Heroes travels

“Well…This is just fucking great.” Ashley exclaimed, complaining to his recent transformation over the night. Sure being a pony would be too bad but the only thing he was relieved of was that his uniform molded to his new shape except for his boots which decided to be jerks and disappear. His knife moved itself from his trouser pocket to the front pocket on his jacket, being easily accessable for him to grab with his mouth since he lacked fingers. The same goes for his MP3 player but his pistol on the other hand...He wondered where it went to and realized the one thing he would need to actually make use of the metallic weapon...

“I DON’T HAVE ANY FINGERS!” Ashley gritted his teeth, the anger inside him was at boiling point. Callum had seen him this angry a couple times before and the best course of action was to just stay out of his way.

“It’s that not much of a deal.” Shockwave said.

“Not much of a deal….NOT MUCH OF A. FUCKING DEAL?!” If Ashley knew how to walk with his new found body, he would have smashed his fist…hoof into the skull of the captain “I’ve lost the things a human practically NEEDS.”

“Ashley. Calm down.” Shockwave ordered. Ashley’s eye was starting to twitch from the sheer frustration of being told to calm down.

“Shockwave. Just let him blow of his steam by himself.” Callum interjected, getting a look of confusion from the captain “Trust me. It’s best if everyone leaves him alone until he calms himself when he wants to.” He started to walk to the door “Come on. Just leave him be.”

“Well…If you say so.” The captain left the room first. Callum was about to follow and shut the door but Ashley had other plans.

“Callum. Get the fuck over here.” His hostile tone sent a small shiver down Callum’s spine.

Callum sighed, knowing the conversation wouldn’t easy. He walked back into the room, locking the door before approaching his friend.

“Good. Now that Shockwave’s gone, we can talk.” Ashley’s voice was much calmer than the tone earlier. Callum thought that he had already calmed down, too quickly compared to other times he was that mad. “Don’t worry, it was all an act to get him out the room.”

“Okay…What is it you want to talk about?”

“I’m guessing Celestia pretty much ordered you to do this.” He pointed to himself, emphasizing his claim “Didn’t she?”

“Yeah.” Callum said awkwardly “Put me on a bit of a guilt trip by saying I broke her trust and mentioned what we agreed to recently.”

“Well, then I forgive ya man.” Ashley smiled to his pal who was quite shocked from what he just said.

“You’re forgiving me…Just like that?”

“Well…Sort of. Sure I’m pissed off right now but you can help me in a way…”

“Oh?” Callum raised an eyebrow “And what do I have to do?”

“Get Shockwave in here wherever he went. He’ll need to know as well.”

“You know I’m still outside.” Shockwave’s voice called out from the other side of the door. Callum unlocked it and opened it for the unicorn guard as he walked in “Right. What is it you want?” He looked towards the pony that claimed he was Ashley.

“Callum. Lock the door.” Ashley ordered, his friend done as he said.

“Right. Since you two are the only ones that know I’m a pony now. You’ll help me by bringing up the illusion of me being new in town.”

“Why?” both Callum and Shockwave asked in unison.

“Because I want it to be a surprise for the others to see I’m a dashing young stallion now.”

“Alright.” Callum agreed “Why don’t I say that you’re a pony I met during my guard duty?”

Ashley smiled “That’s good.” Ashley thought about his voice for a few seconds “You said I sound the same right?” Callum nodded “Well ah guess it’s time fer an accent.” He made his voice have a country accent, a bit lighter than Applejacks and was slightly higher pitched than his normal voice but was slightly different from the country accent he usually done.

“Brilliant.” Shockwave smiled “So what kind of pony are you? You’re obviously not a unicorn because well…” He pointed to his horn “You don’t have one of these.”

“Hmm…” Ashley jabbed his hoof into the side of his body, not feeling any wings “Don’t have wings either. Pretty glad I don’t.”

“Why?” Callum asked “It would be awesome to be able to fly.”

“True. As far as I can tell, ponies without either like Applejack and Big Mac have more physical strength so I’ll probably be as strong as I was before.” Ashley flopped himself off the bean bag with a soft thud. He tried to rise onto his hooves but failed miserably.

“Why can’t you stand up?” Callum asked.

“Because I have four legs. Not two. It’s pretty hard Callum.” Ashley hissed as he tried to get up again but failed once more. “Damn it.”

