Three weeks. Three. Fucking weeks. That's how long I've been in Ponyville hospital. It was the closest one to the forest where I 'died'. They have had nurses and doctors transfer from Canterlot hospital to aid in my surgery. It wasn't the best of times for me, there were times where I was aware of what was going on around me, and there were times where I was fully comatose.

The first thing I remember since arriving at the hospital, it's a huge fuss. There were ponies everywhere, rushing and yelling at eachother. It was all blurry and I was always seeing three of everyone.

The next thing I remember is having a bright light shining on me while there are several doctors and nurses around me. One of the doctors was saying something to me, but I couldn't hear him. He had a scalpel in his hand and I saw him start to cut into my chest. I felt like I needed to scream, but I couldn't feel the pain, or make any noise. As the tiny blade was poking around my wound, the doctor was starting to sweat. He made the mistake of placing his hand against the edge of the deep hole. My body convulsed once and the doctor pulled away his hand. The plastic glove he had on was starting to melt. Two other doctors starting using what I guess was a healing spell. As they did everyone present suddenly jerked their heads at something to my right. I tried to look, but couldn't move. Then it went blank.

The last thing I remember is being in a bright, white room. There was plenty of light coming through the window indicating it was day time. I wanted to go over to the window and take a deep breath of fresh air, but once again, I couldn't move. The door opened and all of my friends walk in. Twilight, Spike, Pinkie, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy then Rainbow. They all looked so sad. I saw tears start to fall from Fluttershy's beautiful, teal eyes. Then she burst out crying. She was followed by Pinkie. I didn't quite understand it, they've only known me for just over a week, but when I get sent to the hospital, they react like this. I wanted to hold Fluttershy and Pinkie, and whisper to them that it's all okay, but again, I couldn't. Then they all did the same thing the doctors did. They all looked at something to my side before Twilight ran over to me and placed her hand on my arm. She recoiled as quickly as she started, holding her hand in pain. I hope I didn't hurt her... Then it all went blank.

In the moments I went comatose, I had bad dreams that only got worse and worse, they weren't very long but were very vivid. The first time, I was in some place that I imagined hell would look like. The ground was a hard, red stone that carried on to the horizon. There wasn't anything above me, apart from a black void. There were a few trees here and there, but they were just an ash black colour with fire as the leaves. I looked down at my feet and saw a lone flower. It looked very pretty, it had a yellow stem that led up a few inches and had deep red leaves dotted around it. At the top of the stem was a black bulb, that was sprouting out into a flower that had red petals with orange tips. The two colours on the petals looked like they were fusing. I was thinking of it being a sign of hope in a despairing place, type of clichè. I bent down to touch the petals, but as my finger came in contact, the flower burst into flames and turned to ash. I don't know why, but it sort of felt disturbing.

The next dream, I was in Ponyville markets. It was like any normal day. I was with my friends and we went to see Applejack at her stall. She told us about her sales so far and I went to pick up an apple, but as I did, they all caught fire and turned to mush. I didn't even know apples could catch fire. But when I looked up to apologise, Everyone was looking at me with emotionless faces. I looked around and saw that everything was now on fire: buildings, ponies, stalls, everything. All of my friends were surrounding me and started saying things like: "There is no place for you here." or "you should just kill yourself." It really hurt, and was getting into my head because it was opening old wounds of my adolescence. With tears in my eyes, I ran up to Pinkie and grabbed her shoulders, asking her to stop. She didn't. When I looked back at my hands, they were on fire and I was burning Pinkie. My hands were melting straight through her flesh. I could feel her bones touch my palms. I yanked my hands away from her, but her expression didn't change. There was blood pouring from the wounds. I looked back at my hands and they were covered in blood and the fire had turned red. I looked back at Pinkie to see the red flames had started to cover her entire body. Her fur and skin were falling off, her flesh was burning away, leaving bone everywhere. Half of her face had burnt off. I saw the tendons across her jaw slowly start to rip, eventually her jaw just fell to the ground. She kept burning with that emotionless expression. It was close to her being just a skeleton when her expression changed. It twisted into one of extreme agony, and she let out a blood curdling scream, then fell to the floor still burning. As the life was leaving her body, her strenuous voice said my name. I was so mortified that I had just killed my friend. I fell to my knees. The other five started repeating the word 'murderer' in a demonic, monotoned chant. I could feel something growing. It felt like anger and frustration mixed with something else. It was growing faster and faster the more they chanted. I was doing anything I could to hold it in, but I just felt like I was filling up a balloon before it pops... and it did.

