Lucas Chronicles, the Afterstory Part 1: The Monster Hidden Behind Mountain Dew

LAST TIME:

"I can't believe it's been six months..."

"...Equivalent Exchange..."

"Let's throw a party!"

"Celestia's a tyrant!"

"...From the Fire that burns inside!"

"...Yet, the Lord laid on Him the sins of us all."

"I'm at war with the world..."

"Son of a cupcake..."

"I WILL NOT serve a tyrant!"

"...with that sickness, we should be dead!"

"I feel You keeping us alive..."

"There are some things in life you don't question. I'm one of them."

"Your not gonna die..."

"This is how it feels when YOU. FIGHT. BACK!"

"EXECUTION?!? W-why?!?"

"...to them, it's just another kill..."

"A HERO'S NOT AFRAID TO GIVE HIS OR HER LIFE!"

"...I'm... I'm not worthless!"

"Take control, it's now or never!"

"I'M. SICK. OF. IT!"

"They're in cahoots with Celestia!"

"I didn't want anypony to see me cry... I'm fine..."

"This is THE LAST NIGHT you'll spend alone!"

"RISE IN REVOLUTION!"

"TO CANTORLOT!"

"It's our faith! It's our life! This is our battle cry!"

"Derpy! YOU'RE A GENIUS!"

"I will just have to destroy you myself..."

"...It's time to ride my circus for psycho!"

"This is the place that you can never take away..."

"...circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant..."

"I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool."

"Hello, you clever boy."

"...those sins will be mine and mine alone to bear..."

"...Sunset Shimmer..."

"The Doctor... has a secret..."

"...come to a great battlefield... You must come to Trenzalore..."

"IT'S TOO DANGEROUS!"

"Well then... Miss Duskshine, Miss Bubble Berry, I'll see you around..."

"He saved us from poison!"

"Chase all the fear away! Every time I speak Your name!"

"I'm so nervouscited!"

"You've got good, strong pairs of legs, my student. It's time that you got up and used them."

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Hello. My name is Lucas. You may remember me from my records of the time I helped save Equestria from Reapers with the 'Mane 6', a Derpy Hooves from the future, and my human friends of TheArchwayTeam (or the Lousy Bagels. The name is still under consideration). If you have not, I have them recorded here. Anyway, this next adventure all started when I got lost coming home from E3...

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"Driving down this highway," I sang along with my car's radio. I was listening to Skillet's song, 'Good to Be Alive'. I'm huge Skillet fan, by the way. "Soakin' up the sun. Got miles to go before we get home. And the journey's just begun..." I stopped singing. "AAND I'm lost... I knew I shouldn't have driven all the way from Virginia to Los Angeles for E3..." You see, I didn't have money for a plane ticket, so I decided to drive all the way to California...

Please... Don't ask me about it...

Anyway, about halfway back on my return trip, I had been stopped behind this school bus because the map I was reading said it would be quicker to cut through this one school rather than going through the actual city. I didn't catch the name of the school, however...

By the way I read the map, I would cut out at least three hours of driving. As the school bus moved, however, I saw a girl with purple hair tumble out of the school statue along with a purple and green dog.

Now, I had seen the movie Equestria Girls, and I had actually been to Equestria so I knew everything in the show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was absolutely real. In other words, I knew how this whole situation was going to play out.

As the girl stood up, I pulled around in front of her, rolled down my window and said, "Listen. I know who and what you are and what you are planning to do. Trust me. I have a better way to get your crown back, but, Twilight, I need you to get in my car so I can explain it without anyone eavesdropping."

I realized how wrong that sounded, and like any sane person, Twilight just backed away slowly. I sighed, turned my car off, got out, opened my trunk and grabbed Chillrend and my Chaos Emerald (I haven't left home without them since I took them from Celestia), I also took my IPod and Headphones, then locked my car door. I turned to look at Twilight and said, "Okay, I realize how weird that sounded, but you're going to need my help. I know how the next three days are going to play out. You probably don't remember me though... Shoot..." I touched my forehead then introduced myself. "I'm Lucas."

"How do you know who I am?" Twilight asked.

"It's a long story," I started, "but here it goes. I've been to Equestria at least three times now, and we've met before." She gasped. "Two of those times, I was just passing through. But that other time, Celestia recruited me to stop a Changeling invasion and ultimately stopping a race called the Reapers from wiping out your world and all other worlds with it. But the reason I'm pretty sure you don't remember me, is because in that Equestria, you died. We saved it, but you, Pinkie Pie, and Applejack sacrificed yourselves to do so. You are a Twilight from a parallel dimension. Now, all worlds have-"

Twilight interrupted, "An infinite number of parallel realities!"

"Yes..." I replied. "How did you know that?"

She answered, "Now it's my turn to sound crazy... like, really crazy... but I know this alien who calls himself the Doctor-"

It was my turn to interrupt, "YOU KNOW THE DOCTOR?!?"

"Oh. Um. Why yes!" She smiled. "I traveled with him for a little while! You know him as well?"

I shook my head. "Not exactly. I know OF him, and studied him, but I never actually got to meet him. So, I take it he told you about contacting and travelling to parallel realities?"

She frowned. "Sort of. He said that when phenomena in time and space occur, sometimes you can remember things that happened to a different or future you. But you said you knew what is going to happen. How?"

