Ponies And A Half

Akane woke up, she shook her head to get her sense of balance. She saw Kasumi looking at her and offering a hand, she took it and sat up.

"Oh Kasumi, I had the strangest dream," she said, "I dreamt that dad told us one of us was going to have a fiancé who turned out to be a girl who was in the company of other girls and one of them turned into a horse."

"No dream." a voice came. Akane turned to see Zhang sitting next to Kasumi.

Akane held her head and felt like crying. Furinkan isn't supposed to be like this! All the weirdness is supposed to be in the next area over (AKA Tomobiki)... Not here!

"They're going to tell us what's going on," explained Kasumi.

Akane, Zhang, and Kasumi all went downstairs to the living room. She saw that the man from earlier was sitting next to a boy who wore the same clothes as Ranma, and even had the same hairstyle. However, he wasn't a redhead but a brunette. Next to Ranma were…more ponies beyond the three from earlier... and a silver dragon all coiled up. Akane now had a better look at them and noticed that their manes… were the same style and colors as the girls.

Not only that, but not all of them had wings. The ponies who were presumably Hikaru and Belle were unicorns, while the ones that were presumably Momo and Alex had neither wings nor horns (and for some reason, the Alex pony still had her hat). Next to the pony she assumed was Chiyo (and the one she saw in the bathroom) was the boy she saw… who looked away from Akane while blushing bright red. Akane glances at the dragon who is sipping tea again.

She noticed that the star pattern that was on Hikaru's sweater vest was on the Hikaru pony's flank. The Belle pony's flank depicted three diamonds, and the Alex pony's three apples.

The strange man walks in and begins to say.

"We should all properly introduce ourselves," he said, "My name is Genma Saotome, and this is my son…"

"Ranma," said the boy.

"You don't need to know about the ponies... and the dragon, hopefully they will be gone soon… and…"

Suddenly, the dragon whacked him on the head, mainly to prevent another fight from breaking loose between him and the Ran pony, who looked ready to charge. Akane noticed that the pony's flank depicted the same lightning-bolt shaped rainbow that was on her shirt.

"What…the…HECK...is going on?" asked Akane.

"How do I explain it?" said Genma. Faster than anyone can react he throws Ranma in.

"WHAT WAS THAT FOR!?" asked Ranma, now with red hair.

Genma looks off into the distance, crying," Why!?"

Hikaru's horn glows purple immobilizing him with the same purple aura. Then three feet connect with his neck, spine, and head. silver dragon laughs as he kicks him in. The Ran pony and Ranma look at him strangely.

"What?"

"nothing..."

The Genma Panda glared at the Hikaru pony and produced another sign that said, "Everything went wrong ever since you showed up!"

"Without her, I'd be dead right now!" countered Ranma.

"You owe the others nothing!" The two then charged and started fighting. A purple aura lifts the panda away and Ranma-chan runs back in.

"You know…let's just ignore them," said the Ran Pony as she shrugged.

"He causes nothing but problems," agreed Zhang with a nod of his head.

As Zhang closed the door to the garden, the panda signed, "…"

The Tendos processed what just happened.

"Daddy, your friend is weird," remarked Nabiki.

"He wasn't always like that," said Soun.

"It all happened when we first went to China," sighed Ranma.

-Flashback-

Ranma and Genma were heading to a legendary training ground. And they arrived a place where there were bamboo poles stuck out of many pools.

"Sirs!" a squat old man in a Chinese military uniform was trying to stop the two. Apparently, his duty was to guard the pools and he also served as a guide. "Please listen."

However, the two didn't as they began to train, sparring in midair and landing on the poles. As they did, Ranma managed to knock his father into one of the pools.

"Is that all you got?" asked Ranma. That was when something surfaced. It wasn't Genma, but a panda. "What the—?!"

"Sir fall into Spring of Drowned Panda." explained the guide. "Tragic story of a panda who drowned 2000 year ago. Now, whoever falls take body of a panda."

The now Panda Genma got back up and they continued to fight. During that, Panda Genma managed to kick Ranma into another pool. When he surfaced, he was now a redhead female version of himself. He looked down and saw that he now had boobs. Obviously, Ranma didn't take it well.

"Sir, you fall into spring of drowned girl." Said the guide. "Tragic story of girl who drowned there 1500 year ago. Now, whoever falls take body of a girl."

"YOU IDIOT!" Ranma cried out.

-End Flashback-

The Tendos stared at Ranma once he finished. "Pop only read about the place in a guide book… which was in Chinese." An awkward silence followed.

"His dad is an idiot," said the Ran Pony.

"Frankly, he's worse than my father," remarked the Belle pony.

