My Little Pony: Will Of Fire

The Fire Element Alicorn

Chapter 15

Tuned In

Watching TV was one of Flareon's favorite things to do back when he was a human. Usually the only thing he does now is either read books, learn new spells, or create new potions. Flareon missed watching TV a lot, so after some thought, he decided it was about time that Equestria learned the amazing greatness of television. It all began one morning in Ponyville. After he woke up, Flareon quickly went downstairs into the garage and began to invent a device that would allow him to watch TV. "There is really nothing to do around here. Reading books is fine and all, but this world needs TV...bad. I'm sure everyone is going to love it!' Little did Flareon know, he was going to regret being right about that. A couple of hours later, after much tinkering and failed attempts, Flareon had finally invented a device that would allow him to receive radio waves from the human world. Even though it was simply a thin, small, rectangular box, the inside of it contained the most advanced technology in all of Equestria. "Ok...so now I need to make a TV. It shouldn't be too hard." After Flareon built a small, normal, box TV, he attached the device to the left side of it, and plugged the cord into the electrical outlet on the wall. What happened next resulted in Flareon yelling, "It works!" so loud that Twilight and Spike rushed into the garage to see what was wrong. "Flareon!" Twilight yelled, "Are you ok?!" Flareon quickly turned around while smiling and said, "I did it." Spike scratched his head in confusion and replied, "What are you talking about?" Flareon slowly moved a couple of steps to his right and said, "I bring you...television!" Twilight and Spike quickly ran up close to the TV and starred at it for a couple of minutes. They were absolutely speechless as they had never seen anything like this before. It was almost like looking through a window to another world as there was humans in it that were moving around and preforming tricks. Suddenly, the TV turned off and the screen went black. Twilight turned to Flareon and said, "What happened...what did the TV stop playing?" "Right now, that IEWR on the left side of the TV is only a prototype. It only has enough power to last three hours and then it has to wait one day for it to recharge. I'm trying to make a IEWR that has an unlimited charge that will last forever," he replied. Right away, Flareon could tell that Twilight and Spike didn't know what he was talking about. "IEWR?" Spike asked, "You sure that's spelled correctly?" "IEWR is just a shortened abbreviation. The full name is Interdimensional Electromagnetic Waves Receiver, Flareon replied, "It is able to receive radio waves from the human world and transmit them here. Don't ask how though, it will probably take me longer to explain than it did to actually make one. Right now, after I finish perfecting the IEWR, I'm going to start building about a hundred TVs and IEWRs each and give them to everyone." After Twilight and Spike left the garage, Flareon went back to work.

A little over a week later, Flareon had finally finished building 100 TVs and IEWRs. Soon after, he asked Twilight and his friends to help him showcase them in the town square. As a huge crowd began to form around them, Flareon decided it was time to start the show. "Fillies and colts, mares and stallions, step right up...step right up. You're chosen one Flareon has made the most amazing, fantastic, unbelievable, awesome thing you will ever see, and I'm selling it to you for nothing at all. It's 100% free! Have you ever felt bored, tired, and empty? Wishing you had something fun to do? Well look no further, I'm proud to present...television!" He then signaled to Twilight and Rarity to take the covers off five TVs. Soon after, each TV was shown playing a different show. Immediately, the crowd was excited with joy and in no time at all, every single TV was gone in a flash. After everyone congratulated Flareon on the success of his TVs, they all went back home to watch theirs. As Flareon watched everyone leave he said to himself, "You did good Flareon...you did good. This world needed TV and I gave it to them. This is absolutely my best idea ever!" As Flareon flew back home, he was still basking in the glory of his new achievement. The world of Equestria had obtained television and the future was looking bright. What could go wrong? Little did Flareon know, he had sent Equestria down the path to destruction.

