A quiet roar of thunder echoes from the heavens, piercing through the loud whistles of the stormy air, the loud rustling noises of the leaves on the swaying treetops and the many splattering raindrop noises.
“Well,” I hear Twilight say as I finally am able to get a grip on myself. I turn and see her and Reykan staring at the wide opened ‘door’ of her home.
She looks like Twilight from the show. Erm...minus the wings.
Miss Purple then turns back to us—er, to Reykan, her smile faltering a bit. “Uh...” She moves her gaze to me, her smile steadying. “You two should come inside as well!” She looks up and around. “I don’t think this storm’s stopping any time soon, plus,” she looks back at us with a small chuckle, “being outside under a wild storm’s not a good place for a chat.”
She talks like Twilight from the show...
“Meh...” Reykan meh’s. “I’ve been through worse. And I didn’t come here to chat with you, anyway.” He turns his head over his shoulder to look at me. “It’s Jay here who wants to talk with you.”
Twilight nods her head. “I see. But I insist that the two of you to come inside.”
She’s too friendly, too. Just like in the show...
She looks aside, her smile gone. “...The sooner, the better,” she mutters under her breath in a worried tone, making me arch an eyebrow.
“Can’t,” Reykan says adamantly as he looks around. “I’m hungry and I need to hunt something to eat.”
I blink at him. “...But I thought you said that you can’t smell anything with this storm.”
His ears droop. “...I can try and listen to them...?” He sighs in defeat as he turns to Twilight. “...Fiiine... I guess I can come inside and watch you guys do...pony stuff...”
I roll my eyes as Twilight chuckles.
Reykan then turns to fully look at me. “But if I get too hungry, can I eat the swan?”
“N—”
“Hopefully, it won’t come to that,” Twilight interjects with a wince. She then gestures with her head to follow her before she turns around and walks towards her home. “And...Reykan, was it?” Twilight says a bit louder so we can hear her through the loud noises of rustling leaves. “I doubt you can find animals who are out and about in this nasty storm.”
I bite my tongue as I follow the two of them. This is Twilight... She’s the Twilight... I think? Maybe? I’m not sure. I mean...she sounds and looks like Twilight, but...that can’t be right...right? The Equestrians that I’ve talked to had told me that Twilight’s...crazy. But she doesn’t look crazy. She doesn’t act crazy. Although her talking about magic might sound crazy to some...
Twilight walks inside the open door, the darkness eating her up. Reykan follows, and soon, I step inside to...to...uh...
“Oh! Hey there, Twilight!” Seri greets us as I gawk at the interior of Miss Purple’s...home?
Is this place what I think it is? One would expect that the place would be dark and creepy-looking. Heck, while we were approaching the open door, I can’t see anything but darkness inside the dead tree, but now that we’re inside? It looks...looks...
It looks like a brightly-lit library. The library. The Golden Oak Library.
“Why does it smell weird in here?” is the first thing Reykan notices inside the library.
The air smells like old books! And yes, I know what old books smell like. I go to the library at least once a week, because my lazy bro’s too lazy to go there and fetch a book or two that he needs...
Even Sienna looks confused as she darts her curious eyes left and right.
“So... Is this what inside a tree looks like?” Reykan asks as he looks around the many, many items around that I think looks very foreign for him. “It looks...really different from my den... Or maybe pony trees look like this?”
I hear Twilight chuckle as I blink at Reykan. “I thought you live in a tree?”
He turns and blinks at me. “Well...yeah.”
“A tree hollow,” Twilight suddenly says, looking at us. “It’s a hole on a tree that’s naturally formed where animals use to—”
“I get it, I get it,” I say with a frown. Sheesh, even this Twilight tries to explain everything...like in the show... I blink and realize that we’re no longer outside under the storm. I look down and stare at the small puddle of water around my four hooves, my wet fur dropping droplets of water on it. I trail my eyes forward, noticing a few trails of water that are leading to the other creatures inside the library. I smile an awkward smile at Miss Purple. “Eh...heheh... Uh, um... Sorry for uh, wetting your floor?” Shut up, brain.
She blinks at me...and nods. “Well, anyway, hold still, everypony,” she says as she turns around and walks to the center of the room, her horn glowing with bright purple magic.
“Everybody,” Seri...corrects her? The swan chuckles. “There are only two ponies in this tree, Twilight.”
