A man goes through a portal and is turned into a unknown creature, shunned and feared for how he looks he struggles to live his new life.
Michael was in need of money, his rent was coming and he was broke, but he found a job on the internet that would pay him ten million dollars, all he had to do was perform one test that was all.
unfortunately for Michael it wasn't as simple as he thought, he had to test a portal they had created that went to another dimension, when he went through it he was changed to fit in with the inhabitants of that dimension, but he didn't come out looking exactly like them.
The sun shined through the blinders of a window waking a young man, the man groaned and sat up.
"Curse the sun....you are my enemy" he groaned and walked out of his room, he walked to his bathroom and took a shower, she got out and dried his hair, he looked at his reflection and sighed.
"Time to start the day Michael" he told himself and left his bathroom.
He walked to his kitchen and opened a cupboard to find it empty "ok..." He looked in another and another and another finding nothing each time, he then opened the fridge to find some milk and what looked like a sandwich only it was green.
"Alright so milk it is" he got the milk and drank some as he walked to his laptop.
"Let's try to find a job so I don't starve to death" he scrolled through different jobs, he clicked and checked ones that paid a lot, but each time he didn't have the right qualifications for the jobs.
A few hours passed and he groaned and rubbed his eyes, he sighed "I need money but I don't fit in with any of these jobs..." He glanced at the computer and saw a link to a job offer, he clicked it and read it.
Help achieve a new scientific revolution, allow yourself to be tested on and you will be rewarded with knowing you helped evolve our race, and you will be given ten million dollars.
Michael smiled at the mention of ten million dollars, all he had to do was do some simple tests like answer questions and he'd get ten million bucks.
Michael looked at the address and left his apartment, he then made his way to the building.
<<<<<<<<<<[Three Hours Later]>>>>>>>>>>
Michael looked at the large building, he smiled and walked in and towards the front desk.
A woman was sitting behind it and smiled looking at him "hello sir, how may I help you?"
"Well I wanted to join that test for ten million dollars" Michael answered.
"Great your the only one that has showed up, please follow me" the woman stood up and walked to a door and put her key card through a scanner and the large metal door unlocked, she then walked through and made her way done the hall.
Michael followed looking around, the place smelled like a hospital the hall he was walking through was white and had grey doors leading to who knows where.
The woman opened a door "please step in and sit down" she continued smiling which now started to weird out Michael.
"Um...yeah sure" he walked into a large white empty room, in the middle was a grey metal chair, he sat in it and the woman closed the door.
He sat there for a while before he heard a voice come out of nowhere "hello sir I've been told you would like to participate in the test?"
"Yeah, I uh heard about the money and well I'm in desperate need for some cash...I'd be willing to do pretty much anything really" Michael chuckled nervously and scratched the back of his head.
"Well you are the perfect person for this test then sir, please tell me your first and last name" the mans voice said.
"Oh my names Michael Cane, um I wanted to know what will these test involve? I'm not to good at science stuff..." Michael asked.
"No need to worry, you won't have to answer any questions you'll just need to put this suit on and walk to the next room" the mans voice answered as a hole opened and a pedestal rose up from the floor, there was a grey and black skintight looking jumpsuit.
"Uh ok" Michael stood up and looked around "can you see me?"
"Why?" The voice asked.
"Well I have to take my clothes off and...it's kinda weird if someone can see me" Michael said trying to see if there were cameras around.
"No I cannot see you so you do not have to worry" the voice replied.
"Ok cool" Michael took off his clothes and put the suit on, it was a bit difficult since it was pretty tight, a doorway then opened in the wall once he got it on.
"Please enter the next room" the voice said.
Michael walked through it and found himself in another large white room except at the back wall was a large ring shaped machine, behind it was a black scorched marks, cables were connected to the ring, he looked to the left the and found a black glass observing window, there was a metal cart by the door way that had a headset on it.
"Please put the headset on and await further instructions" the voice said.
Michele put the headset on and the door way closed off behind him "um...".
The ring started humming and sparks came off the sides into the middle, soon light engulfed the room blind Michael momentarily.
Michael blinked several times to clear his vision and when he did he saw a rainbow glowing vortex in the ring.
"Please step into the rift" the voice directed.
"Wait what?? No no no" Michael backed up "what the hell is that??"
"If you wish to receive your money you must enter the rift" the voice stated.
"Fuck that! I want answers now or I'm leaving!" Michael ordered.
"Alright" a much deeper mans voice said "a few months back our scientists discovered a small rift, upon further inspection they soon theorized that it may lead to another dimension, but before they could test this theory the rift closed, fortunately they were able to study it enough to build a machine to reopen the rift, they sent a drone in and discovered a entire new world much similar to our own, but they lost signal with the drone before they could explore more of it, Michael your here to explore this world and see if it is possible for our race to move there in case our own world dies or a war happens".
"Nope I'm out, get me out of here" Michael tried forcing the door open.
"If you do this we will triple the money" The man with the deep voice said.
Michael stopped "triple?"
"Yes we will triple the money, all you have to do is enter the rift" The man said.
Michael looked at the rift then the door he was weighing his options, if he left he'd not get any food and he'd loose his apartment, if he stayed he'd get thirty million dollars "ok...I'll do it".
"Excellent, now just walk to the rift and enter it" the man directed.
"Ok..." Michael walked towards the rift, he was taking deep breaths in and out, he got to the rift and reached his hand out to it, small sparks hit his hand and he chuckles "it tickles".
He took a deep breath and walked into the rift, he found himself flouting through the glowing void "woah..."
"Alright Michael we'll be able to talk to you through the headset, we want you to explain everything that's happening" the man said.
"Ok, I'm flouting..." He looked around "my body feels all tingly and..." He winced as he felt pins and needles spread across his body "ok I'm feeling pins and needles all over now...gah ok it's starting to burn...it's getting worse ngh gah!!!!" He screamed as he felt like his skin was on fire.
"Michael? What's happening??" The man asked.
He felt like pure magma was being poured over his body, he screamed at the top of his lungs until he went silent, his eyes bulged as he desperately and futilely clawed at his neck trying to breathe, he couldn't get a breath in.
Tears ran down his face as he felt his muscles rip and tear, he felt his bones crack and pop, they twisted and bent in abnormal ways.
"Answer me!" The man yelled.
Michael felt his eyes bulge out but not from the sock of air but it was as if he eyes were now larger, they were larger then his eyelids could cover, he felt his skull crack and shift as it grey and changed, his face popped out and stretched forward.
He felt two things push out of his skull and get longer and longer, he put his hands to his head where the things were growing and sobbed silently.
He felt something tug at the end of his spine before ripping out, it twitched as he continued clawing at his throat for air, soon his hands got stiff before something dark formed over his fingers, his middle and ring finger merged together while his thumb completely vanished.
He withered in the vortex and held his stomach as he felt his organs move around and change.
Eventually he saw a white light ahead of him, was sent flying towards it and fell to the ground, he panted now able to breathe once more, his vision went black as he passed out from the pain.
<<<<<<<<<<<[The Lab]>>>>>>>>>>>
The man with the deep voice listened to the static from the headset.
"We lost the signal sir.." The scientist said.
"Damn it" the man cursed "that's the fifth one...".
"What should we do sir?" The scientist asked.
"The tests a failure...let's try again, tell the subjects family that he's gone missing, don't let them know about the project".
"I shall sir" the Scientist walked away.
The man looked at the rift as it slowly closed "I will figure out what is on the other side of you...and I will take all that it has".
<<<<<<<<<<{Other Side of The Rift]>>>>>>>>>>
The first thing Michael noticed when waking up was the pain his entire body was feeling and the headache pounding in his skull.
He groaned and struggled to open his eyes, when he finally did he quickly closed them again due to the light, he opened them again and looked around his vision was a bit blurry.
There was tall grass around him, he saw some trees a but away, he glanced up and saw a blue sky with a few clouds, a bird flew over.
'Did I just dream that whole thing? If not then this other world looks just like earth, though if it was a dream it wouldn't explain the pain I'm feeling all over...' He thought and winced when he moved his arm slightly.
