Horses. Disgusting, dirty animals. Always hated them as a kid. Wouldn't even go on a pony for my birthday party. Heck, I avoided those long faced fuckers for as long as possible. Until two of them started suddenly chasing me. The fact both were bright, vibrant colors and one could fly only made my hatred only grow stronger.
"Pinkie, we have to stop him, not throw him a party!" Rainbow Dash shouted at her friend, flying directly above me as I traveled down the river, doing my best attempt at swimming. Seems that simply swinging my body side to side while making my flippers and tail flap was about as effective as a paraplegic doing a doggy paddle. But then I remembered. Most of the propulsion is in the tail of a fish, more specifically, the tail fin. I focused all my muscle movement in swinging my tail back and forth, my speed increasing dramatically as I sped down the river. At this rate, I'll hit the town in no time.
"Ooh, should I get the others to help me with the party too?" Pinkie asked, for some reason still keeping up with us just by bouncing along.
Facehoofing, Dash yelled, "Yeah, go get Twilight and whoever else here as soon as you can!"
"Okie dokie then!" she shouted, racing off to Ponyville much quicker than me or Dash could move, a faint outline of dust trailing behind her.
"Mike, you have to stop this now! Everypony in Ponyville is going to freak out if you come by!" Rainbow Dash pleaded with me, floating down closer to the water.
"That's mostly the point, idiot!" I shot back, the river becoming deeper and giving my new large form more wiggle room to move faster. "That way you all will have to send me home!"
"Just wait for Twilight! She'll be here any minute with Pinkie on the way!" Dash reminded me.
"No way! I'm going to her personally, even if I have to fuck over evolution and grow a new pair of legs to do it!" I dived below the surface so I didn't have to listen to her whining anymore, my dorsal fin sticking out of the water in the trademark Jaws fashion.
"Ah, buck it!" I could barely hear her shriek past the sounds of the river. Now the river seemed to be getting deeper. And wider. Actually, I now had plenty of room to move about. Looks like I was in a lake of some sort.
"Fuck, a lake! Now where the hell do I go?" I said out loud underwater, air bubbles leaving my jaws. Suddenly, the electrical field I felt before while at the pond started sensing something. Now my field had expanded, giving me a rough estimate of the size of the lake. Wasn't that big, but there was apparently three small life forms near the middle of it. their size and shape I got from the electrical field, along with my own impressive vision, I could tell they were the colorful horses from before, though a bit smaller. Maybe they could help me out.
As I swam closer, I could hear screaming. A lot of it. Extremely girlish ones too. Wonder what they could be screaming about.
"Come on Sweetie Belle, jump in the water," Apple Bloom teased the unicorn, the red maned filly nudging her friend.
"I dunno; it looks awfully deep. And what if there's sharks?" Sweetie Belle said, backing away from the edge. A splash of water suddenly came out of no where and soaked both fillies in an instant. The laughing in the middle lake revealed the orange pegasus Scootaloo, who was taking great joy at her friends' expense.
"Come on you guys. The water's just fine. Plus, no sharks!" she said at the pair, nonchalantly backstroking as she continued to chuckle.
Giving Sweetie another nudge, Apple Bloom jumped high in the air and shouted, "Geronimo!" She landed in cannonball position in the water, laughing happily as she surfaced.
Shaking her head to clear away her fears, she took a tentative step in the lake, followed by another as she grew more comfortable with the feel of water on her hooves. Soon she was paddling closer to her friends, laughing along with them and generally having a great time. Until a familiar voice shouted in the distance, "Ah, buck it!"
"Hey, is that Rainbow Dash?" Apple Bloom said, squinting at the flying figure fast approaching them.
"It is Rainbow Dash!" Scootaloo squealed in joy while fist pumping the air. "Oh man, with her here this day out is going to get twenty percent cooler!"
