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The Princess and the Human - Ausbrony



When an Alicorn Princess suddenly appears out of thin air, Will one lone human be able to deal with such an event? Well, he has nothing better do do.

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Equestria Bound.

Equestria Bound

Twilight’s friends had all gathered outside the room that held their still unconscious friend. It had been three days since she was returned to them but had yet to wake up.

“Is she ever gonna wake up?” Rainbow asked, her scratchy voice filled with worry. “What if that monster in the other world did something to her?”

“Ooh, like what if it had a buncha tentacles and it-Mmmph!” Pinkie was cut off as Rainbow shoved a hoof in her mouth.

“You need to stop reading those weird Neighponese comics!” the Pegasus snapped.

The conversation was cut short when the door clicked and Luna and Celestia emerged from the room, several medics trailing behind them.

“Your Highnesses!” Rarity bowed, quickly followed by the rest. “How is Twilight, will she be alright?”

Celestia nodded to the medics and they left the Alicorn’s alone with the five mares. Once they were gone, Celestia’s expression dropped and the ancient Alicorn suddenly looked so much older.

“It is all my fault,” she lowered her head in apology. “I am the reason that Twilight lies in a coma now.”

“Nay Sister, the blame lies with Us as well,” Luna added. “If only we had studied the spell more…”

“Blame game aside, what happened?” Applejack asked and Celestia flinched.

“In order to return Twilight, we tried to reverse the spell that she used to disappear in the first place…”

“And it worked,” Rainbow pointed out, “So what’s the problem?”

“The problem, Element of Loyalty,” Luna said, her tone lacking it usual sharpness. “Is that we, how do you ponies put it these days…? Ah, yes. We screwed up!”

Celestia nodded in agreement. “The spell Twilight used created a wormhole, using a multilayer spell matrix and…” The confused looks on the others faces told her she needed to simplify her wording a bit “She created a magical corridor so she could teleport further.”

“Ohhh,” the five mares all echoed.

“Indeed, but what we didn’t realise was that the wormhole possessed a current, like a river. So when we re-opened it, the current was still moving away from Equestria… and we forcibly dragged Twilight against it to bring her home.”

“So how does that relate to her… condition?” Rarity asked.

“What it means, Element of Generosity,” Luna stated. “Is that we tapped into Twilight’s magic to reactivate this spell. By dragging her against the magical current, we burned out her magical circuits, the neural pathways that allow her, allow all magical users to cast spells.”

Celestia swallowed the lump in her throat. “If Twilight Sparkle ever wakes up, there is the chance that she will never be able to use magic again…”

The hallway fell dead silent as the five friends processed that information. Magic is who Twilight was, if she couldn’t cast…?

“S-so, what you’re trying to say…” Rainbow croaked out, her voice hitching as she tried to spit out the words. “By saving Twilight… we’ve ruined her life forever.”

“The fault does not lie with you!” Celestia snapped. “It will fall onto Luna and myself, and when Twilight wakes, we will tell her as such. It is better that she resents us, rather than all of you.”

“But it’s still our fault too,” Fluttershy spoke up. “We can’t lie to her like that.”

“T’aint right, lyin’ to a friend…” Applejack said quietly. She looked at the Alicorn’s with a pleading expression. “Isn’t there anything we can do?”

Celestia sighed and shook her head. “Perhaps if we had the Element of Magic, but the artefact is missing. It did not return with Twilight, so I can only assume it was left behind or lost in the wormhole…”

“We must prepare for the worst possible outcome,” Luna said. “Should Twilight awaken… we will need to be there for her.”

*~*

Three days. It had been three days since Twilight vanished from Kai’s apartment, leaving only the memories of her time there. At first, Kai had thought that she had teleported somewhere else, and spent all night and most of the next day scouring the city for any trace of her. He had kept an eye out for any news broadcast, hoping that she would turn up somewhere…

But she didn’t.

