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The Story In Where Blitz Reads A FanFiction About Himself

Blitz's POV

(Some time after the Season 2 Finale)

"So after Blitz left...Ugh...The deep sea cove of Merponies and took off his diving suit, he couldn't help but smile dumbly at what all just happened..." I read out loud, earning a chorus of laughter from all six mares in front of me that were watching me try to read this stupid story. Turns out that after they found out about the show back on Earth, not to mention also learned about me hating the show before I came to their world, they had made a secret agreement to write the most embarrassing to read FanFiction about me as punishment.

First off; I didn't know how MLP FanFics were written, except for Cupcakes but I was sure that even haters had heard of that story already, but I knew a Troll Story when I saw it. This story made no sense, and didn't try to make any sense at all. The story started because I had run out of apple-flavored bread, take a wild guess as to which one of them wrote that part, and the only place left that had apple-flavored bread was apparently through all these over the top, random events that had nothing to do with any other event.

No seriously. Nearly every event that I've read has been completely separate compared to the others. I left to find apple bread -Is that even a real thing?- and I ended up having to beat a dragon at hopscotch...It was Pinkie's part of the story, so I didn't really know what to expect. Next, I had to win a spelling bee against a giant Bee. Hardy-har-har Twilight. And now, I just went underwater to the secret city of Manelantis in a diving suit and find a grotto of 'Beautiful Merponies' that apparently were very lonely.

...Sometimes I wish Rarity wasn't so obsessed with romance and romantic stories. Because with all those kinds of books she read, it was really hard to keep from going red in the face. Even more so since I was being forced to read the story in front of six mares. That were laughing every moment I cringed or turned red from what I was reading about myself. Yeah, whoever says these six are innocent compared to humans really need a wake up call! One that I'll be glad to give with my hoof!

The second thing I was annoyed at was just their reason for making me read this embarrassing story in the first place. They said that they didn't like the idea that so many Bronies were writing all these stories about them that were inappropriate, and they also hated that I didn't like their show, let alone gave it a shot. Why did this have to be my 'punishment' for not liking their show?!

I tried saying no about it, but they wouldn't hear it. And when I threatened to just leave, Twilight said that she'd just use her magic to put me into the story to live it through to the end. And after flipping a few pages real quick and seeing the kind of stuff written in here, I went ahead and chose the less life-scaring choice to just read it back to them.

And the more I think about it, the more sure I am that Twilight doesn't have that spell at all.

"How much more is there?..." I asked as I rubbed my eyes in hopes to keep those images out of my head. At this rate, my head's not just going to be stuck in the gutter. No. My head will be so rammed up the gutter that I'll be wearing it as a necklace if stories like this keep coming.

"Oh come now Blitz. Surely my part of the story wasn't so bad to read." Rarity said with a small smile.

"Wasn't too bad?!" I asked in disbelief. "That was the weirdest part there was! I'm sorry, but this is really starting to go too far for me! What's next? Am I gonna have to fight some rival of mine or something?!"

"Well, um...Actually..." Fluttershy said a little awkward smile. Looking guilty about what I had just asked them. And disregarding my better judgment, I started reading the next part out loud just to see what she was talking about.

"So after enjoying his time underwater, Blitz then looked forward to continue on his adventure to get some apple bread for breakfast. Only for him to meet his arch nemesis, Grizzly the Be-" At that moment, my face lost any emotion it once had as I slammed the empty journal that they had written the story in and let it drop to the floor. "Nope. Just. Just...No. I'm done." I announced to them as I got up to leave.

"Wa-What?!" Rainbow Dash yelled out in shock. "But-But you didn't even get to my part yet! That's not fair!" She told me, angry that I was giving up.

"No. What's not fair was you all forcing me to sit down and read the weirdest, most embarrassing story about me you could all come up with!" I said, focusing towards her even though I was talking to all of them.

"All things considered, I was being pretty fair this whole time. I could stand you all agreeing that I'd go so far for a lousy piece of 'apple bread', whatever the hay that is. Playing hopscotch with a full grown dragon for...For some reason. It was so out of left field, I don't even get it and I just read the darn chapter! I can stand for somehow losing a spelling contest to an I-N-C-R-E-D-I-B-L-Y ignorant 'King Bee'! And for the love of all that is Celestia's blinding sun, I can even last reading what is the most disturbing story of me simultaneously going out with twelve Merponies at once!"

"But I will not...bear...To read what is the most annoying bear that has always been aiming to get revenge on me since the moment I set hoof in Equestria! That bear is where I will very well draw the line! Again, sorry! But I just won't read any story that goes that far to get under my coat. I tried, I honest to Luna tried! But I just can't take it anymore! I gotta get out of here or something. See ya later!"

And after that giant explosion, I didn't waste a second to leave as I just flew out the door. Only for seconds later, the six of them burst out laughing.

"Oh my stars, that right there was a thing a beauty!" Applejack wiped a tear of her eye.

"I'm actually surprised he lasted as long as he had!" Rarity said in humorous shock. "Still, I can't believe a bear is what had brought him over the edge!"

"Yeah, that was hilarious." Rainbow agreed half-heartedly.

"I was sure that he would've given up after my chapter! How did he last that long?!" Twilight asked as she leaned against the wall to support herself.

My-my tummy hurts!" Pinkie cried out as she fell onto her back. "D-Did some pony get a picture of his face when he read Rarity's part?!"

"I wish we did! His face was redder than Big Mac after comin' in from the sun!" AJ went on, fanning herself with her hat. "Looks like you won Fluttershy!"

"Oh. Well, it wasn't really all me. He was already a little upset from reading all of your stories." She had shared the victory amongst all of them. That is except for one pony who wasn't laughing like the others were. "...Oop! I-I'm sorry Rainbow Dash! I didn't mean for Blitz to quit before reading your part..." She said apologetically.

"..." Rainbow Dash was barely listening to them though as she quickly read the end of Fluttershy's chapter before looking at her own.

"Um...Rainbow Dash? Are you alright darling?" Rarity asked. She, as well as the others were all still celebrating but looking towards her with happy smiles.

"Huh?...Oh! Y-Yeah, I'm fine!" Rainbow Dash said, secretly taking her chapter out of their book and putting it away before turning towards the rest of them. They all agreed that they wouldn't look at each other's chapters and just wait for me to read all of them out loud so it really would be like some kind of messed up story time.

But since Rainbow Dash's story wasn't read, she thought that it might be a good idea to hide the chapter before any of them saw it themselves. "Just,uh wish I could've seen the look on his face when he saw what I wrote down! The look on his face would have been priceless!"

The others were none the wiser, but what Rainbow Dash had actually written was something none of them, not even me for that matter, were expecting at all.

Of course, I had no idea what it was she wrote either since I didn't get to that part. But when I had flipped through the pages to see what I was up against reading wise, I saw a small note at the very end of Rainbow's chapter. Though, I only saw it for a split-second, so I didn't know what it was about. The only few things about it that I knew about it were that:

The note was written on the very end of her chapter.
The note, Rainbow Dash had written for herself.
The note that was meant to remind her to give a book back to Rarity. And...
The book that was originally Rarity's was titled; 'Writing Romance Novels'.

Disclaimer: I do not own MLP. All I own is the idea, Blitz, Joe, Morgue, Big Mike, and the idea of this story. Thank you.

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ACT I

Enter the Mane Humans!

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Introducing: The Honorable Thieves!

? ? ? POV

(Roughly 5:00 AM The Next Morning)

As I drove down the bumpy dirt road, the sun not even out from behind the trees from the forest all the way, I kept thinking about what Joe told me to do. Joe sent me a text to my phone some time last night and it told me to go to Wal-Mart to buy a bunch of stuff like shorts, and pants, and shirts for people around Joe's size. And because I always woke up really early, I saw the text at four in the morning and got up to get the clothes.

The thing was, I wasn't home yesterday. Yesterday was Friday and we had a really important football game that we had to play. I was the person that ran the football a lot, and I needed to come so we could win. I was always the biggest person on the field, and Coach said that I was 'The Team's Star Player'! So did the others too! Only, the school we had to play football with was our enemy or something, and they were the fastest team of them all. And they always beat our team. At least, that's what Coach told me before I started playing football for the school.

So since I didn't want to let them down, I told Joe that I was going to play tonight and that the others were planning a party for when we won at Quarter's house. He was the guy that threw the ball on our team. And he always threw parties at his house. Everyone from the school came to his parties. Except for teachers for some reason. He even threw this really big party every year. And this year, it was coming next Friday, so he was really excited about it!

Only since Morgue was still in trouble, we probably weren't going to it.

Tonight after we won the game, Quarter's threw the whole team, and those girls that were allowed to cheer on the field for some reason, a party at his house. Even the 'Fresh' high-schoolers who started playing football this year got to come to it! Joe said I was allowed to go to the party, but only if I drank water there. He and Morgue were always really scared of the others offering me soda because it might be the kind of soda Joe drinks that was for grown-ups only.

Still, I left early from the party to get the clothes and now I was just now getting back to The Homeland. It was around seven in the morning right now, so using my 'Big Mike Logic' I think that Joe was probably sleeping right now. So I had to come home really quiet so I didn't wake him up.

The first thing I did was drive up to the gate. It had this the number-code-thing that was in front of the gate that you had to put the right numbers in a secret order. But I wasn't good at numbers though, so I couldn't remember the code. Also, it's really hard for me to remember a lot of stuff. Like numbers, and names, or even how some stuff happened. But if someone can help remind me, then I can try to remember it better!

That's why my brother wrote the code for the gate down and put it on the sun blocker thing that's always in every car, or van or whatever it might be. So to help type in the code, I opened the sun blocker and looked at the code as I typed it into the little number machine.

"4-7-2-6." I said out loud, looking back and forth from the two things. Putting the code in really carefully so I wouldn't get it wrong. When I did put the number in right the first time, the gate opened up so I could drive inside. Only this time, the gate was really quiet when it opened. Usually the gate squeaked really loud and got stuck on some pieces of the ground. But now, it opened up without being loud or getting stuck.

I didn't mind it though. Because now it was even easier to come home without making too much noise.

So, as quiet as I could, I drove the van through the gate and turned off the lights as I drove over to where I always parked the van. Which was right beside this really nice black truck that was parked inside here for some reason. But before I could really think much about the truck that was here, I looked around The Homeland and saw how a bunch of other stuff was different.

The roof of our house always had leaves, and sticks, and water from the trees and stuff. Only now, it was completely clean. All the stuff was cleaned off the roof, and it wasn't even on the ground around the house. It was all in the fire pit, still burning along with a ton of tree branches too with green fire. Which was kinda weird. I thought Joe said that we didn't have anymore of that stuff that makes fire change colors.

That wasn't it though. The square bushes that were beside the house got haircuts, the windows were shinier, the grass was shorter, and even the broken parts of the fence were fixed! But...I thought Joe told me that they were always electrified...

And even though everything looked really nice now, Joe even set up Morgue's Obstacle Course! Morgue used it everyday and loved to try and beat his own time. I was too big for it, and Joe isn't strong or fast enough. So if both of us never used it, why did he set it up?...Or. Wait...How did Joe set it up by himself?! It's hard for even all three of us to set it up!

...Hold on, why is that black truck here anyway? Joe didn't have a van or car of his own, and he didn't like big trucks like this one. He only liked smaller, dirt-road trucks...Does that mean...

I turned the van off, got my extra large-sized lunchbox and the few bags of clothes that Joe had asked me to get, and stepped out of the van. Looking around, I saw that the house lights were all off except for the TV that was on. And the barn that was on the other side of The Homeland had a light or two on inside there.

"Bark-Bark!"

"Huh?" I said out loud, looking at the house and barn. But the barking didn't come from those two places. Instead, they came from the patio, where my dog had come running out from under.

"DAN!" I cried out as I ran towards him and met him halfway to give him a big hug. "Big Mike missed you, Dan!" I told him as I kept hugging Dan while he kept licking my face since he was really happy.

Whenever I had to stay away from home because of something, Dan would always want to stay outside and wait for me. And whenever I was gone for the night, Dan would always spend the night outside too! And he usually slept under the patio if it rained, or snowed, or was windy or something. Because of that, Joe always said Dan was a famous dog!...

Oh, wait, no...He said Dan was like this one famous dog. I didn't know any famous dogs except for Scooby Doo, but Joe said that there was this one dog that liked waiting for trains or something, and that Dan was like him. I didn't really get it, but Joe just told me that it meant Dan was really loyal. So that was good enough for me.

"So Dan! Did you keep out all those evil squirrels away while I was gone?!" I asked him with a big smile as I petted his head happily. I never really told Dan this, but I always knew that squirrels weren't really evil. They were nice, and fluffy, and had tails that were fun to watch whenever they were running around. I can't tell Dan though, because that would make him really upset.

Except this time, he didn't bark in victory or whimper in defeat like he usually did when we talked about squirrels. But this time, he did something way better than tell me about his fight with squirrels. This time, he looked back to the patio that he was at before I got home and barked a few times.

And that was when I saw what exactly Dan thought was better than chasing evil squirrels. Actually, it was four somethings that were better than chasing evil squirrels!

