> Sparkle Green-Green's Trip To Equestria > by flamecid > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Arrival > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- My name is Corey Amadkor, hi there, I'm 5 ft 7 with blue and red dyed hair and I'm Caucasian, this is the story of how I ended up in a fanfic written by a different version of me. It started when i was on the train home from my video game group's weekly event, I usually drive but was taking the train because my car in the shop was getting maintenance, I was wearing my black and yellow PAX hoodie over a ruby rose t-shirt and a blue pair of jeans, anyway I had my large blue backpack and dark blue and brown satchel, both with consoles and controllers, on the seat next to me, I was the only one on train as it was quite late at night but I didn't mind, i had my iPhone and was reading stuff on tvtropes, suddenly all the lights went out, I stood up, put my iPhone on the seat and grabbed the metal handle on the corner of the seat as it was too dark to see anything, bad idea. As I did grab the handle I felt a surge of electricity and, if I wasn't crazy, something else, followed by the carriage coming to a jarring stop, sending me falling to the floor, too bad there was a metal pole in the way of my head, I would have liked to look outside. Just a short way from Rarity's boutique next to two wooden tables stood Princess Twilight, going through some magical calculations. At the sound of hoofsteps she turned to see Spike running up to her with Pinkie Pie bouncing along in tow. "Oh good, Spike you found one of them. Thank you very much for that." Spike, out of breath from running, simply nodded in response. "Hi, Twilight!" pinkie exclaimed. "Did you need me for something?" "Yes Pinkie, I asked Spike to find you or Fluttershy because you two were the ones to reform him and, as such, the only ones capable of keeping him in line if need be, it seems spike found you before Fluttershy, could you please bring him here? I want to do a magic experiment with his help." "Sure thing Twilight." Pinkie, once again showing that Twilight would never understand how she broke the laws of magic, reached into her bubblegum mane and pulled out a tiny Discord, who then grew to normal size. "WHY, hello there Twilight! What chaotic services can i provide you with today?" crowed Discord, hamming it up as he bowed low, taking of his horns as if they were a top hat. "Hello Discord, I wanted to test the effect of chaos magic on spells, starting with a swap spell on these two wooden tables to see what happens." "Well then! I have just the thing for you my dear princess of Friendship. Discord lifted a claw then drew the outline of a horn ring in the air, then grabbed it out of the air and squeezed it with a glow before handing it to Twilight. "Here you are then, slip this over your horn, I've charged it with chaos magic. As you charge your magic, chaos magic will filter into the spell and add to it." Twilight looked apprehensive and turned to Pinkie. "Is it okay to trust this?" She asked. "Silly Twilight, of course it is!" The party pony said putting an arm around Twilight's neck "Discord KNOWS that if he did anything wrong then I'd happily inform Fluttershy and she wouldn't be happy at all." Discord gulped audibly. "All right, if you say so, Pinkie" Twilight said, reassured as she slipped the ring over her horn, aimed at one of the tables and started charging magic, while Pinkie turned and started whispering, albeit loud enough that Twilight could hear every word, with Discord. "Hey Dissy, is this the part where he gets here?" "I think so my fellow agent of chaos, this chapter IS called 'Arrival'" "Oh yeah it is, can you remember how it happens? It's been so long since I read the story" "Alas, my dear, I cannot, it's been just as long for me, I finished the story before you, remember? All I know is That it's got something to do- oh! she's listening, It's got something to do with the spell Twilight's using but if she learns that he might not end up here at all. " "OH NO! We can't have that, if that happens those ponies who I won't say because it'll spoil it for the readers will miss out on so much happiness if that happens!" "Yes my dear, there is nothing worse than a spoiled plot, don't worry dear readers the mystery will be preserved until you read it in later chapters, for now i hear the sound a plot device approaching, so enjoy." Twilight didn't know what they were talking about but logged away the conversation for reference later and focused on the spell. Just then she heard Pinkie pie shout a warning followed by a large weight hitting her side, probably the party mare herself, hit her side, causing the spell to overcharge and shoot off into the distance, missing the tables completely. Twilight was about to reprimand Pinkie for ruining the spell, only to pause as a