From A Cold City To A Warm Town

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It was a cold and winter morning as I walked home from a late night at a mate’s house in the city. I was dressed in my normal winter gear: my long-sleeve black jacket, a pair of black jeans, a black trench coat, my black fedora and a pair of black sunglasses.

Normally, I don’t need to put on my black scarf or my black gloves, but it was cold this morning. Like, freezing cold. I dug through my shoulder bag, finding both of them at the bottom of my satchel along with my laptop, my USB hard drives, iPod and other random stuff. I have to remember to clean this out once I get home.

I chuckled to myself. Hell, I’m luckily enough I found them and got them out of my bag without all of my stuff falling out.

Last night was one of those nights where I just let go. The whole night was full of video games and drinking. I don’t normally drink that much - no more than 5 or 6 shots of rum and coke - and the only time I do drink is when I’m out with buddies of mine. To be honest, I just don’t see the point in getting stone-cold drunk. Getting buzzed... doesn’t appeal to me that much.

I guess you could say that’s a good thing.

Half an hour later, I reached my apartment. Nothing really special, it was only a two bedroom apartment (the second room was just in case anyone needed a place to stay), with a living room, kitchen and bathroom. It was a simple life, but it was a home of sorts. I didn’t think about it much.

Opening the door, I tossed my sunglasses and hat onto the kitchen counter, along with my gloves and scarf. Carefully placing my bag onto the table, I went into my bedroom, took off my jacket, and looked into the mirror.

I was a thin twenty-one year old guy, tall at about six-seven, with short light brown hair which ran to orange in the bright light. I didn’t consider myself good looking, I was just very plain.

As I looked a bit closer in the mirror, I noticed that my blue-green eyes were bloodshot. I wasn’t surprised - I had been up since six A.M. yesterday morning for work as a video game character artist.

Maybe it also didn’t help that I went straight from work to my mate’s house, and played video games all night long.

“God, I need to get some sleep,” I said in a slow, groaning yawn. I grabbed my phone out of my pocket and looked at the time, it was 8:30am; I looked at my reflection, then back to my phone.

“Ah, stuff it. I’ll just go to bed early tonight.” I said as I put my phone back into my pocket, walking out to my satchel and grabbing one of my USBs. I plugged it into my computer in my living room and sat down in my computer chair.

After typing in my computer password, I quickly went on to the internet and onto Youtube, clicking on the latest episodes of My Little Pony.

I remember how I started watching this show, as a mate of mine that I used to go to college with when I was doing my game design course for the better part of two years from 2010 - 2011, introduced me to it and I started to like it. Mainly due to how great it looked since it was made in Flash, which could be very temperamental to work in, but later on I started to like it for its humor and how well the characters were developed.

But as I started watching, the show was put on hold after episode thirteen due to them losing all completed future episodes and their files after a freak accident of some sort, causing them to redo it all from scratch. It wasn’t until early March of 2012 that they started showing the rest of season one.

After waiting for the website to load, I found the last three episodes of season one and started to watch them, while relaxing in my chair.

After the last of the latest episodes was over, I got up and grabbed my notepad and a book on supernatural myths and legends, as I started writing down some notes for a game idea that I was working on. I decided to stop for the day after an hour of writing, just as my phone started playing its message tone.

I quickly grabbed my phone out of my pocket to see who sent me the text. Lo and behold, it was one of my mates, probably seeing if I got home alright.

I open the text and from first glance, for anyone else who might have being reading it, the text looked like gibberish, due to all the drinking the sender of the text did last night.

After quickly translating the text from what I would like to call “Drunk-ish” to English. The text was asking if I got back alright, and if I wanted to come back over tonight for a game of Dungeon and Dragons.

As much as I wanted to go and join them, I couldn't. I was still tipsy from last night, which I wanted to sleep off and I doubted that I could get my creative juices going for a game of D&D tonight. In the end I replied to his text with a 'maybe' and that 'I’ll call you if I’m coming over.’

With that out of the way, I looked at my phone to check the time, only to see that it was about 10:30 in the morning.

I got up from my computer chair and went to grab my USB drive, and put it back into my bag and place that near the lounge just in case I got up in time to go to the game.

I then went and grabbed my jacket and trench coat, and my fedora with my glasses on top. I placed my hat on top of my bag and used my jacket and coat as a makeshift blanket as I laid back down on the couch and drifted off to sleep.

A few hours later . . .

With my eyes closed, still trying to sleep, some birds started to chirp loudly outside.

Did I leave the windows open again? I thought, trying to block out the sounds as I rolled over, trying to get comfortable on my couch, only to feel something sharp jabbed me in the hip.

I lazily opened my eyes to see what had jabbed me, it was a tree root. When I rolled over, I should've seen the back of my couch in my apartment, but instead there was a field with rows upon rows of trees.

Finally now fully awake, I looked around, with only one thought on my mind.

“Where the fuck am I?” I asked out loud.

I sat up and found my shoulder bag next to me a few centimeters away. Upon seeing it, I started to panic, and quickly opened the bag to see if all of my things were still in there, which luckily they were.

Following that, I then saw my hat and glasses next to my bag and decided to put my hat on, then attempted to stand on my feet. Using the tree as some form of support, I finally stood up, only to be hit in the face with a bit of cloth that I recognized.

As I pushed it out of my face and looked up the tree, I saw my trench coat and jacket.

“How the hell did they get up there?”

After looking at the tree that was holding my jacket and coat, I was forced to go back to my first question- Where the fuck am I?

I did a proper look around and noticed that the trees had apples on them ,and not just three or four trees, but every tree that I could see has apples on them.

“Okay, I’m betting that I’m on an apple farm of some sort.” After saying that, my mind went into overdrive.

Crap, this farm might have dogs, or guns, or dogs with guns! I thought in a panic; however, I had to laugh out loud about the dogs with guns due to that one Robin Williams joke about the right to arm bears. I then remembered to shut up just in case I was heard. I couldn’t afford to get hysterical.

I decided to grab my stuff from the tree, shrugging them on as I started to look around, trying to see if there was a fence nearby that I can jump over to get off the property. Thankfully I saw a fence far off in the distance and started walking quickly towards it.

However, as I neared the fence I was spotted.

Nearby a dog started barking and I quickly turned my head to see, all the while thinking; Please let it be just a dog, please let it be just a dog!

After I turned my head to face the dog, I saw a person walking with the dog.

“Ah crap!” I said to myself, the dog’s owner caught sight of me as the dog continued to bark.
Now at this point in time I slowly moved towards the fence. Everything went smoothly until a sudden SNAP of a branch under my feet spurred the dog to start chasing after me.

“AH SHIT!” I shouted as I started to run for the fence.

Behind me, I heard the woman yelling. “Winona! You get back here and leave that man alone!”

I wasn’t about to turn around and see if the dog did as she was told. I ran like hell to the the fence, I just hoped that I wouldn’t run out of breath before I needed to jump it.

As I was getting closer I realized something: it was one tall-ass fence. It was about five feet tall and I knew I couldn't have ever cleared it, even with a running start like the one I had. In the shape I was in, I doubted I could clear even half its height without tripping and falling.

Ah fuck it, I’ll just have to pray that gravity fails for a second so that I can clear it. I quickly thought as I neared the fence.

I prayed for a good five seconds as I ran and then jumped forward, I squeezed my eyes closed in fear of what might happen next.

I didn’t feel any pain of any sort. I opened my eyes and quickly looked around.

I was on the other side of the fence.

“I made it?” I said in shocked disbelief as I then started laughing and shouted “I MADE IT, HA HA!” laughing at my success.

However I stopped my laughing, realizing what I had just done. I had just jumped a five foot fence, a jump I could never had made in my entire life, so how the hell did I do that then?

I thought of every logical thing that I could think of, as to how I got over that fence, while crossing off things at the same time. The only two things that I could come up with that would make any sort of sense was that I must've stepped on a tree stump and used that to jump over the fence or that I vaulted over it. But that even that left me with more questions than answers.

However as I started to drive a bit further into it, a voice and a bark broke my train of thought, I knew I had forgotten about something.

When I turned around, I finally noticed the person who owned the dog was a young woman, no older than myself, but there was something unusual about her, like I knew her from somewhere, but just couldn’t place it.

The woman wore a brown Stetson hat and well worn blue jeans, with a red checkered flannel shirt and brown cowboy boots as well. I didn’t notice her hair until she turned her head to see what I was looking at, as she had her long blond hair tied into a ponytail and out of the way of her face, but her voice brought me back down to earth.

“Excuse me, feller, but what in tarnation are you looking at?” the cowgirl asked.

“What? Oh sorry, what was the question again?” I asked, a bit dazed at the moment.

There I go with that weird feeling again, her voice sounds so familiar, but where have I heard it? I thought, growing even more confused with each passing moment.

“Ah asked if you would please kindly tell me, why yer were in mah apple orchard without mah permission?” she repeated, leaning on the fence looking at me with her dog at her side.

“I... uh, it’s kind of hard to explain to be honest.” I said looking at her. I didn’t even remember how I’d gotten here myself.

The cowgirl lifted one of her eyebrows at me, expression bidding me to continue.

Yeah, she doesn’t believe me, I thought and started to feel worried a bit.

The cowgirl clambered over the fence and started to walk towards me, her dog ducking its way under the rungs to follow her. At this point I was sweating bullets, eyes locked with hers as she stared me down. She had bright green eyes with a few freckles under them and was of average height, maybe a bit tall for a girl at around 5’9”. For the third time I got that weird feeling again.

Dude not now, you might get the crap beaten out of you, or worse she might sic the dog on you! You gotta pay attention! I thought to myself.

The cowgirl finally broke the silence. “What’s yer name feller?”

I decided to take a quick breath of air before answering her trying to calm myself down.

“Uh… it’s Vincent, my name is Vincent Pleasant.” I answered her.

“Fancy name you have there.” she complimented, and despite the bizarre circumstances I didn’t find myself doubting her sincerity, she seemed the honest type.

“Thanks, and seeing how I told you my name, you mind telling me yours?” I asked, trying hard to look as friendly as possible.

“Ma name is Applejack. I work here at Sweet Apple Acres, and this little doggie here is Winona.” Winona barked once, wagging her tail at the mention of her name.

Before Applejack even finished her sentence a thought came screeching into my head.

Wait a minute; did she say that her name was Applejack? That can’t be right! I quickly looked at her again and took all of her features and put them on an orange pony.

A blond-haired, freckled, cowgirl-hatted orange pony.

As I put two and two and two together, the sound of glass shattering went off in my head.

You’ve got to be fucking kidding me! I thought.

During that time, I zoned out again as I stared at her, and Applejack gave me a weird look, forcing a cough to snap me back to the situation at hand. I shook my head and looked back at her.

“Sorry about that, I’m just still trying to figure out where I am. I’ve never heard of a place called Sweet Apple Acres before.” I said to her, deciding to play dumb for as long as I can here. I didn’t want to let her or anyone else know that I knew way more then I should.

Now it was Applejack’s turn to look confused. Hell, I think even her dog looked confused, cocking its head to the side with a whine.

“Good gravy Vincent, how have you not heard of Sweet Apple Acres?” she asked me.

Oh, I have heard of it, but if I told you how you might just send me to the crazy house. Bloody hell, what can I possibly tell her? I thought to myself.

“To be honest I don’t know why I never heard of this place,” I told her, shrugging my shoulders and having a quick look over the parts of the apple orchard that I could see. “but it does look like a nice place to live and you must have worked hard to keep this place so well maintained.” I said, and hoped she’d react to the complement of her livelihood the way the AJ I knew would.

“Well Vincent, seeing how yer never heard of the Apple family cooking or hospitality, how about you come up to the house with me and try some of our chow?” she asked me, a small smile on her face.

I was a bit hungry, seeing how the last thing I had to eat was at 2AM, and that was only a small bag of chips, but I had more pressing matters at hand.

“Thank you for your kind offer, but I’ve got a lot of things I need to get done today, sorry.” I told her, trying to sound as regretful as possible.

To be honest she may have thought she was Applejack, but unless I had some kind of proof to back it up, I just couldn’t believe her for who she said she was. I had seen and read stories about people who got so into the ponies that they couldn’t tell the difference between reality and the fiction of the show. Hell, right now, maybe I fit that description.

Applejack seemed to be a little disappointed at what I said, but she nodded anyway, “That’s okay hun, just promise me to come over to Sweet Apple Acres once you have time to try mah cooking, maybe that will jog your memory about this place.”

I let out a small laugh and flashed Applejack a smile, “Ok, I promise that I will come around once I have the time.”

Applejack smiled back at me “Shake on it?” she asked.

“I’m willing to shake on it.” I told her.

Applejack raised her hand to her face and spat on her palm, then held out it in front of me, all I could do was look at her hand for a minute then shrug my shoulders again.

“Meh, when in Rome I suppose.” Before I spat into my own palm and shook Applejack’s hand.

After we finished shaking hands, I resisted the urge to wipe the spit from my hand in front of her, in case it was considered offensive if I did so. But before I could say anything else, Winona started barking at something.

“What is it girl?” asked Applejack to her dog.

Please don’t tell me that her dog can talk back to her, I don’t think I can take it, I thought to myself.

Luckily for me, the dog ran off towards the fence, under it, and out of sight.

“Winona! Where’re you going?!” shouted Applejack.

“Maybe you should go and see what she went after?” I suggested.

“Yeah, I should, shouldn’t I?” said Applejack and started running after her dog, but stopped once she got to the fence, one hand resting on the wood in preparation for the vault as she turned back.

“I’ll see you later Vincent! And remember yer promise!” She shouted to me.

“Don’t worry Applejack, I always keep my promises!” I shouted back to her, holding up my hand that I had spat on and giving her a wave; Applejack did the same, then climbed over the fence and ran after her dog and from my sight.

I finally wiped the spit off of my hand and onto my jeans while still thinking about what just happened.

I still feel kind of guilty for lying to her, even if she thinks she is Applejack. But I need to find out where I am and I’m not going to believe that I’m in Ponyville, at least not without some cold, hard proof to support it.

Then another thought crossed my mind; I haven’t checked my phone since I woke up.

I took out my phone and was quite surprised to see it still worked, from what my phone clock told me it was Sunday, and it was only just after one in the afternoon.

Ok, calm down for just a sec. If this place is really Sweet Apple Acres, it would mean that Ponyville is somewhere around here. But is it really Sweet Apples Acres? I started walking down the dirt road and up a hill. At the top, I saw a town and from that from this distance looked like any modern town you might just come across. I started to walk towards it in no real hurry.

Yep. That’s Ponyville, alright.

20 minutes later . . .

I finally managed to get to the town.

Feeling hungry, tired and still feeling a bit tipsy from the night before, I decided to sit down on a bench that I saw nearby.

Once I sat down and put my satchel next to me, I had a look at the town from where I sat; I didn’t see anything that I recognized from anywhere that I knew of.

I guess it’s not Ponyville after all, and weirdly enough I’m a little disappointed about that I thought to myself.

Speaking of which, I hadn’t been paying any attention to any of the townspeople as I was walking into town, looking at them now, I did notice that most of the people here did have different color hair.
And by different, I mean hair colors you wouldn’t normally see, unless that person was emo, goth, in costume or something else.

I also notice that most of the buildings I saw were either shops, houses or both with the shop on the ground floor and apartments on the next floor.

But even from what I could see I still didn’t have any information on where I am, but I decided to stay on the bench for a few more minutes to get some of my energy back from all the running and walking I did earlier.

After about 15 minutes or so of sitting down and relaxing, I got up and started to stretch for a bit, when out of nowhere a woman shouted “WATCH OUT!”

But it was too late, before I could even turn my head to see what was coming, I was hit on the right side of my body by someone or something, but it didn’t matter as I was launched about 10 feet in the other direction and hit the ground with enough force to knock the wind out of me.

Still on the ground, I rolled over onto my back and tried to sit up.

I started to feel dizzy, and the most I could do was tilt my head up to see what hit me.

If I had been hit by a bike or anything else like that, I would have felt the metal when it hit me, so I was guessing that I was either tackled by someone, or someone was running pretty fast, didn’t see me and then crashed into me.

After another minute or two I was able to sit up and see who hit me.

However before I could even get a look, a young woman quickly ran over to me and stood over me.

“Sorry, but I did tell you to watch out.” She said jokingly.

I was still feeling dizzy from being crashed into, but I swear that this woman’s hair was rainbow-colored.

“Hey, you alright?” she asked me.

“I’ll live.” I groaned.

The woman with the rainbow hair offered me her arm to help me get to my feet.

After I got back on my feet, I had a good look at this woman.

Besides her medium length hair, she wore a light blue sleeveless sports top, and light blue sports track pants with matching colored joggers.

I also noticed what looked like a tattoo on her left arm near her shoulder; after seeing what the tattoo was, my eyes went wide as if I had seen a big-ass spider on my wall.

No, she can’t be Rainbow Dash, she just can’t be! I thought.

But the woman saw my face.

“Hey, you alright, man?” she asked me in a questioning tone.

I knew I had to play dumb and lie again.

However before I could say anything to her, some music started playing somewhere.

I started to look around to see where it was coming from, and was praying that it was not my phone ringing. However after listening to the song for a bit, I realised it sounded similar to mine, but it wasn’t my ringtone, it was hers.

She pulled out her phone and answered. “Hey Applejack what’s up? Yeah I just got held up, some guy just crashed into me.”

I was quite shocked by the fact that this woman was blaming me for crashing into her when it was the other way around, and secondly, she has a phone on her?!.

Which left me to think about what other technology was available here, seeing how the last thing I want is to have my laptop taken apart; after I finish up here I should look at the shops in terms of what technology is here and what is not.

Wait a minute, why am I even thinking about this, for all I could know I could still be in my universe, not the MLP universe, and that the people I met so far could be just a bit sick in the head like I thought before, god this is giving me a headache I thought as I realize that I zoned out again and had not been listening to the phone conversation going on next to me.

Hopefully the both of them don’t mention me at all, I thought to myself.

She then got up, put her phone away back in her pocket and turned to me. “Sorry to leave ya hanging like this, but I've got to fly!” she then started running down the road heading that I had been walking on, leading back towards the Apple farm.

I let out a sigh of relief, “Thank god, if that woman started to fly around I don’t think my mind could have taken it." I said quietly, but before I could turn around to start walking again, I was gobsmacked by what happen next.

As that woman was running down the road, she jumped forward, launching herself from the ground, and up into the air.

If that wasn’t enough, I thought I saw large very light cerulean wings on her back, but the thing was that the wings looked like they were transparent, not solid.

Did I see her wings before? Shit, I can’t remember, why can’t I remember?! I thought to myself but at the same time my jaw dropped after seeing what happened.

I dropped down on the bench still in shock at what I had seen, and all I could say was “That was Rainbow Dash, and she was flying which means... Oh sweet tap-dancing Christ, I can’t be...” I said quietly out loud while I put my hands on my head, almost ripping my hair out.

This can’t be happening, I must have lost my mind or something, I can’t be in Equestria, there is no way I am here, it’s impossible! I thought, luckily keeping my mouth shut.

I spent the next 15 minutes sitting on that bench trying to figure out what to do next, as I took deep, long breaths to try and calm myself down and going over my options.

After a few more minutes, I only had one option left that might just work.

I’ve got to go and see Twilight, see if she will help me or even better yet, get her to talk to Celestia to help me out. I thought as I got up from the bench with my satchel and started walking around town to find Twilight’s library.

A Town Without A Map

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"I can't believe this place doesn't have any bloody town maps!" I said quietly in frustration as I walked out of the Ponyville tourist center.

I thought it would be a good idea to grab a town map as I was passing the tourist center, but that was completely pointless seeing how they didn't have any, due to a large group of tourists taking all of them before I got there, from what the woman in behind the main desk told me.

But even then, if I had shown up here earlier, I might've been able to join their town tour and just left their group once we got close enough to Twilight's library. Though, then again, I'm guessing that these people paid to be on the tour, and without any of their money, I couldn't get or do much anything.

Well, looks like I have to find Twilight's library the old fashioned way. I mean, how hard is it to find a large tree? I thought to myself as I started walking again.

While walking, I took notice of a few things that I had seemingly missed earlier.

The first one was that there were a few people flying around now. Were there people flying around before? If so, how the hell did I miss that?! I thought confusedly.

Maybe I was in denial or something, and decided not to see them. I can't really blame myself for it though. I mean, who ever looks up nowadays, unless something up there grabbed your attention? Although, that probably should've, I mean, c’mon! I said in my head while shaking it.

But just then, I remembered something from the show, realizing why I didn't see them earlier. Very few pegasi lived in Ponyville, the most they did is visit or work. Once they’ve done whatever they were doing in town, they headed back to Cloudsdale or wherever else they lived.

The second thing I noticed was this town’s level of technology. Seeing people here having and using smart phones,iPods (or something similar to them), laptops, and, hell I thought I saw a game console of some sort and a few Tv’s in a shop window. It was kind of weird, seeing how they were from a TV show where they don't normally use this type of stuff. Though, then again, in the show they always pulled out random bits of technology at the right time.

The last thing I noticed was how female dominated this town was. However, compared to the show where you saw two male characters for every ten female characters, now I clearly saw more men around here, but the women still outnumber them, if only by a bit.

I kept on walking, thinking more about this while keeping my eyes open for anything else.

20 minutes later...

As I continued walking around Ponyville, I still hadn’t found Twilight's library, or for that matter, any other landmarks from the show, besides Sweet Apple Acres. Hell, I don't think I passed Rarity's shop or Sugarcube Corner, at least I thought that I hadn't passed either of them yet, all of the buildings looked the same and so modernized here, I wouldn't be surprised that Twilight's library wasn't a tree anymore.

As I continued walking, I was starting to feel more exhausted than before. It didn't really help that I still hadn’t eaten anything, and then Rainbow dash crashed into me. I was starting to regret not taking up Applejack's offer on something to eat, even though I thought she was some insane fan of the show at the time.

After walking around for a few minutes longer, I found myself another bench in a small park nearby to sit down for another quick breather. While sitting down, I started working on another plan to find Twilight's library.

I thought about asking someone for directions, but changed my mind due to the town being bigger than what I originally thought, and the fact that I couldn’t tell apart the people who live here from the ones who were visiting at the time.

Another idea I had was just finding and asking one of Twilight's friends for directions, but there was a flaw with my plan, seeing how Applejack still might be at Sweet Apple Acres along with Rainbow Dash. From what I could tell by her phone call and seeing how it was way out of town, I wouldn’t walk back there for directions, and then back to town. Fluttershy would possibly be at her house near the Everfree Forest, so no help there. Pinkie Pie might be at Sugarcube Corner, or just randomly walking around town, and lastly Rarity might be at her shop working. It also still didn't help that I don't know where either of those shop were.

I honestly didn't know what to do. I could've just kept walking around until I found Twilight's library, but seeing as my money was useless here, I couldn't buy any food to get my energy back.

I had lost track of time, so I decided to take my phone out to check the clock. It was just after 3PM. If time worked the same way as it did in my world, then it should start getting dark at about 5PM-6PM, unless they had Daylight Saving time here, as well.

As I became more frustrated by this situation, and the fact that I might be sleeping outside tonight if I didn't find Twilight's library soon, I decided to try something from the Assassin’s Creed games, which is to climb the highest building I can find and see if I can locate Twilight's library that way. It sounds like a stupid idea, I know, but it's the only thing I can think of, but to be fair I might have come up with something better if I had something to eat.

I started looking for the highest building I could find while I was sitting down, only to realize that the "highest building" was close by. It was a two story building with some crates in the alleyway stacked against the building.

"I suppose this'll have to do." I said to myself as I started walking towards the side of the building and up to the crates.

In the past, I had no problems climbing up the side of a two-story building, as I used to do it back at home, while living with my parents. If I accidentally locked myself out or just forgot my keys, I would’ve just climbed up to a window and unlocked the door from the inside. However, back then, I wasn't so hungry and energy-deprived. Luckily for me, with these crates here, I was able to climb up the building without using much of the energy that I had left.

I quickly looked around to see if there was anyone nearby, seeing how the last thing I wanted was someone calling me a thief or something, and/or calling the police. Which left me thinking, Does Ponyville have a police force at all, or do they just use the Canterlot guards? Luckily for me, there weren't many people, guards or police (if there is any of the latter two) around the park or the buildings nearby.

However, before I started climbing, I quickly checked the crates to see if they could hold my weight, seeing how the last thing I wanted was to fall through them and hurt myself. After checking them and feeling reassured enough that they could hold my weight, I started to climb up the first few crates while quickly looking around to make sure no one showed up. Once I reached the top of the crates, I started looking up at the side of building trying to plan my way up to the roof.

Once I had figured out my way up to the roof, I was ready to go. I hoisted myself onto the first crate, and prepared to climb the second. However I was interrupted by a voice below me.

"Hey Mister. What are you doing up there?"

I quickly stopped what I was doing as I sort-of recognized that voice.

I turned around, looked down and saw three young girls looking back up at me. One rode a scooter while she pulled the other two in a red cart attached to it. If I had to guess their age I might have said they were between the ages of 8 or 12, though I wasn't sure which one. Now if these were any normal young girls, I might have bluffed my way out of it somehow, but these weren't any normal girls and I knew who they were.

The three girls were a group called the Cutie Mark Crusaders, or CMC. Pretty much in a nutshell, these girls tried everything they could think of to get their cutie marks.

The group was made up of Apple Bloom, who was Applejack's younger sister, Sweetie Belle, who was Rarity's younger sister and lastly, Scootaloo, who was a major fan of Rainbow Dash. But I wasn't entirely sure, it could've been different here. I'll look into that later.

"I was… uh, looking for someone's house." I said nervously.

Still standing on the top crate, I decided to hop down to ground level and sat on one of the boxes, while getting a good look at the girls in front of me, I was able to tell the three of them apart mainly due to their hair color and what they sounded like from the TV show.

Apple Bloom was wearing a cream, checkered short-sleeve shirt with short light blue overalls and a large red bow in her red hair.

Next to her in the cart was Sweetie Belle, guessing by her lightish purple hair with light pink streak. She wore a sleeveless dress, as for what type of dress I had no idea, seeing as I wasn't a fashion expert, but by the colors on the dress, which were the same as her hair, just done in layers, it must have been made by Rarity.

This meant that Scootaloo was the one on the scooter. I then couldn't help but mentally facepalm myself while rolling my eyes. Well, no shit Sherlock, who else rides a scooter around here? I thought. Scootaloo had a reddish, dark purple-color hair, she was wearing a sleeveless sports top similar to Rainbow Dash's, but instead it was a dark red, and she was also wearing some longboard shorts that were the same color as her hair.

It was then that I remembered something. Since Sweetie Belle was a unicorn in the show, she must have a horn here. Just like how the characters from the show that are pegasi had wings even though they are somewhat transparent. Hell, I could see Scootaloo’s orange wings from where I was sitting, though they weren't as big as Rainbow Dash's. That was probably because of how much younger she was.

However I couldn't see a horn on her head, even if it was somewhat transparent, like the pegasi wings, I should be able to see it. Seeing how they were human, maybe they use their hands for magic instead of horns like their TV show counterparts, which made sense.

The three girls glanced at each other for a minute and then Scootaloo glared at me with a suspicious look on her face "Looking for someone's house, right. Or maybe you were about to look inside someone's house!" she almost yelled in an accusing tone and pointed at me.

I wasn't surprised by this, and from their point of view, it did look like I was trying to attempt a break-in. I thought it prudent to try and turn this around in my favor.

"Look, I'm ne—"however, before I could finished that sentence I remembered something that made me shut up immediately. I almost forgot about the one sentence someone should never utter in Ponyville "I'm new in town." If I started saying that around here, word would spread and sooner or later Pinkie Pie would pop up. However, even if she did pop up, I doubt she could help me get to Twilight's seeing how she would want start setting up a welcome party rather than helping me.

I cleared my throat and started again. "Look, I'm a traveler and I never been to this town before, so I don't know my way around. I wasn't trying to break into that house. I was just climbing to the roof to see if I could find the house that I was looking for." I told them.

Scootaloo was about to say something until Sweetie Belle interrupted her "Whose house are you looking for minster?" she asked in a curious tone.

"Uh, what was her name, I have it on a bit of paper on me somewhere." Once again, I decided to play dumb. I started going through my pockets, hopefully from their point of view I was looking for a card with a name on it, but in reality I was just looking for a random bit of paper that I can use for my act.

Finally after grabbing a random business card that was half sticking out of my wallet, I pulled the card from my pocket and pretended to read it, and I made sure that the girls couldn't see any of the writing on it.

"I don't know whether or not you know this woman, but I was looking for a... Twilight Sparkle? Do you girls know her?" I asked them, knowing fully well that they did.

"Yeah,sure, we know Twilight." answered Apple Bloom.

"Well seeing how you know Twilight Sparkle, do you mind if you can show me where she lives, please?" I asked nicely.

From the looks of things, they would've taken me to Twilight's house straight away. However, before Apple Bloom could give me an answer, Scootaloo quickly put her hand over Apple Bloom's mouth and stopped her.

"Sorry, but we need to talk about this first." Scootaloo said as she pulled Sweetie Belle and Applebloom away from where I was sitting and into a group huddle so they could talk.

It had been a few minutes and the three girls continued to talk away in their small huddle. I tried to listen to what they were talking about, but due to how quiet the three of them were whispered, I couldn't hear them and just decided to wait until they finished.

Finally after another couple minutes, the girls broke up their group huddle and turn back to face me. Scootaloo spoke first "Ok, we have decided to take you Twilight's house, however seeing how your ne-" but I knew what she was going to say before she said it, so quickly interrupted her "Hey, I'm just here for business."

The three girls looked at me weirdly for minute, then Apple Bloom seemed to understand what I was doing. "Oh, I get it, you must of heard about what Pinkie Pie does to new people haven't you?" she asked me.

"Yeah, a friend of mine came here once, and he ended up telling me that some woman with curly pink hair crushed tackled him after he arrived in town." I lied to them, the three girls nodded finally understanding what I was getting at.

"Anyway," Scootaloo continued "we thought it would be a good idea to show you around whole town, before we take you to Twilight's."

I quickly thought about the CMC's offer. While I did need to get to Twilight's library, I could gain an advantage of sorts here if I knew where everything in town was in case anything went wrong, although that's unlikely.

"How about instead of you girls showing me around the whole town, you just show me the main sights that everyone goes to?" I asked them nicely, putting on a smile. "That way you don't waste the rest of the afternoon showing me around the whole town."

The CMC looked at each other for a minute then went back into their group huddle to talk things over. This time, I was able to pick up some of their conversation. From what I heard, they wanted to try something that might get their cutie marks before heading home for the day and something about lumberjacking. Well ok, I might have misheard that last part, but they were going to find trees or something after they took me to Twilight's.

Finished with their little meeting, the CMC turned to face me again. "Is there anywhere in Ponyville you want to look at first Mister?" Asked Apple Bloom in a happy upbeat tone.

To be honest I didn't really care where the girls take me first, as long as they take me to Twilight's library like they have promise, but knowing them they will, so I have nothing to worry about. "I don't know, how about you girls decide on what to see first." I told them.

The three girls started talking to each other on where to take me first, however Apple Bloom stopped the other two and turned back towards me. "Sorry mister, where are our manners. My name is Apple Bloom. This here is Sweetie Belle." Apple Bloom pointed to Sweetie Belle, who gave me a small wave along with a smile. "And this is Scootaloo." said Apple Bloom as she pointed over to Scootaloo, who nodded to me in acknowledgement.

"And we are THE CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS!" shouted the three of them in unison. I couldn't help but let myself smile for a minute, remembering what it was like for me at that age, however old they are, but I quickly dismissed that thought, as one of the girls started talking to me.

"So what's your name, sir?" Sweetie Belle asked me in friendly tone.

Crap I didn't know what to do here; I could just tell the girls my name. I mean, I already told Applejack my name, what's the harm in telling her sister and her friends. However these are children here and children, especially these three will go on asking questions. Questions I didn't want to answer, well at least not yet anyway and not to the CMC. Then again, I could lie to them, again.

"My name? ...uh" I needed to think of something fast, otherwise they'll think I'm lying. Luckily for me, like any good gamer or role-player, I can think fast on my feet and it was then that I thought of a good name and job for myself.

I cleared my throat and started again "My name is Seeker; it's nice to meet the three of you." I told them, while mentally patting myself on the back for thinking up a clever name for myself on the spot.

Feeling satisfied with my answer to them. The girls went back to their meeting on where we should go first in Ponyville. This time I really didn't need to listen that hard to hear what the three of them were talking about, as the three were talking at a normal volume They had no more reason for to whisper, I guess, seeing how we introduced ourselves to each other.

The girls yelled out places or shops in town that they could take me first, however, whenever someone said one place, it would often get shot down by one of the others for some reason or another. Someone, I'm guessing it was Apple Bloom, suggested to take me to Sweet Apple Acres, but luckily for me Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle said no, complaining how far away it was and also saying that if we went there, they wouldn't have time to do the stuff they wanted to do before heading home for the day.

After a few more minutes, from the looks of things, it seems that Sweetie Belle won in terms of where we are going to visit first as she was jumping up and down in victory. I guessed it was my cue to step in.

"So where are we going first?" I asked the girls, who turned back around to face me.

"We're going to visit my older sister’s shop first." Sweetie Belle squeaked out as she and Apple Bloom climbed back into the cart, while Scootaloo got back on her scooter and started using her orange wings to push the scooter and the cart forward. The CMC started heading to Rarity’s shop but stopped once they got to the front of the building that we were next to.

Scootaloo turned around to look at me "Are you coming or not?" she yelled expectantly.

"A little impatient are we?" I muttered under my breath, "Yeah hang on." I yelled back to Scootaloo as I started walking to catch up to them.

"Are we good to go?" I asked the three young girls next to me.