He moved his fingers but noticed he was only moving three and the felt bigger and harder then usual, he slowly moved his head and looked down at his hand, his eyes went wide at what he saw.
His hand was gone, in its place was a three clawed lizard paw, he looked his body over and his heart stopped, his entire body was covered in dark purple scales, his back legs looked like hooves, he had a long lizard tail that ended in a large tuft of dark red hair.
He noticed his neck was a lot longer and he could move it around a lot more.
He reached up with his hands or paws and touched his face and head, his face stretched out into a muzzle, he felt upwards and found large pointed ears and what he guessed were horns, he felt a odd mohawk on top of his head going all the way down to his neck
"What t-" he put his paws to his mouth after hearing his voice, it sounded much higher and softer but that was impossible, like the rest of the things that's happened to his body, he needed to make sure he wasn't just hearing things.
"T-testing?" He flinched hearing the female voice again, he slowly looked down between his legs not finding what he usually had.
"WHAT THE HELL?!?!?!??!" He or rather she yelled at the top of her lungs.
"This job sucks!!" She yelled and tried to think of what to do next 'ok on an alien world, with a weird body that's female....I guess finding people could work, or whatever's on this planet' she stood up on her back legs and fell over onto her back wincing.
"Ngh ok...can't stand on two legs got it..." She rolled over and got up on all fours, and stood up shakily, she started walking and looking around.
There was trees and grass all over, she noticed that the air also was different, it felt cleaner.
<<<<<<<<<<[Three Hours Later]>>>>>>>>>>
Michael was walking through a forest "dang this place is creepy...".
She looked at her paws as she walked, she was leaving three clawed footprints as she walked 'feels weird walking on all fours, and also having scales all over my body...'.
She huffed 'man what a story I'll have to tell when I get home, my sisters not gonna believe it' she chuckled lightly but her smile turned to a frown "if I ever get home..." She really didn't have any way of knowing that she'd actually get back home or not, she sighed.
A twig snapped and she froze.
She looked around frantically but found nothing, she sighed in relief "hehe ok it's a forest...it was probably a squirrel or...alien squirrel".
Her ear twitched and she heard breathing, suddenly she smelt something rotten now that she though about it she could smell alot of things but this rotten smell was a lot more noticeable, she turned around towards the sound of breathing and saw large green glowing eyes in a bush.
She gulped and went to run but tripped and fell "son of a bi-" a large wooden paw slammed down on the ground in front of her, she slowly looked up and found what looked like a large wooden wolf, it was snarling and its breath was rancid, she gagged and covered her nose, her smelling seemed to be a lot better and this close up to this thing was horrid.
It growled and lunged at her, she quickly rolled out of the way making it bite into the dirt, she got up and ran for her life literally.
She ran not looking back but her now much better hearing could hear it's wooden paws hitting against the dirt behind her, she shriek pad and ran faster.
Trees whooshed by her as she narrowly dodged branches, some smaller branches scratched her legs and face as she ran through bushes, she felt the things warm breath in her back as she ran faster and faster.
She ran through a bush but on the other side she found a drop off, she gasped and tumbled down the rocky hill before slamming into a small stream.
She winced and panted as she laid in the water, she open one eye and looked towards the top of the hill, her eye widened when she saw the wooden wolf come out of the bush and make its way down the hill.
She weakly stood up and tried to run only to fall after putting pressure down on her right from leg, she looked at it barely could move it, she started limping as fast as she could away from the wolf.
It followed her not even needing to run, it punched onto her and tackled her to the ground.
She whimpered and looked at it with terrified eyes, the wolf growled and put her neck, she screamed and felt a heat in her throat suddenly she spewed out a large stream of purple flames.
The wooden wolf jumped back yelping as the flames engulfed it lighting it completely up, it slowly burned until it was black and stopped moving, it then crumbled into embers on the ground.
She looked at the now dead wolf and stood up "that'll teach you not to mess with me!" She cheered before wincing, she felt something wet dripping down her neck and looked down to find blood dripping to the ground.
"O-oh yeah..it bit me pretty bad" she felt a little woozy seeing this much blood, she stumbled and started limping down the stream, it had to lead to some type of civilization.
<<<<<<<<<<[Two Hours Later]>>>>>>>>>>
Michael was no longer walking straight she kept going off to the right and then left, things were a bit blurry as she walked.
She followed the stream and eventually left the forest, she continued following the stream till she noticed a town off in the distance, a smile grew on her face "there's a town...I can get some help..." She stumbled towards it, once she was there she froze seeing horses or ponies walking around, but they were colorful and looked odd, they had bigger eyes then the ones on her world.
The alien ponies or horses looked at her and all of them froze.
"H-hey-" Michael was cut off when they all just dropped what they were doing and ran into the buildings to hide, she heard the doors lock.
Michael looked around at the now empty streets, she started making her way down the dirt road "um I need some help...I got attacked by a wooden wolf or something...uh hello?" She looked around, she wasn't actually sure if they could actually understand her or not.
She knocked on the door but flinched when she used her injured leg "gah stupid!" She growled at her self and walked away from the door, she walked to another "um hello? I could sue some help...ngh I'm kinda hurt...pretty bad..".
"Um...sorry not home" a mans voice said.
"I saw you run in here, and you just spoke" Michael said but was answered by silence, she huffed and walked away from the door, she spotted a dress on a table, she walked over 'well I hate to tear apart something this nice but...I need something to cover my wounds...' She put one paw on one end of the dress and then but the other end and pulled till she ripped a part off, she then threw it over her neck and made a makeshift bandage, she wrapped her injured leg as well.
Michael walked over to another table and found an apple, her stomach growled and she gladly ate it but quickly spit it out "bleh...the heck kind of Apple is that? Tastes gross..." She saw a carrot and took a bit out of it but spit it out too "gah come on!! Why is there so much rotten food?!"
She walked away from the tables, no one was gonna help here so this was useless, she walked out of the town 'hm forest is a bad idea, I don't need another one of those wolves attacking me' she looked around and spotted a farm not to far away, she walked towards it.
When she got there she found it was an apple farm, she walked in and looked at one of the shiny red apples hanging from a branch, her mouth watered seeing it.
She tried reaching for the apple but she wasn't tall enough "where's a ladder when ya need one?..."
She tried climbing the tree but only fell on her back, she growled and slammed into the tree with her side trying to shake one off, she only winced feeling pain from hitting a tree with her shoulder.
"Hrr stupid tree" she growled and felt the heat in her throat again, she then burped out a purple flame that hit the tree igniting it "oh god oh god!!"
She looked around for water panicking, she then heard a man with a deep voice yell at her.
"What are you doing?!" A large red stallion was running at her.
She eeped and ran the best she could away, luckily he seemed more worried about putting the fire out on the tree.
She sighed in relief and made her way into the forest behind the farm "damn it, I'm a screw up..." She huffed and stopped walking she found a large tree with a bunch of roots out of the ground, there was a enough space under one that she could fit in, she crawled in and laid down.
"Well...it's better then nothing I guess" she yawned and her stomach growled "yeah yeah I know buddy I'll get ya some food tomorrow" she sighed and her eyes slowly got heavier and heavier until her eyes finally closed, she fell sleep huddled under the large roots.
It was another day in the land of Equestria, the sun was shining and the birds were chirping, the fashionista pony herself was at the moment finishing up a order, she was so busy she wasn't able to leave the Boutique yesterday.
Rarity was sewing a dress together when she got several knocks on the door "just a moment" she called with a smile and set the dress down, she then made her way to the front door.
Rarity opened the door to find a mare who was one of her previous customers "oh hello, good to see you again".
The mare smiled but looked very nervous "hello miss Rarity, the dress you made me um...well" she levitated the shredded dress in front of Rarity.
Rarity gasped when she saw it "what in Equestria happen??"
"The creature that came into town yesterday, it tore up the dress you made me I'm very sorry.." The mare looked down sadly.
Rarity looked at the mare confused "creature?"
"You haven't heard?" The mare asked surprised.
"Heard what?" Rarity asked.
