• Published 9th Jul 2013
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Humans in Equestria - Dyon



Two average males find themselves suddenly taken to Equestria by a freak happening, and are quick to learn that it isn't anything like what they had hoped. Now having been turned into children they have to navigate the world and find their way h

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How it all began

“I don’t know dude I really don’t like HiE,” Matt said over the skype call. Though we were separated by several hundred miles the miracle of technology allowed us to chat instantly. Something I always found awesome.

“I understand that you don’t like the genre, and I can’t fault you for that. But, if you had to, what way would you toss a character into Equestria.” I often went into tangents like this. My mind being a seriously warped place I often found myself having trouble not daydreaming.

“Well I wouldn't want it to be painful.”

“I just think that a multidimensional trip should take a lot out of a person. It’s not like I ALWAYS try to seriously injure the character,” I defended.

“I don’t know, man. Everytime I read one of your stories the main protagonist always gets injured, ” he replied.

“Two times!”

“All I’m saying is if I got stuck in one of your stories, it would really suck.” I didn’t think that I would try to seriously harm my friend in that circumstance… probably not.

“Who are you kidding? You wouldn’t last a day there.”

“What,” I heard him dismiss over his mike, “I could totally make it.”

“You would have no one to bring you food twenty-four seven. You would starve in a day.” I pointed out.

“Pfft, I could provide for myself, unlike someone. Not enough fast food,” he shot back.

“I love apples man. Equestria is full of apples, ergo I would have an easy time of it.”

“You would also have to work. Your lazy ass would be a homeless bum on the side of the road.” Ugh, work. My old enemy.

“Well this argument could go in circles for hours.” I reclined into my chair. “You still avoided the question. How would you shoot someone into Equestria?”

“I would just use a portal.” I could practically hear him shrug on the other side of the call.

“So you would just go with the simple toss them through a portal answer? It seems to be a tried and true method, Matt, but not one I am particularly fond of.”

“Well, how would you do it, you amazingly awesome author?” Oh, now the sarcasm was making an appearance.

“Well for this analogy lets use you as the subject.”

“If you are gonna toss me away I’m dragging you down with me,” he replied.

“You are all the way in Texas. How are you going to get to me?”

“I have my ways.” I rolled my eyes at his response.

“Anyways… since you are such a fan of portals, I would have one just show up out of nowhere and drag you off to places unknown.” Maybe there would be a little pain involved.

“That’s pretty considerate of you. I doubt I would mind though. I hear Equestria is nice this time of year.” A random thought struck me, and I started to laugh lightly. “What?”

“I was just thinking. If the laws of the multiverse are really true then we just sent some poor bastard to Equestria by having this conversation.”

“I don’t think that’s how the multiverse works, bro. I’m pretty sure you speak of parallel universes.”.

“The multiverse is the culmination of all parallel universes so, ha!”

I didn’t hear the quick retort that I had expected. Instead, from the other side of the call I heard a little bit of static followed by silence. “Matt, are you still there?” I asked.

I closed my browser, and opened the skype tab on my computer, and saw that the call had ended a couple of seconds ago. I glanced to the bottom corner of my computer, and noted that it was already 4:35 AM. It wasn’t unusual for me to stay up this late, and Matt was usually awake for far longer. He might have gone to bed, but it was really strange that he didn’t tell me first.

I shrugged and reopened Google Chrome. I was about to go back to surfing reddit when I heard a low rumbling sound start emanating behind me. I took off my headphones, and turned my chair around to see a black orb hanging over my bed not three feet away.

“What the fuck…” I started, but was cut off, as the orb rapidly expanded into what I could only assume was a black hole.

I jumped to my feet, and immediately tried to make a break for the door. I had no idea what was going on, but I wanted nothing to do with it. Just as I ran past my bed, a black gloved hand shot out of the hole and grabbed my jacket collar. Panicking, I grabbed a glass that I had sitting on my desk and started beating the offending hand with it.

My struggling was in vain however, as the black hole began to pull the arm back into it with me still attached. I braced my legs against the metal frame of the bed, but with a final yank, my leg slipped and I was pulled over the rails, and into the dark void. The last thing that I thought before plunging head first into the spiraling black sphere was how much having my body ripped apart hurt.








“Wake up.”

Ow

“Get up.”

Ow

“Wake up!”

Ow

If the kicks to my ribs were any indication, someone really wanted me to stop lying on the ground passed out. Slowly, my mind started to float back to the conscious realm, and I cautiously opened my eyes. I found myself staring up at a thick canopy overhead.

