It had been about a day since I got here and I was already breaking my personal record for most weird stuff seen in one day, most of those things being magic, and equestrian writing. Reading equestrian would be easy if they wrote it the same as English, but instead all 3 different types of ponies wrote it differently, and learning magic is confusing as all fuck.

"Lesson 1: accessing your magic, ok Nova, so what I want you to do is, for lack of a better term, reach inside yourself mentally and grab your magic, the push it to your horn..s," twilight said with some hesitancy.

" okay I think I found it" in a couple seconds my longer horn lit up with something that looked like plasma, and it arked to the other horn regularly and from Twilight's expression, it probably looked pretty scary to get close to.

" Ok, now direct it at the steel ball on the ground in front of you, and try to pick it up" After saying that she put on a face shield and backed up, not a good sign.

" Alright then here goes" I directed it at the steel ball and then, 'PIIIINNG' 'THUNK' I'd just blasted it into the wall, then I noticed it glowing red, "uhh, I think I did something wrong"

"Try to limit the power output next time, and maybe try to 'grasp' it rather than push it into the air, although I was expecting worse considering the magic you're using is a highly volatile coctail of different kinds of magic, so congrats for not blasting a hole in something," she said with some renewed confidence.
***
1 hour later

" Finally! I picked it up" in stated triumphantly, not realizing it was heating up, and then proceeding to drop it into my hand.

" Doesn't that hurt?" twilight asked with a concerned look on her face.

I then noticed the orange glowing orb in my hand, "Uhh...suprisingly...No, it's kinda hard to describe, I can tell it's really hot but I'm not getting any pain from touching it, weird" I said while confusedly looking at the steel ball in my hand.

"Well I guess adding Dragon DNA into your skin worked," she said noting it down in a hefty looking binder.

"That's cool, but how do I stop myself from doing that?" I asked still observing the slowly cooling ball.

"We'll save that for another time, for now I'll note this down and ask you some questions,"

"I've noticed that you have some devices implanted in you, do you know how to control them, and do you know where you got them," she asked with an obviously puzzled tone.

" I've never tried to so I might as well figure that out," I then tried to control the device attached to my heart, surprisingly, I'd did something, it seemed to direct something to my hands, I then pushed it out, and a tiny little jet of plasma came out of my index finger," huh, interesting" I stopped the plasma and continued experimenting, as Twilight feverently scribbled down notes, with 3 pens, using both hands and magic to hold them.

"This is great scientific data, keep experimenting, I really want to see where this goes!" twilight said excitedly while still scribbling notes.

Then something crashed through the door to the lab, I whipped around and found Rainbow Dash sitting there with a disappointed face, I also noticed that I had something on my face, some kind of weird visor, I touched it a bit finding 2 round end pieces, where the "lens" was attached each having a small flat antenna looking thing on it, it had a heads up display which currently had Rainbows vitals targeted, "This is New," I thought about retracting it, and it collapsed into a little disk on the side of my head and dissapeared" weird, I'll have to mess with that more later," I stated still kinda amazed at what my new body had to offer.

"Come on twilight, you told me to come along and teach her how to fly, and we're not flying right now, so hurry up," Rainbow impatiently nagged.

"Yeah twilight, I kinda want to figure out how to use these wings," I added

"Ok done, now I'm going to teleport all of us to the middle of the desert, so we can do this in peace, and still uphold Celestia's gag order"

Twilight then charged up her magic and then,'POP' I was dizzy as fuck, and also in the desert.

"Do teleports always feel that way" I asked still trying to clear my head of the dizziness.

"No, it won't be as bad after you learn how to do it yourself" she said with just a hint of smugness.

"Okay Nova, let's get down to business, spread your wings and kneel down like your about to sprint," Rainbow said, without hesitating any longer, I complied, "Okay now flap your wings hard and fast, and start running",

"Alright" I said simply, I did as she said and after about 50 feet I took off, flew for 20 feet then crashed, "Ow, my fucking face, ahrgh," I got up and looked at my nose, and sure enough it has a large bloody gash running from my left nostril to about the middle of my snout.

"Oohhh, thats gotta hurt," Dash said, wincing at the sight of it,

"Yeah, it does, and it also feels tingly, wait, the fuck's going on with my nose?" I said as I watched the skin slowly knitting itself together,

"Odd, I never added any improvement to regeneration, it shouldn't be any faster than the norm for an alicorn, maybe it was the thing that put the devices in you, I hope you don't mind me studying this more in depth" she said with a scary looking grin.

"Uhh... You study me for hours a day, it's not like this is any real change to that," I replied, "anyway, back to flying"
***
"Whaaa...'THWUNK' Ow" I muttered after the upteenth attempt at flight,

"Well that's the farthest you've gone yet, just about 100 deca-hooves" she said sounding mildly impressed

" How long is a deca-hoof exactly?" I asked after getting up and dusting off

"About this long" she held her hands about a meter apart.

"Good to know" I replied
***
Twilight's castle, that evening

Everyone was resting in one of the castles rooms, starlight was looking me over in curiosity while, Twilight was nose deep in a book, I couldn't read the cover because I hadn't learned how to write in 'equish' yet, and rainbow dash had left about an hour ago. Spike then walked in with a scroll and handed it to twilight.

" Oh, a letter from Celestia" Twilight said as she undid the seal," it's to me and Nova"

Dear Princess Twilight,

I'm going to talk to you about some unacceptable behavior of yours tomorrow, meet me in my office at 10:00 sharp.

I understand that Nova can't read our language yet so please send her to Princess Luna. Luna wishes to speak with her about her predicament tomorrow.

Sincerely, Princess Celestia

Author's Note

Dun dun duuuuun