I wake up today from the strangest dream. Tail Flight sleeps with me as I look at the time. 6:28. Perfect. I have time to go over my song I've covered so far. I'm nearly two and a half minutes in. So far, by reverb, it sounds absolutely beautiful.
As I get some breakfast, I hear some hoof steps going down the stairs. Wind Rust's here already coming down the stairs no less? "Josh?" That sounds like Princess Celestia. How could this be?!? How could a character from My Little Pony Friendship is Magic ever come to my world?!? I hear some stirring going on upstairs as I walk to the living room to see a large white alicorn in the hallway of my apartment.
I gasp. I know what's coming. I just don't specifically know what. Princess Celestia's going to take away Tail Flight and Wind Rust. More stirring occurs but it's coming from the bedroom I slept in now. Tail Flight had woken up to my gasp in utter shock and realization of what's to come within the next ten minutes.
"May I perform something I haven't done in a long time?" Princess Celestia stands looking at me with much of the curiosity that struck me when I found Wind Rust.
"Whatever you have to do, I won't stop you." I try to hide the fact that I know what her goal is but it ultimately fails from the start.
However, Celestia just goes along with it. "I must take you on a journey to where you've been for the past forty days." Wait a minute, did she just... nah! She wouldn't do that on purpose. She doesn't even know about it. I don't even think any of that jazz is true.a
Tail Flight comes to Princess Celestia with a face that can't believe what it's seeing. "J-Joshy?!? What's going on?!?"
I race to Tail Flight with a knee slide on the carpet. I grit my teeth in shock as I stop in front of her. I hug her as I ignore the pain in my knees. "Oh Tail Flight! You've given me so much joy in my life along with Wiretap and Wind Rust!" Princess Celestia just gazed upon our hug.
"Eve will have to come with us if she means a lot to you. I'll ease your hearts of the abrupt pain by taking Eve with us." As more stirring occurs, Princess Celestia begins to become interiorly nervous. "We must let the stirring slumber. Perhaps we could do this in the balcony." The sound of a door flinging open comes as a familiar voice catches both me and Tail Flight's ears.
"Hello?"
Tail Flight starts to loose it when she finds where it's coming from. "Wind Rust!" While hearing what was going on, I see the glowing of Princess Celestia's horn. I suddenly see something familiar that was in the air. It lands in my hands as I drop my jaw.
I open it up to see every single picture I've taken of me and Tail Flight. Those are pictures I took on my phone. I still have it on my drive. The very end of the album is a picture of me and Tail Flight as I hold her in my right arm as I take the picture with my left hand. Tail Flight had hugged me tight in that picture much like in the group hug she, Wiretap, Wind Rust and I had in Maine.
I wipe away tears I've acquired in my eyes as I try to get Tail Flight's attention. "Tail Flight."
"Yeah?"
"Come look at what Celestia gave me." Tail Flight comes to see that I have the album in my hands. Tail Flight looks at what's inside as she starts dropping her jaw like I had. My teeth start coming together as I continue. "I don't know how but these are pictures from my phone, some of which I completely remember."
I finally stop to grit my teeth once more which Tail Flight notices. Winds Rust comes in the living room to see my still gritted teeth. "Don't worry about a thing. I got this." The freezer opens as I set down the book, grit my teeth even harder as I do so, then lighten up on the grit when I get back up as Tail Flight and I have another tight hug.
Wind Rust comes to me with two ice packs. I take them and put them just below the knees. They were cold, but they made my two knees feel so much better. "Thanks Wind Rust." Princess Celestia comes to all three of us as have our group hug.
"Well, it seems that Russell had joined us a little unexpectedly, but I will not question it. For that would waste far too much time. Nonetheless, the second reason to start at the beginning is to bring you the very pictures you've had with you the whole time."
The four of us head over to Greg's as I travel with a flight spell that Princess Celestia casted on me that allowed me to defy gravity for the rest of today and all of the next day. When we arrive, I hold my album tight as I look for anything new that is around. Princess Celestia quickly finds it. I see the floating album. As it floats down, I grab it to put it on my opposite side I am holding the other album on.
It is a long ride before we find Wiretap hanging out outside the house. Wind Rust instantly recognizes him. "Wiretap!!" Wind Rust somehow makes a very safe landing travelling to the ground at blinding speed while all of the other three of us, yes even Celestia, try to catch up.
As we land, Celestia greets Wiretap in the way I've seen before but what I'm not used to. "Hello Dexter. We should have you all back to normal by the end of the next hour."
It's already one and I haven't had anything to eat! "Before we all part ways, how did you know the three ponies' original names?!?"
"I was informed that there was a 'senior prank' that turned every cat into a pony from Equestria that had suffered amnesia when being summoned. There isn't a way to bring the original forms back I'm afraid. When a cat is gone, it's gone."
The realization hit me harder than anything has in the past. I won't be able to see Wind Rust, Wiretap and Tail Flight ever again. The crossing of our paths is finished. I sit down and bury my face in my arms. I feel gentle fur on my back. "Oh, Josh. We'll miss you. I hope you won't feel alone now that we're going to be gone forever."
With Tail Flight still hugging me tight, I stand up. "Don't worry, I'll pull through. I really hope the best in your world. You've been nothing but true joy in my life for the past forty days, no matter how much better I feel to look at the memories we've had together these past six weeks." I give a hug to Tail Flight and sniffle as I do so. Tail Flight sniffles too. Wind Rust joins the hug and so does Wiretap.
I feel a light tap on my shoulder blade. The three let go and I look to my right. My phone... How was it floating?!? Last I knew it was home. How could it be here, right now?!? "Could you take the picture? This may be the last time I see levitation in the flesh and now would be a convenient time to take a picture."
We gather around as Celestia's horn still glows brightly. But since it's in the daytime, my phone makes the glow unnoticeable. It was a perfect picture to send to my drive. I race to the phone and swipe the screen left with my finger. There's the picture. Right there. I hear a very loud noise coming from behind my phone. I turn my phone off and put it in my pocket as the glow intensifies from Celestia's horn and a forcefield takes vision.
Within seconds, nothing stands in front of me. All of whom stood in front of me had vanished almost out of thin air. But now, I turn to my phone and swipe the screen left again. There's that same photo.