Rainbow rolled over, images flooding her mind.
A flooded tunnel, with countless ponies and chariots sunken beneath the ocean...a tunnel from one city to the other, one that had been bombed out, the one she had abandoned...and then a grand station, one where ponies walked to and from their destinations, and one where her friends met her demise, and she kept walking, unharmed...and then a school, where ponies cried and held each other, and she walked out, just before it exploded into flame, burning everypony in it alive...
She knew that the thoughts weren't her own. They felt...different. Somepony, or something, else is in my mind. This...this never happened. This never will happen, at least not here. I won't let this thing fool me!
She nodded back off to sleep, her mind once again her own.
And then an explosion shook the ground, the sound of it reaching Rainbows' ears, the shaking so violent it could be felt high above in Cloudsdale...
She stuck her head out, to see a giant glowing orb of energy that disappeared in seconds, leaving a large crater in the Everfree Forest.
"Heh...must be Zecora, she must just be digging for relics...or...something..." She hoped her out-loud thoughts were right. If the images from Discord that were still in her head ever came true, and her friends were ever hurt like that, she would...
I would break.
The realization wasn't new to her. She knew she would break if anything happened to her friends like what she had seen in her nightmares. But, the feeling of acceptance, that it was the only thing, was what surprised her, and caused her to cower in her bed, until a lavender unicorn knocked at her door, a spell working on her hooves to keep her up in the air.
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It was about 1 o'clock in the morning when Twilight woke up.
And not because she wanted to, but because an explosion had happened in the Everfree Forest.
She knew it immediately, she knew it was an explosion. The flash of light, the giant wisps of smoke that spiraled out of the impact zone, and the shaking that sent all her books to the ground and Spike and herself to the ceiling...it was definitely an explosion.
What could do that? What could ever do such a thing like that?
Twilight jumped out of her bed, her mane a mess, and walked over to Spike, who remained unconscious. She nudged him, and he woke up, and immediately turned over and retched all over her carpet. Normally, she would have been angry that he had just spewed his stomach juices all over her fine decorations, but she merely held him, worried for him, Fluttershy, Zecora, and Rainbow Dash. Twilight had been the only pony that Rainbow Dash told...the only one that Rainbow told about the dreams she was having. Twilight hoped desperately that she could corral the rest of the girls and get to Celestia before it was too late for Rainbow Dash.
She suddenly had an idea, her worries disappearing and replaced with determination. Holding the mumbling baby dragon with Magic, she tucked him and performed the same spell she used to walk on clouds to Rainbow Dash's Best Young Flier competition, where she first did a Sonic Rainboom.
She immediately teleported to Rainbow Dash's house, worried for her Loyal friend.
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Pinkie laughed hysterically, scaring Mr. and Mrs. Cake more than they already were.
Cupcake Corner had received the blunt of the explosion-as in, it had been shaken up so badly that the frosting had come off of the walls, ruining Pinkie's hard work.
The said pink fluffball was currently laughing so hard that Mr. and Mrs. Cake immediately ran out of the house, avoiding the building's now-destroyed supports, and ran right to the doctor.
Pinkie kept on Laughing, and then finally snapped open her eyes and beheld the destruction before her.
She stopped laughing when she saw that everything had been destroyed in her room: her bed was in shambles, and luckily it had not landed on her, and her mirror was smashed, her brush was snapped in half (as if she ever used it,) and her box of cupcakes was on the ground, the icing forming a circle around the box like blood would on a splattered body. (Pinkie had no idea what blood from a splattered body looked like, but she knew what icing from a murdered cake looked like, and the cupcakes had the very same condition.)
She jumped off her bed and fell to her knees, her tears staining the cupcake box.
"My...cupcakes...are....RUINED!!"
She launched the cupcakes across the room. They had taken true work-a full five hours! Using her mouth to place everything while not eating it......not eating it! Do you have any idea how stressful that is?
She cowered under her bed, shaking.
"What if...the other cupcakes are ruined too?!"
