Equestrian Visitors

Equestrian Visitors

Chapter 1: Introductions

"Wha... b... b... I, wh, b-buh..." The girl started stammering, blinking rapidly. She was scared. Genuinely scared. Her body shook, her eyes were was wide as saucers. Really though, I was scared too. I still had no idea what was happening, and whatever it was, it was happening too fast. I needed some time to think, but I won't have any of that. I didn't know if it was a good idea taking her in yet, but again, the urge to just talk to her kept on.

"Wh-what are you?" she finally spoke, just barely above a whisper. 'Well, she can form coherent sentences, that's good, I guess.' Just after she said that, she decided to look down... and backed right up, effectively smacking her head in the wall.

"What-- what is-- who-- I--" the woman went back to stammering after quickly recovering, but this time with her eyes widened even more than before, somehow. She was breathing fast, no, she was hyperventilating now, crap! 'No, no, don't do that!'

"Hey! Please, calm down! You're fine!" I got up, and ran over to the other end of the bed, and slowly put a hand on her shoulder, thinking that may do something. Except, it didn't, and she flinched back and slapped me in the chin. Hard. I back away for a second, shocked at that hit. It freakin' hurt! No, I was actually in pain. But did she do that to hurt me, or to defend herself?

I put my hand up to my chin, and start rubbing it in hopes it does something to the pain. What do I get? An odd feeling of liquid on my fingers. I move my hand back, and notice that there's some sort of red substance left on each finger. In other words, blood. The hell.

"I'm... I'm sorry..." I look back over to the girl, who now had her face hidden away in the corner under her hair, curled up on the bed. I swear I could hear some sort of weeping, and that's around when I realized I messed up.

"Hey, hey. Don't worry. You're safe." I say in a calming voice. I don't really know why, but I was pretty good at talking to people like this. "I won't hurt you. Are you okay?" I asked, sitting on the bed next to her. The girl hesitated for a moment, but nodded slowly. 'Okay, making progress, maybe.'

"Good. So why don't we start with your name, darling?" No idea why, but 'darling' just seemed right there. I have never even used that word!

"F-F..." the girl started, and finished with something that I think was audible, that is if you had super hearing or something.

"Sorry, I didn't catch that. Would you mind repeating, please?" I ask.

"Fl... i..." Again, super hearing necessary. But I had a better idea of what she was about to say, and it would really help if she didn't. 'Or, maybe it would be better? I don't know.'

"Please, it is okay to speak up. I can't hear you." I respond.

"F-Fluttershy..."

'ABORT, ABORT! MAN DOWN! NOPE! MISSION FAILED! REQUESTING EXTRACTION!'

Thanks, brain, it was absolutely useless.

'No problem. By the way, it would appear our jimmies are quite rustled.'

I take a deep breath, and rub my temples, in an attempt to calm down, and unrustle my jimmies. This can't be right, how could this be Fluttershy!? A fictional yellow pony from a fictional TV show! She must be someone delusional, and is probably a trap or something, that's it. Except, that isn't right. That stupid urge or whatever stayed, and it made me trust my gut and go with it. Why!? To any normal person, this would be crazy, they would never have taken her! Yet, this feels right.

"R-Riiight. Okay. My name is Alexander Williams." I eventually respond after a few moments. Still trying to get it through my brain that this could very well be Fluttershy... a yellow pony from a certain 'My Little Pony' TV show. Of which, is extremely popular. Also of which, I am a fan of. But it's a fictional show, made up by some person, right? In the mind of some person?

The girl turns around, and looks at me. She doesn't seem as scared anymore, now she just seems sad. She looks me in the eye, and we end up making eye contact. She had these beautiful blue eyes, and again, I felt this was right. 'Doesn't help that she also has blue eyes. Just like who she claims to be. But those can be contacts, right?' Think I ended up spacing out for a moment, I sorta got lost for a second. They seemed so real. Everything really, just seemed so surreal.

After a minute, I finally get back to reality, and notice the girl wore a thin smile on her face. Huh, maybe she was warming up to me now, that'd be nice. I take yet another deep breath, and start talking.

"Okay, I need you to tell me something, uh, Fluttershy." That's gonna be hard to get used to. "What do you remember?" I ask. If she remembers her name, maybe there's more she can tell me.

"Okay... I was in Canterlot, with my friends..." she stammers out. 'Well this may not end well.'

"Mhm." I nod for her to continue.

"Equestria has b-been in war, since Discord escaped... he- he..." she started tearing up a bit.

"Hey, hey, it's okay. Whatever happened, it's in the past." 'I probably could've said something better than that.' "Take it slow. But I need to know anything you can tell me, please."

