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Star's POV
We all just finished watching the new show and it was pretty funny, with a groan Jace got up from the couch and said while stretching, "Well I am going to get some food."
"Why?" Arcana asked.
"Well I only had enough food for me, but since you are here, we are going to go through the food in a short time, plus eating pizza is not good and I only have so much money on me right now."
"Ok then I'll come with you," I volunteered as I got up from the couch.
"Sorry Star, but you are not leaving this house," Jace disagreeing with my decision.
"Well why not?"
"Well first of all, you're a pony, more specific a pegasus from a cartoon show; Second, you might cause problems for me that I can't explain," he explained listing the reason why.
"Oh ya," I realized that he is right, "But what is there to do, because it gets pretty boring around here?"
"Star," Arcana said shocked then pound me in the shoulder with her hoof, "Don't be rude, this is his home after all and we are guests."
"Sorry Jace," I apologized, "It's just that usually I am doing something and being stuck inside gets me pretty bored."
"That's ok, now let's see here…," he said thinking, "there's an Xbox in the cupboard," he said pointing to a cupboard that was sitting next to the TV, "And there's also a computer in my room, you can use that, but don't do anything that is not good."
"I won't and I'm also not a kid."
"Right right, well anyway see you guys later," and with that he left the house leaving me and Arcana there.
"So…," I said feeling the awkwardness seeping in, "What are you going to do?"
"Well I am going back downstairs, because there must be a reason why we are here and not somewhere else."
"Do you think it might just be blind luck," I suggested.
"No think about it, when I was stuck in the past Starswirl was informed of my by a alicorn named Fate, and again it happened with the bushwoolies, explaining what we are, once again informed by the same alicorn; Fate," and with that she got up and left and headed for the basement.
I shrugged and decided to let her be. I turned my attention back to the TV and scroll down through my little pony episodes until something caught my eye; Hurricane Fluttershy.
Is this during the tornado week? If so, then there must be a glimpse of me somewhere, I started the episode and laid and watched to see if I make an appearance.
After minutes of watching the show, I got excited when I saw a familiar pony in the water, "Yes! That's me, finally I made an appearance," I said out loud happily as I saw myself in the water reservoir, "Wait I remember that fans sometimes give unnamed ponies names, I wonder…"
I got up from the couch and made my way towards Jace room, to see what the fans gave me. When I went into his room and opened the computer I saw that a search engine was already open, convenient, I maximized the program and saw that it is a missing person report. I felt dread when I saw who it was that is missing; Eric Moore and Brittney Houston.
Arcana's POV
Few minutes earlier
As I was examining the unique and interesting items down in the basement, I heard Star call out in glee, "Yes! That's me, finally I made an appearance," I smile at that and continued with my search, let's see here, there are no senses of great amount of magic here that I don't know of.
As I was examining his worktable I saw a picture of his dad and him together happy, it reminded me of all those sleepless nights when I, and pretty sure Star too, first arrived in Equestria thinking about one thing, does my family worry?
Now I am back at earth, I can contact my family, even though Star and I were gone for a year, it might be a month here, judging from the number of episodes that was released, I am filled with happiness as I can contact my family. I went upstairs, where I saw a phone hanging on the wall. I picked up the phone off the hook with my magic and dial my home phone number.
I heard the phone ringing bring up my hopes, but then it was shattered when I heard the lifeless tone of a machine saying, "The number you have dialed has been disconnected..."
But I didn't hear the rest, for my magic stopped out of my shock, causing the phone to be dropped, and then I saw Star entered the kitchen, with too a shocked look.
Our gazes meet and that is when I realized something is wrong, very wrong.
Jace POV
After an half an hour of buying food and making sure that it didn't contain any meat and purchasing it, and hurrying home, for it looked like that it was going to rain. The same question kept on repeating in my head since I read the missing report last night, should I tell them both that their families had disappeared?
I came up to my house and parked my bike and went inside with the bag of groceries in hand, as I entered the kitchen to put away the food I saw Star and Arcana sitting on the floor looking depressed with wet trails going down their faces indicating that they had crying.
"What's wrong?"
"I saw the missing report," Star asked looking up at me. That confirmed that they had found out that their families are currently missing.
"We went back home," Arcana started, "But we found them stripped, there wasn't anything left of our old lives," and then she started crying.
"I'm sorry," was all I can say to them as I walked past them and left them to their sorrow as I started making our meal with the rain starting to fall.
An hour later
Dinner was so silent that can you hear the sound of rainfall hitting the roof and the sound of utensils hitting plates. I saw Arcana slowly twirling the fork in her stir fry noodles and vegetables, hardly eating anything. With Star though, he's just slowly ate it.
"Come on you two," I said breaking the silence that is hanging over us, "have hope."
"Hope? Hope? There's nothing left of our old lives," Arcana said to me finally talking.
