Life of a human turned dragon in Ponyville
Chapter 14. Answers Part One
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After my first meeting with the locals I had thought long and hard about what details I should share with them. My decision being, that I would tell them that I was from a parallel universe, or something along those lines. However I had decided that for the moment at least, they didn't need to know that my kind had been spying, in a sense on them for years.
"What are your thoughts on alternate universes?..." I asked getting confused from most of the ponies. Minus Twilight who was thinking hard about the question, Spike who had an excited look on his face, and Pinkie Pie who decided to start laughing.
Seeing Pinkies' reaction caused me to give her the 'what is wrong with you?' face, before remembering something about Pinkie Pie being unpredictable. Deciding to deal with Pinkie at a later date I turned my attention back to twilight who was looking at me strangely. However, Spike cut her off before she got the chance to answer.
"Some of the comics I've read mention something like that, do you mean, like a different version of Equestria where everypony is evil, or one where superheroes actually exist?" Spike asked.
Spike's answer shocked me a little, because in a sense, that was exactly what I was talking about. I had wanted to break the concept to them slowly, but if it had already been breached slightly in fiction then this would be a lot easier to explain. I was about to congratulate the young dragon on his answer, but Twilight chose that moment to speak her mind.
"The concept has been brought up many times, but nopony, not even Starswirl The Bearded himself ever announced any evidence strong enough for the theory to be valid. Therefor ,I can say with confidence that Alternate realities, or what ever you want to call them, simply don't exist." Twilight finished in a 'matter of fact' tone, causing my mental grin to grow to Joker sized proportions at what I was about to say.
"Oh... well, I don't know who this Starswirl guy is... but, I personally can confirm that there is at least one other universe, probably more." I said which set in motion something I wasn't prepared for.
"WHATTT?! HOW CAN YOU NOT KNOW WHO STARSWIRL IS?!" Twilight yelled, getting looks of confusion from the girls, while Spike and I winced at her volume.
"Ooh! is this a guessing game?! I want to play!" Pinkie called out,
"Umm Twilight, while ah cant speak for the others, personally ah don't have a clue who this Starswirl fella is either." Applejack said, while muffling all the guesses Pinkie was making towards Starswirl's identity by sticking her hoof in the pink ponies mouth... not that Pinkie noticed.
"Yeah Twi, what's the big deal?" added Rainbow.
"I may have heard about him in school once or twice, didn't he create a few spells or something?" Rarity asked, causing twilight to stare at the ivory unicorn as her eye started twitching.
"Um, girls" Fluttershy whispered.
"Starswirl did not just create a 'few spells', Starswirl The Bearded was the most powerful unicorn in the known history of Equestria! He created countless spell, most of which are locked away in the royal libraries due to them being to dangerous to be used by normal ponies.
"Um girls" Fluttershy said again, a little louder this time, causing me to raise a brow.
"Hmm, this seems familiar."
"Well excuseee me Twilight. Forgive me for not knowing something about some ancient unicorn." Rainbow cut in with a roll of her eyes.
"Rainb.." Twilight tried to retort, but was interrupted.
"GIRLS!" That got everyone's attention, we turned our heads the butter yellow pegasus, who was doing the best to hide behind her long pink mane. "Um, sorry to interrupt, but don't you think we are getting a little off topic here?"
"Oh... I guess you're right." Twilight said as she nodded in thanks towards Fluttershy. "But we ARE continuing this conversation in the future." She said while glaring at the rainbow maned pegasus.
"Ok, I guess I can understand not knowing about Starswirl, seeing as you are a dragon. not a pony, but how could you possibly know that there are alternate universes? Twilight asked, causing me to become slightly nervous, knowing what I was about to reply could be taken many ways.
"Well... you see... I was kinda taken from my universe and dropped into this one..." That statement made everyone's eyes go wide, before Twilight, Pinkie, and Rainbow started laughing the only ones not laughing was Spike, who had a look of wonder plastered on his face, Applejack, who's eyes kept growing longer the longer She stared at me. And Fluttershy, a pony who probably couldn't laugh at anyone, for fearful of offending them.
"Hahaha, your a riot dude! From a different universe, yeah right!" Rainbow dash laughed out, but soon stopped when she saw the look on her friends face. "Um Applejack are you ok?" That question got the rest of her friends to stop laughing and look over to the farm mare, looks of concern dawned on their faces once they saw the shocked look Applejack was wearing.
"Applejack!" Twilight exclaimed." Applejack what's wrong, are you ok?"
The farm mare slowly nodded her head and answered in a shocked voice. "D-Don't worry yall, I'm fine, b-but... he... he really is tellin the truth. And before you ask, ever since I bonded with the element of honesty I've been able to tell when somepony is lying... and he aint." Applejack finished while pointing in my direction, causing the rest of the group to slowly turn their heads toward me while their eyes joined Applejack's in size.