“Need some help?” Shockwave asked.

“It’s best if I learn to do it myself.” Ashley groaned as he tried once more, his hooves were shaking as he started to stand up. “Ah-HA!” He exclaimed with a smile as he was now standing up like a normal pony “Third times the charm.” Shockwave eyed his body. It was quite muscular and was slightly taller than the unicorn but was not as large as Big Mac in comparison.

“Good. Let’s grab something to eat.” Shockwave spoke as he walked towards the door, Callum followed.

“Ahem.” Ashley said in annoyance, grabbing both their attention “If I JUST learned how to stand up, how the fuck am I going to walk?”

Callum face palmed, the thought went completely went past his head…

“Alright. Let’s get started…” Shockwave groaned.

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It took them a while. And by a while I mean a couple of hours. Ashley had managed to bruise his chin from the amount of falls he took when he tried to walk to which Shockwave and Callum laughed at a bit. He shot them dirty looks and threatened them both a bit to set them straight. Shockwave quickly left to grab a member of the medical staff to heal the bruising via magic to which worked wonders. Ashley found out it’s similar to crawling but instead of the palms of your hands on the floor, it felt like he had stumps there instead, same goes for his knees being stumps. It annoyed him, he missed his hands so much.

It felt strange to say the least to walk everywhere with four legs when you had two to begin with. He was managing well to his transformation, saying something on the lines of humans being able to adapt to situations quickly. His anger still lingered in his body, shooting towards the sun goddess for taking his body and playing around with it.

The three of them walked into the mess hall. Guards shot looks towards Ashley who had his hood up the entire time, you could barely see his muzzle.

“Hey captain!” A black coated pegasus guard with an short yellow mane called out as he walked up to them, pointing towards the hooded pony “Whose the new kid?”

“This…This is uh…” Shockwave stammered, the three of them hadn’t thought of a name for the human turned pony yet.

“Mah name is...Not important.” Ashley spoke up with his southern drawl. He’d have to come up with an actual name later “Just call me Cloak fer now.”

“Riiiight.” The pegasus went back to his table to continue his meal, accompanied by a couple of other pegasus guards that were still shooting looks of suspicion towards the human but shrugged them off, continuing their conversation.

“If all goes accordingly, we might actually make it through the day.” Callum said as he picked up two trays, one for himself and one for his friend. “What do you want to eat?”

"Toast.” Ashley spoke with a flat tone "Nothin' but toast..." He held his hoof to his chin, pondering if he should have something else "And a large glass of lemon juice." The mare at the counter looked at him confusingly at his request

Who the hay drinks lemon juice by itself? She pondered to herself before immediately looking towards Callum.

Callum looked at the unicorn mare behind the counter. She styled a white coat with a ocean blue mane that was well kept despite being in a kitchen most the day. “You heard the pony.” He smiled, making his own decision “I’ll go for a bacon sandwich.”

“I told you before Callum, we don’t serve meat.” The mare at the counter giggled. Every time he heard that sentence, Callum died a little inside. “Go for something else Hun.”

“Fine, just give me a bowl of fruit.” He groaned in response but put on a fake smile anyway.

“I’ll go for my usual Mystic.” Shockwave smiled towards the mare.

“Alright, I’ll send somepony to bring your food to you when it’s done.”

Grey Ink spotted the Human and the captain but what intrigued her the most was the stallion next to them. She wondered why he was hiding himself under the hooded clothing and called out to them “Hey! Over here!”

The three of them spotted Grey Ink who was enjoying her morning coffee with a newspaper folded in front of her, they each took a seat at the table.

“So Shock, whose the new guy?”

“Just call me Cloak fer now ma’am.” Ashley smiled to the pegasus but she couldn't see much due to his hood stopping her from seeing the majority of his face.

“Well Cloak, why don’t you show me your handsome face? I promise I won’t bite.” She winked at him.

“Ah'm not sure ma’am.”

“Pleeeease? For me?” She put out her bottom lip out slightly, trying to give him the puppy dog look. Ashley ignored it but since she was considered a friend, he decided to go with it.

“Fine…Only because Callum told me about ya.”

“Oh really?” She looked towards Callum with concern who responded with a smirk.

