Equestria: Crossing Over
Act 3: Q and A
I woke up tied to a chair, and having the strangest feeling of deja vu....I looked around. I appeared to be a dimly lit house, and it seemed more or less normal past that. No torture tools, no ropes (other than my bindings), no nothing....That's when I was blinded by a sudden flash of light in front of my face, and that one girl, Penelope? I think that was her name...shined a light at me from what appeared to be a desk lamp.
"Where are the Elements of Harmony?" she demanded.
"I don't know! I swear to God and Celestia herself that I have no idea!"
"DON'T PLAY DUMB WITH- Wait....Did you just say Celestia? As in PRINCESS Celestia?"
"Y-Yeah?"
The girl stepped back, then ran into the other room and I heard her whispering to someone else, who I could only assume was one of my other kidnappers. She ran back and turned off the desk lamp, turning on the light.
"How do you know of Princess Celestia?"
"I'm....a brony? A teenaged to adult male fan of the show My Little Pony: Friendship is-"
"I know what a brony is!" She groaned and rubbed her forehead. "Look, do you have any idea where we can FIND them? Because it seems you already located two of them. So you may be of use to us yet."
She turned and started to leave.
"So what is going on anyway?" I said to her accusingly. "Clearly you aren't just cosplayers....isn't that right, Miss Pie?"
The girl froze dead in her tracks and turned around, then snapped at me.
"That's not my name! My name is Penelope!"
"Drop the act, Pinkie...A brony knows his favorite ponies when he sees them. Disquised or not. And I know for a fact that you aren't really who you say you are."
The girl bit her lip and ran into the other room. I heard her panicked whispers from behind the door, then I heard a heavy sigh and 'Penelope' and that librarian who I assumed was 'Teresa' walked into the room. Teresa raised her hand and her fingers glowed with a magic magenta aura, and I felt my ropes come loose. I stood up and rubbed my wrists, then stared at the girls.
"Okay, we'll come clean...You caught us. You probably know who we are already...."
"Can I just say I'm a big fan and I'm fanboy squealing inside?" I said with a goofy smile.
"Yes, I'm sure you are..." Twilight said with an amused smile, which quickly faded. "But I'm afraid there's no time for idle chatter....Discord is coming."
"Wait....THE Discord? The one who completely and utterly destroyed Equestria, deharmonized you and your friends, wrecked havoc everywhere he went, and almost made you break up entirely?!"
"That's the short version, but yes, that one."
"And he sent the Elements of Harmony to Earth in an attempt to escape you and Celestia, so he also plans on coming HERE to wreck havoc and no one will have a chance to stop him without the Elements AND their bearers, so Celestia disquised you and your friends to blend in with the human crowd, and tasked you with finding the Elements of Harmony! And when I ended up with both the Elements of Magic and Kindness, you got suspicious, locked me up, and were going to interrogate me like a criminal, but now that you know I'm innocent, you are now about to ask me to aid you in your quest to find the Elements, stop Discord, and return him to his stone imprisonment back in the Canterlot Royal Gardens and return to Equestria safe and sound!" I said all in one breath.
The two of them gave me blank stares with startled expressions, obviously not expecting me to figure out the entire dilemma AND predict their next movement to the letter...
"Uhh......Y-Yeah, actually...." Pinkie said.
"How'd you know?!" Twilight asked.
"I didn't honestly, that was just what I was hoping for..." I said with a goofy smile again. "So you mean it? I can really join you and your friends to stop Discord? Cause I really hate that guy..."
"Well, we need all the help we can get...and for some odd reason, the Elements seem drawn to you...."
That's when Pinkie looked kinda funny, and she quickly tackled me to the ground, pinning me down. Immediately after that, the Element of Honesty came crashing through the window right to where I was previously standing. I pushed the heavy girl off of me, grunting under her weight.
"P-Please get off me! I don't mean to offend, but you're really heavy!" I said, grunting.
"Oops, sorry... " She got off and smiled, helping me up.
"Why'd you tackle me?"
"My Pinkie Sense told me that something was falling."
"But how? You don't have a tail...."
"My tailbone started to tickle."
"Oh."
Twilight picked up the necklace and smiled.
"That's 3 out of 6! It looks like Rainbow Dash was right! This brony seems to be like a magnet for the Elements!"
"Well that's all well and good, but I'd like to know where we are right now..."
"Ummm....th-that's classified." Pinkie said hastily.
I looked around. It definately seemed like a human house. I rapped the wall and it fell apart. It must be that old, abandoned house that was near mine.
"Whatever, that isn't important....can I meet the rest of you?"
"Sure, come on." Twilight said, motioning for us to follow.
She took us out of the house and back to MY house. I guess the girls were using it as their HQ while they had me incapacitated...We walked in and Twilight smiled.
"Well, we got the info we needed, and....well...so did he."
Rainbow Dash looked at her. "What do you mean?"
"He knows about us now."
Applejack stomped and groaned. "Twilight! Ah thought the princess told us NOT to reveal ourselves!"
"It slipped out. But it doesn't matter....He Pinkie Promised not to tell a soul. If he gets asked about us, he'll just tell them that we're 'cosplayers'....Whatever those are."
"Well....alright I guess....Welcome to the herd, partner."
"Thanks.....wow I just said thanks to Applejack! Eeeee!"
"So, what do we do? Just wait until the Elements just COME to us?" Rainbow asked rather snarkily.
"No, we still actively search for them. We also may need to answer questions for him as we go along....He doesn't know all the details."
"Well, I have a question for HIM. What's your name, human?" She glared at me with her magenta eyes.
I stuttered as I spoke.
"A-A-Austin, Miss Dash...."
I felt REALLY small with that stare of hers....That combined with the fact that she's one of my favorite fictional heroes, it was all rather intimidating....
"Please don't call me 'Miss Dash'....Just call me Rainbow."
"Yes sir, Rainbow...I MEAN MA'AM!" I cursed under my breath.
Rainbow Dash just rolled her eyes, and sat on my couch. It was rather awkward...the silence hung in the air for a long time. Finally, I asked...
"Um....so...are you staying HERE while you're on Earth?"
"If that's okay with you, Austin..." Twilight said. "This is our only place of refuge until we figure something else out...."
"Um.....I guess it's alright, just...don't mess with anything...My parents might get mad."
"PARENTS?!" I heard them all exclaim at once. Suddenly, the room full of girls was gone in an instant, all hiding behind something.
"No no no! Wait! They're not here right now....They're gone, for a month anyway..." I quickly said.
The 6 of them all emerged from their hiding spots.
"Don't scare us like that!" Applejack said.
"Sorry, Applejack..." I muttered.
They came out and then looked outside.
"So I guess we should all just act normally and search when we have time?" I asked.
"I suppose so." Twilight said, crossing her arms over her chest.
I nodded understandingly, then turned to the window, staring outside with the rest of them.
We could all feel it. A storm was coming...
A storm of chaos.
We only had a few days left.