Simon sighed as he hugged his legs and tried hard to ignore the hustling and bustling of the city of Maretropolis. It has been three days since he found himself transported into the large and magical world of what he could guess is Equestria. He was starving, cold, and dirty. Even if it was only three days, he already hated this world. Giant ponies everywhere that seemed to have already known the existence of humans and only saw them as mere beings to feast upon and keep as prisoners. He only got eaten once and escaped as soon as that dumb equine fell asleep with its maw open.
Simon was, what you may call, an average Joe. He was a person who could blend in the crowd and no one would bat an eye towards him. He had nice brown hair, hazel eyes, and no sign of freckles, blemishes, and he doesn’t wear any glasses. Not like he needed any either way.
But it seems that he was someplace different that oddly reminded him about the stereotypical superhero comic book: with a villain that would talk about their evil plan, the heros being close to defeat, and the villain being thrown in a simple jail only to break out again and do a different evil plan. He would sometimes spot them fighting or even being praised after whatever their doing was finished. He even remembered their names. Mistress Mare-velous, Saddle Rager, Fili-Second, Zapp, Radiance, Hum Drum, and the Masked Matter-Horn. Sometimes he would wish to be like them, in which he had powers. If he did have powers, nopony would ever eat him again. Maybe he could be like Fili-Second and be too fast for the ponies to catch him, or like the Masked Matter-Horn and freeze anypony who were close to eating him. All the possibilities, and yet, it would never happen. Even in a world where magic is real and other myths becoming a reality, he knew that it won’t happen.
He let out a sad sigh as he got up and started walking deeper in the alley. He didn’t even see where he was going, nor that someone was following him with a smirk that can only be labeled as bad news.
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Simon kept on walking, not seeing that he was entering an old abandoned facility. Only the sound of something almost hitting his foot got his attention. He yelped in surprise as he looked around. “What the- where am I?” He said out loud.
“You're in a building, baka!” A girl said as Simon looked up to see her sliding down a small pipe to stand in front of him. The girl that was now standing before him had red hair and green eyes with small freckles on her cheeks. “What are you doing here? This is our turf.”
“I didn’t me- wait, our?” He asked.
“Yeah.” She stayed silent as she got a good look at the guy. Seeing that he was nothing but an average Joe. “You don’t look that dangerous. I guess I’ll let you in only this once. Come.” She put away her pistol that Simon finally noticed. She started walking, not seeing if he was following. But she didn’t need to turn around as she heard another set of footsteps right behind her.
“So, you and some other humans have been living here?” Simon asked.
“Yeah. For now, no ponies know if this place. This is our safe haven and we’ll stay here until we find another place, or if somepony finds this place first.” She explained. “We only stay in one room since the others look a bit unsafe.” She went through a small crack through the door and Simon followed behind. He looked around to see… not a lot of people. Their was pretty much only four other humans. One girl and three boys, counting on only two girls and three guys.
The first girl seemed like the shy type, with her long hair, dirty gown and bare feet. Her hair was brown while her eyes were a bright brown. The first guy he saw looked scrawny, having a simple attire and big glasses that he fixes one in awhile. The second one looked the youngest as he had spiky brown hair, brown eyes, and white skin. The last one had black skin, black hair and brown eyes. He also seemed like the average type.
“The shy girl is Amy, my name is Sophia, the nerd-lookin’ guy is Chad, the youngest is Zylen, and the last is Alec.” Sophia introduced.
“Sup.” Alec said.
“Hey!” Zylen was second.
“Hi.” Chad simply said.
“H-hello.” Amy shyly was the last to speak.
“Uhm, hey.” Simon awkwardly said. “The name’s Simon.”
“So how did you find this place?” Zylen asked.
“I just aimlessly walked through the alley.” Simon simply answered, rubbing his neck a he averted his eyes for only a moment.
“W-were you f-followed?” Amy asked as she slowly walked closer to Simon, getting his focus on her instead.
“Well, I don’t thi-” Before he could finish, the door behind the six human were slammed open and a greenish-white earth pony was shown. He had a two tone green mane and tail and wore a striped white and red shirt. He grinned as he saw the six humans.
“RUN!” Sophia shouted as the other five did just that. Sophia used her pistol and shot at the stallion, only for the bullets to do nothing. The pony was thinking on grabbing the red-head with just his maw, but didn’t expect for the human’s gun to have one last bullet as she shot it in one of his nostrils. He yelped in surprise as the bullet actually hurt and made his nose bleed. This made him angry.
Sophia then threw the gun at him before she started running the same way. She easily caught up as they were close to reaching the exit. What they didn’t expect was another stallion jumping in front of them. This one was a earth pony stallion as well, but he was a light blue with a two toned mane and tail that was blue and a bluish-green. He also had a tuft of fur on his chin.
“We got you now!” He said as he tried to reach for them, but they were fast enough to avoid the hoof and start running again. They didn’t see that they were entering one of the ‘unsafe’ rooms as yellow metal barrels were in the room. They heard the giant hoofsteps of the two ponies as they needed to hide someplace.
