The Author

by nicojaller

First published 4th of January, 2018

A man fights against his own creations to defend Equestria, will he be strong enough or is the world doomed to fall into chaos and depravation ?

Nicojaller is just a regular fanfiction writer, the only thing is that he has a certain taste for... bloody and violent stories . One day, after ending a story and celebrating, a strange event occurs. His stories are getting stolen !

It just occured that it was an all powerful demon, that HE created in his stories, that came to life, took his stuff and went to bring chaos and destruction in Equestria (story of my life). So, of course, Celestia came to him and convinced him to go to Equestria with a magic book to save the world. 'Cause nothing can go wrong, right ?

Fanfictions gone wrong

And... Done !

My latest fanfiction is done ! It has been a long and though one to write, but I'm satisfied with it. It has a little bit of clop, not that I'm any good at writing those, but I thought it'd be interesting for the readers to have some.
It had also action sequences, violences, gore and also my trademark. Bad endings. I don't know why, the goody-good fairy tale endings never seemed to satisfy me, bad endings for me are more down to earth, more realistic. Bad guys are too smart to get outsmarted like they always do in those kind of stories.

Anyway, as I was saying. I published my latest story under my username of ''nicojaller''. My story featured the main six struggle against a demon that ends up forcing the princesses to bend the knee and taking over Equestria. Not my finest work, I'll admit it, but I liked the tone and the dark ending. So I published it. My stories are always like that, but it's fine, I have some followers, not a lot, I'll admit it, but enough to have a bunch of loyal readers. Of course, with fans come haters.
Always the same kind of messages, on how my stories are horrible and that I and I quote ''Ruin the spirit of MLP ''. I don't know what the big deal is, I mean, I'm not the only one doing it right ? Fimfiction.net is filled with clop stories and other stories of this kind.

I take a break to take a glass of water, reading this much is surprisingly tiring. My parents weren't home. They were both at work, so I have a lot of time on my hands. Then suddenly, I hear strange things coming from my computer. I rush towards it to see what's happening.

A hacker.

I see my files disappearing one by one. This can't be happening. I try to activate my security system on my computer but it would not work. Why in the hell would a hacker steal my stories ? How can you steal something from a computer ?
After all my files got deleted, one message appeared on the screen

THANK YOU FOR THE MATERIALS

AND FOR YOU CONTRIBUTION TO THE FALL OF EQUESTRIA

YOUR'S TRULY

VLAD'MOR.

What in the world ? It must be a joke, it must be. There is no way, no way this is real. The person behind me must have read the story and is now mocking me. I know this is more of an inside thing but Vlad'Mor is the name of the demon I was talking earlier. That I created ! So yeah, I relax on my computer chair, what just happened? I never had to deal with this kind of situation before. I have so many questions. First of all, who really hacked into my computer and stole my things? Why did he steal my stories ? What will he use them for?

What was he talking about, he talked about the fall of Equestria. The person who wrote this must have difficuly differencing reality from fiction, because if he did, he would know that Equestria is not a real thing. It's fiction, created by Hasbro, a real company, with fictional characters.

Blinding light appears in front of me, making me fall from my chair, face first onto the ground. Ouch, I can barely open my eyes, and even then I don't see much. Just white, pure white. While I regain my vision, I just hear a sweet voice resounding around me.

"Hello my dear, are you the human, most famously known as Nicojaller ? "

Huh ? What ? Most famously known ? What fame ? Wait, that's not what's important !

"Wait, who are you ? "

" You know me very well, maybe more than most of your species. "

What is she talking about ? Wait, if I can concentrate, I can kind of recognise the voice. It's... no, it can't be...It's impossible ! I'm going insane ! That's it, I must have fell out of my chair and knocked my head on the ground and I'm hallucinating. Because there is no way that this is happening.

There is no way that Princess Celestia's in my house.

I knock myself on the head a few times before realizing that I am really seeing this. I'm not dreaming. Oh god, what is this ?

" I know what you are thinking, what business brings me to this world and to you "
Yeah, I would like to know that. I would like to know what brings a FICTIONAL character to my house. I think I will need a straitjacket in five minutes or so. If in five minutes, I am not in front of my computers, I swear I will lose a cable.

" I feel your distress and confusion, but what I have to ask of you is of the upmost importance. "

" Okay, so what is it... y-your majesty? "

These words were very though to say. I don't really want to aknowledge her, but I don't think I have much of a choice.

" Equestria needs your helps "

what...what...WHAT.

I don't want to repeat myself, I know I tend to do that a lot, but seriously, what the hell ? I can't say a thing, I think my expression says it all.

" I know you must be confused, but let me explain, a demon invaded our world and bringed chaos. "

" Yeah, so how does that concern me ? I mean... not that I'm not concerned about the fate of Equestria. Just that... What do I have to do with that ? "

She looks at me accusingly.

" You should know, because you created him. "

At this moment, I feel all color disappering from my face, in pure terror. All my conceptions of realities and fictions were shattered at that precise moment. How does she know ? How does she know that ? I barely feels my legs as my knews are shaking in fear.

" W-what ? No... that...that's ridiculous ! "

" I only wish I was here to laugh, but everything said here is sadly true. Your creations are turning our world upside down and we need you to stop them and returning Equestria back to normal. "

" Okay, even if I you and everything you said is real, what am I supposed to do. Yeah, I created Vlad'Mor, but I'm just a human being, I don't have the power to stop a demon. How did he materialize anyway, I litteraly just posted the story, how did he got the time to be born, grow up and try to conquer a whole universe ? "

I don't even know how that's possible ? How did he go from a idea, an imaginary concept to a physical demon destroying the world ?

" Our world doesn't work like yours, it is based on the imagination of every living thing in the universe. "

Oh great, it work on the Neverending Story system, fantastic.

" And I suppose you are familiar with the multiverse theory ? "

Oh and you add this into the mix ? Great, it really makes this way more complicated than it actually needed to be !

" What does that have to do with anything ? "

" Well, this is something that I have studied in the past milleniums of my reign, and I do think it is a factor in our situation.
You see, I have discovered a link that connected our reality to yours, and that link is...you. "

" What ? What kind of plot-conveniance bullsh*t is that ? "

" I do not think plot-conveniance is in play here, remember everything here is based on imagination and if the multiverse theory is true, there could be an infinite numbers of Equestria, ours could be the result of what you imagined. Including what is happening right now. "

This, this changes completely the MLP mythology ! Wait, am I some kind of god or what ?

" Are you not sure that all of this isn't some kind of joke from Discord ? "

" We are sure, we have lost contact with him a few days ago after he went investigating what was the cause of what is happening. I never saw him so serious about anything. "

I try to digest all of this information, Discord went missing and Vlad'Mor is on the loose, yeah, this is all too familiar. If this is going the way I wrote it, this is going to be bad, really bad for the Equestrians. I sigh.

" Alright, so what do you want me to do ? "

" Help us, save our world. "

" Yeah, I got that part, but how do you want me to do that ? I am only a simple human, and Vlad'Mor is a demon. It wouldn't end well for me. How am I supposed to accomplish anything ? "

" You know this threath better than anyone else and second, don't worry, I'll grant you what you need to face this evil menace. "

Suddenly, a book appears in my hand, it has a black cover. It's a notebook, I see that a pen comes with it.

" Cool, but what am I supposed to do with that. Sketch him to death ? Writing poems and bore him until he falls into a coma ? "

She moves her head towards the books, which makes me look down, to see the book opening by himself. The pages are glowing of a magic aura.

" This is no normal book, you see, it is an ancient relics found in the Crystal Kingdom, from what we gathered, it has the power to invoke objects and to modify the environment on a certain mesure. "

Oh, so a Death Note without death. Got ya. But what are the limits she is talking of ? Because of course this is the kind of things that can become overpowered, damn, even the Death Note had a limit, you had to know the entire name of the guy to kill him. I always laughed at that, imagine if the guy has like one thousand names. Light be-like, okay who's next on my list ? James B.T.H.J.F.I.L.K.D-S Humpfrey-Dumphrey... I think I'm going to skip that one.

I laugh to myself quietly, but I recompose myself.

" Ok, so what are those limits exactly, just so I know what I am dealing with exactly. "

" First of all, this book cannot bring the dead back, you cannot wish back what is not or never was. "

I don't know why, but I feel, this is going to be very important in the future, so I take mental notes. Why do I take all of this seriously ? I honestly don't know. I mean, if this is a dream, why not make the most of it? If not, well, it's in my best interest to do so.

" Second, you cannot change the heart of someone, you could not vanquish the enemy by washing his evil away and turning him good, at least, not just by writing it in a book. "

" Yeah, anyway, that's the Element's job to do that anyway, and there wouldn't be any fun if it was that easy, right ? "

" Right, and the third and not the least, one of the most basic law of alchemy is the law of reciprocity, what you invoke through the book will ask a certain quantity of energy, the bigger the object, the more energy you will drain. "

So quite a elemetary concept, but it makes sense. This is badass, but it all of this still requires some skills ! If I write for a sword, I still need to know how to use the bloody thing ! I don't know, maybe I'll acquire some ninja skills out of nowhere I guess.

I sigh.

