This here is the story of a person.
A person that is of the young male gender.
A young male whose true alias shall not be disclosed.
A young male that watches My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
I am this young boy.
“You @#$%-ing noob! Get off the server!” I yelled in futility at the computer screen. There I was, a Pyro, burning through everyone else’s business, when I get back-stabbed by a Spy who has only had a Steam for 2 weeks.
“Calm yourself. They want you to hate them. Don’t. It will only make you weaker.” My friend, Joy Stick (I don’t know his real name, so I call him by his Pony OC name) said in a mock philosophical voice.
These freaking Christmas noobs. They will burn.
I respawned.
I proceeded into a killing spree, spraying a Hellish element that was the flame of my flamethrower. Joy Stick was behind me, using his Medi-Gun to make me invincible. I heard him through the speaker, singing something off-key from Weird Al, while we incinerated everyone. It was a good game indeed in the world of Team Fortress 2.
I stopped healing.
Aw crap.
Joy Stick was back-stabbed by the same noob Spy from earlier. “Avenge me!” he said before he signed off.
And so I shall.
Meanwhile.
In a dimension that is not the one you are reading from.
Pinkie Pie was bouncing happily as if her legs had springs within them. She had no work at Sugarcube Corner today, and decided to go for a walk… bounce. Pinkie decided she would go help Twilight and Spike with the library. Waving and greeting everypony all the while.
“Hi Rosy!” Pinkie greeted.
“Morning, Pinkie.” Roseluck greeted back.
“Howdy, Scratchy!”
“Yo! ‘Sup Pinks.” Vinyl Scratch replied.
“Hey, Joy Stick!”
The large, black, (and handsome) Pegasus simply waved as he was looking for a job throughout the Ponyville market.
Pinkie continued bouncing throughout Ponyville. That is until she heard a quiet weeping from beside a tree in the park she was bouncing by. The fore mentioned weeping was being enacted by Lyra Heartstrings. Pinkie Pie bounced towards the crying mare, bent on making her smile.
“Hi, Lyra!” Pinkie greeted. “Why are you all saddie waddie today?”
Lyra looked up to the pink mare. “Bob-bon said I love finding and researching Humans more than I love her!” she manages whilst sobbing. “We got in to a fight and she broke up with me!”
Everypony in the park stopped and looked to Lyra in shock.
Bon-bon and Lyra were 2 peas in a pod or some other cliché metaphor similar to that. The fact that they have been dating for 2 ½ years made it even worse.
Pinkie’s smile wasn’t phased at all. She knew just how to fix this…
Wow, the past 3 days have been weird.
First, Pinkie breaks the 4th wall right while I was in the middle of a video game. Then, I am lucky enough to get my whole room sucked through a vortex to Ponyville. Fantastic. At least now I can use it as a house.
And why is it always Ponyville? All of the fics I’ve read said a brony and/or pegasister gets teleported to Equestria by some unexplained means. It’s just so stupid. It’s not as if every Time/Space dimensional portal leads to Ponyville. I would’ve at the very least expected to have transported to Manehatten or Las Pegasus or possibly Canterlot.
But, anyway, I’m getting off track.
At first, I flipped out. In the negative way. I swore I had gone insane, as many of my non-brony friends had told me. I stayed in my room/house thingy, cradling myself in the fetal position. Similar to my friend, Joy Stick on the internet, would do if he got his Internet privileges taken away by his parents (he has an unhealthy addiction you see). Would I ever see my family or friends again? Will I ever return to Earth? Would you answer my questions? Probably not.
So today is my third day in Equestria. I have already met the rest of the Mane Six (all of which I befriended quickly), a few background ponies (I befriend Ditzy, who insisted I call her Derpy for some reason), and somehow Joy Stick’s OC… Joy Stick, as well as his siblings, High Score and Sunset Gleam, I became friends with too.
Oh, yeah, and I'm a pony now. Cliché, I know.
I have become my OC, Storming Shadow. How convenient. I am an Earth pony, with a grey coat, and yellow mane and tail, and a Lightning bolt hitting a SNES controller as a cutie mark, representing my talent for something videogame related I guess.
You guys might think it would be cool to get turned into a pony and living in Ponyville, and trust me, it is. But, as cool as it is, having no fingers is hard to get used to. I can’t even play a DS properly now, or my Xbox, not my PC either. Now I have to save up my mon-, sorry, 'bits', for pony-modified versions. Also need to save up for WI-FI.
I hear my door open. "Hi, Storm!" greeted Pinkie Pie, walking through my door.
"Hey, Pinkie." I said, as I rummaged through my room trying to find anything I could use with hooves.
"I just wanted to drop by to see how you were doing."
"I'm doing pretty good, actually. Given the situation.” I said. “I still feel bad, though. You broke the Fourth Wall, to get a Human for Lyr- oh! A Yo-yo.” I say absently as I fit it onto my hoof. “…To get a Human for Lyra so she can patch things up with Bob-bon. Unfortunately, I came through as an Earth pony.” I continue and finish.
“I also came about that.” Pinkie smiles, “I talked Bon-bon into giving Lyra a second chance.” She says, clapping her hooves.
