Chapter 1 The Mist: REWRITTEN
Chapter 1 The Mist: REWRITTEN
What World Is This?
By: Insane Leaf Sonata
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PoV Aloe
As I walked out of the apartment that my sister Lotus and I shared, I realized just how boring the Spa has gotten over the month. New products weren’t going to come out anytime soon, the Summer Collections were already launched and the buzz about them has already worn off.
Maybe Lotus and I need to try something new.
I read in a Fashion and Beauty magazine this month that there were some new magic powered beauty products.
I showed Lotus, and all she said was, “That’s a wonderful idea Aloe!”
No surprise there. We even finish each others sentences sometimes, as creepy as that is.
The product spell said on the ad, “New therapeutic magic mist that rejuvenates you and clears out your pores, much like a modern sauna!”
The product also stated that this mist was supposed to be ten times more efficient than a sauna and could be used throughout the entire spa. Lotus expressed her doubt in saying, “That’s impossible, our sauna has the best feedback out of our entire spa’s treatments.”
“OK, so it takes three to four business days, and it’s already been two… AGH! I love Ponyville and it’s my home, but all the little things, from the country air to the late packages, still remind me of where Lotus and I come from.” I said to nopony in particular.
Oh how I miss Prance… I thought sadly.
I continued through my homesickness and ended up in the Ponyville market square, once again reminding me that this was Ponyville and not Prance. I walked over to the local café that was run by the town’s local historian, Lyra Heartstrings.
Lyra was rather good at her job as an archeologist, and she was also a pretty good cook and business pony to run a café as well, but to get into a conversation about her work with her was just idiotic. She would always go on about these mythical creatures called ‘humans’ and always saying how much more advanced they were than us, how they walked on two legs, and were REALLY tall.
I ordered a simple coffee and scone; a mare needs energy to work all day, even if that energy came from caffeine.
I sat down at a table outside of the café, now happily munching away at my scone and sipping my coffee, and then I remembered a little piece of information that I mmmaaayyy have slightly overlooked, “It’s MAGIC mist! I’m going to need magic! Both my sister and I are earth ponies!”
“Alright, not a problem. Just take a deep breath Aloe, you can find a unicorn to help you do this.”
I have many options, but which unicorn could Lotus and I ask assistance from?
Certainly not Twilight Sparkle, she’s much too busy and not elegant enough.
Maybe I could ask Lyra…. No, she already has two jobs and I couldn’t bear to hear more of her ‘human’ stories.
Oh horseapples, I’m running out of options…. Oh! I know! I could ask Rarity!
“Rarity is a regular customer, and she would come every Wednesday to the Spa along with a timid, butter yellow pegasus.” I said to myself thoughtfully.
“Now, where can I find Rarity? Stupid Aloe! She’s obviously going to be at her boutique!” This time I facehoofed out of sheer stupidity.
“I really need to talk to myself less often…”
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I made my way over to the Boutique and ran into my sister Lotus on the way.
When I said I wanted to run into my sister, I didn’t mean it literally!
“Lotus, what happened to you?” I asked sympathetically.
“*Sniff *sniff, my coltfriend, *sniff, broke up with me.” She replied between sniffles from her now runny nose and tears streaming down her face.
“Oh don’t worry, he wasn’t good enough for you anyway.”
“Okay…. If you say so Aloe.” Lotus replied a little more upbeat than before.
“Don’t worry, I KNOW he wasn’t good enough for you.” I said to her with confidence.
“Thanks Aloe, you always know how to cheer me up.” Lotus got up from the ground where she was lying and turned to the Spa across town.
“Poor Lotus, she thought so highly of him too…”
OK, emotionally distressed sister aside, I need Rarity’s help.
I finally made it to the Fashion shop and knocked on the door awaiting the owner to answer.
“I’ll be there in one moment darling!” Replied a familiar voice from inside.
What is that noise? It sounds like construction equipment! What is she doing? Isn’t this a dress shop? Huh? Oh, it sounds like she’s done.
