Michalekos Residence; Sunday 08:14am

That was a strange morning for Thomas and Selena Michalekos; both woke up with the ood feeling that they had the exact same strange weird, but neither of them dared to mention it even if they kept trying to pretend it was nothing.
However, the thing was that they were woke up by the delicious smell of recently made pancakes; but who prepared them? Chloe? Obviously not, she was too young. Then Laura? No, she couldn’t; during her short time with them they learnt their older daughter didn’t cooked. Then who? Fearing the worst they ran to the kitchen to see who did it.

Of course it was no other than a cute little cream-coated horse who was whistling a cheering melody while she careful poured the pancake mix in a pan and then cover it.
And just if it wasn’t strange enough the marriage turned their attention to the table where a little white unicorn with electric-blue mane was drinking a cup of coffee along with a gray mare with black mane who was reading the newspaper.

“Ey Tavi, when you finish can I see the comics?”

“If you want but I warn you this aren’t the comics you read back home Vy”

“I know, that’s why I want to read them, I’m curious with what humans entertain themselves”

Bon-Bon shook her head in disapproval.

“It must be better than what they eat, when I checked they had tons of canned, frosted and packaged food. I mean, did anyone cook in this world anymore? I almost have a stroke”

“Relax Bonny” smiled Laura entering to the kitchen behind her parents. “Is just normal life, even if I must admit those things aren’t as good as the homemade they aren’t that bad if you try it”

Bon-Bon crossed her hooves.

“There’s NOTHING as homemade food and that’s final” scolded the cream-coated pony then smiling to Laura’s parents. “Oh, and good morning for the two of you. Please take a seat, breakfast is ready”

Both Laura’s parents sighed in defeat.

“So it wasn’t a dream” they mumbled at the unison.

Laura smiled gently to them.

“I know is weird. First time I arrived to this world I was completely disoriented, but I promise you it’ll end soon. Really?”

“Then what Laura?” Asked her mother. “Would you go back to Equestria or stay here with your real family? Because you can’t have both world”

Laura didn’t knew what to answer.
Anyone could notice her mood had bettered a lot since she reunited with her old friends and judging by the ‘please don’t go’ expression in her parents’ face it concerned them a lot.
Laura could only smile weakly to her parents:

“Mom, dad, whatever happens from now, I promise you that I’ll follow my heart and it’ll guide me in the right direction”

“That’s what worries me, what if your heart guide you away from us?”

No one knew what to say so they better sat to have breakfast. Luckily Chloe’s arrive relaxed the tensions since she shrieked excitedly when she realized it wasn’t a dream and her sister was truly an equestrian pony.

Equestria, ManeHattan residential area, House of the Sweet family; Sunday 4:12pm

Sweet Pea’s parents, Crunchy Spinach and Tasty Carrot were relaxing before dinner when somepony called to the door. Crunchy answered only to bump into Princess Celestia and a pair of intimidating soldiers serving as her bodyguards.
Both earth ponies bowed to her.

“Princess Celestia, we had the feeling you’ll show up sooner or later. Any clues about our son?”

“Nothing yet, he knows how to cover his tracks. We don’t have anything, anything!”

Tasty sighed.

“We shouldn’t allow him to keep living with us”

The Princess shrugged.

“Yeah, I never understood why he insisted in living with you since he’s one of the richest ponies in the city?”

“We never really understood. He said his businesses all over the Kingdom kept him traveling constantly and as a matter of fact he was rarely at home, so having a place of his own was going to be a waste. We gladly accepted him here as long as he paid us in time and he did. He didn’t even cared when we raised his rent, no, he paid what we asked and even offered more”

Princess Celestia grinded her teeth.

“Damn it!”

Tasty Spinach smiled weakly.

“We never knew anything about his conspiracy theories and that stuff that he did it because it was easier to disappear in case the government began looking for him. Whenever he was home he seemed pretty normal, all he talked about were his business and life… ad of course he bought some strange packages from time to time his hobbies weren’t our business”

Princess Celestia couldn’t deny this guy was pretty clever: in front of the people who loved him Sweet Pea acted like a very clever and straight-forward businesspony. No one would suspect a thing about his activities. He was a true master in the art of pretending.
And then it hit her. Of course!

“The art of pretending…”

“Princess Celestia?”

The white alicorn frowned.

“What if this whole conspiracy-theory thing is just an excuse? He made us underestimate him by taking him as crazy; but all this time he was diverting our attention to his true intentions; but what are them?”

Celestia turned to her bodyguards.

“Quick! What do you have in Sweet Pea’s profile?”

One of the soldiers made appear a folder and began:

“Twenty four years old, graduated in agronomy, successful businesspony; he owns several properties all over Equestria most of them factories. He also possesses the biggest brand in canned products. Oh and keeps repeating to everypony that his sister was abducted by humans even if everypony keeps telling him she ran away with her coltfriend”

“Hold it!” Called Celestia. “Wasn’t his sister the first victim registered in ‘the incident’ sixteen years ago?”

Tasty and Crunchy exchanged a saddened look.

“Precisely… she died…”

“At least Yummy didn’t suffered”

That horrible memory slowly came back to Celestia: sixteen years ago after Nightamare’s magic outburst opened several portals all over Equestria; most of them were harmless and the Royal Guard isolated the areas, but two in particular had really bad consequences. One of them teleported a human child to Equestria (agent Heartstrings) and the other one opened directly over a teenage mare killing her in the process. Celestia offered a huge amount of bits to the mare’s family in exchange of their silence. But they accepted mostly because of their younger son’s sake, Sweet Pea.

