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// Chapter 5 - First Day 
// Story: The Cosmic King 
// by Theyellowninja13 
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My eyes slowly open up, but closed quickly due to the headache I have. I stayed where I was for a minute until I decided to see where I was. Once I opened my eyes, first thing I saw was the floor of my house. I looked around and saw that I was hanging from the ceiling via four black tendrils coming out of my back. “Thanks Slendy.” I said sleepily as I mentally detached them off the ceiling and started falling towards the floor.

Before I could hit the floor, I had the tendrils catch me by pushing themselves against the floor. Once I got my feet on the ground, I retracted them back into myself. I started stretching and cracking my bones. Once I was done, I looked around and noticed that there were no remnants of the party last night. “Pinkie sure knows how to make a party. I can’t even remember what happened last night.” The only thing I could remember was what happened before I woke up. I didn’t dream and didn’t have a nightmare. It was just like I was in the multiverse.

I decided to check out my house now that I could see it and not just the party stuff. It was made of wood, but I could tell that it was reinforced with cosmic energy. Whoever built this house had to have serious control over the cosmic energy they had from arriving here. I could also sense electricity running through the house. I noticed some light switches around. Next to the door was a sofa with a table in front of it and they were both perpendicular to a window that had the blinds covering it.

I walked over to a door across the room from the entrance and walked in. I immediately noticed I was standing what I could call one of the most amazing areas I have ever seen. The room I was in had a very comfy looking sofa, several recliners, a big table, and a huge hd flatscreen. On the ground near it was every. Single. Video. Game. Console. Ever. Made. And machine that I could tell by looking at it that it had all the movies and TV shows I could ever want. I noticed that there was storage dimension unit near the consoles. I walked up to it and activated it and saw that it contained every game for all those consoles. I also saw a very high tech computer in the room with an awesome swivel chair so I could spin around in it.

After looking at the room for a while, I reluctantly walked out of the only door in the room leading back into the entrance room. I walked to the door closest to the gaming room and opened it. I saw a room that was made of some strong metal. I immediately knew what the room was for. “Cool, a treasure room!” I was enthusiastic. I toss the bag of bits Celestia gave me in their and closed the door as it hit the ground. I took another look at the door and noticed that the room was specially made that only the homeowner could get in. I made a quick modification to it so that anyone with the homeowner’s permission could get in too. I walked away from the door and to the staircase. I looked at it and had to decide whether to go up it, or check the rooms below it.

I decided to go up it. After making it to the top of the stairs, I found myself in a hallway. I walked down and opened the first door I came across. Upon looking inside, I could tell that it was a guest room. The room had a huge comfy looking bed, a closet, a fan, its own bathroom and a big window with curtains blocking the sun. I walked out of the room and opened the room straight across from it. It looked about the same. Closing the door I walked down the hall and opened the only door left in the hallway. The door was perpendicular to the hallway.

Once I opened the door, I walked in and immediately figured out that this was my room. It had an even bigger and comfier bed than the other rooms. The room was also bigger. There was a walk-closet, a desk, a bookshelf, a pull down tv for the bed, a fan that for some reason had a hot and cold setting, a bathroom, a night stand, and a glass wall (with curtains ) showing a balcony I could walk out to and get a good view of Ponyville. I decided to check out the bathroom.

Once inside of the bathroom, I saw a big tub clearly made for humans, a white sink with a big mirror, a toilet, an automatic toilet paper dispenser that wouldn’t run out of toilet paper, a few towels, and several drawers for storing things. I was about to open them when I realized there was a strange button on the wall. I pressed it and the entire bathroom changed to fit a pony. I pressed it again and the bathroom went back to normal. I checked the drawers and saw a bunch of things I will never use, like hairspray, a brush, and a hairdryer. I also noticed a flame thrower.

“What the crap is this doing in here?” I picked it up and looked it over. I decided to point it at my face and activate it sending a streak of fire on my face. After a second, I stopped it and looked in the mirror at my burnt face as it regenerated back to its ‘normal’ state. I still had the electric yellow eyes. I felt wide awake though. “Oh, its for waking up in the morning. Awesome.” I put it back and was about to leave when I noticed something different about my head. I looked and saw that the flamethrower had cut my hair a bit so I wouldn’t have to. It even made the front of my hair stick up so I wouldn’t get it in my eyes while fighting. “Cool. Now I don’t have to get a haircut.” I walked out and over to the balcony.

I walked into the balcony and noticed a few chairs. I looked over at the view and stood there for a while waving back at the ponies who waved at me. I walked back inside and decided to check out what was below the staircase. When I got there, I looked at the two doors next to each other and decided to open the door on the right, closest to the front door. When I walked in, I noticed it was a dining room with a big table and several chairs where pushed in. I noticed that on the wall opposite of me had an opening in it, showing the kitchen, probably for bringing food into this room. I walked around the table and opened the door on the other side and walked into the kitchen. When I was inside the kitchen I noticed that there was a big counter for cooking food, a fridge, a freezer, a pop machine, several cupboards, a stove, microwave, dishwasher, a sink, and two pantries.

