I shook my head, ears still ringing, what was happening? was it something I did? Then I heard it the evacuation alarm.
"Come one we need to get out of here" I heard someone shout from the hall.
"What is going on?" I stammered back
"We are under attack"
I thought about asking By who? but the amount of smoke and flames was so intense I decided not to. But then I remember, what about Nick? He was further down the hall where most the flames where. I began running at a dead sprint down the hall, looking for him. I found him trapped under a fallen piece of the ceiling. All I could see of him was hit blue t-shirt sticking out around his waste and the military fatigue pants he liked to wear.
"Are you OK?" I yelled.
"Ya I'm just stuck"
"Give me a minute I'll get you out of there"
It was at this point I heard another explosion. This was just as loud but didn't seems to carry and devastation with it.
"Shining Armor," he said as he coughed. "get out of here while you can."
"I'm not going to leave you here to die Nick" I yelled at him thinking that this was not the way for anyone to die, but that that moment a green and white haired young girl pushed me aside. She was wearing a denim jacket and yellow shirt, dirty white shorts covered her legs. What was she going to do that I couldn't? I asked myself, Then I noticed it the green horn sticking out of her forehead, she was going to use magic. The horn glowed green and the piece of the ceiling was surrounded by the same green glow and then levitated off the ground giving Nick the chance to escape its weight. The girl turned to me with her orange eyes, and said "let's get out of here"
"Who are you?" I asked
She simply replied, "It doesn't matter now, there is no way back, you can just call me Lyra" Another large explosion. Only this time you hear what sounds like ice cracking. "We need to get to the carport and get out of here before Shinning Armors shield fails"
I nod in agreement "Nick can you walk?" He nods back, "What about a run?" I ask
"I'll try," he says
It's not long before we realized we were completely cut off from the carport, in fact, the tunnels around the section we were in were completely collapsed. Our only option was to go up to the surface and try to make it on foot, the surface is much better as we exit the stairwell. We are greeted to a room that while covered in shards of glass, and a few pieces of lobby furniture on fire, what we can see outside is even more horrifying. Shining Armors pink shield was holding most of it back, but beyond that was, what looked like hell. Flames licked up the outside of the shield, explosions were hitting the outside of it causing ripples to flow through the entirety of it, And to make matters worse the shield was cracked, and it was only getting worse.
Lyra turned to me and said, " we need to keep moving, the shield is failing" then we heard it, the shatter of the shield. Almost immediately the shells that had been exploding on the outside of the shield began hitting the building and the ground we were in.
I took off at a dead sprint, whether it was fear or my attempt to survive I don't know, but Nick and Lyra are right behind me when the ground in front me, begins to collapse. I turn to the right and watch as the car port falls into the ground. I guess I'll have to go left I think only to find that the hole in front of me has expanded to include my left as well. "well this is great" Lyra says with the tone in her voice that she knows she is going to die.
"I can give you a way to save your friends" I hear a voice inside my head. No I won't, we had all heard the stories, and "friends" being a bit loose I didn't even know who this Lyra was. I turned around to see if we could go back to the building we were running from. Only to see it fall into the ground. The support columns must have failed I think to myself.
I close my eyes and prepare to meet my end. What happened next I didn't really expect to see. A small blue pony with rainbow hair stood in front of me, but that wasn't possible, I knew I had my eyes closed. But there we were, in a pure white space.
"You're not going to give up that easily are you?" She asked
"Your rainbow dash aren't you?" I asked
"Ya, and what if I am?" She said in a cocky tone.
"No one has ever reported you as pony soul that tried to meld before," I said taken aback
"That cause there as never been anyone who I felt who I could become with. It's not exactly reversible you know," she kind blushed as she said this "I'll help you save your friends if you help me save mine."
"I don't even know who this Lyra is" I stammer " Its a bit early to be calling her a friend"
"we will save them all," she said confidently "even the ones you don't consider friends yet"
"But I'm a guy, won't it be weird, I mean after all you are a girl"
She kind of laughed at this "You don't know a lot about merges do you?" " I mean I guess if you don't want to I'm not going to force you or anything" "later," she says as she begins to walk away and disappear.
I watch her for a moment, and think about my chances of survival "WAIT" I shout at her "I'm not likely to survive without you, and, and if your offering to save my friends what does it matter what happens to me...." She turns around
"It's not like I'm killing you, you know" "we just kinda become one person" Besides who wouldn't want to be one with me" So she starts to blush "What I am saying is do you want to or not" Blood rushes to my face and I get the feeling that I am going to regret this, I open my mouth to speak, and a tiny whisper comes out.