Twilight rolls her eyes as she turns to face Reykan and me. She quickly tilts her head down, aiming her glowing horn at the both of us and immediately fires a purple beam of magic at—
“Gah—!”
“Aaah—!”
—our shrieking selves! I flinch, close my eyes and bring a hoof in front of me to shield myself from the beam of magic, but after a few seconds of nothing but feeling warm and hearing swan giggles, I slowly open my eyes to see a reddish bubble field surrounding me and Rey. I look back at Twilight, who is giving me a sheepish smile. Behind her, Seri is giggling while Sienna is sighing in relief.
“A little warning next time, princess?” I say in an angry tone as I glare at Twilight.
“I’m sorry,” she quietly says as the air around me is getting warmer. “I got used to cast spells witho—” she cuts herself off, blinking at me. “...‘Princess?’”
“Jay, look!” Reykan suddenly says, stealing my attention. He smiles at me before turning his attention at the red bubble wall around us. He then pokes a paw on it, his paw passing through. His smile widens. “We can get out of this magic trap thing!”
“It’s not a trap,” Twilight frowns at him. “It’s a quick-drying spell, a special kind of magic that creates a small field—a bubble—and turns the air warm within that field.”
Reykan blinks at her. He then gives me a confused look. “Uh... I didn’t understand what she just said.”
Seri giggles.
Yesh... Listening to Twilight talk about magic is pretty cool. In the show, at least. But in real time? It kinda sounds weird and out of place, especially in this version of Equestri—wait... Why is she talking about magic like she’s the Twilight from the show? Why does she even talk and look just like in the show?! Could she be really—?
I snap back to reality to see Twilight encasing herself, Seri and Sienna in a reddish bubble to dry themselves off.
“Seri?” Twilight says as the bubble field around me and Rey starts to fade. “Did I just see things earlier or are your wounds have already disappeared?”
As soon as the red bubble field around me and Rey disappears, the warm air disappears and makes way for the cool and book-smelling air as I feel...nice for being a dry pony again.
“Oh, that?” the swan blinks and then smiles as she turns to look at our deer companion. “Sienna here was kind enough to heal my wounds with her green glowy magic!”
Reykan shakes his body, sits down and starts licking a paw.
“Really?” Twilight turns to Sienna and gives her a warm smile. “That’s really kind of you, uh, Sienna, was it?” She receives a small nod from the deer. “Thank you for healing my assistant. I—We really appreciate it.”
“Um,” Sienna fidgets from where she stands. “I-it’s no trou—”
“We mean it!” Seri suddenly chirps cheerfully, nuzzling the deer’s cheek. “We appreciate you helping me, Sienna!”
“At least I’m not the one being nuzzled,” Reykan mutters before he stands up and walks away from me.
“Uh...” Sienna awkwardly accepts the nuzzle as she darts her confused eyes at me.
I give her a shrug.
“Bleahk...” I hear Reykan bleahk.
I turn my head towards his voice and see him reeling away from the many books on the lower shelf of the closest bookshelves.
“What are these...things?” he asks, eyeing the neatly-arranged books suspiciously. “They smell like...like...”
“Old books?” I offer.
“Yeah!” A pause. He blinks. He turns and gives me a confused look. “What’s a books? I know what ‘old’ means, but I don’t know what ‘books’ are.”
“Exactly,” Twilight suddenly says, catching both our attentions. The red bubble around the trio is already gone and Miss Purple is giving me a suspicious look for some odd reason. “No one, and I mean no one, in this world knows what books are.” She blinks. “...Except for me, of course.”
“And me!” Seri chirps, raising a white, feathery wing up. “Because Twilight taught me what books are!” She blinks. “Well, when she’s not having one of her episodes.”
Twilight winces at that. She nevertheless shakes her head and opens her mouth to—
A sweet and delicious aroma suddenly attacks our nostrils, making the swan jerk her head towards the large entryway on the wall which I assume leads to the kitchen. “Whoops! Food’s almost ready!” she says in a cheerful tone as she waddles toward the kitchen.
“Deer god...” Sienna has her nose up in the air, sniffing the aroma with eyes closed and lips curved. “What a delicious smell...!”
Even Reykan’s raising his nose up in the air, sniffing the aroma. And then his stomach makes itself known to us. “I don’t know what that smell is, but it smells better than fresh rabbit meat!”
