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// The Moment We've All Been Waiting For 
// Story: Lost and Far From Home 
// by KyleAJ 
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The Moment We've All Been Waiting For





Twilight gave a final tug on the orb of brilliant light. The light, guided by Twilight’s magic, floated up from the crater. The cosmic gem, however, dissolved into dust the moment the light was drawn from it. Spike watched in dismay as the prize he was so desperately craving crumbled before him. Twilight, on the other hand, was straining to bring the light out of the darkness of the crater. When she finally brought it out; a brilliant flash followed by a bolt of electricity connected both it and Twilight’s horn.

The force of raw energy being converted into a physical form tore the sky in two. A shockwave, originating at the crater, flew in all directions, purging the land of the overpowering odour in the process. Everypony in Ponyville was alerted by the shockwave, but only a brave few ventured outside to investigate.

Back at the crash site, both Twilight and spike were thrown back by the initial force of the shockwave. Twilight landed on the foot of the hill closest to the beach, unconscious, while Spike landed in a nearby tree, only dazed slightly.

Minutes later, a small figure arose from the crater. The figure was shining half as bright as the inter-dimensional shooting star, but still bright enough that its true form was obscured. It wandered around, searching the area for a couple minutes before returning to the crater once more.

Spike, still dazed from the impact, was unable to see what it was clearly, so he decided to follow it against his better judgement from earlier of not going into the crater. Each step felt like his legs were made of iron as he slowly walked over. By the time he got to the crater, he was ready to fall asleep on the spot, but his interest in the strange figure pushed him onwards. He looked over the ridge of the crater and gasped at what he saw; a young Sasquatch.





Ness regained his senses, rubbing a hand on his head. He recalled that something had gotten him unstuck from the center of his homemade shooting star.
‘Wait a minute, hand?’ he thought as he looked down. Sure enough, he had a luminescent hand; two luminescent hands actually, and a body, also matching his hands, and no clothes...
‘Hmm...’ he thought as he remembered his previous adventures. ‘Am I in Magicant again?’
He looked around, but all he saw was blue sky and brown dirt. Realizing that he was in the crater that his shooting star had created, he decided to look around. He carefully climbed up the steep side of the crater, dirt crumbling as he stepped on it. He poked his head up and looked around. There was a beach; it looked nice, it also reminded him of Summers, and kraken soup, strangely enough. He slid down the side and started climbing up the other side of the pit. There were hills, a whole bunch of rolling hills, with luscious green grass. The world looked so surreal, exactly like the Magicant of his dreams. He then saw a small purple animal, over at the foot of the closest hill. Not wanting to be seen like he was, stark naked, by anything (be it animal or human) he climbed back out of site into the crater.

When he reached the bottom he saw something strange, actually it wasn’t strange at all because he saw these constantly during his adventure. He saw a gift box, all neatly wrapped with a card on top of it, to the side of a pile of very fine dust. He walked over to the present and realized something strange; this one was actually addressed to him. He opened up the card and read it.

The card read “To Ness, I can’t have you running around naked in this new world, so here is your favourite outfit.” The card was not signed by anyone. Ness, seriously creeped out by the spontaneous gift of clothes and personal message that came out of thin air, cautiously decided to open up the present left obviously for him. Inside there was a striped blue and yellow tee-shirt, blue shorts, socks tucked inside a pair of red running shoes, a yellow backpack that felt like there was stuff inside it, and finally, a red baseball cap.

Ness noticed that his skin was slowly starting to stop glowing. He relaxed when he realized that soon he would be back to normal again, well... relatively normal. With his clothes comfortably being worn, he decided to face this strange new world and put on his bravest face. As he turned he saw a big purple reptile watching him with weird eyes, they were facing opposite directions.

Strangeness, the big lizard was suffering from strangeness, as he called it. It was a condition that leads to confusion in the middle of a fight, making whatever was afflicted attack the wrong target. He suffered from the condition a number of times; enough to want it to be healed as soon as humanly possible, whether him or (possible?) ally.

