Anyone can point their camera to their faces while watching and sharing their opinions on a video to the web. A concept so simple it encourages everyone to participate, even some not from this Earth.
After centuries of existing in talks of science fiction, Equestria has finally ushered in a new era to today: Digital Revolution. The widespread acceptance of technology, giving electrical inventions a place in ponies' homes.
Twilight had been merely one of many to embrace such a change. Unbeknownst to her something as simple as establishing an internet connection could do more than she expected. It's fascinating how a single clumsy mistake can change the course of history forever.
Youtube
From the weird to the wonderful, from the sorrowful to hilarious, from adrenaline-pumping to relaxing, a selected number of Equestrians and beyond shall venture in and experience the wonders of YouTube and video games.
All these reactors came from all walks of life, with their own sets of opinions and wisdom to share on every video. Yet they all have one thing in common: they're going to do it in front of the camera, broadcasting to the whole world, for the entertainment of everyone.
And maybe - just maybe - get some insight the viewers never even considered before.
Disclaimer: I do not hold any ownership to any of the videos posted in this fanfiction. Please support the official release. (I often got the video removed or unplayable.)
Thanks to KP-ShadowSquirrel for the pony models. Thanks to MirceaKitsune for importing to Blender. Thanks to Costache for reworking the rigs and miscellaneous changes. Thank you for bothering yourself to read this story.
The portable computer, or by its more layman term- laptop - was among many of the devices released to the general market after Equestria introduced a new age in history. It's not surprising after nearly a year of media coverage you'd be hard pressed to find anyone and their grandma who wouldn't believe this very device would be the catalyst to start a new shift in focus on world development the likes has never seen before. A revolution was on the horizon, the birth of modern technology.
Some however prefer to sit on the fence and see how it all works out, skeptical on how a compact computer would bring anything new to the table. They remain tight lipped on the matter preferring to continue life as it always been until any significant changes can convince them. What were pouring cold sweat on this were those fearing it won't be long until the production and investment of steam-powered contraptions was abandoned in favour of a power source that possessed strength and efficiency beyond what was deemed impossible.
On the other hand, the folks behind the creation clearly poured time, energy and currency to develop it and sacrificed so much in the name of research. A few news articles from a number of sources stated in an interview with the company's PR "...spent about a decade going off of nothing but an idea and hope. We were looking to build the impossible, and we made the impossible two letters too long."
In any case no one can deny the company has gambled a lot of trust on their marketing team, and they did not disappoint. Just several months since its debut in a small booth in the annual Fillydelphia Expo as a demo model, advertisements were popping up left and right on the map stating the most brilliant scientific breakthrough in technology was arriving soon. The company will be nominated for the title the Machine of the Year by the time the final product reached store shelves.
Millions of ponies, especially among the age of youngsters, were lining up in every electronics store that was rumoured to sell the device. Some of these fillies would actually bring along a couple of stuff to pass the time while they camp overnight or longer. The press wasted no time turning the phenomenon the headlines of every newspaper branch that existed, with one even claiming that a total of 5,000 ponies were reported waiting outside on one electronic store.
The very own purple princess, Twilight Sparkle, had recently got a unit of one of these and she couldn't be more thankful to be gifted a ten-year warranty and a wireless fidelity network in her house installed as an added bonus. ( You wish you had free Wi-Fi connection too, wouldn't you?)
"This is going to be great! I just need to get some assembling done, connect it to the internet and I'll have the knowledge of Equestria within my hooves." Twilight grinned and bounced all the way with absolute joy.
She was too busy being lost in her glee she no longer realise where she was going until her muzzle crashed into own house with no warning. Stumbling a bit from the bump, she shook her head to pull herself together before quickly glancing behind her in fear, only to sigh in relief when the gadget in her bag hasn't been affected by her sudden mishap. She circled over to the actual entrance and went inside. She quickly yet silently slipped upstairs and placed the packaging in her room, just in case. She'd rather not have the purple dragon in her home get his greedy little claws on it just yet. She overheard him planning the other day to snatch the PC when she’s distracted or busy, so he could do something on it.
Electric power had been introduced with the battery. The dam was responsible for supplying electricity in Ponyville. Some investors saw the potential of this power and had been pouring bits to amateur inventors to plan on creating some very complex machines in the near future. Many rumours have said that some of these prospecting inventors were planning to push boundaries and test the limit of the mind with what they can create. They were already those who have sketches and visions of wild and crazy contraptions like self-riding carriages, a small portable device that can send letters in a blink of an eye and many other things that with a little bit of help from magic and faith, they could try and make it a useful tool for everypony to use in their daily lives.
But back to the present, Twilight carefully assembled parts and components like hard drives, battery and a bunch of other stuff, consulting the manual more times than she needed to. Thankfully, she read the mechanics and concepts of this from the Electronics Stuff For Eggheads from cover to cover over 50 times. Despite Twilight was surprised to know that Rainbow Dash would write a book herself, it didn't change the fact that the book guided her to understand the functionality of electronic devices, which was a change of view of Rainbow Dash from a usual obnoxious prankster to a rather intelligent being. Still, she could understand more about it without the need to have anything explode in her face like anything she usually did with her experiments and things like those.
Once the parts and pieces are properly placed and assembled correctly, she started up the laptop and, when refreshed, she slowly configured her settings and other bunch of things that a normal pony like you and me don’t do. One of which was reading the terms and conditions from top to bottom.
She noticed the internet connection was established once she’s done. She smiled with glee and excitement when she quickly went to Hoofle Chrome and typed in very quickly with her magic.
In fact, she typed in TOO quickly. She accidentally entered the Number One Most Popular Video-Sharing Website known to our species,
Youtube!
Twilight was confused at first. This wasn't the website she was looking for, she didn't even knew what this website even was. But of course, curiosity made her to poke around with it for a while for no reason. Because people and ponies are the same except for um... well, let's just say it can be researched and observed.
Twilight clicked on the first video that pitched her interest. A video of a picture thumbnail entitled 'Kidney Transplant Success!'. a Swedish person with blonde hair and green headphones making some surgery in a video game of a patient named Bob.
Although, Twilight felt skeptical and disgusted by the violence and gore at first glance, later on she found it pretty hilarious of this humorous gamer’s reaction throughout the video. She laughed on every joke the person told to the viewer like ' Burn his nipples a little bit.' and the like. Once the video finishes with a brofist from the youtuber and then fades to black, she tried to recover all the breath she can from all that laughing she made.
“Whoa, that was definitely a hilarious video I've just watched. I didn't know humans can be weird creatures but hilarious, comedy gold. I just hope Pinkie doesn't read my thoughts about this. Somehow, she managed to read ponies minds. Even, I can see her she's not doing anything.” she thought to herself. Maybe, a bit more quietly.
“Hey, I've got an idea! why don’t I invite all my friends to react to this thing. It would be fantastic!” she stated, readied with quill and paper.
“Oh wait, I don’t have good video editing skills. Or even any equipment to record the moment,” she said. All that book reading did make her into a one electronic freak.
“Hmm, I could have Rainbow Dash do that stuff. But on the other hoof, she’s occupied on with the Wonderbolts recently and I don’t think she has the time to do it,” Twilight tried thinking hard to make any good suggestions about this when another idea struck her.
“Why don’t I invite these humans like this funny person to do the editing part. I’m sure most of them have good skills on editing videos,” she thought of a very good one.
“I'm gonna find a human that has this type of skill,”
Mathew was just mostly scratched his butt all day when he waited for the arrival of the PS4 he recently ordered five hours ago. He doesn't have to do anything else, exactly. Because he thought- “What’s the point?” - and he’s just gonna lie back on the wall checking his watch every ten second.
Suddenly, his phone just vibrated in his pocket and he quickly dug it through to take it. Once free, he slide the slider to answer the call.
“Hello?”
“Hi, this is Twilight Sparkle. Is this Mathew?” the caller replied.
“Um, who is this?”
“I’ll explain everything later. Now, please answer my question.”
“Yeah?”
“Great, I've seen your resume online and decided to hire you as my editing team.”
“And?” he was interested where this is going.
“Would you accept? I’ll pay you respectively.”
Knew it.
“Sure. Forget about the money, though. I just wanted something to do instead of watching the ceiling all day long.” they both chuckled.
“Perfect! Don’t worry, I’ll send you here very soon and a quick one as well. Bye!” she hung up.
Finally, something useful to do. He changed himself to some very fancy outfit for the interview soon and changed how he looked. He was nervous, of course. But at the same time, he was excited. This is the interview he first get in his life.
As he was waiting in front of his house, a portal like Ubisoft’s logo suddenly appeared in front of him. Before he could react, he was sucked in quickly and the portal dissipated into thin air.
Mathew landed flat-faced on the hard wooden floor. He awkwardly got up trying to regain his senses while holding his painful nose to comfort it.
But even falling flat-faced on the wall and almost breaking your nose is something unexpected, he wasn't prepared at all to know what happens next when he's vision regenerates. He's in some sort of tree house. But not just some any tree house, it has its own built-in library as well its own bedroom.
"Oh my god," was his first sentence that came out from his mouth when he saw all this. It's like you can live in it for eternity.
Still in front of him however, was Twilight watching and waiting for the right moment to start up. However, impatience grew her in and chose to speak up.
"Um,hello?"
Mathew turned to look at the source of the voice Much to his surprise, I guess having a heart attack isn't the best action to do right now.
"Mother of- what is goin' on here!?" he exclaimed.
"Well long story short, as much as I like to add the detailed one but. You're here as my lead editor and I need you to do some things that you are good at." she summarized.
Mathew however, recovered from shock. Still doesn't believe what he's doing here. But instead of asking a lot of unexplained questions that may confused Twilight, he decided to calm himself down and act all professional and like nothing has ever happened here. ( Which is a hard thing to do.)
"Okay, so? What do you wanted me to do Miss...um?"
"Twilight Sparkle," she finished the question.
"Ms. Twilight Sparkle, it's a pleasure to work with you." he reached out his hand for agreement.
"Sure," she replied with a hoofshake and a blush. Which could be awkward.
"So...what's this work about?" he put the subject back on-topic.
"Well, since you know something about a website I suddenly encountered this afternoon. It's called 'Youtube'. Do you know any details?" she asked while holding quill and paper again.
Mathew knew this was going to get better and better.
"Well, I'm not an expert. But, I can tell you this I got from Wikipedia. Which, I could be cheating. Of course. Youtube is the biggest video-sharing website created by three former Paypal employees in February 2005 and- well, long story short. It grew rapidly due to the perfect interface for uploading and good playback. These two factors made Youtube a big hit and it has become the most used and searched video-sharing website ever since." he finished. Twilight scribbled everything on the parchment and not even breaking a sweat.
"Wow, I didn't know it could do more than I thought." she continued to jot down the whole thing.
"Maybe doing a reaction video may not be so bad after all," she finished hypothesis or something. I don't know.
"Okay, now I've got everything I need- Wait, did you bring you bring your equipment?" she paused and asked.
"You didn't say anything about equipments.' Mathew putting his suitcase down. Disappointing Twilight.
"But,you're in luck. I have camcorder, a stand and... my sandwich. Disgusting," he said while unpacking everything and threw his mouldy sandwich away.
"Great, this is going to be perfect! I would say that statement is mostly used by Rarity but, who cares?"
So, shall we get to it. Then?" he started to prepare the setup and the configurations."
"Right, let's do it." she instantly levetated several parchments and write invitations to her friends.
Rainbow Dash was spending some free time in her living room, dancing herself silly on her two hind legs (In all fairness, the show itself clearly demonstrates a set of their own logic , so this wouldn't be farfetched). While she listened to her music through a speaker connected to her laptop. If she wasn't alone dancing right now, she was taken as a complete fool for anypony else, though.
Her laptop is unlike anything like anything that other ponies have. Her laptop was tinted with a chromatic, light blue colour, dynamic lighting that changes the colour of the light on her keyboard, a built-in webcam with 1080p resolution. Also, her laptop was much faster to run than other normal laptops do. Hers is 20% faster and cooler. Making her having the most fastest and most beautiful laptop ever achieved by the technology team.
Her attention turned to the letter that fell to the ground with a small but bright flashing light in front of her. She stopped dancing, turned off the music, took her headphones off and finally picking up the letter. She ripped off the ribbon with her teeth and unfold to read the letter aloud.
Dear Rainbow Dash,
Please hurry to the tree-house immediately. There's something special I wanted to show you. And I'm pretty sure you'll love it. I had sent other invitations to our friends. Hopefully, they will come. I'll see you there.
From Your Friend,
Twilight Sparkle
"Something special, eh? I hope it's something good. Last time something special happened is I flew into an another dimension that I don't know and ended being chased by three little flying things and a broken wing. We'll see." she shrugged it off.
She switched off her laptop that was resting on her bed and put it back in her computer bag. She had no choice but to beg Rarity for sewing it, it was a pain in the flank.
She put hid her bag in a secret cupboard nopony else but her knows where it is. Just in case that thing can get stolen. She went outside, spread her wings, and flew off to Twilight's Library.
She landed gently on the balcony. She saw her other friends that are inside through the glass door before entering inside. Applejack noticed her and waved up to her.
"Down here, RD. We're gonna to see somethin' good." she put down her hoof and joined the rest. Rainbow Dash flew down slowly and landed beside AJ and Fluttershy. Shocking Fluttershy a bit.
" Oh,sorry Fluttershy. Force of habbit. Anyway." she turned to Applejack.
"What's Twilight is going to show us? I hope it's not another scientific research and other stuff," asked Rainbow Dash before wiping her hoof on the floor.
"Ah'm not sure. But Pinkie here said we're gonna react to a video of somepony named Markiplier or somethin'." answered AJ before being interrupted by Pinkie Pie who jumps out between them.
"It's true! We're going to watch a video. This is going to be The Best Thing Ever!" shouted before somehow throwing confetti and balloons everywhere.
Twilight trotted carefully down the staircase. The other ponies noticed her when she's in front of all of them.
"Alright girls, today we're going to watch a-"announced Twilight before intercepted by Pinkie again.
"-Video about a Youtuber named Markiplier!" she shouted. Making Twilight seemingly shocked.
"How did you know that, Pinkie? I didn't even say anything yet." she pushed her back to the crowed with a confused look implanted on her face.
"Oh really, we're actually going to watch that? I just guessed that one," Pinkie giggled cheerfully. Making others confused.
"Anyway..." she snapped back on-topic.
" We all are going to react a video of what Pinkie said, and record it while doing so. With the help of Mathew Golezerg," who suddenly emerged from the kitchen with a bread in his mouth before noticing the other ponies. Who also in turn, saw him as well.
"We're going to experience something new beyond the boundaries of our discovery," she said. Other ponies understood except Rainbow Dash who didn't get the last message.
"So, my friends. Are you with me?" she extended her hoof. Other ponies joined in the agreement as well as Mathew himself. Which is awkward because these ponies except Twilight didn't know him yet.
After a few time-consuming introductions about Mathew, they're able to get the programme back on track. Everypony went to their stations and Mathew set the cameras ready.
"Okay, is everypony ready?" shouted Mathew to the rest of the candidates. Who in return,shouted-
"Ready!" as well.
"3-2-1- Action!
Main Six Reacts To: Youtube Stars.
This Episode: Markiplier
The video starts showing the stars who will be reacting of the video. First is a visual headcount of Twilight, then Rarity, then Fluttershy who's hiding her face behind her mane from the camera,Pinkie,Applejack and finally, Rainbow Dash.
"Why is he shootin' that cone thing!?" shouted Applejack.
Pinkie however, laughed hysterically from the video instead.
"Oh..my." she went under the table already. She is too scared to get back up again.
"I have no idea why that cone move." Rainbow Dash stated coldly.
The next clip features the gamer making obnoxious noises while twitching the cupboard all around the area while other people laughed at hearing him.
"Why is he making that sound?" Twilight asked again.
"That sounds horribly revolting!" Rarity shouted at the screen.
"Whoa, that cupboard is either crazy-minded or just twerking," Rainbow Dash stated.
"Ah've been thinkin'. What the hay am I watchin', actually?"
Pinkie is somehow able to re-enact the video by standing upright and doing the same thing as the cupboard by going up and down like Micheal Jackson.
The next clip shows the Youtuber awkwardly making the virtual hand grabbing it in mysterious ways to preform an operation on a knocked out alien. Objects like organs surgical tools float about while he's making shouts of sarcasm and trivial comments.
Fluttershy mostly closed her eyes with her hoof for the rest of the video. Though, she preffered earplugs as well because she doesn't want to hear it, too.
"I think I'm going to vomit,"said Rarity before holding her mouth with her face turned green before dashing out of the shot and into the bathroom.
"They have aliens here?" Twilight pondered, sat back and accidentally made a gesture like this.
" Surgery? Oh Celestia no, don't make me go psycho again. Please Mathew, turn it off." Pinkie changes her expression from funny to horrified now.
"Mathew, can ya please tell me what's going on here?" Applejack continued to ask the same thing before she gave up and decided to watch the rest of the video first.
"Oh, I really need to get this game. What was it called again?" Rainbow Dash mostly talking to herself.
Thenext video shows the Youtuber forcing another player to escort him through a dark and creepy hallway. When at the end, the player was shocked to see the hedious monster and quickly jet back to where they came from. The other player, who wasn't very lucky. Got the jumpscare and got killed in the process. Which the audience in return, did the same thing. Even Rainbow Dash.
Rainbow Dash quickly compose herself. Acting normal before saying, " I-I-I wasn't scared. I was just um... warming up a bit, you know."she tried her best tough guy face towards the camera. Which most audience could tell it's a lie.
The final clip features the Youtuber explaining the video and asked the viewer to show support to his channel. Finally, the video abruptly ended.
"Well...that was interesting," Twilight said before turning her head towards the camera.
"This tought me one thing: video games can be bad for you." Rarity flipped out her notebook and scribbled something on it.
"Can I come out, now? If that's okay with you." Fluttershy popped her head up silently.
"Sure, the video's finished,"Mathew told her.
This convinced her to sat back up in her chair and looked back at the computer.
"Thank goodness, that was an odd video,"she gave Mathew a smile. Which makes him go shy of cuteness.
"Can I get a cider, now?" Applejack is already geting bored of it.
Question Time
"So what did you think you just saw?"
"Someone playing video games, I guess?" Twilight took a shot out of it.
"All I can say in return is absolutely disturbing. Nothing else."Rarity hated to reply the question, anyway.
"Ah don't think it's anythin' logic at all," Applejack rather have something else to watch rather than this.
"I like this guy already. He's in my 20th most awesome thing in my checklist," Rainbow Dash took a mental note in her head.
"Um...Should I say something? If that's fine with you," Fluttershy silently said. Mathew had to come in closer to hear her clearly.
"It's okay, you dn't have to say anything if you don't want to," he told her.
"I had fun for the first half,"-Her expression changed from bright to dark-"then it went downhill from there," Pinkie answered.
"Since you already know who the person is, how many suscribers does he have?"
"Around three thousand, I guess?"Twilight kept thinking hard.
"Less than ten,"Rarity still hasn't changed her mind on him yet.
"I'm very sure it's a million right now," Rainbow tried hard to support him.
"Um, is it fifty?"Fluttershy is always afraid of getting the answers wrong. Mathew hasn't the heart to tell her the truth. But, the truth always hurts and he had no choice but to tell her that.
"It's 1,461,332 of them," Pinkie simply answered.
Mathew Just leaved his jaw hanging for a while before snapping himself out of it. He did a quick Youtube search on the Youtuber and he's even more shocked that what Pinkie said was 100% correct. No pun intended.
"That's the exact number of suscribers he had! How did you know!?"
" Oh, is that much? I just took a shot out of it,"
"He has more than one million suscribers," Mathew told the rest of the cast.
"W-What!?" Twilight only can make shocked expression.
"Wha-What is wrong with your species!? I don't know how you find this entertaining?" Rarity is actually pretty angry right now.
"Ah yeah!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed.
"Oh,I guessed it wrong...did I?" Mathew could see tears forming up in her eyes, making him more unsure than before to tell her the truth.
"I'm so sorry, Fluttershy. But,yes." he drooped his head down, waiting for the crying to start. But what he heard afterwards changed it.
"Okay,then,"
Mathew perk up to see her perfectly fine.
"Aren't you mad about it!?"
"Well to be honest, I do. But I've already learned myself to calm down and accept the truth. Besides, my friends and I had experience this before, especially Applejack. And it wasn't pretty, but telling a lie hurts more than an honest answer would. I know you had no choice but thank you for telling me," Fluttershy said the most remarkable thing ever to Mathew's ears.
I guess this job learned me a thing or two about friendship.he gave himself a warmful smile. He knew this job would change his life forever, including his personality. He'll love it.
"Well, two can play that game,"Applejack said before turning her head away and muttering something up.
Can you give me one word to describe him,"
"Geeky," Twilight said.
"Stupid!" Rarity exclaimed.
"Awesome!" Rainbow Dash took a very different approach to him.
"Funny,"Pinkie said before giggling to herself.
Wow, she's a cheerful one.Mathew thought silently.
"Thank you," Pinkie replied. Mathew had another shock and opened his mouth to tell her the question but no words come out. He decided it's best he leave it aside for now or else he gets brain trauma or something.
"Last question, would you like to watch his other videos?"
"Well, he seems a fun guy. So, maybe."Twilight is already on the mouse and clicking away.
"Never in my entire life and you can never make me." Rarity shouted at him before trotting away.
"An absolute yes," RD said.(I'm tired of saying her full name.)
"I could be in one!"Pinkie simply said.