The first sign began when Flareon put up the UIEWR, or Ultra Interdimensional Electromagnetic Waves Receiver, near Golden Oak Library. The UIEWR was a giant radio tower that obtained radio waves from the human world and transmitted them to every single IEWR in Equestria. After he was done putting on the last touches on the UIEWR, Flareon said to himself, "Alright...that should do it. Now every single TV in Equestria will be able to the radio waves from the human world." He then started walking back into their house. As Flareon was walking upstairs, he said to himself, "I'm going to take Twilight out to dinner tonight." Unfortunately, she was a little too preoccupied at the moment. "Hey Twilight want to go out eat tonight? Twilight?" She was lying on her bed, staring at her TV. "What are you watching?" he asked. Twilight finally responded, though she wasn't able to look at him. "Something about this boy who found out he was a wizard and got invited to this school where everyone is witch and wizard. This is the best show ever!" "So...want to go out tonight?" Flareon asked again, but this time, Twilight didn't say anything. Soon after, he decided to ask Spike if he wanted to do anything, but Spike was acting the same as Twilight. He was lying down in the main room, staring at his TV, and watching a show about cartoon dragons. Spike didn't even bother to respond to him at all. As Flareon walked outside, he said, "What is wrong with those two? I know TV is amazing and all, but they've watched it nonstop ever since I made them." He then decided it was all in his head. "Nah...it's nothing to worry about, I'm just overthinking this. I'm sure they will stop watching TV eventually." Soon after, Flareon left their house and flew into town.

As he was flying through town, Flareon began to notice something was very strange. "Where is everyone!" he yelled. The entire town was completely empty. There was not a single pony outside. No matter where he looked, Flareon did not see anyone. It was almost like Ponyville had become a ghost town. As he was flying through Apple Acres, there were apples lying unpicked everywhere, and the animals were roaming around the farm freely without any supervision. Right away, Flareon could tell something was wrong. "Even though I've known Applejack for only a couple of months, I know she would never slack off like this. Especially Apple Bloom, Big Macintosh, or Granny Smith. They would never let their farm turn out like this." When Flareon looked through the window off their house, Applejack and her family were watching TV. He could tell from the window they were watching a show about these two country boys outrunning the cops in a muscle car. "Oh boy...I love this show!" Applejack proclaimed while not looking away from the TV. "I know sis!" Apple Bloom replied, "Those humans are so cool and I love how their car's horn has a catchy tune!" Big Macintosh simply nodded and said, "Eeyup." Since Granny Smith was so fixated on the TV, she didn't say anything.

After he left Apple Acres, Flareon flew to Fluttershy's cottage. When he looked inside the window, Flareon saw Fluttershy watching a show about animals doing funny things. "Those animals are so funny and cute!" Fluttershy said as she was fixated on her TV. When he looked around, Flareon noticed that all her animals were lying on the ground. They seemed to be all starving. He then saw Angel crawl up to Fluttershy trying to get her attention, but Fluttershy didn't let her eyes off the TV. Flareon soon realized that he needed to do something fast. When Flareon opened the door and ran inside, he was actually shocked that the animals didn't attack him. "Hang on everyone, I'll get you some food!" After he fed them, Angel walked up and thanked him. "Don't worry Angel, I'm sure Fluttershy will snap out of it...hopefully." He then walked up to Fluttershy and started to yell at her. "Fluttershy...how could you! Were you seriously going to let your animals starve?" When she didn't reply, Flareon waved his right hoof in front of her face, but she didn't take her eyes off the TV. When he stood in font of her, Fluttershy simply pushed him out of the way and continued to watch TV. Eventually, Flareon gave up and left her house.

As he was flying, Flareon was starting to get worried. "What is going on with everyone? I'm hope things don't continue like this." Soon after, Flareon decided to fly to Carousal Boutique. Once again, he looked into the window and saw Rarity lying on her bed with her cat Opalescence. Rarity seemed to be watching a fashion show about designers trying to get their dresses to make it on the runway.

