Author's note: Get it? Son Of A "Glitch"?! Because that is want this chapter is about. Alejandro Smith struggles with his newfound powers. I neglected to ask though. Were any of you confused by the end of chapter two? If so, good. I intended that. Anyway, enjoy the chapter.

I got up out of bed and began to walk around. I didn't feel much different than before, other than the strange feeling of magic coursing through my veins. I didn't even know how to use it. All I knew was that it was in me, and I need to use in in some battle. I didn't want to be the man that the world depended upon, but I guess I never had a choice. Now, I had to learn how to use these powers so I could save the world. I couldn't do it alone! There had to be some one that could help me. Someone I could fight along side.

Somebody… Somepony… that was it! Luna gave me the ability to summon a portal from here to Equestria. If I could figure out how to do it, I could get some assistance with a battle as such.

I walked to the living room and stared at a wall. I wondered if I had to cast the portal upon a wall. I began chuckling to myself. This was silly. An imaginary equine from a cartoon giving me powers. A guy like me suddenly becoming potential savior of Earth in one night. Still, I can feel the magic flowing through me. I know it's there. I have to test it to be sure, to see if it was, indeed, a dream. I walked up to the mirror we had hung on the front door and at looked myself up and down. I didn't see anywhere for me to channel the magic out of.

Except for my fingers. It seemed like a stretch, but my fingers were the closest thing I had to a unicorn's horn. I walked up to the wall I was previously at. Jokingly, I held out my fingers and said "expecto petronum". I chuckled, proud of my little joke. I straightened my back and got serious. I held out my fingers toward the wall and concentrated. I felt a tingling sensation flowing through my arms and to my hands. I looked closely and I could see sparks coming out. I held my breath and pushed, hoping to get more magic out. Nothing but a fart came out of that. I realized that I was holding my breath too long and let it out with a whoosh. I felt exhausted.

"Maybe I'm over thinking this." I whispered to myself. I focused on the wall once again. I calmly breathed in and out. Once again, I felt the magic flowing into my hands. My fingertips lit up and multiple beams came shooting out of them. It caught me off guard, making me stumble a little bit. I bent my fingers and focused all of the beams into two powerful beams. I focused those two beams into one big one and backed up. Slowly, it began to form a portal. Then, it sped up, and in a few seconds, the portal was open. It looked strange. It was an oblong shape, with a black, smoke-like frame. Inside the frame was a live image of the Canterlot observatory. Ponies passed by and stared. Some of them stopped in front of it and looked intensely at it. I was dumbfounded as to how I was able to do that. I slowly approached the portal.

I stepped through and shivered as I came out into the cold night of Equestria. My heart was practically pounding out of my chest. I couldn't believe I was actually here! I looked around me and noticed ponies beginning to crowd around. I could hear and see a blend of emotion: wonder, confusion and disgust. I suddenly felt overwhelmed with everything. It was too much to take in all at once. My vision blurred and transitioned to black as I fainted in the grass.

I woke up on a bench inside a room. I heard a voice in the room. I groaned, as I had hit my head on the ground upon fainting. I sat up and stared straight into the face of Lyra Heartstrings. She had was grinning from ear to ear. I nervously smiled and spoke.

"Uh, hi?" I said. She squealed in excitement.

"They speak! Say something else!" She begged. I hesitated, then said something else.

"Um… I guess I should introduce myself. Heh. My name is Alejandro Smith. But everyone calls me Smith. What might your name be?" Even though I already knew the answer, I asked her anyway.

"Ooh! Um, my name is Lyra! Does this mean that we are friends now?" She anxiously awaited my answer.

"Heh-heh. Sure. Hey can you-" I was interrupted by her cheering. I attempted to speak again. "Hey, um, Lyra, can you help me with something?"

"Anything!" she said rather quickly.

"Um, would you happen to know where Princess Luna is? I have important matters to discuss with her."

Lyra looked at me with a confused look. "How would you know who she is? You're not from this world."

I explained to Lyra how Luna visited me in my dream overnight. I said I had a mission issued by her, and that she gave me powers for it. I explained that Luna was how I got here.

"Wait," I said, "what about the portal I came through?"

"Oh, that? When I was carrying you here, you convulsed a bit, and sparks came out of you. Then the portal disappeared."

That confused me. Sparks? The portal suddenly vanishing? What was happening? Just then, I felt a shock pulsate through my body. I began teleporting all around the room, leaving Lyra to stare in awe. Electricity shot all over as I moved. Then everything went black for a second, and I was left to stare in the face of a green stallion. He didn't talk, but that wasn't the strange part. The stallion kind of looked like me. I had glasses and so did he. They were the same color and type of glasses too. His hair was half yellow and half green, similar to how I liked to dye my hair my whole life, and his coat was green. It was weird. He looked like a pony I would have envisioned myself as if I was born in Equestria.

