Life's Discoveries

Chapter Three: Telling the World

Twilight asked what this had to do with TV shows.

I said “Well, this is basically what a TV show is. Moving pictures, but they are supposed to be entertaining. Like a play.”

I pointed to the black screen behind me and explained what a TV was. I turned on the TV.

"Wait... this won't wo-"

Somehow, it came up. How? How could I access any Earth satellites from here? I found the first episode of MLP: FiM from the recordings and played it, explaining that they didn’t use cameras here, but drew every picture using a machine to help since our worlds looked different. So we watched. No one said anything. I had them watch the second episode too, since it wouldn't make much sense to not.

I think I was putting too much on them. I mean, finding out you’re a celebrity with a few million fans without even knowing anything at first must be hard. I told them that there were 2 “seasons” of their show, and that there were about 45 episodes of it. Twilight said that the show was exactly what had happened. It was just a little more detailed in the actual happenings of the events.

Rarity asked “But… How?”

I said I didn’t know. I told them a woman named Lauren Faust had come up with the idea to do it. By that time, it was 7:30. I told them that I would explain more tomorrow. Even Pinkie looked a little overwhelmed when she left.

I wondered what I would do, in this new world. I had a huge amount of food, since my family was big. We had prepared for a disaster, so I had even more food in a cold storage area downstairs. This was meant to last around a month for our entire family of 7.

Then I wondered. If the house disappeared on Earth, what were they gonna do? I realized, they probably thought I was dead. I got my phone back out quickly and saw that I somehow had service. Guess it was like the satellite signal. I called my mom’s cell phone. It rang. Someone picked up.

I heard a sniffling voice that said “Hello?”

I said “Mom, it’s me.”

She screamed “HE’S ALIVE, OH MY GOD HONEY, HE’S ALIVE!!!  WHERE ARE YOU ROBERT?!?!”

I asked her to please be quieter.

I then said “Mom, I’m in Equestria. I’m fine, the house is fine, and the dogs are fine. We’re safe.”

She gave a sigh of relief, then asked in a confused voice “Wait, where’s Equestria?”

I thought she might ask that.

“Mom, Equestria is a country…”

Before I was finished she said “Oh, we’ll figure out how to get you back, the police are figuring it out. They’re listening right now.”

I then finished with “on another planet. I think. It might be another universe. I dunno really.”

I think she fainted.

After some questioning with the police, and telling them about the ponies, they of course didn't believe me. I said I could prove it, and sent the video of them all saying hi. I explained to them that I was explaining to the ponies what a video was. They had an expert examine it and he told them it was one of the most obviously fake videos he had ever seen. Not very helpful. I don't know what they thought was going on, but I told my mom I would use my computer and get on Skype, since I have a webcam.

After another 5 minutes, we were talking to each other on Skype. She was overwhelmed with joy, from me being alive and all. I realized at that moment, that I would have to go back. Somehow. I just couldn’t abandon my family and the rest of the world to frolic with a bunch of cartoon ponies. While it definitely sounded nice, I knew my family would have a tough time without me. And the house and dogs too. Plus, the ponies were technically aliens to us, and I was quite sure they wouldn’t start a war with us, as all the horror films depicted. So that would be interesting, Earth finally contacting another life form from another world. Especially friendly ones. That reminded me of what else I had to tell the ponies. I really, REALLY hate being the bringer of bad news, but I wouldn't dare leave them uninformed. I sighed, knowing that if they were gonna see my world for real, I should probably tell them everything about it.

So, after I finished assuring and reassuring my family and close friends that I was perfectly safe and fine, I was talking to the police again. They had contacted some officials. Apparently some other people doubted the expert and they were researching the show.

To help them out, I went outside, taking my mom’s Canon camera. I took a few photos of the land, since it was all animated. Then I took a picture of the house against the land. Another one of the grass in-between the “real” grass and the animated grass. I decided I would go to Ponyville again tomorrow and take a few pictures of the town. I took a video of me walking outside, just so they could see it from my perspective, and then went inside. It had been a really odd day, so I thought I was going to go to bed, but before I did, I checked what was going on in the world.

I checked on the news, and apparently they let the story go. My picture was everywhere. Apparently my mom told them that I did watch the show and occasionally called myself a “brony” when she wasn’t looking. She also gave away my YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and various other account names away. I now went from a few subs on YouTube, to a few thousand. On Facebook, I had a huge amount of friend requests, and on Twitter there were thousands of people following me. I sighed, knowing I should probably say something. After all, the police didn’t say anything about putting those pictures up early… So, I did.

