The first thing that had registered inside Twilight sparkle's mind was that her back was sore--As if she had slept on something uncomfortable.
'..Must have had slept on my book again...' The second thing that registered in her half-conscious mind was that it was cold.
'..Spike must had of left the curtain opened... Again..' It wasn't really a surprise; considering the massive party Pinkie had thrown yesterday had left them both dead tired. Although, she definitely needs to add an enchantment on the windows the next thing in the morning.
No matter, the feeling of fatigue will soon override most of her senses and she will fall back asleep. Twilight was just simply too tired to get up and fix the problem.
*CLANK*
Ok, now that was a cause for alarm.
Twilight's head spun around looking for the source of the noise. It didn't help the fact that her vision was still blurry and her eyes were still half-opened. Was it Spike? No, there's absolutely no reason for him to get up at this time of night--Robbery perhaps? Impractical. She may be working at a simple library, but she had made sure to place powerful sentries to guard the place at night. Plus, no pony would dare break inside one of Elements of Harmony's house. So what made the noise?
Once the details of her finer details of her surroundings had started to enhance, she will soon receive her answer.
The first thing Twilight saw was a mouse-- Which was funny, because this 'mouse' was almost as big as she was when she was pretty sure they were suppose to be a lot smaller than that. Upon seeing her, the mouse gave a small squeak and ran away. In fact, everything here was suppose to be smaller; the trash can beside the mouse was a hundred times bigger than she was!
The other thing was grey; she was met with lots and lots of grey color. It was very strange to her because she had memorized every inch of her library, and she was sure there weren't this much grey coloring.
.'.I must be dreaming...Huh? I guessed I achieved lucid dreaming.' Well, she might as well enjoy it before she wakes up.
Now what to do? She had heard of lucid dreaming before; a dreamer could do anything he or she wanted inside a lucid dream. Twilight sparkle contemplated on where she wanted to go before deciding on the most obvious thing.
'I am now inside the library.' She closed her eyes and imagined herself back at the library sitting comfortably on top of a cushion reading a book.
But to her surprise; nothing changed. She was still lying down on what appeared to be hard stone floor, staring at the massive trash can before her. Her mind was still a bit droopy, so her brain wasn't still properly able to process what was happening. So with no other reasonable explanation to what was going on; she settled on one final answer: Hallucination.
It was such an obvious answer! These things shouldn't be real-- After all, when Hallucination occurs, they also give out magical properties; which should explain the life-like experience. She'd probably be instantly sent to the mental hospital if she had immediately started claiming she was mysteriously transported to some far away alien world with no logical explanation whatsoever. What a silly claim indeed.
Then she remembered that one time-- Alright, several times Pinkie pie had 'spiked' their drinks.
..Ugh.. Did Pinkie spiked my drink again? She was going to have a little chat with a certain pink mare about putting things inside pony's drinks.
Luckily, she was quite familiar with the effects of some of the.... drugs Pinkie had, and no matter how severe it was; it will wear out very quickly. She'd probably be furious right now, but then again, she was still, and she quote: "Tired as buck." Anyway, she couldn't really stay mad at the party-loving pony; she did say after all, that all of these was guaranteed harmless from ponyville's local potion expert Zecora.
Twilight then decided she had laid on the floor long enough. Groaning, she manage to stand up and get back on all fours. Now that she stood on all her hooves, she was able to get a better look at her surroundings.
'Ok.. Now, it looks like I'm inside some sort of alleyway... She paused before continuing, ..A really, really big alleyway...' Everything was at least a hundred times bigger than she was! Not the strangest thing she had experienced, but still...
She took her first steps....
'..Alright.. Firs--'
...then fell completely flat on her face.
'Ugh.. What the hay! Why does my body feel so.. S-stuffy?!' She gets back on her hooves-- only to be met with a reflection of herself from a broken piece of glass shard.
'Huh? Whadd'ya know, I'm fluffy!' She giggled to herself like a foal, her reflection doing the same. Twilight Sparkle, still yet oblivious and ignorant about her situation. Still again, not the strangest transformations she has saw; she had once transformed into a gigantic walking tree with giant books as limbs in one of these hallucinations. Turning into some kind of 'Fluffy' version of ponies and getting transported to an giant alley was pretty tamed compared to the other things she had seen.
'...Right.. Enough of this, time to wake up and scold Pinkie.' She said with a small sigh. At least there weren't any Ghostly Gummy alligators chasing her here. That was a living nightmare.
