//------------------------------// // Chapter 1 Down the Rabbit Hole // Story: I Pinkie Promise We're Not Bad Guys. // by Chibi Devi //------------------------------// I was sleeping peacefully in the bed of the hotel room my daughter and I shared but something felt off. Maybe it was the fact there was a breeze or I could hear birds chirping. Or it could be that the memories of what happened started to come back to me. Earlier that morning " Mommy, come on we got to go," Was the cry of my energetic daughter Angela. "Hold on sweetie I just have to make sure my horns or straight," I said looking from her back to the mirror. " There all done, now did you forget anything?" I asked as I stood up. I walked over to my little girl and looked down at her admiring the work I did on not only hers but my costumes. See We decided to finally go to Everfree Northwest so we could meet the people responsible for the creation of our favorite show My Little Pony Friendship is Magic. Yep, I'm a Pegasister been one for almost seven years started watching it when my daughter was four years old. We are even members of the FIMFiction website and we just love all the fanfics people write about Discord well the teen and everyone stories the mature ones I read alone. Sorry, I'm getting off track as I was saying we were here to have fun and meet other Bronies and Pegasisters and maybe get an autograph from John de Lancie. After making sure we had everything we needed and our costumes were perfect we headed out of the hotel to get to the convention before it started. As we waited in line I had this funny feeling like we were being watched. Brushing it off to having some people complimenting us on our costumes. We made our way inside keeping Angela close to me at all times because that feeling was getting worse. I couldn't understand it but it wasn't a bad feeling just weird. As we made our way around we saw different stands looking through them we bought a few things we liked that was until we came to one particular stand. The person running it looked normal enough but when she spoke it was like listening to the voice of an angel. "Well, don't you two look precious I haven't seen a Draconequus family in a long time I bet Discord would just love to meet you both," She said making us giggle at that. "Thank you, mama, he just so happens to be our favorite character in the show," I said having my daughter nod in agreement. I was about to ask her something when Angela called for me to look at something on the ladies stand. Looking at what it was my eyes grew in shock there on a tray were the six keys of friendship. Seeing what I was looking at the lady smiled. "You're in luck these happen to be the only ones ever made and since I like the way you two look I give you a deal on them," She said smiling. I was about to decline when Angela tugged on my side looking down at her she had a pleading face begging me to get them. "Oh, alright how much do you want?" I asked turning from my daughter to look at the lady again. "How about twenty for all of them and I'll even through in two gold chain necklaces so the two of you can have three keys each," She said pulling out two long gold chains and began attaching the keys to them. I handed her a twenty and she placed the necklaces around our necks for us. " There you go," She said stepping back to look at us smiling. "Oh, one more thing, Beth you and Angela enjoy your trip," Hearing that I looked at her confused before there was a thud I looked to see my baby girl had fallen to the floor unconscious I was about to scream when I felt light headed I saw a flash of white and then everything went black. Back to the present I felt myself laying on my back with the warmth of the sun and a lite breeze on my face. Then the memory of what happened came back opening my eyes I cursed my stupidity because of the brightness. Laying a hand over my face I felt something off it wasn't a hand but a paw and it felt real. Pulling it away I looked at what was essentially a lions paw out of the corner of my eye I could see hair it was three different colors white pink and purple reaching for it I pulled only to yelp in pain. "Why would it hurt it was just a wig then I thought back the lady the keys and what she said how did she know our names and what happened to us?" I thought to myself only to remember Angela my baby girl where is she. getting up I noticed that I was a lot thinner and taller. These things had to wait I had to find Angela. I took a step only to fall forward bracing myself for the impact only to not feel anything looking I saw myself floating in the air. What the, how is this possible?" I asked myself only to hear giggling behind me. Turning around I looked for who it was only to see floating behind me was my daughter in her costume but it wasn't a costume anymore it was really her, she was a baby Draconequus. I wanted to panic but I knew it wouldn't do any good so looking around I saw a small pond grabbing hold of my daughter's hand, ah, paw whatever. I wanted to get over there to see what has happened to me if I looked like my costume too. I stood up straight and tried walking again but this time I wasn't moving. Looking down I saw my feet paws whatever were just moving in place like I was on ice. "Oh come on I want to go over there," I said out loud pointing to the pond with my free paw only to be standing there in a flash. I blinked a few times and shook my head before I leaned over the surface of the water to see my reflection only to roll my eyes at what I saw. I was no longer a woman in a draconequus costume but a real live one. As I look from, my daughter to my image I began to smile I have to admit my daughter looked really cute and I looked good. "How did this happen it can't be real there's no way unless those stories on the site are true?" I was thinking to myself as I landed on the ground still looking at my reflection. "Mommy whats wrong?" My daughter asked me getting my attention. I turned to look at her as she too was standing on the ground now. "Sweetie do you know what happened to us?" I asked her only to see her smiling at me. " We're in our favorite show look," She said pointing to the otherside of the pond. I turned to look and that's when I almost said a few choice words. There on the otherside of the pond stood six very familiar ponies three fillies and a baby dragon all staring back at us. We stood there looking at them for what felt like hours before I reached over and picked my daughter up in my paws turning around and flying off in the opposite direction as fast as I could. "Mommy why are we leaving can't we go say hi?" Angela asked as I kept flying away. "Not now baby, mommy needs to think first okay?" I said looking down at her putting on a fake smile. I kept flying until we came to a small wooded area slowing down I decided to stop here to catch my breath and I think. I mean come on things like this