Charli D'Amelio: we all know and love her. But what happens when she gets sent into Equestria by a cursed pair of headphones? Who is really to blame for this mishap?
Charli D'Amelio's best friend Staseiy Szmmiyth bought her a pair of expensive brand headphones for her birthday. That's when her day got weird. Then, a group of strangers in black broke into her McMansion and burgled some worthless items, making weird motions all around the house. Charli and her family were so scared! After they left, the family called the police, but Charli needed an escape. She decided to start listening to some Spotify with her new headphones! She closed her eyes, and next thing you know, she was a land called... who's your mama? Equestria? Like from My Little Pony? How did she get here? Did someone curse her headphones, and if so, who?
And now she's caught up in the mystery of a lifetime. Saddle Sunshine, a new pony in town, is missing, and it's up to Charli and the Main 6 to find her! But Charli needs to get out before the episode ends, because if she doesn't, she could be erased from the planet for good.
Adapted from my first ever story, which I will not link.
Also, I haven't seen much of MLP past season 6, but I don't think too much really changed? Honestly, MLP got so weird. (I mean, so did this fanfiction, but oh well)
Chapter One: In Which the Most Popular TikToker Ever Gets a New Pair of Headphones
It was a normal day for Charli. Get up, do hair and makeup, film some TikToks, and then just relax and play Animal Crossing for the rest of the day. It was quarantine, after all. She got out of bed with a spritely step and went through the process. As she was wrapping up, she decided she wanted to get some breakfast. She made her way downstairs to a knock on the door. She opened it cautiously - who would be visiting the D'Amelio house at this hour, in the middle of the coronavirus outbreak? Was it another one of her loony fans? Oh, boy! It was just her best friend for life, Staseiy Szmmiyth!
"Hi, Staseiy Szmmiyth! How are you on this fine summer morning?" she asked jubilantly. Wait a second, "Staseiy Szmmiyth, why aren't you wearing a mask and staying six feet away from me? It is like no one cares about these coronavirus regulations anymore. Do you not realize that there are actually a lot MORE cases of coronavirus than there were in March? Or have you just decided to ignore that because you don't want to face the cold, hard truth?" Charli was concerned, yes, but it was also her best friend for life, Staseiy Szmmiyth, so all was forgiven in an instant, "Anyway, what have you been up to?"
Staseiy Szmmiyth was so disappointed in herself for not following coronavirus regulations that she had tuned out for a bit, until Charli asked what she had been doing. "Well, I actually bought you these headphones! I thought they looked really cool - and they were quite expensive!" the girl said exuberantly.
"Oh, Staseiy Szmmiyth, I couldn't have asked for a better gift! Thank you so much!" Charli expressed her gratitude. She was about to lean in for an air hug, but then she remembered coronavirus regulations. The duo just gave each other an air hug instead, "Well, I would invite you inside, but that's not really safe because the coronavirus is still raging. I'll see you around, Staseiy Szmmiyth!" Charli slammed the door in her face because she felt like it. Anyway, Staseiy Szmmiyth would know she meant no harm. She dropped the bag on the floor next to the D'Amelio front door and walked away.
Charli walked over to her kitchen to finally prepare her breakfast in peace. Staseiy Szmmiyth was always going to be her best friend for life, but that didn't mean she couldn't be a nuisance sometimes. Charli was washing a nectarine when The Legend Herself: Dixie D'Amelio came down the stairs.
"Hi, Charli," she said, overall being a mood and not having energy in the morning.
"Hi, Dixie!" Charli responded because for she was practically bursting with excitement. She had some great ideas for some TikTok videos to film, she just had to get through her morning routine first!
As she bit into her nectarine, Charli perused her TikTok For You page. Nothing noticeable, just the latest "unproblematic" TikToker's apology video for being horrible and some dances with horribly colored neon lighting in dark rooms. She didn't have much else to do, so she went through the millions of DMs she had from random people on the app. People saying she was an inspiration to them were the most frequent messages. Charli though pensively, Tell me something I don't know! There were always the weird ones, like people sending her pictures of them in Halloween costumes. She didn't care. And then there were the threats that people were coming to her house to burgle her, but she didn't really believe those. People were always trying to scare her and her family.
"Oh my god, I'm so bored," she grumbled to herself. Why didn't she have anything to do?