"STOP!!" I screamed as I felt all of that built up aggression, leave in a fiery explosion. My shoulders kicked back along with my neck. Flames poured out of me, along the ground and outwards in a circle... it felt so good. I looked at everything around me and saw the scenery had changed to the Everfree forest. The burnt corpses of my friends still around me. As I looked at each one, more and more regret welled up inside. Infront of me, a door appeared. Curious, I got up from my knees and walked over to it. I opened the door and noticed my hands were still on fire. Inside was a dark room with a full-body mirror in the centre and a light above it. Walking over to it, I gave pause to what I saw. My feet were bare, but covered in flames. My black jeans had thin cracks going all the way up, that were glowing orange and red. My hoodie was now black, and had a leathery look to it. It also had small spikes going from on top of my shoulders, down the outside of my arm, to my elbow. What got me the most, though, was my face. It was no longer the masculine, tired face it was. My green eyes had turned to a fiery orange and the whites had gone black. My short, blonde hair was gone, and my whole neck was now just the spine at the back. I think I failed to mention that it was just a skull as well. I pulled up the bottom of my hoodie to see it I was all skeleton, but no. I still had skin only it was like my pants, cracks all over that were glowing red and orange. I wanted to see where the skeleton started and the body ended, so I pulled off my hoodie and shirt. At the base of my neck was where it changed. It looked like I had been decapitated, I could see down my throat, there was blood that was spurting out of the severed veins, but instead of falling onto me, it turned to fire that went up and surrounded my head. I gulped at the realisation that this is me and watched as all the muscles in my throat contracted and extended.

The light above me flickered and blew, sending sparks all around me. I jolted a bit from it being so sudden. I calmed down and looked back at the mirror. What I saw was even worse than watching my friends burn. It was Ishrahg.

"AH HA HA HAA! I felt the need to to rip him apart. My fist flew out as my anger rose, and smashed into the mirror. As it shattered, it turned back to me in the reflection and the flames around me had doubled in strength... That's when it ended.

The third dream was far more violent. Ishrahg stood behind me, laughing and egging me on as I grabbed the throats of ponies and revelled in their cries of pain and desperation before brutally ripping chunks of their bodies apart. I would laugh at their expressions of horror before devouring the flesh in my hand, or I would force one pony to feed on another. While it was a horrendously morbid dream, what really got to me, was the pure, euphoric joy I felt in the moment.

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3rd Person POV

It had entered the fourth week since the encounter with Ishrahg. According to the doctors, Alex had made a full recovery but refused to wake up. It was very early in the morning when Nurse Redheart was doing her check ups on the patients. Everything had gone as per normal. There was a light click of her shoes as she walked down the quiet halls of the hospital. The next patient to check on was Alex. She came to the door of room 003 in the recovery ward. She opened the door to hear the quiet beeping of the heart rate monitor, and the relaxed breathing from Alex's lungs.

Redheart picked up the clipboard and went over everything written down. She placed the clipboard back down and had a look around the room. Everything seemed to be in order, but there was one thing she had to do differently and that was check Alex's temperature. There was a thermometer beside Alex, so she picked it up and placed it into his mouth. After a few seconds the mercury read a normal thirty seven degrees (98 F). She pulled the thermometer out of his mouth, wiped if off and placed it back down on the table next to him.

*groan*

Redheart jump at the unexpected noise and looked around for the source, to see the room empty. She looked at Alex to see he was stirring from his coma. She got a little anxious at the sight of him waking up, especially since the doctors said the chances of him waking were very slim. She watched as his eyes fluttered open and looked around the room, eventually falling to her.

"Good Morning, Mister Alex." She said.

"Mornin" he grumbled as his eyes fell closed again. All of a sudden is eyes shot open and he launched himself into a sitting position. It startled Redheart and she stepped back, but her foot caught the leg of the table. As she was falling backwards, she prepared for the impact. The impact that never came. She opened her eyes to see Alex had caught her. She looked into his eyes that were an amazing mix of green and grey. It was a lot like the book she was reading. On that thought she blushed and he set her back on her feet.

"You okay?" Alex asked. "I didn't mean to startle you."

"I'm fine, thank you." She replied. "But how did you catch me, you were on the bed?" He just shrugged his shoulders and sat back on the bed. "How are you feeling?"

"Alright I guess... How long was I out?" He asked.

"You've been in the hospital for just over three weeks." She replied. He seemed to have gone into deep thought.

