Well, I decided to post a new chapter a little earlier than usual, because I had some great inspiration, and I didn't want to keep you all waiting for it, because it was too good! So, I hope you all like this chapter!
Princess Celestia had made it to Ponyville, just like Kyle and Lyra had planned. Once the latter spotted the ruler of Equestria arrive in the small community, she signaled to Jan that it was effectively safe for them to come out.
"Let's head into the square, where the Princess is!" Lyra said.
"Okay... but I really hope those two haven't done anything to Kyle..." Jan said.
With that, the two made their way out of the sanctuary of Lyra's locked-up house and over to Celestia, who was busy examining the area.
"Your Highness!" Lyra said as she rushed up with Jan. "You got my letter?"
"I did. Where are they?" Celestia asked.
All of them sat silent for a moment... and began to hear some shouting in the distance.
"That's gotta be them!" Lyra said, heading off in the direction of the noise.
"Then let us make haste!" Celestia said.
Celestia, Lyra, and Jan all went in the direction of the Ponyville Clock Tower, where the sound was coming from, and all saw Ed and Danny pounding on the locked service door while shouting up at Kyle, who was in the belfry hurling steel pipes down at them without verbal retaliation.
"Well now..." Celestia said. "...it appears we have two unwelcome stowaways who decided to set foot in our world. I'll make short work of this."
The Princess stepped forward.
"CEASE THIS BALDERDASH AT ONCE!" Celestia said in her Royal Canterlot voice, which she had not used in a long time.
Immediately, the three at the clock tower stopped at looked straight at the Alicorn who had spoken. The two on the ground looked with immense shock at the majestic pony.
"Hey!" Ed shouted. "You don't go shoutin' at me like that!"
"Silence!" Celestia snapped.
The overweight, middle-aged man immediately went quiet. Lyra and Jan quickly came up from behind Celestia.
"I knew I'd find you here too!" Ed said upon seeing his former fiancée.
Jan glared. "You have no business following us! Just learn to let go of the past already!"
"I'll never let it go!" Ed shouted. "You up and leave me, and force me to feed and shelter your little mutant!?"
Jan gritted her teeth.
"One, my son is not a 'mutant'! Two, let's not forget that you were paying some crooked lawyer to prevent me from assuming sole custody, and with MY money, no less!" she said.
"That's not the issue here!" Ed said.
"The faggot deserved to be away from you!" Danny added.
"ENOUGH ALREADY!" Lyra raised her voice.
Everyone went silent staring at the mint-green Unicorn, who walked straight up to Ed and Danny. The two madmen assumed a boxing-stance, but Lyra was able to throw them several meters out of the way with a telekinetic blast. She then stood at the base of the clock tower. That's when her human lover in the tower noticed her below.
"I'm coming down!" Kyle called.
With that, he jumped from the belfry.
"I gotcha!" Lyra said, using her magic to levitate Kyle down.
It removed all of his momentum and she brought him safely to the ground on his feet.
"So, this is what it all comes to..." Kyle began. "...me and my mother escape to the world that the love of my life came from, and of all people to come, it's you two!"
"Because you need to learn a lesson! I've had it with your disrespectin' me!" Ed shouted.
"I disrespect you? You disrespect me all the time!" Kyle retaliated.
"How?" Ed asked.
Kyle's jaw dropped at his ignorance.
" 'How'?" he asked. "Because you don't listen to me! You don't let me do what I want to do!"
"Because that's the real world!" Ed said. "You don't get to do any of the things you want to do! You need to WORK! That's the whole point of living in the first place! You spend your life helping the world by working!"
"Alright, I believe we have heard enough!" Celestia said.
The Princess took a breath to calm herself from losing her temper.
"Now..." she spoke again. "...given the circumstances that have arose out of this dilemma... and knowing what happened fourteen days prior, which equates to seven days in the human universe... I believe there could be a solution that will benefit us all."
