High School Shenanigans

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“Mondaaaaaaaaay...” I sighed as I slammed the snooze button on the alarm clock. Great, here comes another 5 days of homework and stuff. I love Monday, who doesn’t love the Monday blues and saying goodbye to weekends?

Stupid Mondays, why couldn’t they start the week on Tuesday instead?

But that would just lead to the Tuesday blues and then we would wish the week would start on Wednesday and so on. Throwing off the duvet wrapped around my body, I slouched into the bathroom and closed the doors.

After the morning rituals were finished, I opened my closet to find the next in the file of shirts, pants and jackets... to be blue. Sighing, I put them on while silently cursing how 'lucky' that I am going to wear blue for the rest of the day. Basically, I looked like a poor man’s cosplay of Dr Manhattan minus the blue skin. Hey, it’s not because of Monday! They just happened to be the next in the stack of shirts, pants and jacket in my closet. And besides, blue’s my favourite colour, so sue me.

~5 minutes later

“ Morning mom, morning dad.” I yawned as I walked into the kitchen. My father was sitting on a chair like a boss (well he is one at his workplace), dressed in a white plaid shirt and a red tie while holding a mug of coffee, he was reading the newspaper and I can see the headline on it printed in huge bold ink.

'TELEPORTATION PROTOTYPE FAILED!'

Ah yes, the teleportation project. The talk of the century. Who knows what crazy ideas they're thinking of? Sooner or later, we'll be invaded by aliens from outer space like Half Life 2! I think they should focus more on the next big thing that all of us have been waiting for in 2015.

My dad nodded without looking up from his papers while my mom replied with a grin. I sat down on the chair while thinking what's for breakfast when my mom placed a bowl in front of me.

Looking down at my bowl, I sighed.

Oatmeal again? Couldn't we have pancakes or anything else BUT oatmeal?

“You took your own sweet time getting down here son.” My dad said without looking up. “ I almost thought that school was cancelled today.” He pointed at the clock.

“Dad what are you talking about?" I stared at him while fooling with the white goopy stuff in my bowl with the spoon, not planning to eat any of it. "I’m perfectly…” Then I turned and stared at the clock.

8:05am…ah shit

“I’M GOING TO BE LATE!” I rushed out of the kitchen to get my bag.

“You’re going to miss breakfast!” My mom cried from the kitchen.

“I can hold out until lunch! See ya!” I grabbed my phone from the coffee table and my slingbag hanging on the coat hanger, almost tripped over when putting on my shoes and socks.

This day is getting better already, I’m going to be late for school like every Monday. Hey, it’s not that I sleep late! (Ok, so I do sleep late, but what does that have to do with it?) I’m just a heavy sleeper! Either that, or someone just messed with my clock.

When I rushed out of the door, the bus was already long gone.

“Need me to drive?” My dad asked sarcastically from the porch, still holding his mug.

“Dad, I’m 16 already! Besides, you always drive slow so no thanks.”

“Suit yourself son, I just hope you run as fast as you eat.” He chuckled before going back into the house.

I groaned before rushing off.

"SHIT SHIT SHIT IM LATE!"

I have no idea how fast I ran, there's a pain in my stomach that keeps appearing and disappearing, and I'm pretty sure that I jumped over a few garbage bins and a tricycle that someone left outside on the pavement.

"Sorry!" I called when I jumped over a little boy holding a ball in his hand.

I looked at my digital watch, the time on it wasn't helping much in this situation.

8:08am! Shit! Better pick up the pace! I don't want to get detention!

I was literally flying now, jumping over fences and some tricycles(what's the deal with leaving tricycles on the pavement?) usually without much success. The pain in my stomach was gone and that helped abit, enough to keep me moving but not enough to make me forget about the fact that I am going to be late of school if I don't move it. I've never ran this fast  since I was chased by the neighbour's rottweiler a few years ago, I could've sworn that I might have just set a new land speed record, but I'm not going much into details of what had happened then.

A few people were giving me looks when I ran past them. I wasn't sure why, haven't they seen someone running late before? Maybe it was the moon cutie mark on my phone casing, whatever the reason, they just gave me weird stares.

