Author's Note

Hello people of the Internet!

This is probably going to the shortest chapter, so there will be better than this in quality and quantity. Just a pointer this is my first Fanfic I've actually bother to put online so, yeah... Constructive criticism would be nice since I've never put anything out before. Feel free to mention any grammatical errors too. This chapter is a bit awkward simply because it doesn't fit with anything to come. The next chapter will actually involve a story and such. If you do like and you want to know a schedule on posting I don't have one. At least you'll see a chapter once a week and sometimes even later.

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This is where we get out of the boring and awkward parts I can't write and into something actually important!

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A Brave New World

Leads sat in the classroom bored out of his mind like any other twelve-year old colt in the middle of class. His teacher had seemed to be droning on for hours about history, mathematics, and any else of the like. Just… Gotta stay… Awake…

“Leads!” Shouted Miss Textbook from the front of the classroom along with the whack of her pointer on Leads’s desk.

“24!” Leads cried his default response his head shooting up from the desk. Hushed laughing and giggling came from around the classroom.

“What?” Leads asked looking around at his fellow classmates.

“The question, Leads, was what was the year the banishment of Nightmare Moon. Would you care to answer it?”

“Er, yes, ma’am. That would be um…” The bell in the hall rang loudly for a few seconds.

“Never mind, Leads… Class dismissed!” Through his brown coat anyone could see his red face. And with the bell ringing Leads grabbed his books and was out the door.

“Smooth in there, Leads”

“Go away, Break” Leads grumbled in the hall his head lowered and frown stuck on his face.

“Is the little pony scared I’ll poke fun at him” The pegasus flew in landing just next to Leads.

“Go away, Break” Leads repeated.

“Fine then, blank flack. See you tomorrow” Didn't that pegasus have anything else to do?

…

“Leads!”

“I’m awake!" My head shot up from my desk.

“If you want to learn anything I advise staying awake”

“Yes, Mrs. Parchment” The bell rang at the same time like every other day. Mrs. Parchment huffed shaking her head.

“Remember we have a test over chapters nine and ten. Oh and that includes Starswirl’s passage on teleportation!” She called off to the students spilling out of the classroom.
With a sigh I threw on my saddle bags and took up my textbook that sided as a pillow in my mouth. No matter how many times I did this the book never tasted any better.

“It’s only a matter of time before she actually does something about your little sleeping habit” Patches came up along side me.

“But she hasn’t done anything yet” I murmured through book. Patches gave me a flat look. I just shrugged.

Patches was one of my few friends. Being an Earth Pony in Canterlot wasn't ideal to say the least. I had first meet the panicky unicorn back in middle school when Cloud Break was picking another fight.

“And get that book out of your mouth. You’ll drool all over it” He yanked the textbook out of my mouth with his magic.

“Easy for you to say. You can just levitate everything” Patches scoffed at my remark as if it were absurd to suggest.

“Still, why your mouth?” I would have if I hadn’t been shoved across the hall.

“Oh, didn’t see you there, blank flank!” Sneered Cloud Break. I gave him a disdainful look righting myself.

“Still falling back on that foalish insult?”

“Well it’s true” He laughed in my face. Oh, I wanted to give him a good hoof in the jaw right now.

“You gonna do anything about it then, Leads? Huh?”

“You coming, Break?!” Called another pegasus, one of only three including Cloud Break, from down the hall.

“Yeah! Give me a minute!” He shouted back. Turning on me he left me with a “Warning” and was off.

“Arrogant bastard” I mumbled to myself as Patches and I left the school. Just outside the school next to the street a small crowd had gathered. Naturally we were curious. Pushing our way through the crowd we made our way to the front. One of the richer students was leaning on his Auto letting everyone else gawk at it.

“Gold Bars got a Auto?! Don’t those things cost, like, thousands of bits?!” Squealed one of the mares. I had to admit it was pretty cool. Autos were a new invention. Using magic and Earth Pony engineering a group of scientist had come up with it. The Automatic Horse Cart or Auto for short made transportation a lot easier, if you can afford it that is. They were incredibly expensive to build and run.

“That is so cool!” Cried another mare.

“Come on, Patches” I nudged the unicorn next to me. “We’ve got homework to do”

…

I sighed. Hadn’t really thought of this day until, well, today. College here I come or the Trottingham Police Academy rather. All my items from home I wanted to carry were in a small suitcase next to my bed. This would be the last time I’d see my room for a long time. I glanced at the clock on the wall. Ten o clock. Time to get going. I got off my squeaky bed landing into the ground with a thump. I stood there for a moment thinking attempting to stall as long as possible. With another sigh I grabbed the suitcase with my mouth and was out the door. I took a moment to stand in the living room remembering all the good (and bad) times I’d had. Yet more things to think about. Outside my parents waited for me next to our Model H Auto. They had gotten a lot cheaper in a couple short years becoming easy enough for any well-off family to buy. Ours, the Model H, was a common model. It had a soft top with a metal frame. Four doors with glass windows all around and a decent engine. Anything better was reserved for emergency services or the renovating Equestrian Army.

“Coming, son?” Asked my father peeking his head in the doorway.

“Yeah, dad, just give me a second”

“Okay, but don’t want too long. Your train leaves soon” I took another minute and left the house.

“Oh, why do you always do that?” Asked my mother.

“Do what?” I asked through the handle.

“Put things in your mouth” I gave her a flat look. One thing my parents had never gotten was my putting stuff in my mouth to carry it. Oh, yeah. Did I mention my parents were unicorns? There unicorns. I was adopted when I was about one so we don’t know what my birthday is and just say it’s the day they adopted me. So I was an Earth Pony, they loved me all the same. She yanked the bag out of my mouth and gently placed it in the back seat.

“Son” My dad said anticipatingly.

“Yes?”
“We’ve been putting some money aside” They both smiled. “And we got you this” From just out of view they pulled out a item about twelve inches long, wide, and deep.

I look at the item my jaw a bit slack. “You got me a Crystalvision?”

The Crystalvision. Another invention to come out of modern Equestria. They were somewhat expensive boxes that made colorful pictures on a screen was the simple explanation. The more scientific version was some unicorns got together and enchanted this crystal that when a beam of light was shot through it an image projected onto a piece of glass. The first image was a simple mare standing in a park. At first they cost about as much as an Auto to project a ten minute-long crystal of whatever you ordered. Eventually like many other inventions it was mass produced for cheap and sold from there. It used to only be able to use pre-made crystals so project images but yet more ponies got together and invented the Wavemaker. Using some scientific mumbo jumbo it made vibrations that homed perfectly on the crystals and made it project images of something happening live thus beginning the Equestrian News Agency. The rest is history as they say.

A Crystalvision. “Er… Um… Thank you so much!” I hugged my parents as they put it with my bag.

“Just a going away present is all” My mother insisted.

“Come on, sport. Your train leaves in an hour”

“Oh, yeah. Right” I sat into the back seat of the Auto and we were off.

…

“He’s not our little pony anymore” A tear went down my aging mother’s face as she watched my train pull away.

“He’ll be fine” My father encouraged. “Just fine. Come on” With a tug the two went back to the Auto.