He’d briefly thought that she’d just had enough and left, but he’d quickly dismissed that notion. Twilight wouldn’t do something like that. They were friends…

But after three days, he was beginning to doubt that she would return. He wondered that maybe he’d gone nuts and the whole thing was just a hallucination. I mean, a talking purple unicorn from another dimension? That sounded crazy…

But when Mike and other regular customers from work had asked where the little goth loli girl had gone… It was just too much.

He trudged home slowly, the apartment block was within sight. The old hobo that usually camped out front waved to him as he walked by.

“Are you prepared for the end?” he asked and Kai looked at him.

“The end might as well come, life sucks now anyway…” Kai simply replied and headed upstairs. He unlocked his door, switched off his phone and collapsed onto his bed. He turned his head and something caught his eye, stuck in between the bedsheets. It was a purple feather.

“Twilight…” he picked up the object and stared at it, his mind wandering to the brief time he’d spent with his unusual housemate.

“Gee, it sure is lonely in here huh?” The sudden voice from the end of the bed caused Kai to jump and he looked up, seeing the homeless Doomsday prophet standing at the foot of his bed.

“Phil…” Kai said slowly, “What are you doing in here?” This could be a potentially dangerous situation, especially when Kai noticed Phil’s eyes. They were a bright yellow colour with deep crimson iris.

“Not much,” the old man replied jovially. “I was just wondering how you were doing. You look like you’re really missing your little pony pal.”

Kai froze, how the hell did he know about Twilight?

“So tell me Mr. Kai, would you like to see her again?” Phil smiled widely.

Okay, this had gone from weird and caught the express train to Creepytown. “Phil?” Kai backed up slowly, but refused to break eye contact. “What are you talking about?”

“Phil, ooh, now I see.” The old man waved a hand dismissively. “Don’t worry, Phil’s taking a little nap. I just want to tell you that you really should go to Twilight, she needs your help.”

Was weird the new normal now? Well, might as well play along for the moment. Who knows how long until the old kook went all serial killer on him. “Okay ‘Phil’,” Kai said, making air quotes. “Exactly how do I get to Equestria? Do I catch a plane, or is there a magical portal in my living room?”

“Something like that,” Phil grinned. “You have to use that gag-inducing Magic of Friendship rubbish. I know it’s cheesy, but that’s how it works, at least this time.”

What. The. Fuuuuuck!? What was this guy on? Just who the hell was he?

“Who am I?” ‘Phil’ laughed, and Kai put a hand to his head. “Yes, I’m reading your mind and you really should tell Twilight those thoughts you’re having, her expression will be priceless~” Phil’s expression turned serious. “Look, you have to go to Equestria and save your Princess, she’s in another castle and won’t wake up without you… well, that’s a big, cake-flavoured lie, she’ll wake up on her own, but it will be better if you get there beforehand.”

“Okay, say I believe you, and I’m dubious at best…” Kai replied dryly. “How do I even get here, I lack a horn and Princess magic!”

“Twilight left a little something here, something important. I could take it back, but it would be so much more fun if you do it.” Phil beamed again and put a hand on Kai’s shoulder. “It’s dangerous to go alone… but you have to, so best of luck and whatnot.” Phil snapped his fingers and disappeared in a bright flash of light, leaving Kai to question his sanity.

“Okay, that was… weird…” Kai walked into his living room, wondering just what it was that Twilight could have left here that he could use. And then something glimmering on his shelf caught his attention. When he pulled it down, his eyes widened, it was her Element thingy!

“Is this it?” Kai stared at the ornate tiara. “How am I supposed to use it?”

He stared intently at it for a few moments, then looked at it from every angle, wondering if it had an on switch.

“Well, I highly doubt I have to collect all seven and make a wish,” Surely he didn’t have to… well, as long as no one saw him. He placed the tiara on his head and concentrated. “Okay Element, take to Equestria!” He flung his arms out… aaaand nothing. He was still in his apartment, rather than a world filled with colourful little equines.

“Magic of Friendship my foot!” Kai grumbled. “Bit hard when my only friend is worlds away.”

His phone rang, which was rather surprising since he was certain that he’d switched it off. The caller ID confirmed that it was Mike calling him.