"A strange creature walked into town yesterday, it walked through town chewing and spitting out food, and destroyed the dress you made me" the mare answered "it also attacked Sweet Apple Acres".
"What??" Rarity said surprised she the took the torn dress "I'll fix this when I get back I have to go make sure Applejack is alright" she said before hurrying off towards Sweet Apple Acres.
<<<<<<<<<<[Sweet Apple Acres>>>>>>>>>>>
Applejack was looking at the burnt remains of one of her apple trees "so yer sayin some thing came in here and burnt the tree then ran off when you yelled at it?" She asked her brother.
"Eeyup" Big Mac said as he poured more water onto the burnt stump.
"Now why in Equestria would it do that?" Applejack asked confused, her brother shrugged his shoulders confused as well.
Applejack noticed rarity running over to her "hey Rarity what are you doing here in such a hurry?"
"I was worried when I heard about the creature that came through town yesterday" Rarity answered.
"Yeah Big Mac said it came in here and brunt down one of our trees" Appeljack replied "he said that it then ran off into the forest, ah didn't know it came through town though".
Rarity looked off into the forest "we should get the others".
Applejack nodded and they both went to find the other girls.
<<<<<<<<<<[Crystal Castle]>>>>>>>>>>>
Twilight and the rest of the girls just finished hearing about the creature that came through town, Twilight was reading a book on creatures of Equestria, but found difficulty locating the creatures described.
"From what Big Mac described, this may be a never before seen species" Twilights eyes sparkled in excitement.
"Now hold on sugarcube, this things dangerous, it burnt down one of my trees, it could try and do the same to one of us..." Applejack replied.
"I'm um sure it didn't mean to burn your tree down, maybe it was an accident?" Fluttershy said quietly causing nopony to hear her.
"Your right, we'll have to be careful when finding this thing" Twilight agreed and put the book down.
"Well where should we start?" Rainbowdash asked.
"Well Big Mac said he saw it run off into the forest behind Sweet Apple Acres, so that would be a good place to start" Rarity said.
"Then that's where we'll look, Rainbowdash you'll fly above and see if you can spot it from the sky, alright girls let's go" Twilight said and they all left.
Fluttershy was left sitting here "um but it may not actually be dangerous..." She sighed and followed them.
<<<<<<<<<<[The Forest]>>>>>>>>>>
The girls were walking through the forest looking around to see if they could spot the odd creature, Rainbowdash was flying above looking down to try and see if she could find it.
"Fluttershy do you think you could figure out where this ting could be hiding?" Twilight asked but was answered by silence, she turned around to look at Fluttershy only to find an empty space between Rarity and Applejack "where'd Fluttershy go??"
The girls looked back and they both looked shocked not finding her.
"Ah thought she was right behind us" Applejack answered.
"So did I" Rarity replied.
"Ugh this is not the time for her to disappear..." Twilight groaned "ok let's try and find her, she couldn't have gotten far".
Fluttershy was walking through the woods with a med kit just incase the animal was hurt, she looked around trying to see if she could spot it, she then spotted something purple under a large tree root, she walked over but stopped a few feet away she knew it wasn't smart getting so close to an animal when it's sleeping.
"Um hello? Sorry to wake you I just came to see if you were alright" Fluttershy said with a soft smile.
Michael groaned and shuffled around and peaked out from her hiding spot, she looked very tired, she looked towards the source of the voice that woke her from her nice dream and jumped seeing a yellow pony causing her to hit her head on the root above, she groaned and rubbed her aching head.
"Oh I'm sorry I didn't mean to scare you" Fluttershy got closer in fear that the animal was hurt.
"No no...I'm fine...just was expecting all this to be a dream..." Michael sighed and climbed out.
"Oh you can speak" Fluttershy was surprised to hear it could speak she was even more surprised when she saw that the animal was what looked like a dragon mixed with a pony "your...what are you?"
"Hehe...yeah....I've been wondering that too" Michael sighed remembering how freakish she looked.
"I didn't mean to upset you...I'm sorry" Fluttershy frowned feeling bad for making her sad.
"It's alright, it's actually nice to talk with somebody after the day I've been through" Michael noticed the med kit "hey um....you think I could use that?...please?"
"Oh of course" Fluttershy walked over and opens the med kit, she then got out some bandages and medicine, she took off the makeshift dandages Michael had on "this will sting" she dabbed some alcohol onto his leg and neck.
"Ngh!" Michael winced and held back tears.
"Sorry" Fluttershy said as she wrapped her leg and neck "there that should be good".
"Thanks really" Michael smiled and held his paw out to shake her hoof "I'm Michael".
"Oh nice to meet you Michael, I'm Flutte-" Flutterhsy was cut off by a loud scream.
"GET AWAY FROM HER!!" Rainbowdash yelled and slammed Michael into a tree.
Michael got the wind knocked out of her from the impact, she struggled to breath in, her eyes widened when she got flashes of memories from going through the vortex, she fell to the ground as the entire event replayed in her mind, the pain, the agony, how much she wished she was dead in that moment.
Rainbowdash went to hit Michael but Fluttershy stopped her.
"No no she's not dangerous, she was just injured" Flutterhsy reasoned.
Michael felt the heat in her the throat again and the violet flames spewed out of her mouth once more, Rainbowdash was able to get herself and Flutterhsy out of the way of the flames as they engulfed the trees and ground around them.
Michael got to her paws and hooves and stumbled around as the flames continued spitting out of her mouth uncontrollably, she tried holding her mouth shut but closing her mouth caused it to build up and she spit out a large ball of flames, she ran away from the area to not hurt the yellow and blue ponies.
Rainbowdash got up "not dangerous huh?" She looked at Fluttershy who had her head down low.
Rainbowdash ran and kicked the trees down to try and stop the spread of the flames, she was able to stop the fire from spreading to the other trees but the ones that were already up in flames didn't seem to want to go out till the entire trees were nothing but ash.
The other girls ran over to them with expressions of fear.
"What happened?!" Twilight yelled in panick.
"Fluttershy nearly got roasted by that thing, I was just narrowly able to save her and myself" Rainbowdash said while crossing her arms.
"Fluttershy why would you go looking for that thing alone?" Rarity asked bewildered.
"I thought she was just scared, and she was, she's also not just a wild animal she was talking to me...." Fluttershy explained still feeling sad and ashamed for leaving her friends without telling them anything.
"That doesn't make up for her spitting fire at us!" Rainbowdash yelled angry and annoyed.
"I think you scared her and she unintentionally started spitting out fire..." Fluttershy explained but the girls didn't seem convinced.
"What exactly did she look like?" Twilight asked.
"She was a mix between a dragon and a pony" Fluttershy answered.
"A hybrid..." Twilight said surprised while writing down notes.
"Wait wait, how the heck could a dragon and a pony make a baby?" Rainbowdash asked.
"Well when a daddy dragon and a mommy pony love each other a lot they-" Pinkie Explained but was cut off by Rainbowdash.
"No no I don't wanna know pinkie" Dash said blushing.
"Alright girls let's head back to town and I'll send what I've figured out to the princesses" Twilight said and they nodded except Rainbowdash.
"I still wanna kick that things flank though" Rainbowdash said pounding her hooves together.
"No Rainbowdash your not fireproof" Twilight said and Rainbowdash finally agreed, they all then made their way back home.
Fluttershy looked back at where Michael ran off to sadly.
Rainbowdash flew over to her "c'mon I'm not taking my eye off you" she said while pushing Fluttershy back towards town.
<<<<<<<<<<[]>>>>>>>>>>>
Michael left a trail of smoke as she ran, she was struggling to keep her mouth closed from the fire and it was causing smoke to come out of the corners of her mouth and her nose, she was able to find a small river and jumped into it placing her mouth under the water extinguishing the flames, she sighed in relief and pulled her face out of the water.
She looked at her reflection and froze, this was the first time she's seen her reflection in this body, she looked nothing like her old self, she looked like a freak, a monster and judging from how those ponies reacted to seeing her, she was a freak and monster to them as well.
"What am I supposed to do now?" She asked no one, the vortex was closed when she woke up, she doubted she would find any technology like the one that made the vortex, from what she could tell this world was very primitive compared to her home.
