Sweet apples

When I got back to the others they were still talking. I just simply shrugged and looked at Applejack with a smile. She was looking back at me and smiled back. I then looked back towards the others and began to speak.

"Well, figure a way for me to go?"

"Maybe, but it will hurt if we try this."

"It's probably no where near feeling a bullet going through your stomach."

"If you want to we can do this right now or later. Your choice."

I smiled and looked at Applejack.

"Should we tell them Applejack." I said in a whisper so the others couldn't hear.

"Not yet, wait till we get to Ponyville."

I just smiled and looked back at Twilight. "Lets go ahead and start the procedure Twilight,"

This took Twilight by surprise of how quick I wanted to leave.

"Ok."

I was then lifted into the air and inside a purple bubble.

"Wait, Twilight, before you do anything, what are you about to do?"

"I'm transforming you into a pony. You might feel some pain about everywhere."

And with that I started to feel pain go through my entire body like I was shot with a thousand bullets. I began to scream from the pain, but Twilight continued with the process she started. I began to feel my arms and legs start to bend and feel my hands changing. I was far beyond pain, it felt like I went into a pit of blue fire and was stuck there. I had to scream louder from the pain. I began to feel more pain everywhere, but I looked at Applejack and saw that she was worried. From that look on her face I began to feel no pain at all. I looked around my body and saw that I was still changing but I felt no pain.

'Is the power of love between me and Applejack causing this?'

I watched as Twilights worried look turned into a surprised one. I watched as she almost went into mental breakdown, but she continued the spell. I watched as my hands and feet turned into hooves. I began to feel my head get larger, along with feeling my black hair go down lower. I just wanted it to end so I could just move around in my new body and see what I looked like.

I felt myself being lowered after another twenty minutes. I went towards Applejack and smiled. Twilight got rid of the spell on them changing into humans and they all turned back into ponies. I walked towards a mirror and looked at myself. I am a earth pony and have a orange coat like Applejacks, but darker. I still have my black hair, it just extended a couple of inches. I looked behind me and noticed I have a black tail and then looked at my eyes, they were the same color of blue I had. I smiled at my new body and walked towards the others.

"So what do you think?"

"I don't know. What do you think Applejack?"

Everypony started to stare at Applejack who just stared at me with a blush that was getting into a deeper shade of red. I just smiled and walked up towards her. We were about a couple of inches away.

"Should we just show them or tell them?" I again talked to her in a whisper.

Right after I finished that sentence she leaned in closer and kissed me. After the kiss, I smiled and looked towards the others to see their reactions.

Twilight had her mouth wide open along with Rarity, Pinkie Pie just smiled and applauded, Fluttershy hid behind her hair, but I was still able to see her blush, and Rainbow Dash just made a gaging noise and looked away.

"I think they took the news well, don't you Applejack?" I just smiled at her.

"I think so." She was also smiling.

Twilight was the first to snap out of the daze she was in. I saw that her horn began to glow in a lavender aura. I looked at the others and saw that they along with me were in the same aura and we all started to float in the air. I saw a blinding white light after being lifted into the air. I felt the ground below me, but all I could see was white. I moved my head to the right and then to the left to try to see my surroundings, only to notice that everywhere I looked was just white, and started to blink my eyes repeatedly. I found myself in a white room that was decorated with a red carpet going through the middle. The windows were more like paintings than actual windows. It had pictures of ponies going against great evils. I just smiled and looked around the room.

'Is this a dream?' I kept on asking myself that question in my head.

"No, this is not a dream." I heard a familiar voice from in front of me and looked. It was an alicorn with a white coat and a flowing mane. It was Princess Celestia. I knelt down to not ashame her. I watched as Twilight walked up to her and gave a pony version of a hug.

"Well if it isn't my favorite pupal. Hello Twilight. Its good to see you without a drastic thing happening around here." She smiled and looked at everypony else only to stop and stare at me.

"Looks like you have a new friend Twilight." She starts to walk towards me. "And what is your name?"

I stared at her for a second and just sat there. I raised up my hoof. "Names a' Brian. Pleased to meet ya'."

She reached out her hoof and we shook hoofs. "Nice to meet you Brian. I am Princess Celestia. I would introduce you to my sister but she fell asleep after watching the night with a careful eye."

"Its ok, I'd probably meet her someday." I looked at her and smiled.

She smiled back and just nodded her head. "So you are not from here are you?"

"No ma'am"

"So were are you from?"

Before I could say Twilight spoke up. "Princess, Brian is from the planet we explored, and let me just say he has had a horrible past, so horrible that we decided to bring him with us." At that Princess Celestia stared at me.

I just looked downward towards the ground. Memories started to come back to my mind.

