Welcome To Your New Home Prisoner!
It was a boring week in Ponyville for Nathan as he had to stay with Twilight for the entire week because of the fact that Cadance and Shining Armor had to make some preparations for their second child that was on the way, and they didn't want him disturbing them for the week while they were doing it and Skyla was with his and her grandparents for the entire week so she couldn't disturb them either, the reason it was boring was because Rainbow Dash had put a whole week of storms in entire Ponvyille area as well as Canterlot. As Nathan was sitting on the window seat and staring out watching the rain fall down on the window, he looked over to the door that led to Spike's room which he sharing and walked over.
Nathan quickly approached the room and looked around for something to do in there, first he found some bouncy balls, picked one up and bounced it on the wall several times while sitting on the floor, hoping it would brighten up the thundercloud that was pouring down rain on him, not like the ones outside that were pouring down rain onto the ground.
Bounce 1
Bounce 2
Bounce 3
At least 23 to 33 times for the next hour or so, Nathan bounced the ball on the wall, however, the more times he bounced it to where it hit the wall, the more he could feel the cloud of boredom over his head grow bigger by the minute. After about two more bounces, he went ahead and threw the ball back in its place where he found it, the next thing he found was a yoyo that Spike played with, so he put the yoyo's string onto his right middle finger and then started spinning it up and down, even trying to do tricks with it, but that had no help to his avail at all either.
He then put the yoyo back down and then stared back out the window that he was sitting at, from the view and a quick look up, it was still pouring rain heavily and the lightning was flashing all around. Nathan then stormed back into Spike's room, sat in his sleeping bag that he had brought with him to sleep in and just groaned in annoyance.
"Is there anything to do on a rainy day?!" he asked himself while still annoyed, realizing there was nothing to do (or so he thought) he quickly slipped his shoes off with his feet and then took off his socks and then collapsed onto his sleeping bag, but then just when all hope seem to be lost for him, he quickly looked over at a bookshelf and found something dangling on the fifth shelf, it looked like either a magazine or a comic book which is were two guesses from him. He got up on his now bare feet and walked over to see this strange book that was sitting there, to his surprise, it wasn't even there before.
Once Nathan was within reach, he snatched the small book off the shelf and quickly looked at the title, it wasn't a magazine, but a comic book and just like Spike Nathan too loved comic books. He turned the book to the front end and the title read....
Power Ponies: The Mane-iac's New Hope
"Power Ponies, huh, this outta be interestin'." Nathan said taking the book over back to his sleep area, he then lied back down on his sleeping bag, crossed his legs to get comfy, and opened to the first page. The first age consisted of a town called "Maretropolis" which was similar to Metropolis from Superman, and the plot goes that Mane-iac, who Nathan didn't even know was the villain, had managed to reboot her invention "The Hairspray Ray of Doom" to its maximum limits, which if at the accurate hair length whether stallion or pony, could annihilate their mane and freeze it to where tiny little microchips could buzz it and feed Mane-iac's power, Nathan snickered at the name of the invention.
Nathan soon felt the boredom cloud over him start to dissipate and the thunderstorm outside felt like it wasn't even going on at all for him as he continued reading this new comic strip that he had never heard about, nor anypony telling him.
"Geez, ah' gotta talk to Spike about this and see where he got this comic." Nathan said getting up from his sleeping bag once again and exiting the room. He walked towards the direction to the library where he knew Spike would be in there arranging books for Twilight because she too was away taking care of some things for Rarity and Fluttershy. He soon got all excited and soon switched from walking to running.
Big Mistake.
As Nathan got closer to the library doors and opened them, he saw Spike climbing down from a ladder and quickly took notice of him.
"Hey Nathan, what are you doing in here, I figured you'd be doing......" He saw that Nathan was in a hurry to tell him something because he watched him flap his wings and speed towards him.
"Spike, where did you get this....." He was soon cut off by the sudden bump of a bookshelf that he didn't even see right in front him, the bump from the shelf not only hurt his head, but it also made him lose his grip of the book and it fell out of his hands and onto the floor where it flapped right open at the end of the story, Spike could soon feel that something bad was about to happen because that area of the comic was the area that managed to zap him and the mane six in where they became the Power Ponies, so he rapidly took a warning expression to Nathan.
"Nathan, you'd better close that comic and put it up this instant." he warned, but Nathan quickly got curious.
"But why, it's an awesome comic." Nathan said.
"I know Nate, but I'm warning you, you've got to put that thing up immediately, I sense something bad is going to happen, it happened to me and the others once, and I sense it's going to happen to you, please put it up now!"
