Immortality is Magic

by lilchris99

Rating: teen
Tags: Alternate Universe, Human
Length: 36747

Christian Gordon, the most powerful and amazing human in existence, was brought to the strangest place he's ever been to: Equestria. Rated Teen for slight language.

Christian Gordon, also known as "The Immortal", is the most powerful human in existence, able to do almost anything he desires.
He didn't want the world watching him like a zoo animal, so he hid his abilities as best as he could, until the year 3058, when all of civilization had killed itself.
Christian re-winded time back to 800 A.D. in England to watch it grow before it falls again.
One day, in 2012, he gets pulled into a mysterious land by some of the oddest creatures he has ever seen; colorful, talking ponies.

This takes place in February 2012 instead of 2013 because that is when "Read it and Weep" (when the book takes place) was aired, as far as I've heard.

Finally, after several months, it's finished.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2013-12-10 23:58:59 UTC

1: Introduction/Twilight

My name is Christian Gordon. I also go by the name “The Immortal”. I am three-thousand and eighty-nine years old. The explanation for this is obvious: I am not a normal human. I have been chosen to wield unbelievable abilities many years ago.

I’ll try to have a brief explanation everything that has happened during my lifetime: Ever since my father showed me a magic trick for the first time, I always wanted to prove magic was real. I spent a lot of my time throughout my life researching magic, witchcraft, and voodoo, and trying to see if any of it was real (sometimes by researching, others by testing it myself) One day, when I was 32 in 2013, a Raven flew into my window. It somehow was able to communicate with me through my mind and eventually got me to follow it. The Raven somehow teleported me to an unknown place where I met a dragon named Drogun.

He told me I was chosen to hold power due to my dedication to magic (he was very specific saying that what I was going to receive was not magic, but instead power. Magic doesn’t exist) He then opened a portal and told me that it was to “My Realm” (it was only just a flat, round, purple-ish rock for ground about twenty feet around from the center, and all around it in every direction was nothing but rain clouds) Inside the portal was what I was destined for: unstoppable power.

I never really did anything with my abilities throughout my life, although I could do pretty much anything I wanted.

The main reason was because I had to keep myself a secret. It’s not that I need to keep my identity a secret or anything; I just don’t want the entire planet to be asking me for money or to attack other countries or do anything stupid. Anyway, I never knew what to do with my abilities.

I didn’t want to be a “super hero” because my abilities had altered my mind to enjoy seeing death, such as someone bleeding severely or injured, but I didn’t want to become a “super villain” because ruling the planet would get boring, and additionally; killing people is wrong. Eventually, I decided to just sit back quietly and watch civilization grow.

Many extraordinary inventions and discoveries had happened, but in the year 3047, war between the two most powerful countries on the planet, America and Russia, had almost destroyed the planet through war.

You might ask “Why would they destroy the world if they were only attacking each other?” The answer to that question is the fact that they were both stupid. Both America and Russia had killed all civilization in every country on the planet for two reasons: 1) They thought the other country might have a base set up in a nearby country, but they never bothered to check. 2) They were doing it as a warning for the other country. At the beginning of the war, America had begun to build a gigantic machine of ultimate destruction that was designed to stop the war before it got out of hand. The machine was a fifty-foot tall robot, called the Eliminator Of All Lifeforms (or the E.O.A.L.)

The robot was designed in many fascinating ways; such as being able to walk using human-like leg joints, but it was not able to run. It had a right arm made out of thirteen Gatling Guns that shoot forty five-inch-long bullets a second, a total of two-thousand four-hundred bullets a minute (each) into one gigantic gun (which fires a grand total of thirty-one-thousand and two-hundred bullets a minute). It’s left arm was an experimental Incineration Cannon using special molecules found in “the air of war” to power its laser (which had the laser reach fifty-thousand degrees Celsius), and a large cylinder-like body containing a self-charging power source and a teleporter to transport ammunition to the Gun arm (that way, if Russia wants to eliminate it’s ammunition supply, they’ll have to take out the source in America)

Its head was basically a super-computer, featuring a five-hundred-mile wide scanner (that can scan through any material) to detect and eliminate anything with a heartbeat, a voice simulator (it never had any pre-recorded voices, its own voice was very dark and metallic), and also was programmed to be within and handle ANY combat situation (which is why programming took so long).

The most important and most memorable thing about the robot was within its shoulders: a plasma shield generator. Scientists were able to somehow control a form of plasma and put make it into a coat for the E.O.A.L., covering every single molecule of it. The specific type of plasma that the scientists used with the E.O.A.L. was invulnerable to anything that was tested against it, and it absorbed any form of force. Nothing was able to even scratch the E.O.A.L. when its shields were on, no matter how strong the impact was. The E.O.A.L. was in construction for eleven years, during which the war still went on. After it was finished, it was sent to Russia and destroyed everything alive in it within a week. When the E.O.A.L. got to the Russian military headquarters, they fired all of their remaining ammunition at America, destroying what was left of it.

All life on Earth was destroyed by the year 3058.

I eventually got bored of being on a planet with nothing on it but dust, ruins, and a robot that isn’t programmed to hold a conversation, so I went back into my Realm and thought about what to do. Then an idea hit me: I can just go back in time and start over! But I already knew a lot about America, so I was stuck being bored again before another idea hit me: Who said I was to go to America? And so I went to the first country I thought of: England, in the year 800 A.D.,  and I continued my tradition of watching civilization grow and fall to this very day, in February, 2012.

Since nothing exciting is really happening at the current moment, I’m walking through London to pass the time. Many people had the same intentions as me, walking one way or another somewhere throughout the town. Most people walking by give me short stares from my choice of clothing.

Oh, that reminds me; I never mentioned a very important detail, did I? When I gained my abilities, the colors of my clothes, skin, hair, shoes, and everything else turned blacker than night (my eyes were an exception, they became blank and white). I had also discovered that this change also caused my mouth to vanish, back when I tried to eat in my “true form” many years ago. But there was a way around this “side-effect” to avoid being the most noticeable person on the planet; if I covered my eyes, my colors would return to normal. So I made a new style that hid my eyes from view without making me look like I’m blind. It was a simple design: a black t-shirt with a hood that was long enough to hide my eyes from sight (it was specialized so that I could see out, but nobody could see in)

Back to the present, I had just passed the exact same man wearing a trench coat sitting on the sidewalk for the third time. I must be going in circles. I continued walking straight forward down the sidewalk for a couple of minutes when I took a turn down the first alleyway I came to, believing there must be another street on the other side.

It blocked most of the sunlight, and not a soul was walking through it, besides me. There was garbage everywhere, and even one of the ladders of a fire-escape on one of the buildings had fallen off. I walked on for another moment before I reached a dead end.

“Now isn’t this just perfect?” I said to myself. I whipped around and began walking back to the sidewalk to see if there was another way through town, when out of nowhere my foot got stuck on something brightly glowing purple. I looked down and gasped. My foot was caught in a purple satanic symbol!

No matter how much strength I put into my leg, I’m unable to pull my leg out of it. I panicked, grabbed my leg with both of my arms, and heaved with all my might, giving myself the strength of a thousand men as a boost. I looked at my feet and realized that the symbol had rotated to put both of my legs within a point. A split second after, I began to sink into the symbol! “NO!” I yelled through panic.

I attempted to move my arms to latch onto something nearby, but it appears that my arms had been bound by some form of glowing gas wrapped around my wrists. “NO!! LET ME GO!!” I screamed, trying to pull something away from the symbol. I continued to sink into it still, no matter how strong my attempts were to fight against it.

Is this how I’m going to die? Is this the end of The Immortal?

My head was the only thing that was still on the planet I have known and loved, before it finally went into the symbol as well. Everything went black. I could not see nor feel anything. Is this what death is like? Have I been brought to hell and met an early grave?

“Uh, Spike, are you sure that was the right spell?”

Wait…I had heard a voice. It sounded like a woman’s. How can I hear a voice if I’m dead?

“Heh, funny story, actually,” this time a male had spoken in response. “I MAY have accidently given you a demon summoning spell, heh heh.”

A demon summoning spell? Is that the explanation for all of this? I was brought here by some idiot trying magic? Well…I can’t really complain, since that’s pretty much what I used to do.

“Wait, you’re saying that this…thing…I summoned…is a demon?” the female asked assuming to the male.

They must be talking about me.

“For your information, I happen to be a human,” I attempted to say.

I’m unsure if they could hear me or not, but it was worth a try to see if I can still communicate.

“OH MY GOSH IT TALKS!!!” the female exclaimed possibly in horror.

Yep, they can hear me.

“Of course I talk,” I remarked. “I just said I’m a human. All humans talk. You should know that, considering you are one.”

“Uh, I truly apologize for correcting you but…I’m not a ‘human’,” the female responded.

“Not a human?” What is she playing at?

“Alright,” I said, “if you aren’t a human, what are you then?”

“I’m…uh…a pony.”

“A pony”? I get pulled down into the ground by a symbol of Satan, believing that I’m going to hell early, and instead I get put into this black void being told I’m talking to a pony? What the hell is going on here?

“A pony,” I repeated.

“That’s right, and I’m a dragon!” the male shouted from a short distance way.

Alright, make that in a black void being told that I’m talking to a pony AND a dragon.

“Where the hell am I?” I said.

“Well, you’ve arrived in my library when I mistakenly summoned you,” the “pony” responded.

“Then why can’t I see nor feel anything?”

“Well,” the male said, “it says that blindness and loss of feeling is a side effect. It should wear off after a couple of minutes.”

“Then do you mind explaining why I was kidnapped out of an alleyway in the middle of London through a symbol of the Devil?” I asked, expecting an answer out of the female.

“Can you…um… please define ‘London’, and ‘Devil’?” she responded awkwardly.

Is she serious? How stupid are these people?

“London is the capital of England,” I answered, “and the Devil is a religious figure that basically rules hell.”

“Could you also define ‘England’, ‘religious’, and ‘hell’?”

“Look, stop with all of this nonsense, alright?” I said, getting annoyed. “I know you released some kind of drug in that alley I was in, and now you made me go blind. I know It’s not my hood that’s making me blind, so don’t say that.”

There was silence for a moment, and then the male said “Uh, what hood?”

I quickly tried to feel round my head to see if my hood was on, but I still couldn't feel anything.

“So…you’re saying that this entire time…I never had my hood on?”

“I’m surprised you know what a hood is,” the male responded. “I never knew that demons wore clothes.”

“If you noticed, I’m WEARING clothes, and I already said that I’m a human. Now can you just please cut the act? I’ve got places to be.”

That was a lie. I don’t have to be anywhere; I just want to be able to go back to being normal; or in my case; being abnormal.

“I-I don’t think the rest of Ponyville would be comfortable seeing you walk around town,” the female said.

“‘Ponyville’? What kind of town is named ‘Ponyville’?” I remarked.

“The town that you’re in,” the female responded, slightly annoyed by my words.

I began to feel what felt like wood against my pants and fingers, along with seeing small colored blurs everywhere. Finally, my sense of touch and sight are coming back.

“How long does it take for my eyesight to return completely?” I asked randomly, looking around, hoping to see any hint of skin color to show me where the people were.

I heard what sounded like a few pages turning, and then the male said “It should be coming back by now. Just give it a few seconds and you’ll be back to normal …or at least it will be for ponies,” he added quietly.

“How long are you going to keep up this ‘pony’ act?” I said. “I am being serious when I say that I am completely annoyed with all of this nonsense.”

Everything started to become clear. My eyesight had returned to how it always was. The first thing I saw was a bookcase; a very large bookcase that went halfway up to the ceiling (which was considerably high).

A sudden thought sprang into my head, and my hands darted towards the back of my neck, pulled my hood onto my head, and had it cover my eyes. I’m glad I’m still able to see through it.

“Whoa…” the male said behind me.

I spun around to see what these two buffoons actually looked like.

What stood in front of me was shocking.

I was kneeling in front of a purple unicorn that was at eye level with me. Its mane was dark sapphire blue with violet and rose colored streaks, and it was styled fashionably like a human. The unicorn also had huge, violet eyes shining with interest, scanning me up and down, this way and that. The unicorns face wasn’t very comparable to a horses face either. It was actually closer to the face of a human than any horse I’ve ever seen.

“You’re a unicorn,” I said, hardly believing what I am seeing.

“Yeah…” it said awkwardly.

So it was the unicorn that was the female voice I was hearing the entire time I was blind.

“And I’m a dragon!” the male voice shouted from somewhere behind the unicorn.

I leaned over to see a small human-like dragon the size of a toddler, colored purple with a green belly and scales running down its head to its back down to the end of its tail. Like the unicorn, its face resembled a human more than an animal. He wasn’t as surprising, considering that I had met Drogun before, but he was undeniably unique.

“I will admit I am a bit shocked to see you as well,” I said, “but I’ve seen a dragon before. It’s not as big of a surprise.”

The little dragon gave a small grunt, assumingly from not getting as much attention from me as he hoped. It’s interesting how similar their behavior is to a human’s. I was about to lean back in front of the unicorn when I caught something in the corner of my eye; the unicorn had what looked like a tattoo on its thigh. I couldn’t really see it from this angle, though.

“Do you mind turning to the side for a moment?” I asked politely and curiously.

“Oh, uh, sure,” the unicorn responded, shaking her head for a moment.

A moment after it spoke, she turned to her body to its left, but her head was still staring at me. When its body had curved just enough, I was able to see what appeared to be a pink six-pointed star surrounded by five small white stars.

“Why do you have stars on your thigh?” I said, more to myself than to the unicorn.

“Actually they’re sparkles,” it responded, “and I have it ‘on my flank’ because it’s my cutie mark.”

“And what the hell is a cutie mark?”

“Well, a cutie mark is a symbol of a ponies’ special talent. It shows who they are and how they’re different from the other ponies. A pony gets their cutie mark when they’re a filly, after they realize what their special talent is.”

…I have no response to this.

“Alright, I have another question,” I said, and the unicorn turned to face me again. “How did you bring me here, and why?”

“Well, uh, I was using my magic on a spell, and it…kind of was an accident…” the unicorn responded, going quiet and looking in the other direction.

I was brought here on accident…I could still be in London right now, and instead I’m in a library accompanied by a talking purple unicorn and a purple-and-green baby dragon.

I looked around the unicorn and noticed the dragon wasn’t there anymore.

Scratch that; I’m accompanied by a talking purple unicorn.

“I demand for you to send me back,” I said.

The unicorn’s horn began to glow some shade of purple that I couldn’t exactly describe, then suddenly a book glowing the same color zoomed in front of it, suspended in midair. The book began flipping pages for the unicorn as she skimmed through each one. After about ten pages of skimming, I noticed that the unicorn appeared to be sweating.

Maybe it’s sick. I normally would not care whether something’s ill or not, but it’s a unique creature, I can’t let it die.

“Are you feeling alright?” I asked.

“I-I’m fine, thanks,” she said nervously.

I could tell it’s just nervous. No big deal. But why is it nervous?

I put my hand on its neck. Immediately afterwards I heard its thoughts in my head as if it were my own.

“Dear Celestia it’s touching me,” were the first thoughts I heard, followed by my hand feeling the unicorn have a chill. “I’d better find a spell to send this thing back to where it came from quick, or otherwise it might kill me.”

She must think I’m an animal, like how I thought she was. But it turns out she’s actually able to think intelligently, making her different from anything that I refer to as an animal.

“Growing mustaches; no, that’s not it,” her thoughts continued, as another page was flipped. “Teleporting objects; no…” yet another page was flipped. “Aha! Summoning demons!”

At this last sentence of thought, the unicorn’s face looked relieved.

“‘The ancient art of summoning demons was practiced long ago by an unknown unicorn. His journal entries have been a month-long process before they had suddenly stopped. Theories have been suggested why, but none seem to fit. Demons had been described in the journal as ‘large, two-legged beasts with ape-like features, but most do not have any fur anywhere besides the tops of their skulls, and all wear unusual clothing. They appear to have pony-like intelligence, but panic severely and easily when spoken to.’ The journal also states that once a demon is summoned, it cannot return to its original home, due to it being unknown by any pony in Equestria.’”

I took my hand off of the unicorn’s neck and fell backwards purposely onto the floor with a thud.

“I’m never going home…” I thought out loud.

“Y-you…what?” the unicorn stuttered.

“I can’t believe I’m never going home…” I thought out loud once again.

“How…h-how did you-?”

“When I put my hand on your neck I heard your thoughts,” I explained. “I was able to feel your brain giving off signals to your body, so I was able to catch the readable signals and hear it inside my own head, because those are your thoughts. It also indicates you are a very intelligent creature, due to how fast I was able to pick it up.”

“Y-you think I’m intelligent?” she said.

“I KNOW you’re intelligent. I was able to hear your thoughts immediately after I put my hand on your neck, meaning that you are, in fact, VERY intelligent.”

I continued to lie on my back as I stared up into the ceiling, thinking about how I could possibly go home. Then I realized that I had powers, and that I’m able to teleport.

“I’m going to see if I can teleport myself back home,” I said into the room.

I want to be in my own living room back in London.

Nothing’s happening.

Oh no…

I put my hood down (who cares anymore?), placing my hands on my face. Why me? Why do I, out of all of the 6 billion people on the planet (at this point of time), have to be stuck here?

“Uh…mister demon…sir,” the unicorn said. “Is there something wrong?”

“I can’t teleport back to my house,” I said. “Out of my three-thousand and fifty-seven years of having these abilities, they have never failed until today.”

“You’re three-thousand and fifty-seven years old?!”

“Actually I’m three-thousand and eighty-nine. I was thirty-two when I got my abilities, and ever since then I had stopped aging.” I took my hands off of my face and saw the unicorn’s large, violet eyes staring into mine.

“Your eyes are so bizarre…” she said.

“They are like this for eternity,” I explained. “Before I got my abilities, they were green. But now, they are the key to my appearance. If my eyes are hidden to the point to where nobody is able to see them, I’ll look like any normal human.”

“And that’s why you wear that hood…”

“Exactly. But if they aren't covered, I’ll look like how I am now. And if you didn’t notice, I only wear my hood because it would freak people out if they saw me like this.”

I rolled over onto my side and curled up into a sleeping position. This floor is strangely comfortable.

“Do you mind if I stay here?” I asked. “You don’t need to take care of me or anything; I just need a place to stay.”

I didn't get a response, and I couldn't see the unicorn’s face from my position, so I assumed she was thinking heavily. I reached upward and touched her neck.

“Great, now he’s listening to my thoughts again,” I heard. “Mister Demon, could you please stop?"

I obeyed her thoughts and dropped my arm onto the floor with a small thud.

“Thank you,” the unicorn said.

Maybe I could find somewhere else to stay? Sure, I might freak all of the unicorns out, but I’m sure eventually they’ll be comfortable with me being around.

My head started to ache a little, so I propped my head up on my arm. It didn’t help at all, but I wasn’t really focusing on it.

I don’t think the unicorn is going to be letting me stay here, so maybe I should just leave. But yet this floor is so comfortable, I don’t want to get up. But the unicorn is going to have a problem with me being here, so I really should go.

“Or you could just stay,” the unicorn said.

I turned my head left so I would be looking straight up, and I saw just in time to see the unicorn’s horn stop glowing, and my headache faded simultaneously. She was grinning widely.

“Did you just-?”

“Yes, yes I did,” she confirmed.

“Well then,” I said, sitting up, “I think if I’m going to be living here, we should really get to know more about each other. My name is Christian Gordon. What would your name be?”

“I am Twilight Sparkle. It’s a pleasure to properly meet you.”

Twilight Sparkle held out her hoof in front of her. I took the offer and shook hands (or hand and hoof in this case)

“I really appreciate you letting me be here,” I said. “I’ve met quite a few people throughout my life, but not many would let somebody they just met stay in their house like you’re doing with me.”

“Well, I have to admit it’s unusual for most ponies around here as well.”

I gave a small laugh and lay back down. Suddenly I was feeling tired. I conjured a pillow out of thin air, tucked it under my head, and closed my eyes.

I felt what must have been Twilight patting me on the head, followed by the sounds of hooves walking across wood.

I’m glad I came across such a kind friend.

When I woke up, I felt myself lying in my bed, warm and comfy. I didn’t open my eyes, I wanted to go back to sleep. I had the best, and yet strangest dream I’ve had for around two years. I rolled onto my other side, when at that point I felt hair against my foot.

I live alone.

I opened my eyes and saw nothing but darkness.

I conjured a single-person-flashlight (a flashlight that only lights things up for the holder, invented in the year 2612) and held it up in front of me.

I was facing Twilight Sparkle, the purple unicorn that I had just met, peacefully asleep. I smiled. I’m very relieved that it wasn't a dream. I glanced under the star-map covers, pointing the flashlight underneath it as well, and I saw that my legs were touching the end of Twilight’s tail. I adjusted myself so that I wouldn't be laying on her tail, made the flashlight vanish, looked directly at Twilight, and whispered “Thank you” before closing my eyes and going back to sleep.

I could have sworn I saw her smile.

I was woken up by being blinded by the sunlight shining through the window.

I used my telekinesis to draw the curtains. As soon as the daylight was blocked, I sat up in the bed and stretched, yawning. Then I teleported in a spiral of purple flames out of the bed because I was too lazy to get up. I used my telekinesis again to straighten up the bed that I had somehow been put into and looked around.

Twilight’s room didn't really remind me of anything. There was a small desk holding a marble bust of a unicorn, a clock and pair of horseshoes on the wall, a pink-ish rug on the ground, and a little cat bed next to the real one.

I instantly realized that there was no door to the room, only a small cliff going downward to the library.

I was about to be curious as hell on how she got up here (along with bringing me with her) when a second look revealed a staircase on my left.

I want to be about five feet away from Twilight Sparkle, inside of her house.

I teleported once more in a spiral of purple flames, and I was standing back in the library where I arrived yesterday. I was facing the behind of Twilight. She looked deeply focused on a certain letter. A split second later, I saw that there was a quill glowing an uncertain shade of purple, along with Twilight’s horn. I guess she’s writing a letter to someone.

