> Forced Adoption
>  by Cool writer
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> Prolouge: To be, or Not to be... Alone
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	"NO! Please don't go!" the little 5-year-old cried, sitting between the beds. Tears were streaming down his face. "We gotta see that movie! You- you promised!"
"Sorry, sport *cough* something's come up." His father coughed.
"No sir, don't try to talk." A nurse in the room said. She was stopped by another nurse, putting her hand in the first one's shoulder.
"No don't." The second nurse whispered. "They don't have much time, let them make their peace." The little boy was still crying.
"Jason... could you tell us a poem from class?" The little boy's mother asked.
"Uh huh." Jason said, fighting back the tears. "Do not- *sniffle* do not go gentle, into that goodnight. Old age should burn, and rage at close of day. Rage, rage against the dieing of the light. Do not go gentle, into that goodnight." The little boy finished through his sobs.
"Thank... you..." The mother said as her grip on her son loosened.
"No! NO MOM NO!" The little boy jumped off his knees and began to shake his mother. "Don't go gentle into that goodnight! Don't go!" He sobbed even louder. Beep, beep, beeeeeee. Jason spun around quickly. "Dad no! Please stay!" Jason tried to say, but couldn't over his incredibly loud cries of lament. A nurse grabbed him by the arm and began to pull him out. Lot's of doctors rushed in and started to move frantically around his parents. He could have heard what they were saying, if the only thing he could hear wasn't the beep of the heart monitor telling Jason that his life, as well as his parents, was over. All he could think about was how his parents wouldn't try to stay with him.
"But... It's Christmas."


Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn, and rage at the close of day;
Rage, rage against the dieing of the light.
Do not go gentle into that good night.

> 1 Do not go gentle
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	"I don't see why you didn't just ask me first," Jason said angrily. "You could have at least asked me about my name. I don't really like Harmony."
"I think it is a much better name than 'Jason'." The large alicorn replied to her new human son. The alicorn (named Celaria) was white, with a red mane and tail. "But everything is better now, don't you agree?" Celaria asked, wrapping her wing around Jason. The feathers on the wing were soft and warm, and it was very pleasant for him. The walk, they were taking from the field in which Harmony was dragged into this world, was filled with conversations similar to those heard in the cars containing recently adopted children. The typical stuff, what are your hopes and dreams, what do you like to do, and the ever popular: "how does this world work?". That's classic. They were just approaching the city where Jason was going to live now.
"Harmony," Jason shuddered at his new name. "Welcome to Canterlot!" Celaria said excitedly, gesturing a hoof in the way you humans do to "reveal" something. Jason was excited, but not too excited. He had just been technically kidnapped. "I hope you will enjoy it here." Jason then realised that he only had some jeans and a black tee with a the white outline of a box, and the word "ALLONS-Y!!!" Below it. It was given to him by his best friend at the orphanage: Amy (What a coincidence!). The day had started out so well too.



 "HAPPY BIRTHDAY JASON!" Amy said, holding up a tee shirt with the TARDIS on it, and David Tennant's catchphrase: Allons-y.
"Oh, thanks!" Her friend Jason said. "wait... this is from that Doctor Where isn't it?" Jason responded.
"Of course it is, that's the TARDIS on the front, and it's not Doctor where, it's Doctor who," Amy muttered the last part under her breath. "But, anyways... happy 13th birthday Jason!" The ginger haired Amy said to the soon to be Harmony. Jason smiled and shook his head slowly.
'Oh Amy.' He thought to himself in that sort of "what am I gonna do with you" way. They looked at each other, their eyes met, and a spark flew between them. He grinned. 'It was worth being dragged out of his room in the month of his birthday for this.' He thought to himself. The two times of a year he was the saddest was December (the month his parents...) and June the month of his birthday. 
"Go on, put on the shirt!" Amy urged. Jason rolled his eyes and slipped the shirt on over his current green one. Suddenly, the front door blew open, and a strange creature (Celaria) entered.
"I'm here to adopt a child." She said. Ms. Madgikouwski, the only adult in the room, fainted. The creature said it in a way that had authority, but also kindness. She looked at Jason and approached him. "You'll do nicely." She said to him, this time with less authority (it was still there, but less) and more kindness. "I was hoping for a new son." She knelt down, by bending her forelegs. "Hello, small one." She said to Jason. Jason looked around.
"Me?" Jason asked semi absentmindedly. He got defensive and shot back: "I'll have you know that as-of-today, I am 13 years old!" Celaria laughed at this.
"Come now, time to take you home." Amy watched in horror (and some amazement) as the creature's horn glowed a bronze, the same color as it's eyes, and the same aura appeared around Jason, and he was pulled with the creature back to the door which it entered.
"It's taking Jason!" Amy said. Time seemed to slow down as her eyes darted around the room. 'Come one Amy, what would Amy pond do? What would the Doctor do?!?' She looked around the room. The creature put one hoof on the other side of the door. Amy knew what to do. She lunged at the table and grabbed Jason's cell phone. He had sat it down when he was opening her present.
"JASE! CATCH!" She tossed the phone through the air to Jason: but sadly fell short, landing just outside of the threshold. Amy saw Jason look at her, his eye's wide and scared. All, Amy could think to do next, was stretch out her hand, reaching for him. Then, the door closed. It pushed the phone through too. Amy raced to the door and swung it open as fast as she could, but they were gone. It was as though they never existed. But, sitting at her feet, was the last memento she had of her friend: half of Jason's cell phone.



Jason's and Celaria had entered the city and were greeted with a wild reception. A whole banner was set up: "Welcome _______ !" It looked like they were gonna put his name there, but didn't have the time. It felt like a whole city was celebrating his birthday. That (plus the fact that he had just been adopted) was the only thing keeping him from verbally tearing into Celaria.
"Princess Celaria! Princess Celaria!" A reporter pony called out to Jason's new mother as they walked through the crowd, occasionally waving. It was weird looking at the beige pony wearing a press hat- wait...
"Wait, princess?!?" Jason asked. Celaria ignored the question.
"Princess! Is it true that you are going to take a leave of absence for your son?" The reporter pony asked.
"Only a few day's worth." Celaria. "One-week maximum," Jason noted how proper she sounded when she addressed the crowd. Speaking any other way must be considered "Most unorthodox!" Jason felt the wing Celaria still had wrapped around him tighten its grip. It pulled him closer to her. The wing was wrapped around him like a blanket, then stretched down like a cape. He suddenly felt tired. Jason had walked about 2 miles today. His eyes drooped a bit. A grin spread across his face. It was nice and warm under the wing. It also muffled the crowd. He leaned over against his... mom. Her fur brushing his face. It was soft, like the wings, only softer and more solid. The wing felt more like clouds, if you touched them they would vanish. Jason's eye's fluttered again. He felt himself drifting off...
"ZZZZZ." Jason was now sleeping but was being supported by the way Celaria held him in her wing. Celaria continued walking down the road.
"Thank you all for this beautiful event! It is good to know that I am leading such loyal subjects and have such loyal friends behind be!" Celaria called to the crowd, what she wanted to say was: It is also good to know that my subjects and friends are thorough enough to figure out something I haven't even told my daughters yet. But she didn't.
"But I must make my leave now, thank you all!" Celaria raised her son onto her back and flew off, beating her powerful wings.



"Harmony. Haaarmonyyyy." Celaria cooed softly. "Harmony, wake up. We're almost home." Jason's eyes slowly opened.
"Huh? Wa?" Jason sat up, groggily. He honestly felt as though he was younger, and for a brief moment, he questioned if Celaria had made him so. "We're... here?" Jason was being covered by Celaria's wings, and so the feeling of being in absolute paradise was still there. To put it in perspective: the feeling is so good, you could be told that it is a trap by the person giving you the feeling, and staying in the feeling it would leave you trapped and immobile forever, and you could completely comprehend what that person said, and not care. That's how good it is. Harmony felt the sweet bliss of this and fell back into sleep.
"Harmony?" Celaria had felt Jason's head fall into her back. "Did you fall back asleep?" She was replied with a snore. She shook her head and knew that it would be tuff having a human son, there would be hardships, but it would be alright.
...
If only it were that easy.



> 2 Sisters?
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	What a nice dream Jason was having. Jason had a human father and mother, Amy as a sister/ girlfriend (it's a dream it doesn't make sense) they were having a nice pick-nick on a grassy hill. The sun was shining, and the sky was cloudy at the start, but at one point the clouds rushed away and the grass was not-as-soft, but it was still nice non-the-less.
"WAKE UP BROWVER! WAKE UP! WAKE UP!" A small, excited, voice (the voice of a small child that can't make the "th" sound or the "r" sound) began its invasion of the dreams of Jason.
"Sir! We are under attack!" A soldier said, running up to Jason in his dream. "We recommend immediate e-vac!" The ground began to shake. "It's an earthquake! Get to the fortress!" The soldier said, a castle popping out of the ground. Jason sped over the cracking ground (without walking) to the castle. Suddenly a large bomb with a nuclear sign on it landed in front of him. It exploded, but instead of a boom: it made a:
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP!"



"Huh? What's up?" Jason sat upright. He was in a bed, being tackled by a little alicorn. He shoved a fist down his mouth to stop the scream racing up his throat. The room was yellow, with one window, a dresser, and a nightstand bearing a lamp. It was cozy, yet happy at the same time. The little alicorn was navy blue (or TARDIS blue, as Amy put it), a slightly lighter blue mane and tail (the mane reminded Jason of Amy's hair style), with a spot of black on her flank, with small black dots around it like a stain. On this black spot was the picture of a moon. He wasn't really sure what that meant.
"Hewwo big bwover!" the little alicorn said, in the most adorable way possible.
"Hi, um... who and what are you?" Jason asked a bit confused and a little scaired.
"I'm Wuna!" She said, with a lisp and grin the size of Texas. THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! There was a sound of stomping. CLOP! CLOP! CLOP! The stomping turned into clops as, in the rooms doorway, stopped a wide-eyed, excited little alicorn filly. She was white, with little gold... things (for real, what are they called)... on the bottom of her hooves. She had a pink mane and tail with a gold tiara that looked more like dress up than an actual crown. She had a sun on her flank.
"BROTHER!!!" She cried happily, throwing herself on the bed, her tiny, oh-so-cute wings flapping vigorously. She landed on top of him and pinned him down on the bed. It didn't hurt too bad though, her cuteness softened the blow. She giggled loudly.
"YAAAY!" Little Luna cried, falling on top of the new alicorn, turning the hug into a dog pile. The most adorable dog pile in all of existence. If it was physically possible to manifest cuteness into a physical form (physically) and weaponise it: it would be these little girls who would be able to do it... and be the outcome of such a thing occurring.
'I guess "death by cuteness" is a good way to go.' Jason thought as the little girls together were surprisingly heavy. They got off of Jason, still giggling. Jason couldn't help but crack a smile. Looking at these... cuteness in it's physical forms... melted away any bitterness he had toward this situation.
"Now, what's your name?" Jason asked the tackler.
"I'm Tia!" She said, wrapping her hoof around her sister. "And we're your new sisters!" Both the little girls said in a very loud and happy unison. After the planet mars's ears stopped ringing, Celaria called out to the room.
"Tia! Luna! Are you messing with your brother in there?" She called up, like a slightly angry mom. It hit Harmony, just then, what this really meant: he had a familly. His smile turned from one of humor to one of pure happiness.
"Ooh! Ooh!" The obviously 5-year-old Luna said pointing to Harmony. "He's leaking! He's got a boo-boo!" Jason realized he had actually started crying.
"No, I don't have a boo-boo." Harmony said, ruffling Luna's mane. "I just have a boo-boo that's getting better." He smiled. Luna looked up at Harmony quizzically.
"Well, where is it? Do you want me to give it a kiss to make it better?" Luna asked, cocking her head to her left side.
"It's ok, you already gave me a big hug." Jason wrapped his arms around Tia and Luna, his new sisters. Tia and Luna looked at each other, behind Jason's back. Luna looked at her sister, her eyes saying "what does he mean?" Tia responded with a shrug.
"I'm still not going by Harmony."



