Garfield Meets the Equestria Girls
Chapter 20: Telling the Truth
Previous Chapter Next ChapterAs they continued rushing, they are going to Rarity's alternate version of the Carousel Boutique, where the eight of them run towards a change room. As they go in through the curtain, the five girls look where Twilight, Garfield and the others went to.
"Everything ok, there?", Rarity asks.
"Yes!", Garfield said, to make his voice tone sound like Jon's.
"Only it's not okay. It's not okay at all. If I don't get my crown tonight, I won't be able to go back to Equestria for another thirty moons!", Twilight panics.
"Or worse: TWO AND A HALF YEARS!", Nermal also panics.
"And even worser: Without that, WE WON'T CONTROL THE OTHER MAGICAL ELEMENTS!", Jon panics, before calming down a few seconds after.
"What are we gonna do?", Twilight calms, putting her hands and hiding her face again.
"We tell them the truth. Let them know what's really at stake if you don't get the crown tonight. They'll help us figure something out, Twilight. Right, Odie?", sured Garfield.
Odie answers by barking.
"But what if they won't? What if when they find out just how different I really am, Garfield...?", Twilight wonders.
She turns around to see her sad reflection in the mirror, which dissolves to show her pony form.
"I know it's hard to be travelling through dimensions, but sometimes you have to be the best of both worlds.", Liz teaches.
"Nice Disney reference.", pointed out Arlene.
"Twilight, these girls rallied around you 'cause they saw what was in your heart.", confided Spike.
"In your heart, you have that and determination. Like Rainbow Dash told you earlier.", Nermal confides as well.
"They aren't gonna feel any differently about you when they find out you're a pony princess in Equestria.", Spike thought, coming to Twilight as her pony reflection on the mirror dissolves back into her human reflection.
"Just tell them the truth, so they can trust you. You have one chance to get your crown.", Garfield chooses.
"But did you do this more often?", Jon asks him.
"Sadly, no, because of my hobbies.", Garfield laments.
"I'm glad you followed us here, Spike.", admits Twilight. "You too, Garfield."
"Me three- unless, of course, we get stuck here for another thirty moons.", Spike adds.
"Or, which in case, two and a half years. It's time to stay out of hiding, and get ready for the inevitable. Let's go.", Jon corrects.
The eight come out of the change room, where they met with the five girls again.
"You guys okay?", Applejack asks.
"The Fall Formal isn't happening tonight.", Twilight and Jon announced.
"WHAT?!", Pinkie Pie screams.
"It had to be postponed because Sunset Shimmer had her stupid minions Snips and Snails ruin of all of Pinkie Pie's decorations!", Jon explains.
"WHAT?!", Pinkie Pie screams again.
"But the Fall Formal has to happen tonight.", Twilight needed.
"WHA-", Pinkie Pie, for the third time, screams but Applejack covers her mouth.
Twilight sighs and braces for the inevitable.
"You see...", Twilight began to tell the truth.
Pinkie Pie pulls Applejack's hand away from her mouth and explain her astronomical guess with a smile at the end:
"You and your friends named Garfield, Odie, Jon, Liz, Nermal and Arlene from an alternate world, and you're a pony princess there and the crown actually has a magical element embedded in it that helps power up other magical elements and without it they don't work anymore and you need them to protect your magical world, and if you don't get your crown tonight, you'll be stuck in this world and you won't be able to get back for, like, really, really, long time!"
This guess has jaw dropped Twilight, Spike and the six Garfield characters.
"Yeah, I'm pretty sure that isn't the reason.", guesses Rainbow Dash.
"Nope, she's pretty much spot on.", Spike corrected, revealing to them he can talk.
"It is the reason, actually.", revealed Garfield, also revealing that he can talk.
"They can talk?!", Rarity overreacts, finding out that Spike and Garfield can talk.
"Oh, yeah! And back where I come from, I'm not even a dog, I'm a ferocious fire-breathing dragon!", Spike answers Rarity's question.
"A small one. Anyway, I'll introduce myself again. I'm Garfield, This is Odie, Nermal and my girlfriend Arlene. My owner is Jon Arbuckle here, and also his girlfriend, Liz Wilson.", introduced Garfield.
"Can they talk too?", Rarity slowly asks the cat, awed.
"Yes, except Odie. But sometimes, I wish he can just talk to me soon.", answered Garfield again.
Fluttershy pushes Rarity and Pinkie Pie away to meet the pets.
"This is so amazing! Tell me, what are you thinking right now?", the eager Fluttershy asks excitingly.
Spike doesn't answer and reacts to this, but Garfield tells her that he's thinking of lasagna, Pooky and his bed, with the second one, whom he holds out. Fluttershy still smiles and stares at the pets in surprise.
Rarity's jaw drops to this.
"Sure would love a scratch behind the old ears.", requested Spike. But due to finding out that the pets can talk, she's speechless at this moment. "Uhh...maybe later."
"You see, I can do a variety of things. I can sing, dance, write, prance, cook, talk, play, walk, read, eat, sleep, beat, etcetera!", Garfield sings, dancing with Odie.
"He's my cat. We were famous for years.", Jon long-story shorted, as he picks Garfield and Odie up, with Nermal and Arlene picked up by Liz.
"How did you know all that?", Twilight asks Pinkie about her astronomical theory.
"Just a hunch.", replied Pinkie.
"You were listening outside the change room, weren't you?", Nermal questioned her. Pinkie Pie doesn't answer.
"Wait a minute! Let me get this straight: You're a pony?", Applejack quizzed.
"You're a princess?", Rarity quizzed.
"You guys are from another world?", Fluttershy quizzed too.
"For saying this truthfully, yes.", Garfield tells them for Twilight, who also nods yes.
"That...is...awesome!", Rainbow cheers.
The five girls come around Twilight and the six Garfield characters.
"They love us, Odie!", Garfield excites. Odie howls in celebration. "Let's clean up soon!"
"See? I told ya.", Spike proves to Twilight, as she is happy to be with her friends.