"Just find something to do then," The Legend Herself: Dixie D'Amelio told her. Charli had forgotten her sister was even there. She made a grunt at her, and stormed off. Charli decided she would just play Animal Crossing because that's what everyone else was doing. But first, she had to film some TikToks.
Charli went to her bedroom. She turned on her colorful lights and put on a song. She lip-synced it and looked around the room. This one would get more likes than she had followers, she could feel it with every muscle in her body, every blood cell in her veins, every pulse of her heart, every hair on her head, every skin cell on her skin, every limb on her person. It would be fantastic! Charli posted it without a doubt that everyone would know how to lipsync this song. It was killer.
Charli proceeded to film some more TikToks, a dance or two here, more lipsyncing to bad songs with the colorful lights there. Nothing too bold, of course. Once the girl decided she was good for the day, she grabbed her Nintendo Switch and flopped onto her bed. It was time to play some Animal Crossing. She spent a solid few hours engaging in quests with the villagers and customizing her characters. It was so much fun! Before she knew it, her stomach was grumbling for lunch. She paused to upload one of the TikToks she had filmed after breakfast, finished up bucking apples in Animal Crossing, and went downstairs. It was time to have some lunch.
She threw together a low maintenance meal and sat beside her mom as she ate.
"So, how are you? What are you doing?" Charli asked her mom. She was writing some important documents it seemed, but Charli didn't know much about them and she was curious. What were the important documents for?
"Oh, I'm just doing taxes, nothing special, you know. Oh, darn it, Charli! You made me lose my train of thought! Now I have to start all over again," her mom flipped.
"Yo, mom. Chill out. It's not my fault you got sidetracked," Moms could be so annoying sometimes.
"Yes. It. IS! Charli, you always find a way to.. to get in the way! I'm so disappointed in you! You do this every time. You are so ignorant of your surroundings. Oh my god!" her mom was officially insane.
"What's the commotion?" The Legend Herself: Dixie D'Amelio appeared from the other room.
"Mom is just being insane, blaming me for her own problems. Nothing out of the usual," Charli shaded her mom like there was no tomorrow.
"You IMBECILE! Go to your room!" her mom screamed.
"Guys, I think you need to step away from each other," The Legend Herself: Dixie D'Amelio recommended.
"I think I will. I need to use the restroom anyway," their mom said, "This isn't over!" Charli's mom glared at her while she stalked off.
"Wow, mom went batty there," Charli said, "Thanks for saving me from her wrath!"
"No pro-" The Legend Herself: Dixie D'Amelio was cut off by the sound of glass shattering a couple rooms away from where they were chatting, "Did you hear that?"
"Hear what?" Charli asked, because despite her mom blaming her problems on her, Charli actually wasn't the most aware of her surroundings all the time.
"I think something broke in the room over there. Let me check it out," Dixie told her, "You stay here,"
Charli went back to her phone, not thinking much of it.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" Dixie screamed from the other room. Charli jolted up.
Their mom came storming back into the dining room, "You girls better stop fighti- Where's Dixie?"
"She went to investigate what she thought was something breaking a few rooms over," Charli informed her nonchalantly.
"Oh my lord! This is not going to be good!" Charli's mom rushed over, Charli herself following behind cautiously. Whatever Dixie was so afraid of wasn't going to get her if she had anything to say about it, that's for sure. The famous girl was surprised by what she saw.
Chapter Two: In Which the Most Popular TikToker Ever Gets Burgled
If Charli was being honest, she was scared. Really scared! She followed her mom to the elegant, fancy room her sister, The Legend Herself: Dixie D'Amelio, had screamed in just moments before. As they entered the room, they were both snatched.
Charli let out a piercing shriek, "AAAHHHHHH!" she frowned at the person who had grabbed her. They were dressed in all black: tennis shoes, sweatpants, sweatshirt, burglar mask, leather gloves. You name it, the scoundrel had it on. She glanced around the room and noticed that there were other thieves, and they all had matching attire. They were standing still as geese in a pond. Charli demanded, "Let me go, you fools!"
Her captor shook their head. Charli looked at Dixie and her mother, who were on the other side of the room. They gave her a worried glance. They were whispering at each other. They'd better be coming up with a plan to get them out of there!
Charli tried to get loose of her captor, but the rascal just held her hands behind her back even tighter. Suddenly, some of the other lowlifes started crawling and bouncing around the room, smashing things, waving their arms everywhere, and ruffling papers!
