One & One-Thousand Daily Pony Challenge Entries

Twilight Sparkle was standing in front of me, talking incessantly, but I did not hear a single word she said. She spoke of theoretical physics and of magic. She theorized, hypothesized, and proposed reasons for how I came to be in her presence, I did not care. She spoke volumes about wormholes and magical dissonance, I just stared. She probably assumed I was in shock, and I was but not because I had just been dragged out of my computer chair and dropped in the middle of Twilight library. Well actually; that is why I was in shock, but not because of the dragging and dropping, but because...

"You're Twilight Sparkle." I said, my eyes wide, my mouth slightly agape.

She stopped her rant.

"Tha-That's right. How do you know me?"

"How could I not know you?! This is incredible! I'm in Equestria!?"

"That's right." She said hesitantly. "Did you come here on purpose?"

My unwavering attention was focused on her I felt an odd giddiness. Moments ago she was merely a character in a TV show. An incredibly in depth character designed to empathize with as many people as possible while keeping the semblance of an individual and of course, at least to someone as withdrawn and embellished in surrealism as myself, she was an utterly intoxicating character; and she was standing in front of me. She wasn't just a character anymore, and my surrealistic ideas, running wild in my unconfident and introverted mind, suddenly became distinctly possible. I chose this moment to start chuckling madly.

"I'm in Equestria!" I exclaimed, completely ignoring her question. I made it! I when I saw that link on the forums of my favorite fan site I wasn't taking it seriously! It was a tutorial on how to tap into your 'inner unicorn magic". I'd always fancied myself a unicorn were I to be ponified, so I clicked it for shits and giggles. Actually now that I look back on it I felt pretty stupid sitting in my computer chair trying to "align myself with Equestria's ley lines", but when something in my mind clicked into place, as if I place the last piece into the puzzle, I stopped feeling stupid, and I started concentrating on what I wanted, and magic did as advertised; and soon I was standing before a bewildered, and concerned Twilight Sparkle.

"Please tell me you're not an evil overlord here to take over Equestria?" Twilight deadpanned.

I paused and looked at her seriously.

"Why would I even try?! You and your friends would just blast me with the elements and then i'd be back home."

"You know about the Elements."

Crap, should I tell her about the show or play possum?

"I know everything about you and your friends." I blurted out. Oh crap, does my brain even consider stopping to think about what I say before I say it? The adorable unicorn before me went wide eyed and backpedaled away from me.

"Are you some kind of stalker?" I was caught off guard, they have stalkers in Equestria? Well of course, it's possible that the show isn't 100% accurate.

"N-no, I'm not... not really, I like you," I winced, "As a character," I grimaced again, this was coming out all wrong. I paused to think, but I found no easy way to comfort the scared Twilight.

"There's no easy way for me to explain all this, but I'll try." She looked like she was about to bolt from the room, magically or otherwise. "Where I come from you aren't real. You're a character in a show." She wasn't expecting that, the look of fear was replaced by a look of confusion. Either she didn't know what I meant by 'show' or the whole concept was just too much.

"You mean po, uhh, things like you sit around watching reenactments of my life?" Good ole theater. At least she understood the concept.

"Uh well yeah, but until today I assumed that you were a figment of someone's imagination, brought out to serve as a form of entertainment, you know... Not really... Uh real."

"How much of my life have you... watched?" I could see the whole concept was giving her the creeps. I stopped to think about it, if I knew that there were people somewhere that were watching me I think I'd have trouble doing anything normally.

"Well it's not like were watching you from afar with some cosmic telescope. I can't tell you what type of shampoo you wash your mane with or what your innermost thoughts are." I explained, trying to assuage her. "We reenact your bigger achievements and triumphs. We know your motivations, your personality, but your opinions and feelings are left to speculation, cause you know that makes for a more relatable... character."

Twilight sets her haunches on the floor and gazes at the roof of her home.

"I'm pretty sure no ones watching now." I say stupidly, grimacing once more at my thoughtless words.

"How do I know if they're watching or not..." She said, rhetorically I assumed, but I answered anyways.

"Look I don't believe that we are directly watching you." I said, pausing to look for a way to put my thoughts into words. "Well take for instance: I'm not from Equestria, in fact I'm probably from an entirely different universe right."

"Multiverse theory." Twilight said under her breath.

"That's right." I said as I approached her, once I was in front of her I sat on the floor so I could be at the same level as her. "So what if our universes are neighbors?"

"So what if they are?"

"Well that means information could bleed from one to another. I mean; name a city."

"Manehattan."

"Manhattan."

"No mah-a-ne." Twilight punctuated her pronunciation, suddenly adopting a stern librarian look about her.

"No... Where I come from we have a city called "Man-hattan", our race is know as 'man' while your are ponies, but you all have manes, so what if the pony who named Mane-hattan got that name from an information bleed? I mean look at Canterlot, we had a legend about a great ruler who lived in a castle city know as 'Camelot' who helped bring peace to a discordant world with the help of a powerful weapon."

"Great ruler, Princess Celestia. Canterlot, Camelot. Discordant, Discord. Powerful weapon, Elements of Harmony." She chanted the connections aloud as she drew them together.

"I mean the director or writers of the show could just be really in tune to the information that leaks out, they might be having really abstract dreams of your latest exploits, events that are strong enough to leave an impact that bleeds through, like blood through gauze. So all we are really seeing is your greatest moments, ones your should be proud to share." Woah there; where the hay is all this wisdom coming from, but I'm not complaining cause that made her perk up.

"You're right it probably is some kind of information bleed," She chuckled a bit, "In fact we probably have entertainment about some of your famous, pon, err," She trailed off looking for a way to, not rudely, describe a plural gathering of my kind.

"Person singular noun People as a plural noun, man or men for males. Girls, women, lady, but not mares, for females, and children are kids and either boys or girls." I explained the various descriptive terms of the human race, and much to my delight, Twilight gave a display of her magic as she summoned a bit of paper and a quill from the nearby desk to write down what I was saying. I wore a very mirthful smile, which was received by a frown.

"Are you going to smile like that every time I do something 'in character'?" Damn she was good.

"Probably." I admitted, no point in beating around the bush. She just shook her head and brought a hoof to one of her temples.

"Ok so here's the plan," She brought out a fresh sheet of parchment and began to scrawl.

"A checklist?" I asked, my mirthful smile returning. She stopped writing and sent the list away, she ran through some kind of breathing exercise I recalled from the latest episode. She seemed rather aggravated about my preconceived, and correct, notions. I guess I'd be pretty irritated if someone knew what I was going to do before I did it, and smiled like a goon as I did my thing.

"Sorry, I'll try to tone it down."

"It's fine, lets just go to Rarity's boutique, I'm sure you know who Rarity is, she, and Spike, can watch you as I gather everyone else, then we can figure out what to do."