What You Wish For 2: The Book of Unicorn

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Chapter 3

Alex had finally managed to get all the girls eating some breakfast at the table; it was rather difficult convincing Celestia that the name Applejacks was a coincidence. As they ate Alex continues to go over the plan, it seemed almost perfect, and it just needed a few things. Alex went over the list of supplies they would need such as old passports and older credit cards, so much had changed since that time almost thirty years ago. As the girls finished their cereal Alex guided them into the living room where he began to give the girls strange forms of clothing, the colors and the styles looked nothing like Rarity saw usually. As the looked over the clothes Rarity raised her hand and said, “Uh dear, why are you giving us such… such odd clothing?”

Alex brought his hands behind his back to give himself a look of authority as he said, “Because that is what will look casual where were going… no not where, when we are going.”

Twilight tilted her head after looking over her sleeveless shirt and said, “When are we going?”

Alex looked out the window as he said with a sigh, “Thirty years ago.” Twilight looked over to her friends as to check with them to see if she wasn’t the only one unable to understand him. Alex turned around to face his Equestrian companions as he said, “Girls… it’s time I reveal our true plan.” The girls began to huddle in closer; even Fluttershy didn’t know what he was going to say since she fell asleep before he had the idea last night. Alex gave his now iconic smile as he said, “We are going back in time.”

The girls began to ooh and whistle about the idea as Twilight said, “Are you expecting wither me or Celestia to cast one of those spells?”

Alex simply shook his head as he said with a smile, “Nope, I bought us a time travelling machine!”

Celestia looked at her sister before saying, “We don’t mean to offend you, Alex. But time travel isn’t possible using technology, only magic would be capable of doing that.”

Alex walked over to the garage door as he said to the princesses, “Well then explain that to this!” Alex opened the door and levitated the red rectangular time travelling machine into the room, on the top of it was labelled “Telephone Both”. Alex looked at it proudly as he said, “I call it the Late, and you have to pronounce the ‘e’ as an ‘ee’.”

Twilight looked at the box suspiciously; she knew she had seen it before. After close inspection Twilight looked over at Alex and said, “Is this really yours?”

Alex looked down at his feet and shook his head sheepishly, he reached for the door and as he opened it two teenagers fell out as one of them said, “Woah dude! I think we are in a most bogus situation.”

Alex looked down at them as he said, “Where’s the British guy?” He had no idea where these two teenagers had come from but they dressed like they were from some classic 80’s movie.

As he looked down at them with a look of confusion and surprise, the two got up quickly as they said together, “I’m Bill!”

The other one with the black hair pointed at himself as he said proudly, “And I’m Ted!”

Then the two joined together playing air guitar at the same time as they said simultaneously, “We are the Wild Stallions!”

Alex looked at them with his hand to his chin, he knew he had seen theme before but just couldn’t remember where they were from. Alex snapped his fingers as he said, “Keanu! Listen we need to borrow your time travelling machine!”

The two teenagers stood in Alex’s way as he mentioned the word borrow and said, “We can’t let you do that, dude.”

Alex looked at them as he said, “Listen, how about you get yourselves some more pot while you’re here and we will be back in an instant.” Suddenly behind Alex appeared the exact same time travelling machine and he could hear his own voice saying, “Oops not far enough!” Just as soon as it appeared it was gone. Alex used that moment to gently push the boys out of the way; he motioned for the girls to begin piling up inside the phone booth. Once all the women were stuffed in there Alex got in as he said, “Let’s go back to 2012!” As he said that, the world around him began to glow brighter and brighter, the lights quickly faded and Alex could see he was still in the living room and was watching him still talk to the girls and said loudly, “Oops not far enough!” The lights quickly returned as bright as ever, a buzzing noise rung through the ears of the cramped passengers and the phone booth shook like it was caught in an earthquake. When the shaking stopped the passengers looked out of the tiny windows to see they were in some sort of hyper space tunnel while weird science fiction music played. Alex watched as what looked like a blue phone booth passed by with a man and a small horse inside it, they both had brown hair and the same color of eyes; they looked out of their window to watch as Alex and his group passed by. The tunnel soon came to an end and they were in the middle of England, the midnight stars shined brightly upon the wet streets fresh after a rain storm. Alex and the girls tumbled out onto the dead silent streets as they tried to exit the small red box. He slowly got to his feet and looked around as he said, “From what I understand, we’re in England.”

Twilight brushed herself off and walked up next to the human leader as she said, “How can you tell?”

Alex then pointed his finger towards what looked like a bunch of men in tuxedos with top hats and monocles, they were drinking tea and eating crumpets next to their big wheels as they laughed amongst each other and Alex said, “That, that right there is the toughest English biker gang.”

As Alex said that one of the men turned his head towards the group of women as he said, “I do say old chaps; we have ourselves some imbeciles in the area.”