She had made the cupcakes for her friends and the new pony in town. She looked up and was relieved to see that the iron box had not moved a bit. (Yes, she keeps her important cupcakes in an iron box. And yes, it is bolted onto the floor. What, you don't? Freak. Cupcakes are important!)
She immediately stood up, determination in her eyes.
I will find who did this, and I will splatter a cake all over their face. That's right, Mr. brain, we get to have some fun today.
She was going for an evil laugh, but ended up hysterically laughing at the idea of smashing a cake into sompony's face.
She remained laughing for a minute, then quickly bounced out of the house before Mr. and Mrs. Cake could do that weird 'do not resist' game with her again.
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Rarity remained crashed, this time into the wall. She was still unconscious. The spell had taken a huge toll on her. Unfortunately, she didn't wake up until five hours later, her stunning tail captivating her and distracting her from what had happened.
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Applejack was devastated, her mouth hanging open. Big Mac was staring out of the window next to hers, in his room. His jaw was practically on the ground.
"Our...apple trees...they're..." Big Mac couldn't finish his sentence, his red coat stretched by his comically open jaw.
Empty... Applejack mentally completed for him.
The explosion had shaken all of their trees empty, and the apples were all on the ground, most of them bruised.
Applejack finally snapped out of it, got on her customary hat, and went outside to help Big Mac collect the apples.
"Big Mac...do...do you have any idea what happened last night? Because ah' sure can't make manes or tails of it!"
"Nnope."
Applejack smiled, happy that at least one thing was the same as it had been the other day: Big Mac and his small word answers.
Applejack walked into the barn about five hours later, her baskets of bruised apples heavy on her back.
Consarnit...the sun ain't even up yet and Ah'm workin' my flank off. What in the hay happened...
She found out about six hours later, when Twilight teleported right in front of her.
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Fluttershy let out a squeak, and hid behind Devil's cage. Devil merely sniffed her and nibbled Fluttershy's snout a bit, ushering a high pitched laugh and a sparkling look, as well as a small kiss on Devils' nose.
Fluttershy rubbed her eyes, the sun streaks still present from the explosion that had just happened. She looked around, and was amazed that she was still breathing.
First, her bed was in shambles. Totally smashed. And the glass from her bedroom window covered the entire thing, a shower of sharp glass that would have cut Fluttershy into pieces.
She gulped, fear running through her. She looked to the left, and saw Angel bunny unconscious on the floor, his bed a bit passed him, the table on which it had rested strewn around Fluttershy's living room.
"What happened..." was all the yellow Pegasus could muster from behind her messy, pink mane.
She looked for her brush, and found the handle of it. The head of it was embedded into her wall.
She looked for a mirror, and almost stepped on the glass remains.
She looked for a couch, and almost tripped over a burnt cushion.
She looked for any fully intact remainder of her life, of her home, and found none.
She sat down and cried.
"Who would do such a thing...destroy my house..."
Her tears joined the mess of furniture.
"I wish Twilight was here...she would know what to do..."
And, after about four hours of waiting, Twilight knocked on the door, frantically searching for Fluttershy, her kindest friend.
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Rainbow Dash embraced Twilight in a hug, so tight that Twilight couldn't breath.
"When I heard that explosion, when I saw that light, I thought...I thought my nightmares had...had..."
Twilight held her, feeling the tears dripping down her coat.
"Everything's going to be alright, Rainbow...everything..."
Suddenly, Spike burped from inside the hot air balloon. Twilight thought he was just throwing up again, but was surprised when a scaled, purple arm held a letter in front of her, already opened: not enough time to wrap it.
Dear Twilight Sparkle,
I need you and your friends to go into the Everfree Forest and find whatever made that explosion.
Please, do so as quickly as possible.
I must research something, and I will tell you what I find.
Signed,
Princess Celestia
The formality of the letter shocked Twilight. No 'faithful student', no 'your adamant teacher', just formality and an order.
"Rainbow Dash...are you okay now?"
Rainbow Dash sat back on her haunches, her wide, watery eyes slowly focusing to the world, slowly coming out of that dark place in her nightmares.
