> A Thunderlane Trip > by Thundery > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chapter 1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prologue ---------- Date: September 29,2014 Time: 11:30pm Location: Newark, NJ ---------- "Ah, isn't it just great that I finally got access to the roof, so I can do my Star Gazing in peace and not worry about idiot troublemakers down below? Plus, I get to spend some time with the most amazing person I have met." I said as I looked over at William with a big happy smile on my face and snuggled closer to him. William look over at me and smiled. "Well, I'm glad you feel that way, because I'm glad that I'm here now with the most amazing, random, funny, and can't forget handsome guy." He said with a smirk and a wink. We were laying on our backs on the roof, enjoying the view of the sky. I guess I can take this moment to tell all of you readers about us. My name is Victor while my friend is William. I'm twenty-five and he's twenty, and we're both Bronies, which obviously means that we are fans of the very popular show My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. I got into it way back in 2011 (August ninth to be exact) after I found some pretty cool looking pictures of Pony fursuits of Rainbow Dash and Applejack which really got me interested ...Crazy, right? Well, anyway, two days later on the eleventh, I finally watched my first episode Green Isn't Your Color and instantly fell in love with it since. Nowadays I watch episodes, buy merchandise and pretty much read for a living since I do it so much. I read over one-thousand, five hundred and fifty MLP:FIM stories that would make my old english teachers proud, and maybe even Twilight too, that is if she were real. As for William, he also got into it back in 2011 and a little over a year after that we both found each other through a popular social website, known as Facebook, and became great friends after that point and even closer as time went on... but that's a story for another time. Time to continue. I felt my face flush "I'm just glad you left your state of Washington to come live here with me." He let out a chuckle and said, "What can I say? I love you, Victor and I wanted to make sure that I can come here to be with you, nothing will ruin this moment between us." "I love you too." I said softly and nuzzled him, looking back up and admiring the view of the clear night sky. "You know, the best thing about being up here is the lack of trees and houses blocking our view." I said as I moved my hand pointing to various parts of the sky. "I'm seeing so many constellations tonight like: Cygnus, Lyra, Aquila which are part of the Summer Triangle which I was so happy when I saw it for the first time, also Corvus, Sagitta, Delphinus, Cepheus, Ursa Major... whoa..." I said as I squinted my eyes off in the distance and noticed the one constellation I thought I would never ever see. I then jumped up and starting hopping up and down, squealing in delight, "I can't believe it! Ursa Minor! I didn't think I would ever see this constellation! But now I did... by being on the roof..." I stayed standing up, my eyes locked on the dim constellation, though not dim enough since I was wearing my glasses and was able to make it out clearly enough. "So cool..." William stood up, wrapping an arm around my neck and grinned, "You are such an astronomy nerd Victor, I can learn a bunch from you." I just gave a stupid grin in return, "Heh, maybe, I'll be your astronomy nerd and more..." And moved my head and gave him a kiss on the lips. "Now, enough about astronomy for now, lets talk about our shopping trip tomorrow for Pony Merchandise..." See, earlier in the day I got really super lucky in the lottery, and won a rare amount of six-hundred dollars. Why rare you might think? It's because I won twice with the same number in one drawing and it only happened once before. So I decided to use some of that money (like three-hundred fifty dollars) to buy specific Pony Merchandise that I really want, and any that William will want. I also got lucky enough to be able to use my sister's Debit Card, which of course I put the money on to make my purchases, meaning I will be swiping that card like hell tomorrow! "Do you know what you're buying?" William said with a raised eyebrow. "Of course." I said. "We're going to Toys R Us first since I'm hoping to find those sets that has Thunderlane and Daring Do in them. Followed by going over to the mall and Hot Topic to get pretty much seven vinyl collectibles that I'm missing" I mean, what can possibly go wrong? William facepalmed... hard, "I can't believe you just said that sentence." I smiled sheepishly, "Sorry. So, what about you?" He only shrugged, "Whatever might interest me at both places." "Fair enough." I said and that was when we both noticed out of the corners of our eyes a bright streak going to the sky and turned our attention to that part to see three shooting stars streak across the sky... in the same part of the sky only seconds apart ... "Huh?" I scratched my head in confusion, staring at that part in the sky "I didn't know that Shooting Stars can appear like that... ah well." I shrugged and suddenly thought of a brilliant idea that was both stupid and crazy. Nuding William's shoulder, while staring at the sky, I suddenly blurted out "I wish I was Thunderclap!" ... ... "What?" was all he said. I backed away from him, rubbing the back of my neck and stared at his confused expression with an awkward smile on mines. "Well, I-I mean...I always have fantasies about what it would be like to be a cute pony from the show, and even dreams. So when I saw those Shooting Stars, making that wish just seemed... right to me. But, I know it's only for fun, I know it will never come true..." I sighed. "But I wish it was because that would be so awesome!" "Well... if it's only for fun" William said, looking at the same part of sky "I wish I was Thunderlane." I only raised an eyebrow at his wish "Why Thunderlane?" He shrugged "He's just sexy looking, he's a Wonderbolt Trainee, he has his little bro Rumble. It would be pretty damn cool if I were him." He sighed happily and looked at me "So, why did you pick Thunderclap? I mean, I ain't complaining, he is a hot stallion, but I'm curious." I could only smile "Well, after watching the Breezies episode, I had that 'love at first sight' feeling for him, even though there wasn't much characterization for him aside from helping Flitter with the Breezie migration. So, yeah, I just like him a lot." I took out my phone that was in my pocket to check the time and saw that it was thirty minutes past midnight. "Wow, time sure flies when we're talking ponies and astronomy, right, William?" "Eeyup." he replied. I laughed and tucked my phone back into my shorts pocket, walking towards the door to the roof. "Let's go back inside now, we need our sleep if we are going to be doing any shopping in the morning, that and I want to be out around nine." "Alright." He said and came up behind me, licking me behind my ear and whispered in a seductive tone. "You know... I'm hoping I can make you squeak tonight." "S-shut up!" I stammered feeling my face heat up in embarrassment and opened the door. "Lets just go already before I die of embarrassment even if it's just the two of us." William failed to hold in his laughter as he passed me, while I only rolled my eyes and closed the door, locking it. ----------------------------- Meanwhile, over in Equestria in Canterlot. Stars were twinkling, the moon was shining bright down below on the ponies who were either sleeping peacefully, or just out and about doing random nightly activities. And for one pony in particular standing outside on the balcony in the Canterlot Castle who turned out to be Princess Luna, it was a good night for her as she smiled looking up at the sky. "So, some humans actually saw my Shooting Stars... three in particular and all three made wishes to be ponies. Oh, I'm going to have so much fun with this!" She said, jumping with glee and flew down the castle halls to a particular door of a very large room that not many ponies knew about because this was a special part of the castle where the Princesses had hundreds of Cameras installed watching various areas around Earth. Luna stopped at the door and wrapped the door knob in her magic aura, opening it and trotted inside and closed the door. "Tia, I'm sure you are aware that three humans actually made wishes to become ponies correct?" "Yes Lulu, I am aware that it did happen" Luna flew over and landed next to Celestia as both were watching two screens with one showing two men getting ready for bed, while the other screen showed only one guy doing the same. "I was waiting for this moment for so long." Luna said and looked over to Celestia, smirking, "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" "You really want us to grant them their wishes?" Celestia asked even though she already knew the answer. Luna started grinning, rubbing her hooves together. "Yes! They obviously don't believe in magic and we can prove them wrong! Come on, even you gotta admit that it should be interesting and entertaining to see how they react, plus, we know what all three are doing so we can just teleport to both houses after they are done with everything and explain to them everything!" Luna said with pleading eyes. Celestia sighed then smiled, "Alright Lulu we can do it since I too am curious about how this will turn out, and, well, I need some entertainment also." "YES!" Luna shouted pumping her hoof in the air "Time to turn three humans into ponies and watch the fun unfold." She said as her horn started charging up with white magical energy. Celestia also started charging her horn with the same spell. "On the count of three." Luna said grinning, and Celestia matched her grin. "One... two... three!" Both Princesses shot the white magical energy through the first screen, followed by the second one less than a minute later. As the magic in both of their horns went out, they relaxed knowing that all they had to do was wait. ----------------------------- I slipped into bed slowly, with William following suit. "But come on, Victor! I wanna make you squeak! I love it when you do that." he whined. I gave him a flat look, "I know you want to do that badly but we need some sleep so we can get this Pony shopping done." Then I gave him a quick kiss. "How about this, tonight after we get everything done, you have your way with me?" His face changed to happy in an instant. "Anyway I want?" I chuckled. "Of course, think of it as a reward, you deserve it." He eagerly returned the kiss and laid down "Goodnight, Victor. Sweet Dreams." And was already out by the time his head hit the pillow. I smiled, laying down and slipped on a Sleep Mask "Goodnight, William." and went to sleep. ----------------------------- A few minutes later a bright light could be seen coming from the room appearing from out of no where, but neither of the two men that were sleeping made any movement, due to being completely passed out, they didn't feel their bodies changing... Just outside of the room, another door opened up and another person came out and caught sight of the bright light coming from under the door and stayed standing there staring at it until it winked out five minutes later. She blinked her eyes a few times not knowing what to make of what she just saw and shook her head "He is so paying the light bill next month." she muttered to herself and went and did her business. > Chapter 2 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beep! Beep! Beep! "Oh yes... that's the spot." Beep! Beep! Beep! "Mmmm, Flitter... just a little to the left." Beep! Beep! Beep! "Yes! That's what I'm talking about, Flitter that's the spot. I'm so going to enjoy this." Beep! Be- SMASH! I opened my eyes glaring at the offended device in pieces that woke me up from my preening dream that almost happened. "Good riddance, that iPod Touch was shit anyway. Now to see if I can go back to sleep to have that dream of Flitter preening my wings again." I said to myself letting out a yawn and turned over... only to fall off the bed hitting the floor. "Ow..." I rubbed my face. "Or not." "Wait a minute... that wasn't my hand, and that wasn't even my voice!" I quickly brought my 'hand' to my face only to realize that what I was staring at wasn't a hand at all and in fact was a hoof, a dark grayish hoof at that. "Oh... wow... no way this could be possible." Out of the corner of my eye I noticed two things that weren't there last night. Those being a big mirror leaning against my container nicely and two pairs of saddlebags with a pair of hoof bands and head band resting on top with a letter off to the side of that. Looking back at the mirror, the reflection that stared back at me was a stallion dark grey in color with a slight crazy bed mane of two different shades of blue with the tail having the same colors, the eyes were close to the color of Azure and much bigger, two wings tucked neatly at the sides, cutie mark of a pegasus wing, ears higher up compared to a human, better hearing and eye sight and that stallion was me. Moving my now longer and wider tongue, I felt the inside of my mouth touching my flat teeth a sign that eating meat is a thing of the past now that I'm a herbivore. "Not that it's any problem for me. If being a cute little pony means that I can't eat meat anymore then so be it, I don't mind. But anyway... this morning just keeps getting better and better! I don't really care if I destroyed my Ipod Touch with my hoof, that device was shit anyway. Now to try and stand it shouldn't be hard." I slowly rose on all fours, wobbling a lot. But, after a minute or so I was finally able to steady myself, looking back at the mirror again to let it all sink in talking to myself. "So the wish came true after all... but I thought magic wasn't real... well, there is something that I always wanted to say in a situation like this as odd as that would seem." "My fantasy came true! I. AM. THUNDERCLAP! ... with his deep awesome voice to boot!" Admiring myself in the mirror, I moved my eyes down and noticed that I didn't have to deal with the one thing that males would have to deal with every morning. "Thank Celestia I didn't have to deal with that today, but I know it won't be like that every day." I noticed movement in the mirror and saw Thunderlane poke his head out of the covers, staring at me with a wide-eyed expression. "Wait... Is that... Are you... Are you Thunderclap?" "Sure am! And you are Thunderlane!" "What?" William threw the covers to the other side of the room and looked down only to find a pony body in the place of his human body. "I'm Thunderlane! Oh my god!" He looked at his his butt: "I have a cutie mark on my butt!" "Heh, enjoy." I smirked. "Why not have a look at the mirror? Take a few minutes to let it all sink in that we're somehow ponies now from the show because we both made wishes." Thunderlane nodded and moved closer to the mirror to check himself out while I looked over to the saddlebags and then to the letter next to it. "As crazy as this morning has been, which I'm not complaining, I mean really, who would complain about waking up as a pony all of a sudden? Not us! But... that letter might mention how we ended up as ponies... maybe anyway. I only have to walk like two feet over to it...it shouldn't be that hard, right?" I lifted my left forehoof to take a step without thinking and promptly fell face-first onto the floor, which caught Thunderlane's attention. "Ugh... floor, if you wanted my face that badly you should buy me dinner first." I said standing back up and shook off the pain and tried to remember the pony walk cycle. "You know, I'm getting plenty of entertainment here watching you trying to walk two feet to that letter." Thunderlane said with a stupid grin on his face. "Shut up Thunderlane!" I glared directly towards him and finally remembered how they walk. "Okay, so it's Front right, then back left, then front left, then back right. Easy enough, but I should walk around in a circle first to get the hang of it." After a few minutes and a few stumbles, I finally got walking as a pony remembered and walked back over to where the letter is and picked it up with a hoof and began to read out loud. -------------------- Hi Victor and William, If one of you are reading this which I can tell that you are, Thunderclap then that must mean that both of you woke up as ponies, but, we