"What happened while I was out?"

"What do you mean?"

"I don't know how to explain it, but I remember things happening while I was out... Everytime, everyone would look at something beside me then starting to freak out... What happened?"

Redheart took a while to register what he said. She was busy thinking about how he was aware of what was happening, even though he was unconscious. "Um... Well, one of the doctors was analysing the wound. When he touched you, there was a very large heat wave through your body, it melted his glove and he was burned. Then two of the other doctors started using healing spells and cooling spells, but your heart rate increased tenfold. Far beyond the limit it should... Then you burst into flames."

"As you do... Was anyone hurt?" He asked after a small delay.

"No. Not badly. We contacted Canterlot and they transferred more doctors here to help... That's pretty much anything interesting that happened." She said. "You should rest..." She started.

"I've done enough resting for a while. I feel like I need some fresh air." He interupted.

The nurse helped Alex over to the window and opened it for him. He thanked her before she left to contact Twilight and the Princesses as they had instructed prior.

About an hour passed of Alex just leaning against the window sill. He was watching the stars in the sky, then they started to fade away as the moon was lowered and the sun was risen. Alex went back over to his bed and sat on the end, contemplating the meaning of his dreams. Particularly the first one. It was so different from the others, and Ishrahg didn't appear there. Just as he was thinking about the power that Ishrahg apparently gave him, the door burst open and a pink blur whizzed through. In an instant, Alex was being crushed in a death hug from his favourite baker mare, Pinkie.

"OhMyGoshAlexYoureAwakeImSoGladYoureAwakeWeWereToldYouWerentGoingToWakeUpAndItWasVerySadAndIMissedYouSoMuchButNowYoureAwakeAndWeCanThrowAWelcomeToPonyvilleAndBackFromTheDeadParty." Pinkie burst out in a tsunami of words.

Alex returned the hug, even though he couldn't breathe. He was going to let her have this one. "Hi, Pinkie... I missed you too..." Alex manage to say as his air ran out. "But... Need... Air..." She released her grip and blushed a little before getting off Alex's lap as everyone else walked in. "Hey, guys... I'm back." Alex said with his arms out. Rainbow walked up to him with a scowl. He dropped his arms, a little worried about what she was going to do. "Hey, Rainbow..." His words were cut short as she reeled back and slugged him in his left arm. "Ow."

She then wrapped her arms around his neck in a hug. "Don't scare us like that ever again." She said with a hint of tears clawing at her words.

Alex returned the hug. "Never." He whispered as they parted.

She had a large smile now. "Glad you're back, doofus." how creative Alex thought. He looked at the rest of the girls entering the room followed by Spike. He looked at Fluttershy who had light tear marks down her cheeks. Just as he was about to say something, Fluttershy launched herself at him and latched her arms around his waist as she started openly crying. Alex was a little shocked, but returned the hug.

"It's okay, Fluttershy. I'm okay, you're okay." Alex whispered to her had he stroked her hair with one of his hands. After a minute, he grabbed her shoulders, pushed her off him and looked into her bloodshot eyes. "Everything's okay now."

She nodded to him and stepped back. One by one, each of the girls hugged him and let out a couple tears, glad that he was awake. When It got to Spike and he walked up to Alex. He was a little surprised as Spike wrapped him in a hug aswell, but he just returned the hug and gave him a small pat on the back.

The door opened again and both of the Princesses stepped through. Alex was a little surprised, but bowed to them.

"Thou need not bow, Alex." Luna said. Alex smiled as he stood back up.

"It's good to know that you're awake. We heard of what happened in the forest. You have our thanks for protecting the elements." Celestia said.

"I was just acting on my nature." Alex responded.

"I know it may not be the best time, but I do have some bad news. If you want to wait, say so and I will tell you when you're ready." She said again.

"Uh oh... Don't tell me the Delorean is broken." Alex said. They all just looked at him confused. "Don't worry about it, I'm ready for the news."

"Since your arrival, myself and my sister have been searching tirelessly for a way to send you back..." Celestia started.

"Oh... I see where this is going." Alex said in a low, sad tone.

"We hath not been able to find a way for thou to return to thine world." Luna finished.

"So the Delorean really is broken." Alex said while looking at the his toes and sat back down on the bed. A few tears started falling from his eyes as he thought about it and buried his face in his hands. "I really appreciate you looking for me." He finished in a muffled voice

"We all understand that its upsetting that you can't return to your life..." Celestia sympathised.