"So, are you happy so far?" Celaria asked the newly conscious Jason. She was responded with a growling stomach.
"I feel like sleep hates me!" Jason groaned. Celaria was standing in a kitchen, at a stove cooking some scrambled eggs (coincidentally Jason's type). "Wait... why are you cooking eggs? It should be about time for dinner." Jason questioned, sitting down at the table. The kitchen was an average one, with a black and white checkered tile floor, a black granite counter, with white drawers and cabinets.
"That's funny, it's brunch time right now." Celaria pondered for a moment. Harmony almost forgot there was a huge age difference between them. "Maybe your world is on a different time."
"I wish you could just... lower the sun a bit so I could sleep." Jason yawned sarcastically.
"Don't be silly, it would be ludicrous to make it night again for one pon- I mean person." Celaria laughed. Jason's jaw dropped.
'They... control the sun here? But... how? Do they... fly up into the sky and just, nudge it along? How would that work exactly?' Jason was pulled out of his thoughts when Tia and Lulu (as he decided to call little Luna) rushed into the room.
"What's fow bweckfast!" Luna said, like a sweet little angel (more like... *put's on sunglasses* angel of darkness *YAAAAAAAEEEEEH!!!*). Tia walked up to the frying pan and looked into it.
"Blegh! Eggs!" Tia shook her head and sat at the table hooves crossed in front of her and pouting. Harmony remembered a way a local diner made eggs. He walked over to Celaria and whispered in her ear.
"Ooo! How interesting! That is defiantly worth a try!" The large alicorn in a chef's hat and apron said. Long story short: two little fillies were introduced to their second favorite (behind pancakes of course) breakfast: cheesy eggs. They ate them so fast you might as well have put a vacuum at the table.
'This won't be so bad.' Jason thought to himself.
> 3 Do. Not. Blink!
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	"I thought that only princesses had to do this book thing." Jason said, attempting to balance a stack of 3 books on his nose. "And wasn't it the head they balanced the books on?"
"Yes!" Luna said to Jason. "It's just funnier to see you do it this way!" She said, happy as can be. Jason sighed as Tia levitated another book onto the stack with her horn. He wobbled a bit to compensate. A smug look from Jason caused Tia to levitate 3 more books to add to the four present. This was more than he could bare. As he attempted to accommodate the new weight, he lost his footing and stumbled. All the books were now on the floor. Tia and Luna began to laugh hysterically.
"Oh, shut up you!" Jason said to his sisters in a not-so-mad way. he then succumbed to the "good vibes" and cracked a smile. These "good vibes" were also the only reason "Harmony" hadn't gone ballistic about his "name", or the scenario in general. Currently, Tia and Luna were teaching Jason "the ropes" of how his life in Equestria would work. 76% of these lessons were going to be pranks. Earlier, he had chosen to give this a chance, but was still iffy on the whole thing. "So, what's next?" Jason asked, to no one in particular. They were currently in the children's room at a place called "Canterlot Castle." 
"I was thinking..." Tia began.
"MAGIC! You gotta learn magic!" Luna said, bouncing in her "seat."
"He can't use magic," Tia told her sister. Luna was about to say: "but whyyyyyyy?" When Tia interjected. "I don't know why. He just can't." Jason felt as though they knew each other really well. They looked like sisters. Like they were in sync and were good friends with each other. This concerned him a bit, 
'How do you 'click' into a clique, when it's bound so tightly they read each other's thoughts?" He mused silently to himself. He was pulled out of his thoughts when Tia cracked a grin. This wasn't a cute one, this was an evil grin. Tia whispered something in Luna's ear. Luna's face copied her elder sister. Jason took a step backward.
"Tia? Lulu? Care to- let me in on the joke?" He said nervously, slowly backing away from the "evil" alicorns. Tia's horn began to glow. The door to the outside hall slammed shut and clicked locked. "Hey? What's up?" Jason began to feel sweat pouring down his face when Tia's horn continued to glow long after the door locked. Tia looked over in the corner of the room, and a box was surrounded in Tia's golden magic glow. The box floated over to Tia. The two flipped the box open so that the lid was blocking Jason's view of it's contents. The grins on the two fillies became chilling, and that's hard to say about the weaponized cuteness. Jason looked around the room for a blunt instrument he could wave in the faces of them. He looked back and the box was closed, and Tia had taken a pace forward and frozen in place.

"Do, not, blink."

Jason turned around and began to jiggle the knob of the door frantically. He turned around again, and Tia had advanced even closer, again stuck in place.

"Don't even blink."

Jason again turned to the door and banged harder. He could hear Tia's hoof stamps, drag across the wood floor. He turned his head to see her again, she had advanced impossible closer.

"Blink, and you're dead."

Jason gave one final pleading shove at the door and it finally gave way. He stood up and raced down the long palace hallway. He didn't have to look behind him to know Tia was in hot pursuit.

"They are fast, faster than you could believe."

Jason continued to run, even past the guards who took one look at the young princess and knew what was happening. Jason chanced a glance over his shoulder to see the hopelessness of his situation. No matter how fast he ran, the statue demon that looked like his sister, continued to keep pace, and even get closer.

"Don't turn your back,"

Jason took a left turn.

"Don't look away,"

A right turn.

"And don't blink!"

Jason was left panting as he reached the dead end, for his escape and him. He heard Tia coming. Jason frantically looking for safety. He turned around just in time to see Tia freeze in place at the end of the hall.

"Good luck."

Jason continued to stare at Tia, he felt that if he took his eyes off her, even for a second, it would spell death (mostly because he could only think of the statue things from doctor who [that Amy never shut up about] and the similarities to the situation). Then, he remembered something.
"Where's Lulu?" He asked. His question was answered when he was tackled by the little alicorn herself.
"Tag!" She cried adorably.
"Wait, what?" Jason sputtered. "You mean, you chased me through the castle, and scared me half to death, to play a game of tag? That's almost evil," Jason said. Then the evil grin came back. Tia walked over, with the grin and the box. The box clicked open, and Jason saw what's inside. "That's not just evil, that's demonically evil!" They brought the box over to him. He gulped. This was going to be bad.



Celaria walked down a hallway. One of the guards noticed her face.
"Ma'am, is everything alright?" He asked.
"No, I can't find my children," Queen Celaria said to the guard nervously. The guard grimaced.
"They were playing... that game again..." The guard grimaced, recollecting when he got the "chance" to play. Celaria didn't take the hint.
"Oh, good. And my son was with them?" She asked, sounding relieved, she wouldn't be if she knew the horror of "the statue game."
"Yes..." the guard pointed a hoof down the hall. Celaria walked down the hall. The guard sighed when she was out of earshot. "I really hope someone told him the rules."
> 5 How to Walk on Four Hooves
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Jason and his sisters were sitting at the lunch table after Jason had cleaned up the results of losing "the game."
"Harmony, I'm so glad you're getting along with your sisters." Celaria cooed. Jason gritted his teeth at the mention of that name. "You even let them-"
"We will never speak of that again." Jason quickly interjected. He glanced at Tia and Lulu from the corner of his eye and shifted a tiny bit farther from them. Celaria looked a bit confused, and then continued fixing the PB&Js.
"Well, it's good you're getting along anyway." They said in the "nevermind" voice. Harmony lowered his tone.
"Never, do that again." Jason hissed at the two little alicorns. They both grinned innocently. Jason shivered. "Never again."
Celaria finished the sandwiches and levitated them, as well as some milk, over to the table. She looked happy, really happy.
"What's got you in such a good mood?" Tia asked her mom, with a hint of smug in it. Jason took a bite of his sandwich.
"You'll see." Celaria responded, with a grin that had a horrible attempt to be hidden written all over it. 
'She's trolling something' Jason noted. He took a sip from the glass of milk. He eyed his moth- Celaria (he was NOT calling her mom) suspiciously. She ate a sandwich she created for herself, a da fa dill and daisy? He didn't much care and went back to his sandwich. He finished devouring his sandwich, with little bits of chit-chat with Tia and Lulu. Mostly it was about: "what do you wanna do after lunch?" After Jason drank the last of his milk, the "flood gates" holding the true extent of the smile of Celaria's face broke. She smiled so big that you would think it to rip her face apart.
"Oh, I can't take it anymore!" She said, struggling not to laugh. "I'm so happy because I can't stop thinking about how cute he's gonna be!" Jason barely had time to comment on what he thought meant was he was going to have a dad soon too, before he started to glow a yellow with a light coat of sky blue over it. He looked angrily at his mother.
"What did you do?!" He yelped as the light brightened and brought with it a feeling of numbness. He was unable to hear the answer to question over the thoughts that flooded his mind at the next events.



"What... did you do?" Harmony asked, with more shock and fear than real anger. Celaria cocked her head.
"Daaaaaw... you are so cute!" Celaria squealed.
"This isn't cute!" Harmony angrily stamped his hoof on the ground. Jason had been transformed into "Harmony," a young colt, and a green fuzzball of an earth pony. He was yellow-green now, with little pink spots on the tips of his hooves. He was a teeny bit bigger than his sisters. He didn't like his hair mane style.
Tia slowly crawled over to him.
"Then you're adorable!" Tia said, hugging Harmony... tightly. Lulu ran up and joined in.
"You err so coot!" Lulu said, so excited by her brother that she forgot her pronunciation... again. Harmony's face turned red, and without magic.
"Stop it!" He shouted, embarrassed and annoyed. "Change me back, RIGHT NOW!!!" His rage bubbled to the surface. "I was able to forgive the kidnapping thing, (even though I shouldn't), because you're giving me a nice home and a good family, I forgave... that... because it's impossible to be mad at them," Harmony gestured to his sisters. "But this, THIS is where I draw the line! CHANGE. ME. BA-" The combined fear and exhaustion (from the "game"), anger, and body transformation: he couldn't take anymore. He passed out.
"Oh dear..." Celaria murmured.



