Prolong

Ponies to Trainers:
An Unexpected Journey:
Prolong

Twilight Sparkle, the Princess of Friendship, felt her right eye twitching as she looked at the carnage before her. Books, scrolls, ancient parchments and documents were all scattered about. The place looked like a wild twister had run through the place after an earthquake had hit, and there was only one being to blame for all of this.

“DISCCCCOOORRRD!!” The young princess screamed at the tops of her lungs

The being of the former unicorn’s angry appeared to her right, in his typical fashion, only this time, he was wearing a butler outfit, holding a tray with empty glasses in his talons. “You rang?” the mistake creature said in a deep, slow tone.

“Yes!” Twilight said, snapping her head in his direction, and gestured with left leg “Care to explain this?”

With a mock look of curiosity, Discord made his outfit disappear and looked in the direction Twilight was pointing. He rubbed his chain in thought for about a second and then looked at the young alicorn with a thoughtful expression.

“Why dear Twilight, I do believe that a twister came through here after an earthquake hit,” Discord said offhandedly.

With an angry growl and a snap of her wings, Twilight flew up to Discord‘s eye level and glared directly in his eyes. The master of chaos was rather indifferent from the stare he was getting, and instead just filed his talons with Gummy.

“You did this didn’t you?” Twilight said accusingly.

“Me?” Discord said, sounding offered as he dropped Gummy and crossed his mismatch limbs, “What makes you think this is my fault?”

Twilight’s left eye began to twitch as she looked around the room again. Her friends, who had wisely stayed out of this scene, were now examining the mess that was once the archive room in the castle of the two pony sisters. With growl she look back at Discord who was once again filing his talon, only this time he one of the spa ponies hovering behind him as she filed his talons. Once he saw the glare the young princess was giving him, he sighs faintly and sent the spa worker back to the spa.

Once Twilight was sure that Discord was paying attention she said, “…Because when my friends and are went back to Ponyville for lunch, this place was spotless and when we go back it was like this.”

Discord seems to take major offence to the accusations bring thrown at him, and took a step away. His crossed his arms over his chest and looked away, saying in a near snobby tone, “Oh, and since I’m the master of chaos I’m immediately the prime suspect. Well, Miss Princess, ever think I wasn’t the one who did it? Maybe it was a freak storm I heard they happen around this place. Or did you think that something like one of the Everfree beasts whizzes into this place and trash it? You did leave the door open, after all?”

Twilight’s eyes began to twitch like crazy as she closed gap and said angrily, “First of all, no creatures or unnatural weather conditions can reached the palace because of the tree of Harmony, why else did you think the princesses built their castle over the tree? And I know you did this because of that!!” Twilight thrust her right over Discord’s shoulder.

Discord made a second set of eyes in the back of his head, and spied the black graffiti that said “Discord Rules, Tirek Drools” on the right wall. The master of chaos made the eyes in the back of his head disappeared as he gave a causal smile.

“Okay, you got me,” Discord admitted with a light shrug, “But you can’t do a thing about it.”

With a deep scowl and forelegs on her hips, Twilight asked rather angrily, “And why is that?”

With a sly grin Discord snapped his talons, and a contract appeared in front of Twilight. “As stated by legally sighed contract, I require performing two good deeds before I get to goof off. And I already filled my the quota for the day by helping out the Cakes with a big order and giving dear Princess Luna a bottomless supply of pie moons. So I’m not required by law to help you.”

Discord’s smile grew when he noticed the dumbfounded look on the young princess face, as she read the contract in front of her, quickly noticing the signature and the royal seal of Princess Celestia herself. He made the contract disappear with a snapped of his talons as Twilight sank to the floor.

“Now, if you lovely ladies would excuse me, a certain princess is about find out what it’s like to have pasta for hair,” Discord said whimsically and disappeared in his usual fashion.

Twilight stared at the spot that Discord stood, looking at the parting “gift” that the spirit left behind, namely a picture of a winking Discord giving the thumbs up. She stared at the picture for a good two minutes before her rage starting to get the better of her. She began to shake uncontrollable and was about to explode, when she felt a hoof came to rest on her shoulder. She looked at the sympathetic face of Applejack.

“Let it go, sugar cube,” the apple-bucker said sympathetically, “he ain’t worth it.”

