Chapters Chapter 1: Unforeseen Anomalies
It was an early Sunday morning in south-west Michigan. The sun was shining and the birds were singing, it was a beautiful day. At Noon today, which is in 3 hours, my Twentieth birthday arrives! I’m so excited! My name is Anon, I am a college student currently studying graphic designs. You see, I want to become a Video Game developer once I got out of college. I was a straight A student, I loved designing video games. In fact, I’ve gotten so good at it that I am able to write out a long string of text and make a basic functioning video game before I actually test the code to see if it works. That takes a lot of time and skill.
I was in my college dorm room when I heard a loud bang on the door. “This is the police! Come out birthday boy! Or else we’ll have to come in there ourselves!” It was my roommate, Johnathon. He has pulled this trick three times now. The first time he pulled it on me, he found himself with a fist in his face; mine.
I step out into the hallway with my hands up. I see John holding a plastic Nerf gun. I get rushed by all of the other people behind him. They all start congratulating me on turning 20, I haven’t officially turned 20 yet, still got another two and a half hours left.
One guy sneaks up behind me and wraps a blindfold around my eyes and the guy begins pushing me away from my dorm room. I hear the other kids rush past me, I hear them running down some stairs. Them doing so, makes it sound like a military training exercise. After all of the kids are gone, its just me, my roommate and the guy that initially blindfolded me.
“This is going to be so fun Anon, I can’t wait for later, we’ve figured out when you turn 20 and we are going to do a countdown!”
“Sweet! I can’t wait for that!”
“heh heh, yeah, be careful we are about to go down some stairs.”
I nodded and he helped me get down safely. After a minute, we reached the bottom and he led me to the gymnasium. I had a good idea of what awaited me when the blindfold was removed. My suspicions were validated when the blindfold was taken off and suddenly I see at least 50 people jump out of their hiding place and yell “SURPRISE!”
I grinned, I ignored all of the people in the gymnasium as I scanned the room and locked onto a few presents on a table, there weren’t that many, half of the kids here didn’t bring a present… not that I wanted them to or anything. They were my friends, some more than others, and they knew they didn’t have to get me anything.
I weaved through the crowd towards the presents that are stacked on a table. Before anyone could object, I ripped one open. Before me was a plastic CD case with the words “My Little Pony” written on the front. Below those words, in much smaller print, said “All 4 seasons”. Truth be told, I like the show, my favorite pony is Princess Luna. John approached me and stared at the CD case with wide eyes.
“Dude… you… like… My little Pony?”
I turned to him. “N-n-no I d-don’t!”
“Then why are you stuttering?”
“I…” I sigh. “You caught me… I do like the show.”
“Uh huh.” He leans in and whispers. “Who’s your favorite pony? Mine is Applejack.”
“Princess Luna”
“Ah! One of the Princesses huh? That’s cool.” He looks at the clock, noticing that we only have an hour left. “Wow, Time sure does fly by quickly. Put the presents away, let’s go mingle with your other friends.”
I notice someone in a hoodie walking towards the gift table, holding a wrapped present. I don’t think I’ve ever noticed him before… John looks at him too with a raised eyebrow. But shrugs it off and walks around the party. I spend 30 minutes talking with friends before I return to the present table and take all of the presents I can see. The present that hoodie guy had was nowhere to be seen. I set them on the floor and I start unwrapping them one by one, giving a personal thanks to the person who gave me each item. When 5 minutes remain, the hoodie guy shows up again, holding his present and gives it to me.
“Open it in 5 minutes. You will see why.” He walks away, and as he does I fail to notice him pulling out a small, shiny device with a small button on the top of it.
4 more minutes pass, I am sitting infront of the clock with the present in my lap.
“TEN, NINE, EIGHT” I start pulling off the bow on the top of the present.
*CLINK*
“SEVEN, SIX, FIVE” IT takes me a minute to realize what that noise could be.
“FOUR,” I feel John’s arm pull me in for a hug as his excitement grows by the second.
“THREE, TWO, ONE!” for a single second, everyone is quiet. In the eerie quiet, I see the hoodie man push a button on the
shiny device as he pushes the door open and leaves.
*CLINK*
“ZERO!” Time seemed to slow down as everyone started cheering for me in the corner of my eye I see a spark of electricity emit from the present the hoodie man gave me. John’s arm is still around me as I push the device off of my lap. The second it touches the ground, the brightest light I’ve ever seen erupts, very likely damaging my eyes to the point of blindness.
It had been an explosion. The hoodie man blew us all up.
I hear everyone scream as they were shoved backwards from the force of the blast. John tightens his grip as he is launched away, dragging me with him. When we land, we are both still conscious. We look at each other and I weakly smile. “Best friends forever”
With the rest of our energy, we both clench our hands in a fist and we bump them together.
