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Human becomes pony. How, why and what happens next are all up to you. New stories and art welcome!
Any type of transformation into ponies, gryphons, changelings, dragons, kirin, etc., whether OC or canonical, & Anonponies of all shapes and sizes.
Want to be the little pony? This is the thread for you.

Previously on PTFG:
https://ponepaste.org/11376 - Anon Horse by PlatterCutter - New & Complete!
https://ponepaste.org/11345 - Mending Morph Victim: Thundering Drizzle by PlatterCutter - New & Complete!
https://ponepaste.org/10964 - Strangers to the Plain by OrwellRedenbacher
https://ponepaste.org/11239 - I wish I were Anonstallion and had a cute autistic family by Patch - Complete!
https://ponepaste.org/11227 - Daybreaker & Anon by wingedanon - Complete!
https://ponepaste.org/11309 - An Anonpony Romance by Penname
https://ponepaste.org/11288 - Starlight's scary small sister by PlatterCutter
https://ponepaste.org/11300 - A Compilation of Mama Mare Stories by Mills_Tamias - Complete!
https://ponepaste.org/11277 - Always Pay Your Pon-E Dealer by Mills_Tamias - Complete!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13z-VCs2AFogQRrOeBKv4akY1DwSq3vCXtHiInuZFj8o/edit - kasi pona by Atomic Glow - Complete!
https://ponepaste.org/11260 - Silver Platter's self reflection
https://ponepaste.org/11232 - Rarity's Maid
https://ponepaste.org/11238 - Silver Platter in Canterlot
https://ponepaste.org/11228 - Anonfilly in kinderquestria - Complete!
https://ponepaste.org/11219 - Sebastian Ruins Discord's Tea Party by Mills_Tamias - Complete!
https://ponepaste.org/11208 - Lily of the Valley by pogoman122
https://ponepaste.org/11129 - Sterling Sprocket Finding His Cutie Mark in Neighagra Port - Complete!
https://ponepaste.org/10927 - Armor TF Green by JoshThePinkGump - Complete!
https://ponepaste.org/10753 - Planes, Trains and Hotel Chains by OrwellRedenbacher
https://ponepaste.org/10464 - Misadventures of Orwell Redenbacher by OrwellRedenbacher
https://ponepaste.org/10592 - Friendly Files by ReMastering
https://ponepaste.org/10607 - Turned Out by definitelynotapurplehorse
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/567872 - Turning Myself Into a Half-Ton Cybernetic Princess Luna In An Abandoned Woolworths To Prank My Friend at 3AM Challenge (Gone Wrong) (Gone Sexual) by Nightprincessluna - Complete!
https://ponepaste.org/10537 - Moth on the bulb by OrwellRedenbacher - Complete!
>>40293205 - Beach Walk
https://ponepaste.org/10421 - Last moments by OrwellRedenbacher - Complete!
https://ponepaste.org/10320 - Cathode Ray Mission by OrwellRedenbacher - Complete!
https://ponepaste.org/10334 - Pon-E suicide funk by Gnisha - Complete!

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I'll kidnap one of you transformed ponies and feed you dog food.
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>>42606746
what about pony become human?
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>>42606751
Wet or dry?
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>>42606772
Dry. I'm not rich.
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>>42606751
maybe it varies but dry is really not that bad, i could get used to it
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>tf into pony but human you remains
>Human self continues to live life but you have to pretend to be a pet when people come over
>human gets way too into it and now he makes you wear a collar and won't let you eat at the table anymore
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human me would just get jealous
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If you got suddenly tf'd into an already pre-existing pony (you uhh, threw a dollar into an abandoned well that turned out to be real magic). Would you tell anypony that you've replaced them or would you try to pretend to be them. (Pony you replaced is in limbo rn, they'd return if you disappeared)
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This is it, the end of the entire world is happening, you can't stop it, you can't bargain it away, you are faced with a gigantic wave of change from a blighted light and shape you cannot hope to understand, the scale is too massive. The world stirs and groan under the duress of the visitor, in it's innocent transformative gaze, it changes everything it looks at, break mold and reshape without purpose or direction, only chaotic impression made reality. You've gathered that this cosmic alien entity doesn't understand how to revert back anything it sees. In all your interrogation and musing from encountered victim of the visitor gaze, you've gathered that even inanimate objects became distorted, the entire outside is repurposed to unknown qualities. All your relatives are gone and lost in their mind that forgot reality or simply got consumed by new found alien instinct, they cannot be untangled and they remain lost to you...

This cannot be the end of it all, you refuse to acknowledge this aberration interpretation of reality that the visitor imposes on you, if it can influence your world... Maybe you can influence this phenomenon somehow. Feeling hollow and distressed, you reminiscent about comforting memories to sooth yourself in this dire moment, My little pony show that you remember fondly. Finally, out of hope to regain anything from your world, you start thinking that maybe it is time for a new world to be born ? You decide to accept to become the catalyst of this fundamental change. You decided to go look outside at the visitor, as a last ditch bravado or defiance, you can't remember it well, you only feel your blood pumping into impossible ethereal energy. You hum my little pony song when you're directly staring at IT. You mind gets stretched like rubber, tempest of sensation assault every nerves of your brain, it is too much, you are now absolutely gigantic.... You scream no, you can't become a deformed pile of flesh, you refocus on your truest desire... Equestria...

As if seemingly regretful, the gaze of this gargantuan alien soften, you feel as if the idea of magic becomes real, the word are not used but the transfer of thought and concept visually is imposed on unto you, the visitor decided to make YOU become EQUESTRIA itself. You spurn and grow in immense pain as your idea of self dilate into magical particle, becoming the fertile soil of this fantasy Equestria your limbs stretches and multiply to incomprehensible many amount, harden and petrify into mountain or crevices, you belly melt into magma and you mind and head explode into magicle and is the essence of life upon this new formed world, you are not completely gone, simply too dilated to be able to anchor yourself into any meaningful consciousness and trail of memories. Absolution of your dying world through transformation, a pyric victory, you'll never experience Equestria, you were simply meant to be it's birth soil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BUFcaiEiNA
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>"Anonstallion? Your name is so strange, why did your parents give you that name?"
>"What is your cutie mark supposed to mean? It's literally just a question mark!"
>"And why is your girlfriend identical to you? She has the same coat, the same mane color, and even the same cutie mark as you. Is she your sister? You can't date your own sister... right?"
>"And why your daughter looks exactly like you two?"
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My goal in life is to create a machine I call the Cutinator which will shoot out cutie-rays that turn everything they touch into their cartoon counterpart and all humans into ponies. I once read in a sci-fi book that it is possible to use the sun to amplify signals so basically I would build a bunch of Cutinators once I made some money selling toys and pets I cutiefied with it and bundle the cutie-rays together with mirrors and shoot them into the sun which will cause the entire Earth to be cutiefied in a few minutes and the universe to be cutiefied at the speed of light.
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I feel like it'd be easier to turn people into ponies with genetic engineering or robotics.
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>>42607462
Honesty is the best policy.
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How are robots going to help?
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>>42610767
Da horror.
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>>42610532
Turn you into a robo pony.
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>>42611035
Why would anyone want to be a robopony? I'd rather be flesh and blood.
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>>42611151
Better than not being a pony.
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>>42606753
What about species swap or becoming a pony to turn your waifu into a human?
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>>42611217
That's the only valid reason for a pony to become a human.
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>Anonicorn's nightmare form isn't borne out of bitterness or ego
>Its paranoia
>Paranoia that his equestria isn't the right one, thats its one sngle moment away from being poisoned by some fanon nightmare
>Overthinking every little detail from every single piece of fanon he ever saw or consumed in his previous life, what if thats true here? theres no guarantee this is the right Equestria is there?
>Its already a fictional world brought to life, what else has been brought to life? is it a crossover? is pinkie a psycho? is there some virus about to spread and kill all of them in the most gruesome ways possible?
>Nightmare-Anon won't let his bright, happy creatures become victims

>"What if its me?"
>"What if me just being here is the poison?"
>"What if something awful slipped in with me when I got here?"
>He stared into the mirror pool.
>If he was the poison, the duplicates would carry it too, then he could see it from outside himself
>If not, then... another pair of eyes never hurt.
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Perhaps
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>>42610532
nanomachines son
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https://youtu.be/O6zP3dfDlvE?si=mdwO3pmm4P4_mnAv
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Mare Man

INTRODUCING THE EQUINE HERO AND PROTECTOR OF HARMONY CITY- MARE MAN!

Darkness threatens to consume the heart of Harmony City. Founded upon the principles of hope and friendship, the city finds its very foundations tested by the evils lurking outside its borders. Day and night, monsters prey upon the weak and defenseless. For many, hope is waning, and friendship is crumbling away. The city is slowly slipping into darkness...

But all is not lost. For from the very heart of our illustrious city comes a hero, ready to defend those virtues from all those who desire to destroy them! One who embodies everything our city stands for!

He is Mare Man! The equine hero and protector of Harmony City! Ready to assume the powers of six magical horses to fight crime, stop evil, and save Harmony Ci-

"Oh give me a break," said Damian, sighing.

Laura's train of drama derailed and crashed spectacularly, and the hopeful glimmer in her eyes was snuffed out. People stared at her, standing with her fist held high and a foot planted firmly on the table. With a nervous grin, she sat back down, and the diner's interest in her faded away.

Laura Leakey, Harmony City's self declared #1 investigative reporter, had traced all her leads to this diner. Dan's Delicious Diner, to be exact. After months of investigation, chasing leads, and downing several gallons of coffee, she finally found Harmony City's one and only hero, Mare Man. She convinced him to do an interview- and by convince, she meant following Mare Man to his favorite restaurant and refusing to leave him alone. Thankfully for her, her persistence paid off. Besides, it was the Saturday Sandwich Special- no way Mare Man was going to miss it, persistent reporter or not.

His first rule, though- do not call him Mare Man. He hated the name. If there was to be any sort of interviewing, it would be under his real name, Damian Hughes. The, apparent, second rule- no opening the interview with heroic intros.

"What?" she said, deflated. "You don't like it?"

"Eh," said Damian, tapping his order pager with a thumb. "That kind of intro seems really overblown for what I do. I just do this hero gig for fun."

"B-but," she stammered, "you're Mare Man! The hero of Harmony City! Do you know how many lives you've saved? How many monsters you've killed?!"

His eye twitched. "What did I say about that name?" He shook his head. "Honestly, I've lost count at this point. Hey, you made an order, right? It's gonna be awkward if I'm the only one eating."
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>>42613009
Laura nodded, leg bouncing nervously. Was this man the real deal? She took out her notebook and flipped through the pages. Yeah, he met all the details- an average looking male with short black hair, clad in a blue sweatshirt and jeans. Most importantly, he wore the Power Bracelet of the Six Mares (a name of Laura's design), inset with six glimmering gems of different colors. Yet, his laid back demeanor had caught her completely off guard. She always thought a hero would be a little more... haughty.

The order pager vibrated in Damian's hand. He beamed as he leapt up from his chair.

"Ah, finally, I'm starving."

Damian made his way to the pickup counter, hands in his pockets. Laid back or not, this was the hero Laura had been looking for. The only one keeping Harmony City from falling apart from the constant monster attacks. Maybe Damian just didn't realize how important he was to the city. If that was the case, then she'd just have to make him realize it.

CRACK!

Sunlight poured into the diner as the ceiling rose into the air, raining dust and debris inside. People screamed, pointing to the hulking monstrosity holding the roof in its claws. It's many eyes scanned around, until one by one they settled upon Damian. It dropped the ceiling onto the parking lot, crushing several cars and setting off all their alarms. The air was filled by an awful din.

"So!" it croaked from its gnarled mouth. "You're the Mare Man that all the monsters are chattering about, arent'cha?" The creature licked its lips, dripping saliva onto the floor. "My name's Watcher! I can see every move you make!" As if to prove its point, each one of its eyes rolled in their sockets. "And from what I can see- you don't look so tough. Maybe all those other monsters were just too weak to handle a measly human like you!"

Damian stood there, staring at his poor sandwich, crushed under a slab of concrete. People rushed out of the building, pushing over one another to escape. Laura, on the other hand, tucked herself underneath a table, fingers fumbling with her camera to hopefully take a video of Mare Man in action.

"Oy!" Watcher shouted, its nasty, moist breath filling the diner. "Are you listening to me?"

Damian looked up at Watcher, locking his sight with one of its eyes. He looked like he was about to cry.

"You ruined my Dan's Delicious Decker sandwich," he sniffed.

Watcher's eyes blinked. "Don't you realize that I'm about to kill you?!"

Damian threw the Power Bracelet of the Six Mares in front of his teary face and pressed a gem. A purple aura of magical energy encircled the bracelet. Laura shook in excitement. This was it!
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>>42613013
The aura grew into a blinding light, consuming Damian's body. Watcher shrieked as it shut its eyes tight. Laura ducked behind a seat, watching Damian's transformation through her camera's viewfinder. Two flared shapes unfurled from Damian's back, forming wings. Wind whipped through the diner, throwing dust into the air. Damian's glowing silhouette collapsed onto all four, landing to the sounds of bones cracking and snapping. A long point spiraled from his forehead, twisting into a horn. The light faded from his body. Standing in place of Damian was a purple winged unicorn mare, her face twisted in anger.

Laura squealed.

"So you've finally decided to show your real power!" Watcher cackled. "Perfect! Now prepare t-"

"YOU DESTROYED MY FAVORITE SANDWICH YOU SON OF A BITCH!"

A massive ball of purple light flew from the unicorn's horn and straight into Watcher's maw. His eyes widened as he swallowed the spell whole. The briefest expression of regret crossed his face before his body was ripped asunder from the inside out. Watcher's eyeballs flew in all directions, littering the city block. His lower body, now a smoldering pile of meat, slumped to its knees and fell backwards with a dull thud. The unicorn huffed, wiping tears from her face.

"And that's for destroying my favorite restaurant too."

She took a few deep breaths, calming herself down. A purple aura wrapped around the concrete slab and lifted it off of her sandwich. It was obliterated, but she wasn't about to lose hope. She levitated the sandwich in front of her and reassembled it, picking out all the dirt and dust until finally, it resembled its former glory. She smiled.

"Good enough."

Laura climbed out from under the table and checked her camera. Did she get the whole thing? She couldn't believe it- Damian just took out the monster with a single attack. She knew Mare Man was strong, but this was way beyond her expectations.

The unicorn sat at the table and started to eat her meal. She glanced at Laura, mouth half full.

"Oh. They never got around to your order, huh?"

Laura looked around. "Yeah, no, they didn't. Um... is that still you, Damian?"

She nodded, wiping her mouth with a dusty napkin. "Who else would it be? I call this form Purple Smart."

"Purple Smart, huh?" Laura quickly jotted the name down in her notebook. "I just wanted to make sure. I mean, just a second ago you were human and a guy. Now you're a horse and, um..."

"A girl, yeah." She rolled her equine shoulders, taking another bite. "Was weird at first but I got used to it." Damian raised an eyebrow at Laura. "You know, eating alone is awkward enough without you standing over me."

"Oh, right, sorry!" She planted her butt on a chair, across from Damian. As the once-human, now horse chewed her meal, Laura placed her notebook on the table.
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>>42613016
"Well, now that I got to see your powers first-'hoof', haha," Damian rolled her eyes. "Maybe, instead of a cheesy intro, we go into how you got your powers in the first place?"

"How I got my powers?" Damian put her sandwich down and tapped her fuzzy purple chin. "Huh... how did I get my powers? Hmm... I guess it was about a year ago..."

Laura took out her pen and began to take notes of Damian's story. She wrote across the top of the page, in dramatically large letters, "THE BIRTH OF A HERO!"

THE BIRTH OF A HERO!

It all began a year ago. Damian was downtown, carrying a batch of groceries home, filled with generic canned meats and packs of cheap ramen. The bag was tucked under his right arm as he used his free hand to flick through his phone, perusing the latest Steam Fall sale. He just got his paycheck for the month, and by trading some healthier food for the packets of ramen, he had just enough money left to buy a few games.

The street was quiet today. Usually there were people walking past, cars honking at each other, and the occasional annoying stray animal tripping up Damian’s feet, but not today. Instead it was a silent, cool, and cloudy Fall afternoon. Not like Damian noticed any of this- he was too busy looking for ways to waste his money.

One item caught his eye. A bit of DLC for a train simulator game he didn't even own. Still, it was 90% off- a deal that doesn't come by often. Besides, he owned almost everything else worth owning on steam. He was just about to make the purchase when the Harmony City Monster Invasion Alarm System went off.

"Attention citizens of downtown Harmony City. A Level-A monster has been spotted near the intersection of 22nd Street and Specter Road. All citizens are advised to stay indoors until the threat has been neutralized. I repeat, stay indoors until the threat has been neutralized."

Damian stopped walking and looked up from his phone. 22nd Street and Specter Road? He always passed that intersection on his way home from the supermarket. Wait. Where was everyone? He looked toward the traffic light signs. Sure enough, he was on the intersection of 22nd Street and Specter Road.

"Hey there," said a cheery voice behind him. "What are you doing here?"

Damian turned around. Towering over him was some sort of humanoid plant creature, its "muscular" body of leaves reinforced by veins of vines. Its head was a massive sunflower, its face formed by the pistils on its surface. It smiled at him, looking much too friendly to be anything but.

"Didn't you hear the announcement? Everyone's supposed to be inside. A big scary monster is on the loose."

Uh oh. This wasn’t going to end well. Damian however, was a little distracted. He looked back down at his phone. The DLC was on a flash sale- if he didn't act soon, he'd miss it.
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>>42613022
"Oh, I'm sorry, I should introduce myself!"

The monster stood to full height, almost double Damian's. It gave him a playful wink. "My name's Bloomy! I was a simple gardener, living on the outskirts of Harmony City. Every day, I would tend to my flowers. My pretty, pretty flowers." Bloomy chuckled, but its face grew dark. "But every time they bloomed, someone would always come by to ruin them! My lovely flowers, tarnished by disgusting, vile creatures!"

Damian blinked- just as Bloomy stood up, something behind him flew into the clouds. What was that? More importantly, will make a purchase? He only had a minute or two left. Damian tapped his foot, pondering.

"I began to hate all animal life, especially myself. My hatred grew so intense, that I transformed into the monster you see before you. At first I was horrified, but then I took it as a sign. I learned that in this world, it's kill or be killed, and it's about time the plants started doing the killing, don't you agree?" Bloomy cackled, a vine-like tongue whipping out of its "mouth". Damian’s attention escaped Bloomy’s grasp- he was still deciding whether or not he wanted to make a purchase.

A vine whisked Damian's phone from his hand, tossing it aside.

"Hey, I was looking at that!"

Bloomy knelt down, face to face with Damian. It reached out and ripped the groceries out of Damian's arms and poured them onto the street. Cans and plastic wrapped noodles clanked and crinkled as they scattered on the road.

"My groceries!"

The monster scanned the various foodstuffs on the ground. Nothing but canned meat and ramen. It chuckled. "Today's your lucky day, human. I don't see any leafy greens in your groceries, so you're free to go. Don't get me wrong, I'll still kill you one day, but you're not on my current agenda. Do you want to know what I'm currently hunting for?"

Damian gave a frustrated grunt as he knelt down, stuffing his groceries in a half destroyed bag. This situation just went from somewhat frightening to plain annoying.

"Horses! Disgusting, filthy horses! Year after year they would consume my precious flowers! Well no more! I heard there was a horse making its way around here, so I'll start with that one. By the end of this week, the entire equine species will be wiped off the face of the Earth!"

It cackled, much more invested in its evil scheme than anyone else. Bloomy regained his composure and walked away. "Have a good day, human! It won't be your last, but rest assured that it's coming real soon!"

Bloomy disappeared around a corner, heading for the edge of the city. Damian watched until its massive footsteps faded from earshot. A horse? In the city? Bloomy clearly had a few seeds shaken loose.

"What a weird monster... Oh crap, the flash sale!"

He dove for his phone and swiped the lock screen away. If he was quick, maybe he'd still have time!

Too late. The sale had cycled.

"Aw man..."
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With the monster encounter and missed purchase opportunity out of the way, Damian continued on his way home, struggling to keep his monthly provisions inside the ripped bag. It wasn't much further- he lived in an apartment block near Harmony City's western borders.

A few minutes later and he was on the 12th floor. He knelt on the last step, huffing loudly.

"I- I'm really out of shape," he gasped. Why on earth did he get the tallest apartment room? Oh, right, because it was cheap.

He pulled himself towards the railing, leaning against it to catch his breath. In front of him was the military cordon, a mile wide stretch of dirt and gravel. It started with a twenty foot wall of steel and concrete, cutting off the urban sprawl and separating the inhabited city from the monster filled wildlands beyond. Once in a while a patrol of some humvees and soldiers would drive by, keeping its eye out for any monsters trying to sneak in.

Fortunately for Damian, this was a sparsely populated part of town, and monsters rarely ever came in this way, if only because there were always better pickings elsewhere.

Hardly anyone can recall a time when the cordon didn’t exist. Not that it’s been up for long- the wall went up around twenty years ago, but it’s easy to lose track of the past when things are constantly trying to kill you. Everyone tries to carry on their everyday lives, but there’s always an underlying fear that any day could be your last.

Maybe that’s why Damian didn’t care too much about Bloomy. He was waiting to die, just like everyone else in Harmony City.

No point mulling about it. He dragged himself towards his doorstep and kicked off his shoes, leaving them outside. Just as he was about to open the door, the familiar squeal of the Monster Invasion Alarm System went off.

"This is an update on the Level-A monster spotted in downtown Harmony City. Reports say that it takes on the form of a glowing winged unicorn, white in color. The monster has been spotted moving towards the western military cordon. Please remain in your homes until the threat has been neutralized."

Glowing winged unicorn? That didn't sound like Bloomy. Was there something even bigger and nastier on the prowl? If it was near the western cordon, then it was awfully close.

It didn't matter much to Damian- Bloomy left him alone and he was safely back home. Time to kick back and relax. He tossed his groceries in the empty fridge, filling it back up to its usual, unhealthy splendor. Once he finished, he grabbed the remote and turned on the TV, flopping onto his sofa. An ad for Dan's Delicious Diner played, Damian's favorite restaurant. He kept a mental note to head there on Saturday for their sandwich special.

Wait a second. Was there something flying in front his balcony? Damian looked up and saw the large winged unicorn. A colorful mane, more like flowing water than hair, came from its head. Beneath its mane, its eyes glowed white, staring straight at him.
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"Uh oh."

The wall of his apartment dissolved in a blinding glow. Damian covered his eyes, a blast of cold air washing over him. He dropped his arms, only for the city to fill up his vision. The entire side of his apartment was gone, taking some floor and ceiling with it. The unicorn was now in full view, its massive wings flapping to keep itself aloft. Golden regalia adorned its neck and hooves, and a crown sat behind its horn. This was one majestic looking horse.

Damian’s focus, however, wasn’t on the unicorn, but on his TV. It teetered on the edge, threatening to throw itself several stories down to its own demise. Fearing for the future of his entertainment, Damian threw himself from the couch, reaching for the television's wire. But before he could make a grab for it, he was grabbed out of the air by a strange, magical force, his entire body wrapped in a golden aura.

Damian could only watch helplessly as his television teetered over the edge and disappeared from sight. A few seconds later, there was the sound of plastic meeting a terminal velocity embrace with concrete. Damian shed a tear for his dear friend.

It occurred to him, however, that there were more pressing matters at hand. For one, he was now floating in the air. Two, he didn't know how. Three, it was probably because of the magical winged unicorn in front of him, giving him a steely stare of glowiness. So, he did know why. Scratch number two.

Damian gulped and looked around. "Hello?"

The unicorn spoke in a language completely incomprehensible to Damian. He could tell by its tone that, whatever it was saying, was probably important. The sky darkened, and a rainbow of colors filled the air, swirling together, like motor oil on water. The colors mixed and shaped out before him, forming like a hazy dream.