I walked over to the fridge and opened it and noticed that there was nothing in it. “Figures.” I closed it and walked to the pop machine next to it. It had buttons for all kinds of pop; mountain dew, pepsi, coke, coca-cola, sprite, etc. I scanned it and noticed that it had an automatic pop generator in it. Upon realizing this, I quickly pushed in the coke button and an ice cold coke in one of those classic glass bottles from the past came out. I quickly grabbed it and started drinking it. Once I finished I put it in the return slot for it to be reused. “I seriously think I have a pop addiction.” I pushed the mountain dew button and grabbed the bottle and started drinking it as I continued to explore the kitchen. I saw that all the cupboards were filled with plates and utensils and the like. When I finally got to the pantries, I opened the one on the right and saw that it had nothing in it. I check the other one and saw that it had several pies in it. I quickly scanned that pantry trying to figure out why it looked more advanced on the inside and found out that it was a pie storage unit. “AWESOME! A PSU!” I suppose I should explain what a PSU is. It is a special device made for containing pies for unlimited amounts of time. The inside of it has no concept time so a pie put in it and taken out 1000 years later will taste the same but will still technically be 1000 years older. I looked at the assortment of pies and noticed it only had 5 pies; apple, pumpkin, and 3 strawberries. “Too bad generated pies don’t taste as good, or I could make a pie generated. I grabbed the strawberry pie and walked over to the dining room.

When I got to the dining room, I sat down, and looked at the strawberry pie. It was covered in whipped cream with some strawberries on top. I quickly grabbed it with my powers in shoved it in my mouth, immediately devouring it. When I swallowed I noticed that the pie tin was edible and had no flavor so it wouldn’t ruin the pie. I walked out of the room and checked the other door. All I saw was a staircase so I went down it.

After getting to the bottom of the stairs, I turned on the light and noticed a bunch of equipment like a furnace, a crafting table, storage units, and other stuff for making stuff. I quickly realized that I could build almost anything down here with all this equipment. I check the storage chests, and noticed they were all perfectly filled. I had one of the biggest grins I had ever had on my face at the moment. I decided I should go to town and fill up my kitchen first though. I walked back up the stairs and went to the treasure room. I grabbed a small bagful of bits from the big bag and put it in my pocket universe. I walked out of the house closing the door. Once the door closed, I realized that it actually had a powerful technological lock on it to prevent people from breaking in. “Better to be safe than sorry.” I said to myself as I walked to the marketplace building my mental to-do list for today.

“So I have to stock up my kitchen. Repair my damaged clothes. Create my new arm. Defend Ponyville. Go to Sugarcube Corner for lunch. Have dinner back at home perhaps.” When I was finished making the list, I made it to the market and looked around. When I finally noticed the stalls that have the stuff I need I went over and started buying stuff putting it in my pocket universe. I eventually made my way to Applejack’s stall.

“Howdy Connor.” Applejack said as I approached.

“Hi Applejack, you got any apples I can buy?” I smirked. “Or even some apple pies?”

“Sure thing sugarcube. How many do you want?” She asked.

“A bucket of apples should be good. And 3 pies please.” She started grabbing them as I got out the payment as it says on the sign on the stall.

“So what brings you here today Connor?” She put the bucket on the ground and the pies somehow balancing on top of each other on the table as I put down the right amount of bits.

“I noticed my kitchen wasn’t stocked with food, so I’m buying some.” She took the payment nodding as I put the apples and the pie in my pocket universe.

“That sure is weird.” She said pointing to the hole in the universe next to me as I lifted up the bucket with one arm and started to put it in.

“Yeah it kinda is. I’m not exactly used to it but they’re really useful.” I finally got it it and closed it. “Well, see you later I hope.” As I started to walk away, Applejack spoke up.

“Hey Connor. I have a question I want to ask you.” I turned around and walked closer.

“What is it?” I was in front of the stall again.

“I was just wondering. What’s with the hat.” Why is she acting kinda shy about asking that?

“It’s a fedora. I always wanted to have a hat I could use, and when I was at Rarity’s yesterday I saw it, and remembered a childhood idol I had to would wear a fedora while he was adventuring.” She looked disappointed at my answer for some reason. “Is that it? Or do you have another question?” She shook her head. “Well, see you later. And say hi to Applebloom for me.” I said as I walked away.

As I was walking toward Rarity’s, I came across a group of colts and fillies playing a game with a ball. I crouched down and asked; “What’chu all doing?” They stopped and looked at me.

“We’re playing hoof ball. Wanna join.” I smiled and nodded as they kicked the ball to me. I kicked it back and we just played like that for a while. After a few minutes I said I had to get going and they all looked sad. “Awwww. Do you have to?”

“Yeah, I got some important stuff to do. Maybe I can play with you later.” I said as I started walking away, waving to them, they just waved back. As I continued to walk to Rarity’s, I started to bring up some more of those rubies. When I got there, I had 101 rubies. 100 in my pocket universe, and 1 on hand. I noticed the lights were on, so I figured she was home. I opened the door and walked in, the bell chiming as I did so. I saw Rarity using her magic to put some finishing touches, aka gems, on a dress or something. When she heard the bell, she closed her gem chest and used the curtain to hide the thing. When she turned around, she flinched a second and ran up to me, examining my clothes.