"But Spike, it's cool!"
"NATHAN, PLEASE I BEG YOU, PUT IT UP NOW!!!!!!!!" Spike screamed, still Nathan wouldn't believe him and tried one last time at begging.
"But Spike, ah' don't...." But it was too late, before he could even finish, a sudden evil laugh could be heard, the whole room started shaking so hard it managed to actually knock some books off the shelves. Nathan and Spike then looked down at the comic and saw a flash of light and a swirling vortex develop Spike gasped in horror at this because he knew what was about to happen, Nathan was too now in shock at what he was seeing.
Spike took Nathan's hand, "Nate, we got to get out of here now!"
"Right behind ya, Spike!" they quickly dashed for the door as the vortex and the light from the comic got even bigger, Spike made it out, but Nathan had no luck at all, as he neared the exit, the vortex managed to wrap around him to where he couldn't break free, made him lose his grasp on Spike's hand, and soon found himself being sucked backwards towards and soon into the comic.
"SPIKE, HELP ME!!!!!!!" Nathan screamed, as he was continued to be sucked backwards.
"Hold on Nathan, give me your hand again!!!!" Spike exclaimed, Nathan gave Spike his hand and he started trying to pull him out, but the vortex held its grasp strongly on Nathan and he soon found himself right at the page of the comic and sucked into it.
"NATHAN NOOOO!!!!!!!" Spike screamed as he once again lost his grasp of their hands
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSPPPPPPPPPPPPPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKKKKKKKKKEEEEE!!!!!!!! Nathan screamed as he completely disappeared into the world of the comic, the evil laugh stopped and the comic closed, Spike froze there in terror.
"Oh no!" he exclaimed, he then went out the door to get help
"Twilight, Twilight, Twiiiiliiighhhttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!" he screamed running out the doors as the camera zoomed in onto the comic.
Nathan woke up with his eyes darting around, sweating, and panting in fear after he got back up on his feet, he saw that he wasn't even in the castle library, but rather a street in a big city.
"Spike, Aunt Twilight?!" he said while still panting heavily in fear.
"Spike, Aunt Twilight, where are you?!" he called out again, still no response at all, Nathan turned and saw that he still had his wings, so he flapped them and took off into the sky hoping that there'd be a clue or sign as to where he was or what was going on, and that is exactly what was given to him as a billboard standing on a rooftop that read.....
"Welcome to Maretropolis: #1 city for best hair products in Amareica!".
Nathan put at least a few of the mystery puzzle pieces together, he soon figured out the fact that he was in the world of the Power Ponies, but now he wanted to figure out a way back, so he quickly looked for a way out, but to his avail, there was no way ever to get back, he then landed back on the ground sat on a curb underneath a street light and started crying. Later, as soon as he dried his eyes, he saw two stallion ponies approaching him, one stallion had a blue mane, tail, and beard and wore a stringed brown shirt and had a cutie mark of scissors cutting blue hair; the other stallion was white skinned, had a green mane and tail, wore a purple and white striped v-neck shirt, and had a cutie mark of a hairbrush, and both were approaching him not only with evil looks, but with cans of a special made hairspray in their hooves that, if sprayed in a person's face, would knock them out and put them to sleep.
Nathan quickly put on a smile as these two strange stallions approached him closer and closer by the second.
"Hi, can you help me get out of here?" he asked them kindly, but instead of answering him, they both shook their cans and sprayed them right into Nathan's face.
"Sleeeeeeeep!!!!!!!!!!" one stallion said as he sprayed his can at Nathan's eyes.
"Ah' just a..as....asked.....I...if...you......." Nathan soon felt very sleepy and within seconds he collapsed onto the sidewalk and fell into a deep sleep, as soon as he was asleep, the two stallion glared evilly at each other along with grins as well, right behind their tail was a silhouetted pony that looked like she wasn't even walking on her own four legs, pretty soon two eyes appeared into the light that lit from the streets they showed the colors of green and red and glared evilly down at the young human child.
The two henchmen then looked up at the silhouetted pony that was using her long jungle like mane to walk on.
"Mission accomplished boss, the trap worked." one said.
"Well done guards," said the silhouetted pony with the voice of a female, "Now take him back to quarters, I'll deal with the rest once he's restrained."
"Yes boss." both the henchmen said as they took a now sleeping Nathan back to their quarters.