“I told him dirty things about you.” He winked at the pegasus, followed by a small laugh.

“Oh ha-ha Callum.” Grey Ink's tone was filled to the brim with sarcasm, looking back at Ashley “Come on now. Show me that face of yours.”

Ashley sighed as he lifted his hood off, revealing a hazelnut brown mane that had a few teased spikes. The fringe would brush off to the side. Grey Ink looked into his dark blue eyes, thinking that she saw similar ones before. She noticed the small scar on his cheek.

“How’d you get that scar?” She questioned, taking a sip of coffee.

“Fell outta tree at a young age.” Ashley lied “Was cut up pretty bad, had a broken leg but nothin' too big. Kids will be kids after all.”

“I can relate to that.” She smiled “You know, you look quite handsome but what I don’t get is that you hide that pretty face of yours.”

“Are…Are y’all hittin' on me?” Ashley questioned, revealing a small blush on the mares face.

“What? No-nonono of course not!” Her blush deepened as Callum and Shockwave started to laugh a bit at her misfortune, she shot them both stares of pure anger which calmed them down a bit but smiles remained on their faces. She looked back at Ashley “I-I’m just c-complimenting your appearance i-is all!”

“Yer wings say otherwise.” Ashley smirked, pointing at the mares wings which were in fact the very same when she thought about her and either Night Wind or Solar.

Her entire face went an even darker shade red from embarrassment “I’m s-sorry!” She tried to fold her wings back into place but they had a mind of their own.

“It’s fine miss Grey Ink. Yer the first to say that ah’m handsome.” Ashley smiled towards the mare whose blush was starting to calm down.

“W-well…” She stuttered, her wings were now back under her control as she folded them back into place “I’m terribly sorry about that. It’s just that I can’t but help but mention what I like.”

“Oh so ya like me huh?” Ashley leaned forward a bit, wiggling his eyebrows a bit to make her blush She's too easy to make fun of, kinda cute if I say so myself. “Yer a cute mare miss Grey Ink.” He was telling the truth. He did find a lot of the ponies cute but didn’t have any other thoughts about them. Although he did like to make it seem that way but would make it so he was clearly joking, just to mess with them.

Grey Ink was flushed by the compliment “Oh…Thank y-you. Please, call me Grey.”

"Whatever ya want Grey." Ashley looked around the mess hall, spotting several guards staring at him but he decided ti ignore them. He looked at the clock above the door to go outside. It read 10:05am. Ashley turned towards Callum who was watching their food being delivered "Hey Cal, don't y'all gotta be at the school by ten thirty?"

Callum looked towards the clock, seeing the time "Uh...Yeah. Why? Wanna come with?"

"Sure. That's if the teacher don't mind of course."

"Nah, I'm sure she'll be okay with it."

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"So what did you do to him?" Twilight asked Celestia who was still smiling from hearing Ashley's reaction in the distance.

"Oh...Not much..." Her grin grew a slightly wider "I will say that I used poison joke extract for it soooo...Who knows what happened to him."

"Celestia." Twilight giggled "I can't believe you're a prankster as well."

"Well when you're my age, you have to know these sort of things." Celestia responded with a light giggle herself as she took a bite of her breakfast. She thought about his initial reaction, wishing she could be there to see it.

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As the time dragged on after eating their breakfast with Shockwave and Grey Ink, it was time for Callum to appear at the school. Of course, he would have to lie to Cheerilee to where Ashley was and ask her if his green coated companion could join him. Ashley on the other hand noticed a pink pony watching him, instantly knowing it was Pinkie Pie and the fact that she had not seen him in this form. He knew that she would want to throw him a welcoming party but he'd have to tell her what happened first.

Cheerilee noticed Callum and a hooded pony walking up to the school. Her concern had risen to where Ashley was but she was sure Callum would explain.

"Alright students." The teacher spoke to her class, they immediately stopped either talking to each other or were working. Some in fact were doing both. "I need you to get your questions ready for the humans that are visiting today while I speak to them outside."

She walked out of the classroom, leaving her students to perform the necessary task to go and see Callum who when he saw her, had a well hidden smirk on his face.

"Ah Callum!" She held out her fore hoof for the human to shake to which he did "Where is Ashley?" she questioned. Callum's brain however decided to stop working for a brief moment.

