A young human called Alex was transported to Equestria without knowing how or why. After being discovered by Twilight Sparkle and her friends, He found himself running for his life as everypony is out to get him. But after disappearing out of nowhere, Alex finds another "human" in the Everfree Forest and teams up with him to find a way out of this pony world. But Will They Succeed?
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PREVIOUSLY ON MY LITTLE PONY...
Twilight had found an odd creature in the Everfree Forest. The creature is a human named Alex. Finding out that he was a creature from another universe, she dreams of her receiving a Hoofbel Prize from Trotholm.
After a chase, he finds himself in Sweet Apple Acres. He then gets caught by Applejack after eating a few apples. He can't pay her the bits due to him just arriving in Equestria. Applejack then comes up with a great idea to use Alex as a circus act. But Alex got away.
Alex then encounters Fluttershy, who lets him stay with her for a while. After hearing his story, Flutttershy then leaves the room and gets some of her animals to help her build a shelter for Alex. He then realizes that she was planning to make him a zoo attraction. He soon flees from her.
Alex then finds himself in a town full of ponies, where he meets Pinkie Pie. Who is wanting to throw him a "Welcome to Ponyville Party," but Alex refuses, believing that Applejack, Twilight, and Fluttershy would attend it. Pinkie then changes the party into a "Good-bye Human Party," Pinkie is wanting to find a way to turn Alex into a pony so the party can be thrown.
Alex learns how much Pinkie can be random and appear out of nowhere. He ends up crashing into the Carousel Boutique, and accidently destroys one of Rarity's dresses. She is at first upset by this, but then is willing to hide Alex from Pinkie. Afterwards, Rarity then says that Alex will be her Prized Pet and will attend the Evening Gallop Party. Alex gets away obviously, leaving Rarity and Pinkie coated in garbage.
He is then brought through a tunnel by another human named Violet. But it turned out to be Twilight in disguise. She traps Alex in a cage, but Spike forgot to lock the bottom of the cage, letting Alex escape. After bumping into Pinkie, Twilight realizes that Alex was gone and gets Rainbow Dash to help her.
Rainbow Dash eventually finds Alex, but he tricks her into performing a trick she was planning on showing the Wonderbolts. Enraged, she tries to shoot him with lightning bolts, but fails to do so and ends up saving him from Timberwolves in the Everfree Forest. Alex on the other hand, hides in some flowers from her.
He then finds a pie out int the forest, but it was a trap set by Applejack. She and Big Macintosh brought him back to Sweet Apple Acres and hides the crate he's inside in the barn, but Alex suddenly shrinks because the flowers he was hiding in were joke plants.
After finding his way out of the barn, he ends up being found by the Cutie Mark Crusaders, who mistaken him for a bug. He tricks them into thinking he's a leprechaun and that he can give them their cutie marks. sometime later he is caught by a cockatrice and ends up being turned to stone.
He then suddenly wakes up in the hut of Zecora, who had found him and instead of wanting to use him for her selfish needs, she actually is wanting to help him get back to his normal size. Twilight then returns claims Alex and takes him back to the Golden Oaks Library. Rainbow Dash then comes into the library sometime after Twilight leaves.
She spots Alex and tries to nab him, but fails to do so. lex then ends up riding on Rainbow Dash but ends up falling off and lands in a pipe that leads to Lotus and Aloe's spa, where he and Rarity reunite and he returns to his normal size. Sometime later, Twilight, Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie, Rainbow Dash, and the CMC show up at the spa and try to get Alex as well, but he ends up getting away. But now everypony in Ponyville is aware of him and wants to get him for themselves. When it looks like Alex is done for, he suddenly disappears.
Alex then finds himself in some sort of castle and meets Princess Luna, unlike the others she actually helps Alex and gives him some hospitality. But after some time, Alex then finds out that she was the one that brought him here and is wanting to turn him into a statue so nopony can get him. But Alex is able to get her horn stuck.
Alex then tries to flee but is found by Princess Celestia. Who seemed to be very nice to him at first in his eyes. But she suddenly drops bad news to him saying she wants Earth and Equestria to meet. Celestia wants to try to establish peaceful relations with the humans, but Alex thinks she wants to enslave humanity and escapes, but The Mane 6, the CMC, and Princess Luna end up finding him before he could get further.
The 11 ponies agree to all hunt him down in Whitetail Woods, but only if Alex gets a 30-Minute head start. Alex is able to trick the ponies with many traps and with a lot of persuasion. Alex then ends up in a large plain where the 11 ponies all found him and charged at him, but did they really "Get Him?"
Alex yawned as he ate his breakfast with his mother at the dinner table. Alex's mom seemed to look concerned for her son's odd emotions he was having recently.
"Alex, dear?" She asked him. "You seem to not be yourself today, is something the matter?" Alex looked up at his mother with a deadpanned look in his face. "I don't know mom..." he said. "I know today's my last day of High School and all but, I've got bad grades, no job... I'm still living here... and all my friends are doing good with their lives." He sighed as he lowered his head down. "I just wish something extraordinary happened to me for once!"
Alex's mom gave him a sympathetic look. "Alex... I know you're a lot smarter and stronger than you already are. I know you can be better in the future. And maybe... just maybe... something extraordinary will happen to you."
Alex looked up at his mom and smiled. he knew she was the one who truly gave him the best advice he could ever hope for. "Thanks, mom." he said as he hugged her. "Now then, you should get going to school." she said. "You wouldn't want to be late again."
Alex chuckled as he grabbed his backpack and walked to the door. "Love you mom!" he said as she replied back with "Love you too, sweetie!"
Alex then turned to his dad who was reading a newspaper and said "Love you dad."
"Stupid boy." Was all he responded with as he left the house.
That was the last time I ever saw my mom again. Little did I know that something extraordinary did happen to me that day, but it wasn't the way I had hoped for. I was now an alien in another universe. Being hunted down by ponies, ethier to be experimented, used as a slave, used as a pet, and so on. I missed being back on Earth. Why did all this have to happen to me? Why?......."
POFF!
There was an intense silence in the air. The dust slowly began to settle as the shadowy image of a pony pileup became visible. All the other ponies moaned and groaned as they rubbed their head trying to shake away the dizziness. Twilight, Celestia and Luna stared with their mouths wide agape at the incredible sight, with their horns still lit.
Somewhere beneath that pile of ponies was Alex, the weight of all of them having knocked the wind out him. Unsure of which of them had their magic locked on Alex, the two monarchs and Twilight simultaneously lifted Alex off the ground, pushing away the ponies above him. As soon as he was in view, everyone’s eyes widened with more surprise and disbelief.
“P- Pinkie?” Twilight was confused. Even the sisters were confused. Instead having Alex in their magic, they had Pinkie.
“Hi again Twilight!” Pinkie giggled before being suddenly dropped to the ground with a thump. “But... where is he??!?” Twilight immediately raced over past a recovering Pinkie towards her friends, who were now stirring and slowly getting back up. “Does anypony have Alex?”
Everypony glanced at each other. “Uh... Nope.” answered Applejack as she rubbed her head. “Ah haven't caught 'im.”
“Me neither.” said Rarity.
“Or me.” said Fluttershy weakly.
“Wait!” Scootaloo shouted, earning everypony's attention. She and the Crusaders were blindly holding on to something. “He's here! We caught him!”
“You caught ME, pipsqueak...!” Rainbow grumbled. The Crusaders eventually opened their eyes and realized their mistake.
“Whoops...!” Scootaloo blushed as she and her friends let go. “Sorry Rainbow Dash... Squee!” Rainbow, getting back up, merely let out an annoyed snort.
“What manner of magic is this!” asked Luna bewildered. “Sister?”
“How curious...” Celestia rubbed her chin. “I wonder...”
Twilight scratched her head while looking around. “This is really weird. Where did he go...?”
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Elsewhere...
POFF!
'THIS IS IT!!!'
Appearing out of a cloud of smoke, Alex blindly ran for his life, trying to escape the ponies behind him. He knew that at any moment he would be tackled to ground.
'THIS IS IT! THIS IS IT! TH- Huh?' He then suddenly realized that none of the ponies had tackled him yet. He opened his eyes and shot a quick glimpse back. He discovered to his surprise that they were all gone. Screeching to a halt, he turned around and looked dumbfounded back the direction he came. To add more to his confusion, the open field had suddenly changed back into a forest again. Not to mention it looked slightly more different now. “What? Where am I? And where are the ponies?” he asked to himself.
His face then went white as he realized he was in the Everfree Forrest again. “Oh no… not this place again!” He worried. “Maybe I can find Zecora, she wasn’t after me before…” Alex felt unsure whether to take his chances with finding Zecora or finding a way out of the Everfree Forest. But he knew he had to find a way to get back to Earth somehow. Alex decided to run through the forest, hoping to find Zecora.
"I hope I'm not too far from her hut. Maybe she can find a spell that can open a portal back home to Ear-"
"AGH!"
Alex suddenly tripped over something and fell face first on the ground. He then suddenly silenced himself realizing that he could’ve attracted any attention from any of the ponies that were chasing him.
"Did I trip over a log?" He said to himself, only to look down and see what he had tripped over. Alex got up to his feet and looked down at what he had tripped over and gasped in shock.
There lying on the ground was another odd-looking creature. He looked human, but he had more of a cartoonish look to him. His body was nothing by a cylinder, his head was a big sphere with pale skin, his limbs were black, and his clothes were nothing but a red tank top and shorts, and he had dirty blonde hair that looked. He didn't seem to be wearing shoes, but his feet looked black like his legs, and they didn't have any toes.
Alex then checked his pulse; a heartbeat was felt. He could hear faint breathing. Alex sighed in relief. “This guy is still alive…” He spoke. Alex then noticed this other human was twitching his eyes and he groaned.
“Are you okay?” Alex asked this other human with concern. The other human slowly opened his eyes and got a good glimpse at Alex.
“I’m alright…” He replied.
“What happened to you?” Alex asked the human.
“I’m not sure…” He spoke. “All I remember is this kid fighting with a homeless man fighting over a weird ball and I tried to intervene but when I got close to the kid, the ball suddenly started glowing and everything went all black!”
Alex’s eyes suddenly widened. This other human was talking about him, he remembered he was fighting with the homeless man over the ball, and it caused them to become stuck in Equestria. What worried him the most was the fact that this human had no idea what the ponies were trying to do to him.
“Listen umm… I believe that kid that was fighting the homeless man was me…” Alex said to the other human.
“Wait, really?” The other human said. “It is you! You are the kid!”
“Yeah…” Alex replied. “I’m Alex… what’s your name?”
The other human got up on his feet revealing he had a few bruises and scratches on him.
“My name is ANDREW.” The other human replied.
Chapter 18: Andrew & The Castle of the Two Sisters
“Well, uh, it’s nice to meet you, Andrew.” Alex said in disbelief. He couldn't believe it. Another human? In this world? “Nice to meet you too” Andrew replied. “Where are we?”
Alex let out a huge sigh. “You will not believe what this place is what I’ve been through during my time in this place...” he said. Andrew gave him a confused and worried look. "Tell me what happened?"
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“I…I don’t understand!” Twilight said. “How could he have just disappeared like that?”
“Beats me.” Rainbow Dash replied in annoyance while holding up the Poison Joke potion that was around her neck. “Now what am I gonna do with this?!”
“There’ be no way he could have just disappeared like that if he doesn’t know how to use magic!” Applejack intervened.
“What ever shall we do, Celestia?!” Rarity whined to Celestia. Celestia put her hoof to her chin, even she had no idea what had just happened.
“Sister! We wilt behold 'round the rest of Equestria!” Luna said. Alex could be anywhere!”
“We will have to search all of Equestria.” Celestia announced. “If Alex were to fall into the wrong hands, the results won’t be good!”
The Mane Six, The CMC, and The Royal Sisters all agreed to all go together and start another human hunt. They knew Alex could be in danger if he were to be caught by any villains such as Queen Chrysalis or anypony else.
As for Alex and Andrew, they decided they needed to find somewhere to rest for the night. Due to Alex's exhaustion through Whitetail Woods and Andrew being tired from all the scratches. During their walk, Alex had told Andrew about what happened to him and the 11 ponies that were after him. “So, let me get this straight…” Andrew said in confusion. “There are talking ponies in this world, and eleven of them you fear of the most?”
“Yeah…” Alex replied in sorrow. “A purple unicorn named Twilight Sparkle wanted to turn me in for government labs to dissect me! An orange applebucker named Applejack wants to turn me into some money-making circus slave! A yellow Pegasus named Fluttershy wants to keep me locked up in a zoo like an animal! A pink pony named Pinkie Pie wants to turn me into a pony, for reasons I still don’t understand! A white unicorn named Rarity wants to make a pet out of me. A fast blue Pegasus named Rainbow Dash wants to kill me! three little fillies want to bring me to school like some science project! A princess named Luna wants to turn me to stone! And then there’s Celestia…” he hissed while tearing up. “She’s the worst! She said she was going to send me home, but she was really going to use me to conquer our world!”
Andrew’s jaw dropped to the ground. He couldn’t believe what Alex had just told him. Not only was he trapped in this world with Alex, but a whole bunch of ponies were after Alex and probably him too. Andrew was really worried how’d the ponies would react to seeing not one, but two humans loose in Equestria!
“Alex, I don't know what to say. I can’t believe all of that!” Andrew exclaimed.” These ponies are very dangerous! And you have gotten away from them countless times with using pretty good techniques too! I’d say we must defend ourselves if we want to stay safe!”
“But where are we gonna get those kinds of things?” Alex questioned. “Without anything the two of us are just lost causes!”
“Don’t give up hope now, Alex.” Andrew said. “If you were able to get away from ponies before, I’m sure you can do it again! You’ve just got to believe in yourself!” Alex gave Andrew a look of happiness, it had been how long since he’s seen a friendly face. “Thank you, Andrew.” Alex replied. “I’m just glad I’ve met someone I can trust…” Andrew just smiled before looking ahead. "Hey look!" He exclaimed as he pointed at an abandoned castle in the distance. "It's shelter! We can rest there!
Andrew bolted towards the castle, but only for Alex to pull him back. “Are you crazy?!” Alex asked with concern. “Haven’t you forgotten there are ponies who could still be after us!”
Andrew blushed, "Oh yeah... I forgot... Squee!"
Alex rolled his eyes before chuckling. "Alright, let's hurry before they show up." The boys quickly headed towards the castle and headed inside. They looked around in the castle in awe. It had looked like some fight had happened that caused all the destruction.
"We should split up and look around." Alex spoke, "Maybe there can be anything useful we can find in here." Andrew nodded as they went into separate rooms.
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"I do believe it is time we use the tracking spells, sister." Luna said to Celestia as she nodded in agreement. "I agree, Luna. I know we have restricted ourselves to not use them, but Alex's life could be in great danger."
"I just hope Alex is okay." Fluttershy said to herself. "I'd hate to see anything bad happen to him."
"I still don't understand how none of us could've teleported him away." Twilight said. "Unless if there was somepony else that could be after him!"
Everypony gasped. Realization hit them hard. "We gotta find him before it's too late!" Applejack panicked. "I'll join in for the sake of Sweet Apple Acres!"
"And for the Hoofbel Prize!" Twilight said.
"For his safety..." Fluttershy said softly.
"For his Good-Bye Human Party!" Pinkie exclaimed.
"For the Evening Gallop Party!" Rarity said.
"For me!" Rainbow Dash cheered
"FOR OUR CUTIE MARKS!" The crusaders all said.
"Then it's settled..." Princess Celestia said. "It is our duty to find Alex in the Everfree Forest and finish the game."
Alex walked into the room he separated Andrew with and looked around It looked like some sort of library. He thought how odd it was that this castle was abandoned, but how was that the case? Alex decided to look into the books and pulled them out each. He found out that they looked to be spell books and some were about Equestria's past.
"I wonder if I this can explain why this castle is abandoned...." Alex said as he opened a book titled, "The Elements of Harmony."
Alex looked into the pages and was in awe. He looked into the three pictures and said:
"Amazing..."
The first picture had a picture of two alicorns on a cloud. One was white and the other one was a darker blue. Alex felt like they looked familiar. The second picture had the darker blue alicorn, but she had a blacker coat with a lighter blue mane and tail, and she had more armor on her. The third picture had a picture of six gemstones. One looked like a magenta star, an orange apple, a pink butterfly, a blue balloon, a purple diamond, and a red lightning bolt.
Alex then saw the text and began to read:
Once upon a time, in the magical land of Equestria, there were two regal sisters who ruled together and created harmony for all the land. To do this, the eldest used her unicorn powers to raise the sun at dawn; the younger brought out the moon to begin the night. Thus, the two sisters-maintained balance for their kingdom and their subjects, all the different types of ponies. But as time went on, the younger sister became resentful. The ponies relished and played in the day her elder sister brought forth, but shunned and slept through her beautiful night. One fateful day, the younger unicorn refused to lower the moon to make way for the dawn. The elder sister tried to reason with her, but the bitterness in the young one's heart had transformed her into a wicked mare of darkness: Nightmare Moon.
She vowed that she would shroud the land in eternal night. Reluctantly, the elder sister harnessed the most powerful magic known to ponykind: the Elements of Harmony. Using the magic of the Elements of Harmony, she defeated her younger sister, and banished her permanently in the moon. The elder sister took on responsibility for both sun and moon, and harmony has been maintained in Equestria for generations since.
"So..." Alex said as he looked around the castle, "That's what happened to this place..." Alex started to feel bad for Princess Celestia and Luna after he connected the dots that the alicorns in the book was the two sisters, but his sympathy quickly faded as he remembered what they were going to do to him. "Ugh! Why am I feeling bad for them?! They did this to me!"
Andrew was looking around the castle himself and was amazed by how some of the things in there were still in good condition, as if nobody had used them in so long. His luck had just become better as he found a medical bag.
"This will definitely come in handy." Andrew said as he sat down and opened the bag and pulled out a bandage and used his teeth to lift up his shirt and wrapped it around his pelvis, due to some injury he felt from the crash. "Alright, that's a lot better!" Andrew said as he got up. Andrew decided to find any food around and if so, was edible. He walked into what looked to be a kitchen and looked around and chuckled at seeing how desolated it was. "Now this is what I call, A Hell's Kitchen."
