//------------------------------// // Truth be told // Story: Rewriting the stories // by FALG //------------------------------// I woke up in a rush, startled, nervous, and more. I looked at the middle of my room, they were still there. The equines that revolutionized America, and (why not?) the whole world. I kept staring at them a few minutes, and I suddenly fell back to reality, I watched the clock of my phone, but I don't remember what time it was then. My brother woke up too, and when he saw them, he yelled in fright. He looked at me quickly, "So, this wasn't a dream at all? We actually...?" "Yeah, so it seems," I said, and then I pointed, "hey you missed school." He looked his clock, "I did? Well, I can't say that's surprising, I wasn't able to sleep well after this." "I'm sorry." "Why for? You weren't planning on making them appear, were you?" Dad entered the room, it was another surprise since he should have left hours ago. "What happened, you missed work?" I asked him. "Yes, but it wasn't a big deal, most assemblies were already done so I would have gotten back very early. I called my co-workers and said I wouldn't go. I deserved a day off anyway," he answered. "Well, you wouldn't be able to do much there. After this..." my brother said. "That's exactly why I called them." "What did you tell them?" I asked. "What, do you think I'm stupid?" he asked back. " 'Hello guys, I won't go to work today because six horses appeared in my yard out of nowhere!'." he mocked. "I was just asking, relax." "As if I were to tell them," he continued "I only told them that 'something happened', nothing else," he explained, and left the room "Geez." I looked at him leave. Dad never had a bubbly personality, he was a bit more harsh and serious (but of course he had his moments of laughter). To me, he was just built in the old school style. "Hey look, they are waking up!" my brother called me, so I quickly changed thoughts, "Do you think they know spanish?" he asked, he was fluent in english too. "I don't know, let's see," I ventured. After we checked that they were fully awake (and after dressing up), my brother tried talking in our mother tongue. But they looked confused. "Seems like they talk english. Let me try," I said. I approached them, kneeled, and asked them, "Hello, do you know who you are?" They looked each other, a bit more confident, but still feeling strange of the question; as suspected, Twilight was the first to talk, "Good morning mister, my name is Twilight Sparkle." "I'm sorry of how cutting this could sound Twilight. But we already know about you all," I said. "I beg your pardon?" she asked. Suddenly Rarity gasped, and pointed to Twilight something in the room. My pillow with Fluttershy's image. "I guess I should have hid that better," I whispered to my brother. "No crap, Sherlock." They both showed the pillow to the other four, and all were surprised at the sight, Fluttershy herself looked like she turned into stone. Then, Rainbow found more things I had that were Fluttershy-related, pins, and a drawing made by a fan (that I won in an auction). She also found a poster where all six of them were in it. "What in the wide world of Equestria is this?!" Twilight asked. "As I already said, we already know about you," I intervened. "How is that?" she asked. "Leon, turn on the TV." He did, and he searched for the channel having the show, but the channel greeted us with something else: "This is Jelly Jamm, this is...♪" made the TV before I turned it off in a rush. "Did we miss again the show?!" I asked my brother. "Hey don't blame me! We have overslept for helping them," he suggested. "Excuse me, but what are you both talking about?" Rarity asked. I looked at my brother eye to eye, "I guess we have to use the computer," I said. Just as we finished watching the first episode, the girls were in shock at what they saw. "It's like we've been spied this whole time," Twilight said perplexed. Rainbow, for her part, was angry, "Who did this?! I'm going to get that dude!" "How much of this have you got?" Rarity asked my brother. "I think a better question is, how much have you seen?" Twilight added. "Well, so far, the last of these showed Trixie coming back to Ponyville," my brother said. "So far?" "Yes, there are more upcoming episodes the next weeks," I added. They all looked at each other again. Applejack then asked in her particular accent, "Something ah want tah know is how do ya have stuff that we are in. Mor' so, whah do ya have so much stuff with Fluttershy's face?" the pegasus in question hid behind her mane. "Well, that will take a while to explain, but I guess you have the right to know," I said. And with the help of my brother, I explained them the show and it's follower phenomena: the bronies, events, jokes, and the message they send with every episode. "So basically, you are all famous for the show," I finished after a while. "This is so not the way I wanted to be famous," Rainbow said. "Cheer up, a lot of people become famous for getting ridiculed, and they both enjoy it and hate it," I added. "Oh yeah? Show me one famous video about it," she challenged. I swiftly turned back to the computer and loaded a video from Youtube. Once it finished, almost all of the girls laughed, Twilight stayed serious though. "How can you all laugh at this kid's misery?!" she scolded her friends. "Look on the bright side Twilight," I said "The kid was famous for some months, and he was even invited to some TV programs!" "I don't care, that's no subject of laugh," she insisted. "Oh yeah totally, laughing to a stranger getting ridiculed is bad, but it's right to laugh when your friends faint like a goat?" "Hey that's different!" "I'm just saying." "Whatever, we better leave girls," she turned around. "Whoa whoa hold on there! You can't leave!" I stopped her. "Why not? Are we prisoners or something?" How could I explain her? I couldn't let them leave the house, what if the government found out? What would they do to them? But it was hard for me to let them confined either. "Ugh, believe me, you don't want to know what things are out there," I said. "And you know about them?" she asked. "Well, yeah, and if I told you, you'd just be more scared." "Like what?" "Please trust me, I'll tell you everything later. But for now, just believe me, please," I hoped that the fact that they had to still swallow their show, would stop Twilight from asking. After some pondering, she finally spoke again, "Let me talk to my friends and we'll decide what to do." "Sure, take your time." They left the room heading for the garage, and started talking. I hoped they didn't try to escape. "Do you think they'll try to run away?" I asked my brother. "I don't know. I mostly think Rainbow will try, or at least wish to," he answered. "That's true, she's the most active of the six, we can't keep her away from the sky, it's not right." "This whole ordeal isn't right." "Tell me about it. Besides, Fluttershy must be in shock after seeing all the stuff I have of her! You better hide your pins with creepy art of them too," I suggested. "Yeah you're right. We also have to be careful in what we do from now on." "You mean like: where we go in internet, what games we play, what shows we watch, and stuff?" "Yes, after all, I don't think they'll take well that a hooded guy kills archers." "FYI, those are crossbowmen," I corrected "and I don't think they'll like a black guy making a killing spree out of a city." I once thought that having these kind of ponies in our life would be really cool. when you deeply think about it, turns out that maybe not.