Press conference (1)
"I honestly have no idea where to begin," Lauren said, chuckling a little. The microphone and speakers had surprisingly good sound quality. "I can only guess that all of you are very confused at the moment, as most of you probably have never heard of me." she continued, her wings twitching a little. These little ponies just were too cute for their own good. "I hope today I can clear up as many questions as you possibly have, however before we get to this, please let me tell you a little bit about me first."
Lauren took in a deep breath. Come on, you have lied in your life before. Today you're just doing in on a slightly larger scale. On a national level...stop thinking that way! Technically it isn't even lying! You're just using information that was given to you, which you cannot verify at the moment.
"You see, it all happened more than a millennium ago. As you are aware for a time, Discord reigned over Equestria in his...let's say unique way. Floating islands, checkered grounds, chocolate rain...those were the harmless things he created with his chaos powers and if he would have left it at that, who knows? Maybe we would have become good friends."
Lauren came up with the description of the various episodes they created on earth, surrounding Discord. It made it easier for her to talk over the podium.
"But alas, it was not meant to be." Not yet anyway.
"I won't go into details, but I will say this. Discord manipulated ponies in all kinds of manners for his own amusement. Of course, I didn't like how he was treating everypony and confronted him. Unfortunately, he wasn't someone who could be reasoned with. As a result, a confrontation between him and me was unavoidable."
The reporters were scribbling furiously on their little notepads. Really, Lauren had never realized just how small in size day to day things were in Equestria, compared to Earth.
"Things didn't go as planned, though. Discord managed to beat me, but not in the usual way. Then again, doing things the usual way is not exactly his "style" to quote himself. He decided it would be funny to banish me to a completely different world."
The audience had overall a surprised reaction by this revelation. It seemed so surreal to them, yet Lauren could see that they actually believed her, while she herself wasn't really sure of her own words. It was probably because those ponies lived in a world filled with magic and because they recently got an additional princess, who was supposed to be nothing more than a myth figure. A fourth alicorn wasn't all that surprising.
"Since I don't have the same powers as Discord, you can guess that I spent the last thousand plus years on this other world and you're probably curious to hear about it, aren't you?"
The reporters now leaned forward, making them look like curious children. The red maned alicorn had to remind herself that those were neither cute pets nor were they actual children but fully grown adults in their own right. This, of course, was difficult, since almost none of them looked like adults by human standards.
"Well, luckily Discord didn't seem to pay much attention to which world he sent me to. Actual, now that I think about it, he probably didn't think at all and just let his magic do the work. The world, which the inhabitants for some reason decided to call "Earth", is luckily not a bad world. It is quite similar to our own world, with differences here and there, but not really great once."
By now Lauren was able to hear the pencils scribbling furiously on the notepads. And was that Lyra Heartstrings sitting in the second back row?
"The inhabitants are probably the most outstanding feature of this world. You see, they do not have ponies (not the same ones anyway), dragons, griffins, minotaurs or other races that can speak and think like you and me."
This statement threw the ponies out of the loop for a bit. They knew they were in for a story, once Celestia announced that she had a mother and that said mother was practically the head of the state, but this? Things were getting totally surreal now.
"The exception is one species. They call themselves humans (myself included). This doesn't say much for most of you, so let me explain. Humans are very similar to minotaurs, but they have feet like dragons and rather flat faces. Actually, the best way to describe them is as they are shaved monkeys, who wear clothes." There were some snickers around the audience.
"They have a very diverse culture and are overall curious creatures. But if I had to talk about the entire human culture, we would be here until next year. So instead I'll now answer the questions you no doubt have, whether they are about me or the other world."
Three, two, one...
And on cue, every single pony in the room started shouting questions at the pony standing on the podium. Lauren could feel her ears hitting her head, a motion that still felt weird to her, as in her previous body, she was incapable of moving her ears. The entire commotion wasn't new to her and as things went on, she felt more and more like she was in her element. Only the little child in her was becoming a bigger and bigger problem as time went on. She discreetly bit the innards of her cheek, in order to keep herself in check and not hug and kiss the next best pony, a cute lemon colored one with a light blue mane and cute little glasses.
Nope, not gonna hug, not gonna hug her, not gonna hug her!
...
Oh, right, I should keep the audience in line.
"Everyone, please! One after another."
There was a little bit more noise, but overall it got quieter until everypony was silent.
"Thank you. Now then, I think the best way to do this is like back in school. You raise your hands...no excuse me, hooves, I spent way too much time with humans I'm afraid. Well then...eeny, mini, miny...you with the green coat, please."
"Note Pad, Canterlot Times, your highness. Are you now going to take over Princesses Celestia and Luna's positions?"
Starting of easily, huh? Fine by me. "I do not plan to politically involve myself in the near future (or at any time, really. I am...what's the best way to put it? I mean...I have been gone for over a thousand years. I firstly need to catch up with our own history, not to mention everything else that I missed out. So I'm afraid (read: glad) that I won't be any political work for some time. Next question."
"Lucky Mallet, Equestria Daily, your highness." the mare introduced herself. Lauren barely suppressed a snort.
Really? Someone needs to claim copyright.
"If you don't mind the question, what does your cutie mark stand for? It is rather...different from the princesses." the mare remarked.