already knew that. Anyway, both Princess Luna and I were aware last night that the both of you, and a certain other, made wishes to be specific ponies and since Luna wanted to be mischievous, decided to have some fun and grant them with my help of course. Now, you might be wondering, how was this even possible, how we know so much, and who exactly did that other person wish to be as? Well, to answer the last question... lets just say that one of you will be in for quite the surprise. As for the first two questions, it will be answered when all three of you return from your shopping trip. Would it be possible for you to get me a Discord Vinyl Collectible? I wanted one since it came out, but, I just never had the time. So just have fun, other things on your world have changed from our magic which both of you will notice on your journey to Toys R' Us and Hot Topic, and we will meet you at your place when all of you return to explain everything. Remember we'll be watching ;) and oh, enjoy the new mirror and saddlebags, I also made sure to include your headband and hoof bands with other necessary things that both of you would need. Don't worry about getting used to your new bodies, you'll see that it will be pretty easy to do anything that a pegasus can do given time, which also means that you won't have to really learn how to fly, though you can do some practice if you choose to do so. As much as we want to have fun watching what the both of you do, we wouldn't want any of you to really get hurt. Much love for my new little ponies, Celestia and Luna. PS. We are aware that the mall that you and Thunderlane are going to recently put in a vending machine that has moon pies in them. Would it be possible for you to buy me a few? I would really be happy if you can do that for me. -------------------- "Well then, I totally didn't expect that." But a few things was bothering me about the letter. "Just how is it possible that the princesses would even know about what happened last night and me being the one reading the letter now? Who is this third person-turned-pony? And how the hell did they find out where we were going?! This visit will be fun later." "They'll be watching? Do you really think the princesses watch others doing you know what?" Thunderlane wondered. "I...don't know honestly. I really hope they're smart enough to not do that, but only time will tell later today. Now to deal with a certain someone who also lives here.” Right at that moment, both of our ears twitched and swiveled in the direction of the noise just outside my door, as another door opened up and someone walked out to knock on my door. "Victor? Is everything alright in there? I heard some yelling among other noises and it has me concerned.” My mother... "Um... yeah mom I'm alright just excited about a particular big thing that happened is all..." "I wonder how she will react to both of us being ponies?" The door knob jiggled. "Why do you have a much deeper voice all of a sudden? It doesn't sound like William... please open this door." I can tell that she wasn't going to give up obviously. I looked over to Thunderlane, he looked at me and we both knew what had to be done. "Time to get this over it. Her reaction should be priceless." And walked up to my door making clopping sounds along the way with my hooves and used the tip of my hoof to turn the lock on the door knob, unlocking it. "Well, that was easy, but it sucks that I don't have the easier Door Lever, instead I have a regular old door knob." Next, I wrapped my hoof around the door knob with my fetlock area and gave it a twist... only to have my hoof slip off. "Fuck... well only one thing left to do." I backed away from the door. "Listen, Mom, when you open the door don't freak out alright? Things have changed last night." "Okay." Was all she said and slowly opened the door and noticed two ponies staring at her in her son's bedroom. Now, you might think she freaked out anyway? Priceless reaction? Or anything similar? Nope she only stared at us... a staredown you might say, that is until I broke it waving my hoof with an akward smile on my face tilting my head up to look at her since I only reached almost to her waist now. "Hehe... hey, Mom, it's me your son." "Hiya Ms.B!" Thunderlane said a little too happily. My mother only rolled her eyes. "Why am I not surprised that my son and his boyfriend are ponies now?" I felt my face heat up. "I-I... is it crazy that this was because we both saw shooting stars last night, and made wishes to be ponies as a joke only to find out that we're now those ponies?" "Yes." "Alright then, because that totally happened and the 'sorta' proof is in the letter behind me." I said pointing to the piece of parchment in question. "Although it didn't mention exactly just how they knew we did. But, apparently they're coming here later today to explain." My mother raised an eyebrow. "I think I want to be around for this one. "So.... Mom, is it alright if you can call us by our pony names now? I mean I know this is unexpected for you, but, it would be better for the both of us." "Do I really have to?" "Pleeeeeeease Mom!" I begged with the most adorable puppy dog face.... no one can say no to that! She let out a sigh, then smiled. "I'm alright with you loving a show that was meant to be for little girls... but, I can also tell that you are happy about this sudden change... and even though I will have to get used to this, I'll go ahead and call you and William by your pony names... But! I will need to watch some of these episodes to understand it more." I pumped my hoof in the air, flicking my tail happily. "Yes! Okay, you can call me Thunderclap and my lover Thunderlane." "Got it. Now, I'm just wondering how you and him will use the bathroom now." She grinned. "I...well, for some weird reason I don't have to use the bathroom right now, but it will get interesting when that time comes. Only thing I have to worry about right now is taking a shower, and holding things with my hooves." Thunderlane nodded. "If you say so... if you'll excuse me, I need to go get the bathroom ready for the both of you." And walked off. While I waited I trotted over to the living room to take a look at my new surroundings noticing everything much higher because of my new shortend height. "Well this won't be much of a problem once I learn to fly, then I can have easy access to stuff." I looked at my wings, opening them and gave a few experimental flaps lifting off the ground although wobbly and quickly landed back on all fours with a giddy look on my face. "Looks like I have the perfect place to practice flying. Maybe they'll let us use the roof of Toys R' Us for flying, I hope." Thunderlane trotted over to the living room a few minutes later. "Were you trying to fly just now?" "Yep, sure was! Looks like what Celestia said in the letter was true. But, I want to see if we can get access to the roof after we finish our shopping in Toys R' Us to really get some flying in. "That should be fun," Thunderlane smirked. "Wanna bet that you fly off the roof and crash into a car first? I only snorted. "Pony please, like what would happen, I mean, what can possibly go w-" Thunderlane gave me a death glare that shut me up instantly. "Finish that and I will be more than happy to buck you across the living room to the door. I let out a squeak and whispered, "Sorry..." "Ahem..." We both looked over to my mother with an amused smile on her face. "Well Vic-...I mean Thunderclap, I have everything in the bathroom ready for you. So you can go on ahead whenever you're ready but first..." She walked over to pick up the iPad and stylus, setting it down on the sofa for me. "Can you take me to the episode that you appear in? I would like to know more if possible.... assuming you actually appear in an episode?” "Sure thing." I walked over to the sofa picking up the the stylus in my teeth, beginning to tap away by first tapping the safari icon going to dailymotion followed by typing 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Season 4. Episode 16 - It Ain't Easy Being Breezies' with the episode loading up shortly afterwards and spat the stylus out. "There ya go Mom, I don't appear much, but this the only episode I appear in." "It'll do, thank you. Do you want to watch this episode with me, Thunderlane?" She said as she sat down. "Sure. I haven't seen this episode yet myself, and I would like to know what it's about." Thunderlane climbed on the sofa to sit next to my mother. "Well then, it looks like both of you will be busy for a little while. Time to go see how simple it might be to take a shower now." I trotted off to the bathroom. Once I got inside, I closed the door almost all the way with a hind hoof and took notice of the changes she made that can help me out now that I'm a pony. The first thing I saw was a small step stool in front of the bathroom sink that will be useful for when I have to brush my teeth. "At least she was nice enough to leave my toothbrush within easy reach.” I thought to myself, walking closer to the bathtub. I noticed rugs covering the bottom with my body wash, shampoo and bath sponge off to the side. "I have no idea how the rugs will react to my hooves touching it when it's wet though. Hopefully I don't slip too much." And lastly, I looked behind me to see my towel on top of a container for easy reach. "Okay, first things first. I gotta brush my teeth, because morning breath stinks...literally." Stepping onto the step stool, I balanced myself on my hind hooves while I placed my forehooves on the sink's countertop. "That was easy enough. Now comes the tricky part, but I should keep my balance steady enough for this." I turned on the faucet and grabbed my toothpaste, twisting the top off with my mouth, setting it to the side and squeezing out some onto the toothbrush. I then set that back down and wrapped my left hoof around it, brought it up to my teeth while setting my right hoof on the countertop for extra balance and got to work. A few minutes later I had clean teeth and fresh breath, "How I held that cup to fill it up with some water to wash out the toothpaste is beyond me, but, I'll chalk it up to magnet hooves." "Now for the more interesting part." I said to myself as I jumped into the bathtub landing with a dull clop letting out a sigh of relief knowing that the rugs didn't move. "Time to get this over with." I muttered turning on the water until it was the right temperature and turned the shower knob feeling the water falling on me wetting my coat, mane, tail and wings... it felt great... really great. I sat down like how a dog or cat would and grabbed my shampoo, opening it, and squeezed out a good amount into my mane and tail. Using my hooves, I started to scrub both until they were covered in shampoo goodness, letting the water drain it away afterwards leaving the whole bathroom smelling like Axe™. Next up came the part that kind of made me nervous. I grabbed both the bath sponge and body wash, squeezing a bunch onto it. "Washing wings shouldn't be that much of a pain." I opened my wings at their full length, watching the water fall in between, along the ends or at the tips of the feathers, noticing how much more real they looked compared to the show. "I don't know much about wing care, but, with the way my wings look right now, they look alright enough. Though I know I will at least have to ask one of the princesses for sure, or maybe they put a book about it in my saddlebag. I really should check in there after I'm done here." Picking up the sponge by the handle, I got work scrubbing myself thoroughly, letting out the occasional shudder as I passed the sponge slowly through my wings, and a particular area below me. Standing back up, the water made quick work of washing the body wash away, which also meant that I was done. "Finally." Turning off the water, I did the only thing I knew naturally and shook myself like a dog, getting most of the water off, then moved the shower curtain aside and hopped out, walking up to my towel, I still had pretty damp fur while my mane and tail stuck to me from the wetness. Picking up the towel, I got to work right away; drying myself as much as I could while making sure to go nice and slow on my wings, finishing up a few minutes later but still a little wet. "This will take some getting use to, but, I know it will come to me pretty easily. Time to head back on out." Opening the door with a hoof, I was greeted to the sight of my mother and Thunderlane staring at me with creepy smiles with my mother holding some hair supplies. "Uh...." "I finally get to brush a pony's mane and tail!" She said a little too excitedly "Don't I get a say in this?" "Nope!" Said my mother and Thunderlane in unison. "You know I expected this from my niece right?" I deadpanned "So?" I rolled my eyes as Thunderlane went inside to take his shower, "Ugh, fine. Just let me go get my saddlebag, at least it should have something in it that's actually meant for ponies." And trotted back into my room, biting down on the strap of my saddlebag, picked it up along with my hoof bands and headband and headed back out to the living room where my mother waited. I hopped up onto the sofa next to her and opened it up, taking a look inside while my mother got to work. "Lets see..." The first thing I took out was a book titled 'Taking Care of Your Wings and Preening 101'. "Alright, that will definitely be useful for later." Next, I took out bottles of mane/tail shampoo and conditioner which meant I most likely can't use the stuff I already have...maybe. After that, I took out a bottle of Stallion Seduction™ cologne. "What? Okay then..." The last two things were a bottle of gel for the mane and tail, plus an arm band for my cell phone so I can wear it on my foreleg. "Can't get any more weirder than this right?" Setting the rest of the stuff down I looked behind me to the Ipad to notice that the episode was over already. Wow, I really did take a lot of time in the bathroom. "So, Mom, how did you enjoy the episode?" I said, relaxing some more from her brushing. "Well, I did find it those breezies to be pretty cute and the episode was enjoyable to watch and as for the parts about you, I'm glad you helped with that migration." "Heh, I just like helping a lot is all." "Still, I'm actually somewhat surprised that you're a pony now, though which I'm sure you are very excited about." "Of course." "I..." My mother bit her lip. "...do you think I should make a wish also, to become a pony?" Now that had my ears at attention. "What made you come up with that idea?" "Well, I..." She hesitated for a moment. "I find them really adorable, and watching Twilight using her magic by the end of that episode made me think of how cool it would be to be a Unicorn, plus, it would make my job easier at the airport." "You do have a point there," My face suddenly turned into a grin. "Maybe you can also find a stallion to do you know what." I gave her a wink. Her face reddened. "Why did you have to go there? Eh, nevermind, I haven't even made up my mind about being a pony anyway so lets talk about something else like what happens now?" "Well, me and Thunderlane are still planning on going to Hot Topic and Toys R' Us to get the pony merchandise that we want for our collection. Just because were ponies now doesn't mean we will have to be stuck in here. Though, it will be fun seeing the looks on the humans faces when they see us." "You aren't worried at all?" "Nope! And I'm usually a crazy one anyway, but if anything were to happen then I have these," I waved my hooves. "A good buck or punch will put them in their place." My mother only laughed. "I can only imagine how a guy would look getting hit by one of those...aaaaand I'm finished!" She set the brush down, with a few lightning-blue hairs entangled in it. "Now your mane and tail are a lot straighter now compared to how you looked when you came out the bathroom. Now time for the gel to finish." She grabbed the bottle and poured a good amount in each area. Only a few seconds passed, when all of a sudden bright lights appeared and disappeared just as fast, leaving my mane and tail looking just like how it was in the episode. "Hey, can I see that bottle for a moment?” My mother passed it over and I took another look at the bottle, noticing some writing that I missed. 