E.T. : Equestria Terrestrialby ShadowedKnight68Chapters2: Game Over, Man!3: I'll Be Back1: Where No Man Has Gone Before2: Game Over, Man!Groaning awake with her another headache I peeled my eyes opened seeing the blurry bright world "nnnope" turned I buried my face into my pillow, thank God all that crazy stuff was a dream, maybe I needed to see s therapist though cause dreaming that your dreaming and then thinking your dreaming in that dream is probably not good...I think... Im thinkin I'm staying in today, my head was killing me, felt like I got a bat to face, or a kick to the face by a horse, though I never got kicked by a horse so not sure how id know...did dream it however, but are dream tiny blue horse kicks as bad as normal horse kicks? Things to discuss with my therapist, in the mean time, sleep was sounding nice... "Do you think he's awake?" A soft girls voice spoke. "He spoke for this first time so unless he just started sleep talking I think he might be up" a rougher girls voice responded. Oh god...someone broke into my house...well two someones, okay don't panic, just act like your asleep and then... I leapt up from the bed yelling and swinging a pillow around "get outta here!!!" I froze as my eyes landed on the only other beings in my room, a group of six small colorful horses, some had wings, some had horns, one had both... Blinking I looked left and right in the room, no people, also not my room...unless I redecorated in my sleep to purple crystal theme...it didn't seem like I wouldn't do...so biiiig maybe... "Ahem...you little horses wouldn't happen to know who kidnapped me would you?" I said with a soft smile to the adorable weird animals as it passed the pillow away, now to find some ans- "Oh we didn't kidnap you! I'm very sorry, my friend overreacted and knocked you unconscious so we took you to a safer place to recover" the purple horse said. My brain shattered as I stood stock still, to run down events, everything I thought was a dream seemed to not be, that blue horse I fell on and knocked me out was here, and the purple one spoke, everyone caught up? Good. I screamed and flailed backwards hitting my back against the wall, a few of the ponies screamed as well "horses don't talk!!!" "No no relax everypony relax!!" The purple one tried to calm everyone down. "Y-you no talky, only neigh" I whimpered looking the room over, I needed to escape and quick, this was some wacko alien horse invasion, this must be the ship, they found me again and captured me. "Okay..." The purple huffed when everyone calmed down and turned to me "I am Twilight Sparkle, these are my friends, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Raindowdash, Fluttershy, and my assistant Spike" she point to each going from orange, white, pink go figure, blue, yellow, aaaan- is that Barney?!?? "Barneys real?!" I shouted looking at the dino. Barney looked around confused before pointing at himself more confused. "Oh man...you all got like cartoon character names, and Barney is real...oh my god...Aliens control cartoons..." I said in shock. " Okay no, we're not aliens, well in the sense of being from another planet...well...hm this is difficult, technically tjis is another planet from your own and we are entities from a anorjer planet from yours so by all intense and purposes we are aliens, though you aee an alien to us" the purple one or Twilight rambled on. "Uhhh so I'm lost on where we're at, you guys abducted me or..?" "No, we didn't abduct you" Twilight replied now looking curious "so it was ponies who brought you here?" "I didn't see exactly who did, just a weird robot thing" I replied with a shrug. "Fascinating, well fortunately for you I know where your from and can get you back in no time" she smiled. "Really???" I jumped up to my feet smiling. "Oh he really doesn't have fur" Fluttershy said curious. I blinked and looked down before blushing and dropping down covering myself with a blanket "haa so I'm guessing clothes aren't a big thing here ey?" "Quite the opposite! I am a fashion designer, clothes are my passion" Rarity gloated smiling. "Noice, can I get some cause where I'm from I don't walk around in the nude..." I replied sheepishly. "Oh...hm well I will need to do some measuring but I'm sure we can come up with some-" Rarity began before shouting cut her off from outside. "What was that??" Twilight asked in shock. "Don't know but we better check it out!" Applejack hurried out of the room, Raindowdash following after. "Um stay here uhhh human, we'll be right back!" Twilight said and ran off with the remaining horses following Barney joining them. "Right cool...I'll just" the sound of more panicked screams hit my ears "stay..." What if someone was being hurt, more of these little horses attacked "here...oh screw it!" Grabbing the blanket I grabbed two corners and wrapped it first around my waist and then over one of my shoulder making a sort of toga "little horses here I come!!" I ran after the group. What greeted me was definitely a unexpected sight, an entire almost medieval town of small little horses was being attacked by flying black horses, the sound of really loud flys filled the air, I realized these things were making it cause their wings were different from the feathered ones I'd seen, more but like. I saw the six horses from before rushing over to help other horses from the strange attacking ones, running over I got a better look at the attacks, they were fricken xenomorph horses! Or well close to it, shiny black armored bug horse fit the bill for xenomorph horse. One of the xenomorph horses was trying to pull a small cream colored horse into the air but she was holding onto the corner of her house preventing it. Looking around I grabbed a nearby plant pot before chucking it through the air decking the bug square in the face "oof, uh hope your a bad guy." The bug got back on its hoof feet things and hissed at me before flying at me. "Oh shiitakeeeee!!!!" I screamed running the opposite direction. I leapt over another horse before grabbing w rock off the ground and chucked it at her bug hitting it in the same spot of its face again "god I am in point today!" The bug this time flew off rather than chasing me again, it looked like it was heading the same direction as others, I hurried over to the six from before "hey scary bugs are going somewhere, thinkin we should go too before they take one of you!" " Your right, let's go girls!" Twilight said and ran down the road with the rest of us following. Getting up to the side of a house we huddled there. I leaned dover the mares beside me to peak around the edge of the house spotting two of the xenomorph horses standing in the middle of the road speaking with one another, guess they coukd talk "no good, they're down here too, got any ideas??" "we need to figure out where they're taking everypony, I haven't seen any leave town so then they must be holding them somewhere in town, getting there is our priority" Twilight said looking to the six of us. "We need a distraction then..." I muttered. "I'm on it!!" Pinkie cheered rushing off. "Pink one no!!" I fumbled to grab a hold of her but she slipped by and down the road "she's gonna get herself killed!" "You don't know pinkie" Raindowdash smirked. I looked confused before looking down the road, pinkie bounced down it towards the xenomorphs who looked at her and hissed buzzing thier wings, Pinkie reached into her mane before pulling out a colorful canon. "Whaaa??" I slowly looked to the others trying to get answers but they all simply watched like this was normal. With a loud boom the street was filled with confetti and the girls booked it past it, I followed after still confused as to what the heck just happened. Moving through alleys and empty streets dodging xenos who flew over or passed by. "What about pinkie? Will she be okay back there?" I asked worriedly. "I'm fine" pinkie bounced beside me causing me to slam into the nearby wall in surprise. "Y-you can teleport??" I asked baffled. "Hmmm no?" Pinkie replied though sounded unsure herself. "...this will make more sense when I wake up..." I muttered as I walked "Alright we're almost to the center of town, they seem to be mostly here" Twilight said peaking past the roof top to flying by bugs. Exiting the alley we moved around a house and peaked towards the large open town circle, soon finding what the bugs were doing, groups were swarming around the horses gathering them up before spitting out green globs of slime at their hooves restraining them. "Knew they were xenomorphs..." I muttered watching "what do we do?? Guys got flame throwers or somethin??" They each looked at me confused before Twilight shook her head "Raindowdash and I will knock them out of the air, you all take care of them in the ground." The others nodded while I looked unsure "umm I'm out of flower pots..." Twilight lit her horn before suddenly my stick from before appeared "will this help?" Blinking at the Houdini stick I took it "uhhh sure" Twilight and Raindowdash flew off while the others ran to get the bugs on the ground, I shrugged snd followed yelling hokding thr stick over my head like a wild cave man. When one bug came crashing down from above I swung my stick swatting it away with a hard whack, I then ran and jabbed another in the chest before swinging it around hitting another, seeing one flying lower to the ground I reared the stick back "ey batter batter!!" The bugs ear twitched up and it turned around confused before it's eyes went wide as I launched the stick into the side of its face, it's face jostling and lips pushing the opposite direction before a few fanged teeth flew out as it went crashing to the ground. Spinning the stick around I slung it over my shoulder whistling as a pit a hand over my brow watching the bug crash "that's a home run!" Chuckling I looked at the stick "with this, I have ultimate power!!!" I raised it up cheering. A bug flew by snagging the stick and take it away, I blinked staring arm still up in the air holding nothing now "well...that sucks..." "Try an find another stick or somethin! We can't give up!!" Applejack shouted in a southern accent as she bucked a bug that came at her. "Good idea, just gotta wait watch out!!" I yelled as I saw one of the bugs recover from the kick and leap onto the mare, it wrapped its legs around her chocking her as it hissed, I ran over quickly running on instincts as I went to help, the bug then suddenly opened it'd jaws before biting down on the mares neck splattering blood across me and the ground, shock filled me as I felt the droplets hit my skin. Applejack cried out in pain as the bug growled into the bite, in a instant I reacted without thinking, my right hand curling into a fist before I suddenly sucker punched it in its muzzle "get off her Xenomorph freak!!!" The bug went flying off Applejack's back rushing through the air and smashed through the wall of a house, everyone surrounding froze in shock having seen the hit, even I stood shocked as I sent the bug flying, slowly I looked down at my hand before looking at a nearby rock and picked it up slowly, I then looked to a big in the air and cocked the arm back befiee baseball pitching the rock. Like a bullet it shot through the air and cracked the bug in the head sending it cartwheeling through the air into another. I stared wide eyed "I...have...Super strength?!??" I looked at my hands before chuckling looking at the remaining bugs "your dead" I ran at them and reeled my arm back before sucker punching another on the ground sending it flying across the road with one hit. The one beside it going slack jawed as it's companion was sent away, looking back towards me it was greeted to my fist as it punched it down at the ground, a huge smile on my face as I cackled like a mad man running after the bugs who now were beginning to realize the tide had shifted against them. Grabbing one of the bugs tails I swung it around before launching it into a flying group, a beaver bug came rushing at me surprising me and I slapped it in reaction, it barrel rolled off into a wall from the slap left spinning on its horn. I felt giddy from being this strong, I felt unstoppable!! And then I got promptly gut punched folding me like a chair "ooof!!" Raindowdash came flying in kicking the bug making it crash before it flew off, the rest of the bugs seeing the fight was over followed, grabbing their unconscious or stuck companions and scatter. I held my stomach coughing "update...super strength, doesn't mean... invulnerability...I'm in pain" I fell over face first. Groaning I sat on the edge of the bed holding my now bandaged stomach with my equally bandaged hands and feet, no shoes really scuffed my feet bad, and like my stomach my hands were not invulnerable so all those punches really cut and bruised my knuckles. "so miss Twilight, any idea why I suddenly have super strength?" I asked looking to mare who had her horn glowing while tracing up and down my body. "no...only theories right now" She said scanning. With a slight tugging in my bandages and wince I looked to the yellow mare who gasped worried she hurt me from her bandaging "oh no I'm sorry was that too tight??" " No no, thank you Fluttershy, I'm all ears Twilight" I replied first to Fluttershy, she was a gentle caring horse that's for sure, and then focused on Twilight. Twilight huffed turning her horn off "from what I understand, from both your story and my scanning, whatever you were injected with is most likely the cause, however my scan didn't pick up anything beyind your muscle mass seems to hsve both grown as well as strengthened." "Space steroids?" I asked. "possibly? But I will need to run some more tests, as well as send a letter to princess Celestia to bring the mirror here so we can send you home" she sighed. "well as long as I can get home don't stress" I chuckled feeling happy I would be back home soon, the weird alien steroids worried me but I didn't feel ill...currently, glancing to Applejack who's neck hsd a bandage on it I felt bad I didnr her to jer fast enough "you doing okay Applejack..?" Applejack looked over and smiled "don't you worry about me, wasn't nothing but a scratch, that there punch you did sure helped make sure that changeling didnt do any more though, can't thank ya enough for that...err what was yer name again?" "heh no problem, I just got lucky I had super strength to hit him off, oh and it's Alan, Alan's Grant." I smiled leaning back on the bed propping myself up with my hands. "Nice ta officially meet ya" Applejack tipped her hat. " So what are xenomorphs??" Pinkie asked tilting her head "I heard you calling the changelings that while we were sneaking around." "Changelings? Oh uh well xenomorphs are a alien bug race in a movie franchise, they reminded me of those, especially with the slime spit" I explained. "interesting...I wonder if that's what changelings are in the other world.." Twilight said to herself thinking curiously. "I can't believe there's another world connected to earth full of magic, little horses, and bug horses!" I chuckled in amazement. "I know! It was pretty exciting to find out myself" Twilight smiled. "If it uh wouldn't be to much trouble, id totally wanna visit this place more, specially if I lose super powers back home" I rubbed the back of my neck embarrassed. "free helping us with the changelings?? You can come over whenever!" Rainbowdash praised. "Rainbowdash, princess Celestia is the one who can decided if people from the mirror can just come over, if they all did it'd be chaos" Twilight said. Rainbowdash rolled her eyes "he helped us, that's gotta be enough to let him visit." "Well I don't wanna cause problems..." I replied. " Your fine Alan" Twilight huffed "Celestia should be getting back to me any moment now-" As if on que a flash of light sent me rolling off the other side of the bed in sunrise as suddenly a much bigger white horse with rainbow moving hair, a long horn, big feathered wings, and a mirror stood in the room. She looked around quickly before her eyes landed on me and she gasped "so it is true...A human in Equestria... I've never seen such a sight" she said in awe. "Um...thanks?" I stood up feeling awkward. "Oh! And he speaks Equestrian too!" She said giddly. "Well where I'm from its English" I corrected her. "English? Interesting, and these clothes? Are they common?? They look so noble, so free for your beings to wear" The white horse said about my blanket toga. "Well actually I came here naked, these are the blankets from the bed. Clothes where I'm from aee uh...tighter? And there's more" I explained as best I could, it's hard to explain clothes to a clothesless horse. "As much as we all want