Even if she got home would she return to herself?
Or would she remain like this?
Would she even be missed? The thought made her heart tightened up, she was always asking her family for money, she knew that they were starting to get annoyed so she stopped, that was when her money problems got the worst.
And the fact that she spent a long time looking for her missing best friend for months didn't help either, no one could find a trace of where he went only his car was found in the forest near his girlfriends place, it really sucked because he was going to propose to his girlfriend when he saw her, she was gonna be the best man but now, now she's a weird fire spitting lizard thing on an alien world.
Crazy how things can change so drastically, she sighed and looked at her reflection, she really was a monster.
She suddenly heard growling and jumped looking around frantically, she then felt her stomach growling and sighed realizing it was her own stomach "yeah sorry forgot I promised I'd get your something to eat...but I can't do that looking like this...I need something to cover myself" she said to herself and made her way back towards town.
<<<<<<<<<<[Two Hours Later In Ponyvill]>>>>>>>>>>
Michael stayed hidden behind a building in the town, ponies were already walking around like she hadn't been there yesterday, she made her away out of sight of the ponies as she looked for food, she saw apples, some oranges, grapes, cabbage, and hay...
'What else would I expect? They're ponies...' She thought and spotted a dark grey cloak on a table, a smile formed on her face and she got to the ground and crawled towards it, she glanced around making sure no one saw her, and then grabbed the cloak and snuck back into the darkness of the alley.
She draped the cloak over herself and pulled the hood up she then left the alley cautiously, she waited to see if anyone noticed her, she was lucky enough that none of them did, she sighed in relief and walked towards the food stands.
She stayed away from the ponies to try and keep her face hidden, she walked to a stand with grapes "um how much?" She asked the vendor.
"Three bits please" the stallion smiled.
'Bits? Is that money here? Wait crap! Money, I didn't think about that!' She nearly face palmed but remembered she had clawed paws not hooves.
"Are you alright ma'am?" The stallion asked worried.
"Oh yeah I'm fine um" she checked the pockets of the cloak and found three gold coins, she placed them on the table but made sure to use the cloak to cover her paw as she did so.
The stallion smiled and took the bits and gave her the grapes.
She smiled and took them, she ate one and gagged, it tasted gross like everything else she's ate, she set the grapes on the table and sighed "keep the bits..." She walked away from the confused stallion.
How was she supposed to eat if everything tasted so gross, she looked down as she walked, it was nice that everyone around her wasn't running from her, they all smiled and seemed pretty relaxed around her, she almost felt normal, almost...
"Hey that's my cloak!" A stallion yelled and pulled back on Michael's hood.
Everything stopped when the hood fell off her head revealing her face, everyone froze and looked at her with wide panicked eyes.
They all then screamed and ran.
"No please I'm not going to hurt any of you" Michael looked around sadly at everyone running from her.
"It's that monster!" A mare yelled as she hid in a building.
"No I'm..." Michael watched them all hide from her, she clenched her teeth as her anger built up, she then yelled into the air as a stream of flames came out of her mouth, tears were in her eyes as she pulled her hood back up and grabbed a sack off the ground that had been dropped in the panick, she then put all the food she could find into it and ran off towards the forest.
<<<<<<<<<<[Canterlot]>>>>>>>>>>
Dear Princess Celestia and Luna:
"A creature that hasn't been seen before entered Ponyvill, it burn down a tree in Sweet Apple Acres yesterday, today the girls and I went into the forest where it was last seen and tried to find it, when one of my friends did it attacked by breathing fire at her, she is completely fine but I worry that it may attack again.
The creature resembles a mix between a pony and a dragon, but it looks more dragon with a pony shaped body.
Twilight"
Celestia set the letter down and looked at her sister with worry "we're heading to Ponyvill sister, we need to investigate this as soon as possible, I'll bring some guards with us to help protect the town".
Twilight paced back and forth after hearing that the creature came back into town, she had already sent the letter to Celestia and Luna, so she couldn't add more to the letter.
"Whys it keep taking food if it just spits it out?" Rainbowdash asked.
"I have no idea" Twilight huffed.
"Maybe it's hungry but it can't handle normal food?" Fluttershy theorized.
"Well judging from what I can guess its age is, it must of had to have eaten something before, so it should know what to eat and what not to eat" Twilight said.
"Well then is it trying to just keep food from ponies?" Rainbowdash said and the girls all had a look of realization.
"It did burn down one of my trees..." Applejack said.
"And it did just take all the food in a couple stands..." Rarity added.
"Why would it be trying to starve ponies?" Pinkie asked.
"Maybe to weaken them so they can't fight?" Twilight hypothesized.
"That's cruel" Rarity said after thinking of a pony doing such a thing.
"Yes but it is also smart, eliminating food so the prey is weakened and ready to be attacked, it's actually a very smart move and from what I've read in books it was used in wars hundreds of years ago" Twilight explained.
"So this thing knows war tactics?" Rainbowdash questioned.
"It appears so" Twilight sighed.
There was then a knock on the door, Twilight raised an eyebrow and walked to the door opening it, when she did she found both princesses as well as two Royal guards.
"Princess Celestial and Princess Luna? I wasn't expecting you both to come here so fast..." Twilight said shocked.
"After reading your letter we realized how much danger you and everypony else in town was" Celestia says as they walk into the room followed by the guards.
"How much danger are we in?" Rainbowdash asked "it's just one pony thing".
"It's much more then just that, this dragon pony could cause far more damage then you think" Luna said in a serious tone.
"What do you mean?..." Twilight asked worried.
"The fire this dragon pony has isn't just regular dragon magic, it is mixed with pony magic as well" Celestia explained "the fire is very difficult to extinguish, the last time my sister or I encountered it, half of Equestria was left in ashes do to these creatures fire, only they decide how long their fires burn".
The girls gasped in horror at hearing what the dragon ponies did.
"Wait there's been more of these dragon ponies? But I couldn't find anything about them in any books on dragons or ponies" Twilight said confused.
"That is because we made sure to keep their existence a secret after their extinction, we feared that if somepony were to find out about them and their power they would try and create one or more to use as a weapon" Celestia clarified.
"How exactly did these things go extinct?" Rarity asked.
"We were forced to wipe them out over four thousand years ago..." Luna said somberly.
"So what this ones trying starve the town out of revenge for the extinction of its race?" Rainbow dash asked.
"It is the most logical reason for it to try and starve the town..." Celestia answered.
"What do we do?" Rarity asked.
"We have guards surrounding the town so it cannot come back in, so now we will go to try and find this creature and capture it" Luna answered.
"And what if we can't capture it?..." Fluttershy asked with fear as she already had an idea of what would happen.
"then it will have to die, we cannot risk it destroying Equestria" Celestia said.
"No! What if your wrong about it?? What if it's just scared and hungry??" Fluttershy reasoned.
Luna was about to say something but Celestia cut her off.
"It is still to dangerous, from what I've heard it's done then we cannot risk this thing causing destruction" Celestial said and stood up "now we must find it before it is able to escape or cause death" she left and was followed by the five girls and guards.
Now all that remained in the room were Luna and Fluttershy.
"She's not dangerous! I know she wouldn't do anything the princess has said, she can't die because she's scared and hungry" Fluttershy pleaded on the brink of tears.
"I know...that is why we will find her before they do" Luna said standing up.
Fluttershy smiled and hugged Luna "thank you".
Luna was surprised but hugged her back "welcome, now let's go".
They both left the castle to find Michael.
<<<<<<<<<<[The Forest]>>>>>>>>>>>
The forest was blanketed in darkness from the night, on the forest floor was a trail off food, carrots, apples, grapes, and cabbages, all of which had single bites in them.
The trail of food led to a small purple scaled mare laying on the ground by a tree, a empty sack that once held all these foods lay by her, her clawed paws holding tightly to her stomach, another pang of hunger came from her stomach making her wince and whimper.
Though unseen do to the darkness tears were streaming down her face from the pain.