"Eeyup, just follow us, THE CUTIE MARK CRUSADER TOUR GUIDES!" Apple Bloom yelled as the three of them bawled out the last bit.

"If you can keep up." Added Scootaloo who looked like she was going to break the sound barrier or something, but both Sweetie Belle and Applebloom gave her a stare of some sort.

"Scootaloo, please go slow for mister Seeker, remember he doesn't know his way around yet." Sweetie Belle reprimanded as Scootaloo let out a frustrated sigh and shrugged with a "Whatever". The three of them started moving again, but this time at a slower pace, just slow enough for me to keep up to them while walking next to them. I was laughing on the inside at how slow Scootaloo had to go, going against everything that she was.

Over the next 15 minutes, as the four of us were on our way to Rarity’s shop, the three girls started pointing out people in town that they knew, what they did as a jobs or their special talents and some random shops that we weren’t going to stop at. (However, I knew most of this already from of the show)

As this was going on, Apple Bloom asked me a question, "So mister Seeker, what's your special talent, if you don't mind me asking?"

"I'm really good at finding things." I quickly told her as I continue walking.

"Is that also your job as well?" asked Sweetie Belle who turned to look at me.

"Kind of, I get hired by people who are looking for something rare that they can't normally find themselves, so I go out, find it, and bring it back for them." I was thanking god (no not Celestia) that I picked a fake name and talent that go hand in hand with each other and that I can easily make up as I go along.

"What rare stuff do you find anyway?" asked Scootaloo as she kept on riding her scooter.

"I mostly find old books, paintings, weapons, suits of armor; you know stuff you may normally find in a museum." I answered Scootaloo.

"So nothing cool then." said Scootaloo in a dull tone.

However before I could say anything back to Scootaloo, Apple Bloom cut me off. "Scootaloo that was mightily rude of you."

"What?" Scootaloo said innocently.

"It's ok Apple Bloom, most people don't really understand what I do. But it’s my job, in its own way it’s a good one." I told the three of them.

The four of us continued heading toward Rarity’s shop, while the girls were still pointing out people, shops and other places along the way.

After another 10 minutes or so of walking later, we finally arrived at Rarity’s shop: The Carousel Boutique.

The outside of The Carousel Boutique looked somewhat like it did in the show, except for a few things.

Firstly, the shop doesn't have any pony signs or models on it or around it. There was less of a, forgive me for using this term, ‘girly’ feel to the outside of the shop, mainly the main color of the shop isn't pink or a different shade of pink and has been replaced with purple, which in its own way looked good for the shop. Also from what I could tell from where I was standing, there were both male and female mannequins in the front windows on the ground floor, each of them were dressed in custom made clothes by Rarity no doubt.

The four of us stood outside of The Carousel Boutique for a few minutes while Sweetie Belle talked about the shop. Most of this stuff I already knew about.

It was only just then that I remembered something that I had to ask that I need to know. "Hey Sweetie Belle, did your sister hold a fashion show lately?" I asked her with curiosity.

It took a minute or two before Sweetie Belle answered my question "She did have one a couple of weeks ago, but it didn't go so well." She uttered whilst rubbing her hands together nervously.

"It didn't go so well is putting it lightly" Scootaloo said while performing air quotation marks "It was a complete disaster." Scootaloo finished as she turned around to face Sweetie Belle and Applebloom.

"It wasn't a complete disaster, I saw Rarity make up for it with a private fashion show for that classily fashion designer! Plus she showed off the real dresses that she made for the gala and her own dress as well." Sweetie Belle told Scootaloo with a bit of anger in her voice.

Well at least I know where I’m in terms of time for the show. I thought to myself as I looked at Rarity’s shop.

It was then that I remembered the argument that was going on in front of me between Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo. Maybe I should step in before things start getting ugly. I thought to myself as Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo continued arguing, while Apple Bloom was trying to stop them.

"Ok settle down you three." I said in a calm but commanding voice. The three girls look over to me; all three of them had gone quiet, I was kind of surprised by this.

"The last thing we need is any sort of fighting between you three." I told them as I was pointing to the three of them.

"Anyway I think its better off if we move on to somewhere else now anyway." I said to the three of them.

"Oh, I know where we can go next!" Apple Bloom shouted who then leaned over to Scootaloo and whispered something in her ear, who nodded to Apple Bloom in agreement of some sort. "Come on mister Seeker, follow us." Apple Bloom shouted as the three girls started moving again.

I had one last look at The Carousel Boutique before I started walking. As I was walking away, I thought I saw someone on the top floor of the shop/house in one of the windows. I couldn't see the person due to a curtains being pulled down, but from the look of the silhouette it was a woman who is sitting at a desk. It must be Rarity. I thought, however due to the curtains in the way, I couldn't be too sure it was her, but it didn't matter. It wasn't like I was going to pop in there and see her.

After a minute or two I managed to catch up to the CMC as the four of us kept on walking through Ponyville.

Like before, the girls pointed out people, their jobs or their special talents and some more random shops that they didn't point out before as we continued walking to the next place where we were going to.

After ten more minutes of walking, the girls stopped in front of a shop that I just sort of recognized, Sugarcube Corner.

Like The Carousel Boutique, Sugarcube Corner looked like it did in the show, but with a few changes to its design.

From the look of the building in front of me, it had three or four floors, two of the floors were a part of the house, while the other floor/s is in something of a tower, well at least that what I'm going to call it anyway. The only change to the shop that I could see was that the roof of the house didn't look like it was made of gingerbread; it just looked... plain for lack of a better word and the top of the tower wasn't a cupcake either, it just looks normal room with a roof on it.

Like at The Carousel Boutique, the four of us stood outside of Sugarcube Corner while Apple Bloom this time talked about the shop, again most of this stuff I already knew, but I nodded along to it anyway.

After a few more minutes, the CMC wanted to keep on moving and quickly finish up showing me the rest of Ponyville.

After what seem like half an hour, the girls decided to end the tour at the road that leads to the Evergreen forest and took me to Twilight's library, finally.

To be honest, I was surprised at how large Ponyville was compared to the show. I guess it wasn't really my fault that I couldn't find Twilight's library anyway, it wasn’t like they ever showed a decent map of Ponyville on the show, and you could never really trust the maps of Ponyville that people drew up on the internet.

Another ten minutes of walking later, we finally got there, the place I been meaning to get to all afternoon, Twilight's library.

The library was the same as it was in the show, tree and all, but like Sugarcube Corner and Carousel Boutique there were changes to its design, though not much. The main door and the windows on the lower half of the building didn't have little roofs made up of branches and leaves, they were just plain and simple small green roofs. Other than that, nothing else I could see had changed.

As I was looking at the library, the three girls were chatting quietly about something, but I wasn't paying attention to them.

Maybe I should thank them, I mean without them I would’ve still been walking around lost in town, or worse yet ran into Pinkie Pie. Randomly shuddering at that thought, but I was right, the girls deserved thanks for their help.

"Hey can I say something to you three?" I asked as crouch down to their height to face the girls. The three girls turned to face me with a questioning looks about them. I took off my fedora and started scratching my head, trying to quickly think of something nice to say to these girls for their help.

"I would like to thank you girls for your help today, if it wasn't for you, I might not have found Miss Sparkle’s library, or known my way around town." I told them with a thankful tone and a smile on my face.

Each of the girls returned the smile I gave them, as I got up and put my fedora back on. I quickly took out my phone and check the time. It was just after 4:30PM and the sun didn't look like it was going to set anytime soon, maybe in the next hour or two by the look of things.

"You know you three, if you had something you wanted to do this afternoon don't let me hold you up." I told the CMC, knowing full well that they had stuff they wanted to do before the day was out.

It took a minute or two before the three girls picked up the hint that I gave them. The girls quickly said their goodbyes to me and started heading off back into town. As they were going each one of them gave me a wave, the only kind thing to do here was for me to return the wave to them. And just like that the CMC were gone from my sight.

With that over and done with, I started walking towards the door of the library. Hopefully ready for what comes next.

Never Judge A Book By Its Cover, Part One

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“Alright, let’s do this.” I mumbled as I let out a deep breath, as I was prepared to knock on the door to Twilight’s library. However, as my knuckles were about to make contact with the wooden surface, I quickly stopped myself and just stared at the door.

“Ok, all I have to do is knock on the door, get inside somehow, and ask Twilight to help me out.” I said as I repeated the plan to myself again for what felt like the tenth time.

“Help a guy from another universe, who wants you to send him back there as fast as possible. It can’t be that hard!” I mumbled quietly in a somewhat sarcastic tone, while I stared at the library door.

“God, this sounded so much simpler in my head earlier.” I whispered quietly as I realised that the only plan that I had to go on, all hinged on Twilight letting me in. Which was probably going to fail if I can’t even get past her bloody front door.

I can’t believe that I was becoming this nervous, though on the other hand I should be. I mean, besides from what I know about Twilight from the show, I knew next to nothing about her. I didn’t even know how she would react to a guy who tells her that he’s from another universe. She'd most likely think that I’m insane or something; or maybe she'd take very well, hell I don’t fuckin’ know.

As I was thought about this, I started feeling a sort of tingling sensation in my hands; it wasn't cold out, seeing how warm it was this afternoon, as it should've been in the spring, at least from what I was told earlier about where I am in terms of time by Sweetie Belle and just from my own general guessing.

In the end I dismissed the tingling sensation as stress from being nervous. I tried to get feeling back into my hands by rubbing them on my coat, only to end up getting zapped by the metal zipper.

“Ouch! Son of a---“I yelped out aloud, being annoyed, but quickly shut up and hoped that if Twilight was inside, that she didn't hear me.

“Hello, is there someone out there?” asked a woman from inside the library, who sounded an awful a lot like a certain purple-pastel pony.

I then began to hear the sound of footsteps approaching the front door.

Crap, well at least it can’t get any worse can it? I thought while weighed the cost-benefits of whether or not to hide in one of the nearby brushes, or just quickly knock on the door before she gets there.

I went for the latter and quickly rapped my knuckles on the door.

After I knocked, I was trying to remain calm as I could, as the door to the library's lock clicked and started to open. In my head it took forever for that damn door to open.

However when it was fully open, there stood a woman about 5'6" - 5'8" in height with dark indigo hair with a pink and purple streak through it, that came down just below her shoulders.
The woman was wearing a purple, knitted sleeveless vest with a white long-sleeve, button down shirt underneath it and dark blue jeans. I also notice a pair of what I thought was reading glasses sitting atop her head; they look similar to Rarity’s glasses, but black instead of red.

Yeah this woman is definitely Twilight Sparkle, no doubt about it. I thought to myself while still trying to keep calm and collected as Twilight stood in front of me.

“Yes, how can I help you this afternoon, sir?” Twilight asked me in a helpful tone as she stood in the doorway.

I was going to be a smart ass and say something along the lines of 'Hey, I’m just a guy from another universe and I’m wondering if I could borrow a cup of sugar and get a portal back home, if that’s fine with you?' but I didn’t know what she'd do if I had said that, maybe she would've just slammed the door in my face or ask if this was some type of joke.

My best shot for getting inside the library was to stay in character as Seeker from earlier and say that I’m looking to see if her library had a rare book that she is willing to let me buy from her for my current employer.

Then, once I was inside, I’d just try and explain to her that I’m from another universe and make sure she believes me.

But if that plan failed for whatever reason, I had a backup plan that will convince her that I was from another universe. However I really wish I don’t have to use it seeing how I don’t know what the ramifications will be that might come from it.

I was about to start telling my cover story to Twilight, until I noticed someone else inside, standing behind Twilight. At first I thought it would be Spike and was expecting to see a short kid about 10 - 12 years old with green hair, but I was wrong.

God, was I ever so wrong.

Instead I saw another woman about the same height as Twilight with extremely curly hot pink-colored hair that went down to about her shoulders, who stood behind Twilight and tried to get a peek at what was going on.

A moment after I saw this woman's hair color and how it looked, I knew right then and there that what came next was inevitable.

The woman let out a loud gasp as she ran past Twilight, and almost knocked her down in the process as she crash-tackled me hard into ground, harder than what Rainbow Dash did to me earlier that day.

The moment I hit the ground, I was down for the count. I couldn't move or open my eyes to see what was going on, the only thing I could do was listen to what was going on around me.

“Pinkie Pie, what are you doing?!” Twilight shouted at Pinkie Pie.

Well Twilight, if you didn't see it, she bloody tackled me as if I was going to try and rob the place! I thought back as if I was going to answering her.

“I was only giving him a 'Welcome to Ponyville' hug, Twilight.” Pinkie Pie said in her usual happy upbeat voice.

YOU CALL THAT A HUG!? YOU ALMOST BROKE ME IN HALF! is what I would have shouted at her if I could speak.

Though, then again, I wouldn't be surprised if Pinkie Pie played some form of women’s football in the past and was really good at it, especially if she played against new teams each week.

After Twilight let out a groan of frustration at Pinkie Pie, I started hearing the sound of footsteps on the ground getting louder as whoever was moving stop near my head.

It was at this time I manage to get feeling back into body and sweet merciful God it was not pleasant. My chest felt like it is being crushed by something and I was having problems breathing.

“Come on Pinkie, get off of him and help me get him inside, quickly!” Twilight chided Pinkie Pie, who simply replied with “Okie dokie lokie!”

I felt a great weight lifted off of my chest and was able to breathe normally again.

Who in their right mind would sit on someone’s chest after tackling them? Then again, when has Pinkie Pie ever been in the right frame of mind, I mean she breaks into people’s houses to throw them parties for god’s sake! I wondered, as I was now able to open my eyes, only to be bombarded by the rays of the afternoon sun causing me to quickly close them again in pain.

I slowly opened them a second time just as Twilight and Pinkie Pie both grabbed an arm and pulled me up onto my feet. My body then became something like a rag doll as the two of them dragged me inside the library.

After Twilight and Pinkie Pie managed to pull me inside, they sat me up on a couch somewhere within the room.

I couldn't move any part of my body besides my fingers at the time. I then tried moving my toes, but I got nothing.

It only took a few minutes or so for me to move again after I got hit by Rainbow Dash; it’s been about that, so why can’t I move? I thought worryingly, until I was hit with another thought.

Oh dear god. That hyperactive, cupcake making, party throwing woman fucking paralyzed me! I thought frantically as I continued to try and to move any other part of my body other than my fingers.

During this time, either Twilight or Pinkie Pie, I don’t know who since I still couldn't move my head as of yet, sat down next to me.

After few seconds, I finally manage to get my neck moving again, and started to look at who was next to me and get a better look at the room I was in.

It was Pinkie Pie, and she was sitting really close to me. I mean, close enough that her nose was almost touching mine.

Now, normally I wouldn't be this freaked out with a girl around my age sitting close to me, but Pinkie Pie on the other hand was a completely different matter, she just plain scared the crap out of me.

But now getting a good look at Pinkie Pie, she was wearing a pink shirt with a picture of three balloons, which looks similar to her cutie mark, besides that she was also wearing dark pink denim shorts with matching colored suspenders that went over her shoulders and a pair of knee high socks which were striped with light and dark shades of pink.

With Pinkie Pie being that close to me and combined with her staring at me with her big light-blue eyes, I think it somehow jump started my body into moving again.

The first thing that came to mind for me to do was to back the hell away from her. However, this being a short couch, and due to me being put in the middle of it when I was dragged in here, my back soon hit the arm of the sofa; my momentum carried me over it, and I hit the hard, wooden floor.

Call it fate or karma, they both seemed to hate me for some reason today, seeing as how this was now the third time I had hit the ground today.

With most of my body on the floor and my legs still hanging over the armrest, I was kind of stuck and it didn’t help that now Twilight was now standing over me, looking a bit puzzled at the fact that not even a minute or two ago I was on the lounge and now on the floor.

“Pinkie what happen here?” Twilight asked in a concerned tone.

“I don’t know Twilight, he just woke up and jumped back like as if he had ants in his pants.” Pinkie Pie replied as she was now looking around at the lounge for some reason.

Twilight manage to get my legs off the arm of the lounge. She then got down and helped me back onto my feet; I was still feeling a bit dizzy from both Pinkie’s crush tackle and the small fall off the lounge.

“Twilight, you don’t have any ants in your lounge do you?” Pinkie Pie asked in a somewhat curious tone.

Both Twilight and I let out a sigh at her. While I was shaking my head at Pinkie, Twilight answered Pinkie’s question “No Pinkie, there are no ants in my lounge.”

Pinkie Pie just looked at the both of us, then turned her attention towards me.

“Well then, if Twilight doesn't have any ants in her lounge, why did you jump off the lounge? Also what’s your name, and do you like parties?” Pinkie Pie asked in her usual fast pace manner with curiosity in her voice once again.

I quickly looked over at Twilight, and I knew that she was probably thinking the same thing. Well ok, maybe not if I liked parties or not, but I knew she was thinking about what Pinkie Pie had just asked and with me having not said a word before being brought into her library, this wouldn't help me at all and now, I had been pushed into a corner.

But in order for my plan to still succeed, I needed to get rid of Pinkie Pie, otherwise if she stayed and heard what I had to say; she might tell people that I’m from another universe and cause the townspeople to panic, probably. Luckily for me though, I knew what to say to get her to leave.

“Why yes, I do like parties.” I replied to Pinkie Pie in an upbeat tone that
matched hers.

Well, to be honest, replace 'like' with 'sort of put up with'. Seeing how most parties that I've been to were well, boring. If there’s stuff like a pool table or some video games there, I might play a few games and enjoy myself for a bit but after that, what else is there.

I mean, I don’t dance, if there are people that I know there I’d try and talk to them, but other than that, the most I did at parties was stand against the wall or sit down somewhere then once I’m bored enough, I ended up leaving the party, hopefully without being seen and being forced to stay longer.

After I said this, Pinkie Pie let out another gasp as her face lit up like a kid on Christmas morning. She then jumped off the lounge and within the next second she was standing in front of me with her hands on the side of her face, doing a “oh my god” sort of face.

“Oh my gosh me too!” said Pinkie Pie “what types of Parties do you like? Big ones? Small ones? It doesn't really matter, it’s still a party!” as she threw her hands into the air when she finished talking while showing me a big smile on her face.

It was only just then that I notice some confetti fall on top of me and front in of her.

She must have done it when she threw her hands up into the air I thought.

I was a bit confused at where Pinkie had got the confetti. Then again this is Pinkie Pie we’re talking about, so there’s no point in trying to question it until it needs to be questioned.

After I dusted the confetti off of me, I turned to look back at Twilight, who seemed to be a little annoyed at Pinkie, due to all that confetti that was strewn around her once clean floor.

When I turned back around, Pinkie Pie had her phone out. For what reason is beyond me, Then again this is Pinkie Pie and she could be doing a thousand different things with her phone at this moment. I thought.

“OH MY GOSH, I’M SO LATE!” Pinkie Pie shouted.

Or she was just checking the time. How the hell was I supposed to guess that? I thought.

A look of shock was on her face as she quickly put her phone back into her pocket as she ran over to one of the few tables that was in the room and picked up a book from it, then ran back over towards me and Twilight. She then jumped forward towards Twilight, grabbing and pulling Twilight into a bear hug. I was luckily enough to quickly step out of the way, despite still being hurt from earlier.

“Thank you so so soooo much for letting me borrow this cookbook Twilight and I’m really realllly sorry that I can’t here longer; but I need to get back to the Cakes and start helping them setting up everything for baking tomorrow. I’ll bring it back once I’m done copying some of the recipes out of it.” Pinkie Pie told Twilight with a smile, while still giving her a bear hug.

From the look of things, it seems that Pinkie Pie was trying to strangle Twilight with her bear hug. Again, it wouldn't surprise me if Pinkie played football or now in this case, does some type of weight training.

Though on the other hand, it is kind of hilarious watching Twilight getting crushed by Pinkie Pie, even though I was trying very hard not to show it.

“It’s ok Pinkie, just don’t bring it back with cake batter all over it just like you did last time.” Twilight said as she was trying to break free of her hug.

Pinkie Pie now getting the hint, she finally let go of Twilight and then turned towards me.

Oh god, please don’t do what I think you are going to do. I thought while starting to feel a little uncomfortable.

And she did. Pinkie Pie immediately leaped forward, grabbed me and pulled me in close for a hug. However when Pinkie Pie pulled me towards her, I somehow ended up tripping forwards and my head landed between her… well, her large breasts.

I haven’t even been here for less than a day and what has happen to me so far.

I woke up in a universe of a popular TV show except that everyone is human [As far as I’m aware], I get chased by a dog, get the third degree by Applejack, getting crash tackled by Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie and now I’m being suffocated by the latter’s boobs because she’s bear hugging me, which she hasn't realize that she is doing it.

I swear this day can’t get any worse. I thought to myself as my head was still getting squashed by Pinkie’s large breasts, as I started flailing my arms around and trying to tapping her arms to try to get her attention.

Finally, Pinkie Pie took notice of this and looked down at me.

“What’s the matter, Hatter?” she asked me casually.

“Air!” I manage to croak out to Pinkie Pie

It took about a minute or two for Pinkie Pie to finally realize what she was unintentionally doing to me as she let go of me, causing me to almost fall to the ground again but she caught me before my knees hit the floor and pulled me back onto my feet.

Now, after this experience I started thinking.

If I was in the universe where everyone was a pony, this type of shit wouldn't be happening to me, but noooo. I had to end up in the humanized universe of My Little Pony, where most of the general population are women!

But somehow despite the odds, I manage to find a bright side to this.

Though then again it could have been worst, I could have ended up in one of the previous generations of the show. I found myself shuddering at that thought and thanking God that I didn't end up in one of those universes.

After the dizziness had finally disappeared, I looked over at Pinkie Pie. “Hatter?” I asked in a questioning tone.

“Yeah, you know, for your weird hat.” Pinkie Pie answered while pointing to my fedora and letting out a giggle.

You consider my fedora weird? You know, I could point out how freakishly curly your hair is or even how huge your-

As I was thinking that last part I could help but look down at Pinkie Pie’s large breasts, but I quickly looked away to some random point in the library, hoping that Pinkie Pie or Twilight didn't see me looking.

I got keep this in mind while I’m here in this universe. Staring at women’s breasts is like staring at the sun, stare at it for too long and you will end up getting hurt. Unfortunately for me at that moment, I remembered the rest of that saying which almost caused me to burst out laughing. Unless you’re wearing sunglasses, then you can stare at them as much as you like.

“See ya later Twilight! And thanks again for the cookbook!” Pinkie Pie said as started skipping towards the front door of the library, however she stop before she went outside.

“See you around, Hatter!” Pinkie Pie said before she skipped out of the library and closed the door, leaving both Twilight and I by ourselves.

The two of us just stood there in silence, waiting for the other to make the first move.

End of part one...

Never Judge A Book By Its Cover, Part Two

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What felt like minutes since Pinkie Pie had left the library, had only been a few seconds when the two of us turned to each other, Twilight giving me an awkward smile while I ended up returning one to her.

As I was about to say something to Twilight, trying to break the tension that was in the room, but she beat me to the punch. Though to be fair, I couldn’t really think of anything to say anyway.

“I’m sorry about my friend for tackling you earlier. She tents to get a bit over excited when she meets new people.” sounding a little embarrassed for her friend.

“Does she do that to everyone or is it just me?” I asked Twilight, as I was kind of curious as to what her answer is.

Twilight moved her hand up to face in the classic thinking pose “She does tend to crash into people or objects a lot, but never when she’s meeting someone new who's moving to town.” she answered

“I’m not moving into town, I’m more like… passing through.” I added to Twilight.

Twilight flashed me another smile “It doesn’t matter to her. She still throws a party for you anyway.”

I shrugged my shoulders, while my thought wandered to how Pinkie Pie could continue to throw parties for every new person she meets, and not be in some sort of debt.

But I pulled my thoughts away from that and started thinking about what I was going to do.

Well, I’m halfway through my plan and to be honest; I’m starting to feel a little bit worried. I managed to get to Twilight’s library with little to no problem and then I only just manage to just get inside. Now I only need to tell Twilight my story and why I need to get home.

“Excuse me, but are you alright?” Twilight asked, breaking my train of thought.

I shook my head, as if I was trying to keep my head clear as I answered Twilight “Yeah, yeah, I’m ok. I’m just a little exhausted from everything that has happened today.”

Twilight just seemed to look at me for a moment, as if she was trying to study me or something. After a minute, she finally stopped looking at me.

“Would you like something to drink?” Twilight asked quickly out of the blue.

“I’m sorry, what?” I answered her random question.

“A drink, would you like to have one?” Twilight asked again.

I might as well grab one since I hadn’t had anything to drink that wasn’t alcohol since earlier on last night when I was at my mates place. Plus as far as I’m aware, they should have the same types of stuff to drink as my universe does, so I should be ok… hopefully. I thought logically, which was based on what I remember from the show.

“Yes, please.” I quickly answered Twilight after I had just finished with my train of thought.

Twilight flashed me another quick smile “Well ok then, just wait here and I will be right back.” She said as she started walking crossed the room to a door that had a small wooden blue sign showing a crude engraving of a cooking pot with steam coming from the top of it.

As Twilight entered from what I can guess was the kitchen, I decided to take a quick walk around the library to see if it had the same interior design as it does from the TV show.

Like in the show, the inside of the library was still somewhat the same as far as I could tell.

The library also had a very roundish feel to it, which I mostly think is due to the lack of big boxy bookcases that you would normally see in a library.

The books like in the show were placed on bookshelves that were build in the wall. The thing that I noticed was different was the where number of bookcases stacked on top of each other.

Standing in front of one of these bookshelves, I counted three stacked on top of each other, with five shelves in each of them and that was only one line of them.

Doing a quickly count around the library I counted ten lines of bookcases, meaning that in this area alone there was thirty bookcases. Of course there was the odd short bookcase that was by itself due to it being above a doorway or under one of the windows.

Come to think of it, I did another quick look around the library, and it was missing a few things, actually, more than a few. Besides the front door, the door to the kitchen, a door that had a sign which said “Bathroom” on it and a doorway that looks like it lead into a smaller sitting/reading area.

This room was missing two sets of stairs, one that should've lead up stairs to Twilight/Spike’s room.

Or do they have separate rooms seeing how they’re human? Hang on; I still haven’t seen Spike yet, so maybe he's still dragon. Gah I'm putting too much thought into this again! I thought in wonder and confusion.

Anyway even if Twilight doesn’t have a bedroom up there or at all, there needs to be a set of stairs to get to the roof.

While the other set of stairs should have lead to the basement, based on that one episode where Twilight has all that science equipment where she was using on Pinkie Pie.

Maybe those missing stairs are in that other room I saw earlier? I thought, as I walked quietly to the room that I thought was a sitting/reading area.

Walking into the other room, it looks kind of same as the main room. I counted five lines of bookcases, but each line only had two bookcases stacked on top of each other, instead of three. But like I thought before, this room was mostly a sitting/reading room. There were more chairs, desks and even a long lounge that was build under a large window looking outside.

However like the main room, there was no sign of stairs here either.

Having walked back out into the main room of the library still puzzled at the fact that both sets of stairs are missing.

While I started thinking about this huge change in the building here, compared to the other main buildings that I had seen so far such as; Rarity’s shop or Sugarcube Corner, which only had small changes on the outside.

Suddenly, I had remembered something; Alternate universes are never the same as its original universe that it’s based on.

I paused for second as that thought passed through my head, I decided to facepalm myself. “God, I can’t believe I just thought that." I said quietly, a little disappointed with myself due to the stupidity of that last thought.

I shook my head to try and get back on track; Anyway as I seen so far, with the small changes in some house/shop designs compare to the designs from the show and the fact that everyone that was a pony is now human. It would have been likely that there would been major changes to well… anything or anyone, the stairs that are missing are a clear sign of this. Hell for all I could know some people I haven’t met yet; like Fluttershy or Rarity could have had their genders swapped. Now thinking about it what would the two of them look like as guys, hell what would the mane six look like as guys?

Just as I got my train of thought going on the matter of what else could have changed and what the mane six look like as guys, I felt something tap my shoulder.

When I turned around to see who was tapped my shoulder, all I saw was a glass cup floating in mid air with an all too familiar magenta glow around it, filled with some type of drink.

I stared at the floating drinking glass in disbelief as this was my first time seeing magic since I had been here. I tried my best to keep calm while looking at the cup, for as much as I wanted to freak out in a fanboy sort of way and find Twilight and ask her about how magic worked here.

But the urge to freak out was hard to control seeing how I’m a big fan of magic. I mean most of the books I read have something to do with magic in one way or another. Hell, half of my video games have in some way something to do with either magic or super powers. But I needed to keep myself under control, so I can get through this without any more problems.

But back to present, I looked beyond the glass cup and noticed Twilight, who stood in the doorway of the kitchen with her right hand glowing the same magenta glow while in her left hand holding another glass cup which must've been her own drink.

As much as I wanted to reach out and grab that floating cup, I was well… scared. Not of the glass cup or whatever was in it, but of the magical aura that was surrounding it.

Since I knew that magic doesn’t exist in my universe, I didn’t know how any type of magic here in this universe would react to me if my skin touched it. For all I could know, I could have some sort of a negative reaction to it, such as getting sick or even die from it.

“You know, you can grab the cup, it’s not going to bite or anything” Twilight said to me in a reassuring tone.

Easier for you to say. was all I could think of, as I started slowly reaching for the floating glass cup.

However as my fingers approached the glass cup, I stopped myself. My fingers were close to the hazy aura that was surrounding the glass cup, almost touching it.

It was then that I started feel that same tingling sensation that I felt earlier outside of the library, as my fingers were about to touch the aura.

I closed my eyes out of fear for what was going to happen once my fingers pierced the magical aura that was holding the cup. But as my fingers penetrated the aura, I couldn’t help but to slightly open one of my eyes to see what happened.

But the fear within me got the better of me as I closed my eyes again as my fingers touched the magical aura.

I slowly opened my eyes, and saw that the tips of my fingers were inside of the magical aura but not touching the glass cup. Having a quick look at my body, I let out a sigh of relief.

Well, there’s nothing wrong with me as far as I can tell and I’m not dead, so that’s a plus. I thought with some of the weight off of my shoulders.

With that behind me, I processed to grab the floating glass cup.

However, as my hand was about to grab the cup. The tingling sensation in my hand turned into a bad case of pins and needles, and the aura that was holding the cup afloat disappeared, causing the cup to fall.

But before the cup fell more than a few centimeters, I quickly managed to grab the cup with my other hand, and only spilled a bit of the drink.

Standing in a weird pose due to catching the cup, I looked over at Twilight who looked a little confused at what just happen and to be honest, I was in the same boat.

“That should not have happened.” Twilight announced in a puzzled sort of tone, as she started walking towards me, with her drink still in hand.

With Twilight walking towards me, I decide to stand back up straight and ask the most obvious follow up question in the history of obvious questions.

“What shouldn’t have happened?” I asked, maybe knowing what Twilight was talking about, if she was referring to my cup falling.

Twilight just looked at me for second before she quickly looked down at her right hand, which she was using for magic just now and then looked back up at me.

“It’s probably nothing to worry about.” Twilight answered with a shrug.

Let’s hope so. I thought, seeing how it is kind of unusual for Twilight to leave something unexplained when it’s brought up.

With the glass cup now in my hand, I decided to have a good look at the liquid, seeing how I couldn’t tell what it was due to the magical aura that was surrounding it and was discoloring the liquid.

It looked like water.

I took a small slip of it.

It tasted like water.

“Yeah, this is water.” I quietly concluded, before I started to finish off the drink.

“Feel better?” Twilight asked as she took a small slip from her glass.

“Yes, thank you.” I answered.

“So, you mind telling me what brought you here to my library?” asked Twilight.

I stood there for a minute, trying to think of what to do now. There’s no point in using my Seeker cover story now since I’m inside, plus with Pinkie Pie gone and from what I can guess that Spike isn’t here either, otherwise he would of came out from where he was hiding or stopped what he was doing , to see what was going on earlier.

I might as well just come clean and tell Twilight what I needed from her.

“Uh… look before I tell you why I’m here, do you have a place where we can talk in private?” I asked Twilight

Twilight seemed confused by my request.

“Why do we a place to talk in private for, why can’t we just talk in here?”

I let out a sigh, shook my head and answered her question. “The reason I’m here is very… complicated and yet you’re the only person that I can think of that can help me with my problem that’s close by.”

Now it was Twilight’s turn to sigh. “But that still doesn’t tell me why do we need to speak somewhere in private.”

“Look, Twilight –“

“How do you know my name?” Twilight interrupted, sounding a little nervous that I knew her name.

“The other girl… Pinkie Pie was it? Said your name a few times while she was here and before you ask how I know her name, you did the exact same thing.” I answered, luckily for me that I didn’t say Twilight’s last name as well, otherwise she would have raised more questions.

Looking at Twilight, she seems to be deep thought and I started wondering if I look like that when I do that.

I waited for a minute or two, and I got a bit impatient. I walked over to Twilight and CLICKED my fingers in front of her face, and broke her out of her daydreaming.

Twilight shook her head to wake herself up. “Sorry about that, it tends to happen a lot.”

“So as I was explaining before you interrupted me, the reason I wish to speak in private is due to the nature of what I need to talk to you about and if anyone should overhear it and lets anyone else know, it might cause panic. So yeah, that’s why.” I finished explaining to Twilight.

Twilight just looked at me for moment before she spoke again “You're serious aren’t you?”

“Does it look like I’m joking to you?” I asked her, giving her a deadpan look.

Twilight let out another sigh. “Alright fine, follow me”

Following Twilight, she stopped in front of one of the bookcases close to the front door.

Standing on her tippy toes, Twilight just managed to reach for the gap between the bookcases on the floor and the one above it and started feeling around for something.

Just then I realize what she was doing and almost hit myself for not thinking of this sooner.

