Stepping In

It was the middle of the night and I had just started to fall asleep. Finally. And I hear rarity trotting out of a room. I'm guessing since she said she was sleeping in her sisters room that's where she just left from. I heard her walk downstairs and it went silent. 'hmm.' I thought to myself 'I guess she couldn't sleep or something.' And I rolled over trying to readjust and be comfy in her gigantic bed. I had just about fallen asleep again as I heard her hoofsteps once again this time trotting up the stairs right up to her room.

'thump thump' I heard her hoofs knock on the door gently before the door creaked open. "Ace dear, are you awake?" I heard her whisper. "ugh yes." I whispered back. "oh good" she said "I cant sleep on sweetie belles bed its far too small." She whispered again to me. "and that couch is not comfy enough. I guess looks aren't always as good as usefulness." She said not whispering anymore. "you know that's very wise for someone as stuck up as you seem to be." I said to her coldly not wanting her to make me sleep on that hard couch. "now now don't judge a book by its cover deary." She said somehow ignoring the ass I was being.

"im sorry I don't know how to stop myself I guess." I said as I turned to her. "its quiet alright, I have gotten used to your petty attempt at insults." She retorted back to me. 'what? Petty Ill show her petty' I thought to myself "Petty my ass if I wanted to I could make you cry like the little girl you are." I said she looked at me with a passion ignited in her eyes. "Foal." Was all she said. "foal?" I repeated.

"foal I am, dear. If you are going to insult me please do me the courtesy of using proper grammar." She said to me in a matter o fact voice. 'wow' I thought to myself as my mouth hung agape. "You're feisty aren't you, you little grammar Nazi." She giggle and laid in the bed next to me. I didn't mind she earned her right to sleep in her own bed. Not that she needed to. She was indulging me and playing my little game. Oh and how she would lose at this game.

GAME WHAT AM I DOING LETTING HER GET TO ME AND INSULT ME BACK NOONE OR NOPONY HAS EVER STOOD UP TO ME! I CANT STAND FOR THIS SHE NEEDS TO BE TAUGHT A LESSON! A NAUGHTY…WHAT!? STOP THINKING LIKE THIS SHE IS LIKE THE OTHERS WANTING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOU… or maybe she cares. Maybe she wants to be your friend. This isn't earth anyway. We cant make assumptions based on other worldly activities. I mean come on who else gets to visit other worlds!? I shouldn't be happy about leaving earth. Should I? I mean everything I left behind. Nothing and everything. Ugh I wont be able to sleep.

Rarity slept beside me and my thoughts just getting more and more deep trying to figure out what I should do. How I should feel about her teasing me. She didn't mean any harm. She was playing along with MY game. I'm so confused.

5:59 am and I still havn't slept. I found my ipod though I have a makeshift holder for it in my guitar since I usually jam with it. No headphones though. That means no music. And looking at my guitar broke my heart. It was too early to wake up rarity just so I could listen to music on the tiny ipod speaker. I had gotten up and walked around quietly just staring at the beautiful night pass by slowly. I got up and headed downstairs. 'the least I could do is make her breakfast. She did let me stay here even if I didn't sleep.' I thought as I looked through her fridge in the kitchen. 'eggs and toast sounds good to me' I thought as I started to prepare the meal. I learned how to make myself food and even spruce it up a little with veggies I could grow around my small house. Where I lived. Alone. But we can talk about all that later. With rarity. She already has me under some kind of spell. I trust her more than I have trusted my teachers and friends. Well what passed for friends in high school anyway.

"MMMM… What smells so delicious down here?" I heard rarity slowly trotting down the steps. It was difficult to make any food considering I didn't have hands. But for some reason when I used my hoofs the utilities just stuck there like I had a hand. "I hope you like eggs and toast with some spinach as garnish." I said quietly as I passed her a plate. I had only made one serving. Im such an idiot. How could I forget that I was making food for two! I even told myself to make her some so I guess ill just cook more. "im sorry I should have asked to use your kitchen but you were asleep and I wanted to say thank you for letting me stay here and…" I was cut off by rarity's hoof touching my lips. "nonsense dear whats mine is yours. Anything for a friend." Those four words echoed in my mind. "Anything for a friend." Wow. A friend. My first real friend. Those who called me friend before. They only wanted me to do something for them. Homework or tutoring. "f-f-f-friend?" I said as I backed up and accidently spilled the frying pan with eggs cooking on them on the floor. "Shit! Im sorry I fuck everything up." I said as I tried to pick up the hot part of the pan. "FUCK!" I screamed and let go of the pan. My hoof was on fire. "OH GOODNESS DEAR PLEASE LET ME TAKE CARE OF THIS!" she said as she ushered me out of the kitchen and picked up the pan with her magic. "woah" I said in a stupor as I saw her lift the pan into the sink and the egg off the floor into the trash bin.

