What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

A cold breeze flew by as we walked down the road, back to Ponyville. You could still hear the screams of panicking ponies in the background. The changelings attacked immediately after everypony started panicking and running around in search of a hiding place. Nopony said anything when we left Canterlot, but the silence was killing me! I opened my mouth to say something but no words came out, I didn’t know what to say. I began to think a bit instead, trying to think of everything that happened.

Was it really a good idea to leave Twilight and Dash in Mentis’ hand- er, hooves? God, what have I done. Why didn’t I think of this?! Why do I always think about myself in the first place! I can’t leave them behind, I need to go back! I can save them if I’m stealthy enough!

I stopped walking the next moment, my face looking at the ground.

“Everypony, I need to go back. I’m having second thoughts about this.” I said as I stopped walking.

Everypony turned around at looked at me with a puzzled look.

“My dear, you said we needed to get out of there yourself, what’s wrong?” Rarity asked me.

“It was wrong to leave Twilight and Dash in Mentis’ hooves! I’m going back, you guys go to Ponyville. I’ll bring them home safely.” I said as I turned around to walk back to Canterlot. But before I could take a step Applejack stepped in front of me.

“Ya’ should do that, and you know it. You said it yerself. Mentis, Nightmare Moon and Chrysalis are out there! It’s suicide.” Applejack almost yelled. She looked angry... very angry.

“Look, you’re all safe. I’ll be back with Dash and Twilight unharmed. Don’t worry.” I replied.

Vinyl stepped forward and spoke. “If you do that then you’re gonna be captured, for sure!”

I started to become a little bit angrier. “I’m the one who probably got all of this started! I don’t belong here! I’m going to put an end to this and rescue them!”

This time Pinkie spoke. “You DO belong here now! We’re your friends!”

I let out a audiable sigh. “Look, I need to put an end to this shitstorm! I need to go back no-”

Rarity cut me off and spoke. “We can try and stop him in Ponyville.”

I was surprised by the answer. “Wait what?”

“We could try and stop him in Ponyville.” Rarity repeated.

“But HOW?! It’s not like we can lure him out of Canterlot... wait a second. Can we?” I said. I turned around and yelled. “Come on everypony! We have planning to do! Let’s go!”

Nightmare Moon was walking around in the lowly lit throne room. She was slowly pacing back and forth between the front and rear wall. She looked worried, even though the changelings in Canterlot are on her side. She needed to talk about her solution to her worries, and she knew who she could talk with. She decided to go have a talk with Chrysalis. She walked into Celestia’s newly-renovated chamber, now occupied by the Changeling Queen.

“Chrysalis, I need your opinion on something.” Nightmare Moon said as she walked up to the Changeling Queen.

“What is it? Can’t you decide anything on your own!? If you want to rule the night then you better decide on your own.” Chrysalis answered in a mocking tone.

“Don’t you even start. You got defeated by two ponies in love! And you had a whole army!” Nightmare Moon replied.

The balcony doors opened and a white alicorn with a flaming mane walked into the room. This alicorn used to be Celestia, but has been corrupted by the same powers of Nightmare Moon. Her hair flows about with a wild movement like it was made of actual fire.

“What are you two yelling about?” Solar Flare said as she trotted to Chrysalis and Nightmare Moon.

“Your dear sister can’t make decisions on her own.” Chrysalis anwsered, looking at Nightmare Moon.

“She isn’t my sister anymore. We’re opposites, just like the sun and the moon.” Solar Flare replied.

“One shall stand, and one shall fall, huh?”

The three large ponies cringed where they stood, the standoffish atmosphere freezing almost at once.

“Girls, girls, girls. What did I tell you all to do together?”

There Mentis was, sitting on the landing into the room, his trademark manic smile plastered on his face. He stopped talking to observe the three ponies in the room to see if they would answer his question.

They didn’t.

“What I told you all to do was to play nice. I don’t think that this counts as playing nice, does it?” Mentis got up from where he was sitting and walked forward, his direction leading him into the closely knit group.

“I am disappointed in you, girls,” He walked straight through the group, the scared trio backing off as he made his way over to the balcony. “Now... I want you all to make up. Solar Flare, Nightmare Moon, you two are sisters, and you will act as such. Chrysalis? I’m the one who let your dying family feed upon a whole city. Be grateful.”

