It was a beautiful day in Equestria as Celestia's sun shone brightly over the land. As all of her subjects were enjoying the day outside, one was inside painting a pretty picture. That one was everyone’s favorite mint green, lyre playing, human loving unicorn. And she was painting a pretty picture on the wall of her best friend's shop. To most people it it was a giant mish-mosh of symbols. To some it was an artist's representation of Zebracan culture. To others (mostly the nerds) it looked like a life size painting of an Inter-Dimensional gate from Star Pony. But to Lyra, this was a portal to a world filled with her favorite creatures and various different adventures.
Or so it seems.
Lyra took one look at one of the finished runes of the portal. She grabs a magnifying glass to check it for any flaws.
"Good, it looks exactly like it does in the book, even down to the little squiggly thing in the corner," she thought as she looked up from the book.
It had taken days to find all the materials to paint this portal, even longer to study it over and over to check what fail-safe would activate if it wasn’t set up right. Some fail-safes could just cause the portal to explode and other will cause the very fabric of the universe to come apart at the seams. There was even one that could cause everypony to switch bodies and cutie marks (she thought that twilight used that to ascend to godhood)
“Stupid Princess Twilight. Just because she had everything handed to her by Celestia, she got to go out and have adventures with her COOL NEW FRIENDS. She even became an alicorn for bucks sake. Well, today is the day I prove to her and Celestia that I will have the last laugh and prove to everypony that I am a better pony than Twilight!” She shouted as she laughed maniacally, “MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” She stopped for a moment. "I really need to stop hanging out with Trixie," she thought. Anyway onto the last one. Lyra levitated the book back on the counter and climbed up the ladder. She carefully levitated the book back to her eyes and began panting the next rune.
The Bell chimed, signaling that someone had just entered the shop, making Lyra freeze in fear. Lyra was supposed to be taking over for Bon-Bon while she was out running errands. She would flip out if she found out that she was making a gate to the human world instead of watching the shop. Lyra placed her paintbrush back in the bucket and the book back on the counter. She was about to walk out and greet the customer when she passed by a mirror and froze at how she looked.
There a paint all over her apron. Splotches of all the different colors decorated it. And even with all of the gear she had on, there were still various marks all over her hooves and fur. There was also a fine coat of dust on her as well. In other words, she looked like a total mess.
“Hold on one moment,” she shouted. She dashed into the bathroom as quickly as her hooves would take her. Turning the corner, she bumped into something. Lyra fell flat on her plot painfully. She groaned as she look up at what she bumped into.
It was an Earth pony with a beige coat, pigment blue mane with a rose pink streak, cerulean eyes, and a cutie mark of 3 pieces of candy.
It was Bon-Bon.
And she looked pissed off.
“Lyra, care to explain why there is paint all over my wall?” she says in a “you-are-five-seconds-away-from-getting-your-ass-kicked-unless-there-is-a-really-good-explanation” tone
“Uhhhhhhhhhhh..... Surprise?”
“So let me get this straight, the reason you painted what looks like that portal from that one Star Pony comic book is to go to the human world and see actual humans, all because Twilight got to see them before you could,” Lyra shyly nodded her head. “OK, and you believe that portal is going to let you go to the human world and turn you into a human.” She again nodded “And while there, you will find someone who is willing to come back here, amusing that there is a portal like this there, to become your proof that humans are real.”
“Well not really, stupid Twilight beat me to the punch,” Lyra complained
“Oh Celestia, not this again,” Bon-Bon places her hoof in between her eyes. “Look, I understand that you are still kind of bummed out that Twilight got to see the human world before you did, but lets face facts, she is a princess, a very smart, powerful, magically gifted pony, and a former student of Celestia herself.” she stated. Lyra only slumped in despair. “Besides she only went to the human world to retrieve the element of magic and save Equestria.” Lyra was frustrated at listing all the accomplishments Twilight “earned”.
“THAT'S NOT THE POINT!” Lyra snapped. Bon-Bon took a few steps back in shock. “Sorry,” Lyra stood up and walked toward the portal. “Its just that now that I know humans exist, I just want to prove to everyone else that they do and the only way I could do that was to go there and bring one here.”
“OK and why do you feel the need to bring one back to Equestria?”
“To prove to everypony that I’m not crazy,” she says nonchalantly. Bon-Bon just stared at her as if she really had gone crazy. “What...don’t look at me like that,” Bon-Bon's look stayed the same. “Its all in this book I borrowed from Twilight,” she levitates the book over to her.
Bon-Bon took one look in the book. the book looked like it was written ages ago and it seems to be falling apart at the binding. The pages themselves were tattered and the text faded. She couldn't read the text. It appeared as if it was written its in some ancient language (probably from the old unicorn tribes before the creation of Equestria.)
