The Human Hero
Strange Arrivals
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Strange Arrivals
Just like any day at Ponyville, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy were spending the day at the local park; Rainbow, having taken a few days off in Manehattan to help cheer on her friend, was trying out some new moves to show off at the Equestrian Games while Fluttershy was tending to some of the squirrels.
"Okay," Rainbow started, pointing out every move she wanted to try, "I'm gonna start with a Solemn around the trees, followed by a quadruple Cloud Spin, then I'll do a triple Loop-ti-loop through the three cloud hoops, and finish with my signature Sonic Rainboom."
Fluttershy looked up from petting the little squirrels and drew her attention towards her friend,"Okay Rainbow, when you're ready. If that's okay with you, I can count it off for you if you would like that instead."
"Fluttershy, chill," Rainbow cut in, "I'll go on three, okay." Fluttershy nodded.
"One," Rainbow started as she crouched down, like a lion readying to pounce, and spread her wings out as far as she could,"Two, THREE!" She soared off, blowing up a cloud of dust as she flew. She wizzed by the tops of the trees, missing each branch with ease. Afterwards, she flew up towards the four lone clouds she place to spin around. Come on Rainbow Dash, she thought to herself, You spent to much time on those easy trees, pick up the pace. She flew around each cloud until each cloud had turned into mini tornadoes. Next part; the Loop-ti-loops. She flew through the first three with ease, but she nearly nicked her wings on the forth hoop. Too close Dash, WAY too close.
Last step; The Sonic Rainboom. She flew high into the air until she could see all of Ponyville from the air, then she made a swift turn and flew straight towards the ground. As she flew closer and closer to the ground, a small nose cone began to form around her fists. The ground was approaching at a rate that would make anypony else scared. Right as she was a good ten feet off the ground, BOOOOOM! Just like always, a perfect Rainboom.
"Heck yeah," Rainbow yelled as she flew around to land near Fluttershy, "That was AWESOME!" But Fluttershy didn't answer, her attention and that of the animals was pointed towards the sky. "Uh, Hello?" Rainbow said as she waved her hand in front of Fluttershy's face. Rainbow, finally over come with curiosity, looked at the clouds... and could see why Fluttershy wasn't paying attention to her.
The clouds had changed from their normal white, to a sinister dark green sending out lightning as the grew closer together. When they did form one single menacing cloud, they began to form a tornado. The tornado shot out something towards the two mares, causing them to snap back to reality. They flew as far from the object, which now seemed to have split in two, and turned after they heard the crash.
"Come on," Rainbow yelled towards Fluttershy, "We have to see what fell. It could be dangerous."
"Oh, right," Fluttershy replied before they flew back to the impact. Upon reaching the crashed object the found that it was, in fact, a handsome unicorn stallion and a backpack. His color was rather strange; the top part of his body was a maroon red, yet his lower body was blue, and his hair a slight green.
"Where did he come from," Fluttershy asked as she looked over the unconscious unicorn.
"Well where ever he came from," Rainbow started to reply, "I think we should take him to Nurse Redheart." Fluttershy nodded and they started to pick the stallion up when he began to stir.
"Uh," he groaned, his eyes still closed.
"Hey... Dude," Rainbow tried to shake the stallion awake, "Are you okay? Do you need us to take you to the hospital?" She knew that last part was stupid, but she would have walked with him to make sure he was okay. He groaned again, only this time it sounded something like "Fuck me running."
"WHAT!" Rainbow yelled at him followed by her slapping him in the face.
"BIIIIITTTTCCCHHHH!" the stallion yelled in a deep voice, holding his face where RD slapped him, "What the HELL was that for?"
"What would make you think I would want to buck somepony who I don't even the name of," Rainbow yelled back, "I don't care if you just fell out of the sky."
"What are you talking about ya rainbow haired freak," the unicorn said as he stood up rubbing his cheek, "First; I didn't say anything about screwing anyone, not saying you and lil' miss pink hair over there aren't hot. Second; If I fell out of the sky, I would notice and I would have been screaming or praying not to die. And third; why did you say somepony? We're not in an episode of MLP, it's pointless to say that." Rainbow and Fluttershy looked at each other trying what the unicorn was talking about, then returned their attention to him.
"What's MLP?" Rainbow asked. The unicorn looked at her like she had just kissed a cockatrice.
"Really," he said, cocking an eyebrow, "Really? You look like you're cosplaying as the freaking former holder of the Element of Loyalty, and you don't know what My Little Pony is?"
"Look like?" Rainbow said, almost taken aback. She was the Element of Loyalty, just because her and her friends didn't have the Elements anymore didn't mean they still weren't the embodiments of Harmony.