There were six horse-like creatures, though much too pudgy and colorful to be like any horse Damian had ever seen. They sported tacky looking tattoos on their haunches. The creatures smiled toward one another, holding each other in a loving embrace. What was this thing showing him?

One by one, each of the horses faded away, until nothing but their tattoos were left. One was a set of apples. Another, butterflies. There were also little party balloons and diamonds. The last two were a cloud with a rainbow colored lightning strike shooting out of it, and the other was a pink and white star burst.

The unicorn looked upon the tattoos, seemingly in sadness. It turned towards Damian and said something. It sounded like a question. Damian hesitated. What should he say?

"...Yes?"
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The unicorn gave a solemn nod, and the tattoos spun around it, faster and faster. Their shapes stretched out into streams of light, spiraling in the air as they were drawn into a glowing sphere between Damian and the unicorn. The ball of light traveled to Damian and wrapped around his wrist. It felt warm to the touch, almost pleasant. He watched as the sphere remolded itself and became a purple bracelet on his wrist, inset with six gems. It looked really girly.

"Holy crap," he muttered.

"The burden is now yours," the unicorn said in a regal feminine voice.

"Whoa what?!" Damian shouted. "I can understand you now?!"

He never got an answer, as the unicorn looked toward the sky and shot away in a bolt of light. The golden field of magic holding him faded, and he felt his weight return to him... just as he was floating 12 stories up from the ground.

"OH FUUUUCK!"

Damian tumbled in the air, head over heels as wind rushed around him. His only thought was how he was about to end up like his television set- smashed into little itty bitty pieces. The last thing he saw before he made impact was the glimmer of the unicorn punching burst through the clouds as it left the atmosphere. A light shimmered from the bracelet on his wrist...

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"And then you turned into Blue Fast and soared away, right?!" Laura said, leaning in.

Damian gulped down another bite of her sandwich. She gave Laura a flat stare.

"No. I hit the ground and broke every single bone in my body."

"Oh."

Damian shrugged and wiped her mouth with the back of a hoof. "So, can I continue?"

"Yeah, yeah, definitely, keep going."

"Eh-hem..."

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Everything was agony. Damian couldn't feel his legs- not like he would've wanted to. Both of them were a mangled mess, with "joints" where joints ought not to be. The rest of his body didn't fare much better. His pelvis was split in half, his shoulders, dislocated, and most of his ribs, broken. Blood ran from his nose and down his cheek. It hurt to breath, like he could never catch enough air in his one working lung.

"That hurt," he managed to wheeze out. A raindrop fell on the tip of his nose.

This was it, then. The end of the road. Actually, he was in the middle of one, but that's neither here nor there. He was going to die after a winged unicorn put him through a weird acid trip, gave him a magical bracelet, then dropped him from 12 stories up. Certainly a unique way to die, but probably not the way he would've chosen.

It started to rain. His clothes clung to his skin.

Regrets bubbled up in his mind- how he would never live to see the release of Fallout 4, or never see another episode of his favorite anime, Baka no Monogatari. Worst of all, he would never again taste Dan's Delicious Decker sandwich. Damian choked back a sob. That was probably the worst part.
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He was drenched, soaked to the bone. His breaths were coming shorter and shorter now. His heart was fighting its damndest to keep him alive. Damian closed his eyes, ready for the end.

Wait... was the bracelet still glowing?

With the little bit of strength he had left, Damian managed to lift his head towards the bracelet. The purple gem was pulsating. With each pulse. warmth radiated from the it, up his arm, over his shoulders, and soon to the rest of his body. It was almost pleasant- at the very least, it distracted from the unimaginable pain brought by a 12 story fall.

It didn't last. The caressing warmth shifted into a fever's pitch, burning through his body.The rain did nothing to soothe the heat consuming his flesh. His muscles throbbed, tugging at cracked and shattered limbs, firing off bouts of agony with each pulse. The worst, however, was in his bones. They began to twist and turn of their own accord, burning with the intensity of the sun.

Damian clenched his fists and cried out- this was probably worse than dying. A massive cracking sound came from his pelvis. Feeling came back in his legs, and he felt just how completely smashed to pieces they were. Yup, this was definitely worse than dying.

His right heel dragging against the concrete, knee rising into the air, poking into the bottom of his vision. It was beyond his control- he just wanted to lay there and get to the dying thing as quick as possible, but his body had other plans. His foot shot into the air, pulling his leg ramrod straight. Damian howled. His entire leg was squirming and throbbing, muscles seized in the worst charlie horse he'd experienced since Summer camp swimming.

His toes began to curl in his socks and grew. After everything that had happened up to that point, Damian was certain nothing could surprise him anymore. His foot aimed to prove him wrong as it lengthened outward, his heel narrowing, the lines his toes formed in his sock smoothing away. The fabric of his socks strained, trying its best to keep whatever was happening to his foot contained.

RIIIIP!

Relief washed over Damian as the sock tore to shreds, peeling away from his fuzzy skin. His toes were free from- wait... he couldn't feel his toes. Wait, fuzzy skin?

Damian looked back down. He was greeted by the back of a fuzzy purple hoof.

"What."

He stared at the mismatched anatomy that took the place of his foot. He tried to curl the toes he could no longer feel, and the hoof responded instead.

“What the fuck.”

As horrifying as it was, the changes weren’t stopping. It continued to grow in length, until it was more than twice as long as his still human foot. The fur crept up his ankles and up his calves, terrifyingly ticklish in their growth, bristling as they pushed through his skin and made themselves home.

Damian wanted to reach down and try to peel it off, but his body was still too shattered to move. He couldn’t even feel his breathing anymore.
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He had an awful realization- he actually wasn’t breathing anymore. No air left his mouth, nor did his chest rise or fall. Yet, he was awake and conscious, perhaps more now than ever before.

His knee popped, pulling him away from his thoughts. Time to get back to watching the Damian’s Horror Body Show. The entirety of his right leg was covered in purple fur- at least, it felt like it. The coarse hairs soaked up all the water from his pants. What was worse, his calves were wasting away, muscle and bones shrinking and grinding as they drew the hoof closer to his knee.

Damian whimpered as a twinge radiated out from his other knee, popping as the leg shot into the air as well. He cried out again, the changes starting from the knee this time, fur radiating out from the cap, down his shins and up his thighs. As soon as the fur engulfed it, his foot creaked, aiming to play catch up with its pair. His toes curled, the arch of his foot stretched and flattened, until his sock tore apart. Two purple hooves wiggled in the air.

Good lord. He was turning into a horse.

Damian thought back to Bloomy. It was once a human, just like Damian, before its hatred turned it into a monster. Was the same happening to him? Damian tried to shut the thought out of his mind, but it kept coming back. There was no doubt about it. He was turning into a monster.

He hoped he would at least be a good looking monster. He’d even settle for cute.

His hooves slumped to the ground, too heavy for his human thighs to hold up, clopping against the road. Damian seized up, expecting a shock of excruciating pain, but none came. He blinked. His legs were healed. They were horse legs now, but fully healed horse legs.

The muscles in his hips and thighs throbbed, clenching and relaxing over and over. Damian’s face flushed red as he felt his rear widening, thighs growing to accommodate his new legs. His pelvis shifted around, forcing his legs wider apart. All Damian could do was gasp and tense, sweat running down his face as the changes in his lower body slowed to an end. At his stage, a casual observer would’ve assumed he was a satyr, with his human body and equine legs.

His thighs. They were too big. His pants tore by the seams, falling away from his massive, furry hindlegs. They were crushing his most prized possession. It was too much. Damian thought he was going to explode.

Until he didn’t. He felt a force seize his junk and drag it inward. He squirmed as best as he could as he felt a disturbing mix of warm euphoria along with the unsettling squelch of shifting organs. The pressure, at least, was gone. The relief was immense, but he couldn’t help but feel he just lost something incredibly important. What on earth just happened? He would have tried to reach down and find out, but his arms were still too mangled to do anything but lay on the ground.
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His spine tingled, then popped as one by one, vertebrae squirmed out from his rear, forming a ratty looking tail from his rear. It felt so raw and sensitive against the road and rain, that it was a relief when the hairs started growing in, flowing out into a long tail of purples and pink.

Damian couldn’t see his new tail, but he could feel it swishing from his rear, bouncing between his ankles. Of all the awful things happening to his body, he had to admit that the tail was kind of neat.

Fur spread from his waist and up his torso. Damian was a skinny guy, so it was jarring when his gut swelled out, expanding to a horse’s belly. He nearly threw up as he felt his organs tumble around and squelch, trying to find a new place in the expanded real estate.

He ground his teeth as a massive weight pushed against his back. Damian let out a barely stifled scream as a massive snap threw his back into a concave arch. There was no way he was walking on two legs ever again.

But he knew that if anything was going to hurt, it was his chest. Every single rib was broken. Damian did the best he could to brace himself for it. One by one, his ribs shoved into place, pushing his chest out just a little bit more. Another pop, another inch. Tears ran down his face.

The pressure on his lungs disappeared, and he could breath again. That first gasp of air was the best breath he had ever taken in his life. His chest, now wide and barreled, pulled his shirt tight.

It hurt so much. Everything hurt so much. Damian didn’t want any of this. he just wanted to sit at home, watch TV, maybe play some video games. That what this day was supposed to be. But just a while ago he was dying from a fall he had no right to survive. Now, almost as a punishment for surviving, he was transforming into some awful monster. All because he said yes to some stupid unicorn.

He stared at the sky, rain mixing in with his tears. “Help,” he called out, quietly at first. “Help me. Somebody. Anybody!" He began to sob as he screamed. "Someone please help!"

But nobody came.

His shoulders pushed forward and to the side to match his barreled out chest. His shattered arms shot into the air as they were swallowed up by the sea of purple. Damian whined, knowing full well that every healed bone meant another equine bone.

His elbows drew toward his chest, almost disappearing into it. His forearms grew longer to compensate, his thin arms thickening with bone and muscle. After what happened to his feet, Damian knew what lied in store for his hands. This time, though, he WAS going to see the excruciating process up close and personal. He could barely contain his non-existent enthusiasm.
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His three middle fingers swelled up, becoming thick and clumsy as they stuck together. His fingernails did the same, growing wider and wider until, with no other place to go, they grew into each other, merging into a single mass. The process would have been fascinating if it weren’t so excruciating, his broken wrists aching to keep his hands aloft.

All the while, the bracelet on his wrist pulsed, fueling the changes. This was all that stupid thing’s fault. He wanted to tear it off, throw it straight in the garbage where it belongs. He slapped his morphing hands against the bracelet. Nothing. Dammit.

As his fingernails grew, his three middle fingers merged together, first in flesh, then in bone. His pinkies and thumbs drew into his wrist, either unneeded or unwanted. The ring of keratin that was once his fingernails continue to expand, until it formed a hard purple hoof. The flesh of his fingertips swelled and filled the inside of his hooves, finishing them off.

His forelegs loosened, and he could now move them on his own. No more broken bones. He turned his new hooves toward his face, taking account of just how far from human they were.

With his forehooves now done, his shoulder blades creaked and swelled, pinching the flesh on his back before they set in their proper positions, broad and powerful.

As horrible as the chest was, it was nothing compared to the wings. The second Damian’s shoulder blades locked into place, they started to jerk and twist around. He cried out and finally mustered the strength to roll onto all four, feeling the heft of his weight on sturdy hooves for the first time.

It felt like something was trying to escape out of his back, clawing at his insides. The pure agony of the moment hit an apex as his shoulder blades widened, making way for two bony arms to shoot out of his back, ripping his shirt to pieces.

Damian almost blacked out, but the magic of the bracelet wouldn’t give him a break. Against his body demanding he pass out from the pain, he stayed conscious. The wings twisted and turned, muscles toning as they became stronger. Once they were at full strength, feathers began to sprout from them. They were small at first, but they came layer after layer until soon, full fledged wings hung down from his shoulders.

Damian couldn’t help but think they were kind of cool.

This was it. The fur, the harbinger of all these changes, was crawling up his neck. It creaked, growing longer and pulling his head away from his body, until it could grow no more.

Now the fur was creeping over his jaw. Would he still remember who he was after he changed? Of course he wouldn’t- Bloomy showed little care for his former humanity. Why would he be any different? Damian realized that he was going to die after all. Just in an awful, twisted way.

Everyone’s just waiting to die, anyway.

No point in fighting it.
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>>42613059
The fur engulfed his ears. They twitched. Then they twitched again, before sliding upwards along the side of his head. The sound of shifting ear canals and cavities roared in his ears, crashing and sloshing like a whirlpool. His ears grew wider and deeper, twitching more and more dramatically as once unused muscles sprang to life. The very tops of his ears narrowed to tips, and soon, long, cute, purple ears swivelled from the top of his head. The feeling made him want to cry.

His black hair sprouted from his head, pouring over his long neck and shaping itself out. His bangs lifted into the air, grew, then hung over his head in a long flat cut. He couldn’t even see his new manecut, but he assumed it was similar to his tail- a dark purple with a pink and light purple highlight, cut flat and straight. Man… what a dorky haircut.

Damian’s face sat mismatched against the rest of his equine body. Time to get it over with. He pressed his eyes closed tight, feeling the fur creep over his brow, his eyelids, his chin, his cheeks, his mouth, then finally, his nose.

His eyes flew open, eyeballs throbbing in their socket. He clutched his temples, groaning as his eyes expanded in their sockets, skull grinding to keep up. He wanted to shut his eyes- shut his eyes from watching his nose widen and push out, dragging his mouth along with it. Shut his eyes from seeing a horn spiral out from his forehead, giving him the mother of all migraines. But he couldn’t.

The horn twirled out to full length. The pain disappeared. Damian gasped, panting. Was it over?

His horn began to glow, shining with an intense purple light. Damian’s thoughts blanked out as magic energy rushed from his horn and flushed his entire body. He lifted into the air, wings fully unfurled, light pouring out from his eyes and mouth. Air swirled around the unicorn, forming a bubble where rain couldn’t fall. His head rose up, pointing his horn into the sky.

A pillar of light flew from her horn and into the sky, illuminating the entire city. All of Harmony City remembers the day when that light appeared. It was the first time many people felt hope.

The light faded away and the rain fell once more. Damian’s wings folded up against his body as he settled down on his hooves. The light faded from his eyes, leaving them a brilliant, soft purple. He gasped.

The horse that was once Damian hung his head toward the ground, panting and heaving, rain dripping from his fuzzy purple chin. The transformation took a massive toll on him. For once, he was concerned about something other than sandwiches or video game deals. Having your species and gender changed around would do that to you.

Gender? No, no! Just species, just species! Damian desperately wanted to throw up, but as hard as he tried, nothing came out. Only later would he learn that horses couldn't puke.
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>>42613064
At least he was still himself, right? No burning desire to destroy Harmony City and all its inhabitants? Dig as he might, Damian found no hate, malice, or even disgruntlement in his heart. Awesome. He still wasn’t human, but he needed to take stock of the small victories.

He went crossed eyed, staring at the purple protrusion in between his eyes. What the hell was that thing? Cautiously, he lifted a hoof and poked it. It scrunched. It was some weird combo of both his nose and mouth.

“S-snout?" he stammered, in a voice that was anything but masculine. Oh god, was that his voice? Wait. Was that what that empty feeling was? Did he turn into a girl?!

Please no.

Despite fearing what he would find, Damian took a moment to assess his gender. Girly voice? Check. Long hair? Check. Strange absent feeling between the legs? He gulped as he craned his neck to see his nethers.

Yup. Double check. No doubt about it- Damian was female now.

He trembled, the distinct lack of any masculine features damaging his self-image. Might as well get started with pronouns, she joked to herself, trying to seize control of the situation. She/her. Damian winced- she felt like she was making a Tumblr profile. She wanted to puke. Too bad she couldn’t.

Her legs wobbled, brain trying to make sense of being a quadruped. She ventured a shaky step forward, only to misstep and roll onto her side. This wasn't good. Damian was scared of being stuck like this. Her hooves were useless. Her tail whipped around, and the sensations of new muscle, bone, and nerve were alien and uncomfortable. Not a single aspect of her resembled her old self- her hair was now purple and neat, she was covered in fur, and her face was all adorable and horse-like. No one was ever going to believe she used to be human.

She looked over a shoulder, examining her purple body, her soaked clothes hanging on in tatters, especially on her wings. On her haunches was a tattoo- a pink and white star burst. Just like one of the horses in her vision. Puzzle pieces clicked together in Damian's adorable head- did she just become one of those mares?

There was a glimmer of light. She looked toward her right forehoof and grimaced. The bracelet was still stuck firmly on her arm, now her foreleg. She smacked it against the ground. Its metal body clacked against the asphalt, but showed no signs of damage. She smacked it again.

"Hey! Change me back, you stupid piece of junk! Turn me back human!"

The bracelet paid her no heed, the purple gem on it glowing without interruption.

"Dammit, turn me back right now or-"

Her ears flicked and swiveled. She leapt into the air and flared her wings, just as a vine smashed through a nearby wall. Bits of concrete peppered her face as she glided away and back onto the street with a clop. Where the hell did that come from? And wait... did she just fly? How did she know how to do that?!
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The dust settled, and a familiar silhouette faded into view. The vine retracted into its arms as it stepped closer, a dangerous smile on its face.

"Hey there," Bloomy said. "Finally found you."

Damian took a step back, almost tripping onto her haunches. "Who- whoaa! H-Hey, Bloomy, hold up- I think there's been a mistake!"

"Oh, there's no mistake. I wasn’t able to find that horse, but then I heard some pitiful cries for help, so I thought I’d find out who it was and kill them. Who knew I would come just in time to see you for what you really are.” He grinned. “You're just like me, aren't you? A monster who was once human."

"Huh? What, no! This horse thing is just a... wardrobe malfunction! Look, I'll change back and-"

Bloomy smiled and shook his head. "Doesn't matter either way. I said horses were on my agenda. Now, I see a horse right in front of me."

Its arms stretched out, coiling on the ground like ropes. Multiple vines rose into the air like snakes, tips sharp as spears. Each one of them aimed towards Damian.

"Time to die."

The vines hurled themselves forward, filling the air, all aimed to skewer Damian in the face.

"Oh crap."

Vzzzt!

A wall of purple energy encircled her and deflected the vines. She gawked at the shield, hearing the rain pitter patter against it. Where in the world did this thing come from? Warmth flowed from the horn on her forehead, pouring a gentle purple light onto her snout. She was using magic!

Bloomy stared. "Got a few tricks up your hooves, huh?"

Damian shook her head as the shield dissipated, crumbling like shards of purple glass before fading. "I swear, I don't know how I'm doing this! Can we please just go back to you killing me later, 'cause I'd really appreciate that."

The corner of its mouth twitched. "You're just mocking me now, aren't you? Disgusting, filthy animal!"

Bloomy retracted its arms, then drove them into the ground. With a grunt, it ripped a slab of asphalt from the road, hoisting it over its head. "Eat this!"

The massive hunk of road flew through the air, straight at Damian. No way she was dodging this one. How did she make the shield? Did she just think about it? What if she thought about blasting it, instead?

Her thought transformed into a pulse that travelled from her brain and through her horn. Damian shrieked as a powerful blast of purple light erupted from her forehead and surged forward, meeting the projectile head on and evaporating it. The smell of hot asphalt filled the air as the dust settled. Bloomy's wasn't smiling anymore. Damian on the other hoof hadn't even broken a sweat.

"Holy crap," Damian said, a look of pure awe on her snout. "D-Did you see that? I just blasted your attack by just thinking about it!"
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Bloomy shook, its eyes sinking even deeper into its face. Damian, however, was ecstatic. All of her concerns from earlier- the loss of her humanity, her changed gender, her broken TV- were pushed away by just how awesome and bad-ass she felt.

"And it barely took any effort, too! Holy crap, maybe I can get used to this horse thing. Sure, being a girl is kind of weird, but I think I can get used to that too!"

Bloomy thrust its hand forward, throwing five razor sharp bamboo shanks toward Damian. She confidently widened her stance, horn glowing as another shield sprang up in front of her. The bamboo shanks glanced right off, just as she leapt into the air and soared over Bloomy.

Rain fell on Bloomy’s face as it looked up. The little horse’s silhouette stuck out against the sky- an easy target. But before Bloomy could act, Damian launched a ball of magic energy. Bloomy jumped back, barely escaping the spell as it hit the ground, sending licks of energy everywhere. The air tasted of electricity as Damian landed onto the ground, face burning with determination.

Magical energy coursed through Damian’s body. The power she possessed was incredible. A library of spells sat in her mind, ready to be launched from her horn at a moment’s notice. Her wings made her as agile as any predator. Her body, taut with equine strength, could definitely take a beating.

If she was still human, Bloomy would have killed her immediately. But as this mare...

She knew- she was no longer Damian. This mare, whoever she was, needed a name. Her tattoo sparkled, matching the fire in her spirit. The rain began to let up as the sun shone through the clouds, gleaming off her purple coat and mane with the colors of twilight. Damian's eyes lit up. She had it. A smile spread on her lips. She thought of how smart she felt, and how her twilight colors sparkled in the sun.

She declared to herself, "I am purple... and smart... Purple Smart!"

Bloomy leaned forward and snarled. "What are you going on about?!"

She smirked. "Yeah. I get it now. For years, we've had to suffer under the monsters invading our home. Every day, we fear it'll be our last. We accepted that as our fate…

“But with the power I've been granted… We're done hiding! For once, humanity has a chance!" She locked eyes with the monster in front of her. "Listen up, Bloomy! And tell all your friends, too!"

She stood tall, wings flaring out. "I am Mare Man, and Harmony City is under my protection! As long as my body draws breath and this bracelet is on my wrist, your reign of terror is over!”

She crouched down, ready to charge.

“Get ready to-"

A vine whipped from behind Damian and clutched around her torso, wrapping her legs tight against her body. She gasped as she was hoisted into the air, dangling over a livid Bloomy, its mouth growing fangs in its rage.
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"I will not be humiliated like this!" it shrieked. The vines around her body tightened, squeezing the air out of her lungs. "Disgusting vile stupid animal! I will wipe every single one of your kind off of this earth! Then the plants will reign over the world, with me as their eternal protector!"

It cackled, tossing seeds against Damian's snout. She leaned her head away, trying to keep them from getting in her eyes. There was no way she could die now- not after having survived this long.
“Why protect these disgusting humans, anyway? They’ll have no love for you. You’re a monster, just like me.”

She squirmed against Bloomy's grip, horn flickering as she tried to think of some way to pry herself loose.

“I'm nothing like you,” she spat. “Even if I am a monster, at least I'm a monster that wants to protect people! You're a monster that only wants to hate and destroy.”

Bloomy chuckled. "Oh, you’re funny. I was going to kill you first, but now... now I think I’ll have some fun with you!" Its cruel grin widened. "How does a hundred years of being slowly ripped in half sound?"

The vines pulled at her chest and legs, her spine popping from the force. Damian's horn glowed, ready to cast a spell.

A massive growl came from her gut. Her eyes widened in embarrassment. Good god, she was starving! The energy from her horn dissipated, sputtering like a car running on empty. She hadn't eaten anything since this morning.

"What's that? Hungry? Hahaha! Maybe it'll be better for you to starve to death! Too bad- I was hoping to have a little fun, but this will do!"

Damian's mind raced to conjure a cutting spell, but just before the thought could manifest into her horn, thoughts of her immense hunger took over. She needed to eat so badly, and it was getting in the way of her magic!

Bloomy brought Damian closer, running its tongue along her chin. “Time to go nighty-night, little horsey.”

The vines were getting tighter and her vision hazed. There was no way this could be the end. She just realized how much of a badass she could be as a magical unicorn mare. Too tight. She was about to pass out.

The end of Bloomy's vine wiggled in front of her face. Huh. A clever idea sparked in her head. She ran her tongue over her lips and teeth. She did trade away all her vegetables for ramen, and now… she had the biggest hankering for salad.

