Your Fastest Lap was...
Err... I had fun with this. xD
"Now, our guest tonight is uhh... quite a peculiar one." Jeremy Clarkson looked at the camera with a face of genuine confusion, cocking an eyebrow up as his eyes seemed to move aimlessly in thought. "But, regardless, we're quite excited to have her here! Are you familiar with a show called 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'?" He turned to a member of the crowd behind him, holding his hand out in question. The member nodded, much to his delight.
"Oh! So, are you aware of the fandom that consists of grown men who watch the show, and buy its merchandise aswell?" He questioned further.
"Yes, I'm actually one of those men." The crowd member smiled, somewhat embarrassed when he admitted it.
"O-oh." Jeremy Clarkson muttered, turning back to the camera in semi-shock as he sighed. "Okay then."
The large audience gave a small chuckle, very much similar to your everyday sitcom.
"Well, he's going to be happy. Why? Because, much to many scientist's bewilderment, a character from the tv cartoon 'My Little Pony' has appeared on our very soil. Who?" He gave the crowd one last look to add to the effect. "Ladies and gentleman, the alicorn of night! Princess Luna!"
The audience applauded as a spotlight shone over to the darkness, revealing Luna herself as she trotted over to the show's host. Jeremy gave an exaggerated bow, much to the amusement of both the audience and Luna.
"Welcome, Luna! How do you find Earth so far?" Jeremy asked as he signaled for her to sit on the couch. He took his seat across her right after.
"Well, everything is very... er, fast paced. Atleast, when you compare it to my homeland." She stated as she sat on the sofa. "I mean, nopony here even bothers smiling to one another. It's a little unsettling, but there's always room for improvement." Luna smiled.
"Nobody, you mean." Clarkson pointed out with a grin.
"Oh, right. Nobody. Excuse my terminology, I'm still working on it." She smiled, slightly embarrassed.
"No no, not a problem dear! Also, very true words, what you just said. Sometimes it takes a cartoon from another world to show us just how unpleasant we can be sometimes." He pursed his lips as he raised his eyebrows, the audience chuckling lowly. "Now, how much time do you think before the federals burst in here and take you in for questioning?" He asked, half jokingly. He honestly wasn't sure himself if having a mythical being in the show would result in some type of trouble or not.
"Oh dear, honestly, I'm going to head right back home after this. How I even ended up here on the show was, well... it's quite the story to tell. I'll leave it at that."
"Ha, I'm sure of it. Would you care to share with us how exactly you ended up here? I mean, here as in, on Earth. Not the show." He chuckled.
"Well, I'm going to be honest, it was an accident which led me to being flung out here. See, the thing is my sister and I are currently housing two of your kind, although we're struggling with trying to find a way to get them back here. As I woke up here in your world, I began preparing my recall spell-" Luna paused as Jeremy held out a hand.
"Sorry, sorry, but did you just say spell? As in like, um-" He motioned his hand in circles trying to get the words out.
"Magic?" Luna offered.
"Yes!" Jeremy snapped his fingers.
"Precisely." Luna nodded. "Why?"
Clarkson could only cock an eyebrow as he placed his finger on his chin in a thoughtful manner. He then furrowed his eyebrows as a piece of Luna's statement echoed in his mind.
"Wait, did you just say you're housing two of our 'kind' in your homela-" He looked to his side to find a member of the camera crew mumbling a few words to him.
"We don't have much time, remember, she has to go back in a few minutes."
"Ah, right." Jeremy cleared his throat, pulling out a few pieces of paper from his coat. "Now, you took our Lacetti out for a hotlap and did some," He took a quick glimpse at his sheet of paper. "...rather fast times." He nodded, clearly impressed. "Considering you don't have hands or fingers to even handle the steering wheel well... or the gear shifter... this is actually mind boggling." The audience chuckled.
"Really?" Luna was actually amused, smiling.
"Yes! Who would like to see our very first mythical being around the track?"
The audience muttered a scrambled mess of 'yes', 'sure', and even a few 'woo!'.
"Play the tape." Jeremy faced the tv screen, everyone else following in suit.
The sound of tires screeching weakly and an engine being revved over the redline flooded the entire room.
"Oh! You were definitely ecstatic about it!" He laughed.
"I won't lie, it was the most fun I've had in a while." She admitted with a smile.
The footage was now showing the cockpit cam, her face fixed with pure focus as her mouth hung.