The first one was a small bird with tiny eyes and a small orange beak. He had a camera tied to his head like a headband and the camera had a red light blinking on it. But the owl didn't seem to mind that it was there.

The second was a small gator with purple eyes and a red balloon tied to his tail. Good thing the balloon was there too, or else it would be kind of hard to see the small gator under the grass. He was like a ninja gator or something.

The third animal was a raccoon. But it wasn't just a normal raccoon. This one had a baseball hat, and a small golf bag filled with stuff. He was kind of like that raccoon from that cartoon movie...But what was the name again?

And finally, the fourth animal that Dan made friends with was- "A bunny!" I yelled out as I got up to run over and meet all the animals. Only, I didn't stand up right and ended up falling back on the ground. But it was okay! I ended up landing in front of all of them so I was able to see the bunny! "Dan, did you make a bunny friend?!" I asked, looking over towards him with a big smile on my face.

Dan barked to tell me 'yes' so I then turned back to the bunny. "Hi Mr. Bunny! My name is Big Mike! And this is our home! Where do you live?!" I asked, really excited to meet a bunny myself. Of course, I tried to stay a little quiet. Bunnies had those big ears, so if I yelled too loud, he would probably hear it too much and get hurt from me yelling. At least, I think that's how bunny ears worked anyway.

Only, when I asked him that, the bunny didn't look too happy to meet me. He didn't run away like most bunnies, or people, did when they met me, but he did look upset about something when all he was doing was frowning at me with his arms crossed.

"Oh. What is it Mr. Bunny?" I asked, looking at him. Worried that I might have done something wrong by accident, so I scooted back from him and the other animals a little bit. The rest of them were kinda watching me say hi to the bunny though.

The bird flinched a little like a lot of other people do whenever I run at them, but he stopped and just watched me with a confused look on his face. I knew what confused was because I got it every time Morgue, or Joe, or the teachers said something that I didn't get, so I could see when someone else was confused.

The raccoon was really just looking at me really confused the whole time. I was bigger than even other people, and the raccoon had to think I was a giant because of how small he was. So he didn't know what to think of me I guess. But still, he looked really cool with his little hat and golf backpack.

The small gator didn't do anything though. When I ran up to all of them, he just stared at me as he made a weird sound when he opened his mouth. His mouth looked like he was kinda smiling though, so I think he was a nice gator. Not like most gators that lived in swamps.

Then there was Mr. Bunny. Only instead of being scared, or confused, or blank, he just had this angry look on him. Even after I scooted away from him. Actually, when I scooted away he crossed his arms and looked away. Too mad at me to want to say anything to me. Except, he wasn't able to tell his tummy to keep quiet. Because it made a bunch of sounds.

And like being confused I know what that meant.

"Are you hungry?" I asked, not really knowing what to do right now. So I just sat up and looked down at him and the others. But I think I was right because that was when the Mr. Bunny looked at me.

"Oh! You Are hungry!" I yelled out. Good thing I figured it out. I didn't want Mr. Bunny to get hungry! "Hold on Mr. Bunny! Big Mike thinks he has a carrot in his lunchbox!"

I grabbed my lunchbox that was next to me and opened it up to try and find them. Joe always packed my lunches and always gave me a small plastic box of peas and carrots to eat. He always told me to eat them before I ate the three Fudge Round snacks he packed for me. Even though sometimes I ate those whenever Joe's not looking.

So after I got out the plastic box, I opened it and put the peas and carrots right in front of him. The carrots were all sliced up and mixed with the peas, and all of it was cold now, but that didn't really matter to Mr. Bunny. He just started picking out the carrot pieces and eating them. And the raccoon started getting the peas to eat too.

When I saw that the bird and the gator weren't eating any though, I looked around some more for stuff that they could eat. I already ate my roast beef sandwich, so meat and bread for the gator and bird wouldn't work. "Oh wait! Here it is!" I said after pulling out some stuff.

The first thing was a small pack of crackers. I took them out of the bag and smashed them all up in my hand. Scaring the bird until I opened my hand to show him that I was making crumbs. And after I put them on the ground in a crumb pile, he started eating them up. "Glad you like it Mr. Bird!"

Then I got a Fudge Round out and opened it. Hoping that the gator would like it. "Big Mike's sorry Mr. Gator, but that's all Big Mike have. Big Mike hopes you like it." I put it in front of him and he ate the whole thing in one bite really fast. "Woah! That was so cool Mr. Gator! Big Mike thinks he's gonna call you Ninja!"

Even if I wasn't good at people's names, calling people stuff like 'Ninja' or 'Mr. B' or names like that were easy to remember! That's why I liked my name, Morgue's name, and Joe's name so much! It was really easy to remember!

Speaking of Joe and Morgue, the raccoon kind of reminded me of all of us. So since they were eating and I was kind of watching, I tried to talk the raccoon to be friendlier to them. "Hey Mr. Raccoon?" I asked. And when he looked up at me, I started to talk some more.

"You know, me and my brothers, Morgue and Joe, are thieves too. Only, we don't wear masks on our faces." I told him with a smile an nod. At first he looked really angry that I called him a thief, but when he saw me smiling, he got confused again. But I wasn't paying much attention since I was looking up with a smile on my face.

"Yeah. The three of us are a team. Kind of like all of you. And Dan stays to guard our home. Right Dan?" I asked him. He walked over and laid down next to me. Giving me a doggy smile and barking at me. "Yep! And we always call ourselves The Honorable Thieves, and we live here at The Homeland! We always try and steal stuff from people who don't deserve their stuff or got it all in a ad way. Only..." I stopped for a couple of seconds and frowned.

That's when all of them looked up at me and saw that I looked sad. Even Mr. Bunny even though he was still eating the carrot pieces. But that was fine, I think he was really hungry anyway.

"Our leader Morgue isn't here anymore." I went on, a tear coming out of my eye as I looked at them. "You see, one day there were this really mean guy. Big Mike calls him Evil Ed since his name was too big to remember. Evil Ed was trying to steal from this really nice old lady's house when she was gone. So when Morgue saw that, he called the police, stole Evil Ed's car and then drove it into the river."

Mr. Raccoon then dropped onto the ground while he was holding his tummy. Laughing at how funny it was that Morgue did. And Mr. Bunny stopped eating to try and hear more of it.

"Yeah, it was funny! And it was really great because since Evil Ed couldn't get away, the police caught him and gave the nice old lady all the stuff that Evil Ed tried to take!" I said with a smile. Only...Evil Ed got out of jail. And he was really mad at Morgue for throwing his car into the river."

The smile went back into a sad face. "So he and his friend tried to get back at Morgue in a really bad way. They stole someone's car, drove it around town and ran into stuff, and came here since they found out where we lived. And after they came here, they left the car and got away before the police could see."

They all stopped eating their food and looked towards me. Wanting to know really bad what happened next. But that's when I started to yawn. "Oh. Big Mike's sorry. But he woke up at four, and he's really tired. I'll tell you the rest tomorrow though. Big Mike promises."

They all looked really upset that I didn't tell all the story, but I still got up and yawned again. I think I needed a nap or something before I did anything else. I didn't get much sleep since me and the rest of the football team were having a big victory party.

So I picked up the bags of clothes that Joe told me to get and started walking inside to sleep in my own bed. And when I walked over to the door, the bird, raccoon, and bunny all looked at each other with worried faces. Then when the raccoon and bunny ran off to the barn, and the bird and Dan jut looked at me with kinda scared faces as I walked inside the house. The gator was just finishing all the peas though, so he wasn't scared or anything.

But since I didn't really see what they were up to, I just let them have fun by themselves when I went inside. And closing the door behind me, I saw that the TV was on with One Piece playing.

"Awww...Joe started watching One Piece again without me." I said sadly before putting the bags of clothes on the table and reached for where Joe always put the remote. The music was still playing and I didn't want Joe to wake up from it.

Only, the remote wasn't where it usually was. But there was something else there instead. It felt kind of like a small log that we put into the fireplace, but it had fur all over it that felt like Dan's fur. And after trying to pick it up, it moved away from me and over to the couch. That's when I saw that it wasn't a log, but it was someone's arm!

I couldn't see who was there because of how dark it was and since they were under a few pillows and a small blanket. But I could see the. The outside line of their face and their eyes. "Huh...Who are-" The person then yawned. "Who are you?..." A really quiet voice asked. The voice kind of sounded like I did whenever I thought I did something wrong...What was it called again?...

"Oh. I-I'm really sorry. I thought your arm was the remote for the TV..." I asked slowly, putting my hands together near my chest so I wouldn't do anything else wrong. I didn't mean to do anything wrong. "Did. Did I wake you up? I'm sorry..." I apologized the same time as I moved my thumbs in circles and looking down at my hands.

"Oh, um...It's okay...Iron Will?..." The stranger asked, sounding really confused because of what I looked like.

"Huh? Who's Will?" I asked, looking up at the person. And when I did, I saw that they were leaning away from me. But this time, I also saw that they had long pink hair. "I'm Big Mike, who are...Oh, right. You were trying to sleep...In...My house." I said, figuring out that she was trying to sleep in my house.

"Y-Your house?" The stranger asked, sounding kinda scared now. "I thought this was Joe's house."

"Joe's my brother." I said, getting kind of angry. A stranger was sleeping in our house and the lady knew who Joe was. Was this person a bad person? "Who are you?" I asked, standing up straight and frowning at the person. No way was I gonna let a bad person hurt me or Joe.

"My...My name's Fluttershy..." The person said very quietly.

"Roster Cry?" I asked, repeating the name how I thought they said it. I didn't look angry anymore, but now I was really confused. "Is that a boy's name or a girl's name?" I asked.

"No. My name's Fluttershy..." The person said again, but it was still really hard to hear. Even harder than usual since the One Piece song was playing. So as they kept telling me stuff, I turned the TV off after finding the remote.

"Butter Lie? Uh...Is that a girl's name?" I guessed. Her voice did sound kind of like a girls. But I didn't know. "Wait, Joe told me to get some clothes for girls...Are you a girl?"

"Um, yes I'm...I'm a girl. Is that a bad thing?" Dancer Dye asked, not sure if it was a good thing or a bad thing.

"No, I don't think it's a bad thing." I said, looking down at the clothes that I put on the table. And after looking at the clothes and back at Barron Fly. "It's just that Joe asked if I could get some girl clothes from Wal-Mart..." I waited to see if she said anything, but since she didn't I just asked another question. "Are you naked?"

"Naked?" She repeated, sounding really confused after I asked that question. "Well...I guess you could say that. But the six of us don't usually wear clothes at-"

"AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" I screamed out really loud, covering my hands over my eyes right after she said that. Then I started to back down the hallway that was behind me to get to my room. "There's-! There's a naked girl in my house! I-I'm not allowed to-AH!" But before I could get to the hallway, I tripped over something and fell backwards onto the floor. I kept my eyes covered, but now I didn't know where anything was!

"OW! Hey, what gives?!" An angry girl's voice yelled out! Wait. Rudder Sly said that there were- Oh no! Now there's two of them!

"W-Wah-Why are you two naked girls in our house?!" I asked, trying to sound angry and scary because...I wanted to scare them maybe? But it didn't work too well since I was covering my eyes and was on the ground looking really scared already.

"Oh good gracious Rainbow Dash, why must you be so loud in the middle of the-ni-aie-AIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE! What in Equestria?! Who is this brute?!" A really fancy, and scared, voice yelled out in fear.

"I-I'm Big Mike!" I yelled out. My face getting more and more red with all these naked girls around me! But I didn't even try to move my hands away from my eyes! "You're all in our house! Why are you three naked girls in our house?!"

"Oh, hey girls! Are you all throwing a 'Middle of the Night' Party without me?! I thought I told you that I love those kind of parties!" A really happy -one, two, three- fourth girl's voice yelled out from the kitchen!... Wait, hold on, the kitchen?! Aw man, now the naked girls are eating my food! "Oh, is that another human?! How could you invite another human to your party, but not Pinkie Pie?!" She asked before I heard her jump over to where I was. "And this human's way bigger than Joe or Blitz! But, how's come he's covering his eyes?!"

"B-Because my Dad said so!" I yelled out as I tried to scoot backwards across the floor with my hands covering my eyes. "My Dad always said to never do three things to a girl! Don't treat them bad! Don't hit them or hurt them! And don't peep on them! And the girl on the couch said that all of you were naked!" I said, pointing a finger at where I think the girl on the couch was. while covering both eyes with my other hand.

"Oh, what in tarnation is goin' on?!" A really tired, western girl's voice asked from across the room. Aw, was she in my big chair?! I sit there!

"Girls! Why are all of you yelling?! The Princess hasn't even risen the sun yet!" A...Uh...One, two, three, four, five- six! A sixth girl asked when she was really annoyed and tired!

"WHY?! Why are six naked girls in our house?!" I yelled out, sounding really sad since I was on my back with my hands over my eyes almost crying in front of all of them.

"Uh, naked?" The western girl asked, sounding really confused since I was about to cry. "Well...Uh...I got a hat on."

"That's not good enough!" I yelled out, tears coming from under my hands. "JOE! HELP ME-HE-HE-HEEEE!..."

