It was a good two hours before everyone would believe us. And even after Twi, Alex and I wasted a good half-hour on the rest of the real Mane 6, even their faces still showed doubt. The other five humans tried to contribute, but even their points confounded them. And by the time we were through, questions were already pouring out of them. I won't go into details, but it was dark out by the time we were done and just about everypony was exhausted. Walter was the first to change the subject. "Has anypony seen Spike around?"
We heard a voice coming from the upstairs room. "Sorry guys, I was just taking a nap." Yeah, right. All of us knew right off the bat he was lying.
"Spike, we know you're lying. You've been eavesdropping, haven't you?" Twi spoke up.
"Okay, fine. You got me there. But shouldn't you guys be doing something to fix this mess?"
"Come down here first, then we can sort things out."
Spike wandered down the steps of Twi's staircase until his poor little green eyes met one of the weirdest things any of us had probably ever seen: Two sets of the Mane 6 and me. His words after that almost made me laugh. "Wow. Two Raritys?"
A couple of us humans laughed before suddenly realizing the situation was serious. "Well, are you going to help or what?" Twi said.
"Um, right. Well, as said by these guys, er, girls, we should probably go see what's going on in the barn." And just as though our prayers had been answered, (LOL not.) we all jumped at the sound of an explosion and the sight of a bizarre cloud formation over Sweet Apple Acres out of the library window.
"C'mon! We can't just wait here!" Bill chimed in.
Everypony raced out the door to find that the cloud formation was really compiled ash. Even worse. As we neared the barn, it looked fine. It would have been completely fine with all of us if it weren't for the fact that a creepy (and loud) whooshing noise was coming from the inside. A brave Applejack bucked open the door to find that the entire inside of the barn was a massive vortex of black and purple, and nopony approved of that. Especially Applejack, who kept gawking at it.
But before we could figure out what to do from here, we heard an all too familiar voice behind us. "Have fun." And just like that, all fourteen of us were sucked into the vortex and all was black. Now I know what you're thinking. Discord. Eeyup, he pushed us in, and now we're swirling in the interdimensional portal between Earth and Equestria. But something happened that made all of us question his plan, or what we thought it was. He came with us.
It wasn't until we found ourselves all in a swirling blue tube similar to the one in the intro for Doctor Who that we noticed he was in there with us. "Hello again!"
"Discord! What are you doing in here? What the hell is even going on here?" I found myself speaking up.
"Listen to me! We have a few minutes in here before we get to Earth, so I might as well explain to you what's going on."
"So you aren't trying to kill us?"
"Don't get crazy ideas! I never actually hurt anypony! Anyway, let me explain the reason you're in here. It's Hasbro. I used to work for them a couple of years back when FiM was in development."
"A couple of years? Hasbro? So you are a human... But you were have supposed to be imprisoned for thousands of years!"
"Time works differently here! Ever read the Chronicles of Narnia?"
He got me there. Narnia was a fictional place where time was perceived much faster, so that the characters of the story could be gone for years and neither their parents or siblings would have noticed a minute of it. This was all making sense, and maybe a little too much so. "Yeah I have. What's your point?"
"TV stations and animators are really hired by the government to explore alternate dimensions, and document their findings. The more interesting ones make it to the public disguised as comedy. Twisted, if you ask me. I was one of the luckier ones to be sent to a more friendly environment. Unfortunately, I modified the world to the point where people became afraid of me, then eventually terrified. To pacify them I had to create new characters to defeat me, and those were Princess Celestia and Luna. They turned me to stone for about four thousand years until the Mane 6 showed up. I didn't create them, they were perfectly natural. I knew they would defeat me, so I had to put off time to experiment more, so that's where that delusional maze came from. That's when I discovered that TV studios are really ripping apart our universe, and it has to be stopped. So I brought in you, and the link between Earth and Equestria slowly turned into this wormhole that we're in now. Make sense?"