Twilight just scowled slightly as she turned away from her friend and looked at the picture on the floor. She could feel her anger building again, but she calmed herself by using the technique her sister-in-law taught her. With a bitter, reluctant sigh Twilight looked at Applejack and nodded. The farmer just smiled slightly and walked to a pile to start clearing. With another bitter sigh Twilight began to clean as well.

It only took us 40 minute to fix this up, so it shouldn’t take long, Twilight thought as she levitated a group of books onto their proper shelves, only for books to fly off the shelves like a Pegasus at high speeds, landing in some other part of the archives room away from their shelves. Twilight’s eye began to twitch again as she watched the books and other documents her friends put away go flying from their shelves landing in areas far away from their intended shelves. …Or it might take longer, she thought irritably.

(Two hours later)

Twilight let out bitter sigh as she put back the last book in its proper place. With tired eyes she looked around, and was satisfied that everything was once more orderly. Whatever spell Discord had put on the place had wore off after 90 minutes, and even more surprising was when the books and other items gathered into neat plies near their respective shelves. It was then a short step to finish cataloging all of the documents, but Discord’s little “joke” had left the group both exhausted in mind and body.

I’m taking a long bath after I get home, and then curl up with good book before bed, the thought tiredly as she turned away from the shelves.

She took a step and felt her right foot connect with something that felt like stone. Curious she took her feet away and spied a stone tablet with a pure circle emerald in the center. The gem was divided into eight sections, three on the top and bottom and one on each side. Becoming even more curious, as she didn’t remember seeing this thing when they had started, Twilight lifted the stone close to her face.

“To my dearest nieces,” Twilight read softly to herself, “I know in these trying times, things may be difficult, so I leave this “spell” in your care. You may use it if you’re even in need of me, sincerely, your loving Uncle, Arceus.”

Twilight frown as she looked below the emerald where the spell was located and read it. At first glance the spell look like it was just a standard teleportation spell, but a closer examination revealed some modification to the spell. After doing the math in her head, the young princess figures that this spell would allow a pony to travel a longer distance then normal teleportation spells would allow, thanks to the emerald which adds as a focusing tool for the spell.

The young princess suddenly felt a conflict of interest arose within her. Some part of her wanted to cast this spell, to see where it would take her, maybe even use it get home faster. But on the other hoof, she was cautious, recalling the event when Spike took out a spell that led to some “problems” for Ponyville when he “borrowed” a spell from the castle the two pony sisters. Still…this spell wasn’t sealed in anyway, so it should be safe, right?

She suddenly looked around her, and took in her friends’ appearances. Most were just relaxing, taking it easy as they got their second wind. Rarity was just looking herself over with a mirror she had brought with her, trying to get her appearance as prefect as possibility can be. Futtershy was near the entrance, anxiously waiting on the others so she didn’t have to walk through the forest by herself. Rainbow Dash and Applejack was having a little contest to see who had stacked the most books. And Pinkie…well, she was just being her usual self, bouncing around her friends and trying to take in interest in each of what her friends were doing, but strangely keeping her distance from Twilight.

The young princess looked at the stone curiously. Maybe it was just her exhaustion talking, maybe it was the allure of a new spell, or maybe she just wanted to get home faster, but whatever the reason maybe, Twilight decided to throw caution to the wind and cast the spell.

She gently set the stone down and began to charge the energy needed for the spell. Her horn became encased in a lavender glow as the emerald on the tablet began to glow, synchronizing with the magic that the young alicorn giving off. Suddenly and before Twilight could stop it, a thin beam of emerald energy shot from the gem at the same time that a similarly thin beam of lavender energy shot from Twilight’s horn.

When the two beams meant they instantly created an explosion of emerald and lavender energy that ballooned out rapidly. Twilight and her friend didn’t have time to react, as the energy quickly overtook them, they sounds begin drown out by the sound the energy swell was making. Once the energy had completely engulfed them, it quickly retreated back into the gem. The gem glowed for a second and then the light died and the gem had changed a bit. The top sections were now in the colors of Twilight, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie. The bottom section was done up in the colors of Rarity, Futtershy and Applejack, respectively.

New World: Kanto

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New World:
Kanto

Twilight groaned as she came back to the waking world. She slowly opened her eyes, allowing them to adjust to the light beaming down on her. She lay there as she allowed her mind to remember what happened before she blacked out.