Michael sobbed quietly at the pain, she tried everything but none of the food tasted edible, she even forced herself to eat an apple, only to puke it back up after her stomach felt like it was tearing it self apart.
She felt little hope of getting home now, or if she was even wanted home.
The thought made her heart tighten up, she had been asking her family for money a lot and she knew it was angering them, that's why she stopped and that's why her money problems really got bad.
It was worse when his friend disappeared a few months back, they only found his car but not a body, she helped search but never found anything, the guy was gonna propose to his girlfriend to, it was supposed to be a Christmas surprise.
It was everything but that, his family was a wreak, and his girlfriend was completely broken.
She wrapped her tail around her self and hugged herself into a tight ball, she clenched her eyes shut tightly, she had felt so much pain since entering this world, from the ponies who rejected her, from her body.
But it wasn't her body, only a deformed abomination of a body that she was trapped in, she so badly wished it all would just end and that she could rest peacefully.
Then she heard a twig snap making her eyes opened quickly, she feared it may be a predator come to kill her while she's weak, but instead she found her older brother.
"M-Mike?..." She asked in disbelief.
"Hey bro, or I guess sis now huh?" Mike chuckled.
Michael chuckled weakly "yeah I guess I am..." Her eyes were getting so heavy.
"Hey no sleeping Mickey!" Mike ordered.
She groaned and glared at him "don't call me that, I hate that nickname...I'm not a mouse...".
"Yeah well I'm going to keep using it till you tell me why your here letting yourself waste away" Mike said.
"What the hell do you think all this food is here for?! I've tried everything but nothing works" she yelled weakly, she just wanted to rest.
"That's not what I meant, what about the rift?" Mike asked.
"It was closed when I woke up..." Her eyes slowly closed.
"What if they opened it again?" Mike asked.
Her eyes shot open.
"They might open it to get you back or to send someone else, either way you have a chance of getting back, and once you do, we'll sue the crap out of those bastards" Mike smiled.
She smiled "yeah..".
"Now get up and let's go" Mike ordered.
She got up wincing but fought through it, she put her cloak on and they started walking, she had new hope of getting home.
"You remembered where you first woke up?" Mike asked.
She opened her mouth to answer but only silence came out, she then groaned "no...".
Mike chuckled "just like you to forget something that important".
"No it isn't" she blushed embarrassed.
"Hehe your also adorable now so it makes it even better" Mike cooed.
"I'm not cute!!" She yelled.
"I didn't say cute" Mike smirked.
Her blush reddened deeper, she knew deep down that she actually was adorable in this new body.
<<<<<<<<<<<[Two Hours Later]>>>>>>>>>>>
Luna and Fluttershy were walking through the forest, Luna had her horn lit with a light spell to help them search and see.
Luna spotted an apple with one bite in it "do you think it was hers?"
Fluttershy looked at the bite closely "yes the bite was from sharp teeth like hers, but I guess she didn't like it...".
They continued walking and found a trail leading to a tree, food with only one bite in them were all over.
Fluttershy spotted the puked up one "I think she was trying to eat this food but...it only made her sick...".
"Why would she not know what a dragon pony can eat, she's trying to eat normal pony food..." Luna said looking around.
"What do dragon ponies eat?" Fluttershy asked.
"Well mostly what dragons eat, like gems, gold, silver, but they also eat meat, like fish..." Luna answered.
"So then she doesn't know that and is trying to eat what we have in town..." Flutterhsy realized.
"Yes and if we do not find her then we will not have to worry about my sister having her killed, she'll die of starvation" Luna said as Fluttershy gasped.
<<<<<<<<<<[Ten Hours Later]>>>>>>>>>>
It was another day in Equestria, the sun was shining brightly high above, Michael was walking with her brother down a stream.
"So your sure this is the stream you walked down to get to the town?" Mike asked.
"For the fifth time, yes! I know my damn streams..." She huffed 'I sure hope this is the right stream or I'm never hearing the end of it...' She thought to herself, she then spotted the burnt wood wolf.
"Haha see I told you!!" She rushed over to it "this is the wolf I told you I burned".
"Oh wow it really is made of wood, or I guess was..." Mike then looked up at the rock hill "that may be difficult to climb...".
She looked at it and huffed "it was worse falling down it".
"Well let's get up this thing, staring at it isn't helping us" he started climbing up it.
She huffed and followed, it was difficult to climb with hooves for back legs, they don't have the best grip on rocks, she glanced up to see if her brother was having difficulty only to find him already at the top.
"How'd you get up there so fast??" She asked stunned.
"Pfft it was easy" He said crossing his arms "now c'mon get your flank up here".
"Flank?" She stopped climbing and looked at him confused.
"Yeah that's what a horse butt is called" He chuckled.
"Ooh yeah..." She remembered and continued climbing up the rocky hill.
She eventually was able to get up and they continued through the woods, as she walked she could remember running from that thing, it wasn't a pleasant memory.
Remembering it made a shiver run up her spine, she hated that day and the days after, the only good thing was her brother was here.
"You ok?" He asked her when he noticed she looked unnerved.
She snapped out of her thoughts when he spoke "oh yeah...just...I didn't have a very good start here...ever since I first woke up it was like I was always running for my life, I barely got a chance to adjust to this body..."
"I'm sorry Michael" he said apologetically.
"Thanks bro" she smiled slightly as they continued walking.
They both soon found themselves in a grassy area, they looked around to see if they could find an open rift but there were no signs of one.
"Ugh!!!" She yelled annoyed "all of this was for nothing!!! We came all this way and it's not open!!" She kicked a rock and groaned in pain when the rock didn't move like she intended, her paw was now beating in pain.
"Ow ow ow..." She looked at the rock and found it was made of metal "what the heck...?" She began digging up the metal rock only to find it wasn't a metal rock at all, it was in fact a drone like the Martian Rover.
"Is this the one they sent in?..." She was looking at it, besides being covered in dirt it still looked functional, but from what she remembered it lost signal with the guys after a few feet from the rift, but if she was able to power the thing up and get a signal, she could get contact to the earth and the scientists she could then ask them to turn the portal on and she could go through it back home.
"We can use this to get back home, all we gotta do is power it somehow and send a message back to the scientist and we get a one-way ticket back home!" She said with a smile
"Alright let's get this thing out of the dirt and power it up" Mike said as he hopped in the hole.
She smiled excitedly at the new-found hope of getting home, but her smile soon vanished when she thought about something, she turned to her brother and looked up at him "Mike....how did you get here not changed...?"
Mike sighed and stopped trying to get the drone out "I knew you'd figure it out eventually....I'm not here Michael....never was...I'm still on earth, I'm just your coping mechanism to stay sane, your mind knew you were dying and I was created because I was the one thing you looked up to and would listen to..." He said somberly.
She had tears in her eyes "n-no...I can't do this without you! I was finally happy here when you showed up...p-please don't leave me...".
"Hey hey don't cry, it's ok you can do this I know you can and when you get home I'll be there waiting for you" Mike smiled and put his hand on her cheek "I believe in you Michael I know you will do this".
She sniffled and nodded she than closed her eyes "goodbye...Mike..." She opened her eyes to find he was gone, she looked back down at the drone and took a deep breath then exhaled, she then began trying to pull it out.
Luna and Fluttershy followed the trail of paw and hoof prints from the creature named Michael, they followed them to a stream where the trail ended.
"Where did she go?" Fluttershy asked looking around for more tracks.
"She must have walked down the stream, the question is which way did she go?" Luna thought deeply about how they could figure out which way she went, she then got an idea and lit her horn casting a spell. A blue glow engulfed the area, soon a holographic version of Michael walked up to the stream and walked down it "There, now we can follow her" she explained and began following the hologram.
Fluttershy followed behind her while smiling.
Eventually while walking they found the burnt remains of a Timberwolf.
"It must have attacked her recently, but the hologram doesn't show her attacking it, so maybe it was a few days ago? She's lucky she survived a Timberwolf" Luna watched the hologram crawl up the rocky hill, she ran up to the top, Fluttershy and Luna flew behind the hologram and landed a few feet behind the hologram.
