Chapter 25: He screwed me over
"That stupid prick" I grumbled to myself "Why the heck would he do this to me?" I was still attempting to get up, every time I found a way onto my… hooves I collapsed back onto the ground, I used my back legs to scoot myself across the ground a bit, but my arms, or front legs, wouldn't have any of it. I tried multiple times to get up onto my back legs and walk like a bipedal as I did as a human, however, the centre of mass was different on a pony body so I lost my balance every time. I Scooted over to a nearby oak tree, scaring a few birds off a low branch. After a few attempts I managed to wrap one of my front hooves around the branch and I held myself steady. Carefully, I lowered my free front hoof to the grass and steadied it, after feeling comfortable I slowly loosened my grip on the branch, adding more and more weight onto my hoof. I then brought my other hoof to the ground and stood still, taking in how I managed to stand up. I didn't want to move and ruin the moment by ending up on the floor again, but I had a job to do.
Wait I thought What exactly am I doing? I looked around for clues and a few miles in the distance I spotted familiar looking buildings.
"You must locate the elements of harmony and their respective characters." A familiar voice sounded, I frantically looked around, panicking.
Oh man, someone is nearby I thought "Umm… h-hello?"
"Its me you fool!" The voice said again "Un-named creator of existence"
"What? Where the heck are you?" I moved my head around to see as much of the environment as I could without taking any steps.
"We are communicating via the use of magic, that's why I gave you a unicorn body." He replied, sounding peeved. I looked up on the top of my head and saw a short horn protruding from the top.
"Can you see me as well…?" I asked
"Yes… I saw that whole embarrassing performance, and it would be much safer if you spoke to me using magic." He said, not letting the serious tone drop even the slightest.
"How do I do that?" I asked, feeling kind of useless. I heard a long sigh.
"Just think what you want to say and I should be able to hear it." He replied.
Like this? I thought.
"Exactly" He replied "Not difficult is it? Humans are so simple…"
I'll give you simple you piece of… you can hear all of this can't you?
"Indeed, I can read every one of your thoughts, but most I choose not to" Immediately after he said this I began imagining loads of situations of me beating him up. "A natural response, but please do try and control your thoughts."
Okay, so once I find the ponies and the elements of harmony, they'll take care of the rest?
"Yes, the same way they defeated Discord in the past."
"Right, so its simple, but it wont be easy." I said aloud "First things first, learning to walk I guess." I had to get walking down before I could accomplish anything. First off I tried turning on the spot, It was easy enough but it looked pretty awkward. Next I tried to step forward, I managed to find how to work all four hooves and I just had to get them moving in the right order… It was easy to start with, but the problems came with stopping. The moment I tried to stop walking I collapsed and had my face in the dirt. Just don't stop walking I thought.
About an hour later walking was sorted, albeit a little off perfect (it looked more like a slight skip than a walk) and I was well on my way towards Ponyville. I already knew who the elements of harmony belonged to, or were, as I have seen this show before, but first I had to find the damn things. So you have no idea where the harmony element things are? I messaged the over-watching pony.
"Of course I do, but telling you would ruin the fun." He unhelpfully replied, I scowled.
"Why? This is serious, what if this Discord guy wins?" I replied, again out loud due to my anger.
"It doesn't make much of a difference to me." He answered with a little but of laughter. "is it really not obvious that they would be hidden inside the most tightly guarded and prominent building around?" He told be mockingly.
"Do you mean that huge castle on the mountain?" I asked, figuring it out. "The one located in the town full of hypnotised ponies working for Discord?"
"Correct, you can figure some things out on your own human, or should I say colt…" He replied, poking fun at my intelligence, What does he mean by colt?
"A colt is a young male pony, smaller and weaker than an adult" He answered my accidental question "I couldn't help myself, im sure it won't make a difference." I ignored him and carried on towards Ponyville.
After a few minutes I had made good ground, the only thing I had to do was think about stuff as I approached the town. I started to feel disheartened when I remembered what has become of me in the real world. Everyone thinks im dead, im not dead, I've been moved to another body in another dimension. I thought, slightly angrily.
