Pony-fied!

Pony-Fied!

I slowly awoke to find myself in a bed with an outer space-themed blanket on it. I moved to place a hand on my forehead, but jumped out of the bed and fell onto the floor when I realized what I was looking at.

“AAH! What…?” I almost asked, but then it all came flooding back to me; I’d been painstakingly turned into a pony. “Oh, right…”

“Oh, good! You’re awake!” Twilight happily announced as she cantered over to help me up.

“Yeah… remind me t’ NEVER let you do anythin’ like that again,” I groggily replied as I looked down at my new hooves.

“Aww, c’mon… It wasn’t THAT bad, was it?”

“Depends on if you’ve ever been ripped apart and turned into a completely different animal before…” I bitterly quipped, cutting my eyes at her.

“You got me there… sorry, I didn’t know! I-it was an honest miscalculation! All part of the scientific process!”

“Yea, okay… hey, why doesn’t everything hurt?”

“I used another healing spell on you just in case anything drastic happened to you while you were unconscious. I’m relieved to see that you’re alright… Do you want to see what you look like?”

“Sure.”

Twilight didn’t hesitate to bring me a large mirror to examine myself with. I found my look to be… odd, compared to the ponies I’d seen (given that Twilight and the vague glimpses of the local townsfolk were all I had as references). Whereas every pony had a solid, usually-bright coat color, mine was jet black, but with four large red stripes trailing up the backs and sides of my hind legs from my hooves. I also noticed that my eyes, instead of being a dark brown, were now a lighter, more golden-brown. My… mane, I guess, was formed into a medium-sized afro with long, very curly hair lining the back of my neck. My new tail had the same dark, puffy texture. I didn’t see any horn or wings, which was kind of disappointing, but I couldn’t complain. I took a look at Twilight standing next to me and noticed that, even though I’d shrunk, I was still a bit larger than she was. The thing that really caught my eye was the tattoo that appeared on my flanks; a white comic book-styled thought bubble.

“Sooo, how do you like it?” Twilight asked.

“Not gonna lie; this is pretty cool!” I answered enthusiastically.

“Good! What do you suppose your Cutie Mark means, though?”

“My wha…? Oh, right! The tattoo thing… Hmm… Well, I did always find enjoyment in thinking about everything and givin’ advice to friends who needed it… But mainly, I’d find myself thinkin’ about ways to do somethin’, dependin’ on the situation I was in. Otherwise, I’ll sometimes lose myself in my own train of thought when I’m alone. Basically, I’d like to see myself as a pensive kind of pers— I mean, pony.”

“Interesting…”

“So, when you plan on showin’ me around this place?”

“As soon as I’m sure you’re able to walk and run like a pony. I hypothesize that, because you were a human and you’re now a completely different species of life-form, you’ll probably have some difficulty with basic pony movements.”

“No way! Humans can crawl, and I hypothesize that this won’t be as hard as you sayin’ it might be!” I challenged.

“Okay, Mr. Daring,” Twilight said with a smirk as she walked to the other side of the room. “Come here,” she ordered, motioning a fore-hoof in a come-hither motion. I smirked as I tried my first steps as a pony. A problem arose immediately. I’d been so used to bending my knees forward that when I tried to move my hind legs in the same way, they locked up. I also forgot that I was so used to my arms bending towards my body that my fore-legs also locked up. I fell flat on my face, my rear sticking high into the air.

“What the…?” I growled with my face still firmly planted on the floor. The combined laughter of the lavender unicorn and the purple dragon, who was sitting on the bed, was no help. “I hate’cha… Hate’cha both…” I moaned with a sigh, finding myself unable to move from this embarrassing position. Spike jumped off the bed to help me set myself up again, still laughing.

“Care to try again?” Twilight asked, stifling a giggle.

“Yea. I see my problem already… My fore legs and hind legs bend in the opposite directions of what I’d expect, which is throwin’ me off. This DOES sort of feel like crawlin’ as a human, but I’m s’posed to be usin’ more o’ my front legs to keep me steady rather than relyin’ on my back legs to do so.”

