What’s it like to cheat death?

Earth…was hell. The sky was on fire, the ozone layer being long since disintegrated. The ground was at a stage between magma and rock. A hellish red glowing from the large cracks appearing on the surface. The rock shook was like an earthquake, but the plates were also long gone…

There was no doubt about it, the core was collapsing, and this planet was dying…

Meanwhile you, Anon stood there in the metal bunker. Quickly gather everything that holds a connection to your life in a box. A photo of your family, friends, but they have all died in front of your eyes long ago..

“Are you sure this is gonna work‽” A voice yelled out to you from behind, the planet was letting out a deep and loud vibration, almost as if screaming in pain.

You turn around with the box in hand, there you see Twilight Sparkle, a magical unicorn pony from another world. Her eyes reflected yours, fear, uncertainty, and sadness.

“It’s not like we have any other option! Open the portal!” You demand as Twilight’s horn it up and a blue portal appears next to you both.

Then the vibration stopped, as what replaced it was a violent and morbid scream of the souls that had suffered, the sound was getting louder and louder. The bunker seemed to shrink but also morph, the core and the planet around it…was collapsing.

“NOW!” You yell and both you and Twi leap into the blue abyss. The hell opened and you could feel it on your body on the Earth side of the portal.

Then it all stopped, you went from about to die and met all the other 8 billion people that suffered on this rock…to now nothing.

As the portal broke the connections, you felt like you had lost all control of your body. Like if your brain had lost connection with the rest of your being. Your brain still worked, but it had lost all control….

You then fell into some cold water before passing out from the stress and panic of the situation….

***

Your mind was slowly coming back, but normally when you wake up, the rest of the body responds to the brain’s command to activate, but the only thing that wakes up is the brain itself.

You open up your eyes and see something weird, the grass in front of your eyes is more cartoony, then you realize what just happened.

Since your world was dying, and since Twi was your friend, you decided to instead escape to her world of Equestria. You essentially cheated death itself. You would pump your fist in succession to the fact that you are now in Equestria, if only you had control of your body.

Hold up, why can’t I control my body, then again, what CAN I control?

You do a body check, you can breathe, blink, swallow, you clear your throat and let out an “Ah”, you can also speak. Everything else…no response.. At least you still had the control of your body parts needed to survive.

You then hear another groggy tone come from next to you. You can’t move your head so you move your eyes, but unfortunately, the noise is coming from beyond the corners of your eyes.

“Auuugh…What..happe-” You hear Twilight say as she gets up before gasping. “ANON! Anon, are you alri-” Twilight said frantically, the noises of her hooves on the ground told you she was looking around for you before she trailed off as she saw you.

“Twilight, I don’t know what’s going on, I don’t have any sense of control or feeling in anything but my brain...It’s like I’m in a new body…”

“Y-...Yea…like you're in a new…..body…” Twilight said, almost like she was rubbing her eyes to see if what she was seeing was real.

“H-Here, let me…uhh…help you sit up.” She responded as she picked up part of your body and put you in an upright position. She still held you close so you wouldn’t fall down again.

Your brain gets confused by two things, one, last time you tried Twilight being a pony didn’t have enough strength to carry a human but yet she lifted you up with ease. Another thing is that you felt a numbing sensation on where her hooves were touching your skin.

“So….why can’t I control my body..” You ask, before Twilight does a “Well….”. That can’t be good.

“You know how you said it felt like you were in a different body? Well..” She said before letting go of her hoof below your chin, allowing your limp head to fall, thus causing you to look down.

Your eyes widened at what you saw. It all made sense now, what you saw was not a human body, but a pony body.

I’M IN A PONY BODY!?....no…NO….NO NO THIS CAN’T BE HAPPENING!

You try not to have a panic attack as you look yourself over, you are a human mind in a stallion pony body. Your coat was a light-ish green, and your tail color said to you that your hair was a dark green-ish black. From the angle you can see, you don’t see a cutie mark on your flank.

Twilight put her hoof under your chin again and lifted your limp head to meet her gaze.

“Anon, you’re in a pony body, the transfer to this world must have made your body…adapt to this place. You have no cutie mark, you have no control over your body…I know this is a lot to take in…but it’s going to be okay…I will be here by your side through it all. Because I am your friend…”

No…this can’t be real…You spent 16 years making your life on Earth from the ground up. Everything you worked for to get where you were, all the friends you’ve made. All thick and thin moments in friendships and family….

Everything you’ve done to get through 16 years of life….it was all worthless…all for nothing. Now you have to make a new life, in a new world, while still having the dark memories of the past. How the green beautiful planet you called home…was turned to hell itself…

You couldn’t hold your emotions back as you started to whimper as tears came down your cheeks and into the pond water below. Twilight wrapped you in a tight embrace, clutching you close while “Shhhh”-ing to you repeatedly while rubbing your withers with her hoof.

No….I can’t start all over….I may have cheated death….but now…I have nothing left…

Who am I now? A pony….or a human?....

Author's Note

I know this is gonna be a LONG story! Like at least 20 chapters....

(I also noticed how all stories of Anon being a pony, there were all about him being a young filly, so I decided to make Anon the right age and gender, to fit the story better.)