"I'll take that as a yes,then,"
Uh...probably?"Fluttershy replaced the answer with a question.
"Nope, not really,"Applejack is rather sceptical about him.
The whole video changes view to the actors telling the viewer to support the channel.
"Thanks for watching, guys!" RD exclaimed.
"If you want to see more reactions like this, suscribe to MathewGolezerg's channel right now,"Twilight simply said with a smile.
"Also, Mathew is giving away an oppertunity to be in the show! So if you want enter, please come over to Mathew's new house beside Twilight's Library." Pinkie jumped down and popped back up with streamers everywhere.
"Lastly if ya' want us to react to some other weirder videos or so, please leave a comment to let us know." Applejack finally went back to her normal state again.
Mathew woke up wearily from his slumber since yesterday. It was a pain to edit those clips until midnight, since almost none of them are useful or appropriate enough to be published on Youtube, of course Pinkie tried cheering him up with a Video party for him. But then again, he's a sad guy and he doesn't chin up as easily as anyone. On the other hand, he needs to get used to aching videomaking. Or else, he has no choice but to quit his job.
Anyway, he slowly got up from his cluttered bed and made his way to the bathroom. He lift his toothbrush,mixed with toothpaste, he gently stroke his teeth that has been chewing four pieces of cake. It took him a while to get the cavities out, but he managed to clear it. After rinsing his mouth and washing his face, he went back to his room and opened his laptop to check his channel for a while. And well, he almost passed out when he saw how popular it became.
His first reaction video made two million and a thousand subscribers in the last two hours straight. The comments section is crammed with suggestions and entries. This is the first time he has seen this big number before, and inside he felt like he needed rehab.
Mathew calmed down for a minute or so. He's here to check for a suitable suggestionsand three lucky users to pick for his next reaction video. Doing this is like picking the perfect apple in the orchard. (I'm so sorry, Applejack.)
"Let's see, Catch The Ice Dude, Wake Up Pranks, Minecraft-" his eyesscanning the comments and stopped at a suggestion that pretty much met his requirements for him today.
"Ooh, Chocolate Rain by Tay Zonday. Perfect." Mathew smirked and scribbled it down on paper for later. He has another planned in his head but that one could be later. Besides, one video at a time would be enough.
"What about entries?"he continued checking his comments sections and picked the three lucky ones. Which is time-consuming because he had more than fifty of them in the long run.
"Alright, the usernames, 'MuffinsAreForever', 'ILike_Hands_XD', and 'DJ_Pon3' are next in my list." he continued to jot down the notes as needed. He's also going to need a bit of research time on who these ponies actually are. Though for Twilight or anypony for that matter, it would have been too obvious who it is already.
"Well, I better go to Twilight's house and write more invitations after this."his stomach grumbled and he smelled a bit like cheese since he just woken up from his bed. He needs breakfast and a relaxing bath right now.
"Wait, I have a DerpMail (Gmail) account that Twilight introduce me to. So, why I didn't use that?"Mathew instantly opens up the Mail tab and logged in.
"Let's do this."he tapped the keyboards quickly and professionally.
Derpy was done for the day at work and landed flat on the couch. It was tough delivering from one o' clock to nine. And, Ponyville to Canterlot by train. Besides, her wings won't be much use without at least hit something hard.
"I need to check my own mails right now." she wiped her wearied face with her hooves and got up, took her hat and her satchel bag off and gently put it on a hat rack beside her. At least her job is going on holiday tomorrow for two weeks, since she accidentally demolished the office with a wrecking ball.(No idea how and if this is related to the Wrecking Ball song, you're correct.)
She went to her new laptop and open the Derpmail website she created by borrowing her partner's computer. She was awarded with The Best Online Mail Website recently and her own computer is the prize. She logged in to the site and checked if she has any new messages in her inbox.
Normally, she would receive useless ads, friend updates, angry letters from her boss and letters from Doctor Whooves. ( Not sure what it is and I don't wanna know). But one different mail picked her interest.
"Ooh, what's this?" as she clicked the letter entitled 'Invitation To React Series'. She waited for it to load and finally started to read it.
Dear Youtube Username 'MufffinsAreForever',
You have been chosen to enter the Background React series. If you are interested, please come to Twilight's house at least half an hour or earlier. Bring one partner with you.(This part is crucial for our section). We will be seeing you there soon and hope you can make it. Thank you for your support.
From The React Series Director,
Mathew Golezerg
Derpy was already happy for the holidays and her awards but this invitation just made her day better.
"I'm definitely going to bring Whooves over for this,"
Lyra sat on her couch in the living room looking at Youtube videos on her computer about... hand anatomy (Oh dear god). Bon Bon just merely makes the candy in the kitchen, but without having her by her side, it just doesn't feel the same.
Since she became best friends with Lyra in kindergarten, that experience have already brought them closer together. And their friendship can never be broken, even with their subtle differences. She knew and liked Lyra forever (it's not the part where they get married, understand?). Even if it means letting her wearing pants in the house and her obsession with hands go through. She accepted it's her way of life and there's no point of changing it now.
Lyra herself however, was now more introverted since she got the laptop and Youtube was a thing. She kept on from early in the morning until late at night researching about humans and studying about the human anatomy. Even if Bon Bon tried to stop her sometimes, she would never let it go.
An annotation sound has been chimed in the living room. And that could only mean one thing, an invitation of course. Lyra paused her 'research' videos and checked on her mailbox. She was so excited of what she read and persuaded Bon Bon to do the same.
"Bon Bon, there's something you need to see!"she was bouncing up and down.
"If it is a video about hands or anything like that, I'm not falling for it again."she went back making the candy.
"Please Bon Bon, this is totally not about any of those right now. It is an invitation, I swear," she begged and give her the best puppy eyes she can on her.
Even though, Lyra has pulled the same thing over and over in other situations. It always work, nevertheless. Bon Bon couldn't let her friend down after all this years they have been together, she'll be all alone forever if things aren't working out for the both of them. It's what a loyal friend does.
"Alright, Lyra," she sighed and admits defeat. Lyra was already zooming on straight for her laptop on the coffee table. Still, with a biggest grin implanted on her face.
"But if it's still about those research stuff, I'm going to poke you with very hot toffee for five minutes!" she began trotting to the coffee table.
Lyra turned her laptop around for her to see it herself. She finally fainted on the floor after what she had read.
Dear Youtube username 'ILike_Hands_XXD'
You have been selected as one of the stars of the React Series. If you have time to enter, then please head to Twilight's Library in half an hour. You will need a partner (this is important and must be done) and a good timing schedule of your daily life. We will see you there.
From the React Series Director,
Mathew Golezerg
"So Bon Bon, can we do this?" Lyra asked.
There wasn't any reply from her on the floor. Just a stream of silence in the air, Lyra and an unconscious Bon Bon.
Vinyl keeps on digging it on the tracks(Wut?). Her record albums are viral all across Equestria since she distributed it online as her free soundtrack placement. The amount of wub fans keeps on rolling.
Octavia was an opposite of that. She makes slow, peaceful, classical music. Her soundtrack was just as popular as Vinyl as well, the other difference is the way it is distributed. Vinyl upload her songs on 'mp3store' . With Octavia upload hers on 'Best Classical Music' .
Both of them respected each other's work and tried hard not to start rivalry against each other because they'll know it will go downhill and into the lava pit. Though, there's always a hint of hate of each other's songs.
An annotation sound chimed in Vinyl's room. She received a message from an unknown source. She quickly clicked the link so she can get back to work later. But all of those were instantly cancelled after she knows what it is.
Dear Youtube username 'DJ_PON3'
You have been chosen amongst the rest of the ponies to be featured in the React series. If you're able to make it, please bring a friend or a partner (Mandatory). Come to Twilight's Library in half an hour. We'll see you soon.
From the React Series Director,
Mathew Golezerg
This just turn her life upside down and it made her day awesome. And come to think of it, she will turn it around of someone else as well.
Mathew twiddled around with his fingers while he waited in Twilight's living room. Waiting for the knock on the door while Twilight herself reads a book (surprise, surprise). Mathew sighed with boredom in his head. He couldn't do much else then simply gape at the door.
Mathew tried getting rid of his boredom by using his imagination. He imagined the door he's staring at will probably lead to another world or any other bunch of illogical things that could happen.
His mind snapped back into reality when the door suddenly burst open and knocked him hard on the floor, leaving him disoriented. He regained his senses and just saw Derpy standing on top of him.
Dayum, she's cute.Mathew saw her derpish, sparkling eyes. It was like staring into long happiness he wish he could be a part of.
"Hey Mathew, we're here like you said," The DJ yelled. Twilight shushed her harshly and pointed at Mathew lying on the floor.
"Hey, you all made it! In fact, all of you are forty-five minutes early. Many thanks to all of you," Mathew congratulated the ponies.
" Right, as director of this react series, I'm going to prepare a video for you to react to. While the rest of you make yourself comfortable. I hope we'll not have any complications during the recording, okay?"he gave them a thumbs up.
The rest of the crew nodded their heads in agreement, but to Lyra, she's super happy just to see him already.
"Lastly, do any of you have any questions to ask?" Mathew stated. One pony raised her hoof and began to speak.
"Yeah um.. can I talk to you after this?" the mint pony asked. Which Mathew agreed and it made her squee.
The stars are getting ready for their screen-time except for Lyra who's stalking Mathew handling the equipments and setting up the studio. She later went back to her station for her reaction.
"Alright, is everypony ready?" Mathew shouted with glee. The cast replied what he asked for.
The next morning, Mathew has decided to do something new than doing his dayjob over and over again, a day-OFF is compulsory for him. Because, editing videos solitary is very challenging, time consuming and eats up a lot of energy. If this situation continues as normally as it would, he could be very ill or might cause a serious damage to his health.
Thankfully,Twilight is punctual enough to care about his condition over these two days. Well, she definitely would ever since Mathew always look exhausted and stagger walking all the time. So, Twilight let him off for once.
He couldn't have been more thankful than ever for her. Giving him some rest is enough to lighten up his mood and his body will able to function properly as it should. After he heard that news, he went back home and slept long enough for his brain to recondition itself into it's usual state.
Today, his mind is cleared and his body is working fine. He's now able to do something without having frustration to get in the way for once. Mathew decided to get some fresh air outside and spend the rest of the day basically doing nothing but staring into the blue, calm sky and rivers that reflects the sunlight.
He continued walking around Ponyville without a care in the world. Ponies saw him as some sort of movie star or something. He felt a bit boastful in the inside when ponies compliment him. Besides, it's his first time of being famous without the need for help.
Along the way, he gets involved in a few turns of mundane events. Though, it's only been a few. Like, helping somepony lifting heavy crates or visiting some shops at the side-walk. Some offered him gifts or payments for helping them out but he refused most of them and said helping out something and be a normal person he was is enough for him to be relaxed and enjoy the life.
Suddenly, when he was entering a junction, an unknown orange and purple whiz passes him by with great speed. About 25 centimetres from his nose. Mathew stumbled a bit from the shock and finally felled down as he lost balance. He slowly got up and thought hard of what was that thing that nearly murdered him like roadkill. Instinct took over and made him ran towards the direction where the thing went off to.
It took him quite a while to find it, but he managed to locate the whiz at the tree-house not far from where he's searching. The whiz recently was just a filly riding her scooter. Though, he didn't knew it could be that fast with something that isn't a vehicle. He'd seen people who could do tricks and stunts on scooters, but he never seen any of them able to match the speed of what he swa earlier today.
Mathew walked up to the filly slowly and said,
"Um, excuse me?"
The filly who notice his voice turned to look at him and her eyes told him that she's surprised.
" Oh my Celestia, are you the great Mathew?" The filly stuttered a bit.
He didn't knew somepony would call him that, because he's just an average Joe who makes reaction videos a day.
"Yeah, but please just call me Mathew,"he answered politely.
The filly was more surprised than ever and she tried finding words to say. Though, he spoke first.
"Oh, I have to warn you something. Next time, be more careful when you ride your scooter or you might hit someone,"
"oh, I-I'm t-terribly sorry about t-that," The filly put up a nervous smile as she tried to hide her blush.
"Whoa, calm down. Take a deep breath, relax. That will ease your mind," he chuckled.
"Sorry, I just never dreamt of meeting you in person,"she apologized.
"Say, I didn't catch your name,"he asked.
"Oh, it's Scootaloo. But please, call me Scoots," she answered politely.
Scoots'eh, now have I heard that name before?
Mathew traced back to the time when he's looking for suggestions for his next reaction video when his break was over. He quite remembered a username that said a suggestion that finds him interesting.
He put that thought aside for now as he had something to say earlier.
"Okay, then Scoots. Promise you won't crash into me next time, okay?"
"Okay, promise,"
Suddenly, he remembered the username that gave him a good suggestion as he quickly observed the filly a few times.
"Say, isn't it your Youtube username, 'Scooten_Daze123'?"he quickly asked.
The filly was taken by surprise again with this question.
"H-how did you know?"
"Well duh, you're one of those Youtubers who gave suggestions in my videos."his face is able to make a happy smile without forcing too much of his facial muscles to do so. Because, he's not the guy who smiles a lot. Normally, he would do stuff and that's it. He never was a happy-go-lucky person like Pinkie Pie is. But sometimes, he's happy here and there but smiling, hardly is his type.
"Wow, you really noticed my suggestion, huh?"
Then a great idea has finally his reached the cortex of his brain from the cerebellum. Also at the same time, he knew he needed good rest as well. Fortunately, for the filly that is. He thought-
Screw that, I can take a nap after this. It's reaction time. C'mon Mathew, think about it.
"Say, Scoots. Do you have any friends with you?" he asked with a smug on his face. Which, made the filly really confused.
"Well, yeah. Why?"
"Because I recently took your suggestion for today's video. And guess what's even better, you're in it!"he shouted.
"Wow, that's great! Thank you, Mathew. I'll repay you for this someday,"she clapped her hoofs repeatedly.
"Maybe someday, but I'm gonna need a minimum of six ponies to make a reasonable reaction video. So, that's why I'm asking if you have any friends that would kindly participate this one."he took out his pocket-able notebook of usefulness and his trusty pencil and he readied their position to jot down the names.
"Oh, they definitely would. Trust me, follow me. I'll show you." the filly took off with her scooter, leaving Mathew behind for him to catch him.
"Oh god. On the upside though, this is a good morning exercise for me." he returned the notebook and his pencil in their original pocket and quickly followed the filly who had a pretty big head-start but it's close enough for him to still see her over the horizon.
Meanwhile, back at the library, Spike is re-arrange the books once again. If it's no more than Twilight's orders. He started to feel a bit bored of doing the same chores over and over again. He thought of going to Mathew to suggest him for a good time but, he's taking his day-off and he doesn't think it's a good idea to disturb him at this hour. So, he will try some other time.
Just by coincidence, Mathew entered the library and he was surprised to see him. He didn't concentrate enough to maintain balance on the ladder he's standing on, and finally gravity pulled him down to the hard wooden floor, Hitting the back of his head.
Mathew witnessed the incident and said-
"Ooh Spike, are you okay?"
"What? oh, it's fine. Besides, I've fallen from ladders loads of times. I'm good." he secretly rubbed his head because he was lying.
After all these years of falling from ladders, he wasn't able to normalize the pain that happens to him. He remembered the first time he fell, he went unconscious for about a week had to be sent to the hospital for revival.
"Okay, then. So, where's Twilight? I've been looking for her." he looked around the library and his search remain fruitless.
Mathew searched everywhere in Ponyville for Twilight. He searched the market street, her friend's house, and even in the dumpster to look for her. He wasn't going to take the chances on the train. Even if he did, he wouldn't know where to go to look for her. So, he went to the library to search her there and if she isn't, Spike would know.
"Oh, she's gone out,"
"Do you know where she went?"
"Nah, she didn't tell me,"
He thought that was peculiar. She normally tells him where she was going in case of an emergency, and he find it useful since Spike got arrested for accidental arson in her library... twice.
"Anyway, why do you want to see her?"
"What? Oh, it's just a permission,"he casually said.
"Permission for what?" Spike raised an eyebrow.
"To do another reaction video. And this time, you're in it." he pointed his finger to him.
Spike was going to ask for something good and this was just the ticket for him. He thought about it for a while and said-
"But, what about your day-off?"
"Screw that, we're doing it!"
Those five words just made Spike leapt with joy. He just couldn't take in his excitement anymore.
"So, what about the others?"Spike asked.
"Oh, I already decided on that," he told him and turn his head ro the door, Spike followed suit.
The door swung open revealing some fillies entering the library. Mathew has invited the CMC, Snips and Snails, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. He spent some time researching a bit on them for a while and he needed to keep on eye on Tiara and Silver Spoon, though. Appplebloom told him they're very big troublemakers.
Mathew has set the studio and gave everypony the green light. The reaction time was ready and he felt proud of himself having to make this thing again. He just couldn't leave it alone and he always missed that.
The video begins with the clip showing the football coach commentating about something and suddenly one of the football player since the beginning of this clip is able to catch the ball but went off-balance and accidentally crashed into the reporter and finally, they went out of shot.
"Whoa, ah' hope she's alright." Applebloom cringed at the moment the accident happens.
"Oh, I know how that feels like,"Spike furrowed his brow.
"Oh, watch out. There's a football player coming towards you," Scootaloo joked.
"Ooh, that was not good for her lovely face. I was starting to admire it." Silver Spoon continued on like nothing happened.
"Yep, that's us in a nutshell."both Snips and Snails nod their heads slowly and perfectly in sync.
The next few clips features a few residents attempted to give a kiss to a male reporter who managed to defend and deflected their tries.
"Aw, that's so sweet,"Diamond Tiara changed her expression to being dreamy.
"I tried this once on a reporter but the crew caught me before I could do so." Sweetie Belle slouched back on the chair and mumbling something.
"If Rarity ever got a job as reporter, then I'll definitely do that."Spike smug his face.
"Oh, I wanna do that." Scootaloo inserted the idea into her memory for later.
"Hey, I remember doing this before and I succeeded at it."Snips stated to his dear friend.
The video continues and transitions to the next few clips where the reporters twisted their tongue and ends up saying a few unknown mumbles.
Applebloom just laughs quite long for this section.
"Oh, I know exactly how that felt like,"Silver Spoon replied back.
"I know one time we messed up the lines, it wasn't pretty after that happens," Scootaloo recalled that one moment in the school play.
This last clip features the reporter explaining about something until the camera suddenly jolted down and revealed the rest of the floor of the stage. The reporter got surprised and later started fooling around.
"Whoa, I think she admit it in a way," Sweetie stated followed by a long chuckle.
"I did not realize that!"Diamond Tiara shouted.
"She just go along with it, anyway," Applebloom stated.
"Alright, I don't want to be a reporter anymore." Spike scratched that job from his mind occupation list.
"Ah' want more of this,"Applebloom simply demands.
"Definitely the news screwed up a bit at that time. Just like us,"Snails shouldered his dear friend lightly.
Question Time
What was that video?
"A bunch of news reporters screwing up or something?"Sweetie Belle tried to answer.
"A montage of things that can go wrong during the news went live," Scootaloo answered professionally
"Can I say it's failed attempts or something?"Diamond Tiara replied the question with another question.
"Ah'd say a funny montage, Period," Applebloom finished it Like a boss.
"Crash, bang and stuff," Snails answered it somehow.
"Stuff that could happen during the camera rolls," Spike shortened the conclusion about there.
"Something that can't be described by words, I suppose,"Silver Spoon is able the avoid the question for unexplained reasons.
Why do people like me and ponies like you to do something hilarious in the background during the news is filming?
"It's just somethin' that all of us has the urge ta... you know, do something ya wanted to do funny since yer shown on TV."Applebloom crossed her forelegs, thinking about that question while doing a duck face.
"We always wanted our moments to shine in front of everypony. According to the internet, people who saw that chance just took it without thinking, because of that is... well YOLO,"Sweetie Belle lectured.
"We just couldn't stand it. You know, everypony watches the main thing. But, there's always that moment where there's someone who made ponies laugh at the back and, we sometimes don't notice that." Scootaloo slumped back to her chair. That explanation just made her wonder about that.
"We just wanna be the centre of attention. I have dozens of times," Diamond Tiara boasted.
Applebloom's warning were starting to get in Mathew. He never liked anyone to say who's better than him, or anypony else for that matter. Mathew clenched his fist quietly behind her back to let his anger evaporates from him.
"Anypony could have taken it when they have the chance. It never felt so great."Snips soaked that achievement inside him.
Why do you think the news reporters have to concentrate hard and be disciplined during filming?
"They probably don't want to embarrassed themselves in front of the whole whole world." Scootaloo could only think the main reasons for that question.
"Eyes are on you during filming. If I had to be that job, I would have felt very anxious,"Sweetie Belle recalled the school play in a way.
"It's never easy. And that's what causes the reporters a nervous wreck," Applebloom answered that question faster than the rest of the first two.
"Because they're afraid of what might happen if something goes wrong-" Spike ended his explanation abruptly when the chair felled down due to uneven balance. The camera had to cut the rest of that section out.
Lastly, what would you react when you're the news reporter and suddenly a pony kissed you?
"Ah would be so mad,"Applebloom expressed her anger.
"If it's Rarity then, I'll definitely take it,"Spike saw that moment as a chance for Rarity to kiss her but he knew the dangers of being one could be embarrassing so, he wouldn't take it, though.
"That would be brilliant... If it's a cute stallion, I mean,"Diamond Tiara said.
"I would tackle him down and stomp on his kneck."Scootaloo would've won an award for badassitude.
Thanks for watching this reaction video.
Mathew has planned another reaction video featuring special guest that I wouldn't tell you at all.
