The Farmer

By I_Am_Iron_Ore

You and Applejack walk briskly, quickly approaching a large farmhouse. She points to a large red barn nearby.

"In here, come on."

You follow her without questions. She holds the door open and gestures you to get inside. You're still moderately wet from your unexpected swim, and it's at this time you remember the things in your pockets. You reach into your apron and yank out its contents; a flashlight (filled with water in every open spot- not working of course.) A pen, a sharpie and a small knife for cutting open boxes (it's what you did at work). You then reach into your right pocket a pull out your IPod, praying it would work. Miraculously, it turns on and works fine. Full battery, all memory there.

You thank god for this turn of luck and put it in your jacket pocket with all the items from your apron. Applejack looks at all these this with a skeptical look.

" yer soaking wet partner. You need some clean clothes."

You snap away from your pocket diving and look at her. You're not good with taking people's kindness, always fearing you'll take it too far.

"N-no! No that's okay."

She gives you a confused look.

"Are you sure? Ahm pretty sure Mac's got some old stuff that doesn't fit him anymore..."

Mac? Who's Mac? Forget it. Nows not the time. You need to get back home.

"No it's fine- I just wanna find a way home." You say.

The strange Equine Creature scratches the back or her head.

"Er... Okay guess. Yer obviously not from around here, so maybe Twilight will know where you came from, Follow me."

Twilight? What kind of name is that? You think about this while you make your way down a small dirt road.

"Now don't be surprised if you get some strange looks when we get to town. You don't exactly look like the rest of us."

Wait- there's a whole town of these weird human- horse things? Where in gods name are you? Are you in Chernobyl?

You don't have much time to panic because the walk only took you about 10 minutes. As you make your way to what appears to be the town square, Applejack's predictions find to be spot on. Everyone- or as Applejack put it- Everypony, who was in the town stopped their Business and looked at you- staying completely silent as you and Applejack make your way to a large Crystal tree thing.

You stop to look at it and marvel in the sight, a giant Crystal tree, in amazing shades of purples and greens and blues, shining in the sunlight in the perfect way. As you get closer, you can make out windows of all shapes and sizes, along with a big pair of Crystal doors. At the entrance stood two more horse things in white armor. They stood at attention when You and Applejack pass by.

"Welcome, Element of honesty and.... Guest."

One of the guards says, taking a long, uncomfortable look at you. You gaze back, but only for a second before scurrying in behind Applejack.

The inside of the castle is just as amazing as the outside. Books as far as the eye can see all around in a large circular room. Your time to marvel is cut short though, when another creature almost causes you to flip shit. This ones a dragon- human hybrid, not wearing any clothes though, and was slightly taller than you. It takes one look in your direction and yelps.

"Applejack! What is that thing?!?"

You're really getting sick of this. You decide to snap back.

"Yeah, well fuck you too buddy."

He recoils even further.

"It can talk?!?"

Applejack stops you before you an snap back again.

"HE is not from around here. Discord sent him here and he needs help getting home. Do you know where Twilight is?"

He seemed to calm down at hearing Applejack's assurance.

"Uh, yeah... She's in the book room."

She face palms.

"Which one?"

"Number 17."

"Thank ya, Spike." She says after starting down the hall. You go to follow after her, but you're stopped by the dragon thing. He gives you an apologetic look.

"Sorry about flipping out like that... I'm Spike by the way."

He holds out his hand... Or claw.... Or whatever you call it. You take it cautiously and shake it slowly.

"Anon" you respond.

You make your way to book room 17 trailing a little bit behind Applejack to marvel at the different sights this castle- tree- library- thing has to offer. Applejack knocks on a nearby door.

"Twilight! Mah friend and I need yer help!"

Friend? What? You never agreed to this.

The door opens to reveal a purple equine creature just like Applejack, but with darker purple hair with pink streaks. She seemed to be wearing a school issued vest and skirt. She also had a horn and a pair of wings.

"Hello Applejack." She says. "Hello... Uh..." She grows silent and decides just to invite the two of you into the room by opening the door.

"Come in!" She tries to change the subject.

Applejack slowly makes her way in, telling her to follow you. The three of you stand awkwardly for a moment before Twilight breaks the silence.

"So uh, Applejack, who's your friend?"

"This here's Anon." She responds. “He’s not from around here, but thats not the point. The reason Ah came and got you is because of the reason he got here. Apparently Discord’s up to his old tricks again.”

Twilight's eyes go small. “I thought he was reformed! This cant be right!”

She runs from the book room and straight to Spike.

"Spike, take a letter: tell the princess that we might be encountering troubles with discord!" She all but shouted the last bit because she was already at the front doors. Spike nods and runs to grab a letter.

“Uh, Twi? Where are ya going?” Asks Applejack.

“To Fluttershy’s! If anypony knows anything about this, its her!” She calls over her shoulder.

The door lazily closes, leaving you and Applejack alone in the book room.

“So, what now?” You ask.

The farmer sighs. “Lets go.”

The jog to the cottage was a lot longer than you were hoping it to be. It felt like it went on forever, only for it to end up as a walk once you entered a forest. Your eyes dart around the wooded area, looking for any movement. It got dark… Very dark…. And colder too. Amidst all of it though, you can just spot a faint light peeking it's way through a cluster of trees about 20 feet ahead of you. You don't get much farther though, because you're stopped by a hand on your arm. You whip around and see Applejack eyeing up the trees.

"Stay close, sugarcube. I heard something."