red, orange, yellow and white blur whizzed past her and crashed into the tables. Twilight turned and saw the CMC, who had been riding on Scootaloo's scooter and a red wagon, lying in a heap amongst the two tables. "GIRLS!" exclaimed Twilight. "Are you alright?" It was Scootaloo who replied. "Yes miss Twilight, sorry about that, I wasn't watching where I was going. "That's fine girls, I'm just happy you're unhurt." "So that's how it happened." Twilight turned to the source of the Sequitur. "What was that, Pinkie?" "I said, 'I think we should follow where your spell went, it looks like it headed towards the train station." She said, pointing. Suddenly there was a great big flash in the direction Pinkie gestured, followed by a bolt of lightning shooting into the sky." "Perhaps we should hurry." Discord chimed in. "Oh no!" shrieked Twilight, "Spike, go get Fluttershy, there may be injured ponies, and meet us there." By the time the three of them got there the cutie mark crusaders were already there staring, along with two or three other townsponies off to the sides. Instead of the normal pink steam engine there was a big boxy silver carriage trimmed with blue and yellow and what looked like doors that opened sideways instead of outwards, with one of them already slightly opened already. Twilight also noticed that the lightning had glanced some trees leaving some branches in danger of falling. "Keep an eye on the branches above, girls." Twilight warned. After she spoke however, she heard a sound and looked towards the train, one of the doors was opening. The five of them watched as a green unicorn stallion walked out, sneezed and, in the blink of an eye, changed into some kind of biped animal. "What is going on here?" she whispered. When I woke up it was already light outside, ugh, did i sleep on the train all night? Mum and Dad were gonna kill me. I saw that one of the doors was slightly opened, I walked over, pushed it all the way open and stepped outside. And immediately sneezed thanks to do the bright light, damn photic sneezes. After my sneeze I realized the height of my view had changed, I looked down at my body to see what was wrong but couldn't see anything wrong, normal human hands and normal human body. after I looked up I realized I left my glasses on the seat of the train, but could still see a bright and colourful town as well as 3 cat sized blobs, 2 dog sized blobs, pink and purple, and a long thin brown blob, which then proceeded to disappear, appear next to me, painfully touch my temple, then reappear next to the two dog sized blobs and start talking to them. I may have hit my head but, if I didn't know any better, I would have sworn that was Discord just now. I know it wasn't my eyes because I can see perfectly fine within arms length. I didn't have time to dwell on that however because I heard a crack and turned and saw a large branch falling towards the white and purple cat shaped blob. Before I knew it I was sprinting towards the blob and covering it with my body, I must have made it because I felt a sharp pain in my back and was knocked onto my hands and knees. I felt around behind me and found that A my hoodie and shirt were ripped, and they were both my favourite too! And B that I was bleeding from a semi-deep scrape on my back. I didn't have time to get angry about either of those things however because there was a second crack and i felt something hit my head, what was with today and receiving blunt force head trauma. As i drifted out of consciousness I heard some voices. "...No! He's... ...him to Rarity's... ...to be closest to..." Was all I got before black consumed my vision. > Greetings > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- When I came to I realized I was on a couch, covered in a blanket and there were voices. I don't know how i knew but I knew they weren't English. "...Do you think he'll wake up?" "Ya got me, he took that big ol' branch to th' head, so he might be out fer a while." "I know, he was so gallant, like a knight!" "Ha ha, gallant? You gotta crush on him Sweetie Belle." "I... I DO NOT! I'm just grateful, that's all. That branch would have put my in the hospital, you try getting saved from something like that and not feel any gratitude!" "She's kinda right about that, but, what kinda critter is he anyway?" "HE has a splitting headache, so could you keep it down?" I said suddenly, making them all jump. "He's awake! your sister said we should go get her as soon as he wakes up." "RARITY!" "MISS RARITY!" And with that, I heard them all run out the room, and as they did I turned over trying to get some more rest. A couple of minutes later I heard someone come back into the room, sighed and tried to sit up but stopped when my back protested painfully, before trying again, this time taking care not to cause any more pain. After I did I noticed that I wasn't wearing