Everypony was astounded by Discord's story, and not one of us knew how to respond. Eventually a timid Fluttershy stepped in. "So... You're a good guy?"
"Now, I don't quite know about that, but right now, I am fighting for a legit cause."
None of us knew how to respond to that, so Applejack stepped in. "Hold on, everypony! Here we go!"
We could all see that the wormhole was ending, and we still had no idea what to expect from this. Suddenly, the end of the tunnel stopped, and all fifteen of us were tossed into the portal. And a couple of loud, dark seconds later, we found ourselves thrown into the living room of a small house, which later turned out to be Bill's. On our backs. It hurt.
I raised my head, and to my sort-of-surprise, all of us had turned into humans. I could only trust that us real humans were in our own bodies. Remembering how to stand as a human, I quickly got to my feet. "Is everyp... I mean, is everybody okay?" I heard muffled curses emerge from the heap of people in response.
"What happened?" A voice that sounded like RD said. She stood up to find that she was now a scrawny teen girl with orange hair and a tomboyish face. Surprisingly enough, she had clothes. And she freaked out. "GAH! WHAT IS THIS?"
My response? "You. A human." She took it surprisingly cool under the circumstances. She took a quick survey of the room, which looked like a lodge. There was a nice stone fireplace on one wall, where the opposite wall had an arch leading to another room. I was honestly surprised that they could stand up, let alone walk, which is what RD did shortly after the rest of us got up and examined ourselves. I had the idea for everyone to stand up and state who they were. Applejack was a highly freckled, stout girl, which I would have guessed, Rarity was a chubby, pale girl with a slightly snooty-looking face (which I honestly laughed at), Twilight and Fluttershy both were nerdy looking scrawny girls with fairly long brown hair, while Pinkie Pie... Who we found hiding away below us... well, she was still herself. She soon found everyone staring at her. Discord spoke up first, who by the way, looked like a stereotypical businessman with a bald head and one of those 'professional' faces on all the time. "How are you not human?"
"Well, I didn't want to be a human, now did I?"
I had no idea if her breaking the fourth wall this time would help us or break us. But, she was proof that it had happened, so that could help us. It was certainly interesting to see a pony compared to a human side-by-side, mainly because there was a drastic height (and color) difference. She was only about three feet tall. And naturally, I, again, was the one to break the awkward silence.
"Can... we continue?" It must have been weird for the other humans to find out that the person that was telling them what to do all this time (me) was a scrawny teenage boy with fairly long brown hair (still me). And as it turns out, Alex was a teenager that looked a lot like me, except blonde hair. Steph looked like the stereotypical diner waiter with her curly black hair. Walter was a scruffy, but not short man that looked like a lumberjack, Jackie (honestly) looked like a hippie (no further comments, except that she didn't act like it at all), and Francine was a bubbly African-American lady (OMGLOLWUT). And what I thought was the funniest part was that Bill looked like a younger version of Bill from Left 4 dead. I made no comment.
"Well, what now?" And sure enough, nobody knew what to do. The other six humans and Spike (who was a short, lean cute Latino boy (WTF) with short, dusty hair and a round face, BTW) seemed relieved of that. I had no idea what any of the Mane 6 could do here pertaining to their abilities in Equestria, so I asked them to give it a shot. I had another WTF moment, officially making this the craziest couple of days in my entire life. Bill, Jackie, Dash and Fluttershy still had their wings. Instead of being small and sleek, they were surprisingly large and feathery to be coming out of their backs. Of course, human physics is much different than Equestrian physics, so they probably couldn't fly nearly as fast, but that's going to come in an insane amount of usefulness. If we ever find out what to do. And Steph, Alex, Rarity and Twi could still use magic, to my surprise. They found themselves easily moving objects around the room. However, Francine and Pinkie's 'pinkie sense' didn't work at all and Discord couldn't do nearly as much as he could before. I tried to conjure some electricity to my hands and soon found myself looking like a mage in Skyrim. Still friggin' badass. But still... You'd be surprised at how fast one gets used to the surprises of magic.