“Quick! In here!” Alec shouted as they all went through a empty knocked-down barrel and saw that they were trapped if they found them.
“What are we gonna do now!?” Chad asked with fear in his tone.
“Don’t panic, if they find us, I’ll distract them so the rest of you can escape.” Sophia said.
“What!? No way, you're always distracting the ponies who find us.” Alec said. “I’ll do it.”
“No. I’m going to distract them, and you’ll go escape.” Sophia said angrily.
“No! I will.”
“I will!”
“Me!”
“ME!”
The two continued bickering, not realizing that the said bickering was loud enough for the two stallions to know where they are.
“I’ll let you guys escape and that’s final!” Sophia said, stomping her foot.
“Too late!” One of the stallions said before he started lifting up the empty barrel, trapping the six humans in it. “Well, well, well. What a lucky haul we just found.” The second stallion’s head poked out and smiled evilly.
Most of the humans looked at them in fear while Sam and Sophia gave harsh glares that did nothing to the two stallions.
“This is kinda fun, but I know we gotta get Mane-iac outta prison again. Let's get rid of them.” He said.
“Get rid of them? But can’t we just eat them?” The second stallion spoke.
“Of course we can you idiot! But you should know how Mane-iac would react if she finds out we found some humans and didn’t save at least one for her. And you know how slick they are if they aren’t in your stomach.” The first one explained, to which the second only looked at him for some time before he walked away, the six humans not seeing him anymore.
“I got an idea! Let’s bury them in some of this ‘eres junk.” The second said. Simon’s eyes widened as he could hear something heavy being brought closer before he saw a small corner of another yellow barrel. “They won’t be able to survive is, since we aren’t technically hurting them physically.”
Outside the empty barrel, the two stallions were getting ready to reach out for the humans and simply drop them into whatever was in the barrel. They took the top off to see some green glowing liquid. They assumed it was either some acid or some of the toxic liquid that some ponies use for glow sticks.
“Now which one should go first? Eenie, meenie, minie, you!” He easily plucked Sophia. “This is what ya get for shootin’ me in mah nose.”
“Let go of me you over dyed horse!” She shouted as she tried to scratch the hoof that was holding her. When that didn’t work, she was throwing punches and kicks to try and land one on the equine.
“Feisty one, aren’t cha?” He said. “Too bad you won’t be around for long.” At that, he simply tossed her in the barrel, Sophia first surfacing to catch a breath, but the second stallion was quick to dunk her back in it.
“And who’s gonna be human number two?” The stallion didn’t care who he picked up. When his hoof came out, he was holding Chad, who was shaking like a leaf. “Oh? Four eyes? Well, I don’t have a grudge against you, but things just have to happen.” And once again, he tossed the small human in the barrel, touching the edge a little as he was shocked by a small spark before he touched the green liquid.
“You won’t get away with this!” Alec shouted. And after he did, he was the next one to be picked up and roughly thrown into the barrel, hitting the edge as some clumps of the rusty edge scrape his exposed skin.
The stallion looked inside the barrel to see Simon hugging Amy for comfort while Zylen was trying to climb out, but wasn’t making any progress. The green stallion decided that he’d get the human trying to escape before going to the last two. Zylen yelped in surprise as he was picked up. He started to squirm until he saw what he was under and was now clinging on to the hair of the hoof for dear life.
“See you never.” He simply said before the human was released and he hit the liquid with a big splash. Well, a big splash for his size.
“Now for the last two.” The other stallion said as he picked the two up at the same time. Using separate hooves to split them apart. The second pony handed Simon to the first one. Amy was in tears now that she knew it was the end for her.
“Aww~ tears already? Don’t worry, you’ll be with your friends soon enough.” He finished as he dropped her into the green-liquid-filled barrel, Amy screaming as her small body met the liquid.
“And then there was one.” He said. “We thought that maybe we could get a good snack outta you. But you seem rather bland. No hard feelings, but now it’s time to die.” And after those last words, he dropped Simon. The human not bothering to scream, shout, or even yell any regrets. He was just rather thankful this would happen and this whole nightmare would end and he could see his family again. He couldn’t help but think back on the so-called Power Ponies. Thinking back on his wish, and smiling as he met the green substance and could do nothing but wait for the inevitable to happen.
But it seemed some sort of luck was granted to both him, and his newly acquainted friends.
Simon let out the breath he was holding as he felt a small feeling of warmth. It was rather sudden, that he wasn’t ready for the next wave of warmth, it increasing as the wave lasted longer.
Outside from the barrel, one of the stallions put the top back on the barrel. “Still sucks that we couldn’t eat them. Bet they would’ve tasted really good.” The blue-furred stallion said as he started walking beside the other stallion with the striped shirt.
“Yeah. But ya know Mane-iac and how she’d react if she knew we found humans without givin’ her any.” The other stallion said as they were close to the exit. They were about to be greeted by the cool night air, until a small banging noise was heard.
They both stopped as they wanted to see if they were just hearing something.
The bang was heard again, but much louder.
The two couldn’t help but feel a hint of nervousness as they slowly turned around. Their eyes widened as they saw the barrel the humans were left in start to shake and glow. Their eyes also widened as they saw the toxic symbol that was very faded. They had a feeling that they bucked up bad.