He gathered up his energy, a feat made harder due to the amount of effort put into the Starstorm, and formed it into a healing ray of light that he aimed at the giant purple lizard. The ray stuck home, righting the eyes to their proper orientation. The eyes on the lizard widened as it let out a very Keanu-esque, “whoa.”





“Whoa,” Spike said as his vision cleared, revealing that the figure was not actually a Sasquatch, but something else entirely. It had shined a ray of light at him, making him blink his normally light insensitive eyes at the brightness, clearing his vision in the process. He had never seen anything like before. The only descriptive word that came to mind was “indescribable”.
It said, in a tone of voice very similar to Spike, “Uhh... Hello?”
“H... hi, uh,” Spike replied, at a loss for words.
“Ness, my name is Ness, what is yours?”
“Oh, um mine’s Spike,” it was now that the simultaneous question was asked;
“What are you?” Normally, this sound normal due to the fact that it would normally be said a couple hundred of milliseconds out of sync, but they both asked that question at the exact same time and the exact same tempo. The follow up answers’ tempo was skewed by the previous fact.
“I am uh, a human; at least I think so...”
“What do you mean ‘think so’?”
“Well, First I was a human, and then I was a robot, but now I look exactly like I did when I was human, so I guess I am a human after all.”
“You were a robot!? How does that even work?”
“I’m not sure, but if Jeff were here I bet he could explain it. His dad made the robots in the first place.”
“What kind of a name is Jeff?”
“You sure ask a lot of questions for a... what even are you?”
“Heh, wait ‘til you meet Twi, and I am a dragon, by the way.”
“You look small for a dragon, but you are the first one that I have ever seen.”
“Well I’m only a baby dragon for now, but I’m gonna be a great big one when I grow up!” Spike said with a heavy sense of pride. “Wait a sec, where is Twilight?”
“Twilight? Is that someone’s name?”
“Somepony you mean? And yes, she should be around here somewhere.”
“What? Did you really replace someone with somepony? Ha! That sounds silly!”
“You’re a weird human you know that? Now, where’s Twilight?”
“Is that um... him over there?”
Spike burst out laughing at this comment.
“Hey, what’s so funny?” Said Ness, visible annoyed.
“Twilight Sparkle is not a ‘him’! Were you even paying attention when said she should be around here somewhere?”
“No, not really, and stop laughing!”
Spike let out an exaggerated sigh “Then we better go see if Twi is okay.”
“Sure thing buddy.”
“Wait, we’re buddies now?”
“I don’t see why not. You seem like a nice uh, ‘dragon’, and the fact that we have actually talked and gotten to know one another.”
“Have I told you that you’re weird yet?”





It was dark in the laboratory, because replacement bulbs were hard to come by here. Also it might have something to do with the fact that the lab was located underneath a mountain, for security’s sake. The type of work and research going on inside the facility required freedom from the disruption that would surely come from the local wildlife.

The commander, with his plan on schedule, began to study the report of the previous night that appeared on a monitor in front of him. He looked at the picture that was enclosed in the file, a meteor shower. Tracing a finger on the contrails of the falling stars, he revelled in the past; where had he seen this before?





“Hey Twilight! Wake up!”
Twilight shook her head trying to get the ringing out of her ears. This was a mistake as the shaking caused her head to start throbbing with waves of pain radiating from her horn.
“Ugh, Spike, did you have to shout in my ear?”
“Sorry, I just wanted to wake you up. You look terrible.”
“Thanks for your concern, but aside from a massive headache I am f- wait a moment, who, or what is that?”
“Oh yeah, this is uh, Ness and he is an um...”
“Human, I am a human boy and a force to be reckoned with,” said the human with a heavy amount of pride soaking his words.
Twilight rolled her eyes; she was not in the mood to deal with a boastful pony, or even a non-pony for that matter. “I’m sure you are, but if you don’t mind I have a meteor to examine.”
“Oh wow, I completely forgot about the meteor. Speaking of which, where is it? Didn’t you lift it up here?” asked Spike in rapid succession.
“About that,” Ness interrupted, “that was kinda me tearing a hole in ‘something’ and breaking through it by riding on a meteor that I made with my mind.”
Twilight gave him a confused look. “Where did you say you were from?”
“I didn’t, I am from a planet called Earth before I got stuck somehow. I had traveled back in time 10 years to prevent the end of the world but I must’ve blacked out. I woke up in this void and after I don’t know how long I taught myself how to use PK Starstorm.”
“What is PK Starstorm?” Twilight and Spike asked in unison.
Slightly disturbed by how often this happened Ness explained anyway. “Well, if you were on that beach over there, (was it last night?) You might have seen what looked like a meteor shower. In reality they were actually psychic orbs of pure energy and some dust from the void.”
Twilight and Spike gaped at what had just been revealed to them; they were standing in front of a being powerful enough to summon meteor showers.
“Right, I forgot to ask, are you some sort of alien candy coloured horse with a pet dragon?”