I raised my hand in the air. At the same time, he raised his hoof. I turned my head and so did he. I touched my tongue to my nose, hoping to catch a difference in his reaction. To my surprise, he was able to do it, without difficulty. He mimicked a few other movements that I put out. This went on for a few more seconds, then I woke up.

I was on the floor of Lyra's house. I could still see electricity dancing all over my body. Lyra stood over me, a worried look across her face.

"Are you alright?" she asked.

I lowered my eyebrows. "We need to get to the princesses now."

"We?"

"Um, yeah. If we're going to be friends, we have to at least act like it. I also need to show me to the princesses. I don't exactly know my way around this world."

"Okay!" she said, and with that, we both walked out. She lead me through the public streets, where I got more stares than I had ever received. Lyra told me that none of them have seen a human before.

"Yeah, I kind of gathered that. Still, I am not used to all of the attention. Back home, I usually just kept to myself." Lyra looked up at me and grinned. "What?" I asked.

"You're a nerd, aren't you?"

"What? For your information, I prefer the term, knowledge extraordinaire. But to answer your question, yes, I am sort of a… nerd."

Lyra giggled. "Heh, nerd. It's okay, though. I too, fancy myself a bit of knowledge. I studied humans practically my whole life, hoping to actually meet one, and understand. I studied up on all human jargon and living styles, mimicking them. I found it quiet fun. Even if everypony thought me to be weird.

"You know, I was ready to give up on all of it before today. Put my human studying passion on a… permanent hold. I began thinking to myself, Lyra Heartstrings, how can you call yourself an anthropologist if you've never even met and/or known a human. Anthropology is a study in humans and the nature of them. How could I do any of that, if there were no humans on this side of the galaxy? I was beginning to pack all of my books and equipment on the subject matter, and burn them.

"That was until you arrived. In a weird way, you kind of saved my obsession with humans. I owe a huge debt of gratitude to you. I know you probably thought I was weird when we first met," I was about to open my mouth to interrupt her, "don't lie to me. I could see it in your eyes. But you know what? That doesn't upset me, because if I've learned one thing, it's to accept the fact that I am weird."

I looked at her for a second, then asked: "with all of this studying, pardon me for asking, but did you have any friends? Did you have the time for them? Is there a way to socialize and study?"

Lyra chuckled a bit. "Of course! There is always time for friendship. It just depends if you are willing to seek it. I have plenty of friends, and they accept my weirdness. Everypony is weird in their one little way." I nodded my head, and thought about that in silence for a bit. Lyra could see that I was thinking, and politely waited. I hadn't thought about it much over the walk, but I realized that I had slowly bonded as a friend with the mare. I had quickly formed a strong friendship, and I, for whatever reason liked it.

We talked a bit more, forming conversation upon other topics. We slowly got to know each other, and bonded even closer. Then, without even realizing it, we had reached the castle. The guards were out front, staring bug-eyed at me. Lyra spoke to them, letting them know that I had special business with Princess Luna. It took a few minutes of talking to them, but the guards finally let us pass, but on the condition that only I go in.

"What? But I helped escort him here!"

"Sorry miss," one of the guards said, "rules are rules. Those that are here on official business may only enter. Now head off, and go home." Lyra began to protest, before I stopped her. I got down on one knee and looked at her in the eyes.

"Lyra, don't worry about it. I'll be fine. Thank you for the talk, you have no idea how much it helped me."

"But, will we meet again? I mean, after you go in there, will you come back out and be able to visit and talk?"

I raised a silencing finger. "Calm yourself. We shall meet again. You can be sure of that. Don't worry, I won't forget about you. This is just some important matter I need to discuss with Luna." I leaned in closer and whispered, "my planet is in danger. That is why I need to talk to Luna. I am a potential savior for it. Don't tell anybo- anypony. I will be alright, and I'll definitely visit you again. After all, you are my friend." I hugged her, catching her by surprise. Then she returned the hug. I finally broke it up, and walked to the castle door. I waved at her one more time before going inside.

The hallways were long and ambient. I noticed this from my footsteps echoing all throughout. There were tall doors lined up and down the hall, and the amount of them seemed highly unnecessary. In all seriousness though, I found the place to be quite nice, even nicer than it looked on the show. I came upon the throne room a few minutes later. There were windows lined up and down this room. They had wonderful views of Equestria.

I looked out of one of them and noticed that it was daytime. I must've missed the trade off between Luna and Celestia on my way up the hall. I continued my walk through the throne room. It was huge. The stained glass windows seemed a lot more majestic in person. I looked around the room a little bit. I found no one in there. The princesses must've been in a different room or something. I sat on the floor against the wall and twiddled my thumbs.