a shirt, though I did have bandages around my chest. "Hello dear, how are you feeling?" Said a familiar looking white and purple blob in a very familiar voice. It couldn't be. "Fine, except for a sharp pain in my back and a splitting headache." I replied warily, trying to work out if the person, though if I was right then "person" wasn't the right word, was who i thought it was. "Yes well, that kind of thing tends to happen when you take a large branch to the back and head. Thank you very much by the way, that was very brave of you and I am very glad my sister is unharmed. It was her, but I wasn't wearing my glasses, and had to be sure. I started to take the blanket off of me and get up when a thought occurred to me. I slipped a hand underneath the blanket and, yep, I was right. "Excuse me, I don't know how to say this without seeming rude but, where are my clothes?" "Ah yes, dreadfully sorry about that, but we needed to remove them so we could have a doctor check your body for injuries. Due to the... nature of your arrival we just had to be sure." "Cool, cool, understandable, well before them I remember leaving all my stuff on the train, did someone bring them here? ...Wherever here is." "Oh my yes we did, darling, I'll go get it." Came the reply. "Ah..um I don't need all of it right now, if you could just grab my glasses for me that'd be great, thanks." I called to the retreating steps. A couple of minutes later I heard her coming back with a purple blob floating in front of her. "Here you are, dear" she said as I felt my glasses placed in my hands. I took a moment to look down before putting them on my face, when I looked up I was stunned. "Oh my god, I was right, it is you. YOU'RE RARITY HOOVES!" "Oh my god, I was right, it is you. YOU'RE RARITY HOOVES!" The creature yelled out suddenly making Rarity jump in shock. How did he, she knew it was a he, she thought with a blush, thanks to being the one to remove his garments due to their ripped and ragged state so she could study and try to repair them, anyway how did this creature, who even Twilight didn't recognise, know who she was? She snapped out of her thoughts to find him babbling about something, she was able to keep up with what he was saying; his speed of speech was no match for Pinkie's. "...Mark crusaders as well as Pinkie pie Discord and Twilight the question is what period of the show am I in? it must at least be after Discord was reformed or he probably wouldn't be there but I didn't see if Twilight was an alicorn yet and..." Rarity thought that if she wanted to get any questions answered she should probably interrupt him while it was still daylight. "I'm sorry to interrupt your, pardon me, babbling" she began politely, this was a new species, a lady would do well to remember her manners. "Usually when you introduce, or in this case name, a lady, it is common courtesy to give your own name first." He stopped, stared, and in what she assumed was a fake posh accent, spoke with a bow, or as much of a bow as one could make while sitting on a couch. "My lady you are entirely correct, please forgive a fool's rude outburst." she nodded, giggling. "My name is Corey Amadkor, could you please do me the honour of informing me what happened when I first arrived here in Equestria? Do that and I shall reward you with the knowledge I myself possess." Knowledge he possessed? she was intrigued. "Well dear, I can't say for certain as I wasn't there in person, but from what I heard from those that were, after a chaos-powered swap spell misfired and hit a train carriage, which was empty thank the princesses for small mercies, it must have swapped the carriage with the one you were on, wherever you were, but don't worry, princess Twilight is working on a spell to change you back into a pony. Discord keeps trying to help for reasons no-one can determine." Corey listened to her explanation with interest before something clicked in what she said and was shocked when he realised what it was. "Whoa, whoa whoa, back up. You said 'back into a pony' what did you mean by that? I always look like this." "Darling are you sure you didn't hit your head when the carriage you were on was moved? In any case, what i meant by change back into a pony is that all five of the ponies I spoke to, plus the one non-pony I spoke to, said that after you emerged from that strange carriage, you sneezed and sort of... morphed into whatever it is you are now." As she finished her explanation she saw a faraway look come onto Corey's face, and when he replied, he spoke very slowly in what was almost a whisper. "What i looked like... as a pony... please tell me." there was a touch of urgency in his voice "Well dear, they you had a grass green coat, with a darker green mane that was constantly sparkly, oh I wish I could have seen it." His jaw dropped. My jaw dropped. So, not only was I in