“Well, that’s great news.” I reply with a smile.
I look to the yo-yo on my hoof. Not much, but it was good enough for now. I tied the string up and let the yo-yo rest on my hoof. I tried dropping it and bringing it back up. I could do it. I put it on the floor, the string coming loose. I then realized that I probably couldn't make the string go back around.
"Oooo! A yo-yo. Can I try it?"said Pinkie, interested.
"I might actually have a spare one you can keep." I said, rummaging through my drawers to find a spare one. I found a simple blue and white one, and gave it to pinkie.
"Coooool, thanks!"
"No problem." I replied. Pinkie put the string around her hoof, and then rested it on her hoof, she dropped it, and then with a flick of her hoof, brought it back up.
"How do you do this without magic?" Pinkie asked.
"Gravity.”
She looked at me blankly. And then she just nodded repeatedly.
“Okay. Well I just wanted to check on you. Bye!” she said.
“Good bye.” I told her, when I remembered something.
“Oh, Pinkie?” I asked.
She turned around towards me. “Yeah?”
“Can we… Can you not tell anyone about me being…” Pinkie interrupted me.
“I won’t tell anypony where you are from. Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye.” She chants.
Without another word, she left my room/house thingy.
It was now about 5 PM.
I have had a long day. Time for a long sleep.
I woke up from my uncomfortable sleep, finding it hard with this new body.
Today was my first day of going out and about around Ponyville. I looked to my clock and it read “10 AM”. I sleepily grabbed for my TV remote and turned it on. It worked, and there were a lot of channels here in Equestria. I had no idea what was going on currently so I switched to the Equestrian News. Goodness, what clever names.
Apparently, it’s been 2 months since the Royal Wedding with Shining Armor and Cadence.
So all of things that happened in season 3 have yet to happen. I don’t think I’ll tell anypony though. Don’t want to cause some kind of paradox now, do we? I kept on surfing through the channels and found the pony History Channel. I thought I might have a look at this, to find out some more about Equestrian history. It may be vital later on, so I don’t blow my cover.
I laid back in my bed relaxed and watched, sitting Lyra style. After watching that half hour, slightly boring commentary on the life and achievements of Commander Hurricane before his attempt to claim Equestria from Princess Platinum and Count Pudding Head, I got up and went to get dressed. I then face hoofed when I remembered that ponies don't usually wear clothes, so I just grabbed a saddlebag that Pinkie got from Rarity, and she gave to me. I got up and trotted to the door.
My face was introduced to the rays of Celestia’s sun. I trotted through the streets of Ponyville, trying to find a food source. Darn, no meat will be available for the rest of Forever.
As I walked through the market, I only saw carrots, cucumbers, other various vegetables and fruit. They had bread, but no butter. They had bread, but no cheese. And everyone knows cheese is the best thing to put on sandwiches. I stopped and a stall, and bought a bottle of water, and took a sip from it. It was a pretty hot day today, and the sun was beating down. As I walked through the stalls, I decided that I'd have to get used to eating pony food, or else I'd starve to death, or just go way to hyper from eating too many cupcakes. I decided that I'd have to do this eventually, so I got it out of the way: I bought bread and flowers, and headed to the park.
The park had a few lunch benches and I sat pony style, instead of Lyra/Human style.
I knew I had to do it sometime, so I made 2 flower sandwiches. I stared at them. I knew I had to do it sometime. I looked at the petals, and then at the bread. I slowly moved it towards my mouth and gagged a little, imagining on how horrible it might taste. I take a bite…
"Tastes like pineapple..." I said to myself after the first bite. Luckily, I like pineapple, and continue eating my sandwich.
By the time I was finished with the first sandwich, I saw Joy Stick walking towards my bench.
“Hey, Storm! How goes it?” he greets as he sits down across from me and opens his lunch box, using his wings as arms. Clever colt.
“So far, so good. Ponyville is treating me better than Baltimare” I say to him, using my cover. We became close friends quick, seeing as we are both new in town. Joy Stick has been here for 5 days, and I have been here 3 ½ days.
“Good to hear. Manehatten didn’t treat me very well either.” He tells me, pulling out a few carrots and his homemade chocolate milk with tobacco. (Yeah, I made the same face)
We conversed for a about 10 minutes or so, until he had to leave.
“Well, I gotta get back to the Weather team. Rainbow will have my cutie mark hung up on a mantle if I’m late.” He chuckled. “Catch yah later, Storm.” He said as he packed up and flew off.
After my lunch break with the odd stallion I know as a friend, I decided to walk through the quiet, little town.
As I walked around the town, I thought I might as well go look at some of its landmarks and popular stores. Luckily, the first place I came across was Sugarcube corner.
I went inside, and a bell rang. Pinkie Pie was running the counter and there was barely anyo- anypony in line; just Pokey Pierce and a sober Berry Punch. I trotted to the back, right when Pokey got a bag of cookies from Pinkie and trotted out of the store. I was at the front in about a minute.
"Hi, Storm!" exclaimed Pinkie Pie, happily.
"Hey, Pinkie." I replied, returning the smile.
"What can I getchya?”