“Bro-hoof”
Another explosion erupts from the room, sending a piece of debris our way. Before I close my eyes I feel a slight tingling sensation. Is this what death is like? Between the cracks of my eyelids I see that my body is encased in an orange glow. As my body falls limp, my hand touches John’s and his body is too, encased in an orange glow.
And then I promptly pass out.
I open my eyes again to a strange sight. I appear to be hurtling backwards at ungodly speeds, away from what seems to be a castle of sorts… but it is on the side of a mountain.
“Oh this must be a dream. I can’t be in Equestria…” Thinking about it, I realize the unlikeliness of me realizing that I am dreaming. I move my hand… or an orange stump… to… to… “Do I have HOOVES?”
I turn my head, realizing that I am not alone on this journey to my death. Being flung this fast sure cant end well. It’s a pony…
Without thinking I grab the pony and I hug him close to me. Not a moment too soon. Just as I secure him to me, I feel a god-awful feeling travel along my back as I realize that I am somehow plowing a trench in the dirt. To any normal human, something like that would tear their bodies to shreds.
“Oh my goodness!” I start to faint. The last color I see is yellow.
When I wake up, I realize I am inside of a wooden building… filled almost to the roof with various animals,
I try to sit up but I feel pain erupt in my back. I gasp from the sudden pain, “Oww!”
A second later a yellow… Flying... pony… comes flying down the stairs. “Thank Celestia you are awake! I have no idea as to who you are but you are definitely royalty so I went and told twilight about you… not sure what to think… What’s your name?”
“I… don’t know my name. The last thing I remember was a giant explosion… then… dying...” I look up at the pony to see her expression. Her face showed pure horror for what I just said.
“You… died? But… but how? If you are dead, then how are you in front of me? Don’t lie to me Missy, you may be royalty but that doesn't excuse lying.”
“What do you mean by me being royalty?”
“Well, you obviously have a horn and wings on your back, so OBVIOUSLY you are royalty.” She rolls her eyes.
Wait… did she just say that I have… a HORN and WINGS? I need to find a mirror. “Uhm… miss…”
“Fluttershy” she responds
“Miss Fluttershy, do you have a mirror I can go to?”
“Yes I do, it’s in the restroom.”
I get off of the couch and I try to stand on my hind legs, but find that my center of balance has changed, causing me to fall forward. I put my hooves on the ground, and I take a step forward, almost falling on my face. I eventually make it to the stairs where I am faced with the challenge of hiking up these stairs. “Uh, where exactly is the restroom at?”
She rolls her eyes and helps me up the stairs and toward the bathroom. She pushes open the door and I walk inside. Fluttershy’s bathroom layout is very similar to my own… back… home…
Memories come rushing back to me. My roommate John, the blindfold, the gymnasium, the party, the explosion, and that strange orange glow.
I looked into the mirror. Displayed before me was an orange pony with two wings and a horn on its head. The pony mirrored my every move. Trying to decide if the pony displayed in the reflection was me or not, I put a hoof between my legs, expecting to feel a big, long stick of meat, I feel… nothing…
“Am I a female? Er… a mare?!”
Stunned at my reflection, I quickly wipe my eyes in a fruitless attempt to try to dispel the illusion that I was hoping I was seeing. I look away from the mirror and down at my own body, then back to the mirror.
“Yep, I’m a mare alright”
I study myself closer, before an odd thought hits me. Am I in the body of my OC character that I made back on earth?
Am I… Princess Reise?
Chapter 2: Unforeseen Anomalies Part II
I stumble out of the Restroom not wanting to believe that not only am I a pony, but a pony PRINCESS.
“No, no, no!” I stomp a hoof on the wooden floorboards in anger. “How can this be? I-“
Fluttershy flies through the front door, followed by 5 other ponies. I quickly hid out of sight, but I listened in on what they were saying.
“I was out gardening, when out of nowhere an orange alicorn comes flying out of nowhere and digs a trench through my flowers.”
“woah woah woah… an orange ALICORN?”
“Yes, she was upstairs in the bathroom.” I limp back into the bathroom and close the door. I put my ear to the door and sure enough I hear hoofsteps approaching the door.
“Hello?” I hear the sound of a hoof tapping against the door. Causing me to back away from the door, my hoofs making a muffled *Clip clop* as I back away.
“Yep somepony is definitely in there. Come out Miss alicorn!”
I find the courage to speak. “Okay” I slowly open the door, revealing my horn to the 6 ponies on the other side of the door. I move back from the door as a blue Pegasus cautiously pushes it the rest of the way open. They gasp when they see my wings and my horn.
“Wow! An Alicorn!” They chorus. The purple unicorn levitates out a piece of paper along with a quill and starts writing on it.
“Mah name is AppleJack” An Orange earth pony says, stepping forward.
“My name is Rainbow Dash! The best flier in Equestria!” The Blue Pegasus says.
“Pinkie Pie! Im so uber excited! You’re a Princess!” a hyper-active pink earth pony states.
