Paragons

by Yoda249

Rating: mature
Tags: Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life, Alternate Universe, Human
Length: 7187

Two dudes are randomly dropped in Equestria, do they have it in themselves to look past there own dreams to see the coming storm?

A joint fic in which 2 friends are magically teleported to Equestria. Turned to ponies will their dreams come true? Or will the truth of who they really are prevent that? May contain clop scenes… MANY clop scenes.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2013-11-25 17:09:04 UTC

Welcome to Equestria (Ray)

"Ow ow ow ow ow" cried Rayne. No doubt he felt the same pain as me, "ugh, what the hell just happened?" I hadn't even opened my eyes yet, but I could tell they it's daylight out, and the last time I checked it was nighttime and I also heard birds, how the fuck did we get outside? I slowly opened my eyes so they could adjust to the light, and all I could see was trees, great we're in the woods. "Rayne, where are you?" The groans behind me answered that question. I then realized something was off, I looked down at my hands and in their place were hoofs.

My heart seemed to skip a beat, as my eyes went wide. I slowly tried standing and my limbs wobbled, and down I went. I tried again with a bit more success, now standing straight up, I realized I wasn't the same height I was before. After a self check I am now positive that I am a pony. Pegasus, onyx coat, paragon blue mane, I couldn't tell what color my eyes were yet, I'd need a mirror.

I looked over to Rayne who was still laying on the ground groaning, he was a pony as well. Pegusus, blue coat, silver mane, gray eyes, he opened his eyes and immediately closed them agian."Gah!" He yelped as

he covered his eyes with his hoofs. He then froze, "Ray, why can't I feel my fingers?." Oh boy, this is gonna be hard to explain. "Ok, Rayne I want you be calm as possible, this is gonna take some getting used to."

Not Freaking Out (Rayne)

When Ray told me I couldn't hold a Xbox controller anymore I almost strangled him, but then I remembered that I didn't have fucking thumbs. I gave an irritated sigh, "Explain this one more damn time. Before I find a way to GROW thumbs and gouge your eyes out."

He actually backed up in fear, which although disappeared a moment later it was still kinda a good feeling. I built up a solid foundation of.... Say Rainbow Dash. Making sure everyone knew I was a badass, with just the manipulation of words, although I wasn't a strong person, my words had the effect of fear on most people, the words of a dictator, a... Silver tongue most people call it, that's why when ever I get a phone number from hot chick at pizza joint I whisper, "speech increased to 75" which he laughs profusely at.

He stomped his hoof, which was... Erm, Different. He gave a look of indifference, "We. Are. Ponies. We have hooves wings, muzzles and fur, everywhere. Get used to it."

I mumbled, "Geez, nice way to put it." His expression softened, "I'm sorry bro, but I'm guessing we aren't getting back anytime soon" my eyes flew open, "What the HECK IS THAT?!" I was turning in circles to get a better look at it, well them. I had freaking wings, as I jumped back to face Ray I screamed, "REDBULL GIVES YOU WINGS!" I jumped in the air and my wings shot open, it felt like after a person loses a finger or something they can still feel it there? Like that only its a totally new place. I flapped them once, twice, three times and flew in a big circle, "WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" I landed next to Ray with a giant

smile on my face, and a new strange hairdo. He rolled his eyes, "well, at least we can get out of here, seems we are in the Everfree Forest. I rolled my eyes right back, "well its not like you know that, they may ACTUALLY have more than one forest wouldn't they?"

He gave me a strange look, "well, ya...." I interrupted again, "Soooo, let's FLY the fuck out of here, get a... Birds eye view."

He perked up at the offer, "Ok, fine. Let's find directions to Ponyville and explain our situation. Hopefully she has her wings as

well..." And with that and a bit of hobbling and ALMOST falling, we started our long journey, to wherever the fuck we were going.

The long quest for food. (Rayne)

The answer was simple and came quickly, food. Ray stomach grumbled and

my stomach told his stomach to shut up... With more grumbling.

I spoke up stating the obvious, "I'm hungry."

He gave his famous 'your an idiot' face and rolled his eyes, "I think we need that new magical substance called FOOD moron."

I looked back with a more than sarcastic gasp, "WHAT?! What is this 'food' of which you speak?"