I hear my stomach growl and feel my mouth water. I smile an awkward smile before turning to the frowning unicorn, making my ears and smile droop.
“...Normally, you should be raising your nose up and smelling that scent, too,” she says. “...like what your two companions are doing.”
“I’m...” I arch an eyebrow. “...sorry?”
She takes a step towards me, suspicion in her eyes. “First, you called me ‘princess.’”
My arched eyebrow arches even more. “...Is something wrong with calling you that?”
“Yes,” she replies quietly, almost growling. “Because the ponies and others I’ve met before you have called me crazy, and other hurtful titles.”
“Is ‘princess’ a hurtful title?” Sienna suddenly asks, tilting her head to the side as she curiously eyes Twilight.
The unicorn blinks and turns to look at her. “Uh... Well... No. Not really...”
She smiles at her. “Well, I’ve thought so.” She eyes me, and I roll my eyes. “Because I doubt somepony who wants to court you would ever say something bad in front of you.”
Reykan shudders in disgust.
Twilight blinks at her. “What...do you mean?”
“Potatoes are still a bit hard!” Seri calls from inside the kitchen. “It’ll probably take a little while for them to be ready!”
“Take your time!” Twilight shouts back, still staring at the grinning deer.
“This delicious smell is from potatoes?” Reykan asks in astonishment.
Seri pokes her head out from the kitchen entryway to smile at our panther companion. “And carrots!” And she pulls her head back.
“...Back to the matter at hoof. Er, the other matter, I mean.” Twilight shakes her head. “What do you mean, somepony who wants to court me would never—” aaand her egghead of a head finally figures out what Sienna meant. She quickly snaps her head back to face me, looking surprised. “You—you want to—?”
“No,” I say firmly as I throw a glare at Sienna. “I am not here to court Twilight or to ask her to be my freaking mate, for Pete’s sake, Sienna! I’ve told you this a few times already.”
Seri’s white head pokes out from the kitchen entryway again to blink at us. “...Maybe Jay wants Sienna to be his mate?”
“What?!” both deer and stallion shout as the two turn to her. And oh, that stallion is me.
“No?” Seri blinks at the two of us. “Then who is Jay courting? Is it Re—”
“Don’t you freaking finish that sentence,” I tell her with a glare. “Or you’ll be a roast duck by the time you get out of that freaking kitchen.”
She blinks at me. “Uh... I’ll pretend that’s something scary that’ll happen to me, so... Eep!” and she quickly pulls her head out of view.
An awkward silence hangs in the library’s...living room? Main room? Book room? Whatever.
Twilight lets out a sigh as she rubs her head with a hoof. “Let’s take a few hooves back, shall we?” She looks at me, eyes not-so-suspicious anymore. “Even if you didn’t say ‘princess’ to court...uh...me,” she blushes slightly. She shakes her head to get rid of that foreign color off of her face. “...I doubt that anypony...anyone in this world knows what that word means. I doubt anyone even knows that such a word exist!” She furrows her brows. “So how come you know that word? And books? And why weren’t you sniffing the air? And roast duck? Kitchen?” She shakes her head and glares at me afterwards. “It sounds like you’re...”
When I was following Twilight and Reykan towards the library door, I pictured it in my head that it was me who will be doing all the questioning to Twilight, and not the other way around...
“You’re not Equestrian...” Twilight says firmly. “You’re not this Equestria’s version of Equestrian.” She takes a step towards me, making me take a step back. “So I’m going to ask you something and I hope you’ll give me a straight answer.” Her horn glows bright, and I hear the door slam shut behind me, making me jump. Horn magic disappearing, she glares and glares at me as tears start to form on her eyes. “Pl-please...” she says, pausing after choking on a sob. Her angry features are gone, and is now replaced by worry, fear, confusion and uncertainty. “...tell me... W-what happened?” A tear or two runs down her face as she sits down a hoof or two or three from me. She hangs her head, sniffing, crying. “I...I don’t understand what’s going on. I don’t know what happened!” She raises her head up, tearfully looking at me. “There was a bright light! And...a-and suddenly...I found. I f-found—”
“Food’s ready!” Seri suddenly chirps as she emerges from the kitchen, carrying a large, metallic and steaming cooking pot with her two large wings wearing green-colored gloves. She wobbles her way to the large reading table beside the seated unicorn and places the pot down on the center. She smiles warmly at us before she turns around and wobbles back to the kitchen. “Now, just hold your appetite for a few as I go and grab us some bowls! And a spoon for Twilight! I doubt any of you knows what a spoon is!” She chuckles at her own joke as she disappears behind the kitchen walls.