"Oh...He's uh...."

"Sorry to interrupt ma'am but Ashley had to take care of some business." Ashley's pony farm spoke with it's southern accent.

"Oh..." Her usual smile was replaced by a slightly depressed expression "Well I guess one of you two is better than none?"

"Always go fer the positive eh? Miss..."

"Cheerilee." The teacher held out her fore hoof to the light green stallion which he shook...somehow. "And who might you be? It's hard to see with that hood covering most of your head."

"Y'all can just call me Cloak, Miss Cheerilee."

"Very well Cloak." Cheerilee smiled as she turned towards Callum who was too busy day dreaming about nothing. Literally, nothing. "Sorry to sound rude but is there a reason why Cloak is here with you?"

Callum shook his head, breaking the trance he was in "Oh yeah. He's here because he's going to be..Uh..."

Ashley needed to cover his friends incapability to produce a lie once more so he thought of the first thing that popped into his mind.

"Well ya see Miss Cheerilee. Ashley was real sore about not bein' able to come to see yer wonderful students so he got some unicorn to perform some magic on him and mahself. Basically, he'll be able to hear the questions and will tell me the answers to them with this thing called Telepathy." Ashley let out a small chuckle "So ah guess ah'm like a messenger in this situation." Please buy it. pleasepleaseplease!

"Oh that's wonderful!" She exclaimed to which Ashley let out a mental sigh since if he did sigh in front of Cheerilee, she would surely pick up suspicion about him. "Well then, shall we get started?" She gestured towards the door to which she entered first.

Seeing her class with their papers which contained their many questions for the bipedal killing machine...And the pony version of the other killing machine.

"Alright class. Now Ashley couldn't make it today because he had some really important business to attend to." some of the class let out 'Aww" or things on the same line. "However..." The ones who were slightly depressed decided to become perky again, eager to hear the rest of their teachers sentence "Callum is able to join us AND a pony who goes by the name of Cloak will be answering for Ashley."

Some of the students tilted their heads out of confusion. Some whispered things between themselves such as "Why is Cloak answering questions for a human when he...or she is a pony?"

"Now I know you're all probably asking how Cloak is answering for Ashley. Well, he's communicating with Ashley with telepathy so he can give Ashley your questions and he will deliver his answers for Ashley."

"So he's like a mailpony?" Applebloom asked out loud, not bothering to raise her hoof.

"Yes. That's exactly right Applebloom." Cheerilee answered with her happy tune. She turned towards the door "You two can come in now!" She called out.

first, Ashley walked in with his robe's hood still covering all of his facial features except for the end of his muzzle. The students were curious to see his appearance, heck make that eager to see him. They watched as Callum made his way into the room with the best smile he could put on without scaring any of the ponies.

"Wow..." a light blue colt pretty much spoke for the whole class except for Applebloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle and Dinky since they have seen a human before. The remainder of the class was awestruck from the hairless giant in their presence.

"You should take a picture." Callum said charmingly "It'll last longer."

"Alright class. you can ask your questions while I mark some of your work." Cheerilee walked over to her desk, taking out several sheets of paper from a pile as she grabbed a pencil in her mouth.

So that's how non-unicorns write. Both Ashley and Callum thought to themselves, noticing the whole class had their hooves raised.

"Alright...We'll go around the room." Callum pointed towards the pony sitting to his right at the front. "What's your name?"

"Diamond Tiara." the filly responded with a smug tone "Daughter of Filthy Rich."

"Don't know who that is and I honestly don't really care." Callum spoke flatly. He noticed Diamond get a bit angry at this but he didn't really bother with her expression "Whose your question for?"

"Actually. It's for Cloak."

"A question...Fer me?" Ashley noticed Applebloom's ears perk up at his accent, thinking that he might be caught or that it's similar to her families since not many ponies actually had anything near to their accent.

"Yes. Why are you hiding under that hood? Are you like...Ugly or something?"

"Diamond Tiara!" Cheerilee scorned "Be polite."

"It's okay Miss Cheerilee. She's just curious and ah'll be happy to respond to a question directed towards me." He smiled towards the teacher who seemed to calm down a bit, getting back to her task at hoof. He walked towards Diamond which made her feel uneasy "Now...Don't judge straight away that if someone is hiding their face that they're ugly. Some ponies prefer not having others to see their face. Ah guess ya want to have a look?"