"Remember, as soon as you complete this task, I will send to the human dimension in a new body." The pony reassured me as I slowed down my pace, his voice was calm and serious.
"Yeah… yeah you will, man, someone coming back from the dead on Earth is going to be huge! I'll be in the papers, on T.V… I'd become a celebrity!" I sped my walking up again.
I reached one of the small bridges over the river surrounding Ponyville, pausing halfway over I surveyed the town, I wasn't overly confident in what I was doing. First I need to get at least one of them to believe who I really am, I thought, still standing on top of the bridge, Applejack might be good and telling truth from lies because of her 'element', Twilight is smart so she'll at least listen… oh, and Fluttershy is, well, Fluttershy, so any of those three are a good start. I started to make my way into the town, drawing as little attention to myself as possible. I picked one of the worst days to come into town, the streets were packed with ponies. I got so many looks from the ponies I passed, I couldn't read their faces but im sure they were just wondering who I was. Someone finally decided to approach me, and I panicked when I realised who it was. Rainbow Dash… I picked up my pace, pretending I didn't notice her.
"Hey kid! I haven't seen you around Ponyville before, where are your parents?" She questioned, flying above behind me. I continued to ignore her, focussing on my walking. She flew down in front of me, looking at me and flying backwards. "You okay there? You walk kind of… weirdly." I couldn't ignore her anymore.
"I-um, well, you see… I-uh, um, its just… im lost, that's all." I didn't know what to say, Rainbow Dash was not one of the ponies I wanted to tell the truth to right away as she was probably the least likely to believe me, but lying would only make the truth harder to believe.
"where do you come from then? I could take you back." She asked.
"Um, I-uh, its ummm… sorta, err…" My eyes darted around for some kind of excuse to get away, Rainbow Dash came in closer.
"You feeling alright kid?" She asked, looking a bit worried.
"yeah sure, well, no, but, im okay, just-" I couldn't make anything up, more and more ponies were now looking our way. I had enough so I stepped to the side and tried to run away, but my little knowledge on how to run on four legs caused me to trip almost instantly and I fell flat on the ground, sprawled out I groaned feeling defeated. I could hear the god pony laughing in my head and Rainbow Dash laughing behind me.
"Rainbow Dash! Shame on you fer laughin' at this poor fella" I looked up to see Applejack standing over me, yelling at the Pegasus. Okay, looks like I'll explain to Applejack first then.
"Applejack, you should have seen it, this kid couldn't walk properly and-" She stopped when she noticed the orange pony was not amused.
"Don't mind her, kid, shes just easily amused s'all" Applejack said, holding out a helping hand, or hoof. I held on and she pulled me up. "You scraped your knee a bit there, don't worry, I got a friend who can help with that."
"No Actually, I uh-" I paused for a few seconds, going over in my mind what to say.
"Whats up, something yah wanna tell me?" She asked, I couldn't bring myself to say anything just yet, I need time to think about what to say I told myself.
"Uh… no, forget about it… lets go." I replied waiting for her to go so I could follow, I knew where we were going anyway, but I didn't want any suspicions.
We walked for about ten minutes to reach Fluttershy's cottage, Applejack also asked me were my parents were I I gave her the same answer as I gave Rainbow Dash, I told her I forgot where I lived too and that I forgot my name, it wouldn't matter soon as I would eventually try and tell them the truth. We reached Fluttershy's door but just before Applejack knocked we noticed a small post-it note on the door.
"Gone to Library, be back in one hour" Applejack read it out loud. "She could have only jus' left, we should go meet her there."
"Uh… alright then, y'know, my knee isn't really that bad-" I stopped and thought for a moment, if we go to the library, Twilight will be there too. That means I'll have all three of the easiest ponies to tell the truth to all gathered together "Well… Maybe it does need a bit of a clean…"
"Mah thoughts exactly, lets get a move on then!" With that she set off in the other direction, towards the library.