Twilight stared into the crater once more, not believing that the ‘boy’ had followed up on his outlandish claims. At the bottom lay a pile of luminescent dust, with more of it scattered in what looked like a short path.

Ness hopped back into the crater to examine the dust. ‘Hmm, looks like I wasn’t actually glowing. I must have had the glowing dust all over me, but it fell off as I walked around,’ he thought. Ness grabbed a fistful of the dust and walked back up to the pony and dragon.
“Look guys, Stardust!” he exclaimed.
“Is that what it’s really called?” Twilight asked.
“No, but it sure is a fitting name isn’t it?”
“I suppose so, Stardust it is.”
Ness then proceeded to sprinkle some into his mouth. “Mmm, it tastes sweet, but sickly sweet like a mouthful of sugar! This would go great on just about anything.”
“Wait, did you actually just eat some? What were you thinking, it could be poisonous!” Twilight shouted with an annoyed tone.
“Meh, I can handle a little poison.” Ness said with utter indifference.
“Ugh, for somepony so powerful, you act like a child,” Twilight commented.
“I resent that, and so what if I’m only 11 years old, I’m grown up enough. Wait, did you just say some’pony’ instead of someone? That just sounds so wrong and forced.”
“Someone sounds weird to me-“
“And me,” Spike interrupted.
“Spike,” Twilight shot him a look. “Like I was saying, it’s probably just a matter of opinion. I’m sure you will get used to it in time.”
“Whatever.”
“Rrrr... That word always gets on my nerves!” Twilight said, clenching her teeth in frustration. “Speaking of nerves, I have a lot of questions to ask you about your home, but I have a massive headache from trying to lift that meteor.”
“Psionic burnout probably. Hold on, I think I have something for that,” Ness said as he rummaged around in his backpack.
“You mean magic burnout, don’t you?”
“I’ve always called it Psionics or Psychokinesis, PSI or PK for short. Who knows, yours might be different from mine.” He reached his arm deeper inside than physically possible. “Ah, here it is; one magic pudding!” He said as he pulled out a glass dish piled high with a crème coloured pudding inside. It was worth noting that the pudding was glowing slightly.
“Why is it glowing?”
“Magic, it is magic pudding after all,” Ness said matter-of-factly.
“Did you put that stardust on it?”
“Mmm... maybe a little. Trust me, it will taste even better.”
Twilight rolled her eyes. Ness produced a shiny spoon from a seemingly random pocket and offered it to her with the pudding. Twilight frowned and took the two items in her magic. She started to eat the pudding. Her eyes widened as the fog that seemed to plague her mind, completely unperceived, cleared away. She lost herself to the deliciousness of the pudding she was eating.





All of her life came into focus; all the time she spent obsessing over her studies, how coming to Ponyville had turned her life around, how she had never missed friends before only because she had never had any. She realized that if it wasn’t for her friends, she would be the same unicorn, locked in her studies, for the rest of her life. She had lived more during her first year of living in Ponyville than she had her whole life in Canterlot. She also realized that her experiences in both Canterlot and Ponyville made her what she is today, and at that if she had the chance to change her life at any point, she would refuse without second thought.





[Hey, sorry I took a long time for this chapter, it was because I spent most of the week not writing. Anyway, please comment on anything about the direction of the story, my writing, etc. Thanks!]