Diamond nodded. Ashley removed his hood, revealing his brown mane and blue eyes alongside his scar.

"So...Miss Diamond. Do ya think that ah'm ugly?"

"Well...Except for that scar I would say that you're good enough to actually look at without being disgusted."

Ashley turned towards Cheerilee who was about to tell off the smug filly but Ashley interjected "Just let them be themselves Cheerilee. Besides, everythin' they say is being heard by Ashley himself so he'll judge them from what Callum and ah have to say about the class."

"Alright...But if it gets too out of hoof..."

"Ah know, ah know." Ashley rolled his eyes, taking his place next to Callum "It's yer class after all."

Cheerilee nodded, getting her head back into the marking work she had to do once more.

"Alright. Next question." Callum pointed towards a grey filly who had a pair of glasses on "And what's your name?"

"Silver Spoon." She too replied with a smug tone, much like her neighbor Diamond Tiara. Both humans picked up that they were probably either best friends or rivals.

"Alright. Ask away."

"Do you have a cutie mark?"

"Sorry hun but humans don't need cutie marks."

"But how will you-" Ashley raised his hoof, signalling Silver to stop speaking.

"Ya asked yer question, sorry but y'all gonna have to wait until it's ya turn again." Ashley said strictly. It felt good to be in charge. "Ah'm only makin' it fair on the others."

Silver Spoon let out a huff as Callum pointed out towards the next member of the class. Again, it was a filly but this one was a filly Ashley recognized easily. It was Dinky.

"Ah, hello Dinky." Callum smiled towards the filly "Whose your question for and what is it?"

Dinky gave a small wave which was accompanied by a friendly smile "It's for both you and Ashley." She quickly took a glance at her list of questions, picking one at random "Why was the princess chasing you two yesterday?"

"Alright, Cloak can tell you the story since it was mainly Ashley."

"Alright." Ashley shifted his neck around a bit, getting a satisfying popping sound from doing so. "One sec while ah ask Ash what he wants me to say." Ashley closed his eyes to provide the illusion of him actually talking to the his human self with his mind. Opening his eyes with a smile, he began his story.

"Basically, Ashley and the princess have a little prank battle going on between them. Yesterday was the result of Ashley's prank. As ya could tell, the princess had a fabulous pink coat fer which ah think she looks amazing in." He heard Callum give a small chuckle. "Callum helped Ashley get in close enough to pull off his joke and weelllll...Callum was held responsible as well for assisting but they talked it through. Princess Celestia knows it's all fer a laugh and is currently gettin' payback on Ashley."

The class, as well as Cheerilee were quite...Excited? Shocked? that their princess was going to prank someone. They did think that it was a bit inappropriate for royalty to behave in such a manner. Both humans had picked up on this from some of the class whispering to each other about it. Callum decided to defend the sun goddesses honor.

"Before you are all quick to judge her actions. need I remind you that the princess has to do stressful tasks and has hardly any spare time to herself so she does not really have much time for fun. Can you imagine a life without having fun every once in a while?" He allowed the class to imagine themselves in the same situation "It doesn't look good does it?" They shook their heads in disapproval "Now you see what I'm getting at. Even the princesses need to have some fun here and then."

"That...Was a very good lecture Callum." Cheerilee spoke up "I never really thought of it that way."

"Just doing my job, y'know? Defending the princess herself and her reputation is my job." Callum smiled, pointing towards a colt sitting next to Dinky. "What's your name?"

"My name's Pipsqueak but you can call me Pip!" The colt exclaimed with confidence but more importantly, a accent that sounded British.

"Well well." Callum spoke "Your accent is very similar to a town from the country that me and Ash are from. Tell me, where are you from?"

"Trottingham."

"Hah! I see what you did there." Callum laughed a bit as did Ash "The town I was speaking of is calling Nottingham...or it could be Tottenham?" Ashley coughed loudly at Callum, snapping him out of the pending sidetracking thought. His friend began once more "Anyway! It's either of those two and it's great to hear your accent. What's your question and who is it for?"

"It's for both of you. What did you do before you came to Equestria?"

