Chapter 1

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I can't remember what I was doing before I was transported to Equestria. I remember it was a routine thing, one that I did without company, but I cant remember what it was, currently however that is not important.

I was doing whatever it was, and then I began to fall, I began to fall across a vast expanse of lights, I saw points of light on a color-that-was similar-to-blue background, and each of these points of light was a different color. not different shades of the normal colors available to human vision, but each light was a different color than the ones I would be able to see with my eyes.

I fell for what felt like a long time but I know it couldn't have been long as I only saw a few thousand in-describable colors before I landed roughly on a concrete surface.

"What the hell?!?" I yelled at the top of my lungs, standing to my feet, and hearing echoes roll down the tunnel I was in. I smelled something awful, and squinted my eyes. I could just barely make out some outlines that let me know that I wasn't blinded but that it was just dark.

"Am I in the sewers or something?" I whispered to myself, wondering about the light I had seen moments ago. I had never taken any sort of drug in my life, besides some ibuprofen and paracetamol, but they were just painkillers, so they didn't count.

Perhaps I was kidnapped and someone with a twisted sense of humor mixed up the chloroform with a hallucinogenic?

"Hello?" I yelled hoping for an answer. I felt around with my foot and stepped in some water that I doubt would have been very clean, which confirmed the notion I was in a sewer system.

I walked forward looking for an exit, and saw moonlight peeking through a storm drain, not far away. I became excited and sprinted towards
it , although I felt something - weird above the drain… You know, like some sort of sixth sense kind of feeling. Best way to describe it would be like if you had a towel with a lump of something underneath it, and you can see the effects that the lump has on the sheet, but not actually the lump.

I climbed up the storm drain with minimal difficulty, Once I was out, I admired the scenery around me; white stone towers and cobblestone streets were everywhere, with the tip of a mountain in not too far off in the distance. This looked like something out of Disneyland or Harry Potter... I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore....

I cocked my head left and right, like when trying to pinpoint the source of a sound, except this time it was with this weird sixth sense I found. I looked at where the energy felt the strongest, and looked towards it. I saw a brief flash of light in an alley with an accompanying feminine yelp. I quickly ran to the alley, looked inside and saw something which reinforced the ‘sadistic kidnapper’ theory, A tiny blue unicorn, with a coloured tattoo on it’s - flank, if I remember my biology lessons correctly

He smirked at the limp mare lying in front of him and his ivory horn lit up with a dark blue aura

He turned around and saw me. I was gawking, with my mouth open, stupefied by both seeing a kidnapping and them actually being unicorns. Uni - flipping - corns!.

"What the hay?" he flinched back, withand a look of fear and curiosity etched upon his face. He snapped out of it and marred his face into a grimace, lighting his horn and focusing it on me. I felt a wet sensation in my chest, like that lump under towel was becoming liquid and flowing into me, A look of surprise came upon his face and he backed away.
"I... I don't want any trouble." he stuttered. I looked at my hands and noticed my fingernails glowing with the same blue aura of his horn.

"Well..." I glanced at the unconscious mare on the alley ground and said: "You've got trouble."

He tossed his head back as he sneered and threw a blue bolt of energy at my head, it hit me before I could dodge it. I closed my eyes in anticipation of the strike. When it hit, I felt like I was hit with a water balloon, with the water soaking into me like a sponge, My eyes opened at the lack of pain, and my face breaking into a grin seeing that I was apparently invulnerable to his attacks.

II imagined a blot of energy similar to that which he threw and tried to throw it at him. Nothing happened. The unicorn blinked. it was about as effective as trying to use the force on your remote.

As that thought hit me I remembered how he used his power to drag the un-conscious mare, and willed his legs to stay in one place. to my surprise it actually worked and he couldn't break free of my telekinetic grip. I began to ponder the forces I was using for a moment, before remembering my situation.

I quickly realized that the energy inside myself was quickly running out, like the water in the sponge was being squeezed out. In my power induced mania, A frown replaced my grin, and I looked at the Unicorns horn.