He facepalmed, wait... facehoofed, then we heard a sound he has been waiting for since we first got here. The sound of a a single cyan blue blur fly across the sky. He stared up oblivious that he was still moving in a forward direction, his wings were straight up in the air. Hehehe, we knew what that meant down below.

His eyes swelled with brief envy, his heart was audibly thumping. No words could describe how much he wanted her, the one and only Rainbow Dash. But me being a dick smacked him upside the head hard enough to knock a whole algebra book into him.

He jumped, "Huh? Damn it Rayne!" I laughed, "Come on, you gotta get us

some food... Not drool."

***Ray***

We each decide to split up in our quest for food. Grumbling at Rayne's attempt to get my attention I looked around in the market. Immediately the smell of baked goods hit me, oh boy them apples. I walked over, following the sweet smell and found a stand loaded with apple based goods.

I was literally drooling, but I stopped myself from covering the food in saliva. "Howdy!" Said a most familiar southern voice. I looked up and there was Applejack, standing behind the stall. "Can ah help you?" She asked. I then almost face hoofed again realizing that I had no money, so with my quick thinking, I came up with a plan.

"Yes, actually I don't have any money, but, I figured we could make a trade." Applejack gave me a look over and said "Alright, what do yah have in mind?" I could pay you back for the food for helping you on your farm" She gave me a serious look "How do yah know bout mah farm?" Well shit, me and my big mouth, gotta think of a cover.

"Well, you see I saw you working there and I figured I could help" not completely a lie, but a half truth. She gave me a serious stare as if trying to break my poker face. She then went back to normal Aj and seemed glad that I'd offer help. "Well that seems like a fair deal" She extended her hoof towards me and waited.

I did the same and she gave me one hell of a hoof shake. "So, what do yah want from mah fine selections?" I gave the food a look over, she had normal apples, fritters, pies, if it was once an apple it was here. "I'll have two apple pies please" she then reached behind the counter and pulled out two pies.

"Oh, I nearly forgot, I have a friend with me, he's around here somewhere, is it alright if he comes and works on your farm too?" She perked up at this "If he can buck apples like I hope you can then, sure." "What time should we be there?" Aj put her hoof to her chin and thought. "About 10:35 should be fine".

I gave my thanks and grabbed the pies, I places them on my back and used my wings to hold them in place. "Now, where in gods name is Rayne?" I muttered.

The pre-party (Ray)

I found Rayne wondering around at the park staring into the fountain, we sat on a nearby park bench and devoured our pies in 5 minuets. I noticed it was getting dark and we left the park. No let me tell yah Ponyville looks pretty damn creepy when night falls, especially since nobody is even around. Me and Rayne already knew where they were at.

Either they were at Sugar Cube Corner or they were at Twilights house. After checking Twilights house and no pony was there we went into SCC (Sugar Cube Corner). We could here voices inside and mostly ponies telling each other to hush and be quiet.

"You ready?" I asked as I looked at Rayne. "Let's Partay!" He said as I opened the door and stepped into the dark room.

***Rayne***

-15 minutes earlier-

"What do you mean we have to work???" I said angrily between bites of my apple pie.

He came up for the first time since he took his first bite, and opposed to talking he gasped for apple flavored air, "I promised Applejack work for pies! Don't judge me on my lack of creativity, we needed food, and I got it." With that he swiftly jammed his muzzle back in the pie. I was about to facehoof, but I thought better since it had apple filling all over it.

My eyes went wide for the second time, Raymond a long while ago had given me the idea of a book, in it (it was a slice of life clop) I gave shy a amber necklace. I had a amber necklace in my pocket before we... Ended up here. I knew I wasn't as fast as Dash, and possibly never would be, but I devoured the rest of my apple pie, and SHOT off towards the spot we first came from... In the Everfree forest. At night, I landed, barely recognized my surroundings and jumped into the crater and frantically searched. About three minutes later I dropped the log in my teeth. There it was, sitting on a still smoldering piece of blacked grass. I tried to hold it, but I remember I didn't have thumbs, so then I tried to pick it up with my teeth, but hesitated, it would get all sticky. So then I went for last resort. I used my wings

to pick it up, which worked way better than I thought it would have been. I almost cried tears of joy finding it, this was always my promised gift to shy if I ever got to meet her. I monarch butterfly encased in amber, on a leather necklace (not real leather, cause that's weird) I put it on using my new 'arms' and swung it behind my mane. Hiding the amber in my hair, sure do wish I had a saddle... That. Sounds freaking weird... Shaking that strange though of me in full leather away, I jumped up and shot off back to where I had left a very confused Ray.