Andrew scavenged and found a few fruits and decided to head back to Alex. "At least we'll have something to eat while we're here." Andrew said.
He then came into the room Alex was in
"Hey, Alex. I found some fruit in a kitchen nearby." Andrew said, "I'd figured we should eat some of these before we rest for the night."
Alex took an apple from Andrew's bag and bit into it. "Ah, at least these apples I don't have to pay some bits for." He replied.
"I still honestly can't believe that you were able to outsmart those 11 ponies, Alex." Andrew said, "I feel like you're a lot smarter than you are if you can trick and trap them!"
Alex giggled at the thought of that. "Yeah... I suppose so..."
"I'm sure as long as you keep finding ways to trick the ponies," Andrew spoke, "We can be safe for much long!"
"WHO GOES THERE?!" A voice made the two jump as they suddenly saw a unicorn with a light blue coat and a white mane.
Alex and Andrew quickly turn around to see a blue unicorn with a white mane and tail approach them. Alex and Andrew both were frozen in fear. This pony wasn’t from the group Alex had described; it was some pony new. The two were worried on what this pony would do to them.
“And who may you two be?” the unicorn asked the two. “And what may you two be wandering out in a plain like this?”
“Uh… we uh… um…” Alex stuttered; he had seen enough ponies for one day.
“We are not… from this world…” Andrew replied to the unicorn.
“Not from here, eh? I could tell by your looks.” The white unicorn said. “Again, who are you two?”
“I’m…. Alex…” Alex replied.
“And I’m Andrew.” Andrew replied as well. “Who are you?”
“I’d thought you’d never ask…” The unicorn said. “I am The Great and Powerful Trixie!”
“Okay then…” Andrew said. “That’s good to know… you’re not gonna do anything to make us run away, right?”
“And why would I do that?” Trixie asked Andrew.
“Well, you see…” Alex said. “There are eleven ponies that are after us and well, they want to use us for degrading and humiliating things! And you would not believe what I have been through!”
‘Interesting story, Alex.” Trixie replied. “And who exactly are these ponies you speak of?”
“Okay, the first, there is this pony named Twilight Sparkle and she wants to use me for some Hoofbel Prize she won’t stop talking about, and then there’s Appleja…”
Trixie’s eyes widened after hearing Twilight's name, as we all know, Twilight and Trixie were rivals before. “So that Sparkle thinks she can just take these humans and get all the credit?!” Trixie thought, “Oh we’ll see Twilight, Trixie will take these humans and show them off at her next show when she goes back to Ponyville! Then we’ll see who will be laughing now!”
‘Hello? Trixie? Are you listening to me?” Alex said, making Trixie snap back into reality.
“Oh… Yes, Trixie was, I know who Twilight Sparkle is!” Trixie said. “Trixie was her biggest rival in Equestria!”
“Well, do you think you can protect us from her and her friends?” Andrew asked while Alex gave him a look of shock and confusion. “As a matter of fact, yes Trixie will!” Trixie lied, “Even better, I may even help you leave this place!”
Alex and Andrew’s eyes widened with happiness, they thought they would finally they were going home. The two humans jumped and cheered as imaginary fireworks exploded, signifying they’re indescribable joy.
“Come with me to my wagon you two!” Trixie said. “The Great and Powerful TRRRIXXIE, shall protect the humans from Twilight Sparkle and her friends!”
Andrew and Alex both walked with Trixie to her wagon so that way she could lure them into her trap. Trixie had the biggest evil grin on her face as she made it to her wagon with the two boys.
“Okay, boys, we have made it!” Trixie said. “Now we just need to find how to get you two back to your planet.”
Alex sighed. “Y’know, somehow, I might actually miss this place a little bit.”
“You sure?” Andrew asked. “Are you going to miss getting chased by ponies?”
“Wh-what?! N-no! I… uh…” Alex stammered. “It’s just… that… I- “ “relax, bud.” Andrew chuckled. “I’m just joking!” Alex gave Andrew a T_T face in response. Meanwhile Trixie was inside her wagon and started setting up secret cages so that way it would be hard for the boys to escape. “Oh yes, Trixie will finally get the respect she deserves by Everypony!” Trixie said to herself. “Then Twilight Sparkle will be jealous that Trixie got all the credit!” Trixie then added the finishing touches to the cages and put her plan into action. “Okay boys, Trixie has finally found a way to get back to your plant. So, come and go home!”
Alex and Andrew’s smiles grew after hearing that they would be “Going home.”
“Well, what are we waiting for?!” Andrew exclaimed. “Let’s go!”
Alex and Andrew quickly ran towards Trixie, but then Trixie exposed her evil grin and summoned the cages, and they came down and dropped on the boys.
“YES! Trixie has caught you two!” Trixie exclaimed. Alex and Andrew were bewildered and confused. They looked at Trixie with shock and confusion. “You two are going to come with me! I’ll show you all off to everypony in Ponyville before Sparkle can! If you excuse me, I must find some blankets to cover you two with, just so nopony sees you two.” Trixie went back into her wagon to find some blankets.
Alex, having watched and listened through the bars of their cages, slumped back against the bars, and hung his head low. He couldn’t believe he and Andrew had been so stupid. He should have seen it coming considering it had happened to him once. The way she acted, the way she talked and how she kept urging them onward. He had to give her credit though; it was a really clever plan. Playing with they're fear.
Andrew on the other hand, was upset that somepony had tricked him and tried busting out of the cages, but it was no use. The bars were too heavy and hard to break. He eventually tired himself out from all the hitting.
“I... Can’t believe this happened AGAIN!” Alex shouted. “How am I always gullible?!”
Andrew looked at him and sighed. “Trust me, Alex. You weren’t the only one fooled by her. But if this is how we end up, then at least it was good meeting you.”
Alex looked at Andrew and let out a small smile. “Thank you, Andrew.” He said softly. “At least I have someone to relate too…”
Before Andrew could respond, Trixie came out, carrying two blankets with her magic and put them over the two. “That's better!” Trixie said in a boastful manner. “Now then, let us go!” Trixie used her magic and levitated the cages off the ground and pit them in her cage. Trixie then hooked herself up to the harness and started moving it and eventually was out of sight.
Alex and Andrew didn’t really know what to think or believe, as they still sat there on the grass. Did what they witnessed just actually happen? A smile crept across their faces as the realization hit them and they laughed.
“Looks like Twilight isn’t the only one to forget to lock the bottom part after she traps someone!” Alex said.
“No kidding!” Andrew said. “Come on, Alex. Let’s get out of here before…”
“THERE HE IS!” Twilight yelled as she ran out of the Everfree Forest with the rest of The Mane 6, The CMC, and The Royal Sisters showing up behind her.
“They… show up…” Andrew said.
“Wait a minute…” Rainbow Dash said while looking at Andrew. “Is that another human?!” The ponies all stopped and looked at Andrew as he looked nervous to see them.
Pinkie Pie gasped. “There were two humans in this world the whole time!” “Luna, how is this possible?” Celestia asked Luna. “I thought you had brought only Alex into this world!”
“We thought that too!” Luna said with shock.
The ponies all looked at Alex and then at Andrew and ideas suddenly realized what this could mean. They had the ability to catch not only one, but two humans now!
“Maybe if I can catch these two humans,” Twilight thought. “I could increase my chance of winning the Trotholm Hoofbel Prize!”
“I can make more money with these two!” Applejack smiled.
“I have more humans to keep safe.” Fluttershy wondered.
“I can turn two humans into ponies and throw them a Goodbye-Humans Party!” Pinkie Pie thought.
“I can have two prized pets now!” Rarity smiled.
“Looks like I have two toys now!” Rainbow Dash smugly grinned.
“CUTIE MARK CRUSAIDER HUMAN FINDERS YAY!” The CMC all thought in their minds.
“We must keep thou humans safe at all costs!” Luna thought to herself.
“These two can increase the chance of finally break the barrier!” Celestia said with delight.
Alex’s eyes widened when he saw the ponies again, he knew he and Andrew were out in a plane, they had nowhere to hide. Alex then realized the Everfree Forest were right behind the ponies. He believed that if he tried to find a way to lure the ponies away, He could let Andrew escape so at least he could still be safe.
“Hey Andrew, I’ve got a plan.” Alex whispered to Andrew. “I can try and lure these ponies away, but you are going to have to get to the Everfree Forest and if any of the ponies follow you, just keep running and hide.”
“A…Are you sure?” Andrew asked Alex with mixed feelings.
“Trust me,” Alex responded. “I’ll come back for you.”
The two humans both looked at the ponies with all the strength they had left. They knew that if they split up, it would be the biggest risk of their life.
WARNING! THIS CHOICE WILL AFFECT THE STORY ENTIRELY.
“A…Are you sure?” Andrew asked Alex with mixed feelings.
“Trust me,” Alex responded. “I’ll come back for you.”
The two humans both looked at the ponies with all the strength they had left. They knew that if they split up, it would be the biggest risk of their life. But they knew that they had to do it.
“You all want me?” Alex said with a grin on his face and then he sprinted off. “COME AND GET ME!”
Andrew on the other hand ran right past the ponies and ran towards the exit of the Everfree Forest. “Everypony Split up and get them!” Celestia said. The ponies spliced into groups as Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Scootaloo, Celestia, and Luna went after Alex while Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Sweetie Belle, and Apple Bloom went after Andrew.
Alex knew he had to find a way to lose the ponies who went after him, though he knew it’d be tough considering he was facing against 2 Alicorns, a fast Pegasus, a Pegasus filly, and a pony who was really good with magic. He fooled them before, he could do it again.
“You won’t get away from me this time!” Rainbow Dash said too Alex and started to home in on him.
Alex, noticing this had a plan as he suddenly dodged Rainbow Dash as she flew by him and crashed into a tree. Rainbow Dash shook her head after flying right into the tree.
“Geez, she sure is a rip-off of that blue hedgehog.” Alex said as he continued running. Rainbow Dash sneered as she watched Alex run off as well as Twilight, Luna, and Celestia, but Scootaloo stayed to try and help Rainbow Dash get out of the tree.
“Don’t worry, Rainbow Dash!” Scootaloo said as she grabbed RD’s tail. “I’ll get you out of there!”
“Please hurry, Scoots!” Rainbow Dash said to her. "Lexy's getting away!"
Alex could see the two princess' and Twilight slowly closing in on him. He panicked as all the thoughts went in his mind. Remembering how Twilight would use him to make her famous, only for him to become a lab rat afterwards. Luna would use him as some statue display, and Celestia... ooh she was the worst of them all... he thought she would use him to try and enslave humanity. All these thoughts made him scream with tears in his eyes as he could feel them all homing in on him.
"I've almost.... got him...!" Twilight said.
"No! He will be mine before the night is over!" Luna replied.
"Don't forget you two," Celestia said. "This is all meant to be a fun game."
"A fun game, my butt." Alex sneered under his breath, hearing they're conversation.
*****
Andrew on the other hand was running through the Everfree Forest with the ponies chasing him not far behind. He knew he couldn’t run forever otherwise he would never see Earth again. Andrew then suddenly stopped as he noticed a bridge that led straight to a castle which looked horribly abandoned.
“He couldn’t have gotten far from here!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed.
“He might’ve gotten farther to the Castle of Everfree by now!” Rarity said in fear. “I won’t let one of my new prized pets leave me like this!”
“Ah won’t let the Apple Family down now!” Applejack said.
“And we won’t let our only chance to get Cutie marks leave us!” Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom said.
The ponies all charged throughout the forest to make their way towards Andrew. Andrew on the other hand, overheard what they were saying as he ran across the bridge and then noticed the bridge looked old, an idea popped into Andrew’s mind as he would find something sharp to cut the bridge down, so he ran towards the Castle of Everfree to find something he could cut the bridge. But unfortunately, he found nothing.
Andrew then heard their voices grow nearer as they had crossed the bridge. “Oh crap! I gotta hide!” Andrew said as he ran around the castle and quickly hid inside a wardrobe closet. The ponies on the other hand, were on the search for him.
“Come on out, Sugarcube.” Applejack calmly said. “We ain’t gonna hurt ya, ah just want to use ya for mah business with Alex.”
“I need you to join Alexander in being my prized pets, darling." Rarity said.
“Please… just come out…” Fluttershy said. “I just want to protect you with Alex, that’s all…”
“We just need you to help us get our cutie marks…” Apple Bloom said.
“Yeah, whoever you are… come out now!” Sweetie Belle said.
Andrew overheard their pleas, and wondered, why do these ponies even try to catch him. He was feeling tired. So, he laid his head against the walls of the tight closet and overheard the ponies’ cries for him.
"No....." Andrew said as he yawned. "I can't... fall asleep..... now...... I... can...'t" Andrew couldn't finish his sentence as his eyes slowly closed shut. As he fell asleep.
Andrew found himself in a dark place. Everywhere he looked it was darkness. Suddenly, he saw Alex, but he was surrounded by all the ponies who were chasing him as he begged for mercy. “P..Please… I just want to go home!” Alex sobbed.
“You’re going to make me famous!” “Ya gonna make me rich!” “You must stay with me!” “You’re gonna be a pony!” “You’re going to be my pet!” “You’re gonna be my new toy!” “You’re gonna be our new science project!” “We will turn you into a statue!” “I will enslave your world!”
Alex desperately shielded himself with his arms as the mares closed in on him. All Andrew could do was watch in horror as he was out of view.
"LEAVE HIM ALONE" Andrew yelled, but only fell on deaf ears Suddenly, there was a bright flash and the ponies and Alex scattered into pieces and vanished. Looking up to where the source of the light came from, he suddenly saw the towering shape of another human, he looked like him, except his hair... his skin... and even his clothes... they were all gray... The gray Andrew looked at Andrew with the evilest smile ever. “I’LL KILL YOU!” He yelled.
~***~
“NOOOOOOO!”
Andrew woke up as he was still in the Castle of Everfree and in the wardrobe closet again. Andrew then quickly shut his mouth realizing the ponies still could’ve been in the castle, but when he peeked through the little crack, he saw nopony there.
"They must've given up," Andrew thought as he walked to the middle of the ruined castle. He felt cold, dehydrated, and starving.
"Alex......" Andrew said to himself. "THE CANTERLOT CASTLE!"
Andrew instantly bolted towards the castle doors and busted them opened and ran out of the ruined castle. But little did he know that something slender would be after him.
Andrew quickly ran through the forest, completely unaware of where he was going. Everywhere he looked he just saw more trees. But something felt unsettling to him. As if something was watching him. But he knew deep down that he shouldn't focus on that and continued running through the forest. But the feeling came back, but something felt off about it...
"I'm getting Déjà vu... Something about this forest seems off..." Andrew said. "But... why?" He quickly turned a corner and decided to catch his breath due to how long he had been running for. But as he turned to see the tree that he was facing it suddenly scared him as a creepy face appeared on it!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHH!" Andrew screamed as he jumped back, terrified at seeing the face on the tree. Andrew didn't move for a few minutes until he noticed it was just a tree that was made to look like a creepy face. Andrew then laughed at how stupid he was in the moment. "Oh my god, It's just a tree!" He chuckled. "But I gotta admit, it got me pretty good!"
Andrew then got a closer look and the tree and admired how much it looked like a face. Afterwards he jumped off. and closed his eyes while still smiling. "I suppose being separated from Alex can really do a number on me! But a good side is, at least I can feel safe in the forest!"
*SCREEEECH*
Andrew's eyes shot opened as he heard a static like sound around him. He didn't feel safe in the Everfree Forest anymore. Andrew looked around in fear at what had made the static like noise. But as he was turning to his left, his vision was starting to get all static like, as if he was watching a ststic television. But his eyes locked on to the most terrible thing he'd ever see.
*GASP*
"A SLENDERMAN PONYYYYYY!" Andrew screamed as as he ran for his life, he could feel the static-like visions start to fade out, but he knew it wasn't going to be gone for long! So he had to escape the forest and meet up with Alex ASAP!
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“Ugh… what happened?” Alex groaned as he woke up somewhere in the maze garden where he was chased by Luna. H was confused on how he had gotten there. He then suddenly remembered that while being chased by Twilight, Celestia, and Luna, they all tried to grab him at once. But he ended up slipping out of their grasp and went flying into the maze.
“Oh no… not here again!” He said to himself. “I have to get out of here before the ponies try to find me again!”
Alex traveled through the maze and eventually found the exit and looked around for any guard ponies around. Luckily, nopony was in sight. Alex sighed in relief. What he had to focus on was finding Andrew and avoiding The Mane 6, The CMC, the Royal Sisters, and Trixie. Alex walked out of the maze and looked around him. He knew he didn’t have much time and decided to make his way back to the Everfree Forest because he believed that Andrew was still there waiting for him. “Hang in there, Andrew. I’m coming.” Alex noticed none of the ponies were nowhere in sight as Alex sighed in relief. He then walked through the town of Canterlot as nopony seemed to be around which was odd for Alex. Were the ponies out on the look for him and Andrew? No... he shouldn't be questioning this! They could jump out at him at any second!
"Hang in there Andrew...." Alex said, "i'm coming!
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"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! AAAAAAAAHHHHH!" Andrew screamed as he bolted through what seemed to be the endless forest. "THE SLENDERMAN PONY IS RIGHT BEHIND ME! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!"
The Slender Pony suddenly flashed with static right in front of Andrew. Which ended up causing him to scream harder, "NOW IT"S IN FRONT OF ME!" he yelled as he bolted to his right, "HE'S RIGHT ON MY NON-EXISTENT TAIL!"
After what seemed like and endless chase between both of Andrew and The Slender Pony, The Slender Pony suddenly stopped chasing Andrew as it slowed down.
"Sigh...." SlenderMane said. "They're always the same, every time I see them. They see me, And I'm portrayed as a monster. One day..... I won't be seen as a demon."