He got to the balcony and placed his hooves on the railing on it. “Well? I’m waiting, girls.”

They sighed in unison. Nightmare Moon was the first to talk.

“I’m... sorry for this argument.” she said in a hesitant voice.

“I agree. Sorry Nightmare...er, Sister.” Solar Flare apologized. Chrysalis just nodded, thinking that would be enough to settle it.

“Chysalis? I didn’t hear you apologize to Nightmare...”

She sighed again. “Fine... Sorry for mocking you.” Chrysalis said, being a tat bit annoyed.

“Good,” Mentis leaned forward on his front hooves. “Now, all of you, listen up. I’m going to be doing some things of my own, you know, PR shenanigans that need to be going down.”

The three nodded, silently prompting him to continue speaking.

“And I don’t want you three to either burn the house down while I’m gone, or leave it. You can do whatever you want as long as you’re still inside either the city or the castle. I’ll be back shortly!” Mentis brought up his rear hooves to the railing, springing off into the sky over the city. “Tah-tah for now!”

The three looked at each other again.

“So what did you want to ask?” Chrysalis asked Nightmare Moon.

“This... thing Mentis calls a human is could cause some trouble. I have plan that’ll take care of it.” Nightmare Moon annouced.

“Enlighten us with your ideas, oh wise moon-pony.” Solar Flare mocked.

Nightmare Moon shot her ‘sister’ a mean look, then looked serious again. “Fight fire with fire.”

“You know, I did that once, fought fire with more fire. The entire world was covered in fire within an hour. I didn’t think that would work so spectacularly. And for shame, Solar. For shame.”

Solar Flare rolled her eyes and talked to Nightmare Moon again. “Could you be a little bit more... I don’t know, specific?”

“Let another human go after him.” She replied.

Chrysalis tisked under her breath. “And how are you planning on doing that?”

“Easy! Just watch.” Nightmare Moon said as she turned around and walked to a more open part of the room. Her horn began to glow and a dark aura began to form in front of her. The room also began to become colder the more she focused. The aura slowly began to take shape of a bi-pedal creature. Slowly the aura began to fade away and revealed another human still on the ground. It was a teenage boy about the height of Solar Flare. He was wearing a black jacket that had angel wings imprinted on its back. He was also was wearing dark blue jeans. He didn’t move an inch.

“Is that thing even alive?” Chrysalis asked with a bit mock in her voice.

“Of course it is.” Nightmare Moon replied. With that the human began to clench his fists, who to shake slightly. He began to rise off the ground with a look of disgust and anger. She stared daggers at Nightmare Moon like she was a monster... wait.

She is.

The human pointed towards Nightmare Moon. “You.”

Nightmare Moon looked confused. “Me?”

The human locked his gaze at her. “You, had to do it again. Fucking AGAIN!”

“What do you mean, foolish human?” She replied. you could hear that she was utterly confused.

The human clenched his teeth together. “You took me from my family and friends not once but TWICE. When the hell did you get a body?!”

“Oh, my dear friend Mentis took care of that.” She replied with some pride, knowing that she had a strong ally. Chrysalis turned around and poked her head in the corridor. She yelled something and a moment later a Changeling Praetorian came into the room, in the edge of the human’s sight.

“Grab him.” Chrysalis said bluntly. The Praetorian walked up to the human to grab him by his arm. As the Praetorian lumbered towards the human, his hoof falls were extremely loud, alerting the human to it’s presence.

The human, in one swift motion, reached to his right side, pulling out a medium sized object. He turned towards the Praetorian Changeling pointing the device at it. “One more step, I dare you.”

The lumbering Praetorian guard simply burst into the air, wings buzzing like an insect’s. The buzzing was cut short by a loud explosion. The human had not moved from his spot, but the device he held had a steady stream of smoke coming from the barrel.

The large figure slumped to the floor, a relatively large hole in it’s barrel of a chest showing strait through. Needless to say, the changeling was dead. In the silence that followed after, the ghost of a laugh seemed to resonate from the corners of the room.

The human pointed his device towards the corners. “Who’s there?”