So she then followed the same instruction to get out-- that was thankfully given to her by Zecora should she actually fall victim to Pinkie pie's little pranks. She swears that zebra has an uncanny way of providing convenient help to others.
'Close your eyes, take a deep breath, then count to five. After that, will yourself awake,"
'...One...'
'...Two...'
'...Three...'
'...Four-'
"Damn rats messing with the trashes again!"
Now that was another thing to be added to the already growing out-of-place list: Hearing another voice-- perfectly clearly at that. Usually any noises she hears would be just some disjointed jumbled up mess.
Somewhere, in her mind, there was already a growing paranoid feeling that all of these was real.
Haha! No. No. That was just so stupid of her to think that she was just mysteriously transported into another world as a pony with so much dang fur that looked like it was drawn by a foal with too much imagination. With that new thought in her mind, she crushed the dreaded feeling back into the deep parts of her brain.
But all of these just felt too real for just a ha--
'Oh for pony's sake Twilight, just do the dang thing and wake up!' She mentally scolded herself. Spike may have already snuck inside the kitchen to snack on the expensive gems she just bought, that she completely forgot to warn Spike not to eat.
'Right.. Right.. Calm down. You're having one of your panic moments again.' With complete determination to finally get out. She took another deep breath and completely cut off all distractions from her surroundings, including the gigantic bipedal being menacingly approaching her.
"Really? Another pony?! Listen here you pieces of shit, I have not been able to get any damn sleep ever since you bastards decided to invade my trash can. Even making a lot of fucking noises in the process."
'...One...'
"And when I do get some sleep, I have to wake up to a horrid smell because of the fucking field-of-shit you assholes merrily leave."
'...Two...'
"Oh? You're completely ignoring me now; is there a new trend I'm missing here?? Ignoring people instead of usually running away in fear while leaving a disgusting trail of shit and piss?"
'...Three...'
"An alicorn? Goddammnit. It was just going to be a matter of time before I run into you spoiled brats."
'...Four...'
"I was never into animal abuse, but I can now clearly see why a lot of fucking people hate you all. Maybe this will teach you a damn lesson."
'...And... Five!' And as she finished counting, she had willed herself to be back at her library on top of her soft comfy bed. This would actually make a good story to tell and forget with her friends. She was sure this was just going to be that one silly memory where she thought she was just suddenly whisked randomly away to a foreign world.
A small smile came up to her face as she could no longer hear anymore noises, indicating that it has indeed worked.
The lavender pony opened her eyes, expecting the same old oak ceiling she had always awoken to every morning. Hopefully along with still hearing Spike's loud snore that she had grown accustomed to over the years. But when she didn't hear him, dreaded feeling had already came upon her as her little assistant may have already raided the kitchen.
"Awgh, Spwike! What dhid I twell--" Instead, she was met with a tsunami of pain as she was kicked straight in the face with a hard leather shoe.
She spun several times in the air before falling on something even harder from the powerful force met with the shoe. The man hadn't even kicked that hard.
He was about to finish her off by throwing her over the fence, but his nose suddenly perked up from a burning smell. His expression quickly turned sour as he had forgotten all about his dinner.
"SHIT! Shit! Forgot to turn off my fucking oven." He had not even spared another glance at the dazed mare lying on the ground and frantically went to save whatever edible remainings were left of his food.
Meanwhile, Twilight sparkles groaned in pain as she laid sprawled on the ground. She was about to recieve another mental breakdown. Actually-- she was about to loose her mind entirely.
Slowly... She stood up, ignoring the trickle of blood from her muzzle. Her eyes darted her surroundings madly, several beads of sweat had already began to drip down her forehead.
"..Hha, hha, hha...."
She took another deep breath and repeated the process. Albeit more quickly this time.
'..One..two.. three.. four.. five! I am now back at my soft, warm bed.' Her pupils dilated further as she still found herself at the same exact position. Her breath had also alarmingly started to pick up pace.
"...Hhe..Hhe... Mhabey I'm nawt pwuttin' enowgh effwot into it.."
'One, two, three, four, six! I am now back-- Wait, no, five! Ugh!' Right, she was now hyperventilating at this point. Her mind was still in terrifying denial of the whole situation. Was she really drugged? No! This was not any kind of 'drug' she had heard of-- Even the illegal ones that she knows of weren't anywhere near this realistically potent. Was she placed under a powerful spe--
'Wait! Of course, magic!! She mentally face hoofed herself, hard, to the point where her consciousness may have been knocked out cold.