I didn’t want to stop her, so I sat on the ground, conjured a glass of tea, and began to drink silently, staring at the marvelous unicorn.  A few minutes of silence passed, and then the purple-and-green dragon from yesterday walked in, carrying a plate with a teapot and two teacups contained what must be no other than tea. It carried the plate over to Twilight’s table, placed it down, bowed, and said “Your drink, your majesty!”

“Thank you, Spike,” Twilight responded, levitating the teacup to her mouth and taking a small sip.

Spike the dragon took the other teacup and started drinking as well. Spike looked around for something to do, and as soon as his eyes saw me, he spit out his mouth full of tea.

Twilight looked over and said “Spike, what’s wrong?”

Spike was speechless, so he pointed in my direction. Twilight’s eyes followed Spike’s arm and found me an instant later. I waved at them.

“Good morning, Christian,” she said happily. “Did you sleep well?”

“I slept fine, thank you.”

“Wait…what? Huh?” Spike said confusedly. “I-I thought you said you would get rid of that thing last night!”

I’m not going to ask.

“Christian, here, is going to be staying here from now on,” Twilight explained. “Don’t worry about taking care of him, he’ll be fine.”

“She’s right, you know,” I said, toasting my cup to him and sipping it.

Spike just stood there frozen, not making a sound.

“There’s nothing to worry about,” I said. “I won’t be doing anything that’ll cause trouble.”

“B-but he’s not gonna be replacing anyone, right? I mean, you don’t need another assistant, why do you need him here?”

“Twilight is just being a good friend and letting me live here,” I said. “Trust me, if I could, I would go back home. But unfortunately, I’m stuck here for eternity. So I might as well have a place to stay. “

“So…you’re not going to be her number one assistant?” Spike said.

“No, I will not.”

Spike wiped sweat off of his forehead in relief. I shrugged and continued to drink my tea, but my lips didn’t meet any liquid. I looked in my cup and saw that it was empty. I threw the cup over my shoulder, having it vanish before doing any harm, and conjured a new, full, cup of hot tea.

Spike walked back into the other room, taking his teacup with him, and Twilight went back to writing her letter. I sat silently drinking my tea as Twilight wrote her letter for what seemed like an hour, when out of nowhere, Twilight yelled “SPIKE!” while rolling up the letter, having a ribbon fly by and tying itself to it, making a neat scroll.

Spike zoomed into the room and stopped directly in front of Twilight, saluting her like a soldier.

“Send this letter to Princess Celestia,” Twilight said.

The letter glowed entirely the shade of Twilight’s magic and was put into Spike’s hand. Once the letter had stopped glowing, Spike took a deep breath and blew on the scroll, scorching it with green flames, leaving nothing but twinkling smoke suspended in midair.

“She said send the letter! Not scorch it!” I said.

“Don’t worry,” Spike assured, “I always do this to send letters, there just aren’t any windows open.”

Spike walked over to the front door (which had a candle on the inside for some unknown reason) and opened it. The smoke flew over to the door and zoomed out into the clear sky outside.

“You see?” Spike said, closing the door. “The letter was never burned, it was just sent magically to Princess Celestia. Eventually she’ll write back.”

Well this seems like an unusual way of receiving mail.

“So do you know what you’re going to be doing around here?” Spike asked.

“Not really,” I answered. “I just needed somewhere to rest my head, since I can’t go back home.”

“Well you need to do something!” Spike said, drooping his arms. “Why don’t you go and meet everyone in Ponyville?”

“Are you CRAZY?!” Twilight answered. “The town would FREAK if they saw Christian! There’s no WAY he’s gonna go out there!”

“Well…”

I stopped and drank my tea, knowing the answer Twilight would give.

“Well…what?” Twilight said.

I sighed. “I am able to morph myself into anything I have DNA of, and alter it from there.”

“You’re able to change your physical form just by getting a DNA sample?!” Twilight exclaimed.

“I am,” I confirmed. “But the thing is I would need your DNA sample, because I am more than certain that dragons aren’t very common around here.”

“So what are you saying?” Twilight and Spike said simultaneously.

“I’m saying I need to either have a blood sample from Twilight, or I’ll need to touch her tongue to gather saliva; spitting doesn’t work that well. It’s either one of those or I’ll have to stay in here forever. It’s your choice.”

Twilight brought a hoof to her chin in thought (I didn’t know horses were able to do that kind of thing, depending on their bone structure) as I carried on with my tea. Spike also began to whisper into Twilight’s ear. After a moment Twilight said “Alright”.

I got up, walked over to Twilight, and knelt in front of her, so we were at eye level.

“What was your choice?” I said.

“I…guess you could…touch my tongue…” Twilight said, going quiet. Her ears had dropped at the word “guess”.

“Alright then,” I said, “open wide.”

Twilight opened her mouth and stuck out her tongue, blushing slightly at the awkwardness of the situation. I rubbed my right index finger and middle finger against it, collecting saliva. It was pretty nasty, but it had small amounts of DNA in it.

After collecting all that was needed (which was a few drops) I conjured a pair of Microscopic Glasses (invented in the year 2559) and put them on. Twilight pulled her tongue back into her mouth and closed it, watching my actions keenly.

I flipped a switch on the side and it magnified close enough to see DNA samples. It took a moment, but I counted a total of twenty-four DNA samples. Exactly the amount I need. I had the microscopic glasses vanish and absorbed the saliva into my hand.

I want to look like Twilight Sparkle.

My bone structure was rearranging inside of me, along with my organs (thank God I can’t feel pain), to the point where I couldn’t keep my balance on two legs, so I went on all fours. The shifting inside me went on for a few minutes before I felt my head begin to change.

My face grew outward, my ears went upward, and my eyes grew bigger. Another couple of minutes passed, and then I felt the changes stop. I still felt my clothes on me, but they felt differently than how they did moments ago.

I tried to walk, but I wasn’t used to having hooves for feet, and I fell onto my face after my first three steps.

“You are so fascinating!” Twilight exclaimed. “How are you able to do that?!”

“If you mean fall on my face,” I remarked, attempting to stand up, but only fell back down to the floor, “like that.” This time when I spoke, it wasn’t my voice that was coming out, but instead Twilight’s.

Twilight gave a short laugh. “No, silly, I meant how are you able to alter your appearance at will?”

“I can’t really explain it,” I said, standing up shakily. “I just think what I want and it just happens.”

“So are you saying that your abilities are connected to your mind?” Spike said.

“Yes, that’s how I’m able to do anything I want.”

I started to walk slowly and more carefully around the room while Spike and Twilight both watched me, and I didn’t collapse yet! Right when I thought I was getting the hang of it, I fell directly onto my face again.

Screw this.

I want to be able to walk easily.

This time when I got up, I was able to walk with no difficulty. If I were to describe it, the closest thing I can compare it to was that it felt like I was crawling like an infant. I reached behind my shoulders and pulled my hood over my eyes. Since these are Twilight’s eyes, I couldn’t see through them. I closed my eyes for a moment, thought “I want to be able to see through my hood”, and opened them back up. I was able to see as though there was no hood at all. I conjured a mirror and stood in front of it.

Looking back at me was Twilight Sparkle, wearing a hood over her head and horn. Behind me stood the original Twilight Sparkle, and at her side was Spike. I focused my attention back onto myself.

It’s time to make some changes.

I changed my mane style to resemble my own (where it was hidden underneath my hood) and my tail to match it. I like the color purple, so I just made my fur color a teeny bit darker than Twilight’s.

I turned a little to the side and focused on the cutie mark. What picture would best describe me? Maybe a ball of purple flames could represent me? No, no, that would represent my powers, not actually ME. Well, the only thing that differs me from others is my abilities, so I’ll decide on that.

After the final change was made, I had the mirror vanish and I turned to face Twilight and Spike.

“Well, what do you think?” I said. Twilight’s voice still came out of my mouth, so I cleared my throat, had my voice go back to normal, and tried again.

“Well, what do you think?” I said in my own voice.

“You are truly the most fascinating creature in existence…” Twilight said. Spike didn’t say a word; he just stood there with his jaw hanging open.

“I’d like to thank you again, Twilight, for letting me borrow your DNA,” I appreciated.

Twilight nodded and said “If you’re going to be walking around Ponyville, you’re going to need a story in case anypony asks how you got here.”

“Don’t worry, I’m a quick thinker,” I assured. “If anyone brings it up, I’ll explain everything.

I walked over to the door so I could get to walk around town, but I felt like something was wrong, so I turned my head around. Twilight was still in the same spot.

“Are we leaving or not?” I said.

“Oh yeah, but are you sure you want to be going out like that?” Twilight asked, walking over to me. “Because I’m pretty sure that a mare with a colt’s voice isn’t very normal around here.”

Spike laughed loudly in the back.

“Oh, uh, right…”

I want to change my gender to a male.

Not a thing changed.

“I think I’m going to need DNA from a male…” I said awkwardly. “But in the meantime I’ll just pass around as a girl.”

I altered my appearance slightly so my mane was longer, and I changed my voice back to match Twilight’s.

“I hope you don’t mind me borrowing your voice,” I said, opening the front door.

Twilight giggled. “Not at all, but I’m sure somepony will notice.”

“Like I said; I’m a quick thinker.”

I walked outside the door, and my eyes immediately fell upon a light-gold horse with cyan eyes and a long, pink mane. The horse shrieked and fell backwards.

“Hello Fluttershy,” Twilight said, squeezing between me and the doorway to get outside.

Fluttershy looked frightened from me to Twilight, back to me, and back to Twilight.

“I’m Christina,” I said, holding out a hoof, “it’s a pleasure to meet you.”

I had always used the name “Christina” whenever I passed on as a female, because it was still close to my own name, which I liked very much.

Fluttershy pressed her hoof against mine very softly and moved it up and down gently before retreating.

“Did you need something, Fluttershy?” Twilight asked.

Fluttershy stood up back onto her feet and said “Well, um, yes I did. I was wondering if you had a book about taking care of snakes.” Her voice was very soft and polite. “You see, a new snake slithered into my cottage and it hasn’t really moved since. I’m not sure if it’s sick or…or…”

“I’ve got just the thing,” Twilight interrupted, her horn glowing. A few seconds after, a book glowing the same color zoomed in front of Twilight.

“Backyard Safari; Volume IV; Snakes and Raccoons,” she read aloud.

Fluttershy brought a small smile to her face at the sight of the book. “Thank you, Twilight,” she said, grabbing the book with her maw, causing it to cease glowing.

“My pleasure,” Twilight responded, bowing.

Fluttershy turned around, spread wings that I hadn’t noticed before, and took off.

“You didn’t tell me there were horses with wings around here!” I said.

“Hey! ‘Horse’ is not a polite word to call someone,” Twilight told me. “And yes, there are many ponies with wings, horns, and even ponies without either of them.”

“So they have regular ‘ponies’, ‘ponies’ with wings, and unicorns all running around this town?” I said, confused.

“Yes, there are. And for your information; the winged ponies are called pegasai.”

“Pegasai?”

“It’s the plural for pegasus.”

So pegasus is a species now, and not a Greek myth?

Where the living hell is this place?

“Come on, I’ll introduce you to all of my friends,” Twilight said, leading the way. I followed.

We walked around town for a while, and Twilight was not kidding; there are unicorns, pegasai, and normal ponies everywhere. Each and every one was a different color, had a different mane style, and had a different cutie mark.

I’m noticing as we’re walking round town that most of the regular ponies have horseshoe or foot-related marks, unicorns mainly have astronomical symbols, and most pegasai have weather-related marks.

I wonder how they all get their cutie marks…

“Oh look!” Twilight said out of nowhere. “There’s Pinkie Pie over there, let’s go meet her!”

Twilight attempted to pull me with her magic as she ran off, but I wasn’t affected; I’m immune to any kind of unwanted actions against my body. I tried to keep up with Twilight, but having these new legs prevented me from going very fast.

“HEY PINKIE PIE!” Twilight yelled, still dashing.

A regular, bubblegum-pink pony with light blue eyes along with sky-blue and yellow balloons as a cutie mark had come into view. She had a light-red mane and tail that reminded me of cotton-candy. I knew Twilight was after this pink pony because it was the only one that had stopped to look at Twilight.

Twilight was running so fast that she didn’t have much time to stop, and had collided with Pinkie Pie head-on. By the time I had caught up with them both, Twilight was already standing up, rubbing her forehead while Pinkie Pie was rolling on the ground laughing.

“You were all just WOOOOOOMMM and I was just like-” Pinkie Pie made a surprised face. “-and then we were just all WABOOM! BLAM! KABOOSHHH!” Pinkie Pie continued to laugh uncontrollably.

Something tells me that she likes to talk a lot. Pinkie stood up onto her feet and looked at Twilight, although her eyes were pointed at me.

“Who’s your friend Twilight?” Pinkie Pie asked.

“This is Christina,” Twilight answered. “I wanted to introduce you. Christina this is Pinkie Pie.”

I held out my hoof for Pinkie, and she took it and shook it like crazy. Luckily it was only my leg that I allowed to be shaken.

“My name is Pinkamena Diane Pie, but you can just call me Pinkie Pie!” the pink pony said, still shaking my leg.

“It’s nice to meet you,” I said.

Pinkie stopped shaking my leg immediately and stared right at me.

“You sound a lot like Twilight…” Pinkie said, putting her face close to mine. “In fact, now that I notice, you kinda look like her to…”

I need to think fast.

“I get that a lot,” I said. “I’m actually not related to Twilight at all. I just came into town today.”

“But how come you sound exactly like Twilight?” Pinkie continued to stare where my eyes should be, and even flipped herself upside-down to see if she can see inside my hood.

“Do you mind taking off that hood?” Pinkie asked.

“Actually I do,” I answered. “See, I’m having a bad hair day, so I’m wearing this hood to cover it. I don’t like other pe-I mean ponies…to see my hair while it’s like this.”

Pinkie squinted her eyes in suspicion of me. I put my hoof to Pinkie’s neck, and she didn’t seem to care. It took a moment for me to catch any brain waves (meaning she isn’t as intelligent as Twilight) but I caught some shortly.

“I wonder why Christina’s voice sounds exactly like Twilight’s voice,” I heard. “I also wonder why her color is just a little darker than Twilight’s. Also why is she a unicorn just like Twilight? Is she related to Twilight? Could she be Twilight’s cousin? Maybe an evil clone of Twilight? Maybe I should ask Zecora about evil clones. Aw who am I kidding, she’s just another pony like anyone else! Who am I to change that?”

Pinkie flipped herself upright and I put my hoof back down.

“Nice meeting you!” Pinkie said, skipping off.

Twilight walked in front of me and said “She was getting suspicious. Nice thinking.”

“I’m three-thousand and eighty-nine years old,” I said, smiling, “you wouldn’t think that I would have learned some quick-thinking by now?” Twilight shook her head and began to lead me somewhere else through town.

“Who are we meeting now?” I asked as we were walking.

“We’re going to meet Rarity. She’s a unicorn too.”

Another unicorn? This might be interesting. Twilight and I walked through town, seeing some shops and plenty of ponies on our way to see Rarity.

“So where is Rarity’s house?” I asked.

“Oh she lives in her dress shop,” Twilight answered. “She loves making dresses for others, and especially on new ponies.”

Colorful horses that wear clothing, what else is new? Wait… “new ponies”?

“She better not make any for me. I was a female a few times, and I always hated wearing dresses. They’re so uncomfortable.”

Twilight giggled. “She might.”

We walked for another minute or so before reaching a fancy cylinder-like building with a sign that reads “Carousel Boutique”

.

“Lady’s first,” I said, opening the door for Twilight.

“Well, technically you’re a lady too,” Twilight remarked, walking inside. I couldn’t stop myself from smiling, and so I followed Twilight in.

“RARITY!” Twilight called.

As soon as I stepped inside, I was surrounded by clothing and mannequins everywhere. There were mirrors on many walls, and at one particularly big mirror was a small stand. This must be where Rarity measures ponies.

“Coming!” an elegant voice came from somewhere in the shop.

There was some rustling somewhere on the right of the shop, and a pure-white unicorn popped out from a clothing rack. Her mane was curly and colored indigo, she had blue-ish eyes and a very light-blue eye-shadow. As she was walking towards Twilight, I noticed that she had three light-blue diamonds as a cutie mark

“I apologize Twilight,” Rarity said, “I was just finishing up on a new dress I was making. You see, I-” She stopped speaking when her eyes reached me. I smiled.

“Hello, I’m-”

“Artistic!” Rarity interrupted. “That hood is like no other I’ve ever seen!” She came closer to observe the features of my clothing. “It appears to be a mixture of a vest and a cloak, and those LEGGINGS! Where did you ever find someone who could make a fabric like THAT?!”

“Um…myself,” I answered, not sure if I’m being offended or complimented.

“Wow! I never knew that such a mare like yourself could…wait, could you say that again?”

“Myself,” I repeated, slightly confused.

“You sound almost exactly like Twilight here! Twilight, say what…um…”

“Christina,” I answered for her.

“Yes, sorry about that. Could you please repeat what Christina said just now?”

“Myself,” Twilight said.

“You two DO sound alike! How strange!”

Great, now SHE’S starting to get suspicious.

“Yes, well, um…” Twilight cleared her throat. “I would like to introduce you to my new friend Christina. Christina, this is Rarity. She’s a fashion designer.”

“I noticed,” I said, motioning to one of the hundreds of racks of clothing.

“How about we get you fitted into something more decent looking?” Rarity said, her horn glowing blue and several dresses came flying near her, glowing the same color.

“I-I’m okay, thanks,” I said, backing away slightly.

“Oh don’t hesitate dear!” One of the dresses, colored daisy yellow and rose, flew over to me.

“I…don’t…want…” I was trying to fight the dress as it pulled itself onto me, but whenever I tried to pull at it, the dress always seemed to slip away.

After what seemed like ages of fighting (actually it was probably just a few minutes) I was wearing what looked like the most ridiculous thing on the planet.

“Why are you still wearing that hood, dear?” Rarity asked.

I had just noticed that my hood had managed to stay on underneath the dress, but my pants were not, and were lying on the ground (luckily, I could feel that my boxers managed to stay on).

“I-I’m having a bad hair day,” I said. “I don’t really want anypony seeing me like this.”

I can’t believe I said “anypony”. That sounds so ridiculous to say.

“Oh you need not to worry about that, darling. I can fix up your mane in no time!” Rarity had somehow called a hairbrush to join the levitating dresses when this was said.

“I…um…just like my hood. Yeah. I haven’t taken this thing off for a LONG time! It’s special to me,” I said quickly.

“Maybe Christina and I should go,” Twilight said.

“Is this dress important to you, or can you make a new one?” I asked.

“I’ve got plenty more exactly like that one, why must you ask?”

I ripped the dress off of me using my teeth in a heartbeat, sending two pieces into the air. Rarity stood frozen in the spot, her mouth hanging open, and all of the things she had suspended in midair fell to the floor with a small clatter. I used my telekinesis to have my pants fly back onto my hind legs (where they belonged) and I walked towards the door.

“Sorry about your dress,” I said. “Here’s something to make up for it.” I conjured a large diamond the size of a small golf ball behind my front legs, and then I rolled it over to Rarity’s feet.

“Good day.”

I opened the door for Twilight, but she stopped at the doorway. “You don’t make a lot of friends, do you?” she whispered.

I shook my head.

Twilight rolled her eyes with a smile and went outside, with me on her tail (metaphorically).

“So, where to next?” I asked.

“Sweet Apple Acres; Applejack’s farm,” Twilight answered.

We took a few turns through town, when we came across the town market. There were carts of fresh fruit and vegetables everywhere, and the clinging of coins could be heard from all around.

“So is this market here Applejack’s farm?” I remarked.

“No,” Twilight responded, “I just wanted to see if Applejack would be here selling apples.”

I followed Twilight around the market, mainly trying to keep up with her swift walking. Twilight’s head moved this way and that, looking for who-knows-what. I kept following, and because of Twilight moving so hurriedly, I wasn’t able to really notice any of my surroundings. All of a sudden Twilight stopped, causing me to ram into her, knocking us both down.

“Why’d you stop?” I said, getting up and brushing myself off.

“I thought I heard Applebloom,” Twilight said, getting up with a groan. “Applebloom is Applejack’s little sister,” she answered to my puzzled face. I stopped and listened as well.

“I can’t hear anything but the chatter of ponies everywhere,” I said.

“Listen more carefully”

I took a deep breath and closed my eyes.

I want to hear nothing except for Twilight and Applebloom.

Suddenly, it seemed as though I had gone deaf. I couldn’t hear a thing.

“Apples! We got your freshly picked apples straight from Sweet Apple Acres! Only 3 bits each!”

It sounded as though a little girl around the age of seven or eight was talking, coming from what seemed like a few meters away to the left somewhere.

I want my hearing to return to normal.

Once my hearing came back, I tapped Twilight on the shoulder, having her head turn around to face me.

“They’re somewhere off to the left,” I said, motioning my head towards the direction I heard them from.

“Great! Come on!” Twilight jumped behind me and began to push, but no results came from her attempts.

“You do know that you can only alter the way I am if I allow you to, right?” I said. Twilight stopped pushing me at once.

“Oh, I was about to ask why you were so heavy,” she said. “You weren’t that heavy last night when I carried you to my bed.”

Twilight walked around me and zoomed off somewhere behind a small group of ponies that made me lose sight of her. I pushed my way past them, and my eyes fell upon Twilight talking to an orange pony with a blonde mane and tail, along with green eyes. She had three apples as a cutie mark, and was wearing a brown cowboy hat and an apron. Accompanying the orange pony was a very small, yellow-ish pony with a red mane, orange eyes, and a large light-red bow on her head. She didn’t have a cutie mark.

“You know, you really should wait for me, Twilight,” I said, walking up to the stand. “You’re lucky I’m not stupid enough to lose you easily.”