It makes so much sense why this library has so many bookcases compare to it TV show counterpart. The stairs are not missing; they must be hidden behind the bookcase and for all I could know, there could be more rooms hidden behind them I thought

Hearing a loud CLICK, it seems that Twilight have found the button that open the hidden door. I always prefer a hidden button over the fake book or that one book that is on the pressure plate to open the door.

The whole bookcase swing inwards, leaving the other two bookcases that was stacked on top of it, still in their place.

Twilight walked through the door and into the room with me following in behind her.

Once the both of us entered this small hidden room, Twilight closed the door, sat down at a desk and turned around on her rotatable chair to face me.

The room I am standing in, from what I can guess with its one desk with chair and only a few small bookcases, no more than five. This must be Twilight’s private study.

“Alright, we're somewhere private and no one'll be able to hear us while this door is closed. So are you going to explain what’s going on?” Twilight asked, keeping herself calm.

I took a deep breath and let it out, to try and keep myself calm. Ok Vincent, remember if this doesn’t work, you got plan B, I remained myself.

“Right but before I start. I must ask that you hold all questions, even if you really want to ask them. Please just wait until I’m finished explaining everything, ok?” I asked Twilight, waiting to see if she would agree.

Twilight gave me a nod.

With this, I started walking around the study to figure out what to start off with “Ok, where do I start?” I asked myself.

“How about you start with your name and maybe from there, why you came here? “ Twilight chimed in.

I turned back around to face Twilight “Ok, we can start there, I guess” I said as I rubbed my face with one of my hands “My name is Vincent. Vincent Pleasant."

“Vincent Pleasant." Twilight said my name a few more times in a quietly, before saying “That’s quite an odd name.”

I frowned at Twilight, which I think at that moment she relies what she just said.

“I didn’t mean it like that…. It’s just an unusual name that’s all.” Twilight blurted out, embarrassed by what she said just now.

“Well, thank you for pointing that out Twilight, it’s not enough that I know that my name is unusual here, care to point anything else out that you find unusual to you?!” I asked her with a hint of anger in my voice, before I realized what I just had said to Twilight.

I just snapped at Twilight for no real reason.

While this is not the first time I let my anger gets the better of me. Normally I try and keep myself calm and be in a good mood, even though I don’t look it or show it most of the time.

However due to my job as a video games character artist, stress is a normal part of the job. Normally a little stress I can handle which doesn’t affect me that much. But when I’m under a lot of stress and I mean enough to drown in, well… people should just keep their distance until I'm relieved of the source of the stress or until I calm down.

Usually if I do snap at someone for whatever reason, within a day or two I end up feeling guilty for what I might've said and apologize to them, plus try and do them a favor of some sort. While at work, this has only happened a few times and when I do apologize to them, they kind of understand about it because they might been under it as well.

But being here in this universe is causing me to become more stressed by the minute. Plus it doesn’t help that I don’t know what the time zones between our two universes are, for all I could know; a day in this universe could equal week back in mine or even worse. I shook my head trying to not think about it.

"Twilight, look I'm sorry, it just that… I been under a lot of stress at the moment and if you were in my shoes, you just might understand where I’m coming from” I explained to her.

Twilight just looked at me for minute before I started talking again “Maybe I should start explaining my situation to you."

Over the next ten minutes or so, I explained to Twilight about how I’m from another universe, how it doesn’t have magic and that people can’t fly without machines to aid us in doing so. With that main bit of information out of the way, I started telling her how I was in my city apartment sleeping on my lounge then somehow I woke up in an apple orchard and then once I got into town, I got lost trying to find this place until I had to ask for directions and that the reason I’m here is to ask her if she can send me back home to my universe.

While telling this to Twilight, I decided to leave out that I already ran into Applejack, Rainbow Dash and the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Which I thought was a good idea at the time.

After I finished explaining my story to Twilight, she just sat there looking at me. I don’t know what she was thinking about but she got up from her chair and started walking around me.

“Ok, my first question is, why are you wearing all of that black clothing?” she asked as she continued circling me.

“Er… why ask that? Out of all the possible questions for you ask first, you went with 'what up with my fashion sense?'” I was kind of surprised she decided to ask that first.

“Well I’m just curious, seeing how it’s rare seeing someone to wear so much black unless it’s for a formal occasion. But as I said I’m just curious that’s all” Twilight finished quickly.

I let out another sigh and answered “Look, I just like the color black, OK. I don’t really like wear any bright colors because it just doesn’t look right on me and the only time I would wear something like that, is if it has something funny on it. And also just to point out something, where I’m from wearing a lot of black or even just one color is pretty common thing”

After I finished, Twilight stopped circling me and stood back in front of me, crossing her arms.

“So is there anything else that you want to know or need to ask?” I asked Twilight, fully knowing that her questioning is not over yet.

Twilight just looked at for moment before answering “No, I don’t need to ask anything else."

I was confused by Twilight’s answer; I had just finished telling her that I’m from another universe and she has no other questions to ask from me. Seriously I thought that she would be bombarding me with questions until the cows came home.

“Is something the matter?” Twilight asked me sounding puzzled as to why I gone all silent all the sudden.

“I had just told you that I’m from another universe and the only question you had been about my choice of clothing. Don’t you have anything else to ask?” I asked sounding a little worry, yet I don’t why.

Twilight unfolded her arms and started moving back to her chair and sat back down.

“No, I don’t”

Something is wrong here, I thought starting to feel the worry that I felt earlier starting to build up more and starting to move closer to panic, she is not telling me something but what, then it clicked.

“You don’t believe my story do you?” I asked Twilight

“Where do I even start? First of all, your story makes no sense because if what you say is true about your universe and the fact that the people from there can’t use magic. So how did you even get here? Therefore, I find it very hard to believe that you came from another universe” Twilight answered back.

“But as I told you, I don’t know how I got to your universe. For all I could know, someone might have summoned me here with magic?”

Twilight let out a little giggle before she answered back “That’s not even possible. There are no such things as summoning spells. Which by the way if there was a spell that could do that it would require a large amount of magic to perform, especially to summon beings from another universe.”

“Ok, but that doesn’t leave out the possibility that someone screwed up some type of spell. Maybe that’s how I got here." I told Twilight, as I started to feel the stress from earlier coming back, now adding to my growing list of worries.

Twilight paused before she answered me “True, but with what you said on where you woke up, I don’t think your theory holds water, otherwise you would have ended up in the general area where that accident happen.” she plainly stated.

Damn it, I’m running out of theories on how I might have got here I thought, as it now not helping me with my stress levels and feeling small amounts of sweat on my forehead.

“Are you alright, you’re starting to look a bit pale” Twilight asked me, sounding a little concerned.
I wiped the sweat from my forehead with my hand, trying to think of what to do now.

Ok, for now forget how I got here. Maybe I should keep try continuing to convince Twilight that I’m another universe, but how am I going to do that without going straight to plan B, I thought, only for it to hit me. My wallet!

I dug through my pants pocket to grab my wallet; however I was having some difficulty getting it out. It was then as I was get my wallet out, that Twilight gave me a confused look at what I was doing before she finally spoke up and asked “Errr… what are you doing?”

Still having some difficulty getting it out, due to how thick my wallet is. I finally manage to get it out “Getting you some proof that I’m from another universe.” I answered back, as I opened up my wallet and started pulling out anything that had my full name on it.

“I may not have an explanation to explain how I got here, but I have some proof that I’m from another universe!” I told Twilight, pushing the cards with my full name on it into her hands.

With my ID cards in Twilight’s hands, she quickly pulled down her glasses and has a look at them.

I watched as Twilight took each of my ID cards and gave a thorough look, before moving on to the next one. After a few minutes, Twilight finished looking at all of the forms of ID I gave her. She took off her glasses and placed them on the desk behind her, before she turned back to me.

“This still doesn’t help proving that you’re from another universe. Twilight said calmly.

“How don’t these pieces of ID, which by the way have my full name on them, doesn’t prove that I’m from another universe?” I asked her, waiting to see what sort of excuse she comes up with.

“These are clearly forgeries” Twilight answered, while slowly waving the cards around.

Ok, I didn’t see that one coming I thought before I realize what she just said “Wait a second, are you saying that you have fake ID’s here… in this universe?” still not believing what I just heard.

“Well, I never seen one before, but I know that they exist.” Twilight answered.

This whole alternate universe dilemma is starting to go deeper than what I first thought. I’m ok with the fact that they might have the same level of technology as my universe, but when I start finding out stuff such as fake ID’s exist here, I’m starting to have a bad feeling on what else is here as well. For all I could know, they might have drugs, crime or other things that should not belong here in this universe.

But I found a hole in Twilight fake ID theory.

“Ok Twilight, if getting a fake ID is the same here as it is in my universe. Then tell me, where I got the money from to pay for a bunch of ID’s, when all I have is the money from my own universe!” I asked her, while showing her a ten dollar note and a few small silver and gold coins.

From the look on Twilight’s face, she seems to be shocked by this turn of events. She got up from her chair and walk over to look at the money I had in my hand. She slow examined the coins first, examining their different sizes and each of their engravings before moving on to having a look at the ten dollar note, examining the image and the different shades of blue that were on it.

I have her now, as there is no way she can come up with something to counter these pieces of proof I thought as I slowly smiled as Twilight was still examining the ten dollar note.

“So, do you believe me now?” I asked Twilight with a bit of snugness in my voice.

Twilight handed the ten dollar note back to me, as I was about to put it along with the coins back into my wallet.

“No, I still don’t." Twilight answered.

“Oh come on!” I accidentally shouted “What possible reason do you have to still not believe me? I mean my theory on how I might have gotten here to this universe can be questionable and of course, here I thought that by showing my ID’s to you would work, but I didn’t take into account that your universe would have fake ID’s."

“But this." I pointed to the money still in my hands “Doesn’t this at least spark a few questions or prove that I’m from another universe?” I asked Twilight.

“It does raise some questions and while the currency looks foreign. All this proves is that you’re not from this country." Twilight finished.

I put both of my hands on face and pulled them down, stretching my face.

“But I’m not from another country. I’m from another universe! Which are two completely different things!” I almost shouted at her. “Plus, what proof do you have that my money is from another country? Do you have a book somewhere here, that has the exact same picture of the money I just show you, because if you do, how about you go and grab it and show it to me." I demanded.

“I can’t!”

“And why not?” I asked

“Because…" Twilight was starting to look nervous now.

“Well, come on now spit it out.” I ask, as my inpatients got the better of me for at that moment.

“Because I believe your money is fake as well!” Twilight shouted.

I just stood there for a moment in complete shock, before I started laughing in her face before I threw my head back continuing to laugh at her.

Twilight just gave me a glare before asking in an irritated tone “What so funny?”

I finally stop laughing and just looked at her “You honestly think that my money is fake? Really? You know what, humor me."

Twilight just looked at me blankly “What?” she asked

“I said humor me, as in tell me why you think that my money is fake” I answered back

“Fine” Twilight said as if she was accepting my challenge “Firstly, I never seen this type of currency before in any book I have read. So all that leaves me to think about that this money is fake and used to swindle people out of real money by trading them the fake money."

Now it was my turn to just stare at blankly, They have con men here too? What the hell don’t they have here? I thought.

“This would also explain why you have so many fake ID’s. So that way you can try and convince people that you are from another universe, which would link perfectly with the fake money you have."

I just rolled my eyes at her “You can’t be serious, who in their right mind would fall for something so stupid” I asked her

“If the lie was convincing enough, anyone could've” Twilight answered back

This was getting me nowhere, this has being going on for fifteen minutes and as much as I want to continue down this path of pointlessness, I need to wrap this up and get my plan back on course.

Maybe I should of gone with plan B first and just wing it from there, that way I could've avoid all of this crap. Though then again, it would be the whole looking for Pinkie Pie problem again from earlier, where I ask for help but I get stuck with someone who wants to do their own thing first before I get the help I need.

Realizing that I have zone out and have not paying attention to Twilight, who has been talking all of this time.

“—and I still can’t believe, that these people, who could use their special talents for something good, but instead, they use them to commit these types of acts and for what purpose?” Twilight finished, as I only caught on to the last bit of her rant.

“Wait a second, what did you just say?” I asked her, hoping I heard what I thought I heard.

“I said, that people like you could have put their talents to better use instead of----“Twilight started saying, before I interrupt her.

I let out a groan of frustration at Twilight, but mostly at myself “God, why didn’t I think of this sooner!? Cutie marks!”

“What about them?” Twilight ask in a confused tone.

“Something I should have shown you from the start!” I told her, as I took off my trench coat and, placed it nearby on top of one of the short bookcases that were around room.

Remembering what I saw earlier with Rainbow Dash as to where ones Cutie mark would be and hoping that it wasn’t a tattoo of some sort. As I proceeded to unzipped my jacket, slide out my left arm and lift the left side of my shirt sleeve of my Roosterteeth shirt which had -It's a legitimate strategy- written on it, along with an image of tent with a sniper rifle poking out from its opening.

Once I had my shirt sleeve up and over my shoulder, I then turned my expose upper arm towards Twilight hoping that this would work. “As you can plainly see, I have no Cutie Mark of any sort here." while thinking Please don’t tell me that their Cutie marks are on their asses, cause I don’t want to show her my ass.

Twilight quickly picked up her glasses from her desk and put them on, as she move towards me wanting to take a closer look at the upper half of my arm.

“So Twilight, got anything to say about this?” I asked her, as she grabs my arm. Not hard but it wasn’t gentle either.

“Well, for a person who keeps on saying that he is from another universe, you seem to know where our Cutie Marks are located on the body.” Twilight answered back, as she slide her fingers over my upper arm.

“I… I caught a glimpse of a few of them as I was walking through the town earlier while trying to find this place.” which was sort of true seeing how I only seen one and it was from the girl who is the most likely to get a tattoo of her Cutie mark somewhere on her body. Still it was only a guess, but it was one hell of a guess.

“I guess that makes sense, but how did you know that they were called Cutie Marks then?” she asked me, making me realise what I said.

“I… uh” I mumbled, Oh crap!

“You know what, I don’t want to know, how you know.” Twilight ended up telling me, as she pulls her finger nail down from my shoulder to my elbow, causing me to jump back due to it happening all the sudden.

“What the hell, are you doing?!” I yelled at her, at what she had just done, while it didn’t hurt that much but a bit of warring could have been nice.

“I was trying to see if there was anything covering your Cutie mark!” she yelled back but from the looks of it, Twilight seemed to realize that she had just yelled at me and quickly calmed herself down.

Seeing that Twilight has calmed down from her little outburst, I had a quick look at the long red mark on my arm “See, nothing there” gesturing with my other hand.

“That doesn’t mean that it’s not hidden by magic!” She quickly said back to me, as she starts moving towards me with her right hand glowing with magical energy, but I quickly stretched out my arm to try and keep her back.

“Just wait a second, before you start probing me with your magic, I just got to ask something; are you just going to see if there is a Cutie mark on my arm and nothing else, right?” I asked in a questioning tone, I felt a little worried that Twilight might try something, maybe try and read my mind or sort through my memories to find out more info on me.

Come to think of it, why didn't I just let her do that?

Just let her have a look through my recent memories, I mean there has to be spell for that sort of thing right? As that would solve everything, but then again remembering my knowledge of comic book heroes and or villains who can read minds. Most of them would often destroy the person mind as they are trying to read it or drive further in to look at their memories.

I better enforce the whole; don’t read my mind or look at my memories point to Twilight, just in case I thought while waiting for Twilight to agree to what I asked.

Twilight tried moving toward me again, but I took one long step back with my arm still out in front of me, as if it was going to protect me from her even though I knew that she could used her magic to forced me to remain still while she examined my arm.

Twilight let out sigh of annoyance at what I was doing, before she finally agreed “Ok, fine.”

I slowly lowered my arm, letting her to come forward again up to my arm that she was holding before.

Seeing Twilight right hand glowing with magical energy again, she starts moving it closer to the skin on my upper arm.

As her hand made contact with my arm, I felt the same sensation of pins and needles going through my arm just like last time when a magic aura came into contact with my skin. While I was distracted by this, Twilight started moving her hand down from my shoulder, stopping at just above my elbow before she starts moving back up to my shoulder.

Twilight does this a few times, before she stops and lets out a growl of annoyance.

I looked down at my arm and saw that nothing has changed, luckily.

“Problem Twilight?” I asked her, not trying very hard to keep the snugness out of my voice, knowing that I have finally got her cornered.

Twilight let out a deep breath “No, there is no problem” she tried saying in a calm voice but was failing.

“Well then, that settles it then, doesn’t it?” I asked her, showing her a half smile.

“Settles what?” Twilight asked in a confused tone.

“This argument we being having all afternoon and since I don’t have a Cutie Mark on my arm, even after your little magic test, this proves that I’m from another universe, clear and simple.” I told her.

“No it doesn’t, there has to be a logical explanation for this!” Twilight quickly rebutted in a shocked tone. “Such as, that someone might put a high level cloak spell on your Cutie Mark to hide it for some reason or maybe you just haven’t found special talent yet." she concluded.

Now it was my turn to let a growl of annoyance, This is starting to get on my fuckin nerves! I thought in anger, taking a lot of self control to not say it out a loud. “You know what, I’m done!” I just simply said to her, while I waved my hands out in front of me.

Twilight just looked at me for a moment before asking “Done? Done with what?”

“This whole trying to convince you that I’m from another universe, all its doing is wasting my time. Time that I don’t have by the way." I told her, with anger creeping back into my voice.

“I mean, I knew who I was dealing with and I didn’t mind that I might have to explain a few things to you, but this is too much!” I continued. “You know what I should have done in the first place? I should have gone to Princess Celestia instead, for the only reason I came to you for help, was because you were close by." I finally finished, before I open the door leading out to the main room of the library and quickly started walking towards the front door, however, Twilight called out to me.

“Wait a minute, where do you think you’re going?!” as she quickly ran out of the study after me.

“To try and catch the next train so I can see Celestia, 'cause if you’re not going to help me, I’m going to get her to.” I told her, as I was about to open the front door.

“I thought you said that you didn’t have any money on you?” Twilight asked

“I don’t, that why I going to sneak myself onto the train. Do you have a problem with that?” I asked, still annoyed that I’m being delayed.

“Yes I do, but that’s not the point I’m trying to make here.”

“And what is your point?”

“My point is that if you don’t have any money, wouldn’t it be easier for you to fly rather than trying to sneak aboard a train and get caught?” Twilight asked me.

Confused by what Twilight had just said, a few thoughts ran through my head at what the hell she was talking about. Wasn’t she listening to me when I had told her that no one from my universe could fly without machines or that we can’t use magic. Maybe she is trying to be funny or something.

Let out a chuckle at Twilight “Really funny Twilight, not your best attempt at humor, but it was a good attempt nonetheless. Now if you excuse me, I’m going." I said to her, as I tried opening the door.

However, the door was halfway open only to have something slam it shut again, it was then that I notice that the door had a magenta glow around it. I turned around to face Twilight when I saw that one of her hands was glowing again.

“I’m not attempting to be funny here, as this is one of the main reasons why I didn’t believe your story, because you have a set of wings!” Twilight finished, as she quickly walks over towards me and stuck out her arm over my right shoulder, immediately sent a powerful icy chill run down my spine along with a yell of pure terror, causing me to fall to my knees on the hard wooden floor.

With my arms now wrapped around chest as I tried to stop shivering, while at the same time tried to figure out what just happened to me, Or what Twilight did to me I thought worriedly.

I looked up at Twilight, who just looked back down at me, shocked at what just happen in front of her.

“What the hell did you just do to me?” I whispered to her, just loud enough for her to hear and with fear creeping into my voice.

Twilight just looked over me, her face now confused. “That shouldn’t have happened... you shouldn’t have felt anything!”

“I don’t care about ‘what shouldn’t have happen’, what I want to know is, WHAT THE HELL, YOU DID TO ME!” I shouted the last part at her, replacing the fear from earlier with rage while giving her a hard glare.

Twilight was scared now as it clearly showed in her body movement, as she started slowly backing away from me. I slowly got to my feet, using the door as a form of support as I still felt the effects of whatever just happened.

I finally stood up straight, and started slowly moving towards Twilight.

“I just want to know, what you did to me!” I asked her with anger still in my voice, as she finally backed into one of the many tables that were scattered about the room.

“ANSWER ME!” I yelled at her.

“All I did was put my hand through your wing, you should have only felt, at most, pins and needles or nothing at all, I swear!” Twilight pleaded.

“Don’t lie to me! What I felt was as if someone injected ice into my veins, you used your magic against me, WHY!” I yelled at Twilight again, her eyes went wide with shock as I told her this.

“I don’t understand what is going on, I never heard of this happening before and I didn’t use my magic on you!” Twilight said frantically.

Not sure if I should believe her or not, but I decided to not move any further forward in case she tried to use magic against me again. As I stopped and took a second take a few deep breaths before I started talking again, I notice something in the corner on my left eye.

I was not sure with what it was, but it looked like a grayish blob of some sort. I tried swatting it away my left hand as if it was a fly, however as my hand touched whatever the grayish blob was, the icy chill that I felt earlier returned, as it run back down my spine causing me to yelp in terror again and fall back down on my knees.

Twilight just looked at me while this was going on, she didn’t seem to know whether or not to help me.

I started to turn my head around to my left to see what the grayish blob was; only to find that the more I turned, the less I could see of what it was.

I grew more concerned as I couldn’t see what that blob was behind me, I slowly managed to get up back off the ground again. Still shaking a little after feeling that second cold wave hitting me, I started trying to piece together my thoughts; however after getting hit by the cold wave twice, it became difficult to do so.

The only thought I had managed to get a hold of was, Mirror… I need a goddamn mirror.

Remembering that I saw a sign that said bathroom earlier in here, I started moving very slowly towards it, while passing Twilight as she just looked on at where I was going.

It took longer than I thought to get to the bathroom door due to me still shaking from the cold.

After opening the door, well actually that was a lie; it was more like falling though it while catching myself on the bathroom sink and slowly pulling myself up so I was standing up straight.

I wanted to just lift my head up, look into that mirror, see that nothing was wrong and just leave it up to my overactive imagination from the stress from today.

But that didn’t happen.

Instead when I looked into that mirror, I saw the grayish blob.

Or rather two grayish blobs that were sticking out of my back.

End of part two...

Never Judge A Book By Its Cover, Part Three

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"This can’t be happening.”

That was all I could say.

All I could think of.

Repeating it, as it kept on running through my mind, over and over and over again.

I stood in front of that bathroom mirror and that didn’t help things either, but I couldn’t move away or stop staring at… them.

Those… dark gray things sticking out of my back, the more I stared at them, the more the blurriness that were on them would disappear and started to look more like wings, feathers and all.

As I continued to look at them, I remembered back to when I briefly saw Rainbow Dash’s wings, how large and wide they were. Mine looked to be about the same height as hers ,they stopped just above my head; however I couldn’t tell how wide mine were due to them being folded in at the moment.

As I continued to lookat them, I could somewhat see through them enough that I can make out the towels that hung behind me, but not enough to tell me what colors they are due to the dark gray of the wings filter out the colors when looking through them.

The wings look very detailed in design, having dark gray feathers cover each wing, simpler to how a Pegasus’ wing would look like in the show.

I started moving my right hand to my left wing to try and see if it possible to touch the feathers, seeing how they are my wings and that I am the only one that can feel the feathers. Rather than what Twilight did, and just phase through it.

However as I reached for the closest feather, my wing suddenly moved on its own, and caused my hand to go accidentally through it, sending an all too familiar wave of coldness though my body again, along with me releasing out a painful hiss. This cause my knees to buckle, sending me almost to the ground again, however I was lucky enough to catch myself on the bathroom sink before I hit my head on it.

I weakly stood back up again, and looked back into the mirror only to find that the dark gray wings were gone. I quickly turned my head to look at my back to see it if it was trick of the light or something but it wasn’t, I couldn’t see them anymore.

What the fuck is going on! the thought raged in my mind, knocking aside any other previous thoughts that were there before.

I moved my arm back behind me to try and feel if they were still there, but I didn’t feel anything. No familiar cold waves rushing through my body. No pins and needles like Twilight had said earlier. Nothing.

I saw a toilet behind me, I decide to sit down to try and figure out what the hell was happening to me.

“Am I going insane?” I asked myself in a quiet whisper, while putting my face into my hands. “I mean, who said I hadn’t done so already, and that all this is in my head?”

If then as if I was asking for help, my recent memories of Rainbow Dash & Pinkie Pie tackling me to the ground came flooding back, as I clearly remembered the pain I received from the both of them.

No, this can’t be all in head, otherwise I wouldn’t have felt the pain from those falls. I thought to myself. But that could all be in my head too, like most times when I dreamt of something and the dream then somehow turns into one of my nightmares where I’m falling for one reason or another and it feels like I really falling, only to wake up to find that I’m still in my bed but now in a cold sweat. As for pain on the other hand, I just don’t know.

Another way I thought this could all be in my head was if I could recognize anything that shouldn’t be here, such as seeing or hearing things from my memories; such as rooms, music, books, just anything that shouldn’t belong here. Now if I was in the normal My Little Pony universe where everyone is a pony, this would have been a lot easier to see it, but now since everyone is human, it will make thing a lot more difficult.

But if everything is in my head, which would mean that I created everything and everyone, something that would beyond my ability. Ok granted while it is a part of my job to design and make characters for video games, but I was never really good at environment design.

Though then again, I’m not using some overly priced bit of software to make all this possible, for I always thought that if you have a creative mind, you can nearly do anything and with my creativity, this could all be possibly in my head.

But there was one more way I could check that if this is all in my head that I knew of. If I found something to read, for if this was all in my head then all the words would be jumbled, unreadable, constantly shifting or all three. I thought about taking out my phone and just reading the latest text message I had on there, but I knew that my mind would remember the message and form it, making it a waste of time.

No, I needed something I’ve never read before in order to make this theory conclusive.

Luckily for me I was in a library and not just any library but Twilight’s, which makes finding something I never read before a lot easier.

I took my hands off of my face and looked around the bathroom.

The walls of the small bathroom were painted some sort of creamy white color with plain white tiles on the floor as well as going up halfway up the walls and a small window on the wall opposite to the door. In short, it just looked very plain and not that interesting.

While I was looking around the bathroom, I noticed Twilight’s head slightly poking out from behind the door frame looking into the bathroom, properly to see how I was doing, but once I turned my head towards the door she quickly ducked back, hiding on the other side of the door frame.

I let out a quiet little sigh at her before I did one last look around the bathroom to see if there was any sort of reading material that I could peruse before I headed back out there to face her, unfortunately there was nothing here and with that, I headed back out into the library.

As I walked out of the doorway from the bathroom, I saw Twilight still up against the bookcase closest to the bathroom door, but once she saw me she quickly pretended to be doing something else. I turned to the bookcase on the other side and grabbed a random book from one of its many bookshelves.

The book I picked up had a dark green hard leather cover with the title Enchanting for beginners Vol 1 written out in large silver letters on the front. I didn’t bother to look at the table of contents, I quickly flipped through the book and stopped on a random page, which was the beginning of a new chapter called How to neutralize a magical aura. From there I started to look down at that page and I was able to read it. No jumbled words or letters randomly around the page. It was plain normal, “Well as normal as you get around here.” I silently commented.

To make sure it wasn’t a fluke, I put that book back on it shelf and grabbed another book from the shelf above it.

The book I’ve pulled this time was another hard leather cover book, this time light blue with the title Hush in white letters and a picture of some good looking guy that resembled Fabio with half of his shirt torn off and a hot young woman who was dressed in the classical librarian outfit, both of them on the front in one of those classical romantic poses you normally see on these types of books. Like last time I flipped through the book to a random page and stopping somewhere in the middle of the book, deciding to read that page.

He thrust into me-

I instantly shut the book after that line and put it back on the self.

“Ok, so this is not all in my head after all...” I said quietly, while making a mental note to wash my hands later with a ton of soap.

With that now out the way, I was now faced with my original problem about my wings.

“What are you doing?”

I turned to Twilight “I’m trying to figure out what to do now”

“And what were you doing with those books just now?” she asked me.

“I was just see if I was insane, hoping that all of this is my head.” I simply relied to her.

Twilight just gave me a confused look before asking “Wait a minute, how can you prove that you weren’t insane?”

“Well, if this was all in my head then I wouldn’t be able to read anything here, since it would be all jumbled , unreadable or constantly shifting.” I told her, as I turned my head away from her and started looking at the bookcase again.

“That doesn’t make sense.” Twilight told me.

I just ignored her for the time being and went back to looking at the books in front of me. After not finding a book to help me understand what happening to me, I started slowly moving away from Twilight while starting moving towards the other bookcases to continue my search.

“Tell me Twilight, when you dream do you have the problem of telling the difference between the dream and reality?” I casually asked her, as I continued looking at the titles of the books on the shelves.

“No.”

“Well, I'm having that problem now and the best way to tell if you’re dreaming or not, is to find any old book and just read it. Now normally while you are in a dream you wouldn’t be able to read anything.” I continued while pulling out a book which had the title “Magic for beginners. Vol 4” and quickly read the first page, before I closed it, then opened it again at the same page and read it again, finding it to same as before.

“The good news is that I’m pretty sure that I’m not dreaming” I told Twilight, as I turned back towards her showing somewhat a faint smile, but that smile soon disappeared as I turned away from her again and continued talking.

“But the bad news is that this really does prove that I’m here in your universe and also the fact that I now have a bloody set of wings which for some reason have disappeared!” I finally finished telling her, as I let some anger out during my speech. Fully knowing too well that I couldn’t help it, as the mental dam that was holding back my stress was now starting to overflow and break.

I took some deep breaths as I tried to calm myself down, but I knew it wasn’t going to work as well as before, as my mind was still trying to come to grips with what happening to me.

“So now I’m looking for any book that can tell me what’s happening to me.” I plainly told Twilight, as I continued search along the bookshelves for any book that might meet with that sort of criteria.

“You mean a book such as this?” Twilight asked, as I turned back around to face her for she was holding single brown leather bound book in her hand.

I couldn’t see the title of the book in her hand from where I was standing, so I moved slowly over towards Twilight, trying not to startle her.

“This encyclopedia is mainly used by school children or visitors from other countries; it should explain what type of citizen you are in greater detail.” Twilight calmly explained as she handed the book over to me.

With the brown encyclopedia in my hands, I quickly turned to the table of contents only find that the book only had four main chapters, while the others pages were just filler:

-Earthen: pages 5 – 30

- Magi: pages 31 – 70

- Avian: 71 – 100

-Avatar: 101

So that’s what they call themselves here.

Though thinking more about it now, it would make sense that Twilight wouldn't call herself a Unicorn if she was human or whatever they call themselves as a whole.

Figuring out who these names now represent wasn't as difficult as I first thought either.

Unicorns were known here as Magi it seems, which made sense since in some games, books or movies, they only would call themselves that whenever they wanted to sound superior to everyone else. I wonder why they didn’t just call themselves mages. Though then again Magi is a pretty universal name, seeing how every other name you normally call someone with magic is depended on gender.

The next name was Earthen, Must be what they call anyone that was an Earth pony in the show I thought.

Although how the hell they came up with that name anyway? Did they have some type of meeting or something to discuss it; I wonder how that meeting went down? Though then again, it does make sense why they are called that, seeing how it has ‘earth’ in its name plus there are more in tune with nature I logically concluded. Plus it sort-of helps that I heard that name once or twice before, but mostly in World of Warcraft.

The next name on the table of contents was a bit more difficult to figure out. In the end, I had to turn to the start of the Avian chapter, to see if there was a way to even pronounce that name. Luckily for me, there was and even after learning how to pronounce the name [though not out aloud for Twilight to hear], I still didn’t know what the hell the word meant. However with only the two names left on the table of contents and that the last name was one that I knew the meaning to, Avian must be what the Pegasi are called here.

The last name on the list was somewhat easy figure out and yet hard at the same time.

Looking at the word Avatar, I knew what the word meant and who it could be relating to, but here is the question that is keeps bugging me; what the hell type of pony was Celestia anyway? I know what she looks like: a tall white pony with large wings and a huge horn [which could be compensating for something in my opinion], but they never really did say what she is in the show. Is she a goddess? I mean she seems to be immortal due to how long she has being alive for or could she just have an extended lifespan due to the fact that she is basically all three pony races combined? I don’t know what to call what to call her, but the fact is it really doesn’t matter at the moment.

I double checked that I had the right page number, and I quickly turned to the chapter about Avians and started quickly browsing through most of the chapter. After fifteen minutes of quick reading, I found the bit of information that might help me.

The small passage I found started talking about the Avians wings mostly on: how they work, what the wings are connected to on the body and most importantly how they appear. While this was all explained in great detail, I skipped over most of it; to the start of the part I was after and started reading it.

From what I understood from it; an Avian wings will only reveal themselves if; used in any form of flight, when that person is emotionally stressed or having any form of intercourse.

That last part took me by surprise a little bit as I tried to figure out why they would do that, but I decide to try and keep my mind out of the gutter, by keeping myself focus as I look back at that passage for something that would relate back to me.

After having finish with my second look at that passage, the words ‘emotional’ and ‘stressed’ stuck out like a sore thumb, as that what I mostly been since I woke up today and with that, a thought came to my mind, something that never cross my mind before at the time of it happening.

When I jumped over that fence at Sweet Apple Acres, the thought never even popped up when I was trying to figure it out before Applejack interrupted my train of thought.

Did I jump over that fence by using my wings? I asked myself, as I closed the encyclopedia in my hands, thinking this over with a new line of logic.

It could be possible, but then if I did have wings at that time, how did I use them? I answered and yet asked myself at the same time, as I try and figure out the answer for my new question.

I tried looking for the answer; along with any information on my wings disappearing like that even under the conditions I was under that made my wings appeared in the first place, which I thought would be in the same section as to how they appear.

The answers could be somewhere in this chapter, but I was only on page 79 and I don’t have the time to look though the other 59 pages of the chapter, mostly in the unlikely chance that the answer I am searching for wasn’t in there at all.

