My Little Family

The guards parked outside the entrance of the castle, approached the back of the carriage, and tugged me off of it. “I can get off myself.” I muttered, half to myself. They ushered me through the castle as if they were my parents and I was their child. (It was pretty humiliating, to be honest.) We met a door, one of the guards opened it, and there sat Princess Celestia, in her throne, only about 20 yards away on the other side of the room. The room was gigantic, but it was heart-stopping to be this close to a character I once thought was fictional. I took a few steps into the room, and the big doors shut behind me.

“H-hello there. I’m Johnny Soaps.” I stuttered with an awkward grin, still shocked that I was in front of the princess. The one pony I would not want to get on the bad side of was Celestia. She’s the princess after all; who knows how much power she has.

“Hello, Johnny,” she uttered, “I am Princess Celestia, ruler of Equestria. I requested my guards to escort you here so the Elements of Harmony and I can ask you a few questions. We will begin when the group gets here. In the meantime, guards,” she said, glancing towards the two guards that brought me here, “please confiscate his belongings.”

The guards came over, but before they could do anything, I stopped them and said, “I got it.”

“As much as I hope it would be okay,” the Princess sighed, “it’s for the protection of everyone in this room, including yours. So, if you can let them take your items, that would be greatly appreciated.”

There was a little pause as I thought about what to do. Trying to stop them any more would probably get me killed, so I went with the safe option, and muttered, “...Alright.”

The guards walked over to me and took most of my stuff, except for my necklace, not knowing what it does. When they finished, the Mane Six and Starlight burst through the door, all of them running, except for Pinkie, who was hopping. “Princess-” Twilight started, but stopped once she saw me, and looked at me with confusion. I looked at them with shock as well. It took a lot of energy not to faint at the fact that the ponies I thought were fictional were standing a few feet away from me. Or would it be "Hooves away"?

The Mane Six and Starlight froze, and Celestia announced, “I think I’ll start. First, what are you?”

“I am a human,” I replied, looking at the white princess, “I’m not from here, so that’s why you haven’t seen me or people like me at all.”

“Alright.” Celestia said, “What are you doing here?”

“Um,” I hesitated, not wanting to reveal why I was actually here, about how I like the show, and I wanted to see what it’s like here, knowing it would freak them out. “I can’t exactly answer that.” I'm surprised the guards didn't jump on me right then and there and locked me underground.

“How come?” Celestia asked, curiously, raising an eyebrow.

“It might freak you out.” I said.

“Even though whatever reason you’re here for might freak me and my friends here out,” she began, “we need to know so we can know if you have bad intentions or not. So, if you could tell us the truth about why you’re here, I think we would all appreciate that.”

If there is one thing I don’t do, it’s lying, mainly because I don’t have any people to lie to. But I can’t tell them the truth. Like I said, it would definitely freak them out.

“Alright,” I said, “but I don’t want this information getting out to the public, at least not yet. Can you swear to me that won’t happen?”

“You have my word.” Celestia said. “Do you promise this won’t get out until Johnny says it’s OK?” she asked, looking at the Mane Six and Starlight.

“We pinkie promise!” Pinkie Pie said, still hopping.

“Alright,” I started, “I have a teleporter, and I guess I typed in something wrong, because I ended up here.”

Everypony in the room looked at me. “Though, I wouldn’t really call it a mistake, because I must say, your world is really colorful and pretty, at least compared to mine.”

“Hold up,” Twilight then asked, half excitedly, half shocked, “You have a dimensional teleporter?!”

“Yes,” I started, looking at her, “it’s really cool, right?”

“Any other questions?” Celestia asked.

“Yes. If I may,” I asked looking at the princess, which she nodded yes. I looked at the Mane Six and asked, “How did you know I was here?”

Rainbow Dash piped in. “I was flying around at supersonic speed, and I saw you falling down with an umbrella in your hand! Why were you holding the umbrella, and what was that weird blue swirly thing you came out of?”

“Number 1, I was holding the umbrella because I made a special umbrella that I can glide with, and number 2, yes, the ‘swirly thing’ was the portal I came from.”

“Will that be all?” Celestia asked. No one- nopony said anything.

“Alright, guards,” she turned to the two guards that brought me here, ”please find him a room.”

“Wait, why?” I asked.

“Until we are one hundred percent certain you don’t mean any harm to us or Equestria, we must keep you contained.”

One of the guards nudged me and said, “Let’s go.” They started walking and I followed.