Most, if not all bronies would love to meet the mane six, or even one of the background ponies, just to meet them and say how much they love the show and all of that. But what if, instead of you meeting them, they meet you?
Most, if not all bronies would love to meet the mane six, or even one of the background ponies, just to meet them and say how much they love the show and all of that. But what if, instead of you meeting them, they meet you?
Well, this is what happened to a fairly new brony. He may have known the show for about a year, but he loved it more than anything. When a simple wish turns out to be true, he is in for the ride of his life.
Most bronies have an OC. It's our way of making a more personal connection with the show, a way for us to look at ourselves and see what we would look like if we were, in fact, ponies. Some OCs are just for a good laugh, to make fun of a ridiculous idea that a friend gives. But others are more personal, give more of a connection that lasts however long the creator of the OC is a brony, or until they become sick of it and create a new one. Some people, however, love their OCs. It's like another family member, something that they cherish no matter the hate or ridicule they get from other people. They would stop being a brony before give up their OC. This, is me.
Now after reading a few fan fictions and watching a mini movie of a very famous one, I began to wish that I could meet the mane six. Though, not in the way depicted in the fan fiction, I would still love to meet them. The reality of it though is that I am real. The show is not. My friends are real, our OCs are not. Our wishes are real, the answer to our wishes are not. Knowing this, I get ready for bed. I get under the covers and look at my OC on the computer. I shut it down and silently wish that I could meet the characters. I know it won't happen, but I can still wish.
Most stories might go off saying that some dream lead to a real life event. Other stories could say that a supernatural occurrence made the mane six pop into their bedroom in the middle of the night, waking them and the neighborhood. Most stories, however, are fake. They are fictions of ideas that are what the writers wish could and would happen. They write their wishes and live through their stories. This is a not that kind of story. This is a tale of truce. This is a tale of living hopes and dreams. This is a tale, of reality.
I wake up. I look around my room, it's just like yesterday morning, dimly lighten and a relaxing red color. Something is different though, it's all a bit more vivid. The coloring is more pronounce than I last remember, and the sky looks almost, flat. As I get up, I fall over. I lean against my bureau which has a big mirror on the back of it. When I look into it, my heart stops. My eyes lock onto the figure in the mirror and my back legs shake. I loose feeling in my, uh, hooves, and fall. I can't believe what is happening, I am my own OC.
I panic, not knowing what to do. I don't know where I am, I don't know who I am, and I don't know why I am here. I stand on all four, it feels much different than standing on my two old legs. I try to walk, and I do a decant job. I trot down stairs and into the foyer, everything is still the same. The stairs, the wooden floor, the walls, even the old chandelier, it's all there. I walk outside and into the neighborhood. It seems like my house was moved.
I begin to slowly walk, scared of the new world I am in. I see houses that I recognize, ponies I feel like I know, and then it sinks in. Not only am I my own OC, but I am in the world of My Little Pony. I dash for the closest house and run behind it. I can't keep my breathing under control, and the asthma isn't helping. I am in shock, how am I in a cartoon world? How am I a pony? Where are all of my old friends and family members? I have so any questions. I see a shadow slowly coming towards me. I dive into a dumpster and hope they pass by. The shadow stops, and I close the top. I hear the trotting and assume they left. I was wrong.
"Oh my gosh! I knew there was a new pony in town but nooooo, no pony wanted to listen but here you are! I knew it! Anyway my name is PinkiePie and I live at the bakery on the second floor with my pet alligator gummy. He doesn't have any teeth but that's why he is soooo adorable, I mean I'd love him the same with teeth but he would be much more dangrous with them. What's your name?"
"Uh, m-my name is, uh, Write Holliday." I immediately regret it. I used the name I gave to my OC instead of my real name.
"Write as in story or right as in right and wrong?"
"The story one."
"That would explain your cutiemark!" I look at my flank and there it is. My cutie mark of a quill writing on a pice of paper. I remember making that. The pony generator kept rejecting the image, so I went into paint and practically painted it onto my OC. But here it's real. And I have always wished I made my OC into a Pegasus as my two favorite characters, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, are both Pegasi. But I felt that if I were a pony, I would be a earth pony. I guess I was right.
"Excuse me but could you show me to Twi-"
"Twilight's house? Sure! Come on!" She runs off like a bullet.
"W-wait, I can't keep up!" I'm running, but not for too long. My asthma unfortunately came with me into Ponyville.
"You don't run often do you?" Pinkie asks, running around me in circles.
"N, no." I breath out, hyperventilating. After about ten minutes of a light walk, my breathing returns to normal and we get to Twilight's house.
"Well, here we are." Pinkie says cheerfully. I jumped, she sure does have a loud voice. "Anyway, I have to go and help Mrs. Cake with some cupcakckes. I think she invited Rainbow Dash to help so this will be so fun! Bye!" She runs off. I keep reminding myself that it was just a horror fan fiction, it wasn't real, and it won't be real. I mean, would Pinkie really kill her? Really?
"Um, sir?" I shake my head back to reality. "I'm sorry, but is there something I can help you with?" Twilight asks.
"And that's all that happened." Twilight just stares at me, I am a bit unnerved.
"So you are a human, now a pony, and not only a pony but the pony you created?"
"Well, yes."
"And we are on a TV show." She begins scowling.
"Well, yes. I'm sorry, I for some reason thought you knew."
"No no, it's fine." I can tell she is a bit upset. I just sit there, hoping she will calm down.
"Well anyway, I assume you would want to go back." I start thinking. I would love to go back. See my friends and family again, pet my cats and dog and feed my fish. But, then again, I'm in the world that I have been watching for the past year or so. I have come to love the charecters, and now here they are, I am talking to them. Maybe I should stay here. Explore a bit, have a good time and meet the ponies themselves. Then, if I want, I could just ask Twilight to whip up a spell for me to go back. "Ok, here's the deal. I can't send you back."
"Wait what?"
"I said I can't send you back. You're stuck here."
"A-are you sure? Can't I just go back through the portal you guys used to go to earth and-"
"Retrieve the crown? No. It was destroyed when a guard tripped and pushed it over. We didn't know how fragile it really was, so we never saw that coming. Now I have a very busy day, so if you wouldn't mind." She points to the door. I nod and walk out of her house. She seemed really out of her usual character, much more on edge. I guess it was just the initial shock of the whole tv show thing.
"Look out below!" The ground shakes and dirt is kicked up. I hack on it and spit up dirt balls. My guess would be that the only Pegasus who could do that would be Rainbow Dash.
"Oh, hehe, sorry. Here." And I was right. She does the wind dry thing she did to Twilight in the first episode. Luckily I had my hooves on my head so my red-green hair was fine, and I was clean. "Courtesy of Rainbow Dash. Hey, I've never seen you before. What's your name?"
"Write Holliday." Two ponies already know me by that name, I might as well get used to it.
"Well Write Holliday, it's a pleasure to meet you. I have to get going, I just finished helping my friend PinkiePie make cupcakes and I have to go bring in the storm. It'll be here in-"
"Ten seconds flat?" I ask with a grin.