Speaking of time, I haven’t checked it since I knocked on Twilight’s door. Taking out my phone from my jeans pocket, I quickly check it as it was saying it was 5:20 pm.

Stuffing my phone back into my pocket, I quickly look over at one of the windows to see if it was getting dark out there and to my disappointment it was.

With the encyclopedia still in my hands, I thought about just quickly searching the rest of the chapter for the answer I was looking for, but knowing myself I would more than likely miss the bit of information if I just quickly looking through it, rather than go at my pace.

But then out of the blue, an idea stuck me in the head, one that would get this done quickly as possible and get all the answers I need.

I look over at Twilight to see what she was doing while I was reading the encyclopedia. She was sitting down in one of the chairs that are placed throughout the room, facing in my direction and reading a book of some type.

Has she been watching me this entire time? I thought to myself as I watch for any sign that she has in the slightest. But after a minute or two, I decided to just get started on questioning Twilight.

“Twilight, you read this encyclopedia from cover to cover right?” I asked her as casually, while holding up the encyclopedia to her.

Twilight lifted her from her book and looked over at me, before answering “Yes, I have."

“So if I ask you any question about this encyclopedia, you’ll be able to answer it?”

“If it relates to that book, then yes, yes I can.”

“Ok then.” I merely said to her, as I put the encyclopedia down on the table and started slowly paced back and forward thinking of the questions, I need to ask her.

I stopped my pacing and asked Twilight my first question, “Ok, so here’s my first question. Besides being able to fly and manipulate the weather, what else can Avians do?”

“Well, besides flight and weather manipulation, Avians are capable of manipulating their center of gravity so they can walk up walls or keep perfect balance, they also have enhanced running speed, reflexes and are capable of jumping to extreme heights.” Twilight answered without missing a beat, as she closed her book, leaving it on her lap.

That would explain how I got over the fence without using my wings, but it doesn’t explain something else though. I commented to myself in my head.

“Ok, here’s another question for you. How do you tell each other apart?”

Twilight gave me another confused look before she started slowly answering my question “We have different names, different cutie marks ---“

“That’s not what I meant.” I interrupted her, knowing I should have gone into more detail with my question.

“I mean, how are you able to tell what that person is, like that woman that was here earlier, was she another Magi or she a Earth pon– I mean Earthen?” I asked her while trying to remain calm at the same time, as I just managed to avoided saying earth pony to Twilight.

“Oh I see, well Pinkie is an Earthen and with them, it can be difficult to tell who is who.”

“How can it be difficult?”

Twilight let out a sigh towards me and started quickly getting back into her lecture “Well for example, Magi have this magical aura that grows around their hand or their casting instrument–“

“And a casting instrument would, be what exactly?” I asked her, interrupting her for the third or fourth time in a few minutes and probably not the last time today either.

Twilight just rolled her eyes at me, probably at the fact that I kept on interrupting her, but I couldn’t help it if I didn’t know what she was talking about half the time.

“A casting instrument is what allows a Magi cast more advanced magic.” Twilight answered my previous question.

“So basically, it’s a wand?” I ask bluntly to her.

“Yes... I mean no.” Twilight stuttered “What I mean to say is that now in our days, a casting instrument can be anything from: canes, rings, necklaces, gloves and the ever classic, staffs and wands.” Twilight finished, holding up her own wand as to demonstrate her point.

Taking a look at her wand, it was about 11 inches long, made out of some type of light brown wood; the decoration of the wand was split into two areas.

The handle of the wand, judging by the size of the handles grip then comparing it to Twilight’s hand, I have to say it is a custom made wand, made perfectly to fit her hand alone. Other than that, the handle had two small wooden rings, one on the bottom of the handle to prevent the hand from sliding off and one at the top of handle to separate the handle from the other half of the wand.

The other half of the decoration on the wand was on the rod. All I notice was a single dark engraved line in the wood, swirling around the rod from the handle to the tip of the wand.

But after looking at that wand, it had bought up something that Twilight only said earlier about casting advance magic with a casting instrument and the fact that she was using magic earlier on.

“Ok, but what’s with the deal with you using magic with your hands earlier?” I asked her.

“What do you mean?” she asked back, as she placed her wand back up her right sleeve of her long sleeve shirt.

“You said that, your wand allows you to cast more advance magic, but earlier I saw you use magic without a wand, so what I’m asking is that, if you have a wand, why don’t you use it for everything and not just for advance magic?”

Twilight nodded at my question and shifted in her seat a bit, before she started talking again “What you saw earlier was me just using a very basic levitation spell. You see, when you start off learning magic you have to use a cast instrument even for things that are considered basic magic, but once you mastered the basics for that spell, then you able to cast that spell with your hands.” she finished.

“So in other words, it’s just to showing off how good you are.” I stated to her.

“No, it’s not to show off!” Twilight shot back at me.

“But then what’s the point of even using your hands? Does using your hands amplify the power of the spell or is it the wand that amplifies the spell power? It has to be one or the other, it can’t be both!” I questioned her.

Twilight started to look a little uncomfortable for some reason as she started shifting around in her seat again.

“It’s… difficult to explain how a Magi’s magic works to someone who isn’t a Magi themselves. It’s kind of like if you were asked to explain; why your wings tend to disappear when you are flying to someone who not an Avian, even I don’t understand why their wings just disappear like that and I got two best friends that are Avians themselves, but you do understand what I mean, right?” Twilight asked me, probably thinking I knew what she was talking about.

“I know what you’re talking about, but you see here’s the thing. I’M NOT AN AVIAN!” I told her, emphasizing on the last part.

But I wasn’t finished “I never, before today, had these bloody wings, let alone know how to use them and as pointed out earlier, I never realized that I had these wings until a few minutes ago after you decided to point them out!”

Twilight just sat there, with her elbows now resting on the arms of the chair and her fingers interlocked with each other resting on the book that was currently in her lap, Zoned out.

I let out an irritated sigh at her once I realized what she was doing and decided to bring her back to the present, by loudly clapping my hands together in front of her face.

The shock of the loud noise in front of her had gotten me back her attention, as she just shook her head as her daydreaming was cut short.

“Sorry about that, I was in deep thought thinking about something you had said earlier, about how you were in your city apartment and when you woke up you were in Sweet Apple Acres. So my question is, what day did you fall asleep in your apartment?” Twilight asked me in a curious tone.

“Yesterday morning at about 10 o’clock.”

“And you woke up at what time at Sweet Apple Acres?”

Ok now that’s good question, I didn’t check my phone until after Applejack had left and it was about 1:10 pm. So let’s see then, after I got all my stuff, plus the dog chasing me and talking to Applejack, all that was about round ten to fifteen minutes or so before I checked my phone, that’s sounds about right. I logically concluded

“Roughly about 12:55, give or take five minutes or so.” I answered while shrugging my shoulders

Twilight just sat there, taking in the information I had just given her and possibly trying to process into some sort of logical answer like she has being doing all afternoon with all of the other information I had given her.

“Well the closest city from here is Camelot –“

Now it was my turn to zone out for once I heard the word ‘Camelot’ I instantly thought of the Monty Python song of the same name and somehow started hearing the music playing in my head, which almost made me start humming it to myself along with tapping my right foot to the beat.

But after the song was over, my mind had suddenly remembered that Twilight didn’t say Canterlot but Camelot, so are they one in the same?

I knew that any town or city name that was mention in the show is basically a ponify version of names from my universe towns or cities, but in this case Camelot is mostly related to the fantasy side of things and not real as far as I’m aware, but here it is.

So in that case, is it safe for me to assume that the other towns and cities here in this universe are the same as the ones back in mine? I legitimately asked myself, before I tuned back into what Twilight was talking about.

“-and not to mention, that it takes at least a day and half to get here. So unless some of your friends decided to pull a mean spirited prank on you and just leave you here-” but I decided to cut her off.

“They wouldn’t have being able to do that to me anyway because they were either too drunk or hungover from the night before, plus none of them have a key to my apartment and also, just to hammer the point in, I’m not from Camelot or anywhere around here, I’m from another universe!” I told her, as I am starting to get sick of repeating myself like some broken record.

Twilight then put up her hands in front of her, as if to try to calm me down “Ok, Ok, there is no need to get angry! I’ll be angry too if I had amnesia.”

That last part of what she just said took me by surprise.

Well ok, if I was in her shoes and had someone in my house saying that they’re from another universe, I would think that they’re either insane or have amnesia too, provided I was living here in the first place. I thought to myself.

“Twilight, I don’t have amnesia.” I said to her, while trying to keep calm.

Twilight got up from her chair and started walking slow towards me, while talking in a calm voice. The same kind of voice that someone uses as if they understood what the other person is going through, yet know nothing about it since they haven’t been through it themselves. “Calm down, it’s ok; I know that you’re confused right now about this whole situation, but don’t worry my friends and I will help you figure out who you really are.”

“I KNOW WHO I AM!” I angrily shouted at her.

Twilight quickly stepped back away from me.

If there was anyone else here, they would have been telling me, I should be grateful that she is offering to help me get my memory back. But from my point of view, it’s what finally broke the dam that was holding back all the stress and anger that has being filling since I woke up today in that apple field, as it just came flowing out like a giant wave from that broken dam for all those who stood before it, will be crushed by it.

Before today, I was stress free, which was the reason why my mates and I had an all night drinking and gaming session, because our group along with a few others at work were ahead and up to date with work and we just need to relax and forget about work until next Monday. Even though it was two days ago, but now it just feels so long ago.

“My name is Vincent Isaac Pleasant; I’m from a planet called Earth, I was born on the 7th November 1990, I live in country called Australia in the state of New South Wales in the city of Sydney, my apartment is number 7.” I recited to her, the anger still present within my voice.

“I have a mother, a father, a young brother and an older sister who is happily married and has three young girls all under the age of six. I have not seen any of them in the last two months due to my work as a character artist for a video games company in the same city that I live in and the fact that I moved three hours away from all of them, in order to work for that company because it’s what I want to do for the rest of my life!” I finished, as I hunch over with my hands on my knees trying to catch my breath, but I’m finding it difficult.

I looked up at Twilight, seeing that she is standing there with a shocked look on her face and a slight shake in her hands.

I finally manage to catch my breath back and stood back up straight looking dead on at Twilight.

“So tell me Twilight, does it sound like that I have amnesia to you?” I asked her as calmly as I could manage.

Twilight started opening her mouth as if to say something, but no sound came out. She was speechless.

I didn’t know what to make of Twilight’s silence, was she speechless because of the fact that she was wrong in guessing that I have amnesia and didn’t know what to say or do next? Or was she just thinking of some way to explain all of this that doesn’t involve me being from another universe like before.

Still silent, Twilight sat back down in the chair she was sitting in earlier.

I looked over to her, waiting for her to say something, but she was still lost in thought.

This is my time to act, time for plan B and get this whole thing over and done with thinking to myself, as I turned to my side where my bag was only to find that it was now missing, Shit, where the hell is it?! I started thinking as I frantically started looking around myself; I knew that the bag had my work stuff and some other little things in it. I know that if anyone else was carrying it, it would be heavy as hell, but for me, I have been carrying this stuff around for awhile now and I don’t feel the weight at all now, I’m surprised that I didn’t notice my bag was missing earlier.

I knew I had my bag before I came in here, so that leaves where it disappeared to.

The bag must have slipped off my shoulder when Pinkie Pie crushed tackle me, so either Twilight or Pinkie must of picked it up while dragging me inside, but from what I can remember, I didn’t see it when I was walking around here earlier, so that must mean that Twilight had put it somewhere I frantically thought, as I decided that now would be the good time to ask Twilight where the hell my bag is.

“Twilight do you have my bag?”

Twilight’s magical aura surrounded her left hand and with a casual flick of it, the door to the kitchen quickly opens and my bag flew out of there and straight into my hands.

With my bag back in my hands, I quickly went over to the table that had the encyclopedia on, to check to see if nothing in the bag was broken.

Upon opening my bag, I quickly took out my laptop and its changer which looks to be unharmed on the outside, but I’ll turn it on to see if working ok, after I check everything else. The next few things to come out were my two USB hard drives which seem to be intact, but again I need to hook them up to my laptop just to be sure later. My Ipod, which after a quickly turn on it was working and my black 3DS which was protected in its case which held some games and it changer inside. Other than that, the other things in the bag were three drawing books, my pencil case and a book with the title The Old Kingdom Chronicles by Garth Nix, all of which seemed to have not taken any damage of any sort.

With the checking done and out of the way, I start getting Plan B ready.

Plan B was really simple; all I have to do is show Twilight the first two episodes of the show and that will prove that I’m from another universe.

However there is a small chance that this might fail. The reason this might fail relates back to the whole alternate universe idea, I was thinking about earlier as for all I know, a whole different set of events could of happen when Nightmare Moon returned compared to the events of the show. But even then, if that alternate universe theory doesn’t hold any water and everything that did happen in the show, happen here in this universe maybe minus the singing. I’m still worried about any ramifications that could come from this, what they could be on the other hand is a question within itself, but I have some ideas.

Most of them involving anyone trying to get their hands on the rest of the episodes and since I know I’m somewhere after Rarity has made the gala dresses, but before the Cutie Mark Crusaders have their capes, seeing how they weren’t wearing them when I met them. They could get a look into the future up until the night of gala and if they watch the all the episodes, it could possible cancelled out whatever lesson they were trying to learn in the first place.

The other outcome of Plan B is that anyone that watches any of the episodes; they might or will have a mental breakdown of sorts and start questioning just about anything about their life.

I started putting everything back into my bag except for the laptop and my two USB hard drives, which will be needed for later on. After this was done, I turned around, only to almost run into Twilight who must have been looking over shoulder at what I was doing.

“What are you going to do what that computer?” Twilight asked with a voice of curiosity, as she pointed at my laptop.

“To prove to you that I was telling the truth.” I answered back, as I put back the white hard drive back into the bag and plugged in my black hard drive into the laptop.

Twilight let out a sigh at this, before saying to me “I think I might know what happen to you”

When she said this, I was about to push the on button on the laptop, as I was about to start plan B, however I decided to just ignore her and whatever she has to say about her stupid theories, as I pushed the button for the my laptop to start up.

“Look, whatever you think you know about yourself could be a lie.” Twilight said to me, as I continued to just look at the computer screen still trying to ignore her as best as I can, as the computer is still loading, while during this I’m tapping my fingers on the table waiting for the computer to full load.

“It could be possible that your memories have been altered by magic, all your memories you have about your family and your job could all be fake.” she continued, but I continued to try to ignore her, I only wish that this bloody laptop would load faster.

“Are you even listening to me?!” she yelled at me.

I suddenly turned around to face her, “No, I’m not and you want to know why? Because all your theories about me are bullcrap!” I told her, while pointing my index finger at her. “I mean, you have to go and try to find an explanation to everything that doesn’t make any sense to you, why you can’t just accept the fact that I’m right, that I’m from another universe and that you’re wrong!”

“How can I be wrong, you are an Avian!” Twilight countered, while giving me glare.

“Err… Twilight have you ever heard of theory where upon entering another universe, there is chance that your body might change into whatever in that universe. In this case, I was from a universe where there was, no magic and no way a human able to fly, unlike what you do here for all you need is a set of bloody wings and not a fucking airplane. In short, I was bloody damn normal human. But when I entered you’re damned universe, karma decided to be a damned bitch and decided for shits and giggles to give me a set of bloody wings, which is ironic, seeing how I’m scared shitless of heights!” I shouted my counter argument at her, as well as slammed my right hand down on the table.

Twilight didn’t say anything and neither did I. We just glared at each other, neither of us willing to moving an inch.

As the anger was pumping through my veins, I started smelling something burning.

My first thought was that something inside my laptop was broken which was causing the smoke, however when I looked back at the computer, nothing was wrong with it, there was no smoke coming from it.

Where the hell is that smell coming from?

The burning smell started to grow stronger, as now I started checking out my USB hard drive if that was the source of the smoke, but it wasn’t that either.

It wasn’t until I heard Twilight shout at me, that I managed to figure out where the smoke was coming from.

“Get your hand off the table, NOW!” Before I could ask Twilight what the hell she was going on about, I notice why she wanted my hand off her table.

The smoke was coming out from under my right hand and the smell was that of burning wood.

I quickly lifted my right hand off of the table, while I looked back at where it just was a second ago. My right hand had left a dark black scorch mark on the table and a powerful smell of burned wood.

After seeing the scorch mark, I quickly looked back at my right hand which was now showing heat rising from it, like you might see on a hot day when walking along the road, rising from it.

Twilight just stared at the newly formed black scorched handprint left on her table. I didn’t know what was going through her mind at that moment, but I know what was going through mine.

What the hell is happening to me?

The anger I felt from earlier had disappeared and was now replaced with fear and panic, as I was now backing away from the table, until I backed into one of the bookshelves, stopping me in my tracks.

Twilight finally turned her head away from the now scorched table and was now looking at me.

“You’re an Avatar!” Twilight said to me, in a shock toned.

“NO I’M NOT! I’M NOT!” I shouted at her, while grabbing each side of my head, as I started pulling my hair. “MY NAME IS VINCENT PLEASANT, I AM A NORMAL HUMAN BEING, NOT SOME FREAK OF NATURE AND NOTHING, NOT YOU OR ANYONE ELSE WILL TELL ME OTHERWISE!” I pointed at her using my right hand, as I finished shouting.

My heart is racing and fear is pumping through my veins. I was trying to think logically about all this, but that’s all too late now, for my logic has now left the building as the walls of said building are now collapsing.

As I was pulling back my hand, I noticed that each of my fingertips were now colored a light blue with a thin layer of ice on top covering them and once I saw them, it started slowly spreading down my fingers.

Quickly using my other hand, I started frantically trying to peeling off the bits of ice, however while doing this was not a problem since it wasn’t ripping off skin as of yet, but the more ice I peeled off, the more ice would replace the bits that were just torn off and would start spreading down my fingers faster. If that wasn’t enough already, ice had now started appearing on my other hand. Looking at both of my hands, the ice had now spread halfway down both of my hand and heading for my wrists.

I’m was so scared then, well even more scared than before when I found out about my damned wings, but it was a googolplex times worst than the wings. For the wings I could've lived with for while, until I was able to get back home. But now with me able to use magic in the picture and worst of all, not being able to control it, this is now going to slow things down to a crawl.

“What are you doing?!” Twilight asked me, once she saw my hands.

“I DON’T KNOW! I DON’T KNOW WHAT I’M DOING AND I DON’T KNOW HOW I’M DOING IT! JUST HELP ME PLEASE!” I beg her, while the ice has now passing my wrists and started moving up the rest of my arms, covering my jacket as it moving upward.

Twilight looked hesitant to help me and I can’t blame her after everything that has happen this afternoon and everything I have said.

Finally, she spoke up. “Everything you told told me today, was it the truth?”

I could help but to give her a small glare and say “No, I have being sarcastic this entire afternoon. Of course I‘ve been telling you the truth, why would I lie to you?” holding up my ice covered hands, which by now the ice is getting extremely close to my elbows.

I don’t know why, maybe it is in her nature or maybe it was something I said, but she started walking towards me, her wand sliding out of her sleeve and into her hand.

When she was standing in front of me, she started looking over my ice covered hands and forearms. After this she moved her wand closer to my left arm and light tapped it. In the area she had just tapped, it started to defrost, allowing me to let out a sigh of relief.

But that relief was short lived for that same spot quickly freeze over.

“That should have worked, the spell should have slowly defrosted the rest of your arm.” Twilight told me, as she used the other hand to scratch her head.

I looked at my now frozen fingers, I tried turning my hand into a fist, only to find that I could only get about half way before I couldn’t get any further than that “Err… Twilight, not to rush you or anything, but I think I’m starting to lose feeling in my fingers, so if you don’t mind, could you, oh you know, HURRY UP AND STOP THIS?!”

“Ok, ok just calm down for minute.”

I shot Twilight a glare, just for saying that, which she seems to pick up on what she just said.

“Sorry, bad choice of words on my part.” she apologized to me “Maybe if I used a more powerful version of that spell, it should-“

“Don’t explain it to me, just do it!” I interrupted her, while I slightly waved my arms around to illustrate my point, as by this point the ice has now just passed both of my elbows.

With that, Twilight stood back a little and fully extended her arm, pointing her wand almost touching the same arm as before, ready to cast a spell she had in mind for this situation.

However, before the spell could be casted. Ice had started appearing at the end of her wand and started slowly spreading downwards towards her hand. Twilight quickly noticed this happen, quickly dropped her wand and kicked it as far away from me as possible.

Twilight took a few steps away from me, as I watched her looked over at her wand, now on the ground on the other side of the room near one of the bookcases, as the ice is slowly melting off of it. She looked at me from head to toe, before she noticed something on the ground, she didn’t say anything to me, so I looked down at the floor to see what she was looking at.

Around my feet was now a thin layer of ice, slowly spread out around me, as I followed it, I saw the ice was now moving up the wall behind, but it hasn’t gone that far.

I looked over at Twilight to see if she can do something, “Twilight?”

“Listen to me, you need to calm down.”

“HOW CAN I CALM DOWN?! I DON’T KNOW HOW I’M DOING THIS OR WHY THIS IS HAPPENING TO ME, BUT I’M GOING TO BE A HUMAN POPSICLE IN A MINUTE, IF YOU CAN’T STOP THIS! SO PLEASE HELP ME!” I begged her again, with fear and panic filling my voice, as I looked over at both of my arms and saw that the ice was now getting close to my shoulders, while I’m not even sure that if my legs were getting the same treatment, since I couldn’t see any ice on my jeans or shoes.

After I said this to her, I saw her closed her eyes and took in a deep breath and just let it out. After this, she opened her eyes and just looked at me, she knew I was scared but I think she was scared too.

As we were just looking at each other, I heard something rattling on the ground, I followed the sound and it was her wand, leaving the wooden floor and flying back into her hand. As the ward landed back into her hand, in the same movement she pointed her wand at me.

“Twilight?” I called to out her, the fear still in my voice.

She didn’t say anything.

This started to scare me even more now, my heart felt like it wanted to smash through my chest and run for the hills and I wanted to join it.

I tried again calling out to her, “Twilight, what are you going to do to me?”

Again she didn’t say anything, but now she closed her eyes and looked away from me, but still had her wand pointed at me.

The fear and panic had finally taken over, for now I’m thinking that the worst was going to happen and that she might or will kill me. While I was thinking this, the ice had finally passed my shoulders and started to meet at my neck. I could feel the ice starting to creep up my neck and down my back.

Twilight turned her head way even further away from me and before I even knew it, I was blinded by a white flash.

End of Chapter.

Intermission: Small White Lies

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All Twilight heard was an almighty crash as she quickly open her eyes only to be blinded by the flash of light from the spell causing her to quickly close her eyes, after a minute she tried opening them again but was still seeing spots dancing in front of her eyes but after blinking her eyes a few times, she was able to see clearly again. Looking over at where the man that she only knew as Vincent last was, but what she saw next shocked her to very core of her being, causing her to drop her wand to the ground.

In front of Twilight laid Vincent body, slumped up against one of her bookshelves, unconscious with his eyes closed and with half of the books from that same bookcase covering him.

Twilight didn’t expect this to happen; she didn’t want this to happen. All she thought was that by casting a simple stun spell, it should've stop the ice that he was unwillingly creating from fully encasing him and possibly killing him. The stun spell was only suppose to put his body in paralyzed state which should've left him conscious, while at the same time prevented him from using any of his magic in any involuntary form.

However something must have happened or went wrong while casting the stun spell. Maybe it was because of the fear that was pumping through her veins must of made her accidentally cast a stronger version of the spell on him or maybe their magical energies clashed when she was casting the stun spell and Vincent was releasing all of his magical energy as it was freezing him, causing this unexpected result to happen.

Now to most people, mostly anyone of Earthen and Avian descent; they have always assumed that any spell will only have one direct use or effect unless a spell book had said otherwise. However this is not always the case, for it has been proven many times in the past that any spell can go beyond its original boundaries of the said spell. An example of this is Twilight being able to perform a short range teleport spell [commonly known as a blink spell in Magi circles], but by using the same spell she was able to manage to not only teleport herself but her assistant Spike with her as well on one occasion. However though after reappearing small amounts of Spike’s hair and clothes were slightly burnt, but that happen only because Twilight at the time was panicking and having to force her to put in more power into the spell for teleporting the both of them for a quick escape.

Looking at Vincent body, Twilight remembered being told stories of Magi’s who had lost control of their magic, either by accident due to magical surges and spells backfiring for one reason or another. While other times Magi’s lose control on purpose by overpowering spells to try and gain a better result or trying and force themselves into performing magic beyond their control.

Twilight herself has fallen under both of these categories a few times in her life [mostly on the accidental side of things], mostly notability during her entrance exam for Princess Celestia's School For Gifted Magi which caused mass chaos within the testing room but that was a complete accident though, still to this very day no one really know what exactly happen during that test. While only two weeks later after that incident at the entrance exam, she was working on a magical exercise where she was trying to form a picture of her newly formed Cutie mark from some string she was playing with in between her fingers while in a taxi carriage on her way to her first day of magic school, however it wasn’t going well for her. So she tried to force herself to perform magic. The end result was a large magical burst of energy that changed her older brother’s hair into flowers, gave her mother a long light violet and white moustache and her father ended up having rabbit ears. Though to be fair, that wasn’t meant to happen.

Maybe it was because of the stun spell that now, this man is unconscious and he just fell backwards onto the bookshelf behind him or maybe it was due to the force of the spell, that when it hit him it sent him flying back into the bookshelf behind him and knocking him unconscious. Or it could be something completely different altogether Twilight thought, but either way what’s done is done and there is nothing that I can do about it now, other than to check to see if he is still breathing and try to help him as best as I can.

After collecting her wand from the floor, she slowly walked over to the unconscious body. As she got closer to him, she saw that his arms were no longer covered in ice as it had melted forming a large puddle on the floor around him.

At least the stun spell is working and his magic has stopped for the time being at least.

Once Twilight got close enough to him, she crouched down and placed her two of her fingers on his neck to check if he had a pulse, while in her other hand she had her wand pointed at him in case something happened unexpectedly.

His pulse is slightly slow, but he is still alive at least.

Twilight let out a sigh of relief and placed her hand on the back of his head, checking to see if there was any blood or any signs of other damage. After feeling around his head, she felt a rather large lump on the back of his head along with something that make her hand wet, which quickly made her pulled her hand away to check to see if it was blood. She let out another sigh of relief when it was only water from the ice earlier. No blood, another good sign. She thought

Twilight gently placed his head back against the wall, while minding the lump on his head and stood back up. After standing back up straight, she finally realized the gravity of the situation as it hit her.

“What am I going to do? I have an unconscious man in my house and what’s worse is that he’s an Avatar!” Twilight whispered panicky.

It wasn’t until after hearing her own words did she realized what she had just said.

“What if he is somehow related to Princess Celestia?” However once again realizing what she had just said, she started panicking worst then earlier. “OH NO! What if he is royalty? I used my magic against a member of the royal family, what will happen if the Princess finds out?!”

While panicking, Twilight started looking around the library for some idea to help her in this situation. A few ideas started developing in her head, but as soon as it started however she immediately started seeing the flaws in them.

“If I can explain the situation to the Princess maybe she just think it was an accident, but with Spike out helping Rarity, I can’t send the letter and even if I call his phone I doubt he has any teleporting parchment on him either!” Twilight stated out aloud, as she turn her gaze back to Vincent body “And I can’t take him to the hospital either since the staff will start freaking out once they find out he’s an Avatar and call the royal guards who will inform the Princess causing her to go to the hospital to investigate!” she continued as she fell into one of the nearby chairs looking in the direction of Vincent unconscious body. Twilight placed her head into her hands as she continued trying to think up ideas on how to solve this problem.

As Twilight keeps on looking around the room, her eyes pass over a bookcase filled with spell books, giving her an idea. However her idea involved using healing magic, which could have healed Vincent head injury and just let him sleep it off, but her knowledge in this area of magic was very limited. If she even attempted to try and heal this type of injury without properly training, it will be disastrous. Twilight’s only knew how to heal injuries ranging from small paper cuts to large grazes, but nothing more than that; I’m starting to regret not fully learning healing magic as it would have come in handy right about now Twilight thought to herself, since at the time she wouldn’t needed to expanded into that field of magic due to the fact that she was still in Camelot and wasn’t expecting to move out of the city at the time, the only reason she learned a small bit of healing magic was because of the paper cuts she was receiving during her early years of studies.

With her options running out, Twilight decided to just call Spike and ask him to come back to the library, so she is able to send a letter to the princess.

Getting out of her chair, Twilight quickly walked back to her study and grabs her mobile phone from her purple jacket pocket that was hanging up on a hook beside the door. With the phone in her hands she started looking through her phone contacts until she found Spike’s number and pressed dial.

The phone started ringing out to Spike phone and after a few rings, his phone picked up.

“Hello this is Spike’s mobile phone, who may I ask who is calling?” a woman on the phone asked in an elegant tone.

Twilight instantly knew who it was and answered back, “Hello Rarity, it’s Twilight”

“Twilight, darling, how are you?” Rarity relied to her friend in a polite manner.

“Uh…” Twilight looked back over at unconscious man in front of her before she answered Rarity “Doing well, for the moment, anyway is Spike there with you?”

“Unfortunately not Twilight, he had left quite some time ago for the markets to place in an order for some materials and supplies that I needed for the boutique” Rarity simply replied.

“Well… do you know when Spike’s coming back?” Twilight asked.

“I am truly sorry Twilight, but unless Spike remembers that he left his mobile phone here, I told him that he could go home after placing in that order for me”

Twilight let out a quite stressful sigh at this new information that she had received, seeing how that the shop which Rarity was talking about was about 15 minutes away from her boutique and from library to the boutique it was another 10 minutes. In the end it might take Spike about 25 – 30 minutes before he gets back home, unless he stops back in at Rarity’s to pick up his phone which then it would be even longer.

As this situation is going from bad to worse, Twilight let out another stressful sigh, however unlike the previous one it was a tad louder as Rarity heard her this time, “Twilight, is everything quite all right?”

Twilight wanted to tell Rarity outright about the fact that she now has an unconscious male Avatar in her house and has no idea what to do about it, but would Rarity even believe her over the phone? But at that moment a new idea formed in her head. What if Rarity or even better yet the rest of my friends saw him, maybe they can offer suggestions on what to with him.

“Twilight, are you still there darling?

“Yes, I’m still here” Twilight quickly replied, “Listen Rarity are you busy at the moment?” she asked

“Why of course not Twilight, since Spike has being such a little gentleman this afternoon by helping me out and around the boutique, I now have some free time to spare. What would you like to chat about?” Rarity answered back to her friend.

“Uh… actually, do you mind if you quickly meet me over at my house do you?” Twilight asked her.

“Why, is there something the matter Twilight?” Rarity asked her, with concerned now appearing in her voice.

Twilight knew that in order to get Rarity or any of her other friends over to library, she might have to lie to them. She hated the idea of lying to them. She didn’t want to do it, but she didn’t want to be dismissed as simply “studying too hard” or being told “that’s impossible” by them either, all because she told them that there is a male Avatar unconscious in the library, especially if there is no record of any male Avatars anyway in their country history.

Somehow I am going to regret doing this. “No it’s just that, uh…”Think Twilight, think!“…That there is a letter addressed to you here at the library and from the style of the letter it looks to be from Camelot” Twilight finally answered her friend.

“Well… that hardly calls for me to travel all the way over to your house just for a letter darling. I mean, you could just read it to me over the phone” Rarity merely replied.

“I…uh… can’t” Twilight stammered, as she tried to think of a reason as to why she couldn't, “Wouldn’t it be taken as an invasion of your privacy?”

“Oh pish-posh Twilight, I am giving you my permission to open my letter, so there is no reason for you to feel guiltily over opening it on my behalf”

“Err… I can’t read you your letter, because…” Come on, think of something... Wait I got it! “Because the letter is sealed by magic, so in order for you to know what the letter is about, you have to come over and open it” Twilight said in a fast pace matter, as if she would've lost her train of thought if she stopped talking.

Twilight heard her friend let out a loud sigh before Rarity started talking again “And here I thought I was going to have a nice relaxing bath before Sweetie Belle is due back for dinner, very well I shall be over soon”

“Ok, see you soon”

Twilight was about to hang up her phone, but Rarity wasn’t finished “By the way Twilight before I forget, may I ask who is the letter from?”

So close! “Uh… I’m not sure; just let me look for it!” Twilight said again in a fast pace manner, forced into answering her friend as she didn’t know who in Camelot would send Rarity a letter. Should I say that it was Hoity Toity that sent the letter? It would make sense since her fashion show was a month ago and with The Grand Gala in seven months time, he would possibly want more designs for gala outfits from her. But it wouldn’t make any sense for sending the letter here, if he has Rarity home address and then there is the fact that he is not a Magi, so he can’t seal the letter.

As Twilight was pretending to look for the fake letter on her desk, she came across one of the many replied letters from Princess Celestia regarding her friendship reports. After seeing these letters from her teacher, Twilight finally figured out who the letter for Rarity can be from.

“Ok Rarity, I have found it. I’m sorry about this, I had seem to misplaced it since I received it this morning,as it was sent along with some of the replied letters from the Princess about my friendship reports” Twilight told Rarity, hoping her friend wouldn’t ask for too many details about the letter and why it wasn’t sent to her.

There was a short silence on the other side of the phone, before Rarity asked her friend a question, “Twilight, are you telling me that the letter is from the princess?!”

“Err… yes”

Another bit of silence followed, before Rarity let out something crossed between a scream and laugh “Waa-haa-haa! I will be over in next few minutes, ciao!” in a quick and excited tone before she hanged up the phone, ending the call.