“And you translated all this?” Bon-Bon says quizzically
“Yeah, it wasn't that hard really,”
“And Twilight was OK with you borrowing this?”
“...Weeell,”
“YOU STOLE THIS FROM TWILIGHT,” Bon-Bon shrieked.
“Not stole, just borrowed it without her permission or knowledge,”
“Are you insane, you just stole a probably forbidden book from Twilight?? Do you know what would happen if she found out??” She gasped. “Do you know what would happen if the princesses found out?” she began pacing around the room. “We could be banished, or thrown in a dungeon, or banis-”
Lyra puts her hoof in her mouth, effectively silencing her. “Yes, I know that I could get in serious trouble with this, but I’m so close to figuring out the truth that I can’t go back now. That is why I need your help,”
“Fhr whut?”
Lyra looks back and forth between the rooms. “I need you to keep silent about all this,”
“WUTH?!?”
“The portal itself is almost done. I just need a little more time.”
Bon-Bon spat out Lyra’s hoof. “You’re asking me to keep THIS a secret till you get back in Celestia knows how long?”
Lyra got down on her knees “Please Bonnie, I’m so close to making a breakthrough and sticking it in Twilight's face, please just do this for me!”
Bon-Bon looked at Lyra's face and see her extremely desperate. She could swear that she can almost hear her crying. She thought back to all those times Lyra tried to be like humans, the walking, the pants, the hands. Bon-Bon looked back at Lyra who actually had started crying. "This must mean so much to her," she thought. Ever since Twilight had become an alicorn, Lyra had been obsessed with trying to show everyone that she is better than her. It has gotten to the point where every two weeks she comes up with a new plan. And every two weeks it ends in an embarrassing disaster. “*sigh*....OK”
Lyra sniffled, “What?”
“I promise to let you do this...“portal thingy” and keep it secret from Princess Twilight,”
“You mean it?”
“...Yeah,”
Lyra sprung up to her hooves and immediately begun to hug her “THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!” She suddenly let go of Bon Bon gasping. “I better finish the portal,” Lyra gleefully went back to putting the finishing touches on the portal.
Bon-Bon sighed, “This is going to be a long night,”
“aaaaaaand...DONE,” Lyra exclaimed.
Bon-Bon then walked over to the portal and looked at it. Despite the absurdity of the entire plan, to say that she was impressed over all the work Lyra put into this thing was an understatement. One can even say she was flat out proud of Lyra’s efforts. After all, this was her dream. and as her friend she would be there to support her through thick and thin. “What do you think” Lyra says, jarring her out of her thoughts.
“It's...it's....beautiful,”. Yeah, beautiful is the best word she could come up with to describe this.
“I know right,” Lyra was bouncing like Pinkie Pie over the idea that she was this close to meeting a human. Its almost driving her insane (not like she wasn't already). “Now for the finishing touch,” She went over and grabbed a box. Dragging it back to the room, she opens it and pulls out a small chest.
“What's inside it,” Bon-Bon asked.
“It's the thing that will make this portal actually work,” Lyra stated as she opened the chest and pulls out a blue cubeish looking crystal. The crystal look like she went to the Crystal Kingdom, dug into the crystal mines, and pulled out one that would go for a fortune at any auction in the entire world.
BB stared at it in awe. “Where did you get that?” she asked.
“Borrowed it from twilight,”
“Of course you did,”
Lyra levitated the Crystal out of the case and discards the case. She then slowly walks toward the wall. Bon-Bon waits in anticipation. Each step Lyra takes feels like its lone step closer to her goal, no....her dream, NO...her destiny.
Each second felt like a hour. Each step closer felt like her heart was going to explode. In a few steps, she stopped moving and stood a few feet in front of it, Waiting for the crystal to open the gate.
Nothing happened.
A few seconds passed. Something must have went wrong. Her hopes quickly started to fade. "It should have worked by now. I followed the instructions word for word. I couldn't have made a mista-"
*pew*
Suddenly the crystal reacted and began to float by itself. Then it started to send off beams of light toward the runes. Lyra & Bon-Bon look in amazement as the runes one by one begin to glow. Soon a small dot is made in the center of the portal as the runes continue to glow. As the last rune glows the portal activates making a sound similar to a key unlocking a door is made. A bright light soon envelopes the room, blinding Bon-Bon. Lyra ran toward it. “See ya Bon-Bon, I’m off to realize my destiny” she shouted. It was the last thing she says before she disappeared into the white void.
Bon-Bon slowly gets up. “That portal flash sure is bright right Lyra” she says as her sight recovers. She looks to her right and finds that Lyra is nowhere to be seen. “Lyra?” she called repeatedly.
