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// Entering Equestria 
// Story: The Wise and the Strong 
// by Rezas 
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Aileen strode down the aisles of PokeCon, hands deep in her pockets as she strode along with her companion, Molly. Aileen was a tall young woman, pale complected with waist length red hair, her fashion sense far from what other girls would choose. She wore long, tan pants with ankle height boots, a dull yellow shirt peeking out under her large canvas jacket. She gave a little sigh before turning her bright blue eyes on her friend.

Said friend was a couple years younger, and wore all pink. She had aqua blue eyes, and very light red hair that, in the right light, looked pink. She had pink shorts, shoes, socks, and a slightly darker pink long sleeve shirt under a pink t-shirt. If you couldn’t tell, Molly liked pink. The older girl looked over her for several moments before a small smile stole her serious look.

“So, what are we doing now, Molly?” She asked, trying to disregard the girl’s infectious energy.

“I wanna get some stuff from the vendors!” The smaller girl said, bouncing a bit as she walked, almost but not quite skipping.

“Of course you do,” Aileen murmured before letting out a little breath and searching over the tables on tables of memorabilia selling merchants. “Just don’t spend all your money at once, yeah? We’ve still got to take the bus back to the hotel.”

“Okaaaaaaay,” Molly said, giggling a bit. “Come on!” She said eagerly, dragging the bigger friend behind her, causing her to stumble a few steps before she could put her feet underneath her.

“Okay, okay!” The redhead exclaimed, unable to hide the grin forming on her face. “Slow down. The merch isn’t going anywhere, y’know!”

“It is if people buy it before I do!” Molly said, providing a… surprisingly good point. The older girl simply gave a little chuckle as she was dragged along with a shake of her head.

“You always find a way to make your actions logical, don’t you?” Aileen questioned in good humor.

Molly simply giggled, before spotting someone dressed as Professor Oak manning a stall. “Let’s go there first!” She said eagerly, pointing to him as she dragged her friend there.

The professor looked up with a large smile on his elderly features as the girls approached. “Good afternoon,” he greeted. “What can I do for the two of you?”

“Just browsing for now, Professor!” Molly cheerfully giggled, looking over what he had. He had some items, berrys and such, or what looked like them anyway, and two things of interest. A burst stone, and a mega stone… Gyarados’ to be specific.

“Of course,” Professor Oak said, keeping up his smile. “Just let me know if you girls see anything you like.” Aileen looked over the man and became more and more unsettled as she did so. His costume was awesome… too awesome…

Molly hummed. “Maybe a couple of every berry, and this for me?” She said, holding up the burst stone.

The professor beamed. “A smart decision for a smart girl,” he answered in a cheerful tone before looking towards Aileen, the taller girl feeling a shiver run up her back. “And what for you, little lady?”

Aileen stared at him for a long moment, not wanting to look away as her every mannerism yelled at her that staring was rude. “U-um…” she stuttered quietly before she glanced down at the table and picked up the first thing she saw. “How about this?” She asked, holding up the Gyaradosite.

“Another wise choice,” Oak answered, his smile growing a bit even as Aileen reached for her purse, nudging Molly to do the same. Molly did so after a tiny blush of embarrassment crept on her face.

“How much do we owe you for all of this?” Aileen asked, her focus deep on the inside of her jacket.

“Oh, no need for payment,” the professor said in a dark tone that wasn’t lost on the tall girl. “Just make this interesting for me… won’t you?”

“What’re you on abou-” The redhead started to reply, her hand halfway out of her jacket with a bottle of pepper spray before she felt an unusual sensation pull down on her.

“W-what’s happening?” Molly said, sounding scared.

Aileen’s gaze shot to her friend to see her start to fall through a black hole… a black hole that extended underneath her. A large scowl grew over her face and she turned her eyes back on the smirking Oak. “You sonova-” She began, lifting her hand only to realize that she was no longer holding her self defense measure, the man tossing it up and down in his hand.

“Good luck, girls,” he said sweetly, a demented look in his eye. “Oh, and before I forget… welcome to the world of ponies.”

Molly, as she fell, managed to swipe a EXP share and Lucky egg from the stall, in a action of pure spite to the strange man. Aileen’s eyes widened, a feeling creeping up from her chest to strangle her. A feeling she hadn’t felt in a long time… helplessness. As they fell and the light faded, the girl reached out to her friend, grabbing her by the arm and pulling her close as they disappeared…






Aileen lay on the hard ground, the sun beating down her and increasing the already sweltering heat of the landscape. Slowly, her senses began to come back to her and the first thing she noticed was the weight on top of her and the slight pain in her back. She blinked her eyes open gingerly, wincing at the glaring sunrays before looking down to see Molly laying on top of her. With a groan, she let her head fall back. “At least I managed to do something right…” she muttered quietly.