Harmony was out for a long, time. Tia and Lulu, meanwhile, were bored.
"Tia, I'm board!" Luna sighed. "When's Hawmony gonna wake up?" She asked. She was really bored. Tia got up.
"I know!" Tia said. "We got to teach him how things work here, SO..." She grinned.
"So we gotta teach him..." Luna thought. "we gotta... we gotta..." Luna continued to ponder. "we gotta... I don't know what we gotta." She said finally. Tia grinned.
"So..." Tia sighed. "So we gotta teach him how to be a pony! He's gonna have to learn how to walk! It's gonna be hilarius!" The 10-year-old-minded Celestia said. Trollestia and her younger apprentice then set to work, planning another "lesson."
> 6 Two little words
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	Harmony awoke from his post-transformation snooze... surprisingly energized. He sat up in the same bed he had awoken in before, but this time it was different... He remembered getting up, his sisters, "the game" (unfortunately), and... Harmony rubbed a hoof in his eye.
"That rotten little..." Harmony said through gritted teeth. He got up and out of bed, and landed on his face. Let's just say, that having a muzzle makes a face plant way more painful. "Oww..." Harmony groaned. He bent his fore/hind legs to get into a "kneeling" position.
"Ok ok... just gotta... maneuver my legs..." Harmony stood up his hind legs. "OK... now to push up on my hind- wait." Harmony realized what he was doing. "I'm a horse. Horses don't walk on two to legs, they walk on four!" So, he lifted up on his front legs as well. He lifted two legs and took a step. "This is a little easier than I thought! Left-right, right-left... left-right, right-left!" Harmony's pace outpaced him and he fell on his face. He grumbled and then repeated the processes again. 
And again. And again.
Several more times.
For a while.
Just a bit.
Hours.



'It was hard to believe that Harmony had only been here for little more than a day,' Celaria thought to herself sitting on her throne. He had taken a liking to her daughters, that much was so. But... she felt that maybe changing him day 1 was a little... too much too fast.
"Perhaps I should have waited." She said to herself, realizing her error. "Good thing it was a 24-hour trial that Starswirl made..." Tia suddenly burst into the room.
"Mommy! Mommy!" Tia called out, running up to the throne. "Mommy! Harmony's gone!" Luna ran in after her sister.
"Tia's scared, but I keep tewing her that he's fine," Luna said, trying to speak well to the best of her ability. Suddenly, a thundering roar rang through the left entrance to the room.
"I HATE YOU ALL!!!!" Came Harmony's voice, as he came in (via levitation), followed by the gray, cloaked, form of Starwirl The Bearded. "PUT ME DOWN!!!"
"Ma 'am I found this one sneaking around the castle, slowly." he said, taking a closer look at Harmony. "... almost as if he's unsure of himself..."
"I AM NOT A SCIENCE EXPERIMENT!!!" Harmony screamed in his face. Pure, unbridled rage was only one of two things that could describe Harmony, the other being his temperature was hot by hell standards. "PUT ME DOWN," He said very loudly, then he turned to look at Celaria. "AND YOU CHANGE ME BACK!!!" Starswirl the Bearded was confused. Starswirl the Bearded did not like being confused. Starswirl seeked to be unconfused.
"The Little one keeps asking to be, 'changed back' but I have no idea what he means." Starswirl said. "Wait, does this have something to do with that potion you asked for?" A cream colored stallion followed Starswirl into the room.
"I can vouch on his request." He said. "It's not fun being something you're not." He finished as though he was hinting at something. No one caught on, so he continued. "I'm Al." The cream, red main pony in a simple cloak approached Harmony. "Who are you?" He asked, like he actually cared. Harmony cooled down a bit and answered.
"I'm Harmony." He thought over Al's name. "What kind of name is Al? Like AL Kapone? Did you visit AL-katraz?" Al looked shocked by the last two statements.
"It's short for Alphonse," Al said. "And how do you know about-" He was cut off by Starswirl.
"ANYWAYS, do you have any idea who his parents are?" Starswirl asked.
"Relax, he is with me." The gold aura that covered Harmony was taken over by the light emerald green of Celaria. Harmony floated over Celaria. "Hey son." She said, trying to sound hip. If Harmony wasn't afraid of getting a concussion, he would have facepalm- er facehoofed. Celaria wanted him to say something specific, and he knew what.
"No." Harmony said, frowning. He moved his legs so he was floating cris-cross.
"Come on," Celaria cooed. "You know you want to."
"I really don't."
"Please?"
"No."
"Please,"
"No."
"Come on, please!"
"No."
"Please please please please please please please-"
"Alright!" Harmony cracked. "... Hi... mom..."
> 7 Amy
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	A certain ginger haired, conveniently named Whovian was browsing the internet, searching for anything that could help her find Jason. So far she found nothing. She was further away now than before.
"Where's the Doctor when you need him?" Amy sighed. And someone heard her. A small wind blew through the room. Amy got up from her computer and walked over to the window. It was late afternoon at the moment. She had only lost- Jason had been kidnapped only a few hours ago, but she still had to find him. The police had been called and some movie watcher made sure to tell Amy (who was calling) to say something believable so the police would actually come. She had and when they came she told the FULL story. The police had said the people had been drugged. They had no explanation for the same hallucination though. Amy closed the window and walked back to her desk. The wind blew again.
'Must be the AC.' Amy thought to herself. Suddenly, what she had wished for more than anything (aside from Jason back) happened. VROOP! VROOP! The familiar sound filled the room, and a light appeared in the air. She knew what was happening: The TARDIS from Doctor Who was landing. Each time the light flashed brighter, bit by bit, the blue police public call box faded into existence. Soon, the whole thing was here. A big, blue, wooden box (with a black illuminated sigh that read "Police Public Call Box" at the top) had materialized in her bedroom. The door opened, and the 10th incarnation of the Doctor stepped out. He had a slender shape, with a brown suit and long trench coat, with a red tie. His hair was brown and spiky. The Doctor's eyes looked... old. Like an old war veteran's eyes, he had seen terrible things. She knew this, but his eyes told her again.
"Oh hello!" The Doctor said. "Sorry, did I scare you?" He asked.
"Not at all!" Amy responded enthusiastically. "Doctor, I need-"
"So where am I?" He asked, absently looking around the room. "Early... 21 first century... so... 14?" The Doctor asked.
"Yes, it's 2014. But Doctor-" Amy responded.
"Ooh 2014. The year humans reach Mars." The Doctor said. "So, who are you?"
"I'm Amy, but Doctor-" Amy tried to speak but the Doctor was oblivious.
"Amy, that's a good name. I'm The Doctor." The Doctor said.
"DOCTOR!" Amy exclaimed finally. "I need your help. My friends been kidnapped by some... horse thing. I need your help to find him!" The Doctor looked a bit confused.
"Kidnapped by a horse?" The Doctor asked.
"Yes, a talking, winged unicorn horse." Amy said. She looked at the Doctors face and continued. "I would say: "I know how crazy this sounds but you've got to believe me," But with your life this is completely possible." The Doctor nodded.
"A talking unicorn with wings kidnapped your friend..." The Doctor said. His face suddenly brightened with excitement. "That's brilliant! Let's find us a unicorn!" The Doctor said. He walked over to Amy and knelt down. "I will find your friend and bring him back safe, I promise," The Doctor said in a kind, calm voice. "Now, start from the beginning."



After Amy explained everything to the Doctor, and then they went to the party room.
"And you saw a field through this doorway?" The Doctor asked, holding the silver tube shape of his sonic screwdriver, scanning the door frame.
"Yes I did." Amy responded.
"Well, this doorway has experienced a rip and a wrinkle. in the fabric of reality, a portal through space and time." The Doctor said. Amy was confused.
"I've heard a portal described as a rip, OR a wrinkle. Never both. So why is this one different?" Amy asked.
"Ah, clever!" The Doctor said. "Yes, a rip can take you to another random place, even other dimensions, and a wrinkle can take you to a specific place in this reality. Someone made a rip to another world, and wrinkled time as well to get somewhere specific. That is very bad because it takes a hell of a lot of power to do that. So we are up against something strong." The Doctor said, with a gravity to his words.
"So, can you replicate it?" Amy asked.
"I can't I'm afraid, whatever did this sealed the break very well. The sonic screwdriver doesn't have enough power to reopen it and the TARDIS would create a black hole." The Doctor replied. Amy's face fell. The Sonic beeped. "BUT, I can take the TARDIS to the other end!" The Doctor got up and raced out of the room. Amy followed. He Raced back into Amy's room and into the TARDIS. Amy squealed and followed him in.
Once inside, she looked around for a moment. She had to say it. So, she shouted:
"It's bigger on the inside!" The TARDIS, was indeed, bigger on the inside. The inside was a massive room, around the size of a ballroom. The Doctor began to do things on the large circular console in the middle of the room, fiddling with the alien controls. The room was a bronze dome with bulbs everywhere on the walls, and a grated floor. The console had a large cullender tube leading up to the ceiling, with another bunch of tubes inside it.
"Ugh! I can't get though!" The Doctor exclaimed. "I need something with a direct connection to the other world for the TARDIS to get there." Amy had an idea.
"Would this work?" She asked holding out her half of Jason's phone. The Doctor looked at it, his face bursting into a grin.
"Oh yes!" The Doctor exclaimed excitedly, snatching up the phone and running back to the console. "Moto benna!" the Doctor exclaimed in French.
"Vemicemo!" Amy said back. She had no idea what it meant, but when the Doctor said "Moto benna," that's how French speakers responded. The Doctor pulled a lever, and the room shook violently. VROOP! VROOP! The TARDIS was taking off, teleporting her to Jason. Another violent shake and the groaning stopped. The Doctor and Amy raced to the door, and stood out. the TARDIS had landed in a cage, with Jason inside!
"Amy?" Jason asked, standing up.
"Jason!" Amy ran to hug him. "I missed you so so so so so..."



Amy sat up, and looked around. She then began to cry. Amy fell back on her pillow.
"I knew it was too good to be true!" Amy sobbed, realizing it was only a dream, and Jason was still missing.
> 8 Reunited
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The "mother" and her "son" were sitting at the table, having an important talk.
"... I would also like to tell my friends what happened." Harmony stated. Celaria had explained to him that she had placed a potion in his drink, one that would change him into a pony for 24 hours, at which point he would go back to human. This was yet to happen.
"How many items does one human need?" Celaria asked. "You want an 'iPhone' ... What is it? Magic?"
"No, It's not magic... It's a communication device." Harmony replied. Celaria nodded in understanding.
"Ok, to get this straight: You want to get some of your items, explain the nature of the situation to your friends, and invite the female I saw earlier to live with us?" Celaria clarified.
"Her name is Amy," Harmony muttered. Celaria grinned.
"Ok then, we know what we're doing!" Celaria said as her horn began to glow. Harmony's eyes widened.
"Wait! I didn't mean right-" 



Amy was pacing up and down the hall, worried about Jason. She had been able to maintain herself, but she was still scared. The police said that they had been drugged, and Jason had been kidnaped. They didn't know the motives or had any suspects. But suddenly, she heard a big "POOF!" from the unaltered party room. 
"-Now!" She heard Jason say. She stopped, and bolted to the party room door, and flung it open. Inside the room had.. a small green horse with a strange main style... and color. It was blonde, and the main color of the horse was green. There was something else in the room.
"YOU!" Amy said when she realized it was the giant winged horned horse that took Jason. "What have you done with Jason? WHERE IS HE!?!" The big horse looked over at the little horse.
"Are all humans so angry?" She asked the little horse. The little horse made a mad face.
"You kidnaped me with no explanation left behind for her, of corse she's angry." The little horse responded. It was a he.
"What are you talking about?" Amy asked.
"Timey wimey, Amy." The little one said, not looking away from the big horse and holding up a hoof as though he was saying: "Wait a minute," to her. Amy's eyes bulged.
"How do you know my-"
"I said timey wimey Amy." He said again. He then realized something. "AMY!" He said. He then realized something else and blushed. "Amy! It's me! Jason!" The small horse called out. It did sound an awful lot like Jason, Amy thought to herself. The large one looked confused.
"What kind of name is 'Jason'?" She asked out loud. The small one looked annoyed.
"It was my name before you changed it! Thanks for asking, by the way." "Jason" finished quietly.
"So, let me get this straight," Amy began.
'That's been said quite a lot today." Harmony realized.
"This thing, abducted you, changed your name, and turned you into a horse-"
"Pony."
"Whatever." Celaria and Amy interrupted each other quickly. "And now she's gonna abduct somebody else?" Celaria put two and two together about who Amy was.
"Oooooh so you're Amy!" Celaria exclaimed. Harmony blushed. He knew what was coming next. "Harmony here was wanting me to see if you could-"
"Please stop." Harmony said, face hoofing. "I can't take it. Please, take me back until your 'pony-drug' wears off." Celaria sighed.
"If that's what you want." She groaned. "I'll only take you back here one last time, you got that." She didn't wait for an answer. Her horn began to glow, just like before.
"Oh no, you don't!" Amy said. All she could think of as she lunged at the two was that, they looked so much like a dematerializing TARDIS. She felt like Captain Jack for a moment, clinging to the side of the TARDIS as it flew through the time vortex. She struggled to stifle a squee.