No response.
“Oh...My...Celestia, it actually worked.”
(Meanwhile in our world)
“OH YOU ARE KIDDING ME, GOD DAMMIT!” a small Latino teen shouted shouted when their school made yet another turnover.
“And that's was the 5th turnover made by Jingletown high,” The announcer stated. “Will the quarterback ever get it together?”
“I sure freakin’ hope so,”
“Well, Eddie, you lost now give me my $20,” says a tall Black male in a GREEN DAY shirt sitting right next to him.
“I'll pay you back later.”
“You says the same thing about the nachos I bought you during lunch.”
“Look when I get my money I’ll pay you back.”
Just then a scrawny teen wearing a green t-shirt and black jeans walked up to them carrying nachos and various sodas. “Let me guess, you owe Nick $20.” Eddie groaned as Nick just started laughing. “By the way I got your sodas here”. He tossed them toward Nick and Eddie. Eddie fumbled his as Nick caught his with one hand.
“Look David,” Nick gestures out to the field “Does that remind you of anything?”
“How bad our team sucks?”
"Exactly,"
“Why do you keep making fun of our team?” Eddie asks.
“Because they suck SO bad it makes your tiny body look like the crap the opponents take after they eat us for a snack,” Nick stated in a in-your-face kind of voice
David just starts laughs as Eddie groans some more. He'd had it with the crappy way his team was playing tonight. Eddie saw many of the people leaving the game already. They probably felt the same way he is. Ticked off and bored out of their minds, Eddie decided to get up and leave.
“Hey man, where are you going,” Nick asked with a tone of actual concern.
“Away from the game because it’s obvious they're going to lose AGAIN,” Eddie stated.
“It's not that bad,” David says.
“Dude, its 77-3,” Nick pointed out while looking at the scoreboard. David gives him the “not-helping” stare. “OK, since we lost and none of us have to go home right now what do you guys wanna do?” They pondered this for a moment. They could go to Buffalo Wild Wings, but they did not have any money. They could go hang out by the docks. Oh wait, the idiots known as the students of their school are probably going. Not many ideas left.
Eddie looked up the school building for a moment. It was a pretty big building that looked like it could a lot of students. It is also one of the most popular schools in the area. They could probably hold more students if they opened the A-Wing back up. “Wait, that gives me an idea,” Eddie thought out loud. “Hey, have you heard the rumors that the A-Wing is haunted?”
“If Shad told you that, I don't believe a word he says. He has his head all up his sister's ass,” Nick says
“Well the we should check it out ourselves,”
“I say it's bull, but I'm willing to do anything if it means I doesn’t have to watch the game or go home,” David says
“I don't know, I was actually enjoying the fact that our team was getting their asses kicked,” Nick states. David and Eddie look at him like he's a bit sadist. “Just kidding, lets go.”
“Dude we've been walking forever. What exactly are we looking for,” Eddie complained.
“OK, first, we’ve been only walking for 5 minutes. And second we are looking for the back entrance to the A-wing,” Nick says.
“I can't believe that I'm breaking INTO the school, its like some reverse Riddle School game 'cept there's no fat kid blocking the entrance,” David says
“OK Mr. Strongman how do we get in?” Eddie asks. Nick just points to the back entrance. “No derp, how do we break in?”
“Watch and learn,”. Nick kneels down, puts his ear by the door, and starts knocking in random spots.
“That's your plan, knocking on the door like someone is going to let you in. I knew you were nuts but this is a milestone for you,”. As David continued his rant, Nick keep knocking in different spots.
“*knocks* nope, *knocks* nope, *knocks* hmmmmm, *knocks one more time* ah-ha!” Nick exclaimed as he stood back up.
“Did you find a way in?” Eddie asked
“Yep,” Nick than silently gave one strong push to the door in the spot he found.
The door just opened like it was never locked.
David & Eddie look puzzled at what he did. “How the fuck did you do that,” David asked.
“It's best of you don't know” Nick says as they enter the A-Wing. The A-Wing looked like a school hallway in the 1980's. Due to its use (or lack thereof) since then, the wing gathered a lot of dust and spider webs. The random chairs and desks scatters everywhere suggested that it was currently used for storage.
“OK lets split up,” Eddie suggested as he started walking.
“Are you-, that’s the dumbest thing we can do in this situation,” David says.
“No, its really the smartest, because if the ghost finds one of us, that person will warn the others with their screaming and they can run out of here alive while the first guy gets killed” says Eddie. The more David thought about it, the more stupid it seemed. “Trust me, it will work, 'cept if it finds me because I can handle myself or Nick because he can probably kill the ghost himself,”
“What about me?”