Andrew not knowing, that SlenderMane wasn't chasing him, kept on running through the dark forest before crashing right into a tree. "Ow..." He exclaimed. He then pulled himself off the tree. Andrew suddenly realized that SlenderMane was missing. "Huh..." He thought, 'I must've outran it.'
Andrew's thoughts were suddenly put onto a hold as he suddenly heard splashing nearby, he quickly peeked behind a tree and suddenly noticed a small swamp, but there was something splashing in it. But what caught Andrew's eye was an orange and yellow tail poking out of thw water, someone or something was drowinging!
Andrew jumped into the thick murky green “water” and grabbed the tail, which felt pretty soft in his hands.
"Don’t worry buddy, I’ve got you!" Andrew said as he pulls the creature to the ledge of land, he could swear, he felt the tail ZAP him.
Andrew then quickly made it out of the water and pulled the creature out. he takes a good look at the creature and sees that it’s a canine type of creature with red-ish orange fur and yellow whiskers with a huge mohawk of brown hair, it also wore a red hoodie with a familiar shade of midnight blue cargo pants and another familiar shade of purple shoes with paw-prints on the bottom of the soles.
"Wow!" Andrew thought as he knelt down. 'I've never seen a creature like this before!" But he couldn’t take the time to astonish the canine’s look, it looks like it almost drowned.
"Oh god! I gotta find Alex! Or maybe someone who can help me heal him!" Andrew said. But just as Andrew could get up from his knees, he heard the creature cough.
Andrew quickly turned his head to it. He saw the canine roll onto his front and started coughing up water from the swamp. The red canine creature shakes himself dry, looks back at where it was drowning and brushed its hind legs kicking dirt into the water in a sassy way. the canine then looks back at Andrew... and just stares at him.
"What on Earth is a dog like you doing in a swamp like that?" Andrew asked. "Also, you're wearing... clothes?"
The canine just blinks at Andrew... observing him... "I wonder who you belong to...." Andrew said as he looked around the forest for anybody. "Hello...? Anybody? I found your dog!"
No one responded...
"Odd." Andrew said. "I suppose I could see if you've learned any tricks, see if you're trained."
The dog smiled at Andrew and started wagging his tail, indicating that he must know some tricks.
"Wow! That got your attention. Now then.... sit!" Andrew commanded
the dog sits down as he was told without hesitation.
"Okay, now shake!" Andrew said as he sticks his hand out. The dog holds his paw out for Andrew to hold and shakes.
"Okay, now SPEAK!" Andrew spoke. Then the dog literally speaks! “Hiya!”
*GASP!*
Andrew froze as he heard what this dog said. "Did...you.... say... Hiya?!" *The canine jumps up on his hind legs and leans on Andrew like an excited puppy* “I sure did!” It responded.
"H-how is this possible?!"
*the dog seems happy to meet Andrew, though it’s probably because he doesn’t know what creature he is*
“Easy, you just think about what you wanna say and then you-”
"Nono! I mean it's impossible for dogs to talk on Earth!" Andrew said. But the dog just laughed. “Then you’ve been hanging around with the wrong dogs!”
Andrew groaned. "Ugh, what did I expect? I'm in a world with talking ponies..."
then, the red canine started sniffing Andrew all around, the sound of the canine sniffing was oddly soothing and the feeling of the sniffing strangely tickled.
"Do you.... have a name?" Andrew asked.
The canine stops sniffing for a second.
“Yep! It’s Lachlan! LACHLAN DINGO!” he responded.
"Lachlan, eh?" Andrew said. "That's nice, anyway. Like I asked before, what were you doing in that... lake?"
Lachlan only had a simple answer. "Trying to get some yummy catfish!"
" o-kay, then. Good thing you're alright. But I don't think I can stick around for long, Lachlan." Andrew said. "I gotta find Alex before one of those 12 ponies get him!"
"Who?" Lachlan asked as Andrew turns his head to reveal Lachlan caught a huge catfish*
"He's, my friend. We had to separate because the 12 ponies could catch us both easily." Andrew answered.
"12 Ponies?" Lachlan questioned as he had a mouth full of the catfish. He then gorges it down, slightly grossing Andrew out.
"Yeah, according to Alex, they go by the names Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, Princess Luna, Princess Celestia, and Trixie."
Lachlan's ears perked up at the mention of those names* Andrew noticed this and thinks: "He reacted to the names... does he know them? Are they chasing him too? What exactly is this pup up too?"
"You, know them by any chance?" Andrew asked.
*BUURRRPP!*
Lachlan nodded after letting out a small belch from eating the catfish.
Andrew sighed, "you're not gonna bring me to them, are you? Because the things Alex described to me that they wanted from him will happen to me as well..."
"Uhh... what did they want to do to you...?" Lachlan asked.
"Well, from what Alex told me..."
Twilight wants to use us as lab rats for fame.
Applejack wants to use us as a circus act.
Fluttershy wants to make us zoo attractions.
Pinkie Pie wants to turn us into ponies to throw us a "Goodbye Human Party."
Rarity wants us as prized pets for some fancy party.
Rainbow Dash wants to shrink us down to toy size and try to kill us.
The 3 fillies want to use us as a school project.
Luna will turn us into statues.
Celestia wants to enslave humanity.
and Trixie wants us for some magic act!
Lachlan blinked at hearing what Andrew had to say as Andrew sighed again. "I know it sounds insane, but it's serious! Right now, we're trying to find a way out of this world."
"Another world? You’re like... an alien or something?" Lachlan looked surprised.
"I... suppose so..."
"But do the girls really want to do all that stuff you just said? Trixie I can understand, but the others...? I’m not sure about that..."
"Trust me, kid. I've been in this crazy world for not even a day, and already everyone except you is out to get me!"
Lachlan looked a little sad, Andrew thought it was because he yelled out loud. "I'm sorry if I'm being rude, but I just can't bear this insanity any longer." Andrew said.
"It’s that serious?"
"Yeah... I just want to find Alex so we can figure a way out of this world."
"Do.... you...um?" Lachlan stuttered, "want my help?"
"Well, since you haven't tried to do anything to me to make me run away, sure!" Andrew smiled.
"Sweet!" Lachlan says as he pounces on Andrew and licks his face over and over, tickling him. Andrew chuckled as he slowly pushed Lachlan off.
"Alright, Lachlan Dingo! Here's what we're gonna do!" Andrew says. "Step 1, find Alex and make sure he isn't caught! Step 2, I have no idea."
"I’m liking this plan so far!" Lachlan replied.
"Alright! Let's get going then!"
suddenly, Lachlan WHOOSHES past Andrew at supersonic speed. Andrew's jaw hit the floor as he witnessed what had just happened. A loud screeching sound is heard as Lachlan comes back slowly. He chuckles awkwardly as he faces Andrew. "Sorry, super speed, should’ve told you about that..." the two set off, little did they know that they were being watched
"Hmph." They gray Andrew says as he watches from a quarter mile away. "Looks like my reincarnation became friends with the dingo."
"Aren't you going to help them?"
"Obviously not, it's no concern of mine." The Gray Imposter spat. "All I want him and Alex to do is leave this Forsaken World."
Andrew and Lachlan Dingo stuck their heads out of the forest. Luckily for them, Ponyville wasn't too far ahead, so Andrew wouldn't be spotted immediately. "Alright, the coast is clear." Andrew said as they walked out of the Everfree Forest. Lachlan looked up at Andrew and wondered where he wanted to go.
"So... where are you trying to get to?" He asked.
"I dunno," Andrew replied. "Wherever Alex is, he never told me where he was heading to."
"Y'know, I didn’t catch YOUR name yet...," said Lachlan.
"My name's Andrew, kid." Andrew said back.
"So, is this how you usually look like?" Lachlan asked, pondering at Andrew's appearance. He'd had never seen a human before in his life.
"Yep, I've always been like this!" Andrew replied.
"Sweet!" Lachlan said with a smile on his face, but Andrew felt dread. As if someone or something was behind them.
"Anyways, it's probably best if we get to the town fast." Andrew said. "And hopeefully not until..."
"AH FOUND ONE OF EM!"
"The ponies... show up again..."
Lachlan, hearing the voice of Applejack, had to act quickly, but what should he do?! As Lachlan took time to think his choices, Applejack, Rarity, and Fluttershy appeared out of the forest. Andrew sweated as he had nowhere to go.
"You found one, Applejack?!" Fluttershy asked.
"Ah sure did sugarcube!" She points at Andrew as Lachlan came up knew what to do!
"Alright girls," Applejack said. "First one to grab em' is gets to keep him!"
Before Andrew could say anything, he suddenly felt a huge amount of G Force as Lachlan grabbed him by the back of his shirt and ran behind the nearest building to hide. The three girls fell backwards from the shockwaves. Through their points of view, they didn’t see Lachlan, all they could see was the human fly backwards out of sight.
"What in the-?!" Rarity gasped. "How is he doing that?!"
"H-He can fly?!"
Fluttershy and Rarity looked at each other, jaws dropped at what they had just seen! But Applejack, getting up, had a face of determination. She clearly wasn't going to let Andrew get away like that. "We can't let him get away easily, girls! Let's go!"
Rarity and Fluttershy start running as fast as they could to find Andrew, but they ran so fast and were so focused on finding him that if they had just slowed down, they would have found him and the red dingo hiding behind the wall of the house they just ran past! Lachlan peeked his head out from the building, but then pulls his head back quicker after realizing that the two weren’t out of the clouds yet.
"What is it-?"
Andrew suddenly felt his mouth being wrapped up tight in something fluffy yet strong to keep him quiet: Lachlan’s tail. Luckily for Andrew, Lachlan made sure to leave Andrew’s nose uncovered so he could breathe. "Shh... Applejack’s still over there..." he said as Andrew nodded.
Applejack was about to start running too, when she spotted something on the ground... She took a closer look at what was on the ground, and after 5 seconds of looking at it, she recognized it: a paw-print... and not just any old, faded paw-print, this one left a complete black paw-print on the ground... like paint off of a... shoe!
"Lachlan..." She said under her breath.
"Uh-oh..."
'What? What’s wrong?' Andrew muffled through Lachlan’s tail.
"My shoes leave behind paw-prints...!"
'How?! Are there holes in your shoes?!'
"No, these shoes never get worn out..." Lachlan then showed Andrew the black marks on the bottom of his shoes. "I gotta remember to ask Twilight and Rarity how these paw-print thingies work."
(Twilight and Rarity?!) Andrew thought.
Meanwhile, Applejack was following the trail Lachlan had left. "Lachlan!! Sugardog?!" Now she started running, feeling like he was really close by.
"Oh no.! She’s coming fast...!" Andrew said, sweating bullets. "What do I do?"
Lachlan the ran towards an empty barrel and opened the top up. "Andrew, hide in this barrel, quick...! I’ll throw Applejack off your track...!"
Andrew nodded as he quickly jumped into a barrel as Applejack made it around the corner. Lachlan sat down like an obedient dog and gives Applejack the cutest innocent puppy face while wagging his fluffy tail.
"Lachlan, what in tarnation are you doin' here?" She asked him.
"Nothing, I was just... napping here..." Lachlan lied, But Applejack could see that Lachlan was wet with swamp green “water” dripping from his whiskers...
"Hold on, why are there water on yer face?" She asked.
"I... um..."
"Were you in the swamp in the forest?" She asked as he nodded slowly. "What were you doin' in there?"
"Getting some of the swamp’s fresh catfish!" Lachlan replied, licking his lips at the thought of it, "Mmm, catfish~!"
"Alright, well... have you seen a new species called a human, recently?" She asked, "I'm tryin' to catch him so I could have him help me bring in a bunch of bits for Sweet Apple Acres!"
"Human? I dunno what that is, but it sounds tasty! Can I eat it?"
"No! It’s not a food!"
"Oh, sorry."
Applejack sighed before chuckling. "Always thinking about yer belly, ain’tcha?"
Andrew was peeking out of the hole in the middle of the barrel, listening in on their conversation. 'Well, now I know Lachlan’s got a big appetize. That might be a problem.'
"Well, if you do see a human, you bring it straight to me, okay?" she asked him in her most friendly tone. Lachlan understandably nodded. As Applejack left, Andrew leaned back in relief against the barrel, accidentally tipping it over. causing the barrel to shatter into wood planks on impact. Lachlan looked back and saw Andrew rise from the planks.
"I told you they were after me." He spoke.
"Hey, I kept quiet, didn’t I?" Lachlan replied.
"I guess so... let's get outta here before they show up again."
The two started sneaking around Ponyville again. However, the 3 ponies were looking for Andrew there. But They almost caught Andrew once, but Andrew pretended to be a statue riding the pony statue on the fountain as Rarity looked at the "statue" with confusion.
"My goodness," She said to herself, "I don't recall this statue being painted! Perhaps I'll have to ask Mayor Mare if this was her idea."
"Rarity trotted off as Andrew quickly got off the statue and ran towards Lachlan/
"So, where do you think this “Alex” guy is right now?" Lachlan asked.
"Well, judging by how we separated from each other by running in the opposite directions, he must be that way." Andrew pointed towards north, leading to Canterlot.
"Hm.. hold on tight..." Lachlan said as he held his paw to Andrew.
Andrew knew exactly what was going to happen next; Once he grabbed Lachlan's hand, the g-force was felt on him as Lachlan took off running at fast speeds!
“Andrew?! Where are you?!” Alex blindly ran through the Everfree Forest in search of Andrew. He wasn’t ready to lose someone he could trust. But as Alex ran through the forest, he came across The Castle of The Two Sisters again. Alex thought to himself “Andrew probably hid back in there!”
Alex ran inside the ruined castle, unaware that Rainbow Dash was nearby and saw him go in the castle. “Finally…” She said with an evil grin. “I’m finally gonna get my toy back!” She quickly flew into the castle while hiding from Alex so he couldn’t see her.
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Trixie was busy pulling her wagon, knowing her new prizes will help her gain more attention. “we’re almost at Ponyville, boys.” She said while looking back at the covered-up cages. “You two must really exercise well, you two barely weigh at all!” Trixie said, "And also very quiet too... Trixie better check up on you two, and make sure you aren't trying to escape."
Trixie then pulled of the blankets off the cages only to reveal they were empty, only to find nothing there as Trixie ran over to the cages in confusion. “What?! Where are they?!”
Trixie then looked below the cages and noticed the bottom locks were missing from the cages and growled. "Those two won't get far from The Great and Powerful Trixie! I'll find them one way or another!"
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“Andrew? You around here? It’s Alex!” Alex said as he ran around the castle. Going in every room he could find.
The castle still felt cold and dark as usual. But as Alex walked through another room, something felt quite off....
"I'm getting Deja Vu..." Alex spoke, "I feel like I've faked my death and came here before.... but, why?" Alex then brushed it off, claiming to himself how weird that made him feel. He then kept on walking through the abandoned castle, until he came across some stained-glass windows.
Some of them looked very amazing for being in a castle destroyed like this. Alex then decided to read them.
The first window had the first six ponies who looked like the first 6 girls Alex remembered chased him but with odd looking necklaces. He then saw some black alicorn that looked very similar to Princess Luna above them. It looked like the Mane 6 were defeating this alicorn. The sign under the window said, THE DEFEAT OF NIGHTMARE MOON AND THE RISE OF THE ELEMENTS OF HARMONY
The next window had the Mane 6 again, but it looked like they were under control by an odd creature Alex ad never seen before. He looked like a combination of a lot of animals. It freaked Alex out a little seeing it. The sign under it said, DISCORD'S CONTROL
Only to see the next window had the Mane 6 ponies had triumphed over this creature by turning him to a statue. The sign under it said, DISCORD'S DEFEAT
"Guess I'm not the only one who was almost turned into stone by ponies." Alex spoke to himself. "Sucks to be that...Discord guy, though..."
Alex then looked at the third window. It had the pictures of not just the Mane 6, but Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, Princess Luna, Princess Celestia, and some odd-looking dog on the glass surrounding something in the center, but what shocked him the most was who was in the center.
"Andrew...?" Alex said, seeing Andrew on the window. "Wh-what's he doing on that?! Is he... a chosen one...?"
Alex then noticed a small piece of paper with writing on it instead of a sign and decided to read it.
A young boy at teen will arrive at Equestria in the year 2013, who goes by the name, Andrew. And with the help of The Elements of Harmony and Princess Celestia’s son, Lachlan Dingo. This boy will make sure Equestria is safe in from a new evil threat. An evil counterpart of himself that has risen from the ashes of Nightmare Moon, and plans to finish what she started, and will do everything in his power to bring eternal darkness to Equestria. But if this young human can be found. Equestria will be saved…
Alex was so shocked to see that Andrew, his new friend, is the chosen one in the prophecy. He knew he had to tell Andrew; he wouldn’t believe him. Alex stormed through the Castle of Everfree on his way to find Andrew.
“Andrew, I gotta find you and tell you this news! Even if it costs me to get caught by a pon-“
“Hello, Lexy! I finally have you no-”
Alex ran right past Rainbow Dash before she could finish her sentence, he wasn’t afraid of her anymore.
“HEY! GET BACK HERE!”
Rainbow Dash shouted at him. But Alex obviously didn’t listen, his only focus was Andrew.
Rainbow Dash on the other hand wasn’t going to let her toy get away again, she then had a brilliant idea to try and use the potion around her neck and spill it on Alex. “You’re not getting away from me this time, Lexy!” Rainbow Dash said angrily as she bolted her way towards him.
Alex ran out of the castle with Rainbow Dash hot on his tail. But Alex was very determined to get to Andrew it was helping him go pretty fast while running. Rainbow Dash looked around the forest to find something to slow Alex down.
She noticed a few big branches and remembered how Alex set the traps back in Whitetail Woods and hatched a plan. She quickly flew into the forest and used some branches to create a small catapult that could Launch the boy into the air. Meanwhile, Alex quickly ran across the forest. He then stopped at a tree to catch his breath.
"Man...." Alex panted. "This pegasus does not give u-"
He then suddenly got caught in the air by something and went flying through the sky. Alex screamed as he flew through the air with Rainbow Dash flying towards him.\
“I’ve got you now, twerp!” Rainbow Dash said as she closed in on him.