POOF! The three appeared in the children's room Harmony had been in before the game, where Tia and Luna were playing dolls. When they did, Harmony was flung backward and Amy landed on top of him.
"I'm not letting you out of my sight!" Amy said to the stunned Harmony. To be quite frank, every pony in the room was shocked by Amy's sudden appearance.
"New sistow!" Luna exclaimed happily, popping up from where she sat and running over to. Amy double took, and stood up. Harmony was too embarrassed.
'Why does she have to see me like this?' Harmony thought to himself. Amy started talking.
"What do you mean?" Amy asked. Tia spoke up.
"The last time she brought one of you... things home," Tia nodded toward harmony. "He was our brother." Amy realized something.
"You... are Jason's new sisters?" Amy asked, and confused Tia and Luna.
"Who's Jason?" Luna asked, Tia nodded in agreement. Now it was Amy's turn to be confused.
"He's your brother... I think." Amy responded. She then remembered something Harmony had said back in the party room. "You said something about a... changed name?" Amy asked Harmony. Harmony blushed.
"Yeah... they changed my name..." Harmony said, slowly. "... To... Harmony..." He finished the sentence as though it was hot. Amy knew her friend well. He was embarrassed.
"Ohh. That's sweet." Amy said in a mock baby-talk. Harmony blushed. A couple of small zaps emanated from Harmony, and one smoke bomb, and when the smoke cleared he had turned back to Jason, the human she knew (and sorta' loved). Harmony took a moment to look at himself, and sighed with relief.
"Oh thank god!" He said. "Being a pony's exsausting!"
> 9 Trapped
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	After one explanation later...

Amy was now filled in on the whole story, the tedious explanation filled with interruptions from both parties telling the story I will spare you.
"I'm still mad though," Amy and Harmony said, at the same time.
"Just... not too much," Harmony admitted. He then pointed a newly regained  finger at Celaria. "You still should have at least asked." Celaria nodded.
"Yes, I'm privy to my mistake," Celaria said, exasperated at having to admit this over and over again. "Now, I think I'll have to make some arrangements for little Amy here." Another grin came across Celaria's face. Amy didn't really care.
"Yeah, so I was thinking WE," Amy said, wrapping her arm around Jason. "Should be going home." Some shock crossed Celaria's face. Jason (as he was deciding to go back to) felt that this wasn't because they decided to go home. She lifted one hoof behind her head and began to rub it nervously.
"Heh hehe... About that..." Celaria said, shakily. "Remember that unicorn that found you earlier yesterday?" She asked Jason. "He was coming to tell me the world traveling spell needs to be altered after each use, because the walls of the word adjust to keep it from being replicated... and that he had a warning about the first adjustment..." She gulped. "And that it would work two more times... at the most..."
"WHAT!?!?" Amy and Jason shouted in unison. Jason sank to his knees.
"I don't think I can stand up," Jason said. "Also I think I'm gonna be sick."
"Are you saying... we're trapped here!?!" Amy asked. Celaria gulped and nodded slowly. Anybody that knew Amy knew that she was normally calm and could go off from time to time. Her reaction to this information would shock any of those people, as long as they were not subjected to the same news. Amy was filled, with steaming hot, pure and unbridled, rage. She took a few (hundred) deep breaths, attempting to calm down. It helped, but ultimately failed. She was furious!
"So now you've abducted TWO CHILDREN!!!" Amy shouted, as calm as possible for her. She started making grasping motions with her hands, combine that with her face... it was unnerving to say the least. "And you've TRAPPED THEM, in another DIMENSION!!!" Amy muttered, angrily. "Who do you think you are?" She questioned the large alicorn. This question seemed to "irk" Her.
"I," She said. "I am Queen Celaria." Celaria looked as though this would render Amy speechless, have her bow down to her.
This didn't even phase her.
"So," Amy said. "You're a queen, so what?" Celaria was quite surprised to hear this. She was more surprised when Amy continued. "That doesn't mean you can kidnap children." Celaria was hurt. She had never paid any mind to the two's arguments, but now that she was listening she heard the words being said.
"I did not kidnap anypony." Celaria defended. "I adopted him." She smirked at what she thought was an excellent comeback.
It wasn't.
"Did you sign any papers?" Amy asked, smirking. 
Celaria stuttered a "N- no". "Did you even ask anybody?" Amy knew she won this battle of wits. Celaria nervously scratched the back of her head with her hoof.
"No..." Celaria trailed off.
"That's what I thought," Amy said, clearly the victor. "So, I think you owe us an apology." Amy nodded towards Jason/Harmony, who had curled up in a ball laying on his side, on the floor. The two girls just looked at each other, shrugged, and continued.
"So when can we expect to be sent back to earth?" Amy asked. She narrowed her eyes. "And keep in mind 'never' Is an unacceptable answer."
> 10, Midnight sighs
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	Amy lay in bed, thinking about the day's events.
'I found Jason... but I'm stuck in horse land now...' She thought to herself. 'But... it's still worth it. I found Jason, and he's alive.' It was hard to reassure herself that it was worth leaving the small seedling-of-a-life she had behind for him. "And besides... she didn't necessarily say it was impossible to go home... just very hard. But still possible!" Amy said, holding onto any shred of hope she had about getting home. She slept, shallow and uncomfortable, but she slept. She didn't dream that night, but if she did it would be easy to guess what it would be about: the magic Doctor saving her.



Jason as well couldn't sleep. He was sleeping in the room he had only slept in for two days. Amy was in another room, down the hall. His room existed in a small castle in a forest... "Everfree" or something. It was far away from the big city he entered after first entering this world. Celaria said that they needed time for the press to settle down, and they needed privacy while that happened. Thus, they moved to to a castle, hidden away in the middle of a forest.
"What should I do?" He asked himself. "I should be figuring this out, and doing something... it shouldn't be up to Amy. I mean- Amy alone." Jason quickly corrected himself. He sighed, and closed his eyes. "I can't believe I dragged her into this... I should have just solved this before... I mean, this isn't real, she isn't my mom... I need to come back to reality." Jason sighed and drifted off to his light and horrible sleep.



Celaria, as well, was pondering questions of her own. She was sitting at a desk, set up in her room.
"I should have planned this out more..." Celaria sighed. "I came on too strong and didn't give him a choice... I need to make up for this. But... how?" Celaria posed to herself. "I'm really bad at this..."



"Luna?" Celestia asked her sister.
"Yeah Tia?" Luna replied.
"Do you think they like us?" Celestia asked.
"Of cowse! I know the wike us!" Luna said, really optimistically.
"Do you think we were cute enough?"
"Go to bed Tia."
"Fine."
> 11 Breakfast (Edited)
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	After a night of collective bad sleep, dawn dawned upon the castle in the Everfree Forest. The two young princesses awoke first and ventured to the kitchen to prepare breakfast. Amy woke up five minutes after. She was groggy, as one is after horrible sleep. She wandered the lonely halls, searching for the kitchen herself. She finally found it and saw Celestia and Luna cooking on the stove. Amy was no expert on a pony's age by a long shot, but she knew that the girls were too young to be using fire to cook.
"Shouldn't you wait for your mom to cook?" Amy asked as she entered the room. Luna (although Amy didn't know that was her name) was confused.
"Why?"
"Well, aren't you a little young to be messing with fire?" Amy asked. Celestia looked offended.
"I'll have you know that I've been cooking for 100 years." Celestia retorted, swirling the frying pan with her hoof. Amy's jaw dropped.
"How old are you?!?" She asked. Celestia tilted her head up and started tapping her "chin" with her free hoof.
"107," Celestia said nonchalantly.
"And I'm 100 fwee," Luna informed the stunned Amy. Amy sat down in a chair that was obviously made for these things and not humans. The seat was way to big for her to sit comfortably. Celaria entered the room next. She laughed when she saw Amy. Her laugh was calm but still contained amusement.
"You should see your face," Celaria laughed. "It's priceless." Luna began to laugh as well.
"Yeah," Celestia cracked a grin, leaning against the counter. Amy noted that she acted a bit like a 13-year-old, despite the fact that she's actually 107. "It's like you've never seen an alicorn before."  Amy then realized that she didn't actually know the names of the two fillies in the room with her. 
"I just remembered... I don't know your names." Amy said to the little girls. She also noted that Luna (the tardis blue one, in her mind) reminded her of herself.
"I'm Tia," Celestia said to Amy.
"And I'm Wuna!" Luna said. Amy grinned at how cute they were.
"It's good to meet you, Tia and Wuna." Amy smiled to the little one. Luna pouted.
"I'm not Wuna, I'm Wu- Wu... I'm Luna." Luna said with difficulty. Amy laughed. She then took a certain curiosity to the contents of the frying pan. She then craned her neck, attempting to see the frying pan from the too-big chair.
"What are you cooking anyway?" Amy asked. Celaria turned pale, and she covered her flopped over ears. Celestia did the same. Just then, Luna suddenly shouted:
"PANCAKES!!!" Very loudly. After a few minutes, Amy's ears stopped ringing, and she was able to respond.
"I love pancakes," Amy said, a bit dazed. Celaria looked at Amy and saw something. What she saw was unexpected, and not what she thought she would see. But... she saw it. Amy was Amy. And more of her mistake was revealed to her.



Jason woke up at around 30 minutes after the prior conversation occurred. He sat up in his bed and looked around his room. He was really tired. He got up from the bed and began his journey to the kitchen. Once he reached it, he saw Celaria, Celestia, Luna, and Amy sitting there, eating pancakes. They were laughing at something. Amy turned her head a bit and saw him. Her face looked horrified. She reached her hands across the table and covered the foal's eyes, then slammed hers shut. Jason realised then,

He forgot something.

