Harmony's Tests

Bo was the first to become aware of his surroundings. A light, presumably from the sun, disturbed his eyes and forced him to put his arm over his them in an attempt to block out the invasive light. It did the job nicely for the most part. His arm felt awkward to him and the light had already woken him up. There was no chance of falling back to sleep now. He slowly opened his eyes, letting them adjust to the light before opening them further.

Once open, he was staring into the sky. He just sat there for a couple of minutes before attempting to sit up. It was unusually difficult to do so and it took a couple of tries before he succeeded in doing so. Now in a sitting position, he noticed that there were bodies of various colors of fur lying around him. He started at them for a while before trying to stand and walk over to them. He fell flat on his face.

Wondering what the problem was, Bo looked at his legs to tell them to stand. Instead of seeing a pair of ripped pants, he saw dark green things instead. Naturally, Bo flipped out, kind of. Most people would yell some profanity and other gibberish. Bo didn't.

"Alright, who spiked the wine? God, is it Tuesday already?"

There was some moaning from the grey one. "Shut up Bo, it's too early."

It was a voice that Bo had heard only on occasion that never spoke more than a few words a day. "Olivia, is that you?"

There was some groaning that Bo took as a yes. "Open your eyes Olive, its psychedelic out."

He heard some yawning as another one sat up, this time it was an orange one with a bright red mane. "Why am I outside? God, is it Tuesday already?"

Bo recognized the voice as Liz's and said. "Liz, look around."

The thing that was now Liz looked back at him and screamed. The sudden noise made all of the figures shake and Bo to fall back down.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING!" Liz screamed.

"OH MY GOD, SHUT UP LIZ." A brown one with a blond mane shouted back. "It's too early for this shit."

The brown one had Marcus's voice. He looked up and over to Liz with a death glare, half expecting her to be freaking out over something small. He got something very different instead. "Wow, I guess that this exacerbates things a bit."

Sarah, the blue one with a brown mane, stared at the new Marcus. "You only use that word because you heard it from Shaun of the Dead."

"Now's not the time Sarah." Marcus deadpanned, meaning that Sarah was right.

The only ones who had yet to say anything about their predicament was Olivia and Scott. Olivia for obvious reasons, although distress was on her new face, hidden slightly behind a black mane. Scott was just staring forward, either contemplating what was happening or something much deeper. Most likely the former as he was never a deep thinker.

Like true friends, the three personalities of Marcus, Liz, and Sarah started to argue at each other. Olivia on the other hand was attempting to stand with a good degree of success and was starting to walk over to Scott. At least she presumed it was Scott, he was the only one left that didn't say anything this morning.

In an attempted to get him to talk, Olivia said. "Hey, what's going on."

Olivia's voice was dry and raspy from lack of use and it often cracked. It wasn't ever more audible than a loud whisper. The others had long learned that if Olivia was talking, then they better listen up. She was usually the one to finish an argument if it got too heated or resolve a conflict between people. Even the teachers had learned to regard her words as pure truth when it came to an answer. It was enough to shut up the arguing between the three.

It didn't look like Scott was going to answer her question. After a pregnant pause, he said two words that rattled in the minds of all those around him. "We're ponies."

"Come again?" Marcus asked.

"We're ponies. From a TV show."

Marcus narrowed his eyes. "How do you know that?"

Scott's eyes never stopped staring off into the middle of nowhere. "I'm a brony. I never told any of you this and it doesn't matter right now, but we are in the world of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic."

There was a couple seconds of silence before Marcus started to laugh. "Let me get this straight. Your one of the people who watch that gay show and jack off to them?"

Scott nodded and Marcus laughed even harder. This was getting on everyone else's nerves and it was just getting worse.

Sarah got tired of this. "Hey piss off. So what if he likes a girl's TV show. So what if he is attracted to them. We need to focus right now Marcus and pull together, not apart. Right now, Scott's the only one who knows what's going on right now. We need to work together to try to get out of this mess."

Marcus for his part took this yelling with a straight face. The glare on everyone else's faces, at least he thought they were glares, forced him to look down. "Fine, I'm sorry bro."

Sarah nodded in approval. "That's better. Now then," She turned to face Scott. " I know this must be a little much. I understand that, but can you help us with what's going on right now?"

"Yeah, but the first thing is to find out how to walk." Scott said, before he attempted to stand on his own.

It took a few tries, but after a couple of minutes, they were all on their hooves. It took an even longer period of time for the group, save Olivia who was already practicing to begin with, to figure out a way to walk. It was slow and arduous, but they managed to get a decent speed even if it looked extremely awkward.

"Okay," Scott said. "That's pretty good for now. The next thing is that you might have noticed some differences between us. Like how Marcus and Liz have wings, or how me and Olivia have a horn. That's because there are three different basic types of ponies. Pegasus ponies have wings, can fly and manipulate weather, and walk on clouds. Unicorns can do magic. Earth ponies don't have wings or horns, but are naturally physically stronger than the other two species."

Olivia asked her second question of the day, a personal record. "What about the local history and everything else that you know?"

Scott scratched his chin. "That's a really good question and has a really long answer, so I'll give you the abridged version..."