Walking down one of the hallways of the School of Friendship, three different creatures on their way to class. Sandbar, an aqua colored earth pony, Ocellus, a blue and pink changeling, and Yona, a large female Yak. Swooping in from the ceiling was Silverstream, a pink hippogriff, with a chipped pearl hanging around her neck. Ecstatic to share the news about their new professor. "Ooooh, you guys. Did you hear that we get a new professor today."
"Please tell me not that same pony that barrel rolled out of a cab, drunk?" Ocellus asked. "Because I don't know if he's exactly it, when it comes to being a proper professor."
Come running up to them was Gallus, a blue griffon, and Smolder, an orange dragon. "You guys," said Smolder with a sharp-tooth smile on her face. "Did you tell them about our new professor."
"The new pony professor?" Sandbar said. "We are just trying to guess wither or not, out of all the strange professors we've had, This one might take the cake.''
"Well did you also hear that he gives all his students passing grades as long as you give him a sandwich?" Gallus said.
"That can't be right," Sandbar said.
From behind, Twilight Sparkle swoops down and brings all six creatures in close with her wings. "There you all are," she said. Her mane looked frazzled and feathers shook loose from her wings. Her eyes were bug like and had a twitch of a smile. "I'm glad I found you. Since you six best represent what this school is all about, becoming friends with creatures of all kinds, I would like to introduce you to the new professor."
Before any of them speak a word, Twilight pushed them forward to their next class.
Turning into the classroom, Thornhill sat at his given professor desk. His leather duster hanging from the coat rack. Now in one of his ugly Pon-wiaian shirts, the black baseball cap atop his head with his horn poking through, and of course his black blinder glasses. His back hoofsperched on top of his desk, criss-crossed. Leaning back in his leather chair.
"Is pony asleep?" asked Yona. She waved her hoof in front of Thornhill's pitch black lens glasses.
"No," Thornhill spoke. "Though I wish I were, Yona." Using his magic, he made his flask hover above him and pop out the cork. He took a gulp from the flask.
"How pony know Yak name?" Yona asked.
"Pony smarter than pony look," Thornhill said back.
"Well," Twilight said. "By now you've become accustom to our school creachers. But I wanted to introduce you to six students that are the school role models here at the School of Friendship." She pushed Ocellus forward. "This is a student from the changeling colonies, named-."
"Ocellus"Thornhill said, all were surprised of him knowing who Ocellus was. "And thats Gallus the griffon, Smolder the dragon, Sandbar the pony, and Silverstream the hippogriff."
"Oh so you have already met them."
"You could say that." Thornhill said. "You could say that i've met them, a few hundred times."
Well," twilight said, confused at what Thornhill was getting at. "I figured I would sit in this lesson to see how it all goes, okay?"
"Hey, it is your school" Thornhill said.
"What's that professor?" Princess Twilight asked.
"Nothing. Every creature come in and take a seat."
"Good," Twilight said. "I leave you to it."
"Hello class. I'm your professor, Profesor Thornhill." He tries pointing a hoof behind him, at the blackboard. "Skrippled somewhere up on the board."
He leaned back in his chair. "Alright," he spoke up. "This is all very new, so why don't we take things easy." Thornhill said as he leaned back in his chair and propped his back hooves up onto his desk, again. "Y'all let me rest my eyes, while y'all do something quite for the next hour, okay?" The classroom of students waited for Thornhill to say something else, but didn't.
Gallus raises his hand high. "Yes, Mr. Gallus?" Thornhill acknowledged him. "Also, don't raise your hand. Makes it look like I actually care what you all have to say."
Gallus clears his throat. "Uh, professor. do you still give passing grades to the students that bring you a sandwich?"
"I like where your head is kid, but I have recently been told that I can longer do that." Looking over at Princess Twilight.
Gallus sits back down a little disappointed. "Look don't expect too much out of me." he said. "How about we go around the room, and you ask me a question and I'll see if I can answer?" Is that fair?" Thornhill opens another drawer, this one empty. With a magic flash from his horn and becomes packed with ice and cans of beer.
Silver-Stream raised her hand up in excitement. "Oh oh oh, question. What was your favorite place to travel? Is it Mountarise? I hope it's Mountarise."
