New World, New Life

How many hours are in a day when you don’t keep track? How many people REALLY care for you?

Keith couldn’t answer these questions. At a young Age he had been Diagnosed with ADHD and something called Aspergers... He didn’t know what it was... Only that it gave him a warped view on reality. This wasn’t a flaw; he saw it as a great bonus. He looked at things differently, past the cold dark veil of human perception... He didn’t have too many friends... And the ones he did have, well... They just fought...

Summer, 2011... Keith had been having a rough week. His girlfriend had brutally dumped him, his parents just kept SCREAMING at him... His only escape was the internet. He found people were much more diverse on the internet. He felt that the people he knew online were like snowflakes, no two were the same, though, and many were very similar. He spent hours upon hours online, doing whatever was popular with people...

Little did he know, one trip to MemeBase...

Would change his life forever...

He did his daily routine, Check his Emails, Facebook, Youtube and Memebase...
But, He kept on seeing these strange images... Ponies? Yes, My Little Pony. Keith didn’t understand what these GROWN MEN saw in a TV show for little girls... He decided that he would give it a try... for the laugh...

And it was glorious!

Its charm was amazing, the characters, the animation, the music, the sheer power of the show, It was simply one of gods greatest creations.

Ever since that fateful day...

Whenever Keith felt sad, he just thought of ponies...

Months had passed, Keith had become even more immersed in the show, and it was simply amazing...

People never understood why he liked it so much; he was beaten up and verbally abused by people who barely knew him...

School was starting up again... Keith would see all his old friends again, If they didn’t kill him first. They were SERIOUSLY Pony-phobic...
He walked in through the door, getting a few looks from his classmates. He heard some mutterings about him like “Faggot, Gay,” All the usual stuff. He sat in Geography, People throwing scraps of paper at him. He didn’t care. He was happy doodling ponies. He hears the class go silent. “Crap, this isn’t good...” He thinks to himself.

He hears a loud THWACK as the teacher slams her fist down on his desk.
“KEITH! STOP THAT THIS INSTANT!” She screams.

Keith tries desperately to retract himself from this situation. He mutters a feeble apology as she grabs his drawing copy. He makes a grab for it. She holds it up for the class to see. He was doing a drawing of Twilight Sparkle Levitating the Ursa Minor.
The class laughs. Keith tries his hardest to ignore it all...
But his will was broken.

He jumps up and Tears the drawing copy from his teachers grasp.
“YOU DON’T TOUCH THIS!” He shouts.
The teacher screams at him to sit down. But he doesn’t listen. He walks towards the door, but she grabs him by the arm. Before he can even think about it, he cracks his fist into her face, she slumps against the wall. Blood running from her nose.

His classmates stared at him in awe. He looked over his shoulder and gave them a smile. Then walked out the door, and out the front of the building. “Today, I start standing up for myself”

He was at home, Barricaded in his room, His parents banging at the door. They had received a call from the school to say that he had assaulted a teacher. He didn’t care. He finally stood up for what he truly loved, and it felt great!
He spent the day watching his entire pony collection, completely happy...

Not for long...

That night, He had the strangest dream...

He was surrounded by ponies of all shapes and sizes... The mane six, OC’s, Background ponies, they were all trapped in a void of darkness...

Screaming for help...

The void got closer...

And closer...

And closer...

He awoke with a fright, dripping with sweat.
“Whoa... That was weird...” he says
He rises from his bed and goes to his Mini-Fridge. He had stocked it in preparation for his long stay in his room.
He pulls out a Dr.Pepper and Twists off the top. He Drinks it bottom up until a single drop remains.
He goes to the window and pushes it open. He lets the night breeze blow back his hair, cooling his sweat.
He sighs. He turns walks back to his bed and flops down on the covers.
“That was a weird dream... Let’s hope I don’t have it again...” He says, before slowly drifting back to sleep.

The next few days were okay. Eating Doritos and drinking Dr.Pepper... A bit of XBOX, a LOT of Facebook.
It made him happy, Happier than he had even been before.

But, that dream... It kept coming back to him...

And every time, the void got closer. It scared him. It scared him beyond words.
He sat on his bed, playing Grand Theft Auto IV. He hears a beep from his phone.
Someone had sent him a message.
He opens it up and reads it aloud.