Really bad.
The two couldn’t do anything as the barrel was shaking more and glowing brighter. One of the stallions had a feeling that it was gonna blow.
“Take cover!” He shouted as he grabbed the other stallion and went behind some stacked up barrels. It was good timing as the barrel glowed so bright, that it blinded the whole room in white before the sound of an explosion was heard.
The stallions decided to take a peak after the glow was gone and no more debris was being thrown. Both their jaws dropped as they couldn’t believe what they saw.
There, right where the barrel once was, were the six humans. But they were much bigger. If they were to approach them, the humans would be taller than them. Well, they mostly seemed human.
The first one they threw in the barrel was now literally on fire. Her hair and eyes practically glowing red and green. It also seemed that her clothes were protected as they weren’t affected by the fire. And neither of them know why, but she was also floating in mid air.
The second human was somewhat in the same predicament, only he had an array of yellow, white and blue lightning all around him. He was practically lightning himself, his skin glowing a bright yellow with bright blue eyes. His glasses also changed to just one side lense. His hair was also spiked up a little as it was yellow as his glowing skin.
The third human was pretty much made of metal. Just think of a human being dipped in silver with regular clothes on, and there's your weird human.
The fourth one seemed like the one who looked the least human. He looked like a hybrid of a reptyle. His once short and spiky hair was long, poofy and green. He had two small horns on his forehead. His skin was two different shades of green all over. He even had a striped tail that curled around the end. Both his hands and feet had claws at the end, but the one thing that really got their attention, was his eyes. They were entirely green with darker green swirls.
The fifth human that they put in the barrel seemed like the most human, as the only difference was her hair and eyes. Her hair was black now with white tips while her eyes were red.
But it seemed the last human was still in the process of changing. Both the humans and equines turned to look at Simon, who was on the floor. He looked perfectly fine, until it seemed his growth wasn’t put on halt. All the male human could feel was the wave of heat and warmth around him. Not seeing that he was growing, or that he was much different in size.
Without saying anything, Sophia grabbed the other four humans, the flaming human somehow not burning them. And was quick to get out the building. But the two ponies who made all this happen were unlucky. Their only exit was blocked as Simon’s growth made some old barrels get knocked down and block the open doorway.
By now, the two stallions were now running around in blind panic.
Halfway through filling the whole wrecked up room, Simon was able to ignore the intense heat and open his eyes. He was shocked to see that he was filling up the room. Not even a minute ago he could’ve been eaten by the two ponies, but now it seemed like the roles were switched. He looked down to see the two stallions were freaking out. By a quick glance around the room, he could tell that he was gonna destroy the whole place, and the ponies had no way of escaping the room. Simon spotted an open window, and had a simple, but good enough plan to save them.
Yeah, he knows that the two nearly killed him and his newly made friends, but that doesn’t mean he had to stoop to their level to give them what they deserve. Even though Simon was on his knees, his head now was touching the ceiling. ‘There's no time for any second options.’ He thought as he easily picked up the two ponies, it feeling like he was picking up living fur-covered mini umbrellas. The two stallions were now more scared as they were easily lifted off the ground. Simon then brought them through the window and placed them down before he brought his hands back in the building. The stallions now were running for the hills, wanting to get as far away from those freaks as possible.
Simon was now by himself as the walls started closing in, and he started losing more and more space. The room groaned and creaked as his body started crushing any barrels and trash in the room, breaking more barrels and more of the green liquid getting all over Simon. He thought that if he stayed any longer, he’d be too big to stand on the city. Simon didn’t like the idea, but he had to get out. And the only way he could do that was by breaking through the building.
Gritting his teeth, he used all of his strength to break through the ceiling. When he opened his eyes after brushing the rubble out of his hair, he saw that what happened to both him and his friends brought in a crowd. All around he saw ponies watching in both awe and fright. A pegasus mare was the first to scream at the sight of him before many other ponies joined in and was now running away. Simon knew he had to leave the city before they might get the wrong idea. He stood up to his full height and was more surprised that the large buildings in the city only went up to his shoulder. But he shook the shock off as he started taking his first step.
He made sure that nopony was on the spot he set his foot on, and saw that the impact of his sneaker made a rather noticeable imprint on the street. ‘Better make my way outta this city.’ He thought as instead of taking one step at a time, he started jogging through a street that was void of any ponies. What he didn’t expect was that even jogging would shake up the city.
He then started hearing small wing flaps, and turned to see a press pony taking a picture of him. He put his hood up as instead of jogging, he was running. In less than five minutes, he was out of the city and now in a dark forest. Granted, the trees barely went over his knees, but it was better than being in a city full of scared ponies. He sat down as he hugged his legs and was now looking at the city that was now smaller by both size and distance.
He let out a small sigh as he looked up at the night sky. ‘What do I do now?’ He thought, yawning as it seemed all that growing and running out of the city tired him out. He laid down as best as he could, still looking at the sky as he started nodding off, thinking about one last thing before he was met with darkness. ‘I hope Sophia and the other’s are okay...’