suck at describing the internet. “You said entertainment, I know what music and art are, but what’s a ‘Movie’?” Rainbow Dash inquires of me with a look of confusion and curiousness on her face. “You know what a picture is, right?” “Um, yeah, but what does that have to of with a movie?” Rainbow is getting impatient, like thats not old news, but still. “Well, a movie is a large series of pictures put together to make one moving image, often put to sound, gimme a sec.”I walk back into my room to get my laptop, my dog still in my arms. I come back out, dog in one arm, laptop in the other. “Could you hold him for a moment please Twilight?” I ask to her, hoping to free my arms so I can use my laptop properly. “uh, sure.” She takes him in one hoof, holding him like a baby, the way I was holding him. “like this?” “That’s perfect, now, movie” I open my laptop and the screen comes to life, thank celestia it was set to my fullscreen’d iTunes, the Rainbow Dash background and Vinyl Scratch folder icon would’ve been hard to explain, I go into my movies, and select “Star Trek (2009)” and hit “Play”. “this, is a movie” I only show a few scenes, not wanting them to think humans are all war bend madmen, I stop it and ask them. “So, what do you think of movies?” Because it was an action movie, Rainbow was the first to respond. “That was awesome! first they were like ‘Whats that’ then they’re like ‘Evasive action’ and the ‘pew pew pew’ and that guy getting sucked into space!! Holy cow that was amazing!!” “And you somehow had a Pinkie moment, did you even breath in the last minute?” Rarity chimes in, who had been there too, Fluttershy just hid, Twilight could only stare in awe at the video, while Rainbow was soaking in the action, and Rarity could only talk about what they were wearing. “Did somepony say my name?!?” an extremely sugar-high sounding voice says from behind me. “hey, Mr.Alien dude, why did you land your spaceship in the middle of the street? it makes no sense, you’re out in the open! or maybe you’re a peaceful alien who only wants to be friends, or maybe you are a spy alien, gathering intelligence for an alien zombie apocalypse! or mmph” she was silenced by Twilight. “Do forgive her, she’s just had too many cupcakes I think” Twilight says to me, trying to make it seem like Pinkie wasn’t always this way, which I knew wasn’t true. “its okay, I like it when people can talk without needing to breathe, I can only do it for so long, then I need to take a breath, but, I’m not impressing anyone, so it doesn’t really matter.” I say trying to contain the situation. “See, he doesn’t mind!” “She’s in my bedroom, isn’t she.” “Yep, she is.” Rainbow says blankly. “wow, it is MESSY in here, how can you fly this thing when it’s so messy?” Pinkie asks, probably in a curious mood, which is good, I can focus on one Pinkie question at a time. “You know it’s not a spaceship, it’s me bedroom.” Nice me, that just makes it SO much easier, doesn’t it. “Really? Wow, this is messier than Dashies cloud home, and thats saying something!” Well, Pinkie just made this funny, as she does. *Snicker* All the ponies EXEPT for Rainbow Dash start snickering at her, and so do I, even Twilight found it amusing. “Aw come on, it’s not THAT Messy!” Rainbow Dash complains, clearly irritated by the humor being directed AT her. “Pinkie, why don’t you come out of his bedroom? I don’t know about you, but I wound’t want anypony snooping around in my sleeping chambers” Rarity calls to Pinkie, who’s still in my bedroom. “nah, it’s all good, everything is on the floor, so I’m not really hiding anything.” I Reply, making myself seem even more peaceful and kind. Pinkie is now floating out of my room with a purple aura around her, I look over to Twilight, her horn is glowing with the same aura pinkie is, showing that she’s the one responsible for the Pink ball of cotton candy and parties floating out of my room. I decide to play up the “of another world” even more. “What in the, how are, why can you do that?” that worked. “What do you mean, all unicorns can do magic, don’t you have unicorns where you come from?” Twilight inquires of me, with pure confusion in her voice and on her face. “No, neither do we have Pegasi, they’re pure mythology where I come from.” I say in response to her question. “Fascinating.” Twilight says to me with a look on her face that is a combination of deep thought, and confidence. “Why is it fascinating?” I ask. “Because humans are considered mythology here” A new voice from beside me says. “Oh, hello, didn’t see you there mis?” I ask, pausing at the last word showing that I’m asking her name. “Lyra, Lyra Heartstrings” She replies. “Pleased to meet you” She extends her right hoof. “DJ Buzz, pleased to meet you to.” I reach out and grab her extended hoof, and shake it up and down lightly, then release my grip and put my hand at my side. “So Twilight, I don’t understand something.” I say, trying to get back on track with Twi. “What is that?” “Well, I came here, obviously through some type of magical rift, creating a door into your world.” “Right” “Well, why can’t I be sent back, because it created a door to your world, and doors open from both sides.”