"Baaaaaaabeeee, what are you doing in there?!" I whined since it's been ten minutes since he went in. "You better not be jacking off to porn" I joked sarcastically, crossing my arms across my chest. I got no answer. A few seconds later I was about to call out to him again, when the silver stained doorknob squeaked from old age as it began to slowly turn.
Nothing in the world could prepare me for what happened next. As the door opened, I saw the shadow of a pony, but after the door was fully opened, standing right there in front of me was an anthropomorphic Soarin. But where was Derik...?
"H-hey, Rainbow." He smiled at me as he stepped closer.
I gulped, and backed myself against the wall, unbelieving to what I'm seeing.
"D-D-D...Derik?" I stammered, my hands shaking.
The pony nodded and gave a slight smile, taking my hands in his.
"B-but why?"
He let out a heavy sigh.
"I did this for you, Rainbow. I knew how insecure you've been about yourself, and I knew how you felt that I deserved better than you." He began. "The thing is, if there is a better girl out there, I don't care, because I want to be with you. I've tried to tell you how much I love you, and that you're more than enough for me. Even then, when we kiss, hug, sleep together, I see the regret in your eyes. I know how you've been feeling, and I felt the only way to make things better was to turn myself into a pony. I love you so much, Rainbow Dash." he said smoothly as a tear rolled down his cheek. I was at a loss of words as he hugged me tight. "I love you so much."
I felt a tear fall down my cheek as well, as I hugged him back. "I love you too, Derik." I wrapped my wings around him, holding him tight.
"Happy birthday, hunny. And call me Soarin from now on, unless you still prefer Derik."
"I fine with that, Soarin." I giggled a little as we continued to embrace each other.
"But what will your parents think?"
"I only care about how you feel, Rainbow. To make you happy, and to make you smile, is all I really care about. " He said as he let me go, and smiled warmly at me.
"I am happy, Der- Soarin. You make me the happiest mare on earth, or Equestria, if it exists." I chuckled, as I kissed him on the cheek.
"Probably not." He smiled as he pressed his lips into mine.
*****
Two hours later...
After finding out that my boyfriend had turned himself into a pony, the next thing that happened was an argument between Derik's parents. His dad wasn't the happiest to say the least, since his wife never told him she knew that he was going to do it, and the fact that she let him. He cursed and yelled, and I couldn't stop laughing. Having quite the round head, his cheeks flushed with red from anger, I swear he was part cherry, since he pretty much looked like one. But after a good hour of yelling, his dad left, but his mom stayed.
Yes Derik was a bit upset his father disowned him pretty much, but Derik told me that he also turned himself into a pony to get away from his father. But his mother on the other hand was very proud with him. She had said how she was proud because I needed a good man to love me, and he provided me with just that.
His mom was also upset with his father, and honestly wanted to get away from him as well. I was a bit sad to be the one to be the main cause of this, but after hearing how bad of a father he was, they sort of treated me like a hero to them. So in the end, everything turned out great, and we all played some call of duty.
We had to take turns, of course, except me, which they all agreed me being the birthday girl I shouldn't have to give up the controller. As of now, its me, Derik, Applejack and Pinkie Pie. It was a game of team deathmatch, me and Pinkie against Derik and Applejack. Me and Pinkie were currently winning by 24, to their mere 4 points. I've got 6 kills and 4 deaths so far. Pinkie Pie is 18 kills, 0 deaths.
"Oooh ooh, I'm gonna turn you into swiss cheese, Applejack!" Pinkie cheered as she chased down Aj with her death machine minigun around the semi truck on Nuketown 2025. She was cackling widly as she stopped to spray down an unexpecting Derik, bringing our score to 25. "I AM UNSTOPPABLE!" She screamed, rapidly pressing the buttons.
"Agh, man! I though I could sneak up on you." Derik huffed as he re-spawned in the backyard of the orange house.