"Yeah. I like your style Write, see ya'!" And with that she flies off. I heard her say storm, that's great. I can't remember where my house is. I start walking down a random path, I'm beginning to think that this isn't such a bad thing. Once I got past the initial shock of transporting dimensions, I actually like it here. I mean, I'm in Ponyville, I'm living what other bronies everywhere can only dream about. Sure, I wished to meet the mane six, but I expected that if it did come true they would just show up at my house. It's the other way around now, and I can't say I'm disappointed.
I feel a raindrop on my head, pretty soon it will be pouring. I look around frantically, and it's just my luck that Fluttershy's cottage is the closest shelter. It's either I spend the night at Fluttershy's, or risk becoming very sick with the rain and cold and wind. I really only have one option. "Hello?" I say through the door. I knock three times.
"Hello?" It's Fluttershy. My heart stops, she is even more adorable in person. Er, pony.
"I'm terribly sorry but it's going to be a massive storm and I have no where else to go, may I wait it out at your place?"
"Oh, well, um, y-yes, come on in." I can tell she is frightened. Her name isn't Fluttershy for nothing. I walk in and wipe my hooves on the doormat. Usually they are on the outside of the door, but I guess because of all of the animals she prefers it inside. "I'm sorry about the mess, I didn't expect company."
"What mess? This place looks fantastic." It's true, if this is considered a mess to her, I'd love to see what clean is.
"Oh, well, thank you. M-make yourself at home." She sits on a chair across form the fire place. I sit on the chair in the corner. I'm not quite sure how to react to this right now. Fluttershy is without a doubt my favorite character, and being here with her is a bit nerve racking. The rain picks up and the droplets falling onto the roof echoes throughout the house. "So, w-what's your name?"
"My name is Write Holliday, I'm new to Ponyville."
"Oh, well it's very nice to meet you Mr. Holliday."
"Please, I prefer Write. And as it is to meet you Fluttershy." Oh no, what did I just do?
"How do you know my name?" I freeze. I can't tell her it's all a show for extraterrestrial beings, but I can't lie to her.
"I uh, PinkiePie told me." And of course, I lie to her.
"Oh. Well, a fair warning is that I have a lot of animals. I'm sorry if you're allergic to any of them."
"Oh it's fine, I love animals."
"Oh, well I'm glad to hear it." More awkward silence. I bet that if half of the fandom were in my shoes, they would be talking and talking with her, and here I am being as quiet as a mouse.
"So tell me a bit about yourself." I try my best to make some sort of conversation.
"Well, I love animals, I have the best friends in the whole world, and I love spending time tending to the flowers and nature."
"That's nice of you."
"Well, I'd like to make myself as useful as possible. What about you?" I should have saw this coming, what can I tell her? That I am actually a human that is stuck in a world with tv stars that have guy and girl fans all around the world? I have been here for only half a day.
"Well I have been here for less than a day, but I met Twilight, PinkiePie, and Rainbow Dash. I also love animals, I love writing, and I am still learning the town."
"Oh, well that's nice. Welcome to Ponyville."
"Thank you." The rain begins to let up. I look outside, it's about to be the crack of dawn. "I think I'm going to head out now, I need to find my way back home."
"Are you sure you have to go?"
"Why? You enjoy my company?"
"Well, yes." Great, now I'm obliged to stay.
"I'm sorry, I really have to get going, I'll be back later today though, promise."
"Ok, bye Write."
"Goodbye Fluttershy." I walk outside and close the door. Now I'm not too sure, but it feels as though that the air is much cleaner here than it is back on earth. I guess that's the result of having no planes though. Now to find my house.
I get lost in thought as I'm trying to find my way back home. If I am really stuck here, I might as well make the best of it. Meet the mane six, meet the side characters, see if it is truly as nice as it is depicted in the show. Maybe I could even meet Celestia at some point, that would be interesting. "Three, pull!" The ground becomes dark, I look up in the sky and see a dark object falling towards me. I run forwards and barley get out of the way. It's a tree, a giant tree. "Are you ok sir? My apologies, we were trying to get this tree out of the mud and it just snapped out." It's Applejack, that would explain the orchard.
"It's fine, I'm still alive right?" I chuckle.
"Yes you are. Say, I've never seen you around these parts, are ya' new to Ponyville?"
"Yes, my name is Write Holliday."
"Well it's a pleasure to meet ya', my name is Applejack. Would you like me to show you around my farm?"
"Ok, sure."
"Great, come on." I follow her through the front gates. I remember the first episode and how she named off almost every kind of food that they make to Twilight, I don't think I could handle that.
"We make apple products here like-"
"Apple pie?" I try to look as excited as I can so she will only focus on that.
"Well, yeah. We make any food that can have apples in it, and every last one is the best food y'all have ever tasted."
"So that's your apple orchard?"
"You know it. Come on, let's go introduce you to the family." My only hope right now is that it's not a family reunion. Not that I don't want to meet them all, but I'm getting exsaughsted and my head is beginning to ring with every noise and light I see. "This here is my brother Big Macintosh."
"Hello Big Mac."
"Hello."
"Oh, by the way Macintosh, are Applebloom and her friends in the basement?"
"Eeyup." I flinch, I remember that story, I first heard MictheMicrophone do a reading of it. I need to ask.
"Why would they be in the basement?"
"They are working on some school project and they need the tools down there. Come on, let's go see them." I follow, almost reluctantly. "This is my little sister Applebloom, that is SweetiBelle, Rarity's sister, and this here is Scootaloo."
"Hello sir." Applebloom says covered in sawdust and glue. I can't help but laugh a little.
"Hello Applebloom. And you are SweetieBelle?"
"Yes sir, welcome to Ponyville." She is mainly covered in glue.
"And you are Scootaloo huh? I've heard great things about you."
"Really? Like what?" She excitedly asks.
"Well, I've heard that you three carried the flag in the Equestrian Games, and you learned that just because you can't fly, it doesn't mean you never will. I'm proud of you. And also you all did an amazing job on that performance, I really was impressed."
"Wow, thanks mister! You were there?" I just smile.
"Let's just say I watched from afar."
"Ok." They all say in unison.
"Come on Write, I have one more pony to introduce ya' to." I follow her.
"Bye mister!" The three fillies yell to me. I wave and walk back upstairs with Applejack.
"Boy howdy, you certainly do have a way with children."
"Is that a good thing?"
"Why yes is it. Most colts that I meet are usually a bit harsh towards Applebloom and her friends, I really do appreciate you being that nice to them."
"No problem, it was a pleasure to meet them."
"Oh, here she is. Granny Smith." Now in the show, it's easy to tell when she is sleeping. But here, face to face, I can't tell if she is even breathing.
"Is she ok?"
"She's fine, she's just a heavy sleeper is all." I'll take her word for it. "Well, that's all of the family. We are having a reunion soon though, so if you'd like to meet them you're more than welcome to head on down."
"Thank you Applejack. I'm going to go see if I can find my house, I still don't know the lay out of this town. I'm learning though."
"Alrighty, fell free to come back at any time."
"I will." And with that, I leave. I may not know the town that well, but I know where I'm going. Even though I really don't want to, I'm going to find Rarity. I don't know where she lives, but with the way this day has been going, I'm going to find her one way or another.
"Watch out!" Next thing I know I am covered in make up and supplies like that. I'm coughing my lungs out.
"Oh my dear, darling are you ok?" Can she not see I'm coughing terribly?
