Strange Human

Dwayne and Sunset Shimmer go through the portal and come out on the other side, they look and see they were at Canterlot High, and to Dwayne's surprise, there were human versions of the people back in Equestria,

"Do you recognize this area, Dwayne?" Sunset Shimmer asked, Dwayne looked to his left and saw Sunset Shimmer has turned into a human, his attention was caught at her outfit,

"What? Why are you looking at me like that?" Sunset Shimmer asked,

"I didn't think you would get clothes when coming to this side." Dwayne replied,

"Oh, the clothes came along when I first came here, but this wasn't the outfit I originally wore." Sunset Shimmer said,

"I thought you would be naked like your pony self." Dwayne replied,

"No, I never was, I do find it a bit strange I did come here with clothes, though." Sunset Shimmer said,

"But you came with just clothes and nothing under, right?" Dwayne asked,

"No, underwear came with it, too." Sunset Shimmer replied,

"Oh, it is a bit strange, though, but I don't have time to think about it, let's see if I can contact someone." Dwayne said, and he took his phone out again and looked at it, there was no reception,

"I'm not surprised, reception at schools have always been terrible." Dwayne said,

"Let's go to my place, the reception there's good." Sunset Shimmer replied, and they go to her home.

Dwayne tries to contact at Sunset Shimmer's home while she watches,

"Okay, I've got reception, let's see if I can get in touch with someone." Dwayne said, and he opened his list of callers, the names she saw were Flint, Allen, Denise, Eric, Eve, Galen, Roscoe, Bruce, Zack, Barry, Zoe, and Dr. Pearl, he also had a folder labeled Brotherhood,

"Wait, Dwayne, what is that Brotherhood folder there?" Sunset Shimmer asked,

"It's an organization from my world, there used to be fifty members, but there's only forty five now." Dwayne replied,

"What happened to the other five?" Sunset Shimmer asked,

"Dead, killed by Kane." Dwayne replied,

"Can I see who they are, I might know at least one of them." Sunset Shimmer said, and Dwayne opened the folder, she saw the names Nigel, Jin, Carlos, Juan, Eli, Kevin, Theodore, Jake, Darnell, Douglas, Gus, Caleb, Samuel, Fabien, Herbert, Jimmy, Wayne, Joseph, Tyler, Jason, Daryl, Jacques, Clarence, Arthur, James, Steve, Frances, Alexander, Harry, Damon, Victor, Esteban, Ivan, Felix, Kenji, Ray, Danny, Ramon, Wolfgang, Anthony, Vincent, Rex, Ali, Chucky, and Henry,

"You know any of them?" Dwayne asked,

"No, I actually don't." Sunset Shimmer replied, and Dwayne tried to contact Henry, Dwayne only gets feedback for sometime,

"Hello." Henry said,

"Yes, Henry, it's Dwayne, I'm far away from Subris, so can you have Eli, Jake, Douglas, Herbert, Jimmy, Wayne, Joseph, James, and Steve try to find my coordinates?" Dwayne asked,

"Hold on, I'll see what I can do, this may take some time, so sit tight, I'll contact you if we find anything." Henry replied,

"Alright, thanks, bye." Dwayne said,

"Bye." Henry replied, and they hung up,

"He's going to try to find me, we have to sit and wait." Dwayne said,

"Okay, well, is there anything here that caught you attention?" Sunset Shimmer asked,

"Your purple skirt, females don't wear dresses or skirts where I grew up." Dwayne replied,

"They don't?" Sunset Shimmer asked with surprise, Dwayne shook his head,

"Everybody in my home country wears pants, both genders, my mom and sister were like that, too, they hated dresses and skirts." Dwayne said,

"Well, you'll be seeing plenty here, come on, I've got some video games to play while you wait for your friends to find you." Sunset Shimmer replied, and the two play Tirek's Revenge,

"Still, I would have imagined you wearing pants instead of a skirt." Dwayne said,

"I wear pants sometimes." Sunset Shimmer replied, and they start the game.

