Heroes

Chapters

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4

Chapter 1

I leaned back in my office chair and sighed, "I am so freaking sweaty right now."

My name is Timothy Adams, I'm 22 years old, born and raised in New York State. I've been dating this sweet girl named Cassandra for about a month now, I'm in good standings with my family. My mom and dad, plus a sister. I even have a job, I'm a programmer for a small video game company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Bad news, it's freaking hot as balls in the studio. The air conditioners are broken. Plus, I was done with all my work so I'm just sitting here for the last few minutes.

"Relax Tim, you only got two minutes left," Jeffrey, my co-worker says. He was more bulkier than I was and stood at a whopping 7 feet. Yeah crazy. He also had black hair and was 25 years old. At the moment, he was designing an enemy for the game, then he takes a glance at me. "Though it doesn't help that you wore a black shirt today."

I looked down at my clothes, I had a pair of blue jeans on, and of course a black t-shirt that says Naughty Dog on the front. Speaking of appearances, I am 6 feet tall with dirty blonde hair and dark blue eyes. Other than that, not much else to say. I was a bit skinny but nothing else really stood out.

"You okay there Tim? You've been staring at the floor for the past minute," Jeffrey snapped me out of my thoughts. Then the clock hit 6 in the afternoon and I got up.

"Yeah, I'm fine," I said as I gathered my things. "See ya!"

"Yep," Jeffrey said as he went back to work.

Happily, I exited the building to find an unexpected suprise. My best friend Jon Jones, yeah that's his name, or JJ for short, was standing right outside. Next to him was my beautiful girlfriend Cassandra Bates. Immediately, Cassandra comes and gives me a big hug and kiss. Cassandra was gorgeous, she had long brown hair and beautiful green eyes, though she was shorter than me at 5 feet, but that didn't matter. She wore a T-Shirt that had a picture of one of those ponies from that show, My Little Pony. I didn't watch the show myself, but I didn't mind that my girlfriend watched it.

As soon as she let go, Jon came up and slapped me on the back. I gave a little grunt and he laughed. Jon himself was around the same height as me and had black hair and green eyes. He also wore a shirt that said Grit's Ribcage and Hardhat. I didn't get the reference, I should ask about it later.

Cassandra then spoke up, "Don't hit him too hard Jon, he's getting old!"

They laughed, "Hey, 22 is not old! You're only 2 years younger than me! And Jon's the same age as me!" I said.

"Don't bring me into this Tim!" Jon said.

I decided to take the sarcastic approach, "Oh? Guess I was slapped by the invisible man, huh?"

"Touché," Jon said.

Now it was my turn to laugh. We were having a good time just walking to my apartment, when I heard a familiar voice from behind.

"Yo! Tim!" Jeffrey called as he ran up to me.

I turned around to see him catching his breath, "What's up Jeffey?"

"Don't call me that," he panted. Eventually he stood up and held out his hand. In it was my phone! "You forgot this."

I smiled, "Thanks man!" He smiled as well as I took it from him. I could hear sirens in the distance but I didn't think anything of it. Then I had an idea.

"Hey man, hows about you come with us to my house? It's game night!" I said excitedly. The sirens were getting louder as I finished the question.

I noticed he was staring behind me. "Jef-"

"LOOK OUT!"

I couldn't even finish my sentence as I was thrown towards the pavement on the street by Jeffrey. Immediately, I felt pain shoot up my arm as I landed on it. Then I heard a sudden crash and screaming! Quickly as I could, got up, clutching my arm. I turned back towards where my friends were and was horrified when I saw a car on the sidewalk, it must've slammed right into the wall we were next too. Then, I realized that my friends were nowhere to be seen!

"Guys!" I yelled. I started running to the wrecked car to find no one was there, not even a driver! "Where'd my friends go!?"

"Over here, Tim!" I heard a voice on the verge of crying. On the other side of the car was Cassandra, slumped against the wall.

"Oh God! Cassandra! Are you hurt? Where's Jeffrey and Jon?" I heard a police car screech to a halt nearby.

"I'm fine. But, I...oh god Tim! Jon pushed me out of the way and then I saw them get by that car! Where are they?!"

"I...I don't know," I said as I started to cry as well. This was too much. Then I heard a car door slam and whipped around to see a cop come towards me. "Oh thank god, officer, my friends hurt and I don't know-"

"Freeze!" I stopped as the officer pointed a gun at me. I also heard Cassandra say, 'that voice'.

I didn't really think about what she said, my eyes were focused on the gun. "I'm not the drunk driver if that's what you're thinking. My friends need help!"

Then the cop actually freaking smiled! "Oh I know that you're not!"
Then he looked me dead in the eyes, which gave me the creeps as his eyes seemed different somehow. "But you're friends aren't the ones that need help, mine do."

Then I heard Cassandra gasp, "Tim, I know that voice! He sounds like-"

Immediately, a gunshot rang out and I turned to see Cassandra look at me with wide eyes and she immediately disappeared, no fading or anything. Just bam, and shes gone!

I literally screamed her name and looked back at the officer, "What the hell's wrong with you!?"

"Don't be so harsh, Timmy! I'm doing this for the good of everyp...er, everybody," he said.

"No you're not! You just killed my girlfriend!" I said angrily. I was over being sad, now, I was furious. I clenched my fists.

The cop didn't even flinch, but what he said next shocked me to the core. "No I didn't, I just sent her to my universe."

"Wha?" I thought he was joking at first, but the way he said it...

"Well," he looked at a wristwatch I swore he didn't have on before. "Our Q&A time is done, nice talking to you Timmy." He pointed the gun directly at me, I was frozen in place, nearly pissing myself. "Just remember, you and your friends our the Multiverses only hope. Cheesy, I know, but roll with it."

Before I could say anything else, he shot me. But, strangely, it didn't feel like a bullet. It felt as if my body just got too tired to move.

As my world faded to black I could hear the cop hum a familiar tune.

The first sensation I had next was the wind rushing against my body. Confused, I took a daring peak at my surroundings. But all I saw was ground coming straight towards me. Fast.

"Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-"

I closed my eyes as I braced for impact. I could feel the ground crack beneath me. But, oddly, I felt no pain. Except for some nausea. At this point my eyes were still closed and I felt like I was laying on my belly. Though, my body felt weird.

"I think it came from over here!" I heard a voice say, sounded like a woman. Though my eyes were still closed. The sound of...hooves filled the air. Hooves? Where was I? "Right through...here..."

The voices stopped once they got near. "Is that a...dragon?" I heard singular hoofsteps get closer ever so slowly.

"Twilight! What if it attacks you?" A raspy voice said.

Twilight? That sounded familiar. Wait...DRAGON?! Slowly but surely, I opened my eyes. To see the blinding light of the sun. I groaned as I closed them again.

"Um? Hello?" Another voice in front of me said. These voices sounded strangely familiar. Again I opened my eyes. Then I wish I hadn't. Right in front of me was Twilight Sparkle, from my girlfriend's favorite show. She was purple, that much was obvious. Her...mane?...and tail were a very deep purple with two stripes, a hot pink one and a violet one. Of course the face was flatter than a horses with huge eyes. She also had her signature horn and wings.