"It's not that..." Alex interupted.

Everyone looked at eachother confused. "If that isn't it, then what's wrong, Darling?" Rarity asked.

"I love it here. I have friends, I've been able to eat really good food, I've slept in a comfy bed... Back there I had none of that. I had no money, and anything I did get from illegal drug trading, I used so my brother could go to school and live in what comfort I could provide... That's why I'm so upset... I'll never be able to see my brother again. He's the only family I have left... I had left." Alex said before breaking down in tears. No one really knew what to do, they were too busy thinking about Alex's past. Rarity was the first to act, she sat beside Alex and rested her head on his shoulder as she put an arm around him.

"I'm sure your brother is doing just fine, darling." She said in a comforting tone.

"Yeah, and who knows? Maybe he'll end up here like you did." Pinkie added.

That filled Alex with the tiniest amount of hope. Maybe James will go looking for him and find a way to Equestria. But for now, Alex had to focus on his new life.

"There is one more matter I wish to discuss with you, Alex." Celestia said. Alex looked up at her. "Your living arrangements. I can have a room at the castle permanently assigned to you, unless you have other things in mind."

Alex didn't really like the idea of living so far away from the only ponies he knew, but he wasn't sure if Applejack still had that spare room. "Yer more then welcome to move back in at the farm if yer want." Applejack said, clearing his doubts.

"I think I'll do that, if it's okay." Alex said.

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Alex POV

I returned to Canterlot with the princesses to get my stuff. The carriage ride there was... Interesting, to say the least. I think they were just having fun with me. The princesses sat opposite me and they would both take turns at making me all flustered. It started with Luna. She has more of an immature personality like me. She moved her hoof and it bumped my foot. Our eyes caught each other's and I quickly looked away with a slight blush. I still couldn't get over how attractive these two were. Celestia must've seen and thought it would be funny to cross her legs, but as she did so, she made sure to slide one of them up the outside of mine. Then it became a war of who could 'subtly' make me uncomfortable. In the end Luna won a pose that did uncomfortable things to me. She leaned forward, with her elbows on her knees as close together as possible while throwing me a confident smirk. The clevage, the look, the eye contact, I could'nt not get excited. I went bright red and had to try every move in the book to hide my hard on. I just hope I did. They both had a laugh and I saw Celestia give Luna a small bag of bits. devilish mares... I like it but that did make me wonder if I was able to hide my main man standing at attention successfully.

Anyway, before I left for Ponyville, I was saying goodbye to the princesses and they were so kind to offer them riding along to make sure I get back safely. I politely declined, causing them both to giggle. I really didn't think that they would be so childish, but it makes knowing them so much more enjoyable.

When I got back to Ponyville, Spike wanted to help me with my bags, but I only had one, and it was a garbage bag that I had gotten Feather Duster to get for me. Spike followed me from the centre of Ponyville, why they couldn't just drop me off at the farm? Who knows? He was saying he didn't have anything to do. When we got the Sweet Apple Acres, I knocked on the door and Applebloom answered. Which reminds me of something. Not long before the incident with Ishrahg, Spike was telling me about what the Cutie Mark Crusaders did. To find out that Applebloom was only seventeen was quite shocking. She totally looked like she was at least twenty. What the fuck? The same thing happened back home. Whenever I went to a club for some deals, there were always a few really good looking girls trying to come on to me, but then I would find out that they're underage and thank any god that I turned them down. Jail bait. He did tell me about Sweetie belle and Scootaloo, who was Rarity's sister and Rainbow's unofficial sister.

I was up in my room at the farm with Spike. We were looking over the sword Fast Crop let me use. A couple guards brought it too me about five minutes ago, saying that when they went to give it to him, he said that I should keep it and that I'll have more use for it than he will. Free stuff, Hell yeah! the engravings were still on the blade too, making it look really cool.

"So, Spike. Got your eyes on anyone?" I asked, knowing he would say Rarity.

"Well actually, yeah." He said. "Everypony still thinks I have a huge thing for Rarity." He continued after a short pause.

"Do you?" I asked.

"Well, not any more. Me and Twilight have been in Ponyville for about a month now and I was really in to her, but I guess now I know that even if we did get together, it wouldn't have lasted long. She is two years older than me." He said.

"Okay, so who do have in your scope?"

"Scope?"

"Don't worry."

"Uh... I dunno." He lied.