to ask Alan questions, sending him home seems like the best thing to do, we still don't know what Equestria magic will do if not already affecting him" Twilight said. "Yeah but uh if it means more super powers, I wouldn't mind being able to fly and shoot lasers from my eyes" I smirked. " I doubt that will happen...maybe..." Twilight said thinking before shaking her head and walking to the mirror "ready to go?" "Wait can't Alan visit? He helped save the town from changelings! That's gotta be worth something right??" Rainbowdash asked. The white horses smile faltered "unfortunately...we yet do not know what his presence here may cause to Equestria or himself, it could be just as dangerous for him as it is for us, until we know for certain I'm afraid he will be unable to return." Sighing softy I walked over and looked to them all "well...guess this is goodbye then, it was scary but cool to visit a new world...meet strange talking horses." "Ponies" The tall white horse said. "Ohhh that makes sense with you being so big" I realized. She blushed "I am a pony as well...I did not think I was there big..." She looked back at herself. "Oh no no I meant tall big!!" I blushed in embarrassment and face palmed "yeahhh might be best if I went home now..." Sighing I turned to the mirror then glanced back "by the way Rainbowdash, if I can come back, you owe me one free hit for knocking me out." "If you can catch me sure" she smirked. Smirking back I turned to the mirror I reached my hand forward watching it push through the reflective glass, it didn't even feel like anything, takimg a deep breath in I stepped forward and my vision became white....and then I was assaulted by the doctor who introduced of rainbow swirling tunnel as I promptly screamed my lungs out as my body stretcjed and swirled down the rainbow tunnel to hell. 3: I'll Be BackRainbow colors flooded my vision as my entire body twisted and stretched while I swirled around the tunnel like one of those barbershop candycane things. The colors getting brighter and brighter before all I saw was white and then everything went black, in an instant I felt my body hit solid ground with a thud. Groaning and opening my eyes I watched the world spin around in opposite direction between eyes before shaking my head and blinking a couple times to refocused them and remove my dizziness. Blinking, my eyes widened as I saw a familiar world sit before me, gone were castle and medieval houses, returned were modern housing and street lights!! Also I was in front of a school I didn't recognize but it still looked like a earth school so that was a plus, as well I was laying on concrete so another plus! "I'm home!!" I cheered sitting up breathing and proceeded to choke and cough, air in pony land was cleaner...but hey! Dirty air meant earth! Smiling widely I stood up and went to find out where the heck on earth I was. Or well...tried to as standing up I felt my spine begin to yell at me as my body stiffened and ached before I wobbled, my legs not responding right causing me to come crashing back down to the concrete below smacking my jaws together sending a painful vibration thriugh my skull. Winced I rubbed my aching jaw and became keenly aware...my fingers had taken a one way trip to outta heresville cause I couldn't feel them. Freezing up I slowly dragged the hand up off my chin and in front of my face, poking up from below my vision was a orange cylinder. "Huh...okay well onto my ha-ahhhh!!!!" My voice rose to a scream as I looked down from the tube to find it attached to me, this was my arm?!?! Screaming I fumbled backwards flopping onto my back as I scrambled away from the offending limb, only to see three more and a orange furry body, I was orange and furry!! Flailing my limbs around like an inflatable waving tube man I rolled around in the ground panic as I screamed and panicked. Eventually I panted and tried to calm myself down, this was fine, it wasn't horrible, I was just seemingly turned into a orange furry thing! Fingers and toes? Psh who needed them?? A whimper escaped my lips as I hugged myself tighter. I liked my fingers and toes... Wait! I'll just go back through the mirror! Twilight can fix this or the horse er pony lady can! Looking around quickly with new hope I found...no mirror...only some horse statue...oh god...it was a one way trip...they must closed the mirror after I went through!! I was stuck! Stuck as some orange furry thing on earth!! I was gonna get dissected!! I was gonna lose my job!! I can't pick up trays with numbs!!! I wailed head falling back as tears steamed down my face, my life was over!! Alan Grant was a weird furry orange thing now!!! I'm doomed!! "What's that noise?" A young girls voice asked. "I don't know, sounds like someone cryin" another girls voice responded. "Really noisily.." a rougher girls voice added. Going rigid I slowly peaked around the statue and my eyes went wide as dinner plates, walking towards me were three young girls...with yellow, dark orange, and pure white skin!! They also looked off from normal humans, bigger heads and eyes, those weren't my humans!! Oh god...they're the aliens who abducted me!! They musta followed some signal back to me and now wanted to capture me again!! This was their plan! Make me into a furry orange thing for a pet or something!! Well not this human!! Fumbling with my stumps I hopped up onto my feet and ran best I could only to stumble and fall towards the ground, catching myself with my hands or arm stumps I landed in a surprisingly not awkward position. It actually felt more natural...oh lord my arms were the same length as my legs now! I really was made into a pet! Seeing as this was the best way to move I booked it on unfamiliar limbs stumbling and tripping across the ground as I hurried towards the only place I saw close by...school, my old nemesis... Rushing into the school halls I heard rapid clacking coming from my new limbs, they felt soft when I was poking myself but now they sounded like horse hooves or something, I was some weird alien animal for sure! Looking around I tried to find a classroom door which was open, I was not gonna be able to open a door with these stumps, once I could find one I was gonna ask for help, or at least get enough attention so the aliens couldn't get me, it's all I really could do. Suddenly a loud ringing filled the air jolting me in the middle of my run sending me to the floor face first, wincing the ringing was really loud for some reason, it was like my hearing increased, suddenly I felt movement on my head and the noise muffled, was...was that my ears?? Before I could worry about myself more all the classroom doors opened and students began filing out, my eyes going wide once more as instead of normal teens I saw more aliens...humanlike things but of every color imaginable... As the students were filing out, their focus on either lockers or next activities soon were brushed away as each looked to me in the middle of the hall, gasps and looks of shock filled the hall and I felt fear filled me. A few of the girl aliens looked like they just saw a puppy, most other students looked confused, I was in deep trouble now...shakily I stood up and went to back away. "Woah woah, calm down there, anybody got a jacket or something we can use to wrap it up??" A male student asked stepping forward arms out as he looked to other students. Another pulled his jacket off holding it out like a matador "what do you think it is? a baby horse or something??" "Maybe a baby pony or a miniature horse...but uh, it looks weird..." The first one muttered looking back at me. No shit I looked weird you psychos turned me into some weir-did they say horse and pony? Blinking I slowly looked down at the shiny tiled floor seeing ever so slightly a reflection of myself, I just barely made out the features id seen before...I looked like one of the ponies!! Strong arms wrapped around my waist snapping me out of my thoughts "gotcha!" The guy from before said as he grabbed hold of me, freaking out I squirmed and kicked my legs finding purchase and connecting with the guys gut causing him to grunt and loosen his grip, in that moment I booked it. The guy with the jacket held it out like a shield and I sped up before dropping down on my stomach sliding across the floor rushing under the jacket and between the guys legs before returning to running pushing past panicked teens as I hurried down the hall. Okay okay so I'm a pony now, and I'm in alien school, was pony land just the aliens weird zoo??? God this was so crazy!! I thought being in pony land was crazy but this is insane!! The sound of running footsteps echoed behind me and with a glance back I saw students hurrying after me, oh great they think I'm a wild animal! I gotta get out of here find some way to get off this planet or something!! Sliding across the floor when rounding a corner I slammed my side into some lockers wincing but kept running, hooves had sucky traction on tile floor! But once I found a fire exit or something I'd be better going out on grass and concrete, just gotta kee- Brown wood filled my vision followed by a hard whack as my face impacted something hard sending me tumbling across the rule and sliding as my fur moved across the smooth flooring before I slammed into a wall, a wall which shattered like glass before raining down across my body. Wincing and holding my pounding face I peaked an eye open and found blood on my hooves, the warmth running down my nose said I had a nose bleed, looking around I saw shattered glass surrounding the floor and on my, looking back I realized the wall I hit was a trophy case, one now lacking glass. My new flexible ears twitched towards the increasingly getting louder stampede of footsteps made me refocus on running, Shakily standing and wobbling I stumbled forward and wobbled down the hall looking around with my head feeling sluggish, blinking strangely heavy eyes I focused through blurriness I didnr notice I had to try and find a fire exit, now if the halls would stop getting longer and twisting id find one easily! Grumbling I tried on my heavy feet nearly falling over again, spreading my arms out to stabilize I panted hanging my head and tried to focus, the floor was spinningmand coming in and out of focus, that would explain the tripping. Groaning I lifted my heavy head up and spotted a open door, that was an exit! Wobbling and swaying over I bumped into the doorframe feeling a stinging pain making me wince before I flinched as sunlight shined into my eyes, stumbling away from the light I found a dark little cave, squeezing myself in I flopped to the cold floor feeling my head drag me down, the room was spinning, closing them I felt relief from the dizziness, thinkin I needed a little nap for this headache, then I can go to the rodeo and ride the walrus with the cupcake queen of apple cider vinegar. Sunset look up as the bell rang and then stood grabbing her bag and putting her school work inside, the club room was nice to hang out in when she didn't have a class at this time, especially to catch up wirh any school work she wss behind on. Slinging her bag over her shoulder she headed to the door wrapping her hand around the handle opening it when suddenly it lurched back close with a loud bang on the otherside followed by the sound of glass shattering, jumping back in surprise she held her bags strap tighter. "What was that??" Cautiously she opened the door again and peaked out finding the hall empty, however her eyes soon landed upon the trophy case which was missing it's glass, glass which couid be found shattered on tje ground, walking over she crohched down looking it over soon enough noticing speckkes of red scattered about. Spotting droplets she followed the trail away from the glass and a bit down the hall to a open classroom, stepping in she looked around the empty room, someone was bleeding...but who? Her eyes caught sight of the trail continuing under the teachers desk, carefully creeping that way she swallowed nervously not knowing what she would find beneath...wrapping her hand around the edge she slowly peaked under and gasped as what she found was the last thing she ever expected. Lying unconscious was a pony, a pony from equestria!! This..this was impossible! How could a pony get here?? If any used the mirror they'd end up a human, she's never heard of one staying a pony, she soon noticed the scratches across it's back which were red, and it's currently bleeding nose, the sojnd of glass and the doors bang niw made sense, wincing st the thiught if hitting the door thst hsrd muzzle first brought back painful memories of being a pony herself. Suddenly her ears picked up the sound of approaching students, panic filled her as if they found the pony it's be chaos, taking her jacket off she quickly dropped it over the pony and careful picked them up so she didn't hurt them more, holding them under her arm she stepped out of the room, as she did a swarm of students rushed by looking around. One hurried to her "sunset, did you see a little horse pony thing run by??" He asked quickly. Blinking wide eyes and avoiding looking at her jacket under her arm she shook her head "nope, sorry" she put on a sincere smile. "We gotta get it out of here before it makes a mess" he said and walked away from her. Sunset sighed in relief before hurrying to the club room and closed the door dropping the blinds, she then set the pony down on a nearby couch and quickly called her friends "girls, her to the club now, we got a magic issue, also Fluttershy, being first aid, someone really needs you." After a couple of minutes her friends filed in, some alone others together until all seven of them were there, each gasped seeing the pony on the couch unconscious, Fluttershy gasping the loudest when she saw the injuries, hurrying over and beginning to bandage them up. "This one of princess Twilights friends?" Applejack asked. "I don't know, maybe? But I'm confused how he got here" " sunset said looking at him confused. "Through the mirror silly" pinkie giggled. " I mean as a pony, the mirror should have changed him into a human like us, instead he's still a pony" Sunset replied. "That is strange" Twilight replied pushing her glasses up "from what you've said about the mirror it's function is to make the traveler fit the world they're traveling too, however this woukd suggest some soet of discrepancy, either a glitch, or something else entirely..." "Could he have gotten here another way? Maybe casted a spell or something?" Rarity offered. "No horn, so I don't think he did it himself, someone would have had to have done it, or he got caught in some strange magical mishap" Sunset replied shrugging. "Does princess Twilight have any idea?" Rainbowdash asked. Sunset blinked before face palm f and grabbing her book "I panicked so much I completely forgot to ask her!" She scolded herself and wrote in the book telling Twilight there was a earth pony stallion here, and wondered if she knew anything. After a couple of seconds... "What?!?" Twilight wrote back and followed it up with more "has he said his name?? Is it Alan?? Dear Celestia, hold on I'm coming through!" "Okay well... Twilight's coming" Sunset told the others. They each smiled in excitement before Dash huffed "oh man, now it's gonna get really complicated with two Twilight's, we gotta use a nick name or something for one of you." "we'll figure that out, and this pony situation" Sunset replied. After a couple minutes princess Twilight came rushing into the club room, the girls all excitedly calling jer name as they hugged her in a group hug, human Twilight keeping back but smiling. Once the hug broke, Princess Twilight looking towards the unconscious pony and raised a brow confused "this is...Alan?" She walked over to him seeing the bandages "what happened to him??" "Well, the other students I guess saw him and tried to grab him thinking he was a pony from this world, he ran and well...ran into the door as I opened it, and then crasjed inro tje trophy case..." Sunset rubbed her arm uncomfortably. Princess Twilight sighed looking to him worried "poor Alan...whatever those...things did to bring him to Equestria must have caused this strange mix up when going through the portal, rather than keeping him human it turned him into a pony..." "Wait he's from here??" Sunset said in shock. "Yes, he was a human in equestria, and he was abducted by being he didn't know, they did something to him but none of us know exactly what that is, and this just adds to the confusion..." she sighed and looked puzzled once more "most curiously...his pony form and human form are... extremely different. " "How so darling?" Rarity