Hearing the dial tone Twilight went back to her contacts list to figure out on who to call next, before deciding on to call Fluttershy and pressed dial. Twilight wait patiently as her phone was trying to reach her friend mobile, but after eight rings she decided to hang up since it was likely that Fluttershy was somewhere outside of her cottage and had left her mobile somewhere inside the cottage, again. Hopefully seeing the miss call from Twilight, Fluttershy will call her back once she gets back to her phone to find out why she called.

Twilight was going to call Pinkie Pie next; however she remembered what Pinkie had said earlier about doing some preparations for baking tomorrow and usually while doing any type of work with the Cakes she normally doesn’t have her mobile phone on. Twilight will more than likely have to go and pick Pinkie up and bring her back here. Twilight tried to take a calming breath but with the main problem literally sitting in front of her, it took a few more breaths before it finally had the effect that she was wanting.

Now being a little bit more relaxed though not by much. Twilight went back into her contacts, found Applejack mobile number and pressed dial. Twilight was kind of relieved that Applejack even had a mobile, seeing how their family wasn’t really that big into technology. The only reason Applejack even had a mobile phone was since she deals with selling their apple products that they produced in the town markets and needs the mobile in case they ever run out stock at their stall.

After few rings, Applejack answered her phone “Howdy, this be Applejack”

“Hey Applejack, its Twilight”

“Twilight, what can I do for you sugarcube?” asked Applejack.

However before Twilight could ask Applejack anything someone else decided to join in the call from Applejack’s side of the phone.

“AJ come on! The quicker we get this done, the quicker I can start practicing!” Twilight overheard, as she recognizes the woman shouting at Applejack.

“Simmer down Rainbow, I’m talking to Twilight!” Applejack shouted back to Rainbow Dash.

“Oh, what does she want?” Rainbow Dash shouted back to her friend with some curiosity.

“I don’t know, Twilight was about to say till you butted in! If you want to hear what she after, then get on over here and listen!” Applejack finished shouting at Rainbow.

“Ok, geez. Put your phone on loudspeaker so I can hear then” Twilight heard Rainbow as she was now closer to the phone then last time. Twilight was about to start talking once more, but before she could, she started hearing the sound of “Beeps” and “Boops” being pressed on Applejack’s phone. “No not that one! The loudspeaker! This one!” Twilight heard Rainbow Dash.

“Its yall fault that I don’t know where the damn button is, since you broke my last phone and gave me one of yours without the –“

“WHOA WHOA WAIT A MINUTE MY FAULT!?! HOW WAS IT MY FAULT!?” interrupted Rainbow while yelling at Applejack.

“If you weren’t cheating in the Iron Woman competition --“

“WHADDYA YOU MEAN I CHEATED!? WHAT ABOUT YOU IN THE RUNNING OF THE LEAVES –“

“STOP!” shouted Twilight as she was clearly not in the mood to put up with this right now, interrupting Rainbow Dash while hearing something along the lines of “Aah!” from both of her hot headed friends.

“Sorry about that Twilight, still a tad upset about it” Applejack apologized quickly.

There was silence, before Twilight heard a small “Ow!” which sounded like it came from Rainbow “Ok ok I’m sorry, anyway what you are after Twi?” Rainbow asked cutting straight to the chase.

“Right, I was wondering if the both of you are able to meet me at the library?” Twilight asked the both of her friends.

“Is there something wrong sugarcube?”

“Yeah is there something up?”

“Nothing wrong, why would anything be wrong?” Twilight quickly stated to her friends while trying to sound as honest as possible to them. I can’t use the same excuse as I did with Rarity, so how can I get both Applejack and Rainbow Dash to come to the library? Twilight thought to herself.

“It’s… just that… uh… that I recently received a new enchanting book and while I was reading through it today, I found a few enhancements that the both of you might find useful with your work” Twilight managed to say to the both of her friends.

“Mmh… well… come to think of it, my work boots might need to be re-done” Applejack told Twilight.

“Can’t it wait until after we take this hay to Fluttershy place?” Rainbow asked impatiently to Applejack.

“I suppose it can” Applejack answered her rainbow haired friend.

But it can’t, by the time they get back here he might be awake and with him anything could happen. They need to come here first! Twilight thought. I needed to turn this around into my favor, but how?

“Anywho Twilight, sorry to rush this call but Rainbow is right and we have to get these hay bales to Fluttershy’s cottage before it gets dark” Applejack told Twilight.

Come on Twilight, you need to think up something, anything and quickly! “Wait Applejack, have you talked with Fluttershy this afternoon?” Twilight quickly asked her.

“Mmh… Not this afternoon sugarcube, Rainbow you saw her last right?”

“Yeah I was at her place helping her out with some stuff, it took forever” Rainbow complained. “But that was before AJ called, haven’t talked to her since then, why you ask?”

“Oh it’s just that, I tried calling Fluttershy before I called you guys and I got no answer, so I thought that you guys might of known where she was” Twilight told the both of them.

“Well… I did rang her yesterday and told her that I’m able to deliver this hay to her this afternoon” said Applejack to Twilight “Kind of odd, she had something else on that she would of rang me about it”

“Maybe one of her animals got sick all the sudden or was called in to the vet for a second opinion on one of their patients” Twilight suggested.

“I suppose that does make a lick of sense. Alright Twilight I might as well come around for bit then” Applejack told Twilight.

“Wait a minute, why does it matter if Fluttershy is at home or not, can’t we just you know, drop the hay off at her place anyway?” Rainbow asked her framer friend, sounding slightly annoyed that her training is still being delayed.

“Come on Rainbow, you know how Fluttershy is with this sort of stuff. She wants it in just the right way that makes her feel comfortable with both her and her little critters” Applejack said to Rainbow Dash “And you know that she can’t lift all them hay bales by herself, it's better off that the both of us are there to help her along and I’m not goin to drive half an hour to her cottage only to find out that she is not there”

Hearing a sigh coming from Rainbow Dash as she accepted defeat “Ok fine, I’ll tag along to Twilight’s too” she said in an unhappy tone.

I can’t believe that that worked! Twilight thought in amazement while letting out a sigh of relief.

“Twilight you don’t mind if the both of us stay at your place for a bit until Fluttershy calls us right?” Applejack asked Twilight.

“Sure, go ahead and come around” was all Twilight could say.

“Ok, we’ll just need to load up the rest of these hay bales into the truck, get mah work boots and tell Big Macintosh to pick up Applebloom from Scootaloo house. Then we’ll head on over to your place lickety-split” Applejack quickly finished.

“Great, see you guys then” Twilight said to Applejack and Rainbow Dash

“Ok then sugarcube, bye”

“Later Twilight”

Twilight hanged up her phone and just let herself slump down in her chair for a minute, trying to catch her breath after everything that has happen within the few minutes. Twilight still felt troubled about having to lie to her friends, hoping that nothing bad will come from these lies. However realizing that her friends will be over soon, especially Rarity. Twilight need to clean up the main room; hide Vincent’s body along with his possessions and go and get Pinkie Pie.

Leaving her study, Twilight processed over to Vincent body standing in front of him. With her wand in her hand, she pointed it directly at Vincent unconscious form and made an upwards motion with her wand causing her magic to collected all the books that were covering him or around him in the puddle, lifting the books before making a small flicking gesture towards the bookcase with her wand and making her magic placing the books back on their shelves behind him.

Luckily that nearly all of these books have some form of minor enchantments on them to prevent them from getting wet, but where to hide him for the time being? Twilight thought to herself, before she started thinking about where to place Vincent. Placing him anywhere up stairs wouldn’t be advised, mostly due to the fact that Twilight didn’t want to try and levitate him all the way up her stairs in case he was too heavy to lift upwards over the stairs. Even though I know quite a number of spells that I could used to help me get him up the stairs, I shouldn’t do anything that can change him physically and while he is still unconscious other than the levitation spell to move him. The same could be the same about the basement, the last thing Twilight wants in taking him down stairs is for the levitation spell to fail while taking him down and causing him to fall down them and ending up with more injuries than just a bump on the head. Leaving Twilight with picking from one of the hidden rooms on this level, she didn’t want to place his body in either her study or the other study room she had, mainly because of lack of bed and or lounge to put him on and since the lounge room is upstairs, leaving only the guest room that is on this level.

With the door to the guest room four bookcases away from the bathroom, Twilight quickly moved to the bookcase to get it open before she started to move Vincent. Once Twilight got the guest room bookcase, she felt along the sides of the case for the button to open the door. Once Twilight found the button the door open revealing a room big enough to fit a double bed and a wardrobe within.

With the door open Twilight pointed her wand at Vincent, keeping her arm straight before her magical aura covered him and with her arm starting to move up slightly, his body started to raise just enough to be off the ground so he could be moved. Twilight started bending her wand arm in towards herself, causing Vincent body to levitate towards her. As his body started getting closer to the doorway of the guest room, Twilight started moving backwards to avoid his body crashing into her, once she was out of the way of the doorway, she carefully lead the body into the room before stopping it at the foot of the bed. Twilight took a deep breath before she started to raise her arm even higher so that she will be able to get him on the bed; however this was proving to be difficult as now Vincent weight starting to becoming an issue for her as she is now starting to feel all of his weight on her wand arm, as sweat is starting to form on her forehead as she is near getting him over the end of the bed and with her arm about to feel like it’s going to snap in half, Vincent body is finally floating above the bed. Twilight lowers Vincent body down softly onto the bed with his head lightly landing on one of the pillows that were there.

Letting out an exhausting sigh, Twilight wiped the sweat off from her head and rubs her now sore arm.

As Twilight was about to walk back out to the main room of the library to deal with the bag that Vincent had with him, however she stopped in the middle of the doorway. Twilight started getting the feeling that she needs to just check his pulse again, just to make sure that when she used her magic it hasn’t affected his heart in any form. Twilight walked back over to the now occupied bed and reach down with two of her fingers to Vincent’s neck.

“Mmh… It seems that his pulse is normal, at least it is an improvement” Twilight stated, glad that Vincent health is improving. “Maybe he does just need to sleep it off” she said, as she walked out of the guest room and closed the door.

Twilight proceeded over to the table that had Vincent bag, his laptop and the rest of his things. When Twilight reached the table Vincent laptop was on and fully loaded up, she was tempted to look through his laptop along with the other objects that was in his bag, but with the other girls coming here within the next few minutes so she wouldn’t be able to have a proper look at them. Maybe once after I explain everything to them about what had happen here, we might have a better look at his things to discover where he is actually from, Twilight concluded, before she shut the laptop closed, placed it back in Vincent bag and picking up the heavy bag before she started thinking on where to hide it. I can’t leave it in the guest room in case anything magical related happens again, so I better put this in my study, just to be safe Twilight thought to herself, as she walked over to her study and placed Vincent bag inside on her desk.

The last thing to do now is to go to Sugarcube Corner, grab Pinkie Pie and bring her back here, that shouldn’t be that hard. But before I leave, I should left a note for Spike in case he gets back here before I do, Twilight logically concluded as she draw a piece of parchment, picked up her quill and started writing.

-Spike

I have gone out to Sugarcube Corner to grab Pinkie Pie, be back soon.

Should Rarity, Applejack and or Rainbow Dash be waiting outside or arrive after you read this, please let them in and tell them that I will be back in a few minutes with Pinkie.

And whatever you do, neither you nor the others cannot go into the guest room on the ground floor or my study for any reason until I get back!

I repeat, do not go or let anyone into that guest room or my study until I get back with Pinkie Pie!

-Twilight

PS. It’s your turn to empty the bins.

Setting the quill down and re-read the note, Twilight made sure that she hadn't missed any details that needed to address. Satisfied with the note to Spike, Twilight placed the note on the table next to the front door, knowing that he will see it as he walked in.

With everything done, Twilight quickly turned the small sign in the window next to the door from “Yes, we are open” to “Sorry, we are closed” before she open the front door and walked out into the cool late afternoon air. Closing the front door behind her, Twilight pulled out an old silver skeleton key from her jeans pocket; put the key into the lock in the door and with a turn of the key, the runes that are engraved on the key faintly glowed purple before they faded out once it competed it job of magical locking all of the windows and doors entering the library.

Twilight placed the library key back into her jeans pocket and started lightly jogging to Sugarcube Corner to grab Pinkie Pie. Hopefully I can get back in time before Vincent wakes up, just to be sure that he doesn't go through what I am hoping not to be a another magical surge Twilight shudder as the terrifying thought crossed her mind.

Now most people would tend to just over look a magical surge since it only supposedly happens to Magi children, but this is not entirely true. While Magi children ranging from as little as five months old to 12 years old they will have at least anywhere between four to six magical surges during that time, it is very rare for a child to have any more than that. There also have been few cases where Magi teenagers having a magical surge, mostly because they either had only between one to three magical surges during their childhood or had skipped it altogether. When a Magical surge happens to a baby or a child, the damage is normally minimum at best, since they don’t know enough magic to do any real harm or casted magic properly. Mostly it’s just a telekinesis spell that’s amplified to the point where it can pick up everything and everyone in the room or shooting a magical blast with enough force to knock a fully-grown man off his feet. A Magi teenager on the other hand knows how to use magic and this makes them even more dangerous during a surge. In few of these cases, they ended up causing huge amounts of damage to the room or small area that they are in, unleashing large amounts of magic and people who were caught in the middle of the crossfire ended up in hospital with injuries ranging from major cuts to broken bones. Yet there was also a magical surge that an adult went though and as far as anyone knows there has only been one case of this. As the story went what happen was terrifying. The woman that went through the surge was in a two storey building, when the surge hit it destroyed the building in a blink of an eye killing her and four people that were inside. The surge that killed the Magi woman and the four others was covered up to try and keep everyone calm.

Twilight is scared of Vincent, not because he is an Avatar but rather the magical power that he holds. With what he went through today, before he was hit with the stun spell was possibly a magical surge and the one thing that every Magi is told not to do, is to not try and stop a magical surge from happening because then the next surge will be as twice as powerful and speed up the next surge. If a Magi adult destroyed a two storey building, then what would happen if an Avatar [who is as even more powerful than any Magi in terms of magic], has a magical surge as twice as powerful?

Twilight didn’t know the answer or want to think about it, for all she could know Vincent could have lost control of his magic since he was using elemental magic and seeing how that type of magic is more centered on the emotions than other classes of magic. It would make more sense than him going through a magical surge in the first place, but she did not want to take that risk and needed to get back home quickly with Pinkie Pie.

Twilight was starting to run out of breath when she saw Sugarcube Corner off in the distance. With her last bit of breath, Twilight sprint to the door of Sugarcube Corner and it open the door causing the bell behind it to ring.

Standing in the doorway catching her breath, Twilight saw Pinkie Pie cleaning down the counter at the front of the shop, while humming a tune that she couldn't put her finger on. Pinkie Pie finally noticing Twilight, stopped her cleaning, walked out from behind the counter and up to her friend, “I knew I forgot to do something” Said Pinkie, as she pointed at the lock on door. Twilight couldn’t see what Pinkie was pointing at, so she turned around and the door and noticed that the shop sign had “Closed” facing outwards, Twilight managed to put two and two together.

“Sorry… to… barge… in… like… this” Twilight said to Pinkie, as she was trying to catch her breath still.

“No worries dozyise Twilight, forgot to lock the door anyway, oh and thanks for reminding me by the way” She replied to Twilight in her usual upbeat manner.

Managing to finally catch her breath, Twilight stood back up straight looking at her pink hair friend and asked “Pinkie are you almost finished doing your bakery preparation for tomorrow?”

“Yep, I just need to clean up out the front here and then I can get started on planning Hatter “Welcome party”, which I should have it ready by tomorrow night!” Pinkie excitedly told Twilight. “Now, what type of party do you think he would like?” she asked Twilight and mainly herself, while she had her hand on her chin in the classical thinking pose.

The party I completely forgot about that! The thought entered Twilight mind. After everything that has happened today with Vincent, Twilight had forgotten about it and now come to think about it, she now knows how to get Pinkie to come back to her house without any questions asked.

“Uh… Pinkie, I hate to break this to you but, he doesn’t want a party” Twilight told her.

“WHAT!?!” Pinkie shouted out, stocked by what Twilight had just told her.

“All he said was that “It really not really needed to throw me party just for being new to town” Twilight told Pinkie, whose expression hadn’t changed at all.

“HE SAID WHAT!?!” Pinkie still shouted, before she quickly rushed from the room and out of sight.

“Well that could have gone better” Twilight said plainly, not surprised by this turn of events while hearing who she thinks is Pinkie running around up above her and some other voices up there, more likely the Cakes. Within two minutes, Pinkie rushes back into the front of the shop now with a dark pink backpack on her back and quickly asked Twilight “Twilight do you know where he is now?”

“At my house sti ---” However Twilight didn’t finish as Pinkie ran out of the door.

Twilight barely relies what had just happen and quickly rush to the door while shouting out to Pinkie, who was half way down the road “PINKIE WAIT A SECOND!” remembering to shut the door to shop, before she started chasing after her friend down the road back towards her house.

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Sleeping on my side always felt right to me somehow. I don’t know why, it just does. That’s why I found it weird that I was sleeping on my back for I could never really fall asleep or sleep well on my back, again I don’t know why, I just can’t.

However a loud slam caused me to fully wake up from my somewhat half sleeping state.

While slowly sitting up, I rubbed my eyes while thinking about the weird dream I was having. Something about waking up in apple orchard somewhere and meeting a bunch of MLP characters but now who are human beings instead of ponies while being told that you are some sort of all powerful being that’s on the same level as their princess and the worst part was that I thought it was all real.

“Note to self, never watch My Little Pony before going to sleep while half hangover, ever again” I lazy groaned, as I finished rubbing my eyes.

With my eyes slowly opening, I should have seen a dull grey carpet floor, a 42 inch size TV with various video gaming consoles hooked up to it, controllers to said consoles and other little things that should of been in my field of view as I sat up on my lounge. Instead, I see wooden floors, a wardrobe, a small desk, a large bookcase and it seems that I am sleeping on a bed.

However before I could think anymore on the matter, my head started to throb like crazy and it felt like it was coming from the back of skull. I slowly moved my hand up to back of my head and started feeling around for the source of the throbbing that was giving me a headache until I found a lump that had swelled up to the size of an 50 cent piece. “Ok, where the hell did you come from?” I asked myself in regards to the new lump on the back of my head. I slowly got up and while making sure not to fall over myself as I made a beeline to the door of the room. Once there, I am hoping that I just fell asleep at my mate’s house and that I just woken up in one of his spare rooms and that from me leaving his house up to the point when were Twilight blasted me with that spell, was all just a dream.

So I opened the door and…

It is the main room of Twilight library.

“Well…” I said before the other word slowly rolled off of my tongue “… Fuck!” for that was all I could say at this point in time. Everything I thought that was a dream did happen and the last thing I remembered was being told that I was an Avatar, losing control of my magic and getting knocked the fuck out by Twilight with some type of spell.

Well, desperate times, call for desperate measures I thought to myself as I got down on my knees and closed my eyes while looked up to the wooden ceiling.

“God, are you there? It’s me, Vincent Pleasant. Look this is an odd situation that I’m kind of in” I had to laugh at what I just said, knowing that an ‘odd situation’ is putting it very lightly. “I know I wasn’t much of a ‘religious guy’ and to be honest who is these days but I still believe in you, that’s better than nothing right? But back to my situation that I’m in. I somehow ended up in a universe where all of the My Little Pony characters are now humans and to honest with myself, I really really really like to go back to my own universe where my family and friends are, but mostly where everything makes sense… Well more sense anyway and plus all my stuff is there. And if you sent me back immediately after I finished leaving you this message” I let out a troubled sigh since I already know how to make it up to him and I didn’t like this idea one bit.

“I will read and watch all the Twilight books and movies… in a row… Look, I know I sweared that I wouldn’t read or watch any of that crap, but… I’m really really desperate here and as an added bonus, I will not complain about how the book series is complete and utter crap written by a year 11 Standard English student with a thesaurus or how the movies are just eye candy for the any female and they really don’t give two shits about any of the female characters on screen and other things I won’t say here. So, how about it, will you help me out?” I finished asking him.

I waited for about minute or two before I opened my right eye to see if I was back in my universe in my lounge room and… I wasn’t. I’m still in the same place, same universe.

Opening up my other eye, let out deep long sigh before looking back up at the wooden ceiling and accidentally shouted out to it “WELL SCREW YOU THEN!” before I relies that I had just given away that I was up and about. You bloody idiot.

After waiting for one of the doors [or hidden doors] to bust open or even hear footsteps quickly moving around up or down stairs [if she has them] to come and meet me. However after waiting for a minute or so, there was nothing. I didn’t hear any footsteps or other doors hidden from view opening and or closing.

“Maybe she didn’t hear me” I said to myself, thinking it’s kind of weird that if Twilight knocked me out, that either she or even Spike would be here to prevent anything else from happening and more than importantly to keeping an eye on me so I don’t try and escape.

However this may be a blessing in disguised since either: A] Twilight and or Spike are not here, so that means I can leave without any problems or B] if Twilight or Spike are here, then they didn’t hear me earlier so all I need to do is leave quietly and quickly.

But before I can leave for Camelot, I need my grab my stuff since the last thing I want to do is leave behind nearly over $2000 dollars’ worth of stuff and all the work I have done in this universe. Ok, so my bag still should be on a table in this room, but when I looked over at all the four tables in the room there wasn’t any of my stuff on them. So, Twilight put all my stuff back into my bag and decides to hide it from me, she must have done it to keep me here since she knows that I can’t leave without it… Clever girl. But is she clever enough to not hide it in the same place as before? I somewhat asked myself.

Walking towards the door to the kitchen, I slowly and quietly opened the door a crack in case anyone was already in there. Looking through the crack, I saw that there was no one was inside of the kitchen. Opening the door all the way, revealed a basic kitchen with enough space for a small table with four chairs around it, a bench with two sinks along with a few draws built on the front of it, a window built over where the sink is, a fridge and a couple of cupboards around the room. However my bag wasn’t in here either. Ok, so Twilight is smart enough to not hide it in the same place as last time, she must have hidden it in one of the other rooms.

However as I was about to leave the kitchen my stomach let out a loud rumble. I had forgotten that I still hadn’t eaten anything today and being in a kitchen didn’t help me out much either. Now normally I can skip breakfast and sometimes lunch if I’m too busy working or just too caught up in playing a game, but I normally still have something to eat by now whether it’s something small like an apple or something big like a microwave meal or take out. But I can’t really blame myself for not eating anything today since I’m in another universe and found out that I’m no longer even conceded human. However another question had popped into my head, Should I just raid Twilight kitchen without asking her? I thought on it for a minute before coming to the conclusion that I should and not just because I’m starving but to research to see if there universe has the same type of food as mine. Not including fruit and vegetables of course.

With that dilemma solved and out of the way, I proceeded over to Twilight’s white fridge and started having a look inside.

The food inside Twilight’s fridge actually looked pretty normal. From what I can tell she has some fruit, mostly some mixed color apples, bananas and a fruit salad of some type. Besides the fruit, there is some of the normal stuff you normally find in a fridge such as: milk, water, butter and a block of cheese. However there is some stuff that I couldn’t really identify as to what it is. In the door of the fridge where I found the milk and water earlier, is a bottle of what I think is juice but the color seem to be off as it is crossed between a green and yellow color, if I had to take a guess it could be home made juice. Next to the juice is from the looks of it, some type of dark green soft drink. The only reason as to why I think it is some type soft drink due to fizz in the bottle and that I also shook it up, however I started to doubt my theory since after I shook the bottle there was something hitting the sides of the bottle, it sounded solid and they looked like shards from something. Luckily for me, I didn’t try to taste it, even more so since I just notice that on the bottle is a label with Spike name on it. The last thing I want to do is drink something that is meant for a dragon… or whatever hell he is here. The last thing I notice is a large jar filled with… something. I don’t what in it but its rainbow colored. I thought it was one of those things with the rainbow colored sand but why put it in the fridge. Whatever it is it was contently shifting it color but keeping its rainbow-ness, if that is even a word.

Deciding to move on, I found something that took me by surprise, meat. Now to be fair, this might have being a surprise if Twilight was a pony… and so was everyone else for that matter. Well maybe not, dragons do eat meat so if I was in that universe it could have been for Spike. But I’m just glad that there is some type of meat here and it looks like bacon and it’s cooked. Cold but cooked I noted to myself. I grab a strip of beacon from the plate it was sitting on and took a bite out of it. I slowly chewed on the bit of bacon in case it tasted off for some reason and ready myself to spit it out. However it tasted like bacon from my universe, if not slightly better. I couldn’t put my finger on it why it tasted better; maybe it wasn’t cooked in veggie oil or deep fried.

While taking another bite out of the bacon, I continued looking throughout the fridge to see the food that Twilight had. Sadly though there wasn’t much else besides some muffins [must be from Pinkie Pie], a few vegetables [some I recognized luckily enough] and something in a large pot which looked like stew but I could be wrong through as for all I could know, it could be an experiment of Twilight’s.

After finishing the strip of bacon, I decided to grab one of the green apples and closed the door of the fridge. Before I started eating the apple, I quickly when over to the sink, grab a glass cup that was already in there, fill it up with water from the tap and downed the water in one go.

I started eating the apple as I left Twilight’s kitchen and started looking for where she hid my bag. Ok, so besides the kitchen, the bathroom, Twilight’s study and that room I woke up in. There the only rooms that I know of and can find. However, I can cross off the kitchen and the bedroom that I was in, as to where my bag is. Which then leaves either the study, the bathroom or one of the other hidden rooms in this damn house, I thought to myself as it dawned upon me that it very likely that I may have to leave my bag behind and come back for it later which would delay me plans somewhat, since if Twilight is out of the house she would most likely be back soon and it’s very likely that she might have the rest of the mane six in tow. Or would that be the ‘main’ six now since they are humans now and not ponies? I’ll think about it later when I’m not here, hell she might even not bring them at all and just grab the guards or the cops or whatever, I told myself and getting back to the matter at hand. I better look in Twilight’s study before I forget where hell it is and if my bag is not there, I’ll try the bathroom before I start trying to find any of the other hidden rooms.

Now from what I remember, Twilight’s study is near the front door and that the button for the door is on top of the bookcase, all I got to do is feel around for it. While walking towards where I thought was the study, I noticed a small table by the front door with a note on it. “Was there a note there before?” I asked out aloud to no one, while racking my brain to see if I remember it being there before I was knocked out. However, when I couldn’t remember seeing it, so I decided to walk over to see what the note is about. Maybe it’s just a list of rules for the library or a sign in sheet or even the new opening times for the library.

But it wasn’t. It was about me.

-Spike

I have gone out to Sugarcube Corner to grab Pinkie Pie, be back soon.

Should Rarity, Applejack and or Rainbow Dash be waiting outside or arrive after you read this, please let them in and tell them that I will be back in a few minutes with Pinkie.

And whatever you do, neither you nor the others cannot go into the guest room on the ground floor or my study for any reason until I get back!

I repeat, do not go or let anyone into that guest room or my study until I get back with Pinkie Pie!

-Twilight

PS. It’s your turn to empty the bins.

It was luckily that I could read most of the note since it looked rushed and some of the ink still wasn’t dried yet either. Oh shit, which means that either anyone of the main six [I decided to call them that, it makes more sense that way] or Spike is going to be here any minute. Re-reading the note in cased I missed something and I did. I found that Fluttershy wasn’t mention in the note for some reason, but at the moment I don’t care, since for all I could know that she is sick or something. For some reason and I can take a guess why Twilight had mention it to not go into her study. My bag. Also I didn’t see any bins while in the kitchen, they must be under sink or something.

With the note still in my hand, I decided to fold it up and put it in my jacket pocket. With the note gone, either Twilight would think that Spike read the note and just went off to his room [since I woke in a bedroom in this house, I believe that Twilight and Spike have rooms here too, just hidden at the moment] or that Spike would think that Twilight is either busy studying or something along those lines and that he has no other chores to do.

Ok, so the first thing I need to do is grab my bag which should be in the study if the note is correct. Next, I better close that bedroom door, so if Twilight comes back she will think nothing is wrong for the time being, I started planning in my head. While I was planning, a thought crossed my mind, something that I haven’t paid much attention to since waking up

My magic.

What triggered my magic the last time? I wanted to try and remember how it happen, however I immediately stop in case whatever it was would trigger my magic again whether it will be the same type of magic as last time or not. I rather not risk it. I’ll worry about it later, as long as I don’t want to use magic I should be fine. I think. Through I should find a book or something about, just in case.

Once I got in front of the bookcases as to where I thought Twilight’s study is and luckily for me, one of the beliefs of being tall is being able to see over tall objects that no one else can see. The bookcase on my right has the button I’m looking for and I quickly pushed it.

The bookcase opened like it did last time, swinging inwards and from where I am standing I saw my bag on Twilight desk and my trench coat somewhat lazily hanging on one of her smaller bookshelves. It was then that I relies that I wasn’t wearing my $200 dollar trench coat. I can’t believe I forgot about my coat and come to think of it, I was going to leave without it when I was about to storm out earlier after I argued with Twilight, what the hell is wrong with me today. Picking up my trench coat, I quickly put it on and then moved over to my bag and started checking through it in case anything was missing. If I was in Twilight shoes, I would of taken a few things out of the bag in case the owner found it, meaning that they would have to stick around to get their stuff back or cause them to come back to get it, as I was thinking this I had just finished checking my bag and found that nothing was missing, luckily. Finding that I had left my laptop on, I quickly turned it off without shutting it down properly before placing my bag back onto my shoulder. I finishing off the apple and throwing it into the small trash bin in the room before and I headed back out into the main room of library.

Closing the study door behind me, I then quickly moved over to the room that I woke up in [I think that this is guest room that Twilight was talking about in her note] and closed that door as well.

Ok, so with the note for Spike now gone, my trench coat and bag back in my possession and both the study and guest rooms doors now closed, all I got to do now is walk out of the front door and get to the train station without being seen by the Main six… yeah that would be easier said than done.

Walking up to the front door, I saw that next to it was a small window with some cream colored curtains on each side and an open/close sign in the middle of it with the ‘closed’ side facing outward. Once I was up against the door, I peeked out of the window from behind one of the small curtains to make sure that none of the main six was out there anywhere. Can’t see them, I better leg it to the train station before they know I’m gone.

Looking at the door handle, I took hold of it and turned all the way. I guessed it wasn’t locked after all, I thought before pushing against the wooden surface.

The door didn’t budge.

I tried pushing against the door again, but it still wouldn’t budge. Ok, so Twilight did lock the door and since I don’t see a back door around here. Looks like I have to go out through a window, preferably one that I could fit through. My best bet is to go to the back room of the library and go out through that big window as the other alternative would be to find the bookcase that is hiding Twilight’s stairs that lead up to the next level and just climb down the tree. To be honest I don’t like that idea much.

Walking away from the front door to the back room of the library, I stood in front of the large window and start examining it. From the looks of it, the window has a lock on the top of it wooden frame with a small handle on the bottom of it. Stepping over the lounge and kneeling on the window ledge, I got one of my hands around the old brass handle and tried pulling up on it, but it didn’t budge. I took a second look at the window just to make sure that I wasn’t opening it the wrong way, but I wasn’t. It is one of those types of windows that when you pull them up that they lock into place to keep the window open. I tried pulling the window up again just to make sure that it wasn’t stuck in place, seeing how the window does look old with the paint on the handle of the window and around the wooden frame looks to be faded and flaked a bit. Even using both hands the window still wouldn’t open.

I run back to the kitchen, seeing how I remember that there was a window in there and try my luck with that one. Once I got back into the kitchen, I saw that while the window in there wasn’t that tall, it is wide enough for me to just get through it. The design of this window isn’t the same as the one in the back room; this one is a bit simpler. The overall design is that they are locked by a hook keeping the two windows in place and that you push the small windows outwards. The lock on the window is the only thing that’s keeping me from sweet freedom. After pushing up the hook holding the windows in place, I then proceed to push open the windows but the windows refuse to open for me. I decide trying to push on the windows harder this time to the point where I stopped since the counter I’m lending against started digging into my hip.

“Ok, enough of this bullshit! A motherfucking window is not going to stop me from my freedom!”, as I noticed that there is a small cooking pot in the sink that I missed. I grabbed the pot and using it as a make shift club; I smash it against the window hoping that it would break the glass, the wooden frame or both so I can get out. However instead, the pot bounce off the window and due to the amount of power I put into the swing of said pot I was holding, I landed flat on my ass on the kitchen floor. Looking up at the window I had just tried to break, I noticed that briefly the window had a magenta sheen to it before it disappeared. After I got off the floor with pot in hand which has a dent on the side of it. I lightly tap the window again with the pot; the magenta sheen returned and disappeared just as quickly.

“So that explains why I can’t leave and it also explains as to why no one is keeping an eye on me. Because Twilight’s magic is keeping me in here and if I had to guess, she is the only one that can deactivate it, which means one of two will happen” I said out loud talking to myself, as I put the small and dented pot back into the sink “Either: A] I just wait here until Twilight and the rest of the Main six and get asked a million of the same questions over and over again before I get let go or B] once Twilight deactivates her magic, just rush out the door and keep running” I continued ,as I just thought up another thing I could try. “Or option C] Hide in one of the rooms, must be one with a big enough window and where no one can see me and once Twilight deactivates her magic, just climb out of the window and just run”

Deciding to leave the kitchen and walked back out into the main library, while thinking over those options in my head again in more detail. If I stayed and answered their questions I will end up losing massive amount of time and end up being forced to stay here under lock and key if they don’t like my answers they get out of me. If I try and run once the magic is deactivated, someone might get hurt. More likely me in this case than anyone else and if I try sneaking out, I have to hide somewhere close to the door and wait for Twilight to get back, then hopefully get a window open and get out quietly, if I fail then all types of hell is going to break lose. Either way, any of these ideas could fail or backfire in some way but in the end, I got no choice and I need to pick one of them.

