Shortly after Rainbow met me at the mansion, we decided to go up to the rooftop balcony to get some real fresh air.
After a lot of sorta halfway making our way past the kitchen without grabbing any MORE food we eventually made it to the staircase, and the rest was simple from there.
We finish the final flight of stairs, and turn down a large hallway to reach a window. Silently we open it and step through.
Rainbow goes first, her dress almost getting torn in the process. As soon as she exits, she stretches out her wings and yawns.
“Oh I’m boring you already?” I say playfully to her.
She finishes yawning before giving me a little punch in the arm, “Not yet, Kit Kat!”
“Kit Kat!?”
“That’s what I heard Pinkie call you, sorta has a nice ring to it, dontcha think?”
“Not really, it’s sorta lame.” I say to myself, remembering how Discord actually said that too me not too long ago.
“Ah man, you’re boring after all!” She said laughing.
“But hey,” She continued, “Don’t worry so much about me.”
She said it like she knew what I was thinking down there on the gravel…
“I-I uh.” I can’t quite articulate myself, I feel my skin go pale.
“It’s fine just, let’s not worry about that, I mean… Yeah, it’s not something we should ignore, really… but that’s not the deal right now. I mean, I would think that we might actually STAY here in… whatever this is called.”
“America”
“Yea, America. Like, by the time we win, if we win, everyone will be so apart of this world that leaving would be a punishment, maybe we’d be happier back home, but I know some people would want to stay… Maybe… Maybe a lot of us stay… And we all coexist… or something.” She finishes her sentence with hopeful eyes, shamefully looking up at me.
“Yea, maybe.” I say, a smile spreading across my face. I move in to her, and her to me, and we hold one another for a while.
All the repressed worries and stresses we have never get dealt with, and this was our way of dealing with it. It’s bliss.
I open my eyes a tad as I feel some wind brush across my face, I see her wings, shot upwards towards the sky, sorta like a… sorta like a… a wing-boner… haha, that’s fuckin’ brilliant.
Rainbow opens her eyes a little too, and sees my eyes fixed on her “wing boner” and she leaps back closing her wings tightly to her back in one quick SWOOSH.
She starts to blush lightly, trying to keep a tough guy front. Doesn’t work too well.
“Shut up! You don’t have wings you don’t know!” She says defiantly.
“I haven’t said anything yet.” I said smiling.
She smiles back.
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“uhhh….” Twilight moaned.
She’s covered in dirt, face down in the ground naked, her coat is greasy and filthy, and her main is tangled.
“wha… where… where am I.” she says, more as a statement than a question.
She tries to stand up, but her arms and legs just don’t do the same things.
“Why can’t I stand up?” she says looking down at her body. She sees the arms and legs in the place of her old, equine legs. Too exhausted to react as suprised as she is, her eyes widen and she starts to breathe more deliberately … oh Celestia, what’s happened… everything's different
Twilight raises her head and looks around. She’s in a snowy forest with a bright but cold sun, the trees are tall and look like they tower over the sky, metaphorically speaking that is. She tries slowly bringing her legs to her chest, once she did it she leans back on them, kneeling to the world around her. She throws her head back and breaths heavily. She raises her hands to view them, perplexed more than shocked at her new form.
She closes her eyes, and lets her hands fall back down. She continues to breathe deeply trying to take in as much air as she can. Her stomach growls and she instinctively brings a hand to clasp over it. How long was I here? I remember being back at the library, talking to Spike, then some crack… that was it… Maybe I can analyze myself and see how old this magic is, after all it must be very powerful to do all this…
Twilight opens her eyes, and rocks her head back to an upright position. She looks around again, only with her eyes, to observe the location. She closes them again, straining to muster up energy to perform the spell.
“mmm… come on… gah!” a burst of magic exits her horn and begins to spiral around her. She opens her eyes and observes it. It’s much more… gritty than back in Equestria… everything is… I thought my magic would still be the same though… But now it’s like a mist, a distortion of air… interesting...
Once the spell dissipates, the forest returns to view.