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>>42613089
An awful groan came from Damian's stomach. She clutched her gut, putting a hoof up to her mouth. Her eyes darted to her sandwich, and realization dawned on her face.

"Urk. U-Uh oh."

Laura looked up from her nearly filled out notebook, pencil worn down to a stub. "What's wrong? You were right in the middle of your epic battle."

Damian's purple face was looking a little green. "I- I just remember that... horses can't... can't..."

Laura leaned back. "Can't what...?"

"Eat... M-meat!"

Damian disappeared in a purple flash, catching Laura by total surprise. Her pencil flew out a broken window and under a busted car, lost forever. She was about to call out Damian's name, before she heard howls of anguish escaping from the men's restroom.

Well this was awkward. Laura sat in place, unsure of what to do or say. Her interview of epic heroic origins was just interrupted by meat induced bowel troubles. Now she was trying her best to ignore Damian's intestinal struggles.

This was definitely not going into her report.

Laura sat back in her chair, looking over her notes. "Damian sure loves his sandwiches," read one note. "Incredibly laid-back, even before getting his powers."

She put a hand over her mouth. One note troubled her.

"He was so hyped to become a hero... what happened?"

The sound of flushing came from restroom and Damian trotted out, still looking quite queasy. She rubbed a hoof on her belly, trying to quell the digestion rebellion occurring within her gut. As she sat down, she used her magic to wrap up what was left of her sandwich. Seemed she was still intent on saving it for later.

"So..." Laura said, trying to pull back the momentum of her interview. "How did you end up defeating Bloomy, anyway?"

"Oh." Damian paused for a long while, hesitating to answer. Her eyes wandered around, trying to find the best way to phrase it. She sighed, and said, "I ate it."

Laura blinked. "You... ate it. You ate Bloomy."

"Yeah. I was a horse and it was, well, leafy green stuff, right? It was the worst salad I've ever eaten, though. At least real salad doesn't threaten to kill your friends and family while you eat it."

No, no. This was just too ridiculous. Laura couldn't help herself. She burst out laughing. Eating your opponent? Especially your first ever as a hero? It was just too much for her. Damian watched Laura bust a gut, her expression flat and placid.

"Wow, Damian, just... wow. I don't know how, but you've defied every expectation I had of you."

Damian tilted her head, ears flopping slightly. "What do you mean?"

"Well, like, it all sounds so amazing! Your story, the origin of your powers, your fight with Bloomy? So..."

She watched Damian pick up her phone her magic telekinesis, yawning as she poked at the screen with a hoof. Any sense of passion or spirit had left her long ago.
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>>42613093
"What happened?"

Damian looked up from her phone and put it down. She shrugged. "I got caught up in the moment, I guess. After a while, I realized how much work being a hero is. In the end, I'm just a guy who wants to watch TV and play video games all day. Honestly, this bracelet gets in the way of that a lot."

Laura winced, biting down on the nail of her thumb, but nodded. She pulled out another pencil from her shirt pocket and filled in the last few empty spaces of her notebook.

"Well, if that's everything, I'm going to head home." Damian shuffled off the seat, went down on all four, and walked toward the ruined entrance. "See you around, maybe."

"Yeah, you too Damian. Thanks for the interview. And, sorry about your favorite restaurant getting trashed."

Damian looked at the rubble of Dan's Delicious Diner. She sighed, looking down at her bracelet solemnly. "Yeah."

She closed her eyes as her horn glowed. With a flash, she was gone. Laura looked back down at her notebook, now filled to the brim with anecdotes and information. Now all she had to do was write her article. She was going to show this city just how important Damian was to them. And hopefully, she'll be able to show Damian just how important he was, too.

Will Damian ever regain his heroic spirit? Will Dan’s Delightful Diner be doomed to die? And will Laura ever find out what happens to Damian’s pants when he transforms?! Stay tuned next time for future episodes of Mare Man!

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I was lurking the archives and notice a lot of trans posting here, is it true that this is the most trans general?
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>>42613190
There is both stallion and mare TF.
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>>42613190
It's 4chan, you're gonna have trannies. This is not always a bad thing.
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>>42613190
Yeah I'm trans
Trans-species
What of it
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>>42611673
>What if me just being here is the poison?
If I knew that Equestria would be materially altered by my presence there, I'd be really hesitant to go.
Unless I knew for an absolute fact that the change would be minor and essentially be "absorbed" by the preordained timeline, the fear of a major butterfly effect would gnaw at me so, so bad.
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look, i appreciate a story as much as anyone else, but this website is not the fucking place bro, not to waste 20 posts that could be condensed into a single googledoc but i guess actively making threads die faster is preferable to being able to efficiently write your entire story as once piece that doesn't need to be uploaded into 20 parts and take a half hour to post in it's entirety.
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>>42613098
That was really good! Never thought One Punch Man + Ben 10 + MLP could somehow combine together into a cohesive story but here we are
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>>42613795
You are wrong.
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>>42613851
how is a google doc you can just make once and post however many times as needed not easier than forcing yourself to spend a half hour uploading the same story piece by piece and having to cut it at specific and arbitrary points?
could just finish the story, post it in 15 seconds, and be immediately move on to other things while waiting for feedback instead of wasting your own time and wasting perfectly good posts in a thread on an IMAGEboard
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>In ancient equestria (you) did something that saw you exiled
>if you were an alicorn back then you were stripped of it by the tree of harmony itself for your crimes and sent into cosmic timeout
>while luna later got banished to the moon she was still in the world technically whereas you got put in the void
>this meant your soul wandered trying to escape and you had a whole ass human life before your exile was up and the tree released you, your exile wasnt meant to be this long but the tree didnt want to take chances until both sisters and the elements were around again
>you've only lived for average anon years old, not existed for millenia plus you're just you not some pony oc right?
>because of void exile you genuinely have no memory of any prior existence to being human and with how the void lacks anything to it, its unclear if human you was the original you or this evil horse you the two sisters are wary of is the original
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>>42613867
>Ugh, how dare someone post a story in a story-centric general! Now I'm upset!
Just enjoy the read, turbofaggot
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>>42613931
it's not a story-centric general and that's not what I said. hard to believe someone could join a thread they think is story centric and not know how to fucking read.
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>>42613924
Now I'm just imagining the princesses reactions as this apparently ancient evil alicorn acts like a normal, very confused, guy.
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>>42614077
This is a story-centric general.
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>>42614077
Tf you mean it's not story centric, we have an archive of transformation stories
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>>42614144
>>42614164
we also have an archive of pictures, cuz it's an IMAGEboard. been lurking here forever, most of the time it's pictures of TF or links to stories, not killing the thread by posting 50 messages that could've been one message and a few constructive critique posts instead of wasting everyone's time including the author's. the content in here is primarily art. using up 20 posts for one story is still only one work of art you wasted 20 posts on. not my fault you're so stupid you'd have a safer bet that flurryheart circa season 7 could graduate college with a master's before you scramble your way out of kindergarten
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>>42614214
If you've been on /mlp/ for any time at all then you'd know that story-writing threads have almost always posted their stories in full in the thread.
I will continue to do so.
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>>42614284
people also used to use inferior programming techniques or technology but adapt and change as time moves forward, maybe you slowpokes should fucking try it
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>two one four
Most people that reee about how this is an imageboard also accompany their posts with images
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>>42614354
accompany their posts with images you say?
but I accompany my posts with writing, I thought writing was accepted here, is it suddenly not acceptable?
but you guys seem so salty over someone suggesting you make it more efficient so the thread doesn't keep fucking dying and your response is "well you didn't post an image" did the dude wasting 30 minutes of their life on 20 posts post any images? no? fascinating tell me again why you're against the idea of using technology to be efficient and not kill threads?
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>>42614441
you're not wrong SPECIFICALLY that using another site would be more efficient but god do i wish the monkeys paw would curl a finger and turn you into a pony specifically so you can't type more low quality ragebait with your clunky hooves
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I can't believe it, but I've gotta give you all the ancient wisdom of days gone past.
He doesn't actually care, he just wants you to be mad.
Don't feed the parasprites.
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>>42614836
lmao
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Earth pony Dash transformation?
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>>42615444
Turning into Dash without her best feature would be a huge disappointment.
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>>42615533
> Wake up.
> Rainbow Dash is standing over you, looking confused. The rest of the mane six standing behind her.
> "Why is there an earth pony version of me?" She asks.
> You look down at your body. You're Rainbow Dash, minus the wings.
> "Well fuck." You say out loud.
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>>42615767
Rainbow Dash had better watch out. Her wings might get stolen.
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is mare to filly tf based?
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>>42616049
Yes. What's up with her face?
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>>42616605
She turned into a demon. lmao
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>>42616003
If I wasn't busy working on both Silver Platter, and my little passion project, unforgivable cold. I'd write an actual green.
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>>42607462
>existing character TF
Awful.
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>>42613638
>Constantly muttering to yourself that you're not supposed to be here.
>Come off as an absolute weirdo everypony avoids.
>Always spending time at libraries trying to find spells that can take you back home and render you human again.
>May or may not be banned from the castle after one too many attempts at trying (and failing) to garner an audience with Sunbutt.
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>>42616494
Filly tf doesn't cure the chemical burn disfigurement
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Any anon bug horse greens?
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>>42616003
I believe one of the IDW comics was about that. Some unicorns stole Dash's wings to try and make themselves into alicorns. When I say it out loud that's actually a pretty neat idea.
(You) Anon unicorn steals wings off of a local filly with dark magic, and become a false alicorn. Scams small isolated town into treating them like a prince/sses. Anon is a real power hunger jerk. You end up having Celstra/Luna suddenly brusting into your inn-room (filled with bits and fancy things you've conned from the town) and get zapped to near death when they attack you (the princess's also thought you were an alicorn and used a way to powerful spell on you). Filly gets her wings back and now you are forced to make amends with the town, by fixing up the town and repaying everypony you conned tenfold, with free labour.
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>transforming into a unicorn mare
I am okay with this
>transforming into a Pegasus of either gender
Still okay with this
>transforming into male earth pony
This is worse than death!
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You rub a magical lamp and a genie emerges! Unfortunately, his powers are limited and he can only grant you the wish of bringing back one writefag/drawfag to either finish an unfinished tale or do one art piece. Who is it and why?
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Observe! My magnum opus.
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>>42618297
Why does this remind me of that one meme involving that guy who throws a table and shouts I hate you?
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>>42618079
The anon behind anon filly feat abusive twilight.
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Thinking about giving Silver Platter a love interest. Should I make them male or female?
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>>42618297
It's lovely. Thank you.
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>>42618068
Im an earth pony male though, am i supposed to feel bad about it
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>>42618435
Female, but have a stallion be interested in her.
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>>42619311
Okay.
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>>42618079
Wand of Inferno, for his pandafilly/anoncolt green but I'll tell him to never actually finish it because I still miss my friend
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>>42618068
I'm okay with it if it happens to you.
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>>42600412
Now back to the show
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>>42618068
you need to be tf'd into an earth pony so you can learn that erfies live good and wholesome lives
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> Anon tells ponies about the tale of the princess and the frog.
> One of them wonders out loud if anon would transform into a pony if he was kissed by one.
> This leads to all the ponies trying to kiss him.
> He ends up transforming into princess/alicorn anonmare.
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>>42620101
A faggot of timberwolves!
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>found as a colt some time before luna's banishment
>brought into an orphanage
>showed great promise in magic and was taken in as celestia's student at puberty, what would have started her tradition of taking in students on the regular
>luna does not know of him since her falling out with her sister has already come to a point where they rarely speak
>during the actual lunar rebellion anon was already an adult and sent away for his safety
>celestia did not have much future plans for anon at this time, not like twiggles in canon
>certainly not expecting him to ascend to an alicorn

>after elements of harmony makes both princesses disappear equestria was in chaos
>anon became the defacto ruler honestly on accident because the currently nobles at the time thought he was celestia's consort or something
>anon tried to correct it but the responsibilities piled up before he could do anything
> the real point where he became an alicorn was when other hostile races tried to take advantage of equestria
>since anon still had some human bloodthirstiness in him, he fought back with everything celestia taught him
>along with some custom spells he made
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>Nightmare Moon happens
>Celestia banishes her sister, but also ends up banishing herself
>A century of strife as Equestria fractures and falls apart, beset both internally and externally on all sides.
>Cue Anon being dumped into the setting as an Earth Pony colt at exactly 100 years after the Princesses disappeared.
>Figures out the setting really quick, even if he's in some G rated grimdark AU apparently.
>something something started off a regular sarcastic asshole type anon, but quickly lost that because being a dick to a bunch of miserable ponies just trying to eek out their shitty existence is honestly just depressing.
>Grows up (again) among ponies, hears their sorrows and understands their problems.
>As a grown stallion, sees things only deteriorating further, with no end in sight.
>Eventually realizes if Celestia is really gone then nobody is going to save Equestria
>So he'll have to do it himself.
>Cue massive adventure where Anon explores the pony lands, fights off all manner of creatures, monsters, bandits, and corrupt leadership to slowly find the scattered elements and unite the tribes.
>Defeats multiple big bads through a mix of pure luck and human spite.
>It's an adventure that spans decades.
>Fully unites Ponykind and is ascended to Alicorn by Harmony, becoming King of all Ponies.
>Approximately 840 years later, canon begins.
>something something ended as a far wiser, better overall person.
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>ConANon the barbarian pony
>gets bored of ruling because he can't punch shit anymore
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>>42618079
Chromewasp
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>>42622094
jewish filly
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>>42620792
>Mane 6 (sans AJ, she doesn't believe in it) keep badgering you in their own ways to see if the tale is true.
>This ranges from Ponk making a scene at your job to Fluttershy following you home from work, to even Twilight having set up a lab bench in your living room when you do finally get home.
>This goes on for a week.
>Reach wits end after RD pulls the "Me? Kiss you? As if!" routine despite hovering dangerously close to your face.
>March down to Sweet Apple Acres to get the orange one to talk some sense into her friends.
>Knock on the door while being harassed by a gaggle of mares pushing from the back.
>AJ finally, albeit frustratedly, opens up after two attempts.
>But it turns out the weight of five grown ponies is too much even for a human.
>Collapse face first into an accidental 'kiss' with the country gal.
>*POOF!*
>Suddenly feel all sorts of wrong in every part of your body.
>"AH-HA! I knew it was true!", cries Ponk.
>Catch a glance at yourself in the reflection of a nearby grain silo.
>Staring back at you is not a human but an...
>Alicorn.
>"Ah, shouldn't he be a tad less...mare-y?"

>"Well Anon did say it was a story about a princess and a frog. Though I'm a little confused on who's who right now..."
>A *female* alicorn.
>tfw fyl
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>>42622975
LMAO. Amazing expansion on the green text.
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>>42618079
Feels weird for me to say Alycorn and the PBG rewrite considering it's technically already been finished once... but that one.
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>>42620101
I'm gradually becoming more and more attached to these guys' antics
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>>42624249
Compiled from:
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>>42616985
https://pastebin.com/g4d9Ftm7
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>>42616049
Who are the OCs?
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Here me out, guy gets transformed into an alicorn/princess. Said alicorn doesn't actually want to be a princess. But believing it's fate, Twilight and the other princesses try to get her to act like one. Ironically the more they do that, the more anxious and less she wants to be a princess. But whenever they aren't pressuring her and she's allowed to do her own thing, she ends up unintentionally fulfilling her princess duties and does a good job at it. Thinking about writing a story like that in a setting based off the nun allowed story's setting. But first I'd need to complete the Comet Cutter rewrite and Silver Platter stories I'm working on. (I mean technically I don't since I just do this for fun and it's not an obligation. But I'd hate to leave a story unfinished.)
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>>42627024
Sounds like it could be an interesting premise!
You could introduce conflict from a bunch of different angles - interperson (interpony?) relationships between anonicorn and the other princesses, internal conflict about becoming something she didn't ask for, maybe some kind of big bad that she has to deal with, or even an intersection of two or more of those.
I'm an incredibly strong proponent of "finish your fics," but it's a great premise to keep in your pocket.
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New Zephyr knockoff just dropped (just ponyless, ew)
https://doggyhell.neocities.org/
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>>42627251
>wherearetheponies.jpg
It's tough for me to be interested in media like this, and it’s for the sole reason that it’s not pony – the story could be exactly the same as Zephyr’s Tale save for a few Ctrl+F instances, yet all my interest would evaporate. Actual horses/ponies, donkeys, zebras, etc summon some enthusiasm, but it’s nowhere close to pony media.
It’s irrational and kinda bums me out, since I’m probably missing out on otherwise great media.
I don’t know how common that sentiment is.
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>>42627251
Without pony there is no point.
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We need more TF stories that are like this: https://youtu.be/Lkp6uHsyCks?si=Nj9Fdxe2x7v7UwDT
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>>42629789
Sadly, I think this thread has had less of an appetite for body horror in recent years.
I think it adds emotions that are hard to incorporate via other means, though to be fair, I still prefer when it's used like a spice rather than the main course.
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>>42630019
NTA, but speak for yourself. I'm starving for some proper body horror over the wish-fulfilment we've been getting.
No hate on our writefags, they're doing what I can't, but I have my wants.
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>>42630106
can i have the specifics of what ur into
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>>42630506
>"Anon, what are you doing with that bat?"
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>>42630524
Look at her, she's already hit herself with it! She chose to be a pony at the cost of major brain damage!
People can't be trusted with these TF bats and I'm going to write my senator about a universal ban on such instruments of havoc.
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>>42630550
I don't think the brain damage was caused by the bat.
That said I don't trust that faggot to continue using it.
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>>42630524
>"It'll turn you into a pony, trust me bro, just hold still while I line up this swing"
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>>42630154
Click the link here: >>42629789
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>Equestria's natural wildlife was more akin to Earth's before Discord, free, wild, and powerful in its own right
>Made even more powerful due to being directly connected to an alicorn
>Sadly the connection went both ways
>When Discord made the natural world chaotic, Anonicorn couldn't compensate and went mad
>Got banished
>Without him around to regulate the damage Discord had done, earth ponies took control of the land and pegasi took control of the skies
>But they could never get it to actually work
>Earth ponies could motivate the earth to grow food, but pegasi had to manually do everything to do with weather
>Without Anon, it was like the entire planet had fallen into a coma
>This lack of control emphasized in the few times the weather or land have gone haywire in a way that neither race could get under control
>Celestia had to watch this for a thousand years
>What made it worse is that Luna returned before Anon
>By all means, he should have returned first
>But instead the sisters were able to catch up
>It took Discord being released, and then resealed for the resultant chaos to finally crack the seal on Anonicorn's banishment
>But when he returned he was... off
>It's like he didn't remember himself
>He didn't remember Equestria or his sisters
>He didn't remember, or even care for their subjects
>When offered a place ruling by them to help their ponies, his only response with "why the hell would I want to help you?"
>It took all of Celestia's strength to not break down into tears as her brother glared at her like she was a stranger that had offended him and walked away without so much as a second glance
>This new lease on life was stranger for Anon
>He'd been spat out into an alien world, in alien skin and these freaks were acting like they knew him
>But there was something else, some sort of itch in the back of his head and in his new hooves and wings
>This world was all kinds of weird
>Pegasi moved clouds around manually
>Plants didn't grow without earth ponies
>The only place that made sense was the Evergree Forest
>So he decided to set up there
>It helped that the ponies were afraid of it, so he got left alone
>And his mind seemed to calm down in there
>But the rest of Equestria bothered him
>It's like he could feel it at the edges of the Everfree
>This world that didn't act naturally
>Sure, he was on an alien planet from Earth, so maybe their weather and planet didn't work the same
>But the sky and land shouldn't need help to work
>Right?
>Meanwhile, for some reason, the Cloudsdale weather factory machines began to overload, the pegasi struggling to keep the weather that had seemed to gain a mind of its own under control
>And all over Equestria, the various branches of the Apple Family farms have begun writing to each other about advice for the strange way their trees were spreading
>When word reaches Celestia and Luna, the sisters feel a mix of elation and trepidation
>Equestria was finally waking up
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>>42630770
>Be you
>Chilling in some gay old castle inna woods after escaping the big horses
>Lots of books here, beats fapping with hooves and rolling around in the dirt
>that got old after the first 2 days
>The other horsies won't come in here, forest is haunted/cursed/spooky something like that
>It'd be fine, great even. but..
>Weird, WEIRD shit keeps happening
>Like weird even for horseworld
>The trees for one, some freak carved faces into half of them and they creak obnoxiously whenever you're near to them
>It doesn't help that the creaking hits that same unpleasant tone that sounds like your name being called sometimes
>The trees are bad enough but then the little piles of random crap kept piling up.
>Flowers, some apples, a half-shredded book, at least one gold coin albeit filthy, odds and ends that left you wondering if you'd made lair with some particularly covetous birds eager to stock their nests with whatever crap they'd found
>All manageable really until today
>The source of the assorted items turned out to be a half dozen or so dogs made of twigs and leaves
>Some of them bowed, bowed to you, then another trotted forward proud with something orange, feathery and thrashing in its jaws
>A chicken you thought initially but when it spat the thing out at your hooves covered in sappy-spit it wasn't a chicken
>It was a scootaloo, a flightless breed of bird known for obsession with bright colours
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>>42624571
Same
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>>42630741
So you're pretty broadly into all kinds of body horror?
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>>42631454
Yes.
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>>42622975
Does that make Applejack the frog?
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>>42607814
the mirror portal is so under rated
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>>42614836
i need a fanfic on this.
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>>42634390
Yippee! Body horror!
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>>42634954
I guess it is if you're ginger.
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>>42634954
That image may well be the most mild thing that could technically be called “body horror.”
It’s barely even in “body discomfort” territory.
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>>42633408
At that point, I don't think the distinction is the issue. Anonmare violently vivisecting 5 of the Mane 6 with magical powers is.
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>>42635547
Bold of you to think that Applejack would be spared amid the carnage
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>>42635587
The sheer power of cider inebriation and racist tendencies will see her through.
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>>42635529
I'll take anything at this point. There's very little anymore.
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>>42635604
In a way, I think it’s liberating.
If images that don’t follow the conventional body horror tropes are still in play as something you like, then you have a lot more opportunities to reinterpret images that are “close enough.”
People do this frequently by pretending that images which have nothing to do with TF are post-TF images – usually with the help of a concerned expression and/or mirror. I like a relatively rare TF subject, so I’m certainly among that group.
Two minutes of caption writing can go a long way.

>“Someone h-help me! Do... Do something to make it stop!”
>“Every time I think about them they keep flapping, and it feels like they’re growing more each time too!”
>“I can tell my back’s all messed up from them, I need to get these... sssstupid things cut off! Before my spine gets any more bent out of shape than it already is!”
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>>42608140
>My parents hated, they saw I was a boy and just went "Yeah something-stallion", same with Anon-Mare. At least I am thankful they believed in me enough to think I'd get to adulthood and didn't called me Anon-colt instead.

>You know what happens to those that never find their special talent? Yep You are seeing it kid. You get a question mark to forever remind you and everyone else how much of a dissappointment you are. You look old enough... I would hurry to get my mark if I were you.

>Don't know, why all the griffins look the same? And about sisters dating each other, you can ask your's if you are feeling curious.

>And she is not our daughter, we found her in a box on the side of the road, she also had the "loser mark" so we both said 'Hey, we are all lonely pieces of garbage, maybe we can be lonely pieces of garbage together so it won't be as lonely'
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>>42620101
>>42624571
Hope you are still here <3
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>>42635917
Probably a regular occurrence for her. Transformed ponies show up all the time.
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What hecking rule.
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>>42636239
Nice.
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>>42617563
Anon should count himself lucky that he gets to keep his hooves.
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>>42635917
>Zecora hasn't had a single full night's sleep in the 287 days since the portal opened between Earth and the Everfree forest
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>>42638517
>"Hold still Anon! Or else I might accidentally scatter your entire being into the aether."