" And now what ? I guess you will throw me into the mix then, but once there what do I do. What will I have to face ? "

" Like I said earlier, the demon you know as Vlad'Mor invaded our kingdom. He used numberous tricks to overwhelm our defences and defeat the Elements. What was peculiar with his method of action is that he didn't use them all at once. He sended them one at the time, tiring us out eventually. I can't really explain too much, but you'll find those threats very familiar. I barely managed to get to you before my demise. Yes, even though I stand before you, when I come back to my time, I will surely meet my end. That is why I say your help is necessary. "

I feel the weight of the pressure crushing my shoulders. I didn't realize things were this bad. I mean, I write the story myself and right now I still feel terrible. If I'm not good enough, everyone will die ! Even if I don't think this is real, this is such an horrible feeling to have.

" I know that I wrote those...but do you think I can actually do anything ? I'm not athletic, I'm not brave and I don't think I could defeat Vlad'Mor, magic or not. "

" Wether or not I believe is you is not what's important, you have to understand, you are our only hope. The strenght you will need to save our world is within you to find, and only with it shall you triumph. "

I take a huge breathe, and I think about all of this. It doesn't make sense, why out of all people did it have to happen to me ? I know some people would jump at the occasion at being a hero chosen to save a whole kingdom, but not me. If I assume everything is really happening, I can only say that my version of Equestria is screwed, well at least that's how I understood all of that. There is a lot of what-if in this situation. What if I die ? What if I can never go home ? What if I fail ?

I also should take other things in considerations, if this is a dream, I have nothing to lose. Anyway, even if this is real, what did I really do with my life ? I'm just at my computer writing fanfictions, go to school, eat, sleep and repeat. Kinda boring, so right now, there could be a chance to live something exciting and most possibly life threatening. Oh, what the hell.

" Ok, I'm in. "

I see her smile kindly.

" Thank you, in behalf of all my little ponies, thank you. "

I nod to her, and what followed cannot be described with precision, because I don't really know what's going on myself. The white that surrounded me started to fade and my vision started to blacken. I suppose it's the famous transition-thingy that happens when you go from one dimension to another. Yeah, let's go with that, for now let's just enjoy the ride.

Author's Notes:

Thank you very much for reading the first chapter of "The Author", I hope you will enjoy this story, I'm really inspired for this one and I can't wait for this to really get started. Like my character said, let's all get on the ride and let's enjoy it !

Oh and by the way, I didn't forget to put an human tag, you'll see why.

Figuring Things Out

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I open my eyes to only see green, it takes me a few second to realize I am actually staring at grass. If I had been outside when all of this started, I may have think this was normal, but I was in my kitchen. So, no, it's not normal to see grass.
I try to get up by pushing on my two arms, only to fall on my face immediately, what in the world ? After a lot of time, I manage to get up, only to feel horrible pain in my knees who forces me back down flat. What is happening ?

I try one more time, oh lord, the pain. Why is it getting up so difficult ? It's not Monday from what I know. It's seems like every muscle in my body hurts. Most of them I wasn't even aware of them. Wait, there is something strange, there's some muscles that I can't even feel, some feels... misplaced somehow. I turn myself on the back and I just NOW become aware of my body. I see a soft grey fur covering my body, instead of, you know, skin.

Since when do I have fur ? Since when do I have hooves ? Oh god... OH GOD. Yeah, I know that I'm pretty fucking late to react, but give me a minute ok ? Where are my arms, my legs, everything ?

I take a breather and take a sitting a position, well at least the best I could, to take a look at myself. Yeah, I have a light grey fur, if I had to put any compare, I would say it's closer to the one of Derpy or Ditzy or however you want to call her. For the mane, I can't really take a good look at myself for now so I can't really say. When I will figure out how to move, I will try to find water or something for a reflection.

Obviously, it looks like I have been turned into a pony, if the fur wasn't a good enough indication, the lack of hands and feet certainly was, in their place were hooves. Now I have to figure out how they work. Yeah, I know, that's not the most interesting thing when you appear in a new world, but it's a necessary one. Especially if I want to accomplish anything.

After figuring out how to stand on four hooves, trust me, it took a long time and led to a lot of falling on the ground, so I'll spare you that at least. Walking is a bother too, so I just take it step by step. It's like having four legs, it takes some time. I walk into I can only imagine is the Everfree Forest. Not that bad. I mean it feels and looks like any forest back on Earth.

Ok, now I figured out how to walk, that's a good thing and I know for sure that I'm in the Everfree Forest, but two main questions remains. Where am I compared to everything ? If I want to find my way out, I have to find where I stand compared to the rest of Equestria, my best shot is at trying to find Zecora's hut. My second question is, when did she sent me back to ? I think she must have sent me somewhere before the arrival of Vlad'Mor. Figuring out where I am in the timeline will be a pain in the ass.

Finding my way is as difficult as beating the entire Dark Souls trilogy blindfolded, everything looks the same. Though to find a path, I'm sure there must be one somewhere, but I must have appeared far from it. It's been a few hours since I woke up, from what I can see, it must be close to noon, so I have at least this afternoon to find a path and to find a way, to civilization at least.

You know what ? I'm kinda surprise, at this point, in the fanfictions I read and wrote, the main character would already had encountered Timberwolves, or something. Anything to bring a bit of action to the story. I'm thankful for that, I have enough on my mind right now, I don't need beast attacking me while I still barely know how to walk.
Wait... OH GOD, I knew I forgot something ! The damn book ! I don't remember taking it with me ! I can't go back , I don't even know where I went. Oh lord, Celestia's going to kill me. That's why you don't make me the savior of a world ! Oh maaann... I'm so screwed, they're all screwed !

Wait, why is it in my hooves? No kidding, the book is just there. It just appeared. Ok, I know that I told earlier this look like it works with the Neverending Story Rules, but now, it looks like more like The Fountain Rules, which means, there's no rules.
Well, maybe not THAT far, but I still don't know how it got into my han-I mean hooves. Ok, that's convenient, it must have appeared when I thought about it, it's useful, because I don't have any pockets to keep that in. Well, it is a magic book, so no wonder it can do that. I almost want to write it to find a path for me, but from what Celestia's told me, it works like the notebook in the Scribblenauts, wait, it's almost exactly like that ! Maybe I can do like in the game and write for a Cthulu.

Yeah, there are a number of reasons why that is a bad idea, but I don't totally exclude it, it may come in handy later.
After, I don't know, one hour and a half later, I finally come across a path. I don't know where it leads, but it's good to see something that isn't darkness. To be fair, there was quite a good variety of animals on my way, I wouldn't be surprised if Fluttershy visited the Forest from time to time, if she doesn't, I will probably recommend it to her, she would love what I saw. Animals, big and small, winged or not, it was really fascinating, but right now, I gotta keep my attention on my goal.

A light, I finally see light. After another thirty five minutes or so of walking, I finally find an exit to this forest, thank god. I still don't really know where I am though, orientation never was my strong suit.

As I came out of the forest, I see some fields filled with apple trees. Oh, everything is coming to me, yeah, I know very well where I am, now the only questions that remains is when. I won't stop here for the moment, now's not the moment to go chat with our favorite farmer. I have somwhere to be. The most difficult task will be anything that is pink and bouncing. She can be anywhere, like litteraly anywhere.

Wait I forgot, before I enter Ponyville, I need of a cover, my name or even my nickname won't cut it. I must think of a pony name. I never was the best at imaginating name, now that I think about it, now I must name myself! I must also stick with it, I can't really change it after that.

Okay, I think my name will be Grey, like my fur, yeah I know, pure genious, but that's only the first part, I need a second word to go with it. Ink, that's it. Grey Ink, sounds fine to me, let's go with that.

There is one thing that can give me at least an indection of when I arrived, Twilight's tree. If it is unhabited, it would mean that I arrived, if she is in here, well it would still pretty vague, but I'd know where to look. I don't know if there is a real physical way to figure that out, I think I will have to see how the events occur to make links and remember at what point of the story I am.
Well anyway, I try to make my way, looking around me with suspicion until I hit something, more like somebody, who is very very pink and soft, oh, for god sake ! I look up to her, she looks at me with curiosity, until a grin appears on her face.

" Hey, I'm Pinkie ! I have never seen you around Ponyville ! Are you new ? What's your name "
At each exclamation, she approached more and more of my face. This was absolutely terrifying, terrifyingly adorable too.

They look so cute when you really see them, not through a screen. Although this could still be a dream, but at this point, this seems less and less possible, considering it's been a very long time. It seems way too real, but now it's not really important, I'm going to take a final decision later. Right now, I have to survive.

"Um...yeah, I guess, my name's Grey Ink, I just arrived and..."

I didn't even had the time to finish that sentence and she was already gone, leaving only a cloud of dust, I only know too well what is going to happen, so it doesn't leave me that much time to find out what I wanna know.

The town was pretty active, they were ponies talking, laughing and all those kind of things. I can't find anything, it doesn't help. It doesn't seem different from any other time, I think I can only figure things out with Twilight, she is the main character after all, so she is the center all of this. I don't know if she is aware of the danger they will face. I don't know what Celestia actually did, was I the only person she actually warned ? Am I the only one who is aware of the danger that lurks on Equestria ? If so, I need to be even more aware to not cause panic, I have to be careful about that. Panic will only make defeat easier and this is not what I am looking for. This is what I am here to prevent after all.

After a strod through town, I finally arrive at the tree, I take a good look at it. Just the fact that it's still there helps me a lot, because I know this is before Tirek's invasion and since this is the classic house tree, I'll guess this is before Twilight becomes an Alicorn, oops, spoiler alert. Well, anyway, who's going to hear what I'm thinking anyway ?