Although I was confused about why we could still use magic and wings, I didn't question it. We were going to need it, no doubt. I still wanted to know what we were going to do from here... "Discord. What now?"
"Um, could you turn off those... hands of yours? You're kind of freaking me out." I looked down to find that my hands were still sparking with blue lightning.
"Oh... yeah. Sorry." I said as I shut off the power to my arms. "So, seriously. Where do we go from here?"
"Right. I may need to have some thinking time before I can plan this out, but I know that we need to destroy or at least disable the machine that's opening up these wormholes." I was interested to know if Twilight had done any research on this area of space-time physics.
"Yo, Twi! Do you recall learning about this stuff?
"It's not just stuff, but yes I have. I got a lesson a couple of months back from the princess... *GASP* WAIT A MINUTE! Did she know about this beforehand? Did you?" She raised a hand at Discord.
And Discord, being the sly little mother hubbard he is, said "Yes. I subliminally altered Celestia's thought process to give you the 'wrong' lesson and foreshadow you on what could be next. But you didn't bring that to concern, didn't you?"
"Not really... But altering the princess' thoughts? You're more powerful in magic than I expected..."
"Yeah, well you didn't seem to think much of it when you used the Elements of Harmony, now did you? You could have killed somepony with that, and I'm sure as hell that you could have done a lot more damage than just turning me into a stupid statue. Well, I suppose your intentions with it weren't to harm, so I'm safe there."
"But who originally made the Elements of Harmony?"
"I did, along with making the two princesses. I knew that Alicorns were powerful, but they would need something else to help."
"So you made the original Alicorns. What the hay now."
"Well, I did make the two most powerful, but Alicorns actually occur naturally. You see, breeding works very weirdly in Equestria. Because there are three different outcomes on what the breed of pony can be, there are three different chromosomes..." He continued screwing with our heads using genetic science until our heads were about ready to explode. I can wrap up what he said in a nutshell, though. Alicorns are a rare output of a male unicorn and a female pegasus. There.
"Wow... I had no idea." Twilight seemed rather dumbfounded, which in return made me feel rather smart.
"Of course you didn't, dear. I never told you."
It was around this time that I had only eaten twice since this entire ordeal started. "Hey Bill. Yah got food? Ahm stavin'..." Well, there's my inner Applejack.
"Uh, yeh. Wait right here guys." Bill wandered over into the next (far less crowded) room, that was supposedly the kitchen. And about twenty minutes later of Twilight and Discord pointlessly arguing, Bill eventually came back out with a huge pot of pasta. "Come and get it! Bowls are on the counter in the kitchen." Us humans welcomed the food, but the ponies were reluctant on finding an appetite for the stuff. Even Pinkie Pie, who eats human food all the time. She said it looked too... noodly for her. Well, guess who made up a word today.
After all of us chowed down (and liked it, I should add), we tried to get Discord to talk about his plans for the next few days. His response was to train ourselves for the next few days and to try to get to know each other. He didn't seem interested in what we were doing, so the rest of us just went into the other room to discuss what to do.
"Alright everypo- I mean everyone, we need to split into groups to find out what we can and cannot do here." Twi said with a strict tone. Since everyone knew that she was the best at magic and group leading, nobody had a problem with her being our temporary 'leader'. After a few short minutes of conversing and arguing, we split up into groups outside depending on what type of pony we were in Equestria. So I got stuck in a group with Steph, Alex, Twi, Rarity, and Spike. Not that I'm complaining or anything.
"Well. Does anyone know where we can train?" Rarity spoke up. This is about the time that I wondered if I could still use my internal phone. You'd expect someone to go insane with that kind of knowledge, but it was nice to be able to look up things only when I wanted. In response to Rarity's request. I launched up Google Earth (like a baws, I might add) and instantly found a small, uninhabited valley adjacent to where we were. Ended up just east of where we were now.
