Chapter 4- the "true" form
in my fade i can hear aileron trying to wake me up and her sudden scream. in my black void of unconsciousness i can hear the distant sound of lunas voice "Wake up. the wound caused you to lose too much blood the cold made you lose it faster but another problem has arisen but you have to wake up to face it." as her sentence ends i hear another voice echoing in the void "i don't understand aileron do you realize that you are saying he has similar- i think he's waking up." i open my eyes and look around the room i'm now laying in what looks like a crystal hospital room but i notice the large group of fully armored guards. "ok i knew the changeling army possibly attacking was a big warning but why does everyone look like they are about to go to war in this room?" i look over to see aileron looking at me worried. "Cloud you're not you right now i don't fully know what's going on." i slide my arm out from under the blankets to reassure her then i realize i slid my arm out not my leg then it dawns on me i'm in my human form "wait WHAT how did this happen?" in my panic i notice shining armor and the guards looking like they are ready to attack "alright...whatever you are what did you do with the real Cloud Snipe!?" i hold up my hand then i realize the wound from the shard is on my shoulder. "i am Cloud Snipe but i don't understand WHY i look like this. but i will be honest, i mean i guess it's a bit harder to fully explain but i sure can try. I'm a- and play along here. i'm a being from a different reality i was brought here one day in my sleep by luna and celestia the form you see me in right now this is my true from, im a being called a human when luna brought me here she turned me into the pegasus you know as Cloud Snipe i wanted to see what your world looked like from your eyes. after a year and a half i not only fell in love with your world i fell in love with your people, your culture, i even found someone who understands that who i am in this world was shaped by what i was back home. i'm not a threat to this world nor am i to your people."I see shining armor's eyes narrow almost like he's watching for a lie. " well that surely is an interesting story but how do i know that this human world really exists like you say it does?" i take a moment to think about how i can prove to him my story then it dawns on me. "Aileron i need you to do something for me fly back home and ask twilight to come here, and tell her to bring sunset shimmer's book and tell her i'm kinda needing her help with." she she nods and flies out the window and top speed." well that should help me." shining armor and his guards ease up "how exactly do you know my sister will help?" "frankly I don't know if she will understand it but i know she took a bit of a trip into a version of my world closer to yours then mine so she knows what humans are but in a way that is a bit more relate-able to you." after about an hour of explaining lightly the idea of Multiverse theory, aileron then rushes in with twilight and spike leading the charge "ah twilight and spike thanks for making it." twilight stares at me very confused and so does spike. "uhh twilight does this remind you of the mirror." they both give a silent nod to each other then twi walks closer to me past shining armor "you're a human but yet we are in equestria even when i was in the human world i was unable to turn into my alicorn self only when using the element of harmony i reclaimed my powers but not my form. Aileron slightly filled me in on what was happening, what you say happened is Luna and Celestia brought you here using alicorn magic similar to the effect of the mirror when i went to the human world but in the reverse, fascinating. tell me what was the last thing you remember before waking up here?" she uses her magic to pull out a scroll and quill then stares at me "well after my vision blacked out i heard aileron scream and then a voice in my fade said that i passed out from the blood loss from my wing being pierced by the shard and the fact that the temperature getting dropped from the cold wind and almost zero degrees causing my blood to flow easier out from my wing and she said that i had to face another problem my guess is me being human is the problem as how to face it i'm going to to need to speak to luna about that." with that thought the guards step out of the way and the door opens to the princesses standing in the door "Well my dear i think we can answer some of those questions right here and now, but first we need the room alone." everyone slowly makes their way out except twilight and the other princesses. "not you aileron, you are actually important to what is going on." she stops and looks back to shining armor who closes the door behind him. then i lean up in my bed and aileron sits down next to me and holds my wounded hand "my first question is why is it that i'm here as a human? i thought that when you brought me here you somehow converted my human physical form into the pegasus that i got used to. how is it that when i lost consciousness my body changed, does my equestrian body tie with a conscious state?" before i can ask more questions celestia raises a wing to cut me off "we can't explain why you turned back but in a way your state is linked with your mind when you passed out your mind lost link with your body your body was already present in this world when you came here we linked you with...well i guess you can say a mannequin we just put your features on it." i turn to aileron who is in equal amounts of shock as i am. "so what you are saying is i'm a puppet." luna and celestia turn to each other and celestia uses her magic to teleport a small box onto my lap. "we had our head artificer create this artifact. we hope that this will aid you in keeping your human form and pegasus form under your control." i open the small ornate wooden box. inside lays a golden locket with a silver alicorn and a silver human circling a small amethyst but i notice the amethyst glows with a slight aura when i open the locket the entire inside is a single large amethyst glowing from what looks like a small galaxy swirling slowly inside the jewel. "that gem contains power equal to that of the mirror, sunset shimmer's book, and the power that originally brought you here. basically that gem is almost as strong as discord. keep it out of unknown hands." i close the locket and look back to the princesses. "so what do i do to turn back into my pegasus shape." i think about a bad anime style of transformation where in a blinding light my human body takes on its pegasus form and just like that a light blasts from the jewel and engulfs me and when the light fades i now am sitting in my bed as my pegasus body. "um...what exactly just happened?" i look back to aileron who as soon as i make eye contact jumps into me and hugs me as hard as she can. luna laughs "well looks like she got her dream colt back." i see the pink in ailerons face turn bright red. "oops did she never tell you that was what that little excursion to the mirror cave was meant to do." i look back to aileron who has let go off me and is hiding her eyes with her hair "well im sorry i ruined our date, chasing after that changeling, meeting up with chrysalis, you getting captured and held hostage, me passing out from blood loss and becoming an inter-dimensional creature that you only have ever seen in my dreams. then princess cadence walks up and whispers in my ear "i dont think she minds the date." then gives me a slight wink "you may be a great detective at times but your blind as a bat when it comes to girls." everyone laughs and i look back to aileron still hiding her face and pat her on the shoulder to calm her when i hear the door start to open to shining armor "sorry to interrupt princesses but the doctor is out in the hall he came to check up on Cloud." they let im in when he realizes im in my pegasus form "im not even going to ask what happened to why you were what you were but according to your wing you are all clear to go he bows to the princesses and makes his way out then they all look at me while i climb out of the bed and extend my wings trying to get used to them again "well today has been an interesting day at least its time to head home maybe we pick something up for the others." as we walk out of the hospital and say farewell to the princesses and catch a ride back to ponyville while twilight and spike hang back to hang out with her sister in law on the train ride back me and aileron sit next to each other and she rests her head on my shoulder "im sorry that all this happened i wanted to be romantic so i asked about it but it didn't go so well throw my scared wing across aileron and we sleep side by side all the way back to ponyville.