"Come on, Rarity!" replied the Momo pony. "It's not so bad. I actually like your dad."

The Belle pony groaned.

"Perhaps we should go in order from how we joined Ranma," suggested Zhang, "Which means it's your turn, girls."

The Hikaru pony sighed, then said, "As you can guess, the names we gave you as humans aren't our real names."

"So what are your real names, then?" asked Akane

"Rainbow Dash," said the Ran Pony.

"Rarity," answered the Belle pony.

"Fluttershy…" The Chiyo pony.

"Name's Applejack." The Alex Pony.

"Pinkie Pie!" yelled the Momo pony as she bounced happily.

" Silver Storm," the Silver Dragon once again says sipping a cup of tea.

"And I am Twilight Sparkle," said the Hikaru pony.

The last one made Nabiki laugh maniacally. "Sorry… it's just that there's a book called Twilight about vampires…" she then apologized.

"And they sparkle…" finished Twilight as she 'grabbed' a drink. "I know… I've been hearing it the past month."

"They took on those names so they wouldn't seem like they were the children of hippies," explained Zhang

"Well, they are cute names," said Kasumi.

"So what are you exactly?" asked Nabiki. "…Colorful talking ponies aren't normal after all."

"Well, do you believe in alternate universes?" asked Twilight.

Soun, Nabiki, Akane stared blankly at them.

Kasumi simply smiled and said, "Oh, and you live in a universe filled with talking ponies? How wonderful."

"Then how did you get from that universe to ours…and why do you change into girls?" asked Nabiki.

Twilight sighed. "Well…"

-Flashback-

In the universe where Equestria is…

Twilight and her friends were in the Book and Branches Library in the town of Ponyville. The purple unicorn was explaining to her friends about a mass, long-range teleportation spell she learned about.

"Are you sure this will get us to Canterlot?" asked Rarity.

"I'm sure it will," said Twilight as she put down the book she was reading, which covered how the spell worked.

"I'm still a little nervous about this, Twi," Applejack voiced her doubts.

"Don't worry. I sent a letter to Princess Celestia about this. Should anything go wrong, she'll be on it."

"Sounds like fun!" said Pinkie as she bounced up and down. "Is anyone else excited?"

Nopony answers her as Twilight's horn then glowed as she worked her magic. In a flash of light, the six ponies were gone.

But they didn't end up in Canterlot. Instead, they ended up in another universe altogether.

When they emerged from the teleportation, they were a couple of feet above a pool of water. Nopony was able to react in time as they all fell in.

When they all surfaced, Twilight was the first to speak. "Is everypony okay?" she asked. Just as she received their confirmation, she noticed something off. She tried to exit the pool, but fell down. She looked at her hooves, only to see hands. She looked towards her friends…only to see five other girls. She walked to the spring, and saw her reflection. The girls then screamed their lungs out!

Seconds ago, in a nearby house, Ranma and Genma learned the trigger of the curse from the guide. Cold water means they turned into their cursed forms (a girl or panda) and hot water changes them back.

"Why didn't you tell us?" asked Ranma.

"You no listen when I try to warn," said the guide. That was when they heard the screaming. "Looks like there more cursed." He then proceeded to leave the house, the two Saotomes joining him.

Upon arrival to the pools, which was where the guide was going to, they saw six girls about Ranma's age screaming for various reasons…

Well, one of them wasn't as she poked her breasts. Of course, these were the transformed ponies.

"Where are my wings?!" cried the now human Rainbow Dash.

"My wings are gone too," said the now human Fluttershy.

"What the hay's going on here?" yelled the now Human Applejack.

"Wow… these are really weird squishy things…I like them!" said the now human Pinkie Pie, who was the one poking at her breasts.

That was when the now human Twilight saw the guide, Ranma, and Genma.

"Why do I have feeling it going to be tough day?" the guide muttered quietly to himself.

"Um… hi…" said Ranma as he blushed madly.

"Hi there!" said Pinkie as she jumped up and down, her breasts jiggling like crazy.

"Due to the magical nature of the Equestrian language, we're able to understand any language here…" Twilight explained in the present. "Although only I knew that at the time, being Princess Celestia's student and all."

"Who's this Princess Celestia?" asked Akane.

"We haven't gotten a chance to tell them about her yet." reminded Rarity. Twilight smiled in embarrassment after that.

After several minutes of silence, the now humanized ponies followed the guide to his house, where he informed them of the curse.

Considering the day they had, Ranma and Genma somehow weren't surprised by the talking ponies.

"So, what do you think happened?" asked Applejack.

"It's entirely possible that we wound up in another universe," answered Twilight.

"What?" asked Rarity with a sweat drop.