"Alrighty then, I just found a small valley just east of here. Uninhabited. How's that sound?"
"Fine with me. It's dark out though... How do we get around?" Steph asked. It was a bizarre moment after she said that that both Twilight and I made our own means of unnaturally bright light. She flashed up her hands (which looked surprisingly like flashlights built into her palms), which were now glowing, while I re-sparked my hands up. There was a couple muffled laughs afterwards, and just like that, our point had been made.
We started east out the back door, with me leading and Twi in the back of us. Finding direction was fairly easy, mainly because most phones are directly connected to satellites, and because I pretty much am a phone right now, you can see where that'll go. I can explain it as this: When I want to pull up something, a mental overlay above my eyes happens, so I can see it, but nobody else can. That reminded me... I hadn't used the real-time communication on my phone since I was in Arizona. Which legitimately felt like a week, even though it was really three days. I tried pulling up Facebook first, but then regretted it right away and pulled up Youtube instead realizing that I was probably being searched for. I hadn't seen anyone that I actually knew in... Well, on Earth, just about a day. I went over to the Upload page to see what I could do there... And supposedly, I could actually upload my memories. And it wasn't until I accidentally did that that I found that out. Long story short, I immediately erased that sucker. Going back to reality, I was surprised to find out that no time had actually passed. So I guess I can't mentally call anyone after all. Can't tell if good or bad... Or friggin' awesome.
Still realizing that I was in Bill's grassy back yard, I saw a brick wall that separated the yard and a mountain, which had the valley at the other side. I realized that I had an opportunity to show Rarity, Twi, and Spike a little of my own skillset. I lived in a very dense neighborhood, so the only shortcuts that we knew about were the ones over fences and walls. "Watch this. Just a useful trick to getting around as a human that you should know... It's called freerunning. Essentially getting from point A to point B in the fastest, most boss-like way possible on foot. Taught me some stuff, like this." I started running towards the brick fence in front of us as Twi and Rarity looked on in worry. Spike was egging me on, and the two humans didn't seem to care at all.
It wasn't until just before I started to jump the wall that something absolutely insane happened. Now I've had some crazy rushes and adrenalin surges before, but this was an exception. Mainly because both of my legs exploded in a fury of sparks as I soared up and over the wall, without swinging my legs over as I usually did while jumping crazy things. It wasn't I nearly crashed into a mound of dirt that I had realized what had even happened. That certainly must have been a spectacle for the bystanders, seeing a human launch himself up and over an eight foot fence without touching it.
"HAH! DID ANYONE SEE THAT? That TOTALLY wasn't what I meant to do, BUT WHO THE HELL CARES! THAT WAS FRIGGIN' AWESOME!" I guess I noticed my legs were still flowing with power, so I tried to do it again as I jumped back over the wall, again with a little too much ease. This time I ended up on the roof of Bill's house on accident with a loud crash. I found everyone in my group staring up at me with a rather dumbfounded look on their face. Rarity was the first to respond to that one.
"What the... How is that even possible?"
"Who cares. If he can teach us how to do that, we'll be useful as hell." Alex replied.
I leapt down from the roof and let out a small wave of sparks that fried the nearby Twilight. Although I was shocked by what I had done (dammit, no pun to see here), Twi was the one to respond with an impressed tone of voice. "Wow... Well, you're one to pick up on magic like no other."
I smirked and replied with a smartass "I know." I still love magic. More so now, though.
As we started our ascent up the mountain, I still wanted to see how much light that I could generate from myself. I re-sparked my arms to try it, and BAM. The entire side of the mountain was engulfed in an unearthly glow, as if part of a light show. I immediately realized how painful that must have been for the rest of us after the vulgar responses from my group mates (Example. Alex: "Dammit Tyler, if you can't keep that wretched fancy-pants magic of yours under control, imma end up stapling you to a wall!") were said, and downed it to just a glow.