“What happened to your shirt!” She exclaimed.

I smirked. “Well there was this ursa major, and it was attacking Ponyville so I tried to stop it but it flung me into a building. So I got angry, and went cosmic on it until it ran away into the Everfree.” She was just looking at me with a ‘seriously?’ look on her face. “Well you asked.” I pointed out. She just face-hoofed. “So can you fix my clothes?”

“Can’t you fix them yourself with your powers?” She asked. Why didn’t I think of that?

“I can try.” I lifted up my left hand and created a ball of cosmic energy and pushed it into my shirt. It reflected off of it and I quickly caught it and destroyed it before it could destroy anything. “Guess not. I was wearing these clothes when I went cosmic so the clothes contain cosmic energy, meaning they can reflect cosmic energy.”

“Oh, well. I guess I can fixed your shirt for you darling.” She used her magic to take my shirt off and took it over to a table and started magiking over some needles and thread. I stopped her with an idea.

“Why don’t you use this to repair it?” I had some cosmic thread in my hand. She used magic to bring it over to herself and examined it. “It’s cosmic thread, it should be much stronger than the thread you were about to use, and it will fuse with the shirt to give it the same effect.” She started using it. When she finished, the shirt glowed real quick as the powers went through it. She gave it back and I put it back on and tested it out. “Thanks. You think you could also use some of that thread on the rest of my clothes? I’ll let you the spool if you do.”

A few minutes later, Rarity used the thread on all my clothes, including my boots, gloves and hat. As I was about to leave, I asked her; “You think you can make me a vest like the one you made yesterday with the same colors and stuff. Mine burnt off or something when I went cosmic. Also I could use some other pairs of clothes, maybe this set in different colors, maybe some more casual clothes. I mean you don’t have to, but I’ll still pay you in these.” I tossed the ruby I had with me to her and she caught it.

“I’d love to darling! It would give me a good challenge. I’ll try to make something that would suit you. And thanks for the thread. I’ll make sure use it on your clothes. When I’m done, do you want me to deliver them to your house?” I nodded and made my way to the door. “Wait!” I turned around. “What other rare gems can you get?”

I took a minute to think. “Well aside from blood rubies. I can sense other gems like several different colors of diamonds, there’s your average gems like you have over there in your chest, then there’s gems like topaz, emeralds, and rubies. I could also get gems from other universe like this.” I spawned a minecraftian diamond in my hand and sent it away before Rarity could take it. “Or this.” I spawned a chaos emerald shaped diamond I got from venus and tossed it up in the air before despawning it. “Or even this.” I spawned a cosmic purple gem in the shape of a rock. It looked like it was made of diamond but it was actually extremely compacted cosmic energy. I quickly sent it back to where I got it. “But I couldn’t give that one to you. It costs more than most universes combined can afford. It’s a symbol of my power.” Rarity looked sad for a second before asking another question.

“How much is one of those worth?” I just chuckled at that.

“One of those is worth a bit more than a googolplex.” She was confused for a second.

“How much is a googolplex?” Wow, she pronounced it correctly.

“10 to the power of 10 to the power of 100.” She didn’t seem that shocked.

“That doesn’t seem too high.” I chuckled again.

“A googolplex is bigger than the amount of atoms in a universe.” She was shocked now.

“How could anything afford that?!”

“Well, like I said; it costs more than most universes combined can afford. There are certain individuals that could afford it. But only people with massive amounts of cosmic energy like me and make it. Which means, I should be the only one in the multiverse who could make them.” I walked back over to the door. “I take it you want me to pay you in different rare gems too?” She nodded. “Well, I got to go. See ya.” I walked out.
I looked up and noticed that it was about noon. I started making my way to SugarCube Corner. I took a deep breath and walked in quickly rolling along the ground, as Pinkie jumped through where my head was a second ago. I stood up and turned around smiling at Pinkie who recovered and started walking back in. “You’re going to have to try harder than that, Pinkie.”

“Why do you keep avoiding my hugs Connor!” She walked ahead of me and took her place behind the counter as I walked up to it.

“It’s fun to do. Plus I’m curious how far you’re strange abilities go.” I shrugged. “So.... I’d like to buy a dozen vanilla cupcakes with vanilla frosting. And a 3 different pies, surprise me.” I pulled out some bits as Pinkie pulled out the cupcakes and went to the back to get the pies. She came in a minute later with 4 pies on a tray and wheeled them over to the counter. I looked at the pies, one was a strawberry pie, another was blueberry, one was key lime, and the other was just pink. I picked up the Pink one. “Let me guess, you’re going to jump out of that pink pie and try to surprise me because I asked you to.” She looked very surprised.

“How did you know?!” I let her go, and walked over to the pink pie grabbing it.

“Word play, and I kinda hoped you would.” I take the pink pie and throw it at the Pinkie Pie, just to see what would happen. When it collided, Pinkie’s face was covered in frosting as she disappeared and reappeared forming out of the frosting. I fell over laughing at how weird that look. Pinkie started laughing too, and soon, we were both rolling around laughing.