“I’m Rarity, my dear.” A White unicorn states.
“I am Twilight Sparkle.” She took a moment from writing the oh-so-important note of hers to say her name.
“Well… you already know my name, but it’s Fluttershy.” The yellow mare states.
They all turn their head towards me, waiting for me to say my name.
“Uh… my name is,” I swallow, getting the feeling that I am going to regret what I say next. “My name is Princess Reise.” I look at Fluttershy. “There was another pony with me, where is he?”
Twilight’s eyes widen. “Is there another alicorn?” She looks at Fluttershy expectantly.
“No Twilight, he was an earth pony.” She looks back at me. “He is in my bedroom, resting on my bed, he might be awake.”
As if on cue, a scream erupts from down the hall.
“Let me go, I should be able to talk to him… if my suspicions are correct then he will be very confused, especially if he sees any of you… well… I take that back, he might freak out when he sees me but I’ll try my best.”
“Yeah, we’ll all stay here, better to let the princess take this matter into her own hoof.”
I roll my eyes at the sarcasm. I start walking down the hall. Out of the corner of my eye I see Twilight gallop down the stairs. I’m assuming she is going to her pet dragon to get news of a new princess to Celestia as soon as possible.
Back to the task at hand- err, I mean hoof. I push the door open to see a Silver stallion crying into his hooves on the bed. Unsure what to do, I enter the room, that’s when he notices me.
“What… the”
I step forward. “John?”
“H-h-how did you know my name?”
I take another step forward. “It’s me! Anon!”
His eyes widen. “No… Way”
I run up to hug him. “The Mane six are outside, you need a name for yourself… I’ve got your backstory taken care of… or at least I hope I do.”
He looks at me. “What pony are you?” he sees my wings and my horn. “Are you… an alicorn?”
“I am Princess Reise. Yes I am an alicorn. Princess Reise is an OC character I created back on earth.”
“Wait… did you say princess
I bite my lip. “Yes, I am a mare.”
“Dude… that’s so weird…” he laughs. “You’re a girl now.”
I walk up and I put a hoof into his muzzle. “Shh… I don’t want the other ponies to know where I was from yet. I will tell them, but not yet.” He nods. “You still need a name… how about…. Silverlining?”
“Wow, I like it.”
I smile. “I’m grateful you came here too, I don’t know what I would’ve done if I was here alone.”
Silverlining responds. “Yes, yes, let us go meet the others.” He walks past me and exits the room. I run after him. “Where is everypony?” I smirked when I heard him say ‘everypony’
“Probably down-“ I walk up to the railing, overlooking the living room. “-stairs” I swallow loudly when I see who else is in the room with the mane six.
Celestia’s voice rings out from the living room. “Hello Princess Reise”
I nervously begin my decent down the stairs toward the nation’s ruler. I can feel Celestia’s gaze looking at my wings and my horn. As I reach the bottom of the stairs, the princess’s gaze is moved to another figure behind me.
“What is your name young one?”
“S-silverl-lining, your majesty.”
“I see…” She trails off, her gaze going back to me. I sit nervously on the floor. Silverlining joins me there.
“Girls, leave us, I have an urgent matter to deal with, such as the fact of there being a new alicorn Princess that nopony knows the origins of.”
“Yes Princess.” They all exit the cottage.
She turns to us. “Where did you come from?”
“I came from another world… but not as this form. I was previously a species called ‘Humans’ or ‘humanity’” I pause for a moment. “Both work”
“Well, I think I should call the other princesses here to figure out what to do with you and SilverLining here.”
“Silverlining was also the same speciies as I was.” To emphasize my point, he nods. “We both died in an explosion and I woke up being hurtled away from canterlot at unrealistic speeds. With Silver here keeping up”
“How did he survive the crash landing?”
“I pulled him close to me and I let my body take the abuse.” Wait… Shit that came out wrong.
I can tell that Princess Celestia is starting to ease up. “You two stay here, I will return.” With a Blinding flash she disappeared.
I stretch my wings as I finally figure out how to extend them. I wrap my wing over Silver. A few seconds later, another flash almost blinds me as three immortal princesses appear before me.
Luna steps forward, glaring daggers at me. “How are you a Princess, though we’ve never heard, nor seen you before ever?”
“Because I arrived in this world this morning… or was it yesterday? I’m not sure”
“Interesting, we shall continue this in the canterlot castle. In the private quarters.”
“I’m not leaving Silverlining either he goes with, or I stay with him”
Luna rolls her eyes. “Fine, he can come.” All three princesses light their horns and teleport to canterlot, bringing me and Silver with them.
Instantly, we found ourselves in unfamiliar territory. Everything was white and made of marble.
I could practically hear SilverLining grinning from actually placing hoof inside the legendary canterlot castle that is idolized by many bronies back on earth.