"Lets see," Thornhill said as he opened his beer can, which fizzled and popped with foam. "That's a harder question to answer than you think. I have been to hundreds of places in hundreds realities. But if I had to choose, believe it or not, I would go with Ponyville. I visited several Ponyvilles that have been to my liking."
"Uh, Professor" Smolder pipped up. "There are several Ponyvilles?"
"Actually there are" Thornhill said. "Not in this world, but alternate worlds that are similar to this one with one or more major change, making it different?" They looked at him with confusion. "Okay," Thornhill used his magic to draw a circle on the chalk-board. He takes a big gulp from the beer can. "Imagine that this circle is our world." He draws several small circles around the first circle. "And these are alternate worlds to our own, and there is an infinite amount of them." The classroom murmurs in confusion again. Thornhill finishes his beer, crushes it, and tosses it in the trash can. "You know what, forget about it and let's move on to the next question?"
Occlus stands up and raises her insect like hoof. Thornhill sits back down in his chair and props his back hoofs back on to the desk. "What was it like growing up with Princess Celestia and Luna?"
Thornhill gave a light, but noticeable frown at the blue changeling. Using his magic, one of the beers floated up. Thornhill caught the beer can in one of his hooves, while the other opened the can. "Next question." he said in a stern tone.
"But you didn't answer my ques-"
"I said! Next question."
Thornhill took a sip of beer. Occelus sat down, with disappointment in her eyes. Yona stood up marched to the front of Thornhill's desk. "Ah," she said, aggravated. "Teacher is suppose to teach student, Yona, of friendship." A small cheer comes from the other students behind her, agreeing with her. Thornhill took his back hooves off the desk and planted them on the floor. "Yona demand that you teach properly."
Twilight nodded her head in agreement.
"Look I tried teaching you, and it went over your heads."
"But none of that was of Friendship" said Sandbar. Another cheer from the class.
Thornhill took the beer can, in his hoof, and threw it hard against the window where it exploded with foam splashing everywhere. He then pushed the desk to the side of the room. This frightened the students. Yona started to back away when Thornhill wrapped his wings around her head.
"You want me to teach?" Thornhill said with anger and annoyance in his voice. "You want to learn and gain knowledge? Well, Why didn't you just fucking say so." Thornhill placed his hoofs on the side of Yona's head, and the tip of his horn on her forehead. From his hoof and horn came a blinding blue light that seemed to form cracks on his hoof, but then start cracking down Yona's face and to her eyes. It did not stop, but in fact engulfed her eyes in the blinding blue light.
A powerful gust of wind came from Thronhill and Yona started to levitate off the ground. All watched in shock. Sandbar, Ocellus, Smolder, Silver Stream, Gallus, and Princess Twilight all jumped to action.
"Prince Thornhhill, please stop, whatever you are doing."
The Student Six wrapped themselves around Yona, while Twilight wrapped around Thornhill, and pulled as hard as they could to break away the two apart. It took all their strength, but they broke Yona away from Thornhill.
Even though she no longer had Thornhill's hoof and horn on her head, Yona still levitated off the floor and her eyes brightly shining a white blue color, like that of lighting.
They all looked toward Prince Thornhill, who stood up and dusted himself off and pulled a cigarette from his shirt pocket. "I think that will be all the teaching I do for today class."
Twilight looks at Thornhill in disbelief. "Are, you, CRAZY?!?" Twilight shouted. "You just openly attack a student!"
"I didn't 'openly' attack her," Thornhill said. " I gave her what she wanted. Knowledge."
"How come she's still floating and having her eyes lit up blue?"
"Well, when I transferred some of my knowledge to her, I also transferred some of my ailcron power. Specifically the special alicorn power I have. In other ways of explaining, she's like a helium balloon slowly losing the helium that keeps it afloat" Thornhill looks at the hovering yak. "You know, it really kind of funny. She's like a floating balloon. I bet if I push her, she bounces off the wall and slowly comes back. Look." Thornhill gives Yona a light push and watches her float across the room, bounce off the wall, and makes her way back.
Yona floated downward. When her hooves touched the ground her eyes stopped glowing. She seemed woozy and shaking her head. Sandbar asked if she was okay. She responded, "No. There is no God."
Twilight growls at Thornhill. "I want you to leave right now. I'll deal with you when I get back to the castle tonight."
Thornhill gave a smug look to twilight. "As your highness commands." Grabbing his jacket, Thornhill walked away.