After a minute, we got up and I paid the bits, took the cupcakes and the pies, and walked over to a seat, and sat down. Pinkie sat across from me for some reason. I put the 3 pies away in my pocket universe, and started swallowing the cupcakes whole. “These things are delicious!” Pinkie grinned. When I finished them, I licked my lips. “Those were the best cupcakes I ever had. Good thing I have the ability to eat and safely digest any object or otherwise I would have died from sugar overload.”

Pinkie leaned over across the table and whispered to me. “Wanna do some pranks?” My face grew a huge grin, as I nodded. We both left the building as we looked for Rainbow.

After a few minutes, we found Rainbow, snoring on a cloud. I leaned over and whispered to Pinkie; “I have an idea.” I whispered the idea in her ear, her already big grin growing. After I finished explaining it, I asked if she wanted to do it. She nodded. I flew up and started my plan while Pinkie was giggling uncontrollably.

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“Wake up Firefly!” A voice said. I squirm as I try to fall back to sleep. The voice didn’t seem to want that. It started shaking me until I finally opened my eyes to see Pinkie shaking me with a goofy smile on her face. “Rise and shine!”

“Ugh, Pinkie? How did you get up here? On.. this… cloud?” I looked around and realized that I wasn’t on a cloud, I was on a bench in the park in the middle of Ponyville.

“What are you talking about silly? You’re on a bench, not a cloud.” Pinkie said rubbing her hoof against my head. I just shook it away and noticed something even weirder.

“Uh, Pinkie? Why is my mane blue?” I asked looked trying to look at my mane the best I could. Then I realized something else. “Why is my coat pink!” I started freaking out. Pink isn’t my coat color, it’s too girly. Mine’s supposed to be a cool blue not pink!

“What are you talking about Firefly? You’re mane has always been blue, and your coat has always been pink. Now come on! Applejack want’s our help with something!” She starts bouncing off as I stood there next to the bench trying to see if this is a dream. Then it dawns on me. She called me Firefly. What kind of name is that? My name’s Rainbow Dash. Not Firefly.

I decide to fly after her to try to make some sense of what’s happening. Before I did so, I looked back to make sure I still had wings. “Yep, still there. Although they seem longer.” I flapped them for a second before realizing my cutie mark was different. “What! My cutie mark!” Instead of an awesome rainbow lightning strike, it was two blue lightning bolts. I quickly flew after Pinkie and caught up with her.

“There you are Firefly! I was worried you didn’t know where Applejack’s farm is anymore.” Pinkie was just bouncing like nothing was wrong. But everything was wrong. I’m not supposed to look like this. Wait, she’s probably pranking me. This is probably dye or something. It’ll go away. I’ll just play along.

A few minutes later, we arrived at the farm to see that my friends were already there, including Connor. Applejack saw us and spoke up. “There you are Firefly! What took you so long?” Before I could say anything, Pinkie stopped me.

“Well, I had to find Firefly first, but I couldn’t find her anywhere. She wasn’t in her house, or sleeping on a cloud. I looked everywhere but couldn’t find her. I looked in the trash cans, the stores, the trees, the houses, but I couldn’t find her. But then I saw her sleeping on a bench in the park. So I was all like; “Wake up Firefly!” But she wouldn’t get up, so I had to shake her till she got up and she was acting like she never looked at herself before. She thought she wasn’t supposed to have a blue mane and a pink coat. I just told her that she was silly and then we came here.” She said it all in a single breath.

“I don’t know why she would look any different. Firefly always looks like that.” Connor said from his spot leaning against the barn. His clothes weren’t tattered anymore from the fight yesterday, and his mane was shorter and sticking up in the front.

“Don’t tell me you all are in on this too!” I yelled covering my face with my hooves.

“In on what darling?” Rarity asked.

“This prank. You guys all know I’m supposed to have a rainbow mane and blue fur, with a rainbow colored lightning bolt as my cutie mark.” They just all looked confused.

“You just described Rainbow Dash, Firefly. Rainbow is from a different universe.” Connor had a confused look on his face. I just groaned.

“I am Rainbow Dash! Not this Firefly!” They still all looked confused. Connor stuck his only arm out and it glowed.

“Nope, my scans indicate that you are Firefly. Not Rainbow Dash. I mean even by looking at you, we would be able to tell that you’re not my favorite pony, Rainbow Dash.” I blushed at that.

“I’m your favorite pony?” Connor just had a huge grin on his face.

“What? No. Rainbow Dash is my favorite pony, not Firefly.” Was he telling the truth? 
He looked over at Applejack. “So Applejack. What did you want us to do?”

“Well, Big Mac got harmed during the ursa major attack yesterday, and I need some help for apple buckin’ season. So I reckoned I could ask you guys for help.” Connor had gained a sad look on his face.

“Yeah, sorry about that. I was too weak from the fight to heal anyone. If Big Mac was nearby, I could heal him.” He still had that sad look.

“It’s okay Connor. But Big Mac is in the hospital. It would just be easier just do the work than to show you where the hospital is.” Applejack replied.

“So how far out do we harvest apples from?” Connor asked.

“Just grab all the apples you can and put them in the buckets nearby. Shouldn’t be too hard. Hopefully if we all work hard we could get this done before tonight.” AJ responded. “Now let’s get to it! Ye-haw!” She jumped on her hind legs and waved her hat around before running into the orchard with the others. I just slowly and sadly walked into the orchard and started bucking trees.