'Made from the finest ingredients and Equestrian Magic, this gel will give you the mane and tail style that you always imagined.' "That explains a lot." I said as I grabbed my hoof bands, stretching and slipping them onto my forehooves, followed by putting on my headband with ease. It feels good to get used to this body. "I better go check on Thunderlane, I'm sure he'll be happy to know that all I will have to do is just use this gel and not a brush. In the meantime, why not eat something? I'm sure you're hungry." She said, grabbing the bottle and walking off. Right at that moment my stomach let out a loud growl letting me know that it wanted food. Trotting over to the fridge, I opened it up to notice mostly meat related things with my muzzle scrunching up in disgust. "Ugh... just the smell alone is making me feel a little queasy. She brings fruit most of the time from work, so where is it? ... Oh! There we go!" I reached a hoof inside and took out my delicious prize of an apple, closing the door my mouth watered staring at the apple and took a bite. What came next was a flavor explosion of epic proportions that would have you saying 'I came!' times ten. "Oh my Celestia, this is even better than sex! I know that will obviously change later tonight, but still!" I quickly ate the rest of the apple, throwing the core away and went back into the fridge to eat two more greedily. I then finished it off with a refreshing glass of water that was in the fridge. With that finished, I walked back to my room to have one more look in the mirror loving every moment of it. ... ... "Looking good Thunderclap, looking real good!" I struck a few poses for fun, until a cough interrupted me and turned back around to notice my mother trying to hold in her laughter, while Thunderlane was already on the floor laughing like hell. I smiled sheepishly. "Well, it looks like we're almost ready to go." I slid the arm band just up above my right hoof band. Also, Mom, can you put my cell phone in it so it can stay secure?" "Sure." She replied, walking up and securing it. Once it was tightly strapped to my arm, I used the tip of my hoof to touch a side button and was relieved to see that the phone responded to the touch. "Since I know all the bus times, I only plan on using this to check the time and as of right now it's... eight fifty-five AM, so we have thirteen minutes until the first bus comes. "Fair enough." She said. “So now, all I need to do is get my saddlebag on and get the bus cards." I walked out and nuzzled a still laughing Thunderlane, "Hey, get ready will ya?" He nodded and trotted into my room to do just that. I went back to the living room and slipped on my saddlebag nicely, making a quick stop to the fridge and added three more apples so Thunderlane can have something to eat while we're out. Thunderlane came over with my mom shortly afterwards with the bus cards in the holders with lanyards, plus the debit card in hand putting the debit card in my bag while putting the lanyards with the bus card holders around our necks, and grabbing my keys attached to a lanyard and putting that around my neck also. "This is it huh?" she said staring at us. "Yep, pretty much. Today will be the day we surprise the humans!" "Agreed." "Alright, let me open both doors for you." She said walking to the door, opening it for us. Stepping out into the hallway, we both stopped in front of the one thing that was only more of a issue for any person-turned-pony and that was... stairs ... all three steps. "Okay... only three steps... how hard can this be?" I stepped down the first step, easy enough. But when I took the next step, I lost my balance and tried to correct myself, failing I slammed muzzle first into the metal door with a loud Bang! Peeling my face off the metal door I rubbed my muzzle with a hoof. "Ow... why didn't I just jump down those three steps instead?” I moaned. Thunderlane jumped the three steps landing on the floor with a loud clop, with my mother facepalming and walking down the steps, grabbing the door knob. "You aren't a smart pony Thunderclap." He smirked. "Okay now that the show of steps is over, are you two ready?" "We are." "Alright, just be careful. I'll spend this time watching some more episodes until later." "Thanks, Mom, we will. Also, Have fun watching the other episodes." And we both stepped out into what would become a very interesting day. > Chapter 3 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- After the door closed behind us, I decided to take a moment and revel in the joys of being outside as a pony. The not-so-clean smelling air, the cool wind brushing into my fur, and through my wing feathers, forcing them to flutter, the cold ground beneath my hooves...and the dirt... "Well shit, another thing I'll have to get use to is dirty hooves since I was that 'always wanted to be clean' type as a human. But I really should stop thinking of the cons, I'm a freaking pony for celestia's sake! I should be happy." But overall, I suddenly felt like galloping. I looked over at Thunderlane and grinned. "Hey, wanna gallop to the bus stop instead? I just feel the need to run, plus I can get more exercise this way." He nodded. "Sure, I wanna see how well I do." And got into a ready position. On the count of three ... one... two... THREE! We galloped off, leaving a slight dust trail behind us. I'll tell you, running as ponies felt amazing. The thundering clop of our hooves pounding the ground, as well as the wind rushing through our manes and tails. I had a big smile on my face, shouting out. "This is the greatest few minutes being outside as ponies ever!" Turning the corner and about halfway to the bus stop we slowed to a stop. Why? It was because a lady wearing jeans, a plain white shirt and sneakers was blocking our path. Sure, we can cross to the other side or just fly over her, if we trust our wings enough right now to make that happen. But what caught our attention was her facial expression which was probably one of the biggest grins I've ever seen and oh, the two pairs of collars and leashes in her hands. "This should be interesting." I muttered to Thunderlane, pupils shrinking slightly between the two of us. "Hello...my cute little ponies." Her grin turned into a smirk. "Um, hello... person who I've never seen before. How can we uh, help you?" I said awkwardly. "You can help becoming my pet ponies." She gave us a wink. "Thunderclap and Thunderlane, or should I say Victor and William?" My mind could only come up with one word at that moment; "What?" She continued. "When I found out that the both of you became ponies from that show, I just knew that my dream would finally come true to have pet ponies. Also, don't try anything funny, because I know where you live." "Wait, how can you possibly know ahead of time that we were ponies? For that matter, how the hell do you even know where we live, when we're just seeing you for the first time. Plus, you don't even really know who we were before we became ponies in the first place! And knowing our names is just plain freaky for someone we only met now." Thunderlane shouted with some annoyance and confusion. "Would it help if I said that I was stalking you two, and that I was mysterious like that?" She smiled sheepishly. A round of facehooves was met with that answer. "Great..." I groaned. "Why am I not surprised? Listen, as much as you really want us to be your pets, we will have to decline. We really have somewhere to go, so could you please move?" She didn't move an inch, and continued to stare down at the both of us, "Stop acting like that, and come with me." Oh, she was determined. "Please, if anything I rather be Thunderlane's pet, since we're together....." At that moment I noticed the first bus leave from the stop. "Shit... thirteen minutes went by that fast?" My right eye twitched. "Uh-oh you've done it now." Thunderlane said backing up slightly. "Hmm?" The lady looked down at Thunderlane, "Done what?" I instantly shot up into the air not really thinking about that I was actually flying in that moment hovering in front of her touching my snout with her nose with anger clearly on my face and nervousness on hers. "Now listen here you little shit, we were trying to be nice to you and decline because we're not interested, but of course you don't get it! And now we missed the bus!" I snorted and flicked my tail. "But today is your lucky day, because we decided to leave early to make sure if something were to happen because we somehow became ponies, we can get lucky with the next bus to make sure we still have time to catch the connecting bus to Toys R' Us fifty minutes from now." I slowly moved my hoof up and down across her cheek, smiling with an innocent smile which slighty comforted her. "Just something else you should keep in mind though." My face quickly turned into a glare. "The next time you waste our time and make us miss another bus, I will hurt you. Badly." My face then slowly turned into an evil grin. "I have yet to hit any human with these hooves, and I'm sure your face would look great with hoof prints all over it, so remember all of that and we're good, got that?" She gulped and nodded. "Good." I landed back down and looked over to Thunderlane. "Come on, lets go before we miss the next one." And trotted off noticing that us three attracted some attention with other people, voicing their surprise and excitement of seeing two ponies out of no where. It felt great to have better hearing. "Coming!" Thunderlane shouted and hurry up to catch up. "This isn't over my little ponies! I will have you as my pets, no matter what!" "Yeah yeah, I would like to see you try." I swear I heard her do a cliche villain laugh after I said that. "You know, Thunderclap," Thunderlane smiled and nuzzled me as we continued walking. "I'm glad we stopped, because that was interesting to watch and to know that you wanted to be my pet?" I felt my cheeks burn with a noticeable red glow coming from my dark gray fur. "W-well yes, I mean last night I did say that tonight, after everything is over, you can have your way with me. And now that we're ponies, well...that changes things in a much sexier way now." I leaned over giving him a nuzzle and a kiss. "Plus, it will be fun being your pet...I really can't wait for tonight, it will be so much fun!" "Damn right it will!" Thunderlane winked. "I crave to hear you squeak with that new deeper voice of yours!" I laughed and shook my head. "I can only imagine all of the stuff you probably have planned for me later tonight." Finally reaching the corner, we were stopped yet again with this time being two guys wearing slightly baggy pants, more sneakers and black shirts... typical, and looked like they were in their mid twenties, if I had to guess staring down at us with a look of hate. "Oh great...here we go again." I rolled my eyes. One of the men stepped forward, and crouched down to be at eye level with us. "What are you pony freaks doing here?" "Excuse me?" "You heard me! We don't take kindly to ponies being in this area, even though you two are the only ponies we saw." I tapped my chin with a hoof for a moment to think about what he just told me. "Okay, you do realize how stupid that made you sound? Unless of course the both of you knew about us ahead of time then I can understand..." "Then again Celestia said in the letter that the magic changed other things on our world so that would explain how some of these people would know already, but I also know that not everyone is aware of this, so it will be fun as time goes on." The guy in front of us cracked his knuckles and his neck. "You calling me stupid?" "So what if I am? I ain't afraid of you." "Is that a challenge?" "Maybe." "Uh... Thunderclap." Thunderlane tapped me with a hoof to catch my attention. "There goes the next bus." "Wait, what?" Looking behind the two guys I can see that in fact Thunderlane was right and there went the second bus. I pressed the button on my phone, only to see that somehow twenty more minutes had gone by and that the time was now nine twenty-eight. "How the hell did we just miss two buses?! And just how did twenty minutes go by so fast?!" To say that, I wanted to bash the two guys heads in would be an understatement. My patience was beginning to wear thin. Thunderlane was sensing that I was getting annoyed now. "Hey, uh, guys? I think you should leave before you feel the wrath of Thunderclap." Both of them still didn't leave, with the man in front of us raising an eyebrow. "Oh really? See I don't think you understand, you two aren't going anywhere until we teach you two a lesson for being in our area. Isn't that right Kurt?" The guy in question who just stayed back to watch the whole scene nodded and grinned balling up his fists. "Damn right, Hunter, and I'm not afraid of what wrath a little pony might bring." "This is getting stupid. I'm trying not to overreact here, but these two guys aren't giving me a choice...I just hope this Hunter guy is even stupider than I thought. Time to bring on the pain in the form of a hoof!" Smiling with an 'innocent' smile, I was ready. "Oh Hunter! Can you come closer please?" Hunter turned back around to face me and got closer. "Ugh, what do you want, pony?" "You should've listened to Thunderlane you wanna know why?" "Why?" I smirked. BAM! "OW, MY FUCKING BALLS!" My hoof connected with his groin area so hard that, well, he fell down to the ground holding said area, screaming a bunch of expletives in pain. Kurt instantly cringed at the sight. Walking up to Hunter, I punched him in the balls again, and felt satisfied at hearing him scream in pain, until it died down to whimpering a few minutes later. "Ya know something Hunter, you should've listen to me and especially Thunderlane, because when I miss a bus over stupidity such as this, I get angry and this is the first time that I've reacted like this while being a pony. That lady before us got real lucky, but, it does prove something that I figured out while talking to you, and that is that you are really stupid! And you made us miss two of them somehow!" Hunter only glared at me as I leaned down, my muzzle only an inch from his face. "Take this as a warning, if I find out that you and your buddy over there did anything to any other pony in the same way like you two were trying to do here with me and Thunderlane, I will find you and I will enjoy you being in agony as I think of ways to hurt your pride, so don't fuck with us!" Hunter's glare instantly turned into fear and nodded. "Good, I moved back and pointed a hoof at Kurt." And you! You got lucky today, but you better take that same warning I gave your buddy seriously, unless you don't care much for the equipment you have down there, because we ponies are here to stay, and more will appear so you better deal with it." Kurt nodded quickly and helped Hunter up. "Come on man, let's get out of here! These ponies are scaring me." "Yeah...sure...ow...those were really hard hits." I smirked watching both of them leave, and hopefully never bother us again or any other human who might end up as a pony for that matter. Looking behind me, I noticed that we had attracted a small crowd of onlookers with faces showing mostly shock, seeing two ponies while the men had their hands around their private area, staring at us nervously. Thunderlane and I waved at the crowd smiling sheepishly, "Don't mind us, we're just trying to get to Toys R' Us right now, and those other guys were trying to cause us problems." "Yeah, and Thunderclap here punched one of them in the balls to teach him a lesson for making us miss buses." "You're not helping Thunderlane!" I hissed. "We're suppose to be cute, not look more intimidating!" "So?" I sighed, rolling my eyes. "I'm sorry you had to see that, but that guy was asking for it. But now that the show is over, all of you can go about your business." Everyone looked at each other before slowly leaving doing as told while me and Thunderlane quickly crossed the street to stand in front of the bus stop. Looking at the phone again I noticed that we had about five minutes until the next bus comes. Thunderlane nudged me. "Remind me to never be one of those reasons as to why you miss the bus." I looked up and noticed that Thunderlane's expression was just like the others, 'fear'. I smiled and nuzzled him, hoping that I can comfort him some. "Don't worry, I love you so much that I just can't see myself hurting you because of that. Trust me, okay?" Thunderlane nuzzled back. "You're such a softie sometimes, Thunderclap. And I feel better to hear you say that, so I'll trust you on that." Thunderlane backed up a bit and looked in the direction the bus would