"I'm hoping..." He began. "Pants?"
"No." Amy mouthed. Jason blushed again. Lucky him, everypony had closed their eyes, even though they weren't sure why. Jason then raced back to his room, to get his jeans.

Pancakes were no longer appealing.
> 12 peculiar portals
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	"So, this thing should take us home?" Amy asked, unsure. The device she was looking at was a steampunk-style ring, with lots of monitors, wires, and other gizmos of that nature connected to it. It was the perfect size for Amy and/or Jason to crawl through it. But, it still looked if-y. Like it could break at any time. Celaria and the foals were also in the room, having their cilent doubts on the device. The room itself existed in Canterlot.
"Yeah, I'm not too sure about this thing." Jason agreed, knocking on the rim of the ring. It made a hollow metallic "thunk" noise. "I don't think this is a good idea." Amy tapped the device, it sparked a bit in response. Amy shook her head.
"This is gonna go horribly wrong." she said. The inventor of the magical device (AKA Starswirl The Bearded) was in the room listening to the complaints of the sole purpose of its creation.
"If you don't like it, then you'll have to find your own way home." Starswirl scoffed at the humans.
"Fair point," Jason said. "We just want to know if it's safe."
"Of course it's safe." Starswirl gloated. The machine sparked and a cloud of smoke flew out. His eyes looked nervous for a moment. "Ish."
"Ish?" Amy asked rhetorically. "I think it could be safer than Ish." The old wizard rolled his eyes.
"Again, do you want to get home?" He asked the humans. Both the humans sighed. "Good!" Starswirl said, a little happier. His horn glowed golden, and he zapped a small port in the device. The machine burst into life. In the middle of the ring, a small orb of pulsing white light appeared and emitted waves of blue light to the metal of the rings. It was the portal. The humans "oohed" and "ahhed" at it.
"Well," Celaria said. "I guess this is- GOOD HEAVENS!!!" Celaria was attempting to say goodbye before a huge tentacle shot from the portal.
"Close it close it close it!" Amy screamed, covering her eyes with one hand and flailing wildly with the other. Starswirl shot another beam of magic into the port, and the tentacle slipped back through the portal, the orb vanished, and the blue waves ceased. All the occupants of the room (minus one wizard) glared at Starswirl. Starswirl rubbed the back of his head nervously.
"I think it needs a little... recalibration..." Starswirl coughed. Jason felt a burning feeling in his chest, a little... fiery rage.
"Yeah, reclaibrate it so we don't end up meeting Cthulu." Jason teased sarcastically. Starswirl shook his head.
"Okay, I see your point. But I'll have you know I vanquished Cthulu a few months ago." Starswirl said, defensive and offended. Then he realized something. "Wait, how do you even know about him?"
"Wait, Cthulu is real?!?" Amy shrieked. She had come across Cthulu on the internet. Celaria, meanwhile, was lost.
"What's Cthulu?" Celaria asked. Starswirl immediately dismissed the question.
"Nothing nothing!" Starswirl waved a hoof wildly in a "forget about it" motion. "But anyways... it'll take some time for me to find that specific world again..." Starswirl muttered under his breath.
"What was that?" Celestia asked, hearing perfectly well what the old stallion had said.
"Oh, I said this is going to take some time." Starswirl acted as though he hadn't said anything hinting that he used the human world as a trash can. Celestia didn't buy it. She made sure he knew that as the non-unicorns were ushered out of the room, by giving him a death glare. Once Starswirl had gotten all of the other's out of the room, he rested against the door and sighed.
"I should really stop sending stuff to that dimension." Starswirl the noticed the letter on his desk, telling him to face a bunch of Sirens. "Eh, one more couldn't hurt."

> 13 The Pony Dare
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	Jason and Starswirl were in an argument on how much Starswirl actually knew, based on what Celestia had told Jason. Things were turning ugly. Fast.
"I don't think your all your cracked up to be, dumbeldork."
"You wouldn't understand, child!" Starswirl shot back. Amy was sitting on the metaphorical sidelines of this fight, shaking her head.
"I bet I could understand your 'oh-so-complicated' 1 + 1." Jason taunted.
"Why you little..." Starswirl turned red. After that insult, Starswirl knew exactly what to do. So he ignited his horn. "You know I don't need a simple potion to make you into a little... 'fuzz ball'." Jason turned white.
"You wouldn't." Jason pleaded. Starswirl grinned. He would, and did.



4 hours later...

"Never... again." Jason muttered as he stood up from his "all four's" position. He and Amy were in the children's room at Canterlot Castle, where Jason had been moping.
"But you look so cute!" Amy replied to Jason. Jason turned red.
"I hate that unicorn." Jason muttered, vowing revenge.
"Well at least you were cute." Celestia teased her human "brother." Luna giggled. Jason just rolled his eyes.
"But... what was it like?" Amy asked. Jason thought for a moment, on how to respond.
"It was... actually kinda nice," Jason admitted. "You feel warm and soft... a little bit itchy. But overall, not too bad." Jason didn't seem all too mad about it. He realized this. "But I didn't like it," Jason added quickly.
"I bet you did." Amy accused.
"Why would I like being turned into a miniature horse against my will? At all?"  Jason asked Amy. Amy's eyes brightened.
"That's the wrong question!" Amy said, in an old man voice for some reason. "The right question is," She returned to her usual voice. "How much will you like it for?" Jason knew exactly where this was going. He didn't like it very much.
"Is that a dare?" Jason asked. Amy grinned.
"No, It's a bet." She said. Celestia and Luna were looking at the two humans and their interactions.
"Who can be a pony the longest?" Jason asked, not-so-secretly he was nervous. He really didn't want to go through with this.
"I'm gonna have to decli-" Jason began. He was interrupted.
"Boooooo." Celestia booed. She was such a teenager. Jason sighed and tried his sentence again.
"I'm going to have to decline." Amy began to laugh.
"Silly Jason, thinking you have a choice." She laughed. Her tone suddenly dropped to a deadpan serious one. "No, you're doing this." Jason sighed in defeat. Some small part of him knew this was how it'd turn out.



Only 2 minutes after this occurred, the event was retold to Celaria from the mouth of little Luna. Celaria didn't know whether to be excited that her "son" was choosing to be one of her kind (even if it was a bet) or concerned that Amy persuaded him so easily. Choosing the optimistic route, Celaria called for Starswirl, as well as began to plot a convincing lie. Probably the griffin lie. That one always worked. Then, she set her mind to more pressing matters: her relationship with Amy. Amy clearly didn't like her, and Celaria didn't entirely understand why. But she was beginning to. 
But that wasn't the problem, the problem was that Celaria needed Amy to like her. Celaria was pulled out of her thoughts as Starswirl entered the room. Celaria then began her conversation.



"I think he spiked it." Jason remarked on his potion. His was a brown-green and Amy's potion was violet pink.
"Well you don't want to be a girl do you?" Starswirl asked. Jason rolled his eyes. 
"Why does brover and Sistow hate mommy?" Luna whisper asked Celestia. Celestia shrugged.
"Ok, we all set?" Amy asked, her eyes competitive. Jason gulped.
"Down the hatch." He said with a shaky voice. They both gulped down the test tube size vial they held. Jason felt the strange feeling from before, but it was different. "Hey, something's not right." Jason said, looking at Starswirl.
"Well, maybe that's because I didn't put enough diluted quicksilver in, you might actually see yourself change!" Starswirl said excited. Jason gulped. 
"Here we go."
> 14 Hoof bound
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	A few minutes later, the changes completed. Jason was back to Harmony (as he called his pony self). Jason shivered.
"Why didn't you put enough whatever-it-was and make me experience that?" Jason asked, already shuddering at the memory of the transformation.
"I ran out," Starswirl said. You would probably suspect a grin on his face, but his face was sympathetic. Lucky little Amy had gotten the same treatment, but for some reason it was less "awkward" (used for lack of a better word) for her.
"I don't see the big deal," Amy said, swinging her back leg so she could get a feel for it. "The change wasn't that bad." Amy shifted her weight around on her hooves, resulting in her swinging in a circle around her hooves. Amy was a pink pegasus with a brown mane and tale, with the image of a silver tube with blue on one end and a black cone shape on the other. Amy flapped  her wings a few times. "This feels so... weird!" Amy exclaimed, clearly enjoying herself. "I don't see why you hated this so much," Amy said to Jason. Jason raised one hoof and was about to say something in response, when he realized that, beyond not having a say in it the first time, he didn't really hate this. He put his hoof back on the floor.
"That's what I thought," Amy said, smirking in victory. "This is gonna be easier than I-" Amy took one step and fell face first to the floor.
"I think I will take my leave, and get to work on that portal," Starswirl said, walking to the door of the room. He opened the door, and two excited fillies and one Alicorn failing to suppress its excitement entered the room. The girls ran up to Amy with HUGE grins on their faces.


Amy POV


I looked over at Jason.
"So Jace, what-"
"Please don't use my name. I don't want the name "Jason" to be associated with this body." Jason interrupted me, a little rudely.
"Ok, then what do you want me to call you?" I asked my friend. Jason didn't like the inevitable question.
"Harmony," Jason muttered through gritted teeth. I couldn't help but smile.
"What was that?" I chirped.
"Harmony." Jason muttered in the same way.
"You realy need to lighten up, HARMONY," Amy said.	
"Where's your sense of fun?" Luna asked. Celestia nudged Luna, and both of them nodded and backed away from me a few paces. Jason looked at the unmoving forms of the little foals for a few moments.
"What are they..." Jason questioned. Suddenly, a look of realization and terror crammed themselves onto his face. "Oh dear lord!!!" Jason shrieked and raced from the room as if the devil himself was there. Starswirl looked at the girls and looked nervous.
"Let's take this conversation on the road shall we?" Starswirl said with a shaky voice. I had no idea what had spooked them so much. I looked back at the girls, and they had moved a little closer. They were beginning to creep me out.
"Ok, I'm just gonna go- WHAT IN THE WORLD!?!" In the time it took me to blink, the girls had moved impossibly close. I nearly jumped out of my skin! I kept staring at the little girls, too scared to even blink! Funny, they reminded me a bit of the weeping angels from doctor who. "Do, not, blink," I muttered to myself. Slowly backing around them to get out of the room. Soon I reached the door.
"Ok, I can't run away, then they'd follow me, can't back out of here, they'd follow me... " Then, I made my decision. I would make a run for it.



I found myself, backing down the hallway, with my eyes watering (hey, it's really hard to keep your eyes open for long!). The whole castle was empty, like they were hiding. This was terrifying! Blink. Both the girls came into view. I reached my hand up to pry my eyes open before I realized that I didn't have hands, I had hooves. Celestia's horn suddenly sparked to life, and the lights started to flicker.
"Oh no, she's turning out the lights!" I cried to myself. The lights switched off, and I knew they were coming closer. I felt one of them touch me.
"Tag!" I heard Luna exclaim. I opened my eyes. The lights had stopped flickering and the atmosphere was calm.
"What?" I asked Luna. Luna cocked her head to one side.
"You're it," Luna said, soundly slightly confused. "haven't you evor pwayed tag?"
"We were playing tag?" I asked, getting a little hot under the collar... so to speak. Luna's attempt to answer was drowned out by Celestia laughing at my terror.
"Of course we were playing tag!" She said between laughs. "What did you think we were doing?" I then realized that, I didn't really think. I didn't think at all. 
Man I feel stupid.



