Away from Home

Mush Presents

A ‘My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic’ Fanfic

‘Away from Home’

Twilight's Story

A few hours later, Twilight stirred in the strange bed that she had fallen asleep in what felt like a few seconds ago. However, according to the increased amount of sunlight streaming in through the window, that was not the case. Twilight took the opportunity to gaze around the room, taking in the surroundings of this new place. She was pretty sure she wasn’t in Equestria anymore, but what this place is remains a mystery.

“Paul?” Twilight softly called toward the closed door. It was only then she noticed the rather large piece of paper on the floor at the foot of the bed. She was still drowsy from just waking up, so she shuffled across the bed to read the note

“Good Morning Twilight

If you are reading this, I am at college. The house should be empty, but keep an ear out in case it isn’t, we don’t want anybody finding you here.

I still find it strange that you’re here in my house, so please do not touch anything valuable. You probably don’t know what’s valuable here, so if it has a little light on it, leave it. Don’t leave the house; doing so will surely expose you, also it was raining when I left.

As for your explanation, go over to my computer (the black square on the desk) and move the mouse (black blobby thing). A picture of you should appear on the screen. Don’t freak, please. Click the left button on the mouse once. However before you do so, prepare yourself. This may be a shock to you. There is another note on the desk with a very short explanation. But you’re very clever, so I imagine that you could figure it out on your own.

~Paul”

Twilight read the note through a few more times, just to make sure she understood it all. ‘Don’t let people see you’ seemed to be the point Paul was trying to get across. Twilight wondered why, but then she assumed the explanation on the ‘computer’ thing would explain that. Twilight jumped off of the bed and managed to land on all fours... just. She was still a bit light headed from sleeping, and her legs were still asleep. Regardless, she hobbled over to the desk and climbed, rather clumsily, onto the swivel chair so she could see the top of the desk.

Sure enough, there was another note on the desk attached to the screen.

“Hello Twilight

If you are reading this, you are at my desk. Messy, isn’t it?

Anyway. This is a warning.

I told you to prepare yourself. This may be a big thing for you, and I definitely don’t want to give you an existential crisis. If you want to wait until I come home to do this, that’s fine too.

If you are prepared, read on.

What you are about to see is the introductory 2 part episode to Season 2 of Friendship is Magic. Friendship is Magic is a TV show in our world, and you are a character in the show. This is when you and the rest of the Element of Harmony defeat Discord.

Please don’t freak...

So, with the best of luck for handling the situation. ~Paul”

Twilight sat back a little after reading the note. She read the part about her being fictional again, thinking about what Paul had said the night before, when he knew everything about her and her friends. Naturally, she was shocked at this.

“That is...” Twilight was speaking aloud to herself, shock does that to ponies. “Actually very... uh, interesting. Why did Paul think I’d have an existential crisis over something as fascinating as this? That explains how Discord sent us here, he sent us along the dimensional plane that connects these two realities, and they only know of each other because the... uh, I guess the creator? Artist? Whatever. I guess our world somehow interacts over some kind of astronomical anomaly. I wonder if this applies to the Daring Do universe too. When I get back, and we defeat Discord, I will try and find out what spell he used to send us here and try to recreate it!”

Twilight was too excited by experimentation in magical theory to hear the front door close. To her credit, it closed slowly.

“I better do as Paul said. Right... so. The screen is this black thing with the note on and the mouse is this thing? Why is it called a mouse? Doesn’t even look like one. Well, better shake it.” Twilight was piecing together the various things on the desk. She picked up the mouse with her magic and violently shook it from side to side. The screen remained blank. “What? I shook it!” Twilight shook it again, even more violently. Screen remained blank. “Oh come on. I did what the note said. Gah!” She lowered the mouse onto the desk and pushed it away from her across the desk. The screen flashed to life, revealing Twilight in a balloon with Spike.

“Oh look. It worked. Right, time to click the left button on the mouse...” She looked at the mouse for a bit, trying to get the orientation correct. “I guess the bit that says ‘Microsoft’ should face the user... me. So that makes that button the left one.” Twilight concluded, turning the mouse around to face her. She put her hoof to the left button and applied some pressure until it went ‘click’.

“~tle Pony... Aaah ahh ahhh ahh. My little pony. I used to wonder what friendship could be~”

A relatively quiet song was emanating from a small black box on the desk, in time with the pictures Twilight was seeing. Eventually, it showed Celestia sitting in her throne with a letter flying toward her. Twilight tried to get her attention, sh ethen blushed because this was a silly thing to do.

“Celestia!” The image changed again to reveal the letter she received, the one with the Mane 6 in the photo.

“I remember taking that picture. It was awful.” Twilight reminisced looking at the screen intently.

~A few minutes into the episode~

“If you’ll need me, I’ll be outside in the chocolate puddles with a giant swizzle straw.” Twilight laughed a little at her friend’s erratic and unfit statement.

“You know, that was quite funny from a perspective where the world isn’t going to end.” Twilight said to no-one, she turned back to look at the screen. By now Discord was flashing about the stain glass windows.

“Oh Celestia. You really can be so boring.~

~Hay! Nopony insults the Princess!”

Twilight watched her friend fly at Discord, and smack into the window. Twilight let out a little giggle at this, she never got to see that at the time, and she was too busy asking questions to herself about how stain glass windows can do that.

“Paul? Is that you up there? I thought you went to college!” Someone yelled up the stairs. Twilight froze still in the chair. ‘I thought he said nopony should be home! What do I do now?’ Twilight was panicking to herself about the situation. She clicked the mouse again and made the episode stop and listened intently for anything else. After about ten seconds, she heard the stairs start to creak as the person downstairs was coming upstairs. ‘The cupboard!’

Twilight hopped off of the chair and rushed to the cupboard, she opened the door with her magic. Meanwhile the footsteps were on the landing, and getting closer. Twilight got in the cupboard and shut the door with her magic, she then lit her horn dimly so she could see inside the dark cupboard.

The bedroom door slowly opened with a creek, and Paul’s Mom poked her head around the door, only to see an empty room. “Paul? Are you hiding? Come out now!”

Twilight was being silent as possible, she dimmed her horn more, just enough that the glow illuminated the walls. Everything was silent for a minute as his Mom searched under the bed and behind the wardrobe.

“Hm. Maybe I am going crazy. Oh well, might as well clean up this pig sty he calls a room.” She looked around the floor for a bit. “I don’t know why he just leaves his clothes here, and this purple thing is half in half out the cupboard.”

Upon hearing this, Twilight looked down at her tail. It indeed was going under the door and into the room. She swallowed and tried to think of a way to avoid the inevitable.

However, it was called inevitable for a reason.

Paul’s Mom decided to pull upon the purple item of clothing, intending to get whatever it was out from under the door and into the wash bin. She pulled it lightly, and it didn’t move. She tugged again a little harder, still nothing. She bent down and put two hands around the purple thing and gave a huge tug, the thing didn’t move, but a yelp was emitted from the wardrobe. Paul’s Mom stood back a bit, shocked. “What... Doug? Is that you, you daft mutt?” She muttered. She leant forward and grasped the door handle and opened the door, she looked down at whatever she pulled to see a purple unicorn with a glowing horn. She just stood there staring at Twilight.

The prise pupil of the Princess of Equestria, and one of the smartest ponies in Equestria, introduced herself with a flamboyant and explanatory single phrase.

“Uh... Hi?”