asked. "well, as a human his skin was more tanish, and his hair was brown, but as s pony he...well he looks like you Applejack, just as a stallion" Princess Twilight explained. "Me? Now why in tarnation would he turn into a stallion version of me??" Applejack asked in confusion. "I don't know, it doesn't make sense" she said just as confused. Other Twilight walked over "did Alan and other Applejack interact before he came here?" "very little, but he did save her from a changeling, but beyond that no..." Princess Twilight replied. "Hmm, I thought maybe the portal could have potentially co fused the two? I know it doesn't make sense from a science stand point but from a magical one" Twilight said. " It possible" princess Twilight finished looking back at Alan and then gently brushed the fur on his right shoulder away looking for something before finding it "ah ha! He still has the needle mark..." She thought for a moment "Alan said he was injected with something strange, he didn't know what and magical scans showed nothing either, however he seemed to be stronger than before, if the needle mark is still there than that means this is Alan's pony form, however, it's appearance being similar to Applejack must mean there's a correlation between the needle mark and her." "Of course! This isn't a magical event then, but rather-" Twilight said smiling before the two simultaneously said "it's a science one!" "Great, two egg heads" dash huffed already lost on what the heck they were talking about. My head pounded in my skull like a certain orange pony bucking, slowly reaching up and rubbing my head I wince from the touch of a sensitive bruise, cracking my eyes open I spot a unfamiliar room, fear suddenly taking me as I remembered where I was, jumping to my new hooves I spun around looking for an exit only to catch sight of eight familiar faces. Only those faces were much flatter than I remembered, and they also were human shaped so that added to it, the girls I've come to know as ponies now were human teen Girls, coulda sworn they were at least twenty back in pony land... They noticed my awakening and the Fluttershy one moved over "no no please don't move, you'll upset your injuries" she held her hands out in a none aggressive manner but I still eyed her wearily. "Right, and then one of you will stick me with a tranquilizer, heh not happening banana girl" I moved further from her on the couch. "Hey don't call her names!" Rainbowdash glared. "I'm keeping my eye on you too bluey!" I shot her a glare. Rainbowdash gave a confused expression. "Alan look it's me Twilight" Twilight er one of the Twilight's said, wait why were there two of them? "Woahh double vision..." I mumbled looking between them. "I came through the mirror after Sunset" she gestured to the bacon haired girl "told me you arrived as a pony, I'm trying to figure out what happened so we can turn you back into a human." "Psh yeah right! You mean turn me into a pet! You really think just cause you guys look a little human id just listen to you?? Not happening aliens!!" I smirked and turned to the window squatting down reading myself "I'm outta here!" I leapt forward and bashed my face right into the window "the trophy case...was so much easier..." My face squeaked down the glass before I fell, hit the couch, rolled and collapsed down the floor. Fluttershy gasped while the others cringed at the obvious injury, she hurried over and began checking me over while asking over snd over again if I was okay. Well she seemed to genuinely care about me so ther confused this whole situation "besides my face and who hurting, I'm fine..." I replied rubbing my cheek. "Oh you poor thing, you must be so scared, in an unfamiliar body, and treated like a wild animal" Fluttershy said as she hugged and pet me, it was strangely soothing... "Wait what did you mean we look a little human? Don't we look like you're supposed to?" Twilight asked confused. "Uh no...humans on earth aren't technicolored..." I remarked while enjoying the petting. "oh no..." Twilight said and looked to her double who shared the same worried expression. " Is this part where you tell me my situation is worse than we all thought?" I asked with a gesture of my hoof. "Well...Twilight and myself" the glasses wearing Twilight said gls cing to her double "were the rising about your pony appearance, deducing it had some effect from Applejack, the pony Applejack to be precise" she pushed her glasses up. "What we couldn't figure out was why it happened, you only interacted with Applejack for a second, and then suddenly your a male copy of her here, but now with what you said...I Believe it's clear.." Twilight who was previously a pony and now a weird human said. "Can you get to the point you two??" Rainbowdash groaned. "Alan...isn't from this universe, nor this earth, he's from our universe on another earth, he's an alien" Twilight explained. The girls all gasped while I went wide eyed "I'm...the alien? B-but how does that work??" "The portal turns residents of our universe into those of this one, however, you already essentially look like this universe residents, previously when I brought spike here he became a dog, but dogs already existed in equestria, just not on earth so then the mirror made him the closest thing even if said rhif exists in both realities." "The reason you became a pony is well my best bet, there's another equestria in this universe but we another planet, sort of a mirror to your earth in ours, ther Equestria most likely has ponies as residents but they match Alan's earths residentd trstjer thsn our own" Twilight explained using a chalkboard to draw the four different planets with lines connecting each. I blinked holding my head "woah okay...so...rather then ending up in anorjer universe, e I actually was abducted by aliens, ended up on an alien poanet of ponies, snd rhen jumoed universe to s reverse reality wjere ponies see humans and humans are ponies and im now a pony but i was hukan in a piny land bur i was from which is humans and ponies and ponies and-and" my eyes rolled back and I fell over unconscious With a few gentle slaps to the cheek I was back up "okay brain crashed...but I think I get it...so uh...how do I get home?" "Well...space travel hasn't been invented in equestria" Twilight frowned. " It has where but it's nothing spectacular, it takes months just to get to mars and we barely can do that" Glasses Twilight said frowning aswell. " So even if we could find the equestria of this universe to use the mirror there, it woukd take so long none of us would even survive it..." Twilight huffed. "so I'm stuck?.." I frowned. "W-well...there are spells to send ponies to the moon...if we can reengineer that spell...maybe we could send you to earth instead!" Twilight smiled. "Why would you need a spell to...never mind" I shook my head and smiled "so then how do we make it do a earth send rather than a moon one??" "Hmmm we'd need to find earth in equestria, then we can calculate the correct distance and from there adjust the spells parameters" she smiled. "Right awesome, we do that" I gave a nonexistent thumbs up. "In the meantime though... Alan which world did you want to stay on, I know this one isn't your earth but it's close to it, would you prefer to stay here as a pony or return to equestria as a human?" Twilight asked gently. That was a good question, this earth was pretty close to my own, they had actual technology, but I was a horse, I'd be hunted by this worlds government no doubt, huffing there wss really only one choice "let go back to the world where I got thumbs." Twilight nodded and looked to her friends "thank you all for helping Alan, Sunset, I'll keep you notified on the progress of the spell." Sunset nodded and the nine of us moving through the school with the girls keeping me hidden with their bodies till we reached the front of the school "good luck Alan, hope you can get home." Sunset said. "So do I" I sighed and stood beside Twilight "thanks for the help you guys, stay human" I saluted and looked to Twilight who waved her friends goodbye befoee stepping through the statue, so that's where the otjer mirror was...weird, stepping in I immediately remembered why I hated the mirror cause I was in this fun house of hell once more, spiraling and stretching while I screamed, Till finally I plopped our the other end groaning. "Alright, first you should tell me what other planets or star systems surround your planet and then" Twilight as a pony once more ranted off as she walked before turning to me and gasped loudly a look of shock on her face. Sitting up I rubbed my neck and looked curiously at her reaction "what?" "Y-you...okay...this just got a whole lot more concerning" She replied nervously pointing at me. Confused I turned to look in the mirror at my reflection before gasping, staring back at me was me...just one of my eyes was yellow, and I had green hair "well...fuck." 1: Where No Man Has Gone BeforeWithin a dark abyss, glowing dots of varying sizes and brightness filled it. Some balls of pure gas and plasma, others water and ice, fewer rock, and even less holding all. Planets and stars of different sizes, different structures, some similar, some so fantastical they would almost seem to be the product of a creative mind. Yet few held the prospect of life, the capability to sustain it seemingly so rare and so far in between the planets that one may never witness life from another in their lifetime. In a rare few of these, a astronomical rarity sat ever moving, a ball of white pure gas and energy sat with numerous other planets of different sizes yet none close to its magnitude rotated around it never ceasing. One such was a sphere of blue, green, and various colors in-between sat in the expanse of space, surrounding it a smaller white ball. The ones which hold life are just as different from one another as their planets, life forms so strange and different they can't even be compared in some cases. And in those life filled planets those races are capable of such amazing things, creation of their own, exploration, some able to fly through the air, others able to move mountains, and some even capable of magic. This is not such a planet… This planet is known for its inhabitants' constant war with themselves, destruction of their home, and otherwise lacking care for most if not anything. A rare few on it attempt to make their home a better place, to save it from it's inhabitants who would see fit to destroy themselves. The few who care work tirelessly to save their home and these people, working to see a brighter future… Snoring softly, I mumbled in my sleep when suddenly, a noise blared sending me into a panic. I jumped and smacked the offending noise away. A very expensive phone flew through the air and slammed to the wall before sliding down it to the floor. "Gah fuuuuu-lip" I groaned, rubbing my eyes, even tired and probably just having broken my phone. I still fell into my self discipline of not cursing, just something that stuck with me from growing up. Course, my family cursed like sailors, sooo kinda hypocritical of them. Scratching my head, I took a step out of bed and proceeded to end up face first in my carpet. My lower body was caught in the blankets on my bed still. Groaning, I shuffled before feeling a weight shift as I suddenly began falling again and crashed to the floor completely, a blanket securely tied around my limbs following and draping across me gently. "Thank God my blankets were restraining me otherwise I'd never have fallen out of bed" I huffed, lying still before looking around and getting free "ok! No more falling, this morning is not getting the better of me!" My phone suddenly buzzed once more, miraculously still alive. Moving over, I picked it up and anxiously began turning it over, fearful of a cracked screen, however a smile came to my face, seeing no cracks at all "haha! Thank goodness for my pathetic strength…..kay stab at myself didn't work to make me feel better." Checking the notification, I found it was from myself, more so past me, which was about what I had planned for today, to be exact, what I planned for the day that I was currently late for. Eyes going wide, I quickly rushed around getting dressed and ready before bursting through my front door and booking it down the driveway. A couple of seconds later, I returned, grabbing my bike before riding it. I had a strange fear of driving in which I believed with all certainty that if I were behind the wheel of a car I'd crash and die in a horrible fire, so bikes were my go to. Soon enough, arriving at my destination, I hopped off my bike letting it fall over as I ran into a building "Hey! Not late!" I shouted, as if that would convince anyone. A long sigh filled the room as my boss pinched the bridge of his nose "right…..just…just go to work" he pointed to a fabric bag and Grabber Reacher Tool, before going back to his phone. "Thanka sir" I smiled nervously, hurrying over I grabbed said items and left before I made my boss more upset. Working for a city cleaning company may pay well, but also surprisingly struggle filled….at least for me. Heading out, I slung the bag over my shoulder as it took hold of the Grabber Reacher Tool or Grt or Gert for short. Playing with the claw, snapping it open and closed "beware my cybernetic powers" I made the transformers noise as I snapped at the air A woman quickly walked her child past trying to avoid looking in my direction 'riiiight….people were a thing…' Huffing, I kept walking without making the transformer noises or using the claw to play with, I grabbed different trash from the side of the road putting it into the bag, it was pretty gross at times, but mostly sad to see so much trash just….scattered about, I didn't understand how people just….threw things on the side of the road, was a trash can so hard to wait to get to? Shaking my head, I picked up a green and silver object from the ground. Looking it over in the grip of the claw I found it was a small alien toy, little green alien head sticking out of the flying saucer "dang some kid probably lost this…." Grabbing a separate bag from my pocket, I opened it and placed the toy in it before continuing on, cleaning up the sides of the road till the sun was close to setting. I then went back to the dump. Walking through the doors, I set the bag on the counter, my boss glancing up from his phone "great good job" he said boredly and, going back to his phone. "Thanks, hey uh I found another toy on the side of the road, I was thinking maybe we could-" I started as I pulled the toy from the other bag holding it in my hands. My boss groaned, cutting me off "We are not lost and found, either toss the thing with the rest of the trash or keep it, I don't care." I frowned and looked down at the toy in my hands "...I'll keep it then…" "Whatever" he replied. I turned, heading out of the building and went towards my bike. Picking it up, I walked it alongside me as I stared at the toy in my hands, a small bit of heartache in my chest "poor kid, probably their favorite toy…I don't even know how I'd find them, posters seems a bit much…maybe an online post?" I thought aloud. I could be overly sentimental at times, not sure where it came from, at times I'd feel remorse for things that were so small or just not even that sad. Something about abandoned toys really brought something out, the idea that this thing which brought joy to someone was gone. What if it were alive? Or in some way capable of feeling the same way a person could. Eventually arriving home, I parked my bike and headed inside. Kicking my shoes off, I went to the kitchen, flicking some lights on and opened the freezer connected to my fridge and pulled out a bag of chicken nuggets. Walking over to the cupboard, I grabbed a plate and poured a few on before popping it in the microwave. I then hopped on to the couch and stared at the ceiling for a bit, thinking. Getting tired of the ceiling, I lifted up the toy, turning it in my hand, dirt was caked on it from the time it was left on the side of the road. Gently, I rubbed some of the dirt off the toy with my thumb, the little alien's head bouncing around like a bobble head, it brought a small smile to my face thinking about aliens actually looking this way. Would they be offended if their likeness was used for a child's toy? Or just offended by the false image of them? Then again, I'm sure there was a lot more they'd be offended by than a toy that may or may not look like them, seeing as our planet was full of…well not very likable people. I honestly could not imagine aliens liking our planet. First of all, we trash it regularly, second, we don't