Hatching in Equestria as a Silver Dragon

Spy satellite ground station, Washington DC - exact location classified. POV Javier Conti, Analysis department head.

I approached the small office at the end of the long corridor, carrying a folder full of information. The office has two guards and a man sitting behind a desk, dressed in a military officer suit.

"Captain Neumann, we have a file we compiled about an anomaly never before seen, that I believe you may be interested in reading it, I'll explain anything that you have doubts on."

"Please Mr. Conti, take a seat, this job is boring at best, anything you bring me that your team deems interesting is worth looking into, let me read over this report and then ask any questions I have."

"Yes sir, take your time." There was silence as the old man read over the papers, his eyes looked intrigued and a bit excited at seeing something like this.

A few minutes passed in silence, pages were flipped over, it was not a large file, the information was mostly theories and readings of the satellite's sensor, but even then there was large amounts of margin of error because of the large storm around the area.

Finally after he was done he left the information on the table and looked at me with some confusion.

"What was even that? Why would a ball of light bright enough to be confused by our satellite for a weapons test just suddenly appear at the south pole? And why was it so colorful? Maybe lighting of some kind we haven't seen yet? Clearly not the aurora, right? Its too bright, the satelite would not have even bothered to scan it if it was just southern boreal lights." His thoughts mirrored my own, something weird was going on here, but he wasn't done.

"It's a few hundred meters away from the Amundsen-Scott station, there are thirty five souls in that base Javier, was there any danger to that light? Did the satellite detect any gamma or x-ray coming from it?" The concern in his voice made me realize how serious this situation could have been.

"No, our sensors haven't detected any high energy particles, but we did detect a shockwave at the point of origin, it was not too large, around the equivalent of a dozen kilograms of C4, the blizzard absorbed most of the shockwave and the people at the base probably only heard a loud, window rattling boom, by our estimations, also it was clearly not at ground level, if it was our seismographs would have detected it much further away." He looked visibly relaxed at that, but still confused and concerned.

"I think we should investigate, an explosion like that is surely some weapon test from another nation, or maybe a harmless natural phenomena, we can't know until we send a team, we need to monitor and contact the base, ask them what they saw and if anyone is experienced any ill effects after that, it's better to be sure, better safe than sorry, when do you think we can send a hazmat team? We will need them guarded too, I'll contact the marine corps, a well trained team for this conditions, specialized winter gear, we will need to bring the base supplies too, since they will be receiving about two dozen more men in short notice." This was probably for the best, we needed to figure out if this was a weapon test.

But the storm, it was slowly moving away but it would take maybe a full day to be safe to send planes.

"I think with the current wind direction and speed, it will take about a day for us to have a clear corridor to the base, the winds are blowing it away to the pacific as we speak."

"Good, then I better get making calls and asking for favors, I hope the higher ups care enough about that place to accept sending some of our men check up on them."

I couldn't agree more, I hope we can at least learn who caused this.

"For now I'll contact HQ and get them to check up on the base via Iridium Phone, once the storm moves away somewhat, they'll get reception from the satellite, hopefully in a few hours."

Four hours later back at South Pole station. 3rd person POV

Everyone was at their posts after lunch, the radio operator Viktor received a call from his higher ups, explaining that a satellite had photographed a bright light near them, and wanted to send a team to investigate.

"Excuse me sir, I have something to inform, we have received a sudden guest that claims to have arrived here from the light, I think you should send some xenobiologist to help us learn more about this creature, the being calls himself Onyx, and says he's a dragon, it sounds absurd, I know, no no, I'm not joking."

An angry sounding voice could be heard from the other end, demanding truth and proof, clearly not believing the radio operator.

"I have the file on him right here sir, all of the base has been introduced and spoke to him, yes yes he can speak, he's clearly sapient and smart, he claims to be 9 years of age, and sounds exactly like a child would, maybe sounds a big older when it comes to the words he uses."

