No longer human

"God, why can't i sleep?" thought Mikael. It was three o'clock at night, and Mikael had to get early up the next morning. But still, something was bothering him. It was a headache, but unlike anything he had ever experienced. Most of the pain were coming from about the middle of his forehead. When he put his hands on his forehead he could feel a small hump. "I must have bumped my head into something" he thought, and closed his eyes and tried to sleep again. "I hope the headache is gone by the morning" Was the last thing he that was on his mind before he fell asleep.

When Mikael woke up, he was relieved that the headache was gone. Yet, something was different, he felt that something was different, until he banged his head in the shelf in his bedroom, or; not his head, but rather something that was poking out of his head. When he got to the bathroom, he saw the horn. It was a red-ish colored horn with a spiral shape, that was about 10 centimeters long. "What the fuck" he said out loud, and studied the horn some more. "How did i get this?".

***

In Canterlot, Princess Celestia was having a bad day. Not only had another source of pollution been found, but Luna was also extra moody that day. When she had tried to talk to her, Luna just replied with a small mumble. "Come on sister, we need to help the unicorn teams stop the pollution from spreading" Celestia said, and Luna just looked away. "What is the matter Luna? you aren't usually this moody." Luna mumbled some more and refused to get up. Celestia gave up, and let her sister be in her room. "I hope we can fix this without Luna, or else things are going to get bad. I might even have to call the elements for help."

The pollutions origin was unknown, but Celestia had an idea. She is one of the oldest beings alive after all, at least of beings that can have their age displayed in real numbers anyways. About 2000 years ago, the remains of Discords magic opened several portals to another world, inhabited by bipedal creatures. One grouping of those creatures that had advanced mathematics asked when we would come back. They deciphered the answer to about 2000 years in the future, a prediction that probably wasn't that wrong as it turns out. But, one thing is different. the portals opened 2000 years ago didn't spew out as nearly as much pollution as the pollution sources, almost nothing at all! But a notable thing about the pollution sources is that all of them have different grades of toxicity, several of them releasing next to nothing.

"Guard, what is the situation in Fillydelphia?" Celestia asked one of her guards. "It's fine, the unicorns are able to cope with the spreading. The earth ponies and the pegasi are cleaning up toxic material from places earlier contaminated by pollution." "What about in Manehattan?" The princess asked worried, because there was just a smaller amount of unicorns in Manehattan, and if it were a major outbreak, the city might be lost. "Turns out it was a smaller outbreak, we have nearly isolated the various sources.". Celestia was relieved, and asked "How about Ponyville?" "Another small outbreak, most sources are situated in the Everfree forest. It seems that the forest has it own way to clean up pollution." "Good, this is better than i feared, the main outbreak is near Fillydelphia, and they are coping. we need to find a way to eliminate the sources... Guard, get the royal unicorn corps on it!" Celestia said. "Very good princess." the guard answered, and walked out of the throne room.

***

"Whats up with the hat Mikael?" his dad asked him. "Oh... it's nothing. I just wanted to use it today. It's been a while since last time i used it." Mikael answered, and took on his coat and boots. "Going for a walk?" "Yeah, I'll be back in an hour or something.". Mikael started walking. It was some snow outside, but the roads wasn't icy, not yet. As Mikael passed the local supermarket he saw the main headlines: Thousands of Americans sick from radiation, President blames Iran. "Strange, maybe it has something to do with me growing a horn" Mikael thought. Mikael bought the newspaper and read through it. There has been reports of radiation sickness all around the world. At the UN there is chaos, nations accusing each other for using some sort of nuclear weapon. America and the European Union are sending troops into Iran, convinced that their Nuclear program has something to do with all the radiation. "Huh, i can't see that there are any radiation nearby" Mikael thought, but then one article caught his attention: Strange mutations from radiation! "hmmmmm" Two men, one from the USA and the other from Spain. The American has lost his fingers and gained a green color on his hand. the Spanish man has grown several patches of blue fur.

Just when Mikael came out of the supermarket he felt a slight tingling on his forehead, and found himself being dragged by his horn. "Whats going on, where am i going" he said, and put his feet on the ground, trying to stop. It didn't work, and Mikael began trying just to keep on his feet. A couple of minutes later, Mikael found himself standing next to a floating orb of light. "What is this?"

***

"Have you found out where this pollution is coming from my faithful student?" Celestia asked."No princess, but i have managed to identify why it's coming out of the Everfree forest. It seems that Discords magic preferred the Everfree forest because of it's chaotic nature. Is there places like the Everfree forest near the other outbreaks?" Twilight Sparkle answered, and wrote something on her notebook. "No, but is just what we thought. Discord's magic is chaotic and random after all." "Okay princess, you will be notified if the situation changes.". Celestia started flying towards Manehattan, to check the progress in holding the pollution back, when she felt the presence of a mind; a mind filled with chaos, but also order, a mind with both hatred and greed, but also empathy and compassion. A mind clearly not Equestrian.

Authors notes:

When i wrote about Celestia being on of the oldest creatures with ages that can be displayed i real numbers, i meant that Discords age would be around 3000 multiplied with the square root of -1, a number that don't exist, ergo unreal.