"Well, Ashley and I were in the military." Callum replied, getting a few head tilts "Like the Royal guard but we go through really tough training both physically and mentally. I'm not going into detail as to what happened while were in there since I don't want to taint your fragile minds until your at a much more mature age."

"Ashley says that before both he and Callum were in the army, they were partying a lot an' pulled jokes their friends."

"Alright. Next question." He pointed at Applebloom who was sitting on the second row "Hey Applebloom, what's your question and who is it for?"

"Uh...It's fer Cloak." She replied. Ashley raised an eyebrow out of curiosity "What's yer cutie mark?"

Fuck... Callum thought to himself

ULTRA MEGA WHY DIDN'T I FUCKING CHECK FUKKITY FUCK FUCK. Ashley panicked. Without thinking, he grabbed the rear of his robe and lifted it. Every second it grew distance from the ground, the more he regretted it. A droplet of sweat shifted its way down the back of his neck, through his coat.

"Uh...We can't see yer cutiemark if yer wearing clothes." Applebloom giggled a bit.

Ashley mentally face palmed, he couldn't escape the inevitable of showing his cutie mark to which he had no idea that he even had one. Unless...

"Yeah...Here's the thing...Ah don't really like others lookin' at mah cutie mark." Wow...they didn't notice my uniform is basically the same from my human forms...Then again, maybe they need to see the emblem to notice it...

"But why?" Cheerilee asked from her desk.

"Because ah was raised to always wear clothes and ah feel uncomfortable without them. No one is going to see mah cutie mark unless ah'm close to them."

"So...You mean if they're your best friend or possible relationship partner?" Cheerilee asked.

"Yer correct miss Cheerilee, ah'm glad you understand.

"Shall we begin with the next question?" Callum asked to the class to which they nodded approvingly in response "Good, lets go with you." He pointed towards a rather chubby colt with beaver-like front teeth "What's your name, question and who is it for?"

"My names Snips and my question is going to..." The colt took a quick look at his paper "Uh...Ashley."

"Go ahead." Ashley spoke.

"Can you tell us about your family?" The colt asked.

The class as well as the teacher were all eager to know the humans response. However, Callum immediately started to panic a bit but all Ashley could feel was sadness and rage build up inside of him. The memory of his family being taken away from him filled his mind instantly, remembering the emotions he felt when the memory took place. Feeling tears about to rise to the surface of his eyes, He closed his eyes to fulfill the illusion.

"Ah'm sorry...He doesn't want to talk about 'em." The quiet words left his lips as he put the hood back over his head just in time to hide a tear that flown down his cheek. Luckily, no one was able to see it in time.

Judging by the classes reaction which consisted of confusion and curiosity buzzed through each and every student. Some already made judgements about his answer, some saying that he must hate his family or that his family abandoned him.

"Please refrain from questions about Ashley's family due to it being a very fragile situation which ended with something that would taint your innocent minds if I was to explain. Only Ashley will tell others when he feels like it and every time it's hard for him since he relives those memories." Callum spoke with authority, silencing the class immediately.

"Callum..." Ashley's words broke the silence that grew after Callum spoke.

"Yeah?"

"He wants me to tell 'em."

"Are you sure?"

"Y-yeah...He said that it would be better if others know so they can stay clear of the subject better."

"Alright...If he wants you to then."

Ashley took a few seconds preparing himself "Y'all must not repeat ANYTHIN' that ah say without Ashley's consent. Do ah make mahself clear?"

The class nodded.

"Ah would perform a blood oath but ah'm just going to have to go with yer word."

Ashley took a seat on the floor, clearing his throat he began...

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Ashley told the story of his family. Recalling both good and bad memories about them, mostly arguments and such as well as the tragedy. He didn't go into detail and went with that on the very night, he watched them get taken away from him. Never to return. Some of the class thought that they moved away or something but Cheerilee knew what he was implying. He watched them being murdered at the mere age of 16. She wanted to know more but her mind reassured her that something else even worse probably happened on that night so she didn't press on about the situation.

While the class enjoyed their recess. Callum, Ashley and Cheerilee were discussing the teaching program of their worlds. Callum told the mare that you stay on the educational wagon until you're sixteen at which you can choose to go to college or go to sixth form. He told her that both he and Ashley went onto sixth form, studying physical education and other subjects as well.