They were hooting like owls, doing some sort of cult ritual running in circles, and Charli had enough. How unkind of them to just break into someone else's home like that! She wouldn't have it. Charli scraped the bottom of her boot down the shin of the figure holding her, and then she struggled loose from their grip. She kicked the scoundrel onto his back before turning towards the rest of the room. She kicked one hard in the face, tripped another, lunged at the third. The only ones left standing were those who caught her mother and The Legend Herself: Dixie D'Amelio.
Charli had taken all of the martial arts simultaneously when she was eight years old, and she got black belts in all of them. These burglars got the wrong girl! She did some moves and broke both of the remaining thieves' wrists before knocking them to the ground in one fell swoop.
"I'm calling the cops!" Charli's mom ran out of the room, her hair frizzy and her eyes swollen. Charli made a frightened glance at The Legend Herself: Dixie D'Amelio as they heard the keypad of their landline practically getting smashed in the next room over.
"Thanks, Charli," The Legend Herself: Dixie D'Amelio told her younger sister, "You really saved us back there with your martial arts skills," she spared Charli a grin of gratitude.
"No problem," Charli said, pinning down one of the burglars who seemed to be regaining consciousness. While she was famous for her dance moves, weird lighting, and bad lip-syncing, Charli was a girl of many talents. She continued knocking the rascals in the heads with the bottom of her cowgirl boot, just to make sure they wouldn't get any bad ideas. Eventually, Charli's mother could be heard walking back into the room.
"Ok guys, the cops should be here any minute now," Their mom said with a sigh, "I mean, I'm used to getting obsessed fans at the door, but this is something else. I wonder what they were trying to get?"
The Legend Herself: Dixie D'Amelio decided to pipe up, "They probably just thought we would have valuables since we are rich. Pranks on them, we don't get anything nice ever because Charli always breaks everything!" she let out a hoot of amusement.
"Not funny," Charli stared daggers at the older girl, "If I wasn't keeping this mob of unruly, lowlife thugs from breaking anything else in our house, you'd be in for it. Big time," she threatened.
"Hey, I heard that!" said one comedic thief before he got a kick to the head.
"Charli, let's be nice to these people who broke into our house, and also the your sister," her mom said bluntly.
"Wait, so I'm second rate garbage now?" The Legend Herself: Dixie D'Amelio was offended.
"Oh sweetie, I didn't mean it like that. You should know that!" her mom was so distraught she forgot not to offend other people's feelings.
"Wait, mom. We can't be nice to these people! They literally broke into our house. They are not our friends. And The Legend Herself: Dixie D'Amelio and I get along just fine, thank you very much. God, parents are soooo annoying," Charli gave The Legend Herself: Dixie D'Amelio a knowing look.
"Oh my god, I can't with you girls!" the middle-aged woman stormed off with a huff.
"Wow, mom is absolutely loony! As if we're the ones who are out of our minds. What's she doing just leaving her children here with these-" Charli paused for a moment, stomping on the head of one particularly antsy customer, "-people who literally broke into our house? We're the kids, she isn't!"
Suddenly, police sirens could be heard over her chatter. Charli and The Legend Herself: Dixie D'Amelio let out a whoop of joy and gave each other a grin. Help was here! They decided to have a dance party on the bodies lying on the floor. It was like a slip-and-slide, but they managed to have fun anyway. Soon enough, their door opened and their mom's voice could be heard directing the police to the room they were in. Charli and The Legend Herself: Dixie D'Amelio plastered themselves to the walls as if they hadn't done anything. Maybe jumping on bodies was illegal? You never know with all of these weird new laws nowadays.
"Hi, girls. You may exist the roo-" the policeman was amazed at the work they had done, "Wow, you really did them a number!" he smiled, and then motioned for them to exist the room.
More and more sirens could be heard coming to the crime scene, and more policemen kept entering their house, but Charli and her sister, The Legend Herself: Dixie D'Amelio were just chatting on one of their many luxury sofas. Their mom was annoying so she couldn't come.
"That was quite the excitement for one day!" The Legend Herself: Dixie D'Amelio told her beloved sister Charli.
"Yes indeed," Charli retorted.
Despite them being there to save them and all, Charli and The Legend Herself: Dixie D'Amelio were scared that something they liked had been broken. It would really so, so tragic if Charli's porcelain black labrador retriever was smashed, "I really don't want to lose my porcelain black labrador retriever!" said Charli, worried with all of her might.
