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// 001 Life's Transfer 
// Story: The Life Returns 
// by Dress72 
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001
I was back home. The one in Earth. I checked the date to see what day it was, and had to check multiple sources, all of which said the same thing. March 3rd, the same day that I left, and had gone parachuting, only to find myself in a place called Equestria. I remembered Rainbow Dash, how I loved her, and how I thought that she loved me, only to be told quite harshly, the opposite of what I thought. I shoved the memories of that land to the back of my mind. Locking them down, and forgetting what they meant. I had a son to think about, and couldn’t let something that could have very well been my imagination, rule my life. I knew that even if I wanted to, I couldn’t go back. Or so I thought.
It was my son’s sixth birthday and I had taken him to go sky diving. But it wasn’t just sky diving. We were jumping from a height of ten kilometers. We both had on duel oxygen tanks, and a parachute that fit over the tanks and still held us. I was teaching him some of the tricks you can do by shifting your weight, and slightly moving your hands and feet, and was directing him through a mic. Finally, we hit 4200 meters, and I allowed us to take the masks off. The only hitch came when we hit 2100 meters.
“Daddy!” Jake shouted, “I see lights in front of me! Is that good?”
I started to panic when he said that, and realized that I could too. “Jake, I want you to open your chute now.”
“But why?” he asked.
“Jake, please don’t argue, and do what Daddy says, okay?” I told him.
I watched as he pulled the first cord, and the chute didn’t open. “It didn’t open!” I could hear the panic in his voice. “And the lights are getting bigger!”
“Okay, now try the emergency cord.” I said, trying to stay calm, as I knew what was happening. He did so, but the chute didn’t open, and I could see the panic on his face grow. “Come here Jakie!” I grabbed him, and hooked him into my parachute with me. I tried to deploy my chute, but the same thing happened as what did with Jakes chute.
“Daddy, are we going to die?” my son asked.
“No my love, we are not. We are just going to travel someplace far away, and become slightly different from what we are now.” I technically wasn’t lying, as we most likely where going back to the place that I tried so hard to forget over the past seven months. 
I gripped my son in a hug, and he did the same. I brought us into a nose dive, and I realized that I could see the lights in front of my son, and how they were literally millimeters from his face, and he could probably see the same for me. He started to cry and all I could do to comfort him was hold him tighter. 
We raced to the ground, and I didn’t bother counting the distance. I could feel the transition though from Earth to Equestria. But I could also feel the weight of the parachutes and oxygen tanks disappear, and how I no longer felt the cloth of the jumpsuits, but the familiar fur, both mine, and my son’s. I opened my wings, and stopped our descent. Jake opened his eyes to see white fur in front of his face, and he then looked at my face, only to find it swapped with that of a pony’s. 
He started to scream in terror, but I was able to sooth him. “Hush, hush, Jake my darling. We are safe now. I told you we would be going somewhere far away, and that we would change, didn’t I?” I smiled when I said this, as to give the feeling of warmth.
This got a chuckle out of him, “Yes Dad, you sure did. You know everything, don’t you Daddy?”
“I hope not, that would just be awful.” I said, making him laugh, and forget about the current situation. Oh the wonders of being six.
I brought him to the house that I had been working on since I was last here, and no surprise, it was unchanged, and the wind even helped it meet us. “Daddy, where are we?” Jake asked, and I knew I couldn’t refuse this request.
“Son, we are in a place called Equestria. I visited this place once before on March 3rd, the year you were five. Or about seven months ago if you don’t like that explanation. However, I stayed here for what seemed like eight weeks, was actually fourteen, but also no more than a second back home. To be honest, I don’t know why we are here, or what, truly, has brought us here.” I explained to him. “Now be a good boy, and get some rest. I need to go out for a bit to check a few things.”
“Please don’t go Daddy, it’s my birthday, and I want to spend it with you!” I was nearly heart broken by this declaration, but I was able to get over it with a promise.
“I won’t be long, I promise. And you also don’t have to go to bed. When I return, I promise that I will teach you how to use those wings of yours. All I ask, is that you stay in here.” Jake nearly killed me with cuteness when he turned his neck to see that he had wings. The pure joy that spread across his face, as well as the energy he displayed, I felt could rival the adorableness of a yellow and pink pegasus that I knew. But it could also have helped that it was also my son.
Taking a look at him though, I found that he had the same colors that I had, but reversed. His hair was much tamer than mine, as well as his tail, which was also a lot shorter. His fur, mane, and tail main colors where red the same red as was hinted in my mane and tail. Half his mane had white in it, as well as the base of his tail, that spread slightly down the sides of his tail.
“You promise Daddy, you promise?” Jake asked eagerly, forgetting about becoming a pony in the prospect of having wings. Almost like I was, when I first came here.
“I promise my little angle. Just don’t exhaust yourself trying to fly while I’m gone, otherwise we won’t get to spend as much time together,” I warned.
“Okay Daddy,” and with that I left Jake to his wonderments of having wings. The place I was going to, and the thing I was about to do, would signal to all who knew what I could do, that I was back. I needed answers, and only a few could answer.
