Here by Accident
Chapter 2: Making Plans
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“How should I know? Without a watch I can’t figure out what time it is here.” Cameron replied.
“Please don’t ever kick me again.” Jake said as he felt the bruise on cheek.
“Don’t give me a reason to. Now down to business. What the hell are we doing here? How are we gonna get back?” Cameron asked.
“I don’t know. Right now I’m just thinking God is trolling us.” Jake joked as Cameron gave a serious look. “But more seriously, it definitely has to do with that e-mail.”
“Then we’ll just use a computer and click that e-mail again. Problem solved.” Cameron said.
“Last time I checked, ponies don’t have technology that is very advanced, so that rules out stealing a computer.” Jake said.
“Do you have your phone?”
“Nope, everything I had in my pockets is gone.” Jake said as he remembered what was in his pockets. Great, now I want my gum. Jake had what Cameron called an “addiction” to chewing gum. It was mostly true. He hadn’t gone a single day without chewing at least one piece of gum.
“Crap. Any other ideas?”
“Just one. There are things here called unicorns-“
“I know what unicorns are. Everyone knows what unicorns are.” Cameron said irritated.
“Will you let me finish my freaking sentence? The unicorns here use magic. Maybe there’s something they can do to help.” Jake explained. “However there is a problem.”
“What do mean ‘a problem’? It seems pretty straightforward,” Cameron said. “Step One: Get a unicorn to send us back. Simple.”
“The fewer ponies that know about us, the better. Imagine it: Widespread panic because we are ‘creatures from another dimension’. Soon Princess Celestia orders our deaths, or worse, sends us to the moon!” Jake exclaimed.
“First off, what? Second, there’s a princess. Are you kidding me? Third, and more importantly, what the hell do you mean by being sent to the moon?” Cameron questioned.
“Nothing. Forget it.” Jake sighed. He realized Cameron didn’t know any MLP trivia or memes. Jake would have to constantly help Cameron along and make sure he didn’t do anything stupid. He suddenly got an idea. “I have an idea!”
“Don’t keep me in suspense.”
“Well, we can’t just ask some random pony if they will help us. That means we will have to earn their trust and then ask one of them to do whatever the hell they can to help.” Jake explained.
“Awesome, let’s get to it.”
“Hold your horses.” Jake had been waiting to use that pun. He fell over laughing. After a dirty look from Cameron, he regained his composure and returned to the conversation. “Our first problem is that you have absolutely no idea how things work in Ponyville, but I’ll explain it on the way into town. The next thing is that we have to get our story straight. We are from out of town, more specifically, Fillydelphia. We are visiting for an unknown amount of time.”
“Fillydelphia?” Cameron said as he rolled his eyes.
“Don’t ask, just go along with it. Our most difficult problem is that we have no cutie marks.”
“Cutie marks?” Cameron asked again.
“Shut up and listen. They’re these little symbols that show what the pony’s special talent is. It’s going to look weird when two fully-grown ponies have no cutie marks.”
“We can just say that we never got them, people will think it’s weird but no one will be suspicious.”
“That may be our only choice.” Jake agreed. “Now we need to come up with names. I liked to think of the pony I was creating on my computer as Agile. Now for you… hmm.”
“I don’t know.” Cameron said. “Wait! Facade sounds cool.”
“Nice wordplay, Cam. It’ll work, that’s what matters. Let’s head out.”
“You’re forgetting one tiny detail. You don’t know how to fly. It’ll be strange for a pony that has wings to not be able to fly.”
“We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.”
At that, the duo headed out of the field and started walking towards town. Both of them were getting better at walking. Along the way Jake explained that Cameron would have to make a few changes to his vocabulary.
“First off, you need to change ‘everybody’ to ‘everypony’. This also applies to ‘everyone’, ‘no one’, or ‘anyone’.”
“That’s stupid.”
“Doesn’t matter. It’s what you need to say.”
“Fine. Anything else?”
“Not that I can think of.” Jake answered.
As they approached a bridge that extended over a river towards Ponyville, Jake stopped Cameron and said in a serious tone. “If you see a pink pony, do NOT, under any circumstances, make eye contact or talk to it. It will save both of us a lot of trouble.”
“Gotcha. Any other ponies I should worry about?”
“Not really. As long as you stay away from her, we should be fine.” Jake said. “In the event that you are discovered by the pony, for whatever unfathomable reason, get me.”
“What’s the deal with the pink pony?”
“Imagine her as an alarm to a vault. If she is activated, all hell will break loose. She’ll make a party out of thin air and invite everypony. All the ponies here in town will know who we are and… well… we don’t need that kind of publicity.” Jake said.
“Alright, I think I got it. Calm down dude, you’re hyperventilating.”
Jake just realized that his breathing was pretty fast. He turned to face Cameron but kept walking. “Sorry, just trying to make this go as smoothly as possible and…”
“Dude look out!” Cameron yelled, but it was too late. Jake walked straight into the pony known as Pinkie Pie. Jake turned around to apologize and saw who it was.
“Hello!” the pony said cheerily.
Jake stood still for a full second. Are you freaking kidding me!?!?!?
The pony gasped then disappeared, which meant only one thing- she was planning a party for the duo.
“No, wait!” Jake yelled at Pinkie. “Darn it!”
“Smooth.”
“Shut up!”
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