I entered the clearing and found a small house with a chicken coup in back. “I shall start my conquest here, and make that rabbit pay for laying a paw on me!” I said to myself dementedly. I clenched my fists and gritted my teeth, storming my way up to the house.
I was furious when I got to the door, on the verge of mental collapse. I slammed my fist into the door *WHAM!*. As I was preparing for another strike, I heard a strange noise come from inside. I leaned in and placed my ear to the door, to see if I could hear it better. *whimper* It sounded like someone playing on a vibrating violin. My fury suddenly turned into confusion at the noise. I then tried the handle and found it unlocked, “Um… your door is unlocked, and I’m coming to haunt you Ooo oOo ooO!” I said in my best ‘I won’t kill you’ voice.
As I entered the house, I found a small yellow and pink pony in the corner, quivering in fear. “Wow, all I did was punch a door and already I have ponies fearing me.” I laughed, smiling to myself.
“Umm...excuse me...but, umm...” the pony whispered.
“Who dares speak to me!?” I shouted dramatically. There was a silence between us for a good three minutes before I spoke again. “I find your lack of words... disturbing.” she was looking at me now from behind her hooves. “I shall make you an offer. In exchange for your permanent loyalty and unquestioning allegiance to me, I shall spare your life and make you my second in command. What say you?” she was still shaking in fear, to afraid to respond. “I shall take your silence as a ‘yes’.” I walked over to her and placed one hand on her mane. “Now, how about my new loyal subject tells me their name?” I smiled in hopes of calming her down.
“F..Fl…Flutt…*squeak*” she tried to tell me her name, but seemed very shy about it. Still, from her appearance and attempt I managed to piece her identity together.
“So, you are Fluttershy. I thought you looked familiar.” I said to her. “But, that name is complicated and I’m not the best with names, so… I will call you ‘Minion’. Welcome to my army Minion!” she went wide eyed at my statement as I smiled at her, mainly for getting my first minion. “Alright Minion, you have had your cowering time. Now I want to know more of the world you live in.” I stared down at her to ensure I would get a positive, albeit forced, response. She nodded and we left her house.
It took me a little bit, but I eventually noticed how tightly she was keeping her wings pressed to her body. “If you keep your wings like that, Minion, they might fall off.” I smiled as she freaked out and tried to open her wings.
As we approached town, I noticed something I should have expected. I was the only human in all of Ponyville, if not Equestria. “Well, I guess blending in with the townsfolk is out of the question…” I said shaking my head. Although unsure of where it was Fluttershy was leading me, I was too busy distracted by the number of ponies staring at me as we walked to care. Suddenly, we came upon a large tree with a door in it. Before I could say anything, she started nudging me with her head to go inside, or at least that’s what I thought she wanted me to do…she hadn’t said a full word to me sense we met…as I went to open the door she began whimpering again. I looked at her and she just nodded towards the door. “*sigh*… You want me to knock first, don’t you?” she nodded. I rolled my eyes and knocked on the door.
“Hang on, I’ll be right there.” a female voice said.
“Never mind, I’ll get it.” A male voice said. Suddenly the door opened and a small purple and green dragon was standing at about waist level to me. “Umm…Twilight, somebody’s here with Fluttershy.” He called out. It was then that I remembered that this was the home of Twilight and Spike.
“Well, let them in. I’ll be down in a second.” Who I assumed to be Twilight called out. We walked in and stood surrounded by many books and papers. None of which I was interested in, still nice to know for future reference. It felt like forever waiting on Twilight, then I came up with a way to speed things up.
“Twilight Sparkle! We have important matters to discuss this instant and we will not have our time wasted!” I did my best impression of Luna that I could and from the sudden thudding and falling of books we heard it sounded like she fell for it. Suddenly, we saw her galloping down the stairs as fast as she could, until she tripped and rolled into a wall. Fluttershy and Spike went to go check on her; I couldn’t move I was laughing so hard.
“Are you okay?” I heard Fluttershy ask.
“Yeah, I just hurt my head is all” said Twilight. “But, why are you and Princess Luna here?”
“She isn’t, it was him pretending to be Princess Luna” Fluttershy was facing me when she said that last part. I was too busy calming done from my laughing fit to care though.
“I didn’t think my impression was that good, but if it could fool you, then I’m happy!” I said chuckling.
“What are you? I’ve never seen a pony like you in Equestria before! Or any animal like you for that matter!” Twilight was shocked and confused by my appearance. I could easily tell that she was straining her brain trying to figure out what I was. I simply smiled at her.
“I may not be a pony, Twilight, but I am part of Equestia now.” I sneered at her. I was beginning to piece together why Fluttershy led me here. She wanted to get help finding out what I am. “Truth be told I am what my world calls a ‘human’, we are a breed of some animal that developed into smarter animals.” I said matter-of-factly.
“Well, human, what is your name? And how did you end up here?” Twilight was becoming more inquisitive with every passing moment. I knew that if I didn’t start filling in the gaps, I would end up in her basement with electrodes strapped to my head while she took notes on everything I did.
“You may call me, Slaughter. As for how I got here, that is a difficult story because I really don’t understand it fully myself, all I know is that I followed Princess Luna here from my world in a dream.” I spoke honestly as I was concerned with the logic behind it as well. After a few moments of staring directly at me, Twilight sighed and began to walk back upstairs.
“I am going to send a letter about this to the princesses. In the mean time, why don’t you go back to Fluttershy’s for the night…If I hear anything you will be the first to know.” Twilight seemed exhausted, but after everything that just happened I wasn’t surprised. With that, me and my Minion said our goodbyes to Twilight and Spike as we left the tree. I admit that I was not too happy with the princesses knowing about me being here, but my goal was still a secret to everyone.
“Minion, now that you have gotten to know me to an extent… I would appreciate it if you would speak to me more often, as well as answer a few questions for me.” I said to her as we walked along. She nodded, although still nervous of me, but I did see something of a smile appear on her face. With that we arrived at her house, where I had claimed the coach as my temporary sleeping courters. As for Fluttershy, she had relaxed enough to fly upstairs for bed. I still had questions for her, but they would have to wait till morning to ask them.
“Goodnight, Slaughter.” Fluttershy squeaked before disappearing upstairs. I replied with the generic ‘goodnight, Fluttershy’ before falling asleep myself. That night however, sleep was not good as I dreamed of seeing Princess Luna again and this time seeing her sister, Princess Celestia. I knew I would need to step up my plans, aside from actually making plans, to conquer Equestria and change it into my image. For now though, that would be for another day.