Celly vs. Earth

Today is the day.

After yesterdays dreadfull visit of your parents you and Celestia in her disguise as "Tia Prince" will finally leave your apartment and go to town.

She is giddy as a school girl, you can tell as she prances around from room to room and giggles silly while you get ready. It makes you happy to see her this exited. As you put on your sneakers she prances into the hallway, actually she is hoovering a bit over the ground.

"You should get ready too, Tia. You don´t want to leave the house as a horse, don´t you?"

She stops in her track.

"Oh, yeah of course, Anon. Sorry, I´m so exited that I almost forgot."

The now familiar flash of light engulfs her and now she stands there again as the tall gorgeous woman she disguised herself as yesterday. She wears a similar outfit as yesterday, only with a light tan jacket and a black purse.

"I´m ready anon."-

"All right then.

You open the door and both of you step into the hallway.

Celly looks around with an expression of surprise and amazement. She looks at the scratchy linolium at her feet, at the flickering neon lights on the ceiling and at the dirty walls. You are a bit ashamed that you live in such a shitty apartment block, but Celly doesn´t mind, she soaks it all in as you two walk to the elevator. She oohs at the rumbeling movement of the old lift and chuckles at the horrible sharpie grafitties on the elevator walls. She looks amazed at the dusty hydroculture plants in the lobby and as you leave the building she aahs in amazement.

Its a sunny but cold spring day. You stand in front of your apartment block, one of the smaller ones of the blocks in a rather shitty settlement in the northern part of F-city. Everything is concrete in different shades of grey, there is a small playground in one of the corners of the small square, where children haven´t been playing in years, its dirty and there are broken beer bottles everywhere, yet Celly looks around full of wonder.

This is going to be a long day....

You walk from your apartment block to the metro station. Its about 10 am, there are no people around since most people are at school or at work. You have a few days off from work, so you have enough time for Celly and her discovery of human land. As you walk through a small park you notice that the more you move away from your apartment, the more nervous Celly appears.

Suddely a Police helicopter flies low over your heads, rushes past like a giant ugly metal insect.

Celly lets out a shriek and jumps to the ground.

You look at her dumbfolded.

"That.. was just a helicopter."

• "I...I know. I saw those machines on TV and sometimes outside of the window, flying past. I just startled me."

You chuckle.

"It startled you?"

She snaps at you angrily.

"Yes. It startled me! Sorry, about that, but my species evolved from the type of skittish flight animals that your ancestors killed with rocks and sticks to eat them!"

You are a quite shocked by that outburst.

"Geez, I´m sorry, I...I didn´t mean to make fun of you!"

She sighs.

"No, I am sorry anon."

You look ar her worried

-"Tia, are you okay?"

-"I don´t know if I can do that, Anon. Frankly, I am nervous. No, not nervous, I am scared. Almost as scared as I am exited. I really want to learn about your world and your people at first hoof, but I don´t know if I am up to it. What if my disguise fails? What if I fumble again and use magic? I was able to handle your parents, but a city in which hundreds, maybe thousands of humans live? Thats something different."

-"Actually there are almost 2.5 million people living in this city with its suburbs, close to 6 million if you count the larger metropolitain..."

You stop your stupid blabbering mouth as you see that she grows pale and her eyes are widening in shock.

"So many humans in ONE city...?!?! All of Equestria has a population of 1-2 million ponies!"

-"Its okay. Look, who are you?"

-"Come again?"

-"Who. Are. You."

-"I..am Princess Celestia?!?"

• "You are Princess fucking Celestia. The ruler of Equestria. You have been around for centuries and are one of the most powerfull magical beings in your world and THE single most powerfull magical being in this world. You are charismatic and intelligent. You singlehanded defeated the monsters that are my parents. I have no doubt that there is anything in this world that you cannot handle!

You reach her your hand.

"Also, you have me by your side. So are we going to do this or what?"

Tia looks at you and then she smiles.