Looking around the large open room in search for some type of answer, I notice the table where my blacken hand paint laid along with the brown encyclopedia that I was somewhat browsing through earlier. Walking up to the table, I looked at both these with unease eyes. I ran my one of hands over the black hand paint that I caused some time ago and look at the underside of my hand. Seeing the black smudge across my upturned hand and something stirred in me… fear.

Fear that I can’t keep my magic under control even though I don’t know how I had being maintaining control since I woken up. The type of fear that if I end up hurting or even killing someone due to fact that I couldn’t keep my magic under some form of control or even yet, the fear that I might end up being killed myself because of my magic and my lack of control, whether its someone else kills me because of it or I end up killing myself on accident. I quickly grab the encyclopedia and pulled it across the paint to cover it up, while quickly trying to rub off the black ash that is on my hand.

Honestly, these thoughts scare the living crap out of me. This is one of the main reasons why I want to go back home, where everything makes sense, more or less.

While I manage to get most of the black ash off of my hand. I thought about the encyclopedia now in front of me. From what Twilight demonstrated earlier about this book, I could find out all about these other ‘races’? Is that the right word I’m looking for, races? Eh, it will do for the time being. I could find out what other abilities these other races have. I ended my line of thought, as I turn the cover of the encyclopedia over and looked at the table of contents again.

-Earthen: pages 5 – 30
- Magi: pages 31 – 70
- Avian: 71 – 100
-Avatar: 101

Looking at the page number for the Avatar page made me chuckle a bit. I flicked over to page 101, expecting the rest of the book to have tons of info on Avatars about their abilities, how they become an Avatar whether it was by birth or that they were made this way by some other type of method and maybe some other types of information that would be useful to me in some way. Once I got to the page however that was all I found, a page. Just one page about Avatars. I quickly started speed reading through it only to find that it ended halfway down the page. They couldn’t even give me a page of information about these people for fuck shakes! I commented in my head.

It also didn’t help that the half of page of information, didn’t hold anything of much value. Basically to sum up the information on the page its states: that no one knows where Avatars came from and that the only two Avatars that this book has recorded are Celestia and Luna.

If I take a guess and this is just me guessing here, that this was written before Luna was banished, otherwise that it might as well just mention Celestia by herself.

Other than that, the book starts talking about some eye witness accounts of seeing Celestia or Luna or both of them doing something that couldn’t be explained. Besides using magic, flying and rising the moon and sun that is.

Most of the things said in here ranging from: one of the sisters breaking a sword in half with their bare hands, to an account that when something with name that I couldn’t half pronounce a dracon- something had bitten and almost torn off Celestia arm. But after the fight was over, her arm along with other injures that she manage to received during the fight healed itself within a few minutes. Though the book does says that at the time this was published that no healing spell was that advanced. I just think that she was just using a more advanced type of healing magic that she kept for herself or because her level of magic is greater than a normal Magi.

These accounts just go on and on, but the last few lines on the page ended with a theory of sorts. The theory states that while these Avatars possessed abilities that come from other races: Earthen, Magi and Avian, it is also likely that those same abilities have been enhanced. It even listing a few more examples of this, from five fully grown Earthen men couldn’t lifted a giant bolder from blocking a road, while Luna did it with one hand and to another where again Luna managed to out run one of the fastest Avian flyers in the world at the time. The theory ends saying that it is also likely that these Avatars possessed their own set of unique abilities that none of the other races have, however it doesn’t go into detail about what their unique abilities are. The author must of tried asking either one or both of them about their past and a number of other questions, but from the looks of things and the lack of pages in this section, it sounds like that both Celestia and Luna turn away the author to protect whatever knowledge they have on Avatars.

“But why keep this sort of thing a secret? It doesn’t make a--” however before I could finish, there was a knock at the door.

I quickly ruled out that it wasn’t Twilight or Spike since they wouldn’t knock on their own door, so it has to be someone from the main six, but who? However on the other hand it doesn’t really matter since whoever it is can’t get inside. But this means that Twilight would be back soon, so I need to decide what to do now.

I decided to rule out staying back and getting questioned. So that leaves me with rushing the door once Twilight opens it and leg it or trying to sneak out through a window once she deactivates the spell.

If what the book said is true then I can just out run anyone that comes after me. Hell, even Rainbow Dash wouldn’t be able to keep—another knock interrupted my thoughts, but this helped me relies something that I forgot to take into account. How the hell do I even move that fast? Do I say a magic word to active my super speed? Do I just use magic to make myself go faster or do I just run and I just go super-fast on my own like the Flash? I was thinking about doing a quick run from where I am to where the front door is, but I decided against it, in case I did activate my super speed which I’ll end up smashing into the magic force field that’s protecting the door and maybe break every bone in my body. With a one in three shot to trigger my super speed and taking into account that it has being a few years since I was last fit enough to run longer than what I can do now. I decided to not try and run idea, plus if super speed doesn’t kick in, than either Rainbow Dash will catch me or I’ll end up on the ground dry heaving and getting caught anyway.

A third knock was heard from the wooden door and leaving me with little to no other choice, I have to sneak out. The best place would be from Twilight’s study, since the room is near enough to the front door so I can hear when Twilight gets back and the room has a window in it if I remember correctly which I can use to escape once she deactivate the spell. However with the window near the front door looking directly at the bookcases near Twilight study, if anyone one look through it while I’m opening or closing the bookcase, it will cause them to look inside the study once Twilight gets back. It’s a risk, but I need to see who is out there so I can plan this out properly.

I moved quietly over to the front door staying behind it the whole time I’m moving. Once I got there, I crouch down behind it and slowly moved over to the window near it. Staying behind the small cream curtains again, I peeked outside seeing who out of the main six is out there.

The woman standing out there in front of the door is dressed in white long shelve business shirt which was tuck into her black skirt that stop just under her knees on her long legs. Whatever you could see of her legs are covered by a pair of dark brown stocking and her shoes were just simple ladies black slip-on shoes that just covered her feet. I guess since it would be easier to move about in than a pair of high heels. Judging her height, she could be the same height as Twilight or just a bit taller than her; however it is a bit hard to tell from here. Other than that her nails are painted with some type of dark red with her lipstick matching it and that her make-up looks like she just got a shovel put all of her make-up on the spade and hit herself in the face with it judging with how thickly layered it looks. This woman hair to best describe it is either naturally straight or has being straighten since at the ends of her shoulder length royal purple hair has been rounded so they curve up continuing in a spiral. It was no surprise who this woman is, the fanshionista Rarity.

Rarity is standing outside in front of the door looking a bit impatient for some reason; maybe she didn’t know that Twilight wasn’t at home or maybe she just didn’t like to be kept waiting, who knows. The fanshionista let out a huff and knocked louder on the front door this time. While Rarity was knocking, I notice two small items I had missed earlier, since they are on her right side of her body, out of my line of slight.

First on Rarity’s right hand, there is a ring on her middle finger with a sliver metal band and a medium size sapphire sitting in the middle of the ring. I quickly check to see if she had any other jewelry on her that I could make out, but I couldn’t see any. The other item I notice was hanging off of Rarity right shoulder, a small white purse. After waiting another minute Rarity went to her purse and started digging around in it, after that she pulled out a mobile phone and started messing around with it, before she moved the phone up to her ear. However it didn’t take long before Rarity put her phone back into her purse while letting out an annoyed sigh.

With Rarity being a few feet away from the front door and having line of slight of the window next to it, I can’t safely move to the Twilight’s study without her seeing me. She wouldn’t simplify leave since Twilight had wanted her here, so something must distracted her just long enough for me to move or she move away far enough so she can’t see the front window anymore.

A few minutes when by before the sound of a truck hit my ears. To be honest this wasn’t much of a surprise since if they have mobile phones, TV’s and other types of electronic devices. Than why won’t they have cars?

I tried to see where the truck was coming from, however since I’m trying to not draw attention to myself; I just waited until the truck came into my view as I watched it park across the street from the library. This caused Rarity to turn around to face towards the truck.

Now, cars are not really my thing. I don’t know how to fix one if it breaks down or how to change a flat, the most I know about a car is how to drive an automatic, putting fuel into it and various other little things that everyone knows how to do. If I need my car fixed, I would just take it to one of my uncles or my brother in-law who are mechanics and just pay them for it.

So with the truck parked across the street, the best way to describe it, old. The truck looked like those old style farm trucks you seen from 20’s onwards with the back of the farm truck having a flat bed with maybe wooden supports holding up the dark green canvas cover that would protect whatever is under it from the weather. While the front of the truck was colored with some type of brown or it could be red paint, but it doesn’t matter since most of the paint is or has being flaking off and there is rust in random spots.

After the truck turned off it engine off, Rarity started walking over to it as if she knows the driver. While she walked over to the truck, the doors on it opened and two women jumped out. One is dressed in light blue sleeveless sports top, and light blue sports track pants with matching colored joggers and medium length rainbow hair. While the other one is dressed in a red checkered flannel shirt, worn blue jeans with a brown Stetson and a pair of brown cowboy boots, while having her blond hair in a ponytail. Unfortunately I know who these two women are; Rainbow Dash and Applejack, and for some reason they have random bits of hay sticking out of their clothes.

With Rarity walking over to greet her two friends, this is now the best time and maybe the only time to get in Twilight’s study. I quickly moved from where I ‘m hiding to the bookcase hiding Twilight study, hitting the button on the case and wishing that it opened faster as it slowly opened. Deciding not to wait for the bookcase to fully open itself, I pushed myself through a gap that was just big enough for me and my bag to fit through and when I got through, I grab the door handle while it is still moving and closed the door shut.

I stayed close to the door, waiting to hear anything that might let me know if I was seen. My heart is racing at the moment due to the thought of being discovered by those three outside. I didn’t see if any of them were looking towards the window as I was moving, but I just have that feeling that one of them might have. It also didn’t help that I can’t really hear what’s going on outside with Rarity, Applejack and Rainbow Dash since the study is too far away from the truck and it’s more than likely that they are not going to be waiting near the front door.

While up against the door, I look over at the study window just to see if I can fit through it without any problem. The window here is similar to the one in the kitchen in design and shape, so I should be able to get out through that way.

All I can do now is just wait.

I thought about what I am going to do next and now since I have my bag back. I need to get to the train station, get on the train to Camelot without being seen or find some way to get money for a train ticket, beg more than likely. Once I’m in the city, I need to get to Camelot castle, talk to Celestia and somehow get her to help me get home. I guess the plan hasn’t changed that much, huh? I asked myself.

Minutes rolled by as I waited for Twilight to show up, but it felt like forever and looking out the window, it is starting to get dark. Hopefully the train station doesn’t close at night.

Another few minutes went by before I decided to just sit down on the wooden floor against the door, “God, how long does it take for someone to go out and grab someone then bring them back here?” I quietly asked out aloud and slightly bored of waiting.

“HURRY UP SLOW POKE AND UNLOCK YOUR DOOR!” someone shouted from outside.

The hell was that? I thought as whoever was shouting, awoken me from my bored state.

“COME ON TWILIGHT, I GOT TO CONVINCE HATTER TO LET ME THROW HIM THAT WELCOME PARTY!” the same person shouted again, as I figured out who it is.

“Shit its Pinkie, which means that Twilight shouldn’t be too far behind her, I got to get ready” I told myself quietly while getting off of the floor, but staying next to the study door, listening and waiting for that front door to open. During this time, I made sure that I had everything and quickly started checking my pockets and my bag just in case anything slipped out, luckily nothing did. The last thing I want to do is to delay my plans and come back for whatever I left behind.

Something was happening outside around the front door. I heard a loud thump against the wooden the front door before the sound of a key jigging around in a lock. This is it, get ready, I was mentally telling myself, as I moved away from the study door and up to the window.

With the sound of footsteps echoing off the wooden floor in the other room, I unhooked the window and started pushing against one of the two windows, just to test to see if the spell has been deactivate. The window I’m pushing against started slowly moving outwards compare to the kitchen window where it just stayed in the one place. I smile to myself knowing that I’m about to leave this tree house, I also would of let out a shout of victory as well if it didn’t mean that I would get caught by the women in the next room. So I kept myself quite… mostly I did do some victory humming though.

Fully pushing both windows open, I felt the flesh cool late afternoon air upon my face, it felt wonderful. Before I climbed out of window I made sure that my bag was properly secured on me, so I adjusted the bag strap from hanging loosely on my shoulder to having it around my head and my right arm through the loop and lastly tightening the bag strap so it hanging securely on me so it not likely to fall off should I need to start running.

With the sound of a door closing somewhere [more than likely the front door], I placed both of my hands on the window ledge and pushed myself up high enough to get my right leg out of the window. Once I pulled my other leg up and over the ledge, sitting on window ledge is easy, though sitting in the right spot where I wasn’t sitting on my balls, that’s another thing altogether.

From where I’m sitting, the drop to the ground on the outside is about seven or eight feet which is do able in my book, luckily. Plus there are some brushes to break my fall under me, that’s something at least.

Siding off the window ledge, the ground and brushes was speeding up to meet my feet. Until I got violently coat hanged from my bag strap which is now stuck around my neck chocking me as I’m now hanging out the window. The only thing I could do is just let out a choking gargle, while trying to get both of my hands pull the bag strap away from my throat. However with my right arm being pulled back above my head due to the bag strap, that arm is now basically useless to help since that hand can’t reach it and the only thing that is preventing me from being turned into a real life version of hangman is my other hand only just managed to slightly pull the strap away from my neck. With my left hand holding the tighten bag strap away from my throat barely, I tried pulling it further away from me so I can just slip out of it, fall to the ground and quickly grab the bag, but I need both hands to be able to pull the strap out far enough to slip out.

Only two thoughts are going through my head at the moment as I am dangling out here in the open, almost being choked to death. The first one is that if anyone sees me like this, then I’m screwed since they will more than likely call the cops or the guard or whatever the hell they have here. While the other thought is simply just this; Can this fuckin day get any worse?

It Just A Setback [un-edited]

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The early night sky still had some color to it. All the reds, pinks and oranges are now being slowly washed away by the light and dark blues of the oncoming night. I have a good view of all of this, since I am currently hanging outside of Twilight’s study window as my bag straps are still trying to wrap themselves around my throat. But still, the view is nice.

It has only been a minute or two since I jumped out of Twilight’s study window trying to escape from her house and avoid being questioned by her along with Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Pinkie Pie. During that time, I had been trying to figure out some ideas on how to escape from being strangled by my bag.

One idea involved me simplify reaching over and trying to dislodging the bag from whatever it is caught on, however for all I could know the bag could be out of my reach and that is not even the worst part, I might have to let go of the strap that my left hand is currently holding onto to try and reach the bag, choking me as I’m trying to pull it out of the window.

Another idea I had involved me using both of my feet and push off the wall so I go horizontal in the air for a second and just slip out of the strap that way. But again there are flaws with that idea. One of the main ones is that it might cause too much noise, while the other is that I might lose my bag if I’m not quick enough to grab it and lastly I might knock myself out once I hit the ground.

Of course I could just emit defeat, call out for help and hope that Twilight and the others hear me and come and get me and just be subdued to their questioning. At least I get to keep all of my stuff… until they try and take it from me that is.

I tried moving my right arm again to see how much movement I had while it is locked in placed over my head. It was not much. I couldn’t move that arm back to reach my bag and like previously can’t reach the bag strap that I’m just barely keeping away from my throat, if I could I wouldn’t still be hanging around here. I would have let out a groan at that pun I just made but I got more pressing matters to deal with. The only thing I could do with that arm is point it up straight into the air. I thought about seeing if I could reach the top of the window and then try pulling myself back up on the window ledge, but it out of my reach. Bloody typical.

However as I tried to reach the top of the window, I started to feel that arm slipping from my coat sleeve and as that happen, a new plan stared to form in my head. If I can slip that arm out of my trench coat then I should be able to slide out of the bag straps since that arm wouldn’t be caught in it anymore. My arm continued slipping down the sleeve until it stopped just as my hand just finished disappearing into it and from what I can feel, it seems that my elbow is now caught on the hole the arm goes through. I tried to move a bit to see if I could dislodge my elbow, but it wasn’t enough. So I started twisting myself a bit to see if that would help dislodge the elbow and it started to work but it still wasn’t enough. In the end I decided to take a small risk and just use my free hand to reach inside my trench coat and pull the arm hole wide enough so that arm can gets free. Unlike the other idea of using my free hand to blindly reach over trying to dislodge the bag at the cost of maybe hanging myself, while in this plan I know where I’m going at least and I going to be quick about it, so I might be luckily that I won’t choke for that long, at least only for a second or two.

I started taking a few deep breaths, while readying myself to do this. I didn’t like this idea, but it is the only one that has somewhat worked so far and again I’m only going to let go for a second, I kept on reminding myself. Taking one last deep breath and letting it slowly out, my left hand let go of the bag strap, causing it to quickly snap against my throat. As soon as the strap hit my throat, my left hand moved to the inside of trench coat to the right side sleeve hole and pulled just pulled it wide enough to for my elbow to fall out. The next thing I know, I started falling.

All that greeted me on the ground is a bunch of bushes and while they did break my fall somewhat, it didn’t mean that my landing was soft as I ended up with about five sticks poking into my back before I properly hit the ground. Since I’m hidden by the bushes at the moment, I decided to just lay there in there for awhile just so I can catch my breath and also to pull the sticks out from under my back.

I turned my head to the side looking towards the window that I was just hanging from not two seconds ago and found my hat and sunglasses next to me on the ground. They must of have being knocked off when I slipped loose, I lazily conclude to myself as I put my right arm back through the right sleeve of my trench coat, which afterwards I started slowly looking around for my bag since I didn’t hear it drop on the ground when I did. However my bag wasn’t anywhere near me and it didn’t take long before I realize where it was. “Son of a bitch, don’t tell me” I mumbled to myself as I quickly looked out of the bushes to see if anyone is nearby, but no one is around and with that I slowly got myself up and out of the bushes with my hat and sunglasses.

Deciding to put both my hat and sunglasses inside one of my trench coat pockets since there is no point in wear them at the moment, I realized that Twilight’s study window is quite high when you’re just able to see into the room but not the floor, especially when only just a few minutes ago I was just standing in that same room with the window ledge was only just about the same height as my chest if not a bit lower. Standing on my tippy toes trying to see the floor near the window to see if my bag has indeed dropped there but still unable to see, I had to jump up and down a few times just to be able to see area I’m trying to look at and in the end it was true that my bag is in there since I just managed to see my bag strap laying on the floor under the window.

All I wanted to do right now is bang my head against the outside of the library in frustration. But in doing so would again draw attention to myself causing everyone inside of the library to come out here or maybe they would think that I’m one bloody large woodpecker who has a grudge against the library for some reason, which in this case I bloody do since it has place has being fucking me over at every turn.

I knew I couldn’t get back through the study window since I didn’t have the upper body strength to lift myself high enough to get on the window ledge. Hell, I might have had a chance if I had something to stand up on, like a box or something, but nothing like that was around.

Sitting back on the ground with my back against the house realizing that now my plan on getting back home is now completely on hold and all because of my bloody bag. If I had nothing but pens and blank work / art books in it then I could just abandon it, even the bag wouldn’t be a major loss since I got it for free but that not the case here. It just that the bag holds all of my character modeling work for my job which I can’t afford to lose, my own personal work and stuff that I worked hard to pay for. I actually wish that my bag stayed back in my apartment then that way I wouldn’t be having this problem now. Though thinking more about it, it kind of weird that only my bag, jacket, coat and hat were the only things to come over here, I mean why didn’t my couch come over? I mean I was sleeping on it after all. But to be honest, I didn’t really care at the moment; all I care about is getting my bag and then getting back home.

Ok, think. How do I get my bag back? I asked myself. Well, I could just wait around here in the brushes until Twilight finds out that I’m missing. That way once she knows I’m gone, everyone inside would be out trying to find me and then all I have to do is just get back into the house after they have left and grab my bag. However after re-thinking through it a few times, problems started jumping out in front of me.

The first problem is if someone stays back at the library. Now if Fluttershy was here or even coming around and decided to stay back, then maybe I could of just scare her stiff long enough to grab my bag, even though I don’t like the idea of using her very timid nature against her, it just doesn’t feel right but that not the problem here. What the problem here is that I could end up facing down one of the others from the Main six who are not that easy to intimidate. If it Applejack or Rainbow Dash then they could just take me down by force if they need too and it will likely pop up that I might have already met these two earlier on in the day. If it Twilight, she won’t hesitate in using any sort of magic to capture me but I doubt it will get that far out of hand, she will more than likely try to reason with me or something along those lines and leaving her magic as a last resort. With Rarity, I think she will be in the same boat as Twilight as to what might happen with her, but if I’m luckily maybe I can try and bluff my way through Rarity since she hasn’t seen me yet, but that is unlikely since she might see through it. Then there is Pinkie Pie and I have no idea what she will do if I run into her, maybe she just talk me to death or just give me one of those back breaking bear hugs of hers to subdue me.

The second problem is if Twilight or one of the others takes my bag with them while out searching for me, which wouldn’t surprise me to be honest which means that the only way to get it back is by finding out which one has it and confront them, which won’t end well for me at all.

The third problem is if none of the first two problems pop up, then the only other problem that would stop me is if Twilight casts that same spell on the library as last time it will be trapping my bag inside and preventing me from getting it back.

While the fourth and final problem is in the very unlikely case that all the above doesn’t occur, then I can just go in and grab my bag. But then afterwards I have to figure out how I’m going to get out of town without being seen by any of the Main six seeing me.

I don’t know what to do. Honestly, I’m just looking at four dead ends at this point. I mean, with the bag being still in the library and someone being inside, there will major chance that I end up getting into a fight whether it is with fists or magic, it will happen and I always try to avoid a fight as best as possible, unless a mate of mine is in some type of trouble and needs back up or its in self defence. But still, fighting is not my way of doing things and I don’t like the idea of fighting against women, even though they have an advantage over me at this stage since they know how to use their abilities compare to me. So that’s a bust. The same could be said about one of them taking the bag with them while out searching for me, again the only way I’ll be able to get my bag back is if I use force and since it will be unlikely that whoever has it will just hand it over if I ask them nicely to… yeah that won’t end well for me. As for that “magical lockdown” spell Twilight used last time, there is no way I can get into the house while it is up. Lastly even if none of that happens and I can just grab the bag, I still have to deal with the Main six looking for me around the town, leaving me with no way to escape this town without being seen by anyone of them.

But what about if I hide until they stop searching for me?

I thought about this idea for a bit and to be honest, it does sound like a good idea. Not fool proof mind you, but solid enough that it might work. Sooner or later Twilight will find out that I’m missing and she will want to start a search party to find me. So instead of trying to get my bag while the Main six is out looking for me, I’ll just hide somewhere where they’re not either going to find me or look. Then after the search is called off, all I got to do is wait some more until later on in the night and get in the library before Twilight lock down her house with that spell of hers then just grab my bag and get out before that happen.

But where do I hide though?

I can’t hide on any of the roof tops in town because Rainbow Dash will be able to see me straight away and hiding around the library would a stupid since everyone would start looking around there for clues. Twilight knows about my plan for the train station, so I can’t hide there or the area around it and I can’t get to the Everfree Forest since its too far on foot, plus if I did manage to get to the forest without Dash seeing me, then there is the chance that I could end up being seen by Fluttershy, which if Twilight told her what I look like, she will tell Twilight where I was heading then they won’t hesitate into following me into the forest and the sad thing is that would have been a great place to hide. On the other hand, I could hide out at Sweet Apple Acres in one of it far off orchards away from the Apple family house, their barn and the town, but again it will be just like the Everfree Forest idea, where Dash might see me while she is in the air and I might be seen be someone and it will be more than likely that Twilight will start asking people if they have seen me and if they had, they point to where I headed off to.

But what about the Cutie Mark Crusaders club house?

If my time line of this universe is correct, then it should abandoned at the moment since Applejack hasn’t shown it to them yet, so only she would know about it, so it is unlikely that she wouldn’t think that I’m hiding out there since she doesn’t know that I know about it. Hiding there would rule out some of the risks of hiding at Sweet Apple Acres since whoever sees me going there, won’t know that I’m head for the abandoned tree house, although now there is another problem takes it place since I don’t know where the tree house is within the apple orchard.

What about Applejack’s truck?

From what I saw of it, the back half is covered pretty well so all I have to do is lay down in the back so I won’t be seen and if there is stuff in the back that I can use either to hide under or behind, the more the better. Plus as an added bonus, if Applejack drives off for some reason to go somewhere then I can catch a ride with her in the back increasing the chance of not being found. The only two flaws I can see with this plan is if I get seen by someone when I’m hopping into the back of her truck or if Applejack looks in the back and sees me, that’s if there is nothing to hide behind or under that is.

But now here is the million dollar question, how am I going to go about getting into the back of the truck? I thought. I haven’t heard the study door open yet or heard any loud sounds either that could have sounded panicky, so I guessing that it is safe to say that Twilight doesn’t know that I’m missing yet and that they are still in the main room of the library… maybe, for all I could know they might be in Twilight room or in her basement. But that’s not the point I’m trying to make here. What the problem here now is that if they are in the main room then they might see me walk out to the truck from the front windows as I did earlier with Rarity.

As I sat on the ground, I notice that the bushes that I’m hiding in seem to go all the way around Twilight house, plus the brushes are quite high as well, maybe reaching about three feet or so in height. I could use them to sneak around to the front of the library, just as long as I crawl through the bushes I should be alright; I just need to avoid making too much noise once I get out the front, but if I’m heard then maybe they’ll pass it off as a small animal or something, it should be common enough that Twilight hears small animals moving through either the bushes or higher up in the tree.

If I start crawling toward the front of the house from where I’m currently sitting, I’ll end up being on the front side of the truck and not the back like I wanted, plus I got to add in that the truck is parked across the street, so I got to cross the street and then walk around to the side of the truck that is facing away from the library and hop into the back that way. So its better off that I go around to the other side of the tree so that all I need to do once I reach the front on that side is just get across the street and quickly jump into the back of the truck.

Deciding to go with that plan, I quickly got up and just managed to reach in through the window and quietly closed both of them since Twilight would have remembered that her study window was closed or not. Once that was done, I got back on the ground and started crawling around to the other side of the library. It wasn’t difficult to crawl along the ground and I managed to quietly move any branches out of the way as I crawl through them and I am kind of thankful that I have my trench coat on, as it prevented me from getting stabbed or cuts from the branches that I passed.

Once I got to the back room window that I tried opening earlier, I decide to have a quick peek inside just to see where the Main six are within the library. However for some reason though, the doorway to the back room has half a bookcase blocking my line of sight into the main room which wasn’t there before. If I had to take a guess, then I bet that the back room can be closed off from the main room of the library. Because of this I could only managed to see Rainbow Dash, sitting down in one of the wooden chairs, rocking her chair backwards and forwards, while Applejack is leaning up against one of the bookcases, close to where Dash is sitting. Everyone else through, I won’t hazard a guess and say that Twilight, Rarity and Pinkie Pie are in the room with them somewhere, seeing how Dash is looking pretty bored at the moment.

After peeking through the back window, I continued onward with my brush crawling. It didn’t take me long to get to another window, this one being closer to the front of the library giving me a good view of the back end of Applejack truck and being way lower than Twilight’s study window.

“—you need to start explaining what is going on and why you felt the need to lie to us into come here!”

Was that Rarity just now and what this about lying?

“Yeah and you said that Hatter is here, so where is he?” Pinkie Pie asked.

I think that question was directed at Twilight there.

The bushes that I’m currently hiding in seem to go just a bit higher than the window ledge that I’m under. I could try and take another glance inside and see what exactly the Main six are doing at moment, plus it will also help figure out when is it the best time to get in Applejack’s truck.

God, my knees are going to hate me for doing this, I thought to myself since the only way I could see through the window without being seen, is by kneeling on them. Moving as quietly as humanly possible and keeping every part of my body concealed by the bushes that are around me. By using my fingers, I made enough space in the bushes around my eyes so I could clearly see what is going on in the library, but keeping myself well hidden at the same time.

“He is here, just he is, uh… indisposed right now” Twilight answered Pinkie Pie, standing behind table that I recognized as the table that has my scorch mark handprint on it currently hidden by the encyclopedia… that I forgot to take with me, damn you Rarity.

“That might answer Pinkie Pie question bu-- ”

“No it doesn’t Rarity; Twilight still hasn’t said where he is yet I need to talk to him!” Pinkie interrupted who is at the moment standing next to next to Rarity who is sitting down in one of the chairs, while Applejack and Rainbow Dash are still in the same place as last time when I checked through the back window.

Rarity sighed before continuing “But the point I’m trying to make is that I was lied to by Twilight to come here for whatever her real reason is and I assume that I’m not the only one that she lied to, correct?”

Hello, this is starting to get interesting.

Twilight moved her left hand up to her forehead and started massaging around that area for a bit before she started speaking again “Look, there was a very, very good reason for me that I had to lie to you all”

The room is silent. Twilight is still massaging the same area, maybe trying to carefully plan out how to explain all of this. Rarity is looking dead on at Twilight, waiting for an answer from her follow Magi and friend. Rainbow Dash is looking a little bit more interested in what’s going on in front of her then before. Applejack is looking like that she is ready to step in and break up anything that might happen in the few seconds between her friends and lastly, Pinkie Pie seem to be a little lost by what’s going on.

“So Hatter… he isn’t here, is he Twilight?” Pinkie Pie asked her Magi friend.

“He is, but he jus—“

But just as Twilight was about to answer Pinkie’s question, Rainbow Dash decided to interrupt her “Okay, who is this Hatter guy that Pinkie keeps on talking about? Heck she was shouting his name halfway down the street for Celestia sakes, so who is he?” directing the question at Twilight and Pinkie Pie.

“Oh… well” Pinkie took in a deep breath “Hatter is just some guy that Twilight and I just met this afternoon. I assume he is new in town since I never met him before this afternoon but I haven’t gotten to know him yet since I had to finished up work but I had to come around here to borrow a cooking book from Twilight that Mr & Miss Cake needed to finish off an order for one of our clients and that when we met him just as I was about to leave the library” Pinkie finished explaining in her usual fast pace matter. “But Twilight should be able to fill in the blanks about him since he stayed back with her after I left” Pinkie added.

All the sudden all the eyes in the room are now focus on Twilight as they’re waiting for some answers.

Okay Twilight, how are you going to explain this to everyone? I thought to myself about the situation that Twilight is now stuck in.

Twilight, like Pinkie took a deep breath before she started explaining “Well to answer Rarity’s question first. The reason I lied to everyone was because I knew that none of you would believe me about what happen after Pinkie left and if I even try to explain it, any of you would just tell me that it just my imagination or something along those lines… I just thought that if I managed to get everyone to come around here, then I could just show you all and explain from there… hopefully” she finished with a hint of doubt in her voice.

So, Twilight lied to all of her friends to get them here and all because she thought that no one would have believed her story about me existing? This would have left me a bit puzzled me if I didn’t see where this was going. That actually does make some sense when I think about it, seeing how the only other Avatars that are alive are Celestia and Luna. So I guess that if Twilight told any of her friends that she just met another Avatar, let alone a male Avatar who just appeared out of the blue. Plus she does have evidence that there is another Avatar around or at least she did until he went out the window, I let myself smile for a minute, until I remembered that she does still have my bag, I stop smiling once I realize this. Although most of it is useless especially my laptop without my password to log in, other than that most of my things should be able to blend in or be passed off as common everyday things that they have, but this is me going off of what I have seen from pasting by those shops earlier. Though if they look hard enough they might notice that my stuff is not the same brand or style as their universe counterparts.

Applejack then spoke up, looking over at Twilight “Ok Twilight, if you wanted all of us here, then where is Fluttershy at? Because if she waiting at her house for me and Rainbow to deliver this order of –“

“I was telling you the truth when I called you” Twilight interrupted Applejack “I couldn’t get in contact with Fluttershy, otherwise she would be here with us” It looked like that Applejack was going to ask something else but Twilight looks to be a step ahead of her “And before you ask Applejack, no I don’t know where she is at this point in time, if I knew where she was then I would of gone and bring her over”

“Honestly, I think we should just sticky tape her cell phone to her hand. At least then she will have it on her then.” Rainbow Dash commented jokily, however it seems that no one really cared for her joke which she managed to pick up. “Oh come on, you know what I’m talking about. You all know that Fluttershy can’t keep an eye on her cell phone and you would think with all animals she looks after that it should be easy as”

I kind of agree with Dash here, but this also explains why Fluttershy isn’t here and why no one can reach her either. God she reminds me of Jim. Whenever anyone needs him for something and we call his phone and what happens, he doesn’t pick up. Every time this happens I used to go up to him and threaten him with the same treatment as what Dash suggested and he always have some sort of reason why he didn’t have his phone on him, such as it was changing, the battery was dead or whatever else he came up with. Other times he just left his phone lying around the house which I always used to find. Unlike him, I always have my phone on me whether it’s in my pants pocket or on my desk if I’m working. Still what can you do, his is my younger brother after all.

Hearing Twilight letting out a sigh, I focused back on everyone in the main room. “Look, what I am about to tell you is million times worse than Fluttershy missing her phone or Applejack not making her delivery” she stated to everyone within the room.

After saying this, everyone within the room just stared at her. “After Pinkie left, the guy we both just met”

“She means Hatter” Pinkie loudly whispered.

Twilight nodded her head “Yes, him but you see, that’s not his name”

“Then why did he give you that name and not his real name?” Applejack asked Twilight.

“It was Pinkie Pie that called him Hatter in the first place, not me”

“Well duh, I didn’t know his name and he didn’t say it either, so I thought that I’ll call him Hatter because of that weird black hat he was wearing” Pinkie answered the cowgirl.

“Hold up now, black hat you say?” Applejack questioned Pinkie.

Oooooh… shit, I don’t like where this is going.

“Yep, oh also he was wearing a reeeeally long black coat along with it” Pinkie added

“Did he also have a small bag and was really tall to boot?” Applejack asked Pinkie Pie, but Twilight answered her this time.