FIVE MONTHS AGO

I was just going to visit my friends at the hospital. Some of them had injuries from the same killer and some had rare diseases. I went towards my friend, Rick, in a room at the far corner at the hospital. I got there and he just smiled at me. He had a bullet in both his hands and feet. He had cast's on him all over. He was shot exactly where my father and brother where shot, or so he told everyone. He was on his regular jog down the street when he was ambushed and forced to crawl all the way to the nearest house to find help. I had more anger getting caged inside me when I saw his condition. He had pale white skin from the blood lose. I could only just frown and sit next to him and hope that he would be ok.

I stayed in the room talking about the past of how my father would usually come visit him if he was in the hospital before. I just smiled remembering all the times anyone came to the hospital my father would at least try to help the person and make them happier. I left him saying my goodbyes and was on my way out when I heard his heart monitor start to increase in its pace. I looked at my friend and then to the monitor, which was still increasing. I jumped out of the room to find a doctor quick. I went to the front desk and told them what was going on. I ran with the doctor back to the room. My friend was flat lining now. They tried to save him but failed. I looked at my friend for the last time. He had a smile on his face when they put his covers over his face. A tear came out of my eye. I wiped it off on my way to check on Bill.

I arrived in Bill's room and smiled at him. He had tubes going into his nostrils and looked like he was about to throw up at any second. He looked towards me and smiled, but then frowned when he saw the tears coming down my cheek.

"What's wrong Brian?"

"Ricks dead."

Bill looked at me with sorrow for our friend. I looked at Bill and tried to bring a smile on both of our faces. I tried to do what my father could do easily, make people smile. I tried to bring up old memories of our past that were at least good enough to talk about without bringing tears to our eyes. I ended up talking about how me and him would usually go exploring when we were around eight years old.

"Good times, huh, friend."

I smiled and looked at him with the same memory going through my head like it was on replay. I looked at my friend again to notice that blood was starting to come out of his mouth.

"Bill?" Bill had a worried look on his face because he could taste the blood.

I tried to make him smile again to try and forget about dying but it was no use. Bill had his of way of worrying and ignoring everything else. I watched as the doctors came into the room and looked at him with frowns and concerned looks on their faces. I knew what they were thinking before they could talk, they couldn't do anything else to help. I watched as my friend began to spit out more blood and start to have blood come out of his ears. I watched as his eye's began to lose life in them. That was the moment that I could not look anymore, I walked out of the room and was about to walk away when I heard the monitor Flat line. I started to cry and run towards the exit.

When I reached the exit I got to my truck and started it, put it in drive, and drove off as quick as I could. I sped all the way towards the farm and did not stop for anything.

A few weeks later I watched as they buried the last of my friends in the ground. I couldn't hold on to the tears anymore and walked away. I got in my truck and drove off without looking back. There was one place I wanted to go to one last time before I never go to it again. I knew the way well because me and my friends would always go there to hang out. It was a lake that only we knew about and kept it a secret from everyone. I walked up to a boulder that was above it. Memories came back of when we all jumped off of it. I looked at a specific clearing in the forest and more memories came back as I saw that there was still a hole in the middle. I slowly walked away back towards my truck and drove off only to never return to this place again.

PRESENT

I looked around to find that everyone was staring at me.

"What having deep thought going through your mind about memories takes a while to get back to real life. It's not like I said anything about what I was thinking."

They all shook there heads and pointed towards me. I felt myself start to get colder all of a sudden. I looked around myself to find blood on the ground. I put my hoof on it and brought it up to my face. I began to look around my body to see where it was coming from. I looked at my neck to my back to my legs. Not a single drop of blood was on any.

'Wait, could it be coming from the scare of where I got shot.' I looked at my stomach to find it bleeding.

I quickly put my hoof over it and looked to the others. "I think the old bullet wound opened up again. Stupid, stupid, stupid. This is why I try not to remember the past that much because the wound somehow keeps opening from it. Can someone get a' doctor or something!"

I was then wrapped around in a golden aura and lifted into the air. I felt myself become calm and suddenly felt nothing and was put back on the ground. I looked back at my stomach to find that the bleeding stopped. I walked away from the pool of blood and decided to pay attention to something else to get my mind off memories. I looked at Celestia to find her smile go into a frown.

'Did she just read my mind while I was having my memories back or something.'

"You can say that Brian."

"Ok so you can read minds, so you just saw all my memories of seeing my last friend dying in front of me."

She only nodded.

"Do I need to bring up anymore memories to prove that I have had a bad past?" She shook her head now knowing part of what I've went through in my life.

I looked at everypony else and made a small smile. They all came up and hugged me again.

'Did Celestia send my memories to everypony else?'

I looked at Celestia to notice a small nod. I slowly looked back to my new friends and hugged them back.

After a couple of minutes the group hug dispersed and left me there. I looked at Celestia, who was approaching me slowly.

"So you wish to live in Equestria to leave that land full of death. I will not stop you in this wish, but I will tell you that you will not be able to return." I only nodded and walked back to my friends.

"Oh and Princess Celestia."

"Hm?"

"Thanks for letting me stay."

"Your welcome and enjoy your new life." I nodded and walked out the gigantic doors.