“Sorry Christina,” Twilight said, “I guess I got pretty excited to introduce you to my friends...”

“Uh, Twilight?” The orange pony said. “Do you mind introducing us to your new friend?”

“Oh! Uh, this is my friend Christina.”

“It’s a pleasure to meet you,” I said, holding a hoof out. The orange pony pressed her hoof against mine and moved it up and down.

“Nice to meet you too, Christina,” she said. She had some kind of southern accent that I couldn’t recognize. “You sound a lot like Twilight here. Anyways, I’m Applejack. How would you like an apple straight from Sweet Apple Acres? They’re freshly picked!”

“Sure,” I said.

I don’t feel like eating right now, but I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings by denying it. Applejack reached her hoof into the cart and pulled out a large red apple.

“That’ll be three bits,” she said.

I have no idea what the hell a bit is, but I want three of them to be on my back.

“Here you go,” I said, turning to the side.

The little pony jumped up and pulled the “bits” off of my back, and Applejack handed me the apple. I took it with my mouth (I’m afraid I would drop it without fingers) from Applejack’s hoof. The skin already tasted sweet against my tongue.

“Thank you for doing business with us,” the little pony said.

I saw her put three little gold coins in a small jar that was next to the wheel of the cart. I began to drool a little from the apple being in my mouth.

I want the apple I’m holding to go into my jeans pocket, without being harmed.

The apple burst into purple flames for a fraction of a second, and then nothing was in my mouth but saliva and air, so I closed it.

“Magic,” I said, answering all three bewildered faces. “Don’t worry; I’m just saving the apple for later.”

Applejack blinked. “That’s some of the strangest magic I had ever laid eyes on,” she said.

“Yeah, mine’s a bit unusual around here,” I said, rubbing the back of my neck. “But it’s quite normal where I’m from.”

Why did I say that? Now they’re gonna ask-

“Where’re you from, anyway?” the little pony asked.

“You’re Applebloom, right?” I said, trying to stay off-topic.

“Yes I am,” Applebloom responded, puffing her chest out a little.

“I couldn’t help but notice,” I said, getting lower to reach Applebloom’s height, “why is it you don’t have your cutie mark?”

“I haven’t gotten mine yet, but me and the other Cutie Mark Crusaders are determined to get our Cutie Marks, no matter what it takes!” Applebloom stood proudly in place, having her hoof in the air.

“Well with that spirit, I’m sure you’ll get yours in no time,” I said, messing up Applebloom’s mane and standing back up to normal height (or, at least, pony height)

“It’s been a pleasure meeting you two,” I said, turning to Twilight. “Ready to go?” I asked.

“If you’re ready, we can see if we can find Rainbow Dash,” she said.

Twilight turned and started walking. I gave Applejack and Applebloom one last nod before following. Twilight led me all around town, through alleys and main streets, mainly looking skyward as she walked. I have a feeling that Rainbow Dash has wings. We were walking for what felt like hours (possibly minutes again), when Twilight stopped (this time I didn’t collide with her) and gave a sigh.

“I guess Rainbow’s off somewhere practicing for Wonderbolt tryouts,” she said, sounding depressed.

“Why so down?” I asked, walking over to Twilights side.

“I just wanted for all of my friends to meet you, so they can get comfortable around you when you go back to how you really are.”

“Why would you want to show your friends what I really look like?” I said, trying to keep my voice down.

“Because you’re the most fascinating thing in existence, Christina,” she said.

I was about to correct her, saying that my name is really Christian, but someone had yelled “TWILIGHT!”

A sky-blue pegasus with a rough, rainbow-colored mane and tail along with purple eyes landed in front of us. She had a cloud and a rainbow colored lightning bolt as a cutie mark.

“Sup Twilight,” she said. “Who’s your friend?”

“I assume you’re Rainbow Dash?” I said.

“Yes I am! Has Twilight here been telling you all about me? Because-”

“No, she hasn’t,” I interrupted. I could tell by the tone of Rainbow Dash’s voice that she liked to talk a lot about herself.

“I’m Christina. Nice to meet you.” I held out my hoof for her to shake like the others, but she didn’t take it.

“You sound a lot like Twilight…” Rainbow Dash said, narrowing her eyes slightly.

“Why is it everyone is asking that?” I said to Twilight, putting my hoof back on the ground.

“Probably because you do,” she answered.

“You DO. Are you two related or something?” Rainbow Dash said.

“No, we are not related,” I said. “I just came into town today.”

“Well, now that I notice, you look a lot like Twilight too.”

“Look,” I said, sounding serious, “I am tired of everyone saying that I look and sound like Twilight, okay? I am not her sister. I am not her cousin. I am her friend. That is all. Got it?”

“Okay. Jeez, I was just messing with you,” Dash said, rolling her eyes.

“Why is it you’re called ‘Rainbow Dash’ anyway?” I asked. “It sounds like you ought to be running everywhere.”

“Actually I fly everywhere,” Dash corrected. “And I’ll show you why I’m called ‘Rainbow Dash’.”

She took off into the sky instantly, flying this way and that, doing flips, stunts and other moves I can’t even watch fast enough to describe. After it was over, Rainbow Dash landed back in front of us.

“That was ten seconds,” she said, standing proudly, “and I did twenty laps around three clouds, ten flips, and eleven twirls.”

“Eh, I’ve seen faster,” I said. If you count seeing myself go faster, then yeah, I’m being honest.

“Really? Like WHO?” Rainbow Dash said, pressing her head against mine, trying to push me back.

“I can go faster; the only thing is I can’t fly, so I can’t prove it.”

Dash pulled her head back, since her attempts to push me down failed.

“How about a race?” she said. “Tomorrow, at Sweet Apple Acres. Sunset. See you there.” Rainbow Dash took off into the sky before I could say another word.

“Do you know how much trouble you’re gonna be in?” Twilight said. “You can’t beat her!”

“Actually I can,” I said, rotating myself to face her. “I’m able to make myself as fast as I want. Additionally; I can slow down and even stop time.”

“You can WHAT?!” Twilight gasped.

“Yes, I can control time flow,” I said. “But I can only control myself and anything I’m holding. It’s no big deal, really.”

“Of COURSE it’s a big deal! YOU CAN CONTROL TIME!”

“Quiet down!” I said. “You’ll attract attention!”

“Oh, sorry…” Twilight whispered.

Let’s get back on subject…

“So, is that everyone?” I asked. “Or do you have another fifty dozen friends you would like to introduce me to?”

“That’s all,” she said, smiling slightly. “Come on, let’s go home.” Twilight led the way once more, this time taking me back familiar routes through the town, and we eventually reached an enormous tree with windows, a front door, and a balcony. There was a sign outside with a picture of a book that said “Library”. I never noticed what Twilight’s house really looked like until now. I rushed in front of her and opened the door for her once again before she could get it herself.

“You are very kind,” she said, walking inside, with me following.

As soon as the door closed, I pulled my hood down and changed back into my normal form, which was a lot faster than turning into Twilight’s duplicate.

“Good to be home,” I said, falling face-first onto the floor for no apparent reason.

“This IS an interesting creature, Twilight.”

I stood back up instantly (with a little help from my levitation ability) and looked where the voice had come from. Standing on the edge of Twilight’s room was a tall, dark blue unicorn (with wings, for some reason). She had a mane and tail that was swooshing without any wind-flow in the house that reminded me a lot of the starry-night sky. Her eyes were cyan, and she had a crescent moon on a black background for a cutie mark. She was wearing a black crown, a black necklace (I think that’s what it is), and silver-ish slippers.

“My sister apologizes for not being able to be here to witness such a creature, Twilight Sparkle,” she said, “but she had urgent matters to attend to down in Canterlot.” The tall pony continued staring down in awe at me. I was speechless.

“Uh…Christian,” Twilight said, “this is Princess Luna. Princess Luna, this is Christian Gordon.”

“It’s a nobility to meet you, Christian Gordon,” Luna said, flying slowly and gently down into the library.

“Well, I-I’m kind of speechless right now, your majesty,” I said. “If you’re expecting something extraordinary to happen-“

“Something extraordinary IS happening, Christian Gordon,” Luna interrupted. “You, standing here, is enough to be extraordinary.”

Well, I never thought about it like that.

“I meant for me to be like shooting fireballs or make hundreds of coins and make them disappear or something. I'm not used to showing off my abilities.”

“Well, no need to,” she said. “A creature like yourself that has intelligence like a pony, AND being able to speak! That is enough to astound me!”

I’m not sure if I should be offended that I’m being referred to as an animal, or be honored that I’m impressing royalty.

“There isn’t really much else to see than to see me talk,” I said, conjuring a soft leather office chair and sitting in it. “What is it you want to know about me? Or what is it you’re expecting from me?”

“I am here to observe what Twilight has described in her letter,” Luna answered. “And you had just proven that you are, indeed, able to create objects out of nothing!”

“That doesn’t really answer my question.”

“Twilight had said in her letter that you are three-thousand and eighty-nine years old. Is that true?”

“Yes it is.”

“I am amazed! Neither I nor my sister have aged that long! Is it possible you were alive before Equestria?”

“Actually, if Equestria is this world you’re referring to, I’m from a different world,” I said. “Twilight had accidently summoned me, and that I’m supposed to be a ‘demon’ according to her book.”

“Well you certainly don’t look like any demon that I have heard about,” Luna said, scanning my features. “Most demons have horns and claws, and are usually much larger, according to legends.”

“I have a question, your majesty…” Twilight said.

“And what would that be, Twilight Sparkle?” Luna responded, not taking her eyes off of me.

“Did you see Christian change when he walked in?”

“Why yes I did!”

Crap.

“I am astonished that Christian Gordon is able to revolutionize his physical form to modify his appearance at will!”

“How did you know it was at will?” I asked. “Twilight didn’t know that I could change my form or control time until after she sent that letter this morning.”

“You are able to direct time?!” Luna exclaimed.

“Yes, that’s why my age is how it is. I had gone back in time after my world had ended so I could see the beginning again from a different location.”

“You are indeed correct, Twilight Sparkle; Christian Gordon IS, in fact, the most remarkable creature Equestria has ever known!"

If the princess has been spreading the word about me, I’m going to have to live my life in solitude. I’m not going to have half of the planet following me everywhere so they can goggle at me like a zoo animal (which I’m probably considered as in Equestria).

“Excuse me princess, might I make a request?” I said.

“Anything.”

“Could you please not be spreading the word about me? I really don’t want hundreds of ponies following me everywhere so they can ‘see if the legendary Christian Gordon is real’ or ‘see if they can touch me’. Although I am, I don’t want to be treated as an outsider in this world.”

“You need not to worry, Christian,” Luna said, “you will not be spoken of to anypony except for Twilight Sparkle and my sister.”

“I appreciate your decision,” I said. “I’ve always been trying to keep my abilities a secret from civilization; otherwise I would be surrounded by hundreds of people wherever I go, asking me to make them money so they’ll be rich, if they can get a picture with me or something like that.”

Luna gave a small chuckle. “As I said previously, you need not to worry; you are a secret to all of Equestria, unless you say otherwise.”

“I won’t,” I said firmly.

“Very well, then,” Luna said.

She turned and faced Twilight. “Twilight Sparkle, I would like you to write regular reports of being with Christian. My sister and I are very interested with him.”

“I will, your majesty,” Twilight answered, bowing.

“I shall be on my way. Farewell!”

Luna walked over to the front door and opened it, stepped outside, spread her wings and took off into the sky. I used my telekinesis to shut the door as fast as I could.

“Sorry for the surprise visit,” Twilight said, walking in front of me. “I just wrote a letter to Princess Celestia telling her all about you. I was so excited that a one-of-a-kind creature had appeared in my house that I just HAD to tell somepony.”

“Well don’t go inviting everyone to come and have a look at me,” I said. “I’m not an animal to come and goggle at.”

“I know that,” Twilight said, “I just didn’t know at the time that you didn’t like to be talked about that often.”

I stood up and made the chair disappear. Feeling tired, I teleported myself to Twilight’s bed, lying down.

“I’m feeling a bit tired, I hope you don’t mind if I take a nap,” I called.

“Not at all,” Twilight answered from downstairs.

I didn't mess up Twilight’s sheets because I wasn't very cold, so I just slept on top of the neatly made bed. I felt a lump on the side of my leg, so I reached inside my pocket and pulled out the apple that Applejack sold me. I conjured a nightstand next to the bed and put the apple on top of it. My eyes began to droop, and I fell asleep within seconds.

When I woke up, I could feel something rubbing against my feet. I looked over and saw that Twilight was lying at the foot of the bed reading.

“What time is it?” I asked, sitting up and stretching.

Twilight looked over at her wall, then responded by saying “It’s half past eleven.”

I stood up on my feet and stretched my legs.

“How long have I been sleeping?” I asked.

“Maybe three or four hours,” she said.

I sat down on the bed next to Twilight, looking at the book she was reading.

It had some of the most bizarre symbols I've ever seen.

“What do those symbols mean?” I asked.

“The first one represents salt,” Twilight explained. “The second one represents olive oil, and the third symbol represents vinegar.

“So you’re looking at ingredients?”

“For a potion, yes. I’ve been studying demons while you were asleep to see if there might be any way to send you back, but I couldn’t find one. But this specific potion that I’m looking at should help prevent the side effect from when you were summoned.”

“What side effect?” I asked.

“After a demon is summoned, it becomes sleepy at random moments in time for a few months. I noticed that it’s been happening with you too.”

So that explains why I’ve been falling asleep so fast.

“I just need to find these ingredients, mix them together, and then cast a spell on it. You’ll go back to normal after you drink it.”

“Why do you need to find them, if I can just make them for you?” I said, conjuring three small containers of the ingredients Twilight mentioned in a neat line in front of me.

“That’s pretty much what I meant,” she responded, smiling and rotating to face the containers.

“Do you need a pot or something to put them in?” I asked.

“No, no, I don’t need one.”

Twilight had the containers of olive oil and vinegar levitate, then she had them pour themselves into the container of salt. I conjured a mixing spoon and offered it to Twilight, where she happily took it. Twilight put the spoon in the mixture, began to mix it in a clockwise direction for thirty seconds exactly, then she started rotating it counterclockwise for the same amount of time. Once she was done mixing, I was expecting her to start chanting or saying nonsense or something, but all that

happened was that her horn glowed brighter than normal for a second, and then the mixture began to give off a yellow aura.

“All done,” she said.

I made the empty containers of olive oil, vinegar, and the mixing spoon vanish, then I picked up the mixture and observed it. There wasn't any hint of any of the three ingredients within it anymore. Instead it was just a green gooey liquid giving off a yellow aura that smelled like over-aged plasma (discovered during the construction of the E.O.A.L.).

“Are you sure that it doesn't taste disgusting?” I asked uncertainly.

“I never said that,” Twilight said.

I don’t want to be able to taste or smell anything until after I drink this unusual mixture.

As soon as the scent of the future had faded away, I had my hood put itself on me (so I had a mouth again) and quickly gulped down the mixture. Once I every last drop was in my stomach, I regained my sense of smell and had an aftertaste of what can relate to the fizzy taste of a soda.

“It takes about fifteen minutes to take effect,” Twilight said.

“Thank you again for going through this trouble for me,” I appreciated, having the last container vanish. “Out of all the people I have met in my life, none would have done all of this for me.”

“It’s no problem at all,” she said. “A friend is always there when another needs them. I hope you’ll do the same.”

“I’ll try my best,” I said. “I don’t magically know that you need advice with your boyfriend or that you broke your leg or that you’re sick, so you need to tell me some of these things if you want me to be able to help.”

“Well, I see a few flaws in that explanation of yours,” Twilight said, smiling. “First of all; I’m single, and I’m not looking for a relationship just yet. Second; I don’t do stupid and dangerous stunts like Rainbow Dash that has a chance of killing me. Finally; you should already know if I’m sick. You live with me.” I gave a short chuckle at her words.

We sat in silence for a moment or two. I didn’t want to break it first, and I assume Twilight didn’t either, so neither of us spoke. It seemed a little awkward because we aren’t doing anything.

“How is it being a librarian?” I asked. “Do you read a lot?”

“Oh of course I do!” Twilight said, glad that I said something. “I LOVE reading! That’s why I live in the library, so I can either read or give somepony an interesting book at any time.”

“Is that how you met your friends?” I asked. “They came here looking for books?”

“No, I didn’t meet them like that,” she said. “They don’t really come here that often to borrow any books, especially Rainbow Dash. I haven’t EVER seen her with a book in her hooves.”

“Then how did you meet them?” I wondered.

“Well, it all started with me arriving in Ponyville. I was supposed to supervise the preparations for the Summer Sun Celebration held in Ponyville with Spike, along with the task of making some friends. At the time, I wasn’t interested in making friends, but instead I was focused on the return of Night Mare Moon.”

“Who is Nightmare Moon?” I asked.

“Basically Night Mare Moon was Princess Luna when she was evil, sort of. Anyway, I went to check up on the food for the festival first. I saw Applejack kicking a tree to harvest its apples. I introduced myself, and Applejack introduces me to the Apple Family. I saw that the food was handled, so I was about to leave, but Applebloom asked me to stay for brunch. I said no, and everypony groaned. I didn’t want to make anyone feel bad, so I said I would stay. I don’t think I have ever eaten more in my life. At any rate that’s how I met Applejack.”

“So they used peer pressure to have you fill your stomach until it was ready to burst?”

“Yep. And so Spike and I were walking down a path, when Spike mentions that Rainbow Dash should be clearing the skies, and a quick look told me she hasn’t done a great job. Then out of NOWHERE Rainbow Dash crashes into me, sending us into a mud puddle.”

“You and Spike, or you and Rainbow Dash?

“Me and Rainbow Dash. Afterwards Rainbow apologizes and washes me off with rainwater. She realized I was soaking wet and tried to dry me off with a small twister, which frizzled my mane and tail.”

“And is that how you met her?”

“I’m not done. After Rainbow Dash and Spike where done laughing at me, I said I was supposed to be checking on the weather. Rainbow Dash procrastinated by saying she can take care of the clouds in ten seconds. I dared her to prove it, and she did. After I was left with my jaw hanging open, she invited me to hang out sometime.”

“Rainbow Dash seems like she thinks she can do anything, from what I’ve heard,” I remarked.

“She does,” Twilight replied with a smirk.  “After Rainbow Dash left, we went to the town hall to check on the decorations. Once we were inside, Spike falls in love with Rarity, and Rarity saw my mane. She took me to her boutique and dressed me up and everything, then after she went off to change the jewels on my dress, I escaped. Luckily she didn’t come looking for me, so Spike and I went to go and check on the last thing on the list; music.”

“You must have been glad.”

“You bet I was. Once we found where the music was taking place, I found that Fluttershy was orchestrating a bird choir, and she told one of the birds politely and quietly that he was a teeny bit off. I said hello kind of louder than I expected, scaring away the birds.”

“You are so cruel,” I said sarcastically.

Twilight ignored me and went on. “I apologized severely and complimented on her music, but she didn’t say anything. I asked for her name, but she didn’t speak loud enough. I stated that the music was under control and turned to leave, but Fluttershy saw Spike riding on my back and knocked me down, holding Spike and said she ‘never saw a baby dragon before’.  I got up and put Spike on my back again with my magic and begun to leave, but Fluttershy followed to talk with Spike, introducing herself loudly so I actually heard her name, and listened to everything Spike had to say about his entire life.”

“Must have been a long walk to talk about his whole life.”

“Trust me, it was. Eventually we reached the library. I made up an excuse to have Fluttershy leave, and before Fluttershy made up an excuse to stay, I went inside with Spike.

“He complained about me being rude, and I apologized and told him that I needed to be alone to study about Night Mare Moon.”

“Sounded like you preferred to be with your books at the time than with friends.”

“I did. And just to my luck the lights flicked on and I was surrounded by dozens of ponies yelling ‘surprise!’ Turns out Pinkie Pie planned a surprise welcome party for me. She was talking so much I could barely get a word in.”

“And is that how you met everyone?” I wondered.

“A few minor events after helped us get to know each other a little, but yeah, that’s how I met them,” Twilight confirmed.

A sudden knock on the door had Twilight and I jump. I reacted by pulling off my hood, morphing into Christina, and pulling it back on. Twilight walked over to the left end of the room where the stairs are located, and descended down them. I went over to the edge of Twilight’s room and lied down, watching. Twilight reached the door and opened it with her horn’s magic.

Waiting at the entrance was Fluttershy, carrying the book that she had borrowed earlier under her folded wing.

“Here’s your book back Twilight,” she said, grabbing the book from her wing with her teeth. “I hope I didn’t have it for too long.”

“You only had it for a few hours, it’s no big deal,” Twilight said, taking the book magically and putting it on one of the shelves. “What was wrong with the snake?”

“It turns out it was just a little sick from eating too many mushrooms.”

Okay, why is it that a snake can eat wild mushrooms here and only get sick, but when a human or any other animal eats wild mushrooms they have a chance of dying?

“Thanks again for letting me borrow the book, Twilight,” Fluttershy said. “It was really helpful.”

“It was my pleasure,” Twilight said. “If you ever need anything else, you can always come to me or to Christina.”

“I’ll keep that in mind.” She turned around and took off into the sky. Twilight closed the door behind her.

“You can change back now,” Twilight called.

I was already back in human form the instant the door latched shut.

“So is Fluttershy a vet or something?” I asked.

“No, but she does love animals. She takes really good cares of them.”

“Which type of animals?”

“All of them!”

Interesting. A yellow pegasus with pink hair and three butterflies on her thigh that takes care of animals. That’s something you don’t see every day. Twilight came back up the stairs with a book, sat on her bed again, and started reading. I didn’t have anything to do, so I used my telekinesis to pull a random book out of one of Twilight’s shelves. It was a very large, brown book. On the front it had a golden picture of a unicorn’s head. I opened it up, and it turned out to be a very large comic with captions everywhere.