After a few minutes Rainbow Dash nodded, the determination that was always present in her eyes returning.
"Wait, get your Harmony Necklace. In case it's hostile."
Rainbow Dash was about to Sonic Rainboom right to the Everfree Forest, but instead went inside.
"'K, you know best, Twi'."
Five minutes later, they both had their Harmony necklace and tiara on, Twilight's magic speeding the balloon towards a bouncing, pink pony.
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The balloon necklace bouncing with her, Pinkie watched Twilight's balloon descend.
"Took you long enough! Let's go to the Everfree Forest! And let's smash this cake in whoever made the explosions' face!"
She suddenly pulled a cake out of her mane and replaced it, causing a balloon to fly out.
"Pinkie, get your...oh. You're already wearing it."
The lavender unicorn had never seen Pinkie so prepared. It was as if she wanted to go beat something up...
They immediately took off, Rainbow Dash staring at Pinkie.
"What?"
The pink pony could be way too direct sometimes.
"Pinkie...how the buck did you do that? I mean, but the cake in your mane, and how in the hay did you have a balloon in your mane?"
Pinkie Pie merely looked at her rainbow maned friend and shrugged.
"I dunno. I just do these things. They just make sense to me."
A snap was heard from Pinkie's mane just as Rainbow was about to respond. The cyan Pegasus' lips puckered up, her eyes became small beads.
"Pinkie...is Gummy in your mane too?"
Pinkie merely sighed.
"Of course he is, dummy? Where did you think I was going to put him?"
As if on cue, the de-toothed crocodile popped out of Pinkie's mane.
"He's an Alligator, Rainbow."
"What?"
"I just heard that the Crocodile jumped out of my mane as if on cue. You know he's an Alligator. Why did you call him a Crocodile?"
"Uhh...I didn't say anything?"
"Huh...weird, I just thought that WOAAHH!"
The hot air balloon slid to a stop in front of Fluttershy's house.
(I know, it seems like this all happened in a maximum of four minutes. And it did. In our time. In Equestria an hour passes in the same amount of time that a minute passes back on earth. I call it an hour because the sun moved so quickly that day, it was as if Celestia had kicked Luna out of the castle to oversee the search party or something.)
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"Twilight! Can you help! Please, I need help! My entire house is ruined!"
The lavender pony stopped in her tracks, the yellow pony's Harmony Necklace already within her magical grip.
"Well...uh...your Harmony Necklace isn't ruined, so let's go get Applejack and Rarity! We can fix this when we get back."
Fluttershy merely looked down.
"Oh, okay. I get it. We have to go to the Everfree Forest. I'll get my Harmony-oh, you already have it. Okay, let's go, I guess."
Twilight felt as though someone had driven as spike through her heart. She had never seen Fluttershy this...depressed. Twilight looked around, and realized that her house really was ruined. She quickly did a time reversal spell as soon as Fluttershy walked out the door.
"Fluttershy, what are you talking about, your house is destroyed?"
The yellow pony quickly zipped back in, leaving a visible trail of dust behind her. Rainbow Dash nearly fainted.
First Pinky has an infinity mane and now dust has a mind of its own...is Discord back or something?
The crocodile popped out at Rainbow again, causing her to shout.
Pinkie turned around, Gummy spreading his arms out, enjoying the short breeze.
"For the last time, Rainbow, Gummy is an ALLIGATOR!"
Rainbow fell down, her rainbow tail splayed out behind her, crawling backwards slowly.
"Uh...okay, okay, sorry!"
Pinkie's eyes were extremely intense. Rainbow felt as though her soul was open like a book, and not in a good way. When Pinkie finally looked away, Rainbow started to get up, but immediately fell back down as Pinkie spun around again, scaring the life out of Rainbow, causing her to fall back down.
She suddenly felt herself being lifted by Twilight's magic, into a secluded part of Fluttershy's house. Rainbow could hear the yellow Pegasus screaming with delight at her fixed house.
"Rainbow, are you sure you're okay?"
Rainbow stared at her, her mouth wide open.