The person at the other end sometimes stopped him to ask questions but allowed him to finish his report, the file on Onyx had been already digitalized and was being sent, as the storm had lessened enough for the satellite to be able to receive and send signals now, but it was still slow.

"You don't need to worry sir, he seems friendly and has not done anything more than answer questions, eat a bit of our food, and then sleep, he acts just like a child his age would, he even told us about his parents and said he wants rice and coffee, as in... Bags of rice and bags of coffee because they don't have them at his world."

From the other end there was a lot of commotion, as if many voices were discussing something, then a single one answered.

"You must still remain vigilant, this creature sounds extremely dangerous if it can cause such explosions, we will need to prepare a larger group, have at least 40 rooms ready for our troops, we may need them, and make sure to not anger it, if something bad happens, please call us immediately and inform, we will send our forces there as soon as the storm lessens and planes can fly in, if you can, have some crew go clear the snow fron the runway, and dont worry about the supply, we will bring you extra for you and our troops too."

"But general sir... Isn't that a bit much? You may scare him, he said he just wanted to stay a few weeks, he said he wanted to play with us some sports or even table games, I offered to take him to the gym, he's just like us, really!"

"For the love of god Viktor! You and I know that's just trying to get you all to let your guard down, we don't even know what this... thing is capable of! We must have it sedated, captured and placed in a lab to be studied, it could bring more of its kind to this world if we let it go free, did it tell you how it got here?"

"No sir, he said he didn't want to talk about that and we left it there, he did tell us about his parents, turns out they are different species, and not his biological parents either, but that doesn't matter, i think you should not try to capture him, he is really friendly and would probably even help you out if you ask him, its also our first chance to know more about an alien civilization!"

"If that thing is so friendly and helpful, why did it not reveal to you more when you asked about it's means of reaching this world? You really think it cares about you? It's probably just trying to learn more about us, find weaknesses and what he can exploit, you will see, our soldiers will capture it and stuff it inside a cage until we can ensure it's harmless, then we shall see."

"I recommend you reconsider sir, we need someone to help us understand him, not help us antagonize him, but I'll have the rooms ready, and inform you if he does something unexpected." Viktor has a resigned expression on his face, the file has been sent, and now received.

"I see, so he really is an alien, nothing alike a human or even a normal animal, extremely dense bones, two hearts, three lungs? And you're defending this monster Viktor? You should know better, you're a former marine for fucks sake! Don't forget that, you may not be serving now but a marine is always a marine."

"Yes sir, I know it sounds foolish but please send an expert, we can get so much out of this as a nation if we play our cards right, the things he could know... Or he could help us learn, there is endless possibilities!"

"We will send a xenobiologist, don't worry, but we will modify our mission parameters according to the information you have provided, this changes everything, stay safe Viktor, Washington out."

The call was ended, Viktor sighed sadly and hung the phone, this was not going to go well, but he had to inform about something like this to command, this was too much for them alone to handle, an alien certainly was something that would be a matter of national security, they were probably going to come and quarantine everything soon, he thought, but he shook his head and went back to his work, his job was to keep the information flowing from here to command in Washington, he had to stay here for now until they called, but first he needed to gather volunteers to help prepare the runway once the storm cleared.

Something Viktor had not thought about mentioning, for fear of being though as stupid or ridiculous, was the implication that Onyx could use magic.

POV Shift Onyx.

When I took my nap I had a really scary dream, I woke up scared and afraid, if I could sweat the bed would probably be drenched in it.

I had a nightmare, that I was sleeping and someone came over and stabbed me in my eyes and maw many times, and I was powerless to stop them, I couldn't move or even struggle, like as if I was a doll to be played with, I shivered, at times like this I wish I had come here with mom, she would hold me and tell me everything was going to be okay, and she would be there to protect me from anything, but I'd never ask her to risk herself during her pregnancy.

