If You Don't See Them They Aren't There
The mist was exceptionally thick this night. Luna had noticed it throughout her rounds in the dream realm, and after a few nightmares had been dispelled it grabbed her attention. She trounced down the floating walk way, not alerted at all, because really? Even if it was a problem, what could possibly be such a problem that Twilight and her friends couldn't solve it. Something happened every week anyways, mine as well get it over with. It wasn't like it affected Luna that much anyhow, it rarely ever did. Then again, most of the time she was sleeping when the Equestria decides to create a problem.
Eventually, Luna had made it so far down the walkway that she couldn't see the doors anymore. And the mist had filled her vision so much she had to lift her hooves up to swat it away and gain any field of view whatsoever. Thankfully the mist cleared up, and no, she took the thanking back...she wanted the mist back too. A hand had become of her foreleg, actually it was now an arm. Oh, that was a slight problem. But it wasn't necessarily too bad, and once she looked around and out the completely sketchy alleyway she had stumbled into, Luna had found out the obvious matter that she had become a human. Nothing to worry about, she said to herself as she made her way out of the alleyway and onto the sidewalk. All I must do is find the school Twilight mentioned.
Something was off, and that something was to do with the color of all the people around her. While politically Luna liked to say she didn't see color to please the multi-colored ponies that were quite set on their friendship-y-ness, she had to double check she wasn't still in princess-mode to see that all those around her were only on a spectrum of white and black. With her millennia of knowledge and endless experience in critical thinking, Luna deduced that she in fact was in yet another alternate world. Again, nothing to worry about.
Probably.
Luna figured she was going to bank on the universal luck that seemed to surround herself and her sister, including Twilight and her friends too, and assume that she spoke a similar language to the beings that inhabited the city she had appeared in. Her first attempt would be the average looking salary man that came into view when she looked around.
She jogged over to him, "Good sir, I would like to borrow your help for a sliver of a moment."
The man sighed, "Sure, lady, whaddaya want?"
Luna took in a breath, gathering herself to hopefully save the trouble of some kind of year long adventure that ended up with some lesson that she could have learned back in Equestria, "You see, I was hoping you could kindly direct me toward any school, or rather, place that would go by the name of Canterlot? It likely has a source of something abnormal, maybe great power?"
"Lady, you're just describing a search for the Holy Grail." He checked his watch, "And now you just lost your sliver of time. Go LARP somewhere else."
"I happen to be likely related to it. See, I am the Princess of Equestria back in my home, um, universe I suppose. And now I seem to be trapped in this world until I can find a portal or something of the like to get back." Luna replied, wishing with all her might that the man didn't think she was crazy.
Dave was pretty sure the purple haired lady in front of him was crazy. Sure, at first he figured he would get his good deed of the day out of the way to work before he had to ruin some poor fool's day. But once he began talking to her, well, she was some kind of nut. Ten minutes in and ten minutes of his life had been wasted by some lady that probably married some cardboard cutout when she figured out she was going to be lonely for the rest of her life. Shame too, 'cause she had some knockers.
"Alright lady, I think I've got some better things to do than listen to ya describe your D and D session. I've got better things to do. Like, " He tapped his chin in imaginary thought, "Like breathe air in a separate area from you, and contribute to society or somethin'."
An eye of hers twitched, "Back in the day I could have expelled a pony for saying something like that!" She mumbled something else like sending them to the moon too.
Dave puffed some air out, "Great, you work on that. Everyone's about being so progressive that we're becoming regressive. So, why not throw that in there, yeah? We need something to spice that whole movement up."
The lady ruffled up her hair in frustration, "No really, I'm telling you! I really am a princess!" She gestured to herself hastily, "What part of the whole getup doesn't show that. I even have this flowing, sparkly, purple hair and there isn't even a breeze."
Dave began to walk away, tired of his time being wasted. His perfect early to work record was in jeopardy, and if you weren't early, you were late. "Sure, sure, I love it. Send my regards to Equestria, I'm glad the company is able to produce that kind of quality for...whatever cosplay you're trying to do."
"I-I'll have you know this-this is all real!" The lady stuttered, obviously flustered that whatever she was trying to do had failed. "You'll regret this! You could have been the chosen one! It would have been a legendary adventure that our worlds would have been told for millennia!"
Dave rubbed his beard, it was kind of intriguing. Even thought the purple haired, kinda smokin' hot, lady was probably out of her mind. He had always wanted to be the main character to some cool movie worthy story. His nine to five job had lately become a cycle of boredom, and he needed something to liven his life up. In fact, he could feel a tingle of excitement building up inside him.
"ACHOO!"
Ah, no. It was just a sneeze. Dave wiped his nose and shrugged, he could just download some audio book and live it out within the safety of his cubicle. He continued on to his workplace, putting the experience in the back of his mind and the stacks of paperwork that awaited him in the front.
Author's Note
I honestly had this story idea in the back of my mind for the longest time, so here's my midnight, sleep deprived, and writer's block fueled one-shot. I felt that the fandom had a lot of the easy, happy ending kind of stories that featured easy to relate to main characters stories throughout the years. And with that thought, I figured I mine as well have some fun with the concept of a Pony in Equestria story line gone-wrong.
I hope y'all enjoyed it. Please leave reviews and such as you please, I'm always up for a good 'ol helping of improvement for the next time.