“He knew” mumbled Crunchy Spinach when he understood.

Celestia nodded slowly.

“Yeah, sixteen years ago several portals opened all over Equestria; causing a young human to get trapped here and killing a little pony. Today that mare’s younger brother is a respected billionaire who foalnapped the human-turned-pony was trapped here and steal a dangerous spell from my personal archives. This was no coincidence, this is all about Yummy Beans”

Suddenly several green lightings appeared all over the sky followed by short earthquakes and purplish clouds in the sky.

“Damn he’s using the spell!”

So the Princess ran to the street followe by his bodyguards.
All this time all she was mislead by Sweet Pea but now she had a vague idea of what he as up to. The only problem was she still had no idea of where he was using that spell in particular.

“Damn it, damn it!”

They ran through a park where ponies began to panic seeing the strange phenomena.

“Where is he using it? WHERE?”

A pony sitting in a bench reading the late edition of the newspapers smiled sarcastically.

“Come on, you don’t need to be a genius, is obviously happening in Canterlot”

Celestia and her soldiers froze and turned to the pony who spoke. It was no other than Sweet Pea.

“Don’t be that surprised, all this time I hid here in ManeHattan since I knew it was only a matter of time you go to interrogate my parents. Now that my contacts told me you were close I ordered to my team to go to stage three of my brilliant plan”

The soldiers tackled Sweet Pea and immobilized him to then proceed to put on the hoofcuffs.

“Come on, I didn’t plan to resist. Are you okay showing this brutality in front of your boss?”

The soldiers kicked Sweet Pea’s ribs.

“Don’t touch his face nor head, he still had a lot to explain” said Celestia coldly.

The soldiers nodded and kicked his back. Sweet Pea resisted everything always showing a smile of self-confidence that began to irritate Princess Celestia.

“You know your Majesty? I would love that you show this face of yours more often”

“Shut up Sweet Pea. If you’re going to talk then tell me, what you’re up to? You wanted me? You have me. Now what’s the idea?”

Sweet Pea grinned and the guards kicked him again.

“The truth sweet Pea” commanded Celestia.

“Okay. I want precisely the truth”

“You mean your sister”

Sweet Pea nodded.

“Close enough. I knew that truth from a while now, you see: I was there, I saw her dying”

Princess Celestia felt a wave of guilt.

“Then why you never said anything?”

“Why did anypony ever told me anything? My parents knew my dear sister died in a horrible way but they told me a lie; I get it, I was just a kid! But then I noticed they told the same lies to my aunts and uncles, my grandparents; how do you think I felt? And then I noticed you suddenly gave them an insane amount of money; I never understood the connection until I became a teenager, you bought their silence! Why? MY SISTER DESERVED MORE!!”

The soldiers softened their hold feeling a little sorry for this pony.
Even Celestia felt guilty about him.

“I understand, my actions were for a greater good but I wasn’t fair with you who really loved your sister. But if you already knew that truth what’s the truth you’re after? And what’s the relation with agent Heartstrings in all this?”

Sweet Pea sighed.

“Nothing I do will give me back my sister, I know that. I got obsessed with my sister’s case; I investigated about what happened that day and I found that Yummy wasn’t the only victim, so I thought that the least I could to honor her was to do something for the other victim”

Celestia sighed in shame.

“Release him!”

The soldiers obeyed happily, in fact they felt truly sorry about this poor pony. He wasn’t evil, just suffered too much.
But then the green lightings and purple clouds demanded Celestia’s attention.

“I’ll admit what happened to your sister, now stop this Sweet Pea!”

Sweet Pea chuckled and raised his hooves to be cuffed again.

“Is not that easy. As a last favor to Yummy I got deeper in my research and I found that my family weren’t the only one affected by your dirty little secrets. How many? I don’t know, there’s a lot of cover-ups I found digging in your personal archives. So I decided to put you in your place. You say you use lies to protect your little ponies, fair enough, but if you’re going to do the least you can do is suffer a lost of your own. My team modified the spell to work only in one location: your Palace, where somepony’s sister is trapped inside. In a matter of time she’ll end up like my own sister. Let’s see if you can keep lying after that”

Princess Celestia froze in horror.

“You… YOU!!”

Sweet Pea grinned again.

“You cannot stop me at this point, I only revealed myself to enjoy your reaction. I may not live to see if you deny your sister’s murder as you denied lots of deaths before; but I assure you: from now on whenever you even consider cover anything you’ll think in me and what I’ve done. Ha-ha”

Human world, Michalekos Residence; Sunday 5:03pm

Family and ponies were playing UNO when suddenly the green lightings followed by small earthquakes began to be felt all over Philadelphia. Vinyl looked through the window:

“Ey Laura, are green lightings common in here?”

The green-haired girl prepared her bo-staff but first looked at her parents who shook their heads.

“Of course not, Sweet Pea is making his move”

“It looks like it’s coming from downtown” commented Thomas Michelakos.

Laura hugged her parents.

“Whatever it happens, it ends right now”

“Please come back Laura…” mumbled Selena.

“I will, I promise”

Chloe hugged her sister.

“You better keep that promise”

“And whatever it happens, even if you don’t… you know… please never forget your family here in Philadelphia, and we’re proud of you”

Laura hugged her family one last time and joined her friends.

“Don’t worry, I decided already: I’ll be back”

Author's Note

So I delayed a little but I’m back and ready to finish this story that’s finished already in Spanish in FanFiction. This protagonist is very funny to write, he doesn’t wings or magic, his intelligence is more than enough.

Read ya’ later!