The morning sun had just started to peek over the horizon, and the first rays of light shone through the leaves. It would have been a really beautiful sight if I didn’t loathe the outdoors so much. My allergies would always start killing me if I got within a hundred yards of the wrong kind of tree.

I felt another kick hit me in the ribs, causing me to yelp as I flipped over to avoid my assailant. I glared back at my attacker, and suddenly my mind stopped working. In front of me stood an extremely scrawny pegasus, and he looked really pissed. His coat was burnt orange, and his black mane was tied into a ponytail that hung over one side of his neck. For some reason he was wearing a black trench coat, which was perfectly fitted, and allowed his wings to stick out of the sides.

“What. The fuck. Did you do?” Wait a second I recognized that voice.

“Matt?” I asked, causing the pony to just become more enraged.

“Yea it’s me, asshole.” He pointed an accusatory hoof at me, but in doing so lost his footing and fell on his face. “What did you do to us?” he mumbled through the dirt.

I chuckled lightly at his flailing; this was certainly my friend. Something he had said struck me and caused my eyes to widen in panic. I looked down at myself, and confirmed what I had feared. I… was a pony.

I was still wearing my hoodie, which I thought was odd, but there were much stranger things going on at the moment. The coat under my jacket was very dark gray, almost black. I couldn’t see my mane, but if my tail was any indication then it was black with two streaks of azure running through it.

I held up a hoof in front of my face and examined it. A part of me had expected to find it to be one pastel color, like everything else I had seen in the show, but as I looked at the appendage closely I found that it looked very much like a normal hoof that I had seen on horses before. It came to my attention that I was still laying on my side, so I shakily began to try and stand up. It was actually a lot easier than I thought it would be, and I soon found myself standing in the middle of the dark forest.

I looked back at Matt who had managed to find a way to a standing position again. I hadn’t actually expected him to have turned out to be a pegasus. If I had to assign a race to him solely based on what I knew about the guy then I would probably have to go with unicorn.

Another wave of panic, significantly less intense this time, washed over me and I quickly turned to look at my side. I noted the distinct lack of wings so I raised a hoof, very carefully, from the ground and held it to my head. After searching for a few seconds I put my hoof back to the ground and sighed.

“God dammit,” I muttered, barely above a whisper.

“What now?” he said, as he struggled to get used to standing on four legs..

“I wanted to be a unicorn.”

“Don’t care, not my problem.” Ah, his tone was becoming more aggressive. “What do you plan on doing about this?”

“I don’t know, because I didn’t do shit!” I yelled back at him.

“I’m sitting at home minding my own business when a magic portal opens out of nowhere, and then sucks me in. Since you were talking about sending me through a magic portal not ten seconds before that happened then it stands to reason that this is all your fucking fault.”

“Then why the hell am I here? Did you really find a way to come to drag me here with you?” I was extremely curious about that point.

“I have my ways,” he shrugged casually and replied with a slight grin, causing me to facehoof, which was actually pretty awesome.

“Now who is the asshole!” I pointed a hoof back at him, and was proud when I didn't fall flat on my face. One point to me. “You have to pull me into your shitstorm?”

“Hey, if I had to get screwed, I’d rather not be alone. After all, what are friends for?”

“THATS THE WORST FUCKING ARGUMENT I HAVE EVER HEARD!” I know it is one of my few negative traits, but I do tend to get worked up pretty easily.

Matt looked at if he was going to reply, but paused and looked around. “Hey, uh, not that I don’t love arguing because I really do, but you really shouldn’t be yelling.”

“AND WHY THE FUCK NOT?”

“Really, stop that.” He warily started glancing at the bushes that surrounded us. “I think we should get out of here, maybe?”

“What are things getting a little intense for poor little Matthew?”

He shot back the glare that I knew was coming. “Don’t call me that. Not cool.”

“And screwing up my life just because your’s got messed up is? What the hell, Matt! What the actual hell!” The screaming was back on.

He shakily started marching up to me. “You think I wanted this? Really now, I would rather be back home in my chair instead of in a fucking forest! This is your fault and I’m not going to be fucked alone,” he said, his voice rising with each step.

I really don't understand the weird thing that he has with being called by his full name, but I knew that he would now not let it go. The guy could be really obstinate sometimes. He was still standing in front of me with that expression, which could not be mistaken for anything except contempt. The forest around us had gone deathly silent, which any fan of horror out there would know, is a very bad thing.

“Wait, Matt. I think we are in the Everfree Forest.” Now I was the one glancing at every shadow as if expecting them to come alive and eat me.

“I mean, for—” He went silent while staring at me. “What did you say?”

“I said shut the fuck up, and don't make any sudden movements,” I replied as I began to inch away.

