//------------------------------// // Chapter 6 // Story: My Little Dashie 3 // by lightningman //------------------------------// I saw a bunch of people from Earth coming through the portal. I landed right in front of the people to stop them from coming through. Only I landed much too hard and ended up sending dirt and dust everywhere. Everyone was coughing including the ponies. I got up and the dust eventually cleared. Human and pony alike were staring at me. The humans were staring at me. Probably thinking something along the lines of “How did he do that?” and the ponies were looking at my cutie mark. Again I thought they were thinking something along the lines of “A human with a cutie mark?”   “Everyone! Whatever you are about to do, I need you to stop!”   Soon enough all of the mane 6 and Princess Celestia was with me. They were staring at my cutie mark as well. Except for Rainbow who was looking at me worried. Suddenly one of the humans spoke up   “Is this some kind of Joke?! There is no way this can be real.” Said one of the humans   I turned to him and for a second he looked fearful. But then he got back to his usual self. “This is not a joke. Believe it or not, I have actually been living here for almost 100 years in Earth years. But it’s only been 100 days here. That’s how I still look like I'm 30 something. Now if you will please follow me, I will tell you all what I think has happened.”   All of the humans looked at each other like they didn’t believe me. But eventually one of them started to follow me. The others started to follow as well and we went to City Hall. The only place large enough to hold everyone. All the ponies came as well. Once we were all settled I stood in the center of the stage with the Mane 6 and the Princess. They looked at me waiting for me to say something.   “Now I know you all have questions, so I'll take them one at a time. You there.” I pointed to a young girl that had her hand up.   “Are we really in Equestria, Sir?”   “Yes, believe it or not. As I have already said I have been living here for 100 of earth’s years but it’s only been a little more than 3 months here.” I then scratched my chin. “I wonder how time will work if these two worlds are together now?” I then looked up and pointed to another person that looked like he was a reporter. He had a pencil and pad out and it looked like it had been written on. “Yeah?”   “So you're saying that this Equestria from the “My Little Pony” series?”   I rubbed my face a bit as I answered “Yes. What is so hard about that? You just saw a tear open in the universe. You made theories about other universes and you find that a t.v. show being really hard to believe?”   The reporter shut up after that. He just wrote down the answers I gave from then on.   “Ok.” I looked around. “Nobody has any other questions? Well, then I'll tell you what I think happened. And it starts with me 116 years ago. Or 116 days here. Again still confused what’s going to happen with time now. But I was walking down a street from my job and I noticed a cardboard box just lying out in the open. Inside it held Rainbow Dash.” I motioned for her to come forward.   “Hi!” She said   The only person who said hi was the little girl. In fact, she came up and hugged the pony. Rainbow hugged her back. She asked her quietly if she could go back to her seat, so she did.   “Ok. Now then as I was saying. I found her and I cared for her for 15 Earth years. We were just about to go to an airplane show so that she could see how fast they were going when the doorbell rang and I met the others.” I motioned for the rest of them to come up. “We talked for awhile and then they decided it was best to bring Rainbow back home. So I was alone for a year. I had moved because I wanted to keep rainbow safe and I had left all my friends and my family was dead. I had no one to turn to and I was about to kill myself when I myself got transported to Equestria. I had lost my memories though. So long story short, We met up and they tried to keep me away from Rainbow. We found each other again despite that and I got my memories back. I stopped myself from coming back to earth and I explained to Twilight what was going to happen had I not been transported in time. They wiped me clean of my memories, but that came along with a side effect. The universe discovered that I had no way to get my memories back so it tried sending me back home. But I got back here out of sheer willpower. Again long story short, we were going to turn me into a pony so that the universe didn’t have a reason to bother me, but I had eaten meat the night before that happened. And one of the requirements of the spell was that the person being transformed must have the same diet as the thing they are being transformed into.” The reporter was writing everything down as fast as he could. “So I was sent into the forest to get rid of the meat in my system and come back when I was able to be transformed. But while I was in the forest I discovered that I had powers, The only reason I can think of is that instead of the spell turning me into a pony it made me more susceptible to magic and I got the powers of the pony that did the spell on me and then some more powers.” Everyone was staring at me. I thought they didn’t believe that I had powers so I jumped and started to fly. I did a few laps around the room before I landed back on the ground.   “So yeah. I got powers and then the tear happened. You already know what happened from there. I rushed to help anybody that needed it and I landed a bit too hard. Sorry about that.”   “But what about your cutie mark on your shoulder?” Asked the little girl   I suddenly felt all eyes on my shoulder. I had forgotten about it. “ Oh right. I got it an hour ago and it burned…. A lot… It’s a peace sign with two E’s on either side of it. So what I think it is. Is that I am supposed to bring peace between these two planets.”   Suddenly the ground shook. Only this was less powerful. It sounded like a marching army. I rushed outside. I couldn’t see what it was so I flew up and looked around. That’s when I saw an army of Timberwolves coming to ponyville. I got my bow out and flew back inside.   “TIMBERWOLVES!! AN ARMY OF THEM ARE COMING TO ATTACK!! HUMANS. HIDE! RAINBOW, TWILIGHT, FLUTTERSHY, PINKIE PIE, RARITY, APPLEJACK, CELESTIA, YOU COME OUT AND HELP ME!!!”   With that, I suddenly flew out again and 7 I had called all came outside. I loaded my bow and immediately I felt the most dramatic change yet. It was like I was looking through a telescope. I aimed for the leader of the wolves and shot. And something I never thought would happen, happened. He dodged it. I gulped and began shooting at all of the other wolves. I managed to lower at least a quarter of their army before they got into ponyville. They didn’t seem to care about the portal. In fact, they avoided it. I sighed in relief. I then summoned my sword and began fighting all the wolves. Everyone was trying to do their part. But they were obviously overpowered. I helped them out.   “Guys! Get back into City Hall.” I said   “We won’t leave you.” Said Rainbow Dash   I yelled at them all. “YES, YOU WILL!!! NOW GET IN!!”   They were frightened at my outburst. They went inside and I boarded up the door. I suddenly felt a surge of power and looked inside of the window. All of the unicorns were aiming their horns at me. Including Princess Celestia. I smiled brightly. I stretched my muscles and cracked my knuckles. I then noticed a large sword lying in the dirt close to where I was. I picked it up felt, even more, power than I have ever had in my life. I looked at the inscription on it and it said “Celestia’s Weapon.” I smiled at her and suddenly my senses went into overdrive. Everything seemed to be completely stopped. I suddenly realized that I was moving so fast, that everything looked like it was paused to me. I even created a My unique rainboom as soon as I took a step. I began to run and multiple booms were happening behind me. I had even broken the light barrier. I began killing Timberwolves as fast as I could. Of course, I could have just touched them and they would die. I then noticed something in the corner of my eye. It was the general of the Timberwolf army. He was moving. In fact, he was walking normally. I went to him and tried to strike him down. He stopped my attack. I gulped as I realized that he wouldn’t go down easily. (here's some music to set the mood.)   “What are you?” I asked him.   “My name is General wolf. And I am going to be yours and Every other person here’s death.” He said in a dangerously quiet voice.   I felt a twinge of fear. I then jumped back and took out the sword that Celestia had given me. Only this time it seemed different. It had notches in it that I had not noticed before and they were glowing with a dark blue light. I got a firm grip on the sword and I began to run towards General wolf. He smiled evilly and we began fighting for what seemed like hours. Of course, it had only been a few minutes for everyone else. We were both majorly injured before I finally managed to knock him out.   “I’m sorry.” I knew that I couldn’t let someone this evil and this powerful live. I stabbed him in the chest. He died soon after.   All of the Timberwolves around me were still trying to get to city hall. I started to destroy the rest of them before I was finally finished. The world began to speed up again and the door opened up. I smiled weakly and collapsed Unconscious. I awoke a few hours later with the humans on one side of me, and the ponies on the other. They seemed to be getting along quite well. I got up and felt strangely light. I looked at my arms and saw they were normal. I then looked at my back and saw wings. They were the same dark blue as the glowing that the sword had made. Everyone suddenly noticed me and rushed to help me up. I had saved all of them. It was tough walking again. But I got the hang of it for the second time. I tried to work my wings and felt them move. Eventually, I was able to lift myself off the ground. I smiled and hugged Rainbow Dash   “Look! I finally got wings!” I said happily. She seemed happy too. Suddenly Princess Celestia came up to me.   “Devon. Thanks to you, the Timberwolf army is finished and Ponyville is safe. I would like to repay you. I’m giving you two choices. We can try and turn you into a pegasus and you can live a normal life and we would close the portal to earth. Or you can stay like this. But you would have to act as the peacekeeper between the two worlds. I’ll give you some time to think about it.” Celestia said She started to walk away. If I lived a normal life than my cutie mark would be worthless. And I'm assuming they would take away my powers I had. And I'm able to fly already so I didn’t need to be turned into a pegasus.   “Wait!” I called to her.   “Yes?” she asked me   “I want to stay a human with my powers.”   Celestia seemed stunned. Rainbow seemed happy. And everyone else seemed indifferent.   “Are you sure?”   “Yes. if I get turned into a pegasus then my cutie mark would be worthless. Plus I can already fly so I can join Rainbow in the air. Also, I like my powers, If anyone needs help I can help them.” I smiled at her   She nodded “If that is what you wish, then I shall let you continue to be a human.”   Rainbow hugged me tightly and I started to celebrate. Pinkie Pie pulled out her cannon and started a party on the spot. Everyone celebrated for a few hours before everyone started to go to bed. The Mane 6 and I were the last ones to go to bed. I stretched and said goodnight to everyone before starting to fly towards my house. But before I went to bed I decided to leave a note for Rainbow Dash in the morning. I knew she would come and get me. So I sat down at my desk and started writing.   “Dear Rainbow Dash, If you are reading this than I am already at my job. I know you would have wanted me to join you on your job. But I figured the first day of the portal being open would be the busiest. I’m sorry, but I'll see if I can get a day of next week to join you. But for now, I'm ready for a brand new adventure. And I'm assuming you are too. I love you. --Devon.”   I sighed as I finished writing and I went to my bed and turned out the lights. I smiled as I imagined the next day. I then finally fell asleep