Nightmare Moon was flabbergasted, her so-called servant had not only disrespected her, but also killed one of Chrysalis’s guards. “What are you, insane? You’re supposed to be my servant, not a stupid human who thinks oh so highly of himself like that other childish one!”

“Andrew may be childish but still, I will not let you do to me what you did last time!” the human replied.

“Andrew? I have learned of no Andrew. Mentis only spoke of Pim.”

“Enough of your games, I am not going to let you harm them again!” the human said while raising his device, hoping they would buy the bluff, due to the device only being a one shot at a time weapon.

“Foolish human, there is not only Nightmare here, but Chrysalis and Solar Flare!

“Pardon me, but, who the fuck are you two?” the human replied sounding annoyed.

All three of the supersized mares shared an eye roll as they picked him up with telekinesis.

The Aura around the human flickered as he landed on the ground with a thud. “Let me ask that again, who the fuck are you two?”

Solar Flare spoke up. “Think of us as... A nightmare.”

They all focused a blast into a tiny bead of multicolored energy, impacting into the human’s chest and violently blasting him out of the balcony.

The human, soaring through the air had time to think to himself. This reminds me of a cartoon I use to watch, what was it...

Oh yeah...

LOOKS LIKE TEAM ROCKET IS BLASTING OFF AGAAAAAAAAAAAIN.

In response to that thought, those watching could see a star flicker over him.

Meanwhile in Ponyville, a loud bang was heard coming from Canterlot.

“What was that?” I said as I raised my head and looked around.

“I don’t know, just ignore it.” Vinyl replied and continued plotting with Pim and the rest.

I looked outside the window and saw a star flickering in the sky.

What the fuck? It’s day, is that Nightmare bitch fucking around again?

I kept looking outside in hope to see something else happening. On the last moment I saw something flying towards the Everfree Forest.

“What the fuck?” I said, making everypony look at me. I turned to them and said. “I’m going out for a walk, I’ll be back in a while.” Everypony nodded and got back to scheming while I opened the door and walked outside. I made my way to the entrance of the Everfree Forest. I took a deep breath and ran into the grimy looking forest. I followed the natural path for a while before I heard another loud bang.

“‘Ello? Anyone here?” I called out, hoping for a reaction or something jumping out of somewhere.

I looked around, slightly creeped out. The trees looked like they had faces on them... ready to eat my face! “Hello?!” I called out again, again, hoping for an answer.

In response a strained voice called out. “Over here!”

I looked around and ran to the source of the voice. It came from behind a bush with a patch of blue flowers in front of it. I jumped over them and walked around the bush. There was a human lying there, against a tree. A HUMAN, A MALE HUMAN! Oh, he also had a bleeding leg... wait WHAT! I ran towards him and slided next to him. “I’m here to help! Euuuh, what’s your name? Tell me while I look for some branches!” I yelled while I was clearly panicking and not knowing what I was doing.

The man looked up at me.

“Pim? What the hell.”

“Huh, you know me?” I asked and took a closer look at him. “OHMAHGOD! SHAWN WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE?”

“I was about to ask the same damn thing...” he cringed in pain. “God damn it this hurts!”

“Oh FUCK, Let me help you!” I said as I tried to pick Shawn up. He grunted as I picked him up. I walked around the bush and found myself in front of the same patch of flowers.

“Flowers... We meet again...” I said as I shot a mysterious look at them. I lifted my foot above the flowers before Shawn yelled something.

“Hold it! That’s fucking Poison Joke, you don’t want to step in that shit.”

“Why not?” I replied as I put my left foot in it. “What’s wrong with it? It’s just a bunch of flowers.”

“It does stuff to you, I’m meaning like I saw AJ shrink to the size of one of them.

“How the fuck do you know Applejack?! And fuck the flowers.” I said as I continued walking into the poison joke.

Shawn let go of me and walked around saying, “I’ve been in Equestria long enough. But when did you get here? Where’s Andrew?”

“Andrew?” I said confused. Next thing you know, I trip into the poison joke.

“Fuck!” I said as I quickly crawled up from the patch of poison joke. I rushed over to Shawn and pulled him along with me as we went rushing out of the forest.

