Maybe and...

by Fat1thatyoulove

Rating: teen
Tags: Twilight Sparkle, Slice of Life, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Alternate Universe, Human, Other, Romance
Length: 5184

Part 10 to the Maybe series.

This is the 10th part to the Maybe series. This part takes place right after Maybe is all I need, and follows the main character through the first days of being in a new body.

To old readers the next few parts (if there is more) are precursor to what the new plot will be.

To new readers I strongly suggest not to read this part first it is part 10 and I feel you will not truly understand the story if you start this late in.

Published 2013-01-01 19:00:02 UTC
Last updated 2013-01-01 19:00:02 UTC

Chapter 1

Maybe is all I need

Maybe isn’t so...

You wake up to the sound of someone or something breathing really close to your head. You roll over and face the air assassin, it’s Twilight she is sitting at the side of your bed just staring at you “Hi Twilight.”

She smiles as she looks at you “Oh good you're up I thought you would sleep all day.”

She’s right you would have if someone didn’t breathe so loud. You give a little laugh as your response to her comment. You reach your arm out to pet her, but as your arm extends from the covers you realize that what happened yesterday was no dream. Your arm and hand are now a leg and hoof. You stop reaching for her and instead bring both of your hooves to your face as you sit up. “It wasn’t a dream?”

Twilight watches you as you touch your face with your hooves “I thought you were ok with this?”

You stop and look at her, your mind is still adjusting to your new reality but you try talking through your stammering “I…I guess I am.”

Twilight smiles “Great, now get up.” Her horn glows purple and rips the warm blankets off you.

As the blankets move your hit with a burst of cold air, you lie back onto the bed and give a loud moan. Ponies don’t wear clothes! This thought slams your mind as you blush and try to cover yourself up with your legs.

Twilight folds the blanket and sheets in the air about her as she talks “Don’t be such a filly, now get up we need to see if you can walk.”

Your mind wraps around what she says, oh crap I can’t walk? You sit up and face her; your mind is set a little at ease at being able to move. Your lower hooves dangle off the bed above the ground as you listen to Twilight.

“Ok now take it slow I don’t know how your mind will respond to your new body.” She closes her eyes as she starts boasting about her first steps and how she was able to run only a few days of being born.

You smile at her and think to yourself obviously she doesn't know I always skip tutorials. As she continues to talk you start to lower your bottom hooves to the ground. As these hooves touch the ground you push yourself off the bed with your top hooves.

Bad move, you wobble for a moment on your two hooves both you fall forward. Twilight lets out a little scream as you fall on top of her.

You're now laying on the ground with Twilight pinned under you, you both stare at each other for a few moments before you both start to laugh.
She’s the first one to start to talk after your fail “You know you have to walk on four legs not just two.”

You lean your head down and kiss her “No, I like two legs.”

Your kiss surprises her for a few seconds, she blushes as she starts to reply “Cute, now get off of me.”

You try to push yourself off the ground but you can only move your front legs, “Um Twilight I can’t move my back legs.”

Twilight’s smile disappears from her face as she wraps herself in a purple glow and teleports from underneath you. You hit the ground now it wasn’t a far fall by any means but it still hurt because you weren't expecting it. Twilight stands beside you and looks over your body “Are you sure you can’t move your legs?”

You reply “Yep.”

She steps on one of your legs with her hoof, you let out an “OW” and she stops. “I thought you
could not feel them?”

You think to yourself for a moment, OH you can’t feel your leg? Here let me step on them. You
roll over to face her “No I said I can’t move them.”

Twilight taps her hoof to her face and stares at you for a moment “Oh I know!”

You feel her purple magic wrap around you. After a few seconds you feel yourself floating, she puts you right side up and plants you on your feet. You wobble for a moment trying to stand on your four feet. You look at the ground and watch your legs try to hold you up.

“Ok I’m going to let go of you just try and stand, ok?”

Her magical aura starts to fade from your body, “Wait Twilight I don’t think that…”
You sentence is cut short as you face plant back onto the floor, Twilight gives a little giggle as you try to push yourself back up. Twilight tries to speak through her giggles “Sorry sorry, ok let’s try that again.”

Your again feel her magic wrap itself around you and stand you back up. You look at Twilight for a moment “Ready.” She releases her grip, you stagger for a second but finally get your balance. You smile to her to show her you're standing. She claps her hooves “Good now walk.”

You move your front left leg forward….and instantly fall again. Twilight tries to hold back her laughter as she talks “Ok let’s try something different.”

Again she sets you up right but this time she does not release your legs. Twilight explains what she is going to do “Ok I’ll move your legs for a bit so your brain picks up on the fact you have four, then I’ll let go.”