"Here." She wraps me in some huge fabric and spins me around. Sure it got all of the make up and stuff off of me, but it doesn't help my coughing, and now I'm dizzy. "Oh my, um, here. She runs in and grabs a glass of water. She floats it out side and I slowly drink it. My coughing slowly stops and I'm not dizzy anymore. "I'm so terribly sorry darling, I tripped and pushed the cart out of the window."
"Seriou!" I stop myself. "I mean, it's ok. We all make mistakes. I'll take you are Rarity?" I really was never a huge fan of Rarity, she isn't bad, but just not my favorite what so ever.
"Why the one and only. Are you here to buy something? Or maybe I could make you something for free. It wouldn't be any trouble and it's the least I could do after dropping thirty pounds of make up onto you."
"I'm fine, thank you though." There really isn't much to talk about with here. She's pretty straight forward, cloths and lives alone. Well, when SweetieBelle is out.
"Would you like to come inside?"
"Sure." I follow her through the door and into her house, shop thing. I feel something soft at my hooves, it's Opal.
"I'm sorry about Opal, here." She tries to pick her up but Opal just meows and swipes at her. She resumes to rub against my legs and purr. I chuckle.
"Maybe we should just forget about her. So this is your house?"
"Why yes it is. This floor is my shop, the second floor is where my and my sister's bedrooms are. Opal usually sleeps with SweetieBelle, my sister, but when she is gone Opal will sleep in my room."
"This is a very nice shop." In the show it just looks like another shop. But now that I'm here, I can really take it for what it is. It smells like lavender and It looks very impressive. The door swings open and a burst of wind hits us. There is a pink streak, and PinkiePie is standing there in front of me.
"Oh my gosh hi! I didn't expect to see you here I thought I would be here alone with Rarity but no you're here! This is going to be so much fun, we can make dresses and necklaces and shoes and hats and-"
"Pinkie!" Rarity yells, almost mad. "I think Mr, what is you're name?"
"Write Holliday." Pinkie answers for me.
"Well I think he was just leaving." She points to the door. I'm more than happy to oblige.
"It's been nice meeting you Ms. Rarity, and it's nice to see you again Pinkie."
"You too! Are you sure you have to leave though?"
"Unfortunately yes, I need to get back home. Have a good day."
"Ok. Bye right! I mean write! Well, right, write, I'm not wrong either way! Right?" She just laughs and I leave with a nod. It's about to be dark, but I feel like I'm forgetting something. Fluttershy!
"Hello?" I knock on Fluttershy's door, it is night but not midnight. I wait for a while until I begin to fall asleep. This is an issue, I have no idea where my house is, my plan was to sleep at Fluttershy's, and now I'm stuck out here. I need to sleep, I would just wind up passing out if I don't. I see a patch of grass out near some forest, I can't remember the name, but it's the only option right now. Well, that or I just break into Fluttershy's house, or I wander Ponyville for the next twelve hours until I find my house again. In my eyes, this is the only option. I reluctantly walk over to the grass and fall asleep.
I wake up in a field, a very dark and muddy field. At least now I know that this whole thing isn't a dream. I tread through the mud and water, didn't I fall asleep on green grass and dirt? So what moved me? Let's see, I am near Fluttershy's, I walk to a forest, I sleep. I feel asleep on the edge of the Everfree Forest. I stomp the ground, mad at myself. Wasn't the best idea as the moment I did, I begin to sink into the mud. I drag myself out of it, and lay down on firm dirt. This is not good, the Everfree Forest is very dangerous, and I'm stuck in it. I'll be lucky if a Cockatrice doesn't turn me to stone, or Timber Wolves don't find me. I need help or I'm dead in the water.
"You pony in the mud, come with me to my hut." There is only one character that lives here in the show, and she just found me. I look to my left and there is Zecora. I get up and follow her to her home. "Your mind is confused, I can see, but take this brew, and believe."
"Excuse me but what will happen?"
"Just believe." I'm not sure what to believe, so I just believe that this is all real, that there is not a single thing about this world that can be fake. I drink the brew and immediately regret it. I'm throwing up, I'm coughing, I have a runny nose, it's just like a pill that has all of those side-affects from those commercials, but all into one liquid.
After the whole flaming organs and possible internal bleeding, I get up. "So what was the point of drinking that?"
"Your memory is gone, but not for good. This potion slowly resets all, and helps new memories stay put." I just nod and thank her, not giving much thought to what she said. I'm still trying not to curl into a ball with the after taste and pain. I walk out of the house and into the forest. I figure that if I just walk in one single direction, I'll eventually get to an opening. Luckily I get back to where I slept last night, and I walk to Fluttershy's house. I knock and get ready for yelling. My old friends would always get upset if I forgot something, especially if I had promised it. The door opens slowly and I brace myself.
"I'm sorry Fluttershy, I didn't mean to forget, I just ran into Rarity and one thing lead to another and than I ran into Zecora and I drank some potion and now I feel awful that I forgot and I'm sorry."
"It's fine, don't worry. I was a bit concerned that something happened to you, but don't give it any thought, we all forget things. Come on in." I realize that this is Fluttershy, she isn't like my old friends. She is very understanding and has always been forgiving. I'm really liking Ponyville so far.
"Hey Angle." I say to the bunny. I bend down and rub my nose against him, he actually doesn't seem that bad. In the show he would always seem demanding and stubborn, but right now he seems almost polite.
"So you said that you saw Zecora?"
"Well I guess I wandered into the Everfree Forest by accident, but she found me and gave me a potion, brew, thing."
"Well that was nice of her." Yeah, if by nice she means Zecora practically put me through surgery three times over without any pain killers. "What did she say it does?"
"I'm not exactly sure. She said your memory is gone, but not for good. This potion slowly resets all, and helps new memories stay put. I guess it just helps my memory."
"Oh, well that's good, I think."
"Yeah, I hope so." We spend the next few hours talking about current events in Equestria. I pretended like I forgot them, but I didn't know about anything that goes on here. For example, according to Fluttershy, Celestia has been trying to sign an agreement with Luna on a second Cloudsdale. I'm not quote sure what good a second city in the sky would do, but at least I know. I walk out of her house, thanking her and petting angle one last time. I then walk down some path, and see Twilight on the way.
"Oh, there you are Write. Sorry about my behavior the other day, I was under a lot of stress."
"It's fine. So what's up?"
"Well, remember how you asked If you could go back to Earth?"
"Earth? Um, do you mind telling me what that is?"
"Seriously?"
"What?"
"You don't know what Earth is. You came from there." I just shrug. I'm not quite sure what is going on, but from the looks of things it is not going in my favor. "You told me that you weren't even a pony! You were a human and we are a tv show!"
"I'm sorry Twilight, I don't remember saying that." She facehoofs and walks away. I try figuring it out, but it doesn't get me anywhere. I keep walking and find my house. I'm surprised that I remembered where it is, maybe Zecora's potion really did work. I walk up to the door, only to be stopped by a running pink streak of light.
"Hi Write! It's so funny how I was walking by the exact place that you just so happened to be at the exact time I walked by there, so this is where you live?"
"Um, yes?" I almost ask it, I'm still a little dazed and confused by PinkiePie's hyper talking, but I should come to expect this form now on.