"Oh, it will be OK. I'm sure they didn't break it," The Legend Herself: Dixie D'Amelio gave her younger sister some words of wisdom.
Soon enough, the police had finished the case and were out of the door. Police car after police car filed away until there was only one left.
The policeman who had come in first told Charli, "Great job with those scoundrels! You should enroll in the police force when your older. I could even pass off your work as my own again and get a promotion for it! See you around."
"What? I don't want to join the police force, and certainly don't want to work with a stinky police officer like yourself. Good day!" she curtsied and shoved him out of the house violently. The famous girl had had enough of that foolish policeman for one day.
Chapter Three: In Which the Most Popular TikToker Ever Is Falling Through the Sky ft. a Lot of Fluff
Charli went up to her room after the entire fiasco had come to a close. That was all the excitement she could handle for one day! She needed a distraction. Charli collapsed into her bed and put on her Spotify playlist. It was filled with pop and rap hits, plus three songs from the 1980's that she didn't really know the names of. She had just put them in there to be quirky and she usually just skipped over them when they came up because she didn't like them.
As the music began melting into her head, she scrolled through the contents of her smartphone. There were some saponaceous tea spillages today. Apparently, Bryce Hall was partying during a pandemic and got his electricity shut off. They weren't even wearing masks and they were definitely not standing six feet apart. She smiled. He deserved it. Wearing masks was really important, because you were risking lives and possibly giving people future health complications if you didn't. This wasn't even the first time he'd done something like this. He went to party after party like it was nothing!
The Legend Herself: Dixie D'Amelio had just released her new hit single: "Be Happy," so Charli decided that it would be a good listen! As her head melted into the song, Charli fell in her sleep.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH," Charli said, screaming. She was falling on a sunny, sunny day. Hit the ground, you just may! On the way down, a bird pooped on her left nostril, which was not very nice. Charli told the bird, "Stinky bird!" and continued falling. This fall was longer than that one in Alice in Wonderland with all the books. However, there were no books which made this infinitely more frightening for the young teenage girl. It was just clouds, sky, wind, and the bird who had just pooped on her. The bird had faded into the blue sky like salt dissolving in a cup of shimmering water.
Speaking of the sky, it was very flat. There was no depth, no dimension. Some might say this was a normal thing about the sky, but this sky was different. It was all one shade of blue, with no variation. As she continued to fall, she noticed that all of the clouds were the same shape. They were oddly swirly and... also flat. Flat, flat, flat. She continued screaming, because this was some strange prank and she was really getting very scared!
"The Legend Herself: Dixie D'Amelio, if you are the malevolent monster putting me through this, well, let's just say this: you don't want to know what will happen when I get back at you!" she threatened. This was really getting quite frightening and Charli didn't know how much longer she'd be able to take it.
As she felt through the sky, she rethought her entire life, from the womb to her current situation. If she hadn't listened to that cursed hit single by The Legend Herself: Dixie D'Amelio, would she still be breathing the calming pharmaceutical that was the oxygen of her bedroom? If she hadn't told Sally about how Janet excluded her from the Fairy Clan in the third grade, would she still be friends with Janet and the girls? It was puzzling to her, and probably everyone else, because they didn't understand the turmoil that was her past, present, and possibly future. Wacky, right? She couldn't believe every decision she'd made up to this point had led her here, falling endlessly through a very flat sky. It was downright freaky!
She then fell through a bundle of clouds and screamed. The flat precipitation entered her system and clogged the pores of her stomach, so she was unable to scream any longer. She could still breathe pretty well though.
Out of the corner her eye, she thought she saw something go really fast through the air. It wasn't a bird, though, it was far too colorful for that. It wasn't an eagle, either, because that was a type of bird. Haven't you read your science textbook? Anyway, the blob of color was moving too quickly for her to even see anything. Because of this, she went back to rethinking her life choices, because there was really nothing better she had to do with her time.
