Arrival

Chapter 1

Discord's last Stand

“I'll tell you what we've learned Discord. We've learned that friendship isn't always easy, but there's no doubt it's worth fighting for.” Twilight Sparkle said, facing Discord, her friends all around her.

The master of chaos groaned “Gag! Fine go ahead and try to use your little elements. Just make it quick'' Discord then teleports back to his throne “I'm missing some excellent chaos here.”

Five ponies huddle closer together and Twilight speaks up “all right ladies, lets show him what friendship can do!”

“Wait, wait, wait!” Pinkie Pie shouts out, before drinking up some chocolate rain, licking her lips.

Her friends stare at her as she hops back to join them, she snarls as she gets ready. The six friends use their elements as a white light appears around them, Discord yawns a smirk on his face. The elements start glowing as the power grows. The symbols of the elements for each pony shoot out as Discord's eyes widen in surprise.

“What's this?” he says ducking a flying symbol. The power grows and Discord finally realizes whats happening, “No!”

Twilight's eyes open and they glow with a fierce white light. The power of the elements have been unleashed as a blinding light erupts from the six friends. A sonic rainboom bursts from them as the ground shakes and a rainbow arcs across the sky hits the screaming Discord.

His body slowly turning to stone as he screams at the top of his lungs. As the statue is complete the rainbow splits in two and surrounds Ponyville in a white force field. The force field then bursts as a blinding light moves across Equestria.

The light fades as the ponies float down. They look at the statue only to find it gone! In it's place is a small structure ten feet wide, fifteen feet long, and seven feet tall. On the wall facing them is a brown door twice as tall and wide as a pony. In the centre of the door was a small hole the size of a nut.

“What in Equestria is that thing?” said Applejack, an orange pony with a yellow mane and cowgirl hat on her head.

Before anypony could answer they heard a noise from inside the structure and the doorknob slowly turned. The door opened and standing there was the strangest creature they had ever seen.

It had a small black mane going down its neck, which was way smaller then the little ponies. The creature was wearing clothes over their chest and hind legs, which they were standing on. The head of the thing was down as it looked at the top article of clothing. It seemed to be clutching it's side.

A yellow pony with a light pink mane, named Fluttershy, gasped as she realized that the red on it's clothes was really blood and a small pool was forming below the creature.

It's head slowly started to look up when it collapsed onto ground motionless.

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“Fluttershy are you sure you wanna watch it, the thing could be dangerous,” Twilight said in a concerned tone, looking at the unconscious figure on Fluttershy's couch.

“I-it's a he” Fluttershy said quietly, blushing, then louder said “yes, I’m sure. It cant be that bad, he looks friendly. Besides i need to watch him, that wound could open anytime and I wouldn't want him to lose to any more blood. He's lost too much already.”

Twilight turned her head curious “How do you know it's a he?”

Fluttershy blushed again. “H-he looks like a he” she said. She didn't want to tell her friend exactly how much she saw to know it was a he. It had been embarrassing enough when nopony was around.

Twilight raised an eyebrow, then lowered it and sighed. “Alright Fluttershy, I guess your right, I'll come to check up him tomorrow, it's been a long day and I still need to do some studying.” She walked outside and turned around to face her friend, “goodnight Fluttershy, and be careful.”

“Goodnight Twilight and don't worry I will.”

Oh my head thought the creature on the couch, where am i? He looked around the room, and was confused. What the... what kind of place is this, a birdcage with miniature stairs leading up to it, mouse holes everywhere including one by the ceiling with more little steps going up to it. This must animal lover is crazy!

He looked down at what he is sitting on. A bright green couch with a big one yellow armrest on his right. The couch was too small for him to lie down, so whoever put him there had sat him up and put a light blue blanket on him.

He slowly pulled the blanket of still tired. He started to stand up when he felt tremendous pain in his side, he winced and sat back down. His eyes widened, when he remembered where his wound came from.

Was i kidnapped? He thought, No this doesn’t look like a kidnappers house, could be a front though. If this was a kidnapper's house then why is it so small?

His head snapped up as he saw a flash of yellow and pink came from the doorway on his right. As he looked at the doorway a head peered around the corner. It appeared to be a mare, he could tell by the colours of the pony, and it's light blue eyes, they looked feminine.

He sat back and sighed, whoever had taken him was obviously not here. He glanced back at the doorway and saw the little pony still staring at him, but she had stepped closer so that he could she her whole body. Strange, he thought there's a tattoo on her butt, who gives an animal a tattoo of three butterflies? He stared at her back getting even more confused, are those wings?