"This is such a nice house, it's so big and pretty and roomy looking and pretty, are you sure this is your house because I know that I have gone to the wrong house before and even slept in it, but that was the day that I ate two hundred and fourteen sugar spheres, they are just like sugar cubes but round. Anyway I was on a sugar crash and I was really tired, like really really tired and I just walked in and slept." My brain hurts.
"Yes, I'm sure this is my house." I say with a smile. She just smiles right back.
"Oki-Doki-Loki, bye!" She runs off as fast as she ran in front of me. I stand there for a moment, trying to figure out what exactly just happened. I decide to not try and figure out fun randomness, and go for a walk. I made it half a mile or so before Scootaloo found me.
"Hey Mr. Holliday! How are you?"
"I'm just fine Scootaloo, and please, call me Write."
"You've got it. Say, have you met Rainbow Dash yet?"
"Yes I have, and I know how much you look up to her."
"She is the best!" I feel like she has said this before, but not to me. I want to say I saw her say it, but I've only known her for a couple of days. "She can fly like no other Pegasus, she is amazing!"
"So I heard." I say with a grin. "Hey Scootaloo, I hope you don't mind me asking but what happened to your parents?" I can tell this bothered her just by the way her face looks. "You don't have to tell me if you don't want to, I'm sorry, I was just wondering."
"No no, it's fine. I really don't know what happened to them. All I know is that I was brought to an orphanage, and the orphanage got me going to school. Once Applebloom found me, I guess I took to her as if she's my sister. I practically live with her and SweetieBelle in the CMC clubhouse."
"Wow, I'm sorry to hear that." I never would have guessed she had it that rough.
"It's fine, it honestly feels good to talk about it. What about your parents?" I freeze, I don't remember much about my parents. I don't remember much before I woke up in Ponyville.
"I'm, I'm not sure. I don't remember much before I moved here, but I'm sure they gave me a good home and raised me to their best abilities." I can see the tears beginning to form in Scootaloo's eyes. I need to do something, I feel awful that I even asked. "Hey, you know what? Let's go find your parents."
"W-what? I, are you sure?"
"Heck yeah I'm sure. Let's go find them, you could get back together with your family and I could try to find mine afterwards."
"Could I help you find yours?"
"Only if you promise to keep your head held high and your spirits alive."
"Come on, let's go check Cloudsdale." I say as we race throguh the town.
"Wait." She stops and so don't I. "I can't fly and you're an Earth pony, how am I supposed to get into Cloudsdale?"
"Well, I'm not sure. I didn't think that far ahead."
"So where do we go now?"
"We could always try-"
"Write!" I'm interrupted by Twilight running up to us. "Ok, so I was thinking. Have you met Zecora yet?" I look at Scootaloo and back to Twilight. Scootaloo walks away, but not too far.
"Yes. I fell asleep near the Everfree Forest and I woke up in it. She found me, brought me to her hut, and gave me a potion."
"Do you remember what she said about the potion?"
"Something about new memories staying put and resetting something."
"Oh no." She looks terrified, but I can't figure it out. "We need to get back there right now."
"Ok, give me a minute." I walk over to Scootaloo. "Hey, I can't help you find your parents right now, I need to go and do something important. But I promise to help you when I'm done."
"Ok. Thanks Write." I can almost feel her disappointment.
"I'll see you later kiddo." I lightly punch her wing and run with Twilight to the Everfree Forest. "So what are we doing again?"
"Zecora gave you a potion to forget about your past life. I looked and my spells wouldn't do anything helpful for you because your past life was as a human, that's different than what I did with the other five." She lost me in that explanation, but I just go with it. We get to Zecora's hut.
"Hello? Ze-"
"Zecora! Get out here and give him back his memory!"
"Do we have to yell?"
"Sorry but I need to study what your life used to be like for the Princess."
"Memories forgotten, best left to me. One by one his dreams are fed to thee." The voice came from within the hut, and of course it's another crazy rhyme thing, great. I look at Twilight, she apparently understood because now she is angrier than before.
"You give him back his memories now, or I swear I will send you to the Canterlot caves!"
"If you want him to have his memories, then so be. But be warned that an outsider does not belong with two ponies times three." A bottle is thrown out the window and it looks just like the one she gave me earlier.
"I am not drinking that, I felt like I was going to die last time."
"Too bad." She uses her magic to open my mouth and pour the liquid into my throat. Somehow she even forced me to swallow it. After another round of basicly death inside of my body, I manage to stand up.
"Ok, so what happenes now?"
"I think you know." Suddenly the world goes bright. I can see everything that I used to know. My house, my family, my friends, the brony fandom, it all comes back to me.
"I can remember!"
"Good. Now come on, we need to do research." I follow her until I remember Scootaloo.
"Wait, I need to help Scootaloo."
"With what? What is so important that I can't figure out the meaning of your life?"
"Her parents." I can tell she feels bad, her ears fall and she looks down.
"Oh. Well, Write I'm sorry but, they died."
"They died? But that was never said in the show."
"Because that isn't something we talk about. She doesn't know because she shouldn't know. She is still a filly, we don't think she should know the truth right now."
"But it's her parents, she's old enough to know about the people that, I mean, ponies, that gave her life. I got her all excited to find them and she was ecstatic."
"I don't know. I still think she is young and shouldn't know."
"If you were her age and you knew absolutely nothing about your parents, wouldn't you want some closure?"
"Yes. Fine, come on. I'll get Rainbow Dash to meet us at the grave yard."
"Thank you." I walk back to where we were before Twilight found me. There is Scotaloo still waiting. "Scootaloo, hey."
"Hi Write. You ready to go?"
"About that, we need to talk."
"What's up?" I can't believe I'm doing this. Scootaloo is without a doubt my favorite non-mane six character, and telling her that her parents are not here anymore, how fun. If this affects the show at all, I think I'm going to be exiled from the fandom.
"Listen, Scootaloo, I'm sorry. I am really sorry to tell you this but, your parents are, dead."
"They're, what?"
"They died Scootaloo. They are buried in a graveyard."
"Oh, well, t-thank you for telling me."
"Do you want to go see their graves?"
"Alright." I never thought I'd feel this bad telling her. I can see the disappointment in her eyes, I'm going to exil myself from the fandom after this.
We get to the graveyard, Scootaloo was on my back crying most of the way. Once we are there, Rainbow Dash is standing next to the graves. Scootaloo immediately gets down and runs over to Rainbow Dash. I stand at the entrance to the graveyard and see Twilight come over. "So she was ready after all."
"I guess. I just feel awful now. She was happy before, not knowing about her parents, but now here she is crying with, not next to but with Rainbow Dash. Maybe she wasn't ready like you said."
"Write, listen, I know you feel like this is your fault but it isn't. I was wrong, she was ready. It's better that she knows, and this could even be looked at as a bonding moment for her and Rainbow." She's right.
"Um, excuse me?"
"Oh, hi Fluttershy." Twilight says to the shy mare behind us.
"Hi. Um, I have some news for you Write."
"Great, more news. What's up?"
"Well, it's nothing really, but Discord would like to speak to you." My heart stops. I remember Discord, he was one of the best villains. He managed to disharmonize the mane six, almost overthrow Celestia, and even managed to make Twilight doubt friendship, and now he wants to speak to me. Fun.
"Tell him I'll be there after I'm done here."