"What? Are you okay?! Pinkie had a cake, a balloon, and an alligator in her mane! Isn't that a little weird?"
Twilight merely put a hoof to her head, which freaked out Rainbow even more.
How can she be so calm in all of this?!
"Rainbow, this kind of thing happens all the time. You're the one who told me that I should just go with the weird stuff Pinkie can do. Why are you so freaked out by it now?"
Rainbow realized that she was right. She looked down and sighed.
"I guess I'm not totally alright. Just those dreams...I had one last night, just before the explosion. Only it was...different. They were in places I'd never been before, and the thoughts weren't my own. They were thoughts of somepony or some....something else. The world in the dreams just felt so...different. They just felt...controlled, y'know? Like that kind of weird stuff could never happen. I guess that the dream's just affecting me, that's all..."
She looked up into Twilight's worried eyes. Rainbow shook herself, not wanting to worry her friends.
"But it's nothing! I don't care how weird things get, I'll just remember that that place in my dream wasn't real! It's just a dream, right?" She said the last part with a normal Rainbow laugh, the one that Twilight was used to hearing.
"Yeah, it is just a dream, Rainbow. Let's go get Rarity, Applejack probably has a bunch of apples to clean up."
Rainbow was relieved by the spark of...relief that had been present in Twilight's eyes.
Pull it together, Rainbow. Everything is just fine...those dreams are just dreams.
She pushed on, head held high.
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Rarity screamed, and Twilight and the other three abandoned caution, bursting right into her room to find Rarity curled up with her tail, admiring how it glowed.
Twilight sighed and snapped the Harmony Necklace around Rarity's neck. She wasn't even going to bother trying to get Rarity out of her state of tail-appreciation.
Gummy jumped out of Pinkie's mane, the Alligators' eyes searching the room. He had never been in Rarity's room, and-
"Yay! You finally called him an alligator, Rainbow!"
Rainbow Dash simply nodded, her mind back to normal, the weird world in the dreams gone.
They pushed on to Applejack's house, Rarity floating and admiring her mane.
As they stepped into Twilight's hot air balloon, Rainbow received a healthy shove from a sleeping dragon. She had stepped right on his tail.
"Who stepped on my tail!!"
Spike stood up, trying to scare Rainbow Dash for stepping on his tail. Rainbow wasn't scared. Rather, she was freaked out at how his arms had just stretched, and how the interior of the hot air balloon seemed so much larger than it had before...
"Sorry, Spike. I was distracted by Rarity's...uh...interesting tail.
"Huh?"
Spike looked up and was captivated by the flashing colors.
Rainbow held back a chuckle, and then kept on an extremely bad poker face when Spike turned around, blushing.
Rainbow Dash started hysterically laughing. She couldn't control it, it was just so funny to see a dragon blushing like that.
Pinkie joined in, and when the alligator jumped out of the pink mane, Rainbow didn't freak out. She was finally back to normal, as the minutes had felt like hours.
As they rose over the Sweet Apple Acres, something bumped the basket, and Rainbow Dash's wings were splayed open by the jolt, causing her to catch a breeze and go flying, right into Twilight's back, breaking her hold on the magic.
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Twilight let down her official-looking stature, meekly smiling.
"Sorry, AJ. Kind of in a hurry. We all need to get going, now."
Applejack put down her now empty basket, as Twilight's sudden teleportation had made her jump, letting all the apples fly in random directions. Applejack looked past Twilight and saw a hot air balloon impaled on a tree.
"It's alright, Twi'. Ah can get them up later. And where are the others? And where are we goin'? And why is your balloon in a tree?"
Twilight moved aside, realizing that she was literally in Applejack's face, obscuring her view of the four ponies following the lavender pony.
"Well, alright, there's everypony. But where are we goin'?"
Twilight simply handed Applejack her Harmony necklace. Applejack looked up and realized they all already had their Harmony jewelry on already.
"The Everfree Forest. You know, where that giant explosion happened this morning? Are you okay, Applejack? I think that was kind of obvious."
The bouncing pink pony always had a way with words.