He answered and Mike’s exuberant voice came through the speaker. “Heya Kai, I heard you were gonna go and find little Twiley!”

“Uhh…” How the hell did he know that?

“Some weird dude in a mismatched suit told me. So I just wanted to say don’t worry about your job. I’ll tell Bossman that you had to go overseas for a family thing. Just find her okay?”

Kai was stunned, when the hell did this happen? Were he and Mike… friends?

“Uh, yeah… thanks man.”

“No pro bro!” the phone clicked and for the first time in days, Kai found himself smiling. It was at that moment that the Element of Magic hummed and shone with magenta light.

Kai felt… well, he wasn’t quite sure how to describe it. It kind of felt like he was stretching and floating at the same time. And then his stomach felt like it was turning inside out as his world faded into black…

*~*

It had been a rough day. The doctors had performed every kind of test imaginable, yet Twilight Sparkle refused to awaken. Her friends' worry only increased and now the five mares tried to get some sleep, but even that eluded them. They had been given a few rooms to sleep in while they stayed at the castle and arrangements had been made for time off for those that had jobs to get back to.

Rarity Belle tossed and turned, but sleep was an impossible order to fill and she soon found herself staring into Pinkie Pie’s bright blue eyes.

“Whatever is the matter darling?” Rarity asked. “You cannot sleep either?”

Pinkie sat up and shook her head. “Uh-huh, I have a real bad feeling all of a sudden.”

“Your ‘Pinkie Sense’?” Rarity asked, also sitting up and turning on the bedside lamp.

“I don’t know,” Pinkie replied, her mane lacking its usual poofiness. “But I get the feeling that we’ve made a really bad mistake, like when I mix up the salt and sugar or when I try to make taffy in the blender, or when-”

“I get the idea,” Rarity giggled, placing a hoof over Pinkie’s. “But what in Equestria makes you think that? Is it because Twilight won’t wake up?”

“A little,” Pinkie replied. “But, but what if Twi-Twi wasn’t in danger? What if she was actually happy, and we separated her from a dear friend or something?”

“Dear, you heard the same things we did.” Rarity hugged her marefriend close. “What makes you think that dear?”

“I dunno… just a feeling,” Pinkie sighed. “I hope Twilight gets better soon.”