I stopped at the T section at the end of the road panting and trying to catch my breath. I looked at my watch again and saw that it was 8:10am now. I don't know if I can make it on time with just 5 minutes.

Unless...

Raising my head and looking in front of me is a forest. Sure it looks creepy with the dead leaves and tall trees, but it was the only shortcut I know of that of that allows me to get to school within 5 minutes. What do I have to lose?

My stomach?

Taking a deep breath, I rushed into the forest without a second thought and continued running.

You know, this place ain't half bad actually, it's not as creepy as it looks from the outside. I just hope that no animals will jump out and scare me

Well speak of the devil, the moment I thought of that, something blue jumped out from the bushes and collided into me head-on on the head.

"Fuck. My. Life." I garbled before darkness overtook me.

I have no idea how long I was out for, but when I did wake up from my 'slumber', I found myself looking head on at a pair of big and beautiful cyan eyes, those that seems to shine when you take a closer look in them. I could have stared at them for eternity when I looked down from it's face to it's features, something struck me in the head.

"AHHHHH!!!!!!! WHAT THE FUCK!" I couldn't believe my very eyes. There I was, lying on the ground scattered with dead leaves and in front of me, sitting on her hind legs, looking at me with a curious stare, was the Princess of the Night herself.

"L-L-L-L-Luna??????"

"Princess Luna" She corrected. "I see that you are familiar of one of the Royal Sisters."

"Oh my god, this is impossible, how are you real? It's not possible!"

"I'm as real as you are strange creature."

"I knew I shouldn't have skipped breakfast."

"Breakfast sounds delightful." She said

"Ok, now I'm hallucinating." I rubbed my temples while taking deep breathes."So here I am, in the middle of the forest, bumping into Princess Luna and now she's talking to me."

"I am talking to you!"

"No please, stop talking. This must be one of those hidden camera trick isn't it? I know where your cameras are!" I shouted looking around my vicinity to search for hidden cameras.

No signs of a camera or projection device or sort, either whoever had hidden them carefully or the blue pony I'm speaking to is actually real.

"Jeez, I must have done something in my past life that makes me so close to the color blue."

"I can see that you're wearing blue."

Thanks for stating the obvious, Princess Obvious.

“H-h-how did you get here anyway?" I asked.

"Truthfully, I myself do not possess a clue to my current predicament."

Well, did you accidentally say something wrong during a teleportation spell?

"We'll it's nice to see you Princess, but I got to go now...heh...heh...heh" I laughed nervously while walking away.

"HOLD YOUNG ONE!" She let loose the Royal Canterlot Voice on yours truly. "BUT WE REQUIRE YOUR ASSISTANCE IN BRINGING US HOME!"

"This is my home, and is there more of you? Because you said..." Then I facepalmed myself. How could I forget the fact that the Royal Canterlot Voice still uses the outdated speech?

"I can assure you that there is only one of the Royal Sister here youngling." She spoke again, this time at a much lower volume wih a look of desperation on her face. " But I wish to return to my subjects in Equestria as soon as possible."

"Look, as much as I want to help you, I can't right now because I'm going to be late for..." I looked down at my wrist, time shown? 8:14am.

No doubt about it, I'm late

*sigh* "Thanks to you, I'm going to be late for school and that means detention which means my precious time are being wasted getting stuck in a room for the next 2 hours. Thank you so much." I groaned, putting my five fingers to my forehead.

"I am happy to be of any help." She replied, not detecting the sarcasm in my voice.

"Wait what? Ugg... Nevermind, I'm going to..."

Zing!

"school..."

I found myself in the middle of the school corridor alone. Most students would have been in their respective classroom by now, and luckily, no one noticed me appearing out of nowhere. When I entered the classroom, luckily, the teacher wasn't there yet so I'm still technically not-late for school.

How the heck does she knows where I'm going?

"Hey buddy, you're almost late!" My best friend, Gary, whispered from his table when I sat at my desk.

"Ughh... tell me about it." I replied.

Greetings young one, if you would be so kind to tell me where I am, I would appreciate it.

What, who said that? I turned around, making sure that Princess Luna didn't somehow followed me. Oddly, she's isn't in the classroom so how could I hear her voice?

