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// Arrival of the Heroes 
// Story: Differences 
// by The Dashie 
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	Discord did not disappoint, as most of the ponies of Ponyvile gathered in the square. Of all the ponies there, it was Rainbow Dash that seemed the most confused.
"Yo, Spike. What's going on? I've got some clouds to clear."
"Ah would also like to know what's goin' awn. Apples don't buck 'emselves, ya know."
"Nor do my dresses sew and embroider themselves."
"My little critters also need my care. What's wrong, Spike?"
"Yeah, Spike. What's the matter? You seem down."
All these ponies; all five of them. They are friends with Twilight, but I hope that my reasoning will show them that their friend is anything but friendly.
"There is something wrong, Fluttershy. Something very wrong. You see, I have come to reason with myself and my inner thoughts about our mutual "friend", Twilight. I have seen and heard of hers and the other princesses' nerferious deeds towards those of Equestria. I have had stories of the royalty of Canterlot commiting misdeeds to those who used to be residents of Equestria. As many of you know, there is a certain pony by the name of Lyra Heartstrings, who claims the existance of a race called humans to be factual. As many of you also know, it was many of you who taunted her about having such outlandish thoughts about creatures who could walk on two legs; that have fingers and no horn or wings and had no cutie mark. I am here to tell you that the reason humans seem outlandish is because the Princesses have fed you...a...lie. Humans have actually existed and probably still do on a planet called Earth. Time Turner, whose name I have recently come to find is actually The Doctor, used to be a human. A different species, but still human in a sense. He has told us stories about his time with them; the adventures he has had with them. Everyone, as I remember, didn't trust him, as he was a new pony to Ponyville. He also had no records, but soon it came to pass that he was allowed to make a new record. He did so and went by the name Time Turner to remind himself what he really was; a Time Lord. The evidence that was given to Lyra by Twilight told of Princess Celestia's decision to send the humans somewhere else because they were a hinderence to her. I believe it was out of selfish purposes than the protection of the ponies she ruled over; that she did it for her instead of you. If I were to be honest, I feel like this is something very detestable, as it would seem to be. The information on humans never put them as agressive or violent. They weren't even territorial. They just existed. They ate plants and berries and roots and such, but they never harmed anypony. Celestia used her magic to move them from their home here in Equestria to an unknown place.
I know my opinion won't be the same as everypony else's, but you must see something wrong with this right? A  whole race of creatures that were not even harmful were banished to a place they did not know about, and it was all because Celestia wanted to have a pony-only society to rule over. Well, ponies and other creatures, but the point still stands. I say we raise a protest against the princesses to show that the denizens of their lands are not just animals that she can toss out; to show that all life is sacred. Who's with me?"
Silence. Nothing came from the ponies before me but silence. It was so quiet that it hurt. It wasn't until Rainbow Dash spoke up that the silence continued.
"Spike, I know you're probably just tired and cranky, and maybe you just miss Twilight for leaving, so I think it would be best if you just took a nap. I mean you are just a baby dragon.
"Just a baby dragon?"
"I mean, ya. Just a..."
"JUST A BABY DRAGON?!"
"Spike, calm down!"
"No, I will not calm down. Do you know how old I am Rainbow Dash? I am 13! It has been 5 years since Twilight became a princess. In case you haven't noticed, time passes by. I am not just that little tiny dragon who everypony came to cherish as puny and innocent. I am mature.  I can make my own decisions, and I am making one now, but now you must make a decision: join my revolution and be for me...or fight against my revolution and be my enemy."
I could tell she was hard hit by this, as I was asking her to choose between two of her friends that she was loyal to, and she even went over to the others to ask what she should do, but when she came back, the others followed her and encircled me.
"Sorry, Spike, but this is for your own good."
They all attempted to grab me, but something inside me became known to me. It was almost like an chained power was now able to be released. The next thing I know is one by one, I am taking ponies down like they are nothing. Here's how I saw things going. Rainbow Dash and Applejack started enclosing faster than the others. They were followed by Pinkie Pie and Rarity, and Fluttershy had not moved from where she stood. I had hit Applejack in the gut, sending her a few feet back, I hit Rainbow Dash's joint on her right wing, which disabled it as I could infer from her then inablility to fly. I smacked both Rarity's and Pinkie Pie's heads together, causing them to pass out, and in her final charge, Rainbow Dash lunged at me, only for me to bend over backwards, and punch her right in the muzzle as she passed by. I saw Fluttershy standing there with a look on her face of both amazement...and horror. I went over to explain, but she just shuttered.
"Leave me alone Spike. I haven't harmed you. Just leave me aloh-hone."
"Fluttershy, I need to explain. They were trying to keep me down and I had to..."
"Had to hurt them? No Spike. You are right. You aren't the innocent dragon we used to know. You're just a big...mean...monster!
I was hurt by how she could place me amongst monsters of all things. No, I wasn't just hurt, I was deeply saddened by that. I had no response to that.
"Lyra, Discord; let's go. We have work to do!" We all sprinted/flew to my house where the Doctor and Derpy were waiting. Turns out, the Doctor had saved us a trip by bringing the TARDIS to the house. We all got inside, but it seemed everyone was still confused as to why.
"Ok Spike. We're in my TARDIS. What now?"
