"What is this?" says a gaunt and scratchy voice. This is not what he expected, he had come in the night but here he was, in the middle of a grassy meadow with the sun in the center of the sky. He was sure it was night. With him was an incorporeal owl that hooted with the moans of the dead and a single zombie that was milling about in the grass.
He is Ah Puch, the God of death and the lord of the Ninth Hell. He stood as a thin man with a loincloth and a necklace of eyes and teeth. He wore a horned and feathered mask with glowing red eyes that served as his face along with his carved wooden staff.
He fumed with silent anger, how the other gods must be looking down at him and laughing. He tried to return to his realm, but he couldn't. Now they were definitely laughing.
He tried to raise more zombies from his realm, but again he couldn't. His anger grew along with his amazement and wonder. Was he no longer on the Earth. He looked around at his surroundings. They looked like earth, but he couldn't feel the presence of other gods around him.
Slowly his anger turned to an evil happiness. With no gods, he could be the ruler of this planet, the surface and its underworld. He could create a race similar to humans, but the way he wanted them to be, and they would worship him.
As he stood thinking of schemes and plans, a couple of other beings came up on a hill and stopped as they saw the dancing figure.
"What is it?" asked Applejack to Rainbow Dash.
"I dunno, looks like some kind of creature from the Everfree."
"Whydua suppose its movin' like that?"
"It might be sick or dying," said Rainbow observing the prancing god.
"Poor thing, we should probably put it out of its misery," as she looked sympathetically at it.
Ah Puch was still dancing in glee when he noticed something was behind him. There were two hore-like creatures, much too colored and short to be regular horses standing behind him.
"Fluttershy is better with animals but I'll have a go," said Applejack as she streached out her forehoof at the creature that was now crouched and looking superstitiously at her with its scary mask-like face and glowing eyes.
"Come here, we ain't gonna hurt ya," said AJ softly. Ah Puch reacted with shock when the horses spoke but did not show it. It took him a little to realize that these were already natives and therefore needed to be subjugated. He sprung up from his pose and glared at them with his glowing eyes and shook his staff at them that rattled menacingly.
"Do not approach me fool! I am the new ruler... of this realm, and you will bow... to me!" AJ jumped back, and both of them reacted with shock.
"You can talk?"
"More than talk," replied Ah Puch. "I can raise the dead!" He gestured the ground with his staff and raised it upward. He waited a few seconds to realize that his power to raise the dead wasn't working. Applejack and Dash gave him confused looks.
"I can raise the dead!" he shouted again as he brought his zombie forward. It groaned dumbly and looked around as if blind.
"Gross, that thing is dead," said Rainbow Dash putting a hoof over her muzzle. "It smells." Ah Puch blanched in anger.
"I am a god, petty horses! And you answer to me!" He looked at his zombie. "Attack them... slave!" The zombie shuffled towards the ponies, and they doged its clumsy swipes, and a swift kick from AJ to its torso brought it down. Ah Puch rain his hand down his face. He lifted his staff and the crystal on the end blazed with dark power. Atleast he could do that.
But before he could react, the blue one took to the air and kicked him in the face with astounding speed, knocking Ah Puch to the ground. He was dazed and off balance, the two ponied walking up to him.
"Jeez fella, you need to calm down."
"For starters, we're not horses, we're ponies, and secondly, you don't rule us." said the blue one.
"Calm down Rainbow, he's had a long day. I don't take it you're from around here?" asked the orange one. Ah Puch nodded with an angerly groan.
"Well, lets take him back to town, Twilight would love to see something like this."
"Really?" asked Rainbow Dash. "He smells! He'd stink up the whole place." Before they could get up, Ah Puch responded.
"Yes... I agree with the orange one. I shall go... to this town of yours. I-I have not had a good day." AJ looked triumphantly at Rainbow Dash
"See, he'll be fine. Who knows, he might even be a good friend." Rainbow looked skeptically.
"Are you sure?" asked Rainbow.
"Of course!" shouted Ah Puch but the looks he was given told him that he had spoken out of line.
"I mean, I'm sure everything will work out nicely." he said as kindly as his gaunt voice could.
"Come on Rainbow, we can show him to Twi and the rest of the girls, and he can't hurt nopony if he's with us."
"Oookay," replied Rainbow Dash. "As long as he doesn't stand next to me, he smells." Ah Puch got up with a quick jump.
"Lets go my new... acquaintances! We have to go to, em, where are we going to again?" asked Ah Puch
"Ponyville," replied Rainbow.
"Yes, Ponyville," said Ah Puch.
"Ya' know Mr., what's your name?"
"Ah Puch," he replied.
"Ya know Mr. Ah Puch you're a real hoot when ya start talkin' to ponies," said Applejack.
"Yeah, your dancing is pretty cool," said Rainbow Dash. Ah Puch didn't know how to react really. This was probably the longest he had stood next to a sentient creature that wasn't screaming in fear or pain. A pushing feeling started to well up in his chest.
"We must go now," Ah Puch before this feeling could get any worse.
"Yeah, I reckon we get goin'," They followed a small dirt path that went towards a collection of buildings in the distance. His ghost owl landed on his staff, and his zombie picked itself up off the ground and shuffled dumbly with them.
"Yes, I'm sure we'll all become good..." The feeling in his chest increased. "Friends."