"I hope we're close" Fluttershy hopingly pleaded as she continued to follow Luna.
<<<<<<<<<<[]>>>>>>>>>>
Michael panted as she struggled to pull the drone "hrr you better work when your powered up or I'm so dropping you off a cliff" she growled as she dragged the drone through the forest, she tripped over a root and fell to the ground.
"Ughhh!!! Of course, you`re there, why wouldn't you be there?! These whole damn woods was made just to screw me!!!!" She yelled into the air and got back up she looked forward only to find a glowing ghost-like version of herself, she froze looking at the ghost her.
"WHAT THE HELL?!?!?!?" she yelled seeing it and scurried back away.
Luna walked out from the bushes behind the hologram, she froze seeing Michael.
"You must be Michael," Luna declared.
Michael nodded looking between the dark blue pony and the ghost nervously.
Luna quickly picked up on Michael's nervousness and made the hologram disappear "Sorry about that, we were doing that to find you".
"We?" Michael asked confused.
Fluttershy walked out of the bushes and smiled seeing Michael "You're okay! I was so worried we wouldn't find you".
Michael smiled seeing her, she was the nicest pony she's met here "Yeah, I'm fine".
"Yes, it IS good we found you before my sister," Luna said.
"Why?" Michael asked confused.
"Well unlike me, she would rather hunt you down and either put you in the dungeon or..." Luna went silent.
Michael gulped "or what...?"
"Kill you" Luna answered.
"Oh," Michael said.
"you are taking this much better than expected," Luna informed.
Michael screamed "I don't wanna die!!! I didn't do anything!!! I just accidentally burnt down a few trees, I didn't know it was that big of a law!!!" She ran around freaking out.
"Hmm, I stand corrected..." Luna said and used he magic to stop her from running "You should remain calm, panicking will not help this issue, take a few deep breaths".
Michael breathed in deeply and breathed out, she slowly calmed down after a few deep breaths.
"Better?" Luna asked.
Michael nodded.
Luna smiled and set Michael back down "I must say, you are far more different than any other dragon pony I have ever met".
Michael looked at her in shock "Other?...there are other things like me?? I thought I was just a weird fuck up from the machine!"
Luna tilted her head in confusion "machine...?"
"Um, forget it, what about these other dragon ponies?" Michael asked intrigued at the thought that there were more of what she was.
"Well while I was saying you, you act very differently, they were more short-tempered and didn't fear very much, from what I heard earlier you are as well short-tempered, but you get scared a lot more" Luna answered.
"Yeah, I'll admit... I can get pretty mad easily...hang on why am I being hunted if you all know about this race?? There should be some type of law against this" Michael asked raising a brow.
"Well... your race.... isn't alive anymore....no pony has seen or heard from your race in many many years," Luna said sadly, Fluttershy shared the sad expression.
"How?..." Michael looked at her with confusion.
"....w-we wiped them out....we feared they would destroy all of Equestria......I'm so sorry...." Luna hung her head ashamed.
"Damn....I really do have bad luck...I get turned into something that's wanted dead...." Michael said somberly.
"Turned into?" Luna questioned.
"I wasn't like this originally...I'm not even from this world....I'm from a place called Earth... it's kinda like this except humans are the dominant race.... magic isn't even real there... I was sent here to explore this place and see what it was...I regret it... I regret it all.... now I'm trapped as this....freak of nature!" Michael looked down at her clawed feet and clenched her teeth, her claws digging into the ground.
Michael was ready to explode with anger until she felt two wings drape over her back, he looked left and right in confusion and found Luna and Fluttershy hugging her, her anger cooked down to nothing and she smiled slightly.
"We will make sure your safe and back home Michael," Fluttershy said smiling.
"Yes, you need not worry, we will help you," Luna cheered smiling as well.
Michael closed her eyes and smiled "Thank you...thank you both"
The three remained in that embrace until Michael's stomach growled.
Fluttershy gasped "I forgot, you haven't eaten anything have you?"
"No, not really... I tried to, but it just made me sick" Michael sighed.
"That's because you're eating the wrong food," Luna said as she lit her horn and gems suddenly appeared in front of Michael.
"Um...." Michael looked at the gems and Luna in confusion.
"You're supposed to eat them," Luna said with a slight grin.
"Hehe, very funny... I'm not eating rocks" Michael chuckled at the joke.
"I'm serious" Luna stated.
"Ah, dammit..." Michael huffed and picked one of the gems up and held it up to her face "you're sure this isn't a joke...?"
Luna nodded confirming her suspicions.
Michael, she closed her eyes and opened her mouth, she then put the gem in her mouth and began chewing, she was expecting a gross dirt taste but was surprised to find it tasted extremely good, she began to eat the gems, it felt amazing to eat after so long.
"You should slow down, you don't want to get sick..." Fluttershy said.
"Sorry, it's just I haven't eaten in so long...and they taste so g-" Michael was cut off as flames erupted from her mouth and into the air, once the flames ended she was blushing embarrassed.
Luna chuckled "That's what happens to dragons and dragon ponies when they eat gems, they fuel your flames".
"Oh... I didn't know that..." Michael chuckled embarrassedly.
"We should go somewhere that my sister won't search," Luna said.
"How about my house? They shouldn't have any reason to search there" Fluttershy stated.
"Good idea" Luna replied.
"Alright, I'll need some help moving this though," Michael said looking at the drone.
Luna lit her bring and levitated it up.
"Awesome...." Michael envied the magic Luna had, she pulled her hood back over her head "Okay, lead the way"
<<<<<<<<<<[]>>>>>>>>>>
After a few hours of walking they arrived at Fluttershy's house, Fluttershy opened the door letting Luna and Michael in.
"Been a while since I've been in a house" Michael laid on the couch and smiled "hm.... missed it...." She fell asleep almost instantly, cuddling a pillow.
Fluttershy smiled, Luna did as well.
"Princess, may I ask how you know so much about dragon ponies?" Fluttershy asked.
Luna thought back "Back when they were still alive, I wanted to know more about them, they were so much like us and I was very curious, apparently one time in the very distant past a dragon and a pony had a child together, that child was the first of its race, after that more and more appeared, there were many different variations of dragon ponies, ones that could fly, ones that could breath underwater, and ones like Michael, I visited their lands to know more about them, yes they were short tempered but they were very much like ponies, though a bit more violent like dragons, I even befriended some...." Luna's smile faded.
"But then...the war started...the dragon ponies wanted more...I don't blame them for it, when ponies and dragons found out about them they weren't greeted with open arms, they were feared, shunned, and ignored, dragons saw them as traitors for being part pony, and ponies saw them as freaks for being part dragon, they were a combination of two races...and yet they were part of neither, I wish we would have thought better and done more to help...instead we did nothing and they grew to hate us all, instead of attempting peace we fought fire wiht fire and destroyed them all..." Luna sighed.
Fluttershy frowned sadly.
"Now after so many years one shows up and is treated the same, I fear history will forever repeat itself...." Luna looked at Michael who was still sleeping.
<<<<<<<<<<[]>>>>>>>>>>
Michael woke up but she wasn't on the couch, confused she looked around and found burnt trees and ground all around, the entire area was a wasteland.
She then heard yelling from behind and quickly turned around, she saw thousands of dragon ponies rushing her way, all of which were in rage, she held her arms up to protect herself.
But she didn't feel any of them impact her instead, she fert the wind rush by her as they passed her, she turned around and found them battling ponies.
Her eyes were wide as she saw them both battle to the death, as she watched she noticed something on a hill, it looked like Luna, she quickly rushed over to her in hope of protection, she dodged battling ponies and dragon ponies but skidded to a stolen she reached Luna.
Luna was huddled over a dragon pony, she was badly Injured and looked like she wasn't going to survive.
"No, no, please stay awake... I can get a healer... you're going to be fine, just please stay awake!" Luna cried as she tried to keep the dragon pony awake.
The dragon pony looked at Luna and smiled weakly "...the princess of dreams... telling someone to stay awake... ironic heh" she coughed up blood.
Tears ran down Luna's face "wh-why did you do this?...why?!"