Nathan's eyes opened through his first person view to find a bright light shining down on his face, he then squinted and tried to move, but he couldn't, as his vision cleared to wear he could see, he saw that his both of his wrists were cuffed and restrained, then he tried squirming and moving his legs, but then looked down and saw that they too were cuffed and restrained along with his torso, these restraints also had padlocks on them that were all chained and locked up good. Nathan could soon realize that he was trapped in some kind of a room, and was strapped in a restraining bed.
Suddenly, in the dark corner was an elevator like door that could be activated with a button control panel pasted at the side of it, as Nathan got a closer look outside the door, he saw what appeared to be six lightning beam shaped poles zapping top to bottom and in front of him was a tinted window so that no one could see outside. Nathan saw two silhouetted guard henchmen stallions standing there and talking with the same silhouetted pony that appeared to be walking on a jungle like style of mane and watched them approach the door.
First, they shut down the strange lightning like beams that blocked the door then opened it, and in came the same two henchmen that used the sleeping hairspray on him and stared at him evilly while Nathan shook in fear, then then looked out into the hallway again.
"He's awake boss, come see this human child for yourself." one henchman said.
"Thank you." said a female voice, Nathan then turned back at the tinted window and saw that the silhouetted pony with the big mane was walking straight towards the door and quickly slipped herself out of the shadows showing her full form, it was the Mane-iac, Nathan gasped in shock as she stared at him evilly.
"Well, well, an actual human child, although I must say I have never seen one with wings the last time I even did research on human hair." she said using her green colored mane to walk towards him, but not before turning to her two henchmen.
"Guards, leave me, I'll shall deal with our new guest myself." she said.
"Yes, boss." they said exiting and locking the doors behind them, Mane-iac then turned her attention to Nathan once again, Nathan stared at her with furrowed eyebrows as she stared at him evilly.
"You sure as heck ain't no good guy so you'd better start talking before ah' break your jaw six different ways and stick it right where the sun don't shine."
Mane-iac gave a wicked chuckle and approached him closer and leaned into his face, "Such poor usage of grammar for a child like you, what makes you think you can beat me?"
"Ah've beaten at least several stupid punks bigger than me, so what makes you think ah' shouldn't beat you?"
Mane-iac unlocked his restraints and then coiled him up in her mane then lured him closer into her chest where she wrapped him in her forehooves.
"You shouldn't even start asking me questions, otherwise, i'd be using the Hairspray Ray of Doom on your emotions."
"Okay ah'll ask one; Where am ah'?" Nathan asked while trying to free himself from her hooves, but she only tightened her grasp on him, she wanted to make sure he didn't go anywhere.
"Well, you're in your new home of course."
"New home?"
"That's right, this building is not only where I'm going to be using targets for the Hairspray Ray of Doom, but it's also your new home as well. You are now officially under my control, with you as my prisoner, there will be nothing that those pathetic power ponies can do to stop me this time."
Still carrying Nathan in her forehooves, she hair walked over back to the exit and opened the door showing the lightning beams that were activated.
"And if you're even thinking of escaping, you step through those beams and you get 500 volts that will zap right into your skin and enter your body where it merely paralyzes you from the knee down, next you'll start to go numb from the waist up to your neck where you'll be completely motionless, do you understand?"
Nathan gulped because he was now in truth he couldn't conquer something this big because she had a trap set for him, so he looked up to Mane-iac's evil face and nodded his head in obedience.
"Good boy." she said, she then looked down at the bottom of his legs and saw that he was still barefoot, so her evil smile grew even bigger.
"Better make yourself at home, little one......"
She then walked back to the restraining bed, cuffed and locked just his hands and torso, but for his feet, she had a different kind of restraint for those; her own mane, because she coiled his ankles up and pulled his feet up in her full view to it's tightest point to where Nathan couldn't free himself.
"You wouldn't dare...." He said in horror at what she was about to do to him as a start of torture.
"Because you're going to be here for quite sometime!" she said in a sing song voice as she used an edge piece of her mane to stroke on Nathan's bare soles, Nathan tried to hold it in, but because of the fact that he was ticklish, he caved in and laughed.
"BWAAHAHAHAHAHA STAHAHAHAHAP IT PLEASE AAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!"
"Welcome to your new home my prisoner, MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!" she laughed evilly as she continued to tickle torture Nathan's feet.
Back in Ponyville, Twilight was with Fluttershy and the others over at Rarity's Boutique helping her put finishing touches on outfits she had made for a group of super models who were going to be having a showdown contest in Manehattan to see which had the best dress, as Twilight had put the last outfit into the box and closed it, they all breathed a sigh of relief because it had took them 6 to almost 7 hours to help Rarity make all those outfits and they were looking forward to a relaxing evening with nothing but their own to-do lists.
