It was silent in the old worn down house, there was no noise coming from the inside for the meantime, only from the sound of the hustle and bustle of people, walking, talking or arguing, traffic on the nearby highway, etc. There was no one in the empty old house, no movement, no noise, until a radio started, it was only staticky at first, but if one were to listen closely. They would make hear a noise coming from the radio, as if someone was talking through it.

The voice sounded of a young male teenager.

"...How should I start this..."

"...Hello there..."

"...I'm not to sure if you'll hear me from here..."

"...I'm far FAR away from home..."

"...Stuck on another world if you're wondering..."

"...Mom...dad...I'm alright...you guys don't need to worry.."

The voice began to sob but a voice came from the background and seemed to calm the boy down. He then continued.

"...I made some friends here, there really kind..."

"...And I love them as if they were like you two...my family..."

"...I don't have that much time left...but I'll say there names and one last thing before I go..."
Multiple voices could be heard suddenly if you were to put your ear closer.

A girl with a high yet regular pitched voice that was filled with excitement yelled out "Hi there!"

A very small and timid voice said "Your boy is a really kind"

A voice with a cowboy accent then spoke "He is real helper he sure is, you two must be proud"

A girl that sounded like she was sort of a tomboy then said "Meh, he's cool and all, but I'm 20% more cooler"

A girl with excitement and worry in her voice said"He enjoys science and books, he nearly read all the books in my library"

A English accented female voice said "He enjoys wearing the gray vest that you gave him, it really is a fashionable clothing article"

The boy must have noticed something was wrong, he quickly said "Girls please, I don't have that much time now"

The boy sounded worried now.
"(Sigh) ...Seems I only have ten seconds left...I just want to say that thing I wanted to say.."

The static then began to grow louder than the voice.

".....I....love.....you....mom...you too...dad" we're the last words before you can only hear nothing but static

It went on for a minute or two in the empty house.
Click.

It was a just another normal day for me, wake up, take shower, brush teeth, get dressed, eat breakfast and leave to school. Just another normal school day. I seriously had no idea why, but I wore my "20% cooler" t-shirt. I was just glad no one knew what the rainbow color streaks were meant to be at school because I was of course, a brony.

I made sure to wear my big blue sweater over it, with a gray vest also, if any of the other kids found out I was a fan to a little kids show, they would just bully me even more. I was just your average teenager, I was 15, tan skin, skinny built up, and was about...say 5,6. This didn't really get me anywhere at school because there are mostly tall kids who try to act cool, jocks, girls who gossip about everything you tell them ugh, and more. They began teasing me in my freshman year saying I was, quote on quote, a weakling.

I quickly showed them when they tried following me to my house. I may be skinny but I'm one heck of a runner, so I outran them in 4 to 5 seconds. After that the year was a nightmare, but enough of that. I slipped the belt through the thin folds to my dark brown jeans to have it fit and ate breakfast while tying my shoes on.
" Honey, make sure to call us when school is over, the newscast said that it might rain today" My mom yelled from the kitchen.
My dad then came out of my bedroom holding my backpack smiled and said "You almost forgot this you know" and tossed it to me while doing a light chuckle.

I instinctively shot straight up causing a water bottle my mom was drinking to drop on the floor. Me and my dad froze both just staring at each other as my mom walking into the living room.
She spoke with a calm tone "Matthew, would you be a dear and go, I have to talk with your father again about the no throwing-in-the-house policy"

I knew what was about to happen and ran out of the door leaving my father to his...doom I guess. When my mom talks to you like that she's basically saying "You're so dead" with a deadly sweet voice. As I jogged out of the house putting my back pack on I couldn't help but feel like I was being watched. I tried my best to put the feeling down because the bus just immediately passed me. I groaned with annoyance now knowing what I'll have to do.

I connected my earphones to my phone, put up a random song and began to position myself on the sidewalk. I couldn't help it but today, I felt more energetic than normal, like I had one of my mom's funnel cakes. I kneeled down, got into a runner position,put my hand down on the sidewalk, and bolted as fast as I can after the bus. As I sprinted towards the bus it began to slow down, everything began to slow down, even me. All of a sudden my vision began turning a mixture of what I believe was gold, purple and midnight blue.