She remembered that her friends and she were continuing their job of restoring Princess Celestia and Princess Luna’s old castle, only to have all of their work undone thanks to Discord. During the re-shelving, she had found a strange tablet with an unknown spell on it, and in her own carelessly had cast it.

The young princess suddenly gasped as she set up. She remembered that the spell didn’t just affect her but her friends as well. She looked around trying to see if she could spot her friends. Sadly all she could see was the forest bathed in the glow of the sun. She blinked as she realized something was off. There was sunlight coming through the trees, and that’s a rare occurrence in the Everfree. Even when light does break through the thick trees, it’s usually distorted in such way that the light gave off an eerie astrosphere that is enough to scare a pony stiff

“Where am I?” Twilight asked as she stood up, failing to notice that here was a difference in her body.

She looked around the forest trying to find any familiar landmarks as she went over things in her head. She thought that had targeted her home in Ponyville, but the spell didn’t seem to work in the way she thought it would, and now she didn’t know where she was or what had become of her friends.

Panic began to creep into the young princess’s mind, but she tried to pushed it down as she tried to remember Daring Do and Cosmo Compress, where the heroine had been thrown into a situation like this, and the first thing she did was created a base-camp. She looked around, trying to find something that could be used as land marker, and noticed a rather large claw mark on a tree to her right. Curious she walked up to the tree and run her-

“What’s that?” Twilight shouted as she stared at the appendage that had replaced her hoof.

The young princess couldn’t help but be reminded of a dragon’s claw only with stubbly tips. Except for a strange article of clothing covering it the appendage to a certain decree, the appendage was covered in nothing but bare flesh. It was around this time that she realized that the rest of her leg was covered in a strange fabric. This got her curious about how she looked, and looked around. She spotted a small body of water, and immediately jogged to it, making a note of how her altered body wasn’t as fast her natural body.

She reached the body of water and looked in it. She was stunned by how she looked. Her new body did remained her a lot of the teenage dragons she saw during the great dragon migration, only her body had a much slender build with orbs on her chest, and was covered in clothes instead of scales. Her skin was pale but healthy looking. In a bit of strangeness her face was flat with a short muzzle and around ears, but she still could see her pony face reflected in her altered one. While her eyes and hair coloring were the same, she did noticed that her hair seems a little longer and was straighter then what she was used to seeing.

Her eyes drifted down to the outfit she found herself in and studied it thoroughly. It causal wear, that much she was certain of, consisting of a pair of purple footwear with white heels she couldn’t place, and black socks that went up to her knees. Next was a simple skirt, lavender in color and went a little below the hips. Her upper body was covered in a thin jacket, with a purple body and lavender sleeves that ended in a purple ring. The jacket was zipped up just enough that Twilight could see that she something on underneath the article of clothing.

Curious as to what was underneath it she brought her altered appendage to the zipper and clumsily grabbed it, unzipping it in an equally clumsy manner. Inside of the jacket was a long-sleeves blouse under lavender, sleeveless sweater. She studied the last piece of the outfit, namely the hand band that covered most of her forehead. It was lavender with a purple center made up in a circle and has her cutie mark in the center. Twilight took one last look at the outfit and just happened to see the hood connected to the back of her jacket, nearly hidden thank to her mane.

Twilight looked at the glove, as she remembered the princess calling it once, and thought about taking off the silly outfit. She looked at her reflection again, and suddenly felt a feeling in the back of her mind telling to leave the outfit on. She probably would have debated with herself on the matter, if a noise didn’t suddenly catch her attention.

“NNNNNNOOOOOOO!”

Recognizing that screamed right away, the young princess dashed off in the direction she believed the scream originated. She hastily noted that her body seems to understand how to control itself, but she still stumble a bit when she realized this fact. She nearly fell more then once before her she became familiar enough in her new body to run a little faster.

After a short run the young princess came into a small opening, where she instantly stopped and spied two creatures similar to her. One, dressed in a cyan outfit, was running around, reaching behind her and screaming something Twilight couldn’t make out. The other, dressed in a strange pink outfit, was sitting in the ground, trying her hardest not to laugh.

Twilight kept her distance as she studied these two new creatures. The frantic mare wore denim pants that little on the baggy side, and shoes similar to what Twilight was wearing, only hers were more beat-up, and a belt with a familiar multi-colored lightening bolt belt buckle. Under her multi-pocketed vest was a short-sleeve shirt with a white body and cyan sleeves. Twilight could barely make out the Wonderbolt picture half-hidden by the vest. She also wore cyan bangs that also had the Wonderbolt’s symbol on it as well. Finally a pair of silver/gold goggles resting on her rainbow colored mane.

