Forgotten People

Chapter 2 – Questions

“How…how are you here?” Twilight stuttered in disbelief, “You’re extinct!” Alec rolled his eyes.

“Well, I’m here aren’t I? And frankly, I’m wondering how I got here myself.” He replied in a dull tone. There was an awkward silence for two minutes as the three animals stood and stared at one another. Twilight was especially interested in his appearance, how he stood up on two legs instead of four, and other features as well, such as smaller ears and eyes but taller height and more muscle.

Alec on the other hand was more interested in Rainbow Dash than Twilight. He had heard of Pegasus Ponies in Greek Mythology, but had never seen one up close. Her rainbow mane and tail was most confusing to him.

“Aren’t you amaze we can talk?” the cyan Pegasus asked. Alec shrugged.

“Not really.” The human replied. The silence continued for a few more minutes. Suddenly the human spoke again.

“Hey, um…” The human started, “What’s your name?”

“Rainbow Dash, why?” The cyan Pegasus responded. She smirked slightly as this was her first contact with a human, and found it exciting.

“I was just wondering. Anyway, how did you get your mane to be a Rainbow Colour? Were you born with it, or do you dye it?” Rainbow’s face suddenly went from a smirk to red with anger.

“HEY! I don’t use dye!” She screamed at him with fury, making Alec jump a little. Dash’s red face turned to sorrow.

“I’m sorry Alec, it’s just…my hair looks like this because of a tradition with my family. They took me up to Rainbow Falls and they placed my hair in the water, and now it’s a permanent rainbow colour. The water only dyes the hair of a Pegasus though, not unicorns or earth ponies. I used to be a blonde pony.” Alec pondered this thought for a second.

“Okay, I just didn’t know. I just wanted to say it looks nice.” Dash blushed red. Alec turned to the charred-up body lying on the ground. He walked up to it and started shaking it awake.

“Hamish! You can get up now.” He said loudly. Like Alec had done, the second human began to stir. It groaned in fatigue as it picked itself off the smoking black bit of ground. When he was at full height, the two ponies noticed some differences between the two humans. Hamish was about 10cm taller than Alec, had more muscle on his arms, and wore glasses too. Unlike Alec’s short blonde hair and blue eyes, Hamish had short-curly brown hair and brown eyes.

“Huh?” he started, “Alec? Where are we?” he asked in confusion, his vision still blurred. He could only make out two horse figures and a human’s body. Everything else was rather a daze.

“I don’t know, but I can see a load of ponies in a nearby town. Wait…ponies? Nearby town?” The last part of his sentence was whispered so the two equines couldn’t hear him. He proceeded to pull Hamish’s ear down to his head.

“Listen Hamish, we are in Ponyville, we both know what that is, don’t we?” Hamish nodded. “We can’t let anyone know that in our world, their life is a TV show. It could create a pardox.”

“Alec, I don’t watch Sci-Fi like you. What’s a paradox?” Alec rolled his eyes at his friend’s slight stupidity.

“A paradox is a blunder in space and time. It’s like going back in time and meeting your past self; that was never meant to happen, so it creates a rip in reality that could kill us all.” Hamish tilted his head to the side in confusion.

“Ugh…ok,” Alec started again, “If you tell them they’re in a TV show, we all die. SIMPLE ENOUGH FOR YOU?!” he shouted in a quiet tone.

“Oh! Now I get you!” Hamish said. He turned to the two ponies, remembering to forget their identities. He walked up to them to get a better look.

“So, who are you two?” he lied. He knew who they were.

“I’m Twilight Sparkle and this is Rainbow Dash. I live in Ponyville, the town over there, and Rainbow Dash lives in Cloudsdale, the city in the sky.” The Unicorn spoke. Both of the humans groaned in their brains, they’d heard this speech hundreds of times. “How did you get here?” she asked.

“Um…we’re not the ones who opened up a portal to our universe,” Hamish pointed at the antennae which had made the hole. “So really, I should be asking you that question, why did you bring us here?” he said. Hamish had had an act of being aggressive at times back in the human’s universe, and this was one of those times about to start.

“Well, let me explain the story. As Rainbow Dash here was doing one of her weather jobs, she spotted that old ruins right there in the sky, and came to me to tell me about it. As it so turns out, your species once inhabited Equestria before ponies came here, in which your species died out. We found a ‘Summoning Machine’ under a load of moss on the back of it, and I activated it and it brought you here.”

“Being a bit skimpy on the detail on the last part of that story, but I’ll accept it.” Alec stated. He knew Twilight wasn’t saying something about this, but he accepted her story all the same. “Plus, you really brought us here on a bad time, we were just about to start our GCSE Years in our world.”

“What’s a GCSE?” Rainbow and Twilight asked in unison. More explaining to do.

“A GCSE stands for ‘Grading Certificate in Secondary Education’. We were just about to start our exams and then, this blue portal suddenly ripped into the open air and sucked us in!” Twilight suddenly felt guilty for bringing the humans here at a bad time.

“Can you show us around Ponyville?” Hamish asked curiously. He wanted to see more of the village, as did Alec.

“Well…okay, but people may stare and point at you. Your species hasn’t been encountered here for almost 2,000 years and ponies around here aren’t used to meeting a new species without notice.” The two humans nodded and began to follow them. Just as they were about to go, Hamish noticed what looked like a plaque, only green and had most of the moss covering it.

“Alec, take a look at this!” he yelled to them. Alec turned around and walked to what Hamish was pointing at. It was written in a language Hamish couldn’t understand, but Alec could.

“This is written in Latin, the ancient’s language.” Alec said, the other two ponies listening carefully. “I learn it at school in our universe, so I may be able to decipher it.” He looked carefully at it and began to translate it. The plaque read:

‘Hoc monumentum est dedicatat ad eos qui participatum in Magnus Olympia. Possunt recordaremur.’

“Hmm…let’s see, it reads, ‘This monument is dedicated to those who participated in the Great Olympics. They will be remembered.’ The two equines were impressed with his language arts.

“The Olympics? We have those in our universe every four years.” Hamish commented. “The next one is in 2016 in Rio.” The two ponies had no idea what a ‘Rio’ was, but they did live in a different universe to them.

“Anyway, let’s show you two around then!” Rainbow Dash said. The two humans once again began following them, still wondering how the Olympics could exist in a different universe to theirs…