Once upon a time, in the magical land of Equestria, there were two regal sisters who ruled together, and created harmony for all the land. To do this, the eldest used her unicorn powers to raise the sun at dawn; the younger brought out the moon to begin the night.

Thus, the two sisters maintained balance for their kingdom and their subjects, all the different types of ponies. But as time went on, the younger sister became resentful. The ponies relished and played in the day her elder sister brought forth, but shunned and slept through her beautiful night.

One fateful day, the younger unicorn refused to lower the moon to make way for the dawn. The elder sister tried to reason with her, but the bitterness in the young one's heart had transformed her into a wicked mare of darkness: Nightmare Moon. She vowed that she would shroud the land in eternal night.

Reluctantly, the elder sister harnessed the most powerful magic known to ponydom: the Elements of Harmony. Using the magic of the Elements of Harmony, she defeated her younger sister, and banished her permanently in the moon. The elder sister took on responsibility for both sun and moon, and harmony has been maintained in Equestria for generations since.

“That book is a bit out of date,” Twilight spoke. Apparently she was watching me read, because her body was entirely facing me and her book was shut. “Nightmare Moon was defeated by me and my friends using the Elements of Harmony, and she turned back into Princess Luna.”

“I didn't know you and your friends could do that sort of thing,” I said.

“In fact we did it twice. The first time we used it on Nightmare Moon, and the second time we used it on Discord; the God of Chaos.”

“By chaos do you mean chaos as in trouble and mischief, or is chaos a civilization?” I asked.

Depending on what I've learned so far about this world, nothing is really surprising anymore.

“I mean he causes nothing but tomfoolery. He would have buildings levitate upside down; he changes the road to soap; he even has cotton candy clouds that rain chocolate!”

“Sounds like he has a few laughs,” I said.

“Yeah, but he had his last when we turned him back into stone.”

”Wait… if Discord is frozen in stone right now, then how come Luna isn’t?” I wondered.

“The elements of harmony don’t only turn things into stone, Christina…I-I mean Christian.” Twilight responded, swishing her tail nervously. “They use the elements of Loyalty, Laughter, Honesty, Kindness, Generosity, and Magic to return them to their original state, when they were good or when they were safe from doing any harm.” Twilight stood up off of the bed and walked over to the stairs.

My legs need stretching all of a sudden.

“I feel like taking a walk suddenly. Want to come?”

“Sure,” I said, changing into Christina. “I’m not doing anything right now.”

2: Rainbow Dash

Twilight and I have been walking together for almost half-an-hour. She was by my side, but she was leading at the same time. I was looking one way or another, getting to know my surroundings without running to keep up with Twilight. Currently we’re walking through some hills. I see very little animals around here, probably due to the lack of trees. I looked over at one hill and saw a pink pony with a cotton candy mane standing along with a white pony with a purple mane, both staring into the sky.

“Hey Twilight,” I said, stopping and tapping her side, “are those your friends up there?”

“Yeah,” Twilight replied, “why don’t we go see what they’re up to?”

We climbed the considerably steep hill up to Rarity and Pinkie Pie. Once we were at the top, I noticed that they were watching a rainbow blur soaring through the sky, doing flips, twirls, and loops.

“Hey Rarity,” Twilight said, “hey Pinkie Pie. What are you looking at?”

“Rainbow Dash!” Pinkie Pie responded.

A second look had me realize that the blur was indeed the blue pegasus I met earlier.

“Why is she out there?” I asked Rarity.

“She told me that she’s gonna practice to…ugh, how to put this nicely? ‘Kick your butt at tomorrow’s race’,” she answered.

Twilight and I joined in on the small audience of Rainbow Dash’s performance, watching her do “stunts” in the air while flying at what appeared to be over eighty miles an hour.

“Isn't she the most daring devil?” Pinkie rambled on. “I mean, the most devilish darer? I mean-”

“She’s dazzling!” Rarity finished for her.

“Ooh yeah that's a good word. She's dazzling!”

Pinkie Pie’s head was following Rainbow Dash’s every move, including turning her head sideways. A moment later her head had went completely overturned, and continued to twist in the wrong direction until it was right-side-up again, and another quick complete twist finished it. She awed with Rarity and Twilight once before making a sick look on her face, and her body twisted to make her head fit correctly again.

How the hell didn’t her neck break?

A sudden group gasp made me look back into the sky, only to see that Rainbow Dash had started flying around like Robert Harold in 2071, who drove a jet drunk one time. He flew in every direction imaginable uncontrollably, and entered a nose dive that had him crash horribly, ending his alcoholic life far too early.

“Oh no, oh no, oh no!” Twilight panicked.

Pinkie Pie spoke her mind by saying “Ayiyiyiyi!”

Rainbow Dash had fallen into “The Harold Nose Dive” that she couldn’t escape from, and crashed directly into a distant shed.

“Oohh,” everyone said all at once.

“That’s gonna leave a mark,” I commented.

“So much for dazzling,” Pinkie Pie said.

“Is there a hospital around?” I asked Twilight.

“Yeah, I’ll help you take her there,” Twilight said, dashing down the hill.

I followed, and the sounds of hooves behind told me that Rarity and Pinkie Pie did too. It wasn’t a long run, considering how fast we all went. The shed looked abandoned with a closer look, and its doors were sealed.

“I’ll get her out,” I said.

I used my telekinesis to open the doors, but they didn’t budge. I had my telekinesis’ strength increase by several thousand percent, then I gave a second tug, tearing the doors down violently with ease.

“Stay here,” I told the group. “I don’t want anyone to get hit by a falling plank of wood and I have to drag them out too.”

I walked inside the shed, it wasn’t very large. It seemed to be the size of a small bedroom, only there were no beds, debris was lying everywhere, and there was a giant hole in the ceiling. I walked around the shed, looking at the ground for a hint of blue, moving chunks of wood out of the way as I did.

There was a sudden moan from the corner. I darted over to it to see a rainbow-colored tail sticking out of a large pile of wood. I picked up every last molecule of wood with my telekinesis and moved it aside. Rainbow Dash was lying on her side on top of her right wing. Her mane was messed up; she was covered in dust; and her eyes were shut tightly. The first thing I did was check for breathing, which had positive results. I rolled Dash onto her stomach so I could look at her wing, which caused her to yell in pain.

“I know it hurts,” I said gently, “but I need to look at it.”

I conjured Non-Radioactive X-Ray Vision Glasses (invented in 2802) under my hood to take a look at Dash’s wing. It was similar to most bones of a winged animal, but it only had two bones to cling to all of the other bones that hold the feathers. The bone closer to her spine was split in two, but luckily no other bones were broken. The sight of the broken bones looked a strangely amusing, and forced a smirk onto my face. I ignored it, used my telekinesis to put Dash on my back, being careful not to move her wing, and walked outside.

“What’s wrong with her?!” Twilight asked immediately after catching sight of me.

I looked downward to quickly hide the smirk caused by the pegasus’ pain.

“She’s got a broken wing,” I answered. The two unicorns and the pink pony gasped. “It looks pretty serious. Where’s the nearest hospital?”

“It’s about a half of a mile northeast from my house,” Pinkie Pie said.

I want to be in front of the hospital that Pinkie Pie had just referred to.

Spiral flames of my favorite color, traveling upward, seemed to burn everything around me away, revealing an entrance to a hospital. I walked in front of the wooden oak doors, used my telekinesis to open them, and went inside. I was greeted by a white nurse with a slightly pink mane in a bun, who said “Welcome to Ponyville Hospital, I’m Nurse Redheart. Are you checking in, checking out, or visiting?” I turned to show her Rainbow Dash, again attempting to hide my “amusement”.

“She’s got a broken wing,” I said. “She crashed after practicing flying, now she needs help, fast. I’ll pay all of the bills necessary myself.”

“She appears to be unconscious,” Redheart said, placing a hoof on Dash’s neck. “I’ll take her from here.”

I had my telekinesis put the injured pegasus onto the nurse’s back, who walked quickly, but so carefully still that I was impressed, down a nearby hallway.

I looked to my right and found a waiting room full of backless, cushioned benches. I went and sat down on one. It was a bit difficult at first, mainly because I tried sitting like a human with my new bone structure. But after remembering how Twilight sits, I was able to find myself sitting quite comfortably.

“It’s all my fault,” I said to myself, my smirk finally fading. “If I never told Dash that I was better than her, she wouldn’t have started practicing, the crash would never have happened, and she wouldn’t be handicapped right now.” What caused her to act like a Harold? A sudden change in wind direction? Did she hit something? Maybe I can investigate what had her crash in the first place…

“Christina!”

I raised my head to the direction of the voice, and standing at the doorway were Twilight, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and Applejack, who all walked over to me. They all looked worried as hell.

“Is she gonna be alright?” Pinkie Pie questioned.

“Is she okay?” Fluttershy said.

“We got here as fast as we could,” Applejack explained.

“Any word from the doctor?” Twilight asked.

“Listen,” I said, “I came in here, gave Rainbow Dash to a nurse, and she ran off into the hall. I haven’t heard anything from anyone since.”

“Is it true she’s got a broken wing?” Fluttershy asked.

“Yeah, the whole bone was split in two,” I said.

Fluttershy fainted, falling onto the floor with a thud.

“Luckily they were still in place,” I added, looking over at her unconscious body.

“How did you know the bone was split in two if you don’t have one of those x-ray machines?” Applejack questioned. “I’m sure that there wasn’t one lying around somewhere.”

“That’s for me to know, and you to never find out,” I said. “Not yet,” I added after seeing Twilight’s heartbroken face.

The group continued to question me about things they already asked (when Fluttershy woke up, she asked the same question, got the same answer, but didn’t faint the second time) when the nurse I gave Rainbow Dash to walked in.

“She’s waking up,” Nurse Redheart said. We all followed the nurse to room number twelve, where she stopped us from going in.

“Please, don’t shout,” she said. “She might want to sleep some more.” Redheart opened the door for us, and all of us went inside.

There were two beds, a curtain separating them. The one on the right had a heavily casted pony whose color I couldn’t even tell (what the hell happened?!) while the one on the left contained Rainbow Dash. A golden unicorn with a brown mane (an actually normal color for once) wearing glasses and a doctor’s jacket was standing beside in the room. He seemed deeply focused on an x-ray of Rainbow’s wing, so nobody disturbed him as we walked through. A heartbeat monitor could be heard throughout the room, beeping at a normal rate.

“Is she gonna be okay?” Applejack asked to nobody in particular.

I noticed that Dash’s eyelids were opening.

“Oh, I’m so worried!” Fluttershy said.

Rainbow Dash’s eyes were fully opened now. It was very noticeable that her eyes were in separate directions.

“Is her face gonna stay that way?” Pinkie Pie said.

Rainbow Dash shook her head, having her eyes going back to normal and becoming aware of her surroundings. The first thing she did was look behind her, and noticed that her wing was in a cast.

“Awwww,” she whined.

I heard Twilight say behind me “How is she doctor?”

“She’s going to be fine,” he responded. “Luckily she’s got friends like you who got her here in a jiffy.”

“Huh,” Rainbow Dash said, getting everyone’s attention, “how long do I need to lie here? I’ve got things I need to do!”

She can’t be thinking about that race with me after an accident like that, she must be insane!

“Well, that all depends on your recovery,” the doctor answered, “but I’d say a few days minimum.”

Rainbow Dash’s expression seemed to be panic-stricken at the end of his sentence.

“You guys got to get me out of here!” She said. “I’m gonna climb the walls!”

“Ooh, just like a spider!” Pinkie Pie said happily. She turned to the doctor. “Did the crash somehow give her super-duper spider powers?”

I don’t think she was bitten by a radioactive spider in the shed.

“No, nor did it give her amazing healing powers. She needs to stay in bed for a few days.” The doctor walked out of the room, and we all turned back to Rainbow Dash.

“Few days?” Dash said. “Might as well be a few months, or few years!”

“Well if you’re going to be here for a few years, I hope that you have someone to take care of your house for you,” I remarked.

“It’s not so bad Rainbow Dash,” Fluttershy consoled.

“I bet the chow in here is hoof-licking good,” Applejack joined in.

“And the hospital gowns, they…match the curtains!” Rarity said, trying to cheer her up.

“And look! You have a roommate!” Pinkie Pie pulled the curtains back so Rainbow Dash was able to see the heavily-casted pony.

She pulled the covers up and rolled onto her side, facing the opposite direction. I heard wheels squeaking from the hallway. I turned around to see a different nurse pushing a cart full of books. Twilight noticed it too, and ran over to it. She came back levitating a green hardcover book that looked like it was over a hundred pages long, had it poke Rainbow Dash with the corner, and placed it on the bed. Dash sat up, grabbed the book (somehow, without dropping it due to the lack of hands and fingers) then she said “What’s this? ‘Daring Do and the Quest for the Sapphire Stone’.”

“It’s the first book in the series. I own all of them,” Twilight explained, smiling.

“No thanks,” Rainbow Dash said, throwing the book away. “I so don’t read. I'm a world-class athlete. Reading's for eggheads like you, Twilight. Heh, no offense,” she added due to Twilight’s insulted face, “but I am not reading. It's undeniably, unquestionably, un-cool.”

Everyone giggled at her response; I merely shook my head.

“Is she serious?” Applejack said. “Who doesn’t like to read a bang-up tale from time to time?”

“Why, a good book is almost as magnificent as silk pajamas on a Sunday morning, heh!” Rarity said, appearing to be day-dreaming.

“Reading is for everypony, Rainbow Dash!” Twilight added, placing the book back onto the bed.

“Yeah!” Pinkie said, hopping up and down. “I love reading, and my head isn't even close to the shape of an egg! It's more the shape of an apple, or maybe an orange, but a big orange! More like a grapefruit really...”

She put a hoof to her chin in thought and what fruit closest resembles her head, while we all stared.

“Picking up a book won’t kill you, Rainbow Dash,” I said. “I have re-read entire book series just because I loved reading them so much.”

“Alright, my little ponies,” a voice in the doorway called. I turned and saw the nurse that was pushing the book cart just a minute ago. “Rainbow Dash needs her rest. You’ll have to come back tomorrow.”

Everyone walked out of the room, Twilight and I were last. I told Dash goodbye and waited in the hallway for Twilight, who was still by the bed.

“I think you'd like Daring,” she said. “She's a lot like you.” Twilight walked to the doorway and stopped to continue speaking.  “Adventurous, fierce, and undeniably, unquestionably, unstoppable.”

Rainbow Dash pointed towards the exit from annoyance before the door closed.

“If Daring Do is actually unstoppable,” I told Twilight, “I think she’d relate more to me. I mean, I can be as strong as I want, do almost anything possible, and nothing can stop me. Of course I wouldn’t, because ruling the world would get boring.”

“I meant her spirit is unstoppable,” Twilight said, surprisingly not shocked that I just said that I can take over the planet if I wanted to. “I grabbed the first book for two reasons. The first one is because she should start from the beginning of the series if she ever gets interested in it, and the second reason is because Daring’s wing is broken too.”

“Oh, that makes plenty of sense. But it’s a shame she’ll never bother reading it to find out how much they can relate.”

The next day; Twilight, Fluttershy and I were heading over to the hospital to pay Rainbow Dash a visit. I was holding her favorite board game called “Cloud Battles” (which sounded a lot like Battleship when Twilight explained it to me) on my back as we walked.

“I’m glad we’re bringing her favorite board game,” I said, opening the front hospital doors for Fluttershy and Twilight. “Rainbow Dash must be bored to death.”

“Yeah, the poor thing,” Fluttershy responded, her and Twilight walking in. “I wish there were other things she could do.”

“Well Cloud Battles usually keeps Rainbow Dash occupied for an hour or two,” Twilight said, matter-of-factly.

When we reached room number twelve, I knocked on the door first before opening it two seconds later.

“Hi Rainbow Dash!” we said all together.

“Uh, hey guys…” She responded, having an odd expression.

“We thought we’d come and cheer you up!” Fluttershy said, standing next to the bed.

“We brought your favorite board game!” Twilight added, having the game levitate off my back, show itself to Rainbow Dash, and set itself up at the foot of the bed.

“We know how much you like to win!”

I stood quietly by Dash’s side. I usually prefer to be sitting quietly out of the way to watch everything that happens. I've been doing it for over three thousand years, after all.

“You go first Rainbow Dash!” Twilight said.

Dash gave a very short, nervous laugh and said “No no, you go first.”

Twilight and Fluttershy exchanged looks before looking and me. I shrugged, since I don’t know if this is unusual, normal, or the first time in existence that it happened.

“Alright,” Twilight started, “uh…cloud three.”

“Aw shucks,” Rainbow Dash said, “you…rained on my cumulus, heh. Go again!” What, she doesn’t want a turn now?

“Um…sky five?” Fluttershy asked.

“Whoa, you found my seagull!” Rainbow Dash pulled off a seagull piece and tossed it aside.

I swear I heard it give off a small cry.

Twilight stared for a second, assumed she got another turn and said “Uh…cloud two?”

“You zapped my weather-pony!” Rainbow Dash continued to skip her turn, and every time Fluttershy or Twilight said a location, they somehow managed to get a direct hit. After a couple of minutes, Rainbow Dash said “Aw, that’s my last cloud. You found it. Guess you guys win, I lose.” She made a small horse noise instead of sighing.

Okay, this place is going to drive me insane.

“But Rainbow Dash, you…you didn’t even get a turn,” Fluttershy said, obviously confused.

“You win some, you lose some,” Dash responded.

“But you don’t lose some,” Twilight said, bewildered just as much as Fluttershy. “In fact I don’t think you ever lost a game of-” Rainbow Dash interrupted Twilight’s sentence by yawning loudly. “Thanks for coming!” She said.

“But yesterday you were desperate for things to do!” Twilight said.

“Do? Who said anything about Daring Do? I told you I’m not interested in reading.” Rainbow Dash gave another yawn. “It’s nap time for me!” She clicked the lamp off, making the room a lot darker, laid down and started to mock snoring.

“Glad we could…cheer you up?” Fluttershy commented, leaving.

Twilight stayed and looked at Rainbow Dash closely, who opened one eye and her snoring slowed down until it stopped. She gave another loud yawn, indicating that she needed to get some sleep, where Twilight said “Alright then” and left. I stayed and stood next to Rainbow Dash, placing my front legs on the bed, crossing them like I would with my arms, and had most of my weight lean on the bed.

“Dash,” I began, “I’m sorry about your wing. If I never said I was faster than you, you would never have wanted to prove me wrong, went to practice and broke your wing. I don’t know anything about fixing bones or treating any kind of major injury, but if I could, I would help you in any way I can.”

“I-it’s fine,” Dash said. “I’d better get some-”

“I’ll do anything for you,” I continued. “I hurt you, now I would like to pay you back. If there is anything you ever want, just come and talk to me.”

“Can you make me a Wonderbolt?!” She said hopefully.

“I’m afraid that’s one of the things I cannot do,” I replied, hanging my head.

Rainbow Dash sighed, sitting up.

“It’s not your fault, Christina,” she said as I straightened my head back up. “It’s my own fault that I lost control and crashed. I was too stupid trying to impress you guys, and not paying attention to what I was doing.”

“Either way, if it’s my fault or not, just let me know. I’ll do anything you want. I don’t care what it is; I’ll do it for you.”

Rainbow Dash suddenly pulled me forward into a large embrace.

“You’re a great friend,” she said. “Nopony in Equestria would be saying any of what you just said to me.”

“Well, I’m technically not from Equestria,” I said, “So that might be why.” Dash laughed.

“Where are you from anyway?” She asked, having me face her.

Her cerise eyes were large and shining with lust for knowledge.

“I’m from a place called Earth,” I said. “Civilization is similar to Equestria’s, but the main difference is the technology advantage, along with the world dominance.”

“What do you mean ‘world dominance’?”

“I mean Earth is ruled by two-legged creatures called humans,” I said. “Humans are the most intelligent creatures alive, that’s why the planet is ruled by them.”

“Humans took over your world?!” Rainbow Dash said, shocked.

“No no, it’s like how ponies are here. Humans were there from the start in the first place,” I explained. “Have you ever heard of evolution?” She shook her head.

“You see, evolution is when a species adapts to their environment over thousands of years, giving them parts and abilities they need while getting rid of the ones they don’t. Anyway, that’s what happened with humans. Earth used to only just be nothing but plants, water, fish, and animals millions of years ago. At the time, humans didn’t exist. Not yet. Humans had evolved from apes over millions of years, having them become more intelligent as time went on. Eventually, humans became the most intelligent beings on Earth. And so to this day, humans continue to rule the world, and will continue to rule until they all die off in a thousand and forty-six years from now.” Rainbow Dash continued to stare where my eyes should be.

“How do you know that the humans are going to die?” she asked.

“Because I was there,” I answered. “I witnessed the end of the human race. They had killed each other through war, and destroyed all of life along with it. Plants, animals, even other humans who have nothing to do with the war; they all were eliminated.”

“Wait…how were you there if it happens over a thousand years from now?” Dash wondered.

“Simple: I traveled back in time after getting bored with having nothing to do, watch, or talk to, and so I watched civilization grow from a different location.” Rainbow Dash kept staring at me, perplexed.

“How did the humans treat you?” She said. “They obviously must have treated ponies differently if they ruled the world.”

“They treated me like any other human,” I said, “because there were no ponies. I was a human too.”

“You were a human? But how?”

“I still am a human,” I explained. “I just make myself look like a pony so I don’t freak everybody out.”

“H-how can you look like a pony if you’re a human?” She said, a little nervous. “Are humans able to change what they look like?”

“No, they aren’t,” I said. “Only I am. You see, I have been chosen to have the most incredible abilities you could possibly imagine. Nobody in the entire world…well, nobody on Earth, knew that I had powers, and only three, maybe four ponies in Equestria know.”

“Who are they?” Rainbow asked.

“Twilight, Luna, possibly Luna’s sister, and now you, are the only ones who know.” Rainbow Dash continued to gaze upon my hood.

“Is there a reason for why you wear that hood?” She asked.