"Yes. Of course. Thank you, Anon. Sometimes even somebody like me needs a friend. And I´m thankfull to have a friend like you by my side."

As you walk down to the Metro station you notice that she eased up much, she is not as giddy and curious as before. As you tap in on the touch screen of the ticket machine you see allready the train approaching.

You give Celly a crooked smile.

"Don´t worry, thats just a train."

She returns your grin.

"I know, we do have those in Equestria, Our designs are a bit less... utilitarian, thou."

You board the almost empty train and sit down on the plastic seats. Its a while to the city center, the train runs at first through the urban wasteland of flatbock settlements, suburban officeparks, industral zones and commercial areas. You take that route almost every day to work and back, usually you listen to Pink Floyd or something. Celestia looks out of the window and is mesmerized by the urban sprawl.

You lean over to her.

"Here comes the money shot"

The train rushes past an Ikea onto a bridge over a motorway, giving view to the downtown of F-city down in the valley, the skyscrapers with their glass, aluminium and sandstone facades stand proudly in the middle of the sprawling chaos around them. This view is beautyfull in its ugliness, but also brief, since as soon as the train has passed the bridge the skyline dissapears again behind a factory for missle guidiance systems.

"It is amazing."

Celly looks at you

"This is what fascinates me about your species, Anon. You did all this without any magic. You can´t control the wather like the pegasi, guide sun and moon like alicorns or have a magical bound with plants or animals like earth ponies. Just your hands and brains. This is all you have and yet you created amazing marvels in science, technology, arts, medicine and philosophy.“

She furrows her brows and looks down.

But at the same time humans comitted unspeakable artrocities in their history. Evils Equestrians couldn´t even dream of in their worst nightmares. You are one confusing species."

She is silent again and looks out of the window again.

You continiue your ride into the city. After a few stations a mother with a baby carriage tries to get into the car, you get up to assist her.

You are Celestia now

Anon is helping a mother with he baby carriage. You are impressed by that little, but compassionate gesture. You notice that the older human filly... no girl, of that mother comes up to you and looks at you. Gosh, you didn´t knew, human foals were that adorable. She must be about 3-4 years old, you can´t really estimate that. She has a pink plush unicorn under her arm, you chuckle at your self as you notice that it looks a bit like a chubby version of Cadance. The girl stares straight at you.

...

You wonder why she is staring at you like that, its kinda making you uncomfortable. You give her a nervous smile.

Nothing.

This is starting to creep you out. You begin to wonder if your disguise isn´t working properly, or, worse, if human foals have somehow the abillity to se though such disguises.

Suddenly the girl speaks.

"You´re pwetty!"

You are so taken off guard that you blurt ou stupidly

"I`m using the train! Are you using the train too?"

The girl looks confused and then runs back to her mother.

You facepalm as Anon returns.

You are Anon again.

You saw Celly with the little girl.

"Hey, it seems you made a friend!"

Celly looks at you distressed.

"Anon, is my disguise still working? She was staring at me in a way that made me worried if I still look human."

You are a bit amused.

"No, no, don´t worry. Your disguise is still perfect. She was just curious. Human children at that age do that with strangers, because the don´t know that its kinda rude and disturbing to stare into the soul of others like that."

Thats one of the reasons why you don´t really like children.

Celly lets out a sigh of relief.

"Goodness, for a moment I was panicing there. You know, the souls of children are pure, thats why they can sometimes detect things like that."

Cellys face brightens up.

"But that means the disguise IS perfect. If even a child can´t see through it, adults will in no way be able to do so."

You can´t really follow her train of thought there, but you are glad to see that her tenseness falls almost completely off her.
Meanwhile the train has enterd the tunnel, and after a few more stations you are at your destination, the vast underground station of H-Plaza, the central square of F-city, you get off the train with most of the passengers. The station is full of people of all ages and ethnicies. Celestia is again absolutely captured by the sights and sounds.

On the the escalator (with which she has just a little problem with to get onto), she suddlenly scrunches her face in disgust.

