Secret Lightning [REWORK IN PROGRESS]

Author’s note: now I know I said that I might not be continuing the story, but since I still have a couple of days before I go back to academics, and I was suggested some good dubstep, I shall continue the story. That, and the fact that a friend of mine is getting all pissed at me about my story, meant I would be unable to either have time to think or the morale to continue. But you know what? Screw it, I’m going to write more anyway. And to my friend who’s getting all pissed at me: you’re a good friend, though I know you’ll be more pissed when you read this, but please calm down. I’ll write my story my way, and you write yours your way. No conflict has to come from this, all I want is peace between us. Now that I’ve gotten that out, I present chapter 5 for your viewing pleasure.

=======================SECRET LIGHTNING=======================

Chapter 2: A new lease on life

After the events of the previous day had passed, Lyra asked Matt if he would like to stay at her house until he found a place of his own. Matt had refused at first, but the mint unicorn has refused to take no for an answer.

“What are you going to do, sleep on the ground outside?” she questioned.

Matt pondered this. She was right, and as much as he’d like to say no thank you, he was kind of overwhelmed with the whole share-a-house-with-your-favorite-pony thing. So finally, he accepted.

Lyra lived in a small house just down the road from sugarcube corner. Occasionally you could smell the wonderful scent of baking cookies or cake wafting in with the wind. As Matt stepped inside the small house, he realized that the outer appearance belied the inside’s actual size. It was HUGE inside, about the size of a penthouse suite. This is impossible, the house looked tiny outside. But then again, this is probably how a unicorn’s house works, considering their magic and such, He reasoned.

Still, he was unable to get over how positively MASSIVE her house was. Matt had dabbled a bit in RC aircraft in his past life, and he acknowledged that you could probably host an entire IRCHA event in here.

After a few seconds, Matt shook his head to clear his mind. This is not the first strange thing you have seen today, Matt, he told himself, and it will definitely not be the last.

“Something wrong Matt?” Lyra asked, noticing the head-shaking.

“No…No, I’m fine, it’s just that…It’s so huge in here.”

Lyra nodded, and started to explain, realizing she had forgotten to explain that. “Yeah, it used to be so cramped in here, you could barely move. But one of my friends, named Twilight Sparkle cast a spell on it to make it roomier. Did you know, she’s actually Princess Celestia’s personal apprentice?

“No, no, I didn’t know that,” Matt said. “That must be amazing, having the Princess’ protégé living here in Ponyville, right?”

“Well, yeah, although she doesn’t like being recognized for being famous. She’s really a nice pony, and her skill in magic is just….amazing. She is definitely a very valuable addition to Ponyville.”

Matt nodded, remembering her from the episodes of MLPFIM he used to watch. If he was correct, she also lived in a library, meaning she pretty much knew everything, and could research it if she didn’t. It was then that he got an idea. Maybe she can shed some more light on my situation.

“I think tomorrow I’ll go speak with her, I have a few questions for her that I think she can help me with.”

“Okay, but for now, I’ll show you to your room.  You can use the spare bedroom, it’s just down this hall, the last door on the right.”

And with that, Lyra showed Matt to his room. It was huge, about the size of a small cottage. There was even a private bathroom, with a shower and everything. Amazing, he thought. Lyra really wasn’t kidding, Twilight’s really good with spells

“Well, Matt, I must really be getting off to bed” she punctuated that sentence with a yawn “So, goodnight, I hope you sleep well.”

“Goodnight, Lyra”

With that, she smiled and closed the door, and Matt could hear her trotting off to bed.

Well, I better get some sleep as well. Gonna need it to go see Twilight tomorrow.

And with that, he crawled into bed, then immediately realized just how tired he really was. As soon as he was comfortable in the bed, sleep took him immediately.

The next morning, Matt awoke to see Lyra standing over him, just about to wake him. He looked over at her, only to notice that she was standing on two legs, much like a human. As he slowly got up out of bed, she backed up a little to give him some space. Matt expected her to drop down onto all fours when she did, but she didn’t. She just kept standing there, like a human.