"Uh...yes. We're going into the Everfree Forest, Applejack. We need to wear these in case it's something hostile."
Applejack simply nodded.
"Alright, then let's go!"
She reared her legs, letting out a loud whinny. The six ponies set off together, running towards the dark forest that had lit up the entire world that day.
She stopped suddenly.
"But wait...that doesn't explain why your balloon is in a tree."
Twilight sheepishly smiled, blushing. Rainbow Dash blushed as well.
"Well, you see, a breeze picked up and Rainbow Dash happened to be stretching her wings...and, well, she flew into me and distracted me. By the time I realized we were going to crash, I didn't have time to take control of the balloon. Oh, and Spikes' asleep in your bed, he kind of...passed out when Rainbow's hoof caught him in the back of the head."
Applejack winced. A hoof to the back of the head had to hurt, but she knew that Spike would be okay.
"Alright, Twi'. Let's go!"
And the six ponies set off, Rainbow just a small bit late, as she was desperately trying to ignore the fact that Pinkie was moving without touching the ground.
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I sat in the center of a crater, hugging my knees.
How the FUCK did I get here?!
It was the only thing I could ask myself.
My 15-year-old brain had no answers, however.
Suddenly, I heard a voice.
"This way, girls! I can see the crater!"
Wait...is that...
A lavender unicorn walked into my field of view, her horn bathing her body in light, illuminating the five ponies behind her.
I realized that I was slowly going insane, and immediately scanned the eyes of the ponies staring at me, and found Rainbow Dash's eyes.
Good...she reminded me of myself the most...maybe something familiar can keep me sane...
Too little, too late.
I think I went schizophrenic for a few seconds, because I hugged my knees closer and fell to my side, and I began saying random things.
"I'm in a world, where humans are replaced by talking ponies...I have no idea how I got here, and I think that Celestia wants me arrested...and did I mention there are talking ponies?"
My vision doubled, my eyes were bugging out and taking control of themselves.
"Ponies ponies ponies ponies....poniesponiesponiesponies....mmmmpoonaaahhhss!"
I quickly sat up and smacked myself. Hard. it didn't do anything, I could still feel my mouth moving, spewing indiscernible gibberish.
I hope this works...
I face palmed.
And not in a comical way, I mean I shut down the capillaries in my head for a few seconds, caused the blood flow to refresh, kind of like pressing the 'restart' button on a Windows computer.
(SUBTLE FOOTNOTE: DO NOT TRY THAT AT HOME. YOU WILL DIE IF YOU DO IT TO HARD, AS YOU WILL GIVE YOURSELF AN ANEURISM. THAT IS TOTAL BULLSHIT. IT WORKS IN EQUESTRIA BECAUSE PINKIE PIE SAYS SO.)
My vision blurred, and then cleared. I examined them all, to make sure I was actually in Equestria, and not an a life-sized arena of the toys.
On the far left was Fluttershy, her pink mane covering most of her face except for her right eye. She was sitting like a scared cat, her eyes small and shaking, her mouth quivering. Her yellow body was trembling all over, making me go 'd'aww' in my head at the sight.
To the right of her was Rarity, her eyes covered by her tail. She looked a bit like a marshmallow, and her tail was glowing.
Wait, what? Why is her tail...whatever, screw it, I'll find out later, I have my sanity to destroy.
Once again to the right was Applejack, her mouth in a frown, looking at me with a confused and scared face.
I don't blame her, I just went schizophrenic and now I'm staring at her like a...schizophrenic mental patient.
Her hat was slightly tilted, but she didn't seem to care. her mane was on her side, ending in a bow. her orange skin seemed pale, probably out of fear.
I looked towards the right again, and saw Twilight Sparkle. Her main was straight and orderly, just as always, and her eyes bore deep into me. The frown she wore wasn't as unsettling as Applejack's, but more or less...shocking. She looked as though she was going to smack me with a hoof. I started blushing, realizing how weird I must have looked just then.