I sighed, "Dear god tell me I'm dreaming."

"Ummm, you're not?" She said.

I sighed again, my body still felt weird. But I didn't feel like getting up. So I decided to ask her what's wrong. "What's my status doc?"

"What?" She asked. I heard other hoofsteps approaching.

I rolled my eyes, "Anything physically wrong with me?"

She looked me over, "Nope, as far as I can tell, you're a perfectly healthy drake. Now, might I asked what happened?"

My eyes widened, "Come again?"

She gave me a confused look, "What happened?"

"No before that!"

"You're a healthy dragon?"

Tentatively, I brought my arm in front of me. Instead of a normal arm, there was a bulky arm with blue scales and freaking claws at the end! I did the most rational thing I could think of, scream. With speed of lightning, I sat on my arse and looked over my body. I was at least 15 feet tall, and was blue. Behind me were spikes going down my back, and down my long tail. Of course my wings were wide open and were pretty decently sized.

I looked back at Twilight, who had backed towards her friends. They were looking at me with a mix of confusion and fear. The rainbow haired one with a cyan body stepped up. "Wait, you didn't know you were a dragon?"

I looked at them, how would they react if I told them I was a creature from another universe, if the crazy cop was to be believed. I decided to lie, "No I knew, I was just joshing you."

Then the orange one came up to me, with her braided golden mane and stetson hat. "Now that's a complete lie and y'all know it! Mind tellin' us the truth?"

"Um..." I was cornered and I knew it,they were all giving me accusing glances. Except for a few, Twilight and Fluttershy had concerned expressions. Pinkie was just smiling, she probably knew. Princess...Celestia was just putting on her poker face. I was getting more and more nervous until what looked to be a messager pony came flying down and landed next to Celestia, I managed to hear the conversation from where I was.

"It's been reported that 2 meteors have crashed in Cloudsdale and the Everfree, respectively. Our scouts also say one landed in the badlands," the pegasus said.

My eyes went wide at that, 3? Could it be...

"Alright, keep me posted on them. They could be regular meteorites or..." Celestia stopped as she saw me, my eyes were still wide. Dang it. "You seem to know something don't you, Mr...?"

I was the center of attention again. Guess there's no beating around the bush now. "I might have an idea of who they are."

"They?" Everyone looked at me questioningly.

"Yeah, I can't explain much but, I think they might be my friends."

"More dragons?" Rainbow eyed me suspiciously.

"To be honest, I don't know," I said scratching my head. If I turned into a dragon, what about them?

"You mean you don't know what your friends look like?" Twilight asked.

"Well, I..." I really didn't want to tell them everything. I felt my wings on my back. Maybe I could escape? Look for them myself? That'd be my backup plan. "Look, why don't we just go to where they are and let me see who they are first."

"I'm sorry, but until I know exactly who you are, I can't let you leave," Celestia said.

"You mean you're just going to make me a prisoner?" I said angrily. I felt something rise in my stomach area.

"I never said that," she said calmly.

"Bullcrap! What is it with people today?! First that weird cop with the yellow and red eyes shoots my friends, now I'm being kept prisoner?!" I could feel a burp coming up for some reason.

"Did you say yellow and red eyes?" Twilight asked, though I didn't hear her in my rampage.

"What else could go wrong!?" I yelled as smoke came out of my mouth. That burp was reaching my mouth.

"Um...Mr. Dragon?" Someone said. But I barely heard it as somebody yelled 'get out of the way'! And I literally let loose a stream of freaking fire from my mouth! It kept coming and coming and I didn't know how to stop it. Eventually though, it stopped and I immediately felt very tired after. My body weakened quickly and I fell back to the ground, and for the second time that day, I blacked out.

Author's Note

Hey everyone and welcome to my new story! Don't worry, I'll still be working on The Great Transition. I just really want to majorly revise it. I felt like I rushed the plot a little too much. I think the first few chapters are safe from major edits, but after 4 or 5, I wanted to do some revising. Thank you for your support, and as usual, constructive criticism is welcome. See ya!

Chapter 2

My eyes darted open, to find me in my bedroom. It was exactly as I remembered it. “Oh thank God,” I whispered. “Just a nightmare, a very realistic nightmare.”

I got up out of my bed and started my morning routine. Take a shower, though I could swear the shower water was yellow. Put on some clothes, all of which were bright green. Walked down my sideways stairs. Entered the kitchen which had a disco ball hanging from the ceiling. I walked past my sink with liquid rainbow coming out of it and went over to my sky blue coffee maker. Poured myself a cup of coffee and took a whiff. “This coffee smells like shit!” I said.

“It is shit Timothy…” Somebody with a british accent said.

“Good, it’s not just me then,” I said and took a sip. “It’s a bit nutty.."

Then I finally realized something, “Something ain’t right here.” I looked around my very abnormal house, “I don’t think I took any drugs.”

“Indeed you haven’t,” I jumped at the regal voice somewhere in the room. I turned towards my living room to find a dark blue pony amongst dancing furniture. She had a flowing starry mane and a horn. She also had wings, so I have no idea what kind of pony she was. “You’re dreams are very chaotic. It makes me think you and Discord would get along nicely.”

I was about to ask who she was when I realized what she said, “Wait, if this is just a dream, then am I actually a dragon still?” She nodded, “Dangit!”

She looked confused, “I was going to ask you about this...form you seem to be in right now.”

“Wait, I just wanted to ask real quick, who the heck are you and why are you in my dreams?”

“Oh, of course, I forgot to introduce myself. I am Luna, Princess of the Night.” She bowed her head slightly, she was so formal.

Princess of the night? Where have I heard that name before, seeing as how she was a talking colored horse, I had to guess she was from the show. But, I feel like I should know more. Cassandra made me watch some episodes with her. Not that I liked them…

“Ah, I know who you are now!” I exclaimed.

She made a funny face, “You do?”

“Yeah! You were introduced in the first two episodes as Nightmare Moon! Then you were blasted with the rainbow beam!” I said excitedly.

She looked sad. Oh crap, must be a touchy subject. Great job Timmy. I walked up to her, “Hey, I don’t really know much about the show, but you don’t seem like a bad pony, though, how come you don’t use that strange way you spoke in the show?”

She looked happier now, “Oh, because I finally learned to speak in the modern tongue! Though, what do you mean by this ‘show’ you speak of?”

Oh shoot, should I tell her she’s from a cartoon show on my world? Dang, that’s still going to take some getting used to, me being in another universe and all. Oh well, I shall tell her! Though, I’ll have to start from the beginning.

“Well, in order to tell you this, I’ll have to tell you some other things too. But first, I want to ask you a couple things,” I said.

“Of course,” Luna said.

“First, why are you in my head?”

“Because, my sister wanted to know more about you, considering you knocked yourself out before she could really ask anything, so I took the opportunity to enter your dreams.”

“You can do that?” I asked incredulously.

“Yes, it's one of my duties as princess of the night. I traverse the dreamscape and vanquish nightmares invading ponies dreams,” she said proudly.

