//------------------------------// // The Result // Story: Order In Equestria // by Bowenross //------------------------------// When I woke up I glanced at the clock I had made, and was completely stunned at what I saw. It said that 51,325 years had passed since I had arrived on the planet. Sometimes immortality was really amazing, but also boring as hell. That could explain why I was completely surrounded by trees and grass. The atmosphere was creepy, like someone, or something, was constantly watching me from the shadows. “Well, I might as well see if evolution has occurred.” I stood up and cracked all the joints in my body; the resulting sound was like a bomb had gone off. I stood still and listened to see if anything had heard it. It looked like nothing had, so I started walking in a random direction to see if I could find anything. I came upon a stream and followed it, knowing that civilizations or living beings would normally be found near a water source. I was surprised to see a sort of cottage on top of a hill. I then saw something I never thought I would see in real life. Fluttershy was standing by the hut talking to Angel. I completely freaked out and ran back into the forest. I then realized that I had made Equestria what it was known to be in my world. I also realized that I had walked into the Everfree Forest, and the thing looking at me was actually a timber wolf. I guessed that me going into Ponyville as a human would freak everypony out, so I turned myself into a pony as I was walking out of the forest. I turned into a brown stallion with a blue mane and tail. My mane was spiky and had a large group of white hair on one side of my head. My tail was wrapped up at the base so that it wasn’t dragging on the ground because of how long it was. I glanced at my flank and was surprised to see that I didn’t have a cutie mark. “Well, now I know how it feels to be Applebloom and the rest of the CMC. Over fifty-thousand years on a planet and nothing to show my talent.” I said as I was walking towards the cottage in my new body. Most of the fanfics I had read said it was hard to walk around as a quadruped, but I found no trouble at all. It was as if this was just another form that I had all of my life. I walked up to the cottage, but Fluttershy wasn’t there anymore. I grew confused, but then I guessed that she had something to do. I walked into Ponyville and waved to any passing pony who acknowledged me. I got confused when they would bow down to me. ‘Why, are they bowing down? It’s not like I’m royalty.’ I kept walking and got nervous when Pinkie Pie had not come to welcome me, because Pinkie always knew when a new pony was in town. I saw Twilight and Spike walking towards Sweet Apple Acres with Spike carrying a scroll. I knew that this was the first episode automatically. I had woken up just in time to get in on the episodes I knew. I figured that, if I was here, I might as well become part of the story. I walked up to Twilight and asked if I could join her on her task at hand. “Uh-huh.” She replied, still looking at a map she had encompassed in her magic. “Great, now I can meet new ponies without getting weird looks.” I happily trotted beside Twilight and Spike towards the farm. I never really noticed until now how tall I was compared to other ponies. They were about half my size, maybe even smaller. We walked past the gates and heard Applejack yell, so I knew she would come over to shake Twilight’s hoof. I decided to wander off into the apple orchard so as not to mess with the storyline. I saw Big Mac bucking some trees and walked over to him. When I was right behind him when he was resting, I lightly tapped him on the shoulder and said boo. He literally jumped five feet into the air. “Applejack, I already told ya’ not to sneak up on me!” He turned around and saw me and immediately bowed. “I’m sorry, ya’ majesty, I thought ya’ were my sister.” “Okay, why does everyone keep bowing to me? And don’t call me your majesty, I’m not royalty.” I was getting slightly annoyed by the constant bowing. Then I realized that I wasn’t a normal pony. It explained why I was so tall and the ponies kept bowing to me. I was an alicorn, probably because of my powers and what I represented in this world. “Everyone? Don’t you mean everypony?” Big Mac asked while still bowing. “You may rise, Big McIntosh. And yes, I meant everypony.” I probably would never get used to ponies bowing down to me, and I realized that I would have to use their terms when speaking aloud. The pony puns were going to become used in everyday conversation. “I meant it as a joke when I said what I said.” “Okay your majesty. Wait… how did you know mah name?” Big Mac was getting skeptical, I did not need this. “I know the name of everypony; it is part of being a ruler.” I came up with the explanation off the top of my head. I just hoped he didn’t have the ability to tell lies from truth like Applejack did. “Well okay, if ya’ say so.” Big Mac told me. I really dodged a bullet there. “So, why are ya’ here, your majesty?” “I have come to make sure my sisters’ student, Twilight Sparkle, does not cause any trouble for anypony here.” I explained as