Waking up with a hangover happened to me ONCE. Back in college. Never again, I told myself after what happened that night. Well, what I could remember of said night. But not this time. This time I was hoping for a hangover. As far as I could remember, it was better than what I was feeling at the moment.

At the time, it was like a headache that was aggravated by any light, sound, or heartbeat. This was worse! Today my whole body felt like my head. Scrambled by a trip through a gateway between dimensions, the nasty fall from getting thrown into this world, and then the shaft of a spear to the back of my head. Oh, yeah! Let’s not forget the three face-plants within three minutes. Good times.

Curling around my shotgun was not my idea of comfort. Like picking up your cellphone before you open your eyes, I unclipped it from the strap and pushed it aside. It clattered across what sounded like wood and then fell off of it, ringing out as it hit something hard, like tile or stone. Unfortunately, this just made me curl into a tighter ball as the racket made my brain throb.

“Okay. Let’s try this again. Could be fun.” I muttered to myself, not really thinking anyone would respond. Right off the bat, I figured I was lying on what felt like wood (Let’s just go with that). I could’ve been in a house on the floor, but I heard echoing of ponies talking... well, I think they were talking.

Some big house, perhaps? Well, I can tell it’s bright, even with my eyes closed, so maybe a hospital? Nah, why a hospital for a knock out? Town hall! I think it had big, open, wood floors. Yep, I’m in Ponyville’s Town Hall. Slowly sitting up, I could feel whatever I was on move as I shifted my body. Slowly opening my eyes and rubbing the back of my head, I realize I’m actually in a wagon. Can’t say it’s the way I wanted to wake up. Was hoping it was a dream and I would be waking up in front of my computer to some bad fanfiction. The massive throbbing on the back of my head and body would have me thinking otherwise.

And, oh, how it got better… NOT! Looking forward, I was met with large, towering, elaborate doors flanked by ponies in guard armor beside pillars of pale marble. “Oh, for god’s sake, don’t tell me I got moved that far? Not here. Why here?”

Slowly turning around, I found multiple unicorn, earth, and pegasi pony guards along the walls, all staring at me like some kind of freak show. All but three ponies at the end of the grand hall. Pupils shrinking and recoiling was all I could do. Seeing the alicorn sisters in person is intensely different than seeing them in a show or reading about it. Knowing their place in the world you now find yourself in was all that was needed for me to be a bit scared. For all I knew, this was going to be a trial about what to do with me and I was S.O.L.

Oh. And I’m now one for two in my game… dang it.

All the way at the other end was the pale white alicorn herself, Princess Celestia, shining with glints of gold from her crown and gilded hoof covers. To her right was the more petite but stoic mare of the night, Princess Luna, with as much regalia as her elder sister. Standing just in front of the two alicorns of royalty was the unicorn known as Twilight Sparkle…

……..hold up, unicorn?! Focusing my eyes revealed that she, in fact, only had her horn and no wings. Hmm, okay. That’s a bit odd. I would ask what the date was, but seeing as my current state rendered me essentially mute around here, it made that endeavor useless. As if on cue, the three looked to me, then back to one another, and, after a nod, they looked back to me. Taking a breath, I decide to face whatever they had planned for me.

Pulling myself up to my feet and hopping off the cart, I simply stayed next to it, not wanting to get near royalty and bothering the guard. And getting walloped by a spear again.

Stepping forward, Twilight moved toward me with her horn aglow and pointed it right at me.

“Okay, I was kidding! I’m not ready for magic!” holding my hands up and stepping back, I try keep a distance between me and the cute pony. A small flash found a beam of power lurching forward, striking my neck. Being able to dodge the quick bolt was not in the cards, so resorting to just gritting my teeth and taking the hit was all I could do.

Should not have been too surprised that nothing hurt but my vocal cords tingled as the light faded. Well, now I feel silly. Of course, it wouldn’t hurt. It was Twilight, after all. Rubbing my neck, I could see the mare opening her muzzle, making a face and gestures with her hooves as if to encourage me to talk.

“Hmm?” Tilting my head and shrugging was all I could think to do “Do you want me to just say something?” then it hit me “Oh! A translation spell! Oh man why did you not try that before back at the portal?” With a hoof to her face, Twilight just sighed as the royal sisters looked to each other with a concerned look. “What? Did I say something wrong?”

Twilight waved her hoof as if to tell me to stop and looked back to her mentor. As the three spoke, I could hear nothing but horse sounds again. “Oh… I see. No success. Well, that would have been too simple. And a bit of a cop out, I guess.” Slumping over, I decided to simply take a seat on the cart I was hauled in on.

As the three talked to themselves, I found myself looking around the room. Admiring the stained-glass windows along the grand throne room, I could only see the one with the main six defeating Nightmare Moon. Okay, so maybe I’m still in season one? Was this world canon to the show? Thinking this over was distracting me to the point that I did not realize the lunar princess was staring me down from the end of the room and charging her horn as the other two looked on.

