Prologue: Bad News, Worse News
(Cody's Point of View)
I couldn't believe what has happened. This has got to be the worse news I have received. Right. Introductions. My name is Cody. Cody McFly. No relation with Marty McFly from the "Back to the Future" movies, because those are work of fictions. I'm ten years old, and my mom recently gave birth to my little sister about a month ago.
I live in Detroit, Michigan, although, it might all change. My mom and dad went out on a date, and we were left with Mrs. Cartwright, the sweetest babysitter in Detroit. Sure, she was 70 years old, but she means well. My baby sister, Flora, was a pain at first, but I was taught that you shouldn't get jealous that I wasn't getting any attention from my parents when Flora was born. Basically, I was told that one day, my parents wouldn't be around and my sister would be the only one I have left in the family. I just didn't know that day would be today.
Last night, my parents went out on a date night, but they were killed by a gang of criminals. The criminals were taken in, but mom and dad didn't make it. Mrs. Cartwright watched us until some people from Social Services came to get us. But when I heard that they were planning to split us up, I couldn't let that happen. One of the people there tried taking Flora out of my hands when I refused to let that choice happen. So, I ran, taking Flora with me.
Whenever I got a little upset, I always came to Grand Circus Park to think things over so I can calm down. But, right now, Flora and I had nowhere to go after this. The people from Social Services were going to split the two of us up. I literally ran from my home to the park, not caring about all the terrible things happening around me.
I was almost there, and I came across a crosswalk there, and I was nearly there, but there was a drag race going on, and Flora and I were nearly hit. I jumped out of the way, causing me and Flora to get hurt.
I gasped and said, "Flora, I'm sorry. Ow." I scraped my right arm, and twisted my left ankle. I checked the damage to my sister, and saw that a spot on her chest was bulging and turned purple. That wasn't a good place for a broken bone to be, since it was above the heart and lung. I limped my way into the park, and sat next to a tree. Flora was the family I had left. I didn't want to lose her.
I looked up towards the sky, and prayed to god to spare my sister's life, and I also prayed that we should stay together. I already lost most of my family. I didn't want to lose the last one of my family I have left.
"You poor child," came a mysterious voice. I looked around me and saw no one there. I was confused and scared, I held my sister tighter, making her cry out in pain.
"Oh my god," I said. "Flora, I'm sorry." I then called out, "Who's out there?!"
"Don't you worry about that," said the mysterious voice. I had no idea where that voice was coming from. "All you need to know is that I can help you out with your predicament."
"Are you with Social Services?" I asked. "Because no way you're going to split up me and my sister. We must stay together."
"Oh, don't fret about that, little boy," said the mysterious voice. "I'll make sure that the two of you will not be separated. I shall take you two somewhere and I'll make sure that you two won't be separated."
Then a huge flash of light emitted around us, and my sister and I were transported somewhere. I blacked out.
I woke up, and I was somewhere completely different. I looked around and saw I was in a park somewhere completely different. I decided to push myself off the ground, but I lost balance for some reason.
I was confused at first, but then I decided to look at my left hand, only to become a lot more confused. Instead of a hand, I saw a hoof. A white hoof. I turned around and saw that I've turned into a little horse of some kind. I had a tail that matched my strawberry blonde hair. And then I looked and saw a basket with a baby horse inside it. I was wondering about that, but on the outside of the basket, there was a note. The note read:
"Well, I might have caused a little accident when making the change to you and your sister. The shift and change to her made the little problem she had a little... more... dreadful. That broken rib has pierced through her left lung. I'm not sure that I can fix this. Although, I am sending someone to pick you two up, and take you to the hospital. Hold tight."
I was confused by that, and I looked around. I then heard the sounds of hooves trotting. My baby sister cried in pain, and I looked at her. She became a light purple pony with her natural strawberry blonde hair. And also, she had a unicorn horn on her forehead. I then looked up at my forehead and saw a horn coming out of there. But then I payed attention to my sister, crying out in pain. I couldn't do anything to help her. All I had to do is one thing. Cry out for help.
"HELP!! Someone help!!"
I heard those hoofsteps coming towards me. I looked over and saw a grown up unicorn running towards me and my sister. She was white with a curly purple mane and tail, and had a mark on her flanks of three blue diamonds.
"Goodness gracious!" she said. "When I heard that something tragic happened, I rushed right over here."
"Please!" I said. "Help my sister! She's all I have left of my family!"
"Oh, right," she said. But then, her horn started glowing in a light blue aura, and that same aura surrounded me, and I was placed on her back. She then used that same aura, and picked up the basket my sister was in. "Hold on tight, darling." She then started running, taking me and ran off somewhere.
When she stopped running, we came towards a hospital. Inside, there were six other grown up horses, and two young horses waiting for us. The grown up horses were made up with two normal, two with wings, one with a horn, and one with both. And the young horses, one was a boy with wings, and the other was a girl, and had no extra parts.
"Thank goodness you made it, Rarity," said the winged unicorn. She was purple with a dark blue mane with two stripes in her hair. One purple and one pink. "Is this them?"
"I believe so," said the unicorn that brought me and my sister in. "Although, I think that there's trouble happening with the baby."
The other unicorn, who had a coat of purple that was a few shades lighter than the winged unicorn, walked over to my sister, and a light blue aura surrounded her horn, and a light came down from it, and she gasped. "That's not good. This baby has a broken rib, and it's piercing through it's lung."
That made the others gasp. Then a hospital gurney come towards us. That light purple unicorn took my sister out of the basket, and put her into the gurney. Then the horses took my sister away. I got off the white unicorn's back, and tried following her, but I didn't know how to walk on four legs. I was a little off balanced. But, the two young horses walked up to me.
"It's okay," said the teal blue one. "We weren't used to walking like a pony to begin with."
"I guess that makes..." I then stopped what I was saying and realized, "Wait a minute. We're ponies? And wait another second. What do you mean, weren't used to walking like a pony?"
"We were born human, too," said the pink one. "Except, I was born a boy."
"Seriously?" I asked.
"Yep," said the blue one. "I'm Danny. And that's Alex."
"We weren't born here, but these ponies have been good to us," said Alex. "The purple alicorn is Princess Twilight Sparkle, the pony you came in with is Rarity. The yellow pegasus is Fluttershy. The orange Earth Pony is Applejack. The Rainbow maned pegasus is Danny's adopted mother, Rainbow Dash. The pink one is my adopted mother, Pinkie Pie. And that other unicorn. That's Starlight Glimmer."
"Pleased to meet you all," I said. "But, right now, I have to get to my sister. She's all I have left of my family. We have to stay together."
The seven grown up ponies looked at each other, and they nodded. Then the white pony known as Rarity picked me up with that weird glow she used, and then all of them, taking me with them, followed the doctors to where they took my sister to.