"Ok, bye." Fluttershy walks away.
"Listen Write-"
"No, I know what your going to say. He is reformed, he's not evil, he made twicane for you, but what if he knows I'm not from here? He could do Celestia knows what to me and I can't do anything about it."
"Not if I'm there."
"Oh come on, I wouldn't want to bother you."
"It would be no bother at all, really. And I still have some unfinished business with him."
"Alright, thank you Twilight." I look back at Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo. I never thought I would see Rainbow Dash, the fastest Pegasus in all of Equestria, cry this much about something she had nothing to do with. I guess the show really doesn't show her softer side. They walk over to us, slowly not crying.
"Thank you Write, I thank you so much." Scootaloo flashes a forced smile, and continues on her way. Rainbow Dash puts her hoof on my chest while smiling, and follows Scootaloo.
"I'm ready, let's go." We walk to Fluttershy's cottage to meet with Discord, only to be stopped by the draconequus himself.
"Why hello Jacob, or should I say Write Holliday?" He used my old name, I barly respond, I'm so used to Write now. "So I heard that you belong on Earth. How would you like to go back?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well nothing really, just that you don't belong here. I mean come on, you belong with your family who are humans, your cats and dog and fish, your electronics and school friends and watching My Little Pony." I stand there silent. He is right, I don't belong here.
"Listen here Discord, I tried and I couldn't find any spells that could send him back." Twilight steps in thankfully, right now she is my voice.
"Oh now we both know that's a lie."
"Wait, what? Twilight, is it really a lie?" I can see her being nervous.
"I, I may have found one or two that could possibly work but none that were definitly going to work." She lied to me. Sure I like it here, and sure I thought I might be here forever, but my family back home are most likely missing me terribly, my friends probably think I'm dead, and my animals could be depressed without me.
"Jacob, we both know you have to go back. This wasn't even your wish. You wished to meet the mane six, and you thought they would some how get into your house or something, but you never expected to be transported here. It's a wish granted backwards, and it needs to be fixed."
"You wanted us to leave our home, just so you could meet us?!" I hate Discord so much right now.
"Bronies everywhere wish that! There is even a movie about Dashie being on Earth due to a mistake you made! My wish just happened to come true." Her hair slowly comes undone. I know exactly what is happening, lesson zero.
"Well, I guess that my work here is done. Good day to you both." Discord leaves with a poof.
"I uh, I need to go. I'll talk to you later Twilight."
"You're not going anywhere, Jacob!" I feel a something begin to squeeze me. I struggle to keep conscious, until I give in and black out.
"H-hello?" My hooves ache, I'm just waking up, and I'm on the ground in the pure darkness. "Twilight? Are you here? Are you ok?" No response. I slowly get up onto my hooves and walk around the room, basically blind.
"Psst, Write." I know that voice, but he hasn't been here at all. "Write, it's me, Spike." I stand corrected, he's here know.
"Spike? Listen, wherever you are I need to get out of here."
"Ok, I'm at the doorway, I'll turn on the lights and you sneak your way to me."
"Ok." The lights turn on and scattered across the floor is an uncountable numbe of sleeping, crazy Twilights. "Spike, please explain."
"Well, she knocked you out with a spell and brought you down here she then cloned herself with the mirror pool and brought them all here to surround you until she wakes up."
"What would she do if she wakes up and I'm here with her?"
"You don't want to know." That's enough for me to hear. I silently walk my way to the door and trip on one of the last sleeping Twilights.
"He's escaping!" She yells. I get surrounded by Twilights and pushed to the ground.
"And where do you think you're going?" This must be the real Twilight with her crazed smile and messy hair.
"Were you tardy with your letter?" I ask innocently.
"Tardy? No, I don't even send those anymore. But you must be tired, here, take a nap." She raises her hoof but I duck my head, missing her attempted hit. I'm still pinned to the floor, but I'm can tell she doesn't care. "Well now, looks like we have a fighter. Bring him to the basement." I try my best but I'm stuck in the hooves of the copied Twilights. They throw me down the stairs and I fall onto a chair with my back. I lay there in pain, basically ready to sleep and hope to wake up with hands and feet as the last thing I feel like being a part of is a Twilight's basement massacre. The door closes and I'm in the dark, I didn't even know that this part of her house existed. I hear a door from upstairs open, I have always had great hearing, all of the ear infections made my ears sensitive and my poor eyesight enhances my hearing.
"Twilight, stop!" I can hear Rainbow Dash in the room, Spike must have left to get her. They bicker for the next few minutes, and I try yelling for help but they were too busy yelling at each other to even hear me. I give up, hoping they figure out I'm down here. As if she hears my thoughts, the door opens then closes again. The light turns on and Fluttershy is cowering at the top of the stairs. She gasps, looks at the door, then back to me. She slowly walks down the stairs and stops in front of me.
"Would you like some help?" She asks, being serious. I can't help but let out a small laugh, she can even make being a prisoner bearable.
"Yes please." She helps me up off of the chair, but I quickly fall over. "Thanks Fluttershy, but there's no way I'm going too far. I'd need to be carried up the stairs and to a hospital or somewhere where I can get my back looked at." She stops and thinks for a minute or two, then trots upstairs. She comes back down with Rarity who levitates me upstairs and to the nearest hospital. I'm actually surprised she can hold me up for that long, she is definitely getting better with her magic.
The next few days go by slowly, I can see why Rainbow resorted to reading. According to the doctor I broke my back when I hit the metal chair which would explain the surgery. Some background characters like Lyra and Bon Bon came to see me. Lyra's obsession with hands is real, and that's concerning to Bon Bon who keeps trying to get Lyra looked at by Twilight who apparently really did give a psychological examination to Rainbow Dash about Applejack after the Lesson zero episode. I wanted to say that I used to have hands, but that would get out of hands.
"Hey there soldier!" Rainbow Dash comes flying into the room, happy as can be. "And how are you doing?"
"I'm fine. They said the surgery went fine and I should recover by the end of the week."
"Awesome! You know that your one of the first residents of Ponyville to get a surgery?" No wonder they never mention it on the show, it never happens.
"Hey, sorry but I have to go. Work is going to be busy and my shift will start in five minutes, I'll get Fluttershy to keep you company though."
"No that's-" I stop myself for three reasons, one would be that I have been enjoying the peace and tranquility, two would be that I initially didn't hear her say Fluttershy and that would be nice to have her here, and three is that even if I had said no, she left too soon for me to even answer.
A few more hours go by and I try my best to be entertained. The lamp is a good distractor, turning it on and off. I open and close the dividing curtain since I'm alone in the room, and I eventually fall asleep seeing as though there are no books. I'm woken up by a soft sound in the front of the bed. The time is just after nine and the windows show it's nighttime. I look up and at the foot of my bed is Fluttershy. "Oh, I'm terribly sorry, I didn't mean to wake you. Rainbow just wanted me to come down and give you company but she told me half an hour ago."
"Half an hour ago? Whatever, it's fine Fluttershy. Listen, if you want to go back home you can. It's kind of pointless now seeing as though your animals are probably missing you."
"Are you sure? I could-"
"Oh my darling! We heard what happened to your back, are you alright?" Rarity runs into the room and is followed by PinkiePie and Applejack.
