//------------------------------// // Ch.2 Riley, I think were hullucinating. // Story: My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic. The Light at the End of the Tunnel. // by StormBreaker //------------------------------// BOOM! "Wha-?!?!” Riley and I both screamed, as we were shoved to the ground. "What the shi-" I tried speaking, as something landed on me. "What in tarnashin?" I heard, realising it belonged to a western accent a few seconds later. "Wow! That was fun! We should do it again!" another voice said excitedly, as my hearing cleared. "No, Pinkie Pie!” a third gir-. "Wait, did she just say Pinkie Pie?” I thought as I opened my eyes. But it didn't do me any good because as soon as they opened, the ash created by the explosion started falling into them, forcing me to be siteless for a little bit longer. "Girls...” a voice so faint, I could barly hear it over my own thoughts, squaked. "Oh, I'm going to get all muddy!” a fifth girl said. "What the buck is going on here?" (side effect of reading to many fanfics). I thought, questioning the entire situation. "Like this could actually happen, people just fall out of the sky and make an exsplosion as they hit." I countinued, questioning my own sanity now. "Fluttershy, can you get off my mane?” another girl exclaimed. "Fluttershy... mane???, Yeah, I'm insane." I wispered. "Girls...” the faint voice from before said, a hair louder. "Ah, can' see a darn thing!” the western voiced girl said. "I'll fix that!” the third voice replied. Almost instantly, a purple haze appeared, then moving outwards in every direction, taking all the smoke and ash with it. "AHHH!” four of the voices screamed in unison, almost deafening me. "Hu, Hu, Hu, this dosn't usually happen, this is a really easy spell...” I faintly heard behind the background noise of the screaming, I think comeing from the girl who had seemed to have done something with the wind. Deciding it probably wasn't the best idea to let the two remaining girls still sit on me, I decided to bring there attention to myself and Riley. "Um, hello?” I said threw a raspy voice, being hard to breath, it was even harder to talk. "Yeah?” the excited ones voice said, after scrambling from wherever she was previous. "Oh! You look diffrent, what are you?” she asked, as if stareing into my very soul. It was rather creepy. "Um, uh, wha-what do you mean?” I asked as I had not understood the question. "Where are we? When are we? What are we?” another of their voices exclaimed. "WHAT IT GOING ON HERE?!?!” Riley screamed, who you could easily tell was very uncomfortable with the current situation. "AHHH!!!" all the girls except the one who noticed me yelled, while also trying to get away from the source of th noise. "Oh, sorry...” the faint voice said as she pulled her friends off of us. “I tried warning you...", she said, barly auditable under the remaining screams of the others. After I had gotten up and cleared my eyes from the rest of the smoke that had lingered in my eyes, I looked at each of the girls. "Yo-you look like the girl from that sh-show!” Riley stuttered, "Asre you seeing this?!" he continued. After studying the guirls over, (Which was by the way, very hard since they were running... well... trying to run.)The six girls had an uncanny similarity to them; they all had the same type of tee-shirt but with a different "style", color, and symbol on the side of it. The western one looked like Applejack; her shirt was orange and had three apples on the side. This fitted AJ’s cutie mark. Her jeans were regular roughed up blue jeans, and she wore brown cowgirl boots. She had Emerald green eyes and several freckles, and a good tan from being outside. Her hair was blond, and tied at the end was a red bow. She also had her signature, brown cowboy hat on top of her head. The next one, which I thought to be Pinkie Pie, had a bright pink shirt, and three balloons on the side of hers. And while she did were the same type of jeans as the first, they weren't nearly as ruined and torn up. Her shoes were bubblegum pink and looked as if the style was geared towards little kids. She had bubblegum pink hair that matched her shoes and her tee-shirt, and also seemed to stand on end. Her eyes were a brilliant shade of blue, which didn't really fit her really well. Being just about drowned in pink. The next girl, who looked like Twilight, had a black shirt, with a purple stripe on the opposite side from the mark, which was an oddly shaped star. She wore a purple skirt, which went about six inches past her knees, and a set of purple and black sneakers. This didn’t really fit the style she was wearing. Her hair was black, and had a purple stripe down the middle, just like her shirt did. Her eyes were also dark shade of purple. The fourth girl looked like Fluttershy, and she looked amazing. Wait, why am I saying that? There's no