The party part 1 (Rayne)

I whispered to Ray before we entered the door, "Dear God Ray please tell me you didn't tell anyone our names?"

He shook his head and I spoke again, "You DO know we gotta come up with names... Right?" I kinda said it like a joke, but he actually hesitated at the door.

He looked at me with a thoughtful expression, "Your Rain Puddle and I'm Storm Chaser, that's good, isn't it?"

My eyes narrowed and I felt my nostrils flare, "And if I ever hear you call me PUDDLE I'm gonna suffocate you with a cloud."

He drooped his ears, wonder how the hell he figured how to do that, "I'm sorry dude, I've never been good at making names."

I gave him a wise ass crack of a smile, "How about Rain Splash. That at least doesn't make me feel like a colt."

He gave me a look of surprise as I said the 'pony-slang' for boy. I rolled my eyes, "Don't you remember the day you drilled all of those damn names in my head? Colt friend, mare friend, colt, mare, stallion, filly, buck, Pegasus feathers, hay, anyPONY?! Shockingly those things still rattle around in my brain."

He had the nerve to shrug, "Just means I don't have to teach you."

I felt my nostrils blow steam, "You bucking--!"

With that and a small giggle he went in Sugarcube corner. (Just so you guys don't think we are breaking and entering a sign on the outside of the store said "new ponies come this way") we were greeted by a blinding spotlight and a avalanche of "SURPRISE's" I was working out the ringing in my ear as Ray just smiled taking it all in, Pinkie Pie walked over with that same freaking smile that had unsettled the hell outta me, it was the Smiles HD smile... And creepy as FUCK. but I'm guessing she is completely harmless, unless you break her promises.... I shivered,don't do that. He trotted forward and offered a hoof to the over caffeinated Pink mare. As opposed to any standard and NORMAL greeting, because we all know that Pinkie is anything but normal, she bear hugged him and I actually heard the sound of a couple of bones pop. The only comprehensible words were, "AAAAAAAIR!"

She flinched as our overly manly voices hit her ears, she let go and jumped back, "Oops, hehehe! Sorry, say, you two haven't been messing with the fabric of time and space lately... Have you?"

Ray's face screwed up in confusion, and I knew I needed my quick wits to get us out of this one, Pinkie was WAY smarter than she ever let on, I decided to test out how smart.

I looked at her in her eyes and with a small chuckle under my breath stated, "Not yet at least, our kinetic mass is to small to pin prick out of the fabric of time and space, so our total traveling velocity would be just too difficult to track down. On the other hoof, if we had a sub atomic proton smasher we could potentially brew something quite fancy up. But on another subject how are your pies Pinkie?"

I almost felt Rays mouth hit the floor, most of what I spewed was random gibberish, but some of it a actually understood. Which was bad because Pinkie seemed about to tell me something about how a sub atomic proton would be impossible without a atom splicer, or she was about to say her pies were amazing.

It was interrupted by a awkward and rather talkative conversation leading up to the door, it went a little something like this:

"Spike what do you mean its 'pointless'?"

"Well I just don't understand why we need so many party's all the time"

"That's easy Spike, because party's are what Pinkie does best!"

I looked over to see Pinkie looking like she needed a hug. So I did the macho manly thing and gave her a small hug, "Its fine, this... Spike, is just confused on why you need party's, he doesn't know that party's are ALWAYS in style does he?"

She shook her head with a little bit of tears leaking out of her eyes and her hair started to deflate. My eyebrows shot up, along with my ears, "Aha!" I reached behind her and out of nowhere my hoof closed around a bicycle tire pumper, I had NO idea how that happened but it's what I needed so I didn't question it. I proceeded to stick the hose in her hair a begin to pump the other side. To my surprise her hair proofed up a bit more with every pump.

