Twilight Zone
Chapter 2: Part 2
Previous Chapter Next ChapterI awoke. Well, there goes my 'I hate morning people' attitude, because I was wide awake from the start of the day. Maybe it's just a pony thing? Anyway, I was psyched from last night. Friggin' electricity? I couldn't wait to see how creative I could get with this. After all, physics in a videogame couldn't be too far off from the physics in a cartoon, right? Right?
I figured Twilight stayed up later than me, so I decided to explore around Ponyville. After all, I hadn't met any other ponies, so I got out of bed, stepped out of the basement and stretched my legs. And just as though I had accidentaly had summoned my favorite character of the show I was in, Pinkie Pie came bursting through the door. Now I know you've probably never seen her in real life, because if you did, your eyes would probably be stained pink. Because she is literally the pinkest thing that has ever existed. I'm not going to go into detail, but I'll say this: Wow. I love her and all, but that was a tad crazy for my liking, nearly breaking the door down and yelling in my face shortly after.
"HEY! Who are you? I've never seen you before. Are you Twilight's coltfriend? Have you seen her? TWILIGHT?" she bawked (almost literally) in my face.
"Pinkie Pie? What are you doing here?" I heard a familiar voice from upstairs that sounded a little too tired for company.
"Umm... Oh yeah! My nose twitched after my foot waggled. Do you know what that means?"
"No." I almost laughed at Twi's unusually flat response. She obviously remembered her rage from the last "Pinkie sense" incident.
"It means that somepony new is about to move in here-" She cut herself off with a long gasp as she slowly turned towards me. "Are you moving in?"
"Um, well, not that I know of..." I admit I was surprised by Pinkie's little analogy. Thanks for making me feel stupid. "Well, I might... I mean, I really don't know, but I suppose there's no other option." I then said after recalling that as far as I was concerened, I wasn't going home anytime soon.
"YAY!"
Thanks Pinkie. Squealing in my face was apparently not the right thing to do at the time on her part, because by instinct on my part, almost without knowing it even, I shocked her. Okay, I know what you're thinking. Static electricity. Bluhbluhbluh. Not this time, because it came out of MY FRIGGIN HORN. Yeah. Pretty badass. Well, it would be, if I wasn't on a kid's show. And it came out of a unicorn horn. And it only shocked her. But still.
"OW! What was that? *GASP* Did that come out your horn? COOL. I wish I could do that."
There was a bizzare moment of silence afterwards. Well, it wasn't total silence. I could hear Spike laughing upstairs. Thank gosh Pinkie was the one to break it.
"*GASP* WHOAH. TWILIGHT! COME HERE!"
"What?" I heard Twi mumble as she wandered down the stairs, obvious that she didn't really care at the time. She stared at me and gasped. What was it with ponies gasping today? How does one do that in Equestria, anyway?
Then I realized what she was staring at. My horn. I looked up. Dancing inches above my face was a crazy show of bright white electricity. Essentally it looked like i had stuck my head in an electrical outlet. Yeah. You get the picture. Eventually it got a little too bright for me too look at, so I shut my eyes and tried to stop it mentally before it hurt somepony. Too late. I heard a massive roar of what sounded somewhat evil, and then what was as close to a full bodied explosion as possible happened right in the middle of Twi's library.
I'm not sure what quite happened afterwards, but all I know is that I woke up to the sound of moaning ponies and destroyed books slowly fluttering to the ground. I surveyed the damage around me, and then said the first sentence that came to mind.
"Good frakkin' hell."
There was chaos every where. Not the Discord kind, but it still took its toll on Twi's usually well organized library. Still, there was a mess of books on the floor (several of which were charred) and two ponies on the floor (both of which were charred), and nothing looked like it was supposed to. In a nutshell, chaos. I ran over to Twi.
"Holy bit, are you okay?"
"What do you think."
Well, me being one not to remember much sarcasm on the show, was at a total loss of words.
"Well, you're charred, so I guess..."
