Hi there! Welcome to the fourth episode of Portal to the Brony Life!... Speaking of, I've been thinking. Do any of you think I should rename and resummerize the story? Since it's not Blitz's rise to accepting Equestria anymore, does the title still fit? I hope some of you can give me a little advice on that, because I've been wondering that for a while now.

Also, I have some good news! We have reached over ten thousand readers on this story! I really never thought this story would even come close to this much! Every story I've ever made has only reached about two thousand at the very most! So to celebrate, I think it's time we start a new contest! It'll be like this from now one:

Every time I hit a five-thousand mark, I'm going to hold a contest for a new OC to be brought into the story! I can't just have one OC from a different person through out a story this big! To much strain one that! So, whoever gives the best QotC answer will get an oppurtunity to have their OC in the story! To make it easier for every one so there's no limit, I'm giving the contest a five-day time limit. Within five days, I will choose a winner and will send them a PM.

Remember, I can only do this to reviewers who have an account I can PM. So if you don't have one and your just a guest, sign up quick before the time limit ends! If not, then I can't get the OC from you.

So yeah, by the next chapter, the contest will be over. Good luck to all of you!

Anyway, with all that said, let's start-up the story!

Disclamier: I own no MLP, music mentioned (unless parodied for future references), or other famous subjects mentioned.

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"Knock knock knock... Knock knock knock... Maybe he's not home..." As I was asleep, some noise came from outside my house door. Being the heavy sleeper I was, I didn't wake up from it.

"I, I don't know Angel... If he's asleep then maybe we can just come back later... I wouldn't want to wake him..." Whatever or whoever was out their, one of them didn't want to come in while the other wouldn't take no for an answer.

"Angel don't-" But it was too late as the door was kicked open by... an impatient rabbit.

They saw me asleep on the ground in front of the door. "Blitz, are you okay?" Fluttershy asked, looking at the sleeping me.

All she got as a reply was a very silent breath, almost impossible to hear. But since their was pure silence, she and the rabbit just barely heard me.

"Oh thank goodness he's still asleep. Angel, you almost woke him up. Come on now, let's go before we do." Fluttershy tried to reason with the rabbit, who was apparently named Angel.

But Angel just ignored her as he went up and looked at my face, seeing if I really was asleep. He waved a paw right in front of my face, proving that I really was asleep since I didn't respond at all.

But Angel didn't give up though and he rubbed my nose, trying to wake me up by making me sneeze. Sadly, it back fired on him as I used my metal leg to try and stop whatever was touching my nose. Which resulted in a heavy metal leg drapped over Angel like he was an annoyed little teddy bear.

Fluttershy saw this and giggled at the sight. "Come on Angel, were going to be late for our usual Pony Pet Play Date."

Angel just kept ignoring Fluttershy, wanting revenge for me squashing him. He squirmed out from under my metal arm and got ready to bite into it. "Angel, no-" Fluttershy started to warn.

Bad news for Angel, it was to late as he bit into my metal leg and immediately regretted it. He jumped back and rubbed his big teeth, feeling sore from biting metal. That just made him even more mad. He jumped on top of my leg and as hard as he could, kicked me in the face.

It just barely worked though, as I started to wake up. "Huh... What's going on?" I looked at Fluttershy, with the fat that there was a bunny on my leg going straight over my head.

"Oh, were really sorry Blitz. It's just that Angel was anxious to meet you and wanted to say hi... If that's okay." Fluttershy explained apologetically.

I looked forward and saw a bunny tapping his foot on my metal leg impatiently. "Huh... There's a rabbit on my leg... Imagine that..." I said groggily.

Angel glared at me and Fluttershy spoke up. "He, um, doesn't like being called a rabbit Blitz..." Fluttershy told me.

"Oh... Sorry... Angel was it?" I asked. He nodded with a bland expression and jumped off me and onto Fluttershy's back. "So what did you need?" I asked as I got up. I was still ready to fall right back on my bed floor, but I was just awake enough to listen.

"Well since you're not busy today, we were all wondering if you could come to the Pony Pet Play Date with me and the others... If that's okay with you." Fluttershy told me.

"But... I don't have a pet." I said, stating the obvious.

She simply giggled and continued, talking more happily than usual. Probably because it had something to do with animals. "Oh I know. But the girls wanted to show you what kind of pets they have. Since you said that you had a lot of dogs as pets before, then I thought that maybe you would want a pet too." She explained.