Amy, Luna, and Celestia walked around the castle, looking for "Harmony" (as previously mentioned Jason would go by), as well as anypony else they could find. As they walked, slowly the guards of Canterlot Castle came out, realizing "the game" had ended.
"Never do that again." Amy snapped at the girls. "You almost gave me a heart attack."
"Awww," Luna and Celestia whined. Celestia was hovering down the hall, legs crossed, and huffing.
"You should be chasing us, you're it." Celestia puffed.
"I was never playing." Amy snapped.  The three walked in silence the rest of the way.



Amy walked into the room, that Contained Jason and Starswirl.
"Oh thank god it's over!" Jason sighed with relief.
"I concur." Starswirl nodded.
"Yeah, is there something you're not telling me?" Amy asked.
"Oh..." Both the males shifted uncomfortably.
"Don't blink?" Jason said, nervously.  Amy frowned.
"Not cool."
> 15 Flight
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

One Year Later...



Starswirl was busy working on the portal, making calculations, and adjusting the settings on it, trying to find the human world. The sheer multitude of dimensions made this difficult. It was easy to hop to a specific dimension when teleporting there but using a machine was... difficult, to say the least. Starswirl's usual garb was now accompanied by a steampunk sachel, steampunk goggles, and the loss of 1 wizard hat. Scree! Scree! A bolt screeched as Starswirl turned it with his arcane power.
"There we go!" Starswirl said excitedly. "Now you should be up and running! It only took a year." He switched on the device and stuck his head in.
"When you're rife with devastation! There's a-"
Starswirl pulled his head out again.
"NOPE!" He exclaimed nervously, closing the portal. "Never again!" He was getting close, that version of Equestria was spawned from the human world, even though he wasn't sure how. For a brief moment, A huge shadow suddenly crossed over the window.
"Don't go too fast!!!" Jason's voice called from outside the window. Starswirl walked over to it to see Jason, Amy, and the young princesses outside. Amy was flying.
"Well I'll be." Starswirl gaped. "She mastered that rather quickly." Amy wobbled in mid-air. It reminded the ancient wizard of learning magic.



"Pony Jason" (or Harmony) was watching "pony Amy" practice her flying. Luna and Tia were with him. Tia wasn't too happy about how quickly Amy picked up the art, that she had tried at for years, and failed each time.
"I don't get what's so great about her," Tia muttered angrily.
"What was that?" Luna asked her sister. Luna had gotten DRASTICALLY better at speech, over the one year the humans had existed in Equestria. Celestia blushed.
"Nothing." Luna rolled her eyes. Harmony was too distracted with Amy to notice the tension between the two sisters.
"Alright! Come down Amy!" Harmony called. Amy drooped her head and floated down a bit.
"Aww. You're so protective." Amy groaned. "I've been practicing for over a year now, and this is the first time I've been confident enough outside!" Amy raised her altitude a bit. "Just a little bit longer?" Jason opened his mouth to release his complaints, but Amy responded first. "Ok-thanks-bye!" Amy said in rapid succession, flying out of earshot and doing a few cocky backflips.
"Am- Amy. Amy!" Harmony called out to Amy. She didn't want to hear him, so she didn't. She just kept on flying. "Amy! Oh nevermind." Harmony stopped calling for her. He just shook his head and watched Amy's flight.
> 16 Just Another Day
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	"So class, who can tell me what a timber wolf's weakness is?" Ms. Learnbudd asked the class. Harmony and Amy had been secretly enrolled in the Canterlot school during the year they had spent in Equestria, so they could have a normal childhood if they never made it back home. If you asked Harmony, it was a waste of time. Amy, on the other hoof, loved the idea! She, not so secretly, also loved being a pony. But being a pegasus to boot was icing on the cake. Amy raised her hoof.
"Fire?" She answered the teacher's question. Ms. Learnbudd smiled.
"Correct ms Pond!" Amy had chosen the name "Golden Pond" under the pretense that "Amy" wasn't pony enough. Amy failed to completely stifle her snorts of laughter. Learnbudd rolled her eyes. She was used to Amy's strange reaction to her own name. Right now, "Harmony" and "Golden Pond" were in magical beasts class. As can be discerned from the name, it is about the more... disagreeable creatures of Equestria. Today's class was practical knowledge, and tomorrow was practical usage: Harmony's favorite class. Ms. Learnbudd also taught the usual classes, math, science, and magic.
Both Pond and Harmony shared a common friend: his name was Wavy Line. Wavy was a very loud unicorn colt, with an eagerness to rush headlong into whatever challenge presented itself, but once he had a plan in mind. Without a plan though, he was useless.
"So, what do you wanna do after class?" Wavy whispered to his friends, who sat one row ahead of him and adjacent to each other. Harmony shrugged and took some notes.
"I was thinking we put some of our magical beast knowledge to good use." Pond grinned.
"Are you nuts!?!" Harmony almost shouted. "I mean, sure if we had a gun or something," Harmony began, quietly.
"What's a gun?" Wavy Line asked, but was ignored.
"But we can't even use weapons, so no!" Harmony hissed to Pond.
"I would have to agree with Harmony." Ms Learnbudd angrily announced. "Let's keep this talk of 'adventures' for after class, shall we?"
"Yes ma'am." All three of them replied in unison.
"Now, who can tell me how to cast a simple, ignite spell?"



Harmony, Golden Pond, and Wavy Line were walking home from school, talking.
"So, how about it?" Pond asked with narrow eyes, lifting off the ground, hovering by a foot. "You guys wanna go explore the woods?"
"I don't it's a good idea." Harmony said.
"Oh, don't be such a baby, bro." Pond said, nudging Harmony in the shoulder. Part of Harmony and Golden Pond's cover stories was they were siblings. In Harmony's opinion, it was a plus. "Wavy, you're with me right?"
"Totally!" Wavy shouted. "This is gonna be awesome! You gotta come Harms." Wavy also nudged  Harmony's shoulder.
"Har-mon-y! Har-mon-y!" Wavy and Pond began to chant.
"Fine!" Harmony said, cracking. "Let's go explore the stupid forest."
> 17 Into the woods
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	"Into the woods it's time today, I can't delay. Into the woods it's time to go, I have to start my journey!" Pond hummed as the duo ventured into the woods.
"It's a bummer Harmony can't come," Wavy said glumly. "He shouldn't have procrastinated on his homework." Meanwhile, Harmony was attending his duties as "Prince of Equestria". It was a royal banquet, complete with the stupid tiny amounts of food and boring conversations. He slowly dropped his head onto the table out of boredom.
"Yeah, he has... so much homework." Pond lied.
"Stinks to be him." Wavy tutted.
"AW, what  is that smell?" Pond asked, pinching one hoof over her muzzle to block the putrid smell.
"It smells like a timber wolf's breath!" Wavy replied, mimicking the hoof gesture.
"Grrrrrrrrrr," A low growl filled the air.
"It's a timber wolf isn't it?" Pond asked in a deadpan tone.
"Yyyyyep," Wavy replied.
"I've always wanted to say this," Amy grinned. "RUN!" Both Wavy and Amy started running, in a sort of blind panic.
"What are we gonna do!?!" Wavy asked. Pond glared at him.
"Gee, I don't know what to do against wood." Pond said sarcastically. She shouted the answer. "BURN IT!" Wavy turned around and focused on his magic. His horn glowed its dusty blond aura, and that aura materialized around the wolf. CRACK! A bolt of magic lightning crackled from Wavy's horn and to the patch of aura on the timber wolf. Where the magic made contact with the creature, it lit fire!
"Aha! Brilliant!" Said Pond, slipping into a British accent. She watched way to much British TV before they came here. The timber wolf yelped and ran away.
"We did it!" Wavy said, holding up a hoof for a hoof-bump. "We defeated a timber wolf!" Pond returned the hoof-bump request with a short hug.
Pond looked around her, noticing she had no idea where they were. She also reminded herself that while it had run away, it would probably be back. With reinforcements.
"Crap."
> 18 Out of the Woods
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

	"They've been gone for a long time." Harmony said, expectantly looking out the window at the night sky, waiting for his friends to run out of the woods, safe. Celaria was too busy righting papers to really care what he said. "I'm gonna go find them." He stood up and went to get his bag.
"Yeah, have fun," Celaria said absently. It was a long paper she was wrighting. In his bag, Harmony placed a compass, a map, and a magic lamp. Then, he set out to find Wavey and Pond.



"I wish you packed a light," Wavey grumbled to Golden Pond.
"I wish you packed anything." Pond grumbled back.
"You were the one who said: 'You have magic, so we'll be fine!" Wavey argued.
"This is what I get for trying to play Doctor." Pond sighed to herself. Wavey cocked his head.
"Don't you mean, play god? And... I don't think that saying works here." Wavey asked.
"No, I meant Doctor." Pond shook her head.
"Explain please," Wavey asked. Pond grinned, remembering an episode of the British show with a quote that would work perfectly, with some choice edits.
"There's a stallion, who lives on a cloud," Pond began. "He's called the Doctor. He spends all day, every day saving the world." Wavey was a little confused.
"Saving the world from what? timber wolves? I don't think we need protecting from timber wolves. We just defeated one!" Wavey protested.
"Oh, he saves us from far worse than timber wolves." Pond began more of the story. "There's one thing you need to know, one thing that is very important. Monsters are real." Wavey was about to say something, but Pond raised a hoof to stop him. "But that's ok. Monsters are just our fears. And everything has fears, even the monsters." Wavey was confused again.
"Then... what are the monsters scared of?" Wavey asked.  Pond grinned. This conversation was going exactally according to plan.
"The Doctor." Pond said, trying to sound as cool and awesome as possible. Just then, they heard a rustling in the bushes. Both of them froze instantly. Out from the bushes trotted Harmony.
"Really?" Harmony condescendingly asked, raising an eyebrow at them. "You brought him out into the woods late at night, just so you could tell him about Doctor Who?" Pond blushed.
"No, that wasn't the reason I wanted to come out here..." She trailed off.
"Then what? Did you think it would be romantic?" Harmony said, saying romantic in a mock lovey-dovey voice. Pond blushed. Wavey's jaw dropped.
"Wo Wo Wo!" Wavey shouted. "I don't feel that way about you! I mean, don't take this the wrong way, but you're nice. I'm way too young for that!" Wavey finished blushing. After a pause in the conversation, Wavey spoke again. "Isn't Harmony a girl's name?" He asked, trying to lighten the mood. Now, it was Harmony's turn to blush.
"I thought it was masculine..." Harmony said, but his words sounded hollow. Pond realized her chance to get back at her "brother" for the romantic comment.
"No, I'm pretty sure it's a girl's name." Pond teased. Harmony fell silent. From his saddle bag, harmony slowly pulled out the magic lamp he had packed, and turned it on.
"Let's just go." He said embarrassed. Pond and Wavey laughed and followed him.



