Among the peaceful grass plains that surrounded the humble town of Ponyville, an equine creature of incredible magical power cackled maniacally to herself as she began to realize the potential of her predicament.

"HA! YES! H-I-E! H-I-E! H-I-E! WOOO!"

Her wings seemingly flared on instinct and caused a cloud of dust to form with a single flap. Several parts of her form, which glowed brightly with cyan-colored energy, flared alongside her heightened mood. The sudden light show and commotion caused the group of curious critters around her to panic and flee.

The creature lowered her wings as she calmed herself, but had yet to fold them. She then sat back down on her haunches and looked over the ornate pieces of... armor? Regalia? That covered her hooves and chest.

Her eyes curiously wandered around the shiny, deep purple material for a moment, and eventually locked onto the glowing base of her foot- hoofwear. She paused briefly to take in the sight before a massive grin formed on her face, revealing her pointed fangs.

She let out a low chuckle, which then built up into laughter, and then developed into yet another bout of uncontrolled cackling. The creature excitedly pumped her forelegs in the air and jumped at the revelation.

"MIDNIGHT-FREAKIN-SPARKLE, BABY! COOLEST NONEXISTENT ALICORN! HECK YEAH!"

It took the creature, a human-turned-alicorn who now referred to herself as Midnight Sparkle, no longer than a second to abruptly stop her momentum mid-jump. She fell onto her hooves with a loud Thud! and bore an irritated look after noticing a certain... discrepancy.

"Huh? What the fff-lip?"

Her eyes widened in realization. Midnight angrily stomped a hoof on the ground, leaving a sizeable divot.

"Oh come the fff-luff on! Gosh darnit!"

The alicorn groaned in annoyance, "Should've known there's a catch..."

She remained silent for a moment before rearing back on her hind legs and waving a hoof toward the evening sky.

"F-C-CURSE YOU, UNIVERSE! I'LL FIND A WAY TO BREAK FREE!"

Midnight lowered herself back down and shook her head. She'd have to deal with this later.

"Alright, alright... calm down. Now... let's check out the good stuff."

Thinking back to the stories she had read about humans getting transformed into ponies, she will either, A: have full or close to full mastery over her magic, or B: have as much control over it as a foal. While she really hoped for the former, she would also be quite content with the latter. Even if she was only able to levitate twigs and fire stun shots, it was still far better than becoming something without fingers or magic.

Midnight took a firm stance and readied herself. She then tried to search for a feeling, any feeling that could be the source of her magic.

'Where, oh where...'

It didn't take long before she started to feel... something. She didn't know what it was exactly, having been a non-magical ape mere hours ago, but she was certain that it had something to do with her mag-

vvvVVVRRRR-SHV-VWOOOOOM-VVVP-BOOM!

A massive beam of writhing energy surged from her horn, which crackled with blinding cyan light. It plowed halfway through the earth, leaving a long trench that stretched from right in front of her all the way into the Everfree Forest. Making contact with a wall of trees also didn't seem to stop the beam, as it powered through the depths of the anomalous forest, forming a gaping hole of scorched foliage.

In the distance, the peak of a dome-shaped explosion of energy could be seen. The light from it peeked through small openings between the winding trees and shrubbery.

As the beam dissipated, Midnight observed its path of destruction with a look of shock and uncontrollable joy. Of all the things she expected, that definitely wasn't one of them.

The alicorn formed a wide, toothy grin as a barrage of ideas popped up in her mind. For some unknown reason, the surrounding atmosphere suddenly felt less... habitable, as she started to gain control over her magic.

"Oh, this'll be fun!"

Within the secluded and hidden kingdom of Thicket, a white-furred stag adorned with ornate regalia shot up from his seat as he sensed a source of disturbance from somewhere in the Everfree.

A young fawn seated on the other side of a dining table looked at the stag curiously.

"Something wrong, father?"

The stag turned back to the fawn and softened his expression.

"Ah, nothing for you to worry about, Bramble."

The fawn, Bramble, gave his father another curious look before shrugging to himself. The stag sat back down and turned to look out of a nearby window with a look of concern.