I knock on the door, what is the worse that can happen anyway ? Well, in this encounter at least, my only goal is to present myself and try to push slightly to see where we are compared to the show. Wait, how do I know if this follows the show's canon ? Damn it, I can't really go back now, I'll just assume it does. I'll assume that what happens to the show happens there.

The door happens to reveal a reptile-thing, purple with green hair, yeah, that's Spike, no need to be an expert at Guess-Who to guess that one. He looks at me suspiciously.

" Do I know you ? Why are you here ? "

I cough in my hoof, and I present myself to the dragon.

" Hey little buddy, my name's Grey Ink, sorry to bother you all, I am sure you all are very busy, but I wondered if I could meet miss Twilight Sparkle. "

What business do you have to do with Twilight ? She never said she was supposed to meet someome today *

" Yeah, I know, I'm not a scheduled visit, but you see, I'm new in town, and I wanted to greet her. "

" Oh, if it's just that, I'm sure Twilight won't have any trouble giving you five minutes of her time... I hope so at least. "

I nod at him, smiling a bit.

" Thank you very much "

" You're welcome. I'll go up and bring her "

I enter the house to find it very similar as what has been seen in the show. It makes me a bit nostalgic, to see the good old classic house, knowing what will happen to it later, it's good to see it for my own eyes. So many memories and events occured just in this house, it really makes you think doesn't it ? It makes me remember when I first discovered the show and watched these episodes for the first time. Good times.

I hear people, oh, I mean ponies. Lord, I will have to get used to saying that, coming down the stairs. I turn myself to see her. I don't know why, but seeing her for real, froze me in place, shocked. Pinkie didn't had that kind of effect on me, I guess seeing Twilight just makes it way more real than it was before. Just like the reality of all of this just hits me now, like a truck. I take a huge breather, okay, I can do this. I just have to be sure.

She looks at me for an instant before smiling, oh god, so adorable, must not cuddle. Her purple and pink mane is especially interesting to see in real life, she really is a sight to behold. Oh god, I'm staring. I turn my head for a second, embarrassed.

" Oh, hello, who might you be ? "

" Hello to you to miss, sorry to bother you, my name is Grey Ink, I am new in town, I wondered if you would be generous to give me a few minutes of your time ? "

" Of course, let's just go upstairs, I'll ask Spike to make some tea, follow me. "

Just like that, that is I knew that my work had begun.

Author's Notes:

Thank you a lot for not only reading this story, but consider it interesting enough to read the second chapter ! It's really important to me and I appreciate it.

Sorry, if this was more of a description heavy chapter, but I think it had to be done. The third chapter will have more character interactions.

Lots of love, until next time !
Nicojaller

Setting Things Up

I sit myself in what seems to be Twilight's desk, it surrounded by books, yeah ,what would you expect. Spike did bring us some tea and to be honest, it's really good, even if I wasn't really the biggest fan of tea back home. Funny, I'm starting to refer as reality as back home, I don't even know anymore, I'll start to say that, because at this point, it is way more likely that all of this is real, although I could very well just be in a coma. But, the fact that I feel so many things in such a long period, that's what tends to make me think this is real. Honestly, I don't want this to be reality, not that this isn't cool, just that in a dream, there is no real consequences if I fail, in a real situation, I fail, I die like everybody else.

I regain my concentration as I notice that Twilight is staring at me, waiting for me to have a semblance of a reaction.

" Oh sorry, I was thinking about something else "

" What was it ? "

" Nothing important, just something I forgot. "

Our conversation starts like that, awkward, I know. We talk like that for a few minutes, asking questions about her personal life, but mostly questions about Ponyville and the surroundings. I try to push for some more precise questions, but they seem to be leading me nowhere for now, I'll try a more direct way.

" This town seems pretty cool from what I saw, and peaceful too, is there any recent events I should be aware of ? You know, just so I am up to date with all the recent news. "

She looks nervous for like, a fraction of a second, before recomposing herself and smiles at me. Only that is sufficient for me to guess that something did happened, well, no shit, things always happens. It's not that big of a clue.

" Oh, nothing of importance, just little incident, you know ? Some disputes, and normal shenaningans that occurs in small towns like ours. At least, nothing than cannot be resolved easily. "

Great, it still tells me nothing, I start to really get annoyed, answers always seems to get away. I can't push further than that without looking suspicious. I start thinking about other solutions, when she continues.

" Well, if you want to be perfectly up to date, there's the Grand Galloping Gala upcoming, I'm sure you're already aware of it. I mean, who isn't ? I even got tickets for it ! Well, it lead to more troubles, but that's a long story. Oh my, I'm rambling. Sorry. "

Well, that was easier than expected, thank god. She just gave me the answers by herself. Ok, so I arrived sometime before the Grand Gala. I have no idea when Vlad'Mor arrived in this timeline, there is two events where he could include himself, the Gala in himself, or during the whole Discord thing, well, this the closest two major events to occur in the show, but from what I've heard from Celestia, it doesn't make sense. From what she said to me, when Vlad'Mor first showed himself, she sent Discord to deal with him. For that to happen, Discord must have been at least reformed for the first time, which only happens in season 3. He only get definitively reformed in season 4 after the whole Tirek thing, so why send me back all the way to the end of season 1 ? I know Celestia's the ultimate troll, but I don't think trolling was here first priority at that moment, if it was and that whole thing's a prank, I don't even know what I would do.

" Oh no problem, it's really great for you if you're able to go! I mean, I'm not that interested in those kind of events to be honest, but I know some people who dreams of going there, who gave you tickets. "

" It was my mentor and teacher, Princess Celestia, at the same time it did sent her a friendship report, so everybody won in that situation, I would say. "

" Myself, I would say that you have pretty great contacts, but what is a friendship report ? "

Then she goes, and on, about things that I already know, but for the sake of my cover, I have to listen to. At least, it gave me a good refresh of the season events, which will come in handy. If questionned, at least I'll know what to answer, not like it is likely to happen, it's not, but I prefer to be cautious.

I stand up, and do respectuous nod to Twilight, preparing myself to leave.

" Well, that was all I needed to now, miss Sparkle, I won't take much more of your time, it was really useful, I really appreciate it. Oh by the way, would you have a room to rent ? "

Well, there is a guest room that I never actually used myself, I guess you could stay there, if you don't snore that is, generally I study late at night.

" Don't worry, I don't make much noise at night, if it isn't any trouble, I'd stay there a couple of days until I have enough bits
to rent a room elsewhere, well, if I get a job that is. "

" I'm sure you'll be fine, I don't mind helping out for a bit. "

" Thank you very much miss Sparkle, it's greatly appreciated. "

" You're welcome, I know how difficult it is to be new in town, so I'm glad to be able to be of some help. "

" I think I'll have to leave soon, I have someone I have to go meet, thank a lot for your time and for everything. "

" It's been a pleasure, I guess I'll see you later mister "

Spike accompany me to the door, I wish him a good day and leave her house.

Well, that was an useful visit. Now that's done, I have some other business to do. I now know when I am, now the most important thing is to settle, because it seems I'll be there for a while, waiting for things to happen. If I trust the timeline, would mean not that long to be honest, but I don't know what was the period of time between the two seasons, in fact the timeline in the show is really vague. It could be days, weeks or even months between each events. Well, I'll have to keep myself busy.

I go visit Mayor Mare, I know that she wasn't the most important character in the show, and that in the long term, I won't see her that often, but right now, if I want to find a place to live and a job, this is necessary.

For the job, I may have an idea, I don't think Ponyville has a local newspaper, if they do, it never has been showcased. The only one we actually saw was the Foal Free Press, the school newspaper, that led to the incident with the CMC gossiping on people. That's one of my favorite episode, for one reason, I love journalism. That's what I want to do in my life, either here or in my world, it doesn't really matter.

I take a few seconds about my plan, this town could use at least something to read on sunday morning. Receiving their paper and being up to date on local actuality, I think it could do some good. For me, it's really useful, it's more of an excuse to investigate what's going on around here and to keep the Elements on check and of course, to keep me occupied. The Ponyville Weekly, doesn't that have a nice ring to it ?

I arrive in the office of Miss Mayor Mare, to present my project. She smiles at me.

" Good morning, mister, I do not think we've had the honour of meeting before ? "

" No, I'm new, my name's Grey Ink, pleased to meet you ma'am "

" It's a pleasure, so what brings you to my office this afternoon, and to Ponyville being on the subject "

" I thought this would be a nice place to settle down, not as big and lousy as bigger cities that's for sure, as for why I'm here in this office, well I had an idea. "

I spend maybe ten minutes explaining her my project, of course I let some details out, like my biggest personal objective and what purpose this will really serve, but it's better that way. She seems happy and enthusiastic about my project and asks me question about it, of course about administration and more logisitical details. She has been surprisingly generous about this, she was willing to give me the material I needed for the project and a financial back-up. This way more than what I actually asked for, but I won't complain. She then asked me if had any professional experience in it.

Honestly, I never worked in a real newspaper, but I studied in it. 4 years of university, just to not find a job afterwards. Well, I wrote on the Internet, and worked in a fast-food, that was pretty much my life. That is basically what I said to her, well except the Internet part, for obvious reasons. For her, to have the skills necessary was enough, even if I didn't actually showed any proof of studies before. She is weirdly trusting. I think that just the fact that someone wants to build a project like this satisfies her conditions.