be coming. "Do you think we will get there in time?" "I honestly hope so, I mean, I'm not in the mood to be waiting all day, and we only have two more chances to catch the bus here to catch the connecting one at either a minute after ten or at ten thirty-three. Then, after that, if we were to miss those two, then it would be almost forty more minutes until the next one. But, with the way the morning is going so far, we'll be lucky to even leave here..." I stared at my wings. "If only we could just fly there, as that would cut our time in half at best, but I rather not attempt long distance flying yet though. At least we can do short flight and hovering just fine." "Don't worry, we'll get there, and oh, look, here comes the next bus!" Thunderlane said happily. Looking over I could see that it was in fact coming, and on time what a rare moment that is. Noticing that it was coming pretty fast, I quickly stuck out my right hoof to signal the driver to stop, which he did. That's when I noticed he only stopped because the light turned red. "Great... I guess he didn't see us. Come on Thunderlane, let's go around to the drivers side window and see if we can talk him into getting inside, we have at least ninety seconds until that light changes." Trotting on over to the driver side of the bus, we both flapped our wings to hover right in front of the window, while I knocked on the sliding window with a hoof. The driver looked over and instantly jumped in surprise, which would be hilarious were it not for the fact that I was kinda annoyed already, but, Thunderlane did laugh. Quickly he opened his window as his surprise turned into curiosity, staring directly at us. "P-ponies? How...what? How is this even possible?" "Good to see that your reaction is what we would expect. Now, we were humans just like you and well...we made wishes last night to be ponies after seeing some shooting stars and it came to be true so yeah, magic is real, so can we get on the bus? We got some shopping to do and look we even got our bus cards!" I showed him mines while Thunderlane showed his. He bit his lip and looked behind him and fidgeted before looking back at us. "As much as I would like to, I'm pretty packed, so I'm very sorry." And he was right, looking at the windows I can tell that it was full. I let out a sigh. "What about letting us stay on the roof of the bus?" "I'm not comfortable with that happening." I facehoofed. "So much for that... Fine just go, we have one more chance anyway." And flew back to the stop with Thunderlane right next to me. The driver opened the door this time. "Hey, um... just what are your names? Pony names I mean, and I also have another question before I go." "I'm Thunderclap and he's Thunderlane and alright, what is it? What's your name?" "I'm James, Do you think I should be a pony?" I shrugged. "Well James, It's up to you. Wanna live the life of a pony? Then go for it. Its fun, even though we haven't been having the type of morning we were hoping for, but I know once this gets out on a massive scale, a bunch of people will be up at night waiting for a shooting star to appear to make their wishes. It's all about the magic, and you should let your passengers know about that too because given time, more ponies will walk among humans and remember, it your choice and theirs, I'm not forcing you or anything." "Alright, I will keep that in mind, thanks, oh! And also thanks for understanding my situation, I just hope you get to do what you two were planning." With that he closed the door, and drove off while we waved at the overly excited passengers. "Well, at least he was nice enough, right Thunderlane?" "Yep! And I bet he and most of the passengers were bronies." Thunderlane snorted. "Still, it sucks that almost 50 minutes passed and we only got as far as two blocks." "Just the life of two ponies in a city full of humans, but there's still that third person Celestia mentioned in that letter and I can only wonder how he's handling it right now." I looked at the phone again. "Only a minute remains until the next one. On cue the bus in question pulled out of the parking lot a block away... with My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic wrapping advertising on it for some reason. "Hey, Thunderlane?" "Yeah, Thunderclap?" "I think we will finally get on a bus!" I shouted happily. The bus quickly pulled over and stopped in front of us with the door open, and I thought I heard squeeing from the guy driving it. "Get on!" We got on fast, showed our bus cards and sat down being greeted by a crowd of bronies as the driver pulled off. "Yep, that magic sure changed things alright. But, finally we can rest our hooves after standing for so long." "Oh my gosh! I can't believe it! Ponies from Friendship is Magic are actually here in this city and are real! EEEEEE!!!" The woman that said it squealed in delight. "Yeah, this is pretty unexpected." Another woman said. "I'm just wondering how is this even possible." One of the guys spoke up. "Well..." I smirked. "Believe it or not, we were humans just like all of you." "What?!" "No way?!" "Impossibru!!" "Oh it's very much true." I laughed. "And it's all because of shooting stars and making wishes with Luna and Celestia wanting to have fun after finding out somehow." The first woman spoke up again. "Really, that's it? Well I know what I'm going to be doing tonight then." Everyone else nodded. "Trust me, since all of you are fans, being a pony will be the best thing ever, and I know the princesses will just love granting them. Also, I'm sure almost everywhere on this planet will be filled with ponies once more people find out about this." "You know..." Thunderlane took that moment to speak. "As happy as we are, I gotta wonder, what's with the pony advertising wrap on this bus?" "Just advertising ponies is all." "And did any of you really know that there were ponies around?" "Not exactly... but our brony senses were tingling and we knew something was up and well, here we are!" "Seems almost too legit." Thunderlane said raising an eyebrow. "Well it's true, so can you come and sit with us so we don't have to keep standing? We just have so much more to ask!" Thunderlane thought about it for a moment and nodded and flew to the back of the bus with everyone cheering and following after him. I decided to take that moment and talk to the bus driver. "So, what's your name?" "Josh, and it's nice to meet you, Thunderclap." "Heh, likewise." Not really questioning how he knew that name. Then again, bronies know a lot of stuff. "So, you gonna join the herd if you know what I mean?" "Damn right I am." Josh glanced back at me and winked. "Most of us dreamed of what it would be like being a pony, sure it might seem crazy but hey, it's what we choose to think am I right?" "Right." "And after hearing what you said and seeing you and Thunderlane in the flesh, we can now make those dreams a reality." "Glad to know we helped you in that." I smirked. "So where were you two headed anyway?" "Oh just stopping at Toys R' Us and Hot Topic to buy some pony sets and some Vinyl Collectibles for our collections. We're stopping at downtown first to get on another bus to get to Toys R' Us to shop there, then fly over to the mall to Hot Topic after we do some flying practice." "I see... how about I just take you straight to Toys R' Us instead?" My eyes grew wide as a smile appeared on my face. "Really, you would do that for us?" "Yes, indeed! You helped us with that information which bronies would find valuable, so I'm more than happy to help you out by doing that." My face turned curious after that though, "Wait, don't you have work though? Even though I didn't see a destination listed on the screen with the route number." "Oh, that." He waived dismissively. "Today is my day off, but I was still able to use one of the buses for an occasion just like this." Odd, but good enough reason for me and I wasn't going to question it as I flew over to him and wrapped him in a hug, "Thank you, it really means a lot to us." He smiled and hugged back, "Don't mention it." ----------------------------- The rest of the trip went smoothly, with me enjoying the view after learning everyone's name, while everyone was around Thunderlane asking him more questions dealing with who he was before, to where he lives, but it was mostly pony related. I'm sure he was enjoying the attention a lot. As the bus came to a stop in the parking lot of Toys R' Us that also has adjacent Big Lots store and an Ikea at the other end of the lot, the door opened and Thunderlane and I got off. "Now, when you're done, call me with the number I gave you alright? All of us can come pick you up at the mall when you are finished with everything. As for us, we'll be around doing random things to kill time." The door closed, the bus driving away with us waving at our new fans. I looked over at Thunderlane. "Finally, after everything, that lady, those two haters and all the fans, just everything, we are here at Toys R' Us. Now let's get this over with already, and see what kind of reactions we'll get once inside." "Agreed." And we both trotted up to the automatic sliding doors as it opened, walking inside. > Chapter 4 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trotting inside, we noticed there wasn't that many people, then again, we got here close to ten-thirty and Toys R' Us opened at ten, so yeah. Looking to my right, I noticed a few workers at the Customer Service Center staring at us with the usual look of surprise, like most others. Me and Thunderlane waved at them. "Don't mind us! Just some human-turned ponies here to buy ponies, call it 'Ponyception'!" I gave a stupid grin. That got the workers murmuring to each other and finally one spoke up. "Can we take some pictures with you and get some brohoofs before you two leave?" I looked over to Thunderlane, who nodded and we both turned back to the group. "Sure, we'll be happy to do that." A round of cheers was met with that response as I grabbed a shopping basket with one hoof and walked to the 'My Little Pony' aisle on three legs, which was surprisingly easy with Thunderlane walking at my side. Moving from the door rug and onto the tile floor, our hooves made the loudest clops which could probably be heard over at the other end of Babies"R"Us also which is connected to Toys R' Us as we finally got to the aisle, which surprisingly was fully stocked of pony merchandise. Yep, nothing like two stallions in a pink aisle full of pony. "Holy Mother Celestia and Luna..." I whispered, setting the basket down. "This is awesome! Good thing we came on the right day, because wow... a whole aisle full of ponies! Then again, the last few times I came here as a human on random days they were always fully stocked. Now to see if they have what we came here for." And started looking up and down the aisle. Thunderlane took that moment to speak, "Make sure you get a set each for me too, I'ma go check out their trading cards section to get some CCG decks or pony tins that interest me." And walked off. "Alright!" I yelled back. "Now... where would they be? I'm sure they're around here somewhere... AHA! They really do have it here!" If my eyes could get any bigger, they would as I took in the sight of two sets I've been trying to find for so long; the Daring Pony Story set which of course has Daring Do in it and the Soaring Pegasus set, which had Thunderlane in it. "Oh sweet Luna's Moon Pies! Today is our lucky day!" Flying up to it, I grabbed two of the Soaring Pegasus sets and dropped them into the basket and slowly reached out a hoof to the Daring Pony Story set, which I saw there were only two left, my grin getting bigger, "Perfect... Come to Bandy..." And touched it, only to notice a hand reach out of nowhere and also touch it. "Huh?" I mentally said and glanced over to my left to see a woman touching it, staring at me. I also noticed a little girl who looked like she was going to scream in joy at the sight of me... A mother and daughter. "I was so happy to find these that I'm surprised I didn't hear them coming at all." The woman decided to speak first. "While I am surprised that there's a pony here, I came to buy this set for my daughter, since she loves Daring Do so hands off the merchandise. Or this case, hooves off." "Um..." I thought about that for a moment. "Really? I'm only getting that reaction out of her? Well there's only one other hope, lets just see how well I can pull this off." Flying back down and landing in front of the little girl, I was ready. "Hey, um ... Daring Do is my favorite overall pony, so I really need to buy the only two that's left... I'm sure you can say yes to a pony right? Preeeeety pleeease?" I made the most adorable puppy dog eyes I could make, hoping she'd agree. She seemed unfazed though. "But I love her too! And I want this. Also, there's two of them, so we can both buy one each, won't that be better? Preeeeety pleeease?" And gave me her version of the puppy dog eyes until I finally gave in. "Damn it! I thought I was going to win this round of adorableness... I just didn't try hard enough." Knowing that I was beat, I let out a sigh as my ears drooped. "Alright, fine. You win. As badly as I wanted both, I can't say no to that face." Flying back up and taking one, setting it in the basket and started moving down the aisle to see what else might interest me. "Hold up a moment!" I turned back around to see the mother and daughter duo come closer to me. "How come you need both of them?" The mother asked with a curious tone in her voice. "Well, I was buying one for me and the other was for my coltfriend who is also in here." "Wait, there's another pony here? And.... coltfriend?" "Heeheehee ... well ya know, love ... so much love so much 'two guys turned into stallions love'... Erm, anyway, yes there is another pony here shopping." The little girl quickly got in my face, eyes sparkling, "Who is this other pony?" "He's Thunderlane. He's over at the checkout section, looking at the My Little Pony collectible cards." "Yay!! Can I go see him mom, please?" Her mother just shrugged. "Yeah, sure." "Sweet! Oh, before I forget, here." And she passed me the other Daring Pony Story set which I took and set it in the basket. Looking back at her, I can only wonder. "What made you change your mind?" She only smiled. "As much as I love Daring Do, seeing you here was just so worth it, and I can also tell that you really need it more, so I'm willing to wait and try again." My eyes got slightly watery after hearing her speak, and I hugged her, "Thank you, just thank you so much, we might be ponies, but we're softies too and this means a lot to us." I let go of her and backed up, wiping my eyes with a forehoof. "Silly me, I didn't even get your names." "I'm Lotus and my mom's name is Mary." "Lotus huh? Hehe just like that Spa Pony... say, Lotus, wanna hear something awesome?" "Yes yes yes!" "Haha, alright. Since you helped me out, I want to also. Tonight, go outside and wait to see a shooting star, and make a wish to be a pony like us, that's how we're here right now and I'll make sure to mention you to the princesses when they come to visit me and Thunderlane later." The expression on Lotus's face was priceless. "Really, you mean that? And Celestia and Luna are going to visit the two of you later today?!" "I sure do! And yes, they really are coming. I'm speaking the whole truth here, I also can tell that you would have so much fun if you do become a pony." Her expression turned into pure happiness as she jumped around her mother. "Yes! yes! yes! yes! yes! yes!! I get to be a pony! I get to be a pony!" And came to a sudden halt. "Oh right, I gotta go see Thunderlane! Heeheehee! Maybe I can scare him! Bye Thunderclap!" And ran off. I looked over at Mary and smiled. "In three... two... one...!" EEE!! OH MY GOSH! IT'S THUNDERLANE!! GAH?! WHAT THE HAY?! I snorted, trying to hold in my laughter. "I knew that was coming." "Right.... right." Mary said holding in a laugh of her own. "So all you said was actually true?" I pointed at myself. "Well, the proof is right here. I mean, I didn't really believe in magic and neither did Thunderlane, but, last night we star gazed. We saw shooting stars and we just went along from there, and now we're ponies. For me it just felt right to say that when we saw it and I'm sure Thunderlane felt that way too, either that or it's just a brony thing. But at least we're getting answers from the princesses later." "I see... and how has your