"Well, I must say, it certainly has been a good afternoon's time for work." Twilight said.
"Yeah, my hooves are killing me!" said Rainbow Dash rubbing her aching hooves.
"At least ah'm sure lookin' forward to an evening of fresh zap apple jam." said Applejack.
"Well girls, how about we all go to Sugarcube Corner for a cup of tea before we all call it a night?" asked Fluttershy.
"Yeah, I'll make scones, blueberry ones." said Pinkie Pie.
Twilight giggled along with Rarity, "All right it's settled, one cup of tea and scones for all of us for putting in a hard day's work." she said, they soon turned their attention towards the door, however, as Twilight lit up her horn to wrap the doorknob in her aura, it was a sudden shock of expression to see that the door had just flung open instead and there stood Spike hyperventilating and panicking and bloodshot eyes over what had just happened to Nathan.
"Spike, are you okay?" Twilight asked concerned.
Spike ran into the boutique shaking and now sweating in fear.
"Darling, what's wrong?" asked Rarity.
"Nathan......Power Ponies........zap......gone....GONE..........GGGGGGOOOOOOOOONNNNNNEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!" he screamed, he then collapsed to the floor and started having a panic attack while whimpering.
"Hey, Hey, sugarcube, take it easy!" Applejack said running up to him.
"Spike, calm down!" Twilight said, but Spike's panic attack started growing to the brig, so Twilight did what she did best to him whenever he was scared over something, she wrapped him up in her magical aura and brought him over to her.
"Spike, shh, Spike, calm down, shhhhh, it's okay." Twilight said in a soothing tone, with her cure from his near craziness a huge success, Spike soon went from panicking to now crying.
"Spike, tell us what happened." Fluttershy said.
Spike sniffled, "You might not believe what I'm about to say.........Nathan's been kidnapped!"
The Mane six gasped in shock.
"What you mean 'kidnapped'?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"He's been taken, and I don't know what to do, I tried saving him, but the vortex was...."
"What vortex, what are you talking about?" Twilight asked.
"The vortex that sucked him in."
"Sucked him into what?" Pinkie Pie asked, Spike just rested his head on Twilight's chest speechless and saddened with tears still going down his eyes, Twilight tightened her grasp on him, Twilight soon got serious.
"Spike....who's taken him?"
Spike managed to dry his eyes with a tissue that Rarity had levitated over to him as she rubbed his cute little head.
"Well let me put it in this way, remember when we were at The Castle of the Two Sisters tidying up the throne room and I brought that Power Ponies comic to read while you all cleaned?"
"Yes." Rainbow Dash said while puzzled.
"Well do you also remember when we all got zapped into the comic and I became Humdrum when you all became the Power Ponies, and how the Mane-iac and her henchmen managed to freeze you with Hairspray Ray of Doom, but yet we defeated her anyway?"
"Yes, but why are you brining this up?" Twilight asked.
"Well, I think she's found a way to get in contact with the real world here in Equestria, I don't know how, but she has. Because I was cleaning the library up in the castle sorting some books and dusting the shelves when he came in with one Power Pony comic that wasn't even bought by me, nor did I even remember buying it. Nathan was bragging over how cool it was, but somehow I got a feeling that what happened to us with those comics would happen to him too, so I warned him several times to put it up but he wouldn't listen to me."
"I then heard Mane-iac laughing from inside the comic and then this huge vortex took form, so we tried escaping, but it managed to grasp onto Nathan and pull him in, and like I said, I tried saving him, but...but...but....it pulled him away from me and sucked him right in, what am I going to do?!" he asked with tears forming again.
"Spike, take us back to the castle, show us the comic he was taken into." Twilight suggested, Spike did what she said, got back up on his feet and motioned for them to follow him.
Back at the castle, Spike had reached the doors that opened into the library and had saw that the comic was still on the floor, so he picked it up and showed them the section of the comic that he was zapped into. But as Twilight flipped through the pages, she could find no signs of Nathan in the pages anywhere, she and the others soon lost their belief in his story and quickly jumped to conclusions.
"Oh, Spike, you've sure got some imagination, this comic looks fine to me." she said.
"Twilight, I'm not..."
"And the pages are soft and touchable." Pinkie Pie said.
"Darling, I'm sure Nathan just went to the restroom or someplace." Rarity said stroking his head.
"Honest, it really..."
"Come on Spike, no more false alarms." Rainbow Dash said.
"But...."
