> The Alicorn Prince (Rewrite) > by OrionAE > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Wishes aren’t real > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I awoke with a groan as I got out of bed. My eyes were trying to stay closed as I was still tired, so I had to act fast. I looked through my right eye as it was completely open to try to find my Beats case for my ear buds. I reached over and unzipped the case and put them on my ears, making sure I press the button to turn them on. I heard the noise they made that meant they were on and grabbed my iPhone to open the music app. I went straight to my playlist and selected a song by Imagine Dragons. It took a bit, but my fatigue was going away. Knowing that I was still tired, I sat straight up in my futon and waited until I was fully awake. (AN: For those of you that don’t know, a futon is a bed that can fold itself into a couch. Though it’s kinda a pain to change it from a bed to a couch.) After a few minutes of listening to music, I turned my ear buds off and put them in the case, closed the music app on my phone, and got up from my bed. I checked the time to see that it was 8:37 in the morning and sighed as I had to do some work. I went straight to my closet and pulled out some clothes. I changed from being a shirtless man wearing Deadpool PJs to a fully clothed man with a green jacket. I walked into my bathroom and looked in the mirror to see I had some facial hair and groaned. “I just shaved a few days ago. How does hair grow so fast anyway?” I asked myself as I put my shaving cream on and grabbed my razor to shave. After I finish, I take a look at myself to see if there’s any differences. Nope. I’m still the same slightly tanned Caucasian man with short hair and light blue eyes with a bit of silver coloring in them. And I’m a bit pissed off about how I look. I’m 18, but I look like I’m fucking 25 or 26. And my pretty deep voice does nothing to help. “Heh, by the time I’m 30 people are going to say I look 50.” I chuckled leaving the bathroom. I walked over into the living room of my apartment and see my best friend slash roommate Jason sitting down and watching Designated Survivor on Netflix. “Morning Jason.” I said to him. Jason was the same age as me, but he’s younger by a few months. He’s also a few inches shorter than me as I’m 6ft and he’s 5’8”. He is an African American man with glasses, puffy short hair, and a long sleeve shirt under his black and white jacket. He’s been my best friend for nearly a decade and he and I decided to share an apartment together. Something that actually makes me laugh from time to time is that he and I are opposites. I’m tall, he’s short. I have good eyesight, he has poor eyesight. He’s faster, I’m slower. I’m stronger, he’s weaker. He’s a bit smarter than I am. And to top it all off, he’s shy and I’m outgoing. But he does hard work while I’m pretty lazy. “Hey Orion.” He said as he continued watching the show. Another thing, he doesn’t talk that much unless someone speaks to him first. “I thought you finished the show already.” I said to him as I went over to the kitchen and made myself a bowl of cereal and sat next to him. “I did, but since the show was cancelled, I decided to rewatch it.” “Ahh.” I said taking a bite from my breakfast. “So, I talked with Shyla last night about what I want her to draw for the comic.” “What is it this time?” He asked pausing the show to look at me. I wrote comics. Stories really, but a friend recommended me to turn them into comics, so I did. Jason was the guy I would tell my ideas to and he would help me with what I should and shouldn’t keep. “I told her to draw an Arctic base at an aerial view with a helipad near it and a silhouette walking from the landed helicopter to the door to the base. That’s gonna be the first page of the comic.” I explained. “Cool.” He said resuming the show. “Hey Jason, it’s your turn to get groceries tomorrow.” I reminded him. He and I had a system in place where we would each take turns dealing with stuff. Like one day I would take out the trash and the next day he would take out the trash. But there were things that were specifically our chores. Like I would be the one cooking food while he pays the bills with our money and makes sure we don’t miss any payments. “I know. Anything you want me to get?” He asked me as I took another bite of cereal. “We could get some more Ginger Ale. But we need broccoli, cheese, rice, and chicken for tomorrows dinner. Also try to pick up some pasta stuff.” I told him. I saw him take out his phone and go to his notes app to put in the list. “Also we need more milk. I just used the last bit of it.” “Alright that’s done.” He said. We continued watching the show for a couple more hours until I checked the time. “Hey man, I’m going to get back to writing the comic and making designs.” I said getting up to put my bowl in the sink. What I failed to see though was a small smile that Jason had made when I said I needed to get my comic done. I walked over to my desktop in my room and turned it on. When I saw my wallpaper I got furious. Jason changed my wallpaper from a galaxy to My Little Pony. “Aw cmon man what the fuck?!” I yelled from my room. I heard nothing but laughter from him. “You know I hate that series man, come on.” He laughed more as I changed my wallpaper back. “Not cool man. Not cool.” After a bit he stopped laughing. I got to work on my comic stuff for a couple of hours until I heard the front door open and Jason call out to me. “Alright I’m going to get some snacks. You want anything?” He asked me. “Yeah can you get me some M&M’s? The kind that has peanut butter in them?” I asked him. “Alright.” After that, he walked out the front door and locked it behind him and left. I was alone in our apartment. A few minutes later I went onto my social media account and saw that a politician was being charged with sexual assault to a young lady. I groaned and read the article to see what this was all about. “Why does everyone with power have to be corrupt? Better yet, why do people fight over stupid shit. If we all actually stopped trying to see who’s better, we could have already started colonizing Mars.” I complained to myself closing the article. “I wish to go somewhere that doesn’t have so much corruption.” That’s when it happened. The ground started to shake underneath me making me fall out of my chair while my computer screen was glitching. I tried to get up, but the moment I stood up, I got hit in the head by something and was knocked to the floor. My vision was slowly fading as my eyes were closing. After what felt like hours, which in reality was a few minutes, I blacked out. I awoke to the sound of a very soft and warm voice. “I just found him in the Everfree Forest is all. He was asleep so one of my bear friends carried him for me.” She said as my eyes slowly opened. “Hey he’s waking up.” A raspy feminine voice said. 