Everything was calm in Mount Olympus, except Zeus. He was stressed more than ever; with god-like emergencies to take care of and his wife was pregnant again with their 5th child. As he stood at his bedroom looking out the window, scratching his grey and lengthy beard, he pondered to himself what it would be like to live in a world where someone else was in control. Zeus then lifted up his muscular arm and held up his mirror looking at himself.
“God I’m old,” he stated, while pulling away his grey hair and looking more at the wrinkles lining up his face. At that time Hera dawdled into the room and looked at him puzzled.
“What are you doing?” she asked him while holding a basket full of grapes. He didn’t respond but looked at the bump in her stomach and then back at her. She then asked again,
“What are you doing?” He had her sit with him on the wool-like bed. There he explained what he felt.
“Don’t you ever feel stressed being the ruler of Olympus? The ruler of the gods? I feel so stressed out lately and I just want a day off.” He scuffed and looked at the ground as Hera wrapped her left arm around him and looked at him with a helping smile.
“I believe you do great, plus the gods respect you. What are you so worried about? If you left to take a break, they might get worried thinking you went missing. They depend on you Zeus.” Hera then kissed his cheek as he looked back at her.
“You’re right, but… I just wish I had a day to myself, a day to find something new.” Hera looked strangely at him as if this was something new that he hasn’t done before. He started to head out almost ignoring Hera’s response to his statement. When he was outside of the castle, Zeus immediately knew something was off. The old pond that Hermes was in when relaxing was gone. It was replaced with a mysterious multi-colored substance. It flowed rapidly, and made strange humming sounds. He walked a bit closer, out of curiosity and touched it. He felt a strange force pulling him and with that he fell into a portal that transported him into another world. He fell from the sky and into a lake. When Zeus crawled out of the lake, he couldn’t see the portal anymore. Zeus later started looking around and saw ponies everywhere. One of them, with a pink colored body, and a pink fluffy mane, almost like cotton candy, bounced up and down in front of him.
“Hi! I haven’t seen anything like you before! You’re cool! You’re tall! You don’t have a tail! I’m Pinkie Pie! What’s your name?” Even though this weird talking pony talked fast, Zeus was more surprised that the equine was able to speak. He was not able to speak or even have a reaction for the most part as he was froze, stunned, and bamboozled at this rare occurrence. The pink pony looked puzzled. She turned her head a bit and then grabbed his face with her hooves.
He looked at her and then said, “You can talk!?”
Pinkie Pie giggled, “Well of course I can! We all can!” she said very happily, seeming like she was an always happy person...or pony. She perked her ears up and looks in the distance as another pony came flying over. Her mane was a rainbow of colors and she had a cyan colored body.
“Dashie! Do you know what type of animal this is?” Pinkie said as she pointed at Zeus. The rainbow pony had wings and was hovering over the pink pony.
“You’re a pegasus?” Zeus inquired as he looked at the rainbow colored pony.
“Haha, never seen one before? But really, what kind of animal are you? are you a SPY??” the pony said as she gave Zeus a stern look. Zeus was about to make a response, but was interrupted when thunder struck. The ponies jumped then ran off, without giving him a chance to really say his name.
The rain poured, as he continued walking to find anywhere where he could sleep. As he was walking, he saw a tree that was turned into a house. Questioning himself, “A tree house?” He knocked on the door to meet a purple unicorn with a darker purple with a bit of red mixed into her mane.
“Hello? Could I help you? It’s dark out and I was about to go to sleep” the purple pony said wearily, and unable to really keep her eyes open.
“Could I come in for the night? I demand a place to sleep.” Zeus said semi-casually and semi-angrily at the pony who wasn’t scared of what he looked like.
“Well.. you could’ve asked… Spike is out with the cutie mark crusaders for a sleepover so there is a spare bed upstairs” without any time for response, the pony left and headed upstairs to sleep. Zeus looked around the home, it was filled with books and looked like a very well built library. He rested on the very short and hard bed which was very hard to get comfortable in.
When Zeus awoke, his body was sore from the bed, and there was a very small dragon looking at him very mad. “What are you? Why are you here? and what are you doing?” he sounded very young and pissed.