“Yeah, how do you know what he was wearing?”

“Because I met Vincent earlier on today” The cowgirl answered Twilight.

And there goes the cat out of that bag.

There would have been silence in that room, if Pinkie Pie haven’t spoken up, “So Hatter’s real name is Vincent huh. Well at least I found this out before I started making stuff for his party huh” she happily commented.

“Wait a minute Applejack, how did you know his name?” Twilight asked her.

“He told me his name when I found him today”

“You found him! When did that happen?!” Twilight asked Applejack sounding surprised to hear this.

“Well, I was just walking around the apple orchards that are closest to the main road, since recently we had some of the apples go missing from the trees when they’re close to being harvested. I had Winona tagged along in case she gets a whiff of those apple thieves” Applejack explained to everyone.

Well that explains what the both of them were doing out there when I got there.

“So how did you find Vincent?” Twilight asked.

“Winona and I had just finished checking around the last of the orchards near the main road and the two of us were just heading back to the house”

“Not to wanting to go off topic Applejack, but could it be those apple trees are just simply having a bad harvest this year?” Rarity inquired to Applejack.

“I thought so too. That was until I saw the broken branches on some of those apple trees. My guess is that some Avian punks are stealing them, since there weren’t any footprints around any of the trees with the –“.

Twilight loudly clearing her throat interrupting Applejack “Sorry, but can we get back on track please?” she asked.

“Oh… right, sorry about that sugarcube” Applejack quickly apologies before she continued. “Anyway, on our way back home, I saw some feller quickly walking towards the fence. He stop walking once he saw the both of us and then all the sudden, there was a loud snap and Winona took off after him, I tried to stop her but she chased him all the way to the fence which then he just leaped over it like it was no problem. At that point I thought he was the apple thief I was after since only Avians could only clear that jump like that so easily”

So I did just jump over that fence, I got to know how the hell did I managed to do that.

Applejack continued on “Once I caught up with him, he was laughing for some reason and smelled mightily strong of alcohol”

“Hatter didn’t look drunk when I met him” Pinkie Pie said to Applejack.

“You mean Vincent?” she answered back.

“Oh, right sorry, I kind of committed that name to memory… anyway, Vinnie didn’t look drunk when I met him” Pinkie corrected herself

“I have to agree with Pinkie here, he wasn’t drunk nor acted like it from what I seen” Twilight commented.

“I don’t think he was either, but I could smell some type of alcohol on his breath and clothes, I thought that he must of being on bender of some sort last night and I didn’t really want to question him about it” Applejack stated to everyone.

“Hang on a second!” Rainbow Dash loudly yelled. “Why was it that last time I was drunk and slept in your barn that you went off at me until you were blue in the face and yet you did nothing to this guy who you found walking around the orchard?” she questioned Applejack.

“Well firstly Rainbow Dash you didn’t even ask to sleep there before you did and secondly, you crushed through the roof of said barn!” Applejack shouted back at Dash.

“But he could be the apple thief that you been are after” Dash stated.

“If he was, then Winona would have smelled our apples on him and tried to take a bite out of him, which she didn’t.” Applejack countered.

“But that still doesn’t answer why you didn’t question him about how he got there!” Dash countered back to her

“I didn’t question him because whatever happens when we are drunk should just stay to ourselves… unless the guards get involved.”

“Oh, just like the time when you were drunk and you decide to do the can-can on top of the bar at the Punch Bowl while at the same time you were kicking off other peoples drinks” Pinkie exclaimed.

“Yes… just like that one” Applejack said sounding embarrassed about that story.

The room fell into silence, but after a minute or two, before Twilight broke it. “Well, he did mention that he was out with friends last night, so he might have been drinking as well. Did you ask him why he was in your apple orchard? She asked Applejack.

“He just kept saying that he didn’t know how he got there and he didn’t know where he was, I just guessed that he blackout from the drinking. I even offer him to come back to the house for so some chow to help him settle down and help clear his head, but he kept on saying that he had stuff that need to be done today and headed off towards town, that was the last time I saw him.” Applejack finished.

“Then he must have headed towards my house.” Twilight stated, “But before we continue, has anyone else met Vincent.” she asked looking at both Rarity and Rainbow Dash, possibly trying to get an answer out of them. In the end Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes and raised her hand.

“I might have run into him.” said Dash.

“Might have? What do you mean you ‘might have run into him?’ ” Twilight questioned Rainbow Dash

“I don’t know. Just from how everyone has describe this guy, I might have run into him today… before I headed over to Applejack’s” Dash stated

“Hold on their partner was this the same guy that you said crashed into you on the phone?” Applejack asked

“Uh… yeah.” Dash answered her.

Bullshit, she crashed into me!

“I don’t believe this!” Twilight stated out loud “He left you two out of his story.” she said as she looked both at Applejack and Rainbow Dash.

“Twilight what are you talking about?” Rarity inquired to her.

“Vincent told me the whole reason as to why he came to me in the first place and throughout that story, he never once mentioned either Applejack or Rainbow Dash to me” Twilight told everyone.

“And what reason would that be Twilight?” Rarity asked “We are still waiting for your explanation as to why we are here” she finished.

“Okay fine just let me explain.” Twilight stated “The short version is that Vincent came to me and ask for my help.”

“And what type of help would that be Twilight?” Rarity asked her

Twilight took another deep breath before she started talking again “To get back home.”
“I don’t see the reason why you had to lie to us yet Twilight.” Rarity

“But that’s the thing Rarity. For the whole reason Vincent came to me the first place was that he thought that I could send him back home to his universe!”

The whole room fell back into silence.

And there goes the other cat out of the bag.

“Let me get this straight” Rainbow Dash started “This guy, Vincent, came to you today and asked you to send him back home, which is in another universe!”

“Well… yeah” Twilight answered

“He’s a nut” Rainbow Dash quickly stated bluntly.

“Oh, oh, what type of nut is he?” Pinkie asked Dash, while hopping up and down excitedly.

“It doesn’t matter what type of nut this guy is Pinkie. He’s is just nuts!” Dash loudly stated to everyone.

Rarity looked from Rainbow Dash to Twilight “Twilight, you can’t seriously believe this Vincent’s story do you?” she questioned

“Not really...” Twilight shifted her shoulders “He did try and prove it, but all it was some fake ID’s and money”

That lying bitch! The thought burned in my mind. All I wanted to do right there and then is stand up out from the bush and slam open the window and have a go at Twilight for lying to my face earlier when I was freezing over. However by doing this, it will create more problems that I would have to deal with. Just let it go, I told myself, she is not worth it, while trying to calm myself down and for some reason; I started feeling hot all of the sudden. Honestly, me being hot should be the last thing on my mind, but maybe it just my jacket and coat that is making feel like this, but it doesn’t matter, once I get into the truck I’ll just take them off to help cool down.

All the sudden the sound of a chair being pulled a crossed the floor hit my ears as I realized that Rarity just got up and started walking towards the door, with Rainbow Dash following suit. Damn it, what just happen?

“No wait, you don’t understand! He’s an Avatar!” Twilight plead to them.

And there goes the last cat out that bag, bye bye cat.

Rarity had her hand on the door when she stops suddenly almost causing Rainbow Dash to run into the back of her. Both of them turned back around facing Twilight.

“This is why I couldn’t say anything over the phone, because of this.” Twilight said “With none of you believing me and leaving me to deal with this on my own.” she finished.

“Twilight, we will always help you out.” Applejack said to her “But this is one heck of tall tale to deal with.”

“Yeah, I mean Nightmare Moon and a full grown dragon are one thing, but this Vincent guy who thinks that he lives on a another planet –“

“You mean he lives in another universe, Dashie.” Pinkie Pie cut in to correct her.

“Whatever and thinks that he’s an Avatar to boot? He still nuts in my book.” Dash finished

“I must agree with Rainbow Dash, Twilight. The stories make little to no sense as it is.” Rarity declared to her.

“But I saw his wings as they materialized right in front of me, just as he was telling his story about him being from another universe, which I still didn’t believe in.” Twilight said

“What did he actually say about this story he was telling you about.” Rarity inquired to Twilight

“He was mostly saying that in his universe, there is no magic and no one is able to fly since they don’t have wings but can still fly with the assist from machines.”

“No magic and no wings huh? Sound like a kind of boring universe if you asked me.” Dash commented, but Applejack thrown a glare at her, probably about her comment about Earthens being boring since they don’t have magic or wings either.

“But if this Vincent fellow is from this universe that he claims to be from, then how is he now an Avatar?” Rarity asked.

“I don’t know! I didn’t know that he was one until he almost set this table on fire with his magic while we were arguing about him being a Avian, I mean look at this scorch mark that he left here when he got angry about it.” Twilight said as she lifted the encyclopedia off of the blacken handprint.

All of them leaned or came forward to examine the black handprint.

“You know Spike could have done this right?” Rainbow Dash questioned.

“OH, I know how he did it. Was he trying to stop himself from sneezing fire and tried to cover his mouth but he just missed it and sneezed onto his hand causing this scorch mark to appear!” Pinkie said really fast.

“Err… Pinkie if that was the case then wouldn’t there be an outline out his hand here and not this handprint?” Applejack asked

“And Spike couldn’t have done it, since he was assisting me this afternoon at the boutique” Rarity stated to Pinkie Pie.

“Mmmmh” Pinkie let out “Okaaaay, what about this! Spike did sneeze into his hand causing it to go super duper hot and then without thinking, his puts that hand down on the table causing the scorch mark to be put there. He then tries to hide it by putting that book over it then left for Rarity’s. That way when Vinnie moved the book and then without seeing it, he put his hand down covering it hiding it from view and when that happen, Twilight smelled the burning wood for the first time, thinking that Vinnie did it!” she concluded, sounding like she had just solved some great mystery case or something.

“Pinkie Pie, Vincent did this. I personally got that encyclopedia from the bookshelf and gave it to him so he could read it and that table was completely clean before even you or him had shown up.” Twilight told Pinkie.

Pinkie let out a sigh “Okay fine… but my theory was better.”

Twilight continued “Not only did almost set the table on fire, but he also almost froze himself solid when he started panicking after he found out that he could use magic.”

“Hold up now, what this about him almost freezing himself now?” Applejack asked Twilight.

“He just started panicking which started the freezing process, through I have been thinking about this on the way back from grabbing Pinkie and I think he might know the basics of Elementalist magic, it would explain a few things that has happen.” Twilight said to everyone.

“And what does him being an Elementalist have to do with anything. So he tried to use a fire spell and the ice spell backfired, big deal, I mean it nothing that you guys can do right?” Rainbow Dash asked both Rarity and Twilight, both of them looking a little unease about something.

Rarity spoke up first “Actually Rainbow, I’m not knowledgeable in Elemental magics.”

“Well, Twilight would know how to throw fireballs and make snow cones, right?” Pinkie Pie asked Twilight.

“If you are asking if I know how to use Elemental magic… then no I don’t, sorry.”

“Hang on a sec, the Princess was your teacher so why didn’t she teach it to you?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“Princess Celestia wasn’t my only teacher that I had at the time and even then, I had a choice of what fields of magic’s I wanted to learn to use and Elemental magic’s was one that I thought I didn’t need to learn since that field of magic is mostly considered in the offensive class of magic. But I did study the theory side of things though.” Twilight explained to them.

“So what does Vincent being an Elementa-whatever he is mean Twilight?” asked Applejack

“It means we should be careful the next time we are around him and try not to upset him in anyway. Since as he is an Elementalist, he can use his magic in two ways, the first is normal way any Magi can use magic through a casting instrument and the other is by having his emotions activating his magic and these emotions would have to be powerful in order for it to materialize as an whatever element is to that emotion.” Twilight finished explaining.

Everyone looked at the table with the scorch mark, before Rarity spoke up.

“So then, what emotion was he feeling when Vincent left that mark?” she point her finger at the table.

“Anger.” Twilight simply said to her
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“And what cause this amount of anger to appear all the sudden?” Rarity asked Twilight.

“Vincent was again trying to prove that he was from another universe and was setting up his laptop that was in his bag, while I was trying to tell him he might have had his memories altered and that they are fake” Twilight emitted.

“Really smooth Twilight” Dash commented.

“Well what was I suppose to say to him Rainbow?” Twilight shot back to her.

“Oh, I don’t know, maybe not that, for starters!” Dash countered.

“It doesn’t matter what I said, what done is done. Plus what was I supposed to do, just believe in him? There is no proof in any of books I read that supports what he said about this other universe that he was talking about, let alone anything about male Avatars!” Twilight stated.

“What about Nightmare Moon, she was just a story and yet she showed up a few months ago. So why can’t there be anything about male Avatars?”

“That’s a different case altogether since Nightmare Moon was a part of history before she became a scary story for children and even then there was books about her. Where with Vincent case of the other hand, there is nothing in any book I have seen that even or study that talks about male Avatars and at most if there was any information about them it is properly lost by now.”

“All right settle down now, there is no need for this to get out of hand or for anyone to get worked up.” Applejack pointed out to the two of them.

“Anyway as I was saying, after with what happen with the table he started panicking and ice started freezing over his body. To prevent him from being frozen solid, I had to cast a stun spell on him… which then thrown him backwards into a bookcase… and knocking him unconsciousness” Twilight pointed over the bookcase that have some water in front of it left over from the ice earlier.

I heard Pinkie Pie let out a grasp before she started bombarding Twilight with questions “Is Vinnie okay? Where is he now? Is he awake? Can we go and see him?” she finished sounding worried about me.

“Pinkie Pie you need to relax. The last time I check he was fine and right now he is in my guest room sleeping it off. As for him being awake I doubt it since he received a hard knocked to the back of his head and lastly we should wait until he is awake to see him.” Twilight finished answering Pinkie’s questions.

Pinkie let out a sigh of relief “That’s good to hear he is alright… sooooo what happens now?” She asked.

“Uuuuuhhh… I have no idea.” Twilight stated.

“WHAT?!?” Everyone else shouted in the room, before Twilight started talking again, maybe trying to explain herself.

“Look, this was the main reason why I called all you around here, so you could help me figure out what to do with him.”

“What to do with him? We should throw him into an insane asylum that is what we should do!” Rainbow Dash stated to everyone “He is clearly a nut case and soooo far gone, that he thinks that he is an Avatar.”

“Hold up there Dash let’s not be too hasty here. I reckon we should write the Princess a letter saying what we might have found and let her sort it out from there.” Applejack counted.

“But by doing that, we might just end up wasting the Princess time with no proof that this Vincent fellow is an Avatar.” Rarity counted Applejack “I say we wait until he is up and about and if what Twilight said is true about him being an Avatar, we report it to the Princess.” she subjected to the group.

“Well I think we should---“However the door open, cutting off what Pinkie Pie was about to say next to the group and in walked in a young boy with green hair.

The best way to describe this kid is suited up three ways from Sunday with him dressed in a purple suit jacket with matching suit pants, other than that I could only just make out him wearing a black tie and I think I see a dark colored vest, but that is hidden due to his suit jacket buttoned up. The kid looks normal, from a distance you would think that he is the same like everyone else, were it not for his ears. They are like elf ears but not as long, maybe they are medium sized and they not stuck to the sides of his head. Other than that this kid green hair is short in length and most of his hair is patted to one side with a few chumps of hair sticking together to form some spikes pointing in the same diction as he patted his hair.

I double check everyone else ears in the room just to see if this kid is one of them but everyone else has normal ears like I do.

“Err… hey Twilight what’s going on, why is everyone here?” The green hair kid asked out to Twilight.

Twilight looked a little shocked for some reason “Spike what are you doing outside, I thought you were up stairs in your room.” Twilight asked him

Spike?! This kid is Spike the baby dragon? Get the fuck out of town I thought to myself. This kid wasn’t that tall maybe at five feet tall at most, maybe aged at either between 10 or 13 at my best guess on a good day, which this isn’t. This kid didn’t even look like a dragon in any way, shape or form. No claws, no scales from what I can see or any dragon wings on his back. Although from what I know about dragons from stories, games and movies from what I have seen, it might be possible that he just changed his form from his normal dragon body to that of a human being. But if he can do that then why have those type of ears? I asked myself.

Spike looked a little confused now since he didn’t know what why everyone was over for and maybe didn’t know what Twilight was going on about “Twilight what are talking about, I haven’t been here all afternoon and I only just got back from doing a job for Rarity” After mentioning her name, Spike finally noticed that Rarity was in the room and looked like he went off into a daydream.

“But didn’t you read my note that was addressed that I left for you!?” Twilight asked him.

Spike snapped back to attention and stopped looking at Rarity, “What note?” he asked her “Look if it just another list of chores, you didn’t need to leave me a another list of them to remember to do them”

“But if you didn’t take the note, then who---“But Twilight stopped all the sudden before turning around to where the guest room is.

She finally figured it out.

Twilight moved quickly to the guest room and opened the bookcase door, while everyone else just stared at her
.
“Vincent gone but how is that even possible?” Twilight shouted out, causing everyone to move to the doorway of the guest room.

Realizing that this is my one and only opportunity to get into the back of Applejack’s truck while they are occupied by my disappearing act, I decided to take it. Quickly, but quietly moving out of the bushes. I started speed walking my way over to the truck and let me tell you, my knees are hating me at the moment due to the time I spend on them, which in turn caused me to wobble a bit when I first started walking again, but this quickly disappeared.

Once I got to the back end of the trunk and performing one last check to if anyone saw me, I climbed into the back of the truck. After getting in, the back was filled with stacks of hay “Finally something is going my way for once today.” I mumbled to myself as I started moving some the stacks out of the way, so I could get near the front the truck. Once I got to the middle, I decide that here was good enough and moving the stacks of hay around so I could still sit down but still be hidden from view by the stacks of hay that Applejack and Rainbow Dash had placed back here.

I could have killed sometime and played with my 3DS for a bit, but that is still in my bag which is still in the bloody library. I let a out sigh as the only few things I have are whatever are in my pockets which are; house / car keys, my wallet, phone and lastly my hat and sunglasses, which nearly all of them are now useless. I took out of phone and look at the time, since that all this thing is going to be for mostly for the next few hours. It is 5:48pm.

After a few more minutes rolled by, I heard a front door slam open.

“Alright everyone knows what they are doing?”

Everyone else answered yes in some way.

“Remember if anyone sees or thinks they see him, sent a text message of his location to everyone and keep your distance from him until we get there, for the last thing we want is to lose him again.”

With that, the truck door on the right side open and shut quickly and not before too long the truck started up and started moving.

I stayed where I am, on the left side of the truck and still hidden from view.

After a few turns, I took a peek out of where I am hiding knowing that we are far enough away from the library and noticed what road that the truck was going down, which from what the Cutie Mark Crusaders had told me while on their tour of the town leads down to the Everfree Forest.
“Mmmm… looks like I’ll be getting my bag back after all.” I said out aloud. I wanted to let out a small and quiet mocking evil laugh if the truck didn’t just hit a bump on the road, causing the tall stack of hay sitting opposed of me to fall on top of me.

It’s only a small setback, I told myself Just remember that.

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“Ouch” I said after being hit again by another bale of hay for the fifth time since I been in here. Like the last four times, I pushed the fallen hay bale off of me landing off to somewhere to the side out of my way and started wondering why the hell Applejack or Rainbow Dash didn’t just tie these down. Though then again they didn’t expect someone to be in the back now did they.

The ride back here hasn’t been as smooth as I thought, since I’m starting to think that Applejack is intentionally hitting every single pothole that appears causing the bales of hay to fall on top of me as if she knew that I am back here, but it’s a small price to pay to get away from that bloody library.

So far it has being about twenty minutes or so since Applejack drove away from the library. Since then I have being left with my thoughts and mostly I have been thinking over what I overheard back in the bushes at the library.

What stood out the most is what Twilight said about me being an Elementalist. I keep on remembering that scene. When I almost set that table on fire, I was angry and with good reason, then that anger quickly turned to fear which if I have to guess caused the ice to appear on my hands. So if my anger can create fire and fear creates ice, what else can my emotions unleash if I’m not too careful? Honestly, I wish I had that encyclopaedia right about now although I doubt it would go into any major detail about the classes of magic since it not a spell book or something along those lines. Not only do I have to worry about my emotions setting off my magic, but these other abilities that an Avatar supposedly have. Remembering what the encyclopaedia said about Avatars, supposedly not only do I have all the abilities of the three other races, but there is also the likely possibility of me having my own unique ability or abilities, but what could it or they be?

As much as I wanted to think about it, I’ll have to worry about it later since I got to worry about what’s going to happening now.

Now since I know that the truck is heading out of town towards the Everfree Forest, more likely to Fluttershy house if I had to guess. I could just stay in the truck like I first planned and just hope that no one decides to take a good decent look in the back here or if Applejack wants to deliver this hay to Fluttershy while she is over there, through that is unlikely since she is suppose to be looking for me. If that doesn’t happen then I’ll just wait here until the search is over with and when Applejack either drives home after they call off the search, I’ll just jump out and walk back to Twilight’s library for my bag and go from there.

While the other option is to jump out while the truck is moving and just hide in the Everfree Forest. It’s not really the smartest idea in the world but it makes sense in my head, plus it was a part of one of the ideas that I thought of when I was hiding in the bushes outside of Twilight’s place. So unless the Main Six finds out somehow that I am in the forest, then they won’t dare to search in there, though on the downside for me I might just end up being attacked or eaten by something in there if I am not too careful. With the outcomes of being found in the truck and the risk of being attack while hiding in the forest, I think I would take my chances in the forest. The dark forest, filled with all types of deadly things ranging from plants, monsters and magic. It still better than facing the Main Six though.

I wanted to get up from my hiding spot and take a better look outside of the truck, but with the speed that the truck is currently moving at and the potholes we keep hitting every second or so, I have a feeling that I might get thrown out of the back if I’m not too careful. I’ll just wait until we slow down a bit more.

Okay, so if I’m going to hide in the forest then where do I hide? I asked myself. The only two places that come to mind are either Zecora’s hut or Celestia and Luna old castle. The castle sounds like the best option to go with since it will be deserted and I should be somewhat safe there, but the downside is that it will be somewhere deep in the forest where I’ll more than likely have the chance to run into more monsters. However I have no choice but to go to the old castle since Zecora hut is very likely out of the question. The reasons are many but the ones that stick out mainly are; I don’t have any medical reason to go there, all though I’m basing this off the fact that Zecora is some type of healer since she did cure the Main Six poison joke problem, my best bet that she is some type of Apothecary. Because of this fact, she would know that I’m new since she wouldn’t had seen me before this, that if she has been into town more than once after the whole Poison Joke thing and without a medical reason to be there I would more likely get told to leave. Then you got the fact that understanding what she is trying to say due to her always rhyming will be difficult and it would likely drive me insane. But the major thing is that if the Main Six do managed to find out that I’m in the forest then they will very likely go and ask Zecora’s for help in searching for me since she would know her way around the forest.

I just take my chances and try and find the castle.

Another ten boring minutes pass on by, before the truck started to show signs of slowing down. Taking my chance I got up and looked out from behind the hay I was hiding behind and barely noticed a large white wooden fence on the right side of the road due to the night starting to set in. I wanted to go to the opening in the back and stick my head and take good proper look, but then again I might be seen by either Applejack in her mirrors or when she hops out or by Fluttershy if she is waiting outside for her friend.

I’ll have to either wait for Applejack to go inside of the house or at least have their backs turned before I can get out of here, I told myself after which the sound of the truck door opening hits my ears and not a second later, the door is slammed shut follow by the sound of Applejack’s boots hitting the gravel. Trying to follow the sound of Applejack’s boots, I managed to tell that the cowgirl is walking around to the front. At least she is not checking the back, I relaxingly thought to myself as the sound of Applejack’s boots passed the front of the truck and started to grow distant to the point I couldn’t hear them anymore.

I waited at least five minutes to be on the safe side before I moved to the back of the truck, keeping to the left side. I slowly stuck my head out the back until saw that no is outside of the house or near the truck and with that I quickly climbed out of there and moved to the other side of the truck facing away from the house. I kept myself pressed up against the side of the truck and move up towards its front end, having to crouch just so I can keep myself hidden and out of sight from anyone that might be looking from out of the house.

Looking down the dirt road, there wasn’t much to take in; other than a few trees, brushes that wouldn’t hide me at all and small pond. Then there stood the Everfree Forest, combined with it thick trees and growing night preventing me from seeing any further into the forest. Okay, all I got to do is just run to the forest, I should be able to make it with nightfall covering me and as long as I don’t use my phone’s flashlight out here in the open, I shouldn’t be spotted so easily I conclude. I took one last peek out from the side of the truck and saw that it’s still clear and quickly start running down the road towards the forest.

I kept on running until I started to feel a stitch in my side as my body is trying to tell me to “Take it easy” although I wouldn’t be feeling like this if I wasn’t half starving, since it’s not really known that an apple and few bits of bacon can give a person enough energy to do half the stuff I done today. I wasn’t near the entry to the Everfree Forest yet, but I wasn’t near Fluttershy’s house either.

“Well, at least I won’t be seen by anyone at the house from here” I said out loud while trying to catch my breath as I slowed myself down to a good walking pace, while taking a mental note that if I never get back home that I’m going to start getting fit again. Once the stitch finally disappeared, I decide to just keep at the same walking pace as before and save whatever energy I have left to run if I started to get chased by something in there.

After a few more minutes, I finally managed to reach the front of the Everfree Forest. I could just barely make out a small makeshift path that leads into the forest and start following it in. After taking my first few steps into the magical forest, any signs of the sun setting light had disappeared as if this forest acted like a black hole, absorbing all light that entered it. All I can see now is just some outlines of trees and brushes, Thank god that someone decided to build a flashlight into every phone I thought happily to myself as I grabbed my phone out of my jeans pocket, unlocked it and pressed the app for my flashlight, turning it on instantly lighting up some of the area around me. It wasn’t much better to be honest but at least now I can see which is better than nothing I suppose.

With flashlight now on, I started my way down the makeshift path, trying to keep my mind clear of any panic that I might be feeling seeing how the last thing I want is to screw up my phone with ice coming out of my fingers. I took a quick look at my phone’s battery life and its sitting currently at 67%, but that won’t stay there long since the flashlight will drain the small battery quickly if left on for too long.

As I walked deeper into the dark forest, trying to keep myself calm is becoming more difficult with each minute that rolls by. With the sound that forest is making, combined with the darkness, you honestly feel like that you shouldn’t be here. Kind of like the type of forest you find in every horror slasher movie ever which you should always avoid and the worst thing about being in here is that I have this feeling that something is going to jump out of either the brushes or drop down from trees and tear me apart. It is at this point in a horror film that the people watching would be thinking or even shouting at the screen ‘Why this idiot ever went into the forest in the first place or why isn’t he not running for his life while he’s in the deadly forest?’

All the sudden, a chill swept through my body. I thought that since night is starting to set in that it is just temperature starting to drop and that would make sense at least, I think they said somewhere in the show that they can’t control the weather around here but does that include the temperature as well? I guess, seeing how I wasn’t sweating when I was in town, I mean wearing a jacket and a trench coat in the middle of the afternoon that should’ve made me sweat little at least.

I quickly zipped up my jacket and trench coat thinking that it will help keep my body warm from the oncoming cold, but even after doing this it didn’t make much of difference as I kept on feeling the cold going through me. Just keep on walking, maybe after awhile my body will start warming up, and with that thought I kept on walking through the cold forest.

After ten minutes of walking, nothing changed much in terms of getting warmer, but exhaustion finally managed to catch up to me, maybe after everything I have being through today it just finally decided to get up off its fat lazy arse and start kicking mine. My right arm is starting to get pins and needles from not doing much since my left is holding the phone and both of my legs are starting to go sleep on me causing me to move as slow as a standard zombie. I wanted to sit and relax for a minute and catch my breath but doing so in this forest could be a death sentenced for me.

Well... can I at least lean against that tree for second?, but I didn’t need to answer as next tree I saw on my right came up and in mid step fell on to it, just leaning against it. However as I gently leaned the tree, my free hand lightly tapped against the wood expecting a small tapping like sound to be heard, instead a loud knock rang out. I pointed the flashlight at my other hand, only to find that once again, ice encasing my fingers. Unlike last time where the ice was not that thick and it rapidly moved towards my shoulder. Instead the ice just very slowly creeps up my fingers towards my hand and is now thicker compared to last time. However just like last time I started to panic, again.

And just like last time, the ice slowly started speeding up from its creeping state. The only thing that difference this time is Twilight not being here to knock me out with whatever spell she used last time. Afraid that my phone might be affect by the magic that’s pouring out of me, I quickly dropped it and after it hit the ground, the bright light shined straight into my eyes blinding me for a second before I regain my bearings and try to figure out how to stop this on my own.

I can’t peel off the ice off since it’s now grown too thick and it didn’t do much last time either, I quickly thought to myself before I notice a decent sized rock on the ground around the tree I’m up against. I could try hitting the ice with that rock, but I doubt it would cause enough damage to it or make much of a difference since the ice will just regenerate any damage that I make. I look at the tree next to me before looking back at my hand. What about slamming my hand against the tree? With enough momentum it should cause more damage, might even break off a few chucks compare to what rock would have done, but the ice will still just regenerate.

I let out a frustrated groan, there is nothing I can do and that I’m more than likely going to be magically frozen solid in the middle of a forest within the next half an hour or so if I’m luckily, but before I even knew it I slammed my half frozen hand against the tree in anger. I looked over at my now fully frozen right hand. Besides the now fleshly large frostily imprint that I just made, shards of ice are now sticking into the tree in the same area, even so it wasn’t enough to free hand from its frozen casing. I check my other hand and notice ice creeping up those fingers too, but there is nothing I can do about it now. I turned so that my back is up against the tree and slide down the tree until I hit the ground, not caring if I end up getting attacked at all now.

“I wouldn’t be in this mess if Twilight just believed me in the first place and me” I said to myself, knowing that I spoke the truth, “If she couldn’t or didn’t know how to send me back home, then at least she could of just gotten Celestia to help me and left me with her since she should be able to send me back? I asked myself out aloud. “I then wouldn’t be here in this bloody forest hiding! I wouldn’t be here losing control of my damn magic and I definitely wouldn’t be here about to be encased in a block of ice!” I shouted, as my anger is starting to reach it breaking point.

“All I ever wanted is go home, not to die in some god forsaken forest” I said weakly, before yelling out at the top of lungs in rage “WHY COULDN’T SHE JUST GODDAMN HELP ME!!” before I lending forward and slammed both of my frozen fists into the dirt, causing a loud smash that sounded similar to that of something huge and heavy falling and striking the earth, echoing out into the forest.

I let out a few frustrated breaths, I felt like I’m going to cry. The tears are there lingering within me but are refusing to come out; at most all I got are my eyes started to water, I tried to blinking to get rid of it but just decide to wipe both of my eyes with my frozen hand. However as I raised my right hand to do this, I notice that there are sizable chunks missing from my once fully frozen hand showing patches on skin with heat rising off it. Staring at my hand before looking at the other one and saw the same thing, patches of skin showing and heat pouring from it.

Looking at both of my hands, I notice that the ice is starting to slowly melt but is meeting resistance from the ice that is currently controlling areas of the rest of my hands. I didn’t need to wonder why this is happening but why I didn’t think of this sooner.

Anger triggers fire magic, bloody use it! I shouted mentally, Twilight has screwed me around for too long; her actions could of cause me from getting back home and along with the theory I had on our universes, their time differences [if they have any] and if the time I spent in this one has caused time to moved faster in my universe by hours, days, weeks, months or years. The thought of getting home is now even more complicated. What happens if I do managed to get home, but its a thousand years into the future and everyone I know is dead, what happens to me then? I will not let that happen!

I felt the heat growing in both of my hands before it moved up my arms and around body, the ice now quickly melting before turning to steam and finally freeing my hands from their icily tomb. My tired body feeling the heat removing the cold from within, allowed me to get the strength I needed to grab my phone and to get back up off the ground. I took a few deep breaths to calm myself down, but kept a small amount of anger in the open in case my ice magic started acting up again and to protect me from the oncoming cold of the night.

As I started walking again, I checked my phone’s battery to see work much of it charge was lost during that ‘distraction’. 40% of battery left, really? A whole 27% of power down the damn drain for sitting around the last ten minutes or so, letting out a deep sigh I decided that once the battery hits 20% I’ll stop using the flashlight.

I picked up my walking pace and continued down dirt path and after a few more minutes I saw what looked to be a second path on my right split off from the main path. Quickly stopping at where this second path started, I looked down the road and saw in the distance lights. I looked at these lights for minute or two before deciding that these weren’t moving around as if it was an animal or some type of magic, so it must be someone house, Zecora more than likely, though I couldn’t see her hut due to the darkness, so I can’t be sure. However on the off chance that it is her, I thought over one last time if I should go and try and stay there, until Twilight calls off the search. Once again I quickly thought back to earlier about why that won’t work however with my phone running out of battery, I could always try? But in the end I just ended up wasting more time debating with myself, just keep going I told myself as I started walking again following the same path as before, leaving the other path behind.

Continuing down the path I noticed the tone shifting a bit the deeper I walked into this dark forest. Every now and again I would hear either something moving around in one of the nearby bushes or some type of growling from the bushes; at this point I couldn’t even begin to guess as to what’s growling at me. Besides the bushes and whatever is growling at me, I saw through the trees that I pasted some brightly glowing blue flowers; my guess it’s possibly Poison Joke, though I’m not going anyway near it to confirm it.