“Yes, there is,” I answered. “If I cover my eyes to the point where no one is able to see them, I look normal. But if I don’t have my eyes cover anything…well, I’ll show you.”

I had my telekinesis pull my hood down. Rainbow gasped at the sight.

“This is my true form,” I said. “Well, not really. I’m a pony, and my true form is when I’m not a pony. But you get the point, right?” Rainbow Dash nodded silently.

“Oh, I just remembered something.”

I want my voice to return to normal.

“This is how I actually sound,” I said in my usual voice.

My first words made Rainbow jump.

“Yeah, surprising isn’t it?” I said. “I mean, thinking you’re getting to know someone, but really there was a major detail they left out that can change your perspective on them forever.”

“So…you’re a colt?” she asked.

“A male, yes,” I said, “but I turned into a female pony because Twilight was a female. I collected her DNA in order to change my form into a pony, but I couldn’t change into a boy or change my voice because she didn’t have any male DNA. That’s why I sounded like Twilight, because I had her voice.”

“So you can change into a girl whenever you want?”

“As long as I have a DNA sample of one, yes I can.”

“You can take some of mine!” Rainbow Dash offered. “We can go flying together! That would be so cool! What do I need to do?”

“Are you sure?” I said. “I mean, that means you’re giving me permission to look and sound like you.”

“What do I need to do?” She repeated. I assume she doesn’t care.

“I need either saliva or blood from you.”

Dash stuck out her tongue instead of answering. I rubbed my hoof against her tongue, and pulled back once it was wet enough. I absorbed Rainbow Dash’s saliva without checking the amount of DNA first into my hoof.

“What do you do now?” she asked, pulling her tongue back in.

“I just think what I want to look like and it’ll happen,” I answered. “I can’t really explain how, it just happens.”

“Can you show me how cool it is to change into me?” Dash asked. “It would be so awesome if you can turn into me!”

“I can’t just change and go prancing around whenever I want, Rainbow Dash. Everyone knows me as Christina. I’m staying this way unless I feel like changing into someone else, and even at that they’ll remember me as that form." Rainbow Dash crossed her legs like I did with mine.

“I hope you feel better soon,” I said. “And please don’t tell anyone anything I told you.”

I pulled my hood back on, changed my voice back to Twilight’s, stood up and turned to leave, walked to the door, when I stopped.

“Also, I’d read that book if I were you. I’m sure you’ll like it,” I said, closing the door behind me.

“Checkmate,” Twilight said.

It’s been over twenty four hours since I visited Rainbow Dash. At the current moment I’m sitting in Twilight’s room, suffering my humiliating defeat.

“We’ve been playing this all day, and yet I haven’t been able to take your king,” I said.

“That’s because I read a book on every little trick in chess there is,” Twilight said. I looked at the clock on the wall, which read nine forty-seven.

“I think I might head off to bed,” I said with a yawn.

“I’ll go ahead and go to bed too,” Twilight agreed, having her magic put the board game and all of the pieces back in the box and zoomed off somewhere.

We walked over to the bed and covered up. I pulled my hood off and rolled to face Twilight.

She was staring blankly into my eyes.

“Where are you from?” She asked.

I placed my hoof gently on Twilight’s forehead.

“I’ll tell you everything tomorrow," I said as I closed my eyes.

It felt like only a few minutes passed when I woke up to the sound of barking and hoof steps. Twilight and I got out of bed and went down the stairs sleepily to see all the commotion. When Twilight opened the door, it looked like a ninja had skidded to a halt in front of the doorway. I shook my head and took another gaze. It was Rainbow Dash wearing a black, skin-tight stealth suit. Surrounding Dash were the doctor from the other day, a few nurses, a security guard, and a patient still in their hospital gown.

“Rainbow Dash, what in the world is going on?” the doctor said. “Why are you stealing slippers?”

What? Why the hell would Rainbow Dash be stealing slippers from a hospital? The patient made dog bark sounds, where a security guard said “Hey, get back to the hospital!” and chased her behind a building out of sight.

“What’s all the ruckus?” It appears that Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy were also woken up, and followed the noises to the doorstep.

“Oh, I’d say it’s more of a fracas than a ruckus,” Pinkie Pie said.

Twilight looked at the ninja with a rainbow tail and said “What’s going on Rainbow Dash?” Rainbow Dash looked nervously from one pony to the other. She gave a large sigh.

“I’m an egghead,” she said.

“Pardon?” Rarity said.

“See, I was trying to get back into the hospital to finish the last chapter of-”

“-'Daring Do and the Quest for the Sapphire Statue'!” Twilight finished.

“I thought it was ‘Sapphire Stone’,” I commented.

“You got me,” Dash said.

“Wow,” Twilight said, astonished, “I knew the book was good, but I didn't know it could drive a pony to petty theft!”

“Good?” Dash remarked. “Try awesomely amazing. That book is undeniably, unquestionably, un-put-down-able! But then I had to put it down; I was sent home before I could finish it.”

The doctor and nurses exchanged short looks and left, since the situation isn’t important.

“Well, I'm glad that's all this is about,” Twilight said.

Applejack took a step forward and said “There's no reason to go around causing a ruckus-”

“Fracas!” Pinkie corrected. Applejack rolled her eyes. “…causing a fracas just because you like to read.”

“Well, if all of this about reading, why don’t we all go back to bed?” I told the group. They all nodded, said their goodbyes, and left.

“Come on in, Rainbow Dash,” Twilight invited. “I’ll get you your book.”

The three of us went inside of the library.

“Goodnight,” I said to nobody in specific. I walked up the stairs, hopped into bed, followed by covering myself up. I’m extremely tired right now.

“Like I said, I have every book in the series, and you can borrow them all, any time you like!” I could hear them talking loudly from downstairs.

“Oh, thanks Twilight,” Dash’s voice said. “I'm sorry I made such a big deal about all of this. I thought reading was just for smart ponies like you.”

“Rainbow Dash, just because you're athletic doesn't mean you aren't smart!”

“Yeah! Just look at me!” I heard from Spike downstairs.

There was a long silence, when it was broken by Twilight.

“Reading is something everypony can enjoy, if they just give it a try,” she said.

“Yeah, I get it,” Dash’s voice responded. “I shouldn't knock something until I've tried it.”

“That's a great lesson, and it would make a great letter to the Princess.”

“Did you get all that?” Dash said excitedly.

Spike responded by saying “Yeah?”

“Great! You write the letter, I've got to finish this book!” I heard the door open and shut very quickly, followed by silence.

Finally, I can sleep.

“Christian!” Twilight called.

“What?” I yelled back.

“Goodnight!”

“Night,” I replied.

I want to fall asleep right now and not wake up under any circumstances until tomorrow.

3: Fluttershy

“Christina…Christina! Wake up!”

I opened my eyes to see a pair of light blue ones staring straight where mine should be.

“Good morning!” Pinkie said happily.

I gently pushed Pinkie away as I sat up.

“Why are you here?” I said, yawning.

“I’m here to invite you to my super-spectacular party this afternoon!” She replied.

“You didn’t have to wake me up to do that, you know…”

“I didn’t?” She scratched her forehead for a second. “Well anyway, here’s your invitation!” Pinkie placed a pink envelope at the foot of the covers. “Bye!” She hopped over to staircase humming until she was out of sight.

I tore open the envelope and read the small invitation card:

You’re invited to Pinkie Pie’s Party!

The party will be at: Sugar Cube Corner

At the time of: One O’ Clock This Afternoon

See you there!

I don’t know if there’s a special occasion or not, but I’ll go anyway.

“Good morning Christian,” Twilight’s voice called from the stairs. I turned to see Twilight walking up to and sitting down on the bed.

“You just missed Rainbow Dash,” she said. “She came just a few minutes ago to borrow the rest of the Daring Do series. She wanted to say hello, but I told her you were asleep.”

“Yeah, sorry,” I said. “I just wanted to get some sleep last night. I was pretty tired.”

“I understand. Everyone needs to sleep.”

I hopped out of the bed and stretched like any normal morning (except I wasn’t capable of stretching like a human like I’m used to with my bone structure, so I stretched like an animal instead)

“I fancy a walk,” I said, stretching my back like a dog. “Are you coming?”

“I’ve got a little research to do,” she responded.

“Alright then.”

I teleported outside of the front door, taking in a deep breath of air. I started walking down a road that I wasn’t too familiar with, keeping my head down slightly and listening to all around me.

“Lyra, why is it you always sit like that?” A female pony said.

“I’m comfortable like this,” a second answered

“Can you please start sitting like everypony else? Ponies are starting to spread rumors about you.”

I turned my head left very slightly to listen to something better.

“Hey Vinyl, have you seen my Cello anywhere?” Another female pony said.

“I put it in the basement. It was taking up space for my new speakers I bought,” yet another female pony replied.

“And where did you get the money for that?”

“From your savings.”

“From my-?! Well, I guess it isn’t so bad, if it’s for your music. How much did they cost?”

“Five hundred bits.”

“FIVE HUNDRED!?!”

“Each.”

“DO YOU REALIZE HOW MUCH THAT IS!?!”

There’s got be something else that’s really interesting around here…

“Berry, I’m getting worried about your drinking problem,” yet again a female pony said.

“I don’t have a problem,” and once more a female answers.

“That proves it right there. You DO have a problem. Denial that you have a problem is a sign that you really do have one.”

“And where did you hear this?”

“I have my sources."

Come on; give me something to listen to.

I suddenly bumped my head against something hard. I looked up, taking a step back to see a very large tree. Apparently I didn’t notice that I went off of the road. I turned around and went towards the road again, tuning my ears to listen to anything interesting.

Suddenly, I feel dizzy and tired.

Everything was going black and I began to lose balance. I wobbled left and right, hardly able to see anything as I tried to stay conscious. I had gone completely blind, and I felt my legs hit the ground before I felt nothing at all.

“Professor Arch, are you sure that the plasma shields function properly?”

“Christian, if they didn’t, why would I say that it’s ready to be sent out to Russia?”

“I was double-checking, sir.”

“Christian, I’m not your commander, nor am I your father. You don’t need to call me sir all of the time.”

“Force of habit.”

“I understand. I was about to go and take the head off for programming this morning like any other occasion, but then I had remembered that I had finished just last night.”

There was a moment of silence.

“Does the E.O.A.L. have its voice already?”

“It should. We can’t risk activate it here to check; otherwise our intentions would go in reverse.”

“Why can’t you just take the head off again and turn it on with your computer like any other time?”

“Because the head has been permanently attached to the body after the final changes were made.”

“So does that mean no other part of the E.O.A.L. is able to be altered now?”

“Yes, it does. Not a single thing is going on or off of it now.”

“I hope nobody forgot anything to it.”

“Now, it is time to give Russia what they truly deserve. Christian, would you like to do the honors?”

“Oh no sir, I can’t.”

“It’s on the President’s orders that nobody is to activate the E.O.A.L. but you, Christian.”

Another moment of silence passed.

“It’s alright, my boy. This is for the good of humanity. We are doing what is right. You have helped us with our supplies; we all would like you to do the highest of honors.”

“I-I guess, if it’s for humanity…”

“I think he’s waking up.”

I rubbed my eyes and sat up. Once my hooves went back down, I immediately saw the cyan eyes of Fluttershy. I looked around. I was still in the same spot I fell at.

“How long was I out?” I asked.

“My squirrel friends told me that you were unconscious for about ten minutes,” she explained quietly. “They said that you were walking and just fell, I hope you’re alright.” I’m not even going to bother asking about talking squirrels.

“I personally don’t think I am,” I said, giving a sigh. “You see, I’m not capable of getting hurt, sick, or harmed in any possible way.”

“How are you able to do that?” She asked, and I could tell in her voice that a small part of her didn’t believe me.

“I can’t explain, but I know that something is wrong when I pass out like this. I need to go and see Twilight.”

“I think Twilight is at her house,” Fluttershy said with a little concern. “But I think you need some rest. You can come over to my cottage if you like.”

“I just really need to see Twilight,” I said. “She might know what’s going on. I might decide to come over later, though. Bye!”

“Okay, bye then,” Fluttershy said, waving as I walked over behind a nearby tree.

I looked around to make sure nobody was around. I even looked upward to check for pegasai. Luckily not a soul was in sight.

I want to be inside of Twilight’s room.

Twilight had jumped when the flames vanished. She had a book open in front of her, along with a large stack next to the bed.

“I passed out,” I said. “I need to know if there’s something wrong with me.”

“I’m sure you just need rest or something,” she assured.

“You don’t understand. I cannot be harmed in any possible way. Passing out counts as being harmed.”

“I don’t know if there’s anything wrong with you,” she said. “The book didn’t mention any more side effects besides being sleepy.”

“Well, are you sure that you made the potion correctly?” I asked, remembering that

“Yes, I did all of the steps correctly,” Twilight answered.

“Are you sure you didn’t forget any?”

Twilight’s horn glowed and an open book zoomed from downstairs on top of the one she was reading just a minute ago. Her eyes went back and forth like an old typewriter.

“No, I don’t think I did,” she said. “I think you might have resisted the potions effects or something.”

“That’s a possibility,” I agreed.

I don’t want to be affected by sleepiness unless I want to. I also don’t want to become unconscious for any reason, ever.

“Thanks for the help,” I said.

“You’re welcome?” Twilight answered, not really sure about what I’m thanking her for. I looked at Twilight’s clock, which read nine-thirty.

“I’ll be at Fluttershy’s place if you look for me,” I said.

I want to be in front of Fluttershy’s cottage, only if she’s inside.

Purple flames erupted around me, and I appeared in front of a wooden door. I knocked three times and took a couple of steps back to observe the cottage. Its roof was made of grass and leaves, containing several bird houses, windows, and a chimney. The outside walls were painted what must be lime. The door was opened by Fluttershy before I could see any more of her house.

“Oh, it’s you,” she said. “Are you not feeling well?”

“No,” I answered. “Well…I’m not sure if I am. I just need to sleep it off tonight, and see if I’m any better tomorrow.”

“Well, feel free to stay as long as you like. I hope you don’t mind the mess.” Fluttershy went inside, I followed.

Her house was unlike any house I’ve ever seen. In the middle of the floor was a red rug with a large flower. The right wall had an empty fireplace with pots and pans hanging from it, a table supporting a pitcher and empty vase, and a doorway to a hallway. Several birdhouses and birdfeeders could be seen hanging from the ceiling, and in the back of the room was a couch, chair, and table with a portrait of something I couldn’t see resting upon it. There was a staircase along the left wall next to a doorway to another room (the staircase had a bookshelf built into it). For some reason a mouse hole was about three feet above the ground, with a miniature case of stairs ascending to it (and there were many other staircases to locations that I can’t really describe). Despite the animals of various species running about, the place seemed quite clean.

“Make yourself at home,” Fluttershy said politely, flying in the air.

I tried to avoid stepping on any tails as I walked over to the couch in the back. After taking a seat, I was able to see what was on the front wall; a birdcage, different bags of food, and a piece of furniture that I never knew the name of (nor its purpose).

“I appreciate you letting me stay here,” I said. “It’s very kind of you.”

“Don’t mention it,” Fluttershy responded. “Any friend of mine is welcome to stay as long as they like.”

“So is caring for animals all you ever do here? Do you make a living out of it or something?”

“I take care of animals all of the time; they always need somepony to take care of them. And I don’t make any money out of what I do. I live off of welfare.”

I didn’t know there was welfare in this world.

“Are you sure that welfare is able to support yourself and all of these animals?” I asked. “Because where I’m from, welfare isn’t all that much to support many ponies.”

Hey, I actually said ponies instead of people this time.

I think I might be getting used to this place.

“Of course it is,” Fluttershy explained. “Princess Celestia gives everypony in Equestria just enough bits to support anyone or anything that lives with them. She listens specifically to what our needs are, and she’ll send the right amount to us.”

This government is better than any I know about.

“I’ve got to go and take care of Angel. He’s waiting for his bath, and he really doesn’t like waiting very long.”

Fluttershy landed on the ground and went into the hall on my left.

I closed my eyes for a minute as I rested my head on my legs (reminding me of a dog waiting for something).

“I think you’ve been the most contributing than any of us, Mr. Gordon.”

“Don’t say that, Thomas. Everyone else built the thing, I just provided the supplies.”

“Exactly! We can’t work without supplies! Without you, the E.O.A.L. would cease to exist!”

“It isn’t a big deal, really.”

“So basically you’re saying the spending billions of dollars worth of parts for a robot of ultimate destruction isn’t a big deal?”

“No, I-I mean…I don’t know.”

“We are all very grateful with your generosity. In fact, we’re having a party down at Elizabeth’s place. Why don’t you come?”

“I’m not sure…”

“Come on, we’re celebrating that the E.O.A.L. is almost finished. Soon, it’ll bring hell to Russia, killing every single last Russian man, woman, and child in existence. Aren’t you excited that America is finally going to win this war?”

“Of course I am…”

“Great. Party starts at seven, bye!”

“Goodbye Thomas.”

When I opened my eyes, I found myself lying on a soft bed in a large room.

The fireplace (which had a shelf holding undistinguishable pictures) was on my left, and seemed to move upstairs as well, before going into the sky. Two windows accompanied the fireplace on either side, along with a pile of logs. The staircase was directly in front of the foot of the bed. There were some more tables holding vases, and a bookcase over on my right, holding an unlit lantern. Even more birdhouses hung from the ceiling, but there wasn’t a birdfeeder in sight. I conjured a clock in front of me. The time was eleven-twenty. I still have some time before Pinkie’s Party.

I had the clock vanish, and saw the stunned face of Fluttershy, her jaw hanging open.

“Did you just see that?” I asked. She nodded slowly.

Crap.

“Well, I’ve got some explaining to do then…”

“Could you make some more food for my animals, if you don’t mind?” Fluttershy asked an hour later when we were downstairs.

I had explained everything about me, like I did with Rainbow, and had told her that she can feel free to ask me for anything she wants.

“I don’t mind unless you ask me more than twice a day,” I explained, conjuring one bag of every food type Fluttershy claimed she needed in a neat line against the wall. “That gets on my nerves.”

“I’ll try not to,” Fluttershy said.

“I forgot to thank you for taking me up to your room when I passed out again. I really don’t know what’s wrong with me.”

“It was no trouble at all. I’m sure you’ll get better soon. In the meantime, you can stay here as long as you want.”

“You are very kind to me, Fluttershy. I truly appreciate your kindness towards me, especially since I told you that I’m not a pony.”

“Just because you aren’t a pony doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be treated like one. You’re free to call my home your home. What’s mine is yours."

Nobody I ever know would treat me that way, considering that I had only met Fluttershy only two days ago, and even at that we haven’t exactly spent much time together.

I pulled Fluttershy into a large, warm hug.

She seemed surprised at first, but returns it.

“I think I might stay with you,” I said. “You’re the nicest one I’ve met in my entire life; and depending that I’m over three-thousand years old, that’s a long time. You’re being a real friend to me.”

“That…” Fluttershy seemed speechless, but my head was over her shoulder, so I couldn’t see her face. “Nopony’s ever said that to me before…”

“Well I just did. So that means someone already has.”

Fluttershy gave a short laugh. “I hope you don’t mind when I say; could you let me go? I have a few things to take care of.” I released the pegasus, who said “Thank you”, walking over to the doorway on the left wall (facing towards the door).

I followed her, since there is still time until Pinkie Pie’s party.

I followed the long pink tail of the kind pegsus through an empty hallway until it disappeared into a room, the door being shut. I knocked.

“Would you like my help with anything?” I asked. “I don’t have anything else to do right now.”

“Its fine,” Fluttershy’s voice called from behind the door. “I’m just making Angel his food before we leave for Pinkie’s Party.”

“Do you want me to feed the other animals?” I offered.

“Oh, that would be very nice,” she responded. “It’s quite simple, really. All you have to do is open a bag and poor everything in it on top of a newspaper. The animals will share.”

It sounds like they have a big appetite.

I went back into the main room, conjured a bag of food (so I didn’t waste one that’s already here) and a newspaper on the ground. I had my telekinesis tear the bag open and pour itself onto the newspaper. As soon as the last bit of hard food had dropped from the bag, a dozen animals came to eat it immediately.

Okay…now what do I do?

I can’t risk going for another walk alone, I might miss the party if I pass out again.

I had the ripped bag vanish, walked over to and laid down onto the couch and stared at the ceiling. What can I do for another forty-minutes before the party?

I closed my eyes and tried to think of what I could do to pass the time…

“Uh, Christian?” Fluttershy’s voice called from somewhere in the room. I opened my eyes and looked over in the direction the voice came from.

“Do you need me to do anything?” I asked to the doorway in front of the stairs, where Fluttershy was standing.

“I was just wondering; could you get me some soap? I’m kind of low…” she said.

I want a bottle of the kind of soap that Fluttershy uses directly in front of her.

Purple, spiral flames erupted from the ground for a split-second, making Fluttershy jump a foot into the air (literally), and then there stood a white bottle with a baby-blue label in front of her feet.

“Um…thanks,” she answered, grabbing the bottle with her maw and walking back into the room.

I closed my eyes again and relaxed myself, trying to get comfortable. If I didn’t have a chance of fainting, I would be wondering around like I would any other time. But until I know for sure I won’t be passing out anymore, I’ll just have to sit here bored to pass the time.

Time…

I want time to fast forward until one o clock, unless someone tries to get my attention.

All noises vanished; the birds chirping outside, the animals playing about, the splashing from the hall where Fluttershy is at, and everything else I could hear silenced. I opened my eyes and looked at the animals scurrying round the floor. They were going at such high speeds that they were almost nothing but blurs, zooming from one direction to another, in one room and out another.

This state I was in halted when Fluttershy’s words struck my ears, saying “Oh, Angel, you look so much cleaner now!”

I gazed at the little white rabbit standing in the doorway, which was white as snow, but looking gloomy.

“Don’t be like that Angel,” Fluttershy consoled. “I had your coat and your tail brushed just the way you like it.”