But before she could grab him, he suddenly got pulled by some magical aura and fell into the forest. “What was tha-“ Rainbow Dash couldn’t finish her sentence as she accidently crashed into a mountain wall nearby. Getting up, she snorted by somehow being stopped again so easily. But her anger slowly subsided as Pinkie suddenly entered behind.
"Hiya, Rainbow!" The happy pony said.
"Ugh... hey Pinkie..." Rainbow Dash replied.
"Looks like Alex really knocked you really bad, didn't he?"
"He sure did." Dash sneered. "But he's not getting away that easily!"
"Well__, I've been thinking about this for a while." Pinkie Pie said. "I feel like we've been too harsh on Alex and the other human! I think we outta be friends with them!"
“Friends? With Lexy? Did you not hear me last time? After what he did to me? No way! He needs to know who’s in charge here!”
"Aww... but Dashie-"
"No buts!" Rainbow said angrily, "I don't even care about that other human right now! I need to make Lexy pay!"
Rainbow Dash flew off, leaving Pinkie there. Pinkie on the other hand, had some guilt after trying to find each human for a while. She now understood trying to force them to become ponies under they're will wasn't be the right idea. But instead, to treat them like they were out of towners.
"Oh man!" Pinkie exclaimed. "I they'd never attend my parties if that were to happen! But from this day forward! I'll make sure this is a good ending! But I'm so excited to see how this sequel ends!"
With that, Pinkie pranced offscreen.
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“Ugh, why does this stuff keep on happening to me?” Alex asked himself as he got up. But then quickly hid under a tree, just in case Rainbow Dash was gonna come back. Luckily, after a few minutes, he left the tree and ran back towards Ponyville, knowing Andrew would most likely be there...
But unbeknownst to him...
"They're choices, amuse me. Perhaps I should intervene?" The gray Andrew says, stepping out of some bushes.
"You should, I'd love to see how'd they react to you."
"Why should you care?"
The figure then slowly faded in front of the impostor Andrew, revealing ti to be Discord. But his entire body was covered in a glowing blue transparent aura.
"Well, since I'm currently stuck in that statue those six silly ponies trapped me in again, and since I have no way of using my powers until I'm released. You can do the work for me of course!"
"Now listen here, you abomination." Gray Andrew said. "I take orders from one person and one person only! ME!"
Discord scoffs. "Well, you're no fun... Besides, didn't you want revenge on those silly princesses?"
"I do, Discord... but for now..." We'll just have to wait until the time is right..."
“Ugh, why does this stuff keep on happening to me?” Alex asked himself as he got up. But then quickly hid under a tree, just in case Rainbow Dash was gonna come back. Luckily, after a few minutes, he left the tree and ran back towards Ponyville, knowing Andrew would most likely be there...
"WAIT, WAIT HOLD ON!" Alex said to himself as he skidded to a halt. "What am I thinking? Andrew wouldn't go there!" Alex himself also knew going there would be instant stupidity, knowing that Andrew would've been captured if he gone there.
"Having trouble finding your new friend? Afraid of what he'll comprehend?"
"Wait a minute... I recognize those rhymes..." Alex spun around to see Zecora come out of the shadows. A huge wave of relief came over him as she got closer. "Zecora! Boy, am I glad to see you!"
"I am glad to see you too, you out-of-towner. Zecora said. "And it appears you've certainly got taller after our last encounter."
"Yeah... I hated being that small..." Alex sighed. "But that doesn't matter now. I need your help! I need to find a way back to Earth once I reunite with Andrew. Do you have a portal-opener potion or something?!"
Zecora listened to Alex's plea as he went on about what happened afterwards. She then put her hoof on his shoulder. "While I have not made a potion for opening portals in years. I am willing to make one to save your rear."
*‘MORNING MOOD’ PLAYING AGAIN*
Alex was overjoyed. Finally, he was going home. No longer was he nor Andrew having to run. No longer was he have to fear ponies chasing him to use him for degrading and humiliating things.
"However... the process will take a day or two."
VINYL SCREECH!
"I knew I should've seen this coming." Alex groaned.
"Do not be impatient, Alex." Zecora spoke, "If I am to make such potion, I will need to be in search of it's products."
"Fine... I just hope it works..."
"It is best for you get some rest. I would let you stay with me, but I don't have a room for guests."
As Zecora left, Alex didn't know what he could do in the meantime. Before he could even think of an idea. He suddenly felt something hold onto him!
"Look, Bon Bon! This… This's what I've been talking about before!"
"What are you--?" Bon-Bon on spoke out, not trying to keep her voice quiet as she did. But she soon fell silent as she, too, gazed at Alex with glazed over eyes. And he was beginning to feel even more uncomfortable. "… Lyra? Are you saying that… is one of those humans?"
'Wait… They knew what I was?' Alex thought to himself.
"Yeah! Just look at it!" She pointed a hoof at Alex and kept moving ever slightly as she began to annotate him like a biology diagram. "Look at those arms, and those legs, and how hairless it is! And it wears clothes like we do! It's… It's totally a human!"
"Please! I'm begging you two!" Alex exclaimed. "I don't want to be used for something so stupid! I just want to live my life!"
"Hey, hey, hey! calm down!" Bon-Bon suddenly spoke out. "We're not here for that!"
"Likely story" Alex growled. "I know you two are probably gonna guilt trip me into falling into your trap! Now BACK OFF!"
"Come on! I got over that!" Lyra said. "I'm happier about the fact that I finally proven to Bon-Bon that humans DO exist!"
Alex slowly lowered the fists he had as if he was preparing to fight. He didn't know how to feel in the situation. "Is that so? Then why are you here?"
"Well, what do you think, genius?" Bon-Bon asked. "I had to talk her out of wanting to do what she would've wanted to do."
"Well, what did she want to do?"
"Well, at the time I wanted to use a ring that could help me fuse with you, so I'd be a human..." Lyra added. "But then Bon-Bon explained the possible butterfly effect and how I'd probably be hunted. So....." Squee!
"Right..." Alex said. "At least YOU came to your senses, unlike everypony else in this place! Not even one day in this place when i arrived and already somepony was out to get me!"
Lyra lowered her head in shame. She knew she had a thing for humans, but she knew she couldn't use them as an object. Alex on the other hand just looked down at Lyra, feeling some sort of guilt for shaming her after she finally stopped herself for going down a dark path. He felt like he couldn't move by just seeing how sad Lyra was with Bon-Bon comforting her too."
Wait a minute.... it wasn't a feeling; Alex really couldn't move! He was covered in a magic pink aura. Lyra and bon-Bon were both in shock. Lyra's horn wasn't glowing so she couldn't have done this! But as they started to run towards Alex to try and break him free, a voice came from behind...
"BACK AWAY FROM TRIXIE'S PRIZED POSSESION, YOU FOALS!"
The two mares turned around fast to see Trixie staring daggers at them. Her horn was glowing pink revealing she was the one who had Alex in her magic.
"T-Trixie?!" Bon-Bon gasped. "B-but what do you want with Alex?"
"He was supposed to be Trixie's ticket to glory! Along with a friend he had too! Trixie could have made that Twilight Sparkle jealous that I got the credit she wanted! But they somehow escaped Trixie's cages!"
"Uh actually, you forgot to lock the bottom of the cages like how she did-"
"Excuses, excuses!" Trixie spat. "But now that I have you again! I'll just have to go with only one human! Now then, Alex... We'd best be on our way to Manehattan."
"You won't take him that easily!" Lyra shouted as she ignited her horn and charged at Trixie with Lyra in tow, but Trixie saw this as her chance and suddenly disappeared with Alex. Causing the two mares to crash into a tree and pass out.
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As Trixie reappeared, she found herself farther in the Everfree Forest, now with Alex in her hooves. "Now that there are no distractions, little Alex. You can finally give Trixie the glory she has chased over ever since Sparkle took care of the whole Ursa Minor incident!"
As Trixie skipped through the forest with Alex in tow, Alex pondered on a way to escape. He looked thoroughly at his predicament. He was a few feet above the ground, with no way of getting down unless the unicorn’s horn gave out. He then He then noticed a branch that hung pretty low from a tree they were passing by. Alex then remembered how he was able to get out of Twilight's magic before, perhaps he could do the same. He reached out his arms and made a grab for the branch. He succeeded and held on tight as the unicorn continued walking. Alex sighed with relief, until he felt himself being pulled. He quickly wrapped his arms tight around the branch knowing remembering the scenario with Twilight.
“Huh?” Trixie said as she suddenly had trouble moving. It seemed as if something was holding her back. She tried walking forward, digging her hooves into the ground, only to find herself skidding backwards. “What’s going on?”
She looked back and saw to her surprise that Alex was far behind. He had his arms wrapped thoroughly around the branch and holding on for dear life as he was being pulled towards Trixie.
“Hey!” She said, using her horn to increase her magic and tried to pull Alex loose from the branch. Alex could do nothing but hold on as the branch slowly began to bend in Trixie’s direction. Using all her strength, Trixie gritted her teeth and pulled as hard as she could. “Let go of that branch now!"
Alex remembered how the branch before broke off and made him hit Twilight in the process. He wondered if he could do it again with her. He then looked at Trixie and smirked.
"Okay!" Alex then let go of the branch as he sped towards Trixie.
“Wha… Waitwait! STOP!!!”
CRASH!
Seconds later, Alex opened his eyes. He suddenly found himself lying on the ground. The pink aura was gone, and he could move. Felling a bit dazed, he slowly got up and saw Trixie lying on the ground next to him. Her eyes were twirling and seeing stars as she giggled and babbled incoherent nonsense. She had taken the full impact of the tree branch, knocking her out and breaking the spell that held him.
Seeing this as his chance, Alex quickly took off as night slowly fell upon Equestria. As Alex ran through the dark forest, his speed slowly started to cease as he fell to the ground exhausted. He could feel himself slowly fall asleep. And soon enough, he succumbed to his exhaustion.
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Alex found himself in a dark place. Everywhere he looked it was darkness. But all he could hear were voices, some he recognized and some he didn't. However, the voices were all scattered around so it couldn't sound like one conversation.
"I’m.. so sorry if I caused you any grief!"
"BECAUSE WE'RE MAD OKAY?! WE'RE MAD AT YOU ALL!"
"Don't play dumb with me, apprentice of Princess Celestia!"
"Oh no! Not him again!"
"You thought you could have this fun human chasing game without me?"
"I don't know what you're talking about! You've got the wrong guy!"
"Do I look like I want YOU for anything?"
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Alex instantly woke up from that weird dream and checked his surroundings. Luckily, nopony was there to try and sneak up on him. As he looked up into the sky, it had to at least be the middle of the night form the looks of it. But knowing he couldn't just stay there he instantly got up and made his way through the Everfree Forest.
"Man, now everything is starting to become predictable!" Alex said to himself. "I just hope Andrew is doing alright!"
Princess Luna sat in her private chambers deep in her thoughts. She wanted some time to reflect on everything that had just happened. Luna could not stop thinking about Alex and what could've happened to him or that new human. But her hopes that those two were safe out there soon turned to regret. She had only just wanted a true friend, but instead she ended up endangering Alex, and she ended up accidentally bringing another human to Equestria. She wanted to make up for her actions. But how?
Her thoughts were cut short when Celestia then entered the room. It was clear to her what was on Luna's mind. "Have you been thinking about Alex again, sister?"
"Yes." Luna replied. "What we've been doing recently is unforgivable! I brought two creatures into our world against their wills, we've been treating this 'hunt' as a game, but they most likely see us as demons because of how we want to use them!"
As tears streaked down Luna's face, she felt her sister's hoof on her chin. She looked up to see Celestia's gaze of sorrow. "You aren't the only one with regrets, Lulu." She said, "I'm starting to have second thoughts too, I only wanted to try to establish peaceful relations with his people. But now I worry how they would react to seeing us. I am also unsure how advanced his people are compared to us."
Luna simply closed her eyes in shame and sighed. "I should've never brought Alex, nor that other human here. I just wish I could make it up to them. If only I could send them back."
“Well, I went back to Star Swirls mirror and discovered that a there's still a chance to send them back home." Celestia replied. "Though it may take some time. But we better make sure that they are still safe and if they haven't been caught.”
Luna's eyes sparkled hearing her sisters words. "Thank you, Tia. We must go find them. But I have a terrifying feeling something sinister might happen..."
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In the hedge maze outside the castle, the small flowers on the side suddenly tilted forward after feeling a wave of G-Force. The source of said speed was Lachlan with Andrew holding onto him. The two had made it to Canterlot, thanks to Lachlan’s speed. Lachlan wiped only a single drop of sweat from his forehead, showing little to no exhaustion from the run.
"So... This is Canterlot?" Andrew asked, looking around the setting in front of him.
"Yep." Lachlan replied. "What do you think?"
"Y'know, if it weren't for ponies trying to go after me, this place is certainly amazing!"
"Thanks!" Lachlan said, "I actually live here."
"Wow...." Andrew said. "Whoever your parents are, they must be completely wealthy to live somewhere here."
Lachlan scratched the back of his head and chuckled. "Heheh... just “parent” actually..."
"Oh......" Andrew replied. "Divorce?"
Lachlan shook his head. "Nope."
"Alright then..." Andrew looked into the hedge maze. Well hopefully Alex is nearby.. Maybe he's hiding somewhere in that hedge maze. Along with those... weird statues...
"Weird is right." Lachlan agreed.
"Yeah.. especially this one. It gives me chills."
Andrew pointed at a certain statue. It looked to be like a combination of a lot of creatures, such as it having a a blue goat horn, one long fang, the left claw of an eagle, and so much more. Lachlan looked to where the statue was and rolled his eyes seeing who it was.
"Oh, that’s Discord." Lachlan introduced. "The sultan of chaos, and a major pain in the rump."
"Discord?" Andrew said, taken aback, You mean... there's someone... inside there....?"
"Yeah, and you can believe me when I say, he made everything crazy, literally!"
"But don’tcha worry dude." Lachlan said as he put his arm around Andrew. "If he does return, 'which I doubt will happen' I wouldn’t let him lay a claw on you!"
Andrew looked at the dingo and smirked seeing his bravery. "Thanks, Lachlan."
The two walked away from the statue, and headed into the hedge maze. But unbeknownst to them, another creature had found said statue as he crossed his arms.
"So... this is you, I presume?"
"Indeed." Discord's voice echoed.
"Very well... If you're willing to help me restore order to this pathetic planet, then so be it."
"Fantastic!"
The demon then held his hand against the statue as his demonic powers started to set him free. He closed his eyes as Discord's statue started glowing. But after sometime of concentration, He bursted out of the stone statue and he started stretching.
"Ahhh, so good to be out again!" Discord exclaimed.
"Hmph, your welcome." The demon said unamused, not getting a 'thank you' from the Draconequus.
"Oh, you look more... pale than I imagined. Did I scare the color out of you?" Discord laughed, due to the demon's skin tone.
"I'd watch your mouth if I were you. I can easily put you back and continue this myself." The demon said, offended by his words.
"Gee, where’s your sense of humour?"
"Now isn't the time to joke around. We must prepare to reveal ourselves to those ponies. Then, we'll have our revenge."
"I know there’s ONE little pipsqueak I’d like to see again..." Discord said as he smirked.
"Is that so?"
"Oh... You’ll know him when you see him..."
However, the two felt sudden G-Force as the looked to see Andrew and Lachlan both leaving the hedge maze, meaning they were unlucky in finding Alex. The demon took notice of Andrew and noticed he looked very similar to him. He pondered if he might be related to him, before brushing it off.
"Well well well, looks like we've found them." Discord said.
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The boys got to Ponyville while hiding in a small alleyway to make sure they weren't being seen Lachlan stopped when he realized where exactly in Ponyville they are.
"Hey, I know this spot...!"
"You do?" Andrew said, giving him a puzzled look.
"...This is where I met... my first friend... my only real friend..."
"Your... real friend?"
"Mhm... before that... I didn’t have any friends..." Lachlan said. "No one wanted to be friends with me just because I’m a dingo..." He sat down, curling his tail around himself and solemnly closed his eyes, "...Especially Twilight..."
"What did Twilight exactly do to you?" Andrew asked.
"It’s not what she did... it what she said... and it wasn’t just her... it was everyone..."
His ears folded down sadly. Andrew sat next to him. "I guess we're both in the same boat... Not many ponies like you because you're a dingo, and I'm being hunted like some sort of alien..."
"At least they wanted you... no one would even get 3 feet of me..." Lachlan said as a small tear ran down his face.
"You know what?" Andrew scowled as he got up, "I'm sick of all this! I'm done running away. I'm done with this "so-called" hunt! If I see any of those ponies again, I'll-"
That's why I thought it's bad to chase those two anymore!
Andrew couldn’t even finish his sentence as the two heard the voice of Pinkie Pie. The two peered from behind the corner to see Twilight, Spike, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity walking close to them, not knowing the boys were near them.
'You’ll what...?' Lachlan whispered to him as Andrew blew air out of his nonexistent nose.
"I'll give them a piece of my mind."
Andrew expected Lachlan to laugh and call his bluff because of all the running, but what he said next really threw him off unexpectedly; Lachlan actually believed in him as he he stepped back. "Okay, here’s your chance."
Andrew was surprised by Lachlan’s words before giving him a small thumbs up as the ponies got closer. Andrew took a deep breath, preparing for what may happen next. He had never confronted anyone before so this'll be new to him.
"Positively, darling." Rarity added, "It hurts me just thinking how much grief we caused those two!"
"So... you all FINALLY admit it..."
The four jumped back from Andrew's words, to see him giving them the biggest death glare ever, it would've made make Fluttershy’s stare look normal. Meanwhile, Lachlan was standing by hidden, trying to stay out of the conflict.
"You finally admit that you're in the wrong. After this long?! If you ask me, you should all be ashamed of yourselves for even THINKING that any of this is okay! Chasing us around! Trying to make us do something against our wills!"
"W-We... uh..." Spike stuttered, before Andrew cut him off.
"Don’t even finish that sentence! Did any of you even bother to see things through my perspective? Or even Alex’s? I was literally forced into this awful hunt that I had nothing to do with!" Andrew said angirly.