You nod your head, but you silently think to yourself great I was once a human then a pony now I’m a puppet.

You feel your legs move; you look down and watch as they start to move you around the room in a slow circle. “Left front, right back, right front, left back.” You listen to her mantra as you look down at your legs.

You repeat what she said in your head as you continue to walk in a circle. Left Right Left Right. You feel like you’re saying some old cheat code to a video game or something but it must had worked because Twilight has released you from her grasp and you walk freely now.

Twilight smiles as you walk around her, after a few minutes you stop and look to her as she talks “Good well now that you can move I’ll meet you downstairs for breakfast when you’re ready. “

You nod your head as she walks out of the room. You follow her slowly out the door and then stop as you look down the staircase. You stare at the stairs and think to yourself, oh great this is how I die….

End of chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Chapter 2 (Rule 1…food)

Twilight calls back up to you “Do you want some help getting down?”

The truth is you probably do but your reply says otherwise “I can do this.” You look at the first step and swallow hard as you place your hoof on the first step. You place each hoof very carefully as you make your descent down the staircase. You know there is only about fifteen stairs but if feels like hundreds as you still slowly make your way down. Twilight tries to hold back a laugh as she gives you encouragement.

You’re halfway down the stairs when Spike gets beside you “Hey buddy…you look really different but not a bad different you know?” You try to give him acknowledgement but you’re too focused on not falling. He continues talking as you place your hoof on the next stair “…Oh well it’s nice to have you back.” He pats you on the back and you start to lose your balance and start to fall forward.

You tumble down the rest of the stairs, when you hit the ground you rub your head and curse at Spike in your mind. Twilight rushes over to you “Are you ok?”

You look at Spike and think to yourself, you dick I was doing good to. You look to Twilight as you hold your thoughts back, “Ya I’m fine.”

Spike stops on the stairs “Sorry!”

You accept his apology as you struggle to get to your feet. Twilight laughs as you try to stand up but keep falling. You’re a little annoyed at her laughter as you continue to try and stand. “Here let me help.” Her purple magic wraps itself around you and you feel yourself placed back on the ground.

You start walking towards the kitchen but you’re stopped by Twilight's’ voice “Don’t you want to get something to eat?”
You look back at her “umm ya?”

Twilight opens the front door with her magic and motions with her hoof to follow her “I thought you would like to eat like a normal pony, instead of hiding in a tree like we usually do.”

You look outside then back to her “Are there stairs?”

Twilight giggles “No, it’s a little place just inside of town so come on.”

You follow Twilight out of the library and towards town. You’re still a little slow at walking so Twilight slows down so she can walk beside you. “Don’t worry you will get use to walking around.” You look at her and fake a grin. You think to yourself about how awkward it feels to have four legs now; it feels like you take longer to get from one place to another and now even getting back to your bed is going to be a challenge.

Your brain is put on hold as Twilight nudges you “We’re here.”

You look at the place you have both arrived at; you look around and see a few tables outside with ponies eating at them. The place doesn’t really impress you mainly due to the face the chairs look to be just made out of hay. The building itself looks the same as any other building in Ponyville, the same green wood as a few with some windows and the roof made of some kind of hay. The sign that hangs above the door is a three leaf clover that reads “The Green Clover”. You laugh a bit at the name it sounds like some hardcore vegan place. But this is the first restaurant you have been to in Ponyville since you came here…well accept sugarcube corner, but Pinkie makes that place too wild to make it feel like a real restaurant.

You snap out of your gaze as Twilight again nodes you “I got us a table outside is that ok?”

You nod “As long as it doesn’t rain.”

You follow Twilight over to a table, the chairs are actually made of hay, and you think to yourself as you sit down oooo fancy they have hay chairs.

As you sit down a stallion holding some menus walks over to the table, he talks in a real snooty voice, “I am Horte Cuisine and welcome to The Green Clover, here are your menus.”

The pony is wearing a white vest like thing and he has a French mustache, you try to hold back your laughs as he lays the menus down, this guy looks like he takes his job way too seriously.

When he leaves you look at Twilight “he seems friendly.”

Twilight giggles a bit as she looks at the menu.

You look down at the menu and try to grab it with your hooves like Twilight is holding hers; you can’t quite hold it so you decide to leave it on the table and read the page it was set on. You read down the menu, you’re not surprised to find that there is nothing but salads, fruits and vegetables. You wish for once that you could get something with meat.

After a few minutes of looking through the page the snooty cream colored stallion comes back “Are you ready?”

Twilight puts her menu down “Yes I’ll take the fresh salad and the hay fries.”