Jesus, I was rocking on the ground, on my side, whispering to myself. My eyes were bugging out, and I was barely even breathing, and then I just sat up and smacked myself and now I'm staring at all of them...
I kept on examining Twilight, making sure that I didn't miss anything. I needed to make sure all of my observant faculties were operational, and I would explain as much when I stopped ensuring.
Twilight's eyes were also bugging out slightly, but more from fear. Her tail twitched nervously, and her horn glowed with aura, the amount of light coming from it undulating in strength.
Next, I looked at Pinkie Pie, who was holding back a chuckle desperately, her eyes somewhat watering.
Her pink mane was flopping with every movement she made, whether it was to breath, or just to wipe her eyes, which was difficult due to her puffed up cheeks. She must have been horrified.
Then, I looked to Rainbow Dash. The fear I saw in her eyes...it scared me as well.
Her rainbow mane was unkempt, as usual, and her mouth was quivering. But that fear,,,was I really that bad just then?
Okay, I think that how much Rainbow's eyes affected me deserves some explanation.
I've been a Brony for about two months at this point, and I can see myself in all of the ponies: I love books and abandon friends on facebook sometimes just to study, I believe that hard work and being honest are the two main things I should keep up at, I'm extremely kind, (and I'm not being narcissistic, I'm just going off of what other people tell me. In all honesty, I think I'm a bit of a jerk and not very kind at all, but, whatever,) I have a deep appreciation for beauty and arts, I laugh when I'm scared and I very rarely ever do get scared (for example: during the trailer for Paranormal Activity 3, I started laughing hysterically. It was just fucking hilarious!) And, lastly, I'm always trying to go super fast, and I think that everything needs to be cooler.
However, besides the basics, I also see something personality wise: Rainbow Dash and I are extremely alike. I'll do work when I know I have to, but other wise, fuck it. When people complain about dumb stuff, I just walk away and drop an overused 'deal with it.' And, whenever someone shows me something they think is cool, I always have to think of a way to make it cooler. Once I started watching My Little Pony, I started saying that it needed to be twenty percent cooler all the time. But, overall, the same things tend to scare us, and we both tend to try to blow off that fear. But the fact that she was scared of my sudden bout of insanity shows me how over the edge I actually went.
I stood, dusting myself off, and spoke to them. They obviously didn't expect my deep voice to come out of my rather...small body. (I'm 112 pounds [water weight mostly], and I'm not exactly that tall. Also, I'm fifteen years old. My voice is deeper than my dad's and most of my teachers' voices.)
"Sorry about that...I just didn't expect to be here at all. I vaguely remember going through a portal or...something, but besides that, I just have no idea how I got here in the first place. My mind just went into shock or something. So, what exactly do I have to do?"
Rainbow Dash was the first to respond. Just like me. In every way.
Good, I can befriend her first...maybe the amount of familiarity I see in her can keep me sane through all of this.
"You need to calm the buck down, buddy. And then you need to come with us to the Princess."
I sighed. "I'm guessing you mean Celestia, Rainbow Dash?"
Shit. Too much said, fuck.
They all looked at me, surprise evident in their eyes. Even Rarity and Fluttershy came out from behind their tail and mane to look at me.
"Uh...it's a long story. A very, very, very long story that would probably send me into the depths of insanity if I tried to tell it."
How do I sound so calm right now?
"Uh...okay, right. Well, you seem pretty calm, so now I guess we can go to the Princess. Right, Twilight?"
Damn, Rainbow Dash. You're going to be one good substitute of a psychiatrist.
"Yes, Rainbow Dash. Uh, so, uhm...."
"Peter."
Twilight nodded.
" And I'm Twilight. So, Peter, do you have any experience with teleportation?"
I shrugged.
"I guess. Whatever I did to get here, it must have been teleportation, but I have no idea how. So, if you want to teleport me, I guess the answer is yes."
She nodded, and her horn started glowing.
I looked over at Rainbow Dash, to see that familiar spark, something to bolster my sanity.
Good...she's calm...composed...keeping my sanity might be easier than I thought...Jesus, I feel like I'm playing 'Amnesia' or something, constantly working about my sanity...