I decided from now on, I wouldn't sleep without locking the door first, there was a useful spell for that, sure it wouldn't stop someone from simply breaking the thin door, but they would at least not be able to sneakily pick it and enter, I didn't want to get caught with my figurative pants down.

I yawned, stretching my legs forward and back, the bed may be small but at least it was somewhat long, humans were much taller than they were wide, at least the ones here.

I slowly got out of bed, I was weary after that dream, it felt so real, I blinked my eyes and made sure they were intact, and wiggled my tongue to see if I could still feel it and touched my fangs. Damn, what a horrible dream, and I already knew how it felt to lose my sight, I don't ever want to go through that again.

I headed out the corridor and into the only bathroom that they had, it's gonna be kind of difficult to use human bathrooms again.

Nevermind, telekinesis was amazing! I went to shower afterwards to fully clean myself, I loved about having my own telekinesis and just scrubbing myself with soap while I stretched and posed my body in the right ways to get all the hard to reach spots, using my own sponge from the washing kit I had in my Inventory.

I began to sing, smiling to myself, as the song came to my mind, it was an old song from back before I died, one of my favorites that came a few months before my last day, it came to my mind suddenly and I just felt right.

I remember
The hardest are the times I don't forget
Neverender
And all I was about to be
Cause I remember
The hardest of the times I don't forget
Like an ember
Burning oooon

As I kept showering I began to sing louder, feeling better and forgetting the dread that dream gave me, I felt my voice harmonize and I kept singing, repeating the start again, it was so catchy and my voice sounded so good in the shower, and despite the sad song I felt happier by singing it.

I'll be going
Over what I could have done
Had i known
At the time
Because iiii remember
The hardest of the times I don't forget
Neverender
And all I was about to be
Cause I remember
Neverender
And all I was about to promise

I felt as if the music was flowing through me, guiding my voice, my magic reacted to my voice, I could hear the beat and the instrumental part and it was like singing karaoke.

The time is upon us
I should have been honest
The pain in my heart
I remember the sharpest
It broke like a promise
I've fallen the hardest
Regret is the feeling that lingers the longest

As I repeated the last part while scrubbing my underside I felt someone approaching and head towards the showers, I didn't realize half my tail was poking outside the shower curtain because it was too damn long to fit inside, and while singing I had been moving it around inadvertently.

I expected someone to be near because the showers were of public use, but I didn't expect to get poked in the tail by a man in a towel, I let out a loud squeaky yelp of surprise, accidently squeezing the soap too hard in my telekinesis and sending it flying into the roof, where it splattered and stuck, then slowly it slid off and fell in top of me.

I quickly grabbed it and put it in its place, it wasn't mine, and finished washing myself as I was almost done, then turned off the water, I opened the curtain and glared at the man who looked at me with an annoyed expression.

"Hey, please stop wasting water!
Getting the water warm takes a lot of energy and you're supposed to wash yourself quickly in a few minutes, not take long showers while singing, also your tail is blocking the way to one of the toilets, be mindful of where you put it, there's only one bathroom for every guy on this sector you know?"

Oh, was I really that loud? I wanted to be upset, he had touched my tail like it was okay to do, but he was right, I had been wasting water, and blocking the toilet, now that I looked back my tail was in the way.

"Oh, oh gosh I... I'm not used to this, I'm sorry sir, you're right I've been focused more on singing than cleaning myself, I didn't realize my tail was getting in the way like that, but you startled me quite badly, i ask of you to not touch me out of nowhere like that again, you should instead let me know just by raising your voice, I also promise not to waste water again, does that sound fair?"

"Hmm... I don't know, just don't do something like this again, I don't know how it is back home but here we don't have infinite warm water, even keeping the water from freezing uses a lot of energy, you don't realize we are in one of the coldest places on Earth?"
I was being patronized at this point, I wouldn't mind being scolded but I already apologized and said my reason, I didn't need more of this, but just because I didn't want trouble I nodded and lowered my head.

