Okay.... wasn't expecting this.

Since when am I Faust!?

chapter 1

Light, that's all I could see; It flowed through the window as if it was a soft breeze. When it came to me, I groaned as I slowly stirred from sleep. My movements were as if time was slowed, and the task of opening my eyes was slow and exhausting. Light was pouring through the cracks in the curtains, and it settled on me in a warm embrace. Still groggy I made a move to sit up past the stiff sheets I laid in.

For some unknown reason, my room seemed different. It wasn't mine, I could tell seemingly by the atmosphere and smell of the dusty drapes. Even though my eyes were still hazy and trying to adjust to the harsh light, I began to get an idea of my situation. The air was a lot more stale than I remembered my room being; like it's been just sitting there for ages.

  I made an attempt to rub my eyes, but I found my hands to be unresponsive. I gave a frustrated groan and wiped my eyes with my wrist. Once I was done, I was able to see more clearly, and my senses started to return to me. Immediately I noticed that I everything felt off... The room, my bed, the smells, and my body, everything was wrong. My muscles for the first time of my life felt.. foreign, and unnatural. The feeling I had could be likened to wearing a full body suit of a thick heavy clothing. But it also felt like it was me.

Panic began to settle in, and even though I was laying in the bright sunlight I felt cold. Questions stormed my now sobering mind and worries of this being a kidnapping or hostage situation demanded attention. I decided to do a quick check to make sure I was physically alright, but when I did the already evident chill in the room dropped to absolute zero. I had no hands, my stumpy arms were covered in a pearl white fur, and red hair hung down just at the corner of my vision.

  It took a minute or so for my mind to kick in and realize that I was holding my breath in fear. I wanted to run, I wanted to scream. In fact, I was about to scream but as soon as I inhaled I started to choke on the thick dust floating through the air. I ended up wheezing and coughing for what felt like forever. Choking on the fuzz, my breathing became desperate and shallow. I placed my hand or now I'd guess hoof on my chest to try to forcibly control my breathing. Collecting enough saliva to swallow I managed to wash down the little thing, much to my disgust. I tried calming myself physically, taking slow deep breaths to prevent hyperventilating. But I made sure to take precautions  to avoid making the same mistake twice.

I looked around the dusty room from where I sat and sought out any clues at to why I was here or what had happened to my body. The room looked abandoned like it hadn't been used in years. Cloths and drapes covered over the furniture, and if not for the dust the wooden floor showed no signs of age. Then while looking around and listening a shimmer of light caught my eye. On the other side of the room a drape had fallen down slightly and what looked like a mirror stood there. Fear, and curiosity filled my soul. I just had to know what had been done to me. Because I wasn't even sure if I was human anymore. I had to get over there for better or for worse.

"Okay let's just do this slowly." I mumbled, slowly sifting my new limbs around with unfamiliar muscles. Each movement a different sensation of being a different creature sent a shiver down my spine. I also noticed the feminine tone in my voice as I spoke. The whole situation only made me tenser. Waking up in an unfamiliar room, with a new voice and a different body, it all made me feel sick.

"Just a little more." I urged myself as I leaned my head out to see the distance I was from the ground. The torrent of thoughts storming my mind proceeded to demand my attention. However, the logical part of my mind kicked in convincing me to focus on my goal rather than my situation. My goal of getting out of here.

I shifted out from under the bed sheets and found my legs to match my arms. I scooted back of the bed putting one leg on the ground, I felt my sense of pride return to me, and I opened my blabbering mouth in victory. "Ha! no prob...

THUMP

A loud thump echoed through the halls of the Canterlot castle and Celestia looked up from her throne in confusion. " What was that?"

She looked towards the direction she heard the sound, and with a hopeful gasp, her eyes glazed over. Each possibility painting its way in front of her eyes as to what it could be.

"Um, your highness..."

The sound of a job applicant reminded her where she was, and what she was doing. "Oh right, sorry, do continue Lillybreeze."