“As do I darling, as do I.”

~~~

Celestia and Luna sat quietly in the solar Alicorn’s study. Night Court had been cancelled and the two poured over scrolls and tomes, hoping to find a solution to this mess. The Elements of Harmony that sat on the table suddenly quivered and the jewels in them began to pulse with a rhythmic light.

“Sister?” Lune poked the sleepy Alicorn. “Something is happening and I didn’t do it!”

“Hmm?” Celestia rubbed her eyes, and then let out a surprised shriek as the Elements flew off the table, narrowly missing her head and shot off down the hall.

“What the, Luna, what did you do?”

“I didn’t do it!” Lune cried as they chased the wayward jewels. The noise soon attracted the attention of the five Bearers, all of whom suddenly had an odd feeling that something was off. The emerged from their rooms, just in time to see the two sisters chasing the flying Elements.

“Well, that’s something ya don’t see every day,” Applejack muttered.

“Are we playing ‘Chase the Elements’?” Pinkie asked. “Cause I’m not really in the mood right now…”

“Um, don’t you think we should follow them?” Fluttershy suggested. The other four nodded and soon chased after the Elements and Princesses, heading for the Sacred Chamber.

*~*

With a loud ‘pop’ and a thud, Kai landed on a hard marble floor, his immediate reaction was to almost throw up. He fell over as he attempted to stand and then chose to lie there for a moment as the room stopped spinning.

“Oh god, what the hell was that?” he put a hand to his head and tried to slow his heart, which was racing a mile a minute. When he did, he felt the Element of Magic still sitting atop his head, it was warm to the touch and seemed to beat with a steady light.

“W-where am I?” He slowly looked around, trying not to aggravate his migraine. The room he was in was enormous, a semi-circular room lined with massive marble pillars, though one of them seemed to be broken. A pool was placed at the back of the room, just behind him and there seemed to be a star-shaped scorch mark on its tiled surface. Beautiful stained-glass windows adorned the walls, high above his head and were illuminated softly in the moonlight.

“W-what…?” he looked at his watch, but the digital display was cracked and he couldn’t read it.

“Urgh, I feel like crap…” He slowly got to his feet and after a swooning for a moment, finally found his centre of balance.

“Okay, am I in Equestria? If so, then where’s Twilight?” As if responding to his question, the Element on his head began to pulsate once more and as Kai moved around, the pulse got either slower or faster.

“Do… do I have a Twilight radar?” he poked at the tiara and after taking it off, he noticed the light still shone rhythmically. “Well, okay, this got a little easier.” He walked over to the large doors and just as he got to them, The Element shone and the doors swung open, their magic seal released.

“Twilight radar and magical lock pick… this thing is pretty awesome!” Kai smiled. “Okay, priorities, find Twilight now, play with magical artefact later.”

He walked through the door and into the darkened hallway, but it didn’t remain that way for long. A glow from some sort of light was quickly approaching from the left.

“Okay decision time, those might be ponies coming and I dunno if they’re gonna be friendly or not.” Should he stay and see what it was, or should he make a break for it in the opposite direction.

The muffled voices approaching sure as hell didn’t sound friendly.

“Yup, time to cheese it!” he bolted down the hall, as the Element in his hands beat faster…

*~*

By the time the Elements stopped, the six mares had realised that they’d been brought back to the Sacred Chamber.

“What the? Why’d the Elements stop here?” Rainbow asked, watching the necklaces spin in a circle in the centre of the room. Celestia lit up her horn and then gasped.

“Powerful magic was cast here, Elements of Harmony powerful.”

“Sister, does that mean Magic has returned?” Luna’s own scrying found that it was indeed an Element. Having been hit first hoof with them twice meant that she would never forget what their aura felt like.

“But how did it come back?” Rarity asked. “Surely the Element didn’t just show up on its own? And if it did… where is it?”

The room was empty, only trace amounts of magic remained in the air.

“I fear that wherever Twilight was, something may have followed her back and may be in possession of the Element of Magic.” Celestia fired up her horn and sent a message to her Guards to place Canterlot Castle under high alert. All servants were to remain in their chambers and lock the doors. Also, a detachment was to go to the Infirmary and place Princess Twilight under heavy Guard.

“Sister, we should split up and search the castle, whatever was here was only here only recently,” Luna suggested.

Celestia nodded and sent one last message to Princess Cadence and Shining Armor. She might need their assistance also. She looked at the five mares, whom had remained silent till now.

“Take your Elements, my little ponies. And be prepared for anything.” The mares nodded and soon donned their necklaces. Just what in Equestria was going on?

*~*

Well, Kai hadn’t expected to trip an alarm so soon, but the castle was now buzzing with activity. He’d taken cover behind a tapestry on the wall as yet another detachment of guards marched past. From the bits and pieces of conversation he’d picked up, they didn’t know what they were looking for, only that there was an intruder.