You start to object when her hand tugs you close to her. So close, you can smell the apples on her breath, so close you could feel her heart beat...

You feel yourself growing a blush as she gently nudged you in the direction of the light. A few steps, with Applejack squeezing the life from you by now, you make it through the thicket and come upon a cottage. Twilight is already at the door, talking to a yellow pony, dressed in pants and a green sweater that was at least 2 sizes too big. You could her Twilight's side of the conversation, but couldn't make out what the yellow mare was saying from behind her long pink hair. Applejack grabs your hand and leads you to the others.

"Fluttershy! Where's discord?!?!"

The mare, now known as Fluttershy, could hear the anger in her voice and quickly shut the door, hitting Twilight in the nose and causing her to fall backwards onto her ass.

“Ouch….” She mumbled. Applejack walked right past her and began knocking on the door.

“Why is she so angry?” you ask Twilight while helping her up. She shook her head.

“She and Discord don’t really see eye to eye, Discord sees her as a stuck up jerk, and Applejack sees him as a good for nothing freak. They’re not afraid to express their opinions to each other either.”

Harsh. No wonder she felt she needed to help you, She just didn’t like discord.

Fluttershy slowly opened the door.

“Please don’t knock so hard, Applejack. The animals are napping!” She whispered.

“Where’s Discord?” Applejack asked, getting a little quieter. Fluttershy began to fidget.

“He’s upstairs, would you like to speak to him?” She asked.

You were getting quite bored of this. You had no idea where you were, Who these people- er, ponies were, or why they decided to help you instead of kicking you out or dissecting you or some shit. You concluded that they must really dislike this Discord guy. You felt a tapping on your shoulder and heard a familiar voice.

“Anon? You requested me?”

You whip around. Standing there is the weird guy in the tow truck that drove you into the lake. With a snap of his fingers, he turned into something else. He kind of resembled a goat at the head with an antler and a horn jutting from his head. His body resembles a serpent with what could only be described as a dragon like tail, with a tuft of fur at the end. He had a single hoof and a lizards claw for legs, and a lions paw and an eagle's talon for arms. The only thing that still looked familiar is his beady red and yellow eyes and the calming nature of his voice. You flip shit at seeing this.

“What the hell???” You shout

Discord shushes you with the tip of his tail and begins rambling about whatever. You don’t pay attention though, because you're too focused on the fact that this asshole trapped you here, and that he’s practically jamming his fluffy tail in your mouth to keep you from talking.

That’s when an Idea hits you. You bite down hard on his tail, awaiting his reaction. There is none, however, and he turns to face you with a shit eating grin.

“Enjoying that cotton candy?” He asked, swinging his tail behind him. You stick out your tongue and take out the somewhat soggy lump on your tongue. Sure enough, its cotton candy. You throw it on the ground and open your mouth, ready to give him a piece of your mind, when Applejack starts talking.

“Discord! Where’d you get this poor soul? He’s obviously not from around here.” You're still staring him down when he turns to her. He takes a deep breath and begins explaining what he did to you from his point of view.

“Well, I wanted to try an Innocent little experiment is all. An experiment involving the balance between order and chaos, and how it affects beings from other dimensions. The area in which I landed in said other dimension happened to be on a planet similar to Tera, and heavily populated by highly intelligent creatures known as “Humans”. So, I followed a multitude of these humans around, looking for one that seemed to go about their life in an orderly fashion that they were comfortable with, and yet displayed distress and unrest when this order was disrupted. Anon here fit the bill almost perfectly, so i simply plucked him from his universe and set him down here in ours. Now my experiment will commence, and we will find how long it will take before this creature is driven to Insanity.” He finished his rant by giving you an innocent grin. A grin that pissed you off.

“You fuckwad! Take me back to my universe!” You shout, throwing a right hook at Discord’s jaw. He maneuvers away from your fist and grabs hold. He picks you up and forms a fist with his left hand. He doesn’t get any farther though, because an orange hand grabs his wrist before he can swing.

“Easy you two!” Applejack yells.

Twilight steps forward. “Discord, it was not nice of you to take this human away without his consent-”

“KIDNAPPING!” You shout.

“BUT, there is no need to get so upset over it, Mr. Anon.” She finished.

Everyone- er Everypony turned to discord, Twilight beginning to speak again.

“Discord, I order you to bring this human back to his dimension at once.” Discord only chuckled defiantly in response, and upon seeing you his small chuckle turned into a full on belly laugh. He wiped a tear from his eye and responded.

“Oh dear princess, I would if I could, But it appears Our dear friends stay has just become Permanent.” Everypony turns back to you, only to all gasp and go wide eyed. You begin to panic.

“What? What happened?” You ask frantically.

“You look like us…” Twilight stuttered.

You grab your Box cutter from your pocket and look at your reflection in the metal. What you see causes you to drop the cutter and scream. Your skin had turned light gray and you had grown a fine layer of fine light gray fur over your whole body. Your shoes were gone, and instead a pair of hooves peeked out from below your black jeans. That wasn’t all though. Your curly brown hair was now straight and messy, some slicked back while the rest spiked forward. Your nose and mouth were gone, and in its place was a small muzzle. You could feel your ears had changed too, now larger and pointier, Below the belt you could see a short, brown tail poking through a hole in your jeans, just above your ass, and to literally top off the new look, You had a sharp horn protruding from your head. You tried to form coherent words, but your thought process was out the door, and you black out a second later.

Author's Note

Next chapter out soon. I just hope you guise like it