Rocket groaned as the faint light of the sun hit his closed eyes and he rolled over, trying not to wake up in the process. That was his plan, until he rolled off of his bed and hit...the soft grass that he had around his bed? Since when did he have grass surrounding his bed? More importantly, when did he ever have grass in his bedroom? He opened his eyes and was met by the sight of grass, buildings, and a bunch of ponies walking around.
He turned around to look at his 'bed' and found a bench sitting right behind him. How had he ended up sleeping on a bench last night? He raised a hoof to his head and started to scratch when he realized something...since when did he have hooves? He looked down and found that he was in the body of a dark blue coated pony with a light blue colored mane and tail with strands of a lighter shade of blue. And on his flank rested a quill shaped mark, which must have been his cutie mark as he recalled.
Rocket looked around at his surroundings and found three other ponies laying around like he had been just moments ago. One of them, a light brown coated unicorn with a black colored tail and a bent clock mark, but no mane in sight, was resting in the center of the grass. Another pony, a bright red coated pegasus with a green mane and tail with a yin-yang mark, rested halfway in a nearby fountain. The third pony, with a sherbert colored coat with a light pink mane that had a purple stripe, but no cutie mark, rested on top of a bush.
"Oh my Celestia," he said, the truth dawning on him, "We're ponies!"
He got up and stumbled as he tried to walk over to the pegasus in the fountain, he wasn't used to walking on all four legs. Once he reached the fountain, despite the numerous stumbles along the way, he wrapped his hooves around the stallion and pulled him out of the water. He laid the pegasus on the grass and hit his stomach, forcing hm to expel the water that was in his mouth. The stallion's eyes opened and quickly forced Rocket off of him, getting up onto all fours and staring at him.
"You didn't have to hit me so hard," Rocket whinned, rubbing his head with his hoof yet again, "I was just trying to help."
"Wait a second, I know that voice," the pegasus said, "Rocket, is that you?"
"Jacob?" Rocket replied, earning a nod from the pegasus, "You look great as a pegasus."
"Thanks," his friend said, "If you haven't realized it yet your a unicorn."
"Sweet," Rocket replied, not realizing that he had a horn until his friend had spoken up, "Now I will use my magic and wake our friends up."
"Okay then," his friend said, "While you do that I am going to start my little freaking out session and get back to you later."
Rocket sighed and started to work his magic on the water in the fountain, quickly finding that magic wasn't easy to control as he expected it to be. The first three times he tried to move the water his magic slipped and the water returned to the fountain. On his fourth try he managed to pull the water out and began moving it towards the pony resting in the bush, but it burst as his friend interuppted his concentration. He growled and tried again, quickly returning to moving the water towards the sleeping pony.
Once the water was directly over the mare he released his magic and drenched the poor pony in what he suspected was cold water. Or maybe it was slightly warm water. Whatever the temperature was it seemed to work as the mare quickly bolted up and got off the bush. She quickly shook herself off and glared at the him, though he was grinning slightly as he watched her.
"Was that really necessary?" she asked, stumbling as she made her way towards the unicorn stallion.
"I'm afraid it was, Momo," he answered, returning to the fountain and pulling more water out, "I needed you to wake up and now I need to wake up our last member."
"Last member?" she questioned, watching the pegasus go by with a crazy grin on his face, "Was that Jacob?"
"Yep," was the reply as he began moving towards the bald unicorn stallion, "He's kinda freaking out due to waking up in a park as a pony."
"This isn't just any park," she said, quickly realizing where they were, "We're in Canterlot."
"Oh buck that's cold," the stallion said as the water was dumped on top of him, "Whoever did that will pay dearly for it."
"Noted," Rocket said, his horn dying down, "Now if you will excuse me I have to get us on the next train to Ponyville and fast. Then we can figure out what our next course of action is from there."
As he started walking towards the south entrance of the park he quickly noticed that he had caused their group to gain attention. He figured it was due to his use of magic to wake up his friends, but he saw his friend still freaking out and silently blamed him. Leaving the park wasn't very hard, but figuring out the signs to find their destination was.
"Excuse me?" he asked the first pony that walked by, who turned out to be a white coated pony with a light blue mane and wearing sunglasses, "Could you tell me how I can get to the train station from here?"
"Sure thing dude," the mare said, sounding excited, "Just follow this street all the way down and you'll come to the station in no time. The next train won't be leaving for another half an hour, so you have time before it leaves."
"Thanks a lot," Rocket said, the mare leaving as he thanked her, "Good, now to get there and get us some tickets."
The station, he soon found out, wasn't packed and he got in line as soon as the group arrived. He hoped that the ticket pony would be willing to help them, considering that none of the four had any golden coins on them at all.