It was a normal day for the girls; they had just gone over to Twilight’s to help her with one of her projects she was working on for Princess Celestia herself. Twilight believe that if Celestia decreed she work on it, that’s what she would devote almost all of her time to. Though this idea was getting rather old to the other six of her friends, they respected her studious approach to any type of situation because, sometimes, that’s what the situation calls for. But Twilight’s setup today was insane, just a jumbled mess of papers, test tubes, Bunsen burners, beakers, books, and graduated cylinders; there was no rhyme or reason to the chaotic setup, and certainly Twilight couldn’t have done that, she can’t stand messes like this one.
But out came Twilight with her hair slightly messed up, obviously having worked overnight not getting even the slightest bit of sleep last night, holding some broken test tubes with her magic throwing them into the trash can. But she just smiled at her friends and gestured them over to a small area with a bunch of chairs directed in a small area with a large white screen and a small projector. Rainbow Dash groaned knowing that they were about to get the ‘egghead fill in’ as she called it, from Twilight on what she had called them over there to do. Twilight gave every girls a pill and water, though they didn’t know what the pill was for they took it anyways; seconds later their eyes looking focused straight ahead with each of them fidgeting slightly as the pill took its toll. Focus pills, one of Twilight’s personal favorites, a mix of natural herbs with some water created a quick and easy way to make sure that all of the girls were paying attention to the best of their abilities.
Twilight cleared her throat getting a clipboard and marking off everypony that actually showed up; everypony she asked was there, so she put the clipboard aside and grabbed a couple sheets of paper and began speaking. “Celestia asked me to create something, something nopony in Equestria has ever attempted before! She wants us to create a network that can connect ponies telepathically; I already have the spell written down on this piece of paper. Now since not everypony here is a unicorn, Celestia gave me some devices that can channel anypony’s energy into magic. All magic really is is natural energy we unicorn’s can focus because of our horns, no more, no less. But why you are all here is because I need some help; I need to modify these devices so that the will work on anypony, and so far I haven’t been able to do so. But then again, I haven’t had any helpers to work with either; but since you girls agreed we can finally start making progress. But the thing is there may be some minor complications with the device; she told me that the things aren’t exactly ‘100% safe’ but I’m working on that currently. But to spark the devices function, we need a unicorn, me, to ignite the functions; if nothing happens, we’ll start again, she gave me hundreds of the things to work with.” She said trying to catch her breath, feeling winded after not taking a single break from talking that entire time. “But I encourage you to not get them wet, I did that and it exploded on me; that’s kind of why I was in the hospital that one day. But that’s not the point right now, so let’s get out there, and do some science!” she said merrily as her lost looking friends followed her to the jumbled mess out in the middle of the room.
Rarity was the first to break the silence between them, “Dear, I’m sure that you probably thought this already but, If this does work; couldn’t there be some sort of side effect to long term exposure to the amounts of energy it puts out?” Rarity said everypony looking at her as if they were not expecting her of all ponies to know what was going on. “I’m sure I’m just being paranoid, but that much energy output could lead to some abnormalities in growth and some cells maybe; I’m pretty sure first we must find a safe way to do this.” Rarity finished as Twilight shook her head trying to get over that Rarity was actually taking interest and some concerns for the project.
“Ah of course, yes long term exposure can cause certain types of cancers and weaken you immune system; but that’s being worked on, I’m not sure how to get it right though. No matter how much time I put into it, it just never seems to come out right. The energy output on it right now is simultaneous to about how much you get from a single gag pen; but without that much the magic produced would be weak, so we’re stuck between a rock and a hard place with the energy output. Though I’m glad to see you have some concerns about it; I was quite flabbergasted on how well you knew about the energy output, but the official output lever right now is maybe ten volts.” Twilight said as Rarity nodded and turned away slightly to Rainbow Dash who was now beginning to say something.
“Well, wouldn’t we have a problem if they shorted out? If they short out it’ll cuase a chemical reaction with the batteries and the outer iron casing causing it to shock the user until the batteries would run out; and since the batteries being used are nine volts and a simple AA battery, they would get quite the surprise. And with the metal casing, the greater surface area of the case would make it so that the electricity is more distributed hitting more areas at once, and while your nerves try to comprehend that, it may lead to a fatal cardiac arrhythmia that would cause the user to go into electric shock. So we need an insulation of some sort; I would say a thick but comfortable rubber or rubber foam to absorb the shock from the device if that situation ever does happen.” Rainbow Dash finished everypony looking at her in shock as she ducked down and blushed. “I-I mean, the things ain’t my style; just add some foam or something to it to make it like… 20% cooler…” she said chuckling nervously.