Twilight Sparkle took the pill to her lab and examined it, she opened the pill and saw the powder, it was white, she used whatever scientific knowledge she had and her equipment in order to study the contents,

"Well, this is strange, I've never seen powder like this before." Twilight Sparkle said as she examined it,

"Need some help, Twi?" Applejack asked,

"I've got it." Twilight Sparkle replied,

"Found anything yet?" Starlight Glimmer asked,

"Nope, I'm looking, but this is exciting already, something new for me to study." Twilight Sparkle replied, and she continued examining the pill and its contents while the others watched.

Dwayne and Sunset Shimmer play Tirek's Revenge and they were losing, Sunset Shimmer groans in annoyance at losing a level while Dwayne was calm and stoic, he did not get mad over losing,

"At least you're nowhere near as bad as my nephew and my neighbor when they lose a video game." Dwayne said,

"What do they do?" Sunset Shimmer asked,

"My nephew would cry if he loses a game, while my neighbor would curse and sometimes break things." Dwayne replied, Sunset Shimmer was shocked,

"Did you play video games when you were a kid, Dwayne?" Sunset Shimmer asked,

"No, I wasn't even allowed in the house, I had to spend all my time outside." Dwayne replied, his facial expressions made it clear he was very uncomfortable looking back,

"Sorry, I didn't mean to bring back bad memories, but you should take it easy, Dwayne, maybe you'll find a friend in school." Sunset Shimmer said, Dwayne was disturbed again,

"What is it now?" Sunset Shimmer asked,

"School was one of the worst times of my life." Dwayne replied,

"I'm sorry, Dwayne, it really is too bad not everybody has a good time in high school." Sunset Shimmer said,

"None of my schools were good for me, but elementary school was the worst one." Dwayne replied,

"Please, Dwayne, sit." Sunset Shimmer said, and Dwayne sat across from Sunset Shimmer, in a chair.

Twilight Sparkle continues examining the powder and was not making much progress, she looked through her books in hopes of finding something,

"Anything yet, Twilight?" Rainbow Dash asked,

"Nope, I'm not finding anything, I have never seen anything like this." Twilight Sparkle replied,

"Why don't you ask Sunset Shimmer for a book from the other world?" Starlight Glimmer asked,

"Another time, I want to try out every scientific knowledge I have first, then I'll ask Sunset for help." Twilight Sparkle replied,

"And if she doesn't find anything?" Spike asked,

"Then we'll ask Dwayne, himself." Twilight Sparkle replied, and she continued her studies.

Dwayne and Sunset Shimmer sat across from one another,

"Okay, Dwayne, we don't have to talk things out, believe it or not, but I have powers, too." Sunset Shimmer said,

"What is it?" Dwayne asked,

"By touching you, I will be able to see your memories and your motivations for your actions, since your powers come from your painful memories, I will be able to see what memories give you your powers, and any secrets you have." Sunset Shimmer replied, Dwayne was a little nervous,

"Sunset Shimmer, let's not, I have a dark secret you might not want to know about." Dwayne said,

"It's okay, Dwayne, I have several dark secrets, too." Sunset Shimmer replied,

"How bad is it?" Dwayne asked,

"I used to be selfish and arrogant, I demanded Princess Celestia to make me an alicorn, she refused, so I got mad and went to this world instead. When Twilight became a princess, I stole her crown and took it here, but when I put it on, I became a raging she-demon, and when Twilight offered me friendship, I let go of my old ways and I've been forgiven ever since, I have many friends now." Sunset Shimmer replied,

"Lucky you, from where I come from, you would have never been forgiven, if people saw you have changed, they'll still be mad at you, and they'll ask you why you didn't act like that earlier, or when you were younger." Dwayne said, Sunset Shimmer was shocked,

"I would have just said I didn't know better." Sunset Shimmer replied,

"They would say they don't care." Dwayne said,

"Has anyone ever forgiven you, Dwayne?" Sunset Shimmer asked,

"No, the people who hated me when I was a toddler still hate me up to this day." Dwayne replied,

"Do you have any proof?" Sunset Shimmer asked,

"It's in my memories." Dwayne replied,

"Okay, here goes." Sunset Shimmer said, and she touches Dwayne's right wrist with her left hand, and her eyes glow white.

