VIRGINIA. JAMESTOWN - 7:48 AM

In a room of an Apartment in Downtown Jamestown, a man by the name of John Ebot snores peacefully resting. John Ebot works as an Urban Planner but as of late he has been getting many complaints from his boss about being late to the job for the last 3 weeks and if it happens any more times John will “Not live to see another day” guess we should find out if that was true.

John’s alarm goes off for the 3rd time finally waking him from his slumber. He grouchily gets out of bed taking a nice long stretch. He went into the kitchen and opened the fridge taking out some ingredients to make a sandwich when he went to get his bread he glanced past the stove looking at its timer 8:00. He. Was. Late. Seeing that he almost tripped when he dashed to the bathroom before hopping into the shower for a good 5 minutes, he rushed his clothes on before busting through his apartment door scaring another resident with his sudden appearance.

“SORRY MR WORGANSTER!” John screamed apologizing as he raced down the steps and out of the building.

He sprinted towards his car at full speed, when he arrived at the door his face scrunched up as he patted himself down looking for his keys. He had to go back upstairs in a hurry before grabbing his keys for real this time and entering his vehicle. When he got onto the road he saw that his usual way was filled with traffic, he painfully had to take a back road through some very edgy part of the city.

“God, why does luck just never go my way” John complained stopping at a red light “This day could not get any worse”

He drives forward when it turns green but he accidentally takes a wrong turn ending up on a road surrounded by dense woodland that seems to go on infinitely. John thought he would turn back at the closest time he could but the road also seemed to go endlessly, so he decided he’d just do a U-Turn when turning his car he stepped on the exhaust a little too hard causing him to immediately drive into a tree.

He painfully smacks across the glass cutting open his head “Agh...” John groans in pain as blood pours out from his head wound his conscience going in and out “F-Fuck” he suddenly coughs up blood, looking down he sees a shard of glass has impaled him. He coughs up one more time before going to sleep.

The worst part is, that it was Saturday

LOCATION - ??? TIME - 5:45 AM

John slowly wakes up on a black stone floor in some sort of chamber that looks like some kind of ruin of a throne room that seems to have been taken by nature. John looks over the Throne room in dazed confusion as he tries to stand up loudly groaning as he rises. Remembering what happened just a second before he knew that he had died but then why was he here? HOW was he here in the first place he should be in a coffin at the moment, or be at least anywhere BUT HERE. He took a breather calming his nerves.

“Okay... John, we just need to relax and think about the situation in a good light” He said to himself “We died, and now we’re in some castle ruin BUT you are alive so that’s good”

He was scared to explore the place but deep down he knew that it must be done if he wanted to find out what this place is. He crept toward the giant doors leading out of the room. Touching the handle he took a big breath ‘Whatever reincarnation manga time shit I’ve been sucked in I HOPE I’m not in some dystopian landscape’ he thought before pushing it open, It revealed a grand hallway with a red carpet outlined with gold, the walls had cracked due to nature eroding the stone over time. Entering the hall he looked in both directions before choosing to go left, going down the left hall he saw many paintings of ponies looking like monarchs which made him laugh before he headed further. The deeper he went the dustier and destroyed everything looked like something had an entire battle in the castle, he stopped at an intersection going 3 ways.

“I go-” he was interrupted by a loud growling sound coming from his left, looking over he saw green bright eyes in the darkness just observing which made John dash forward down the corridor going straight. Loud footsteps echoed behind him as whatever chased him as he looked for anywhere to go, he glanced by a sign saying that the Library was just ahead. He crashed into the library before shutting the door and pulling a bookshelf in front of it.

“Deep breathes Ebot, deep breathes” he repeated as whatever was chasing him screeched outside sounding like a dying wolf or something. Turning around Ebot got a whiff of moldy papers and ash as he looked around the Library for anything of us, on one of the tables was a map that spelled out the entire layout of the castle. Inspecting it he realized that the only way out was that door that currently had a devil or something outside it. “Of fucking course I had to go into the one place where I don’t have any ESCAPE!” ‘This world is honestly getting on my nerves why couldn’t I be reincarnated with powers to fight monsters’ Honestly he wanted to burn whatever that thing was with a good source of holy fire.

He suddenly heard something sizzling and a dense heat washed over him. Looking around he saw that nothing changed about the room. He raised his looked at his hand which also hadn’t changed, he then rolled up his sleeves to cool down but was met with bright red veins moving along his left arm. He immediately started to yell as the heat became more painful and hot. ‘WHY IS MY ARM SIZZLING LIKE FUCKING FIRE WHAT IN THE WORLD!’