At that second, I heard the front door open really loudly as more people ran inside. "What's going on in...Big Mike?" I heard someone ask me with a kind of surprised voice.

"Joe! You have to help me!" I yelled out, hoping it was Joe. It was really hard to tell though since I couldn't hear anyone's voice too well anymore. "It's horrible! I'm surrounded by naked girls that broke into our house!

"Naked girl-what are talking. About..." I heard Joe say before he breathed a little loudly and slapped his face like he usually does. "Big Mike, have you seen any of them yet?" Joe asked me.

"Nu-uh! Dad said to never peep on naked girls! And I won't!" I yelled out, not moving my hands from my eyes as I shook my head.

"My, how chivalrous." The fancy voice said in surprise. "And here I thought chivalry was dead."

"Chivalry is never dead Ms. Rarity, it's simply packed away on a shelf." Joe told the fancy voice one. "Big Mike, there's something you don't know. One, these aren't exactly girls. They're known as mares. Second, they're not exactly naked either." Joe explained to me.

"But...Danger Die told me!" I said, pointing back to the one I was talking to earlier.

"Um...My name is Flutter-"

"You may want to hold your breath Ms. Fluttershy. My brother's horrible at remembering names. He'll always get it wrong if it's ever more than five letters." Joe told-OH! Fluttershy was her name!

"Wait a minute, that's yer brother! He looks three times yer size!" The western one said.

"An even more surprising factor is that I'm two years older than he is." Joe told her.

"Woah, what?! But he's...Giant!" The angry voice from earlier said.

"Um...Big Mike, was it?" The last voice that was annoyed asked calmly. "Ahem...My name is Twilight Sparkle. But, you can just call me Twi if that's easier to remember."

"Uh..." I said carefully, not wanting her to be annoyed at me. "Okay...Twi? Did I say it right?" I asked, not sure if I did or not. I wasn't good with names.

"Perfect. And the other girls are my friends. Rare, AJ, Dash, Shy, and Pinkie. Er, I mean, uh...What's a shorter name for-"

"Rare. AJ. Lash. Shy. and Pinkie. Yeah, I think I can remember those names." I said with a smile.

"Uh, Big Mike? The names Dash. Not Lash." The angry one said since I got it wrong. But she wasn't angry about it, she sounded really calm now.

"Oh, sorry. Dash. Like with running?" I asked to make sure.

"Well, more like flying, but...Yeah, I guess you could say like running." Dash told me.

Twi then started to tell me more stuff about them. "All of us and two more were sent here by the princesses to try and help all of you with something. You see, we're from a world called-"

"Wait a second, the princesses!" I yelled out, uncovering my eyes to see Twi, who was now in front of me. "You mean the two really big horse people that can move the sun and the moon?! The ones who let me and Joe say hi to Morgue on The Gang's anniversary! Those princesses?!"

"Uh...Y-Yeah, that's them..." Twi said as she slowly backed away from me because she was a little scared of me now.

That's when I realized that I wasn't covering my eyes anymore and that I could see them. Only, it was okay because they weren't really 'naked' or anything. The one in front of me, Twi, was purple and had a horn like the princesses, but no wings. The one coming out of the kitchen was pink and had really curly hair, and looked like a normal horse-person. The one I was talking to on the couch, Shy, was a really light yellow color and had light pink hair. Another one that was on my big comfy chair was orange and had a hat on. There was another on the ground that was blue and had hair that looked like a rainbow, and the last one was white and had fancy looking purple hair.

"Uh..." I said really slowly. Not sure what to do. There were six of them all over the living room and like Joe said, they weren't girls...Well, maybe they were girls, but they all looked like Dan's size. "Hey Joe?" I asked, looking at Joe who was at the front doorway.

"Yes Big Mike?" Joe answered, looking at me with a calm expression as he tried to catch his breath. Maybe that's why the barn light was on.

"I don't think that these are human girls." I told him after using my Big Mike Logic to figure it out.

"Wow. He is kinda stupid." The rainbow one said, before Twi made her horn glow. And at that same moment, the rainbow girl's tail started to move her backwards away from me.

"Yeah, I am kinda stupid. But I don't really care too much." I said with a smile before I stood up and wiped the tears off my face. "Oh! And Joe, I forgot to tell you. I brought the girl clothes you told me to get from Wal-Mart."

"Thank you Big Mike. Also, it's probably for the best that you came early. Me and the others need your help setting up Morgue's obstacle course." Joe told me with a nod.

"Okay! I never had a chance to do my morning exercises anyway." I said as I went out the front door to go to the barn. Since the gang was counting on me to be the brawn, I had to be as strong as I could be! So every day I woke up early to run a few miles, lift heavy things, and other stuff. But since I fell asleep early and came straight home after waking up, I was missing out on it all. "I'll make sure it's ready before the sun comes up!"

"Thank you Big Mike." Joe told me with a nod before looking back at the girls. "My apologies. I didn't expect my brother to come home early after sending him a message. Get some more rest. You'll need it for what we have planned." He told them before leaving and closing the door behind him. Leaving all the girls to sleep until it was time for them to get up for real.

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(8:00 in the Morning)

(Outside the house)

Blitz's POV

"Remind me again why you couldn't let me sleep in." I told Joe as I stood beside him, Big Mike, and Spike, who was leaning against my leg in hopes to get some more sleep. Me and him both passed out at around three in the morning. Usually I lasted till four at the least, but I wasn't using to working non-stop on boring and tedious stuff. Plus Joe was even more of a perfectionist than I was. If something was even a little out of place, he forced us to fix it.

Oh well, at least it was partly cloudy and a bit foggy this morning. And even though I was a human, I was still able to gather up some clouds and sleep on them. And let me tell you, Earth clouds are even more comfier than Equestrian clouds! Probably because they weren't industrial-made like Cloudsdale's clouds.

"Well sorry if you can't live with five hours of sleep. Not to mention, I did offer you two coffee." Joe said as he drank some from coffee of his own from a thermos.

"We told you...Coffee tastes horrible..." Spike mumbled before yawning deeply. Which in turn made me yawn.

"Same here. Don't you have any Diet Coke or something?" I said before yawning a second time.

Joe then finished his sip of coffee and sighed before looking at Big Mike. "Big Mike, could you get the babies their drinks? We need them wide awake if we're going to get anything done here."

"On it!" Big Mike said before running off inside to get me my soda.

"And chocolate milk for me if you have any!" Spike yelled out lazily.

Big Mike looked back towards us with a nod and a friendly smile. "Got it! Diet soda and chocolate-UGH!" Before he could repeat the order back to us though, he ran into the brick wall that was besides the doorway. "Ow..." He said, not sounding all that effected by it. "And chocolate milk! I'll be right back!" He finished before going back through the door the right way.

When I woke up, it was actually kind of a strange reunion. Joe told Big Mike to wake me up, and when I finally did after being shaken around like crazy he realized that it was me. And when I was so ready for him to start yelling at me, threaten me, or hurt me, he just let go of me and started crying that second. He looked so different than when I always met him. The big tough guy that always acted so mean and cruel looked like a shell of what he used to be.

He kept saying sorry about everything he remembered doing, and I felt bad for him. Joe had told me that it was all Morgue's idea to have all of them bully me, but when Big Mike said it one sob at a time, it was clear to me that what Joe said was only the beginning of it. I eventually just kept repeating to him that it was okay, but he kept crying. Even to the point where Joe had to help him snap out of it.

Joe found someway to make him calm down, but I could tell that Big Mike was still really sad about it. And with him being more than okay with getting me whatever I wanted without complaint, I think that he wanted to make it up to me somehow. Only, I didn't want to take advantage because he acted just like Fluttershy if not even more when he was upset and sad about something.

So I decided to just go the modest route and tried to just forget whatever happened. But even still, I had no idea how this would all play out. I guess it would all depend on what's going to happen.

As me and Spike waiting for our drinks though, the girls all came out first. Rainbow Dash, Twilight, and Rarity all looked tired too, but Pinkie, AJ, and Fluttershy looked wide awake.

After taking one more sip of coffee, Joe greeted them as they all came out. "Ah. I see that you're all done with your breakfast." Joe said as they all came out. "And before you have a chance to say anything, sorry it wasn't exactly five star quality." He apologized. Yeah, no kidding. My scrambled eggs were burnt and the oatmeal was soaking wet!

"Ah, that's alright! Sides, it's better than Big Mac's cookin', so at least ya got that." AJ said with a more upbeat attitude than usual. Maybe because she woke up to the smell of Apple and cinnamon oatmeal and pancakes with applesauce mixed with the batter.

"Speak for yourself. Those eggs seemed a bit too burnt if you ask me." Rarity countered, obviously not happy about having to wake up early. I knew those eggs were too burnt.

"That's why I'm not the cook of the group." I heard Joe mutter. "If any of you are still tired, feel free to get some coffee. But be warned that there's probably something else that'll wake you up much quicker."

"And what's that?" Twilight asked as she simply walked over to the small folding table Joe set up. It had cups, cream, sugar, and of course the coffee for them to make however they wanted.

"Well as we left you all to enjoy your little One Piece marathon; me, Mr. Spike, and Mr. Zeke all started to work on a few stations to prepare you for your visit here on Earth. One's that'll help you learn how to use your arms, legs, and fingers well enough to blend in." He told them. And when he says 'we' he actually means that me and Spike did all the heavy lifting while he just told us what to do while working on the computer. Fair, ain't it?

"Arms and fingers? What do you...Hold on, do you mean that we're..." Rainbow Dash said, suddenly perking up at the news.

"Yes Ms. Dash, you're correct. Starting today, you'll all need to become humans. Luckily Princess Celestia has supplied each of you with one outfit each. But seeing as how humans change their clothes everyday, or at least most humans do, this created a problem for us. I recorded the measurements Celestia had made for each of your outfits an told Big Mike to buy some more shirts and pants, but sooner or later it might be best for you to buy your own wardrobe for your stay."

"Our own wardrobe?!" Rarity squealed happily, instantly waking up. Pinkie and Fluttershy looked a bit excited too, where as Twilight and Applejack didn't really care too much.

"I still don't get it. Do we really have to wear all those clothes?" Rainbow Dash asked, still not getting the whole clothes problem.

"Yes." Joe answered without any hesitation. "We're leaving here at noon exactly to go to the mall. Once there, you will all have to pass a certain test. And while that's going on, will also let you get your outfits yourselves. That way you'll have clothes better suited for you."

"So Ms. Sparkle," Joe continued as he turned towards Twilight, who was enjoying her coffee. "You think that you still recall that spell the Princess has taught you?"

After a sip that was a little longer than normal, Twilight sighed a little and nodded. "Yes, I can still use the spell. But she said that my magic will be altered when I turn human. So I'll have to go last."

"I got the drinks!" Big Mike yelled out as he came out with a few Caprisun pouches, a can of Diet Coke for me, and a glass of chocolate milk for Spike. He first tossed me my soda, which I quickly caught and opened up before walking over and handing Spike the glass of chocolate milk.

"Ah, perfect timing Big Mike." Joe acknowledged. "Because now that you're out of the house, we can begin." Joe then turned towards the others as Big Mike went around offering Caprisun to the others. Which most all of them accepted out of kindness. "Now since we are on a very tight schedule, who would like to turn human first?"

"I guess I'll go first." Spike announced almost without any hesitation. And not even waiting on any pony's reaction, he finished all his milk and just walked right over to the suitcases that Celestia had packed for each of them. There was one full outfit in each, counting shoes and socks too.

But because Celestia tried to make them as close to what she guessed would be their style, yet still casual enough to walk around with, that meant that Joe had to ask Big Mike to pick up some shorts, jeans, and shirts to replace any clothes that wouldn't help them with what we had planned.

"S-Spike? Why do you want to go first? I mean, are you absolutely sure about that?" Rarity asked a little worriedly. Honestly, all of us were caught off-guard by that. Even Big Mike and Joe.

"Well, why not?" He asked them in confusion as he picked up his suitcase and started towards the door. "I mean, Twilight knows how to do the spell and I already know how move around like a human. So what's wrong with me going first?"

"He's got a point." Twilight agreed. "After all, I can think of four," She said, looking at me when she said the number. "more good reasons as to why he should go first."

Four? Why would she say...Oh. How subtle of you Twilight. Still, I can't believe Spike's using all those lessons I teach him almost casually. Rule number 4: Be a man. I always told Spike that I had no idea how to help him ask out Rarity, but he still listened to the basics I knew since he didn't even know them to begin with. And not acting like a wimp was probably a good rule to keep in mind.

"Well alright. Mr. Spike, if you can just follow the mirrors then simply stand on the X that's marked on the ground. Then just say when you're ready." Joe instructed him.

Pinkie then looked to Joe with confusion as Spike went inside. "Wait, mirrors? How's come there's mirrors everywhere? Wouldn't it be easier to just make a trail of breadcrumbs? Or string? Oh! Wait-wait-wait! What about cupcakes or chocolate covered pretzels?! Those sound way better than following breadcrumbs! Oh! But that wouldn't work since then you'd eat the cupcakes and then you'd get lost! Duh!"