“Are you sure it’s Everfree? I mean, there ARE other woods and forests,” he said skeptically.

I looked up to confirm my suspicions, and then motioned for him to do the same. “The clouds in the Everfree...”

“Move all on their own,” he finished. I saw his abnormally large eyes dilate in fear as he also began to hesitantly follow me.

Of course it was an evil thing to do. I know that I shouldn't have done it to a friend, especially not the only one that I had in this world. Looking back on it now I probably wouldn't have gone through with it, but at the time I was really pissed off at the guy.

“Oh my god, Matt, don't move,” I said as I froze and stared behind him.

He stopped immediately and sighed. “I know how this ends. There’s something behind me, isn’t there?”

I slowly approached him, and put a hoof on his shoulder. “No.” With minimal effort I pushed him over, and ran into the treeline behind me, laughing like a maniac. “Fuck you, asshole!” I yelled back as I got too far away from him to hear what his reply would’ve been.

I raced through the trees looking frantically for some kind of trail. Knowing that the Everfree Forest was the one wild territory in all of Equestria I had little hope of finding one. As I ran through the trees I noticed the distinct lack of animals around me. Maybe I would be lucky, and the animals would catch on that I was actually human and leave me alone.

With some significant measure of fortune I broke through the treeline, and found myself standing in an open field. I looked around to make sure that this wasn't just a large clearing, and sighed in relief when my fears were laid to rest. Somehow, I had actually managed to make it out of the Everfree Forest without running into any wildlife.

I turned around, and gazed back into the dark foreboding forest. Maybe I shouldn't have deserted Matt in there. He would have probably have been eaten by a rogue manticore by now.

“Oh, Matt,” I began, “You were such a valiant friend. I know that you didn't really mean to trap me in this world, and then leave me all alone. From now until my dying day I shall live for you, and share your heroic tale of sacrifice.” To my left an orange pegasus came bumbling out of the trees in much the same fashion that I had. “Well it took you long enough.”

He caught his breath from all his running. “Oh, sorry that I wasn’t fast enough. You didn’t even have time to regale anyone about my heroic tales.”

“Sure I did,” I lied. “I already met with Twilight and solved a massive crisis in Equestria in the time it took for you to get here. I was coming to pay my final respects before I set off to scour the globe for a way home.”

He rolled his eyes. “I’m sure. Very nice move back there, I was impressed. Just wait for my turn.”

“How are you going to push me over?”

He stomped over to me and stared. “I have my ways. Just you wait.”

“Get out of my face, Romeo.” With another slight shove he was sprawled on the ground again. “You know, being an earth pony seems to have its perks.”

“You know, karma's a bitch. I happen to like the ground, it’s very soft.”

“Good. You can stay there while I go to Canterlot.” I turned away from him and started walking. Behind me I heard him get up and quickly trot up along side me.

“That sounds pretty stupid.”

“Yea well, so does your face.” I was the master of comebacks.

“Seriously though, wouldn’t you be banished or exiled. I assume you mean to go to Princess Celestia with your problem.”

“Our problem, and no, now that would truly be stupid. I’m going to Canterlot to completely avoid the princesses finding out.”

“Wouldn’t have thought you’d do that. Doesn’t everyone in HiE fanfics do that?”

“No, idiot. They go and talk to Twilight, and then she tells the princess. And every single time that happens they end up having to fight some super evil villain. Do you want to fight a villain? I know I don't. So I am going to break the rules, and go completely off story.” This had been something I had thought over many times before I had even found myself in this world.

“Glad you planned on coming here, really makes you seem like you didn’t want to,” he said. The sarcasm was always strong with this one. “Anyways, shouldn’t we stay in the nearest town or Ponyville? Get our bearings and become not homeless ponies, or something. We’re kinda broke.”

“This is true.” It seemed like I would have to change my plans. “Since we just exited the Everfree then I can assume that we are near Ponyville. From everything I’ve seen it seems like it is relatively easy to find work there.”

“Well, easy enough to find Ponyville. Travel along the border until we see it.”

“Is that really what you want to do though? It seems so cliche to go to Ponyville first thing.” I really hate cliches

“Says the cliche master. I said nearest town, I’m not a fan of walking. Especially not for a long time, and even more so when it’s dark.”

“Fine, fine. I will bow to your rationality this time.” I took his advice, and began to hug the treeline. I doubted it would take long for us to reach the small village. “So what is going to be our cover story then?”

“You read too much. First off, we don’t need some stupid cover story. Tourism is pretty common everywhere, but if you want to make up some silly story or background, feel free to do so. If anything, we should come up with names.”

“Those are very important. You know my theory about pony names after all.” The names seem to be the key to everything.

