It was a Wednesday and the gang were sitting down, eating lunch. School had ended early, so they decided to stop at a family owned restaurant nearby. The store was owned by an old friend of May's who moved away, because of college, but comes by to visit. It was named, "Toreno's Big Philly and Fries", it was named for their famous giant Philly Cheese Steaks and their giant fries.
Inside, the format looked like a copy of the diners in the 1950's, even had a little jukebox in a corner, still functional. In another corner, there stands a computer, customer use only. The owner, Pete Toreno always gave anyone a Philly Cheese Steak sandwich to anyone new to his restaurant, on the house.
The gang, consisting of; Seamus, Twilight, Lyra, Phil, Kevin, and May, sitting near the jukebox, laughing and socializing. Twilight and Lyra refused to eat the Philly Cheese sandwich, but took the fries instead.
"So.." Kevin interrupted, "Why aren't you girls eating the cheese steak?"
"Well, it's not that we don't like it..." Twilight struggles to find the words, not offending anyone, "Both of us are..."
"We can't eat meat." Lyra intervened.
"Yeah, We can't eat meat!" Twilight continued.
"Why not?" Kevin pursued.
"Well... We're forbidden to eat it."
"Forbidden?"
Seamus enters the conversation, "It's because their ponies. Ponies don't eat meat."
Kevin began to laugh hysterically, his laughter filling the restaurant. Silence was everywhere, the gang felt awkward to be around him. The ponies look at Kevin seriously, "Oh.. You're serious... I'm sorry."
"It's ok, Kevin. You probably didn't listen when they introduced themselves." May said, patting him on the head.
"I'm not your dog." Kevin yelled. He faces towards the ponies, "So.. How did you two get here anyway?"
Twilight clears her throat to tell her story. "Well, it goes like this. I'm a unicorn, I deal with magic. I was walking around Canterlot and I heard some..." Twilight paused.
"What's wrong?" Kevin asked.
"Nothing, It's kinda hard to say either somebody or somepony, since I'm... You know what, never mind." She continues on with her story. "Well, I heard some ponies talk about this hidden realm of humans. I heard that you.. people.... were just some old mumbo-jumbo made up from some old ponies tale. I'd taken notes on human behavior and what happens with this and other things." Twilight takes a break, sipping her soda.
"So? What else?" Kevin asked, the others ganged around Twilight to hear more.
"Well...." She takes another sip, "Well, one day, I made a wish that I'd go to this human realm since my curiosity couldn't take it anymore. But it was a big mistake for me."
"Elaborate." May interrupted.
"Well, you know how unicorns have horns? Well, my horn was gone--" Twilight is interrupted.
"Hehe, horn--AHH!" Kevin gets punched by May on his back. "That hurt, May.." Crying for mercy.
"Good..." May responded, ignoring his cry for mercy.
"Anyway..." Twilight continued again, "I lost my horn, so with my magic, so I was unable to turn back. Anyway, I'm stuck here with you guys. I wanna go home to meet my other pony friends, but I don't know how."
"Huh... Sounds legitimate..." Kevin said, "But like... how would you know? Like how'd you know you don't have your horn?"
"Well, thinking back, I had this dream of being back in Ponyville, I found my friends trying to find me. They all went to the Everfree forest to ask a Zebra, Zecora, to help them. They found out that I was in the human world and saw this... horrific.. transformation I went through... But then again, it was only a dream..."
"Hmm... A zebra? I thought it was only full of ponies and unicorns." Kevin is getting skeptical
"Not really, there's also pegasi, griffins and dragons. Spike is a baby dragon and my assistant."
"That reminds me!" Seamus interrupted, "Why didn't you bring Spike? It's kinda against the rules to leave your... 'child' ... at your home, unattended.
"Don't worry, he's been alone at my house before. He usually reads or cleans the library." Twilight said, reassuring them.
May follows suit with Seamus, trampling Twilight with questions. "But... isn't that child labor?"
"Your laws are so different back in Equestria." Twilight said, trying to change the subject.
"Don't try to change the subject, Twi! Tell us!" Seamus said.
"Look, I thought we we're talking about how Twilight got here, not parenting." Kevin said.
"Your right, continue Twilight." May backs off of Twilight.
"Um... Yeah, so Spike is my assistant and helps me. I know he's a child, but he can handle things all by himself." Twilight said.
"Alright, let's hear your story... Ly.." Kevin has trouble remembering the other's name.
"Lyra." She said.
"Anyway, Lyra, How'd you get here?"
"Yeah! How did you get here?" Asked Twilight.
Lyra thought for a moment, "Well, aside from that accident with your car. I came from Equestria, I didn't come to the human world like what Twilight did though. I came by finding this mysterious stone tower. I fell into this well and woke up in a pile of junk."
"Wait, stone tower?" Twilight interrupted. "I haven't heard of a stone tower in Equestria anywhere."
"Well," Lyra continued, "The tower was deep inside the Everfree forest. That's where I found my books and notes on humans! The notes say that they are savage, ruthless, bloodthirsty creatures that spread hate. But I don't see any of you guys doing that!"
"You're saying we're Savage, ruthless, bloodthirsty creatures?" Kevin turned his head to the side.
"Well, those are other humans. You guys are different, your nice and helpful... and not mean and... evil... and scary." Lyra said, becoming distracted by passing cars.