"Well think about it," I said to them, hopefully to get them out of their slumped mood, "The report said that your families went missing as if they dropped everything and left suddenly, isn't that the way it happened to you?"
"So you think…" Star realizing where I am going with this, "…that our families might have been also brought to Equestria?"
I nodded, confirming that thought. This brought Arcana's mood up and really looked hopeful right then and there, as did Star too.
As the mood was lightening up we all heard a knock coming from the front door. I quickly motioned them to take cover and hide. They quickly hid behind the island as I made my way to the front door.
When I opened it, I saw a middle aged man in a business suit holding an umbrella, to protect himself from the rainfall outside, "Excuse me, but are you Jace?" the man asked holding a note card, confirming that he got the right person.
"Ya I am Jace, why do you ask?"
The man put down the card and said with a grim tone, "I am from the company that your dad works at, and I am sorry to say, but your dad's plane went down, there were no survivors."
"Wait, you are telling me that my dad is dead?" I asked disbelieved at what I just heard.
"I wish I wasn't, this is never easy for me to tell others that their loved ones at gone," the man said shaking his head, "But rest assure Jace, our company will look out for you," and then he turned around and left, leaving me standing in the doorway feeling miserable, "Oh and one more thing," the man stopped and added, "this letter was found in your dad's desk and it is addressed to you from him," he walked back up to me and reached into his coat and pulled out an envelope and gave it to me, and then he made his way back to a waiting car.
I closed the door as soon as the man got in and drove away. I entered the kitchen and there I saw Star and Arcana sitting there with sad looks on their faces, to know that they had also heard about my dad's passing.
"I am so sorry," Arcana said to me also giving a glum look, "You gave us hope that our family might be ok, and then this happens."
I then broke down as the reality finally seeped in. I fell to my knees and started to cry with my eyes closed shut, and then I felt something warm wrap around me. I opened my eyes and saw that Arcana was giving me a hug, while Star had a foreleg over my shoulder, trying to comfort me, "Hay come on Jace, if you can give is hope, then we will give it right back," Star said.
"Ya come on Jace, be grateful, for you still have friends around you," Arcana added.
"Thanks you two," I replied feeling my spirit rise, "Now let's see what this letter says," at the mention of that, we all looked at the letter that was still in my hand.
I opened it, and the first thing I noticed that it wasn't written in my dad's handwriting, instead it was written in fancy cursive writing, and second it was also addressed to Star and Arcana, that's impossible no one knows about them. I moved it back to let Arcana and Star see too, and their reaction was the same as mine and we started reading:
Dear Jace, Arcana and Star
First of all, Jace I know that you just received word that your father had passed away, but that is not true, for I am telling you that you father is still alive, he is just in another world.
When I read that part I felt confusion and relief at knowing my dad is ok.
As for you Star and Arcana, it was very difficult to track and find you after that little event back in Equestria. Now if you three will go to Jace's computer, I have sent something to you three, that will enable us to contact each other.
From Fate
Who's Fate? I asked myself and then Arcana cried out, "Him again! Ok I want some answers now," Arcana said out loud, breaking off from our group and headed to my room.
Star and I looked at each other and he shrugged, just as confused as I am. We followed Arcana to my room, where we saw that she was already at the computer, waiting for me to open my email account. After I had opened my email account, true to the word that was in the letter, there laid a message with the sender unknown.
I opened the message and inside was a complex looking diagram with what looks like Latin in beneath it, "It's the same diagram that brought Star and I to Equestria," Arcana explained.
And then it glowed and there was a blinding flash. It startled me, causing me to fall backwards, but instead of hitting carpet and I hit a tiled floor. I looked around and saw that Star, Arcana and I appeared to be white room and there stood a dark figure.
Star then got upset when he looked at the figure, "You again?"
"What was the big idea for you drop us hundreds of feet into the air?" Arcana demanded, "We nearly died."
"But you didn't," the cloaked figured said to her.
"Who are you?" Star asked.
"Surely you must know by now, from all the helpful hints I gave you Space Bender."
Then it looked like something clicked in Arcana's head, "Wait you're Fate, aren't you?"
"You are correct young Time Mover," and with that he removed the cloak revealing a teal colored alicorn underneath it.
"Ok now that introductions are out of the way," I said as I got up from the floor and face the alicorn, "Tell me, where is my dad? Is he ok? Where is he?"
"Well Jace," Fate started, "Your father is in Equestria, but there was a catch."
"What was the catch?"
"Well you see those diagrams that you saw are invites, but the way I brought in your father, it was forcedly and so it caused some little problems," He said with shame.
"What kind of problems?"
"Well, he would be a pony."
I stood there for a good two minutes and then I spoke, "Ok that is not as bad, but is there anything you can do to bring him back?" I asked.
He shook his head and said, "Sorry Jace, but that way is a one way trip, so your father is stuck there."
"Then I am going to Equestria," I announced, Star and Arcana looked at me surprised at that.