Luna leads us to her private quarters. A servant sees me and runs off. Presumably to spread news of a new alicorn. Once inside Luna’s private quarters, the three princesses sit down, facing me.
“How are you an alicorn miss Reise?”
“Well… I don’t know if you’ll believe me or not… but in my old world, the body I am currently in is an OC character named Princess Reise. Since I had her body, I decided to call myself that.”
“Your old world?”
“Yes, it was called earth. Its inhabitants are called humans. That is what Silverlining and I were before we came here.”
Cadance pops up. “How did you get here?”
“I don’t quite know myself. The last thing I can remember of my old world was a giant explosion. It was my 20th birthday and I was killed along with my best friend here, John, but his current name is SilverLining.”
All three princesses grimaced when I said I was killed on my birthday. “What was your name? and what is an ‘OC character’ as you mentioned earlier?”
“My human name was Anon. an OC character is a made-up character that someone used their imagination to create. I am the embodiment of my own OC character… weird huh?”
“Wait… how do you know so much about us even though you haven’t been here for more than a single day?”
I grimaced, I didn’t like the idea of them knowing that in my world, they are from a tv show made for 6 year old girls to teach them the ‘magic of friendship’
I sighed and began explaining. “In my world, there’s a television show. I’ll explain what a TV is, in due time. Anyway, there is a television show called ‘My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic’. The show follows Twilight and her friends as they discover lessons about friendship. And once they do learn a lesson, they send a letter VIA Spike to Princess Celestia. I know it doesn’t make much sense, because I’m incredibly confused as to how my world was able to make a cartoon about Twilight’s life”
The three princesses think for a minute before Cadance breaks the silence with a question for SilverLining. “How are you liking canterlot? I can tell very easily that you really enjoy it.”
He simply smiles. “It’s a dream come true, your majesty”
Cadance smiles at that.
“So, uh… are there any more questions? Because I have one for you”
The three princesses shake their heads. “Nope, ask your question.”
“What now?”
Chapter 3: Training
Celestia had thought it over. “I want to help you learn magic and how to fly.”
My eyes widened. “R-really?”
“Yes,” she says, nodding her head. “I will teach you. I will also have my third-in-command help Silver lining with his abilities”
Silver perks up. “Really? That’s so cool!” I bet that if he still had hands, he would do a fist pump.
Celestia lit up her horn and opened the door, revealing a buff earth pony guard.
“Silver lining, this is my third in command officer. General Fury” Fury bows as his name is mentioned. “I want you to go with him and learn how to fight. I see potential in you Silver lining, I believe that if you devote enough time and energy, you have the capability in surpassing General Fury.”
I look at General Fury to see a slight look of disapproval in what Celestia said about him, but he salutes and beckons Silver lining to follow him.
When they are gone, it leaves only me and Celestia. Luna got bored and went to do something else and I’m not sure where Cadance went.
“Now… follow me so we can begin your magic training.”
Nodding, I stood up and followed her. She led me to a closed door, which I opened. On the other side was a wide open room. It had a mannequin of a pony.
“Alright, the first time using magic can be very harsh, which is why we did it in here.” Celestia lights up her horn and envelops herself and the walls, ceiling and floor in a yellowy-golden glow. “Close your eyes and relax. Be aware of your surroundings. Feel the power of magic in the air around you. Channel that harnessed energy into your horn and fire at the dummy I have set up. Do not worry about the mannequin, I had it enchanted to put itself back together after it gets blasted to pieces.”
“Okay… relax, be aware of surroundings, harness magic, focus into my horn and… fire!” I open my eyes expecting the dummy to be blown to pieces, instead, some orange dust falls onto my muzzle, which I realize came from my horn. “Darn, I thought that would work.”
Celestia smiles at me. “My dear, magic is difficult to get the hang of. You must keep practicing. Now. Try again.”
I tried again. This time producing sparks from my horn. I tried yet again, this time successfully sending a beam of magic at the mannequin. I open my eyes expecting massive destruction. Instead, I see a small flame that flickers out of existence when a breeze comes through the open window
“ARGH!” I yelled out of frustration.
Celestia wraps a wing around me. “I must say you are doing really well so far. You are the third magic user to do that on, on her third try” That made me smile. “Do it again”
I do so, practicing again and again, after a while my magic gets powerful enough to destroy the entire mannequin, which made Celestia proud.
“Alright, Reise we are now going to try levitation. After that, teleportation.” Celestia summons an apple and puts it down on a table. “Imagine the apple in 3 dimensional space inside your mind. Once you have that in your mind, imagine yourself picking up the apple while feeding magic into your horn.”
I do as she says, I pick up the apple in my hooves and I examine it, trying to get a 3d image into my head. Once I do, ii put it back down and I start channeling magic into my horn and I imagine myself picking up the 3D apple image inside my mind. When I open my eyes, I gasp. “I did it!”