"It won't happen again, I'll be going now, have a good shower." This seemed to be the right answer as the guy nodded and allowed me to pass, I had to watch where I put my tail better, like my body my tail had also gotten larger and probably grown more than my body.

"Bye, nice singing by the way! Stay out of trouble kiddo." The man said in a much friendlier voice, maybe he just wanted to teach me a lesson and wasn't actually mad, well... I suppose he is right in wanting to preserve the water, no point on whining about it to myself more, I was being wasteful.

I felt better anyways, despite the little scare, that little song was one of the last I heard as a human and being here, for some reason made me remember it, and how catchy it was, i smiled and walked while wondering if i could maybe get to listen to music, even get a phone or music player and speakers to have at home, but i had no way to power them, there was no electricity in Equestria, and I didn't have a spell to charge phones, im sure it was possible to design one, but electronics needed slow and gentle power over a longer time than just shocking them with a lightning bolt, which would most definitively made the battery explode.

Walking along the hallway I decided to do some exploring and headed towards the entrance I first arrived at, near it I think I haven't explored very much.

I walked straight across the long corridor, looking at the sights, a few items caught my attention and made me stop, mainly the collection of south pole markers that it looks like was changed every year, the last one read year 2031, there were many different shapes, most were beautiful in both design and construction, looking like gold, I didn't really know if it was gold but I didn't really care enough to try and scan them with my metal scan spell.

I was starting to get familiar with this place, it basically a long corridor with every room connected to it, not so difficult once you walked around here more than once.

It has been almost 9 years here too, it was not surprising really, I bet everything was different than back then when I was a man, but knowing humanity, it was probably just more advanced weapons and the same old problems.

I hoped I would never have to find out, i didn't do anything wrong anyways so I should not worry.

Reaching the end, I found an interesting room, with someone inside, it was Viktor! The friendly guy from earlier, once I saw him I walked over, he heard me right away as I approached, his face was... Hard to read, I wasn't sure if he was happy or not about me being here, this room looked like some sort of communication room, lots of computers and a few telephones, maybe this is where they communicated with the other stations in the south pole?

"Hey Viktor hello, nice to see you here. I went to explore and decided to come see this end of the base and here you are, hows your day going?" I gave him a friendly smile.

He sighed and looked at me with a sad smile, did I come at a bad time?

"Hey little guy, I'm at work now, I can't really play, but if you want to exercise or play, there is the gym right across from that door there." He pointed to the door a few meters away from here, almost in front of this room.

"And if you don't want to use work out machines, there is a large sports gym in the lower floor that has an entire volleyball sized field in it, but you can play anything you want there, I'm sure there's people there at both of those that will gladly help you get some equipment to play or exercise, and at the weightlifting room just ask for a spotter, and start light, okay? Don't go overboard and hurt yourself, you're only 9..." He looked sadly at me, what was up with him? He didn't look this upset and sad just a few hours ago at lunch, was he just bored from his job? I doubt it, he doesn't look bored, just upset about something.

"O-okay I will, but what's got you so down? You didn't look this sad during lunch, I hope you feel better soon, if you want to talk I'll be at the weight room." He nodded and didn't say more so I waved and he waved back, then I left.

His smile didn't return. I couldn't really help him much, maybe after his job we could have a chat.

I entered the weight room, there were a few people working out, some stared at me and some focused on finish their sets and then gave me a look, it was just curiosity, I didn't feel any malice in their gazes, I smiled stood on two legs, careful to not put my tail in anyone's way.

"Hey everyone! Sorry for interrupting, I just want to say that I never worked out and I'm going to try, I ask if any of you see me get trapped under some weight or something goes wrong, could you help me? I'd greatly appreciate that, please, and thank you for listening."

A few people nodded and looked surprised at my upright stance, but I went back to my four legged one, and headed to the bench press, laid on my back, carefully and tried to be as straight as possible, but my tail had to be curved and under the bench, my hind legs were having the hardest time bending down and touching the ground, but after some relaxing and trying again I was barely able to touch the ground with them.

