Outside of Ponyville
The vortex spat Thomas out into the dirt, he became unconscious after being rear-ended by a police box. Thomas slowly began to open his eyes as screams began to penetrate his eardrums, he slowly raised to...his hooves? He looked down and gasped as he realized he was no longer a tank engine, he was a...pony? He shook this new sensation away for now as he made his way towards the screaming, he found wolfs that seemed to be made out of bad breath and timber, they were cornering something with it's backs against a boulder.
"N-now let's be reasonable here, a little m-mare like me-" she tried to plead as they came in closer, "SOMEPONY HELP!" She screamed as a terrifyingly large one, Thomas assumed this was the leader, jumped foreword at her. Thomas acted quickly as he bashed into it's side, causing it to wince and shoot into a tree, which made the others jump at him. Thomas turned and used his two hind legs to buck a timberwolf into it's leader, the light gray unicorn watched in awe as this stallion seemed to appear out of the Everfree. 'RUN!" he screamed as he bashed the leader into a tree.
The unicorn ran quickly out of the forest and towards Ponyville as fast as her hooves could carry her. She ran into the library and ran into the purple unicorn who ran the library, "Twilight! I was just attacked by timberwolfs in the Everfree forest!" She panicked as she remembered the stallion, "And a stallion is out there alone fighting them off!" she finished as twilight grabbed a saddlebag, "Rarity, where did you last see him?" She asked as the rest of their friends gathered outside the forest.
In the Everfree Forest
Thomas lied on his side, blood decorating his side along with claw marks from the timberwolfs. His breathing slowly began to quicken as they gathered around him, "A-at least...I got to help someone...one last time." He said as he closed his eyes as the leader jumped at him. He heard a wince and a loud CRASH that made him open his eyes to see a light brilliant gamboge earth pony standing defensively in front of him, a lasso between her teeth, "Don't worry dear, we're here to help." Rarity chimed in as Rainbow Dash flew straight into the leader, tying a rope around it's legs to stop it from moving.
Thomas slowly stood and tried to look as if the attacks didn't faze him, yet in the back of his mind he felt sick and light-headed. "Hold still, let me see your wounds." squeaked a small pale, light grayish gold pegasus pony as she overlooked his wounds, not really looking at him per say. Thomas cringed as she began to rub some antibacterial substance into his major wounds, "That should keep it from being infected until we get you to Ponyville." she said as Thomas smiled slightly, "Thank you, It feels much better now." His accent made Fluttershy look up and silently gasp. It was him, the stallion from her dream, her eyes darted around, hoping not to find the pony with the claw hiding in the trees.
Twilight walked over to Thomas while R.D and Applejack fought off the timberwolfs, "What were you thinking!? Fighting a pack of timberwolfs by yourself?" her voice was quick and sort of angry, yet a little awe mixed in. "I-I wasn't thinking-" he then looked to Rarity then back "-She needed help so I intervened." He exclaimed as he noticed a beast with the body of a lion, a scorpion's tail, and a pair of dragon-like wings sneaking towards Pinkie Pie, who was currently cheering on Rainbow Dash as she bucked a timberwolf into a pile. Thomas' eyes widened as he watched the monster raise it's claw, he droned out Twilight's voice and questions as he pushed passed them with an, "Sorry, Excuse me!", as the Manticore snarled. Pinkie turned around and screamed as the beast roared in her face, causing her mane to straighten out.
Thomas ran behind the monstrosity and jumped right on it's tail. Thomas smirked as the eyes of a pissed lion started right at him, yet little Thomas didn't falter one bit, "Why don't you pick on a-" He paused to think about what a male horse was called, "-Stallion that can defend himself!" he tried to distract the manticore so that the pink mare could retreat to her friends, yet after that he...kinda didn't have a plan. Thomas started to back away as the monster got closer to him, ready to rip him to shreds, he gulped hard as he felt his hooves hit a rock. He wasn't used to having anything beneath him except wheels and rails, now he had to figure out how to use legs and ground as an escape from certain death.
Twilight then ran in next to the little tank err...pony and her horn started to glow a dark purplish color as her eyes showed anger towards the hybrid beast as she spoke, "Leave. Him. Alone!" she screamed as she shot magic towards the belly of the beast (literally) and watched as it stumbled and ran away, with it's tail between it's legs. Thomas smiled as he remembered when he stood up for Percy against Spencer and tried shunting him, only to be bashed into some buffers. Rainbow Dash walked with Pinkie Pie back to Sugar Cube Corner as AJ and Rarity went back to Twilight's place to set up something for her, that only left Twilight and Fluttershy to help Thomas find his way to Ponyville.