'They must be talking about me.' I thought as my eyes opened all the way to see the banes of my existence. Six ponies. One was a purple unicorn with wings and a pink stripe going down her hair. One was cyan with a rainbow mane and wings as She was flying. One was a white unicorn with purple hair. One was a regular orange one with a Stetson hat. One was completely pink with a poofy mane and tail and she had a grin that would rival the Joker. And finally one was a yellow Pegasus with pink hair. I groaned out both from annoyance and exhaustion as my body felt like it went through a lot. I tried to get up only for the yellow one to stop. “Please don’t get up sir, you need to rest.” She said putting her hooves on me to push me down slightly. I wanted to resist, but I felt too weak to do so. I looked around and saw my phone and Beats case nearby and pointed to it. But what I saw next horrified me. When I tried to reach for my stuff, instead of my hand, I saw a coal black hoof. “No. No. No no no no no!” I yelled I’m shock and fear as I looked to see another hoof. “This can’t be happening! I must be dreaming” I said in a panicked state as I felt my face. It felt different. “Mirror. I need a mirror.” I said to one of them. They looked at each other in confusion before the purple one had an aura envelope her horn and bring a mirror to me. In a haste I grabbed the mirror with my hooves and looked at my face. I became what I didn’t want to become. A pony, in the world of My Little Pony. “Son of a bitch.” I said before fainting back onto the couch. I hope this is just a horrible nightmare. > There is no such thing as magic! > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- My eyes slowly opened up and I smiled. I didn’t really pay attention to my surroundings, something I have a problem with. “Oh thank god that was only a dream.” I said happily as I went to stretch until I saw my foreleg. My smile slowly fell as I realized something. It wasn’t a dream. “It wasn’t a dream!” I started to panic. My breathing and my heart raced as I thought about all the horrible things that could happen to me. The possibility that I may be stuck like this. The thought of never going back. Or worst of all, not being able to flip someone off! I look around and don’t see anyone around, but I see my phone. I smile as I thought, ‘Music. That should calm me down a little bit.’ I move my hooves under the blanket that covered me and lifted it to throw to the side. After I did that I tried to get up from the couch, only to land flat on my face with a loud thud as the rest of my new body hit the floor. “Ow!” I groaned as I held my nose in pain. I laid there holding my nose before removing a hoof, and to my surprise there was no blood on it at all. I sighed a bit in relief and looked at my phone that was on the table across the room. “You’ve got to be kidding me.” I deadpan as I try to get up, only to fall back down. “Cmon!” I grunted as I tried to get up again, only to fall back down again. “One more try.” I tried again and failed again. “God dammit!” I yelled as I did the next best thing. I crawled on the floor. “Stupid new body. Stupid world. Stupid hooves!” I said through gritted teeth. I was pissed. Because I was taken from my home, because I was living through this nightmare, because I’m a fucking Pony! I kept crawling and before I knew it I reached the table. “Yes!” I say out loud as I put one foreleg on the table and try to lift myself up. I barely succeed, but my triumphant smile turns into a frown as I just remembered something important. I. Don’t. Have. Fingers. “Son of a bitch!” I yell in frustration as I try to move my phone and just end up knocking it to the floor. I grunt and grit my teeth in anger as I try my best to not break the only thing I have left. Then, I hear a voice on the right of me. “I could’ve swore I heard something.” A raspy female voice said on the other side of a door. “Speakin of swearing, Ah thought I heard our “guest” swear like he didn’t care.” A southern female voice said. The door opens and there I see the six ponies that I saw from earlier right there. Staring at me while I’m on the floor trying to cover up my phone. The purple one’s horn gets enveloped in a purple aura that also surrounds me to lift me up from the ground. I start freaking out as I get lifted only to be relieved when I get put back on the couch. But then my fear comes back as they all see my phone. The white one’s horn gets covered in an aura that covers my phone to put it at the table where it was. However, the purple one eyed it like candy as the screen lit up. “What is this thing?” She asked as she showed it to me. Out of instinct I try to take it back, but fail to grip it at all not only because of the lack of hands, but also because she pulls it back. “Something personal.” I say to her. My tone however, was a bit angry and threatening as I would never let anyone touch my phone. No one. “Gotta be more specific than that.” The cyan pegasus said crossing her hooves. I sigh and groan at once while covering face for a moment. “It’s a machine.” That’s when I knew I fucked up. The purple one’s eyes started to shine as if I just told her that I cured cancer. Her aura started to cover my phone again. “I must take it apart and study it!” She said with glee. “Do that and I’ll make sure they never find your body.” I threatened shocking them all. “Nobody. And I mean Nobody touches my phone.” The yellow one started to hide from me behind the orange one who walked-err trotted you to me. She glared daggers at me with her emerald eyes meeting my silver tinted ocean eyes. I glared back. “Don’t threaten mah friends.” She said. “Then don’t go touching my stuff.” I retorted. We kept glaring at each other as if we were going to fight. We probably were before the purple one got between us. “Heeeey let’s all calm down everypony. I’m sure he didn’t mean that Applejack. I mean, I was acting out of line because I did try to take apart his stuff without permission.” She said looking at the orange mare before looking at me. “I’m sorry. My friends are just trying to look out for me. Let’s try to start fresh. My name is Twilight Sparkle,” She gestures to herself before gesturing you the one known as Applejack, then the cyan one, the white one, the pink one, and then the yellow one. “This is Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy.” Next she looks at me. “And what’s your name?” I take a moment to think about what I should tell them. Should I tell them the truth? No they would think I was crazy and possibly lock me up. No I need to just make up a story about me or just tell them nothing at all. Actually just tell them my name and nothing else. “Orion.” I reply. “Alright. Orion, it’s nice to meet you. Where are you from?” Twilight asked. Then they all started to get curious. “That’s something I’m not gonna tell you.” I say quickly. “I don’t know any of you at all and I’m not gonna give my information to a bunch of people I just met.” Rainbow gets a little angry and glares at me. “Alright buster who are you? How are you an alicorn? And what is this thing?” She finishes holding up my phone. I’m about to jump from the couch and pummel her into the ground before Twilight speaks. “Alright, let’s just take this to the other room. Uh try to get some rest Orion.” She says having an aura around her horn and Rainbow as they all moved to the other room and closed the door. (Twilight POV) I need to figure out who this pony is. But right now, Rainbow Dash isn’t making this easy. Then again, neither is he. I release my magic on Rainbow Dash and speak in a serious tone. “Rainbow Dash, he doesn’t have to tell us anything if he doesn’t want to. I think we should respect his privacy and he’ll tell us when he feels like he can tell us.” “Oh come on. He’s obviously hiding something. You can tell by the look in his