Equestria, I thought, ticking things off. Train carriage swap, transform when I sneeze, pony I transform into being a unicorn stallion with grass green coat, darker green short mane and tail that is permanently sparkly-that I came up with after that one post on the brony headtome page, and to top it off, waking up on a couch after having saved one of the CMC from a falling branch, though I hadn't counted on my clothes being removed, confirmed it. Not only was I in Equestria, I was actually in the fanfic idea I had come with on a whim. Did that mean I could speak with the version of myself writing this? Suddenly Rarity's phone started to ring, except... the ringing wasn't coming from her phone, it was coming... from my hand? The pair of us looked down at it in surprise, to see that it was shaking with each time my hand "rang". Which was vaguely in the shape of a cellphone. I tried uncurling my three middle fingers and found That I couldn't, tried curling my thumb and pinkie finger and also found I couldn't. Well Corey, what do you normally do with a ringing phone? I moved my hand up to my ear and the ringing stopped. "Hello?" I tried. All I could hear was gibberish, though, strangely enough, I could understand them as words. "Bergaburh. "Um, hi" I replied. Guess that answers that question. "So, um Author, is this story finished? Have you finished writing it yet?" "Ber." "Oh cool, guess I get to find out what happens then, anything that you have planned that you're willing to tell me?" "Beah, bur burgeburbur burgeh Bih bergoo buh burbur borbor burn." "Well I was at least planning on doing that much at least" I replied before listening to what was a lot of gibberish. "Cool... cool... right... huh, well god damn! That is genius, anything else?" "Berber." "Great, uh, one last thing, how do I contact you if I need or want to?" "Ber ber berber ber." "Sweet, but only once a Day?" "BES!!" "Alright fine! only once a day, anyway talk to you tomorrow, bye." I put my hand down, finally able to move my fingers , to see Rarity staring at me in bewilderment. "Forgive me darling, but you are quite possibly the strangest thing I have ever seen, and I know Pinkie pie, no offence to her of course." She said in a cautious tone. I grinned in response. "Always happy to please. Anyway, I promised you information and information I will give you, here's what I know about my current situation..." > Plans > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Here's what I know about my current situation... I'm not from this world, possibly not from this world, either" I began in a cautious voice, unsure if Rarity would believe me. At that that first tidbit of information she did go a little bug-eyed but otherwise said nothing. "I am what's known as a human, and on my world, the world of Equestria is a TV-" I stopped, realising that none of the ponies would know what television was. "On my world the world of Equestria is a fictional story, not real, and neither is magic, our magic is all smoke and mirrors." "A story, darling? Not real? I find that a little hard to believe." Rarity replied slowly. "While I can believe that you are not from Equas, given that nopony has ever seen anything like you before, I assure you I am quite real and not a fictional character." "Oh I fully believe you're real, I'll get into why in a bit, but I have proof that you guys are a show in my world" I said with a grin looking forward to this next part. Rarity just looked at me as if to say 'this should be good.' "Your name is Rarity Hooves and hold the element of generosity, you have a sister called Sweetie Belle, and a parents who, while you find them quite embarrassing, you still love them dearly. Your friend Applejack holds the element of honesty and lives on an apple farm with her grandmother Granny Smith, her older brother Big Mac and her little sister Applebloom, who is also one of Sweetie's best friends. Your friend Rainbow dash is the holder of the element of Loyalty, has an adoptive younger sister in the form of one Scootaloo, who happens to be Sweetie's other best friend, the three of them making up the cutie mark crusaders. I took a breath and grinned at Rarity, who was bug-eyed again, but i wasn't finished "another friend of yours is Fluttershy, holder of the element of kindness, she lives close to the everfree forest with all her animal friends and joins you for weekly trips to the spa and was the one who redeemed Discord, lord of chaos. Next we have Pinkie pie, resident party pony and holder of the element of laughter. Finally we have Twilight Sparkle, holder of the element of magic and, depending what part of the timeline I dropped in, alicorn and princess of friendship, her brother is Shining Armour, captain of the guard and married to Cadenza De Amora, or Cadence for short, alicorn of love, who is in turn niece to the rulers of Equestria, princesses