Curiosity
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEeee... The aggravating sound of an alarm clock trailed off as a fist promptly crashed into it. A figure rolled around in a bed that had a blanket with a picture of clouds on it. That figure sat up in the bed, ruffling the blanket. That figure is me, Seth Arbitross, mailman extraordinaire. I attempt to get out of bed but end up rolling off and promptly landing on the floor with a loud thump. Well, could things get any worse? Lightning cracked outside as I heard rain pounding on my windows. Why did I just ask that? I expected a tree to come crashing into my house like it did in one of the episodes of ponies. I heard footsteps of my daughter pounding towards my bedroom door. There was then a number of things that happened: One, There was an attempt to knock on the door, but it ended up a thump as my daughter crashed into the door. Two, the door then blasted open, breaking the lock on it. Three, Kate, my daughter, skidded across the floor and crashed into my side. I just sighed, my side throbbing from the rock-hard head crashing into my side, picked up Kate, and nudged her side.
"Oowwww..." Kate sighed.
"You have to slow down, little wrecking ball." I replied. She giggled at that, then winced in pain. "You okay? Do ya need medicine?"
"Nah, I should be fine." Kate groaned, flopping on my bed and curling up into a ball like a filly. This had become a habit of hers ever since she watched the season finale of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Unlike me, she didn't get the pleasure of watching through the episodes as they came out, like I did, being seven and all. It has been five years since the finale aired, and she doesn't even remember watching the episodes as they came out because she was only two years old at the time season five finished. Season Five ended at a terrible point, when Discord unleashed a wave of havoc and betrayal. The episode pops right back into my head at a moments notice:
Discord and Celestia were allied together in an epic battle against a huge hellspawn from Tartarus. It’s a pretty amazing battle but then takes a strange turn in the middle of the fight. Celestia took a bad hit from the hellspawn and is lying down next to the edge of a cliff of this volcano. She cries out for help and Discord teleports over. Discord then kneels beside the defenseless Celestia and you can hear her cry out for help and explain she can’t move her legs. Just when you think Discord is going to save her, he instead laughs and kicks her limp body over the edge of the cliff. The Goddess-pony give a blood curdling scream and fall into the lava below. Discord then laughs maniacally and explains to the camera that he played her for a fool this whole time, and he waited over a thousand years for this day.
Discord is then shown traveling to meet Twilight, where he surprises her with some sort of magical attack which eliminates her. Then there is the scene where Rainbow Dash comes up and there is an epic battle. After Rainbow gets hit by some kind of magic spell from Discord, Derpy and Dinky try to fight the chaos surrounding them. When they couldn't take watching their city become the "Chaos Capital of the World" Derpy and Dinky attacked Discord. Dinky only knew how to levitate thing wit her horn, so she could repel the spell if Discord casts it. She makes an attempt to pick up something heavy while Derpy is keeping Discord distracted. She found something, one of her mother's anvils. Just as she manages to pick up the anvil with her magic, Discord casts a spell that he cast on Rainbow Dash. "Mom! No!" Dinky cried out in suffering. She got outraged and threw the anvil at Discord, just before he could teleport away, it hit him smack in the face, leaving a bruise and a very angry Discord where it hit. Discord cast some sort of spell and the world around her begin to crumble into darkness.
I shivered at the memory of the last episode of the best show ever. "Well, if you need me, I'll be downstairs making muffins." I said jokingly.
"Ooo, muffins! Okay I'm coming down with you!" Kate replied as she clung to my leg. She had a thing for muffins ever since she started looking at fan-made Derpy pictures, and then became her favorite food over the next two minutes of trying them. I didn't necessarily want her to find the internet yet, but I promised that she could go on the internet when she learned to read. Lets just say that she was a fast learner.
I had to peel her off my leg as I walked down the staircase to prevent me from tripping over her and tumbling down the stairs. When we got downstairs she ran over to the living room and turned on the TV as I prepared a dozen muffins. She eats so many of them in one sitting, a dozen normally isn't enough. She hadn't had breakfast yet, so a dozen should cut it. As I was preparing the muffin dough, I heard episode three of season two of MLP, Lesson Zero. It had just gotten to the part of which Twilight picks up the cupcakes, so I sneakily fill a 13th cup with the extra dough to surprise Kate.
As I was baking the muffins I got lost in the show. I found myself being sucked into the show so much that I walked over to the living room and sat on the couch.
~~~~~Thunder Rumbling~~~~~"...what did you do..."
I blinked my eyes open. It seems Kate fell asleep as well. Then I remembered the muffins. I sprinted over to the oven and opened it, forgetting to turn it off. A bellow of smoke comes out of the oven, and as a response, sets off the smoke alarms waking Kate up. I turn the oven off quickly and the alarm turns off. Now the alarm will need to be cleaned out because of the smoke that got caught in it. Great another alarm I need to fix.
"D-Daddy?" Kate wavered. "What's going on?"
"Oh, nothing dear, I just burnt the muffins-"
"THE MUFFINS!!!!" Kate shouted. "Not the muffins! You never burn the muffins!"
"Well, I guess I did this time, first time for everything, right? And you aren't one to talk, falling asleep with me, you could have woken me up!" I replied. She just sighed. I handed her a muffin, she blew it to cool it down, and took a bite out of it.
"Mwits swill taswy!" Kate swallowed the bit she was chewing, "A bit crunchy though..."