"Give me more power." I demanded, noting at the despair on the pony's face.

"N-No way!" He stuttered, pulling at the blue aura surrounding his legs. "You freak!"

I walked over to him, sloshing my worn shoes in the mud beneath my feet, and grabbed his horn, searching within him for more power, I felt something and began to pull. Something huge and tiny and warm at the same time, left him and entered me as he collapsed and the image on his rump disappeared. I saw the light fade from his eyes, even in the pale moonlight and realized something was wrong.

"Crap! did I just eat your soul or something?" I asked, snapping out of whatever craze I fell into when I tried to drain him

"H-Help!" he cried weakly, down the streets.

I looked down the street to my left and my right to make sure no-one had heard him, and brought myself down next to him. I tried envisioning that sponge with all the power I absorbed and saw a dark blue blob, which I was willing to bet was his soul. I put my hand on his forehead, and tried to push that blob back into him.

His colors flowed back into him, and his butt tattoo came back. Are those tattoos a representation of their soul?

After a few moments, He looked like that had never happened and began to kick and scream. I grabbed his muzzle to try to shut him up. Unfortunately for me, and he bucked me away with his solid hooves, making me let go of him to cover my face. Ouch! I’d be lucky if that didn’t leave a black eye, if not a bruise...

He ran away, down the street, but I decided not to chase him. After all, how would I catch up to him? Never mind restrain him. And then, what would I do? Besides, there were more important things to worry about right now…

I picked up the mare, ignoring my protesting arms, and carried her to a nearby door, and rang the door bell, and using the last of the energy I had taken from the unicorn, to I grab my feet and and placed myself on the roof. Unfortunately, my energy ran out two feet above the roof. Then gravity decided it wanted control back. I grunted as I pulled myself up ...In hindsight, pulling myself up by my hands would have been a much better idea…

I watched the two unicorns, gray and orange respectively walk out of the door and sneer at the mare lying unconscious on the doorstep.

“Nice to see that the ponies round here are kind…” I thought with no small amount of sarcasm.

After the everything that happened, I started doubting that these were hallucinations. This felt too real for me to have just dreamed up, even if I had something in my blood messing with my brain.

They walked back inside and I heard something about calling the guards. I decided to run while I could and climbed down the back of the house, wondering where I was and what had happened.
“I honestly doubt that I'm still in Texas. Perhaps the Greeks came here, and that’s where they got all their mythology from? But then, where is everything else? I have only seen unicorns so far…”

The question of how I got here in the first place still persisted, but wracking my brain right would just make my head hurt, so I put that question on the backburner.

I continued walking in the shadows and spotted the silhouette of a unicorn on the window of a closed shop, with a sign that said 'Oak Grove Magic, Spells and Sundries'.

“Magic, huh… So I guess that’s what this energy is…”

I hid in the alley next to the shop, hoping I could catch him on the way out and grab some of his power without him noticing. Just then, images of that stallions face when I drained him, and my own insanity flashed through my mind, sending icy shivers down my spine.

“Nope. Never again…"

I tried something new, I felt that inside the building itself, there was a weak aura of magic. It didn’t really seem tied to anything, like a puff of smoke floating in the air. I visualized a string connecting me to the aura, and started draining it.

"Wha- What’s going on?" I heard from inside the shop. I immediately stopped draining the magic, and crouched in the shadows. I had to stick around to see if I could use the spells in his shop, or if I could even decipher what was in there, hopefully spell books. "I must be getting old." the stallion sighed from inside the shop walls, and I let out a breath I didn't know I had been holding.

A few minutes later he walked out of the shop and locked the door behind him. I waited for a few moments to make sure he was out of sight. I felt around the lock with my telekinesis. Following a bit of experimentation, and trying to remember exactly how locks worked, I managed to jimmy the lock open.

