Into Your Dreams...

Chapter 2: Zoe

One argument later, I returned to my room, frustrated. I sit on my bed, head held in hands trying to regain control. I leap up and thrust my fist through the wall and stand there panting. Finally calm, somewhat. I look to my desk…the heart. I walk over to it, picking it up again.

"Open Your Heart…"

I slowly open my "heart," and light pours out, engulfing me.

My head hurts and I can't see. I can feel my body, I just can't see it. Where the hell am I? I reach my hands up to my face and rub my eyes, 'much better.' I take in my surroundings, and gasp. The trees, the path, even the clouds, I knew everything. I have teleported to Equestria, more specifically, just outside the Everfree Forest, on the path to Ponyville. I look at my hands to ground myself, more or less, and look back to my surroundings. I'm truly starting to freak out, hyperventilating and all, until-thankfully-I see another human walking towards me, turns out it's…ZOE! As I begin to fast-walk towards her down the path, I trip on something on the ground and go careening forward. Expecting the hard ground to greet me with a smile, I brace for the worst. I open my eyes, and I'm hovering a few inches above the ground. I am levitated up back to my feet.

Zoe stands before me, hands glowing as she holds me in place. Slowly, she begins to glow with a soft white light, until I can only see her silhouette in front of me. She soon starts to shake, her form that is, and her outline starts to become less and less defined. What was once Zoe, now is a glowing oval suspended about a foot off the ground. Soon, the oval itself begins to shimmer, the edges becoming indistinct and ragged. Out of the blob now comes a foot, then a tail. The blob continues shifting until it has taken the base shape of a pony.

I gasped when I saw her take form of a pony, but again, it was only the base, colorless-lifeless. Just then, a horn sprouted out of the hard, and the glowing white light changed to red as the irises of the pony were colored red, then the red light turned dark blue as the mane and tail grew out and colored. The same happened for each feature on her, the turquoise highlights, her purple shades, and eventually glowing white to put a shine on her pristine white coat, only marked upon by her eighth note cutie mark on her flank.

"Hello Joseph, nice to see you," She said to me.

"Wha…" Was all I could manage.

She giggled, "Surprised?" I nodded, "well I guess that is to be expected. Look we have to talk, so I'll just change you to pony form so you'll fit in."

She raised her horn to me and I felt myself being stretched and changed. I imagined that i probably looked the same as she did when she changed.

"I scanned your mind and found your preferred form," She says to me as I start to slow in my morphing.

the first thing that strikes me is that I seem to be taller than her, as I was on earth, judging on how I had to look down to meet her gaze. I then see that my coat reflects that of a suit, with a white spot on my chest where the white shirt would have been, split by a thin black line the I assume was representing that of a tie. I have a silver mane, in a ragged style that shimmers slightly as it moves, covered by a fedora. And to complete the picture, I have on the sunglasses too. I start breathing hard again as I find a mirror facing me, ready for me to asses myself in full. I take a look, and my jaw hits the ground. I am the pony equivalent of one of the Blues Brothers, and better yet, I'm an ALICORN!

Zoe could see I was pleased and left me with the mirror, to stare at myself, and trotted over to where I came in and picked up the card that brought me here and poofed it somewhere with her magic. All I could do for five minutes was just stare at my reflection. Vinyl wasn't kidding when she said preferred form, I had been imagining this character for months. After finally overcoming the shock of actually being a pony, I started to once again examine my surroundings. My eyes fell on my trumpet case and I began wondering why it came with me.

"Just stow it for now, you can practice later. For now, follow me. I'm sure you have an ocean of questions to ask," she said, trotting towards Ponyville. I decided to try my luck and attempted to ask her about her name.

"Wait, you're not Zoe, you-" she rushed to cut me off.

"Wait until we get into town and I'll explain everything." she said in a whisper.

Not five steps into Ponyville and a pink blur is seen headed right towards me. Since I'm still not quite steady on my feet- hooves- yet, I go flying as she runs into me and we go tumbling onto the grass side of the path. I then see Pinkie Pie standing over top of me with an excited grin on her face.

"Hi?" I say

"HIHOWAREYOUYOU'RENEWHEREPARTYTIME!" she yelled as her party cannon comes out of nowhere, she hops in and blasts herself to the mountain overlooking the town.

"umm…okay then." I say, trying to comprehend what I just witnessed.

