A change in Monotony.
The Princess and the Human.
Chapter One – A change in Monotony.
It was a morning like any other. He would wake up, bathe, eat breakfast and be on his way. He already knew how the rest day would play out. The sights and smells on the way to work never changed either. There was the drunken, homeless, doomsday prophet outside his apartment building. There was the never ending tide of motor vehicles that ran down the street. The people that just went about their own meagre lives. It never changed and it probably never will.
Once he got to work he would be greeted by the same old, same old. The boss on a tirade over him arriving late, despite the fact he would arrive five minutes early. The other slack-jawed casual that had no right to even work here, but he was the boss’s friend.
People would come and people would go. He would smile and sell them the products that they wanted and get them to buy things they didn’t. It was nothing more than a repeated routine that he did over and over.
After work, he would head back to his little apartment. It was a place that offered a retreat from the everyday… but not the monotony.
Kai stretched and glanced at his bedside clock. He had just over two hours to get to work so that meant plenty of time. He checked the small solar panel that hung from his window and attached a flat battery to it. He got up and after brushing his teeth and having a quick shower he was ready to go.
He locked his apartment and headed down the stairs, only to be greeted by a hairy, homeless guy.
“It's the end ‘o’ the world!” he cried. “You gotta get ready for a life changin’ event!”
“If you say so Phil” Kai sighed. The guy was okay and Kai would give him a few bucks for food often. But he had prophesised the end of the world for the last year and a half now. He gave Phil ten bucks and headed down the street. It was always the same, cars and trucks rumbling down the asphalt whilst hundreds of people bustled about, heading to work or just going about their own lives. Nobody looked at on another; there was no friendliness or recognition. Just people that viewed each other as mere objects.
Kai eventually reached his place of employment, an EB Games store. He enjoyed video games so it followed suit that he enjoyed working here, but he didn’t enjoy his workmates. The boss was a total ass who was already yelling at him for no damned reason. But he wouldn’t fire him, Kai was too good at his job and he knew it. The other guy was a complete idiot, he had no product knowledge or sales skills and mostly just stood around, letting Kai do all the work. But he was a friend of the boss and the two of them would often just stand around chatting and playing the demo consoles.
“I heard you dumped that chick I set you up with last night” the idiot said as Kai walked in.
“Because she was an idiot” Kai retorted as he signed into the computer. “I don’t want to deal with a girl whose biggest decision in life is who’s hotter, Zac Effron or Justin Beiber”.
“But she was hot” the idiot replied. “You just need to chillax man”.
Kai just sighed and opened the store. “Whatever” he muttered as the first customers walked in.
The day just marched on and Kai was soon making the walk back home. The same sights, the same smells.
“Nothing ever changes” he muttered. “And nothing ever will”.
He opened the door to his apartment and disappeared inside. He would have dinner, play some games, and browse the web before going to sleep.
Just another typical day
***
Today was not a typical day.
Twilight Sparkle, Alicorn Princess of Magic and a Bearer of an Element of Harmony. Her gold slippers clicked along the marble floor of the palace whilst her faithful dragon assistant, Spike, tailed quickly behind her.
“Is it that important that you have to do it today!?” he said. “Ponies aren’t going anywhere fast”.
“That’s the problem” Twilight said. “Teleportation is exclusive to only a hoof full of Unicorns and the Pegasi have their wings… but what about earth ponies? They have to walk, or take a train, or a carriage… but what if? Just what if they could teleport? What if everypony could teleport?”
“Seriously?” Spike sighed. “And how are you gonna do that? Make everypony grow a horn?”
“No, the ethics committee wouldn't let me” Twilight said. “But maybe I could create a hoof held device or something. Maybe…?”
Spike chose to tune out at this point. When Twilight started to go all ‘Sciencey’ he would just imagine what Rarity was doing.
“Spike? Spi~ike!” Twilight called him out from Rarity-land. “What do you think?”
“Huh? Oh uuh, sure. Sounds good?” he half agreed and asked. What was it he agreed to exactly?
“I think so too. A hoof held device is probably a little too ambitious at the moment. But maybe a larger one…?”
She continued to mutter to herself as they climbed the ramp to Twilight Observatory. It had been her old room when she was still Celestia’s student, but she insisted that she stay here even after becoming a Princess.
