"Sarah, I got a call from Hollywood! They want my presence for a movie!"
"But... we are good friends. I don't want to be away from you..."
"Don't worry, pal. I think you can see the movie when we finish."
Shawn got his suitcase and went through the main door.
"Wish me good luck, Sarah! Goodbye!"
"Goodbye..."
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Nowadays...
Waking up by the alarm clock, I remembered that wasn't just a dream, but also a thing that actually happened.
I am Sarah Gaines, some girl living in Western Australia. I finished primary school the good way but, after that, my best friend decided to move away, to Hollywood. I didn't hear from him since that moment.
His name was Shawn. Shawn Turner. He finished school the same way as me, but he wanted to be in the actor career from the beginning.
Both of us were enjoying the summer holidays after our last year on school. But one day, he came with the great idea: he did as I said before, he went to Hollywood looking for the people who called him. But he didn't think he could take me with him, so we wouldn't be separated.
Of course, I still remember that awful moment. And sometimes, I even dream about it.
There is some guy helping me to get rid of the problem. He works as a therapist. I send him an e-mail telling my problem, and he replied me saying a way to try and solve it.
But there was something curious about that guy: he told me he had a Youtube channel. I thought it was about therapy, but I didn't find it. Interesting...
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Today, I did a few things. I already mentioned the fact that I finished school so, after that, there were two possibilities: find a job or keep studying.
Now, for the second one, the only one place besides school was... Cape Navaus High.
The few things that I did everyday included reading a newspaper, normally looking for a job or for news that seemed funny. Nevertheless, today's newspaper came with strange news.
In Cape Navaus High, I didn't know exactly what was happening, but the newspaper said that both students and teachers were transforming into anthro versions of some animal... Horses? No... Wait, ponies!
In addition, there was a photo of one student. It looked like a pony girl on every aspects, except for its name: John Radderson.
At first, I thought it had to be a joke, something to increase the campus' popularity, but I remembered about the therapist and decided it was worth writing him.
I told him everything: the campus, the anthro ponies, John Radderson, everything. Then, I sent him the e-mail and waited patiently.
Just one minute later, I received his response. He said "Yeah, I know about all of that. What if I told you that everything on the newspaper is real?".
I was not sure about deciding, whether it was real or not. I just couldn't do it. Maybe I didn't believe a newspaper, but I believed in my therapist.
I didn't do much during the rest of the day: see a movie in the TV, read a book... When the night came, I had a short walk through the city. I went through the park, between two or three streets and, also, Cape Navaus High.
Contemplating the campus' great design, my mind wandered to the newspaper. Was it really true? Were the students, teachers and anyone else transforming into anthropomorphic versions of ponies? And why ponies, when there were a lot of animals on this world? Something about it was not right...
But anyways, I tried to think about anything different while I was going back to my home. Arriving there, I simply dropped on my bed, ready to begin a new day, cause I thought I could study on that campus and finish in a good way.
Besides, it would give me a chance to know more about those news...
The next day, I got up from my bed. I had a notification on e-mail. It seemed like someone sent me a message while I was sleeping.
I opened it, and it said: "Hello, you may not know me, but I do know you. It looks like your problem with your best friend doesn't want to get solved, but don't worry, I have some way for compensating..."
Before reading more, I looked at the signature. It was an anonymous one. I didn't recognize it, but I kept reading.
Suddenly, when I finished, one idea was inside my mind. A really interesting idea. Something related to my friend Shawn, Hollywood, famous people, movies...
If Shawn went to Hollywood for a chance, I would give that same opportunity to anyone else on this city...
Even if I had to throw some little lies...
It was going to be perfect...
And I knew just the place to start...
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I came to the campus and enrolled myself there. The students were already looking at me, a gorgeous girl with long brown hair and precious clothes, as if I was a real movie star.
The classes I had were History, Arts, Music, Math, Gym... But I didn't have any of those "ponies" as classmates (except at Arts, where there was someone with pink fur drawing a good set of funny things, like she had a party inside her head or something).
Anyways, I was acting all the time like I was famous so no one suspected other thing.
At free time, on the backyard, my lie had extended to every corner of the campus, so there were a lot of students (humans and anthros) surrounding me for selfies, autographs and those things.
Whenever someone asked me where I came from, I always answered: "I came right from Hollywood." They loved all that came from Hollywood, from movies to actors and actresses.
My plan was going well. I just had to keep faking my "popularity" until the end. Then, the trap would be set.
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A few days later, a lot of people on the campus believed in me, so I got the trap.
Using some maps on the Internet, I sent them a message saying that Hollywood had chosen Western Australia to record a new film there. I included some map coordinates of the place so they could see it.
