For Science, Chapter 1
Have you ever had one of those days where nothing goes right whatsoever? No? Just me? Ok then, well this is a story of a day like that.
So I'm sitting on my couch relaxing, watching TV when my friend Rick calls me. I can tell he is excited about something but he isn’t speaking slow enough to understand.
“Rick, slow down, and EXPLAIN please” I say slightly annoyed, mostly because he was interrupting my show.
“Right sorry, Alex I have invented a cross-dimensional portal” he says in words I can actually understand.
“Uh huh and how did you do this?” I ask slightly skeptical and unconvinced.
“Oh it doesn’t matter just get over here and help me test it” he says getting excited again.
“Okay I’ll be there in a few” I say as I hang up. Before I left I placed a note on my mom’s keyboard “went to Rick’s to test cross-dimensional portal, be back sometime” yep, that sounds REAL legitimate doesn’t it?
When I get to Rick’s house he is waiting outside with his portal thingy. He runs up to me grabs my arm and pulls me over to it.
“Ah easy, I’m not a ragdoll and I need my arm” I say moving my arm in a circle after he nearly pulled it out of its socket.
“Sorry Alex, but here it is, the Cross-Dimensional Teleporter 1” He says going behind the panel. “Now just stand inside and tell me where you wanna go” he says.
“Um ok, I guess, take me to Bikini Bottom.” I say thinking of the first place to come to mind.
“Good choice, now take this” he tossed me a remote with a singular button “to get back just press the button, oh but before you one more thing, this thing can read your thoughts so make sure you’re thinking of Bikini Bottom”
“How is this even possible?” I ask looking up, a little scared now.
“The magic of science” He says as he presses the button to send me off, unfortunately I let my mind wander at the last second and was thinking of the episode of MLP I was rudely interrupted from.
“FUUUUUUU” I say as I'm engulfed in a pink glow and teleported away.
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Meanwhile at Canterlot castle Princess Celestia was sitting on her throne when she felt a small spark in the back of her mind and she knew exactly what it was.
“Luna, he is returning” She said to her sister standing next to her, talking about the events around Equestria.
“I thought he wasn’t supposed to return until his death.” Luna replied slightly surprised.
“As did I sister, as did I” Celestia said before slowly standing up and walking towards the door.
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I feel myself coming back to reality after I blacked out on the trip over to Equestria, and as I opened my eyes I realized something didn’t feel right, then I looked down and realized I was in the air.
“Oh great, I really hope cartoon logic works here” I mutter as the pink aura released me, no such luck.
As I began to fall I realized that I was about to die, so I just crossed my arms, well hooves now I guess, as my arms were now blue forelegs.
As I was about 40-45 feet from the ground I was suddenly hit from the side and flying sideways.
“Who are you!?” my unintentional assailant asked rather angrily seeing as she was falling considering I was holding onto her back leg.
“I could ask the same thing” I reply slightly dazed, but I didn’t have time to care because she stopped and I was flung into the side of a tree, or what looked like a tree.
“Ow” I say as I fall off the side of the tree which I now realize is actually a building and hit the ground, but not hard I realize.
“Rainbow, what was that for?” I heard a familiar voice say as I groaned and rolled onto my stomach, shaking my head to clear it.
“What, he ran into me, so I had to get him off of me” She replied landing and walking over.
“Yeah just ignore the guy who could’ve just suffered severe brain damage, thanks” I say standing up and rubbing my head. “What?” I ask when I notice that the two mares are staring at me.
“Are you okay? I’ve never seen you before so I didn’t really notice” the purple one asked me.
“I guess so, where am I?” I ask, playing dumb as to not raise suspicion
“You’re in Ponyville, I'm Twilight Sparkle, and this is my friend Rainbow Dash, Dash for short though” Twilight said.
“What were you doing so high up in the sky if you’re a unicorn anyway, teleportation spell go wrong?” Dash asked with smug look on her face.
“Um, no, truth is I don’t know any spells” I say looking down at the ground “and it’s a long story why I was in the sky” I say looking up again.
Rainbow Dash just looked at me and said “I like you, you don’t mind taking risks” but then Twilight just completely pushed her out of the conversation.
“YOU DON’T KNOW ANY SPELLS?? WELL COME INSIDE AND I’LL HELP YOU” Twilight pretty much shouted at me even though I'm 5 feet in front of her.
“Um, don’t you think you should show me around town first, you know, like good ponies?” I ask a little frightened by how assertive she was about magic.
She seemed to snap out of it when I said that “Oh yeah, good idea, let’s go Dashie” she said before turning and beginning to trot away, with me in tow.
“So how did you get your cutie mark?” Dashie asked looking at my cutie mark which was a baseball inside a mitt.
“Oh um I got it awhile back in Manehattan when I was playing baseball, I guess I was really good at it.” I say, a little surprised because I didn’t have to lie about that, which confused me some.
“Oh, that’s cool, I got mine because I'm-” Rainbow Dash starts
“The fastest Pegasus here, I noticed” I finish for her.
“Yeah, how did you know?” she asked a little surprised.
“Lucky guess?” I reply still feeling a little light headed from my long fall/ride/crash.
“By the way, what’s your name?” Dash asked “my name’s Alex” I say “I don’t really have a last name of interest”
“Oh, okay” she says, jogging ahead to catch up to Twilight.
The tour took about 20 minutes to do because, while Ponyville is really small Twilight just feels the need to explain every little detail about every freaking building making the whole tour take, as I said, 20 minutes.
As we began to walk back to the library we walked past Sugar cube Corner I was suddenly tackled and surrounded by pink.
“Oh my gosh are you new? I’ve never seen you before so you must be new! Hi I'm Pinkie Pie, your new best friend; I'm everyone’s friend here in Ponyville!” the pink assailant said faster than Rick did.
“Pinkie Pie, calm down a little” Twilight said while trying to stifle a laugh at how silly we apparently look.
“Sorry I just get really excited when I meet someone new” Pinkie said getting off of me after she so rudely tackled me.
“It’s fine, I’ve had a rough day and just want to lie down and relax” I say shaking my head yet again, I swear if I don’t die from others, I’ll kill myself by snapping my neck by swinging my head.
As we returned to the library Twilight’s little helper, Spike I think she called him, ran out holding a letter.
“Twilight you got a letter from the Princess requesting you go to Canterlot with the others and your new friend” he said handing her the letter, which she took with her magic.
“Now why would the Princess want to see us, is something wrong?” Twilight asked “and how does she know about you?” addressing me with the last question, which I just shrug to in reply.
“Well let’s go get the others and go, best not leave the Princess waiting” Dash said taking off and hovering in place.
They didn’t know it yet but they were in for a surprise no one person (or pony) could’ve expected.