"Actually Ms. Pie, I had Mr. Zeke set up mirrors because he had informed me that magical blasts can be deflected off of them. That way, whoever's standing in position will have plenty of privacy while they get dressed." Joe told her. "By the way, do any of you have any questions about how your clothes work?"

"Well, it all seems pretty straight forward. I mean, we did have shirts back in Equestria an' all. Plus pants don't seem too complicated, so we should be fine." Applejack said.

"To be on the safe side, I think I'll go ahead and go next." Rarity explained as she looked through her suitcase next. "Especially since it seems that there is more to an outfit than shirts and pants. Not only that, but I wouldn't mind assisting any pony that may have problems with their clothes. After all, that is what I do for a living."

"If you think that you can handle it, then I'll entrust that job with you." Joe agreed with a nod.

"READY!" Spike called out. Signaling Twilight to aim towards the first mirror that was angled towards the rest of the mirrors.

"More clothes?! Ugh, this all feels so pointless!" Rainbow Dash yelled out with annoyance. "This is so boring too! I mean what, are we supposed to just sit here and wait for our turn?!

"Well, I suppose now would be a good time to tell you all some more news we found out just after we left you all to your TV experience." Joe told them just as Twilight fired the blast.

"WOAH!" Spike yelled out as we all heard the magical blast hit what we assumed was him.

"You okay in there Spike?!" Big Mike asked worriedly.

"Uh...Y-yeah!...Wow, this is weird!" We heard Spike yell out. "I'll...I'll be out in a few minutes!" He told us, sounding almost in awe.

"What did you find out?" Fluttershy asked, curious as to what it was.

"Big Mike? Could you call Dan over here? No doubt the others will follow suit." Joe asked.

"Okay!" Big Mike yelled out happily before whistling as loud as possible could towards the patio out back. So loud that we almost had to cover our ears. "Dan! Dan's Friends! Come here and meet everyone!"

"Hold on, what do you mean 'the others'?" Rainbow Dash asked out of suspicion. "I thought we were the only ones here."

"So did we. That is until we saw how they hitched a ride in Rarity's luggage." I explained to her.

"What?!" Rarity yelled out as she ran over towards the truck where only her extra suitcases remained. "Please tell me that my dresses are alright!"

"ANGEL!" Fluttershy suddenly yelled out happily as she flew over towards Dan and the other pets where she picked up Angel and gave him a big hug. "What are you doing here?!"

"Gummy!" Pinkie Pie yelled out next as she let Gummy bite her leg as a way to say hi. "Aw! You wanted to come meet humans too!"

"What are they doing here?" Twilight asked as Owlowiscious flew over and perched himself on her back to rest. He looked a little tired probably because it was morning when he should be getting ready to fall asleep himself.

"About that," I started, rubbing the back of my neck because of how I felt like it was my fault. "You know how I told you Lyra was willing to watch all of our pets?"

"Did she go back on her word?" Fluttershy asked, sounding a little ticked off that Lyra would abandon all of her animal friends.

"No, but she didn't exactly know who to be looking out for. I just told her what kind of animals our pets were and their names. But I guess Gummy, Angel, RJ, and Owlowiscious were a little too vague." I knew I should've introduced her to my pets. But could any pony blame me? The fact that Lyra kept staring at me with that love struck look on her face was just creepy.

"Whatever the case, it's fine." Joe told them. "Since our lifestyle pretty much requires that we save as much money as possible, we have a decent garden growing just behind the barn. That should help feed the rabbit and raccoon while we simply feed the gator and owl with...Other alternatives."

"Like with fish?" Fluttershy asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Wait, hold on. Watcha mean yer lifestyle?" Applejack asked. "I mean, if'n yer farm ain't that successful, are y'all really in that much trouble?"

"...Really?" Joe deadpanned, turning towards me with a very blank, partly annoyed face. "Seriously? They don't know? How is it that they're your friends, not to mention had a briefing through the Princess, and yet aren't aware of that?" When he asked, he sounded a little bit more upset than it really mattered.

"Well, why not tell us now? If you aren't farmers, then what do you and your brother do for a living?" Rarity asked as we heard some footsteps approaching the front door. "Oh? Spikey, is that you? Are you already dressed?"

"Yeah, here I come." All of us then stayed quiet as he came out the door very slowly. And when he finally appeared, it was actually kind of surprising what he looked like. He had slightly darkened skin and looked almost Indian. Only, it was kind of weird since he also had a green Mohawk to go along with it. It was a punker rock Mohawk, but you could tell that his hair in the middle stuck up in curved waves similar to his scales in Equestria, but more spaced apart and smaller than originally.

Also he looked to be a little younger than a teenager and was about the size of Joe. Although that wasn't saying much since Joe was a little short for an eighteen year old. Other than all of that, Spike looked just like you'd expect a human Spike to. He was wearing dark green shorts and a light blue shirt that had a bird perched upon a branch saying "I don't try to be cool, I just wing it." with a cartoonish speech bubble. And to top all of that off, he had an unbuttoned casual purple waistcoat that had a buckle here and their to make it more 'punk rock' to help match the small Mohawk.

"Aha...Nice shirt Spike." Rainbow Dash said with a little sarcasm. Earning an elbow to the side from Applejack, who didn't want Spike to have his feelings hurt.

"Oh, don't listen to her Spikey-Wikey, human looks very good on you!" Rarity said encouragingly. "Still, I'm not quite sure if that hair style fits anymore..." She said before simply shrugging and levitating up her own suitcase. "Joe, is there anything I should know before going on?"

"Well hopefully it should all seem straight forward. Especially the shirt and pants" Joe told her, speaking for all four of us. "But if you have a situation with underwear, then simply look at the picture hanging besides the mirror. It was taken at a beach, and my ex-girlfriend was in her swimwear at the time of the photo. But I'm afraid that's all the help I can offer."

"Alright. I'll be out momentarily!" She announced to every pony before going inside o get ready.

"Ex?" I asked, wondering why he had a picture of his ex-girlfriend.

"Long-distance relationships never last." He quickly dismissed. "But going back to the original subject, none of you know what we really do? He asked before taking off his glasses to rub his face in annoyance.

"No."

"Nu-uh."

"Nopey-Lopey!"

"Not me."

"No..."

"Perfect." Joe said before sighing in annoyance before wiping his face one last time and putting his glasses back on. "And here I thought that they were already aware of that. Well, there goes all credibility..." That last sentence he muttered, but me and Spike were close enough to hear.

Since Spike was helping me set up the course, I had plenty of time to explain what they did. He was angry to say the least, but he said it made sense. Of course, he already knows enough about Earth. The girls didn't.

"READY!" Rarity yelled out happily before Twilight quickly fired the magic at the mirrors. Hitting Rarity just seconds later. "WAH! Wha-huh..." We then heard her gasp dramatically. "I look absolutely BEAUTIFUL!" She screamed out happily.

"So, what's the problem exactly?" Twilight asked with a suspicious look aimed towards Joe.

"Well..." Joe began, trying to figure out just how he could tell them without them getting angry. And not five seconds later, he already looked like he had an idea. "Big Mike? Would you like to explain our gang to them?"

"Oh! Okay!" He yelled out happily after finishing his small Caprisun packet. "Well, Big Mike and Joe and Morgue are all in the gang! And we call ourselves The Honorable Thieves!"

"Honorable-Thieves!" Applejack yelled out, suddenly getting very aggravated. "So wait, you mean to tell me that you three are thieves?!" She asked. Something told me that the hard-worker in the group would be the most ticked off by this.

"Yep! But Honorable Thieves!" Big Mike said, making sure Applejack remembered that part. "We have these rules and Morgue's always saying how it makes us better than the bad kind of thieves! I even keep the rules of the gang in my pocket!" Big Mike said, pulling out an old looking piece of notebook paper that they were written on. Showing it off as if it was a lottery ticket. Which Twilight used her magic to get and open up to look at.

"Look," Rainbow Dash said with a sigh before flying over next to big Mike's head. "I'm not sure if you know, but all thieves are bad! Stealing's wrong no matter how you look at it!"

"Nu-uh!" Big Mike said with a shake of his head. Acting like he was an eight year old. "We're the good kind a thieves! We steal from other thieves!"

"Doesn't matter!" Rainbow went on. "It's not yours to begin with! Trust me, I learned the hard way what happens when you steal. It's not right."

"Is so." Big Mike said with a nod while crossing his arms and closing his eyes. Adding onto the idea that he was just an eight year old that never grew up.

"Is not!" Rainbow Dash yelled back while crossing her arms.

"Is so!"

"Is not!"

"Is so!"

"Is not!"

"Is so!"

"Is not!"

"Is so!"

"Is not!"

"Is-" "Guys!" Twilight interrupted. "Rainbow Dash, as much as I hate to admit it, there's no clear answer here."

"What?!" Rainbow exclaimed. "But-but their thieves! Since when is stealing ever a good thing?!"

"When it's for a good cause." Joe interjected, waiting until it was the perfect time to explain. "You see, the goal of The Honorable Thieves Gang is to steal from those who don't deserve what they posses. For instance, if they cheated to get ahead in life or stole the targeted object to begin with, then we intervene." He explained.

"And what of the ponies that actually work-hard for a livin'? What do ya do ta them?" Applejack asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Simple. Nothing." Joe told her with a dead serious look on his face.

"So in other words," Twilight spoke up again. "You're all like Robin Hoof and his band if thieves?" She asked, folding the paper back up and floating back over to Big Mike. Who held out his hands and let the paper fall into them.

"Here I come~!" Rarity announced in a sing-song voice as she stepped outside, very wobbly as she held onto the sides of the walls and furniture. Big Mike saw this and pocketed his piece of paper before running over to help Rarity over to the others carefully. Only when he tried to keep her steady, he suddenly flinched upon contact and pulled his arms back.

"OW!" He suddenly yelled out in pain. "That hurt!" He yelled further before sucking on his fingers as if he had been shocked by a doorknob.

"AH!" Rarity yelled as she started to fall forwards. Luckily, Spike was able to walk over quick enough to catch her and stand her up once again.

"Oops! Sorry Rare! I didn't mean to drop you!" Big Mike said. Worried that he messed up and made Rarity mad.

"Oh, it's quite alright Big Mike. Besides, it must've been static from my new clothes. Speaking of...How do I look?!" She asked the rest of us, hoping that we'd all be just as amazed as she was upon seeing herself. And well...It was a bit hard to explain. First off, she had alabaster skin, and her make-up had altered along with her form. So all that alone, she might as well of looked like those flawless models you'd expect to see in magazines.

She had the same eye color and her horn, which was the same color as before much like my wings, was still on top of her head. Surrounded by slightly darkened blackish-purple hair. It looked as if her natural hair color was black with purple dye applied professionally. She also was just a little taller than me, but not as tall as Big Mike.

As for clothes, she was holding a hat in one hand that was to help hide her horn, and a pair of gloves in the other to conceal the Cutie Marks that were now on her hands. She also had what I guessed were probably fake designer jeans, a white sleeveless shirt, and fake designer boots.

"Like a human." Joe said sarcastically. "...Kind of...So you said that you'll be able to help the others turn human as well?"

"Very funny..." Rarity said with a deadpanned frown. "And, yes, it shouldn't be a problem. So who's next?"

"I guess I might as well get this over with." Rainbow Dash said as she shook her head and walked over to get her suitcase before flying inside. To which Rarity shrugged and followed behind. Holding onto the walls as she headed in.

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Joe's POV

"I'm just going to go over here." Blitz said as he walked over to a nearby tree and leaned against it. As well as zipping up his jacket too. As he did so, I lowered my voice to a whisper as I spoke to Fluttershy, who was standing beside me.

"By chance, do you know what Mr. Zeke is doing?" I asked while taking another sip of coffee from the thermos I still had.

"What do you mean?" She asked, looking at me with a little fear. She was trying to hide it, but she was obviously still very scared of me. I knew that with her shy personality that she was probably more terrified of Earth than me, so she'd have no choice but to listen to whatever directions I gave. Yet, I can't but almost feel a little sad for her getting worried about everything. I had to think of some way to try and make her less afraid of me.

"Well, he's putting a lot of pressure to his back and wings. Aren't wings normally a little fragile?" I asked, trying to understand to concept. I mean, Zeke's wings didn't exactly look muscular. So with it being bones and feathers, leaning on them isn't a good idea.

"Actually, our wings are stronger than a normal birds." She said with a matter of fact, yet shy, tone. "But, um, I don't know why Blitz is...Oh." She said, looking like she was trying to hide a ghost of a smile.

"What? What are you...No..." I said, lightly facepalming at how stupid this was. Wanting to get a second opinion, I looked into a few well respected blogs about the show and one or two of them mentioned how Pegasi react with their wings. "I thought that Mr. Spike was just telling a stupid joke." I lied in a way that made her know that I already knew the idea.

"Yeah, he wasn't lying." Fluttershy said trying pretty hard to keep a straight face now. "I think it's like humans without one of their clothes. It's kind of frowned upon, but not too much. Still, it's kind of funny..." She told me, giving up on hiding the smile and just trying to keep from laughing.

And although I tried to stay serious myself, I couldn't help but smirk myself. "Well in that case, I wish the best of luck to Mr. Zeke. He may need it in a second."