The young princess frown as the other mare stood up and got closer to her friend, trying to comfort her the best she could. The outfit the mare was wearing was…unique, for a lack of a better word. She wore shorts, or what probably didn’t start out as shorts, as former unicorn could make out cut line and exposed pockets. She wore knee high-socks, but they were mismatch. The sock on the right was a bright pink with hearts on them and the left one was a darker pink with strips on them. Her footwear was different then ones Twilight and the other mare wore, the entire thing was nearly opened with only a think strap keeping the shoes from falling off.

The top the girl wore was also different. It was a bright pink, with the lower section cut off exposing the stomach, and the right sleeve reached pasted her arm while the left arm was bare except for a comically oversized bracelet with three balloons on them. Finally she wore a pink bandana that somehow seems to cover her puffy pink hair.

Twilight would have gasp if her mouth hadn’t become dryer then a desert during a drought. She knew who these two were, despite the massive changes they had undergone. Finally, after what like two eternal lifetimes, the young princess found her voice.

“Rainbow Dash!! Pinkie Pie! I’m so glad to see you!”

The two instantly looked to their right and spied Twilight. At first, they eyed her with caution that is…until Rainbow saw the mark on her forehead. Anger filled her magenta eyes and she dashed right at Twilight, her trademark speed not affected by the change in her body.

“You!!” the former Pegasus said venomously, “This is your fault, isn’t it, Twilight?”

If Twilight was still in her natural pony body, her ears would have been flat against her skull as she felt her guilt swelling. Suddenly having lost her voice again, the young princess could only nod weakly. This only seem to make Rainbow that much madder as she grabbed Twilight by jacket.

“What the hay Twilight?” Rainbow shouted in outrage. “What was the point of the “no magic from the castle” rule if you’re doing it anyways?”

“Sorry,” Twilight replied weakly.

That answer didn’t seem to set with Rainbow, as the anger in her eyes got worse, and if Twilight didn’t know better she would say her friend looked ready to hit her. Suddenly but not completely unexpected Pinkie suddenly got between the two, smiling that big smile of her.

“It’s all right, Dashie,” the pink party pony said chirpily, “It’s not like Twilight planned this. Beside, now I can throw “we been turned into Celestia knows what” party. And look what I can do!”

The two former winged ponies watch as their friend bend at the back, and her pushed her head through the opening between her legs while she waved her clawed appendages from the outside of her legs. Twilight and Rainbow stared at their friend with a look of indifferent, but silently thanked their random friend for helping to cool their heads.

“Pinkie Pie, you’re so random!” Rainbow said automatically.

The transformed pony straightened up with a snap, and smiled chirpily at her friends. Twilight chuckled under her breath, thankful for having a friend like Pinkie as she began a pointless conversation with Rainbow, and began looking around. She frowns when she noticed some ponies were still uncounted for.

“Have you seen Rarity, Applejack or Fluttershy?” Twilight asked curiously.

The other transformed ponies instantly stopped their chit-chat and looked at their friend with wide eyes. The young princess started to feel uneasy from the stares she was getting. She was almost dreading what was coming next.

“No,” Rainbow said near breathless, “I got up five minutes ago and freaked when I couldn’t find my wings!” She began looking around, looking for sighs of her missing friends and growing frantic when she couldn’t fine them. She looked at her friends, and both nearly cringed when they notice the near panic written over their usual confident friend‘s friend. “We have to find them, fast! Fluttershy’s probably scared out of her mind!”

Twilight, about to go into leader/lecture mode, opened her mouth only for a rustling sound to close it, and she looked to her right. She could see a bush rustling close to the group, and the young princess’s quickly thought up several bad scenarios on the spot. Unfortunately, she didn’t get a chance to voice her thoughts as Pinkie suddenly dash forward, eyes wide and a big smile on her face.

“Pinkie, wait!” Twilight screamed. “We don’t know what making that noise!”

But the pink party planning pony wasn’t listening as she reached the bush and dove her strange appendages into it. Something suddenly jumped out of the bush, startling the three, but only briefly.