Lachlan on the other hand, saw the looks on Spike and the girls’ faces... complete fear and sadness... it made him wonder; Had he made the mistake of trusting the wrong person like he did with Discord? Could Andrew hurt them? He bears his claws and quietly growls while trying not to involve himself.
"Not to mention, I saved some poor dingo out of a lake because he almost drowned! And he helped me throughout all this! But he gave me a little sob story about how unfairly he's been treated."
Twilight stuttered. "You know-?!"
"Apparently, he has his feelings hurt when he was called names. Especially you, Twilight."
"W-Wait, that was before I got to know him, and we-!" Twilight was cut off.
"Like how you treated me and Alex like some sort of treasure?" Andrew said. "You just crave nothing but knowledge! Not to mention, while I was with Lachlan, he told me a lot about you and your friends' adventures, one had some sort of griffion come to town and was a jerk! Would you treat another griffon like it was the that jerk griffion?"
"What?! N-no I?"
"And what about your dragon friend?!" Andrew pointed at Spike. "What makes him different from Lachlan?!"
SLASH!
Andrew suddenly felt felt a sharp sting on his back as he fell to his knees. Spike and the girls gasped as it’s revealed that LACHLAN attacked Andrew by clawing his back. Lachlan pants for a moment before looking at the claw marks on Andrew’s back and at his claws, realizing what he did. Andrew lifted up his shirt and dabbed at where Lachlan attacked him and saw blood drip down his fingers.
Andrew looked at his friend in disbelief, "Lachlan... why?"
"I... I’m so sorry! Y-You were yelling at my friends a-and I-I panicked...! I didn’t mean... I... uh..."
Andrew just sighed as he wiped the blood on his clothes which were luckily red so they'd blend in. "I... I honestly don't know how I should feel right now..." Lachlan just whimpered, As he tried to comfort Andrew.
The girls and Spike couldn't believe what had just happened. But now the guilt in their minds were even worse now seeing what they're actions had become. Even someone who wasn't accepted by everypony wasn't wanting to use him like a trophy, or a pet. He was wanting him as a friend...
"...I..I'm so sorry...." Twilight spoke up. "I didn't really wanted to see you or Alex hurt."
Andrew got up, cringing from the pain on his back. His gaze met Twilight's. "Look, Twilight.... I know I may not be a pony, but can't we all just get... to know each other...?"
"Just like you got to know me!" Lachlan added.
"Exactly... I know you've been wanting this "Trotholm Hoofbel Prize" ever since you discovered Alex. And Rarity wanted to have a pet for that fancy party she's attending in a few days. And Pinkie's trying to throw me and Alex a "Goodbye Human Party." But maybe, if you instead try to help us first, we might consider doing these things." Andrew stuck out his arm, clearly asking for a simple handshake. Or... hoofshake in this case.
Spike and the girls look at each other. They knew they're actions were unforgivable, and they knew that they must eventually face the consequences. But somehow perhaps, they could redeem themselves. And maybe if they got to the others, they could convince them to stop all this. They all nodded their heads as Twilight then shook Andrew's hand, with their trust had now begun. Spike also shook Andrew's hand, as he also felt guilt for helping Twilight.
Pinkie bounced over and gave Andrew a tight hug whiched Andrew winced from the pain of his injury being squeezed. Pinkie took note of this and wiped the blood off her hooves. Rarity also hugged Andrew, but was more gentle with him.
"I’m.. so sorry if we caused you any grief!" She said.
"Don't worry about it," Andrew assured. "I'm just happy you four came to your senses."
The group then all exited the alleyway and made they're way towards the Golden Oaks Library to treat Andrew's injury.
"Ooh! What's your name by the way?" Pinkie asked.
"Oh I thought you would've known by now. It's ANDREW."
Inside of the Golden Oaks Library, the ideal place to look if one were to seek Twilight Sparkle. Rarity and Spike were busy putting a bandage on Andrew's injury with him wincing from the pain of his exposed blood being touched. The two took note of his reactions and made sure to be more gentle while doing so. Lachlan on the other hand, had told everypony about his And Andrew's mini adventure.
"You're telling me that he saved you out of a lake in the Everfree Forest?" Spike asked the dingo, which he responded with an "uh-huh!"
"I couldn't just let him die like that." Andrew added.
"Why were you in that part of the forest?" Twilight asked.
"I was trying to catch some Everfree Forest catfish for lunch!" Lachlan said as he rubbed his tummy.
"Does he usually do things like that?"
"Yeah, but he doesn’t usually go alone, he usually has his best friend with him..." Pinkie Pie answered. Andrew looked at her with confusion. He had heard about this "best friend" of Lachlan by Lachlan himself, but never mentioned her by name.
"Well, you could have asked any of US to go with you, we’d be happy to help you get a catfish snack!" Spike said.
"Spike’s absolutely right." Twilight added. "We have warmed up to you ever since last time..."
"Yeah..." Lachlan chuckled, "Sorry, girls. Guess I'm more used to being with her."
'Who exactly is he talking about...?' Andrew whispered to Rarity.
"Oh? He didn't tell you?" Rarity said, taken aback, "I thought he would've told you all about RAINBOW DASH by now."
That completely caught Andrew off guard. Andrew remembered how Rainbow Dash treated Alex over something completely petty. He spoke up, "Wait, Rainbow Dash? As in that blue pegasus with the Rainbow colored hair and tail?"
"Yep, that’s her!" Pinkie said.
"Oh no.... Alex is in big trouble!" Andrew said as he got up quickly.
"Why?" Lachlan asked.
"I just remembered that Rainbow Dash is completley deadset on finding Alex because of what he unintentionally did." Andrew answered.
"Unintentionally?" Lachlan said, confused by Andrew' words. "So it must’ve been an accident... I’ll go and find them and see if I can reason with her!"
"I don't know..."
"Seriously! It’s like Lachlan’s the only one who can soften the tough shell around Rainbow Dash’s heart!" Pinkie Pie said.
"Well, from what Alex told me, after he escaped Twilight’s cage. She hired Rainbow Dash to hunt him down. But Alex pretended like he was a big fan and made her do a stunt that she was saving for these "Wonder-dolts?"
"Wonderbolts." Lachlan corrected.
"Right... Anyway..." Andrew narrated, "Everypony was in view and she knew they would've most likely seen it. So she... tried to get her revenge by shooting him with lightning bolts on the clouds somehow. But Alex did get away. But after sometime he got smaller because of a "poison joke plant." Twilight then found him and kept him here. Rainbow Dash did come back but she spotted Alex and saw this as an opportunity to toy around with him. I think she even ate him at some point."
"She ate him?" Lachlan commented. "Why does that part ring a bell to me...?"
"I dunno... he said that during the hunt in Whitetail Woods, she liked that smaller version of himself and has a small bottle of that poison joke potion that will turn him small again. I'd suggest you'd be careful."
I always am! Lachlan said with confidence as he jogged out the door to look for them.
"He’s really not...!!" Pinkie Pie whispered to Andrew.
Ever since Lachlan left, Andrew decided to take some time to get to know the four. Twilight told Andrew about all the adventures she had with her six friends. From the first time she came to Ponyville, to the Canterlot Wedding, to even what happened at the Crystal Empire and how Spike saved everypony.
"No way!" Andrew exclaimed, "Changelings?! I'm honestly surprised you all fell for that faker."
"Yeah..." Spike rubbed the back of his head in shame. "We honestly still regret leaving Twilight there at the rehersal."
"Even I'll admit," Twilight added "I probably should've provided more evidence of that moment. I'm just glad that Princess Celestia was able to start taking threats more seriously after that."
The mention of Princess Celestia made Andrew feel uneasy. Pinkie Pie took notice of this, and sat next to Andrew. "Uh-oh, somebody’s baked a batch of frownies!~ Tell Auntie Pinkie what’s got you down."
"Well..." Andrew sighed, "I'm just really worried about Alex right now... Especially with these "Celestia" and "Luna" ponies after him... Hearing that Alex says that Celestia wants nothing more than to possibly conquer our world."
"Conquer your world?" Twilight asked, eyes widened at Andrew's claim.
"Yeah... from what he's told me, he fears that once that happens, you'd all treat us like slaves."
The four gasp before Rarity spoke up, "That does not sound like something Princess Celestia would do!"
"Rarity’s right." Spike said, "You think the ruler of Equestria, who we trust with our lives, would do something like that?"
"I don't know, I never met the mare!"
"She’s more than a mare! She’s an alicorn!" Pinkie said.
"An ali-what now?" Andrew asked, not knowing the context of an alicorn.
"An alicorn." Twilight said, "They're very rare. No pony can just be born an alicorn. It has to be earned."
"Earned how?" Andrew asked.
"...I'll tell you later. But to put it simply, alicorns are ponies with the traits of every pony tribes. The horns of a unicorn, the wings of a pegasus, and the heart of an earth pony."
Before Andrew could speak up, they suddenly heard weird noises from outside. It sounded like rustling and very muffled talking. The five froze from the sudden shock and stared at the door.
"What’s that noise?" Twilight asked. "Did Lachlan return with Alex and Rainbow Dash."
"If you girls ordered pizza, I'd say this is pretty unprofessional of them." Andrew said as he walked to the door. Hesitantly, he gently presses against the door and reaches for the nob, only for sparks to suddenly surround it, making him back away. the door creaked open. As the silhouette of a certain someone stood in the doorway.
Everyone gasped as the shadowy figure revealed himself to be DISCORD!
"D-Discord?!" Twilight said.
"Hello there, girls. Did you miss me?" Discord said with an evil smile on his face.
"How did you get back?!" Twilight asked as her fear turned to anger.
"Oh that doesn't matter, Twilight. I'm just going to finish what I started!'
"Well, he’s not here!" Spike said, standing by Twilight.
"But if you want him, you’ll have to deal with us!" Pinkie Pie said as she and Rarity also stood with Twilight.
"I don't know how you got back, but you made a big mistake coming here!" Twilight said, but Discord just laughed.
"Au contraire mon frere!" Discord replied "The mistake was thinking that you and your friends won. But that was just a prelude, an d'oeuvre, an aperitif, an Amuse-bouche--"
"I get it!" Twilight interupted.
Oh, I don't think you do!" chuckled as he stepped inside. "But you will. And so will your silly princess as well."
Twilight angrily charges her magic up as Discord spoke again, "And your little dog too!"
Angered by the fact that Discord threatened Lachlan, the four rushed up to him, and Twilight was ready to fire her magic as time felt like it slowed down. Discord then backs away to the side while smiling, revealing someone behind him. The four's expressions turned from rage to shock as the demon from before suddenly leaped towards them. But what shocked them the most was that this demon had a very strikingly resemblance towards Andrew, but his skin, hair, and his clothes were all different shades of gray.
Time goes back to normal as the demon doppelganger suddenly attacked the four, sending them crashing into a bookshelf. As the four laid on there dazed, Andrew looked through the wall to see the faker looking right at him through a hole in the wall. It almost felt as if he was looking into a mirror.
"Pitiful." The demon simply said as he made his way towards the entrance to the room.
"Wh-what?!" Andrew said seeing the demon who looked like him, "Who are you?!"
Oh! Where are my manners?" Discord said as he poked his head through the hole. Before joining the others in the room." "Everypony, meet this demon I met in the Everfree Forest, his name is Dark! Or as I like to call him, DARK ANDREW. My new BFFAE! Bestest Friend For All Eternity!"
"Look Discord, I don't care who you brought to help you. You won't use me in your little game Lachlan told me all about!" Andrew growled.
"Do I look like I need YOU for anything?" Dark Andrew said as he holds up his fist as purple electricity sparked out.
"Oh, I heard what he said about you." Discord chuckled, "And that’s what the pink one meant about “he”, she was referring to Lachlan!"
"You won't hurt him! I won't let you!" Andrew yelled towards the two and charged at them, only for Dark to punch him so hard, he sent Andrew flying towards the others, causing them all to fly out of the Golden Oaks Library while leaving a giant hole behind. Andrew regained consciousness and looks to Dark, standing across from him after jumping out of the giant hole, pounding his fists together. As Discord watched the show while eating a bowl of popcorn he brought out of nowhere.
"So nice when diabolical chaos lives up to our expectations!" Discord laughed, watching what he considered an Oscar worthy scene.
"Where are they?!" Dark Andrew asked angrily as Andrew got up to face the demon. who stands his ground.
"Oh, you want it?" Andrew asked, "Here it comes!"
"I was honestly expecting more out of you." Dark said, giving Andrew a disappointed glare, "You're unskilled.... untrained.... and... UNWORTHY!"
"You forgot one, whoever you are..." Andrew said, "UNSTOPPAbLE!"
"Good one..." Pinkie siad before cringing from the injuries, "Owie..."
Andrew then grabbed a stick off the ground and charged at Dark. As he got closer, he aimed for Dark's head and stabbed the stick into it, resulting in an explosion of light. As it dims, it is revealed that Dark held Andrew in place by using some sort of dark magic, casting Andrew in a dark purple aura. Dark then walked forward, raised a fist, and pummels Andrew into the ground, creating a massive explosion of energy and a large crater. It rattled even Discord by making his drop the popcorn.
Andrew groaned in pain from the sudden attack as Dark suddenly grabbed ahold of him and pinned him up against a tree. "It is my destiny to do wat I should've done centuries ago! To make the pony race suffer and restore order to Equestria!"
Discord had a confused look hearing what Dark said. He had not mentioned anything about restoring order to Equestria before.
"Wh-what do you mean by "make the ponies suffer?" I don't have anything to do with whatever you've dealt with! You've got the wrong guy!" Andrew said, trying to convince his faker, but it fell on deaf ears.
"Your lies don't fool me, apprentice of Princess Celestia!" Dark said.
"Y-You know Celestia...?!" Twilight said, raising her head up.
"Celestia and her sister are the main enemies I've been waiting for!" Dark ranted, "They ruined my life in the worst way possible! And now with this look-a-like's destruction! I'll show this pathetic universe what true suffering is!"
Before Dark could deliver a final blow, two blurs of light suddenly came towards him. The colors being yellow and blue. Seeing the two blurs, Dark dropped Andrew and tried to face them off, only to be rammed into by the two of them, causing Dark to fly right into a nearby haystack.
“Hay” now! Discord laughed, making another one of his jokes.
Andrew looked at who had just attacked Dark, revealing it to be none other than Princess Celestia and Luna looking down upon him.
"Are you alright?" Celestia asked, which Andrew simply nodded.
"Princess Celestia!!" Twilight exclaimed, "What are you doing here?!"
"Greetings my faithful student," The sun princess greeted. "Now come with us if we are to escape."
Not wasting any time, Andrew got on Celestia as she and Luna lit up their horns, encasing th other four in either a golden yellow or blue aura. THey quickly made it away from the two villains. leaving them behind. Dark snarled as he got out of the hay. He then suddenly sped off towards the others, leaving Discord alone.
"Ooh! This'll be fun!" Discord said as he secretly followed them.
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"Art thou alright, human?" Luna asked,
"I'm alright..." Andrew simply said "How did you two even find us?"
"My son was able to tell us where you were." Celestia said.
"You have a son?" Andrew said picturing a white unicorn stallion in his head. "I'm guessing that stallion must be really nice."
"Stallion?" Celestia said.
"He's...not.. a stalion?" Andrew asked.
"Well, let's just say he's a little different." Luna replied.
"Huh," Andrew said raising an eyebrow. "Maybe Lachlan will let me meet him."
"So you HAVE met him!"
"Wait...." Andrew suddenly connected the dots as his eyes widened. "LACHLAN'S YOUR SON?!"
"Indeed he is." Celestia smiled proudly.
"You should’ve seen Twilight when she learned that!" Pinkie giggled.
"Cool... Also, WHAT IS GOING ON?! How did that Discord guy escape? And who is Shadow the Edgehog Rage Monster?"
"That “shadow” guy must’ve set him free!" Spike said.
"He said something about wanting revenge on you two." Andrew added "Was there some sort of beef between you two and him?"
"He said that?" Celestia said, "I don't seem to remember him."
"Also, that Discord guy mentioned getting his own revenge on someone."
"Oh, it’s Lachlan who Discord wants revenge on." Celestia answered.
"Hey, I'd hate to break up an interesting moment, darlings." Rarity intervened, "But, THAT RUFFIAN IS AFTER US!"
Celestia and Luna suddenly dodged a thrown boulder at them. They looked back, revealing Dark was pelting boulders at them to try and case their flight. The royal sisters then knew what must be done.
"Does thou trust me and my sister?" Luna asked
"Of course not! I literally just met you two!" Andrew exclaimed.
"You can trust us." Celestia assured, which Andrew sighed.
The sisters lit up their horns, preparing to perform a teleportation spell. Dark took note of this and launched himself at them. But as he was about to grab them-
*POOF!*
Everyone that was with Celestia and Luna suddenly vanished, escaping the edgy demon. Dark then went felling down a mountain but then his fingers converted into claws as he dug them into the mountain.
"I almost had them!" Dark ranted to himself, "Next time, luck will be in MY favor!"
As the sun rose up into the sky, Alex slowly woke up from the bed he was sleeping in. After his battle with Trixie, he checked on Lyra and Bon Bon to see if they were okay from the impact of the tree and they luckily woke up from the events. Since they didn't want to see Alex get hurt again, they brought him back to their home in Ponyville (Without anypony seeing them, that is...), and gave him some food to regain his strength. But since Alex dined differently from ponies, he picked out anything he felt he couldn't eat like hay. And they let him sleep in a guest bedroom they had and he was able to sleep peacefully.
All three were then walking into the Everfree Forest yet again as Lyra and Bon Bon had no idea exactly wondered why Alex was wanting to go in here. Especially since they've heard a lot about the horrors of this forest.
"Um... Alex...?" Bon Bon asked, "Why are we even in this scary place?"
"Because that Zecora might be done with the potion that can transport me and Andrew home." Alex simply replied. "Yet... there's something that is really confusing me..."
"What's that?" Lyra asked him.