"Well, yes I am." Zinged again by the star of a kid's show. Not helping my dignity level.
"Sorry... Need any help?"
"I don't think so..." Twi tried to stand up. She couldn't even move a hoof. "Crap. I can't move. What the hey was that even?"
That's when I realized I was the only pony in the room that had gone unharmed. I guess it must have been some sort of EMP that disabled creatures instead of electronics. I pulled out my phone just to be sure... Yep. Still full battery and working fine. Weird. Then I remembered about Spike. Double crap. And then Pinkie. Triple crap.
"Spike? Pinkie Pie? Is everyone okay?" I called out.
There was a simultanious "Mrpfph" from the upstairs room and a "No!" from the doorway. Well, there's my answer. Fair enough. I had no idea what to do until the name of another pony came to mind: Fluttershy.
"Hold on, everypony! I'm going for help!"
I could only hear groans behind me as I was bolting out the door. Good enough for a green light for me, so I took it and took off. It wasn't until I was about fifty feet from Twi's 'treehouse' that I realized that I would have to explain all of this to Fluttershy. Again. And probably everypony else, for that matter... I wasn't looking forward to it, either.
I tried to remember where her house was. And to be honest, I had never once seen where it was in perspective with anything else. So I decided to ask another pony in town: Rarity. Could be a bad idea, but who cares, her house is easiest to find. Mainly because it's a freakin' giant tent thing. Well, guess who found that in ten seconds flat? I started jogging towards it, and before I knew it, I was faced with the bizzare demon child of a carousel and a tent that also doubled as a purple house. That's what I thought it looked like, anyway.
I knocked on the bright white and purple wooden door. Seconds later, it burst open, with a bright white and purple unicorn standing in the doorway. "Hello. Can I help you?" a familiar brittish voice said. She winked. That honestly looks wierd, coming from a pony. Like it didn't coming from anything else for that matter...
"Um, yeah. Do you know where Fluttershy lives?"
"Wait... Who are you and why do you know who she is?" Her tone of voice went from happy to serious in ten letters flat. Booyah.
That threw me off track. I still didn't really have a pony name, so I just made a story on the spot. "Thunderbolt, thank you. And I am an old friend of hers."
"Well, if you insist, she lives near the entrance to the Everfree forest downstream of the valley. Will that be all?"
"Yeah. Thanks."
I stepped out of the doorway as Rarity slammed the door behind me. What a weird pony. I guess girls were just as hard to figure out in Equestria as it is for Earth...
I headed off towards the river. I could see it from Rarity's house, so it wasn't hard to get there. Now, downstream... It didn't take much walking alongside the river to find where it lead into the spooky forest that held all sorts of crazy stuff. Hey, maybe I'd get a chance to meet Zecora... Then I realized how much Zecora's house reminded me of my Nether house in Minecraft. Heh. Whatever.
I turned right at the edge of the forest, and sure enough, there was a small, overgrown cottage standing in front of me. Reminded me of my aunt. Kindof had a 'hippie' vibe to it. I walked up to the door and knocked, hoping that she was home. "Who is it?" I heard an almost inaudiable squeak from inside.
"A freind of Twilight's." I (regrettably and hastily) replied. I guess my response must have intimidated her, because it took a while for her to unlock and open the door. I could wait, though, even though it took me a while to realize that I was about to meet the most adorable six-limbed (wings count, right?) creature to ever waddle into existence. And as one bizzare moment, she swung open the door as I instinctively hugged her. Okay, I had my brony moment. Wouldn't you have? Don't ask me how hugging works in Equestria, because that would take up a half of a chapter on it's own, and I'm writing this on my phone (long story, it follows though). Anyway, it was a good ten seconds before I realized that I probably just scared her, and that I had to set her down. It was worth it, because after I let her go, she was blushing. (DAAAAWWW *gack*)
I knew at this point that I had my fun and that I needed to get to business. "Sorry about that... I could resist. I wanted to ask you something. Can you help Pinkie and Twi? There in... well, you'll see."
