Fast Tap’s pov
As everyone knows, my childhood was in an orphanage, that means there were more kids like me ... but one of them was very annoying, his name was Neon, Neon Neutral; I still remember his jokes, once I was eating and I was about to put a piece of butter on a toast...
And suddenly Neon takes the whole butter and puts it on the toast and said “Boom! There, so much you wanted the butter” goes to eat laughing, leaving me with a grumpy face
It was all a total scoundrel, making jokes at everyone, even in the bathroom, stealing the toilet paper, in the shower always puts more shampoo on our head when bathed, and so I can be all morning telling more and more; At the beginning, the others, including myself, thought that he did it as a joke, but the more he did them and he laugh more and more, we saw that he did it just by seeing us fall out of nowhere in any joke that made 24 hours a day It already affected me so much since it was his perfect target for his worst jokes, and makes me want to say: "STOP NOW!"
When one night came and everyone slept, I, holding a plushy animal a cat-corn, got up from my bed, and I looked at the stars, I put my hooves together and I make a wish ...
I said “stars, if you listen to me, I can no longer stand ... a lousy prankster, I do not know what they do, but help me to learn the lesson or stop making those jokes”
Suddenly, one of those stars falls into the city and begins to bounce through the buildings like a pinball ball until ... it enters through the window and lands in my room, without breaking anything, it was just a big light, until every time it was getting smaller until I can see who it is ...
“ W-who is it?” I said scared
“Is not who he is ... but what he can do”-The light responded and he is already clear and is a small creature-“ ... but you may call me ... Kevight”
I didn’t knew what was going on so I just asked “Kevight? And what are you here for?”
Kevight responded “I heard your call from far away, and decided to come to see you”
I asked again “B-but what are you?”
“I am ... uhhhhh…”-Kevight thought about what to say-“your imaginary friend, I will help you with this”
“With Neon?” I asked lastly
“Yep, but secretly, since if they see you talking, as I am your imaginary friend, they will think you're crazy, and I don't want that to happen to you, ok?... if you need help ...”-Kevight made a notebook out of nothing and gave it to me-“I'll be here, okay?”
I just said “Okay ...?”
After that, I went to sleep, and the next morning something happened that I did not expect for anything in the world
In the morning, The children (including me) were in the living-room, all except Neon, we were a little lonely from each other, I while reading a book ... I decided to open that notebook and yep, somehow he was there, and he greets me
“Don't yell, and I didn't lie to you, you need something my friend” Kevight said
I said “No, nothing, I just wanted to know a tip for Neon”
Kevight responds “Confidence in yourself and in others is the key to success”
Suddenly, my "mother" comes with the food, she is called "Child love"
“Good morning my children!”- Child Love said and gave each of us a bread, a glass of juice, and a cup of milk, in that saws Neon is not there-“Children, where is Neon?”
“Here present” Neon arrived recently
Child Love asks “Neon, did you fall asleep again?”
“No, I was preparing something to tell others… guys, I'm going to withdraw from the jokes, I know I've given a sour taste to my mouth to each of you ... technically and literally, to make up for it ...”-Neon pulled out a newspaper showing a new about Celestia-“Today Princess Celestia comes to visit ManeHattan, to inaugurate something right in the park in front of the building and I want show everyone what some children without being adopted can do, will somepony help me?”
“I'll do it” I lift up the hoove and see that it's the only one
Neon said “Thanks Fast, it must be hard for you, especially that you were my favorite victim, I will need a rope and a bucket carries water”
I asked, “But for what?”
Neon said, “I'll tell ya later, Fast Tap, let's make history!”
After a while he gave me a paper where I could find the rope and the bucket, I carried that paper in a backpack and just in case the notebook, and apparently ... they were in the same park in the shed, but when checking the shed, I was locked, now I had to get the key, when I was looking for the one that had it, something in my notebook starts to shine, I open it and apparently Kevight was calling me
Kevight said, “You're not going to steal the key or those things, right?”
I respond “No, I'm not going to steal, I'm just going to borrow them nothing more ...”
Neon appears with the keys “Fast, I did the hard work and I have the keys”
I asked, “Where did you get them?”
“We were given permission to do this” Neon said and in the background, it's heard a voice that says: “WHERE MY KEYS ARE!”, While Neon smiles
“ok ...” I used the keys and opened the door
Neon and I heard royal trumpets, Neon said “oh no! It's about to start, Fast, I take the rope and you fill the bucket and bring it to me! okay?”
I went to the nearest lake there was and filled the bucket with the water
Kevight left of the notebook “Don't you think it's a strange thing to ask you for those things?”
I responded “What difference does it make? He said he wouldn't be joking, right…?”
Kevight adds “yeah, but ...”
