"Get up! Get up!", I heard Twilight Sparkle say faintly. I had been having an awesome dream about the Mane six and their land of Equestria. I guess my dream was still lingering a little and I was grateful for it.
I felt the covers get yanked off me and I sat bolt upright in bed because the cold air had awoken me fully. I expected to see my mother standing with my covers and telling me to get ready for school. However, I was staring at a purple pastel pony.
"Where am I, and who are you?" Twilight said.
I had to be hallucinating because I was conversing with Twilight Sparkle, a talking pony from a television show. There was no one else in my room and she had my covers on the floor in front of her. No trick of the mind could do that. So does that mean that she is real and this is actually happening?!
"My name is uh... Milo", I managed to get out. "And you are in the small town of St. George". I doubt she would know where that is, practically no one knows where it is. She is also a pony that should not exist, so places and towns shouldn't even matter right now.
"Where is that exactly Milo?" Twilight asked with a look of suspicion in her eyes.
"The southernmost part of the state of Utah, in America" I answered. How can this possibly be? Not only am I seeing Twilight, I am having a conversation with her! Definitely not my mind playing tricks.
I shivered a little. "Can I have my covers back? It’s kind of cold in here."
I saw her horn light up and my covers flew through the air back to me. I wrapped myself inside of them and tried to warm up again. Today was starting off earlier than I would like but I do get to talk to Twilight sparkle.
Twilight spoke again, "I am Twilight Sparkle and I am a Princess in the land of Equestria". "Nice to meet you Twilight” I responded, trying to stay calm. "I am aware that I am in the human world because I have been here before, but not where we are now and not still as a pony."
"OK then. Can I ask why you are in my bedroom exactly?". "My friends and are were exploring ruins in the Everfree forest and we then appeared in your house because of some ancient lingering magic"
I now knew some stray Equestrian magic had brought them to my world, but where were the rest of the Mane six? Wait wait wait, Equestria isn't real and now somehow through weird science or magic or whatever the Mane six are now in my world? This was way weird and crazy but also way awesome! If this is real, then what else could happen today?
"Twilight I can help you, but can I get dressed first? This is a little awkward, and cold"
"Oh yeah. I'm sorry where are my manners" she apologized. She started walking out my bedroom door and said, "We will continue this conversation when you are ready".
She used her magic to shut the door behind her. I looked over at my clock and it was 5:00 AM. OK I've got time to figure out what’s going on and talk to the mane six.
I rushed over to my closet and threw some shorts and a t-shirt on. Although it was cool in my room, it will be boiling outside later thanks to my family's decision to live in a desert.
I took a few deep breaths to steady my frazzled nerves. This is the craziest thing that has ever happened to me but it is also something I have secretly always wanted to happen. I didn't know if I was crazy or if it was reality, but either way this was way cool and I was just going to go with it. Finally ready I opened my bedroom door and stepped out.
In the recreation "Toy Room" room that was connected to my room I found Twilight and the other members of the Mane six conversing quietly so I wouldn't hear. When they saw me enter they stopped talking and turned to face me.
Standing up I was double their height so I sat cross legged on the floor so we could have a normal conversation. Well as normal as it can be when you are talking to pastel ponies who shouldn't exist.
"As I said before I am Twilight sparkle" Twilight began, “and this is Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and Apple jack. They are the friends I was exploring the ruins with".
"Hello everypony" I said. "We all have a lot of questions for each other so let’s get this party started"
"I love parties!!!! Let’s not waste any time! we need balloons a DJ and most importantly CAKE!!" yelled Pinkie Pie enthusiastically.
"Shhhh" I told her, "There are other people in this house sleeping and who knows how my family would react to seeing you all". After all I was a closet Brony and no one in my family knew I watched the show. My family would go crazy and they would alert authorities who would lock up the Mane six and dissect them and stuff. I really didn't want that to happen.
"He's right Darling, everypony needs their beauty sleep" Rarity chided in.
"Let’s get down to business" I said. "You all got here because of some ancient magic in some ruins right?"
"Correct" Twilight concluded.
"So can’t you come up with a counter spell or something?" I asked. I really wanted to help them out, but I also didn't want them to leave right away. There were too many things I wanted to ask them and show them, but those things would have to wait until we solved the problem of them getting back home.