"That normally what happens when they get burnt." I joked. I took a bite out of one of them and, lo' and behold, they maintained their soft fluffy inside even though the outside was burnt to a crisp. Then I remembered what day it was. May 1st, 2020. My twenty-fifth birthday, and Kate's eight. Its amazing that she was born on my birthday. Seriously, how often does that happen? "Kate? You know what day it is, right...?" I asked. She looks lost in thought for a moment, then her eyes widen as she remembers and she starts bouncing up and down chanting, "It's my birthday! It's my birthday!"
"Don't forget that it's mine too." I remembered something that I saved until her birthday. "Hang on, I'll be right back." I walk up the stairs and into my closet, the one place Kate doesn't explore, and grab a pony-print gift bag. I walk down the hall and step down the stairs again, being careful to keep the gift bag hidden, and walk over to Kate. When she sees that I got her a gift, she snatches it out of my hand and tears all the wrapping paper out of it which then reveals a Derpy Hooves plushie. She bounces up and down yet again, this time having to have me place me hand on her head to get her to stop bouncing. She then grabbed another muffin, leaving only three for me because she ate six of them whilst I was away getting her gift. I ate another muffin, and they still tasted amazing, but still crispy. "I noticed that you ate all the muffins..." I asked.
"Oh yea, see, I got hungry and we haven't had dinner yet and-" Kate was cut off
"We haven't had dinner yet?" I asked nervously. "Well, I guess I'll have to fix that. But first, I need a nap."
~~~~~Strong Wind~~~~~If you are not here to use them...
"Are we there yet?" Kate asked for the seventy-second time.
"The last seventy-one times you asked I said no, but this time we actually are!" I replied as our car curved into the parking lot of our favorite restaurant. Kate was surprised that I was counting all the times she asked. We walked into the door and waited in line, though its late Friday, 11:04 PM to be exact. There was only one person in front of us so, we should get seated in a moment.
"Arbitross," The waiter called and we followed. We got seated at a small two chaired table and were given menus. "What would you like to drink?" The waiter asked.
"Waters are fine for the both of us." I explained. I read the menu as the waiter walked towards the swinging doors of the kitchen. As soon as I found out what I wanted to eat, the waiter came and handed us our drinks, and asked what we wanted to eat. "I would like a bowl of Penne Alfredo." I ordered.
"And I would like some Kids' Mac 'n' Cheese." Kate responded. We waited for the food to come and I started up a conversation with Kate, "So, what cake would you like to get when we eat dinner?"
"Blueberry muffins!" Kate bounced enthusiastically.
"Blueberry... Muffins?" I asked. "You sure that's what you want? We can have those any day, but this is our one and only birthday; It only comes around once a year."
"I'm sure! I want muffins!" Kate persisted.
"Alright... Muffins it is then." I checked the time, 11:13 PM. We have plenty of time before midnight, Kate's birthday bedtime. the waiter walked over to our table whilst holding two plates, one with Alfredo smothered penne, another with macaroni blanketed with cheddar cheese sauce.
After dinner we headed home and made some more muffins, making sure not to burn them this time. They tasted even better than before, like a cloud packaged in a chewy breading. Packaged. Shit! I forgot to do today's mail run! "Kate? Do you want to go on the mail run this time? I know your left at home a lot on Fridays, when I have to deliver mail." My mail route on Friday started right when Kate gets home from school, and it usually take a few hours.
"I thought you'd never ask!" Kate replied enthusiastically.
"Sorry to cut the party short, but my mailbag is calling." I rush over to where my mailbag used to be, but it isn't there.
"I already got it filled and ready!" Kate answered, holding the bag in her hands. The bag had a few envelopes sticking out of it, and several rolls of newspaper. I take the bag and walk out the door. I try to go through the mail run as quickly as possible because it is getting close to Kate's bedtime, and I myself am getting tired. On the last apartment building in our complex, I see a few cars parked outside, more than normal. Maybe someone is having a party? I dunno. I put down the weekly newspaper on the front doorstep and move onto the next apartment. We keep up this continuous routine until the last newspaper is placed. Or at least until Kate falls asleep on my shoulder.
We get home around 11:27 PM, and I just put Kate to bed. I decide that I should take a nice bath for my twenty-fifth birthday. I hardly have time for anything but a shower, so a bath is a nice reward for a good twenty-five years lived in my life. I walk over to the bathroom, climb into the tub, and get the water going. The rest of that time is pretty much a blur. The one thing I can remember is my head bashing on the back of the tub as my vision goes black.
~~~~~Unbelievable Speed~~~~~...for five score divided by four...
I wake laying in a bathtub full of freezing water. What happened? I can't remember... I rub my forehead as I try to remember what happened after dinner. I look at the clock on the wall, 11:34 PM. My hand starts scratching my thigh as if I had an itch there. I try to remember what happened after dinner again, and I have no luck at the fact, because the harder I try to think about it, the worse my headache gets. I look down at what my hand is scratching, and it isn't a bug bite. My blood changes to the temperature of the water that I'm in as I remember everything that happens after dinner, all the way up to fainting in the tub.
Seven magnificent gray bubbles are imprinted on my leg. Derpy's Cutie Mark.
Fuck.