"Don't know if you can tell me? Here..." I started as I faced him. I put up my right hand in a fist, then grabbed his wrist. "Make a fist." I said. He did as told. I guided his fist so that both hit, his over mine. Then I did the same thing again, only with my fist on top, then hit them together in a fist bump."open your hand." He did as instructed and I grabbed his thumb and he grabbed mine. "There. Now we have our own handshake. We're brothers from different mothers. That handshake is very special to me. I learnt it from a young kid I was able to save from getting shot." I know it's a little dull, but it does the job and has sentimental value to me.

"Alright." Spike said... See...can't argue with the results "I like... Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo." Yo, Damn, three. Who's da dragon? You da dragon.

As Spike said that, Applebloom walked in. woah, that was close. Spike was sitting with his back to the door and his face said everything. He was really freaking out, but stayed still. "Hey, Applebloom. What's up."

"Granny wanted ya'll to know lunch is ready." She replied and walked back out, shutting the door behind her.

"Do you think she heard us?" Spike asked as we got up.

"Nnnaah." I said while lazily waving one hand in the air.

We went downstairs and saw Big Mac and Applebloom at the table and Granny in the kitchen. I sat down next to Big Mac and Spike sat next to Applebloom. Granny came out with a big dish of something and placed it on the table. I had absolutely no idea what it was, food like this is a once in a lifetime deal for me.

"Where's Applejack?" I asked.

"She's still out in the orchard, dearie." Granny answered.

"Does she know lunch is ready?"

"She always knows when lunch is ready, I'm sure she'll be along shortly."

"I think I'll go look for her." I said. As I got up, Spike was watching me. I looked back at him, then at Applebloom, then back at him and winked. I think he knew what I meant.

I wasn't looking in the orchard for long before I started hearing the echo of something hitting wood very hard. I followed the noise deep into the western field. I had to admit, everything looked a lot like it came from a painting. The leaves were a bright green, the apples were a bright red, the grass was healthy, and there were slivers of light that broke through the canopy. Eventually, I came to the source of the noise and saw Applejack still bucking away. She had her back to me and I don't think she knew I was there. Apples rained from the tree she was under and fell into wooden buckets. She paused for a moment and stood up straight, her back still towards me. She lifted her right arm to her forehead and wiped away the sweat. Everything sort of slowed down as I watched her run her hands through her brilliant, light blonde mane.

I shook my head a bit to bring me back down to Earth... or Equis, as I should start saying. My playful side kicked in and I thought of having a bit of fun. I looked up at the trees and saw that there were a few branches that overlapped from each tree, easy enough to climb across. I jumped up and grabbed hold of the tree above me and pulled myself up.

Applejack had moved on to the next tree and I was soon in the tree above her. I picked an apple before she released a powerful kick to the trunk. It was very weird, I could feel the power behind the kick in the tree, but it wasn't shaking or anything. Anyway, all of the apples dropped into buckets, except for one. I dropped it so that it would miss the buckets. Applejack saw the apple lying in the short grass, then up at the tree. I don't know how she didn't see me, but she didn't. She went on to the next tree after picking up the apple and putting in a bucket. This time I dropped two apples. The confusion was very clear on her face. The next tree I dropped three apples.

"Am ah losing mah touch?" Applejack asked herself and she scratched her head. I was struggling to hold in my laughter. This is so cruel. I had enough fun for now and decided to end it. When she kicked the next tree, I jumped out and landed infront of her in a curled up in a ball.

"Hey, that's a funny looking apple." I said while smiling up at Applejack.

"Ah don't know if ah should be surprised or not." She replied.

"Trust me, you shouldn't. And before you ask, yes, I was dropping the apples, and no, you're not losing your touch."

"How bout yah make yerself useful an' help me finish up here."

"I'm sorry. Was that Applejack? Asking for help? From me?" I asked in an overly dramatic tone. "We interrupt this show to bring you breaking news. Applejack has just asked Alex for help on the farm. Oh. My. God." She shook her head and continued on, so I started picking up the buckets and loading them on to the cart.

In no time at all we had finished the section she had started.

"So what took you so long?" I asked.

"Hmm? What d'ya mean?" Applejack replied.

"Well, normally you would have a section twice as big as this done by lunch, but today it's taken..." I pulled out my phone and checked the time "... Three quarters of an hour longer."

"Ah dunno, got a lot on mah mind ah guess." She said as we started pushing the cart back together.

*BANG!*

We both jumped from the sudden burst of sound.

"What in tarnation was that!?" Applejack shouted.

