Wardrobe To Equestria

"Sharing, kindness, its an easy feat,"

I hummed the theme song for "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic" as I sat down at one of the tables of a dainty, garden themed café.

A waiter brought a tray with two glasses of Milo, a chocolate drink. I stared at it.

It was simple enough to make, chocolate powder, then add milk.

But the drink shared deeper meaning than that to me.

I smiled goofily as I reminisced the old times I'd had with a childhood friend.

He would always drink that for recess time, and so would I. We'd talk with the Milos in hand, and I remember always bugging him for money to buy it if I'd forgotten to bring my purse to school.

And occasionally, after we were both done, we'd use the straws to fling ice at each other, declaring war. One time it ended with the discipline teacher getting hit by an ice. And we both ended up getting caned for fooling around.

The drink sure held some history.

Stirring the drink, I looked around for the arrival of this special friend of mine.

10 years....

The races we had from our class to the canteen..

10 years....

Hiding in the class from prefects during recess just cause we were too lazy to go to the canteen...

10 years...

Getting teased by our fellow classmates for being a couple...

I had giggled a little at that one.

10 years....

"..and magic makes it all complete.."

I sang the last part of the song out loud and a few people turned their heads to look at me with weird stares.

“Ding-a-ling!” chimed the bell hanging from one of the handles on the door to the entrance.

A man wearing a suit and tie walked in. I instinctively looked up, hoping it would be him.

He wore a dark blazer with a pink shirt and a bright green tie. He had on pleated brown pants and black leather shoes. Simple and formal.

Much too simple and formal. Surely he would arrive in more casual attire?

I couldn't help giggling as I imagined a scenario in my head.

"Man…If that guy were Nick.. Hee.."

Suddenly their eyes locked- and something clicked.

"Mel!" Nick exclaimed.

I could almost hear the sound of my jaw crashing on to the table.

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Doctor Whooves jerked up straight at his desk, knocking over a jar of ink to the ground.

"Doctor!" Exclaimed Derpy, shocked by his sudden movement. She picked up the jar of ink, getting her hooves inked like a filly trying hoof-painting.

"Something isn't right!" he exclaimed, turning around, this time knocking over the book he was reading quietly just a moment ago.

"Doctor! Stop!" shouted Derpy. "What's wrong?"

His neck jerked to the side to face Derpy.

"What's wrong?" he repeated. "I'm getting that feeling- that same feeling I got when Nightmare Moon appeared... Something is about to happen. And that's not a particularly good thing."

“That sounds like Pinkie Sense to me..” muttered Derpy.

Derpy stepped out of the room slowly, her worried gaze still fixed on the Doctor, now sitting in his "thinking chair", drumming his hooves on the armrest.

She closed the door softly behind her and trotted down the hall to another room and knocked.

After moments of waiting patiently to no avail, she banged harder on the door.

"Vinyl? Vinyl, are you in?" she shouted. “I need to ta-“

The door crashed open before Derpy could finish her sentence, and Vinyl came crash-landing on top of poor Derpy. Her ears suddenly felt like bleeding- and the walls seemed to shake around her.

"SORRY!" Vinyl's yelling could barely be heard over the repetitive bass drops. But being a DJ for so long, she knew how to make herself heard over loud noises. "I WAS EXPERIMENTING WITH THE BASS VOLUMES, BUT THE SPEAKERS GOT JAMMED, AND IT KEEPS ON DROPPING THE BASS!"

She was smiling as she said all this, clearly used to the sound decibels-

Derpy, however, felt like projectile vomiting all over Vinyl.

She retreated back into the room, finally noticing how green Derpy looked. After lowering the volume, by a minute amount, she stepped out, grinning.

"So... Whaddaya need from the Scratcheroo?" she asked, hands on hips.

Derpy rubbed her still pulsating ears, and gave her a serious look. Which was quite hard to accomplish with her gold colored eyes, that could never seem to look in the same direction, not to mention the throbbing headache from the wubs.