After striding inside, Twilight wasted no time in levitating several books down and began to scan through them simultaneously. “Hmm, no. Not this one… or this one either…”
Spike shrugged and yawned. It had been a long day and he was beat. Twilight would be up for hours researching this so Spike left a snack out for her and headed to bed. “Just another typical day” he yawned and fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.
Twilight soon found what she was looking for and went straight to work. What she had planned could revolutionise the way ponies would get from one place to another. A series of networked transport gates to could transfer large amounts of matter from one city to another. Imagine have breakfast in Trottingham, lunch in Canterlot and tea in the Crystal Empire!
She re-read the book and then began to make adjustments for a larger scale version. It was quite similar to her own teleportation spell really. A crystal base would serve as the main storage device for the magic while a series of lenses in a large ring would act to focus the spell and cast it.
Her horn lit up and a magic circle appeared on the ground. She placed four crystals at each point and then put a few things onto the circle itself. A book and an apple.
“Beginning test one”. She scribbled down onto a scroll. “The transference of biological and artificial matter to a chosen location”. She decided that the throne room would be best. She knew it well and could easily send something there with her own magic.
The magic circle began to chime softly and the objects disappeared. Her horn flared once more and she teleported to the empty throne room to see the book and apple sitting on the floor. She picked them up and inspected them carefully. The book was intact as were its contents. The apple was unmarked and she bit into it, noticing that it was still crisp and fresh… not to mention delicious!
“Test One. Success!” Twilight smiled and wrote it down. “Now on to Phase Two…” she whisked herself back to the observatory and began preparations. After an hour, she was ready.
“Phase Two. Transport of a live Pony” she scribbled that last part and then stepped inside the circle. She wouldn’t go far, just to the courtyard outside. But the difference is that the circles magic would guide her, not her own.
“No problem” she said. “It’s just a short distance…” The magic circle lit up and she could feel the ever so slight touch of vertigo that teleportation caused. “So far so good, now I should be in the courtyard in three… two… one?”
But then something else happened. That sense suddenly became overpowering as she felt like the world itself suddenly flipped. She fought back the wave of nausea and tried to step off of the circle, but her hooves were no longer touching the ground. In fact, she wasn’t even in her observatory anymore. She seemed to be everywhere and yet nowhere, in a place that defied all description… and then she vanished into a world of darkness…
***
Kai awoke in the middle of the night. He was thirsty and headed for the fridge to get some water. “At least I have tomorrow off” he muttered as he noticed the time. He had been having trouble sleeping tonight and now it was two in the morning.
“Maybe I should see a doctor?” He walked back out into the living room and flopped down onto the couch. As he fumbled for the T.V. remote, the dim glow caught his attention. He looked up to see what it was and was suddenly blinded by a powerful, bright light.
“What the fu…?” He shielded his eyes and after a moment, the light faded and he was left blinking as he saw spots.
“The hell was that?” he got up and stumbled towards the door to find the light switch, and tripped over something in the middle of the floor. He hit the ground with a thump and groaned as pain shot through his head. He slowly got up and hit the switch. As the light flickered on, he blinked again and put a hand to his aching head.
“What the hell is happen…” he never finished that sentence as his eyes fell on what he had tripped over.
It was a unicorn.
A purple unicorn.
With FREAKIN wings!?”
Kai just stared at it. There was no way this could be real. No way at all. Why was a winged purple unicorn lying in the middle of his floor? His first thought was that it was all a dream, but the painful throb in his head decided to remind him otherwise.
“Okay…” he slowly crept over to it and picking up a nearby ruler, poked it.
The unicorn did nothing.
So he poked it again.
This time, the ruler glowed with a pink light and flew out of his grasp and across the room. He looked down to see the unicorn looking at him and its horn glowing with the same light. It didn’t look pleased about being poked, but it also seemed, confused?
There was a moment of silence as the two just stared at one another.
Then they asked the question of the front of both their minds.
“What ARE you!?”
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This is a new fic that has been circling my head for a while. The opening chapters a little short, but the following ones will be longer.
I also prolly won't update this one much since I'm still working on A Pony out of Place. But if I have enough freetime...
The title of this first chapter is thoroughly ironic.
You're a decent writer, sure. There aren't grammatical or spelling mistakes in any noticeable number. You can string coherent sentences together.
But this isn't a new concept. You're far from the first to write it. "My Little Dashie" opens nearly the same way, and "Twilight teleports herself out of Equestria" is also nothing new. "Ponies on Earth" is practically a trope on this site.
