Let Rainbow Show You the Way

by Mister E-Nonymous

Prologue: High School is no Joke

Here we go again. Another school. My name is Richard Murphy. And I guess that Murphy's Law is such a thing when I've been in and out of schools every six months. Ever since my dad died in an unforeseen car collision with a wrecking ball, don't ask, my mom and I have been moving across the country. From Chicago, Illinois to Seattle, Washington, to Atlanta, Georgia, to New York, to Indianapolis, to Las Vegas, Nevada, to Detroit, Michigan. Right now, my mom and I have moved to Los Angeles, California. My mom says that this transfer from place to place is just temporary. I wish I could believe that. My mom worked a lot for that company, Vacation Travelers Guide, and I wish for once we could just stay in the same place until I can get into college.

My allowance hasn't been going up every time we move. It just goes down. So, I decided to get an after school job at a Big 5. Which I got with a little bit of help from my mom. But, today was going to be the first day at my new school. Stardust High. When I walked towards the front entrance, I was stopped by a bald man in a suit.

"You there! Stop!" said the man. He walked towards me. "You think this is a joke. I will have you know that this place, as you think it has, is a place where no one is allowed to express themselves. No matter if it's in your clothing, or hair. That shirt is not allowed here."

"What?" I asked, confused. All I came to school in was a T-shirt of my favorite video game characters, Sonic the Hedgehog, some black zip-off pants, my favorite blue and yellow hoodie, and my running shoes.

"Here at Stardust High, we focus on perfection and strict discipline," said the man. "I am Principal Rogers, and I want everything here to be perfect, and no tolerance. Next time, I want you to come here with no printed shirt. Mister..."

"Oh," I said, not giving him my name. "Richard Murphy, sir. But I go by..."

"I don't care, Mr. Murphy," said Principal Rogers, interrupting me. "Now, get to your first class. You don't want your teacher to give you detention on your first day, do you?"

Of course, I had to hurry. So I bolted to my first class. Hopefully, I won't have to worry about being overestimated, right?

I was wrong. I had the worst first day of my life. I was expecting to get into a good art class, join a club, and hopefully find a girl that I was into. Turns out, they had no forms of art here. No drawing, cooking, not even painting. And it turns out, there are no clubs allowed on school campus. And it turns out, all of the girls there aren't interested in me. It turns out, Principal Rogers want all of the students to be grade A worthy. I was put into English, Math, Science, History, and extremely hard Physical Education. My after school job doesn't start until next Monday, so I'll just have to wait out until I get it.

I was on my way home until I get a text from my mom. She said that she won't be home until late tonight, so I have the house all to myself. Luckily, I got TV and Internet already. I just entered my new home, and headed to the kitchen to get a snack. On the kitchen counter was $30 for pizza mom will order for me. All I have to wait for the pizza guy. I head into my room and toss my backpack onto my bed. But I was surprised when I heard a cry of pain coming from my bed. When I went to pull my covers off my bed, and got a shocking surprise. On my bed was a teenage girl, around my age, but she had hair that has the colors of the rainbow. She also appeared to be wearing some of my clothes, which were a little baggy on her.

I shouted in surprise, "Who are you? How did you get in here? And why are you wearing my clothes?"

Today was a surprise for us all. I was working with the weather crew. A huge Everfree Storm was over Ponyville when the New Year has started. I told everypony to get inside before the storm catches them. I was nearly hit by a bolt of lightning when I got some ponies out of the storm. My fellow pegasus ponies succeeded on getting the ponies inside. But when I saw my friend Twilight helping get ponies inside while trying to get through the storm herself.

I flew up to her and said, "Twilight, are you crazy?! Get back inside!"

"Rainbow, I'm trying to help out," said Twilight.

"Just because you're the Princess's private student, you can't just walk into danger," said Rainbow Dash. "It's way too dangerous for you to be out here!"

Twilight lit up her horn, but it turns out, she shielded me from getting hit by another lightning bolt. Guess she really is just trying to help. When I saw that all of the other pegasi are heading to their homes, Twilight told me to follow her back to the library. So, I follow her. But when she was about to open the door, we almost got struck by another bolt of lightning. It seemed that one part of the storm separated and followed up. So I had to take down that cloud. But before I could make contact, a single bolt flew past me, but then a huge flash of light came in from behind me and I got caught in nothing but light. And then I blacked out.

That really stung. I don't know how long I was out for, but I hope that Twilight took me in. But, when I woke up, I felt some carpet under me. Wait a minute, Twi's place don't have carpet. I woke up, I found myself in a living room. I was confused on how I ended up in there. I was about to get up, but then I felt... different. I looked down at my hooves, and I saw something that surprised me. I saw that my forelegs have been lost the fur, and the end of my hooves had some things, similar to Spike's claws. But, Spike had four of them, but it appears that I have five. I checked my hind legs, and saw that they were a little different, and longer than my front legs. The end of my hooves seem to have five digits as well, but they seemed to be stubby. Then I noticed, my wings are gone, and so was my tail. But my Cutie Mark was still on my flank.

I was about to freak out, but for some reason, I felt... cold. It appears that my entire body has no fur. I was freezing. But it appears, whoever's house I ended up in, luckily they left a blanket on the sofa. It appears, with these digits on my forelegs, I can grab things more easily. But, what it looks like that the body I was currently in might have to walk on two legs. Which is going to be hard for me when I was on four legs for my whole life. So, I had to get up on two legs, but it was hard for me to get used to walking on two legs. So, I took it one step at a time, keeping the blanket over me. I walked through the house, and went down a hallway.

I went down the hall and I walked into the first room on the right, which turned out to be a bedroom. It looked like it was either being packed up, or unpacked. Wanting to be warmed up, I searched the bedroom for something else to keep my warm. So, I walked over to a drawer, and saw some clothing of some kind. So, I put on one of them. It turns out, it was for the upper part of my body. Luckily, I got it on. But, it only got the upper side of my waste. The rest of the clothing in the drawer were meant for my upper body. So, I looked in another. I saw some socks and some really short things that looked like it was to cover my flanks. It would have to do for now. It was hard for me to get those on. I was still a little tired, and there was a bed in here. So, I got myself into the bed, and covered up. This bed wasn't as soft as the bed in my house, but I was still a little tired. So, I decided to take a nap.

"OW!!" I cried out in pain. Something hit me when I was in the bed. Something was in the room.

I was scared, which I didn't usually get, so I tried to keep myself hidden. But then something grabbed the blanket that covered me, and I was surprised. It looked like a creature similar to what I was, but it looked like a male.

He then shouted, "Who are you? How did you get in here? And why are you wearing my clothes?" I was going to be in sooo much trouble.