“that’s an……interesting skill” Matt stated, trying to not make her embarrassed, but at the same time, figure out why she was able to do that.

She blushed. “Well, I’ve been able to do it since I was a foal, though I could never explain it, it just…felt more natural than walking on all fours.”

Matt nodded, and was about to ask her something, but his stomach gave a fierce growl that seemed to make his body vibrate. Lyra giggled.

“I guess you’re hungry then. Come on, I made pancakes.”

“Thank you, that sounds wonderful”

After breakfast, which was coincidentally the best breakfast he had ever had, he thanked Lyra and headed out into Ponyville. This time, no one ran inside and closed their shutters. No one yanked their foals indoors. No one cowered in fear. This time, they all smiled and waved, most of them calling him by name. Matt made sure he stopped by Berry Pinch’s house to say hello, and received another hug. She was a really nice filly, and her sister was nice too, now that she knew he wasn’t dangerous.

After finishing up and continuing on from Berry Pinch’s house, he was greeted by a familiar voice from right next to him.

“Hi Matt! Feeling better today?”

“Oh, hi Colgate. Yes, I am feeling better, what about you?”

“Oh, I’m good, I can’t complain too much, you know.”

“Yeah, I suppose I do know.”

“Listen Matt, I’d love to stay and chat, but I have to go to work now, I don’t want to be late!”

“Before you go, if you don’t mind me asking, what exactly do you do for work?”

“Well, I’m the town dentist, silly!” she giggled, said her goodbye, and cantered off to her office.

Matt took the time to giggle a little himself, mostly at the irony of it. She’s named Colgate and she’s the town dentist. Now THAT is funny.

The rest of his trip was mostly uneventful as he strolled towards the town library. The only thing that had happened was a pastel yellow Pegasus with a pastel pink mane and tail had run into him, distracted by something or other. She had looked up at him to say something, most likely to apologize, but when she saw his towering figure over her, she squeaked and ran away as fast as she could, eventually taking to the air and flying away. I’ll catch up with her later Matt thought,  right now I have questions I need the answers to.

Realizing he had arrived at the town library, he stopped his idle think-walking and knocked lightly on the door. He heard a female voice call from inside ”coming!”

Seconds later the door opened and a purple unicorn was standing there in the doorway.

“Ah, Matt, I knew you’d be coming here eventually.”

Matt wasn’t worried that she knew his name, she probably heard from somepony else, he was pretty popular at the moment. What did bother him, though, is that she knew he’d be coming.

“How did you know I’d be coming here?” he mentioned as the unicorn ushered him inside the library.

“Well Matt, let’s just say you’re not the only non-mindbleached human here.” The unicorn replied flatly, as if she expected him to know this.

What happened was a little less expected, as Matt looked utterly shocked for a few seconds before passing out on the floor.

=======================END CHAPTER 5=======================

So there you have it. The beginning of the plot twist. And believe me when I say just the BEGINNING. This chapter was a little harder for me to write, as I knew basically what I wanted to have happen, but not how to MAKE it happen. Oh well, I guess I pulled it off. By the way, for anyone who asks, IRCHA is a HUGE event where a whole bunch of RC helicopter pilots bring their best copters-usually gas or nitro-and fly against one another. You will usually never see one upright copter, as they do most of their tricks on 3d flight. As you could have guessed, the part of matt’s character about dabbling in helicopters? That’s me. Although I personally prefer electric. Either way, that’s probably the last you’ll hear about my hobby, as I don’t see how I can fit it into an MLP fanfic. Maybe I’ll figure something out later in the story. I don’t know, we’ll see. Anyway, it occurs to me that I should shut up and publish this already not because I force myself to post daily updates, but because if given enough time, I can ramble for hours, as I am doing. So yeah, I’ll just shut up now