"He escaped... and he took over most of Equestria, a-and we were in Canterlot." she whispers. "It wasn't like before... h-he killed ponies!" 'Damn, that's-- ponies?'

"Uhh, ponies?" 'This is bad.'

"Y-yes, I used to live with ponies. I was one, b-but now I'm... this." she answered.

Brain, stay with me here.

"Um. R-Right, okay. Keep going." I replied.

"He was in the castle... I-I remember there were fires..." she lowered her head, and looked away for a moment. I decided to be silent, and let her get herself together.

"We ran to the gate, we had to get the Elements of Harmony, t-to stop Discord. We had to fight our way there... he made the ponies against us..." after a moment, she continued.

"There was so much blood... w-we had to kill! W-We did such terrible--" Okay, time to step in.

"No. Stop. Listen to me." I reached over, and put a hand underneath her chin. "You did what you had to. I believe that. I believe whatever you did was absolutely necessary. You shouldn't beat yourself up over it." 'Really didn't expect to be talking like this to human-Fluttershy when I got out of bed today.'

"But they didn't need that! They didn't deserve that! Because of Discord, innocent ponies died for no good reason!" Fluttershy actually raised her voice at me, and made sure to look me in the eye.

"Maybe so. But you didn't hurt anyone, um, pony. Discord did. And I'm sure you acted in self-defense, did you not?" I kept on trying to console her.

"No! We didn't! Maybe the first time, but everytime we seen a pony Discord taken we fought them!" she shouted back, as tears were forming again. 'Whaaat the hell is happening, dammit.'

"You helped! You could have potentially saved ponies that were not taken by Discord, you put them out of whatever misery they may have had. Please, let's just move on, this isn't a good thing we should stay stuck on," I move my hand, and put it flat on the bed.

"...Okay..." she, again, whispered through tears.

"The gate was already broken, so we just walked through. The grass w-was red, and black, and it smelled horrible..." she continued. 'Jesus, I thought this was a children's cartoon.'

"The castle doors were broken, and we went in. B-But... Discord was right there." 'Shit.'

"P-Princess Luna was at his feet... unconscious, I don't know what happened... and Princess Celestia wasn't there at all..."

"He was holding all of the Elements, o-on each arm, he was wearing them... and it gave him the power of the Elements." 'Well that doesn't make any sense. Whatever, it's Discord.'

"He said that we can't do anything, and that Equestria is over. Th-that we failed."

"Twilight ran at him, b-but Discord just grabbed her, a-and... she disappeared. Rainbow flew in after her, and, the s-same thing happened... then Applejack, th-then Pinkie tried talking to Discord, but he t-took her too..."

"Then it was just Rarity and I, b-but we didn't try anything..." I stayed silent as I thought over the words the girl spoke, while she got her words together.

"Discord looked at us, he looked... sad, almost. He said, he said he didn't want to do this... this wasn't supposed to be how it ended. After that h-he snapped his talons, a-and I just seen this blinding light..." she went on.

"I-I tried shielding my eyes, but I couldn't move. I couldn't see anything. I felt being teleported... and that's the last thing I remember." she appeared to have finished, and looked up at me, expecting some sort of response. I look back at her, and something just unlocks. That's the best way I can describe it. I could suddenly tell, this was a true story. This girl was for real. I tried the best I could, believe me I did, but I could see no trace of deceit.

This was actually Fluttershy, the pony from the fictional children's cartoon.

'Next time weird shit happens, I'm just gonna not do anything about it.'

After that little story, I told the girl not to go anywhere, not like she was anyway, as I walked out and back into the bathroom. I shut the door, and stood above the white sink and looked myself in the mirror. I immediately checked for any signs of injury on my head, as I must've messed it up somewhere along the line. All I found were beads of sweat rolling down my forehead, as I started to just think about what had just happened. What happens next? The girl has wings, I don't exactly think she's very human. Do I give her to someone? Do I keep her? If I keep her, then how long, am I supposed to keep her fed and all that?

What do I do now? Why did this have to happen to me, I can't just keep her here. My family probably doesn't like the fact that I took her in, my friends are most likely about to call up and tell me I should give her to a mental hospital, and I'm starting to doubt it was a good idea to go against the police about this. I could only continue to ask myself questions, but I had no answers.

My mind wandered to the story Fluttershy told me. Losing to Discord, being teleported here. The Princesses lost or something, and the Elements had to fight other ponies. As unbelievable that sounds in comparison to the show, I felt it had some kind of truth to it. Either she was really sure that actually did happen to her, or it wasn't a lie at all. If so, I have a crisis on my hands...

'Oh crap.'

My eyes widened, my brain froze. I couldn't move.

'Discord is coming.'