"Huh?" Zeke asked, hearing his name. But I imply took a sip of coffee and Fluttershy just looked towards her rabbit, who was trying to keep from laughing with the raccoon because they both heard the conversation. I guess animals in Equestria were a bit sentient.

"I'm ready." Rainbow Dash called out half-heartedly. "Let get this over with." Twilight then aimed at the mirror and fired her magical blast. And only seconds later we were all met with a very confused and partly scared scream. "AAHHHHHHHHH! What are these things on my chest?!"

"I'm takin' a walk." Zeke suddenly announced as he shoved his hands into his jackets pockets to try and keep his wings from showing up. Luckily for him, everyone else was too concerned looking towards the house where Rainbow's scream came from. That is except for me, Fluttershy, the rabbit, and the raccoon because the four of us were busting our guts trying to stop our laughter. I know that I might keep a calm demeanor all the time, but even couldn't keep from laughing at the dumbest of things. So I just accepted laughing and kept my smile under my hand.

"Oh Mr. Zeke? If you're taking a walk, would you kindly gather a few makeshift canes for the girls? They may need them until they get situated." I told Zeke, trying to milk this joke for all it was worth.

"Uh-huh." He said, trying really hard to get away before the others noticed.

"Oh, and make sure you bring back a good stick for Rainbow Dash. She may need one the most." Fluttershy added with knowing look in her eye while trying to give him the most innocent smile she could muster. Meanwhile, she was killing the rest of us.

"G-Got it." Zeke said, not daring to look back as he tried to just leave as fast as he could.

"Oh God, you are pure evil." I said through my stifled laughter.

"Why, what are you talking about Joe?" She asked, trying to stay looking innocent as she started to laugh a little more.

Regardless of how stupid that little stunt was, it was worth it. Just by looking at Fluttershy, I could tell that she was no longer afraid of me as she was before. I could care less if she was yet to think of me as a friend or neutral. But being afraid of me wouldn't help anything. So as far as I was concerned, this prank was well worth wasting time over.

Not only that, but before we knew it, Rainbow Dash came out of the house with the help of Rarity as they leaned on the other to help stand up straight. "Okay, I'm done." She said, taking a step outside so she could wait for the others to go next.

She had the average height of what I would assume was around late teens. She also had natural blonde hair but with what would appear to be slightly darkened rainbow themed highlights. She had fair skin and didn't look like she was from America. Instead, she looked Northern European in appearance.

On top of all of that, she had on a hoodie that hid her shirt completely, but not her hands so her Cutie Marks were still visible since she didn't have her gloves on. She also had on a pair of jeans that were pre-made to look a little faded, and blue running shoes. They, like Rarity's but unlike Spike's, were untied. Something that I'll have to help them with until both their magic and hands are under control.

The rest of them all started to go in one after another without much else going on. And as I watched each of them come out, I saw that the wings, horns, and Cutie Marks each appeared on them. The Princess has provided hats and jackets that would easily conceal them though and the Cutie Marks weren't all that problematic. Spike told me otherwise though and that'd it'd be best if him and the girls wore them anyway.

Speaking of Spike, I noticed a few differences with him as well. While he didn't have a mark on him, and his Mohawk looked like it wasn't changing anytime soon, I noticed that he had a few more differences too. Like for instance, his eyes were still the same shape looked reptilian in appearance. Of course, it could easily be explained as just special cosmetic contacts. But what would be harder to explain was his forked tongue.

It wasn't as if a forked tongue on a human was impossible. In fact, it was very possible for people to have forked tongues. But the surgery and teaching yourself to speak perfectly takes months of progress. Add to the fact that he looks about twelve, and it's a whole new set of problems. Some teenagers and kids may find it interesting and cool, but other teens and adults will find it disturbing and question what kind of parents, and surgeons for that matter, would ever allow this type of surgery.

And if that wasn't enough, his skin looks a little off. He did have scales before, so it was possible that the trait of his scales carried over to his skin and made them slightly thicker. It's most noticeable in his elbows however, so it may just be alligator elbows and my eyes are deceiving me.

Applejack had gone next and came out looking just how I had expected. She looked American in nearly every way so it would be easier to have her blend in. She had a farmer's tan, her freckles were still noticeable, and she was about an inch or so taller than Rainbow and a looked the most muscular of them all so far. And where Rainbow looked to be built for running, Applejack was more built for heavy lifting.

She had on an orange plaid buttoned up shirt with a sleeveless brown denim jacket just for looks. As well as working jeans and what looked like simple cowboy boots. She still had her hair in a ponytail tied with the hairband she came with and was holding her hat in her hands. And after Rarity had helped her outside she looked at me with a look of determination. "I hope you realize that I ain't goin' anywhere without my hat."

"Keep it. It helps keep up the impression that you're originally from America." I said, not having any problem with it. Which she was glad to hear as she put on and straightened her hat before trying to walk over to Spike who was trying to show Rainbow how to stand in place.

Pinkie had gone afterwards and came out a few minutes later already getting a good understanding of how to stand up straight. "Aw, thanks Joe!" She complimented my-...

I'm just going to ignore that. "Probably for the best." Pinkie added out of nowhere before very slowly and wobbly heading over towards Spike's Standing Up School.

(I couldn't pass up the chance to use this video. XD)

watch?v=5YuGI5Fkh2Q

Standing Up School ASDF

Pinkie Pie, like Rainbow, wasn't American. But luckily she wasn't too far off as she instead looked like she was from England. She was a bit more on the paler side and had a little less hair than before. Regardless of that fact, her hair was still bright pink and uncontrollable.

She had no horn or wings too, so she didn't have a hat or jacket to wear, but she happily wore her gloves already. She also had light blue shorts on and a lightly dark pink shirt with a gumball blowing up a piece of bubblegum. And to top that all off, she had pink crocs. A little too much pink if you ask me, but that was what Princess Celestia chose for her, so I have very little say in it.

Finally, Fluttershy went in after a little pep talk from her now human cheerleading friends. And after a little while, she came out with Rarity's help. Hiding behind her now slightly shorter than Equestrian blonde hair.

The first thing to say about her was that she was the tallest of us all, even Big Mike. And while Big Mike wasn't exactly a giant or anything, just about as tall as the average full-grown adult, Fluttershy looked like a teenage amazon. Her hair was a little past shoulder length and actually didn't look like her original light pink hair. It was a lighter blonde than Applejack's, but no trace of pink.

Also, she had a light pale denim jacket but unlike Applejack's, hers had the sleeves. And since it was unbuttoned, you could see that she had a normal white shirt underneath it. Along with that, she had normal jeans and tennis shoes to go with it. Along with her gloves on too.

"Alright, well that's everyone save for you Ms. Sparkle." I told her as she stood up and put her cup of coffee back on the table. With the twenty-so minutes it took for all of them to turn human, she was on her second cup and was nearly finished with it. But looking at how everyone else was reacting, it was most likely obvious that this spell also reacted with adrenaline and hormones giving them a clear wake-up call.

"Come on Darling, let's hurry." Rarity said, walking back into the house to help Twilight. And by the looks of it, she was getting both standing and walking down on her own. Maybe the training will be easier than I thought.

"Coming." Twilight said, levitating her suitcase in with her. And at that point, Zeke had come back with a few well carved canes for all the girls.

"Ah. Perfect timing Mr. Zeke. We're about to start all the lessons." I told him as he started passing out the canes to help them get around. By now they were getting a grip on walking and were ready to start getting around.

"Lesson?! We haven't even been able to try out these human bodies yet, and you want us to learn boring lessons?!" Rainbow Dash asked, clearly not enjoying her idea of learning.

"Well, it's more of a training regimen if you think that's a better way to put it." I told her, immediately making her go back on her words. "Let me explain something to you. I hate classes. And not just because it's a waste of my time because I already know whatever the teachers are telling me, but because they're dreadfully boring."

"They're hard too." Big Mike added.

"That as well." I acknowledged. "So instead of sitting in chairs that are more interesting to mess with than whatever nonsense the teacher's spewing, I prefer to teach with something either interactive or visual."

"So like pictures?" Applejack asked.

"Yes. Although they're called powerpoints. Except those won't help you all adjust to being humans. Instead, there will be three stations for all of you to do. They'll be half an hour each and we'll rotate every time they're over. And to help all of this move quicker, we're splitting you into teams of two."

"Finished~!" Rarity announced as she helped Twilight come outside. And she probably looked the most different of them all. The first thing was that she, like Spike, was a very different skin color from the rest. She also looked like she had an Indian background. Not only that, but she also had a whole different hair color like Fluttershy. Having black hair with her violet highlights in the same place. Along with her purple horn on top of it all.

She was Big Mike's size too, so a bit taller than everyone else, but not as tall as Fluttershy. Also to go along with her new appearance she had a purple polo collared shirt with both buttons buttoned-up. She had kacki pants on and oxford shoes to finish it all off. She, along with Rarity, now both had their hats on, but were holding their gloves in their hands. Rarity having her fake designer purple hat and Twilight having a normal flat cap.

"That was fast." I mused curiously.

"Well luckily I was able to figure out how to use my magic. Turns out it's now focused into the hands. And since I always used my hooves to create any precise designs, it was easy for me to adjust to that." Rarity explained to me.

"A few of the simple spells like levitation, manipulation, and Rarity's application spell to apply clothes are just the basic ones though. More advanced spells like changing species changing and other advanced spells are wired differently though, and I don't plan on using trial and error for spells like those." Twilight explained further. "So what now?"

"I'm explaining how we're going to help you all adjust to being humans." I summarized as the two of them started making their way over. Blitz giving Twilight a cane while Rarity passed on it like Spike did.

"As I was explaining, there will be three stations and you'll be split into three teams. Unicorns, Pegasi, and Earth Ponies to keep it simple. Mr. Spike and Mr. Zeke will manage the Pegasi first and will start at the obstacle course because Ms. Dash will only complain if we don't do that."

"Hey, I wouldn't..." She started, looking angry about what I said. Only to see the looks around her question her otherwise. So she kept quiet and just folded her arms awkwardly in defeat.

"Earth Ponies with Big Mike in the barn, and Unicorns start with me at the patio. When you get to that station, we'll explain what's going to happen and how it'll work. Rest should be pretty easy to understand as you go. Any questions?" Pinkie raised her hand.

"Yes Ms. Pie?" I asked, acknowledging her schoolgirl reaction.

"Two questions." She told me with a smile. "First; how many times are we going around all three stations?" She asked.

"To answer that, we'll be going two full rotations at the least, and perhaps one more if you all still don't pass all three stations. And if you don't mind my saying so, that was a surprisingly average and understandable question." She simply kept giving me a small smile. "What's your second question?" I asked, not minding answering these normal questions.

"What if we can't figure out how to go to the bathroom?" She asked, quirking her head to the side slightly to hide the fact that she was about to laugh from asking that.

"And you just made it weird." I deadpanned with a sigh as Big Mike, Spike, and Zeke all looked to her with mild disturbance while the girls had a mix of this and slight realization of that they may actually have a problem. Especially Twilight, who was very much regretting those two cups of coffee. "Well to answer that: Tough cookies, good luck figuring that out."

"And for asking that very gross question, you've now cost you and your five friends two laps inside the fence. Whether walking or running, best of luck to you." I said as they all groaned in annoyance, but complied. Rarity and Rainbow Dash giving small glares to Pinkie before all six of them went off to start the laps.

To be honest, I was going to make them go two laps anyway, but at least now I had a perfectly good reason to do so. "Alright men, you know what to do. Big Mike, remember the note cards I gave you and make sure they beat the bosses. Mr. Spike, the time to beat is a minute and forty-two seconds. And Mr. Zeke feel free to teach Ms. Dash and Ms. Fluttershy in flying if they've passed whatever station they're at. Now to your stations. We have ponies to train."

The three of them all nodded and headed off while I went off to my own station with the pets, save for Owlowiscious who flew off to the barn to sleep. All that was left was to hope that we can be done around noon.

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Blitz's POV

Station: Obstacle Course

1st Rotation

Team Pegasi

"Oh, now this is just too perfect." I said out loud as I watched Rainbow and Fluttershy walk over. And upon seeing me wearing a baseball cap and a whistle around my neck, Rainbow immediately glared at me.

"Blitz, I swear if you even try to act like my-"

"Good morning students!" I announced happily, interrupting her on purpose. Earning a few snickers from Spike who was holding the clipboard and timer. "About time you got your run over with! I knew this obstacle course was going to be hard for you, but now I know a couple of slowpokes like you will be here for a while!"

"You're loving this whole teacher thing a little too much." Rainbow deadpanned with a glare.

"Adding ten seconds to your time for that. Coach Spike?" I asked, looking over to him.

"On it Coach Blitz." He said, pretending to write something on the clipboard. Both of us trying to keep from laughing.

"Hey, you can't do that!" Rainbow Dash argued.

"Talking without permission, that's another ten Coach Spike." I told with a simple nod.

"Already taking care of it Coach Blitz." Spike told me while trying to look serious as he pretended to write something else down.

"Wha-" Rainbow Dash rose her hand, which she managed to make into a fist, at me before getting ready to yell some more. But before she could really say anything, I held my ear towards her to hear just how many more seconds she wanted added to her time. Not even trying to hide the smile on my face.

