It was a nice, warm day in the texan land. Spring break had been coming to a close as school was supposed to start back up the next day. Brian was in his living room sitting on his couch texting a friend.
A notification came from Brian’s phone.
“I can’t believe Spring Break is already over. Finals are gonna be arriving soon, then it will be summer break.”
“Yeah, time does fly. Have you watched the season finale of MLP yet?”
Brian was always a fan of My Little Pony: Friendship is magic ever since he watched the pilot. He didn’t know why he liked it but he just did and never questioned it. It was at that moment when Brian heard another notification on his phone.
“Not yet, my internet’s been down lately and haven't been able to watch it.”
Right then, from the other side of the house, a sound so deafening blasted through Brian’s ears. It was so loud that it caused the house to shake slightly. Brian jumped at the sound and immediately ducked for cover, thinking it was a bomb. After the ringing in his ears stopped, he grabbed a bat and went to investigate what could have caused such of a great sound. Brian checked every room in his house until he got to his downstairs closet, he threw open the door so hard that it was almost thrown off of its hinges. Brian froze in disbelief when he saw what was in his closet.
It was Lyra Heartstrings, The human embodiment of Lyra has just appeared out of thin air and is now in Brian’s closet.
Brian just stood there in shock, not realizing he had dropped his bat onto the hard floor.
The sound of the bat hitting the floor startled Lyra and she exited the realm of unconsciousness to snap back into reality. Lyra groaned as she slowly attempted to stand up.
“Oh… Oh my god…” Brian silently mumbled to himself with his hands over his mouth. Lyra turned towards Brian with blurry vision
“Huh?” Said Lyra, dazed in confusion. A few seconds later, Lyra’s vision cleared up and saw the humanoid figure standing in front of her.
“H-Human?!”
“Uhhh Yesss?” Said Brian in a nervous tone.
Brian starts rambling to himself in a very nervous tone, “Oh my god, I can’t take care of someone who has no idea of basic human physics and law. Heck I can barely take care of myself when my parents are away. So many questions like what do I feed her, how do I teach her basic human knowledge, is there anyway to get her back to equestria, is this the real Lyra...
Lyra begins to ignore Brian’s rambling as she looks at what use to be her hooves to only be replaced with hands. In that moment, Lyra is filled with excitement.
“OMG YESSSS! HANDS!” And in that instant, Lyra practically tackles Brian as she hugs him as hard as she can.
Brian, having no idea what to say or do, awkwardly hugs back while saying “Heh. Umm… anytime? But I just want to know how you exactly got here.”
Lyra pulled away, almost falling trying to walk backwards.
“Oh well back in Equestria, I heard about a Mirror-Portal thing that could bring me to an alternate world where humans inhabited it instead of ponies so I HAD to go there. But the dumb thing wouldn't work. Something about it opening every 30 moons or something. So I tampered with it's mechanisms to make it work and I guess it sent me here.”
A sudden wave of realization waved over Brian. “Ohhh ok. So apparently my closet has adhered a portal to Equestria. Not much out of the ordinary. But we should probably hide this from the general public.”
“Why?”
“Well because if people find out that my closet has been containing a multi-dimensional portal to multiple worlds, people would tell the United States of America Government, and i'm pretty sure the government wouldn't be too happy with this.”
“What’s this so called America?” Lyra replied, confused as to what America was.
“It's kinda like your Equestria. It's an area of land that has it's own laws for the people to follow and it's own form of police, language, etc. The Government makes the laws that we have to follow.”, Brian Exclaimed.
“We also have our own currency called the U.S. Dollar which is made of paper other than your bits you have back in Equestria”
“Paper Money? That’s so inconvenient. It can get wet and be ruined.”
“We also have money made out of metal called ‘Cents’ but they’re not worth as much as dollar bills.”
Lyra begins to understand the concept of this “America” that she was just told about. But as she understand more, more questions start racing through her mind.
“So who’s the princess of America?”
Brian looks confused as to what Lyra was talking about.
“The princess of America? OH- oh yeah we don't have a princess but we do have a president. The president is like a princess, I mean they control the country and make sure we don't fall into complete chaos. The only things that are different is that the president is a guy and he doesn’t have complete control over the land.”
“Oh. Ok then. So who is the president anyway?”
“His name is Donald Trump. Or as I like to call him, Adolf Hitler II. He is actually a rather new president as our last one, Barack Obama, left office after being president for 8 years. Obama is no longer our president.”
“Ah ok. But how are presidents chosen?”
Brian gives a big sigh as he says,“This may take a while”.
* * *
Brian flops onto his couch after 4 hours of teaching Lyra simple Earth laws, mechanics, and other topics. Lyra walks in, stumbling as she had just learned how to walk on two legs instead of four hooves.
That alone took Brian an hour and a half to accomplish.
A strange gurgling sound comes from Brian’s stomach, letting him know that he hadn't had any food for a while.
“Man i’m starving, and it's pretty late. I should start thinking about what i'm gonna have for dinner. Are you hungry lyra?”
Lyra snaps back from zoning out into space.
“Uh yeah. What do you have?”
Brian walks over to the kitchen and opens up the refrigerator.
