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1 | >The first thing Lyra remembered was being asleep. | |
2 | >She slowly awoke to a bright morning sun in a brilliantly green meadow. | |
3 | >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. | |
4 | >She began to rise and look around. She was surprised to find Pinkie Pie next to her in a deep sleep. | |
5 | >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. | |
6 | >"Pinkie Pie?" Lyra began to speak. | |
7 | >"I don't wanna go to pineapple school..." Pinkie slurred, barely awake. | |
8 | >"Pinkie, can you tell me where we are?" | |
9 | >Pinkie gradually got up and began to stretch. She surveyed the area for a bit, before turning back to Lyra. | |
10 | >"Nope, no idea where we are or how we got here!" Pinkie cheered. | |
11 | >"You're weirdly upbeat, considering that we're lost in some kind of weird meadow-type area" Lyra said, puzzled. | |
12 | >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!" | |
13 | >Lyra tilted her head. | |
14 | >"Well, I sure didn't go to any parties last night, but I'm here, too." | |
15 | >"Hmm, that is kinda strange! I wonder what happened to get us here?" | |
16 | >"Well, if we work together, we can figure it out!" Lyra said confidently. | |
17 | >"We oughta get to work right away, then!" Pinkie said, "Starting with this weird plant! | |
18 | >She stuck her snout to the ground and plucked out a green plant with her mouth. | |
19 | >Lyra levitated the plant out of Pinkie's mouth and towards her face, inspecting it. | |
20 | >"Hey, this looks like a tiny tree, leaves and all!" Lyra remarked. | |
21 | >Pinkie thought the green mare's observation over for a second before jolting in realization. | |
22 | >"Maybe the tree isn't tiny at all, but we're super big!" | |
23 | >"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!" | |
24 | >"Maybe it's a HUGE prank!" Pinkie said, laughing at her own pun. | |
25 | >Lyra giggled. "We'll file that under 'maybe'." | |
26 | >Lyra looked around until she saw a mass of shapes on the horizon. | |
27 | >She pointed Pinkie towards the mass. | |
28 | >"I think that's where we need to go!" Lyra stated. | |
29 | >"It looks like as good a way as any!" Pinkie replied. | |
30 | >With that, they started towards the rising sun. | |
31 | ||
32 | >The long, tedious walk began. | |
33 | >Both ponies made several attempts to stir up a conversation, but most ended with Lyra confused. | |
34 | >They agreed to wait until they saw somepony else until they tried to talk again. | |
35 | >After a while, they managed to make out what the mass of shapes was. | |
36 | >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. | |
37 | >"Hey! Someone was nice nough to leave this playset for us!" Pinkie exclaimed. She began to gallop towards it, but Lyra stopped her. | |
38 | >"Wait a sec, Pinkie. As fun as playing in a model city after walking for the longest hour *ever* sounds..." | |
39 | >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. | |
40 | >"Disregard that. Let's bounce, Pinkie!" | |
41 | >Lyra began to prance toward the small city, with Pinkie following behind. | |
42 | >They reached the city in a heartbeat. | |
43 | >"Okay," Lyra said, examining the parameters, "You see downtown, and I'll" | |
44 | >"Eww!" Pinkie interrupted, "There are bugs in this city!" | |
45 | >Lyra looked down at her side to see that there were little figures scattering at the sight of her. | |
46 | >She shouted and jumped once she saw that the city was occupied. | |
47 | >This caused a huge tremor in the city, causing quite a few figures to fall over. | |
48 | >Lyra's thoughts caught up to her, and she decided that it was best to see what exactly was running away from her. | |
49 | >"Pinkie! Hold still! Don't hurt the bugs!" | |
50 | >Pinkie took a hoof out of the city and giggled nervously at herself. | |
51 | >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. | |
52 | >Lyra lowered her face into the street where a few of the small creatures were getting up from her jolt. | |
53 | >She chose one of the creatures and picked it up telepathically. | |
54 | >The creature made a high-pitched screech and started to swing its limbs around in the air. | |
55 | >Lyra couldn't help but feel guilty for the poor thing, but the guilt was replaced with awe when she saw what it was. | |
56 | ||
57 | >Lyra pulled back to her normal position with a gasp. | |
58 | >"Pinkie! Come over here and look at this!" | |
59 | >"But you told me not to move!" | |
60 | >Lyra sighed. "Do we have to do this now?" | |
61 | >"Alright..." | |
62 | >Pinkie circumnavigated the city while Lyra hovered the creature up to her face. | |
63 | >The creature panicked at how high it was. For its sake, Lyra focused all her attention on him. | |
64 | >Pinkie's approaching footsteps shook the world around the tiny specimen. | |
65 | >Pinkie stood next to Lyra and came closer to see the strange being. | |
66 | >"That's gotta be the fourth or fifth weirdest bug I've ever seen" Pinkie remarked. | |
67 | >"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!" | |
68 | >"Primates? So they're little monkeys?" Pinkie shouted gleefully. | |
69 | >The volume of that statement sent the human into a panic. | |
70 | - | >Pinkie felt guilty and decided to lower her voice. |
70 | + | >Lyra gave Pinkie a piercing gaze. Pinkie felt guilty and decided to lower her voice. |
71 | - | >"You could say that," Lyra replied, "I didn't really expect them to be this small though." |
71 | + | >"You could say that," Lyra replied, softening her expression, "I didn't really expect them to be this small though." |
72 | >Lyra slowly brought the human to her ear. | |
73 | >"Mr. Human? Can you understand me?" she said. | |
74 | >Pinkie brought her ear closer, too. | |
75 | >"They're talking monkeys, too?" | |
76 | >The human, fearing what the massive horses would do to him if he didn't comply, began to choke out a very modest "Yes". | |
77 | >"Sorry, could you speak up? Louder?" Lyra said. | |
78 | >"Y-Yes!" the human shouted at the top of his lungs. | |
79 | >Lyra pulled him in front of her and Pinkie's face. | |
80 | >"Oh, this is great!" Lyra said, adopting a smile, "Oh, we can communicate! This could mean so much for the researchers back home!" | |
81 | >Pinkie pushed Lyra to the side to get a better look at her new potential friend. | |
82 | >"Hi! What's your name?" she said cheerily, but muted to the point where the human could be comfortable. | |
83 | >"You want to know my name!?" the human replied. | |
84 | >"Yeah! We can't be friends unless we know each other's names, and you heard my name, right?" | |
85 | >The human remembered that how the mint monsterhorse called the pink one. In hindsight, the name seemed pretty obvious. | |
86 | >"Pinkie?" the human shouted. | |
87 | >"That's right!" Pinkie said cheerfully. | |
88 | >The human looked over at Lyra. She looked eagerly and gave a warm smile to coax the human into a sense of security. | |
89 | >He looked back into Pinkie, who was leaning closer. | |
90 | >The human certainly didn't want to disappoint something that had a face he could comfortably live on, so he caved. | |
91 | >"My name is ____!" | |
92 | >Pinkie's face lit up. "Wow! That's a great name, ____! Would you mind telling me about yourself?" | |
93 | >"Yeah, I'm really interested in your kind, too." Lyra interjected, "We could talk about each other's lives, if you're interested." | |
94 | - | >Anon 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. |
94 | + | >"Well, could I please be put down first?" ____ said in response. |
95 | >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. | |
96 | >____ 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. | |
97 | >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. |