"Dude, nice cap." A boy called out from behind me.

A cap? I don't remembering wearing one... I touched my head with my finger and sure enough, I am wearing a cap. Taking it off for a better look, it was ironically navy blue with Luna's cutie mark on the middle like a logo.

"You can turn into a cap?"

Yes I can, however until a more acceptable time would I return to my original form.

"Of all things, why a cap? And why blue?"

It matches your outfit youngling, and this form allows me to blend with your people and environment.

"Alright, you can stay like this until I get home, I'll think of something once we get back."

I found myself being stared at by most if not all of my classmates, giving me weird looks as I put the cap back on.

"What?" Then they returned to whatever they're doing.

During homeroom, when the teacher was taking attendance, once again, Luna bombarded my poor mind with even more questions.

Who is this big creature standing in the middle of this room? And why is he shouting?

*sigh* "He's Mr. Laurence, and he's the maths teacher here. He's taking attendance of the students to see who's here and who's not." I spoke as softly as I can.

Maths? As in calculations... like abacus?

I have no idea what's an abacus, but I think it's a sort of calculation instrument like a calculator. "Something like that yeah,

but more challenging and complicated."

I do not understand how calculations and counting could be considered complicated

"You'll see, soon."

You have yet to reveal your name child; may I have the pleasure of knowing your identity?

"I rather keep my identity anonymous to you..."

"Dixon?" The teacher called out my name.

"Here!" I raised my hand before realizing what I've just did, I could facepalm myself now...

"So much for anonymity." I could've sworn I've heard a giggle in the back of my head when I said that.

What did I do to deserve this?

After 7 hours of homework and learning...

RING!!!

Finally, the end of school for the day, now I can go back home and take a nap while trying to forget what has happened today. Grabbing my bag, I walked out of the classroom to see Gary standing there waiting for me.

"Hey bud, wanna go grab a bite?"

"Nah, I'm good. I need to sort some thing out, see ya!"

"Oooooookay?" He gave a weird reply when I exited the school building.

Outside the school compound, Luna the Cap talked again.

So, Dixon, I persume? Would you be as so kind to tell me where I am and what you and the others are?

"If you insist, fine... be prepared for a long lecture"

It was weird talking to a  pony princess who's posing as a cap, I got some weird looks from people as they past by a boy who's talking to noone apparently. But nonetheless, the walk back home goes uneventful except for a few occasions when Luna shouted into my ear on what was that shiny metal cocoon (car) and the giant metal bird (plane). After sometime, the neighbourhood changed to a more familiar scene...

"Well, here we are, welcome to my humble abode." I stopped at the front door of my home.

You are too kind Dixon;until we figure out on my predicament, I shall be your guest

"Hi mom." I greeted as I stepped into the familiar house that I grew up in.

"I got your lunch ready sweetheart! It's on the table!" My mom called from upstairs.

"That's my mother ..." I whispered as I entered the living room, "My father wouldn't be home until the evening so I guess you can transform back into your original form until my dad comes home. Or until my mom checks on me."

If I could ask, precisely what do you mean by until your father returns home?

"He has this weird gift for sniffing out stuff , if he were to return right now, he could smell you right away."

Pardon my rudeness, but as the princess, I took special care of making myself presentable for the Royal Court using the best shampoos and soap Equestria has to offer me

"Well that's another problem; he could smell what type of soap someone or something has been using."

"Dix! Who are you talking to?" My mom asked.

"Just a friend on the phone!" I lied.

What is this 'phone' you speak of? Your world is very different from mine

"Look, I can teach you as much as I know about humanity and others, but you need to change your form or else my mom will think that I'm crazy for talking to a cap!"

Which form do you speak of?

"I don't know, maybe a cat? Wait!" A light bulb lit up in my head. "A cat! Our cat Tom has gone missing for the last few days, my parents wouldn't suspect a thing if he were to return!"

A cat? Well, with my magic I could most certainly try.

In an instance (and a flash of light), the once blue cap on my head has transformed into a grey Siamese cat that my family come to know and love as 'Tom', expect that it(she) has blue eyes instead of the black plain eyes.

So, how do I look?

This could be the longest day of my life