“You sure did, My Little Pony. Next I’m going to have you pick up something heavier… such as this desk.” She points her hoof at a large desk stationed near the door. “Do the same thing as before but with more magic in your horn. And do be careful with the desk, I use it for many things”
I nod and I imagine the desk in 3D space again. Imagining myself pick it up. When I open my eyes, I see the desk hovering 3 inches in the air, barely moving. I smile at my accomplishment.
“Am I done with levitation?” She shakes her head. “Not yet, next you are going to pick up multiple items at the same time.” My eyes widen, of course, how did I not see this coming… “The concept is similar to levitating one item, but picture both items in 3 dimensional space and imagine picking them up at the same time.” She demonstrates, picking up both rocks in her magical aura. “Now you try.”
I do as she said, but I fail to pick up both of the rocks. I glance up at Celestia before trying again, this time I manage to get my aura to surround both rocks but I am unable to concentrate enough to lift them both into the air. I let them go, I take a deep breath and concentrate deeply, forming a strong grip on both of the rocks. With much difficulty, I manage to get them both suspended in the air at the same time. I wipe sweat off of my forehead before I slowly move both rocks around in opposite circles. I manage to do three complete circles with both rocks before I lose concentration and one of the rocks starts circling the other way.
I sigh. I was so close too. Celestia turns to me and summons three more rocks. “Now hold 5 rocks”
My jaw fell open. “Five?! I know that even I
Celestia’s smile falters slightly. “I know you ARE ready, my dear-“
“’You just gotta believe’, I know. I’ve heard that so many times”
“You doubt yourself. Just try it once, then we will move onto basic teleportation and that will be it for today’s training.”
I smile. “Let’s do this then.” I walk up to the new stones and I examined them carefully. Mapping them out inside my head. When I am ready I stand back and I light up my horn, funneling in an impressive amount of magic. I focused on each of the stones, lifting them up one at a time trying to get a feel for them. When I feel comfortable, I lift all 5 rocks up at the same time. The amount of raw magic being channeled into my horn is like no other feeling I’ve ever experienced… it felt great.
Drunk off magic, I fail to hear Celestia call out to me as my horn becomes encased in an eerie orange light. Believing that I can do more, I start swirling the five rocks around my body, slowly at first but gradually getting faster.
I open my eyes, the magic overflows and I lose consciousness.
A while ago. Silverlining’s point of view
I follow General Fury out of the private room and into a long hallway. Once the door closes, General Fury turns to me. “Alright soldier, here’s the plan. We are going to go down to a combat arena. We are going to start off with a simple spar, I want to know what you are capable of. Then, we will begin focusing on your weaknesses and improving your strengths. Got that soldier?”
I salute him. “Sir, yes Sir”
He smirks. “Good, but no need to call me that, I ain’t your daddy”
We walked in silence, passing quite a few guards on our way. It seems news of a new princess has already spread to Baltimare, Ponyville, and most of Canterlot. Once we arrive at the combat arena, General Fury jumps up onto the mat and beckons me up.
“Alright! Let’s do this!” He lunges at me with his hoof, I manage to dodge most of the attack, but his hoof still connected with my left cheek drawing a line across my face where the skin broke.
I launch an attack of my own, balancing on my front hooves, I kick him in the side, sending him flying across the mat. I let him get up, it wouldn’t be a simple spar if I started beating him while he was down.
When he rose, he roared and charged at me. As time seemed to slow down, I swing my hoof into his chest, sending him flying above me. He looks at me. “If you keep beating ME up, I won’t be able to help you improve your combat abilities” he rose again and decided to play this carefully. He sidestepped in a circle, me going the same way. Waiting for the other to strike first. I stumble on the mat sending me off balance. Fury, taking advantage of this, threw his hoof into my muzzle, sending me across the entire room, which was an easy thirty feet.
I sighed and got up. “You win, did you get your evaluation complete?”
“As a matter of fact… I did. You excelled at hoof to hoof combat, you failed at Balance, and you were moderately good at distractions. Overall evaluation: you need a lot of work. While your hoof to hoof combat is rather good, it still needs a lot of work.”
I salute. “Sir, yes Sir”
He sighs. “Are you trying to frustrate me?” I shake my head. “Good, go see the medic to get your minor injuries healed up and meet me back here in 5 minutes.”
I salute again and I leave the room in search of the medic. I find her pushing around a medical cart with her magic. I stop her. “I was just in a sparring match and I want to know if you can help me with these minor injuries I have.”
She nods and my body lights up in a blue aura, I can feel the broken tissue on my left cheek reconnect and mend together, I can feel my spine realigning after it got messed up when I was thrown across the room and crashed into a wall. The aura fades and she starts walking away again.
“Thank you.” She nods. I gallop back to the sparring arena to see General Fury wielding a spear.
“I’m back, the nurse wasn’t too hard to find and she fixed me up, good as new.”
