Threesday
8:30 am
Perth, Australia
I’m laying in my bed thinking about all the things I can do to make Alex’s life a little more difficult, when I suddenly get a thought that I could have turned into a pony overnight, I then try to wiggle my fingers which works, eeyup definitely not a pony. I roll over onto my side but as I roll I feel some resistance in turning my head as if I’m wearing something on my head. Dammit Alex probably put something on my head just to get back at me for yesterday. I reach up to remove whatever Alex has place on my head. I try to pull it off but it feels as if whatever it is, is attached to my head.
“Dammit Alex” I say.
Wait, My eye open wide, that wasn’t my voice. I sit up in my bed and throw off the sheets to look at my body, instead of seeing my normal body or the body of a pony I saw that I was now covered in blue fur and that my feet had turned into hooves. I brought my hand up to my head to get a better feel of what was on my head. I had the same thing on both sides of my head I then realised that they were both horns. Two horns, blue fur, hooves for feet but still had hands ‘Oh my god’ I thought, ‘I’ve turned into Iron Will.’
“Okay, Okay” I say to calm myself “This is just a dream, yeah a dream I’m now going to pinch myself and wake up”
“OWW, ok definitely not a dream. I look down at my new body ‘Ok I’ve turned into Iron Will I guess it could be worse I’m at least the same height, I’ve got hands, I’m actually more muscular... wait what was I saying again. Oh yeah beside looking slightly different this transformation is awesome I can pretty much do everything I could before plus more. Oh I have got to rub this in Alex’s face’
I roll to the side of the bed and prepare to stand up. ‘How hard can it be, I already know how to walk on two legs and I’m not as stupid as Alex who had difficulty standing on four legs, Really! how hard is it to figure out how to stand and walk on four legs’
I place both my feet/hooves on the floor and stand up “Ha! this isn’t that difficult, wait why is the bookshelf coming closer?”
*CRASH
I fall into the bookshelf head first causing all the selves to break and in a cartoon fashion every book to hit me in the head individually.
“Okay, maybe this standing thing is a little bit harder than it looks.” I mutter to myself
I try to stand up using what’s left of my bookshelf and my bed to help support me. Once I’m up again I try to see if I can stand on my own, I wobble a bit and flail my arms in the air but I finally manage to get my balance. For those of you who haven’t turned into a Minotaur before trying to stand on these legs is like standing on a pair of stilts, not in the way that you have more height but in the way that the area that touches the ground is so small.
15 minutes later
“Oh Yeah” I cheered as I practiced walking around my room ‘I have now mastered the art of walking and all it took was 15 minutes and me breaking half of the stuff in my room” I look around my room at the mess I have made in just learning to walk. My bookshelf is broken, my lamp smashed and the light fitting smashed (Let me tell you, Horns add to your height and if you’re not used to them you will hit low hanging objects)
I walk to the door and grab the handle and the handle then breaks off in my hand “You have got to be kidding me” I yell at the door. I look at the door and then at the broken handle, how am I suppose to get out now. I then get an idea, I throw the handle away and it causes something else to break in my room, I back away from the door “Well there’s more than one way to open a door” I lower my head and charge at the door.
*CRASH
I go straight through the door “Ha no door is a match for the Mighty Iron Will” I then collide with the wall “Ergh” I complain, as I try to pull my head from the wall, but my horns are stuck. I keep trying to pull my head out but to no prevail so I use both my arms and one leg to give it one last push. Success my head is now freed from the wall but I have now lost my balance and I fall back through my broken door. ‘Note to self no more running through doors or into walls’
I get up and look around at the mess I’ve created ‘Man I’m almost as bad as Alex was yesterday’
I look over to Alex’s room and see that his door is still closed so he must still be asleep. ‘Wow Alex can sure sleep through anything, I better go wake him up and let him know I’ve changed as well. I burst into Alex’s room and yell “WAKE UP SLEEPY HEAD”
Alex wakes up and sits bolt upright with his pillow in his mouth? He see’s me and spits out his pillow and screams “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH leave me alone my brother is in the house and he has a ….gun yes he has a gun and I also know.... Kung Fu so stay back”
I give him a confused look “Alex you don’t know Kung Fu and since when have I owned a gun”
“Tim? Is that you” Alex says giving me a confused look
“Who were you expecting Princess Luna” I reply sarcastically
“Yo...Yo...You’ve changed into Iron Will”
I look up and down myself “Oh my God Alex you’re right I have changed what should I do”
Alex gives me an unimpressed look “You don’t need to be rude about it”
“Sorry couldn’t resist, I just wanted to let you know I’d changed, I’m now going to go check myself out in the mirror”
Alex just rolls his eyes and starts to get out of bed.