day been so far like this?" "Craziest morning ever! From a lady wanting us to be her pets to guys who wanted to beat us, and the hassle of trying to get a bus which we finally got on one that was filled with fans. Overall, when two ponies just appear on this planet from a show, it's gonna draw a lot of attention good or bad." "I can imagine. Well, it's been nice talking to you, Thunderclap. Maybe we'll see each other again soon. Time to go get Lotus and hope she didn't bug your coltfriend too much, and have a talk about what you had said." And winked and walked off. I took that moment to think about what she said at the end there. "Is she really considering joining us? I assume that if her daughter really wants to be a pony, then she might agree with it also...but what about other family members? Her husband if she has one? Well, only time will tell and after this day is over, we'll see how many ponies appear come tomorrow. Now to continue shopping." And turned back around to continue scanning the merchandise. The whole aisle was covered with pony sets, figures, costumes and various other pony related merchandise, including Vinyl Collectibles, though all I saw were ones I already had, so I didn't bother with that. There was some other stuff I wanted to buy, but, I decided that I can just return tomorrow get them, although I did pick up the 'My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Through the Mirror' book by G. M. Berrow, because I like reading and I'm totally an egghead that Twilight would love (and no, not that kind of 'love' because I don't swing that way, I'm all sexy and coltcuddly™). Setting the book in the basket, I heard the tell-tale sounds of hooves on floor as my handsome coltfriend returned, looking slightly unamused while holding the 'Rock N Rave MLP CCG' decks, setting them in the basket. "That girl gave me such a scare, I probably jumped ten feet into the air from that." "Yeah, I'm sure the whole store heard you. I know her mother and I did. So, I guess we're done here?" "I guess so, yeah." Thunderlane nodded. "I can't think of anything else to buy from here right now." "Alright." Picking up the shopping basket, we walked back over to the checkout, setting the basket up on the counter. Looking at the cashier, I could tell he was shaking in excitement at seeing two ponies in the store shopping, while he started scanning everything. "Please, contain your 'fanboy orgasms'." I grinned. "We'll give you and anyone else brohooves before we leave." "I'm sorry! It's just that MLP:FIM is just a show, who would've thought that ponies would really appear? This is really my best day in work. Anyway, your total for today is fifty dollars and seventy-five cents." "Got it." Opening up the right side of my saddlebag, I took out the debit card, swiped it, put it back inside and wrapped my hoof around the stylus, and put in the pin. "How are you doing that?" "Huh?" "The whole 'holding your stuff with hooves' thing. It looked hard." "Oh that?" I said as I looked at my hoof and back to him. "It's just magic, not sure how else I can explain it. "I guess I won't question that further then." He shrugged. "So, would you like a bag, or are you going to use your saddlebags? "Saddlebags will be fine." I said as we both got our things and set them inside. "Oh, I have another question." "Okay, shoot." "Think me and Thunderlane can gain access to the roof to practice our flying?" The cashier thought about it for a moment, tapping his chin. "Sure, that can be arranged." ----------------------------- After about twenty minutes had gone by with a bunch of brohoofs, pictures, remembering their names and us telling them about how we ended up as ponies, we were finally on the roof. We were finally going to attempt long distance flying. Looking over to Thunderlane, I tried to give him a confident smile, but in reality, I was kind of nervous about this. "Ready to fly? This really shouldn't be hard. If what Celestia said in the letter is true, then this should be a piece of cake...I believe in her." Thunderlane nudged me and smirked. "Good, then you go first." And pointed a hoof over at the other end of the parking lot. "We fly off this roof and try to get to that other roof of Ikea and back again, got it? "Okay fine..." I backed up some, taking a deep breath, spreading my wings and galloped off the roof. I flapped them hard, taking flight. "I can do this! I know I can!" At that moment, a certain song decided to play at the worst possible time. " ♫ And I'm free, free fallin', fallin' ♫ " "Wait, what?" I looked down and noticed that I was actually falling straight onto a parked car with a guy standing next to it. Quickly flapping my wings to try and slow down, I said the only thing I could think of at that moment, "Oh fuck, oh fuck, oh fuck, oh fuck!" CRASH!! "Ow... I really didn't see that coming." I groaned, noticing I left a pretty good sized dent on the roof of the car. Looking over at the owner, I can tell he was surprised, because who wouldn't be if a pony dropped onto your car? I hopped off and waved to him awkwardly, "Sorry about that sir, I was just trying to get some flying in. That didn't go so well, as you can see." I then chuckled nervously. The man shrugged. "No worries, I have 'Pony dropping on your car' insurance, I'm completely covered for the damages you caused." "What kind of insurance is that? You know what? Nevermind, that's just Celestia's and Luna's magic at work." Hearing laughter I looked around and noticed that I didn't get that far away from the roof and looked up and glared at Thunderlane who kept laughing, "Looks like I win that bet of you hitting a car first, now pay up!" "But we never bet anything to begin with you idiot!" He stopped laughing, "Oh, right...well shit." I rolled my eyes, "Look, just go and do your attempt, I'm sure you will get farther than me." Thunderlane smirked and winked at me, "Will do!" And repeated the same steps I did and flew off the roof soaring right on by. "Shit... he's gonna really make it isn't he?" CRASH!! I winced. "Or not." As I saw that Thunderlane crashed into the 'I' of the Ikea sign. "I'm okay! I'm not hurt much..." he shouted. I facehoofed. "This is gonna take a while, and I'm sure the princesses are laughing it up right now seeing this." ----------------------------- About an hour and many more attempts later, which luckly we didn't hurt ourselves too bad. We finally got to fly for much longer, which would come in handy right now. And if you were wondering, yes that pet pony lady made another appearance but, Thunderlane scared her off by throwing a rock... such an amusing sight that was. "Alright Thunderlane, this is it! Even though she said we will get used to our bodies soon enough. That certainly took a lot longer to learn that I thought. But anyway, time to fly on over to Hot Topic!" Thunderlane grinned, "Lets do this!" With our saddlebags secured, we both jumped off the roof and flew Northwest over towards the mall. Let me tell you, being able to fly for longer now is the greatest thing ever. The wind whipping through my mane and tail, ears flicking and the cool air against my fur, I'm glad I wished to be a pegasus and looking over at Thunderlane and seeing the smile on his face, I can tell that he was enjoying it just as much as me. "This sure as hell beats catching the bus!!!" I shouted happily while Thunderlane laughed. I really can't wait to thank the princesses later because this is the greatest moment ever. ---------- A few minutes later over at the mall. ---------- THUD! THUD! "What the hell!?" "Holy crap!" "Whoa... look! It's ponies from that show!" "Oh my gosh! They're so cute!" Looking around us, we waved at everyone, smiling. "I'm loving today so much more now." I said to Thunderlane. "I couldn't agree more. Now lets go inside and get something to eat first, I'm starving." Thunderlane said as his stomach growled. I only chuckled as I walked along side him, up to the opened door and inside, hungry for food as well. > Chapter 5 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trotting inside we decided to look around to see what kind of reaction we would get at a mall and even though it was getting close to twelve pm this place was pretty packed. But for the most part, it was mostly smiles and waves as they continued about their business. I raised an eyebrow and looked over at Thunderlane. "You know, this looks almost too convenient." Thunderlane nodded. "I know something stupid is gonna happen though, trust me on that one Thunderclap so in the meantime..." He wrapped a hoof around me while moving the other around pointing at everyone else. "Lets just enjoy this attention we're getting." I laughed, "Well, can't argue with that, now come on, the food court is up on the second floor." And flew up to the second floor with Thunderlane close behind. Reaching the food court area, hovering in place, my nose instantly picked up on the nauseating scent of meat causing my muzzle to scrunch up slightly. Looking over to Thunderlane I can tell he was getting the same reaction. "Time to hurry this up and choose a place, even though the smell isn't as strong, I want to hurry." I muttered scanning the list of food choices that hopefully had some sort of vegetarian option or just something that we can eat. But as I kept looking it seemed as though finding something like that was out of the question and my eyes settled on a Sbarro instead. "That will have to do for now then." Tapping Thunderlane I pointed over at the place. "Come on we can get something from there." "Good enough for me, I'm starving." And he flew off. Flying after him we both landed in front of the counter rearing up on our hind legs while placing our forehooves on the counter with me tapping the counter with a hoof to catch the cashier's attention. "Excuse me good sir, but, we would like to order." The guy looked around at first trying to figure out who had said that until a cough from me caught his attention as his eyes traveled down to see to equines staring back him and yes, his initial reaction was pretty funny. "P-ponies ...here at the m-mall?" He stammered. "Pinch me I must being dreaming." "Hehe no need for that." I winked at him. "This is all true." "*Squee* oh my gosh my brony fantasy came true! What can I get you two? And don't worry, you'll only pay half the price of the total order. Think of it as the 'pony special treatment'." "I uh... wow, thanks that's really unexpected but, we're very grateful for that." I looked over to Thunderlane to notice that he was trying not to laugh and if I had to guess it was probably because of that guy squeeing, much funnier when a guy does it and kinda cute... anyway! "Just two large sodas with two orders of Pasta Rustica and two large slices of pizza will do for us." "Alright..." The guy added everything in the register. "Okay, your total will be fifteen even." Taking out the card, I swiped it, put in the pin again and got my receipt a few seconds later. "Everything will be ready in about 10 minutes." The cashier smiled and walked off to the back. "Ten bits says the cashier wants to be one of us." Thunderlane chuckled. "I'm sure he does, I'll make sure to let him know." The next few minutes were spent greeting the occasional passerby with a few brohoofs here and there until finally the cashier came back with our food and sodas with straws already in them on two trays. This guy is awesome! "Here ya go! Hot and fresh which I'm sure you two will enjoy... uh." He stared at the trays then at us. "Need help carrying that to the table?" "Nah, we're good, trust me." "Well, alright then, enjoy! Hope to see you again real soon! And oh, I almost forgot, I've been hearing people talking about another pony around here somewhere, but I haven't noticed him. Just something to keep in mind." "Thanks for the heads up and don't worry, you'll be seeing us again and many more ponies I'm sure after today. Why not go out tonight and wait for a shooting star to appear and make a wish to be one of us? I know the princesses will be happy to make it happen." He squee'd again... damn that was adorable, I gotta make sure to get Thunderlane to make that sound especially if he wants to make me squeak. Waving goodbye at him, we both grabbed our trays with our teeth which held pretty steady, how? Magic™ that's how! And made our way to a random table and sat the trays down and sitting in our seats. While waiting for the pizza and pasta to cool down some, I decided to bring up a question that has been on my mind since we left. "So, Thunderlane, how are ya enjoying the morning so far now that we've been out and about as ponies for a few hours?" Thunderlane thought about that for a moment. "With everything that's been going on, I can't really complain, I'm enjoying the life of a stallion so much and it was pretty damn funny scaring that lady off by throwing a rock... but anyway I just want today to hurry up so we can have our 'fun' tonight if you know what I mean?" He grinned mischievously. "What about you? I can tell that you're having fun telling people about how we became ponies." I felt my face heat up. "Dammit Thunderlane! Anyway, I feel the same way as you and I'm happy telling others about how we ended up like this, sure it's their choice, but, I'm sure most will go ahead and do it in the end. Also, even though what happened, happened, this would be expected from the sudden appearance of us ponies but, this is our new lives now and I can't wait to be your best pet and pleasure you in so many ways... Erm yeah enough of that, I'm just surprised that we haven't seen that third person-turned-pony yet but we at least know that he's here from what that cashier told us but enough talk, lets eat already." "Fuck yeah!" Thunderlane greedily started eating his slice of pizza with a happy smile on his face by sliding the slice off the edge of the plate with a hoof to eat it easier. I stared at my food, then at the pasta. "Hmm ... I really wouldn't do it as a human but I sure as hell am now that I'm a pony!" I shrugged, "Time to have some fun!" And went muzzle first into the pasta, eating happily. Now, while I didn't get the same flavor orgasm explosion like the apples, this pasta was pretty fucking delicious. The penne was great and the plum tomatoes,broccoli, and buttery garlic sauce all tasted fresh to my taste buds. Mall food ain't all that bad and I'm sure Thunderlane would agree. Finishing the pasta a few minutes later, I lifted my head up and used my now longer tongue to lick up all the sauce around my face. Opening my eyes I noticed Thunderlane staring at me with a raised eyebrow. "Having fun, Thunderclap?" I smiled sheepishly, "What? I always wanted to do that, it's fun." "If you say so." And Thunderlane started on his pasta. I quickly drank some soda and started on my slice of pizza eating it the same way he did until a random guy came up to us holding a tray of his own. "Um... this may seem slightly random, but, how come you two aren't sitting with that other pony over there?" That perked our ears and got our attention. "You mean there's another pony actually here in this area?" He nodded. I quickly flew up and hovered looking in the direction the guy was pointing to until I spotted him. The bluish gray color and two-tone dark gray mane and tail there was no mistaking it, I knew right away who this pony was. "Oh wow... It's Rumble, Thunderlane's little brother... this is awesome!" "What's awesome?" Thunderlane asked. I flew back down, "It's Rumble, that's what's awesome!" His eyes got wide. "My little bro is here? Come on lets go see him already!" I flew over and hugged the guy. "Thank you so much, we're very grateful for this. We were told that there was another pony around here but, I didn't think we were this close to him." "No problem, I'm happy to help out." And walked away. We quickly grabbed our trays and made our way to where Rumble was. Getting closer I noticed that he was busy drinking a smoothie and not noticing our approach. Setting our trays down on the table I decided to let Thunderlane handle this moment and just watch. He tapped the table with a hoof, "Hey, Rumble." Rumble looked up and instantly his eyes got wide. "T-Thunderlane? Is that really you?" "Of course it's me silly!" Rumble quickly set down the smoothie and flew over to embrace Thunderlane in a big hug with Thunderlane doing the same, tears of joy in both their eyes. "I missed you so much big brother." "I missed you too little bro." "Gah!" Rumble backed up