" This is an amazing project, I will have a talk with my councillors, but be sure that you will have all the support you need, this is a great initiative that I will gladly support. "

After that honestly, it's not that much interesting, we talk for another ten minutes before I go away, not I trot in the streets once again, it seems that I miscalculed my time because it seems that we are in the evening now. To be honest, this town is nice to see when it's peaceful like that, not like when there's some random shit destroying or attacking it. Well, I can't wait for Discord to return to fuck this all up.

I look at the sky, the sun came down, so it means Luna will take charge. Funny how there is no real transition in this world, well, there is one, but it is way faster, it comes up and down way faster. Which makes sense, because Luna and Celestia are alternating. Well, that's one difference, now that I think about it, by logic we must be on a planet, so how does the universe look ? I mean, if this planet do not gravitate around the sun, and the moon does not gravitate around the planet, so how does it work ? Are the planets the same ? Yeah, it's probably better to leave it at that. I barely understood how it worked on Earth, I wouldn't do better here.

There is one thing that I like more here than on Earth, here I know that if I go walk outside I won't get mugged at every corner. Thank god for that, I doubt there is much criminality at all in fact. Which is a good thing, another human problem that I won't have to encounter here, like I didn't have enough things to worry about.

I make my way back to Twilight's house, I realise that I didn't eat today, but I'm not really hungry anyway, I'll eat when I'll be finished setting up. I wonder what she is up to by the way, she must probably be in her books by now, or with her friends. It's probably time that I go back, because I need to sleep, this has been a very busy day. That's the least I can say, I don't even know I am so calm. I guess I'm more in the present situation right now, and that I am damn tired, I guess reality will come back to haunt me tomorrow, because right now, there's a bed calling me.

I arrive at the tree, strange, there is no light opened, they must have gone to bed early. Not that I'm complaining, just unexpected of her, that's all. I think I hear something, an intruder ? Nah, that must be either Spike getting something to eat or my own imaginations playing tricks on my mind, the second one is most likely.

I open the door, the scene that follows almost causes me to have an heart attack, the light opened in a flash to reveal at least a dozen ponies, maybe fifteen, with a banner on which I could read :

WELCOME TO PONYVILLE, GREY INK !

The time I realise what is going on, I see a bouncing pink mass coming towards me. My brains finally connect before being forced into a bear hug, oh god, my ribs. When she releases me I can only stare at the crowd that was here, until I come to to realisation. The chain of events has started. Now, it is only a matter of time before the show begins.

Author's Notes:

There we go for chapter 3 ! I hope those who read this story like it so far ! If you do or don't, don't hesitate to leave some feedback, always hugely appreciated.

Sorry if the dialogues were a bit awkward in this chapters, I'm still learning to do them properly, and some parts were added at the last minute. Anyway, I hope you like it all the same !

See you in chapter 4 !
Love,
Nicojaller

Meeting the Mane 6

To say that I was surprised would be probably too weak, saying that I’m on the verge of an heart attack, that would be more accurate for my present situation.

'' SURRRPPRRRIIIISE !!!! ''

Oh yeah, I totally forgot about this whole welcome party, I don’t know why, I guess I was so focused on my tasks that it slipped past my mind. Well, I guess my bed will have to wait. Pinkie stares at me with her signature smile, I don’t even know how somepony can smile this wide ! Oh god, if during these last few hours, I felt in control, serious and everything. Now, I just feel like my social anxiety’s coming back.

'' Oh…uh…good evening ? ''

I feel the stare of the ponies here, I don’t feel that confortable right now. I consider planning an escape route when I get trapped in a crushing bear hug. IT’S A TRAP ! Oh wait, wrong universe. I must admit, those ponies are soft, damn. I would like that if my ribs weren’t being crushed into dust.

'' Um… Pinkie ''

This comes out softly, as there is not much air left in my lungs, she looks at me.

'' Yes, bestest-newest-friend ? ''

'' Can’t…breathe…''

'' What did you say ? ''

'' Hum… Pinkie… I think the fella need some air. ''

'' Oh ! ''

She lets go of me, oh sweet release, oh sweet air ! I missed it so much ! I retake my composure to see who was my savior. Hum, orange skin, blond mane and tail, farmer hat, green eyes and to top it all of, apples as cutie marks. Yeah, I think it’s pretty damn obvious who I’m talking about.

Applejack, not my favorite when I actually watched the show, but I did like the character and I’ll be honest, I’m a sucker for farmer accents, I don’t know why, it’s just a thing. She comes foward.

'' Are you alright ? ''

'' Yeah, I’m just… taking a second to figure out what’s happening here. ''

Then, Pinkie just randomly appears in front of me again.

'' Don’t be silly, it’s your welcome-to-Ponyville-party ! ''

'' My what ? ''

Of course I know what it’s about, it’s been showcased in the show enough for me to be familiar with that, this is my occasion to get close to the Mane Six, which is basically mendatory for all of this to succeed. If I can’t, well shit, this would make my job a lot harder than necessary.

'' Your party, silly ! Come on let me see a smile ! ''

Of course, I do, it is quite nice to see that someone organised a party for me, even if I did expected it. I would never get this kind of attention at home, I mean, I did have small parties for my birthday, but it was generally, my parents and my siblings, a cake, gifts and a movie. That was the most I ever gotten, not that it’s a bad thing, those were pretty good evening to spend with my family. Just that, no one ever planned something like this. This is pretty nice.

She seems satisfied and bounces away, I use that opportunity to get out of the entrance. I’m a bit nervous, I’m not that good with speaking with other humans, I don’t know what good I will be able to do with ponies, but well, I’m going to try.

I go towards Twilight, because she is the one I am way more familiar with. I look at her.

'' So was that all planned or something ? And why in your house ? ''

'' No, it was all Pinkie, she’s particuliary good at planning parties, and why my house, I didn’t really had a choice in the matter. Pinkie decided on a place you would most likely be at this time. ''

'' Ooook, how did she figured that out ? I don’t remember telling anyone of what I would do today. ''

'' I don’t really know, I figured a while ago to not question her, Pinkie is just Pinkie. ''

Yeah, pretty much what I remember from the character as well, if they don’t question it, why should I ? I know I probably should question at least at little, but it's the least of my worries right now. Ok, second part, don’t fall apart now.

'' So, who are your friends ? I met Pinkie, of course, I will have to guess Cowgirl here is one as well, no offence. ''

I only look to Applejack to see her nodding, ok, I didn’t offend her, that’s good, that would had been a fantastic start, getting knocked out by the mare with strongest kick in Ponyville.

'' Well, the other one is Applejack, she works on an apple farm, I can present you to the others if you want. ''

'' That would be hugely appreciated, it’s always nice to meet new people, and if they’re your friends, they must be alright. ''

She directs me toward the group, I look at them nervously. There is one that looks at me a bit suspiciously, I don’t really know why though, it’s not like I act any more suspiciously than anyone else here.

Well it seems to be description time, I never was very good with that, even when I was writing, I never really knew what was good and interesting to talk about. It’s always a pain, but I’ll do my best here. First of all, there was the cyan pegasus known as Rainbow Dash, I start by her, because she is easily my favorite from the Mane 6. Yeah, she has her iconic rainbow mane, that I always found kinda cool. I mean, I know people that dye their hair, but nothing can beat rainbow hair. Her wings are cool to look at to, a bit bigger than what I saw on the show, but it makes sense.

For the others, Fluttershy is god damn cute, that’s more of a fact than an opinion at this point. She hides most of her face behind her mane, I really like how her mane is dressed by the way, cute is really the word, everything about her is so god damn adorable.

There is also the fashionista known as Rarity, with a pretty fabulous purple hair, if I say so myself, looking at them with a stallion perspective is a total different experience, because I suddenly have different needs, it’s really weird to suddenly desire mares, while still having my human mind, it’s really confusing. Don’t worry though, I won’t jump on Rarity, although she is pretty beautiful, but that one is Spike’s. I know, they’re not technically a thing, but I have too much respect for Spike to run after his girl. But yeah, she looks good is what I mean to say.

I realize I’m pretty much staring at them, I cough, a bit embarrased, and I present my hoof.

'' Hey ! My name’s Grey Ink, it’s an honour to meet you all ! ''

'' Same for us darling ''

'' A friend of Twilight is a friend of mine ! ''

'' … Same … ''

It was nice to feel welcomed, still doesn’t feel less weird to be meeting the protagonist of a fictional show, but hey, can’t really complain, can I ? Ok, now, I need to find a way to keep a conversation going… Shit, god damnit myself ! Why can’t you talk to anybody without looking way too awkward.

'' So… I know that Twilight here is the one who manages the Library, what do you all do ? ''

Applejack was the first one to answer, of course, I know what all actually do, but I have to know them for real, if they suspected me of knowing things in advance I would only make myself suspicious and it wouldn’t help my case. So I have to ask all of these things that I already know, pretty tidious, I will say.

'' Ah work on the apple farm, not far from town, you must surely have seen it before, mah family has been working these lands for generations. ''

'' Oh yeah, I did see that farm, before, great apples by the way, I kno=ew that I had heard of the Apple family before. ''

She smiles at my comment and nods. I turn myself towards Rarity.