A couple moments later, Molly groaned as she woke up. “Wha happened?” She questioned groggily.

The taller girl looked up at her friend. “I don’t know,” she answered softly. “One moment we were falling and the next….”

Molly looked down, blinking. “Aileen?” She questioned, as if not recognising her friend. “You… look super different.”

Aileen blinked a few times at her friend as a puzzled look formed on her face. “...What?” She finally asked. “What do you mean I look super different?”

“I mea-what the?!” Molly started, before something shocked her. She was looking around weird, like something had changed in her vision or something.

“Mol?” Aileen questioned before her eyes widened and she sat up quickly. “Molly what's wrong!?”

“I can see… us, from over there somewhere,” Molly said, pointing in a direction.

The older girls worried eyes turned to confusion before she glanced towards the direction her friend was indicating. There, sitting up… was a Mew. Aileen stared at the Pokemon for several seconds. “...Molly… I think we're dead.”

Both Molly and the pokemon jumped a bit, turning to her. “D-dead?!” Molly said, the pokemon mimicking her with a little ‘mew’.

“There is a freaking Mew right there, Mol!” Aileen exclaimed, waving a hand at it. “An actual Mew! How else would you explain it?”

Molly waited for a couple seconds. “That meanie professors portal?” She suggested after a couple moments.

Aileen raised a finger and opened her mouth argue only to close it and look away. “That… does and doesn't make any sense,” she murmured. “Who… what was that guy…?”

The smaller girl shrugged. “I dunno…” She said simply, looking at the Mew now as it looked at her. Getting up, she walked towards the pokemon slowly. After a moment, Molly was in front of mew… and picked it up, hugging it to her chest. Of course she did.

Aileen looked up toward her friend and let out a breath. “...Really?” She deadpanned.

“I… think I’m seeing out of it,” Molly said seriously, closing her eyes. She started walking around, the Mews head looking around and Molly managed to not trip a single time.

“Wow, wait,” her friend replied, raising a hand. “I must have hit my head in the fall. Did you just say that you’re seeing out of it?”

“Yeah,” Molly said, before the Mews tail moved and wrapped around the girls waist slowly. “And… moving it, too.”

Aileen simply stared at her before giving a sigh. “Alright, fine,” she said. “You win, seeing as there’s no way I can argue with that.” The girl went to stand up only to feel very shaky as she did so. “Uhhh- WOW!” She yelped, leaning against a spire of rock that stood next to her as she nearly lost her balance.

Molly hurried over, eyes open now. “Are you alright?!” She asked worriedly, wondering why her friend was having trouble standing.

“I-I don’t know,” Aileen stuttered, putting a hand to her head. “Everything just feels… weird-” The girl stopped as she looked down towards the ground and finally caught a glance at what her friend had been talking about. Red scales covered her body, seeming to form a sort of thigh-length dress, a hard, three pointed, and dull yellow scale sticking out just under her sternum  with bigger, plate like scales coming from it and going around her torso. On her legs, the scales almost looked to form a pair of stockings that ran almost all the way up to the white fin-like frills of the dress while fins of the same dull yellow protruded from her ankles. “WHAT THE HELL!” The girl screamed, falling backwards onto her rear and staring at her hands to find that more scales cover most of her arms up to her shoulders and white fins protruded from her wrists.

Molly stared. “Are… you a magikarp?” She questioned.

Aileen looked up towards her friend with wide, scared eyes. “I-I…” She stuttered, eyes starting to fill with tears. “Molly, what’s happening to us?”

Molly went forward, hugging Aileen with her arms and the Mews tail. “I dunno… but we’ll get through this,” She said, being the surprisingly mature one here. The taller girl held her close, letting several tears fall before she sniffed, taking in a few breaths before she leaned back.

She looked around there surroundings for a moment before she gave one last breath. “Sorry for breaking down like that…” she apologized quietly before clearing her voice. “We should get out of here.”

“Yeah,” Molly agreed, grabbing her poke-self and holding the pokemon to her chest… she had no damn clue how to float yet.