slightly, "why is some of your face covered in buttery garlic sauce?" "Blame my coltfriend." A chorus of 'Awws' followed that and I gotta admit it was kinda funny and very heartwarming to see. Rumble tilted his head curiously, "Coltfriend?" And looked over at me while I waved awkwardly and flew over to me and started inspecting me. "Whoa cool, you're Thunderclap!" "Yep, that's me alright, the one that appeared in only one episode so far." Rumble giggled and flew back over to sit with Thunderlane sitting next to him while I sat on the opposite side. "You know, when Celestia said that I was going to expect a surprise here at the mall, I didn't think it would be Thunderlane." "That's funny because she said a similar thing in the letter to us minus where it was going to actually be happening at just that there was a third person-turned-pony and that one of us would be surprised and we only found out about you was because we were told." I said finishing up my pizza and drinking some more soda, wiping my face with a napkin afterwards. "Celestia and Luna are gonna be visiting us later back at my place." "Which also means you can come with us, Rumble." Thunderlane grinned. "Yay! I get to be with my big brother!" Now was my chance to ask a question that had me curious. "Say, Rumble, did you actually work at one of these stores as a human?" He nodded. "Yep, right at Hot Topic, I'm on break right now." "How convenient, me and Thunderclap were headed there after we finished eating." Thunderlane said, going back to eating his pasta. "Well, we're having a fifty percent off sale on most merchandise including pony." I pumped a hoof in the air. "Aww yeah! I get to save more money now and my main focus right now is buying the AJ, Twilight, Trixie, Daring Do, Rarity, Big Mac and Discord Vinyl's unless something else catches my attention." "Well, lucky for you." Rumble smiled. "We have them all in stock still." BUUUUURRP!! Both of us look over to Thunderlane who grinned sheepishly, "Excuse me. So, Rumble, what made you pick him and how did you react when you actually woke up as him?" "I just like him and I dunno, something just made me make the wish and as far as my reaction was when I woke up, I was surprised at first but then I was happy afterwards, of course my family just found me too adorable and wouldn't leave me alone until I left for work. Then again, after I got here it was just the same especially at Hot Topic with my co-workers having fun with me. Overall, I don't mind it much." Thunderlane ruffled his mane. "Well, you are the cutest colt, so of course others will find you adorable." I noticed Rumble's face turn red with embarrassment, "Big brother! Stop!" Thunderlane stuck his tongue out, "Make me." "Alright, as funny as this scene is, it's time to go to Hot Topic and get the last of our shopping done, but first, there's one other thing I need to do, something I need to do for Luna." I said getting up, grabbing the tray, trotting over to the garbage bin, throwing away the trash and setting the tray on top of it. Hovering up above again, I scanned my surroundings until I found what I was looking for: The Vending Machine and a few at that... that for some reason is located next to the bathrooms because who wouldn't want to buy a can of pringles after taking a huge dump? But that's just me being random. Flying over to it, I landed in front of the one that contained my prize... Moon Pies taking up the entire first row and six slots, one dollar each and uses a debit/credit card as payment. "Just how did Luna actually know this was here? I didn't even know." I said to myself. "Ah well, we'll get our answers soon, for now time to get what she wanted." Taking the card out I flew up and swiped it pressing '1A' with the tip of my hoof and repeating the process nine more times until my left saddlebag was slightly bulging with sugary goodness. "That should be enough for her for now, at least it's the regular size and not the mini size. Time to return to Thunderlane and Rumble." Turning back around I instantly stop in my tracks, there wasn't anything behind me to scare me or anything, but, what I saw ahead of me did catch my attention, sitting at a table were five guys wearing nothing but black which included sneakers, jeans, shirts and even leather jackets. They continued staring at me for another few minutes and went back to their business. "That was too weird, they just appeared out of nowhere, but, I'm getting a feeling this wont be the last I see of them." And quickly flew back over to notice that Thunderlane and Rumble were already finished and were waiting for me. "Alright!" I grinned widely. "Time to get the final part of our shopping finished." Rumble jumped on Thunderlane's back and pointed a hoof in the direction of the store. "Onwards big brother!" Thunderlane laughed. "As you wish." And started walking with me along side. Nothing interesting happened as we walked to Hot Topic, but as for when we actually got inside... "Welcome back, Rumble! ...! Oh my gosh there's two more ponies and one of them is your big brother! EEEEEEEE!!! This is so adorable! Hey Luke! Come check this out!" A guy came out from the back who I assumed to be Luke to take a look at us. "Well, I'll be, I wasn't expecting to see more ponies and it was surprising enough when our co-worker here showed up as Rumble." "I'm just glad that the both of you are fans of the show and are happy enough about this situation." "We are also. Oh! Silly me, I'm Luke and this is Jessica." He said pointing to the person who first greeted us. "Nice to meet the both of of you, I'm Thunderclap and I'm sure you're aware of Thunderlane." "We are, so how can we help you today?" Luke asked. "Actually they're here to buy those MLP Vinyl Collectibles." Rumble spoke up. Jessica pointed to the left. "We have them all lined up on the shelves next to that wall." Looking over, my face turned into a stupid grin taking in the sight of all the Vinyl Collectibles that I needed so I can have a current collection they even have ones I already have. All except one... one was missing from that selection. "Aww... no Daring Do? I thought you had her." Luke waved his hand dismissively, "No worries, we have a box full of her in the back, I just didn't have the time to take them out yet. Come, you can open it and take her out yourself." I wanted to fangirl so badly, but I decided to hold that in and yes, I said 'Fangirl' ... just imagine a stallion doing that, it's very funny :D. As we followed them both inside he pointed over to the box in question. "There it is, go ahead and claim your treasure." He grinned. Slowly walking up to the box, I noticed a strange glow coming from the box. Opening the box, the glow became a bit brighter and some very familiar music started to play as I reached inside and took out my prize, holding it above me. You got Daring Do! With this item you can fangirl until your hearts content. You can stare at it's beauty of how well it's made while other fans who can't afford her yet can get super jelly at you for having her, while you give them a smug grin saying "U Jelly?" Set it X,Y or Z to use it. "Um...." Luke looked over at Jessica. "Are you seeing what I'm seeing?" "Yes" "A blue rectangle with words scrolling across it appearing out of nowhere... huh, well that's new." Thunderlane said. "Sweet, a Zelda reference!" Rumble grinned as everyone else looked at him. "What? It's Unexpected, but pretty amusing." "Uh..." I looked above me at the text and the Daring Do Vinyl spinning in a circle not even touching my hooves. Also, I realized I was standing on my hindhooves during this. "Wtf? This is by far the most craziest thing that's happened today since becoming ponies." Suddenly the text disappeared and the box fell into my hooves. Staring at it I can only wonder until a cough shook me from my thoughts and I looked back to see everyone looking at me. "As random as that was, we should head back on out then you can go ahead and pay for everything." I nodded and grabbed a second one since I'm such a fan of her and followed everyone else out. While Jessica, Rumble and Thunderlane were chatting outside, I spent the next few minutes getting all the other Vinyl's I needed, setting them on the counter and making sure I got an extra Discord for Celestia. I even decided to get another one for Discord himself... I can only imagine his reaction when he receives it while Thunderlane ended up getting Rarity, pretty obvious as to why. "That will be seventy-five dollars and thirteen cents." Luke said. "Okay." I took out my card again, swiping it, putting in the pin and getting the receipt afterwards as he started putting everything in two big bags. "So what happens now?" "Well, we're done here so it's time to head on back home to meet with the princesses and talk about this whole thing." "And is Rumble going with you?" "Of course... well, if you're okay with that?" "I'm fine with it, me and Jessica can handle things here." "That's good to know... huh?" My ears swiveled in the direction of the exit from hearing a loud commotion which involved Thunderlane. "This can't be good." I muttered and walked out to find the same five guys from earlier all glaring at Thunderlane for some reason. "You got some nerve being with Rarity." One of them said. "And I already told you, I'm not really with her! It's just bronies who ship me with her. Plus, I have a coltfriend." Thunderlane countered. "Nice try, pony, but, we'll have to make sure that you never hook up with her again." All of them cracked their knuckles and I could tell where this was headed. Suddenly all of them unzipped their jackets and I saw that they were wearing 'Rarity Is My Waifu' shirts. "The fuck? I didn't even think shirts like that existed." "I would like to see any of you try something." Thunderlane warned, growling with Rumble clinging to his mane. "Like you can beat us." One of them chuckled followed by the rest laughing. I took a step forward to put a stop to this until I felt a tap, looking behind me I saw another group of five guys staring at me wearing shirts saying 'Flitter Is My Waifu'. My right eye twitched, "What? OH COME ON!! Just because I was in that episode with her doesn't mean I'm actually with her!" "This is just like with Kurt and Hunter... maybe these guys are dumb also? Hmm... time to try out my plan and see if it works." Moving away from them before they did anything stupid and walking next to Thunderlane, all three of us moved away to give them room, I decided to give it a shot. "Lets be resonable here guys, we're both together but, if you think that Rarity or Flitter is your waifu only one of you can claim dibs on that since they're only one pony each so, which one of you is worthy for that? "Please work, please work!" Thunderlane looked at me with a confused expression but I only winked at him. One of them spoke up, "Ya know something? This pony speaks the truth, only one of us can have Rarity or Flitter as our Waifu so I call dibs on Rarity." "I call dibs on Flitter!" Another one shouted. "Fuck you! I want Rarity!" "And I want Flitter!" "Fight me then!" "Come at me bro!" What followed next was best described as a hilarious fight scene that you would only see in cartoons with both groups fighting each other in two balls of clouds with the occasional hand or leg sticking out as both balls moved away while other shoppers hurried to get out of the way to not get caught in it. "What idiots... thankfully that plan worked." I chuckled and felt another tap, turning around I noticed the one person who I'm not really all that surprised to expect to see... that crazy pet pony lady. "What do you want now?" I gave her a flat look. She let out a sigh and sat down. "I don't want any trouble, I just came to apologize." "Oh?" I sat down also. "Why the sudden change?" "When I first knew about you and Thunderlane I thought this would be my chance to live out my fantasy, but after your coltfriend there scared me off with a rock of all things, I got into thinking and finally realized that my husband is a fan of show so I decided to talk to him about it and surprisingly enough, he agreed! He's willing to be my pet pony starting tomorrow since he likes the idea a lot. So, I apologize for acting the way I did and hope that you can forgive me?" I smiled and leaned over to hug her with her doing the same. "Of course I forgive you...erm?" "Oh, my name is Lucy." "Well Lucy, I forgive you and I also want to apologize for the way I acted to you earlier, I'm not that type to hit a mare or a woman in this case, I just let my anger get the best of me then." "Apology accepted, I'm just happy that I don't have to deal with hoof prints on my face... oh! Here, take this." And took out a collar and leash out of her purse which Thunderlane took with glee setting it in his saddlebags. Lucy laughed. "Looks like somepony is excited, but I can tell that you would need it." She winked and got back up. "Time for me to go meet up with my husband and leave, bye Thunderclap and Thunderlane, we'll see each other again real soon oh and Rumble? You are super adorable!" And walked off. "A collar and leash?" Jessica asked? "Blah, just don't wake me up with whatever you end up planning on doing tonight. I don't mind that you two are together, but still..." Rumble muttered. Me and Thunderlane laughed as Luke came out with our bags in tow. "That has to be the craziest scene I've seen in forever, I love working here even more now. Jessica leaned down and picked up Rumble and hugged him. "I'm going to miss you so much!" "I'll miss the both of you too, but I'm sure I will be coming back and if something interesting happens in the meeting later I'll make sure to let the two of you know, alright?" "Deal." She smiled and set Rumble back on Thunderlane's back. "Well it's time for us to head back inside and get to work, more people tend to show up around this time anyway." Waving at us they both went inside. Grabbing our bags which were slightly heavy which I'm sure we'll manage, Thunderlane spoke. "So, what now?" "Now, we can go back home and meet with the princesses, but first... I waved my right foreleg at them that had my cell phone in the arm band. "Time to call up Josh." ----------------------------- The ride back home went smoothly, after calling Josh which my hoof worked well on the phone... somehow, he showed up in his bus with the rest of the brony fans pretty fast, while me and Thunderlane relaxed our hooves there was a crowd around Rumble. It didn't look like he was enjoying the attention as much as we were but it was an amusing sight nonetheless, just gotta give it time is all. As the bus came to a stop near the corner of where I live (He was just that nice) Josh opened the door as we got our bags and got off. "Bye everypony! The next time you see us we'll all be ponies" Josh said as everyone else cheered. I grinned and waved. "I can't wait to see that!." And he closed the door, driving away. Holding our bags in our hooves we flew over the street because fuck yeah! Flying! And just before rounding the corner I saw something that made me quickly move back holding out a hoof to stop Thunderlane and Rumble, landing back to the ground. "What's going on?" Thunderlane asked. "My sister, and my niece are all outside talking and luckily facing away from us." I passed my bag to Thunderlane. "Here, hold this, time to have some fun and scare both of them." Walking back around the corner the noise of my hooves hitting the ground alone would be enough to catch their attention, but apparently they're too into there conversation to hear my approach. "Perfect." I smirked. With a smug grin I said the perfect thing that can work well enough with my now deeper voice: Surprise Motherfucker! Instantly both jumped up at the sound of my voice while I fell to the ground laughing. "Yep, just the reaction I was hoping for." Getting back up, I looked at their reactions and noticed one surprised look and one extremely happy one, coming from my niece that is since she's a fan also. Who knows what she might be thinking. My sis raised an eyebrow, "A Pony? How is this even possible." "It very much is and I'm not alone. You can come out now!" I shouted behind me. Thunderlane flew from around the corner with Rumble on him and landed next to me. "Three of you... just who are you exactly and why are you wearing that key chain and that bus card holder?" "Why not take a guess, 'sis'?" That got her eyes so wide it could be the size of small dinner plates if