The Story of Mr Allan in Equestria

I backed up from the orb, Twilight noticed this "What do you see?" I didn't want to say anything, I hit the orb and it turned into dust. "Hey! Why did you do that?" Twilight then noticed I was slightly worried "What is it?"

"I don't wanna talk about it." I looked at the clock on the wall '10:30am' "I better get ready to meet Lyra for lunch." I went back into my room and grabbed the bag of gold coins on the table then headed out.

I walked out the front door to the sight of a beautiful sunny day, I had no idea where sugar cube corner was so I planned on searching for it with the two hours I had to spare.

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Ironically enough it actually took me two hours to find sugar cube corner, outside I saw Lyra with here saddle bag. When she saw me she smiled and walked up to me "Hi Allan, it's good to see you again."

I gave her a smile "Good to see you too Lyra." after greeting each other we walked into sugar cube corner. We walked up to the counter and were greeted by a unicorn stallion with a lemon coat and a bright orange mane.

"Well hello there Lyra, it's good to see you again. How have you been?"

"Hello Mr Cake, I've been great thanks for asking." replied Lyra.

Mr Cake looked at me "Oh Lyra I didn't know you started dating again." A large blush suddenly overcame me and Lyra.

"H...Huh? W...were, not dating. He's just a friend." Mr Cake let out a slight chuckle.

"I'm just kidding, so what can I get for ya?"

"We'll have a muffin each. I also would like a strawberry milkshake please." Lyra asked.

"You got it, go take a seat while you wait." Mr Cake then walked into the kitchen. Me and Lyra looked around until we found a table for two next to a window.

We sat down and chatted while we waited. "So Allan, how are things over at Twilight Library?"

"Well it's a little small but I've managed for the last two days." Lyra seemed nervous.

"Well if you ever feel like you need more room, you can always come to my place if you want."

"I'll think about it." An offer like that quite clearly showed she liked me.

Lyra was very nice the whole time. "Twilight told me you had a book about your studies on humans."

Lyra suddenly grew more happy "Why yes, I do, I have a copy right here actually." She opened her saddle bag and pulled out the said book. "I only have five copies at the moment, do you want this copy?"

"Lyra, I would love a copy of your book." She smiled and gave me the book. The Title read: Humans, The Legend,. Volume 1. "You have more?"

"Well I'm working on Volume 3 right now."

Our order's arrived and we enjoyed the rest of lunch talking.

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P.O.V: CLM

I examined the terminal, he was making friends, this was bad "I told him no emotional attachments, this is not good." I looked around and picked up a metal box. "Maybe a creature from the Void will make you come to your senses." I flipped open a lid on the box and pressed a big red button. "Hopefully you will come to your senses before the Void creature makes you."

I turned back to the console and saw a spiral of dark lightning clouds start forming over ponyville. "Good luck, let the dead of the Void speak for me."

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We finished our lunch and I chose to pay for it because...   ...well, that's what the guy does right? Anyway, we left sugar cube corner. "Hey, I'm headed home, do wanna maybe come over for drink?"

I thought about it for a second "Well, I don't have anything else planned so..." before I could finish my sentence a bolt of red Lightning hit the ground in between us, dragging our attention to the sky.

Lyra looked surprised "I don't remember the cloud teams reporting a lighting storm today." her look of surprise turned into a look of horror.

The clouds started to quickly form a Spiral in the clouds, Lightning was clashing creating ruptures in the clouds. I noticed a large circle shape at the heart of the spiral.

All of a sudden I saw flashing images and a loud ringing, the images looked like the Void Shard except it was shaped differently. It started to hurt and I fell to the ground in pain, Lyra saw this and hurried up to me to help. "ALLAN! Are you okay?!" I shook my head, she didn't know what to do.

I was in so much pain "So, cold...." I felt like I was laying on 100 ice packs.

Next thing I know I feel a pair of hooves wrap around me, I open my eye's to see Lyra hugging me "Your gonna be alright." suddenly the flashing and the ringing stopped. I got up to see Lyra still hugging me.