Pinkie put on a straight face, turning her head towards Derik while still playing effortlessly. "You've been trying that the WHOLE TIME!" She shouted, as she finally 'turned Applejack into swiss cheese'. She had wasted most of her bullets, so she sat there spraying Applejack's previous dead body with her few remaining shots.
I on the other hand was well hidden at a safe distance, hidden with my silenced, acog, fmj equipped Ballista sniper rifle. I took a deep breath as Derik came close on my screen, unknowing of my position. I aimed for his chest, and fired.
"Man, fuck you, Rainbow!" He shouted sarcastically. He has never been good with shooting games, and died multiple times.
"What? Somepony mad he's losing?" I giggled, up until the sound of a knife came from the speakers, and my screen showed I had been killed.
"HA! Ah got you again, Rainbow Dash!" Applejack cheered. "Now time to get Pinkie Pie!"
"Good luck with that." Me, Pinkie, and Derik said in unison.
"Bah, what ever." She scoffed as she turned her attention back to the game, only to find she'd been blown up by one of Pinkie's out-in-the-open bouncing betties. "Never mind." She said as she now wore a frowny face. "It's on!" She declared as she quickly threw off her shirt, leaving her white tank top under it behind. I looked at her to see a good portion of her orange fur had been matted down somewhat from sweat due to intense gaming.
"Sure thing, Applejack." Said Pinkie Pie. She smirked as she was now t-bagging Applejack's new dead body. "T-bag! T-bag! T-bag!"
"Oh, how mature, Pinkie Pie!" Aj huffed again.
I shook my head at their silliness. I was currently in the center of the map in between the bus and semi, making my way to the orange house where Pinkie Pie was currently on the second floor at the window. Once there, I took a peek at her screen as she moved to the door that leads to the deck. She threw a C4 half way to that one and the one leading to the stairs. She then went downstairs into the kitchen where she threw a motion detector behind the table.
I knew instantly what she was doing. In case somebody were to sneak up on her from behind, the motion detector would alert her that somebody was there, and if she heard foot steps, lets just say the intruder didn't, or wasn't going to have a brain. And just in case, I stayed on the first floor as probably the 20th line of defense, since I'm sure Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie, she had this down to a 'T'.
Soon Applejack came around. I watched as she walked past the front door, so I threw out a frag. Sadly it didn't help as she was nowhere near the blast. I heard the clink of a grenade or something onto the second floor.
"AH! She smoked me!" Pinkie gasped as the sound of an erupting smoke bomb was heard. I stayed focused on the front door.
"Don't worry, she won't get through us." I said reassuringly.
"Maybe not, but I will!" Said Derik, as I was killed from him shooting me in the back with a shotgun. He must have came in through the garage! Well, the door that leads out into the backyard where the garage is.
Since I had died, I watched Derik and Applejack as they made their...I can't keep count of how many times they've teamed up to kill pinkie.
Applejack was going up the stairs inside the house, and Derik up through the porch. Derik had left his unused bouncing betties out font in case Pinkie decided to bail. Once at the top of the steps, He threw a concussion grenade into the bedroom where Pinkie still was, and Applejack threw her other grenade into the first room. With all of her defenses gone, and blinded, Applejack went back out to the front, since there was still the possibility of Pinkie trying to bail.
She pulled out her rocket launcher, and fired one into the room, severely damaging Pinkie, but not killing her. Derik then moved in as Pinkie's vision began to clear. She switched from her MTAR, to her shotgun, having two primaries. Derik also had two, and he was using one of the light machine guns, and was currently using the spray and pray tactic as suppressive fire until he got into the room. Once inside, he located Pinkie, and as he turned his gun towards her, she blasted him in the face as Applejack shot off her last rocket.
By that time, Pinkie had fully healed, and was severely damaged again.
"Dammit!" Derik yelled. "I almost had you that time!"
"You have me? You never had me! You never even had your car!" Pinkie giggled at her reference to the first "Fast and Furious" movie. The Fast and the Furious" to be exact. "Now, time to kill Applejack!"