"That won’t work because I have no idea what actual spell was used to send us here" She explained. "I will have to create a new spell that creates a link to our world from here that lets me adjust for time, dimensional shift, paradox avoi..."
Rainbow Dash shoved a hoof in Twilight's mouth and said, "That's Twilight for yes, but it will take a while"
"Yay then we will have time for a party!" Pinkie exclaimed as she bounced in excitement.
"I hope it doesn't take too long Twilight, because my animals will be worried about me and I’ll be worried about them" said quietly.
"And big Mac will need my help on the farm since apple-bucking season is only a week away" Apple Jack chimed in.
"Alrighty then. you can all stay here with me." I said as I bubbled with excitement. "You can all stay in my room but you need to stay out of sight of any other humans Ok?"
"Ok" they all responded back.
"Let me be a good host and get all of your accommodations in order."
I led the way back to my bedroom and realized it was quite a dirty teenage-boy mess. I quickly grabbed all of my dirty laundry and shoved it into the hamper. My other stuff I shoved under the bed to be dealt with later.
With floor space now available I grabbed some extra blankets and folded them down to make some mattresses. I then got some pillows and a few other blankets and finished the makeshift beds.
"Here is where you guys can sleep and lounge while Twilight works" I explained.
I then showed Twilight to my desk and got out some paper and pencils and pens.
"Twilight use these to write down whatever you need to and these cabinets have books on things you might find useful. There are also books to read for entertainment" I said. From previous episodes of MLP I know all of the Mane six enjoy reading, even Rainbow Dash.
"I have school most days so I will be gone from early in the morning till about late afternoon so try and stay hidden and out of trouble while I’ll be gone ok?"
Right then my stomach made a loud gurgling noise. "Uh... does anypony else want to get some food?"
"Yes that would be oh so kind of you Milo" Rarity spoke for the group.
I led them out of my room, through the Toy Room, and down the hall to the kitchen. all of their hooves made clacking sounds on the tile floor, but for the most part they were fairly quiet. It’s a good thing no one else in my family has to get up for school besides my youngest two siblings, who thankfully sleep like rocks.
I went into my pantry and got out some oat bran cereal. It would be close enough. I left the pantry and got seven bowls out of the cabinets and filled them all with cereal. I placed one in front of each pony then grabbed my own to silence my wailing stomach.
"Ah darling, can we have some silverware please" I heard Rarity ask.
I looked up from my own bowl to see Rarity and Twilight waiting patiently for something to eat with. Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy were using their forelegs to lift the bowls to their mouths and eat like lazy teenage guys (I speak from experience). Of course my stupid mistake of thinking they would eat like a pet would since they obviously could use magic. I need to be more mindful of how they are intelligent and needed to be treated like any other intelligent being needs to be treated.
"Sure" I answered. I turned around and grabbed two spoons out of the silverware drawer.
I held out the spoons and magical aura surrounded each one and levitated towards the respective unicorns.
With everypony satisfied and eating I could turn my attention back to my own food that was waiting to be devoured. I ate quickly so I could continue to talk to them while they ate.
I finished and I washed my bowl in the sink. I looked down to see the ponies had finished eating, so I took their dishes and washed them as well. I motioned for them to follow me back to my room so we could work out the finer details of our arrangement, and so that someone wouldn't accidentally run into one of them by accident. When we reached my room I quietly closed the door then sat down.
"Ok so as I said before these are your temporary beds. Also any food you need you can have, just make sure that you aren't seen when getting it." I said.
Each pony then found the bed they wanted. Ok that's good that they are all settled. What are they going to do if they want to stretch their legs and move around or get some air while I’m gone, what then? Hmm....Idea ding ding ding!!!
I turned and opened my bedroom window. "If you get bored go outside and fly and do whatever your heart desires" I proclaimed, as I was quite proud of my solution and grateful I lived in a one story house.
"Twilight do you know any invisibility spells?"
"I do Milo...Oh I see" Twilight said as she caught onto my idea. "If we need to go anywhere I can just make us invisible and then danger will be significantly lessened".
"Yep" I exclaimed.
Just then my door opened and I looked up at my mom who was looking around my room in utter shock and disbelief. I am so screwed now.
