To Go Beyond

Had already watched that particular show, although it was a bit of long ago, a bit I meant years, well only the important events of it, everything in that bright and colorful land just didn't really surprise me anymore. Aside from the fact that everything can be seen in very little detail of course.

'... What's this?' Something was inside of my pocket. Then I reached out to it with my newly transformed hoof. To be specific to my neatly fitted dark suit's pocket, that probably was a cheap one too, the one I wore when one was going to be buried, which was somehow also managed to get transported to this world too by whatever unknown force it was.

'Heh...' I smirked to my current attire.

If the universe had a face, it must be laughing at me because struggling with hoof to grab one item from your pocket was the task for no newbies. And I was a newbie in that case.

"Fucking dammit, how can a pony grab a thing with this excuse of a stump?" I muttered.

The item just dropped nonchalantly on the dirt road below because of my clumsiness.

I just stared at it and raised my eyebrow.

It was an oval-shaped, golden-colored gem that can probably be good used as a necklace because it would be too big to be used as the eye of a ring. In addition, it also radiated some sort of faint glow. A faint white light that almost invisible if you didn't put it inside of a particularly dark room.

Under the influence of curiosity, and because of the staggeringly increased rythm of my heartbeat, I concentrated myself to turn off my lighting spell to examine it more closely.

'How about a levitation spell? How the fuck those unicorns did that? Levitation... levitation....'

"Whoa..."

The golden gem was hovering in front of me, surrounded by a shimmering, faint cloud of light-brown... light. Or whatever it was.

"Well, that was easy."

'How weird, heh. Guess who can do levitation now? Yeah! Power unlocked, levitation. Is my life a fucking RPG now? Wait...'

I examined the gem again much more closely this time.

If other pony could see it, my pupils probably went wide at that moment.

'No fucking way, is this really that gem? Holy cow! It must be the real one! But it seemed a tad, bit, bigger, in the game, at least. The original should be as big as half of my head, I assume.'

Magic the Gathering was a pretty popular card game in my lifetime, as a human. Actually it wasn't really popular due to the amount of participants that were all time low in my country. And truth to be told, I never bought any of those cards, whether the digital version or the paper version of them. But eh, it was one of many good ways to waste my short life because why not then? Being a rather poor person with underweight problem and suicidal thoughts was also shit anyway.

The Gem of Becoming, its history lost in time, once belonged to the great enemy of everyone, in that game, the power-hungry dragon-planeswalker Nicol Bolas, a person who could travel between the multiverse via unknown magic, was hovering right in front of me. Or just the mini version of it.

Or was it really the real one?

I shook my head.

'And this spell, it feel so... easy, even for a first-timer like me. Is it because this whole unicorn thing or because of this gem? Well, in the game it provided Bolas his essence to life and to cast powerful spells. Nah, first, find a shelter and a way to get food. Fuck, I'm already hungry and it's fucking cold.'

Shaking any thoughts, I put the faintly glowing gem back inside of my suit's hidden pocket, which was neatly placed under my breast, then continuing my trot towards the famous village of that child show, which was somehow attracted more adults than the actual children. For me, it was just a cartoon show, nothing more. I never hoarded any kind of dolls or any other shit that resembled of any character from that show, or the fuckable ones, which were despicable for me.

'How could those people wasting their money to collect such crap is... hell. Fuck it. Just walk, trot, now.'

— ||—

Finally, after a long, winding, trot, I could see that old-english style village, or was it a town? With a clearance of an ultra HD resolution, illuminated by the moonlight and the town's numerous light sources.

'By the cow... Fuck. I can't even do the proper cursing.... that was a fucking long walk. Is there even exist such things like a proper cursing?'

I clutched my forehead, to my dismay. Tried to. I didn't know if it was called clutching if you didn't even have a finger.

'Shit. This would gonna be cringy as fuck. And don't forget the sheer cliché-ness of this kind of situation. A new pony in town, a crazy pink-mare that suddenly pops up from nowhere, better keep myself anonymous for the time being then...'

"But maybe..." I stroked my nonexistent beard. Why I almost regularly did that was beyond me too.

'This is still too early for that. The sun isn't even out yet. I could just go to the castle to get some more information about magic and also to keep me warm without causing too much fuss. Alright then.'

And to my luck everyone was still asleep in that particular hour.

—||—

Looking left and right through the sleepy town like a hunted prey, I was trotting slowly and surely until I reached my destination.

"Fuck..." I quietly cursed because i saw a silhouette of a pony was trotting towards my position.

—||—

Berryshine was trotting on a street of Ponyville, wondering, and cursing about the cruel fate that befall her. Although drinking alcoholic beverages, especially wine, was a thing that she could say 'Nobody beats me in this kind of contest!', everything would always come with a price. And being drunk wasn't really paid the price, in fact, it only increased her debt to the society.

"Stupid debt collector... 'hicc' if I were a princess, nothing 'hicc' like this would happen..." She muttered while was being under the influence of alcohol. Being a single mother was pretty hard when you also had a habit of drinking, which also could lead to other complications such as sleep deprivation, liver disease or even heart attack. There might be exist a sort of healing magic, but could it even reach to an extent such as to repair a broken liver? Or a physically broken heart? Even if such thing exist, why would she deserve to get it anyway? She was even struggling to pay the tax and her daily basis, added with the daily basis of her sole daughter.

