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.