A faint blue haze slunk its way over toward my head and slipped in through my ear. Suddenly pulling taut like a slender string, my mind seized up like I was stumped on a test question. Luna was trying to probe my mind. What she hoped to do, I’m still not sure but her expression was much more dramatic than my own look of utter confusion. The spell suddenly shattered and the blue alicorn was panting with a look of cold fear on her face. Taking a moment to come out of my daze, I snapped back to reality and shot a sharp glare to the three not knowing who did what but knowing something was done.

Slowly shaking my head and glaring at the three, I growled: “Whoever did that? Don’t do it again. It’s not cool to go mucking about in someone’s head and you know better!” Sadly, none of them knew a word I was saying, so, that was pointless.

Celestia and Twilight looked to Luna, as if asking if it worked, and Luna shook her head with a slightly surprised expression. After that, I had decided not to take my eyes off the three for the time being. Maybe magic isn’t working on me just for the simple matter that I’m not of this realm? Like I’m not compatible with what it was intended to work with? Will I ever talk with them or am I going to be damned to live in a land where I can’t communicate with any being verbally and slowly turn truly mute with no one to talk to? Man, I hope not, otherwise this is going to be one hell of a pain to try and find a way back home… hoping there is a way back home.

After what looked like a small argument between Luna and Celestia, a book was pulled into the room by means of a magical flash. Holding the book in her magic, Celestia flipped through looking for something, like she knew it was there but didn’t precisely know what she was looking for. A moment later, she had a smile on her face as she showed the book to her sister. Leaning forward, Twilight seemed to ask what it was she had found. To which the princess spun the book around to show her.

Now, being as far away as I was, I was surprised I could still make out something that looked like a question mark, an arrow, and a simple sketch of a pony. This resulted in a twitch of fear and all my muscles starting to tense up. “Oh, no!” All three look back to see why I had made a sound. “No way in this land’s hell!” I started shaking my head and waving my hands as if to tell the three: “No!” more clearly.

Looking back to one another, Luna seemed to agree with me (she was now my favorite princess) while the other two held looks of concern… but conviction. Exchanging whinnies and neighs, the two seemed to convince the reluctant mare.

A moment later the two alicorns horns started to glow. Understand, I did not hate this world or those who dwelled within it, but I was not so hot on joining the inhabitants’ species. I feared getting changed into something I was not or more to the point, having a spell like that backfire on me like the other two spells had done.

Sadly, it looked like that was not on the minds of the casters, as magic flowed off their horns and started to meld in midair, forming another power greater than the two alone. Magic so strong, it was filling the air and making it thick. “I’m telling you ponies to knock this off now! I’m not going along with this!” I shouted as I was looking around for a place to hide, aside from the easily fallible cart. Looking around for something else, I spotted a couple of the many guards wincing away from the bright light the spell caused in the grand throne room. That can’t be a good sign.

Finding nothing, my gaze shifted back to the two all-powerful casters of a spell that may just kill me as much as change me. Shielding herself from the light, Twilight took a step back as the sisters floated up into the air slightly. The book Celestia had produced flashed a vibrant gold light. At that moment, a swirling vortex of sapphire and gold blasted toward me like a tidal wave.

Don’t just stand there, Legs, MOVE! That was all I could hear in my head and, soon, my legs got the hint, taking a few steps back and turning to sprint as fast as I could. It was only about thirteen feet from the door, I can make it…

“Thirteen feet?” was all I was able to mutter as the wave slammed into me and lifted me up in its warm embrace. Looking over my body, I could see my clothes fluttering in some kind of breeze as the magic started to disintegrate them, almost like the spell was burning away unneeded material. My body at this point started to shift, as well. Fingers started to retract and the bones reconfigured, I was glad to note that none of this was hurting at all. Being spun around by the tendrils of magic, something started to hint at a fault…

Something’s wrong… well, more wrong. The spell was not reacting well with something on my form. And then it hit me. The buckshot shell in my back pocket! The gunpowder! Starting with my limbs and working inward, a light started to consume me, shifting my form more rapidly than before. Much too preoccupied to realize this, I was reaching for my back pocket to retrieve the forgotten round. By that point my gun-strap, shirt, shoes, and socks were completely evaporated away and the legs of my pants where following suite.

That was nothing compared to what was about to happen.

I was too late, and, as a result of me not being able to get the live round away from me, a small explosion rang out, scaring and surprising everypony within, even the princesses. A spray of red mist and some small parts of charred flesh splatter and bounce across the pristine floor of the castle room. One guard shuddered when a bit of the blood-mist tarnished his armor. To their credit, the guard are more trained and seasoned than I had originally thought.

The channeling severed from the two sisters and they fell to the ground abruptly. At least, I assumed so from the sound and sudden shock of the spell… not stopping, but changing. The main spell continued on as it was in a sort of auto-run at that point. After the first shock, all eyes trained onto my still changing and shifting form which even I couldn’t see because I was covered in gold light. I was screaming in immense pain, but nothing could be heard, perhaps the spell was working my vocal cords at the time? Finally taking the form of a pony, the screaming and poison I was spitting started to penetrate through the hall. Slowly lowering to the ground, the spell dissolved, revealing a slightly tall unicorn stallion with a short dark red main and tail who crumbled down to the floor thrashing around.