"Oh! Where is this?" The seriousness in her voice almost scared me, even though it was still squeaky.
"Um, Twilight's library." And just as she heard that, she took off. Literally. Pretty cool. But since I was stuck on the ground, not so much for me. So I tried something. Something that I never thought about until now... Teleportation. The thought in my head sounded absurd, because I was used to daydreaming about this kind of stuff, but I thought I'd give it a shot. And from what I saw of magic on the show, it looked like all you had to do was think about it and concentrate, so I gave it a shot. Think... Think... FRIGGIN THINK... Eventually, my horn engulfed me in a flash of pure white, and I was gone.
And what was only about a half second later, the flash died down and I was back in Twilight's library. No jet lag, no nausea; but there was that odd sense of mental tiredness again. Still: SIIICK! I had just defied pretty much all of my homeworld's laws of physics. In two days. Like a BOSS. But much to my dismay back in Twi's 'treehouse', the library was inhabited by two drunk ponies. Or, at the least, woozy. Either way, they were acting crazy. It would have been hilarious if it were'nt so sad. Pinkie Pie was on the edge of throwing up from chasing her tail while singing, and Twilight was bonking her nose on a book, almost as if she was trying to read it with her nose. WTF.
And that's when Fluttershy came in. The look on her face was literally drawing the line between confusion and worry. She looked at me. "How did you... I thought only Twilight could teleport..." Her voice trailed off as I threw in another question.
"Do you know how to help us?"
"Well, I really don't know, but I suppose I could try..."
Fluttershy surveyed the room with a look of sadness on her face. I tried not to hug her again. "I don't think I can help you very much. Just try to give them some water and rest."
"Do you even know what happened to them?"
"I've never seen anything like it before..."
"So, no."
The conversation stopped when I decided to head upstairs to check on Spike. Walking upstairs, even then I knew that what I had done affected Spike... er, differently. And that was most certainly in a bad way.
When I saw him, he was in a bizzare trance-like state. He slowly turned his head towards me, and in a menacing voice that was certainly not his, three words that would tell me that I did not want to be in Equestria anymore.
"I have returned."
Good. Friggin. Hell. Whatever the hell was possesing him was probably out for revenge, and the fact that it was Spike that was affected creeped the hell out of me. Etirely. I raced back downstairs to tell the others.
"GUYS! COME QUICK!"
It wasn't until too late that I realized that none of them were in there. Crapola has been established. I ran outside to find... Nopony. Extra crap. All of the buildings seemed to be... Vacant. That wasn't creepy at all... I saw a pony head pop up, and then back down when it saw me looking at... Her? I couldn't tell. Hell, it may not even have been a pony. Heh. Sounds like Myspace.
Anyway, I was really spooked about this whole thing... A possesed Spike? Overpowered magic me? And the fact that the clouds were quickly flooding the sky with no pegasus behind it was not helping the situation. I slowly walked down the vacant street, looking for clues that could point me in he right direction. And just like a good horror movie, I spotted an arrow scrawled in the dirt in front of me. Pointing towards... The cloudiest part of the valley? No thanks. I was ready to turn back when a disembodied voice hissed in my ear: "Just go." I honestly almost wet myself when I turned around to find no one there. I hesitantly turned towards the clouds and headed off.
I eventually reached another arrow in the dirt road, this time pointing to the left and saying "Beware". I still went against all of my previous decisions, but I suppose that you shouldn't question a voice you can't see the body of. Wait. That explains everything...
Discord.
But wait... Did that arrow just point to... Sweet Apple Acres? This was where Discord was messing with Ponyville... I wondered if this could all tie together.
I started running in the direction of the arrow to quickly find myself in front of a farm. Certainly not good, especialy that it was (you guessed it) vacant. WTF. Again. Well, that was scary. Again. Well, there was some hope of life, because there was a barn up ahead.