eyes.” She emphasizes by pointing her hooves at her own eyes. “What if he’s a threat? I mean come on, he threatened to kill you and hide your body all because of this “phone.” How does that not scream “Bad Guy” to you!?” Surprisingly Fluttershy spoke up. “Maybe he’s just protective of his things. Like how a mama bear would threaten anything that she deemed a threat to her cubs.” “Thank you Fluttershy.” I say smiling at the pegasus. “And I don’t think he’s from our world at all.” “What make you say that darling?” Rarity asked. It was time to show them what I learned. “Well from the things he said, it sounded like he was from the human world. First he said “people” instead of “ponies” and “nobody” instead of “nopony.” That was my first clue. Secondly, he had a device called a phone. Which is something that’s from the human world, but there’s something different. The model looks all wrong and way different from the kind that Sunset Shimmer has. And thirdly he threatened to kill me and didn’t even know who I was or that I was a princess. Everypony in the world knows about the princesses and only a human, from what I’ve seen, would make a threat like that.” I explain before I get a thought. “You know what, I’m gonna get a picture of this phone and ask Sunset if she knows of any model it is. Maybe she knows something.” “Umm.....Alright Twi, but what do we do about him?” Applejack asked with uncertainty. “Ah mean, what if he actually, you know, follows through on his threats?” I put a hoof to my chin and think. Then I remembered what we all saw when we first entered the room. “Well, it seems like he doesn’t even know how to walk. I mean, I had to get used to my human body when I went to the human world. Maybe he has to learn how to live in a pony body. So for now, I think we’re safe.” That got a sigh of relief out of everyone. “Umm Twilight?” Pinkie asked. “Yes Pinkie?” “Can you explain how he’s an Alicorn?” She asked. This was something I didn’t think about, but yet this question nagged me. “No, I don’t think I can yet.” I said to them. “But, I will ask the other princesses and see what they think. In the meantime, Fluttershy, would you mind if he stayed at your house for a while?” I asked the element of Kindness who smiled and nodded. “I’ll also try to see if he can talk to me...if that’s ok.” She said confidently before going to her normal shyness. “Thank you Fluttershy, you’re the best. Alright everypony, let’s deal with this. And hey, maybe make a new friend.” I say with hope. Right now, I need to figure him out and maybe help him with whatever problem he has. I just hope he lets me. > Why am I here? > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Orion POV) I can’t stand just sitting here! God I wish I was still human. If that were the case I would have ran out of here the moment I stood. But no, life doesn’t work that way, life is unfair, nobody seems to care what Orion thinks. I sigh and look around seeing the various animals staring at me in either curiosity or fear or a mix of both. That is just irking me right now. Now don’t get me wrong, I love most animals, but it’s the way they are staring at me that makes me uncomfortable. “Alright everyone eat up.” The soft voice or Fluttershy said from across the room as she was feeding the animals. Now even I have to admit it takes guts to be even near a bear given how hostile and dangerous they can be. Maybe animals just work differently in this world. “Ummm....Orion?” She said looking towards me. I sigh and look back at her. “Yes Fluttershy?” I asked just feeling tired from the stress of being in a new world in a new body. “Would you like anything to eat?” She offered. And as if right on cue my stomach growls loudly as if it was begging. I feel my cheeks get a little hot from the embarrassment, but it’s a good thing my fur is black so she couldn’t see. She giggles a bit and smiles. “I’ll take that as a yes.” She turns to leave before she looks back at me. “Ummm....so, Twilight figured out that you were human, so what do humans normally eat if you don’t mind me asking.” She says returning to her shy nature. That purple pony actually figured it out all from one encounter?! Damn I really underestimated their intelligence. But at least I wouldn’t need to hide anything. I take a moment and a hoof and feel across my teeth. Good. My canines are still there so I can eat meat. “A human diet is pretty diverse. We can have anything really, including meat.” I shouldn’t have said that. The moment I finished that last sentence I could see her tense up from fear. Why is she afraid? Could it be because she is talking to someone that has the same form as her? Well I guess I would also be panicking if I were in her shoes. From a species of mainly herbivores hearing something that is now one of them is able to eat meat could be a terrifying thought. I look at her and see her visibly shaking in fear and being frozen all at once. I think about what I can say next. “Well...I did say that a human diet is diverse and we don’t need to eat meat. Something like fruits and vegetables is perfectly fine for me.” I say trying to break the tension. It seemed to have worked as she started to calm down a bit. I sigh in relief and look at her. “A-alright.” She said to me before turning around. “I’ll get you some food.” And with that she left me alone in the room with a bunch of animals near me. Some were minding their own business, others were staring at me, and a few more were talking to each other in their own animal language. I decide to get some shut eye until the food was ready. I closed my eyes and yawned as I stretched. Then suddenly something is touching me. I open my eyes and see a little fox cuddling up to me as it laid on my body. But what was surprising about this fox was that it had white fur. I had to admit that it was a little cute. But I moved my foreleg underneath it and lifted it off of me and onto the floor. Then I closed my eyes and tried to sleep again. Not even a minute later the fox jumps on me forcing me to make an ‘oof’ noise as some of the air is knocked out of me. “Hey what’s the big idea?” I ask the little fox who just looked at me and licked my face. I groan and just lay back down. I knew that if I were to move the fox off of me it would just jump right back on. So I just closed my eyes and went to sleep. I awoke later when I felt tapping on me and heard Fluttershy’s voice. “Umm Orion. Your food is ready.” I heard her say to me. I open my eyes and look to see that she had made me a plate of some steamed broccoli with melted cheese on it. I smile and nod at her as I sat up. But stopped short when I saw the fox was asleep on me. “Aww you got her to cuddle with you. She’s never usually this nice to others. Usually she avoids others and hides somewhere.” “Hmm. I guess I have that effect on animals.” I say to her. I then saw her move the fox away from me so I could sit up fully and smile at me, albeit a little cutely. “Well thank you for the food.” I say as I go to grab the fork. But as soon as I try to grab it, it falls out of my hoof. “Ah what the fuck? I know you can grab stuff with these things.” The next few minutes was nothing but me trying and failing at grabbing the fork. The entire time I could see Fluttershy looking like she wanted to say something. “Yes Fluttershy what is it?” I asked her a bit rudely because I was pissed that I couldn’t