The journey over to the library was pretty uneventful, I struggled to keep up with Applejack's brisk walking pace due to still not having the hang of walking fast. It only took about five minutes to reach the large, hollowed out tree which housed the library. Alright, we go inside, I gather them together, I tell them what's up and see if they believe me, I went over my plan in my head, simple enough.
"It's not going to work" The god pony said
Can you see the future or are you just guessing? I replied in my head.
"Guessing, the power to see the future is not possible as anything can change." He replied, I was surprised, but it makes sense. I stepped inside the library as Applejack held the door open for me. Spike was re-shelving books to the right and neither Fluttershy or Twilight were around.
"Spike!" Applejack called.
"Yeah, what's up AJ?" Spike replied, not turning around.
"Are Twilight an' Fluttershy here?" Applejack asked, stepping into the library and closing the door behind us.
"Upstairs, in our room I think" He replied, still stacking books.
"Alright, we'll head on up, thanks Spike" She replied and headed up the staircase I followed behind.
"No problem… wait… we'll?" Spike turned just in time to see me walk through the door to the bedroom and close it behind. Sure enough, Twilight and Fluttershy were gathered in the room, Fluttershy was sitting on the spare bed and Twilight was pacing around the room.
"He was supposed to be here at noon today, its one in the afternoon and he still hasn't arrived." Twilight looked worried as she spoke and her voice was further evidence.
"Im sure he just joined them at Canterlot Castle, we'll probably get a message soon." Fluttershy replied, attempting to re-assure her. "Oh, hello Applejack… and who's this little colt?" Fluttershy asked noticing me and Applejack, Twilight stopped pacing and looked over too.
"Howdy yall, this here little colt is lost and he's forgotten a few important things, like where he lives and his name." Applejack introduced my colt body, Just roll with it for a couple more minutes.
"Oh, my name, I just remembered, its Little Guy" I realised now would be the best time to slowly start explaining.
"Wow, what a huge coincidence" Twilight said "Someone we call little guy should be here soon, have you heard about the human being?" She asked, I looked down at the floor and sighed.
"Guys… It's me! That evil god pony guy put me in the body of a colt" I just came right out with it. "Something terrible has happened at Canterlot, some thing called Discord has taken my body and he is hypnotising all the citizens there, he has captured Celestia and most probably Luna as well, soon he will be on his way here to take over Ponyville and eventually the rest of Equestria!" I panted from the lack of breathing and studied their reactions. Shocked, each one of them looked completely shocked.
"Good one kid, is yer talent makin' up stories or something?" Applejack asked, Twilight and Fluttershy's faces also relaxed. I looked round to where my cutie mark should be, nothing.
"No-that doesn't matter right now, you all have to believe me, Celestia and this entire world is in danger!" They all looked at me more seriously now.
"Look, I'll show you there is nothing to be worried about, I'll get my assistant Spike to send a letter" Twilight came up with a solution.
"Yeah, Spike sends a letter and we can see that im right!" I replied, the three ponies left the room.
"That went well." The god pony said sarcastically and laughed a little.
"Shut up, as soon as-"
"Who are you talking to Little Guy?" Fluttershy called back.
"Uh-n-no-one" I replied. As soon as they don't get a reply to that letter they'll start to believe me.
"I wouldn't count on it." He replied, dead serious, I gulped.
I got down into the lower room of the library just in time to see Spike roll up the scroll and open the window. With a large breath he shot green flames out of his mouth which disintegrated the scroll into smoke and it was swept up into the sky. We waited and we waited… but nothing ever came. Fifteen minutes had passed and there was no sign of a reply. "How long does a reply normally take?" I asked.
"About five or ten minutes" Spike replied.
"See, I told you, Celestia had been captured by Discord in MY body and-"
"And how exactly do you know all this, Huh?" Twilight replied, looking angry.