"Hmm... He must not know about the power of Chaos Emeralds..." I mumbled, then I spoke, "That brings me to the answer of your next question." I flashed her a look at my Chaos Emerald. "You see, this is a Chaos Emerald. It's said that it's a jewel containing ultimate power; of course, this one's a fake, but it does have all the wavelengths and properties of a real Chaos Emerald. With it, I can manipulate time and space, so I can travel through time and across dimensions. And that is the exact reason why I know what is going to happen. I watched a different you go through this." I didn't want to tell her about Equestria Girls, fearing I would create some sort of paradox in time and space.

"Well, if you're here to help..." Twilight pondered. "Let's go!" She began making her way to the school entrance very awkwardly, even falling on her face a few times.

After that, despite me being there, this situation played out almost exactly like the movie, granted I didn't want to do anything to cause a paradox.

We had reached the point in the 'movie' where Sunset Shimmer had began to bully Fluttershy. You see, I HATE bullies. I whispered, "You freaking piece of crap..." Then, I ran up and threw a perfect Tornado kick to her head. For those who do not know, a Tornado kick is where you spin around, then using that momentum, you throw a Round-House kick. Needless to say, if done correctly, it's kind of devastating. Sunset Shimmer flew into a locker.

It was the most satisfying thing I had done that month.

She hated me after that.

Again, the 'movie' played out like normal, all the while I was making friends all over the school. I don't even know how, because most times I just sat there listening to music and playing Animal Crossing: New Leaf. I made friends nonetheless, even the human 'Mane Six', just by being there, supporting Twilight.

One other thing that I did differently from the movie happened as the friends were getting ready for their school's dance. It had just been brought up that Twilight was from a different world and the human Mane 6 were beginning to wonder where exactly she was from. In the movie, Pinkie Pie had 'guessed', and was correct. But here, I was sitting in the corner just outside the dressing room, listening to the band Fireflight while playing Animal Crossing. I overheard the conversation in between songs and just as Pinkie took a deep breath to 'guess', I replied without even looking up. "Yeah, she's a magical flying horse princess with magical flying horse princess powers."

They all peeked out the dressing room door in confusion, save Twilight, who glared at me.

The last deviation from the movie that I made, was when -um spoiler alert, I guess?- Sunset Shimmer had transformed into the flame demon monster and turned the student body into zombies (Now that I think back on it, I thank the Maker that they weren't actually legitimate Walkers. Not even Sunset Shimmer would be able to control that horror. It's just... no. Just no. ...R.I.P. Dale... D'X). She instantly ran for me, probably still enraged by my Tornado kick.

Which, by the way, was still totally worth it.

Anyway, she reached for me, but I just used the Chaos Control to warp around her. There was no way she could hit me after that, so she gave up. She instead started pinning Twilight and her friends down with fire. Instantly, I turned around, jumped, and embedded Chillrend deep into her back.

"Don't worry Twilight!" I shouted. "She should freeze in about three... two... one!" But she didn't freeze. She was a being of eternal flame after all. But, since Chillrend is a legendary blade of eternal frost, it didn't melt. Their effects had canceled each other out. She threw me off her back. I hit the ground and I fell unconscious.

When I awoke, Twilight had just defeated Sunset Shimmer. I walked over as the human Celestia gave Twilight her crown back. The principal spoke, "A true princess in any world leads not by forcing others to bow, but by inspiring others to stand by her side."

Twilight realized, "So... this is where I hear this..." I just simply nodded at her.

And so, they went inside and danced and whatnot. In light of the situation, I gave the human Vinyl Scratch a copy of 'Good to Be Alive' to play at the dance because I thought it fitted the mood.

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Of course, I gave her a copy without the intro to 'Not Gonna Die', because I didn't think anyone could handle it after what happened that night. Plus, frankly, it's just plain creepy.

After the dance, Twilight went back to Equestria as we all waved goodbye. Actually, I walked her to the portal. Dunno why, but I did. I spoke to her. "Alright Twilight. I guess this is it. God willing, I hope to see you again. I'm sure fun times shall be had when we do."

She stopped in her tracks. "Did you just say 'God willing'?"

I gave her a quizzical glance, "Yeah. Why? Is that important?"

"Well," she began, "Pinkie Pie- or, my Pinkie Pie at least- said that she no longer served Celestia because she believed in this 'God' that took our 'sins'. Would this happen to be the same 'God'?"

I was kinda shocked. "Uh... Haha! Yeah! The very same One! The Savior of the universe! How did she know- on second thought, that's not really important. Hold on for just a sec."

I swiftly ran to my car, pulled out my Bible and returned to Twilight, waiting with Spike at the portal. "Give this to Pinkie. If she really believes, she'll need it more than I do at the moment."

"O...kay..." I handed her my Bible as she glanced at it strangely. She shook her head and smiled as waved to me and bid me farewell as she returned through the portal.

I walked back to the party, and I had this brilliant idea.

"Hey Flash, you play guitar, right?" I asked Twilight's temporary love interest.

"Yeah." He replied. "Why?"

"Well, I play too, and I was thinking we should start a rock band, because, frankly, this school is boring."

He was quick to rebuke that idea. "But you don't even go to this school. The principal wouldn't allow it."

"Yeah, I thought of that." I responded. "But I figured we'd just throw guerrilla performances, not exactly condoned by Celestia. And if the students like the performances enough, they themselves will kind of act like crowd control when it comes to the princess- I mean- principal. But, who knows, maybe Celestia will like it, you never know. As for me not being a student, after what's happened over the past three days, everyone pretty much knows me, so that's covered. What do ya say?"

Again, he rebuked it. "I already have a band."

I rolled my eyes, "You mean those people who played with you during the cafeteria musical number? Psh! Please! That was no rock band!"

"But-" He paused, sighed, then smiled as he gave me a high-five. "Let's do it, man."