"How delightful!" Rarity said, "This show is absolutely amazing! Don't you agree Opal?" Opalescence however, didn't seem to care, and continued taking her nap. Flareon quickly flew inside and landed near Rarity. He knew how to get how attention. "Hey Rarity...look at what I'm doing. I'm messing with your dresses!" Flareon began to take the dresses of the ponykins and tossed them all over the room, but to his surprise, Rarity didn't seem to care. "What's that Flareon...sure...that's nice." Then he threw up his hooves in anger and left her house and headed for Sugarcube Corner. Flareon didn't bother looking through the window, he already knew what to expect, so he went straight upstairs to find Pinkie Pie and Mr. and Mrs. Cake watching TV. Apparently, they were watching a show of a guy who built these awesome-looking cakes. That looks so yummy!' Pinkie Pie said as she began to lick the TV screen. Flareon jumped in front of them and yelled, "Your kitchen is on fire! Your sweets are being stolen! A giant cake is destroying the town!" He didn't receive even one reaction. They all simply continued to watch TV. Meanwhile, Gummy looked up him and Flareon replied, "Bro...I know how you feel." Soon after, he left their house. Twilight, Spike, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity, and now Pinkie Pie. "This is bad," Flareon said as he closed the door behind him, "I wasn't expecting this at all. Everyone is completely addicted to their TVs!" Flareon the decided to check up on the nearby towns so see if they had become the same as Ponyville.

When he got to where Rainbow Dash lived, Cloudsdale, Flareon noticed it had become exactly like Ponyville. The weather factory was completely empty, while it was constantly producing clouds. The clouds were gathering up so much that it was completely blocking out the sun. "If this continues...these clouds are going to cover Ponyville and nearby towns in fog. Why aren't the workers operating this place? Where is everyone?" He then traveled through the town and finally came to Rainbow Dash's house. When Flareon looked inside, she was lying on the floor watching a show on TV about these flying jets doing aerial maneuvers. "These machines are cool and all, but they can't compare against the Wonderbolts," Rainbow Dash said. After Flareon went inside, he stood near her and said, "Hey Rainbow Dash...I challenge you to a rematch race around Equestria!" She simply waved her right hoof in his face and replied, "Sorry, I didn't order any pizza." Rainbow Dash, not agreeing to a race? This was almost like the world was ending. Flareon grabbed Rainbow Dash and began to shake her vigorously. "Snap out of it!" Sadly though, she didn't let her eyes off the TV. After Flareon let go of her, he quickly thought of a pony that could end all this. "Princess Celestia!" Flareon yelled out, "If there's anyone that can stop this...it's her!" Flareon quickly left Cloudsdale and headed for Canterlot.

When he got there, Flareon couldn't believe his eyes. The entire town was completely empty, similar to Ponyville and Cloudsdale. Flareon then flew to the castle entrance and looked around. "Wait...where are all the guards at?" This was probably the strangest thing he has seen all day. How was there not a single royal guard in sight? Where were they? Why had Princess Celestia or Luna let his happen? As he explored the castle, Flareon had yet to see a single pony. Suddenly, he heard Celestia and Luna's voice in a nearby room. As he ran into it, Flareon was shocked with horror. "Princess Celestia, Princess Luna...not you two!" It turns out they both were watching a single TV and appeared to be watching a show about housewives in a neighborhood. "Who knew that humans could have such amazing technology? Television is simply amazing," Celestia said. "That Flareon sure knows his stuff. I wonder what he'll come up with next?" replied Luna. Flareon quickly ran in front of them and yelled, "Celestia and Luna, you have to help me! Ponyville, Cloudsdale, and Canterlot have become ghost towns! Equestria is in grave danger!" Unfortunately, Celestia simply used her magic to lift up Flareon, moved him outside the room, and closed the door. Soon after, he heard the sound of the door locking behind him. Right away, Flareon had finally began to realize the error of his ways. "I was wrong...so wrong. Equestria simply isn't ready for TV yet. Everyone is completely addicted to their TVs. I'm such a moron." After Flareon flew out of the castle, he stopped and yelled, "What have I done!" Even though he meant no harm, Flareon had single-handedly doomed the entire world.

