Thunder struck the ground with a mass amount of force, rain pelting the ground, heavy drops making deep indents. From the mud rose a large being, his upper body resembled that of a man, a human, whilst the lower half was that of a Stallion. The great centaur stomped to existence, the mud from which he emerged bubbled and boiled before turning to stone. The being looked above the tree tops, spotting light in the distance and through mere instinct, he began his trek.
The main six sat in Twilight's room, whispering and giggling amongst each other before they felt a heavy shake, rattling their brains. Pinkie Pie stood up and walked near the window, squinting her eyes in an attempt to make out something through the heavy rain, but to no avail.
The stomping grew near, the sounds of screaming ponies shook and then silence. Apple Jack looked confused, walking next to Pinkie Pie to look out side, but nothing could be seen. After a long silence, the window shattered, throwing the two ponies back with a scream. Twilight jumped to her feet and rushed outside, leaving the confused ponies inside where it was safe.
Walking out, Twilight's eyes burned from the rain, she looked up at the large being. The centaur stood taller than Princess Celestia, taller than Discord. His haunches reached the center of the castle while his body stood tall, almost reaching the top.
He was stomping about, reaching in other windows, grabbing items and pulling them out. The being turned to the smaller Princess, eyes shining like the moon as he tried to reach down to pick up the pony. His attempt was a fail as Twilight let out a blast of magenta, teleporting from his hand to her room, soaked from the rain.
"You need to get everypony to leave! Right now! Rainbow Dash, quick-" She called out, not waiting for them to respond.
"Wait, what's going on out there?" A familiar voice sounded. From the back of the group, a purple dragon asked. His scales trembled on his body, scared out of his skin. Twilight softened, looking out the window. She raised her voice so she can be heard.
"I... Don't know what it is... But it's causing a lot of danger. I need these ponies to leave before something bad happens. Rainbow Dash, call everyone out. Pinkie Pie, you go with her. Apple jack, I need you to help me bring down this thing, and Fluttershy?" The small pony looked up, trebling just as much, if not more, than Spike, "I will need help from your critter friends." Like that, the all dispersed from their small group, heading out into the rain.
Twilight stood next to Apple Jack, peering up at the being with wide eyes...
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"It has a picture of Humans and Human-like beings! In this world, you might be linked with the Centaur!" Twilight called out giddily. "I knew it was here! See! Didn't I tell you?"
Mark watched her bounce, lowering her head before interrupting her. "Wait, If I have a link to a Centaur, wouldn't you have a closer relation?"
"Genetically? Yes! But it's from where you came that links you closer to it. Mythologically, any way. You said you came through a portal, well so did I! And so did Tirek and Discord! though from the same dimension, I don't think. Ah- Here! Anthropology." She lowered the book on a table, looking at the different pages that had crude doodles of what Humans looked like. Mark simply scoffed, looking over the books pictures.
"Do you really think I look like that??" With a blunt hoof, he pointed to a picture of a naked man. The features were greatly exaggerated, and all in all looked more like belonged in a political cartoon.
"Of course I don't! But humans are multicolored, yes? You see, I went through a portal a long time ago to regain my crown from a former enemy. Over there, I found out the weird customs of human culture! How even over there, they stick to wheats and vegetables!" Twilight looked up at Mark, completely beaming.
"No... Not me anyways. Humans eat meat. Well... Some do. Like bacon or beef. You know... Cow and Pigs? We do come in different colored, I am more on the tan side. Oh-Oh wait... Do you have Appaloosa horses? And Mustangs? Clydes Dales? Well that basically like a Humans ethnicity; Black, White, Asian..." He attempted to explain to her, looking off in thought
"Well... What are you, then? Your human ethnicity?" She asked, proud to learn anything and everything.
"Uhh... Korean... and German..."
Twilight immediately shoved her muzzle into the book, looking over on what information the book gave on humans. "Huh. Strange. This doesn't say anything about breeds. At least we can learn more and correct these books! Now, Mark, in your human world, do you have equine?"
"What kind of question is that? Yes we have horses. We have every animal you have in here." He stomped his hoof irritably. "What does this have to do with anything?" He was growing impatient, a feeling of anger and confusion bubbling deep with in him.
