I stepped through the door between the garage and the house and was greeted with a cozy interior decorated with various banners and photos, I softly walked across the cloud floor and set my bags on the couch and waited, less than a minute later Aurora, and 2 mares and a griffon walked into the living room and introduced themselves.
"Daron, meet my herd,"
"Hello, I'm Cirrus, pleasure to meet you" she looked somewhat nerdy, she wore baggy sweats, black glasses, and a track jacket, her coat was a soft orangey-yellow, and her hair was dark shades of pink, red, and grey, making it look like a sunset.
"Im Gwendolyn, never met a human before..." Gwendolyn was a sooty grey and white, almost like ashes or a snowy owl, she was wearing a worn leather jacket and a set of torn up jeans.
"Im Copper....before you say anything about my name, my parents were in the mining industry." she was a bronze color in the coat department, her hair was appropriately copper colored
"Well its nice to meet all of you, im just pretty glad that im not being interrogated or attacked by you..." we all shook hands and i got a quick tour of the little house, I found it somewhat disturbing that I could see the ground by simply pulling a piece of cloud out of certain parts of the floor and looking down, being a pilot, I wasn't scared by that, the somewhat unnerving part was the fact that I didnt have a flying craft of any kind supporting me, only some clouds.
After the quick tour I was sat down at a "table" in the "basement", the table was a flattened lump of clouds, and the basement was just dug into the almost 50 foot thick layer of clouds composing the foundation of the whole city. Aurora moved some clouds away from a bulletin board as well as place a map on the table.
"Now I can actually discuss your purpose in this Daron, As you know I needed help un-earthing the mystery of the sudden betrayal of Equestria, we all know that it was sudden and was blamed on the humans, but we haven't seen any indication that it was actually their fault,"she then turned to her 'herd', "Daron here is a human I saved from Spitfire, he has agreed to help us by providing his expertise and advice. We'll come up with a game plan soon enough, but for now we need to get You," she pointed at me," settled and get your disguise set up."
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In about 15 minutes i'd gotten settled into a spare room, the great thing about clouds is the fact that they can be reshaped, I molded them into a bed, table,a couple shelves, and a papasan-ish chair. I hollowed out the table and bed to allow me to stash my stuff there. Once I'd gotten everything put away, I heard a soft thundering from the door, yet another cool feature of clouds, they can be set up to make noise, great for doors to allow knocking, "Come in" I looked tonthe door and saw Aurora standing there with a small box.
"Daron, this is your 'disguise', before you comment on the size, let me tell you how it works....This disguise is magic in nature, it changes the physical structure of your body in a very similar way to the conversion syrum, although this won't change your brain in any way, nor is it permanent....unfortunately you don't really have a choice to not use it because of the issue of being in a place where humans arent very well welcomed." she opened the little box and showed me what was inside, a fingerless glove with a small device attached to the back of it, another small device in the shape of a small cylender with some small holes in it, and a large syringe filled with a somewhat questionable looking deep purple liquid, the conversion syrum was pink, but the similarity made me mentally recoil a bit. "The glove is the controller to switch between pony and human, the other device is going to be implanted in you to activate the transformation as well as to prevent failure or medical complications, and the syringe is obvious enough as the syrum."
"Uhh, what exactly will it do when i push the 'transform' button... I mean what will look like or how will i change?"
"He only thing thats certain is that you'll be a pegasus, and female, and before you freak out about that, it is necessary to bypass a weird law we have, In cloudsdale because of the limited space, we aren't allowed live with a stallion unless we're married to that stallion or during heat season, and even then we can only have one foal per 3 years to keep the population stable, so its just easier this way
"Oh...ok....I guess...im still mildly disturbed by it, but that helps a bit....and by the way, how does one implant that thing? Because im not entirely sure on your medical skill"
"Its magic, it should do it all on its own, and supposedly shouldn't hurt"
"One more question... Where did you get that?"
"I bought it from the black market and had it sterilized and certified by a friend in the medical industry who also simpathizes with the humans,"
"Well, whatever, as long as Im not dead or brainwashed after this."
"You won't be, probably just disoriented,"
"Alright I guess... Lets get this over with" Aurora gently placed the device on my abdomen just below my sternum and somehow activated it, I felt a slight jolt as it suddenly appeared in my chest cavity, I poked the area where I felt it and sure enough, i could feel the little cylinder. I put on the grayish glove next, on the back of it there were some small rectangles with some illegible lettering, there were also 2 small buttons, both were covered as to prevent accidental activation. Then the needle came next, ever since I was a kid i had feared big needles, as an adult I wasn't really too put off my them, but this needle was Really big, at least diameter wise, it was almost double the width of the largest needle I had ever been injected with, so I was understandably put off by this gargantuan needle, it was stabbed in, and the fluid injected, as soon as it was removed, a strip of gause was adhered to the hole and we waited. After 20 minutes the waiting came to a stop.
"Okay Daron, push the green button, the syrum should be distributed enough to work now"
"Here goes nothing" i pressed the button and felt pins and needles for a couple seconds while it did its dirty work, after the felling stopped I became aware of 2 new appendages, a set of legs with a radically different design,and a severe weirdness between my legs as well as a slew of other minor things. "Uhh, did it work?..... Do I still have all of my limbs?" my coat was a slightly. splotchy rusty orange color, and my hair was black,
"Yep, now try the red button to make sure the reverse works" I pressed the button again and after the pins and needles receded I felt normal again.
"Well I'm alive, tha'ts good, oh...one last little question....can I remove the glove while transformed?
"Yes, but why do you ask?"
"Stealth wise it sticks out like a sore thumb, i just want to make sure that I can stay concealed,"
"Ok, although you won't be able to use it unless you are wearing it."
"Good to know...." I removed the glove and put it in my pocket, after contemplating the implications of this once more i decided to get some much needed sleep. Before she left Aurora said something else about the device.
"Just another note... You don't have to wear the crystal anymore, the device will do that for you," I took off the bluish gem and was relieved when I didn't fall through to my imminent death. I stripped down to my boxers and flopped onto the lump of clouds that I dare call a bed, and fell asleep almost immediately.