“Interesting… Now let’s see you put your theory to the test! Try again.” On her command, I began to move, keeping my theory in mind. I started with my right fore-hoof. Then my left hind-hoof, followed by my left fore-hoof, after which came my right hind-hoof. I quickly saw the pattern and internalized it as I approached the lavender unicorn with ease.

“I’m impressed! You’re a quick learner!” Twilight cheered as she patted my afro-mane with a hoof. “Wow, your mane is just about as puffy as Pinkie Pie’s…”

“Pinkie who?”

“A friend of mine I’d like you to meet later. But there is one more lesson I need to teach you before w—!” Twilight said, but she cut herself off as her jaw dropped in shock. “You’re able to do that already??”

“What?” I asked as I galloped around the room a couple times before slowing myself to a trot, then stopping completely in front of the lavender unicorn.

“Lesson complete!”

“Alright! What do I win?” I jokingly asked.

“A no-expense paid trip around the fair town of Ponyville!” Twilight answered, matching my joke with another.

“No expense-paid? Darn! Oh well, let’s go!”

“Wait! One more thing,” Twilight began. “Spike, take a letter.”

“With gusto!” Spike enthusiastically answered as he grabbed a feather and a piece of paper.

“Alright. Dear Princess Celestia... The latest spell I learned, the spell that was supposed to let me instantly transport myself to different places like Fillydelphia, Las Pegasus, and even Canterlot, I am sorry to say was a failure in that department. However, this same spell instead let me travel to someplace where nopony has gone before. I am delighted to inform you that I may have discovered intergalactic travel! I have even brought a guest from the universe I visited, as well as a plethora of notes! I wish to show him around Ponyville before bringing him to Canterlot to discuss his knowledge with you, if that is okay. Faithfully Yours, Twilight Sparkle.”

“Aaaaand done!” Spike declared as he finished writing down Twilight’s words. He then rolled the letter into a scroll and, with a strong breath of green fire; he burned the scroll to sparkling vapors that flew out of a nearby window.

“…What was the point of that?” I asked, confused. “Why write a letter, and then burn it up?”

“The letter didn’t actually burn,” Spike answered.

“You see, Ty, when Spike breathes fire on a letter, it is dematerialized and sent instantly to Princess Celestia, where it will reform itself for her to read. Spike here is a sort of messenger. Through him, I am able to send and receive letters with The Princess,” Twilight explained.

“Ahh, wow, so Spike’s like your personal magic mailma— mail-dragon?”

“Exactly!” As Twilight answered me, Spike’s cheeks ballooned like a chipmunk’s.

“Why ya makin’ that— WHOA!” I shouted as I ducked under the dragon’s sudden fiery burp. I felt something land in my afro-mane almost immediately after he was done belching.

“Wow, she responded pretty quickly!” Twilight excitedly announced before grabbing the foreign object out of my mane with her mouth. She took the scroll into her hooves and opened it to read its contents:

Dearest Twilight Sparkle,

While it is unfortunate to hear that your spell did not work the way you’d intended, it is most wonderful to hear that you’ve discovered something entirely new with it! In all my millennia, I have never heard of a pony being able to travel outside of one plane of existence and into another one! You never cease to amaze me, my Most Faithful Student, and I hope to meet this intergalactic friend of yours soon.

Yours Truly,

Princess Celestia

I was completely unable to process what just happened as my mouth fell open and I just gawked stupidly at the unicorn.

“I understand that this is a lot to take in, but we’ve got to give you a tour around the town! Let’s go!” Twilight commanded, snapping me out of my stupefied trance. I moved to follow her, but then my stomach growled very loudly.

“Oh, right… I was in such a hurry to get here that I forgot to eat,” I sheepishly informed the unicorn with a toothy grin.

“Well, that,” she began as her own stomach began to growl. “…definitely tells us where we’re going first. Onwards, to Sweet Apple Acres!”

“Mmm… Apples…” I hungrily said as we headed out the door and into the town of Ponyville…