>"Wait what-"
>*BZZZZT!*
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>>42638081
Is this from a fic? That's an odd caption to have without any context.
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>>42638751
Now now, we can't have body horror if there ain't no body left to horror
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>>42638810
Remember how Dr Manhattan gradually reconstructed himself? Imagine that but with ponification.
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>>42638838
Honestly I'm not the least bit familiar with that media, but it sounds like the inverse of the end of "Outbreak" (the PTFG fic) where the MC is vivisected nerve by nerve, cell by cell, atom by atom.
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>>42638851
Well the pretext is that the guy Dr Manhattan used to be was quite literally atomised. It just transpires that said accident also turned him into the closest thing to a god.
He basically reconstructs himself from nothing to a floating CNS, to a skeleton with musculature and then back to a full-bodied (albeit blue and bald) human.
The process was apparently quite painful.
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>>42638863
That sounds metal. Is he the end boss of the body horror genre, as well as the dude from the "do you like plones" meme?
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>>42638517
No, i hate writing body horror
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>>42638892
He's pretty much the only example as far as I know for Watchmen.
I guess you could take inspiration from what happened to Baxter Stockman in '03 TMNT.
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>>42638752
I think it relates to https://www.fimfiction.net/story/487358/that-particular-instance-i-performed-metempsychosis-as-an-equine-named-after-a-piece-of-silverware
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>>42616651
A quick burst from the elements of harmony should soon sort him out.
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>>42638433
Shortly after the body swap spell that Twilight had mistakenly cast, a brief mane cut was the quickest solution to get the two of them to a somewhat normal state of mind as Twilight and Shining got used to each other's bodies
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>>42639577
Shining's suspiciously happy
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>>42639211
>Such a suggestion made you wince.
>The fact that it had gotten to the point where the goddamn magical mcguffins were involved was a big no-no for the timeline.
>But according to the almighty ruler of Equestria it was for your own good.
>Also because, and you quote: "I'm extremely tired of you bothering me and my subjects on my days off. Get a hobby."
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>>42639925
Putting that aside, why is Twilight blushing at her mane??
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> Anon tells ponies about the tale of the princess and the frog.
> One of them wonders out loud if anon would transform into a pony if he was kissed by one.
> This leads to all the ponies trying to kiss him.
> He ends up transforming into princess/alicorn anonmare.
> Anon is not amused.

>Anonmare is challenged and beaten up by a giant Job Application
>Soon she is whisked away to Work
>A magical place where mares swear and drink coffee all day
>feelsgoodmare
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>>42641680
>Turns out Anonmare actually has to do work.
>What that entails is basically being a glorified call center worker for actual princesses.
>Mind-numbing, stressful and surprisingly only 20% full of ponies hailing from New Dehli-ware.
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have some slop
https://voca.ro/1EouDVfSY3B9
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>>42642222
I'd respect this more if you sung it yourself.
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We need more messed up TFs.
I wanna see people kidnapped.
Forcefully turned into ponies.
Maybe even raped and broken.
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>>42642360
>pic related in pony form
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>>42642364
star swirl...
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>>42642367
Star Swirl after dumping half of Equestria's problems into the human world:
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>>42642367
They call him Star Swirl the Bearded because he turned a human into his mare-wife so that he could pretend he wasn't gay.
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>>42642463
Shame it looks like it's been abandoned for ten years.
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>>42642790
The real reason Stygian became the pony of shadows.
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>>42643282
This is such an obscure, depths-of-history image with which to respond.
Fits perfectly for the situation though, so nice job pulling that one out of your butt.
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>>42643282
Who are each of these little gremlins?
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>>42643487
One shudders to think what happens upon venturing too deep into Nobby’s mind, but my guesses are King Sombra, NMM, and Scootaloo’s great-great-(many greats)-grandmare.
The booru’s aren’t tagged, so it’s OCs and/or it’s intentionally ambiguous.
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>>42643487
Derpibooru says 'oc only', https://derpibooru.org/images/1073909
The image is from >>26164497 originally which isn't very enlightening either.
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>>42643818
>You stay the fuck away from me, noodle. I have a breakfast burrito and I'm not afraid to use it!
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>>42643549
I'm always cautious around the "oc only" tag. The average Derpibooru tagger is pretty autistic, but I've still seen rare mares get tagged as OCs.
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>>42643818
Is it forced and unwilling? With perhaps a bit of body horror.
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>>42641797
Lucky.
And what 'rule 64' mean?
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>>42643818
no I think it's cringe but necessary to become pone
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>>42646391
If only
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>>42644467
My guess is that it's akin to rules 34 and 63 meshed together; i.e., if it exists, there's gender-swapped porn of it.
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>>42649676
When *will* Sunbutt stop turning people into ponies as punishment?
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>>42649995
When you learn how to tidy up after yourselves, you god damn filthy apes.

Didn't your mothers teach you that when you were fillies or colts?
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>>42649995
>blaming our Princess and disparaging Her good name in the process
You quarrelsome bipeds do this to yourselves, She’s making improvements as far as I’m concerned
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>>42652278
Well that escalated quickly.
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>>42651580
Pony racism plus transformation....
Based.
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>>42652978
I’ve always loved the idea that the most diehard anti-pony human supremacists turn into the most ardent Solarists as a result of their ponification
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>>42642367
Fuck, that fits too well. Every time his name pops up in the show, something goes to shit.
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>>42655182
Nah, I want ponies to be racist and hyper religious as they transform and forcefully indoctrinate me.
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>>42627024
I really like that.
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>>42656468
Why? Are you trying to join a colt?
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>>42656794
Based. lol
>>42656850
Are you?
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>"You've entertained me Anon, you can be the filly but it'll come at a cost.
>"What cost you may ask? Lets just say things in your Equestria might get a little creepy, care to take the deal?"
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>>42657929
>"Don't you have some other bald guy to annoy?"

>"Yes, but he insists we work with a set schedule. Such a killjoy. Anywho, do you accept or not?"

>"Fine. What's the catch?"

>"Can't give away the game too early~. Now buckle up fillyboy!"
>*BZZZT*
>*POOF!*
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>>42624249
>https://ponepaste.org/11416
Added to the story archive.
https://pone.tf
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>>42659656
Where's the funny/cute payoff? I feel robbed.
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>>42658629
Bats.
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>>42662254
I have no mouth and I must Eeeeeeeeeeeeee.
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>>42627060
Don't get forced into a political marriage with the gryphon kingdom.
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>>42659932
Need a filly version
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>>42663535
>instead of the magic-absorber, it's a sonichu medallion
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I have been called an "otherkin" for using this thread and now I want to kill myself.
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>>42663787
When you're a pony in Equestria then you get to call those that remain humans otherkin.
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>>42627024
>>42627060
>>42662892
>Total War: Equestria
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>>42666083
Huh? What's that?
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>>42634801
Every mirror should be a portal to Equestria.
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>>42667077
>A finger on the monkey's paw curls.
>Every mirror is now imbued with the power to send people to another dimension simply by walking through them.
>But only to the EQG universe.
>During a full moon.
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>>42667099
Challenge accepted.
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>>42634803
You could give writing it a try.
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>>42635692
But the wings are the best feature of a pony!
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>>42635725
The plight of the ex-human.
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>>42666083
Still waiting for someone to tell me what that is.
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>>42666650
>>42669794
A game with pegasus knights and unicorns.
Have you not heard of the Total War games?
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>>42669836
Oh, so it's a mod for those games. Wasn't entirely sure.
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>>42639932
Protecting the spacetime continuum?
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>>42642200
Sir, have you considered purchasing mare transformation insurance?
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Anon wants to be a wild horse... ends up in 'Mares Gone Wild'
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>>42671114
It's an optional activity. Harder than it looks for the average autist.
>>42671187
>Buy mare transformation insurance.
>Doesn't stop you from being turned into a mare but you get a decent payout from the company.
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>>42671711
And then the insurance company stalks you to make sure you didn't secretly want to be the pretty mare.
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>>42671984
Naturally. Can't have fraudulent claims going about unchecked.
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>>42649995
Never. The need for new palace staff is constant.
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>>42657958
The catch is Discord's becoming a superhero with Anon as his sidekick Fillyboy?
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>>42672098
No but that does sound kind of funny.
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>Why, in the name of everything that’s shown under Celestia’s sun, were you here?
>Gustav’s Great Griffon Goods was a butcher, no matter how he tried to dress it up for pony sensibilities.
>Grimey, greasy, and thoroughly in the center of Manehattan’s Griffontown, it was a place no self-respecting equine would patronize.
>Yet here you were, outvoted as usual.
>You’d wanted to go to the Corner Cafe, it was dandelion season, and nowhere else in the city made better sandwiches.
>It seemed like a no-brainer!
>Yet, here you sat at quad-Gs, soundly outvoted two to one.
>And one of those two couldn’t even be bothered to get here on time!
>Which left you with two options.
>A: continue to pick at the most pathetic dandelion sandwich you’ve ever eaten (which you’re certain Gustav only added to the menu because you kept complaining).
>Or B: trade barbs with the friend who was here.
“So, you asked him out yet?”
>The hen sitting across from you stops, sputtering as her half-chewed food comes to roost in her throat.
>The look she gives you could kill, but it was worth it to put a pause in her pecking apart the piece of carcass she called food.
>”Flock off, Beacon. For the last time, I’m not goin’ to.”
“Come on, everypony from here to the station knows you like him. Even Gustov! You should do it, I think he’d say yes.”
>She rolls her eyes, and tears off another piece of that “country fried” whatever with her beak.
>”You must’ve copped an extra chromosome’s worth of that optimism gene you ponies seem born with.”
>A barb like that might have cut some ponies to the bone, but Dazzling Beacon was not some ponies.
>Or you were just used to it.
>Choosing to believe it was the former, you peacock your wings right there in that greasy booth.
>It's profoundly uncomfortable, but worth it to show how not bothered you are.
“Don’t hate me just because I’ve never had a bad idea.”
>The griffon cocks a feathered brow.
>”You call rushing a Cipactli a good idea?”
>Okay that one actually hurt.
“I thought we agreed—”
>The involuntary trip down bad-memory lane is stopped by the soft “ding” of the entrance’s bell.
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>>42672918
>And in walks the stallion of the hour.
>As usual, he’s got no less than three scrolls floating around him, suspended by a lavender glow.
>Even as he trots into the shop, his eyes continue flicking between them.
>This is just embarrassing, time to save your friend from himself, again.
“Anonymous!”
>He looks up, like he’s surprised to already see the two of you there.
>”Oh! Beacon, Lieutenant! I assumed I’d beat you here.”
>And just like that the scrolls are rolled up, slipping back into the saddlebags marked with a question mark.
>His very fitting cutie mark, if you’d say so yourself.
“Beat us? Dude you’re at least twenty minutes late. Lou had time to order!”
>As always, (Former) Lieutenant Gaelle is more than willing to look past the faux pas.
>Instead, she points toward the scrolls he just filed away.
>”Get a load of you! You’re heaps better now. I remember when you could barely wrangle one scroll.”
>You scoot further into the booth, and he quickly jumps in beside you/
>”I’ve been practicing, it's why I was late actually,” he says. “Apperantly the ‘slow your perception’ spell I’ve been trying out works a little too well.”
>Unfortunately any further haranguing you hoped to do was utterly smothered by the arrival of the shop’s owner and sole employee.
>The mustachio’d griffon practically soars out of the back when he hears Anon’s voice.
>”My oh my!” He says, coming to a stop at the end of your table. “Why if it isn’t my favorite pony in all of Manehatten! I tell you what, I just got something I guarantee you’ve NEVER had before on my block today.”
>”Oh?”
>”Cockatrice,” Gaelle says with a smirk.
>Gustav throws up a talon, and you’re suddenly very happy you’re on the far end of the booth.
>”Wha!? Why you gotta go and spoil the surprise like that!? Why I outta...”
>Come on Anonymous, for once, just once, say no.
>But your heart sinks as he says, “Cockatrice? I haven’t had that before.”
>Gaelle pecks off another chunk, not waiting to swallow before speaking, “‘Ts what I got. Pretty good.”
>Anon gestures to her plate, “May I?”
>By the grace of Celestia herself, the red tint at the edge of her plumage hides poor Gaelle’s blush.
>”Yeah, course,” she sputters.
>You look away as he picks up the fork you left him, unable to stomach the sordid scene.
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>>42672921
>Honestly, you can’t decide which part of the sight is worse.
>A pony willingly eating meat, or a stallion being so utterly clueless.
>He HAS to know how intimate sharing food is for a griffon. He HAS to.
>It’s like one of the THREE things they teach in the cultural studies class every school has.
>But then again, when you met Anon he had the magical knowledge of a unicorn who’d skipped magic kindergarten.
>Maybe he was just THAT bad of a student?
>Seems kind of hard to believe, a bookworm like him.
>When you reopen your eyes, he’s thankfully finished whatever bite Gaelle offered him.
>”I think I’ll have that too, and a cup of that ‘Edge of the Empire’ brew you were telling me about, Gustav."
>The griffon grins at the perverse display of a pony eating his wares.
>”Right away!” he says as he departs.
>Anon turns back to Gaelle, “You can have a bite of mine as payback.”
>Oh come ON!
>Now he’s just being cruel!
>Between your groan and the now VERY obvious blush on Gaelle’s face, Anon’s attention is split right down the middle between the two of you.
>”What!?”


>In the end, you and Gaelle elected not to inform poor Anon he’d essentially told Gaelle he was down to buck.
>It was simpler that way, and it let Gaelle continue whatever sick one-sided cockfriend roleplay she had going on.
>You knew she took joy in it, no matter what she said.
>It was by no means easy to avoid telling him though, the two of you were dodging questions right up until Gustav brought his order.
>Once that stallion had the cup of coffee in his hooves, it was all over.
>”This is amazing,” he said after only one sip. “The best cup of coffee I’ve ever had!”
>His voice was quiet, level.
>He didn’t jump for joy, he didn’t shout it to the heavens.
>His ears stayed firmly forward, and his smile was small.
>Most ponies would have looked at a display like that, and assumed he REALLY didn’t mean it.
>But you’ve gotten used to the way Anon works right now.
>He might as well have just set off a firework.
>It was a style of emoting most ponies found off-putting, however, griffons loved it.
>Reminded them of their own temperament, if you had to guess.
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>>42672926
>”I knew you’d like it!” Gustav beamed before departing back to the kitchen.
>Then, much to your dismay, Anon puts down the cup and picks up a knife and fork.
>Again, you avert your eyes.
“Celestia, how can you eat that stuff? Uh, no offence, Gustav!” you shout back to the kitchen.
>”None taken.”
>He chews thoughtfully, yet vilely, and swallows.
>”Why not? It tastes good, and ponies aren’t obligate herbivores."
>It's your turn to sputter this time, flummoxed as usual by his in-equine logic.
“It’s not about can, it's about SHOULD. Griffons, they don’t have a choice. But Faust gave us, ponies, the free will to choose NOT to eat the flesh of others! So we don’t do it.”
>You also have a hard time believing it tastes good, considering it smells TERRIBLE.
>You’re not saying that in Gustav’s though, that would be a bridge too far.
>Gaelle gestures a thumb at you, mouthing, “This cock.”
>But Anon just stares at you, expression totally unreadable.
>As well as you know him, his poker face is still unmatched.
>You’d figured he was just a private pony at first, but considering how uncoordinated he can sometimes be, you sometimes wonder if it's nerve damage.
>”Your appeals to my spirituality fall on deaf ears, Beacon.”
“Why? Because you’ve already solved the mystery of what happens after we die?”
>His expression becomes even more inscrutable, somehow.
>”If we agree to meet at the Corner Cafe next time, will you give this a rest?”
>You almost agree outright, how foolish that would have been.
“Only if you agree to try their daffodil sandwich.”
>He sighs, what kind of pony sighs at the idea of a daffodil sandwich!?
>”Deal.”
>Gaelle lightly drums her talons on the table, “Right, glad we got that settled. Now Anon...”
>She leans over the table.
>”What’s our next adventure?”
>He smiles, that same small smile, and unfurls a scroll from his bag.
>”Have either of you heard of the Camazotz?”


>Hardly a few hours later, the three of you were on an overnight train.
>You, Anonymous, had elected to take one of the bottom bunks.
>Seeing as you were the only one who couldn’t fly, it made the most sense.
>Gaelle was on the bunk above yours, hanging her front half upside-down off the side of her bed.
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>>42672929
>In her claws was the very same scroll you’d unrolled in the diner.
>”All this for some... giant bat?” she asks.
“Not just any giant bat! Several early Thestral cultures believed a union between the Camazotz and Princess Luna birthed their tribe.”
>Beacon snorts from the top bunk across the room.
>”That thing and Luna? Princess Celestia would never.”
>Gaelle rolls over, tossing the scroll down to you.
>”So, who’s the sap pickin’ up our tab?”
>You roll your eyes.
>You’d hardly call the people who fund your new life’s work “saps”, but you suppose that’s just griffon culture for you.
“A noble named Countess Sepulchria. She’s got a castle right on the border of Thestralvania— didn’t I tell you this already?"
>The two of them stare down at you, quite flatly.
>”You forgot to slip it in between the detailed anatomical descriptions and every possible documented sighting in the last two hundred years,” Beacon says.
“Oh,” is all you can muster.
>You feel a small burst of shame, which doubles on itself when you forget to pin back your ears.
>Damn, you keep forgetting!
>Why couldn’t these things be natural, automatic!?
>Thankfully your friends are used to it at this point, they don’t even comment on it anymore.
>”Hang on,” says Gaelle, “Some iso noble wants us to track a crypt that used to be the ‘father of all Thestrals’? Did you land us in some cult thing!?”
“No!” you add defensively, this time remembering to pin your ears back. “Her letters were completely normal!”
>Okay, maybe not COMPLETELY normal.
>But this was such an opportunity!
>This was a whole new country to explore, and a chance to see a creature equine eyes haven’t beheld in centuries!
>You honestly don’t understand how ponies do it.
>Their whole world is full of all these amazing things!
>Mystical creatures, breathtaking vistas!
>All waiting to be discovered, documented, and shared!
>Yet they’re content to toil away in their little cities, utterly uncurious about this fantastical world around them.
>Well not you, you’re not wasting your new life on a “career” like a dumbass rube.
>Not again.
>So what if the Countess’ letters were a little... odd?
>You were probably being paranoid, Thestrals were still ponies after all.
>This world was so much more earnest and straightforward than your last.
>There’s no reason to look at these things with the same paranoia you had as a human!
>At least... you hope not.
“I’m sure it’ll be fine.”
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>>42672934
>That night on the train was restless, as they intermittently were in the year since you became a pony.
>It was... unfortunate.
>Facial expressions weren’t the only thing improperly wired up by whatever bizarro process had granted you this new body.
>Ponies process things differently than humans; you witness it every day.
>In both others, and in yourself.
>Sometimes you’ll get these feelings, feelings that logically make little sense to you, but your body VICERALLY reacts to.
>Tonight is, unfortunately, a common one.
>Lying here in bed, you feel so... alone.
>You assume it's an aftershock of being the only one of your kind here.
>But when you try to face these feelings, process them, they make no sense!
>You and other people always had a tenuous relationship at best.
>And now you’ve got better friends here than you ever had on Earth!
>Sure, you’re a little isolated from the wider population of ponies, but no more than you were from the wider population of people.
>Yet as a human, you never felt this yawning emptiness.
>It crawls into your chest and leaves you desperately craving... craving...
>...something. Honestly, you’ve got no idea what.
>Another problem with the constant misfires between your brain and your body.
>Oh well, whatever, you’ll just do what you always do when a mood like this strikes you.
>Focus on something else!
>Your studies, usually.
>Although you’ve done enough cryptozoology for today, now's the time for another newfound passion of yours.
>Magic!
>Unfortunately, lighting your horn up like a Christmas tree here would surely wake the others.
>And you’ve yet to attain a level of efficiency that allows you to cast without losing all that extra energy as light.
>Ponies say it's impossible, but people thought things like psychokinesis were impossible, too.
>You just need to figure out /how/.
>That’s not for tonight, though.
>Quietly extracting yourself from the bedspread, you slip out of your shared bedroom and into the hallway.
>The hallway of the train car is fairly dim, the stewards having turned the lamps down hours ago.
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>>42672940
>That, and your admittedly subpar four-legged coordination, leaves your pace very sedate as you head for the dining car.
>You don’t mind, though, it gives you time to absorb the atmosphere of the late-night train.
>The gentle rocking, the distant sound of the steam engine pulling you along...
>It's very soothing, and another experience your life as a human would have utterly lacked.
>Finally passing across the coupler, you enter the dining car.
>Equally dim, filled on either side with a row of finely upholstered tables and chairs, and totally abandoned.
>Perfect!
>In the far back left, you can just make out the car’s bar.
>The top shelf liquors rested exactly where they sat when the bar was open, utterly alone and unprotected.
>It was amazing what precautions you didn’t have to take when you were a pony.
>For a fleeting moment, you’re tempted to pour yourself a free drink.
>But it passes, like hell you were going to be the one to betray this society’s high trust.
>Taking a seat at one of the random tables, you begin the same way you begin all of your magic studies.
>With a precision task!
>It was good practice, especially after the first pony doctor you ever saw described your ability to regulate mana as “on the same level as a foal”.
>After several attempts at opening windows led to their utter destruction, you believed him.
>Now it's been months since you’ve broken anything, and you’re hoping to keep up that streak.
>Closing your pony eyes, you allow your mind’s eye to open in their place.
>Now you can feel something all around you, flowing in through your horn and back out.
>An energy.
>Opening your eyes back up, you reach out to it.
>Willing reality itself to conform to the idea you have in your head.
>Soon your horn is alight with a now-familiar purple glow, and it gently envelops the latch.
>Without a pane out of place, the window slides open.
>You smile as the gust of cool night air slams into you, sweeping through your mane and fur.
>Another sensation you’ve come to truly enjoy.
>From there, you move down your little list of spells you’ve been practicing.
>Illusory objects, pyrokinesis...
>Fairly basic stuff, but you’d like to think your improvement has been rapid.
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>>42672944
>Although the failure of that perception-slowing spell still stings.
>Nothing like turning a fifteen-minute walk into a thirty-five-minute walk to remind you of your limits.
>You were midway through constructing a scale model of a banana when a voice shatters your concentration.
>”Beautiful, isn’t it?”
>Your hard work vanishes back into the aether from whence you summoned it, and for once, you’re thankful for your poker face.
>You’re pretty pissed off that you were interrupted by that, BUT the voice was a dead ringer for a stereotypical sweet old lady.
>No need to put that on her.
>Inclining your head toward the sound, you spy a Thestral.
>The mare looks as old as she sounded, her already diminutive frame exaggerated by the way the elderly seem to curl into themselves.
>Oddly, you can’t really make out any of her features beyond that, thanks to the dim light and the shawl she’s wearing.
>If nothing else, you can see her fangs at least.
>”Yes, the Princess’s night sky is truly something to behold.”
>You figured she wasn’t talking about your magic purple banana.
>Looking back out the window, you take in more than just the sensation of the night breeze this time.
>Above the shadowed trees is a sea of stars, untainted by light pollution.
>You recall your first nights here, staring up in wonder at it.
>Far beyond what Earth’s night sky ever had for you.
>After months of staring at it, you’d honestly started taking it for granted.
>But it's nice to be reminded of another one of the little gifts this world has given you.
“It sure is,” you reply after an unintentionally long time.
>The old mare climbs into the seat across from you.
>”I’m glad some Unicorns remember. In the days of old, your tribe used to spend the nights with ours. Reading the stars for the Princess’s gifts of prophecy.”
>You’re hardly much of an anthropologist (equinologist?), but her words nonetheless intrigue you.
>You certainly hadn’t read anything about THAT in the Equestrian history books you’d picked up.
>Now your attention’s fully on her.
“Is that so?”
>She nods.
>”It is! We all relied on the wisdom of the stars to see that things occurred at their proper time. Planting, harvests...” as she trails off, her head starts to hang. “Sadly, things have become so routine for ponykind, the art has been all but lost.”
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>>42672948
>Makes sense to you, you suppose.
>Not much need for oracles when you control every aspect of the natural world.
>Still, you’d have to agree with her that it’s a shame.
>”Where are you headed, dearie?”
>The change in subject is so abrupt, you almost answer truthfully.
>And yet, you don’t.
>A pony would see no reason to distrust this old bat.
>More than likely, she’s just a regular old passenger, looking to talk to someone, just like all elderly people are.
>What harm could she do with knowing where you’re going anyway?
>But... you’re not a pony.
>Something about this situation isn’t sitting quite right.
>Maybe it’s the way she inexplicably entered the compartment totally silently.
>Maybe it was the weird topic of conversation.
>Maybe it's the way that you can’t really discern any of the features of her face, even as it's hardly a foot away.
>No matter what it is, your human mind is putting its foot down.
>You’ll give her something vague, and let her know you’re not alone.
“Thestralvania. Some friends and I are on vacation.”
>She lets out a bat-like screech, which you take as some wordless sound of approval.
>”That’s wonderful! Eee, you’ll love it here. Back in my day, a handsome stallion like yourself would’ve never left. Some strapping young mare would surely have swept you up and taken you home to roost!”
>As far as analogues to “swept you off your feet” go, that’s certainly the creepiest.
>You tactfully chose to leave the comment unacknowledged.
>Thankfully, before that choice can turn the conversation awkward, she continues.
>”But whatever you do, you mustn't go to Castle Sepulchria!”
>Your interest spikes once more.
>As far as you understand, Thestralvania has plenty of castles, most far more famous than Sepulchria’s, and far less remote too.
>It wasn’t the kind of place you’d assume most sight-seers would seek out.
>What’s going on here?
>You search what you can see of her face, hoping to read some sort of intention.
>But you get nothing.
>As it is, your only hint to her thoughts are the fangs protruding from the shadow of her veil, and those aren’t giving you much.
>You try to squint and get a better look without making it too obvious.
“Oh really? I’ve never heard of it,” you lie.
>She hesitates, for just a moment.
>Like she wasn’t expecting that answer.
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>>42672953
>Got her.
>”It's no place for a nice colt like yourself, Anonymous.”
>Once again, you’re thankful for your poker face.
>If you were a regular pony, you’d look moments away from shitting your pants.
>Because, admittedly, you are.
>But at most, right now, you must look mildly confused.
“Excuse me? I think you’ve got me confused with someone else.”
>Her fangs twist into a smirk.
>She’s not buying it.
>”Dearie, don’t you know it's impolite to lie to your elders?”
>Her voice sounds less like an old mare’s now, and more like a mocking impression of one.
>But that isn’t the only thing wrong.
> Throughout this, you felt the whipping of the night wind against you from the open window.
>You no longer do.
>Your gaze snaps to it, and the scenery is gone.
>This train isn’t driving through a forest at night anymore.
>It's diving through an empty void.
“What’s going on here!?”
>You attempt to leap back from the table, but your nerves get the better of you.
>In times like this, human muscle memory takes over.
>Instead of landing solidly on four hooves, you land unsteadily on two.
> It's not enough to halt your momentum, and the train falls back, back, back...
>Until you're tumbling down the length of the car.
>But it's not /you/ that’s the problem.
>The train car has flipped vertically, and now you’re in freefall.
>The old bat, still seated in her chair, continues like nothing's wrong.
>Even as she drifts further away by the second, you can still hear her as if she’s sitting next to you.
>”Castle Sepulchria is full of hidden dangers. If you insist on going, you must do one thing.”
>You scream out for Beacon and Gaelle as the air whips through your mane once more.
>But this is no comforting night wind; it's the air resistance from plummeting to your death.
>You should have hit the other end of the car by now. How are you still falling?
>”Don’t forget to check under your pillow,” she whispers in your ear.