"Because, we need to know exactly where you came from, Mark!" She spoke out, flipping through more pages before the page came to a complete blank. "What?" She examined it, turning it over and upside down. "I don't understand! It's blank!"
Mark blinked, his brows furrowed as he trotted over to the princess, looking over his shoulders to the, indeed, blank page. He felt outraged, down right offended. Mark turned, calmly walking out as his head boiled with utter distress. The stallion walked passed the main hall, down the corridor and out the set of door. He didn't know what exactly made his feel outraged, but he didn't feel like calming down just yet. Mark looked back at the castle, brows furrowed from anger soon shifted to confusion. The castle looked much smaller on the outside than how large it was on the inside. He trot around the perimeter, spotting broken glass and chipped corners. The more he examined, the more he noticed the small imperfections. Some thing has been here. Something big.
Rainbow Dash rested on a cloud, she was supposed to keep duty, making sure no one was in the village. She heard stomping and woke up immediately, looking over the border of the fluffy cloud to look down. She saw it was the Stallion that freaked out earlier and simply gave a grin. Someone that paranoid would be fun to scare.
She readied her wings, letting them stretch before she flew down quietly, heading to a bush and hiding in it. She began to wiggle and squirm in the bush, making noise.
Mark's attention was stolen from the castle to a near by brush. His ears pressed against his head as he decided to go with his gaming instinct and slow his way to the source of the noise. He leaned in, using a blunt hoof to part the leaves before he was toon tackled. The mare knocked the air out of Mark, causing him to roll on his side and give out deep huffs while the rainbow maned mare stood triumphantly over his body.
"Ha! One for Rainbow Dash, none for... Uh, what ever your name is." She continued to boast before she realized he wasn't laughing, or doing anything really except for wriggling. "Um... You okay? I didn't hurt you that bad right? You can't be serious." Rainbow Dash moved to pick him up, setting him on his feet. "Say... What even is you name? Unless your name is 'AHHHHH', then nice to meet you. I'm Rainbow Dash! The one and only, then again, I'm pretty sure you've seen me around with my fan club and all that. Maybe when you go to the Wonder Bolt games? I know, speechless huh? Yeah, I am pretty cool."
While Mark was in near agony and probably suffered from a broken rib, he felt his head throb at her speaking. In a strained voice he spoke up, looking up at her before noticing his vision was blurry. "S-Shut up." He soon dipped down to feel for his glasses, the colors blending them in perfectly. He was feeling around gently before he heard a crunch and glass break. Mark looked up at Rainbow Dash, who very visibly has a look of shock and guilt on her face as she lifted her front hooves.
"Uh-hehehe... Who needs glasses anyways? They're for egg heads!"
"Do you know how long it took for me to get them?" He normally would have been very forgiving, and feeling trapped in a world he was very unfamiliar with seemed to pull on his physique more and more. He took a deep breath and calmed down. "It's okay. It's Perfectly fine. I can always get new ones." Issuing it more to himself than to Rainbow Dash, she still managed to give her two sense, flapping her wings idly.
"I mean sure, you can... If you want to travel to Canterlot. From the looks of it, not many ponies are in Ponyville." Mark looked about the desolate town, brows furred as he began to notice the same patterns the castle had. He soon looked back at Rainbow Dash who had hovered over the Earth pony, before lowering to the ground. "I highly doubt your name is Ahhhhh, what is it, really?"
He had calmed down completely, speaking in his normal, low voice, "Mark Fischbach." It was a simple response, but for him, it was like he was quizzed on the things he had no clue about.
"Mark? Weird name. You don't... have any type of marks... at all really. And what's with your cutie mark? Why is it a pink mustache? Wait... Do you like... Other Stallions?" Rainbow gasped at the sudden revelation before interrupted by Mark once more.
"No. No. No. I'm not gay, I like women very much... Not that there's anything wrong with liking the same gender... But that's just not me." He shut his mouth, not wanting to sound too defensive, but thinking it over, there was no way to succeed. Rainbow Dash only laughed, on her back and clutching her stomach.
"Wow, very nice Mark. It was just a joke, no need to cry about it!" She stood back up dusting her wings off by flapping them. "Hey... Why are you here? Are you new here or did you not get the memo?"
Mark was confused for a moment, but soon remembered where he was. He looked down and furrowed his brows before looking back up at his acquaintance.
"I... have no idea..."