Twilight looked to the skies, her amethyst orbs glistening in the navy blue glow of the night sky. Her heart practically fell into her stomach while her logical mind tried to make sense of the impossibility that was laid out in front of her. The sky twinkled with stars, too many to count, but one LOGICAL thing that she could count without fault was the amount of moons they could perceive. One, there should be one moon in the sky RIGHT?

Well, it would seem that in that moment her perception was being pulled through a blender because shining brightly beside the full moon’s glow was an entirely different moon sized rock floating in the skies. The aura around it felt…wrong, like it was trying to seed a deep sense of dread into Twilight’s very soul. Ponies all around paid the giant space rock in the sky no mind, oblivious to the concerning manifestation of this potential threat.

Rainbow Dash flew up behind Twilight with cider mug in hoof, her drunken and glossy eyes rolling as she tried to balance and look up at the oddity in the sky. “I think ahh…ahhh might drunk too much shider, but uh...uhhh wasthere always two moons? Haha, the princess really pulled out all the breaks for this shooowww right?” The drunken pegasus slurred as she casually dumped the rest of her cider onto the ground without realizing it, when she went for a swig she didn’t appear to even notice the lack of liquid courage in her cup, either way the result was the same with her falling flat on her back looking up at the sky giggling.

“No…no this isn’t Luna, something is seriously wrong…she isn’t using her magic any more, so why is the sky still moving…? Why is there a second moon…? Only Luna and Celestia could alter the sky…” Twilight’s brow furrowed in frustration, her mind trying to pull out every possibility to logically explain the phenomenon. Perhaps it was an illusion spell? No, a spell affecting this many ponies would be impossible, not to mention the princess wouldn’t have been staring so intensely at it. Maybe a passing comet? No, if that were the case it wouldn’t be stationary like that, discord’s childish pranks? Nah, couldn't be, he was reformed ages ago!

“Uhhhh, Sugarcube…? Is it me? Or is that second moon staring at us…?” Applejack spoke up, walking up to Twilight with Rarity, Pinkie, and Fluttershy tailing behind. Twilight stopped her staring at the ground and shot her gaze skyward again, only this time falling onto her flank in surprise at what met her gaze. The second “moon” was in fact not a moon at all, rather it was a GIANT EYE that started right back at her. The dark blue sky lit up, the giant eye turning the sea of blue lotus purple, and the hot white stars brightened to a sizzling blue. It was like all the stars were going through a state of rebirth to that of dwarf stars.

“Oh my darling, that is a rather gastly sight…whoever designed this act of the show certainly had zero taste. I mean look at it! Purple in our all blue and white palette festival? Oh the equanity! This could only work on nightmare night!” Rarity fanned herself in all her dramatic glory, falling into the arms of Spike who stared up at the sky while struggling to hold the glamorous unicorn up in his tiny arms. The young drake tilted his head to the side, blinking a few times before speaking up.

“This kinda reminds me of issue 457 of Power Ponies when the giant alien eyeballs from space invaded Equis! It kinda looks cool! In a freaky, potentially evil alien invasion kinda way-” He snickered, groaning slightly under the weight of his “date” for the festival. With his tail holding onto an ice-cream cone he secretly took a big lick before going back to looking at the giant space eye.

“Maybe they are nice aliens….?” Fluttershy meekly squeaked, hiding behind Applejack who gave her side a gentle pat.

“OOO! OOO! OOOOO! Maybe we can throw a double party welcoming the aliens! IT WOULD BE A PARTYCEPTION!” Pinky bounced rapidly up and down like a kangaroo who just got on a sugar high. Her big blue eyes were wide, pupils dilated like a puppy getting a treat. Stopping mid bounce she would freeze comically in the air for a few seconds before landing on all fours, trembling slightly while tilting her head sideways at the moon.

Her cotton candy colored tail began twitching wildly while one of her back knees began to involuntarily jerk inward. “Wait a minute…twitchy tail…pinchy knee…a-and…oh boy!” Pinkie began shuddering in place, rocks around her practically bouncing from how hard she was shaking.``Shudders too! That can't be good!” Fluttershy squeaked louder, hopping under Rainbow Dash’s unconscious body like a shield, her pink tail and flank sticking out.