The stallion looks to you, sigh as you look at the menu “Umm same thing”
When the stallion walks away Twilight looks at you “You don’t like salads?” You look at her and shrug “Maybe I’ll like them now.”

Twilight is about to speak but gets cut off by a loud high pitched squeal “Twilight who’s your friend?!”

You both look to the direction of the sound and see Rarity walking towards you both.
“Hi Rarity this is…” Twilight is again cut off by Rarity as she introduces herself to you. “Hello darling I am Rarity, I’m one of Twilight's friends, are you from Canterlot? Because I certainly have not seen you here before.”

You smile at her and say your name.

Rarity seems to have not picked up on your name and continues to talk “If you’re from Canterlot I just want to hear ALL about it I absolutely LOVE the city. Oh what am I saying of course you’re from Canterlot just look at your coat it's so.” She brings one of her hooves up to her face for dramatic appeal “It’s so shiny!”

You’re struck a little off by her comment, shiny? You look to Twilight “Am I shiny?”

Twilight replies “No.” She then looks to Rarity and says your name again.

Rarity looks to Twilight “What darling?”

She again repeats your name in a more annoyed voice.

Rarity grabs your face with her hooves and starts squishing your face “You change him into a PONY!?”

You try talking but your face is being squished by Rarity’s hooves too much to talk, it feels like you’re a little kid again and your annoying grandma has gotten a hold of you.

Rarity continues to talk “Honestly Twilight you’re a pretty mare you don’t have to make a stallion.”

Twilight is now annoyed and you can tell from her voice “Rarity you don’t know why he is the way he is and I for one would rather NOT talk about it right now I’m just happy he is fine!”

Twilight has a very serious expression as she continues “I’ll explain it to you later.”

Rarity lets go of your face “Well umm…ok I’ll see you two later then.”

Rarity starts to walk off “Umm bye.”

You nod your head as she walks past you. You look back to Twilight she is looking down at the table not talking.

A few seconds later the cream colored stallion comes back and seats the food in front of you both. You both give a thank you as he leaves.

Twilight hovers a fork to eat the salad, you watch her eat for a few moments then look down at your fork and food. How the heck do I eat this? You look around at other tables and observe other ponies holding the fork in there hoof. You bring one hoof to your face and look, as you look it over you say to yourself, there’s no way that works like that. You place your hoof over the fork and try to pick it up, when you move your hoof off the fork it doesn’t stick to your hoof. You look up and notice Twilight has stopped eating and is now watching you. You look back down to the fork and try to grasp it with both hooves, after a few tries you finally get the fork off the table. You let out a loud “YES” as you pick the fork up, other tables look at you and you feel really dumb. Twilight gives a little giggle as you push your fork into the food, as you bring it up to your face the fork slips from your hooves and hits the ground. You sit there with your mouth open a few second and just silently scream in your mind.

You look back at the food and frown, Twilight nudges your hoof with hers and you watch as she brings her fork into your plant, you watch as she brings the fork back up to you with the food on it. You stare at her for a moment “You're kidding right?”

Twilight smiles “This or you put your face in the plate.”

You think over your two options and then lean forward towards the fork she controls “You win.”

End of chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 3

Your happy as you leave the restraint, it’s not that you hated the food in fact it turns out you liked the food. Of course you can’t tell if you really liked it or if it’s just your new body that is saying you liked it…you guess it doesn’t matter.

Twilight stops your thoughts before they continue “Would you rather go back home or to Rarity’s?”

You jump at the opportunity to stop embarrassing yourself “I would rather go home.” You pick up speed as you finish your sentence.

Twilight giggles a bit as you start to walk fast. You stop and look down and then to her “What?”

Twilight looks you over “You picked up on walking around pretty fast but you can’t hold anything.”

You’re surprised she would pick on you, you know it’s a joke but still. You hold your head up high as you start to trot forward, only this time you trip over your front hooves. As you hit the ground you scream in your mind, well fuck you too legs!

Twilight is now laughing loudly “Ok...maybe I spoke too soon.”

You feel her magic wrap around you as you start to stand up. When you get to your feet Twilight is beside you. You give a loud sigh as you talk, only this time you’re more focused on walking to hear her. You just give nods and noises so she thinks you’re listening.

Twilight nudges you as you walk “Did you even hear me?”

You stare at her and shake your head. She smiles “I said don’t feel bad I’m sure you will be able to do things like everypony else soon. “

“Or, I could get a wheelchair and you can just push me around.” Twilight giggles at your comment “Don’t be silly you’re not hurt you don’t need a wheelchair.”
You’re surprised she knows what a wheelchair is, you have never seen one here so you guessed they didn’t have any. Now your stupid comment feels like a smart alternative to walking. Note to self, find and steal a wheelchair.