I then began hearing voices.
They all sounded extremely familiar, two were female and the the other was male.

"DISCORD WHAT HAVE I TOLD THE ABOUT ENTERING PERSONAL QUARTERS WITHOUT PERMISSION"!
I slammed my hands over my ears to block out the voice, as I did my eyes widened. Discord? Why did that sound so familiar and why now is my memory acting like it was being messed with?

"Princess Luna please, don't use your canterlot voice it's too loud, and yeah discord, Princess Luna only allowed me in here, she wanted to teach me how to walk into a dream".
Wait...Princess Luna? Was that twighlight's voice? Why does my head HURT so bad now?!

"Now, Now girls, you wouldn't want to wake him up now, ohhhh...uhI see you have" Discord said at first with annoying sarcasm dripping from his voice, but at the last part he actually sounded worried.

"WHA-(mm-mm) What do you mean he is waking"? Princess Luna said.
My mind was having a hard time to think clearly with the massive headache. I began to notice that the bus, the bus stop, the neighborhood, even the sky began to turn into a murky black, as if the whole world was disappearing.

"He is waking up"! Princess Luna said sounding shocked.

Discord simply chuckled "I guess I should make myself aquantend" Then a snap was heard.

"Discord WAI-"
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I suddenly woke up in sweat and was lying down strapped to what seems to be a hospital bed in a empty room. I began to try to stretch the wrist straps or break them or even possibly wiggle my hand free but as I was about to I heard a loud popping noise to my left and noticed a man with with red pupils, a brown suit, holding a cane, and was eating out of a popcorn box that floated in the air in front of him. It was a human version of Discord himself, I was about to say something when my head began to hurt again but even more as if someone was forcing a nail into my brain...slowly.

This caused me to forget about him and the bed and grit my teeth and make groan in agony as I squeezed my eyes shut.

I heard Discord sigh and I felt him touch my head, he then said " Mat, mat, mat, you should know better than letting yourself touch a power line that was trucked down with about...hmmm" As he bags to think I felt the pain from my head at first ease itself then slowly disappear, I opened my left eye and saw him in a thinking posture. It looked like he remembered to what he was saying "Yes about six to probably seven times, Mat for shame, you do know that much electricity could have killed you..right"?

He leaned in as he said that part, I suddenly felt my head burst into pain again, so fast that I actually had time to see that Discord was causing it because his hand was now glowing gold on my head. I remember yelling in pain as I had flashbacks appear in my head.

I wasn't running after the bus, I was jogging down the side walk to the bus stop to get out of the harsh rain...
My parents were never there, they did love me still, but they had trouble staying home with all their jobs, they would video chat with me helping me with anything...if they can...

I was nearly killed by a pole as it fell with it's power lines still connected as lightening struck down upon it for 12 times...
I noticed that there was something shining amongst the debris...

It looked liked a glowing misty orb, I remember wincing as I felt my legs got burnt marks from the electrical sparks...
As I touched it, the mist around the orb enveloped me in a harsh whitish glow lifting me off the ground...

It was very painful as it continued to surround me...
It attracted all the electricity from the power lines...

It forced it all in me....
Burning my clothes and skin and singing my hair...

And I suddenly was taken somewhere...
The middle of a city with people...

Odd looking people...
They all gasped as they saw the burn marks on my body...

And I fell face first on the ground...

Going into a deep slumber...

I suddenly gasped as my eyes snapped open, Discord was still standing to my left, but in front of me was a woman wearing a white dress streaked white yellow stripes with a sun tattoo on her right hand and who was glaring at Discord so hard that I'm surprised she didn't start shooting laser beams out of her eyes. Before I opened my mouth, I was instantly deaf due to this woman's yelling.

"DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA ON WHAT YOU JUST DID DISCORD"?!