I made my way to the top of the eight kilometer high mountain. When I reached the top, I decided to mimic the last time I did this almost exactly, so I climbed to 15 kilometers from ground level. The only thing I changed, was the number of loops. Instead of ten loops, I decided to up the number, and doubled it. I quickly heard two large booms, which faded quickly to me. The slightest tilt of my wings brought me quickly into a very fast spin, and a larger tilt, brought me to a speed that almost broke the sound barrier a third time. I risked looking behind me, and saw a very thin tempest forming directly behind me, and an even thicker one forming around that. I smiled at the thought of having created this beast of a thing, and continued my decent.
I reached the mountain in record time, and proceeded to spin around it, all the while having my own spin. I reached the base, almost as quickly as I had reached the top, but I didn’t let it deter me. As I reached the tops of the trees, I quickly pulled away from the mountain, and leveled out as well.
The force I created with the tornado was much stronger than last time. Within a few seconds, the entirety of about half a kilometer of forest, was ripped out of its roots, and brought into the spinning vortex, that refused to move an inch from its current standing’s… or spinning’s… or… You know what, let’s just say that the base didn’t move from where I set it. Back to topic, within a few minutes, the entirety of a few kilometers worth of forest was also drawn into the vortex, while I, no more than 250 meters away, still felt no tub from the wind. All the while, I kept my eyes looking in three directions: Cloudsdale, Ponyville, and Canterlot, waiting for two or three ponies to get the hint of where I was.
Luckily, I spotted three ponies coming towards the mountain. A blue one with rainbow mane from Ponyville, and a white one and black one from Canterlot. I decided that the tornado had served its purpose, so I went back into it, and flew the opposite direction that the wind was going, avoiding the debris, and stopping the tornado. I also used it as an opportunity to save all the animals, who got pulled into the inner vortex while the larger objects where in the outer one, and placed them on the mountain side. When I drove out of the twister, the wind died, and everything was thrown into the far distances of nowhere. 
“What took you three so long?” I asked when all three ponies where within earshot.
“What took us so long? You disappear for seven months and ask us what took us so long! Where the hell where you for those seven months!” Rainbow Dash was almost shouting with rage.
“Actually, we would like to know that as well.” Celestia added.
“I think I asked my question first, but if you must know, Your Royal Miss Princess Lady Mare Pony, Luna can probably give you a very good educated guess, seeing as she is the only one who knows what I truly am.” The two ponies looked at Luna slightly disbelievingly, and she was slightly embarrassed.
“I thought that you didn’t want anypony to know, considering you hid it.” Luna said, innocently.
“And you would be right, Luna, but also wrong. It’s not so much that I was hiding it, more like I didn’t remember, and I rather you wouldn’t share this information. I will tell you all this, though, I am not of this place, but a place called Earth, and I am, or rather was, human. I will not share my past however, as it can get quite brutal.” Luna nodded sadly and the subject was dropped. “Well, I have learned what I came here to learn, now if you will excuse me, I must be off. I promised someone close to me something, and I intend to keep that promise.” I started to leave when Celestia called out in her RCV, which I have only heard twice before from her, and only when I had messed with her enough to tick her the hell off.
“HALT!!!” I have to say, the sudden use of the voice, caught me off guard, and made me drop slightly. “YOU CREATED A GIANT TEMPEST, ENDANGERED HUNDREDS OF ANIMALS, AND RIPPED UP HALF A FOREST, FOR WHAT!?! TO GET US OVER HERE TO WAIST OUR TIME? YOU EVEN HAVE THE NERVE TO LEAVE WITHOUT GIVING AN EXPLINATION OTHER THAN A PROMISE, WHICH, FOR ALL WE KNOW, DOESN’T EVEN EXIST! YOU WILL EXPLAIN YOURSELF NOW!”
I got tired of listening to this and decided to try an old trick. “Celestia… Sit.” I said completely calm, collected, and with a hint of authority. God how I love it when things work out how I hope they do. I swear that she actually sat, on the air, and stopped flapping, causing her to fall.  She was quick to recover, though, and was slightly more ticked off, now that I had made her look a fool. I on the other hand, couldn’t stop laughing, and when Rainbow Dash and Luna got over their wonderments of what-just-happened, they began to laugh too. “Anyways, I really must be off now, I have stayed longer than I should have.” 
Again I started to leave, but was caught in a familiar, yellow, magic grip. “You will, at the very least, explain where you where, and why it is so urgent that you leave,” Celestia said, in a barely level voice. “Otherwise I will throw you in jail for Fraud, and Scamming ponies.” 
“First of all, I’m back, and fully plan on continuing the lessons from where they left off, and second; I went home, spent some wonderful time with my son, and we have both, found ourselves here in Equestria. Now if you will excuse me, I have a son whose birthday it is, and, due to recent events, I get to teach him how to fly, if he hasn’t already figured it out because of me getting held up by you, Celestia.” Celestia released her magical grip at the sudden seriousness that I showed.
Free of all obstacles now, I went to my cloud house, and taught my son the basics of using his new found wings.