“Wow, what else can you do?” I asked as I took a sip of my coffee, it tasted like bananas.

“Well, I raise the moon of course,” she said.

I spit out my coffee. “Wut?”

“You mean you didn’t know?” She asked.

“Well where I come from, the moon orbits the Earth.”

She actually laughed at that statement, “Oh, that’s funny, thank you for giving me a good laugh.” Then she saw my poker face. “Surely you can’t be serious?”

“I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley,” I said.

She scrunched up her face in confusion, both at my joke and the whole moon thing. Then it was my turn to laugh.

“Wow,” she said. “You’re mean.”

“Actually, I was being serious about the moon thing, your face was just so funny!”

“Where do you come from then? And what is this Earth you speak of? Does this have something to do with your form?”

“Wow, so many questions! I hate to break it to you, but I wasn’t originally a dragon, I was a human,” I pointed at myself.

Her eyes widened immensely, “You were struck by a conversion spell?”

“A what now?” I shook my head, “No idea what that is, all I remember is that this maniac cop shot me and I woke up as a dragon in the sky.”

“What do you mean by ‘shot’?” Luna asked.

Crap, should I tell her about guns? Have they even had wars here? Screw it.

“Well, I mean, there are these weapons called guns, and these guns, which are handheld, shoot little projectiles called bullets at high velocity. Now, I don’t know how it works that much on the inside, but what I can tell you is this, they are deadly. I got shot by one,” I explained.

Luna sat on her haunches to process this information.

“Why make such deadly devices?” She asked.

“One word, war,” I said.

“You’ve had wars too? Where are you from?”

“I think I might be in a different universe, at least a different planet,” I said, tapping my chin.

Her eyes widened again, “You’re joking right?”

I shook my head, “I don’t know a lot about what’s going on, but I know I’m not from here.”

That sentence made me realize something, how would I get back home? What about my family and friends? Are my friends even alive?
I walked over to the only non-dancing chair in the room and sat with my head in my hands. Then I started crying. How the heck could this have happened? I hate that cop! If I ever find him, I’m going to-

“Are you okay Mr...I just realized. I don’t know your name!” Luna exclaimed. I couldn’t see her face, but I could tell she was worried.

“It’s Timothy, and no, I’m not okay! My life has been taken away from me by a single jackass!” I said angrily. Suddenly, I felt something stretch around my back and to my right shoulder. I looked up to see Luna next to me, giving a warm smile. “Wha...what are you doing?”

“I’m trying to comfort you, is that alright?” She asked, her tone was much more relaxed than ever before.

“Yeah, I guess...but why? Why help a stranger?” I asked

“Two reasons. One is a duty of mine, to get rid of nightmares in the dreamscape and make sure ponies have a peaceful night. The other, well, I just want to. I feel like it’s the right thing to do.”

I stared at her, no stranger had ever been this nice...was this common? Snapping out of it, I said, “Thank you, as for the reason I’m sad, it’s quite the story.”

So I relayed the story of my fate to Luna, how I was with my friends and the car accident happened. I had to explain to her what automobiles were, she was shocked at the severity of the situation. Then I told her about the cop. To say the least, she was appalled by the cops actions. I was too, to be honest. Peace keeper my ass. Once I finished, she stood there for a little bit, then finally spoke.

“So you have reason to believe your friends are either dead or dying?” She asked.

“Yes,” I said sadly, “Why?”

“This is just speculation, but I have reason to believe your friends are still alive, and maybe are in the country,” Luna said. I stared at her for a second.

“What? How?” I asked.

“Do you remember how, all three of your friends disappeared?”

“Yeah, I even saw Cassandra vanish right in front of me.”

“Do you also remember when Quick Letter er...the messenger pony came to tell my sister that three other meteors crashed throughout the country?”

“Yeah. But...wait, you don’t mean…?” I finally caught on.

“I do, we have reason to believe that the other three meteorites are your friends. Cassandra, Jon, and Jeffrey. The fact that the cop actually says he transported them to another dimension is proof enough.”

“Well, what are we waiting for? Wake me up, let’s get them!” I started to stand.

She put a hoof to my chest and gently pushed me back down, “I cannot let you go for two reasons.”

I sighed, “What?”

“The first is that I don’t know how the citizens of Equestria will react to the dragon who attacked my friends just flying around,” she said.

“What do you mea-oh, because of me breathing fire, right?”

“Exactly, I do not blame you since I now know it was your first time in that body, that leads to the second reason. Your body is reacting strangely to the conversion for some reason. Until I know why, I don’t want you leaving the castle infirmary, spouting fire until it was depleted didn’t help.”

“Alright,” I said dejectedly. “Just hurry.”

“I will,” she said, though her face showed concern.

“They’re not in danger are they?”

She was silent.

“Are they?”

“The one in Cloudsdale will probably fine, but the other two landed in the Everfree Forest and The Badlands. The Everfree is notorious for it’s many deadly creatures.”

“And the Badlands?”

“That...is Changeling territory. We don’t know too much about what goes on there, but most hives don’t take kindly to trespassers. Some will, but…”

“But what?”

“The meteorite landed near Chrysalis’ hive.”

“Chrysalis?”

“The worst of the evil queens. She drains creatures of love and nearly kills them. She traps them and keeps drainig their love. It’s despicable.”

“And one of my friends is near her?!”

“Sadly, yes.”

“Well hurry!” I was getting really nervous at this point.

“Do not worry yet. My fellow princesses are on their way to each location.”

“O...okay,” I calmed down. “What about you, and how will the other princesses know what to do?”

“I am positioned in the castle to protect you. As for the other princesses, I am sharing a mental link spell so they can hear my thoughts. That way, they know exactly what’s going on.”

Okay, that was awesome. Then I remembered something, “Hey, you wanted to know what I meant by the show, right?”

“Of course!”

“Okay, well let me start to explain what a T.V. is first.”

I started to explain a television is, how it works and what it does. The shows and movies that play on it. Sadly she hadn’t caught on as to why I was explaining the concept.

After I finished talking about the trivial stuff, she asked, “I’m sorry but, where are you going with this?”

“Well, there’s a certain show that certain people watch...it’s called...My Little Pony.”

She was confused as to what I meant by that at first, but as soon as she realized it, her expression turned to shock. “Y...you mean?”

“Yes, there is a show about you guys, the main plot follows Twilight Sparkle and her friends.”

She sat there for a second, I now realized why she was silent a lot, she was talking to the other princesses. Then she spoke up.

“We are slightly disturbed by this information,” she said. “It feels like we’ve been spied on.”

I waved my hands at that, “Nono, it’s not like that. It’s probably just mere coincidence that your world is on a show from my world.”

“I suppose, but might I ask, were you a fan of the show?”

Shit...now I had to tell her that I was never really interested. I tried to skirt around it, “I haven’t really watched it.”

“Why?”

Damnit, really?