"..blem." I finished with a groan. I laid there on the ground motionless, waiting for the pain of falling on my face to pass. The nose area was especially sore and I think it now stuck out a little further than before. And it also seemed to be more sensitive to the scents around me. That is until the fuzzy cloud I kicked up from falling drifted down to my level, the dust ended up stinging my eyes and causing my nose to itch.

"Ah-Ah-AH-CHOO!" Another cloud...

"Ugh, maybe I spoke too soon." I groaned as I rubbed my muzzle? My pride and feeling of accomplishment left as quickly as it had arrived. In a flash.

Once the pain died down, my quest to get to the other side of the room to the mirror continued. The mirror itself was too dusty to see my reflection clearly from this distance. However, that could be fixed quite quickly with a little blow on the well-polished silver.

"Okay, right arm moves back. Left leg moves forward." I coached myself one step at a time until I was able to carry a slight rhythm as I made my way around. The unfamiliar sounds of my limbs against the floor reminded me of hooves. They cloped against the ground in an endless drum beat.

  Once I got close enough to the mirror I took a slow deep breath, I made sure to be careful not to breathe the dust in as easily as last time. Carefully working my new facial muscles, I did my best to blow away the fuzzy layer. Surprisingly enough I was able to make a circle with my lips successfully. The dust rolled into fuzz balls and floated off the mirror. Slowly My reflection began to clear.

  Once they were out of the way I could see the image of a whitish female horse still blowing at the mirror. Her head was covered with a crimson red hair making up her mane. Her eyes were blue, intense and terrified. To my horror, the reflection copied everything I did. That was what was terrifying. Looking at my reflection kept drilling in the fact that somehow I was now a small horse. I wasn't even a normal horse I was some creature that had cartoonish proportions. Proportions that I knew all too well.

  The more I stared the more I started to wish that I hadn't looked. If I didn't look then I'd have the pleasure of not knowing who’s body I was in. My reflection was none other than the OC Lauren Faust created after her making of My Little Pony. I was the small version, the same size as a normal pony. I knew this because my twelve-year-old sister was a Pegasister or Brony. She never stopped trying to show me stuff about that show. Whether it be canon or fan based, I knew about it all.

   One time while I was sleeping at my computer she tied me to my desk chair and forced me to watch the entire series as a prank. After that, I almost felt emotionally scarred. Scarred because, well the show was actually good, and I begrudgingly had to admit it was enjoyable to watch. However my pride as a man wouldn't have it, and I made sure that I never allowed myself to think otherwise. Nor did I actually admit what I thought to my sister. The explosion of things she would show me and force me to watch and read would be endless.

"This can't be happening...” I said in a low mumble. My voice was quaking with terror and sadness overwhelmed my senses. “God, what did I do to deserve such a punishment!?" I cried out. A small pang of guilt shooting through me at the sound of my sorrows. I continued to try to think of a plausible explanation for my predicament. Unfortunately, I couldn't come up with any explanation that I was willing to accept. Not only was I a female horse, but I was also some fictional cartoon character. One I knew next to nothing about, other than name, looks, and creator.

I stared at my reflection in shock; unable to move because of my mind's constant refusal to accept the reality I was now facing. My thoughts were rampant and uncoordinated. Each question I asked myself was worse than the last, until I got caught on one. One very important question in respects to my newfound situation.

"Am I stuck here?"

  Again a pang of unexplainable guilt shot through me, and I found my emotional state to me lowering each second. My eyes started to water, and I began to quietly cry. In any other situation, I would have held it in, for the sake of my manly pride. But then again, I'm no longer a male. I looked down at my legs and my tears intensified.

"I'll miss ya buddy."

Across Equestria every stallion found themselves saluting in respect. When mares came up to ask them why they were doing so, they just said. “It's the right thing to do.”

I watched as my tears dampened the floor. My pitiful whimpers just barely audible. The dust on the ground slowly found itself to be a paste like substance.

"(Oh for Pete's sake! Stop crying and man up!)" A somewhat familiar voice shouted. It was feminine for sure, but it carried an air of age and authority. The unknown voice quickly shot me out of my daze of self-pity and into a state of angered fear.