Dwayne was born into a poor family, whose parents, Patrick and Elan, were members of the mob, they made a living by stealing and killing, while they were protective and loving to his sister, Aileen, they were not to Dwayne, he was not allowed in the house, and his parents constantly said to him that he was a mistake, and was never meant to be born, they also said he was a disgrace to their family, Elan only had him because Parado did not allow abortion or adoption. Dwayne was obese due to lack of nutrition, and his black hair was actually dyed, Dwayne's hair was actually natural red, which he did not like. Dwayne was bullied and friendless in elementary school because of his lower-class status, his weight, and his ethnicity by saying he is a trot-digger, and asking him how many potatoes did he eat last night, the students punched him and kicked him in the hallways for fun, pulled his pants down, and poked him with sharp pencils, and the entire class pushed him back into the classroom when the fire was in the school, Dwayne was in kindergarten at that time, they let him out after he caught on fire, and got the scar on his right chest, and after that day, the students began slapping and punching the scar, Aileen would also throw salt on it sometimes, Sunset Shimmer noticed that almost all of Dwayne's bullies were females. Dwayne tried telling the teacher, but she refused to help or do anything, and she said he does not deserve any help because he is an inferior race of Europeans, she also made fun of him for getting burned as well, Patrick and Elan refused to listen at all.

Dwayne urinated and defecated himself in class in second grade, and was beaten by his female classmates and his sister in third grade for being a male. One bully Dwayne had to deal with was Kyle, his worst bully in elementary school, who was classmates with him starting in fourth grade, he beat Dwayne up, would not let him speak to anyone in the class, and go to Dwayne's home to beat him up more, he bullied him because Dwayne had the lowest grades in the class.

Dwayne's middle school had a school shooting when he was in sixth grade, everyone knew who the culprits were, but since they were from upper-class families, they could not be punished, so Dwayne was scapegoated for their crime by the law, his teachers, and his family, and was put in jail for a month, that was where he met Kane. The culprits were Frank and Bobby, the two bullied him in sixth grade, but they continued to come back and bully Dwayne in seventh grade and eighth grade as well, skipping their high school classes in the process, they bullied him by beating him up outside, stealing his lunch, and chasing him when out of school. Dwayne once saw his parents paying one of his teachers in seventh grade, he discovered that Patrick and Elan were paying the teachers to make Aileen pass and Dwayne fail, he confronted them about it, which resulted in his parents giving him a severe beating, he tried to do good in school, but his teachers still failed him because they were mad at Dwayne for causing one of their sources of income being lost, and his teachers were only allowing him to go up in his grades because they did not like him, and wanted him out of their classes.

Dwayne fell in love with a girl named Eleanor when he was in ninth grade, but she did not love him back, so she refused to speak to him, hit him whenever he went past her, and made fun of him for being overweight, so he lost the weight by exercising and sneaking into his home and stealing food from his house, he also dyed his hair and eyebrows black since he did not like the natural red hair color, Eleanor was still unimpressed, and she got a boyfriend named Burt. Burt beat up Dwayne from time to time as well, and he also chased Dwayne from time to time, and they moved to another country after Dwayne finished ninth grade. Dwayne became a part of a research club in tenth grade, they were studying the human body and learning surgery, during a demonstration for what they learned, they made a groundbreaking discovery, but while the other members became rich, famous, and respected, Dwayne got no rewards or credit, he asked the teacher why he did not get anything, it was because of his age, he was the youngest in the group, so there was nothing for him, and the group continued on without him because he was kicked out. Dwayne spent eleventh grade in depression, but once when he turned seventeen, his parents and the teachers forced him to drop out and draft into the army against his will, and he never finished his education.

Four years pass and Dwayne was living in Subris now, he found a college class he could take to finish his education, it was an anatomy class, so he took it, he met five other classmates, two males, and three females, the males were Mark, who was training to inherit his father's business, which was selling medicine to cure headaches, and Yoshi, who was striving to become a painter, the females were Rachel, a soccer player who liked all sports, and striving to become an athlete, and took the class to use the knowledge in anatomy for sport medicine, Mary, a girl whose parents were famous fashion designers, she took the class so she can learn different body types so she can use it to design her later clothes, and Briella, a foreigner from Nanya, adept in magic, she has come to learn about science since she was curious about it, and had to report what she learned to her home country's royal family, she was from a noble family, and had a lot of pressure on her not to ruin her family's reputation, she ended up becoming Dwayne's best friend. Dwayne also had to deal with three bullies, Melissa, Heather, and Parker, Melissa was the leader, Heather was the hitter, and Parker was the one who got under people's skins by taunting them, they were eventually killed in a car crash because the neighbor living across from Dwayne tampered with their car by cutting off all the brakes, and making the steering wheel loose, so when Melissa tried to move it, it broke off.