“Well, I stick out like a sore thumb here… and oh my god. So. Many. Ponies!” There was a sudden rush of wind and Kai pinched the tapestry to prevent it being blown away and revealing his hiding spot. From the side he caught glimpse of a blue Pegasus with a rainbow-coloured mane and tail. She looked familiar…

Wait, wasn’t that one of Twilight’s friends? Rainbow Crash or something? Maybe Twilight really was here.

The Guards finally left and after checking to see if the coast was clear, Kai continued to sneak down the maze of halls, letting the Element guide his way. The sudden noise of incoming guards forced him to look for another hiding spot though. There was door that led into a massive kitchen and a quick check led him to a massive cardboard box.

“This couldn’t possibly work… could it?” The sound of the kitchen doors opening led him with little choice. “Well, why not?” He dived into the box, only just fitting inside and he was suddenly hit with the overwhelming scent of apples.

Flash Step, fastest Earth Pony guard, thought she heard something coming from the kitchen, but once she looked inside, all she could see was an empty workspace and a box from Fritter Farms here in Canterlot.

“Seriously, who’d be dumb enough to break into the palace anyway?” she took an apple from the counter and munched on it. “And this is supposed to be my night off.” She leaned on the box and it sagged inwards with a groan.

Flash suddenly jumped back… did that box just make a noise. She unsheathed her spear and then, very carefully, poked the box, causing it to yelp and bounce.

“A-alright, you better come out of there with your hooves up!” she spoke loudly. “And no casting either!”

There was a loud sigh and the top of the box opened and a creature unlike any other emerged from it, its arms raised in the air… and it was holding the Element of Magic.

“All I’m missing is an exclamation mark,” he said. Well, assuming from the tone of its voice it was a male. “I need to ask where Princess Twilight is… it’s really important that I give this to her.”

“W-w-what are you!?” Flash raised her spear. “And what do you want with the Princess!?”

“We’re friends,” he spoke calmly, but his gaze never left the spear. “It’s really important that I get this Element to Princess Twilight, can you please help me?”

Flash Step took a single step forward. Sure, she was new to the job, but she took an oath to protect the Princesses of Equestria from any threat. “You didn’t answer my question creature! What are you and why do you have the Princess' Element?” She needed to hold him here until reinforcements or Princess Celestia could arrive.

“Like I said, I’m a friend of Princess Twilight. As for what I am, I’m a human. My name’s Kai… what’s yours?”

Was this ‘human’ thing for real? “Flash Step,” the mare replied curtly, wondering why she even responded.

“Flash Step? I bet you’re pretty fast then?” Kai laughed and the mare gave him an incredulous stare. “What?”

“H-how did you know that?” she asked and the creature suddenly blinked, groaned and slapped his face with his palm.

“I have landed in a world of references and no-one even gets them,” he muttered. “Look, I promise that I’m not here to hurt Twilight, I want to help her… you can even come with me if you want.”

Flash thought about this… there was a detachment of guards waiting at the infirmary. Even if something happened to her, then he’d still walk straight into them.

“Alright, but I want you where I can see you.”

“Cool, and can I put my arms down… I’m getting a bit tired here.”

“…Fine, but hand me the Element, I don’t want any funny business.”

Kai really didn’t want to do that, but the cute little pony was pointing a very sharp-looking spear at him. He glanced at the Element and then handed it over. A second after it left his grasp, it flashed and re-appeared on his head.

“I thought I said no funny stuff!” Flash Step yelled, raising her spear again.

“I didn’t do it,” Kai yelled back. “Honest!” He placed the Element on a bench top and walked a few steps away, only for it to re-appear once again on his noggin.

“I just don’t get magic,” the both of them muttered and then looked at each other, a small smile breaking out between them.

“Sounds like you’ve had your fair share of magical-related hijinks,” Flash asked as they walked.

“How do you think I met Twilight in the first place?” Kai sighed. “Weird is my new normal apparently.”

“Hah! Try being the only Earth Pony in a family of Unicorns… that seriously sucked,” Flash Step giggled.

“That sounds rough,” Kai nodded. Flash Step agreed and then paused. What the hay was she doing? Was she trying to make friends with this thing?

“Hey Flash? Are you coming?” She looked up to see the human waiting for her. Well, he seemed friendly, maybe he wasn’t so bad? She’d still keep an eye on him though, if he tries to hurt anypony, then he dies…

Author's Note:

Another update!? What is this sorcery?

Yeah, I actually intended to have Kai find Twilight in this chapter, but then I wrote Flash Step and it kinda snowballed. She wasn't actually supposed to find him and Kai was gonna Metal Gear his way across the castle like a boss...

Do you like this version better? I dunno. Enjoy regardless and revel in the fact that I accidentally created another OC for myself. Also, I'm really sick right now... so I'm not sure if this chapter is even any good... I don't even remember writing half of it...