hold even a fork. “Umm...if you need any help I’d be happy to feed you. If that’s alright with you...” She said before going back to her shy self at the end. “No.” I said simply as I continue to try and pick up the fork. “I don’t need any help. You can’t get through life by constantly asking others for help. There are things that you have to do yourself.” “Oh um..ok.” She said just watching silently as I continued to fail again and again and again. At this point I had just given up before I sigh in defeat and look at the Pegasus. “Fluttershy.” I said to her. “Yes Orion?” She asked me. “Could you please help me?” I ask through gritted teeth. I always hated asking for help. It made me feel weak and helpless. Which I guess in this situation, I kinda am. I look over at her and see her form a smile as she came over to me and sat next to me. She then grabbed the fork and stabbed a piece of broccoli with it before taking the fork closer to my mouth. I open it and eat the broccoli. The taste of it and the melted cheese filling my mouth as I hum in satisfaction. “If you tell anyone about this, I will deny it.” I say to her feeling embarrassed that someone has to feed me like this. “Don’t worry. I won’t tell anypony about this.” She said as she went for another broccoli. She would feed me and I would eat for the next few minutes until the plate was finally empty. I sighed and smiled before looking at her. Then I look at the sky. It is night and the moon is full. All of a sudden Fluttershy gets up. “I’ll be going to bed. Goodnight Orion.” She said to me. I cracked a small smile and told her the same. I laid on the couch with a blanket over me and soon went to sleep. (Princess Luna POV) I woke up as soon as the sun was starting to set then I brought night upon the world. Then I went through my routine and was about to go through the dreams of ponies to ward off any nightmares. “Luna. Can I talk to you?” My sister Celestia asked me. “Of course sister. What is it that you want to talk about?” I asked her. Then she used her magic to levitate a letter over to me. One which I read aloud. “Dear Princesses, today I may have not learned anything about friendship, but today I encountered a human from the human world named Orion. He doesn’t know how he ended up in Equestria, but that’s not the most mysterious thing. He has become an Alicorn!” I stopped reading for a moment and looked at my sister in shock. “An alicorn that was originally human? Very mysterious indeed.” I then continued reading. “I was hoping that you both could find out how he arrived here as I’ve looked through my books and found absolutely nothing. Sincerely, your friend Twilight.” “Perhaps you could look into this Orion’s dreams and talk with him there. Maybe you both could figure out how he got here and if there’s a way to send him back to the human world.” My sister told me. I put a hoof to my chin and gave it some thought. “Well at least it seems like something better to do than deal with the night courts.” I say happily as I have an excuse to get out of them at least tonight. “I shall look into his dreams at once!” With that my sister and I went to my chambers and I used my magic to enter the dream realm. Being used to this finding the door to his dream was easy. But it looked completely different than the other doors. More metallic, clean, as if it had never been touched. I open the door and go inside and what I saw was different than anything I could imagine. I saw human men and women wandering hallways and going in and out of doors with some men wearing matching uniforms. Must be the security. But this is odd. No being who’s dream I had entered has ever had something like this! The hallways were white, doors were labeled with words and numbers and the guards here had strange things that they were holding. I look around and try to find Orion. I walked through the doors and yet none of them seemed to notice me. As if I was invisible. I walked through multiple doors trying to find Orion when all of a sudden an alarm was going off. The lights turned red and everything went to Tartarus very quickly! Then I heard a very loud voice through a PA system. “ANOMALY 1 HAS ESCAPED CONTAINMENT! ALL PERSONNEL PLEASE EVACUATE TO THE NEAREST SAFE ROOM!” A female voice said. I saw the men and women running and the guards aiming their weapons at a doorway. I looked closely and saw some of them were visibly shaking and sweating. What could possibly make beings like them afraid? Then my question was answered when I heard a loud bang on the metal door. I started shaking. Whatever it was, it was big. Another bang. Another bang. And finally whatever was hitting the door sent it flying across the room and what I saw would give me nightmares! It was a four legged creature that was on all fours. With its height it was easily twice the size of my sister. The length would be three times the length of my sister as well. It had a domed head from the mouth all the way to the end of its head. It had pieces of bone showing before the bone was quickly covered by skin regenerating. The creature had teeth that looked like they could snap a pony in half with ease. It’s claws were large and looked like somepony had shoved giant curved swords in it. A large tail and it had no eyes. (Warning! There is blood and gore in this scene. I’ll give a thing that will let you know when it’s over.) The thing snarled and did something I didn’t expect, it spoke. And it’s voice would haunt me for weeks. “Foolish humans. Thinking that you are above everything. You are not. Your success in containing me has been nothing but a fluke. Now you will die.” “Open fire!” One of the guards said and they all pulled something that would launch tiny projectiles at a very high speed. It was loud enough for me to cover my ears, but I slowly stopped when my hearing got better. The weapons were barely doing anything to the large creature. It made a loud roar and charged at the men and sliced one of them in half with a claw. Blood and guts flying as the top half was slammed into a wall. From that moment I almost threw up at the sight. Of all my years of living never have I seen such brutality. I looked at the creature and saw it bite the head off of another guard with blood spurting out all over the place. Now I know why they were afraid. It was a monster. This must be a nightmare. It must be a nightmare for Orion. Nopony would ever dream of such a horrible thing. Even the Tantabus I created a long time ago wouldn’t do this! Thinking quickly I closed my eyes and used a spell to get rid of this nightmare. I open my eyes again and the creature is still there. But this time all of the guards were dead. Ripped apart limb from limb and torn to pieces as the creature was now staring directly at me. “BEGONE NIGHTMARE CREATURE!!” I yelled in my royal Canterlot voice as I used the spell again. It did nothing again. Then I realized. This wasn’t a nightmare, this was a happy dream!! I was soon taken out of my thoughts when the creature spoke. (End of the blood and gore.) “You think you can get rid of me with something like that? You amuse me. You think yourself powerful. That you hold the power of a god.” It started to circle me as if it was a predator circling its prey. “Your arrogance amuses me. You claim to be someone who has seen everything and know everything. Yet you know nothing. You are