paint the kindest picture of aliens, and third we really don't like each other. Suddenly there was a flash of light which filled my house through my window from the backyard, the sudden light causing me to jump and fall off the couch, peaking over the coffee table, I looked towards the patio glass doors, leading to the backyard which now was dark "the heck was that?!?" Getting up slowly, I crept to the wall and peaked around to look through the sliding glass door into my dark yard. I didn't see anything that could have caused the light, this side of my house wasn't facing the street, just a forest, and I have a large wooden fence... Taking a few deep breaths, I looked around before picking up a baseball bat and slowly slid the door open…stepping out into the cool night air, my sock covered feet touching the grassy floor as I stepped further out. I turned my head about looking for anything out of the ordinary as I held the bar up ready, but it was just a simple empty backyard, wooden fence, grassy ground, strange black empty space up in the sky over my house where no stars were, completely ordinary- Strange black empty space up in the sky over my house where no stars were?!?!? I stared up into the sky where a large circle of darkness sat, the bar falling from my hands to the ground with a soft thud, the stars around it seemingly ending at the point of pure darkness, it was impossible…how could stars vanish in a perfect circle?!? Staring at it for a couple seconds, I then finally decided now was a good time to go back inside, taking a step to go back in. Suddenly, a light erupted from the middle of the abyss and shined down, blanketing the backyard and myself. I threw my hand up to shield myself from the light, stumbling blindly "ok! Not ordinary!!! Very not ordinary!!" I booked it for the door, only getting five steps before both my feet left the ground and began to float upwards "gah! No what?!?? Gravity!! Come back to me!!" I clawed at the air trying to grab anything I could to get myself closer towards the door. Flailing around in the air, I soon reached for the ground trying to grab it, my fingers getting hold of the grass "ha! Yes, grass you beautiful thing you!" The grass was plucked free from the earth, causing me to drift upwards "nooooo!! Traitor!" I cried as I floated into the bright light all while flailing around, my panicked mind a storm of thoughts before one surfaced to the front of my mind as I floated to my inevitable doom "my chicken nuggets!!!" Everything went dark in an instant and my mind vanished. Within the house, the microwave beeped signaling the chicken nuggets within were finished cooking, now being left to go cold…. My mind felt heavy as I became aware I was aware, the last thing I remembered was the strange light and floating, and then maybe passing out? I don't remember dreaming and I always had dreams... Blinking my eyes opened, everything was blurry and my eyes stung a bit. Rubbing them with my hands, I took note that my whole body felt odd. To be more exact, it felt like I was moving through strange air...my movement was sluggish, it felt like I was moving through molasses. Tho to be fair, I've never moved through molasses... Now capable of seeing unblurred, I was suddenly alerted to the fact that everything in my vision was green, shifting around and looking, I found I was floating in green water? A light shining from above and below allowing me to see. In an instance, panic filled me. I was gonna drown!!! Thrashing my elbow struck something hard in the water, making me wince and grab my elbow in not exactly pain but the waves of uncomfortable tingling of my funny bone being hit, the person who named it that deserves nothing but misery. Once my funny bone stopped tingling as much, I reached my hand out, feeling around for what I hit and found a smooth wall following it, It circled around me completely. I was in some sort of tube…peering into the wall, I found it was see through glass? I was in a glass tank? What was I, a fish now? Thinking about fish, I blinked and cautiously took in a breath. In came water and I choked but…I wasn't drowning, I could breathe water now?!? No wait, I heard of this before, oxygenated water or something, isn't it supposed to be like yellow or something? This was really confusing. Who put me in a tank of air-water and why???? I heard a muffled noise through the tank and looked forward. Light filled the otherwise dark room as a figure moved in slowly. Squinting, I tried to see what exactly it was. The light behind it created a black silhouette, and it wasn't very human shaped, more like a tube or weird rounded triangle. However, I became keenly aware I was nude, my hands jumping to cover my crotch and chest in panic. The thing moved closer, filling the light of the doorway as it came closer, the darkness that covered it giving way as it moved into the light of my tank, illuminating it in a green glow. What I saw made me freeze, rolling in on hidden wheels of some sort was a trash can robot, or the second thing that came to mind when I saw it….a Dalek, course it wasn't exactly like one, it was missing the eye stalk, the plunger arm, and strange ball things on its lower body, instead it had a robot claw not dissimilar to my Grabber Reacher Tool just way more robotic, it also was all black…or a dark color, the green filter forced upon me definitely tampered with color identification, the smooth body of the thing had no visible panel edges besides where it's neck and head connected. The dalek knockoff looked to me with its singular eye, seemingly taking in my appearance, before it's claw reached up to the glass slowly. Blinking, I looked from it to its claw, was it...was it just curious? Slowly, I reached my hand out, touching the glass as its claw touched the other side, a smile spreading across my face, maybe this meant peace... A holographic panel appeared in the glass and its claw began typing on it, moving away from my hand. Ah okay so it was just turning on the keyboard gotcha… It tapped strange symbols all across the glass as it went to work before Suddenly a robotic arm extended down from above using its multiple joints to bend and move as it reached all the way down to me. My eyes looking it over before going wide as I saw at the end of it was a large syringe needle, quickly trying to swim away. The needle jabbed at me trying to stick me, but I kept dodging it, paddling circles in the tank. The arm jabbing and trying to catch me before it lunged forward, slamming its arm into me and stabbed the needle into my right arm, burning pain erupted through my arm as the needle was stabbed into my flesh without remorse. The doctors were gentler than this and it still hurt then! Wincing, I looked at the needle as I saw whatever strange liquid was inside the syringe slowly empty into my arm, the needle remaining there as I then looked at the robot. The robot made a few mechanical beeping noises before slowly words began to filter through into my brain "does the subject process verbal input?" It sounded like Johnny Five... "Does the subject process verbal input?" It repeated robotically as the needle suddenly twisted in my arm. I nodded, glaring at it, trying to fight back the pain. "Injection successful, translator nanos functional, beginning stage two, initiating electrical charge" the bot said as it clicked a few more symbols, symbols I was starting to be able to read... Wait, did it just say electrical char- My muffled scream filled the tank as electricity was pumped throughout my body, my limbs spasming as my vision blurred and every ounce of my being felt like it was on fire, and then in an instant it was over, my body twitching as I panted breathing in and out the air water. "One of eight of electrical charge complete, beginning electrical charge two of eight" the robot stated, and reached for the button. Tensing up, I tried holding in whatever breath I had, though I was pretty sure it was just this strange oxygen-like liquid in my lungs by now, looking around searching for some type of exit from this glass prison all while that Darlek rip off watched me with intensity. Finally, I grimaced looking at the syringe still in my arm as I got an idea. Taking hold of the arm and prepping myself, I tore the needle out of my skin with a trail of blood following the needle and let out a muffled grunt of pain. I then began slamming the needle end of the arm against the glass, trying to keep my grip firm as the tank vibrated from the thuds. "Struggling is futile, remain calm as the nanobots travel through your body, In the meantime meantime, might I interest you in-" the droid was cut off as a needle-sized hole punctured the glass, sending a tiny glass shard clinking to the metal floor. The needle was then pulled back as a small stream of the green liquid sprayed out, hitting the droid in its "face" The room was silent for a couple of seconds with the two of us staring at one another. I blinked and the water ran down its metal surface, it's single eye staring unchanged. And then the droid erupted in a colorful display of electricity, orange and blue sparks flying off it's body, different lights on its body flashing on and off, its eyes changing to a multitude of colors before its head began spinning like a top as it screeched in a r2d2-like scream. The robotic arm bent in different directions as it spazzed out, before the head stopped spinning, returning to facing the tank "opening subject tank 85735, 🎶have a good day🎶" it said in a sing song voice before its head proceeded to then blow off like a wine bottle cork I felt a sudden movement of water below me and looked down to see a small hole open like a drain, happiness filling me as I'd get actually air to breath, the hole then proceeded to enlarge to the full size of the floor of the tank, my happiness turning to dread as I tried swimming upwards but the suction became too strong and I was flushed downward with the water. The green light of the tank turned to darkness as I was flushed down a tunnel, the sound of rushing water mixed with my screams of panic followed by gurgling as water splashed into my face. Suddenly, light returned though the warm liquid that had surrounded me was gone and replaced by cold air, and the hard tunnel below my nude rump vanished, as I realized I was falling through the air. Blinking, I returned to screaming as I flailed through the air plummeting, I was above the freaking clouds!! Screaming as much as I could, I fell before impacting a cushioned surface...of a cloud "wha-?" I suddenly sank through and returned to falling as well as screaming. Continuing to scream, I hit another cloud though something else too, as someone else made a startled yelp filled my ears. Looking to the source, I found a blue horse thing staring at me with rainbow hair, its large violet eyes staring into my brown ones. We both then screamed as we scrambled away from one another, it to more of the cloud, me off the edge "oh shit noo!!" I screamed as I fell once more. My fall was interrupted this time by sharp tree branches and small leaf slaps as I crashed through a tree top soon enough, hitting thicker branches bouncing off each with oofs and grunts till I was clotheslined by a vine and gagged from being choked and finally hit the ground wheezing. As I wheezed I suddenly gargled before throwing up a geyser of air water from my lungs, hacking and coughing and panting "okay...okay...I'm done...no wait" I threw up once more before falling over unconscious. Twilight flipped to the next page in her book as she walked through the library in her castle "Spike did you find that book?" The small dragon assistant put a book away on the shelf "no, none of these on this shelf have anything to do with late magic." "latent spike" Twilight sighed, setting her book down " at this rate I will have to go to Canterlot to check their libraries if I want this spell to work...I need to know how Luna turned into nigh-" Suddenly, the doors burst open, silencing Twilight's words as a panicked Raindowdash flew into the room, skidding across the ground past Twilight before scrambling back " Twilight! Twilight Twilight Twilight!!! I I saw a thing from the sky, it attacked me o-or landed on me and and it was naked or it didn't have fur or well it did but only in its head and it was weird! It had long arms and legs and weird things on its hooves!!" Twilight grabbed her rambling friend" Rainbowdash, take a deep breath in." Raindowdash inhaled. "Now let it out.." Twilight instructed. Raindowdash exhaled with a sigh and close of her eyes, her posture much more relaxed. "Feel better?" Twilight asked. Raindowdash nodded "yeah, sorry Twi." "It's fine, now explain to me again what you saw?" Twilight replied. "Okay so, I was just relaxing on a cloud taking a break from flying when out of nowhere this thing fell on me, I don't know if it was attacking me or just fell, but it got scared, probably of me, but then it fell off the cloud, and before I could follow it was gone in the everfree" Raindowdash explained. "And you said it looked weird? No fur and just a mane?" Twilight asked. Raindowdash nodded "yeah and weird things on his hooves, like Spike's claws, but uh more nubby" she added. "That sounds like hands...wait how'd you know it was a he?" Twilight raised a brow. "Well, unless it's weird, it has guy bits" Raindowdash blushed, looking away embarrassedly. Twilight blinked, blushing "I see...I think I know what he is...oh no...if he's in the everfree he's in danger!!" Twilight hurried, for the door Dash following behind quickly, and Spike followed best he could. Groaning, I rubbed my aching head, my bed felt not soft at all, and I think there was a rock in my bed too. Reaching under myself and pulling it up I found it was a rock. Oh and I'm in a forest...oh no... It wasn't a dream. The rock dropped from my hand as I looked around in fear. What I thought was a dream was reality, I was abducted by an alien...but I escaped!! Yeah!! I escaped an alien abduction, and this forest was familiar at all, but I lived by a forest! So then this had to be there! I could find my way home. It was just going to be a long walk...in the nude...cringing at my lack of decency, I looked around before I spotted some large leaves using them to make a loincloth, I then made myself some nifty leaf shoes, though really I just wrapped my feet up with some leaves, now where to go...I had to choose a right direction otherwise I'll be just going deeper in the woods, however I did find it interesting its day time cause when I was abducted it was night...how long was I in that tank? Hours?? Jeez, hopefully my boss accepts alien abductions as a good reason to be late for work. Maybe if I can find some moss I can figure out which way is north...and hopefully that means the towns that way cause I don't remember if my towns north of the forest...so here's to hoping, I took a look around and saw a mossy rock "norths thata way" I headed off that way. Funnily enough, I found out loincloths made from leaves are in fact not comfortable in the slightest, tugging on the leaf a bit as I walked. I was thankfully without a shirt cause it was hot and muggy so I was getting more air on my warm body, unfortunately there were mosquitos, and boy did they enjoy biting me. Growling, I slapped myself a couple times trying to hit a mosquito but always missed. Grumbling, I looked around the forest around me. It was odd the trees looked so different from the ones by my house. I never went this deep into the woods I guess... Oh man, I really hope I don't run into a bear or something. I'm so screwed if I do "hm..." Looking about, I walk over to a nearby bush and pull out a thick branch, brushing off old leaves and dirt and giving it a good few swings. It'd work as a club or a walking stick at the very least. I had my weapon, I could protect myself, and now I can survive!! "Hello?" A woman's voice called A high pitched scream escaped my mouth as I swung around behind me, my stick hitting air, my eyes catching a blue blob- oh hey it's the hors- stars filled my vision and the world spun backwards before going black. Twilight stood jaw dropped as Raindowdash knocked the human out cold "Raindowdash!!" "What?? He swung at us!!" Raindowdash defended flying over the thing. Twilight groaned "well now we need to carry him back to the castle, or hospital." "What why don't you just teleport us?" Raindowdash asked. "Because I don't know how magic will affect him" Twilight huffed walking over and trying to lift the human's legs up on her back. Raindowdash groaned and slowly descended, her arms crossed as she helped put his upper half on her back before the two began to carry the unconscious creature through the everfree.
