//------------------------------// // Chapter 4: sacred and scared // Story: Strange New World // by moltendaniel //------------------------------// "....WHY THE FUCK AM I A MUTANT PONY HORSE THING?" Everypony and dragon in the room just stared at the foals outburst not knowing what to say or do. Everyone just sat there staring at him for what seemed like hours contemplating what he said while in reality it was only 2 minutes. 'What did he mean by that? was he not a pony before he came here....no no no no, thats impossible, it was a teleportaton that brought him here so he would be the same species as when he was born. but what did he mean mutant pony horse thing, does that mean there are horses and ponies in his world? And what did he mean by the mutant part, do they not have pegasi unicorns or alicorns in his world and do they look different to us?' Thought Twilight trying to analyze what he had said. Celestia's thoughts: .............What did he mean by that? Does that mean he wasn't a pony when he was born? That can't be right. The device was only meant to see into another universe not bring somepony here, and even then it shouldn't have changed them. Somethings not right here. Something must have tampered with the device. I'll have to scan him to check for the residual magical energy left to see who had changed starswirls device. Luna's thoughts: Oh how joyous. A creature from another universe. Not just a pony from another universe but some different creature entirely. Oh how wonderful. I wonder what kinds of technology they have...What if they are more advanced than us? I know I'm going to enjoy his company if they are more advanced, especially with his sense of humor. I can only imagine the things we can learn from him. I know we are going to have fun playing pranks on Tia. Ooooh this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship i think. Spikes thoughts: .............Error: Brain has performed an illegal function and cannot complete action. Brain shutdown in 3...2...1... Brain automated recovery sequence initiated ...... ...... ...... Brain has successfully recovered. After 2 minutes of silence the foal looked very unamused. He spoke to them interrupting their thoughts to try and gain an answer for his question. "Well? You've been thinking long enough. Why the hell am i a frigging mutant pony horse thing? Seriously, tell me now. What the hell am I and why am I no longer human?" The moment the word "human" left his mouth the atmosphere in the room suddenly changed dramatically. Twilight immediately bowed much lower than she did to both the princesses and was shaking more than pinkie pie's tail does when an object is about to fall. Both princess bowed their heads but not as much as Twilight did. Luna had a look of awe and joy on her face while Celestia had a look of regret plastered all over her. Spike on the other hand, he only just got his brain rebooted before hearing the foal say he was previously human and immediately his brain shutdown again but this time instead of continuing to stand, he promptly decided to face floor. More commonly referred as fainting. "Oooookaaaay.....What the fuck's going on.?" Asked the now confused foal. for another minute there was total silence and the foal started to get annoyed again at the silence. "Seriously, what the fuck is going on. Stop bowing, ducking or whatever it is your doing" he said to Celestia and Luna. "Get your purple arse off the floor and stop shaking like that or your brains probably gonna shake itself out of your head" He said to Twilight. "And for the love of god please wake up the purple lizard thing. That looked like it probably hurt when it decided to get intimate with the floor" He said to the group as a whole this time. At that last comment everyone stopped bowing. Luna broke out into laughter and Celestia stifled a giggle while Twilight had stopped shaking and had a small smile on her face while she levitated Spike off of the floor and onto the couch. The foal couldn't help but join in Celestia's giggles and soon after Twilight joined in as well. "So...How long do you think its gonna stay like that?" The foal asked Twilight. Not liking the fact that the self proclaimed human had referred to Spike as an "It" she put on a small bit of a scowl. "IT is a He. And He is a dragon. And he will probably be out cold for a good half hour" Stated an unamused Twilight while giving a small scowl to the foal...That was until she remembered she was talking to a human and immediately went to apologise until he cut her off. "Dragons exist in this universe!" he shouted. The excitement in his voice was so thick you could probably cut it with a knife. When he received a nod of approval from Twilight his already large smile grew twice as large. Thinking to herself, Twilight thought that if he smiled just a bit more he would probably be able to imitate a Pinkie Pie smile. "That....is...so....FUCKING AWSOME! I can't fucking believe it, dragons actually exist in this universe.....Awsome!" shouted the foal, the whole time he was saying that he had been bouncing up and down so fast he might aswell have been Pinkie Pie's dopelganger from another universe........ Well, he was bouncing up and down until he recieved another smack around his head from Celestia. He barely felt this hit and when he went to complain to her for hitting him and asking why she did it he saw that both Twilight's and Luna's faces were of shock and fear and Celestias just looked afraid. "Could you please refrain from using language such as that around others as it is rather vulgar. and i also accept any punishment for striking you Sir Human" Celestia said with her head hung low infont of the foal to recieve whatever punishment he decided to enact upon her for hitting him. She knew of humans and how violent and powerful they are. She had seen them before from the mind of another pony who had some how managed to enter their world. She knew that humans were violent, but also benevolent. They might kill others like it was nothing but she had hoped this ex-human had compassion like she'd seen from some of the other humans from the mind of that insane pony all those years ago. Atleast, Celestia thought she knew of humans. She waited for what seemed like hours but was really only seconds for the foal to strike her down or take vengeance for ever rasing her hoof to him but it never came. She bagan to wonder why nothing came and so did Luna and Twilight. Twilight and Luna opened their eyes not realising they involuntarily colsed them to save themselves from seeing the horror that would be Celestia's punishment fall before their eyes. The punishment that never came. They looked at the foal and Celestia looked up to him to see his face not contort with anger and unrelenting rage but of complete and utter.....confusion? "oooookaaaay? Whats with the sudden politeness and calling me "sir human"? Im getting seriously confused here. And considering i woke up to find myself in the land of talking extremely colourful ponies like I was thrown into a cartoon of some sorts and not freaking out and extremely confused is a given. But now im getting even more confused which i didnt think was humanly possible. So, please explain what the hells going on and also how the hell do you know what a human is and why do you look so afraid of me?" Celestia, Luna and Twilight just sat there taking in the questions and the statement the foal just said and trying to form some kind of reply. Twilight had some idea of what a "cartoon" was thanks to the diary of Curve Horn the Demented who had supposedly traveled to another world filled with creatures called humans. She thought she knew everything she needed to know about humans and how they were brutal yet kind, until she met one herself. At most he only seemed slightly rude but given his situation she could overlook it. "......Well, im waiting for answers" Said the unamused ex-human after 2 minutes of silence from the others. Celestia, Luna and Twilight stopped their thoughts immediately and turned to look at the foal who was clearly annoyed and probably getting to the point of wanting to destroy them or kill them (atleast they thought thats what he wanted to do). The first to speak was Celestia trying to calm the foal down. "What would you like to know? We will try our best to answer your questions but please try and ask them one at a time. Is that ok with you?" she asked him. "I suppose, but you better answer them all. Even if you dont know the answer then give me your best educated guess, im not going to take any bullshit from you, understood?" asked the foal who was starting to calm down. When he said that Celestia's face turned into a slight smile knwoing that the foal was atleast going to be civil about this whole situation. Luna was smiling as she could tell she was definitely going to like this foal, nopony had dared to ever speak to either her sister or herself ever.....except maybe discord but he wasn't crude like the foal. Twilight though.....Twilight had a scowl. 'How dare he talk to the Princesses like that. Im going to have to teach him some proper manners later.' were Twilights thoughts. Deciding to take the initiative Celestia spoke to the foal. "What would you like to know first? And please do cut down on the fowl language, the dragon passed out next to you is only a child so please try and contain the profanities". Thinking of what to ask first the ex-human now pony sat there for a minute before finally deciding what to ask. He would have a lot of questions but for now the most important question was obviously..."What the hell am I?" AN: sorry this took so long to do but my depression and writers block has been really bad these past few months and its been giving me trouble trying to sleep. it has kinda passed for now and i will try and get the next chapter out within a week or so...hopefully. the next chapter will be question time for the foal and we will learn a shocking discovery about why starswirls device took a him from his world an why it turned him into a pony. on a side note, if everyone wants to know about how celestia, luna and twilight know about humans and such and why they are scared of him you will find out in the next chapter, just know that them knowing (kind of knowing) about humans will be an important part of the story later on and is not put in there just to make the story slightly longer to make it look like there are more words to the story. see you guys hopefully in another week....oh and before i forget, everything was done by me so spelling, grammar, and capitalisation will definitely suck