"Goodnes me, what is that stench?"

-"That, my dear is the lovely smell of the subway: an exiting and revolting melánge of stale basement air, human excrements of all sorts, old fast food, burnt rubber and poor personal hygene of some of the passengers. If you use the trains every day you don´t even notice it any more."

You walk though the vast, murky mezzazine with all of the shops and fast food places and proceed to go up to the plaza. All around you are countless of people, around the square are large office and commercial buildings with video screens and advertising of all kinds, people stream into stores and fastfood restaurants. You look at Celly, she is visibly impressed.

"So, what do you want to do? We could go to the historic city center near the river, there is the city hall and the cathedral, also several museums and art galleries."

You point down the large shopping street that ends on the plaza.

"Or we could walk down Z-street, there are the big department stores and one of the biggest shopping malls of the city."

You turn around and point at cluster of skyscrapers behind you.

"Or we could go to the business district, in this area is the opera and the theater, also on top of that skyscraper is an observation deck from which you have a good view over the city."

Celly thinks for a moment.

"I think the tower with the observation deck is a good idea, I can get an overview of the city that way."

The two of you walk across the square and enter the street that leads to the business district. There is some heavy traffic.
Celly looks at all the cars, trucks and busses.

"It is like Manehattan, only that the carts are powered by motors, not pulled by ponies."

You look at her in confusion.

"Wait, ponies ride in carts pulled by other ponies? Do they take turns, or is that some kind of master and servant thing?"

-"What? No, its... It is a service industry, and ponies pull carts as their job, but... It IS kinda weird. You got me there anon, how the hay did that happen? I have to consult the royal archives on the historic background of this as soon as I get back. Ponies have been doing that since long before I was born."

She is still deep in thought about this as you arrive by the skyscraper with the observation deck. Its a 40 floor tall glass cylinder with an antenna on top. The most famous thing about this builing is that there is a tv studio of the local TV station on the top floor, they are always broadcasting their news from there with the skyline panorama in the background. You enter the lobby of the building a nd Celly is allready captured by the modern architecture and the decor. You join a group of asian tourists (who look at Celly amazed, since they probably have never sees a woman this tall before) and go to the express elevator to the observation deck. The elevator is really fast and smooth running, really something different from the rattleing mess in your apartment block. You look at Celly, she looks surprised and a little queasy as the lift shoots up and pushes your guts into your shoes.

At the top you step outside onto the windy circular platform. The view is breathtaking (You just realize that you have never actually been up here, even thou you live in this city for years).

Celly is stunned by the view.

The two of you just stand there for several minutes. Celly lets it all soak in.

"This is an amazing view, Anon. You told me this city was big, but this... It almost goes to the horizont on all directions! What is this? Is this a railway station?"

-"Yeah, the central station. That large building down below at the square is the metropolitain opera and theater complex. Over there is the university, that building there is the museum of natural history. Over there is the historic city center, you can see the tower of the cathedral there. There, beyond the forest is the international airport and there is the stadium..."

-"What is that large area over there?"

You get a little embarrased.

"That..well... That is the horse racing track..."

You quickly look for a distraction.

" Hey, look there to the north. Do you see the blocks on the hills at the foot of the mountains? Thats where we live"

After about 20 Minutes you sit down on a bench.Celly lets out a sigh.

"Thank you for taking me here Anon. It kinda opend my eyes how little I realized how big this world is and how little I know yet. Adapting to this place may take longer than I thought."

You lay your hand on her arm.

"It will take some time, thats true, but you will manage. You´re a big girl after all. Also you can be sure that I will support you as much as I can."

You look on your watch.

"Huh, its lunch time allready. We should grab a bite to eat. Where do you want to go?"

Celly thinks about it for a moment.

"To be honest, Anon, aside from the stuff you brought home I know nothing about earth food. I read some stuff on the internet, but there are so many different specialities on earth that it is hard to make a choice. I really liked the chinese food you brought, like that fried rice."

