“Okay,” I said. I was freaked out already. How many times today had I been, oh, I don’t know...
Tried to be eaten? Have my dreams be corrupted? Recieve the shock of my life? Be very, very scared because the shock of my life turns out to be more shocking than I originally thought it would be? Gotten bad news? Heck, gotten annoyed to death by Lyra and Pinkie?
(Heya!)
((Hiya! Hmm, come to think about it, I have a question. It’s very, very important, for a change.))
Okay, then, Lyra. Are you absolutely sure?
((Yessiree!))
Fine, then. Get on with it.
((Do... humans...))
I don’t like the sound of this already.
(Give her time! This question is very important and puzzling. She asked me this and all I could do was stroke my imaginary beard and pretend I was super smart!)
Pinkie, you are super smart.
(Oh, right! Okay, so what I did is stroke my imaginary beard and be really super smart until I said, “I don’t know, Lyra, you’ve puzzled me!”)
Fine. Fine, go on with it. ((Do... humans... like.. humus?!))
I don’t. Other people do. You know what, why am I even answering your stupid questions? I’ve got two nuts in my head and they’re asking me whether humans like humus or not. And they’re ponies. And I wish I didn’t, honestly.
(AWWWW! You don’t really mean that, do you?)
Whatever. I bet the reader’s getting kind of tired of me and you and the... crazy person, talking about crazy things... so let’s go on with it.
The castle was getting nearer and nearer, and once again I admired it’s beauty. But I had one question on my mind that I had to ask Twilight. I didn’t want to get stabbed or anything with those gaurd-ponies’ pointy spears, ya’know? That’s what almost happened last time. I didn’t want to come close to them again.
"Okay," I said, approaching the castle. "Is she going to like, greet us or something? I mean, Celestia. Because last time the guards we trying to kill me..."
"Um," Twilight asked. "I'm actually not sure."
What actually did happen was someone screaming, "TWILY!" and Twilight getting tackled. And tickled. I was really confused until I recognized the stallion: white fur with a blue mane...
"Shining Armor!" I said a bit too loudly.
Shining stopped tickling Twilight to look up at me and say, "Oh, hi! What are you?" to receive a slap from Twilight.
"Shining, that's rude!" She muttered. Shining put his hooves up and rolled his eyes.
“Twily, I never knew you were my older sister,” he said. “But, yeah, I guess that was rude. Let’s start again. Oh, hi! Who are you and how do you know my name?”
“Should I tell him everything?” I looked at Twilight.
“Yes. After all, he’s my BBBFF!” Twilight said, hugging her ‘BBBFF.’
“Okay. So I’m a human. Twilight, Pinkie, blah blah blah and the other Mane 6 went on a vacation to Earth, which is my planet, disguised as humans, where for some reason there was this TV show - I’ll explain that to you later - called My Little Pony about the Mane 6, their friendship adventures, etc. There were a lot of other My Little Pony shows before that, but they were mostly for little kids. And the version I watched was, too, but a lot of grown-ups started watching it because it was awesome.”
Shining scratched his head with his hoof. “Okay. What’s a TV show? Is it, like, a musical?”
I winced. “Not really. Sort of. You have cartoons, right? And those really old-timey projector things?”
“Yes. And how dare you call them old-timey! They’re the latest technology from Canterlot Labs!”
“Well, first of all, human civilization is about a hundred years ahead of you so far. You haven’t even invented the car yet! But then again, you ponies are eco-friendly. I doubt you ever will. Or the airplane! You’re still using the train to get from place to place! Not to mention, it’s pink and it’s called the Friendship Express! Bahaha!”
By then, I was laughing. Hard. “Sorry. No offence. But it’s just funny that you say new. Anyways, it’s like a cartoon and a projector thingy. But the cartoon moves, it’s an animation. You know animations, right? I’m sure you have them.”
“Yes, we do,” Shining answered, dumbfounded. “But that’s so strange! How can we be on a TV show thing? I don’t believe you.”
“Quiz her,” Twilight said. “You’ve seen the Canterlot Wedding, haven’t you?”
“Yes, I have. Quiz me on what happened then. And I swear that Twilight hasn’t told me anything about it before.”
Shining nodded. I could see confusion in his eyes. He didn’t know what to believe. Was this a prank? No, couldn’t be. “Okay. What type of creature attacked us and what did they look like? And who was missing from the wedding?”
“Changelings attacked. The changelings themselves had horns and wings and were black. They could change into anything they wanted. They were kind of like mosquitos but had holes throughout their bodies. Queen Chrysalis herself, the queen of the changelings, was much bigger and was wearing something on her stomach. And Luna was missing from the wedding, except for the later part. I think it was because she was too busy guarding or something. But still. Why was she missing?”
“That’s for personal reasons,” Shining answered. “And... okay. I believe you. You can pass through, into the castle. Twilight, lead the way.”
She nodded, hugged her brother for one last time, and then started trotting towards the castle. The guards, recognizing Twilight (these were from her brother’s group; she briefly knew them. The other guards didn’t really know her, so they were suspicious) pulled back their spears so that we could pass. All I could think was, this is so cool this is so cool this is so cool eeeeeeeeeeeee!
… Sorry. That was my inner-fangirl reacting. But still! Any brony, pegasister, 3-year old, or whoever else watches this show show would react the same way. Even if they’ve been here for two months already. And if they’ve done it before. Anyways, so we slowly walk towards the palace. Well, Twilight did that, while I was busy getting lost in all of those complicated passageways and rooms and stuff. Seriously, that castle is big!
After attempting to levitate me back to the throne room four times, I finally arrived there. The princesses (Luna, Celestia, and Cadance, which was funny because I hadn’t ever seen her. I mean, not in my time here. I’d seen her in the show, obviously.)
“Hello,” Celestia said not-so-brightly. “It’s nice that you came. We were just having a meeting.”
“Oh, I’m sorry,” I said, stepping back. Right now I was feeling an emotion that could only be described as ‘Fluttershy-ish.’ “Was I interrupting something?”
“No, no,” Celestia said. “We were actually just going to call you. I’m sorry if I seem kind of... angry. But right now we’re dealing with something very, very stressful.”
“What is it?” I asked. Celestia smiled.
“Now we’re talking. I’ll call the Elements of Harmony, too.” Turning around, Celestia pointed to one of the gaurdponies. “Send a chariot and bring the other Elements of Harmony. You know where they live.”
The guard saluted. “Now,” Celestia said, clearing her throat. “We’re dealing with something that nopony has ever dealt with before. Well, actually, that’s only half true. It’s a test, Twilight, for you.”
Twilight started to freak out. “But I don’t have my flash cards! Oh, gosh, where are my books! I’m sorry, Princess, I haven’t studied! Please postpone it! I mean, seriously, I love reading and studying and all that but it’s just that last week I was having a picnic with the girls and the day after that I was with Spike..”
Celestia laughed. “It’s not that kind of a test, Twilight. But this is the biggest thing you’ve ever faced in your lifetime. Alexis, I hope you can help.”
“So what kind of a test is it then?” I asked.
“You’ll have to save an empire,” she said. “The empire of crystal ponies.”
“Wait a minute!” I said. “But-but-but I saw this episode! I mean, not the whole episode, but they released a preview of it! This is the long awaited Season 3 episode! I even have memorized all your songs!”