A total of four weeks went by and no matter what Flareon did, he couldn't get anyone to stop watching their TVs. As Flareon was walking through town, he could easily tell if barely looked like Ponyville anymore. The houses and building were run-down, the weeds were out of control, and animals roamed free everywhere. Not to mention there was fog everywhere as the weather factory in Cloudsdale was still producing clouds. "So instead of being remembered as the pony who defeated Alexei, I'm going to be remembered as the pony who invented TVs and destroyed Equestria. That...just doesn't sit right with me. I have to fix this...somehow!" Flareon then spotted the UIEWR and yelled, "This is all your fault! I wish I had never invented you!" Suddenly, it hit Flareon like a bolt of lightning. "Wait...that's it! If I destroy the UIEWR, then all the IEWRs and TVs will stop working, but if I do that, then no one will be able to watch TV anymore." After some thought, Flareon decided he had to destroy the UIEWR and save Equestria. "I'm sorry everyone, but I have to do this!" Flareon quickly flew as fast as possible to the UIEWR. "I'm sorry girl, but this is for your own good. Please forgive me!" Flareon yelled as he charged up his fire magic and shot a huge fireball that hit the bottom of the UIEWR. As the base of the UIEWR melted, it slowly began to lean sideways, and soon after, it came crashing to the ground. Flareon then continued to shot fireballs at it until the UIEWR completely turned into ashes. "The deed is done...it's finally over," Flareon said as she looked down at the ashes, "Well...not exactly." There was one thing he had yet to deal with. A large group of very angry ponies. As everyone began to leaves their houses, they suddenly spotted Flareon, and began to yell at him. He decided to fly to the town square to deal with them.

Later on, Flareon tried to calm down the angry mob. "Everyone...please listen to me. I had to destroy the UIEWR, it was for your own good!" Sadly for him, no one wanted to listen. "Flareon...what in tarnation did you do that for?!" Applejack yelled, "My show was just getting to the good part!" "I must know what happened to Kelly! Did she get move on or get eliminated?! Rarity said. "The cake Flareon...the cake!" Pinkie Pie complained. Soon after, everyone continued to vent their frustration at him, but Flareon knew he did the right thing. "I'm sorry ok!" Flareon yelled as everyone finally calmed down. "Look...its' my fault everything turned out like this. I tried to force TV on you guys when you clearly weren't able to handle it. I almost destroyed Equestria just because of my own, stupid, selfish reasons. If you want to be mad at me forever...I understand." Twilight suddenly began to laugh and replied, "Oh come on Flareon...Equestria was almost destroyed? I think you're overreacting." Flareon then pointed behind them and said, "Am I?" When everyone turned around, they finally were able to see what had become of Ponyville. Soon after, everyone got to back to work. It didn't take long before Ponyville, Cloudsdale, and Canterlot, returned to normal. Everything had turned out for the better and TV in Equestria was no more, well...not exactly.

You see, the garage wasn't the only new addition Flareon added to Golden Oak Library, he also added a secret room. It was located behind a bookshelf in the secondary library room. Flareon referred to this room as the 'man cave' and only he and Spike currently knew about, or so they thought. Even though Flareon destroyed the UIEWR, the first prototype IEWR was able to work without it. So after keeping the first TV and IEWR he made, Flareon decided to put it inside the secret room where he and Spike could watch TV without any disturbance. As Spike was siting on the floor in front of the couch, he turned to face Flareon and said, "I'm glad you kept this thing, even though we can only watch it for three hours a day." "It's actually better this way Spike. In truth, we only need to watch TV for a little bit each day. There's much better things we can being doing with our time." Suddenly, a voice came from behind them. "So...this is where you guys were hiding." When Flareon and Spike turned around, they saw Twilight walking towards them. "Wait...how did you find this room Twilight?" Flareon asked. As Twilight sat on the couch near Flareon, she replied, "Call it...wife's intuition." At first Flareon want to ask how, but decided he didn't want to know. As Twilight snuggled up close to Flareon, she looked up at him and asked, "What show are we watching now?" He held her closer and simply replied, "Baseball." Soon after, Twilight had Flareon promise to teach her how to play it one day.