"you… you can actually use magic?!" I asked "I thought it was just for show!" I said in disbelief. "oh ho ho dear you have no idea. My magic is weak compared to twilights." She said in admiration of her friend. I just looked away obviously not happy at the subject of twilight. I had been so mean to her last night for no reason at all. But I was scared and I was in a new world. That's enough of a reason to be a little unreasonable and even a little mean though right? I mean. This whole world almost seems natural to me. And I don't know why.

"dear would you like to talk about whats on your mind?" she said as she pushed some fresh eggs and toast my way. Damn I was so lost in thought she already made more eggs and toast. "um maybe but can we talk upstairs? After im done eating?" I asked hopeful I could delay it long enough for something else to come up. "of course dear, whenever you are ready to talk." She said as she poured me a cup of orange juice.

I finished my food and gave my compliments to rarity. We walked upstairs slowly hoping I could try and think of an excuse not to talk about my past. As soon as I reached her room I knew I was doomed. I sat down on her bed about to open my mouth when we heard a loud pounding on the front door. "oh dear I wonder who that is so early in the morning?" she said as she excused herself to go answer the door.

I sighed in relief as I followed her to the door not having anything else to do. And hopefully I can convince whoever is at the door to take up more time with rarity so I don't have to talk to her about my past. I hated doing it. I was scared. Scared she would hate me like everyone else.

"hello fluttershy whatever do you-" she stopped mid-sentence and flew in the door and jumped on me. She kissed me hard and pushed me back onto the couch. I was so startled I didn't kiss back and was scared. I started to have an anxiety attack being so close to someone without warning. I tried to push her away but she kept pushing herself into me. "FLUTTERSHY STOP CANT YOU SEE HE IS PANICKING!" rarity yelled at fluttershy but she didn't stop. I finally was able to push her off me and I ran. I ran and didn't look back. My senses were hurting they were so acute I could see every bug and flower I ran passed and I knew that rarity and fluttershy were behind me. But my ears burned and I couldn't tell what they were yelling adrenaline and my thoughts crowded my head. I saw a forest. Perfect. Nature and animals. Beings that didn't judge me. I kept running into the forest and I noticed that the two mares had stopped following me.

'thank god' I thought 'I cant believe that bitch stole my first kiss!' I thought my mind working itself up again ' WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS?! IM NOT THAT PONY SHE FELL IN LOVE WITH AND WHO DIED! IM NOT A RECREATION OF HIM EITHER IM ME!" I thought to my self as I leaned against a tree completely out of breath. "right?" I thought again and started to cry. ' who am I without my music without my guitar?" I thought and I grabbed my ipod out of my pocket. I looked through my massive library of music and chose one of the songs I listened to that helped me pull through my harder years. Nothing and Everything by Red. I didn't care if they were Christian or not they had meaning beyond that of some god. It was personal growth that made that song beautiful. I got so lost in it I didn't notice I was singing along to it and I sang loudly. After the song finished I had stopped crying and I looked up. Something stank. Really bad. I looked around and sniffed myself. I had gotten sweaty but I didn't smell that bad.

"GRRRRRRRRRRRR" I heard from behind me as I immediately jumped up and turned around. There was a rather large wolf there that looked like it was made of wood. 'the fuck is that' I thought to myself as I walked slowly backwards. "GRRRROW!" it howled at me as it started to sprint towards me. I booked it. I ran faster than I have in my entire life. Faster than when fluttershy and rarity were chasing me. I headed for the clearing I passed earlier and it was then that it had caught up with me. It bit my back leg and sunk its sharp wooden teeth into my leg. "OOOOOWWWWW FUCK!" I screamed as I kicked it with my other leg. The kick hit it right left eye and it seemed to smash into a bunch of smaller pieces of wood. I wondered about it for a second but decided to keep moving out of the forest and with no other place to go I went back to rarity's. I checked around every corner making sure that crazy yellow mare didn't see me.