"Yes Spike. It interests me to know as well, and by the way, nice job. Those ponies never saw it coming. High five!"
I didn't feel like doing it, but knowing he is the god of equality, as our group would refer to him as, I wouldn't want to leave him hanging. I had thought about what to do when it comes to getting new allies in our revolution. The Doctor said he used to be human-like, but then his TARDIS got all crazy, and somehow it ended up in Equestria and he was a pony. 
"If we use Discord's power to reverse the effects done by the TARDIS, we can get to the human world, and maybe even turn you back into a human, Doctor."
"Well, I would be a Time Lord, but I love the idea. And for all I know about magic, your theory just might work. What do you think, Discord?"
"Any plan to get equality is fine with me."
Discord got the Doctor to open up what I think the Doctor called the heart of the TARDIS, and he cast some sort of spell on it. Immediately after, the heart closes and something in the center of the TARDIS that looked like a bunch of tubes started moving up and down and this noise that sounded like me when I'm snoring, or so I've been told.
"Is this supposed to happen?"
He looked at me with the biggest grin on his face. "Oh, yes."
"Are we going to see humans?"
"Oh, yes"
"Awesome!"
Humans were sounding cooler and cooler every second that had passed. Soon, I would be able to meet creatures who were a lot like me, but different. It seems childish to think of it that way, but that how I was feeling. "Doctor, where exactly are we going to land?"
"Well, with Discord's help, I was able to get the TARDIS to lock on to the biggest rally of humans that would be most likely to help our cause, so wherever we land, we are going to meet a bit of human race, so just try to...AAAARRRRRGGHHH!"
He fell over in pain, as I could assume. "Doctor, what's wrong? Do you need any hel...Doctor, why are you glowing?"
"What? I'm glowing? Oh. Oh, right! Your theory was right, Spike. I get to look normal again. And you wouldn't believe how much I've missed it...argh."
"Missed what, Doctor?"
He stared right at me and smiled. "Being human in appearance, of course." It was then that he put all his limbs out and stood on two hooves, and, in that same moment, light and sparkles went flying from his head and what I would guess to be arms. Slowly, he began to get taller, grow claws, which I would later know as fingers, lose his tail and coat, and get a more rounded face rather than a more blocky one. Once he finished, he wasn't brown in color, but a pale-ish brown, almost a light tan. His hair was messy, but interesting. It was brown too. His eyes were brown. He seemed very...different. He looked like the pictures of humans from Lyra's books, so I could never tell that this was the Doctor; the Time Lord.
"Well, that was interesting. I must ask one question."
"Ask away."
"Am I...ginger?"
"What?"
"Is my hair red or orange tinted?"
"No, and though I don't know normal human hair colors, I am sure red isn't a normal color."
"Dang it! Why does the universe always make it to where when I regenerate, I can't be ginger at least once."
His accent was very reminiscent of the ponies that came from Trottingham, but, of course, that might just be normal for humans.
"You were saying I should try to do something."
"Oh, yeah. Just don't flip out."
"Right." As I finished saying this, all the noises stopped and everything was quiet for all of three seconds, when the Doctor said, "Oh, boy. Time to meet my favorite race of creatures...besides you guys, of course."
We all went to the doors and prepared to charge out, but the Doctor assured us that we did not need to worry. After all, he was the Doctor and he knew what the humans would do.
"Is everybody ready?"
"Every...body?"
"Oh sorry, human term. Is every...PONY...ready?"
"Yes, I think so."
"I am."
"Come on , come on, come on. Let's meet the humans already."
"I agree. Let us meet our apparent allies."
"Alright then. Well in that case...I've been dying to say this forever...

"Allons-y!"

and he stepped out the doors, unafraid of what was to be seen. I, on the other hand, was very stunned by what was to be seen on the other side of those doors. Hundreds, maybe even thousands, of these humans. Some looked like what might be "regular" humans, but a large group of them looked like the ponies back home; Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash...Twilight. It was amazing how much they seemed to know about us, but we knew very little to nothing about them. A few of them tried to impersonate me, and I will say that some were actually pretty accurate. As I was taking this in, the Doctor decided to make a public announcement, loud and clear to all the humans that were further back in the room.
"Hello, I'm the Doctor! May I ask what year it is?"
There were some other humans on stage that were most likely female, due to their different figure, one of which answered his question in a voice that I had come to hate.
"Well I know the princess will want to know about this, but it would be the year 2012 good sir."
I was getting mad. Was Twilight here too? I went straight towards her with anger making every step feel like fire. "Twilight! How did you follow us here? I swear if you try to poison the minds of these innocent humans, I will..."
"Spike? Oh my God! Cathy, look who's here!"
Another female human looked at me and got all big eyed and then...she smiled. She came over to give me a hug. I flinched. The human wanted to hug me and she didn't even know me, but the thing she did next scared me to no end.
"It's alright. I ain't gonna hurt'cha.
She sounded just like I did when I was younger. "Woah. What kind of magic is this? You sounded just like I did when I was younger. Doctor, where in the name of Celestia are we?
He looked at me, astounded, apparently by the intro I gave, but he gained his composure and said, "Ah, a good question, indeed? Where might we be, my fair ladies?"
A "lady" that sounded a lot like Rarity said, "Well, you're on Earth, in the United States of America...at BroNYcon.