Come to think of it, I was kind of missing having a pet. With my four dogs now gone, it was kinda boring not having any pet to just play with or anything. "You know what... I wouldn't mind getting a pet. But not a dog. It'd feel like I was replacing them or something."

"I understand. But don't worry, I have plenty of more animals I'm sure you'll love. Now come on, we need to meet our friends in the park." She told me. She hurried outside and went off towards the park.

I started to make my way outside. When I got out, I yawned like crazy. I was dead tired and only one thing could cure that. "To the clouds!" I thought as I took off to find a thunder-cloud before I went over to the park.

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"Perfect, every things set up!" I sat back as I looked down from a roof above, staring at what I was trying to get. An umbrella. It was just small enough for me to carry around in my small pack, and it was just strong enough to help me float around. That in itself was reason enough to have it.

I fastened my trademark baseball cap, backwards whenever I was hyped for something, and got ready to start the mission. "Bag? Check. Tight rope tightened around ankle? Check. Unsuspecting pony leaving umbrella on ground? Check. Ready... Set... Go!"

I jumped off the roof, using the tight rope as a make-shift bungee cord. As I was falling down, the pony didn't pay attention as she was trying to put her annoying cat in a carry on bag. That cat always tried to flirt with me, and I had to keep myself from gagging every time. And if I did end up gagging for real then that stuck up grey furred cat would try to claw the mask right off my face!

So with the pony distracted, I reached down and got the umbrella right from under her nose. With it in hand, the bungee cord pulled me back up, sending me back to the roof of the building.

With the umbrella in hand I put it into my bag and smiled at my accomplishment. At least now I can get around easier.

"You ruffian!" I turned around and saw that the pony that left her umbrella on the ground, was glaring straight up at me. I guess she did notice me take it. "Unhand my parasol!"

What a parasol was I had no idea, but I guess she also wanted back her umbrella back. But why would she want it back though if she just left it on the ground?! Yeesh, make up your mind unicorn!

"Hey!" I was startled and turned around, seeing a blue pegasus right behind me. Now those kind of ponies had a few coolness points in my book. They could fly! Man, I wish raccoons like me could have wings! "Give back Rarity's umbrella!"

I saw that she really wanted me to give it back to her friend. Hey, raccoons like me had a right to take trash. And since she left it there on the ground, I was really just doing my civic duty by picking up liter. Either way, I slipped on my custom made pack and backed up as the blue pegasus tried to stop me.

But I stopped when I hit a pebble, and heard it hit the ground below a few seconds later. I turned around, and saw that I was backed up to the edge of the roof I was on. When I looked back, I saw the blue pegasus looking at me. She wanted me to give back the umbrella.

But I wasn't giving up that easy. I put my hands in the air, looking like I was surrendering. The pegasus smiled, happy that I was going to give it back. But she frowned at what I really did.

I leaned backwards and let gravity do its thing. I started falling from a two-story roof, towards 'Rarity' as I learned what her name was.

"No, wait!" The pegasus called out as she tried to catch me, but I was already out of reach.

As I fell toward the ground, Rarity got ready to use her magic to catch me. But I was prepared for that too. Before I was in reach, I pulled out my new umbrella and opened it. It wind caught on it and I was floating through the air, riding the umbrella.

"Woah..." I heard the pegasus say as she and Rarity saw me going through the air. "Hold on Rarity, I'll get your umbrella." The pegasus got ready to catch me, and take the umbrella.

"No." Rarity said to her.

"What?!" the pegasus asked, wondering why the sudden change of heart. I was wondering the same thing and looked to Rarity.

"Let him go. He looks absolutely magnificent while going through the skies with my beloved parasol!" Rarity said with awe as she watched me float away.

"Ooookay then." The pegasus said, flying off the roof and landing next to Rarity.

I smiled and gave Rarity a two finger salute with me right hand, my own personal way of saying thanks. I looked ahead and saw that I was floating towards the edge of the park somewhere.

"Well come on Rainbow Dash. We mustn't be late to meet our friends at the park." Rarity said as she brought along her carry on cat with her magic.

"Right behind you. Come on Tank!" Rainbow Dash said as she turned Tank towards the park and flew next to him on the way.