she had our eyes. She stammered a bit. "V-Victor? Is that really you?" I grinned stupidly. "Damn right it's me! And Thunderlane here was William while we met Rumble at the mall who works at Hot Topic." "I'm happy for you... I guess? But how did all of you end up like this?" "To be fast about this, all three of us where star gazing last night, we see shooting stars, we jokingly made wishes to be specific ponies and today here we are because fuck yeah, magic™! So Celestia and Luna are waiting for us inside so all of us can talk about this to know the full story." I looked at my niece. "And I rather not have you interrupt us." She only gave me a pouty look in return. "All of you are still adorable anyway." She grumbled. "Alright, I suppose..." She held the outside door open. "Go on then, I can see that it's very important to all of you, but after everything is over, I want you to tell me everything and the house door is also unlocked." "Thanks sis!" I flew inside and up the stairs, (Ha! take that stairs, I can fly now, so I don't have to worry about slamming into that metal outside door anymore!) And landed in front of the house door with Thunderlane right behind. It took a few tries, but I finally got a decent enough grip on that blasted door knob and opened the door. Walking inside I noticed my mother sitting on the sofa, staring at me with a smile while next to her were the two ponies who we've been waiting to meet since this morning. Celestia and Luna. "Hello Thunderclap, Thunderlane and Rumble." Celestia said with a motherly tone. "I believe it is time that we explain everything." > Chapter 6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now, even though this isn't Equestria, me, Thunderlane and Rumble all did the one thing that came to mind: We all bowed low with our muzzles nearly touching the floor. "Princesses! What an honor it is to be here meeting you at last." My mother laughed while Celestia and Luna looked at each other awkwardly until Celestia spoke up, "Please, rise, there's no need for that here, we are in your house after all. And you can just call us by our names, no need for the title here." All of us rose and I smiled sheepishly, "Sorry, force of habit. Oh, and here ya go Luna, your Moon Pies." I said opening up the left saddlebag which contain the sweets. Luna's mouth watered staring at the sweets and she quickly took them all out with her magic. "Thank you so much, Thunderclap! We are very happy for your generosity." Tearing the wrappers and eating the Moon Pies with glee. I could only laugh and smile at the sight. "You're very welcome, Luna." With all of us sitting down afterwards, I looked over at Celestia as she looked at me knowing what I was going to ask. "Seeing as though Luna is busy at the moment. I'm guessing all of you are wanting to know how this is all possible?" "Yes." I said while Thunderlane and Rumble listened. She took a deep breath. "Okay, as you can see already, Equestria does exist and has so for a very long time now. For a certain amount of time Luna and I were searching to see if there was life else where since we were that curious and stumbled upon your world a few years back. Not wanting to make our presence known yet anyway, we decided to send out hundreds of cameras to see your world and see what goes on. There's actually cameras here now." All of us looked around, but, I didn't see anything. "Um, I'm not seeing anything." She continued, "That's because these are very special cameras called the 'Luna S.T.C 9000™' or the 'Luna Special Tiny Camera 9000™' they're so tiny that humans can't see them, but we're able to see everything with ease and don't worry, we are respectful of the humans private times and don't look. And that also explains how Luna was aware of the vending machine that had moon pies in it that was mentioned in the letter." I took a moment to let that sink in. "How is that possible?" Celestia shrugged, "It's magic I ain't gotta explain shit." All of our jaws instantly dropped at hearing her talk like that while Celestia snorted and laughed. "Sorry, but, after seeing your world for a long time, I had to just find the perfect moment to say that." "But how does that explain us as ponies now?" Thunderlane asked. "Back in Canterlot at the Castle, there's a secret large room that only Luna and I including a few other ponies know of. In that room contains hundreds of video screens linked to the cameras on earth and I was looking at them at the same time the three of you saw Luna's shooting stars and made the wishes. So she wanted to be mischievous and grant them with my help of course. So we charged up our magic and shot it through the screens of the cameras that were in your rooms and watched as all of you transformed as you were sleeping." "Well, that explains the bright light I saw last night coming from your room." My mother said. "Heh, that would be quite the sight if you got so curious and came inside while it was happening but, at the same time that sure sounds crazy and I have another question which has me wondering. What do you think of MLP:FIM?" Luna finished her last Moon Pie and burped loudly and spoke, "We enjoy it very much! Everything that has happened in the show really did happen." Luna grinned. "I'm surprised Tia hasn't gotten fat yet from eating so much cake." Celestia rolled her eyes, "Very funny, Lulu. And we came here about a year or two before that show started and even though that alone would be enough of an excuse to make our presence known after it started, we decided to hold off on that until the time was right and well, we have the three of you to thank for that. Anyway, lets move onto the stuff like the merchandise that you bought and tell us about your day from your point of view?" "Yes, of course! The merchandise." I walked over to the Hot Topic Bag and took out the two Discord Vinyl's and walked back to Celestia. "Here ya go, and here's an extra one for Discord, I'm sure he'll be surprised and happy." "Thank you, Thunderclap, you are very nice and I'm sure he will be also." My ears perked up and I smiled with pride. "No problem, now to tell all of you how our day went...." ----------------------------- Recounting everything that happened to us leading up to the point of coming in here I could tell that my mother was the only really surprised one of the three since Celestia and Luna pretty much saw everything. And of course they laughed about the part of me scaring my sister and niece. "I'm just glad that you didn't really hit her at all." Celestia said with relief on her face. I let out a sigh, "Even though I can get pretty angry missing the bus for a dumb reason or just getting mad at the simple things, I'm glad I didn't either and at least in the end her husband agreed so it works out for her regardless and I'm happy for them and I'm not the type to hit a lady or a mare. As for Hunter and Kurt ... well, I'm sure if any other stallion was watching, they would cringe pretty hard... I should apologize to them sometime. "Yes." Luna agreed. "We can only imagine that. But, aside from our magic changing you into ponies, it also changed certain things on your world that's why the other stuff that happened to all of you happened." "Hmm..." I tapped my chin with a hoof, "That explains a lot more for sure." Rumble, who was quiet for most of the time decided to speak, "The question now is, what happens now?" Celestia and Luna looked at each other, winked and turned to face us again. "Well, this is where it gets fun. Now that all of you helped out in telling others about us, we're thinking about opening portals around the states, starting with here, linking them to Canterlot at first then other cities after and letting people come see our world and have some highly trained unicorns ready to turn people into ponies if they prefer to." "Well, that makes it easier on both of you for sure. And I know that bronies would be lined up to become ponies too." I smiled. Luna spoke. "Also, we're giving all of you a choice if you want to come live in Equestria as our little ponies? We have set up a decent size house in Cloudsdale for the three of you with everything you need, plus a monthly income from the royal treasury and you could even have jobs if you want to do something with your day, ponies are always hiring. Remember, it's your choice and if you agree we can come back for you tomorrow." All three of us looked at each other, Thunderlane and Rumble gave me nods and I knew right then and there what the answer was and turned back to the princesses. "We accept, we will be more than happy to live in Equestria in Cloudsdale as your little ponies and start a new life and thank you, that means a lot to us that you're doing all of this for us." Celestia and Luna waved a hoof dismissively, "It was our pleasure. Think of it as a reward for what all of you did for us even though at the time all of you made the wishes not knowing that it was going to actually come true and that this moment would even happen." Right at that moment my mother let out a sigh and got up and went to her room which of course was noticed by the rest of us. "I think I should go talk to her and see if she's alright." I said. "We understand and I think we should teleport back to canterlot." Celestia said as they both charged up their horns. "And I'll make sure to visit Lotus tomorrow like you said. I know she'll be very excited to see us." And with that, they were gone in a flash. "Do you think your mom will be alright?" Thunderlane asked. "I hope so." I said and walked to her room and inside finding her sitting there staring at the floor deep in thought. Flying up onto the bed, sitting down, I tapped her with a hoof to catch her attention. "Hey, Mom, you alright?" She snapped out of it and looked at me. "I'm alright, Thunderclap. It's just that even though I'm happy for you that you can finally go do something, this is a lot to take in." "I know." I grinned. "But look at it this way, at least you get to save a lot more money now that I'll be living in Cloudsdale with Thunderlane and Rumble. Plus, I finally get to do something with my life and I'm just so happy with the way things are now even if it is unexpected." That got a chuckle out of her, "Of course, that's a really good thing." And wrapped me up in a hug while I did the same. "I'm going to miss you, Thunderclap." "I'm going to miss you too, Mom, though I think I'll be able to come visit you now with the portals opening and everything." "I look forward to it. And always remember that no matter what, you'll always be my son even if your a pony now." "I will mom, I will and thanks for being so understanding with how crazy this day has been and everything and from what I heard, Rumble's parents took it well enough." She shrugged slightly, "I'll admit that I was surprised at first, but not really as angry. But then I noticed just how happy you were so I just decided that as long as your happy then I should be too for you." "Does that mean you'll become a pony like us?" I asked with a hopeful smile. She only laughed. "Even though I spent time after you two left watching some more of the episodes, I decided to just wait for now. I'm still thinking about being a unicorn though since it would make my job at the airport a whole lot easier." "Well, when you do, I'm sure Celestia can find somepony to teach you magic." "Great! Oh, I have one last thing I wanted to do before you go about your business." "What's that, Mom?" *Scratch scratch* My face instantly turned into a stupid smile, melting into the feeling of her awesome fingers scratching me behind my ears as I closed my eyes letting out a happy sigh, flicking my tail. "Great, my son is such an animal." She teased. "Just you wait Mom. When you become one of us, you'll be hoping some human scratches behind your ears." "Well, well, well, I knew you were always such a softie." Thunderlane said, grinning by the door with Rumble smiling." "Don't care, Thunderlane! Awesome fingers! Maybe you ca-" I didn't finish that because something hit me hard... something that I never gave much thought at the time is making itself known now. I really had to go to the bathroom. Quickly taking off the hoof bands and the arm band with my cell phone, I spoke as fast as I could. "I really have to pee I didn't think about it much and that soda is getting to me and I don't know how to use a bathroom as a pony, but, I'll think of something okay bye!" And flew off into the bathroom closing the door behind me. My mother looked over at Thunderlane and Rumble. They looked back at her. She wiggled her fingers, "Want me to scratch your ears?" "Sure." Thunderlane said. "Yay!" Rumble shouted with happiness. ----------------------------- Later that night around 10pm ------------------------------ "It sure is a beautiful sight tonight, isn't it, Thunderlane?" "Yep." "And I get to spend my new life with the stallion I love before we leave for Equestria tomorrow." I said with a smile on my face leaning against him staring up at the sky, watching the stars while on the roof. Thunderlane nuzzled me. "I feel the same way." "To think that right up here last night is where it all happened. Who would've thought that it would actually lead to this. This is the best day ever! And look!" I pointed a hoof at the sky as shooting stars started to appear. "I can't wait to see how many ponies appear tomorrow." Thunderlane said. "Same, but enough about that, since Rumble is sleeping in the house, we have the whole roof to ourselves if you know what I mean." "Oh, I do know." Thunderlane grinned and took a certain something out. *Click!* I look down and notice a collar around me with the leash wrapped around Thunderlane's hoof as he pulled me closer, almost touching snouts. "Now, you're going to be my pet for tonight, you been a very naughty stallion and naughty stallions must be punished, you will do what I say as I have my way with you. Do I make myself clear? I gulped and nodded knowing that I was about to have the best time of my life sex wise and that Thunderlane and I wanted this so badly since the transformation. "Y-yes master." Thunderlane smirked. "I like that, now lets begin shall we?" ----------------------------- Over the next few hours, the only things that could be heard were moans, squeaking, and smacking to 'naughty ponies are to be punished!' basically everything you would expect in pony pet play. Oh, and lots of cum too and sex that could leave me sore for a few days. ----------------------------- Meanwhile, down below and two guys walking by ----------------------------- "Hey, Hunter, you hear that?" Kurt asked, pointing up above. Hunter looked up as the sexual noises continued. "Whoa... those two stallions we met earlier are sure going at it." Two shooting stars appeared which they both noticed. "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Kurt asked. "Sure am, I wanna do and experience what they're doing right now... sounds extremely arousing..." Hunter said. "Then lets do this then!" Kurt pumped a hand in the air. Together they both made their wishes and held hands as they skipped happily down the street, which went unnoticed by the two stallions involved in the best pet play session of their lives on the roof, while the two guys waited for morning to come to start their new lives. > Chapter 7 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Epilogue - One Month Later ----------------------------- ---------- Date: October 30,2014 Time: 12:30pm Location: Cloudsdale, Equestria ---------- "Come on Thunderlane! I wanna head back to my old home and see what 'surprise' my mother keeps taking about in the letter she sent." I shouted by the front door of our cloud house. A slightly muffled voice came from the bathroom, "In a minute!" I rolled my eyes and waited patiently until he finally came out, "You think Rumble will be fine with us away for a few hours?" Thunderlane asked with some worry. I smiled and patted his shoulder. "Don't worry, as a human he was a twenty-two year old named Kyle so I'm sure he'll be fine, plus he's with friends right now." "If you say so. Still, I think it's best that I leave him a note letting him know where we will be." Thunderlane said getting a piece of paper and pen to write a quick note, leaving it on the table a minute after. Opening the door I was greeted to the usual sight of pegasi flying around and going about their day. Turning back to Thunderlane, I asked, "Ready to go?" "Lets do this." With that, we both left out with me closing