“FUCK!” he looked towards the door of the library when the screeching got even louder before the creature smashes right through it this time along with 2 other monsters with it, they scramble into the room dashing straight for John. He closes his eyes as he holds his arm raising it to try and block even though he already knows that he’s fucked. ‘Is this how a die? In a place, with fucking Ponies in crowns god damn you god fucked me this time’ The footsteps got closer and closer with devastating speed before they jumped to pounce, but then a sound tore through the air crackling before hitting its target.

“What happened?” John says opening his eyes to be met with 3 flaming corpses of what seem to be wolves made out of timber “Hold up... Are these fucking Timberwolves?” the realization of everything kinda hits him harder than a dump truck as he wraps his head around everything. ‘That’s the pictures had fucking Ponies, not just some kind of practical joke or something god... I’m fucking special. ' John thought and then looked at his arm. When John was younger he was a fluent fan of the My Little Pony show but over the years he had grown distant due to his job this all happening forced him to remember some things. ‘Let’s just hope whatever I did I could do it again”

He looked at the table with the map on it before yanking that shit and leaving the Library. He went back to the intersection and this time he went left toward whatever. After what happened at the Library he was incredibly hungry to eat something, so he went to find the cafeteria which was incredibly close luckily enough only a right, a left, and a forward. He passed a hallway that had collapsed which led to Military offices for the royal guard, Going further he would pass the Guard Armory and a meeting room.

He passed another picture but this time it was of a Luna and the Bat Ponies which got him thinking “I wonder how the Ponies might react if I were to find one at least,” he continued down the increasingly destroyed hallways passing many rooms that he didn’t care about “They will probably try to kill my dumbass!” he started to chuckle finally turning up at the Cafeteria where half of the roof was fucking caved in. ‘Talk about a crushing meal’

‘Hold up, am I about to eat what is probably a thousand-year moldy food... Yeah’ looking at the tables that weren’t flipped over he saw moldy apples with literal LEAVES BARK GROWING OUT OF THEM, then hay which looked completely fine but he’s a human so he couldn’t eat that and the rest looked to be moldy Muffins that we’re staler than someone saying the same joke over and over. ‘Talk about bad luck...’ he took a seat at one of the tables putting his head down

“Why couldn’t this place be fixed or I could have at least arrived a thousand years ago for some fresh fucking food,” he said out loud before he heard static and then glitching. Picking his head up he saw that the entire room was shaped and moved as food glitched onto the tables laying out a feast. ‘Did I do that?’ he walked up to the food which ironically still had hay but whatever, he took an apple and bit into it feeling regenerated from all the sweetness “This is amazing!” he took a few apples and muffins into his hands before dining in.

After eating he went back to the throne room and sat down on the throne or at least one of the thrones ‘So I have powers? And a castle which I could fix up? I COULD BE A KING!’ power might have already gone to his head as he realized he could change anything with a single thought or at least he thought ‘I might need to do a bit of testing, but overall this just means that god hadn’t abandoned me’ he sat up and turned to the throne with the sun and reached his arm out. The throne started to be reshaped somehow taking the other throne with it. ‘Okay... Unforeseen side effect but whatever’ he then turned towards the room and did the same but this time he felt something wrong INCREDIBLY WRONG and then in a flash the entire room was rebuilt ‘I’m getting faster... Wait were there always those flags?’

Staring at the flags he got a headache as he felt something on top of his head grow in length, a horn protruded out of his forehead causing major pain. He dropped to the floor and started to foam out his mouth temporarily brain-dead as his mouth stretched out and became a muzzle and his hands became hooves by merging all his fingers into one. His back ached as holes popped open spilling blood as a skeletal frame of wings crawled out of the holes and physically grew feathers.

In his mind, Memories pass into his mind some of his own, and then some of a different person entirely. It was of a City and a palace and then it was of flames and destruction of a war. Everything went away replaced with a floating green crystal glowing in a dark void power crackling out of it before showing an Alicorn with a Leaf colored mane flowing like leaves in the wind, roots crawling along his legs, and a Cutie Mark resembling a tree. And then everything went black.