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Twilight's POV

"Today is going to be great! With this new spell book full of so many advanced spells, and there's the Pony Pet Play Date today! I wonder what kind of pet Blitz will want?"

As I kept thinking to myself as I read over the spells in front of me with great anxiousness, Spike spoke up.

"Uh Twilight? What's with Owlowiscious?" Spike asked me, gesturing to Owlowiscious. Who was asleep on my back as I sat on the bench, waiting for every pony else.

"Well Spike, with all the new books I had to re-shelf, I had to work through the night doing so. Since Owlowiscious helped, he's pretty tired. He'll be fine after a small nap." I told Spike. He nodded, understanding.

After I told him that, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy came over.

"Hello Twilight." Fluttershy said to me, with Angel jumping off of her back.

"Hi Fluttershy. Where's Blitz? I thought you said you were going to get him." I asked. The others looked around and saw that Blitz wasn't here too.

"Probably couldn't wake him up." Rainbow Dash guessed.

"Oh no, Angel woke him. He said that he was going to meet us here and then flew off." Fluttershy told us.

"Probably to get his morning thunder." I guessed. "An adrenaline rush is an easier way to wake up." I reminded them all.

"Yeah, no kidding." We all turned around and saw Blitz landing behind us. He touched his metallic hoof to the ground and discharged the electricity from the thunder. By the looks of it, he had absorbed a whole cloud.

"Wish I could do that." Rainbow Dash mumbled.

"Eh, weighs out the bad side of being a cypony." Blitz noted. "So where's every pony else?" He asked.

"Well Pinkie Pie should be here soon, but Applejack can't make it." I informed him.

"So have you thought of any kind of pet you'd want?" Fluttershy asked. She was defiantly excited about the idea about Blitz getting a pet, and we all saw it coming.

"Well... I can't really decide. I kinda wanted something original. You know, something that kinda has its own style..." Blitz said out loud. It was obvious that he hadn't really give it much thought.

"Oh, well I have plenty of animals with their own style and personality!" Fluttershy said with some excitement. She was even more excited that she was going to be able to possibly let one of her more exotic friends find a new home.

"I think I could help you make a decision though." I offered. There was one spell I had just learned how to use, and I think that this would be the best time to use it.

"How so?" Blitz asked. All eyes were on me and I levitated my spell book next to me to show what I was talking about.

"I just recently learned a spell that helps you make-up your mind easier than usual." I explained to him.

He thought for a second and shrugged, ready to try it. "Why not. Go ahead." He said to me. Finally, a chance to try out one of these spells.

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Blitz POV

As we all waited for Twilight to start-up the new spell, I stood a few feet from all of them. I tried to think of any kind of pet I wanted. When I was a kid, I always wanted a llama. But since times have changed, not to mention I'm a pony now, I think that would be some type of slavery.

Then there was always a pelican. Those things were really cool in my book, and when I was twelve I always imagined me having one named Cap'n Bif. Yeah, he would have an eyepatch on his right eye, and have a deep voiced sailor accent, and could talk... Yeah, I think I had ONE to many Caprisuns when I was twelve, but come on the idea of having something like Cap'n Bif was just so funny and cool in my head I couldn't forget it.

Then I always wanted like a giant spider named Chuck. When I mean giant, I meant like human sized or something like that. It would scare everyone else away, but I always pictured myself saying something like, 'Don't worry! He won't bite, he just wants to hug your face!'.

All three of those things were impossible to have as pets, obviously, so I ended up just getting dogs. Four to be exact. Two boxers named Apollo and Alex. A Boston Terrier named Lilo. And then there was Pugs. Three guesses as to what type of dog she was. Still, they were great an I loved them all. But having a dog in Equestria sounded like I would be replacing them, and couldn't do that. Not to mention that there was so many different pets I could have here. I mean, sure the four of them have pretty normal pets like turtles, cats, and a bunny. But with Twilight having an owl, and seeing all of those animals Fluttershy had at her cottage, I knew there was room for a pet that I would never be able to have on Earth.

"Okay, here it goes." Twilight said as she closed her book after looking at the spell on last time. "Blitz, just start thinking of the kind of pet you would like to have, and this spell should make it easier for you to decide." I nodded, showing I understood.

We all then watched as her horn started to grow and she closed her eyes in focus. It looked like it was a pretty advanced spell or something because she was sweating a little from the amount of magic she was using.