When she was but twelve years of age, she had to make a life-changing decision. She was in an escape the room with her best friends Harry, Ron, and Hermione, and she had to sneak out of there without them knowing because she secretly hated them and would rather be anywhere else. With nimble hands and quicker wits, she managed to deceive them into looking in all the wrong places while she collected the clues. She was able to sneak out silently and locked them in their for eternity. They probably would've died had it not been for the fact that they had magic but just couldn't use it in front of her because she was a muggle. She didn't know that, though, and when they came back to school the next day, they didn't even want to sit with her at lunch. What might have been the outcome of the situation had she just been the bigger person and let them all out? Would she be falling through the flat sky right now? She truly regretted her poor decision all those years ago. How could she have done something so careless?
Sadly, there was nothing she could do about it now except whine, kick, scream, and shout as she fell through the bottomless sky. It was not doing much to calm her nerves, which was really annoying and rude in every sense of the word. She frowned for a moment, but didn't really know why. All she did know was that she was currently in life-threatening danger.
Because of this, she screamed out, "IF YOU ARE THERE PLEASE CATCH ME OR I WILL DIE!" to no one in particular, just in case anyone could hear her and would come valiantly to her rescue. She could really use the help right now, so she continued making noises louder than the pots and pans in her kitchen. She screamed really loudly for a long period of time, but I won't write out all of the screaming for you to hear. You can just imagine it. You can do some of the work for once. You are no better than me, or our star character, Charli D'Amelio.
Well, back to the story. She was falling for a great while until she hit the ground with an earth-shattering thud. Seriously, I think she might've started an earthquake on the other side of Equestria. No one was there to catch her, but thankfully, she just felt a ton of pain instead of dying right off the bat. This is because we need her to survive for the rest of the story to go according to plan.
Suddenly a crowd formed all around her. They kept asking her questions of all sorts, but she couldn't listen to any of them. No, she was far too shocked for that. Her mouth hung open like something really wide. Suddenly, they stopped chattering about to hear why she was so confused.
However, Charli's mouth continued hanging open. This was surreal. It wasn't too good to be true, because it really wasn't that great in her eyes, but it wasn't too bad to be true either, because she didn't really care that much. It was simply very weird and confusing and Charli wanted to go home already! Because of this shock, she screamed and screamed and screamed:
"WHY ARE THERE MY LITTLE PONIES EVERYWHERE?!"
Chapter Four: In Which the Most Popular TikToker Ever Becomes a Pony
If Charli was being honest, she was scared. She was frightened by all of the two-dimensional ponies who looked strangely similar to the My Little Pony franchise ponies. They were crowding around her; clogging her vision. In the distance, she could hear someone's father vacuuming in the middle of the night and it was really annoying her. But here, at least, it was daytime, and he sun blinded her as more and more ponies crowded around to meet "the pony who fell from the sky". Why were ponies so judgmental, and why were they calling her a pony? She was a human, thank you very much! The nerve. The absolute audacity. It astonished the poor girl.
"Ok, everypony, listen up!" she shrieked over the loud uproar. She had already acclimated to saying everypony because, well, they were ponies, after all! "I don't know what happened. One second, I was vibing with my Spotify playlist, and then I start falling through the sky and everything is two-dimensional and there are a bunch of my little ponies everywhere! I need to get home to go on Instagram live and post TikToks of me eating cake. Do you know how?" she asked. She really needed some help, and at this point, these ponies were the most likely contenders for helpful hands she could get. It was sad, honestly, that she had to put her faith in two-dimensional blobs of color. Life wasn't fair.
"Well, ah dun't knowe whate tuh doeh fer yah," a pony in orange food color with blonde hair said, "buh ah knowe sum'n who can 'elp," she offered in her strange, hard to decode country accent. "Ah'm Appuljahck, bah the weh," she said, so it would be easier to introduce all the ponies eventually.
Slowly, Charli began to stand up, when- "WOAH!" she screamed, as she fell back on her bottom area. She was a pony too!?! who on earth had allowed this blasphemy to happen? "I'm not a pony, though! This makes no sense! How am I supposed to balance now that I can't even walk?" she said, in distress. None of these ponies would know what it felt like. They all had their origins in My Little Pony land. This was so unfair.
"Mahm, yer a pohneh it seems," Applejack declared, "Woaht else wudja beh? An uhrahnguhtahng?" she asked, chuckling a little after every single syllable. The very idea seemed so ridiculous!
"I would be a human, that's what I'd be!" Charli told the orange pony at once. "That's what I am, too, back in LA, so to whomever cast this spell on me, begone and I shall regain consciousness as soon as the apple falls far from the tree!" Charli announced to the whole of Equestria pointedly. She was going to get justice. She needed it.