I peered inside the barn to find what was honestly the most scream-inflicting moment of my two crazy days in Equestria. I tried to resist, but screaming came out anyway. The entire Mane 6 was tied up against the walls of the barn, almost looking like torture. And none of them were talking. And just as I realized what was happening, a bizzare figure apeared in front of me. Looking like the frankenstein of the cartoon animal kingdom, I knew instantly who it was.
"Discord."
"That's my name, don't wear it out." he said in an uninterested tone of voice.
"I knew you were behind this. What are you doing here?"
"Oh, you know... Just dropping by for some tea and a visit with some old friends." Sarcasm at its best. Or worst. Depends on how you look at it.
"What did you do to us?"
"I suppose... If you really want to know, I had a little, if you may, dying wish. That brought you here. Humans cause chaos, and where there's chaos, there's me. That brought me back. Then I took out these guys, and now we are here. Genius, if I do say so myself."
"So that's it? Just chaos?"
"Ahh but that's where you underestimate this kind."
"What do you mean?"
"You'll see. But how about a little spoiler alert: I know what a human is. I used to... How about I just tell you this: More of you will come. And that means I don't have to do a thing this time!"
"What do you mean, 'this time'?"
"You know what I'm talking about. That kids show that you watch... I know you've seen me there before. Tata!" he said hastily before vanishing.
I could almost not comprehend what had happened. He knew? About MLP? HOW?!? Gaah. I couldn't take it anymore. I walked over to where Twilight hung on the wall.
"Can you hear me? Twi?" She slowly slid into a state of conciousness.
"Wha..? What is this? Where are we?!? WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?!? WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY?!? WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU?!?"
Her response scared me. I had never heard anypony curse before. But now that I think of it, she kind of sounded like GLaDOS freaking out in Portal 2. It's a human thing. They wouldn't understand. But then again, something was certainly wrong. I decided to ask a more logical question.
"Who do you think you are?"
"Alex. Who the hell are you?"
I had one thought at this point: F***. Discord's plan was already starting to unfold.
"Are you a human?"
"Yeah, why?" He instinctively looked down, finding himself to be a poor little purple pony tied to a wall. "GAAH! WHAT THE HELL?"
"Calm down. Freaking out is not a good thing to do right now."
"Wait... are we in... PONYVILLE?"
"Yes. Are you a brony?"
"Yeah. Seen every episode up to date."
"Good. That means I won't have to explain much when I say that you are in Twilight Sparkle's body."
He rolled his eyes. "What the f***. Who did this?"
"Discord. He has some sort of bizzare connection with our world."
"Wait... So you used to be a human too?"
"Yes. Now do you promise to stop freaking out and swearing?"
"Sure. Just help me down. What happened to the other Mane 6?"
"Out cold. They could wake up as humans too."
I magically untied the rope holding him captive as he (hard to call Twi that) fell to the ground. Weird thing is, he even sounded like her. Even weirder, I noticed that I didn't sound like myself anyway.
And I did not like where this was going at all.
Like thinking of it would have made it better anyway. I went over to, er, Alex to see how he was.
"You... okay?"
"Shaken, but fine. I'll be... fine. Wait... If I'm Twilight, does that mean that I'm really good at magic?"
"Yeah. Just concentrate on whatever you want to happen and it will. Stuff works wierdly here."
"Thanks." He tried it out on some stuff by opening and shuting the door and summoning some random things. He looked impressed with himself. "Wow... Crazy. But what do we do now?"
"How the hell should I know."
"Well, you've been here longer... but the show exists... amazing..." His head was obviously plagued with crazy ideas. Most likely none of them were good.
"I've only been here since yesterday."
The look on his face was one of complete sickness.
"So that means we should just find the real meaning behind this and GTFO, right?"
"I have no idea."
And that's when the rest of them woke up. It took a good half hour to explain to all of them what happened, and thankfully all of them were bronies. I can just say this: RD was a guy named Bill, Rarity was a girl named Steph, Pinkie Pie was a girl named Francine, Applejack was a guy named Walter, and Fluttershy was a girl named Jackie. There, I spared you the details. Happy?