You smile and nod

"Yeah, chinese food is great. Okay, down there near the railwaystation is a great chinese restaurant, they have an "all you can eat" buffet at lunch time, that may be a good chance for you to try different dishes."

Celly claps her hands.

"That is a wonderfull idea, Anon! I would love to try what they have there!"

You take the elevator down and walk to the restaurant, it takes you about 10 minutes, Celly is super giddy again. You really love it when she gets that exited. To see a being as powerfull and wise as here getting exited like a little kid is adorable.

The restaurant is called "Dragon Palace", and the interior shows. Chinese kitsch from ceiling to carpet. Its a bit much for you, but Celly marvels at the decor. There are few other customers in this large restaurant, just a few office workers on their lunchbreak and a couple of chinese tourists.

You take a booth in a quiet corner of the restaurant, where you can talk in private. You order your drinks (Celly takes a large glass of Ice Tea, you a Coke) and proceed to the buffet. She is almost overwhelmed by the vast selection of dishes. You take a plate and start to fill your plate with some fried noodles and eggrolls.

As you return to your table Celly is still looking puzzled.

"Just go, Anon. I´ll need another minute."

You shrug and walk to the table. A few minutes later Celly sits down too, her plate is full with a mountain of different dishes, it looks more like a car accident than a meal.

"You know, Tia. "All you can eat" is NOT meant as a challenge..."

• "I just want to try everything!"

• "Okay, you can take seconds. You don´t need to take all at once."

-"Oh, I will take seconds and probably thirds. It all looks so amazing!"

• "Besides, there is a lot of meat on your plate, will you really eat that?"

• "Yes, sure. Why not?"

This kinda shocks you.

"Er, you eat meat? But, I thought.."

-"Hm? Oh, no. Equestrians are, unlike earth horses, omnivores. Eating meat has gone abit out of fashion in recent centuries thou. But thats a merely cultural thing. Fact is that no species could develop a large brain without the protein from meats."

She sees the shock on your face.

"Oh, sorry. I didn´t mean to offend you, since you are a vegetarian."

You snap out of it.

"Whu..what? But I´m not a vegetarian!"

-"But you never bring meat home."

-" I never bought meat because I thought that you are a herbivore and didn´t want to offend you!"

She blinks and and then starts laughing. You can´t help it and start laughing too.

You have a very long and fun lunch. Celly tells you about a festivity called "Grand Galloping Gala" which is usually a terribly stuffy event, but was in recent years always shook up by her students friends.

Inbetween she takes not only thirds but even fourths, the plate is always filled to the brim with food. You think you saw the waiters glancing at you angrily for abusing the "All you can eat" offer like that. Celly is finally stuffed, she pats her belly that looks rather full and lets out a small, quite unladylike belch.

"Oh, pardon me. That was brilliant, Anon. I think the shrimp chow mein was my favorite. We should come here more often. You know what? When I have a job and have my first salary I´ll invite you!"

-"Yeah, about that. I´ve been thinking about that. I appreciate your enthusiasm, but I don´t think that you taking a job, just like that, is possible."

-"Hm? Why is that?"

You sigh

"Well, first of all because you don´t exist."

She looks at you like you are an idiot.

"Anon, I do exist. I´m sitting right here and talk to you."

You groan.

"No... No, thats not what I mean. I mean you do not exist in the system. No birth cerfiticate. No social security number, no health insurance. No ID-card and no passport. You are not registerd anywhere, because you are not from this universe. To the state you do not exist. But you need to exist, you all those things and more to take a job."

Celestia folds her hands in front of her face and furrows her brows.

"I see. This IS a problem, and not a small one. Ugh, I knew why dealing with bureaucracy was always the least favorite part of being the princess of Equestria... Well, I think I´ll need to read it up online, when we are back at home. The internet is probably the most amazing invention you humans have ever created, Anon."

You shake your head.

"Forget that. I don´t think reading up what you need to be registered will be enough. I mean for starters what do you write when you are asked for your age? 2000 years?"