“Stupid theory, but it makes sense.” He suddenly stopped walking and looked at his trenchcoat. “Wonder what my cutie mark is.”

He prompted an interesting point. I also turned and tried to look at my flank. Much to my surprise, I actually had one. It was a blue pen crossed with a weird spiraling line. I had absolutely no idea what it was supposed to mean so I shrugged and looked over to Matt. “What do you got?”

He lifted the trenchcoat to check, somehow managing to keep his balance this time though it was somewhat shakily. “I...got nothing,” he said with a sigh before dropping the coat.

“Ha, blank flank!” I exclaimed, sure it was childish but I found it insanely funny at the time.

“Not cool dude, plus what the hell does your’s even mean?” It was a fair question since I had absolutely no idea, and since I couldn’t answer I did the only rational thing and simply ignored the question.

“Is that a building over there?” I asked pointing to the very far off obstruction that I could barely make out. No, I wasn’t simply using this as a way to change the topic, that was an added benefit.

Matt squinted to where I was pointing “Yea, Merripony Hotel, never heard of it but that’s probably where we will find the town.”

I looked at him with what I could only expect to be shock, how the hell did he see that? “How the hell did you see that?” I doubt anyone has ever blamed me for being indirect. “Don’t you wear glasses normally?”

He looked back at me then once again to the apparent hotel in the distance “What you mean you can’t see that?”

I looked back over “I can see...a really far away purple thing. You can actually read the damn sign?”

He smirked back at me “Seems earth ponies aren’t the only ones with special benefits,” he replied smugly.

“Still wanted to be a unicorn,” I mumbled as I began moving once more, heading towards the Merripony Hotel.

The building was probably only a mile away by what I could have judged but it took us so goddamn long to get there(mostly because of my partner’s slow pace) that I bet a good forty minutes had passed, plus Matt was nearly collapsed on the ground by the time we did reach it. I on the other hand, well I guess it is hoof now, was feeling fine if not a little invigorated by the journey, okay maybe being an earth pony wasn’t too bad. What did stand out as we crested the final hill that let us peer down at the building was how huge it was, who would need a hotel that damn big. The Merripony Hotel did happen to sit just on the edge of town and a short dirt road led to the town that was another two miles away as best I could judge. I couldn’t really make out the individual buildings of the town that well, but the one thing that did stand out to me was a giant oak tree right in the center, which gave it away as undoubtedly being Ponyville.

I looked down to my friend that was panting on the ground next to me and decided that he needed a breather. “Sooo, looks like we are in Ponyville,” I informed my panting cohort.

“Oh yea,” he said between his wheezing, “what gave it away?”

“Twilight’s library. By the way when was the last time you left your house, you’re not going to have a heart attack on me are you? Because I don’t know where the hospital is so I would just have to sit here and watch you die, which doesn’t sound like a whole lot of fun.”

He once again pushed himself up into a shaky mockery of the sitting position I had taken “Just need to get my hooves back under me.” He continued to breath heavily for a few more seconds while I stared at him again, he eventually caught on and turned to me “What?”

“You said get your hooves under you. Are you already going native on me man?”

“What I...no. Well shouldn’t we speak the lingo? I mean as long as we are here we should talk like they do. When in Rome right?” he hastily defended.

“Alright, I guess that makes sense dude, but if I see you eating grass I’m going to have to put you down.” I earned a punch in the arm for that remark, and in case you were wondering if ponies can punch, yes they can though not very well. The hooves do hurt a lot though. “I guess you are ready to go again?” I asked as I rubbed my arm.

He stood once more and surprisingly wasn’t shaking this time “Waiting on you.” With that he began to walk down the hill and I quickly followed after. Once again I found myself marvelling at just how freaking huge they had built this building. From where I was looking up at it the thing had to be at least eighty feet high, they had even made the door twice as big as it needed to be. I guess they did that so they could get furniture in and out, like pianos?

We reached to bottom of the hill and Matt was the first to ask the obvious question “So now what?”

I looked about and honestly couldn’t really pick out anything we should specifically do. “I guess we go inside this big ass hotel and see what’s up,” I said, shrugging as I headed for the open door.

Matt was right at my side, though I was considerate to keep my stride slow enough for him to keep up without much effort “Yea I know right, what’s up with that.”

As soon as we stepped inside it was pretty obvious why it was so huge, they had built the place for giants! The ponies walking around had to be at least three times as big as us, there had to be ten of them of all different races and colors just going about their business. There had definitely been none of this in the show, how were we supposed to deal with this?

“Hello there little ones,” said a giant mare dressed in what was probably the hotel uniform, “are your parents here with you or are they already checked in?”