“I was… teleported… out of my dimension… I didn’t even know we had separate dimensions… The magic started a while ago, but only completed now… Oh no… it was supposed to tell the user to come to me… But the spell only just was able to take me here, and this is even off target…” her eyes widen, and her breathing gets heavier as the fear of the event takes hold.
She tries to stand, pushing herself upright with her hands, and straightening her legs. She stumbles a bit halfway up, but regains balance. She straightens her stance, and wobbles in place.
“This is new… really new… I just gotta do it like Spike does… One step at a time…” Twilight says to herself.
She lifts up one leg, wobbling, and places it a little ahead of her. Her feet crunching the snowy ground beneath her. She feels every surface where her foot had landed, every little rock, separations between the dirt and snow. Everything. She moves another foot. And another. And another.
Slowly increasing her walk, she smiles lightly to herself. “Wow, this is pretty cool actually… I’m so far up from the ground, and I have these hands, just like Spike. I can hold things, and interact with things differently… that’s so cool! But Twilight remember, this isn’t a gift, this is something weird… Something’s not right… I just gotta figure out what…”
She keeps walking through the forest. It’s cold, and the sun piercing the trees doesn't do much to defeat the cold. Twilight clasps her hands to her chest, pushing her breasts in. Jeez, I almost forgot about those… this is really weird… I wish I just knew what they were! I mean… I sorta like them… adds some nice figure to this new body. Curvy and such. I wonder if these thoughts are… natural… I think so, I don’t know what else it could mean…
She continues to walk, arms tight around her, pushing onwards through the brush. The stone and cold dirt of the earth in themselves are enough to take Twilights attention, but the beautiful rays of light through the hardened white trees take her away. Her purple figure clashes with the surrounding world so violently that anyone could see her. Why hasn't anyone seen me? I’m not quite camouflaged, is this place even inhabited? Jeez I hope so…
She squints her eyes as she sees something ahead in the forest, the trees start to thin out. And the ground there turns more grey, not rock, it’s too smooth and uniform, but very similar.
She looks down at her legs. Maybe I can run… worth a shot, right? Twilight lifts one leg more aggressively, and slams it down pushing her forwards. She loses balance and gets launched forwards into the snow.
”gah, at least I hit snow… and not a tree or a rock…” Twilight says to herself. She stand up and bends her legs, trying to assume a position that spike would take when running. Then she springs forward, this time launching her other leg in unison with her other pushing the earth. Her second leg pounds the ground, and the other following it. She was in a sprint, a disorganized, wobbly sprint.
She could see the clearing getting closer, and she focused on her footing. Closer and closer, faster and faster, she could feel the pressure in her legs, like a spring being set and released in her legs.
This feels fantastic!
The clearing came sooner than she had expected, she turned her stance 90 degrees and planted her feet, trying to beat her momentum, she glided a little very gracefully, until she lost balance and fell forwards again, this time putting her hands out first, breaking her fall. Her hands hit the grey at the clearing with no absorption causing great pain in Twilights hands.
“Jeez, that hurt… wuh?” Twilight looked down at the ground beneath her hand. It was rough, organized, confined into one long road with a dual yellow line separating the “road” into two. She stood up and looked down the road. It was long, and seemed to have no immediate end.
But there was a sign, not too far up ahead, that read:
Portland MA
78 Km/48 Miles
“Well I guess that’s where I’m going… better get moving… I don’t want to starve after all…”
Twilight began to walk down the road, arms closed around her again, her tail swaying lightly as her hips swung.
This is going to be a long walk…
Well here it is Sorry it took so long, really spent a lot of time trying to pace this chapter, I hope you enjoy!
And yes, I am playing off how Twilight has easily the best body
Does anyone else hear in their head "i would walk 500 miles and i would walk 500 more" playing in their heads around the end of this chapter?
Who else wants to bet that she's gonna try to run the whole way?
Can't wait till the next chapter.
Keep up the good work!
/)*(\
So wait... Is Dash in the same town Twilight is walking to?
2499550 Nope, Dash is in New York, as stated a few chapters prior.
Twilight is actually somewhere in Canada, hence the 78 Km/48 Miles marking. She'll be walking down towards Portland Maine, then who knows what'll happen from there
2500139 Ah okay I got ya. Still... Way to short! Dude! So much potential wasted in so little words. Ya need to give us more to chew on! I am upset at the end of chapters it just feels like a lot was left out.