“I just…” I sighed. “Cassandra showed me a couple episodes and...I’m sorry but I never really liked it. Not that I thought it was bad, I just, you know...didn’t um…”

I got so nervous I started to sweat. Would they hate me now? Would she hate me? Then I felt a hoof on my shoulder, there was Luna smiling at me. A warm smile.

“Don’t worry, I-we don’t hate you for disliking the show.”

I sighed in relief. “Thank you.”

“Your welcome…”

We sat there in awkward silence. I took another glimpse at Luna and noticed her...what was it? Cutie Mark. Of course it was a crescent moon. Just like Celestia’s is the sun. To be honest, I haven’t really been paying attention to the cutie marks. But for some reason, I couldn’t stop staring at Luna. She was, pretty, in a way. Wait, what?! Did I just think that? There are two reasons that’s a nono. One, I have a beautiful girlfriend, and two, she’s a freaking pony. Sentient, but still…

“My sister has found one of your friends…” Luna spoke up.

“She has?” I immediately sat up.

“Yes,” Luna smiled. “She’s a pegasus.”

“She...Cassandra?!” I said excitedly.

Luna nodded, “Celestia is speaking with her now.”

I sighed in relief, then remembered something, “I hope Jon and Jeffrey are okay too…”

“I’m sure they are…”

Cassandra’s POV

I felt really tired for some reason. My back also ached quite a bit. I moaned, I didn’t want to get up, but why did I feel so...different? What happened yesterday? I went shopping, stopped with Jon to meet up with Timothy, Jeffrey ran up to us and...that’s all I can remember. Weird. Then unfamiliar voices came from outside the room.

“...miracle she survived let alone didn’t break any bones.” A masculine voice said.

Robbers? My first thought was. Though something felt off, my bed didn’t feel right, nor did my body. Then there was that annoying beeping. The door to my room opened and I kept my eyes closed for some reason.

“Where’d she come from?” Another voice asked. Female. “Anypony come to see her?”

Anypony? Wait a second…

“No idea where she came from Spitfire, she just landed right into the bleachers. Also, nopony’s come to see her yet.”

Spitfire? It can’t be. Am I dreaming? Then I remembered! The car crash, the crazy cop, and me being shot in front of Tim! Oh God, Tim! I shot up from my laying position as I opened my eyes. It looked like a hospital room, had I survived? Where was Jeffrey and Jon and...Tim…

I stared at the two ponies in the room. One was fairly recognizable, Spitfire of the Wonderbolts. She had her fiery hair and blue Wonderbolts costume on. The doctor I didn’t know, he had blue fur and a green mane. His lab coat blocked his cutie mark and he had a stethoscope around his neck.

The doctor cleared his throat, “Well, you seem healthy, Miss…?”

It took me a second to regain my voice, “Um...Cassandra…”

“Cassandra, huh?” The doctor repeated.

“Quick question,” I said, gaining their attention. “Where am I and why am I here.”

“You’re in the hospital because you fell into the bleachers, though you seemed to have sustained no injuries, which is odd.”

This garnered more questions, “What bleachers?” Then the realization of what was going on hit me, “Why am I in a freaking hospital room talking to two ponies.”

They gave a quick glance at each other, then Spitfire talked to me. “Are you okay? You do know you’re a pony too, right?”

“What? Don’t be silly,” I said, though I was starting to sweat, this was too real for a dream.

The doctor gave me a concerned glance, “I’m serious, you’re a perfectly healthy pegasus. Though I’m starting to believe you developed amnesia.”

My blood ran cold, I brought my weird feeling arm up and froze when I saw yellow fur. I rapidly looked around for a mirror and saw one on a metal table next to my bed. I snatched it up, ignoring the fact that I could hold it in my hoof. I brought it up to my face and...I really was a pony, with a red mane and tail. My friends are most likely dead and if the fanfictions are anything to go by, I’ll never see my family again. That’s when I started to cry.

Then I felt a hoof on my shoulder, “What’s wrong?” I looked up to see Spitfire looking at me.

“Why do you care?” I sniffled.

“Because, you landed in the bleachers during my performance. No one has come to see you yet. Besides, I just feel it’s the right thing to do. Now please, tell us what’s wrong,” Spitfire pleaded.

I sighed, “You wouldn’t believe me if I told you.”

“Just give it a shot,” she said.

“Okay,” I said. I was about to start when I heard more hooves coming down the hall. Then the door opened and I saw the pony I was least expecting. Princess Celestia. Spitfire and the doctor both bowed.

I was contemplating whether I should bow as well when she spoke up, “Rise my little ponies.” She looked at the doctor and nodded her head towards me, “Is this the pony that fell from the sky?”

“Y...yes Princess,” he stuttered.

“May I speak with her alone?” Celestia asked, her voice was as professional as ever, she has had centuries of experience. At the moment she had on a complete poker face.

The doctor just nodded and said, “Of course Princess.”

“Thank you,” she said and Spitfire and the doctor left. I looked her over, she was just like the show described her. She was basically the size of an average adult horse, while regular ponies looked between 3-4 feet high. She had a flowing multi-colored mane and tail, her horn was about a foot in length, and of course she had her sun cutie mark on her flank.

“How are you feeling?” Her question snapped me out of my stare. I blushed a little and she gave a small giggle, “Relax.”

“Sorry, I’ve just never seen you in real life,” I said, though I mentally slapped myself. She raised an eyebrow at that, “Er...I mean…”

She laughed wholeheartedly this time, “Don’t worry, I’ve already been filled in by your friend.”

“Who?” I asked.

“Timothy,” she said with a poker face.

I immediately shot up, ignoring the fact that my pony body was somehow able to sit like this, “He’s here?! Alive?!”

“Not here here, but he’s alive and well in Canterlot, I assume you know that place since you’re a fan of the show?”

“H...how…?” I managed to stutter.

“Like I said, Tim filled us in with everything. The incident, the show, you and...Jon and Jeffrey…”

I was about to yell in joy when I realized she hesitated at the mention of Jon and Jeffrey. “A...are they alright?”

She bit her lip, “We don’t know…” She admitted. My heart sank.

“Why?” I asked, hesitant to know the answer.

“You four fell from the sky...and Jon and Jeffrey landed in the Badlands and Everfree.”

The Badlands were Changeling territory, and the Everfree was just packed to the brim with monsters. I was getting very worried.

“As we speak Twilight and Cadance are searching for them. So hopefully they will find them.”

“Yeah, hopefully…” I didn’t know Jeffrey too much, but he was nice. Of course Jon was a good guy too. I just pray that they’re alright…

Author's Note

Thanks for reading! As always constructive criticism is welcome! Next chapter, we'll find out what the deal is with Jon and Jeffrey. And of course thank you to my editor: Flutterbrony539!

Chapter 3

Jeffrey's POV

I woke up very slowly. "Ugh..." I said as I opened my eyes, but instantly regretted it. 'Why was it so bright?!' I thought as I closed my eyes. I tried to recollect my memories. I was at work, designing that one boss for the new game. Then, Timothy started making conversation, I don't know why he does. I've never been one for friends. Contrary to that show I watched. Yes, I was a closet brony, no one knew except for me.

