Ponyferno

**Chapter 1

Not in Equestria anymore**

“I’m back everypony,” whispered a female voice as she entered Room 108 of the apartment complex.

“Fluttershy,” answered another feminine voice from the living room. “I thought I already explained to you that we aren’t ponies any more.”

“Oh sorry,” answered the pink-haired woman. She put down the bags carefully on the kitchen counter.

As soon as the first crinkle of the plastic was made, two other girls ran out of the room at the end of the hallway. One was the nineteen year old, blonde, Applejack and the other was the, also nineteen, rainbow haired Rainbow Dash. They nearly trampled Fluttershy in their hurry to get to grocery bags.

“Aw Yeah!” exclaimed Rainbow as she came out with a container of Nutella. She ran off down the hallway.

“Get back here with that!” yelled Applejack in her thick Tennessean accent. She gave chase.

An eighteen-year-old girl with brilliant raspberry colored hair set in a perm bounced into kitchen. She rummaged through the bags and came out with several bags of chips, onion dip and gigantic tub of ice-cream. Without a word, she bounced back into the second room.

“Pinkie!” called the seventeen year old girl from the living room. “Don’t eat all that by yourself!”

“Aw, Twilight,” she whined from the room. “You know it won’t affect me.”

“I know that,” answered Twilight Sparkle. “But us other po… people want some too.”

“Fine,” conceded Pinkie.

Fluttershy picked up a large box of chocolates and strode into the living room where Twilight was reading a history textbook. She placed the box on the table and sat shyly beside her friend.

“Humans are so interesting,” Twilight commented as soon as Fluttershy sat down.

“Really?” she asked picking up an old magazine about pets.

Twilight nodded and picked a small square of chocolate. She was about to pop it into her mouth when she turned to Fluttershy.

“I’m sorry,” she said. “Is it okay if I have one?”

Fluttershy nodded timidly with a smile on her face. “It’s no trouble at all,” she answered. “I bought it for both of us.”

“That was very kind of you Fluttershy,” Twilight said. “Did you know that the humans have had two major wars that plunged the whole world into chaos?”

“Really?” asked Fluttershy showing intense interest even though she really had none. She did not like to interrupt or ignore her friends when they were talking.

Twilight nodded. She continued to talk while reading. Fluttershy held the magazine in her hands lopsidedly. She still was not used to having thumbs. She was not used to having fingers period. At certain times during her days, she would stop whatever she was doing just to play with them. The other five ponies seemed to be adapting rather well with their new forms.

She heard a crashing sound and looked back to see Rainbow Dash dive under the coffee table where the chocolates were. At first, she wondered why, but when she heard a horrible grunting sound, she scrambled to join Rainbow. The younger girl pushed her away and told her to find her own hiding spot. Fluttershy, not one to argue, settled for behind the couch.

Soon an angry Applejack came into view. The young woman’s face was covered with the brown chocolate peanut spread, but her eyes burned like a bull’s. Her head whipped around searching for, no doubt, Rainbow Dash. When she found her friend cowering under the table, she snorted. Fluttershy half expected smoke to come out of her nostrils but was disgusted to find a strange mix of Nutella and mucus come out instead.

Applejack rushed at the table Rainbow was hiding under only to come up against a magenta force field.

“Twilight?” she wondered aloud. “You can use magic?”

Twilight looked up from her book and nodded. “Isn’t it neat?” she said. “I found out a few days ago, but the mana on Earth is weaker than the kind in Equestria and all I can do for now is put up weak shields and mild telekinesis.”

Applejack nodded in understanding. She glanced at Rainbow dash who was flashing her tongue from behind the magenta field.

“I’ll let you off this time,” she threatened. “But only ‘cause Ahm happy fer Twilight.”

She turned and went to the bathroom to wash off the Nutella. Twilight heaved in relief as she let down the force field. Using her magic in this world was extremely tiring.

Rainbow crawled from under the table and stretched her arms and legs. She stopped suddenly and looked around.