weak. Pathetic. Insignificant. I could tear you in half easily. In fact, that’s what I am going to do.” It said before it lunges itself at me. But before it could touch me I used a spell to completely get rid of the dream and now everything around me was an empty, black void. The monster was gone and replaced by the human I was looking for. And he was glaring at me. “Hey! What’s your deal!? Why did you stop this?!” He yelled at me showing clear anger in his voice and looks. “I was defending myself! And what is your deal with that dream you just had!? How can somepony even imagine something as horrifying as that?! You dreamt of killing your own kind as some sort of monster! How could you do that!?” I yelled at him recovering from my fear which was being replaced by anger. “It’s for a show I’m making! Or I guess since I’m stuck here now, a story! I’m a creator! I go through my head and make a story! And you just stopped me from finishing it by being here. I only turned into Anomaly 1 to scare you off!” He says to me sitting down on a chair that appeared out of thin air. “How did you do that? Only I can make anything happen in a dream when I’m present.” I asked him. “Well I guess not anymore. Maybe it’s because I’m from a different world. Maybe it’s because my mind is a lot more alert to things. Who knows. But what I do want to know is why are you here?” He asks me. “I came here to introduce myself and try to see how you ended up in Equestria.” I explain to him. “Well maybe we can do it some other time. Right now I’m angry at you and I don’t want to see you. So get out of my head.” He told me. How dare he?! I am the princess of the night! “How dare you order me around! You’re the one that decided to scare me off with a monster! And I have more power over you!” I say to him. He rolls his eyes at me and snaps his fingers. Like how Discord would do when he’s doing something. All of a sudden a black, floating skeleton appeared. “Demon, get rid of her.” He said. The creature then looked at me and grinned before pushing me away. “I’m sorry little bitch but my creator doesn’t want to see you. Please come back never and have a nice life!” The skeleton said before pushing me out of the door and closing it. How could anything do that to me!? Nothing is more powerful than me in the dream world! I try to open the door again, but as soon as I did so I heard the sound of a lock. After so long of trying to get it open I just give up and exit the dream world. There I see my sister next to me. “So Lulu, how did it go?” She asked me. “He’s....definitely something.” I say through gritted teeth. I am going to get back inside his head no matter what it takes. > What is my life right now? > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Orion POV) I sigh with content as I wake up from my dream which was unfortunately ruined by the arrival of the Princess known as Luna, but at least I was able to give her the scare of a lifetime and push her out of my mind. That is what she gets. You don’t just go into a man’s dream without his permission. Pretty sure that counts as invasion of privacy. Looking out the window I see that it was still dark outside with the only light coming from the full moon. Well since I can’t really fall back asleep again right now I might as well get up and see if there’s anything I can do. I tried to get up but then I noticed the weight I was feeling on my body. Looking down I saw the same white fox from yesterday fast asleep on me. I admit it was adorable, but I don’t know what to do to get it off. I’m not exactly used to this body yet, but then again I don’t want to. I just want to get out of here as soon as possible so I can forget this ever happened. Looking over to my left I see the same bunny, Angel I think his name was, looking at me. “Hey can you do me a favor? Can you please get this fox off of me?” I whisper so as to not wake anyone or anything else. Angel put a paw to his chin as if he was pondering something. Then he made a gesture I know too well. He wants something in return. “Well I don’t have anything right now, but I’ll tell you what, you can have any of my food you want next time. Do we have a deal?” He thought for a moment before finally nodding. With that he jumped up on the couch and got right next to me where the fox was and pushed his body against it. The fox moved slightly making me freeze up out of fear of it waking up, but it didn’t wake. Angel kept pushing her off of me until she was finally off. Then he hopped down back into the floor and hopped off to another room. Making sure I didn’t make any noise, I slowly moved my body down to the floor by putting my front hooves down first, then turning and sliding down until my back hooves could touch the ground. Smiling I stood up and started to make my way to the door. My legs were shaking so I decided to stay close to the wall just in case until I finally reached the door. I open it by using my horn on the handle before going outside. I felt the cold fresh air hit my face as I looked on at the night sky. It was beautiful. So many stars in the sky with the light of the moon shining down and providing some light. I breathed and sat down by a tree and looked on at the world ahead of me. If I had to say one good thing about this world it’s that it was beautiful. “Orion?” I hear a familiar voice behind me say. I jumped because it caught me off guard and I turned my head to see Fluttershy in a robe of sorts trotting over to me. Fuck did I leave the door open? “What are you doing out here by yourself? And you left the door open.” “I did?” I say. “Sorry my bad. I was just admiring the night sky.” Fluttershy looks the sky and nods before she sits down right next to me. “Yeah it is beautiful. But why did you come out here?” “Well I woke up and couldn’t really fall back to sleep. And to be honest I didn’t want to not after encountering that princess.” I say. “You met Princess Luna? What happened?” She asked with a bit of worry in her voice. “Well she thought it was ok to just enter my dream without my permission. So I decided to scare her, but when that didn’t work I forcefully kicked her out of my dream.” I tell her making her gasp and cover her mouth with her hoof. “You did what?” She asked in a shocked tone looking at me like I just told her I killed somebody. “Why did you do that? How did you do that!?” She said in her usual whispery tone. Right she wasn’t really a loud one. Need to remember that so I can focus my hearing more around her. “I kicked her out of my dream because I didn’t want her there. As for how, I don’t know. Maybe it’s because I’m from another world or that my mind is different from those here. One of the two.” I say casually. “But that was mean. You need to apologize to her next time you see her.” She said. “You can’t be doing things like that.” “Why not?” I ask raising an eyebrow. “She was in the wrong and there was no harm done.” “But it was still mean.” She said pouting. “I’m not apologizing.” I tell her. “Please?” She asked pouting and looking at me. It was probably the cutest thing I’ve ever seen when she was looking at me. The eyes mainly. But I need to steel my resolve. Don’t fall for the cuteness! I have resisted my siblings when they were babies and have resisted my dogs when they were pups, I can resist a pony. Suddenly I was feeling guilt because I didn’t want to upset her. Dammit I lost to the eyes! She