“Am I really Rainbow Dash? Or was it a very realistic dream or something. I felt so real. How can a prank be this realistic?” I kept on asking myself these questions while half-heartedly bucking the trees. Then I heard a scream.

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I bucked another tree and as the apples fell down perfectly into the baskets, I looked around to check my progress. “Mighty fine job so far.” It has been about an hour so far. Good thing apple bucking day was around the same time that Connor wanted to do that prank of Rainbow. I didn’t understand most of what he said, but if it made Rainbow a little less cocky, I’d do it. That mare is more high strung than a (enter metaphor Applejack would use here). I chuckled a bit.

I heard some talkin’ nearby and decided to walk over to see where it’s comin’ from. When I got close enough, I saw Rarity, not workin’, looking in a mirror talking to herself. “Oh Rarity, you truly are the most gorgeous mare in all of Equestria.” She was sayin’. Figures that mare wouldn’t be doing any real work. I decide to approach her.

“Hey Rarity.” As I walk into the open, Rarity flinches, uses her magic to try to hide the mirror behind her, and sticks out a leg to hit one of the trees, causing only one apple to fall into the buckets. She just gives a nervous grin.

“Why Applejack. What brings you here? I was just knocking these apples down.” I just roll my eyes.

“Yeah right Rarity. I saw you talkin’ to yourself and using that mirror you think you’re hidin’ behind you.” She grins even more nervously.

“I have no idea what you’re talking about dear Applejack.” I walk up closer and flick her horn, causin’ the mirror behind her to fall on a rock and get cracked a bit, much to Rarity’s dismay. “No my mirror! Why! It was so young! Of all the possible things that could have happened, this. Is. The. Worst. Possible. Thing!” She then busts into fake tears. I roll my eyes at the display and was about to speak up, when a loud roar is heard a few feet away. We both turn our heads to see a big scary tiger roarin’ at us and slowly walkin’ closer. We both screamed and ran back to the barn.

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I quickly drop the final basket of apples that was around the area of trees I went to. “Whew! I think I did pretty well. I wonder how the others are doing. Should I go and help their work?” I looked back at the big grouping of baskets of apples I put in front of the barn. I collected all the apples in several orchards. I think I even collected apples I think the Apples haven’t collected in years.

Suddenly, I hear a faint roar in the distance, and then very audible screams. I recognized the voices immediately. “Applejack! Rarity!” I quickly ran into the orchard to where they currently are. I was quickly weaving in and out of the trees, running fast but not supersonic. I didn’t want to harm the apples.

A minute later, I arrived a path to see AJ and Rarity running from a huge tiger. When they passed me by, I quickly jumped out of my spot in between the trees, and starting running after them. In less than a minute, I jumped on the tigers back and forced it to slow down, right before it cornered AJ and Rarity at the barn. The both look quite relieved to see me hold the tiger back. I jumped in front of it and we stared at each other for a few seconds.

The tiger was absolutely huge. It’s head was about a foot taller than mine. It had a usual classic tiger appearance with the stripes and everything. Except that the tiger’s eyes were completely red. We both started circling each other, waiting for one to attack. It growled at me and I growled back. I noticed that the others were watching. AJ and Rarity were still breathing hard from running that fast. Applebloom was with her sister trying to comfort her but still looking terrified. Rainbow, still looking like Firefly, was watching with anticipation. Pinkie wasn’t even bouncing and looked visibly worried. Fluttershy was shivering in fear. We locked eyes for a moment and had a silent conversation. We both knew this creature couldn’t be reasoned with. Something was controlling it, making it angry.

When I looked back at the tiger, I saw it trying to pounce on me due to what it thought was my lack of focus, but was really a ploy to trick it, but also to make sure everyone was okay. Right before it jumped on me, I rolled to the right of it, and when it landed, I tackled it and we started rolling around until it was below me, trying to swipe at me. Due to how close it was, I wasn’t able to dodge the attacks as it cut up my face. I punched it in the face, and chuckled at the fact that I just punched a Tiger in the face.

When I punched it, no, it was a she. When I punched her, she flinched back and looked startled at the fact that her swiping attack wasn’t working, and I punched her in the face. I punched her two more times, before picking her up, and throwing her at a tree, head first. She hit the tree with a sickening thud. I could tell she wasn’t harmed much, due to whatever is controlling her. But my plan to perform some cognitive recalibration on her worked, and her eyes were back to their normal colors, and no longer blood red. And I also noticed she was smaller now, her head was as tall as my lower chest.

When she shook away the dizziness, she looked at what happened and gasped. I flinched back, surprised that she could talk. “Oh! I’m soo sorry!” She quickly ran up to me and got grabbed my legs, begging for forgiveness. I crouched down and pet her on the head to get her to stop crying.

“It’s okay. I know you didn’t do it on purpose. I think something was controlling you.” She looked like she was enjoying the petting on her not very injured head. She she realized I said something, she backed up and spoke again.

“That’s right! How did you know?” I shrugged.