Alex slowly began to back away as he said, “Just hold your breath; English people can’t see people who aren’t breathing, or no that’s Transylvanians. I’m sorry these guys look tough.”

As Alex slowly backed away, one of the shorter men began to walk towards him as he stroked his moustache and said, “You’re quite right my dear friend. I say, young man, have you no idea that this is our grounds of residence?”

Alex began to have a nervous look on his face as he said while shaking, “Pardon me, we didn’t know this was your turf.”

One of the other members of the gang began to laugh as he said while pointing his cane, “Maybe we could ruff you up as to teach you a jolly lesson not to disturb our tea time again.” Alex slowly backed away when one of the bikers swung his cane under Alex’s feet and flipped him onto his back where he simply held his cane at his throat. Before he could proceed with any more “ruffings” the leader of the gang got onto his big wheel and said, “’Tis not worth it, come now and we shall leave these tiny minded buffoons to their usual business.” With that the men began to bike away into the distance, laughing as they sipped on their tea.

Alex got up quickly and brushed himself off as he said, “Those guys really scare me, they’re so tuff. Now back to business, step one is complete and”

Before Alex could continue Pinkie looked back at the time machine and said with a raised hand, “How did you know we would get that thing anyway?”

Alex through his arms up as he flailed them and said, “Oh I don’t know, I was planning on having Celestia or Twilight do the magic spell but then those two pot heads popped up in their phone booth, it saved us a lot of energy right?” The girls couldn’t help but agree, Alex looked up at the sky and said, “Now, step two is in action. We shall not sleep until we find Lauren Faust.” Alex began to hope on the tips of his toes as he said with a smile of glee, “Oh boy this is going to be so exciting!”

Luna tapped Alex on his shoulder as she said, “Pardon me, sir Alex. But why are you so excited to be in a certain era.”

Alex turned around to reveal his eyes wide with excitement as he said with a giggle, “Because first of all, this is the time era I’m most familiar with, second I can win almost any bet on the London Olympics since I read over the scores once. Thirdly World War Three isn’t supposed to happen for another fifteen years so we can still see the Eiffel tower and the Big Ben. Before France was burnt to the ground in the war, which means we are going to go see France before we go back to the future (accidental title drop).”

Rarity’s eyes began to twinkle as she said, “France? I remember reading about its beautiful cuisines and restaurants, it was the capital of fine dining.”

Alex looked over at Rarity as he said in an informative tone, “We are going to do that as soon as we have found Lauren. Now before anything else we have to find a hotel. I have a wad of cash that I converted into this era’s form thanks to Ted, and we all have old passports thanks to a little friend called Photoshop.”

Celestia brought her hand to her mouth and let out a silent yawn as she said with a tired look in her eyes, “Good, the princess of the sun really needs her sleep, but wait… didn’t we just wake up like an hour ago?” Alex thought over it, it really was going to be a bit difficult to get used to this sleeping pattern, but if he can manage living on an alien world then he can adjust to some jetlag. Alex returned to looking into the distance as he clenched his hands with excitement, he was finally going to attend his very first brony-con. He was finally going to meet Lauren Faust herself in the flesh and blood; he was going to fix one serious problem at Fox news as well.

Alex began to walk away as he said, “Lucky for you the Salvation Army had this era’s clothes that would fit you all, and I know they’re kind of dirty but after a good wash they will be better. Now I’ve given you two princesses some names that won’t attract too much attention, Celestia is now Tia Sun.” Alex looked over his shoulder to see Tia shrug it off and accept it. Alex looked over at Luna and began to think for a couple of seconds, “Your name is hopefully not too cute, Lindsay Sun. I want to name you that so I can nickname you Lulu.”

Luna shook her head but couldn’t take her eyes off of the architect of these buildings that resembled the ones found in Trottingham, Luna eventually realized she was being talked to and said, “Oh yes sure!” Her eyes then resumed looking at all these huge buildings as she said, “So how do you know where to look for the creator?”

Alex quickly responded since he knew everything brony related that happened in 2012, “She’s going to be appearing at Comic-con 2012, the convention is not important all that matters is that she appears there and we haven’t landed in another universe where that doesn’t happen.”

Applejack took her hat off and gave her head a scratch as she said, “Well let’s hope we find her cause Ah ain’t goin’ on no more fancy trips like that ever again. By th’ way, you sure you’ll remember where to find our machine thingy?”

Alex shook his head as he continued to look down the street and said, “Don’t need to, we just need well hidden cryogenics if we ever want to get back. I remember my old friend Justin created a cryogenic container that solved the brain melting issue found in the other ones and sold it to acquire the money to build the collider that helped me find you girls.” Alex began to feel a little down now that he began to think of his best friend’s death, but the very thought of his sacrifice for nothing was what propelled Alex to do his best to take down ShadowThunder forever. Alex stopped at a large building that had the word “Bus Stop” written on it in big glowing letters. Alex waited a couple of minutes at the corner of a busy midnight street along with the girls before the large red bus eventually pulled up. As Alex let the girls get on he whispered into the ears of Luna and Celestia, “Just try to sit still and no one will get suspicious.” With that Alex climbed onto the bus and handed the bus driver some money.