'THUMP THUMP' went the door as I pounded on it loudly hoping rarity was home. "-SNIFF- HOLD ON IM -SNIFF- COMING!" I heard her trot slowly to the door. She opened the door and fell back when she saw me. "ACE!" she said loudly and hugged me. "Um…. Hey." I said as she pulled me in. I was starting to get anxious when she was hugging me but I soon found that it wasn't so bad with her. She was beginning to grow on me. I was still very scared of that yellow one though.

"YOU SCARED ME HALF TO DEATH! THOSE WOODS ARE DANGEROUS! They have very bad creaters in there." She said as she quieted down. "I'm sorry about fluttershy I still have to talk to the girls about whats going on with her…" she said as she looked down in shame. "hey its no biggie, I just need some band aids and some disinfectant if you have them." I said as she looked at me in question. "why would you need… Are you hurt! Oh dear let me see!" she got scared as she started to look over me. "my hind legs are hurt some wolf thing bit me…" I said as she looked at my hind leg. "Oh no dear you need medical attention! Lets go!" she said. "its just a small bite ill be fine I just need to…" I said as I started feeling light headed.

"No timberwolves are sticks and dirt they can give you quite an infection if not handled quickly by an expert!" she proclaimed. It was then that I really started to feel the bite. The loss of blood and infection setting in. it had been a few hours and since I walked slowly back it was around noon and all I had to eat was some eggs earlier. I had almost collapsed as we reached the hospital. Before the nurse could ask me my name I had blacked out. The last words I heard were from rarity. "Dear hold on! The Doctor is coming!" my vision faded out.

White lights seemed to fade in and out for a while. I couldn't tell where I was. I could hear somepony talk but couldn't quite make out the words. "He... but... everfree forest... please... help... he cant die..." the voice sounded familiar but I couldn't place the face with the voice. I had almost forgot I was a pony now. Or at least thats what I remembered. It could have been a dream. I hoped that it wasn't and I was still in Equestria.

What seemed like minutes too me was hours. I finally was able to open my eyes, even though I had been conscious enough to hear spoken words for a few hours. The moment I opened my eyes I could see the white tile ceiling. Obviously I was in a hospital. I seemed to remember my life here in equestia. It had started just two days ago. at least I thought it was two days.

"Ace? are you awake?" I heard a small voice ask me. "ugh... yeah... who is there..." I said my vision still quite blurry. All I could make out was that the voice was yellow and pink. "its me... fluttershy..." she whispered. "who?" I asked louder. "Its me... fluttershy..." I was ticked off that they kept whispering. "Speak up please. I can barely hear you." I stated rather coldly. In truth I was rather annoyed at the yellow and pink blob. For some reason I couldn't remember. "ITS ME FLUTTERSHY!" she said rather loudly and then the blob disappeared. "Wha? Fluttershy?... You again? couldn't just steal my first kiss but when I almost die you have to be by my side and act like everything is fine and dandy huh?" I said knowing that she was still somewhere in the room.

It was quiet for a while. I started to feel guilty about being so mean to her. But that bitch stole my first kiss! I mean I don't even know her and she thinks she can throw herself at me? My vision finally started clearing as everything started to come into focus. I saw that fluttershy had apparently was hiding under the chair across from my bed with her hooves over her eyes. She was crying. 'well fuck' I thought to myself. "hey... I'm sorry about that..." I said as i rubbed my hand against my neck. HAND!? I looked at my had surprisingly and smile. "IM ME!" I said happily and looked at my old body again. "YES!" I cried as my wings spread wide. wings? when did i have wings? "The fuck?... Wings?" I looked at them. They were just plain black. like my hair.

"hey shy?" i said about to ask her about my wings. It was then that she started to cry harder. "oh... um sorry." i said looking down. "Did you not like that nickname? I don't even know why I called you that..." I said truthfully. I didn't know why I called her shy. I didn't even know this... pony that stole my first kiss. Even if it did feel good. WHAT AM I THINKING SHE IS A PONY! I can't let myself get attracted to ponies. What would my parents think? If I even knew my parents. My emotions just started to let go as I started sob myself.