Reality
I look down at the seven gray bubbles emblazed upon my thigh. This is unexpecting. I try to pinpoint how this could of happened, why it happened, and who did it, but it all just jumbles up in my head and I get a bad headache. I rub my forehead with my pruny hands, and I decide to get out of the tub, due to being in it for a few hours. I stumble out of the tub, redress, and nervously walk over to the mirror to clean up my hair. When I get over to the mirror, I see something that I really wish I hadn't. My dark brown hair had been now tinted a pale-yellow color. First, a cutie mark, now my hair is being funky on me? Great, just great. It has got to be Kate who did this. I'm a closet brony, so none of my friends know that I watch the show. Kate is the only person I know who knows that I watch the show, or who my favorite pony is. Well, when I get out the door, she will have a real lecture in her hands. I comb my weirdly colored hair so it isn't all soggy and bunched up, and turn the knob of the bathroom door.
Kate come running up to the door spouting gibberish as soon as I walk out of the bathroom. "Woah! Slow down! Now, we both know who made the mistake here an-"
"Daddy! What did you do to your hair! And my hair!" Kate shouted.
"Wait, what I did to your hair! More like what you did to my hair!" I countered, looking at her hair, which is now tinted a pale pink color.
"But.. I didn't do anything!" Kate argued nervously.
"Well, then I don't know who did!" I sat down on the couch, thinking how this could have happened, and how fast that argument was. It was kinda funny, our arguing lasted for about five seconds, I guess Derpy and Dinky don't argue much... GREAT, I'm thinking as if we were the actual characters! That's just sad. Okay, back on the hair subject: No person knows about our love of the show, and Kate didn't do it, so who does that leave? No-one. I'll just have to think about this later. Wait, Kate didn't mention a cutie mark, maybe she didn't get one! That would make sense. Normally, ponies as young as her don't have their cutie marks. Oh great, now I'm referring to her as a pony? I just don't want to think anymore. Everything that comes across my mine now is about the cutie mark or the hair. Its still late at night, about three-o-clock AM. "Well, I think its time to go back to bed, Kate." It seemed like she agreed because she drowsily waddled up the stairs to her room. I follow her up the stairs and open the door to my room.
When I lay in my bed, I my mind wanders to the cutie mark again. I'll have to tell Kate about it at some point, otherwise she will get really angry at me. My mind continues to drift until it succumbs to my thoughts and I drift into the dark grip of sleep.
The pointed roof of the town hall has collapsed upon itself and there is a really dissapointed looking Rainbow Dash staring up at me. The train that Applejack was going to ride in order to get to the Canterlot Rodeo had just arrived in the station and the Mayor was looking up in regret. Rainbow had just finished hanging the banner to send off Applejack for good luck when the lightning cloud that I was bouncing on flung a bolt of electricity at the town hall and the roof collapsed. Unfortunately, because of my carelessness, Applejack has to give all the prize money that she gets when she wins the rodeo to the reconstruction of the town hall.
A wave of embarrassment flowed over me when I noticed my daughter, Dinky Hooves, being laughed at by the other school kids. She shouldn't be the one to be laughed at, I should. It was my fault!
My eyes crack open as I notice the sun glistening out my window. Shit! I'm late for my mail run! My panic calms down when I remember that today is a Sunday. No mail run on Sunday. Whew! Close one! I will have to get a new alarm clock before Monday though, if I find time. I get into a sitting position in my bed when I notice just how long my hair is. Bangs, hair down to my neck. I knew that it became a tinted pale-yellow color, but I didn't notice that it got this long! When I climb out of bed I notice that my feet arent going into the My Little Pony slippers that lie next to my bed. My toes were the only part that actually touched the ground. I stare down at my feet and see that my heels are raised off the ground. I try to force them down, but the muscle that does that didn't respond. Well, this is... Strange. A loud knocking produced from my door, as well as Kate shouting "DAAAAAD!!!" My ears swiveled towards the door and I replied-
Wait, did my ears just swivel? I feel where my ears were, but find that they had moved up on top of my head. They were covered in gray fur and looked fully equine. "One minute, Kate!" I sighed. I didn't want her to see me like this. Though, she probably would be in the same circumstance that I'm in. What the fuck. I don't know what the fuck is going on anymore. I think that he best answer to this is to go outside and to talk to Kate about it. "Okay, I'm coming right out! I just need to change clothe- WHAT THE FUCK." I say as a take off my pants. Oh my holy shit. First the cutie mark. Next, funky hair- I glance at a mirror and see tht it is now 100% pale-yellow. Great... I look like a freak... Okay, forget the hair. Then I get equine ears and a BUCKING HORSE TAIL EXTRUDING FROM MY BEHIND. 'This... Isn't human' is the is the first thought that traveled through my head. I feel the base of the tail, hoping for it to be made of plastic or something. Nope, made of flesh and bone. Though it does match my hair color... What am I thinking! I freaking find a HORSE TAIL on my backside and I think it looks NICE? Well, I better think of something and think of it fas-
"Dad? You okay in there?" Kate asked worriedly through the wooden door.
"Yea, I'm coming. Just found something... unexpecting." I replied sarcastically as I remember that Kate is waiting right outside he door.
"Good, 'cause I found it too." Kate concluded. Oh. So she did find it... Great, just great. Now I have to deal with my daughter growing bucking HORSE TAILS and EQUINE EARS over myself doing the same thing! I just sigh in disappointment and grief. I just don't want to think about anything right now. Hmm, maybe these new eas have a 'brain sleep mode' button on them. Probably not. "I don't know how long were going to be stuck like this, or i it will o all the way, but I do know one thing. You are NOT going to school tomorrow." I lecture strictly.
