Change in Perspective

by Quicksear


That Could've Gone Better

Marc stared at the door for the next ten minutes. I'm going totally nuts. San-Marie pushed me too far. Just then, his thoughts were interrupted by the the slow creaking of the door. A large pair of magenta eyes slowly peeked into the room, followed by the rest of the nervous looking creature.

It was similar to the previous one in shape, but the colour totally different. A sort of light blue body and...A rainbow on its head? Yes, and its tail. Okay, stay calm. It looks just as scared as you do. Marc looked at the creature and it looked as him. Then, It hunkered down into a ready stance, spreading its...Wings? Damn, this was so weird. It looked ready for a fight.

Not likely, It barely reached halfway up his chest, at best. Not wanting to scare it, Marc held out a hand as a sign of peace, but creature ruffled it's wings at the sight of the bite marks. Oh yeah, those...damn. He stopped and got up, still wrapped in the blanket, and sat on the edge of the bed.

Marc looked over the creature growling at him by the door. He couldn't blame it. If by some far-fetched (VERY far-fetched) stretch of reality, he was looking at a real creature...

Rainbow Dash was confused. First, this weird freak had smiled and shown her its strange foreleg with Twilight's teeth-marks. It looked like a challenge to Rainbow, so she had put it in its place. Now, though, it...He, Twilight had said...looked completely defeated, sitting wrapped in a blanket on the side of the bed, head low, and tears starting to show in his eyes. Rainbow made the connection: This creature wasn't that threatening, he was just scared.

She sat down and tucked back her wings. They looked at each other, both mis-trusting yet hopeful, for a long while.

Then there was a bash on the door, which flew open accompanied by a yell: "Rainbow! you better not ha' harmed that there monster-!"

Applejack tumbled into the room, much further than she meant to. There she was, sprawled the floor directly between Rainbow and the large alien animal.

"Ahuh..Howdy..." she mumbled as she rapidly tried to regain her balance, and back away. She only managed to trip over her own tail and land flat on her back next to Rainbow, who burst into laughter. The embarrassed Applejack noticed that the monster was laughing too.

"Oh, ponyfeathers...Rainbow! Ah felt sure you'da near killed it by now!"

"C'mon, Applejack, look at him! how could I fight a creature so miserable" Rainbow exclaimed. He was chuckling through his tears at the antics of the two friends.

"Him? well...He sure don't look so bad when his laughin' at me." muttered a very perturbed Applejack.

Marc had absolutely no idea what was going on. He finally seemed to have convinced the rainbow thing that he wasn't a threat when another of the creatures burst through the door shouting about something.

Its colouration was again completely different, this time an orange coat and blonde hair and tail. And a hat? What the hell? It had landed rather comically flat out on the floor, before staggering away and falling over again, to the great amusement of the rainbow one. That was just hilarious.

Then followed a conversation between the pair of creatures, with many glances cast his way. Marc took the time to inspect them as they continued to talk in hushed tones. Their bodies reminded him loosely of horses, he guessed, but with beach balls for heads. Were it a different situation, he would not have been able to see them as anything but adorably cute. Of course, their worried expressions ruined it slightly.

At least they weren't aggressive anymore. they just looked awkward.

Rainbow Dash and Applejack stayed there for the rest of the day, with no idea what they were actually meant to do. By the time Twilight returned late that night, Rainbow Dash was sleeping in a corner while Applejack watched the alien. "Hello, Applejack!" exclaimed Twilight, excited at what she had to say. Applejack was startled out of her reverie by the excited pony charging into the room. "Gosh Twilight! You're gonna wake 'im up! he only just laid 'is head down."

"Oh, sorry about that, but the Princess told me of some useful spells that might help us understand him better! Coming from a different place, all my normal spells don't work on him, so I need to do something different. If we can talk to him, maybe we can figure out more about him, like where he's actually from."

"Wait up, didn't the Princess want to come and see 'im by herself? And didn't she already explain where he's from an' all?"

"Well, She only told me that he was from outside of Equestria. I don't know what that means, exactly, but since the Princess told me that direct magic won't work on him, she told me about a translator spell that would allow us to communicate another way, so we can find out!"

Twilight didn't wait to hear Applejack's worried "Uuuh...Are ya sure...?"

Marc had no idea what was going on. He was woken up by an odd buzzing sensation around his head. He sat bolt upright, trying to make sense of his location and company. He saw that the first creature he had seen, the purple one, had returned in the night. She looked tense, or under stress. Her horn has glowing that odd purple again as the sensation increased to a very uncomfortable level. And then it stopped. But something was different.

Applejack cried out when Twilight collapsed after her spell, "Twilight! Oh gosh, ah knew that magic stuff was a bad idea. You okay there?"

But Twilight didn't answer, she only moaned. Instead, Applejack heard a surprised exclamation, "What the hell just...happened?"

Applejack slowly looked up, into the eyes of the creature. Her jaw dropped. Instead of answering, she backed away and kicked the sleeping Rainbow into wakefulness.

"wha'? What happened? I'm up!" What she heard then was a bit of a shock.

"Hello, weird rainbow creature."

Rainbow was, to say it lightly, shocked out of her bracket. She jumped back and stared at the thing that had spoken to her. All she could think to to do was say, "What are you?"

She composed herself then, thinking of her reputation. but his response was even more of a shock.

"My name is Marc. I mean no harm to you and your friends. Please, help me."

Rainbow Dash crouched down and growled. "Likely story"