"Hey I thought I heard Ace... ACE! YOU"RE AWAKE!" rarity pretty much scream and threw herself at me hugging me. I noticed fluttershy flinch as she saw the physical attention rarity seemed to be getting instead of her. Why shouldn't she get my attention though? I mean I wasn't her fiance right? right? im so confused. "yeah but there is a couple of problems..." I said to her. As soon as I said that I heard another voice from the door. One that I have never heard before. It seemed motherly and strong.

"Oh and did we do anything to you're distaste Ace?" I saw the pony who asked me that question. She was very very tall and had wings and a unicorn horn, her coat was a brilliant white . She also had a mane that seemed to move on its own. Her mane was beautiful shades pink, blue, purple, and green. I mean I'm sure they have more descriptive color names but I have never been too great at describing colors. She looked like a princess, She was really tall too. Incredibly slender legs and her "cutie-mark" was a sun.

"Um... NO... No of course not." I stuttered. It was unlike me to stutter but I was blown away at how majestic she look just standing there with a small smirk on her face. (Muzzle?) "I mean its just that... I was wondering why... I had these..." I seemed to forget what wings were called as I opened them up for her.

All she did was giggle. I mean i'm not mad but she is just giggling. "oh human... do you not know what wings are?" she playfully joked with me. I have no idea why but it struck a nerve. I became flustered and looked down. Unknowingly clenching my fists. what does she mean by that? insulting my intelligence like that was rude. I mean who does she think she is. Even if she was pretty!I couldn't care less. She could zap me right here right now and she would be doing me a favor.

"Ace?" I heard her say but I got up and walked over to her and spit right by her hooves. "HOW DARE YOU ACE! HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO THE PRINCESS!" rarity screamed and slapped me in the face with her hoof. If you know anything about hooves its that their not soft. It HURT.

"WHAT THE FUCK!" I yelled as I held my face with my hands.

"Ace..." the princess said as she walked over too me and nudged my hand that I held to my face with her face. "What!" i said. “I'm sorry that you took offense to my actions but I never intened to make fun of you.” She said in a comforting motherly tone. “you havn't seen yourself yet have you?” she asked and stepped out of the way of a mirror. I looked at myself and did a double take.

What I am about to say. is. fucking. weird. I was... like... half human and half pegasus. I had wings and big floppy ears. and arms and. legs. The only thing that was still normal about me was that I had the same hair I used to... Not that i knew it at that time. "Whaaaaatt... the... fucking... hell... did... you... do... to me..." i said slowly not taking my eyes away from the mirror. "I merely used a spell to show your true form... From what I heard you didn't really like being a pony." the princess said slowly.

"But my true form is not this... whatever i am..." i said to the princess. "I am a HUMAN! not this?" I said pointing at the mirror. "It seems this is your true form ace. and we will need to get that temper in line. For the safety of everypony." she said sternly. She was scolding me!

"But... but..." I said. "I don't want wings...OR THESE FREAKING GIANT FLOPPY EARS!" I yelled. I just wanted to be normal again. well maybe flying wouldn't be all bad. but what would everyone think back home. Where was home.

"I'm so lost..." i said to myself I said louder so everypony understood why i was so angry. "what do you mean?" rarity asked. I frowned and looked up. “I don't know what to feel about all these conflicting emotions.” I stated while starting to tear up.

"Now now, there is no need to cry darling." Rarity said to me in a calm manor. "I'm sure everything will come to you in time dear." she was right. I mean I would come to a decision eventually right? "ace?" I heard fluttershy say quietly. "What." I said plainly not wanting to look at her. "I... I... I'm sorry for stealing your first kiss... and I'm sorry for throwing myself at you..." she looked down and blushed heavily.

To my surprise the tall pink pony  was shocked by what she had apparently done. "Fluttershy... Did you really try to force yourself on ace?" She was obviously just shaken by the turn of events. "Yes I did and I will take whatever punishment you see fit Princess." she said as she bowed to her. "No its ok!" I said without thinking. "I mean... its not like you could help yourself... I was pretty hot as a pony eh?" I joked and they both seemed to laugh nervously did I hear the princess? "I mean you don't need to punish her... Its just that... What I'm trying to say is..." I was stopped by Rarity. "He means that he isn't going to hold it against you, and that he will forgive you in time but no punishment is needed... right dear?" she said as she looked at me. holy shit. she read my mind and said what i couldn't.