"Who's there!.... show yourself!"

“(Really.. you couldn't come up with a line that hasn't been used over a million times?)” The voice counseled me.

  Nothing stood out as to where the sound was coming from. So I started to look around the room I was in, in hopes of catching the owner of the voice. Perhaps they knew what was going on and then I could get home.

“Come out coward!”

"(You don't listen well do you.)"

It spoke again, this time, I was near the open closet at the rear end of the room. Peering into the wardrobe, I found nothing that hinted to anyone being there. It was completely emptied of anything. I made my way out of the closet giving up my search.

"Please, I just want to know what's going on. Why am I like this! And where are you!?" I begged.

"(Okay fine..Look to your left.)"

Having nothing else to go on I did as told. I found myself staring at my reflection in the mirror once again.

The mare that I had now become sat there in the mirror smiled and waved her hoof.

"(Hi I'm Lauren Faust, what's your name?)"

I would have stumbled back onto my rump, but I found that I no longer seemed to be in control of my body. Out of the corner of my vision, I could see my hoof was moving back and forth. My anxiety rose to an all-time high. Now I'm sick in someone else's body, with them still in it!? The only reassurance I could pull from this day so far was, at least, there aren't any freaky talking mirrors that have people in them.

"It's A-Alex. Why can't I move?" I panicked in place, only able to move my mouth.

"(Because I'm currently controlling the body. Duh.)" Lauren deadpanned.

"B-but."

"(Relax, I won't be controlling for long. I need my rest so I can regain my strength. I think... maybe?)"

"What do you mean regain your strength?"

"(Several hundred years ago, no wait. Several thousand years ago I was badly injured after sacrificing myself for the sake of Equestria. In order to save my life, I was sent through a magic mirror to another dimension. However when I was sent through a surge of energy caused the mirror to malfunction splitting my very being across to all realms.)”

"(So... Um because I've been divided so many times throughout everything the only hope I had of seeing my kingdom or daughters again, was by using you as a toll so my very existence wouldn't be comprised.)"

"So you risked me instead!" I raged. “ what type of person sacrifices other people so they can benefit!?... Actually never mind, everyone does that.”

"(As to your question of whether I risked your life, no I didn't. Whole beings such as yourself are utterly unaffected by the jump that's had to use you or someone like you to return to this world. Plus by doing things this way it won't have any affects on my split existences throughout the dimensions.)”

"You mean your doubles?"

"(Yes, other parts of me sent through all other realms of existence. They are as separate individuals with their own views and personalities. They have no memory of being me nor will they ever.)"

I guess that explained some stuff but I still didn't get the majority of what Lauren was saying. I sat there trying to understand everything that had been dumped on me. In the end, it just made my head hurt.

"(Listen, I'm sorry I did this to you but after being gone for more than a thousand years, I was desperate.)"

"Whatever, let's just move on. What's done is done." I said Dejectedly.

"(Really, you forgive me?)"

"I wouldn't say that, but I'm not going to go out of my way to make things difficult." Really it's too much work.

She looked at me through the mirror her expression became more relaxed and a slight smile formed on her, no our lips.

"(Thank you anyway.)"

"Don't mention it." I seriously meant that.

I didn't want to think about it at all. If I did, I'd probably become furious at her. Already I found it difficult to withhold my burning rage. In the past I never got angry but I guess today's a day of change.

This mare may have taken away my life on earth but she will never be able to take away my spirit. I'd find a way out of this no matter what happens. I had to find a way out of this for my sister because, even though she's mean to me at times, I need her. And whether or not she'd admit it she needed me.

Don't worry Maya, I'll get home no matter what.

"(Alex... Hey Alex!)"

"Huh, what is it?" Lauren's voice pulled me out of my thoughts.

"(I've been trying to get your attention, I guess you dozed off. I was saying that soon I'll have to go back into this body's subconscious. When I'm there you shall have to be my substitute. Answering to my name and dealing with my relationships.)"