Twilight shook her head once again, her mind trying to comprehend how Rainbow Dash, of all the mares in Equestria, Rainbow Dash, had extensive knowledge of science. “Well, I’d never thought of that actually! The rubber would absorb the shock so that the user could slip the device off without feeling the painful sting of the coursing electricity if the device itself ever shorted out! I must say Dash, that was quite the brilliant notion you made there; and don’t play dumb with me now, I heard all of that. Now you are going to be my personal helper today, because you seem to have some prior knowledge with these types of electronic devices.” Twilight said as Rainbow moved over to Twilight, still blushing a light red, “Now let’s get some work done girls!” Twilight said as she moved to give the girls the devices.
Each mare took a device and attached it to their forelegs; the devices not fitting comfortably around them at all. Each of the girls had pain in their eyes as they put on the tight devices, squeezing them on just to try and get this experimenting over with before Twilight went crazy with it. The first up was Fluttershy; she went up there with hesitation in her body language, and distrust of the device in her eyes. But she went up there anyways as Twilight calibrated the device to Fluttershy’s being; the device making a beeping sound and resetting itself.
Fluttershy’s face showed up on the screen as Twilight shot a small stream of magic to the device to get it started up with.
The device shook vigorously around on the shy pegasus’ foreleg; as she shot back when the device had stopped. Twilight gestured her to try out the device by levitating a small quill she had planted on a desk next to her. Fluttershy willed herself to do it and the quill started floating slowly up, as everypony else watched until the device shorted out giving off sparks and shooting the quill across the room.
Rainbow Dash quickly raced over and took the device off of Fluttershy, feeling a bit of the electric shock that Fluttershy was feeling with it on. Rainbow Dash threw the device plunging it into a small bowl of water, as she remembered ‘Last time I got it wet, it exploded,’ as she ducked down and the device violently exploded; sending shards of metal around the room. The girls got up as Spike looked down from upstairs, a shard of metal sticking slightly out of his back, “You know Twilight, I’d like to live to be a full size dragon you know.” Spike said pulling out the shard from his scales.
Twilight chuckled nervously, “Right, you know I’m sorry; but this work comes with certain dangers, but since you weren’t here you were unable to know what the right precautions were. I’m sure you’ll be fine, but that thing was like on fire; how in Equestria did that not hurt you!”
Pinkie shot up, “Oh I know! I know I know I know! We kinda scared him one day and he was all like -WHA!- and me and Dashie were all like –HAHAHAHAHA- but it gave little Spikey wikey the hiccups, so we asked him if he was okay. He said Dragons were fireproof, so we were all like –phew- but the prank was real funny, you should’ve been there!” Pinkie got cut off by Spike putting his finger over her mouth.
“Pinkie, I’m sure everyone already knows this, but you’re seriously and certifiably insane. There’s no doubt in my mind that you have something majorly wacky in your brain; though I’m not really wanting to figure out anyways. But yes, dragons are fireproof, it’s kind of what the scales are for Twi’; I thought you of all ponies would know that one.” Spike said as Pinkie started giggling, and everypony went to look at her.
“This thing is tickling me! I mean it’s all like –bzzzzzz- and it really tickles!” Pinkie’s laughter echoed throughout the room, reverberating off of the walls. “I wanna go next now, I wanna do magic! Magic is really cool, and would like really help in baking, and pranking! I’m sure that there are soo many wonderful things that can be done with magic! Like a flying dogfrog! I should do that! It sounds really fun!” the bright pink mare said getting an unsure look from everypony else.
“Pinkie Pie, you are so random. And by the way Pink, what you’re thinking of is Alchemy, not magic. Alchemy is a type of science really; a delicate art based on the fact that we cannot create nor destroy matter; only reshape it into something else. But Alchemy only works in some instances; you can’t turn a strand of hay into gold, it’s all based on a system of fair exchange really. You can’t make something into another, if there are substances you are missing to create the new substance…” Rainbow Dash said as she coughed and chuckled nervously, hiding her face once again.