"Hmm, so Applejack is a walking talking lie detector... that could be a problem. Ill have to be careful"
"Woweee! A whole different universe, what do they have there, is there cake, or pie, or ice cream, or frosting, (GASP) what about PARTIES do you have PARTIES?!" Pinkie practically exploded casing me to wince at her hyperness.
"Seriously! How much sugar does this pony eat? She's going to get diabetes!"
"Oh my, think of all the new exotic fashions I could learn from such a place, though no offence if they are anything like what you normally wear, then you're people have absolutely no sense of fashion." Rarity said thoughtfully.
"Wow, quick to insult other cultures clothing? Not cool."
"Oh, what types of animals do you have, do you have rabbits, and squirrels, or dogs and cats?" Asked Fluttershy with much more vigor than before.
"Yup, animal nut, definitely an animal nut."
"WOW! so, what would that make you, an alien? an interdimensional traveler?" Asked Spike.
"Hmm this little dude and I are going to become bros real quick"I thought while smiling at Spike's question.
"Yeah! What Spike said, are you some kind of alien or something?!" Rainbow enthusiastically asked.
"We may have gotten off on the wrong foot, but there might just be some hope for Dash yet." I thought, my grin widening.
"Sugar cube, I think ya got some explaining ta do." I looked to applejack and nodded, never losing my grin.
"I might be in a tough situation, but with all this enthusiasm I may just be able to enjoy this!" I thought before looking to Twilight, furrowing my brow at her expression.
"Um, is she ok?" I asked while pointing at the purple unicorn who seemed to be staring off into space.
"Huh?" Spike turned toward the lavender unicorn. "Oh yeah, Twilight gets like that when something happens that she cant understand, she'll snap out of it so.."
"What!" Twilight exclaimed as she snapped back into reality. "You cant be from an alternate universe it's.. its just impossible!"
"Hmm, its going to take some proof for twilight to believe me..." I thought as I saw the look of disbelief and suspicion plastered on her face.
"Ok, so all of you, especially you Twilight probably want some proof." Everyone nodded, except for Twilight, who if I wasn't mistaken, had a bit of smugness mixed alongside her disbelieving stare. "Allright, give me a minute, Ill be right back with said proof." I stated as I stood up from the recliner and walked upstairs trying to decide what the best thing to grab would be...
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Twilight's POV
After hunter walked off I decided a few things needed to be discussed... especially with applejack. " Ok Applejack, what's this about being able to tell when somepony is lying? Because what Hunter is saying cant possibly be true." I asked quietly.
"I don't understand it much maself, but like I said, after recovering the elements I've been able to tell when someponies fibbing... I don't think what he said is possible neither, but I have to believe him, cause he aint lyin." Applejack quietly replied.
"Comee onn Twilight, isn't there any possible way he could be from an alternate dimension or whatever?" Spike interrupted
"Spike, anything is possible, but the odds of his story being true are practically non existent, sure he may be strange and have a few weird things, like that magical tree cutter. But I just cant believe he is from a different universe." I replied, Spike looked like he was about to argue, but was interrupted by the sound of Hunter's claws clacking on the wooden floor as he walked down the stairs.
"Well, lets just see what Hunter has to show us." Spike said earning nods from everypony, including me.
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Hunter's POV
Walking upstairs I was trying to decide what would be the best evidence that I wasn't from Equestria, or what ever the planet itself was called. I briefly thought about grabbing my switch to show them, but decided that it was really just a piece of advanced technology, not really prof that it came form a different world. I thought of a few more things, but decided that my laptop would be the best choice, seeing as I had loads of pictures and videos stored on it that would prove beyond a doubt that I was telling the truth. After grabbing the computer from my desk and unplugging it, I made my way back down stairs.
Upon arriving at the living room I noticed the weird looks I was getting, I was about to ask what was wrong, then realized they were probably looking at the closed laptop in my hands.
"What is that?" Twilight asked, as I set the laptop on the coffee table in the middle of the living room. A opened it up giving them a full view of what it looked like. (The laptop is powered down at this point.)

"This is a computer, or more specifically a mobile computer designated as a laptop. Basically It has pictures and video from my dimension, or world, or whatever you want to call it." I answered simply as I went to press the power button, but was interrupted by a question from rarity.
"I know what a picture is, but I don't see how you could have any in that computer of yours, it looks like a thin box with a thin typewriter under the lid, what pray tell is a video?"
"Oh crap, they don't have videos yet." I thought before responding. "Well Rarity, a video is kind of like a bunch of pictures taken one after the other then shown in rapid succession to show an object or objects in motion."