2: Game Over, Man!Groaning awake with her another headache I peeled my eyes opened seeing the blurry bright world "nnnope" turned I buried my face into my pillow, thank God all that crazy stuff was a dream, maybe I needed to see s therapist though cause dreaming that your dreaming and then thinking your dreaming in that dream is probably not good...I think... Im thinkin I'm staying in today, my head was killing me, felt like I got a bat to face, or a kick to the face by a horse, though I never got kicked by a horse so not sure how id know...did dream it however, but are dream tiny blue horse kicks as bad as normal horse kicks? Things to discuss with my therapist, in the mean time, sleep was sounding nice... "Do you think he's awake?" A soft girls voice spoke. "He spoke for this first time so unless he just started sleep talking I think he might be up" a rougher girls voice responded. Oh god...someone broke into my house...well two someones, okay don't panic, just act like your asleep and then... I leapt up from the bed yelling and swinging a pillow around "get outta here!!!" I froze as my eyes landed on the only other beings in my room, a group of six small colorful horses, some had wings, some had horns, one had both... Blinking I looked left and right in the room, no people, also not my room...unless I redecorated in my sleep to purple crystal theme...it didn't seem like I wouldn't do...so biiiig maybe... "Ahem...you little horses wouldn't happen to know who kidnapped me would you?" I said with a soft smile to the adorable weird animals as it passed the pillow away, now to find some ans- "Oh we didn't kidnap you! I'm very sorry, my friend overreacted and knocked you unconscious so we took you to a safer place to recover" the purple horse said. My brain shattered as I stood stock still, to run down events, everything I thought was a dream seemed to not be, that blue horse I fell on and knocked me out was here, and the purple one spoke, everyone caught up? Good. I screamed and flailed backwards hitting my back against the wall, a few of the ponies screamed as well "horses don't talk!!!" "No no relax everypony relax!!" The purple one tried to calm everyone down. "Y-you no talky, only neigh" I whimpered looking the room over, I needed to escape and quick, this was some wacko alien horse invasion, this must be the ship, they found me again and captured me. "Okay..." The purple huffed when everyone calmed down and turned to me "I am Twilight Sparkle, these are my friends, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Raindowdash, Fluttershy, and my assistant Spike" she point to each going from orange, white, pink go figure, blue, yellow, aaaan- is that Barney?!?? "Barneys real?!" I shouted looking at the dino. Barney looked around confused before pointing at himself more confused. "Oh man...you all got like cartoon character names, and Barney is real...oh my god...Aliens control cartoons..." I said in shock. " Okay no, we're not aliens, well in the sense of being from another planet...well...hm this is difficult, technically tjis is another planet from your own and we are entities from a anorjer planet from yours so by all intense and purposes we are aliens, though you aee an alien to us" the purple one or Twilight rambled on. "Uhhh so I'm lost on where we're at, you guys abducted me or..?" "No, we didn't abduct you" Twilight replied now looking curious "so it was ponies who brought you here?" "I didn't see exactly who did, just a weird robot thing" I replied with a shrug. "Fascinating, well fortunately for you I know where your from and can get you back in no time" she smiled. "Really???" I jumped up to my feet smiling. "Oh he really doesn't have fur" Fluttershy said curious. I blinked and looked down before blushing and dropping down covering myself with a blanket "haa so I'm guessing clothes aren't a big thing here ey?" "Quite the opposite! I am a fashion designer, clothes are my passion" Rarity gloated smiling. "Noice, can I get some cause where I'm from I don't walk around in the nude..." I replied sheepishly. "Oh...hm well I will need to do some measuring but I'm sure we can come up with some-" Rarity began before shouting cut her off from outside. "What was that??" Twilight asked in shock. "Don't know but we better check it out!" Applejack hurried out of the room, Raindowdash following after. "Um stay here uhhh human, we'll be right back!" Twilight said and ran off with the remaining horses following Barney joining them. "Right cool...I'll just" the sound of more panicked screams hit my ears "stay..." What if someone was being hurt, more of these little horses attacked "here...oh screw it!" Grabbing the blanket I grabbed two corners and wrapped it first around my waist and then over one of my shoulder making a sort of toga "little horses here I come!!" I ran after the group. What greeted me was definitely a unexpected sight, an entire almost medieval town of small little horses was being attacked by flying black horses, the sound of really loud flys filled the air, I realized these things were making it cause their wings were different from the feathered ones I'd seen, more but like. I saw the six horses from before rushing over to help other horses from the strange attacking ones, running over I got a better look at the attacks, they were fricken xenomorph horses! Or well close to it, shiny black armored bug horse fit the bill for xenomorph horse. One of the xenomorph horses was trying to pull a small cream colored horse into the air but she was holding onto the corner of her house preventing it. Looking around I grabbed a nearby plant pot before chucking it through the air decking the bug square in the face "oof, uh hope your a bad guy." The bug got back on its hoof feet things and hissed at me before flying at me. "Oh shiitakeeeee!!!!" I screamed running the opposite direction. I leapt over another horse before grabbing w rock off the ground and chucked it at her bug hitting it in the same spot of its face again "god I am in point today!" The bug this time flew off rather than chasing me again, it looked like it was heading the same direction as others, I hurried over to the six from before "hey scary bugs are going somewhere, thinkin we should go too before they take one of you!" " Your right, let's go girls!" Twilight said and ran down the road with the rest of us following. Getting up to the side of a house we huddled there. I leaned dover the mares beside me to peak around the edge of the house spotting two of the xenomorph horses standing in the middle of the road speaking with one another, guess they coukd talk "no good, they're down here too, got any ideas??" "we need to figure out where they're taking everypony, I haven't seen any leave town so then they must be holding them somewhere in town, getting there is our priority" Twilight said looking to the six of us. "We need a distraction then..." I muttered. "I'm on it!!" Pinkie cheered rushing off. "Pink one no!!" I fumbled to grab a hold of her but she slipped by and down the road "she's gonna get herself killed!" "You don't know pinkie" Raindowdash smirked. I looked confused before looking down the road, pinkie bounced down it towards the xenomorphs who looked at her and hissed buzzing thier wings, Pinkie reached into her mane before pulling out a colorful canon. "Whaaa??" I slowly looked to the others trying to get answers but they all simply watched like this was normal. With a loud boom the street was filled with confetti and the girls booked it past it, I followed after still confused as to what the heck just happened. Moving through alleys and empty streets dodging xenos who flew over or passed by. "What about pinkie? Will she be okay back there?" I asked worriedly. "I'm fine" pinkie bounced beside me causing me to slam into the nearby wall in surprise. "Y-you can teleport??" I asked baffled. "Hmmm no?" Pinkie replied though sounded unsure herself. "...this will make more sense when I wake up..." I muttered as I walked "Alright we're almost to the center of town, they seem to be mostly here" Twilight said peaking past the roof top to flying by bugs. Exiting the alley we moved around a house and peaked towards the large open town circle, soon finding what the bugs were doing, groups were swarming around the horses gathering them up before spitting out green globs of slime at their hooves restraining them. "Knew they were xenomorphs..." I muttered watching "what do we do?? Guys got flame throwers or somethin??" They each looked at me confused before Twilight shook her head "Raindowdash and I will knock them out of the air, you all take care of them in the ground." The others nodded while I looked unsure "umm I'm out of flower pots..." Twilight lit her horn before suddenly my stick from before appeared "will this help?" Blinking at the Houdini stick I took it "uhhh sure" Twilight and Raindowdash flew off while the others ran to get the bugs on the ground, I shrugged snd followed yelling hokding thr stick over my head like a wild cave man. When one bug came crashing down from above I swung my stick swatting it away with a hard whack, I then ran and jabbed another in the chest before swinging it around hitting another, seeing one flying lower to the ground I reared the stick back "ey batter batter!!" The bugs ear twitched up and it turned around confused before it's eyes went wide as I launched the stick into the side of its face, it's face jostling and lips pushing the opposite direction before a few fanged teeth flew out as it went crashing to the ground. Spinning the stick around I slung it over my shoulder whistling as a pit a hand over my brow watching the bug crash "that's a home run!" Chuckling I looked at the stick "with this, I have ultimate power!!!" I raised it up cheering. A bug flew by snagging the stick and take it away, I blinked staring arm still up in the air holding nothing now "well...that sucks..." "Try an find another stick or somethin! We can't give up!!" Applejack shouted in a southern accent as she bucked a bug that came at her. "Good idea, just gotta wait watch out!!" I yelled as I saw one of the bugs recover from the kick and leap onto the mare, it wrapped its legs around her chocking her as it hissed, I ran over quickly running on instincts as I went to help, the bug then suddenly opened it'd jaws before biting down on the mares neck splattering blood across me and the ground, shock filled me as I felt the droplets hit my skin. Applejack cried out in pain as the bug growled into the bite, in a instant I reacted without thinking, my right hand curling into a fist before I suddenly sucker punched it in its muzzle "get off her Xenomorph freak!!!" The bug went flying off Applejack's back rushing through the air and smashed through the wall of a house, everyone surrounding froze in shock having seen the hit, even I stood shocked as I sent the bug flying, slowly I looked down at my hand before looking at a nearby rock and picked it up slowly, I then looked to a big in the air and cocked the arm back befiee baseball pitching the rock. Like a bullet it shot through the air and cracked the bug in the head sending it cartwheeling through the air into another. I stared wide eyed "I...have...Super strength?!??" I looked at my hands before chuckling looking at the remaining bugs "your dead" I ran at them and reeled my arm back before sucker punching another on the ground sending it flying across the road with one hit. The one beside it going slack jawed as it's companion was sent away, looking back towards me it was greeted to my fist as it punched it down at the ground, a huge smile on my face as I cackled like a mad man running after the bugs who now were beginning to realize the tide had shifted against them. Grabbing one of the bugs tails I swung it around before launching it into a flying group, a beaver bug came rushing at me surprising me and I slapped it in reaction, it barrel rolled off into a wall from the slap left spinning on its horn. I felt giddy from being this strong, I felt unstoppable!! And then I got promptly gut punched folding me like a chair "ooof!!" Raindowdash came flying in kicking the bug making it crash before it flew off, the rest of the bugs seeing the fight was over followed, grabbing their unconscious or stuck companions and scatter. I held my stomach coughing "update...super strength, doesn't mean... invulnerability...I'm in pain" I fell over face first. Groaning I sat on the edge of the bed holding my now bandaged stomach with my equally bandaged hands and feet, no shoes really scuffed my feet bad, and like my stomach my hands were not invulnerable so all those punches really cut and bruised my knuckles. "so miss Twilight, any idea why I suddenly have super strength?" I asked looking to mare who had her horn glowing while tracing up and down my body. "no...only theories right now" She said scanning. With a slight tugging in my bandages and wince I looked to the yellow mare who gasped worried she hurt me from her bandaging "oh no I'm sorry was that too tight??" " No no, thank you Fluttershy, I'm all ears Twilight" I replied first to Fluttershy, she was a gentle caring horse that's for sure, and then focused on Twilight. Twilight huffed turning her horn off "from what I understand, from both your story and my scanning, whatever you were injected with is most likely the cause, however my scan didn't pick up anything beyind your muscle mass seems to hsve both grown as well as strengthened." "Space steroids?" I asked. "possibly? But I will need to run some more tests, as well as send a letter to princess Celestia to bring the mirror here so we can send you home" she sighed. "well as long as I can get home don't stress" I chuckled feeling happy I would be back home soon, the weird alien steroids worried me but I didn't feel ill...currently, glancing to Applejack who's neck hsd a bandage on it I felt bad I didnr her to jer fast enough "you doing okay Applejack..?" Applejack looked over and smiled "don't you worry about me, wasn't nothing but a scratch, that there punch you did sure helped make sure that changeling didnt do any more though, can't thank ya enough for that...err what was yer name again?" "heh no problem, I just got lucky I had super strength to hit him off, oh and it's Alan, Alan's Grant." I smiled leaning back on the bed propping myself up with my hands. "Nice ta officially meet ya" Applejack tipped her hat. " So what are xenomorphs??" Pinkie asked tilting her head "I heard you calling the changelings that while we were sneaking around." "Changelings? Oh uh well xenomorphs are a alien bug race in a movie franchise, they reminded me of those, especially with the slime spit" I explained. "interesting...I wonder if that's what changelings are in the other world.." Twilight said to herself thinking curiously. "I can't believe there's another world connected to earth full of magic, little horses, and bug horses!" I chuckled in amazement. "I know! It was pretty exciting to find out myself" Twilight smiled. "If it uh wouldn't be to much trouble, id totally wanna visit this place more, specially if I lose super powers back home" I rubbed the back of my neck embarrassed. "free helping us with the changelings?? You can come over whenever!" Rainbowdash praised. "Rainbowdash, princess Celestia is the one who can decided if people from the mirror can just come over, if they all did it'd be chaos" Twilight said. Rainbowdash rolled her eyes "he helped us, that's gotta be enough to let him visit." "Well I don't wanna cause problems..." I replied. " Your fine Alan" Twilight huffed "Celestia should be getting back to me any moment now-" As if on que a flash of light sent me rolling off the other side of the bed in sunrise as suddenly a much bigger white horse with rainbow moving hair, a long horn, big feathered wings, and a mirror stood in the room. She looked around quickly before her eyes landed on me and she gasped "so it is true...A human in Equestria... I've never seen such a sight" she said in awe. "Um...thanks?" I stood up feeling awkward. "Oh! And he speaks Equestrian too!" She said giddly. "Well where I'm from its English" I corrected her. "English? Interesting, and these clothes? Are they common?? They look so noble, so free for your beings to wear" The white horse said about my blanket toga. "Well actually I came here naked, these are the blankets from the bed. Clothes where I'm from aee uh...tighter? And there's more" I explained as best I could, it's hard to explain clothes to a clothesless horse. "As much as we all want to ask Alan questions, sending him home seems like the best thing to do, we still don't know what Equestria magic will do if not already affecting him" Twilight said. "Yeah but uh if it means more super powers, I wouldn't mind being able to fly and shoot lasers from my eyes" I smirked. " I doubt that will happen...maybe..." Twilight said thinking before shaking her head and walking to the mirror "ready to go?" "Wait can't Alan visit? He helped save the town from changelings! That's gotta be worth something right??" Rainbowdash asked. The white horses smile faltered "unfortunately...we yet do not know what his presence here may cause to Equestria or himself, it could be just as dangerous for him as it is for us, until we know for certain I'm afraid he will be unable to return." Sighing softy I walked over and looked to them all "well...guess this is goodbye then, it was scary but cool to visit a new world...meet strange talking horses." "Ponies" The tall white horse said. "Ohhh that makes sense with you being so big" I realized. She blushed "I am a pony as well...I did not think I was there big..." She looked back at herself. "Oh no no I meant tall big!!" I blushed in embarrassment and face palmed "yeahhh might be best if I went home now..." Sighing I turned to the mirror then glanced back "by the way Rainbowdash, if I can come back, you owe me one free hit for knocking me out." "If you can catch me sure" she smirked. Smirking back I turned to the mirror I reached my hand forward watching it push through the reflective glass, it didn't even feel like anything, takimg a deep breath in I stepped forward and my vision became white....and then I was assaulted by the doctor who introduced of rainbow swirling tunnel as I promptly screamed my lungs out as my body stretcjed and swirled down the rainbow tunnel to hell.