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I go to the bathroom and look at myself in the mirror ‘Yep I’m definitely Iron Will’ I then start flexing my new muscles in the mirror(Hey don’t judge me you try suddenly getting a super ripped body and resist the urge to flex your new found muscles). I then get a thought “Oh I have got to do this, this is something I just can’t resist doing’ I look at myself in the mirror and point at myself and say “I pity the fool who doubts Iron Will’
“Did you really just say that Tim”
I look over to the door and see Alex standing there
“That is pretty lame”
I respond with “You call me lame I’ll make you the same”
“Tim that rhyme was bad and you should feel bad”
“I know, I just couldn’t resist, so you want some breakfast?”
“Yes I would but, you have to make it”
“Deal”
“Wait, Tim”
“Yes Alex?” I ask questionably
“What do Minotaurs eat?”
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I looked down at the assortment of food that we had set up to see what I could eat, we had a platter of fruit, and an assortment of meats. I grabs some of the fruit and try it first.
“Mmmmm” I say “Yep I definitely can still eat fruit” I demonstrate this by finishing the plate off.
“We both thought you would be able to eat the fruit” said Alex “It’s the meat we weren’t sure of”
I look at the assortment of meats we have lamb, chicken, ham and beef. I start with the lamb and wait a couple of seconds and nothing, I felt nothing no sickness or bad taste “Yep I can eat lamb” I repeat the process until I get to the beef.
“You don’t think it’s cannibalistic to eat beef as a part cow person right” I ask Alex
“I don’t know? Just eat the beef”
I grab the beef and eat it, thank god it tasted just as good as I remember it and I still don’t feel sick eating it. “Oh Yeah” I shout “I can still eat meat”
After finishing breakfast and rubbing in the fact that I could still eat meat and Alex couldn’t into his face I go off to my room to get changed. Just because Iron Will doesn’t wear any clothes in Equestria was not about to walk around naked, I still had to have some decency. I look through my clothes for something to wear, I decided upon a pair of jeans and a simple tshirt. I put the jeans on with no trouble but, as I try to put on the shirt I am unable to get my head through the the head hole in the shirt.
“Why won’t you go through” I say while trying to pull my head through. I eventually give up and throw the shirt to the other side of the room ‘I guess I’ll just have to go out and buy some new shirts that I can wear.
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I grab my keys and head out to my car “Cya Alex I’m off to the shops”
“Bye Tim” I hear Alex yell back
I go out to my car and try to hop in and am immediately met with a problem I try to sit in the car but my horns won’t allow me to sit correctly in my seat and are starting to poke holes into the roof. I hop out of the car and sigh ‘Guess I’ll have to take the bike then. I go back inside to get my motorbikes keys.
“Hey Tim that was quick” Alex calls out jokingly
“Haha Alex no I couldn’t get in the car so I’m taking the bike”
“ok” he call out and goes back to whatever he was doing.
I go and grab my bikes keys and head back outside, I have to go to the garage to get it as I hadn’t been riding it recently because of it being winter. I take the cover off and check over the bike to make sure that it still has gas and should still work. Everything seems to be in working order so I start her up. I look at my helmet sitting in the sidecar ‘Guess I can’t wear that either’. Ignoring my helmet I speed off down the road to the shops.
As I ride down the road to the shops I think to myself that I look like a real badass now, how cool must I look as a minotaur riding a motorbike the only thing that would make me look cooler would be a leather jacket and sunglasses.
I arrive at the shops and go inside as I walk in I start to get stares from the people I pass by, some actively try to avoid me, some are taking pictures with their phones and others just don’t care. I start looking for a shop that would sell clothes that would fit this body. As I’m walking through the shops I walk pass a China shop as I do the owner of the store sees me walking passed and quickly runs to the door and locks it and puts up the closed sign. I continue walking and start laughing to myself. I finally find a shop that might have clothes that will fit me, I walk in and start looking at different clothes on the rack. I know I can’t wear T-shirts any more because of the horns so I look through the different button up shirts.
30 minutes Later
I now have a decent selection of shirts that I can now wear so I go up to the counter to pay for them. I get to the counter and the cashier behind it it is busy reading a book. I cough at him to get his attention, he looks up from his book and jumps back slightly at my appearance. He stares at me for a couple of seconds before I start to get annoyed.
“You should take a picture it last longer” I say with a hint of anger in my voice
“Oh I’m sorry dude, it’s just I haven’t met anyone who has actually changed you know. I’ve seen it on the tv and on the internet but you’re the first one I’ve actually met”
“That’s alright but would I be able to get these shirts then”
“Oh right” he then takes my shirts off me and starts putting them through, while he’s doing this he asks me “Um I was wondering if its not to much trouble would I be able to get a photo with you”
“What?’
“I would like to get a photo with you. One of my friends is a huge Brony and it would drive him up the walls to see me with someone from the show’
“I guess that would be fine”
He finishes putting through my sale and then comes around and gets his photo with me.
“Thanks a lot dude this means so much to me, Hope you enjoy the rest of your day.”
After taking the photo I collect my stuff and head back to my bike
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I am sitting at the computer doing more research into all this Pony transformations that have been happening around the world until I hear Alex yell “Tim quickly get in here they’re talking about the pony transformations on the news”
I get up and run to the lounge room to see what the news has to say on the matter.