Why didn't she thought of this before?! She could've used Magic.
Magic. All this time she has been panicking like a lost filly when she could've had of gotten out already!
What a few ponies don't know is that her ascension to Alicorn hood had increased her power dramatically. And with her intelligence, she can easily find the source or cause of many spells then break it down from top to bottom. She's now quite familiar with many of the most powerful illusion spells thanks to a certain chaotic draconequues.
'Jeez, what would Celestia think if she finds out that her former student had been fooled by a simple spell.' Enough bad thoughts, that won't happen if she just gets out now.
Closing her mind, and easily reaching out to her mana reserves. She has done this so many times it was practically second nature. The unicorn then connected a thick line from her pool to her horn, she was about to create the first pace of the spell; which needed the most energy. Not a problem for such a powerful caster such as herself, her mana pool is titanic compared to the regular unicorn.
Imagine her shock when she was just able to create a few harmless sparks.
~Many loud screams and heart-attacks later~
Twilight sparkle dashed deeper into the alleyway. As she ran, millions of questions zoomed pass her head, that for the first time in her life; her brain was unable to keep up.
'OK, Twilight sparkle. You're trapped in Celestia-knows-where. Your trapped inside some sort of fluffy version of a pony. Your magic has been reduced to the same level as a foal, no wait, I think it's even weaker-- UGH, NOT helping!!'
For each time she darted her eyes at her massive surroundings, her paranoiac just grew bigger and bigger.
"Whaw, pwetty mare. Wan' give specwial huggies." The sudden voice caught her off guard. Mostly because it was complimenting her. She had almost missed the small head of another pony looking from ontop of a window before crashing into something hard, again.
'Ow, ow, ow, not my nose again... She rubbed her muzzle with her hoof, which was quite hard to do because of all the fluff hindering her movements.
'I need remove all this stupid fluff...' She thought as she looked up.
But soon regretted that decision, her heart may have already attempted to jump out of her throat.
She saw teeth lots and lots of huge sharp teeth. Slowly and carefully, she backed away.
It was a dog, except this dog was larger than the hell-hound, Cerberus. It was also equally terrifying in appears-- Minus the multiple heads of course.
It also looked like it was about to pounce on her and eat her body whole, if the large foams coming out of its mouth was of any indication.
"...N-niwce d-doggy..." A small puddle of urine had already formed beneath her. But she didn't even notice because of the fact that all her senses was currently directed at the massive hungry beast before her.
'Think, think, think! What did Fluttershy told me when dealing with these kind of situations...'
"Wook! Owver there!" Nope. That was definitely not it. But luckily for her, the dog had spent a few seconds looking at the direction she had pointed. And that was all she needed for a distraction as she ran the buck away from there.
Unfortunately, the dog had found at what it had just fell for and fury overcame its senses as it ran straight towards to the terrified mare. Barking loudly in the process.
'Come on! Gotta escape, gotta escape!!' Luck was finally returning to her when she found a small hole on the wall. 'THERE!'
She pushed her tiny legs to the limits, adrenaline coursing through her veins as it gave her the needed energy to run. The dog was gaining on her at breakneck speeds.
And as its massive mouth nearly took a bite out of Twilight, she had manage to get inside to safety.
The dog clawed and scratched the hole for a few more times before it finally realized that it had just lost a delicious meal and begrudgingly left.
Meanwhile, the alicorn had tried her best to calm her heart. She still wasn't exactly as fit like her friend Applejack or Rainbow dash, and never before had she ran so hard in her life. So she coughed and wheezed while sprawled on the ground, trying hard to fill her drained lungs with air.
'...Ah.. Ah... Ah...' While she was breathing the air though, she couldn't help but notice a strange smell...
...It actually smelled good, her body had suddenly felt relaxed. Her muscle, her mind-- Everything. She liked this, so she took another large breath of the soothing air.
Infact, she just felt like she wanted to lay down...
And just as her vision had started to blackened, she passed out as the sleeping gas seeping out of a crack on a pipe had taken its full effect on the pony.
Author's Note
And to answer your questions: No, the Humans aren't living in a dystopian world.
Anyway, I'm always derp at notes, so tell me what you think.