we walked through the orchard. We heard Applejack yell, and we started moving towards the barn. “I guess that’s our cue to get on over to eat?” “Eeyup.” We reached the barn quickly, and Applejack was quickly running off her families’ names as they stacked the table with food. Big Mac grabbed a cupcake and walked closer as soon as Applejack called his name. I grabbed a slice of cake and started munching on it. It was honestly the best cake I had ever tasted. “Compliments to the baker of this awesome cake!” I shouted so that all of the gathered ponies could hear me. They all turned around and gasped when they saw me. They quickly bowed and started whispering to each other. “You may rise, my subjects. I do not wish for others to put themselves below me. I hope to be seen as if I was another one of you.” Twilight was the first to rise from bowing, and she said something like not recognizing me from Canterlot. I walked over to where she was sitting and sat down next to her. She shied away from me like I was a stranger, which I technically was. “Twilight, I do believe that these fine ponies would like us to join in their meal. What do you say to this?” I looked at Twilight and smiled. She shied even further away, looking like she wanted to flee. All the ponies around us said they wanted us to stay and Twilight gave up. About two hours later Twilight, Spike, and I were walking towards town. Twilight was sporting a rather large midsection. Spike hadn’t really eaten much, so he looked normal. I had eaten much more than either of them, but I felt fine. “I can’t believe how much I can eat and not get fat. This is wonderful. I’ll have to go to Sugarcube Corner later and see how much I can eat.” I was completely ecstatic to say the least. As we got into town, Twilight asked Spike to look at the list to see what was next. Just then, a rainbow blur came speeding towards us. I grabbed Twilight just before Rainbow Dash hit her and Rainbow flew right over the mud puddle. Rainbow looped back because she was surprised at what she saw. “Yo, Rainbow, I thought you were supposed to be clearing the clouds. The celebration is going to suck if there are still clouds in the sky.” I was trying to get her to brag, I didn’t care. All she had to do was talk about the Wonderbolts. “Yeah yeah, I can do that in a jiffy. I just have to finish practicing.” Rainbow did this all while flying in front of us. I wondered if she ever stopped flying when she was doing everyday tasks. “What are you practicing for?” Twilight asked Rainbow. Rainbow looked at both Twilight and I and said “Wait a minute, who are you two?” I sighed and facehoofed. I should have just let Rainbow run into Twilight and left it at that. “This is Twilight Sparkle, my sisters’ student and I am Ordeus. I’m keeping an eye on her to make sure that she doesn’t cause any trouble for the other ponies here. And this here is Spike, her assistant.” I pointed at Twilight and Spike when I explained who they were. “Well, anyways. I’m training for the Wonderbolts.” Rainbow did a loop in the air and struck a pose while Twilight looked at the poster for the Wonderbolts. “Rainbow Dash, I’m pretty sure that the Wonderbolts wouldn’t recruit a pony that couldn’t even keep the skies clear for one day.” I told her, in a matter of fact tone. “Just watch, I’ll do it in ten. Seconds. Flat.” She zoomed off as soon as she said it to start busting the clouds. I timed her as she did it, and true to her word, she did it in ten seconds flat. I looked over to Twilight to see if she had a flabbergasted look on her face. She did. “You’re a laugh, Twilight Sparkle. We should hang out some time.” With that she flew off, probably to go nap. “Let’s get going Twilight. We don’t want to get off of schedule here. The next stop is town hall where Rarity is decorating.” I had to pull Twilight about halfway there before she started walking on her own. “Beautiful.” Spike stated as soon as we walked into the town hall “Yes, the décor is coming along nicely.” Twilight looked around to better see the decorations already up. “Not the décor. Her.” Spike looked at Rarity with hearts in his eyes. I guess that wasn’t something that only appeared on the TV screen. While Twilight was preoccupied with trying to talk to Rarity, I messed her mane up with my magic. I did not want to have to find a way to get Rarity to notice Twilight. I walked quietly out of the town hall to see what else there was to do around Ponyville. I was surprised how nobody noticed that I was a blank flank yet. I looked into the window of the quill and sofa shop and was surprised at what I saw. My reflection showed my left eye as completely black and my right as completely white. Yin and Yang, I guess that’s understandable, seeing how I’m here to keep balance and order. I kept walking around, but nothing really caught my eye as interesting. I figured that I had been walking around for an hour, judging on how far the sun had moved in the sky. Ponyville was pretty big, much bigger than the show made it out to be. I finally saw the place I wanted to go to most. Sugarcube Corner was right in front of me. I entered the shop, but then I remembered that I