Author's Note
My first story. I hope you like it. Let me know what you think i can do better or any other feedback, i really appreciate it. Also sorry for the misspellings and typos and stuff, i will fix them all with my next chapter release.
“Milo…What is going on in here?” my mom demanded as she gazed around my room.
“Mom!! I…uh…I can explain” I stammered, knowing full well that I could never explain what was happening. Heck, I didn’t even know what was happening right now!
“You cleaned your room without me even asking you to!”
“Oh”, I said as I looked where the mane six had been moments before. They weren’t there. “I wanted to clean my room because I was tired of the mess” I lied.
“I’m so happy that you are taking charge and doing things that make our home a better place hon!” my mom said bubbling with happiness. “It’s time to get ready for school, hurry up”.
My mom then left my room and closed the door leaving me alone once again.
“Where did you guys go?” I said to the air as I looked around for the ponies. Then there was a small “pop” and there were once again six multicolored pastel ponies in my room.
Twilight was panting slightly as her horn’s glow faded. My room was then filled with chatter.
“I thought we were done for!” Applejack said.
“My heart almost jumped out of my chest” whispered Fluttershy.
“That was a very close call Milo” Twilight said, “I was barely able to cast an invisibility charm and a simultaneous silence bubble around all of us before we were seen”.
“Yeah that was a close one, but hey now we know that you guys will be able to hide when it is necessary” I suggested.
“Yes I guess that’s good” Twilight said. “Now I will need to start working on the spell to try and take us home. I will try and figure out what exactly sent us here from the ruins and create a counter spell that unweaves the previous spell and reforms it to our needs to send us back across dimensions back to where we came from! This is going to be great! Also when we get home I can write a research paper about it!” exclaimed Twilight as she clapped her hooves together. She then used her magic to levitate a note pad and a pencil from my desk nearby.
“Well I know that I’m not good at egg head stuff, so what am I going to do in the meantime?” asked Rainbow Dash. All the other ponies mumbled in agreement.
“Well…you guys could go outside and do whatever, like I said earlier, or if any of you would like you can come to school with me so long as Twilight casts the invisibility spell on you first” I offered.
“Nah I think we will be good here” Applejack concluded.
“I’ll just go outside and practice some maneuvers” Rainbow Dash said.
“I want to spend some time with the animals here” Fluttershy chimed in.
“I will work on improving your, um, lovely bedroom Darling” Rarity grinned.
“Yeah I guess it could do with some improvements, anything to make you ponies more comfortable. Just don’t start moving anything around until my family all leaves the house, which will be around 8:00.” I instructed. “And nothing too extreme”.
“I’m going to start working on a welcome to…um…where are we again?” Pinkie Pie asked.
“America”
“Oh right. I’ll start working on our welcome to America party!!” Pinkie exclaimed as she bounced into the air at the same time confetti mysteriously exploded from nowhere.
“Ok. Have a good time while I’m gone. I’ll be back in about five hours” I said.
I reached down and grabbed my backpack from where I had shoved it in my hurried cleanup and walked out of my bedroom door. I snagged my keys off of the entry table and hopped into my car to head to school. The whole way there I could not stop thinking about how the entire main six are now living at my house and I get to help them. This was just so awesome.
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I Hurried to my car after school and started the engine so my car could start cooling off on this hot afternoon. I pulled out of my parking spot and set off for home. When I reached my house and parked the car there were no other people in sight. Good sign number one, I was the first one home and there were no FBI people surrounding my house.
I hurried into my house and shut the front door. My house was still intact and there was no baking or party materials plastered to the walls. Good sign number two, pinkie hadn’t destroyed my house. I then turned down the hallway and headed to my room.
When I opened the door I was pleasantly surprised to find that my room wasn’t changed very much, but still had some great improvements. I half expected rarity to turn the place into a fashionista’s dream studio. The other ponies must have helped guide her…creative…inspiration. She was quietly stitching something as she laid on one of the makeshift beds I had made earlier. I had no idea where she found the needle, maybe she always kept one with her in case of emergencies?
“Welcome back Milo” Twilight greeted me as she walked away from my desk where she had been working, “how was school?”.
“Oh it was fine” I assured her as I walked over to my bed and slid my backpack underneath it.
I turned to face Rarity. “So what did you end up improving while I was gone?” I asked.