3: I'll Be BackRainbow colors flooded my vision as my entire body twisted and stretched while I swirled around the tunnel like one of those barbershop candycane things. The colors getting brighter and brighter before all I saw was white and then everything went black, in an instant I felt my body hit solid ground with a thud. Groaning and opening my eyes I watched the world spin around in opposite direction between eyes before shaking my head and blinking a couple times to refocused them and remove my dizziness. Blinking, my eyes widened as I saw a familiar world sit before me, gone were castle and medieval houses, returned were modern housing and street lights!! Also I was in front of a school I didn't recognize but it still looked like a earth school so that was a plus, as well I was laying on concrete so another plus! "I'm home!!" I cheered sitting up breathing and proceeded to choke and cough, air in pony land was cleaner...but hey! Dirty air meant earth! Smiling widely I stood up and went to find out where the heck on earth I was. Or well...tried to as standing up I felt my spine begin to yell at me as my body stiffened and ached before I wobbled, my legs not responding right causing me to come crashing back down to the concrete below smacking my jaws together sending a painful vibration thriugh my skull. Winced I rubbed my aching jaw and became keenly aware...my fingers had taken a one way trip to outta heresville cause I couldn't feel them. Freezing up I slowly dragged the hand up off my chin and in front of my face, poking up from below my vision was a orange cylinder. "Huh...okay well onto my ha-ahhhh!!!!" My voice rose to a scream as I looked down from the tube to find it attached to me, this was my arm?!?! Screaming I fumbled backwards flopping onto my back as I scrambled away from the offending limb, only to see three more and a orange furry body, I was orange and furry!! Flailing my limbs around like an inflatable waving tube man I rolled around in the ground panic as I screamed and panicked. Eventually I panted and tried to calm myself down, this was fine, it wasn't horrible, I was just seemingly turned into a orange furry thing! Fingers and toes? Psh who needed them?? A whimper escaped my lips as I hugged myself tighter. I liked my fingers and toes... Wait! I'll just go back through the mirror! Twilight can fix this or the horse er pony lady can! Looking around quickly with new hope I found...no mirror...only some horse statue...oh god...it was a one way trip...they must closed the mirror after I went through!! I was stuck! Stuck as some orange furry thing on earth!! I was gonna get dissected!! I was gonna lose my job!! I can't pick up trays with numbs!!! I wailed head falling back as tears steamed down my face, my life was over!! Alan Grant was a weird furry orange thing now!!! I'm doomed!! "What's that noise?" A young girls voice asked. "I don't know, sounds like someone cryin" another girls voice responded. "Really noisily.." a rougher girls voice added. Going rigid I slowly peaked around the statue and my eyes went wide as dinner plates, walking towards me were three young girls...with yellow, dark orange, and pure white skin!! They also looked off from normal humans, bigger heads and eyes, those weren't my humans!! Oh god...they're the aliens who abducted me!! They musta followed some signal back to me and now wanted to capture me again!! This was their plan! Make me into a furry orange thing for a pet or something!! Well not this human!! Fumbling with my stumps I hopped up onto my feet and ran best I could only to stumble and fall towards the ground, catching myself with my hands or arm stumps I landed in a surprisingly not awkward position. It actually felt more natural...oh lord my arms were the same length as my legs now! I really was made into a pet! Seeing as this was the best way to move I booked it on unfamiliar limbs stumbling and tripping across the ground as I hurried towards the only place I saw close by...school, my old nemesis... Rushing into the school halls I heard rapid clacking coming from my new limbs, they felt soft when I was poking myself but now they sounded like horse hooves or something, I was some weird alien animal for sure! Looking around I tried to find a classroom door which was open, I was not gonna be able to open a door with these stumps, once I could find one I was gonna ask for help, or at least get enough attention so the aliens couldn't get me, it's all I really could do. Suddenly a loud ringing filled the air jolting me in the middle of my run sending me to the floor face first, wincing the ringing was really loud for some reason, it was like my hearing increased, suddenly I felt movement on my head and the noise muffled, was...was that my ears?? Before I could worry about myself more all the classroom doors opened and students began filing out, my eyes going wide once more as instead of normal teens I saw more aliens...humanlike things but of every color imaginable... As the students were filing out, their focus on either lockers or next activities soon were brushed away as each looked to me in the middle of the hall, gasps and looks of shock filled the hall and I felt fear filled me. A few of the girl aliens looked like they just saw a puppy, most other students looked confused, I was in deep trouble now...shakily I stood up and went to back away. "Woah woah, calm down there, anybody got a jacket or something we can use to wrap it up??" A male student asked stepping forward arms out as he looked to other students. Another pulled his jacket off holding it out like a matador "what do you think it is? a baby horse or something??" "Maybe a baby pony or a miniature horse...but uh, it looks weird..." The first one muttered looking back at me. No shit I looked weird you psychos turned me into some weir-did they say horse and pony? Blinking I slowly looked down at the shiny tiled floor seeing ever so slightly a reflection of myself, I just barely made out the features id seen before...I looked like one of the ponies!! Strong arms wrapped around my waist snapping me out of my thoughts "gotcha!" The guy from before said as he grabbed hold of me, freaking out I squirmed and kicked my legs finding purchase and connecting with the guys gut causing him to grunt and loosen his grip, in that moment I booked it. The guy with the jacket held it out like a shield and I sped up before dropping down on my stomach sliding across the floor rushing under the jacket and between the guys legs before returning to running pushing past panicked teens as I hurried down the hall. Okay okay so I'm a pony now, and I'm in alien school, was pony land just the aliens weird zoo??? God this was so crazy!! I thought being in pony land was crazy but this is insane!! The sound of running footsteps echoed behind me and with a glance back I saw students hurrying after me, oh great they think I'm a wild animal! I gotta get out of here find some way to get off this planet or something!! Sliding across the floor when rounding a corner I slammed my side into some lockers wincing but kept running, hooves had sucky traction on tile floor! But once I found a fire exit or something I'd be better going out on grass and concrete, just gotta kee- Brown wood filled my vision followed by a hard whack as my face impacted something hard sending me tumbling across the rule and sliding as my fur moved across the smooth flooring before I slammed into a wall, a wall which shattered like glass before raining down across my body. Wincing and holding my pounding face I peaked an eye open and found blood on my hooves, the warmth running down my nose said I had a nose bleed, looking around I saw shattered glass surrounding the floor and on my, looking back I realized the wall I hit was a trophy case, one now lacking glass. My new flexible ears twitched towards the increasingly getting louder stampede of footsteps made me refocus on running, Shakily standing and wobbling I stumbled forward and wobbled down the hall looking around with my head feeling sluggish, blinking strangely heavy eyes I focused through blurriness I didnr notice I had to try and find a fire exit, now if the halls would stop getting longer and twisting id find one easily! Grumbling I tried on my heavy feet nearly falling over again, spreading my arms out to stabilize I panted hanging my head and tried to focus, the floor was spinningmand coming in and out of focus, that would explain the tripping. Groaning I lifted my heavy head up and spotted a open door, that was an exit! Wobbling and swaying over I bumped into the doorframe feeling a stinging pain making me wince before I flinched as sunlight shined into my eyes, stumbling away from the light I found a dark little cave, squeezing myself in I flopped to the cold floor feeling my head drag me down, the room was spinning, closing them I felt relief from the dizziness, thinkin I needed a little nap for this headache, then I can go to the rodeo and ride the walrus with the cupcake queen of apple cider vinegar. Sunset look up as the bell rang and then stood grabbing her bag and putting her school work inside, the club room was nice to hang out in when she didn't have a class at this time, especially to catch up wirh any school work she wss behind on. Slinging her bag over her shoulder she headed to the door wrapping her hand around the handle opening it when suddenly it lurched back close with a loud bang on the otherside followed by the sound of glass shattering, jumping back in surprise she held her bags strap tighter. "What was that??" Cautiously she opened the door again and peaked out finding the hall empty, however her eyes soon landed upon the trophy case which was missing it's glass, glass which couid be found shattered on tje ground, walking over she crohched down looking it over soon enough noticing speckkes of red scattered about. Spotting droplets she followed the trail away from the glass and a bit down the hall to a open classroom, stepping in she looked around the empty room, someone was bleeding...but who? Her eyes caught sight of the trail continuing under the teachers desk, carefully creeping that way she swallowed nervously not knowing what she would find beneath...wrapping her hand around the edge she slowly peaked under and gasped as what she found was the last thing she ever expected. Lying unconscious was a pony, a pony from equestria!! This..this was impossible! How could a pony get here?? If any used the mirror they'd end up a human, she's never heard of one staying a pony, she soon noticed the scratches across it's back which were red, and it's currently bleeding nose, the sojnd of glass and the doors bang niw made sense, wincing st the thiught if hitting the door thst hsrd muzzle first brought back painful memories of being a pony herself. Suddenly her ears picked up the sound of approaching students, panic filled her as if they found the pony it's be chaos, taking her jacket off she quickly dropped it over the pony and careful picked them up so she didn't hurt them more, holding them under her arm she stepped out of the room, as she did a swarm of students rushed by looking around. One hurried to her "sunset, did you see a little horse pony thing run by??" He asked quickly. Blinking wide eyes and avoiding looking at her jacket under her arm she shook her head "nope, sorry" she put on a sincere smile. "We gotta get it out of here before it makes a mess" he said and walked away from her. Sunset sighed in relief before hurrying to the club room and closed the door dropping the blinds, she then set the pony down on a nearby couch and quickly called her friends "girls, her to the club now, we got a magic issue, also Fluttershy, being first aid, someone really needs you." After a couple of minutes her friends filed in, some alone others together until all seven of them were there, each gasped seeing the pony on the couch unconscious, Fluttershy gasping the loudest when she saw the injuries, hurrying over and beginning to bandage them up. "This one of princess Twilights friends?" Applejack asked. "I don't know, maybe? But I'm confused how he got here" " sunset said looking at him confused. "Through the mirror silly" pinkie giggled. " I mean as a pony, the mirror should have changed him into a human like us, instead he's still a pony" Sunset replied. "That is strange" Twilight replied pushing her glasses up "from what you've said about the mirror it's function is to make the traveler fit the world they're traveling too, however this woukd suggest some soet of discrepancy, either a glitch, or something else entirely..." "Could he have gotten here another way? Maybe casted a spell or something?" Rarity offered. "No horn, so I don't think he did it himself, someone would have had to have done it, or he got caught in some strange magical mishap" Sunset replied shrugging. "Does princess Twilight have any idea?" Rainbowdash asked. Sunset blinked before face palm f and grabbing her book "I panicked so much I completely forgot to ask her!" She scolded herself and wrote in the book telling Twilight there was a earth pony stallion here, and wondered if she knew anything. After a couple of seconds... "What?!?" Twilight wrote back and followed it up with more "has he said his name?? Is it Alan?? Dear Celestia, hold on I'm coming through!" "Okay well... Twilight's coming" Sunset told the others. They each smiled in excitement before Dash huffed "oh man, now it's gonna get really complicated with two Twilight's, we gotta use a nick name or something for one of you." "we'll figure that out, and this pony situation" Sunset replied. After a couple minutes princess Twilight came rushing into the club room, the girls all excitedly calling jer name as they hugged her in a group hug, human Twilight keeping back but smiling. Once the hug broke, Princess Twilight looking towards the unconscious pony and raised a brow confused "this is...Alan?" She walked over to him seeing the bandages "what happened to him??" "Well, the other students I guess saw him and tried to grab him thinking he was a pony from this world, he ran and well...ran into the door as I opened it, and then crasjed inro tje trophy case..." Sunset rubbed her arm uncomfortably. Princess Twilight sighed looking to him worried "poor Alan...whatever those...things did to bring him to Equestria must have caused this strange mix up when going through the portal, rather than keeping him human it turned him into a pony..." "Wait he's from here??" Sunset said in shock. "Yes, he was a human in equestria, and he was abducted by being he didn't know, they did something to him but none of us know exactly what that is, and this just adds to the confusion..." she sighed and looked puzzled once more "most curiously...his pony form and human form are... extremely different. " "How so darling?" Rarity asked. "well, as a human his skin was more tanish, and