the door as we flew off towards Canterlot. Now, I'm sure you're all wondering just what is life like in Equestria? Well, to put it simply, it's so damn amazing it's everything you expect in the show. As for Cloudsdale, that's a whole different thing, floating cloud homes, the pegasi going about their day with not a care in the world, the Cloudeseum stadium, downtown shopping district! Everything is just perfect! Sure everything here can be explain with magic, but, still, it makes you wonder how can a city be floating in the sky regardless. As for our home... well, when the princesses said that it was 'decent size' it was actually pretty damn big even though it only has two bedrooms I'm perfectly fine with that since me and Thunderlane can have our sexy times in one bedroom while Rumble... well I hope he doesn't really hear us going at it. Sure he said he didn't mind me and Thunderlane being together, but, I know he wouldn't want to hear it. Aside from that, at least it was big enough for me to move all of my stuff here from my old room through teleportation thankfully even my games and systems although it would be almost impossible to play with hooves, but it's a sacrafice I'm willing to take from becoming a pony. As for income, I didn't think it was going to be a lot to be honest, but I was surprised to see that we were getting three thousand bits a month. Which Celestia and Luna was more than happy to give since we help them out so much. But we still decided to get jobs regardless to not feel so useless with me being a regular weather pony while Thunderlane is too, even though he wants to be a Wonderbolt. I'm happy for him and we love our jobs. And I can't forget about what went on the first few days after we moved here, needing help in proper wing care and any extra flying lessons we might need among any other pony related things (we decided to ask the princess for help on that part), as for everything else, we decided to ask Rainbow Dash for help. Seeing her in person made my fangirl levels sky rocket since she is my favorite of the Mane 6 with RD being just as confused as to why three ponies which she already knows and should know how to fly was asking her for help on that. After telling her that we came from another world and how all of us ended up like this, she showed some interest in that because apparently the princesses didn't get word out yet about Earth or the portals yet until about two weeks later when they were finally ready. The reaction to that was met in a very positive way with bronies coming almost everyday and for the most part, they've decided to be ponies also. With Equestrian ponies deciding to go check out earth and I'm sure that they enjoyed it enough I hope. And yes, Lyra was just oh so happy to go see humans... I don't know whether or not I should be nervous about that or just laugh at the thought of her harassing the humans. Finally reaching Canterlot after a thirty minute flight, we landed in front of the castle and waved to the guards as we trotted on by with them nodding at us because we're just that popular and made our way pass the 'secret room' with the video cameras that the princesses use to monitor earth and came up to another door near the throne which was opened with two unicorn guards standing side by side while inside were three guards with humans coming through the portal and moving off to the side waiting to be transformed. I stared at the portal, then at Thunderlane. "This will be the first time after leaving one month ago that we'll be returning and since there's so much traffic coming through here, I can only imagine how it might be on our old world. Are you ready to go through?" "I'm ready." With that, we both stepped through the portal feeling a tingling sensation as we came out the other side and onto the grass of the park that was a block or so away from the house which also has guards present with the typical traffic going in. With the grass feeling great beneath our hooves we both took flight in the Northwest direction over to the house. But, before we were close... "Halt! Down here!" "Huh?" Looking down I saw to our surprise, two bat pony lunar guards clad in armor looking up at us. Landing in front of them I noticed one of them smirking at us which made me wonder if they already knew us or not and even though I wanted to fangirl so badly since I like bat ponies, I held it in. Since no one was speaking I decided to speak up. "Um... hi? You are...?" The guard on the left spoke. "Why not take a guess?" He said pointing at his buddy, "You punched him in the balls." He laughed while the other guard's smirk disappeared and replaced with an eye roll. Both Thunderlane and I decided to take a moment to remember that and when it came to us, our jaws dropped at the realization of just who the two guards in front of us really were. "Kurt and Hunter?" Kurt stopped laughing and grinned, "Damn right it's us!" "But... how? I thought you hated ponies" I asked, perplexed. "Well to make the long story short, a month ago at night we were walking around and we both heard the two of you going at it." Both of our faces glowed red from that comment. Kurt chuckled and continued. "The truth is that we really don't hate ponies, we weren't having a good day when all of us first met and we've seen the episodes so back to that night when we heard that, right at that moment we saw some shooting stars appear and well me and Hunter decided it was best to do what you see now." "Hmm..." I stared at them in thought, "There's more to this is there? Why bat ponies?" Hunter spoke up. "We have a liking to them so that's what we wished for and after our first encounter I was thinking about doing better to stop being one of the bad guys which Kurt agreed to also. So we spoke to Princess Luna and enrolled to be lunar guards to do just that and help people or ponies who are in trouble among other duties." "Well that sure explains the armor." Thunderlane smiled and nodded. Kurt coughed to catch our attention, "This is also a good time to say that we're gay." I raised an eyebrow at that, "I didn't really see that one coming." Then looked at their dark gray fur, purple mane sticking out of the helmets, purple tails, tufted ears, bat wings, and those yellow slitted eyes, the fangs... I looked over at Thunderlane and winked at him before turning to look at Kurt and Hunter again, "Say... how does a four-way sound between all of us? I do like bat ponies and it would be a fun experience." Kurt and Hunter looked at each other and grinned turning back to us, "Yeah, sure, meet us in front of the castle tonight at nine and all of us can go to our place in Canterlot to have some real fun..." I felt something stir beneath me in thought of what would be happening later and shook that thought away since I really didn't need a boner out in public. "Okay! It's a deal then! We'll be there and I know Thunderlane here is just as excited as I am right? I looked over to Thunderlane. He nodded. "Great and, oh! before we go." I turned to Hunter. "I just want to apologize for punching you in the balls on that day, I was just so annoyed about missing buses that I let my anger get the best of me and that's just not me so I did feel bad about it after time went on so, yeah, I'm sorry. Hunter snorted and waved a hoof dismissively, "Don't worry about it, Thunderclap. At least I get to do that to the bad guys now who wants to cause trouble. And we came up with names now, I'm Night Blade while Kurt is Lunar Night." "Well, Night Blade and Lunar Night, I'm glad the both of you are on the good side now" I said as I started trotting away with Thunderlane next to me. I waved back. "We'll see you tonight at nine then." "We're looking forward to it." Lunar said and they both flew off. "Well Thunderlane, today sure is looking great already now that we can look forward to having sex with two bat guards." Thunderlane leaned over and nuzzled me. "I can't wait and knowing how good our sex is, I know with them it will be better." I let out a chuckle as we both turned around the corner to be greeted by a unicorn mare dark blue in color with a lighter blue mane and tail with pink colored eyes standing in front of the door. "About time you two showed up!" The mare let out a huff and stomped her hoof." "Excuse but, who are you?" I asked tilting my head, blinking at her. "Oh, son you were always so oblivious." Right at that moment I realized who it was and quickly wrapped her up in a hug. "Mom! You really did it! You became one of us! And you actually look younger too." I said happily. She happily hugged me back. "Of course I did and that's magic for ya." She let go of me and opened the door with her magic and held it open. "Come, lets go inside since there is plenty to talk about." I stared in awe at the magic aura around her horn and the door before snapping out of it with me and Thunderlane flying inside with her doing the same for the house door, opening that. Flying onto the sofa to be next to Thunderlane, my mother climb up on the other sofa across from us and spoke. "I guess I can say this now that this." She pointed to herself. "Was the surprise in the letter. I decided to go ahead and do this a few days after you and Thunderlane left and spoke to celestia afterwards and she was more than happy to send over a unicorn teacher to teach me the basics of magic like telekinesis and teleportation for about two and half weeks until I was sure enough that I would be able to do it and the teacher felt satisfied and offered me to go visit him anytime to learn some more magic. But let me tell you that teleportation is a blessing because I can just teleport straight to work which would scare the occasional human which is pretty funny." I gave her a stupid grin, "You have a crush on him don't you?" Her face took on a red look against her dark blue fur as she blushed furiously stammering, "S-shut up! Maybe I do alright?" Her face returned to normal. "Anyway, doing cleaning work as a unicorn isn't that hard... at least I get to leave wet hoof prints everywhere." She clapped her hooves smiling with glee. "I see that you're enjoying the pony life a lot... although, what about everyone else?" "Well your sister still hasn't decided yet, but, after she finds out what stallions have to offer, I'm sure she will with her boyfriend as for your niece, she's a unicorn just like me and she's loved at school a lot so that's good for her and as for your nephew, well, your sister is still thinking about that for now." "As much as I want to see her and the others be like us, it is her choice and I understand." I said. "Alright then!" My mother said clapping her hooves together. "Since I'm sure you and Thunderlane want to go back outside and see how things changed there is one more thing I should tell you." "What's that?" "I came up with a name for myself!" She smiled widely. "Really? That's great! To what?" "Autumn Midnight!" It sounds so beautiful and it goes great together!" She beamed with pride. "I like it and I'm happy that you found a pony name, Mom." I flew over and hugged her which she returned. "I'm just happy with my new life, being a unicorn is awesome." She said pulling out of the hug. "So, I guess the two of you are going back to Cloudsdale now?" "Not yet." Thunderlane said. "There's still other people who we want to check up on first then we'll be heading back." "Alright." Her horn charged up a blue glow as it wrapped around the door, opening it. "Have fun then! I'll make sure to come visit you when I can when I learn the cloud walking spell." Trotting up to the door, I turned back and waved, "We look forward to that! Bye, Mom!" "Bye Thunderclap and Thunderlane!" Going out into hallway we both noticed the outside door opened again with that signature blue aura of hers ... "Oh, that unicorn taught her well." Turning back, she winked at us while I rolled my eyes and chuckled flying outside with Thunderlane behind me as the door closed. "Too well." Thunderlane spoke. "So! There's one person and one particular group to check up on still." "Yep." I said looking around until I spotted her coming towards us. "Speaking of her, here she comes." Lucy came up the sidewalk holding a leash in her hand which was tied to a collar around a black earth pony stallion with a silver mane and tail and blue eyes. Coming to a stop, Lucy waved to us with the stallion doing the same, smiling slightly as we waved back and I can tell that he was about an inch taller than us. That's earth pony stallions for ya well, if they're Big Mac size anyway. "Hello again, Lucy." I said looking over to the stallion. "Is this your husband?" "Yes indeed." She wrapped her arms around his neck. "My big sexy stallion of a husband." "Aww shucks sweetie, that's so nice of ya to say." The stallion leaned over and nuzzled her. I stuck out my hoof with Thunderlane doing the same. "Nice to meet you, I'm Thunderclap and he's Thunderlane." He bumped both of ours with his own. "Nolan or you can call me Mountain Dusk or just Dusk for short, either way, I'm fine with what you choose." "Well, Dusk I must ask. How's the pet play sex life?" I asked looking at the collar and leash. He flushed slightly. "I'll admit, I'm having a blast now for sure." He looked below him and back to us. "Also, being bigger down there gives me the most intense feelings of pleasure possible during our moments so that's a win. As for me wearing the collar and leash outside, I chose to do that. It might look very off to most, but to me I just like it and my wife does too and that's what matters." Thunderlane nudged me with his flank, "I should do that to you sometime, Thunderclap." "Yeah... sure ... maybe." I said smiling awkwardly. Lucy spoke, "I have an idea, Thunderlane! Why don't you and him come visit us sometime? Oooooo~! We can do pony pet play together!!" I facehoofed while Thunderlane smiled as wide as a filly or colt on Hearth's Warming. "Deal!" Thunderlane all but shouted. Lucy laughed. "It's settled then, and I'll leave you two alone now, I'm sure you have things to do. Until we meet again." With that, Lucy and Dusk walked off. I waited until they were around the corner, "Ugh..." I groaned. "Thunderlane, as much as I love our sex life, I think I'm going to be sore for a long while after all of this." "But I love hearing you squeak in that deeper voice." Thunderlane pouted. "Well, you'll get to hear it a lot tonight for sure. Now come on, lets just fly around for a while and check things out and see if we can find Josh and his brony friends." ----------------------------- For the better part of an hour or so we were flying around the city seeing mostly ponies and some humans still and with it being the day before Halloween or in this case 'Nightmare Night' I can imagine a little boy or girl turned colt or filly trick-or-treating, It's going to look so adorable! But, we decided to spend that time in Equestria and celebrate Nightmare Night even though we're grown stallions I'm sure Rumble will be more than happy to get some sweets even if his age as a human says otherwise. And we even found Josh and his friends. Turns out they were in the park the whole time in the track field just to the left of the portal. He was a pegasus just like us while his friends were a mix of either pegasus, unicorn, or earth pony. Apparently they're sticking around ponyville for the most part deciding to spend a few hours back here on earth before returning and even got jobs. But as the day went on and the sun was setting, it was time to head on home as Thunderlane and I were finally done and standing in front of the portal again. "Hey, Thunderlane? I just thought of the most crazy idea since I'm such a crazy stallion." "And what might that be?" "I plan on going to stalk Daring Do and have fun while doing so!" Thunderlane rolled his eyes. "You really think that would work?" "Of course it would! I saw 'Daring Don't' I know where she lives. I might get a few bruises. But, hey, I just have to meet her!" "If you say so, Thunderclap. Try to not get into trouble to the point where guards have to come in okay? "I promise Thunderlane. Now, I believe we have a date tonight with Night and Lunar so lets get ready." "But what about Rumble?" "We'll figure something out." I said slapping him in the rump with a wing getting an 'Eep!' out of him causing him to blush. "Oh you sneaky stallion!" Thunderlane quickly said walking through the portal. I only laughed and walked through ready for the fun night with two bat pony stallions.