"Wuh argh yuh thonkin ye argh?" Applejack interrogated, "Sum'n oot uh Can'er'loh 'Eigh?" she gave another chuckle. The portal between the two worlds had been closed for a long time, that's what Twilight had said. Was this filly dangerous? She didn't look so, but one could never be too sure with all the evilgoings in the land that was Equestria. "Aight, so hoo arr yuh?" she asked, an eyebrow quirking at the ponderance that she might be a malevolent monster.
"I'm Charli D'Amelio, that's who I am! Why am I stuck in a pony's body when I'm a human to the core? I'm not one of your Equestria Girls girls, either! I'm flesh and bone; a homo sapien."
"Wahl thahut thaer uhs thuh wahckiust thang ah've herd ahl yaher," Applejack said, her messages getting harder and harder to decode. Charli was still able to make sense of it all, due to the fact that she took Intro to Robotics in the eighth grade. Take that, Celestia! "Ehniewah, ahm uh suhpahrhehroe uhnd a mahty gud frand uhv yer majuhsti, suh ah cun puhl uh fiew strungs uhn get yu bahck tuh wear yuh came fruhm," Applejack finish haphazardly. It was really hard to tell what the girl (filly, whatever) meant when she spoke like someone out of the state of Alabama!
"Ok, well thanks for your support. I really appreciate it. I have to go on Instagram live soon, so I'll have to get back. Is there some pegasus or whatever that can fly me up to the sky so I can get back?" Charli asked, really scared for her life at this moment in time. She knew she'd be okay in the end, though. Fate and destiny were on her side; she'd learned that much in all of her years of experience in the world and as a celebrity, making TikToks from day to day, never getting a break or a pay raise. (That last part was a lie, for legal reasons.)
"Well, I'm really cool, but you're just a unicorn, so we'll need a pegasus to fly up there to make sure the portal's still open, or else you'll die of altitude sickness and will never recover. Do we have a pony who's willing to help? I, like, am busy, for the record," the girl with cool rainbow-colored hair said, "The name's Dash. Rainbow Dash," she said, smiling. Charli blushed. Rainbow Dash was her first icon: before J-Lo, before herself. She couldn't believe she finally got to meet her!
Excitedly, the TikTok girl said, "I'm a big fan. Thank you for all that you do," and took a step away, in case she was making the cool pony uncomfortable.
"Thanks, really appreciate it. No one's going to help this poor... Charli, you said? She needs to get back so she can film TikToks, or whatever the heck!" Rainbow said, with authority in her tone. Reluctantly, a boring side character pony named Saddle Sunshine stepped forward.
"I volunteer as tribute," she said, her eyes licking the floor for any spare crumbs.
"Thank you, Saddle!" Rainbow smiled. She could leave the dirty work to the other girl and get all the credit now, not that she needed to. "Well, off you go, I guess!" she smiled, pushing Saddle Sunshine, the new pony in town, and a very irrelevant side character, up into the sky to scout out the clouds for Charli D'Amelio.
"Suoh, wahl yer wehtn', d'yuh sup'poes yuhl get a buttr puhnie nahm then Charli D'Amelio?" Applejack said, performing a perfect impersonation of the TikTok celebrity girl at only 16 in a mocking tone.
"Hey! Don't be rude to her! If that's her name, we obey her wishes, and don't mock her because she's cooler than you!" Rainbow stood up for the TikTok celebrity girl at only 16 in a righteous tone.
"Thanks, Rainbow. I really appreciate it. As for my pony name, I suppose you could call me Candle Design?" the TikTok celebrity girl at only 16 suggested in a sweet, sultry tone.
"That's a great name, Candle!" Rainbow said, smiling.
The group of about 1507 ponies, give or take, had a grand discussion as they waited for Saddle Sunshine, the irrelevant side character with no real relevance to the plot, to return. They waited, and waited, and waited. One pony could be seen tapping her hoof on the brilliant, vibrant, green, prickly, sparkly, flat grasses. Did this signify anything special? We don't know. What we do know, however, was that this girl was taking an unnecessarily long time to scout out the skies, and that meant trouble in the stands. One pony was getting angry and sweating all over another, who was really disappointed in the one who was sweating on her. They got into a dramatic argument about the utility of pulp in orange juice. For the record, I'm team no pulp. Because of the bias of the author, the pony who was in favor of no pulp won.