The teacher was fascinated by their stories. Some of the subjects gained her interest such as I.T to which Callum and Ashley explained a bit about computers, saying they're machines humans built to store information and a whole bunch of other things. Staying clear from a discussion about the internet of course since they could discuss it some other time.

As the recess ended, they continued on with the questioning. Ashley kept the mental note that he was going to tell his friends about his past but that could wait until he was back into his original form. From his perspective, being a pony sucked. The lack of hands was annoying, he preferred being his humans height and being covered his fur while wearing not only his adjusted uniform and his robe started to make him feel hot. It was bound to happen but the heat wasn't as bad as most would think it would be since the breeze cooled him as well as it not being very hot outside.

The rest of the questions from the class mostly consisted of some of the humans adventures to which they answered that they did indeed travel a lot but stayed clear from the reasons why since they were basically missions they were sent to. Questions on the line of what their favorite food was and did the humans have a special someone back on their home planet to which both said no to the last one.

As the questioning session drew to a close, the class said their farewells and thanked both of the human and his friend for coming along. Callum decided it was best for Ashley to do things on his own for a while and headed down to Sweet Apple Acres to help out with some of their apple farming. It was starting to turn into a pass time since he was doing something productive and was basically working out at the same time.

Ashley thought it would be best to head to Sugarcube Corner to tell Pinkie about what Celestia did to him. She would be the only one to know besides Callum and Shockwave to which if they did spill the beans on his fun, he would forcefully remove their genitalia and shove it down their throats. Sure it would be unnecessary but it would get not only his point over to them but to everyone else as well to never try and piss him off.

He chuckled at the mere thought in his head. He wouldn't do something like that to Callum, he's too close to him to anything like that but Shockwave on the other hand...He would need to hang out with him more.

Grey Ink however...Defiantly enjoyed her company since she was easy to manipulate into making a joke but all in all, she was fun to be around. He wondered what she was like off work, maybe she is the same or just more fun to be around. Who knows? He'll have to ask around a bit but the thing what went through his mind during his journey to the hell hole of the bakery, was what Grey Ink said to him...

It’s just that I can’t but help but mention what I like. The very sentence ran through his mind. Did she like him because of his looks? Or his personality? Or perhaps both? The conundrum rattled his brain on and on, remembering that he admitted that she was cute and he liked being with her but no other emotions were present...

Pfft. Look at me. Ashley smiled to himself, ponies that wondered by shot looks at him, mostly ones of suspicion to know who the hooded pony was. Actually thinking about a relationship with a pony. Sure they're cute...Adorable...Awesome to be around...Better than my ex that's for sure...BAH! I'll think through this another time. Need to see Pinkie.

Ashley walked up towards the confectionery's front door, not being able to cover his nose since he needed four hooves to walk, he took a minute to brace himself for the smell to go into nostrils. He opened the door slowly and was greeted by Mrs Cake.

"Oh! Hello! She greeted him with a warm smile "How may I help you?"

"I'm here to see a pony by the name of Pinkie Pie. Is she available at the moment?" He asked with his accent.

"Sure. I know she'll be glad to see a new pony in town...You are new here aren't you?"

"Y'all can call me Cloak, just got here this mornin'. Met a nice fella by the name of Ashley, bit weird lookin' if you ask me but ah've heard about him in the papers. Fer what ah heard done what he done to those diamond dogs, he's an alright guy."

"Oh you met him? Everypony was searching for him yesterday, even Princess Celestia herself." She giggled a bit "I did enjoy seeing her pink coat. Was Ashley responsible for that?"

"Eeyup." Ashley said approvingly, realizing he sounded a bit like Big Macintosh.

Mrs Cake laughed a bit as she walked upstairs to get Pinkie. Ashley waited for around five seconds before quickly opening the front door to grab some air, quickly closing it when he was satisfied. Pinkie darted down the stairs to greet the new pony but before she could say anything, Ashley raised his hoof to silence her.

He lifted off his hood. Both Mrs Cake and Pinkie looked at him with his blue eyes and hazelnut mane alongside the small scar on his right cheek.

"Miss Pinkie, ah need to talk to y'all in private." He gave her a smile to which Mrs Cake left the room willingly.

"Alright...Pinkie." Ashley spoke with his normal voice but still whispered "It's me Ash. Celestia got Callum to fool me into drinking something that turned me into this form."