I walked over to a glass display case and saw some books inside. I Jumped in glee and unlocked the display case with the same technique I used for the door lock. Just as I put my hand into the case, I pulled it out. This seemed too easy… Surely, any perso- err, pony could just do what I did? Surely there were some security systems in place? Ah, well, screw it!

I took out some books and began to read them, starting with 'Teleportation and you'.
The spells inside were like formulas, I could understand their concept, for example the flame rune clearly meant fire. But I didn’t actively understand some of them, like the circle with a vertical line through it. but I didn't know how I could, Yet, they still made some sense to me. Perhaps it has something to do with the magic interpreting it for me?

I began reading some elemental spells and tested a fireball in my hand, and immediately regretted it. I found a healing spell, in another book, and let me tell you one thing, reading with one hand while the other is burnt is not fun, I used almost all of my remaining magic healing the said burn on my hands.

I couldn't stop myself from smiling though. The idea of using magic excited me to no end. I saw a book in the corner of my vision and picked it up. 'The Fundamentals of Pony Magic.' I smiled some more and opened it up, knowing I probably couldn’t practice any of the spells. but then I heard some clashing outside and saw armored ponies outside of the window.

"Crap." I muttered remembering just where I was as I thought of a way out. I was about to go out the back door when I heard someone on the other side.

"Come outside of the building, with your horn down. We have you surrounded."

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Discord was still trapped in his stone prison. Soon, with all the chaos he had absorbed from Celestia’s ‘harmonic’ kingdom, he would soon be free. Eventually he would be able to overpower the spelling holding him in his stone prison.

He knew this, and for the first time in his life, he actually made he had plans.

As soon as he was free, he would look for the thing that had been punching holes in Equestria's latent magic., The holes were filling themselves, so he was not doing this for the good of Equestria, but he was more interested in what the thing/pony/whatever-life-form-had-evolved-while-he-was-imprisoned was, and to what extent it’s magic absorption worked.

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Crap. I looked around the room to see if there was an escape route I could use. I had almost no magic, so I couldn't teleport, even though I had memorized the spell.

I look to the back door, but there were already guards outside of it. I would have to find a source of magic, or this was it for me. Images of being dissected by unicorns in an underground lab flashed through my head.

I noticed an odd magic appear just then. I thought it odd, that I hadn't noticed it but I shrugged that off in favor of finding an escape route.
After finding the source of magic, I noted its odd - yet awesome - appearance, it was a black and red amulet, with a red jewel set in a steel triangle underneath a depiction of a red-eyed Unicorn with wings.

I hurriedly siphoned its magic as a last resort, - noticing the guards ramming down the door - and shoved the amulet in my pocket, setting my face into a look of determination.

I attempted a teleportation spell with the magic in the amulet, and felt something like a dark veil fall over my mind as I closed my glowing red eyes tightly shut.

opening my eyes, I found that I had teleported myself on top of the magic shop, with guards all around me on the ground. I quickly dropped to the roof of the shop and pressed myself against it, hoping they hadn't seen me.

"There Sh- It? is..." I heard a confused voice state above me, I quickly turned over and looked at the source, a grey Pegasus with bat-wings. Her amber eyes - it was hard to tell the color with my vision tinted red - went wide, and she yelled:"Its up here! Its can teleport!"

"What do you mean it? Holy Celestia!" A unicorn had levitated himself to the roof. I felt an intense hate for the Pegasus who had alerted the others wash over my brain. Some sort of spell hit me, and I worriedly jumped to my feet, not letting go of the magic the unicorn had cast on me. the magic stuck to me for a second, but it was soon absorbed into my own reserves.

"It got rid of the tracking spell! Its stealing my magic!" another unicorn yelled.

"My name - is Zachary Hoskins."I whispered as a dark smile came upon my face. I threw a huge fireball at the Ponies, with the magic from the amulet.

I stopped completely.

I Shook my head wildly, a terrified expression coming to my face and teleported back into the sewers I arrived in, before I could hear the screams.

