The Broken Fourth Rule

My Little Pony; Friendship is Magic

Chapter 1: The Princess and Dragon

It all started with a broken rule.

My name is Tony Niles. When I hang out with my pre-hypertensive friend, Brody Thatcher, we always have a good time. When we hangout, we have a set of rules on what we can and can not talk about.

These four rules are:
1.) Religion, too complicated.
2.) Politics, unless it's an election year.
3.) Reeses Peanut Butter cups, don't ask.
4.) My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

I never thought that breaking a social rule -- number 4 to be exact -- would come back and bite us.

It started out like any other time that Brody and I hang out. We were leaving Target with our purchase. My plastic bags were weighing me down, so I dropped them on a nearby bench. Brody in tow was reading a player's guide that he bought.

"So," Brody started, still not looking up from the guide. "Did you get everything Tony?"

"Yah, it's tough being the cool uncle, but I got everything, including this." I pulled out a DVD with a magenta border and eight multi colored rainbow ponies and the title: "My Little Pony, Friendship is magic, Royal Canterlot Wedding." All done up in colorful balloons.

Broady looked up from the guide and saw the DVD. "Hey, why did you pick that up? I thought we wouldn’t speak of this. Number 4, remember?"

"I know, but you turned my niece into a brony!" I snapped. "She read your Fan Fiction and became a fan of that show. So she begged me to buy it for her."

"You mean a pegasister, a boy fan is called a brony, a girl fan is a pegasister." He said to me matter-of-factly,“Besides, I am not a total Brony I like the well written characters and stories. You don’t get much of that these days when it comes to TV. It’s all about ratings and money.” He looked at his watch nervously and then looked up from his watch. His eyes darted around as if he was looking for something.

I smiled my signature Cheshire Cat grin and patted his back. "Calm down, I didn’t know it was such a big subject for you. We still have all day. What do you want to do?"

He exhaled raggedly. "Right, relax. Hey, how about the new Batman movie? The local Cinema has a discount today, lets do that!"

"Hey, atta boy. That's what we'll do."

The smell of fried food and new shoes was everywhere as we walked to the other side of the mall. Nothing much has changed in the old place, but it was good exercise. I had a longer stride being a six foot, redheaded ginger. I had my share of problems but I took them with stride. I was very disarming with my smile, of course I sort of looked like a madman so…

Brody had a strange gape, he swung his left leg wide as he walked forward. His family once told me that he was struck by lightning. Average is the best way to describe him, even his mustache and his dark brown hair... well except his brain: crazy smart. But I had a feeling that there was always more to him than even he knew.

We spent ten minutes talking about anime, manga, and the reality of science fiction devices. Just guy talk, the usual things for us, anything to entertain us. We turned back to reality when Brody stopped for a moment to pick up some money on the ground. Looking ahead of us he saw a woman was fiddling with her purse.

"Ms.," He called to the woman. As she turned around Broady extended the money towards her and simply said. "You dropped this.".

"Thank you young man." She replied before taking it and walking away.

"Ain't you mister Dudley Do-Right." I joked, slapping him in the back with a laugh. "So, how's work?" I asked.

"Same old: cutting everyone's hours, everyone benefits, blaming it on the economy, but that's to be expected," he answered with a shrug. "Oh, yeah, I put six new stories on Fanfiction and I signed up for a couple of new classes too. So what's up with you? How's the band?"

"Its doing great, just got to get a gig and now I'm learning two more instruments."

"Five, now! You've got..." Brody exclaimed.

"Yeah, just call me a thrashion, electric violin, celtic bouron drums, Piano, Guitar and now a steel flute player! Cool right! Ha, I got a twenty cent raise and the nurses had me clean three rooms that had Cdiff, but they never told me. I think they're trying to kill me." I answered.

We're both janitors, I worked at a hospital and Broady worked in a Grocery Store. Returning to his play guide I pulled out the DVD and looked at it more closely. "I'm breaking the 4th rule here, but my niece is going to make me watch it with her. So tell me what's happening man?" I asked.