“Well Darling, I cleaned up a tad and I organized your closet to provide maximum use of space and made everything easier to find based on a system of temperature cross referenced with style”. “I also took the liberty of drawing up some plans to make our beds better. I don’t mean to be rude, bit I was also looking at your clothes and I thought I could help with your fashion sense” Rarity admitted.
“Yeah that would be great Rarity!” I responded. Some improved fashion advice from a professional, be it that she is a pony professional, could really help improve my self-image.
“Where is everypony else?” I asked Rarity.
“Oh, well Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Fluttershy are all outside and Pinkie is probably in the kitchen” Rarity informed me.
“Ok, thanks. I’m going to go see how the others are doing and I will be right back” I said, speaking to both Rarity and Twilight who both went back to what they were doing.
I hopped out of my bedroom window and walked a little ways out from my house. “Hello, anypony out here?” I called, knowing full well that Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy had to be out here because they weren’t inside.
All of the sudden there was a blue and rainbow colored streak across my vision and when I could see again Rainbow Dash was hovering right in front of me.
“Hey, what’s up Milo” Rainbow Dash greeted me.
“What were you up to while I was gone?” I inquired.
“I was just practicing some flight maneuvers and flying over the area to see what’s going on around here” she answered.
“That’s great Rainbow, do you know where Fluttershy and Applejack are?”
“Yeah Flutters is over by the creek just a little ways over there and AJ is Bucking some trees”
“Thanks Rainbow. Can you head inside for me? I want to gather everypony together and have a little meeting real quick”
“You got it”
There was another colorful blur and Rainbow Dash was gone again.
I was really grateful my parents decided to live on the edge of town with a large property. Having this much space and being right next to the woods was nice and provided a lot of entertainment. There was also a creek right along the edge of the woods that was almost like an invisible wall keeping the woods from growing any closer to my home. Of course Fluttershy would be by the… wait did Rainbow Dash say AJ was Bucking some trees?!
I hurried over to where I heard the classic apple bucking noise and I found applejack bucking my family’s few apricot trees.
“Applejack are you bucking my apricot trees?” I asked, worried. I didn’t know if harvesting fruit like this in my world would work the same.
“Sure am. I noticed your trees had reached pickin’ time and I thought I’d help you out a little, seein’ as you’re helpin’ us out so much” Applejack said as she bucked the tree she was standing by. To my amazement all the fruit fell off the tree and into the waiting buckets that were placed around the tree just like in the show. I looked at the other few trees and they had already been bucked. Wow, I wonder what else will work that I never thought would.
“Well thank you Applejack that was very nice” I told her.
“Sure thing Milo. I always like doing a little hard work” she said.
“Applejack could you head back to my room? We are going to have a meeting as soon as I get Fluttershy and Pinkie” I said.
“Alright” she said as she started towards my bedroom window.
I then headed over towards the creek where I could see some yellow.
When I approached the creek I heard Fluttershy’s amazing singing voice as she sang to the animals of the woods. There were all manner of birds and small jackrabbits clustered around her to listen to the concert she was giving.
“Wow Fluttershy, you have an amazing voice” I said after a few moments of just enjoying her music.
“Ah!” Fluttershy screamed in her whispery voice, obviously startled. All the animals then scattered back into the woods.
“Oh I’m so sorry I scared you” I apologized.
“Oh…um...hi...Milo. It’s fine. And…um…thank you for the compliment” she whispered, barely audible.
“You’re welcome. I just came to get you because we are going to have a meeting in my room ok?” I told her.
“Oh alright” she said. She then slowly flew next to me and followed me back to my bedroom window.
Once inside I saw all of the other ponies there sitting in a circle on their beds, except Pinkie.
Just then Pinkie bounced into the room with a tray full of cupcakes balanced on top of her frizzy mane. How she could balance things on that thing amazes me.
“Pinkie nice of you to join us. I see you made cupcakes” I observed as she came to a stop in the middle of the group.
“Yeah I made one for everypony!” she said excitedly, “I also made some for your family too Milo, because I’m not going to be a greedy mare and not share these delicious cupcakes with everyone who lives in this house”.
“That was nice of you Pinkie, thanks” I said as I reached over and snagged one off of the tray. All of the other ponies did the same either with a hoof or with magic.
