//------------------------------// // the truth comes out // Story: Runway, US... EQUESTRIA? // by Tik-Tok-deerpony //------------------------------// Woom, woom, woom! The TARDAS faded into existence. I and Applebloom stepped out of the TARDAS, and with a final wave good bye, the TARDAS left. “There he is!” a female voice screams to my left. I turn around to see a bunch of frantic ponys surround us. Applejack runs up and grabs Applebloom in a tight hug. An angry looking Twilight steps forward “Did you really think you could get away with foalnapping?” she says in a dangerous low tone of voice. “What are you talking about?” I ask confused. “Oh, don’t act all innocent, you foalnapped Applebloom last week when you lost the drinking contest.” She accused. “A week- we were only one since last night!” I argued. “One, you’re a liar, two, you still foalnapped Applebloom.” Twilight says. “I did not! We walked into a wormhole or something and ended up on a different planet.” I explained. “How did you get back then?” she asks. “Some doctor guy who apparently keeps a time machine in a blue phone box!” I snapped. “Oh, so you’ve meet the Doctor?” a stallion with what looked to be big blue eyes and covered in random clothes asks. “Well then we can just ask him. If what you say is true, then you won be in any trouble. If says otherwise, then you’ll be spending the next few years in jail. But you’ll still have to spend the night till we find him” Twilight says before she casts a spell which promptly knocks me out… “OHHH” I groan as I come to. I put a hoof to the side of my throbbing head. I can’t believe Twilight would do that, let alone accuse me of kidnapping. Actually, now that I think about it, both me and Applebloom both fell through the same wormhole, and then were supposedly gone for a whole freaken week, so I can kinda see where they got the idea of kidnapping from. I decided to look around the room where I was being held. It’s small, perhaps 12ft x 12ft, with a cot on one wall and a bathroom where everyone can see it. One whole wall is made completely out of bars, meaning that I’m in some sort of jail house. Clip-clop! Clip-clop! Clip-clop! The sound of approaching hoofs causes me sit up straight a gray stallion soon trots into view. “You awake yet?” he asks me gruffly. I grunt in answer. He throws me a loaf of stale bread and a bottle of water and then he left. I grimaced as I choked down the bread and washed it down with the water. Soon after that the stallion returned. “You done yet? Good, follow me.” He says as he opens the door to my cell. I follow him down a gray and dreary hallway to a thick metal door with a small window in it. I gulp as leads me inside. He forces me roughly into a chair behind a table and then leaves. The room is a stereotypical interrogation room. A table, two chairs, and a dim bulb is that’s in here. After a few minutes, Rainbow Dash strolls in and sits in the opposite chair. She then pulls out a pair of shades and puts them on. “Why did you foalnape Applebloom? She demands. “I did not foalnape Applebloom!” I yell exasperate. “Then what where you doing with her?” she demanded. “I told you, we fell through a wormhole into another dimension where the Doctor came and rescued us.” I reply through gritted teeth. “That’s what they all say.” She replies. “Really?” I ask. “No.” She answers. “I thought that Twilight was going to get the Doctor anyways.” I said `”She is, but that guy is nearly impossible to find.” Rainbow Dash replies. “How hard can it be to find a guy who lives in a blue phone box?” I ask. “One, it can through time, and two, I ask the questions around here.” She says smugly. Just then, Twilight walks in with the Doctor. “The Doctor explained everything. Shadow was telling the truth.” Twilight announced “Thank Celestia, I was losing my mind from boredom.” I cheer. “But the doctor did say something about your past that you should tell us.” I shoot the Doctor a death glare. “You need to tell them Shadow.” The Doctor says sternly. “Cause if you don’t them I will.” I weighed my options in my head. In one hand, I tell them and I’d become an outcast on the other, I don’t tell them and they will hate me for the rest of eternity. I sighed. It was better to tell them. At least if I told them, then I would have been honest. “Fine, but I want everyone here, meaning Pinky, Applejack, Silver, and you guys. I don’t want to have to repeat myself twice, and I don’t want any rumors going around.” I relented. “I’ll go get everyone.” Rainbow Dash says as she leaves the room. The rest of us settled into an uneasy silence as we waited for Rainbow Dash to come back. “Sooo, how long was I out?” I asked. “About 5 days.” Twilight replies. “5 days! What the hay did you knock me out with!?!” I exclaimed. “I may have over did the spell that I knocked you out with.” Twilight replies sheepishly. “It’s, ok, just take it easy next time.” I tell her. I walked over to the chair to wait for RD to come back. Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinky and Silver soon arrived just as I asked. “Thanks you all for coming. I have something important to tell you all. It involves the truth about where I come from.” I pause to let that sink in. “So you’re not from Kirkwall?” Pinky asks. “I’m from Kirkwall, but the Kirkwall I’m from isn’t in Equestria, heck it’s not even on this planet.” I explained. Everypony gasped. “You mean that you’re from another universe?” Twilight asks excitedly. “Yes, I was born in Kirkwall, located in the United Kingdom. When I was 15, I moved to Haysville, Kansas where I joined the United States Air Force.” I tell them. “So you moved to a place where a whole army division is made up of nothing put Pegasus? That’s so cool!” Rainbow Dash raves. “No. there are no Pegasus on my planet. Or unicorns, earth ponys, alicorns and griffins. My world is dominated by creatures called humans.” I explained. “Humans can’t do magic, or fly naturally. But we are very advanced and have machines built that can help us fly.” “A whole new race, and one more advanced than ours! This is amazing!” twilight exclaims. “What other things do you get that we don’t.” twilight asks. “Well we got machines that can make us travel on land faster, rockets that can carry us into outer space, and ships that can take us to the bottom of the oce ->” “As fascinating as all this is, what does this have to do with the story?” silver asks. Both me and twilight turn a bright shade of red for getting off topic. “sorry, now where was I. oh yeah, well shortly after I joined the air force, I was chosen to fly with the blue angles, one of the best Arial stunt team in America, At the end of my first season, My airplane went down and crashed. Somehow I was sent to Equestria were rainbow dash found me.” I finished. “And where did you go with Applebloom?” applejack asks. “We went back to my world except we were about 100 or so years in the past. We ended up in one of the most dangerous times and places of the united states history.” I replied. “What was the most dangerous?” pinky asks. “That would be the American civil war, which we missed b 30years.” I answered. “Ok so you’re an interdementional extra-terrestrial form an advanced race that somehow broke the space time continuum not once but twice!” twilight asks me. Everypony stares at her. “She said that you’re a time traveler who can travel between planets.” Pinkie explains. “ohh.” The rest of us says. “So how come you didn’t tell us!” Applebloom asks. “well where I’m from if you said you were an alien, one of two things can happen; one, they believe you and the government takes you and preform experiments, or two they don’t believe and they stick you in a looney bine. So when I came were I thought that something would happen were.” I explain. “We have had stranger things then you show up here in Ponyville. We would have believed you if you said you were from another planet, and we wouldn’t have put you away.” Silver tells me. “Well that’s good to here.” I reply smiling. After a few hours and a ton of questions about my planet, me and silver fly home. Along the way, silver informs me that I got filed from the brewery for never showing up. When we get to silvers house we had dinner, (bought back in Ponyville of course) we went to bed. Tomorrow, I had to go and get a new job.”