Please stay tuned until next weekend to watch the next video coming soon... But that would have been easier if you press the subscribe button. It saves you some time.
Ever since his first reaction video he uploaded on Youtube last week to the world, he never felt more contented than ever in his life. Because he usually never dreamt all of this would happen in reality but, what do you know, he's filming videos in some another universe he hardly know for fun and it gave him hope and other stuff that couldn't be described by words, speech or writing. (No, seriously. I don't know any other adjectives that could be used to describe this stuff.)
But then, something terrible has been discovered a while ago. At one time, Mathew was starting to feel a little bored when he's not doing any video filming. What that clearly meant to most of you he wasn't hungry or any physical withdrawals but because he just doesn't feel satisfied with the amount of reaction videos he made. This may not be an issue to anyone else but it's starting to damage himself drastically. He hardly could sleep or eat well like the way he normally would. And occasionally, his hands sometimes couldn't stop trembling when his eyes were fixed on his camcorder that he always rests on his shelf.
Luckily, he was smart and sensible enough to be able to think about it carefully for some time, he suddenly realised that he's having a slight obsession of making videos. He somehow was able to resist that addiction for a week, mostly due to ignorance. But now he's starting to feel a little twitchy as the obsession grows when time passes.
So today from now on, he'll try anything to numb the sickness that cultivates within him. First off all, he decided to go outside into the town of Ponyville and chose a quaint little cafe nearby to settle his stress and hunger for the day. It's probably enough to forget terrible things and at least let his mind flow freely once again in his mind. Other than that, he didn't need to cook or otherwise he would burn his house down... again.
Mathew took a deep breath to relax himself and then opened the door and exited his house. As any careful person in the world, he locked his door and put his keys in his side pocket.
Although Equestria was considerably almost a crime-free country, he still didn't trust anypony that much when it comes to anything related to theft and pickpocketing and snatching. Sure, most of the residents clearly look friendly and they don't seem bad at all but as anypony knows, looks can be decieving. And that's why Mathew inserted his valuable items on his side pockets rather than his back ones.
Mathew began strolling around to find a restuarant or a cafe that would help him fill his stomach. Some shops do sell food like carrots, daffodils and those like that but he wasn't much the type to eat light food since he could more than that. Only a proper meal could feed him without him complaining about eating.
Eventually, he found a nice, simple cafe that seems suitable enough for him. It also has some fancy decorations that could calm anypony down, especially him.
As he took a seat outside the outskirts of the cafe, he lifted the menu and examined for a type of breakfast meal. Most of the dishes he scanned didn't seem to fit his type of diet. Like the daffodil sandwich which is probably poisonous to humans, the hay fries that would likely taste like- well... hay(try eating hay and see how it feels), or anything that doesn't look edible to a human like himself. Well, at least there are some options that seems safe enough to eat. He set the menu down for now while he waited for a waiter to come by and take his order.
Finally, he has something to eat that is not made by himself for a change. To tell the truth, He's cooking isn't that bad or anything like that but, as any lazy fourteen year old former secondary school student he hardly care about cooking. And he wasn't the type to listen to his mother about learning new recipes for his daily life, either. As a result, he can only cook three things: Fried eggs, grilled cheese and simple noodles. He normally thought that was enough for him to learn new recipes in his life. But now, he felt ashamed of himself for not listening to his mother for that.
Oh well, he also felt relieved for not learning some of the new dishes her mother tried to teach anyway, most of them involved chicken or meat or anything else that is only carnivores and omnivores are able to eat because he loved eating chicken. Yet, he wasn't the person to just slaughter any chickens from Fluttershy's coop or cows that Applejack has. Luckily for the both of them, he didn't know how to do that anyway. He was specifically not a cruel person at heart and fortunately didn't pay much attention about how to slaughter a cow after fasting month has passed. It's probably some of those nasty moments and heavy gore nearly made him vomit.
On an another topic entirely, he wasn't the teenager to drink alcohol. He's obviously not mature enough to drink and with his strong grip on religion, it forbidden him to do so anyway. He was glad to choose a path where he wouldn't be lost and drunk for the rest of his life. Though, that thought reminds him of this one special occasion. More likely a near disaster to hell.
There was this one time Applejack invited all her friends including Mathew to drink her famous apple cider to celebrate Mathew's success on the popularity of his videos. Mathew had the invitation as well. After he read the information, he felt sceptical of the idea. But he only came because he didn't want to hurt his friends feelings. Everypony who went there took a drink except Mathew himself, who stayed out of their way by standing a few metres from them as far as possible but still being in their field of vision for the rest of the evening.
Applejack noticed that Mathew was far off in the distance away from them. Applejack thought he just wanted out because he was shy about something, according to her. She got up and walked towards Mathew, who noticed her approaching and expectedly started to panic, offered him the drink closely to his chest but he was quick enough to side-step the attack.
"Mathew come on, it's just a mug. It wouldn't hurt, wouldn't it?" She brought the mug closer to him.
Mathew managed to pushed it further way from him with a long and tough stick he grabbed from the ground.
Pinkie was able to witness that and joins in to help Applejack by using persuasion.
Aww, Mathew. Just a teeny tiny sip wouldn't kill you." she tried.
"No, I can't. I just can't."the position of jolting of his stick went off balance and was able to tip the wooden mug and spilt all of the content.
The ponies were shocked to see his action and formed a line facing Mathew. They asked him why he couldn't just simply drink the cider.
Mathew carefully explained to them how alcohol isn't good for his age and it is against his religion. The ponies had listened about everything of what he has to say about it. When he finished, the ponies felt ashamed of themselves and apologised for being selfish.
Mathew kindly forgave them all that day because he understood that they didn't know anything about that. Because he didn't tell them earlier. Maybe it's just panic, adrenaline and other actions distracted him from doing so. He added that he could've said it before that recently happened to let them know but the thought never occured to him until that terrifying evening. He later excused himself and made his leave back home to sleep off from that near incident earlier that evening.
That incident made Mathew tremble in fear and hoped he isn't going to recall that event ever again. And he also crossed his fingers and hoped his friends won't mention about it either. It just puts him off for the rest of the day feeling rather depressed.
He was suddenly warped back into reality when he noticed a figure standing beside his table. He turned his head to find a waitress was waiting patiently to get his order. Mathew apologised her for being in his mind for too long and delaying her time. The waitress replied that he shouldn't bother about it much and she was fine with it. She understood of what he was doing just now and hadn't the heart to interrupt him.
Mathew gave her a warm smile and she replied with the same thing, both lightly blushing. Things went back to normal after he gave his order to her. A normal English breakfast would suffice him for today. The waitress scribbled down the order using her magic and told him that it won't be long and went back inside.
Mathew decided to do something trivial for now while he is waiting again. So he calmly looked at the cobblestone streets of Ponyville. Where he could see the sunlight shining down on the ponieswho're moving about of their usual business. Others just met together up and having a chat about things.
Mathew sighed in happiness of what he's looking right now. With a gentle breeze that softly gush his skin, nothing dull or unusual happened on the streets. He decided that he would probably want to have another stroll around town someday when he has the time to relax. He could push his stress aside and let in all the relaxation he could get.
His thoughts were interrupted when he heard a gentle strike of a plate beside him. He suddenly turned and could see the content of his breakfast. It consist of mostly herbivorous food like the toast, the fried egg and some baked beans on the side. And all was served only after three minutes when he zoned out. He was surprised yet could evidently tell the waitress wasn't lying about her statement.
He looked at her face and she gave him an 'I told you so' expression. Mathew chuckled slightly at that joke as the waitress went back inside. He turned his head towards his breakfast. Ready to devour into him watery mouth. He picked the toast up gently and was ready to take a bite out of it.
Suddenly, he heard a simultaneous flapping noise out of the corner of his eyes. he turned his head in confusion to see clearly of what's going on.
He saw a some sort of royal chariot with two pegasus night guards commandeering it gently landing down onto the ground with a short and soft skid. Mathew and the others around him was taken back by surprise. Why would a royal chariot be here? He didn't know who's in it, either. And if this chariot suddenly landing here has nothing to do with him, he doubt he will know.
The door of the chariot slowly swung open and a pony exiting out of it. But not just any pony, no. It is much more noble than that. It is... yep, you guessed it. Princess Luna herself climbing out of the chariot.
Ponies in the area was taken by surprise but was able to bow down to show respect for her. Mathew on the other hand, kept his jaw hanging slightly by her sudden appearance. He was totally focused on her and he felt like the world panned, zoomed and slow-motioned around him and the Alicorn( if you get this reference then you're an Assassin's Creed fan.). And for some reason he can't explain a word, nor a letter why he thought any of that happened in his mind.
The night blue Alicorn seems to be searching specifically someone because he noticed her moving her head side to side. Her eyes finally stopped directly on Mathew, who was taken back by more surprises. She motioned her hoof to the ponies so they would halt their bowing for now. She started taking her steps slowly yet elegantly towards Mathew, who was still frozen as ice and his facial expression still the same. She was able to snap Mathew out of his trance by starting to talk.
"Are you Mathew, may I ask?"
Mathew crashed his awareness and shook his head harshly.
"Oh, um... yes." he hastily got up and gracefully took a bow. Luna simply nodded. She then eyed his plate slightly filled with unfinished food.
"It seems that you are busy having your meal, am I correct?" Luna raised a brow while smiling.
"What, no! I'm completely free and basically doing nothing right now. I-I'm good," he lied. She knew he was scared of her for some reason. She took an honest giggle to try and calm him down.
Mathew joined in fearfully because although he didn't find the situation very comfortable, at least all he could do was play along and let the time do its thing.
Luna eventually was able to get the actual goal back on track on why she was here in the first place.
"Well, Sir Mathew. I have been transported here to pick you up." she turned around and slowly went back in the chariot, waiting for Mathew to join in.
"Let us hurry. Do not worry, I do not bite... hopefully," she joked. Mathew wasn't able to see it, though. He's too nervous to notice it at all.
As he walked slowly with other ponies looking at him and whispering something to each other, he also asked to himself who is the pony who wanted him right now so desperately he or she had send an alicorn to get him.
Before he entered the chariot, he was able to stuff his face with the piece of toast he had on his plate and placed his bits on the table. He took a seat opposite of her and closed the door. He later could feel the chariot starting to take off and then up into the turquoise, calm, blue sky.
The journey was quiet along the way. Resulting in occasional awkward eye contact from each other. Mathew mostly tried to avoid any eye contact or a conversation by showing her he's not interested to say or reply anything by looking out from the window. Unfortunately, doing that made him starting to regurgitate.
Eventually, they arrived at their designated destination, a grand castle where Mathew had never heard of before. But in Mathew's case, that wasn't the issue at that moment. He started to feel sick after the ride because he was never okay every time he travelled by aeroplane due to his airsickness.
Luna on the other hand, was entering the castle with no hesitation. Mathew later followed when he was finally starting to feel a little better. Eventually, he can see her turning back to him and quickly beckons him to catch up with her. Mathew took a deep exhale to comfort himself and started to walk faster.
When Luna was leading Mathew around the castle, Mathew decided to ask her a question that was hanging in his mind.
"So, Princess Luna... where are you taking me exactly?"
"Oh, that would be telling,"giggled Luna.
Mathew let out a nervous chuckle. When they arrived at a grand door, Luna halted and Mathew who saw her stopped suddenly, followed suit. The door slowly swung open revealing what seems to Mathew is a magnificent throne room. On the throne itself sat the Sun Goddess, Princess Celestia who according to him wanted him to come here.
Despite the beauty around him, it didn't help Mathew trying not to be any more nervous than he already is. Luna proceeded on while waiting for Mathew to follow. He hesitantly did and tried to walk in professionally.
Princess Celestia noticed their presence and tilted her head up to see Mathew and her sister coming closer. She began to smile and asked Mathew politely to stop while Luna went on and eventually sat on her side of the throne.
Mathew apparently bowed down to show respect but only to receive a snigger by Princess Celestia herself.
"Oh Mathew, there's no need of that," she told him.
"Oh really? Apologies, Your Highness." he couldn't help but scratch his head and let out a small blush.
"It is fine."she smiled,"now I think we all agree we should be back on our actual topic on why you are here,"
"Yes uh, I think that's a good idea right now." Mathew repositioned his feet for a while to avoid aching it.
"Oh, I am terribly sorry. But I think it is better if you would take a seat first somewhere else." she got up and as she walked she motioned him to follow. Which he did without any problem.
Mathew and Celestia entered what seems to Mathew a castle version of a living room. He could tell just by looking at the furniture like two fancy looking sofas, a small glass coffee table with a beautifully embroider table cloth on it, bookshelves surrounding the room and a very big triangular window shining down on the sofas and the coffee table.
Despite the lack of fans or even an air conditioner around there, he somehow felt like comfortably cold in the room. But he'd rather not ask about it though. He didn't want any more talking any more than about why he was here in the first place. It'll just make him more uneasy than he already is.
Celestia took a seat on one sofa and waited Mathew to take the opposite one in front of here. He did it with no hesitation or anything.
Celestia finally broke the silence, "Now, you will probably going to ask me about why are you here. Am I correct?"
Mathew just nodded in agreement.
" Well I can honestly say that we want to congratulate you on your very successful films you have distributed to your website." Celestia smiled.
At first, he wasn't that clear on what she meant but he eventually understood that what she's actually trying to tell him was she wanted to praise his work on his Youtube videos.
Yet, he wasn't clear on what she meant by ‘we’.
"I'm sorry but who's ‘we’?" he leaned forward.
"Oh, that would be me, my sister who you had met earlier and my student's brother, Shining Armor and his wife," she pointed out.
Mathew let out a surprised ‘whoa’ and looked down, lost in his own thoughts. He didn't knew royalty would watch his videos before. He always thought it would be popular he didn't believe it would be that popular until somepony like Celestia would know about it. Because it's not everyday someone with power on a country would watch her own subject's video.
"Well, this is amazing... I mean- what?" he began to breath harder and faster in disbelief.
"Mathew, are you alright?"Celestia tilted her head to one side.
"Alright? I'm supertastically pumped!"he shouted in happiness and began bouncing everywhere. Not realizing he's probably overreacting at that moment.
Celestia suddenly jumped when he screamed.
"Well at least you are joyed about it."she let out a puzzled look.
Mathew finally got his wits together and stopped bouncing uncontrollably and faced Celestia, feeleing very embarrassed.
"Oh- uh... sorry about that(chuckles embarrassingly)."he scratched his head and his face began to glow red.
"Oh, it's okay. I understand that you are happy,"she sniggered.
"Hold on, I've got a great idea. Why don't have all the royalties around Equestria to react to a video that I had planned to do this morning?"he asked with a very odd looking happy expression on his face.
Celestia was taken back by what he suggested. She didn't knew Mathew would be that ecstatic about making another video featuring her and her sister as well as her other two known associates reacting to a, well... a video.
"Well I am not sure... I have no idea what could happen then." she shrugged.
"Oh come on, it'll be fine. I'll make this video a special appearance one, how does that sound?"Mathew wasn't joking about making it however.
Celestia thought about it for a while. She finally made a decision. Maybe it's worth a shot. Besides, she doesn't do anything exciting besides her usually boring daily schedule.
"Oh well, I suppose we could try..."
She could hear Mathew leaping and shouting with joy. It something that he wanted to do when he comes home anyway. Celestia sighed deeply as she needed some writing to do.
"I'll just begin writing the letters now."
Later that day, the rulers who've recieved Celestia's letters went to Canterlot. Although, Shining Armor and Cadence had a bit of an issue during travelling and did took their time to solve the problem but luckily they managed to get there. And just in time, too.
When Mathew and the Princesses waited for them to come, Mathew had been setting up a quick mini filming studio in of the many rooms in the castle. With some ocassional help from Luna, he's able to get everything in place is ready to use.
"Alright, let's go through the checklist..." he pulled out his checklist that was apparently doodled over a few times. Mathew does that thing when he was bored.
"Okay, computer, check! Lights, check! Camera running well, check! My mouldy sandwich which I kept for no reason at all, uh... check?" he ticked every box excluding the last one.
" Why did I even write the last part?" he tossed the checklist behind him and it coincidentally hit a maid who was unlucky enough to be in the doorway in the face and tumbled down unconcoius.
Mathew somehow didn't noticed what just happen behind him, though. He was pondering on to himself why did he even keep his mouldy sandwich with him. He didn't like it but forsome reason he wanted it when he took it back from Twilight's house. He told himself his brain works in mysterious ways.
Everyone was now on set and was ready to start. With Celestia, Luna, Cadence and Shining Armor finally got into place. Mathew began his countdown he was waiting agonizingly for.
The video begins with a chubby person began lip-synching to the sung in a very theatrical and somewhat hilarious way.
Celestia just kept queit with the same pokerface expression and blinking casually for a few times.
"Um, what?" Luna was already baffled and tilt her head back with a confused look. "Okay then..."
Cadence began to chuckle slightly still with another confused look.
"Um, Mathew, What is this?" Shining turned to him with the same puzzled look as everypony else does.
The video continued and the person began to pump his arms up during the song's chorus.
"Okay, this is the most bizarre thing I have seen in my entire life..." Celestia lifted her hoof as she pointed out.
"Mathew can you tell me what's going on?" Luna was starting to feel annoyed when she didn't know what's happening.
Cadence joined in the song by bobbing her head up and down slightly.
Shining placed his face with his hoof trying to ignore the wierd video.
The video was starting to enter the song's second verse. The person still mimicing the voice.
"Well, it seems the song is probably French." Celstia told Mathew.
"Why is this creature even doing this?" Luna was already started to question the video.
Cadence kept going only with her actual voice singing it as a difference.
"Oh dear, when will this end?" Shining planted his face onto the table.
The video kept on going and it started to try almost everypony's patience.
"Okay Mathew. I think I am done here." Celestia sarcastically smiled.
" Well at least this piece is catchy," she said to herself, being impressed.
Cadence began to feel the music in her as she closed her eyes while she's rocking her body left and right slightly and singing beautifully.
"Aargh, stop!" Shining's demand was muffled when his mouth was still on the table.
The video finally ended.
"Well..." Celestia expected an explanation from Mathew.
"I'm not exactly sure how to describe anything I have just seen before." Luna shook her head.
"It's got a good tune," Cadence told Mathew that.
Question Time
What did you saw just now?
"All I could ever tell you was a person lip-synching to a French song." Celestia shrugged by putting it the best way to describe what she had just watched.
"I don't really know anymore." Luna couldn't help but let out a laugh.
"A person singing to a song, I guess?"Cadence tried to answer the best way she could.
"Nothing of my concern." Shining simply made douchy smile.
Was he really singing?
"Oh, I highly doubt he did," Celestia raised her voice when that question was asked.
"He mostly dance rather than doing any actual singing," Luna simply answered with no other questions asked from her.
"To be honest, he didn't but at least he tried something new anyway." Cadence tried not chuckling between her words but some managed to be out.
"No,"Shining coldly replied.
"Okay then..." Mathew thanked him sarcastically.
Why did he chose to do this?
"I have not an idea, you tell me." Celestia faced the camera while asking Mathew.
"To put it simply, he's bored," Luna responded quickly.
"I don't even know anymore." Cadence couldn't contain her laughter anymore.
"He's a sad person, all alone."Shining coldly sympathized.
How did this odd video became viral?
"Because people like you don't have anything better to do, I think?"Celestia had finally told the truth about humanity.
"It did because this is what creatures like you are in a nutshell," Luna smiled gleefully.
"Are you not entertained by this silly video?"Cadence shot back.
"Because people like you don't know what to do, am I right?" Shining let out a hearty chuckle.
Lastly, would you like to watch something like this again? "No thank you."Celestia teasingly disagreed.
"I don't think so, no." Luna decided not to.
"I feel bad about what I'm about to say, but sadly no." Cadence chuckled some more.
"Definitely not!" Shining exclaimed and went on.
"Because this is what people like you do, right? Well, I'm all out." he lifted his arms in denial.
Villians Reacts to (or rather play): Five Nights At Freddy's 2
Inside the well-known Golden Oak Library located in the middle of Ponyville, sitting on the cold, wooden stool was the famous Mathew Golezerg reading silently an interesting book called "Fifty Shades Of Grey". Well, it was interesting at first sight but the more Mathew scanned the pages the more he was downright disappointing of what it actually was.
"This book has nothing to do with the colour grey!" he declared it aloud, seeing it was clear it didn't match up what he thought he wanted in the first place.
He scoffed hard in frustration and slammed the book then he rest it back where he found it earlier, the F section of the tens of shelves. When he placed the book, his mind began to think,
Geez, what am I going to do today? Figuring out what to do in the morning is as interesting as deciphering the meaning of life, welll only the latter god knows what but that wasn't the point.
He wiped down his face with his hand, slowly dragged it down removing sweat and oil then looked around, clueless of what to do next. He couldn't even decide what to do anymore, considering it's a Sunday and everypony else rather chill outside or inside and most of the time won't interact with anything else. He could see it was clear most ponies today are occupied with their own business and rather not let anyone disturb them for the time being.
Moreover, although today was Sunday it was not like he could spend some time praying to God. It was certain he wasn't a christian. Still, he'd done most of the praying he have to do recently but according to his religion.
Mathew decided to leave because he couldn't do much at his friend's house and went home. With a lock sound of the entrance door, he threw the key into the glass bowl he has been using as a key container. He entered his room and lazily flopped down on his bed, hand on his forehead, eyes staring at the ceiling and mind completely blank. Thinking nothing else but fathoming to himself what to do on this day.