"Oh, well the six main characters: Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash are asked to help with a royal wedding. The wedding is between Princess Mi Amore Cadenza and Captain of the Royal Guard, Shining Armor. He happens to be Twilight's older brother. Princess Mi Amore Cadenza is Princess Celestia’s niece. Princess Celestia is one of the co-rulers of Equestria and Twilight' s teacher.”

"Ah, so that explains why she and her friends are helping with the wedding.” Like cartoons have to make sense I thought. “So, what happens?”

"Well, turns out the bride was replaced with a false one that was trying to take over Equestria. The race that kidnapped the bride are called changelings: insectile, parasites that feed on positive emotions. They can take the shape of any living thing they want." He looked up from the player guide and looked into the air and started to think.
"Like the Skrull invasion of Earth, in the Marvel Universe."

"Huh, now I won't feel so bad. I mean when I watch it with my niece." I nodded, still smiling.

As we walked out into the parking lot, our attention still on other things.

“What is that noise?” asked Brody.

It was some loud blaring kind of noise, and it was steadily growing louder.

“It’s getting really loud,” I said.

The sound quickly grew unbearably loud. I suddenly felt a blazing pain in my back. My vision went white, and then darkness.

I could hear a soft voice calling me in a fading manner. "Help... Please find me..."

I woke up in a dark room, I couldn't make anything out in the darkness. I could smell antiseptic hospital smell. I was in a hospital bed, and I felt strange. I just couldn't put my fingers on it. "Brody." I started but stopped my voice didn't sound right. "Broady, hey Brody, what's up man? You awake?"

My voice still didn't sound right. As I started to move around in the bed my body still didn't feel right either. Fingers, toes, head, back everything was out of place.

"Yah, Tony man I'm up. I think something was wrong with you?"

"What do you mean, I think I'm just..." I trailed off because I couldn't think of a good excuse.

"Why, do I sound like, Tory Spellings. Hold up, I'll turn on some lights. I think I'm next to a light switch." He told me.

I heard a scraping sound on the floor like a dog walking. The light came on and I could see the room better. I saw a new figure in the room, and I could only guess that it was Brody. It had to be Brody. He said he was going to turn on the lights. But it wasn't, it couldn't be my friend Brody. He had changed; the lower half of his body was like a muscular, gray wolf, with a tail and oversized paws and rounded claws. His upper body was dragonic, covered in silver-black scales, his gray chest had four gold zippers that seemed fused to his body. He flexed his new muscular, oversized, clawed hands and long bladed forearms.

He turned his head towards me his new mouth opened up in shock, silver eyes were widen with surprise. "Dude, look what happened to you!" He had a sleek snout that resembled a snapping turtle with a pair of swept back scale covered horns, check ridges and jaw frills.

"You’re one to talk," I shot back at him, pointing. That's when I noticed that I didn't have hands but hooves and coral pink arm/leg thing. "What the...?"

"You look exactly like Princess Mi Amore Cadenza. Like, EVERY exact detail. We just ended up in a bad My Little Pony Fanfic!"

"The pony on the DVD?" I asked and looked at myself the best I could. Hair, long pink hair with streaks of yellow and purple. Coral pink wings with violet tips and an elongated horn, I ran my new hooves, along the length of my horn and wings. As I did I felt a strange almost, existed, warmth start to come over me.

"Dude, just so you know: in My Little Pony your wings and horns are sensitive and are used in pleasuring one's self..."

I stop quickly before I any further unexpected thing could happen. "Thanks man. Don't need any embarrassing issues right now." I chuckled half-heartedly. Maybe later, I'll just file it under useful info. I thought to myself.

"But, I'm thinking if you look like the princess, does that mean?" Broady asked openly as he started to play with his jaw frills.

I raised the bed sheet and looked down at my naughty area. My eyes widen and I shook with a mix of anger and fear as I shouted. "MY BOYS ARE GONE!"

Author's Note

I do not own the right to My Little Pony; Friendship is Magic, it is the property of Hasbro. But I wanted to share this story with you.
Yes it is a HiE fan fiction but my friend challenged me to write it and I'm doing it. I enjoy the challenge anyway.