Silence...
“I’m baaack~!” Seri emerges from the kitchen again, balancing five bowls, each with different colors and with different patterns. She wobbles to the table and places the bowls around.
A blue bowl with a rainbow thunderbolt symbol... A yellow bowl with a pink butterfly symbol... An orange bowl with a red apple symbol... A pink bowl with blue and yellow balloons symbol... And a white bowl with blue diamond-shaped gem symbol...
I blink at the ‘dining table.’ “Uh... You forgot the spoon?”
“Oh!” Seri quickly wobbles back to the kitchen, and quickly returns with a spoon on her beak. “I forgot to wash you favorite purple bowl, Twilight,” Seri smiles sheepishly at the unicorn as she places the spoon on the table by the white bowl. “And I uh, forgot to wash the green bowl, too... I hope you don’t mind using one of these.”
“It’s...” Twilight quietly says as she wipes her eyes with a hoof. “Ahem... It’s...quite all right, Seri.” She smiles a fragile smile. “T-thank you...”
Seri smiles wide. “Oh, don’t mention it, Twilight!” She turns to face the table, her eyes sparkling as she stares at the steaming hot soup thing inside the pot. She shakes her head out of trance and turns to smile at me. “Maybe you ponies can continue talking while we eat?” She turns her smile to Twilight. “You still have lots of time to be normal, right?”
I...arch an eyebrow. What?
“Can we just forget about talking and just do some eating?” Reykan asks, preparing to jump on the table.
“Nah ah ah ah!” Seri leans her long neck towards him, bites his tail and yanks him back just as Rey kicks his hind legs on the wooden floor.
“What the—oof! H-hey!” He turns his head over his shoulder and glares at the white swan.
“No walking or standing or lying or sleeping on the table!” Seri says after releasing Rey’s tail. “Twilight’s rules. Not mine.”
Reykan quickly stands up on his four paws, turns around and growls at Seri.
“No!” the swan cries. “Bad panther! Bad! Behave yourself!”
I’m waiting for Reykan to angrily ask what a table is...
Seri eyes me and whispers: “Little help?”
I roll my eyes. “Rey, calm down.”
“But Jay!” he whines as he turns to me. “I’m so, so hungry! And I don’t think I can keep my promise not to eat this giant bird if I won’t eat something soon!”
I blink at him. Since when did Reykan promised me to—
“All right,” Twilight suddenly says, who isn’t a crying wreck anymore. “Settle down, every...body. Choose a bowl.”
“What’s a bowl?” I almost forgot that Sienna is with us. She takes a few steps toward the table, eyeing the steaming pot.
Seri turns and smiles at her. “It’s one of those smaller pot-looking things.”
“...What’s a pot?” Reykan asks.
Twilight and I groan.
thanks for the update, I'm enjoying the story.
And Jay's one hope is just as lost and clueless as he is, though she managed to get here whole house with her. I'm still loving the interactions between the cast members, the balance between some measure of civility and natural instincts and animal behaviour. Twilight and Jay might come to relish each other's company considering the other options.
This is great. I first came across this on fanfiction.net but I think I prefer this site. Anyways this is great! Although, perhaps it's not so great for them considering I don't think Twilight knows any more than Jay does about the situation. Then again, maybe she does. :]
Great update. Jay's first interaction with Twilight went well. Still man you're teasing everybody with all those interruption that Jay's companions are making every time that Twilight or Jay wants to talk. Thanks for he chapter. Hope to see the next one soon.
It did seem like the obvious direction for the story, assuming you ever want Jay to go home. Now, Twilight not knowing how to fix things is going to cause problems.
I don't think I saw it coming until last chapter; forget exactly why. And hey, I still have no idea what brought them both to this weird Equestria, so that's a plot twist still in the bag!
Nice, original story so far... Despite the rather short chapter length your pacing is good; characterization and worldbuilding for this alternate 'Equestria' are also done rather nicely here.
Looking forward to your future chapters in this story, destinedjagold.