I hit the ground running, still shaking my head.

Frantically, I forced the evil magic from the amulet out of my body, and continued running through the nastiness, until I hit a dead end. I stopped, and slumped against the sewer wall, crying.

"Only a few hours in ponyland, and I've already injured a bunch of fairy tales! I might have killed them... I teleported away before I could see. This evil amulet compelled me to. it allows me to use magic without a unicorn, but at what cost?" I took the amulet from my pocket and carressed it with my hand.

I felt compelled to wear it. It just felt like I should, although in my mind I knew I should throw it into the sewer water and leave it there. I had come into possession of an addictive, powerful magical artifact, mere hours after learning my first spell.

After a couple hours of moping, I got up and decided to try and find a way out of the city.

With a completely unnecessary snap of my fingers, I teleported to the surface, looking around I noticed it was almost dawn. That meant I had been up for hours, counting the time before I'd come to horse land.

So why wasn't I tired? is it because of the magic? it could be, but I didn't have any magic in me at the time... maybe there was some sort of ambient magic? At the moment however that question was un-important.

Stepping up on top of a hill I looked over the city. "Fancy Cheese shop... Fancy restaurant... Fancy train Station... Fancy clothes shop... ponies don't even wear clothes... A train station!" I jumped up and started running towards it, then stopped myself. If I continued like this I would be caught.

I ran my hand over the amulet in my pocket, and closed my eyes, resisting its temptation. I walked into the city, keeping to the shadows. I walked into an alley, and peeked in a window. Bingo. Through the window, there was a Unicorn, She was asleep, so I could try something I had been thinking about. I slid the window open and climbed through it to the bed.

Approaching the sleeping Unicorn, I manifested the last of my magic into a tiny sphere of light, and put it in her horn. the white aura of liht I had put in her horn turned golden-blue and I began absorbing it, tendrils of magic lapped at my skin and I smiled, in another bout of magic-induced mania.

"AHHHHHHH!" I turned to see a Pegasus pony in a french maid outfit drop a breakfast tray, screaming at the top of her lungs. I snapped my head towards the bed, and saw the Unicorn gawking at me with eyes as wide as saucers.

"CALL THE GUARDS! GUARDS GUARDS!" The pony that still lay in the bed yelled. A worried look came on my face, and I sprinted towards the window. The Unicorn slammed it shut with magic, and I did something really stupid. I jumped through the window, cutting my skin and sending glass down the alley.

I ran down the street, blue-collar ponies jumping back, and yelping at my sudden, and threatening appearance. I began to run to the train station. I saw guards chasing me with determined expressions on their faces.

'Crap... Maybe I can convince them to let me go?' I said. In hindsight I should have just used a teleportation spell, and hidden in the train until it left, but instead I did one of the stupidest things I could.

I stopped, stumbling slightly, and turned to face the guards. "I WAS POSSESSED! I DIDN'T MEAN TO HURT ANYONE!" I immediately regretted that, and was trapped in a magically conjured cage, as I blacked out.

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A couple of seconds later, I woke up flat out on my back, with a burning pain in my left shoulder, and guards surrounding me.

"Craaaaap." I groaned.

I'd gotten myself into a bit of a pickle, hadn't I?

Raising my hand, I snapped my fingers and tried to teleport. All that I accomplished was wasting my magic, while wasting my fatigue.

What?! Why didn't it work?

"I surrender!" I shouted, raising my hands in blind panic, wincing at the pain in my shoulder.

There was a small wound where a loose rock had been lodged in my shoulder.
That's gonna leave a mark.

From the group, a unicorn in blue robes walked out of the crowd of guards, regarded me with an expression bordering curiosity and irritation, and lit up his horn. Following a flash of orange light, I felt weightless, and began falling through some what looked like a dark tunnel until I landed on my ass in a dank dungeon.

And I don't mean dank like the memes, I mean dank.

The damp, musty, and cold type of dank.

What the hell?... How does that even work? I mused, feeling slightly disgruntled.

