Author's Note

Alright, the reason for the violence is for two places, so far, that will be fighting, so I figured I'd put it up. The reason for the gore tag is for one part of the story, that's later, that a pony does explode, and is rather gory in nature, but it's not a "prominent" theme, so I left it off. If one feels that it needs to be added let me know and I will.

As always I welcome, polite criticism. Please don't post anything like. "This sucks" or anything of that nature because it just proves to everyone what an ass you are.

"If you can't say something nice, don't say nothin' at all," Thumper from Disney's "Bambi"

Chapter One: Things Change Quickly

Ninetales in Equestria

A MLP Fan Fiction by Wild W Pony

CHAPTER ONE: Things Change Quickly

My name is Emmit Knight, a six foot tall nineteen year old with long black hair and bright blue eyes. No girlfriend just yet, though I’ve got a couple of girls in mind already that they said they would like to be my girlfriend. I’m also a recent graduate of Skyline High School, Go Raiders. Anyway, like I said I just recently graduated and I was currently on my way to the Walmart in northeast Dallas to pickup some supplies for our camping trip. It was a promise that my dad made to me that we would spend the week up in the mountains of New Mexico. Right now I was stuck on LBJ in the afternoon rush hour traffic. Luckily my older Crown Vic was in excellent shape, and because it was in the middle of summer the air conditioner was on. So, as I sat in the slow moving traffic at least I wasn’t roasting. You know what the worst part is? I was only about three exits away and moving at a snails pace.

After about thirty minutes, a scream, and a sore throat later, I had only moved one mile. Wonderful now I’m only two exits away. “Screw it,” an exit was right there so I followed the shoulder for the short stretch it took to reach it and turned right onto Oates Drive. Hey at least I was moving which really felt great. For those who have grown up in large cities with rush hour traffic you know what I’m talking about. Then I turned left onto Northwest Drive and followed that until I finally got to the Walmart. The closest one to our house, which stood between my former high school and Mesquite. That’s east of Dallas by the way.

“Finally,” I shouted in triumph as I parked my car, about fifty yards from the front door, and started walking. While walking inside I took stock of the things that I would need to get. I already had some things already, but I still needed to get some of the essentials. You know like toilet paper, battery powered lantern, a large tent that we could stand up in, and the most important of all is potato chips. You know, the bare essentials. We have been going on camping trips when I was younger when Mom was still alive, but ever since her death we kind of lost the will for it. Now though we thought about doing it again. So, I was here to pickup some supplies.

“Hi there and welcome to Walmart,” the greeter said to me while giving me a small wave. An elderly woman who looked like she was retired but working for the extra money. I just said thank you taking a cart and kept walking. I knew that I would need one because of the large size of the tent that I was planning on getting. I really wanted one of those large cabin type tents which has lots of room. So that was the first place that I went to. I passed by the electronics and the toys to finally get to the camping area. Luckily for me I found one, the very last one. I grabbed it and put it in the cart. “Yes. Now this is a tent. Now I need to get one of those L.E.D. lanterns,” I mused while pushing the cart over to the next isle. There was quiet a few needless to say. So after a little scrutinizing I picked one and put it in the cart as well.

While back in the main isle I took a moment to take out my smart phone and gave my dad a call. “Hey dad, I’m finally at the Walmart and I’ve got a great huge tent for us and a lantern. Now I’ll get the rest of the stuff and be right back home.”

“...”

“Really? Guess we’ll need one of those portable gas stoves then huh?”

“...”

“I know I’ll pick up one of the small Coleman brands, they’re good. Right see you when I get home,” I hung up and turned the cart around and walked down the isle. I picked one of the smaller ones that could operate on either the small canisters or the large propane tanks. Once that was done I figured I’d start finding some of the food next, but first I wanted to see something. Walking down the main isle I went into the toy section. I know what you’re thinking. Yes I watch two things. My Little Pony and Pokemon. I wanted to see what plushies they had on sale right now. I don’t care what people think, I like those shows and once in a while I’ll pick out a plushie. One of my favorite of the Pokemon has always been Ninetales.

“Here we go,” I mused while eyeing a Ninetales plushie halfway down the isle. I picked it up from the shelf and took a good look at it. It looked great without any sort of wear or tear. All the seams seemed to be strong and fresh. I turned it where it’s head was facing me, “You are coming home with me.”

And that is when my whole life changed.