The man looked at the bills in his hand and after a few seconds he looked back up at the man through his thick glasses and said, “This is Canadian money.”

Alex began to walk for the upper half of the bus as he said, “You’re welcome.” Alex motioned for the girls to follow him as well and sit on the upper half to see the buildings; the night was shining against the bus’s sides and lit up the wet pavement beneath them. As the girls sat down, Luna and Celestia couldn’t help but be in awe at what they were seeing, all the lights and tall structures around them were incredible. As Alex sat down next to Pinkie with the rest of the group behind them Alex turned around and said to them, “We have to get back into the states fast! That guy’s newspaper is talking about the comic con being tomorrow.”

Twilight shook her head as she said, “I remember reading on Wikipedia how far America was from England, it said it was a light year away.”

Alex simply stared at Twilight for a few seconds of silence before he said, “There are two things wrong with what you just said, one is the fact you browse that website too much and second is that you believed in that.” Alex gave a gentle shake of his head before looking back towards the front of the bus. The ride was pretty silent aside from when Luna tried to converse with another human being without Alex’s permission, she now knows that she isn’t royalty here and the kissing of the royal hand (or hooves) is only in Equestria. The bus eventually pulled up in front of the airport and Alex turned to the rest of the group and gave them their corresponding passports. When Rarity received hers Alex told her not to pronounce it if she couldn’t, just say it’s Russian. As Alex and the rest approached the counter inside Alex put a wad of cash on the desk as he said, “Ten tickets to San Diego please!” The woman stared down at the pile of money only to have Alex stare at her with an awkward smile, the staring lasted for a couple of seconds before she took the Canadian money and processed it into the ten tickets where Alex gave them one by one to each girl and before they knew it they were through the TSA scan, which Celestia happened to enjoy, and were boarding the plane. Alex looked over to see Fluttershy looking for spot and Alex motioned for her to sit next to him, as she sat down she was clearly showing signs of being uncomfortable and Alex said to her, “What’s wrong?”

Fluttershy looked around the room to see all the people getting on and putting their bags in the compartments as she said, “This thing is so big, what if it can’t carry all of us.”

Alex put his hand over top of Fluttershy’s as he said, “Don’t worry, these things were perfected after almost a hundred years and are made to carry all these people. The only way it can crash is through a feather jamming the engine or something.” Alex watched as Fluttershy squeaked and curled up in her seat and wrapping her arms around her knees.

Fluttershy leaned her head against Alex as she said, “It’s not just that, I really want to go home. I miss poor Angel and all my other little critters.”

Alex wrapped his arm around her shoulder, he was really nervous doing this and it was making his face go red as he said, “In a couple more days you’ll be comfy in your old snugly wuggly bed.” Alex felt like continuing but the plane was beginning to take off and Fluttershy began to scream in her throat as the plane slowly began to pull up into the air at super speeds. Alex could feel her iron grip on his arm cutting off all circulation as she began to panic, her eyes wide with terror at the sounds of the plane’s turbines outside. Alex looked across the hall to see Applejack and Dash raising their arms like children on a rollercoaster as huge white smiles spread across their faces, behind them was Twilight and Pinkie looking through the travel magazines while listening to Pinkie talk about where she will throw her next party. Behind them were Celestia and Luna watching a movie on the little television screens with the headphones they were offered. Alex turned his head around to see Lyra and Rarity looking through the fashion and popular science magazines that were conveniently placed there.

After a while Fluttershy calmed down as she said in almost a whisper, her arms still gripping Alex like a vice, “Is it over?”

Alex pointed out the window towards the small dots of light below him as he said, “See for yourself.” Alex smiled gently as he watched Fluttershy poke her head out the window and look in awe at the small city below her; it was truly amazing that such a big metal machine was capable of keeping them in the air.

Alex could feel her grip loosening as she said calmly, “When are we going to get there?”

Alex flicked his wrist and looked at his watch and after a couple of seconds he said, “In about another twelve hours or so. Then we have to do a bit of driving so you should get some sleep.” Alex didn’t even have to tell her because she was already falling asleep next to him, Alex had to resist the urge to shout D’AWWWW as he watched her get comfy in her seat. For the next coupled of hours Alex would have to put up with having an adorable pony in disguise cuddle up to him as they both sat in extremely uncomfortable seats for the next twelve hours. It was plain paradise to him and he wished it would never end.

Big Action scene coming up in the next chapter. Hope this wasn’t too racist for some of you English bronies out there!