I inspected the wound on my shoulder - Looking at it now, it didn't seem too bad - But it hurt like a dog with no Y chromosome.
I don’t think I need to elaborate on that.

I looked around and saw that my cell was a large-ish room, no bigger than mine back home. A few cracks, and a small crater adorned the wall, where it looked like something powerful had hit it, but otherwise the cell seemed to be well maintained.
The door was near the front, and there was a bed of hay off to the side, but I couldn't see it being very comfortable for me.

I'm not going to lie, I was scared. Only a couple of days in horse land, and I was already in a cell.

Well, I suppose that’s what you get when you unwittingly use malevolent magical materials.
But why had my teleport spell failed? Perhaps it was the cage? Did it prevent magic? Or maybe... Maybe not all magic could pull off powerful spells? I mean, I had seen a few carriages, and if everyone could teleport why would they need those? Perhaps for hauling goods? No, I had seen a few unicorns in carriages, so I know that its not just because only unicorns can use magic... The magic I was using had either been from the person in that shop, or the amulet, and I never tried to pull off any powerful spells with magic from that guy who's soul I ate.

...

Maybe I do deserve to be in here. - I thought with a twang of guilt

The amulet! I'd completely forgotten about the amulet!

What should I do with it? I don’t want to become that monster again. Never.
But what if they tried to—I dunno—to kill me or something? Is that excuse enough to risk it? Do I really value my life over my morality?
I really hate questions like these… If anyone told me I would honestly have to consider that question today, I don't think i'd believe them.

Besides, I might get points for good behavior. Maybe if I just co-operated they would let me go.

None-the-less, I took the amulet out of my pocket (with no intention of using it mind you), and looked it over.

As I noticed some sort of markings on the back of the amulet, The floor below me lit up in a dazzling array of colors. Two huge circles, filled with and surrounded by intricate symbols materialized around me.

"What the-" I started to say, as the amulet was ripped from my hand. "Agh!" I shouted in pain, the burning heat of whatever force that confiscated the amulet taking me by surprise.

At the same time, an alarm went off, outside of the cell.

I really just screwed myself over haven't I? I thought to myself, nursing my throbbing hand.

In the center of the room, lightning-like tendrils extending from the runes were holding a blue orb with the amulet inside in place.

I could hear ponies coming down the hall, and began to panic.

What do I do? Alright, just act natural.

The door opened, and the alarm stopped. Two unicorns in golden armor, and one in a green robe looked at me, sitting on the bed of hay.

"Oh, Hey guys!" I said with a nervous smile.

"What is the meaning of this?" Asked the unicorn in green. There was a hood over his face, so I could not make out his expression, but the guards were glaring at me.

"Uhh... Well, I had an amulet, and when I took it out of my pants (With no intentions of using it of course) your... cell went crazy and snatched it right out of my hands. Burned Lefty here pretty bad." I said, shaking my left hand at the last part and grimacing with a smile. The robed unicorns muzzle became visible when he looked up, and I could see it twist into a grimace. If I could see his eyes, I'm sure his expression would have been something that said 'Are you serious?'.

"We were hoping to postpone your interrogation until after we discovered what you were." -his horn it up some shade of red, and the runes went back to being invisible, as the orb floated over to him.
He pulled his hood back, and I saw his face. His coat was dark-gray, and his eyes were red, like his magic. He had a light-gray mane similar to his coat, and a defined muzzle with a scar running from one side over to the other.

If I was a gay horse, I would say he looked pretty hot.

"You're making that pretty hard." He stated coldly.

As his gaze turned to the amulet, his eyes went wide, and he angrily asked "Where did you get this?"

Panicking, I replied truthfully. "Oak Grove Magic Spells and Sundries, why?"The nervousness in my voice probably din't do me any good. I probably couldn't have asked a stupider question anyways, as I had seen firsthand the power, and the evil it had given me, inflicted upon me, and if he knew anything about it, of course he would wan't to know where I got it.