The first thing that happened was the cart started to quickly move away from me down the isle, like someone was pulling it. However, no one was in the isle but me. This confused me, “What the hell?” But right when I took the first step is when I started seeing rainbow colors all around me. It was like being surrounded by a multicolored shimmering curtain. The colors started showing up first and then the wind started blowing. Now that felt like being right in the middle of one of those hurricane tubes as my shirt was blowing wildly around me as well as my long black hair. Not the mention throwing a some toys from the shelves. “What the hell is this?” I asked as the colors and the wind increased until I was quite literally floating me off the floor. So as with any high stress situation I did the most manly thing that I could think of. I screamed my head off sounding like a little girl. And right after that is when everything went white. Not black like you read in all the fictional stories. Nope, pure white.

^_^

Immediately when I woke up I knew that something was wrong. Several things were apparent right off. I wasn’t home anymore and I wasn’t human anymore. A quick check of my body told me that I was now the Pokemon Ninetales. I was a perfect picture of the Ninetales Pokemon, complete with a brilliant golden yellow coat with thick fur on my chest. The hair on my head was the typical Ninetales spiky look. I bet that I had the red eyes too. What surprised me though was that I knew how to walk, run, and all of his abilities as if I’ve been using them my whole life. Now that was weird beyond belief. I had an ember attack, flamethrower, duplication ability, a protective shield, dash attack that was nearly invisible, tail whip making my tail nearly rock hard, ethereal howl that puts fear into hearts, mimic ability which also holds my telekinesis ability, and a mind control ability. That’s quite a repertoire if I do say so myself, I thought while thinking of the many television series, comics, and games that these abilities came from.

When I looked around I was shocked at what I found. The Tree of Harmony? I thought with shock as I was laying on the cool rock floor of the cavern looking right at the Tree of Harmony. Complete with the elements themselves right where the episode showed. Which told me that Twilight was a princess at least and was at least the start of season four, if not later. Standing up I slowly walked up to the tree and put a paw against one of the lower roots that was sticking up from the ground. As my paw ran against it there was a pleasant soft chiming sound. It stopped when my paw stopped. I wonder how far along this world is from the series? Has Tirek showed up yet? And if not then should I tell them?

Then I remembered about the locked crystal chest on one of the roots. I saw it to my left, and it was open. Then it must be after the Tirek incident and after she got her castle, which would put it at least the start of season five. With that in mind I turned and walked toward the stairs to get out of the cavern. It was dark and Luna’s beautiful moon was high in the sky giving off her soft light. Beautiful night you have Luna, I thought and started walking through the forest toward Ponyville. But as I walked through the creepy forest I wondered just why was I taking this so well? Could it be because I watched the series and knew that they would help me?

The forest looked exactly like it did from the show, which wasn’t surprising considering what I’ve seen so far. The trees looked like they came straight out of a horror film and it was eerily quiet. I didn’t hardly hear anything right now. That didn’t bode well for me. I did come across those gas spitting plants, so I gave them a wide birth as I walked around them. Other than that and it being too quiet for my liking nothing really happened. Just the creepy silence, the sound of the gentle breeze and the soft crunching of the forest floor under my paws as I walked. I did notice that I had better hearing, sight, and smell than in my human form.

About an hour later I heard some roaring up ahead which sounded like a couple of lions. My ears swiveled in that direction hoping to get more details as I was too far away to see them through the thick forest. I was on a narrow trail and they seemed to be up ahead. Sounds of claws against wood hit my ears so I thought they were battling each other for some odd reason and was just making plans to give them a wide birth.

Until I heard a female shout something in a language I couldn’t understand. She didn’t sound too please. She sounded down right angry actually. I may not understand her language or what she was saying, but I did recognize the voice though. Her voice sounded just like it was in the series. Zecora. I took off running as fast as my legs could carry me down the narrow path. I was hoping that sticking to the path would lead me right to them.

A couple of minutes later I was right. I slid to a stop about thirty yards away to get an idea of what was going on first before I jumped in head first. Zecora was throwing potions of all sorts at not one, not two, but three Manticores. And at the moment they were turning her small tree hut into tiny splinters. Two were side by side with the third one just starting to climb up onto their back to get to her on the upper level.

Oh no you don’t, I thought and started running to them while calling upon my dash attack. Using the ability to make my body like a spring I waited until I gathered enough then let it loose. My body was nearly invisible as I rushed them. Because the ability also protects me from hard impacts it didn’t hurt me when my body collided with the two on the bottom sending them flying away.

Thinking quickly I jumped up and used my tail whip ability. My nine tails turned as hard as stone and quickly flipped my body under hitting underneath it and sending it back into the air. Then used an air jump to follow him up. When I was equal to him and looking right into his surprised eyes I twisted my body around hitting him again with my tail whip. “NINETALES,” I shouted in my natural voice. The impact not only knocked him out but send him crashing into his two buddies against the tree line at the edge of the small clearing.