“Your eyes were blood red and lifeless. It didn’t look like you were in control.” She looked like she was about to cry, but I stopped her by giving her a hug. “Do you remember who did that to you?”

She nodded. “It was someone in some robes. They looked like they might have been a pony. But I couldn’t see their face. Sorry.”

“It’s okay, I promise to find who did it to you. You have my word.” I stuck out my hand. “My name’s Connor by the way.” She stared at it for a minute, before shaking it back with one of her paws.

“Mine’s Tigress. Yeah I know, my parents weren’t that creative when it came to names.” She looked at my messed up face and visually flinched. “Sorry about your face.” I chuckled and turned around.

“Hey Rarity. Do you have a mirror I could borrow?” All the ponies, flinched at the look of my face. Rarity reluctantly handed me a mirror with a crack on it with her magic, and I looked in it. I flinched at the look as well. My face was covered in blood. I had multiple scars. One eye was bloodshot, and the other had a mark on it. My nose was pretty banged up. My mouth had several scars running along it. My facial hair was non-existent. I watched as my face started glowing. The blood disappeared. My eyes went back to normal. The scars closed up, and then left no trace of ever being there. I tossed the mirror back to Rarity, who put it away. Then I turned to face a surprised Tigress. “See. All better now.”

“How did you do that?” She walked up and stared directly at my face.

“I have special abilities. One of them is the ability to regenerate from wounds.” She looked confused.

“I didn’t know monkeys could do that.” I flinched at being called a monkey.

“Yeah, I’m not a monkey. My race evolved from monkeys. They’re called humans. But technically, I’m not a human. I lost my humanity a few days ago.” She apologized. “What were the last things you remember before being brainwashed?” She had a thoughtful look on her face.

“Well, I was in my cave, eating on some dinner. When that cloaked figure came by. It attacked me without a word, and I tried to fight back. In the process, the fight destroyed my entire home. Eventually, the cloaked figure got the best of me and brain-washed me, making me think that ponies from the nearest civilization destroyed my cave. I started walking to this farm, and I think that was a few days ago.” He stomach growled. “Yep, a few days ago.”

“Must have been harsh.” I turned around and asked AJ; “Applejack, you think you could make some pies for my friend here?” Applejack nodded.

“I could, but we don’t have any apples. We ran over a lot of the apple buckets running back here.” I pointed behind her to the big pile of buckets filled with apples.

“Will those do?” All the ponies gasped.

“Where did you get those?” Applejack asked, examining the apples.

“From the orchards you told me to take care of. I went as far as there was an orchard.” She just whistled.

“Well, if you could get this many apples from the tiny part of the farm that quickly. I might ask for your help some more Connor.” I nodded.

“I’ll be glad to help when I can. So how about those pies?” AJ chuckled and started bringing the buckets inside with my help. After bringing in all the buckets, AJ started to make the pies. I went over to Rainbow. “Hey Firefly.” She turned to look at me.

“Hey Connor.” She was depressed.

“I think we’ve all had our fun.” Before she could ask what I meant, I lifted up my only hand and sent a glowing light into Rainbow. When the light went away, Rainbow Dash was standing there, instead of Firefly. She immediately looked at herself.

“So it was all a prank.” She was relieved.

“Yep, Me and Pinkie planned it. Everyone else was in on it. The only thing that wasn’t planned was Tigress showing up.” she just giggled a bit.

“You know that means that I am going to have to get you back now?” I grinned and started walking away.

“I’d like to see you try.” She quickly flew up next to me.

“So did you mean it earlier?” She was blushing.

“Mean what?” I fully knew what she was talking about.

“You know. You saying that I’m your favorite pony.” She said that last part so softly, it might have been Fluttershy talking instead.

I had a big grin on my face. “Yep.” She looked like she expected me to say more.

“But what about the others?” She was still blushing.

“Rarity is too into dresses and fancy stuff for my tastes. I’m not the biggest fan of farm work. Pinkie creeps me out a little, and I’m worried she might be a homicidal maniac.” When I said that, Rainbow looked at me in surprise. “And Fluttershy is nice, but way too shy.” Rainbow spoke up.

“What was that about Pinkie?” My face had a serious expression on it.

“In my world. One of the scary stories told by people was a story called Cupcakes.” I shivered at the memory of it. “In it, Pinkie kidnaps you, straps you to a table in a secret area that looks like a much scarier version of one of her parties. Then Pinkie starts torturing you. Cutting off you cutie marks and wings. Taking your organs. Stuff like that. Then she makes that stuff into a Rainbow Dash cupcake.” We were both shivering for a second there.

“Scary. So what other kinds of stories are there in your world.” I started to think of a few, and while I was doing so, I saw Tigress apologizing to Rarity and talking to Fluttershy.

“Well, there's the Rainbow Factory.” Rainbow shivered at that. “I take it you’ve heard of it.” She just nodded. “And there is a boat load of stories with you ponies in them.”

“Like what?” I grinned.

“There are a lot of stories that pair you up with your friends.” Rainbow looked shocked. “There’s stories where everyone is the opposite gender, a lot of stories where a human arrives in Equestria. Stuff like that.”

“What! That’s absurd. I’m completely straight.” Rainbow said quickly. I chuckled.