While I walked on, I noticed something in the dirt on the path faintly shining a greenish light underneath it all. I decided to stop and use my foot to clear away the covering dirt for a better look; I didn’t feel anything solid like a coin or anything else you might find on the ground as my foot pasted over it. Once the dirt was removed it showed a stone tile around a foot long and wide, besides it was another piece of the stone tile but half covered by the forest dirt. Using my foot again but this time moving it in a wide arc on the ground clearing away some but not all of the dirt and just like before underneath it all was more stone tiles, some with the same faintly shining greenish light coming from it, while others were just blank. After seeing more of the greenish lights raise from the tiles, I decided to crouch down and have a better look at whatever this thing is. Once I got down close enough to see a carving of some type though I can’t really described it since it’s worn by age, at first thought it was a symbol as in either a signature of someone work like the stonemason that made it or just for decoration, though that wouldn’t of explain the reason why its creating a source of light. The only other thing that I can think of that makes any real sense that is an enchantment of some sort, but for what? But since I don’t know any magic, let alone know what this enchantment is or what the others are, the only thing I can do is guess at what they do but I think its better off that I leave it alone, move on and not screw around with them.

After leaving the uncovered magical stone tiles, nothing really changed as I walked. There was still the occasional twitching bush somewhere close by, while hearing every now and again some type howl or roar, which every time I hear it caused me to pick up my walking speed to be almost jogging. All the sudden my phone lets out a loud ‘BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!’ causing me to quickly look at its screen, but it only a reminder that the phone needs to be recharged since it now on its last 15% of battery.

“Well so much for turning off the light at 20% battery Vincent” I said out loud since my phone has about an hour or so left of battery before it drops dead and becomes a useless paperweight. Reluctantly I turned off the phone’s flashlight, leaving me now surrounded in complete darkness of the forest. “Wonderful, now all I need is some psychopath with something sharp and pointy to come at me and I’m all set” I said to myself, not smiling at the bad joke I just made I just. I kept on moving, hoping that my eyes will soon adjust to the darkness of the forest.

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Lights both above me and beneath me, helping me able to see somewhat but not as well as my phone’s flashlight once did. Above me the stars started to shine and the moon is still rising somewhere letting out its pure white glow across the night sky. While below me, I kept seeing the greenish lights from the stone runes every few steps I take. It has only being a few minutes since I was forced to stop using my phone flashlight due to its running low on battery, but my eyes are starting to adjust to dark gloom of the forest as I kept on moving onward.

The greenish runes I kept on seeing have now started appearing in greater numbers than what I had previously seen. Before, I would had seen these runes in groups of four or seven every metre or so spaced out from one another, but now they are in groups of ten or fifteen every half a metre and very close to each other. Which lead me to think that I might be closing in on the old castle since it should be swarming with these runes [or something similar] and the areas around to protect Celestia and Luna from whatever might try and attack them, though that’s just a theory at this time. But it’s better than nothing, I thought to myself, All I got to do is follow the road that has the most runes on it and I should end up at their old castle.

After ten minutes of more walking and I come across another fork in the road. At first I thought that somehow I got turned around and ended back up at the fork in the road to Zecora’s hut but I couldn’t see the same lights as last time, although this path does have more of those runes going down it and in way larger groups than what I’ve seen so far. Although I can’t remember if these runes were on Zecora path to begin with and for all I could know that she might of just turned off her hut’s lights. Hang on, I didn’t see any of those runes until after pasting her hut, so this must be a new path, I concluded to myself while I thought back to what I was thinking about earlier on these runes. Follow the road with the most runes and end up at the castle. I tried looking ahead on the path that I’m currently on and saw that runes are still staying in there groups of ten or so before turning to the new road found that groups of runes just keep growing in number and brighter.

“Well, we have a clear winner here folks” I said out loud to no one in particular.

But before I started walking down this new path, I better make a few marks on a tree or two for later. The reason for this is so I don’t get lost when I’m walking back to the library seeing how the last thing I want is to go any further into the Everfree Forest then what I need to. Finding a jagged rock nearby, I walked towards to one of the trees that is in between the fork in the road and drew some large crosses on the tree so it could be seen in any direction, then moving to the other side of the path and drew a few large arrows around the tree pointing to where I just walked from.

“Okay then, just follow the arrow and everything will be just peachy” I with some confidence, while I discarded the helpful rock by throwing it back forest.

After throwing the rock, I started my walk down the new road towards what I hope is the old sisters’ castle. With the amount of dirt that covering this old stone road, I’m surprise that these runes still have any energy left in them to shine so brightly, despite being mostly covered in dirt and made around a thousand or more years ago.

For the next few minutes or so nothing really happen, that was until I found a piece of metal covered in green moss and from what I could see it looked to be a chest piece off some armour off on the right side away from the path. Stopping, I started thinking if I should leave the path to check out the chest piece I found but if these runes are the only thing protecting me from the monsters of this forest, I really don’t want to try and tempt fate while I’m in here, but then again if this runes are not the thing that protecting me at the moment, that’s even more of a reason to not leave it. It is at this time that I wish that the light from the runes were brighter than what they’re now, even though there is enough light for me to clear see, the light doesn't go that far off the sides of the path.

“Well... I could use my phone flashlight” I told myself and fished it out of my jeans pocket, checking its battery.

“12% huh, I just quickly use it” before I pushed the flashlight app on, revealing more bits of armour.

Like the chest piece, the rest of the armour is also covered in green moss but in certain area the metal is showing through with small bits of rust and colours of white, blue and gold. This armour does somewhat looks like the armour that Celestia’s guards used on the show or at least their colour scheme of it. Looking at the suit of armour helmet and noticing that the visor was down, I started to wonder about the possibility that if there is a dead person inside the armour. I reached my arm holding the phone outwards towards the helmet's visor, hopefully with the light I might get look inside of it. When the light hit the inside of the armour there was nothing, no decaying body or skeleton for that matter. But if this was here a thousand years ago then the skeleton might have either turned to dust or at least half way there by now, I thought as I turned off the flashlight, I doubt that whoever this guard was just dropped dead of age, so maybe either someone or something killed the guard. With the body of dead guard this proves that the old castle is somewhere nearby, I can’t believe that I’m getting close.

I continued walking while finding more pieces of armour along the way, mostly from the same type as the first one I found but mostly in pieces and badly damaged. Among some of the bodies are a few weapons too, mostly just some; swords, axes, maces, spears and all of them in bad shape due to either; the rust, being broken, covered in moss or all of the above. I wouldn’t have a problem picking up one of the weapons to help protect myself with, that’s if I was wearing gloves to avoid getting tetanus and even if I even did have gloves it wouldn’t make much of a difference since the weapon will possibility break in half after one hit with it. Among one of the groups of damaged armour laid a shield matching the colours of the guards armour with a barely seeable sun emblem on the front.

“Okay, so they’re Celestia’s guards... well old guards, seriously what the fuck happen to these guys?” I commented.

It didn’t get any better from here. The more I walked the more bodies I see. Well to be accurate the more armour bodies or silhouettes of armour I saw but I knew that there are or there were once people inside of those suits of armour just left there to rot. I try not to think about it otherwise since it’s just going to make me sick, but that easier said than done, luckily for me, these corpses aren’t fresh or any of the flesh isn’t visible for that matter either otherwise I might be throwing up for like the third time by now. You would think that with the amount of dead bodies I might of seen from playing video games, watching TV and movies that I might be desensitized by this by now... nope not the same in the slightest, hell I can’t even sit through a gory movie without having to leaving the room. Having to walk through this... graveyard for lack of a better word, even I’m starting to wonder what the hell happen here. So far all I seen is bodies of Celestia’s guards, yet nothing else, so who or what the hell kill these guys.

It didn’t take long before I got my answer and another suit of armour appeared. Half of its armour lying on the path, but this is similar in design to Celestia’s guards design but this guard’s colour scheme is different to the others. Instead of the white, gold and blue like the other armours I saw before, the colours are black with shades of dark and pale blue. Just like all of the other armour I’ve seen this one is covered in moss and whatever patches are visible has either rust or colour visible.

“Is this guy supposed to be one of Nightmare Moon’s guards? If so, then how did she manage to turn this guy against Celestia?” I asked myself. Mind control maybe or possibility blackmail with the whole ‘Join me or I’ll kill your whole family’ bit. That would have worked, but then again he could have just hated working with Celestia for whatever reason or thought that Nightmare Moon was right in some way and just join her willingly or maybe in the most likely case, he was bribed. But to be honest I really don’t care. While I’m curious about all of this and honestly if anyone else was in my position they would be too, but I just can’t keep on being distracted like this.

I avoid going near the Nightmare guard, or are they the Night guard, Moon guard, Lunar guards? Ah fuck it, Nightmare guard sounds better. Anyway I just walk around the armour and kept on moving. It wasn’t before too long that more of the Nightmare guards started showing up while finding them near a group of Celestia guards and it look like that both parties didn’t get to far.

Besides the visible damage on both parties armour from their weapons, it looks like magic was somehow involved here as well. One of the guards is missing half of it chest plate and an arm, can’t tell if it was torn off or it was melted off due to the moss covering it. Close by a guard was impaled on a rock spike while another one was covered in vines and roots that snaked into the armour likely killing whoever was inside and another guard was also covered in vines but this one is hanging upside down from a nearby tree; I doubt that these guards had heard the term ‘overkill’ before. Though then again, they did make sure that they stayed down since the last thing you would need is someone getting back up and killing you.

The scenes of death unfortunately didn’t end there. It feels like I’m stuck in some fucked up vision of an art gallery.

“And on your left is some guard with a large hole in it back that looks to go through to the other side and on you right is a massive rock and at the bottom is bits of armour that scattered around it, my guess someone decided to hit someone or some people with a rock. A classic move” I said mockingly while pretending to someone who’s bored of being a tour guide as he led a group of tourists.

It didn’t take long before something else besides large heaps of armoured bodies were appearing and thank god for it, since this is starting to become unsettling for me at how creative these people are at killing each other.

I can’t tell what it is from where I am standing but it looks to be a building of some type, but due to how dark it is I can’t tell exactly what it is. As I got closer to the building however it turns out that this wasn’t the right path I needed, so much for my earlier theory I had. The building wasn’t the old royal castle I was after since it was way too small to be one but it looks to be either a fort or a stronghold of some type, if I had to take a guess why it is here, maybe it acted like a first or whatever line of defence to protect the castle from attackers, but even that is a theory.

I let a deep and irritated sigh at how bloody lost I managed to get. I lost track of time of how long I have being in this forest for, maybe longer than half an hour or even just over an hour at most. I could start walking back out of the forest; but for all I could know Applejack and or Fluttershy might still be at her house or if not that then the Main six are still looking for me in and around the surrounding areas of the their town.

Looking at this fort in front of me I could just do the same thing as I was going to do at the old castle; just stay here for a few hours until the search is over while getting some rest and after the crap I went through today, my body is begging for it at this point.

The fort is basically in the same state as the guards in that graveyard; badly damaged, covered in moss, falling apart and vines crawling on it. I walked until I stood in front of portcullis which is unfortunately for me, currently down and looked rusted to hell from what I could tell.

“I highly doubt that this is going to magically open for me if I asked it to” I said in a deadpan tone, “If I could use magic, then I could use telekinesis to lift the gate or melt the gate with some fire magic or freeze the gate solid and breaking it or a number of other things if I knew how use bloody magic!” I said before letting out another sigh, since I doubt that going to happen anytime soon.

“Okay so going through the front is out of the question” I stated the obvious, “Well, the fort is falling apart, so maybe one of the outer walls collapsed somewhere” There is no point in staying out the front since I can’t get in, so I should start by followed along the wall to around the right side of the fort.

However while the path leads straight into the fort through the gate, that’s where it ends so I am kind of worried about stepping off it to follow the wall since I might be attacked by whatever the hell is out there as I was thinking earlier. Although, it’s kind of weird that ever since I started walking down the path towards the fort, there has being barely anything growling at me from the bushes. Maybe it has something to do with the mass graveyard of armoured corpses or the fort that here, but something is keeping everything away from here and hopefully that’s true.

“Okay Vincent, if something comes out and attacks after stepping off the path just leg it and forget about the fort” I told myself out aloud hoping for some form of a morale booster to come from it. I lifted my left leg off the path and slowly placed it on the forest grass. I waited to see if anything was going to jump out at me. Nothing came. I moved my other leg along with the rest of body, now completely off the path and from safety, if there was any. I waited. If that was the only thing that was protecting me, then any animals or monsters that are in the area would be coming at me if they had been watching me like they were earlier. Still, nothing came.

“Huh... so maybe my earlier theory about the armoured corpse graveyard or the fort might hold water, or maybe something in the fort is preventing the animals and whatever else from getting to close to it” I said out aloud “Either way, I don’t think I’m going to be attacked anytime soon... hopefully” I said, before moving around the corner to the other side of the fort. The other side isn't that interesting, wall still covered in moss and vines but at least there are no armoured corpses over here. The walk over the right back corner didn’t really show any way for me to get inside since either the holes were too small for me to fit through or too high for me to reach, I’m still kind of wishing that I knew how to work my Avatar abilities at this moment since they would be so useful right now.

Going around the corner to the back of the fort, I instantly see a hole big enough for me to go through and I can just step through it. Standing in front of it, it made me wonder how the hole was made. I looked behind to see two more armoured corpses along with some stones that looked the same as the ones made up for the fort walls. My bet these two were either thrown through the wall or something when through it and these two were just caught up in it. But that’s not my problem, since I just solved my problem of getting inside.

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Stepping through the large hole in the wall and almost tripping over a small section of wall that is still up, but I managed to straighten up at the last second before moving to the levelled stone floor. The inside of the fort is in the state that you would expect to find in an thousand year old fort to be and quite dark, luckily at the moment my eyes are still somewhat adjusted to it, though a torch or something still might be good right about now.

A tapestry with what looks to be a moon emblem of some type and its covered in holes, cuts, dust and mould. While the hallway on my right had the upper level collapsed into it, blocking me off from going that direction. The hallway on my left is still walk-able at least, some of the stones from the floor above had fell into the hallway and following the hall, I made my way down towards some of the old rooms, hopefully to find a good place to rest for awhile.

Coming across the first set of rooms, the wooden doors are surprisingly still standing but falling apart like the rest of the fort. The metal on the door is rusted to the point where the once strong metal is just barely hanging onto the wooden door. Wanting to not touch the either the wood or the metal for health reasons. I push my shoulder against the door to push it open, but suddenly the door decided to snap off its rusted hinges and smash into a thousand pieces after hitting the stone floor causing dust to scatter upwards into my face.

“Ah shit” I said, before feeling a sneeze tickling in my nose and ended up letting out two loud sneezes in quick succession into the open, hearing them echo throughout the fort. Once finished and feeling that no more sneezes were going to pop out of the blue, I finally check out the room I’m in and it turns out it used to be a small sleeping area filled with five cots along with five small leather chests. I doubt the chests would have anything useful since it might be full of very old and very likely useless clothes. It also didn’t help that there are locks on each of the chests and they still look to be in excellent condition with only a small bit of rust on it, despise the condition of everything else here, Magic maybe?

I left that room and try the room next to this one. The door to this room was already open but the door was still on one of its rusted hinges. Taking a quick peek inside, it’s pretty much the same as the last room, five more crappy looking cots and five more chests that still can’t be open. The next two rooms are the same; door either open or fallen off, five dirty cots and five leather unopenable chests in both rooms.

There is one more room before the hallway before hitting a corner and goes off into different direction. The room door is open like the last three rooms, but when I peeked inside through there wasn’t any cots or the same type of chests as seen from the previous rooms, instead it’s filled with weapons.

The armory this close to the sleeping area is good idea, luckily who ever design this fort was smart enough to do that at least. Deciding to go further into the room for a better look and finding that most of the weapons were missing from their racks. Weapon racks made of both wood and metal are basically covering the entire room walls, even a few racks are still standing in the middle of the room. Like the armour corpse graveyard, most of the weapons that are still here range from; swords, axes, maces, spears and a few bows and crossbows, and whatever is left of the arrows are only their metal heads. Looking at the weapons, I notice that they’re still in somewhat in good condition despite the little rust that are on them, compare to the ones in the graveyard maybe it has something to do them placed in their weapon racks. Other than the weapon racks that are in the room, there is some more leather chests. For what’s inside though, my best bet is either cleaning stuff for their weapons or items to maintain their weapons or both, it makes some sense, but I can’t check since they’re lock like the others before. While looking around the rest of the room however I found that two of the chests have their locks missing.

I walked over to one of the unlocked chests and started opening it. The top half of the chest is a tat stiff to lift up straight away, maybe because of the hinges since a thousand years will do that to it. With one last lift, the lid went up and hiding inside were guns.

Shit, they have guns here?!, they weren't modern day guns like I know of, but I did somewhat recognize the overall design of them. They basically look like a pirate flintlock pistol from what I could make out. The flintlock can only fire one shot at a time and takes forever to reload unless you’re really far away from whom you’re firing at, you’re more likely be dead before you can fire off your second shot. It’s too dark to tell how many flintlocks are still in the chest, but from what I could feel around, it wasn't that many left and along side of them I managed to find some small canvas bags each filled with small round balls, ammo and gun powder more likely. The second chest was more of the same; more flintlocks and ammo bags.

It’s weird that they would still used the bows and crossbows if they have guns on hand, although seeing how that these two are the only chest that are unlocked, maybe they only had a small supply of them and only let the guards that have being trained to use them or commanding officers; it better than just letting anyone use a gun and end up getting shot by some idiot who didn’t know how to use it. With the fact that this universe now has guns, I’m now starting to wonder how far they advanced since then and that I should be more careful once I head back to town in case their gun laws are lot more lacks than what my universe gun laws are.

With the rest of the fort left to explore, I thought about taking a weapon with me for protection but I decided against it for the moment. No point in taking a gun, since I don’t know how to load it, plus it might just blow up in my hands since it hasn’t being maintain in so long. But at least I can use a bow and arrow since my year nine class did it one term for sport, just don’t ask me to bulls-eye or snipe an apple off someone head and the whole point of a crossbow is for easy use with little skill. But the both of them would be dead weight without any arrows or bolts for either of them. As for the other weapons, they will be too heavy for me to lift... maybe. I know I’m a Avatar and should be able to lift anything up without a problem, but not even a minute ago I had trouble with lifting up a lid of a chest, so at the moment I’m doubting myself in carrying these weapons let alone using them. Then you got the whole “I’m also not trained in using them” thing and hell I might just end up hurting myself first before who or whatever attacks me. Now if there were some knifes around here that would be a different story all together since they are easier to use then the other weapons and lighter, but as far as I can tell there is none in here. Hopefully I can just out run whatever comes for me.

Walking out of the armory, I went across to the other hallway and found that one the right side walls had collapsed, letting in moon’s light into that part of the hallway. Walking further downwards showed that the hole leads into the fort’s empty courtyard, well empty in terms of guard corpses. At the back of the courtyard are a few training dummies that look to be made out of canvas sacks and hay. Some of the dummies looked to be hacked in some areas from where the guards used them for weapon practice, while the rest are filled with rusted metal bolts most likely from the crossbows training and if I was to look closer at them they might have arrow heads in them. Near the front of the courtyard where the portcullis is are about six or so high wooden barricades that formed in a half circle around it. There isn’t much else here besides a few opened doorways into the courtyard from this floor and the level above. Other than that and this hole in the wall, there isn’t anywhere else anyone can get into the courtyard without going through the portcullis. I’ll come back here later if I need to up a level making a metal note to myself before leaving the giant hole to the courtyard and continued down the hallway.

Most of the rooms down this hallway were either the same as before with the cots and chests or whatever was on the level above had collapsed and buried whatever was in the room. By the time I reached the end the hall, the only new room I found that was anyway different was very small room filled with very old cleaning supplies.

The next hallway had the portcullis in the middle of it and the entry into the courtyard of the opposite side of it. When I got closer to the portcullis I noticed that on both sides of it are two small stone like booths areas. The stone booth the furthest away of me had collapsed on itself at some point blocking anyway for me to get in, but the other booth is still standing at least. On the inside of the three sided booth is a small stone seat in the middle of it with a counter attached to the window in view of the portcullis and facing the other booth while next to said window is a large wooden lever and on the wall is a small wooden hatch opposite it. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what that’s for, thinking to myself before I walked into the booth and pushed the lever down, only to have the wooden part of the lever to snap off in my hands.

Just after the lever broke, the sounds of metal started coming from the hatch on the wall. I looked out of the window waiting for the portcullis to start moving upward, but it stop and went back down before trying to go up again. “The hell?” I said out loud before I opened the hatch and inside is large metal chain jerking for some reason, Isn’t there suppose to a counter weight or something here? I wanted to stick my head inside of the hatch to look for it, but since I just pushed down on a lever that was possibly last used a thousand years ago and the fact that if there is a counter weight up above somewhere [unless it has already broke and fell before I showed up] I don’t want to stick my head in case it breaks and takes my damn head off. When I looked back out at the portcullis, I looked back over at the other buried booth and had a theory as to why this lever didn’t work.

“There must be another lever in that other booth and both of them have to pulled at least at the same time to raise the gate” I muttered out load, afterwards letting out a sigh “Fan-bloody-tastic” With the other booth collapsed on its self and the lever buried under it, I doubt the this gate will be coming up any time soon. So much for an easy way out of here I thought since I wanted to avoid going back the same way I came in earlier, before leaving the booth I grabbed whatever was left of the lever and pushed it back up where I found it, stopping the chain from it jiggering.

Walking down the rest of the hallway and going around the next corner there is a set of stairs heading up to the next level and some those entryways into the courtyard I found earlier opposite it. Since there wasn’t anything else in this hall and by going around that corner up ahead I would only end up on the other side of that blocked hallway that I first saw when I stepped in here.

I thought about heading up the stairs but I’m starting to have second thoughts and I have every right to be. Parts of the upper floor falling down into hallways or rooms and the very last thing I want while walking around up there is the floor to suddenly fallout from under me. But then again the top floor could fall on top of me at any moment and the only safe place is anywhere outside. I just want to abandon the next level and just go to the courtyard and try to kill time somehow, but then again what is the likelihood that the floor will collapse on me when I’m walking around up there.

I mean besides a random stone or two falling from the floor above, so when was the last time that any of the floor above collapsed down here, I thought for a moment before continuing my train of thought. For all I could know it might have being years since the last time a collapse had happen, so it might be safe... in theory and going from my steak with them, it’s being half and half at best. I let out a sigh before taking stepping up on the first step; I hope that this doesn’t bite me in the ass.

The stairs started to spiral upwards and I’m staying close to the inner wall of the stairwell since the outer wall has a few descent size holes in them, meaning that if I trip or slip here I might end up falling through one of these holes and go ka-splat like Wile E. Coyote but I know better that won’t happen since I’ll just be laying there dead on the ground or at best on the ground with a ton of broken bones. After avoiding some steps that are missing, I managed to reach the top of the stairs and on the wall ahead of me is a lit torch.

Fear shot through me as I seen it, “Someone or something is here!” I mumbled quietly while regretting not grabbing a weapon when I had the chance. I tried to remember if heard anyone or anything on this level when I was down there, but I can’t remember it on top all the other ambient noises coming from the forest and the old fort.

Looking down the both ends of the hall I found another two lit torches at both ends. The small areas of orange light now coming from the lit torches revealed that the doors on this floor are all opened; even some of the doors were placed up against the wall outside of their rooms where they came from. Even I know something is wrong but the bigger question is; what are they looking for? If this was the old royal castle then they would be a number of things they could be looking for; old books, powerful spell books, forgotten artwork, rare armour and weapons, hell anything in there would value even the pillows off either Luna’s or Celestia’s bed will fetch a bit of cash. Here though, besides the weapons there isn’t much here from what I can tell worth of value but then again I haven’t checked up here yet since for all I know there might be treasury up here.

I started looking through the rooms on my left side first in this hallway and found pretty much the same rooms from down stairs; more sleeping areas and a storeroom filled with some cleaning stuff; if I were to take a guess I’ll say that there would be another armory up here somewhere as well. The other rooms in this hallway would probably be the same if I went to look at other end of the hallway. I went around the corner and saw that this hallway has a decent size hole about seven or eight feet across in the middle of it. Walking up close to the edge of it, I looked into it and found that the hole shows the hallway where I first stepped into the fort, not wanting to try and jump across in case fall, I turned back around heading back the way I just came.

When I got to the hallway with the stairs and went straight to the other end corner. When passing the other rooms I missed before, my guess was right and the last few rooms were just more sleeping areas, I’m now starting to wonder why a fort all the way out in the middle of a forest has so many guards stationed here. I mean having say 15 to 25 guards makes sense mostly to keep the fort maintain, sending a few of them to patrol the roads and maybe having a few more on hand just in case whatever monster might attack the fort, but from I have seen it looks like there at least 40 or 50 guards that were stationed here. So my question is why so many guards are stationed here?

As I stepped around the corner I found that counterweight that I was looking for earlier however I also found what might have caused that second booth to collapse. Since the portcullis is down there’s suppose to be two counterweights hanging around up here, but the counterweight over where the buried booth is has snapped off its chain and either fell on top of the roof of the booth or the roof had collapsed on its own and the counterweight fell later.

Besides the fallen counterweight and the one that is still attached, there is another room with its door lying up against the wall outside of it. Sticking my head inside thinking it’s just going to be another sleeping area; instead it looks like an office of sorts, maybe for the captain of the fort? The room was lit by a single torch showing off most of the decent sized room. This office would have looked nice if it wasn’t for the piles of wood everywhere and seeing that in some of the piles are books and in front of them is a large stone chair, Guess those were bookshelves and desk once I thought to myself as I continue looking around the room and finding against a wall near the stone chair a weapons rack which seems to be missing all of its weapons. The only other things in the room are; a painting in a bad state with a un-used fireplace underneath it, something that looks like a steel-looking coat rack [maybe a armour rack?] and windows looking out towards the road, however at the moment it’s hard to see anything out them due to all the build up of dirt and other crap on coating it.

Seeing the stone chair in the room I thought about sitting down and relax for a while. I’ve lost track of when I last sat down and with one hallway left, its possibly just going to be the armoury and either some more sleeping areas or even an dining area since I haven’t seen one yet, but then again it’s not like I’m going to find anything edible in there. Since this room does have a torch in here I thought it would be a good idea grab it and look through one of the books that are on the ground to try and kill some time.

After picking up the torch from its holster I went straight to where the books are on the floor. Using my right foot I started clearing away some of the wooden bits that remained in order to get to the books that were underneath it. Getting down onto my right knee I picked up one of the books that has brown leather for the cover and no title; opening it up and bring the torch closer didn’t reveal much as the page is blank. Skipping past a page or two I found a page with writing on it, but either the once black ink has faded too much or the thousand years has really hit this book hard since the pages are a light dark brown almost the same colour of the leather on cover or for all I could know the orange light from the torch could be affecting the pages mixing in with the browns of the pages. I flicked through some more of the book to see if I could find something readable, however the only thing I found was this area near the end of the book where I can still make out some of the writing but some of it keeps fading in and out.

12th Day of the 7th Month, Year 1012
3rd day of holding the eastern fort
The men are still holding back the enemy forces between fort and the main road but we can’t hold them off forever and with the fort supplies diminishing we won’t last until the reinforcements arrive which is in the next four days at the time of writing this. Without the reinforcements from command, we will lose this fort within the next two days, three days if we are that luckily.
I have ask one of our fastest flyers to get my message to command and request that they could use a wrap gate in order to get reinforcements to the fort immediately, but that was two days ago. I fear that Private Storm Front may have been killed or captured.
If the enemy capture this fort, most of us will be put to death while others high ranking officers will be taken for questioning, in the end though I hope that command have gotten my message and send those reinforcements soon.
Without an infirmary here, the soldiers are either going to die from their wounds or be forced to go back into combat with their minor injuries. I will be forced to join the rest of soldiers in battle soon due to our lack of numbers, so this will perhaps be my last entry. Hopefully the reinforcements will arrive.
Captain Cold Snap.

All I could make out from the page is that; there was a battle from the main road to fort [At least that answers the question about why the those bodies are there], something about reinforcements, a message, something called a wrap gate [are they talking about portals?], some guy named Storm Front being captured [maybe the massager for that message], no infirmary in the fort [which is weird for being a fort and all], something about being put to death and questioning and a Captain by the name of Cold Snap [maybe the person that wrote this or the owner?].

This ‘wrap gate’ that mention here, could it be what I’m looking for? I thought while trying to re-read the page for more information about it, however after re-reading it twice nothing more about this wrap gate turned up. I might have some better luck if I look through these other books that are here; hopefully the rest of these books are were made by a painting press and are not hand written. I placed the journal next the stone chair and went off to the other piles of the wooden remains to grab whatever books that are there. After clearing away any pieces wood that was in the way, I picked up the few books that were there and carry them back to the stone chair.

The stone chair is bare; no pillows and no padding, just cold when I sat on it. With the books in my lap, the torch in my left hand, my right hand started flicking through each of the books for information about this wrap gate. And nothing turned up. The books I found must have been older than the journal because either the pages have; aged too far to be readable, pages missing or that the pages started to disintegrate when I touched them which scared the living shit out of me. The only book that was still readable didn’t have anything about wrap gates, all the book talk about was herbalism and potion making which makes sense due to a lack of an infirmary within the fort.

“Nothing” I mumbled as I dropped the last book on the floor next to the chair letting out a sigh just as the book hit the floor. The wrap gate, I need more information before this changes my plan but there is nothing here or if there was its long gone now.

There is possibly only one place that might have anything on wrap gates plus anything I might need and honestly I’m not looking forward to it. Grabbing my bag is one thing but going back there to look for a book, it’s going to be like looking for a needle in a haystack covered in sand. The only way I’ll be able to even find it is by either getting Twilight or Spike to help, which is easier said than done. I thought to myself while drumming my fingers of my right hand on the arm of my chair, until I realized something. Spike... what if I get him to grab the book? He hasn’t seen me yet and I doubt Twilight had time before she left to tell him what I look like. This could work.

However there is a problem with my plan. Well... a few problems with my plan. First, Spike needs to be alone in order for this to happen seeing how out of the Main Six, four of them have seen me with the exception of Rarity and Fluttershy who haven’t seen me yet but knowing Twilight she would have told those two what I look like. Meaning that if any of the Main Six are there then I’m screwed, my best bet is for him to be alone.

Next is if I leave now to try and get back to the library to catch him by himself, I have to get past the Main Six search party and as I thought before, is going to be difficult to do with; Rainbow flying around, Fluttershy standing guard at her house and the rest of them doing the ground search in and around the town. But if I wait, like I was going to in the first place then by the time I get back to town, the search party would be called off but Twilight will back at the library which will screw everything up.

And lastly is what to with Spike once I get the book once I get it off of him since I still need to grab my bag from Twilight’s study if it still there and if it’s not then I got to go and find it, that’s if it’s still in the house that is. I could lock Spike in that bathroom somehow but if he has a phone on him then I’m fucked.

I can’t believe how fast everything going to hell. Honestly I wish this is dream or a drunken haze at least, that way I could change the outcome to how I wish.

Getting up from the stone chair, I walked around the room for a bit to stretch my legs. It was only then that I remembered that I am holding a torch in my left hand and the only reason it is lit is due to someone else being here. I lost track of time since finding the first torch and since then I haven’t seen or heard anyone else up here, it could be likely that they left the fort after finding or not finding anything.

Until that theory came back and slapped me in the face, as I started hearing the echo of some footsteps coming from one of the hallways, whoever this person or people are might know that I’m here somewhere and they might be armed with weapons, guns, magic or anything else that I can’t begin to think of. Would have been nice if the bloody Captain had left me with at least one weapon in that rack there, but I can use this torch as makeshift weapon at least. I reassured myself, Although maybe it’s not a good idea to have the torch lit when I start swinging it around for safety reasons, mostly for myself. Remembering the fireplace from earlier I quickly walked over there and poured whatever it was in the torch out into the mouth of the fireplace.

With the unlit torch now safe to use, I quickly moved to the right side of the door and pressed myself up against that wall. The steps are getting louder losing their echo and I could tell they are currently walking down the hallway with the counterweights. I started to ready myself and held the torch like a baseball bat with two hands near the bottom of the torch. I’m trying to keep myself calm but I am finding it difficult to stop my body from shaking. If it was just one person and if he or she didn’t have their weapons, gun already drawn I would have had a good shot of walking away the winner since all I got to do is hit them with the torch a few times [while avoiding the head, since I don’t want to kill them] until he or she is on the floor or until the torch breaks and then run like hell. If they got their weapons drawn, I just got to try and disarm them by hitting whatever out of their hands first before hitting them. With two people, my chances are slim, I might be able to hit one of them or try and disarm the both of them but if I’m not quick enough than the other guy will hit me but I still might be able to get away by knocking them over with a few kicks to their knees if I’m luckily. Any more than that and I’m fucked and not in a good way.

Their footsteps are almost close the door and I can hear them talking quietly but I can’t pick up on what their saying. Once they go past the door they will notice that either I’m in here or that the torch has gone out and will go and investigate. Orange light starts appearing across the doorway causing their shadows to appear tall and thin, They carrying a torch I concluded.

“Hey didn't we light a torch in here?”

That was my clue and like that I quickly spun away from the wall and stepping into the doorway, while at the same time swinged my torch up high over my head as if I was going to split some wood in half with an axe. As I raised the torch, I let out a battle cry along the lines of “YARRRRRRRR!” at the top of my lungs, hoping to at least throw them off their balance and started to bring down the torch to strike the first person closest to me.

But it was at this time that as I started bring that torch down that I notice that instead of three grown adults standing there with a shocked looks on their faces, it was three little girls standing there with shocked looks on their faces while screaming at the tops of their lungs in terror.

From My World To Theirs

by Mr Scribe

From A Cold City To A Warm Town

A Town Without A Map

Never Judge A Book By Its Cover, Part One

Never Judge A Book By Its Cover, Part Two

Never Judge A Book By Its Cover, Part Three

Intermission: Small White Lies

No way in, No way out [un-edited]

It Just A Setback [un-edited]

If You Go Out Into The Woods Today... [un-edited]

Ruin, Part One [un-edited]

Ruin, Part Two [un-edited]