So he left at the usual time, I looked out those glass doors. As usual I had that odd feeling when I saw Timothy with his friends. Then, I looked at Timothy's desk to find that he left his phone on his desk. Feeling the need to return the favor of being nice, I snatched it up and went out the door to look for Timothy and his friends. They were walking on the sidewalk a couple yards away.

I remember giving him the phone, and he said something, I don't remember what it was, but it made me feel happy. But then there was fear as I looked behind him to see a car veering off the road straight at us. I heard that dude, Jon was his name, say 'look out' and then...nothing. I strained to think about anything else that could help but...I couldn't...

"Well, well. What do we have here..." I heard a voice from behind. I opened my eyes and what I saw put fear in my heart. I was literally in what looked to be a barren wasteland, there was nothing that caught my eye, except for some tall rocky mountains in the distance.

"What in God's name...?" I muttered. Where was I? Was this a dream?

"Hello? Anyling home?" Another voice said. 'Anyling'? I turned around, which felt weird for some reason, and my eyes widened. There, in front of me, were two changelings from the show that I liked so much. Their carapaces were black as night and their eyes were a greenish color. They had a horn and those bug like wings, as well as some fangs.

"Holy shit..." I whispered.

"What's the matter? You act like you've never seen a changeling before..." The one on the right said. "Considering you are one."

It took me a second to realize what he said. Scared to find out, I looked down...I was a changeling, a goddamn changeling. 'Tell me this is a dream', I thought.

"Buck me..." I heard one of them say, I looked back up to see them staring at me. "She's a queen!”

"Wait...what?!" I said aloud. I was a what now?! My voice even sounded feminine! My mind was racing...

"What should we do?" One of them asked the other.

"Contact the queen, she'll know," the other said.

My eyes widened again. Queen?! They don't mean...

They were silent for a second. Then they opened their eyes. Suddenly, I heard a pop and a light briefly made my eyes closed. When I opened them, I was shocked to the core. Standing right in front of me, was Queen Chrysalis. My jaw dropped, this was not good. She was towering over me. Her hair was a dark blue and her eyes glowed a bright green. Her horn was long and crooked and she had a bunch of holes on her legs. Now that I thought about it, the other two had holes in their legs too.

At last she spoke up, "A young queen, in the middle of nowhere? Interesting. What is your name?" She said in a commanding tone. It took all of my willpower not to piss myself.

"J...Jeffrey," I said quietly. But she still heard me.

"Jeffrey? What kind of name is that?" One of the changelings spoke.

Chrysalis glared at him, and he immediately shut up. She spoke again, "So, where is your hive?"

This question caught me off guard. Hive? "I...I don't have one..."

"What?" Chrysalis said. "A queen without a hive? Not very common. Especially a young one such as yourself."

Again that caught me off guard, how young was I? Even the two drones stood above me. Then Chrysalis started walking over, presumably to look me over, but I was scared so I panicked a bit. By a bit I mean somehow shooting a beam of energy at Chrysalis from my horn. She must have not expected it because it slammed right into her and she was launched back literally miles away.

The two drones just stared at me. I think they were the ones about to piss now. Then they said something like, 'Queen' and 'Wait for us!', and ran off. I watched them go out of sight.

"Holy Celestia..." I heard a somehow familiar voice from behind me. I jumped a bit and turned around to come face to face with Princess Cadance and her husband, Captain Shining Armor. There were quite a few other guards as well, I counted at least a dozen, plus the chariots behind them.

Then Princess Cadance stepped forward, "Is your name really Jeffrey?"

I was taken aback yet again as I nodded, "How did you-"

"We were listening to your conversation with Chrysalis," she said. "We used an invisibility spell to cloak us but..."

"But what?" I asked.

"This might sound out there, but are you a human?" She asked.

My eyes widened, here I was, a closet brony, in the land of Equestria. Sent here by God knows what and turned into a young changeling queen. Now I was being questioned by one of the four princesses who somehow knew who I was. I timidly nodded.

"H...how did you know?"

"Your friend Timothy told us," she said.

Man, this day couldn't get any crazier, could it? For some reason, I felt immense joy in hearing that Timothy was here, I wasn't alone.

"So you talked to him?" I asked.

Cadance shook her head, "Princess Luna talked to him in his dreams. She telepathically communicated with us as he told her everything. How you saved Timothy by pushing him out of the way of the speeding car. Very brave of you."

"Um...thanks," I said, still recovering from shock.

She chuckled, "It's understandable that you might be shocked as to coming to our world. After all, it's not everyday you end up in a world you thought wasn't real."

I nodded, and then realized what she said, "So you know that you're from a TV show?"

She frowned, "I wouldn't say we are from the TV show. Princess Celestia says it has something to do with the multiverse."

The multiverse huh? Now it is starting to sound like a fanfiction...though to be honest, this all seems like it would fit right into a fanfiction.

"So," Shining Armor finally spoke. "Did you watch the show?"

"Um..." For some reason, I felt awkward admitting to these ponies that I basically watched them without them knowing. To heck with it, "Yeah."

Then I had another question, "Do you guys hate changelings?"

They looked at each other, "We don't exactly hate the changeling race," Shining Armor said. "Though a lot of them are not very nice, they live on different emotions, some need love, like Chrysalis’ hive, so they need to survive somehow. There's a couple queens that are fairly nice though."

Suddenly I heard buzzing and I turned around to see nightmare fuel. At least 50 changelings plus one queen were coming at me. That is, until Queen Chrysalis noticed the Princess. Immediately, the entire group came to a halt in front of me. Of course I was shaking as if it was below zero degrees. I looked at Chrysalis as she managed to get rid of that terrifying glare. I was then gently pushed aside as Cadance walked towards Chrysalis with a brilliant poker face.

“Chrysalis,” she said sternly.

“Cadance,” Chrysalis responded. “I was just going to have a little chat with this here young one.” Chrysalis looked at me with those cold eyes of hers.

“I am sorry Chrysalis, but this queen is under our protection,” Cadance kept her poker face at max level.

“Ah, harboring queens now are we?” Chrysalis said, with a slight hint of anger.

“If that’s the way you want to think of it, sure. However,” Cadance got really close to Chrysalis. “If you so much as touch her, you’ll have to answer to not just me, but the other princesses too.”

Chrysalis was silent, her eyes getting ever so angrier. I was worried she might attack, but eventually she just grunted, “Whatever.” Then she flew off, her changelings following her in perfect formation.

Once she disappeared from view, I breathed a sigh of relief, “Thank God.” But that did make me wonder, why did she back off so easily? I didn’t have much time to think about it as Cadance walked back up to me.

“You okay?” She asked. I pondered that question, was I really okay? If this isn’t a dream, which there’s a 1 percent chance that it is at this point, then I have literally been stripped from my world and put into one that has been a major part of my life. But I never in a million years would’ve thought that this was a reality. On top of that, I’ve been put in an unfamiliar body. Plus I’m a girl now, wonderful. Yet there was hope, Timothy was here, for some reason I was happy about that. Knowing that I had a friend here. Wait, friend? I never thought about it, but he was the closest thing to a friend that I’ve ever had.