"...Forget it." She gave up, turning towards the side and crossing her arms towards Fluttershy.

"Unsportsmanlike conduct, that's twenty more seconds Coach Spike." I told him, just grinning about my newfound power. Rainbow Dash thought she could play teacher when she taught me to fly? Well not without me getting her back she wasn't.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk Rainbow." Spike said as he pretended to write something else down. "You really want to fail this class don't you?"

"Um, excuse me, Coach Blitz?" Fluttershy asked, raising her hand politely as she played along.

"The class acknowledges Fluttershy." I told her while laughing a bit.

"Is it okay if we start the obstacle course now?" She asked, subtly telling the two of us to focus.

"Yeah, I want to go down it already!" Rainbow Dash said, shaking away all the jokes from earlier.

"Okay you're right. Here's how it's going to work." I told them, gesturing them to follow me towards the starting line. Which was marked with flags on either side of the grass-free path. "When Spike says go, he'll start the timer. At which point, you'll head down that way and have to go through a bunch of challenges. I'll be flying along-side to make sure that you do each challenge right, and if you don't then that's when we'll really start taking points away." I said, looking towards Rainbow to tell her to get ready for real.

"I'll be the one working the timer, but Blitz will be adding up the points. The timer only stops when you pass the flags and nothing else. And the time to beat is a minute and forty-two seconds." Spike told them.

"That your time, 'Coach' Blitz?" Rainbow asked, sure that she'd beat my score.

"Nope. My time's a minute, eight seconds." I told her with a confident smirk. "Good luck beating that. You'll need it."

"I don't need any luck. I'm faster than you in the air and on the ground. I would've won too if you didn't cheat." She told me with a frown.

"Uh, cheat? No, I didn't cheat at all! You even said anything goes!" I told her with a glare.

"Um...Guys?..." Fluttershy tried to cut in.

"That's besides the point, it was still unfair!" She yelled back. "If you didn't have those overpowered bionics, you wouldn't even be able to eat my dust!"

"Blitz. Rainbow Dash." Spike tried to get our attention.

"Oh. You mean from when you passed out trying to go even faster with that Sonic Rainboom of yours?" I asked. "Because if I remember right, that was all you're-COLD!" I yelled out as Spike suddenly poured a cup of ice down my zip-up hoodie.

"GAH! GET IT OUT-GET IT OUT!" Rainbow Dash yelled out as ice was poured down her own hoodie.

We ended up just yelled like crazy as we ran in circles, trying to get the hoodies off. "Guys, we need to focus! We're wasting too much time!' Spike told us as we finally got our hoodies off.

"Sweet Celestia Spike, did you really have to do that?!" I asked, glaring at him.

"Yeah! Not cool!" Rainbow added.

"Guess I'll just explain the challenges." Spike told us as he pointed to each challenge. "After running down the path, you'll come to a bunch of tires. It's just like Equestria, step through each of them and get to the other side. But if you skip any or your feet don't go through the tire then that's two seconds for each tire missed."

"Really, you have nothing to say for pouring ice down our coats?" I asked him with a frown.

"Next will be the slanted platforms." Spike said, not caring enough to stop. "You jump from one slanted platform to the next to get to the other side. But only one foot per platform. You can alternate feet between each platform or hopscotch it, but remember. One foot per platform. If the second foot or your hands touch the platforms then that's two seconds off for each. Six if you land on all fours. Also if you fall into the ground below the platforms then that's five seconds off and you can just skip the rest of the platforms. After you pick yourself up from the dust and sand that's all over the ground."

"Guess I'll explain the rest of them since I'll be watching you go through." I said, stepping up and pointing towards the next leg of the course. "After a little more running, there's a simple rope swing. Cross it without falling into the sand pit and no seconds are added. Fall and that's another five seconds on top of your time."

"Then there's the wall climb." I began, pointing to the next part. Use the rope to help climb up and over, then just jump down. I'll be there to help catch you if you lose your grip, but if you don't think you can climb it then just run around and we'll add ten seconds."

"Sounds like a lot of challenges..." Fluttershy mused.

"Only three more left Fluttershy." Spike said with a friendly smile. "Next up is the cargo rope net climb. Climb up the first half, and just roll down the second half. It's only fifteen feet high, but if you want some help just ask Blitz. And there's no way you can lose time for doing something wrong."

"After that is a low crawl. Simply enough, you just have to crawl under the net until you reach the end. Also no way of getting any seconds added on." I told them as I pointed to it. "Just be careful. It's dusty down there, so you might not want to relax in there too long."

"Good luck getting Rarity to go through that thing." Rainbow told me with disbelief. "In fact, good luck getting Rarity to go through any of this."

"She'll have to if she wants to pass." Spike told them. "Finally, is the ramp." He pointed towards the barn.

"I don't see any ramp. Just a giant mattress..." Fluttershy pointed out.

"The course will lead you to the other side of the barn. You'll see the ramp that's set up to let you run up to the barn's roof. I built it so it won't give out or anything, but I'll stand by just in case you lose your footing. Once on top of the roof, run to the opposite side and jump down onto to cushioned part below. It's specially made to cushion falls, but again I'll help you get out of it. After that, just run down the path to get to the finish line."

"And we have a minute and forty-two seconds? That's a lot of time for an obstacle this easy." Rainbow said confidently.

"Remember though, no magic and no flying. And we're not gonna go easy on you guys cause you're our friends. So you might want to take it slow the first few-"

"Nah, I got this." She interrupted me as she walked over to the starting line. Using her cane to get to it I might as well add. But upon getting there, she threw the stick off to the side and got on all fours. Kind of like a professional runner, but still a little awkward.

"Alright, if you say so. But remember, we're really not going easy on you. We're your coaches, not your friends. For real this time." I told her as I got over next to her so I could fly beside her and add up the seconds whenever she messed up an obstacle. "Ready!...Set!..." I blew the whistle.

Spike started the timer and Rainbow Dash took off running as fast as she could. Immediately tripping and falling face first to the ground. Spike and Fluttershy cringed while I just facepalmed. "This is gonna take a while."

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Joe's POV

Station: Paperwork

1st Rotation

Team Unicorn

"Ah, here at last." I told them as they walked over. Using their canes since they were slightly out of breath. "Winded just from a small walk? Well luckily for you this is the least strenuous of the stations."

"Oh thank Celestia." Rarity said as she sat down. I had set up two stools for them to sit on that faced towards me and my desk. This was to help them learn how to use their hands and understand the basics of whatever was going to happen around them on Earth. "And which station do we go towards after this?"

"The obstacle course." I told her. Earning a disappointed look in response. "And sadly for you, Mr. Spike and Mr. Zeke don't plan on letting up the 'Coach' act with any of you."

"Figured seeing as how they're both wearing those hats like crowns." Twilight said before spotting the pile of information forms. "So what do we do here?"

"Very simple. You see, I might have some information on all of you, but not too much. So to make up for that, I have these forms I want you to fill out. Full names, skills, main talent, and although I know it may be an invasion of privacy, measurements, human weight, age, and so on. I need these forms for future reference so we can get you more clothes, understand strengths and weaknesses, and so on." I told them.

"Well, I supposed that it is within reason." Rarity said with slight hesitation before using her magic to levitate a pencil and form in front of her. But before she could write anything down, I took out a paper towel tube and bopped her over the horn with it. Making her flinch as I collected the pencil and form from her an put them back in place.

"Ow!" She said a bit dramatically. "You know, a Unicorn's horn is not as protected as you think! The slightest hit can feel like being bucked in the face!" Twilight gave the smallest of eye rolls, but nodded at me in agreement.

"Then it might be best of me to finish." I told her while setting the paper towel tube down. Good thing I recycle them, they have much more uses than you'd think. "You'll be filling these forms out as humans. Meaning no magic, no flying, and no 'any pony' 'no pony' or 'some pony' in your vocabulary."

"So just use our hands?" Twilight asked, receiving a nod from me as I gave her a blank piece of paper and a pencil. Same for Rarity. "So how do you hold a pencil anyway?"

"That's up to you. There's multiple ways to hold a pencil, and it depends on which hand is your dominant one." They both looked at me with confusion. "Have you both ever looked at how Mr. Spike wrote as a dragon? He used his right claw to write. Most humans are right-handed, but a small percentage are left-handed."

"Like Spike writes..." Twilight said before picking up the pencil and surprisingly holding it well enough. And using her other hand to hold the paper in place, she practiced writing her name again and again while Rarity watched and tried to mimic what Twilight tried to do. Only having an even harder time than Twilight was.

"You have a total of an hour to try and understand writing with hands. So not much of a rush really." I told them as I watched. And only a few minutes later, it looked like Twilight had begun to understand writing and moved on to the actual forms to fill out the information.

Full Name:

Age:

Give three family member's full names:

1.

2.

3.

Original Measurements:

Original Weight (Round down if you want):

Strengths (Give three Max):

1.

2.

3.

Weaknesses (Name three or I'll fill them in for you):

1.

2.

3.

Occupation:

Skills:

Main Talent:

Likes:

Dislikes:

Name three things from Earth you may be interested in knowing more about (Optional):

1.

2.

3.

That was the entire form itself. After all six of them had filled it out, I would be able to try and figure out some pattern of ponies becoming humans and vice-versa. That, plus I'd be able to take everything else into consideration when trying to make a plan to free Morgue from Juvenile Hall.

It wouldn't take too long for the two of them to fill these out. Now I just need to hope that Big Mike can handle his station.

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Big Mike's POV

Station: Video Games

1st Rotation

Team Earth Pony

"Hiya Big Mike, it's me Pinkie! So what are we doing here?!" Pinkie asked when she and AJ came inside the barn.

"Oh, hi!" I said, looking towards them and waving happily before looking back to the video game. "Joe said that Big Mike needs to let you play video games so you can use your hands better! But Big Mike wanted to play a game real quick! But don't worry, he's almost done!" I told them without looking away from the TV.

We always had two three-person couches and a big lazy chair set up inside the barn to look at a TV. It had a 360 set up so we could play games or watch movies. Me and Joe and Morgue always hung out here instead of in the house since it had the TV and Joe had a computer here too. Plus there was a mini fridge for drinks and snacks and stuff, so we were good to go!

"Wait a second, so the station here's just playin' some fancy TV game?" AJ asked as she walked over and Pinkie ran to sit besides me. "What kinda game is it?"

"It's a fighting game!" I told them. "Joe made it a long time ago and last night he said that he put all of you in the game too!" Joe told me to lie to them about that. He actually put them in the game a month after the Princesses came in our dreams. He said he put Zeke in here too, but that he had to change him a little last night.

"Oh silly, Joe couldn't have put us in the game! I'm siting right next to you and AJ's standing right here!" Pinkie told me with a happy face.

"No, I mean, uh..." Wait. Pinkie's right, how did Joe put them in the game if they're right here?...Wait a second! How am I playing me in the game if I'm right here playing the game?!

...I'm confused...

"Uh, Pinkie?" AJ spoke up. "I don't think Joe meant it literally. I think Joe meant that we're in the game kinda like how Luffy and the other pirates were in the DVDs."

"Oh yeah! That makes sense!" I yelled out happily as I punched video game Spike in the face and beat him. "YAY! Big Mike won!" I cheered loudly.

"Woah! TV Big Mike just beat up TV Spike! And he did it while they were in a volcano!" Pinkie yelled out as he saw TV me crossing my arms and making a pose inside the volcano. "Wait, where's TV Pinkie Pie in all this?!" Pinkie asked.

"Uh, The Big Mike doesn't know..." I said, pausing for a second. "Maybe TV Pinkie is eating a sandwich?..."

"Oh yeah!" Pinkie giggled. "That is so~ TV Pinkie Pie! Well, either that or making fourth wall jokes and telling the readers sorry for the long wait!"

"Uh...Okay!" I said happily, just going along with whatever Pinkie said. "Anyway, Joe told me to get the learning part of the game ready for each of you to play...Oh! And he also said to give AJ these pieces of paper!" I said, pulling out a small group of study cards to give to AJ.

"Huh?" She asked, taking them with both hands and reading it out loud. "Applejack, if yer readin' this than that means that this'll be much faster. Ya see, Big Mike's gonna help y'all play the game. I...Programmed it so that way all a y'all are in the game too. There are tutorials for each of ya since each character is different. Once Big Mike sets up yer tutorials, play through 'em. Then when ya think yer ready, tell Big Mike and he'll set up yer story mode. It's a simple one-level game where y'all face off against an opposite alter-ego of yerselves. Good luck."

"Okay, well I got it ready." I told them after setting up the tutorial like Mr. Card told me to. "AJ, you're up. Just hold this controller and do what the game says. It gets easy after a while." I told her with a smile.

"Alright, I'll give it a shot." She said as she walked over. I got out of the couch and gave her the controller before she sat down herself. I sat down in my big lazy chair and Pinkie jumped onto the opposite couch and just laid on her back while watching the TV.

After a few seconds, the TV showed TV AJ running out into the middle of an Apple Forest. "We'll howdy there me!"

