//------------------------------// // Prologue // Story: The Other Earth // by hunterz263 //------------------------------// -----Originally published on May 3, 2012----- School. School has dominated your whole life and you still had two more years to go till you graduated from it. Before "they" came into your life, you always had loneliness. Years of heartbreak left you an empty shell of your former self, every time you looked into a mirror you would wonder where that happy, laughing, little kid went. The outside was the same but the inside burned with the fires of depression and loneliness. You thought the only solution to fix these problems was to find a girlfriend, but that only led you into a further hole of loneliness. This year alone you had four rejections, two of them were from girls you loved your whole life. Worst part was, there was still 9 months left in this year. In all of your depression you decided to do something that would change your whole life and bring back your old self. Out of depression and having nothing left to lose, you decided to watch the TV show "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic". Once you did your life changed forever, after a week you became a dedicated brony, always searching for the newest art, music, stories, and more. You even began to try new things such as making your own wallpapers, vectors, and stories. Turns out the first two you were pretty good at, but the later was still a little difficult for you. You were good at writing english essays, yet it cost you your creative writing. . . . . . Six months have past since you became a brony and you were not out of it yet, in fact it seemed to grow on you even more. You started to have more dreams of you being in Equestria as a pegasus. In these dreams you would always be with the same light blue mare, flying in the clouds, racing each other, having a good time in general. Rainbow Dash has always been your favorite pony out of the Mane 6. Her free spirit, wild nature, and loyalty always enticed you. Eventually you started to think of her more often, always putting both of you on dates. You could not deny it, you loved Rainbow Dash with all your heart, she was your dream mare. One morning you wake up to see a very large object in the sky. You began to ponder your thoughts on why this object was in the sky. "It's not a meteor, it's way too large for it to be. Maybe its a new star that's just really bright." However you looked behind you, the sun was rising. It's radiating rays painted the horizon a beautiful orange. You once again looked at the object to see if it was a hallucination, but once you looked it was starting to become clearer. Turns out this strange object wasn't a star after all, it was a planet, nearly identical to the size of Earth. "WHAT!? impossible a planet that large would have been spotted by all the astronomers in the world." As the planet started to come closer you came to a realization that the planet was heading towards Earth. Once you realized that the end of the world is coming, you began to have your final thoughts in life. "I just wish Rainbow Dash was here so we could perish together, I mean, I know she can't but I still want her to." Your mind than conjures Rainbow Dash at your side, watching the planet approach. You crouch to the hallucination's side and give the image a big hug while you watch the end of the world come closer to you. You closed your eyes and prepared for the end "That's strange, the world should have been destroyed by now according to my calulations." You open your eyes to see that amazingly, the rogue planet had came to a complete stop. It was just sitting there, at the same spot. You began to take a closer look at it's surface, it was a temperate planet, it's surface covered in green. To your astonishment you thought you saw a spark come from the surface. "Could it be..... no impossible that place is just a cartoon. It can't be real." This thought saddens you. Your dream ever since becoming a brony was to go to Equestria and live there happily with Rainbow Dash. But that was just a fantasy, not reality. You got up and went home to discuss this strange planet popping up with your friends.