Everypony’s jaw dropped at the sudden bursts of intelligence coming from the usually arrogant and uncaring cyan pegasus. Twilight was the most surprised, never having known that of all the ponies in Equestria, Rainbow Dash knew science! It was a real shocker to everyone, including little Spike himself his eyes bulging in confusion at the smart outbursts. Twilight cleared her throat, “Yes okay, Pinkie, if you feel like you want to volunteer to go next, go on ahead. I’m pretty sure everypony else is either too scared to, or they just think they’re too good for it; I won’t mention any names thought, Rarity.” Twilight said giggling, getting a disgusted look from Rarity; as she turned prissily setting off a chain reaction of everypony’s eyes turning right to her.
“Allllright! ALL RIGHT EVERYPONY, LET’S DOO THIIISSS! PPPPIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNKKKKKKKKAAAMMMMMMIIIIIINNNNNNNAAAAAAAAAAA DDDIIIIIIIIAAAANNNNNNEEEEEEE PIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE!” She yelled bouncing over happily to the area where they’d set up for testing, Twilight shooting a nervous look at the eccentric pink mare who was happily bouncing around. “COME ON, FOR SCIENCE!” she yelled as she covered her face with white make-up she’d randomly pulled out of thin air (for some reason, Pinkie can do that.) and rubbed it under her eyes and giggling.
Twilight sighed and shot the magical stream hitting the device head on, but this gave a completely different reaction. Instead of just turning the device on, it made Pinkie start to levitate and the messy workplace was blasted with a sudden gust of air; the chilled air enveloping the whole room like the cold grasp of death’s very fingers. With a sudden burst of light and magic, the whole room turned into a vacuum; the very air getting sucked out into oblivion. With another sudden burst of light, the girls disappeared from the room, Spike included; all of them crossing a border that shouldn’t have been crossed by anyone. The world they’d left melted behind them, and everything exploded into a dimensional portal that thrusted the seven into a whole other reality; and, a whole other world.
A Seemingly Normal Day (Experimental 2nd Person chapter)
This is my first ever time writing in the second person where you are in the story. Tell me what you think about it, any questions, or suggestions on how to improve my second person writing. This is an alternate chapter one set in the human world, and giving back story for chapter 2 to the third person perspective of the first chapter.
This is an optional chapter, you don't have to read it to get the next chapter; I just felt that adding more backstory, and adding you into the story, might be a bit funner to do. But enjoy anyways guys, thanks for reading.
It was early, so early that the sun was yet to rise for another 5-6 hours. Your insomnia has kept you on a constant bender of unrest for that past three days; and it showing in your work and college life. Your grades were slipping, you were falling asleep while the professor was talking, and you were tired and lazily slouching around at work. Your boss has threatened to fire you for weeks now; but she never has, you’re the only one in the whole damn store that knows what they’re doing. But then again, when you work at a place like Wal-Mart; it’s not a huge surprise when most of the idiots there don’t know just what the hell they’re doing.
You sigh and get up, staring at the T.V. with the last recording still showing up; it was at the end asking ‘Would you like to delete this episode?’ The last thing you watched was My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic; and you fell asleep halfway through it, but were only asleep for about an hour before your insomnia kicked you back awake. The My Little Pony universe had become a second reality to you, you felt that if you could just escape to that world; all would be right again, but you knew that it was a fictional world created for little girls. This realization is what started the conflicting thoughts that now course through your mind; and you have since taken up writing dark poetry, though the poems needed a lot of work, you were happy with how they stood.
Since you didn’t have class for another seven whole hours; you decided to start watching all the episodes of My Little Pony you have recorded, though the new season only started about a month or two ago, you have all of the ones up to ‘Luna Eclipsed.’ The episodes put a smile back onto your face, My Little Pony was the only thing that got you through your week; though with the new episode every other week thing really started to piss you off, only making you despise the world even more than you already did. You had every episode recorded, and have been happily watching the show ever since your friend had suggested it to you a while back; though you no longer have connections with your friend, you still remember him from the time you ridiculed him for watching the show.
Before long you were back on your computer brainstorming ideas for fan-fictions set in the My Little Pony universe, though with your major amounts of sleep deprivation, you found it extremely hard to gather your thoughts. With anger you took your keyboard and threw it off of the desk, launching it into the wall on the opposite side of the room. You have lived alone since your girlfriend left you after you had told her you were a brony; saying she can’t have a child for a boyfriend, which absolutely shattered your heart and drove you into the depression you’re in right now. That is what made you turn back to My Little Pony, it also drove you to go and get therapy; seeing that you used the My Little Pony universe to escape your Earthly troubles in a way.