It was obvious the first time when other ponies called her crazy. Not unwelcome thing tho. It wouldn't be much of the story if all Jay could do is walk around hoping for some deus ex machina.
I have to call it quits on this story, but I also hate leaving a story without leaving the author a reason as to why I'm leaving, so here's why.
It's nothing that you did wrong, this has just drifted away from my personal taste. The problem for me is that the story is advancing at a slow pace. I think that the pacing of a story falls into the realm of personal taste, because I've read stories that I felt the pacing just fine, but when I read what others thought of them people where complaining that the story was too fast paced.
Other than that, this story is fine. I'm not going to down vote or anything like that just because this story didn't fit my personal taste, I'm just going to stop tracking it.
I hope my feedback helps you understand the audience that your story appeals to.
Best of luck and goodbye.
All he has to do is recognize the cutie marks and say the elements of harmony etc to really get her attention.
I get the impression that she's been having some sort of mental breakdowns, or maybe even psychotic episodes. Stress? (We have, after all, seen her stress out before!) Or some side-effect of being in this world? And if it's the latter, could Jay come down with the same symptoms?
As for predicting this... Hey, now Jay gets to go on an adventure with Twilight Sparkle! And that's awesome. And that's what we're here for, right? The awesomeness.
So now allllll he needs to do is give Twilight data from his experience and hope she can figure something out from those two data points. Failing that, try to unite with this world's Elements to friendship the problem away. Even if it doesn't get them home, they could move the world on from pre-Hearth's Warming times... Which should be the next topic of discussion. That, and asking Twilight where she's from in show chronology. And someone should explain to Reykan that it's rude to eat something that can talk. He might not like that much, but it's a rule even a baby panther can understand.
6376211 Hmm. If it's a side effect of being in this world, one thing comes to mind... Entropic cascade failure. It's technobabble from Stargate SG1- they once used a dimension mirror to enter alternate timelines. The only problem is that if your counterpart from that timeline is still alive, you start to glitch and die. And after all, the other Elements have counterparts here.
I totally want to freakin beat everybody in the room except Jay and Twilight. Right when I thought things were gonna be revealed the flipping supporting cast get under....hoof.
Like a bunch of needy kids.
I do love where this is going though.
The plot twist that has thrown us all for a loop is that Twilight has no idea what happened Equestria!
Quit complaining author! You did good!
It was easy to spot yes.
Well, it wasn't expected so much that we where all clinging to the hopes that she would be interested in helping Jay to go home. The part of the stolen crystals did set off alarm bells, but it was the part that she was alone in a tree that sort of confirmed it. In reality, I was fully expecting Jay to have his hopes crush ones again, and that Twilight was like all the other ponies with some eccentricities to her.
Getting finally to the tree was a relief after so many chapters with Rican antics was starting to exasperate me a little.
I love how you when about for the world building and you followed the rule of show but don't tel flawlessly, and all the ambiguity of all that was happening created a aura of mystery that made it fascinating to read; I just wanted to know, more about what was happening, and every scrap of information received was fueled the imagination as well as speculation. The way you when about explaining it, the childlike view of seeing the situations made it so that it looked like an other world all together that you hardly need to know the show to understand what was happening.
Also great chapter again, looking forward to the next one
Liking the story so far, pretty interesting setup.
One small silly thing in this chapter though:
It's Golden Oak Library, singular.
Also, to answer the question in the notes, Twilight being the show's Twilight was easy to guess cause there was so much build up to get to this point, as well as too much "she going to be weird too and won't be able to help me!" inner dialog from Jay for her to be anything else.
This didn't really bother me as it seems to do for some, but after a point it became fairly obvious. If it had turned out she was just genuinely crazy it would have been more surprising.
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FUCKING FUCK.
that's actually a good pun.
Gg
her tree is inside a big forest, and ponies outside are acting medieval. If they just were medieval, then they probably wouldn't be able to do anything about that, without making it worse. Or is there something more strange about their behavior, like a spell to separate the tribes?.. Twilight and unicorns, though...
Maybe they should forget about that and just stay in the forest. Harmony is not their problem.
Well now we have credence to why Twilight stole those gems.
Don't be too hard on yourself about being predictable, some of us on the site have read or written millions of words, soi it's not too difficult to plot plots.