“See? Nothing to worry about, it was nice to meet you, I don't know what you did to Neon, but thanks” I said and left quickly
Kevight adds but is late “... but I didn't do anything ...”
To know the rest, let our star friend say so
Kevight’s pov
It was strange, nobody changes overnight ... so I decided to sneak into the stage and saw Fast and Neon ...
One of the guards says “Mares and Steeds, in just a few minutes Princess Celestia is going to tell all of you, the story of the 2 sisters, to premiere on a theater stage here in the park ...
Neon whispered to me “Thanks Fast, I just need you to come back in a while when I give you the signal, you're just going to walk in front of the stage, and voila”
Fast Whispered to Neon “Okay ... Thanks for changing for the better Neon”
“You don't have to”-Neon said and Fast goes very happy-“... well, let's go to the good stuff ...”-Neon pulls the rope and places it in a way that when the rope that is laid horizontally is pulled, stretch part of the rope that is placed on top of the stage, on top of a wood, where you place the water bucket in the middle and whispers more discreetly, but you can hear- “when Fast enters and pulls the rope, he will drop the whole bucket to Celestia, and Fast will remain in prison, Boom! 2 pranks for 1”
After I saw all that “Oh no ... I must tell Fast”
Meanwhile, Fast readed a story across the park, always keeping an eye on the stage from time to time
I appeared in his reading “Fast!”
Fast said, “ah hello Kevight ... all good?”
First of all, I had to tell him the truth “yes, Fast I'm sorry to tell you, but to Neon ... I didn't do anything ... he didn't change”
Fast said interrupting annoyed a little “But isn't that what you came to here? To help me with it? If you came to appear like my life as a character that does not contribute anything ... you can go, I think you arrived earlier,”-Fast took a look at the stage and saw that Neon is above him, moving the hooves-“Now if you allow me, I'm going to change my life”
Fast runs to the stage and I run to stop him “Fast, no!”
Fast singed in the run:
“Aside lil star, out of here
This is my opportunity
and I won't let it pass”
I respond:
“Stop!, listen to me Fast, for celestia
you are much better, start thinking”
Fast added singing
“You did not suffer for what happen
you don't understand the size of my pain
you didn't have someone who did
your life a hell
I will finally stop running
it doesn't matter which way I should choose
My friend is already, peace will come back”
I added
“Stop! is not the answer
Wait! I can explain it to you
Listen! I will tell you the truth
I'm sorry I didn't tell you from the beginning
You want everyone to have a good ending
You want to be someone they respect
That's why I came, that's why I came
A friend doesn't become suddenly
A friend only earns
A friend will show you the truth
you can stop now
And let me show the truth
You can trust my Fast
Because I am the light
I am the light of friendship”
Fast stopped in front of the stage, I grabbed Fast by one of the arms and gives him the vision of what I saw about Neon’s double prank “Golly! you were right! We have to stop it before Celestia is on stage ...”
Sadly, Celestia was on the stage “Hello people from ManeHattan!”
Fast and I said, “oh Glitch ...”
While Celestia told that story, Neon gestured to him that he had to come from the left side, which is where the trap is, after a while that Fast was still all the fear of what would happen if he does ... so Neon got close to it and tripped over the rope and reacted in a chain, the bucket falls towards Celestia's head ... while the bucket fell, meanwhile, I picked up Fast and threw it directly and calculatedly into the bucket, and just before that the bucket gave Celestia all the water, Fast's head entered the bucket and logically moved the bucket, and Celestia was saved from being wet, but not to be noticed ...
Fast fell behind the stage, and the guards were behind him, I couldn't do anything, I couldn't let myself be seen by someone other than Fast ...
Guard number1 asked appearing with his buddy “What happened here!”
Guard number2 appeared behind with Neon handcuffed” sir! This was the one who made the plan to wet Celestia! He says that purple is his accomplice!”
Guard number1 asked to Fast “Confess colt! did you know about this !?”
Fast saw Neon's face that was sad and worried, his plan failed epically “... not a hint of what happened”
Guard number2 said “Okay! And you, criminal ...!”
Neon said, “My name is Neon!”
Guard number2 said “Anyway, you are under arrest!” and they take him and the guards leave
Fast sit down and starts crying
It's sad that the friend you make literally uses you for these things ... then Celestia later approaches Fast after a while and asks Fast “I heard you did something heroic in front of me”
Fast was just keeping crying but Celestia keep talking to Fast “You shouldn't worry; I can make everyone forget about that prank that almost made me”
Fast calmed down a little “no, is that I thought ... that he was my friend ... that he had changed ... but it seems that it was not ...”
Celestia added, “have you also done something that you're sorry for, Am I right?”