He smiles and puts the spear away. “Good, let’s start working on your athletic endurance.” He points to a strip of white paint on the floor, it goes around in a circle around the entire room. “I want 10 laps. Now!”
I grin and I start running.
Five laps in, I am starting to feel the signs of fatigue.
“MOVE IT! MOVE IT!” Fury was yelling at me wanting to keep me going.
Despite the fatigue, I am able to run 2 more laps before I collapse of exhaustion. I breathe heavily and I see General Fury walking towards me. “Well, I’ll admit, I didn’t think you’d make it as far as you did.”
I stand up and I walk to a water fountain. I lean forward and I start drinking the cool, refreshing water.
With a satisfied sigh I turned back to Fury who was smiling at me. “Ready for some more physical training?”
“Yes I am.”
“Good, follow me, we are now going to put you up against a dummy. The dummy will by magically controlled, it will try to attack you, but its movements are very predictable.”
I turn a corner and I see one of the dummies in action, fighting against a guard. It wielded a shield and a sword. Both of which I could tell were very real.it slashed at the guard but he jumped back to avoid the swing.
I turn my attention back to General Fury as he stops to talk to a unicorn, whom of which I am assuming will be controlling the dummy I fight against. I saw the unicorn’s horn light up and he levitated two swords over to a dummy, I had the feeling this wasn’t going to end well on my first attempt. Fury put some armor on, he had a helmet, armor on all four of his legs, a small shield on his back and a sword in his mouth. He turns to me. “This is how you are going to be wearing your armor when you go to fight the dummy, I’ve told the unicorn to take it easy on you since you are new to this and would probably prefer not to have your balls cut off by a dummy. Come with me we are going to find you some armor to wear.
We browsed through the armory. I found a set of armor that fit me perfectly and was my favorite color! Dark blue! General Fury rolled his eyes when he saw my excitement for the armor. Once it was fitted, I received my shield and sword. General Fury had me run three laps around the armory to get me used to the weight of the armor. When I finished, I was sweating up a river. Fury and I walked back out into the area with the dummies. Fury went and asked the unicorn to heal me of my fatigue, which he did.
I was ready. I took a step towards the dummy and glanced toward the unicorn who nodded and lit up his horn, taking control of the dummy. I took a step back as the dummy stretched its arms out, each arm carrying a sword.
Cue epic battle music… now
I didn’t have time to react as the dummy swung the sword in its right hand directly downward. I closed my eyes and heard a clang… the sword hit my shield!
I took the momentary advantage to lunge forward, swinging my sword at its chest. It cut a deep gash, bits of hay fell out onto the floor.
It swing both swords, one vertical and the other horizontal, I blocked the vertical sword with my own but the horizontal sword hit me in the flank. It wasn’t a deep cut, but if it didn’t get healed soon, I may die.
I glared at the dummy with determination in my eyes. I spun around, balanced on my front hooves and kicked.
*CLANG*
I look back to figure out what happened when I realize the dummy had the two swords crossed in an ‘X’ shape which blocked most of the force of my kick. Luckily, I saw a crack on both of the swords. This battle won’t last much longer. I smiled at the thought, which I immediately regretted because the dummy swung its sword…
The sword cut a very deep hole in my side, somehow missing all of my vital organs. I fell over, so the injury was facing upward. A little ‘water’ spout of blood erupted from the wound.
The last thing I remember of that night was General Fury calling for a medic team.
Chapter 4: injuries and home
I wake up on a large red cushion having no idea where I am. I remember passing out from too much magic but nothing after that. I raise my head and I take a look around only to find that, aside from me, the room is completely empty. There is a big red double-door about an easy five feet away from me. I stand up and I shake myself like a dog. I light up my horn and channel my magic on the door, only to find it locked from the outside.
“Great, I’m trapped. How do I get out?”
I scan the room and I come up with a list of things in the room: a shard of a broken mirror, a picture frame with a picture inside of it, a big red cushion, two wooden bed posts, and finally, a pair of scissors.
“not much to work with, im assuming this is some sort of test, Celestia was watching me the entire time yesterday, surely she wouldn’t allow someone to take me away like this for no reason”
I levitate all of the objects, aside from the pillow, over into a pile. First I look at the picture frame, it shows a long hallway with a red carpet, many white pillars, and abstract pieces of glass windows. I know that room! That’s the room that was shown in the episode that nightmare moon was introduced in.
Next I look at the piece of a broken mirror, I examine my reflection. Seeing what I look like brings back painful memories of earth. I mean, sure, being a princess is pretty cool because of all of the power that comes with the position, there’s also the fact that I switched genders upon arriving in this world. That was also a blow to my fading humanity.
Not seeing the immediate importance of the mirror, I place it to the side. Next I look at the cushion. Unless I can use the stuffing for something, it’s pretty much useless to me. I then examine the bed posts. I could probably carve a key of sorts out of the wood, but all I have to do that with is a pair of scissors, and they didn’t look sharp enough to do that. And even if they were, carving a key from wood would be a lot of trial and error.