The other two that were under the third one started to get up as I landed on the ground between them and Zecora’s tree hut. I let out a long loud ethereal ghostly howl to put fear into their hearts making them think twice before attacking her again.

The quickly left and took their unconscious buddy with them.

And good riddance, I wanted to say, but all that came out was “Ninetales.” I sighed and called on my mimic ability to create a pulsing orb over my head to which I could speak through. “Now then Zecora,” I said aloud and turned around to face her, “I don’t think the-”

I was hit with some liquid in a small container right in my face. I didn’t immediately feel any sort of reaction as the liquid ran down my muzzle and onto the ground. Now that’s gratitude for you, I thought as another small container hit me with some liquid. She started to shout at me this time. I kept my face neutral and with a long sigh I simply walked away. She was still shouting as I started my way down the path once again as her voice started to fade the further I got.

Sense that was a bust I figured that I would try Ponyville. Why not, considering that the series made it to be the most hospitable place in Equestria. Perhaps they will be more welcoming and I hoped that Zecora was just high strung or something.

The rest of the trip through the forest was quiet for obviously reasons. The manticores were probably off somewhere licking their wounds. However, not too far because the forest is still quiet.

I pretty much knew where I would come out of the forest. According to all the episodes that I watched I should come out near Fluttershy’s cottage. Beyond the cottage would be Ponyville and to the left would be Sweet Apple Acres.

And sure enough when I reached the edge of the Everfree Forest I was looking at Fluttershy’s cottage to my right with the apple orchard to my left and Ponyville which was beyond it. Eenie, meenie, minie, and moe?, I thought while looking in those directions. I just shrugged and headed toward Ponyville walking between the orchard and her cottage.

The grass, gravel and dirt lightly crunched under my paws as I approached the town. It looked to be around midnight or so as the first buildings began to come into view. Not that I expected anyone...any pony to be up and about, but still. Wait… Twilight might still be up and about. She is a bookworm after all. So Twilight it was then. I just had to cross the town to get there as she was in her castle which was in the distance. Which meant going through town square, walking by Rarity’s and Pinkie’s place.

Pinkie Pie, now there was a pony which defied pretty much anything and everything. Where Pinkie’s mane alone is a vast emptiness that can hold anything. As I started walking through the town the first thing that caught my eye was town hall. Again it looked just like in the series. The town, though empty right now with every pony asleep, was very clean. Not a scrap of trash anywhere. No concrete streets or asphalt. The main street was mainly stones like an old brick road. Deciding to take a tour another time I simply walked through town and onto the castle. I just hoped that she didn’t have her own guards by now.

However, when I got close to the castle I noticed that she did. Balls, I thought deciding to try anyway. As I approached the castle it had a yellowish elegant stairs leading up to a yellow colored double doors with two hearts on it. On either side of those doors were purple looking stained glass windows with Twilight’s cutie mark on it. Let’s see if it and her lives up to her reputation for friendship, I thought and started up the steps.

I watched the guards and they watched me. They didn’t attack outright, so I gave them that. When I was about five or so feet away I tried putting up a screen, of sorts, using my mimic ability. Because of the language barrier I thought that pictures would help. Slowly I turned my head toward the screen hovering in the air by me and put up a movie, of sorts. Showing them escorting me to see Twilight. When it was done I made the movie and the screen disappear and waited to see what would happen.

Nothing. They just stood there.

When nothing happened I moved closer to the doors to open them with my mimic ability, which acts exactly like their telekinesis. Only when I got closer they thrust their spears across each other preventing me from doing so.

“Oh come on,” I shouted through the pulsing communication orb hovering over my head, “I just want to see her.” Hopefully my face would show my agitation regarding their actions, so they would know that it was me that was speaking even though they can’t understand me.

They said something at me, although again I couldn’t understand, though they spoke like a guard would. And I figured they were saying something like I couldn’t enter or something like that.

Not wanting to cause any trouble I just turned around and headed back into the city again. There was nothing that I could do, but wait around until she poked her head out and then I could ask her while she was out within the city. The question now was, where do I wait? And how do I wait without causing a stir? Because it was midnight and everyone, or every pony, asleep I thought maybe just waiting on top of one of the rooftops.

A few minutes, and a few parkour moves, later I was laying down on the roof that was the closest to her castle. And waited. Looking up to the night’s sky I thought of going to sleep and drifting through Luna’s dream realm. Maybe I could make contact that way, who knows.