wins this round. “Fine I’ll apologize.” I groan to which she smiled and nodded. “But only because you asked.” She nodded and went back to looking at the sky with me. I must have lost track of time because after a while I noticed that I was yawning and feeling tired. “Alright Fluttershy let’s go back inside.” I say looking to my left to see the yellow Pegasus asleep and laying her head on my shoulder. I chuckle a bit and slightly shake her to wake her up. She yawns and looks over at me. “Come on let’s go back inside.” I whisper. She nods slowly and gets off me. She probably didn’t know she was sleeping on me and I honestly didn’t want her to because that would have made it really awkward. When she gets inside I sigh. Is this really going to be my life now? Am I going to be stuck in this world for the rest of my life? I guess if that’s going to be the case I’ll have to head down to Twilight’s place tomorrow to read up on the history of this place. Well at least it gives me something to do and I’ll try to figure everything out. I get up and go back inside and lay back down on the couch and soon close my eyes and fall asleep. (Twilight POV) The light of Celestia’s Sun hit my face and woke me up. I yawned stretching my legs as I got up. I decided to head over to see if Sunset got back to me about Orion’s phone. And she did. I looked at the letter and opened it with my magic to read it. “Twilight about the phone from your new friend, it’s not a model from this world. I asked around and showed my friends but they all said the same thing. So either he has a new kind of phone I’ve never seen before or there is something else going on. Sorry.” What did that mean? Is he from some other alternate world? My eyes widened in realization. “He is!” I yell out enthusiastically. “It doesn’t seem like it makes sense but it really can! I mean if there is another world where my friends and I are all human, then there must be a world that isn’t connected at all! The theories are true! I need to ask him some questions the next time I see him!” Then I heard a knock at my castle door. “Spike could you get that for me please?” “Sure Twi!” The young drake yelled. (Orion POV) “Oh I can’t believe I’m doing this. But if I want to make sure I do good here, I have to learn.” I tell myself before knocking on the castle that is Twilight’s home. Soon after the door opened and I saw a purple and green creature. A dragon if I’m not mistaken. “Hi I’m Spike. Wait aren’t you that Alicorn that Twilight was talking about?” The dragon asked. “Are there any male Alicorns besides me?” I asked raising an eyebrow. “Not that I heard of.” “Then yes I am.” I say. “Is Twilight home?” “Yeah she’s in the map room.” He said letting me in. I walked in and was in awe of the castle I stood in. It shined everywhere and I was mesmerized by its beauty. “So why are you here?” Spike asked. “Well I’m here to learn about the world that I am currently in. Even if there is a chance I can get back to my own world I still need to be prepared in case I am stuck here.” I explain. “But given how this world seems to work, I might not have to worry.” “Huh.” He says before he looked up at me. “Hey if you are from another world, then you must have some interesting things.” “Depends on what you want to know.” “Do you have comics?” He asked. I smiled widely and looked at him. “Yes. We have comics of all types!” I was excited. Maybe this will actually be a chance to show off a bit of my world to these creatures. Humans may be garbage creatures sometimes, but I cannot deny that we make some amazing things. “Like superheroes!?” He asked excitedly. “Oh there are plenty of superheroes and supervillains. Some anti-heroes too.” “Wait what’s an Anti-Hero?” He asked. “An Anti-hero is like a normal hero, but they do bad stuff. Sort of like a the “Ends justify the means” thing.” “That actually sounds cool.” He said. Maybe this world wasn’t so bad after all. “Tell you what, after I read up on this world’s history, I will introduce you to Marvel Comics and the man who made it. Stan Lee. Oh may he Rest In Peace.” I say bowing my head. Spike nods and bows his head in respect. “Hey Spike who was at the door?” I hear Twlight’s voice as she comes into view. “Oh hey Twilight. It’s that Alicorn you told me about.” He said turning to me. “Also I never got your name.” “My name is Orion.” “So Orion, what are you doing here?” Twilight asked me. “I thought you would be at Fluttershy’s learning how to walk.” “Well I practiced. I’m still trying to get used to it. But I’m here because I want to learn about the history of this place so I was wondering if you had any books.” I think I may soon regret saying that as the purple pony started smiling widely and had a sparkle appearing in her eyes. “Oh I have plenty of books about Equestria’s history and the history of magic! Come on!” She said running up to me with her horn glowing. Suddenly I was covered in a purple aura and was lifted off the ground before she started running toward a direction with me being helpless. “Brain it looks like you’re going to be working overtime.” I say to myself as I was being dragged off through the castle. > I Can’t Fly! > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Orion POV) My head is fucking pounding. I have been reading books on Equestria’s history all fucking day! Sure it gave me something to do, but I might have made a mistake. Now Twilight has left me alone to do some princess stuff and Spike has been dusting the library for a bit now but he left a while ago to go outside. “Ugh I feel like my brain is gonna explode.” I groan out. “I’m not used to reading this much.” I look outside and I’m guessing it’s around noonish. “Alright you know what, break time. I can’t play Doom Eternal or Fallout, or watch any movies or shows, but I can go outside for a bit.” I tell myself. I always find myself talking to myself a lot. I left the books at the table and trotted over to the door to open it. I take a deep breath as I go outside and close the door behind me. I never really took in the details of this place before but now I did. I see various ponies around me going about their day. Gossiping, shopping, just having a good time. Then I see a familiar Rainbow maned Pegasus fly down near me. “Hey....I forgot your name..” She said “Orion.” I reply. “Orion, right! Hey I just wanted to say I was sorry about what happened when we met. I lost my temper a bit, you know threatening my friend and all.” She said. Then I think back. Yeah I guess I did overreact when I threatened Twilight back there over the one possession I probably won’t be able to use again. “Yeah you’re right, sorry about that, and you know what, let’s just put all that behind us.” “Right.” She then looked at Twilight’s castle behind me. “So what are you doing?” “I was just reading on Equestria’s history. There’s a pretty high chance I’ll be stuck here, so I might as well learn everything I can.” I say. “Oh I’m sure the princesses can get you back home.” Rainbow said flying overhead of me. “But what if they can’t?” I reply. “I am considering the possibility that I might be stuck here for the rest of my life.” “Alright you have a point.” She then landed in front of me. “But what are you doing now?” “Taking a break. I can’t take any more reading right now. What about you?” “I just got finished moving the clouds around.” Then she seemed to have a lightbulb