"Woah Nelly!" AJ yelled out as she jumped back on the couch. "I just said- Err, TV Apple- I mean...It said somethin' ta me!" AJ kept yelling.

"Now right now yer probably wonderin' just how the hay I'm talkin' to ya like yer here. Or how I'm back home at Sweet Apple Acres." The game said, looking around the Apple Forest.

"Uh...Y-yeah, I am kinda wonderin' that." AJ said, kinda scared still.

"Well don't ya worry none! This is all just fake! Ya see, Joe just took a guess as ta how you were gonna react, what with his mind-readin' powers and made me say all this hooey I'ma spewyin'. And before ya ask, it's too hard ta explain. So let's just leave it at thankin' human tech stuff." TV AJ told real-life AJ.

"Uh...A-Alright." AJ said with a nod before lookin' at me. "Is it like this fer all our games?"

"Now then, let's go ahead and learn how ta use that controller yer hopefully still holdin' onto!...Uh...Big Mike, she is holdin' it the right way, right?" The video game asked me.

"Huh?" I asked, perking up at my name. "Uh..." The game then had the green button flash on the screen to wait for someone to press it. So knowing that the game wanted someone to press the button, I looked over and saw that AJ was holding it right. And she even pressed the button that was flashing on the screen. "Yep! She's holding it right!"

"Great! Now 'fore we get started, let me tell ya somethin', me. If ya are holdin' it right, that means the weird fingers on the sides a yer new hands are on top a tha controller. They're called thumbs, and they're the important fingers fer video games. Here, press the buttons that show up above me." Then the red, blue, yellow, and green buttons showed up above VG AJ.

"Alright..." She then pressed all four and the moving stick showed up next. And she pressed it down too. Making something appear in the sky behind TV AJ. "Huh? Wait a second, what's that?"

"Alright, now we're gettin' somewhere! Now the next thing ya should probably learn is how ta move me around. Just start by-" But before Video game AJ could tell AJ how to move around, that thing in the sky got closer before a few other things came behind it. "What are y'all lookin' at?" TV AJ asked before turning around to see it. "Woah Nelly...That ain't good!"

"Ya think?!" AJ from real-life yelled in fear.

"Meteor shower! Hit the deck!" TV AJ yelled as she jumped into a nearby bush as the rocks fell towards the camera. Making AJ get up and jump behind the couch. Pinkie looked scared, but she stayed sitting like I did. "Oh Sweet Celestia...AJ. Ya may wanna take a look at what just happened..."

"Huh?! What-What is it?!" AJ asked as she looked up from the couch. But seeing that the rocks from space didn't come out to hurt her, she quickly sat back down and picked up the controller. "What's wrong TV me?!"

"Ya can't see it lookin' this way!" TV AJ yelled out half-defeated. "Use the right stick to move around where yer lookin'." Then a picture of the controller came up on the game to show AJ how to move thee camera.

Not wasting a second, AJ did just that an the camera turned around to show more of the Apple Forest and some farm buildings. Except... "How could that happen?..." AJ asked as she saw a giant space rock that was on top of a destroyed barn and a few smaller space rocks that went through the house that was next to it.

"Apple Bloom and Big Mac are in there!" TV AJ yelled out as the camera moved behind her while still looking at the barn and house. "I can't do anythin' on my own unless you use that controller! Use the left stick to move me around! Hurry! We gotta help em!"

"O-On it!" AJ yelled out, using the left stick to run without the controller picture even coming up. I knew that Joe made each learning level so it would show the anti-thems. But Joe told me not to tell them and let them keep playing. The game would tell all of them that none of this was real, but Joe made it real so they would have to learn how to use their hands.

So I just cheered her on instead.

"Hurry AJ, hurry!" I yelled out as she nodded and looked determined. I hope I'm helping with that.

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Blitz's POV

Station: Obstacle Course

1st Rotation

Team Pegasi

"Come on Nature Girl, you've climbed higher trees so I know you can do this last part!" I encouraged Fluttershy as she climbed out of the low crawl net and made her way over to the ramp. She was going a little faster than a walk, but she was still making a decent time for her third try at the course.

"Got it." She said with a nod as she got to the ramp. I told them it was fine if they had to climb it on all fours, and that made Fluttershy less scared of it. So climbing up to the top, I quickly flew around to the other side where she went over the roof and closed her eyes before jumping again. She was less scared of the jump then she would usually be because both me and Rainbow Dash were waiting down here for her. And when she landed, we helped her up.

"Hurry it up Shy Girl, you're almost there!" I told her with a little force while also remembering it was Fluttershy that I was talking to. Regardless, she went a little faster and it was almost a jog by this point.

"Almost..." She said slowly before coming up to the finish line. "...There!" She yelled as she passed it and Spike stopped the timer.

"And that's two minutes and thirteen seconds!" Spike said before looking at me where I smiled and checked the seconds she lost.

"In total, that's two minutes and twenty-seven seconds! That's a half-minute off you're old time Fluttershy!" I told her with a smile. "Eye Shadow, think you can beat Fluttershy's time? Or are you too scared to break a nail?"

"Oh, if you think you can call me Eye Shadow and expect me to say no to a challenge like that..." Rainbow said with a shake of her head, knowing that I was just trying to help push her limits by this point.

"Actually Coach Blitz?" Fluttershy interrupted after taking a heavy sip of water. "I wanna go again. I think I know how to jog now." She said with a smile.

"You sure? Cause if you want to take a breather while Rainbow Dash goes then..." I would've gladly let her rest seeing how she was still breathing a little, but she just held up a hand to stop me as she took in one more breath.

"No, I'm sure I'm fine. Besides, I want to go one more time before the thirty minutes are up." She told me with a smile. "If that's okay with you Rainbow Dash..." She said a bit shyly, realizing just how much she was asking.

But Rainbow Dash only smiled at Fluttershy. "Nah, go right on ahead Fluttershy. Besides, I gotta practice my running a bit more so I can beat Coach Blitz's time." She then gave me a fake glare with a cocky grin while holding up a fist at me. "Then we'll see just who's scared to break a nail."

"Oh, I'm so scared." I said, barely able to keep the smile off my face as she walked a few feet away to practice her running. So when I saw Fluttershy approach the starting line, I flew over beside her. "You ready?"

"Yeah. Oh, and don't worry about going easy on me." She said with a small smile. "If you want to act like a Coach than that's fine."

"You sure? Cause no offense, but I don't think I can really go hard on you. You're honestly too nice to insult." I told her, not having any other way to put it. Only a heartless jerk could use decent insults against her and mean them.

"Oh, well in that case..." She said, pausing for a second before smirking. "That's just sad." She told me with a smirk.

"Wait, what?" I said, stopping her so I could repeat that in my head. Did Fluttershy really just call me sad?

"You heard me. I mean, you think you're good enough to stare at Rainbow Dash? She is way out of your league." She went on, saying just quiet enough that Rainbow and Spike couldn't hear any of it.

But I just went wide-eyed. "Woah! Hold on, I do not-" I just saw her give me an evil smirk that told me that I was falling for her little trick. "Okay Fluttershy...You want me to stop going easy on you? Well congrats 3.0, cause you're featherin' wish was just granted! Start running at the whistle!"

"Whatever you say lover-colt." She said, sounding like a completely different mare.

I couldn't tell if I was going red from embarrassment or anger, but whatever it was I got ready to track her running. "Ready. Set." The whistle went off and Spike started the timer as Fluttershy started to do I light jog to test it out.

"Let's see if you're faster on the ground then with your weak flimsy wings!" I said rudely.

"That all you have to say?" Fluttershy asked as she started to pick up the pace. Getting near the tires.

"Oh yeah, I have one other thing to say. Wave to Angel before you fall on your face." I kept going. "Can't you go any faster Flutter Slow?!" She just ignored me as she slowed down for the tires. Knowing to let her keep concentrating, I kept quiet. Knowing that I still had to be fair and let her get through each obstacle.

Despite that, she tripped towards the end an ended up missing three tires. And after making a mark I instinctively landed beside her and offered her a hand up. Which she merely glanced at for half a second before swatting it away and getting up on her own before jogging some more.

"Aw, is the poor wittle baby gonna cwy? Did she huwt her knee?" I asked, talking down to her as I flew besides her.

"Nope! In fact, never better." She told me as she only picked up speed before getting to the slanted platforms and jumping from one to the next one foot each. Not even slowing down as she cleared it and kept running. "You know, I think you're only flying because you made up that time."

"Think so huh? Lotta talk for some pony who can't even get under two minutes! You're pathetic!" I told her with a glare as I kept flying beside her. The high vantage point let me focus on her making a misstep without tripping over my own feet.

"Well at least I can actually sit in a boat without getting scared. You're too afraid to even ride you're own boats in a pond!" She told me as she swung across the rope swing. She messed up a bit on the landing though and had to center herself before moving on.

"Oh, I'm afraid of something? You're too scared to sit in a hole and watch dragons fly around! Or even sleep for that matter!" I yelled back as she made it to the wall. "So you just gonna run around it like you usually do? I mean, what's ten more seconds added to your slow time?"

"Oh, you'd like to add seconds wouldn't you 'Coach'?" Shy asked me as she went up to it and grabbed the rope. Climbing up it a little slowly, but getting on top and down faster than it would be for her to run around it and lose points. Then she didn't even say anything else as she ran up to the cargo rope net and started climbing it. "And so what if I'm scared of dragons? At least that makes sense unlike floating on a piece of badly made wood."

"What you just say about my work?" I asked, getting really ticked by this point.

"Yeah, come on Fluttershy! Don't let him get to ya!" Rainbow cheered as she overheard that last insult. Apparently she and Spike caught on to how we were both arguing by this point.

"Ya! You tell him Shy!" Spike cheered as well.

"Oh, what's that? You're two cheerleaders here to back you up? You probably need it since you're scared of your own shadow!" I told her with a winning grin.

"Pff. Dumb Robot." Fluttershy said before reaching the top and rolling down the other side.

...

Oh, she's in for it now.

She then rolled onto the ground and just started crawling towards the low crawl nets an making good time too. That obstacle was the easiest for both her and Rainbow. But not if I could help it.

I flew up over it and glared down at the net that she was under and glared. "Just gonna play some music, hope you don't mind!" I pressed my ear to make it start making dragon roars as I started flying past the net again and again. Using my silhouette of my wings to make it seem to Fluttershy was crawling underneath a dragon flying overhead. Which made her flinch a few times, but she kept shaking it off and eventually got out.

As she stood up, I turned the sound off and flew back down to meet her at the ramp. When she was up, I saw her glaring at me a bit as she was breathing deeper now, but kept going. Jogging up the ramp on just her two feet as she got to the top and had to stop for only a second to breath before getting to the top of the barn. Which from there, she rolled down the other side and into the cushion below. Breathing very heavily but crawling out still.

"Wow, you actually didn't close your eyes for once. If I didn't know any better, I'd think that you weren't actually a wimp!" I told her with a glare and a jerk grin.

"Shut it..." She said in between breathes as she got up and slowly jogged to the finish. She had used all her energy at the start and was already tired to begin with. So she was pretty much drained by this point. I decided to do as she asked and just jogged alongside her.

"Almost there, and..." Spike said slowly as Fluttershy finally started approaching the end. And after passing the line, he stopped thee timer. "You're done!"

Good thing too, because at that moment she had tripped and starting forwards. But luckily, I caught her and was able to stand her up straight. "Alright, good run Fluttershy." I told her with a smile. "And good job at trash-talking me. I didn't think you'd be that good at it." I told her with a smile.

She just started giggling as Rainbow Dash came over and helped me get Fluttershy to her chair. "Well...I saw you yelling at Rainbow Dash...And saw how it made her more motivated...So I thought it'd help...And it did..."

"Wait, so that was all just fake?" Spike asked as he got up and ran over to make sure he heard that right.

"Course it was. Did you honestly think she'd call me a Robot like that if she wasn't trying to annoy me?" I asked him with a smirk.

"Well...I did almost beat you up when we were hypnotized..." Fluttershy said, half-conscious by this point.

"Okay slugger, I think you need a break. Coach Spike, what's her time?" I asked, looking up towards him.

"A minute and fifty-nine seconds! I saw the tires too, so her time's two minutes and five seconds. Still pretty good!" He said happily.

"Well then it looks like I have a record to beat then." Rainbow said as she got up to walk to the start. "Let's hurry before the time's up Coach!"

"Yeah...I'm too tired to go again." Fluttershy said as Spike went off to his seat. "I think I'm just going to rest for now." She said as she leaned back in her seat to take a small nap.

I gave a slight nod before flying up and landing besides Rainbow at the starting point. "Alright Big Shot, let's see if you can do any better!" I told her, acting like a Coach again before getting the whistle ready.

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Joe's POV

Station: Paperwork

1st Rotation

Team Unicorn

"Almost done, Ms. Rarity?" I asked as I looked over Twilight's information once more. Right now, there were only three important factors that I needed to look over. So the results wouldn't take long at all.

"Just about. I'm trying to decide on a third topic about Earth I'd like to know about...Ah, I remember now!" She wrote down the last subject and swept up the paper to hand over to me.