"Sugar cube, are you feeling alright?"
Oh my gosh! Are you ok?! You're one of the-"
Applejack is getting annoyed and it becomes pretty obvious. "Pinkie, shhh, others are sleeping in the building."
"Oh, sorry."
"Anyways darling, we are terribly sorry for what happened. Twilight lost her mind to be quite blunt. She attended her brothers promotion ceremony in the army two weeks ago, a royal meeting one and a half weeks ago, she took at a dance at the Canterlot-"
"Rarity, it's fine. I'm not mad at her, I know she has a busy and stressful life now. She may have broken my back and make me get hospitalized, but I forgive her." I'm guessing this shocked them. PinkiePie was silent and stared at me with a blank face, Applejack had her mouth open, Rarity looked down, and Fluttershy sat in a corner of the room.
"Wow sugar cube, you sure are forgiving. She could have killed ya'."
"If she did then it would be a different story, but she didn't. And honestly, where I'm from, these things happened all the time."
"Really?" Fluttershy asks from her corner.
"Oh yeah. They would become famous, or gain power, and then freak out with all of the attention. Same thing with Twilight, she is so stressed out with her new responsibilities that when something hit her with surprise, she lost it."
"Wow." PinkiePie said the only word for the next few minutes. Most of them are shocked with how I'm not hating Twilight, at least that's what I'm guessing.
"I think we should go y'all, it's getting late." The clock says it's ten, funny how time flies by in a cartoon world.
"Ok, let's go Pinkie. Bye Write."
"Bye Write." They close the door. I lie down in my bed until I hear Fluttershy in her corner shivering. I figured she left with the others.
"Fluttershy, would you like a chair?"
"I'm fine, thank you." Of course she is.
"Fluttershy, really, there is one over there." I point to across the room. She gets up and brings it over. She sits in it and almost Immediately falls asleep. I throw my blanket at her and it lands on her. She curls up in the chair and resumes her sleep. I would wake her up and tell her to go home, but she would most likely just fall asleep on the way. I just figure to leave her and fall asleep in my bed. I only have a week in the hospital left, I might as well make the best of it.
Well, it has been a week. I'm finally out of the hospital. Rather, I'm checking out of the hospital. I'm ready to go on more adventures with the mane six, and probably almost seriously get injured but not to the point of doom. As I look up in the sky while exiting the building, I see all of the weather Pegasi controlling the sky. I always loved the Pegasi, just the idea of flying where you want, the wind through your mane, the freedom of nothing holding you on earth, it looks like such a good time. But instead I had to make my OC an Earth Pony. There is nothing wrong with Earth Ponies, they just have very limited access of where they can go. By that I mean, they obviously can't fly in the air. It sort of makes me jealous, but I keep pushing it out of my mind. "Look out!" The ground shakes and dust is kicked up. Rainbow dash is lying on the ground, her wings dirty and covered in grass. "A little help here?" I clean off her wings and help her out of the ground. Earth ponies never crash going high speeds from the sky to the ground though, that's for sure.
"Are you ok?" I ask as hopeful as possible.
"Yeah I'm fine. I'm just sick of failing at that one move."
"What would that be?"
"Well, not to brag or anything but I did come up with this one on my own. See, first I jump off a really high cliff. Then I spread my wings and do a double back flip, then twist while climbing and losing speed, then I close my wings and nose dive to the ground, and open them again to finish with a vertical double spin and foward flip, and the finale is a sonic rainboom on my way back down. I can never get past the nose dive though.You know, it must be so nice being an Earth pony."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, you don't have to do stunts, you aren't expected to be somewhere earlier than the rest, you aren't expected to live in the clouds, and you definitely aren't expected to memorize the entire weather schedule for the year." I never realized what being a Pegasus is truly like. "Hey, sorry I haven't been able to sit and chat with you. I've had to do so much work that I've barley had time for myself."
"It's fine, don't worry about it. Im guessing you need to go and do some work now?"
"No actually, I'm free for the next two days."
"Oh. Well how about we go to my place and chat? I mean I'd ask to go to yours but, yeah."
"Sure thing Write, let's go." I'd be lying if I'd say I'm not nervous. This is the Rainbow Dash, the one who did the sonic rainboom atleast three times, the one who is considered a Wonderbolt due to the academy, the one who could clear the skies in ten seconds flat, and still be twenty percent cooler than any pony else. So am I nervous to have her at my house in her world? Yes, but you would be too. Either that or I'm just being paranoid she won't like my house.
I somehow manage to find my house fairly quickly, I think I have a decent idea of how to get to it from almost anywhere now. We walk in and I give Rainbow Dash the tour she needed. It's very empty without my old pets but I'm managing. "Wow, your house is huge!" Compared to most other houses in Ponyville, it is fairly large. "Do you have any pets?"
"No. I used to but they didn't come with me to here."
"Oh, well I'm sure they miss you." She is not helping with coping being stuck here. Twilight mentioned her finding a way to send me back, or something like that, but I doubt she wants to talk to me after what happened. "I'd show you my house but, you can't fly."
"Yeah, I know. Hey, what's it like being a Pegasus?"
"Well you see, it's one of the best things that could have happened to me. I'm not sure where I would be if I was anything else other than a Pegasus, probably work at a convenience store." Something is bothering her, they way her voice is and her shaking eyes make it pretty obvious.
"Is something wrong?"
"Well, no. It's nothing."
"Rainbow, come on. We are all grown up here, what's going on?"
"Well, alright. But you better not tell any pony about this or I swear I will ruin your life." She never gets this angry, it must be serious. I nod and she continues. "On my sixteenth birthday, my mother got me a patch for my jacket. It said 'Proud to be an Earth Pony'. I was confused because I'm clearly a Pegasus, so I asked her why she gave this to me. According to her, I was expected to be born as an Earth Pony. I'm not sure who my real father is because she even told me when I was very young that the colt I grew up with wasn't my real dad, but after that I figured he must have been an Earth Pony. Why else would she expect me to be one?"
"Wow. I'm sorry to hear that you didn't grow up with your real dad."
"It's fine." A few minutes of silence go by. "Hey, I'm going to head back home, it's getting late."
"I have one more question if you don't mind."
"Go ahead."
"Were you scared the first time you wanted to fly?" She sits there, lost in thought.
"Well, I suppose. I mean, I wasn't scared, but I wasn't happy to be hurling myself off the edge of a cliff over a lake." She laughs and turns to me. "You know, I never told any pony this. All of the things I've talked about, I'm surprised I'm saying this but I trust you with my secrets. I don't know why but, I do." It's no shock to be perfectly honest. I remember my old friends always telling me their secrets, their deepest wishes and always trusting me. I was almost like a psychologist to most of them. I guess I just radiate that feeling. "I should really go home now, good night Write."
"Goodnight Rainbow Dash." The door closes and I find my bedroom again. Everything is the same as it was on Earth, but anything MLP related has vanished. I make the bed, but right before I get in, there is a knocking at the door. "Coming!" I get down stairs and open the door.
"Hi Write, Rainbow told me you live here."
"Oh, hi Twilight. Yeah, come on in." She walks in, her head down and avoiding eye contact with me. "The parlor is right over there." She walks in and sits on a recliner. I sit on a couch and get ready for awkward silence, which is exactly what happened for about an hour.