For instance, this is very likely preascention Twilight, probably mid season three or so. we also gauge her potential knowledge on inter-dimensional travel methods to be fairly minimal, but her intelligence seems mostly intact, not that it will help since hers and Jay's point of origin are not the same and neither have any clue as to what shoved them here...
Still, if they're going to get help there's a lot of work ahead...
Keep going! ;)
I feel like the goal of this story is to delay the talk with Twilight as much as possible. Everyone is always interrupting one of them.
If you are not brain dead most readers have figured out a long time ago that Twilight is the Twilight from the show. The hints are in plain sight. Further delaying the "pay off" is painful.
I figured hed say it, and he did, though not to whom I was intending it to be.
Well, it seem my initial suspensions about Twilight are confirmed, though it seems that she has no idea what is going on either. I just hope that Jay tells Twilight were he is really from and does not let her think he is from her Equestria.
Okay so Twilight actually is from the Equestria that the tv show portrays.
I'm still unclear on why she would steal the unicorns' gems or take the cow's children
Okay getting to the point where we meet twilight is took how many chapters? And she has no idea what happened? Christ way keep up the suspense.
Hilarious line...just the absolute best.
Dammit though you took way to much time with this...although it's kinda nice that there is a non-unicorn caster in the party (a healer nontheless...) now all that's missing is a book of old legends and a impending threat and we can start to learn the magic of friendship all over again.
Also nobody knows what bowls are in this universe? Geez...
Really at this point Jay should say that he is interested in Twlight in 'that way'. Then the others might give them some freaking privacy to have an uninterrupted conversation.
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...Also, I liked the plot twist. I didn't see it coming, I was too busy enjoying the narrative.
I KNEW IT!!! I knew Twilight wasn't from this version!
Also, I can't wait for more.
6377991 problery intelligent tests and try to find gems with magical energy no? Imean who wouldn't go loopy from appearing a parrel universe.
It's not a bad thing IMO. Everyone calls her out as being wierd, so that kinda tells us there's something up. Only issue I see is that by still being there, it proves she doesn't know the way back. If she did, she'd be gone. Still, I'm sure she'll be very grateful for the sapient company.
Don't tell me everyone's sapient, half of these characters are just shy of feral.
6376192 I can understand where you're coming from, absolutely, but if you think this is a slowly-paced story, you aren't nearly deep enough info the rabbit hole.
As for myself, I like the slow torture and tension/stress produced by never, ever getting enough information as you want in an update.
Actually, I kinda want to see Sienna and Jay getting along.
Established Hero: Check.
Established Villain: Not check.
I'll bet Twilight knows more than everypony - I mean everybody - commenting here thinks. After all, she got pretty emotional when she realized that Jay wasn't from this Equestria. Perhaps there's a certain degree of guilt going on?
The puns!
OH MY GOSH! YES! I waited for this! Even though I still wish Sienna would see him in a different light. Oh well, can't always have every shipping confirmed.
You spoil sport, Jay! You should have said yes! You are the only one who understands her fully in this crazy world after all!
Oh! I LOVE that swan now! Finally! Someone says it!
Is there a comparative for the word love? I would use it to describe my gratefulness towards that swan!
Perfect ending!
YOU BLEW IT UP, TWILIGHT! YOU RETCONNED BOOKS! HOW COULD YOU RETCON BOOKS!
Well, that didn't work.
Let's try a Hard Reset.
I really, really hate sentences like that, i could put some nice dried rubish with some kerosine on this guy and set him on fire, for inane statements like that.
It also proves to me that he kows dipshit about every pre-season 4 episode.
"Does look like in the show minus the wings."
Why man?!
If he would remember correctly, Twilight wasn't an alicorn to begin with, she ascended,
got promoted, transformed or whatever.
This is unicorn twilight, alias pre season 4, alias her natural born form, not alicorn twilight, alias post season 3.
...
Sorry but my temper is getting the drill here.
About time we finally see Twilight in the flesh.
Alas, she managed to fuck up her latest experiment so bad she managed to somehow transport both herself and her library full of books to an alternate universe where books don't even exist as a concept.
I'll ship it.
Oh my GOD the pointless, blatant stalling is thick in this chapter!
Its not even trying to be subtle. Its like OH HEY INTERRUPTION FUN ISNT IT It doesn't add anything to the story. Its just there to be in the way.
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It's ok, it's ok, we can fix this. We just have to go...
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