I've given you a thumbs-up because this is readable. But it's up to you to make future chapters unique. Surprise me and everyone else who reads this with something new. Something we've never read before. Do that, and make yourself different.
In the event of a tesing failure find exits nowhere you will die.
2264770 - I know it's not really an original idea. I drew inspiration from fics such as My Little Dashie.
I do hope I try and create something unique.
Yeah, old mechanics, but the setup is good: "What if everypony could teleport?" At least Twi was thinking this one through instead of randomly falling through a hole in the universe.
So far not bad.
If you value your life, this will continue.
I mean, if that's okay with you...
2273165 - It will continue, just slowly is all. Work and rl have been hitting me hard lately and writers block with my other fic has just had me not in the mood to write.
Not bad! Do more please :)
2298836 - I will be, but I update slowly so please bear with me!
Buck this story. More Ponymon stories!
2301121 Ok, I can always wait :D
Y'know... ever since it announced yesterday that humans in pony fics were banned... I just have no motivation for this fic now.
Update. I still don't know if HiE fics are banned or not, I'm rather confused by it all. But I've been writing the next chapter slowly and it should be up soon.
Wait, humans in equestria are banned? Gotta check the home page I guess...
2414436 - Well that's the thing, I don't know since the post was made on April 1st. It prolly just crap and I'm too dense to realise it.
2414645 yeah I'm sure it's just April fools. If not, it would be added to the FAQ section. ;)
2419116 - Well I've been continuing to write this regardless, so the next chapter should be up in a few days.
2419351
That's always fun!
I think I know what Twilight built..........I must say, I never expected the Alterans to evolve in to ponies instead of ascending, but at least their knowledge of Astria Porta managed to survive. But why didn't she arrive in Cheyenne Mountain?
Could use some proof-reading, but still enjoyable so far.
Oh yea - poke that unicorn with your hard 12" throbbing ruler.
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Epic.
5358144
It wasn't throbbing.
It was, however, made of wood. i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-pervert.gif
Here's a question, two actually. How old is Kai? Also, what does his appearance look like?
5417271 21 and presumably the son of an English teacher. (Jk, idk)
2419351 this is a good story I'm enjoying it so far
I wish I could write something like this
You nearly had me on the floor.
No ".
You have my attention....
1 problem, in physics there can't be artificial matter. there's matter and antimatter.
other than that, great story!
I have to speak up. Writer, while this is by no means a bad story, just one thing is turning me off on it. You are putting the periods in the characters' spoken dialogue (that which is not an exclamation or question) outside of the quotation marks. Do with the periods what you do with the exclamation points and question marks and keep them in the quotations.
This: "I have to find a way home." will always be better and more correct than this: "I have to find a way home". Make those edits in all your current chapters, and keep doing it for future chapters, and you'll have a reader in me and many others.
I'm doing this to help you be a better writer, not to put you down. I'll read again when the changes are made. Good luck!
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/1
8080039 ?
I'm barely a few paragraphs into this story and I can already tell it's going to be good. The way you write is great, you write where I can understand what your saying. And you just draw people in with that writing style of yours. I know I'm going to love this story
8332871 - many thanks. I hope you enjoy it. I just hope I can get past my writer's block to finish it...
... A Idiot sandwich?
The crazy world’s gonna end guy got it right for once.😂
Jinxed it.
It sounds like the ethics commute has something against alicorns. Who doesn’t want to be an alicorn? Although, that horn might get in the way sometimes...
Now that I think about it, why did I ever think that Breach bridges would work? All they would do is provide a multiple light-year long bridge to walk across. I mean, you could have an interstellar train network with FTL trains due to the lack of a light-speed limit in the Breach, but that would only shave off a few minutes of travel time due to the lack of a need to get out of atmosphere. Although, now that I think about it, that would be good for more organized transport. However, the best idea for Breach expansion would be a Breach city, with FTL trains between cities and permanent breaches leading to normal space wherever there is planetary habitation. Of course, none of this would eliminate the need for breachers, because larger ships would still be necessary for their purposes. Only transport ships would be rendered obsolete. It would, however, make in Breach navigation more difficult due to increased clutter. But that is not a significant problem.
This is all pointless, however, because the Breach-Standard universe pair has been destroyed at the space-time level.
Ignore me, sorry. Just doing some idea-ing about the universe pair I imagined that is completely unrelated to the story or MLP in general. Like I said, ignore me. Move along.
So what if a few d-class die??