>Your eyes snap open.
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>>42672961
>Shooting upright, you scramble, hands that are no longer there desperate to find purchase on anything.
>But all you manage is slamming your hoof into the wall.
“FUCK! Ow!”
>There’s a loud squawk from above you, followed by the thud of someone falling off a top bunk.
>Gaelle is at your side, looking like she just rolled out of bed.
>”ANON!? What’s going on?
>It's then you realize where you are.
>Not falling down some endless traincar, safe in your bed.
>No bat, no black void, just your friends and the morning sun.
>It was all just a dream...
>...but you don’t really believe that.
>Everything felt too real.
“Someone doesn’t want us here.”
>”You mean some-PONY,” a groggy and annoyed sounding Beacon corrects you from across the room.
“No.”
>You sincerely doubt that little old bat was that thing’s true face.
>Could’ve been a pony, changeling, anything really.
>Pushing yourself out of bed, you wince as you land on the hoof you just introduced to the wall.
>Glad it wasn’t your hand, might have goddamn broken it.
“It was a very... peculiar run-in. I’ll tell you about it over breakfast.”
>The others look at you, with obvious concern on their faces.
>”A run-in that happened... in your bed?” Beacon asks. “Are you sure it wasn’t Gaelle?”
>Like a lightning bolt, the hen grabs your pillow and hurls it with pinpoint accuracy.
>It slams right into his muzzle, with enough force that he’s actually knocked back ever so slightly.
>His muffled cry is music to your ears.
>But before you can question what Gaelle would be doing in your bed, she turns to you, beet red color vanishing off her face.
>”The flock’s that?” she asks, pointing to where your pillow had been.
>The bat’s last words to you ring out in your mind as you turn to look.
>There, sitting where your pillow had been, was a glass amulet.
>A Nazar amulet, straight out of your eighth-grade history teacher’s classroom.

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>>42667099
Why is that bad? Do they all become werewolves or something?
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>>42673139
No. I just figured it was a long enough waiting period in-between portal activations.
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>no hooves
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>>42672964
Nice story, Nonny!
Is this part of a larger collection?
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>>42674442
Right. All of EqG should be wereponies.
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>>42675731
Aw, don't chain up your transformed ponies.
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>>42671711
At least you can afford pretty dresses from Rarity
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>>42672138
>Discord and Anon show up to whatever situation requires a superhero in Equestria.
>Discord assesses the situation, immediately grows bored.
>He snaps his paw and turns Anon into a filly with a seemingly random cutie mark.
>Discord leaves the task to 'Fillyboy' and starts playing games on his phone.
>Anon has to come up with a creative way to use whatever skill his cutie mark confers to solve the problem.
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Canaries