Pinkie Sense, no matter how hard Twilight tried to understand it she just couldn’t grasp its concept. It wasn't magic, yet for some reason when Pinkie had these involuntary twitches and spasms they could tell the future with over 150% accuracy. Twilight nearly went mad trying to uncover its secrets, spending countless hours observing, researching, and losing sleep over it. However after learning a valuable lesson that science and reasoning doesn't always apply to Miss Pinkamena, she's simply…Pinkie being Pinkie. “Wait, twitchy tail? doesn't that mean that stuff is going to start-”

Before Twilight could finish that train of thought her thoughts were invaded by another’s Princess Luna who was telepathically tapping into her mind. “Twilight, you and your friends must evacuate the townsfolk to the castle of friendship…something is coming through my night sky and I can't stop it! HURRY! IT'S COMING-”

‘Wait princess, what is coming through?!’ With no warning the music stopped, instead being replaced by a deafening droning coming from the sky. Ponies in the crowd were forced to the ground, some screaming, others trying their best to keep their ears covered. Even princess Luna was forced to take a knee, holding onto her head with a single hoof. The stage lights shuddered and popped in a shower of sparks and glass, spilling them onto the stage from the sheer volume of the noise.

The eye in the sky continued its deep, insistent droning, each one seemingly getting louder and louder until finally an earth shaking SMASH echoed across the planet of Equis. On either side of the giant eye space visibly began to crack like glass with deep veins spider webbing across the night sky.

Deep within the Everfree forest, beneath many layers of earth, rocks, and roots…a heartbeat would drum out, one that echoed through the chaotic wood, one that made the inhabitants of the forest roar to the purple heavens, roar for the grand anomaly.

Changes were brewing, a long awaited moment destined to occur…allowing the birch clad paws of the wood flesh alpha to take its first timid steps past the ancient barrier that had long protected the town of ponies, its red eyes glowing a hungry red.

The cracks glowed a prismatic rainbow color, shards of the cracks in space bulging like an invisible force was pushing in from the other side…or trying to break in. The Six excluding a still sleeping Rainbow Dash would stumble, Applejack falling on her flank, Rarity fainting fully on a collapsed Spike. Twilight tried to cast a noise canceling spell but whatever was happening had been interfering with her magic! Her horn sparked and spilled mana into the air causing it to harmlessly fizzle away.

What felt like minutes passed ended up only being a couple more seconds until the droning finally stopped. The cracks that the giant eye creature made in the sky had ceased their spread…only for huge chunks of space between cracks to fall away, falling towards the planet in the form of Meteorites. Hundreds…no…THOUSANDS of them were falling down to their world. The biggest of these “shards” was a giant purple meteorite flying over the heads of the concert goers, many of whom were still practically burying their heads in the ground from the noise.

The impossible chunk of space clipped the top of the stage with enough speed and force to melt the metal frame holding the lights, sending the broken ones smashing down on either side of Luna. The giant space shard had flung by, smashing through trees, melting vines, and EXPLODING in a spectacular display of blue light beams through the canopy. Bits and pieces of tree that unfortunately were caught up in its descent were light ablaze, blue flames crackling and dancing, purple smoke billowing into the sky.

Twilight stumbled to her hooves, her ears violently ringing, the world spinning around her enough to make her stomach lurch. It took every ounce of her will and fortitude not to vacate the vast majority of her dinner that night onto the grass. Instead she tried looking up to the sky in hopes to see what the HAY caused that noise. Fully expecting to see the giant eye, the holes in space, the ominous cracking, she was pleasantly surprised to see that…everything was normal again.

Ponies were steadily trying to recover from the shock, many murmuring, others trying to shake the unconscious ones awake. Guards were flocking in like a murder of crows, assisting in taking the unresponsive to Ponyville general. The others made a massive bulwark of the spear armed guards flanking around the Lunar princess in a circle while she too regained her bearings. This seemingly terroristic threat reasonably had them all on high alert, as they should be.

“What in TARNATION was that?!” Applejack screamed, shaking her head hard, her ears twitching. Pinkie who was just…standing there the entire time had slowly turned her head to look at applejack, blinking slowly like a chameleon before responding equally as loud with the word. “WHAT?!”

“Ngggh…whatever it was girls, it's gone…and whatever came out of that giant eyeball in the sky…it landed over there…” Twilight traced her hoof from the top of the melted stage fixtures towards…

…The Everfree Forest…

Meanwhile in the Forest

Jonathan’s eyes shot open, his breaths coming out in loud, wheezy, wet coughs as he rolled his body onto his side. The still relatively fresh memories of his body being engulfed in pain hammering full force into his head in an instant. His body convulsed, hands sinking into the dirt while he voided the contents of his stomach in a giant soupy pool between his hands. When nothing else came up he tried his best to regain his bearings, stumbling to get up from his hands and knees only to topple backward.