From that point on, it was really easy to get up the mountain for some reason. I couldn't figure out why a lot of energy was coming to us, let alone to me to be able to blow up Twi's library and all of that stuff, but I was just wondering how it was 8:00 and all of us were still wide awake. After trudging through tons of weeds and trees to get to the top of the mountain, we were greeted by a small, enclosed valley, just perfect for what we were about to do to it. As we descended some twenty feet into the valley, I brought the group back together. "Should we get started?"
I heard a few murmurs of agreement to start with our self-training. Since we were in a small valley, there was plenty of room to spread out, but everyone was more interested in what I had done with my newfound electrical power. Of course, I had no interest in telling all of them about my 'techniques', and just ended up shunning them off. Mainly because I had no idea what to say to them. It really made me wonder from that point onward how exactly Twilight 'studied' about spells. All I could guess was that the books helped with concentration with the spells. If you even have the guts to call it that.
But then I had a rather interesting idea... I recalled seeing a couple of episodes of the CMCs trying to get their cutie marks and remembering that Twilight tried to help Applebloom get hers with magic. I knew it didn't work then, but I figured that now that we were on Earth that a different story would emerge. But before I called Twi over to see if that would work here, I absentmindedly decided to look down at my side to see if it was still there. I ruffled up my shirt (black, BTW) to find a white lightning bolt still just above my waistline. OHGAWD WAT. I had to tell the others, who were still finding a place to practice about fifty feet away from me. "Hey guys! We still have cutie marks!" They were just as shocked as I was ().
I saw the others look down their sides to find that they really did have theirs. Except Spike. Poor Spike. I couldn't see them with my distance, but I had a split second thought to try to see if I could still teleport. And before I knew it, a flash that I didn't even know happened had died down as I found myself standing next to Alex. With clothes still on. Like a baws. He squealed out of shock before jumping back and then letting me ask him what I was going to. "What's yours?"
"My what?"
"Your cutie mark, of course."
"Oh..." A telltale 'derp' expression found its way onto his face. "Right. It was a cloud. No idea what it could mean, but I wasn't a pegasus, so it could mean wind, or maybe weather... Idk. I'll find out."
I walked over to where Steph was to find her trying to summon some random stuff. She already ended up with a few coins. "How about you?"
"I don't really care. It sucks anyway."
"That still doesn't tell me what it is."
"Okay, fine. It's a plate. Whoopdeefrickindoo. Just means that I wait tables."
I could tell by her tone of voice and posture that I wasn't wanted there, so I just walked up to where Twilight and Spike were trying to see if he could still breathe fire. He lit part of a tree on fire, so there's your answer. Seeing what Steph was trying to do with conjuring and summoning sparked some interest in me towards it. "Hey, Twi, how does one summon things?"
I was glad to see that she wanted to help. "Well, since I see you've got the teleportation aspect down, it's pretty much just that, but with differet objects other than you. So think of an object, its location, and bringing it to you. In that order. It basically brings you a temporary copy of the item, which is very useful for tools, but basically worthless for food and other disposable things like that."
"Thanks." I wondered if that would work with toilet paper. HEH! I turned away to find an open spot to practice this when I realized how nicely lit the small valley was now it was in the moonlight. Thank goodness for that, or else Twi and I would have to teach the rest of them how to provide their own light. I walked to a small opening in the forest to find a small pond in it, and decided that it was the best place to start practice. I still didn't know where to go with this, but I had a little logic left from what Discord told us... A machine was tearing apart our universe. A machine! Bingo. Remembering my incident with the phone, I immediately wanted to see what else I could do with electronics. I remember my dad owning a laptop, and I also remembered that he kept it underneath his bed in a satchel. Object, location... Teleportation. I quickly imagined the laptop being in front of me. A subtle flashbang filled the dim valley and I soon found a laptop sitting in front of me in the tall grass (A wild laptop appeared!). YEA, I JUST FREAKING DUPLICATED A FREAKING LAPTOP. Your argument has officially now been rendered invalid.