Angel the Rabbit didn’t look any happier at these words, and hopped off out of sight.

“Does Angel get special treatment or something?” I asked.

“No…” Fluttershy answered. “Well, sort of. He’s actually my pet.”

“So none of all of these animals running around are your pets?” I said.

“Not really, I just look after them. All animals need someone to take care of them.” Fluttershy flew into the air, came over above the couch, and landed gently next to me.

“So what is it you do around here?” I wondered. “Do you just take care of animals, or do you go out to do stuff sometimes?”

“A mixture of both, really,” Fluttershy answered. “I mostly tend to the animals, but I do go out and have some fun every now and then.”

I wonder what her definition of “fun” is. Out of nowhere, there was a knock on the front door.

“I’ll get it,” Fluttershy said. She spread her wings and whooshed into the air, zooming over to the wooden door and landing gently.

She opened the door by a crack, before she opened it wide and revealed Rainbow Dash in the doorway.

“Christina!” She yelled in excitement, flying over in front of me without asking to enter. “I didn’t expect you here!”

“I thought you were reading, still,” I said, observing the blue pegasus’ features.

Her eyes seemed a little droopy, her mane was a disaster, and her no-longer-broken wing seemed fine, despite the fact that a feather was bent in an odd direction.

“Did you even sleep last night?” I asked.

“Sleep is for losers,” she responded. “I don’t need sleep when I’m reading Daring Do! I mean, she never sleeps!”

“She’s a fictional character, Dash,” I remarked. “Of course she doesn’t need to sleep.”

Fluttershy had joined in by sitting back down next to me.

“Why did you decide to come and visit?” Fluttershy asked.

“I wanted to walk with you over to Pinkie’s Party,” Dash explained with a short yawn, “but it looks like you’ve already got someone to take you.”

“Oh no,” Fluttershy said. “Christina isn’t taking me to Pinkie’s Party. She’s just here to stay for a while. She hasn’t been feeling well.”

“I keep passing out,” I explained. “And I can’t remember if I told you already; I can’t be harmed. That means there’s something wrong with me, and I need to fix it, because nothing else in the universe can help me.”

“A-are you sure you want to talk about that kind of thing around her?” Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash said simultaneously, realizing what they just did and stared at one another.

“I forgot to mention that I recently told Fluttershy what I told you,” I explained. “So you two can comfortably talk about my abilities or anything else like that around each other.”

“Well, did he tell you that he’ll do anything for me?” Rainbow Dash remarked to Fluttershy.

“That’s because I technically broke her-”

“Anything?” Fluttershy repeated, not listening.

“All because I was in the hospital!”

“Are you bringing this up because you want me to do that ‘anything’ you wanted?” I asked.

“No, just wanted to let Fluttershy know that you’ll do anything for me,” Dash answered. I rolled my eyes.

“So, do you think that your fainting is a serious problem?” Fluttershy wondered, getting back on subject.

“Yes, I believe it’s a very large problem,” I responded. “I can’t be harmed in any way, and I consider passing out for absolutely no reason while I’m walking as harmful.”

“Is there anything I could do to help?”

“Not really, unless you can help someone who’s hurt when they normally can’t get hurt under no circumstances.” Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash put hooves to their chins in thought.

I conjured a clock, realized that it was almost one o clock, and made it vanish.

“We’d better be leaving soon,” I said, standing up and stretching.

I don’t even need to stretch, I can stop myself from needing to, but it always feels so good whenever I do it.

The two pegasai stood up as well, still a little lost in thought.

“Look, don’t worry about me right now, alright?” I said. “I’m sure I’ll be fine soon. Let’s just go and enjoy ourselves, okay?” Fluttershy nodded, and Rainbow Dash said “If you say so.”

I walked over to the door and opened it, letting the females walk out first before I went outside of the cottage as well.

The three of us walked along the road in silence for a while. Nothing but the busy chirping of birds could be heard around us.

“Hey Christina,” Dash suddenly said. “Are you still up for that race?”

“Where’s the finish line?” I responded. “We can’t leave Fluttershy too far behind.” Rainbow Dash squinted her eyes for a moment, looking straight forward, pointed and said “We’ll race to the Ponyville Bridge."

I looked towards the direction she was pointing and saw the destination.

“Ready?” Rainbow Dash said. “GO!!”

Slow down time majorly.

Everything around me seemed to almost stop; the birds chirping deepened, the trees blowing in the wind looked a bit odd; the only thing noticeably moving was Rainbow Dash, who was going at almost walking pace. I walked at a slightly faster-than-average pace (as I have done my entire life) next to Rainbow, passing her instantly.

I wouldn’t call this cheating. Everyone sees me going extremely fast whenever I do this, after all. The road’s stone bricks were pretty well-kept; they didn’t have any moss or weeds growing anywhere near them. Most stone roads in the country are never taken care of unless someone’s wheel gets stuck in a hole. This world’s community is a lot better than the ones I know.

I had finally reached the bridge. I looked back to see Rainbow Dash’s shocked expression on her face.

Let time play normally.

In less than two seconds Rainbow Dash zoomed over next to me, leaving a trail of rainbows in her wake.

“How did you go so fast?!” Rainbow asked immediately, shocked.

“I’ll just say it’s about the timing,” I remarked. “Hold onto something of mine.” Dash obeyed and grabbed my leg with her hoof.

I teleported us back to Fluttershy’s side and had Dash let go.

Fluttershy had jumped, but she saw it was only us and said “You were the fastest thing I’ve ever seen!”

“Nopony’s ever been faster than me,” Dash said to herself quietly, a little disappointed.

“Don’t worry about it,” I said, walking down the path with them following. “I don’t need a whole lot of attention on me about that, it’s one of my abilities that lets me move that fast. So if anyone asks Rainbow Dash won the race.”

Rainbow Dash smiled meekly, and the three of us (with Fluttershy leading) walked the rest of the way to Pinkie’s party in silence.

When we arrived, I thought I was looking at some kind of giant gingerbread house.

Fluttershy knocked three times on the door, and it swung open less than a second after.

4: Pinkie Pie

“Howdy!” Pinkie Pie said, poking her head out of the doorway. “Glad you all could make it!”

“I wouldn’t miss it for the world!” Rainbow Dash responded.

“Neither would I!” Fluttershy agreed.

Pinkie Pie stepped back and let us walk inside.

It was a small party; having lots of balloons and streamers everywhere, a record-player playing music, a various party games, and a small table of refreshments.

There wasn’t anyone here except for Applejack, Rarity, and Twilight.

Rarity was making herself some punch, Applejack was bobbing for apples, and Twilight was throwing darts with her magic at a dartboard hanging on a wall.

Rainbow Dash flew over to Applejack, knocking her head out of the water and taunting her; Fluttershy walked to Rarity and started chatting.

It took me a second to realize I was standing alone with Pinkie Pie.

“You know, I forgot to throw you a surprise welcome party,” Pinkie said. “I don’t know how I could forget; I mean, I NEVER forget to throw somepony a welcome party.”

“You didn’t need-“

“But seriously, I don’t know what made me forget! Maybe Twilight running into me somehow messed up my brain, or maybe you sounding like Twilight, or maybe it was even Gummy’s checkup-”

“Who’s Gummy?” I interrupted before Pinkie’s endless words continued.

“He’s my pet, an alligator!” Pinkie Pie turned her head to reveal an obviously toothless, baby alligator biting her mane.

Maybe Gummy thought it was cotton candy.

“Anyway, thanks for the invite,” I said. “I don’t get invited to parties that often.”

“It’s no problem at all! Any friend of mine is always welcome to my parties!”

Pinkie Pie skipped off joyfully somewhere, swinging Gummy up and down with every bounce.

I leaned on the nearest wall and watched everyone enjoy their time.

I usually like being the one who stays in the back quietly and watches everything, both literally and metaphorically.

Rainbow Dash dunked her head underwater for a few seconds and came up with an apple clenched in her jaw. Applejack gave an annoyed look and dunked her head into the large bucket-thing and pulled an apple out a second later.

Rainbow’s jaw dropped, along with the apple, which splashed into the water.

Rarity and Fluttershy were still chatting happily by the refreshments.

Twilight’s had been replaced by Pinkie, who had the darts tangled up in her tail, chasing it like a dog to get them out with her teeth.

“Having fun?”

The sudden voice made me jump. I turned about to see Twilight standing behind me, smiling broadly.

“You really shouldn’t surprise me like that,” I said. “I might over-react and send you flying somewhere.”

“I didn’t know you can make ponies fly!” Twilight responded, oblivious to what I was saying.

“What I meant was I might be startled and hit you with so much strength you’ll be launched.”

Twilight’s smile faded so slightly it was almost undetectable.

“Why didn’t you tell me you had super strength?!” Twilight exclaimed quietly.

“Did I not mention it?”

I was pretty sure I did.

She shook her head. "While I've got you here, I need to ask you something important."

"Sure," I said.

"I was instructed by the princess to do a bit of research on you, to learn about you and your species.

"What do you mean by 'research'?" I asked.

"I'll just ask some questions and do a few experiments on you, nothing big."

I don't like to be a lab rat. What can I do to replace myself?

What would Twilight like?

"How about I just give you some books about my world, from the time it started to the time it ended, and everything that happened and everything about it?"

Twilight's eyes widened. "You can do that?"

"I can summon anything I want, of course I can," I remarked. "I'll come to your house later to give them to you."

"Sounds great to me!" Twilight said excitedly, trotting off.

I leaned on a wall and closed my eyes for a minute.

I can't reveal myself to everyone. Depending on how Rainbow Dash and Twilight acted, I'm sure they'll all just use me. Hell, even Fluttershy took advantage of my kindness.

Maybe I should just go and live in isolation, away from everyone and see if I can find some way to get home.

"Hey, are you sleeping?"

I opened my eyes to see the eyes of Pinkie Pie a centimeter away from mine.

"No, I'm not," I assured.

"Oh good, you're awake!" She exclaimed, taking a step back. "I was starting to think my party was so boring you fell asleep! But then I thought 'My parties aren't boring' but then I thought 'Then why is Christina sleeping?' So I came over and you were awake and so it proves my party isn't boring!"

She said everything so quickly it was hard for me to keep up.

“So, what’re you up to?” she asked.

“I’m just standing here that’s all,” I said. “I don’t usually do much when I’m around others.”

“Then what do you do when you’re alone?”

“Various things; mostly just doing whatever I feel like.”

“Well, why don’t you do those various things here!?” Pinkie suggested.

“Because I’m not comfortable with doing them around you guys just yet,” I explained. “I’ll decide when to do them around you or not.”

“But I’m your FRIEND!” she exclaimed, putting her hooves on my shoulders. “You should ALWAYS be comfortable around your friends!”

I took Pinkie’s hooves with my own and placed them onto the ground.

“I will not repeat myself,” I stated.

Pinkie Pie’s smile became a frown as she walked away over to the refreshments table.

I closed my eyes again, thinking to myself.

They don’t seem so bad, what’s there to worry about?

Possibly because of the fact that they might only be my “friend” because I can give them anything they want.

Well, I can stop being so nice and actually doing what they ask, and see if they’ll still be my friends.

That might be a good choice.

“Are you SURE you don’t want to do anything around us?” Pinkie’s energetic voice said from in front of me.

I sighed.

“Yes, I’m sure,” I responded, not opening my eyes. “I’ll do them eventually when the time comes. Don’t keep bugging me about it or otherwise I won’t do them, ever.”

“But if I don’t keep bugging you about it, how will I know you don’t forget to do those various things with us? You might forget all about it and NEVER do them with us because you forgot about them!”

I opened my eyes and placed my hooves on Pinkie’s shoulders.

“If you’re so eager for me to show you, take me somewhere away from everyone else,” I said. “I can’t do it in front of your friends yet.”

“B-but they’re your friends too!” Pinkie objected.

“I know, but the things I do is a secret, I can’t go around showing them off to everyone. Look, just wait until after the party, then I’ll explain everything to you.”

The party had ended several hours later; it was nearly nightfall.

Everyone was saying goodbye as they went out the door. Twilight was the last one out, who stopped in the doorway.

“Are you coming, Christina?” She asked.

“I’m staying with Pinkie for tonight,” I said, nodding towards the bubblegum-pink horse.

“But what about the research?” Twilight added in a whisper.

“Tomorrow,” I responded in the same voice level.

Twilight nodded and left, closing the door behind her.

"Soooooooo what's your secret?" Pinkie asked happily, turning to face me.

I sighed, changing my voice back to normal and pulled of my hood.

Pinkie gave a large gasp and screamed for a split second, which was halted when I had my hoof on her mouth.

"Calm down," I assured. "It's still me, Christian. Well, Christina, really."

Pinkie's eyes widened a little at my words as she attempted to speak, but to no prevail from my hoof still on her mouth.

"I'll take my hoof off of your mouth if you promise to be a good pony and sit quietly while I explain, got it?"

Pinkie nodded.

I lowered my hoof back onto the ground and sat down, Pinkie mirroring my action.

"Why do you look like that?" Pinkie questioned. "Is that a spell?"

"No, it's not a spell," I explained. "This is my true form. I look like this whenever my eyes are shown."

"Why?"

"Because I'm not normal, as you might have noticed. I'm not from this world. I'm not even a pony, I just look like one so I won't freak anyone out."

"Then what do you really look like?" Pinkie asked eagerly.

I inhaled a deep breath, exhaling it a moment after.

"Are you sure you want to see?" I wondered. "I'll only do it if you promise not to freak out."

Pinkie shook her head up and down so fast it was only a blur.

I changed myself back into human form, feeling my bones and organs change and rearrange inside of me in a matter of seconds. Once everything was in it's proper place, I was kneeling on my hands and knees, looking downward at the floor.

I stood up from the ground onto my two legs, waiting for a response from Pinkie.

She didn't say a word, but st there with her jaw hanging open.

"Surprised by my appearance?" I asked.

Pinkie was still speechless, but she nodded in agreement.

"I figured. Now, allow me to explain everything," I said, sitting down onto the floor, eye-level with the pink horse.

"I am a human from a world called Earth. It's kind of like Equestria, except it's ruled by humans instead of ponies. I can't really explain what all humans do, because so many of them do different things. Anyway, humans ruled the Earth for thousands of years, until they eventually killed themselves through war..."

"You can sleep in my bed!" Pinkie exclaimed later when we were in the dark upstairs bedroom, bouncing on her bed and messing up the sheets.

I had once more told one of Twilight's friends everything about me and my kind, and once more they had agreed to keep it a secret.

"Are you sure?" I asked. "I don't mind sleeping anywhere else."

"Of course I'm sure! Why would I ask you if I wasn't sure?" Pinkie responded. "But I don't think you could fit while you look like that, though..."

I changed back into pony form as soon as Pinkie went quiet.

"Oh, that's much better!" She said with a smile.

Pinkie hopped off of the bed, grabbed the sheets with her teeth, and tossed them into the air. Pinkie quickly lied down on the bed as the sheets fell perfectly neat on top of her. Pinkie pulled out her hoof from underneath the covers and pulled out a nightcap (which wasn't on the bed a couple of seconds ago), fitting it upon her head.

How the hell is anything she does possible?

"You sleeping or not?" Pinkie said. I rolled my eyes with a smirk and trotted over to the opposite side of Pinkie's bed, rolling onto the bed as I covered myself up.

"Goodnight!" Pinkie said, closing her eyes and began snoring.

"Night," I said with a chuckle.

I woke up the following morning to something bouncing up and down on the bed, shaking me up and down rapidly.

"Wake up! Come on! Wake up!" Pinkie Pie's excited voice said. "I want to play a new game I thought of!"

I didn't bother telling Pinkie off for waking me up. I have a feeling that she doesn't do this normally.

"What game did you want to play?" I asked, standing out of bed and stretching widely.

God that feels good.

"I wanted to play Pirates!" She responded.

I didn't know that pirates existed in this world. I don't know much about the kind of pirates Pinkie knows about either, but she seems pretty excited about it.

"Rainbow Dash would NEVER play games like Pirates with me, and all my other friends say they're busy all of the time. But you're not busy! You said you don't do anything last night! I never had a playmate forever!"

This was all said very quickly.

Well, she DID say that she has never had any of her friends play with her before. I guess I could do it for her this one time...

"Sure," I said. "I don't mind playing with you."

Pinkie squealed and zoomed up to me in a heartbeat, squeezing me as much as she could (which wasn't very much due to my invulnerability). Pinkie hugged me for quite some time, not making a sound.

It's getting pretty awkward.

I decided to break the silence by asking "Where are we going to play?"

Pinkie Pie released me and brought a hoof to her chin. "I never thought about that before…" she said. "I was always thinking about playing a game with somepony that I didn't think of a place to be…"

A place to play Pirates...

All I know about pirates on Earth is that they were basically murderous thieves with boats, but children believe that they hunted for buried treasure; so I'll try to make it a bit "childish" for Pinkie.

That would require an ocean, an island, and somewhere to find a treasure chest.

Unless this world has anything like that and I never heard about it, there isn't anywhere that could make a place like-

Wait, maybe there is...

It may not work, but it's worth a shot.

"Pinkie, grab my arm," I said.

Pinkie Pie didn't say a word and obeyed, clinging her hooves around my left arm.

I want to go to my Realm.

A purple spiral of fire enshrouded me and Pinkie, revealing a large flat, circular, purple-ish rock we were standing on. Every direction we would look was nothing but dark rain clouds creating a sphere around the platform, as if the clouds were a planet and we were what was inside.

My god, it worked.

A sudden thought caused me to whirl around in search of hope.

But to my disappointment, the portal that I remember back to Earth was not here.

I gave a large sigh and faced Pinkie.

"Welcome to my Realm," I said, Pinkie's jaw dropping as her eyes went one way to another.

It didn't take long for her to look around, because there wasn't anything to see.

Pinkie darted several meters over to the edge of the stone platform and looked down.

"Whoa," she admired. "Where is this place?"

"This is my Realm," I repeated, explaining. "This is basically my world. I can change this world into anything I want, and have it do anything I want it to, such as turning it into another place."

"Oh! Oh! Can you turn it into Sugar Cube Corner?" Pinkie asked, oblivious of why I brought her here.

"We were literally just standing there," I remarked. "The reason I brought you here is so we can actually play Pirates, meaning that you and I are going on a little adventure."

Pinkie's eyes widened. "You brought me here to take me on a pirate adventure!?" She exclaimed. "This is gonna be super DUPER fun!!! Thank you so much Christian!!!"

Pinkie gave me a great big hug as she finished her sentence, pinning my arms to my sides.

"Don't thank me yet, we haven't even started," I said.

I want my Realm to become the best Pirate experience Pinkie will ever have.

The clouds surrounding us began to swirl, gaining speed as the stone beneath our feet burst into purple embers.

"W-what's happening?!" Pinkie exclaimed, sounding terrified as she clung onto me even tighter.

"What you wanted me to do with you in the first place," I responded, morphing myself into my pony form.

I created a pirate outfit for myself; a long red coat with buckles, black trousers, a peg leg and an eyepatch (for a more "pirate's touch"), and a red pirate hat to match the coat.

Of course, the clothing was black, because one of my eyes weren't covered.

The sudden outfit change startled Pinkie, causing her to let go of me and fall onto the now-wooden ground.

My Realm had finished altering itself; we were standing on the deck of a large ship, in the middle of the ocean filled with clear skies and waters.

The soft splashes of small ocean waves hitting the ship could be heard.

I tilted my hat to hide my uncovered eye to look normal for Pinkie.

Now I can't see a damn thing.

I want to be able to see through any clothing that covers my eyes.

My vision returned, and Pinkie Pie was gazing out into the open blue.

I trotted over next to Pinkie and gazed out with her.

The ocean was as blue as the sky above it, splashing and moving as free as can be.

"It sure is nice, isn't it?" I said.

"I've never been on a pirate ship before!" Pinkie said, again in her excited tone. "Or on a regular ship, or on a pirate, or on an adventure, or-"

I put my hoof over Pinkie's mouth before she continued her endless words.

"I get it," I remarked. "Now, shall we get started on our adventure? Or do you want to stare out onto the seas some more?"

Pinkie brought her hoof to her chin and thought for two seconds.

"Lets start our adventure!" She yelled, throwing her hoof into the air.

I conjured an old letter, levitating it in front of me as  I read out loud; "To any loyal pirate who reads this; I have an adventure for you."

Pinkie gasped.

I ignored her and continued. "I am the mighty pirate of the seas known as Green Beard. By the time you read this, I'll be long gone. But my treasure won't be, and I want to give it to the most loyal of loyal pirates in the seven seas."

"Oh! Oh! Pick me! I'm loyal! I'm loyal!" Pinkie said, jumping into the air.

I continued; "Your first task will be to find the Rock of The Ocean. Your ship is magically enchanted, and will take you there automatically."

"So exciting! A magic ship!" Pinkie said as she continued jumping.

"Your next step will already be there. P.S., I left you all a friend down in the cabin. Don't leave him, he's going to keep you company."

My eyes hit the blank bottom of the letter as I finished my sentence, so I crumbled up the letter with my telekinesis and threw it off of the side of the ship.

"I'll go and check out this 'little friend' that he talked about," I told Pinkie, turning around to face the door to the lower part of the ship.

I walked over to the door and opened it, seeing nothing inside  but a couple of old wooden stairs into darkness.

I conjured a flashlight that levitated by my side, revealing a long staircase down onto a wooden floor.

I already know about the eyepatch trick that lets you see in the dark, but I see through my eyepatch, so it's like I'm not even wearing it.

I descended down the staircase slowly, in case some stairs might give out.

Something was telling me that Pinkie was standing in the doorway watching.

I looked behind me to see that my feeling was correct.

The sunlight from the doorway showed that Pinkie was standing in the doorway watching me.

Pinkie noticed I was looking at her and waved.

I waved back as I touched the floor, looking straight ahead. The flashlight showed several stacks of crates and barrels.