"Because this is a highly addictive corrupting influence! The Alicorn amulet has been un-accounted for for over three decades!"

I'm in pretty hot water arent I?

"So that's what its called... I-"

"Shut your mouth! You have the right to remain silent! ..." -He turned his head to the side, inspecting the amulet- " Actually, you don't, but for the time being keep your hoov- claws to yourself.

He sent a blast of magic at me, and the runes on the ceiling and floor lit up, as the magic bolt scanned over my body for any more magic Items, instead of being absorbed like it usually does.

As soon as the magic finished its job, the runes disappeared. If I had to guess, I would say they were carved into the stone, but I just couldn't see them. Those cracks I mentioned were on the wall, so they probably would not have interfered, but it could just be some sort of inscribing magic, like in Skyrim.

Unlike the spell books however, I could not understand the runes when I looked at them, but they seemed to be counter-acting any magic casting, or absorbing. The unicorn was outside of the runes when he cast that scanning spell on me, so that must be why it did not affect him, and with my left hand still burned, I wasn't going to risk casting anything, not after the amulet had been taken like that.

"Guards!" The gray unicorn barked "Station yourselves outside of this cell. Keep an eye on him.

Him? Not 'it'? I like this guy... Kind of.

My head swiveled towards the guards as they turned around, and I noticed that every single guard I had seen so far looked exactly the same. Even the bat-ponies I saw at Oak Grove looked like each other. That's odd... Are they clones or something?

They did a horse-salute with their legs, and said "Yes sir!"

The ponies walked outside of the cell, and before they closed it, I yelled out, "Hey, wait! Whats going to happen to me?" The gray unicorn hesitated, and then closed the cell door.

I could hear his hoofsteps for some time, as they echoed down the halls.

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A few hours later, I had fallen asleep for the first time in horse-land, and felt really hungry and thirsty. Luckily, there was now a bottle of water just inside the cell.

They probably placed it here while I was asleep.

As I picked up the bottle and put it to my mouth, I started thinking. Falling asleep in the anti-magic runes pretty much confirmed that it was magic keeping me awake, and it was probably also the reason I didn't feel the need to eat, as I was really hungry right then.

I finished off the bottle of water with a large swig, and noticed a few guards standing in an orderly fashion in front of the door.

"You will come with me to the interrogation room." Commanded the guard at the front. His armor was silver, and had runes on it. Probably enchanted somehow. I could feel that there was magic coming from the armor all the guards had, but this particular guards armor had some powerful spells on it, I could tell. Even without the runes, I probably couldn't dispel it just by absorbing the magic.

"Alright." I didn't want to argue with him, so I got up, and almost walked out of the door, but he jammed the butt of his spear into my chest. Probably a bit more forcefully than necessary.

"Nice try." - He turned his head to another guard in silver, runed armor, and said - "Get the shin bracers."

"Why do I need shin bracers?" I asked.

He didn't answer, he just took them from the other guard who produced them from his saddle-bags, and slapped steel bracers onto my arms with magic, causing me to jump back. He almost instantly held me in place with magic, and the runes on both the bracer, and the ceiling and floor lit up. I noticed that the runes on the bracer were almost exactly like the runes on the ceiling.

"Oh." I said realizing that the bracers were to stop my magic.

"Now, can I let go, or do you want your - limb burned off?" He asked me coldly.

"Why would you need to burn it off?!" I asked somewhat frightened.

"Why don't I put this on you while its active and let you find out?"

"Alright, I'll stop moving!"

He let go, and put the other bracer on me. I figured that what he meant was that if it was put on while active, it would backfire or something.

Anyways, he led me out into the hall where the two silver-armored guards, and four golden-armored guards started escorting me to another section of the strange building, whose hallway's ceilings were just a bit too low.

"So, if you don't mind me asking, what does your magic armor do? I mean, those of you in golden armor have less powerful enchantments, but i'm more interested in the silver armor." As soon as that came out of my mouth I remembered my mother telling me to think before I talked, and decided too late, that that was a stupid question in my situation.