It would be good...
At the campus, they looked at me with confusion on their faces.
"Are you sure they chose that desert? Aren't the coordinates wrong?"
"Don't worry, it is that place. It's just that they want to do a film with cowboys, trains, pistols and that," I said. "By the way, do you have costumes?"
At that moment, their faces were priceless. They LOVED the idea of being part of the film. No matter if some of them were anthro ponies. I didn't have any problem.
Well, not so fast. There was ONE problem.
There were six students away from the rest of us, looking at me. Did they suspect something? It could be that.
The most curious thing about those six is that all of them were already transformed into anthro versions of ponies.
But I was going too well on my plan to think about what would happen...
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The day of the "movie"
I told everyone at what time they had to be on the scenario, at the coordinates. But, when that day came, I got up earlier so I could go and prepare things.
I had a good breakfast and then, getting in my car, I went right to the desert.
There, I took quite the time to prepare some buildings so it would seem a Western film. I even put the Sheriff's place, with a jail big enough for a lot of people, but with a weak door.
Now, the "weak door" detail was because I didn't want to kidnap them. I did want to... trick them.
Some time later, I heard a lot of cars far away from the scenario, so I went to welcome them.
There were those fools, each of them dressed as a cowboy, cowgirl, bandit or other character, with toy pistols on their hands.
I didn't see those 6 anthros anywhere, so I thought they just didn't want to come. Meh, more for us.
"Welcome, everyone! I have the scenario ready for all of you! Come with me!"
Humans and anthros followed me to where the Western town was. When they saw it, a loud "oooooh" could be heard.
"I always wanted to be in one of those towns!" said one of them.
"There it is! You can practise for the movie if you want," I said.
And they surely did. Everyone was enjoying their time, but some of them asked where the cameras were. They didn't see anything related to the movie at all.
Convincing them that the producers were on their way, that was enough info. They would know the rest when the moment came...
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I spent the day taking photos to everyone. Humans and anthros had a lot of fun as they got photos posing, shooting at each other, even making a "Saloon brawl"!
When I finished, I told them I had to send the photos to the producers, to see their opinion about them. So I got away, waited some time and then reunited back with them, faking confusion on my face.
"Is something wrong, Sarah?" asked an anthro student.
"Yeah, tell us," said another one.
"The problem is that they didn't like the photos," I said.
"And why do they say that?" asked some guy.
"Because they think that pony-cowboys would be a really stupid idea for a movie, so they want ONLY human cowboys."
"What!?"
At that moment, humans and anthro-ponies were talking all at the same time, very angry because what was happening.
"This is not fair!"
"Yeah, say that to those Hollywood producers!"
"Good idea! We could go there!"
"They won't do any other movie after this!"
So basically, thanks to me, everyone wanted to go right to Hollywood and start ruining things. Ideas like breaking filming scenarios and chasing every single producer related to the "Western movie" were flying between them.
Maybe I would need some popcorn to enjoy the show...
I just watched cheerful as the "Western Town" scenario was teared to pieces by a raging group of students and teachers of Cape Navaus High.
I was trying not to laugh because that would ruin the surprise. Besides, I wanted to know how far they were willing to go.
When they finished, the result looked more like a ghost town, every single building destroyed. One of them asked "Now, what?" and I said "Come on, let's go back to the campus. We will prepare things for our trip to Hollywood."
Everyone agreeded, so we got on our cars, started the engines and, taking some minutes, we abandoned the desert, going back to the city.
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Arriving at our destination, I reunited with everyone, as they kept arguing about the problem with the "producers".
"Guys! Go home and prepare yourselves! We will meet at the campus!" Those were the words I could say, before they cheered and started doing as I mentioned.
One hour later...
Everyone was ready. I was ready.
We were at Cape Navaus High's doors talking about our plan against Hollywood, the fake movie producers and, possibly, every single scenario we would find.
A couple of minutes later, I saw those 6 anthro-ponies approaching to the campus. That was the moment I realized that John Radderson was, in fact, the leader of their group. But I still remembered the newspaper.
Her name was Twilight...
With everyone being quiet and looking at those 6, I simply walked towards them.
"Welcome to our group, girls! Or whatever you are..."
"What's happening here, Sarah?" asked Twilight.
"Well, it's a long story, but I can make it short," I said.
"Tell us, if ya don't mind." said Ashley.
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Sorry, I forgot to mention it earlier. Being enough time at the campus, I knew almost everyone, including Twilight and her friends. Basically, I knew a lot of names, so I didn't have any problem.
Anyways, coming back to the story...
