//------------------------------// // Chapter 6: The Princess // Story: The Incident // by gplane1749 //------------------------------// The Incident Chapter 6: The Princess “What!” Matt exclaimed with a worried look on his face. “The Princess is coming here?” “Yes. She will be here tomorrow afternoon. You should not be worried Matt Princess Celestia is very kind and would never hurt anypony in her kingdom.” Twilight told Matt with a smile. “That’s just it Twilight I am not a pony. I am some weird alien creature that literally fell right out of the sky. She doesn’t know anything about me. She could think that I am some huge danger to your home.” Matt said with the worried look still stuck to his face. “Oh don’t worry about that too much. The Princess did set up treaties with the griffon kingdoms.” Fluttershy said in her most calming voice. “And the dragons for the migration every year. If she can make peace with them then I am sure that she would have no problems with you Matt.” “Okay that makes sense.” Matt said starting to regain his calm attitude from before. “What does the Princess do?” Asked Matt wanting to know more about her than the show told. Twilight was quick to answer the question. “Well she does a lot of different things. She raises and lowers the sun everyday. She holds a daily court for anpony that needs her help. After that, she has a meeting with her advisors to discuss the state of the country. She also has to do a bunch of different ceremonies and stuff from time to time.” “Okay. What did she say that she wanted to talk to me about, Twilight?” Matt asked the purple unicorn. “She wants to know all sorts of things. Your way of life, how you interact with others, diet, and will probably ask if you want to be a citizen of Equestria while you are staying here.” “I do not know how well I will be able to answer all of her questions but I will definitely try my best.” “I am sure you will do fine Matt.” Twilight assured him with a small smile. “I guess I will be going now. Goodbye.” Fluttershy spoke barley above a whisper but enough to be heard. “Twilight aren’t you forgetting something?” Twilight stopped half way through the door remembering. “Oh right! The books.” Twilight turned around and levitated a stack of books from her saddlebags and onto the bedside table. “These are some books on the history and culture of Equestria so you aren’t completely lost. Fluttershy asked me to bring them to you.” “Thank both of you. I will start reading these right away.” Matt told the pastel ponies in the room. With that the ponies bid Matt farewell for the day. The next afternoon Matt was sitting nervously on the edge of his bed. After he slept he had gained back a lot of energy and he felt much better. However, no matter what he tried Matt could not get rid of the butterflies dancing in his stomach. “I am meeting royalty. Not just any royalty either but a princess who is one of the most powerful beings in this world. I can’t explain all of humanity. I am going to have to find a middle ground. I can’t make us all look evil but not everyone is Gandhi and Mother Teresa. This is going to be tough.” Then Matt heard the sound of wings flapping outside his window. He turned to look and saw the Princess’s golden chariot. A team of six stark white pegisi guards was pulling it. The chariot landed in the field in front of the cottage and Celestia stepped out. She was the most elegant and majestic thing that Matt had ever seen. Her coat was as white as the purest snow, her mane was a rainbow that fluttered in the breeze, her wings looked more powerful than any other thing could hope to achieve. Matt also knew that she was dangerous as she was beautiful. If he was deemed to be a threat to the ponies around him, she would banish him or worse. Matt heard hoof steps coming up the stairs but these sounded much louder than Fluttershy’s or Twilight’s. “It must be the Princess. Keep calm Matt you do not want to screw this up. All you have to do is keep calm and tell the truth. Remember this is not an interrogation you have nothing to hide.” Matt thought trying to get his nerves under control. Then the door opened and there stood the Princess of the sun. She looked even better up close. She had a calm and tender expression on her face. It looked like she was trying to tell him that everything is going to be okay. “Hello Matt. Twilight has told me many good things about you.” She said in a soothing tone. “Hello Princess.” Matt said as bent over in an attempt to bow in his sitting position. “What do you want to know about me or my kind? I will do my best to answer all of your questions.” “We will worry about your kind at a later time. They are not here sitting in front of me. My first question is what your full name is?” Celestia said with the kind look still on her face. “My full name is Matthew William Tyson the third.” Matt answered. “That is a rather odd name it sounds like it has nothing to do with you. Would you mind explaining it to us?” The Princess asked with a interested look in her eye. “Sure, my grandfather was named Matthew William Tyson and he passed it down to my father who passed it down to me. The first name is what people call me by, the middle name is a formality and the last name shows what family you are from on your father’s side.” Matt explained. “May I ask another question?” A small nod from Matt confirmed that she could. “What is your cutie-mark?” “My kind does not have them. If we did I would say that it would be something to do with my current job, programming.” Matt told the Princess raising a curious look from her. “What is programming?” She asked wanting to know more about this unknown profession. “It is very complex but I will try my best to explain. Because my kind did not have magic at their disposal, they invented technology instead. Over time, this technology grew more and more advanced. Modern technology used programs to perform certain tasks. I write the programs for the machines to use.” “I see, maybe that could be useful here for magic.” Celestia responded with a thoughtful expression. Over the next few hours, Matt told the ponies about his life on Earth and his experiences. He talked about his family and his friends. He told them about how his life was good but not great. The ponies asked about the objects in his briefcase and he explained the cards, book, papers, drink and left the Nexus for later. They seemed to be very interested in what he had to say about everything and when Matt was done Celestia made an announcement. “Matt I have decided to give you Equestrian citizenship for the remainder of your say in the country. Do you wish to become an Equestrian?” “I gladly accept your gracious offer, my Princess.” Matt answered. “Very well” Celestia placed her horn on the center of Matt’s chest and said, “You are now an official citizen of Equestria, Matthew William Tyson the third.” A feeling of numbness enveloped Matt as a bright glow of white magic surrounded him and his body began to transform, he withed in pain as he felt his bones being broken and knitted back into foreign shapes. When the glow went away Matt looked down and saw not his body but the body of a light green pony. Matt was speachless. He could not believe what his eyes were showing to him. He took his foreleg and threw the blankets off of the bed. Matt flopped out of the bed and onto the hardwood floor. He tried to stad but his new legs betrayed him and he fell back down onto his face. He was finalyy able to get dhakily back to his feet. “What have you done to me?” Matt screamed looking straight into the eyes of the princess. Celestia startled that he was so angry tried to calm him down. “Matt I made you an Equestrian. You said you were fine with this.” “I said that was fine with becoming a citizen! Not being TRANSFORMED into something I didn’t know was REAL a week ago!” Matt shouted. The rage on his face was evident to all in the room. A small white light was glowing from the center of Matt’s chest. “Why did you not tell what citizenship entailed? That was one of the MOST painful things I have ever endured second only to that crash that got me here!” The light grew brighter. “I am NOT a pony, I am a MAN!” The light flashed as bright as the sun and there stood Matt in his human form cloths singed standing in front of the Princess. He gave her one last glare before falling back onto the bed out cold.