"Lyra I'm okay now, you can let go." Lyra opened her eye's and noticed she was still hugging me. She let go and backed up a bit.

"Sorry, I was just worried is all." I saw a slight blush grow on her face.

I turned back to the sky and saw a purple blur launch from the circle in the clouds in the direction of the town plaza. "That can't be good." I started heading towards the plaza.

"HEY! Where are you going?" I turned to see Lyra right in front of me.

"Somepony's got to see what's going on."

Lyra grinned "Well your not going anywhere without me."

"It could be dangerous, you know that right?"

Lyra nodded "Everything's dangerous..." She started trotting ahead "...all we do is take risks."

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Me and Lyra galloped towards the plaza, some other pony's were already there investigating the crashed object. We arrived at the impact zone. It had created a small crater in the ground. It was another Void Shard, but it was bigger than last, about the size of a pony. As I got closer it began to glow, I raised a hoof to touch it when Lyra's hoof grabbed mine.

"So you just plan on touching it and seeing what happens?"

"It sounds dumb but the results can sometimes be good." Lyra let go of my hoof and I touched the Shard. Upon contact with the Void Shard a strange ooze started to pour out of it. Me and Lyra backed up as the Ooze started taking a shape of a pony around the Shard.

The 'Void Pony' solidified the purple ooze into a skin type matter. A pair of glowing eye's opened on the Void pony and it turned to me and Lyra.

The other pony's had backed up to a safer distance. The Void pony looked up and let out a high pitched scream stunning me and Lyra. I looked up to see the circle in the Spiral had disappeared leaving the clouds to continue clashing. I looked down to see the Void pony stop screaming.

"The results can be good?" yelled Lyra sarcastically.

"Sometimes, sometimes they can be good."

The Void pony suddenly charged me, I waited for the right moment and jumped over it with the help of my wings. It slid to a stop and turned to charge me again. This time I jumped before he reached me and used my wings to keep me in the air. When he was right below me I dropped and kicked him with my hind legs. Launching him face first into the ground skidding across the dirt floor. When he got up I could see a part of his skin was missing and the Void Shard inside him was vulnerable.

The Void Pony got back up, but instead of turning to me for another attack it turned to Lyra and started charging. Lyra's horn started glowing and she pointed it at the Void pony. I could only watch and see what happened next. Lyra suddenly fired a burst of magic at the Void Pony, the shot hit it in the neck forcing it to fall on it's side.

Me and Lyra quickly galloped up to it to see a large portion of the skin it generated was missing and the Void Shard was vulnerable. Lyra looked at me as I raised my hoof "What are you doing?" I slammed my hoof down onto the Shard smashing it into purple smoke. Like last time the smoke disappeared, the Void pony's skin material just disintegrated into nothing.

I sat down and took a few deep breath, I looked at Lyra "How did you know that would work?"

"Lucky guess." I couldn't tell her I had broken a Shard before, otherwise she could get suspicious.

I looked to the crowd to see Twilight approaching us. "What in the name of Celestia happened here?"

Lyra turned to Twilight with a satisfied look "Well the clouds somehow moved themselves into a spiral formation and a scary purple crystal came down and created the form of a pony and tried attacking us."

Twilight gave her an unbelieving look then turned to me "Same question."

"Same answer, Lyra was telling the truth." Twilight looked at me in shock.

"Okay then, where is this pony?"

"Allan defeated it and saved us." Lyra then hugged me.

Twilight looked at me "You stopped a magical shape-shifting crystal?" I nodded. "I'm just going to take your word for it then."

Lyra ended the hug "So..." I turned to her "...do you still wanna come over for that drink?" I thought about it for a second, something like this would undoubtedly be in one of CLM's letters arriving soon. I had to get home to find out what happened.

"Sorry Lyra, I need to get home."

Lyra's happy expression quickly ended and she looked sad "Oh....okay...well, I'll be over tomorrow." I nodded.

"See you tomorrow Lyra." I then galloped towards the library without another word.