Suddenly his laptop that he placed on the left side of his bed where he wouldn't unintentionally crush the device... or snap his backbone in the least likely way. With the screen facing him, it made a notification note sound. His eyes hastily directed to the gadget and squinted a bit to make the screen more clearer to see. It seems that it was a private message delivered to his account. He furrowed his brow as a confusing thought lingered in his mind,
A message? I never get any private messages, not even my friends or anyone else sends those for that matter. Who would send a message to me like that?
He lifted his body so he could place his hand on the laptop first and swiped the mouse-pad to the message icon and tapped on it. The browser buffered to his Youtube account's inbox. An unread message was displayed in the box with the title, 'Suggestion 4 reaction tdy".
He was puzzled and surprised of what he was seeing. Usually ponies would send suggestions and advice for videos for stars to react to in the comment section below since he didn't turn it off except absolutely necessary, but this was the first time someone tried doing exactly like that but this time by sending him a private message.
He examined the content of the message. It seems that all of them are titles to videos that he was unfamiliar with, well probably because he never watched those kinds of videos before. Before he could forget, he got up and went to the kitchen to get a sticky note from the fridge and later came back with it sticking on his left finger and a large glass bottle of fizzy apple juice on his right hand.
He placed the bottle on his bedside table and the slice of yellow paper on his desk. Then, he took a pencil and wrote the video's name that appeared on his laptop screen, he then paste the note onto his wall beside his bed, and hoped that he will remember to check it out the next morning if he has the time.
He slowly flopped back down onto the bed and went back on the topic he was investigating just now.
"Wait, let me check the sender first." he slid his finger to check the sender of the letter, it read none other than,
DaKingOf'K'aus422
"The king of chaos... who's that?" he mused aloud, still stuck on the same type of question.
Mathew wondered as he scratched his head. He never knew anyone who had a username like that. He did thought hard who could be that person but he couldn't picture anypony who had a personality like that. Rainbow was the closest he knew that would be the closest to fit this category, but she hadn't have the level to that exact point and was just actually at the rank where she was just an obnoxious prankster who cooperated with Pinkie to do her usual hobby. So in the end it looked like he was going to find it out himself.
"I'll just try to ask Twilight. She is the only pony I know who could recognize the name." he closed the laptop gently, got himself up and went outside, headed to Twilight's house.
He finally reached the abode. Although he did visit the house just half an hour ago, he didn't notice something inside was up because we know a fact very well, a lot can happen in half an hour.
He was about to swing the door open when suddenly a loud scream was blaring inside. It sounded like Twilight's voice, making it added a hint of horror in it. He was shocked and nearly stumbled from that, but that didn't stop him to get inside and looked around to find out what was going on in there. But so far he saw nothing out of the ordinary and that made him confused.
"Weird. There was no explosion just now so it couldn't have been one of Twilight's experiments gone wrong. So why the scream?"
He decided to investigate further, towards Twilight's room. He figured the source could be from there since nopony else but him and Twilight would be in here.
He approached carefully towards the door. It was slightly ajar and for some reason much more darker. Sounds of somepony sobbing lightly was heard. This made him tense up and when he reached the door, he slowly peeked inside but was useless since the room was too dark for his vision to comprehend. He took a step in and found a light source beside him. The light was mostly blocked by a dark figure, but it was still obvious it was a pony. The sounds of the pony muttering that was often stuttered by a few moans and sobbing. He approached slowly and he called out loud enough for the pony to hear him.
"Twilight is that y-"
BAM!
He threw off to the floor.
Mathew simply slouched while Twilight tried to bandage his head. He was definitely angry of her bashing his head in with a frying pan. Twilight did her best at covering his bruised forehead by wrapping the gauze as much as she could roll.
"Next time Twilight, never hit me in the head." He turned to her, still sore over what she had done.
"Well you just scared the hay out of me recently and addition to that I didn't know it was you since I was playing a horror game and when you frightened me, instinct took in!"
"Well then, what's the point when you couldn't see me in the dark because you turned off all the lights in the room?"
"I was experimenting, Mathew. You didn't think I was scared playing a horror game, did you?" she began to rip the gauze off to end the binding.
"I didn't know you were a playing ‘Five Nights At Freddy's 2’ when I came in,"
"Exactly! So next time knock before you come in, okay?" she taped the end of the gauze and finished giving the first-aid.
"Fine,"
"Anyway, you came to see me just now so I'm guessing it's important." she placed the remaining gauze back into the first-aid box and closed the lid.
"Oh, it wasn't that important. I just want to know if you recognize the username I'm about to tell you," he explained.
"Go on, then,"
"Okay, have you heard this guy who goes by the name, ‘the king of chaos’?"
Twilight became surprised, and it wasn't the good kind either because she knew all too well who the person was.
"Unfortunately, I have,"
Mathew was more concerned. The word 'unfortunately' seemed a bit odd to be added, like it was a bad thing. "Oh? What's his actual name then?"
Silence was sent to Mathew until she began to speak up.
"... Discord,"
Twilight hoped for Mathew to gasp in horror but when she looked at him he didn't seem affected and just made a confused expression. Twilight wasn't surprised because she could already assume why.
"Let me guess, you don't know who is he, right?" she gave an unamused look to him.
Mathew decided to be straight and shook his head in agreement.
She sighed and went to shut her computer off first. As doing so, she turned to Mathew, his face already asking for an explanation for such a depressing tone towards this subject. "It's best that I don't tell you about him, too much history between him and me." she turned back.
Mathew was very puzzled. Was he a bad person by any chance? he wondered in his head. And if he was; or hopefully not, is. Then, that should be a cause for concern.
Mathew was about to say something but realized of how wrong would it be and cancelled it so he wouldn't hurt Twilight's feelings. She did mention they both didn't have a good relationship, so it was best not to press on that way.
But then, Mathew found a loophole around this situation. "Say Twilight, if you don't want to say anything about him, that's fine. But at least tell me where he lives now and I'll just ask him a few questions." he got up off the bed and walked closer to her.
Twilight turn her head with doubt. Mathew noticed she was skeptical about telling him or not, but he knew how to get it out. "Don't worry, I won't ask him about you or any bad history with you. Honest..." he raised his hands, trying to convince her enough to let him know.
Although she was cynical about it, Mathew was mostly an honest person and he was very nice to her. So, there wasn't any reason to not trust him. "Fine then, he's at Fluttershy's house." she prepared herself to leave the room, not wanting to say anything else.
Matthew noticed something was up about the address she told him. " Wait. hold on, Twilight." he reacted quick as she was about to pass through the doorway.
"Why is he in Fluttershy's house?" the look on his face said it all, it was rather illogical for a cocky villain like him to be residing in a house owned and shared with by the most timid pegasus he knew.
He was responded again with silence from Twilight. Twilight still looked quite sombre. "Well, aren't you gonna ask him that yourself?" Twilight reminded him, before leaving him to get to it.
Matthew felt rather guilty of asking that question and wished he didn't asked for it in the first place. But it had already been said and it was too late to change that.
Anyway, he was respectful enough to leave her alone. She just needed some space after all and comforting her won't be the best idea. So he decided to take his leave and headed where Twilight told him to go. Hopefully, she'll find something to cheer herself up.
Mathew was walking along the path to Fluttershy's house. Although he had never been there before and had to ask a pony for directions, he finally was sure where he was going and knew he will know he will arrive there when he sees it.
The time to get there was actually quite short but by the time he got there the sun was setting and the breeze getting chilly was the sign he had been running late. When he noticed the sun's position changed drastically and the sky tinted orange , he face-palmed himself and asked himself why was he so gullible and easily distracted on things he liked.
The explanation for this could be seen when Matthew was going down the track like he was suppose to when he encountered a few similar animals nearby the road. These animals didn't bring any harm if harm was not done to them, but one look at them and you would be easily distracted by their characteristics if you like this sort of thing. The power they wield was so strong that Matthew was easily hypnotized by their appearances. He just couldn't resist their looks, he had to go over and swoop in to rub them.
The animals that has this powerful ability, was cats and their power was their overload of cuteness. Their luscious fur was rather too captivating to be left aside. Their moans of purrs brought the sound of sweetness to his ears and the vibration it made on his lap brought a joyful feeling to his body.
(Okay, that last part was getting dirty so I would be pleased if I stopped there.)
Anyway, it wasn't too late to do what he needed to do in the first place. There was still some light above in the sky there, and it would be a bummer if it was any later than that. Matthew still needed to do what he wanted earlier.
He headed for the entrance door of the cottage. Not surprisingly he had to admit the animals she had been taking care of was rather a vast types and species and the amount wasn't small either when he was passing through her front porch when he saw so many cages and animals in it he thought it must had been impossible to keep this much more than a normal pony could handle. Her element of Kindness did help her to do this much more easily and helped the animals to behave adequately for others to come in without hesitation.
The door was then in front of him. The evening was still long and still had light left despite the surroundings getting dimmer as more time had passed. The area was unusually quite at this time, he assumed the animals around him had their day filled in the afternoon earlier was pretty sure they were exhausted. Also, the tint of light given due to the time of the day did bring him a calm feeling inside, he guessed the evening did had something good for him. But suddenly all of that thoughts ad feelings was washed away after he did a series of knocks on the door.
A sound of someone saying they're coming can be heard inside but it was somewhat out of the ordinary, despite being muffled. Fluttershy's voice might had been more high pitched than the one heard recently, and much more hint of feminism was much more better to describe the comparison.
He was confused. Is someone else in the building? He would highly assumed it was her coltfriend or someone else like that but she didn't seem much to have one due to her shy personality to even talk without whispering if Matthew would be frank, but he shouldn't judge her just by her personality. Even the most abnormal creature, in this case it would be him, they too can find love inside.
The knocks Matthew did on the door was later replied by it being answered by was being opened and revealed someone in the doorway, a person or in Matthew's case, something or if anything at all was in front of him. The... thing was just as surprised as he was.
This creature Matthew saw rather abstractly built. As if he was staring at an anthropomorphic version of some animal itself. If Matthew had the words or even focus left to describe it in his head, it had many unnatural feature like his body was built slender, thin and was like a snake. His head was rather a mix of many things and his limbs was a different types, each type of animal for a limb. Then there were more other features that Matthew couldn't even say anything about and had no words in disposal for him to use as the description of what he was seeing.
The creature saw Matthew instantly and was blown away by his presence. But his type of shock was a bit different than Matthew's. He seemed to be...overjoyed. And Matthew knew something was up with him.
"Oh... Matthew, is... that you?" his expression of shock was changed and inserted a smile yet still surprised as he was before.
Matthew remained frozen but his mouth by instinct knew how to handle this situation. "Um- uh... yeah?"
His face said it all that he was very happy to hear that. "Oh my, this is great! I didn't expect you to read my message." he teleported to certain places nearby, accompanied with flashes of light to distinguish the feeling of a trick. Matthew was now sure the person who sent that message was right in front of him. That he could confirm right away
" So let me guess, you are the king of chaos?"
He teleported back in front of him. " Why yes! And I do confess that you're very clever." he smiled and admired him. It seemed like he was rather impressed of something.
"Um, what do you mean?" he scratched his head in confusion.
He was taken aback by this statement. He gasped dramatically and his body slumped down in disappointment."Well, now that you've said that you're not very clever then, are you?" his face now made a disapproved look.
"What are you talking about? I don't understand,"
"I mean, how did you know it was me who sent that message to you earlier?" he readjust himself, with his tail he used it as some sort of spring or something, crossed his arms.
Now Matthew finally was starting to find any sense of what he was fascinated about earlier. "Oh, I asked Twilight about who you are and where you live." he repositioned his footing to a more relaxed state.
"Ooh, Twilight huh? That pony was rather fun to be played with. She was rather a bit not liking my presence anymore." he remembered the last time he visited her and her sister-in-law when he was sick. It was quite the memory he cherished. If he brought a camera with him, he would've taken a groupie with them to treasure it forever.
"But I do have to ask," -the creature was giving his attention to him- "why are you in Fluttershy's house?"
"Oh after the defeat of Tirek, that jerk, Fluttershy let me live in this comfy cottage here. It's rather relaxing, and she was also very nice too. You should visit here more often,"
Matthew casually nodded, making sure he has that on his to-do list.
"Oh, where are my manners, my actual name is Discord if you have yet to figure out." he offered his hand.
Matthew returned it with a handshake."Nice to meet you too, Discord." he set his hand back down after that.
And then, Matthew remembered something. In his website, his videos was often about reacting to viral videos and memes in his world, but he felt like he was missing something here. He did a quick check on Youtube and other websites like news and things like those. From what he could remember, he was watching another PewdiePie gameplay video and it was very clear people liked this sort of thing. With him ranting nonsense and jumpscares were the things that of what people wanted to see and giggle or even laughed out loud about it.
Yes, that's it! He had yet to make a gameplay video in his channel, and games the gamers usually played and shared to the world were often horror games, more often than not added a webcam video to see their reaction to it. Many times it was hilarious.
Matthew later had a sudden realization about something. Normally villains like Discord often wanted to instill fear in the hearts of ponies and others alike to show they were powerful. But what if the fearful villains faced fear itself? That would be an interesting experiment to try, and Matthew thought he had a bright idea. I mean, who isn't afraid of anything? Unnatural beings that is.
"Hey Discord, is there any other enemies you know who the Main Six had to face?" he asked a question. Discord was surprised to hear this because he suddenly perked up and quickly wanted to know about other villains than him all of a sudden. Discord smile faded as he heard the word. One thing was for sure, he didn't like where this was going.
"Um well, why do you ask?" at least asking wouldn't hurt on knowing what Matthew was up to.
Matthew figured out what he was trying to do indirectly which is finding out his plan. He had found the loophole for this instantly. "Well, that would be confidential and if you wanted to know, just answer my question." a smug crept onto his face and his hands inside his pockets, obviously taunting Discord to do what he said.
"Well, I could send them invitations instead, how about that. Sir?" Discord trying to redirect a much more better solution to get this over and done with.
Matthew's eyes strayed away from him and nodding his head in approval at the same time. "Yeah, that would be a much better idea. You go do that if you wouldn't mind and I'll set up the- well... set, and we can make a reaction video about something, be there too!" he said before leaving the premise to get back to his house.
Discord watched him go away. His footsteps getting quieter the farther he went, leaving him alone again. Or at least until Fluttershy gets back home. Anyway, he needed some work to do.
Discord closed the door behind him and sighed. He had been given a task to do from a person he admired so much. He wasn't complaining, no. But he should be given more respect as a huge fan of him, he should be grateful.
"Right, now how am I going to get Fluttershy to talk about who were these villains Matthew ordered me to invite?"
It was nine'o'clock at night and Matthew was setting up the studio in his basement. Getting the lights aligned and the camera working well. This would've been so much easier if he remembered a thing or two about cameras because the first time he had to use it was the first day he made the first reaction video. It probably took him half an hour to figure out how it works, but as long he knew much of the basic gist, he would be fine. He got this far with it and he was not going to stop using it now.
To be honest, Matthew was rather feeling different tonight. He'll admit he was never used to working after hours when ponies settled in and turned in for the night. At least on the bright side, or should he say the dark side of it, was nopony could see the villains getting here that much. But to be careful, he was pretty sure antagonists could just disguise themselves as normal ponies. That was the skill they have to learn everytime they wanted information or something like that.
The final preparations were all set and all he needed to do was wait for them to come and sit tight while the screen recorder application and something else was downloading. The internet wasn't slow by any chance but having it to kill two birds with one stone or in this literal case, downloading two things at the same time was pushing the internet's limit at this point. Luckily, it was still working hard to get it transferred to his computer.
More time had passed and the download was complete. Matthew still had some time left to kill so he decided to install both applications properly, giving it a quick test run to see if there's any problem. Matthew was pleased they worked as they were supposed to and could work without lag at the same time. Rare treat for that because the first time he tried to get a screen recording application back home it was a lot more difficult and had to download free ones since he didn't want to waste any money just on some better quality screen recorders.
Finally, the stage was all ready and all he needed to do now was wait again. Maybe eat a mouldy sandwich at the same ti-
Wait, his eyes directed to the mouldy sandwich he was about to eat. It's here again. The sandwich he threw away practically a week ago had returned back to him. He swore he threw it away, he remembered it clearly it was in the trash can. But how is it still here despite every step of him trying to dispose it. Is this sandwich... alive?
Soon enough, the mouldy sandwich began to twitch and few disgruntled noises came from it, as if it was waking up. Matthew was shocked and dropped it on the floor, still shaking. He then stumbled back and crawled away backwards to ensure that whatever that sandwich was going to turn into, he at least had some distance for him to make sure he had bought himself some time before the thing could attack him.
The disgruntled noises turned into growls as something emerged from the side of the sandwich, something yellow, smelled really bad; like it was rotten. No doubt that was the cheese. But as they grew out more had been sprouting out and after a while two little tears had been formed and it emitted a red glow to it, it seemed very angry, of course. The sandwich ended its transformation and began to hiss loudly. Matthew scrounged up whatever courage he had to look at it and what he saw was his sandwich was turned into some six legged creature, a spider-sandwich if he were to scream that out loud.
The thing approached Matthew fast and stopped for awhile, Matthew knew what was going to happen next. And sure enough, his thoughts came true as the spider fired up its legs and leaped onto Matthew as he screamed at the sudden attack to his face.
In the dead of night outside, many lights in the houses was shut off and the windows closed, which made it easier for a group cloaked figures to silently creep through the streets without being noticed. Although they were certain nopony would be outside at this time, they didn't want to take any chances so they cloaked themselves before heading out.
"Hey, are we there yet?" a voice came from one of them.
"Not yet, but we're getting close; I guarantee that," the cloaked figure ahead replied, still running silently to avoid any sudden noises.
They entered through alleys, shortcuts and many intersections and if they heard someone was coming, they would take actions by hiding behind anything or anywhere, as long they would not be seen they would still be fine. Many signals were given to signify an area was clear to go and when there's activity behind the corner. The cold wasn't the thing that worried them, they were afraid of getting themselves into any attention. So far, many movements beside them are just a few cats meowing and flocks of birds taking off by the instant rustling of something approaching. Fortunately, none of that did enough noise to wake up anypony in the vicinity. The travel was going smooth.
At last, one of the saw a house, different from the rest; glowing, alone and unattached, far from any houses and still had someone awake inside. Just what he wanted to see. He called out the others that they had arrived and they were relieved. Now they can take a break from these anxiety and stress that had been building up during their run.
They all approached the house and the first one knocked on the door, telling the owner they were here, but the figures moving through the window already told him something was going on inside. The figure was screaming and rather running madly everywhere. Hard footsteps and something was seen chasing him were heard and it approached to them.
The door suddenly swung open and revealed Matthew, panicking and panting. His eyes was filled with fear and his breathing rapid. Matthew took a note that they were here and at least he was happy for that.
"Oh good, you're- *pant* here.- *pant* Can you all- *pant* just sit- *pant* outside for amoment please?- *pant* Thank you.*pant*" he immediately shut the door after that and got back running inside.
The group outside was confused, especially the figure who was the nearest to the door and revealed himself to be Discord after he removed the hood. Some looked at each other as if they thought the other had a clue of what's happening inside, the other shook his head telling them they didn't know either. Some stayed speechless and blinked.
The commotion inside was heard outside of the door. They had eavesdropped a few noises and some voices from it. The first sound was someone holding their breath up, as if he was tying to swing something. Later the sound of something collided with wood and shattered it. The sound of something crawling could also be heard with it. The sound of someone of struggling to get something off, high possibility that something was impaled onto the floor and was lodged into it. The struggling stopped and a faint hiss could be heard next. The figure came back and some kind of metal grinding on something, as if a sword was unsheating, actually that what it sounded like. Then later the sound of it whooshing left and right and the something tipped over was heard and not long after that the sound of an ornament crashing down was then heard, possibly a vase had been knocked over and broke onto the floor. The figure inside probably didn't want to give up and later came back again with something else. A rope being pulled was heard and it releasing was next. A sound of it colliding the door and vibrating shocked the group outside. One of them figured the figure inside probably shot a bow at his pursuer but failed. This was proven right as the hissing still continued.
Just when it felt like it was over, they were wrong. The figure came back again to its living room and a mechanical cock was followed. And suddenly the sound of bangs accompanied with flashing yellow lights happened. It did this for the next thirty seconds before the sound of another mechanical sound was followed. Possibly ran out of ammo. But the figure was still in the game and came back with something heavy. Then a sudden heat could be felt from the group and the smell of some petrol burning could be smelled. No doubt he was trying to burn it alive.
This followed with another thirty seconds of it pausing and firing it again. After that, it was then followed by it panting heavily, nothing else was heard. The group assumed dead on that the deed was done inside.
The door slowly opened revealing Matthew again, but this time not just panting but a few bruises and cuts, his skin had few burn marks on them and his jacket untidy and his tie hanging very loosely. He saw the group in front of him was very, very confused and some were scared. Some thought to themselves it was a miracle nopony had been woken up when whatever the heck was happening in there. Matthew could just give a weak smile to them, he'll just have to explain to them later.
"Alright, you can come in now." he came back in to his living room, allowing them to come inside
The group cautiously entered the building. And was definitely not prepared of what they saw after that. They saw many things was broken and walls were charred by the burning. Some of the wooden bits on the floor was still in flames. A lone axe was impaled onto the middle of the living room floor at an angle. It was certain he was swinging the axe at it and was stuck onto the floor. Matthew didn't bother to dislodge it again but they will give the benefit of the doubt on that one. One group looked back on the door and the entrance side of the door had an arrow stuck onto it. Two from the group witnessed some small shell cases lying on the floor. Many were not sure of what these were for but they weren't keen on finding out anytime soon. One found a strange-looking long pipe of metal, a canister was also attached to it. That what probably caused the burning part because it could smell burnt petrol from it.