She lets out a short amused snort.

"I am 33. Well, technically."

-"What the what now?"

She giggles

"Let me explain. Unlike what many of my more pious little ponies believe, my sister and I are not immortals. We only age at a much slower pace than other beings. A century is about a year biologically to us. That means in a millenium I age about a decade. Now Luna and me were born as normal unicorns. I turned into a regal alicorn when I was just sweet 19 years old. That was a little over 1400 years ago, so I have aged 14 years. So I am biologically 33 years old."

You stare a her for several minutes with an open mouth before shaking your head.

"33, whatever. But your place of birth? Your school education? Your family? Everything is connected with everything. If that is not in the computers, you are not there. And you can´t take a job. I´m sorry."

She leans over to you and smiles her beautifull gentle smile.

"We, will figure something out, Anon."

After you finished your lunch and payed the tab (and gave a nice tip for the annoyed waiters) you leave the restaurant and start to plan what to do next.

"I think I want to take a look at that shopping street." Celly said "I´m not really into fashion, but I´m interested in how stores and businesses here work. Also its a good opportunity to see how humans interact."

You agree

"Good idea. I actually need a new pair of pants, also I want to browse the computer store."

You take the subway back one station to H-Plaza, where you get out and walk into Z-street. On both sides of this wide pedestrian streets are tall department stores and shopping galleries. There are literally thousands of people here. Housewifes shopping, teenagers hanging out after school, street performers of more or less dubious quality and tourists on the hunt for souvenirs.

You head straight for departmentstore K, a ugly 8 story example of early 1980s postmodernism.

"They have pretty much everything here, clothes, household items, electronics, toys, food and on the roof terrace is a restaurant with a great view over the city."

As you walk in you pass the perfume department, you don´t like the smell, but you see that Cellys eyes are actually watering, her face a grimmace of disgust.

"This stench! This is terrible!"

You remember that her sense of smell is much more refined than yours. In this moment an overeager young salesgirl walks up to her.

"Hello Miss, would you like to sample the new fragerance "Seduction" by Enrique J? Its all the rage!"

Without a warning she sprays at Celly, who is getting in a coughing fit. You lead her to the escalator "Eh, no thank you. My girlfriend is allergic to perfumes, you know!"

You give the poor girl an angry glance as you and your hacking and wheezing friend ride up to the first floor.

"Uh, my goodness. What was that. Is that the chemical warfare I read about?"

-"No, just the perfumedepartment. I always hate going in there."

You make a mental note that you will use the exit on the other side of the building later.

Celly is still wheezing.

"Wait, are you telling me that human women put that on voluntarily?"

-"Heh, not all of them. Perfume can actually be quite plesant when used is small amounts."

Celly wipes the tears from her eyes.

"I have my doubts about that, Anon... Oh my! What is that?"

You are now in the lingerie department. Many mannequins with all sorts of lacy bras, panies and garters. Rows of plastic legs with many different kinds of stockings are lined up along the aisle.

"My! This looks interesting. I think I read about this on the internet. Human women wear this to look sexy, right?"

She has completely forgotten about the perfume.

"Hey, Anon. What do you think? Would I look good in that?"

She gives you a teasing grin as she points at a very skimpy combination of a pink lace bra and panties with matching stockings and garterbelt.

"Pink isn´t really my colour, but I think I would look nice in this!"

You make the mistake of imagen her in that get up. You face turns bright hot red and you quickly move behind sales table to hide your errection. You have to think quick: Football, think about football. Dead puppies. Grandmas kisses that smell of Vicvaporub and death.

"Uh, Tia, we should go upstairs. I really need a new pair of pants."

Now more than ever, you think to yourself.

Finally, the mens department on the second floor. You grab a couple of cheap slacks and some jeans and head to the fitting rooms.

Celly is visibly bored as she waits on a bench outside as you try on the pants. Finally you have decided on which pairs to buy. As you leave the fitting cabin, you notice with horror that Celly is gone.