“Sweetie Belle, come back here right this instant!” Shouted Rarity, who had just emerged from the door, chasing three little fillies.
“Ummm, is this a bad a time?” I asked.
“Oh not at all darling, just my little sister and her friends tried to get their cutie marks in cooking… And they somehow got the idea that tree sap and construction equipment were a good idea.” She said with a sigh.
“Tree sap?” I asked out of curiosity.
“Yes, yes, tree sap. Don’t even ask of how they got the idea of using it.” The fashion pony replied.
“Uh, well, ok. Anyway, Lotus and I were wondering if you could help us with a slight problem we’re having at the Spa.”
“And what might that be?” She replied questioningly.
“Lotus and I needed something new for the Spa to attract more customers and it needs magic and since m sister and I are earth ponies we were wondering if-“ I was cut off by Rarity.
“Say no more Aloe, of course I’ll assist you and your sister with magic for your new attraction.” She replied.
“Oh thank you so much! You have no idea what this means to us! We’ll even give you free spa treatments for as long as you do this-“ once again I was cut off by Rarity.
“Think nothing of it dear, this is merely something I must do for two of my friends.”
“Oh thank you Rarity,” I said as I gave her a quick hug,” That’s so generous of you!”
“Well I’m not the element of generosity for nothing.” She said with the flip of her mane.
“Come with me to the Spa, let’s try to do this as quickly as possible, I want to see this new mist thing work!” I said with barely suppressed glee.
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One hour later
The mist spell had come during the time that I was gone in the morning; Lotus would’ve gotten me, if she weren’t busy eating ice cream with a shovel.
I can always count on first class Pegasus mail to arrive before the scheduled date!
“Hmm, this spell looks rather intricate, but I think I can do it. But I won’t just do the spell, as fashionista of Ponyville I will make this spell purposeful and beautiful!” Rarity said, saying her own promise to the Spa.
Rarity cast the mist spell and soon the entire Spa was cast in blanket of moisture.
“Wow! This is amazing! The mist isn’t even getting our equipment wet! Only us!” I shouted in amazement.
“Alright, now that I have that down, I’ll make this Spa rival the Spas from Canterlot to Trottingham!”
Exclaimed Rarity and her horn was soon encased in the glow of her magic.
The glow magnified several times before her horn started to spark slightly, making the two earth ponies in the room a little nervous.
“Uh, Rarity, it’s all right. All we needed was the mist! You’ve already done your job!” Lotus shouted over the humming of Rarity’s magic output.
“I- I don’t- I can’t control it anymore!-“ Was the last thing I heard before the three of us were enveloped in a shockwave of raw magic and everything faded to black.
Once the shockwave took the three mares away, there was an unsettling silence in the room that was broken by a mysterious, maniacal, chaotic laughing that slowly faded, at the same time so did the lavender smell that the mist had.
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The Human world, August 3rd, 2012
PoV Leif Alsaif
“Ugh, why is AP Calculus so hard!” I complained to my two best friends since middle school, Alex Xylot and Josh Underwood.
“Because it’s AP and Calculus. Add those two things together and you get the world’s most annoying math class in Quebec.” Replied Josh, having taken AP Calculus last year, same as me.
“I agree with Josh, I absolutely hated AP calculus when I took it two years ago over the summer.” Said Alex, always the star student and procrastinator, he could actual do work, when he wanted to that is.
“Don’t act so responsible, you know you only took that class over the summer because you needed it as a requirement for that economics course you wanted.” I replied with a little bit of annoyance entering my voice.
“Chill dude, lets forget about college for just a second. C’mon guys! It’s Summer vacation! And you know where to go for summer vacation?”
“Uh, road trip?” Said Alex.
“An entire day Call of Duty session owning all the campers and then watching a Lord of the Rings marathon?” I suggested.
“Watch My Little Pony?” Alex said, his second suggestion.