The trio had been walking for about 30 minutes, of which Pond had been humming the whole time.
"Into the woods, and out of the woods, and home before dark!" She hummed to herself.
"What are you humming?" Wavey finally asked, trying to spark a friendly conversation.
"Something from a musical I saw," Pond replied. More scilence.
"Tell me more about the Doctor," Wavey said, again attempting to strike conversation.
"He's got a box..." Pond said. Harmony slammed his hoof into his face.
"Here we go." He groaned.
"... He's got  box," Pond repeated, annoyed. "Called the TARDIS. It's bigger on the inside and can travel anywhere in time and space." Wavey was simply facinated.
"So he's a powerful unicorn!" Wavey exclaimed.
"Actually... I don't know." Pond mused, tapping her chin with her hoof. "He could be... he changes his face when he dies." Harmony abruptly stopped dead in his tracks and turned to face Wavey.
"You mean, you buy all this. You actually believe that there's somepony out there that can time travel?" Harmony asked in a condescending tone.
"Yeah, there is a time travel spell, after all-" Wavey said. Harmony's jaw dropped.
"THERE'S TIME TRAVEL!?!" Harmony exclaimed. His face turned red, and he stormed off in the direction of home, muttering: "I can't believe it." Golden Pond and Wavey Line looked at each other.
"What's his deal?" Wavey asked. Pond just shrugged.













> 19 Temporal Debate
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

	The next day, Starswirl was doing what he usually did when he wasn't working on the portal, teaching his apprentices.
"Al, you have to focus," Starswirl instructed. "You'll never get good at this if you don't have focus." Al groaned. He had heard this a lot. Just then, Harmony walked into the room.
"Hey, Starswirl?" Harmony asked. Starswirl turned around to face Harmony.
"No, Harmony, I haven't finished the portal yet." Starswirl sighed, annoyed.
"No, no." Harmony waved the statement away. "I was just asking about a time travel spell." If Al was taking a drink, he would have spit took.
"There's a time travel spell?!?" Al screeched in surprise.
"Yes, well," Starswirl was going to say.
"Why haven't you used it to stop Celaria, from starting this whole thing in the first place?" Harmony asked passive-aggressively. Starswirl noticed this and adjusted his tone of speech accordingly.
"Al, Clover," He said to his apprentices. "Please leave us to speak in private. Both the apprentices left the room. Then, Starswirl addressed Harmony. "Because of the resulting time paradox." Starswirl responded, matter-of-factly. "It would rip apart our world, and yours as well. Or, at the very least, remove us from existence."
"What a load," Harmony replied, unbelieving. "Just do it." Starswirl sighed at the request and began to explain why it was a REALLY bad idea.
"If I went back in time to stop Celaria from bringing you here, then she wouldn't." Harmony was about to speak, but was silenced by Starswirl. "SO, you would never live here, up to the moment you tell me to go back and change the event, the only reason I do so. SO since I never go back and change the event, Celaria does go get you, and you do live up to this moment, and I do go back and change it, and the cycle repeats forever, creating a paradox." Harmony fell silent. "It get's worse. The timeline would seek to solve the unending paradox, and the only way to do so, is to remove all involved in the paradox from existence, namely you, me, and Celaria. After that, the timeline would adjust itself and move everypony related to us around so that they were in a way in which they never met us, meaning the young princesses would be gone as well." Starswirl finished his explanation, and Harmony was wide-eyed as well as against the idea. Harmony opened his mouth to say something in opposition, but was silent when he realized his argument was mute.
'How can I argue against that?!?' Harmony thought to himself. Starswirl grinned at his minor debate victory.
"Thank you for the debate Harmony, I do enjoy a debate, now I must get back to work, so you can go now." Starswirl shooed Harmony away, picking him up with his magic and gently setting him down outside the door, closing it behind him.



Harmony was lying on his back on the palace lawns, staring up at the sky and pondering anyway he could (and even if he was ever gonna,) get home. He lifted his hooves up to his face and sighed. He hated them. He wasn't even sure why, he held nothing against his hooves or pony body, in general. Harmony lowered his hooves back to his sides. He closed his eyes.
'On the bright side, at least I didn't get stuck in Fallout.' Harmony thought to himself. Then, Luna walked up.
"Hi, Harmony!" She said, as excited as always to see her big brother. Harmony wasn't planning to stay in Equestria forever, and some part of Luna knew this, but that part denied it anyway. So, for all it was worth to Luna, Harmony was her big brother. Harmony opened his eyes and looked at her. It took him a moment to register Luna, because (in his perspective) Luna was upside down, standing on a ceiling of grass above an infinite blue abyss that was the sky.
"Oh, hi Wuna." Harmony had taken to calling her "Wuna" because of the way she pronounced her name a year ago. Luna groaned. She hated that name.
"What are you up to?" Luna asked, laying down on her legs next to Harmony. Luna, had the mind of a 12-year-old, a shy, 12-year-old. 
"Oh, nothing really. Just thinking." Harmony said to Luna.
"About Earth?" Luna asked. Harmony nodded.
"Yeah," Harmony said, longingly. After a moment, Luna said something.
"Can you tell me about it?" Luna asked. Harmony looked at Luna, surprised. 
"S- sure," Harmony said, caught off guard. "I'll tell you a bit about Earth." 
And so he did.
Harmony told Luna the best of humanity. And she loved it.
> 20 Stories of days gone by
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

	"Wow! Video games must be awesome!" Luna said excitedly. "I think Minecraft and Portal are the ones I wanna play the most." Harmony nodded.
"Those are the fun ones." He replied, grinning. It felt good to him, taking a moment to remember the best of his old world, even though he had to snip some details out, here and there. But, all in all, any sorrow he felt vanished. 
"Tell me about your human life," Luna asked. Harmony fell silent. But, after a moment, he sighed and began to tell the story.



When I was very young, my parents died because of a car crash. I was heartbroken for the longest time, and I was again, every time that time of year came around. But, I was dragged out of the dumps, kicking and screaming, by Amy. She refused to let me ever be sad. When Christmas or my birthday came, she would do something, anything, to get my mind off of the event. One time it was skating, one time a scavenger hunt, one time it was paintball... it was always something big! And... I enjoyed all of them, and the effort Amy- I mean, "Golden Pond" put into them. They were the best.



"Wow, those sound like good times," Luna said. Harmony smiled, still thinking back on them.
"Yeah, they were." Harmony laughed slightly. "You know what?" He asked what he now came to terms with, was his sister. "I don't feel bad about living here anymore." Luna smiled widely. She turned and got right up in Harmony's face.
"So... You're staying?" She asked excitedly. Before Harmony could really ponder the answer, Luna shot up from the ground like a rocket. "HE'S STAYING!!!" She cried out. Then, Luna flew off to tell her sisters the news.
"Wait! I didn't say that!" Harmony called out, but Luna was too far gone.



"We're staying?!?" Pond asked Luna excitedly. Luna shook her head vigorously in response.
"You get to stay!" Luna repeated, hugging Pond. They both began to dance around in a circle, ecstatically.
"We have to tell Tia!" Pond said with elation plastered on her face. Both of them shot off down the hall to find their other sister, and give here what they thought, was factual information.



Celestia was sitting at the desk in her room, facing an enemy that has plagued all people and ponies for generations: homework. Celestia may have graduated middle school a long time ago, but she still was given homework to keep her knowledge sharp. Her concentration was shattered by her sisters racing into the room, calling her name loudly as the did so.
"Tia Tia!" Luna panted excitedly. Celestia levitated the chair around, so she could face her sisters.
"Luna, I'm doing school work." Celestia addressed her sister in an annoyed way.
"We're staying!" Pond blurted out. Celestia blinked a few times.
"You and Harmony... are staying in Equestria?" Celestia clarified in monotone. Both Luna and Pond nodded their heads, confused at the lack of emotion given from their Sister. Celestia's face lit up. She then wrapped her hooves around Pond and weeped tears of joy. But, just then, in stumbled a wheezing, panting Harmony. Pond turned to face him
"Wow! I can't believe you actually agreed to live here in Equestria for the rest our lives! I thought you had your heart set on going back to earth and being a sad-sack again, but no! You want to live here were we have a mom, a family, friends, and-" Pond was cut off by Harmony regaining his breath.
"We're not staying." Harmony said.
"WHAT?!?!" The three girls exclaimed.
"Wuna here just jumped to that conclusion from me saying the living here wasn't so bad, after all." Harmony explained. If you were there, in that room, your heart would snap if you could see the faces of the girls. It was more than "distraught," or "sorrow." It was absolutely soul crushing for Harmony to have delivered the clarification. Luna was on the verge of sobs, and Celestia wasn't far behind. But, instead of crying, Celestia dried her eyes and flew out the nearest window angrily. Pond was about to fly after her, but Harmony stopped her.
"It's best I talk to her." Harmony said. He turned to walk out the door and chase after Celestia. "My name is 'Harmony' after all, better live up to it." He joked as he left the room, leaving a very sad Luna and Pond behind.


> 21 Reach the Sky Above!
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

	Harmony raced onto the palace lawns, looking for Celestia.
"Tia!" He called out. He then raced off in the direction he last saw his sister heading.



Tia flew into the small forest, set next to Canterlot. After she had flown a good ways into the woods and was too tired to fly anymore, she landed in a crying, fumming heap on the forest floor. She was sad but mostly mad.
"Why does the world toy with my emotions?!?" She screamed to herself, leaning back against a fallen log. A few sole tears streaked down her face. "I've already lost Dad, why can't I keep something?"
"Oh, so that's what's up." Harmony's voice invaded the solitary Celestia was in. He walked over to Tia and sat down. "I was starting to wonder  where the father was, but now I understand. Pretty stupid I didn't ask until now huh?" Harmony asked Tia. Tia turned away. "Come on, don't be like that." Harmony said, stroking his sister's mane soothingly. "Look, I'm sorry I can't stay forever, but you're lucky." Harmony began. "I lost my dad, and my mom." Tia turned to Harmony.
"Really?" She asked, sympathetically.
"And, I don't live in a 'friendly magic utopia'." Harmony said, realizing what Equestria was as he spoke. He pushed the thought aside to focus on the problem at hoof.  "Look, it can be hard letting go, for the longest time I was SUPER over protective of Am- Pond for the longest time. But, I learned to let go and relax." Harmony explained. "And, when Starswirl gets the portal up and running, we can go both ways, so I can come back and visit."
"Would you?" Tia asked. Harmony nodded.
"I'm not even sure I wanna leave anyway- wait!" Harmony said firmly. "I'm not staying, but I'm just saying, that I'll come back to visit." He clarified. He looked at her. "You need a minute?" Harmony asked. Tia nodded. Harmony stood up and walked back towards Canterlot. Tia looked up at the sun. She knew that it was her destiny to control it one day. It seemed an impossible task to her. Tia stood up, and decided to challenge herself, to take her mind off her troubles. She was gonna fly up as high as she could. So, she did.

Tia beat her tiny, filly wings as hard as she could, going up and up. She stretched her forelegs in front of her, flying faster. She soon reached the high cloud layer (one on par with Earth's). She was tired and barely moving up anymore. So, she rested on a cloud. She looked out over the whole land. She could even see a dessert in the distance! But, for now, she took a nap on the cloud.