"Oh, do you mean a film? I once saw one when I visited relatives in Manehattan last year. They started showing them a few years ago, the cost to see one is quite expensive though." Rarity responded with a thoughtful look. But something she said caused me to pause.
"Manehattan? Wow, I guess there are a few similarities to Earth, but come on, really, a equine spinoff of the name?!"I thought before regaining my composure.
"Oh... erm, well films have been around a little longer where I come from, but we'll talk more about that later, for now lets I'll show you some pictures from my universe.
After I pressed the power button the girls and Spike gasped when the DELL logo popped up on the screen while the keys lit up. Rarity decided to look behind her then up to the ceiling with a look of confusion, after realizing what she was looking for I smirked.
"You wont find a projector Rarity" I said causing everyone to turn their heads to me. "That computer is able to display images without an external source like a projector."
"But how? Even magical projections need a source!" Twilight interjected, meanwhile I noticed the desktop screen had loaded with my background picture.
Smirking I said. "Well, if yall turn around you can see what I'm taking about." They turned around and gasped at the crisp picture of a sunrise over the Smokey Mountains. It was quiet for a few seconds, until Twilight turned to me in shock.
"What is this? I don't think it's magic but what else could it be." Twilight asked bringing a smirk to my face.
"Your right Twilight, there isn't any magic involved, only technology." Twilight blinked then turned back to the computer. Then back to me, she did this a few more times as the others continued to stare at the laptop in wonder. "H-how does it work? " She asked quietly.
"Well, I know a little bit, but I didn't build the thing. Anyways, that's a topic for later, right now I need to show you some pictures to prove I aint lying." I said as I dropped down onto all fours to be closer to the coffee tables' height. reaching up my right arm and used my hand to scroll to my files. I heard several 'oohs' 'ahhs and 'gasps' when the file explorer screen popped up. Navigating to my pictures folder, I found and displayed a picture.

After the picture came up I heard several most of the girls gasp while pinkie yelled 'wowee!' andSpike said 'wow!'.
"This is the city of Charlotte, located in the state of North Carolina which is located in my country of birth, the United States of America!" There was silence for a few minutes as everyone just stared at the screen, Spike was the first one to speak up.
"Wow, that city is huge! And it looks similar to the futuristic cities in my comics! Isn't this cool Twilight?!...Twilight?" Twilight appeared to be in another state of shock, but she soon shook herself out of it.
"W-What, oh yeah Spike, it is interesting... Tell me Hunter, how big is this Nation of yours?" Twilight asked as she pointed her attention to me.
"Hmm one sec Ill pull up a map." After pulling up a a world map Everyone gasped again, but I ignored them. "this is the United States of America, or USA for short, it is bordered by Canada towards the north, and Mexico on the south. Alaska and the Islands of Hawaii are part the USA, but are separated from the rest of the country." I said whole pointing to the different locations. After a minute or two Twilight spoke up.
"O-ok, I g-guess you really are from a different dimension or something, because that definitely isn't the planet of Equis. Twilight said shakily, but then broke into a joyous grin. "Ohh! so much to learn, so many books to write! (GASP)... S-so many new books to rreeaadd!!!"
"Wow, slow down egghead, I think you're scaring the poor guy." Stated Rainbow Dash.
"Yes, I really don't like the look she's giving me, It is quite unnerving."
"Rainbow Dash, cant you see? This is a once in a lifetime opportunity, I must, learn, everythmmhhmm!!"
"(Giggle) Oh silly Twilight, there will be plenty of time for that later, first things first. I need to throw Hunter a 'Welcome to Equis dimensional traveler' party!" Pinkie exclaimed after putting a hoof in Twilights mouth.
"Whoa nelly! Ah knew you were telling the truth, but I wasn't expecting something this different!" Applejack said while growing a smile.
"Oh my stars, this is simply marvelous, that city looks more luxurious than Canterlot! There may be hope for your people's sense of design yet." Rarity said excitedly.
"Oh.. my.." Fluttershy muttered softly.
"Uggh, fine, Ill keep my questions contained for now." Twilight sighed. before Spike spoke up.
"Wow, Hunter it must be awesome living in a city like that with other dragons! Most dragons here just live in caves..." Spike started excitedly but finished with a sad tone.
"Oh man, I hope he doesn't get to upset about this." "Well, that's one more thing I need to tell yall. You see Spike, you know more about dragons than I do, because before arriving here a few days ago I wasn't a dragon at all. In fact, dragons don't even exist in my dimension, they are nothing but myths, the same goes for unicorns and pegasi." Silence rained for a few seconds before it was quickly demolished.
"WHAT!?"
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