Different? Yeah, I guess, since it's nothing related to the sky or the world. The fandom created this cutie mark for me, not myself.
"My cutie mark, hmm?" Lauren quickly glanced at it, before returning to the audience. "I have a talent for writing stories. In fact, since my title didn't really help me in the other world, I spent most of my time writing stories," she told the reporters with pride in her voice.
"Manehatten Times, your highness. Front Page is the name. Could you tell us, why you couldn't come back earlier to Equestria?"
Oh dear. A magic question. What do I tell them now? Come on, brain, I need an excuse now!
Stats
Page generated in 0.024 seconds
Total duration
671 users online
971,891 hits today, 2,054,621 yesterday
FIMFiction
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Fanfiction
Designed and coded by knighty & Xaquseg - © 2011-2024
Follow & Support Us
Support us
SubStar
Chat!
Discord
Follow us
Twitter
MLP: Friendship is Magic® - © 2024 Hasbro Inc.®
Fimfiction is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Hasbro Inc.®
"Like all good (and bad) chaos magic, things had to happen in its own time and it's own way. Basically, I couldn't get back on my own. Somepony else had to find me. Worse, they had to do it by accident."
7840838 I kinda should have seen YOU coming.
Technically speaking our world's magic if any other than biblical stuff is far different from Equestrian and unknown if it actually exists or not and is actually magic or something else, so she wouldn't be able to return for awhile if she's a magicless human.
yeah, just blame chaos magic
glad to see you again, and thanks for the chapter.
Finally.
Missing the closing parenthesis there.
Yay an update
Nice chapter, good work.
Hope you can get back in shape cause I love this story and need more of it xD
have her say that she had her memory erased and she was turned into a human, that humans don't have magic, and that she was quote unquote, reborn, except as a human. Then, tell her life story, up til she got sick.
Actually
ones
(Celestia) *flop!* ... Almost ... got ... *flop!* .... No, this time I *flop flop!*
And then Celestia just starts crying. Faust is laughing her head off. XD
XD So many stories wind up, sooner or later, having a newspaper called the EqD. XD I love it when that happens. Makes me giggle a bit.
Just say "mmmmagic specifically discord's magic"
*hugs CR*
An excuse, well no magic on Earth.
Blow their minds: "There's no magic anywhere on Earth"
OH! Don't forget the extreme advancement in technology, by equestrian standards anyway.
Hmm, how about "There is so little magic on earth that no organism on the planet has ever managed to use it, or even detect its presence"
it's easy to go to different dimensions what's hard is to find the exact one where I came from
"No. No I can't"
Yah update! No cliffhanger!
Yay! You're not dead!
So many good stories end that way.
Now at least I know that there will be updates.
I'm not impatient, though. I just needed the reassurance that it was still going on.
Hey, don't update for us, update for you! This is your fun you're supposed to be having, don't feel obligated to us (your readers)!
So she's easing into the conference. Good! It's not all that bad after all, huh?
Even if she can't come up with a satisfactory answer, there's always the good old fallback, "I'm not at liberty to say at this time."
Keep going! ;)
I just glad this story isn't dead
Glad to see this continued. Try not to mind the people being rude about a story not updating. Being a writer is hard work and i know the feeling of being out of shape. Hope things will be better with you in time. Also this chapter was pretty funny, and only part 1? Wonder what other questions will pop up from those assembled.
This story is up and running again. I approve.
Dat end tho!
7841976 lol
Good luck Lauren you will need a lot.
cant wait for part 2
Time dialation
+
loss of memories
I'm looking forward to the next chapter, this was an exciting read
. Well done
7843983 Difficulty finding the proper dimensional vibration + very low thaumic enviroment + stupid shaved monkeys who thought magic was fantasy; and therefore wouldn't help
7843983 + stuck in a world without magic.
7848499
"Because my magic didn't work there."
chapter idea what about if greg also comes to equstria
This has enormous potential and I love the premise but unfortunately it is weighed down by many technical errors.
Because there is no magic on Earth so she can't make a spell?
Or maybe she was reborn as a human and forgot how to use it
Because she lost her memory thanks to discord.
hope this still continues......
7926962 ...Tch. That's why I don't look up comments. THEY MAKE ME FEEL GUILTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fine....
Two weeks give or take, three at most. Depends on how much work my boss throws at me. Also, did I have an editor for this story? Can't remember. Too long of an hiatus.
7927192
WOOHOOO!!!
cant wait!
Ohh. This story is a fantastic read. Can't wait for more!
Looks like Lyra is gonna be a very rich mare in the foreseeable future
And then Luna and Celestia blinked at Lauren, "Uhm, Mother... Discord wasn't the one who banished you..."
Lauren grinner nervously, "Uhm, oopsie?"
"It was Tirac," Celestia said.
"The magic-draining centaur?"
"He was a centaur, yes... but he did not drain magic. That was more along the lines of the demon Arabus' ability," Luna explained, with an air of curiosity that her mother had mixed up the two evildoing entities. "Tirac was master of the Power of Darkness and was only stopped by a mysterious creature we never got to meet called 'Meagan' by some old ponies we met many years later in the old homeland of Dream Valley who explained what had taken place while we were hidden away in a distant land."
That was when Lauren realized why she'd liked G1 so much.