“Alright everypony down to business” I began, “you all were amazing while I was gone today so thank you very much. Also tomorrow after school I am going to work with Rarity to make you some nicer beds. Twilight have you made any progress on the spell to get you home?” I asked.
“I have been trying to figure out the exact cause and method how we were brought here, once I figure that out it should be fairly easy to create the counter spell. However, it will still take a while because I am having to work off of memory alone because I don’t have any of my books to use to help” she explained.
“It’s ok Twi, take as long as you need” Applejack reassured.
All of the other ponies agreed with Applejacks statement.
“Is there anything that I could do to help you along?” I asked.
“Well, having access to some books would be nice” she admitted.
I walked over to my desk and opened the cupboards above it. “These are all of the books I own, I’m sorry almost all of them are just fiction” I apologized. “You could come with me to the school tomorrow and pick out some books from the library that you could use to help your research” I offered. I didn't think it would be a good idea to show Twilight the internet because that could lead to a lot of problems. One being the airing of the show My Little Pony, and second I don't know how she would use the keyboard without hands.
“Yeah that would be a big help to my studies” Twilight agreed.
“Since Twilight will be coming to school with me tomorrow I think it’s a good idea that you all come as well. After all she is the only one who can cast the invisibility and silence spell to keep you all safe” I said.
“That’s a great idea, it can also help me see what the styles of your world are to help improve your wardrobe” Rarity declared enthusiastically.
The ponies all confirmed that it would be a great idea.
“I don’t know if I can do it though Milo” Fluttershy said, “I hate being in a large group of people that I don’t know very well, and I have always had bad experiences with school”.
“You’ll be fine Fluttershy. You will be invisible the whole time and Twilight's spell makes it so that no one can hear you” Rainbow Dash reassured.
“Oh right. I will be ok then” Fluttershy said.
“Speaking of being invisible and silent, Twilight could you possibly make it so that I could see and hear you while still being seen and heard by everyone else?” I asked.
“It would require a little tweaking and a little more energy and concentration to cast the spell, but yes Milo I think I can do that” Twilight said.
“Alright” I said rubbing my hands together, “tomorrow we go to school”. “My parents and family get home around six so feel free to do whatever you would like until then. At six either stay hidden outside or come inside so Twilight will be able to hide you on short notice. Once the sun sets everypony needs to be inside so I can shut my window. Ok?”.
There was then an affirmation from everypony and they slowly left to return to their various activities. The rest of the day was fairly uneventful. I did my homework and chatted with rarity a little bit on what I would like my new clothes to look like. I also went out of my room to do my chores and some other daily routine things so my family would know I existed and was safely home. Hopefully after a while of my new routine of spending a lot of time in my room or outside, my family wouldn’t question me and maybe one day soon I could show the ponies to them without life as we know it being completely changed. When the sun set Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy all came in and I closed the window for the night.
“Time for bed everypony” I said with a yawn as I shut off the light.
All of the ponies had various ways in which they fell asleep. Rarity had fashioned a sleeping mask to cover her eyes all night, though I still didn’t know why she slept with one, perhaps I should ask her about it. Applejack and Rainbow just collapsed onto their respective beds and Applejack began to snore lightly. Rainbow Dash then shoved a hoof in AJ’s mouth to stop the snoring and turned over. Pinkie just jumped on her bed for a while until it became soft enough for her to lay down and fall asleep instantly as well, just like in the episode “Do Ponies Dream of Magic Sheep”. Fluttershy floated slowly back to the ground after her usual hovering and she curled and slowly fell to sleep in a yellow and pink ball. Twilight shut off the desk light and walked over to her bed. She laid down and we talked a little while about magic logistics and human world things until she didn’t respond anymore.
It was way past my time to go to sleep. As I laid down and looked at the ceiling, I still couldn’t believe that this is what happened today. Part of me thought that I would wake up in the morning and it all will have been a dream. Another part of me dreaded school with the ponies tomorrow, because I had no idea how they would react to my regular school day. I turned over, closed my eyes, and fell into an uneasy, yet happy slumber as my mind kept pondering what the new day would bring.
Author's Note
Sorry that this chapter did not come out on the date I had announced. I will try and be as consistent as I can. New chapters will be posted every other Saturday unless otherwise stated.