"Psst, hey Anon!"

You turn around and see Celly peeking out of a fitting room. You walk over to her.

"Look at this."

She shoves the curtain to the side and you almost pass out. She has transformed herself into wearing that hot pink underwear from downstairs.

"Gotcha."

You pull the curtain shut and try stay silent but with panic in your voice.

"Jesus, Mohammed and Buddha. W..w..what are you doing? Please, please, change back before somebody sees you like that!"

She answers with a mocking pout.

"Aw, you are no fun."

She flashes back into her normal clothes and leaves the changing room.

"There. But I´ll remember that outfit for later."

She gives you a teasing wink.

You pay your pants. and move out of the departmentstore with a red head while Celly can´t stop herself from giggling all the time.

You know that she is mischievieous and has a goofy sense of humor. You like that about her, at the same time you fear that this may be the end of you.

Outside she nudges you.

"C´mon, I´m sorry, Anon. It was just a joke."

You sigh. You are not mad at her, you can´t really be mad at her.

"Its okay. You gave me quite a fright. If one of the sales people would have seen you like that, they may would have thought that you were trying to steal that underwear and they would have called the police. And since you would not have been able to identify yourself, they may have arrested you and..."

You realize why that did upset you so much. That situation could have escalated quickly and maybe they would have found out at the police station that she is not human, maybe they would have called the millitary or the space agency, because there is an alien posing as human.

You are scared to lose her.

Because you love her.

"Its okay, Celly. I need to relax. Lets go to the computer store. I want to show you some computers that are better than the old POS I have at home."

You go back onto Z-street. You try to stay calm, but inside you are in turmoil. Just just realized that you do not only care for Celestia, you actually are in love with her! This is terrible! This can´t work out! You are from different worlds. Literally!

Celly must sense that something is off, the leans over to you.

"Anon, are you all right? You are very quite all of sudden."

You smile at her.

"No, I´m allright. I´m just thinking about something."

Suddenly a little child stands in your way. Its a little girl, about 3 years old, staring up at Celestia. She smiles down at the girl.

"Hello, little one!"

The girl just points at Celly

"Unicron! Pwetty howsie!"

Celestia and you stare at each other in absolute horror. The mother of the girl runs up to you and picks her up.

"Oh, I´m sorry. I hope she didn´t bother you. She normally doesn´t just wander off like that:"

You force a smile.

"Oh, nevermind. Adorable kid!"

The mother smiles, nods and carries the girl away. The girl still points at Celly.

"HOWSIE! HOWSIE! UNICRON!"

As you look around you begin to notice with growing dread that many very young children, toddlers up to 3-4 years are staring and pointing at you. No, they stare and point at Celestia!

Fuck.

Celestia turns around and looks at you, her face a grimmace of terror.

"They can see through my disguise! Anon, what are we going to do?!?!"

"Okay, stay calm. Play it cool. Those are very young children. Adults do not see through the disguise so we are good."

-"But the children! They recognize my true form!"

-"Never mind them! Nobody listens to children at that age. Adults probably think that they have a very colourfull imagination, because the see you as a woman."

You breathe out.

"Listen. Its not perfect, fine, it doesn´t matter. If adults see you as a woman, we´re cool. Are we cool?"

-"B..b..b..but the children.."

You almost want to shake her

"ARE. WE. COOL!"

She lets out a long breath.

"We...we are cool."

-"Good. Keep it together. You are doing great."

You continiue your shopping tour, you see from the corner of your eye how Celly is taking worried glances at children.

Finally you enter C-Store, a large computer and electronic hardware store.

Celly visibly relaxes since there are hadly any children in here. You show Celly around and explain everything. Oldfashioned desktop computers, notebooks, tablets and smartphones. You show her the 3D-printers and she marvels at this technology. She has a very quick grasp at everything and is a fast learner.

"This is almost magical, Anon."