And for the first time, in... Well forever, I saw her completely confused, "how did you--?" I put a hoof up, "Because I don't like to see you upset. Kinda like your Cutie Mark, I try and make everyone happy, but that's a secondary trait. It's not what I'm best at." She tilted her head to one side as Twilight and a VERY embarrassed Dragon walked through the door and the party continued, I noticed what Pinkie

was staring at, "Well?"

I shook out of my day dream, "Huh? Well what?"

She giggled in a way only she could, "What's your cutie mark mean silly?"

My eyes glazed over and a look of sorrow and sadness, with a 'flutter' of hope filled them, "A promise. One I intend to at least find out before I die."

She looked my over once more before gasping and remembering something, "OH MY GOSH! I almost forgot to ask you name! What is it?!"

I laughed, "Its Rain Splash, nice to meet you Pinkie Pie."

She gave a smile and looked around, "Well I gotta go meet your...." I answered the obviously hanging question, "Brother." She nodded, "brother and see to it everyone gets enough food... Hope you have a good time... Rain." With that she trotted off. I leaned against the counter and thought to myself, "Damn, I'm good. Now where is that oh-so-shy mare I've been trying to find?"

The party part 2 (Ray)

"God my back" I muttered, who knew she had that kind of strength? I walked over to food table for a drink. They had bottles of pop, cider, varieties of fruit drinks, and...hard cider? I grabbed the bottle between my teeth and poured some into a cup, I took this time to make a joke, "Confound these ponies they drive me to drink" I muttered, I couldn't help but crack a smile and chuckle a little.

I took a sip from the cup, not bad, I then drank the rest. I poured another cup and was in the process of drinking another when Pinkie jumped up behind me. "Hiya!" She said, I of course jumped while still drinking making the cider go down the wrong pipe. "*cough**cough*, Hey, Pinkie please don't do that to me, like jump up behind me, if your gonna do that do it in front of me where I can see you"

"Okie Doki Loki!" Pinkie said with unwavering enthusiasm. "Thank you" I replied, "Anyway, I just wanted to say welcome to Ponyville and I hope you enjoy the party!" She said, "Thanks, and the party is the best one I ever had" I replied. Pinkie smiled with glee and gave me a less back breaking hug. I returned the hug in kind, and god her hair smelt like cotton candy.

"Oh so, your names Storm Chaser right and Rain is your brother?" She asked, "Yep"I said rather shortly. "And what does your cutie mark mean" she asked, I took a look at it, the paragon symbol from Mass Effect, "it means I'm a good guy, I go out of my way to aid those in need, I do things for the greater good."

Pinkie nodded her head and looked like she was thinking " So we can count on you helping us when we are in trouble" she stated. "Yes, if you need anything Pinkie, I will help." I promised

Pinkie left to check on everypony else, and just as I was about to take a drink a voice I was begging to hear came from my left. "Your one of the new pegasi in town huh?" I turned and looked and my heart felt like it stopped, and standing next to me was Rainbow Dash.

I felt myself getting warm and a little bit nervous. Oh boy, ok Ray act normal, "Yeah, that's me, names Storm Chaser" I said. "Hm, how fast are you?" She questioned, "I'm not one to brag" I stated. "Well you may have heard of me, I'm the one and only, Rainbow Dash!" She said proudly.

"Yeah, I saw you at the Young Fliers Competition, you made a sonic Rainboom, saved not only your friend, but the wonder bolts as well" I listed. She didn't even looked surprised, "Glad to know I still have fans around, after that mare do-well thing" she chuckled. "So how bout we get straight to business" she said seriously.

I got a little nervous wondering what she meant. "With new pegasi in town I can finally have a challenge, you see, I've raced pretty much everybody in town, and I've beat them all, except Applejack on foot, and I want to race you and your brother" I relaxed a bit and said, "Sure, how bout...the day after tomorrow?"

"Your on!" She said with obvious happiness. She then trotted off to probably chat with other ponies. "What did I get us into?" I muttered. Where is Rayne? Where there is a Fluttershy a Rayne is near. I went on a search for my friend.

I found him in on a couch talking to Fluttershy. It seemed they were getting along, no doubt he broke her shy shell and they were becoming friends. I felt proud of my friend for pursuing his interests. I decided not to bother them to give them as much time together as I could.