As you near the library you stop outside of the door and wait for Twilight to open it. When the door doesn’t get a purple glow around it you look back to her. She smiles and motions with her hoof to try. “Go on try it.” You look at the door and think of a way to open it without ramming it down. You look at the handles of the door, at least there’s not a turn knob. You place your hooves against the handle and you pull out words. The door opens, Ha ha I am a shape shifting human who can open doors! Right as these words enters your mind you realize how unimportant the last part sounds, you would much rather be a firebending wizard alien.

Twilight walks past you through the door “See you can do it.”

You follow her as the door closes behind you. “Hey Twilight can I still do magic?”

She looks back at you and studies you “That’s an excellent question.” She taps her hoof to her mouth as she thinks “Only unicorns can do magic, but you were not a unicorn when you did it before.”

You rub your hoof to your head to check to see if you’re a unicorn, no horn. You quickly look at your sides to see if you have wings. You a little disappointed to see you don’t, all honesty if you had wings and didn’t notice till now you would feel really dumb.

Twilight continues talking “I would think if you had magic still you would need to recover it like you did before.” She points to the door with her hoof “Try and open the door with magic, just picture it open and concentrate.”

You look to the door you came from and try to focus on it. You stare at the door for a few moments and feel like you should give up but just before you do the door flies open in and a gust of wind knocks you down. You hit your head on the ground as you fall backwards. As you blink your eyes back into focuses you see Rainbow Dash’s face. She stares at you and starts to laugh “Dude…you’re still ugly.”

You’re caught off guard by her comment and it takes a few seconds to think of a reply “And you still can’t win at horse shoe tossing.”

As Rainbow flaps her wings to get off you “You won at one thing.” She points to you as she floats in the air, “Besides you don’t have hands now so next time i'm gonna win.”

Twilight starts to talk “Hi Rainbow…what brings you by?”

Rainbow lands next to where you still lay. “I just wanted to see if Rarity went crazy or not.” Rainbow looks down to you and looks you over, she smiles as she talks “You know you’re not wearing clothes right.” That simple fact has been put to the back of your mind all day, You blush as you try to cover yourself with your legs. You feel Twilight's magic wrap around you to set you up right.

Rainbow laughs as you get placed back on your feet, “HA ha ha, you’re kidding right? You can’t get off the ground?”

You’re a little annoyed at her laughing and your voice is a little raised as you talk “Ya I cant, problem?”

Rainbow stops laughing “Hey I’m just teasing. How did you get to be a pony anyways?” She looks to Twilight “Did Spike not want to be an experiment?”

Twilight looks to you and then back to Rainbow “I’ll explain some other time…I don’t think either of us wants to talk about it.”

Rainbow looks at you both and decides to not question it “Ok...well what you two doing?”

“I am teaching him how to be a proper pony.” Twilight holds her head up high at the end of her statement.

You’re stuck on the word ‘proper pony’, could you really be a proper pony when you were not born a pony?

Before you could continue your thoughts Rainbow interrupts you with a hard jab at your side as she laughs. “You hear that you get to be a proper egg head.”

Note to self; think when no one is around to interrupt you. “I don’t see how that’s a bad thing.” You look to Twilight and smile.

Rainbow watches as Twilight blushes “Ugh please don’t flirt when I’m here.”

Twilight replies to Rainbows annoyed comment “Well that’s what we are going to do today, just normal boring pony stuff.”

Rainbow doesn’t take the hint to leave and starts gloating “Oh well let me help; I am the best flyer in Ponyville so I know a few things on balance and getting up after a fall.” She snickers a bit towards the end of her sentence.

Twilight taps her hoof to her mouth “Well that is true, maybe you can help.”

“Great!” Rainbow again jabs you in your side as she talks “I’m going to go get my whistle.”

Rainbow opens the door and bolts out towards the sky.

You look back to Twilight as she talks “You want me to lock the door?”

You laugh a bit and shake your head. You start to think of anything Twilight might ask you to do and you start to plan ways you can go above and beyond, that way you can show Rainbow you can still do the same things you could do before.

End of chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 4 (Do or die)

“STOP!” The cracky famine voice hits your ears like a drum beat and you collapse to the ground in a panting exhaustion.

Rainbow looks at her stop watch and then to you “Not bad.”

You thought Twilight would be in control of your…training, but no it turns out Rainbow decided to take command of trying to get you use to your new body. Your legs throb from running up and down stairs, push-ups, balancing acts and all sorts of other exercises. You lay on the ground too tired to move, you have no idea how long you have been doing these exercises but you know it must have been all day because you can see the sun is starting to set.