"How many relationships are we talkin?"

“(Do not fret for at this point in time it will only be Celestia and Luna you will need to worry about. I'd prefer that we kept this knowledge of our being joined between us but if all else fails we may have to tell my daughter's. Please be kind to them. Again don't tell anypony about us it would be most unfortunate for us to end up in a psych ward. Especially being since the ponies of this world see me as a god.)"

"O-Okay, I'll do my best."

(From now on whenever you need me I'll speak to you this way so that our secret doesn't get revealed. Oh and one last thing, get something to eat this body hasn't had a good meal in a very long time.)

After that, she left to our subconscious. I quickly wiped my tear strained eyes and took a good deep breath and let out my frustration.

  Celestia was making her way through the castle pondering over the mysterious bang throughout the ceiling of the royal court. It had been a minor proton of her day but somehow it seemed significant. She just couldn't put her hoof on what it was.

Passing through each portion of the castle she would glance at the workers and give them her patented celestial smile of approval. She had become quite accustomed to doing so throughout those long years without Luna.

Celestia passed by the Maid's room where they were cleaning the bedsheets, the Kitchen where the chef was making a gourmet three-course meal, the Dining Hall where a mare that looked like her mother was stuffing her face, the Libra...

Celestia froze, not our of terror but our of a swell of emotions like joy, sadness, and most of all shock. Tears started to roll freely as she trembled in place.

"M-M-M-Mother." She managed to mumble through her sniffles. Doubt clutched at her heart but unlike the other times she had imagined her return other objects are in motion. Like a statue, she stayed in the center of the hallway despite her will to run back. Slowly she managed to unfreeze. Her frozen stature becoming more active. Joy began to well up within her, so much so that she began having trouble with containing her composure.

Turning back to the dining hall she made her way inside, quickening her pace the closer she got to her target.

"Mother!"

  I had made my way downstairs like Lauren told me to, tripping over my new hooves relentlessly along the way. Then I wandered the halls of this monumental castle, until I found a fridge. I didn't care or know what anything was, so I ate the first thing I saw. It turned out to be nothing other than a classic slice of Apple pie. It was so good that I kept going back for seconds. On my fourth helping, I noticed a white alicorn run through the open doorway with a clear trajectory towards me.

"Mother!"

"Huh?"

  Before I had time to protect my face the large equine tackled me to the ground. All the while smothering me in her death grip of a hug.

"Mother I've missed you so much! Both Luna and I have been eagerly awaiting your return."

Celestia... let go...can't breathe!" I wheezed as my lungs got crushed.

  It took a second for Celestia to register my pleas for air before she released me from her bone crushing hug. I checked myself over to make sure she didn't actually break a bone, thankfully nothing got damaged. Looking up, I saw Celestia staring at me with tears of joy.

"Is it really you, mom?"

  I may have been in pain, but for some reason, I couldn't find it in myself to be mad at someone who seems so happy to see me. It also pained me at the same time, because I'm not who that joy was meant for. Dejectedly I answered for my passenger.

"Yes, Celestia it's me."

  That statement seemed to strike her to the very core, Celestia continued to stare at me as if she wasn't mentally present but instead was reminiscing over past events. After about twenty seconds I couldn't fight the urge anymore. With a swift motion, I trapped my hoof on her nose.

"BOOP!"

The tap on the nose seemed to bring her back to reality. She started at me giving me her full attention.

"I'm glad to be back. Why don't we go tell Luna that I've returned." I suggested.

Really I just had two things on my mind. The first was the question does Luna sleep during the day, and what will her reaction be.

With great zeal, Celestia quickly made her way out of the Dining Hall to wake Luna. I shook my head at her response. It was like watching a child be told there's ice cream in the fridge.

Once the room was empty, I asked Lauren. "Was that good?"

(It was perfect, thank you.)

I gave a small smile. Then turned back to the doors were running hoof steps could be heard.

"Hey Celestia wait up, I'm coming with you!"