"I....I couldn't sit and hide while everyone I loved and cared about died....I'd feel like too much of a coward... knowing while they died I was hiding and safe.... my race isn't going to win... I know that... they know that... but ... if they give up... then everything everypony has ever called them is true... they aren't fighting to rule Equestria... they're fighting to show they aren't nothing... they aren't cowards.... they aren't weak... I'm sorry it came to this.... we didn't ask to be born but... we just wanted to be accepted...." The dragon pony's eyes got heavier "p...please make this dream peaceful... L-Luna...." Her eyes closed fully as she passed.
Luna's entire body shook as tears streamed down her face, she yelled into the air in despair, her yell being drowned out by the battle cries of the war.
Michael jumped awake, she had tears running down her face, she heard Luna and Fluttershy talking in the kitchen, she then looked down at herself 'they were all fighting to prove they were actually something.... but... no one knows that... no one but me and Luna...' she thought and sighed.
Michael got up walked over to the drone, she tried looking for the power storage compartment, she found it on the back of it but it was screwed shut, she thought for a few minutes before using her claw to unscrew it, once all the screws were out she checked to see what was stopping it from powering up, she found a small battery screen that was red, unfortunately that meant it needed to be charged "Dammit... wait maybe magic can power it? Hm, then once it's fully charged I'll need to bring it back to where the rift opened and try and get a signal.... but if it doesn't work then this was all for nothing...." She began to lose hope but shook her head "No, can't focus on that, just focus on getting it working".
As she was fiddling around with the drone to see if anything was broken, she thought about the dragon pony race, why was she changed into one if they're all gone? Why not a race that was actually still alive?
None of it made sense, she thought back to the vision she had, all those dragon ponies died wanting to prove they were more then what thought to be.... but no one but the Princesses' remembers them, maybe that's why she was changed into one? So she could tell everyone what the dragon ponies really were, not monsters bent on bringing destruction and death, but a race of people who wanted to be seen as equal, maybe she was the only one who could do it.
Michael sighed looking towards the kitchen seeing Luna and Fluttershy still talking distracted, she then looked down at the drone "Sorry, but looks like I'm not gonna be going home soon.... I still need to do something" she whispered to herself and quietly went to the door opening it, she then closed it behind her and looked towards the town taking a deep breath "Well.... not many can say they get to be arrested by royal guards" she made her way towards the town pushing her fear to the back of her mind.
Michael made her way to town and looked at the crystal castle, the ponies in town gasped seeing her make her way towards the castle.
"It's going to eat Twilight's castle!!!" A mare yelled.
"How evil!!!" A stallion said horrified.
"Really?....you think I'm gonna eat the entire castle? What's next I'm also gonna burn her flower garden?" Michael asked sarcastically and annoyed while looking at them.
The ponies gasped again "did you hear her??? She said she was going to burn the garden too!!!"
Michael face hoofed "forget it" she walked to the door and knocked on it putting on a small smile, it was opened by spike who looked at Michael casually before his eyes went wide in fear.
"TWILIGHT!!!!!!" Spike yelled running away.
"Oh come on I even smiled....with my sharp teeth...that makes more sense now...." Michael's face hoofed again and when she put her hoof down she was surrounded by royal guards and five if the elements of harmony as well as the Princesses of the sun who looked ready to incinerated Michael if he moved an inch from where she stood.
"Did you plan to try and attack us by getting us to open the door???" Twilight asked horn lit with magic.
"That's a pretty dumb idea smoke breath" Rainbow Dash mocked ready to attack.
"Nope...arrest me" Michael said nonchalantly.
"Is this some kind of trick? If it is we won't be fooled so easily" Celestia said sternly.
Michael glared "what the hell do you think I am exactly??"
"Oh oh I know this one, a dragon pony! Was I right??" Pinkie asked excitedly.
"Yes but from what I've figured out after spending a few days here is that you all think I'm some destruction craving death monster that has plans to kill everyb-pony, the only thing I ever killed in my entire life was on accident and necessary, it was a wood wolf thingy, and it was trying to eat me! But I'm gonna just go off on a wild guess and say you all just imagined me hunting a wood wolf" she chuckled morbidly "it's actually funny how you all have seen me as a beast hunting poor defenseless ponies when in reverse you've all been hunting a starving, confused, and scared pony who literally just wants to go home, but fuck it I give up on trying to make you all believe me, arrest me, arrest this innocent little creature for crimes you imagined I committed, c'mon princess give me your best!" Michael growled staring the princess down.
The elements looked at Celestia who was frowning "guards shackle her" she commanded and shackles were put on on Michael's legs by the guard who held chains to keep her from running if she tried.
"Crap....I really thought you weren't gonna do it...." Michael said looking down at the chains.
The elements looked at each other not feeling right, Twilight walked to Celestia "um Princesses....she actually hasn't done anything besides steal food....".
"That does not matter, she will be punished for what her race did" Celestia said leaving no room for argument as she teleported Michael, the guards, and herself back to Canterlot.
Once there Michael stumbled and looked sick "oh....I'm gonna puke...."
"Do so and I'll be sure to find the smallest cell for you to stay in" Celestia glared down at the small dragon pony who shrunk down in fear at the mighty glare.
"I-I'll keep it down...." She studdered in fear before being pulled forward by the the guards, michael found it difficult to walk with her hooves chained together aswell as being weighed down by the heavy metal.
"Take her to the dungeon, I need to begin preparations for her punishment" Celestia said to the guards and glared one last time at michael before leaving.
Michael gulped from the glare and continued with the guards before eventually arriving at a large wooden door that one if the guards opened with magic, it lead to a stone staircase leading downward into a torch lit hall with cells on each side.
"You know now thinking about it I prefer the forest so if you don't mind I'm just gonna head on back" she smiled and went to walk away only for her hooves to get yanked back causing her to face plant.
"Nice try freak, but this is your new home....for the time being" the guard chuckled and the other followed soon after.
'crap...I don't like how he said that...' Michael thought as he was dragged over to the door "ok ok I'll walk jeez!" She huffed standing up looking down at the stairs, she didn't like the idea of stairs in this body.
One of the guards growled annoyed at how long the dragon pony was taking to go, a smirk formed on his face when he got an idea and pushed her forward resulting in her tumbled down the stairs, he chuckled untile he noticed the chain connected to her shackles slowly getting tighter as she got further down the stairs "oh cra-" he was cut off as he got pulled down the stairs with her thanks to her cruel action.
"Dumbass....you were holding the chain still..." She groaned laying at the bottom of the stairs underneath the guard.
"I'll admit....that was a mistake on my part...." The guard groaned in pain "your scales....are very hard....."
The other guard was still at the top of the stairs shaking her head "so glad the princess left before she saw that....I wish I didn't even see it, if any of the guard had seen that we'd both be kicked out" he made his way down the stairs far easier and far less painful then the other two did.
"Ok I'll cut you a deal, let me go and I won't tell anyone this ever happened" she tried to talk her way out of this mess again.
"Yeah no....you won't be telling anyone anyway since after today, you won't be talking unless it's to the dead" the guard who had pushed her said as he got up pulling her into a cell and slamming the door once he was out of it, the two chuckled as they walked back up the stairs and out if the dungeon.
"Wait! I don't wanna die!!! Please let me go!!!" Her yelling echoed throughout the dungeon but no one responded.
Fluttershy walked out of the kitchen with tea to see if Michael wanted any, but when she looked at the couch she found it empty and the front door was open, she quickly ran back to the kitchen to Luna "Michaels gone!!"
"What?!" Luna jumped up to her hooves running to the couch before running outisde looking around trying to see if she spotted him but she didn't see him anywhere 'was he taken?...wait the spell!' she casted the spell she used before and saw a magic copy of Michael appear as it walked down the path towards town "he left...?"
"He went towards town! We need to hurry what if he gets hurt??" Fluttershy asked worried.
Luna teleported them infront of the town and looked for the magical copy and spotted it walking up the castle, the two hurried over and trust through the doors finding five of the main six standing their surprised by the sudden entrance "where is Michael the dragon pony?"