"When I was looking for Andrew in that abandoned castle, I came across a "prophecy," Alex said, "And it said Andrew is this Chosen One saying that he is destined to defeat some sort of evil that shares his looks. I don't if he might end up staying around here..."
Lyra and Bon Bon were both shocked by what Alex said. They always believed Twilight and her friends were always going to be the heroes. But Lyra suddenly smiled.
"No way!" Lyra exclaimed. "An actual human being a hero in this world! THIS IS THE GREATEST DAY OF MY LI-"
Both Alex and Bon Bon quickly covered the mint-green unicorn's mouth while shushing her as not to drag any attention to them. They all quickly looked around and sighed seeing nopony had heard them.
"Don't do that again..." Alex said as they continued walking, only to stop to see that they were right in front of Zecora's hut. "Huh... that was fast..."
Alex then knocked on the front door while the two mares stayed behind. Luckily for him, Zecora answered the door and was happy to see him. "Ah, Alex, I'm sure you're wondering about the potion. I was able to finish it despite the commotion."
Zecora then held up a potion bottle with a strange blue liquid inside it as Zecora explained. "At the right time, use the potion and you're way home will chime. But be careful, you'll only have one shot, so find the right spot."
"I literally don't know how you're able to say your sentences like that, but alright." Alex said. "Thanks for everything, Zecora."
Zecora simply nodded as Alex went back with Lyra and Bon Bon to continue their quest to find Andrew.
Somewhere else in the Everfree Forest, Lachlan Dingo had found Rainbow Dash and convinced her to quit her jerkish behavior. Of course, he had his ways of talking to his best friend. The two walked deeper into the forest on their way back to Ponyville.
"Hey, thanks for talking to me about this, kid." Rainbow Dash said to her best friend. "And to think they'd let me be a Wonderbolt if they caught me like that."
"How'd you come up with that?" Lachlan asked.
"I dunno, I had this pretty sad nightmare where I pushed Alex out of a window and Spitfire saved him before I could get to him." She went on, "She came to tell me I was accepted, but after seeing that, she just ripped my acceptance letter in front of me. Though I get weird Deja Vu like I've experienced that before."
"Well, I'm just happy you aren't a flankhole anymore!" Lachlan replied, "That isn't the Rainbow Dash I know and love. She's the coolest and loyal friend ever. You might even be more than just a friend to me!"
Rainbow Dash blushed, "Alright, alright.... Just don't tell anypony about that."
Lachlan sheepishly smiled. "Heh, sorry..."
The two then made their way back to Ponyville. Lachlan told Rainbow Dash where Twilight and the others with since Andrew confronted them. However, something seemed off. The back of the Golden Oaks Library was completely destroyed. Confusing the two.
"What happened here?!" Lachlan said, "This wasn't like this before!"
"Weird, even the doorknob is missing." Rainbow Dash pointed at the door, the doorknob was completely destroyed. As if someone had used a taser on it.
Discord casually floated down to the tree Dark had crashed into. He found the demonic doppelganger semi-knocked out from crashing into the tree. Dark was pretty much seeing stars.
"Oh my, looks like you had a rough night." Discord smirked. "Perhaps you should lay off the cider next time."
Dark snarled as he punched the stars spinning around him. "You mock me with your weak jokes. Yet we've lost the princess'!"
"Oh please," Discord said, "I know they just teleported back to their castle back in Canterlot. There's no rush!"
Dark scoffed, "You said you had some beef to deal with this Lachlan Dingo? Y'know where exactly he is?"
"I may not, but I'm sure he might be in Ponyville somewhere. Perhaps hanging out with his marefriend, Rainbow Dash. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if he gave that Alex guy up to her."
Dark thought for a moment. He knew if that dingo was around, he could probably try and defend Andrew in anyway. This dog is considered an obstacle to him. To Dark, he needed to be destroyed.
"D-do you think they might've been captured by Chrysalis or Discord?" Lachlan whimpered to Rainbow Dash, who pet his hair in response.
"Hey, c'mon kid." Rainbow Dash replied. "Discord's encased in stone again, and Chrysalis was sent far way now. I'd doubt they're in any danger."
Lachlan slowly smiled, he knew that Twilight as strong enough to protect Andrew and her friends. But little did he know, what would happen soon.
Rainbow Dash and Lachlan Dingo both suddenly heard chatting from the entrance coming from the Everfree Forest. Lachlan jumped behind Rainbow Dash, scared from who it may be as Rainbow prepared to fight whoever was coming there way. But instead she was met with Lyra, Bon Bon, and...
"LEXY?!"
Alex gasped realizing the one pegasus he was scared about and took off running, but Rainbow Dash instantly flew right in front of him, causing Alex to fall down onto the ground. "PLEASE! I'M SORRY! OKAY?! JUST STOP IT ALREADY!" He pleaded.
"Calm down, already!" Rainbow Dash spoke. "I'm the one who should be apologizing! I shouldn't've taken my frustration out on you!"
"How do I know you're not just lying so you can use that potion on me?!" Alex glared.
"Because I spoke her out of it." Lachlan spoke up, "I knew I could convince her out of it."
Alex looked at Lachlan, completely shocked seeing a talking dog. First ponies, then dragons, and now dogs? This world is getting more crazier and crazier by the minute.
"How?" Alex said, "Do you have some sort of cuteness charm or something?!"
"Maybe~!" Lachlan smirked, causing Rainbow Dash to wince while blushing.
"Ugh. What I mean is that, I don't expect you to believe me, nor do I expect you to forgive me, Lexy." Rainbow Dash said to Alex. "I just want you to know, I'm sorry.... and to your other friend too..."
Alex was taken aback over what everything. Out of all the ponies, she was the one he expected the least to apologize, but Alex felt a wave of relief on his face, knowing that she had calmed down.
"Well... I'll be straight forward..." Alex, said, "I can't really forgive you right away, Rainbow Dash. Your anger was justifiable, but your actions weren't. So please promise me this, promise me that you won't ever try to kill someone over petty reasons." Alex then stuck out his hand for Rainbow Dash, who shook his hand while keeping her head low.
"Alright, I promise." Rainbow Dash sighed.
"Good," Alex said, "Anyways, since you and... your dog showed up... do you think you two can help me out in finding Andrew?"
"Heh, y'kidding?" Rainbow Dash smirked, "Did you forget who you're talking to Lex- uh... I mean... Alex?"
Alex rolled his eyes. "No, I did not..."
"Don't worry, guys! I can track Andrew down!" Lachlan said as he started sniffing the ground, searching for Andrew. Rainbow and Alex both started to follow him, but Alex stopped seeing Lyra and Bon Bon weren't following them.
"Are you two coming?" Alex asked.
"No, sorry!" Bon Bon replied. "We only came with you because Lyra just loves your species so much apparently!"
"I can die happy knowing I met a human!" Lyra cheered. "Bye Alex! I hope you find your friend!:
Alex chuckled at Lyra's strange behavior towards him before catching up with Rainbow Dash and Lachlan. He felt like things were finally going the way he'd hoped for!
But little did he know what would happen next...
Lachlan continued to sniff the ground, tracking Andrew's possible location. So far, nothing seemed to be picking up, but he suddenly got an unsettling vibe. Rainbow Dash and Alex both took note of this as they saw Lachlan had stopped moving.
"I...I feel some sort of presence, almost like Andrew's... but... it feels... EVIL."
"Evil?" Alex's eyes widened. "Your joking right?"
Before Lachlan could respond, they suddenly noticed a crowd of ponies all cowering at the site of something terrifying. At first, Lachlan and Rainbow Dash thought it might've been Princess Luna returning for Nightmare NIght. But there was one problem..... IT WASN'T NIGHTMARE NIGHT.
Alex looked over to see what the ponies were all scared about, but what he saw shocked him. It was Andrew! But his whole body were different shades of gray. He was standing at the top of a random building. But Alex didn't know that it reality, it was Dark Andrew.
"I will not ask any of you again!" Dark yelled. "WHERE. IS. LACHLAN DINGO?!"
Most ponies just screamed and ran off from the demonic doppelganger while screaming. Dark just scoffed at the ponies' incompliance. "Pathetic Equestrian creatures... Even today, they are pathetic as they were back then...
"Who do y'all think ya are? Terrorizing ponies like that?" a voice suddenly came from the crowd, revealing it to be Applejack. "Ya won't even get the chance to lay a single claw on him anyway!"
Dark snarled. "I will not be talked down by some worthless waste of flesh and bones like you!" Dark Andrew then cracked his knuckles as purple electricity sparked out. "I have no choice but to destroy you for your refusal to comply!"
Dark angrily fired a shot of magic above his head with his fingers. It lands behind him, setting the surroundings on fire. He then fires a shot at Applejack, who quickly dodges. Applejack then tried to buck Dark, but he quickly tilted his head to the side and swatted at Applejack, sending her flying before she landed on all fours, glaring at the demon.
Dark Andrew then jumped in the air as the electricity in his arms became stronger, Dark Andrew then put his hands together and shot a giant beam of magic towards her like a certain anime. Applejack widened her eyes as she then ran to the side to avoid getting hit. Applejack then pulled out her lasso and sent it flying towards the demon. However, Dark suddenly canceled his beam attack and grabbed the rope.
Applejack's head filled with sweat as Dark pulled the rope to yank her towards him before firing a smaller beam of electricity that knocked Applejack into a tree. Dark walked up to her and prepares to fire another large beam of electricity, ready to finish off the cowgirl.
But before he can fire, he suddenly felt a fist collide to his pelvis. He flew mid air before landing on the ground to see his attacker. It was none other than the one he was looking for. Lachlan also had electricity running through his body and his eyes as he growled at Dark.
"So...." Dark said, "YOU'RE the one Discord told me about..."
Lachlan raised an eyebrow as Dark spoke on, "He's waiting for you.... I'll see you in Canterlot..." Dark's hands ignited in a darkish purple aura before he suddenly disappeared.
"D-Discord... escaped...?" Lachlan whimpered.
"Who was that guy?" Rainbow Dash said as she helped Applejack get up to her hooves.
"Ah dunno, sugar." Applejack said, "But that varmint really knows how to pack a punch. If it weren't for Lachlan, Ah'd be a goner."
Lachlan fell to his knees, Discord was back? And who was that demon? Why did he look just like Andrew?
Alex then walked up to him as he put a hand on his shoulder. "Don't worry... Lachlan... IF you and your friends were able to beat Discord before... I'm sure you can do it again..."
"But..." Lachlan spoke softly, "What if he makes me betray my friends again...?"
"He won't." Rainbow Dash said as she and Applejack walked up to him. "I'll make sure of it."
Lachlan slowly smiled, "Thanks, Dashie. At least I'm sure Andrew will be safe with Twilight anyway!"
Lachlan's eyes suddenly shot open as Alex's eyes did too.
Wirh a flash of golden and dark blue magic, The group consisting of the Royal Sisters, Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Spike, and Andrew all suddenly appeared in the throne room of the Canterlot Castle. Andrew kept his eyes tightly shut, not knowing if he’s safe.
"Is.. he gone?" Andrew asked as he opened one eye slowly, now seeing the unfamiliar castle. "Huh?! How did we-"
"It was a teleportation spell, young human." Luna said.
"Teleportation?" Andrew replied, "Didn't know that was possible..."
Andrew then took around the castle and softly whistled, "Nice place you got here..."
Before Luna could respond, Twilight suddenly interrupted doing her usual panic attacks.
"I..I don't understand!" Twilight said, "How could've that... demon that looked like Andrew free Discord? And how could he have alicorn-like magic?!"
Princess Celestia only closed her eyes. Despite the claims of her and her sister knowing Dark, nothing came up. As if it was some burning memory.
"It is clear that this new threat Discord brought to us is unknown," She began, "But if this Dark claims to have a grudge against me and Luna for something, then we could all be in trouble..."
"Aww... Don't say that Princess C!" Pinkie said, "We've defeated those mean old baddies in the past! I'm sure that doppelganger won't stand a chance!"
Andrew couldn’t help but chuckle to himself seeing Pinkie's optimism. Before Celestia suddenly walked up to him.
"Andrew..." Celestia said, "Come with me, there's something I wish to show you."
Andrew agreed as he walked with her. But a part of him felt nervous going with her due to how Alex described her. She was way taller than him in comparison, even despite Andrew being 6 feet tall. And knowing that she was all powerful, Andrew knew not to push the wrong buttons.
The white alicorn led Andrew into the archives. Andrew gazed in awe at the sight of everything around him. Celestia then brought Andrew to a mirror. Andrew scratched his head.
"A mirror?" Andrew said, "Hate to disappoint, but I've seen mirrors before..."
"But this is no ordinary mirror, young Andrew." Celestia said, "This mirror is the exact reason you and Alex were brought here."
Celestia the went on to explain everything, "The mirror that brought you here was incomplete and did not allow travel in its current state. Her actions could’ve easily placed you and Alex in terrible danger had it not been through sheer luck.”
"Woah..."
Celestia then stood up. “Yet for her foolish actions, it may have been a blessing in disguise. After you broke through and escaped Canterlot, I studied the mirror in hopes of finding a way to salvage it. What I discovered was an anomaly.”
"An anomaly?" Andrew asked.
An anomaly that somehow still connects our world with yours. The essence of the mirror’s magic is invisible, but it it’s there and it’s faint. Once Luna pulled you and Alex through to our world, it magically attached itself on to Alex like a tether and kept the gateway open.”
“You mean…”
“Yes Andrew. The way back is still open.” she smiled.
Andrew listened to every word. It seemed almost too good to be true to him
“But, like all tethers, it can be easily severed. I’ve sensed the connection getting weaker. He's spent a long time in our world and it won’t be long before the gateway eventually collapses.” “If you nor Alex are returned through the mirror soon, the gateway will cut the tether and leave you trapped here indefinitely.”
Andrew's eyes widened as he fell to his knees. "I....I can't believe this...."
Celestia then wrapped her wing around him to comfort him. "I understand it's a lot to take in..."
Andrew just stared at the mirror, only seeing his reflection doing everything he did. "It's just... I'm happy that I could possibly return home... it's just..."
"Yes?" Celestia asked, her smile slowly fading.
"I... i don't have a family there..." Andrew said as tears started to flow down his face. "I was born differently than the average human...."
"If you wish to tell me, I am here for you." Celestia said, sitting down with her wing still wrapped around Andrew.
"I... was a test subject...." Andrew began, "Somewhere on Earth. A scientist was doing an impossible test nobody ever tried. To create human life without the need of.... well... you know..."
Celestia blushed at the thought of it before giggling. Andrew continued on,
"I was his first creation. But I wasn't anything like he expected, I had an odd appearance. I almost looked like some rejected cartoon character. But to my surprise, he didn't consider me a failure. But as a success! He had shown me around the world. I was considered a miracle despite my odd looks."
"That must’ve felt amazing for you." Celestia said, "You were the talk of the town."
"Yeah... I was glad to see that the world was happy to see me not as a monster." Andrew said before he frowned. "But, it never felt.... happy...."
A long moment of silence occurred for a moment before Andrew continued. "I didn't like the attention. I was hoping to live a peaceful life. I thought things would be fine... until THEY showed up..."
"Who's they?" Celestia asked.
"The FBI..." Andrew said, "They thought I was some sort of alien. I was absolutely terrified. I had so many thoughts over what they could do to me... But the scientist wanted me to fulfill my dreams of living a peaceful life. When the FBI were pounding at the door, he rushed me over to a device. He told me that he would teleport me somewhere far from where we lived. I didn’t want him to leave me.... but he told me his final words..."
"Remember, Andrew..." The scientist said, "Always be Honest, Generous, Kind, Loyal, Brave, and most of all... be yourself..."
"I....I promise...."
Just as the scientist pushed the button. An FBI solider suddenly charged up to him and pointed his gun at him.
"FREEZE!" He shouted.
"It's too late." The scientist said, "You won't take him away! Not without getting through me!"
"Move now, or else we'll have no choice!" The FBI solider said.
The scientist stood his ground and looked at the solider dead in the eye. "No."
*BANG!*
"NO!" Andrew screamed from the glass tube he was encased in. The scientist suddenly fell to the ground, clutching his chest. Andrew's eyes were filled with tears as the teleporter suddenly sent him far in a city he was familiar with. Andrew looked around the place. Andrew was still heartbroken as the camera zoomed on his face as he sobbed.
The scene slowly faded back to Andrew who had the same expression from before. "I never saw him again...."
Celestia felt nothing but genuine sorrow and sympathy for the young child she was with. Andrew was considered a monster by the agency and it caused him to lose the only person he felt connected with.
"And when everyone in this world started to chase me and Alex, I was emotionally scarred... I just didn't want to look weak..."
"I'm so sorry for your loss, Andrew...." Celestia cooed, "I really am.... You didn't deserve to suffer... But there is a huge difference to being weak and feeling sad emotions... and I really am sorry for putting both you and Alex through all this..."
Andrew then bursted into tears as he cried into Celestia’s chest. Letting her coat absorb his tears. For what felt like hours. Andrew letball his tears out as Celestia comforted him.
"S...sory for getting your fur wet, your highness..." Andrew sniffed.
"Don't worry about me..." Celestia reassured. "Lachlan always cried into me whenever he was sad."
Andrew then slowly smiled with tears still in his eyes. "Th...thank you...."
Celestia just smiled back, "no need for thanks, young Andrew. Now, if you want some alone time, I can grant you it."
"Y..yeah... that'd be nice..."
"Very well.... you can return with us when you feel like doing so..." With that, Celestia walked out of the archives, leaving Andrew alone in his thoughts.
"Sister, is Andrew alright?" Luna asked. "You were in there with him for quite some time. But he wants time to himself."
"I see... but while you were gone, everyone else had shown up." Luna pointed at the group, with now Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Applejack, Lachlan Dingo, and Alex were all in the castle too, having small reunions with each other.
"Oh I was so worried you all wouldn't make it!' Twilight said, hugging her friends.
"Are you kidding?" Rainbow Dash replied, "We die hard."
"Ah'll tell ya one thing," Applejack said, "That varmint was quite the fighter. Ah'm just glad that Lachlan was able to save me from him."