“Jeffrey?” I was snapped out of my thoughts as I heard my name. I looked up to see Cadance looking at me. “Are you okay?”

It took another second, but I finally said yes. “Good,” she said. “We’d better get back to the castle.”

I nodded, and we all loaded up onto the chariot. I took one last look back towards where Chrysalis came from, and we took off. My mind was whirling with thoughts, but the thought that came back the most was, am I really okay? Yes, I may not be in the best of positions, but I wasn’t alone, Timothy was here. My friend.

Jon’s POV

The first thing I felt when I woke up was grass. Why was I on grass? Why do I feel weird, like seriously weird? Then the memories came like a bowling ball to the face. I had met Tim with Cassandra and we were walking to his house when Jeffrey came up and gave Tim his phone. Tim asked him something and I heard sirens, I looked behind us and saw a car veer off the road straight at us. I yelled a warning and pushed Cassandra out of the way. Then the car hit me and darkness happened. I must be in the hospital, that’s why I feel weird… Then why am I so scared to open my eyes?

I hear something rustling in the bushes. Wait, bushes? What kind of hospital has bushes? Finally, I decide to open my eyes.

“Tell me this is a dream,” I pleaded. I was in a flipping forest, and it didn’t feel like a regular forest. It felt sinister. My legs were shaking as I stood up, then fell back down. “Wha?”

I realized my legs weren’t shaking because I was scared, but because I wasn’t human anymore. I was a...what was I? I had the head and neck of an eagle and my front legs were that of a bird's. Meanwhile, the rest of my body was shaped like a lion. Of course, I had wings, as if this couldn’t get any crazier.

“I must be dreaming,” I muttered. Then I decided to do something really stupid. I banged my face against a tree. As soon as I did so, I remembered a crucial detail about my new body, I had a beak. Immediately, pain shot into my beak from both the force of the impact and hardness of the tree. Of course I yelled in pain as I clutched my beak with my talons.

I sat there with tears in my eyes as I wished for this nightmare to end. Suddenly, I heard rustling from the bushes.

“What now?” I said, starting to get scared.

The shaking of the bushes continued. Until something finally poked it’s head out, a chicken. “Thank God, I said, just a chicken.”

That relief was quickly replaced with fear as the chicken came out. It was then I realized two things. One, it wasn’t a chicken, two, I was screwed. It had the head of a chicken but also a green serpent body. It had wings and bird legs as well. It gradually came closer and closer, and I kept going backwards, eventually I bumped into a tree. What would it do to me? It prepared to strike and I closed my eyes and held out my claws to try and block it. Suddenly, I felt a weird sensation that's traveled from my body to my arms and finally talons. Then, nothing.

I opened my eyes to see a very surprising sight. The chicken thing was frozen solid, lying on the ground. “What in the world…”

Who did that? Then I looked down at my talons. They were really freaking cold. And had mist coming out from them. I did?! What in the world was going on?! Then I heard a cracking sound, the ice was cracking! That was my cue to get on outta there! Quickly, I ran through the bushes until I saw a bright light. I kept going faster and closed my eyes, hoping for this to be over. Then, I felt another sensation, as if I was...falling...shit. I opened my eyes to find that I was headed straight down to a river at the bottom of a ravine. This is gonna hurt.

Then I splashed into the water, my body stinging from the contact. Eventually, after floating a bit, I reached land. For a while I just laid there, eyes closed, until I heard a shout.

“Over here, I found somepony!” I heard a male voice say. I opened my eyes to see ponies to my left. “P...ponies?!” I muttered. “Don’t tell me I’m there.” Out of all the places I could be…

One of the ponies, a purple one with wings and a horn, spoke. “Are you okay?”

“Just dandy,” I said sarcastically. “Either I’m dreaming, or I’ve been transported to the world of a little girl’s show.”

The pony flinched at that statement, then I realized I sounded like a jerk. “Sorry,” I sighed. “I haven’t been having the best of days.”

She smiled slightly at that, “I understand.” She then decided to change the subject. “So you must be Jon, right?”

If I were drinking something at that moment I would’ve literally spat it out. “H...how do you know that?”

“Your friend Timothy told us,” she said as if that solved all my problems. Though, at least I wasn’t alone. But the question is why was I here, why was Timothy here? There’s no way this is a dream. What else did Timothy tell them anyways? I honestly didn’t know if I could trust these ponies.

“So…” she said, awkwardly trying to make idle chit chat. “Did you watch the show?”

So Timothy told them they were in the show? Geez, Tim, tell them anything else? I decided to go with the honest truth. “Well, no."

“Why not?” She asked.

“Because it’s for kids,” Immediately I realized what I just said and facepalmed. That response came naturally to me as Cassandra asks me it all the time. Her response was to flinch again.

“Damn, I did it again. I didn’t mean to say that, it’s just my natural response to that question,” this time though, she didn’t say anything. Wow, I am officially an a-hole. Trying to change the subject, I said, “What’s your name?”

“Princess Twilight Sparkle,” she said flatly.

Princess?! I just insulted a princess?! Wonderful. “Crap, I am sorry Your Highness, I definitely did not mean to insult you!”

I heard a snicker from one of the other ponies, who appeared to be guards, as Twilight’s face turned red.

“I...it’s okay Jon. No harm done, and please call me Twilight.”

“O...okay,” I said. I was definitely relieved to know that I wasn’t about to be thrown into the dungeon, but also kinda embarrassed, I might’ve overreacted by the looks of it. “So, now what? I’m assuming you came looking for me for a reason?”

“Well, yes,” she said. “We came on orders of Princess Celestia, she wants the four of you at the castle.”

“Ok,” I said. “Wait...four?”

“Oh, yes,” Twilight said. “Your friends Cassandra and Jeffrey are here as well.”

Oh boy, everybody's here, and they’re gonna see me in this body. Wonderful.

“How’d you end up down the river?” Twilight asked, taking out a notepad. I was confused as to why she was taking notes, but whatever.

“Well, I woke up in that creepy forest,” I started. “I felt weird so I looked at myself, and found out that I was whatever I am now.”

“Griffin,” Twilight said.

“Pardon?” I said.

“You’re a griffin,” she repeated.

“Oh, anyways,” I said. “I heard rustling in the bushes and this weird snake chicken thing came out of them.”

Twilight looked shocked, “You saw a cockatrice?!”

“Um...yeah, if that’s what it’s called. So it jumped at me and I braced myself. But when nothing happened, I opened my eyes and the freaking thing was frozen! My talons were also generating mist. I think I froze it.”

“Impossible,” she said.

“But then the ice started cracking and I made a break for it, eventually I accidentally fell into the ravine and floated down here.”

Twilight’s eyes were wide open, the guards looked shocked as well. “But...but that’s impossible! Griffins can’t freeze things!"

“Well, I did. Can we get going though? I am kind of cold from being so wet.”

“Alright,” Twilight said. “But I have a lot of questions for you.”

We stepped onto the chariots that the guards used, and started flying. It was then I regretted everything, as I was afraid of heights. I leaned on their railing, hoping the other three were faring better.