Everyone present listened curiously.
"What it is, Princess?" Lyra asked.
"Well..." Celestia began. "...I know that you and your mother wanted to come to this world, Kyle. However, what I have in mind will involve... you having to permanently leave behind your old life. Would you be willing to go through with this?"
Kyle had a feeling of what Celestia was speaking of... and it was something he had been fantasizing about ever since he became a brony.
"Absolutely!" he said just before looking to his mother. "What do you think, Mom?"
Jan looked at the ground, darting her eyes about horizontally. She seemed fairly uncertain about the proposal... but there was also a glimmer of... hope, in her eyes...
"Well, to be honest..." she began. "...I can already tell that I would love to live here... not to mention that I've wanted to leave my old life behind for the past ten years..."
"So, is that a 'yes'...?" Celestia asked.
After a moment, Jan looked up at the Alicorn and nodded.
"Yes, I want to go through with it." she said.
"Alright..." Celestia said. "...and Lyra, I would like your help to do this."
Lyra tilted her head. "You want me to help?"
"Of course. I can sense the immense magical power that you hold inside your horn. It will be of great help to me in what I'll do to our four human visitors. For two of them, it will be a blessing, and for the other two... it will be potentially a great punishment!" Celestia said.
"Okay, so..." Lyra began. "...what is it?"
Celestia bent down and whispered something into Lyra's ear. The latter looked surprised at first, but then a great smile appeared on her face. Once Celestia stood back straight up, Lyra looked at her with this expression.
"Your Highness... that's perfect!" Lyra said.
"So, are you ready?" Celestia said.
Danny rasped. "Fuck this... I'm outta here!" he said.
"Oh no you don't!" Lyra said, charging magic in her horn, pointing it straight at him.
"What are you gonna do, Lyra?" Kyle asked.
Lyra's lip curled upward on one side. "You'll see, sweetie..."
With that, both Celestia and Lyra powered up their horns, both of them glowing gold, except Celestia's was a lighter shade than Lyra's. A golden glow appeared around Kyle, Jan, Danny, and Ed as all four of them began to levitate upward.
"Huh?" Jan uttered, looking down.
"Hey, what's up with this shit?" Danny asked.
Kyle, realizing what was about to happen, began to chuckle.
"Oh-hoh-hoooooh...!" Kyle laughed. "Looks like you two are in for a big change...!"
"What?" Both Ed and Danny asked simultaneously.
Small jets of light were rapidly swirling around the four, slowly converging on them, the light getting brighter all the while. Kyle looked excited, Jan looked anxious (in both a good and bad way), and Ed and Danny both looked annoyed. Eventually, the light became too bright to look at, forcing Celestia and Lyra to close their eyes.
While this happened, a strange sensation was spreading through Kyle's body... it was not like anything he ever felt before, but it was not unpleasant, either... he could feel his level of awareness to the surrounding environment rapidly dropping... it felt like he was quickly falling asleep...
Eventually, the light went out, and what Lyra saw upon opening her eyes made her intake a massive gasp. Levitating where the four humans had once been... were three stallions and one mare. It seemed that what Celestia had said to her actually came true...
...They had been successfully turned into ponies! All four of them had their eyes closed, as the intense magic of the transformation had rendered them unconscious. They slowly drifted back to the ground, where the glow around them went out and they laid gently on the grass.
Borderline ecstatic, Lyra made her way over to the stallion whom she knew, from the general appearance and his cutie mark, was Kyle. She gently nudged him, and he let out a groan as his eyelids flickered.
"...A-aah..." the stallion uttered in Kyle's voice, just before looking up at the Unicorn above him. "...L-Lyra..."
"Kyle..." Lyra said, smiling as tears filled her eyes, and then hugging the stallion. "...oh, that was so beautiful!"
"Huh...?" Kyle asked, looking around to see three other ponies whom he had not seen before.