Pinkie switched her gun out for Derik's, having 46 bullets left, she didn't need to reload. She ran, jumped, and dove out o the window, landing in a laying position, and began spraying bullets. The bouncing betties activated upon her landing, and exploded above her, doing her no harm, but the landing hurt her a bit. Applejack stared in shock as she was easily killed yet again by Pinkie.
"HAAAAAAHAHAHAAHAHAAAAA!" Pinkie yelled triumphantly as she made the thirtieth, and game winning kill. "I haven't died even once!" She cheered, hopping up and down, her hooves making a loud clop each time.
"Good for you, Pinkie Pie." Twilight smiled at her.
"Hey, Cody!" Dad called from his bedroom.
"Coming' pop's! You guys play without me for now."
I made my way past my friends who had been laying/sitting on the floor instead of the couch for some reason. Derik got up to follow me, but I told him to stay in case they wanted to chat alone.
Once I got into their room, dad shut the door.
"What did you guys need?" I was going to ask until mom threw herself at me, and hugged me tight.
"Look, Cody. We know how many times we've told you this already, but since it's your birthday, we felt we should tell you again." Said dad with his arms crossed over his chest.
"We love you very much." Mom said with her face buried into my chest since she's shorter than me.
"Yes, and even though you've turned into this because of your friend out there, we still see you s the child we gave birth to twenty years ago. Yes it took some time to come to terms that you're an anthropomorphic version of that Rainbow Dash character from that show you and your sister watch, but we still love you very much." He smiled and he hugged me as well. "some parents like Derik's father wouldn't have been very accepting of something like this, but you didn't ask for it, nor did you want it at the time. And if that were the case, we'd still love you, and see you as our son. Well...daughter now. "Don't you ever forget that."
"I know, dad. I won't." I smiled, hugging them both back tightly. "What if I said that I don't want to change back?"
Dad let go and looked me in the eye, placing a hand on my cheek.
"Then that's your choice, and I respect that." He said as he rubbed my cheek with his thumb. "To be honest, your mother and I have been thinking about being turned into ponies as well. Silly as it may seem, that's the truth."
"Really?" I asked with a tilt of my head.
"Yes, Cody. Jalyssa already had costumes made for us if we ever decided we wanted to."
"I want to, but your father hasn't decided yet." Mom stated as she pulled away.
"That means a lot to me. When this first happened, I thought you guys might have treated me as some freak cause I was so upset about it." I said as I looked down at my cyan fur covered arms and hands. "But now...I'm actually really glad this happened."
"Well that's good, dear." Mom smiled.
"It's like, whenever I see myself in the mirror, I don't beg to god to change me back but instead, I beg for the opposite. To not change me back. I like being Rainbow Dash. Yeah I'm female now, but to be honest, I don't really care anymore. I've never been one to think about sex anyway, so what's the point?"
"Exactly." Dad gave an agreeing nod of his head.
"You guys still love me, I still have the best friends in the world, the government wasn't interested in testing on me or anything, and I got a boyfriend. It's as if my life has only been getting better since that Halloween afternoon."
"That's good to know, Cody." Dad said as he and mom hugged me again.
"Well, we just wanted to say our piece, and let you go back to doing what you were doing." Mom smiled at me ans gave me a kiss on the forehead. "We love you."
"I love you guys, too." I smiled, swishing my tail happily as I went back out into the living room.
I looked around the living room, seeing Twilight, Fluttershy, Derik's mom and Rarity going at it on COD, while Applejack and Pinkie watched. But I didn't see Derik.
"Where is Derik?" I asked.
"Oh, he went outside." His mom answered, nodding her head to the front door.
"Okay, thanks!" I walked out onto the front porch, still wearing a smile, until I saw no sign of Derik, except his black ACDC shirt on the steps
"Muffin Cake where are you?" I giggles at the random name I just called out. I looked up up the sky for a second, seeing it's getting really dark out.