"Write, I'm sorry."
"Twilight, it's ok."
"No it's not. I could have killed you, I broke your back. You could have been paralyzed, or killed, or-"
"Twilight." She stops, breathing quickly and heavily. "It's ok, I understand. You have many new responsibilities. I can't even imagine what it is like, and to be told what I said to you, I can see why you snapped. Now, Did you hurt me? Yes. Did you hold me prisoner? Yes. Do these things mean your a bad pers-Pony? No. It just means you mentally lost it with the pressure of all of Equestria on your shoulders, then you learn your fake to a dimension you have been to." I'm not sure if she followed, but I definitely got my point across.
"Write, just know I'm sorry. I truly am sorry, I didn't have a single right to do what I did. I'm sorry." She gets up and walks to the door.
"And I forgive you." She stops, then walks out of the house. Looking at the time, it is twelve at night. My eyes are heavy and my bed is waiting, so I walk halfway up the stairs until more knocking. "I just want to sleep!" I yell to the house. I walk back down stairs and into the breezeway, open the door, and there, sitting at my door step is the CMC. All three. "Hey girls, shouldn't you be asleep?"
SweetieBelle looks up, "Write, we know." My heart stops. I hope they don't mean what I think they mean.
"Know what?"
The three fillies say the word that I never wanted to hear again. "Earth."
"When were you going to tell us?!" Rainbow Dash is yelling in my face.
"I can not believe you darling." Rarity is just doing her whining thing again.
"You're from, where?" Fluttershy is in the back, quiet as a mouse.
All of the voices were coming at me too fast, I'm ready to snap. "Listen!" It goes quiet. "Now, am I from a different dimension? Yes. But are we any different? No."
Rarity sets herself up for an argument. "Write, or should I say Jacob, I'm terribly sorry but how are we alike at all? You were a human, we are ponies."
"You care about others, right?"
"Well, yes but-"
"So don't humans. You are loyal to others, right?"
"Well of course! But-"
"Humans are too. And you are kind as can be, correct?"
"Um, yes." Rarity stops, realizing it's a lost battle.
"So aren't humans. Honesty, laughter and magic are all part of life for humans along with the other elements. So why am I here? Because you are a tv show for us humans."
"We are a what?!" Pinkie Pie runs over with Applejack.
"A tv show. Its like a play in a box. It's why I know so much about you all. You're all everyday characters for us to watch and make us feel better about our lives. We love the unity and love you all show, and it makes us feel happy."
"Excuse me sugar cube, but we are here. We are alive."
"I know, and that is why I am confused as to how I'm here. I made a wish to meet you all, but I didn't expect it to come true, let alone be transported here. Most fans of the show wish for something like this every day and night, and they just might deserve to meet you all more than I do. As to why my wish just so happened to come true, I'm not sure. Who I am right now is my OC, it stands for Original Character and I made it. I gave him the name of Write Holliday because I loved writing fan fictions including all of you."
"So how did Discord know all that he did when we went to see him?" Twilight walks up to me, a serious expression on her face.
"I'm not sure. You know because I told you, but unless if you told him I don't see how he knows." It's quiet again. "Look everyone, I know you hate me right now and you have the right, but this is a dream come true for me. What ever happens from here on out, I just want to thank you all for such an amazing time." I walk down and to Fluttershy's cottage. She follows me there and I stop in front of her door. "Fluttershy, where is Discord?"
"In there." Just what I wanted to hear. I walk in and look quickly around the room. I hear the poof behind me and a shadow grows.
"Why hello Jacob. So nice to see you again."
"Discord! Tell me how you know about my past life."
"Now now Jacob, let's not go and get upset over something so small." He does his thing where he goes to a very small size.
"Discord, how did you know?"
"Come now." He goes back to his usual size. "Every wish has a star, yours just happened to be shooting when you made yours."
"Stop talking in riddles and tell me!" He snaps his claws and it brings us to when I was just getting ready for sleep back on Earth. There is a spark in the sky, the moon flashes three times, and my body disappears.
"See? I had nothing to do with this. I know all of this because I am The Lord of chaos, and this predicament that you are in is considered chaotic. And helping with that chaos is always fun."
"Bring us back." We go back to Fluttershy's Cottage. "Fluttershy?"
"Yes?"
"Is Twilight still at the center of Town?"
"Yes."
"Ok, thank you. Discord, it's been a pleasure." I run down to the middle of town, not believing I'm doing this. "Twilight!"
"Yes?"
I almost run into her. "Oh, hi. Listen, is it possible for you to send me back?"
"What?" The rest ask in unison. I'm suddenly surrounded by ponies asking me to stay and this and that, I just listen to it all.
"Listen, this universe is a special one. It shows humans how to be happy, loving, caring, tolerant, and overall nicer people. You all give so many inspiration and have saved so many from self harm, it's something that shouldn't be messed with. Your lives are so important to so many, it would be careless to mess with it."
"Are you sure Write?" Twilight sounds almost depressed.
"I'm positive, and please, call me Jacob. I don't want to do it, this has been the greatest few weeks of my life, but I don't want to test fate anymore. When I look back at when Zecora gave me the potion that erased all of my memories, it made me realize that every moment is special, and when you give another a good day, it's worth it, even if you don't get affected by it. I knew that my old world was happy that I was there, but when I forgot about it I didn't even realize I was originally a human. Even if I stayed like that forever though, they would still be affected by me, they would still remember the good times we had together, and I left my mark there. Now I left my mark in the second world that I love so much, and I met the ones who showed me how to be a great person. There are so many who wish for this every day and every night, I have been granted the chance of a life time. So Twilight, I would like to go back."
"Wow. Jacob, I didn't realize how much you care about it that much. If you're positive, then I'll send you back. We would just like to say thank you though."
"Yes, thank you Jacob. You are truly a good friend." Fluttershy a hugs me and keeps walking. They each hug me one by one, and I'm about to break down. I may be throwing away the opportunity that only happens in dreams, but I'd hate myself if I were to do anything that could make the show something it isn't.
"Goodbye Jacob."
"Goodbye every pony." Twilight bows her head and her horn begins glowing purple. I brace myself for what I think is pain, but it all just goes white. I close my eyes, happy with my final decision, and realizing that even though Earth isn't like Equestria, and it may have many evils in the world, it is still what we have. We are lucky to have it, and we should enjoy it as long as we can.
I open my eyes, laying in grass outside of my house. My head hurts so much, my eyes are most likely blood-shot, and my hands and feet are terribly numb. I walk, or rather limp, for about an hour getting my footing back and getting used to hands and feet. I know what just happened to me was real, otherwise why would I be out here waking up in the grass? But it all was just so perfect, it felt like a dream. As I walk inside my house, the first thing I see is a family picture. It was when we all went to Rhode Island and enjoyed the sea and mansions. I keep walking and almost trip over a lump in the carpet. I look at it and slowly realize that it's an old toy. I look closer and realize it's a very old Bionical pice, specifically the toy of the old movie 'The Mask of Light'.
"Mom?" My heart stops, it's my brother. It hits me right then and there that I didn't only go to Equestria, I was transported. My body went with me and must have been transformed into Write Holliday. They think I'm, dead. "Where is Jacob's first teddy bear? I want it to be buried with his grave."