“Be patient, Young brony... The day is nigh...

Soon...

You will enter the realm...”

Keith got a bit worried. He started to type a response, but his phone battery just died, even though he just charged it yesterday.
He sits on his bed, starting to freak out a little. He just lies down on his bed and closes his eyes. He begins to slowly drift asleep...

The Void.

It grew larger every time he saw it. He looked around. All the ponies were still there. But this time, they were staring at him, a look of hope in their eyes. He smiles. Light bursts forth from his chest. It wraps itself around him. It felt warm. Like 10 million fireflies, all hugging him at once...

The light fades. Keith looks at his hands. Or, at least, what WERE his hands. They had been replaced, replaced by hooves.

Keith had transformed into a pony.

He didn’t know how.

He didn’t know why.

He just knew that it had happened.

He lowers himself, staring hard into the void.
“Let’s dance.”

He charges, galloping at full speed towards the void. He feels the darkness of the void brush against his coat. He lets out a vicious battle cry as the void lunges at him.

And then.

Nothing.

All he saw was darkness.
He feels the life being torn from his body.
He closes his eyes.
Knowing this was the end.

Keith opens his eyes.
“NO!” He screams.
The darkness retreats a little.
He lets out another cry, Light billowing from his chest, fighting off the darkness.
The darkness fades, nothing left of it.

Keith saw a vivid blue sky, with rainbows. Not a single cloud in the sky.
He begins to fall.
He screams, frantically waving his hooves.
He spots a farmyard beneath him. It races up to meet him. He braces himself for impact.

WHACK!

Meanwhile, Twilight had been working in her library, sorting her books by category. Spike was SUPPOSED to be helping...
But instead, he just napped in the corner.
She sighs and steps down from the book shelf.
She hears a frantic knocking at her door. “Twilight! Twilight! Let me in!”
Twilight races to the door and pulls it open.
“What?! What is it!?” She shouts. She was a little bit frustrated from all the hard work she had been doing. Fluttershy stared at her. Slightly distracted by the unexpected shouting
“Uhh... Something crashed behind Sweet Apple Acres! We need your magic to help determine what it is!” She said.
Twilight thought she probably wanted her to run a Bio-Scan spell or something.
Fluttershy takes off; flying towards Sweet Apple Acres, Twilight follows closely behind.

A Short gallop later, and Twi and Shy were standing at the entrance to Sweet Apple Acres.
Twilight could see the smoke from behind the barn, she could smell it too.
She races towards the barn. She sees her friends standing around a massive crater in the ground.
“Whoa...” exclaims Dash. She was hovering over the crater, peering deep into the bowels of the earth.
Applejack calls out to Twilight. “Twilight! Ah’m so glad y’all came to help.” She says, shaking Twilight’s hoof relentlessly.
“Honestly, AJ, It’s no trou-“

She is cut off by Dash grabbing her by the shoulders.
“Hey! I think someone’s down there!” She says.
Fluttershy gasps.
“Oh no! I hope they’re okay!” She says.

Dash flies down the crater, you can hear her rustling around at the bottom.
“DUDE! There’s a stallion down here!” She shouts.
Twilight runs to the edge of the crater and peers down.
“Are you sure?” She says.

Dash makes a weird sound.
“I THINK so... It’s really dark...”
Twilight was amazed a single stallion could have caused this.
“Heh... Okay! Bring him up!”

Rainbow Dash drags up the colt. He was battered, bruised and dripping with blood.
He had a snow white coat, with a long, dark blond mane.
Rainbow lays him down carefully on the ground.

Twilight stares at him.
“Did... HE cause THIS?!” she says, pointing at the crater.
While everyone was arguing, Fluttershy slowly trots up to the colt, eyeing him carefully.
“S-Sir, are you okay?” she says.

The stallion shuffles a little.
“Ugh...” he moans.

Fluttershy gasps.
“Guys, he’s alive!” she shouts.
Twilight whirls around. “Really?!” she says

In a quick flash, she already had him scooped up onto her back.
“Quick! We need to get him to Nurse Redheart!”

Pinkie stops her.
“She’s out of town, visiting some family in Manehatten.” She says.
“We’ll just take him to the library, then!” she says, galloping towards the library.

Rarity sighs.
“Why must we have ONE nurse in all of Ponyville?”