Suddenly a blur of blue and white fell out of the sky at about a thirty degree angle from my left. It landed with a soft thud in the lawn. I immediately recognized it as Derik who let out a heavy sigh as he spit grass and dirt from his mouth.
"What are you doing!?" I asked with a small laugh as I went over to help him up.
"Well, uh, baby birds learn to fly in an instant when they jump out of the nest, so I thought it would be easy." He blushed cheery red from embarrassment.
"So in other words, you were trying to fly?" I asked as I brushed him off with my hands, trying to get the grass and dirt out of his fur.
"Yeah, I was..." he chuckled nervously as he rubbed the back of his neck.
"Try again and I'll see what you're dong wrong."
"Alright. But you can't laugh if I fall."
"Well of course you're gonna fall, and why not? I remember you couldn't stop laughing after I crashed into a pile of dog shit face first!"
He was about to say something until he burst out laughing, tossing his head back.
"Stop it!" I snapped, giving him a firm punch on the stomach.
"Hey, ow! That hurt!" Me moped as he rubbed the spot where I had hit him.
"Whateves. Now get to flying!" I yelled sarcastically, spanking his tush.
"Yeeeoww!" He hollered as he suddenly took flight. I chuckled slightly as I watched.
He remained in the air for a few seconds until he began to flap unevenly.
"Ouch." He deadpanned as he hit the ground again.
"You're a slow learner, aren't you?" I asked, tilting my body so I was parallel with his.
"Shut it." He groaned as he got up again.
"Your problem is that you gotta keep flapping them wings at the same time. Not one after the other, okay? Watch me." I slowly flew into the air, with my wings fully out. "Now you try."
He nodded, as he began to flap his wings again. This time he was able to stay in the air.
"Now try and fly to me, okay?"
"Yeah, sure. I just can't believe I'm doing this!"
"Yeah, It's a pretty good feeling, isn't it?" I held my arms out to him as he came closer and closer. "Come on, my arms are getting tired and I wanna hug you already!
"Yeah, I'm coming." He flapped a little harder, rocketing him forward into me. I hugged him on impact.
"Hi." I blushed as he held me.
"Hi." He said. "I think I got this down now."
"It's about time." I giggled, resting my head on his chest.
"I love you, Rainbow."
"I love you too, Soarin.
"Wanna go sit on the roof?"
"Sure thing."
We held hands, linking our fingers together as we flew over the house, sitting on the edge, with our legs dangling off the edge, looking up at the crescent moon above among the stars in the clear night sky. We curled our tails together as I leaned on him, with my head on his chest.
"Promise we'll always be together?" I asked, hugging him tight.
"I promise, Rainbow. There's nobody, or nopony I'd rather be with than you." He kissed my head causing me to blush
"Same here, Soarin. I'm not sure if there's another guy out there who'd go as far as to turn himself into a pony for me. And even if there was, they better continue their search, because I'm all yours." I smiled and kissed his cheek.
For those of you who still think it's weird for me to be with a guy, I'm sorry, but I just love Derik so much. Only if you turn into a female pony, and have a guy shower you in endless love, despite the fact you're different from everybody else, only then will you understand. For six months this young man has been there for me. He's cared for me, loved me, and held me when I cried. He wiped my tears for me, he picked me up when I fell, he would put me before all of his friends just to make me happy. He's done so much for me, and I'm not sure if I can ever repay him. He tells me he just wants me to be happy, so that's what I'll do.
"Rainbow?" He asked softly.
"Yeah, Soarin?"
"Ever since I met you, my life has changed drastically, in a really good way. I've fallen in love with the woman of my dreams, who just happened to be a mare, but I didn't mind. But there is no way I can possibly express my love for you. I just love you so much, I'd be broken hearted to be separated from you. But...there is one way I think I can so just how much I love you."
"How is that?" I asked.
"Rainbow Dash." He said as he reached into his pocket.
"Yeah?"
He pulled out a small silver box that read 'Zales'
"Will you marry me?"