I walked back to the drinks and poured another, "it's gonna be a long night" I muttered as I drank the night away.

The morning after (Rayne)

My eyes opened slowly, my breath was slow and drawn out, oh dear god what happened last night? A sat up, looking around at my surroundings and ignoring my huge headache. Ok, maybe 12 pints of hard cider was a LITTLE too much, I smiled remembering a certain memory from the night before, how we shooed all the littler fillies out so we could get the real party, Applejack and Pinkie broke out the Hard Cider and Grape Martini's Pinkie seemed to be able to hold a whole barrel of hard

cider, while AJ was keeping a solid pace, Twilight shied away from all the super alcoholic drinks but still ended up drinking a watered down glass of hard cider, and Rainbow Dash was chugging the cider down, I have no idea why she liked it so much but hay, why not? Shy only had a small sip of my hard cider. And I have no idea where Rarity went after her third martini, possibly back to her shop.

I surveyed the area, I noticed that most of the tables were turned upside down, and lots of ponies were passed out, even Mr. And Mrs. Cake had just stayed up in here room, closing the shop for the day, waiting for the passed out party mare to clean up. I saw Ray passed out with a arm around-- crap. Foreleg around a sleeping oblivious Rainbow Dash, he needed to wake up before her, because I don't think she would be real understanding like. I tried to stand, which was a bad idea

because for all my looking around, I had forgot to look at myself, I had a sleeping Pinkie Pie under one hoof and a sleeping Shy under the other, although Pinkie had slept in the crook of my arm, Shy had her head laid on my chest, I almost just laid back down to enjoy the moment, although we haven't done anything, even my memory served me well enough through the drunk coma, that was last night. My mind still wandered over Shy's body, she looked so cute asleep, a shook the

thoughts from my head and as carefully as possible I removed Shy's head from my body along with getting her and Pinkie a pillow and blanket, I may be interested in lots of different women, and even put off the output of a jackass sometimes but I am still a gentleman about it.

I walked over to Ray with a amused smile touching my lips, her seemed so at peace, and I was half tented to throw a bucket of ice cold water at him. But that would be considered mean, so I nudged him with my muzzle, his eyes shot open and he seemed about to say something loudly, so I did what everyone else did in the show, I jammed my hoof in his mouth, which probably tasted good since it was covered in cotton candy, don't know when they broke out that, but I didn't care.

He looked up annoyed but I signaled with my other hoof that if he moves another inch I'm gonna slap him. His eyebrows furrowed and I motioned with my head that he was cuddling with his one true love.

He started to freak out then zoned out calming himself instantly, this is one of the main things I envy about Ray, his reasoning skills were honed to a diamond edged blade. As opposed to freaking out he just re-analyses the information, he nodded and I took my hoof out of his mouth, he eased his arm out from under the blissfully sleeping Dash and we both looked around for AJ, she surprised us both by being near the door silently amused by how we both got up and left her sleeping friends

unaware of just how much we liked them, we gave her a look of horror, knowing she now could blackmail us at anytime. She gave a evil grin, she knew this just as much as we did, she motioned for us to follow her, I watched Ray weave his way through the sleeping and knocked out mares and stallions, I wanted to try something but I needed a small clearing of space, I saw one right next to Derpy and Lyra, I hopped

over a loudly snoring Twilight and landed just where I needed to, I was just about to test when Derpy grabbed my leg eyes wide open, "I'm afraid! What happens now?" I looked at the dream talking mare.

I leaned down and gave her a hug, "There is nothing to fear, but fear itself. Remember that Ditsy Whooves." She nodded in her sleep then fell back into her dreams. I looked on to see AJ giving me a surprised look. I smirked and jumped straight upward, I used my wings in a backwards motion to keep me on the ceiling, I flapped them avoiding the light fixture and walked towards AJ where I did a front flip and landed right next to her, she gave a smile and with new appreciation in her voice said, "Nice moves there slick."

I rolled my eyes as Ray reached us, he had almost stepped on a ponies wing, but avoided it by jumping, I used my wing to open the door, "Shall we?" She nodded and we were off. I fell into step with Ray, "We need some coffee, do you think they have that here?"