It wasn't until I got over the thought that I had just done the impossible about nine times today that I realized what I could do with this. I recall watching Heroes... A show about these average people getting these weird powers... And how one of the characters could communicate with circuitry and technology. I wasn't that good with computers (the geekiest things I have ever done with computers were counting to one thousand in binary and making a web browser in Visual Basic), but I figured it wouldn't be too hard now that I already had a built in phone. Literally.
I picked up the laptop and held it out in front of me, not exactly sure where this would (or could, for that matter) go. I wasn't sure if it was a coincidence or not, but right as I was about to try and tap into the laptop, RD came soaring up and over the west ridge of the valley. The sight of a human with wings and flying was crazy to see, but I had no time to admire it. We could tell things were getting urgent, mainly because she looked very frantic. "GUYS! I'VE BEEN LOOKING ALL OVER FOR YOU! COME QUICK TO THE LIVING ROOM!"
There certainly was no hesitation on our part, because I think everyone knew what the problem was. As far as we were concerned, the link between Earth and Equestria hadn't shut down yet, and we had no idea who (or what) else could have gone through. Twilight, Alex and I instantly teleported into Bill's house (bringing my laptop too), pretty much not caring what Steph, Spike and Rarity were up to. But when we arrived in the living room, we were greeted by a new person. She had pale, white skin and was shaking while sitting quietly next to Discord. She also didn't seem alarmed when we teleported, so I think I knew who it was right away, which (of course) had a following 'OH S***' moment. "Celestia?" I heard an equally stunned Twilight mutter.
"Sadly, yes." Discord was actually the first to speak up. "She's a little shaky and very emotional right now, but she will be fine."
"Can she talk?" Twi said.
"I'm not sure. I know she can hear me, though. I haven't explained anything to her yet, though. I'm afraid of what she would do." Discord nudged Celestia in the shoulder. "Can you speak?"
"Y-yes. N-now... I have q-questions. What am I?"
Figures. First question. Discord nodded at me. "A human. You're on Earth now. If you can use your body, you'll be just fine." I answered.
"And how do you guys know who I am?" I wasn't surprised to see that Twi was the first to answer to that.
"It's me... Twilight." Celestia's eyes widened in fear. "Discord and the rest of us are here."
"IMPOSSIBLE!" She swung an arm in my direction. "How did he get here, and where is he?"
I stammered into the conversation. "Same way you got here, through the wormhole in the barn. And Discord's the one sitting next to you."
Celestia jumped up from the couch and started to freak out. "Worm-what?"
Dammit, this conversation was going to hell. "Worm hole. Don't you remember when you came through the barn to get here?"
"How do you know I went through a barn to get here?"
"I was in Equestria earlier today."
"Then what is your name? Prove that you were once a citizen."
"My name is Tyler, and I never was a citizen, dammit! Sit down, stop asking questions, and cool your jets! Nobody's going to get anything done here if you don't listen to what we have to say."
She reluctantly sat down next to her former enemy and heard us talk about how I originally came to Appleloosa and started this whole damn thing. Although RD got the rest of the party in with a massive interruption, it wasn't until Celestia saw Pinkie Pie that she actually believed us. Explaining everything took a lot shorter from then on. And now since I've evaded enough details for now, I'll explain why I am doing so. Remember the cell phone incident? Yeah, I'm writing this entire damn thing on Notepad. After everything happened. Well, not everything. I'm on a bus right now. Technically. And I don't know where this information will end up if it ever makes it past me (literally), but if it goes to someplace like Deviantart, congats. I just saved your asses via a sci-fi fanfic.
After Celestia was done shaking and generally being creepy like that, she spoke up to Discord. "You... created me... I don't know if I can believe that. How...?"