"Did you talk to her?" Pond asked. Harmony nodded "yes" in reply.
"It turns out she has some deep emotional junk going on. But I think she's better now." Harmony smiled. Pond put a hoof on his shoulder.
"I don't understand how you don't want to stay here." Pond sighed. "it's paradise! Your thumbs are completely worth it."
"You're right." Harmony sighed.
"What?" Pond asked. "You-"
"Don't want to stay." Harmony interrupted. "But you're right. This place is paradise."
"Soooooo... why are you not staying again?" Pond asked.
"Well... because..." Harmony had nothing. Pond grew a smug look on her face.
"You don't have any reason, other than your stubborn, don't you?" Pond asked. Harmony blushed, embarrassed. "That's what I thought." Pond smirked. "So, why are you gonna go back to the human world?" Harmony realized something.
"Wait... you said you... what do you mean by that?" Harmony asked, fearing Pond's response. Pond looked uneasy.
"Well... I'm-" Pond was interrupted by Star swirl entering the room, with an incredibly excited look on his face.
"Harmony! There you are! I've been looking all over for you." Star Swirl said relieved. "It's done, it's finally working."
"You mean the-"
"Yes, I do." Star swirl said. "I can send you home."
> 22 Burst!
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	The walk to the portal room was torture. Luna was staring at the floor and Celestia was on the verge of sobbing, but she fought the tears back. Pond trailed behind, dreading what came next. Harmony wasn't all that happy either, even though he thought he should be. Starswirl, though, was beaming. 
'It took me a year, but I finally did it!' He thought to himself happily. After a few agonizing minutes, the group finally reached the portal room. Inside, Celaria was waiting. She was wearing a false smile.
"Well, my mistake will finally be reconciled," Celaria said, clearly choking up. "I'm gonna miss you two." Celaria gave both Pond and Harmony a hug. Starswirl trotted over to the controls and began to turn the machine on.
"Well..." Pond started uncomfortably. "You don't have to. Because I'm not going." Harmony's pony jaw dropped.
"You're staying!?!" Harmony asked. Pond nodded. Celestia and Luna smiled a little bit.
"You're just gonna have to go back without me." Pond half smiled. "We both agreed this place... Equestria is paradise, and I wanna stay here. In Equestria, we have a family, and friends. On Earth, we don't." Pond explained. "Why would anypony want to leave? Look, I've even gotten the local lingo." Pond slightly laughed at herself. Now, Harmony was on the verge of crying.
"But... I can't live without you!" Harmony blurted out. "You're the one he keeps me from being a sad sack all the time, you-"
"Har- Jason, you don't need me anymore. It's time for you to move on." Pond smiled. Harmony could tell, this was hard for her. Starswirl approached the two.
"Alright, I'll make you two human again now," Starswirl exclaimed. His horn began to glow.
"Wait!" Pond shouted. "I'm not going back, you can leave me as is." Starswirl looked at her.
"Really?" She nodded in response. "Ok then, welcome to Equestria, permanently." Starswirl shook her hoof. His horn glowed brighter and flashed. When everypony could see again, Jason stood where Harmony was a moment ago. Jason looked himself over, making sure he didn't have a tail, or horse ears. He didn't. Jason looked at Golden Pond.
"So, I guess this is goodbye," Jason said, awkwardly.
"Yeah, I guess so," Pond replied. They hugged. "Goodbye, Jason." The embrace ended, and Jason turned to face the portal home. Starswirl shot his magic beam into the machine, starting it up. the ball of light appeared and the ripples going to the ring around the portal. The portal was open.
"What is it the Doctor says?" Jason asked. "Oh right!" He readied himself to charge the portal, then called out: "ALLONS-Y!!!" he ran at the portal. Everypony started calling out their goodbyes, 
until everything went wrong.
Jason was only 5 feet from the portal, when a bolt of energy bursted from the portal, and struck Jason. 
"JASON!" Pond cried out, trying to run to her friend. Celaria grabbed onto her and held her tight. Starswirl knew what was happening.
"No no no no NO!" Starswirl began to cry, racing to the controls. 
He was too late. 
By the time Starswirl reached the controls, Jason faded from view and left behind a pile of ashes.
"NO!" Starswirl cried out. He closed the portal, but it was too late to save Jason. The room was still, and silent. Pond finally broke free of her mother's grasp and kneeled down next to the ash pile.
"Bring him back." Pond sobbed. "Bring him back, BRING HIM BACK!" Pond paced angrily over to Starswirl. Starswirl looked at her gravely.
"I'm sorry, I'm so so sorry," Starswirl said. "But... your friend is lost to time. We may never see him again." Pond broke down on the floor.
"This isn't right!" Pond shouted, to no one, in particular. Celaria snapped out of her daze and moved to console her daughter, especially now that she was her daughter. Celaria scooted up close and nuzzled Pond sweetly.
"It's ok," Celaria cooed. "It's gonna be ok." But Pond didn't hear her. She was too busy sobbing.
> Epilouge
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	The funeral was held a week later. Star Swirl insisted it was a waste of time because Harmony wasn't dead, just lost in time. Golden Pond had promised not to mope around longer than 1 day a year, for her friend. Unfortunately the alicorns couldn't promise the same. They tended to mope for a week a year. They had grown really close in the year they spent together. It was a dreary Thursday. The kingdom's pegasi delayed the rain that day, claiming that it would be too cliche' to rain on a funeral. The whole kingdom knew about the loss by now, and Wavey Line showed up to the funeral. Pond wasn't in the mood for conversation, so she only talked to him once. The service was about 40 minutes long, and Pond was battling back tears the whole time. But, eventually the funeral ended, it rained, and the world moved on. Farmers still farmed, grocers still sold, and Pond flew again. She never forgot Jason, but she tried not to be sad when she thought of him. Celaria was actually a great mother to her daughters. She did eventually pass on, but it was long after the mortal Pond did the same. Celestia and Luna eventually grew up to what we know them as. But you already knew that. Celestia and Luna never forgot Jason or Pond, and missed them dearly. But they never cried.

The End.
> Bonus chapter 1: A name
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	"Hey, Harmony?" Pond asked.
"What?" Harmony asked.
"I've been wondering... why don't you wanna be called Jason?" (Little did they know, but this question caused LOT'S of sighs of relief). Harmony  looked over at Pond. "I mean, you don't really like it, so why not something else?"
"Well..." Harmony thought. "I guess I do like the name. It's not that bad, actually." Harmony admitted. "It makes me feel important. Like, 'bringer of Harmony'."
"So, what I'm hearing is... you do like your pony name." Pond clarified. Harmony nodded.
"It's not too bad. It makes me wanna be like, some sort of hero." He said wistfully.
"Harmony the hero." Pong laughed. "It's a great dream. maybe it might actually come true here." She continued, after a moment's pause.
"Yeah, it might." Harmony laughed back. He stood up and mimicked holding a sword in his hoof, standing on his hind legs. "Can you imagine it? Me, slaying a dragon?" He swung the fake sword a few times at an invisible monster.
"Yeah, except dragons are intelligent creatures here, not mindless monsters." Pond corrected, giggling. Harmony glared playfully at her.
"You know what I mean." He retorted. He rolled his eyes at her. Then, Pond struck. She lunged, latched onto Harmony's waist, and tackled him. Once she had him pinned down, she grinned smugly at him.
"What're you gonna do now, hero?"
> Bonus chapter 2: Schooling, Day 1
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	It was 6 o'clock, and Harmony was snoring. That is until he was awoken by Golden Pond. It had been about 6 weeks since the "pony bet" began. 
"Psst! Harmony! Wake up!" Golden Pond hissed. "We're gonna be late!" Harmony opened his eyes, and he forgot, for a moment, the situation.
"What?" Harmony asked. "Late?" It was dark, so he couldn't see Pond's pony face.
"Yeah! Late for school." Pond elaborated. Harmony bolted upright.
"Oh shoot!" He cried, and (attempting to get up like a human) fell right on his face. He groaned and rubbed his muzzle. He then remembered he had a muzzle. "Oh, right." He sighed, fully remembering his current scenario. He stood up again, this time on four legs, and untangled himself from the sheets. Pond cocked her head.
"You alright?" She asked him.
"Yeah, I'm fine." With that, they raced to the kitchen and ate breakfast, then ran through the streets of Canterlot to school.



"Ok, class, today we have 2 new students joining us," Mrs. Learn Budd announced. A certain colt's ears perked up. Wavey Line was the usual one to show new students around. Mrs. Learn Budd motioned for the students to enter.
"This, Is Golden Pond, and Harmony." Learn Budd introduced the two, each nodding as their name was said. "Now, go pick your seats and we can start class."  Wavey Line started waving the two to the seats adjacent to him. The seats were on opposite sides of Wavey, this caused the two to look at each other, shrug, and sit down in the seats Wavey had directed.
"Hi! I'm Wavey Line!" Wavey whispered to Golden and Harmony. "We can talk at recess!"
And so, Mrs. Learn Budd started the lesson.



The history lesson ended at around 11:00, which lead to lunch. The two walked out to the school yard, where they were to eat lunch.
"We forgot lunch!" Harmony hissed. Pond thought for a moment, the realised they had, in fact, forgotten to make lunch.
"Pony feathers," Golden muttered. She then looked surprised. "Pony feathers," She repeated. "Buck, grass, stitch! I can't say swear words!" Pond realised. Harmony started laughing.
"Those 'pony brand swears' are adorable!" Harmony laughed. The two reached the lunch tables and sat down. A few seconds later, Wavey Line sat down as well.
"So guys, welcome to school!" Wavey greeted the two. "How are you liking it so far?"
"It's been fine so far," Harmony replied.
"I've liked it, too." Pond added. "It's nice to go back to school."
"That's great!" Wavey said excitedly. "I'm glad you're loving it! Now, let's show you two around!" It was excellent timing because Harmony and Pond had forgotten their lunches. They hadn't realized it yet, so this would be a good distraction.

30 minutes later...

"So, that's the whole school!" Wavey Line said finally.
"Wow, this is a pretty big school." Harmony commented. Pond nodded in agreement.
"Yeah," Pond said absently, looking out at the playground. She suddenly had the child-like urge to go play, to swing on the swings and slide on the slides. "Hey Harmony," Pond nudged him. "You wanna go play foursquare?" She asked, succumbing to the urge. Harmony looked at her for a moment, then he began to feel that same urge, only he knew that his age had been regressed slightly.
"Sure, why not!" He said. So, the three of them played foursquare until it was time to go home.
> A message (and apollogy) To those who read this (RELAX, IT'S A GOOD THING!)
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Ok, so this has nothing to do with the story, just getting that out of the way, but I was looking through my archives, and found the unready sequel... it had a lotof dust on it. Almost a years worth. And I intend to rectify it! Just so you know, I'm (more vigorously than before (that doesn't really say much)) working on the sequel again! Sorry for making you wait, and making you wait longer. I already have a lot of unfinished stories out as it is, and I promised myself to never let that happen, soooo... I'm going to try and get a few closer (while working on the sequel, of course) and... yeah... anyways. Just don't expect that much updating for the new one. I'm the Author, signing off.