“Let’s see here… What does a former pony from equestria like… umm… Do you like apples?”
Lyra yells from the living room, “Uh yeah I do.” Lyra takes a seat on the couch.
“Alright. Do you like Red or Green apples?”
“Green. I LOVE Green apples.”
“Alrighty then. I would throw it to you from all the way over here but i'm 99.9% sure that you aren’t going to be able to catch the apple when you’re in human form.”
Lyra looked a little offended, but then replied in a confident tone, “Nonsense, i'll be able to catch it. Throw it to me!”
“Ok then. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.” Brian exclaimed, as he chucked the apple toward Lyra. Just as he suspected, Lyra was unable to catch the apple and it landed on the table with a loud thump.
“I knew it.”
“At Least I tried.” Said Lyra in a defeated voice.
“So what would you like to drink?”
Lyra takes a bite out of the apple she was given a moment ago. “Some water would be nice.”
Brian shuts the fridge and grabs a cup from a nearby drawer. He begins to pour a glass of water for Lyra.
“This apple is yummy” shouted lyra from halfway across the house.
“I'm sure it is” said Brian.
Brian walks over to the living room and sets down the glass of water on the coffee table in the middle of the room.
“I wonder what’s on TV tonight.”
“What’s a ‘TV’?” exclaimed a puzzled Lyra.
Brian looks over toward Lyra and begins to explain, “Well, a TV is a Entertainment Box that broadcasts all kinds of shows and movies that many people enjoy.”
“Oh so kinda like a mini movie theatre?”
“Yes, except it's not overpriced as hell.”
Brian begins to channel surf until he comes to the conclusion that nothing good is on. “Nothing good is ooonnnn” Said Brian, as he flops back laying on the couch. He looks over to his cable box and notices the time, which read 10:30 PM.
“Oh shoot, we have to get to bed. It's pretty late and I have school in the morning.” Brian said as he turned off the TV and put the remote away. Brian and Lyra both got up and made their way to what seemed like their next challenge.
“And now, the stairs” Brian sighed as he knew that this was gonna take at least 10 minutes and at most 40.
“Oh… How am I going to be able to get up those?
“Ok here’s what we're going to do. You’re going to hold onto me while we’re going up so incase you begin to fall, i'll be able to stop you and we’ll make it to the top quickly. Hopefully.”
“Sounds like a plan.” Lyra says as she tightly holds onto Brian as if she was going to die if she were to let go.
“Ok, first step in 3… 2… 1…” Brian says as he steps onto the first step. Lyra gives a quick squeal as she holds on tighter to Brian.
“You're going to be fine, Just follow my feet and we’ll be able to get up here quicker.”
Lyra does as she's told and notices the speed at which they are going. They make it up the stairs within 2 minutes, putting to shame Brian’s estimate on how long he thought the trip would take.
“Wow. Okay that was a lot quicker than I expected. Going down the stairs isn’t going to be any easier.”
“Yeah, I would imagine.” Lyra replied.
“Alright so you’ll be taking the guest room tonight, which is the 2nd room on the right.”
“Okie Dokie” said Lyra, as she walk into the guest bedroom and gets ready for bed.
Brian walks into his room and as he’s getting into bed, begins to think to himself, “This situation kinda seems familiar. Like another person has experienced this same kind of problem but with someone else with them…” Brian puts the thought into the back of his mind, which was empty, and tried to forget about it.
After Brian gets done getting ready, he decides to check up on Lyra one more time before he went to bed. To make sure that she hadn’t torched the guest bedroom with... who knows what.
Brian knocks on the guest bedroom door slightly and hears a sound come from inside it.
“Come in!” Lyra said
“Hey, is everything ok in here?”
“Y- Yeah, it's just that I’m still kinda new to this world and i'm a little nervous still”
“Do you want me to stay here with you for the night?”
Lyra silently nods yes as she pulls the covers on the bed closer to her.
Brian goes back to his room and grabs a sleeping bag from underneath his bed. He brings it over to the guest room and lays it out on the floor next to the bed.
“Oooohhh a sleeping bag” exclaimed Lyra, as she jumps out of her bed.
“Actually that’s for me. You get the bed while I take the sleeping bag. You are the guest after all.”
Lyra gets back into her bed she was just in. “Oh ok. Well thanks for the bed hehe.”
“Anytime. Anyway, Goodnight.”
“Goodnight” Lyra softly says as she dozes off.
Brian lays there staring at the ceiling pondering about all of the events that had led up to this. He begins to think to himself, “This whole scenario is going to change my life forever and there’s no denying it. Except this whole thing would make more sense if I actually knew what that mysterious device that was next to Lyra when she was in my closet meant…”
END OF CHAPTER ONE (I think. I may make more chapters. If you want me to of course.)
Author's Note
This FanFic was originally just a gift for my 100 followers on the app Equestria Amino, but I decided to post the FanFic here too so that other ponies got to read it too. If you want me to make a 2nd chapter, then leave a comment. Other than that, I hope you enjoyed this fic that took me a whole week to write.
This fic was Written by Me with some additional ideas by JJ_Ipod