Aileen nodded and once more got to her feet, still wobbling but able to stay upright long enough to get her hand against the rock formation again. “Okay, first thing’s first,” she murmured, looking to the sky and holding a hand over her eyes. “We need to pick a direction…”

“I co-” Molly started, before she was interrupted by a rather obnoxious voice.

“Well, whaddya we have here?” Aileen twisted around quickly, putting her arm out in front of Molly instinctively. Her eyes widened at the sight before her. A large, red dragon with orange fins and a pale belly stood in front of them, a group of other, smaller dragons coming up behind him and fanning out.

“I dunno, bo-GAK!” One of the dragons started to speak up only for the leader to snatch him by the neck.

“It was a rhetorical question, idiot!” He yelled into the other’s face before throwing them down. The angry male snorted as his subordinate crawled away, turning his slitted eyes back on the girls. “All the same, that little pink thing looks like a delicious little snack!”

Molly made a little whimper, stepping back. She blinked when she felt something, looking down and seeing a backpack. Blinking again, she put the thing on, the Mew her hissing a little. After a quick second of searching, the Mew had the egg on her… before it vanished. Not questioning this, the Mew slowly waddled forwards a bit.

“Molly!” Aileen whispered, her scared gaze locked on the dragons before them as they started to circle them. “What are you doing?”

The girl smirked a little. “Metronome,” she said simply. At the word, the mew wagged a finger at the dragons chidingly.

The lead dragon snarled, eyes narrowing at the little creature before. “What’re you nagging aaaaat…..” The dragon trailed off as his eyes widened and head tilted back, watching as a huge, circular wave started to form around the group.

“You should run,” Molly commented. The mew slammed down it’s tail, the water rushing and sweeping the group of dragons away, leaving the three previous victims completely dry. As the wave rolled away, and eventually faded, Aileen felt her breathing start to return to normal

Molly turned to her friend and hugged her, keeping watch with Mew. “Are you okay?” She softly asked.

“I… I think so,” Aileen answered, hugging back as she shivered slightly in fear. “I’m just… oh, my god….”

The smaller rubbed the tallers back, squeezing a little comfortingly. The girl turned part pokemon let out a little breath before straightening up and giving her friend a small smile… before she gasped and her entire body flashed in white light three times over.

“What the? Are you… levelling up or something?” Molly questioned with a confused look, tiling her head.

“I, um… yes?” The girl answered slowly, giving her friend a confused look before looking behind the smaller girl. “Hey, I, uh, think you missed one.”

Molly looked through Mews eyes, trying to see which one she apparently missed. Not far from them, maybe twenty to thirty feet, the top of a green, serpentine head with purple horns poked out from behind a group of boulders, not seeming to realize it had been spotted.

The little girl narrowed her eyes. “Metro-” She started.

“PLEASE DON’T FLOOD US!” A sudden cry sounded through the air. Molly blinked. That didn’t sound like a dragon.

Aileen raised an eyebrow and glanced towards Molly before taking a few steps forward, trying to muster some sort of courage. “Come out of there!” She called out in response. “Or else!” The seconds seemed to tick by as the girls waited for a response, the taller of them starting to back away again before the head shifted down and the sound of crashing could be heard… along with three very feminine voices.

“OW! Hey, watch it”

“Rarity, you’re standing on my tail!”

“Get your tail outta my face!”

“That’s my tail, you ruffian!”

Molly blinked. “Um… okay…” She said, not really too sure how to take all of this. They have confused the pink lover.

Aileen blinked for several moments before three… something or others rolled out from behind the formations, tangled up in some sort of green, jeweled fabric. All seemed to be about the same height, but all built differently and definitely different colors, one being white with purple hair, the other having a similar mane with lighter pink stripes and a lavender body, while the last sported the most bizarre look of light blue with hair of every color in the rainbow. “...Molly, I’m serious this time… I think I’m crazy….”

“We just met dragons Aily ail, at this point we should just roll with it,” Molly said to the bigger, holding her Mew to her chest.

The magikarp girl looked at her confidant before she gave a little breath. “Who are you three?” She called out, getting the three beings to stop their bickering.

The three looked at the pair for a long moment before swapping looks with one another. Eventually, the lavender and purple one cleared her throat and spoke up. “Um, my name’s Twilight Sparkle, and these are my friends, Rarity,” she nodded towards the white and purple one, “and Rainbow Dash,” she nodded towards her prismatic companion. “And, uh… who are you?”