reason too... She had a vanilla colored shirt, with the mark of three butterflies, (obviously). She was wearing a skirt that was also vanilla colored; it went about a foot higher than her feet. Which were sporting vanilla flip-flops with a butterfly design on them. Her eyes were a very soft cyan blue, while her hair was a light pink that went passed her shoulders. But it always seemed to cover half her face. The next girl presumed to be Rarity. Her shirt was a combination of black and white stripes that spiraled downwards along the shirt. Her mark was a triplet of cyan gemstones. She had purple hair, which usually wouldn't suit a human... But she made it look good. Her eyes were purple. Her jeans were jet black, and looked very designer. While her shoes were White, with a black soul. They were high heels, which brought her shoes a whole half an inch off the ground. The last girl, which was obviously Rainbow Dash, had a cyan shirt with a mark that looked like a cloud with a lightning bolt of red, yellow, and blue. Her jeans were extremely ripped up, even worse than the one that seemed to be Applejacks. She wore regular cyan shoes. Her eyes were very deep velvet and seemed to look scared and deadly at the same time. Her hair was red, yellow, and orange at the top, going about three inches up and in a swoop. While the rest of her hair was green, purple, and cyan blue which swooped across her left shoulder. "No Riley, I do not see them, I chose to deny this reality and substitute it with my own." I answered solumly. "Um... uh... hi, but... who are you?” Twilight asked me. "Um, ah, da" I said with major amounts of stupidity. "How... just, what?" I continued. "Hello? Are you ok?" Twilight said, a little more concerned than scaried. "Nope! I can safly say I am NOT ok." I answered, slowly getting a grip. "Do you need some help then?" she asked, even more concerned. "No, I'm fine!" I answered back. "But you just said you weren't fine?" Twilight questioned. "No, I didn't mean it like that, I mea - Ah! What am I doing? I'm talking to TV show characters!!! This can't be real! This must be an illusion! They're not real!!" I yelled, mainly to myself. "Hey! Who are you calling fake?!" Rainbow Dash said, (Trying to look tough, but thats kind of hard to do when your on all fours and raising your hand in a fist motion. "Ok...." Twilight pushed, trying to stop th arising conflict. "Can you tell us where and what we are?” she asked nervously. You couldn't blame her nervousness, she was in a place she knew nothing about, and was talking directly to an alien she knew nothing about! "Well..." I thought, "This is Earth... and... not Equestria." I said dumly. "What? First of all, how do you know of Equestria, and how far away is it?" she questioned. "On the Equestria part... well its a long story, and on the other question... well, I don't know." I answered. "Ok, well can you point us to the nearest lodge or inn?" Rarity asked. Remembering that they probably only had bits, I told them, "They won't take bits, but you can sleep at my place!" I hurryed, not realising what I had gotten myself into. "Plus, I can help you in any way I can!" I finished. "Thank you for the offer, but I think we shouldn't. It's not right to burden you with our problems.” Rarity said. "Rarity, let me be a gentleman, and please let me help you", I pleaded. "I don't think we should, but you seemed determined on this, so if you’re sure we will stay with you. But just for the night, we need to find out how to handle this on our own.” Twilight answered. "What’s a... 'Gentleman'?” Rarity asked. "I'll explain later, come on, I show you to my house" I answered. After about 20 minutes of teaching them how to walk, (Thw whole, only two feet thing), We walked home in endless chater. As the eight of us walked home, Riley and I let them ask us whatever question they had for us. And not surprisingly, Twilight asked the most. After a few minutes, the girls got used to walking on their feet, and not on all four. About ten minutes into our 20 minute walk, I noticed Fluttershy was lagging behind. "I'll be right back", I said to Twilight, who I was currently in a heated discussion about how our government works. I walked over to Fluttershy, and noticed she was shaking profusely, she looked extreamly cold. "Here, take my jacket, I don’t need it", I said as I took of the jacket and gave it to Fluttershy. "Oh, no. I couldn't... its fine", she replied to me. "No, I insist.” I said as I again handed the leather jacket to her. "Thanks...” she said as she took the jacket and tried putting it on. Noticing she didn't know how to put on a jacket, really. (Probably because of the new body thing.") I helped put it on for her. The rest of the walk home was uneventful, if you can call meeting and talking to your favorite TV show characters which aren’t even supposed to exist, uneventful.