"I agree… and it's has to be an anime universe since we can sweat drop and do other fun things with our faces!" said Pinkie.

"What is she talking about?" asked Ranma.

"Don't ask." said Applejack.

"Yeah," agreed Rainbow Dash. "You'll just get confused."

Suddenly, the sink suddenly broke and started spraying water everywhere, activating everyone's curses. All the now-human ponies sans Pinkie started blushing.

"That's it…" growled Ranma-Chan, "I'm going to KILL YOU, old man!"

With that, the boy-turned-girl chased the man-turned-panda.

"I go get clothes for you!" said the guide as he managed to cap the sink. "Why that thing break so much, I have no idea."

-End flashback-

"And that's how we met Ranma and his father," finished Twilight.

The Tendos were silent as they took all of this in.

"Don't worry, I assure you everything's going to seem normal from here on out," said Zhang.

"Yeah… it's kind of hard to top talking magical ponies form another universe," agreed Nabiki.

"Or is it?" The dragon says calmly.

The Tendos then turned to face the dragon China.

"I bet you want to know how I factor into all this," guessed Silver Storm. The Tendos nodded in affirmation since of all their visitors, Silver Storm was the (in)sanest of them all.

-Flashback-

A pure white dragon helps a duo of alicorns fight agains a draconequus.

The white alicorn shouts," Silver Storm buy us time!"

"Gotcha."

Buying them time to set up the elements of harmony, he fights it alone.

Flicking a finger, it freezes him.

"Got you now."

"You'll never get away with this Discord."

Laughing, Discord waggles a finger," But I have."

"NO YOU HAVE NOT!" The black alicorn proclaims with three gems surrounding her.

" IN THE NAME OF THE ELEMENTS WE BANISH YOU!" The white alicorn shouts likewise with three gems surrounding her.

As Discord begins to turn to stone, he laughs.

"HA! Then let me take something of yours also."

Flicking a finger he sends a stream of black smoke at the dragon freezing him. He smiles warmly at the alicorns before disappearing in a rip in space.

-End Flashback-

Silence on all surrounding him.

"That was sad." Kasumi says as she wipes her eye.

Twilight asks, "But how come I never heard of you?"

Silver Storm asks scratching his head," Didn't I tell you when we first met?"

"No... You didn't."

"I guess I didn't. Tell you later then."

All sweat drop at this last comment.

"So, what about him?" said Akane as she stared at Ryoga.

"My name is Ryoga Hibiki…" he introduced himself. "I went to middle school with Ranma… and I'm sorry! I didn't mean to peek at you!" He then blushed bright red.

Akane sweat dropped as he continued to apologize. "It's okay…" forgave Akane, "I should have knocked…"

"Actually, Ryoga was the next to join our group," said Ranma.

"I guess I should explain why I went to China…" said Ryoga. "Ranma and I met in junior high school. Everyday, we fought over who got the last loaf of bread. Ranma always manage to beat me. I had enough, and challenged him to a fight. The fight was supposed to take place in my backyard."

"However, Ryoga has no sense of direction at ALL!" said Ranma.

"How bad is it?" Nabiki asked sarcastically.

Ranma said," You don't want to know."

Ryoga says defensively," I'm not that bad."

Zhang shouts out peeved," IT TOOK HIM A WEEK TO GET HERE! A WEEK!" He stands up and begins to flicker in and out. Akane looks at him strangely. Suddenly, he disappears into a stream of smoke and enters into the dragon." HE NOT ONLY GOES IN A BLATANT U-TURN! HE SOMEHOW MANAGES TO GET BOTH RAINBOW DASH AND APPLEJACK LOST AND I HAD TO BRING THEM BACK! THEY WERE ABOUT TO BE EATEN I TELL YOU! EATEN!" The dragon coils up in a huff.

Pinkie breaks the silence by saying,"Umm, Lets get the flashback started then."

-Flashback-

Ryoga trekked though the mountains, right at the exact location of Jusenkyo. He then saw a panda (Genma) running towards him. He managed to dodge him. However…

"Come back, here old man!" yelled a voice.

Before he knew it, a young woman with red hair (Ranma) accidently kicked him off a cliff… a cliff that overlooked Jusenkyo. Ryoga fell into one of the springs… changing him into…something that wasn't human.

Nearby, the human Fluttershy was looking around, thoughts in her head.

Twilight didn't want to reattempt the spell until they were cured of the curse, which meant they didn't know when they would get back. Not only that but they had no way to get into contact with the Princesses.

Meaning there was no one to take care of her animals friends.

She couldn't help but to sigh.

The only good thing was that the guide had given them robes, so they wouldn't be naked (as humans had different standards than Ponies).

