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// the world is in bad shape 
// Story: some silly shorts 
// by erictheblue 
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"Um, Twilight?"

"Yes, Spike?

"There's a Human at the edge of town-i think."

"You THINK?"

"he's a different color from the ones we saw on that world past the mirror-portal."

"Oh. What's he doing?"

"Oh, he's just standing there, waving his hands around and babbling. nobody can understand him, he's speaking a different language."

"That's kind of odd..."

After finding a book with a translation spell, Twilight flew over to where Spike had seen the human.
he was still gesturing, and saying the same four words over and over.
most of the ponies had fled, but one pony was sitting nearby, staring in fascination.
Twilight groaned when she recognized the pony...Lyra Heartstrings.

"Ah, FINALLY! hurry up and cast that translation spell already!"

Twilight sighed. "ok, stand back a bit."

Twilight cast the spell, and they finally understood what the man was saying:

"The world is flat! the world is flat!"

Both ponies gasped in shock, and both Facehooved.

"Oh, great, this one is defective." Lyra muttered.

Twilight yelled, "QUIET!"

The man stopped and stared, as if only THEN noticing that he was no longer on Earth.

Twilight whispered to Lyra, "let's give him a chance to learn", then told the man, "WHICH world do you think is flat?"

he blinked and said, "BOTH worlds of course!"

"And WHY do you think that?" the two ponies said in unison.

"because WATER FINDS IT'S LEVEL!"

Both ponies facehooved again.

"listen, I SEE for MYSELF that the world is a sphere EVERY time i FLY! there would BE no Horizon if the world was flat!" Twilight exclaimed, and began hovering so that her head was at the same height as his head.

He stared, eyes glazing over, then exclaimed triumphantly, "That's just an illusion! it's the Law of Perspective!"

Lyra facehooved again, then yelled, "You think distant buildings being half-visible is just an illusion?"

"Yes! you can see all of them if you use a telescope!"

Twilight immediately teleported home, grabbed a small telescope and returned. "TRY it yourself. look at that mountain over there!"
she pointed toward Canterlot.

He looked, and his eyes glazed over again...then he explained triumphantly, "Refraction!"

Both ponies facehooved again.

Twilight muttered, "he's worse than Discord", then said to the human, "have YOU ever SEEN the EDGE of your world?"

His eyes glazed over again, he muttered, "no..." then yelled "because no one is allowed to go there!"

Lyra muttered, "What the Buck", then said aloud, "Why?"

"Because The Government is hiding the truth!"

"WHY?!"

his eyes glazed over again, and he muttered, "Um...because they ALWAYS lie about EVERYTHING!" 
then he yelled, "and they BRAINWASH EVERYONE!"

Twilight flew RIGHT up to the human, poked him in the shoulder with a hoof and said, "Including YOU? So YOU have been brainwashed into believing that your world is a SPHERE?"

His eyes glazed over again, then rolled back into his head as he passed out.

"WOW, what a stupid creature." Twilight said, then carried him off to an asylum.

Lyra stared after her, then trotted home, muttering to herself, "i am definitely NOT telling Bon-bon about this."