(Dream Sequence)
The scene before him was that of a loud house party. The song was called 'Talk Dirty To Me' if he remembered correctly. There were no ponies, only humans. He looked younger as well, if the beer gut and lack of wings was any indication.
"What is this?" he tried to say, but no sound came out of his mouth. Isaac was dancing, even though he was trying to will his body not to. This was obviously some sort of memory in dream form, but of what? He had gone to a lot of parties before ending up in Equestria.
"Yo Isaac?" a voice said, feeling a hand patting him on the shoulder. He turned to see a vaguely familiar face. He definitely remembered this guy being his friend in some capacity, but the name eluded him.
"Yeah?" his mouth said. The man discreetly pointed to left, and Isaac's head turned involuntarily. There was a rather attractive girl eyeing him with a smirk from across the room. Her style just screamed goth. She had black hair, dark brown eyes, and very pale (almost white) skin. She was wearing a black tank-top that exposed a fair bit of cleavage, black jeans that hugged her hips quite nicely, a silver cross necklace, a pair of spiked black wristbands, and oddly enough brown sandals. Her hair was long and pin straight.
His body moved on its own. Isaac grabbed a pair of sodas but of a nearby cooler and walked over to the girl.
"Like the party?" his mouth asked, offering her a drink, which she took.
"It's alright," she shrugged "But not the best one I've been to."
He chuckled "Okay then, what is the best party you've been to?"
"It was in this club up in Manhattan. I swear the DJ was a feaking magician or something, the entire place was turnt up." Isaac suddenly remembered how much he hated that particular piece of slang. Thank god no one in Equestria talked like that. But alas, the sexiness kept his past self there though. "The drinks tasted amazing and actually got me wasted for once."
"Sounds pretty nice. So, who invited you?"
"Nobody, I just heard the noise and decided to come over." Meh, he couldn't really judge her for that. Isaac remembered getting into a few parties that way in high school.
"So, do you wanna dance?" his mouth asked. "And by dance I meant the monotonous sensual grinding to the rhythm of the generic party music." The man along for the ride thought cynically. He really wished he could wake up now.
"Nah, I've got two left feet. I'd accidentally fall on top you or something."
"Would that be such a bad thing?" Isaac's past self said, waggling his eyebrows.
She rolled her eyes and playfully shoved him. The two of them just stood there making small talk about stupid things like what drugs they did, what odd things had happened to them, etc... To the Isaac of today, this was absolutely boring. It was worse because he couldn't force himself awake like he usually could when dreaming.
"What would you say if I said I had superpowers?" the girl suddenly asked. Oh, this actually seemed interesting. Unless she was just crazy.
"I'd say you were fucking with me." his past self replied.
She chuckled and snapped her fingers. Just like that, everything stopped. The music, the dancing, just everything besides the two of them. Both Isaacs stared slack-jawed at the sight, before turning back to her.
"H-How did you do that?" young Isaac asked. "Is she the reason why..?" the current Isaac thought.
The girl smirked, holding up a plastic bag, that seemed to come out of nowhere, filled with oval-shaped pills of practically every color imaginable.
"These. I make them myself, and then give them to the people I find interesting in this world." Current-Isaac noticed how she said 'this world'.
"Who are you? WHAT are you?!" his past self asked, backing away slowly. Her smirk turned into an eerie smile as she walked towards the young man. Just as he turned around, ready to start running, she grabbed him by the arm, and then again around the neck. Her grip was unbreakable, not even movable, no matter how hard he struggled.
"As for the who, well.. You wouldn't be able to pronounce my name if I told it to you." she whispered in his ear, her breath warm on his neck.
"As for the what," then out of nowhere Isaac saw what appeared to be a long, red, and rather demonic-looking tail holding the plastic bag from before. The bag was open as her grip quickly changed towards a one-armed bare hug, with her other arm suddenly holding a tall glass of water.
"I'm sure you can draw your own conclusions. Bottoms up!" She stepped down hard on his right foot, a loud crack echoing throughout the time-stopped room. Isaac's past self screamed, and the girl took the opportunity to pour the water and five pills down his throat. Then came the burning sensation, his pain intensifying as did his screams. His tormentor let go of him, causing him to fall to the floor. The soon-to-be angel heard another snap of the fingers, and then he felt himself fall through the flower.
Into what Current-Isaac knew was Equestria.
(Polar Griffon's Ship)
Isaac jolted awake, instantly sitting up in the bed of his private room on the ship he helped build. His body was covered in cold, sticky, sweat. He panted as the pain from the dream faded in only a few minutes
"So... A demon chick gave me these powers and sent me to Equestria? Why?" he mused to himself aloud. She said he was interesting, but how? On Earth, he was just another college student.