Instantly, after I refreshed my page a minute after the 20 second video of me walking outside was uploaded, it already had 300 likes. I sighed, sent an email asking my mom why she had to do that and told her to look at my accounts. I went to bed.

I woke up the next morning at 8:30, to hear someone pounding at my door. I opened it, to find Rainbow Dash. I asked her what she was doing here.

She said in a doubting voice, “I still don’t trust you. If you hurt any of my friends in any way, you will regret it.”

I sighed once more, and told her to follow me. I showed her the pages of people who had been begging for something from me. She looked at them, but didn’t seem convinced. I went to the YouTube video of me walking outside, and showed her it, and then showed her all the comments and likes on it so far. I decided to do one last thing to convince her. I got my recording software up, and the camera, and started recording on both.

I typed in “Hey guys, Rainbow Dash is sitting right next to me. She doesn’t seem convinced that I’m not gonna hurt her or any of her friends. So I need you all to say something convincing. I’ll post a video of her reaction soon. GO!” I commented, and then turned on “Update Automatically” on the comments, and about 20 seconds later, they started showing up.

I picked up the camera, looking back and forth from her to the comments, and after about a minute and about 400 comments later, I asked for people to keep checking in. I stopped recording. She seemed flabbergasted. She kept watching it, and after 600 comments, she was convinced. So, I plugged the camera's SD card into the computer, and edited them both into 1 video. I uploaded it, and about 15 minutes later, after the video uploaded, I looked at Yahoo, and pretty much half the stories were about me. I realized that I was a celebrity now.

I looked on Twitter, and Tara Strong, Notch, The Discovery Channel, Mythbusters crew, (Horrifyingly) Justin Bieber, and a whole bunch of other famous people were following me. I couldn’t believe it. I answered some of their questions. The first one was from Tara.

She asked “I’m assuming you’ve met them, so did Twilight sound just like my voice for her?!?!”

I answered with a simple yes.

Discovery Channel asked how I got there.

I answered with “Dunno. I felt like I was sick, so I sat down and fell asleep. Next thing I knew, I was here.”

The rest of them were like that. So after another half hour of doing this, with Dash watching and listening as I was explaining who they were.  I said I had to go, and left.

I took the camera, my mom’s laptop, and my tablet in my backpack. I started walking with Dash, answering a few more questions about my world. She seemed much more comfortable around me now, seeing that I wasn't out to harm them.

I asked in a nervous voice “Have there been any disappearings here recently? Any mysterious murders?”

She said “What? No! Why do YOU want to know?” in a tense voice once again.

Thank God. No Cupcakes here. So, nothing other than canon. I started to once again wonder how the producers did it. You know, finding out about this world. Or, at least, copying it down to the last detail. It was exactly like the show.

“That’s mostly good.” I thought to myself.

I also asked if she knew a stallion with a light brown coat, dark brown sort of messed up mane, with an hourglass as a cutie mark.

She said “Yep. He called himself 'The Doctor' when he first came here, then started calling himself 'Doctor Whooves'."

“HA!” I yelled.

So he was real. Running back to my house, I got the 10th Doctors Sonic Screwdriver model I had gotten for Christmas, put it in my backpack, and ran to meet up with Dash.

"Now I get to meet The Doctor too? Sweet. So, if the show is his universe, then are mine and this one alternate? Is there a main universe? How will he react when I tell him?" I questioned myself, until Rainbow interrupted.

"Come on!"

"Wha... What? Oh... Sorry Dash, just thinking." I responded in confusion.

"Well, you've been 'thinking' for forever!

She sighed, and then said "Come on, let's get going again."

We went towards Fluttershy’s cottage on the way. Dash talked to her and explained that I needed pictures for the leader of my country to show the rest of my world. And since it showed Fluttershy’s house in later episodes, they could compare it. So I took around 10 pictures, took a picture of all 3 of us, and recorded a video of them actually talking. I sat down behind them just so they could have a comparison. I asked Fluttershy if she would come, and thankfully she said yes.

So we got to Ponyville, and they distracted everyone while I snuck off to Pinkie’s house. Well, she seemed back to normal after yesterday.

“*GASP* OHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSH ROBBIE I JUST REALIZED YOU’RE NEW AND I NEED TO DO SOMETHING AND I’LL BE RIGHT BA-“

I caught her by the tail right as she was about to run back in and asked her before she goes and does this 'something' (Which I had a pretty good suspicion of what it was) that I needed her to come with me.

She said “Oh, alright, anything for a friend.” I smiled. One of them had called me their friend. I was just overwhelmed again. This was all real. All of it.