"Celestia took her.....she said she was going to punish her for what her race did..." Twilight said with her ears flat against her head.
"No...we need to stop her...my sister is letting her wounds from the past remain opened and unhealed....we aren't only going to be saving Michael we will save Celestia as well" Luna declared. The group nodded and Luna teleported them all to Canterlot.
Michael paced the event he could with the chains around his legs "ok...ok they're just trying to mess with me, no way I'd be killed for doing nothing haha and I was worried" she chuckled feeling relaxed.
A few seconds later and she trying to squeeze through the bars while screaming "HELP ME!!!!! I don't wanna die!!!!" She then tried bending the bars with no success so she got the idea to bust the door down, shuffling back against the wall she charged the what she could and bashed her head against the bars resulting in a loud bang that echoed throughout the dungeon, she stumbled back away from the bars a very large bump on her head "that...was very...stupid..." She collapsed.
Her fate had become clear to her now, she was going to die, on another world far far away from her home, all alone. Tears ran down her face at the hopelessness of her situation, she just wanted to go home and forget about all this, sniffling she accidentally inhaled some dust making her sneeze out a stream of fire, blinking she looked down at the now melted chains before looking forward at the melted bars, a smile grew on her face "thank you universe!" She ran out of the cell with new found hope.
She ran up the stairs briefing through the door at the unfortunate time that two guards were walking by, like deer in headlights the three stood frozen looking at each other "uh...rawr?"
One of the guards screamed with a very high void while jumping into the other arms, the guard then ran off on two legs while holding the other one leaving a stunned Michael "I...what?...I..what?" She shook her head "nevermind gotta find a way out" she trotted den the hall looking around she looked at the windows thinking they'd be a possibility route of escape, but upon walking over to them and looking at the very high fall she changed her mind.
The sound of metal clanking and hooves clopping filled the hall and Michael's ears went flat against his head "that sounds very bad" she started running through halls dodging guards who were patrolling the halls adding to the large group chasing behind her, her luck seemed to get worse as she had run down a hall with a window at the back he doors along the walls though she wouldn't have a chance to try and open them since the guards were right in her tail, with great reluctance she charged full speed for the window and brief through it sending glass everywhere while also scratching her up.
She realized her mistake when she flew through the air towards a larger window "oh sweet baby Jesus im gonna die!!!" She screamed entire smashing through the window and crashing to the floor below. Groaning she looked around finding Luna and the main six by some large doors, that brought a smile to end face, looking behind her she found Celestia standing in front of two large chairs looking surprised and angry at the same time, that made her smile vanish, she had just fell right in the middle of something and it wasn't looking good for her "Uh...hi".
(A Few Minutes Earlier)
Luna and the main six enter the throne room, Luna had a fierce expression while the other looks more worried. Celestia looked at them and smiled "hello my sister and my ponys, desde sister I have the great honor to tell you the dragon pony has been captured and is awaiting her punishment".
"Celestia this is not the right thing!" Luna yelled flairing her wings out.
"What?" Celestia looked surprised.
"This dragon pony has done nothing wrong, she is scared and trying to survive while looking for a way home, we have hunted her and frightened her for no good reason, now release her so she may explain to you her predicament" Luna said while walking closer.
Celestia huffed "Luna your working nonsense, you speak as if you've forgotten what it's race has done to us and our ponys".
"I haven't forgotten but I have forgiven, I have done just as bad as her race had before, and yet you forgave me far faster then them...it has been a very long time Celestia and yet you have not let go of your hatred, you kept it inside and let it burn....I know what can happen if you continue on the path your on sister....nothing but loss and tragedy will come" Luna said trying to get through to her sister.
"They did far worse then you!! How can I forgive them?? They have given no apologies!" Celestia yelled standing to her hooves.
"How could they?? We killed them!!" She yelled leaving the room in silence.
Celestia looked at her sister in shock and sadness "I..."
Pinkies tail suddenly twitched "something's about to fall!"
Just then Michael smashed through the window and crashed in between them, she looked at Luna and six smiling before looking at Celestia and frowning "uh....hi".
"You escaped??" Celestia snarled and lot her horn creating chains that does at Michael making her flinch from the incoming chains, only they were stopped by a blue magical glow engulfing them, Celestia looked at her sister to see her horn glowing as well.
"Look at her Celestia..." Luna said looking down at Michael.
Celestia slowly looked down at Michael and gasped, she didn't see a monster out to create destruction and suffering, no she saw a scared pony a pony scared of her, the glow in Celestia's horn vansihed along with the chains "what have I done....?"
Luna smile faintly "thankfully sister you did the right thing".
"I'm so sorry Luna....I-I didn't listen to you again...I just did want I thought was right...I didn't ask want you wanted...I just let my rage and hate burn..." Celestia hung her head.
Luna flew over to Celestia and wrapped her wing around her nuzzling her neck "it is okay sister...your listening now...and your letting go of that hate".
"Can you ever forgive me...?" Celestia looked down at her sister sadly.
"Yes but it is not I who you should be asking for forgiveness" she looked to Michael but gasped finding her unconscious "Michael!!" She ran over to him followed by the others "she's loosing blood...the glass must have cut her to deep!"
"We need a doctor!!" Celestia yelled before looking down at the hurt pony, she had caused this and if she died she'd never forgive herself.
Michael awake feeling extremely sore, her nose was filled with a familiar smell of a hospital, slowly opening her eyes she saw a hospital room "it was a dream...?" Heading her voice though it was raspy she could tell it was female "knew it was to good to be true....but I'm alive...that's good.." the door to the room opened and Celestia stepped in making Michael's eyes go wide "oh come on!!" She tried to escape the bed.
"No no it is okay I am not going to hurt you!" Celestia quickly said, she didn't want Michael running around and opening her stitches.
Luna rushed in "she's telling the truth!"
Seeing Luna michael calmed down "oh thank God....I am in no shape to run..." She sighed.
Celestia walked over to the bed "I...I wish to apologise...I have made many...many mistakes, I should have tried speaking with you instead of attacking...can you ever forgive me for my mistakes?"
The main six walked in "we wanted to apologise as well..." Twilight said frowning.
"I shouldn't since I had to deal with a lot....but....I forgive you all" she smiled.
The group smiled as well, Celestia smiled faintly "thank you".
Half a year has passed since Michael arrived in Equestria, after running from royalty, running from towns ponies, and eventually finding peace, she's finally relaxing. Celestia and Luna told all the ponies that Michael would now be a welcomed resident of their world, she spent time living in the castle but eventually moved into Ponyville mainly to continue trying to return home.
Though she hasn't had much luck since getting a machine to work in a world that had nothing like it was near impossible, so she spent a lot of time helping out around town, she still felt bad about stealing food and was trying to make up for it.
Michael was looking through some boxes in her attic trying to find a scarf, winter was coming, and she did not like the cold, rarity made her a scarf a while ago along with other clothes Michael hid away out of embarrassment and was now regretting it "dang it....I'm gonna have to get over the fact I'm a girl and I'll have to wear feminine clothing sooner or later..." As she pushed a box out of the way she found something she hadn't seen in a long time, the drone from her home sat dusty in front of her.
She blew some dust off it and smiled faintly "been a while buddy, sorry I couldn't get you to work, so we both could get home....this world just doesn't have the technology..." She sighed before noticing her scarf lying in top of the drone, she grabbed it and wrapped it around her neck "maybe one day..." She walked towards the stairs but took one last glance at the drone before leaving.
"So you really aren't going to miss your home?" Luna asked Michael as they sat at a table, the two had actually become good friends and would regularly spend time together.
Michael she took a bite out of a sandwich with gems in it, she found out if she mixes gems with normal food she could eat it "of course I'm gonna miss it but....I gotta face the facts, I don't have any way to get the drone to work, magic seems to only keep it up and running for a few seconds but it shot enough to get a message through, plus now that I'm not being hunted Equestria's not that bad if a place" she smiled.
Luna smiled "I am glad you have found contentment my friend".
"Thanks Luna, I'm glad I did too" Michael smiled while looking up at the sky watching the clouds float by, she could be happy here.
