Invisible

(POV: Josh)

Four hours. Twilight has been asking you questions for four hours. Luna and Celestia left about twenty minutes in, and the other elements have all fallen asleep out of boredom. The questions ranged from what life was like in earth to what what air fresheners humans use.

“Okay, last question: Why are you here?” Oh god, this question again, you face-palm since you have been asked this many times.

“I honestly have no idea, I just appeared here in some sort of a black box.” She writes down every word that comes out of your mouth, how she managed to do that for four hours remains a mystery.

“Oh well, I still have many questions, but I’m sure everypony else has some…Girls?” The realization that everypony has fallen asleep hits her. “oh…” a hint of red is visible on her cheeks “I guess that lasted a little longer than expected, but we don’t leave until tomorrow so we have plenty of time. “

“Alright, I’m tired anyway. “ A long yawn makes that apparent “I guess I’ll see you tomorrow.”

“Goodnight Josh!”

(POV: Twilight)

Josh left the throne room to return to his room, he did seem tired when you were interviewing him. There is so much more you need to ask him, but there is so little time to do so. You look over your list one more time; such an interesting species. It is amazing how they were able to replace magic with technology. You can’t imagine a world without magic, but you are a bit skeptical about that since he can do magic. Maybe human’s do have magic but their world negates it. Every answer just brings more questions, if only you could interview him longer.

A loud yawn snaps you out of your thoughts. “That was a nice nap.” You see Rainbow wake up with a confused look on her face. “Where’d Josh go?”

“He was tired so he went to bed.” Rainbow rolls her eyes.

“Don’t tell me you bored him with all your egghead stuff.” You give her a sheepish smile which gives her her answer. “Oh well I’m hungry, lets wake everyone up and get something to eat.” That sounds good, the last time you ate was before you arrived at Canterlot.

(POV: Josh)

You dive into your heavenly bed, who knew that an interview could be so tiring? You quickly drift off to wherever your dreams decide to take you this time.

I think it’s time you learned who I am.

“What? Who’s there?” You appear to be in an arena of some sort, you were on a sand ground and there were several empty stands around you like a stadium.

I am what you refer to as the voice in your head.

His voice echoed through the stadium giving an ominous vibe. “Okay… Who are you, and why are you in my head?” You recall his voice and remember he is the one who was talking to you during the fight with the assassin.

I am your guardian, that is all you need to know.

“Whatever, but why are you talking to me now?”

Your performance was pathetic. You should have been able to crush that assassin in less than a minute. It is time you learned your potential. NOW FIGHT!

“Wait, what?” That was all you could say before three shadowy silhouettes of ponies appeared on the other side of the stadium. There is a unicorn, pegasus, and an earth pony.

Combat mode active, 100% power remaining.

Your tattoos light up around your wrists and you feel stronger, just like your last fight. “I could get used to this.”  You form a fireball in your right hand and an ice spike in your left in preparation for the upcoming fight.

The pegasus is the first to attack, it dives straight, you step to the side and dodge the attack then throw your fireball at it. When the fireball hits the pegasus evaporates into thin air. “Thats one down.”

You are going to need more than just fireballs and ice spike to survive. You must be creative!

You think of other ways to use fire. You could use your hand as a flamethrower, throw fiery punches, and maybe make walls of fire.  For ice you can make weapons, possible erect spikes of ice from the ground, and maybe freeze your enemies. Time to put it all to the test.

The earth pony is next to attack. It doesn’t charge you like the pegasus, instead it slowly approaches you while summoning a sword in its mouth. “If it’s a sword fight it wants, it will get a sword fight.”  You summon an ice sword using your ice magic.

The earth pony slowly walks circles around you, taunting you to charge. You are not going to fall for his trap, you can tell he is planning to counter a charge. “Your move, Pony!” You decide to try a little taunting yourself. “I’m open!” You spread your arms out making it you look like an easy target. The pony falls for your trap and moves in to attack. As it swings its sword you deflect it, while you have the chance, you imbue your right fist with fire and deliver a powerful uppercut right to its chin. It evaporates just like the pegasus.

Do not forget you have weapons.

The suppressed Uzi from your bag falls from the sky and lands on the ground in front of you. You dispel your ice sword and replace it with the uzi.

Remember, you are not the only one with magic!

You face your final opponent, the unicorn. The unicorn does not charge or approach you, instead it disappears completely. “Alright, where’d you go?”  You feel a presence behind you, you turn around to see it charging its horn with a black energy. It then hits you with a black beam of the energy knocking you to the ground. You fire your Uzi at the unicorn only for it to disappear again. You get back on your feet and search for it while aiming down the gun. You feel its presence behind you again,  but this time you are prepared You a volley of rounds at it and succeed at hitting him twice. The unicorn falls to the ground. You aim your Uzi at the head of the fallen Unicorn, as you fire he teleports again. “Son of a bitch!”