"I see..." Pinkie whispered "Follow me." She gestured for Ashley to go upstairs, into her attic. Once they were in there, she grabbed a nearby book "What colour was the drink?"

"It was a misty orange." Ashley responded.

"Alright..." She began flipping through pages for a couple of seconds before finding what she needed "Found it." She turned the book towards Ashley to see "This potion is made with poison joke extract. Celestia's favorite item for prank wars. Basically she uses it as a last resort but since you pulled that doozy of a joke on her, I'm guessing she decided to try and use this just to show you that she will win."

"Okay. So do you have anything to counter this?"

"There is only one more thing that will drive her nuts. Aaaaannnnd..." She put her hooves into her mane, revealing a cupcake "This is what will do the job nicely."

"A cupcake?" Ashley asked flatly but was sickened by the sight of the baked treat. He was obviously unimpressed by the cupcake with it's overkill sky blue frosting.

"It's whats IN the cupcake what matters."

"Ooooh I see. What does it do?"

"You'll just have to wait and find out. Just try and get her to eat this." Pinkie grinned.

"How the heck am I supposed to do that?!" Ashley asked with slight annoyance "She'll know something's up if either Callum or I ask her to do so."

"Well, since Callum worked with Celestia to get you he can't be trusted with this one..."

Both of them started to brainstorm for the past twenty minutes. The sun rose to its highest point, signalling it was midday. It wasn't too soon that Ashley came up with a solution.

"I got it." he made the motion to click his fingers...only to remember he doesn't have any which annoyed him very much.

"Lets hear it." Pinkie stated, taking a bit out of a brownie she pulled out of nowhere.

"We need the princess to come to one of your parties. We can lie about me working here at the bakery as long as no one tells her that I'm really Ashley in this form. I can try my best to get her to eat the cupcake."

"Sounds like a plan!"

"Just a question, how do I get rid of this effect from her prank?"

"We should see Zecora. She's helped us before when we went into a patch of poison joke and since that potion was basically what is was made of entirely, it should fix you up."

"Good to know. I think I'll stay like this for the rest of the day although I REALLY miss my fingers."

"Alright-y then! I'll send out invites and get the party ready...WAIT." The pink party mare's brain decided to give her a small idea.

"What?" Ashley cocked an eyebrow.

"This can be your welcome to ponyville party! Oh-oh, we can make it Callum's as well!"

"Well...I did agree to come along so I guess you might as well." Ashley groaned.

"EEEEEEEEEEEE!" Pinkie was practically ready to explode from excitement. At long last she could throw the party for both humans but cooled herself down, knowing that the party should be for Cloak and Callum just to throw off any suspicions.

"Do you need any help with the party at all?"

"Nope. I can convince the Cakes to say that you're working here. I can set up parties..." She made a clicking sound with her hoof which confused Ashley much but shrugged it off because obvious reasons. "Just like that."

"Alright then. I'll leave ya' to it." Ashley turned to leave but stopped half way "Oh and Pinkie..."

"Yeeeeessss?" She leaned forwards with a wide grin.

"Thanks a lot for helping me out."

"You're my friend silly! And I love making my friends happy. Although I love making everypony happy as well but I can't say no when there is a prank involved!"

Ashley chuckled a bit, waving goodbye to the party mare as he left the building. He said farewell to Mrs Cake and decided to go to the school once more to see the crusaders since he had nothing better to do.

Man...It's good to be outta that place.

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Hey guys, sorry it's been a while since the last update but real life has been a bit hectic recently. My friend got dumped by his girlfriend for hanging out with a girl that he is good friends with and nothing else. He was a bit depressed until I cheered him up throughout the week, convincing him to check out MLP:FiM somehow.

Anyways, this stopped me from writing this chapter since it did put me off the mood to work on it so hopefully this chapter turned out okay. Final prank coming up next chapter so I'll try to go all out on hilarity. Expect some more awkwardness from Callum since it's his thing and hopefully in the chapter after that, both Callum and Ashley will be working at the club and MAYBE drunk ponies + humans in the same chapter but who knows?

Anyways, hope you liked the chapter after over a week from the last update. Comment and such since I like to see your comments and reply to ones I'd like answer.