"And that focus, wow." He chuckled even more. "Are you sure you don't do this for a living?" He joked.
"Oh, we don't even have this kind of technological advantage in Equestria." She stated.
"Well you should, because you seem like a natural!" Jeremy complimented.
The footage showed her going flat out as she approached the hammerhead.
"Oh, but how did she handle the hammerhead? My goodness, you're coming in hot!" Jeremy was literally sitting on the edge of his seat at this point.
The car's wheels locked for a moment during braking.
"OH!" Jeremy shouted excitedly.
The car swung into the first turn as the tires screeched the entire time; going wide throughout the entire hammerhead. Her reaction to the turn was followed by a quick transition into the cockpit cam. "Errgh! I hate that damned corner!"
Luna gasped.
"Oh my, I wasn't aware they were going to put that in the footage!" Luna sounded worried, much to Jeremy's humor.
"That's fine, you didn't even cuss." He couldn't help but start a small laughing fit. "Oh, haha- did you actually just go flatout through the entire bentley?" He was still cackling. Luna rolled her eyes, smiling as she was finally warming up to the host's childlike behaviour.
"Yes, I did."
"Very impressive! Really! Oh, and there you go through the- WOW! Massive understeer through gambon! But, across the finish line regardless, and that was a fairly clean lap, Luna!" He looked back to the princess. "Now, let's find out just how well you did for driving a car the very first time ever in your existence!" He emphasized the last part of the sentence with a few bounces of his head. Slipping the time card out, he read it slowly.
"You did it... in..." He looked up to the princess, then back down with only his eyes. "One..."
Luna leaned in a bit.
"Yes?" She acknowledged.
"Forty..."
The audience audibly gasped.
"Yes?" Luna leaned in more.
"Sssssssseven..."
The audience members remained silent, though this time looking at one another with shock.
"Yes?" Luna was definitely eager to hear her time by now, her fore legs propping her up from the ground as her rear remained seated on the sofa. Jeremy tried holding his laughter behind his hand, but it was audible nonetheless.
"On the dot! Putting you right at," Jeremy stood up, looking for the proper position to place her name and lap time on the lap board, "10th! Your in the top 10! Spectacular job, no doubt about it!" He began clapping his hands. "Ladies and gentleman, princess Luna!" The audience clapped madly, cheering her on.
"YES! YYYES!" She flew up, clapping her hooves together in delight. Suddenly, she flew back down, looking concerned.
"Oh no. I'll just have to do it now." She spoke to herself.
"I'm sorry?" Jeremy asked, being unable to hear her over the audience's standing ovation. Suddenly, in a bright flash, she was gone. Everything went completely silent as he stood in shock, witnessing right in front of him for the first time in Earth's history the spell of a mythical being, in action.
"Wow." He muttered, looking around to see that everyone held equally shocked expressions. Then, after the sound of a door opening, the voice of a male spoke up; echoing through the cavernous show set. As everyone turned to face him, Jeremy recognized the man as the show's producer himself.
"That... was brilliant."
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Some say that she can't stand being stationary, and that she once broke the speed of sound under her own power... All we know is, she's NOT the STIG, but she is the STIG's Equestrian cousin!
This was just epic
3790708 shush, they'll figure out luna is the stig!
...wait, crap
3790728 Please, everyone knows that the Stig's Equestrian cousin is Rainbow Dash.
Some say that she has afterburners hidden in her backside, and that she like Brussel sprouts.
All we know is that she's
Princess Luna
It might be a one-shot, but I want more. Ponies on Top Gear should have its own group...
Hehe
Cute! Loving how she didn't even use magic, controlling the steering wheel and grear shifter with just her hooves.
There is a very small top gear group, I recommend you submit this to it. Very good indeed by the way
Someone did this .... A applaud you sir... Good ....
Now I've seen everything. Epic.
Loved it. Except for one minor thing - who be these 'federals' Clarkson refers to?
Police? We have those. Military? Definitely have those. Spooks? Well, I've never actually _seen_ one, but they have a website, so we probably have those too. But 'federal' people? No, none of them.
This is just one of the funniest fics... (Clarkson's voice:) in the world!
Just... yes.
lol , nice. That was a nice little one shot. so for some reason, I was expecting Luna to either burn out the clutch or start swearing like a sailor when she Got to the Hammerhead.
This was great. I watch Top Gear alot, and suddently this fiction. awesomeness.
This. More of it. Begging.