After what seemed like an eternity, Rainbow Dash was growing nervous. "I think we need a second pony to go up there. Since I shirked the responsibility that should have been mine, I think I should go. I'll be back in five minutes or less, thanks to my sonic boom," she told the crowd. The crowd nodded in unison. How could they do anything else when taking orders from such a respectable pony like Rainbow Dash? Exactly. They could do nothing.
And so, the rainbow-haired pony flew up to the heavens. The rest of them continued waiting. Applejack began lecturing Charli (Sorry, Candle) on the types of apples that were best for apple cider. Her entire speech pattern was very challenging to decode, and Candle Design was having trouble, as her focus was waning and she wanted to get back home as quickly as possible. She was just about to snap at the orange pony when Rainbow came flying back down to greet the group. She was quite frazzled, that was for sure, and Candle Design was really scared for her newfound friend.
"Guys, GUYS!" she shouted over the crowd. Once everyone seemed to have quieted down (save a few incredibly rude and disrespectful ponies here and there), Rainbow Dash began her speech:
"You will not believe what I have come to report. Two things: first, the portal closed. I couldn't find one in my vast time I spent searching, coupled with my Rainbow Boom."
In response, the audience was very distraught. Charli was very distraught. She began crying. How was she supposed to get home now? Her whole world, her whole life, gone, in the flicker before her eyes. Was she stuck as a pony forever? This was so incredibly bad and no one even seemed to care, save the 1507 (give or take) ponies who were distraught over the happenings in regard to the TikTok celebrity girl at only 16 in a solemn tone.
"The second? It's even more shocking. You won't believe it, so get ready," Rainbow Dash said, preparing her audience properly. "The irrelevant side character we sent up to the heavens just a few hundred minutes ago... Saddle Sunshine? She's gone."
Chapter Five: In Which the Most Popular TikToker Ever Gets Acquainted With Equestria
The story then took a long hiatus as Charli D'Amelio's body was turned into a zombie and she proceeded to get cancelled multiple times, via various social media platforms, such as TikTok, and others. If our brave heroine survived this story to tell the tale, she would be astonished at what her inhabited corpse had done whilst even her subconscious had moved to another world.
This hiatus lasted so long, in fact, that there were no new chapters for nearly 10 months. However, once the atmosphere in the human world had returned to normalcy for the D'Amelio girl, the characters in this magical Equestria were revived. For the year that they had been frozen in place, none of them remembered any of it.
As Charli exited the town plaza, she was startled by a certain duo of very loud ponies, but they were kind nonetheless, "Hey, wait up, Candle Design!" shouted Rainbow Dash at the top of her lungs, as if this volume level had become a normalcy over all of these years of using it. "While you may not have your portal back to your original world anymore, we will find a way to get you back. Applejack and I, and our friends, whom you've yet to meet, we do this stuff. Kicking butt, combatting evil, saving people, and most of all, prevailing with our magical friendship of the elements of harmony. That's right! Yeah!"
Applejack then decided to pipe up. However, after this time halt and resurgence, she had lost her illegible speaking because the readers need to know what's going on with her silly country voice, right? "Yeah, and we still have the matter of Saddle Sunshine on our hands. These two cases are connected, ah just know it! If y'all help us find Saddle Sunshine, then there ain't no doubt in my mind there will be the answers to help yuh return to yer world ye hailed from," she said, in a pony voice that was a mixture of silly, sullen country and ostentatious old English.
"Heh... alright gals, if you think so. I'll help you find your missing Sand Dollar pony, and hey, maybe we'll become the best of friends in the process. Sound like a deal?" she said, grinning from pony ear to pony ear. This was because she was now a pony in the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic universe, where all characters are ponies unless specified otherwise. They are also mostly all two dimensional characters, so it is easy to manipulate body part, such as the mouth, in ways which they would not normally function. Charli D'Amelio, the sixteen turned-seventeen TikTok overnight sensation, who was now going by the name of Candle Design, had already mastered this craft of moving body parts, such as the mouth, in ways which they would not normally function.
With a wide grin, Rainbow Dash exclaimed, "Hip hip hooray!" and the triplets gallivanted off to a specific magic pony's castle. The magic pony was well known far and wide across the land as the notorious Twilight Sparkle. She, along with her elements of harmony, had saved many ponies from doom and despair. Not only that, but she did this countless times! What a selfless heart she must have.