"Are you sure Jace?" Fate questioned my decision.
I nodded, "There is nothing tying me down back at home," I said that indicating that I made my mind up.
"Very well then," Fate acknowledged accepting my decision.
"I have some questions though," Arcana speaking up gaining Fate's attention, "Where are we and why did you drop us hundreds of feet in the air? And also is my and Star's family in Equestria?"
"Right, about that, I am terrible sorry, sometimes I don't have control where you end up, it is just fate," he smiled at his own pun, "and as for where we are, we are where you say the in-between, or limbo, of realities," he explained, " and yes both of your families are in Equestria."
I saw Star and Arcana smile in relief as they now know that their families are ok, and then Star asked, "What I don't get is how did we ended up back on earth?"
"Well Star, you see, during the eclipse it gave off magic that reacted to your abilities violently, and it was pure chance that you ended up on earth and not in some other reality."
"Wait, we could've gone to other worlds?" Star asked disbelieved at what he heard.
"Yes but some of them are not… fit to be send to, and also there's a chance where your abilities, could've instead destroy."
"Whoa, what other worlds could we have gone to, and what could've their abilities do anyway if it became destructive?" Arcana asked.
Fate thought it over and said, "Well you could've have gone to a horror reality of Equestria where it has something to do with cupcakes."
I shuddered when I heard that, ugh Cupcakes, such a gruesome story, who in the right mind would write that? And I also saw Star and Arcana shuddered too, I guess they know what Cupcake is.
"Or your abilities could've created a black hole and destroy Equestria," he bluntly.
"Alright then," I said stopping this from going any farther, "tell me where to find my dad and let's be on our way."
"Alright then, your father is at the Ponyville hospital," he told me.
"Why is he in the hospital?"
"Even though I did save his life, I wasn't fast enough to prevent any injuries from occurring when his flight went down," he said sadly.
I knew that was too good to be true, as long he is ok, then I am fine, "So when are we leaving?"
"Right now," Fate slammed a hoof on the ground and there was light and the sensation of falling as the floor disappeared underneath us.
Fate's POV
I opened the pathway to Equestria, letting the three fall, as I was about to close it I heard Star cry out, "Again with the falling."
I smiled at that remark, and I thought relieved, finally, now all the elements are gathered together.
I started walking towards a door, thinking; now I have to go and fix what that stunt did to the barriers between realities, now where is the duct tape?
Star's POV
We reappeared and saw that once again Fate had placed us hundreds of feet in the air, "Again with the falling," I cried out to nothing in particular. I unfurled my wings and controlled my falling. I saw Arcana forming her wings and started flapping with them.
"Will someone help me?" a voice called out beneath us. I looked down and instead of seeing the human Jace, I saw a steel gray Earth pony, with his mane and tail colored black, flailing his legs around, is that Jace?
I went into a dive and caught up to falling pony, as soon as I was above him, I wrapped my hooves around his midsection and started pulling up, but the ground was coming up a bit fast for my liking. I concentrated and the pony and I disappeared in a flash and reappeared higher in the air, and then I got a sudden case of déjà vu, whoa, why does it feels like it did this before.
When the ground became close enough to be safe, I dropped the pony, and landed next to him, with Arcana shortly following shortly behind.
"Ok Fate really needs to learn where we are going to be dropped," the pony said with Jace voice.
"Jace is that you?" Arcana asked looking him over.
"Of course it is me, why wouldn't it?"
"Because you are a pony now dude," I answered bluntly.
And that was when he looked himself over, and then after a few seconds he said, "Ok I know that alicorn is mysterious, but how in the world did he know about my daydream pony self?"
"I don't know Jace."
"And another thing," Arcana added, "we need to find you a new name, because your human name might confuse some ponies."
"Right," Jace agrees, "hum, let me think, steel gray coated," he listed as he looked at himself and then looked up at his mane, "black mane so that means tail is also black," he twisted around to make sure, revealing his flank to us, and what we say made us gasp.
"What? What's wrong?" he asked worried.
"You already have your cutie mark," Arcana explained.
He twisted around and sure he had one, there resting on his flank was a reversed sideways L with two lines running perpendicular on the longer arm of the L, when Jace saw this he started to chuckle, "So that's my talent huh?"
"What is it?" I asked.
"It is the alchemic symbol of steel," he answered turning to us, "so I guess my talents is metal working."
"Well that is true," Arcana said nodding her head, "you made great pieces back home," and then she realized something and turns to me, "Star, even though we know where our families are here in Equestria we don't know where they are."
I realized that she is right, "Damn it," after I got over my self-loathsome I turned to Jace, "ok did you come up any names for yourself?"
"Ya, I have decided to go with Aceiro," he said proudly.
"Ok then Aceiro," I addressing him already with his new name, "welcome to Equestria and Ponyville," I said pointing to Ponyville, with the eclipse overheard ending.
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