"Perfect. And thankfully with the fourteen minutes and twenty seconds we have remaining we should have just enough time to look over these." I quickly read over the three pieces of information I needed, and noticed that her entire name was only Rarity. Perfect.

"Alright, well the first order of business is to create aliases for you. After sending a message to the Princess, she agreed to arrange the correct forms of identification to make you all look like you belong."

"Wait, you send a message to the Princess?" Twilight asked, suddenly very interested in what I was saying. "How?"

"Well since Mr. Spike had a phone that wasn't part of his body, I took the liberty of entering all of your numbers, along with the Royal Council's, into my own phone. Sooner or later, I'll have to give the numbers to Big Mike and Morgue. Also, that reminds me, do you both have your phones with you?" I asked, looking up towards them.

"Ah, I have mine right here." Rarity said as she pulled hers out and gave it to me. As did Twilight. "What did you need with them?"

"Well, you'll all need our numbers as well. Not only that, but I'm going to give each of your phones...Let's call them upgrades." I explained, collecting their phones and placing them into the desk drawer for later.

I was going to install apps into each of them. An app for books on demand, whatever music they may find popular, and games. It's pretty easy to hack an iPhone really. Just reprogram it to automatically skip the payment step in the process and viola. Free app whether fifty cents or fifty bucks. All at the press of a button.

"So what's the Princess going to do about these 'aliases' Mr. Criminal Mastermind?" Twilight asked, refocusing the topic on thieves and espionage.

"Oh please Ms. Sparkle, 'Criminal Mastermind' is both simply my occupation and codename. Please, just call me Genius." I told her sarcastically before moving on. Mentally smirking at the aggravation showing on her face.

"You see, given her high position, she can quite easily pull a few strings and enter your names into a database that is created to composite all the data that has to do with you in any way, shape, or form. And since none of you exist in these databases, if anyone was to try and run you by said databases, they would be extremely confused as to why you're nonexistent."

"Um...Beg pardon?" Rarity asked, utterly lost.

"To summarize, we need to fill out forms so people think you exist. I'll take care of background, but right now we need to find your names. For Ms. Sparkle, the Princess already gave me a last name. So we just need a first name."

"Okay. What would count as an average name then?" Twilight asked me.

"Well take my name for instance. My full name is Joseph "Mastermind" Frei, my brother's named Michael "Big Mike" Frei, and Morgue's full name is Martin "Morgue" Rodriguez. Our nicknames are part of our full names due to...Legal reasons. Although since that rule doesn't involve any of you, it'd be a normal full name like for instance your friend Mr. Zeke. His full name is Zachary Fletcher."

(Just an F.Y.I., that's not my real name. This random 4th Wall Breaking brought to you by the author who lies about his last name XD)

"Zachary? I thought his human name was Zeke." Twilight mused.

"Well it's like how others call you 'Twi' or Ms. Applejack's called 'AJ'. It's just a shortened version of the name that he prefers. So that being said, we need to create names for you. So to help, I came up with a list of names that closely resemble your names." I explained while also pulling out a small handbook filled with female names. I also had one for male names, but 'Spike' was passable enough to be a human name as well.

"The names I created all begin similarly to your name so it'll sound well enough that you'll get used to them rather quickly. I guess just tell me to stop whenever I say a name that you find the most agreeable to-"

"Ashley." She suddenly spoke out.

"...What?" I asked, looking to her with a raised eyebrow.

"Ashley. It's a name in this book. I like this name." She told me, passing me the handbook I had given to her.

"Really now?" I asked, adjusting my glasses with a small frown. "Out of all names to chose from, Ashley's the best name you want to go by?"

"Well, yeah. I mean, if we have to create new names for ourselves, why restrict the name to something as similar as our real names? If we have a new form, why not a new name?" She asked with a shrug.

"Alright...Seems as if you've made up your mind. Fine then. Congratulations Ms. Sparkle, your new name is Ashley Armor." I told her as I wrote it down for later. "Now for the interesting part. Ms. Rarity's name."

"Ah, yes. Well, I'm quite fond of my original name to be perfectly honest. So I'm not sure as to how that would-" "Actually, we need to come up with a last name first." I told her, cutting her off in the process.

"Oh. So the Princess didn't come up with a last name for me?" She asked, confused about that.

"Afraid not, no. She only gave Ms. Ashley and Mr. Spike's last name since her brother already had a last name to fit onto them." I explained, testing out Twilight's new name in the process. Better to practice now before I can have a chance to mess up in public. "But, that's what the three relatives list was for. By looking at their names, it'll help me decide a last name."

"Well in that case, may we skip my parent's names?" She asked, obviously embarrassed about them. Of course, it didn't take a mentalist to figure it out either. "My mother's last name is Crumbles and my Father's is Flanks...I'd much prefer if neither of those were my names..."

"Really now? And here I thought Flanks would be a near impossible name to talk you out of." I said with a frown. I might've been cruel, but I wasn't as cruel as to make her last name another word for 'butt'. Because as entertaining as 'Rarity Butt' would be to say, I had something else in mind already. "No, instead it was your little sister's last name that drew my attention."

"Belle? Well, would that name work? I mean, it's another word for a way of describing some po-" She saw me getting the paper towel tube ready and cleared her throat. "Sorry, someone's beauty." She said, completely unconvincing in trying to act like she wanted to be modest with the name.

So I went along with it. "Well it would've been entirely fine if you had the last name Belle, but if you're really that against it, then Crumbles will work well enough." I said, pretending to write something down.

"What-NO! I was merely worried about the name's realism! If I can have that name then-"

"Ms. Rarity, something you may want to know is that I hate it when others waste my time." I told her as I wrote 'Belle' as her last name. "So if you're trying to lie around me to make yourself look good then I won't buy into it. If you try to act modest, then I'll merely use that against you. Be truthful or be quiet." I told her with a frown.

She opened her mouth to say something, but knew that she was defeated and simply nodded. Where as twilight gave me a glare that I pretended to ignore as I looked at the list for Rarity's first name. "Now, to hurry and make up for that explanation, how about the name Renee?"

"Renee?" Rarity repeated, sounding a little interested in that name already. "Might I ask what it means?"

"It's a name meaning reborn. It's French." I told her, already seeing her come to like the name more and more. "Not to mention, it'll fit your last name since Belle is the French term for beauty."

"Hm...Renee Belle...Renee. Belle...Why hello, my name is Renee Belle." She tested out, smiling at the name. "My, who created such a lovely design? Why Renee Belle of course! Who's that lovely girl with the most exquisite hat? Renee Belle! Who's the most gorgeous human girl alive? Renee Belle! Who's-"

"The girl who needs to get to the point? Renee Belle!..." I concluded dryly before writing in the first name. Meanwhile, Ms. Renee Belle simply cleared her throat and blushed a little from the embarrassment.

"And we're done with the important part." I told them as I set the human forms, that I was to fill out, aside for now and just focused on what they both put down for subjects they wanted to focus on. "Alright Ms. Ashley. You wanted to learn of human literature, who would have ever guessed that; more on human 'television-like' electronics, way to be specific on that one; and finally...Oh, now what's this?..."

Twilight sighed and looked at me with a blank stare. "Yes, Joe, I also want to learn about the fantasy genre. And you don't have to add your own opinion after every subject you read."

"I think it's better to add my two cents now and get it out of the way." I dismissed before looking towards Rarity. "Now as for Ms. Renee Belle," I said sarcastically earning a small giggle from her in return. "You want to learn of human fashion, in case it was to be confused with beaver fashion; self-defense tactics, that's...I think I'll just go without a snappy comeback for that one."

"Probably for the best." She said with a small, partly innocent nod.

"...And finally, you want to learn about the subject of human beauty products. Well, I can assure you that the self-defense subject me and Big Mike might be able to help you with. Where as the other two I think the internet will help well enough." I told her with a nod.

"So now that we have," I quickly checked my watch since I was in charge of signaling when we'd all switch. "Eight minutes and twelve seconds left over, I guess I can just talk to you about each subjects or whatever you may want to know about anything." They both then rose their hands as if I was a school teacher.

Well I suppose that class is in session, morons. First lesson, stop raising your hands like you're in school.

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Big Mike's POV

Station: Video Games

1st Rotation

Team Earth Pony

"Get back here Rotten Apple! I'll teach you ta try an kidnap my family!" AJ yelled at the game as she kept playing. She had finished her teaching level thing and let Pinkie do her teaching level too, but now she was really determined to take down the evil Video Game AJ that was called Rotten Apple.

"Hurry Applejack! If you don't stop her, she'll poison all your families' apple farms!" Pinkie yelled out, looking at her. Really worried about AJ losing.

"I know, but she keeps on throwin' poison green apples at me! I only got enough life ta last one hit so I'm waitin' fer her ta drop a normal apple for me ta get my life back!" AJ told her while she kept dodging the green apples. She was at the boss fight now, and the boss fight was on the top of three trains that were all going the same way.

"Come on AJ! You got this!" I yelled out, not looking away from the awesomeness of this boss fight. My boss fight when I was fighting 'Bigger Mike' was on a highway. And Bigger Mike picked up vans and threw them at me while I had to run towards Bigger Mike to beat him up with spikey gloves. After I would hurt him enough, he would throw me back to another highway and try to smash me with vans again. But I beat him up.

Pinkie's boss fight was really scary though. Joe made it so it was like this really scary story, but not as scary. Joe said that Pinkie's Video Game Evil boss was called The Cake Enforcer. But instead of kill people, he made it so Evil Pinkie would force whoever she kidnapped to eat cupcakes that mind-controlled them. Making them act like zombies. Pinkie said that AJ's was more important though.

"Yes! Got more life! Alright you slippery worm, yer goin' down!" AJ yelled as she jumped up and started doing combos on the Evil AJ. Taking her down to about half health. But before AJ could hurt her even more, Rotten Apple made a rope tie up AJ and throw her inside of the train. Where a bunch of bad guys with hats that looked like green apples were waiting.

"Ugh! I'm tellin' ya guys, Rotten Apple must be cheatin' err somethin'! How's come whenever I got her on the ropes, Rotten Apple manages to do a dirty move like that?!" AJ asked before fighting the other bad guys.

"Well, Joe always tells me that it's called 'Video Game Logic'. He had another card thingy for me to read...Where'd it go?" I asked, looking around for them.

"Here they are!" Pinkie yelled out as she held up the cards. "It says that Video Game Logic is a lot like how Pinkie acts. It's not dictated by the same laws of physics or reason, but that they do whatever they want since the video game world is like someone's imagination!"

"Well whatever that means, I just beat up all a Rotten Apple's goons again!" AJ cheered as the small movie scene thing of her jumping out of the train and onto the roof happened. "Alright Rotten Apple, prepare for round-"

"RINGADING-RINGADING-RINGADING! Alright everyone, the thirty minutes are up! Time to switch stations!" We heard Joe yell from one of those megaphone things.

"What?! But-but I was just about ta stop Rotten Apple!" AJ yelled back out. "It'll only take a minute err two!"

"Sorry Ms. Applejack, but I'm afraid that's the way it's going to be. Big Mike?" He asked through the megaphone, signaling me to take care of it.

"Got it!" I yelled back out before turning to AJ. "Sorry AJ, but you need to go to the next station." I said, trying to get the controller back, but AJ kept it away.

"Nu-uh! I still gotta save Apple Bloom an the others! Ya can't just make me leave em there!" She yelled at me. I knew that they were all just a video game. And now that AJ got to Rotten Apple, she could skip everything and fight her again.

Pinkie knew it too and just got up and hopped to the door like a bunny or something. "Aw, come on Applejack! We still got other human-y things left to do at Joe and Blitz's stations! Let's go!"

"Don't worry AJ, I'll make sure that Rotten Apple doesn't do anything while your doing the other stuff." I told her with a determined smile. No way was Rotten Apple poisoning apples. That was just mean.

"Oh...Well...Alright..." She said, handing me the remote while Pinkie hopped back over and started pulling her out of the barn. "Just make sure Apple Bloom doesn't eat any a tha poisoned apples!"

"You got it!" I said with a wave goodbye. AJ paused the game before handing it to me, but I could see all of AJ's family watching from the side. "Uh...Is Apple Bloom the big red one with the giant necklace?..." I asked as I heard others coming to the barn. Oh well, they'll be safe.

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And...Done! Finally, this chapter's finished! It took me forever, but it's finally done! I am really sorry about this wait! I had been drawing blank after blank for some parts and nowadays, I'm finding it hard to focus on anything. But I'm not giving up on anything till it's either done or I'm dead!

Of course that being said, I had to cut this chapter a bit short. (If your idea of short is 22,000+ words.) I actually had tons more ideas, but I'll have to save them for the next chapter. Which will be them finishing up the stations.

Hopefully the long chapter makes up for the long wait, but regardless I'll just be working on the next chapter. Hopefully it won't take too long either. But also to help me run over that Writer's Block with a shiny new truck, I'm also doing a small Pokémon story on the side. Those chapters take a grand total of two-three hours to write though, so they won't get in the way.

With all that said, I'm gonna get going. See you all next chapter every Brony!

QotC: If you had a Video Game Alter Ego that you had to fight, then what would he/she be like? And what would their name be?