Applejack gave a low groan in annoyance thinking he dragged them here for nothing, "Come on y'all, let's go get our tea and scones." she said walking out the doors with the others, Twilight as well, but not before turning back to Spike.
"And Spike, finish cleaning these shelves, they're still messy." she said, walking out with the others and closing the doors behind her, Spike groaned angrily and threw a flower vase at the door.
"You idiots, how can you not believe me!!!???" he asked angrily, just as he stormed backwards.
Meanwhile out in the hallway, the mane six were walking through the hallways back out towards the direction where the entrance to the castle stood because they were in a hurry to get their tea and scones and Luna was on verge of raising the moon any hour now. As they walked, they soon made a mockery out of Spike since they thought he was overreacting to something and they figured that Nathan was just messing around somewhere.
Twilight soon saw the door that led to the bathroom come into view, so she walked over to it and knocked on it, hoping Nathan would answer, but there was no sound at all.
"Nathan, huh, that's weird?" she said.
"Well, did you try Spike's bedroom, because you did tell us that he's sharing it with Spike." Fluttershy said.
"No, I didn't, come on girls, let's go and check there." Twilight said, so they dashed for the bedroom and quickly saw that he wasn't in there either, Twilight was now starting to get worried.
"Nathan, where are you?" she called out through the entire castle, but still no response.
"Twilight, take a breather, I'm sure he's around here somewhere." said Rainbow Dash trying her best to keep Twilight at bay, but it soon went from bad to worse, because suddenly, the ground around them started shaking in the same way it was before Nathan was sucked into the comic book.
"EARTHQUAKE!!!!!!" Pinkie Pie screamed.
"Wait a minute!" Twilight exclaimed, she soon walked back to the direction at the two doors that opened up into the library and saw a flash of white light glowing underneath.
"TWILIGHT!!!!!!!!" Screamed Spike's voice from inside, Twilight blasted the doors open and ran back inside with her friends on her tail, they started looking to find where this white light flash was coming from, to their surprise, it was coming from the comic book itself, the one that Spike showed them where Nathan was taken into. However, instead of zapping them back in, out popped a 3d virtual screen and on came the face of the Mane-iac with her typical evil grin.
She chuckled wickedly, "Poor Spikey there tried to tell you, and he was right all along, I do have you human boy!" she then held up Nathan who was coiled in some of her mane."
Twilight gasped in horror, "Nathan!"
"Aunt Twilight, Spike, gals, he-bwfff." he was soon silenced by another part of her mane and then taken off screen.
Twilight and her friends, along with Spike stared at her in anger.
"And just what are you planning on doing with him, how did you even find your way to communicate with real life?!" Rainbow Dash asked.
"That first part, I'll never explain, but the second part you'll soon figure out, with this boy as my prisoner, there shall be no one to stop me, so let's just see this time who wins and who loses, tootles!" she then cackled and the screen dissipated.
**NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"* Nathan screamed as he vanished back into the comic book.*
Twilight and her friends just stood there frozen in terror, how could they possible not have believed Spike, Twilight soon felt a kick on her left forehoof.
"Ow, Spike, what was that for?!" she exclaimed.
"Oh, Spike, you sure got some imagination!" he said in a mocking tone, "Well look who's wrong this time?!"
"Okay, okay, Spike, you were right!" Twilight said feeling hung over for not believing him earlier.
"What are we going to do?" Rainbow Dash asked in horror.
"If that no good hairstylin' creep puts one hoof on mah' Nathan, she is goin' to be in deep fudge!" said Applejack.
"All right girls, let's not just sit here and panic, we need to come up with a strategy first." Twilight said.
"Spike, first I need you to write Celestia and Luna about this."
"Yes, Twilight." he said, pulling out a quill pen and a scroll paper.
"In the meantime girls, we need to find a way into that comic book." Twilight said.
"Oh, yeah, sure egghead, what are we going to do, wait for the light again?!" Rainbow Dash asked, "It didn't even suck us in that time!!!"
"No, ah'll tell ya' what we're gonna do, we're going to find a way into that comic book, and if we can also find a way for Celestia and Luna to believe us, they'll be comin' as well. Then we're gonna defeat that deranged pony for good and save Nathan!" Applejack.
"Come on girls let's go and get our strategy planned, Spike, come along too, we're going to need your help because you know these things more than us."
"Yes ma'am!" Spike said following the others out into the throne room, but before Twilight could depart with them she ran back and looked down at the comic, for she knew and could feel that her nephew would hear her.
"Hang in there Nathan, we will come for you, we promise!" she said running out the doors and closing them.
