Journal entry #1: Whew, today was the big day! I'm starting a new journal because I filled the last one right before Celly blew up and encased me in stone. Here's more or less how I got out...

Oh give me a home
Where the buffalo roam.
Where the deer and the antelope play!
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
And the sky is not cloudy all day!

SHUT UP, YOU HAIRLESS APE! I AM SICK AND TIRED OF YOUR WEEKLY 'DRIVE DISCORD EVEN MORE INSANE' TIME!! I heard over the... you know, I don't know how Discord and I can hear each other. Ah well, one more thing to chalk up to being in Equestria. I like to think of it as texting someone with your mind.

Come on, you were practically begging me to talk to you the first twenty years, I sent back at him.

That was before I found out that you're like a karaoke machine every Saturday night AND GO UNTIL DAWN SUNDAY!!!!!

Caps lock, remember to turn it off once in a while~! ;P

Discord and I were situated in the Royal Sister's Garden in Canterlot, though it's known now as the Royal gardens. I was right outside the window behind the throne on a pedestal that put me high enough to look over Luna's shoulder at who was currently bringing their problem forward. Discord, being a trouble-maker even as a statue had to be moved from the next pillar over to one in a vault under the throne. No one but Luna -- and all the ponies Celestia had petrified along with me -- knew the vault was there anymore. That didn't stop him from getting out two or three days ago, and what a short time it was.

Man, over a thousand years and I'm still stuck in stone. I still remember how I got stoned... *snerk* Okay, that was a lame joke. And I still have to tell you how I got here before you'll be able to understand that story.

FLASHBACK

"Oh, wow! someone actually cos-playing as Max," said the person taking tickets. I was in line outside the con's main room giving my ticket to the guy. I decided to have a bit of fun and see how good my impression was.

"Yeah, I know she's a girl, but I'm not gonna let that stop me from going to a con as her," I said with a smile. I knew my outfit was almost complete... almost. I still hadn't found an analogue camera like the one she had that wasn't super expensive, so there was that along with my gender that would be counted against me in the competition. I had on an old greyed hoodie, a pair of worn blue jeans with a few holes in them and a pair of tennis shoes -- girls tennis shoes at that (they were very comfy, sue me). I also had some black eyeliner around my eyes like I hadn't had a lot of sleep and, instead of a wig, I just grew out my hair to match.

"Dude, seriously? You're a guy!?"

"Yup," I said in my natural voice, my smile getting a bit bigger. "Here I thought I wouldn't be able to pull off her voice."

"Um..." the guy scratched his head. "Enjoy the con?"

I gave him a nod and walked in to enjoy my first convention, and to commemorate the occasion I headed towards the stalls. I wonder if I'll find a camera -- or at least a replica -- here... It was about an hour into my search that I saw someone cos-playing as Samus Aran disappear suddenly from in front of a stall. No warning, no flash of light or darkness, no inter-demensional gate -- just gone.

... What.... Okay, now I want to buy something from that vendor.

Walking over, the man standing behind the counter saw me and beckoned me closer before reaching under the table and pulled out a yellow analogue camera, just like the one Max had in Life is Strange. I was there in a second asking, "How much for it?"

The guy was dressed in a very life-like costum of a Moogle from Final Fantasy XII, complete with small bat-like wings. "Only thirty bucks, and I'll even throw in enough film for two hundred photos Kupo!"

I look at everything else he was selling, "Fuck that, here's a hundred, and I'll take that pencil case as well."

"Thank you Kupo! Mind your head..."

"Wait, wha-"

Damn, if I knew he could hit that hard I wouldn't have gone over there... I thought as I woke up, rubbing my head. Now where am I?

Looking around I found I was outside a cave in a clearing. One that held a very familiar Tree. "No way. No fucking way! I'M IN EQUESTRIA!!!!! ... And I'm now a girl..."

Shit, I sound just like Max, just more sure of myself, my eyebrows shot up as I thought of something. ... Do I have her powers?

Looking around, I began taking note of every little thing that happened. Okay, there's a... Bluejay? flying into the cave, most likely has a nest in the Tree.... There's a squirrel running from some angry rabbits... never thought I'd say that....

Just then, a hawk swooped down and picked up a rabbit, plunging its beak into the rabbit's neck before flying off. If that bunny was sentient enough to look angry, it's sentient enough to know what karma is.

Turning back to face the Tree, I raised my right hand and held it out in front of me. Everything slowly stopped and then began to reverse. The hawk flew backwards into the clearing again and deposited the rabbit back on the ground where it began running backwards, rewinding to where it entered the clearing with its friends. The bluejay came out of the cave, going back over the trees where it came from. Soon, I began to feel a pain in my head, and lowered my arm.

Standing there, I watched everything play itself out again, the pain not going away until the hawk flew off with the rabbit again. Damn, I'm limited to how far back and how often I can rewind. But at least I can rewind time like Max could.

"Are we there yet?" a familiar voice said. My first thought was: OHMYGOSHTHATWASCELESTIA*squee*!!!!! My second one was more intelligible, ... Celestia's the one that's whining? This will be fun to watch.

Author's Notes:

Yeah, I know. "You're far behind with the 'weekly' updates for Duellum Telum and you're writing another!?!?"

I've had it in my head to make this story for quite a while now. I've been going back and forth on whether or not I should use Max Caulfield from Life is Strange or Jehuty from Zone of Enders.