-"Yeah, I guess it is. In just 20-30 years computers and the internet have changed the face of this planet and of society completely. Communication, trade and businesses, industry, everything is run more or less by computers. Fortunes of billions of dollars are send around the globe in splitseconds. Infrastructure like hospitals or the power grid are run by computer systems as well as political elections. There is of course some risk in that, as data can be manipulated more easily because it exists only virtually.

Celly lets out a barely audible "huh." and listens very closely.

"I personally think the benefits outweight the risks, thou."

Finally you leave the store and go to the metro, but not before grabbing some dinner at a burgerplace, since its getting evening. You smile at Celly.

"It feels really good to have a bacon cheese, without having to worry about pissing somebody off."

Chelly laughs her beautyfull laughter.

"I understand what you mean."

Then she warily glances at a toddler in a stroller next to her. The child smiles and points at her.

"Da!"

Finally you sit in the train home. You just notice how tired you are. Celly has allready fallen asleep in the seat next to you, you smile as she leans on you. She is kinda heavy, thou. You are amazed that her disguise stays up even as she is asleep. Maybe she has to conciously deactivate it? With these though you too drift into sleep.

You jolt awake. Wait what is that? You look out of the window.

"OH SHIT!"

Celly is waking up too.

"Mhm... Whu... Anon? Whats wrong?"

-"We missed our station. We´re out in the fucking boonies. We have to get out and ride back."

You get out at the next stop. This sucks. Its dark allready and you are quite far out of the city, five stops past your station. Even worse, this is a very seedy neigborhood. The station is vandalized and there is trash everywhere. In the distance are some apartment blocks that are even dumpier than the one you live in. The next train will come in about ten minutes.

Great.

Celly tries to cheer you up.

"Well, look at it that way, you wanted to show me your world. I think we can scratch this part of the list now."

• "Heh, you got a point there,,,"

After a few minutes you hear noise from the path to the apartment blocks. Its some teenage wannabe gangsters, bored, young, stupid, too much energy and testosterone, too little brains. As soon as they see you they come over and start getting in your faces. They want to start something and appearantly have found a target.

"HEEEEEY, look at that big ho! Your tits are fake aren´t they?"

The obvious leader of the group moves at Celestia.

"Say, why don´t you just ditch this wanker and have some fun with me and my boys?"

To emphasis his point he is making a rude hip gesture at her. You try to reason.

"Look guys, we don´t want any trouble. We just want to go home..."

He gets in your face.

"Well, fuckface, its a bit late for that. This is our turf here. If you want to pass through here you have to pay some toll. Your in luck that we´ll accept some rounds with your ho."

Celly snorts and gives him a pityfull look.

"I don´t think you could handle me. No offence, but I am way out of your league."

He doesn´t take that kind of rejection very kindly.

"Oh yeah? You think you´re fucking better than me, bitch? I´ll fuck your fat ass to death!"

Celestia is incredibly calm. You could swear the air is getting chillier by the second. She suddleny appears to be very menacing and has has a very scary aura. The ersatz-ganstas seem a little confused. Celly grabs a steel pole standing next to her on the platform that used to carry a station sign at some point. You can see how her fingers actually squeeze the metal like Play-Doh. Then she rips the pole with a good chunk of concrete out of the floor, the thugs flinch at that. One starts running. Celestia ties a knot into the steel pole, then she ramms it to its place again. The ground shakes a little on the impact. She does all this while staring the leader straigh in the eyes. He is visibly shaking. The only other one of his group that hasn´t run away yet, stands behind him, wide eyed, frozen in terror, on his pants is a wetspot growing around his croutch.

"A,,,a,,a...I´m not scared of you cunt!"

The leader draws a gun from his jacket and points it at Celly. You are frozen with shock, but she just roll her eyes.

"Oh please."

He fires two shots.

The bangs ring in you ears.

The bullets hit something.

You look in disbelief as they flat out on some kind of invisible wall. You see that Celly made some kind of hand gesture, and the now harmless bullets slide down some kind of force field. After the bullets his the ground there is a minute or so silence.