"But-" Kate started.
"Buts are for babies." I reply jokingly, which Kate giggled at. "I'm calling your school's office and telling them that we are moving to a different country." Kate decides to walk over to the TV and watch some ponies. How can she watch ponies when she might possibly be becoming one! After my little mind-rant stopped, I found myself walking over to the couch and sitting with Kate. We were watching the episode called "The Last Roundup", in which Derpy was a big part. I find myself pulling away from the TV as I start to see it from Derpy's perspective. It gets to the point where I simply just walked away from the TV and pulled up Yahoo Answers and searched for "Turning into a pony?" I saw that something actually did come up. It was posted by someone with the username of Th3D0ct0rWh00v3s. It was posted a few hours ago, ad there were no current answers. I decided to post one! Well not really a answer, just a extention of the question. Heres what I typed: "Hello, I seem to be having the same problem as you do, I woke up with a Cutie Mark yesterday, and I got pony ears and a bucking HORSE TAIL. Well, if you know anything that I should watch out for, give me a holler. PS, I seem to be turning into Derpy, and my daughter is turning into Dinky I think..." It ends right there. Giving no personal information other than having a daughter and turning into a bucking pony, I think it was a safe answer. I'm probably not going to get a reply back for a few hours, so I might as well get some sleep, I'm pretty exhausted after all that's happened today, even though its mid-day. Oh right! The call to the school! I walk over to the house phone and dial the school's office number. "Hello? This is Seth Arbitross, we are moving out of the country, so we need to get Kate unlisted from the school..." The call lasted for a few hours, and I was getting REALLY sleepy. I tell Kate that I need some shut-eye and walk up to bed. When I get into bed though, I don't sleep. I try to get to sleep, but some part of me really wants me to stay up. I get the feeling that something is going to go terribly wrong if I go to sleep. No matter how much I tell myself to stay up, my body is taking over and forcing me to sleep. My eyelids slowly slide down and I drift into slumber.
"Discord! How dare you! You better teleport Rainbow and the others back right here or I ought to-" I argued.
"Or your going to do what." Discord replied strictly. "I have more power than any of you ponies, But Twilight and her friends tried to stand up. You see where that got them. Hopefully, I won't have to do the same to you-" Discord was cut off when a angry grey mailmare bucked him in the face. I kept up attacking him until Dinky threw one of my anvils at him with magic, which missed completely. Discord got frustrated and let out a small magical boom of some spell that hit me. sending the floor crumbling under my hooves. I hear the echo of Discords voice as I fall into complete darkness. "For five score, divided by four..." The faint echo said. "...memories removed...cast off to a...to scatter the six, just the...mind shall be weak your...forgetting everything...all lost...no one can stop my rule..." The echoes came to a stop as there was a light below me. As I fell into the light everything on me seemed to be forgetting itself.
"Whats... going on?" I managed to say.
Curiosity (Old, Most likely not as good and not as relating to FSD4 Canon)
Remember
I jolt awake, forgetting the dream I had in almost an instant. It seemed like it was something important... I climb out of bed and when my feet make contact with the ground they went, 'Houston, we have a problem!' and I rolled onto the floor with a loud thump, again. I look down at my feet and see why I fell. Well, not feet. Hooves. Freaking pony hooves, with grey fur sprouting up around my cutie mark and my hooves. I stumble a few more times when I try to walk, but I eventually get the hang of the hooves. Thankfully I still have hands. I open the bathroom door, without turning the light on. I don't want to see if there are any more changes until I go pee. Bad idea. I promptly piss on the floor and slip, banging my head on the toilet. In my many attempts to get back up, I finally turn on the light and see that something definitely is missing. "Well... Shit." I say out loud as I notice that I am not the same gender as I was when I fell asleep. I look in the mirror and see that my face is now much more feminine than it was before, with the long yellow hair and the ears poking out the top of my head. I am about to faint when I hear knocking on my door. Not my bedroom door, but my front door. I am about to jump out a window when a familiar voice sounds from my door, it sounded... British.
"Ello in there! Anyone in there?" The familiar voice called. I stay still, knowing that hooves make a ruckus. I don't want to give away any hint that anyone is in here. I hear some form of buzzing sound coming from the lock, and the door swings open. I am tempted to call 911, but that would be a bad idea considering I am half-pony. "Anyone here?" I hear the voice closer. I don't remember anyone that sounds like that, it just seems, familiar.
"Yes, I'm in here." I don't know why I just said that, but I do know that I sound VERY female. I redress and walk out to see a person, well pony, standing in my house. He looks about the same stage of ponyness as I'm in. He looks just as much of a freak as I am. "Who are you?" I ask nervously.
"Well, I am the person you replied to on Yahoo Answers. Oh and by the way, that wasn't a very good answer." He answered. "And who are Derpy and Dinky? I don't even know what is going on! I'm normally good at knowing what's going on at every point in time, and where it's going to happen."
I fight the urge to sarcastically reply that he is turning into a pastel cartoon pony, and succeed. Instead I ask, "How did you know where I lived?"
"Are you going to answer all my questions with more questions?" He asks, annoyed. "Well, I happen to just know these things... It just pops into my head without even trying. I also get weird times where I feel like I'm not where I'm meant to be. Like this isn't the world where I live... This transformation feels... natural." I don't follow most of things he said, but it sounds like he doesn't feel... Right.