“Ugh! You Canadians are so weird! The Beach! It was so obvious! MLP can wait for one week. I already rented out the beach house and we’re going there. NOW!”
Josh said annoyed and started pushing us to our neighborhood.
We walked about another half hour away from the main city, and we ended up in the suburbs of Quebec and in front of our neighborhood.
It’s a nice, higher middle class place with almost exclusively three story houses, if you counted the basement. Which is where my game console is set up.
Alex and Josh ran off to their respective houses to start our, very quickly, planned beach vacation.
Alright, packing is finished, and I still have about five minutes before Alex and Josh come, so I might as well grab a quick soda.
So I made my way downstairs into the kitchen and found a note on the counter.
Huh, a note. I wonder who could’ve put a note here… I hope it isn’t some ransom letter that my parents were abducted by ninjas or something.
Dear Leif,
Your father and I will be away on business for the rest of the summer, don’t be sad, we’ll be back before college starts up again. Try not to have too many parties like last time! (You and I both know that didn’t end too well, now did it!)
Love, Mom
OK, no parents for a while, and it wasn’t because of ninjas. Thank God they increased my credit card limit since last time.
“NEVER AGAIN will I drink from the punch bowl at a party that had alcohol, chances are, the punch is alcoholic too.” I didn’t know that at the time though… And got drunk off my ass on punch.
I heard a knocking at the door, “Oh, guess they’re here already. I didn’t even get my soda… Oh well.”
I opened the door and an overly energized Alex was behind it, “Hey Leif, you ready to go?” Behind him was Josh in his BMW X5 idling in the driveway, honking the horn obnoxiously.
“Shut it Josh! I can hear you I’m coming, just let me lock the door! Jeez, that guy is more impatient than readers on FIMFiction.” I quietly laughed to myself, being one of those impatient readers as well.
Alex and I made our way back to Josh and I hopped into the backseat while Alex hopped into shotgun.
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After a short car ride full Linkin Park, Johnny Cash, and DeadMau5, we finally made it to the beach that was our destination.
“OK, now, let’s rock this beach!” shouted Josh as he jumped out of the driver’s seat and onto the hard asphalt of the parking lot.
“Josh! Come help with the luggage!” I shouted at Josh, then I added silently, “Especially since yours is what’s the problem anyway.”
The next four days passed without much excitement, only the occasional large wave that would wipe Josh out on with his surfboard and the extremely, and overly, competitive games of mini golf that we had every night.
“Alright guys, It’s been four days and all we’ve accomplished so far are watching Josh fail at surfing, watching Alex fail at picking up girls, and watching me fail in mini golf. So! How productive have we been!” I said to the three of us while standing over the two of them on the beach.
“Well, it certainly has been more productive than last time.”
“That doesn’t count! I was drunk and you know it!”
“I’m just saying….” His voice trailed off when everyone started to notice how foggy it’s gotten in the past few minutes.
“Wha?” Was all I could say, unable to form a coherent sentence.
Then, as quickly as it came, it disappeared; but not without leaving behind a little present, or three presents.
“What the Hell?” I said questioningly.
“I’m with Leif.” Agreed Josh.
“As am I…” Said Alex.
“OK, the mist is gone, but… now there…. Are…. Three naked… women… on the beach… WHAT THE HELL?!” I reiterated, shouting as I ended my confused statement.
“This is the best day ever.” Josh said slightly slack jawed, and smiling.
Alex didn’t reply, he just stared at the one with Purple hair like she was a Greek goddess.
“Alex! Stop staring!” I said to him, punching him in the arm.
“Oh. Sorry.” Was all Alex said.
“C’mon, these girls look like the need help, Alex, get the beach towels, they’ll need something to cover up. Josh, clean up and get the car. Let’s go!” I said with a leader like quality to it, this was a rare occurrence indeed, not the three naked girls on the beach, the fact that I just took a leadership role.