'' Okay, I think I have a good idea, but still, I’ll ask, what do you do ? ''

'' I am a designer, most of the time, I design dresses and costumes, Ponyville may be a small town, but the demand is surprisingly high. Of course, my dream is still to open a boutique in Canterlot. Or the design a dress for a royal wedding. That is more of a fantasy right there, but that would still be simply fabulous ! ''

'' Great, so if I need any fancy clothes one day, I know where to go. ''

Then I look at Pinkie, only to see her bouncing, clowning around and eating sweets. You know what ? I’m not even going to ask. Then I talk to Rainbow.

'' The others I could figure, but you, I actually have no idea what you do. ''

She looks at bit offended for a second, before recomposing herself.

'' Well, I probably have the most awesome job of all, I’m the pony who makes sure that your sorry mane doesn’t get wet or anything. Unless it’s planned of course. ''

'' Or you make everybody wet except Twilight to try to get a ticket for the Gala '' says Applejack, grumbling.

'' Hey ! I said I was sorry, and like you were any better ! ''

Oh boy, this is going off-track, I can’t let them argue here. One, it won’t help anything in what I try to accomplish, second, it’s annoying as hell to here people arguing. I put myself between the two before anything can actually happen.

'' Hey hey, you two, I don’t know what happened before, and honestly I don’t care, anyway, there’s a party going on here, so let’s keep it fun ! ''

They look at each other before agreeing, oh thank god, friendship crisis averted…I guess ?

Finally I look at Fluttershy, and I realize, I genuinely want to know what she do, because from what I remember from the show. They never gave her an actual job ! I really want to know if she actually has one. Like, where does her income come from ?

'' If you don’t mind, what do you do. ''

She struggles to say anything, still hiding most of her face behind her mane, but she softly says.

''…I take care o-of the animals. Some people pays me to take care of their pets for a day or two, for different reasons, sometimes because their sick or because they have to go away for a while. ''

Of that makes so much sense, I can’t really say I expected anything else. After I was finished making the tour of Twilight’s friend, she came up to me and asked.

'' What about you ? Before coming here what was your job ? ''

'' Oh, I don’t have actual working experiences, but I just graduated in journalism, so my idea, and I talked about it with the Mayor, would be to start a newspaper here, because it’s one of the few towns that seems to lack one. ''

'' Oh, this seems like an excellent idea ! I’ll be glad to help if you need any help with that project. ''

I smile at her.

'' Yeah, I’ll keep that in mind. Thank you very much. ''

The rest of the evening is not really that much noteworthy to talk about, mostly because I am really tired and really want to go to sleep. I danced a bit, and ate probably a lot more sweets than I should have but I don’t care. That’s a problem tomorrow-me will have to deal with.

At the end of the evening, Twilight guided me to the guest room, I entered, and all the adrenaline that I had went away. I feel like falling in a coma for one thousand years. The room was cozy and simple enough, a bed, a closet, a window, a bookshelf, a drawer and oh, good, a mirror. Finally, I can actually know how I look like. I guessed the grey fur thing, but for the rest I don’t actually know, so let’s take a good look at myself.

My mane is black good to know, it makes my name seems even more fitting. Wait. My eyes were a light grey. It seems that I don’t have a huge variety of colour. And there’s a bit coming out of the mane, I move the hair a bit to see a horn. Oh great, how did I not felt that before ?

I mean, it makes some sense, if I want to be able to use the Book, I should be able to use magic at all. It’s a bit much to me, elements just seems to appear out of nothing. Everythin here just seems so random. It’s like some cartoon bullshit, elements that you don’t feel or aknowledge until you see them.

This is all I can take for a day, I struggle a bit to go in the bed and to pull the covers, but I manage to do it eventually. Honestly, I’m still surprised I haven’t collapsed today. Reality will catch up eventually, that’s for certain, but for now, I will give my mind a rest for the moment and let the worry for tomorrow, because tomorrow is another day.

Author's Notes:

Thanks a lot for those who are actually reading and hopefully enjoying this story (who seems to be not much people at the time I am writing this) but I like writing this story, so I'll keep going. If you have any ideas or suggestions to what you would like in the story to make it better. Don't hesitate.

On that, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Tons of love !
Nicojaller

Finding a Routine

The days that followed that party weren't particulary interesting to talk about, it was mostly me just getting used to things. Outside of meetings with the mayor where we mostly talked about the administrion needed for my project, it was a lot of money talk too. She said that they will subisdize it, but the goal in the long run would be for it to be autosufficient, mostly by advertisements. I wonder what kind of advertisements we would be able to get, but yeah, it's the ideal situation.

Most of time, I didn't went outside of the library, reading mostly about the backstory of Equestria and other things. I know some basics of the past due to the show, but it never showed that much of it, so I read some books to extend my knowledge of it. To not look stupid in a conversation mostly.

Even though the newspaper is not started yet, my first paychecks are starting to come in. Now that I have a stable income, I searched for a place for myself, I rented a room in a inn. For now it will do, I don't know how costly are here in Ponyville, but I'm pretty sure I don't exactly have the funds for it.

The days went and passed, nothing extraordinary happened, but I never lost my focus on the goal. I guessed we were between episodes where absolutely nothing happens. Just normal regular fucking days.

Finally the day of the Gala arrived, it was to know when it was, because everypony was talking about it, even the ones who weren't even going. Like me. Of course, the paper needed someone to go over there to cover the events. So we sended the only one of our small team that actually got an invitation. It was a mare nammed Green Flower. She usually was the one in charge of the botanic section, but tonight she will go and get information for the article for this week's edition.

I really begin to think I will be there a really long time, if we calculate like this, I've been there for at least 4 or 5 days, it took all this time for a canon event to occur, so if I have to go through all of season two, then a huge part of season 3 for this guy just to show it's face. I don't even know how much time it will take to fight this threat. So at the end, I think I'll be there a good couple of years. Oh god years, thinking about it really makes me realize a lot of things.

When I'll go back, or wake up, or whatever is suppose to happen at the end of this, in what state will I be ? Will I ever be the same ? Man, I already feel that this situation is changing me and I've been here for less than a week, so in a few years, I don't think there will be much left of the old me.

I'll keep the depression for another time, way later hopefully, now I have other things to do. We still don't have an actual newspaper published yet, but we're hoping to make a splash with an article on the Gala for our first publication. For my part, I don't do that much writing, I'm more of a supervisor and a team leader than anything. Making sure than everybody's got a job and that we're on time. That was the best life.

That night, I went to bed, even if the others in our group wasn't of it, I knew that Green would come back with one of an interesting story, considering how that famous Gala went. My mind was already coming up with which angles we could be interpretating that story. A fiasco ? Or the most entertaining Gala ever ? I know the first would be probably more in line with the reactions of most pony, but the second would probably be a tiny bit more controversial. I decided with the second angle, since anyway, Princess Celestia thought of it like that too in the show, if anything, it will help our sales.

The next day, I met with Twilight, even if I didn't hang out too much with the others of the Mane Six, which is a shame now that I think about it, I should probably find a way to fix that. Twilight told me pretty much everything that I expected. Afterwards, I counter-checked with Green Leaf to write an article that would be an accurate representation of what happened. I gave the others the angle I wanted them to put this text on, it took me a while, but I managed to make them agree on it.

I know, I know, I talk a lot but I need to cover these events as soon as possible. Everyday, I watch to sky in the search of signs of the arrival of Discord. I can't wait for this day, I don't know if I'll be prepared for this, but I look foward for this for multiple reasons.

One, this is one of the first episodes that made me really interested in the show, these were really great episodes. Two, Discord is awesome. I know that I'll meet him as a bad guy, but that doesn't mean he's not awesome. It would be the first time that something actually big happened. Can't wait for that.

I sit on a bench, in drinking a coffee, thinking about all of this. It was a pretty good day, I hear a familiar voice calling me.

- '' Hey mister Ink ! ''

I will look to my left to see Derpy Hoove, she was the mailmare of the town, so she was the one delivering our papers. She was a really nice pony, she had a gray fur, like mine, but hers was lighter than mine, a yellow mine, and golden eyes. Of course, you can't really talk about her without mentionning the fact that she is cross-eyed. Even though she is mocked by certain, I respect her dedication, she works with a smile, even though she tends to make mistakes. But I never could hold that against her, when she crashed or dropped her packages, she stood up and continued to work.

- '' Hey Derpy, how's it going today ? ''

- '' It's going really well, well, I did kinda crashed into a wall, and into a barn, but in general, pretty well ! ''

- '' Great, I'm proud of you, I'm glad you are delivering our papers, this is really helpfull. You know what, to show grateful I am, how about muffins ? ''

She smiles at me, oh my god, if I said ponies were cute, this is a whole another level, she is just plain ADORABLE. I'm pretty sure it's the eyes, it must be. Really, she smiled so wide I'm pretty sure it almost could rival Pinkie's. Almost.

Funny that I find myself closer to her, than the ones that I actually was trying to get closer to. Maybe because I wasn't actually trying to force it, that's maybe the better approach actually. Anyway, I will have to interact with them eventually, so I'll try to not force myself on situations I have no business with. Forcing myself on them won’t do any good, I’ll have to wait for the first major occasion I can have.

The next week followed the same scheme, waking up, working, going to the library, reading, speaking with Twilight, eating muffins with Derpy at the Sucarcube Corner, talking with Pinkie while I'm here, then going back to my place to sleep. I keep myself in form, by running most of the time. It wasn’t much, but at least it prevented me from becoming fat from all the muffins I’m consumming each day.