"You at a loss for words?" Phil asked.
"Oh, no. I just got distracted. Sorry."
"You know, I'm starting to think that either one of you is lying, or the whole thing doesn't make sense." Seamus says.
"How so?" Twilight asked.
Seamus clarifies, "Well, Twilight said that she 'wished' herself here. Lyra went inside a tower and magically teleported here. Doesn't that not make any sense?"
"Maybe it could be like some sort of magical entity. This "Equestria" place has magical things like dragons, unicorns, pegasus. Hell, it could have the Loch Ness Monster or magical chocolate sailor person! I mean, since it's all magical and stuff, they could just teleport here, or-- or summoned a troll to destroy this 'Canterlot' place." Kevin stared down at Seamus as his face gave a very stressed 'If Looks could kill' look.
Everyone turned to Kevin, "Dude... are you high?"
"Nope.." Seamus looked directly into Kevin's eyes. His eyes were bright red all around the cornea. Kevin sat idly by, not paying attention to what was happening.
Lyra continues with her story, "...Anyway, when I got here, I found myself in human junk and bird waste. We walked to find a family and they took us home. We needed to deliver the message to Twilight and... I think you can fill in the rest."
Twenty minutes pass, everyone leaves the restaurant at 5:39. The sun was starting to set and they needed to get home. Everyone said their goodbyes and drove back home. Outside, they watched the sun as it went down to the west. The Seamus, May and the ponies drove to the beach to watch the sky turn to dusk, exiting out of the car.
May and Lyra take a walk on the beach to explore the place. Seamus stays at the car, waiting for the others to come back. Twilight sits on the roof of the car, looking at the sky. The night sky began to show stars and lights from a nearby boardwalk.
"Wow! The sky is beautiful!" Twilight is amazed at the sight of the stars.
"I know, it really is. You never see days like these back in your land?" Seamus wonders, climbing onto the roof.
"Yes, but this sky is more wonderful than ours." Twilight looks at a constellation, "Ooh! What's that? It looks like a person!"
"Oh, that's Orion! See?" Seamus points to certain stars, showing her the parts of Orion. He pulls out a telescope to help Twilight out. "See, that star there? That's Sirius and Aldebaran! That forms his belt."
Twilight looks at both Sirius and Aldebaran, seeing Orion's belt. "Oh my! I never knew that!" Twilight sees a flying object pass through Orion's belt. "Oh wow! Shooting stars!"
"Shooting stars, eh? Why not make a wish?"
"A wish, I don't know..." Twilight thinks of a something, "I wish..."
"Don't say it out loud, think in your head. It'll come true."
"Ok" Twilight thinks about her friends in Equestria, then her new friends in the human world. She thinks of Applejack and Rarity and Pinkie Pie, then she thinks of Seamus. She begins to feel her heart beat faster and faster. She stops thinking and quickly looks at Seamus.
Seamus looks at Twilight, having a calm, collective face. "So.. Did you make your wish?"
"Yup!"
"Want to tell me?"
"Nope. It'll ruin my wish."
Twenty minutes after the shooting stars fell, Lyra and May come back to the car, carrying soda and food. They see Twilight and Seamus make sandcastles on the beach, playing with water guns.
Seamus sees the girls coming back from the walk, "Hey! Twilight, there are intruders in our area. Shoot them!"
"Aye Aye, Captain!" Twilight giggled, she shoots water at the May and Lyra as they came back.
May and Lyra ran to the nearest shelter they could find. "Hey! Hey! Quit it! We brought food!"
"You may proceed!" Seamus shouted to them, taking the food and drink.
Twilight puts down the water gun. "Hey, how was your walk?"
"It was nice, bought some food. Thought we'd try something new." Lyra said.
Seamus sees a small container with a familiar smell. "May, did you order Thai food?"
"WHAT DO YOU THINK?!" May shouted in his ear, getting revenge for earlier.
"Geez, that was loud." Seamus pointed out the obvious.
Twilight opens the container, smelling it. "Oh God! The smell is horrible."
"It's curry, Twilight." May said.
"Curry?"
"Try some." May offers her a spoon to try.
Twilight takes a sip, at first nothing, then a spicy sensation. "AAH! That's spicy. But it tastes good." Twilight drank some soda from a cup.
"Sure does! Here." May poured a bowl of curry and gave it to Twilight.
"Wait, I see some meat in there!" Twilight gave back the bowl. May took the bowl and used a small spoon to take the meat out of the curry, then gives it back. "Thanks."
They spent the whole night on the beach, playing and eating. They built a campfire from trash they had in the car and wood in the trunk of the car. Seamus turned on the car radio to play some music, setting the mood. Lyra and May watched the nearby boardwalk on the car roof. Twilight one Seamus' books, The Catcher in The Rye, inside the car where she found it.
Twilight later wrote in her journal before sleeping in Seamus' car.
Dear Princess Celestia,
Today, we had to reveal ourselves. We told the humans that we were ponies. Fortunately for us, they did not try to kill us or do anything with us. However, they were very interested about us.
Later on, we decided to have some fun on a beach. Then we had some Thai food, there were some meat, but I didn't eat them. We know to NOT to eat meat. Other than that, I made a wish on a shooting star.
From your Faithful Student,
Twilight Sparkle