"Well, I know what your turning into, but you may not like it-" I attempt to say.
"I know that I might be turning into a small equine of some sort, with brown fur and...the next day I found...And then...Maybe if we introduce quantum physics into whats happening it might...All in all, I just don't really know how this is possible! Unless someone found out how to use quantum physics and genetic modifications, it just doesn't make any sense!" When his rambling finally stopped, and I was snapped out of the trance of sleep, I answer his questions with one thing alone. I don't even need to talk, I just take a DVD out of its case, slide it into my DVD player, and turn it on.
I tell him to sit on the couch as a fan-animated Doctor Whooves episode flashes on the TV. He doesn't argue.
"Oh typical Cheshire Cat! Clever but oh so frustrating!" Doctor exclaimed happily.
"You... You were at the beginning of all of this, weren't you?" Clockwork (The other Doctor) replied. "You made sure that both of us were in the same place at the same time! If we hadn't been-"
"Into the void, quite hard to avoid, really." The Cheshire cats riddled, "But we have our ways..."
"CARROT AND HIS SAGES WERE FOOLS, MY HUNGER WILL BE SATED. Besides, who are you to be chosen as swords. A broken weapon is of no use." The jabberwock interrupted.
"Who are we? Well, that simply answer is the Doctor." The Doctor answered.
"But how do we... Do this...?" Clockwork asked. "Oh come on! Think!"
The jabberwock cut in, "The two of you? There is no worse pair. I have seen the worlds beyond the void, the only thing you truly hate, with a passion greater than all the evil you may face. Is yourself. You should aid me. If the universe has ended, then it will no longer require a Doctor."
"Well, that's a fine offer, but I know for a fact that I would hate myself even more if I chose to ever go down the same path as you, Jabbers. The Doctor refused.
"Indeed, I may hate myself. I mean, this particular incarnation is rather rash, annoying, hyper, rambly-" Clockwork started.
"Yes, and your an overly grammatical stick in the mud, who takes everything far to seriously." The Doctor laughed. "But really, everyone has to learn to accept their own flaws, don't they?"
"Yes, even when those flaws are staring you right in the face." Clockwork added. "And there's one thing that I, in any world, any incarnation, no matter how much I hate myself, wouldn't allow."
"Don't think you can trick me with your lies." The jabberwock replied.
"Oh, I think I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't lie about a thing like this." The Doctor answered. "Your threatening the very existence of universes. Universes that are full of brilliant lives and endless possibilities!"
"And the universe my companion lives in!" Clockwork added. "Can't have that happen, now can we? No matter how much I may not like me, this takes priority. And now you have not one. Oh no, not one. But TWO doctors to deal with. Your a really bad planner aren't you?"
"Talk all you want, but what good are mere words? You can't stop this!" The jabberwock cut in.
The screen went black after that last phrase. What? I thought there was more to that? I have watched that disk many times, and it ended with Derpy and Twilight. The two companions. Charging in and attacking the jabberwock. There was this epic battle, then they are sent back to their own dimensions and Derpy returns to Dinky hiding in an alley, with Discord battling Rainbow Dash, and it happens to be right when the Season Five Finale ended. Wait, that can't be right... This DVD was made a few years before Season Five even aired! I tried to fish the thought out of my mind as if it were stuck in ice. It wasn't budging. I suppose I will have to wait for the ice to thaw then! I keep trying to drag the thought out, as if I had just caught a shark with a fishing pole, and I was trying to reel it in. 'Remember'. A voice inside my head was trying to make contact, but I just shrugged it off. Go away freaky voice thingy! I don't want you here right now! I had a mental disorder when I was a kid. I had a voice in my head, telling me to remember. Remember what? I tried to ask it, but it only said 'Remember'. 'Remember everything.' It said something different. I am about to ask what everything is, but I am interrupted by a splitting pain in my back. I fall off the couch as my spine feels like its about to snap. I notice 'The Doctor' shout in surprise, lean over and ask if everything is alright before my vision goes dark. When I try to get up, my head falls over and hits the wood paneling, causing me to black out.
"C'mon... C'mon... Wake up Derpy... Please wake-" I roll over on the ground as I accidentally hit The Doctor in the face with... Umm... Oh.
"Well, that wasn't there before." I say out loud as I notice long wings expanding from my back. "Well, it was bound to happen!" Normally, a pain like that wouldn't hurt enough to make me black out. But I had a very weak backbone, so it made it hurt much more than it should. I almost blacked out again. The sheer craziness of the fact I grew wings was enough to make me lightheaded. "How long was I out?" I ask as my stomach grumbled. I walked over to the fridge, losing my balance several times due to my new wings...
"About twenty-seven hours, nineteen minutes, and forty-one seconds." The Doctor answered. "Forty-two and a half seconds."
"You kept track of all that?" I ask as I open the fridge and take out some pre-mixed muffin dough. "Wait... holy shit? I was out for a whole day?"
"According to my math, yes. Approximately 5 hour-" The Doctor replied.
"Okay, I get it. No need for math ramblings..." I interrupted.
"But I like saying my accompany-" The Doctor was cut off again.
"No buts." I replied. "I never got your name. What is it?"
"I... don't really have a name..." The Doctor shyly answered. "My parents died when I was two years old. I didn't have any friends, so no one needed to call me anything. Anything anyone every called me was either 'him' or 'that strange kid'."