As we got the three girls and covered them up with our beach towels and Alex and I carried them back fireman style and took them back to the car that Josh had readied like I asked.
Must. Not. Get. Boner. While. Holding. Unconscious. Beautiful. Naked. Women!
Mission: Failed.
We got into the car and Josh drove as fast as (legally) possible back to the beach house and arrived at a track time of 3 minutes. We set the three girls onto the beds and then the three of us congregated in the living room to discuss the recent events.
“What just happened?” Josh said, breaking the silence.
“I honestly have no idea.” Is all I said to reply.
“When I was staring at that purple haired girl earlier-“
“When you were totally checkin’ her out?” Is what I said, interrupting him.
“NO! As I was saying, when I was looking at her earlier, I noticed she looked a lot like Rarity.”
“Now that you say that, the other two looked a lot like Aloe and Lotus, you know, from that episode with gabby gums when the crusaders were trying to get their cutie marks in journalism?” Is what Josh suggested.
“Are you guys honestly thinking these girls are ponies? This isn’t a fanfic.” Said Josh, always the realist.
“Well, let’s wait and see what happens when they wake up-“ I was cut off by three, almost simultaneous screams coming from the bedrooms.
“Well, I guess that means we won’t have to wait?” Said Josh over the screams.
Chapter 2 Going out tonight
Going out tonight
Italic are thoughts :I'm thinking right now, see?
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Five minutes ago
Rarity's POV
Aloe, Lotus, and I were transported in some kind of vortex of fog that threw us into another world. Our bodies felt painful, so much that we fainted on our unknown destination.
Why me? Haven't I been through enough with Nightmare Moon, Discord and Queen swiss hooves!?
My body felt bigger, heavier, much taller. Lotus and Aloe were on the ground, but they weren't ponies. They were what that mint green mare at the coffee shop's delusion! Sitting up, I looked down at my hooves, which had now become hands.
Sweet merciful Celestia! I'm a monster!
The twins woke up and we all looked at each other; Then proceeded to scream our lungs out.
Present time
Alex Xylot's POV
"What do we do?" Leif asked us
I went towards the table and searched under it. A loud sticky ripping sound could be heard close by me as I took out Anna.
Leif's and Josh's eyes went wide in shock "YOU BROUGHT YOUR M1911A1!?" They yelled in unison
"It's Anna, my Heckler & Koch German USP..." Anna isn't an American! She a beautiful custom German USP!
"NO GUNS!"
"but-"
"NO! GUNS!"
I placed Anna back on the table, pulled the utensil drawer open and took a long, black knife.
Josh facepalmed as Leif twitched and told me, "no knives either!"
"It's plastic, what's the problem?" I said as I was juggling with it and throwing it over my shoulder.
"You could scare them, that's the problem!" Josh playfully (not really) punched me and took the (not so) sharp object away. "Now let go see those girls"
We rolled with Josh's idea and went to the room where the girls were. Leif opened the door, we looked around and saw the three women trembling and hugging each other in the corner of the room. They looked so scared of us, like we were some kind of aliens going to dissect them.
Leif took action, while Josh and I looked aside, as to not get pegged as perverts
"Do you speak English, or even better, French? We aren't going to hurt you." As my good friend said his last word his nose began to bleed, almost comically so.
Smart as I am, I took the hood of his shirt, pulled it over his head, pulled the stings and tied them so he couldn't take it off. "Thanks bro," I tapped his shoulder, he did a 180 spin and Josh pushed him out.
"Now, we want to know why are you girls were out there, knocked out and naked,"
That's when I said something that I regretted... kinda, "Were you raped?"
Josh thought that my lack of tack deserved a non playful punch the the face.
Thats what I get for saying the wrong thing around an American footballer!
I laid on the ground, half knocked out with the greatest view in the world, a girl's p-
Temporary POV change
Josh's POV
"Josh!" Leif sounded serious
"Y-yes!?"
"Go through Alex's stuff and find those girls some clothes!"
I don't know if I should be happy or sad!