Matthew looked at them, the weak smile still on his face. Many looked back with fearful eyes, already confirming the first impression of him being more dangerous and more capable of giving damage to anything.
"Right then, shall we start with names?"
Villains React To:
Gaming
This Episode: Five Nights At Freddy's 2
The video later began with the villains, all equipped with earphones in their ears and looking at a screen, revealing the thing they needed to react to.
"Five Nights at Freddy's 2?" Discord questioned.
"Oh wait, we're not doing a video? Well, that's a change." Gilda was surprised to see this. She didn't expect to play a video game.
"Oh no, I remembered Twilight updated her status on Hoofbook about this." Trixie cringed at the image in front of him.
"Oh, never heard of this one before," Chrysalis furrowed her brow, unfamiliar with the title screen.
"What no! Noohoho!" Sunset Shimmer yelled aloud as she turned his body up in shock.
"Ah've never played video games before, but this one looked like a really bad idea," Babs Seed was skeptical about this.
As they all pressed the new game button, the screen dissolves into an image of a news article. The article seemed to be a job appliance for a new pizzeria. From the looks of it, they were looking for a new security guard for the night shift. Many of the stars were reading it aloud, hoping that this game had some story to it. Some felt it was pretty basic look and feel to it.
"Alright Trixie, you can do this," she assured herself and rubbed her own hooves to go on.
"So, it begins..." Gilda was starting to feel confident about this. Horrors was something she already had endured.
"I wonder the first night is going to be hard," Sunset's hooves were shaking and was getting noticeable.
The screen instantly changes to the office room. HUD's were displayed everywhere and most of the stars didn't do anything except Trixie.
"Well, this is a crappy office," Chrysalis was disappointed of what she was seeing.
Trixie instantly hovered her mouse icon to the arrow HUD on the right, the monitor quickly rose and displayed the stage show of the game. She later changed the camera mode to the Prize Corner.
"Oh look, what an interesting fan," Discord pointed out. He was referring to the table fan that oscillated the desk and spun normally.
The sudden ringing of a phone could be heard. It jumped the hair out of Babs for a second.
"Oh Tartarus!" she slightly jumped back off the chair leaned back.
"Um, how do I answer the phone?" Chrysalis looked everywhere for the phone button to answer but so far she only found a mute call button.
The ringing stopped as the phone picked itself up and the voice of someone started to come in.
Most of the cast listened carefully of the person's message to get any helpful tutorials and help for them to survive the night. As the call kept going, many were surprised of what they were up against. The call also gave a lot helpful advice which the cast would be glad to have, but the call also mentioned a few backstories and easter eggs about the previous game. Trixie was the one familiar of the reference and commented many things about it. Steps were given for the cast to know what they should do.
Time passed and the call ended. Trixie was fascinated about the new mechanic of using the mask as a way of cheating death and tried it as a test run a couple of times. Others tested what the other buttons did and hopefully willuse them to their advantage. Gilda went to check the clock HUD on the top right corner. She silently fistpumped herself because she felt a little achievement was earned for two hours had been passed.
Some went to the Prize Corner camera and noticed the circle before was depleting in fractions.
"Right, winding up the music box..." Discord instantly found the button and hold it for the circle to regenerate.
Others did the same as they found the button except Sunset Shimmer, who was having trouble of finding it.
"Umm, where's the box?" she hovered the mouse everywhere but to no avail, her search was fruitless until the circle was depleted.
"Oh, here it is!" she quickly wound up the box before anything bad happened.
Trixie checked the other cameras to see if the other animatronics had already been moving yet. But to her relief, all of them stayed as they were on the stage. Gilda however, was not so lucky. She noticed on the show stage an animatronic was missing and anxiety began to fill in.
"Wait, wasn't there another guy standing next to him?" Gilda was referring to the blue bunny that was sitting with the bear beside him.
Others also checked the cameras later and to their surprise, Discord; Chrysalis and Babs Seed found theirs in one of the party rooms.
"Oh no, is that thing alive?" Babs was starting to freak out.
"Well, to me this is considered normal actually," a pause was followed until Discord added, "well except it trying to attack you part, no."
"Ooh, that's really sketchy.." inside, Chrysalis was starting to panic hard.
Gilda later found her pursuer in one of the vents, obvious he was already one step ahead.
"Oh crap!" she shook for a second after knowing he was already close. Sweat was accumulating from her forehead.
Trixie part of the game was already starting to make ominous music. Luckily, she did her homework and found out the song will play if any of the animatronics was getting close. Although great to know that, that didn't make her feel any less stressed out about this.
"Oh no. No, no, no, no!" she instantly checked her cameras and was in the same situation Gilda was in.
Another hour has passed in the game and things was starting to tense up. Discord took the monitor off his face and was checking the hallway and the air vents all around him. Chrysalis however didn't do anything but stare at the animatronic bunny for a long time. Sunset did the same as Discord did and Trixie was checking the air vent on her right.
Gilda found her pursuer again but this time dangerously close to her. In fact, when she turned the light on of the right air vent he was already waiting to attack. Gilda shook instantly and although a little late due to the shock, she was able to get the mask on just in time and a few seconds later the animatrnic came in and looked at her as the screen began to make static. Fortunately, after a while, he later left and she was able to take the mask off again, but still shaken up from that event.
The others found theirs in the same right air vent as Gilda and Trixie was. All gave various reactions from being shocked to the part they told themselves to be more cautious.
Another hour had passed and many received a little warning sign that was blinking on their screens. Most noticed this and checked the cameras to see what made it put there. Many found the problem and knew what they had to do. Some from the beginning it appeared, they weren't so sure how it worked and did the wrong step checked the halls as if the animatronic was near.
Some were too late to figure it out like Babs Seed and Gilda and another tune of a music box was heard. Both of them knew that was not a good sign and sure enough after a few minutes both separately was jumpscared by the animatronic that they had failed to prevent from coming out.
"Aaaagh!" Babs Seed screamed as the sudden image came in front of her and the music was also the factor.
"Oh jeez!" Gilda had a louder tone for this jusmpscare but was more or less on the same boat as Babs's. She then did a snigger and took off her earphones as a sign she was defeated.
Most of the others finally noticed the blue animatronic was just right under the right air vent in their office. These guys were quick enough to equip the Freddy Fazbear mask again and avoided death. Those who didn't noticed weren't so lucky as they were still on their monitors and was easily jumpscared by the rabbit jumping at them on the next hour.
"Mother offff...." Chrysalis jumped back from her chair and nearly tipped over.
"Aauugh... *wimpers and sobs quietly*" Trixie, despite her revision on the game, failed to protect herself from the bunny she thought she would easily avoided.
The bell chimed, signalling the remaining players that they have succeeded in playing the first night without getting mauled.
"Yes!" Discord congratulated himself, " Well, that was easy."
"Finally!" Sunset did her small victory dance for her accomplishment. "Whew, that gave me a nervous wreck."
Thanks for watching us play FNAF. If you want to see more of us react to more horrors, then subscribe to Matthew's channel right now! Be sure to like and suggest our next game or video we should react to. Bye now, I'm going to go and hide under my bed from those monsters!
Since Matthew's latest uploaded video had been in view of the public with increasing popularity, many in the comment section expressed their disbelief to witness that these well-known past villains on screen, even his other friends were shocked by the news. Even Princess Celestia couldn't help but share in her subject's surprise towards it, with a hastily written letter delivered to him as proof.
However, as much as Matthew wanted to answer these questions, he had not the strength he needed to sit in a chair and coming up with a reply.
The main reason why was the hard part. Having to fight off a ferocious mouldy sandwich that tried to murder someone needs some convincing for others to believe.
The symptoms were starting to take affect the moment when he woke up, and the situation became a lot more worse as the day progressed. He first experience dizziness before he was starting to feel nauseous the next few hours, loss of appetite the next and finally vomiting and dropping in and out of consciousness.
The other day, Twilight headed to his house to ask a similar question Princess Celestia already asked online, hoping for an answer just as much as her mentor was, but when she entered his house he found him lying on the floor, foams of spit dribbling from his mouth (Although I have to say he wasn't in the best position when she found him).
Twilight mindset changed after that as she ran out to get help, heading to the nearest hospital there is in Ponyville. She should thank her lucky stars when she found out Matthew was still breathing and alive when he was carried to the hospital.
Since the news of him now unconscious and hospitalized have already been told to many of his numerous fans, many were shocked and they took it quite badly, but not to the point where it was chaotic (oh, how much the before-reformed Discord would love that). Some who were quite the hardcore types visited the producer, giving gifts and cards, but most importantly all of them hope for him to get well soon.
This event stretched for a few days and many began to lose faith of him coming back. Doctors were struggling to give any good news about his condition. Sure, his heart rate stabilized and the venom getting diluted and any potential damage it would do was getting limited. However, since ponies are unfamiliar with human anatomy, it was a challenge for the doctors who were trying hard to achieve when despite the basic premise of his body structure is similar to that of a pony's, but in detail there different ways of how it worked comparing to the pony anatomy with its much easier function.
To make things even more worse, doctors don't even know what the type of venom Matthew was suffering from. Besides the fact that it came from a fungal infection, almost next to none was known about the venom. Secondly, preforming any operations will eventually kill him in the end. His blood obviously can't be mixed with a pony like them. Otherwise, he would suffer from blood clotting and will die anyway. With options very limited, it forced these unsung heroes to find details and come up with solutions quickly.
(Hey look, it's true. You can't mix some random bloke's blood with yours. If the blood type isn't suitable, the mix won't happen. I studied in school, okay? [ if you got a problem with this rule, well...life isn't fair, you know? Tell this to your children.])
More time had passed, it was nearly a week. And no response was given from him. Many others, especially friends of him are trying hard to support the belief that he would make it, but time was beginning to change that perspective. Questions began to arise in their heads of doubting the ability for him to recover. He was a different species altogether, but that doesn't mean he was invincible. They all knew one day he might be gone, dead, buried yet none expected it to happen so quickly. He probably ran out of time for him to do whatever he wanted. Some might say he lost his goal in his life: making everyone happy was his objective. But many probably wondered if he had failed, then his death was forever in vain.
The nearby nurse approached, with a sad expression on her face, came to the group with sagged movements. The group turned to her, waiting for what she had to say. With one look towards them back, a simple shake of her head said it all. In response, many of them began to look down in depression, there was no denying it, he was gone, his soul was now had been separated from his body. All of them, all broken and tired, agreed this. He had to go.
But before the nurse left, one of the group demanded her that they would have a moment to see him one last time. Although reluctant at first, she said they were just finishing up their last preparations to put the equipment back in its place and soon said they were allowed to visit, but on one condition they would not mess with the staff or the equipment or even the deceased person. They all agreed and the nurse led them in the patient ward hall and halted at the wooden, strangely grey door in the hallway. The sign on the door that read "Vault 57".
When asked the reason why his door number was different than the rest, the nurse replied that he already booked himself a room a month before the incident. He never explained why, but they complied to do so anyway. She also mentioned that he decided to have his own name on the door number. She hazard a guess he wanted it that way so he could be easily recognizable.
The nurse stood aside of the entrance of the door, signalling to them they were were now clear to come in. The door soon swung open and they entered the dimly-lit room, where laid Matthew on the bed, motionless and peaceful while the other nurses present where putting away the hospital's apparatuses beside him. Some lightly gasped at the sight of the body, what life there had been inside him was already gone. The only sound in the room emitted from the disassembling of medical paraphernalia, the light rain outside; colliding with the nearby window and there stood a nearby heart rate monitor emitting a single long beep. A wall clock ticking also broke the quietness of the room, but other than those, nothing else was heard.
They soon approached the bed, cautiously not to trip over anything or touching the recent corpse. The nurses nearby took a few quick glares at them to make sure they didn't disturb anything important to their work. But the glares were ignored as they were mainly focusing on Matthew. He didn't move a muscle, not once, probably not anymore.
As they discussed earlier in the hallway, they all decided if his soul was still with him and could still hear them, they at least say some few last words. As expected, many did, some which were long yet full of emotions mixed in, while others kept it short but ended up shedding many tears instead. But all of them knew he wasn't coming back, and even to alicorn standards, resurrecting him would be impossible. Not that it was that challenging but the fact that since he was from another universe altogether their magic would have no direct or indirect effect on him whatsoever. They already tried this before he was sent to the hospital.
Spike was the last in turn to say anything. He approached the bed, closer than the rest had gone. Although it was all pre-written since he wasn't in the mood to say anything earlier, he still poured them out all from his heart.
"Matthew... I-I know *sniffles* we didn't spend a-a lot of t-time together. But *sobs* you're still one of my best friends a dragon could have. A person like you who actually cared for my well-being. So, I owe you an um-uh-" he couldn't mumble out another word.
"Dammit!" he slammed his fist onto Matthew's chest.
"Spike!" Everyone else screamed at his sudden behaviour.
But suddenly as he slammed his fist onto his chest, they heard a sound that they all thought they would never hear again.
Beep
Everyone in the room froze, confused and probably thinking they just imagined it, until Spike slammed his fist again onto him to be sure.
Beep
No, this was real. This was happening! The nurses raised the volume of the heart rate monitor, still unsure if it was still true but they had to try. They all soon took their individual places. One of the nurses motioned Spike to move out of the way so they could work, and another put his hoofs on his ribcage and instantly plunged it in again and again, massaging the heart to reincarnate its pumping motion.
BeepBeep Beep
This was it! This is a miracle! Against all of the odds, the venom and the separation, he still managed to be alive! The nurses tensed up and adrenaline was back inside them. They kept on pumping, ensuring that he could still function normally. Soon enough, they stopped when they were convinced his heart rate was back to normal.
The faces of sorrow and regret was instantly replaced with broad smiles and tears of joy. They couldn't believe he was still alive but it happened, and they didn't care either. They were all relieved that he was still in this world, a second chance for redemption they guessed.
Although not very subtle, his eyelids began to twitch very quickly and with heavy effort was starting to make movements, furiously fighting to unveil his eyes to the world. His vision was once again disoriented and most of the sound channeled into his ear was mostly incoherent, faint noises. But soon started to regenerate their efficiency, making vision clearer and sounds more distinguishable.
And soon enough, his right arm lifted a tad, shaking yet alive. He then moved his head to the right, to find his best friends, crying... but in a very happy way. Must've something tragic just happened but turned into a happy ending he guessed.
Matthew lifted himself up, letting out a deep exhale doing so. He took his time rubbing his temple, his head still a bit disoriented.
"*groan* did I have a hangover or something?"
His friends didn't answer his question. They don't have to, what mattered to them was he was alive. They all soon hugged Matthew together, who was still bewildered of what was going on.
"Oh okay, okay guys. I'm fine." he mentioned before returning the hug to them.
They soon let go, wiping their tears away. Sorrow no more, everypony would be delighted to hear that he was alive and breathing.
"But seriously though, what's going on? Why am I here?" he still waited for his answer from them.
"Ya don't know?" Applejack asked back. He then shook his head.
With a sigh, she started her summary of what happened for the last week to him, with a bit of added commentary from the rest into the mix. When she was done, Matthew was left with many questions to himself, wondering on how others loved him. He was just doing his work for fun and uploaded it so he could easily share it with the rest of the world, he never wanted anything else. But it seems that his work brought everypony else closer than ever before. (which was kind of obvious. Dammit, Matthew how can you not see this?)
But he guessed that didn't matter, at least not for a while. He has to get onto more important stuff.
Like making another reaction video. I mean, at the moment that's what he was good at, and some would be probably go batcrap mad when they see that sort of thing again. And that's one thing the doctor can't cure, his addiction. Well, he didn't think anyone would want it to be gone anyway.
"Oh Matthew,"-Celestia decided to blurt out, knowing the time then would be more appropriate than ever-" I do want to add a bit of news to you,"
She then went into her bag she was carrying and extracted out something shiny with her magic. Others saw the object and was wondering what was Celestia seems to be holding.
"Here, have a look at it." she then levitated the object to Matthew.
Matthew took a moment to inspect the shiny thing on his hand. The "casing" appeared to be made of crystal (waste of precious minerals if you ask me), a black screen appeared to be on one side. He started to feel a sort of deja-vu with it. A feeling like he had that sort of thing before.
"Let me guess, it's a phone. Isn't it?" he faced back to her, waving the phone as he did so.
Celestia, in all honesty, was surprised to know he could figure it out so quickly. The others in the room didn't say a word to each other, but they know they were asking the same thing.
"Why yes, how did you know?"
"I have something similar at home." he stretched his hand to hand it back to her, who then Celestia levitated it back to herself.
"But I do want to ask though, how does it work? As far as I can tell, electricity wasn't your forte. Even in technology." he let himself say a question everyone else was about to ask her.
With clearing a throat out of the way, she started the explanation, " Well, the engineers have came up with this yesterday, and started giving the prototype to me for testing today. They call it the Crystalphone, the first-ever portable smartphone they seem to claim."
"-The phone is powered by flowing in fluid-like magic into it. It can do everything from-" she was interrupted by Matthew saying,
"-From calls, messages, notifications to music and applications. I think I get it," (Okay, that was rude.)
Celestia was already started to feel so impressed on how Matthew knew all about these things it started to feel scary. "Oh, um... yes. I do want to question on how you're able to know so much about technology."
Matthew wouldn't want to say much, considering he already spat out enough saliva drops already, he was a bit of a sprayer. But then again, he suppose he wasn't going to let that question go unanswered, not that he hate it.
"From where I came from, friendship wasn't our top priority. Ever since from the birth of Adam, we wanted to create something, anything. And that, my friend, was the reason our love and strive for technology has been going forward fast. And by the way, yours is catching up quick." he then looked around for a minute. "Say, has anyone seen my clothes?"
The video was shortened and cut into several short 6-second clips to save a lot of time and effort for the reactors to watch without any long description.
swag
The person (AKA Rudy) was walking along acting cool singing and dancing to a song... right until he ended up hitting something when he wasn't looking in front of him.
"Oh! that would hurt." she closed her mouth in shock.
"I- wasn't expecting that," she shook her head in admittance, with the same amount of shock as Twilight.
"You know this reminds me of the third episode where Applejack was working by herself too hard." Noted Pinkie Pie with another fourth wall break that I, behind the camera didn't get what she was saying. "What?"
"Darling, I believe it is a good idea to watch where you're going. Okay?"
Racist Elevator
Three men entered a lone elevator together. When the door has been shut, many were transformed into their stereotypical clothes all of a sudden, to their surprise. The Asian being a Japanese ninja, an African being the typical thug and the Hispanic as the mexican dancer. Though I do have to say, he enjoyed it when it happened.
Um... I don't believe I've heard of racism, what does it mean?"... I best not answer her question.
"Ah believe Rarity said something similar to this,"
"Racism is bad, and you should feel bad,"... for some reason when I heard Twilight say this, I get an image of a mutant crab shouting the same quote.
When You Find Random Things in Your Couch...
Rudy decided to inspect the deep crevices in his plump couch. When he reached for something in it, he was surprised to have refound his lost car keys, a stray dollar bill and a- wait, was there someone in that couch? Oh, and he proceeded to take back that dollar bill the other bloke was holding.
Rarity was still shocked by the sudden appearance of Couch Guy. "Well, at least I have something to do with my drama couch,"
The rest of the cast except Applejack pondered aloud to the camera if they could do the same thing for Rarity's couch.
"There's pretty much more stuff to be found in mah house, like that set of Granny Smith's dentures under the house I found last two weeks ago."
Wooden floors be like
Rudy then exited the bathroom, minding his own business. Suddenly, the wooden floor creaked in a strange, squeaky voice when he stepped his foot on it. He retracted in surprise and put his foot back slowly onto the floor again to confirm if that was the source of the sound, sure enough it did. But then he shrugged it off in annoyance and continued walking anyway, with a song accompanied to it.
Applejack sniggered to herself, This was the exact same issue with mah house too. But without the spanish singing or whatever it was singin' just now,"
Pinkie practically wept with laughter, "That was a good one!"
Fluttershy wasn't keen on having that in her house, but the skit was funny enough for her to earn a chuckle.
"Dear, you need some little modification to your floors. Please?"
Hispanic Commercials
Most of them involved reimagining certain commercials from famous companies with adding a little bit of blurbs to add the flavour of a Hispanic way of making a commercial. Little blurbs like "I think I just got diabetes.", "I-I mean, you don't have to. I can do it for like, 12 dollars." and "Who are born in Mexico,".
"I'm not so sure if that's appropriate but I guess I should respect their way of making a commercials:brutal honesty,"
"Wow, going for the reality, are we?"
"That's so true!"
Question Time
Did you like those videos?
"Not really,"
"Possibly,"
"Twasn't bad,"
"Not much,"
"Absolutely!"
"Yeah I dig it!"
There's a social media app available on Earth called Vine that shares videos only for 6 seconds each and no more, yet it's one of the successful apps in the world. What do you think when an app only allows 6 second videos can be so popular?
"Not entirely sure, but it has something to do with how psychology works towards a specific group of individuals who are into it,"
"Short videos don't take up much time and is a lot easier producing content,"
"Some ponies have short attention span,"
"There's something about it that makes it work. Something that involves less time and more humor,"
"Don't know, you tell me,"
Why do funny video like these are memorable?
"Come to think of it, there's a certain part of the brain that if something makes you happy, you will want more happiness called dopamine. Hence, in the search for more happiness you will remember it,"
"If something funny happens, you will remember it because it's funny,"
"I don't know, but I guess it just helps you to be happy,"
"Duh, it's funny so it is memorable,"
Have you ever encountered a situation similar to these videos?