His head smashed into the soft dirt, his gaze fixed in a vertical stare at…the night sky Jonathan’s head felt like it was trying to crawl out of his skull, with him feeling a warm trickle of blood dragging down his forehead and side of his head. ‘Where…am I…oh fucking fuck…fuck this hurts…come on body…MOVE!’ Jona rolled slowly onto his side again, trying to get a feel for his own body again.

‘One hand, two hand, one foot, two foot, aaaaand….STAND!’ Jonathan’s body slowly went from prone, to all fours, and finally bipedal. Both hands stuck out at his sides to maintain balance, eyes closed to keep the world from rolling about. He took one step forward only to stumble and nearly fall if it weren't for something solid which both of his hands shoot out to hold him diagonally up against the…dirt wall?

The man waited a minute for the dizzy spell to pass with him counting in his head to better focus his rattled mind. ‘Three…two…one…” When Jonathan opened both eyes he would be met with the dipped grove of black dirt that had been visibly smoking under his palms. It looked as if he were clutching hot coals which sent his brain into panic mode. “SHITBALLS!” Both hands flung back, fully expecting to feel sharp burn pains in his hands. The shock was so much that he forgot how to balance, this time falling on his ass.

“Wait…it…it isn’t hot?” Jona looked to his hands, and his words were confirmed when he cautiously poked a finger into the opposing palm. The pink skin other than being slightly reddened was completely healthy without pain, infact, he felt a little drafty. When Jona looked down and around himself he came to the very obvious and embarrassing conclusion that he was...totally naked, and…fucking jacked! Looking and twisting his hands, his arms, his legs, he could see every definition of his muscular build. His large, open hand ran along his diamond cut pecs, and down his abs that looked as if Michelangelo had chiseled them like a marble statue.

Jonathan was certainly no slouch when it came to keeping up his physical fitness, he took great pride in his 4 hour gym workout every weekday during the mornings. Even so his build wasn't nearly as godly as it was when he looked himself over. ‘I need a mirror…right now’ Jona stood up, realizing another fact just as swift as the whole “naked god bod” part. He felt taller, prior to his descent into this new world he stood a crisp 5’4, and now he looked down at his bare feet with the perspective of someone who towered a good 7' 2.

‘Yea…I definitely need a mirror or something. I must be dreaming, that or I decided to get the most expensive body mod surgery while blackout drunk, then run around naked in the woods. Yea…that sounded crazier when I mentally said that aloud.’ The man’s eyes scanned his immediate surroundings, from the looks of things he was in a ditch in the middle of the woods, with the only light being the faint rays of moonlight peeking through the smoking canopy above.

Jonathan directed his focus towards the wall of this ditch, then up to the lip of the smoking divit. Getting a running start he would run and in a single bound climb up, and out in one go. The sensation and speed came as naturally as pulling himself out from his swimming pool back home. He clambered to his feet only to turn around and survey the ditch, and by god did he wish he hadn’t. Jona hadn’t just crawled from a small ditch oh no, no, no…he crawled from a damn CRATER.

Piles of smoking or burning grass made smoke that elevated to the smoking trees that had either been uprooted or knocked over. Earth had been scorched with blue flames dwindling in piles around the impact zone. Even the pile of vomit that the man had hurled was no more, completely evaporating from the intense heat this area was radiating. His eyes blinked owlishly, his head hurting while trying to make sense of all this. After giving his body a once over he would turn slowly and begin traversing deeper into the forest. ‘I gotta keep moving…before I freeze to death out here…yet…I don’t feel cold at all.’ Jonathan stepped further and further from his unknowing crash site, his large feet leaving smoking footprints in his wake.

3 hours later

Jona fell forward, practically burying his head in the stream, gulping up mouthful after mouthful of the sweet nature juice. In those waking moments he couldn’t give less of a fuck on decency. The water tasted relatively fresh, no dirt, no bugs, not even a stray weed, something that heavily confused the lad. Had he done such a stupid and brainless move back when he went camping in the sticks he would have spent the entire weekend shitting in the outhouse while popping antibiotics like no’one’s buinsess.

