I followed him into his home. I admit I was quite eager to see the inside of a human dwelling. As the door opened I noticed a strange blue light, apparently emanating from a large flat panel on the wall. A large comfy looking chair sat in front of the panel. To the right of the door was a small table. Daniel stopped and began drawing items from within the confines of his large jacket, placing them one by one onto the table. I watched as he pensively considered each item as he placed it down, checking them all over carefully.
He paused considerably on one particular item. Taken from the space under his shoulder, it was a dark black metal, oddly shaped device. I don't know what it is used for. I peer around the room, and notice that there are similar devices in a glass case on the wall. Besides minor variations, like color and size, they all appeared to be the same thing.
"These pistols." He waved the device. "Touch one and I break your fingers."
How rude! What kind of lout does he take me for.
"Threatening me won't get you anywhere." I told him.
"Shooting yourself, or breaking one of my pistols, will get you broken fingers." He repeated the threat.
"What do you mean 'shooting myself', are they dangerous?" The only things I have ever seen get 'shot' were catapults, bows, and bolts of energy.
"They're guns." He looked at me with incredulation, shaking his head. "They are meant to kill?" He questioned my sanity with that statement.
"I have never seen a gun where I came from." I stared at him.
"Right, 'equestria'." He had confronted me in the hospital, apparently he lied about the 'psych'. After hearing my 'insane delusions' he went and told Daniel everything.
I stomped my feet.
"Why art thou such an ass?!"
A look of disgust crossed his face.
"Why 'art thou' lying?
"Show me where I can sleep, I want nothing more to do with you!" I admit I was being a bit foalish.
"Have at thee!" He shouted, pointing at a nearby couch. I grumbled and laid down upon it, crossing my arms and turning my back to the insolent detective.
" 'Tia no!" I raged against my cage. "Tia!"
My sister's horn glowed brightly, almost blindingly. Behind her stood the 6 element bearers. An evil twist voice tore from my lips.
"Thy can bind me with thy magics and thy can bathe me with the power of harmony, but I live in all of you and I cannot be destroyed nor forgotten!"
"I am sorry sister!" I rage against my cage once more.
A torrent of rainbow light tore over the twisted shadow of my body.
"I didn't mean to hurt them."
I shot straight up from beneath the blanket that shrouded me. Cold sweat trickling down my face, tears streaming my eyes. Out of the corner of my eyes I saw a shadow move, and I heard the faintest click as a door closed...
I woke up to light filtering through the window and blinding me. I rubbed my eyes with my new appendages and paused to look them over. They weren't talons or claws. I had no idea what to call them, and asking Daniel would probably elicit more doubtful looks and snide comments. He didn't have to believe me. Only person's opinion that matters is mine, right?
I shook my head and cast my eyes about the room. He seemed to enjoy moderation. Everything he owned seemed to be easily tagged as 'nondescript'. The nondescript plain couch, nondescript blanket and pillows. Even the carpet and walls were 'nondescript'. The only things in the room worth note was the case on the wall with the 'guns' and the black box up against the wall opposite the couch. I could see my reflection in the black flat panel. I stood and wandered over to it.
There was a mirror in the bathroom of the Police Department. I took a moment to look into it when I was changing into the 'scrubs' Daniel gave me, but I was still so disorientated I didn't really know what was going on and what I was seeing. Sitting in front of this black box and taking a moment to look at the features of my face and body really brought me to a new level of realization. Despite everything being tinged black by the surface of the box I could still see that my eyes were dark blue and tears were glistening from them.
It was unlike me to cry. A thousand years on the moon and not a single tear was shed. Yet now here I was cast away to somewhere completely foreign. I didn't even know if I had a hope of getting home. So, yes, I cried.
I don't know how long I sat there crying, but eventually I felt his hands on my shoulders.
"Why are you crying in front of my TV?"
So that's what it's called.
"I don't know." I said as I stood up and turned to him. His expression told me he thought I was crazy.
"Why don't we sit down, enjoy a cup of OJ and talk about Equestria?" He said, leading me on into his kitchen.
"O- ok." I sat down in a chair he pulled out for me. He opened a nearby fridge and brought a tall box with oranges on it. After pulling two glasses from the confines of a nearby cupboard and placing them on the table, he began to pour orange juice from the carton. I stared as the orange fluid filled the cup, absently lost in my mind. He sat down across from me and brought the tips of his... bah... whatevers together and stared at me through them. I realized I was being watched and looked down.
"What?"
"Talk."
"I don't have anything to say."
Then I can't help you." He sipped from his glass. "You know where the door is." He pointed in its general direction.
"What do you want to know?"
"Where do you come from?"
"Equestria."
"Mmmhmm, and where is that?"
"Equestria was the only place I'd ever known. If it wasn't Equestria it was the sun or the moon, or a distant planet. I don't know where Equestria is, all I know is that it exists." Daniel frowned.
"How'd you get here then?"
"Magic."
"Right." pause, deep breath "What caused you to be sent here?"
"My sister sent me."
"Sister?"
"Celestia."
"Right." I rolled my eyes. His sarcasm was becoming unbearable.
"You don't have to believe me, but if you are not going to then why do I have to explain myself."
"Because it's obvious you are hiding something. So why did your sister send you here."
"I thought she was going to send me to the moon again but-"
"Again? What did you do."
"I-I became jealous."
"Banishment to the moon over jealousy? Doubtful." His mouth twitched a moment before he began to speak.
"Well my actions almost resulted in the death of thousands."
I felt that nervous twitch or micro-expression, whatever it was called, my entire mouth pulled towards one side and reset in under a second. It happened when she said 'jealous'. It irritated me, she already knew I didn't believe her, why does my body have to unconsciously have to tell her again. Even so, she probably didn't notice it.
"Well my actions almost resulted in the death of thousands."
What? Is she for real? How does jealousy almost kill thousands? I know this is just a physiological mask she's wearing to hide herself from her real actions but what is the correlation?
"How does jealousy almost kill thousands?"
"When there is no day the planet grows cold and inhospitable."
"Right." Right she thinks she can control the moon. "Why were you jealous?"
"Because everyp-, everyone, looked upon my sister's day with thanks and praise and slept through my nights."
"Right." Was she really about to say 'everypony'? She's trying too hard. Perhaps her sister was more popular than her and she acted out, got in trouble and ran away? "So what were you going to do about that?"
"Well at one point the jealousy consumed me and introduced a new consciousness into my mind." Split personality disorder? "Nightmare Moon took over and was going to raise the moon and never raise the sun again."
Eternal night would certainly cause a lot of deaths but what's the real world correlation.
"Right." It was apparent that she hated it when I said that. She narrowed her eyes at me and frowned. "So then what happened?"
"She wielded the Elements of Harmony and banished Nightmare Moon, and myself, to the moon for a thousand years. " A thousand years huh? Maybe that means she was kicked out of the house.
"And then?"
"After a thousand years Nightmare Moon escaped from our imprisonment but a student, of my sisters, and her five friends made connections with the six Elements of Harmony and wielded them against Nightmare Moon, cleansing her from my body and I regained control. My sister excused me from Nightmare Moon's actions and I was cleansed of my jealousy."
What in hell does that mean? Was she institutionalized and the treatment worked? At this point it seems she just memorized the story and is reading it back to me.
"So what happened this time? Why did Celestia want to banish you to the moon once again." Her face darkened and her eyes narrowed.
"She came back."