"yeah... exactly what I wanted to say!" I said looking rather impressed. Rarity beamed at knowing exactly what i wanted to get across. "Anytime dear..." she said and blushed a little and looked away. "anyway... did she just call you princess?" I asked politely for once. for some reason I wasn't trying to be cynical. "Yes and my name is Celestia." she said as she bowed before me. "why... are you bowing to me?" I asked as she got up. "You are no officially the ambassador for Human relations!" she proclaimed. "ambassador?" I looked at them funny. "wait... does that mean I have diplomatic immunity?" I asked kind of excited. "well of course!" she said.

"oh... fuck... yes..." I was so excited... I can... wait... "who makes the laws here?" I asked, I know its stupid but hear me out. In england the queen can make laws but the government enforces them right? so if the law isn't to their liking the dont enforce it even though its a law. So maybe it might work like that here somehow like a semi democracy or something. "well me and my sister Princess Luna do." she said plainly. "do you have a pupil named twilight something or other?" I asked. Don't judge me I didn't care when she told me who she was. She was the reason I was here in the first place! I needed someone to blame.

"Why yes, and she has told be you can be a very," she stepped closer "Very" she was even closer to me now, She was basically breathing on my face. "Naughty colt." she whispered. I had gotten chills not only from arousal for some reason, but from fear. I did not know how to react to the way a princess was flirting with me. "uhmmm..." I said looking out the window. "OH DEAR YOU ARE TOO CUTE!" she yelled as she started to giggle and roll on the floor. "Whew" I thought to my self 'she doesn't want to fuck me... damn that was scary..." I couldn't keep my eyes off of something though. While Celestia was giggle and rolling on the floor... her tail... it moved in a way that I could see her... well... her vagina... and It looked kinda awesome... Now hear me out! before you assume I'm a pervert... ok... never mind I am a pervert.

"something wrong dear?" rarity said as I looked at her. She was blushing heavily. She almost looked like a strawberry dipped in whip cream. "no nothing..." I said as I looked back out the window.

"Ace?" I heard fluttershy say quietly from the door. When did she leave? or is she just leaving? "yes?" I asked her back "I'm sorry again and I hope you feel better... Please if there is anything I can do to make it up to you... Don't hesitate to ask... or just never talk to me again if you don't want to that is..." she was obviously depressed about the situation but I decided that it was best if I stayed away from her. At least for now.

"Um princess?" I asked as she had gotten up and looked at me with a serious face. "Can I um... stay here in equestia?" I asked politely. "Of course! you are an ambassador after all!" she replied "oh yeah!" I proclaimed and put my fist in the air. "Um can I also stay with rarity? I mean she is really nice and I dont really like anypony else enough to want to stay with them." I said as I looked away. It was my fault I didn't have any friends. I pushed them all away except rarity seemed to push me back. and I liked that.

"Well it is up to rarity but if she needs I will provide her with bits to cover rent and food for you she would accept?" She looked at rarity but she seemed to have spaced out. "Rarity?" I said as I looked at her worriedly "Earth to Rarity!" I said louder. "Oh my hmm? I'm sorry I seemed to have been in a daydream im sorry dear." I repeated the question and she nodded happily "Of course dear please stay with me as long as you would like!" she said and looked at the Princess. "And you don't have to worry about bits, He doesn't eat more than sweetie belle and she moved back to live with my parents after school was out and I can refurbish her room!" she said excited "but can you get him a bed? we had to share on the other night and though it was nice I must insist on him having his own bed." she said and looked at me with happy eyes.

"Of course dear I'll send for two nice big beds from Canterlot one for each of you!" she smiled at us. "I'm sorry for spitting at you earlier."She blushed heavily walked close to me and whispered in my ear. "its quite alright stud, id like another one of your bodily fluids later." she said that and left the room. I looked at rarity and she just laughed at me. "Dear its not what you think... Celestia just likes to mess with any male she meets..." she giggled as I blushed and looked away again. "seriously? I mean it would be awesome to have a princess have a crush on you." I said to myself and rarity then left the room saying something about having to use the bathroom. She left so quick I didnt get to ask her about the strange smell that was coming from her.