"I have no idea." I said in a much more calm tone. I had a pretty good idea, though. It sounded a lot like a compressed explosiation device... What I call a gun. "Why don't we find out? It sounded close." I suggested, mainly because I wanted to know why there was a gun here, I haven't seen any signs of them being invented or anything.

I started running towards the noise with Applejack not far behind. Soon we came to the fence that borders the farm and quickly climbed over. The trees turned from Apple to a pine-looking forest. There was another bang, only this time it was very close.

I had slowed down to a brisk, but cautious walk as I came to a clearing with long grass that tickled my knees.

"Would yah mind slowin' down a bit." Applejack called out to me. I looked to the middle of the clearing and I saw a body among a large patch of flattened grass. Almost like someone was fighting there.

I headed towards the body to get a better look, but something slammed into my side, knocking me to the ground. I quickly rolled over and got to my feet to see a stallion wearing some weird black robes with an orange sash over his left shoulder. The robes also had a few tears revealing wounds seeping his blood.

"Don't move or I'll blow a hole in your chest!" He threatened. Oh yeah... He also had a handgun pointing at me aswell. Now, I know I'm not the sharpest knife in the... Place where they keep the knives, but, I do know that when someone is pointing a gun at you and says not to move. You don't move.

I slowly raised my hands as a sign of surrender. "Chill, let's not do anything rash." I said. I noticed a long and thick stick laying between us. if I'm fast enough, I'll be able to move out of his line of fire, get to the stick and whack him into next Tuesday... Flawless plan.

I edged forward, trying to get into a good position. "I said DON'T MOVE!" He yelled as he stepped forward in effort to intimidate me. I was ready to shove a stick in his rectum right now... Side ways. I lunged at the stick, but before I reached it, my body crumpled into the ground. Which was followed by a huge amount of pain. See. Flawless... he had shot me in the shoulder Ha, so much for a hole in my chest you fucker.

when I regained my senses, the stallion was standing over me, gun pointed between my eyes. 'well, shit.' His grip around the trigger tightened. I looked straight into the barrel, awaiting the bullet with my name... *whack* ... The stallion stumbled around with both his hands on his head and Applejack was beside me holding the branch. This is the problem with bad guys. They always take too long to pull the trigger Applejack took a couple steps away from me and towards the stallion, getting ready for another swing.

The stallion stood back up straight and held the gun at Applejack and she froze, knowing what it could do after seeing a bullet go through my arm. This time there wasn't anyone who could hit him with a stick and I knew this guy was going to shoot Applejack, then me.

I got up to my knees, holding pressure on the new cup holder in my shoulder.

I watched as the stallion pulled back the hammer and tightened his grip on the trigger. "No!" I shouted as everything drastically slowed down. There were so many feelings bolting through my veins, it felt like I was going to explode.

My body started moving without me controlling it. My hands grabbed the dirt and launched my body at the stallion. As My body was rushing towards the stallion, I felt a huge adrenalin rush hit me along with a heat wave. As I neared the stallion, my fist reeled back then flew at his hand holding the gun. As my fist came back into my vision, it was covered in intense flames and the sleeve of my hoodie was black with glowing cracks covering it. My knuckles came into contact with his wrist and absolutely obliterated it. There was blood and bones that flew out from the point of impact as his hand disintegrated. His face slowly distorted to one of agony. The gun went off and a bullet whizzed past my head, and into the stick Applejack was holding.

Everything came back to normal speed and I was standing over the stallion, but I still didn't have control. He was rolling around the floor, screaming and holding the stub that was his hand. My body reached down and grabbed his robes and pulled him up to meet my gaze. As he looked into my eyes he stopped his cries and screams. His body went limp and his face turned from one of pain to one of horror. All of a sudden my vision went all hazy and warped. When I came back to reality, the stallion was at my feet mumbling and rolling side to side. Then he stopped rolling and drew his final breath.

I had control over my body now, but as I looked at my hands they were back to normal, along with my clothes. I didn't feel any pain so I looked at my wound and found it was healed, but there was still a hole in the hoodie.

I looked back to Applejack. When our eyes met, I saw fear. She wasn't moving, but she dropped the stick. "Alex?" She asked.

I didn't say anything, I just looked away from her and at the stallion.

"Alex, what happened?" She asked, her confidence had risen and she slowly made her way over to me.

"I... I saw" I started. I found it very hard to speak after what just transpired.

"You saw what? Alex, what happened to you?" Applejack asked as she grabbed my hand and held it with both of hers. I looked up to her and there were tears in her emerald eyes.