his hair was brown, but as s pony he...well he looks like you Applejack, just as a stallion" Princess Twilight explained. "Me? Now why in tarnation would he turn into a stallion version of me??" Applejack asked in confusion. "I don't know, it doesn't make sense" she said just as confused. Other Twilight walked over "did Alan and other Applejack interact before he came here?" "very little, but he did save her from a changeling, but beyond that no..." Princess Twilight replied. "Hmm, I thought maybe the portal could have potentially co fused the two? I know it doesn't make sense from a science stand point but from a magical one" Twilight said. " It possible" princess Twilight finished looking back at Alan and then gently brushed the fur on his right shoulder away looking for something before finding it "ah ha! He still has the needle mark..." She thought for a moment "Alan said he was injected with something strange, he didn't know what and magical scans showed nothing either, however he seemed to be stronger than before, if the needle mark is still there than that means this is Alan's pony form, however, it's appearance being similar to Applejack must mean there's a correlation between the needle mark and her." "Of course! This isn't a magical event then, but rather-" Twilight said smiling before the two simultaneously said "it's a science one!" "Great, two egg heads" dash huffed already lost on what the heck they were talking about. My head pounded in my skull like a certain orange pony bucking, slowly reaching up and rubbing my head I wince from the touch of a sensitive bruise, cracking my eyes open I spot a unfamiliar room, fear suddenly taking me as I remembered where I was, jumping to my new hooves I spun around looking for an exit only to catch sight of eight familiar faces. Only those faces were much flatter than I remembered, and they also were human shaped so that added to it, the girls I've come to know as ponies now were human teen Girls, coulda sworn they were at least twenty back in pony land... They noticed my awakening and the Fluttershy one moved over "no no please don't move, you'll upset your injuries" she held her hands out in a none aggressive manner but I still eyed her wearily. "Right, and then one of you will stick me with a tranquilizer, heh not happening banana girl" I moved further from her on the couch. "Hey don't call her names!" Rainbowdash glared. "I'm keeping my eye on you too bluey!" I shot her a glare. Rainbowdash gave a confused expression. "Alan look it's me Twilight" Twilight er one of the Twilight's said, wait why were there two of them? "Woahh double vision..." I mumbled looking between them. "I came through the mirror after Sunset" she gestured to the bacon haired girl "told me you arrived as a pony, I'm trying to figure out what happened so we can turn you back into a human." "Psh yeah right! You mean turn me into a pet! You really think just cause you guys look a little human id just listen to you?? Not happening aliens!!" I smirked and turned to the window squatting down reading myself "I'm outta here!" I leapt forward and bashed my face right into the window "the trophy case...was so much easier..." My face squeaked down the glass before I fell, hit the couch, rolled and collapsed down the floor. Fluttershy gasped while the others cringed at the obvious injury, she hurried over and began checking me over while asking over snd over again if I was okay. Well she seemed to genuinely care about me so ther confused this whole situation "besides my face and who hurting, I'm fine..." I replied rubbing my cheek. "Oh you poor thing, you must be so scared, in an unfamiliar body, and treated like a wild animal" Fluttershy said as she hugged and pet me, it was strangely soothing... "Wait what did you mean we look a little human? Don't we look like you're supposed to?" Twilight asked confused. "Uh no...humans on earth aren't technicolored..." I remarked while enjoying the petting. "oh no..." Twilight said and looked to her double who shared the same worried expression. " Is this part where you tell me my situation is worse than we all thought?" I asked with a gesture of my hoof. "Well...Twilight and myself" the glasses wearing Twilight said gls cing to her double "were the rising about your pony appearance, deducing it had some effect from Applejack, the pony Applejack to be precise" she pushed her glasses up. "What we couldn't figure out was why it happened, you only interacted with Applejack for a second, and then suddenly your a male copy of her here, but now with what you said...I Believe it's clear.." Twilight who was previously a pony and now a weird human said. "Can you get to the point you two??" Rainbowdash groaned. "Alan...isn't from this universe, nor this earth, he's from our universe on another earth, he's an alien" Twilight explained. The girls all gasped while I went wide eyed "I'm...the alien? B-but how does that work??" "The portal turns residents of our universe into those of this one, however, you already essentially look like this universe residents, previously when I brought spike here he became a dog, but dogs already existed in equestria, just not on earth so then the mirror made him the closest thing even if said rhif exists in both realities." "The reason you became a pony is well my best bet, there's another equestria in this universe but we another planet, sort of a mirror to your earth in ours, ther Equestria most likely has ponies as residents but they match Alan's earths residentd trstjer thsn our own" Twilight explained using a chalkboard to draw the four different planets with lines connecting each. I blinked holding my head "woah okay...so...rather then ending up in anorjer universe, e I actually was abducted by aliens, ended up on an alien poanet of ponies, snd rhen jumoed universe to s reverse reality wjere ponies see humans and humans are ponies and im now a pony but i was hukan in a piny land bur i was from which is humans and ponies and ponies and-and" my eyes rolled back and I fell over unconscious With a few gentle slaps to the cheek I was back up "okay brain crashed...but I think I get it...so uh...how do I get home?" "Well...space travel hasn't been invented in equestria" Twilight frowned. " It has where but it's nothing spectacular, it takes months just to get to mars and we barely can do that" Glasses Twilight said frowning aswell. " So even if we could find the equestria of this universe to use the mirror there, it woukd take so long none of us would even survive it..." Twilight huffed. "so I'm stuck?.." I frowned. "W-well...there are spells to send ponies to the moon...if we can reengineer that spell...maybe we could send you to earth instead!" Twilight smiled. "Why would you need a spell to...never mind" I shook my head and smiled "so then how do we make it do a earth send rather than a moon one??" "Hmmm we'd need to find earth in equestria, then we can calculate the correct distance and from there adjust the spells parameters" she smiled. "Right awesome, we do that" I gave a nonexistent thumbs up. "In the meantime though... Alan which world did you want to stay on, I know this one isn't your earth but it's close to it, would you prefer to stay here as a pony or return to equestria as a human?" Twilight asked gently. That was a good question, this earth was pretty close to my own, they had actual technology, but I was a horse, I'd be hunted by this worlds government no doubt, huffing there wss really only one choice "let go back to the world where I got thumbs." Twilight nodded and looked to her friends "thank you all for helping Alan, Sunset, I'll keep you notified on the progress of the spell." Sunset nodded and the nine of us moving through the school with the girls keeping me hidden with their bodies till we reached the front of the school "good luck Alan, hope you can get home." Sunset said. "So do I" I sighed and stood beside Twilight "thanks for the help you guys, stay human" I saluted and looked to Twilight who waved her friends goodbye befoee stepping through the statue, so that's where the otjer mirror was...weird, stepping in I immediately remembered why I hated the mirror cause I was in this fun house of hell once more, spiraling and stretching while I screamed, Till finally I plopped our the other end groaning. "Alright, first you should tell me what other planets or star systems surround your planet and then" Twilight as a pony once more ranted off as she walked before turning to me and gasped loudly a look of shock on her face. Sitting up I rubbed my neck and looked curiously at her reaction "what?" "Y-you...okay...this just got a whole lot more concerning" She replied nervously pointing at me. Confused I turned to look in the mirror at my reflection before gasping, staring back at me was me...just one of my eyes was yellow, and I had green hair "well...fuck."
1: Where No Man Has Gone BeforeWithin a dark abyss, glowing dots of varying sizes and brightness filled it. Some balls of pure gas and plasma, others water and ice, fewer rock, and even less holding all. Planets and stars of different sizes, different structures, some similar, some so fantastical they would almost seem to be the product of a creative mind. Yet few held the prospect of life, the capability to sustain it seemingly so rare and so far in between the planets that one may never witness life from another in their lifetime. In a rare few of these, a astronomical rarity sat ever moving, a ball of white pure gas and energy sat with numerous other planets of different sizes yet none close to its magnitude rotated around it never ceasing. One such was a sphere of blue, green, and various colors in-between sat in the expanse of space, surrounding it a smaller white ball. The ones which hold life are just as different from one another as their planets, life forms so strange and different they can't even be compared in some cases. And in those life filled planets those races are capable of such amazing things, creation of their own, exploration, some able to fly through the air, others able to move mountains, and some even capable of magic. This is not such a planet… This planet is known for its inhabitants' constant war with themselves, destruction of their home, and otherwise lacking care for most if not anything. A rare few on it attempt to make their home a better place, to save it from it's inhabitants who would see fit to destroy themselves. The few who care work tirelessly to save their home and these people, working to see a brighter future… Snoring softly, I mumbled in my sleep when suddenly, a noise blared sending me into a panic. I jumped and smacked the offending noise away. A very expensive phone flew through the air and slammed to the wall before sliding down it to the floor. "Gah fuuuuu-lip" I groaned, rubbing my eyes, even tired and probably just having broken my phone. I still fell into my self discipline of not cursing, just something that stuck with me from growing up. Course, my family cursed like sailors, sooo kinda hypocritical of them. Scratching my head, I took a step out of bed and proceeded to end up face first in my carpet. My lower body was caught in the blankets on my bed still. Groaning, I shuffled before feeling a weight shift as I suddenly began falling again and crashed to the floor completely, a blanket securely tied around my limbs following and draping across me gently. "Thank God my blankets were restraining me otherwise I'd never have fallen out of bed" I huffed, lying still before looking around and getting free "ok! No more falling, this morning is not getting the better of me!" My phone suddenly buzzed once more, miraculously still alive. Moving over, I picked it up and anxiously began turning it over, fearful of a cracked screen, however a smile came to my face, seeing no cracks at all "haha! Thank goodness for my pathetic strength…..kay stab at myself didn't work to make me feel better." Checking the notification, I found it was from myself, more so past me, which was about what I had planned for today, to be exact, what I planned for the day that I was currently late for. Eyes going wide, I quickly rushed around getting dressed and ready before bursting through my front door and booking it down the driveway. A couple of seconds later, I returned, grabbing my bike before riding it. I had a strange fear of driving in which I believed with all certainty that if I were behind the wheel of a car I'd crash and die in a horrible fire, so bikes were my go to. Soon enough, arriving at my destination, I hopped off my bike letting it fall over as I ran into a building "Hey! Not late!" I shouted, as if that would convince anyone. A long sigh filled the room as my boss pinched the bridge of his nose "right…..just…just go to work" he pointed to a fabric bag and Grabber Reacher Tool, before going back to his phone. "Thanka sir" I smiled nervously, hurrying over I grabbed said items and left before I made my boss more upset. Working for a city cleaning company may pay well, but also surprisingly struggle filled….at least for me. Heading out, I slung the bag over my shoulder as it took hold of the Grabber Reacher Tool or Grt or Gert for short. Playing with the claw, snapping it open and closed "beware my cybernetic powers" I made the transformers noise as I snapped at the air A woman quickly walked her child past trying to avoid looking in my direction 'riiiight….people were a thing…' Huffing, I kept walking without making the transformer noises or using the claw to play with, I grabbed different trash from the side of the road putting it into the bag, it was pretty gross at times, but mostly sad to see so much trash just….scattered about, I didn't understand how people just….threw things on the side of the road, was a trash can so hard to wait to get to? Shaking my head, I picked up a green and silver object from the ground. Looking it over in the grip of the claw I found it was a small alien toy, little green alien head sticking out of the flying saucer "dang some kid probably lost this…." Grabbing a separate bag from my pocket, I opened it and placed the toy in it before continuing on, cleaning up the sides of the road till the sun was close to setting. I then went back to the dump. Walking through the doors, I set the bag on the counter, my boss glancing up from his phone "great good job" he said boredly and, going back to his phone. "Thanks, hey uh I found another toy on the side of the road, I was thinking maybe we could-" I started as I pulled the toy from the other bag holding it in my hands. My boss groaned, cutting me off "We are not lost and found, either toss the thing with the rest of the trash or keep it, I don't care." I frowned and looked down at the toy in my hands "...I'll keep it then…" "Whatever" he replied. I turned, heading out of the building and went towards my bike. Picking it up, I walked it alongside me as I stared at the toy in my hands, a small bit of heartache in my chest "poor kid, probably their favorite toy…I don't even know how I'd find them, posters seems a bit much…maybe an online post?" I thought aloud. I could be overly sentimental at times, not sure where it came from, at times I'd feel remorse for things that were so small or just not even that sad. Something about abandoned toys really brought something out, the idea that this thing which brought joy to someone was gone. What if it were alive? Or in some way capable of feeling the same way a person could. Eventually arriving home, I parked my bike and headed inside. Kicking my shoes off, I went to the kitchen, flicking some lights on and opened the freezer connected to my fridge and pulled out a bag of chicken nuggets. Walking over to the cupboard, I grabbed a plate and poured a few on before popping it in the microwave. I then hopped on to the couch and stared at the ceiling for a bit, thinking. Getting tired of the ceiling, I lifted up the toy, turning it in my hand, dirt was caked on it from the time it was left on the side of the road. Gently, I rubbed some of the dirt off the toy with my thumb, the little alien's head bouncing around like a bobble head, it brought a small smile to my face thinking about aliens actually looking this way. Would they be offended if their likeness was used for a child's toy? Or just offended by the false image of them? Then again, I'm sure there was a lot more they'd be offended by than a toy that may or may not look like them, seeing as our planet was full of…well not very likable people. I honestly could not imagine aliens liking our planet. First of all, we trash it regularly, second, we don't paint the kindest picture of aliens, and third we really don't