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P.O.V: CLM

"Wise choice." I watched the monitor as he ran towards Twilight's library. "I better get back to my job as well, sending letter." I pressed the button to send the letter and then I walked over to the Avatar device. "Until the full Transition is capable of being done, I'll have to use you." I stepped into the machine and closed my eye's.

"Let's see what Equestria has in store for me today."

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I opened the door to my room and saw two letter's laying on the bed. One said 'read last', and both had CLM on the back. I opened the first one.

I warned you, no emotional attachments. I opened a hole in the Void letting in a Void creature. What I wasn't expecting was it to be a Void Shard. The creatures of the Void are not to be taken likely, you beat the Void pony yes but the next time you encounter something from the Void, it will have learnt from the last encounter. Never use the same tactic twice against the creature's of the Void. You cannot get too emotionally attached to the other pony's around you either. Be sure to read the next letter I've sent as well. - CLM

I put the letter into the 'note draw' with the others and then opened the other letter.

The Grand Galloping Gala is approaching and I have no tasks predicted for you to do. So this is one of those rare occasions where you are aloud to have an emotional attachment for the one night...    ...does that make sense, god I hope so...   ...I recommend you get yourself a date for the event and take a guess who the only six mare's that have a ticket are? Oh, and I think I know who you are going to pick. But the Gala's not for a week, so you better get friendly with her if your going to ask her to go with you. Good luck, see you at the Gala. - CLM

There was allot in that letter that shocked me. The first thing being that I was aloud to get a date for the Gala, but the fact I only had one week to ask was troubling. The second being that his opinion completely changed because of one event. And the third was that he put 'see you at the Gala' at the end of the letter.

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If I was going to the Gala I was going to need a date, I grabbed my sunglasses, camera, and bag of 495 'bits'. The first thing I planned on doing find Rainbow dash.

I heard Twilight come in, I rushed out of my room "Twilight!"

Twilight turned to me "What is it Allan? Are you okay?"

"Have you seen Rainbow dash anywhere today?" Twilight seemed slightly surprised that I was in such a hurry to find her until she remembered the day before.

"Are you going to ask her out?" she said jokingly.

"No, I'm going to ask her if she would like to be my date at the Grand Galloping Gala."

Twilight was shocked that she was correct(ish) "Your just going to ask her strait away?"

"Well, not really, I plan on getting close enough to her so that way, when I ask her my chances are higher."

"And you plan on doing this in one week?"

"Pretty much, yeah."

"Then how about I help increase your chances? I'll organize a few things for you and Rainbow dash to do during the week and you can use these opportunities to get closer to her."

Twilight's sudden offer to help was good enough for me. "Sounds like a plan, but I'm still going to find her today."

Twilight nodded "She was having a competition with Applejack at Sweet apple acres last time I saw her." I didn't waste time as it was closing on sunset. I exited the the over sized tree and flew into the sky looking around for Sweet Apple acres.

When I saw the acres I dashed at top speed towards it. As I saw approached I saw Rainbow dash leaving through the entrance, I landed right next to her making her jump a little. "Wow, nice flying there."

"Thanks, but it's barely as good as your flying."

Rainbow blushed a bit "So you here for a reason or just to compliment my flying skills?"

"I'm actually here to ask you if you wanted to hang out a bit this week?"

"Sure, I haven't really got any other plans for the week." She wrote down her address on a bit of paper and gave it to me "Pick me up when you want to hang out."

"Got it, can't wait." Rainbow dash grinned then dashed away. The opportunity is in sight, now I've gotta take it.

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P.O.V: CLM

I opened my eye's and got out of the Avatar device, "Getting closer, tomorrow I move from Manehattan to Canterlot."

I walked over to the nearest monitor "Void barrier at maximum strength, ain't nothing getting into Equestria." I walked up to the console monitoring Allan "Getting ready for the Gala I see, when I find Canterlot, I probably should too."

The console started to flicker "What the hell?" I pressed the refresh button and the screen turned off "WHAT THE HELL?!" I was about to restart the system when the image of a void pony appeared on screen.

"Their waiting...   ...for something." I backed away from the monitor continuously wary of the screen. I turned away from the screen and exited the room not noticing that the image had moved from one computer...   ...to another.