• Published 23rd Mar 2012
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Holy Celestia! - UnderCover



A gathering of six ponies and a dragon meet in a clearing. One botched spell sends them whirling....

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Chapter One: The Party

MLP Fanfic

Fluttershy padded quietly along a path in the woods. She was worried, like always, but this time she knew that it wasn’t for a bad reason. The path was one she had never seen before, but how it had escaped her sight before she had no clue. She could have sworn…oh well. A twig snapped, and she jumped so high that she wrapped herself around a tree branch. Sighing, she took a minute to convince herself that everything was okay. Then she fluttered down to the ground and continued along the trail.

Pinkie Pie bounced along through the forest. She still hadn’t found Fluttershy yet, but she had a feeling that she was close. At a fork in the trail, she decided to follow the one that had very slight hoof prints. She started to whistle, and it sounded funny because she was bouncing.

Applejack ran as fast as she could into the woods from Fluttershy’s house. She had been waiting there for an hour, and she knew that Fluttershy wouldn’t just FORGET their appointment. It was important, and she was really worked up about it. She decided to search the woods, just to make sure that the Everfree Forest hadn’t claimed her. She shivered and went left at a fork in the path.

Rarity picked her way through the woods, eking at every spider or puddle. She shivered as a swarm of bugs passed over her perfectly manicured mane. Spike hopped contentedly behind her, dragging her gem wagon behind him. She wondered if it were a bad idea to search for gems in the icky depths of the Everfree Forest.

Twilight Sparkle moved slowly through the Everfree Forest, looking closely at every leaf. She pulled out her book on wild plants and recorded it in her notes. She was on a mission from Zecora, studying every plant she saw and writing detailed notes about it. She took an absentminded left and stared at a beautiful blue blossom.

Rainbow Dash shot through the trees, practicing her ability to maneuver in small spaces. So far she was rockin’ the skies, or at least she hadn’t run into anything. She decided to do a flip, even though it was a slight risk, but hey, she was RAINBOW DASH, come ON. She arched perfectly then – OOF! She slid into a painful heap on the ground. “Ahhhhh…” she moaned. “I think I’ll… walk,” she said as her head spun in circles. She made her way to the path in a dizzy mess and took a left. She hoped she was going the right way…

Fluttershy stopped in a sunny clearing. It was a normal looking place, but something about it made her shiver more than usual. Maybe it was the fact that she couldn’t see or hear any animals. She listened harder and heard incoming footsteps. She held in a scream and flew as high as she could. The trees made a cage over the clearing, so she had no way to get higher. She watched nervously as into the clearing stepped… “PINKIE PIE!”

“Oh THERE you are silly!” Pinkie Pie shouted up to her. She hopped up and down excitedly as Fluttershy spiraled down to her. “What are you doing HERE?” she asked, and before she got an answer, carried on. “I was on this path and I was like, where is she? So I tried to look for you then I went to the woods, then I followed this trail, then I wandered around a bunch and now I’m here,” she paused for a breath. “So hi.”

Applejack rounded a bend and dashed forward, knocking into a very pink pony. The next time she had any sense of up and down, she was in the lap of… “Pinkie Pie? What’r you doing here, Pinkie?” she wondered aloud. She heard a noise and turned. “FLUTTERSHY!” she shouted. “I’ve only searched the ENTIRE forest to find you!” she said in exasperation.

“Sorry, I was going into the woods to get something to heal Winona’s leg. I sort of got lost. Sorry,” she said meekly.

“That’s okay. I was – wait, sh. Do you hear voices?” Applejack said nervously.

“Ugh, Spike dear, PLEASE stop getting so close to me with that wagon! You’re getting MUD on my coat!” exclaimed Rarity. Spike sighed and moved backwards to put some distance between the wagon and her pure white fur.

“Rarity!” shouted Pinkie Pie. She bounded down the path and returned with a very surprised looking Rarity.

“Is this some sort of party?” she asked, completely confused. They really SHOULD have warned her; now she was here without a proper dress on!

“OOOOOhhhhhh… I wish, but no. We all ended up stepping on each other’s hooves here in Everfree,” Pinkie responded. She jumped up and down. “All we need to make this a party is –“

“Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle!” shouted Applejack.

“Exactly! It would be an AMAZING party with THEM here!” Pinkie went on.

“No, really, it’s Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle!” Applejack replied as she pointed with her head towards the two ponies.

“WOAH this is a coincidence even more extreme than Pinkie sense!” Pinkie ranted, amazed. She pretended to wobble back and forth, then “fainted” in the middle of the clearing.

“Why are you all here?” Twilight asked. They all looked at each other.

“We don’t exactly know…” trailed Fluttershy quietly.

“Soooo… where am I?” Rainbow Dash said as her head spun slowly. She swore there were birds circling around her head, but no pony else said anything about it, so she kept quiet.
Twilight grimaced. “She sort of took a bad crash from what I know,” she explained. They all laughed and shook their heads.

