Okay, this is my first My Little Pony story. My friends and I are sucked into Equestria and turned into ponies! We meet the Mane six and… well, read the story and find out!
"Hey guys! Do you want to read my new pony story?" Jensen asked, her brown eyes shining with excitement, her brown hair with its pale orange streak whipping around her face as she turned from her laptop to face the rest of us, who were sprawled in various positions in Caitlin's family room.
"No!" cried Caitlin, springing up from her seat, her short, red-brown hair flying around her face as she raced for the relative safety of the kitchen.
"No!" James shouted, hot on Caitlin's heels.
Dan started to rise, but Jensen said "Dan, you are staying!" and he slunk back into his seat, unable to deny the wishes of his girlfriend.
"I'll read your story, Jen," said Cheryl. She had long brown hair that often covered about half of her face.
"I'll read it too," I volunteered. I caught a glimpse of myself in the laptop's screen: long, wavy, blonde hair and glasses in front of dark blue eyes. Cecelia (one of my best friends), Ethan (my smart friend), and David (my twin brother) were outside at this point and didn't hear Jensen's call.
"Hey Jensen, what's going on with your laptop?" Dan asked. I glanced at it and saw a small hole full of brightly colored light in the center of the computer screen.
Jen frowned, "I don't know."
"It's getting bigger!" I said. Suddenly, the light glowed so brightly that it blanked out the entire room. It closed my eyes to avoid going blind and I started to have then sensation of falling. Then I hit the ground with enough force to knock the air from my body and the world went black.
I opened my eyes groggily. The world was blurry, out of focus. I shook my head to try to clear it, but the movement felt strange somehow, like my head was heavier than normal.
"Oh! Rebecca! You're awake!" a familiar voice said.
"Jen?" I mumbled. Wha- What's going on?"
"Maybe these'll help," Jensen suggested as she slid my glasses onto my face.
I gazed up at Jen and froze in shock. "You're a…" I raised my hands up in front of my face. Or what used to be my hands, anyway. "I'm a…"
"Yup!" Jen said cheerfully. "We're ponies! And so are the others."
I got shakily to my hooves. Jensen was exactly how she imagined herself, a pink and blue pegasus with a brown mane and tail and brown eyes. The only thing that was different was that she didn't have a cutie mark.
"Jen, you don't have a cutie mark," I said. "Do I?" I glanced at my yellow flank, noting that my tail was a few shades lighter than my coat. Nope, my flank was bare. But if I remembered the show correctly, we were the size of fully grown ponies. Odd.
"Are you going to help me wake the others?" Jen asked. I turned around to see my four other friends in various positions on the ground, all asleep.
I trotted over to Caitlin, a light blue Earth pony dappled with light green and a black mane and tail. I nudged her with a fore hoof. "Caitlin, wake up."
Caitlin slowly opened her eyes. Then they shot open wide. "Caitlin, don't freak." I warned her.
"But we're…" she whispered.
"Yeah, I know, I got that," I told her. I glanced across the field. Jensen was waking up Cheryl, a light pink unicorn with a brown mane, who seemed taking her transformation rather well. At any rate, she wasn't screaming or fainting.
"This is terrible!" Caitlin cried.
"What's so bad about it?" I asked, scuffing my front hoof in the dirt. I was surprised about how easy it was to move on four legs. It seemed to be an instinct my pony brain had, like walking on two legs in my human form.
"Well, it's not bad for you!" Caitlin wailed. "You like ponies! I don't!"
"Oh, come on," I said. "It's not really that bad."
Before Caitlin could respond, Jen trotted up with Cheryl close behind. "Hey, would you girls help me wake up the guys?" she asked.
Caitlin and I looked at each other. "Errrrr…" As bad as Caitlin had taken it, the guys would be even worse. Unfortunately, it had to be done. Caitlin and I walked over and shook James, a blue earth pony with a light, golden brown, mane and tail, until he woke up.
I'd like to say he took it well. He did not. "What the… I'm a pony!" he yelled.
"James calm down!" I yelled.
"Calm down?" James asked, putting his face an inch from mine. I hastily pulled my head back. I wake up as a freaking pony and you tell me to calm down?"
"Yes," I said.
James stared at me for a few second, speechless, then turned around as Jensen yelled, "A little help, please!" I glanced upwards. Dan was shooting through the sky with Jensen clinging desperately to his tail. I couldn't exactly make out what he was saying, but it sounded like a string of curse words.
I wanted to help, but I wasn't a pegasus, I was a… unicorn! Of course! Magic! I focused hard on Dan in the sky. I relaxed and almost immediately felt a strange power inside of me, a power I could manipulate and control any way I chose. Get Dan out of the sky I told it, and it obeyed. There was a loud pop and a flash of bright yellow light and Dan appeared, lying on the ground, looking stunned. Jensen dove from the sky and landed on top of him, pinning him to the ground.
"Dan, pull it together!" said Jen.
Dan shook his grey pegasus head, making his blonde mane flop. "Errr, sorry for that. I'm okay now."
"Where are we exactly?" asked Cheryl.
"Equestria!" announced Jen.
"But which one?" I asked.