King Aspen suppressed a shudder as he felt a part of the forest he called home wail in despair.

With an earth-shaking impact, whilst protecting herself from debris with her impressively large wings, Midnight landed back on the ground with a look of absolute ecstasy. She took a brief moment to catch her breath before taking a good look at her surroundings.

Or at least, what was left of it.

The once beautiful grass field was now nothing more than a collection of holes, craters, and trenches, all surrounded by cracked and scorched grounds with cyan flames scattered about within what was likely, at the very least, a fifty-meter radius.

"Huh... might've gotten a bit carried away there..."

Right after her little accident with the Mega Obliteration BlastTM, the former human had instantly gone into an experimenting frenzy. She went through an unexpectedly thorough examination of her new body's abilities, from the limits of her magic, all the way to her flight capabilities.

"Gonna need to practice some more. Could I make my own Sparkle-boom?"

Finding out that she was quite capable of using magic, in both productive and destructive ways, was a very pleasant and welcome surprise.

From levitating an entire boulder thrice her own size with little effort to being able to use her primary feathers with just as much dexterity as her former fingers, it seemed like she had almost won the Human-in-Equestria lottery.

Almost.

"If I got turned into Cosmos... heh."

Now that everything had been—mostly—figured out, Midnight started to think about what to do next. She was an alicorn with powerful magic, in an era of Equestria of her preference, and, by the way the moon appeared in the now-darkening sky along with the large congregation of ponies near Ponyville's town hall, it seemed like she had been given the perfect opportunity to make her presence known.

However, there was a part of her, one that she had not done a well enough job at ignoring, a significant aspect that others in her position had pondered frequently in the past.

What about the canon?

The former human snorted and immediately struck the charred ground with both of her forelegs, creating a series of glowing cracks.

"To H-T-H-Tartarus with the canon!" she threw her head upwards in frustration, "Oh buzz off!"

She took another calming breath to collect her thoughts and decided to list all of the important bits of information that she had deemed important enough to think about.

She was an alicorn, she was very good with magic, she was essentially a copy of Twilight Sparkle, she was placed near Ponyville during—probably—the thousandth Summer Sun Celebration, she might be in an Equestria where the comics happened, and she knew a bunch of stuff that will happen in the future.

All in all, it was a fairly nice recipe for random shenanigans and wacky hijinks, assuming she wasn't in some darker or 'realistic' alternate Equestria.

"Thank G-Celestia it's not anthro." Midnight sniffed in amusement, "I'll take Fallout Equestria over that any day."

There were many ways to approach this predicament, which the former human knew very well. She had made it clear that she wouldn't be pampering the timeline, which meant that she was free to do whatever it is she wanted to change how future events would occur. Perhaps she could pretend to be a corrupted future version of Twilight, who travelled back in time to help prevent some sort of 'Great Calamity' from happening?

"Hm... that'll get boring pretty quick..."

Or maybe she could act like she was sent by an unknown force to this specific era of Equestria, and was given a task to guide the current generation of ponies to maintain the legacy of their forebears?

"Needs a lot of assuming what I've watched and read was aligned with this Equestria's history... too complicated."

She could also just be straightforward with her origins and reveal herself in an uncannily casual manner. Imagine, an alicorn the height of Princess Celestia, with magic so potent that it leaks throughout her body, strolling up to you and saying 'Hey dude, what's up?'.

Midnight giggled at the thought, yet still dismissed it after some consideration.

"Wouldn't be as fun once the novelty wears off, unfortunately."

The former human tapped her chin and looked up in thought. While she still had a few hours before Black Snooty showed up, it would be preferable for her to have already chosen her specific 'character' by then.

After some time pondering about what she would do, she decided to approach the problem from a different angle, by starting with what specific part of the franchise had pulled her into becoming a loyal fan. Maybe by going about it this way, she could decide what to focus on and build her 'role' from the aspects she picked.

"Let's see... found out about the show from forums, started watching with addicted cousin... uh, got interested in world building and lore... found out about comics, fell even more in love with the lore... got interested in the little artefacts..."