"In the closet next to the tv." I don't know what to do. Do I say I'm alive? Make them all happy again? Or do I just let them do their thing? Live the rest of my life as a ghost? I make my decision and walk upstairs to meet my brother.
"Hey." I say, a smile on my face.
"Oh, there it is." He walks past me and grabs the teddy bear.
"Um, hello?" I try getting his attention, but he is basically ignoring me. I go to tap his shoulder, and I go right through him, nearly falling on the ground.
"Jacob." I look behind me and there, standing at the doorway, is Twilight.
"Do you mind telling me what exactly you did to me?" I ask, getting more and more frustrated with the current situation.
"Well, the spell I did kind of messed up."
"As in killing me here?"
"As in making you temporarily a living ghost." I stare at her and her face drops, I don't know what kind of look I have, but I know it isn't a good one.
"So am I dead or not? I can still breathe, still everything."
"No. People just don't know you're there and can't interact with you in any way, including touch."
"Great. My grave is about to be filled with dirt and I'm still here, but I can't do anything about it. Great. By the way how are you here? I thought you couldn't teleport in between dimensions."
"Well, like I said, my spell messed up. Just in more ways than one." She digs at the wooden floor, scraping the top. I shouldn't be so hard on her, she is stuck here now.
"Well, how long until the spell wears off?"
"I have no idea. It could be minutes, hours, or even days."
"We need water to live. Food, exsersize, how are we supposed to do this without being able to grab things and interact with them?"
"I, I don't know." I want to say that due to her mess up, we could both die. But I don't, there is no sense in adding insult to injury. "So the house you had in Ponyville was the same as here on Earth?"
"Yeah. I have cats, a dog and a fish so I'm kind of glad they were left behind if it meant they would be a living ghost when they were sent back." I look at the My Little Pony posters on my walls, my Fluttershy cosplay hoodie, my Fluttershy figurine from Hot Topic, my My Little Pony dog tags, and the rest of my MLP merchandise I have. She notices it.
"Jacob, why do you have so much stuff about us? And more so, Fluttershy?"
"I, kinda think she is best pony." My face goes red from both nervousness and embarrassment. I never have an issue telling others who my favorite is, but if it's a friend of that pony it is kind of different.
"Oh. I see."
"It's not that I don't like you and the others, I do I really do, I just can connect to her the most and I love her kind ways."
"So I see." If there was ever a moment where I could hide my MLP merchandise, it would be now. "Well, I'm going to go outside and take a breath. Come out when you need me." Twilight walks away, and I stand at the door, wishing I am seen by someone.
"Hello Jacob."
"Discord?" Careful what you wish for apparently.
"Enjoying Earth again?"
"How are you here?"
"Twilight may not be able to switch from one dimension to another, but I certainly am." Great explanation.
"Look, I am having a bad enough day as it is, please just leave me alone."
"I will, after I get what I want."
"And what would that be?"
"For you to be back home and Twilight to be back in Equestria."
"Why would you want that? You are The Lord of chaos, you wouldn't want peace and closure."
"Trust me, what's about to happen is not peace." He snaps his fingers and my eyes are blinded by light. My body becomes much heavier and I fall to the floor, regaining my vision.
"And what did that do exactly?"
"Jacob?" I look up, it's my brother. He runs over and hugs me. For the next hour or so my family is overjoyed by me being back. I'm not sure why, but Discord saved me and hopefully Twilight from being like that forever.
The next day I wake up and immediately go to school. My family didn't want me to, they haven't seen me for five months, I was in Equestria for half that time, but I'm about to be held back a year with all of the days I have missed.
I get onto the bus and the bus driver nearly passes out. The others on the bus are shocked and silent, just staring at me for the next hour or so of the ride. Once at school, I go straight to my first class. Jake, my friend who was one of the two people who got me to be a brony, pulls me aside and stares at me, clearly not happy. "How are you alive? You should be dead right now, the search was canceled not too long ago."
"I would tell you what happened, but you would never believe me."
"I would love to hear it." Joe, the other one who made me a brony walks over.
"Please, tell us." I go on to explain the story, and as expected, they don't believe me.
"That is the stupidest story I have ever heard. The show is good and all but I think you were in a coma or something." Jake of course just scoffs off what I said as being insane.
"This is why I didn't want to tell-"
"Hey!" I know that voice, it's mine, but I'm here talking to Jake and Joe. I look behind me and standing in my school hallway is the mane six.
"You keep talkin' to Write that way and you won't be talking for a while." Applejack scratches the floor, breathing out heavily.
"You're the-"
"The ponies from My Little Pony? Yes we are." Rainbow Dash interrupts Jake, being as intimidating as she can be.
"Let me explain something to you mister. If you are true fans of us, then you will treat this colt, I mean, person with respect. Otherwise, we will love and tolerate the heck out of you, and I mean that figuratively." I never thought Fluttershy could be so straight to the point.
"My party cannon is loaded with anti-party things to make this area of the school dreadfully boring!"
"And I will make this school have the worst clothing rules in all of Eques-, I uh, I mean Earth!"
"I think you two better, or you Jake, better leave." Twilight points at the door leading outside. My OC walks up from behind them.
"Yes Jake, please leave. Joe, you're fine, you can stay here. Jacob, I need to talk to you." I walk to Write, and look at him as confused as I could be.
"Write, what is going on? Please explain what is happening to me."
"I know how confusing this is for you, trust me, I am you, so I have somepony here who can help to explain things." By now we are surrounded by murmuring students of the school. Celestia walks into the hall and everyone who is a brony bows. Any non-brony bows, not wanting to do anything wrong and look stupid.
"Hello Jacob. For years the connection between these two dimensions was only the portal, and when that broke the star that granted your wish shot out into space. You were transported to Equestria for one reason only, to rebuild the portal. When you left too soon however, Twilight Sparkle messed her spell up making you into a ghost as you know. When Discord fixed it all, he accidentally rebuilt the portal back on Equestria and made your OC a real pony. This new rebuilt portal was much stronger than it was before it was destroyed, so it now allows Unicorns and Alicorns to go from Equestria and Earth freely. I will make laws forbidding this unless there is a dire situation. So we are here to thank you Jacob, and to thank the people of Earth for their kind hospitality. Goodbye." Celestia's horn glows white. The mane six and my OC are waving, then vanish with a bright white light.
My teacher looks at me. "Well, I think-"
The intercom clicks on, "School is dismissed." It clicks off, and everyone runs out to their bus. It isn't even an hour into school, so they must have realized what happened. I don't even bother taking the bus, I walk back home.
Over the next few months, my life has gotten back to normal. Every now and again, one of the mane six will pop into my house with either Twilight or Rarity and we will have a conversation for about two to three hours, then they will return to Ponyville. People of the fandom heard about what happened to me and now look up to me. I'm not used to the fame and popularity, but I'm getting used to it, I just hope it never gets to my head. One thing still bothers me though. In the show, most of the villains have the capability of magic. If it truly is as easy as Celestia said it is, then what is stopping them form coming here? I hope I don't jinx it, it has been nice and relaxing without any issues. It is just one of those things that I can't stop thinking about. At any rate, my life is back, my animals are happy, my friends and family are happy, and my conversations with the ponies have been uplifting. As long as no villain learns about this, it should be fine.