"I saw his life... Everything, good and bad... Every minute of his life. He has a kid, a wife... But they left him when they found out what he did... He was a murderer... His lust for killing came from his father... He treated him like a slave... Not long ago, he joined a group and was told to come here and kill.." As I said that last part, there was a cough from the body in the centre. "... Him." I finished.

I rushed over the body and got a better look at him. The memories of the stallion, or Comet Dust as he was called, didn't show me who this was, but what I saw wasn't what I was expecting.

It was another human.

"I knew I wasn't... the only one." He spluttered. I was truely in shock. I knelt down beside him.

"What... Who?" My words stumbled.

"I don't have long... You need... To listen." I nodded my head quickly. "I need you... To be... My host... Now."

"Host? What?" I really didn't like the sound of that.

"I can... Explain later... But it will... Allow me to... Live." He said.

"What? I need time to think about these sorts of things." I said very fast.

"Please..."

'okay, I have an option here. I can either say no, and let the possibly only other human die... Or I can say yes, and he can become a parasite type of thing... This is like those games where you have to make a very hard decision that will change the outcome of the story, So you choose and then at the end you find out your a bad person... Shit.' "Okay, I'll do it."

"Good... Hold still." 'How is this guy still alive?' He raised his hand and grabbed my forehead. There was a very weird feeling coming from his hand, like someone was reaching through to my brain, but no pain... And I spoke too soon. A huge wave. Scratch that. A huge tsunami of pain rushed from his hand. I screamed out and tried to move away, but I couldn't.

"Alex!" I heard Applejack shout out. She grabbed my shoulders and tried to pull me away.

"No, don't!" I managed to instruct past the pain. She let go and stepped back. The pain was rising and to be honest I don't know how to explain it, but I'll try. Imagine giving birth to a brick, now imagine that brick is actually a wall, now imagine that wall is actually a two storey house. That what I think this feels like, only with my face. Giving birth to a two storey house from my face.

There was bright flash that blinded everyone present. When I faded, so did the pain. I looked around and saw the grass around me had lost its lush, green colour for a dead yellowy brown colour. I looked at Applejack, and she had been knocked off her feet... hooves... and was sitting in the grass, rubbing her head. I looked at the stallion, and he was still there and still dead. I looked at the parasite guy and he was... Gone.

I got to me feet and went over to Applejack. I held out my hands, which she grabbed, and I helped her up. "Well, what a day this has been am I right?" I joked

"So what now?" She asked.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, ah mean with yer whole light on fire an stuff."

"Um... I dunno, but if we could keep it between us until I can figure out what to do, that would be great."

"But we've gotta tell Twilight, she'll know what ta do."

"I guess... I think I just want to wrap my head around it first, though?"

"Ah dunno, Alex. I think it would be best if we talked t' somepony that knows about these sorts o' things."

"Yeah, you're probably right." I said with a sigh. "Just a little bit of time and then we can talk to Twi."

"Okay then, ah trust yah. We should get back, everypony must be more worried than a cat in a dog kennel." She said before turning around to walk off.

"Oh hang on one second." I jogged back and looked around for a little bit. Applejack watched as I searched around for a second and picked something up before heading over to the body and rummaging around his robes.

"What in tarnation are yah up to, Alex?"

I finished rummaging and jogged back to her. "I really don't want this laying around for someone to find. I also just grabbed what ammo he had on him." I explained showing the old revolver as we started our way back to the farm.

"What is that? Is that what he was pointing at us?" AJ asked, to which I nodded.

"This is why I was in such a hurry to come over here. You don't have anything like this in this world, do you?"

"Not that ah've ever heard of. You know what it is?"

"I sure do and I really don't like that it's here. It's called a gun, although, this one is very old. At least on my world it would be. They stopped making one's like this a good hundred years before my time since better, more efficient versions made these obsolete." I explained.

"You know how it works?"

"Yeah, sort of. It has an explosive powder in a casing like this." I said as I showed one of the rounds I grabbed off of Comet Dust. "Then this little chunk of metal is squeezed into the end so that when the powder explodes, it sends the tip flying off at insane speeds." I sighed at the thought of guns tainting this seemingly pure world. 'I guess guns couldn't be too bad considering the monsters here.' "These make killing far too easy. As you just saw." I added with another sigh.

"Well you better keep that better hidden than a stallion during heat season." I agreed entirely, I need to find a good spot for it. Maybe even keep it on me until I have somewhere secure to put it. Then I paused for a second.