Wandering to Faust knows where, Berry Punch's didn't seemingly pay caution to where she was currently walking at that particular hour.

"If ya jus were here 'hicc' my love... this all 'hicc' would never be a problem..." Muttered the drunken mare with a sad tone, her head was hanging low all the time.

—||—

'What a crazy mare.' I solemnly thought. 'Wait, that was even pretty sane talk actually. The problem of the kingship society, queenship, princess-ship, whatever, is that the one on the top would have too much power while the commoners would be largely live in poverty and are usually also harboring dismay towards their leader, even in this seemingly peaceful land. I wonder if Celestia, or Luna, may have brainwashed their subjects, or those ponies are really that stupid. Well, most of them.

After Berry Punch trotted away, and after I double checked the street, I continued my sneaking acts towards the library.

"What the-" Then I fell down.

'Fucking pesky shrub...' I rolled my eyes and got up. 'Nobody's in sight. Proceed with the sneaking act.'

What?

—||—

'Okay, so here's the castle. Now what to do, what to do... hmm...' In front of me stood the castle, the pretty but ugly castle-treehouse of friendship, a palace where the purple pony pegasus-unicorn, or alicorn princess ruling her subjects... was she even ruling something because last time I checked Celestia, and maybe also Luna, the actual alicorn leaders of that particular country, was still being in charge of this all.

'Well, she saved this world quite a lot of times actually. Nah, why the heck am I judging her? Now how to figure to sneak in. Teleport? That seems too risky for a newbie in magic like me. I could lose my head or my genitalia or, nevermind. Leeroy Jenkins? Too loud and too stupid. Blast the door with an unstable magic that could even attract more attentions? Heck. Getting myself inside while everyone is sleeping is a fucking stupid plan. You know what? I'm gonna sleep on that particular park bench because... nope. Fuck, this town is actually fucking creepy.'

There was only silence that was occasionally broken by the sounds of crickets.

And also by the sounds of suddenly meowing cats.

"Holy-!" I almost screamed. My heartbeat was racing wildly because of the sudden assault from the cats' shrilling tone.

'Just wait until I find you, shitty pest...'

I didn't really like cats either. Or any kind of pets. Too much work to do, too little resources. What was the point of having pets if you couldn't take care of them? Anyway.

'Fuck it, I'm going the polite way because why not then? According to this condition, this is my safest bet for now. Wonder if anyone could hear I knock this door because this is apparently a pretty damn big castle.'

Knock! Knock! Knock!

"Hello~ is any...pony awake?"

Silence. Then I tried to push the door because it didn't have any handle at all.

"Ngh....!"

'Of course it's locked you nut.'

"Very funny brain. Damn, I'm slowly becoming insane too." I muttered.

'God damn it.' Exhausted and fatigued, I finally took a conclusion:

I was going to sleep in front of that damn door.

"Goodbye 'hoam' stupid world."

I just curled right in front of the castle.

'This is so fucking demeaning...' Was my last thought for that particularly long night.

—||—

The sun was shining, the birds were chirping. Overall, that was a great morning to go out to perform any outdoor activities.

"Hmmm, are you making pancakes Spike?"

"Of course Twilight, but this one is a bit different. The difference from the regular ones is that there will be apples involved." Claimed the purple baby dragon.

"Yeah, it's acknowledgeable." Smiled the alicorn princess. "Hm, I can also feel that there's something different today. Last night I felt something, like a sort of magical disturbance..."

"Well, I didn't feel anything." Remarked the little firebreather while was baking the pancakes.

Twilight just put her right hoof on her forehead. "I'm gonna out for a while to take some fresh air. Just in front of the castle."

"Don't be too long or there will be nothing left from the pancakes."

"Yeah yeah..."

Twilight slowly trotted her way from the kitchen to the huge front door while also pondering about the last night's disturbance.

'It almost seemed like that something big would happen, but it is unknown whether it would be good or bad. Even Luna didn't visit me last night, hmm...'

Arrived in front of the door, she finally opened it while was still pondering about the last night's event.

—||—

"Aaaagh!"

I suddenly woke up due to the loudness of a girly scream that was emitted by a certain alicorn princess who was standing beside me. My eyes and head were also hurt as hell due to the fatigue.

"Wha- er, hello there... heheh..." I sheepishly replied, still half whispering.

"By Faust, you almost gave me a heart attack! By the way, why were you sleeping in front of my home?"

I rubbed my eyes because I still felt like shit in that particular morning.

"I... uh..."

"What's wrong Twilight?" From the back of her came that particular purple baby dragon that had the same height as a foal wearing an apron with a bright white heart in the middle of it.

"Well, this particular gentlepony just slept in front of the door without my knowledge, so I was surprised of course."

"Hey, you've never experienced when someone's lost, Miss Sparkle?" Here came my not so smart reply.

I could imagine that my inner self facepalmed, or was it facehoofed? So hard it went through its imaginary head until it permanently stuck. Oh, did I say that it also blew itself up to utter oblivion too?