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- >The first thing Lyra remembered was being asleep.
- >She slowly awoke to a bright morning sun in a brilliantly green meadow.
- >As she opened her eyes and inhaled the first breath of clean, crisp air, it occurred to her that she most certainly did not fall asleep in a meadow last night.
- >She began to rise and look around. She was surprised to find Pinkie Pie next to her in a deep sleep.
- >Lyra gently nudged Pinkie with her hoof in an attempt to get her up, perhaps finding an answer from her. She muttered something about a sea monkey and snorted.
- >"Pinkie Pie?" Lyra began to speak.
- >"I don't wanna go to pineapple school..." Pinkie slurred, barely awake.
- >"Pinkie, can you tell me where we are?"
- >Pinkie gradually got up and began to stretch. She surveyed the area for a bit, before turning back to Lyra.
- >"Nope, no idea where we are or how we got here!" Pinkie cheered.
- >"You're weirdly upbeat, considering that we're lost in some kind of weird meadow-type area" Lyra said, puzzled.
- >Pinkie snorted. "I'm used to it! I usually wake up in strange places after a night of partying, and every night is a night of partying for me!"
- >Lyra tilted her head.
- >"Well, I sure didn't go to any parties last night, but I'm here, too."
- >"Hmm, that is kinda strange! I wonder what happened to get us here?"
- >"Well, if we work together, we can figure it out!" Lyra said confidently.
- >"We oughta get to work right away, then!" Pinkie said, "Starting with this weird plant!
- >She stuck her snout to the ground and plucked out a green plant with her mouth.
- >Lyra levitated the plant out of Pinkie's mouth and towards her face, inspecting it.
- >"Hey, this looks like a tiny tree, leaves and all!" Lyra remarked.
- >Pinkie thought the green mare's observation over for a second before jolting in realization.
- >"Maybe the tree isn't tiny at all, but we're super big!"
- >"What? That's silly, Pinkie!" Lyra said with an air of superiority. "It'd take all the unicorns in Ponyville to get us big enough to dwarf a tree!"
- >"Maybe it's a HUGE prank!" Pinkie said, laughing at her own pun.
- >Lyra giggled. "We'll file that under 'maybe'."
- >Lyra looked around until she saw a mass of shapes on the horizon.
- >She pointed Pinkie towards the mass.
- >"I think that's where we need to go!" Lyra stated.
- >"It looks like as good a way as any!" Pinkie replied.
- >With that, they started towards the rising sun.
- >The long, tedious walk began.
- >Both ponies made several attempts to stir up a conversation, but most ended with Lyra confused.
- >They agreed to wait until they saw somepony else until they tried to talk again.
- >After a while, they managed to make out what the mass of shapes was.
- >It seemed to be a curiously small city. Other than the fact that it wasn't even close to the size of a bedroom, let alone a city, there was nothing particularly interesting about it that either pony could make out from a distance.
- >"Hey! Someone was nice nough to leave this playset for us!" Pinkie exclaimed. She began to gallop towards it, but Lyra stopped her.
- >"Wait a sec, Pinkie. As fun as playing in a model city after walking for the longest hour *ever* sounds..."
- >Lyra began to have second thoughts. It didn't look like it could be a trap, and whoever owned the city obviously didn't care enough about it to leave it in the middle of nowhere.
- >"Disregard that. Let's bounce, Pinkie!"
- >Lyra began to prance toward the small city, with Pinkie following behind.
- >They reached the city in a heartbeat.
- >"Okay," Lyra said, examining the parameters, "You see downtown, and I'll"
- >"Eww!" Pinkie interrupted, "There are bugs in this city!"
- >Lyra looked down at her side to see that there were little figures scattering at the sight of her.
- >She shouted and jumped once she saw that the city was occupied.
- >This caused a huge tremor in the city, causing quite a few figures to fall over.
- >Lyra's thoughts caught up to her, and she decided that it was best to see what exactly was running away from her.
- >"Pinkie! Hold still! Don't hurt the bugs!"
- >Pinkie took a hoof out of the city and giggled nervously at herself.
- >She looked at the 3 or so red dots on her hoof and wiped them off in the grass, which she finally noticed was quite small itself.
- >Lyra lowered her face into the street where a few of the small creatures were getting up from her jolt.
- >She chose one of the creatures and picked it up telepathically.
- >The creature made a high-pitched screech and started to swing its limbs around in the air.
- >Lyra couldn't help but feel guilty for the poor thing, but the guilt was replaced with awe when she saw what it was.
- >Lyra pulled back to her normal position with a gasp.
- >"Pinkie! Come over here and look at this!"
- >"But you told me not to move!"
- >Lyra sighed. "Do we have to do this now?"
- >"Alright..."
- >Pinkie circumnavigated the city while Lyra hovered the creature up to her face.
- >The creature panicked at how high it was. For its sake, Lyra focused all her attention on him.
- >Pinkie's approaching footsteps shook the world around the tiny specimen.
- >Pinkie stood next to Lyra and came closer to see the strange being.
- >"That's gotta be the fourth or fifth weirdest bug I've ever seen" Pinkie remarked.
- >"Well, it isn't a bug, Pinkie, far from it. This is a human! They're primates that have been said to walk the Earth long ago!"
- >"Primates? So they're little monkeys?" Pinkie shouted gleefully.
- >The volume of that statement sent the human into a panic.
- >Lyra gave Pinkie a piercing gaze. Pinkie felt guilty and decided to lower her voice.
- >"You could say that," Lyra replied, softening her expression, "I didn't really expect them to be this small though."
- >Lyra slowly brought the human to her ear.
- >"Mr. Human? Can you understand me?" she said.
- >Pinkie brought her ear closer, too.
- >"They're talking monkeys, too?"
- >The human, fearing what the massive horses would do to him if he didn't comply, began to choke out a very modest "Yes".
- >"Sorry, could you speak up? Louder?" Lyra said.
- >"Y-Yes!" the human shouted at the top of his lungs.
- >Lyra pulled him in front of her and Pinkie's face.
- >"Oh, this is great!" Lyra said, adopting a smile, "Oh, we can communicate! This could mean so much for the researchers back home!"
- >Pinkie pushed Lyra to the side to get a better look at her new potential friend.
- >"Hi! What's your name?" she said cheerily, but muted to the point where the human could be comfortable.
- >"You want to know my name!?" the human replied.
- >"Yeah! We can't be friends unless we know each other's names, and you heard my name, right?"
- >The human remembered that how the mint monsterhorse called the pink one. In hindsight, the name seemed pretty obvious.
- >"Pinkie?" the human shouted.
- >"That's right!" Pinkie said cheerfully.
- >The human looked over at Lyra. She looked eagerly and gave a warm smile to coax the human into a sense of security.
- >He looked back into Pinkie, who was leaning closer.
- >The human certainly didn't want to disappoint something that had a face he could comfortably live on, so he caved.
- >"My name is ____!"
- >Pinkie's face lit up. "Wow! That's a great name, ____! Would you mind telling me about yourself?"
- >"Yeah, I'm really interested in your kind, too." Lyra interjected, "We could talk about each other's lives, if you're interested."
- >"Well, could I please be put down first?" ____ said in response.
- >Lyra obliged, levitating him down on top of an office building on the city's edge and kneeling down to meet him eye level. Pinkie followed.
- >____ slowly warmed up to the two ponies. Both parties talked about their personal lives, their daily routine, their places of origin, and quite a bit else.
- >Other humans began to gather on top of the rooftops to look up at the spectacle of a man and two 250 foot tall cartoon ponies talking about desk jobs and making pastries.
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