Yeah, it's getting kind of boring. Funny to say that being stuck in Equestria waiting for a demon to try to take over the world and to defeat him with my magical book would be boring as fuck. Like my narration. I mean, it's hard to make something fun when there's absolutely nothing happening. That's pretty much my situation here. Being here has kind lost his novelty. I never knew I would think that one day, but please, something come destroy this town, god damnit !

After another day of waiting for things to happen, I go to my bed and begins to wonder. Are things ever going to happen at all ? I mean, I base all my knowledge on the pressumptions everything will follow the events of the show. From all I know, they could very well go in disorder, we could very well see Tirek appear before Discord, if they even appear at all. Which would be extremely disappointing if they didn’t. The fact that the Gala happened may be a coincidence, because it is a regular event that would happen either way.

Being bored out of your mind really makes you think about things, like, why did Future Celestia sent me so far back in time ? I had the impression it was for me to be more prepared or to to be able to interact with the Mane Six beforehand, but neither of these two really happened, in the main characters, Twilight’s pretty much the only one I see on a regular basis and I don’t even know how to prepare for a Demon Invasion. Am I supposed to camp and kill squirels to gain XP ?

If things are gonna be like that, I don’t know how to handle this. Is this all I would do with my life, work in a small town newspaper for years ? Don’t get me wrong, I love the job, but it isn’t my intention to spend all my life doing that. If I had to do that all my life, I would rather do it in my own universe, no offence to the ponies, but it's a temporary thing.

On these depressing thoughts, I go to sleep. Hoping for something to actually happen within the next month.

The next morning, I open my eyes, at first, nothing seemed out of order, but then I quickly realized that something was…off. I can’t really put my finger on it. Oh yeah… Why am I upside down ? I’m not joking, my bed is on the ceiling. Cartoon logic, gravity only works when you’re aware it’s a thing, so I fall on the floor faces first. It takes me a few second to recompose myself and take awareness of the situation.

Oh…OH ! I try to find a stable spot to stand, since pretty every object in my room are either on the ceiling or just put anywhere. I try to reach for a window to see what’s going on. If it is what I think it is, it may really well be my lucky day.

Getting to that damned window is way more complex than what you would expect. There’s so much trash in my room, that wasn’t even there when I went to sleep. I must do two things, get an idea of the situation, then get the hell out of there because it’s making me sick right now. I manage to get there, and I watch the outside. Not looking too great right now, purple sky, chocolate rain, flying pigs, the road is just a giant ice rink. Yes, all of this can only be the work of one awesome dracoenquus, Discord, the master of chaos.

I make a gigantic sigh of relief, it seems the events do seems to follow the canon of the show, I suppose I worried for nothing. I know I should probably be scared, or panicking and starting to come up with a plan, but right now, the only emotion have is sweet, sweet relief.

-'' Oh, THANK Celestia ! Something’s finally happening. ''

The book appears in my hand, I almost forgot I had that. A smile appears on my face.

-'' Let’s go baby, let’s see what you can do ! ''

Author's Notes:

Yeeesss ! The MVP is finally here ! If you haven't noticed, I love Discord. So, the chain of events has finally started, Grey Ink has finally finished his set up. In the next chapter, we will see him actually doing something with the book for the first time !

Once again, thanks for those reading this story, even if you are pretty few at this point, but it's still nice to see that at least some people are reading it.

Tons of love.

Nicojaller

Discord Time !

For the first time since I arrived here, I finally found an actual use for my book, since, like I could saw, my house, like a lot of houses in Ponyville at the moment was actually floating in the here. Yeah, I wouldn't jump from there and I do not have wings. I look at the book and the pen that appeared out of nowhere.

- '' Oookay, so let's see what you're capable of ''

I start of by writing something simple like jetpack, then out of nowhere, by magic I'll assume, a jetpack appears on the ground. That makes me smile.

- '' Oh yeah, this thing works ! ''

I put the jetpack on my back, I have no idea how it works and putting it on was way more complicated than what you would expect, it certainly would have been easier if I had hands and not hooves. Now that it's on my back I put myself on the end of the window, put my head outside. I make the cross sign and start flying.

* 10 seconds later *

The...pain...oh...god. I wasn't ready for that, not at all man. At least I'm not dead, I crashed, but at least I'm alive. I did what I had to do. Yes, maybe my flight was even less gracious than a one-winged pegasus trying to fly. Well, at least it would know how, in opposition to me who crashed into the ground immediately. I take a few minutes to recover from the fall.

OK, where to go first ? Obviously, Discord has returned, so the girls are either in Canterlot, are coming back here or are already there. I think the first place to go would be Twilight's library because that's where to go when they come back. Not in the best situation of course, but we'll see.

I'll tell you, going there is a pain in the ass. There's so much shit flying through the sky, and the conditions aren't the best. There is not much people in the streets thankfully, they must have refuged themselves in their houses, that's good, that means there won't be much ponies in danger.

- '' Help ! Somebody help ! ''

Oh great, why did I say anything. Next time I'll just... Nah, I won't jinx myself a second time. I hurry to see what was the origin of the call. It was three fillies, way too familiar for my taste. The CMC. What did they got themselves into again. I know them from the show, but think I never met them in my time here. Wait, now's not the time to think about that !

I rush for them, they were hiding in a three, where there was a timberwolve, disguised as a clown. I mentally facepalm. Or would it be facehoof ? Anyway, it was a pretty ridiculous sight to see, but I still needed some real firepower nonetheless. A sword or a dagger won't do on a timberwolf, so I take the book and write the word bazooka. That's pretty much the only thing that can win me some time.

The timberwolf notices my magic and look towards me. Fantastic, that means he won't go for the fillies. I place the weapon on my shoulder, it's really heavy and I feel like I'm being crushed by the thing, but under my adrenaline and aim at the creature and place my hoof on the trigger.

- '' You want to eat something ? Well, taste this you son of a bitch ! ''

The detonation sends me backward, I start noticing that I'm becoming more and more tired. Celestia was right, this magic does require a lot of energy. I can't be resting now, I approach the tree while the timberwolf is still destroyed. One of the fillies, which I guess is Apple Bloom looks at me.

- '' Who are yah, mister ? ''

I look around and see the timberwolf starting slowly to reform.

- '' It doesn't matter, you need to get out of that tree and get away from here as fast as possible ! ''

They don't protest and I help them getting out safely, one by one. I start to get nervous as I see the Timberwolve getting back together. I urge them to run away in a safe place. Before running Sweetie Belle asks me.

- '' Thank you so much mister, but what's your name ? ''

I was starting to get really nervous as the beast was almost complete.

- '' Grey Ink, now GO! ''

She complies and runs away with her direction. Wherever they went, I hope they chooses a safe spot. I write grenade in the book, which appears, I activate it and throw it at the monster, who was now completely recovered. He looked at it for a second before it explodes in his face destroying it in pieces. I take that opportunity to run away as well.

I sit myself next to a tree, recovering my breath, invoking the grenade was a lot less demanding than the bazooka, but the combination of the three without any real pauses in between really tired me. I guess my endurance will get better with time, but now it's absolutely terrible. I don't know how much time I lost here, maybe 10 minutes ? I remember where I was supposed to go, and I hurry towards Twilight's place.

Still hasn't gone any easier, still a lot of random things in the way, like rabbits with gigantic legs, flying pigs, walking mailboxes. I feel like I took lots of LSD. But it's just a normal day in Discord's world. I wonder what the series would be like if he actually won, certainly interesting, in a lot of different ways.

I arrive at Twilight's house just in time to see her arguing with the others, oh great, have I just arrived at the end. Yep, I saw them all scatering, Twilight turning gray. Great, that's just absolutely fantastic !

I arrive to the house where there was Spike, just spilling out letters.

- '' Hum... Sorry if I'm interrupting anything but... WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON ? ''

He coughs and tries to catch his breath, he speaks between two letters.

- '' I-I don't know... There's this god of chaos *Burp*... from what I understand he *Burp* reversed the Elements, what caused the girls to turn gray and evil. No offence ''

He burps out another letter. Who in the world is spamming Spike with letters, I feel so bad for him. I don't actually remember who it was, that must not be an important detail.

- '' Wait... let me get this straight. So you mean like Applejack would lie and shit ? ''

- '' yeah, p-pretty much. ''

- '' That's twisted, how is Twilight? ''

I just hear the door slamming opened behind me, making me jump, to see Twilight entering with a bit of a different color fun than usual. Yep, she was really grey. She looked angrily at nothing in particuliar, until she notices me.

- '' YOU ! Where were you during all of this ? ''

I back up, surprised and a bit scared. In the show, we didn't really got to see how she acted without her Element, in the exception of looking all depressed.

- '' Hum... At home, you know, surviving ? ''

- '' And you didn't think of maybe, coming help your friends when I-WE needed you ? ''

- '' Calm down, I didn't even know what was going on ! What was I supposed to do ? ''

Damn, she's way more salty than what I remembered from the show ! It's certainly something. Something I really do not wish to see again, it's just so...not her.

- '' Whatever... who needs friends anyway... ''

She goes up and starts packaging her things with Spike upstairs.I sit myself on the couch, scratching my mane. Trying to find a solution to the problem. I figure that Twilight will be herself back soon, I have to figure out on how to stop Discord.

How did they did it in the show ? Crap, I don’t remember, why don’t I remember that ? It’s something, I feel like I should know but I just can’t seem to remember it. That’s a problem. Well, I’ll figure the situation about missing memories after we get Discord back into stone. I see Twilight hurrying down the stairs and she was purple once again. What in the world happened upstairs ? I stop her for a second.