like each other. Suddenly there was a flash of light which filled my house through my window from the backyard, the sudden light causing me to jump and fall off the couch, peaking over the coffee table, I looked towards the patio glass doors, leading to the backyard which now was dark "the heck was that?!?" Getting up slowly, I crept to the wall and peaked around to look through the sliding glass door into my dark yard. I didn't see anything that could have caused the light, this side of my house wasn't facing the street, just a forest, and I have a large wooden fence... Taking a few deep breaths, I looked around before picking up a baseball bat and slowly slid the door open…stepping out into the cool night air, my sock covered feet touching the grassy floor as I stepped further out. I turned my head about looking for anything out of the ordinary as I held the bar up ready, but it was just a simple empty backyard, wooden fence, grassy ground, strange black empty space up in the sky over my house where no stars were, completely ordinary- Strange black empty space up in the sky over my house where no stars were?!?!? I stared up into the sky where a large circle of darkness sat, the bar falling from my hands to the ground with a soft thud, the stars around it seemingly ending at the point of pure darkness, it was impossible…how could stars vanish in a perfect circle?!? Staring at it for a couple seconds, I then finally decided now was a good time to go back inside, taking a step to go back in. Suddenly, a light erupted from the middle of the abyss and shined down, blanketing the backyard and myself. I threw my hand up to shield myself from the light, stumbling blindly "ok! Not ordinary!!! Very not ordinary!!" I booked it for the door, only getting five steps before both my feet left the ground and began to float upwards "gah! No what?!?? Gravity!! Come back to me!!" I clawed at the air trying to grab anything I could to get myself closer towards the door. Flailing around in the air, I soon reached for the ground trying to grab it, my fingers getting hold of the grass "ha! Yes, grass you beautiful thing you!" The grass was plucked free from the earth, causing me to drift upwards "nooooo!! Traitor!" I cried as I floated into the bright light all while flailing around, my panicked mind a storm of thoughts before one surfaced to the front of my mind as I floated to my inevitable doom "my chicken nuggets!!!" Everything went dark in an instant and my mind vanished. Within the house, the microwave beeped signaling the chicken nuggets within were finished cooking, now being left to go cold…. My mind felt heavy as I became aware I was aware, the last thing I remembered was the strange light and floating, and then maybe passing out? I don't remember dreaming and I always had dreams... Blinking my eyes opened, everything was blurry and my eyes stung a bit. Rubbing them with my hands, I took note that my whole body felt odd. To be more exact, it felt like I was moving through strange air...my movement was sluggish, it felt like I was moving through molasses. Tho to be fair, I've never moved through molasses... Now capable of seeing unblurred, I was suddenly alerted to the fact that everything in my vision was green, shifting around and looking, I found I was floating in green water? A light shining from above and below allowing me to see. In an instance, panic filled me. I was gonna drown!!! Thrashing my elbow struck something hard in the water, making me wince and grab my elbow in not exactly pain but the waves of uncomfortable tingling of my funny bone being hit, the person who named it that deserves nothing but misery. Once my funny bone stopped tingling as much, I reached my hand out, feeling around for what I hit and found a smooth wall following it, It circled around me completely. I was in some sort of tube…peering into the wall, I found it was see through glass? I was in a glass tank? What was I, a fish now? Thinking about fish, I blinked and cautiously took in a breath. In came water and I choked but…I wasn't drowning, I could breathe water now?!? No wait, I heard of this before, oxygenated water or something, isn't it supposed to be like yellow or something? This was really confusing. Who put me in a tank of air-water and why???? I heard a muffled noise through the tank and looked forward. Light filled the otherwise dark room as a figure moved in slowly. Squinting, I tried to see what exactly it was. The light behind it created a black silhouette, and it wasn't very human shaped, more like a tube or weird rounded triangle. However, I became keenly aware I was nude, my hands jumping to cover my crotch and chest in panic. The thing moved closer, filling the light of the doorway as it came closer, the darkness that covered it giving way as it moved into the light of my tank, illuminating it in a green glow. What I saw made me freeze, rolling in on hidden wheels of some sort was a trash can robot, or the second thing that came to mind when I saw it….a Dalek, course it wasn't exactly like one, it was missing the eye stalk, the plunger arm, and strange ball things on its lower body, instead it had a robot claw not dissimilar to my Grabber Reacher Tool just way more robotic, it also was all black…or a dark color, the green filter forced upon me definitely tampered with color identification, the smooth body of the thing had no visible panel edges besides where it's neck and head connected. The dalek knockoff looked to me with its singular eye, seemingly taking in my appearance, before it's claw reached up to the glass slowly. Blinking, I looked from it to its claw, was it...was it just curious? Slowly, I reached my hand out, touching the glass as its claw touched the other side, a smile spreading across my face, maybe this meant peace... A holographic panel appeared in the glass and its claw began typing on it, moving away from my hand. Ah okay so it was just turning on the keyboard gotcha… It tapped strange symbols all across the glass as it went to work before Suddenly a robotic arm extended down from above using its multiple joints to bend and move as it reached all the way down to me. My eyes looking it over before going wide as I saw at the end of it was a large syringe needle, quickly trying to swim away. The needle jabbed at me trying to stick me, but I kept dodging it, paddling circles in the tank. The arm jabbing and trying to catch me before it lunged forward, slamming its arm into me and stabbed the needle into my right arm, burning pain erupted through my arm as the needle was stabbed into my flesh without remorse. The doctors were gentler than this and it still hurt then! Wincing, I looked at the needle as I saw whatever strange liquid was inside the syringe slowly empty into my arm, the needle remaining there as I then looked at the robot. The robot made a few mechanical beeping noises before slowly words began to filter through into my brain "does the subject process verbal input?" It sounded like Johnny Five... "Does the subject process verbal input?" It repeated robotically as the needle suddenly twisted in my arm. I nodded, glaring at it, trying to fight back the pain. "Injection successful, translator nanos functional, beginning stage two, initiating electrical charge" the bot said as it clicked a few more symbols, symbols I was starting to be able to read... Wait, did it just say electrical char- My muffled scream filled the tank as electricity was pumped throughout my body, my limbs spasming as my vision blurred and every ounce of my being felt like it was on fire, and then in an instant it was over, my body twitching as I panted breathing in and out the air water. "One of eight of electrical charge complete, beginning electrical charge two of eight" the robot stated, and reached for the button. Tensing up, I tried holding in whatever breath I had, though I was pretty sure it was just this strange oxygen-like liquid in my lungs by now, looking around searching for some type of exit from this glass prison all while that Darlek rip off watched me with intensity. Finally, I grimaced looking at the syringe still in my arm as I got an idea. Taking hold of the arm and prepping myself, I tore the needle out of my skin with a trail of blood following the needle and let out a muffled grunt of pain. I then began slamming the needle end of the arm against the glass, trying to keep my grip firm as the tank vibrated from the thuds. "Struggling is futile, remain calm as the nanobots travel through your body, In the meantime meantime, might I interest you in-" the droid was cut off as a needle-sized hole punctured the glass, sending a tiny glass shard clinking to the metal floor. The needle was then pulled back as a small stream of the green liquid sprayed out, hitting the droid in its "face" The room was silent for a couple of seconds with the two of us staring at one another. I blinked and the water ran down its metal surface, it's single eye staring unchanged. And then the droid erupted in a colorful display of electricity, orange and blue sparks flying off it's body, different lights on its body flashing on and off, its eyes changing to a multitude of colors before its head began spinning like a top as it screeched in a r2d2-like scream. The robotic arm bent in different directions as it spazzed out, before the head stopped spinning, returning to facing the tank "opening subject tank 85735, 🎶have a good day🎶" it said in a sing song voice before its head proceeded to then blow off like a wine bottle cork I felt a sudden movement of water below me and looked down to see a small hole open like a drain, happiness filling me as I'd get actually air to breath, the hole then proceeded to enlarge to the full size of the floor of the tank, my happiness turning to dread as I tried swimming upwards but the suction became too strong and I was flushed downward with the water. The green light of the tank turned to darkness as I was flushed down a tunnel, the sound of rushing water mixed with my screams of panic followed by gurgling as water splashed into my face. Suddenly, light returned though the warm liquid that had surrounded me was gone and replaced by cold air, and the hard tunnel below my nude rump vanished, as I realized I was falling through the air. Blinking, I returned to screaming as I flailed through the air plummeting, I was above the freaking clouds!! Screaming as much as I could, I fell before impacting a cushioned surface...of a cloud "wha-?" I suddenly sank through and returned to falling as well as screaming. Continuing to scream, I hit another cloud though something else too, as someone else made a startled yelp filled my ears. Looking to the source, I found a blue horse thing staring at me with rainbow hair, its large violet eyes staring into my brown ones. We both then screamed as we scrambled away from one another, it to more of the cloud, me off the edge "oh shit noo!!" I screamed as I fell once more. My fall was interrupted this time by sharp tree branches and small leaf slaps as I crashed through a tree top soon enough, hitting thicker branches bouncing off each with oofs and grunts till I was clotheslined by a vine and gagged from being choked and finally hit the ground wheezing. As I wheezed I suddenly gargled before throwing up a geyser of air water from my lungs, hacking and coughing and panting "okay...okay...I'm done...no wait" I threw up once more before falling over unconscious. Twilight flipped to the next page in her book as she walked through the library in her castle "Spike did you find that book?" The small dragon assistant put a book away on the shelf "no, none of these on this shelf have anything to do with late magic." "latent spike" Twilight sighed, setting her book down " at this rate I will have to go to Canterlot to check their libraries if I want this spell to work...I need to know how Luna turned into nigh-" Suddenly, the doors burst open, silencing Twilight's words as a panicked Raindowdash flew into the room, skidding across the ground past Twilight before scrambling back " Twilight! Twilight Twilight Twilight!!! I I saw a thing from the sky, it attacked me o-or landed on me and and it was naked or it didn't have fur or well it did but only in its head and it was weird! It had long arms and legs and weird things on its hooves!!" Twilight grabbed her rambling friend" Rainbowdash, take a deep breath in." Raindowdash inhaled. "Now let it out.." Twilight instructed. Raindowdash exhaled with a sigh and close of her eyes, her posture much more relaxed. "Feel better?" Twilight asked. Raindowdash nodded "yeah, sorry Twi." "It's fine, now explain to me again what you saw?" Twilight replied. "Okay so, I was just relaxing on a cloud taking a break from flying when out of nowhere this thing fell on me, I don't know if it was attacking me or just fell, but it got scared, probably of me, but then it fell off the cloud, and before I could follow it was gone in the everfree" Raindowdash explained. "And you said it looked weird? No fur and just a mane?" Twilight asked. Raindowdash nodded "yeah and weird things on his hooves, like Spike's claws, but uh more nubby" she added. "That sounds like hands...wait how'd you know it was a he?" Twilight raised a brow. "Well, unless it's weird, it has guy bits" Raindowdash blushed, looking away embarrassedly. Twilight blinked, blushing "I see...I think I know what he is...oh no...if he's in the everfree he's in danger!!" Twilight hurried, for the door Dash following behind quickly, and Spike followed best he could. Groaning, I rubbed my aching head, my bed felt not soft at all, and I think there was a rock in my bed too. Reaching under myself and pulling it up I found it was a rock. Oh and I'm in a forest...oh no... It wasn't a dream. The rock dropped from my hand as I looked around in fear. What I thought was a dream was reality, I was abducted by an alien...but I escaped!! Yeah!! I escaped an alien abduction, and this forest was familiar at all, but I lived by a forest! So then this had to be there! I could find my way home. It was just going to be a long walk...in the nude...cringing at my lack of decency, I looked around before I spotted some large leaves using them to make a loincloth, I then made myself some nifty leaf shoes, though really I just wrapped my feet up with some leaves, now where to go...I had to choose a right direction otherwise I'll be just going deeper in the woods, however I did find it interesting its day time cause when I was abducted it was night...how long was I in that tank? Hours?? Jeez, hopefully my boss accepts alien abductions as a good reason to be late for work. Maybe if I can find some moss I can figure out which way is north...and hopefully that means the towns that way cause I don't remember if my towns north of the forest...so here's to hoping, I took a look around and saw a mossy rock "norths thata way" I headed off that way. Funnily enough, I found out loincloths made from leaves are in fact not comfortable in the slightest, tugging on the leaf a bit as I walked. I was thankfully without a shirt cause it was hot and muggy so I was getting more air on my warm body, unfortunately there were mosquitos, and boy did they enjoy biting me. Growling, I slapped myself a couple times trying to hit a mosquito but always missed. Grumbling, I looked around the forest around me. It was odd the trees looked so different from the ones by my house. I never went this deep into the woods I guess... Oh man, I really hope I don't run into a bear or something. I'm so screwed if I do "hm..." Looking about, I walk over to a nearby bush and pull out a thick branch, brushing off old leaves and dirt and giving it a good few swings. It'd work as a club or a walking stick at the very least. I had my weapon, I could protect myself, and now I can survive!! "Hello?" A woman's voice called A high pitched scream escaped my mouth as I swung around behind me, my stick hitting air, my eyes catching a blue blob- oh hey it's the hors- stars filled my vision and the world spun backwards before going black. Twilight stood jaw dropped as Raindowdash knocked the human out cold "Raindowdash!!" "What?? He swung at us!!" Raindowdash defended flying over the thing. Twilight groaned "well now we need to carry him back to the castle, or hospital." "What why don't you just teleport us?" Raindowdash asked. "Because I don't know how magic will affect him" Twilight huffed walking over and trying to lift the human's legs up on her back. Raindowdash groaned and slowly descended, her arms crossed as she helped put his upper half on her back before the two began to carry the unconscious creature through the everfree.
