The Lost from Equestria

I couldn't believe what I was doing. Less than five minutes ago I injected my best friend with mind control serum and now was riding her through the air.

I guess I should explain myself, but first I will tell you who I am. I am a unicorn stallion who goes by the name of Cosmic Star. My coat is bright blue and my mane and tail is such a dark shade of blue you could almost mistake it for black. My cutie mark is a five point star being orbited by an eight point star. I am good at almost all kinds of magic but I have a weird connection to the stars and moon. By weird I mean I can communicate with them (I got my cutie mark when I finished my first conversation with the stars) but I haven't heard from the moon in over three years.

Also I'll tell you where I live. Now where most ponies have a house or just live where they work (at least they did from the stories I've been told) me and my best friend Tempest Tornado (a purple coated pegasus with cloud grey mane and a cutie mark of an electrically charged tornado) live outside the borders of Equestria.

At first it doesn't seem all bad; there's lots of trees and plenty of spaces to sit down and have a chat. But changelings are the problem. In Equestria changelings normally keep to themselves, disguised as ponies that went missing and feasting on love. But outside the border they stack up in hordes and attack unsuspecting ponies, eating them and then changing into their form and pretend nothing ever happened. Whenever groups meet each other hostilities are inevitable because no pony can trust another. This keeps pony kind fairly small outside the border.

The question you are probably asking is 'Why don't you just go back to Equestria?'

The main issue is we physically can't. Ever since Discord took over, all the ponies who stood up to him were banished outside the borders and there is a magical barrier that no-one with relative blood can pass through.

Okay I think that's all the background you need to know for right now. I'll go back to about 8 minutes ago to explain why I am riding my friend through the sky.

"So Cosmic... stars talk about anything interesting recently?" Tempest casually asked.

"Not particularly. Why do you want to know?" I replied.

"No reason, I just wanted to create conversa..." Tempest stopped mid sentence.

"Tempest, you okay?"

"Shhh!"

"But you were ju..."

"Be quiet!" interrupted Tempest in the quietest way possible.

I heard it too now. The bushes were rustling.

"Tempest, get behind me!" I ordered, charging my horn to be prepared for the worst.

It only took me a second to react as I blasted the pony with my magic.

"COSMIC!" Tempest angrily screamed "How could you fire upon any pony like that without even confirming that they were a changeling!"

"Because I knew that mare."

"But then if you knew her why..."

I cut her off "Because I recognized her as the pony that was dead and bleeding in that ditch the other day."

"Cosmic, I..." Tempest trailed off.

I looked at her she was sitting down and shivering. I looked around me. Changelings had surrounded us, not bothering to disguise themselves after seeing how easily I saw through their comrade's disguise. Ponyfeathers!

"Tempest?"

She did not answer; she was too scared.

"Tempest, answer my questions with just a nod or a shake. Can you do that for me?"

When she nodded I gave a short sigh of relief. (Last time she did this she didn't respond for a week.)

"Okay, are you able to carry my weight even when flying?"

She nodded, shivering more intensely now. The Changelings were getting closer.

"Can you fly me out of here?"

She shook her head.

"Tempest please? It might be our only chance."

She shook again.

"We don't have time for this." I mumbled to myself "Tempest, sorry for this but you give me no other choice..."

I pulled a syringe out of my saddle bags. It contained a blue and green liquid. Then I quickly injected her with the liquid and her eyes went the tiniest bit wider. I climbed onto Tempest's back. "Tempest, fly us out of here now." She reacted immediately (which was unsurprising as I had just injected her with a mind control potion of my own creation, using a mixture of changeling venom and mild tranquilizers). Unfortunately the mind numbing effect didn't last longer than five minutes.

And that I believe brings us to the opening of the story.

Tempest woke up mid flight. Her ear-splitting scream of surprise almost made me fall off.

"Cosmic.. why can't I control myself and why are we hundreds of metres into the air?"

"Umm... well, you know that serum I've been working on lately?"

"I am going to kill you for this...!"

"Well its better than both of us being dead and imitated by changelings. Now land us down in that clearing over there."

This time it took a little longer to react since once the mind becomes focused again it resists control from an outside source.

We landed fairly quickly after that.

As I got off Tempest tried to buck me.

Seeing the motion I cried out without thinking "DON'T BUCK!"

She froze mid buck and fell over after losing her balance.

"Ow."

"Sorry, I forgot about that."

"When does this wear off?"

"Any second..." I get knocked over from a buck to the face "...now" I finished through a swollen jaw