Rainbow walks to where you lay “Ok I think you’re done for the day.”
You’re stuck on what she said “Today?” you think, ya no I’m done for a month, that wasn’t exercises that was some military training.

Twilight and Spike sit on a nearby chair. Twilight looks up from the book she has been reading “Oh you’re done?”

Rainbow helps you to your feet as she talks “Yep, I think he’s had enough for today.” She slaps you on your back as she finishes her comment. The slap wasn’t hard but your body is weak from everything you have done today.

Spike gives a laugh at how weak you are, “You know if you were as tough as me you could work out like that all day.” Spike tries to flex his tiny arms; you watch as he flexes and continues his stupid comments.

Rainbow picks up on some of his comments “You know Spike if you want I could train you to be awesome to.”

Spike rubs his neck and nervously thinks of an excuse “Oh no that…” Spike’s excuse is cut off as he holds his stomach and looks like he is about to throw up. Spike lets out a belching sound and a burst of green flames and a letter falls to the ground. Twilight hooves the letter to herself and looks it over, you can tell it must had said something important because she didn’t read it out loud and she didn’t smile like she always does when she gets a letter from the Princess.

Rainbow is the first to ask “Well Twilight what’s it say?”

Twilight folds the letter “Oh nothing important, the Princess just needs to see me in Canterlot tomorrow.”

You look at Rainbow and you both share the same dumbfounded expression, but she is again the first to talk “OK? That’s really sudden you know what it’s for?”

Twilight replies quickly “Nope.”

Twilight poofs the letter away “It can’t be anything important otherwise she would want all six of us to go.”

Rainbow’s voice gets its normal excited high pitched tone as she makes a smashing motion with her hooves “OH man we should totally have another adventure!”

For the next few hours you four sit around and you listen to past adventures they have had. You have always known Twilight was part of some helement of armory or something like that, you don’t really know what the elements are but from there stories it seems to be some kind of superpower thing. You feel yourself starting to get tired as you continue to listen to their stories. You get up from the table and start to head to the stairs.

Rainbow calls out to you as you walk away “Oh sorry human, are these stories boring you?”

You yawn as you reply “No, I’m just tired.”

Twilight calls out to you now “But you didn’t even eat anything?”

You bob your head at her comment to tired to think of words.

“Oh well good night?” you reply to her with a good night and head up the stairs.

As you walk up the stairs you’re kind of glad one of the things Rainbow had you do was run up and down stairs, it is a lot easier this time because you don’t have a cyan pegasus blowing a whistle in your ear.

As you near your bed you feel your body starting to tighten up, you don’t know too much about a pony body but if it’s anything like a human body you are going to be sore in the morning. With that thought in mind you moan loudly and pull the bed back with your mouth. As you climb into the bed you stare at your hooves…it’s still confusing to you that these things are now yours. You stare at them for a few minutes before you rest your head back on the pillow. You mind races with questions you forgot to ask Twilight most are questions that you know she can’t really answer but it would had made you felt better to ask anyways. You go to sleep with your mind still racing but even with thoughts running in your mind, your mind feels very clear.

You awake to the subtle movement of the bed. You focus your eyes in the dark of the room on the moving figure.

“Sorry didn’t mean to wake you.”

You watch as Twilight climbs into the bed beside you. “Just go back to sleep, sorry, good night.”

You lay awake for a few minutes just staring at her, she’s not facing you so you slowly move your arm to her back and start to move it slowly up and down.

Your smile you had is slightly replaced with a frown as you continue to move it up and down. The feel from your hoof is to alien from the feel you got from when you would do this with your hand. After a few minutes you stop and stare at your hoof; you whisper a few words “what am I?”

Twilight turns to face you, her purple eyes still sparkle in the moonlight like they always have, but even this is not enough to bring your smile back. You move your hoof to her head and try to run her ear like you always have done…but you can’t do it without fingers.

Twilight’s voice is low as she talks “Are you ok?”

You swallow back a sad tone before you speak “I just feel so different…..it….this is different.”

Twilight stops your hoof from rubbing her head and brings it in front of her face. She moves her hooves around yours for a few moments.

The feeling is different but you can still feel the warmth of her fur as she rubs your hoof. Twilight stops and looks at you. She stares at you for a few moments in silent before she speaks.

“I would rather different than nothing.”

You think about her words for a few seconds and you don’t know how to reply. You finally say
something that sums up how you feel “Maybe…”

Twilight gives a sweet smile and slowly pulls you closer with her hooves.

End of chapter 4

Maybe and after...