"Hey you big meany," Fluttershy spo- well, whispered up, "We may not have the Elements anymore, but that doesn't mean you can talk badly to us. Uh, I mean, please don't. Oh I'm sorry, was that too much." The unicorn just stood there, a bit impressed by something.
"You must be cosplaying as Fluttershy," he said holding out his hand, "Name's Flynt, Allyn Flynt. And I must say you are one of the cutest girls I've seen dress like her." Fluttershy blushed and shook Mr. Flynt's hand.
"So you were saying about us and an episode of My Little Pony?" Dash asked Flynt.
"Yeah, you know," Flynt started again, "The cartoon about Twilight Sparkle and her friends, takes place in the mystical land of Equestria, they learn the value of friendship and crap, HUGE following consisting of highly talented; artist, musicians, and authors?" Rainbow and Fluttershy were both drawing a blank, surly this Flynt guy must be nuts; sure their day-to-day lives were exciting every once in a while, but who would want to watch a cartoon about it? Fluttershy noticed something in Allyn's face change.
"Um, is there something wrong," she asked him, "If it's okay for me to ask."
"Uuuuh?" he just stood there and it started to make Fluttershy nervous. "You... Have... Wings?" he continued, making sure to enunciate each word. Rainbow was kinda stunned by what he said, he just now figured out that they're Pegasi? Rainbow stretched out her own wings and looked at him.
"Well duh, hay for brains," she said, "We're Pegasi. Same way that, you as a unicorn, have a horn in the middle of your forehead." His horrified eyes went from Rainbow Dash's wings to his own horn.
"Y-you two," Flynt's voice shaking, "actually are RD and Shy? I'm in a humanoid form of Equestria?" It finally hit Dash and Fluttershy.
"Just where do you come from?" Rainbow Dash asked him.
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Three hours later, after a very long explanation of his world, MLP, and what 'Bronies and Pegasisters' were... along with a few slaps in the face by Rainbow after she learned that imaginary cameras followed her and her friends around 24/7, Rainbow and Fluttershy finally followed along with what Allyn was saying.
"And I can only guess that the reason why I'm looking like this," Allyn pointed to his now green hair, copper eyes, and horn, "might have something to do with my OC; Flynt Alchemist."
"And OC means, Original Character," Rainbow said with a hint of hesitation trying to remember what he had been saying.
"Bingo," Allyn replied as the trio walked up to the front door of the Ponyville Library, "Hopefully Twilight..." he caught himself. "Sorry, Princess Twilight, can see what brought me here from the Hollywood Hills."
Rainbow knocked on the door to the library, and it opened within a few moments by, who Allyn could guess was, Spike based on the green hair, purple clothing, and tail open the door. Though he was younger, yet taller, than he expected him to be.
"Hey Rainbow Dash," he said, "Hey Fluttershy. Who's this?"
Flynt raised his hand in a form of wave, "Name's Flynt. Is the Princess home today?"
"Uh, Twilight," Spike called to the door to what Allyn could remember being the basement.
"What is it Spike," Twilight's voice yell back, "I'm busy rearranging the books by order of spell strength."
"I brought something beneficial to the world of science," Allyn called thru the doorway. Twilight teleported in front of him faster than he could say 'The Great and Powerful Trixie'
"Where, WHERE WHERE," Twilight said shaking Allyn like he was a Martini ordered by James Bond.
"CHILL TWI!" Allyn yelled as grabbed onto her shoulders hoping that would get her to stop, "No! Just, chill." After his eyes stopped bouncing around like a Pinkie Pie on crack, he finally got a look at the Human/Alicorn princess.
She had a slight hourglass shape under her lab coat, her glasses adding to her "Sexy Scientist" look. He wasn't very shocked when he noticed that her skin was slightly dark, like Rainbow Dash's only slightly darker, seeing as she was the student of the Sun Goddess.
"Now like I was saying," Allyn continued, "Pray tell, do you know of the Multi-verse Theory?"
"The.. Multi-verse Theory?" Twilight repeated, "Of course; the theory that states that there are an infinite number of universes that are formed by the random actions that happen each and every day. Though nopony has ever been able to confirm it, hence why it's still just a theory."
Allyn smiled at Twilight, "Well I believe that it's safe to say that it's no longer just a theory."
"So you're from a universe where our adventures and exploits have been animated and turned into a television show," Twilight said taking a sip of the tea that Spike had made for the five of them, "Fascinating."
"Fascinating?!" Rainbow barked at Twilight, "He's one of millions of ponies who have been spying on us twenty-four/seven for the past three years, and you think it's fascinating?"
"Well, no," Twilight started, "It's still kind of creepy, but as a scientist I have to accept the proof in front of my face. And besides, this is amazing to have actual proof of the Multi-verse Theory." Allyn held his cup up to his mouth.