"I do, loads of times,"
"Yes, but just some of them,"
"Hardly,"
Last question, do you think this app could be the next generation of entertainment?
"The evidence is there, of course it will,"
"I suppose it might,"
"Definitely! I mean how are you not entertained by this sort of thing?"
"If it does, then it would be awesome!"
Background Ponies React To: Friendship Is Violence
It's been almost a year since his first arrival in Equestria, and the future ahead of him was bright. He has done so much contribution to the world that it could be called the happiest place in Equestria. Something he would call his 'day-job' or whatever.
However, after the recent event of a near-death incident with a somehow sentient mouldy sandwich (which escaped to God knows where, ready to inject its venom to some other poor sod), he has, well... changed. He was suddenly seeing the darker side of the world around him as time went on. His smile began to falter, and his funny side was starting to get tired (though he still enjoyed eating, that's one thing to note for no reason at all). When noticed, his friends were starting to worry about his health and wondered and did what they could do to help out, but most of the time he refused for them to aid him.
This new change was never a good one from the start. Fans from forums and the ever-cramping comment section came up with suggestions and theories (and not to mention flame-wars) for his suddenly deflated emotion. From the most obvious like the surgery side-effect to the downright impossible ones like he was being replaced by someone else's soul (... the hell did I just wrote!? I mean, seriously! Why would anyone think of this? I'm really weird).
Although the cause was still being identified, he was still trying hard to fight it. Like any women (most notably Rarity) during their whining state, buckets of ice-cream must be supplied at all cost to keep him from being depressed too much, though he wasn't fond of having to gulp down all of those since that would be a waste but hey, at least he was doing something for himself to repair his condition.
Twilight believed having a therapy session with him would definitely solve the issue. I mean, she had to start off with something small like a normal conversation, just her and Matthew. Because she knew him enough to know he wasn't being himself, and it didn't seem to be that he was faking it out for attention. Everyone knew what he was doing was just for his enjoyment and he was just sharing it with the rest of the world he lived in.
Anyway, if he was looking for attention, he sure got everyone to notice. But as mentioned before, everyone knew that he never wanted any attention drawn to him in the first place,he was considered a shy bloke who liked nothing more than to make ponies life happy.
Twilight arrived at her designated house. She did a few knocks on the door to signify Matthew that she's here. The door swung open to reveal Matthew, all messy and tired, as if he just got out of bed.
"Oh hey Twilight, What are you doing here?" his words were slurry, did a deep breath through his nostrils and rubbed one of his eyes. Eyes that seemed to have never seen the light of day and filled with red.
"I just came here to discuss something. We seriously need to talk," answered Twilight, obvious to him that she was worried and taking action for this illness.
Matthew already figured she's going to save him from his recent change, and usually he would decline the offer for help. To him, if someone offered to help him he thought he was burdening others for him. That's something he didn't find comfortable living with.
Though this time, maybe he thought he should give her a try. His state was already the fear everypony else have been feeling for a while and he knew better than to see him like this forever.
"Sure, come in." he swung the door open wide for her to enter.
She obliged and came inside. Upon entering, there's something about this place that told her that he was pretty much suffering from his own mind. The lights were off, dirty plates clogged the sink and many clothes scattered around the house.
Whoa, right he seriously need therapy. Stat!
He lead her to her room. where his laptop remained where he left it before the incident:right on his bed. When Twilight took a closer inspection, she noticed that he wasn't watching his own videos or on a video-editing software, he just tuned to some other videos of his kind.
When she thought about it for a moment, if someone were feeling like this, they would feel something as well. But she couldn't put a hoof on it on what it was, her memory was a bit hazy on the details.
Matthew then brought a nearby chair facing his bed, signalling Twilight to sit down on it. As she did so, Matthew went back lying on his back on the bed, resuming his descent to depression by watching a video he paused recently.
Matthew was the first to speak, "Sorry about the mess, I haven't been feeling fine these days. But I'm sure you know that already." his eyes never seem to divert from the screen.
"No no, it's fine. I think I already got use to it," she pointed out, remembering the time she was a much more OCD type of pony back then.
"Now then, you said we have to talk. Right?" she snapped from her daydream, and then nodded. He remembered Twilight was going to do that,"Well, say it then,"
"Oh right. As you may have known, we noticed you've changed after you've checked out of the hospital a week ago. Can you tell me what's the problem?"
He knew it. He heard this sort of question before with a bunch of others that he knew, they just vary. He's getting tired of it already, so finally for the first time he spat out the truth.
"... I want to go home," he faced back to her.
Twilight was taken aback on what he just clarified. "Home? Why? I thought you like it here." her expression changed to a more sad tone.
"Don't you get it? I love it here, of course. But- *sigh* it just doesn't feel like home..." he then closed his laptop and set it aside, then he sat upright facing her.
"Look Matthew, when it comes to this, I know how you feel. I was born and raised in Canterlot. Then suddenly, the Princess asked me to go to Ponyville, leaving behind everything I once remembered about that place. Looking back now, I felt empty when I'm not there. So you see, the feeling's mutual. It's something I have to get used to by now." a drop of tear fell from her eyes.
Matthew seemed unaffected, but deep down he understood what she explained to him,"I understand Twilight, but this isn't about if I miss it or not, well- maybe it is. But really, what I'm gloating about is that- well, I don't belong here," he then directed his gaze elsewhere, not wanting to talk anymore.
Twilight knew he was missing something, but she never expected for him to feel lost without the time to be back in his home world. "Matthew... what you're saying is-that... you want to go back?" she finally figured it out.
Matthew just simply nodded his head.
Twilight was lost for words for a while, "Matthew, we're not forcing you to stay here by any means, no. But what confuses me is, why do you want go back, even after you've done particularly nothing wrong?" she stuttered out.
Matthew remain silent, knowing the truth would hurt. Like they say, the truth always hurts.
"Have we done something bad to you then, or we didn't care about you much or something? Then if so, we apologize for that. We're sorry if we did hurt you." Twilight made a few logical assumptions to answer her own questions, but deep down she knew the true source of the answer would only come from Matthew.
Matthew finally had the force to speak up, "No, don't get me wrong. You ponies are nice and all, you've given me great care and I love what you did for me. But the reason I wanted to be back home because, like I explained it to you before, I don't belong here. I belong with my own kind, to be with other human beings."
He remembered a time where he lived with his parents, the one that took care of him for 14 years and never gave up when things got tough or flat-out destructive. But unlike any other day, there was one where he did the stupidest idea he ever did, and it cost him his will to live after that.
Like any teenager, they went through a thing called depression. Matthew seemed to suffer this more brutally than anyone else he knew. Everyone makes mistakes, but he believed he did more than anyone out there in the world. To him, he compared himself with the devil, and saw hardly any differences between him and it. In one single time where his depression was at his worst, he attempted to end his life.
He was then sent to a mental hospital away from the state of 'Selangor'. Others, especially his parents, were praying all they could to make sure he was cured. But three weeks later after his arrival in the mental hospital, he was then reported missing and was never seen again by them.
One thing they finally cured was his believe that death was the solution to all his problems, but he remained his theory that he was bringing misery to others. Anyway, He managed to escape and able to make his way back to his original house using whatever he could salvage, fake identifications and a "mask" to cover up his whereabouts, hoping the authorities wouldn't find him.
When he arrived, he discovered that the house was empty and barren. A "Untuk Sewa" sign which stood for "For Rent" was plastered on the gate. He then later found out the truth that they moved to their dream house in Terengganu that they bought the land before. Diaries he found stashed somewhere in the house revealed that they moved so they could continue living their lives without him, also stating that they never gave up wishing him to come back, missing him very dearly.
He was devastated to see and read all of the information that was given to him, but realized that it was for the best. With that in mind, he took a full-time job in a nearby roadside restaurant, earning him RM2,000 a month. Barely enough to settle his rent and food. He soon discovered that with a hard life, you will get off as a better person. Because he heard this quote, "With increaseth sorrow, increaseth knowledge".
He was a tired man but he felt...happy. He figured life was tough before any of that incident, but he needed to experience it firsthand to know what that word actually felt like. And with his new friends to keep him company, life was starting to feel enjoyable.
When he came to Equestria, he believed that this was his chance to start a new way of life, and he did it well. He got fortune that he never really wanted, fame that he would rather avoid, and friends that he never thought could make just by being a different species.
But taking everything into consideration, it was starting to feel...off. He'd rather have his old life back, where he actually worked for a living.
"Matthew, now that I know how you're actually feeling right now, how about we suggest a compromise?" she snapped his trip down through memory lane and back into the world of reality, well...if you could call it that.
"What do you mean?" confused Matthew.
She pondered a bit for a while to get a suitable solution, "You can go back if you want to, but what if we, and by we, I mean the rest of our friends go to your universe and see what we can do to feel that we should take your kind into consideration?"
Matthew hoped he just misheard that. He knew better than to show other sentient, intelligent species about his kind. Humans like him aren't friendly by any means when meeting new type of life forms, it's pure human nature to have a slight distrust and fear toward those that were unknown.
Then, he found a better idea that sprang up in his head.
"Tell you what, Twilight?" he suddenly smiled, but oddly enough Twilight didn't expect to see it.
"I'll go there for a while, and bring some sources and materials for you mates to react to?"
Twilight seemed rather surprised by this. What was so terrible about his species until he had to keep it confidential to her? She'd seen Matthew for a long time, and he didn't seem that bad. In fact, he wasn't bad at all to begin with.
Despite his suddenly cheerful attitude (which, to be honest, wasn't natural), anyone can sense he had a sense of dread inside him. He was that terrible at hiding it.
"Matthew, I have to ask. Why are you so afraid of showing me your kind?"
Matthew went silent, and panic was becoming noticeable. Evidently, he wished she wouldn't ask a lot of questions and just roll with it, but knowing her being extremely careful towards a certain agreement was something he's glad it's something she would do, but not so much in this situation.
Not wanting this to be a barrage of truth or dare, he might as well say the real purpose,"Look Twilight, my kind isn't the nicest species you'll ever see." Of course, Twilight already knew his species wasn't great, because nothing was. Yet he made it like his kind was the worst to have existed, "Due to our greed, we have pollution, war, terrorism, diseases, famine, obesity, crime, global warming, the destruction of glaciers, increase of natural disasters and extinction. Need I say more?"
Twilight replied with surprised silence, she guessed she shouldn't have asked. Brutal honesty was something she hadn't got to grips with when encountered with it.
Yet being the optimistic, she always know that every bad thing had their good side. It's the perfect balance that made it wonderful."You know Matthew, what your kind's disadvantages isn't much of a bad thing, because let's face it, you need the other to balance it out."
Matthew heard her point, she was right. God made everything balanced in the world for us to live in harmony (which, to be honest, sounds very cheesy). However, she had to take considerations when it comes to the dark side of everything (please don't make a Star Wars joke here, I beg you, don't).
Knowing it was better to show than to tell (which begs the question why books are still enjoyable today), he might as well present the cast which was going to do their weekly job reacting to stuff a video and prove that some humans have a very sick idea for humour.
The video began with the animator's nickname and the full title which read, 'My Little P***k, Friendship Is Violence', if that wasn't obvious already.
The cast were already surprised at the quick vulgarity this video has gotten into.
"Whoa, this has gotten dark quick," Vinyl was the first to speak the obvious.
"I hope my daughter isn't watching this episode," Derpy feared the worst.
Unfortunately, her husband didn't take it any better,"Oh dear, can I leave please?" To which, I responded no.
Lyra was the surprising part though, she seemed to be unaffected by the video.
Her girl isn't though,"Oh no, I've heard Lyra talking about this video being crap and now, I'm finally watching it,"
Octavia was mostly shocked and disgusted and rather left herself speechless.
A figure of Pinkie Pie was seen rising up into the scene (with a cutie mark of a bong for some reason. But then again, if the show was rated R it would make a lot more sense if that's how she's always cheerful), knocking on the door of the farmhouse, emitting a cracking sound and called out to her friend, Applejack if she was inside.
Octavia may not have seen Pinkie Pie personally for a long time but she knew how her voice sounded like when she heard it,"Alright, that may not be her voice but, her personality seemed to fit."
Bon Bon was starting to feel uncomfortable,"Ookay then,"
Vinyl wasn't much different,"The hay is going on here,"
Whooves rather let the video roll on and wished it would be over soon.
'Pinkie' then pushed open and peeked inside, the door emanating a creak similar to the one from Five Nights At Freddy's 4. She then proceeded onward along the creepily dark hallway, the walls were strewn with blood splattered all over it. None of it was making the visitor any comfortable.
The same thing could be said to Derpy, who was about to vomit.
"From here, it's all going downhill and disgusting," Lyra pointed out and quite spoiled the rest of the few seconds the video was going to show.
"Why's there blood on the wall?" Octavia would be awarded as the captain of questions.
Then 'Pinkie' peeked beside a corner, where she found 'Applejack' chewing on... wait, is she eating Fluttershy? What the f*** is this!?
Derpy finally let all her vomit out. It had gone too far already.
Bon Bon was left stuttering in shock.
Lyra just simply shook her head in disapproval, probably wondering what the creator was thinking when he made this bulls***. I was thinking the same thing when I first saw it about two days ago.
Vinyl was getting disgusted more and more as the video went on. She made a face almost identical to the 'Eww gay' meme.
'Applejack' noticed someone behind her (by the way I got to ask, why is her cutie mark of an Apple logo?), which the someone began to scream in panic. Realizing how this will turn out, she tried calming her down and getting her to shut up to avoid getting anyone else in the proximity any attention. But what was surprising to her was she said that she wasn't sharing the corpse with her, to which she just went silent and darted her eyes to the left, processing what she just asked.
Not long after, they began to eat the bloody morsels together.
"What, literally, what?" Vinyl was not only disgusted but very confused.
Hopefully, you could go figure on what reaction the others did when they saw that part.
'Twilight' then walked in on them doing 'that', obviously shocked and instantly escaped back to her house. Wasting no more time, she asked Spike to write a letter to Princess Celestia. "Dear Princess Celestia, I've just learn that Applejack and Pinkie Pie and Applejack are bloodthirsty cannibals! Also, pegasus doesn't taste that bad..."
Almost everyone did the same reaction as Princess Celestia when she got the letter.
"Exactly, my face there," Bon Bon pointed out her reaction.
The next scene showed Discord making Ponyville explode just by doing backflips in the air (okay, I think Michael Bay have something to do with this video).
"You know what, I don't want to even find logic in any of this," Octavia finally gave up on trying to see anything that makes sense.
Knowing what's happening, Twilight (one second, what's with Pinkie's face in the background?) told everyone that they need to find the Elements Of Harmony as quick as possible.
"Why is Discord doing this again?" Vinyl really tried to ask me a lot of things that even I can't answer.
"Ouch!" Derpy cringed at that punch Twilight did.
Pinkie called out to the others to not panic and told everyone she knows what to do to save them all.
"Wait, what's with that face? No, sod that, what's with everything in here!?"
Without going into too much detail, she made a lame joke and she died in a gruesome way.
"Well, I guess she deserved it,"
"Oh dear Celestia! That's nasty,"
Princess Celestia made a face that only last a split second and finally arrived to rescue the day for once in her life.
"That's so true,"
"I can't believe I didn't notice that!"
She tried ordering him to stop but he refused, he then got impaled by her horn and soon died. It's no big surprise, really.
"That... one way to deal him,"
"He's reformed now, I don't think killing him is necessary,"
Skipping the boring part and the video ended.
"Matthew, that wasn't funny!"
"Is it over? Oh thank Celestia!"
"I'm not talkin' anymore than I did before,"
"It's done, you happy now?"
"I thought you were better than this, Matthew,"
"Seen the video before but upon second viewing it really felt different,"
I tried questioning them for the next section of the video but they refused to cooperate with me. I had to make an announcement to the viewers that they left the studio as soon as the video had ended.
Twilight finally finished seeing the recent reaction I've posted to Youtube, and she didn't talk much after she left.
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So... um, want a pizza?
Schoolfillies React To (or rather play): The Affected- The Manor VR
Matthew stared contently out of his window, though contently wouldn't be an appropriate word for other people. Most of what he could distinguish were faint silhouettes of nearby houses and tall buildings in the distance. Most of the calming view of the streets were unfortunately veiled by a sandy brown haze that arrived from a forest fire in his neighbouring country of Indonesia. No government warnings were declared, but mass media have been broadcasting around the clock informing the public to remain indoors and recommended face masks when stepping outside.
In Matthew's case, he didn't mind. In fact, he found all this miserable weather mildly enjoyable. He wasn't sure why but he had this lingering sense of alienation when he noticed the lack air pollution back in Equestria. The cleanest air he has ever breathed in his life, the most luscious greenery he has ever saw, it felt like heaven. It felt a bit nauseating to him. So seeing black smoke from open burning and jet trails from the aircrafts above was a bit refreshing, he believed it was a reminder to himself that things like these were something only humans like him could familiarise with.
By the way, the window that I meant was the one that belonged to his house on Earth.
Earlier that week, he had been busy packing up his belongings and amenities, especially those that didn't came from the land of Equestria. He had made his decision to leave Equestria for good to return to his world. A place where he called his true home, the place where he belonged.
"Let's see, am I missing anything?" he did a run-down on his list and glanced at the contents of his suitcase one last time. Nothing seemed to be missing, all his clothes and camera equipment were all set and ready for travel. Anything else that was given to him in this land was returned, like his laptop and Crystalphone. It didn't belong to him, it was never his to begin with. They were gifts from those who loved him, gifts that he didn't deserve. Bringing in any of those stuff with him to Earth would disturb his conscience. Besides, those things wouldn't work at all in his world anyway.
There's one thing he'd thought best left behind though, and that would be that sandwich that escaped somewhere. He had yet to find an explanation as to why it suddenly had a life of its own and was out after his blood. He's not going to bother wasting his time finding it and asking about it though, he shuddered nervously at the traumatic moment where he nearly trashed an entire living room just barely fending him off. He preferred that abomination would find itself comfortable here and away from him, besides he heard ponies had experience with monsters like that.
"Well if there's nothing else, I'm done here." he zipped up his bag and went to the door. Where he made his last trek to Twilight's castle, hoping she would be kind enough to send him back to where he came from. Because he knew well that nopony wanted him to go, and by the looks of it, didn't have a good reason to.
Before that day though, she often times refused to talk to him for a while after he showed her the reaction video he recently posted yesterday. However, that's the effect Matthew wanted to see in the first place, and the reactors were no different. But unlike them however, Twilight did one better and seek to understand Matthew's species, from his culture down to his science. Her friends were suspicious of her, thinking Twilight was making plans to travel to Matthew's dimension.
Matthew wished the best of luck to her regardless, because her friends would make sure she didn't get any chance of it. Twilight wouldn't belong there, she wouldn't understand. Her home is in Equestria, where she has friends and family who need her more than Planet Earth does.
She started to feel more comfortable with Matthew around though as time went on.
Matthew arrived at the castle, and went inside. He had a moment to think, why does no one here ever lock their front door? But then again, this was Equestria, crime was often scarce. Yet in America, there were those individuals who would leave their doors unlocked, which confused him. America isn't the safest place to be in the world. It's basic common sense for your house to be secured at all times.
But then again, he never lived there and never grew up knowing why. His parents did though for a while to study, and that's where they met.
Focusing back to reality, he realized he made it to the Round Table, or a map or a magic GPS or- you know what? You can make your own jokes about this.
He looked around the room, obvious to everyone there was no one in sight. It wouldn't be strange though, unless you got guards posted in these empty hallways, it felt like it was abandoned for about a week or so. This castle was humongous and even in a room of ten ponies still felt the room empty.
Fixing his footing, he figured she was out to do something and thought a little exploring for a bit would be nice while waiting for her to come back soon.
Placing his suitcase beside one of the thrones, he then made his way to one of the big doors in the room. When entering into one of the halls, it seemed to be decorated with all sorts of spooky stuff like carved pumpkins and the sort.
When he thought about it, when he was outside, heading to Twilight's, most of the ponies was starting to decorate their houses with ornaments and heard discussions on what costumes to wear and fillies challenging each other on how much candy they could collect on the next week or so. All of them related to being Nightmare Night or something. He figured that this was Equestria's equivalent to Halloween, often celebrated in the US or Britain or anywhere that mainly believed in Christianity. Which was a new sight to see because his country never celebrated Halloween, whatnot believing in a different religion.
He then slid open another door in front of him. The room was filled with books neatly stacked beside each other, to put it directly, it's a library alright?
However, what intrigued him the most was a huge contraption in the middle of the room. Matthew was impressed when he saw it, he never knew Twilight would build something great like Nikola Tesla or other inventors.
All that's left missing from them was what she had just built here. His friends didn't mention much of it, either they wanted it to be kept a secret or he wasn't spending time with them enough to feel comfortable sharing about it.
Well, whatever the reason was, it still looked amazing. And then, he had the most terrible idea ever, he thought he could get it to turn on and see what happened. I mean, you've got to expect him to do that. He's 16 years old and wasn't that mature, despite the hardship he suffered early in his life.
He approached closer to the machine. But like most first inventions, there were no easy way of telling if there was a switch or a button to turn it on. Later updates of inventions often simplified the position and mechanics of it, this wasn't it.
The door swung open behind him, alerting him and making a dash behind the machine, hoping whoever entered, the most possible being Twilight, didn't spot him snooping around something potentially dangerous.