At this point I wanted to step up and yell 'Bitch, you're on Earth right now. Everything's possible.' Luckily Discord broke temptations by basically making the same point.
"Anything's possible right now. But that's not important. What is is that you are alive and well. Anyway, I have been observing the others and found that the former pegusi and unicorns still could fly and use magic. Can you do either one? Both, I hope?"
Celestia (supposedly) tried to levitate some random objects across the room. But, as fourth-wall foreshadowing may have told you, nothing happened. Question for you bronies/g-men out there: Exactly how many 'OH S***'/'WTF'/'F***' moments have we had so far? Yeah, I'll call it out at around nine. Smacked down into single digit history though when we discovered she had no wings either.
"What the hell happened? We all got ours..." Bill said through all of the mass confusion/chaos. Okay, maybe not mass confusion. More like group-wide infectious stupidity.
"Well, calm the f*** down and get this sorted out so we can at least start to do something about the damn situation!" Thanks, Alex. The conversation needed that.
"QUIET!" Discord finally ended up being the heroic savior of annoying conversation. *awkward silence while everyone stares at Discord* "Great. Now does anyone have a contributing point to add?" *more staring and silence* "Very well. Now that we pretty much can't do anything about Celestia, I shall come back to the real situation at hand. I recall the so called 'studio' of MLP being somewhere in Northern Cali, so now I have a plan. But first I should probably suggest you get some rest."
The rest of us agreed reluctantly as Twi conjured some sleeping bags (dammit, I hate that phrase) and us humans and mane characters went to sleep. I trusted to have Discord help us, so we just ended up sleeping like babies. Well, that's what universe-jumping and a hellova lot of magic use will do to you at the end of the day, and sleeping felt unusually satisfying for that reason. At least this time. And I remember having the strangest dream that night.
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Location: Silverton, Colorado, USA
Date: June 17, 2012
Time: 8:30 AM
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I woke up in Twilight's basement again. All of it seemed real at the time, but this time I was still human. Twilight came down the set of stairs leading to the weirdly shaped room to greet me, but when I tried to wave at her, I found my hoofs to be hands. I saw Twilight with a look of bizarre shock on her face for a couple of seconds, but that slowly turned into a wretched smile as she slowly walked out of the room, still staring at me with a 'lesson zero'-ish look. Genuinely creepy, but just wait. She came back a couple of seconds later with a f***ing knife. Cupcake much? She ran towards me, the knife magically levitating just in front of her deranged face, and just as I tried to get away (of course, knowing all bad nightmares, I couldn't), she lunged towards me and stabbed.
And I woke up. Yeah, I'm never going to look at Twilight the same way again. Heart beating out of my damned chest, I stammered in a ball of sweat right on the floor of Bill's house only to find that most of the group had left. I checked my watch (8:36) and took a break in the kitchen for a glass of water and some chill pills. Well, at least I wasn't too late to wake up. I went back to the living room and surveyed the room to find that Fluttershy was sleeping on the couch in a ball of cute and Alex was lounged out in front of the fireplace, among a few others. I walked up to the couch to see if anyone else was up for waking up.
"Flootershai?"
She tossed a little bit before opening her eyes. "Tyler? What time is it?" Well, at least she didn't seem to be bothered.
I checked my watch again. "8:37. Do you know where everyone else is?"
She looked around the room as a look of dawning comprehension shadowed her face. "Oh dear. I don't know..." Well, that settles it. This day already sucks.
"Um, okay. Thanks. You can go back to bed now." She quickly drifted off to sleep (SQUEE). Recalling the episode from last night, I realized that my laptop was almost useless. Well, to me at least. But that got me to wonder if I could bring back my phone... I wanted to try. And just as my sub mindedness took over, a small flash appeared in front of me and in my hands was now an iPhone. OMGLOL. I tried the phone's overlay again with my vision, and of course, it didn't work. Now I really wanted to know if I could still use my 'nothing pockets' anymore... I'll spare details, but I can just say that it worked. In a weird way. Well, I pulled back out my phone and quickly reabsorbed it, this time along with the laptop.