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"Let's just say we are going to destroy Hollywood," was my answer. Good one, because everyone at my side cheered.
"Destroy Hollywood? Why!?" exclaimed Pinkie.
"They tricked us!"
"They didn't want to do a movie with anthro-ponies!"
"They are traitors!"
Everyone kept saying things like those said earlier so they were so sure about it.
"Join us, and we will boicot them," I said.
So Twilight and her friends obviously tried to stop us.
"I don't think Hollywood did anything to any of you! It is Sarah who tricked you!" said Rainbow.
Well, the moment had arrived. They tried to convince everyone that it was all my fault, that I planned everything.
But they didn't want to believe it.
"Liars!"
"How can you say that!?"
"What if you are working as spies for the producers?"
It seemed that my group was winning. We just needed to say a few more things, then we would prepare the Hollywood's invasion...
Twilight and her friends didn't have anything else to say.
Well, some seconds later, I realized that thinking too much about my victory was my big mistake, because Twilight said something else.
"What if Sarah didn't came from Hollywood?"
That made everyone be quiet, and they looked at me, waiting for my reaction. Honestly, that comment was like a hard punch to my chest.
But I couldn't just let those fools convince my group about other different fact.
"Prove it!" I exclaimed, along with everyone else. They were too proud of their leader to let others defeat them.
"We will see where you come from... in your files," said Twilight.
"And fer that, we must look fer them in the principal's office," added Ashley.
"Well, good luck doing so! You cannot enter unless you have the keys!" I said, mocking them.
"IT IS OPENED!!"
What? Turning around, I saw Pinkie running across the now opened doors of Cape Navaus High!
How did she exactly get the campus' keys!? They were well hidden between everyone on my side! What happened didn't make any sense!!
I thought about all of that while I was running through the campus' halls along with my group, trying to stop Pinkie before she reached the principal's office.
But, when we arrived, it was too late.
Pinkie had already seen my files. So she approached, revealing its contents.
It had my name, age, some personality traits... like every single file on the campus.
And most importantly, where I came from...
The name of which surprised everyone inside the office.
Western Australia
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After that awful discovery, everyone was looking at me, some of them sad, others being concerned.
"It was true. They were right. I'm not a famous Hollywood star. I'm just another person studying at Cape Navaus High, here in Western Australia," I said.
"But why would you trick us so we could think it was someone else's fault?" asked a girl.
"I don't want to talk about it. It is really personal," I answered.
"It's ok, Sarah. We are listening."
I saw Twilight and her friends staring at me with a calm expression on their faces. It was like they confronted things similar to this moment.
So, gaining faith on myself, I told my story.
I explained them that what I did was an act of revenge because, some years ago, I had a friend who moved to Hollywood because he wanted to be a famous actor since he was small. But he didn't think about one thing: we could have been together all this time.
"I was just so jealous, because Shawn had a brilliant future ahead, but for me... nothing..."
When I finished, all I could see were worried faces everywhere. There was no one talking.
Twilight was the first to talk.
"All of us can help you, Sarah. We can be your friends."
"My... friends? Oh... I don't know what to say..." I answered.
"You can start without words..." said Twilight, preparing herself for a hug.
I gladly accepted it, hugging her. Soon, her friends also joined the hug, and everyone gave an applause.
That was the best day of my life...
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After all came to an end, I said goodbye to my friends, and all of us went back to our homes.
It was nighttime, so I got myself a good dinner and I prepared to go to sleep.
Suddenly, I remembered about something: my therapist! I had to talk to him!
I sent him an e-mail. I told him everything that happened that day: the fake movie, the raging students, our big encounter with Twilight...
A few minutes later, I received his response.
"Oh, you befriended Twilight and her friends! It seems that your emotional problem has been solved in a very good way! Your case is something similar to this!"
And he added a document called "Starlight Glimmer".
Being a little confused about that, I clicked on it. Inside the document, there was a lot of information about that character.
But what surprised me was the photo. Starlight Glimmer was a pony!
Upon seeing the photo, my computer flashed with a strange light. While I couldn't see anything, I was having changes on my body!
Some seconds later, I opened my eyes and saw fur on my arms, my legs, my whole body! I looked for a mirror to see myself.
There was... an anthro-pony. Like Twilight and her friends. Like some of the people studying at the campus.
"Wow, this sure is a nice surprise!" I said, realizing that even my voice sounded like Starlight Glimmer.
Suddenly, I received another e-mail. It was my therapist.
"I almost forget about something. There's a link to my Youtube channel. It was the time to show you my secret."
There was the link. Clicking on it, I see the Youtube channel.
MLP Theory Analysts
All of those things that were happening to me were strange, a bit confusing...