- '' Wait a minute, where are you going ? ''

She looks at me determined, in a way better mood than she was a few minutes ago that's for sure.

- '' I'm going to go save my friends and stop Discord. ''

I sigh, this is the kind of answer I should expect from Twilight by now. I hope in Celestia's name she has a real plan.

- '' I see... I'm coming with you. ''

- '' Come again ? ''

- '' I say what I said, I'm not going to let some...whatever this is put my adoptive town upside down. ''

She smiles at me, just like we go together at Sweet Apple Acres, I see Big Mac who acts like a dog, dancing Granny Smith and brooding Applejack but I can't seem to find Apple Bloom, wherever the CMC went, I hope it somewhere safe... I'm 100% sure they just went in their clubhouse, anyway I don't have really time to check up on them.

Twilight uses her magic to do... I don't know, I can't see flashbacks and shit like that. Applejack regains her color. I don't really get what Twilight is doing, but thankfully it seems to work.

Next stop was Fluttershy's cottage, that one's a bit more tricky, because for a girl that's normally shy, she puts up a hell of a fight, me and Applejack ended up pinning her down while Twilight was doing her spell.

Then, we went to Rarity's Boutique. She was all over a rock that she was calling a gem. Yeeah, as hilarious as it is, we could not really leave her like that. So Twilight just beamed her and went back to normal.

- '' Let us never speak of this again. ''

Damn, that would have a been one great story to tell at work. Anyway, Pinkie was pretty easy too. She didn't move much, like when she has that straight mane hairstyle that only appears when she's depressed.

Finally, the only one remaining was Rainbow Dash. It took a while to find her, she wasn't at home and she could basically be anywhere in the sky. When we started to lose hope, Pinkie spotted her chilling on a cloud.
Twilight tries to convice her to get down at no avail. Which is not surprising, if her Element is reversed, she's not exactly loyal anymore. Aaaaand she thinks that her little cloud that's barely big enough for her is Cloudsdale, great.

Our plan B was a balloon, yes, we're going to try to catch the fastest Pegasus in all of Equestria with a god damn balloon. Might as well try to catch a Formula One car with a zamboni. They decide to send Fluttershy to hold her down while we approach slowly, yes, I'm sure that's going to work perfectly.

Of course it doesn't. She flies away, they attach Fluttershy to the balloon to try and make us catching up with her. I shake my head this isn't going to work. I decide to bring out the book and wish for something to give us a boost, but before I could write anything, we suddenly accelerate. Fluttershy just decided to have a spontaneous boost, maybe I should be a bit more aware of what's going on. Applejack throws a second lasso at Rainbow and we bring her down to ground level. We all hold a part of the cord while she struggles to get free. I would feel bad if I didn't know she wasn't herself. Finally Twilight finally put the spell on her, the colors reappeared to see the famous rainbow colors that we all knew and loved.

We all went together, finally there it is, the final showdown with Discord, I can't say I'm not looking foward to this. It's a weird feeling to think I'm going to have to fight my favorite character from any show ever. He was here sitting in his trone, with a glass of chocolate milk. Drinking the glass and throwing the content. I can't but chuckle, but I know I have to be serious and very cautious about this. He is one dangerous individual to have as an enemy.

We appear in front of him, and by god does he look bored at seeing us. Like he was expecting us for hours.

- '' Ugh this again ? Man, you ponies sure are insistant, you know ? Oh, have you brought a new friend ? Who could you possibly be? ''

I feel his eyes on my, it's soooo weird. I feel a shiver go down my spine. It's really cool and damn terrifying at the same time. I take a risk and look at him. He smiles, that is one terrifying smile

- '' Nobody important, just a random citizen trying to help make things normal again. ''

- '' Oh but this is not what I see. My Discord Sense never lies. ''

I see him smirking, this isn't good, this is very very bad. I see the girls looking at me wondering what this is about. Does he know about me, if he do, how ?

- '' Grey, what is he talking about ? ''

I don't know that to do, what to say. I'm froze. While the girls were distracted, I see Discord preparing an attack. I can't let that happen. This isn't supposed to happen, I have to do something.
Without thinking, I take the book and invoke a shield, it all happens in a matter of seconds. I jump in front of the girls while
Discord shoot, I don't know what but it looks menacing. I stop it with my shield. I breathe to only see everyone staring at me. Discord starts laughing.

- '' Oh my ! It's been sooo long since I saw a Chaos Artefact, even longer since I saw anyone wielding one ! You ponies really are full of surprises huh ? ''

Well, here all my plans thrown away. What the hell is a Chaos Artefact ? Anyway, I hope all of this made the girls have some thing to prepare. I stare at him with a smirk.

- '' Maybe, but you know, I'm not the only good with surprises. ''

I jumped out of the way and the girls used their Elements against Discord, who, well, he was surprised, just not the good kind of surprise. I see him turning into a stone, then falling on the ground, trapped in his statue until season 3. So long old chum.

I fall on the ground, exhausted, this whole event took much more of my energy that I would have wanted. My heart beats rapidly and I don't see much. It takes me a minute or two to feel recovered enough to stand. Once again, just to see everyone staring at me, suspicious, can't really say I blame them. I have myself a ton of question about that, but I guess I won't have any answers until Discord is released and reformed. Twilight stand in front of me.

- '' So, when did you plan talking about the fact you used chaos magic ? ''

Of course they would be suspicious of that. I don't know how much I can actually answer, but I'll do my best. I know they deserves at least some answers.

- '' I would have talked to you all about the Book soon, but there never was a good occasion for it. As for the chaos magic part, I didn't even know myself, that's news to me. ''

Rainbow Dash, not that surprising, is the least trusting one, it's unfortunate but not surprising, she always has more difficulty to trust people other than her friends, even more people that could be potential threats, like me. The fact that I had hidden the Book from them doesn't help the situation either.

- '' If you were hiding it to us, how much of what you said to us was true, what is your real purpose here ? ''

Oh lord, everything is going downhill really fast. I have to calm things down. Right now, I feel sore and really tired, I'm not really in the state to give that long of an explanation.

- '' I will, but later, this whole situation exhausted my energy and neither you or me are in the good state of mind for this kind of explanation right now. So what about tonight at Twilight's place then, I promise that I'll explain the most I know. ''

They reluctantly agreed to this deal and we all went our separate ways. I see Ponyville coming back to normal and I feel proud of what I did, but really afraid of what's to come. I don't know how much of it I will actually say, I'll go rest for now and take that time to think about that.

The town was calm, almost like nothing had happened. Some ponies went back to their own regular day routine, even though most still stayed in their homes, terrified by what occured today. Once again, can't really blame them, it was a really weird day, but right now, I feel in my guts a feeling I never really had before and I hope that will stay in me for the rest of my staying. The feeling of victory and I will enjoy the hell out of that sensation while it last.

Author's Notes:

Thank god I actually managed to finish this chapter. Thank you so much for those reading this. Even if I do wonder if I'm writing this in vain, but hey, I love writing this story even if I know nobody's reading it.

Thank you for your time.

Tons of love

Nicojaller

Judgement

Great, now I'm in my room thinking about the events that just occured. Discord arrived and we defeated him, that's normal, that's what's supposed to happen. What was not in the plans is to learn that the Book is in fact a Chaos Artefact and that I was gifted with Chaos Magic all this time. I don't know how this works, why didn't Celestia warned me of this earlier ? Wait is it earlier if we are in the past ? Mindfuck guaranteed.

I'm laying on my bed realizing my job got quite a bit harder. The Mane Six knows about the Book now, normally that would be a good thing, but the fact that I'm a Chaos User, just like the dude that we just defeated doesn't give me any points. Not helpful at all. Trust is something hard to gain and easy to lose, I'm pretty sure I lost most of my trust points with them in a few sentences. Now I will have to explain them the situation. The problem is, I can't really explain everything. I can't say that Future Celestia will travel to another dimension to bring a human to defeat a demon that he created himself by giving him an unknown artefact. I think I will have leave out some details. I think whatever I come up with, most of them will most likely believe it. I have one major problem though, Applejack, the Element of Honest, she's a walking lie-detector. I'll have to hope that omit some details doesn't count as lying. At least, I sure hope so.

I can't keep my mind from thinking about this. I would like to relax, preferably sleep a little bit before going there, but apparently, my body doesn't seem to agree with me on this. I read some book that I took from Twilight's Library, of course, I asked her beforehand, I'll give it back when I'll have finished it. It was called Daring Do, kinda reminded me of Indiana Jones in a lot of ways. It's fun and entertaining, at least it keeps my brain occupied for half an hour before I put the book away.

The sun starts to go down on Ponyville, I look outside. This city has just avoided a major disaster once again. When is this town finally going to get peace, not right now that's for sure, the worse is yet to come. Man, at the point I arrived here, season 8 was announced but still hasn't aired yet. So when we will get to that point, I would have to face the unknown, hopefully I will be already out of here and back in my world by that point. Which could take years. Oh yeeeah, I feel my depression coming back, just what I needed right now. Boy, I even start to miss my annoying little brother, never thought I would see the day that happened.