“Yeah, you probably have a crush on Soarin from the Wonderbolts or something. It was theory back home.” Rainbow blushed.

“How did they know about that!” She was shocked.

“It was just a theory. And it makes a bit of sense.” I shrugged. Before Rainbow could continue, AJ came out and told everyone the pies were ready. We all went over and sat down at a table set up outside the barn. AJ brought the pies out and set them down, and we all started eating. Me and Tigress were both gobbling pies down left and right.

When all the pies are gone, Tigress and I just gave a very loud burp. Everyone laughed at that. Tigress spoke up; “It’s been quite a while since I last had food. Those pies were delicious! Thanks Applejack!” Applejack just laughed.

“You got an appetite just like Connor.” It was my turn to laugh now.

“Yeah, but mine is because using my powers requires a lot of energy, and I really like pies.” Suddenly a thought occurred to me and I started looking around nervously. Everyone picked up on this.

“What’s wrong Connor?” Applejack said looking around for trouble.

“Where’s Winona?” When I asked that, we heard a low growling sound coming from behind us. We turned to see an angry looking Winona walking towards Tigress. I looked over to Tigress who was next to me to see her looking afraid. I put a hand on her ‘shoulder’ to calm her down. “It’s okay, just don’t harm her if she attacks.” I whispered to Tigress who didn’t want to fight.

“Winona! Stop growling! We got company!” Applejack spoke up. Wait, did they not know about dog/cat rivalry? Winona wasn’t listening to AJ. I got up as Winona was coming even closer. Close enough to her the blood red eyes.

“Applejack. Winona’s brain-washed.” I really didn’t want to hurt a dog. But I just gulped and put some power into my left hand. “Just stay back, I have an idea that won’t harm her.” The ponies and Tigress back up behind the table. The energy in my hand was a light green now and was swirling. When Winona was close enough, she jumped. I threw the spell at her and she passed out and landed in my arm. I sighed in relief.

Everyone was coming out from behind the table and Applejack approached me as I set the dog on the ground. “Is she okay?” I nodded and Applejack sighed in relief as well. She tensed up in anger after a second. “If I ever find out who did this. I’ll teach them a lesson or two.” I noticed something in my peripheral vision.

“Looks like your chance is going to be sooner rather than later.” As I said that, a pony wearing a withered old brown cloak walked up. The pony stopped at a certain distance away and just laughed an evil laugh of evil. The pony was definitely female.

“Looks like my plan is coming together perfectly.” She laughed again.

“What do you want! Why do you keep doing this to animals?” She laughed that annoying laugh again.

“You stupid monkey. What makes you think I’d tell you my plan?” I tensed up at the mention of being called a monkey. But then I managed a small smile.

“Because I have that kind of face villains reveal their plans to. And everyone knows that a villains loves to monologue.” She smiled at that.

“Such attitude. I’d love to see that attitude being used against your friends!” She yelled as she fired a red spell at me. I just let it hit me, just to see what would happen. When it hit me, I felt it go through my body as I fell over and caught myself on my only arm awkwardly. My friends ran up to me as I felt an anger rising up in me. The pony’s voice was whispering to me in my mind. “Obey me, my pet. Attack your ‘friends’. They don’t care about you at all. They just want you use you.”

I felt the control I had over my body failing. I watched through my red tinted vision as my right arm grew back. I felt my strength rising. Suddenly, a thought occurred to me. “How dare she try to brainwash me! The Cosmic King!” I muttered under my breath, as I stood up. I noticed my friends slowly backing up in fear. I looked towards the mysterious cloaked pony. She laughed again.

“Now attack, my pet!” I grinned. Well, she asked for it. I charged at her, and picked her up by the collar of her cloak with my right hand. I flipped her hood back to see a unicorn mare with smoke gray fur and a ghostly white mane. Her the color of her eyes was the same blood red that my eyes were, except the color was the color of her irises. “What are you doing! I said attack!” I chuckled.

“Exactly! You said attack. You never specified who. I wouldn’t betray my friends even if I was brainwashed. You call this anger? I can get more angry than this in a few seconds.” I ripped off her cloak to make sure she wasn’t hiding anything. I noticed her cutie mark was a bunch of letters spelling out CFTDP. I charged up some glowing red energy in my hand and slapped her face with it hard. The energy made sure she couldn’t use magic. I slapped her 5 more times really hard without the energy and then threw her over to the others so they all get a chance at her. “Hey, you guys want a turn? I cancelled out her magic.”

While AJ, Rainbow, Tigress and surprisingly Rarity and Pinkie all dealt with her, Fluttershy walked over to me while I was sitting down. She looked concerned. “Are you okay Connor?”

I nodded. “Yeah, It’ll take a lot more to take me down than a weak rage spell.” Fluttershy sighed in relief.

“Oh, good. I’m glad you were able to stop her. But if I may ask a question, Why are your eyes still red?” I snapped my fingers, creating a mirror in front of me. Then I noticed that my irises were still blood red. I just shook my head real quick and my eyes went back to being electric yellow and I could feel myself calming down. I snapped again, and the mirror disappeared.