^_^

Normally dreams aren’t lucid for me, but because I was in Equestria now I think that changed. Because now I found myself back in human form and standing in what looked to be space. Stars were all around me as If I was in the night sky itself. Looking down at my feet I tapped it against whatever I was standing on. I was standing on something or I would be floating, I just couldn’t see it. The stars were beautiful as they twinkled all around me. What I couldn’t figure out is why I was here.

I found out when I turned around. Luna was standing there looking at me both with curiosity and fear. She stood about just over four feet tall to me and about five feet away. “Well hi there,” I said while waving a little, “My name’s Emmit Knight.” I didn’t want to do the whole bowing thing like a total brony, but then again I am facing the Princess Luna.

When I spoke to her she just tilted her head to me obviously not understanding what I was saying.

“Ok,” I said quietly then patted my chest, “Emmit.” Then I did it again.

Nothing.

I motioned to her with an open palm and looking to her with what I hoped to be a curious look. Hoping that she would understand that I wanted something from her.

Nothing.

Alright, this is getting a little frustrating. I tried mentioning my name again and patting my chest, but just like before she just stood there not understanding me. Putting my hands to my face I just sighed then just to be silly I started waving my hands around like flag signals to a landing plane.

She scrunched up her face as if to say “what the hell?” and took a step back.

“Well I couldn’t think of anything else, if you can’t understand me,” I said putting my hands down and shrugging my shoulders. After that she just slowly turned around and started walking off fading as she went. She gave one last look at me before disappearing. “Your leaving no-”

Suddenly I was woken up by sudden pain in my side and was sent flying from the roof and landing on the hard ground with a thud. As I shook my head and recovered from the hit to my side, I looked up to see Rainbow glaring at me and growling at the same time.Just what the heck? I thought while hearing hoof steps nearing where I lay. Turning my head around I saw all five of Twilight’s friends surround me. Rainbow, Pinkie, Applejack, Rarity, and even Fluttershy was there, although bless her heart she was hiding behind Rarity.

Well this isn’t good, I thought while looking around at them. Rainbow said something to me that sounded like an accusational question. Of course I just blinked at her not understanding her, then Applejack asked something as well. Carefully and slowly I stood up, noticing that I should be about the size of Luna. All five backed up while watching me like a hawk. Clearly they were afraid of me as if I was doing something untoward. I used my mimic ability to put up a screen showing me simply sleeping on the roof with a few letter z’s showing over my head.

They all were confused at first but then Rainbow started shouting something at me and motioning with her hoof. I didn’t know where she was pointing but she was slowly advancing on me, so I started backing up. That’s when I felt a hoof actually slap me on my own rump. I yipped in surprise, not that it hurt any, and backed up more quickly as the five of them moved in front of me and started advancing.

So, I ran and took off toward the forest again. They followed me shouting the whole time until I ran into the forest and disappeared behind a few trees. When the girls didn’t follow I was finally able to catch my breath from the run through town. Luckily the town was just beginning to wake up so I didn’t have to use that much parkour skills to evade hitting some pony. Those that were out and about this early in the morning mostly just jumped out of the way anyway. When they couldn’t see me after a few minutes they just turned and left.

Just what the heck was that all about? And why did they run me off? I had no clue and didn’t have any answers, but I knew that somehow, someway, I just had to see at least one of the princesses. In the meantime perhaps I can check up on Zecora and see how she was doing. Now knowing where to go I stayed out of sight when I finally reached her tree hut. She works quickly I give her that, I thought seeing that most of the damage from the attack has already be fixed. I spotted her fixing the last of the damage to one of her windows. She was outside with her back to me and I first thought about stepping out and trying to communicate once again, but change my mind. I didn’t want to get hurt or attacked again for simply wanting to communicate.

With nothing else to do I turned from her hut and walked back to the edge of the forest to watch the town. I had hopes to find Twilight alone so I could try and talk with her. By the time I got to the edge of the forest and started watching the town, it was a flurry of activity. Seems like the whole town was up and about and talking. The feeling that I got was that something big was going to happen, but I couldn’t figure out what it was. I saw the Twilight and her friends in front of town hall talking among themselves. Then saw the donkey with his girlfriend show up and talk to them. Alright, so this is after he finds her.

Then out of nowhere I heard a bear roar, but it came from overhead, in the air. What the heck? I thought and saw a bugbear from the one hundredth episode fly into town. Ok, that tells me where we are in the series, I thought and watched the bear give out a roar. The town freaked out and every pony ran in all directions screaming at the top of their lungs. More than likely saying something like “We’re all going to die” or something like that. I was debating on whether to help or not. If I did then maybe those actions could speak louder than any words could. Then again I would be putting myself at risk on helping ponies that wanted nothing more than to hurt me.