"Please, don't say that again. We just got you to stop using that catchphrase last week," Sweetie moaned, flinching at the memory. At the end of it she and Apple Bloom were tempted to shove a beehive in the pegasus' mouth so they never had to hear that hated saying again. Yeah, it got that annoying.
"You guys! Get out of the way!" they could hear Rainbow Dash yell. "Incoming shark attack!"
"Wait, sharks? Sharks don't swim in freshwater," Apple Bloom said.
"Then what's that?" Sweetie screamed, pointing at a fin cutting through the surface of the lake as the shadow of a large creature could clearly be seen underwater speeding towards them.
"Why, that is clearly a shark!" Scootaloo shouted, all three of the fillies huddling together in the water and screaming like no tomorrow as the snout of the shark broke the surface of the lake, along with an open jaw full of razor sharp teeth.
"... say what now?" Twilight asked Pinkie Pie, scratching her head in confusion at what the bouncing party pony was saying.
"A shark with a chainsaw jaw suddenly appeared in Fluttershy's pond, talked to us, got out, is now in a river coming to Ponyville to get you to send him home! And we have to throw him a 'Welcome Party' before you send him away!" Pinkie Pie quickly explained, Twilight having trouble keeping up with what she just said. "And his name is Mike."
"How did a shark end up in Fluttershy's pond? More importantly, how is he able to talk?" A hoof covering her mouth from the pink mare stopped any further questions from the unicorn.
"No questions! Only action!" she shouted, pointing to the open doorway of the library she kicked open only seconds before. "To the talking shark named Mike!"
"... once again, I'll ask. Say what now?" And once again, her question was unanswered as Pinkie dragged her out of the library and hightailed it to the river. With the Pinkie Pie towing Twilight along on her back, the pair made fast time as they raced towards where Mike was supposedly heading.
"Hurry! He's right over here," Fluttershy said, pointing to the pond in the distance. "Right in the pond."
"Mind tellin' me again why ya called me away from my farm and Rarity from her walk in the park to come here?" Applejack asked, the orange mare trotting next to the pegasus.
"I think she said something about a talking shark," Rarity reminded her, the purple maned unicorn peering in the distance at the pond. "And how it came out of nowhere or something like that."
"Yeah, and he yelled at me and called me an idiot."
Applejack arched an eyebrow at her. "Then why exactly are we goin' to him then if he did all that to ya?"
"Because he needs help getting back home. And I intend to make sure that happens." They were nearing the pond, none of them yet noticing its strange red color.
"Is this because you actually want to help him, or you just want him out of your pond?" Rarity asked.
"Think of it as a mix of the two." Finally, the trio reached the pond, and gasped in collective shock at what they were greeted to. Most of the blood and fish guts had settled to the bottom on the pond, but it was still clear that every fish had been slaughtered and ripped to shreds. And by the look of the fish bits still floating to the surface with teeth marks on them, it was clear who the culprit was.
"M-Mike ate all m-my f-f-fishies," Fluttershy cried, tear drops streaming down her face as she turned her head away from the remnants of carnage before her.
Applejack growled. "Why that no good trash eatin' varmint. When I get my hooves on him, I'm gonna-"
"Please, Applejack," Rarity interrupted her, draping a hoof on the crying pegasus' back. "Fluttershy is torn up right now. You can make threats after we make her feel better."
Nodding her head in understanding, Applejack stared at the bloody remains of the pond with a grimace on her face. "Yer right. What I'm just wonderin' is how this Mike guy got here in the first place."
Her question was quickly answered as a loud bang and flash of bright light, much like the one minutes before. Another splash of water soaked the three mares, one already used to it and the other two getting hit quite unexpected. The blood and guts also covering them only made matters worst.
Fluttershy facehoofed. "Oh, not again."
Out of the water towered a large, monstrous looking creature, its very appearance making all three of the mares gulp in fear and slowly back away. "Holy shitburgers, colorful ponies!" the creature shouted, taking an intimidating step closer to the ponies. "Well get Jesus to fuck my mother, cause this is awesome!"