Oh look, Equestria

Oh look, Equestria

Chapter 1 - Somepony order a bed?

Our story begins with our protagonist, who goes by the name of Tom.... Yep, Tom. He's a 20 year old Welsh guy, roughly 5"11 and average build, He comes with green eyes, charcoal grey hair and an 'Oh right, that's cool' attitude. He had just arrived home after a late night soiree (shooting foxes), and was all too eager to put his rifle away and get some shut eye. His attire wasn't much to look at, he wearing some olive green construction pants, and a black T shirt underneath his thick hunting coat. He had strong, sturdy boots, and a skinning knife attached to his belt in a leather sheath.

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Tom walked to his front door carrying his rifle, unlocked the door and strutted in like he owned the place 'well, I kinda do....' he thought to himself. He walked into the hall, flicked on the light and made his way to the gun room. The hallway was rather bland with cream walls and cream ceiling, there was the stairs leading up to the second level on the right, and a door into the living room on the left. The gun room was situated at the end of the hall, second door on the left 'Just opposite to the kitchen, always convenient' he thought with a mental laugh.

The gun room was, well.. Bare, to say the least. There was a work bench, a 6 gun safe on the wall facing him, a few vivariums with various snakes in them on either side of the gun safe, and a telescope sitting by the far left wall doing bugger all. 'Seriously, why did I even buy that thing? It just sits there..' with a mental sigh, Tom made his way over to the gun safe and cracked it open. He unzipped his gun bag and pulled out his rifle before safely depositing it, disengaging the bolt and putting ammo in their rightful places before locking the safe back up and turning towards the door, on the way out he made sure to tuck his keys away in the little air vent behind the door before leaving the room.

"Another night of seeing fuck all, bloody typical. Clear skies, a full moon and no wind. Why did I even bother?" he brooded whilst walking up the stairs to his bedroom. His bedroom was pretty much the most decorated area of the entire house, sans the kitchen. The walls were red, ceiling was white and there was various gaming posters littering the walls. The bed was queen sized (fuck you) black leather, which a memory foam mattress and pillows. White sheets and grey bedroom curtains. Opposite the bed on the far wall was his TV, a large LCD with a little surround sound system linked to it. Shelves with DVDs stacked upon them adorned the wall to the left of the TV, and a big 2 story vivarium was off to the right, as well as his wardrobe.

"Fuck getting undressed, too tired..." he checked his pockets for anything sharp 'Nope, just my phone, tobacco and lighter'. With that last thought he promptly collapsed onto his bed, sleep coming rather quickly followed by dreams of having the power of shape shifting.

Meanwhile, in Equestria...

In the rural town of Ponyville, in an unassuming tree-brary, the resident princess Twilight Sparkle was testing a new summoning spell, with mixed results.

"UGHHHHHH! What is wrong with this spell?! I've checked, double checked and triple checked all the parameters, completed all 3 prior checklists and still it refuses to work!" Twilight sparkle half shouted as she stomped around the Golden Oaks library, digging a trench into the floor in the process".

"Twilight, you're digging a hole in the floor, again!" came a young exasperated voice from the other side of the library. "Maybe you should take a break, you look like you just went 10 rounds with a Manticore!" Spike said to his surrogate mother.

"Sorry Spike, there's no time! Prin... Celestia entrusted me with this spell and she's coming from Canterlot in a week's time to check my progress! I can't make progress if I go about my time lollygagging!" Twilight said before sighing 'But maybe he's right, this spell's been driving me up the wall for the past 3 days. And I could really go for a rest right about now'. "No, the princess is relying on me to get this spell ready i...."

"TWILIGHT!! The princess also told you to promise her to take regular breaks if you're having a hard time, and I think this qualifies". Spike said matter-of-factly.

*Sigh* "You're right Spike, I can't let it get me down." the princess of magic stated with a nod, "how about some breakfast? I could do us some pancakes!"

The little purple dragon visibly paled a few hues. "Tell you what, Twi. You go have a rest, and let me handle breakfast. I can still taste your last batch of 'pancakes'" This sent a shudder down both purple occupant's spines. "Besides, I'm sure you'll get it eventually!"

'Oh Spike, always the optimistic one' Twilight turned to her assistant with a warm smile, which he eagerly returned before dashing off into the kitchen to prepare breakfast. Twilight resigned herself to take a seat near one of her bookshelves and began contemplating her next move. "Surely one last go couldn't hurt... What could possibly go wrong?" 'Pretty much everything that could, has...'

With that last thought, a pink aura surrounded the alicorn's horn, but mere nanoseconds from Twilight releasing her spell, did a metric tonne of pink fluff come barreling through the front door and straight into the purple princess. "TWITCHY TAIL!" Pinkie Pie screamed bloody murder.

"AGHHH! *KRACKABOOM*" Twilight promptly turned to shoot a death glare at the pink maniac but was interrupted by something falling on her, something big... And heavy. "PINKIE P.... *SPLAT*"

"Hi Twilight! Nice bed, but it looks like somepony's already using it..." The pink earth pony said in her usual chipper tone, before turning sheepish "ooooo, ouch... Here, let me help you.. Hehe.." she then proceeded to pull Twilight out from under the offending piece of furniture and pump the comically flat alicorn up using a bike pump she pulled out of nowhere. "There we go, aaaaaaaaaaaaaall better!"

Twilight took a moment to shake fix her double vision and glared at the earth pony "Pinkie Pie!! What the hay?!"

Pinkie pie suddenly took a massive intake of air before spouting off one of her classic Pinkie Pie rants "*Gaaaaaaaaaasp* WellIwasoveratSugarcubeCornerwatchingthetwinsforthecakeswhenallofasuddenmytailstardedtwitchingandyouknowwhatthatmeanssoItrackedthefallingthingiebackheretothelibrarywhereIbargedinhereandinterruptedyourweirdspellthingybyscreamingTWITCHYTAILasloudasIcouldandthenabedappearedaboveyouandsquishedyoubutitdidn'twaketheguyupwho'ssleepinginthebedandnowI'mhere" she ended with the biggest shit eating grin known to ponykind.

After a second to process the abomination that was un-spaced dialogue, Twilight mustered the best response she could manage: "What" Twilight Sparkle, princess of magic and former protégé of princess Celestia was dumbfounded.

Pinkie let out her fabled gigglesnort "turn around silly!" Twilight complied, arching her head around to peer behind her, what she saw had shocked her. There was a huge faux leather bed behind her, only a little smaller than what princess Celestia lay her head on. But, that wasn't all; it was the sleeping form resting atop the bed that had made Twilight freeze.

The 'thing' that was currently snoring so loud Twilight was surprised she hadn't heard it sooner, was close to 6ft in height, had two long, thick hind-legs, along with two slightly shorter fore-legs with things akin to Spike's claws on the end of them. But, as opposed to Spike's claws, these appendages were greater in number, but seemed to end in stumps. It's face was flat, it had rather small eyes (from what she could tell with its eyes currently closed) and a weird shaped muzzle in the center. It's mane was rather short and a dark charcoal in colour. The creature itself seemed to be dressed in a mix of black a undershirt, a jacket what could only be described as camouflage, thick olive green pants, and slightly dirty brown boots.

Unbeknownst to Twilight, she had summoned a human. "What" she said flatly. Spike, who had finished with the breakfast had just walked into the room when he spotted two new beings, as well as a new bed.

"Seriously?!" he shouted before stomping back into the kitchen to fix breakfast for the two new arrivals.