Fast said, “Did you also have a friend who betrayed you and had to send him away from your life for your sake?”
Celestia responded “yes ... but it was not a friend, and it was not a good of its own ... it was my sister, she was corrupted by jealousy, you do not know the pain you have when you face someone very close to you ... and win the fight”
Fast said “wow, that must be horrible”
Celestia responded “of course it is ... but we'll be fine, I'm sure of that”
Fast said bowing to her “Thank you, princess ...”
Celestia hugs Fast and tells him something “For what you have done previously, I will give you a gift ...”
Fast asked, “What is it?”
Celestia responded “I can't tell you now ... but I'll send you an invitation when it's ready, okay”
Fast added before going “ok, by the way, my name is Fast, Fast Tap”
Fast Tap’s pov
After a while and when I returned to the orphanage, I decided to avoid something like that and never make a friend, just focus on playing and reading alone, so I was the rest of my life and childhood, but I never forgot what Celestia told me
Wait for that without stopping, weeks, months, years passed, until in one day
Child Love was checking the mail “invoice, invoice, invoice, invitation ... invitation? ... Fast Tap! Honey you have an invitation from Princess Celestia!”
I ran happily “Yes!”-I take the letter and read it aloud-“Dear Fast Tap: you are cordially invited to the coronation of the new Equestria princess, Twilight Sparkle, do not worry, the royal guards will take you in one piece, Princess Celestia ”
Looking out the window, I look at a carriage that is carried by 2 guards waiting for me, quickly bring me the notebook in which Kevight was, and we left to go
At that time, no idea that how was the world was beyond the park, so I was excited to see how beautiful Canterlot was, the capital of Equestria, where it was the coronation, they only took me to the entrance, I was walking and in that, Kevight comes out to talk to me ...
Kevight said, “excited right?”
I responded “Since you have no idea, I think she had no problem becoming a princess”
Kevight added “You kidding right? Twilight was someone like you”
I asked, “A lonely who only looks at his books and video games and not make a friend?”
Kevight responded “Almost that, but she met friendship”
I asked, “but how was it?”
Kevight just responded “very good”
I still was having one question “oh ... did not have problems?”
Kevight responded lastly “several actually, more than fifty”
And I got sad “... I would not want any more for me”
Kevight talked to me “Come on Fast you must forget that, years have passed”
I asked, “so what do I do?”
Kevight said “I only tell you that, if one could, you can too”
Fast asked “can what?”
Kevight responded to me “... change ... change the page, I brought you something from Manehattan that you forgot”
I flipped the page and sees a paper flower, takes it and I hold it “is the flower I found once ...”
Kevight said “Mhm, keep it as a symbol for you to change, not physically, but mentally and morally, to make friends, you can stop being a loner and make friends”
I said while Kevight closes the notebook as we approach where they have to go “ok ... I hope it helps”
I was afraid, you know, making friends and not betraying you, it was something that scared me, but I should always remember that I was in the past, with everything that happened and they informed me, I thought maybe I would give it another chance ...
When we arrived, there was already a place reserved for Celestia, when it was time, Celestia told me what Twilight achieved and what led her to be a princess, when she said all that, I looked at the flower and made me always remember he was like you, you can do more too
And that increased more when I first saw her, Princess Twilight Sparkle, and could not believe, what I saw, a cutie, purple girl, and with a great style ... it was almost like me, with every step she took, never I forgot what Kevight told me about her Twilight was someone like you ... if one could, you can change too
When he went outside to see all the other ponies and say a few words, it was where I decided to open the notebook and make my first promise.
I whisper under and I said “Kevight”
Kevight whispered too “All good?”
And I told him “I just want to promise you something ... ahem your words inspired me, more when I saw Twilight, I know it's late for me because there is no one but me at the orphanage, but I swear on my life, when I get out of there and start making my own life, I swear I will make many friends, as Twilight has done, I will not let you down Kevight ... I will not let you down, you are the first grain of friendship I have, but they need more, and more if You know me, I promise that I will make the most perfect friends that exist in every Equestria
And so this first adventure ends, the one that started it all
Eli adds “Wow, that was very cool”
Gallus from another time-line adds “and also explains why you hate betrayals”
Silverstream from another time-line agrees “because it makes you remember the pain it made your first friend”
Fast responds “Yes, but now it's better ... I heard he was doing a cure for cancer, called "the cure", well, we have to continue ...”
Just as we leave, James looks at Fast's Cutie Mark, which is lightning about to hit an "A"
James asks “Fast, I never knew it was your Cutie Mark, you had never explained what it was in your stories”
Fast looks at his own cutie mark “ah, this beauty? is the only thing I mentioned about it is that it was a gift, from Kevight”
James asks “can we know?”
Fast says “sure, while we are walking”