Time seems to slow to crawl as three things happened at once; Rainbow dashed at Pinkie, pushing her body’s limits. Twilight thrust her right appendage, wishing that she had her horn to use her magic, and was surprised when the appendage began to glow. Finally, the creature, a large purple snake, shot something from his mouth.

Time returned to normal as Rainbow reached Pinkie, grabbed her and ran away from the creature as Twilight’s magic threw it to the right. Unfortunately for the young princess, she didn’t have time to move and the object the snake-like creature fired hit her right in the base of the neck. The former-unicorn-turned-whatever gaps as her vision immediately began to blur. She quickly realized she has been poisoned, and unfortunately for her, her new body didn’t have much in the way of immunity to the poison.

She started to stumble, fighting hard to stay awake, but it was all in vain, her body was succumbing to the poison and the last thing she before she blacked out with a creature in a white coat coming up behind the snake-like creature.

New World: Sinnoh

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New World:
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“Ah love that gal, but I swear…next time I see Twilight Ah going to buck her so hard she will be walking funny for a year,” vented a very angry Applejack. “What was the whole point of making a rule if nopony is going to fellow it?”

With a heavy groan the apple farmer looked straight ahead. Ahead of her, just pass a road, was a grove of trees, to small to be classified as a forest but to big to be counted as just a group of trees. Though she could barely make them out the apple-bucker could see critter running around the trees.

With an irritated sigh Applejack looked down at her body, frowning as she took in her appearance. Instead of the orange coated pony she had awoken to every single day, she saw a fully dressed, two-legged body. She wore a pair of denim pants that had tatter ends exposing the worn-in, brown faded work boots. Tied around the young mare’s waist was an orange jacket with black trimmings. Applejack could see the pocket where she put the work gloves she had on her hands when she had woken up. On her upper body was a white, sleeveless shirt with orange trimmings. She still had her hat, but it has been altered a bit, now spotting the farm mare’s cutie mark.

Applejack sighed again as she let her mind wonder to her surroundings. As far as she could tell she was in some kind of road, but beyond that, she was lost, she didn’t recognize the area in the least. She growled as she felt some of her anger returning. She opened her mouth to began another rant, when-

“Darling, can please you settle down?” a familiar voice asked gingerly, “The poor dear had just fallen asleep.”

Applejack looked to her left and spied a bench with two creature of similar design to her on it and studied the two. The first one, with purple hair in a familiar style, was dressed in a single white dress with a knee high skirt, and a silver/white elegant white coat over the dress. She also wore a purple scarf around her neck with a familiar mark on the front. She wore purple, knee-high boots and a stylish beret. Finally she was loaded down with bracelets, earrings, rings, and a necklace with a purple gem in it.

Even with the changes to her body there was no mistaking Rarity and all her elegant glory. Though, applejack noted, her eyes seems heavy as she stared down at the girl in her lap. The farmer frowns in concern when she noticed the dried tears on the girl’s cheeks, and immediately felt a twitch of sympathy go through her as she stared down at Fluttershy.

The transformed Pegasus was wearing a yellow sweater with sleeves that nearly covered her hands, and a grass green skirt that went below the knees. She also has on white socks that went up to the knees, and brown shoes that the farmer couldn’t place. Finally the timid pony had two large, transparent hairclips in the shape of her cutie mark.

With a heavy sigh Applejack walked up to the bench, feeling uneasy of how quickly she was able to adjust to her new body. She reached the bench and stared down at the timid pony. Fluttershy was crawled into a tight ball, her right hand gripping the rim of Rarity’s skirt. The farmer’s sigh again and looked around once more.

She knew it was useless, but part of her was hoping that the rest of her friends would come galloping over the horizon, safe, sound and in their natural pony bodies. More importantly, she wished Twilight was here so she the young princess a stern talking to and maybe that bucking she promised.

A noise, barely hearable, caught the farmer’s attention. She looked at the bench and noticed Fluttershy quietly sobbing in her sleep. Applejack felt sympathy go through her, and she lean down and gently stroke the timid pony’s hair, in a similar fashion that she used to do when her sister was very little. The gesture seems to work, to a small decree, Fluttershy calmed down enough that her sobs disappeared, but her tears still fell silently.

“Poor dear,” Rarity said sympathetically, “She’s scared and worn out.”

The apple farmer aimed a scolding glare at her said as she said softly, “and whom felt is that, sugar cube?”