I wandered out to the front yard of Bill's house to see a few more members of the group outside in a circle right in Bill's driveway. "Uh, hi. Might I ask what are you doing here?"
Discord spoke up. "Oh, we wanted to have a talk without disturbing the others, so we went out here."
I walked into the circle and tried to be part of the conversation. "So, now what are you plotting?"
"Actually, we were wondering if anyone knew how to summon a bus. Could you?"
I laughed. "Yeah, sure. I already did it with a laptop last night, so how hard could a f***in' bus be?"
Pretty much nobody appreciated my sarcasm, but at least RD stifled a laugh before getting elbowed by Steph. And of course, Discord was the one to break up the awkward silence that followed. "Just do it."
"Okay, fine." And then I manned the f*** up as I walked down the driveway to make sure that none of the citizens around me would see. I recalled there being a charter bus being parked at my church last sunday, so... Location. The charter bus was also grey with a blue interior. Object. And... Teleportation. I concentrated hard as a whooshing sound came around me... And sure enough, just seconds later, there was now a random bus parked in front of me in the street. I heard scattered applause. "So, now what?" I asked.
"Well, we can start by getting the rest of us woken and fed so we can leave to shut down the generator thingy." Applejack said.
"Generator thingy? Oh man. That's descriptive."
"Lookie here. I don't know what it's called, so I'm just gonna leave it at that."
"Well, if we argue about stupid things like this, we won't get anything done, now will we?" Discord... Breaking up an argument. C-c-c-combo Breaker!
"Just get everyone out here!" Twilight yelled.
We mindlessly wandered back into the house as a group, probably waking up everyone else in the process. Well, mission accomplice. An oblivious Fluttershy spoke after our stampede inside. "Hi... What are you doing?"
"Most importantly getting you guys up and away. Do you know where Celestia is?" Jackie asked.
"That's Princess Celestia to you, thanks." A head poked up from a sleeping bag across the room and squawked at us.
"Well, I hate to break it to you, but here, you're just another human." Jackie backtalked.
"And what do you have on me?" I'm sure she immediately regretted that statement of hers, especially after Jackie flashed her wings at Celestia. "Oh. Okay. I see how it is. You were saying...?"
"I was saying that we need to leave. So... Everyone up!" More moans and tired noises came from the room as more and more people (and a pony) sat up and got out of their makeshift beds as Twilight desommoned (unsommoned? Are those even words? IDK, LOL) them.
"So. Shall we hit the road?" Walter said.
More weird murmurs. Mostly in agreement. And we, as a group of sixteen, packed up some of Bill's stuff and loaded on the bus.
"Does anyone consider themselves a... Good driver?" Discord said from the inside of the bus. All of the 'mane 6 clones' hands went up. "Well, we have a start. Anyone up for the driver rotation idea? Every, say, hour and a half?" Well. This was actually going smoothly. Alex was the first volunteer. And before we knew it, Steph summoned a map, and we were off.
Finally on the road and rolling, I wanted to know what else the laptop could do. Turns out, it still had a couple of old games on it, so I spent what seemed like an hour on Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 before realizing that it was still in my overlay and I couldn't tell time outside. So when I went back to the real world, we still weren't even off of Bill's street. Eeyup, imma genius. But at least we weren't doing harm from this... So then I got another idea. One, that, as far as I'm concerned, is the weirdest yet. And so I thought to myself, I'd create a log. Real time. So, I linked up my actions to a Notepad app... And here we are. Now. Everything I do is now documented on my phone. And after recalling the last two days, that came on here too, so I can document a log on my phone while using internet and various things over nine thousand on my laptop. There. Does everything make sense now? Yes? Onward!
{log status = idle}
[recording = false]