“I’m Molly, and this is Mew,” Molly said as she bounced her mew-self a little, letting her friend introduce herself.

“And I’m Aileen,” the taller girl added, gaining a bit more confidence as the conversation went on. “And, uh… what are you?”

Each of the three odd beings raised their ears, the purple one, Twilight Sparkle, tilted her head. “We could ask you the same thing,” she said in a low, curious tone before she shook her head. “Sorry. We’re ponies.”

Aileen’s eyes widened for a moment before they deadpanned and she raised an eyebrow. “...Ponies?”

Molly shrugged. “Different world, different rules,” Molly whispered to her friend.

“Riiight,” the pokegirl said before looking towards the mares again. “So, what are you three doing out here anyway?” At the question, Twilight’s ears and eyes fell, her friends glancing towards her with concerned looks.

“We… came out here after a friend of ours,” the one called Rarity answered, looking up to the two friends. “He wanted to know more about his own kind and….”

“He came out here and now we can’t find him,” Rainbow Dash, the last of the ponies to speak, finished for the quieted mare.

Molly frowned. “Metronome,” She said. This time however, she focused on something that would sense the area, something to find the ponies friend. Mew wagged a finger, and Molly felt the area, searching.

After a couple moments, Molly went towards where she felt a hollow bit in the ground with someone inside it. She didn’t know if the ponies friend was in there, but wanted to save whoever it was anyway. “Mol?” Aileen questioned, following after her friend. “What’s up?”

“Someone's here… Metronome.” Molly said. This was quickly becoming her favorite, and likely strongest, move. Mew grabbed the boulder… comically picking it up and tossing it far away. The other’s watched in awe as a small surprised yelp sounded out from the shallow cave that was revealed… and nestled inside was a purple and green dragon, much smaller than the others had been. The drake stared up at Molly, eyes wide with fear. “Are you okay?” Molly asked gently.

The small dragon flinched as the girl began speaking before her tone of voice reached him. He looked up at her before he gave a little nod. “Y-yeah,” he answered in a voice relaying his youth. “I’m okay…”

Molly extended a hand, an offer to help him out. The purple drake gave a little smile and accepted the offered hand, climbing out with the girl’s help. “Thanks.”

“Are those your friends?” Molly asked, Mews tail pointing to the trapped ponies. The dragon turned his head to follow the direction only for his and the three mares’ eyes to all go wide.

“Twilight?” The small drake questioned, starting to step forward.

“Spike!” The purple unicorn answered, ears perked as the dragon started to run faster towards her. Spike collided with them, wrapping his arms around them as best as he could, the three mares nuzzling him in response.

After a moment, Rarity drew her head back from the embrace. “Why were you in that dreadful hole, darling?” She asked, worry clear in her voice as she looked at him.

“It… it was a part of their… initiation,” the drake answered. “They wanted to see how tough I was…. But, what about you guys? What are you guys doing out here?”

“We were lookin’ for you, squirt,” Rainbow answered, starting to move her arm to noogy him only to find it still restrained. “Uh…”

“You might want to use those claws to free them,” Molly commented, pointing at his hands. Spike looked up at her before looking at his talons, looking back up with a awkward chuckle.

“Right,” he muttered before he started to systematically cut through the fabric. “...So, um… what are you guys?”

“Spike!”

“What?”

“I’m a human, Mews a Mew, and Aileen’s a Magikarp-Human hybrid… Mew and Magikarps are pokemon,” Molly said to the drake.

“Po-ke-mon?” Rainbow questioned, raising an eyebrow. “That sounds like some sort of nerd thing the Crusaders are always messing around with when their not trying to get cutie marks.”

“The ‘nerd thing’ just beat ten dragons with one attack,” Molly said with a giggle.

“It was six dragons, Mol,” Aileen corrected, coming up behind her friend. “But she is right. Pokemon might come in cute or… unassuming forms, but each of them can be incredibly powerful.”

“Really?” Spike spoke up, glancing towards the fish-girl. “So what can you do?’

Aileen froze, her pupils shrinking a bit. “Iiiii… um…” the tall girl began to stutter.

“I thought some were behind the others…” Molly said with a little blush. “But she can do water type moves,” Molly said. Molly with all the saves.

“Ohhh…” the drake replied, nodding his head before turning back to his task. “That’s actually really cool.”