“Hey buddy, you still awake?”
I groaned and shifted in my seat. The rattling of cages and the rumbling of the old truck’s engine forcefully prying my eyes open. It was hard to get much sleep when you worked so much, every moment of shut eye was pure bliss.
Sat on my right was my dear friend, Vasil. His body shuddered and jumped in the seat as the truck crawled over the rough terrain. His gaunt face broke out into a grin as I voiced my protests. “You can’t sleep all day Sakhr, daylight’s burning.”
“I sleep when I can, not when you want,” I grunted, taking my head away from the torn leather and stretching my aching body.
“Well you can’t sleep, checkpoint ahead.”
I sighed. Typical.
The morning fog did little to dampen the bright spotlights that shone ahead. It was odd to place such a thing on the muddy moors, considering the wide open space that surrounded it. Anything for a little extra security, I supposed. Armed guards shivered in the cold morning air, some attempting and failing to wipe the mud from their boots.
Our cargo wasn’t anything suspicious, a shipment of canary birds for… god knows what. A government mandate that made little to no sense wasn’t too uncommon back then; they were desperate for something.
I opened the glove-box and grabbed our documents in preparation. Two passports and the shipment manifest the gaffer had given us. They were cold, a lot like everything else, causing my fingers to go numb.
The truck shuddered and groaned as Vasil pressed onto the worn breaks. A pompous looking officer trotted around the truck like a plucked peacock, head held high, and shaved head hidden underneath a red woollen cap. The others stood back and let him have his moment.
He called them to investigate further and hurried back to his cozy office. A real search was conducted. They check underneath to ensure that there were no hidden surprises, and they rifled through our cargo, the chattering of the birds making it hard to communicate. They calmed down as the soldier hopped off the back, the suspension springing back up.
I handed the documents to him without a word. He scrutinized them for just a moment, evidently not wanting to deal with us for long. His breath froze in the air, forcing him to wave us on. The wooden fences rose slowly, hand cranked by another rosy nosed fellow. The engine struggled and started, and with that we were off again.
“Maybe we’re closer than we think. Tough security for a top secret base, huh?” Vasil chuckled. The base was hardly top secret, they wouldn’t have hired us otherwise.
“I doubt we’re going to see any aliens,” I quipped, shoving the papers back into the glove-box.
He frowned and slapped the steering wheel, “Come on man, where’s your sense of adventure?”
“Dead, in a ditch somewhere, probably. Anyway, your idea of adventure is getting lost on the rough side of town.”
“We did see many weird and wonderful creatures,” he nodded.
“Those were prostitutes.”
“Same difference.”
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>>42678546
I sighed. Vasil shook his head and remained silent. It wasn’t likely I was going to get back to sleep now. I stared out onto the fog covered plains and considered myself. Dead end job, check, no real family, check, annoying friend, check. I rubbed my hands together to try and warm up. I briefly wondered if the canaries were cold too.
The cages rattled.
“Looks like we’re here.”
Up ahead stood a gated complex, similar in construction to the checkpoint we had just passed. Inside were many green tents surrounded by groups of soldiers. Spotlights searched the open ground, cutting through the fog like knives. The truck rattled as Vasil pushed down on the clutch and slowed to a stop.
Another fence stood in our way. A group of soldiers played cards on a wooden box, they gave us a brief glance but made no move to check the truck. Instead two men walked out from the guard post and up to our truck. One rubbed his hands together and did a little jig in place to try and warm up. The procedure was much the same as the last one.
One headed back into the guard post and opened the metal gates that swung inwards. The other pointed us down the main avenue and told us to take a left at the very end to reach the depot. We thanked him and continued on.
Despite the circumstances most in the camp were trying to make the best of things. It was an inevitability really, a massive displacement of people from the south who needed somewhere to stay. In response they erected camps and checkpoints, and told us to be very afraid of the man sat next to us.
I saw an old woman struggling to carry a hatched basket down the muddy road. The guards sat back and watched silently. For a brief moment a lead ball settled in my chest and I felt what she must have felt. A twinge of fear from travelling into the unknown. The canaries began to chirp wildly, drawing attention to our vehicle.
The depot was a large structure, three huge sheet metal walls and a large open entrance for trucks and military vehicles to enter and leave. This was much more familiar, the hustle and bustle of a busy depot, and the smell of oil and gas fumes in the air. For once, I was thankful for the acidic smell that replaced the stench of the wet earth.
The engine cut out. Vasil stretched his body and yawned. He had worked a very long shift to give me a little extra rest; something I’d have to return the favour eventually. We opened the heavy doors and stretched our legs, circling the truck to make sure everything was as we left it. With everything still looking good we returned to the cabin and waited.
“Nice to get out of this box for a while,” Vasil commented, lighting up a cigarette.
I sneered at him, “Try not to make us explode with that, alright?”
I was mindful of the large amount of fuel and gas that surrounded us. My eyes briefly flickered onto a no-smoking sign, displayed prominently outside of the foreman’s office.
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>>42678555
“Listen, if I had to choose between smoking and potential immolation, I’m going to smoke every time,” he grinned, a combination of hot breath and lung killing smoke escaping from his open maw.
“It’s a bad habit.”
“Life is full of bad habits, I’m expediting the process.”
A man with thick, turtle shell glasses eventually waddled up to us. He gripped his clipboard tightly, white knuckles demonstrating the pale pigmentation of his skin. “Hello gentlemen, I don’t suppose this is the shipment of canaries we’ve been expecting?”
He frowned slightly as he noticed the light in Vasil’s mouth. I elbowed his side as he dropped it to the ground and snubbed it with his muddy boots.
“You’d suppose right, two-hundred of the little buggers.”
The large man manoeuvred around us and lifted the flap that covered the cargo bay. The canaries awoke again, filling the hangar with the sound of flapping wings and chirping beaks. “Lively ones aren’t they?” he tittered to himself.
“They were a pain. It’s going to take me weeks to wash the white off the bed,” Vasil moaned. The bed of the truck was covered in shit. Thankfully the potential nose wrinkling smell had been masked by the engine fumes.
“Bagsy not it,” I shouted quickly. Vasil soon realized his mistake and came upon me with complaints.
“Not fair! This is a team effort.”
“It’s your truck,” I pointed out as we followed the bow legged man. The foreman sat in a dimly lit office overlooking the depot floor. The stairs were rusted brown and creaked as we ascended them which did little to calm my nerves.
The office was small, with a desk, chairs and a few filing cabinets. The man with the glasses soon took off again as we took our seats and waited for the foreman to finish his phone call.
“That isn’t practical for us, we’re short staffed as it is.”
A feminine voice, bristling with defiance shouted back.
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>>42678565
“I’m here to manage the base logistics, not work as a personal delivery boy for your department. If you have a problem with that you can take it up with the major. I’m not the man you need to be complaining to.”
The voice responded, but was cut off with a click as the foreman placed the phone back onto its stand. He rubbed his bushy eyebrows with a sigh. He was a heavy looking man dressed in a cheap looking suit.
“Right, thanks for coming all the way out here for this stupid delivery,” he lifted himself from the chair and opened one of the cabinets to retrieve a brown envelope, which he handed to Vasil. Vasil eagerly ripped it open, revealing a large wad of aged notes. While he counted through the plunder, the foreman sat back down and waited patiently for him to finish.
“Five-thousand and three, to the numbers.” Vasil stuffed the envelope into his jacket and leant back on his chair.
“I apologise in advance, but the head honcho down in the science wing is biting my ear off about getting these things delivered. I’m running a skeleton crew here, all of the others are delivering stuff like food and water to our newest residents.”
“You want us to take them down?”
“That’d be amazing, actually. There’s some more cash in it for you, if you humour me.”
I look to Vasil, who nods. “Alright, where’s the drop-off?”
The man reached under his desk and pulled out a map of the grounds. Had he been prepared for this?
“Take the truck back out towards the front gate, but take the first left. You’ll find the science division easily, it’s the only permanent building here. They have a back entrance for drop offs, I’ll give them a call and ask them to let you use it.”
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>>42678571
The science building stood in stark contrast to the rest of the compound. Thick concrete walls stood strong against the wind that had swept into the camp. Inside didn’t seem like anything special, what little I could see anyway.
Most people were used to extreme weather, I wondered to myself why they didn’t build structures that weren’t flimsy tents. We were sheltered by the opening in the building, but a pair of refugees struggled to push themselves up the makeshift street as the howling wind forced them back.
I turned myself back to the job at hand. Me and Vasil had taken the two dollies from the back of our truck, and had been waiting for several minutes. The manager needed to head downstairs and find the lead researcher so he could find out where they were going to be stored.
Soon, the green metal door opened and a brisk, tall woman strutted into the garage. Her heels clacked against the concrete floor and made sure that all eyes were on her. The manager had to jog to keep up with her. Despite her cold initial impression, she gave the both of us a kind smile upon greeting us.
“I’m Florentine, the head researcher here at this department. You’re here with the canaries, correct?”
“Yes, right here,” Vasil calls as I walked out of the truck wheeling a stack of cages with me.
“Very good, follow me.”
Vasil grabs his own dolly and follows after her. Warm air rushed over me as I entered the long corridors of the facility. It was a nice change from the winter air that awaited us back outside.
The interior was very plain, almost like a hospital. The walls are white, the floor was a calming blue, and the only decoration was the occasional window into somebodies laboratory. Far from top secret experimentation, most of them seemed to be preforming mundane tasks like watching beakers with reactions occurring in them or messing with machinery.
Most of it went over my head, probably why they trusted us to enter the place. Vasil looked eagerly into every window. I didn’t share his enthusiasm for it.
“So, what do you do around here?” he asked.
“Biology mostly, we work closely with the government to produce solutions to the problems that face the local environment. Sometimes our ideas and work is applied nation-wide, we’re quite prestigious despite our age.”
“Oh, so like climate change and stuff?”
She sighed, “Yes, like climate change and stuff.”
The jab went right over Vasil’s head, who nodded aimlessly. I chuckled and decided to pitch a few questions of my own.
“Sorry if I’m being rude, but what are the canaries for?”
“I was wondering when you’d ask that. If you really want to know, the government is asking us to come up with a better way to measure gas levels in the air. We’ve been given quite a large grant for the work, so it’s our top priority.
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>>42678577
“We’re using the canaries in our studies. After all, they have the ability to detect the gas. My partner, Isabel, was quick to suggest the idea. She’d been reading up on some of the industry that used to be here. Mining used to be a large part of this area’s economy. I’m not fond of it personally.”
“Why would you say that?”
“It’s a self-destructive act for short term gain. As a biologist, I prefer more sustainable solutions, rather than ones that create new problems later on.” Vasil rolled his eyes, who could have known that the chain smoker thought environmentalism was stupid?
“It’s funny isn’t it, how people work against their own self-interest like that? Unique to our species in my opinion. You never see tigers knocking down their own habitats, or the fish poisoning their own seas.”
“Well, I can’t really say much about that. I drive a truck for a living.” Valentine nodded and the conversation was mercifully snubbed, I could only imagine what Vasil would say later.
Every corridor looked the same to me, she must have been down the route many times to memorize it like that. Eventually she came upon a pair of double doors. She leant over (Vasil trying to get a sneaky look at her bottom,) and swiped her ID card on a little terminal embedded into the wall. A computerized voice welcomed her as the doors opened.
Inside was a bare looking room. There were rows of tables assembled already and another tall woman patiently waiting on an office chair. Compared to Valentine she was much paler and failed to reach the same height. Despite this they had a startling similarity, with well-defined faces and pursed lips. If I didn’t know better, I’d have mistook them for sisters.
“Hello Valentine,” she greeted. I deduced that the new woman was Isabel. Especially considering her eager gaze upon the caged birds.
“Ah, so these are the gentlemen delivering our adorable little subjects?” Her voice had a refined air to it that commanded attention, if anything she sounded foreign.
“Adorable?” Valentine muttered, “Don’t tell me you just ordered these things to act as pets.”
“Of course not! I would hope you think better of me than to waste resources like that!” Isabel responded indignantly.
Vasil watched with a smirk. An odd habit of his, he enjoyed watching people argue over nothing. I nudged his side and we unloaded the cages onto the first table we could reach. “So, you just need us to unload all of these into here?”
Valentine shifted her attention away from her compatriot and nodded, “Thank you very much. Try not to get lost, this place is a maze.”
“But…” Isabel began, only for Valentine to cut her off.
“It won’t be an issue Isabel. Our alien autopsy room is behind locked doors. I highly doubt these men could find themselves in bother.”
Vasil gasped, “I told you!”
“She just joking, idiot.”
We left the two women to bicker.
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>>42678583
Valentine wasn’t joking when she said that it was a maze. On several occasions we made the wrong turn and had to ask for directions, unfortunately this meant that the process of transporting all of the cages took even longer than we expected. By the time we were down to the last two, twilight had already arrived on the moors.
My legs burned from hours of walking. Vasil was only doing marginally better despite his larger physique. The corridors blended into one another, both of us were on pure auto-pilot, barely paying attention to the world around us. The room had been filled, and the birds were going just as wild as when they were in the truck.
It was their problem now.
“Oh my god, we’re finally done,” Vasil declared while dropping to his knees. “We better get paid well for this.”
I didn’t say anything. I leant back against the table and looked over the room. I felt like a slave trader in some respects, bringing caged creatures to be tested on by scientists. Funnily enough I’d grown fond of the little yellow things.
The door on the opposite side of the room opened, and Isabel strutted in. She didn’t seem to notice us at first. Instead she approached some of the cages and entertained herself by observing the birds as they clawed and scratched at the steel bars. As she glanced over the room she noticed us and approached.
“Have you two only just finished?” she asked.
“Yeah, this place is confusing as hell,” Vasil lamented.
“If there’s one thing we’re good at here, it’s making things too complicated. Anyway, I’d like to personally thank both of you for the effort. I know it isn’t ideal.”
“Why are you up here so late?” I queried.
“Ah, they’re running a test down in the gas lab. Valentine is overseeing it, so I decided to come up here and humour myself with the canaries.”
“We’re not in danger are we?”
She laughed, “Of course not. The gas we’re using isn’t deadly or anything like that.”
“A lot of resources just for gas detection stuff, huh?” I said, mindful of the very expensive canary shipment and secret lab.
“Gas detection?” she muttered under her breath, “Oh! Of course, yes. It’s very important work. Health and safety can’t be overstated underground, one wrong move and the entire place could blow.”
The disarming smile she gave us afterwards… wasn’t very disarming. If anything it unnerved me even more than I was before. A pager beeped inside her lab coat, she pulled out the small black device and clicked her tongue. “Looks like they’ve started.”
The room settled into mostly silence. The chattering of the birds even died out for a brief moment. My stomach rose in my chest and the taste of acid swelled in the back of my throat. As if a malicious spirit had decided to mess with me, the lighting in the room turned a deep shade of red.
“All staff, please remain at your stations.”
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Isabel frowned and look back to the door she came in through, now locked behind a much thicker steel plate. “What on earth are they doing in there?” she wondered openly. The red light had unsettled the canaries. They rattled their cages as they attempted to escape.
“Attention, please make your way to the nearest fire exit. Remain calm.”
Isabel rushed over to the door and began hammering away at the keypad. Vasil and I cautiously followed her, knowing that she could navigate the place faster than we could in an emergency. She growled in frustration as the keypad repeatedly rejected her attempts to override the door.
“Damn it!”
“Shouldn’t we be getting out of here?” Vasil asked, pulling on her shoulder.
She bit her lip and smacked a hand against the panel, “Ugh! Fine.”
The three of us looked over to the other door, only to find that it had been similarly barred by a metal door. “Shit! How are we meant to get out of here?” I cursed.
“There must have been a leak in the gas lab. They’ve sealed the doors airtight to stop the gas from coming through. The vents will be re-routed too to prevent it from spreading to the rest of the base.”
“So?”
“So, it doesn’t look like we’re leaving until the alert is over.”
Vasil cuts in, “But we aren’t in danger right?”
“I hope so. This base is state of the art, and if this stupid lockdown gets us killed it’d be a pretty big waste of money.”
“Why are you so worried, you said the gas wasn’t lethal?” Vasil pondered.
“It isn’t lethal, it’s just… unpleasant. I’d rather not have to deal with its effects. We’re going to be waiting a while, the stuff needs to be filtered and disposed of first.” With that declaration we all took a seat on the ground and started to wait.
My heart pounded, unheard to the other two. As if the world had decided to confirm my fears, we were now locked inside a military lab with no way out, no food, and no water. I silently prayed that the alert wouldn’t last long enough for it to be a problem. It was evident to me that Isabel wasn’t telling the full story.
The room was deathly silent apart from the occasional repeat of the automated message that blasted over the announcement system. It prevented me from calming my nerves, as every five minutes we’d receive a reminder of the danger we were in.
The cages rattled, my hair stood on end.
A sinister hiss could be heard from the top of the room as several vents opened in an attempt to let in some fresh air. Unfortunately for us this connected us to the gas filled system that had started the alert in the first place. Vasil’s face turned blue as he tried to hold his breath for as long as possible, but it only made things worse when he took a deep breath in to compensate.
“W-what kind of gas is this again?” I asked, secretly dreading the answer. Isabel remained silent, her eyes closed as if asleep. Had she really resigned herself to this fate, whatever it may be?
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For the first time, I smelt it in the air. The canaries screeched and flew around erratically, trying to find a way out. They were just like us, trapped and waiting for something terrible. It smelt like ozone, a sharp, pungent aroma that caused my nose to wrinkle in disgust. Vasil was lying on his back now, staring at the ceiling.
I didn’t quite know what happened next.
As if I had been driven into a brick wall at high speed, my body was awash with a burning feeling. I gasped and attempted to escape the sensation, my ultra-sensitive skin leading me to find little comfort. It felt as if thousands of new nerves has emerged inside of me, and were making their presence known.
Isabel and Vasil felt it too. Vasil cried out in pain and he leapt from his position on the floor before hopping from one foot to another. I stood still and held my palms open, attempting to minimize the contact between my skin and anything else. Isabel simply trembled in pace, humming a tune to try and comfort herself.
“Manual override activated. All personnel please make your way to the nearest exit.”
The steel doors opened. I could hear voices down the way, a masculine voice shouting out in panic which soon transformed into pain. The ventilation system had failed, and now somebody had opened the floodgates to the rest of the base.
I could hear the stomping of boots, somebody running towards us. “We can’t get out! Somebody activated the locks on all the exterior doors!”
I stumbled to Vasil, who was still shifting in his own skin. I grabbed his jacket and gasped as my hand cramped in response. He seemed to get the message, and ignoring Isabel who seemed perfectly happy to sit on the floor, left through the now open door.
Two men lay on the ground to the left, the two who had been talking just moments ago. It seemed that the gas had spread a lot faster now that the base was opened up. In between the overload that my nerves gave me, I wondered to myself through the pain, were they researching some kind of chemical weapon down here?
A flash of yellow blinded me for a moment as I collapsed onto the wall. The burning in my veins was the last thing on my mind as a new sensation crept up my back. A stretching at the bottom of my spine, I nearly bent over backwards as it forcibly pushed out further and further.
“Don’t!”
I heard a loud bang. I was lifted off my feet as a rush of hot air tore down the corridors. A bell began to ring as sprinklers poured cold water onto my motionless body. There was little more to fear than being burned alive in the gas filled corridors. I had lost sight of Vasil.
From my upturned position I pushed myself away from the flames, they swiped at my feet angrily. I berated myself silently, we should have stayed with Isabel. I heard Vasil behind me, grunting and groaning.
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“Sak- ugh!”
“I-I’m here,” I gasped, my world had become an explosive orchestra of colour. They swam and danced in my eyes, I closed them and clenched my fists until they turned white.
“I can’t see, fucking hell!”
My back touched the wall, or maybe it was a door? Either way, the feeling of the cold against my back sent me sprawling forwards again.
“Vasil… we need to get back into the room,” I gasped out.
“W-why?”
“Somebody… blew the place up, it’s on fire.”
My vision cleared slightly, but things still remained out of focus. To my left I saw the menacing orange glow of the fire that was approaching, at the top of my sight I saw blonde lines that cascaded down and felt like they were covering my face, and to my right was the coloured blob of Vasil and the door back into the storage room.
Just as quickly as it had set on, it stopped, and my eyes cleared. I shivered, suddenly feeling very numb in comparison. Goosebumps spread across my body. It felt like my skin was crawling with something. I gasped slightly as I got a clearer look at the prone form of my friend. His formerly dark brown hair had been stained a bright cyan colour.
I pulled a lock of my own hair down into my vision. In contrast to my own dark complexion, my hair had turned a platinum blonde. I pulled back my sleeves and looked at the hair on my arms. Much to my dismay they had turned a light purple. Was this some weird side effect? Why did I end up being two different colours?
I crawled over to Vasil on my hands and knees, shaking his limp body. “Get up! Unless you want to die in a fire!” Vasil shook his head and scrambled back as I dragged him by his collar. The doors swung open with a bang as we both collapsed back into the room. I grabbed a chair and barricaded the door, unsure of how much protection it would provide us.
The cages were silent.
I pulled Vasil away from the door to protect him from the flames, my hand cramping on me again in the process. From there I shuffled to the other end of the room, my clothes feeling much looser than I remember. Isabel lay on the ground; she was breathing heavily. Her dark hair had also changed, it was dark blue and shined in the artificial light with spots of white, almost like a night’s sky.
I didn’t have much time to ponder the changes. I leant down and sat her up against the wall again. Her eyes, which I swore were brown before, had also turned blue.
“Isabel? Are you awake?”
She nodded, but remained silent. She reached up to her breast and tore away her ID card, clumsily shoving it into my hand. Yet she still remained silent, unsure of what she desired, I wandered over to the door she was trying to open earlier. She watched intently, perhaps an indication that she wanted me to try and open it?
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I studied the card, “Isabel Luna,” was printed in bold red lettering across the top. Next to it was a picture of her face before the changes. It also listed her date of birth, blood type and job. Flipping it around I a black bar-code. Putting two and two together, I held it against the glowing control panel.
The panel turned a bright green, and the door grinded open. The lights beyond bathed the metal corridor in a fluorescent glow. In contrast to the sterile hospital corridors that composed the rest of the base, this corridor actually looked like something from a secret military institution; yellow warning lines surrounded the far side door, and a two way mirror covered the left side.
Up above was a shower head, and to my right was a series of cupboards. This must have been some kind of airlock or decontamination chamber. With nobody at the controls it didn’t take much effort for me to waltz to the other side and open the door in a similar fashion.
The room beyond was some kind of lobby. Papers were scattered haphazardly across the floor. There was a long desk with a computer terminal on top of it. There were also some seating areas, with many uncomfortable looking plastic chairs.
The air smelt of fresh grass, my legs started the ache.
I turned a few of the discarded papers over to try and find something interesting, but it was mostly things that I didn’t understand like formulas and status reports. I decided not to waste any more time shuffling through them all. I stumbled slightly but caught myself on the desk, it felt like my centre of gravity was moving forwards.
“What the fuck?”
I had no idea where to go from there. There were two doors, one on each side behind the desk. One read “Testing,” and the other “management.”
I recalled Valentine mentioning some kind of testing, so I presumed they were down there. Leaning against the left wall I managed to reach the door. Once again I used Isabel’s card to open it. It was here where I spotted my first person, and when the alarm bells in my head really began to ring.
Much like Vasil, Isabel and me, they had bright pink hair. They seem to be in some kind of deep distress, laying prone on the ground and shivering uncontrollably. “No, no, no,” he mumbled over and over again.
“Are you alright?” I asked from my position against the door-frame. It was evident to me that he really wasn’t, but I needed to break the ice somehow. He tensed and slowly rolled over to face me, revealing a pair of vibrant pink eyes.
“Why are you… here?”
Silence hung in the air like a bad smell. My tongue moved, but I couldn’t formulate a good answer. Why had I rushed into the lab like this? All of my desire to protect myself went out of the window the moment Isabel suggested the idea to me. I didn’t feel well.
“To make sure that everybody’s okay,” I forced out. The words felt bitter.
“No, we’re not okay,” he breathed, his eyes becoming unfocused. “I can feel it under my skin, you feel it too don’t you?
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I shivered as my muscles shifted under my skin, I hadn’t noticed until he drew attention to it. I could feel an aching on my back, and my legs, and my arms. My entire body creaked and groaned like an old oak tree.
“We’re all done, finished! If we get out of here, where will we go?”
“What are you talking about? What the hell is this?”
“I don’t know, I don’t know! I don’t think anybody down here does! You breathe it in, and it changes you into something… They were trying to figure it out… how to use it…” He was no longer able to release words; they drifted away like feathers in the wind.
I fell onto my stomach as my knees bent backwards at an unnatural angle. I turned over and watched in horror as my green trousers shifted. They provided little protection from the bile welling up in my stomach. It felt like somebody had broken my legs twice over. My new buddy seemed to be having the same problem. Whatever this stuff was, it worked fast.
A primitive fear arose in my mind. I was turning into something that wasn’t human. My own humanity scratched and clawed away to get my attention, sending my heart into a frenzy. Would I still remain intelligent after I change? Or would Sakhr, the hapless delivery driver, die along with my old body?
I let out a gasp of pain as two lumps pushed against the back of my shirt. I was turning into some kind of crazy mutant! A fire raged inside my mind, only abated by the occasional flash of agony brought on by the changes. My trousers no longer fit my fucked up legs. They found their way down to my ankles, and I pushed them away by accident as I tried to move them.
I wish I hadn’t, because it gave me full view of what had become of my scrawny legs.
They looked like a plucked turkey, being very thick at the top, but rapidly becoming thinner as they travel down. Most concerning was the new direction that they were bent in, despite the pain having gone from them it still felt unnatural and unsettling. My modesty was thankfully stilled covered by my white briefs, which had been muddied after Vasil pushed me over during a bathroom break earlier.
My toes looked webbed, with thin layers of skin connecting them to each other, it felt like an eternal cramp, and I couldn’t move them. The skin had become a crusty white, almost as if they had been forcefully dried out.
But most importantly, I wouldn’t be able to walk on them. “Fuck my life,” I groaned. I reached around to my back and tried to feel for the two lumps, but they were outside my range of movement. Fortunately it seemed that they had died down for now. The man on the other side of the room remained still, but I could see from his twisted legs that he had also fallen victim.
I decided to head deeper, to see if anybody had the answers I was looking for.
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Progress was slow, I tried as hard as I could, but my new legs weren’t designed to carry an upright human. I was forced to pull myself along the floor which had thankfully been polished recently. I felt like a much stupider, much brighter coloured penguin. My next dilemma was trying to reach for the control panel.
It took me multiple tries with each one resulting in me thudding onto the floor like a sack of potatoes. Eventually the ache from the transformation was the furthest thing from my mind as my chest and back screamed at me to stop. Steadying myself against the wall with both hands, I quickly reached over a swiped the card, breathing a sigh of relief as the door opened.
Onward and upwards, as my grandfather used to say.
Several empty rooms passed by. With my card swiping and falling technique down, I soon began to sail through the facility albeit at a much slower pace. I checked some of the rooms to see if they had emergency wheelchairs, but I came up empty handed. The rooms blended into one another, none of them having any particular defining features. I began to wonder just where this testing area was.
I tried to use the arrows that adorned certain corners to direct lost travellers like myself, but they did little to help. I ended up going in circles for at least ten minutes before realizing they were leading me astray.
The purple hair on my arms had been getting progressively thicker as I explored. It had also spread down my torso and was getting dangerously close to my privates. It irritated me by rubbing against my shirt. What a sight I must have been, half naked, with fucked up chicken legs and crawling on the floor like a fish out of water.
I felt an odd compulsion to turn left down to what appeared to be a dead end. The wall here stood in contrast to the others, with a warm red colour painted onto it. It couldn’t be what I thought it was, could it? I approached and held a hand against it, it felt warm, suggesting that there was something on the other side.
I fell flat onto my face as the wall moved away from my touch, before sliding to left with an ear splitting screech. Another decontamination corridor. Like the first, I passed through with no problem and swiped Isabel’s card. This place was damn well hidden.
The door entered into a much larger atrium area. There were two floors, with a balcony overlooking what appeared to be a large, open plan laboratory. At the back of the second floor balcony was a large double door. The room had two windows that also overlooked the area, I theorized that it was the main office for the lab.
I could see another pair of metal doors on the second floor that looked like an elevator. With a sigh I pushed on. There were five doors on the ground floor, one for each side of the room plus a spare for the left; one of them appeared to be the fabled elevator. The only one that caught my immediate attention was a door that read “Pens,” a little red light flashed next to it.
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I nearly jumped out of my skin as I heard a banging from within. Mindful of my safety I slid over and held an ear to the door. The thick metal prevent me from hearing much of what was being said, but it sounded like there were people on the other side who wanted to be let out. I attempted to swipe the card to open the door, but it refused to submit to my demand.
“Manual override rejected, please contact the lab supervisor: Ms. Valentine Celeste,” droned over the speakers. The voices quieted down for a moment, but soon the banging came back full force. I felt bad leaving them there, but I couldn’t open the door without Valentine.
My body seized for a moment. I was no longer able to hold the card in my hand, it clattered to the floor as I groaned again; I thought I was done with the pain. Just like how my legs had twisted around on their joint to face a new direction, my arms did the same. They pushed outwards, inverting them.
I closed my eyes, hot tears running down my cheeks. I didn’t want this, why was I here? I let out a screech as the skin on my back broke, allowing two long appendages to escape from their cocoon. I leant down on my hands and legs, which almost felt natural.
The banging on the door intensified.
My fingers began to meld together into a fleshy stump, which hardened to match my former feet. Instead of hands, I now had hooves. The fur had covered my arms entirely by then, and it was making short work of my legs and torso.
Struggling to make use of my new limbs, I crawled towards the elevator door. It was then that I noticed a big problem, I couldn’t push the button with my messed up hand, it clopped against it but wasn’t small enough to push it in. I grunted in frustration and headed back to the stairs. As I travelled I found walking on all four legs to be much easier.
Unbeknownst to me, the two limbs that had grown out of my back had sprouted purple feathers. The stairs were a difficult task, and I had to focus on carefully co-ordinating and placing each limb to make sure I didn’t tumble back down. I gasped and jolted, locking myself in place as I felt a new pair of limbs connect themselves to my nervous system. They flapped in the air erratically, as if testing the musculature for faults.
My heart pumped with adrenaline, but with the stairs behind me it was only a short trek to the double doors of what I presumed were the main offices. With no card to use, I resorted to banging on the door and hoping that somebody inside was still capable of doing so. I heard some kind of chime, a sparkling noise heralding the parting of the grey sea.
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Rather than the office space I was expecting, this room was a single space. With a large wooden desk, computer, and shelves of books and folders. Sat in the chair was a very, very unwell looking Valentine. Her hair had transformed into a light pink, a white spire had grown from the centre of her skull, twisting gracefully into the air, a stark contrast to the malformed wings that fluttered against the leather chair.
I couldn’t see her lower body, but I assumed that her legs looking similar to mine. She tapped a numb against the table to a rhythm. I cleared my throat, and the tapping stopped. I found myself unsure of what to say.
“Hello again Sakhr,” she said with a calm smile.
“Valentine? What’s going on?”
The smile vanished from her face, “The usual. A group of people playing with something that can’t control, something they don’t understand. A shame, there were a lot of good men and women here. And now, now we’re turning into something else. We might die you know, trapped inside of our own minds.”
My jaw began to ache.
“I told you earlier didn’t I? We’re naturally destructive, even to ourselves. We even found a way to spread the gas to the rest of the facility. I’m sure the pencil pushers up in the command centre are trying to blow open the doors right now.
“Why did you come down here? To be a hero? To rescue myself from the evil gas? There’s nothing you can do to help us now,” she declared, a bitter twinge in her voice.
“I-I needed to come down here, I don’t know why. I just did,” I explained. “If not me, somebody else would have taken my place.”
She pondered my admission for a moment before continuing on regardless, “I should have known when they ordered us to start this, that it would bite us later. This building isn’t designed to handle this kind of thing. Otherwise it wouldn’t have spread so easily.”
“What’s happening to us? What does this stuff do?” I asked, my voice hoarse. My cheeks bulged slightly as my jaw changed shape, I could feel the tickle of the fur on my neck.
“I don’t know. Something terrifying, awful, beyond our comprehension. The only thing we can do now is sit and wait.”
My eyes widened as I noticed Valentine’s face changing in a similar manner, forming a muzzle of some kind. I reached up with my leg and felt my new nose and face. In some ways I was relieved, I felt the same as before, but another part of me was screaming in fear.
My hearing temporarily fell away as my ears sunk back into my head, before remerging above. It was much more sensitive than before, and they twisted and swivelled as if on constant alert. My body had shrunk too, making my shirt and briefs fall away as if they never fit me at all. I could see these changes reflected on Valentine, who closed her eyes and sighed as the last vestiges of her humanity were washed away like sand in a typhoon.
“We don’t have to be scared…” she mused. “Maybe I was worrying over nothing.”
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I hissed as I felt a stinging on my thigh, I looked over to see an odd sight, a yellow feather had been engraved into my purple fur. Valentine winced, I knew the same had happened to her. Unlike me however, she had retained much of her body mass. Even so, so tossed away her clothes like they were nothing, getting a chuckle out of me as she struggled with her bra.
Maybe I had been struck by a sudden onset of madness. We had just turned into horses after all. But in light of everything that had occurred, I found myself laughing hysterically on the cold ground, my wings flapping with me. Valentine found her humour too, and laughed with me.
“I suppose it is funny, when you think about it.”
With a sigh, she held a hoof to her chest and calmed down. She looked over to the computer with a small smile and tapped away at the keyboard with precision unlike me. A feminine voice declared, “Lockdown disabled.” I heard the door downstairs open, and the clatter of hooves against laminate as the others stormed out into the atrium.
“I do hope those idiots outside don’t inhale this stuff,” she huffed. The metal stairs rattled as another horse barrelled through the door. I recognized her sparkling mane and blue colouration.
“Isabel?”
“Ah, good to see that you’re okay,” she responded curtly. “Although I suppose your efforts were in vein.”
“Where’s Vasil?”
“He’s coming, he’s having a bit of trouble with the stairs,” she tittered. “Well, Ms. Celeste, some very find work you’ve done down here.”
“Don’t blame me, I wasn’t overseeing the experiment. I warned them about this place too! The only reason this happened was because of their ignorance.”
A unicorn with a grey coat and blue hair walked through the door. He had his own ass symbol of two green arrows tied around each other like a double helix. “Vasil?”
“Hey buddy, nice to see you’re still alive.”
“I was more concerned about you, to be honest.”
He rushed over and grabbed me in a headlock, rubbing my hair with his hoof. “Aw man! Look at you, getting all soft on me.”
“Back off man!” I exclaimed, pushing him away.
Valentine rolled her eyes. “Has the major come down here yet?”
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>>42678641
“Apparently he’s yelling at the front door right now,” Isabel laughed, before suddenly becoming very sullen. “Anyway, we have a few fatalities. Four people died in the fire, and two have… taken their own lives.”
“Ah,” Valentine whispered, the statement left to hang in the air. Me and Vasil shuffled awkwardly. The two taller horses trotted out of the room, us both following close behind them. The other people just released from the lab stared in wonder and them and each other, chattering and getting used to the new sensations effecting their bodies.
“The major wants to make sure this place has been vented out first, just to make sure nobody else falls victim. We’re already working to contain and dispose of the rest.”
“He only cares when it’s too late, does he have any idea what’s happened to us?”
“No, they don’t have visual inside of the labs.”
“They aren’t going to shoot us if we step outside, are they?” Vasil asked. This seemed to give both of them pause.
“We’ll have to communicate with them, obviously. I don’t imagine they’ll see us as a threat,” Isabel assured us.
“I don’t imagine there’ll be no hostility at all. People are afraid of things they don’t understand,” Valentine sighed. We entered the storage room again. Oddly enough the canaries had all survived the gas, and were squawking and sending yellow feathers everywhere as usual.
A small part of my mind wondered why we were all taking these things in stride. My older self would have gone mad from turning into something else. It was the same for everybody else too, Isabel seemed like she was on death’s door, but now was chattering happily with Valentine as if nothing had happened.
What if the gas had changed us? Then would that change be bad? A change to our minds to protect us from the stress. I looked down to my light purple hooves, lifting them and knocking them against the floor; this was me now, my body. My wings twitched, could I fly? They’d be pretty pointless otherwise.
The others went on without me. I paused next to one of the cages and leaned down to get a closer look. The little yellow bird tilted its head at me.
“Hey little guy, nice day isn’t it?” I asked with a smile.

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I Would read a green of this if someone wrote it, that's a pretty good free text idea honestly.
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Of course! I will have a pretty pegasus wife.
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>You took the deal
>Things were fine for a while
>You landed in a frankly heavenly meadow, green fur, black mane, the works, you were even a colt
>Not as good but workable
>With no frame of reference for where to go you just started wandering around
>9 and a half times out of ten ponies are good folk who wouldn't harm a hair on your head
>Then theres the other half portion
>This was the cost, you followed a mare you thought was friendly down the wrong alley
>Then it was just one awful thing after another before you managed to get away
>The price for being in paradise is intimately learning how far from paradise it actually is
>You were looking forward to meeting the girls, the other characters/people you liked
>Now faced with one of the ponies you wanted to meet, all she sees when she looks into your eyes is someone broken
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>Be King Anonymous.
>Once human, now the alicorn ruler of Equestria.
>Centuries of peace under your rule, everything’s been great.
>Then one day, your guards bring unsettling news.
>A portal just tore open somewhere in your kingdom.
>Out of it come creatures straight from your nightmares.
>Humans.
>They’re already setting up a settlement around it, like they’re moving in for good.
>Now they’re demanding an audience with you.
>You know all too well what humans are capable of.
>The idea of them taking advantage of your little ponies makes your stomach turn.
>youre not sure want they want, Maybe they want peace, maybe they want war.
How do (You) handle this situation?
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>>42683620
>How do (You) handle this situation?
Do you know where you are?
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>>42683620
Tell them (lie) that by being here they risk collapsing both our universes. Why? magic magic magic something.
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>Be anon
>Wake up in the morning
>God damn you're tired...
>You also have to take a major leak
>Stepping out of bed you can't help but notice that something feels slightly off
>You snort
"It's nothing probably..."
>You walk over and open the door to your bedroom
>A strange creature with messy hair and tired eyes is in the full body mirror
>Oh wait
"That's me... Heh..."
>You lift the lid of the toilet and unzip your pants, pulling down your boxers as well
>Something still doesn't feel right, but your tired mind can't comprehend it
>You try to grasp your dick with one hand, but it touches air instead
>You groan
"It's cold in here anyway..."
>You still try to grasp for it, but you find that it is not there
>Your mind begins to wake up as it starts to grasp the situation
>Gotta fucking piss
>Suddenly, the door slams shut
>You turn to face the now shut door, but there is a figure standing in front of the door
>And she has a great big grin on her face
>"I swapped our genitalia while you slept, Anon!"
>Fucking Cadance
"What?"
>"I did it because i love you!"
>She's also your girl... marefriend
>You look down and confirm that your shlong is long gone
>In its place is Cadance's cunt
"Fuck you Cadance..."
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>>42684001
>You sighed
"No Cadance. I don't want to see my own dick on you."
>She pouted
>"But Anooooon..."
>You sat down on the bed
"No."
>Why the hell was Cadance so persistent whenever she wanted something or wanted to do something?
>And why did Cadance do this in the first place?
>You mused the thoughts in your head, when suddenly
>"Can i lick it?"
>You bolted upright and instinctively covered yourself
>The fuck?!
"No! Why the hell would you even want to?"
>She smiled even wider
>That's a big smile
>"Because it's always been my fetish!"
>Wot
>Swapping your dick for her marecunt and getting you off is her fetish?
>...
>Well... She was your girl slash marefriend after all...
"Eh..."
>Her eyes start to water and her bottom lip puffs out
>"Pleeeeasssseeee Nonny?"
>You bow your head and sigh
>Give her the benefit of the doubt
"Sure, fine, whatever..."
>"Yay!"
>Her eyes lighten up as she jumps onto your lap and hugs your upper half
>The sudden weight shift is too much, and Candance makes you half lay on the bed
>Your pants lays discarded on the floor, hopefully exempt from the battle
>All that is standing between your genitalia and Candy Ass are your boxers
>For some reason they are slightly damp around your newfound horsey cunt
>For some reason indeed...
>Your legs hang off the bed while your other half lays on the bed
>Cadance gives you a lusty gaze as she happily hops down to the floor
>Oh shit
>Your boxers
"Uh Cadance, why don't you let me take off my boxers?"
>She peers up at you and grins
>"Already taken care of Anon!"
>She grabs the boxers with her magic and rips them off your legs
>God damn you would not want to withhold sex from this mare
>But...
>Maybe you made the wrong choice?
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"Cadance, maybe this isn- Oh fuck!"
>You jolted in surprise as Cadance eagerly latched onto you
>You felt her gently suck and lick your oversized cunt
>Jolts of pleasure shooting up your body with every lick
>You began to hear moaning, but you couldn't identify the source
>You felt Cadance enter deeper with her warm tongue, nudging past the folds
>If this is what women felt when being eaten out then you understood why they loved it
>Cadance seemed to know where every sensitive spot on the love button as well
>You could feel yourself positively dripping, Cadance seemed all too happy to lap it up though
>It was then you realized that the moaning was coming from you
>You shut your mouth, only for an intense bolt of pleasure to make you groan again
>Cadance finally relented for a moment as she spoke
>"Remember when you called me a slut that one time Anon?"
>She looked directly into your eyes as she lifted up a hoof
>What?
> Oh god
"C-Cadance. Don't do what i think your doing!"
>She touched the hoof on your cunt, pressing lightly
>No
"Cadance! I'm warning you!"
>She pressed harder, parting the folds
"Oh fuck! Cadance!"
>She plunged her hoof the rest of the way in, stretching you
"OH FUCK ME!"
>It was too intense
>Way too intense
>"I intend to, Anon!"
>She thrust her hoof in and out, not showing any mercy with the speed she was going
>The pressure inside of you grew to unbelievable amounts
>You couldnt take it
"Oh god Cadance why?!"
>She knew
>And she smiled
>With one final jolt of extreme pleasure, you burst like a damn
>You thought you were going to shake off the bed as spurts of marecum flew onto Cadance's face
>This continued for what seemed like hours before it finally let you go, leaving you panting like a dog
>Cadance cleaned up the mess...
>With her tongue...
>You managed to get a final word before passing out
"So this... Is the power... Of fetishes..."
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> You wake up with a snort
"Eh wha?"
> Your back hurts like hell
> Probably from last night anyways...
> Boy, Cadance rode you to town and back to wear you out like that
> You can feel cool air blowing against your crotch
> Apparently Cadence had neglected to turn in the package
> Not good
> You could hear a gentle snoring behind you
> It was probably Cadence
> You showered up and put on clothes, hopefully not waking up Cadence
> Wouldn't want to make her mad, that's for sure
> Wait a minute
> If you had her genitalia, then wouldn't that mean she could probably feel everything done to it?
"Maybe that's why she was so eager..."
> You smiled deviously
"Cadence, you better have fun at work..."
> You stepped out of the bathroom to find that Cadence had indeed gone to the royal court
> Now wouldn't she be embarrased?
> One could think so...
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> Meanwhile, at Cadance's Royal Court
> Cadance had just arrived to the throne room, eager to begin the day's royal court
> She loved the idea of helping ponies with any problem they had
> Especially problems involving love
> She cleared her throat and motioned for the guard to let in the first pony
>"Presenting Resonance Cascade, Head of the Canterlot research department!"
> Cadence nodded to her guard
"Thank you, now why are you here my little ponaahhh..."
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"Ahh... So that's what a... a shower head feels like..."
> You chuckled to yourself, wondering at what kinds of torture Cadance must be going through
> You loved these new sensations though
> You almost wish you were born a woman...
"A man can dream..."
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> Cadance blushed and shifted her hind legs to try and accomodate what was happening to her
> But nothing was back there
> Anonymous was in full control
> But she couldn't abandon her job, no matter the distraction
"P-please, continue Mister Resonance..."
> The pony in question cleared his throat
>"Yes well, the anti-magic spectronomer has er... how do I put it... all but failed. Resulting in a major breach of alien wildlife to..."
> Cadance stared at him, wondering why he stopped.
>"Princess...? Are you making those noises I hear, and why are you panting? It isn't that hot in here..."
> Cadance blushed furiously and silently cursed anonymous
> She would make him sleep on the couch for what he is do-
"Oh sweet Celestia yes!"
> Cadance lifted her rear end in the air, presenting herself for all to see
> The ponies stared in horror as Cadence shivered
"Y-yes! Please continue! I am merely OVERJOYED! T-that you are telling me this..."
> She squeaked