Waking up John holds his hand on his head as he tries to stand up ‘Ugh... What happened?’ he looks at where his hands should be only to be met with hooves “What..” he looked at the rest of his body and to say he wasn’t scared shitless would be an understatement, his chest became heavy and his breath becoming rapid but then it all stopped... He became calm and relaxed as if something prevented him from panicking. “What the fuck just happened?” he asks getting up to the floor wobbly.

“Uh..” He grinds his teeth as he thinks ‘I need to get o- I need to rebuild the country i-i way...’ he feels a thought go through his head that he knows isn’t his. His body started to walk on its own going out into the hall which was now fully different and repaired with new features as well, his body continued to walk until it had gotten outside where it just stopped. ‘What in the bloody hell is happening?’ his horn glowed as he felt his body freeze up, nothing happened for a second before the entire forest near the castle lit up in a green light as Buildings started to take form. Rocks became paths, wood shaped into walls, and dirt morphed into furniture, etc. The leaves fell from the trees gathering into one Pile, Ponies started to form from the leaves resembling regular ponies mixed with pegasi and unicorns

And suddenly he passed out once again from exhaustion...

He ONCE again wakes up somewhere in the castle. ‘God doesn’t understand how much pain it is going uncautious and waking up in uh whatever the universe says to’ he thought annoyed to the world’s end. Looking at wherever he was it resembled a modern hospital so he was quick to understand where he was at least but the real thing was why the hell was this room rebuilt?

A stallion wearing glasses walked into the room with a clipboard “Alright... So magic exhaustion and a major case of malnutrition” He looked up to meet Johns’s eyes giving him a calming smile “King Everleaf, welcome back to the realm of the living” He walked up beside him “You should be happy we were able to make your body fully stable, your entire body almost imploded on itself”

“What... Who even are you??” John asks. He gets a frown in response as the stallion writes something, looking over to the Clipboard he sees that he had written that John may have a chance of brain damage. ‘Oh fuck, what should I do, HE THINKS I HAVE DEMENTIA OR SOME SHIT!’ “Ah... Uh, I’m sorry I uh” he looked around the room trying to find anything he could use to identify the stallion. ‘Oh, crud this room has FUCKING NOTHING, wait I could just look at the Clipboard’ Looking at the clipboard he finds that the stallion’s name is Healing Hooves, strange for a male. “Ah, I remember you, Healing Hooves right?”

The frown gets even more apparent than ever. “That’s better than anything, but that would be my Assistant nurse, Sire, I’m Doctor Coneflower,” he said plainly “But besides that, how are you feeling?”

“I feel like I went through hell and back”

“Okay... So extreme pain, that is to be expected” Coneflower started to write down more things. “Alright I’ll be back later with a diagnosis so in the meantime we will bring you food, and after you should get more rest” John just nods to him before Coneflower leaves the room

‘Alright, so I’ve turned into a horse or a pony to be specific, and something took over my body?’ he groans putting his hooves on his head ‘And I’m apparently malnourished in this body but also a king... God what kind of shit have I got myself in.’ he started re-evaluating the flashes that appeared before his body felt like it went through the 9 layers of hell itself. He remembered seeing a pony who looked exactly like the body he now inherited. “Hm... Alright”

John sighed before he got out of bed and immediately fell onto the ground “Ugh... Gotta get used to all this” he stood up although his entire bones were rattling as he took step by step before opening the door with some complications but still got out into the hospital wing ‘I need to find my way to the main castle’. He walked along the hospital halls looking for any of the staff who luckily were not to be seen, he was confused about where the hell he was it felt like this was an entirely new castle he was in.

“King?” A female voice says coming from behind. John immediately turned around startled and somehow shot out a fireball, The mare in question’s eyes opened up wide, and fell to the floor dodging the attack with a loud eep. “Y-your majesty did I do something wrong?”

“Uhm who are you?”

“I-I’m your Student and Personal Assistant,” informed the mare “Y’know Star Blossom?”

“Ah ah yes... Star Blossom, I remember now” He lied. “Say Star wouldn’t you know where my uh” he paused for a second ‘personal room is?”

“Ah, but I thought you had to stay in the medical room for a few days, that is what the doctor told me,” She asked

‘Okay. Fuck, wait ain’t I apparently the monarch of the country or something that gave him one devious ass idea “Blossom, are you disobeying me?”

“I-I, no your Majesty I was just tryin’-” He interrupted Blossom

“Trying to do what?” He asked but before she could respond he said “I’m saying this one last time my student” She looked up at him with teary eyes “I’m sorry...” he couldn’t keep being mean for the life of him. “Could you please take me back to my room?”