I grabbed the barbell, it didn't have any disks on it, just the bar by itself, I tried to lift it, grabbing around with my toes and claws, I was surprised at how good of a grip i was getting, my claws helped in this, then i pushed up, it surprising how easy i was able to push it up, i smirked, this was pretty easy, like I was made for this.

I got up, careful to not hit my head on the barbell and went to the weight rack to find disks, those went on the ends, this was pretty intuitive, I grabbed two 25kg disks, placed one on each side, holding it in place with one claw, this would be much easier if I used my telekinesis but I didn't want to prove to everyone I could just yet, hopefully everyone thought I was kidding about magic existing.

I tried lifting again, but it felt just as light, was I doing this wrong? They barely weighted anything at all, i needed something heavier, I looked at the entire weight rack, wondering if I could lift that, there were about... 300, no 350 kg in it, in total, after I returned the weight I had taken and placed them it went up to 400 kilograms, now this was a real test, everyone stared at me in confusion as I stalker the weight racks looking for an angle to lift them, this was probably a bad idea, a very bad one.

I stood on my hind legs and grabbed the empty uppermost metal tubes that were empty as everyone was using the smallest disks and started to pull up, using my tail for stability as I pulled up with all my strength, slowly the rack started to lift off the ground.

I grunted with effort, my fangs bared as I did my best, very slowly lifting the entire thing, it was about leverage, I could lift it because I was braced against the ground and had the right angle to pull, right from the top, but I decided to lower it quickly because it was getting too much, it was not much of a deadlift, as my range of motion was just tiny.

Very slowly and carefully I lowered it until it touched the ground, thankfully the base was made of rubber and it didn't do a lot of noise.

I was left panting, but my body was fine, I could do it again, but I'd probably be sore tomorrow if I kept going, I didn't want to pull a muscle or something, one time was enough, and it was my record too.

I decided to stop and try something else, the it was good to see I was able to lift something about 3 and a half times my body weight, if even for a few seconds, but I needed to get stronger if I wanted to survive for long, knowing my situation.

I tried a few machines for legs, but my legs weren't human and didn't fit quite right in the mechanism, but then finally I found one that I could use more or less comfortably, it was the seated leg press, my tail was a bit uncomfortable and bent at an angle but I was able to finally exercise my legs, this time not being as naive as before, I went to fill the machine fully with the heaviest weight possible, basically using up all the large and medium plates, about 300kg.

I sat down and tried, and yes, I could, with some difficulty, I pushed my legs fully and unlocked the weights, now they were fully held up by my legs, I pushed up, I had to use a lot of effort, especially to push away once I lowered the weight close to my body, but I kept going, grunting and panting like a dog that had ran a marathon as I felt the burn on my legs, eventually when I felt I couldn't keep going I did one last effort and locked the machine, my legs were shaky, my body was feeling hot, I slowly and weakly crawled out from under the leg press, and grabbed the plates to take back to their rack.

This had been the hardest one so far, I could still feel my hearts beating fast, but I had a lot of plates to return.

"Are you okay? That was quite impressive... I've never seen anyone here press that much, or lift that much, you're Onyx right? I was at the cafeteria, I'm Leonard, I've been working out for years and yet I don't think I'm anywhere close to you, but I can see you're absolutely beat after that." Oh this man was talking to me? Yes, I was still sluggish specially my brain, after such a sudden and intense effort that I never really did before.

"I-i am a bit... Lightheaded, it's the first time I work out, I think I went too far with the hind legs press machine, but... I'm feeling better, my legs feel very wobbly tho, and I still have to re rack all those plates... Sorry if I don't answer very well, I'm struggling walk and think at the same time." I say while slowly taking a weight to the rack and returning, my legs visibly shaking, as I go back and forth, still panting from the work out.