He didn't notice the slight blush appear on the pony's face as he looked her over, mostly because her mane covered most of her face hiding her expression.

He looked around the room again and noticed the bright red door across from him. How did i miss that before, he thought slowly getting up ignoring the protests from his side, no matter, i gotta get outta here before the guy who shot me comes back.

He now stood up to his full height of six feet, the ceiling barely a foot above his head. He noticed the pony was no longer in the doorway but hiding under a dresser in the corner. He sighed again and walked to the door. Halfway there he felt a small chill and looked down.

He was standing in the middle of the room with nothing but his boxers on. Glad that no one was around to see him, he went back to the couch, grabbed the blanket and walked back to the door.

After wrapping himself up Julius Ceaser style he opened the door and looked outside. The house seemed to be on top of a small hill, and had a small winding path down to a bridge that crossed a small river. There was more evidence outside the house that proved that whoever lived here was an animal lover to the extreme.

Whoa, he thought my sister would love it here.

“E-excuse me” he barely heard the voice that came from behind him, but he did and spun around. Behind him the yellow pony sat looking up at him, half her face behind her mane.

He looked around trying to locate the voice when it spoke up again. “y-you shouldn't go anywhere you c-could hurt yourself.”

He didn’t understand the voice seemed right in front of him, but the only thing in front of was... the pony?
He knelt down eyes level to the pony. She turned her head away from him and cowered, then to his surprise spoke “i-if you want to of course.”

He jumped up in surprise, hitting his head on the ceiling. In doing so his blanket/robe fell of and his wound reopened. He laid on the ground his right hand holding his head while his left held onto his side. He groaned in pain and shock and blacked out.

“Oh dear” Fluttershy said and rushed to her guest's side. When he had jumped up she had squealed and ran into the other room. Now noticing that he had fallen unconscious, she went to assess the damage.

Upon redressing his wound she brought him, with difficulty, back to the couch and laid him down, his feet hanging over the opposite end of the couch. She then took off the ice pack she had put on his head to stop swelling.

I hope he isn't scared of me, she thought remembering what happened with the last group of animals that were scared of her in Canterlot.

She sat down in front of the couch and looked at the sleeping figure. She had decided to let him sleep and was about to turn around when his eyes shot open and he sat up quickly.

Upon seeing his fast actions she squealed and cowered. He heard her and stared at her his eyes widening in terror.

This time it was Fluttershy who jumped when he spoke “h-how can you talk, y-you're a horse?”

“S-sorry” she whimpered.

His terror died down as he realized the pony was more scared of him, then he of her. His head was still trying to make sense of it all, he thought it could be a dream but the pain in his side was disagreeing with that theory. So that left two other theory’s. One: it was real. Two: he has gone insane. He was leaning to the second one.

“I must be going insane, you cannot be real” he said pushing thoughts from his mind.

“N-no, mister, I’m sorry, i-I’m real” she said confused.

Before he could respond a knock came from the little red door that was on the opposite end of the room.

“Coming” Fluttershy called to the door, then turning to her guest said, “i-I’ll be right back”

He watched her walk up to the door and open it wide enough for her to peek out.

“Oh hi Twilight,” He heard her say.

“Hi Fluttershy, I’m here to check on the creature, is he awake?” He heard a feminine voice say from the other side of the door.

Creature? He thought, is she talking about me?

The door opened wider and he could now see the visitor on the other side of the door. To his surprise it was another pony, a purple pony with a purple and pink mane. He studied her with a confused expression, noticing a horn on her forehead.She walked up and sat down in front of him, studying him with her big purple eyes.

He was the first one to break the silence as he said, “uh... h-hello.”

Her eyes widened in surprise at his words, excitement flowing through them. “You can talk?” she exclaimed almost shouting.

“Yes i can, oddly coloured pony, your appearance proves i am crazy. Now if you'll excuse me I have to find the people who brought me here.” he said accepting the false fact that he was indeed insane, and stood up.

She stepped back as he stood up, confusion taking place on her face.

Twilight watched him wrap the blue blanket around his body, confused and a little hurt by his comment.

When he got halfway to the door she spoke up realizing who he is looking for, “You won't find him.”

He stopped and turned around looking at the little pony, “And why wont i?”

She hesitated, “He's gone missing”

He smirked, “You're lying, I will find him, now, would you please leave me alone imaginary unicorn”

Fluttershy then stepped in front of him, “Y-you cant leave, you're wound could open up again.”
Worry lined her eyes and he couldn't help it. He just had to stay. He couldn't resist her cute stare.

“Fine” he grumbled walking back to the couch. This is gonna be a long day.