"Oh, that's so sad to hear! Oh, um, right... My name... It's Seth. Seth Arbitross." I replied.
"That's a strange name for a girl..." The Doctor speculated.
"I wasn't always a girl...."
"You weren't? Oooooh, right. Transformations. Gotcha." Realization of something hits me like a bullet.
"Do you know where Kate is?"
"Who's Kate? Your daughter? Haven't seen her. She is upstairs." I say that I have to check on her and run upstairs. Man, he can be sooo weird. He can tell whats going on and where. I find her laying in her bed, curled up in pain. I notice that she grew a new appendage as well. A horn. Great. Thankfully she was still the same gender. Dinky was female after all. Figures that I'm the only one that has to change gender. I poke Kate to wake her up. She winces in pain, but her eyes open.
"Owwww..." She groaned painfully.
"You okay?" I ask nervously.
"No..."
"Anything I can do to help?"
"I don't think their is a painkiller for 'Growing a horn'"
"Well, hey, looks like we are in the same boat on this." She climbs into a sitting and sees that I have wings. I cut her off before she starts rambling. "And we have a visitor."
"A visitor? Isn't that a bad idea considering we are turning into ponies?"
"First, we don't know how far this will go. Second-" I heard the voice again. 'You don't know?' The voice asked. Well, there's a problem...' What do you mean? 'I mean that-'
"Dad?" Kate interrupted. "You okay?"
"Uh... Yea... Hang on Dinky." I say as I walk out the door. I close the door behind me as she mumbles something.
"She okay?" Doctor asked from downstairs.
"Uh... Yea." I mumble. "I'm heading up to the roof if you need me." Thankfully the roof is somewhere no person every goes. Its always covered with trash and litter. I head out the door and walk up the apartment stairs up to the roof and, like always, is empty. It is still covered in trash and aluminum cans. Puddles were scattered across the roof. "Alright, we can talk now." I say to the voice.
'Good.' Alright, first off. Whats your name? 'My name is Ditzy' Wait, Ditzy? Isn't that Derpy's real name? 'Not really. Well, not the dimension that I'm from.' Dimension? Your from a different Dimension? 'Yes.' How is it like there? And how can you talk through dimensions? 'It's peaceful here, no Discord ruling here. And I don't have a physical body or mass. In this dimension, there is no mass or shape. It's all just living subconscious's that live here, that are bound to a body from different dimensions. If someone tries to get rid of the 'voice in their head', we die with it. So, when I tried to get rid of you when I was younger- 'You almost killed me.' Oh, well, sorry. I didn't know you were a living being. I thought you were a mental disorder. I subconsciously started flapping my wings and my hooves lift off the ground. 'Forget about before, together we can overcome anything, if you can remember.' Remember wha- Oh well, uh. How'd this happen. I notice that I was flying high above the cloud layer. I panic and my wings stop flapping. 'Remember.' A memory of this happening when I was younger snapped into my head. When I was learning to fly, I tried going really high up, and I got scared and fell. Wait, I didn't have wings when I was younger! 'Remember.' I close my eyes and think. I do... I do remember. My wings expanded from my sides, and I start flapping. I open my eyes and see that I hovering. I land on a cloud and twenty-five years worth of my life, my life, not this human form's memories. My memories. All coming back at once.
"Mom! Hurry!" Dinky called from under a rock. We were out collecting special berries for our "Secret Recipe Muffins" when a hydra started rampaging around the Everfree Forest. I dived under the rock and fell into a cave, almost splashing into the pool that occupied it.
"Isn't this the Mirror Pool? Y'know the one that Pinkie Pie used a few months ago when there was the big 'Pinkie Storm'?" I ask.
"I think so." Dinky answered cautiously.
"We should better stay on the other side of the cave of it, so we don't fall in. Just until the hydra goes away."
"Mom? When we get home can we make muffins?" Dinky asked from the side of the hospital bed of which I was in. I took a nasty crash when delivering mail one day. I broke my wings, so I had to stay in the hospital for a few days. 'Might as well be a few days, or a few years!' Rainbow Dash would have said. Thankfully I wasn't as rash as Rainbow. I just took the few days as an excuse to get away from work. It was summer, so all the fillies and colts always wanted to send a letter to their friend asking if they could come and play, or if their friend could come over to the local park and play.
I was trying to get a letter sent as fast as I possibly could, so I could get off work early and spend the rest of the day with Dinky, but when I tried to slow down, I ended up flipping forwards and falling to the ground with a big THWUMP. Unfortunately, the most sensitive part of me, my wings, took the brunt of the crash, which ended up breaking them.
I woke up and I noticed that I was still on the cloud. Then I remembered that I was still on Earth. Clouds move on their own. I look down and see massive fields. Thankfully, I have my phone in my pocket. I pull it out of my coat pocket and as I'm about to flip the phone open when I notice that I no longer have fingers. Or hands. Hooves. I now have hooves for hands, as well as feet now. Well, can't type on a phone with hooves. Didn't know the Doctor's phone number anyways. 'C'mon Derpy, you know your way back! You are a mailmare after all. You know where you've been and how to get back the way you came! It's in your DNA!' Derp. I quickly remember how to get back knowing which way I came and which way the wind is blowing. If the wind blew the clouds east, then I have to go west!