"It's fairly simple once you understand the Multi-verse Theory," Allyn started, "After you understand the basics of it, you simply have to be willing to open your mind to what the new universe refers to as 'Normal.'" He stopped to take a sip of the tea, which he asked for apple flavored instead of sun flower flavored. "I'm able to make the transition easily because I've been following along with you ten, counting Spike and the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Like how I can go from words like 'somebody' or 'people' to 'anypony,' I'm just glad I don't have to call my hands 'hooves' except for what my world calls 'Valentines Day.'"
"So ponies from all over your world watch what we do," Spike asked.
"And some of them make short animations, stories, or music off of some of it," Allyn answered, "Or they make up their own adventures or characters; like a young filly named Snowdrop or a pony who's made up mostly of fur named Fluffle Puff."
"Wow," Fluttershy said, "Are you talented in anything like that, if it's okay for me to ask. You don't have to answer if you don't want to."
Allyn leaned back in his chair, "Well I'm sort of good at art, but music is my main mean of income. But if you're asking if I make stuff like that; no, I do stuff like song covers for people who want entertainment at parties without having to pay out millions of bits to have the actual artists play."
"So you can sing," Rainbow asked.
"Mainly in a Baritone," Allyn started, "kind of obvious with the deep voice, but I can do a middle to low Alto. Plus I'm really skilled in the guitar, and pretty skilled with the piano."
Fluttershy perked up slightly, a bright smile quickly appeared on her face. "Really," she said, "Can you play something for us."
Allyn always enjoyed playing the guitar, because like his grandfather always told him; 'Once you learn the guitar, you'll never be alone because you'll always have a friend.'
"Yeah, Spike has a guitar down in the basement that he's been trying to learn to impress Rarity," Dash chuckled.
"I TOLD THAT TO YOU IN PRIVATE," Spike yelled at Dash, "IT WAS A PINKIE PROMISE!"
Rainbow put her hands behind her head and slid down into her chair. "Relax Spike," Dash said, "I'm sure that he knew that already, what with him spying on us for three years."
"Completely wrong," Allyn said with a smirk on his face, "They never actually brought it up in the series. So basically, you just broke a Pinkie Promise."
Rainbow Dash's reaction to the realization was priceless. Then to mock her, Allyn copied what she did after Rainbow saw Twilight's hair after they first met. Just as Allyn finished laughing at Rainbow Dash, an over-enthusiastic voice came from the library front door.
"Twilight," Pinkie's voice called out, "Is Dashie there? I have the feeling she just broke a Pinkie Promise."
"OH CRAP!" Rainbow said as she turned to the door. This time, Spike joined Allyn in laughing at Rainbow Dash's reaction.
"Holy shit," Allyn said through the tears of laughter, "Goodbye Rainbow Dash, hello Cupcakes IRL." Allyn laughed harder after the joke.
Pinkie opened the door and peeked in. She was oddly slightly over weigh, which was expected for someone who lives, works, and eats cookies and pastries. But Allyn figured that with all the pouncing around she does that she'd be fairly fit. Her white skin mixed with her pink hair made her look like she was a walking cake in clothing.
"Hello Miss Pie," Allyn said smile from the floor that he and Spike were still laughing on.
"Hiya, Allyn Flynt," Pinkie replied. Spike and Allyn shut up immediately and everypony drew their attention on Pinkie.
"Pinkie," Twilight say with a bit of confusion in her voice, "How.. How do you know who he is?"
"Well duh," Pinkie said as she closed the door behind her with a kick, "He's obviously from a different world where our world is merely a TV show that was meant for little fillies but over time gained millions of grown stallion and mare followers that's been following us for the past almost four years since you and Spike moved to Ponyville and has shown us fighting big ole meanies like Sombra, Discord and the Mane-iac and learning about the power of friendship."
Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Spike, and Twilight just sat there, their jaws open.
"And that's why my world says her catch phrase is 'I denounce your laws of Physics and Nature, and I substitute my own,'" Allyn said as he was laying on the ground, "You came just in time Pinkie; I was going to play Spike's apparent guitar. Would you like to listen."
"Oh would I," Pinkie said as she jumped up and down.
After a couple minutes of Rainbow Dash and Spike moving the furniture in the library and Twilight grabbing the guitar from the basement, the ponies and dragon were ready to listen to Allyn play. Allyn took a second to pick a good song that he could play easily. Let's see, he thought to himself, Good song, good song. Aha!
Allyn strummed the acoustic guitar a couple times so he could get a sound for it. He started playing and reciting the lyrics in a soothing Baritone. He stopped singing, and played faster chords. Before long he started singing again, this time in a higher Alto voice and tapping his foot to the beat. His audience couldn't help themselves to rocking to the music he was playing and clapping to the rhythm.