With a sigh I stepped out of the forest and started running toward the bugbear and town hall. I saw Fluttershy run up to it, and standing about ten or so feet away started to try and talk to it. Two things surprised and alarmed me. One was that I could actually understand Fluttershy and what she was saying. Two was that Twilight and her friends, minus Fluttershy, spotted me and half began running toward me and the others ran toward the bugbear. I stopped in my tracks when I saw Pinkie and Rarity running toward me.

Oh come on, seriously?

As Pinkie and Rarity ran toward me Twilight shot magic at the bugbear making it scream while Rainbow kicked it in the face. Fluttershy in the meantime was doing her best to yell, or her version of yelling, “Wait, let me talk to it first.” The bugbear, on the other hand, flew up then pointed his stinger toward Fluttershy and rushed at her. Fluttershy saw this and “eeped” curling herself into a tight ball with her tail wrapped around herself and shivering with fright.

Seeing this I knew that I was the only one that could get to her in time. Pinkie and Rarity were running behind me with rarity shooting some magic at me, but just bounced off my protective shield. Twilight and Rainbow had already chased the bear too far away to get to her in time. Even Rainbow and her quick speed wouldn’t do it. Fluttershy was in the middle of the square by the fountain shivering while the bear was flying at her intending to end her.

“Fluttershy, hold on I’m coming,” I shouted through the pulsing orb over my head, then used my dash ability to cross the courtyard to stand in front of her. A split second after I reached her and surrounded her with my shield the bugbear’s stinger bounced off the shield. Twilight, Rainbow, Pinkie, and Rarity called out a single name, which I assumed was Fluttershy’s.

“Who are you?” Fluttershy asked me in a the most soft and cutest little voice.

“Long story, but let’s just say that I want to be your friend and you are the only one that can understand me. That’s due to your special talent of talking with other animals,” I told her while watching her friends attack the bugbear. Her friends were leading it around as it flew in the air all around the area of the courtyard around the courthouse. “My name is Emmit, Fluttershy, and right now I need to get you out of here and to safety while your friends deal with the bugbear,” I told her while looking down to her.

“I want to talk to it,” she said as her voice began to get clearer. She poked her head up from her nest of mane and tail looking up to me. Obviously she was starting to overcome her fear of me.

“I know you do, but for some reason it’s not listening at the moment,” I told her while kneeling down beside her and nudging her with my muzzle.

“Well,” Fluttershy quietly mused and got up, “if you say so.” After she got up I led her away from the flight of the bugbear and toward a more safer place. Some things however, are universal because part of the town was standing outside of sugarcube corner watching the whole thing. When seeing them I thought that they would be the safest place for her. When we ran up they parted for us as I led her inside.

“Alright now stay here,” I told her and headed toward the door letting my shield down.

“Wait, my friends,” she called out and wanted to follow, but I stopped her with one of my tails.

“I’ll help them. Now please stay here,” I told her and walked outside. The crowd parted for me again then I ran off to help Twilight. While walking across the courtyard I saw something that I wasn’t expecting and yet saw in the episode. Vinyl and Octavia were coming down the road riding her speakers and dj table. For a second I was frozen in shock at the sight of actually seeing it. “Holy Heaven,” I shouted then made an epic leap to get over it while watching it go off on it’s way gathering up the town’s pony’s on its way. “Well that happened,” I mused while seeing the gathering city hitch a ride on the DJ express. Once I turned around again I saw the bugbear rush toward me.

“Oh no you don’t,” I shouted through the orb and used my dash ability to ram it in its gut temporarily knocking the wind out of it. A loud “oof” came from the bugbear before landing on the ground with a hard thud. A second later the “oof” came from me as Rainbow hit me in the side...again...this time with my wind being knocked out of me. “What the hell Rainbow?” I shouted, even though she couldn’t understand me. With the bear knocked out for the moment trying to catch its breath apparently they focused their efforts on me. They hit me with as much devotion as they did the bear.

It was only two seconds later, after I stopped sliding on the ground, that I was kicked in the side. Stars exploded in my eyes as I was sent flying a few feet away not getting a chance to catch my breath. As the world started to spin around I couldn’t concentrate on my abilities so I couldn’t put up my protective barrier. I tried taking in air as my muzzle was acting like a fish out of water as I crawled away. Or tried to. From the swirling world around me all I saw next was a mass of colors. Mainly purple then a flash of bright purple light and then it was time for a long nap.