didn’t have any bits. Then I facehoofed again. I could materialize money whenever I needed it. Mr. Cake was at the counter when I walked in, but he was turned around so that he couldn’t see me. I walked up to the counter and waited for him to turn around. As soon as I got to the counter, he got down on the floor to search through the cupboards close to the floor. I was still patiently waiting for him to finish, instead of interrupting him. I got an idea and put on my best posh pony attitude. “I must say dearie, this fellow is taking much too long to serve us. We may have to think about going to that dreary café down the street. I must admit though, that place looks like it has the most horrid food choices.” I said this all while trying to not laugh. It was almost too much even for me. “Sorry sir! I was just trying to find…” Mr. Cake turned around and froze when he saw me. This was the first time an alicorn had been in his shop. He immediately dropped to the floor again. “Forgive me, your majesty. I was wrapped in my thoughts and did not hear you enter.” “You may rise, I wish to order some food. Also, I would appreciate it if you treated me like any other customer.” The bowing and apologies were getting old quickly. After Nightmare Moon was dealt with, I would address the entire town to make sure that they stopped calling me ‘your majesty’ and stopped bowing to me. “Of course, what would you like to order?” Mr. Cake asked, bringing out a quill and paper to write down my order. “I would like one of everything, please. And full servings, not a sample size.” Even after the large meal I had eaten at the farm, I was still hungry. “Okay, that will be three-hundred bits.” Mr. Cake told me, looking surprised at such a large order. “Also, I need your name to write down on the order.” “My name is spelled O-r-d-e-u-s, my fine sir. Pronounced Or-day-us.” I told Mr. Cake and he wrote that down as well. I paid Mr. Cake and he told me it would be a few hours before everything was ready, seeing as he also had to get ready for the Summer Sun Celebration. I thanked him and told him to have it all delivered to the library when it was done. He ran into the kitchen yelling to Mrs. Cake that they had a big order to complete. I chuckled and walked out the door and started walking towards the library. Thankfully I got there as soon as Twilight, Spike, and Fluttershy did. Twilight pushed Fluttershy and I out of the library when we tried to walk in. Fluttershy just ‘eeped’ when she realized who got pushed out there with her and ran away. I figured that since I had nothing better to do than wait, I would wait at the town hall for everybody else. So far everything was going well and I hadn’t messed up things too much. When I got to the town hall it was about three a.m. because I had gotten lost again. I figured I really need to find a map so that I wouldn’t get lost anymore. Mayor Mare was already waiting in the town hall, and it was easy to see that I surprised her. Before she could bow down, I said, “Don’t bow down please, it is getting really annoying.” “Well, if that is what you wish.” Mayor Mare said, confused. “Who are you? I don’t remember getting a notification that another alicorn would be here during the Summer Sun Celebration. I also don’t remember there being more than one alicorn, which is Celestia.” Mayor mare could be seen as nervous at the moment, but she could also be seen as suspicious of me. “I am Celestias’ older brother, Ordeus. I have been… asleep for a long while. I have come to make sure that her student, Twilight Sparkle, does not bother the other ponies here. I have also come to see the preparations for myself. I heard that there would be a very exciting celebration this year.” I kept going with the story I had thought of earlier. If I ever forgot this, I would have a lot of explaining to do. “Okay then. I will prepare a seat for you to wait in.” The mayor walked off to fetch a seat. I breathed out a breath I didn’t realize I had been holding in. She believed my story. She walked back in carrying a large, ornate seat. “Here you are. I hope that it suits your tastes.” “It is a little, um, extravagant. But, it does suit my need of a seat to wait in. Thank you, Mayor Mare.” I thanked her while taking the seat off of her back and setting it down on the floor. I moved it over to a corner so that it would be harder to see me during the celebration. A few hours passed and ponies started gathering in the hall. I could just make out the mane six from my point of view. The chorus of birds started up, and I sat back to watch the upcoming event. Soon the ponies gathered were panicking as Rarity said that Celestia wasn’t there. I could just make out the smoke of Nightmare Moon come in through the door and gather on the balcony. As the smoke coalesced into Nightmare Moon, all the ponies gasped. Nightmare soon left, followed soon after by Twilight being followed by the rest of the group. I walked up to Mayor Mare thanked her for the courtesy she had shown me. I also told her that the information I had received was correct. I left after that and headed to the library. There was no way I was going to miss out on this.