"You don't need to know that! And those bracers you're wearing would prevent you from dispelling our enchantments anyways." Said the silver-armored guard who had given the other silver-armored guard the bracers.

"Alright, sorry, I was just curious... Where are we going?" I just can't shut my mouth can I?

"Shut your mouth, beast. Before I shut it for you." That was rude, but I can't blame him.

"Hey, I'm an intelligent person just like you!" What the hell, me? No prisoner would say that to a guard!

He stopped in his tracks. "An intelligent 'person' that roasted my innocent sister to get away with a little robbery. No pony like you deserves mercy." He pushed me with his sharp hoof.

"I'm sorry! I was under the influence of an evil amulet!"

"That you STOLE, AND PUT ON YOURSELF WILLINGLY!"

He had a fair point, but semi-luckily, his partner spoke up. "Captain, calm down! Its on its way to interrogation right now!"

I was a bit insulted in being called 'it' but I Probably deserved that, after burning their friends in an evil-amulet induced rampage.

A few quiet minutes full of dirty looks later, and we were at a large door, with a one-way mirror through which I could see two chairs that looked like they were made for humans rather than ponies. Surely these equines had differently shaped seats.

I wanted to ask, but after earlier, I decided to keep my mouth shut. Prisoners shouldn't be speaking anyways.

They opened the door, and shoved me in with their spears, ordering me to take a seat in the smaller of the two chairs.

I walked over, and felt the seat with my good hand, before sitting down. I got bored after a while and started twiddling my thumbs.

Not too long afterwards, the door opened, and a unicorn walked in. She was wearing a lab coat, which struck me as odd. This is a prison, right?

She took a seat at the table, and took a clip board from .

"Depending on what you say, you will either stay here for research, or go to court and be put on trial for assault."

When I first got here, I pictured being dissected by unicorns. And that fear was actually plausible? Things just got worse and worse.

"Now, what are you?"

"Excuse me?"

"What is your species?"

"Oh, uh... Human."

She scribbled something down, with an un-impressed look on her face. Not that I expected her to be impressed.

"Where are you from?"

"Well... A far away land."

"Where exactly?"

"Far over the sea." I lied.

She frowned, but didn't call me out on it, and scribbled something down.

"Where do your magic abilities begin and end?"

"Well... I'm not quite sure. I have only had them since I arrived in the city."

"Hmmm... Interesting - if you are to be believed. - Are there not any ponies where you come from?"

"Not like you have here. The ones where I come from had neither wings, nor horns. And also, some of them were much taller. I think the tall ones were called horses." Not technically a lie.

"Hmmm... You could be describing Zebrica, or Saddle Arabia. What was the land like where you were from?"

Zebrica? Saddle Arabia? Seriously? Bad horse puns for names? What is this place?

Alright... Saudi Arabia has deserts, but Africa has deserts and forests.

"Well, it was a desert."

"Uh... Were there any forests?"

"I would have no way of knowing."

"Really?"

"Yes, I never left the coast."

She squinted which made me worry, but I didn't show it.

"Are there other humans?"

I paused for a moment, but answered, "I'm the only Human I know of here."

"Here, as in Equestria, or here as in The world?"

"The world." So this country was called Equestria... Huh.

She opened her mouth to say something, but suddenly, time stopped. I mean, it froze. I was quite alarmed, and got out of the chair to look around.

Is this a test? Are they seeing how I react?

Suddenly, a... Talon popped out from behind her, and shoved a lollipop in her mouth.

I backed up into the wall. What the frick frack knick knack paddywhack thumbtack track back baseball bat is this thing?

The head of the mixed-up monster soon followed the talon.

He spoke in a sly, tone, and said "I'd forgotten about you! Good thing too. I've come up with a much more amusing way to dispose of the elements."

Magic Battery.

by Kato The Green Being

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3