“It has been almost two weeks since the world first witnessed the Transformation of people into ponies. Since then many people around the world have woken up to find themselves as ponies and have begun their pilgrimage to New York at the call from Lauren Faust. Recently though it has been seen that people aren’t just turning into ponies they have also been turning into other creatures that have appeared in the show. Earlier today the mining town of Kalgoorlie wake up to find most of the miners turned into bipedal dogs known as ‘Diamond Dogs from the show, we sent a reporter to talk to these people and find out how they are dealing with their transformation.”
The scene changed to to a man standing in a mine site with three diamond dogs wearing orange safety vests and hardhats ‘Wait I know those dogs they’re the three dogs from the Dog and pony show episode, what are their name’s again Rover, Spot and what the hell is the last one’s name.... Fido that’s it.’
The man begins to talk “I’m standing here in the usually quiet mining town of Kalgoorlie with three people who have been transformed into, not ponies like a lot of other people have, but into what are called Diamond Dogs from the Show My Little Pony. So can you explain to us how you felt when you woke up this morning”
The first to speak was the small bulldog like one I think his name is Spot “It not that bad we still have hands so he can work like we do before”
“Yes” said the the big one known as Fido “Even with Transformation we still can act like normal, beside difficulty in speaking in non-fractured words”
“Yes I noticed that” said the reporter “you do seem to have difficulty speaking proper english so does this mean the transformation has affected you mentally?”
“Me no think so” said the final Dog the one known as Rover and who I personally think he looks more like a cat than a dog “It hard to explain it like me still think normal but body no allow me to speak what I think, does that make sense”
“Beside the Diamond dogs in Kalgoorlie there have also been report of other non pony transformations” the scene changed to a video of a zebra shopping in supermarket then to
to an obviously amateur video of what looked like Queen Chrysalis and Discord fighting
“Wait is that Chrysalis and Discord” asks Alex
“I think it is and they don’t look happy to see each other”
“Discord must have tried to get her to join his ranks but she probably has her own plans for world domination”
The next scene showed ….. me riding on my motorbike
“What the?” I stare at the TV with my mouth open
“Looks like you made the news, I guess it’s not everyday that a Minotaur rides down the street on a motorbike”
The shot of me ended and went back to the news anchor “As you can see there have been confirmed sighting of Minotaurs and what are known as changling appearing as well, there are even unconfirmed sighting of a Griffon in the New York area. We here at channel ten went out to talk to the people of Perth and ask them about their thoughts on all these transformations”
The scene changed and a middle age women was now on the screen with her small son, A person off screen then asked “So what do you think about all these people who have been transformed into ponies and other creatures?”
“Well I feel sorry for them, their lives have been turned upside down by these events and not only do they have to get used to a new body but there are a lot of people out there that are angry at them and are actively trying to hurt them. I can imagine nothing worse than some of these people being rejected by their friends and family just because of something they have no control over. I would like to think that if this happened to anyone in my family I would be trying to help them through this”
The screen then changed to an older looking biker guy “So what do you think about all these transformations” the off screen voice asked again
“I think it’s disgusting” he says and then spits at the idea “First we have these Goddamn horse freak coming and taking over people and trying to conquer us, now we have their dam monsters coming as well. I think that the government should be doing more to get rid of these freaks and monster..”
*Click
I turned the TV off I didn’t want to hear anymore from that bloody racist, it’s people like him that give humanity a bad rep. I now felt so angry after hearing that guy it made me want to just break something, it was as if something deep inside me didn’t like being referred to as a monster. Alex must have sensed my growing anger.
“Tim calm down you can’t let some dickhead who doesn’t know anything get you all riled up like that”
“I know, it must be this body or something it must just get angrier easier”
“You shouldn’t blame the body completely but I think you’re right we are in other bodies and the original owner are influencing us subconsciously”
“That’s pretty deep Al”
“I know it must be the body” Alex looks up the clock “It is getting late I’m going to go to bed”
“Ok night then, just make sure you used your pillow to sleep on not to eat tonight, alright”
“Hahaha” he says Sarcastically “I almost forgot to laugh at that”
After Alex had gone to bed I go back to the computer to look up more information. During the news the reporter mentioned something about ponies traveling to New York, I start looking up information in regards to this. I find out that on the first day that people started turning into ponies Lauren Faust who had turned into Princess Celestia had held a press conference asking for the elements of harmony to go to New York as a meeting place and because of this most people who had been turned into ponies were making the trek to help out and find answers. I found out some interesting stories on the web about peoples journeys the best one I found was Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy playing Dance Dance Revolution and answering fan questions.
After look at all this info I go to bed and start thinking about what I have read. ‘Everyone seems to be heading to New York. Should Alex and I also be making this journey? Would we really be any help? How would we even get there, it’s halfway around the world. The better question is will anyone actually want me to go I’m just the Monster that made Fluttershy cry.’ With that last thought I fall asleep.