I got up and headed to my blunt friends bag and rustled through his things,
Okay... PS3, Laptop, 3DS, Metal gear Solid 1 to 5, bunch of cables...
"There's no FREAKING CLOTHES!" I yelled at no one.
POV Changes back
Alex's POV
I'm getting a chance to be useful!
"Oh wait no, I found the clothes, they're in his suitcase"
You know what? I'll stay down... I got up My mind is all mixed up from that punch! "Okay, I'm back," I said but all of them just ignored me.
Leif stood there and said, "we are searching for clothes, you women have to wear them, it's kinda against the law if you don't, as well as being awkward as all hell to us."
You make me ashamed to be your friend sometimes!
"What he's trying to say, is that women aren't suppose to be naked in front of men. It's not proper." I said with confidence and my eyes closed.
"I am not going in public wearing those rags on myself and neither will my friends!" One of the well looking girl spoke, I assumed it's the purple haired one, I couldn't tell because of my eyes at the moment.
"Sorry Rarity, that's all we've got right now" I just made a horrible mistake...
"How do you know my name?"
Oh my sweet Celestia, She's either 'A', a cosplayer who lost her memory, or 'B', we got ponies on are hands... I mean hooves I mean.... AARRGGHH!
"That's your name? Wow, that's a sweet name I give to girls normally, that's a weird coincidence!"
"Are you humans?" A different spoke but I wasn't sure which one it was this time.
Josh was curious at this point, "Uh, yeah. Can you name someone who isnt?"
"Oh no, we got into Lyra's mind!" the same voice spoke, and then started to wail again.
"No sister, we've been transported to another world!" The two same voices started yelling in unison.
Something dropped. I opened my eyes for a brief moment to see what happened, Rarity (Or who I assume is Rarity) fell to her knees, looking at her two friend screaming in the corner of the room. I think she tried stand up or walk towards her friends because soon after she said, "I'm sorry girls, I wasn't like Twilight, I wasn't strong enough!" Sobbing was heard from the women.
or mares?
"Don't cry," Leif, like always, took action
NO! I'm not letting you this time!
"Let's get a cup of coffee and talk about what happened. No matter what, we'll believe you."
Take that Leif!
***
Sometimes later
Once the girls were dressed, they started to immediately complain about it.
"These underpants are so uncomfortable!" I couldn't control myself, I imagined it.
"are you sure that you gals can walk? It's sounds pretty hard for um... Ponies to do that kind of thing." I said concern about them. Seeing a none human fall, brake a leg, and go to the hospital without an ID card would be freaking bad.
I always hated stairs. Now I got a better reason to hate those things!
The three supposed ponies looked at each other, "Trust us dear, three ponies who are in fashion would know the standard two legged walk." the beautiful blue eyed, silky purple haired, curvaceous women spoke from those cushiony lips of hers.
Leif and Josh both said at the same time,"That's great! "
Pansies...
"So, where do we go to get the coffee?" Josh asked us "Starbucks?"
Leif and me looked at each other and replied "Starbucks" "Tims!" now they both look at me with evil stares.
"What, I like icecaps, they're good," they both looked at one an other and gave a 'well, he right' grin.
"I don't care!" the pink haired one yelled out, "I want a Coffee with tons of sugar!" Rarity and the blue haired one gasped in horror. "I need sugar after my break up, and ice cream too!"
What a needy brat!... wait did she say break up?
I took my two best friends by their necks and pulled them down in a circle so I could whisper, "She in the after break up phase! Imagine a personal hell!" their eyes went wide. "you thought about it? Now imagine that was heaven!"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!-hmft!" Leif screamed out loud but quickly covered his mouth by my hand.
"Are you crazy? don't yell," I sighed and told my agitated friends, "sorry but Timhortons is the best choice, Large icecaps with whipped cream and chocolate on top is the closes to coffee and ice cream we can get her!" they nodded mu buddies and I turned to face the girls, er... ponies, ah forget! "we found a plan girls!"