Before the angel could think more on this further, he heard a knocking at the door.
"Um.. Mister Isaac? We're about to drop anchor on a beach. The locals are running away and screaming sir!" a young, accented voice said. As the thought of his plans re-entered his head, the troubled frown on his face turned into an excited grin.
"I'll be out in a minute. When the ponies in armor come along, tell them you're here for the trial." he replied, chuckling. With a snap of his fingers, his nightwear was replaced with his usual attire. He walked to the door and opened it, seeing a short and rather nervous looking polar griffon.
"Private, I need to go out and do important stuff." he said.
"B-But sir! What if something bad happens?" the young polar griffon asked.
Isaac rolled his eyes. "Dude, you have Skipper, Kowalski, and Rico of all griffons to help you out if shit goes down. Lighten up a little." Seriously, the only reason the four of them didn't beat Nightmare Moon themselves is because she cheated by killing innocents excessively until they stopped.
Private chuckled, scratching the back of his head."Oh yeah, but what should I tell them?"
"Tell them whatever you want. Besides, they've probably been told to look out for me or something." he shrugged, before disappearing in a flash of golden flames.
(Ponyville Market)
"Thank you, come again!" Applejack said to another happy customer walking away from her stall. There were ropes tightly wrapped around her midsection, keeping her new wings bound. When somepony asked why, she would tell them that they kept getting in her way by sticking out when she didn't want them to. If the pony continued by asking why doesn't she just learn to control them, she'd reply that they were temporary and would be gone soon enough. So what was the point of learning to use them? The same went for her new horn, which was wearing an anti-magic cone on it.
"Excuse me?" a new voice asked her.
"Yes?" she turned to the blue coated unicorn mare in front of her.
"How much do ten oranges cost?"
"Ah only sell apples here." she replied with a raised eyebrow.
"Then what are those right behind you?" the customer said with an annoyed expression.
The former earth pony turned to see that all of her precious apples had been replaced with oranges!
"What in tarna-" she began, but was cut off as she felt a hoof on her head and a shocking sensation spread throughout her body. Applejack saw her entire life flash before her eyes. Her foalhood, Apple Bloom's birth, her parents' death, the day she got her cutie mark, etc... The farm pony fell to the ground, unconscious.
"Why do they always fall for that?" the mare remarked with a snicker.
"Hi!" a certain party pony said, appearing out of nowhere.
"Oh hello-GAH!" the startled unicorn shouted, falling onto her back.
"Ohmygosh, I'm so sorry! Here, let me help you up!" Pinkie Pie said, pulling her up.
"I-It's no problem. Why did you do that anyway?" the unicorn asked, regaining her composure
"Well, my knee twitched, my ear flop, and my eyes fluttered! And THAT means there's a new pony in Ponyville. So I came here as quick as I could! So what's your name?"
"Blue Lily, and yours?"
"I'm Pinkie Pie, and-*GASP!*" the pink alicorn gasped, finally noticing her unconscious friend. "What happened to Applejack?!"
"Oh! U-Um... Well, I pointed out she had oranges in her crate instead of apples, and I guess she was so surprised that she fainted!"
"Hmm..." Pinkie muttered, staring at Blue Lily with suspicious eyes, the unicorn sweating with a nervous grin on her face.
"Okay! But that is strange though. Can you help me carry her to the farm where she lives? I'll lead since you probably don't know where it is."
"I would love to Pinkie, but I really need to find my cousin before she goes to work so I can get her house keys. I'm staying with her for the week, and she's usually out of the house busy all day and..."
"Oh! Who's your cousin?"
"Uh.. Her name's Minuette. Maybe you know her?"
"Of course I do silly. I know everypony in Ponyville, and I do mean everypony! I'm surprised that Minuette's just your cousin though. Aside from the different cutie mark, you two look like you could be identical twins!"
"We get that a lot whenever we're in the same place." Blue Lily chuckled.
"Okay then, you run and meet up with Minuette. After that, come back and we can take Applejack to her farm alright?" Pinkie said.
"Yep!" Blue Lily proceeded to turn around and run like the hounds of hell where after her.
(Ponyville Town Square)
'Blue Lily' quickly turned into a nearby alleway and leaned up against a wall, panting heavily.
"Nope! I am not going to chance them finding me!" 'she' said aloud.
"But it's just Pinkie Pie!" a voice inside of 'her' head said.
"Yeah, the one with the Pinkie Sense that could potentially blow my fucking disguise! The simple one that was just supposed to get me close enough to look over Applejack's memories!"
"Yeah, 'potentially'!"
"I used the stupid cousin excuse! When they talk to Minuette about me and she'll have no idea what their talking about, they'll know something's up."
