LOCATION: Smooth Grove
DATE: December 30th
[Perspective: False Front]
Muffled speech passed through the walls into my ears, rising me from my sleep. I groaned a bit, recognizing the voice that had woken me up. At first I thought his insomnia was just acting up again, but then I noticed the sunlight coming in through the window and realized that, on the contrary, I had slept in.
Yawning, I crawled out of bed. We had stopped by Smooth Grove for a night or two on our way back to Ponyville, so we were back in "our" house. The elder said he knew of a shortcut from here to Ponyville that would greatly cut down on time, so we weren't in a rush.
I was, however, in a bit of a rush to figure out what was going on with Arrell. It sounded like he was talking to somepony, but there were no responses. If he's finally gone completely insane, I'm just gonna say "I told you so" and go back to bed.
Throwing on a robe, I made my way downstairs. He was sitting in the kitchen, talking to...
"You know, part of me feels like the focus hasn't even been on me for a while, so you guys don't even know what I've been saying."
...a wall.
"Arrell, what are you doing?" I asked impatiently.
He turned to me, then back to the wall. "Lemme guess, you've been seeing things from her perspective. So everything I said was just muffled and incoherent. Well, now I'm gonna have to repeat myself..."
"Arrell!" I yelled. He sighed and turned to me completely.
"Yes?"
"What in the name of Celestia's solar-flaring mareheat are you doing?!"
He blinked, then turned his head as though looking at something beside me. "Wow, author. Reading too much Fallout: Equestria lately, are we?" He looked back at me. "For the record, I'm breaking the fourth wall."
"You're not breaking a wall. You're talking to it."
"Actually, that's right. I now realize I was just talking to a wall. Damn author decided to switch things up and have this chapter be from your perspective or something, so I have to talk to you to talk to the readers."
"...what?"
He sighed. "I'd ask the readers to explain it to you in the comments below, but I doubt you'd be able to read them."
"...what?"
"False, let me try to explain this. Have you ever read a book?" I nodded, wondering where he was going with this. "Well, imagine that we are actually inside a book, and we're being read."
I blinked. "...wha-"
"Stop saying that, or people are gonna think it's your new catchphrase."
I growled. "START MAKING SENSE."
"I already explained it to you. We're in a book...of sorts. Fan fiction, specifically. Long story. But yeah."
"NO WE'RE NOT."
"Yeah, we are."
I glared. "Can you prove we are?"
"Can you prove we aren't?"
We stood in silence for a moment.
"..."
"Dot dot dot."
"...why did you just say 'dot dot dot'?"
He shrugged. "I was repeating what you said."
"I didn't say anything!"
"We were silent. Therefore, your dialogue would have been shown as being an ellipses. Or, as I like to call it because I can never remember its actual term, 'dot dot dot'."
"..."
",,," He smirked. "Heh. The dots are bleeding."
My eye twitched. "...I'm going back to bed now."
"It's ten in the morning."
"I just want to wake up and pretend this was all a dream." With that, I turned around and walked back to my room. This was too much for me.
In eastern Ontario, Canada, a sixteen-year-old teenage boy sat in a chair, dressed in a blue Doctor Who t-shirt and black sweatpants. He blinked at his computer screen, which was covered in a little over seven hundred words that he had just typed down without even fully realizing it.
"...what the hell did I just write?" RLYoshi asked aloud. Nobody answered, as nobody was around. Shrugging, he copied the chapter from Google Docs and pasted it into a blank chapter on FIMFiction.
He read over the chapter a couple times to check for any errors, wrote a quick author's note about getting back into the swing of things, then hovered his mouse over the Publish button. He hesitated, considering just deleting this weird bonus chapter and waiting until he could make the next real one.
Finally, he sighed, and published. "I can see the comments already."