After I made preparations, I started flapping my wings and lifted off the cloud. After I was about twenty feet above the cloud, my wings spread to my sides and I bolted forwards much faster than I expected. My mind's dashboard kept me up to date on how fast I'm going, where I am, and what direction I'm going. Man... good thing I'm turning into Derpy. Derpy gets all the cool stuff. 60 mph... 75 mph... 120 mph... Um... I'm going a bit fast... I try flapping my wings to slow down, but the wind stops me from doing that. 185 mph... I try angling my wings up, which causes me to go 185 miles per hour UPWARDS. Well, I slowed down, but now I'm two thousand feet UP. I start to hover, and then I try flapping slower. I slowly go down, but at this rate I wouldn't be getting anywhere for a while. I notice a small cloud below me, and I stop flapping my wings. I start to drop extremely fast, faster than I thought possible. I try to start flapping my wings, but again, the amount of wind kept me from doing so. When I hit the cloud, it knocks the breath out of me. After a few regaining my breath and actually become able to stand up, I turn around. WELL, my brain just exploded. Thirteen times. In front of me is a familiar blue box. How it could be here, or why it is here, is completely out of my mind. But I do know that it wasn't there when I landed. The door to the police box opens and I see a brown stallion inside beckon for me to enter. "So I take it you can fly now?" The Doctor asked.
"Uh... yea." I replied, dumbfounded. "This is a TARDIS. How is there a TARDIS on this planet!?!"
"Oh? This old thing?" The Doctor answered. "That's what its called. And this thing has been sitting around my garage for a few years now. How do you think I got to your house from Britain in so little time?"
"But... Its... A... TARDIS. A TARDIS. BUH- WHA- TARDIS-"
"Oh, and I turned your TV into a quantum processor in order to make this thing work again. It kinda got old from sitting around for so long."
"You turned my TV into a what? I'm gonna want another TV y'know."
"Oh, this thing has a TV. It has a whole theater room."
"Uh... Right, bigger on the inside."
'Do you want a ride home? Or are you just going to sit on that cloud all day?" He says and I walk into the TARDIS, still dumbfounded by the fact it exists. Well, can't have a Doctor without the TARDIS can ya? "It was kinda hard getting here, pretty hard operating this thing with hooves." As the TARDIS starts whirring and buzzing, the world around me start shifting away into blackness.
"Derpy!" The Doctor shouted as the planet started to crumble apart. "C'mon Derpy! We have to get out of here! The planets going to explode in five minutes!" After the voice of the Doctor brought me out of the stream of memories of my childhood, I started to run with him. We were almost to the TARDIS, in fact, the Doctor was already inside. As I was about a few tail-lengths away, a huge chunk of ground slid into the molten core of the world, and It was in the area in-between me and the TARDIS. The Doctor opened the door to the TARDIS when he heard the loud noise outside, and called out to me. "Derpy! You have to jump! Its the only way you can make it!"
"No! There's no way I can jump that far, and my wings are broken so I can't fly!" A giant chunk of land fell behind me as I said that.
"You have to jump! I'm not leaving without you!" I am pulled between the logical solution, and the solution that keeps me alive. As soon as I think of those choices, I immediately choose the second.
"JUMP!" I shout as I run and lift my self off the ground with my hooves. I open my eyes and I see that I am falling, though still at the top of the arc of the jump. I think I'm not going to make it as I fall below the ground level. Then a hoof grabs mine. I feel myself getting pulled up into the TARDIS as I fall unconscious.
My eyes crack open as I see that I am still on a cloud. Below me is the apartment's roof. All the clouds were in the same place as they were when I fell asleep. Whew, It was just a dream... I look at my hands and see that they are indeed still hands. Well, I can't tell if that's either good or bad... I jump off the cloud and and spread my wings to slow my descent. When I land on the roof, my wings fold up. I look at my watch, and see that I fell asleep five minutes before. Weird... It felt like hours. I wonder if this is actually a dream. I punch myself in the face, expecting not to feel it. Definitely felt it. I fall backwards onto my back, with major pain in my head. Probably shouldn't have hit myself that hard... Well, too late now! I walk down the stairs as I notice that hooves make a really loud racket. I try stepping lighter, but it still makes a loud sound when I put my hoof down.
When I get down to my apartment, I remember that I have a mail run later today... Shit! How am I supposed to deliver mail without getting seen? Wait, wings... I could get it done much faster. I open the door and walk inside, saying that I would be right back, and grabbing my mail bag. I sling the bag around my shoulder and start to flap my wings. I fly high enough that I will be able to see where I am dropping the mail, and making sure people can't see me. I start my forward motion and start dropping the mail with extreme accuracy. Every single letter and newspaper lands just at the door of each house, and I didn't even get seen! Within twenty minutes, I had all the mail delivered. Okay... now I just have to get... down. I notice that I am way high up to just fall, and there are no clouds below me to land on in order to get a safer landing. My wings are getting really tired, almost to the point of giving out on me. I think that I could glide down to the ground, and I expand my wings out to my side. I immediately start going quickly. Okay not quickly... REALLY quickly. Like, 120 mph fast. 121 mph, 126 mph. According to my brain, I am pickup speeds really quickly... I'm going 5 mph faster every second. 142 mph. I see my apartment in the distance, and I'm nowhere close to the ground. I start to angle my wings down, and I see that I am now going very quickly, now slightly downwards. 197 mph. As I am about to hit the ground I tilt my wings up and start flapping them. That slows me down a lot, but I was still going 60 mph when I hit the ground. I landed squarely on my legs, and I stop completely without getting injured. Wow, why didn't I get a pair of hooves earlier? These are amazing!