But you didn’t think that the therapy would give in to anything really deep, just a doctor telling you, ‘you have a problem’ so the greedy bastard can drain you of your life savings before you could even bat a single eyebrow. But that’s how life works; you’ve learned to accept all of the woes that have been thrust upon your life, and all of the people around you. You finished watching about eight episodes before you noticed the time again; you had class in about an hour, so you got up from your chair and moved into the bathroom to take one of your long showers, just to sit in the water and wallow in your enveloping self-pity. For some reason, you can only think in the shower; the world around you just melted when you hit the warm water, but it was only temporary, thought it felt good to you nonetheless.
You start getting dressed noticing the time once again; you now only had about thirty minutes to get up to the school. You swear lightly to yourself, knowing it takes at least forty-fifty minutes with the constant stream of traffic in the streets; but that’s New York for you, what more can you really expect. You run out the door to see your friend waiting outside for you with her sunglasses hanging lowly, uncovering the top parts of her eyes showed; you scoffed and jumped in the passenger’s seat of her car and she drifted off into the streets.
You look at the woman next to you, someone you’ve known your whole life; and not even she knows that you’re a brony, because ever since your girlfriend left you for saying you were a brony, you felt it was much better to keep your love for the show to the anonymous sites of the internet. You look at her and sigh, “So, what made you pick me up today? I’ve been walking to the college for a year now, what’s with this sudden change of heart that made you decide to pick me up?” you asked as she slowly grazed her head over to you.
She chuckled, “I just heard something about you is all, nothing too huge you know; I just found it a rather intriguing fact about you.” She cockily smiled and stopped at the stoplight, as you turned to her with a baffled look on your face.
“You… heard something… about me?” you asked as she smiled and chuckled lightly once again. “Well, just what the hell did you hear about me!? What fucking rumors are these assholes spreading now!?” you yelled defensively, the people at the college constantly starting rumors about you; the last one being that you kill cats and use the hides to coat your walls.
“Oh it’s nothing really,” she said giggling to herself, “You know me, always having to be cryptic and such, so I’m going to give you a hint on what I know.” She said starting to drive once more as the light finally turned green. She cleared her throat, “Ahem! ‘You’re a genius!’, ‘Haha, no I’m not! I’m a chicken, ba-gawk!’” she said giggling as you processed what she’d just said. “You’re smart, I’m sure you can figure it out relatively quickly.” She said as she stopped at the coffee shop.
You finally realize what she’d just said; a light blush was now overtaking your face as she looked at you and rolled her eyes. “Marcelene! How the—when the—HOW THE FUCK DID YOU FIGURE OUT I WATCHED THAT?!” you yelled at her defensively, truly wondering how she’d figured out so inconspicuously that you were in fact a brony.
She scoffed slightly, “I can just tell; I myself watch the show dude, I’m not an idiot. Seriously, why haven’t you told anyone that you watch the show? You seriously can’t stay a closet brony forever! You have to tell someone!” she said as you sighed and ducked your head, with her giving you a certain lowered smile. “Hey, James, what’s wrong buddy?” she said putting her arm around you.
You let out a few tears, wiping them off as manly tears, you tell her the story of your girlfriend leaving you a couple weeks ago. “You know that girl I was dating? That one, Lauren?” you said as she lounged back slightly.
“Well yeah, you guys were always around each other; though I haven’t seen her in maybe a couple of weeks. You sound grim about this topic, what exactly happened with her; did you two have a fight or something?” she asked, as you sighed once more tears escaping from your eyes.
“It’s not exactly that, just more so; she dumped me because I was comfortable with telling her that I was a brony. She didn’t take it too well, she said she needed a man, not a boy that sits around watching cartoons meant for little girls. It broke my heart, but I’ll get over it eventually; I’m going to keep this ‘brony’ thing to myself from now on though. It’s better than telling them and they go and run off on me you know.” You wipe your eyes slowly as she pats you on the head.
“I’ve known you for about twenty-three years now; I would never dream of abandoning a dear friend like yourself. No matter what anyone tells you, you will always be accepted by somebody in this world. And just because she was so ignorant as to not see that it’s not evil to watch the show; I mean there are people who are twice our ages and guys that watch and thoroughly enjoy the show. Just because it was aimed at little girls, the fact that it attracted a much more diverse fanbase tells them a couple of things: one, Lauren Faust really needs to make way more cartoons, two, men aren’t as conceited as most of them let up to be, and three, it shows how a simple idea, done right, can make the hugest difference in how people of the world react to it.” She said with a smile, her smile and words lightening your spirits once again.