Rarity looked at her friend with a sheepish smile and began to play with her hair, a tell-tail sigh that the designer was nervous. But Applejack was patient, waiting on her friend to speak on her own behalf.

“Well, can you really blame me, “Rarity said after a long pause, “I woke up in a strange body, in clothing I have never seen before, and you don’t expect me to lose my composure.”

“Ah don’t think running around with Fluttershy in your magic counts as “losing your composure”, sugar cube,” Applejack said with a sour look, only to frown as a new thought popped into her head. “How did you do that without your horn?”

“I honestly can’t say, darling,” Rarity replied meekly, and then fell into a silence as she looked down at the sleeping girl in her lap. For the next minute neither talked both lost in their own thoughts. That silence was quickly broken by Rarity, “But I most say, this outfit is simple divine. Look at this seam! I can tell that it was sewed with excellent hooves-”

Applejack rolled her eyes and toned out her friend’s words as she looked around, for the forth time. She was trying to see if she could spot any familiar land marks. She couldn’t find any, sadly, and that put the thought they were farther away from any known landmass then she first thought. Still…she continued to look, hoping against despair that she fined something she was familiar with.

A sudden twig snapping caught the farmer’s attention and she looked towards the trees. Applejack narrowed her eyes as she tried to make out a figure rapidly approaching from the trees. She could also hear a faint stomping sound getting closer as the creature got closer. A sudden scream startled Applejack slightly and brought Rarity out of her thoughts, the transformed pony looking in the direction she believed the scream came from. The noise also woke Fluttershy, causing the young mare to bolt up from her position with a quick “eep”.

The timid Pegasus looked ready to pop a question when a creature suddenly jumped out of the woods roaring a mighty and angry roar. Three things happened at once; the bear-like creature with a crescent moon on its stomach mouth glowed with energy. Fluttershy, startled by the creature’s fearsome appeared, jumped from the bench, reaching a high that should be impossible without wings. Rarity also got to her feet, but kept her composure as her right hand became lit with magic as she grabbed the frightened Pegasus and ran. Applejack also decided to listen to her flight instincts instead of her fight instincts, and took after the unicorn, just as the creature let loose with a powerful attack of some kind. The farmer dared a look over her shoulder, and watched as the bench was blown to splinters by the attack. The earth pony quickly looked forward, and tried not to think about what the creature could do to them if it caught them.

“What in Celestia’s name is that?” Rarity asked frantically.

Applejack decided to ignore her friend for the time being. She dared another look behind her and saw the creature preparing another attack. The farmer’s brow narrowed when she realized what was happening; the creature was aiming that strange attack of his skywards, in other words, at Fluttershy.

Not if Ah can help it, Applejack thought determinedly.

Skidding to a halt Applejack faced the creature with a glint of determination. The bear-like creature stood near a foot over the farmer, but she didn’t care. All that matter to her at that moment was keeping her friends safe even if it that meant making a target out of herself.

The transformed earth pony let out a small scream that was drown out by the creature’s own roar and she charged, keeping herself low so she could spin around and gave the critter a good bucking. Time seem to slow as a ball, red on the top and white on the bottom, got between the two, and opened with a small pop.

Time returned to normal as energy rocketed from the opened ball to the ground, the energy taking shape and solidifying into a gray cat-like creature with a spiral tail and slight triangular face. The bear, the energy dieing in its mouth, and the farmer stared down at the creature between, puzzled. That didn’t last long as the bear roared and began to charge up that attack of his. Applejack also readied herself, getting into position for a good bucking.

“Glameow, use shadow ball, and aim for Ursaring’s mouth!” a young voice, calmly female, commanded.

The creature, Glameow lowered its head, a sound close to purring coming from it as dark energy built in front of her mouth, faster then anything Applejack has seen. The new creature was certain faster then the bear-the Ursaring-could hope of being. Glameow finished preparing its shadow ball and fired. The attack meant it target and collided with the Ursaring’s mouth just as it finished preparing its own attack. The ball exploded which in caused the energy the bear was using to use explode, dealing double the damage to the creature.

“Good going, Glameow,” the voice said satisfactorily. “Now use scratch!”