Celestia and Luna, alicorns of the sun and moon, respectively." With a grin I looked up to see Rarity's jaw had dropped at this point. "Convinced now?" It took a minute for Rarity to respond due to my lengthy speech "W...well yes dear, I am, but you got one thing wrong. It was Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie who redeemed Discord, not just Fluttershy herself." I blinked in surprise, it seems that Author me decided to change one or two small details, but that made sense, who else could keep up with Discord's chaos but Pinkie pie? that reminded me. "Oh one other detail I realised" I told her "I worked out that not only am I in Equestria, but it turns out I am in Equestria in a story that a different version of me is currently writing." Rarity looked at me in surprise for a minute before she burst out laughing, well, Rarity's polite style of burst out laughing anyway. "Sorry dear, but that is quite preposterous, I can believe that you're from another world where this world is fictional, based on what you've told me, but you expect me to believe that we are in a story that is currently being written by another version of you? No sorry but whatever conclusions you have come to about that simply cannot be true." Upon seeing the time, Rarity got up and started towards the door "come now dear, we must be off, Twilight asked to meet you once you woke." I went to get up before I realised that I didn't have a stitch of clothing on me. "Um Rarity, before we do that can you bring me my clothes?" Rarity looked at me in surprise "whatever for, darling? Surely you don't need them?" "Except I do, it may not be necessary for ponies to wear clothing but humans like me have developed a deep sense of shame, to us going out without any clothes on is the visual equivalent of one of you ponies passing wind in front of both of the princesses." Rarity looked scandalised at the thought. "My dear I am so sorry, I had no idea that was the case. Even so we must come up with some alternative as the garments you were wearing are not fit to be worn right now. Whatever happened to bring you here left them both ripped in many places and completely filthy! I am sorry but I could not live with myself if I let anyone, pony or otherwise, wear such things." At her response I did some thinking and came up with an idea. "In that case can you go find Rainb-no Pinkie pie please? And Bring her back here, I'll let you know what the plan is when I do." A couple of minutes later had pinkie before me as well. "alright first, before I tell you girls my idea, I'll need you girls to first tell me what was the last 'interesting' thing that happened in Ponyville." "OOH, ooh, I know this one" Pinkie Pie called out. "The map in Twilight's castle that tells us to go places sent Rainbow Dash and Twilight to the wonderbolt academy." It was a good thing I had watched the show and knew what to expect, otherwise I would have had trouble keeping up with Pinkie Pie. "Right, thanks Pinkie, so Starlight is already Twilight's apprentice?" "Ahuh, and a couple of weeks ago she and Twilight convinced Trixie to become Twilight's apprentice too." "Huh, that never happened in the show, another difference, anyway now I have an idea what to expect later on in this story." "Oh! You're talking about the story about our show that Corey from the other side is currently writing." Rarity looked at Pinkie Pie in surprise. "Pinkie! You believe that too?" "Yup, I loved the ending" this time it was my turn to look at Pinkie Pie in surprise. "Wait a minute Pinkie, if the story is currently being written, how have you read it up to the end? never mind there won't actually be a way for it to ever exist in this world in this world in any form." "Dissy gave me copy, written down on paper." I chuckled in surprise, I should have known. Rarity looked between the two of us and hung her head. "First Pinkie Pie, then Discord, now there's a third one of you with logic I can't follow." I gave Rarity a grin. "Hey, either you follow the logic or go mad trying, if it helps, I for one know that most of what Pinkie and Discord does falls under rule of funny." I said, giving a fist/hoof bump. "Anyway, back to my reason for calling Pinkie here, Pinkie you were there when I came out of the train, so you know about how I change between human and pony with a sneeze right?" At her nod I continued "right so where I came from I'm one of seventeen to thirty-five percent of humans who suffer from what we called the photic sneeze reflex, what that means is that I sneeze when light is shined on my face bright enough or long enough, which is what I'm gonna get Rarity to do with a spell." Pinkie looked at me with a confused expression but Rarity looked like she was following along. "But why do you need me then?" Pinkie pie asked. "Your Pinkie sense" I said, simply. "After i sneeze from Rarity's