"They told me everything that just happened!" Fluttershy said, "Oh, all those poor ponies that demon terrorized..."
"Hey, don’t worry Fluttershy." Lachlan said, "We've faced many villains before, I'm sure that creep won't be any different!"
Meanwhile, Alex was standing in the corner, knowing time was running short for him and Andrew to return home. But Luna was assuring him that they will be fine earlier.
After the reunion, the girls then equipped the Elements of Harmony, knowing that Discord and Dark would soon arrive. But now they were luckily able to keep the Elements before Discord got to them. So now they wouldn't fall for his corruption again.
"Be ready, girls..." Twilight said, "Those two could show up at any minute."
"Look, I know we don't have the best relationship right now..." Alex said. "But I want to do my part... I've outwitted you all before. So I guess I can handle myself..."
"Alright, just don't get hurt..." Lachlan said. Alex then noticed an odd red circle on Lachlan’s forehead.
"Uhm... You've got a little something on your..." The red circles suddenly formed into many small circles. Alex knew exactly what was going on. "Oh no...."
"OH YES!"
Discord then suddenly appeared on his throne again at the end of the hallway as he smirked, "Ah, my old friends! So good to see you're all together. Especially you, Lachlan."
Lachlan got chills sent down his spine hearing that. But to make matters worse, Dark suddenly jumped up from behind Discord's throne and landed on the ground.
"But we'll take it from here." Dark Andrew stared coldly at everyone.
Andrew just stared at the mirror that was in front of him, still seeing his reflection. He was beginning to feel hopeless....
A demon doppelganger was on the loose, a lord of chaos was released from his prison, Alex and Lachlan were in danger, and now he reminded himself about everything that had happened to him....
But Andrew then remembered what the scientist said to him...
"Remember, Andrew...Always be Honest, Generous, Kind, Loyal, Brave, and most of all... be yourself..."
Andrew's slowly felt the tears return. Remembering his promise to the scientist... "I promise....."
"You may think sending Dark to do your dirty work will help you, Discord." Twilight said as she and her five friends all rose up from the ground with the Elements of Harmony starting to glow. "But you forgot why you lost last time! By the power of friendship!"
Discord yawned. "Oh how cheesy!"
Wilth that the Elements combined their powers and fire a giant rainbow, just like they did when they defeated him the first time. Discord stammered as the rainbow started to race down to him.
Suddenly Dark suddenly lifted his fist up as the rainbow came crashing down. To everyone's shock, he was pulling the rainbow back!
Dark then too a massive swing on the giant rainbow, sending it straight back at the girls. They all screamed as they hit the ground.
"GIRLS!" Lachlan, Spike, and Alex all yelled in unison as they rushed to their aid.
Princess Celestia was completely at a loss for words. Nopony was able to resist the Elements of Harmony's power. How could he have learned to do something like that?!
"Did you seriously think that would work on me!?" Dark yelled. "I have been studying up on forbidden magic for way too long!"
"Now that was something I didn't see coming!" Discord said as he regained confidence.
"I honestly thought you would at least try to attack me. But now I see everything... you creatures are nothing more than pathetic softies who would rather use magic instead of brawn!"
"Hey! Who you callin' softie?!" Rainbow Dash yelled.
"You... that's for sure..." Dark then shot a small beam of energy at Rainbow Dash sending her flying back into everyone.
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Dark then lept forward at them at full speed, everyone closed their eyes expecting the worse to come. Dark then prepared to punch them all as it suddenly cut to black....
As we fade back to what happened, Dark was shocked to see ANDREW had grabbed onto his fist. But what shocked Dark even more was that Andrew was covered in a red electricity, almost like his purple electricity....
The room had gone silent. The only noise being made were the electricity constantly sparking out of Andrew and Dark's arms. Andrew was breathing slowly at his faker who stood right in front of him while still holding his fist in place. Dark on the other hand was shocked at how Andrew had shown up quickly to defend his new "friends." He then only closed his eyes and smirked.
"Oh... I see..." Dark said as he removed his hand from Andrew's grasp, "The worthless dog unintentionally gave you a piece of his power..."
Dark then threw a fist towards Andrew and punched him back into the ponies. Andrew the quickly landed onto his feet while panting. Dark then spoke up, "You pathetic creatures are just nothing but foolish to think your friendship can stop me and Discord."
"We don’t think so! We KNOW so!" Rainbow Dash said.
"Oh please..." Dark rolled his eyes. "Those pathetic elements didn't work on me. What makes you even say such foolishness?"
"Because even if the elements didn't work, that does not mean our friendship together can't stop you two."
The girls all got into a fighting position. Dark also did so. It felt like a staring contest between the six ponies and the demon doppelganger. After what felt like hours, Twilight yelled.
"CHARGE!"
"YAAAAAAA!" Pinkie screamed as the six ponies charged straight towards Dark. Only for them to suddenly DISSAPPEAR as they got closer to him, leaving only their elements and Applejack’s hat left on the ground.
The Royal Sisters, the humans, Lachlan, and Spike's mouths were hung down, seeing what had just happened to them. Celestia shook of the shock and glared at the demon.
"What did you do to them?!" She asked angrily.
"That's none of your damn business, cake-for-brains!" Dark replied. "Now then, where were we?"
Before Dark could get any closer, he felt a tug on his shirt, looking over to see Alex had snuck behind him and grabbed the collar of his shirt and was holding him back.
"Leave them alone you scumbag!" Alex shouted.
"Hands off." Dark replied as he smacked Alex so hard he went flying towards a window.
*CRASH!*
"ALEX!"
Andrew and the 3 royals quickly ran towards the damage, only to be caught in a dark purplish gray aura and sent flying into the archives.
Alex groaned from the pain, he had gotten from the impact. Luckily for him, he wasn't covered in any window shards. Gaining consciousness, he checked his surroundings. Only to see was somewhere in the garden.
"Man... First, I was brought here against my will. Then, I'm chased for the most ridiculous of things, and now this?" Alex thought to himself. "If almost feels like some sort of Fanfiction to something. Maybe I should start a writing carreer once I'm outta here."
Alex then got up and started running towards the entrance to the castle, only to be stopped by someone in his way.
"Hello, Alex." Discord greeted.
"Ugh, you again." Alex said, "I don't have time to deal with you!"
"Oh I'm sure you've got plenty of time, the story is almost over." Discord said. "I must say, you've really got some sweet determination to have not been caught at this point."
"Just cut to the chase!" Alex said annoyed.
Discord frowned. "Wow, you're no fun. And here I was, thinking that we could have a nice conversation about your adventure."
"Why do you care?"
"Because, my fellow friend. I know deep down, you just want your revenge on those silly fillies for the way they treated you."
Alex tried to talk back, but he knew that Discord was right. He wanted to give the eleven ponies some comeuppance for everything that had happened to him.
"Oh, the chases! The manipulation! The lies! They all must've been too much for you to handle, weren't they?"
Alex dropped to his knees, Discord was clearly toying with his emotions. He wanted to fight back, but he felt like he couldn't.
And to Discord's delight, Alex was slowly losing his colors, he was giving in to the corruption. He continued on, "Clearly you shouldn't let them go scott-free like that."
Alex felt tears running down his face. He couldn't take anymore of all this. When he said he wished something could happen to him, this was NOT what he meant.
Andrew, Lachlan, Celestia, and Luna all got up from the pain from all the impact of the walls.
"Is everypony alright?" Celestia asked the three, which they nodded in response. "Good. I never thought some creature could be so... vile."
"Even though he said you two are the reason he's like this. I just want to know why all of this is happening..."
"I believe I can set some context about this." Luna spoke up. "I had noticed a prophecy a long time ago, before I was banished to the moon."
Luna then went on to explain the entire prophecy that Alex had discovered. About how a creature would be aided by the Elements of Harmony to destroy the darkness created by his evil counterpart.
The three were all in awe. Andrew then spoke up, "So, that means that I'm... a chosen one."
"Perhaps that is the case, young Andrew." Luna said. "I understand if you feel uncomfortable about all this. I won't judge you."
"No.... I'm not upset about it..." Andrew assured her, "It just feels, i dunno. Too cliché for that?"
"Cliché or not, that's so cool!" Lachlan said, "Boy I wish I was in your shoes! I mean... if you're wearing any..."
"The chosen one, you say?" Dark suddenly appeared in the archives right next to the mirror. "I honestly thought he'd be a little more... strong. But clearly not. You haven't even trained once! But I have been training for this moment my entire life!"
"Yet we're still alive with no training at all!" Lachlan smirked, "That's gotta be embarrassing!"
Dark snarled. "Insolent little brat!"
"Do you not see how much trouble you have caused, demon?" Luna said. "You won't succeed in the end! The prophecy said so."
A wicked smile crept across Dark's face. "Even if that's true, but there's something that the prophecy didn't say.... How would he get back home?"
Dark Andrew then suddenly summoned a sword out of nowhere and swung it at the mirror. The mirror shattered the second the sword collided with it.
"NO!"
Alex felt himself in a dark void. Everywhere he looked, it was nothing but pitch black. All he felt was anger, saddness, and fear. Everything he had been through in the past few days. He just wanted to go home.
"Alex!"
He suddenly heard the familiar voice of Twilight Sparkle. He looked up to see her standing right in front of him.
"T-Twilight?"
"Alex, you need to get up. You have to stop Discord!" Twilight said.
"I can't Twilight...." Alex said, "I just can't..."
"Of course you can, Sugarcube." Alex then felt a hoof on his shoulder. Revealing it was Applejack. "If Y'all were able to outwit us, ya can do the same to him."
"That was different! You girls didn't have some chaos magic!"
"Darling, you even were able to trick the princess', Rarity said.
"They aren't relevant to this!" Alex shouted. "I can't handle the stress anymore!"
"Hey now, Lexy." Rainbow Dash said, "No need to be upset-"
But that was the straw that broke the camels back.
"I'M MAD OKAY! I'M MAD AT YOU ALL!" Alex shouted. "I'm brought to this world against my will! And you girls only cared about your own desires by using me! And your mean to me! And yet when Andrew came here too, you still only cared about your stupid desires! And.... I-I don't know! Turning into my own kind so you can lure me into a trap! Or planning to shrink me with a potion just because you thought I was better as a tiny human! And not even considering my OWN thoughts!"
As Alex ranted, the six ponies felt nothing but genuine guilt. They were not themselves throughout all of this. And they were paying the price.
"And look, I'm sorry for eating two apples. I'm sorry for breaking a Pinkie promise. I'm sorry for ruining a dress! And I'm sorry for making you perform a trick you were saving for some team! I was not in the right to do those things, but the way you all responded wasn't even close to justifiable!"
Alex looked upon the ponies seeing their sad faces before sighing.
"Maybe I was too harsh... I just-"
"No... Alex. You're right. None of us were thinking correctly that day. We should've helped you. And we're sorry. You don't have to accept our apologies... but we just want you to know..."
Alex just exhaled in response. "I understand. And... I'm honestly glad you did apologize. But, it's gonna be a LONG time before I forgive you girls."
"That's understandable, Alex." Twilight replied. "I won't judge you. But we need you to stop Discord and Dark before they take over the world."
"B-but how?"
"Think of it, Alexander." Rarity spoke up. "You've used various tricks on us back in Whitetail Woods. If you can use some new tricks, it could work!"
"You... think so..."
"We know so, Lexy!" Rainbow Dash said. "Now go kick some butt out there!"
Discord smirked at Alex. He was now completely corrupted by him. His entire body and clothes were just different shades of gray.
"Well. That was easier than expected!" Discord said, believing that he had triumphed over the human. As he turned to walk away, he suddenly noticed that Alex had gotten up, but his colors were returning.
"What's this?" Discord said, confused. Alex just glared at him in response.
"Eh. I think you'd look better as a statue anyway." He then suddenly shot a lazer towards Alex, but he wasn't afraid. Not anymore.
Alex then grabbed one of the shards from the broken window and reflected the lazer straight back at Discord.
"Oh dear." He said as he got hit by the lazer he had just created. He felt himself slowly returning to stone once again. Panicking he tried to fly away but it was too late!
The statue of Discord landed right on the ground a few feet away from Alex. The human got up and slowly breathed from what had just happened.
"Huh... I'll admit, that was pretty anticlimactic..." Alex said. Alex then noticed a back door leading into the castle.
Dark crept towards the four with the sword in his hands ready to finally close the books on Celestia and Luna. Purple electricity covered everywhere on his body from his eyes to his arms. His face clearly filled with resentment towards them.
"I am going to make you two regret everything you did to me!" Dark glared at the white and indigo alicorns who only gave him a look of fear and confusion. Unbeknownst to the three of them, Andrew and Lachlan had snuck off.
"What are you talking about?" Celestia asked. "I don't recall me nor my sister even meeting you before."
Dark raised an eyebrow at them before closing his eyes. "I see... I forgot." He spoke. "I erased your memories of me after the whole Nightmare Moon Incident."
The princess' eyes went wide as Dark went on. "After she was sent to the moon, I erased your memories so you wouldn't remember me. Perhaps it was a dumb decision. But now I can exact a better revenge by destroying you two and ruling this pathetic world. Besides, you two just sit on your fat-asses and do absolutely nothing and send your pawn Twilight Sparkle and her pathetic friends to stop any threats. But they can't save you now!"
*SLA-*
Dark suddenly turned around and grabbed Lachlan by his wrist who had tried to sneak up behind him and attack him like his did with Andrew. Dark snarled at the dingo's attempt as the dog had a terrified face. "You think I didn't know you you would pull something like this?"
Lachlan's fear turned into a smirk, "Oh, that's the thing. I'm not the one attacking you, I'm just the distraction."
*SLASH!*
"AGH!" Dark screamed as Andrew suddenly ran right in front of him and slashed at his face with a similar sword to Dark's. This caused Dark to drop his sword and back away while covering his face that was bleeding. During that time, a trapdoor opened a few feet from Dark, revealing it to be Alex.
"Ugh, tight places are so uncomfortable." He said to himself, Alex then noticed Dark slowly backing towards him. Thinking on impulse, Alex then pulled out the potion that Zecora had given him. He knew that if he could throw the potion at the demon, he could send him to another universe he thought of, but he wouldn't return to Earth. Putting his thoughts aside, he threw the potion straight at Dark. The glass shattered on impact and the liquid all over Dark.
"Gah!" Dark exclaimed. "What is this?!"
Dark's answers were answered right away as a blue vortex suddenly opened up between him and Alex. Alex held onto a nearby railing as the vortex suddenly started sucking Dark into it. The demon gasped and tried running, but it was no use! The vortex's pull-on gravity was too strong! Dark then went flying right into the vortex as he screamed.
"NOOOOOOOooooooooooooo" Dark's voice became faint as the vortex slowly closed. He was gone.
Alex, Andrew, Lachlan, and the Royal Sisters all breathed heavily from what had just happened. But before they could talk to each other....
*FLASH!*
"LOOK OUT BELOW!"
WATCH THE MANE!"
"WEEEEE!"
The Mane six all suddenly fell onto the ground. Now that Dark was gone, his spell returned them back to the real world. They all groaned as the got off each other. They looked so confused. Twilight was the first to speak up.
"Princess Celestia!" Twilight exclaimed as she ran to her mentor and hugged her. "What happened? Is it over?"
"It is my dear faithful student." Celestia replied.
"That was so weird..." Rainbow Dash said.
"Well. I think we all might've learned something from this..." Luna said. The girls all had their heads hung low remembering the past few days events.
"Yeah..." Lachlan spoke up, "Most of us were at fault here."
"Look, Alex... Andrew." Twilight said. "We're sorry... for everything...."
"Yeah." We are total jerks for all that chasing and everything else..."
Andrew then held up his hand to silence them. "You girls may have apologized. But If I'm going to end up living here. I want to set some boundaries."
Alex looked at Andrew as if he was crazy as he went on. "First off, I want us to be treated as citizens here and not as a pet or a circus animal. Second, after hearing what Lachlan told me, I want you all to be more welcoming to creatures that AREN'T ponies. Because that's just discrimination. And third, if a creature from another world comes to this place. Do NOT chase it around so you can gain something special. Instead, try to help them if they aren't hostile."
"That can all be arranged, my new loyal subject." Celestia said as she walked beside Andrew. Alex then spoke up.
"W-wait. Andrew... You're going to live here?" he asked.
"Yeah..." Andrew said. "That prophecy that Luna told me about. If I'm supposedly determined to help save this world. Then it must be done."
"Oh yeah! That prophecy!" Alex said. "I saw it in the old castle."
"Wow..." Lachlan said.
"Anyway, where did you get that potion from?" Andrew asked.
"I got it from Zecora." Alex said, "It was originally supposed to send us back home, but I decided to use it to banish him to another dimension. Where he went is beyond me. But at least we still have that mirror!"
"Oh yeah... about that...." Andrew said as he pointed at the shattered mirror. Alex's eyes went wide as he fell to his knees with a look of defeat.
"Great! JUST great!" Alex said in frustration. "Now how am I supposed to go home?"
"I believe I know a better solution, Alex." Celestia said. "However, it may not exactly be your world..."
Later in the evening, the royal sisters, the two humans, and Lachlan got off the train that brought them to the Crystal Empire. To both Andrew and Alex's shock, the ponies who lived here looked as if they were made of crystals! However, as they continued on, they came across a huge crystal tower in the middle of the land, there were also two ponies were standing beside each other awaiting their arrival.
The tall mare had a pink coat and a slim appearance similar to Celestia and Luna. Her mane and tail were puffy at the end with a color mixture of yellow, magenta, and purple. She also wore similar jewelry to Celestia, implying that she was a princess. The smaller one was a stallion with a white coat with a short blue and indigo mane and tail.
"Hiya, Auntie Cadance and Uncle Shining!" Lachlan greeted his family members.
"Hey there, bud!" Shining replied to him as he and Cadance hugged him.
"What brings you all here?" Cadance asked.
"We need the gateway to the other universe." Celestia spoke up, "We are in need of sending one through it."
"Oh, "Cadance said. "Whom is this, "Creature?""