“You'll probably scream like a girl and die,” Nick says as he and Eddie bursts into laughter
“Not funny,” David groans as they walk deeper into the A-Wing.
(1 hour later)
“Augggh, I'm bored.” Eddie complained. “We've been in here forever that that the only scary thing in when the box fell of the balcony and David screamed like a girl,”
“That’s not what happened,” David states.
(flashback)
David was a nervous wreck at this point. He was constantly looking over his shoulder for anything creepy.
“Dude, calm down. Do you want the ghosts to find us” Eddie says
“*deep breath* You're right I need to get a grip”
Nick looks up and see various boxes stacked all over the place. “OK, there is a lot of stuff you can bump into over here, so watch your step,” he whispered. The moment he said that, he instantly regretted it.
The second right afterward, Eddie bumped into a stack of old boxes. The boxes sifted back and forth until they collapsed. David, who was oblivious tho the entire thing, kept moving forward. “why did you stop moving?” he asked. He only had time to look up and see a box land on his head. He reacted as any sane man would react in this situation after an old, dusty box fell on your head.
He started running in circles screaming “get it off” like a madman.
At this point, Eddie is laughing uncontrollably while Nick actually tries to help him.
“Hey stand still,” Nick said.
“getitoffgetitoffgetitoffgetitoffgetitoffgetitoffgetitoffgetitoffgetitoff!”
“OK, enough of this BS,”. Nick takes a deep breath.
And chopped the box of his head in a blink of an eye. David keeps screaming for a good few seconds until he realizes the box isn't there anymore. Eddie eventually quiets down.
“Dude not funny,”
“OK, so the Box Ghost just tried to kill you, now lets keep moving” said Nick in a deadpan tone, but it was clearly obvious that he was trying not to laugh
(Present)
“That was still not funny,”
“It was funny to me,”
“Hey guys, come check this out,” Eddie shouted form another room. The two teens followed him into the room and saw right before them the real reason why they were called in there and possibly the most interesting find of the night.
A giant painting on the wall.
David whistled. “That is one big ass painting,” he says in awe.
“It must be as old as the A-Wing itself,” Nick stated as he approached it.
“Well, this used to be the old art room. It probably belonged to Mr. Cody,” Eddie points out.
“Maybe his ghost will come out of it if we're lucky,” David says sarcastically.
“Dude, this painting look like the portal to the Ghost Zone from Danny Phantom” says Nick
“It looks more like that magic mirror from that My Little Pony movie,” David says. Immediately, Nick and Eddie just start laughing “What? It does,”
“Yeah and he's (points to Eddie) going to be the new alicorn prince” Nick says as he continues laughing. Suddenly a feeling of deja vu strikes him. “Wait a minute I've seen this situation before in every other 'Human In Equestria' fanfic”. At this point, everyone is laughing.
Unbeknownst to them, the “painting” soon gives of light as the markings around it start to glow one by one.
“soon we with be in a magical world filled with talking ponies and that we will become best friends with a tomboy, a shut in, a farmgirl, a fashionista, a fourth wall breaking psycho, and a socially awkward scholar that grows wings for NO FRICKING REASON.”
Eddie and David are collapsing from laughter and an on the ground laughing. They then turn around to see the painting behind them glowing ominously, shutting them up almost immediately. “uh, Nick,”
“-and soon we have to fight the Changeling Queen because Eddie pissed her off,”
“Nick,”
“-then David is going to be fucking princess Twilight and a whole bunch of other random shit. But let me tell you this my friends, THIS IS NOT ONE OF THOSE STORIES!”
“NICK!”
“WHAT?”
*Click!* *Virrrr* *BOOM!*
The “painting” exploded in a blinding ray of light.
Nick was the first to get up. Groggily he gets up off the floor and surveys the room for his friends. “Is everyone OK”. No response. “David, Eddie,”. He sees the boxes in the corner of the room moving. He rushes over there to pull them out. He dives in and grabs Eddie out of the box pool. “you OK,”
“Yeah but I can't see anything” says Eddie while rubbing his eyes. “Hey David, you OK”
“owwwwwwwww,”
“Dude quit moaning,”
“It's not me,” says David from the other side of the room.
Nick and Eddie immediately look around the room for the source of the noise. They see no one else except for David and the green haired girl over by the wall. Wait, a Green haired girl. They run over to her and took a closer look at her.
As their vision slowly returns they see that there is a girl laying on the floor groaning in pain. This girl also has green hair, a green shirt and a green and white skirt with a picture of a lyre on the side of it.
They slowly put two and two together.
“Oh, you are fucking kidding me right now!”