“The spell wasn’t able to control me, but it was able to bring up my anger. Anger I try to suppress. So the spell made me stronger than I usually would be. I think it still is in me somewhere. But I will only bring it out if I absolutely had to.” I looked over to see that the others were done teaching the mare a lesson. I walked over to her comically injured body. She just had a lot of bruises, no blood spilt, but she was acting like she was just tortured.

I crouched down and brought her head up so I could make eye contact with her. “What does CFTDP stand for?” I ask in a harsh tone. She shivered in fear at the sound of my voice.

“Creatures for the Destruction of Ponies. We hate all ponies and try to overthrow the tyrannical rule of Celestia.” Weird how a pony is working with that group.

“But you’re a pony, if they hate ponies and try to kill them, then why are you alive?” I still had an angry look on my face.

“They respect ponies who join their cause. They wouldn’t harm me. I’m a spy for them. You’re a pony lover. You just made enemies with them. They will end you for this.” I let out a small smirk as she passed out.

“Let’s see them try.” I let go of her head and picked her up with magic. I looked over to the others. “Can you guys show me where the jail is?” AJ nodded and we all followed her back into town.

While walking to Ponyville, I turned and asked Tigress; “So I take it you need a place to live?” She nodded sadly. “You can live at my house. I have a few extra rooms. And since we’re both carnivores, I would at least have some meat in my house. I mean I don’t have any right now, because my food stores need to be resupplied. But I have a plan on how to get a steady supply of meat that is not from Equestria.” We both licked our lips at the thought of meat while everyone else shivered.

She nodded. “Yes that would be nice. If it wouldn’t be too much of a bother.” I shook my head.

“No, it wouldn’t be any bother at all. I think it would be cool having a housemate.” I smiled at the thought of having a tiger in my house.

After several minutes, during which, I dropped the mare off at the jail, we said our goodbyes to everyone as it was getting late and the sun was starting to set. Tigress followed me back to my house, much to the astonishment of the ponies walking around. Several came up and asked me questions about why a tiger was following me. After answering several questions from curious colts and fillies, we made it to my house.

“Well, this is my house. I’ve only really had it for a day now.” I walked up to the door and opened it, turning on the lights. “Make yourself at home. I have to put my groceries away.” As I walked to the kitchen, I saw Tigress looking at everything in wonder. After a few minutes, I was able to put away all my groceries, and managed to make a small portal to the Minecraft universe to talk to my Minecraftian self about meats. He laughed when I asked him about it, and said that a lot of Connors are asking for some of the meat from this universe. He said he would give me a portion of the different kinds of meats he gets every week. He gave me a few uncooked steaks to start me off. We said our goodbyes and I left through the portal I made. Once putting the meat down, I quickly turned the portal into a small device in the kitchen to head there quickly.

I walked back into the living room to see Tigress walking around. When I entered the room, she looked at me. “Do you want something to eat?” She nodded. I went back into the kitchen and cooked up a few of the steaks, putting the rest away. I came out a few minutes later to see her sniffing the air for its meaty smell. When she realized I had the meats, she bounded over and sat down in front of me, looking at me like a dog would. I chuckled and gestured her over to the couch next to the window.

I put the plates with the steak on the table and we both sat down on the couch and ate our steaks mostly talking about my powers. When we finished, we continued talking as she put her head on my lap and I petted her. “You seem more like a dog than a cat.” We both laughed.

“Yeah, my parents always said I was more of a dog than a cat. Guess it’s kinda true, I prefer acting like a dog more than a cat.” I grinned as I thought of something.

“Do you want me to get a collar for you?” We both laughed.

“That would be nice to have a collar.” Whoa, what? “I guess ever since I was young, I wanted to be treated like a dog. Do you know what it’s like to feel like you were born in the wrong body?” I shrugged.

“No, not really. But I do know what it’s like to feel like you want something different in life. If you want me to make you a collar I can.” She started wagging her tail as I lifted up my left arm and created a cosmic purple collar with a tag on it that said Tigress on it. I showed it to her, and she motioned for me to put it on.

While putting it on her, I thought of something. “I always was more of a dog person, and now I have a cat who wants to be a dog living with me.” We both laughed at that. I finished putting the collar on and she tried to look at it.

“How does it look?” She asked me curiously.

“Makes you look like a pet.” I said sadly. I don’t want to treat a sentient being as a pet. She grinned at that and rubbed her head against my chest. 

“Purrfect.” We both chuckled at the pun. “Thanks for helping me, master.” I froze at that.

“Don’t call me master. Sounds creepy. Just call me by my name. And why do you want to be treated like a pet?” She thought about it for a second.

“We are taught to want to be a pet in school.” What.

“Why do they do that?” This is just weird.

“In the tiger homeland just outside of Catro” Catro, Cairo with cats. I chuckled. “there is poor quality of life. We don’t have an upper class or anything. Hardly any money. So we are taught to try to become pets so we could at least survive. After we reach a certain age, we are kicked out to either, try to survive on our own until we become old enough to return, or find someone who would take us in. I tried living on my own because no one wanted me because of how weird I am. You’re the first person who hasn’t judged me for what I like.” She looked really sad at the memories.

She put her head against my lap and I petted her. “I have a weird life.” I sighed and continued petting her. Eventually, we both fell asleep.