Pride's Fourth Life

"It's right here, Twilight," a strange, feminine voice came up from somwhere above me. I tried to open my eyes, but it brought too much of a strain on my body. I waited instead.

"I see, AJ. I've never seen such a creature before. Spike, Take a letter to Princess Celestia, I want an investigation squad... Spike... Spike?" Another voice came from next to the other one. This one too seemed to come from a woman, and she sounded confused. What did she mean creature...

That's when it hit me. I remembered about what had happened. I finally had Super Buu defeated, he yells, I fall through strange portal thingy and fall through a rip in time and space. I knew what happened, but it took me a whole minute to actually register the memories. At first I just looked at them as if it was my normal routine to wake up in strange lands with talking ponies. Then I actually payed attention to them.

"No!" I flew up into the air, leaving a trail of energy and deepening the hole much, to the surprise of the ponies. "I won't let this happen, I am Prince Vegeta, ruler of all saiyans, legendary Super Saiyan! How could this..." I  trailed off, remembering my exhaustion. I decided to listen to it.

I froze my body and gave in, falling once again asleep and falling back into the crater, as if the thing was deep enough already. Before completely surrendering to sleep, I took a moment to hear the reactions of the ponies. I waited, but it didn't come. Must have scared the locals off. Ha! I bet they don't normally see a sight like that, especially with one with a being as strong as me...

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"... then he somehow flew up into the air for a few seconds and yelled something I could not catch. I'm not quite sure how that would even be possible for a creature like him given his anatomy, but he said something while his head was in the clouds so at least we know we can somehow communicate with him," A purple pony with wings and a horn reported to another taller, white pony who also had wings and a horn. Wait a second, ponies with wings and horns...

"The hell!?" I angrily yelled, throwing off the blankets on me and looking around. The first thing I noticed  about this strange place were the colors. They were colors that I recognized thank god, no thank king kai, no wait... nevermind, but the colors were a lot more colorful, and bright. As if this world was a cartoon from back on...

"This cannot be happening," I muttered, looking around once more. I finally recognized where I was. Kakarot's kid Gohan always used to watch a girly show about ponies, blabbering on about "bronies" and how there were a whole lot of men his age that enjoyed the show. He wishes. I never gave the show much thought, a man like myself intends to keep his pride, but as I look around I know that the place I must currently be in is Equestria, land of pretty little princess ponies.

There were two of these "ponies" were in front of me, one with a lavender coat, wings, a horn, a strange mark on her hindquarters, in fact they both seemed to have strange marks. The lavender one seemed to have a bunch of stars on hers, and the white one had a celestial sun. The two of them were very similar, different in only stature and color, but nether-less they seemed to be part of the same race as they both had wings and a horn on their head. I looked straight at the lavender one and smiled, and she flinched back in fear. The white one had a confident look on her face, but her eyes were burrowed as if in deep thought.

Silence passed for a few moments so I took my time to look around some more, get adjusted to the fact that I was in a kid's cartoon. The lavender one shuffled her legs and fluttered her wings, but kept a neutral face on. The white one seemed to just be examining me, so I returned the favor. They did not seem to wear pretty little princess dresses like I would have expected, but the white one was wearing a crown.

I smiled. "So, would you two girls care to introduce yourselves or are you going to keep looking at me like I'm from a different planet?" I asked, only to then realized what I just said. I smiled slowly, slightly. I stood up for my resting position, showing them the true might of my bare body, and inexplicably laughed. Loud.

"But what am I saiyan? I am from another planet!" which made me laugh even more, at my own silly pun. I had not laughed like this in years. I wasn't laughing at the weakness of an opponent, I was laughing out of pure joy. A truly rare experience for a Saiyan of my kind.

Seconds passed by. Seconds turned into minutes until finally the lavender one spoke up, "So, would you care explaining to us what you are, who you are, why you are here, or at least give us some information on yourself?"

"I could be asking you the same questions," I sighed, giving them another look over for the tenth time. Waking up in a world full of talking ponies sure did take some adjusting to.

"You don't need to know who I am, just that you should be lucky you're still alive! If it weren't for my good mood, I'd-" The white one shot a beam out of her horn at my face, which I easily flicked off with my arm at the nearest open window. "Did you really try to attack me, Vegeta, Prince of all Saiyans? Do you even know WHO I AM?" I bellowed angrily at her, frowning as I finished that sentence.

"I'm sorry, no you don't know who I am so let me ask you something. Who are you?" I asked. A normal question, but not a normal circumstance.

"I apologize for attacking you...  Vegeta?" With that I nodded, "Right. Well, once again I apologize. You saying we were lucky to still be alive gave me reason that you were a threat, but I see now you're just arrogant. Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Princess Celestia, ruler of Equestria along with my sister Princess Luna, my niece Princess Cadence, and my student Princess Twilight Sparkle," She finished.

I gave her an odd look. "So how many princesses are there on this planet, or is this a costume party?"

She did the equivalent of chewing her lip and sighed, "The number of Princesses on this land happens to be just mere coincidence, although there is an unofficial, twice removed cousin-in-law I have who happens to be male, so yes, there is indeed a prince in this kingdom. So how about you? Are you truly a prince?" She asked me innocently, and I winced at the question. She nodded understandingly and proceeded. "You don't have to share with us if you don't have to, but answer this: Will you tell us how you got here?"

I sighed. "A pink, gooey creature with a form similar to mine screamed at me," I said calmly.

It took a few seconds for this to register to her. "Do you mean Buu?" She asked.

I gasped at the question. I searched for words, but they wouldn't come. After some time I finally gathered my breath. "How could you know about him? I'm from a different universe damn it!" I couldn't help but sound angry at the last second, and sunk back into my head. I've had my share of strangeness, but this was definitely something else.

"We have an equivalent to him on our world called Discord, although we managed to reform him. Buu is Discord's cousin, he talks fondly of him. Has a sugar tooth from what I can presume, and is very destructive. No, we managed to capture Discord and reform him, but his magic is different from Buu's. I'm afraid he won't be able to take you back to where you came from," she sighed.

The clock ticked, and after some silence I asked "Then can I at least get some living arrangements done for me? I shall be treated like one of your kind, if not even better, and I'll take the time to learn your culture, laws, and ways of living. This isn't the first time I've crashed on a different planet, and thankfully this time I, also, am reformed," I said, trying to ignore the fact she basically said that she pretty much defeated Buu and I failed to do so. She nodded, then whispered to the lavender one and I watched as she nodded.

"So, purple horse thing, what happens to be your name? I told you mine, even if it was indirect," I pointed at her.

She smiled. "First of all, my name is Twilight Sparkle, not purple horse thing. Second of all, I'll be the one who shall propose your housing for the first few days of your... visit. I shall study you in the meantime, so don't worry, we'll figure this out!" She said with a legitimate smile.

I smiled, got up, and walked outside. "Thank you for your cooperation, princess,"