Chapter 2 A Very Awkward Encounter
"See ya Bon-Bon! I'm off to realize my destiny!" she shouted. It was the last thing she said before she was swallowed by the white void. Humans here I come! Her body began to glow and she felt a warm sensation surround her body. It felt like she was being molded before being blinded by the light.
(Back in the human world)
"-then David is going to be fucking princess Twilight and a whole bunch of other random shit," Nick rants, "But let me tell you this, my friends, THIS IS NOT ONE OF THOSE STORIES!"
"NICK!" Eddie shouted, trying to get his attention.
Nick's head spun to look at Eddie. "WHAT?!"
*Click!*
*Virrrr*
*BOOM!*
The wall exploded in a blinding ray of light. Lyra fell out of the portal and landed hard on the ground, rubble and dust covering the ground around her.
"Owwwwwwwww..." she groaned in dull agony. "Note to self," she thought, her head still spinning from the explosion, When I get back, watch my landing. She laid on the ground. While in pain, she could hear the voice of what sounded like a furious man. Pony feathers, someone's in the room! I can't... See anything... She rubbed her eyes to help clear up her vision. While waiting she listened in to what the mysterious beings were saying. OK, at least they speak Equestrian. That's a good sign, She thought, hoping to get a glimpse of the humans.
"This is bad, this is very, very bad!" David exclaimed. Not only did they accidentally activate some ancient ritual, but there is a girl strikingly similar to one of the background ponies from My Little Pony right in front of them.
"Dude, calm down," Eddie reassured, "This… Probably isn't what it looks like."
"Yeah, hot girl just appears out of a fucking painting on a wall and it isn't what it looks like?!" David shot back.
As Eddie tried to calm down David, Nick approached the girl with caution. This is freaking weird… Nick turned his thoughts over in his head, trying to decide what to do. A girl show up through this painting in an old abandoned art room, right in the middle of my rant, that eerily looks like one of those ponies from the show. He crouched down to get a closer look at her. If this really who I think it is then… No it can't be…
As Lyra's vision slowly returned, her very first glimpse of the human world is herself face-to-face with a boy with black skin. She let out a piercing shriek that would have broken a wineglass. Nick screamed in surprise, backing off into a defensive stance with one arm protecting his neck the other ready to strike. David and Eddie looked over to see what the commotion is all about, and in turn Lyra looked at them and yelled even louder, which caused the two to join in on the fun and start screaming as well. Soon, it was just one giant scream party. Although the boy's scream was one of surprise and shock, Lyra's scream sounded a lot more like a fan-girl squeal.
Lyra immediately jumped off the ground and danced around the room excitedly. "I can't believe it! I made it here to the human world, and there are humans right here in front of me! And…" She looked down at herself and gasped in absolute shock, "I'm a human too! Oh man, this is awesome!" She continued to spurt off random sentences about the portal working and that there are humans in her field of vision. All the while, the boys gathered in a huddle trying to understand why, how, and what was happening.
"Guys, what the fuck is going on now?" Eddie asked.
"I wish I could tell you," Nick responded, just as confused as Eddie was.
"Dude, we are going to be in so much trouble if anyone finds out..." David said nervously, thinking of wringing his hands together just to stave off some of the jitters in his system.
"CALM THE FUCK DOWN OR I'LL SLAP THE SHIT OUT OF YOU!" Eddie yelled. Eddie's threat seemed to work as David shut up almost immediately. Nick nodded to Eddie and stated, "Okay, lets see what we know. We walked into an old room with a kick-ass painting on the wall that just so happened to be some sort of ritual ate that allowed a girl who surprisingly looks like that human loving pony from a particular cartoon to appear right in front of us." And then took a huge breath because that's a lot to say in one sentence.
Eddie nodded slowly. "... And what did you conclude from that?"
"I think its safe to say," Nick added, "that we had just saw something fuckin' awesome," He concluded, and saying more to himself than anyone else, "I can't believe that Lyra is actually real and in our world!"
David raised an eyebrow. "Yeah...but how do we know if that really is Lyra?"
The boys looked over at her and saw her waving at them, an ear-to-ear grin on her face like that of a small child just about to receive a unicorn, pardon the pun.
"Your guess is as good as mine." Nick shrugged.
"There has to be some way to see if that's the real Lyra, or some other person who looks like her," Eddie speculated as he tapped his fingers together.
Lyra soon got bored with the boys, who didn't seem to do anything but talk. Ugh, the first humans in this world I meet, and they are about as fun as watching paint dry, she thought. Just then, Lyra heard other voices outside and headed over to the window. Looking out the glass pane, she saw many other humans of walking and talking, and just generally being human. Maybe I can find more fun with them out there than up here! Lyra skipped out the room and looked for an exit. The boys, oblivious to what had just transpired, continued coming up with a way to test her.
