Fate Chapter 13: A Slowdown of Sorts

After returning from our completely irrelevant quest for the Holy Grail we decided to chew out Princess Celestia for poking some fun at our expense, although in retrospect that was some of the most fun ive had in a long time.

After Twilight and the others, along with myself of course, got back to the library we decided we needed to get away from the insanity that is Equestria at the moment so we needed to think about where we should go.

"I think we should back to Earth, it was about 20% cooler than here" said Rainbow thinking about the first time we went back. "Um maybe not, we almost died remember?" I said remembering the whole portal incident at Rick's house which got me here in the first place.

"I want to see this "Earth" place for myself" said Rarity, putting quotations around Earth. "Fine it's your funeral" I said fetching my bag and grabbing the portal out of it with my telepathy, which took a lot more out of me than I thought.

"Okay, let's go" I said trying to ignore my weakness as I stepped through the portal.

We came out in my old living room and I got up, seeing as I was weakened by that little magic, I decided to ask Twilight about it when we got back. I looked around and it looked exactly as it did when I last stayed in it.

"Yeah I look awesome again!" Rainbow exclaimed after walking through the door near her and looking in a mirror in my hallway. Rarity followed her exclaiming at her body. "I look FABULOUS!" she exclaimed, and she did. She had shoulder length light purple hair and a white dress with a purple jacket over it.

Fluttershy walked over to the mirror and gave a small "excuse me" as she looked in the mirror. She had pink hair going a little past her shoulders and a yellow blouse and a pink skirt on. Rainbow was in a blue hoodie with zipper in the shape of her cutie mark with blue hair and rainbow highlights on the front.

Finally, Twilight was wearing one of those school uniform things: white top, purple skirt and same shade of purple stockings. She looked around at the others and asked "now what?"

"Now, we go out and see what's happened since I left" I say shaking my head a little to clear my thoughts and I opened my front door "now why would we do that?" asked a skeptical Rarity behind me. "Would you rather stay here and be bored, or see Bay City in full?" I ask walking out onto my front porch "there's no point in arguing, come on girls" said Twilight walking out.

"Alright let's do this!" Dashie shouted, running out of the house "hey Alex, I'll race you to the park!" "You're on" I said, turning down the street "GO!" I shouted and we sprinted down the street, much to the despair of the others.

When we got to the park we stopped, caught our breath, looked at each other and broke down laughing in front of the Carroll Park sign. When we caught our breath we simultaneously said "I win" before she put her head on my shoulder and sigh and said" I love days like these" "What do mean?" I replied "just cloudy and warm, couldn't be better" she said.

We waited for the others to get there by talking about what we think happened since we left. Once the others got there I said "I don't know about you guys but I'm going to the library" and I got up and helped Rainbow up as well.

"Wait, you have a library and you didn't tell me? Where is it?" I pointed to the general downtown area. "LETS GO!" and she sprinted in that general vicinity. Rarity and Fluttershy walked in the middle and talked while Rainbow and I pulled up the rear.

"So I said 'pssh, you wish' and I kicked him in the shin and walked away" I told Rainbow as we reached Center Ave., the busy street on my side of the river. We decided to take a longer route so we could talk longer. As we crossed the street she put her hand in mine and we kept walking.

When we reached the other side she stopped and looked at me and I looked back. "So um when I first met you I was skeptical that you were anything besides a normal pony/human thing but after the whole hostage situation I realized that you are one special guy, and I really like you"

Fate. It can be a bitch sometimes, just like now. I realized I had three choices: tell her the truth and live happily ever after, eh no. Lie and break her heart, no too un-me. Or finally I could say nothing and probably regret it later. God I feel like I'm playing Mass Effect 3. I decided to tell her the truth: I like her back.

You see, I used to like Twilight but on the Holy Grail excursion we both decided it would be best to just stay friends, getting friend-zoned by one hot girl, or would that be pony? Either way I decided to tell the truth.

"Well I am very likable aren't I? Anyway not the point, ive never really been the romantic kind of guy but I really like you too" and before I could really finish my sentence she hugged me and I hugged her back, as it started to rain. "Figures" I said "come on lets run" and I took off with Dashie in close pursuit.

When we got to the library we were both soaking wet and laughing our butts off.

"We'd better shut up before we get kicked out of here" Rainbow Dash said calming down "oh yeah" I reply shaking my head to dry off a little, soaking Rainbow Dash in the process but oh well.

When we found the others, they were upstairs reading. Twilight was reading a book on the timeline of World War II, Rarity was reading a book on fashion design and Fluttershy was reading a book about caring for animals. I plopped my butt down next to Twilight and pulled out my book on the Battle of the Somme (SOM) during World War I and Dashie was reading an adventure book.

After about three hours (and a lot of complaining from Twilight) we left and went back to my house for the night. When we got back we decided we needed to give the girls fake names until we got back to Equestria, but we agreed to do it in the morning after we're all rested.

Rarity and Fluttershy took the sunroom in the back, Twilight took my brothers old room and I got my room while Dashie took my parents room. We all slept soundly and the next morning we prepared for the day ahead of us. I made breakfast, toast. Bland yes but it works.

The think I was most worried about is when we came across the meat eating aspect of humanity. I decided that they could find THAT out on their own. As we sat down to try to find out good names for each of the girls, a car crashed outside and exploded, sending shards of glass into my house.