Zoe walks up to me and helps me up. I begin following her once again to apparently her pad in town. It was on the outskirts of town, on the other side, so it took us a few minutes to get there. Many stared as they saw me, stopping in their tracks and watching me go by. I could only imagine what they were thinking at the moment, seeing- first- a new pony coming to town, second- It was a stallion (not many of us guys here in Ponyville), third- I am a freaking ALICORN, fourth- I retained some extra hight from Earth and towered over most of them, and of course my jet black coat and silver mane might have done something as well. Like I said most of them stopped quite abruptly, and were frozen in some, "interesting," poses. Who am I kidding, they were hilarious! One pony was mid-bite into a sandwich when she froze, and another had an ice cream cone hovered in front of her that she dropped upon seeing me.

After about fifteen minutes we finally got to her house, and went inside. By this point I was going crazy, seeing all of the different ponies that I knew, and those I didn't. Aside from that, It was the waiting for all my questions to be answered that really killed me. Zoe, as she called herself, was actually Vinyl Scratch, and for some reason, does not allow me to make assumptions until she tells me what to assume. Which is made even more infuriating by how she ambles up to her door, and fiddles around with the keys for a few minutes, then lets us in. As she closes the door, I open my mouth to question her, but end up with a hoof in my face as she tells me,

"Just a few more minutes."

I nod, and walk over to the couch and sit on it, starting to evaluate my situation. 'I am an alicorn stallion in Ponyville, I retained my trumpet through whatever thing sent me here, and am in the home of Vinyl Scratch, who I previously knew as Zoe not two hours ago.'

She trots up to me, seeing the strenuous look on my face, and sits down on a parallel couch to mine and gets my attention.

"I can tell you have a lot of questions," she says.

I raise my eyebrow in response.

"First off," She begins again, "Yes I am Vinyl Scratch, and yes you are in Equestria. I searched through your mind for your preferred form using a spell I learned from Twilight, and turned you into it." She looks to me and smiles, "Not bad, huh?"

"Not bad at all," I say looking down at myself.

She smiles again, "Well its the least I could do. You see, I brought you here because of what you did for me. At the movie theatre when you came up to me, I had had a bad week here following a certain mishap involving one pink pony and my DJ equipment. I was fuming afterward, and decided I needed to leave town for a few days. As I was getting ready to leave, Twilight paid a visit to see how I was doing, seeing as how I stormed out afterwards. I told her my intentions, and she taught me a few spells regarding transporting myself somewhere that I wouldn't be disturbed by anypony, and a few shapeshifting spells as well. I then went to Earth to escape for a few days. It was alright, but I started feeling a tad lonesome, being the only pony there and whatnot, and started looking for someone to talk to. Although I tried to make myself somewhat attractive in your world, the only girls getting attention were those in more, 'expressive', clothing. After I realized this, I decided that I simply needed an escape, and thats when I had gone to the cinema."

Her face had begun to reflect her feelings and was quite forlorn, but then she looks up at me again and smirks a bit, "and thats when I met you. The one human who seemed to actually care that I didn't seem happy, who couldn't care less that I wasn't practically exposing myself for attention. As you could probably tell by my expression at the time I was skeptical, but I saw sincerity in your eyes and decided you were the one. But after listening to your story after the movie, I realized that you had it worse than I did, and I was going to do something about it. It took awhile, as you know, but I set up a portal in that card for you to find, and low-and-behold you made it here." She had stood up but now comes over to me and sits beside me.

"Now," she asks, "any questions?"

I must of had a look of amazement on my face because she giggled. I brought myself back to Earth- Equestria that is- and slowly formed a statement in my mind.

"So I'm really here?"

"Yes."

"This...this is all real?" I asked, waving my 'arms' around indicating the world around me

"Yes."

"Hmm…no cutie mark," I wonder aloud as I examine my blank flank.

"Ahh, about that. Since cutie marks are all about self discovery, the spell didn't include it in the shape shift." she replied.

"Makes sense I guess," I say, "Im gonna look weird without a cutie mark, being an alicorn stallion."

"I suppose," she says, looking off into the distance.

"Well whatever. I just can't believe I am ACTUALLY HERE!"

She giggled again, "So you're okay with it?"

"Of course!"

"Good, now let's go meet some of the other ponies before Pinkie's Party."

"That couldn't be tonight could it, I mean, the last time we saw her she shot herself from a cannon into the mountain!"

"Ha, don't worry about that, she's probably already back and setting up."

"Wha-how?" I exclaimed.

She giggled again and said simply, "Because she's Pinkie Pie!"

'Makes sense,' I thought to myself. I guess I had forgotten about Pinkie's so-called "abilities."

"Well let's get out of here," I said.

"Cool." She replied, picking up her shades, and I mine.

"Wait, actually…can you teach me a little magic first?" I asked.

"How about we get Twilight to teach you, since I'm just a magic aficionado."

"Alright, that works too," I said back as we left the house