Operation Transform

Michael woke up with a headache and a pair of eyes staring at him. He tried to move away, only to find himself strapped on a table... with hooves. How did he have hooves in the first place?! What happened to him!? Did those ponies gave him some serum? What was going on?

Rowan looked at the panicking pony before pointing a gun at him, which caused him to flinch and stop panicking. He then heard the pony speak..

"Who are you?" he asked in a strong British accent.

"USS Explorer Captain Rowan Ex," Rowan replied. "You seem to be forcefully converted, are you? A pony gone feral. Hmm. Must've been that damn PER."

"Why should I tell you?" he asked.

"I know, you're former HLF. Saw the fight." Rowan replied, "all of your HLF comrades are dead, my deepest apology-" The pony was then shocked. "-comrade."

Michael blinked. They were defeated? What would happen now? He slumped to the tables, sighing in defeat. And to think he was about to head to another place to fight off any ponies that could try to create a bureau... he then thought for a second.

"You called me comrade. What was that for?" he asked.

Rowan chuckled, "well, you are no longer human, nor part of the HLF, and in a restricted US Embassy area, and in my private property."

"No charges?" he joked as Rowan shook his head while unlocking Michael out of the chains. He then stood and noticed he could stand well like he was actually a pony before.

"Nope, anyway, I think Indonesia's the best place you could go, Bluey," Rowan replied.

Michael felt the urge to stab him. "Don't call me that. My name's Michael."

"Not for long, actually. Once recognized by Princess Celestia dearly, you might need a pony-like name. Maybe Comet Dust?" Rowan suggested.

"Comet Dust it is then, lad," Michael replied.

Patricia wasn't so sure of she should investigate the Bureau while in Indonesia. She knew her way around, so why not look around the place?

It was a bad idea. Totally a bad idea. She got nearly jailed after trying to went closer to the bureau, and the army thought she was an HLF which she quickly denied and proved. She then quickly headed back home, scared.

"Something bothering you?" Rowan asked, looking at Comet Dust who was looking at himself walk.

"It's odd, but I feel like I already did this," Comet confessed, "is that what the serum does?"

"Serum?" Rowan stopped to laugh. "It's a potion! Engineered by ponies! A few humans tried it out, major success. We tried a serum version with experimental nanoparticles, only ended up with a half-human half-pony hybrid. It was weird, she then went for the potion to finish it."

Comet Dust stopped on his tracks. Not a serum? "How come intel–"

"Told them lies, like what the government would do anyways. Now carry on," Rowan invited, "beauty's waiting for a pony to get her hooves on."

"And by mean beauty, you mean your ship," said Comet, "Right?"

"Good God, you have your jokes," he muttered.

"I wasn't amused by the pun when I woke up though," the pony growled.

Patricia felt something watching her as she headed back to her house back in the US. She dismissed it and looked back to find a silhouette.

The screams began as her house was filled with what seemed to be ponification gas.

As Comet Dust and Rowan Ex sailed towards Indonesia, Rowan noticed a small sailboat with a few passengers on it, and pulled all the passengers in as he noticed they were struggling to keep the boat afloat. One passenger, a retired fisherman, went up to Rowan and was about to say something until he noticed Comet Dust trying to take his old gun back, muttering curses about the PER and what they destroyed in his life.

"Huh," he said instead, "I guess I must delay going to Indonesia for that conversion."

"You were going to Indonesia?" Rowan asked. The man nodded. "Luckily we were to set sail as well! Welcome to the USS Explorer, I am Captain Rowan Ex."

"Rowan!?" he hugged Rowan so sudden it caused Comet to jump. "Good to see you!"

Rowan stumbled back. "Cairn McGregor? Oh, I didn't recognise you from that outfit! How are you, old friend?"

"Good as ever, had my retirement a refreshing one," Cairn replied. "So, where in Indonesia?"

"The bureau," Dust replied before looking at himself and went back to grabbing his AK-47.

"PER, those scruffy little brats," Cairn commented, "wanted to convert all of us, made my sailboat sink. Eh. Anyways, nice to see you again."

"Nice to see you again," Rowan greeted back as he headed towards the wheel and ordered full speed until they spotted something on the radar.

As the Kopassus team was sent back to retreat as the first three days went off with a hitch, one of them stayed and try the conversion bureau out. Who was this guy? His name was Lucas Panjaitan, that sniper who was defending the bureau from a high end.

"I shall have to leave duty after I take this step," he whispered to himself, "may gods help me."

As Emerald was about to choose a location for the second conversion bureau, her choices was cut short as Princess Celestia made a press statement and addressed about the PER, and how they were spies converted by those of the government who hated the ponies, and wishes all were near a pony to be alert. She received glares until a scream was heard and she ran towards it.

As she saw where the scream was, she saw a mare in her house sweating, and a note was in front of the mare. Emerald went closer and instantly went into a defensive stance as the mare looked back.

Her first instinct was to run and call the guards because that mare was absolutely chasing her.

In under 2 hours, Rowan and those aboard his ship had successfully left the area before any casualties were found.

"Well... we hit the wrong dock," noticed Cairn.

"And alert the Indonesian Government? Yes we just did," added Comet Dust.

"They don't know the sign as well, I think." Rowan climbed up one of the view baskets and shot a flare pattern of red-green-black.

A few seconds later, a ship that had its cannons pointed to them fired back the same pattern and withdrew their attack stance. Rowan climbed down towards the pony and the retired fisherman and gave a thumbs up.

"Oh, red-green-black flare patterns mean heading towards the bureau," Cairn asked, "right?"

"No," Rowan replied, "it's a UFE code for 'we come in peace' thing."

"UFE?" Comet asked, who was now trying to do magic. "Unity for Foreign Equality? That stupid UN programs that has failed in public?"

"Think of it as Area 51," said Rowan. "Well, technically Area 51 is one of our main bases..."

Cairn thought for a question for him. "Aliens?"

"Let's say... Area 51 plus that MIB to answer that," Rowan suggested, smiling.

There was a few seconds of silence before they headed towards the bureau, laughing on all fours.

Emerald looked at the mare as she woke up after being under a sleeping spell. The mare stared at her eyes for a few seconds before she was chased again, screaming something along "change me back" and something. Emerald quickly casted a sleeping spell back to her, but the mare missed. Emerald calmed her instead into a talk.

"Did you do this?" she gritted.

"No," Emerald replied before walking around her. "In fact, I didn't even knew you were a pony, but based on your actions you were forced... PER. They did this."

The mare looked at Emerald. "You know them?"

Emerald stopped. "No. I'm Emerald, what's your name?"

"Pa-Pa-Patricia," she stuttered, "Patricia O'Malley."

"All right then Patricia." Emerald looked away to call a guard. "We're listing you as one of the PER victims. Anything else you remember?"

"My ex-boyfriend did this..." she whispered before the two walked off.

Marcos wasn't feeling so well after taking the ponification potion. There was something in his blood that slowed the process down and giving him a headache. Princess Celestia knew of this and of the rising cases of ponies converted, but to see her friend in this state? She couldn't stand it.

So at the day the ponification process was done, she immediately brought Marcos into her room to rest.