"I thought there was only one Equestria," Caitlin said.
"Well, there's the one Jen, created, in her stories, and the one on TV." I pointed out. "So we need to figure out which one we're in."
"That's easy enough," Jen said. "We just walk until we end up in Ponyville or Hay Barrel."
This would probably be a good time to mention what we were talking about. Jensen writes stories based off the TV shows and substitutes the character names and places with the six of us. In them, I was the Element of Magic, James was the Element of Honesty, Cheryl was the Element of Kindness, Caitlin was the Element of Generosity and Dan was the Element of Loyalty.
"Hey, I see the town!" I said as several houses came into view. Jen, Cheryl and I all trotted excitedly towards it.
"Welcome to Ponyville," Jen read from a large sign. "Well, we figured out where we are."
"Which adds a couple new problems," I said, "because if we're in Ponyville, the mane six will probably be here too."
Jen nodded. "Of course. Should we tell them?"
I thought about it. "I don't know… They might not even know what humans are, much less believe us."
"But Applejack's Element is Honesty," Jen pointed out. "That could make her a lie detector. She'd know that we were lying about being ponies our whole lives and that we were telling the truth about being humans. Anyway, if Twilight hears about us, she'll send a letter to the Princess, and I'm sure she'll know about humans."
"That makes sense." I said. "Hurry up you slowpokes!" I called behind me. Dan, Caitlin and James were all moving much slower than the rest of us. Dan was staring at his wings like he wasn't sure if they were real, James kept tripping over his own hooves and Caitlin just looked plain reluctant. "Come on!" I yelled in frustration. "We do not have all day!"
Jen rolled her eyes and swooped over to James, picked him up and deposited him at my hooves. She then did the same for Caitlin. Dan had already figured out that he was going to be next, so he simply flew over to us instead of walking. Then the six of us all entered Ponyville together.
"Who do you think we're going to meet first?" I whispered to Jensen.
"Ten bucks on Pinkie Pie," she hissed back.
"Not gonna argue with you there," I replied with a grin. Sure enough, it was only seconds later that a familiar pink mare leapt out of nowhere and landed right in front of us.
"Hi! I've never seen you before, are you new? You must be new because I know everyone in town and I don't know you! Wow, are you all moving into Ponyville? Ohmigosh, we need to have a party!" Just like that, Pinkie Pie dashed off again, leaving the six of us staring in amazement.
"That girl has issues," muttered James, earning himself a whack from Jensen.
"Now what?" Dan asked.
"I want to meet Twilight," I said.
"Okay!" Jen said, "to the library!" And off we galloped.
I stood outside the library feeling like I was about to explode. I was about to meet Twilight Sparkle. My absolute favorite pony ever. "Just knock on the door," Caitlin suggested. I raised my hoof and slowly knocked on the door.
The door swung open and a purple pony grinned at us from the doorway. "Hello, and welcome to the Ponyville Library. I'm Twilight Sparkle. Can I help you with anything?"
I took a deep breath, hoping my voice would remain steady. "Yes," I said. "Do you happen to have any books on humans?" Jen, Cheryl and Caitlin all shot me dirty looks, but I figured this was the best way to figure out if Twilight knew anything about humans.
Twilight frowned at me, looking a bit bemused. Uh-oh, she doesn't know what they are! Then she grinned happily at us. "Sure I have a book on humans! Most ponies don't know about them though. They're a pretty obscure myth." She turned and trotted into the library with the rest of us following.
"Spike, where's the book about humans?" Twilight called. A small purple and green dragon ran into the room.
"Oh, it's right down here," Spike said, locating the book in a few seconds. He held it up for Twilight, who levitated it over to a nearby table. I sat down and carefully turned the pages of the book with my hooves. James, Caitlin and Cheryl all crowded around me, trying to read over my shoulder.
Humans are creatures who stand on their hind legs and use their front legs to manipulate objects, helped by small appendages on their front hooves called fingers. They always adorn clothing, no matter where they are or what time of year it is. They are as intelligent as ponies and are omnivores, meaning that they eat both meat and plants. Though not as strong as ponies, humans are clever with their hands and can make weapons that can even defeat dragons. The average human stands a little bit taller than a pony. Sadly, not much is known about humans outside of the many legends told about them. Many scientists doubt that humans ever existed, and they certainly do not exist now.
I glanced up from the book. "That's pretty cool," I said. "Hey, where are Jen and Dan?"
James pointed a hoof to a corner where the two were poring over a book of flight techniques.
"Hey guys, what are you reading?" I asked.
"It's this book about flying tips and tricks," Jen responded. "It shows all the cool tricks and things pegasi can do! Hey, do you think Dan could ever do a Sonic Rainboom?"
I shook my head. "I doubt it," I responded, lowering my voice. "Remember the show? Pinkie Pie said that only a pegasus like Rainbow Dash could do it. I think Dan is missing the rainbow."
"What d'yah mean, "Remember the show," and how in tarnation did you know that Pinkie said that?" said a familiar voice from behind us. We all turned around guiltily to see an orange pony with a blonde mane and tail glaring down at us.
"Well?" said Applejack. "I'm waiting."