2500203 next chapter is 6000 words ;) I really had to pump this one out fast for you guys.
Cool Twilight showed up this is going to be very interesting
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And here i thought i was the only crazy person.
The chapter is great! And I can say the same thing to Twilight's body!
While I was reading this, a thought floats in my head. What would happen to the people that were met by the anthropomorphic ponies? How would they react if they just disappear one day? It will certainly feel like death when that happens.
I'll just deal with it as the story goes on. Keep up the good work!
Yay Twily's here
I'm gonna hold u to that 6000 word chapter. Don't dissapoint me!
Are any of the mane 6 besides RD gonna be main characters? Seems like Twilight might but I cant see how just yet. Keep up the good work and get chapters out earlier. Pls?
2510266 sorry mate, high schools demanding! and divorce is exhausting too. Believe me, i want to write, it's just not easy to get the time. And I definitely will get out that 6000 chapter as soon as i can, don't worry, however I don't know if future chapters will be quite that long haha.
2502156 trust me on this, when you watch nash's show call wtfiwwy, you tend to get a little crazy yourself
2541070 a lot of the grammar mistakes are intentional... like creative punctuation and bs like that... but yea, word. and dashs jeans are pretty baggy, at least in the first like 2 chapters if that's what you're referring to
Interesting story. I'm glad to see some Twilight in this chapter. Aside from some typos and the main character feeling a bit... bland, I guess? I enjoyed the story alot.
Kit just strikes me as being a bit too 'perfect' with all positive character traits, apart from being slightly secluded socially. It would be nice to see some conglicting character traits in him, something to make him more human.
I'm looking forward to more chapters.
2549959 yeah i feel you there. (with kit i mean) I'm trying to work in the fact that he's self neglectant and doesn't think about his own self, and doesn't express his own emotions often. that's sorta done in the chapter Wings but not much else. Rainbow will soon grow bored of him just being an emotional punching bag, seeing how he isn't really doing anything at all.
I'll be going back to Kit after I do more Twilight chapters. I'm actually writing a 6k word chapter for her right now, around 1.7k done so far!
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Sweet! I also recall reading an interview on this site where one of the big fic writers gave some tips about the main character. Something like, give him two conflicting personality traits and two conflicting goals. He already has some; wanting to be with Rainbow <-> letting her go. Wanting to be a good person who helps others <-> staying secluded in his huge mansion, using his private park as an access route to avoid traffic.
I look forward to more Twilight.
I-..hm.
I actually took a break from reading this at chapter 4 I think, because I wasn't sure whether I liked this fic or not.
Then, uh, I continued reading, and, you have me stuck with you and this fic now, heh.
The idea is good, and how you explain the many universes/dimensions seems very thought-through ... and a bit mindboggling.
Then you are introducing the characters. What stopped me reading was the allknowing-butler-thing*, I don't like that premise too much, but then again, me having a grudge about one small detail in the fic didn't make me wonder less about where you were going with it
*I mean, she reacted so calmly, and knew exactly what to do with Rainbow, without any panic nor second-thoughts, or anything alike. Then again, who am I to question a well-experienced butler.
Anyhow.
I don't like complaining about stuff, and even more a detail like that, so, moving on.
The characters seem overall pretty interesting. I like how you're writing the equestrians as confused but accepting of their body-changes. And the fact that you've made a full-blown war over at Equestria itself, makes this a even more interesting read. There's so many resolutions too look forwards to, haha.
I just want to say that you're writing Discord really good and interesting. He's still in character, all mysterious and all-knowing when speaking, but he's helpful and seems to be taking his 'mission' quite seriously.
So, summarizing; Liked and faved, and wondering where you'll go with this fic.
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2497920 I'm sorry, wha- *sneezes* Terribly sorry, but I'm allergic to bullshit. *sneezes* sneezes again* *sneezes brains out through ears*
There's no Portland in MA (Massachusetts). I think you mean ME (Maine).