My life was a mess.

I would never amount to anything in this life. I had made terrible mistakes. I was weak, unskilled and worse yet, due to being in a serious accident that also cost my parents their lives, impotent to boot; I would never father a child, even if I ever found a girlfriend.

My name? Doesn't matter at this point.

Anyway, as I was walking down the street, stuck in my depressed thoughts, my phone buzzed in my pocket.

Which was odd, because my phone didn't HAVE a vibration function. It was an old one, but still could send and receive text messages. That said;

If you could go anywhere, where would you go?

I stared at the question for a moment, puzzled. After a few seconds, I sent a reply.

'Who is this?'

My name doesn't matter. Your answer does.

'Curious.' I thought to myself. After a few seconds' thought, I replied,

'Somewhere where I can have a fresh start; a new lease on life. Where I can one day find a Happily Ever After.'

A good answer. If you could bring anything with you, what would it be?

I thought about that for a moment.

'Internet access and all its functions?'

The reply was relatively quick in coming.

Hmm... It can be done, but where you start off will not exactly be a desirable location. Do you accept this?

I took a deep breath.

'I have little to nothing to live for here anyway. Done and done.'

For a moment, I felt dizzy before consciousness entirely left me, everything going black.

I had no idea where I was. All I knew was that it was warm it was dark, and I could hear a thump every 3/4 of a second or so. I couldn't see; couldn't feel. Couldn't smell or taste. Had no sense of time, either.

Oh, and I slept a LOT. Not like there was much else to do here, anyway.

Over time, I started to gain the sense of touch. How did I know? Apparently there was someone else here with me.

It had only occurred to me just then; I was being literally reborn, and the one next to me was my sibling!

It was a long time; a very long time. But eventually, I could feel that something was draining from where I was. Immediately, I started to feel REALLY cold. I suppose that being warm for a long time and then having all that warmth removed from your environment will do that to you.

I felt the urge to begin crying, but stomped it down to the level of whimpers instead of straight-up bawling.

My twin, -my sister, judging by the voice- however, had no such compunctions. (Sigh).

As twins are wont to do, when she started crying, I felt the need to do so as well.

Our mother -who I still couldn't see yet- started licking us clean, alternating between us. It tickled so much that we went from crying to giggling in no time flat. She also made shushing sounds, trying to quiet us down.

You might wonder how a Pony can lick and shush at the same time. It still boggles the buck out of me now, but whatever.

When she was done, I was able to open my eyes for the first time, though my vision was still very blurry. My mother exclaimed, "Look! Her eyes!"

Apparently, I had blue, fully cartoon-y eyes, about the same hue as my mane and tail -I later saw that from the reflection in my mother's eyes-. I was destined to be a major player, it seemed.

Then I instinctively spread my wings, to another gasp of shock. "Her wings are beautiful!"

Looking at my side at the foreign sensation, I saw that my wings were a shiny alabaster. (1)

Seeing the looks on my parents' faces, I closed my eyes and said my first word, pretty early on.

"*Click!*"

After a flash of light, a picture printed from my mouth.

My mother and father were all googly-eyed for a moment, much to my amusement, and that of my sister. Upon seeing their picture, my parents started laughing too.

At that point, my vision fully cleared up and I saw my new mother and father completely for the first time.

My mother was a white Earth Pony (with a red O shape on her flank, I discovered later), who also had a red mane and tail with one white stripe through both. Her name was Opera Scape.

My father was a blue Unicorn with occasional white splotches on his coat. His mark had a white N on an old-style boat's steering wheel within a white circle. His name was Net Scape.

My sister was an orangey-red Earth Pony whose mane and tail floated gently in a nonexistent breeze, looking like it was on fire. I learned later of that being an indication that she had an unusually high mana capacity, for an Earth Pony, -let alone one so young- so it exuded itself through her mane and tail. Her name would come to be Fire Fox.

All rather on the nose names, wouldn't you say? Then again, criticism coming from a Pegasus named Chrome Melodies... who am I to judge?

Either way, seeing my new family made my heart soar. I swore to myself right then and there that I'd do my best to protect them. If I had anything to say about it, they would NOT end up like my previous family. And anyone or anything that tried would receive no mercy from me, or my sister.

Simultaneously, our stomachs gurgled.

Mom smiled and turned slightly. "Hungry are you? Come on; try what's on tap." she said, revealing her somewhat swollen teats.

As we were guided there, my sister drank eagerly from one, while I did so much more slowly with the other, a slight blush on my face. My mother's milk tasted of buttercream, with a slight hint of mint. Maybe vanilla?

At length, we finished our meal, burping at once before falling asleep -again, simultaneously- shortly thereafter.

Yep. Life was going to be interesting for our little family. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

Author's Note

1: I made a little change here; you'll find out why soon enough.