This time it appears directly in front of you charging its horn. It fires three black lasers at you which you dodge swiftfully. It’s time for you to start using more advanced magic. You hold your right hand out and let out a barrage of flames. “Taste flamethrower bitch” The unicorn tries hopelessly to avoid your fire, but only succeeds in getting engulfed in flames. Your opponent evaporates like the rest. “Mission complete.”

Standby mode active, power recharging.

“Well voice, did I pass your test?” You don’t know what to call him so you go with “voice”.

Indeed you did, you may call me guardian. Now you may rest.

(POV: Josh)

“Hey Josh, Its time to wake up.”

…

“Josh? Come on its noon!”

…

“JUST WAKE UP!!!”

“Ok, I’m up, you don’t need to yell like that.” You don’t appreciate being woken up like that, you were having a nice dream about a juicy steak. “Damn Twilight it’s only like uhhh…” you glance at the clock on the nightstand “noon…I guess I overslept a little.”

“A LITTLE? We were supposed to meet with Celestia at 11:30 today, and now because of you we are a half hour late!” You roll your eyes, so you sleep an extra thirty minutes, big deal.

“Fine, give me a minute to get ready.” You look through your backpack to find a nice pair of clothes to wear, but Twilight pulls you away.

“No time for that, we are behind schedule!” Her horn glows lavender, the moment you blink you find yourself in the throne room, Celestia and the other five elements are staring at you.

“Again, no warning.” Twilight just rolls her eyes.

“Glad you decided to wake up today, Josh, now it is time to choose. Do you six agree to bring Josh to Ponyville?” Celestia seems like she is in a rush, possible because you were late. “If you are in favor, step forward now.”

Pinkie is the first to step forward, or more accurately, bounced forward “Of course, anything for a new friend!” A friend, you haven’t been called that for a while, but that is a story for later.

“Me too, He seems pretty cool.” Rainbow Dash steps forward next. “Besides, I will do anything for a friend!” Wow, you were shocked. You have only known these ponies for a day, and now they are already considering you their friend, was this true, or was it just pity?

“Ah reckon I’m in too, Ah don’t see anythin’ with it.” You haven’t really talked to Applejack yet, yet she still accepts.

“I simply could not turn this down, its not everyday you get to meet a species who always wears clothes!” You haven’t talked to Rarity either, but she seems excited to accept the offer.

“...I accept…” This surprised you, she seemed scared of you yesterday, yet she also accepts. You can’t help but feel joy as these ponies accept you. They have no reason to help you, yet all they show is kindness and generosity.

“and I have already accepted this offer, I can’t wait to learn more about Humans!” All six of them accepted while barely knowing you. Wow.

“Then it is settled, A chariot shall be ready at 1:30, sorry we could not talk further, I am a bit behind schedule on my duties.” She gives you an annoyed look as she mentions the behind schedule part.

(POV: Celestia)

“The assassin is not the real reason you sent the Human to Ponyville was it?

“No, Luna it was not, the assassin has been locked away in the dungeon, what he needs is friends. I could see the look in his eyes, years of loneliness and loss, and who better than the Elements of Harmony can fix that?”

“It was the best choice sister, however, there is something going on in the shadows, someone hired that assassin.”

“There is a difficult path ahead of our guest, and I am sure he will prevail.”

“I hope so Tia, I hope so…”

(POV: Josh)

“So a chariot, never thought I would travel in a flying chariot before.” You have been in a plane before and you aren’t afraid of heights so you should be fine, besides, Twilight told you that it’s only an hour flight.

“Ugh, I HATE chariots, I can get to Ponyville in ten seconds flat from here!” That’s the tenth time Rainbow Dash has complained about chariots.

“Oh shut yer trap Rainbow and get in." Rainbow let out a sigh of annoyance and took a seat in the chariot along with the rest of you.

The two pegasus guards took off from the platform with power, damn they’re strong if they can pull the seven of you, but then again they are horses.

You and the six ponies talk about various things about your world such as planes and cars. Rainbow Dash seems interested in fighter jets.

“Mach two? That's pretty fast, too bad I’m faster!” She held her hoof to her chest in an arrogant manner.

“Actually, Rainbow, mach two is twice the speed of sound so—” Twilights mouth is suddenly covered by a cyan hoof.

“Don’t listen to her, that's just a bunch of egghead language.” You just roll your eyes, you don’t want the speed of a fighter jet to become an argument, besides, there is now way a one-hundred pound pony is faster than a fighter jet.

“INCOMING!” one of the guards calls.

“What the hell!” Red lasers flying past the chariot, the guards are doing their best to avoid getting hit, causing the chariot to go rock all over the place. The ponies are panicking, Fluttershy is clinging to Rainbow, preventing her from flying, Rarity, Twilight, and Applejack are holding onto their seats for dear life, and Pinkie is...dancing?

BOOM

A hit the front of the chariot, breaking the reigns that connected the guards to it. “We’re going down!” You yell even though it won’t make a difference. The chariot falls at a rapid pace, you see a forest beneath you.

“Oh shit!” The chariot is falling fast, you grab onto the side of the chariot and brace yourself for impact.

CRASH

That is all you can hear before you lose consciousness.