light spell and transform into a pony, you've read this story, you know about us humans' nudity issues, I'm going to give you this blanket, what I need from you, Pinkie, is this; I need you to focus on your pinkie sense and use it to let you know when I'm about to sneeze, and when I am, before I do, I need you to cover me with this blanket again, to keep my modesty intact until it's no longer needed. I know how reliable you can be when the situation calls for it so I am trusting you with this, can you do this for me?" Pinkie gave me a serious look and nodded firmly. "Okay darling, I'll get that light spell ready, don't worry" Rarity spoke up. "Hold on a minute first, Rares." I said, holding up a hand, "I got one other small thing I need to do first. "Can you get me some paper and something to write with?" "Whatever for, darling" Rarity said, handing me the requested items. "Writing down a spell given to me by the other me, it uses letters from a different language from my world call Greek, and consists of 8 letters which roughly translate to another name I've used a lot, Flamecid, according to the other me I'll need to get Twilight to draw these letters in the air, then I'll need her to cast 8 beams of magic through those letters and hit me with them. That will draw energy from the universe in the story where I actually am Flamecid and give me Flamecid's 'magic' so to speak." Having finished writhing I showed the two ponies the 8 Greek letters: Φ-λ-α-μ-ε-χ-ι-δ. "spoken in Greek, these letters are, in order; phi, lamba, alpha, mu, epsilon, chi, iota and delta. I'm sure Twilight would love to learn the whole greek alphabet later." I looked to Rarity and asked her to cast the light spell, now that I was ready. "OK dear, if you're sure, how bright do you need the spell? I don't want to accidentally blind you." "Oh, about as bright as a summer day's landscape." I said simply. "Alright, here goes." I decided to close my eyes anyway, to avoid any chance of damaging my eyes. I could feel the light spell shining on my face and a tickle in my nose, wait... here it came... "ACHOO!!!" There was a puff of smoke as Corey sneezed before it dissipated to reveal him in his Sparkle Green-green form. Rarity had appreciated the muscles she saw on Corey's human form but she had no idea he'd still have as many muscles as a stallion. She had been told what he looked like as a pony but nopony had told her that he was drop dead gorgeous, rippling muscles across his whole body under a lovely green pelt and simply fabulous hair of a darker shade of green that was indeed consistently sparkly, depending on the light, she was stunned. "Are you alright, Rarity? You've gone quite a bit red." Corey spoke up noticing she wasn't saying anything. That snapped her out of her stupor, alerting her that, yes, she was blushing. "I..it's nothing dear, I'm just a bit flushed from the heat of the light spell." Pinkie pie smothered a fit of giggles, causing Corey to look at her in confusion and Rarity threw the party mare a glare, warning her of bad things to come if she revealed anything. "W...well..." Rarity cleared her throat, getting their attention in the process. "Well anyway, don't you want to go and get Twilight to cast that spell for you, dear?" Rarity said in a rushed voice, hoping to move on as soon as possible. "Yeah I do, I'm gonna get Pinkie to lead me to the library so Twilight can cast that spell. But can I ask something else of you first Rarity?" "Of course, dear, what is it?" "Can you whip up some clothes for me? As quick and simple as possible, just something to cover my legs in human form and something to cover my torso too. After that can you get the other girls as well as Mayor Mare and meet us at the Library please?" "I'll get right on that darling, See you at the library in a little bit" "See ya bye" said Corey, as he and Pinkie walked out the front door, Pinkie carrying the blanket on her back. Before she could move though she heard Corey sneeze again. "Thanks Pinkie, it's really bright outside today, let me just take a wide-eyed look around and we'll be on our way." At his second sneeze Rarity tittered to herself and began on Corey's simple clothing request. Rarity had a crush on the new pon... pers... Corey! Rarity had a crush on Corey. Pinkie wasn't entirely sure of that fact, but she did know that Rarity certainly liked what she saw back in there, Pinkie couldn't wait to tell Rainbow Dash, this was a goldmine of prank opportunities waiting to be realised. She snapped out of her thoughts when the sight of the crystal-tree-castle came into view. In the time it took them to walk to the castle Rarity had already finished the simple clothes Corey wanted and gathered everyone to meet them there, Corey had asked to take the scenic route to get a good look at Ponyville in person. "Well," Corey started, "time to begin the show."