Just then, she heard a squeal. She looked to see was a piglet in one of the springs, trying to get out. She walked over to it and gently picked it up.

"Are you hurt?" she asked the pig, who shook his head no. "Oh no… This could be another poor person cursed! I better take him to the kind guide."

Fluttershy decided to bring the piglet to the guide's house. Inside, she saw Twilight and Rarity, both in human forms, trying to lift a feather using magic. The former had no trouble at all as she channeled her magic through her hands, while the latter couldn't even lift it… or even channel magic at all.

"I guess my magic's just stronger than yours, Rarity," said Twilight.

"Just great…" muttered Rarity. That was when they noticed Fluttershy.

"So, are the rascals still chasing each other?" asked Applejack, who was in human form as well.

Fluttershy nodded, then said, "I found this pig in one of the springs. I think it might have been someone who fell in." .

"Let see," said the guide as he poured hot water on the pig, and it turned into a naked Ryoga, who blushed bright red.

"Um… can you girls… please turn around?" Ryoga asked.

The ponies-turned-girls did as he requested. Fluttershy was blushing really hard as well.

"Spring of Drowned Black Piglet, very tragic story. Now whoever fall in spring turn into black piglet," explained the guide. He then grabbed a large pool simmer, "Excuse me, I have to see if sir's things are still in spring." He then left the house.

"Um…" said Ryoga, "Thank you for getting me out."

"It wasn't a problem," whispered Fluttershy.

It took the guide 20 long minutes to return with Ryoga's backpack due to its weight. Ryoga took out his clothes from the bag and got himself dressed. By the time he was done, Ranma-Chan came into the house.

"Man… I couldn't catch him." she said. "Who knew pandas were so fast? Hey, can I have some hot water?" Ranma failed to notice Ryoga until after he changed back.

"Oh hey, Ryoga." he then said in greeting. "How you're doing, buddy? Did you get so lost you somehow made it to China?"

Ryoga glared at Ranma and yelled, "This is all your fault!" The two of them then started fighting, causing the ponies to sweat drop.

"Why do I have a feeling a long story is involved?" mumbled Applejack.

Hours later, after showing Ryoga their true forms (he took it surprisingly well; then again, he had turned into a pig), Genma felt it was safe to return, and the guide cooked them dinner.

"I think we should work together," suggested Twilight.

"What do you mean?" asked Ranma as he stuffed his face with food.

"We're stuck here, no way to contact home, and were cursed to turn human. But I'm sure I can break the curse."

"Are you sure?"

"I am the student of Princess Celestia." She received blank stares from the Saotomes, Ryoga, and the guide.

"Different universe, remember?" reminded Rainbow Dash. Twilight face hoofed for forgetting.

"I get it," understood Genma. "You want us to give you a place to stay while you figure out a cure for the curse. I think we can do that."

"So it's agreed, then."

"Agreed." The two then shook hands… um hoof to hand… whatever…

"Why do I have a bad feeling about this?" asked Rainbow Dash.

"You're not the only one," sighed Applejack.

-End Flashback-

While they did tell the Tendos about how they started traveling with them, they were still pretty focused on the first part of the story.

"How do you get lost that badly?" asked Nabiki.

"Please don't ask," said Ryoga, "I don't know how I do, but my parents are the same way."

Akane is white and pointing at Silver Storm."You... YOU ATE HIM!"

Silver Storm laughs," I didn't. I split my essence. Trick I learned being trapped in ice for a thousand years. Dreadfully useful."

The Tendos processed all this information given to them. As does Twilight.

After a long while, Soun finally spoke up, "Then there's no problem. I'm fine with one of my daughters marrying Ranma."

His three daughters stared at him, not knowing what to say. "Great, he finally snapped," said Nabiki.

"Seriously, I'm fine. In fact, all three of you can marry him! This is perfect!" He was answered by Nabiki and Kasumi using the trademark Tendo Family Death Glare on him, which made their faces become large and ominous to whoever they were using it on. For some reason, Pinkie was able to see their heads like this too even if they weren't directed at her, but she didn't comment.

"I refuse to marry someone like him," said Nabiki. Kasumi remained silent.

Akane shouts adamantly," NO!" brushes past all concerned and heads upstairs.

Silver Storm pours a glass of water on himself and says," That went well." He conjures some clothes and stands up.

As he opens up the door to go outside, a pike meets him in the face.

Twisting his whole body in the air like some demented ragdoll, he lands into the tatami. Cold water from a pitcher happens to douse Ranma.

A purple haired chinese girl stands at the doorframe.

"Shampoo kill pig-tailed girl now."