"No, just… No," Nick groaned, a look of slight disgust on his face.
"But-" Eddie tried to reply, but Nick cut him off.
"NO."
"Aw, come on."
"We are NOT asking her to take off her skirt to see if there is a lyre on her butt!"
Eddie pouted and retorted, "Well, genius, I don't see you coming up with any other ideas!"
"... I think I got one," David mumbled.
"Ooooohhhh, the big baby has an idea," said Eddie, oozing sarcasm.
David gave him a death glare, muttering, "Shut the hell up, Ed."
Eddie's eyebrow twitched before he rolled his eyes, "Okay, fine. Let's hear it."
"Why don't we ask her questions based on the fandom?" offered David, "If she is who we think she is, then her answers will match up with what we know about the show."
"... That is… Actually an okay idea," Eddie reluctantly agreed.
"Thank you."
"Well… It's better that anything else I can come up with," Nick said as he shrugged.
"Okay, okay. We'll go with your idea." They look up to find that Lyra, much to their surprise, was no longer there. Instead, the door they entered in earlier was ajar.
"Goddammit!" Nick cursed as the three turned tail and began to chase after her.
Lyra dashed out of the building and into a park-like area. "So this is the human world," she pondered. She took a deep breath, savoring the feel, the taste, the smell of a new world to explore. This… is… AWESOME!
She saw a group of humans approach her: A man, a woman and a young child. "Hello, young woman," The man greeted. "You look a little lost. Can I help you?"
Ok, Lyra, get your act together. The former-pony reassured herself, It's your first real encounter with humans that actually want to talk to you. Just keep your cool and say 'hi'.
"H-hi!" Lyra had to fight from jumping around the park in happiness, but then she needed to kick herself for being so damn nervous. Come on, Lyra. You can do this.
"You look funny," the little girl said cutely, pointing to her green hair.
"Julie!" the mother scolded her, swiveling her head towards her little daughter to glare and quickly looking back to Lyra. "I'm sorry miss, sometimes she can be so rude."
"No problem," Lyra responded with a small smile. She really didn't see a problem. After all, didn't everypony have different colored hair? Why were the humans all brown-ish? They were the weird ones.
"I think I've seen you somewhere else before. Tell me dear, what's your name?" The woman asked politely.
"Oh, my name is Ly-."
"LISA!" Nick cut the very confused Lyra off and ran up behind her. "What are you doing here? You're supposed to be helping us clean out the concession stand!"
"I... uh..." Lyra's eyes flicked back-and-forth from the family and Nick, at a loss for what to say.
"Come on, you can talk with your friends after you're done," Nick said as he dragged her off, leaving the family behind.
"Well, that was weird," the father finally said, after a minute of silence.
"Hey, what's the big deal?!" Lyra demanded, trying to rip herself from Nick's grip.
"Who the hell are you and where the hell did you come from?" Eddie interrogated.
"My name is Lyra! and I'm from Equestria," she stated
David sighed, "No, seriously, who the hell are you and where are you really from?"
"I'm telling you, I'm Lyra and I'm from Equestria."
"ARE YOU?!" he shouted.
"David, dude, relax," Nick says as he put his hand on David's shoulder. He wanted answers, but David was too hot-headed (not to mention in a state of heavy panic) to deal with this situation. On the bright side, they were now behind the concession stand, out of sight from everybody. The original crew that was supposed to be cleaning up left an hour ago, so there was no one there to catch them if they got too loud. "You're not helping the current situation with your temper. Stand back and let me and Eddie handle this." David reluctantly stepped back and let Nick and Eddie take over.
"We just want to ask you some questions, just to get an idea of who you are."
"Okay..." she answered annoyed.
"What is your name?" Nick asked
"Lyra Heartstrings."
"Where are you from?" Eddie asked
"Ponyville, Equestria."
"Who is your best friend?" Nick asked
"Bon-Bon."
"Do you really love humans or is that just an assumption?" David asked from a distance.
"Yes I do."
"What does your 'cutie mark' represent?" Eddie asked, using air quotes as emphasis.
"My skill of playing the lyre."
(5 Minutes later)
"What was the last major event in Ponyville of significance?"
"The Summer Sun Celebration. Now, are you done?" Lyra asked.
The boys are silent. They asked every possible question in their mind and she answered them as if she was actually there. A tense moment of silence passed as the boys try to figure out what to do next. "That didn't solve anything," David complained.
"And your ADD isn't helping us solve this any faster," Eddie replied.
"You're the one with ADD!" he shouted.