You sigh again, “Thanks for the speech Mar’ I’m just feeling kinda down since she dissed me like that; I mean she wasn’t the nicest person, but that took her to an all new low.” You looked up and saw her getting out of the car and walking up to the shop, which now had a closed sign on it, and she came back a few seconds later.
“Well, this place suffered the wrath of the economy; I swear if the government doesn’t pick this shit up soon, the whole country is going to go to hell. I mean, more so than it already has; that is a stroke of stupidity, thank you U.S. government , for your wonderful way of running this country… into the ground…” Marcelene said, she wasn’t anti-government, she just didn’t like how most of the people in the government right now were complete idiots.
You chuckle slightly, as she drives off to the school; when both of you get out, you wave good-bye to each other, both of you now knowing something about the other that neither of you had ever expected. You sat through school, blindly taking notes from the professor; but you were actually in your own reality, your alias in Equestria. The day went by so slow, all of the professors kicking you out of their class for not paying attention to their lectures and lessons; though discouraged, this let you venture further into your alternate reality in Equestria. Dreaming that you were with the Mane 6, solving friendship crises and spreading the power of the magic of friendship; though you are only human, your mind truly thinks, that of somepony from Equestria.
Marcelene snapped you from your dreams, tapping you lightly on the shoulder and greeting you with miniature plushes of the Mane 6, and Celestia and Luna. You smile and take them, taking it as a gesture that she accepts your life choice; you take the miniatures and hug them softly to your chest, wishing that you could’ve been one of these precious little things. “Thank you Mar’, most guys and chicks would’ve ridiculed me to death about now; I’m not sure why they would, but they would. I don’t know why I didn’t think of you as my best friend; you’re the only person now that really understands my choices now. I don’t know why I like the show, I just do; why can’t anyone just accept that it’s my choice to make? This is my life, and I’ll do whatever the hell I want to with it; and if they find that unsatisfactory to their egos, they can kindly fuck off.” You say both of you chuckling.
“You need a ride James? I’m sure I can make a quick stop by your house, if you want me to that is. I’m not going to force you to get in the car with me; frankly, that’s just creepy anyways.” She said chuckling lowly.
You didn’t want to impose, so you declined her offer and decided to walk home, and she smiled and nodded and got in her car and drove off in a burst of dust from under her tires. You cough slightly, the dirt and dust entering your lungs; your body trying to expel the foreign substances from your chest. You clear your throat and start walking the direction of your house; knowing that your house is about a mile or two away. You sigh, it’s a nice day outside, but you used to walk home with your girlfriend, and it was just really painful to recollect the memories of a happier and simpler time. Though with the small miniatures of the ponies you are holding made you smile on the inside and the outside.
You decide to stop out in the field you used to roam in when you were still in highschool; though the field had been reduced to a site where every ignorant person in the state of New York dumped their trash now. The beauty covered up by the trash that was thrown and strewn upon the field; an even coat of garbage layering on the now dying brown grass. You sat down in the middle of the field, the place you used to sit with Marcelene before you started going to a different school and lost contact with her; thought you are happy you have found that she still respects you as if you didn’t watch the show, like you were just a normal young adult. Though none of that mattered at this moment, all you wanted to do was forget the day and go home; after you let all of your anger out by visiting a place of fond memories from your past. All the worries of the world around you melted as you basked in the great memories of a time that everything was just so much simpler; you didn’t have to worry about money, you didn’t have to worry about ridicule, and you didn’t have to worry about the world around you.
But a sudden flash of light erupted from the sky spontaneously, as you arose to your feet to stare into the sky in awe; the colors erupting in a perfect ripple. The colors looked like a rainbow, the eruption looking like… No, it just couldn’t be, it was impossible! You looked at the sky closer, it was; a sonic rainboom. It was all impossible, Earth could not make a sonic rainboom! There’s no force in the world that could even go fast enough to break the sound barrier; so certainly nothing could even create a sonic rainboom! You look up to see figures emerging from the sky, upon closer inspection you see they are heading right towards you! You try to run, but are soon pelted with seven large heavy bodies; knocking you to the ground and just moments later, making you lose consciousness completely.