“Oh, yeah,” Aileen answered nervously. “Super cool.” The girl fell silent as Spike finished cutting through what seemed to have been a sort of disguise for the three ponies, finally revealing them in their entirety. The mares all seemed to be about five and a half feet tall, give or take a few inches. They stood on their rear legs, their hooves scraping against the dust while each of them had a different sort of fashion sense. Twilight wore a pale blue button up blouse, a small pink bow tied under the collar as a paler pink skirt covered her lower half. Rarity’s look was fair more fashionable, a medium sleeve white blouse holding loosely to her torso as a blue-purple skirt came down to her knees, a few bracelets clinging on her wrist. Rainbow was the most different of the mares, sporting a pair of black athletic shorts with a dark blue tank top under her short sleeved blue jacket.

“Finally!” Rainbow exclaimed, spreading out a pair of wings the pair had definitely not seen before. “That was starting to get really cramped.”

Aileen stared at the group of anthropomorphic ponies, her eyebrow starting to twitch as she leaned over to Molly. “I thought they said they were ponies,” she whispered, looking between Rainbow Dash’s wings and the other’s horns.

“Mythical versions aren’t so? I mean, we saw dragons…” Molly whispered back to the taller girl with a shrug.

Aileen looked questioningly at her friend for a moment. “...You’re taking all of this really well,” she said quietly. “Are you doing okay?”

“I… may be in a bit of shock, but I can handle it when we aren’t surrounded by dangerous mythical beams that wants to eat Mew,” Molly said, hugging Mew closer to herself and twitching a little bit. The taller girl frowned a bit, worry filling her and replacing the fear that had saturated her emotions since their arrival.

“We’ll get out of here…” Aileen promised, wrapping both the smaller girl and her pokemon in a gentle hug. “Promise.”

Molly leaned back into the hug and nodded a bit, both sets of eyes closing.

“Um, excuse me?” Twilight’s voice cut through the tender moment. Mollys eyes, all four, opened at once and just kinda looked at Twilight, causing the purple mare to loose a nervous chuckle. “We, uh, just wanted to thank you for helping us find Spike.”

“You’re welcome,” Molly replied simply.

Twilight gave another little chuckle, reaching a hand up to scratch at the back of her head. “W-well, we should probably get going,” she said nervously. “If there’s anyway we can repay you, don’t hesitate to let us know.”

“...Actually,” Aileen spoke up after a moment, still holding onto Molly and Mew. “We kinda don’t have anywhere to go….”

A soft gasp drew the attention of everyone to Rarity, the fashionista’s hand up to her muzzle. “You dears don’t live out here?” She questioned. “Then what are you all doing out here?”

“We… aren’t here by choice,” Aileen answered, her eyes going towards the ground. “We were sort of… kidnapped and… changed….”

Molly sniffled a little, her composure starting to break a bit.The hybrid girl pulled her in a bit closer, and even Rainbow Dash was starting to look sympathetic. “Maaaybe… we could offer you a place?” The athlete suggested, looking to her friends.

“Well, it wouldn’t be too much of a hassle,” Twilight said, giving a little shrug. “Especially after everything you girls have done for us.”

“That is true indeed,” Rarity added, shining a smile towards the two girls and pokemon. “And if all else fails, there are a few spare rooms in the beautique that can be made comfortable for you.”

Molly didn’t really trust herself to speak right now, so she just hugged her Mew body to her chest and nodded a little. Aileen stared in shock at the ponies and dragon before them, mouth agape before she shook the moths out of her head. “You’d…” the girl started. “You’d actually do that for us?”

“Absolutely,” Twilight answered with a nod. “It’s the least we could do.”

The tall fish-girl still stared for a moment or two before she gave a small smile and looked down towards the ground. “That… would be amazing,” she said quietly, looking back up with her eyes starting to shimmer. “Thank you. All of you.”

“Ah, don’t mention it,” Rainbow said, waving a hand as she flashed a grin and turned around. “Now let’s get out of here before any more of those ugly jerks find us.”

Aileen nodded and once more leaned towards her friend. “You ready to go, Molly?” She questioned before reaching up and petting the pokemon in her arms. “What about you, Mew?”

The two nodded, even though it was two bodys with one mind. The petting also calmed Molly a little, her looking a little less sad than before. The magikarp hybrid smiled a bit wider at that before looking back up to the other three. “Lead on,” she said simply before the group nodded and started on their way home, Aileen leading Molly and Mew along.

“You guys are going to love Ponyville!” Spike said excitedly, falling into step beside the two girls as they walked… all the while a figure watched them from the shadows, totally unbeknownst to them…