Sighing, I drop the wooden bed posts and I take a look at the door, seeing if there’s any solution to my endeavor. Looking closely I see a small hole near the door handle, or whatever it is called in Equestria, an idea forms in my head. I could use the fragment of the mirror in an attempt to pick the lock… as unlikely as that sounds, the mirror is kind of broken in a strange way. I just hope I don’t break it.
I levitate the mirror through the small hole, on the other side, I use it to try to get a good judgment of where the lock is. Panning the mirror around, I spot the lock, from there I carefully levitate it upwards. Unable to see the lock nor the mirror makes me concentrate even harder in an attempt to not break focus and have the mirror fall and break.
Carefully, I use the mirror to search out the lock, it takes a good five minutes but I finally find it. Placing careful judgment in which side of the mirror has the oddly shaped end, insert it into the lock.
*SNAP*
“Damn it.” I lose focus and the mirror falls and breaks. “Great… just freaking great.”
I focus my magic on the lock, knowing where it is. I find a small shard of the mirror still inside the lock.
“Perhaps all is not bad.” I focus on the shard and I move it around.
*Click*
“Yes!” I surround the door with my aura and I push the door open to reveal a proud-looking Princess Celestia.
“Good job, I thought you would’ve taken longer to figure it out.”
I smile and bow to the princess. “I just suppose I am smart enough to get out of sticky situations in a rather decent time.”
The Princess just smiles. “Come, I will show you how to use those wings of yours.”
I get up and I follow her out of the room.
I wake up in a room with solid white walls, the sheer contrast is enough to make me close my eyes again to block the light. After a few minutes I raise my head and look around. It looks like a doctor’s office from earth. I look down and I see my entire midsection wrapped in bandages.
Memories flood back as I remember what happened before I passed out. The fight against a dummy nearly killed me. I tried to get up but a sharp pain forced me to stay put.
The door to the room I was in opened. In, stepped a white unicorn dressed up in baby-barf green clothes.
“Ah!” he exclaims. “You’re awake! Good! I’ll go tell General Fury you are conscious.” With that, he leaves the room, returning a minute later with General Fury.
Fury looks at me. “Thank Celestia you’re okay, you had lost so much blood, I thought you were dead for sure.”
I smile. “I’m just glad to live another day.”
“Yeah, definitely.”
“So, what happened exactly? I thought you told the unicorn to take it easy on me since it was my first day.”
“I did! He thought you had the capability to best his skills, but once the dummy cut you and almost made you bleed out, he was knocked out of his trance and immediately set to close the wound. He tried to fix his mistake.”
“I don’t hold anything against him. I’m still alive, am I not?”
He smiles. “That’s true. I think he’ll be happy to know you aren’t mad at him”
“If anything, I’m just annoyed. Angry? Naw.”
Fury steps out of the room, the doctor approaches and starts to replace the bandages with new ones. “Alright, you’re good to go, be sure not to stress that area until it’s fully healed. Aside from that, have a nice day!”
“Thanks doc” I carefully lower myself to the ground and limp out of the room and I join General Fury in the waiting room. I smile to Fury and approach him.
“Good to see you live and well, I heard that Princess Celestia is trying to teach Princess Reise how to fly. Would you like to accompany me there?”
“Sure would! Where are we going?”
“To the top of the castle.”
“Let’s go! We are probably missing some really funny stuff!”
Earlier
I follow the Princess up at least twenty flights of stairs to the top of the castle. Once there I look around, admiring all that I see. The small towns in the distance, the pure blue sky with a few puffy clouds floating around, and the bright warm sun shining down upon my skin.
“Wow! This is beautiful!”
“It’s also stunning at nighttime, you should see it. Anyway, I’m going to teach you how to fly. Here to help, is the Wonderbolts Captain, Miss Spitfire.”
Spitfire walks into view and bows. “It’s nice to meet you, Miss Reise.”
I smile. “It’s nice to meet you as well, Captain Spitfire.”
“Alright, let’s get going! It isn’t every day that I get to order a princess around!” She blows on her whistle and points a hoof to the nearest cloud. “Fly to that cloud!”
She can’t be serious, I don’t even know HOW to fly yet, how can she possibly expect me to fly to a cloud without even telling me anything? Well, I’d better try at least.
I spread my wings and I run to the edge and jump off.
I guess the birds are right, one of the best ways to learn how to fly is just like how adult birds teach their young… by kicking them out of the nest!
It was like that. Instead of at least soaring, like I was expecting, I dropped like a stone hitting my head on the side of a building on my way down. I straightened my wings and angled my body so my wings could hit a draft of wind. Well, they did, which caused me to shoot back up like a bullet. Wow! Flying was great!