"Will you two SHUT THE FUCK UP?!" Nick shouted. Both boys immediately silenced themselves. Nick breathed sigh of relief for a moment. Now they could focus on the situation at hand. This is getting us nowhere fast, I need to come up with a plan that David and Eddie won't screw up with their constant bickering Nick thought. "Alright guys, huddle up." As they huddled up, he glanced back at Lyra. "Stay… Right… There." She obeyed by taking a seat on the ground.
"So what do you suggest Nick?" Eddie asked
Nick took a moment to collect his thoughts. "I'm not sure about this but I think we just have to trust her for now."
Eddie gaped at him. "You not fucking serious are you."
"I know, I know, but because of the way we found her and how she acts, it's so bizarre that maybe, just maybe it is true."
"As much as I hate to say it…" David cut in, "He has a point. Since when do girls just appear out of nowhere that look and act like you-know-who."
"So we agree that until we have 100% proof of her not being who she says, we continue to act as if she is really her?"
"Agreed," Eddie and David said in unison.
"Now...where is she going to stay?" Both Nick and David stare at Eddie, who responded with, "Why are you looking at me like that?" He suddenly realized what they were implying. "No. She is not staying at my house."
"Come on! Look at it this way: Your parents are out-of-town for the weekend, so it's just you and her alone at the house for 3 days. Let her stay there just for the weekend."
"Remember, though, this is Eddie we are talking about.” David added Are you sure its okay to leave HIM alone with her?"
"I wasn't going to try anything."
"Yeah, and he knows if he does anything, Mrs. Sparky won't be too happy with that now would she?" David stated with a fiendish grin.
The images of her runs through Eddie's head. "...You know, she and you can be a bitch sometimes." he said, shuddering.
They turn back around, relieved that she is still sitting right where Nick told her. "Ok Lyra, if that is who you really are, until we find out more about why you're here, we will do our best help you understand our world and how to make you fit in. In the meantime for the next few nights you will be staying with my good friend here until we can find a more permanent place. Any questions?"
Lyra takes a moment to think about her situation I don't know... This could be a trick. They could be like the ones they say who will try to kill me in some form of sacrifice. Maybe they will all try to eat me like that one cartoon! But... If that was the case… Shouldn't they be ridiculously giant? I don't really trust them and I've only known them for 5 minutes… But… They are the only ones I've seen so far that want to help me.
"Is she OK? She's been thinking for a long time," David whispered to Eddie.
"Nope. I'm fine. No questions here!" Lyra suddenly exclaimed.
"None?" Nick asked. Lyra just shook her head. "Alright lets head home. It's about time we've got out of this hell hole." Nick began to walk toward the exit. Eddie and David soon followed behind. Nick realizes that Lyra is not behind him. "Aren't you coming with us?"
Lyra just sat on the ground. "I...uh...need your help."
"What's wrong, can't get up?" Nick asked. She nodded embarrassed. The running around in circles back in the A-Wing and lack of experience of walking normally have left her unable to use her newly acquired limbs to stand up on her own.
"Come on, let's help her up," Eddie goes back to help, but Nick grabs him by the shirt collar and drags him back.
"Me and David will go help. You stay here."
"Why can't I help?" He asked, upset that Nick is preventing him from helping their new friend out.
"Because we know where your hands will end up if you try."
As they walked out of the stadium (well, the boys walked, Lyra was getting a ride on Nick's back), Lyra took notice of her surroundings, getting a feel for the town. It was a small, cozy kind of town, reminding her, in a sense, of Ponyville, only instead of colorful unicorns, pegasi, and earth ponies, there were many humans, all seemed to have similar features. Suddenly, a thought came to her head.
"I'm sorry to ask but I never got your names," Lyra said
"David. David Corbin," David said.
"I'm Eduardo Pasco, but you can just call me Eddie," Eddie said.
"What about you?" Lyra said to Nick.
"Nick. Just Nick."
"No last name?" She asked.
Nick's expression soured. "... It's probably best if you don't know my last name."
"Why?"
"It's probably best if you don't know," he repeated with an evil glint in his eyes.
Eddie put a hand on her shoulder. "Lyra, probably best to just leave it alone."
"But... Bu-," She stuttered before groaning, "Fine..."
About 5 minutes of walking later they reached a familiar street corner.
"Well, this is my turn," David responded.
"Mine too," Nick said. He turned his attention to Lyra, who was still riding on his back. "You think you can walk to E's house from here or do I need to carry you there too?" he asked her with a hint of sarcasm.
"No, I think I'll be fine." she hopped off, glad to be able to walk on her own again.
"We still meeting for coffee in the morning?"
"Yeah, same place we always go every Saturday," David stated. Nick and David turned the corner and walked away from Lyra and Eddie. "Bye! It was nice meeting you Lyra," he exclaimed as he ran to catch up with Nick. Meanwhile, Eddie and Lyra began walking in the other direction to Eddie's house. As David caught up to Nick, he noticed a fiendish smile spread across his face. "Dude, what's with the smile?"