go off in her head. “Hey since you’re an Alicorn and there is a chance that you might be stuck here, how about I teach you how to fly?” Right there I felt fear and I started to get anxious. “Well you see....I would love to...but there’s a small problem...” “What is it?” She asked. “I’m..” I lowered my head a bit. “Afraid of heights.” “What was that?” She asked leaning closer. “I’m afraid of heights.” I admitted. “And that’s understandable.” She said. “A lot of Pegasi are afraid of heights before they start flying, but I am willing to teach you!” She held a hoof to her chest and smiled proudly. I sigh a bit and nod. “Alright let’s do this.” I say confidently. (Soon) “I can’t do this!” I say in fear as I stood on top of a cloud with Rainbow Dash flying right in front of me. “Yes you can.” She said. “Look it’s simple ok, just unfurl your wings.” “Easy for you to say! I just got this body!” I yell out. I honestly think this world and it’s inhabitants are trying to kill me! “Oh right, I forgot about that.” She said sheepishly with a light bit of pink on her face. “Ok just focus on your wings ok. Just think about spreading your wings. And be calm while doing it.” I nod a bit and close my eyes. I take a deep breath as I think about spreading my wings. I feel movement on my back and something lifting off of it. “There you go! See it’s easy.” I hear Rainbow say. I open my eyes and turn my head back, there it is. My wings are showing and the feathers are moving with the breeze. “Alright now jump.” That made me freeze up instantly. “Are you fucking serious!?” I yell out with the my fear coming back to me. I swear this world wants to fucking kill me! “Relax ok, I put a few clouds beneath you so that if you fall down you’ll land safely on them.” She said calmly. “You just need to relax and think about moving your wings.” I take a deep breath and close my eyes. I move forward and open my eyes and scream in terror as I fall straight down. “Wings come on! Work with me here!” I yell out in panic as I fall towards a cloud. I remember that I will be safe on the cloud. Not even a second later the cloud moves out of the way with the wind and I panic once again. “SHIT!” I scream out and soon hit the ground hard enough to where I’m in the ground in a me shaped hole. I felt nothing but absolute pain all over my body as I let out a long and low whine of agony. From the hole I see Rainbow flying down towards me. “Hey are you ok?” Rainbow asked me looking down into the hole. All she got from me is a groan. She smiles, “Yeah you’re fine.” “Kill.....me.” I finally manage to get out. “You didn’t flap your wings. You were supposed to flap them.” She said as if I should have known that. “Oh yeah....flap my wings....why didn’t I...ow....think of that.” I say trying to pull myself out of the hole with sarcasm in my voice. “Oh wait I remember, I don’t know how to.” “Maybe a higher position will help.” Rainbow putting a hoof to her chine. My eyes widened in fear. Nothing but fear replacing the pain in my body. “No!” I yell out startling her a little. “How about I stay here, on the ground, and practice using my wings. Or better yet, maybe I don’t fly at all, because I am scared of heights, I don’t know what I’m doing, and I am an idiot for thinking I could actually do it!” “Hey nopony ever makes it on their first try. I mean look at Twilight, she failed so many times before she finally got the hang of it.” “Yeah but I’m new to the whole being a pony thing. I can barely walk.” I counter. “You know what, I need to cool down before I end up saying something I’ll regret.” “Yeah you do that.” Rainbow said flying off leaving me alone. I sigh in relief. “Glad that’s over with.” I tell myself as I trot back to Twilight’s to continue reading on Equestria. And I’m probably going to need some ice for all of my body. > Nightmare Night Story > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Orion POV) So it is Nightmare Night, their version of Halloween. Everyone had already gotten their costumes while I had been arguing with Rarity about the look of my costume. She kept insisting that I add a bit of shine to my costume while I argued that certain things just work. Thankfully I got her to surrender in the end. And now I was walking through Ponyville as the Courier from Fallout New Vegas in the Ranger Armor and I even managed to make the helmet myself. I got stares as usual but they were at my costume and that is fine, I liked showing off my world and now I could by wearing it. I was looking around until I saw Twilight with a wizard costume of sorts including a beard. She noticed me and ram up to me. “Hey Orion, can you guess who I am?” She asked. “Are you Starswirl the Bearded?” I asked as I remembered reading the history of magic here. “Wow even you knew.” She said before she saw my costume. “So what are you?” “I’m the angriest mailman in the entire freaking universe. Courier Six.” I say. “How can a mailman be so angry?” She asked. “Somebody shot him in the head and he wanted revenge.” I say casually. “Wow that’s.....actually understandable.” Twilight said which shocked me. Normally she was against this kind of thing. “I mean I would be angry too if somepony decided to use a weapon to try to kill me.” “That’s...actually surprising coming from you Twilight, you are the Princess of Friendship after all. I thought you’d be against something like revenge.” I say. “I said that it was understandable, I am against revenge, but who wouldn’t be angry if they were attacked like that?” She pointed out. “Well glad we are on the same page.” I say as we trotted over to Sugarcube Corner to see the others. Applejack was in a cowgirl outfit, Fluttershy was a vampire pony, Pinkie was a mummy, Rainbow was in a Wonderbolts costume. “Hey girls.” “Hey Orion.” They all day happily. “Nice costume.” Pinkie said. “Thanks, but I only made the helmet, Rarity made the actual costume.” This surprised everyone. “Hold on you got Rarity to make that?” Rainbow asked in surprise. “Oh believe me, it took a lot of convincing.” I say. “She really tested my patience, but I kept my cool.” Then I looked out the corner of my eye and saw Celestia and Luna walking toward us. “Oh hey Princesses.” I say to them. “Orion, it is nice to see you again.” Celestia says. “I hope you are enjoying your first Nightmare Night. I know our holidays may seem strange.” “Actually this is similar to what I have in my world.” I say to them. “Really?” Luna asks. “Pretty much, but we call our holiday Halloween.” “Interesting name.” Luna says. “Well pretty soon there will be a campfire done where we can tell scary stories. Would you like to join?” “Sure. But I’ll try to keep my stories not as scary so as to not scare them too much.” I say. “Hah! I doubt your stories are as scary as the ones we are going to tell.” Rainbow said cockily. (Later) They honestly weren’t scary. They were ones I expected from a place like this. Right now Rainbow was telling a story of a mare who was lost in the woods. “And then she was never heard from again.” Rainbow finished leaving everyone except me, Twilight, Pinkie, AJ, and the Princesses shaking. I was bored. “Alright Orion your go. Try to scare us.” Rainbow said which made me smile. “Alright I have a few in mind. You all can choose which scary story I should tell you. Freddy Krueger, Jason Vorhees, Micheal Myers, the Weeping Angels, I can go on.” I tell them. “How