There was a steady creaking throughout the lower deck, each about three seconds long as the ship tilted on one side, a moment of silence, and another three seconds of creaking as it leaned in the opposite direction.

I trotted forward, moving left and right past the crates and barrels full of who-knows-what, looking around for something alive.

"Did you find our friend yet?" Pinkie called from above.

"No, not yet," I yelled back. I pointed the flashlight behind a crate, to shine upon a brown teddy bear.

The bear's fur was a little rough and worn, a couple of stitches in various places and an ear was missing. The bear also had black buttons for eyes, also one of them was missing.

"Never mind," I said loudly.

I levitated the teddy bear onto my back, had the flashlight vanish, and teleported in front of Pinkie Pie onto the staircase.

My sudden appearance startled Pinkie, causing her to stumble backwards outside.

"Sorry," I apologized, stepping outside and giving Pinkie my hoof, helping Her up. "But I like teleporting. You'll have to get used to it."

"So who's our friend?" Pinkie asked.

I turned to my side to show her the teddy bear on my back.

"Awww it's so cute!" She said, picking it up with her front hooves.

In the corner of my eye, I saw that we had arrived at some kind of stone spire.

I turned my head to see it correctly: it was a statue of a stack of stones (each stone getting smaller as the tower got higher) with a serpent encircling it.

There was an old paper that was aged yellow pinned to the statue by an old cutlas.

My telekinesis pulled out the sword and brought both the paper and the cutlas to me.

I stabbed the cutlas into the wooden floor of the ship and looked at the paper, Pinkie peeking over my shoulder as I read out loud;

"Congratulations, you had been able to pull out my personal sword. That is your starter reward; the sword of the greatest pirate of all time."

Pinkie quickly tried to pull the sword out to admire it, but to no prevail.

She gave a small sigh and went back to hovering over my shoulder as I continued reading the paper.

"But you are only scratching the hull of the ship, my friends. There is a much greater treasure if you venture further..."

Before I could continue reading, a large BANG sound went off in the distance. I spun my head around to see what could have caused it, and out of nowhere a large cannonball clunked off of the top of my head, squishing my hat and landing on the wooden deck, breaking a board or two as it rolled away.

I should be dead right now.

"CAPTAIN!!! WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!!!" Pinkie screamed directly into my ear.

I fixed my hat using my telekinesis, turned to face Pinkie, and responded with "I think I can tell," walking over to the side of the ship.

Out into the distance stood a large, dark-brown vessel with a black sail, moving swiftly across the seawater around us.

"Pinkie," I said, "you're First Mate. You get to return fire."

Pinkie saluted me and ran off towards a cannon that I had not noticed before (and that's surprising, because it's twice as large as Pinkie or myself).

Pinkie turned the cannon towards the distant vessel and fired.

The cannonball had been shot straight, and went into the water about twenty feet away from the ship.

Pinkie looked puzzled from the results as she reloaded the cannon.

"It's affected by gravity, you have to aim higher to get a longer distance," I explained. "And when it's moving how it is, you have to shoot in front of it."

"Really? It's that easy?" Pinkie said, sounding surprised. "This is gong to be fun!"

Pinkie Pie tilted the bak part of the cannon downwards and spun it with the encircling ship around us.

Pinkie took a shot, sending the cannonball high into the air.

It went flying for almost three seconds, before it splashed directly in front of the enemy ship.

"Alright," I said, "I'm not going to have some random boat sink my ship to stop this adventure."

I conjured a homing cannonball (not really technology, but it came from my imagination) and gave it to Pinkie.

"Use this instead of those normal ones," I said.

She nodded and ran over to the cannon, placing the magic cannonball inside of it.

Pinkie aimed the cannon carefully towards the enemy ship, moving as they did and fired. We watched as the cannonball become a glowing-violet flame and zoomed at high speeds towards the slightly-distant vessel.

The cannonball took about two seconds to smash into the side of the ship, emerging from the other side and coming around to slam into the main deck.

The ship immediately began to sink (rather quickly too), and it was submerged underwater a moment later.

I went over to Pinkie, patted her on the back, and had the letter come back over to me so I could continue.

"You were just attacked by an old friend of mine. He was part of this and knew what was coming. If you had successfully beaten the best sailing pirate in the ocean, then you are worthy of finding my island."

"We just beat the best pirate EVER!?!" Pinkie exclaimed in excitement.

"Actually it says he was just the best at sailing," I said. "That's why he was moving so fast."

I continued reading: "My island is north of the Rock of the Ocean. It is rather small, but you can't miss it."

We're almost finished already?

That wasn't much of an adventure...

The ship turned sharply, catching us off our guard and making us fall onto our sides as it sailed forward.

When I was back on my feet (or hooves, rather), I already saw a small dot on the horizon.

Damn this is short.

"Oh boy! I see the island already!" Pinkie said, jumping and pointing as the island became larger and more clear as we approached.

A few moments of Pinkie running around in excitement, the ship stopped about a kilometer off shore from the island.

The island itself (from this point of view) was about as large as four city blocks.

"The ship stopped," Pinkie said, sounding surprised. "How do we get to the island?"

I rolled my eyes, grabbed Pinkie, and teleported us both into the beach.

"Oooh, that's how," she said, placing a hoof onto her forehead and giggling.

Pinkie trotted some feet away and tripped on something green and shiny sticking out of the sand.

My telekinesis took it out, revealing a letter in a bottle.

I opened the bottle and slipped the letter out, levitating it in front of me like the others and read aloud: "My treasure is behind the third rock on the left. I hope your adventure was great."

"Awww, over already?" Pinkie groaned. "I was having so much fun!"

I don't see how this was fun at all.

Pinkie zoomed off somewhere, and who zed back and said "Can I have a shovel?"

I summoned a shovel in the air and stabbed it into the ground in front if Pinkie.

"Thanks!" She said, pulling it out surprisingly easy and zoomed back around a large boulder.

A split second later, dirt was spouting overhead as though it was liquid along with a rapidly repeated sound of a shovel hitting the ground and being lifted.

How the hell is anything she does possible?

I walked over to see what she was doing, but before I could, an old wooden treasure chest landed directly in front of me.

"I wonder what's in it?" Pinkie thought out loud.

I was about to open it, but a small piece of parchment nailed to the side caught my eye.

The chest levitated into the air from my telekinesis, making a large amount of clinking sounds, and adjusted itself so I could read it.

"The key to life lies within your friends," I said as I read.

"What does that mean?" Pinkie questioned.

"It means you're nothing without someone to accompany you," I explained.

What does this even have to do with this?

The chest fell onto the ground with a huge CLASH sound, and it wouldn't open when my telekinesis attempted to.

Wait a second.

Key...

Within...

Friends...

I have an idea.

"Can you hand me that teddy bear?" I asked.

Pinkie blinked in a confused look.

"Please give me the teddy bear," I said very clearly.

"Oh! Why didn't you say so?" She said, pulling the teddy bear from behind her (although she doesn't have any pockets) and presented it to me.

I conjured a knife and cut the bear's stomach open, creating a gasp from Pinkie.

An old rusty key could be easily seen through the stuffing.

I had the key fly out, pulling some stuffing with it (getting another gasp from Pinkie), and land inside of the chest's keyhole.

A quick look showed me that Pinkie had tears in her eyes as she was holding the rather thin teddy bear close to her.

"Don't worry," I consoled, "I'll get you a new one."

And so I did, having it appear right in front of her face.

She didn't look up and continued holding the one in her arms.

"Don't you want it?" I asked.

Pinkie shook her head and gave a small choke.

"Do you want me to fix that one, then?" I questioned further, having the new bear vanish.

Pinkie slowly nodded.

"Alright then. I'll fix it as soon as the game's over."

I turned to face the chest correctly and turned the key, lifting chest a moment after.

Inside of it was a very large pile of golden coins with skull designs on them, jewels, crowns, and even a pair of swords.

"Wow! Look at all of this!" Pinkie said, walking over with the bear on her back.

She admired the treasure for several moments, putting her hooves within the coins, grabbing a handful (or, rather, a hoof full) and dropping it back in to enjoy the sound it makes.

"We have the treasure, so now what?" Pinkie wondered.

It can't be over already. I have to make this better.

Lets spice things up a bit.

"Now," I said, levitating the swords out of the treasure chest and facing Pinkie, "you meet your end."

Pinkie Pie took a couple of steps back from me.

"W-what?!" She exclaimed through shock.

"You see, I only used you for several things. I never intended on SHARING the treasure once we found it."

"Wait!" She yelled, still backing away.

"Now, if you wish to live, you will fight me like a true pirate would."

I threw one of the swords directly into the ground a foot in front of Pinkie.

"Take it to defend yourself, or die like a coward," I explained.

I have no intentions of actually hurting her in any way, I just thought it might be fun. But to be safe;

I want my sword to bring no harm to Pinkie. I don't even want her to be able to notice if I hit her.

Pinkie grabbed the sword with her teeth and withdrew it from the ground.

"That's it," I said. "Now, fight!"

I grabbed the sword with my hooves and leaped into the air, bring my sword downward.

As I expected, Pinkie dodged it by moving out of the way. She ran at me with her sword, ready to slash horizontally, but I deflected her attack by bringing my sword up vertically. Pinkie was rebounded by a step or two, giving me time to give a couple of random slashes (I didn't know that a pony could move like a human so easily).

Pinkie blocked several attacks by moving her head, causing the sword to move with her jaw, but one or two missed by no more than a centimeter.

She rushed at me, swinging the cutlass frantically as I attempted to block and avoid them. She ran out of energy quickly, so I kicked her straight in the chest, causing her to fall over onto her back.

I walked over to her, raising the sword above me with my telekinesis, ready to thrust. But, again expected, Pinkie rolled out of the way, grabbing the bear as she did, and I stabbed the hard ground of the island.

I gabbed it with y hooves and attempted to pull it out (I can pull it out in a heartbeat, but I just thought it should be fair).

I was too focused on pulling my sword out to notice Pinkie, but I have to check to know what to do.

Stop time.

As the rushing sounds of the waves stopped, I twisted my head around (trying to keep my pose) to see that Pinkie was spinning with her sword, very close to me in fact.

I stood up and took a couple of steps to the right and faced the action.

I noticed quickly that Pinkie is spinning so close, in fact, that she's about to cut something of mine.

I'll make this fair...

I want to create a vulnerable clone of myself right in my exact pose I had when time was frozen.

A spiral of purple flames erupted in front of my cutlass that I was using, looking as though he was struggling to pull it out.

I want to make myself invisible.

Invisibility is a cool ability, I admit, but it sucks that I can't use it outside of my Realm.

Well, back to the action.

Play time normally.

The sounds of the ocean returned, a single grunt of mine was heard while I yanked before Pinkie had completed her spin, beheading the vulnerable clone.

The clone's head had a surprised look on it's face as it rolled over to the side.

The body was gushing out deep purple blood as the head leaked identical blood.

I never knew what color my blood was.

Pinkie had just realized what had happened, taking a humongous intake of breath, dropping the cutlass, and falling to what her supposed knees are.

Her mane and tail popped like a balloon, blowing out air and becoming extremely straight and long as she burst into tears.

Pinkie grabbed the clone's body and apologized repeatedly between chokes and sobs, burying her face into it's chest.

I didn't know that she would be so emotional.

"I am so sorry, Christian," Pinkie uttered once more from the clone's chest, this time sounding quite unlike herself.

I walked over to hear what she was saying better. "It was an accident, I'm sorry. I remembered that you said you couldn't get hurt. I thought it would just bounce off of you like that cannonball did on the ship. I am sosososososososososososo sorry."

"You're forgiven," I said, making myself visible.

The Realm scorched in purple flames, revealing it's regular state just as it was before.

The body, chest, swords, sand, ocean, island, and even the sky were all gone, and I was back into my regular pony-version clothes.

The only thing I let stay was the teddy bear, because I said I would fix it.

"What?" Pinkie said, hiding a choke. "Y-you're okay?"

"Yes, it was just for dramatic effect," I explained. "I just thought it would be a nice finish for an adventure with the captain turning on-"

My sentence was interrupted by a mouthful of bubblegum-pink hair. The next thing I know, Pinkie was holding me as tight and as close as she could.

"Thank Celestia you're okay," she said. "I was so worried that I wouldn't see you again."

"We had just met the other day," I stated, "why would you be so concerned about me?"

"You're my friend, Christian. I'm always concerned about my friends."

I'm her friend.

She actually meant it when she said that I was her friend, and proved she cared about me.

I haven't had anyone care about me in over three thousand years...

I returned the hug greatly, holding as much of Pinkie as I could. I embraced her more than I've ever done to anyone else before.

"Nobody has cared about me like that for a very long time," I said. "You are one of the only ones I trust in this world."

"But what about Twilight?" Pinkie said. " And Rarity? And Applejack? And-"

"I don't even trust all of them as much as I do towards you," I interrupted.

"But they're all really good ponies! They-"

"Nothing will change my mind about them unless they do something that proves they truly care about me."

I want us to go back to the normal world exactly where we were when we arrived.

A split second of purple, spiral flames later, we were standing back in Pinkie's room in Sugar Cube Corner, the sun was shining a lot brighter than before.

We released one another, and I levitated the teddy bear off of Pinkie's back and observed it.

The bear was very thin, almost nothing but cloth now that most of the stuffing is gone, and the slice in the stomach was very noticeable.

I want all of the necessary supplies to be levitating with the bear and fix it properly.

A sewing kit was conjured into the air. A needle, roll of dark brown string, and several handfuls of stuffing came out of the kit, which had then vanished.

The stuffing began placing itself into the bear, evenly filling the insides of the arms, legs, and body.

Once all of the stuffings as fully filled, the brown string tied itself to the needle. The needle began stitching the bear's stomach closed.

"There, done," I said after it was finished. I had the bear go into front of Pinkie, who gasped in joy and hugged the fully stuffed bear.

I didn't fix it any further because I liked how the bear looked.

"Thank you SOOOOOO much Christian!" Pinkie exclaimed, giving me a swift peck on the cheek.

"Tell no one about this," I explained. "Not even to the ones who know, because they'll bug me about it. Don't speak," I added as Pinkie opened her mouth. "It's out little secret, okay? You can say we played pirates and I have you that bear but nothing more. Got it?"

Pinkie Pie nodded her head and made a movement of zipping her mouth shut with her hoof.

"Good." I gave Pinkie another quick hug and said "It's been a nice stay, but I really need to do something for Twilight. Thanks for letting me stay."

"And thanks for the adven-I mean thanks for the game!" Pinkie said, keeping her promise and smiling.

I turned to open the door, but it was barged open before I could, and Twilight was standing there huffing.

"The....princess...is...here..." She said between gasps.

"Which one?" Pinkie said.

"and why?" I added.

"Celestia...she's here...for you..." Twilight answered, collapsing onto the ground.

I levitated Twilight into my back and exited the building, heading for Twilight's house (which I assume is where she'll be).

5: Applejack/Rarity

It wasn't long before I was standing in Twilight's library, the door shutting closed behind me.

I levitated Twilight off of my back with my telekinesis, placing her on the floor gently to rest.

Whatever Celestia wants with me, I hope it isn't pointless.

"Whoever you are, could you please tell me why my student was unconscious on your back?"

My head turned up to Twilight's bedroom and faced a tall white unicorn (with wings similar to Luna's) that has purple-ish eyes and a multicolored mane that I can't exactly describe. She wore a (seemingly) golden crown, necklace, and slippers.

Celestia (or at least I assume it's her) was giving me a mixture of a confused and grim look.

"I am Christian Gordon," I spoke up, "and Twilight here had passed out likely from exhaustion. You must be Princess Celestia, correct?"

She nodded, looking relieved and walking down the staircase. "I was told that you were a 'unique creature', but you seem like an ordinary pony to me."

I removed my hood from my eyes with my telekinesis, ignoring Celestia's surprised expression, and I morphed into a human.

I pulled my hood back up before I sat on the ground Indian-Style (as I learned to call it as a child).

Celestia blinked with her jaw hanging open, obviously at a loss of words.

She cleared her throat, saying "Ah yes, I had forgotten that Luna had told me of your ability to change your appearance. You had me fooled for a moment there."

"I could tell," I responded. Celestia joined me in sitting on the wooden floor, which reminded me of a dog that's told to sit.

"Why did you come here, exactly?" I questioned. "Before Twilight passed out, she said that you were here to see me."

"I was here to see you for myself," Celestia answered. "A creature as unbelievable as you is not something I come across very often."

"I understand. In my work, NOTHING that I do is even thought to be possible. Oh, would you like a cup?" I added, catching Celestia staring at my tea.

"Is that tea?" She asked. "Do you have tea where you are from?"

"Yes, and yes. In fact, my world is very similar to this one. And you didn't answer my question yet."

She smiled slightly, nodding as I gulped down the remaining tea in my cup.

I conjured a second cup of tea in the air, levitating it in front of the princess.

"It's an old recipe of mine," I explained, releasing my telepathic grip on the cup as it glowed a sunshine-yellow, identical to what color her horn was glowing. "It probably won't be the best thing you'll ever taste, but I personally like it better than the kind that's sold in my town."

Celestia raised the cup to her lips, taking a very small sip, unsure of what she should expect.

She lowered the tea, swallowed, and sat in silence.

I refilled my own cup and watched as Celestia took a second, larger gulp of tea before lowering the cup down again.

"How is it? I asked at her unreadable expression.

"I don't know what to say about it," she admitted. "It's not bad, but yet it's different than any tea I've tasted before."

The princess drained the rest of the tea following it being given back to me, and vanishing.

"How are you able to do that?" She asked.

I finished the last of my tea, made the cup vanish, and spoke "All of my abilities are connected to my mind. If I want something done, I just say it in my head and my powers do it. I don't know how, it just happens."

"Anyway," I said, getting back on topic, "is there anything else you would like to know?"

"Is it true that you are over three thousand years old?" She asked right away, smiling a little.

"Yes," I confirmed. "Three-thousand and eighty-nine to be exact."

"Twilight's letter had also said that she had "accidentally" summoned you. Could you explain in better detail?"

It's pretty easy to remember; it wasn't very long ago.

"As I recall, I was walking around the city, when out of nowhere my foot got caught in this symbol that you likely wouldn't know what it meant in my world. I couldn't pull my leg free, and what made it worse was that I starting sinking into the symbol. I started panicking, and then everything went black. I felt myself fall onto a wooden floor, and after that I heard that Spike gave Twilight a 'demon summoning spell' on accident."

"In quicker words; I was sucked into and trapped in another world because Twilight used the wrong spell."

Celestia's smile faded as she tilted her head down.

"The letter also explained that you are unable to return home," she said. "I truly am sorry."

"But he is free to stay in my custody as long as he likes."

I spun around to see that Twilight was standing directly behind me, grinning.

"How long have you been there?" I said.

"Not very long," she responded, walking to my side and sitting down. "I heard you and the princess talking when I woke up, so I came over here to join."

"I am happy to see that you are conscious again," Celestia told Twilight, who responded with a "Thank you".

"Now, is there anything else you require from me?" I said to the princess. "Anything at all?"

She brought a hoof to her chin, thinking for a moment and said "I believe that everything I came here for was answered." She stood up and walked towards the door. "Thank you for your time. I shall be on my way."

There is something I wanted to tell her... But what is it?

I was telling her about myself, then we had tea, and-

Wait... My powers!

"Princess!" I called.

She was close to the front door, just far enough so that it wouldn't hit her if it swung open, twisting her neck around to see me.

"I must ask for you to not mention anything about me, my powers, my species, my world, or anything that relates to me. If you must, call me Christina. It's my temporary identity in this world."

Celestia smiled softly. "Yes, Luna had instructed me to not mention you to anyone you don't allow. Though she did not say that we could call you Christina..."

"I don't think I told her that part. Could you transfer the message for me?"

"Of course. Now, I must e on my way. I have some urgent business to attend to down in Canterlot."

Celestia inches the door open with her magic, peeking through the crack. She swung it open and walked outside quickly, shutting it closed behind her.

I assume she was being sure nobody saw anything through the door. That was pretty nice of her.

"About those books you promised yesterday..." Twilight brought up out of nowhere.

I rotated myself to face the purple unicorn. "What about them?" I know perfectly well what she wants, but I want to hear what she says anyway.

"You had promised to give me the books to me today," she responded. "Are you going to keep that promise?"

"You'll have to tell me exactly what kinds of books you're looking for. I need to know what the books are about."

Twilight sat silent and still in her own thoughts.

I laid on my back with my hands behind my head as a pillow, trying to fight the urge to touch Twilight's neck.

"A book that tells everything about your species," Twilight burst out, "and another one with everything about your world."

"The terrain of my world, or the flora and fauna? The anatomy of my species, or my civilization and history?"

As I (somewhat) predicted, Twilight said "All of the above."

I want a pile of books containing everything about humans and Earth, written in a way that a unicorn like Twilight would understand. I want them next to Twilight on her right.

"I hope these have everything you're looking for," I said, assuming the books were where I instructed. "If you need to know anything else, let me know."

This floor is unnaturally comfortable.

"I'm going to sleep in the meantime. Feel free to wake me up any time you want."

Put me to sleep. Only wake me up if the sun rises tomorrow, someone nearby mentions me, or if I'm being woken up by Twilight or her friends.

"Could you explain what in the name of Celestia that THING is?" We're the words that woke me up.

I opened my eyes and lifted my head up to see who just called me a "thing".

Applejack was standing in front of Twilight, her hoof and face pointed at me while Twilight looked surprised that someone was standing there.

"I-it's awake!" Applejack panicked, grabbing Twilight's hoof. "Let's get out of here!"

Twilight lost her balance from the sudden pull, and was being dragged across the ground as Applejack ran for the exit.

I teleported (standing upright) in front of the doorway. I know I'm not really a muscular guy, but I'm big enough to block an average doorway easily (especially a pony's doorway).

Applejack saw me and skid to a stop. She let go of Twilight's leg and stood onto her hind legs, raising her front hooves like fists.