“Where’s Rarity?” she asked.

“Didn’t she go to collect the groceries with you Fluttershy?” Twilight asked.

Fluttershy slinked from behind the couch and nodded. “While we were out shopping, she saw Brian,” she whispered.

“That explains it,” said Rainbow continuing her stretch. “I wonder what Spike would say if he ever found out that Rarity got herself a boyfriend; a human one no less!”

Twilight giggled as she thought about the baby dragon’s sad face. Her face became sad as she thought about spike being all alone at the library back in Ponyville.

They had not always been human. Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Rarity were once ponies that lived in a magical land named Equestria. Laugh all you want but they were very happy. About two months ago, on their weekly picnic, something strange happened to Twilight. Her unicorn horn began to glow brightly and before she knew it, they were all teleported to this strange world and given strange bodies. All except Spike. Twilight recalled hearing somewhere that unicorn magic was nearly always ineffective against dragons, especially magic dragons like Spike. At first, they were all frightened by the change but as time came to pass…

Most of them enrolled in the local college. Within the month: Twilight was head library monitor (a job she enjoyed), Pinkie Pie was appointed head classroom monitor (for unknown reasons), Fluttershy was the dream of every boy in the town (for obvious reasons), Applejack was football team captain and basketball team captain and baseball team captain and… you get the idea.

Rainbow Dash was head of the swim team. She preferred to stay as vice captain for all the other clubs that Applejack was in. She spent most of her time swimming anyway as she claimed that it was like flying only in water and it was a lot more work. Rainbow was, yes, a Pegasus pony prior to becoming human but she did not lose any of her athletic prowess. Though Fluttershy had also been a Pegasus pony, she never had any athletic prowess to begin with.

Rarity, being the eldest, did not have to enroll and had gotten a job doing the only thing she knew how to do. Dressmaking. She seemed to be having the most fun of any of them, besides Pinkie Pie, and had fallen in love with a young man named Brian.

“Hey guys!” Pinkie Pie squealed from her room. “Come look at this!”

Applejack, Twilight, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash ran into the room. Pinkie Pie’s room was the largest in the three-bedroom apartment but she slept alone. Though they were all friends, none of the other girls could bear to put up with her constant chatter throughout the night. Her room was decorated with pink wallpaper and, against Rarity’s better judgment, colorful streamers. There were two queen-sized beds, one for sleeping and the other for jumping on. In one corner of the room was a computer, which Pinkie was on twenty four/seven.

The other girls gathered around the screen to see what she was looking at. It was a video on Youtube.

“Check this out!” she squealed obnoxiously loud. She pressed play.

For eleven minutes, the girls watched the video. At the end of it, Rainbow fell to the ground laughing alongside Pinkie Pie. Twilight, Fluttershy and Applejack gaped at the screen.

“What in tarnation…?” Applejack asked finally.

“Ask Princess Molestia?” read Twilight. “Pinkie Pie, this is very disrespectful to the Princess.”

“But it’s so funny!” laughed Rainbow. “I mean: ‘Prepare your anus,’ HAHAHAHAHA!”

The laughter was broken up by the front door opening. Applejack looked out of Pinkie’s room.

“Rarity’s back,” she announced. “and she brought Brian.”

“Yay, Brian!” screamed Pinkie and ran out.

“That’s probably not the best idea,” Applejack tried to warn her.

Pinkie Pie gaped in awe and disgust as she found Brian and Rarity making out on the couch. The other girls looked out too. Fluttershy flushed bright red but Rainbow Dash started to laugh louder. Rarity, in the heat of the moment, ignored them.

That night, Twilight sat up writing a letter to Princess CElestia. Without Spike, there was no way that she could get them to her but out of dedication, she wrote one every night. She thought for a while before pressing the pen to the ruled sheet.

Dear Princess Celestia,

Humans truly are disgusting.

Your faithful student,

Twilight Sparkle