Back to Reality

Chapter 1: Some Pony I Am

Hi, I'm ThunderCrush. You are probably wondering who I really am and what I am doing wasting your time, but for the best of course.

I guess I should start by telling you about myself. When I was a kid I did not know much about my parents. In fact, I thought they were dead because I never knew why I was left to be adopted. As life went on for me, I started having weird feelings that I was out of place or did not belong. I mean, yeah I was adopted, but it felt like so much more than that. Like the world I was living in was not actually my home.

Over time, I started to have dreams... or at least I thought they were. They were always of little horses and every time I could hear the words, “Come home soon” ring through my head. The even weirder thing was that the horses were the same each time as well. It felt as if it had really happened and I was just experiencing it all over again.

Anyway, I will talk to you about what is happening right now. I had just transferred to a new school called Canterlot High. It was not that hard to get into, but the place was unlike what I had expected it to be. I thought I would sit at the loner table at lunch and have no friends, as well as no life. Instead I got the six most amazing friends a person could ask for and my life is anything but boring. In fact, Sunset, Rainbow, Fluttershy, Rarity, Pinkie, and Applejack are the most influential people I know, especially Rarity.

Right now I was at Lunch talking to AppleJack, “So you are saying that one of your friends came to this school from another world?” She was talking about her friend twilight and I was rather surprised considering I thought travel to alternate dimensions was impossible. I really should do more research.

“I reckon she is the best person ah ever met”, she pointed out. “Not a single person like her.”

We continued talking and as I learned more about Twilight, I wanted to learn even more about this strange new world. Where was it? What is it like? And how could I get there? These were questions I had hoped to answer soon. Then the bell rang and headed back to class.

I went to my history class. We were doing review, so it was not really interesting. I sat there thinking about another dream I had the night before. It actually went different in comparison to the others. Also, instead of the usual phrase, the words “only hope” bounced around in my head instead. In some sense, I felt I understood what these words meant, but in another sense I was completely clueless as to what the real meaning of the dreams and words was.

Then I heard Rainbow Dash whisper, “How are you doing that? That is so cool!” I turned to find her looking my way while pointing at my desk. I then looked down to find my pencil floating above the desk. At the same second I looked, it dropped back down with a click.”I don't know?”, I exclaimed. “Nothing like this has ever happened before.”

“Well it is obvious you are special”, Dash replied. “We will have to tell the others!”

Class ended and I walked with Rainbow to meet up with the rest of our friends at the school's statue outside. Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy were counting ants, Rarity was painting her nails (again), and AppleJack and Sunset Shimmer were talking about a party.

“Hey guys!”, said Rainbow. “You will never guess what happened in class.” Here she goes boasting again. Even if she has nothing to boast about herself, she finds someone else to take her place. “ThunderCrush can lift things with his mind!”, she continued.

“Noo wayy!”, Pinkie Pie exclaimed. “Oh oh, can you read minds too? That would be so cool! You would know if your friends were going to throw you a surprise party and you would know what your presents would be. BALLOONS! You could make sure you have plenty of balloons and confetti and candy...so...much...CANDY!”

“I think we get the idea Pinkie Pie”, AppleJack noted. “So you can levitate things huh? Sounds like something Twilight could do.”

“I suppose so”, I said. “I don't know why this is happening, but I sure hope to find out!”

“Darling?” Rarity was entering the conversation now. “Would you be so kind as to help me pick out a dress for a party I have to go to later? I want to look perfect!”

As much as I hate shopping, when it comes to Rarity, there is no turning it down. “Sure Rarity, let's head over to the store now.” With that, Rarity and I headed off to get her a dress. I would have thought that they would find my new profound ability more interesting, but I guess they have seen things like this a lot and are used to it. When we entered the store, Rarity immediately found two dresses she liked.

“Should I wear the purple or the pink dress?”, she asks.

“They would both look great on you, I'm sure”, I stated. “But I think the purple would look the best.” I did not like deciding things. She stood there for a few minutes debating with herself.

“You're right!”, Rarity exclaimed. “The pink one does not sparkle nearly as great as the purple one...ohhh!” I turned to see where she was looking. “How about this blue dress?”

So we stayed there, at the store, for another half hour trying to decide whether the blue dress had more or less sparkles than the purple one. Finally, she picked the blue dress and she headed off to get ready for her party.

I walked home thinking about my new power. Ha! I make it sound like I'm a super hero. I wonder what this means? The feeling of not belonging, the dreams, and now floating objects? I made it home and opened the door. I went straight to my room and threw myself on my bed. I was too tired to eat something or do homework. My eyes drew heavy as I thought about the mysteries of my life. Before I even knew it, I was sound asleep.

Another dreamed started and as I experienced what I watched, I saw a familiar horse tell me that I would be a hero someday. I wonder if that would be true.