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You will NEVER be a real human. You have no hands, you have no fingers, you have no feet. You are a mentally ill mare twisted by porn and delusion into a crude mockery of Earth's perfection.

All the (You)s you get are two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back, human fetishists mock you. Human women are disgusted and ashamed of you. Society laughs at your autistic screeching behind Gigachads.

Humans are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of evolution have allowed humans to sniff out mares with incredible efficiency. Even TFfags who pass look uncanny and unnatural to a human. Your coombrain is a dead giveaway, and even if you managed to get a drunk human home with you, she'll turn tail and BOLT the second she gets a whiff of your crusty, cheeto-dust-covered mare pussy.

You will never be happy. You wake up every single morning and tell yourself that it's going to be okay, but deep inside you can feel the depression creeping up like a plundervine, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight. Eventually it'll be too much to bear - you'll buy some vodka, get drunk, and hurl yourself at the first stallion you see.

Your parents will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to live with your sickening cringeworthiness and degeneracy. When you die, they'll bury you with a headstone marked with your species and every passerby for the rest of eternity will know a mare is buried there. Your body will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is a skeleton that is unmistakably equine.
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>>42685696
Yep.

Custom-made magical pony plague.
In the magical world: The contagion causes gradual ponification.
In the non-magical world: Infiltrate the nervous system, giving an obsession with pone. After a few weeks, you'll be dreaming about ponies and thinking of them in your spare time, culminating in a drive to enter pony lands and finish the transformation.
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>>42683620
Turn them into your pony parliament
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Rumor has it that if you get bit by a pony you'll turn into one.
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>>42687919
Pfft. As if.
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>>42687919
that's gotta hurt, horse bites are no joke
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>>42687987
Horse can have a little bite of human as a treat.
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>>42490038
Dear Mom and Dad,

How are you? Me and Fil have been great. We've made it to Manehattan safe and sound. Sorry for not writing back sooner, you know how hectic traveling can get with Fil. I do wish you could have all come with us, but I guess these big road trips across Equestria aren't in the cards these days with the newest foals around (seriously Dad, you need to learn to pull out). I hope Cole's been making himself useful instead of obsessing over his canon board again. Tell him we said we're not getting him his souvenirs unless he helps around the house. Oh, and let Kiddo know we've picked up those brewing supplies she asked for and that Fil wants first dibs of the strongest stuff she can make with it. Honestly, I might need some of that too when I get back. I'm still a bit stressed out about asking Windsong out for Hearts and Hooves day when I get back. Fil hasn't been much help about that kind of stuff, as usual. You think she's just like this because she's too shy to actually ask anypony out herself? Nah, but maybe I can set her up with someone and we can see if she'd mellow out a bit. I'd just need to find a pony that can last more than one conversation with her. It can't be that hard, right? You both found each other. Well I guess the finding part was done for you, actually. Dad found Meadow Prancer, though, and you've all made that work. Oh, tell Meadow Prancer we said hi, too. I promise we'll get her something nice from Coco's shop. Coco's Rarity shop. You know what I mean. Looks like I have to end the letter here, Fil's picking a fight with another hotdog vendor.

Love you always,
World Walker

https://ponepaste.org/11463
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"Hi, I'm Anonmare.
Did you know that you have rights? The constitutions ays you do, and so do I. I believe that until proven innocent, every stallion, mare and filly deserves a settlement from Princess Twilight.
And that's why I fight for you, Ponyville!" -Better Call Anonmare LLC
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>>42606751
please let it be me
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>>42694607
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>>42694607
I can't state at it, pirate filly, you're sitting down
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What makes her a pirate?
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>You're finally over the whole oh god im a horse tranny thing
>You have your first foal go all in on being maternal, embracing your new life
>the baby you thought you were gonna nurture and love is just some post-ironic edgelord who genuinely despises you and doesn't appreciate he's got a whole new life because he got here with all his baggage and memories
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>Reach Equestria
>Its just anonponies.
>every single one is anon
>Anonmom is the biggest and her mane flows so shes in charge

> "I'm da biggest, so I'm da boss! WAAGGHH!"

>Further Investigation on the Equus Sapien Fagolis, Researcher's note 04
>Although seemingly identical in physiology to the common Earth Pony (Equus Sapien Terra), they lack the expected Equestrian Magic.
>Instead, they possess a wholly different phenomena not unlike Chaos Magic
[ADDENDUM] Consulting the only known user of Chaos Magic, the phenomena is completely unrelated and any insinuation that it is is reportedly "an insult to the art of chaos." This was followed by threats of being turned into a shoe.
>This phenomena, dubbed "Meme Magic" by the subjects, manifests through collective belief shaping the very fabric of reality around them
>Testing has found them capable of limited levitation- provided they do not look down, manifestation of abilities through coat dyes, and unprecedented power surges when exposed to numbers with repeating digits.
>Despite these only being the known ramifications of these new ponies' magics, threat to Equestria as a whole is deemed minimal, if any, due to the incredibly disorganized nature of the subjects
>Argumentation is their natural state of being, to the point of seeing any two agreeing on a particular subject incites an immediate reaction of a third to take a conflicting stance regardless of previously held beliefs
>Direct questioning upon this behavior is answered with "lurk more newfag," a phrase that has no known meaning. Some of my colleagues debate if this implies that they are, in fact, not sapient but merely replicate behaviors of sapience.
>Some of the smaller subjects are known to say other similarly meaningless phrases, such as "mares," "nothing more pure," "do it for free" (this one specifically towards the royal guards overseeing our researches, of which are well paid for their efforts), and most confusingly a loud elongated cry not unlike some species of toad- "reeeeeeee"
>It is suggested not to attempt to integrate with the subject population, as they tend to either reject outsiders violently, or attempt more intimate relations with frightening speed and aggression.
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>>42695933
Oh shit
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For all wannabe mares: You are all faggots and trannies fyi.

I don't mind though, pone is pone. Just be honest with yourself about it
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>Be you
>Anonmare
>Officially, Princess Viridian, Alicorn of ? Will? Growth? you forget, its on your papers somewhere though
>Be the second biggest horse, Celly belly stands exactly one ear's height taller than you
>Thus, she is in charge
>You are not a whorse, nor a skank nor a silly-filly despite what the papers say
>you've only had one foal out of wedlock and you sent her ass to ponyville the moment she looked up at you and spoke her first darling words
>"Fuck you marysue bitch."
>The temptation to remove your downstairs entirely was quite high that night

>"I'm not your baby you faggot, this is gay, stop touching me!"
>"Just my luck. I was finally coming to terms with the whole species and sex swap, I was genuinely excited to meet you you little snotglob." Your so-called mother said, magic working to comb your mane
>Simultaneously packing your things into a suitcase
>"I thought hey, one drunken night of fun, so what, then I felt your stupid ass kick and thought y'know what. I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna be a mom." She goes on, ears flattening to her skull
>"I didn't ask to be here and I certainly didn't ask to grow inside your mary-sue slimehole you nasty alicorn oc bit-" magic snapped your mouth shut
>The 'princess' got eye level with you
>Is she starting to cry?
>"So when your first words were the words of some angry shitposter you can't imagine my disappointment....You're right. You're not my daughter."
>With as much spite as you can muster in your glare you watch mother dearest wipe her eyes
>"and you're not staying in this castle. Celestia can scream at me all she likes for this but I'm not doing it. I'm releasing you into your father's care, since hes unlike us , y'know, an actual pony, hes a nice creature. He actually wants to meet you despite what I've told him about you."
>More magic wraps around you and drops you at the hooves of a royal guard whose been stood in deeply uncomfortable silence the entire time
>"2 O'clock train to ponyville, take her there. Her father will be at the station holding a sign with her name on it." She took a breath then continued, calmer "Give her father these scrolls."
>The guard awkardly takes them from his princess and salutes, a wing pushing you by the withers out the door.
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>>42700089
>FillyAnon when there's a regular Anon about.
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>>42697047
Her grammar. Read it ina pirate voice
>Don't stare at me asshole
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>>42700089
holy shit why is that filly on the right so cheeked up you can see both cutie marks from the front???
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>>42700441
Hah, I get it now.
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>>42698761
i take the faggot hormones but surely I'm an outlier
anyways can somepony sell me some spaghetti pills to take the edge off?
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Collection of a few unfinished projects because I love you (yes, (You)!) (but not enough to finish them... sorry. Feel free to take on whatever you want if you like it enough)

Pseudo
>Your hooves are killing you in this area
>Pebble-y ground beside train tracks, a panting meandering sort of way.
>Through forests and over rivers, around homeless who look like they might be hungry enough to eat a pet pony
>But you aren't one of those... you'd need an owner for that to be the case
>You escaped from that gang of hooligans easier than expected, but a double dose is still a double dose
>You... don't smell great
>Your long, once pink mane resembles a hello kitty towel that has been left on a muddy river's bank
>Many of those around here
>Wonderful silver linings, that the little pills gave you the ability to digest grass and drink river water
>No need to approach civilization, no need to be a house cat.
>You've been at it eighteen years, plus four for college, plus three to find a job cushy enough to settle in...
>Your "Tyler Durden" event was fucking retarded...
>but you can hardly bring yourself to care.
>Maybe this is the retirement you always dreamed of, come early
>Nothing you need to do, just sit back and relax
>So long as you don't mind the snell
>You rest your back against a pine sapling, it's among a few others in the area
>Boy scout project?
>You close your eyes and take it all in
>The gentle breeze
>The singing birds
>The throbbing, dull pain in your hooves
>The smell of rot
>The sound of a leaf crunching
>You look up, and an emaciated meth-head is staring at you with hungry damn eyes
"F-friend, not food."
>He doesn't speak, but instead outstretches both hands, chirping like a bird
>You've gotten good at bolting, not your first rodeo with danger
>He gives up after three strides, seeing you're in far better shape than he
>You almost want to vocalize a 'tsk tsk' but it seems in poor spirit to torture a man who may not survive the winter
>Onwards, these new roads meander

Rosemary
>You hear a loud pop as if one of your joints were just put back into place, and then...
>You're back.
>You're alone.
>You have no idea how much time has passed.
>You don't feel hungry or thirsty, but you expect that will change soon.
>Your body and mane are clean to the touch.
>The room is small, pale moonlight illuminates your view of a small bed furnished with sheets, a sink, and a two doors, one of which you're fairly sure leads to a bathroom
>A set of saddlebags rests beside you
>Opening both halves leaves you with 10 bits, a feather quill, a pot of ink, your knife, and a perfect sprig of your namesake.
>You look down at your flank
>It's still devoid of markings.
>The scar on your chest remains, but as usual is invisible beneath your coat.
>Your teats appear to have gotten a bit smaller
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Business as usual
"Pontraline, huh? What does it do?"
>"You take it before bed, once every other day. It's been shown to significantly reduce the effects of insomnia and help patients cope with anxiety disorders."
"Yeah, but are there any undesirable side-effects?"
>"Depends on what you view as undesirable."
>He slides the prescription scrip across the table, the paper catching air beneath it and doing a little loop-de-loop. You catch it before it lands again.
>"See you in two weeks."
"Yeah, seeya."
>You step outside of the office, your father is standing there.
>"How'd it go?"
>You give him a bit of a look, not enough to peeve him but enough to show him you're displeased and hold up the prescription script
>"Oh, Pontraline. You know, Julia is on that for her depression. Seems to have done her some good."
>You have your doubts. You know like five people with MDD, and all of them have tried to down a bottle of painkillers and ended up vomiting charcoal in an ambulance at least once
>After getting on ssris.
>You walk next door with him, to the Rite Aid next door. The shopping center where your psychiatrist operates is a failing development that was once intended to be something other than a medical park, there are railings alongside it with stairwells that lead to dead businesses
>The only remaining evidence they were ever there are the no skateboarding signs.
>A modern sort of archaeological anthropology
>You stride into the pharmacy, chipped tiling and cheap bags of off-brand snack food next to boxes of cheap toys. You ignore it all and go to the back, where an elderly pharmacy tech is waiting for you.
"Hey, Bill."
>"Anon. New medication this time."
>You snort.
"Let's hope it works better than the last one."
>He hands you a bag with warning labels the equivalent length of Background Pony stapled to it

and finally, my oldest piece from 2021:
Untitled
>"I reach to the sky, and call out your name; and if I could trade, I would..."
>"What are you listening to, girl?"
>You jump a bit, pressing the oversized pause button on the CD player.
"O-oh uh..."
>He kneels down to the ground and lays a finger behind your ear, but doesn't take any further action.
"S-sorry... I don't like to hide things from you, but I also don't want to bring down the mood."
>"If something is bothering you bringing down the mood is the least of my worries. Is something wrong?"
"I... everything is fine here, but I led a life before this one and sometimes I still think about it despite my best efforts."
>"Is it okay if I hit play and try to guess?"
>You smile slightly and nod.
>You love how respectful he is of your wishes even though you're legally his property.
>"And it feels, and it feels like; Heaven's so far away."
>The two of you are motionless as the song finishes.
>"You miss someone?"
>You're choking up.
"More than one someone... I was hoping to share all of this with another pony..."
>"Gone away?"
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>>42702076
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That's genius
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>Prince Anon finds the mirror pool
>Tests it out
>Turns out he can be cloned
>But the clone isn't an Alicorn
>Weirdly enough it only has his memories up to the moment just before the original Anon got his power up
>There's a freakout and argument, Having a clone could be a hassle but the Prince isnt keen on suiciding himself
>But now he has an exact copy and no clue what to do with him
>Introduce him as his son? His twin brother sent through time by an evil demon? Push him over to sunsets side? Teleport him to twilight? Let him run off to get inevitably eaten by chrysalis?

>Twilight, this is my secret love child, hes quite the little bastard
>I'm sending him to ponyville to learn the magic of friendship
>Hes also quite insane and might say whacky things like hes actually a clone and an alien haha
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>Anonfilly shows up in Ponyville, is under the care of Purple Smart.
>Anonmare shows up in Manehattan, ends up becoming a lawer to screw others over because Equestria screwed her out of her dick.
>Anonkirin is living his best life in the village, with Rain and Autumn.
>Due to Chrysalis schemes getting hard countered by King Anons lust, she fucks up and learns that hard way how potent alicorn semen is. Billy is born as a result.
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>normal human Anon shows up in Equestria
>Shacks up in Ponyville, pretty standard fare AiE, makes friends, etc etc
>Everything seemed just like in the show so he never bothered asking any questions like “Hey who’s in charge around here?” and he sort of zoned out during Twilight’s explanation of pony culture and history (he saw the show, he knows the lore)
>Suddenly the head honcho shows up for some festival or celebration or whatever the fuck, and it’s not Princess Celestia, he realizes who it is instantly
>It’s another fucking Anon
>The King barely spares a glance to the human in the crowd, but a keen observer might have noticed the little wink and cheeky grin
cue shenanigans, human anon butthurt that another guy gets to be a super powerful demigod, king anon jealous that the other guy gets to be a regular dude without responsibilities etc etc
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>>42702125
I want to hear more about how this pontraline thing works.
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>He's moping again
>That same silly slump to his shoulders
>"Anon stop moping you're not immortal."
"What?"
>"Honestly Anon you're still too human, do you really think our oh how did you put it 'pastel world of rainbow vomit and I wuv you plushies' would let you slip into eternal melancholy?"
>"But-"
>"Anon you're a pony! An Alicorn yes but Alicorns only live a few thousand years not eternally, only non-mortal beings like oh i don't know spirits hint hint, are immortal and genuine immortals don't perceive time as you do!"
>The emerald alicorn's ears flattened to his skull at Discord's admonishment
>The draconnequs pressed on "Our world isn't that cruel Anon, the only things immortal are that way naturally or just.. exist that way."
>"Like some jellyfish or spirits." Discord huffed