"we're going in town and get some treats! The bill's on us too!" Josh said with that stupid grin on is face while looking at the pink haired one.
They have no money you randumb, of course it's on us!
"let's get to the car then!" Leif turned around while rubbing his hand.
"You are not Driving my car!"
"damn it..."
***
So we got in the car, the three girls were seated in the back, Leif and Josh in the front and me "WHY DO I HAVE TO SIT IN THE TRUNK!?" stuck behind everyone....
"Because Josh was too cheap to buy the seven seat model, now shut up!" Leif was still mad he couldn't drive the car
"What is this contraption going to do?" Rarity was clueless of the whole car thing.
"it's like a chariot but it goes way faster," I commented from my makeshift seat "and I it's legal for me to be back there!" Josh is a good driver but sometimes he's a bit... show off... and he showed that
from what I could see in the mirror, a devilish smile grew on Blondie's face "It's their first car ride, and I'm going to do the same thing my dad did my first time!" He stepped gently on the accelerator and the motor growled, tell me he's not... it growled again, Oh shit... HE IS!!!! the car spewed sand as the tires rolled and made us depart at a speed that made us grab the seats and overhead bars, well, everyone except me; I was sent flying back onto the back door.
Everyone screamed but, Josh who was laughing at our pain.
***
"We're here!" Josh said a little too happily.
"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" I pinned him to the wall and told him, "YOU MIGHT DO AMERICAN FOOTBALL BUT I'M A BOXER AND I'M NOT SCARED TO BASH YOUR FACE IN!" I was more trying to impress the girls and take my revenge for those two punch he gave me than actually being mad at him. I punched the bricks wall next to his head angrily, he's my friend, I can't kill him! yet "Lucky for you, I don't use my techniques on chumps... and my friends" Blood was dripping from my hand, but I didn't really care. I patted Josh's shoulder and unpinned him. "Don't go pissing me off, please, I don't want to put someone in the hospital, again."
"poor Jude," Leif replied thinking of that guy who called my ex girlfriend a F****** C*** B**** W****. "Never saw your fist coming."
"Never saw him again either..." Josh didn't seem too mad.
I guess that's how man talks work?
"Let's get inside!" the pink haired one was becoming more and more impatient, so we got inside and took seats.
"Now, before we order you gals some food and drinks, could you tell us your names?"
"I am Rarity, but you already knew that."
"I'm Aloe, and the extremely grumpy one next to me is my twin sister Lotus"
"Give us food already!" (Guess who said that, and Leaf will give you a cookie)
"Good! I'm Leif, the guy who almost killed us is Josh, and the guy who almost killed the guy who tried to kills us is Alex" I waved after my friend finished introducing us.
I got up and said, 'I'll get Lotus a large icecap alldress with a nice veggie soup." little sounds of drips followed me as I walked to the cashier.
Dang blood!
***
After our little lunch we decided to go to the mall, the 'ponies' needed some real clothes
"OK! You girls need some more suitable clothes, and we aren't cheap! who wants to come with me!?" Leif took situation in hand again.
Wow, is it just me or is he taking charge more often than usual.
Aloe went with Leif, Lotus went with Josh, and Rarity got stuck with me.
Awesome!
They took their (partners) hand and went forwards.
forwards into target...
I shook my fist at them "CHEAPOS!!!" my friends went running in the target so they could lose me "grrr..........hksnlwsindDIEewodmwowipakzKILLibowinwdilnndSTRANGLEiowfjmletwh!!!" I mumble words to myself as I grabbed Rarity's arm, "Those guys are cheap! let's go to Reitmans instead!" I intensely regret that move...
***
At the end of the day
We went back to our beach house after a couple drinks at the bar which was in the mall. I was the designated driver 'cause, well, let's just say that I can't buy gas for my mustang this week or anything...
End of the day bill:
Josh: $284.35
Leif: $262.77
Alex: $779.99
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