She was quiet as she led John.

John looked around at what was his room. It was plain, with green carpet, 2 bookshelves in the left corner, a giant bed in the middle of the room with a pristine cover, and lastly a desk on the right. He wouldn’t say it wasn’t what he expected it to be, but he hoped it would look a little bit more kingly.

“Thank you, Star Blossom.” he analyzed the mare’s expression which still showed her sadness “Also, sorry about my little outburst earlier” he ran a hoof through her mane while giving her a friendly smile.

“Oh, it’s okay sire,” she had a blush on her face while awkwardly kicking the floor “But I accept your apology”

‘That was a mood change, but uh whatever’ John chuckled to himself looking at Star. “Ah, you are dismissed Star and once again I’m still sorry” he watched Star leave before trotting over to look at his desk which had a bunch of files laid out. Reading them he couldn’t understand what any of it meant.

The transfer is almost ready, the prayers will be answered. If all goes well the gate shall be opened and we shall escape the war and our failure to oppose the two devils on the horizon, the chains of time and place will be broken by all means.

The leap is possible, all it takes is one good magical charge and the leap will be achieved.

Paper 2

The crystal seemed to react near the captured artifacts shooting out a giant magical energy, by all means, this could lead to the gate being opened. The leap was possible but now we need to open the gate to the impossible.

I only have so much time left, the gate may exist as our only hope.

Paper 3

IT WORKED! IT ACTUALLY WORKED. But why does everything feel so cold, we should be out and free. Unless the gate closed as we entered, this is terrible news I... the paper seems to dissolve into dust at the end of the paper

John was severely disturbed ready the letters. What did it mean? What happened when his body cast that spell, it could mean several possibilities that he himself knew would be weird and strange ‘I need to know more, these papers get unreliable after the third one only being taxes and reports on the armory’ he sighed before taking a glance at the moon. A silhouette of a mare was slowly disappearing. ‘wouldn’t you look at that? Nightmare Moon just got freed’

He was attacked once again by thousands of memories, he was shown someone laughing and a flash of blood, then a red moon coming over a burning village. He woke up from that spasm on the ground surrounded by a green bubble ‘Ugh... What just fucking happened?’

He stood up causing the bubble to pop. “Today has been a doozy” he looked at the room before him which was now in a mess like someone had come through with a pack of moose. ‘Jesus, did I do this?’ his thoughts were interrupted by an explosion ‘That would be Nightmare Moon’ he took a breath before a Guard busted into his room.

“Sire! An Alicorn has attacked the castle and killed multiple guards” he explained breathing heavily after probably running a Marathon to get here “Star Blossom is holding he-” he was stopped by a hoof, looking up at John he understood everything “Follow me sire!”

John and the guard arrived at the throne room to a gruesome sight. Guards lay on the ground either dead or wounded and even some on the ceiling pinned with their own weapons. In the middle stood a blood-covered dark blue alicorn with armor.

“Art thee this king Everleaf I heareth about?” she smirked “Nev’r did expect thee to beest a male Alicorn, but aft’r i’m done thee’ll beest a most wondrous prize aft’r mine own conquest” She readied an attack at John before shooting many bullets of pure magical energy.

“OH FUCK!” John backed up ready to take the attack, but a shield popped up when Star Blossom appeared out of nowhere with a pop with many wounds. ‘Shit, I thought this would be a cartoon. Why is everything so bloody!’ he knew Blossom couldn’t hold this for much longer with that many bullets raining down. All the spells he ‘knew’ was a fireball and a shitty repair spell that got him into this mess. ‘Shit... I guess this is how I... GET REVENGE!’

Nightmare Moon POV

She had been raining down bullets for a minute now waiting for that little shield to break. To be fair after her conquest and destruction of whatever palace replaced hers, she was going to torture him till he served her making the reign of her empire nigh unstoppable after she killed Celestia. Nightmare Moon laughed to herself as cracks formed in the shield spreading over the magical surface.

“Fool, thee can’t win ‘gainst me, give up and i might spare thee and thy comrades!” She started with a smug smile on her face as the Shield cracked into pieces. Through the debris dust, a red light glistened before she felt something wince straight past her face

The Alicorn stared at her angrily surrounded by his comrades who were all on the ground wounded or even dead. Interestingly his horn glowed multiple different hues like it was powered up. It didn’t matter to her for the most part but it still annoyed the Night Alicorn, how dare he stand against her?