"It's... The Doctor... He's been acting... Well.. Strange."

"Typical Whooves." Vinyl grinned, in a ‘why-should-care?’ way.

Derpy shook her head.

"It's different this time." She said, unsmiling.

Vinyl cocked her head to the side, causing her dark purple shades to slide down a little, on the bridge of her nose.

She looked from the top of her shades, her brilliant red eyes gleaming.

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I stood up, utterly shocked at the sight before me- the man in the suit.

The milo tipped over when I had stood up so suddenly, and trails of brown dripped slowly onto the floor.

Everyone in the café had craned their necks to watch the unfolding drama. The usual clatter of cutlery hitting a plate, or the hum of usual café chatter just stopped.

All eyes on me.

I wished, at that moment things would slow down. I was expecting.. Well.. Nick! And this man... he was Nick...but he seemed more of Nicholas, the guy in the suit, rather than Nick, my old trusted buddy and pal.

I sighed, thinking, “Nick certainly can’t stay the same troublemaking, carefree boy he was when we were younger forever.

But then again, I was quite the drama queen then, and still am. I had a second to myself to realize how little I changed.. Looking up at Nick once again, “…and how Nick just… just evolved!” I thought to myself.

He seemed pretty casual seeing me, until I had a mini heart attack right then.

After all the hubbub I created, everyone returned to what they were doing, realizing that we weren't lost lovers or something dramatic like that.

We began chatting, just like we always did in the good ‘ol days. And for quite awhile, it soon got dark, and Nick said he’d had to go.

“Cant keep her waiting,” he grinned. “But this isn’t over, we still have like, 10 years left to catch up on.”

Somehow I couldn't get a sense of closure from that. We chatted about how we still had loyal love for MLP, and how we were getting on.

Nick had gotten a girlfriend, and they had been dating for about 3 years already.

I laughed and admitted I still haven't found my special somepony yet.

I asked if I could meet her, and he said yes-

"But," he lifted his index finger, "you're gonna have to find a date too, missy. Then we can-"

"DOUBLE DATE!" We squealed together.

Alright, I squealed. He made a sound something like shriek.

It felt like we're in primary again. Except this time instead of me making fun of him and his crush, it was him making fun of me not having a boyfriend.

Besides MLP, we talked a lot about how we used to play this game called "League Of Legends" and how we were completely, over-the-top, day and night, ADDICTED to it.

We also had another gaming pal, Haz, short for Hazrain, we never actually did meet him. And slowly we lost contact of him. I think I'll have to make a Google search on him. Since we're older now... Heck, we could even pay him a visit!

Suddenly, I could almost feel the warmth of a shining light bulb above my head.

“Ideeeaaaa!” I jumped up and shouted.

Derpy glanced between the small crack in the door.

Whooves was still in the same position she had left him. His hooves mechanically drumming over and over on the armrest.

He was muttering to himself, something about "humans". But they were just old mares' tales. Something that would probably only exist in a parallel dimension-

once the thought struck Derpy, she tumbled through the door, snapping the doctor out of his "trance".

Vinyl stepped in after her, trotting over her hind legs.

"Doctor," she said, standing up. "Is something happening in the world of humans?"

Whooves stared at Derpy in pleasant surprise. "Why, Derpy," he began "that was exactly what I was thinking! Clever pony!"

Derpy beamed at this sudden praise, and Vinyl looked confused.

"Humans?" She scoffed. "Aren't those just as real as my great aunt Berthina?"

"You have a great aunt Berthina?" asked a confused Derpy.

Whooves shook his head. “Though your great aunt Berthina could very well be alive in another dimension.” He chuckled.

Then it was back to serious time.

"Well this world.. humans are just fairy tales.

But beyond this world- the other dimensions- the other universes- it's likely they do exist." He said wisely, yet at the same time dreamily. "And a few of them... No.. Three of them to be exact... Are about to do something..." he sank lower into his thinking chair, letting the leathery material envelope him.

"Something they will very much regret."