It took a few seconds for my brain to process all of that information, and when it did I nearly fainted. I mean I definitely felt the head rush and the overwhelming desire to just check out, but I somehow managed to stay on my hooves. Damn now I was doing it too. “No...they uh...are in town?” I half asked the mare who was staring down at me. Matt to my left was still deciding if he wanted to just faint right then and there; I couldn’t really blame the guy.

The mare continued to smile, which brought back oh so many painful memories of dealing with adults as a child, god I hated being young. Well since I had just been thinking this whole time that I had been the same age as I had been only to discover that I was not, I had no idea how old we were now. “So you two must be new in town huh? What are your names cutie pies?”

The question caught me completely off guard, I knew we should have picked names earlier but we had gotten distracted by something. “Names? Names!” Oh it seemed like Matt had finally recovered. “Why care about names when....” I cut him off by wrapping my right hoof around his neck and my left over his mouth, when I actually tried to do something with this new body it didn’t actually seem that difficult.

“What he meant to say...was that we aren’t supposed to talk to strangers. Yep, that’s what our parents said.” I quickly cut in to try and ease the situation. The mare didn’t seem convinced in the least, though I doubt she had any inkling towards what we, mainly me, were trying to hide.

Her smile faltered a little, but like a seasoned pony that worked in the service industry her training kicked in and it remained plastered on her face “That is a very wise thing. Why don’t you two wait here in the lobby until they arrive okay?” she began to usher us to a couch in the lobby, and we were really unable to refuse. Only once we were seated, and I had let go of Matt’s mouth, did the mare leave us to go attend to her duties.

“What the fuck dude.” Was all he could really say.

“I know, this sucks. We won’t be able to go anywhere now, or possibly get jobs to earn money. We are so screwed.” I held my head in my hooves, again it was a lot easier to do than I would have thought.

“Who cares about that, we might have to go to school! There is a reason I didn’t go to high school. I fucking hate school. And think about it, if they find out we don’t actually have parents coming for us then we might get placed into foster care or some shit.” That actually made me shiver, the thought hadn’t even crossed my mind but now I was practically shaking, oh wait, no I was literally shaking.

“What are we going to do Matt, I am not prepared for this.”

“Alright get a hold of yourself. First thing we need to do is actually get names, we almost screwed ourselves over there. I think I will be...Burnt Steel,” he said puffing his chest out a bit and causing me to laugh. “What I like it.”

“No problem Steel, you just don’t seem quite manly enough for that name. You have a point though we need names so how about...Ashen Stroke.” That name sounded good to me, yea I liked it.

Matt continued looking at me for a while longer not saying anything “Alright that is a pretty good one, still I like mine. Guess we should try and call each other by these names huh.”

“Yea probably, Steel. Anyways I really think we need a backstory, how did two foals end up here all on their own huh? What if someone asks that?”

“Somepony you mean,” he corrected, “but yea that’s a fair point. Okay how about this, we are two brothers and our parents died in a train accident and we have been taking care of ourselves ever since.”

“...”

“What, you have something better?” he asked indignantly after my silence.

“No it’s just...you watch way too much anime dude. But fine whatever, we can go with that since I think it will play well.”

“Alright good, now we need to get out of here,” he continued.

“Yea that is probably a good idea, don’t want to be still sitting here when they close and have to deal with that mare asking us questions. Best to leave before that.” With that we both hopped off of the couch and stealthily moved between covers to make sure that we weren’t seen. I for one thought we did very well. We waited behind a potted plant, really how could we have not noticed that we were children at the start of this whole fiasco, until we saw the mare at the door turn her back to talk with some customer.

We raced as fast as our little hooves could carry us for the door and freedom, but we came up against an impenetrable shield of purple energy. “Damn cheating unicorns.” I heard Matt say as we were tugged into the air by the same force and made to turn and look at the doormare. Of course now that I was actually looking I could see that she had a horn beneath that mottled mane on top of her head.

“And just where are you two going?” she seemed to scold, ah scoldings how I have missed you fondly. “Won’t your parents be worried if you run off somewhere?”

I didn’t really have a reply ready but luckily(or unluckily seeing as how things turned out) Matt, or should I say Steel, stepped up immediately “Our parents are dead!” For some reason, probably being in a child’s body and having little control over your emotions, he started bawling right then and there. Tears were running heavily down his cheeks and the mare that had us immobilized quickly looked both nervous and ashamed.

All I could really do was facehoof for the second time that day at just how tangled the situation had become “We are so fucked.”

Author's Note:

If anyone has a better cover image let me know because I couldn't find anything I liked.