BECAUSE GETTING SHOT IN THE FLANK FUCKING HURTS!

Fourteen shells remaining.

“God damn it, that stings! Fucking! Gods! Rraaa, Hell!” My words rang out in pain. Still not used to the new body, I tried putting my hands over a now-gaping hole in my leg, only to find hooves and a bleeding right flank.

Gritting my teeth and trying to get up on my new hooves was useless as I slipped in the pool of blood that was increasing in size around my hind quarters and soaking my light earthen brown coat. My ears pick up the sound of gasps and running hooves, to which my head snapped up to see the lavender unicorn running up to me with the princesses trotting up behind her. “Oh no, oh no, oh no! Are you all right?” looking back to the alicorns she pleaded: “Was that supposed to happen?”

Celestia lifted her surprised head as it slowly shook from side to side.

“You!” I shouted at them. My horn lit up and my magic suddenly grabbed ahold of the shotgun from next to the wagon. Flipping the selector switch to the slugs in tube two and racking the pump as it flew to my side, I took aim right at Celestia, disregarding the sights altogether. The princess stepped back, more in confusion than surprise, from this strange club-like thing being pointed at her in a shaky manner, not realizing it’s potential. “I told you not to cast that spell and you CAST it! You didn’t even TRY to ask before you changed my life?! WHY?! Did you think about what would happen if it failed like the other spells before?! NO!” Magic gripping the trigger in a blind rage, the shotgun recoiled as a loud bang rang out, missing its target and sending a slug over the ruler’s head by several feet.

Twilight screamed and Luna took a step to the side, as if to dodge the round. Celestia was frozen in silence, her ears flat on her head from the blast of sound. She finally realized a projectile had just gone over hear head and also realized what it could have done. As the fired round blasted a hole in the upper wall far behind them, I could not help but keep going.

Thirteen shells remaining.

“You could have killed me, you immortal fuck!” The gun ejected an empty shell as the pump reciprocated within a magical embrace to chamber the next round. Guards rushed toward the princesses as I clenched my teeth. As I pressed my hooves to my still bleeding flank, I could feel my mind slipping from the lack of blood. Glaring back with hate in my eyes, the shotgun fell to the ground as the magic faded from lack of power. Pointing a blood-soaked hoof at Celestia, a drop of crimson life dripped from it. “Mark my words, Celestia, you bitch!” Cursing through my teeth, I winced in still-more pain “You will regret thi-“ Eyes rolled back into my head and, falling limp to the floor with an audible flop, I was out like a light.

Omniscient POV

With blood still gushing from the hole in his flank, the princesses and Twilight finally snap out of their shock as guards surround them and train their spears to the body on the floor. Recovering faster, Luna broke the silence first.

“Guard! Fetch a doctor right away! And get that… club… thing away from that stallion before he hurts anypony else with it!” The two guards by the door rush out for a doctor and a single guard dashed over to pick up the fire arm in his mouth, carrying it away.

Moving back to her throne and leaving the others to tend to this new being, Celestia sat down, taking slow steady breaths. “What has just come into this world? Into my land? And why?” She whispered.

Turning to see Luna glancing at her, she could see that her little sister was just as concerned as she. Twilight, on the other hoof, seemed to be more worried for the stallion on the floor as a doctor started working on the wound. Placing gauze over the hole, he put his whole weight into applying enough pressure. Moments later, two ponies with a stretcher ran into the hall and started to load up the limp body.

As he was pulled onto the stretcher, Celestia’s voice calmly and gently rang out through the hall. “Station guards around his room and don’t take your eyes off him! Inform me the instant he awakens.”

With that, Twilight looked back to her teacher with a worried expression on her face. After watching the bloody stallion being hauled off, she hung her head low and turned to Celestia. “I’m sorry, Princess. I didn’t know he would be violent.” Looking at her hoof, she remembered the feeling of his fist bumping it back near ponyville “He seemed to be friendly and nice.”

Shaking her head, Celestia walked down to her star pupil and rested a hoof on her shoulder. “Something happened as we attempted to understand his words by changing him into a pony of this land. From what I could see of what happened and the kind of pain he suffered can make any being lash out at who caused it.”

“Then why only you, Sister?” Luna pointed out as she trotted over to the two. “And how did he know you?”

Shaking her head, Celestia responded in a warm tone: “We will just have to ask when he wakes, now, won’t we?”

Author's Note

Ok so there we have it, chapter two! Three needs review and it will be out soon. then on to four.

Still would like to have some one who knows the show to review theses so if you want just ask me.
If you have and suggestions or comments about the story, rating, or category just speak up.

As long as one person likes this i will try to keep going~ ^^

Editing by: Dr. Cloud Nine 12/27/16