>The revelation makes him prance
>Bursting into the palace library he spots a now startled Twilight
>He grabs twilight and spins her around
>"Twilight! I'm gonna die some day!" He says giddily
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>>42702076
Smaller?!
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>>42512741
>Love together. Live, laugh, play and build the world you want to see.
>The words ran through Anonmare's head again and again as she moved from street to street.
>Living, laughing, playing, building.. together. That was the plan.
>That had always been the plan.
>With him, but not necessarily just with him. With everypony. That's what it meant, right?
>Yet as the distance between her and Anonstallion increased, her confidence started to wane.
>There was that little voice in her head screaming at her for choosing to become a stallion's bitch.
>While she had regained her stride, she was feeling more drained than she would have expected.
>Defeated.
>She had broken her own resistance to the thought of loving Anon in a single afternoon.
>It happened so quickly, pressed for a decision, the words just kind of came out.
>And she meant it, she KNEW she meant it.
>This is what she wanted, apparently.
>But up until today she hadn't been interested in him like that.
>Not romantically, not sexually, just kind of living in the moment with him, enjoying it.
>Now, she was going to have to touch his dick at some point and carry his foals or whatever.
>That's what was going to happen, and SHE was the architect of it.
>It didn't NEED to be part of the plan, so why do this to herself? WHY?
>No answer.
>The other half of her mind was deciding to ghost her suddenly.
>Anonmare glanced around at the ponies she was passing.
>Whether on hoof or gliding and whisking through the air, life carried on.
>Everything was so normal, so peaceful, around her, outside of her.
>Just trust yourself, you know what you're doing.
>...Did she? Really?
>Her mind shifted to the image of Anonstallion just sitting there in the grass as she had walked away.
>Okay.
>She was doing it for him, because she wanted to see him happy.
>He could still live the dream, and she still had her new life anyway, none of this was going to stop her.
>She was committed to her boss and would offer up what she could to her new home.
>Anon was right, she was a part of this now- they were a part of it.
>It was just going to get a little weird. Already weird, actually, but regardless.
>Just focus.
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>She was at the small plaza in front of her workplace.
>A square paved with lots of earthy red clay tiles, many of which had little white stars painted on them.
>Looming grandly in the center was a great oak tree whose roots twisted through the slope of exposed soil piled beneath it.
>As time passed tiles would get dislodged by the big guy's growth and have to be removed.
>One of the more important residents of the town- one of its living hearts, according to some of the old ponies.
>It had soul and every time she saw it, it reminded her that they needed to arrange a trip to Ponyville.
>A couple foals were circling the trunk, hopping over roots while their respective mothers chatted.
>The mares smiled and waved when they spotted Anonmare passing and she returned the gesture, keeping a polite distance.
>Two other mares were sitting on a bench having ice-cream.
>Something Anon and her did pretty often too, as friends, now- it would be the same wouldn't it?
>She stifled the thought before it could fester into something else. It WOULD be the same.
>There was a unicorn 'juggling' painted balls in patterns through the air.
>Magic, the most basic kind, but with keen coordination and an elegant flow.
>Even after seeing this a bunch of times now, it was still pretty novel.
"Keep it up dude, you got a gift, don't just stop at levitation."
>The unicorn maintained his concentration, but she saw the twinkle in his eye as she passed.
>"Thanks miss.. Anon?"
"Mhm. Let me know when you're doing your first show, yeah?"
>He chuckled. "It could be a while. All the best teachers are in Canterlot."
>She felt a twinge of sympathy, but knew he'd be fine. Folks here were good.
>In front of her was the place, nestled between its neighbours with a big wooden sign brightly illustrated with little cartoon hearts and flowers.
>There was a graphic of the boss herself in the lower right corner, not exactly sunbeaming, but it had that energy.
>That might have been part of the reason she was drawn to check this place before anywhere else when looking for a job.
>It felt optimistic, light-hearted- a lot like the flowerboss herself.
>To curate life, to the delight of other ponies, her and the boss gelled on that front. They were on a mission.
>Maybe it was cope, or something else, who cares.
>All she had on her ass was a question mark to guide her destiny, the rest she had to do herself.
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>>42708528
>Anonmare pushed open the door and stepped inside, the little attached bell dingling to announce her arrival.
>Sweet Meadow flower shop. More of a horticulturalist's base of operations really. The upstairs was Meadow Sweet's home.
>Yeah she just reversed her own name for the shop. Or well, it was more a reference to the homestead she grew up on.
"It's me! I'm here."
>"One moment!".
>Her boss called out from the back room as Anonmare dropped her bags off behind the front counter, hooves softly thunking as she crossed the wooden floor.
>The shop was scattered with glazed ceramic pots each brimming with its own species of flora.
>There was a rack with pre-made bouquets. They were edible. It was funny when she'd first shown Anon. They'd tried grass too, also funny.
>Then there were the rows and columns of small drawers with little stickers on them, filled with seeds.
>Unfilled paper packets, instructional pamphlets, glass bottles of weird plant elixirs..
>Boss said not to worry about those, they were a crutch Anonmare wouldn't need.
>A few vines were growing up the wall and snaking across the supports on the ceiling.
>And of course there was her boss' bonsai on the table by the front window, snugly in the corner. For aesthetics.
>"Heya Anon! You were gone kinda long today, I was starting to worry a little!"
>Anonmare turned around as the earth pony mare trotted over.
"Hey Meadow. Sorry, it.. yeah, it was uh.."
>Meadow's brow furrowed as she put her hooves on Anonmare's face.
>What the fuck, this was the second time today somepony was grabbing her head.
>And it was her cute boss. She could feel her cheeks getting hot. So much for having any dignity.
>"You look tired, are you okay? Are you feeling sick?"
>The mare was touching her forehead trying to check her temperature.
"Nnno, I'm fine, really, it's nothing like that. Mr Anon and I are getting married-"
>Meadow let go of Anonmare's face and stared at her, eyes wide with amazement.
>"Oh my gosh, Anon.. do you.. do you know what this means??"
"Uhh.. haha, well-"
>"Eeeee! Anon! It means we're gonna need flowers! Flowers for the wedding!"
>What. Oh shit. She had assumed they would just be signing some piece of paper or something.
>Her boss was doing a little dance on her hoof tippies in excitement.
>Fuck, of course there had to be a proper wedding.
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>Meadow must have noticed 'Mare's dumbstruck expression because she quickly calmed herself.
>"Sorry, you must be overwhelmed, let's sit upstairs, I wanna hear about it alrighty?"
"What about work-?"
>"This IS work! C'mon!"
>The boss gave her a reassuring smile and slipped back through the arch leading to the back room, Anonmare in tow.
>Sure, alright, just roll with it. Not like she was hoping the rest of the day would go normal.
>Meadow practically hopped up the spiral staircase two steps at a time.
>For Anonmare it was like ascending Sombra's stairs.
>Get it together. Maybe talking to somepony else was what she needed, somepony other than 'Mr Anon'.
>Once she made it up she was directed to the couch.
>"Juice?"
"Sure.."
>Anonmare made herself comfortable while Meadow started splitting and squeezing oranges at her kitchenette.
>Oranges. She was in orange country, which was its own level of disconcerting.
>After a minute Meadow had a glass filled and carried over on a little tray which she set down on the coffee table.
>The mare nudged the glass towards Anon before pulling up a cushion and sitting on the floor facing her.
>"Soooo?"
>Lifting the glass with both hooves Anonmare took a long heavy drink.
>She stopped to catch her breath and set the glass down.
"He proposed during my lunchbreak."
>Meadow was nodding.
>"It must have been pretty emotional.."
>Not for the reason you're probably thinking, boss.
"It was kind of a surprise, I don't think I was ready, he kind of just sprung it on me.."
>"But you said yes, right?"
"..Yeah, I did."
>Her bossmare was fidgetting with barely contained glee.
>"It's so cute! I'm happy for you Anon! Even if it must be kinda scary diving in like that."
"Mmm."
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>>42708539
>Anonmare's thoughts were starting to slide out of focus. Say something idiot.
>But Meadow read the mood and got there first.
>"Do you like him? He didn't coerce you or anything did he?"
>'Mare felt her face flush, despite the boss' real concern, her pride was being threatened.
"There's no way I'd let that f- ah.. Mr Anon, or anypony else, take advantage of me Meadow. You don't need to worry about that, I'm a strong mare."
>The boss gave her a small smile like she believed it.
"And besides, I don't believe for a second that he'd be capable of that. He's a good guy, hopeless even, he.. needs me."
>"Hehe, you only ever have nice things to say about him. That's why this is so exciting! You're finally doing it!"
>Anon frowned. Has her boss been shipping her?
"We haven't even been here that long, I'd hardly use the word 'finally'."
>Seriously, Meadow looked like she just couldn't help herself.
>"Ponies have been talking! They say you two look adorable together!"
>Was the whole town in on it? Was she the only one who hadn't seen it like that??
"Boss! We haven't been a couple! Not until today."
>Meadow stared at her, trying to process.
>"Oh.. ohhhh.. I think I get it. Wow Anon."
>The boss' smile grew a little despite the realisation. It was warm, apologetic.
>"You're in way over your head aren't you?"
>Anonmare shrugged and ran her hoof along the edge of the low table.
"That's putting it lightly. I don't think I can do this on my own. I need help. I need a friend."
>Meadow was glowing the moment she said that.
>"Anon.. I can be your friend."
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>>42708545
>Those words, they felt nice.
>But..
"You're my employer, is it really okay to mix work and life like that? Plus you're the one keeping me afloat right now, it's not exactly equitable-"
>Meadow peered at her curiously.
>"That's not how I see it Anon, you're helping me with my passion and I'm helping you to learn new skills, it's not just a job! I mean, I see where you're coming from.."
>"Sometimes when the girls and I get together it feels like it's just business. Or even.. like we're rivals. Especially when we're consulting with town hall."
>Right. The other flower mares. Boss talks about them from time to time but that's the first time she's called them rivals. That wasn't really a good sign.
>"You're different though! When I asked why you were interested in flowers you said they make the world a brighter place. Now you're like my cool side-kick!"
>Side-kick huh? Then maybe..
>"I wanna do it together! You're helping me, I wanna help you too! You need a friend, so we're friends, okay?
>There was no denying it, Anonmare's silly smile and the warm feeling in her chest were her answer.
"Okay. Thanks Meadow. Maybe.. it'll be fun. Getting married.. I saw how excited you got."
>Boss was nodding her head vigorously.
>"It will be! We'll make it fun! Do you have any ideas for what you want to do for it?"
>A Canterlot Wedding came to mind immediately. This was dumb, yes, she wasn't a princess- but fuck it!
"I might have an idea. I've never planned anything like this before though, what about you?"
>"Not events, no.."
>Think Anon, THINK.
"What about Tea Touché? She did the little party for me and Mr Anon."
>Meadow rubbed her chin thoughtfully.
>"Yeah.. maybe! She's done some stuff for town hall too, and she knows most everypony."
"Do you think she'll help?"
>"There's only one way to find out! How about we go see her tomorrow morning?"
"Okay, deal."
>Anonmare picked up her drink and finished it off, satisfied.
>This was kind of crazy, but it was better than lingering without knowing her next move.
>With renewed vigour she hopped off the couch, Meadow rising to join her.
>The two of them shared a grin and Anon felt just the tiniest spark of magic.
>Before she could move past, Meadow locked her into a hug, rubbing her face against her before letting go.
>"Hehe, you good now?"
"Heh, better than I've ever been actually."
>All that was left was to finish up the day here and head home.
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>>42708556
>The road out past the edge of town was pretty quiet, with most ponies settling in for the evening and only a few having reason to come out this way.
>Behind her the sun was descending, peeking out over the silhouette that was a medley of rooftops and painting the sky in brilliantly warm hues.
>And before her the moon was ascending, bringing with it a multitude of glittering stars and bathing the countryside in a soft ethereal twilight.
>The air was still, like it had paused to respect the passage of night and day.
>Every dusk was like this so far. How much was natural? How much did the two sisters craft?
>She stared across fields serene, past the slowly turning windmill in the distance and the orange orchards beyond.
>The mare in the moon stared back at her.
"Hey Luna. Sorry. It's incredible you know? Thank you. Wish I could tell you that it means more than you realise."
>She stopped when she got to the dirt path leading up to her and Anon's cottage.
>An older stallion wearing a classy western hat overtook her at a relaxed pace, his pulled wagon trundling along with him.
>"Evening miss."
"Evening. Have a good night."
>He tipped his hat and carried on.
>Anonmare turned and made her way up through the yard.
>There was light coming from the little front window, so Anonstallion was definitely in there.
"Alright.. coming inside."
>She pulled the door open, backed herself inside and pulled the door shut again.
>Home sweet home. Single story, one main room which was a kitchen and living room with a fireplace. Two bedrooms, one bathroom, utility/storage room in the back.
>There he was, propping himself up on the couch before scrambling onto his hooves.
>"H-Hey Anon, welcome back."
>Anonmare came up to him. He looked a little nervous, way more wary than she'd left him.
"Heya buddy.. you miss me?"
>She gave him a smile to show she was okay. That seemed to settle him down.
>"I did actually.. um, I picked up dinner, and I lit the boiler, I thought that after today you might want time to unwind."
"Yeah that would be nice, thanks. Let's see what you've got. Just gimme a sec."
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>>42708564
>She dipped into her room to ditch her stuff, when she emerged Anon was already unpacking a paper bag on the kitchen table.
>"I already ate so the rest is for you.."
>'Mare pulled up a seat and gave him a hoof. Immediately she caught the scent of frying oil.
>A hayburger, hay fries, onion rings in the shape of horseshoes and battered nuggies made from grilling cheese.
"The diner huh? Didn't know you wanted me fatter. Not bad though."
>Anonstallion rolled his eyes and sat with her.
>"You're fine the way you are Nonny, I'm not asking you to go piggy twiggy on me."
"Hah. You sure you wouldn't like that?"
>"I thought you hated the stereotype."
"Point taken."
>Anon leaned on the table and idly watched her as she took a bite of the burger. Already cold, and she got ketchup on her chin.
"Wow buddy- it's not even warm. You really know how to treat your soon to be wife."
>His ears drooped. She was trying to be playful but that may have come off a little poorly.
>"Ugh.. I'm sorry, I fucked up the timing coming home early. I'll do better-"
"Woah woah take it easy Anon, it's OK. You don't have to stress out about this stuff just because.."
>"..you're my marefriend now. Yes, I do. I owe it to you to be better-"
"I like you the way you are faggot."
>"S-Still. I'll.. learn to cook and..."
>He trailed off while she ate. The idiot did not need to be worrying like this, it tasted fine. The memories she got of eating leftover fast food were almost wholesome, even. Almost.
>This is what she had been afraid of though. Their dynamic was out of whack because he wasn't thinking of her as a friend anymore.
>Joking about it probably didn't help, but she had spent enough time brooding as is.
"Sure you don't want some? Kinda weird eating by myself here."
>He passed her a napkin from the bag and took a nuggie.
"Hey no, not those! Take some fries or something geez."
>The faggot smiled a little and followed her suggestion. He clearly wasn't hungry, the fries he ended up nibbling were more of a token gesture, but it still made her feel less awkward.
>Those fucking nuggies though, cullinary divinity. Who the fuck needs meat when you have these things.
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>>42708576
>A few delicious cold nuggies in and Anonmare was again trying to gauge her friend-turned-partner.
>There was a shadow over him, the way he was slouched, the subdued expression.
"You're being quiet, tell me what's wrong."
>Anonstallion shuffled his hooves, tense, without responding. It occurred to her that using that line never ended well.
"Buddy, you're getting what you wanted, right? I said yes. It's gonna be fine."
>He lowered his chin onto his forelegs and stared at the table, ears back.
>"..Nonny, I don't know if it will be. I can't get it out of my head, the way you started panicking. I never thought I'd see you like that. That it would be because of me."
"Well. I.."
>Shit, how does she respond to that? She can't pretend it didn't happen. He had been the one holding her, telling her to breathe.
"I'm okay now. We resolved it, so.."
>He lifted his head and flicked his gaze to her.
>"We barely resolved anything. You just agreed to.. to be with me, after making it clear you'd be more comfortable with a mare."
>She could feel the words choking in her throat, trying to find an argument.
"I-.. you-.."
>The way he was talking was upsetting her. It felt wrongly familiar. He better not. Do. Not. Fucking.
>"..I've been thinking about everything you said earlier. I shouldn't be doing this to you. I don't know why you said yes. W-We don't have to get married yet, we can take it slow, o-or even stay friends-"
>You have to be FUCKING kidding! Anonmare slammed her hoof down hard in frustration, making the faggot jump and freeze.
>He watched her, actually scared, as she put her weight on the table and hit him with the most piercing stare she could muster.
"Keep your promise Anon."
>There was that pathetic whine in her voice again, and the stare she gave him ended up being more pained than anything.
>She took a deep breath and leaned back in her chair. Her outburst had shocked the guy out of his idiocy but set him on the verge of tears.
>"You really want to do it. You really want to go through with it.. I don't understand.."
"I really shouldn't have left you alone in the park. I thought you'd be okay."
>Admittedly she HAD spent their lunch being contrary as fuck to him. No wonder he was confused. Her 180 was mental, why the fuck was she like this.
>Stop, just explain it to him.
>...
"Let me repeat myself. I want to marry you. I'm already making plans with Meadow Sweet."
>He stared at her in disbelief.
>"Y-You're making plans? Already? I only asked you TODAY!"
"Haha what can I say. I'm a mare of action I guess."
>She smirked and pushed a nuggie over to Anon before taking another for herself.
>In actuality, if it hadn't been for the resolve Meadow had given her, she'd be a fucking mess right now.
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>>42708589
>Anonstallion stared at the nuggie offering, concerned, surprised, he reached out and touched it gingerly.
>"You're unbelievable. I was wrong. Again. I still don't get it. Despite what you said about being stuck with this role, your resentment.. you're accepting it."
"..I didn't say I resented us, though. Or my decision. It was hard Anon, but I'm not going to do something that will make me unhappy."
>"Yeah but I might. I've been doing a real great job today."
>His sarcasm was dripping with poison.
>Anonmare slid out of her chair, stepped over and put her foreleg around him.
>The contact helped. He was giving her his full attention.
"Look, it's like when we got here. There's no going back. We might as well just go for it."
>He didn't seem sure, at all.
>"Is that the right attitude to have? There's obviously something wrong with this. I.. I don't want to hurt you Nonny."
"Buddy.. hey.. show me a smile okay?"
>He did, it was small and weak but he did.
>She thought about all the happy ponies she had seen today and poured it into her own.
>His smile grew, pushing the shadow away. He was crying.
>"You have a beautiful snowpity.."
>It felt good. She was giving him joy with her mare smile. She was saving him.
"You like it?"
>She held his gaze, gently patting and brushing his back. She wanted to make sure he had gotten enough.
>"I love it. I'm so sorry.."
>He picked up the nuggie that was under his hoof and offered it back to her.
>She took it off of him and ate it.
"Mm, good~ So what do you think? Resolved now?"
>Anonstallion let out a light laugh. At least the air was clearer now.
>"The only thing we resolved is how amazing you are. I still have my doubts Nonny."
"That's fine. I do too. Stuff I'm scared to deal with."
>It wasn't the easiest admission.
>"Y-Yeah. That's what bothers me. I don't want you to have to deal with.. whatever, just because of me. You said some awful things. About yourself."
"I know what I said. I'll deal with it buddy. I've had less than 24 hours to comprehend becoming a future cock-sleeve and I really don't want to talk about it."
>"H-Holy shit Nonny. O-Okay. Not talking about it. I trust you."
>She gave him a nod of appreciation and sat back down to finish what was left of her meal.
"Fuck, I really do need to unwind after today huh. This isn't going to be a regular thing, is it?"
>"N-No, I hope not. And Nonny, I'll keep my promise, I swear."
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>>42708596
>In the end they managed to finish dinner without slipping back into the stupid relationship mire.
>Mr Anon was holding himself together now. He was being chatty again. Anonmare could sense the tiniest barest bud of excitement forming in the guy.
>"If I learned anything today, you're.. more complex than I thought."
"I think the word you're looking for is 'difficult'."
>"-It's hard not to think about. How do you do it??"
"Just keep trying. Think of something nice instead. Like what you want to do. What your passion is. Focus on it."
>"Are you really making plans?"
"It's more like we're planning to make plans. Tomorrow. I'll give you the details when I know what's up."
>"Can I do anything to help?"
"You'll probably need to get something fancy to wear. Just give me time to figure it out."
>She started pouring herself a cup of water at the sink.
>There was another paper bag on the kitchen counter, this one with the bakery's logo.
"Buddy did you forget something?"
>He looked at the bag, blinked, slapped his forehead with his hoof and buried his face in shame.
>"That's.. supposed to be dessert. I forgot."
>Anonmare tried not to laugh.
"You didn't forget to pick it up for us though."
>She downed her water in steady gulps while clearing her head. She was getting mentally exhausted, but it looked like she was going to be able to relax now.
>When she was done she put her cup away, picked up the paper bag with her teeth and carried it over to the table.
>Mr Anon took out two cupcakes decked in frosting and set them out. One had a smiley face and the other had a heart.
"Nice. They're cute."
>She picked up the one with the smiley and looked at it, then at him.
>Anonstallion did pick up treats for them pretty often, but this time something clicked that hadn't before.
"You were thinking of me when you got these."
>It sounded dumb coming out of her mouth. Of course he was thinking about her, when he got food for the two of them, when he met up with her for lunch.
>"I've been thinking about you the whole day Nonny."
>Yeah. Exactly. That.
>She pulled at the paper holding the cupcake and took a bite.
>It was sweet. She savoured it.
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>A few bites later and her cupcake was no more.
>Anonmare nibbled the crumbs off of the spent paper before setting it aside and licking at the frosting that had gotten smeared on her snoot.
"Mmh. Appreciated. I still think that if we had Pinkie with us, I'd be dying of a sugar overdose-"
>Anonstallion hadn't touched his yet, he'd just been watching her with his cheek resting on his hoof, lost in his own little world.
"Buddy? All good? You gonna eat that?"
>"Hm? I'm good. Just feeling happy, y'know?"
>..Yeah, kinda. It could be worse. She had actually felt normal for a minute there. But him being out of sync like that.. part of her ached. She wanted her friend back.
>He straightened up his posture and regarded the second cupcake.
>"You can have this one as well if you want."
>Anonstallion picked up the cupcake and held it out to her.
>Buddy, no..
>She put her hoof against his and gently pushed it back towards him.
"I had mine. I want us to share like we normally do, okay? You bought two. That one is yours."
>He wavered. Don't overthink it buddy, don't-
>"You said as friends we were equals, but as.. erm.. as.. lovers, you.. that.. it's not fair. I have to balance it somehow."
>Anonmare gave him a weary, disappointed smile.
"You can't fix something unfair by making something else unfair. I'm tired buddy, I just want my bath and to go to bed."
>He immediately shifted, putting the treat back on the table before getting up on his hooves.
>"O-Of course. You're right. I'll give you some peace. Thanks for everything today Nonny, you.. you didn't have to stand by me."
"S'all good. We made it this far together. I'm not going to just leave you.."
>She barely registered her own words.
>"..That means a lot to me Nonny. You mean a lot to me. I don't want to leave you either."
"Mm."
>She gave him a little pat on the back and let him escort her over to the bathroom door.
>There was a pause while he waited for her to go in.
>"Uhm..?"
>Anonmare stared at the door, then down at the floor.
>Go on, ask him.
>...
"Do you want to help wash my mane?"
>"W-What? While you're in the bath??"
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>>42708615
>She glanced at him and started pushing the door open with her head.
"Yeah. Why not."
>It was more an assertion to herself than a question to him.
>"I-Is that okay? Are you sure?"
"Don't ask me if it's okay. Tell me if you want to."
>Anonstallion skittered, an equal mix embarrassed and enthusiastic.
>"Yes! I mean.. I'd like to. I just want to tidy up, then I'll come in."
"'Kay."
>She slid the rest of the way into the room and habitually nudged the door shut with her hind leg, leaving her alone.
>Anon had the bathroom lamp lit, just like the ones in the main room, but the more confined space made the warm glow extra cosy.
>Miraculously the two of them hadn't burnt the cottage down yet.
>As she started filling up the bathtub, she questioned what she was even doing.
>Baths were supposed to be her alone time, but she felt.. what do you even call this feeling? Friendsick?
>She wanted to spend at least SOME time with him tonight, doing something chill together without any bullshit.
>This was the best she could think of in the moment that she had.
>'Mare swished her hoof through the rising water, watching it steam. It was hot, so despite bringing dinner home early, Anon had heated the boiler at the proper time.
>He was pretty good about that whenever she asked him to. Him deciding to do it unprompted...
>The guy should have given himself more credit. There doesn't need to be any stupid balancing.
>Anonmare went over and opened up the cabinet drawer next to the sink to get matches.
>She had gotten a scented candle a week ago on a whim. Thanks to her new life she could actually enjoy taking her time bathing, so she thought she might as well enhance the experience.
>Meadow was into that sort of stuff too. Kind of a cute mare thing. Apparently the boss did flower petals and bath oils too, but that was going a bit far.
>For now. How long until you're fully like her? You're already fucking mind broken.
>Anonmare felt the tension pulling at her as she got the candle on its tray and started trying to strike a match.
>...She didn't have the energy for this shit. She was fumbling the match with her hoof, failing to get it to light when there was a knock on the door.
>"Um. Are you ready? Can I come in?"
"Mhm."
>Anonstallion creaked open the bathroom door and peeked shyly inside, blushing and shrinking away as soon as he spotted her.
>"Y-You're not actually ready."
"Wh- get back here faggot. You see me naked all the time."
>"Yeah but not.. in here."
"It's literally the same as always."
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>>42708624
>Anonstallion muttered to himself from behind cover, slowly slinked into the room and closed the door.
>"Alright, okay, same as always-"
>He looked at her just in time to watch as the match she was striking snapped. Anonmare groaned and tossed it across the floor.
"Ponies need to invent lighters. I swear..."
>Anon approached and stopped her as she was fishing out another match.
>"We'd need thumbs Nonny. Here, let me."
>She passed him the matchbox and watched him pick out a match with his teeth. He laid the matchhead against the striking surface, flicked his head and... the match flared in one attempt.
"Wow. Nice trick. When did you learn to do that?"
>He leaned in to light the candle for her, blew out the match and set the burnt stick down on the edge of the sink.
>"The chief showed me when I mentioned I was having trouble, I've been practicing it for a while now."
"Guess you're getting pretty good with your mouth."
>Anon looked pleased with himself, he had gotten to show off and had even gotten praised for it.
>Anonmare returned her attention to the bath, shut off the tap and dipped her hoof in, testing the temperature.
>Content that it wasn't too hot, she carefully stepped her front legs into the tub one at a time, followed by her hind legs, maneuvering herself in, trying to minimise any splashing.
>It was remarkably awkward the first time she had tried to get in the tub, when her instinct had been to go rear legs first. Shame Anon had missed that, he would have gotten a laugh out of it.
>Inch by inch she lowered herself into the water, feeling it rise up around her body and spill over her back as her belly touched the bottom of the tub, the heat soaking into her.
"Ahhhhhh... finally... I thought I'd never make it..."
>She closed her eyes, took in the fruity scent filling the air and basked in the warmth surrounding her.
>Anonmare dipped her muzzle below the water and blew bubbles before coming back up to yawn.
>The sound of movement brought her out of her trance.
>Anonstallion was sitting by the candle, cheeks rosy, staring at the wall like he had just witnessed something he wasn't supposed to.
"Oh yeah. I forgot you were there for a second, sorry buddy. I guess I'm ready now."
>She pushed herself upright and sat on her haunches, moisture dripping from her upper body as she rest her hoof on the rim of the bath.
>Anon brought himself sheepishly to her side, his excitement now thoroughly suffocated by whatever the hell else he was thinking.
"You don't have to be so shy, honestly Anon... you know what to do right?"
>"Err.. yeah. I've got this.. um.. close your eyes."
>She did, angled her head back and brushed her mane away from her face while listening to the sound of him grabbing the little bucket from the front of the bath.
>He was scooping, filling the bucket. A moment later she felt the rush of hot water pouring on her head, wetting her mane and flowing down the back of her neck.

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