I go out in the streets, if I remember well, we agreed to meet at Twilight's house. So that's the direction I take, I make sure to take my good time, appreciating the temperature and the wind. Man, even if they are shorter her, dusks are amazing. I hurry up a little bit. I knock before entering her house. What ? That's the polite thing to do. I enter to see, what a surprise, everypony staring at me.

- '' Thank Celestia, you sure took your dang time. '' Says Applejack, sounding annoyed.

- '' Yeah, we started to think you ran away, not that you could have ran far with me on the chase. '' Adds Rainbow.
I shrud.

- '' Nah, it's not really in my interest, and what kind of friend would I be if I left you all hanging ? ''

- '' What kind of friend hides that he's a chaos user ? ''

- '' Touché ''

We all sit in the room, Spike comes with some tea. I take some instance to bring my ideas in order in my head, to make sure that my story is believable. They will may not have the fully story, but they will have the basis of it. Twilight is the one that speaks first.

- '' So, I think we can all agree that you have a lot of explanation to do, Grey Ink, if it's who you truly are that is. ''
I take a breathe. Hoping that nothing I would say would be considered a lie.

- '' Yes, my name truly is Grey Ink, I didn't lie on that. I really studied in journalism and it really is what I want to do. What I am as a person never was a lie. But there is that part that I wasn't ready to reveal to you, but I was planning telling you guys someday, but at the end, today or in two years, it doesn't make a real difference. ''

A take a sip from my tea. I must say, Spike makes really good tea. Now that I think about it, he would make a great butler. It must be the years of being Twilight's assisant I suppose. Anyway, everyone seems to be really focused on what I have to say. I look mostly at Applejack's reaction. For now, it seems to be fine.

- '' Here's the part where it gets weird, one day, I was just minding my own business, writing stuff when I had a strange vision, a bright light blinded me and there was this voice. I think it was female voice, but I can't really remember well. Anyway, she warned me from dangers that will threathen Equestria, gave me this book and told me to find the Elements of Harmony. ''

I once again look at AJ from the corner of my eye, she seems more hesitant, I guess she did see that I hide something but can't really say what. I guess it's to be expected, it's better for them to know the half-truth than to be aware of everything going on. They don't need to be aware of other realities right now. Even less the fact they are probably the product of my imagination.

- '' That's it ? ''

Once again, it was Rainbow Dash, who was laying on her back, bored. I look at her, surprised by her reaction.

- '' What do you mean ? ''

- '' At least if you were a spy, you would have an awesome story, but this was just generic and boring! ''

- '' Well, excuuuuse me Rainbow for not exceding your standards. ''

Twilight stands between us, trying to disarm the situation.

- '' Calm yourselves, both of you. Arguing won't lead us anywhere. ''

Rainbow sits herself down, frustrated. Twilight looks at me with a serious expression, I'm not really sure what to add to my story. I don't know if it's believable, but it was the most I could twist the truth without techincally lying.

- '' Do you really mean all of this. Are you sure you are not deceiving us for some other purpose ? ''

- '' I can't convince you of anything, because I don't have any solid proof for anything I just said. Why don't you ask your friend Applejack, I am sure she can say if I'm truthful or not. ''

I know, it's a risky gambling. She could very well just straight say all I said was complete bullshit and I'd get thrown out of Ponyville faster than Rainbow can clear the sky.

- '' Well, it's hard to say. ''

Well, that doesn't help my cause very much. I facehoof. They all stare at the farmer, looking for clarifications.

- '' Applejack, dear, what do you mean by <<hard to say>> ? ''

- '' Well, the story in itself doesn't seem to be a lie, but there's something that bothers me about it, but I can't put my hoof on it. ''

I stay put, looking at all of them, looking at their reactions. They all seems to bit at least a bit suspicious, except for Fluttershy, who really didn't seem to want to be involved in this and Pinkie, who couldn't care less either way.

- '' So what do we do now ? We're not much more advanced. ''

- '' I say we talk about what we're going to do with him. Let's all go in my room ''

She then looks at me.

- '' You better still be here when we get down. ''

I shrug.

- '' No problem, I had no interest in going anywhere else anyway. ''

They all go upstairs and I let a gigantic sigh. How in the world did I got myself into this mess ? Discord of course, that's the main reason. I would find the fact that I'm using chaos magic awesome if it didn't royally screwed me over.

I realize the only one left in the room was Spike that was half the time watching me, the other half he was reading his comic book. We sat in silence for a few awkward minutes. I coughed.

- '' What are you reading buddy ? ''

- '' Power Ponies, it's about this awesome team of... wait, why am I talking about this to you, I don't even know if you're a good guy ! ''

I laugh at little bit and I smile, trying to make him feel a bit more confortable. If all the girls decides that they suddenly hates me, I still want to have at least one friend left.

- '' Good point, but what kind of evil plans would include buying a comic book ? ''

He thought to himself for a little bit, before laughing too.

- '' Fair enough. ''

For a while he talks to me about the Power Ponies, their adventures and comics in general. I'll be honest, I really liked the Power Ponies episode from the show, so if I have the time and money, I'll probably go get some issues in a book store eventually. These looked like awesomes stories.

After maybe 10 more minutes, the girls came downstairs. Not looking much more confident than earlier. I feel myself shaking a little bit from nervosity. I take a few breathe before looking at them.

- '' So, what conclusion have you made ? Come on, I'm dying to know, not litteraly. ''

- '' Well we did decided you can't really be trusted... ''

shit...

- '' But you haven't done anything to make us act on our distrust...yet. ''

That's better than nothing I suppose.

- '' So, what are you planning to do exactly ? ''

- '' That's what we were trying to figure out. We can't exactly let somebody who can possibly be a threat run around town, I hope you understand that fact. ''

- '' I do, but this causes some problems, will I have to find another place ? ''

- '' Yes, you will have to go back into upstairs guest room until new orders. At night, I will magically lock your room so I know that you won't go away. ''

- '' That seems a bit...excessive, but okay, I won't complain. What about my job ? ''

She cringes a bit, okay, I'm not liking this.

- '' Unfortunately, since you will be investigated by myself and most probably by the Princesses herselves, you will have to step down as the head of the journal, and it will probably be suspended for a while. ''

- '' Wait, what ?! You can't do this, it's not fair ! ''

I get up immediately in outrage before being forced down by Twilight's magic.

- '' Calm down, but surely you can understand the reasons. ''

- '' Yeah, I get for my part, but you don't have the punish the others, they have done nothing wrong. ''

- '' I understand, we will assure they are compensated for the salary lost. Remember, it is only suspended, not closed down. If you are cleared by the Princesses, you will be able to resume your operations. ''

I grumble, very unhappy about this turn of events.

- '' Yeah sure... who's gonna buy a newspaper run by a suspected threat to the nation ? ''

I retake a bit of my composure, I look at the others, a bit frustrated and angry. It looks like they feel bad a bit, but they still don't know what to think about me.

- '' So, what are you planning to do now ? I can only guess you will talk with Celestia about the recent events. I'll also assume, the subject of this discovery will come into that letter. ''

- '' Of course, I'll ask Princess Celestia what she knows about your artefact, she'll probably know better than me what it is. ''

- '' That's a good idea, myself I am really curious to know more about it. I get the basic idea of that thing, I write stuff in it, stuff appears. It seems to be using my magic for that. So I guess it makes me a chaos user. ''

Twilight looks at the clock and yawned.

- '' Yeah, but this is on tomorrow's schedule, right now, I think it would be best for us to all go to sleep. ''

They all agreed and started going for the door, Fluttershy was already pretty much sneaking towards it, she must have felt very unconfortable throughout this whole evening. The poor thing. Applejack stopped near Twilight to talk to her.

- '' If you ever need any help with him, yah know where to find me. ''

On that, she exited the house. Rainbow, her, stopped near me, way too close in fact, she was pretty much in my face, she was trying to be intimidating.

- '' You, if I hear that you have harmed Twilight in any way, I am sending your flank into the ground until you reach Tartarus, do you understand ? ''

I raise my two hooves into the air. I'm not doing that shit, I already screwed up enough. Now's not the time for sarcasm.

- '' Yeah, doing harm to anypony is not in my plans anyway. So don't worry about that Dash, I'll stay in line until we have all of this mess sorted out. ''

She then make her exit, after that there's another awkward silence. Twilight and I just avoiding looking at each other for a while. I turn my back and starts heading towards the guest room.

- '' Grey... ''

- '' Don't worry, I know the way, good night Twilight. ''

This came out way colder and angrier than I wanted to, but I couldn't help it. This is how I felt right now, I took a last look at Twilight before entering my room. It looked like she had a bit of regret, seeing her face, but I wouldn't bet on it. She made her choice. I hear her using her magic outside my room, locking it.

Okay, this went terrible. Not me getting arrested terrible, but me losing my job terrible. They all are suspicious of me and soon all of the town will be too. The only real friend I have left is Spike. It's not a bad thing, Spike is awesome, but I would like to have more than one ally right now.

I'm laying on my bed thinking about what's next to come. Probably some more danger. Meeting Celestia will be pretty cool though, she will surely have some answers on what the Book is. I have that to look foward to. But not much else.
Tomorrow is another day though, I am sure we will find a solution. Right now, today's events really comes back to me as I feel horribly tired as I feel my body going numb, my eyes closing and soon enough, I was entering Luna's realm.

Author's Notes:

Thank you for reading this chapter. This one was a really though one to write, it went through so much re-write, I am glad I was able to come out with a finished chapter in the end.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed it.

Tons of love
Nicojaller