He shrugged still whispering even though we were already far away from the leftover party, "I wouldn't know, ask AJ."

I jumped up and glided to AJ, she looked over, "What'cha want?"

I asked her, "what do you usually do to get rid of a hangover?"

She laughed out loud, "Well usually I don't drink as much as you two did! Rainbow Dash says that eating a piece of cloud can help, don't know why, but it does the trick."

I smiled, finally I get to taste the cloud. I jumped up to a nearby Cloud hanging a bit lower than the rest and took two whispy chunks back down to me and Ray, but I was already eating on, it tasted like... Eating water, like ice that isn't cold, really weird but it calmed my head, no wonder they used it in potions. I gave the other half to Ray which he ate eagerly as I turned my attention forward, "I'm working today." I said miserably to no pony in particular.

Waking up. (Rayne)

I woke up bleary eyed and still feeling the tiredness in my sore body, I looked over to see if Ray was still in bed, most of the time I wake up early, take a shower, then head off to wake Ray up so he can repeat the process. We hadn't had to do work at our apartment because my Grandmother had died recently and left me a hefty wad of cash. So we usually just hung out and played games all day.

But to my surprise Ray had already stepped out of the shower and was walking around. I sat up, alerting him of my ability to comprehend words again. He trotted over with a grin painted on his face, I slammed my head back on the pillow, "god damn it" I thought to myself. The race with Dash was today, and I could barely feel anything. I needed a nice long shower. I got and started to go to the bathroom, I

almost laughed out loud at the sight I saw, the toilet was shaped like a penis cut in half so a ponies legs could go on either side comfortably, the shower had little pedals near the bottom labeled: "HOT & COLD." And everything seemed to be super sized, the bathtub could fit about three humans comfortably without awkwardness. I figured out the way the stuff worked quickly and took a nice 15 minute shower. I got out to see Ray looking out the window, oblivious to me sneaking up behind him.

"What'cha looking at?" A asked with a bit of loudness in my voice to surprise him. It worked with flying colors, (hehehe. Flying? Colors? Get it?) "JESUS RAYNE!" He hollered as he jumped back against a wall. I laughed, "Oh come on Ray! After Pinkie Pie THAT scares you?"

He stomped his hoof in frustration, "I wasn't scared, I was... Deep in thought." I rolled my eyes, "Right, you mean re-reading that SCRIPT you made about how you wanted to talk to Dash?"

He blushed heavily, "WAS NOT!"

I laughed and jumped onto the bed, "Was so!"

He chased me around a bit and after a while we collapsed for shear exhaustion, breathing heavily he replied, "We need to... Save our strength for... Dash..." I sat on my hunches, "Fine, we need to go get some... Oh wait we have money now don't we?" He got up and gave a sigh, "I don't wanna talk about AJ right now."

I rolled my eyes. They start to hurt after all the stupidity flying around, "I was just wondering about the money, not you rubbing out--whoops, did I say that out loud?" His eyes said it all: I had pissed him off. I nervously laughed, "Well, haha! Look at the time! I really gotta-- well. WE really gotta go. To Dashes PRIVATE clearing, that's where she told us to meet her."

At that all anger in his eyes faded and was replaced with sheer joy, "WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THAT?!" He shot off to grab a saddle bag he had purchased and filled it full of baked goods. I jumped up and stuffed my hoof in his mouth and put the other on his chest, successfully putting him to a full stop, "Where the HELL did you get the time to make this?!" His nostrils flared and he yelled, "MRRRFFF MMMM MA ERM!"

He growled and bit my hoof, "OW SHITHEAD!" He pushed me to the floor to which with my awesome luck (sarcasm) hit the bed post and quickly hit the friendly hard wood floor.

The race of hearts. (Ray)

"Shit" was all I could say, Rayne was knocked unconscious and was now on the floor. "Fuck, how am I supposed to...fuck it." I muttered. I lifted him up and rested him on my back with my wings. I balanced him on my back so he won't fall off and I carefully walked out the door and down the steps.

I made it outside and I already had ponies looking at me wondering what happened. I really hope he wakes up when we get to the clearing. I started walking down the street and I could see Dash's clearing in the distance. "Oh my, what happened" said a concerned voice.