Author's Note

It's finally here! After a couple writer's blocks and some life problems, not to mention school starting up, I have done it! Anyways, constructive criticism welcome as usual. And of course, thanks for reading! Next chapter the heroes reunite, but lots of questions are to be answered!

Chapter 4

Light shining on my eyes, we meet again. Groaning, I turned on my right side. For some reason, my body felt weird, now I was getting a sense of deja vu. Being uncomfortable, I opened my eyes, and found big blue eyes staring back at me.

“Gah!” I yelled as I flew off the bed. Literally, though, I flew off the bed. As soon as I realized I was floating, though, I fell on my ass. Then I remembered everything that happened, I’ve been doing that a lot lately.

I heard somebody familiar shout ‘he's awake’ from outside the door. I also remembered that I was a freaking dragon. As I awkwardly stood up, I realized that my head almost hit the ceiling. Then the door opened and in came Princess Luna, who I remembered from my dream, and the other five ponies that I remembered from the show. Though I couldn’t remember their names. Plus what seemed to be a really small dragon without wings and another weird looking dude. He was staring at me a bit creepily. The other ponies faces were very mixed. The pink one had a huge smile on her face. The yellow one had a nervous expression. Part of her face was covered by her pink hair. Then the blue one who was looking at me like she couldn’t decide if I was suspicious or not. Then the orange one who was studying me intently. Then the white one, who looked at me with interest. And of course the Princess herself, who had a small smile on her face. Lastly, there was that strange creature, something about him looked familiar. His entire body was made from a bunch of different parts of various creatures. To be honest, I didn’t know what to think of him.

“Greetings, Sir Timothy,” Luna said. “How are you doing?”

“Fine, I guess,” I said. “Still getting accustomed to all of this. Oh, and please, Tim is fine.”

“Ok, I understand that this must shock you greatly. But I have brought good news!” She said excitedly.

“What might that be?” I asked.

“Your friends have been safely secured and are on their way here as we speak!” She said.

“Oh thank God!” I said, sighing in relief. But then I noticed hesitation in her eyes. “What?”

“There’s a minor problem…” She said. “Each one of you is a different species.”

“Great,” I said. “As if we didn’t have enough problems.”

“I’m sorry,” Luna said. “But I’d like to formally introduce these seven to you.” She waved a hoof towards the other ones in the room.

“Alright,” I said.

The first one to talk was the pink one with even pinker hair. I also noticed she had blue eyes, suspiciously like the ones I woke up to. Also her flank picture, or whatever it’s called, was 3 balloons, 2 blue and 1 yellow. What surprised me was how fast she introduced herself.

“HiTimmynameisPinkiePieandIlikepartiesandIalsohopethatwecanbegoodfriends!” She ended with a smile. I don’t know how but I caught every word of it.

“Same here Pinkie,” I said.

Next was the yellow one with pink curly hair. I noticed she had wings and her ‘flank picture thing’ was 3 pink butterflies. She took a step forward, but didn’t say anything. She must’ve been really nervous because her legs were shaking.

“If you don’t want to introduce yourself,” I started. “Then don’t. I understand.”

“Fluttershy…” She muttered quietly, but I caught it.

“Nice to meet you Fluttershy!” I said with an encouraging smile. I don’t know why, but I was feeling really nice today.

She gave a small smile and stepped back. Next up was the blue pegasus with literally rainbow hair. Her flank picture was that of a rainbow lightning cloud.

“The name’s Rainbow Dash!” She said. “Fastest flyer in all of Equestria!”

“Sounds like one hell of a feat!” I said. Fastest flyer? I wonder how fast she could go. She smiled at that.

Next was the orange one with tied yellow hair. She also had a brown stetson hat. Her flank picture was that of 3 red apples. I remembered her as the one who called my bluff, and she spoke with a southern accent.

“Mah names Applejack,” she said. “Glad to make yer acquaintance!”

“Same here, Applejack!” I said.

Then the white pony with elegant purple hair. Her flank picture was 3 blue diamonds.

“Rarity, a pleasure to meet you dear,” she said.

“Likewise, Miss Rarity,” I said. She giggled.

“What a gentlecolt!”

I don’t know when I got so good at introductions. But whatever. Next was the small purple dragon with green spikes on his back.

“Hey there! I’m Spike! Twilight’s number one assistant!” He said excitedly. “Nice to meet you, Mr. Tim!”

Cute. “The feelings mutual Spike.”

Finally, was the strange dude. I couldn’t even begin to describe him, he was just a mish mash of different animals. I waited, but he didn’t speak, instead just stood there.

“Discord?” Luna called. “Aren’t you going to introduce yourself?”

Finally, the being known as Discord spoke. But what shocked me was his voice and what he said.

“I believe we’ve already met,” he said. “Isn’t that right, Timmy?”

“What do you mean Discord?” Luna asked. “Tim, are you okay?”

I wasn’t, I was frozen in place. The eyes, the voice, the way he said my name. This Discord...he was the cop! I should be angry, like really freaking angry. But I couldn’t think, I couldn’t talk. The only thing I felt was...fear…

“Tim?! Are you okay?!” Luna shouted. That snapped me out of it, and like a switch, my fear turned into anger. With great speed, I quickly punched Discord in the face. For some reason, he didn’t even try to block it.

I was about to go for another when I was frozen in place by an unknown force. I struggled but I couldn’t move. “What the?” I said. Somehow, I could still move my mouth and eyes. I looked over at Luna, whose horn was glowing.

“What did you do that for?!” She asked.

“He’s the one! He’s the cop!” I struggled to get out of this damn magic.

“Wait...what?!” Luna said shocked. “Discord? You must not be thinking straight, Discord couldn’t-”

Luna was cut off as Discord chuckled and said, “I knew you were a smart one the moment I laid eyes on you Timmy.”

Everyone gasped.

Luna stuttered, “Discord? You really are the cop?! Why would you do this?”

“Yeah,” I said. “I want explanations, now!”

All the other ponies, plus Spike, were just staring. Were they even told what was going on?

“I’m sorry, I can’t explain yet. I must wait until everyone is here,” Discord said. Suddenly his smile vanished. “But I wasn’t lying when I said you are the Multiverses only hope.”

I couldn’t say anything else, my brain was trying to figure out what he meant by that. Then a guard came rushing into the room, “Princess Luna! They’re here!”

“Good,” Luna said, eyeing Discord. “Maybe now we can get some answers. Come on everypony, we are heading to the throne room.”

I waited for everyone to file out of the room, and then I followed suit. As we walked down the halls of the castle I took notice of all the stares I was getting from passerby’s. I tried to ignore them. I looked ahead to see Luna talking to the guard, while occasionally glancing back at me.

“So…” I heard a voice to my side. I literally almost jumped a foot in the air, but I kept my cool and walked on as I glanced to see who it was. It was Spike, that little purple dragon. “Oh sorry! Did I scare you?”

“A little, but it’s cool. Just a little preoccupied with stuff,” I said.

“Yeah, falling from the sky and not remembering how you got there is a pretty big deal,” he said.