As the triplets meandered over to this palace, they discussed many things, such as apples, rainbows, candles, and designing. They also had a few quick words over the current predicament they had found themselves in, but decided to push that aside for now and get acquainted with each other first. After all, focusing on only the most stressful matters never saved a pony!
Eventually, the triplets made it to the beautiful purple, blue, and pink crystal castle that was made especially for Twilight Sparkle after her tree home was ruined. Candle Design (Otherwise known as Charli D'Amelio, the now seventeen younger sister of popular singer Dixie D'Amelio, and also viral TikTok sensation) let out a huge gasp. She had never seen anything like this palace in her entire life, mostly because it probably couldn't exist in the real world due to monetary restrictions and the laws of gravity. Rules always ruined beauty, that's what she thought about the matter.
Quickly, Rainbow Dash and Applejack cahooted into the palace of the magnificent girl pony Twilight Sparkle. Candle Design followed behind, keeping a safe distance between the ponies she had learned to be very loud and easily excitable. It was not ten steps into the crystal cathedral of literature and justice that she felt someone following her - watching her. She spun around and pivoted on her heel to find herself looking at a pink pony with a hint of teal in her mane. Candle Design let out a large gasp. This pony was beautiful, there wasn't a doubt in her mind about it. But what was this lovely pony doing following the hooves of the lowly, timid, new girl pony Candle Design?
"And who might you be?" she said, her name still escaping Candle Design's illusory memory. She had watch the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic franchise first few seasons, but she couldn't seem to remember this particular girl pony. However, her demeanor was scary and stern, so she decided to response as fast as ponily possibly!
"My name's Candle Design. I've come from another world, and I'm gonna get back, no matter what," she said. When this story would later be adapted into a live action film, this would be one of their lines they used in the trailer, even though it was somewhat out of place in the actual story. Oh well, you win some, you lose some, am I right?
"Hmph, I see," said the beautiful pink and teal (or aquamarine, to be more specific) pony responded. "Well, I guess you're going to meet Twilight?" she said, waiting for a small nod from the Candle Design TikTok sensation girl Charli D'Amelio from another world. "Well, in that case, we'd best get acquainted. I live here, too, after all, and it seems like another guest bedroom will be yours for the time being. My name's Starlight Glimmer. I've done some pretty stupid things over my lifetime, but I'm trying to regain justice from within and really rebuild my reputation as a good pony who has a lot to offer to the world, y'know? That's why I joined the Elements of Harmony, even though I'm not really an element..," she ranted to the new girl pony in town, Candle Design, who was actually too scared to move or even respond to this menacing pink and teal pony. She was seriously freaking and intimidating! Don't let Starlight know that Candle thinks this, though! She doesn't want to end up embarrassed or endangered by some twisted luck of the draw.
So instead, she squeaked out a simple, "That's.. that's really inspiring to a lot of people, Starlight Glimmer. I'm glad you've decided to redeem yourself after being such a terrible person all your life." OOPS! What had she done? Candle was mortified. She had just worded that sentence in the worst, most rude and offensive way ponily possible "I'm s-so sorry!" she squeaked again, hoping Starlight's wrath and malevolence would not overpower her good will and destroy everything within her path. Candle, the now mortified pony, was frozen in place. Fight, flight, or freeze? She chose freeze in this moment, that's for sure.
As all good things must come to an end, so too shall all bad things. Starlight Glimmer simply cleared her pony throat and began to follow where Applejack and Rainbow Dash had just gone, motioning for the new girl pony in town who had just offended her greatly moments prior, Candle Design, to follow right behind her. No more getting sidetracked this day! Candle had a goal and she was going to fulfill it. First step? Getting to meet Twilight Sparkle and the rest of the harmonizing elements. Second step? Save Saddle Sunshine, the irrelevant side character, and the world in the process. Step three? Well, Candle really needed to get back to her normal everyday life of the now-seventeen-year-old TikTok sensation life of Charli D'Amelio in the human world, so she'd need to find a way to get back, and soon! Absolutely scared for her life, she trotted alongside or behind Starlight Glimmer on her way to the castle of purple throne room, where a specific magic pony unicorn Twilight Sparkle would be awaiting her arrival, to swoop on in with a plan and save the day (and both Candle Design, Saddle Sunshine, and the world) in the process.