"B-because I was there, guys it really is me, little guy, THE little guy!" I was panicking, Twilight approached me and her horn was surrounded with a magical aura. I backed up to the door, ready to make a break for it but as I walked backwards I bumped into Applejack who blocked the exit. "You wont believe me, why wont you believe me?" I questioned, looking at all the angry faces.
"Gee, Twilight. He does sound a might truthful but its… its hard to tell" Applejack said to Twilight.
"Why would you be telling you this if I worked for Discord, Or if I was a spy or whatever you're all suspicious of, all I want is my human body back and you guys need to use the elements of harmony to get rid of Discord!" I shouted, now surrounded by the three ponies and Spike. "That nameless god pony offered to send me home, but I declined because I needed to warn you, and help you fight him off." I cried, Saying this caused Twilight to stop moving towards me, the glow of her horn disappeared.
"It… it really is you, isn't it little guy?" Twilight stated.
"Yes! And the longer we stand around here the more of Canterlot Discord takes over! Go get Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash and lets MOVE!" I commanded, feeling like the leader.
"Right! Fluttershy, go get Rarity, Twilight, go get Pinkie and I'll go find Rainbow" Applejack took over the role of leader. "You two" Gesturing to me and Spike "Go get a wagon from sweet apple acres, Rainbow and Fluttershy will fly us up in it, okay? We'll meet you in the town centre" Me and Spike nodded our heads, more out of intimidation than agreeing with her plan. We all split up as we dashed out of the library door, me and Spike stuck together as instructed. I looked up at Canterlot on the mountainside, there was a huge, pink cloud overhead and some of the buildings were wonky and curvy like silly straws. I tripped over a few times on the way as we were running, however, every time I fell I got back up and managed to run for longer. We reached the open, tree filled fields of Sweet apple acres in a few minutes. Big Mac was pulling a cart full of red and green apples towards the barn. The cart was a perfect size to fit us all in so we raced over to him.
"Excuse me, Mr. Big Macintosh!" I called as we ran over to him. He turned around as we approached him. "We need… to borrow… that cart…" I said, panting from the running.
"What for?" He asked as he tipped all the apples into a container and began sorting green from red.
"We need to make a trip up to Canterlot and both the carriage service and train service aren't running" Spike replied, seeming to have regained his breath.
"Sorry, no can do, this here cart is Apple family property." he replied and turned to the container of apples. "You'd best be on your way." He told us, me and Spike looked at each other nervously and grabbed the cart, I pulled it and Spike pushed from behind, after we got a few metres away Big Mac noticed.
"HEY! What're yall doin'!" He shouted.
"We're sorry Big Mac I promise we'll bring it back soon!" I called back quickly as we carried on running, fortunately he didn't give chase.
When we got to the centre of town outside the big, outstanding town hall we met up with Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Twilight and Pinkie Pie who was bouncing around, un-able to stand still. She bounced over to me. "So you're the new colt who is actually the little guy riiiiiight?" She asked, getting awkwardly close, I stepped back a bit.
"Yes, its me, and you all better believe me or this wont work." I said, everyone nodded but Rainbow. "All of you!" I glared at her.
"Yeah, okay, whatever! Lets fly this this thing already!" She said and hooked herself up to the cart.
"Don't get too excited Rainbow, we're still waiting for Fluttershy and Rarity." Twilight commented to the impatient Pegasus. A few minutes later they both showed up, Rarity was wearing fashionable clothing, a white and gold dress and matching hat. Everyone just stared at her silently.
"What? I have to look my best for a visit to Canterlot." She replied with her nose in the air.
"Just get on the cart." I ordered, we all climbed aboard and Fluttershy also took her position at the front alongside Rainbow Dash.
"Alright, everyone ready?" I asked, a crowd of ponies had gathered around by now to see what was up. "Move out the way everyone!" I yelled, none of them listened.
"Move it, yah hear!" Applejack yelled, they obeyed her instantly.
"Alright then… lets-"
"GO" Rainbow Dash finished my sentence and took of at breakneck speed, Rarity's hat and dress flew right off and floated towards the ground. It was lucky we all held on in time.
We were on our way to Canterlot.