Where to begin; lets see about 3 months ago I became a brony. I guess you could consider the average way someone becomes one, is by either seeing it online or someone telling you about it and you become curious. But with me it was a bit different. Now i don't usually watch TV due to it only being filled with the rubbish it is but I woke up feeling a little... couragous I guess you could say.
I have a bit of a messed up DVR so it turns on playing a random channel. I turned it one today to find it on the Hub, with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic on. At first I was about to change but the animation caught my attention so I watched and became quickly addicted. That particular episode was the 7th episode of the first season, Dragonshy. Fluttershy quickly became my favorite pony due to me and her being so alike; I am incredibly shy.
Within the next few weeks, I grew accustomed to getting home from school (I'm a Junior in highschool) and have a constant marathon of watching every episode. I guess you could call me a little obssessed but I guess I just needed something to draw my attention away from the weary world we live in today.
The show helped I guess, even though I knew the world would never grow to be as friendly as the mares and colts are in MLP.
A few weeks pass and after I had watched every episode, I started to read the fanfics. starting with My Little Dashie. What can I say, I cried my eyes out. It was beyond good and I've never cried from a book or a story before.
Now that there's a bit of background info, we can get on to the real story rather than my boring life
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Today started off normally; got to school early, talked with a few friends that sort of thing. But as it progessed things slowly drifted to me not having such a wonderful day. For one, my girlfriend broke up with me. It wasn't anything serious as for we only were dating for a month so I just shrugged it off and tried to continue my day. The next thing was for my sketchbook filled to the brim with my mlp drawings, was burnt in front of my eyes by some redneck douchebags who decided it would be a jolly good time. The bad part was that the principle watched and did NOTHING. They went off with a warning. I went off with the emotional scarring of being called a fag and ponyboy; plus all my hard work in those drawings was wasted. Things only got worse as for my laptop's OS got deleted by some punk who thought it would be funny to delete my system32 folder.
As you can tell... it wasnt a good day lol.
Luckily I at least had my Ipod that has all the mlp episodes on it so I tried to make the best out of it. I walked to the park and just kept watching. Very soon though, night fell and my battery started to get low. I removed my headphones and put my Ipod in my sock for safe keeping (my pockets had holes in them).
I then just layed back in the grass and looked up at the stars. I always loved looking up at them with my parents when I was younger. I wish I could go back to that time to where Mom hadn't overdosed and Dad was still around. Me and Dad would get up almost every morning before the sun rose just to look at the starry heavens. Mom would always have breakfast waiting for when we got back. Now all I see looking up is smog from the city that had been built around what used to be a small farming community.
I fell asleep there dreaming of the past.
I woke up with a start as a loud sound had scared the bejeezus out of me. I sat up and looked around. It was still dark out but nothing seemed out of the ordinary, at least for what ordinary was here anyway. I tried to put the sound out of mind as I checked my watch. It was about 2:30 AM. I let out a sigh and layed back down and closed my eyes. The curiousity of what the sound was drived my eyes to open.
What I saw is almost impossible to describe.
What I saw was a bright rainbow air stream, like what you see after a jet flies by. But what was strange was that it was giving off its own light! How could I of not even noticed it before. I then realized the park was lightly glowing with color, and the pond had a distinct reflection of the rainbow fading into the nightsky. I looked down and realized I was trembling. I closed my eyes, thinking that I was dreaming because I mean really, this defies physics in everyway. I looked back up and saw more to it than before. At what appeared to be the start of the rainbow, was a slight area in which the light was bendind twisting in strange ways, a bit like when you look at yourself in one of the funhouse mirrors. I then thought, What could possibly of done this? Is a black hole forming nearby and this is what happens when light is sucked in? Or is it a wormhole and something from across the universe was literally teleported here?
But then I thought back to the incredibly loud sound that had woken me from my sleep. It was the sound of a sonic boom but this one sounded closer than what I saw in the sky. I then thought a little 4th dimensionally and pondered that maybe this is what happens when you break the light barrier.But what could've possibly reached light speed when it was only within 10 decades that we broke the sound barrier.
I then noticed that an object was slowly appearing out of the "wormhole" lets say. A very faint light was glimmering down with it. The object was round and looked to be slightly moving downwards. The light then went completely out and the object started to fall faster. As this was happening, the rainbow began to wane. What is this, some crazy government experiment? Oh God, I might get arrested for witnessing this! But then I thought there was no way the government would perform tests over a large city like this. Who else has seen this? That question stuck out the most. What is this some sick, twisted joke?
Back to the falling object. The rainbow was now completely gone. I then saw what the object was; a hot air balloon. But then it appeared to be gaining even more momentum. It was going to crash!
A cloud of purple the surrounded the balloon and it slowly lost speed and was then set lightly on the ground. I stood speechless. I didn't know how to react at all. Not only had there been a rainbow that produced its own light but a hot air balloon just came out of a wormhole and landed right in front of my eyes.
I felt I needed run away but something kept me from doing so; curiosity I suppose. I decided I would get a little bit closer but I thought I had to be extremely cautious. I got within 25 feet of the balloon and climbed a tree to get a clear view and not be as noticible as someone just standing there. What I saw next I didn't expect.
From out of the hot air balloon, jumped the cartoon versions of Twilight Sparkle and Applejack. My eyes got wider. They looked more detailed than those on the show, like the fanart you see on deviantart.
"Aw shoot sugarcube, looks like your spell backfired."
"Dang it!" the purple mare said, "I thought I had all my calculations correct."
"Well you'll figure it out eventually but we still have a few big problems here."
I struggled to listen harder but as I moved, the tree began to shake and I heard a few snaps and cracks.I got real still and hoped the hadn't of noticed me; at least not yet anyway. luckily they didn't notice and carried on their conversation and I let out a sigh of relief.
"Do you see where she went?"
"No we were still in the portal when she broke through," Twilight paused, "I hope she's okay."
"Sure she is! You're forgetting who we're talking about!"
"I know but I can't help but worry about her. I mean look at us,we don't even know where we are. Everything is so different here."
AJ sneezed, "Come to mention it, even it smells funny here."
"Yeah it almost hurts to even breath."
Twilight turned to the balloon basket and peered inside.
"How's Fluttershy?"
"She's alright, she's only fainted. Celestia knows how long she will sleep."
Just then, the branch I was sitting on let out a huge crack and I toppled into the bushes below.