After finishing his lengthy and messy slurps he removed his head from the water to splash some in his face, combing his fingers through his hair to rinse it clean of the dirt and grime. The night time in this creepy forest felt oddly bright, it felt off, like some kind of ever present source of light was illuminating his surroundings in all directions. If it weren’t for the lack of gaps in the trees while he walked he could have chalked it up to it just being the moon, but now he wasn't so sure.

There were more things he couldn't explain, like why his feet were not currently blistered despite walking CONSTANTLY over rocks, sticks, and hell knows what. The only aches and pains he had were the ones in his stomach caused by hunger, and the soreness of spending the past few hours hiking ass naked in the woods. ‘I mean, I could chalk it up to just being a dream…a really realistic one?’ That thought was instantly dashed when his fingers brushed against a particularly tender spot on his head which flared up with pain. “Crap…nope…that's real!” He hissed, bringing his hand back down to see flakes of dried blood in between his fingers.

Not wanting to take his chances potentially infecting his wound with river water he was about to turn away when something caught his eye in the water…his reflection. Crouching down on his hands and knees he peered into the comically blue water, gazing at his reflection in all its clarity. His eyes…his…purple eyes widened in a mix of shock and wonder. His hands traced along his seemingly animated features, feeling every square inch of his face.

For starters his hair was alabaster white, save for the patch of dried blood caused by his scabbed over head wound, his eyes were bigger, much bigger. With his pointer finger Jonathan hooked the left side of his mouth, pulling it out to get a look at his teeth. Even they were bloody perfect, sparklingly clean with what appeared to be a pair of wicked sharp canines. When he tilted his head to the side he could see that even his ears were given a cartoonish treatment of becoming pointed like those of a halfling, or a demon perhaps.

“What the hell…seriously, I look like a goddamn douchebag! I mean the muscles I get sure but seriously? Whose body did I wake up in!?”

He punched the water in frustration and with a loud SPLASH he watched in surprise as his fist smashed into and through a large rock in the river without so much as a twinge of pain. When he removed his fist he grabbed both halves of the large rock he had just split in two. tilting them sideways, around, and even dropping them on top of one another showed the same results, they were solid.

Somehow he was able to punch the damn thing in half without flinching, only feeling the sturdy river stone crack like balsa wood. After wiggling his fingers just to make sure he hadn't really broken them, he reeled his fist back and punched both rocks he had stacked on top of one another in a downward motion. Internally he was bracing himself for the pain, but never breaking his course. ‘This is probably a dumb idea!’ There was a loud *CLACK* of both rocks smacking together before both exploded into smaller chunks with his fist creating a small divot in the earth. His knuckles were smoking, causing him to move his hand away as if it were a loaded gun.

‘Yea I don't think i’ll be jerking off with you lefty for a long while…’ He thought with a small snort, popping his knuckles with a quick and hard squeeze. In that moment Jona felt like superman, however that moment of basking in his own ego would come crashing to a halt when he heard it. The low rumble of something big emanated behind him, something growling low enough to send a chill down Jonathan’s spine. Gulping softly the man slowly turned his back away from the river, making no sudden movements in fear of provoking a reaction from the beast.

When he fully turned his body 180 degrees around he would be almost face to snout with something BIG, something mean, something furry, and something with LOTS of pointy teeth. The beast towered over the tall man, its wide body covered in a thick layer of mustard yellow fur, and an even thicker red mane. The beast’s fangs were easily as large as his forearm, two of which protruded from the front of its drooling maw.

If it wasn’t pants shittingly terrifying enough the beast seemed to have a large scorpion tail swinging side to side behind it, its stinger dripping a neon green sludge into the dirt behind it. It didn’t take a genius to figure out that it was probably poison. Like a computer going through a blue screen crash, Jonathan could only formulate enough brainpower to let out a soft “Oh…”

Then the beast promptly reeled back and swung with its massive paw in Jonathan’s dumbstruck face….

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What? Are you expecting a fight scene in this chapter?

Patience…you'll get your bloodshed reader, all you need to do is….stay tuned readers~

Author's Note

To those who read my first chapter I'd like to say thank you from the bottom of my heart. Even more so to those generous few who graced this story with a like, favorite, or saved my story to their archives. I am writing these during my night shifts as a security officer, so I have ample time to crank out all the juicy ideas while also sketching for each chapter! For those who made it this far, thank you again for reading, comments and feedback are always appreciated!