Spitfire stomped her hooves in approval as she saw me flying back up. But then stopped when she saw that I was losing speed. “Flap your wings! Keep going! You’re doing great!”
I do as she says and I flap my wings. I had to concentrate on the movement in my wings which caused me to only be able to flap one at a time. Flying for the first time takes a lot of focus.
I pull out of my ascent into more of a horizontal path. I try to flap my wings, with more focus, my wing flaps slowly become more and more in-sync.
“You’re doing great!” The Wonderbolt Captain joins me in the sky. “Flap them in-sync! See how I am doing it?”
“Yes I do and I’m slowly getting the hang of it! It’s quite difficult the first time.”
Spitfire just laughs. “Yes, yes it is, I certainly remember the first time I try to fly, it didn’t go so well, but the second time i—“
“Sorry, but there will be time for flashbacks later, I’m trying to focus on not plummeting to my death.”
“Ah but that’s just it, after a bit, the movements of flying become almost second nature. You’ve gotta learn how to make it become second nature as soon as you can! Doing so will make flying much easier!”
“If you say so.” I take her advice and focus on something other than flying. I think about my old world and how I came to be here.
“Now you’re doing it!” Doing what? Oh right. I start thinking about flapping my wings again causing me to flip out of control. I start to fall but I don’t get too far as I land on a cloud.
“Well… that went Reeeally well,” I said sarcastically. “At least your advice really did actually work, but once I started thinking about it, I lost control”
Spitfire just shrugs. “At least it’s progress.” She looks at me. “I suppose I’ll see you around… I have a Wonderbolt’s show to attend in an hour, see you around!” She flies off.
I nod and look down towards canterlot to see Celestia still there watching me. The door behind her opens and reveals Silver lining and General Fury walking into the room. I wave a hoof at Silver lining and smile at him. I spread my wings and I glide down to meet him.
“Hey Silver, you look hurt, are you okay?”
“I’m okay, the docs patched me up real nice. I got injured during a training exercise. It sucked but I lived through it.” He smiles at me. “I nearly died from what Fury told me.”
My eyes widen. “You haven’t even been here a week and you already almost died… wow, that’s a bit disappointing.”
Celestia walks up to me. “Reise, it is time for you and Silver to leave canterlot, I will be here to help you with anything you may need, but you will be mostly on your own.” She leans down to whisper in Silver’s ear. I could hear what she said. ‘Don’t let her try to fly you around… at least until she gets better at flying.’
I roll my eyes. “Okay, so where are we going?”
“To Ponyville!” Celestia responded. “Time for you to go live with other ponies.”
Silver grins happily. “Sweet! I can’t wait! But how are we going to get there?”
“You two shall take the royal chariot.” As if on cue, a big golden chariot pulled by two Pegasus ponies also wearing golden armor arrives.
Silver and I walk up to it and we get in. Before we fly off, Celestia addresses me one more time.
“Be sure to talk with Twilight Sparkle about Teleportation and how to change the form of something. She is my personal protégé and should know how to do that. I also sent her a letter about your arrival, so don’t be surprised if the town looks like a gigantic party.”
With that, the chariot departs the castle and toward Ponyville.
As the Chariot pulls closer to Ponyville, I start seeing the shapes of all 6 elements of harmony as they wait for our arrival.
When we landed, both silver and I jumped out and were immediately greeted by all six ponies.
“Welcome back sugarcube.” Applejack says to me. “Glad your trip went okay.”
I sit down and I wrap my tail around my side. “Yeah, I’m glad to be back here.” I look around. “Am I going to be able to meet everypony else in this town? I sure hope I do.”
“OH OH! I know everypony in Ponyville! I can show you around and introduce you to everypony!” no prizes for guessing who said that.
I look at the pink mare. “Are you sure? Do you have anything else to do? I mean, as much as I’d like the tour, I’d rather meet them all on my own.”
“Okay then, that’s fine.”
“If you would like, you can tell them all that I’d appreciate it if they treat me like any other pony instead of how they’d treat Celestia.”
“Okie doki loki!” She disappears before my eyes.
“Wait… what?” I look confused. “How did she… never mind, don’t answer that.”
Twilight giggles at my utter confusion. “It’s just pinkie pie, you’ll learn to get used to it.”
I nod. “I’m sure I will. I’ve seen weird… but what I just saw surpasses everything I knew about logic.”
Twilight giggles again.
The trip through town was quite eventful, it seems everypony wanted to meet the new princess. Even some adorable little fillies came up to me to meet me. I recognized them from the tv show I used to watch. They introduced themselves to me.
An orange-ish Pegasus introduced herself as “Scootaloo”
A white unicorn introduced herself as “Sweetie belle”
And a tan-colored earth pony introduced herself as “Applebloom”
I look them in the eyes. “My name is Princess Reise. No need for formalities though.”
I could tell, just from these three fillies alone, this week was going to be quite interesting.