Standing up, he immediately recalled what happened mere seconds ago as the three other newly-transformed ponies woke up and stood. He looked at where his hand should be... and saw that it was replaced with a pony hoof. His eyes went wide and a big smile appeared on his face.
"Oh, wow!" Kyle said, staring in awe at his new form. "It worked! We're ponies now!"
The four continued to examine their new bodies. Kyle was the most enthusiastic about it.
"Let's see here... got hooves... got a tail... oh, even a paintbrush cutie mark! Neat!" he remarked.
He reached for his back, but felt no wings. This confirmed that he was not a Pegasus. However, when he reached up to his forehead and felt the solid cranial appendage...
"...Even more neat! I'm a Unicorn!" Kyle said.
Jan was examining herself in a mixture of joy and confusion. She was now a Unicorn with a light gray hide that had a hint of blue, a henna mane and tail, and a frying pan cutie mark.
"Well... I have always liked horses... but, I never thought I would one day become a horse..." she said.
"What the fuck...?" Danny said, staring in horror at his ponified form. "...What the actual fuck...?"
Ed was gritting his teeth as his cartoonish eyes constricted.
"You all think this is funny!?" he thundered. "You like makin' me look like a literal jackass! Change me back RIGHT NOW!"
Ed and Danny were both Earth Ponies... and very bulky ones at that. Danny had yellow hide, periwinkle mane and tail, and a video game controller for a cutie mark. Ed was brick-red with a gray mane and tail, and a beer bottle cutie mark. Kyle could not help but chuckle at their embarrassing "special talents".
"Well, well..." Kyle said. "...looks like this is what your mistreatment of both me and my mother has culminated to!"
"Seriously... why are we girly pony horses now!? WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS ABOUT!?" Danny asked.
Kyle gave an evil smile. "...Retribution!" he said.
"Yes," Celestia said. "like I said before... it is a blessing for you two, Janet and Kyle... and it is a punishment for the other two."
"NO!" Ed shouted. "You'd better change us back right now!"
With that, he tried to dart for Celestia to attack her... but the Princess was quick to react and conjured a forcefield prison that trapped him. She had made one for Danny as well.
"Now..." Celestia said. "...what are we going to do with you two?"
Kyle was pondering for a moment... and then the perfect idea hit him.
"Ah, I got it!" he said. "Princess... do you think you could have your guards keep an eye on these two, and then escort them into Ponyville Square after I make some... preparations?"
Celestia nodded. "That will certainly not be an issue for me."
"Great! I'll be right back!" Kyle said, rushing into Ponyville.
It seemed like the ponies were now spreading the word that the lockdown was now over, since Princess Celestia had arrived. Kyle hoped he could find just the pony he was looking for... and after a bit of searching, he did.
"Pinkie Pie!" Kyle said.
The pink Earth Pony looked up as he approached.
"Don't worry, Kyle... I won't bother you anymore..." she said.
Kyle raised a brow. "How did you know it was me...?"
"I'm Pinkie Pie." Pinkie said. "I know practically everything that goes on around here!"
Oh, right... I forgot about that part of her character. Kyle thought.
Ponyville's party animal was about to walk away when he stopped her.
"Actually..." Kyle began. "...I could use your help with something!"
"Ooh! Like what?" Pinkie asked.
Kyle whispered something in her ear, and eventually, a very wide, big grin appeared on Pinkie's face.
"So... think you can do it?" Kyle asked.
"Consider it done five minutes ago!" Pinkie said.
With that, the pink party pony quickly dashed off to Sugarcube Corner to get what she would require. Kyle smirked in a smug manner.
"This is gonna be quite a feat for them to remember..." he said to himself, chuckling afterwards.
Well, looks like things could only get better from here, right? Time for these two scumbags to get some well-deserved blowback! So, I personally look forward to writing my ideas about what Pinkie might have in store for them, and I bet all of you are really anticipating it! So, I'll catch you all later! Keep holding on...