My Past Is Complicated

“Dear Celestia,” Equestrian Lyra mumbled into a pillow as she laid face down on the couch. “I’ve never seen Twilight angry before.”

“Yeah me neither,” Minuette mumbled back. “That was scary.”

“Why was she so loud?” Trixie asked hesitantly. Me and all the other Equestrians in the room made eye contact.

“The Royal Canterlot Voice,” I said simply. “Celestia used it a few times to get attention of her subjects. It’s very rare it gets used. Twilight must have gotten angry enough to use it.”

“Looked like she didn’t even know she was using it,” Equestrian Bon Bon commented as she stared at her hands. Twilight had already gone to the sirens house and I hope they weren’t scaring her with their movie choices. Aria liked horror, Adagio liked soap operas and I’ll let you decide what Sonata liked. And no, it isn’t Taco Bell commercials though I can see her watching them for entertainment. Or because she was hungry. Either of those work to be honest.

“Yeah for real,” Moondancer commented. She and Lemon Hearts sat on the floor staring at the TV remote. Moondancer squinted at it and pointed a finger at it.

“What the hell are you doing?” Vinyl asked with a smirk.

“Trying to use my magic to levitate whatever this is to me. I want to look at it,” she said simply. “I’m assuming it’s a tool for helping blind ponies based on the sensory buttons on it.” I let out a rare giggle and stood up.

“You don’t have magic here. You don’t have a horn either. Thank God because that would be kinda creepy. And it’s called a TV remote. It’s not a sensory tool or whatever you think it is,” I explained as I picked it up and gave it to her. Moondancer ran her fingers over the buttons and pressed one. She let out a cry and threw it at Minuette when the TV came on.

“Ow Moondancer! That hurt!” Minuette snapped as she rubbed her head. “How did the black void turn on?”

“It’s called a TV, not a black void. She must have pressed the on button,” Trixie explained as she leaned forward. “Trixie likes this show. She watches it in her free time. It’s always fun watching the police catch the killer.”

“Agreed,” Earth Bon Bon smiled and shared a popcorn bowl with her double. “I never thought we would have anything in common Trixie.”

“Trixie is full of surprises.”

“How does a TV work?” Moondancer asked eagerly as she pushed her glasses up. “What does it stand for?”

“Television. A television basically consists of three parts. The TV camera that turns a picture and sound into a signal; the TV transmitter that sends the signal through the air; and the TV receiver, the TV set in the home that captures the signal and turns it back into picture and sound,” I explained. “That’s it in simple words. I’m sure there is books about it.”

“Fascinating,” Moondancer mused as I heard knocking.

“I’ll get it,” I announced. I walked to the door and peeped through the door. “Mom!” Mom walked into the room and looked out the window. Her face hardened and she narrowed her eyes.

“Sunset get in the room with the others now. I’ve had some things I wanted to say to these girls for a while now.” I gave a nervous nod as I stepped in the living room.

“Who’s here?” Vinyl asked curiously as she set her glasses on the table.

“The Raingoons,” Fuschia fumed as she peered out the window. Mom flung the door open and glared at them.

“You girls have some nerve coming here like this. Get the hell off my property now!” Mom growled as we all looked at each other in shock. Derpy had been asleep next to me but quickly woke up.

“I don’t think she can speak to us like that,” Rarity mumbled nervously.

“I can speak to you however the fuck I want. You’re on my property and we are outside of school. Typically I wouldn’t use this language but you girls have made me so mad for the last time. I will only say this once and you better pray to God it doesn’t come in one ear and go out the other. Stay the fuck away from my daughter. Stay the fuck away from me unless we are in school. I will not allow you to come onto this property and hurt my daughter one more time. Ever since this has started and you all abandoned her, she has been in her room bawling her eyes out over this and that hurts me deeply as her mother. So get the hell off my property now before I call the police and have you all arrested for trespassing. We always close that gate before we come inside and I watched Bon Bon close it. Now get the hell out of here!” Mom slammed the door shut angrily and locked it.

“Angry Cheerilee is scary too,” Lavender whispered to me. “Is she always that protective of you?”

“Yeah she is,” I admitted as we watched the Raingoons leaving. “She does her best to keep me safe. Especially now with anon a miss. I’ve never heard her cuss before though.” Mom grumbled incoherent words as she stepped into the living room. We all stared at her and didn’t say a word.

“They are gone,” Mom reassured me. “I’m very sorry you all had to hear that. I’m just so angry about all this.”

“It’s okay mom,” I smiled as we hugged. “Thank you. I didn’t want to see them anyway. They would have wanted to scream at me anyway.”

“They wanted to talk to Twilight. Rainbow just posted that on her Mystable account,” Earth Lyra held up her phone and showed us all. “Idiots must have thought she was here. Honestly they are lucky she wasn’t. She might have screamed at them again.”

“Hey what’s that?” Equestrian Lyra asked excitedly and pointed at the phone. “Is that a small tv?” Her counterpart let out a giggle.

“Nah it’s called a phone. Come here and I’ll show ya how to use it!”