“What were you told about my predicament, by the way?”

Spike shrugged, “Not much, just that you don’t remember how you were falling out of the sky. Princess Luna said she didn’t want to say anything without your consent.”

“Oh ok,” I said.

“Anyway,” Spike said. “I was wondering if I could ask you something.”

“Go for it,” I responded.

“Why did you punch Discord?” He asked.

I sighed and looked at Discord, who was talking with Fluttershy. “It’s not one of my better moments.”

“Why though?” He pressed.

“Look, it’s a long story,” I said. “I’ll explain everything once we get to the throne room.”

“Alright…” Spike said.

The rest of the walk to the throne room was quiet, until we reached the throne room.

“Ok,” Luna said. “Let’s go in. The others will be here shortly.”

One word for the throne room was big. I looked around the room as we walked in.It was huge! Which I guess is to be expected, I mean, it is the throne room. We stood near the throne and waited. Luna leaned over to me as I kept my eyes on the door.

“I almost forgot to tell you, your friends might not know about the minor problem,” she said.

“Minor?” I questioned. “You mean they don’t know we’re all different species?”

She just gave an apologetic look.

“This ought to be interesting then.”

As soon as I said that the first group came through the door. There were 6 guards plus two other, one was Twilight. The other seemed to be a griffin, and was probably Jon, judging by the voice.

“Holy shit! This is huge! That’s what she said!” He said.

I sighed, definitely Jon. He was that kind of person. But he was still my best friend.

“Hey, what gives? Where’s Tim?” He said walking up to us. “And what’s with the blue dragon?”

Then his eyes widened, “I knew it! It’s a trap! They’re gonna turn me into a shishkebab!”

I raised my eyebrows and looked at Luna, who somehow shrugged. Then she was about to say something, but I shushed her. I had a brilliant yet mean idea. So I walked over to Jon, who by the way was cowering in fear, and tilted my head back as I felt the feeling in my throat.. Everyone caught on to what I was doing as I flung my head towards Jon, Luna screamed ‘Tim don’t!’ And with the opening of my mouth Jon screamed and I let loose an all powerful burp. Literally, I’m sure half the city heard it!

Everyone looked at me after opening their eyes. Jon was almost speechless., however he managed to stutter out my name, “Tim?”

“Bingo, JJ!” I said.

We stood there for a second, I think the ponies were starting to get nervous, until both of us broke into laughter. “O...only you would be able to pull off a burp that loud!” Jon said.

“Is that what I heard out there?” Another familiar voice came into range. Shit.

“Crap, Cassandra! Hide me, if she finds out that was me then…” I stopped as the next group came around the door. Princess Celestia was walking next to a yellow pegasus with red hair. I knew immediately who it was as Cassandra wore the same face she always does when she gets mad.

“Have you no dignity Timothy Adams?!” She said. Oh boy, she said my whole name.

“Do you want the short answer or the long answer?” I said, hoping to brighten the mood.

“Tim! Now’s not the time to be funny! We are in the presence of royalty!” She said angrily.

So that’s what this is about. I mean come on, it was just a burp, “Really? You’re angry because you want to get in good with your favorites?” I said.

I could tell everyone else was getting really anxious about the flow this conversation was taking. To be honest, it wasn’t that big of an ordeal, we have our fights. But it was interrupted anyway by the final voice.

“Are we interrupting something here?”

I spun towards the door to see guards and three standouts. Two were ponies that looked familiar. The other was an odd pony looking thing. It was black with a crooked horn and fangs. It’s eyes were a deep blue and it had long red hair as well as bug like wings. It looked to be a female. Then she spoke.

“Oh...um...hi?” She said awkwardly.

“Who the hell are you?” Jon spoke. Cassandra shot Jon a look. Then it occurred to me, there was that awkwardness to the figure and only one person was left to show up.

“Jeffrey?” I said incredulously.

“Um...yeah…” she/he said quietly.

“I thought Jeffrey was a guy,” Jon said as usual.

“I...I am,” Jeffrey said. I decided to just call him a guy for now.

Then Jon did what I should’ve expected he would do. He laughed.

I could see Jeffrey’s face contort into anger and I knew this would end badly. I was about to tell Jon to stop when Jeffrey did what I wouldn’t expect a shy, awkward person to do. He charged at Jon. Things got worse as he tackled Jon to the ground. Which was kind of crazy considering Jon was 3 times his size!

“You think this is funny?!” He shouted as he threw a punch.

Quickly, Jon caught Jeffrey’s hoof in his talon. But Jeffrey kept putting force into his leg, and it looked like Jeffrey was going to gain the upperhand, but then Jeffrey’s hoof literally froze! Jeffrey yelled as he stepped back and started smashing the ice against the ground.

“Ha!” Jon said triumphantly! “I did it again! Take that you little-”

Jon stopped mid sentence as he was bashed in the head with Jeffrey’s frozen hoof, causing the ice to shatter in pieces. I stood there, dumbfounded at what was taking place before me, why were they being so aggressive? Then, it got even worse when Cassandra started yelling.

“What the hell do you two think you’re doing!? You’re making a bad first impression!” She said and ran over to the two. But was immediately blown into a wall by a stray blast from Jeffrey’s horn.

“Crap, Cassandra!” I yelled. But what surprised me was the fact that she got up without an inkling of an injury...and ran back into the fray! Suddenly, another blast went flying towards Luna! Luckily, she had quick timing and deflected it with her own magic. At that moment, I felt well and truly angry, more so than when I was pissed off at Discord. I literally yelled at the top of my lungs.

“STOP!” The three of them froze at my roar. The other ponies just kinda stared at me. But now was not the time to get stage fright, so I stomped over to my three friends, literally breaking the floor somehow. For some reason, they actually looked kind of scared. I don’t know if it was because they’ve never seen me like this before, or the fact that I was a freaking dragon.”I can’t believe you guys!”

They looked down as I scolded them, “I know we are all stressed in this situation, but fighting is not the way to go about fixing it! We can’t turn our backs on each other, not because of size, gender or other shit that might have changed. Especially since we are in an unfamiliar world. We are in this together, like it or not!”

“He’s right,” I heard a voice and turned towards Discord. He had a small smile on his face.

“Who the heck are you?” Jon said, impulsive as usual.
“Discord?!” Jeffrey exclaimed.

“In the flesh!” He said. I opened my mouth to speak but he raised his hand. “I am the one who brought you here.”

Everyone who didn’t know that gasped.

“What?!” Jon said. I stopped him before he did anything stupid. “Why?”

“I think it’s better if I let my friend explain that,” Discord said.

This confused everyone, who else was there to meet? Suddenly a great ball of light grew in the center of the room and we all covered our eyes. After the light went away, I opened my eyes and my jaw dropped at what I saw.

“W...who are you?” Someone asked. I couldn’t tell who it was.

“My name is Joshua Ackerman, and our worlds are in danger...”

....said the human in front of us...

Author's Note

Another chapter done! It was hard trying to figure out how to unveil the newcomer, but I think it went pretty well. Tell me what you guys think though. Thanks for reading!