I looked over and there was Fluttershy with a worried  look on her face. "We had a little dispute and he hit his head." I said. "That does look like a bad bruise on his head." said Fluttershy. I kept walking with Fluttershy right behind me. "Where are you going?" she asked.

"Well we are going to Rainbows private clearing for the race she challenged us too." I replied. "Oh, can I come?" she said with a hint of excitement. "Of course, I don't see why not" I answered.

With Fluttershy joining our merry band of misfits our heroes journeyed to Rainbow Dash's private clearing for their planned race. "What was that?" I asked, Fluttershy gave me a confused look. "It sounded like...narration." Fluttershy gave me an even more confused look. "Your starting to sound like Pinkie Pie" she said. "Nevermind, moving on" I said while still being vigilant for narrators.

We reached the private clearing, and Dash was waiting with an impatient look on her face. "There you guys...are...what happened to him?" Rainbow asked pointing to an unconscious Rayne on my back "Don't ask, he'll be up in a minute" I said moving forward.

***Rayne's conscious***

"Wheeeeeeeeee...." It was all I could say, there wasn't much going on in my head today, just a couple of re-runs of Supernatural and Family Guy. I went to the next door over. Stretching my hands again for the hundredth time. It felt good to have opposable thumbs again, but that was about it. I don't know how it is for everyone else when they are knocked out, but me I can wake up at anytime I wish, but then again it gives me the rare opportunity to dive head first into my sum of knowledge. Everywhere I looked there was filing cabinets. And where there wasn't there was a movie theater entrance where it would play random events that have happened over my life. I was currently wandering around the 'comedy' section of my... Mind? Anyway, I went to the nearest filing cabinet and opened it up, well I TRIED to open it. A iPad monitor popped up and asked for my most used password, this one was easy.

I stood at attention, "128453!" It put the digits in and the cabinet exploded and reformed itself only now it was slightly ajar, I opened it farther to find the surprisingly large files marked: 'every joke ever used'

"Jesus Christ" I muttered under my breath. I sat down and started reading one of them, chuckling every once in a while. After about a third of the way done I heard a huge rumble, "DAMN IT RAY PUT ME DOWN GENTLY!" I hollered at no one in particular. The ticket master: Death, the strongest of the four horsemen... Obviously. Leaned over the counter and told me to use my inside voice or he was gonna gut me. I learned to obey his rules or I would usually wake up not being able to feel my

arms. Strangely that's what he usually cuts off...

I nodded and using my most smart-assyness voice I replied in a whisper, "So sorry, your awesomeness." He shook his head and went back to throwing knives into a dummy behind the counter.

I jumped up and stated, "Well this was a complete waste of my time!" I went to the ticket master hoping the blades didn't have a secret desire to introduce themselves to my kidney. I leaned against the counter, "One ticket to get the hell outta here please." He turned towards me with a knife still poised to throw, "Wow, you said please this time!"

I rolled my eyes, "let me out. Or should I just think up a new roll model?" He grumbled something out under his breath and reached behind the counter he pulled a squirt gun out and gave it to me. He reminded me for the seventh time in my life, "DON'T AIM IT AT ME." For some reason he had a terrible fear of water. I shook my head as he flicked me off and shot myself between the eyes.

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I opened my eyes to see what I have dreamed for since I first laid eyes in her. A very timid yellow mare looking at me, I closed my eyes again quickly so she didn't know I was awake just yet. She was humming her lullaby sitting on the grass much like a cat would, her front legs were under her body neatly tucked away. Her tail wrapped protectively around herself as she starred in my general location, I noticed her eyes wander over me a couple of times, the ground between me and her was trampled quite a bit, possibly from multiple trips to and from our locations, I figured out why momentarily. Ray and Dash were over quite aways away, talking about... God knows what. And every once in a while they would gesture over to me, angrily. But then Ray would get her attention again distracting her. In this time of, shy would make full use of this... Distraction she would trot quickly over to me and snuggled. I was surprised and generally happy with this. She pouted something almost incomprehensible but I just barley made it out: "Oh Rain, how ever will I tell you?"