The word 'amnesia' sparked something in my mind, and I vaguely remember writing down my age as 29 on a terminal in a CDC...perhaps I was suffering from amnesia myself and I had lost 14 years of life?
Nah, don't be ridiculous. Just keep your sanity, it's all you should be worried about right now.
However, suddenly, I had an idea. An awful idea, and a choice.
Either I go with them, I fight them, or...
"Twilight, wait."
The pony looked up at me, her horn glowing with anticipating magic.
"What?"
I sighed, preparing for what I may have to do.
"I can't go."
The ponies gasped, looking at me. Pinkie's chuckles disappeared, replaced by disbelief.
"I have to stay in the Everfree Forest. If I go there, then I might be sent to Ponyville."
Twilight looked at me, confusion evident in her eyes.
"And why is that a bad thing?"
I looked at who said it (Rainbow Dash).
I sighed again.
Shit, this is going to be hard to explain...
I started the difficult task of explaining my diet.
"You see, I'm a human. And you're all ponies, obviously. And while you can all eat vegetation and popcorn and pizza and what not, I need to eat meat in order to survive, in order to get the right amount of protein and minerals. If I just suddenly stop eating meat and start eating pizza and popcorn all day, my body will go into shock, and I would probably die due to the diet itself. And I can't eat hay, the organ that humans use to process hay and other such things like that was excluded a long time ago, even though it's still in our bodies. And daisies are poisonous to me, as well as most plants that ponies eat. I just can't...live with the diet you guys have. I'm sorry, but if I want to survive, I have to live here and...hunt."
The ponies looked at me, still confused.
And, God damn it, why did Fluttershy have to say it?
"Uh, mister, um, Peter, what does it mean to...hunt?"
I looked her in the eyes. I had to tell her the whole truth.
I'm sorry Fluttershy...
"It means to kill animals, cook their meat, and then eat the cooked meat."
The ponies gasped, and Fluttershy backed off slowly.
"Well, don't go getting any ideas about eating pony meat, you here?!"
I looked Rainbow Dash right in the face, and said with the most honest face I have ever put on in my entire life, "I won't."
Suddenly, I felt a tugging at the small of my back.
"What the-?"
I realized what was going on.
Twilight was teleporting me with her, whether I wanted to or not.
Okay, Peter, you have a choice...palm Twilight in the base of the horn. That spot, where skull and horn connect, is probably extremely sensitive and very reactive to touch, and any force applied to it could probably knock her out. Or, you can let her take you to Celestia, where you have a shot at explaining your situation and not being hunted down by the Princess for attacking her personal protege...
I blinked.
Why the fuck is the first one a choice?
I looked over to Twilight.
"I know what you're doing. And you don't have to be subtle about it. Just teleport us, I'll go quietly."
Twilight blinked, confusion on her face.
"I'm not doing any teleporting!"
I blinked in return.
"But I feel myself being pulled, almost like I'm being pulled by the small of my back..."
Suddenly, all the other ponies seemed to feel it too, as they all gasped.
Twilight had a blank face on, and simply looked up.
"Celestia...?"
With a puff of smoke, a small purple dragon appeared, holding a scroll in his hand, his face as green as the scales on his under belly. Spike already had the scroll open, and Twilight hastily read it.
She looked at me, and back at the letter.
God, I hope it's not a death sentence...
She cleared her throat. She looked nervous...definitely not a good sign.
"Celestia has ordered us to...help you find your way back home."
I immediately perked up, a large smile spreading over my face.
"Thank you! I knew I could count on you guys to help me! Thank you, thank you so much!"
Suddenly, with a flash of yellow magic, were were teleported into Celestia's chambers, where I was immediately shoved in a cave, like some common animal, where I immediately blacked out from the teleportation, falling unconscious to the cast iron floor.
The last thing I saw before I totally went out was a teary-eyed lavender unicorn, mane a mess, staring into the eyes of a white Alicorn, her gaseous and yet corporeal mane floating behind her, a look of happiness on her face.