It seemed to be taking a while for anyone to arrive. In the time that I waited, I completely analyzed and recalled the story of every one of the stained glass windows. My eyes stopped on the Discord window. The window was very unsettling. I never really liked fighting, and I never envisioned myself to be fighting the ultimate spirit of chaos.

I got up and walked to the window once more. The sun looked a lot nicer than an imagined. Wait, I thought to myself, it's daytime. Shoot, my family must be worried. Even worse, I might miss school!

I was snapped out of my thoughts when I heard some one clear their throat behind me. I jumped in surprise and turned around. Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and the Mane six were all standing right there.

"Is this the human you found?" Twilight asked Luna. The princess of the night nodded her head in response. Twilight came up and inspected me. "He seems kind of… scrawny. Are you sure he can fight?"

Luna was about to respond, but I interrupted her. "Actually, that is what I came her to talk to you about. You see, I might need some help fighting Discord. One human with supernatural powers may not be enough to defeat a being of chaos." Everypony exchanged glances, then began laughing. "What?"

"You thought you were going to fight alone?" Twilight asked.

"Well, yeah. Princess Luna just came randomly into my dream and gave me powers to fight, without any broader explanation. Anyone would jump to said conclusion if in my position. So, you all are going to fight him as well?"

Twilight backed off in her tone of voice a bit. "Of… if course. I kind of started it." Then Twilight proceeded to explain what had happened. I was dumbfounded. After which she paused and spoke again. "I apologize, you probably don't know anypony I was talking about, do you?"

I scratched the back of my neck, chuckling a bit. I told her of my vast knowledge of this world, and how I came to gather it. I explained that not many people on my planet know that this place is actually real. She was quiet perplexed by the whole thing. She took it all in and accepted it for what it was.

Luna studied me for a second. "Do you know that you could've turned into a pony and come here without the crowds? That is one reason I gave you the changeling abilities." I had almost forgotten about those. It messed my mind up a bit, the thought of being the thing that haunted my dreams. I didn't want to imitate it's creepy ways, but I kind of wanted to test the ability out at the same time.

"How do I use the power?" I asked.

"You must envision yourself as the thing you wish to turn to. Don't think too hard, though, because you might alter your DNA and atoms to the point of popping out of existence. This happens to changelings more often than not. Try it." I hesitated. It still bothered me. Those things had been haunting my dreams for quite some time. I didn't want to have anything to do with them.

Everypony stood there, waiting patiently. Eventually, I gave up on refusing, and just decided to try the spell. My thoughts went back to the green stallion. I felt so connected to him, if that made any sense. Why was he in my head? Why did he specifically appear? Who was he? I couldn't make any sense of it. I decided to transform into him, seeing as he was the most similar to myself.

I thought him up in my head, took a deep breath and calmly let the magic flow through me. It wasn't like the portal spell coming from my fingertips, no, it was much more aggressive. I had quite a few hot flashes around me as a green flame came over me. Then I fell to the ground. I looked down and around myself.

I had a green fur coat and a medium length tail. When I imagined myself transforming, I made sure to add a cutie mark. It was a typewriter, as I really loved writing. I noticed rounded red glasses on my face as I looked around. I struggled to get up. I was not used to my quadruped form. I devised a system in my head and attempted to move my legs in time. Slowly, I made my way up. I tried walking a bit, with little success. Everypony but Luna backed up and watched me get used to my new body.

Luna's eyes were fixed on me. I noticed genuine confusion and sadness in her eyes. Something about the form I chose bothered her. I slowly stood up as she approached meekly. I finally got the hang of having four legs after several failed attempts. I backed up as Luna approached, stumbling a bit.

"Uh, Princess? Are you alright?" Applejack asked. Luna froze, still staring at me. She shook her head, trying to come back to reality.

"Oh… I apologize. You… it's just that… with that look… you sort of remind me of somepony. I don't know who though. But for some reason, they mean a lot to me. I apologize again. This was a strange occurrence as well as all of us. Let us move on to more important matters, shall we?" Luna coughed awkwardly.

Everypony stood in awkward silence. Eventually we gathered ourselves, and figured out how what was going on.

"Okay," I said, "The news station on my planet said that Discord should be there in a little more than three days. By my guess, that gives us approximately six days, starting today. We need to train and work on a battle plan."

Everypony agreed, throwing their thought and ideas out on the table. At this rate, we would definitely be ready for Discord in time. Right?

Authors note: I hope you enjoyed this extra long chapter. It took me a while to write. Leave a review regarding what you think is going to happen. See you all next time!