"But they won't know that it's you under this form, you idiot! They've never seen you shapeshift and I doubt Celestia told them that you could. Also, you could just put fake memories in her head!"
"Oh right, we can do that can't we?" Chaos magic FTW.
"No shit Sherlock. Besides, you could get one of Pinkie Pie's 'Welcome to Ponyville' parties out of this scam!"
"You're right!"
"Of course I'm right, I'm you!"
After her inner monologue was over, 'Blue Lily' set back out into Ponyville. Once the day was over with, she would go out and find her 'cousin'.
(Meanwhile in the Canterlot Castle Dungeons)
Nightmare Moon was getting really antsy just waiting for the right moment to escape. She had the bloody key her 'friend' had given her as well as the small knife, but the guards were watching her like a hawk!
"I need a distraction, but what?" she thought, throwing a pebble against the wall repeatedly. Then she realized what she held in her hoof, and facehoofed.
The mare in a filly's body reared up on her hind legs and leaned against the right wall of her cell, looking into the left side of the hallway for any guards. There were none. Lucky for her they were all on the right side.
Nightmare Moon wound up her throw. She may be but a mere filly as of now, but she was still an alicorn! Her horn was coned and her wings bound, but she still had the mighty strength of an earth pony!
Then she let the pebble fly out of her hoof.
*BANG!* The sound of the pebble hitting something metal echoed loudly all throughout the cell block.
"What was that?!" a guard said.
"Let's go check it out!" another continued.
On that note, the guards left to look for the source of the noise.
Nightmare Moon grinned. She didn't have much time to waste. The ancient evil pulled the key out from inside of her mane, and hopped onto the bars. She climbed up them as if they were a ladder. Gritting her teeth, she took the key in her left hoof, put it through the bars and tried to unlocked the door from the outside.
*Click!*
"Success!" she crowed, a bit too loudly unfortunately.
"Hey!"
"Damn, Damn, Damn, Damn, Damn!" she swore repeatedly, running out of her cell and down the hallway as fast as her tiny legs would allow. Nightmare Moon then pulled the small knife out of her mane and quickly cut the ropes binding her wings. She didn't have the key that would allow her to use the door, but if she timed it just right, she could flap her wings as she jumped and propel herself right through the small square window on top of the door!
"You can't escape!"
"That's what you think, FOALS!" she gloated.
Almost.. Almost... Almost...
"NOW!" she jumped and flapped her tiny wings as hard as she could.
*SHATTER!*
She propelled herself right through the window, just as planned!
"VICTORY IS MINE!" she shouted to the heavens. Sure her magic was still blocked off and there were glass shards embedded in her sides, but she was still out of that cell!
Nightmare Moon continued to run up the flight of stairs the door led to, ignoring the pain and the fatigue of her muscles.The unfamiliar hallways of the castle were no obstacle to her. Only it was going to require a bit more glass breakage...
There was no other option.
*SHATTER!*
She broke the next window that looked like it would lead outside of her enemies' main stronghold. The mare in a filly's body opened her wings and rode the wind currents.
"Now I've just got to find someplace to hide for the time being." she said, her eyes scanning the environment. This city was unfamiliar to her, what with her being stuck in the moon during the time it was built. She saw an empty alleyway in what looked like one of the poorer districts of this city and aimed for it, gliding down towards it. It wasn't a perfect landing though, she would admit that as she lost balance upon touching the ground, rolled, and hit the wall.
*THWACK!*
Nightmare Moon groaned, rubbing her head as the dust settled. But then she noticed something. That accursed anti-magic cone was lying broken on the floor. The fall must have done it. Her magic was unbound. She grinned
"Spread out and search the city for her! She can't have gotten far!" she heard. The villain watched as her pursuers passed right over her head.
The ancient evil's grin got even bigger. "Ha! I'm free and there's nothing those buffoons or Celestia can do about it!" Now she just had to find the caves below this city...
The city that she knew absolutely nothing about. How was she supposed to find the bloody caves?! She bit her lip to prevent herself from screaming in frustration and alerting her pursuers to her whereabouts.
She took deep, calming breaths."Okay, calm down. I just need to stay in hiding until I locate the caves, then make a break for it." After that she'd meet this friend of hers, cast off her current body and possess whoever was fool enough to believe they were worthy enough to be her equal.
"Then I'll get my real body back from my weak other half. Then I will kill Celestia! Then I will kill the Element Bearers! THEN I WILL KILL ISAAC!" she shouted at the end, quickly putting her hooves over her mouth and checking to see if somepony heard.
"Once all that's done. Then there will be NOTHING left to stand in my way..." she thought darkly
"And the night will last forever this time!"