"Whatever you are, I suggest moving out of the way before I move you myself," she threatened.

Her accent strongly reminds me of a ranch girl I met once. Well, we didn't really "meet", we just said hello and talked for a minute.

"I'm not going to hurt anyone," I said, "especially friends of Twilight and myself."

Applejack stood her ground in silence.

"Look, I just said I'm not going to hurt anyone. Let me explain a bit about myself: My name is Christian Gordon. We met in town a few days ago. I was disguised as Christina do nobody would freak out like you."

Twilight lifted herself off of the ground behind the puzzled pony, shaking her head. "I brought him here on accident", she said, "but he's actually really nice."

Applejack went back onto all fours, closing her eyes and taking a deep breath. "I'll take your word for it, Twi," she said calmly. "If you trust him, I guess I can too."

"Glad we got that settled," I said to no one in particular. "Would you allow me, and Twilight if she wishes, to explain more about me?"

Twilight trotted over from behind Applejack to my left. We both stood waiting for her response.

Shortly, after a moment of nervous thinking, she agreed.

I opened my mouth to speak, but a sudden knock on the door made me close it again.

I morphed into Christian and raised my hood as I stepped away from the door, trying my best to ignore Applejack's startled face. "Don't say anything," I added quietly, walking to her side.

Twilight turned about and opened the door; Rarity was standing there, wearing some sort of crown encrusted with a variety of jewels. The large diamond I gave her a while ago was sitting upon the top of the crown.

"Is Christina here?" She asked, looking past Twilight. She saw me, and walked inside without invitation. "I wanted to thank you for giving me this diamond," she said as she approached. "It was a very nice touch to this crown I'm wearing. I've been working on it for several weeks, but I didn't know what to top it off with until you came along. I still need to finish the robe to go with it, but I thought I should come to thank you for the diamond anyway."

I don't think Rarity knows about me yet. Maybe I can tell her and Applejack at the same time.

I shut the door with my telekinesis, startling all three of the ponies.

"Rarity, there is something Twilight and I need to tell you and Applejack..."

Once Twilight and I had finished explaining everything about me, Earth, and humans to Rarity and Applejack, I laid down onto the wooden plank floor, looking up at the ceiling and using my hands for a pillow.

I honestly don't understand how this floor is so comfortable.

"So... We can't talk about you to anypony?" Rarity's voice asked from somewhere out of view.

"No," I replied. "You can only mention what I had told you to your friends... Well, the friends I met, and the princesses. Any other time, don't mention anything I told you."

"Out of curiosity, what would happen if we DO tell someone?" Twilight asked.

"If they believe you, they'll either come to see me for themselves like I'm something up for display, ask for a ton of crap for themselves, or they would freak out like I'm some kind of monster," I explained. "At least I assumed they would. I never took the chance."

There was silence for a moment, then Twilight said "What does "crap" mean?"

Does nobody here ever curse?

"Crap is a more "adult word" where I'm from. It has multiple meanings, but the one I used was a replacement for the word "stuff"."

"But why is it an "adult word"?"

"I'm not so sure. Everyone always says it is, so I guess it became one."

"Well, I'm sure that you won't be surrounded by folks asking you for crap. Did I use that right?" Applejack added, to which I nodded in response.

"Don't use that word too often," I said. "It's something from my world, and I don't want it to catch on.

"And let me ask you this; if a strange creature that you have never seen before is able to understand you and can create almost anything, would you ask it for something?"

There was a short pause before the three mares admitted "yes".

"Exactly," I continued. "And there are those who will ask for something else, again and again. Now, you have a single person... or pony in this case, who constantly asks for things. Multiply that by several million. They would all ask me, constantly, for something of their own needs and desires.

"It really would annoy me if everyone knew about me, because almost everyone would start asking me for things, run away screaming, or staring at me like I'm a trophy at a museum," I concluded.

I closed my eyes, trying to relax.

I inhaled a deep breath of air, feeling my chest expand full of air, and exhaled it outward, feeling my chest deflate.

This is what I was worried about of humans. I don't know for sure if it goes for ponies as well, but their civilization is very close to mine, and Applejack helped show me that it could happen.

"I never thought about it like that..." Twilight said, suddenly.

What would really happen if I were to reveal myself? I never did it on Earth, and I can't ever do it now, so what about this world? Will it be what I expect, or would it be the complete opposite?

What am I saying? I'm not going to take that chance. I'll go mad within three days.

"What did you do before Twilight brought you here?" Rarity asked out of the blue.

"Not much, to be honest," I said. "My plans were to watch civilization grow until it falls, again and again from almost every place in the world. Only once did I see my planet actually die out, but I was planning on seeing it repeatedly."

Rarity suddenly took a gasp, and said softly "Your planet was killed?"

"In a way, yes, because my species was rather stupid when it came to decision making. But I had rewinded time to when it was still alive, so I could watch it grow."

My body was very well relaxed, I can feel it. It makes me feel like getting up will use up all of my energy.

"Anyway, I had already explained everything you should know to both of you. If you have other matters to attend to, I'm not stopping you."

I heard of couple of "clop" sounds (meaning they must be getting up from their sitting positions). Next thing I know, a pair of lips pecked me on the forehead, gone as quickly as they came.

I opened my eyes immediately, looking straight into the blue eyes of Rarity, who was standing over me.

"Thank you again for the diamond, darling," she said with a smile. "And don't you worry about a thing, your secret is safe with us."

I expected her to mention something about my eyes, but I got a "thank you" instead.

That was rather unexpected, but polite.

"Anytime," I replied.

Rarity back away, allowing me to sit up straight to face Twilight and Applejack, who were both standing.

"Sorry for freaking out earlier," Applejack apologized. "I just-"

"I understand," I interrupted. "I would have been the same way in your situation."

I stood up and stretched widely.

I conjured a clock hovering in front of, which read 5:32 P.M. before it vanished.

Time really does fly by these days.

Out of nowhere, a random idea appeared in my head next to the image of the night sky.

It might be a tiny bit crazy, but it's worth a shot.

I looked over to Twilight and said "Where is a good place for stargazing?"

"Near Fluttershy's cottage, there's a cliff," she answered. "Why do you ask?"

"I have an idea that I'll explain later, if you're coming," I said.

"If you're going, I don't mind going either," she said as I morphed into Christina. Once I had my hood pulled up, Twilight yelled into the house "SPIKE! WATCH THE LIBRARY! I'M LEAVING WITH CHRISTI-"

I conjured a bandana and tied it around Twilight's mouth telepathically before she could continue.

"Don't ever scream my name," I said in her voice. "Someone might hear you."

It must be pretty weird to hear someone else talking with your voice.

Twilight gave me a "What the hell?" kind of look, followed by a single nod of the head.

I had the bandana vanish; Twilight's mouth was open for some reason, so she closed it shortly.

"Mind if I come along?" Applejack asked.

"Room for one more?" Rarity added, after I told Applejack that she could.

I agreed to Rarity's request, and she smiled in response.

"I think you lead the way," I told Twilight. "I forgot the way to Fluttershy's house."

"Can't you just teleport there?" She questioned.

"I don't like to use my abilities too often, sometimes I like to do things the old fashioned way."

Twilight didn't say anything, but took the lead of the four of us and faced the door.

I opened it with my telekinesis for her, and I got a "thank you" in return.

I let the other two ponies go outside before shutting the door behind myself.

We walked in the sunset's golden light in silence for a couple of minutes (surprisingly, no other ponies were walking around the town), then something covered my eyes.

I stopped walking, because the thing blinding me was weighed down to something.

"Guess who?" And excited, cheery voice said from my ear.

After spending a morning hearing it, she was fairly easy to identify.

"Could you not do that when I'm in the middle of walking, Pinkie?" I said.

"Sorry," she replied with a giggle, removing her hooves (I just realized what they were) from my eyesight. "Where are you girls going?" She started hopping next to me while I tried power-walking to catch up with the others. "Are you doing something fun? Can I come? I love fun! Fun is-"

"If you want to come along," I interjected, "I recommend not talking so much."

Pinkie ceased her hopping and began to walk at my pace once we had caught up with the group.

A quick glance showed me that the teddy bear that I had given to Pinkie earlier today was riding Pinkie like a wounded soldier on horseback.

It's funny, because she's a horse.

"Where are we going?" She asked.

"We're heading to this cliff over by Fluttershy's house," I stated. "I want to get a view of the stars."

"Stargazing? That has to be the most BORING thing I've ever heard!"

I looked upward to see Rainbow Dash flying above us.

"Then you don't have to come," Twilight said from the font. "We're just taking Christina there because she wants to try something."

"I'm only going because all of you girls are going. I'm not going to be staring at stars all night."

After maybe ten minutes of walking (something tells me that Twilight made the walk longer than it was supposed to), we arrived at the pass to Fluttershy's cottage.

We didn't stop, but we kept walking past the animal caretaker's house.

"Go get Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash," Twilight suddenly said.

Dash zoomed off to the small cottage while we continued our trotting down the dirt road.

It soon turned into a grassy field; small animals ran about, flowers bloomed here and there(isn't it February?), trees were scattered everywhere, and the grass appeared to be painted gold in the setting sun's light.

Shortly, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash touched down with us, keeping up with our pace.

"Hey Dash," I brought up, "you and Fluttershy were in the air just now. Did you see anyone around?"

"No, why?" She answered.

I threw my head back to take my hood off of my head and morphed back into my normal form, continuing to walk.

"All six of you already know my secret," I said before anyone could say anything. "There is no need for me to hide it when it is only you around."

"When did you tell them?" Pinkie asked? "Did you tell them about our game too?"

"Game?" Twilight questioned.

"Pinkie and I can explain later," I said. "Anyway, I told Applejack and Rarity everything not too long ago. They know as much as you do."

"Did he tell you about Mr. Fuzzy?" Pinkie said, slipping in front of the group and showing off her teddy bear.

Everyone stopped walking and gather around Pinkie. I did too to see everyone's reactions.

Twilight said "That's very interesting," Rarity and Applejack both smiled with a small giggle, Fluttershy brushed it with her hoof, and Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes.

"I named him Mr. Fuzzy because of how fuzzy his fur is," Pinkie said. "It's really fuzzy. Not like really fuzzy, I mean REALLY fuzzy. Fuzzy with a sort of-"

"I think we all get it," I said. "Are we close to the cliff yet?"

"We still have some ground to cover," Twilight replied, getting back on track. "Come on everypony."

Some time passed, and it had gotten dark out. I had conjured a rectangular lantern with a candle inside (I really like those kinds of lanterns) hovering over the six of us for some light.

It's pretty odd how a group of seven is able to remain so quiet for so long.

"Have you ever had a special somepony?" Pinkie asked randomly.

She must mean "a special somebody".

"If you are talking to me, I have not been in this world long enough to find a partner," I said. "In addition to that, I prefer to be in a relationship with my own kind."

"No, silly! I mean did you have a special somepony where you're from?"

"No, truthfully."

"But why?" Rarity said. "A kind gentlecolt like you is sure to be surrounded by other girls."

"I think you should look at the situation I'm in right now," I said as a joke. "But to be serious, I never talk to others that often, so I never made any friends."

"You never had friends before?" Fluttershy said.

"Not exactly, no," I said. "I also wasn't looking for a relationship. I had no interest in finding one."

"Why is that?" Twilight asked.

"I...I-I just wasn't looking for anyone. I was more focused on what was going on in the world than what was going around in my own life."

Now that I think about it, what was I doing for over three thousand years? "Watching civilization grow", what was the point of that? It was the only thing I ever did with my life, after I gained my Immortality.

"Well, you have some friends right here with you," Applejack said.

"Yeah! You get to hang out with us now," Rainbow Dash said, flying high enough by my side to wrap a hoof around my shoulder.

Her hoof and coat felt soft against my shoulder. It made me feel more at ease, somehow.

"Thank you," I said to them all. "Not many people from Earth would be so kind to me."

"What's "Earth" again?" Pinkie wondered.

"It's Christina's-"

"Christian," I corrected. "Nobody else is around."

"Sorry. It's Christian's home planet," Twilight went on. "It's around the size of Equestria, but it has a LOT more water."

"It's funny, because everyone in my world lived on land," I said as we began climbing up a hill. "About eighty percent of my planet is water, but yet we all lived on the land."

Being twice as tall as the others, and Rainbow Dash at my height, we saw the grass glimmering in the moonlight over the hill end in darkness.

It must be the cliff.

"Race ya!" Dash said out of nowhere, zooming off from my side.

Slow down time.

I walked around the others and walked at a fast pace towards the cliff, being devoured into the moon's natural light as I left the golden glow of the lantern.

Halfway there I passed Dash, who looked odd in mid-flight in the dark. She looked like some kind of floating statue with a frozen rainbow trail behind her, while she moved as fast as the occasional slow walker on thr sidewalk.

I kept walking until I hit the edge of the cliff.

Let time flow how it does normally.

In less than a second, Rainbow Dash had stopped and was hovering right at my side, looking surprised, confused, and frustrated all at once.

I chuckled unnecessarily. "You shouldn't underestimate my capabilities," I told her.

She responded by crossing her front hooves (like I do with my arms pretty often) and turning her back to me.

Once everyone else had caught up and put us back in the light, they all started talking about how fast I was.

I stopped them all to say "This IS the right place, correct?"

They all nodded.

I looked up into the sky; not a star was in sight.

I raised my arm straight upward, and slowly moved it to the left, moving the clouds with my telekinesis.

"How are you doing that?" Fluttershy asked, apparently watching.

"Telekinesis," I stated simply. "Just give me a minute to clear these clouds out."

"I'm sure Rainbow Dash can do it," Rarity spoke up. "Could you be a dear?"

I turned around  to see if she would answer.

Her back was no longer turned, but her hooves and moody expression were still there.

"Hey, at least you can fly," I said. "Even if I had wings, I would never be as fast as you."

It was an obvious lie. To me, at least. I don't know if she would believe it.

"Yeah... You're right!" She said, getting a smirk on her face and soaring into the sky.

Her shadow in the dark sky started kicking the big bunch of clouds, making them burst and go out of existence.

She went from cloud to cloud, breaking bunches into pieces, and coming back to break the pieces.

Within maybe eighteen to twenty seconds, she was back on the ground, saying "I bet you would never be able to THAT off!"

I looked back into the sky.

Literally every single star was in sight. Even gas in the atmosphere could be seen.

But none of these stars match any constellations...

I backed up a few feet away from the seemingly-endless abyss-into-darkness, creating a Morvian Telescope (invented in 2847) and placed it's legs on the flat grass.

Now that I think about it, it looks a lot like a telescope from the 2000s with a keyboard attached...

The ponies watched with interest as I typed in the coordinates of Earth's orbit into the keyboard.

I hit enter, but yet it didn't move, turn, or point in any direction.

It must be calculating.

"What are you doing with that... Doohickey?" Applejack questioned.

"It looks like a telescope," Twilight added.

It still hasn't moved.

Just be patient, I'm sure it'll come up soon.

"It's a special telescope from my world," I told them. "It allows me to type in the coordinates of anything within four light years around it. It's invented in about eight hundred years from now."

"That's from the future?" Pinkie said. "I wanna go to the future!"

"I don't want to try taking others time-traveling, Pinkie. Something bad might happen."

I sat down and crossed my legs in front of the telescope, waiting patiently.

"Why are you using that telescope?" Twilight asked.

"To see if I can find my planet," I responded.

The group went silent all of a sudden.

Several minutes of dead silence passed.

It was broken by a loud BUZZ sound from the telescope, and a calm woman's voice saying "Coordinates do not exist within range."

Oh God...

I looked at the bundle of ponies.

Fluttershy was hiding underneath her mane behind Rarity (who looked speechless), Applejack was kicking the ground with her hoof, Twilight was avoiding eye contact with me, Pinkie was busy messing with her teddy bear, and Dash was hovering in the air and rubbing her neck.

A sudden thought popped into my head; what about the other planets?

I typed in the coordinates for Venus and pressed enter.

In a much shorter amount of time, the buzz sounded again, and the woman's voice said "Coordinates do not exist within range.".

Over two hours later, I typed in Pluto's coordinates, my heart pounding against my rib cage as the others spectated in silence.

Once more, the buzz came and went, followed by "Coordinates do not exist within range."

I sighed heavily.

"I'll give it one more shot," I said to myself.

In one last, hopeless effort. I entered the coordinates for the sun (Earth's sun, anyway).

Please, let it work this time. Please.

I sat on the lantern-lit grass, waiting for it to find the coordinates.

The others gathered around it with me, sitting down on the ground, staring and waiting for it to do something.

It remained still and silent for several minutes. Not a single sound nor movement came from the Morvian Telescope.

"I think it's busted," Pinkie Pie said after some time.

"It might be," I said, wanting to believe her, "but I'm going to give it some more time."

Nobody else spoke after that.

It felt like hours passing by.

If its taking this long to find it, but the other times were so short, then maybe it'll point to the sun's direction.

It could be possible.

The others are starting to doze off. They keep closing their eyes, yawning, and shaking themselves awake.

"You guys don't have to stay here with me," I said, loud enough to catch their attention (Twilight, Rarity, and Fluttershy jumped). "Why don't you all go home and get some rest?"

"I'm fine," Applejack yawned. "If you're doing something that's important to you, then I'll stay here right with ya."

"I can stay awake," Twilight said, standing and stretching her front legs like a dog.

Pinkie, Fluttershy, Dash, and Rarity didn't say anything, but they didn't move either.

The telescope still hasn't done a damn thing.

I want to try re-entering the coordinates, but it might restart the long-enough search, so I'm not going to risk it.

More time passed, and still nothing happened.

Pinkie fell onto her side with a THUD, snoring. Mr. Fluffy was lying next to her face-up, as if the wounded soldier had fallen off of its carrier.

Pinkie's sudden collapse startled Fluttershy (who was sitting next to her, asleep in her sitting position). She jumped onto her feet, wide-awake from the unexpected awakening.

I couldn't help but to smile a little. I don't know why.

Out of nowhere, surprising us all (and waking Pinkie Pie), an ear-splitting BUZZ emitted from the telescope, followed by the calm woman's voice saying "Galaxy containing coordinates is not within range".

A sudden sinking feeling came across my chest, as if I lost a close family member all over again.

I made the telescope vanish and rolled onto my stomach, resting my head in my arms. I always did this as a child whenever I was upset.

I'm never going home. My only chance to go back to Earth failed. I'm going to be stuck here in Equestria for eternity.

I can't even talk out loud without saying words that nobody would understand.

How would I be able to live here until the end of time?

Someone soft wrapped themselves around my right side in a warm embrace (I assume it was Fluttershy, by the feeling of her long mane on my back); her head pressed against mine like a loving cat.

Her coat was rather comforting against my body.

I didn't look up. I didn't want to.

I'm comfortable like this (though Fluttershy is making me even comfier).

Another pony got down and hugged me similar to Fluttershy, except from my left side.

Her mane felt pretty curly against me.

Pinkie and Fluttershy were both consoling me with their embraces.

I felt another two ponies' hooves wrap around me.

It was hard to tell who they belonged to, because it felt like they were reaching over Fluttershy and Pinkie.

A pair of hooves came from in front of me, squeezing between my head and arms and getting a hold of my neck. She then pulled herself closer to me, and I felt a forehead bump against my temple, part of a horn and a fragranced mane included.

Immediately after Rarity became still, the last member of the group climbed on top of me.

She laid down on my back (and on several hooves), slipped her hooves under my shoulders, and pulled herself as close as she could.

Her head tested upon the back of mine.

I identified it was a cheek pressing itself on the back of my skull.

"I'm sorry, Christian," the voice of Twilight said from on top of me. "You still have us."

I was buried by hugs from Twilight and her friends (my mother always said "the ladies will be all over you").

They were all helping my "sinking feeling" fade away, and they were all making me feel warm and comfortable.

It made me want them to never leave.

"You still have us."

That is true, isn't it? How could I not realize that?

Twilight's friends will always be there for me when I need them.

My friends will always be there for me when I need them.

Letter to Princesses Celestia and Luna

Dear Princess Celestia and Princess Luna,

It's been two months ever since I arrived in Equestria. During this time, I've spent a lot of time with my friends.

We've had plenty of great times together, and a couple of bad ones, but its all water under the bridge now.

I even introduced them to some of my world's technology.

Twilight was very interested in holographic chess (hard to explain, I'll send a set to you if you want). Pinkie's favorite thing was a plasma ball (it's a pink, transparent, invulnerable ball with yellow electricity inside of it). Fluttershy liked playing with the robot animals quite a bit. Applejack was pretty happy about a piece of automatic farming equipment that drove around planting and watering seeds by itself. Rainbow Dash was racing a Jetbot (a flying machine specifically designed to race small flyers like Dash) for almost five hours straight until she could finally beat it in a race.

They were all pretty upset when I took the things back. I tried to tell them that they're not from Equestria; they'll raise eyebrows if anyone saw them.

What was the most memorable was Rainbow Dash losing her temper and kicked the Jetbot, which did a flip and flew straight back at her, ramming itself into her forehead.

It was funny to me at the time.

A few days later I was talking to Twilight about myself. I somehow brought up how I never knew what I was supposed to be. We talked for some time about it. I explained that I never understood the purpose of having my powers, and she started helping me figure it out.

We read plenty of books for days (Spike helped), trying to find anything close to me.

After giving up on the non-fiction category, we went into the fiction category for about a week. Twilight soon read a book called "The Four Guardians", and believe it or not, the guardians in the book were pretty close to my abilities.

She quickly concluded that I'm supposed to be a guardian,. At first I wasn't too sure, but now it seems to make sense.

A lot of my abilities seem to make sense if I were to be a guardian.

Because of the fact that I have no idea of who I am, I shall (try out to) be the guardian of the Elements of Harmony. I will protect my friends from harm's way to my very limit.

If you ever worry about the Twilight and her friends, remember that they still have The Immortal as their guardian.

Yours Truly,

Christian Gordon

P.S., Burn the letter. It has too much information.