"Just a chocolate-chip muffin." I said, getting some bits out of my saddlebag and putting them onto the counter.
"Oh, you don't have to pay! I'm your friend now! And, it's your first try of something from my store anyway! First one’s free!" Pinkie explains.
"Okay then, if you insist." I said, putting the bits back in my saddlebag. Pinkie then hoofed me the muffin.
"Come on, try it! It'll taste delicious!" she encouraged.
Without hesitation, I took a bite out of the muffin. And as expected… It was the most delicious muffin I had ever tasted.
"…” I ‘said’ speechless.
"Ikew you’d like it!" said Pinkie.
"Best muffin I've ever tasted.” I managed
"A lot of people say that!" the mare pointed out. “Oh yeah, I still need to throw you a Welcome-To-Poyville-Party!”
"Oh yeah, you throw a party everytime somepony comes to Ponyville." I replied chuckling.
"If it's OK with you, we can have it in... 3 days. They usually come out quicker, but Joy Stick and his family used up a lot of my supplies.” Pinkie explained.
"Not a problem, I'm looking forward to it. I better get going now." I told her.
"Okie dokie loki! I'll see you soon!" Pinkie said, waving her hoof.
"Good bye!" I wave, as I trotted out the door.
***
As I walked around Ponyville, thinking about what to do next, I decided that I could go to Golden Oaks Library and get some books from Twilight. I need to figure out Equestrian culture and possibly a way back to the war-torn hellhole I called home.
I could see the leaves of the Library/Tree house from where I was there. As I walked there, I began to think.
Will I ever get back to Earth? Has this happened to any other bronies? How good are Applejacks apple’s? I'll have to go find her selling some at her stall after…
After my little thought thingamajig, I arrived at the library and knocked on the door.
"Oh, good afternoon, Storm." She greeted with a smile.
"Hello." I replied.
"Was there anything you needed? Books, video rentals?..." the lavender unicorn offered’
"Just came to check out some books.” I tell her.
"Absolutely, come on in!"Twilight said, moving out of the way, allowing me to come in.
The house was MUCH bigger on the inside. Like the TARDIS.
There was a giant selection of books. I had a look around the 'History' Section, and picked up a book called 'The Complete Guide to Equestrian history: From Discord’s Reign to Nightmare Moon’s Return.' Twilight had a fiction section as well, and by looking through there, I found out that some (ponified) books from back on Earth
"Is it okay if I take these for a while, Twilight?" I said, showing her the books.
"It's fine, just bring them back in around 2 weeks, okay?" Twilight agreed.
"Sure thing." I said. "Well, I'd best be going now. I'll see you around soon. Bye!"
"Bye!" Twilight replied, as I left the library. I wonder where Spike is…
Now, there was one last thing to do before I went home.
I must try those apples.
I just gotta go back to the market.
***
"Good evening, Applejack." I greeted, walking up to the stand.
"Oh howdy, Stormin’." She tipped her hat. "What can ah do yah fer tonaht?"
" ‘Just came by to pick up some groceries.” I said. “Can I buy 6 apples?”
"You've never tried mah apples yet, have ya?"
"I plan to." I say.
"Well then, I'll let Ya'll have 1 fer free." Said
Applejack, handing me a apple.
"Thanks."I said, taking the apple from her hooves. I then took a bite out of it.
Oh, Faust…
"These are so delicious!" I exclaimed in ecstasy. "I'll take 5 more, and some cider, too please. None alcoholic."
"Sure thing, pardner." She said, grabbing 5 apples in her hooves and putting them in a small stack, and pouring me a bottle of cider. "That’ll be 7 bits." I hooved her the bits, and she gave me the apples and the jug of cider.
"Thanks."I said, putting the apples in my saddlebag and taking a sip of the cider. It tasted nearly exactly like the apples, maybe even better. I drank it all in a couple of gulps.
"That was so nice."I said.
"It is pretty nice."She replied.
"Thanks."I said. "I best be going now though, I'll see you around soon. Bye." I said
"See ya!" said Applejack, as I trotted off towards my house. Today was a good day. Free samples, some books, I arrived at my house. I went inside put my new supplies in a fridge that Pinkie pulled out of no-where. It was getting late, and I hadn't had dinner yet, So I ate another Flower sandwich. Still tasted like pineapple. After that, I just relaxed in my bed. I turned on the TV, and flicked through the channels, but there was nothing on. I decided I'd try to use my X-box controller. I Put it down in front of me, and carefully held the power button. It worked! The X-box powered up. I thought that I could find my friends on X-Box LIVE, and tell them what is going on. They probably won't believe me, but I have my computer and I can get proof on that and- 'Could not connect to X-Box LIVE 'flashed up on the TV.
Oh, yeah, I don't have internet anymore. I sighed, and turned it off. I could barely play it with hooves anyway. I just decided to read the books I borrowed, while my Ipod played music in the background. After about an hour of this, I started getting tired, and slowly fell to sleep, with a few thoughts. Will I adapt to these new settings? How good will Pinkies party be? Will I be a Element of Harmony? Likely not. But after these thoughts kept rushing through my head for a long time, I just fell asleep, with my first proper day in Ponyville complete.