about the first one.” Rainbow asked to which the others nodded. “Alright here is the story of Freddy Krueger, the Nightmare.” I say dramatically catching Celestia’s and Luna’s attention. “It all starts on a street called Elm Street. A man named Freddy Krueger lived on that street. This man was evil, possibly one of the most evil beings I have ever seen in my life.” Everyone started looking around at each other for a moment with concern on their faces. “He was a man who wore a fedora, a red and green sweater, and a glove with blades on it and took pride in killing the children of Elm Street.” This made everyone gasp in horror, even the Princesses. “How could a monster kill such young foals!?” Celestia said in shock. “He was locked up right?” Fluttershy asked hopefully. I didn’t want to make her upset but I had to keep going. “No.” I say shocking everyone once again. “He was arrested, but because he didn’t leave any evidence behind, they let him walk free. So the parents of those children decided to take justice in their own hands or hooves.” “What did they do?” Rarity asked. “They burned his house to the ground with him still inside.” I say. “They burned him alive.” I pause for a moment for them to breath a sigh in relief. “But he survived.” Everyone was shocked again. “How!?” Luna asked with a bit of fear in her voice. “By invading their dreams.” I say leaving them speechless as I continue on. “Freddy found a way to kill his victims in their dreams. And if he kills you in your dream, you die in real life in the exact way he killed you. Your dreams will start off with you being in an empty place, but you won’t even know you’re dreaming until you hear 3 little girls singing a song.” I say before singing the song. 1, 2, Freddy’s coming for you 3, 4, Better lock your door 5, 6, Grab your crucifix 7, 8, Better stay up late 9, 10, Never sleep again. Everyone was shivering except Twilight, Luna, and Celestia, but fear was evident in their faces, Fluttershy was cowering behind Applejack who tried to look tough but she was shaking immensely, Pinkie was cowering on the ground with flat hair, Rarity was shaking, but I have a feeling she was more afraid of his attire than him, and Rainbow had a brave face on. “And Freddy’s dream powers work like Luna’s. When he’s in your dream, he has full control. You can try to fight back, say you’re not afraid, but he won’t care. Because his power of fear works differently than you’d think. His power comes from society’s fear of him. So it won’t matter if you’re afraid of him or not when he has the fear of multiple people giving him power.” “Ah think that’s enough story time for one night...” Applejack said with the others nodding vigorously with the exception of Rainbow Dash. “Please, we aren’t afraid of him, if he comes in my dream I’m gonna beat him down!” Rainbow said making me shake my head with a smile on my face. “Hey Orion, remind me not to visit your world...” Twilight said with everyone nodding. But Fluttershy was still shaking. “Welp I’m off to bed. See you in the morning.” Rainbow Dash said flying off into the sky. “By the way you don’t have to worry about anything, Freddy isn’t real. He’s just a character my people made.” I tell them making them sigh in relief. “Fluttershy are you alright?” Twilight asked the cowering yellow Pegasus. “I-I’m fine...” She said but nopony believed it. “Don’t worry sugarcube, the story scared me good. Ah’m just surprised that Orion and his people can make such horrible monsters. Ah just imagine Nightmare Moon.” Applejack said. “I am going to be honest, I don’t think Nightmare Moon, Chrysalis, Sombra, or even Tirek could even hold a candle to this Freddy Krueger.” Luna said. “Even they wouldn’t commit such vile acts against society.” “Well like I said, he’s not real.” I tell them before I smirk at Luna. “Hey Luna, remember that favor you owe me?” “What favor?” Celestia asked while Luna took a deep breath. “You remember how I invaded Orion’s dream when he first arrived and I acted out of line? Well Orion said he would forgive me if I owed him a favor of any kind.” “Yep, and I would like to cash in that favor.” I tell them with a wicked grin. “Orion...what are you planning?” Twilight asked with concern. “Well I mean, it can’t be called Nightmare Night unless someone has a nightmare. I’d say Dash has earned that for tonight.” I laugh evilly. “For all the pranks she pulled on me, this is payback.” “But you said Freddy wasn’t real.” Applejack said. “Yeah, but Dash wasn’t around to hear that. She left before I said it.” I point out. (Rainbow Dash POV) Please, if my friends and I can beat Discord, Tirek, Sombra, Chrysalis, and all the other evils in this world, we can handle a dream monster. After all we did defeat the Tantibus! I arrived home and went straight to bed and just drifted off to sleep. (3rd POV) Rainbow Dash woke up wide eyed. “Ugh I can’t sleep.” She gets out of bed and heads to get some water, but the moment she flies through the door she sees she isn’t in her home anymore, but a building of sorts with a red light. “What the?” She heard the sound of something hitting the ground repeatedly. She turned a corner and saw three human girls with a jump rope. Then they started singing. “1, 2, Freddy’s coming for you.” Rainbow started to back up in fear as she saw them. “3, 4, better lock your door.” Rainbow started to bolt away away from the girls. She tried to fly but found her wings were gone. “WHAT THE!?” “5, 6, grab your crucifix.” She kept running through the halls as she tried to find her way out but was only getting exhausted. “7, 8, better stay up late.” She suddenly stopped as she came across a furnace and saw a human figure ahead of her. A silhouette with a hat on and it was coming closer until it stepped into the light. His face was burned and he had sharp teeth. A striped sweater on him and a glove on his hand as he looked at Rainbow with a wicked grin. “9, 10, never sleep again.” The song finished and Freddy started to chase Rainbow Dash with a vicious laugh as she screamed in terror and ran away from the killer. Turning a corner she found a locker and went inside it. She closed it and saw Freddy going right past her. “This is my dream. I should be able to make it better.” She panted before the locker suddenly opened and she saw Freddy grab her by the mane. “Not in my world Bitch!” He said laughing as Rainbow Dash screamed in terror. Then she heard Luna’s voice above her. “I can’t do this anymore!” The dream suddenly disappeared and Rainbow was back in her house as Freddy was revealed to be Orion who was laughing like there was no tomorrow, on the ground with tears coming out of his eyes. “I DON’T CARE! IT WAS TOO GOOD!” The charcoal Alicorn yelled before going back to laughing. “ORION!!” Rainbow yelled furiously. “WHY DID YOU SCARE ME LIKE THAT!?” After a few second Orion finally stopped laughing. “Pay...back for all the pranks you pulled on me.” “So Freddy wasn’t real?” Rainbow asked. “Never was.” “Princess Luna you were in on it?” “I owed Orion a favor. I did not want to do it, but I had to.” Luna said solemnly. “I am sorry.” “Don’t be mad Rainbow. Look nobody is hurt and you and I are even in terms of pranks.” Orion said. “We good?” “Yeah we’re good.” Rainbow said laughing a bit. Then she stopped and got a serious look. “But do it again and you will regret it.” Orion gulped in fear and nodded. “Ok.”