Several months pass and Dwayne was living alone with Flint, his nephew, who was a toddler, who has been living with him since the first day he moved to the country, he was struggling financially to keep a roof over his and Flint's head, his nephew came home beaten and battered one day, he ran to him and asked what happened, Flint said four adults beat him up and said it was a message for him, one night while Dwayne was sleeping, the four people break in, they were all wearing black masks, they beat Dwayne up while he was sleeping and left. Dwayne was at work one day and Eleanor came in, and Dwayne remembered her, she proceeded to try to attack his female coworker, who Dwayne and the customers protected, Eleanor then said angrily to him that he did not deserve a child, and since she did not love him, no one can, and was actually looking for the female who loved him, because she mistook Flint as his son rather than his nephew.

Dwayne was in his home with his neighbor and sitting in front of his house's door, they were conversing about the masked people who have been breaking into the homes and physically attacking Dwayne's friends, and his associates, Dwayne had a double barreled shotgun with him while his neighbor had a pistol. The door flies open and the masked attackers come in, Dwayne and his neighbor fire their guns and Dwayne kills two of them while his neighbor killed the rest, but to their surprise, there was a fifth member with them, they unmask the attackers, and to Dwayne's shock, they were Kyle, Frank, Bobby, Eleanor, and Burt, Dwayne had to explain everything to his friends, and he later discovered that it was Aileen who contacted them and gave them his location.

Sunset Shimmer finishes looking at his school memories and she was in complete shock,

"I can't believe it, your childhood bullies were actually very mean." Sunset Shimmer said,

"Were you a bully in school, too?" Dwayne asked,

"Yes, but I was nowhere near as bad as your bullies, I can't believe they came back to torment you as adults, that has never happened here or in Equestria." Sunset Shimmer said, Dwayne's phone rang and he was about to answer,

"Wait, Dwayne, I want to hear it, too." Sunset Shimmer said, and Dwayne answered while holding the phone down,

"I'm here, Henry." Dwayne said,

"Dwayne, I'm sorry to say this, we found you, but we can't reach you, the world you're in is not our world, I'm about to contact Dr. Shadow and his associates to see if they can teleport into the world you're in." Henry replied,

"Alright, thanks, bye." Dwayne said,

"Bye, Dwayne." Henry replied, and he hung up,

"Dr. Shadow?" Sunset Shimmer asked,

"It's his codename, don't worry, he's actually a good guy." Dwayne replied,

"Oh, if you say so, so was you taking their lives your dark secret?" Sunset Shimmer asked,

"No." Dwayne replied,

"Well, I won't ask, there's also human versions of my friends in this world, too, come on, Dwayne, let's go meet them." Sunset Shimmer said, and they leave her home, and head out.

Twilight Sparkle continued examining the powder in the pill and performed experiments on it,

"Any luck, Twilight?" Fluttershy asked,

"It doesn't react to any of the properties I have, I'm making a little progress right now." Twilight Sparkle replied,

"Still, I wonder what kind of medicine this is, it doesn't look like anything we have." Rarity said,

"Ooh, ooh, Twilight, I had an idea, I wanna taste it." Pinkie Pie said,

"I'm not too sure about that, Pinkie, it might not be healthy." Twilight Sparkle replied,

"Well, it's a pill, and it's meant to be swallowed." Pinkie Pie said,

"Yeah, but Dwayne's a human, while it may be fine for him to digest it, it might be poisonous for us." Twilight Sparkle replied,

"Here goes nothing." Pinkie Pie said, and she put a small dosage on her tongue and swallowed it,

"Pinkie!" Twilight Sparkle said with worry, the others watched in surprise,

"Hey, it's tasteless." Pinkie Pie said,

"I'll write that down later, how do you feel?" Twilight Sparkle asked,

"The same, no difference." Pinkie Pie replied,

"Maybe it's alright after all?" Applejack asked,

"I can't say, let's try waiting, and see what happens." Twilight Sparkle replied, and she continues studying the medicine.