"Oh no don't worry, I was gonna offer to take the weights back for you, you're already past your limit and doing that can be dangerous, just go and walk on the treadmill, slowly, let your legs stretch while you walk, that will help you." Oh thank the stars, this man was a saint!

"Oh are you sure? There's a lot of plates."

"Yes I'm sure kid, you're 9 right? A bit too young to be lifting but you aren't exactly human so I have no idea what to make of you, and you lifted almost half a ton, which is crazy impressive for a first timer, or for anyone! Well just go, we can keep talking while you walk and I do this, I'm taking it easy today so I'm not tired."

"Thank you sir... I owe you one..." I said tiredly and walked slowly, going to the treadmill, thankfully it was easy to figure out, just press start and keep the key on and turn the dial slowly to increase speed, it slowly starts accelerating to my walking speed, and I start to walk, it's not easy at first but my body adapts, my legs relaxing and going back to normal.

I end up walking for half an hour, then turn it off and walk slowly, I tested my limits today, I knew if I trained more every day I could become extremely strong.

I waved to the man who helped me, Leonard, he waved back and I left, not being able to sweat was both a blessing and a curse, my body was overheated from working out and I needed some cooling down, I felt steamy.

Checking no one was looking, I walked out into the airlock and closed the door behind me quietly, then opened the exterior door, the freezing cold wind was comforting in an almost instinctual way, I ran outside and closed the door behind me, the cold soothing my exhausted muscles. I ran down the stairs and then jumped belly first on the fresh snow, laying and rolling around in it, my legs and back were so hot that made the snow melt around me, as the heat dissipated through the scales like a large full body radiator.

Oh yess this was what I needed, a freezing cold shower or this, and this is colder so it's perfect!

While rolling around I saw something curious, there were people riding around in small vehicles that pushed aside the snow, they seemed to be making a sort of road in the ice, or was that already there before? Well they certainly were putting some effort judging by how they went back and forth doing that.

Was this the landing strip? Maybe now that the storm was no longer blowing snow around like crazy the base could get resources. It was, as always, night time but I could clearly see everything they were doing, the fact that the landing strip had lights along it's edges helped too.

While I watched with interest, I took my snack gemstones out of my inventory and the maple of eggs and started eating some, and crunching down on random small gems, they were cheap and had impurities that made them not qualify as jewel worthy, so you could buy them for cheapish, some even had bits of metal in them, extra flavor I'd say.

After all that exercise I definitively needed the protein and the minerals from both eggs and gems.

I ended up eating about a dozen raw eggs and then felt sleepy, so I headed inside once my body was cooled down fully, time to ask where I can listen to some music.

Pov Shift, third person.

In the south of Australia, in a joint military base between the ADF and the USMC, a special task force of soldiers wearing full heavy exoskeleton powered armor and carrying specialized tranquilizer rifles with enough potency to put an adult elephant to sleep in minutes was readying their gear, the planes they would need to take were small, so they couldn't bring any vehicles or robot support.

As their main weapon they were armed with the now widely used XM7 suppressed version, firing a deadly 6.8mm round that was effective against body armor, in case the creature they were trying to capture was too much trouble or deemed too dangerous to capture alive.

They also had knock out gas canisters, needles of sedative, night vision googles, thermal scopes and regular grenades in case of emergencies, but they were highly discouraged from using them for fear of damaging the station or killing civilians.

The plan was simple, enter the Amundsen-Scott south pole base, then secure any civilian and send them to the galley, where a team of 5 would assemble o protect them, then the rest would fan out would look for the target in groups of at least 4, always with another group nearby if they needed reinforcements.

The commander had also called in a Xenobiologist from Sydney who would join them as an expert, who along with an assistant, would help take samples and keep the specimen sedated and unconscious during the trip back to a military base, the Hazmat team that was first planned was scrapped when information about the creature was revealed.

The next morning they were landing at the station in three different civilian airplanes.