Celestia and Luna both backed off to reveal Andrew and Alex. The two both looked shocked seeing the two new beings as they weren't anything they've seen before.
"Oh, who my these two be?" Cadance asked.
"These are Alex and Andrew." Celestia introduced them. "At first, we didn't treat them like citizens, but now we've paid for our mistakes. But now, it's time to send one of them home as the other decided to stay here."
"Tell me about it..." Alex replied, "You don't know what I went through before Andrew showed up."
"Do you two still have the gateway?" Celestia asked. Cadance only nodded in response as she led the group into a room somewhere in the castle. What Andrew and Alex had expected was some sort of wormhole that connected Earth to Equestria. But instead, they found nothing but a simple mirror.
"Uhh.... why is there a mirror in here?" Andrew asked.
"This is no ordinary mirror." Celestia said. "It is a gateway to another world. A gateway that opens once every thirty moons."
"It has always been kept in the throne room of Canterlot Castle." Luna added, "But when Princess Cadance took over the Crystal Empire, we sent it here for her to watch over."
"I believe it's best we let you two say your goodbyes..." Celestia said as she led her sister out the door to leave the three alone, but Alex then spoke up.
"Wait! Can I talk to your sister before you leave?" Alex asked. The two stopped and stared at Alex, before Luna took a sad sigh as Celestia let her come to Alex.
"Yes?" Luna asked.
"I...um... I wanted to give you this..." Alex held up his his drawing from his art class of the beautiful horse emerging from the dark lake in the deep dark forest, with the moon reflecting on its still surface as the light bathed it in a supernatural glow. "I want you to keep it... just to show that even if it's gonna take me possibly a millennial to forgive you and the others, I do believe you don't deserve to be alone..."
Luna felt tears in her eyes well up as she used her magic to levitate the picture closer to her before looking at Alex. The two stared at each other before walking closer to each other and hugging themselves so tightly.
"Take care of Andrew for me, okay?" Alex whispered to her.
"I...I promise..." Luna replied, willing to protect Andrew at all costs.
The two then let go of each other as she then left with her sister, leaving Alex to turn his attention to Andrew and Lachlan as he walked to them. He knew that this may be his last time seeing his possible only friends. "I... I guess this is goodbye... you guys..."
"Alex..." Andrew said, "What do you plan on doing once you start a new life?"
"Well... I'm sure I could find something else other than art to try and master at like music, maybe find a girl... make some new friends..." Alex said, "I also thought I could get a new name too! I liked the name, FLASH SENTRY. Does it sound good for you guys?"
"That sounds cool!" Lachlan said as he wagged his tail, before it suddenly stopped as Lachlan then gave him the puppy eyes. "I wish I could've heard any of your future songs..."
"Hey, don't sweat it, you two." Alex said as he knelt down to their levels, "I'm sure you guys will protect this world, it's what the prophecy said after all!"
"Heh... yeah..." Andrew said was he scratched his head. "Good luck out there, Flash."
Alex simply smirked as he walked to the portal and smiled, knowing now that he won't have to live a nightmare anymore. He then turned back towards his friends and waved at them, which they also waved back in response. Alex then turned back to the portal and walked into it, now starting his new life.
Twilight never received her Hoofbel prize. Yet in spite of this, it didn’t stop her from learning more about Andrew and where he came from. She visited him regularly and he would tell her all he knew about his world and its workings. She in turn would teach him all about Equestria and gave him free access to her library any time he wanted to borrow a book. She apologized for the hard time she, Spike and her friends had put him and Alex through, and she especially apologized for hurting Alex's feelings. Using her magic for much better use, it didn’t take long before they both eventually became good friends. Now currently, Twilight is teaching Andrew how to use magic as she felt some sort of aura from him.
Andrew managed to pay Applejack back for the apples Alex ate by helping her out with some odd jobs around the farm. While she never got the chance to make a fortune out of him, she was impressed with his working skills. She apologized for her behavior and even wanted to hire him as a farm hand. She even went as far as practically making him a small part of the Apple Family.
Fluttershy never got the chance to care for Alex or Andrew like she wanted, but she did however always provide a safe environment for him if he ever needed it. Fluttershy would also visit him regularly to check on him and see how he was doing.
Pinkie Pie never got to throw Alex nor Andrew their ‘Goodbye Human’ party. Instead, she threw Andrew a ‘Welcome Human’ party and it turned out to be a huge success. She apologized for her behavior and was happy to see Andrew getting along with the other ponies and that they in turn got along with him.
Even though she had lost her pets, Rarity never gave up on her creativity. In an attempt to salvage her ruined dress, she unexpectedly created a design so unique and so retro that it became the talk around Canterlot. Needless to say, her dress earned her more than enough Bits to repair her boutique and buy more supplies. Seeing that Alex had been responsible for ruining her dress in the first place, she gave Andrew a share of the profit when Andrew thought of the retro idea. She even offered him a time at the spa as a sign of good will.
Andrew forgave Rainbow Dash for the troubles she had caused Alex and him by proxy. She felt really bad about her behavior and promised to never bully him or Alex again. She even went as far as wanting him to punch her just to make things even. Andrew didn’t punch her, but instead forgave her and pranked her with a buzzer he had borrowed from Pinkie Pie. Surprisingly enough, the wild chase had actually inspired her with some ideas for some new moves in which to impress the Wonderbolts with during their visit.
The CMC would visit Andrew often to tell him about their adventures in crusading for their cutie marks. They still didn’t earn any, but always remained in high spirit (much to the painful chagrin of Andrew’s ears). At times they even invited him to join in and help them, often resulting in hilarious hijinks. They apologized for the jar treatment they gave Alex, and Andrew just found them too adorable to stay mad at for that.
While it did take a while, Andrew eventually forgave Luna for bringing him and Alex to Equestria. Luna made it her solemn vow to watch over him and to make sure nopony and nothing threatened him as she had promised to Alex. On occasion she would visit Andrew in his dreams as often as she could and through his creative mind, they had many grand and fun adventures together.
With the mirror destroyed and the magical tether binding Alex and Andrew to the it gone, Celestia eventually admitted to herself that humanity probably wasn’t ready for her and her ponies just yet. Still, when she told Alex about her true intentions, he did feel rather embarrassed after that. Still, that didn’t mean all was lost. She continued her work on the mirror, and with new notes based on Luna’s actions, she believed the answer to cross the barrier safely was very close… In return for him being a good sport in letting her and her ponies hunt him, Celestia let Andrew ride her and he had her parade through both Canterlot and Ponyville, earning a lot of surprised looks from her subjects.
Trixie on the other hand, never truly apologized as she had disappeared to set her revenge very soon...
But who Andrew was really happy to have around the most was Lachlan Dingo. The two had finally fulfilled a trustful bond with each other and now they got to spend time any chance they got.
“Hello? Is anypony there?”
Twilight was scared. It had been days since she and everypony returned from Canterlot with Andrew. Since then, everything had been pleasant, and all had been forgiven.
The day today had been just your typical normal day where everything was peaceful. After spending a delightful day with Andrew and her friends, Twilight had decided turned in early for the night. The last thing she remembered was reading a book on her bed while Spike was already fast asleep. Once done, she put it away, turned off the lights and closed her eyes.
Then suddenly, for reasons she couldn’t understand, she found herself deep in an unfamiliar and frightening forest, surrounded by dense fog and eerie noises. Lost and scared, Twilight had up until this moment been calling out for help and assistance to no avail.
“Hello? Please! Is there anypony? HELLO?!”
“Twilight! Over here!” Twilight’s ears perked as she finally heard the familiar voice of Applejack. She galloped towards the voice and soon saw her and the rest of her friends galloping towards her in the opposite direction, looking just as confused and worried as her.
“Girls?” Twilight exclaimed. “What’s going on? What’s happening? Where are we?”
“You don’t know?” asked Rainbow. “We kinda hoped you did. The last thing I remember is going to bed and then I woke up here.”
“Same here!” replied Applejack.
“I as well.” said Rarity.
“M- Me too…” said Fluttershy in a frightened tone.
“Ditto!” said Pinkie Pie.
“What in Equestria is all this, Twilight?” asked Applejack. “Is it some kind of nightmare?”
“If so, then we’re all having it at once.”
“But that’s impossible!” exclaimed Rainbow Dash. “How can we all have the same nightmare? And what happened to Princess Luna? Isn’t she supposed to protect us from nightmares?”
“You’re right Rainbow.” replied Twilight worried. “She is the Princess of the Night after all… What if something happened to…”
FLASH!
“Welcome my little ponies!” The surprised ponies quickly turned towards the familiar voice of Luna as she suddenly appeared in a flash before them. The ponies were even more surprised to see Andrew sitting on her back.
“ANDREW? LUNA?”
Twilight slowly approached them. “Luna? Thank goodness! We all thought something terrible had happened. What is all this? Why is Andrew here? What’s going on?”
“Forgive me Twilight.” Luna smiled apologetically. “But I’ve brought you all here because I made a promise to young Andrew that I swore to keep. He has something to share with thee.”
Everypony looked to Andrew. “And what’s that?” asked Twilight.
Andrew smiled. “First, let me start by saying, Welcome to my favorite dream, my friends. And… YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE!” he laughed villainously as lightning cracked behind him.
Everypony just tilted their heads to the side in confusion.
“Worst nightmare?” muttered Twilight. “Andrew… What are you talking about”?
“It’s a little something I’d like to call; Andrew shows Ponies what karma truly is!!”
Twilight and the ponies looked at one another even more confused. “Karma...? I’m afraid I don’t quite…”
“It’s quite simple Twilight… You are all here because you all made me, and Alex's lives miserable when we first got here! And now I want to settle that score.”
Everypony blinked.
Andrew rolled his eyes and sighed. “I want revenge.”
“WHAT!?!”
“Revenge...?”
“You see Twilight, when Alex first arrived here you and your friends gave him that rather ‘delightful’ chase and put him through a whole lot of trouble. But when I came here, I kinda hoped you’d all change right then and there and maybe... I dunno, stopped this whole hunt. But sadly not. I want for some payback for that.”
“But… We said we were sorry… You forgave us!”
“True, you did apologize, and I did forgive you for it, even if Alex said it'd take him a long time to. But, in order to balance out the universe, I can’t let something like that simply be ignored. And since Luna is a princess of dreams, she was more than happy to give me this one opportunity and make my wish come true.”
Everypony’s eyes went wide. He was going to punish them in their dreams like some boogeypony. “What… What are you going to do...?” Twilight asked nervously as sweat began to appear on her forehead.
“I’m going to do to you what you did to me and him…” A shotgun suddenly appeared in his hands as he smiled deviously at them. “I’m going on a hunt. And Ith you've all guessed who the prey is…”
“Squeak!” Fluttershy hid behind Rainbow.
“P- Prey...?”
“Oh yeah?!” exclaimed Pinkie. “Well, you can’t get us if we wake up! And I'm going to wake up right… NOW!” She shut her eyes and made silly faces as she was… ‘trying’ to wake up. Everypony just facehoofed. “Am I awake yet?”
Andrew and Luna giggled. “I’m afraid you’re going to find waking up rather impossible at the moment. This is my dream. You won’t wake up until I do.” Andrew grinned.
“Now Andrew… Darling…” Rarity laughed nervously. “Surely you're just jesting. I- I mean, we all can agree we did some rather silly and inexcusable things to you, but you can’t punish us like this…”
“Yeah!” added Pinkie as she pushed herself in front of Rarity. “I mean, all we did was chase you and Alex, cage you and him, lock you and him up, box Alex in, shrink Alex, stone Alex, eat A-”
“PINKIE!?!”
“What? We did!”
“Luna!” exclaimed Twilight. “You and Andrew are obviously doing this to teach us all a lesson. I’ll admit we all acted pretty badly, but there is no way Celestia is going to allow this!”
“Now, don’t you tell me what I can and can’t allow…” Twilight and everypony suddenly turned their heads towards the nearest cloud in the sky as they heard a familiar voice. Twilight was nearly rendered speechless. “Besides, this is Luna’s night. I rule the day.”
“C- Celestia?!?”
“Hi Twilight! I hope you don’t mind while I sit up here and help the Crusaders keep score? I’ll root for you all. I hope you last longer than the others, my faithful student.” She winked. Twilight looked as if her mind was about to blow.
“I… Huh...? Wha...?”
“Apple Bloom?” said Applejack.
“Sweetie Belle?” said Rarity.
“Squirt?” said Rainbow.
“What in tarnation are ya’ll doin’ here?”
“Oh hey Applejack!” Apple Bloom smiled and waved at her. “We’re keeping scores!”
The Mane Six gawked at them. “WHAT??!?”
Applejack cocked an eyebrow. “Yer ‘what’ now?”
“We’re keeping scores!” repeated Scootaloo with a smile. “We’re Andrew’s personal score keepers. We just sit here and note the pony with the most ‘hit points.”
Rarity’s jaw dropped. “Gah...?”
“That’s right!” Sweetie Belle chirped. “And if we’re really good, we’ll probably earn a cutie mark for it!”
“CUTIEMARK CRUSADERS! SCORE KEEPERS! YAY!”
Andrew shielded his ears and cringed. “Yeesh, now I know why Alex hated that.”
Applejack just pulled her Stetson over her head and groaned. Rarity nearly felt faint.
“Hey! No fair!” exclaimed Rainbow. “Why aren’t Celestia, Luna, and the kids being punished? They chased Andrew too.” She then noticed the looks on Celestia and the fillies’ faces. “I mean… No offence…”
“My dear Rainbow Dash...” replied Celestia with a playful grin. “Andrew said he felt them getting shot was quite messed up, right Andrew?” Andrew looked at Celestia and nodded. She looked at rainbow and narrowed her eyes. “As for me and my sister, we’ll be joining in soon as prey in a little bit, since I believe it wouldn't be fair if we got away with a slap on the hoof."
"Oh yeah?!" Rainbow Dash spoke up, "It's six against one! We can easily take Andrew down!"
"Oh, I wouldn’t be so sure of that." Andrew snapped his fingers as a red blur suddenly came into view, revealing it to be Lachlan.
"LACHLAN?!"
"He's gonna be my hunting dog for this dream." Andrew smirked. "He was down with the idea, since he knows that you'll all be alright anyway."
"Come on, Sugardog," Applejack pleaded. "Are Y'all sure ya wanna help Andrew out this time?"
"Sorry girls, but I can't forgive how you all treated Andrew and Alex." Lachlan said,
"You were literally there when we apologized to them!" Rainbow Dash. "Besides, you don't want to see us hurt, do you?"
"Eh...I can't always back you up, Dashie."
CLICK!
Before more protests could be uttered, everypony suddenly froze at the sound of Andrew loading his shotgun. “We’ve got all night girls, so I'd suggest you all start running while you still can.”
“Now Andrew…” Twilight tried to reason while nervously backing away. “Can’t we all just… sit down and talk about this?”
“Hmmm..... NAH."
BOOM!
*‘YAKETY SAX’ PLAYING*
“RUN!!!”
“OUTTA THE WAY!!!”
“HEAD FOR THE HILLS!”
“Oh dear! Oh dear! Oh dear! Oh dear…”
“*SHRIEK!!!* NO! NOT MY HAIR!”
“WEEEE~! I DESERVE THIS!”
As the ponies fled into the woods, Andrew leaned forward towards Luna. “Hey, um... do you think they’ll forgive me for this when they wake up in the morning?”
Luna laughed. “Why wouldn’t they? After what they did, it’s only fair.” she snickered. “Besides, a bad dream is usually caused by guilty conscience, right?” She winked at him. Andrew smiled back and laughed.
Andrew and Lachlan then both quickly ran after the Mane Six, with the shotgun echoing throughout the woods, followed closely by pony screams.
“TALLY-HO!!!”
BOOM! BOOM!
“I think I’m gonna enjoy being in Equestria!” Andrew laughed.
*****
Throughout the night, Andrew and Lachlan slept happily in their respective beds, dreaming one of his now favorite dreams. As for the Mane Six… Not so much…
CREDITS
Original Story: TJHoofer/BBBHuey.
Written by: AndrewTRM & LachlanDingoOfficial
Cast Tara Strong as Twilight Sparkle
Vincent Tong as Alex
Dave Franco As Andrew
Ashleigh Ball as Applejack/Rainbow Dash/Lyra
Andrea Libman as Pinkie Pie/Fluttershy
Tabitha St. Germain as Rarity/Princess Luna
Cathy Weseluck as Spike
Michelle Creber As Apple Bloom
Claire Corlett As Sweetie Belle
Madeleine Peters As Scootaloo
Colleen Clinkenbeard As Lachlan Dingo
Nicole Oliver As Princess Celestia
Kathleen Barr As Trixie
Chiara Zanni As Bon Bon
John De Lancie As Discord
Kirk Thornton As Dark Andrew
Andrew Francis As Shining Armor
Britt McKillip as Princess Cadance
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Hasbro and Lauren Faust
Throughout space and time, Dark was salvaging random materials he considered helpful ever since he got to a dimension almost as chaotic as Discord's magic. However, his sanity was slowly draining out of him.
"I knew I should've just gone on my own to kill those low-lives by myself instead of bringing along that chaos-loving freak!" Dark Andrew snarled to himself.
After his mini rant, he then went to a small journal he had with him. He wrote down a new log in it while reading it out loud...
Dark's Log: No. 2010 It's been almost 2 years since I was sent to this.... odd place by those awful studs.. So far, I have little-to-no resources, the only food is the chocolate milk. But I somehow drink the glass and when I throw it away, it explodes. Anyway, I apparently have no way to get home. But that’s the thing! A lesser fool would die in a place like this! If my calculations are correct...
Dark then closed his journal before pulling something out of his pocket. He lifted it up so he could see it. It was a piece of Lachlan Dingo’s hair he cut.
"I'll be home by summer!" Dark cackled. "Yes, it's not the last those fools have seen the last of Dark The Demon! No.... DARK ANDREW!"
Dark Andrew smirked, "I don't care how stupid that name sounds, those fools behind the screen can take their worthless criticism and shove it right up their-"
THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES IN MY LITTLE PONY: ANDREW’S STORY