"Wait what? What does that mean?" I asked.

"Huh, what's that?"

"What you said. Better hidden than a stallion during heat season. Are stallions not so flash in the warmth?" She started laughing and I couldn't have been more confused. I continued to just stare at her, waiting for an explanation. As she composed herself she looked back at me and I could see a realisation dawn on her, like a light bulb moment, and a smirk spread across her lips.

"Actually, jus' forget ah said anything. It's too long'uv a story." She finally said, dismissively.

"Wait, what? Now I'm more curious."

"Look, let's jus' worry 'bout gettin' back for lunch. It's nothin', anyway." She said, waving me off.

"Hmm, it better be nothing." I said, giving in and hopping over the fence bordering Sweet Apple Acres.

"Oh, and AJ. I really appreciate you not running away and screaming bloody murder when I... you know." I mentioned as I helped her over.

"Well, you're a good friend, Alex. I wouldn' jus' run off cause you did som' you haven't done before. And yah kinda saved mah hide back there." She replied with a smile so sweet I could feel my knees go weak. It didn't help that I had her hand in mine when she said that. I could feel myself crumbling for this girl... mare.

I cleared my throat to snap myself out my trance. "Ahem. Well you kind of save mine first." I replied quickly while trying to avert my gaze and find something interesting at my toes. I heard her let out a cute little giggle before we continued on.

The rest of the way back, I had time to think. I thought about how the fuck another human got here, I thought about how today's events went down, not even one day back in Ponyville, and something happens. At least I wasn't sent to the hospital, that wouldn't be very funny. I also thought about how Applejack was so calm after I went all human torch and everything, I mean sure I could see she was frightened, but she didn't run... I know if I saw me like that, I would've been like 'nah man, it's been cool knowing you, but I didn't sign up for this shit' then GTFO. 'She really is something. I think I could be living the rest of my life here happily with AJ around. Man, fuck earth... Oh Shit! Earth! How could I have forgotten, I need to keep searching for a way to get James here... I hope I can get him here. There has to be something the princesses missed. Something brought me here so maybe if I can find how that old hag got me here, then I can use that to get back and forth. Argh! But where do I start?'

I got back on my train of thought and back to wondering where that other human went, and how did I see that stallion's memories and life in a matter of seconds, and what the hell did I do to him. 'Fuck, there's a lot to think about.'

When we got back, I skipped lunch and went for a cold shower. It was very refreshing. When I finished I looked at my clothes and decided it might be best to wash them before I use them again. So I picked them up and headed for my room. I opened the door and saw there was no one in that hall. Luckily my room was right across from the bathroom, so I made a quick dash for the door and went inside. I closed the door and threw my clothes on the floor.

"Hey, Alex." A familiar voice greeted from the direction of my bed. I turned around and there, sitting on my bed... was Rainbow Dash. I don't know why I'm even surprised.
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"What The Fuck!" I shouted and jumped back. I really shouldn't have moved so quickly... While my hands were flailing around, my towel came loose. When I landed on the floor, it was enough for the towel to fall. I looked down to see my genitals hanging freeing, in full view of Rainbow. I felt my cheeks burn bright red and I quickly grabbed my towel and covered myself. I didn't even care that I wasn't wearing clothes anymore, as long as I had that towel I was happy...er.

I looked up to rainbow and she also had a huge blush on. She was also biting her lip and had a look that I wasn't comfortable seeing.

"No one ever hears of this. Got it." I said completely embarrassed.

"Got it... Can I at least tell..."

"No one." I interupted.

"Fine." She huffed as she got up and walked over to the window. "Catch ya later, Alex" she said before flaring her wings and flying off. This brings a whole new meaning to catching someone with their pants down.

Author's Note

Chapters done. YAY!

So it took longer than I wanted, but my days got very busy over the past week. Basically a guy I work with tried to hit on my bosses wife, so he got fired and I had to do his quota, and I was. worked like 115 hours all week... But enough about my boring life. I'll try get the next chapter out nice and quick.

Okay, so this part was written several weeks after this chapter was posted, not long before the 12th chapter was published. I was going back and re-reading my story so the future chapters would follow my lore. In this chapter I read something very strange: at the part where Applejack and Alex are fighting that dude with the gun and Alex punches his hand to smitherines, it said:

Blood and boned and cupcakes flew out from the point of impact

. I never wrote "cupcakes". Isn't that funny.