As I ran out of the forest, I tripped over a root. I threw Shawn away from me as I faceplanted into the fresh forest dirt.

“I... can’t... move... a... single... fucking...muscle.” I said as I laid face-down in the dirt.

Shawn sighed. “You come into the forest to help me, and now I have to help you out.” he said as he began to lift me up.

“Th- ... thanks.” Pim said with a lot of effort. I noticed that Shawn had a satchel on his right side of his pants. “Why...why the fuck do you have a pocket hangin’ from your jeans?”

He shook his head. “Nothing you need to worry about for now.”

Pim nodded in response. “Let’s...go.”

After all the energy drain Pim passed into a unconscious state. Shawn walked while carrying him through the forest. Upon reaching the edge of the forest, Shawn began to have his vision blur due to blood loss and passed out near the edge of Ponyville.

“Eeeuuuhhh...My fucking head...” I said as I woke up. I looked around. I was back home, on my bed.

“Eeeuh, what happened? I’m hungry, time for some breakfast... or whatever.” Pim said to himself as he walked towards the door and opened it. I walked down the stairs and walked into the kitchen. I heard some... wubs coming from somewhere. I tried to track to source of the noise and ended up in front of the dishwasher. It had something engraved on it.

‘Dubstep Dishwasher’ ...Mmmh, I bet Vinyl chose this one!

I grabbed an apple and walked out of the kitchen...wait, someone was asleep on the couch. Wait... I met Shawn earlier in Everfree. I walked up to Shawn and check on him. His leg was bandaged and he looked like he was out cold. I slapped him across the face to make sure he was. Yup... he’s out! Let’s check him one more time! With that I walked outside and came back inside a second later with a stick in my hand. I walked up to the couch again and focused on Shawn.

*poke* *poke* “ ‘Ello? Shaaaaawn?” I said as I went for another poke. He reacted by grabbing the stick mid air of the last poke and snapped it. “Don’t. Try. That. Again.”

“Eeeuh, Mornin’ Sunshine! How are you feeling?” Pim asked, still suprised by the sudden move.

Shawn opened his eyes and sat up. “Better now that I got rest after dragging you out of the Everfree.”

“You did what?” I asked suprised.

“You passed out so I carried you out of the forest to Ponyville, I guess somepony found us.”

“What the fu- You know what, never mind. I need to check how the girls have been plotting.” I responded. “Anyways, how the fuck did you get here? And how do you know Applejack?!”

He grunted. “Thanks to Nightmare Moon, she brought me to Canterlot. I’ve known AJ for awhile now, and the rest.” He stopped and started thinking. “Then again Nightmare Moon didn’t actually remember me... What’s up with that.”

“Well, I don’t fuckin’ know. You said Nightmare Moon brought you here... How do you know her? Were you in Equestria before?” Pim asked still being surprised.

The look of anger grew on his face. “She used me and my friend as a last resort plan to destroy or get rid of the princess but she did not have control over us... for the most part...”

“Dafuq? Why didn’t they recognize you. Equestria is Equestria... right?” Pim answered.

He seemed lost in thought. “What if there is more than one...”

“HOLY WHALE BALLS! THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!” Pim yelled.

“Uhhh, yeah we’ll go with awesome... I just hope I can get back”

“To?” Pim asked.

“To my home. To those who know me. Not just a outcast somewhere else.”

“Ya’ know... Let’s go for a walk. I need to have some fresh air.” Pim said as he walked to the door. Shawn began to slowly get up and follow. Pim held the door open for Shawn, he went outside and Pim followed him.

We walked all the way to the town square. I wanted to know if Applejack would recognize him. We saw her cart and she waved.

“Hi Applejack! How are ya’ doin’?” Pim asked her immediately.

“I’m doin’ mighty fine, Ah see you and your friend are alright. Who is he anyways?”

“Oh, that my friend, Shawn. He was my friend on Earth, but Nightmare Moon somehow got him in Equestria.” Pim anwsered. Shawn remained dead silent. He looked like he was thinking...

Suddenly we heard laughter behind us. And not the Mentis type of maniacal cackling either.

A/N: So this 'Shawn dude' is my friend and we decided to do a crossover... So everypony check out "Shawn820" mkay! He's a great guy! WHEEEW