aren't supposed to happen they're just stories on a website right? But here we are in a tv show and not only that we're our OC's. "Ok now sweet heart you need to listen to mommy very carefully," I said placing my daughter on the ground. Looking up at me she only smiled nodding her head fast. Which sounded like an old cow bell for some reason. Shaking that off as something to do with chaos magic I look back down at her. "Now if this is real and I have a feeling it is. Then we can't use our real names anymore and we'll have to use our characters names from now on, so do you remember yours?" I asked her. "Yes mommy, it's Eris Sprite of Mischief," She said smiling. "That's good and if anyone or pony asks you, my name is Harmonia Lady of Balance understand?" I asked her only to have her shake her head, yes making that same sound. I picked her up giving her a kiss and hug only to be startled by the voice of Pinkie Pie yelling to the others that she found us. Still holding my daughter I turned around to see the same ponies we saw earlier still with the same confused expressions. I raised my paw up to wave and say hi but before that Rainbow dash charged at me. "I don't know how you got free Discord but we'll stop you before you do anything else," She yelled as she flew at us. Scared for my daughter's safety I held her close to me hearing the sound of fingers snapping I looked to see my tail in front of me and as for Rainbow Dash, she was being held in place by roots that were coming from the ground wrapping around her. "Hey let go of me you stupid roots," She said as she tried to get free. I looked past her to see the others looking shocked at first then angry thinking that it would be better to stop this before someone pony got hurt. I set my daughter down and raised my paws in the air. "I'm sorry about that I didn't want my daughter to get hurt is all," I said making them look at me confused. "Wait why does discord sound like a mare?" Applejack said tilting her head. "That's simple silly filly because that's not Discord her name is Harmonia and that's her daughter Eris and they come from an alternate world where they were tricked in come here by a strange mare who sold them six keys that now have changed to look like all of our cutie marks on chains around their necks," Pinkie said smiling after what she said. "Wait how in Equestria would you know that Pinkie?" Twilight said looking at her friend. "Oh just a hunch," Pinkie said stuffing what looked like a stack of papers with the words I Pinkie Promise We're Not Bad Guys on the front page back into her mane. I started giggling at what Pinkie just said making them all look at me. "Actually what she said is all true my daughter and I did come from another world and I promise you that we mean you no harm, in fact, we can make sure you know we mean it," I said looking down at my daughter nodding. "Cross my heart and hope to fly stick a cupcake in my eye," We both said and did the movements of a Pinkie Promise making Pinkie smiling even bigger. After that, they calmed down and I released Rainbow Dash from the roots apologizing again to her. The six mares and the young dragon came over to talk with me while the three fillies started to talk to Eris. They asked the typical questions, where we came from, are we real but there was one question that made everything stop. "So is Discord you dad?" Scootaloo asked making Eris lower her head and start crying. Hearing this the others felt bad as I moved over and picked her up comforting her. "Shhhh it's okay baby I know it still hurts let it out that's it," I said as I held her close to me until she fell asleep. "I sorry for that but my husband died not too long ago and it still a little hard for her." "I sorry I didn't know I just thought,' Scootaloo said lower her head. "It's alright it's just she was her daddies little girl is all and trust me when she wakes up she won't be mad at all," I said as I reached out and pulled Scootaloo into a hug comforting the filly. Fluttershy came over and nuzzled Eris while she slept. "Oh, you poor thing don't worry we're all here to help you," Not wanting to be gloomy any more Pinkie yelled out that they needed to throw us a welcome party to cheer us up. Everyone agreed and Twilight said she'd send a letter to the Princesses about us upon hearing that Eris popped her head up and look at Twilight. "Did you just say that we get to meet the Princesses?" She asked to have Twilight nod making Eris squee. Deciding to head to Ponyville Eris ran ahead of the group with the three fillies by her side laughing the whole way. While the rest of us made our way there at a leisurely pace. As we walked I explained what Eris and I were. " You see there are different types of chaos magic. Take Eris hers is mischief which is like trying to go throw a locked door or stepping in a pile of poop it's harmless and that is her chaos power. Now my chaos magic is different because it's not chaotic in the sense you would call it but cosmic it's what you would call Karma," I said making them all look a little confused. "You mean if somepony did something bad they would get punished for it later?" Spike asked looking up to me. "Yes, exactly but in my case, it wouldn't be later but instant retribution. I said smiling down at him making him blush. "What do you mean by instant sugarcube?" Applejack asked tilting her head. "Well let's see," I said concentrating. " Ok I got it," I said snapping my paw as a screen appeared in front of us show a street in Manehatten. "Now watch as that Mare will lose her bag of bits and that young colt sees it on the ground," I said as they watched the screen. Now he has a choice to either take it or return it. Now if he chose to take it I would place a police officer just around the corner to arrest him. But I he chooses to return it then Karma would smile on him. Let's watch and see what happens," I said as I made a bag of popcorn appear in my paw. As we watch the Mare did drop her bag of bits and the young colt saw it and picked it up. We could see the expression on his face as he was debating on what to do. We watched as he started to turn and walk away but stopped and ran after the mare calling to her. Seeing the mare stop and turn around to face the colt the girls seen as the mare thanked him and gave him five bits for being honest before I snapped my paw and made the screen disappear. "Wow did that really happen or was it just a show," Twilight asked looking a little skeptical. "That really just happened, what you just saw was what I can do. You see my magic is like a scale that where harmony and chaos are placed and as of now that scale is off," I said knowing full well that they won't like what I 'm about to say. "So to return the balance to this world Discord has to be set free," What!!! They all yelled. "Well this could have gone better," I thought to myself as I smiled looking at six shocked and angry mares.