But right as she was about to shot the beam of magic at me, the unexpected happened. Or should I say something expected happened unexpectedly. Pinkie Pie came out of no where with a small gator biting on her tail.

"HI every pony!" She said from directly behind Twilight, surprising almost all of us.

"EEEK!" Twilight squealed from the surprise and shot the spell at me. "Her squeal kind of reminds me of a mouse" Which was the last thing I remembered thinking before I was hit by a magical blast.

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"Pinkie Pie, don't do that!" I heard Twilight scold. "You scared all of us!"

"Sorry, but when I told Gummy the news that he would be getting a new pal to play with, he wanted to come over right away! You should've seen him, he was ready to go the second I told him! He was all like 'A new friend?! Let's get going Pinkie!'" Pinkie explained to all of them with a sort of deep voice that I guess was imitating what Pinkie thought Gummy sounded like.

"Well please be a little more careful next time? We were right in the middle of helping Blitz decide what kind of pet he wanted." Twilight explained to her.

"Oh, you here that Gummy?! Were right on time!" Gummy then blinked one eye at a time, showing no change in emotion. "Yeah I know!" Pinkie said out of no where. "So where is Blitz anyway? Oh wait, let me guess! Did he choose a chameleon and is hiding so he can see what it's like to be one so he could grow closer to it?!" Pinkie asked as she looked around, trying to find me.

Speaking of me, I was getting up from the ground. I guess something from the spell made me black out for a minute or two. I got up and looked around, seeing some random stuff scattered around me.

My box of toothpicks that I carry around so I could look tough at any time. Don't ask why, but I just liked to do so. Also there were some gold bits, along with some silver ones scattered around. Then my tool belt and shark tooth necklace. What was wierd though was that all of it got bigger.

I looked ahead and saw all my friends talking, but they got bigger too.

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Wait... My stuff, my friends, and even the trees and bushes around me got bigger? No, that wasn't it was it? Nothing got bigger, I got smaller!

"Uh, Twilight? I think your spell messed up." I said slowly.

"Huh?" Twilight looked at where I was standing and couldn't see me. Then she looked down and saw, "A MOUSE?!"

"Huh-Hey! I might be smaller, but do you really have to call... me... a mouse?" I looked at myself and saw that I was standing on two legs, I had paws instead of hooves, was brown colored, and had small whiskers. To match, I also had huge ears, an a skinny little tail that I could move around freely.

As I looked at myself, I started to tip over to my left, and fell down. Great, when she changed me, my android parts must've changed too, and now I had to lug around a giant metal ear! Not to mention my left arm! But I could feel my tail, so oddly enough it was normal. Which was wierd, but I didn't have time to question it.

I got up and got my bearings straight. I always leaned towards my left a little ever since I became a cyborg/cypony, so I could walk around without going off-balance because of some metal body parts weighing down one side. "Why am I a mouse?!" I asked her angrily.

"Uh..." Twilight tried to say something, but was at a loss for words. She consulted her book of annoying spells, and saw something. "Slight problem, which I'm sure you all will find really funny... Hehe... It seems that since Pinkie scared me, I put to much power into the spell and turned you into whatever you were thinking of." She explained.

"So when I heard you screeching in fear like a mouse, I thought 'mouse' and got turned into one." I finished. She frowned at what I related her to, but I spoke up. "Oh come on, you turned me into a mouse. I think you deserved me calling you something like that." I defended.

"Either way, just stay put until I find a spell to change you back." Twilight told me.

"Blitz, why do you look so wierd? Mice don't usually look like that." Rainbow Dash said.

"She's right. All of my fury little mice friends don't look like that." Fluttershy noted.

They were right. I looked like Jerry from Tom and Jerry, and not some regular run of the mill mouse. "I don't know. I guess when I thought mouse, I thought of a mouse from some old tv show I used to watch." I explained to them. I had already told them before that tv shows were really just plays that were recorded on a hi-tech machines, so they kind of knew what I meant.

As we all waited for Twilight I looked around a little. The tree was massive, the grass was now up to my knees, the cat Rarity had brought was missing from her carry on, I could smell cheese off in the distance... Wait, the cat was missing from her cage?!

"Uh oh, this isn't go-AH!" Before I could say what I noticed, I was picked up by my tail by the cat in question. She had my tail in her paw, and looked at me. "Woah there kitty, calm down now!" I yelled out, hoping the cat would come to its senses and realize it was me.