The cat-like creature obeyed the voice and rush forward, its front paws glowing in the area claws normally are located. With a grace and speed that would put even the most graceful creature to shame the cat-like creature darted to the right and took a slash at the Ursaring’s leg. It next used the same speed and grace to repeatedly attack the body of the creature in rapid succession. The bear-like creature roared in mix of pain and angry as it took wild swings as the rapidly moving creature, the cat avoiding the blow by a hair. Glameow finished things up by jumping on and driving its scratch into the creature’s chest, generating a small explosion.

The bear-like creature let one more roar as he went falling to the ground, swirls in its eyes. Applejack stood flabbergasted at the sight before her. Not only did she witness a creature take down another creature twice its size, but done it in such an elegant way it reminded the farmer about a ballet that Rarity forced her to see once.

It was both fascinating and little frightening at the same time.

“Oh, that poor bear,” Fluttershy said sympathetically, startling the farmer enough to cast a glance over her right shoulder.

Her friends must have stopped when she stopped, no doubt to try and stop her, only to witness what she had also seen. It was a wonder that Rarity was able hold her friend in her magic. Speaking of Fluttershy…the timid pony was looking at the creature with the kind, caring and sympathy one would expect for her.

The farmer opened her mouth to say something, only for an eerily familiar voice to cause her to freeze up.

“Good work, Glameow. Take a good rest.”

Applejack snapped her head around in time to see a young female holding up one of those strange balls, a red light connecting the creature to the ball. The farmer watched Glameow turned into energy and was absorbed into the ball, the girl smiling at the ball as she put it into a bag hanged around her right shoulder.

The farmer studied the new creature as she want up to Ursaring, examining what appears to be a rather large splinter in the creature’s right paw. She was dressed rather plainly, wearing black boots, denim pants, a read shirt under a brownish vest, and a pair of sunglasses on its orange hair. Despite the simple way the girl dresses, she had a sort of elegance that stood out as she carefully took the splinter from the creature’s paw and then took something out from her bag, a stray bottle, and spray something onto the creature’s injury. Once she was sure that the bear was good to go, the girl took out another ball and aimed it at the bear. Like the cat, a beam shoot out and hit the bear, turning it into energy as it was absorbed into the ball.

The girl suddenly turned to the others, a sheepish smile on her face. “Sorry about that, my Ursaring and I was doing a little practicing in the woods when it steps on a splinter and it want wild,” the girl’s eyes widen slightly when she noticed Fluttershy. “Wow, I heard of this, but I never seen anyone use telekinesis before.”

Rarity, realizing that she was still holding the timid pony in her magic, let her down gently. Once she was on her feet, Fluttershy send a smile in her friend’s direction, one that Rarity whole-heartedly returned. Suddenly, all three of the ponies-turned-whatever looked at the mysterious creature, eyes blazing with questions as they all spoke at once.

“What the hay was all that about?”

“Darling, not that I mind the rescue but what’s with that outfit? The color may not clash, but they’re not exactly fashionable.”

“What about those critters? Are they ok?”

“Whoa whoa,” creature said, holding her hands out in front of her, “Everyone just settle down, and take it one step at a time.”

Like sliding into a single mindset the three former ponies exchange glances that seem to send a message between the three. They looked back at their savior, and spoke as one voice (Though Fluttershy’s voice was slightly drown out by the more vocal members) “What were those critters/creatures?”

The creature seemed confused by this question as she looked at them with a small frown. “What? My pokemon?” the girl asked with a bit of confusion.

“What’s a pokemon?” the group asked together, though Fluttershy’s voice was once again drowned out slightly by the others.

This only seems to confuse the creature farther as she stayed at the trio with slightly wide eyes. “You’re not joking,” the girl said plainly, “You really have no idea what a pokemon is, do you?”

At this comment the entire group looked at the ground, meek expression replacing their confused ones. The creature frowns once again, but waited until the trio in front of her was ready to talk.

Finally, Applejack titled her head up in a manner that hid her right eye behind her hat but kept the left one exposed. “Would you believe we’re not from around these parts?” the farmer said meekly.

Suddenly the creature laughed catching the former ponies off-guard. Applejack felt a silver of anger go through her, but before she could do anything, the creature stopped laughing and looked at the group with a casual smile.

“I can tell. I don’t know a lot of people who wouldn’t know what a pokemon is,” the girl said as she took out one of these balls and lazily tossed it into the air. “But...first things first. My name’s Zoey and if you let me, I can tell you about the wonderful world of pokemon.”