“How about we make this into a PARTY?!” Pinkie asked. She ran around doing a one-pony conga line and ended up on the ground, laughing.

“Yeah, I’m sure I know a spell to get some party going supplies here without us having to walk all the way back,” Twilight said smilingly. She leafed through a book she happened to have on her, then shut it. “I remember now,” she said as she lifted her horn. The clearing glowed purple, then started to change. Colors swirled and warped, and the ponies were flipped and tumbled through a rip in the fabric of ponykind. A second later and the clearing was empty, with no trace of the six ponies and one dragon there. Not even a hoof print remained to remind the land of Equestria of the phenomena that marked a great change in the lives of ponies everywhere.

CHAPTER TWO… INTO THE WILD

“Ugh, what HAPPENED?”asked Twilight. She opened her eyes to find herself in an unfamiliar place…

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHERE THE HECK AM I?” shouted Rainbow Dash crazily. Applejack sprang to her feet to calm her.

“Hush you! Don go shoutin’ about when we don even know where we are!” she said sternly. Rainbow Dash hushed.

“I suppose, but where are we? I took a pretty bad spill after that flip but I don’t remember much after that. My hooves still hur- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

“WHAT NOW!!!!” shouted Spike over the screaming. Every pony turned to stare at Rainbow Dash, but all she could do was choke on her words and roll her eyes crazily. She kept pointing at herself and finally fainted. Once every pony else realized what she was getting at, a massive screaming match started to make chaos among the seven there. After they all couldn’t possibly scream any longer, they all sat breathlessly on the grass.

“Wh-what ARE we?!” Rarity asked shrilly.

“Even I don’t know! I’ve never seen anything like us in any book I’ve ever read! This is crazy, what are we!?” Twilight ranted before beginning to hyperventilate. She knew that everyone was wondering the same thing. “But I know one thing. When in doubt, go to a library!” she said, with a little more confidence. No pony else had a better idea, so they agreed to head for the nearest library – if this crazy world even had any libraries.

CHAPTER THREE… A NEW WORLD

“Where the hay can you find a library in this mess?” asked Applejack.

“Well, we could ask that… thing. Excuse me? Can you tell us where the nearest library is?” Twilight asked another of their… kind. It pointed a hoof across an odd looking path with ponyless wagons zipping across it. They stepped onto the path, and the wagons started to blare loudly. They all jumped ten feet into the air and made a mad dash to the other side of the path. They bent double, all breathing heavy.

“What is UP with this place?” Pinkie asked. “They really need a party or two to loosen up!”

“Yeah, yeah, sure. Let’s get our butts moving into this thing that they supposedly call a library. It looks really run down to me. This tree seems way to red and square. Whatever, like I said, get moving,” Rainbow Dash said dismissively. They walked through the doors and made their way to the counter where another thing was waiting.

“Can I help you girls?” it asked sweetly.

“Yeah, uh, can you get us a book on us. Like, our kind in general,” Applejack said specifically. The thing gave them a funny look, but went to get a large brown book off a nearby shelf. They walked to a table and leafed through the book.

“It says here that we’re something called hoo-man beings. But what’s that? Oh, it also says here that we’re called girls. It’s their word for fillies. A boy is their word for a colt. This is weird. It also shows that we have HANDS not HOOVES. That’s weird. This diagram shows all the new names for our new selves. Hair and toes and fingers and noses. What ARE all of these things,” Twilight read faster and faster as she became into “the zone.” “We even have shoulders! I could get used to these fingers. We can actually MOVE them! And these uncomfortable thingys on our chests are BREASTS!” she was crazed.

“Yes, Twilight, that is nice, but where are we?” asked Fluttershy quietly.

“Uhhhhh… Earth. North America. Wisconsin. That’s what it says in this one,” she said, holding up a thin book with the word Atlas on it.

“Ohhhhhhhh, what’s a wiss con son? I’ve never heard of one of those before!” Pinkie Pie asked. She started bouncing on her two legs, but wasn’t used to them at that moment and ended up on the floor.

“Oh dear, are you okay Pinkie? These legs are going to be hard to get used to,” Fluttershy squeaked.

“Yes, darling, it certainly will. I mean, the new manes are splendid, but feel very different. I simply LOVE the way it styled itself though!” Rarity rambled on to herself.

“Um, Rarity, I THINK she meant the legs,” Twilight added.

“Oh, of course! Yes yes, the legs WILL be a bit of a challenge. Certainly,” she stuttered with a blush.

“Well this’ll be interesting. At least I don’t have any breasts, I just have a larger one of, AHEM, those things…” Spike commented with a blush. All six of the pon- humans there started laughing loudly at the bright red dra- human before them.



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Author's Note:
This is something I whipped up on word, then decided to show to ponies everywhere. Please excuse the chapters.