"let's do it"
She lifts one side of her mouth up into a kind of excited smile, and almost immediately I feel the change, I feel lighter more athletic, The ruffle of my feathers, the way my ears now move. I open my eyes.
Rainbow hair blocks my vision I push it out of the way, grab nick and Lyra by the arms and kick off the ground, using my wings as a boost. The extra weight is a bit of a strain but then hey I saved 4 ponies at once before.
"whoa!" Nick stammer clearly feeling the strain of all of his weight in one arm. "Don't drop me" I see where the hostile fire is coming from, but there is nothing I can do about that now, I need to get my friends to safety. Then I spot it a cave that seems to not be targeted by the shelling. I begin flying towards it only to look down and realize just how high up I was. No wonder why the aren't firing at the cave it's over a mile away I think to myself. But it's going to have to do.
Several minutes later Nick was beginning to feel the strain of being held up by one arm, squirming and begging me to land. We were almost there and well outside the shelling it wouldn't hurt to walk the rest. Lyra, on the other hand, appears to be pretty relaxed, probably just glad to be alive. Her horn was gone, and her hair had turned to a more nature human color of brown, the only thing that remained that showed she had used a pony sole was the orange eyes. God, I hope my eyes don't stay magenta I think after remembering what color rainbow dashes eyes where.
I saw a good spot to land and sat nick and Lyra on the ground. Lyra turned to me and said "welcome to the club"
"what club?" "oh god is that how my voice sounds, wait, what's wrong with my voice" I land hard and feel something else is wrong. The rainbow hair falls back in front of my face, I grab Lyra "hold still" I tell her
"why?" she asks as she moves back a little.
"I want to see what I look like, I'm going to use your eyes a mirror" she looks puzzled "my whole body feels off I just want to see what it looks like"
"OK, whatever floats your boat" with a whatever tone.
What I see isn't me, its a girl, with rainbow hair, and wings. "Lyra, I think there is something wrong with your eyes"
I look at my feet, they were so small, that couldn't be me in the reflection? Could it? and that is when I noticed a piece of paper had gotten stuck to the bottom of my foot, it was kinda wet from the sprinkler system but still readable. It didn't matter right now, I closed me eyes hoping it was a bad dream.
"it's not a dream, it's us" I look up to see rainbow dash again. "and we're awesome" She had a wide grin on her face.
"what do you mean it's us?"
"Like I said before, you didn't know anything about merging did you?" "I'll explain it in time, just try not to get us killed, merging really takes it out of you, you know" and with that she disappeared, I open my eyes. The Rainbow hair is gone, in its place is long brown hair. I look down. I seem flat chested enough, but it's still girls clothing, there is only one way to be sure. I reach down and undo my pants, sure enough panties, and nothing bulging in them. I quickly redo the button.
I look down, the paper is still in my hand, I begin to read it, hopefully, this will shed some light on WHY I AM NOW A GIRL I think.
We don't know when it all started. Well not exactly anyways, some of us theorize it was meant to happen. Others believe that it started due to something we did. Personally I believe that it was a combination of fate and our wishes that brought this upon us. Some see it as a curse while others see it as a blessing. The jury is still out for me.
We first noticed something wrong about 10 years ago when the first episode of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic aired. Bronies they called us, Grown men obsessed with a show for little girls, And if that had been all it was they would have been right. As time went along as any "Brony" can tell you, they grew attached to a particular character, even the background ones. It seemed like we knew more about the other ponies than anyone else. They were real to us. What we learned was that this wasn't imagination, it was the ponies soul trapped on this plane of existence looking for a host to meld with.
The pony soul for those of you who don't know is more like a parasite than a friend. It has the power to grant amazing powers to people and that is how it drags you in, but it grants these powers by fusing itself into your own soul. The more you use the pony powers it gives you the more ingrained the soul is into your own. As a result memories of having always been the pony's who soul is fused with yours start to enter you mind. The physical characteristics of the pony you are with begin to linger. It may take days for the pony ears, wings and horns to disappear. Eventually and this has only happened once so far, the pony soul completely melds with the humans soul and permanently traps them as a pony. The strange thing is they don't seem to mind, and when asked what they plan to do they simply reply like it's a stupid question "return to Equestria of course".
Of course
The rest was burned away.