Everypony was in shock, no one had any idea on what to say or do. Looking around and seeing the shock of the ponies, James holstered the pistol and shifted his gaze to the rest of the ponies.

"My apologies, it's just that when I want something to not be said", he glared back at Pinkie "I tend to overreact a bit." He said with such a straight face, not even Applejack could tell he was lying.

"O-okay then" Twilight said after a good five minutes went by "I suppose we all overreact sometimes" Twilight had so many questions for him but couldn't say anything other than that. She quickly looked around the room and hoped for somepony else to say something when her eyes went above him. There was something there that wasn't there before. A small hole, right above where he had his arm raised. To her knowledge, the material that the castle was made from couldn't be dented or even scratched by any tool. Noticing her gaze was above him, James looked up and saw the hole made from the bullet.

"Oh, wow. I am sorry for doing that. Didn't even think, just reacted." he said, causing Twilight to be even more surprised. Thinking fast, she had an idea. Not the best one considering it took 3 seconds to make, but a plan nonetheless.

"Ok everypony" she said turning to the still speachless ponies,"Considering James' wish for secrecy and what just happened, I would like for you to go home and calm down. We will talk about this tomorrow after we all have had some time to think." Everypny looked at each other and nodded, silently agreeing that Twilight wished to question the creature alone.

They all left a bit slowly and were cautious of the creature and agreed that Twilight would have some answers tomorrow. With that, they went back to whatever they were doing before Twilight called them there unexpectedly after reciving a message from Princess Luna.

After everypony left, Twilight was alone with James and Zeika. But before she could say anything, James collapsed on the floor face first. The sound of impact made Twilight jump a little, but just as before he got up within a small amount of time.

"Holy shit" James said,"That was the stupidest thing I could of ever done"

"The fall or boom?" Zeika questioned him, who then recived a look that told her 'everything I just did in the past thirty seconds'. With an akward silence quickly filling the air, Twilight broke it.

"Well, I don't know what to say first. I have so many questions and I-" She was cut off by a single finger against her lips.

"Not now please, I need to process what the hell just happened." James said as he sat down on the floor.

He was now eye level to Twilight. Taking the opportunity to say something, Twilight started with questions. James just answered them and surprised Twilight with every answer he gave. After some time, Twilight aid something she had only just thought of.

"Because you are a diffrent species, and because of what has happened today, would you be opposed to being turned into a pony?" she asked him. Hearing what she just said, James looked at her in confusion "You are taller than us ponies, which would intimidate some, and I think that being turned to a pony would make you less intimidating to everypony else and easier to approach which will get you some friends." she finished off with a smile.

"Well, why the hell not." James said "Might as well look normal then be a spectacle" And with that, Twilight sent messages to Celestia, Luna, and Cadence with all the information she had gathered as well as the idea of him being transformed.

Not long after, she had recived replies from them and were on their way over. She told James that doing a big transformation would require a lot of magic and needed help from her fellow princesses. James just shrugged, but Zeika knew that after the invasion Celestia had a spell that detected Changlings and started to noticably worry.

It wasn't long after that Celestia, Luna, and Cadence were at the castle. James just sat in a corner while they talked and prepared. Zeika was there and was wondering why she wasn't pointed out yet by Celestia, who looked over and did a little mind speaking spell thing and explained that Luna had told her everything when she returned to Canterlot. Zeika did a little sigh of relief knowing that she wasn't going to be hunted or anything and sat next to James and watched him play Pokemon Diamond.

Several hours had passed and night had fallen before everything was ready. Following Twilight, James stepped in the middle of the 'magical ring thing'.

"So, this will turn me into a pony so I can not be a spectacle?" James asked, now questioning his earlier desicion.

"Yes, and will be painless in case you were wondering" Cadence added, putting a little bit of relief in his head.

Taking places around the circle, the alicorns lit up their horns and James began to float in the air. James closed his eyes and prepared for anything. Everypony wasn't expecting what was going to happen though. When the actual transformation started, an explosion happened and knocked everypony back.

"What, happened?" Twilight asked, poking her head out of some books that had fallen on her.

"Not sure, but I think something bad" Celestia replied, wiping stuff out of her eyes. Fearing the worst, Twilight looked at the cloud of smoke.

"Did it work?" James yelled, causing some relief with the ponies.

"It did, try walking out of the smoke" Cadence said, feeling a change

"Alright, lets see the results." James said.

He stood up, but the alicorns looked in awe. A shadow was visible in the smoke, and what stood up wasn't the shape of a pony. It was taller than James was and very thin. From where Luna was she could see spikes on his shoulders and back, as well as a tail. Suddenly, a pair of purple eyes opened and illuminated through the smoke. Tails came off of the eyes that resembled what Sombra's eyes looked like. He opened his mouth and the Celestia saw a full purple mouth with spike like teeth being visible. The smoke cleared and what stood there wasn't what they wanted to see, they saw a pitch black figure that was taller than Celestia. The creature looked around the room. It's jaw opened and Celestia saw that the teeth were its jaw. There were 4 spikes on it's back and two on its shoulders. It's head was a weird shape that resembled a Xenomorph from that Alien movie but instead of rounded at the back, it was a sharp spike that curved. The creature flexed it's tail to reveal a spike at the end and it was just as long or longer than the creature was tall. After what seemed like hours, someone said something.

"J-James, is that you?" Zeika said, slowly inching away. The creature turned it's head in response.

"Yeah, why? Did it not work?" it said with a gravely voice. Noticing this, he looked at the mirror that was on the wall. "Well, thats not what I was expecting." James knew exactly what he had become, and started to smile. Knowing what he could do, James immediatly changed to his pony OC. The alicorns were speechless. "Well, now this looks better." He said, admiring himself. He was now a red stallion with an messy electric blue mane. His eyes were a deep blue and his cutie mark was a toaster oven that was on fire. The fire was a nice green, but odd considering fire is usually orange.

"H-how did, w-what, w-why?" was all Twilight could get out.

"Oh, you guys changed me into my own creation instead of a pony. Now I can do literally anything" He said "Didn't ever think this would happen. It was just something I imagined one day and it sorta stuck" Collecting herself, Twilight started with the question train again. Just as before, he had an answer to everything. After gaining enough information, Twilight just sat in awe.

"Well, considering he answered all we had wanted to know" Celestia said "I suppose we should take our leave." Luna and Cadence nodded.

"Wait, so after all this your just okay with it?" Twilight asked

"As a princess, you need to know what is priority and what isn't. You of all ponies should know this" Cadence said "And right now he isn't our priority." Luna added. "However, please keep me updated on him. I would like you to keep an eye on him and try to give him a somewhat normal life here." Celestia finished.

Taking all this in Twilight agreed, and with that the 3 princesses left.

"Well, that was quick." James said, now back to his 'Nightmare' state "I thought they would have stayed longer considering what just happened. And the fact that this all took one day is amazing as well."

"Well, Celestia told me to try and give you a normal life," Twilight said, facing up at him "and because your now... that. I need you to try and stay a pony while outside. I also need you to get a job, just because you're some kind of shadow creature doesn't give you a free pass." Twilight said, knowing that he would probally stay inside and never go outside.

"Fuck," James said "But as a pony please refer to me as 'Toaster' or 'Toaster Oven' and as this I would like to be referd to as 'Nightmare'" He said, remembering the name he made for the creature he now is. Twilight looked surprised after he said that though, not the Nightmare part, but the Toaster Oven part.

Author's Note

Well, this took longer than it should of. Been doing stuffs and forgot that I was writing a story. Anyway, hope you are enjoying it so far! Will be working my ass off to get the next chapter out.