I smiled which she couldn't see because she was still wrapped up I front of me, technically I was spooning her right now, but that only counts if your awake.... Doesn't it? She turned her head towards me and looked on the brink of tears, she kissed my 'unconscious' lips and flew back towards her original spot and looked up, their gaze passed over us again, then went back to talking. At that she dashed back towards me, she laid her head on my side and huffed, "Oh how ever will he know?" I moved forward and snatched her up in a hug, "You'll never have to tell me, I already know."

She flinched, "EEP!" She recoiled slightly and then tears fell on the back of my shoulders, "I'm sorry I couldn't tell you. I'm just so--"

I hugged tighter, "Shy..."

The Beginning (Ray)

It all started one night at my apartment. Well, I wouldn't call it MY apartment, I shared it with my friend Rayne. Me and him slowly became closer and closer friends starting in about 9th-10th grade. At first I actually thought he was kinda annoying, always greeting me the same way everyday with a "Raybuscus!" He's a huge fan of Tobuscus, and after slowly introducing him to the brony fandom he took it upon himself to watch all seasons in one sitting one summer. He not only did it out of intense curiosity but to become better friends with me.

Each day it seemed we had more and more in common. First it seemed we liked the same shows, video games, and the such. One thing that we had in common, was the fact that we both fell in love with a fictional character. After watching a buttload of episodes of MLP:FIM he fell in love with the pegasus mare Fluttershy, and I fell in love with Rainbow Dash. Oh the names Ray by the way not sure if I mentioned that yet.

Anywho, like every weekend me and Rayne were doing game night, a few rounds of Halo, maybe some Call Of Duty, and we each took turns playing our favorite games watching each other laughing at our epic fails. It was about 8:35 and Rayne had just finished his turn of Skyrim, and I was just browsing funny pony pics when it happened. It felt like a big suction coming from the center of the room. Rayne looked like he was just about to say something when the power surged

and things went black.

It felt like I was drifting though a vast blackness. I felt nothing, I couldn't see anything either. And then it felt like I was being pulled through a hole that was way too small. The pain was unbearable, my body being mangled into positions that weren't posible normally. I couldn't even let out a sound, and then it all stopped, just like that. I then felt different, as if my body was not the same as it was before. I felt like I had extra appendages. And then, the great white light enveloped me.

So much pony... (Ray)

We quickly found out that we didn't need directions, at the height we were at we could see Ponyville in the distance. Rayne was over excited in the fact he now had wings and this led to an argument of who was the wingman. We also took note of each other's cutie marks, Rayne had a silver ring that was on an angle that it looks like a halo ring... Although it had a distinct aura around it... Maybe something more? My cutie mark was the paragon symbol from Mass Effect. We landed outside of town and took our time walking in.

"Sooooo, what are we gonna do" asked Rayne "Well, I don't know really, I figured we find the smartest pony in town, Twilight, and see what we kind find out about what happened" I replied. He didn't replied which forced me to stop walking and turn around, he actually stopped a few feet back and was staring at something. "Hey, Rayne, what's going on?" I whispered in his ear, I waved my hoof in his face which brought him back. "Huh, wha...what?"

"What'cha staring at?" I asked, he avoided eye contact with me and said nervously, "Nothing." I looked in the direction he was looking and lord and behold at a stand in the nearby market was the one and only Fluttershy. She was buying some fruit, and was pulling some money out of her pack. "Oh I see, got a little distracted did we hmm?" Rayne then gave me his 'shut up' face, which at that I decide to stop messing with him.

"Don't worry you'll see her later tonight" I said matter-of-factly. Rayne then gave me a questioning look "What do you mean by that?" He asked. I pointed behind him and he turned around, and he came face to face with that crazy pink mare Pinkie Pie. I swear Rayne jumped 10 feet in the air without the help of his wings. Not only because Pinkie was right up in his face, she also had a smile plastered on her face that I didn't think was possible.

Rayne came back down slowly floating down on his wings, Pinkie just sat there staring at us. That smile was really getting to me, before I could say anything she jumped up in the air floated there and let out a load gasp and was gone in a flash. I looked over to Rayne "You know what this means right?" Rayne looked at me with a excited look and we both said "PARTAY!" At the same time. Other ponies were looking at us weird and so we decide to go do something until the party starts.