Prologue (Re-written/edit)
Author's Note
LOOK WHO'S BACK, BACK AGAIN. WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! So, finally, now that school has let up a bit, I can focus some of my efforts on writing this story. Please make sure to read this chapter "again" as I've changed the story a bit. I should release chapter 2 soon, probably this week (I'm talking in PST so from Oct. 12-17, but I cannot promise regular updates to this story) which is not just an update. Big surprise, right!?
NOTE: This IS NOT a crossover with Star Wars, but will contain some Star Wars elements. I do not claim ownership of any of the contained elements, all rights go to Lucasfilm/Disney.
Prologue (Re-written/edit)
Riley Barnes lived a perfectly normal teenage life, except for the fact that he was a brony. Gaming with friends, looking at his phone for several hours straight, and the fairly frequent shout of his parents to get off his lazy butt and do something. Due to the quarantine raging outside, he had a ton of free time. School was a joke, with grades being unable to drop, and you could just earn “extra credit” by doing the assignments, he had read every book in the house that seemed interesting, and quite frankly, he was bored. He had watched the finale of “My Little Pony:Friendship is Magic”, he had exhausted most of his extensive game collection and was trying to 100% Jedi: Fallen Order, and had done almost everything except what his parents asked him to.
“I wish something exciting would happen here in my town, that doesn’t cause a widespread panic,” Riley thought to himself “I mean with the amount of adventure stories I read, and the amount of anime I’ve watched, I hoped at least something similar would happen, even though the chances of magic being real is a trillion to one.” As he lay in bed with thoughts swirling inside his head, he drifted off to sleep, “Just a quick nap.” he thought, “Won’t hurt anyone.”
As he slept, he dreamed of epic battles, him facing off against a swarm of enemies, all falling by his hand, as he wielded a purple, double-ended lightsaber. Starting with Form VII, Riley seamlessly shifted between the many forms of lightsaber combat, from Form II, blocking any handheld weapons that came close, to Form V deflecting any shots from projectile weapons, and lasers headed his way. Nobody could touch him, as he faced the last enemy and shifted into a Form III stance, facing a gargantuan beast that was the only enemy left standing. It was the only enemy holding a lightsaber, but this one was a distinct, crimson red color. The beast laughed as it effortlessly knocked Riley away. His purple lightsaber deactivated and skittered away across the floor. “You honestly think you can face me!?” it inquired in a distinctly female voice. “You are but a ‘youngling’ in my eyes,” she proclaimed, with a tone of revulsion in her voice, as she raised her saber. Riley closed his eyes, and fell away.
Several hours later...
Riley screamed as he woke up, his body flying up from the ground...wait…? Ground? As Riley woke up and looked around he discovered he was lying in a field, in the shadow of a mountain. As he looked around, he saw a castle hanging on the edge of a mountain, and a town not that far off into the distance. What he saw in the sky, baffled him, as he saw 4-legged, winged figures pushing clouds into formations. As he looked closer he could distinctly see that they were ponies…?
“Is this… Equestria?” he thought to himself as he scratched his head. “At least I didn’t get turned into a pony by the cosmic force that brought me here, but is that necessarily a good thing?”
He looked at his surroundings, and discovered a box, the contents of which were:
- A lightly shimmering purple crystal about the size of a USB drive,
- A bag containing what looked to be somewhere between 20-30 bits
- A cloak with a hood
- A note, which he decided to read.
As he read the note, Riley’s eyes widened, as what he read baffled him even more.
Congratulations lucky individual, thanks to my interest in your situation, I have decided to bring you to the place you have always wished you could visit: Equestria! Don’t worry about your family and friends, they won’t remember you, or I’ll replace you with someone that they will remember to have been in your place, a clone if you will. I know that seems mean, but compared to a wish come true, I think it’s a fair trade. Also what’s life without a little chaos to mix things up every once in a while. Other than that, good luck, and have fun with your new life. I’ve imbued you with some “magic” and you should be a bit tougher than a normal human teenager, you should be fine.
Sincerely,
DGOC
P.S. Hold on to that crystal, it should be useful later.
Riley felt a mixture of emotions: anger, for the fact that his family won’t remember him, sadness, at the fact that he doesn’t know a way home, and doesn’t know if he wants to go back, and excitement, for the adventure he’s always dreamt of having. Taking a few deep breaths, calming down, Riley slung on the cloak, slipped the pouch of bits into his right pocket, the crystal and note into the left, he set off into the direction of what he assumed was Ponyville. As he approached the outskirts of the town he saw a pink blur of energy heading towards him, as he choked on the dust kicked up by the blur, the ball of energy revealed itself to be the familiar form of Pinkie Pie, who, in one breath spouted a string of words, “HII’MPINKKIEPIEAREYOUNEWYOUMUSTBENEWWHATAREYOUWELCOME TOPONYVILLEDOYOULIKEPARTIESOFCOURSEYOUDOIMGONNATHROWYOUABIGPARTYRIGHTNOWOHMYCELESTIAIGOTTAGOBYESEEYOUIN2HOURS! *
As Pinkie disappeared into the distance, Riley processed what had just happened and shook himself a bit. “Just Pinkie being Pinkie I guess,” he said, to no one in particular.As he walked into Ponyville he prepared himself for whatever was going to happen.
*Hi, I'm Pinkie Pie! Are you new, you must be new. What are you? Welcome to Ponyville, do you like parties? Of course you do! I'm gonna throw you a big party right now! OH MY CELESTIA, I GOTTA GO BYE! SEE YOU IN 2 HOURS......!