‘He’s fighting back... That’s annoying this would have been easy if he just gave up but what’s the hurt in more fun’ she thought. Nightmare Moon levitated debris off the ground chucking it at Everleaf, the debris was grabbed by what seemed to be a vine.

“What?” Nightmare Moon was understandably confused about this but before she could do anything she felt something wrapping around her tail, she cried out loudly getting yanked to the ground essentially ripping most of her tail off. All around her Vines sprouted out of the ground holding her limbs in place as they started to tighten cracking her bones in two with a loud crack.

‘sister... Please help’ Nightmare prayed in her mind that someone would come help even Celestia if It meant being free of this pain. She winced as a new vine pierced her back and whatever vein was there, blood splattered across the floor as whatever the vine did in her back started to pulsate and drain her nutrients. Another vine punctuated her leg and started traveling under her skin clogging up her blood flow before digging into her flesh and what felt like fire started to eat at her. Finally, a vine with the same power as Everleaf pierced her skull cutting straight through her brain she didn’t feel dead though but she wished for it so much. Once and for all the vines poked her eyes out.

‘Pl...Please just end me already!’ she tried to scream but only fell on dead ears as she was essentially ripped in two her guts being the only thing holding her together but eventually even those were ripped in from each other.

“Reconstruction”

Suddenly she started to reshape and form again, at first they became a grey mess of a pony with dark blue fur then resized to be a little shorter than Everleaf, then the wings formed along with the horn but before anyone knew it a shorter Alicorn was on the ground shaking.

John’s/Everleaf POV

“Ugh... My head” John muttered holding a hoof to his forehead. He looked around the room extremely confused about what happened, why was the room essentially crumbling and ruined, and why the were guards scatted across the ground. But the most damning thing was why an Alicorn, whom he recognized as Luna, shivering with eyes wide like they had seen death himself standing in the middle of the room.

‘Wasn’t Nightmare Moon just here a second ago? How did Luna just appear in a second like that’ These were questions he wouldn’t answer for a while. “So... Hi?”

“I b-beg thee, don’t hurt me” She responded instantaneously backing up in terror.

“Woah, I didn’t plan to in the first place but uh you seem hurt?” John took a step closer giving a reassuring smile. Tears flooded her face as he got closer

“DON’T COME CLOSER!” Luna screeched her voice sounding very horse. She was in a lot of pain, and her entire body felt numb but she didn’t trust John for a second.

“I’m just trying to help” John stated stopping in his tracks. He couldn’t understand why Luna was so fearful of him, what did he do? “I promise you we have uh doctors here”

“Y-YOU LIE!” Suddenly Luna screamed in pain as one of her legs snapped. “A-AH!”

“W-What just happened???” John winced as he heard the bone break. His attention soon went on a strange rippling sound to his right, turning to it he saw a surprised Princess Celestia looking at him. “Oh, this looks bad...” John muttered.

“A MALE ALICORN!?” Celestia’s bewilderment turned to terror and panic once her eyes locked on Luna. “I-i sister!?” she was at a loss for words. “What have you done!” Celestia raced over to Luna tears spreading over her eyes as she hugged Luna. “Are you alright sister?”

“Tia... It hurts so much” Answered Luna returning the hug or at least trying to “I missed it so much”

“Rest, for now, I’ll deal with him” Celestia calmly patted the back of Luna’s head casting a sleep spell.

“Okay, I know this looks bad” John backed up as the Solar Alicorn rose and looked at him angrily. “BUT I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS!”

“You say that but her entire body has YOUR magic signature all over it!” Celestia barked horn glowing brightly “If I were you’d surrender now whoever you are”

He gulped hardly closing his eyes for an attack but nothing came. Celestia stood awe-struck at something.

“How is that possible?” Everything started to dawn on her “Your aura, it’s so powerful and unstable” She focused her eyes on John. “Who exactly are you?”

John all of a sudden felt a surge in him when she asked, his mouth moved on its own as he screamed “I’M THE KING OF THE EVERFREE!”

Author's Note

I finally came around and rewrote this chapter, I think it does a better job of being a start to this story than the old one that I rushed at 5 AM.

I hope this one will also be a better read than the last version of this chapter and can explain some things I wanted to add but couldn't. don't worry about Chapter 4 it's going to come out although before I do I wish to rewrite the chapters to be better