“I’m Zeus, god of thunder and the king of gods” he roared as he stood up to see how tiny this dragon was.
“Spike! Spike?” the purple pony came in searching for the dragon and smiled when she saw the dragon talking to the weird creature, “There you are Spike. By the way, I never got your name or what creature you were.” The purple pony cradled the dragon with her hooves and looked at Zeus awaiting a response.
“I’m Zeus, king of gods, and god of thunder.” he responded a little more worried that ponies didn’t know who he was.
“God? God of thunder? I don’t know much about that other than that the pegasi here in Equestria control the weather and seasons, also I’m Twilight Sparkle.” she responded with almost a lecturing tone.
As they started to head outside, they noticed something was off, very off. Houses were floating, upside down, and the streets were colored purple with salt-like ice spread across it. The day and night both only lasted 15 minutes each. Looking over to the left with more of the houses on the ground there was a pony being salted with a giant pepper shaker. When the pony sneezed, the houses toppled over like billboards. A sudden laugh was heard, an eerie one at that. The creature was long and thin, and very strange looking. He had a head of a pony with two different types of moose horns. He had a dragon tail, and also had an eagle claw and a bear paw. This creature also had a bat’s wing and a bird’s wing. For his back legs, he had a dragon leg and a cloven hoof.
“Discord!” Twilight growled at him.
“Oh Twilight! It’s nice to see you met another creature? a human? precisely what magic spell did you fail to use this time?” Discord gleemed. “I do so hope you enjoy what I’ve done with the place” he simply floated wrapping his slithery body around Zeus. “You don’t belong here you sly being” Discord whispered. As Discord tried to tighten the grasp, Zeus grabbed hold of him and threw the being far out while summoning a lightning bolt which hit him on one of his wings.
“Twilight!” a white colored pony with a purple mane galloped along to see Twilight and Zeus. “What in Equestria is that thing! He has got by far the worst taste of fashion!” the pony had a disgusted look on her face as she looked at the being.
“I’ll explain later Rarity, we need to make sure Fluttershy is ok!” Twilight quickly started running west to Fluttershy’s cottage with Rarity and Zeus following right behind.
When they approached the place, it was already floating and flippin in place in mid air. The ponies gasped as they heard screaming and crashing from inside. Zeus took it upon himself to jump up there and bring the house down with his brute strength. When they all walked in, they saw Fluttershy crying, she was a yellow pegasus with a bright pink mane. She was mourning over one of her mouse friends who was crushed by the living room couch. The insides were strewn around the place and the fur of the dead body was drenched in its own blood. The eyes, popping out of their sockets and the mouth full open for the tongue to lay flat and dead.
“Oh poor...poor mousie…” when she spoke, she was soft, silent, but she was also very sad with the death of her animal friend. Judging by her cutie mark on her hind legs, she must’ve been an animal caretaker. Twilight did explain a few pony basics while Zeus woke up that morning. Then after a bit of running and panting, an orange pony with a yellow mane walked in. She had a cowboy hat, maybe she was a farmer?
“Applejack! Wait up!” the rainbow pony flew in with Pinkie bouncing in. The rest of the ponies gasped at the scene, except Zeus, who had seen much worse deaths before.
“Rainbow Dash? How’s the weather so far?” Twilight inquired while trying to change the subject.
“Nothing but cotton candy clouds” growled the now angry Rainbow Dash.
“Oh! Oh! And chocolate rain!” Pinkie said while she bounced happily.
“Come on girls, let’s head to my house to form out a plan!” Twilight said as she was eager and ready to fight back.
When they were in the home, Zeus was in the corner trying to understand what they were talking about. They talked about previous outbreaks, elements of harmony, magic of friendship, and many other strange things. When they were about done, they looked over at Zeus who was a little zoned out.
“Well Zeus, what do you say? Will you help us out?” Twilight asked.
“Me help you? Can’t you just use that magic stuff that comes from unicorns or fly kick him with the pegasi?” He was trying to get out of helping since he had no interest. With that, he stood up and looked at them, “I’ve seen you do magic before along with a few other unicorns I saw, I’m pretty sure you’ve got this under control.” As he started to leave, the Mane Six got disappointed, they knew that without Zeus’s power, they were pretty much hopeless.