The hoofsteps were getting somewhere closer and it seemed irregular, possibly there was another pony or more alongside the first, making him tense up. But then again, he had no reason to hide from anyone in this place. Well, trying to turn this machine on was a good reason why but other than that, nothing forced him to be hidden from others.
"We've discussed this, Twilight. If he wanted to go, we shall let him go," the voice felt regal and soft, but stern and blunt. Definitely the Princess was here.
"I know, Princess. It's just that- we'll probably never see him again." which was true. Matthew never planned to return here, he already spent a year living in this place what he called paradise. But all good things must come to an end as they say, and he has to endure hardships to move on in life.
"Twilight, you must understand that we must respect his decisions, wether we like it or not." Matthew was starting to feel sympathy, and also curious. Why were they recapping their discussions here? He guessed this was the last place where he could be around. Twilight did say the room was not allowed to him unless permission was granted.
"I do, it's just that, I'll never get to tell him," wait, what was he going to tell him?
"Tell him what, Twilight?"
"To tell that I love him," this shocked Matthew to the bones. Holy crap, she liked him, as a girlfriend?! This wasn't happening, how could she love him? He had nothing in common with her,physically or psychologically. He never even developed any affection that was more than friendship, especially to everyone he met.
He was starting to feel guilty. He had already endured this with his family, they loved him so much, and he spat on that love by trying to kill himself. It led him here, where something more or less similar was going on.
However, he still needed to get home. It's where he belonged, and will be for the rest of his life. He couldn't deny that, even if he tried to. He wished that since Twilight liked him, she could come along with him, and see what it felt to be in his shoes. Yet he thought ahead about that, if Twilight joined him, Equestria would crumble. They needed her here, where she had a responsibility to hold.
A place where she belonged.
"Well Twilight, I'm sure he shall love you too," Celestia tried to comfort her, but she replied with sobs. Was she crying? Dear god, this was getting sad. That was it, no more hiding anymore.
"I'm sorry if I didn't notice," he soon revealed his presence to them. It became clear that he listened to their whole conversation, which surprised both of them.
"I didn't know you felt that way," he soon scratched the back of his head in shame. Such a man like him could be so ignorant about others, ignorant about their gratitude for enjoying the content he made. But more importantly, ignorant to those who loved him.
Twilight was left speechless after what he said, tears floated on her eyes.
"But Twilight you have to understand, I need to go." he went on,"I have my responsibilities there, and so do you here."
Twilight let him carry on, she wanted to know if he loved her or not.
"So I'm sorry, I have to leave." tears started forming on his eyes."But thank you for telling me what you really feel about me."
Twilight then rushed to him and hugged him and shed tears all her heart out. In his religion, he wasn't allowed to touch other woman than his wife or his relatives, but he's going to let her hug him all she wanted, caressing her hair to show how grateful he was for her.
She soon let go, knowing what to do next. No one had said a word, and they prefer it that way.
"Promise you won't come with me, please?" Matthew begged. It was a pitiful one, but he needed to say it.
Twilight nodded, wiping the tear streams of her cheeks.
"That was sweet, Matthew," a voice came from the door.
They both looked towards the sound, where every reactor was there. The Mane Six, the Backgrounds, the Schoolfillies, all went here to say their last goodbye to him.
"Here's your bag Matthew, you're gonna need it," Scootaloo let go of the suitcase. He smiled, such a caring group. Something he could call his family.
He soon retrieved the case and nodded to Twilight signalling that he was ready. They all wished him good luck and goodbye, something he would only hear only once.
He replied back the same thing, but to Twilight, he wanted to say something special to her.
She readied her magic, and soon the portal was starting to take shape. Before he entered, his last words to Twilight were, "I love you too, Twilight." he then disappeared into the portal, where it then closed.
Matthew would never forget that day, and he certainly wouldn't forget Twilight. Such a love that can never be together, was still better than no love at all.
He looked at his watch, it was starting to enter four 'o clock. But he didn't need to worry about anything, it's a Sunday evening and he already took care of his errands. His work hours didn't start until the weekdays, when he was going to be busy.
Seeing as he was just leisurely sitting outside his window, he decided to get something to drink while he's at it. He then went to the kitchen and got a can of cola from the fridge. He already had finished his share of eating meat for the past days, then there was something to worry about, grocery shopping.
He then saw his arm reflected something green from the right. He then faced the source, where suddenly a wisp of aura was circling mid-air.
He couldn't believe what he's seeing. Twilight couldn't have made another portal already, could she? She promised.
The aura began to turn into a portal that he was too familiar seeing. Then out jumped something that was so fast he couldn't comprehend what it was, because it knocked him down with it.
The world blacked out on him, his ears began to ring and a muffled voice was heard. Then the thing the toppled him down started putting its weight off of him, letting him breath a bit more easier.
His vision regained, and the person was in view, or more accurately, eight persons were in view. Which was strange, until one began to speak, which after that he recognized everyone immediately.
"Uh, hiya Matt,"
He knew that voice, who else could it be than those schoolfillies?
Matthew found himself lying on a ceramic floor, groaning very loudly with lots of frustrated thoughts in his mind. He got back up, dusted himself off, and asked one simple question.
"How the hell did you get here?"
To which Sweetie Belle answered,"We found something that could teleport us to another dimension. We uh... learned that the hard way."
More groans of frustration emanated from Matt's mouth. How were they going to get back?
Matthew then noticed something, they were standing as tall as he was. "Hold on, let me turn the lights on," he then pressed a nearby switch and the room was illuminated, revealing what just happened.
"Holy s***, you lot are humans!" he declared out loud.
The group checked themselves, they were indeed turned into humans. All teenagers aged between fifteen to seventeen, thankfully wearing clothes that somehow fit their physical description.
"Matthew, what's goin' on?" Applebloom was starting to freak out.
This was going to take the whole evening to calm them down.
It was midnight and the group was chilling in the living room with Matthew exhausting his breath trying to explain how the human body works.
"So right now, I'm considered a mare?" Diamond Tiara asked.
"You mean a woman? Yes, you are," Matthew just confirmed it.
"Now with that talk done, how are you going to get back?" Matthew tried asking the teenagers for ideas.
Snails tried giving a plausible answer,"How about you call Twilight?"
Which wasn't an option considering his contacts from Equestria stayed in Equestria with that Crystalphone. Besides, no telecommunication companies were considering inter-dimensional connections as even a real thing."No, I can't,"
But this got him thinking, Twilight contacted Matthew no problem, and she was still in Ponyville for God's sake. How was she able to get a line through?
This was what happen if you don't ask a lot of questions.
Spike was starting to panic,"Guys, how are we gonna get home?"
Matthew wasn't helping,"I don't know Spike. I don't know." he hung my head.
But then, he got an idea, "Do you mates know what sent you here?"
Thankfully, one of them replied, "Well, we got here by touching this thing," Sweetie Belle extracted a glowing stone out of her pocket, it emanated a green glow.
Matthew sighed in relief, this was going to be easy. "Well then, you can go back now,"
But the others noticed a flaw of trying to," Uh Matthew, we don't know how."
He was back to square one,"Why don't you try to remember how it got you here?"
"Well, all we know is that it sent us here when we touched it,"
"Then, why isn't it teleporting you back now?" he noticed Sweetie Belle was holding it, and nothing was happening.
Scootaloo gave out her theory, "I think it needs a recharge or something,"
He then groaned some more, wondering why things like this had to be so hard.
He then gave up on trying,"So, now that you're all stuck here, what should we do?"
All replied with silence for a few seconds, until Silver Spoon suggested,"How about we do another reaction here?"
Matthew was going to say this wasn't the time, saying he left all of that behind him, then suddenly a lightbulb appeared above his head.
He still had the channel up and running and for whatever reason was still connected to Equestria's website. An impossibly strange phenomenon but a convenience he was grateful of nonetheless. So it was possible to upload a video and have someone in Equestria receive the message and report Twilight the news, sending them back home in a snap.
"Well, I'm off to prepare the set then, and I know just the thing that could set the mood right tonight,"
Schoolfillies React To:
Gaming
This Episode:
The Affected-The Manor
All of the cast were led into a dimly-lit room, with candles lit in strategically-placed locations to set the atmosphere just right while still providing illumination for the reactors' face. When asked the reason for the change of lighting, he explained that since in their world Nightmare Night was imminent, so it seemed appropriate to prepare the scene according to the celebration if necessary to get the ambience right.
Many began to feel anxious to start doing their work, it's pure instinct to tell when their environment can bring an unsettling feeling in their mind. Yet none were prepared to play the game that was more or less specifically chosen for this event.
The computer screen was booted up and revealed the game they were about to play. The one that probably made some piss their bottoms, or suffering from terrifying nightmares for about a day or so.(I'm such a terrible person, though that shouldn't come as a surprise)
"The Affected, the horror experience. Oh no, you're not serious," Sweetie Belle wasn't amused.
Upon reading the title Scootaloo was trying hard to stay calm, "Oh come on, Matthew. Really, do we have to do this?" she recomposed herself, "Well, it IS Nightmare Night so I should've expected you to pull something like this."
"Oh shucks, I knew yer gonna pick somethin' scary!" Applebloom was just as shocked as Scootaloo was.
"Ah man, you're not serious. Are ya?" Snails may be... you know, a bit slow on things. But he knows horror when he sees it. On the bright side, he had Snips to accompany him with.
"Jeez, should've known this would happen," Spike wasn't surprised obviously.
"Silver Spoon, if I don't make it out alive, tell Pipsqueak that I uh... actually love him," Diamond Tiara faced her best friend, admitting her secret crush. Silver Spoon agreed whilst trying her hardest not to laugh.
There were all in fear and dreaded what this game will result them in the end, but I made it worse afterwards, because what they were about to play was only half of the surprise.
So today, we're playing this a little differently. I then took the monitor away and placed it out of view somewhere.
"Wait, what are ya doin'?" Applebloom was the first to question.
"How am I suppose to play if you take the screen away?" Sweetie Belle made a good point. However in this world, there's always more than one way to play a game.
"Please tell me I don't have to play this!" Diamond Tiara was not excluded from the horror she was going to endure, and neither was Silver Spoon.
"Yes, I'm not playin' it. Thank you,"Scootaloo let her guard down too soon, you should never loosen up on Halloween night.
Instead, you'll be playing it using... this. I handed them an Oculus Rift.
"What's this?" Of course, the response was appropriate to these kind of ponies-turned-humans kind.
"The hay did you give me?"
"Wait, you're not telling me, that I have to wear this on my head?"
"Oh no, I know what this does,"
"Oh come on, Matthew. This is torture!"
This is called the Oculus Rift.
"A what?"
"Gotta be honest, the name sounds kinda cool,"
"Whoa, who came up with that?"
Do you know what it does?
Most admit they know nothing about the device. An understandable response coming from a world where technology has yet to advance far enough to achieve such a device.
This is a virtual reality headset that allows you to play the game through your actual eyes and head movement.
"Ooh, that's interstin',"
"I can't believe you have this sort of technology now,"
"Dear Celestia, that's some futuristic stuff here,"
"Oh Luna, you just made the game ten time scarier than it already is!"
I assisted them getting strapped on the Rift with the headset in place, they were ready to begin. Most were already amazed at the ability of seeing in the point of view of the character in the game.
"Holy crap, this is amazing!"
Snips were looking around the room while Snails gave him a little space to avoid getting hit by his friend's carelessness.
"Why isn't this technology with us, dear Celestia,"
"It's great and all but, why do we have to play this game?"
I then placed the monitor back into place for the other pair who didn't get a chance to try the Oculus Rift to see through the eyes of their unfortunate friend.
They then proceeded to read a few notes on the walls warning them the game contained a couple of jumpscares at certain points in a level and to those with a heart condition should refrain from playing the game.
None of them suffered from any heart diseases or the sort, but the warning already gave them enough information that jumpscares were included in the game.
And none were glad to know this bit of info.
"I don't have any heart condition but, I think I might cry,"
"Now you don't say,"
"Alright, Spike. Don't be such a pussy," ...that was an interesting to way to encourage oneself.
They went ahead to read the instructions on how to begin. They were explained that to press a lift button, they needed to stare at the lift button and the button will be pressed automatically. Only then, they're allowed to step inside the elevator.
All of them eventually complied with the instructions and soon were inside the lift, the only difference was their various degrees of dread and anxiety and more importantly, confidence.
"Alright, time to do this,"
"Don't worry, Diamond. I'm right here with you,"Silver Spoon comforted and hugged her arm signalling she was right beside her.
"Boo!" Snips suddenly jinxed his friend, to which he responded with a smack on his head."Don't do that, Snips! The hay is wrong with you?"
"Here we go, into the depths of darkness," such optimism can only be found in some individuals.
"Just to say this, I hate you Matthew," Scootaloo really wanted to punch Matthew in the face at that moment.
The elevator door then retracted into their position, revealing the location they were about to step in.
All reactors then moved forward into the manor. The lighting around them was sufficient enough to give them all a false sense of security, yet there were not falling into much of its illusion.
"I know something is gonna pop out on me, I know it will,"
"I like this. This looks like I'm in the game!"
"Not only is it in 3D, but it also tracks your head movement,"
"Why do your kind made this?"
They all went through several rooms and corridors, with each getting them to feel more anxious than ever before. Suddenly, the sound of a door creaking can be heard, and most of the cast were able to see where it came from.
"Oh no, no, no, no,no ,no, no. I ain't goin' in there,"
"Well, there's the first,"
"Silver, are you still there?" To which she responded with a yes. "Don't worry, Diamond Tiara. Just think about Pipsqueak, okay?" she then giggled, to which her friend just moan in annoyance. She never should've revealed her crush to her.
"I never felt something so intense since that Crystal Empire incident,"
"Oh no, I can't do it!" Snails then removed the Oculus then shoved it to Snips,"Why don't you try it?" Snips obviously pushed it away, refusing to continue where he left off. Soon, I convinced Snails to put it back on.
Some did the obvious and went into the room with no hesitation. The door then shut behind them, and were locked in.
"Crap, I'm locked in,"
"S***, s***, s***." Scootaloo frantically looked around, knowing well that she's screwed.
"Oh dear mother of Celestia, please help me,"
The only light source left in the room was a lone lamp, shining on an Ouija board.
"What's that thing?"
"I already got mah cutie mark so there ain't a reason to do witchcraftin' now,"
"Oh Celestia no! I've heard stories from my sister about the Ouija board and ever since then, I don't want that thing near me,"
Many others didn't say much about the Ouija board, all of them asked questions than freak out. They then opted to approach the board and you guessed it, the wine glass began to move. To them, it wasn't out of the ordinary because magic was massively used to seeing it in their lives, but what made them began to shiver was it spelt out a word, most notably a warning.
"R.U.N."
Suddenly, the light all went off, leaving the character completely in the dark (and not to mention shocked all of the reactors). Luckily, a flashlight was turned on, regaining some of its vision.
"F***, this is getting old,"
"I really need to get this over and done with,"
Some let themselves whining in fear while others repeatedly swore their heart out throughout the game.
"Matthew, I'm shaking right now,"
"My Celestia, I'm sweaty! You know that?"
They then met their first person in this lonely and creepy manor. None of the reactors weren't coming near to that girl, singing a lullaby very calmly in a place like this was definitely NOT ordinary.
"Oh no, no, no, no, I am not going near her,"
"Oh s***, no. Go away,"
And, as you guessed it, a jumpscare.
"Aah!"
"Oh my Celestia!"
"Holy f***!"
"Aargh!"
"Oh s***!"
And a bunch of other reaction that you guys could just go figure from here.
At first they were reluctant, they should be. But soon they regained the courage to proceed through more rooms and corridors and getting through another jumpscare.
"What the ffffff.... the hay?!"
Others screamed from hilarious to the downright boring type of scream.
They made their way into a giant room, where a piano was playing.
"Well, this is more peaceful,"
"*sigh in relief* please can I quit the game now?"
But then, objects started to float all around the room.
"Whoa, holy crap,"
"Whoa, this is mystical,"
The rest didn't find it much of a surprise, considering magic was such a factor to this.
They then made their way upstairs, where all of the lights went off, leaving them in the dark again. The reactors often froze. Only a single door was open and that's all where they needed to go.
They went through the many shelves on either side.
"This feels like Twilight's library. Only ten times more scarier,"
They then encountered the same girl that was jumpscaring them throughout the game.
"Oh no, I am not falling for that again. No way!"
"Crap, her again?"
"Dammit," she tried to run back, but knowing the game forced her to to her, whatnot with the door locked behind her already,"*groan*, I have to go through her, don't I?"
Since they weren't given much of a choice, they went back to the girl, which then jumpscared them yet again.
"F***!"
"Holy s***!"
And a bunch of other vulgar words that I don't have to mention.
I soon told them to stop playing, which most of them were gasping to hear.
"Celestia, that was the most tense thing I've ever done in my life!"
"Next time Matthew, don't do this..."
"That's the most amazing thing I've ever felt. It definitely made me feel like I'm in the game,"
"I'd prefer being Twilight's guinea pig than play this again,"
"Good horror is something hard to find and this might be its lifesaver,"
Not long after the video was released to the public, Twilight was immediately notified from close friends and family. Matthew can only imagine the look on her face when she saw the fillies currently trapped in Matthew's world and was unable to return. She wasted no more time getting the portal to reopen and sent the fillies back home safe and sound (and also snatched a chance to see Matthew for a few minutes). The fillies were disappointed to learn Nightmare Night had come to a conclusion by the time they returned, ponies were taking down decorations and props and were sent back to sit in storage until next year. In the end though, they weren't too hung up about it. They've already experience something better than trick-or-treating or scaring others so they believed it wasn't a complete loss.
Matthew had time to have a closer look at the stone thing that brought them all here in the first place. It was of Equestrian origin, no doubt about that. Yet when he handed it over to Twilight, she claimed she never seen such a stone in her life was ever discovered and was surprised how a bunch of fillies were able to find it so close to home. She told him that she will do more research on it when she has free time, promising Matthew he'd be the first to know if she learned some new info.
His channel was starting to get widespread attention from the media, the original media. People were quick to notice that there was a new reaction channel that was similar to what the Finebros have been uploading all these years, yet many didn't care. They assume that it was just another reaction chain producer on the web like many others...albeit with slightly weird people reacting to stuff with excessively loud and extravagant hairstyles and colour.
Besides that, nothing new was developing at the moment. Matthew was back working on his original job he somehow still able to keep despite being a year late for his shift, his employer was considerate enough to let him go with a warning to not be late again. He probably assumed he was so desperate for new employees he didn't have much of a choice but to have him.
Meanwhile, life for Matthew was great so far for him. Nothing else was needed in his life, reaction videos were probably a thing in the past. Not that he want it to be over though, he was just glad he had a bit more time to himself for a while. He still missed the time he enjoyed making and editing them, unfortunately this was his world where it revolves around earning money to live. His reaction videos weren't going to help him stay alive there, so he had to put the hobby on hold until he knows what to do with it when he have the spare time.
Occasional calls from Twilight wasn't unusual for him, or else how did she met him in the first place if that didn't work. They both caught up with each other's situation in their respective dimensions and all those rubbish, yet both were missing their time of enjoying company with groups of amazing friends and their time when they made the reaction videos together. Such times were fun, but as expected would never last.
With the past aside though, Matthew was able to catch up with the latest news of his country or even more important, around the world has to offer. I mean, everyone has the internet these days so checking anything up was easy. With one of the most recent breaking news was the Paris attacks last month. Which Matthew took this event to heart and prayed a safe farewell to those who fell victim to this unfortunate fate.
This got him thinking however: terrorism had been a part of human history as long as civilization itself. People like him may read these sort of headlines as - while tragic and barbaric- nothing new. It wasn't the first politically or ideology driven attack on innocent souls and it certainly won't be the last. He wasn't sure how the generations of tomorrow would react towards such horrific events in their lifetime.
His train of thought then diverts into remembering the earliest memories of him hearing the first mention of any terrorist related news during his life. Then, one of the biggest and most shocking news came to his head.
It was 11th of September in 2001, when fire and smoke plumed violently from the twin towers of the World Trade Center, with the same happening in the Pentagon further south in Washington DC and Shanksville out west. The people of America had their wake-up call that they're no longer safe on their own soil, prompting the War on Terror in Afghanistan.
He wasn't even anywhere near the country when the attack happened, nor was he old enough to remember hearing news about it at the time. But here he was fifteen years later, with a more or less similar attack happening in France. A decade and a half apart, and the war against terrorism is still going strong. Suicide bombings and mass shootings became par for the course when such disasters strike. It became a part of modern life, having that fear of being the victim of someone else's radical message.
Without wasting time, he grabbed his phone and began to call Twilight to see if the royals were up for another shoot. She claimed that all were free to do it, (because no one bothered themselves with politics) but the equipment wasn't available for them to use.
Matthew told her it won't be a problem. She could just send his and things would be okay.
(Just a little something to ask, are you even reading the intro or are you just scrolling to the react part? If you did the latter, I would stop making the intro part then. But just to be clear, the reason I added the intro is because this is a fanfic. Not a video. If you're into the reactions then I suggest you watch those on Youtube.)
Another thing I wanted to point out was I couldn't find much footage of the attack that didn't justify as a witness encounter, so I muted the audio and edited the video into a series of clips to make sure the cast were only watching the attacks from different angles.
Additionally, just imagine that the background music played during Question Time won't be played for this episode as to show respect to those who departed their souls on that day.
The last part I wanted say was this was in no way of mocking, making fun of, or even contributing the case of the 9/11. As of writing this, it's still more or less a mystery to this tragedy that struck in the US and in our hearts. The intention was to know how would somepony involved with power respond to the mass murder of hundreds of people who were killed in the attack. As far as crime goes in Equestria, this was going to be there worst view of humankind as we know it.