3790910 I'd say he was leaning more towards the "joke" side when he said that. Afterall, how would you react to such a situation?
3792060 Soon as I thought of it, I wrote at the speed of light bro. AND THEN IT GOT ON THE POPULAR BOX!! Best. Thing. To wake up to. Evurrr. (Did it featured? I was asleep xD)
3791656 Maybe!
3791107 As do I, my friend.
3790948 I'm a racing sim fanatic, and when I played Forza 4 with my racing wheel set, the hammerhead on the top gear track ALWAYS stole the most time out of my laps man. So this is from experience. I did curse like a sailor
3790840 Omg. Wade.
I. Love. Your story.
3790924 OMG. AND YOU TOO?
This is the best day of the year. Hands down.
I love your stories.
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What I was trying to point out was that you had an English character make a purely American reference.
There are no 'feds' in the UK, and a Brit, on a British show, in Britain, and performing primarily for a British audience, wouldn't really refer to them.
Yes, I get what you mean, and yes the joke is still funny regardless, which is why it was only a minor thing, but still.
*sees story*
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3792310 Y'know, oddly enough I can remember Jeremy referring to the "Feds" in one episode. Which one though?
Pft. No idea. But the memory alone of remembering him saying that was enough for me to put it in the story. I wasn't aware that brit didn't have feds though.
Huh... you learn something new everyday.
3790815 Seconded
I could totally see this happening.
Good news! The Dacia Sandero is on my street! (Say it in James May's voice for best effect.)
Sorry, I had to mention it after I saw it out there.
Some say that her magic causes hallucinations. And that princess in her world is a teenage student in our world.
All we know is, she's called Luna!
3795515 Honestly, I'm loving every bit of these that are being posted in the comments
I don't know how I didn't see these kind of comments coming. I love them regardless.
Wow just wow. now with a combination of Kitten on my lap and this i think i aint getting up this mornin.
Really dull delivery--you don't need to mark every single line of dialogue with an obvious action. It reads more like a script than an actual story. You didn't get Clarkson's nor Luna's voice right.
I going to have to downvote; I like Top Gear and MLP and I found it more bland than funny.
I have to be honest, this is only good because it's Top Gear, which I worship vehemently. But you got your characters wrong, the delivery was very bland, nothing happened in the interview and the lap was cut short. This felt like an episode of Top Gear off Dave, where they cut out parts of it so they can have advertisement breaks.
Great concept, bad execution.
And with that, I'ma rewatch the Botswana Special.
What a delightful story for something you did just for fun. It really doesn't matter in this case if it is particular good or covers all its bases as long as you enjoyed it yourself. The only saving grace that makes this story so popular among stories of the same quality is its unusual premise.
Remember kids, an interesting topic can make up for poor writing and good writing can make up for a bland topic.
3797365 Writing was never a strong part of me
Fact, I failed almost all my language arts classes in grammar school, and was still pretty horrid at late middle school/early high school. Wasn't until about a year ago that I decided to step it up a tiny bit. Tiny is an understatement actually. I've improved tenfold to be honest, but I still have a long way. I'll stick to racing as I have quite the nack for it
Or was it 2 years ago?..
Time has been flying so fast that I can't even tell.
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Your points are well recieved my friends. I'm no aspiring writer, nor was I ever good at it, and in complete honesty, I don't care.
If I'm doomed to be a mediocre writer at best, well... I saw it coming all along anyway!
A very literal Star in a reasonably priced car.
this was hilarious, great job
Great idea, I really enjoyed it. ;) This is exactly how Top Gear episode with Luna would look like. ;D
this makes me want to write 'Stig in Equestria'
I've never seen Top Gear, so you can guess that I just liked it for what happened, and not for any "OoC-ness".
3798871 Go for it
3798913 Sweet!
3798871 DO IT! DO IT NOW! NOW I SAID! WHY ARE YOU STILL READING THIS?
3798871 GO FOR IT!!!
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...If he doesn't, I will.
3799658 IT WILL BE AWSOME!!!
No, you know what was truly brilliant? this story!
Why isn't there more of this?!
3800326 Well, I'll be more than happy to pioneer more of these oddities into the site?
HOLY SHIT!!! SO AWESOME!!! Sir, you more then deserve a favorite!
3800773 Whoa! Glad it made you jizz in your pants!
3799658
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Do it, please
3801773 Dat Fluttershy
...
Of course I will darling!!!