I walk over to my apartment and open the door, when I put my bag down and see that Kate and the Doctor are havnig a conversation about... Fishing poles? Ah, nevermind. "I'm going to bed." I tell them that I'm tired from flying, and need to go to sleep.
"You can FLY?!?" Kate exclaimed. "Whycan'tIflyohrightIdon'thavewingsbutIshouldbeabletousemagicshouldn'tI?"
"Slow down! I can't understand you when you are in Pinkie Pie ramble mode." I joked.
"What I said is that I should be able to use magic, shouldn't I?
"Considering that the Dinky in the show could, and I can fly, I'm assuming that you can. Try thinking of something that might help with what you are to do with your magic."
"I think I will try levitating something. Maybe the TV remote?"
"Alright, try thinking of picking up the remote with your hands. Then try to think of your horn as a hand to pick things up with." She started to pick up the remote, then dropped it once she was amazed by the fact she picked it up.
"I used magic! Did you see that? It hovered!" Kate giggled happily.
"Yes, you did. Try picking it up again, but keep the thought of picking it up in your head." She made the remote hover again, but it didn't fall this time. "Now try bringing it over to you." The remote slowly hovered over to Kate as she giggled with delight. "Now try pressing a button on it." The power button slowly slid down as the TV screen flashed to life.
"MY LITTLE PONY, MY LITTLE PONY... AH AH AH AAAAAAH..."
"Wh- Where am I?" I wake up as I am in a demolished town. There's dust blowing all over it and all the houses are crumbled. I don't see any signs of life, or any signs that there could have been life for hundreds of years. That is, until I see a greyish-purple horn poking out of the rubble of one of the houses. The rest of the pony that the horn is attached to becomes visible as the pony stands up. "Dinky!" I call, but she doesn't notice me call to her. Another figure appears from the distance. "Doctor?" I call, but he doesn't hear me either.
"Don't worry Dinky, were safe, we just need to wait for Derpy." The Doctor whispered to Dinky as a loud rumble sounded.
"I'm right here!" I call, but even if they could've heard me, my voice was cut out by the rumbling sound. I saw some of the buildings crumble even more as the world started to faintly shake. I saw some sort of dark smoke in the distance, and it was coming closer.
"Doctor!" Dinky called, "We need to get out of here! Now!"
"No... I'm not leaving without Derpy!" The Doctor was tearing up now. "Come at me! If you've got Derpy then I'll fight you for her!"
"Oh, silly ponies." A menacing and low voice called from nowhere. "Always trying to be big shots. Well I'll show you who's in charge here!"
"Dinky, Go!" The Doctor order. "To the TARDIS, it is set to autopilot, It will take you to the moment before this evil got here!" Dinky ran as fast as her little legs could carry her to the blue box in the distance. She jumped in and it started to fade when the shadow began to talk again.
"Silly Doctor, you of all ponies should know that won't keep her safe." The shadow declared as the Doctor took out his sonic screwdriver and pointed it at the shadow. "You think that measly little device can do anything against me?"
"No, but it's really good at opening doors, and I think I feel Pinkie Pie Having a Ear flop, Eye flutter, and Knee twitch." The Doctor answered courageously.
"Um... what exactly does that-"
The door to the remains of Sweet Apple Acre's cellar swung open as the sonic screwdriver made a buzzing noise. The shadow was drained down into the cellar, leaving a figure floating in midair. "Oh, good job little pony... you managed to get me out of my disguise! Lucky you. Unfortunately, that luck will only last you so long..." The floor below the Doctor started to crumble, sending him into the black abyss as Discord laughed overhead.
"You... You, bring my Doctor back RIGHT NOW! You hear me? RIGHT NOW!" Discord didn't seem to hear me, as if I wasn't even here. I got so angry that I just charged at discord with immense speed, thanks to my wings, and smashed right into him.
"What! How? I thought I got rid of you measly little pony a long time ago! How could you be here now?" Discord asked angrily.
"I'm the Doctor's assistant! I have my ways." I glared at Discord, who was just getting back up from when I knocked him over. "And you, Discord, are not being nice!" I buck Discord in the face with my hind legs and he gets sent flying back. I fly up after him, not giving him a chance to recover, and pummel him in the face with my front hooves. "I may not be as smart as the Doctor, but I know that you..." I buck him in the stomach as such an angle that he goes flying upwards. "...are..." I fly up to him and kick him sideways. "...a..." I circle around him and kick him downwards. "Bully!" I say as I slam him into the ground. As I notice that he isn't getting back up again, at least not for a long while, I start to relax. As I start to let my body and mind relax, I feel a strange tingling sensation, and then I feel like I'm nonexistent.
"Doctor?" I call yet again. "Where are you? You have to be here somewhere!" I start to fly off into the distance searching for him, but as I start to give up hope, I see him right in front of me...
In my living room. The desert-like surroundings fade into blank walls, a TV, and a couch. I feel so exhausted that I just fall off the couch and attempt to stand up. My spine wouldn't let my stand up all the way, when I tried it felt like it was snapping in two. I look over onto my back, noticing that it is now covered in gray fur, and that my hands are now hooves. I look over to the mirror that's in the side of the room. In a mixture of brony excitement and sheer terror, I find three letters that explain what I am feeling right now.
W.
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F.