When he started the chorus, he went back to his natural Baritone then for the second verse shifted back to Alto. He then stopped playing the guitar's strings and knocked on the wood for a few lyrics before strumming again. As he made it to the second chorus, the whole library had joined in the song. He stopped rocking out for a few seconds, allowing everyone to calm down before restarting singing. each time he repeated the same line, more ponies joined; first Spike , then Rainbow and Twilight, and ending with Fluttershy and Pinkie as he started strumming for a third time and they kept their harmony until they finished.
"That! Was! AWESOME!" Rainbow said holding the hand signal for 'Rock On.'
"You really are talented," Fluttershy said with a smile on her face.
"Thanks," Allyn said blushing slightly from his modesty, "I practice all the time on my Ipod. You know, trying to match the keys and notes of a song."
"Huh, what's and Ipod?" Pinkie asked, "Is it like peas in a pod?"
"Oh, right, they wouldn't exist here. No, it's a small device that lets me carry thousands of songs with me where ever I want," Allyn said, "I'll show you." Allyn walked over to his backpack against one of the book shelves and opened it up to pull out the small, red device and it's portable speaker.
"I buy the songs and store them digitally on this," Allyn described, "from there I can listen to them as many times as I want." He put the small speaker system on the ground and plugged the Ipod in, selecting one of the songs from his library of music. "Listen," he said as the strange music started
"This sounds like something that DJ pony would play," Twilight said at the drop.
"Isn't she going to play at the Apple's first Cider Celebration this weekend?" Spike asked.
"Not anymore," Pinkie said as she bobbed her head to the music, "AJ said that she had to cancel due to she had an emergency come up and she couldn't play at Sweet Apple Acres. Could you do it, they'll be willing to pay you like a hundred bits an hour for like three hours or so since Fluttershy went all Flutterbat and they added the vampire fruit bat habitat."
"Well I have always wanted to see what the hype for Apple Family Cider was about," Allyn said, his shoulders still moving to the techno music, "And I have at least four hours plus of Country music on this thing... Sure. But I'll need more than just what I'm wearing now for the event and the next three days until then, so I'll have to head by Rarity's tomorrow most likely. Then there's a place I'll need to sleep, there's not like a cheap hotel or something in town is there?" They all shook their heads.
"Figured as much," he continued.
"You could stay at my hut for a few nights," Fluttershy offered, "If you'd like, you don't have to if you'd like to sleep somewhere else."
Allyn huffed, "Not to sound mean, but I don't think I have much of a choice on that. Thank you."
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"...And you can have this room," Fluttershy said as she opened the door to the guest bedroom. It turned out to be a much longer walk to Fluttershy's Hut from the Library than the show had let on, which just made Allyn even more tired.
"I can't thank you enough for letting me sleep here Shy," Allyn said as he walked into the room and placed his bag near the cabinet.
"Well," Fluttershy said, "Have a good night. I'll see you tomorrow."
"Night," Allyn replied as Fluttershy closed the door. Allyn reached into his bag and pulled out his Ipod charger and his Galaxy cell phone. "Something tells me you're going to be pretty worthless for the time being," he told the inanimate object. He plugged the charger into an outlet in the wall and sat on his bed. He unlocked the phone and staired at the wallpaper of him, with his natural brown hair and blue eyes, and his little sister, Clair.
Her blond hair glimmered in the Malibu sun, her blue eyes giving her a look of innocence. They looked so happy in the picture, it was hard to believe that it had been almost a year since the pic was taken. It was even harder for him to remember what's happened in that year.
"Fairy Clairy," He said, a single tear falling from his eye.
He turned the phone off and laid back on the bed, deciding to sleep on top of the covers until he got cold enough. He was fast asleep within moments of placing his head on the feather pillow, readying himself for his dreams tonight and the promise of what's to come tomorrow.
But as he slept, he was unaware of the being watching him from the Everfree forest.
"It would seem there is an anomaly in my plan," the figure said in a deep tone from atop one of the mountains looking over Ponyville, "I must keep an eye on this figure. See if he knows how great of a magical ability he contains." The figure stretched out his dragon-like wings and took flight, making sure to keep an eye on the sleeping human.
"Fear not father, your vengeance shall be great and painful on the Royal Sisters," the figure continued, "And all of Equestria shall remember your name."
Author's Note
okay, I decided to straight up trash my first story and just come up with a new one. New protagonist, clearer story line, new villain, and I actually have someone who'll pre-read it for me unlike the last guy I had doing it who would just keep saying "Seems okay." Hopefully everyone will enjoy it and if there's something that could be changed, please tell me, I do read each comment.
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