Midnight muttered to herself as she recollected her memories as a fan of the franchise. She was so deep in her thoughts that she hadn't realized that she had subconsciously carved out a small seat from a stump with her magic and sat down on it. Her eyes were focused, yet they didn't seem to be looking at anything in particular.

"Got very invested in the little artefacts... got obsessed with the little artefacts... so obsessed that I started commissioning props of them... prop collection grew as franchise went on... prop collection was my pride and joy..."

One of her eyes twitched. The ethereal haloes around them briefly flashed.

"The prop collection that I spent thousands on... the prop collection that nearly caused me to go homeless..."

She stood up from her makeshift seat, magic aggressively coursing through her horn. Each glowing part of her body followed accordingly,

"The prop collection I have in my house, the prop collection that's still in my house back on Earth, the prop collection that didn't get sent with me, the prop that DON'T EVEN HAVE ANYMORE, DAGNAB-"

The alicorn instantly whipped around as something finally clicked in her mind. One of her wings unfolded with a single primary feather raised, making it resemble a hand pointing upwards.

"Waaaaait! That's it!" she exclaimed with a satisfied grin.

Midnight nodded to herself confidently. She may have lost her collection of props and replicas of trinkets shown throughout the franchise when she got here, but that didn't mean she was incapable of getting them again, far from it actually. With the powers bestowed upon her, it gave her a fairly unique once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, even more unlikely than getting transformed into a pseudo-canon character.

"Now why should I settle for replicas... when I can get the real deal?"

The former human smiled sinisterly, "And while we're at it, why not uncover all the lore as well? All of that sweet, sweet lore, waiting to be studied, remembered, and recorded..."

It was at this very moment that she fully realized her dream had finally come true. For years she had obsessed over the lore of Equestria and the world it was set in, so rich with fantastical history and alien yet familiar cultures, filled to the brim with magical creatures with abilities the likes of humans could only ever dream of.

And with the world's abundance of magic, also came the existence of magically-infused trinkets and artefacts, magically potent items created and used by various individuals throughout history. From power-enhancing amulets to time-warping stopwatches, these artefacts had been the very things that solidified Midnight's attachment to the Land of Friendship and Harmony.

"It's a wonder that I even got this involved in ponies..."

Unfortunately, not everything can be left complete. The world's true history had been left unseen to viewers and readers alike, with only snippets of knowledge that would then be developed into various theories and headcanons. That fact, while making complete sense, had always annoyed her to no end. An irritating thorn on her side, always leaving her lore-hungry mind begging for more.

But now? She has everything she needed to make her dream a reality. The form, the power, and the knowledge she required were now within her grasp. If she focused on honing her abilities, she would be nigh-unstoppable.

"There's an entire world out there, filled with undiscovered lore."

Midnight chuckled sinisterly with a manic grin plastered on her face.

"And I want to understand it all!"

With her declaration made clear, amplified by her Royal Voice, the alicorn reared back and stomped her hooves down with blazing magic. The base of her shoes glowed brightly before they made impact with the ground below.

The cracked land that surrounded her was filled with energy and eventually formed a circle around the alicorn, forming a series of flashing lights that illuminated her equine form. The light shone radiantly for a few moments before it died down, leaving the moon as the only source of light.

Midnight looked up in the sky to observe the pale celestial object, and noticed that the distinct markings of the Mare on the Moon from earlier had disappeared.

She felt a sudden surge of excitement at the realization.

"I think I know exactly where to start."

Madly giggling to herself, the human-turned-fallen alicorn ascended into the unnatural night sky with a single flap of her dark wings and a simple, absolutely reckless thought in her unstable mind.

'Oh Luuunaaa!~'

Author's Note

I couldn't help myself. I just had to write this story...

Have another Human-to-Pony story. This one has a protag with a few screws loose, as you can clearly see.

You can blame Trazyn and his wackiness for all of this.

Anyway, my schedule is nonexistent, so you can place bets on which story I'm going to update next!

If you want to share ideas on how this story should go, consider commenting!

Corrections and criticisms are more than welcome, I can't improve without those now, can I?
Have a good existence!
:)

"Remembered forever, the Land of Equestria"