"Now Now Tia no need to be angry, I'm sure we could-highu" Discord was instantly put into a magical choking grip.

Discord wheezed while waving a white flag "Alright alright, I give up" and in a second he disappeared in a pop.

I currently had trouble processing all of this because for all I know, all the memories I had could be simply made up ones. When the women seemed to calm down it looked like it was safe to ask questions. I hesitated at first but I managed to ask the one question that was simply prying it's way out of my mouth. I didn't know how tired I was until I realized how hard it was to talk.

"What...the hell...is going on?!"
The woman looked down at me, looking at my burnt clothes and at the places were the burnt marks once were. I could have sworn I saw a hint of worry appear in her eyes, but then she turned her calm face into a face distorted with anger. What she said will make me have confused ways of looking at her from now on.

"I don't know how you got here but I'm going to make sure that you don't harm anyone under my protection!" Then her hands began glowing whitish yellowish "So says I, Princess Celestia"

She shot a bright glowing beam at me that was so hot it was already making the room turn into a oven the second it left her fingers. It would have killed me if a midnight blue shield hadn't appeared in front of me causing the the beam to break apart once it impacted. Princess Celestia had a look of shock on her face while I had a look of fear.

A familiar voice spoke up out of no where "Sister, I know that he has caused trouble once he came here, but I assure you it wasn't his fault for the incident that has happened in Canterlot"l

A flash of white appeared and when it instantly faded a women wearing a deep dark blue dress with a moon crescent on her right arm as well, did I mention that both of their hair were flowing even though there was no breeze in the room. Celestia's was a kinda rainbow mixed color with white sparkles while the other woman's was more similar to the night sky. My instant thought was Princess Luna. She was standing to my right holding her left arm over me and her right arm was glowing a midnight blue.

Princess Celestia regained her calm posture " And how do you know this sister, I remember seeing a blast occur leaving many injured and others...near death" she then pointed her right hand at me, " And in the middle of it all was him"!

Princess Luna had photos appear in her right hand and showed them to her sister, Princess Celestia face shifted through many looks, first confusion, then shock, then anger, and finally calmness. She looked down at me and said.

"I'm terribly sorry for what I have done to you, I feared that you would have caused great harm to all of us and of Equestria please forgive my judgement".

Her hand glowed and the straps to the bed were undone, I rubbed my hands then looked down at myself. I didn't had time to notice it but from what I can remember I had burn marks all over me, but as I examined myself they were all gone. The bad part was that my clothes had singe marks and burnt holes in them, I zipped open my burnt blue sweater and saw that my favorite gray vest was burnt and had multiple holes in it, same with the 20% cooler shirt and my shoes.

Princess Luna walked to my left and helped me sit up, before she could say anything I cutter her off.

"Why was my memory altered"?

The night Princess had a look of shock then worry, she forced herself to talk due the look on her.

"I did so that you wouldn't realize you were in a dreamscape, but altering one's memory it can have many outcomes of what they dream, you dreamed of a happy life where your parents were always there for you and you were strong as you wished for".

I just sat there with a look of confusion on my face while staring at her, she must've got the message because she rolled her eyes.

"Basically your memories were altered because you wanted them altered, in a way you had a different life in your sleep than you have now awake, so there are two of you in that head of yours, one with a different life and you with your current life, don't worry the other one's memories should fade in a week or two". She finished that off with a smile.

I don't know how but I actually managed to understand all of that. ,y thoughts were interrupted by Celestia.

"Now that's out of the way, I would like to show you what happened in Canterlot as well as letting you see the people who live in Equestria, also I would like to know how you managed not to say we and talk modernly Luna".

Luna blushed out of embarrassment furiously and started to talk back to Celestia who, in my case, was taking me out of the room with a hand on my shoulder. I couldn't help but worry and feel excited, worried about the disaster and excited for meeting people. I still had a headache because of the memories, but I pushed it back because I understood it in a way that only a man with the last name De Witt might think.

This was a odd way to end up in Equestria.

Author's Note

I feel like I exceeded the 1,000 word per chapter policy.