The entire crew watch the first few seconds on what seemed to be someone vlogging something (do people do that in those days? If so, then I'm surprised). Which lured them into a false sense of security.
"I wonder what's interesting happening there," Celestia thought it was a funny video or an awesome one at least. She was wrong, dead wrong.
The others especially Luna were waiting patiently for something unexpected to happen and stayed silent throughout the first seconds of the video.
The people in the clip began notice something flying above their heads and a few moments later they were about to witness one of the most tragic event America will never forget.
The vlogger was only to get less than a second of the shot of the aeroplane before it finally met its final destination into the glass tower, which erupted and later engulfed in smoke and flames.
Many of the reactors were filled with shock and then met with despair. The words were what you would more or less expect from it.
"Oh dear Celestia!"
"Mother of..."
"Holy jebus, what the hay happened?"
After some editing earlier, I fast-forward the first horrific event to the second part of the tragedy: A second plane steered its way and crashed instantly into the second tower of the World Trade Centre complex, also being swallowed by the flames and excessive smoke coming from the crash.
"Oh no..."
The rest were already silent and stayed that way until the video ended.
"Matthew...I-I didn't know..."
"What happened?"
"...I feel so sorry for those who died in the incident,"
Question Time
To start off, what did you see?
"*sigh* Where to begin? Well, from what I can tell there were two planes flying directly into two skyscrapers."
"I don't know..."
The rest of them were already traumatized by the event and were speechless and wanted to stay that way.
Well, I'm sorry to say this but, the full story was: There were four commercial aeroplanes that have been hijacked by the Islamic terrorist group, Al-Qaeda and the first two was directed to the North and South tower of the World Trade Centre. The third was steered to America's Defence Headquarters, the Pentagon. The last was meant to crash in Washington D.C., a state in America. But the passengers fought back and ended up gearing towards a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
"Holy moly...what has your world become?"
"The worst tragedy I had to encounter was just a few murders here or there, this tragedy probably cost hundreds of lives in a single attack."
Others were still silent throughout the first five minutes of this screening.
As a ruler or someone involved with politics, what would be your response to take action to this sort of thing?
"I would make this event my top priority and find a solution to settle the growing crisis of fear and racism that will loom afterwards."
...I'll admit Princess Celestia handled the situation better than the U.S. President did, in my opinion.
"Well, being the subservient to my sister, I'd definitely agree on taking action immediately and do certain protocols to keep the general public aware that we should not blame others just because of their race and gender. I've heard the news that America has same-sex marriage legalized across the nation, and it seems so sad to think something that sexual orientation was a thing that certain countries should restrict upon. It seems pretty weird to think that we live in a world where we act like you and live like you more or less, yet think so differently we could be waging a war just because of a simple argument."
...I have to ask myself, why isn't she the main ruler of this universe? In fact, why did I ever leave that universe where everything was more peaceful and friendlier back then. Well, you know what they say:no matter how hard other species try to change the way how we are, humans will still be humans no matter what.
Moving on to the rest of the reactors' opinions...
"I would say wage war but I already know enough that THAT won't get us nowhere."
"I rule an empire and I handle all sorts of things from attacks from other species to social media. So, handling a terrorist attack seemed pretty familiar in my book. But knowing how you handled the tragedy, I decided to control this a bit differently from yours."
Last question, what would you like to say to those who lost their loved ones in the 9/11 attacks?
"Whatever happens, don't let it stop you from moving ahead in life. From personal experience, I've seen many things throughout these centuries and it wasn't easy for me to let go. But I learned that if you love something so much, you should be caring enough to not let it drag you down in life and think about what's in store for you."
"Don't give up hope, loved ones. We all would lose someone at some point of our lifetime, but let none of it prevent from going further to know at least the truth why."
"I'm really sorry about your departed, and I pray that everything will turn out okay."
"Oh Goddesses, how do I say this? Um...Just remember to not give up and know that your loved ones will love you for caring and know to not let their deaths be the final destination of faith in your life, thank you."
Villains (& former-Villains) React To: Vannossgaming
After that depressing week everyone had on set, he was in desperate need for entertainment after spending for what seemed like hours weeping his tears off when editing the video and publishing it online. It was hard enough to try and go through said video without feeling a hint of despair, let alone cry about it. But he needed to let it go, just like the Princesses and the Royal Couple advised on the video.
Many people have their own methods to make a quick revisit to Happytown again. In Matthew's case, what constitutes a good day to him was a whole session of gaming and YouTube as a form of escapism. He found it difficult to remember anything about reality and responsibilities, and enjoy the fantasy and fictional worlds out there.
We're getting off track here. Anyway, the point was Matthew needed something to get his mind off of things for a while. Twilight would be busy at the moment, it's the weekdays after all and people would be in their workstation at this hour doing, well work. His shift won't start until twelve, he has about an hour left to do whatever. The only problem for him was finding a good way to spend it.
He thought of sharpening up his parkour skills for a bit near the playground. Problem was the sun would be directly above his head shining at its brightest, not to mention it's almost more than forty degrees celsius out there, sticking your head in an oven would give you much better temperatures than going outside. In fact, Matthew assumed it was much more better burning his privates by bathing it with gas and setting it alight.
Anyway, by the looks of it, it didn't seem like there's much to do except for one: have a quick browse through the internet and see if there's anything funny or at least interesting to entertain himself.
As if this wasn't his daily routine every weekend.
He made his way upstairs to his room and searched around his bag that contained his laptop, only for him to facepalm himself when he found it propped in front of his bed after spending a good ten minutes of shifting through thin air.
Turning it on, he directed his mouse towards the internet app and have a gander at his YouTube channel to have a quick inspection. Checking his subscription panel, there doesn't seem to be any that piqued his interests. Sure, the Finebros (love you mates.) did another gaming episode and Pewds (the legend) uploaded his recent video of having another go at Bloodborne, which judging by the thumbnail, there would be a lot of cases where he would suffer a lot of deaths. The more concerning thing was the release of the Youtubers reacting to Youtube Rewind 2015. He used up his time yesterday playing the video over and over trying to pinpoint which Youtuber was which, before he realised it was a waste of his entire two hours practically doing something useless.
Hold on, sometimes the useless times were the best times of your life. We've all done stupid things in life and looking back at it, we could just laugh about it because it happened and it was hilarious. Many people like a laugh in their lives periodically, why not we've done something so wrong and make it funny?
He was sent back to reality and took a look at his watch and realised he's fifteen minutes late for his shift. With an exclamation sentence, he went down, wore his shoes and set off to his workplace.
Twilight spent most of her afternoon going through alternate timelines of Equestria and tried stopping Starlight Glimmer from changing the timeline she come to know and belonged to.
It was surprising that she only spent a few hours trying that, the day was still going by the time Starlight realised her mistake and become one of their best friends. With Starlight she could become an extra reactor if Matthew agreed to let her in.
She then slapped herself out of it. She couldn't help it, she loved him. Unfortunately, he came up with a pretty good reason why they can't be together. He was a teenage 15 year-old human from another dimension and to him she was a sentient talking pony,with wings and horns and the like. Despite him at the age where he's underaged to be actually working for a living, he was still too irresponsible to have a partner, at least not until he grows up and less stress he has to cope everyday.
For the moment, all she could was wish and wait. There's not much she can do about it except for that.
Just then, her Crystalphone nearby chimed loudly in front of her, her head spun towards to the sound. Usually she would dismiss it as one of her friends who texted her, yet she made it clear to everyone the other day that she wouldn't be able to answer any messages or calls she receives until it was around 9 o' clock. She warned the others nearly a week ago because she had a few conferences and meetings she had to do as being a princesses does not mean you can sit your flank whenever you want to. There were times were she'd gotten messages so much that she was given permission to be alone so she could shut her phone off to continue the discussion.
The method worked for her, but at the moment she was given a message by someone already. The chime was different though, like the one she would get from not-so-recognisable ponies and a couple of others.
Knowing it was either one from those who attended the conference last week or it was a wrong number. So, curiosity took over her and opted her to check what it was. And when she saw who sent it, she felt like she could scream the entire castle down to rubble. (To which some Bronies were glad to happen)
She was grinning from ear to ear, metaphorically speaking. Who else could she be excited to reply except Matthew? Everyone practically knew about her crush by then when he was about to leave Equestria, yet as anyone could tell, she would always wished for him like hoping for Senpai to notice a Kohai or however they correctly pronounced it.
She'll admit he wouldn't probably ever see her more than a best friend (friendzoned), that wouldn't stop her from trying though.
Unlocking her phone, she immediately read the message carefully.
Dear Twilight,
How are things holding up in your world? Mine hasn't ended yet, if you're wondering. And don't worry, your little secret is safe between us and a few others.
I wouldn't want to trouble you in any way but if you have the time, can you demand these individuals to come along and do another reaction? The studio is still there, right? I hope you're willing to do this on your own. I wish you luck on being able to do this for me. If they decided not to cooperate then I'd understand.
Chrysalis
Sunset Shimmer
Discord
Gilda
Starlight Glimmer (I heard she's your new friend now, shouldn't be too hard to persuade her to join in)
Trixie
Babs Seed
King Sombra ( I heard rumours that he was dead. If so, then you don't have to do anything about him.)
Thanks for sticking by me and agreeing to do this, I appreciate it.
P.S. I miss you, you know? Maybe I'll come back one day. I'll be waiting.
She squeaked in glee, the post note was the best part of the message. Her hoofs tiptoeing quickly as if she wanted to run to him and hug him so tightly for saying those.
She realised what she was doing and and took a big breath in and out. She needed to contain her excitement and do what she can do to do another reaction for him. The next morning, she will wake up early and put down all her schedules she had planned earlier and invite all of the aforementioned characters to get together for this one. Some wouldn't be much of a problem like Starlight who she'd made friends with earlier, Fluttershy would give Discord a call about it since she had a strong relationship with him. Though sometimes he liked to call himself Q or some person called John DeLancie, like they're some fascinating beings or something.
Gilda won't be so hard either ever since she had given up all her hatred towards RD and Pinkie, so getting her along wasn't an issue.
The real problem here was the others like Chyrsalis, Sunset Shimmer and Trixie. The former already had bad blood ever since her brother's wedding. How did Matthew managed to get her on last time was something beyond her imagination. She'd probably listen to Matthew better than her, and more confident to work with him.
She never got her phone number though, or if she even has a phone to begin with. But Matthew did say he got them together by Discord, who wrote invitations to them in the first place.
Setting her phone down, she heaved a heavy sigh, unsure if the method was going to work a second time. Tommorow she'll find out, but until then all she could do was hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
If the video can't be displayed then I have to find a way to make it available to you.
The video began and instantly they were greeted with a text saying they were in for a treat of comedy.
"Oh this is gonna be good."
"Ooh, I think I wanna try this with Twilight once I get back home."
"Living objects? That's a trick I have to learn someday."
"Time to hunt some props."
The rest remained dormant for the first few seconds, hoping for something funny to happen, they're about to.
Terroriser was lead to a single room with a button, signs all around encouraged the first would-be to press it to obtain a prop gun or whatever (I'm not familiar with Gmod). One of them (can't tell if it's Vannoss or Delirious) playing as a prop soda can tried persuading him to press the button like the signs advertised it, but it wasn't long before he was recognised instantly and exploded in blood, full of it. The other players playing as the hunters, FourZer0Seven and Terroriser, even the other prop player (again, don't know which it is) were practically laughing their heart out when they saw that.
And most of the cast did.
"Oh my Celestia, hahahahaha!"
"Yeah, a can in the middle of nowhere would tootaally not be suspicious."
"He needs some practise hiding and blending in, but what can I say?"
What happened next was the best part of the video in my opinion. Terroriser was enticed by everyone to push the button as they said it repeatedly throughout the game. And- as you guessed it, it was all a deathtrap for stupid souls like him to get crushed by a car, eliminating him out from the game until the next round starts. The other hunter, FourZer0Seven (or was it Terroriser himself) tried to warn him against doing it, but still curious on what will happen if he did.
He got a front row seat of seeing his companion died by a simple trick. And everyone else just couldn't help themselves but convulsed at the idiot who fell for it.
"That's why you don't push suspicious buttons,"
"I've tried it with Twilight and fooled her into having her ears blasted with airhorns,"
!!!!!!MLG PLAYA!!!!!!!!!
The scene changed into the only remaining prop player in the game, hovering around as another small soda can trying to avoid detection from FourZer0Seven as he was the only hunter left in the game. If he was mistaken then he would be dead too.
Delirious successfully avoided getting spotted long enough to be able to corner around the room, again this time encouraging him to press the button like the idiot Terroriser did. Zero had learned enough from his pal that such things were better off giving it a pass and decided to ignore his plea. As his last attempt to try and destroy the prop once and for all, he launched a grenade blindly in the warehouse, causing the whole basement to explode. Everyone didn't knew that was going to happen and was surprised and amused by his sudden failure and blowing up the entire room off.
"Holy moly, what just happened?!"
"I ain't gonna play around with explosives ever again. I don't think I even imagined that before I was a CMC,"
"That is one deadly warehouse, I gotta say!"
"You know, this reminded me of the wedding raid that happened years ago,"
Twilight was beginning to fume with anger the moment she said that, as if Chrysalis intentionally wanted her to get riled up. If she says anything that would be a reminder to her brother's wedding, someone's not going to leave the recording set with their lives.
The clip cuts (well I cut it to the important bits of the video) into Vannoss and Delirious choosing to be a prop in the next round. Both went for the used gas pump from the scrapyard together. The scene was skipped to the part where Vannoss was trying to advise his friend, Delirious from being in the same location as he was or else they would be immediately noticed by the hunters as the real prop players. Delrious followed his advise and started moving away from him to find a suitable place for him to pose as a regular gas pump while trying to make a sneaking tune as he got farther.
"Run away, man!"
"Never-ever hide in the same place as your friend. I played this once with RD back at Junior Flight Camp, and I made that mistake,"
"I didn't know there was a game dedicated to pretend to be objects. That's what I always do in my downtime,"
The scene changed again as Vannoss turned himself into a shiny fire hydrant on the sidewalk, he also acknowledged his friend that he switched his prop of choice. Delirious was confused and demanded that he would make himself identified for a second. Vannoss did a quick leap as a sign that he's over there and Delirious laughed out again. Immediately approving his decision to be a less conspicuous prop to be, he suggested Vannoss to move more towards the middle of the street to be even more invisible.
"Yes, nobody would suspect a fire hydrant,"
"Trixie would have chosen something more...pizzazz,"
"Playing with friends is always the best,"
The hunters were released as Terroriser and FourZer0Seven wasted no time making their way outside onto the quiet street (if you don't count the hilarious commentary by all of the gamers) only illuminated by the moonlight and a row of many streetlights. Vannoss saw Zero approaching the road and tried misleading him into thinking one of them were hiding by the car. For a split second, Delirious shifted his position a little bit and Vannoss just chuckle wondering what Delirious was trying to do. Not long after that effort, Delirious again tried move his location from the street and into one of the darker areas of the loading dock of the warehouse. Which was a big mistake as Terroriser spotted him trying to get away from them and instantly gave chase.
"Oh come on, don't do that. Now look what you've done,"
"I should train my soldiers on how to be less-suspicious ponies after seeing this idiot moved without checking,"
Delirious finally discovered that he was found out and screamed in cheery fear as he tried his best to escape from Terroriser trying to kill him. Soon, Zero joined in and began working together to decimate Delirious and then it began to be turned into a cat and mouse chase between the hopeless Delirious and the ever-laughing Terroriser and Zero and what Vannoss could only do without getting himself recognised was just watch and laugh as the scene unfold the way it was. Zero started teasing his prop choice by saying if he needed some gas as he continued bombarding him with bullets.
Many of the cast were encouraging Delirious to get away but some were just like Vannoss, watch his friend get screwed.
Not long after, Delirious was finally defeated as he was brought down by Terroriser and Zero, eliminating him from the round and earning a point to each of the hunters (I think) for taking him out. This left Vannoss as their next and final target left to win this round.
"That was an intense fight for survival!"
"One thing I have to say, with this game hide-and-seek would never be the same again,"
"*singing* I tried so hard, and got so far. But in the end, it doesn't even matter,*singing*"
They have no time to lose so they started their search for Vannoss. Zero was dangerously close to him and he took the stupid move by taunting him with a hop as he was exactly beside him. Believe it or not, he was still able to be still pretend back to normal and Zero was oblivious to what he did. As far as stupid moves go, this was the best by far.
"Holy crap, how did he not notice that?"
That was a sweet recovery right there,"
Zero went about the street looking for Vannoss, which from his prespective did another hop and even then others were unable to find him despite making himself seen for a split second twice. The dead prop player, Delirious, warned him from jumping again or else he would be recognised.
I added a subtitle to the video of what delirious mentioned once in the game, the only statement had finally gave the hunters the opportunity as the most obvious clue they have ever gotten in their playthrough. Delirious tried taking it back and apologised to Vannoss for unintentionally giving his identity away so clumsily, but it was too late to do anything. Terroriser immediately figured out what the clue meant to represent and darted towards to one of the only fire-hydrants in the map, holding his giggle to warn Vannoss to run when he has the chance.
"Celestiadammit, Delirious!"
"Sometimes friends are a*******,"
He shrieked as he hovered quickly away from Terroriser before he could shoot him but no luck. He only had less than two seconds before he was blown up to smithereens. One of the hunters claimed they were introduced what a fire-hydrants were despite living in Ireland and thanked Delirious for unexpectedly revealing the object Vannoss was posing as. Dogs were sometimes depicted as having an affection to taking a piss on a fire-hydrant.
"Never in my life, would I have a friend who would snitch on me,"
"Well, what can you do now? It's practically hopeless,"
The next round began and this time Vannoss and Delirious were the ones hunting for Terroriser and Zero, they would call it as another round to play, I call it a chance to get payback. On one occasion, they were asked to open a restroom door only to be found locked. What they found amusing was they activated a sound effect of a loo flushing inside, making everyone roar their laughter out.
"*imitating* Oh do you need to use the bathroom? I'm done here,*imitating*"
Still in the same round, Vannoss found one of the prop players who took the appearance of a short and small cardboard box running away behind him. Vannoss tried to finish them off but all of his bullets were missing their target no matter how hard he tried. Wanting for this to end, a grenade was launched but unfortunately it hit Delirious and wasn't purposely blocked the prop player from being dead. Vannoss was then blasted off to the roof and his corpse landed into one of the many fallen stacks of wooden crates.
"F***ing Delirious, you son of a b****!"
"I hate it when that happens in FPS games,"
Already gone from the round, Vannoss had to depend on Delirious to get that prop player before the time runs out. He did his best trying to point where the box was going to escape and Delirious gave chase to the box for over than ten seconds before he finally collapse under the pressure suddenly for unknown reasons. A word of wisdom from Vannoss, trying to kill a prop player inside the warehouse is very unsafe and recommended to avoid the area all together or explore with extreme caution.
"Here's a little tip: never play this map, alright?"
"Suddenly dying wouldn't be surprising. I've seen my share of heart attacks due to my soldiers starving...well, that was dark,"
They all have reached the final round of the game. This last time was Vannoss's and Delirious's turn to have the first 30 seconds to disguise as an object. Delirious was way ahead of him and took on the mask as an ordinary telephone booth from the rows of phone booths at the corner of the level. Vannoss then did his part trying to change himself to an appropriate prop he could to make himself hidden. But all the effort was meaningless when Zero immediately him ducking behind a dumpster as an out-of-place looking cinderblock.
He tried making his getaway, turning himself into all sorts of things before he found a flower pot would be small enough to be unnoticeable. Unfortunately Zero saw the whole thing unfold, his hopelessness to hide became opportunity to kill Vannoss off for good.
"He's done man. He's done,"
the rest of the cast giggled in amusement.
Zero felt like he did a good job finding Vannoss so easily, truth be told Vannoss was just too clumsy and made himself exposed so much that Zero was able to identify him quickly.
Another minute has passed and yet Zero have yet to find the second prop player, Delirious who was still posing as a phone booth. Many times Zero was dangerously near where Delirious was standing.
"Oh my goddesses, how is he not noticing that?"
"If there was a lone phone booth on the street, I would totally feel suspicious,"
At one point, Zero guessed right that Delirious was the phone booth under a streetlight and showered him with lots and lots of bullets before Delirious's reflex kicked in and turned himself into a dumpster. The best part was Zero thought he lost sight of him and assumed he was far off into the warehouse.
"Delirious is a ninja!"
"Damn, he's good at this,"
"That's one heck of a getaway, I'm actually impressed,"
It was almost near the end of the time before Zero finally recognised him as the same phone booth but he was too late. The clock finsihed and declared that the props were the winners of this round. Zero wasn't impressed and still peppered him with bullets before he disappeared for good.
"*heavy sigh as he stopped laughing* that was close,"
"He should take some lessons from me. I know all about stealth when it comes to being objects,"
"This brings back some old memories. One day, I always wished I could play hide-and-seek again. This game was the best example I have seen so far,"
"Games are meant to be played for fun, and bringing friends over would make the playthrough a lot more better and hilarious."
"Oh Delirious, you're such a clever doge,"
The video finally ended.
Since I'm not in Equestria to ask them some questions, I won't be writing them in here, sorry. Twilight could have easily took that role but unfortunately her relationship with these individuals defer. A third party individual was needed for a blanced prespective across each reactors but none were available at the time. So, I'm leaving out the question time for another day. I hope you understand and have a nice day!