Celly still looks him in the eyes.

"I suggest you gentlemen take your leave. Go home and rethink your lives."

The leader shakes, then the start screaming. He runs off screaming in headless panic. The last one of his companions snaps out of his paralysation and starts running too. You stare after them. Then you look at Celly, then you look back at them, as the dissapear into the night.

"Tia, remind me to NEVER piss you off."

Just after you said that the train home arrives.

Thank god, you didn´t want to wait for those stooges to find new courage and return, possibly after calling some of their friends. Celly doesnt say anything for the rest of the ride. Finally, as you walk in the small park between the station and your home, she speaks.

"Anon. Please tell me the truth. My butt is not that fat, is it?"

You blink and then you start laughing.

"No, its perfect! Don´t worry, you are amazing the way you are."

She gives you an awkward smile. At home she transforms back into her regular form.

"Mmmmhm! This feels great! I kinda like my disguise, but, frankly, nothing beats this."

She stretches her wings and plops down on your couch.

"Anon, I need your notebook. I have some things to look up and some work to do."

-"Oh, okay? Sure!"

You watch her work on the computer. Its pretty odd how she operates it. since she has no hands (in this form) she uses her magic to manipulate it. She is incredibly fast. You smile as you notice how much she impresses you. She looks at you.

"Anon, are you all right? You are acting stange again."

-"Ah, no, no. I just have things on my mind."

She gives you her gentle smile.

"Just tell me, we are friends. I´m sure I can help you with that."

-"Oh. I well. I don´t know. I just..."

You just look at her. The sudden realisation throws a shadow on her face.

"Oh.
Oh Anon. Please don´t do that to the both of us. I value or friendship too much, please. I don´t want that."

You hear the pain in her voice

"Celly I know its stupid, but I think I lo..."

-"Don´t you dare to say that Anon!"

She looks down.

"Anon, I like you very much. I love you, but I only want to love you as a friend. I...I can´t do that.

Not again."

-"Again? What do you mean again?"

She looks at you with an expression of being caught. She just said more than she wanted to say.

She sighs.

"Anon, I told you earlyer today about the extremely prolonged lifespan that was given to us when my sister and me turned into regal alicorns?"

She continiues, a deep sadness in her voice

"This is both a blessing and a curse. When I turned into an alicorn I had a coltfriend. I loved him deeply with my whole heart. When I became princess of Equestria, I made him my royal husband. You wont believe how deep our bound was. But as the years passed, he grew older, but I didn´t. He finally died at an old age and it broke my heart. Years later I found new lovers. All in all I had 8 husbands and 3 wifes over the years. I had in total 14 children with them. They gave me 35 wonderfull grandchildren, and they gave me 72 great grand children."

Tears are welling up in her eyes.

"And I watched them all grow old and die. I outlived all of them. Every single last one of them! And everytime the pain was almost unbearable. They turned to dust centuries ago, but... but when I think of them it hurts as if they died yesterday. So please, Anon, I beg you. Don´t do this to me. I gave up on giving all of my love to just being almost a millenium ago and decided to give it to all of my little ponies instead, because I can´t bear the pain of losing my lover another time. Don´t do this to me!"

She breaks down in tears. You feel absolutely rotten.

"I´m sorry Celestia. I..."

You sit there in silence for several minutes.

"Are there still ponies that are descendants of those relationships?"

She is a bit suprised by that question but she brightens up immediatly.

"Whu.. Why yes, of course. Hundreds of them all over Equestria. Most of them don´t even know that I´m their great-great-great-etc.-grandmother. But believe me, I keep track of them and I´m proud on each and every one of them!"

She looks up smiling, as if she is looking at something far away in the distance.

"There are some of them of which I am especially proud of..."

You smile at her and get up.

"I think your lovers and children are still there, They live on in these ancestors.“

Celestia has tears in her eyes but she smiles.

„Goodnight Celestia."

"Goodnight Anon, thank you for being here for me."