Nick looks back at David with the smile now bigger than before. "Because I got a feeling that tomorrow is going to be very, very interesting."
Eventually, the arrived at Eddie's house. On the outside it looked small compared to the other houses on the block, but its warm color gave it a comfortable, welcoming feel to it. As they entered, Lyra took notice of the silence as a sign that no one was here.
"Where are your parents?" she asked.
"They went away for a convention and won't be back till Monday night," Eddie stated.
"Sooo, you have this house all to yourself?" Lyra asked, surprised.
"Pretty much," Eddie goes upstairs to arrange his bed. Lyra just looked around the room and took notice of the family picture on the table. Eddie came back down to see her with the picture in hand.
"So these are your parents?" Lyra asked
"Yeah, and that's my grandmother."
"Did she go with them to this convention?"
"…No... She passed away when I started high school..." Lyra suddenly felt stupid for asking. "I'm sorry."
"No don't worry," he said joyfully, almost like it didn't bother him. "Follow me, I'll show you where you're sleeping tonight."
Eddie escorted her down the hall to his room. As they entered, Lyra took notice of the many posters on his wall. Most of them were of famous rock stars. Others were of scantily clad women on cars. Despite this, the room was relatively clean save for one messy desk in the corner of the room. However, Lyra saw there is only one bed in the room. Wait, is this his bed? she thought.
"I'll be back with your pajamas," Eddie said.
Lyra suddenly stopped him. "Wait, where are you going to sleep?"
"I'm going to sleep downstairs on the couch."
"You sure? I could tak-"
"No, no its fine. You're my guest I insist."
"Are you s-?"
"Look, regardless of who you are or where you came from, you're a guest in my house and will be treated as such as long as you're here."
"... Thanks," Lyra said, surprised at his nobility.
Eddie leaves the room to grab her some PJ's, leaving Lyra alone in his room. Heheh... I guess some of those books were wrong. Not all humans a sexually-crazed jerks, at least he seems very nice...
Eddie came back into the room holding her sleepwear. "Bathroom is the first door on the right, call me if you need anything," he said Lyra took the clothes and headed straight for the bathroom.
Lyra, unlike her pony friends, totally understood clothes. They covered up most parts of the human body that humans didn't want to show. Ponies didn't exactly have an aversion to being naked all the time, though it was still not exactly a "filly topic".
As she undressed, down to only her underwear and bra, she took a look in the mirror, out of curiosity. She flexed out her hands in front of the mirror, taking note of the shape of her right hand, then her left, mesmerized by the way the fingers moved independent of each other, even if their movement was a bit restricted. Her hands fueled her sudden amazement with her feet and toes. They worked much like her hooves had, toes moving in a wave and crunching into the soles of her feet, and being able to flex out. She shifted on her feet, even dancing around a little before stumbling and realizing that the room was too small to be prancing around in. The way they moved was so smooth. But then she came to a sudden halt as she look down on her chest.
Two round ovals bounced around on her chest, covered by what the humans called a "bra". She, of course, knew what these were. They were human teats, but they were much higher up than a pony's teats. Without hesitation, she looked into the mirror and unhooked the latch that held the bra straps to her shoulders, and stared.
She stared without shame. It was, without a doubt, one of the most fascinating and alien things she had seen today. The nipples were indeed on the oval flesh-bulbs, although that's an awfully unflattering word for something that the humans liked so much.
Woah… Lyra blinked, This is exactly like my textbooks…
She stared, acknowledging every detail about her pale chest before she was startled by three knocks, followed by Eddie's voice.
"Lyra… You almost done in there?" His voice was slightly muffled through the wood of the door.
"Oh! Yeah… Almost done…" Quickly, she began to dress again and pried her eyes off of the mirror.
"Do you need anything before you go to sleep?" Eddie asked.
"No I'm fine," Lyra responded.
"Well, then good night."
"Good night."
And with that he turned off the lights and closed the door. Today has been one crazy day. I mean its not everyday that we find a girl from another world. I still don't want to believe it, but what if it is really someone from Equestria? Do all those HiE-fics have some truth to 'em? But what if she isn't? He shook his head, clearing some of the doubt. Either way, Nick is right, tomorrow is going to be interesting... He thought while going down the stairs.
Meanwhile Lyra begins to get comfortable in her bed. "Man, I can't believe it I actually saw humans in person. and they are just like I envisioned them to be. I cant wait to tell everyone what I saw. I cannot wait to see what the human world is actually like." She let out a yawn. "Tomorrow is going to be awesome."
She drifted off into a pleasant sleep, dreams of tomorrow's events filling her head.