They all looked over and saw the cat eyeing me in her paw. She licked her lips and got ready to eat me whole. "Opal dearest, don't you dare eat our friend Blitz!" Rarity called out.

Opal ignored her though as she put me next to her mouth, ready to enjoy a mouse sized snack. I acted fast and tried to think of something that would help me out of this. I thought up something desperately and quick and grabbed onto something.

"MUNCH!" Opal bit down on what was right in front of her. Sadly for her, it wasn't me. She opened her eyes and a tear came out as she saw she had bit down on her own tail. In pain, she dropped me and held her tail, trying to ease the pain.

I could tell that she would be mad and come after me as soon as her tail didn't hurt as much. I ran off towards my pile of stuff, taking one toothpick out. I needed to get away from Opal.

"Get back here you rat!" I heard Opal say. I gave her a double take, trying to process what I just heard.

"Uh... How come I can understand what Opal just called me?" I asked them all.

"It must be because your part animal now! This is amazing!" Twilight said. "I have to note this in a journal!" She said happily.

I smiled and talked happily and with equal excitement. "Yeah! And you know what else you can put in there?!" I then went from super happy and excited, to angry and annoyed in half a second flat. "The will of your very first test subject if you don't hurry and change me back!"

"Right! Sorry!" Twilight said, snapping back to reality. I know that I probably said that a little too angrily, but can you blame me?! I'm being hunted by a common house cat!

"I said get back here!" I heard Opal hiss as she pounced towards me. To escape, I used the toothpick to vault over her and back to my pile of stuff. I had to get away from that crazy cat! Or at least distract her.

"Ally Oop!" I heard slowly from above. The next thing I know is I'm being picked up by the mouth of a turtle with a copter thing on top of him.

"Woah! Nice one turtle dude! Thanks, I owe you one!" I said, not knowing his name.

"Names... Tank." He said slowly after he put me on his back. Since we were a good nine feet in the air, we were safe from Opal's wrath.

"Right. Got it. Tank." I said, remembering the name of the turtle that just saved him.

Woo! Way to go Tank!" Rainbow Dash cheered as she did a backflip in the air. "I knew all those flying lessons would pay off!"

"Thanks... Rainbow Dash..." Tank said slowly.

"Tank says thanks!" I translated. I felt I had to do at least that much. "Twilight, how we coming with the reversal spell thing?!" I asked from above.

"I'm looking! Hold on!" Twilight asked.

"Get down here!" Opal hissed at us. I went to the middle of Tank's shell where she couldn't see me. I had to think of something.

"Hey Blitz..." I looked at Tank as his head went in his shell and pulled out something random. "Here." He put a toy rat in front of me. It looked like-! Like a cat's play toy.

"Perfect! Thanks Tank, I owe you two now!" I said. I could use this as a distraction so I could get down. I took my toothpick and stuck it to the rat toy so it looked like it was me. I then picked it up, and threw it down. It landed a decent distance away, I thank Tank's propeller for that, and Opal bought the bait. She went after it, thinking it was me. Wow, stupid cat.

"Uh oh..." I heard Tank say. The propeller acted up and he couldn't control it anymore. He flew out of control and went flying off in some direction, making me fall off and go towards the ground. Judging by it all, I would guess seven feet was just enough to give me a concussion or break my legs from the fall. If that happened I was doomed to be eaten by Opal!

As I fell, I tried to think of anyway for me to be fine. Even if I did land without getting hurt, how was I going to escape Opal's wrath until Twilight finally found a cure in that giant book of hers?! And even if I end up avoiding Opal, what else is going to try and catch me? With my luck, there's probably going to be a brand new pest control service in Ponyville opening today or something. That, and I just couldn't ignore that sweet smell of cheese all day! It smelled like there was some cheese paloza going on outside the park!

Oh, I know that this day is going to be interesting. Either I'm getting my fill of cheese, or a cat's getting her fill of mouse. Is this day starting off wierd or what?

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And so begins the chronicles of Blitz the Mouse! What's all this going to lead to? Well I won't say much, but some of the classic cat v.s. mouse cartoonish battles are sure to come from this! Who's coming out on top? Place your bets!

QotC: What is your favorite animal rivalry? (Ex: Cat and mouse) Why?