Do you believe in Magic? Like, real Magic? As a child I went to the circus where I saw the so-called Magicians perform tricks and entertain the crowd with their antics, pulling a rabbit out of their hats was one of their most famous stunts. I knew that they weren't real, that they Magic was nothing but a very good set of skillful manipulations of the crowd and their incredibly helpful props. Wands turning into bouquets of flowers, people being cut in two and even young women levitating over the tables without any visible support, all these things were very fun to watch but in the end you knew that they weren't real and there always was a rational explanation to them. I didn't believe in Magic, it wasn't something a young woman of twenty-five years old would believe in after living basically a quarter of her life and never seeing anything even remotely supporting its existence.

Aliens, Time Travelers and Artificial Intelligences out to take over the World were also just some very elaborated fantasies that somebody came up and the crowed picked up and ran with. Why would anyone even consider such a stupid notion anyway? My own personal opinion was that realism was a way to go, while anything else had nothing to do anywhere but on the pages of the books and comics. I never desired to be kidnapped by some aliens, give Mystical Powers or ever sent into another Dimension so that I would be able to live a life that would let me interact with my favorite Characters from one show or the other. Most people who say that they would gladly take the place of someone or the other are stupid and never consider the negative aspects of things that may or may not come to pass with them being either swept away or simply crushed by them.

It's all good and fun to wonder around Jurassic Park right up until the moment when a Velociraptor will gut you like a turkey, the whole thing was much less fun to think about after imagining yourself as Dinosaurs' next meal. It's all fun and dandy to wake up in the body of Harry Potter and do reality-warping Magic but it all come crashing down when you see that you have to live with abusive relatives and an insane Magical Neo-Nazi is gunning for your scarred head. People always think only about the good parts when they think about visiting one of those Fictional Universes, but it only as good as it will be with all the baggage that comes with it for you to carry on your shoulders.

What would you do if you were to be put into a position like that? And I don't want some crack~ish answer about being awesome, how you will fix everything and how it will be all cool and you will be the King of the World before supper. Reality is a far more violent and cruel think that wouldn't let you simply go out of your way to improve thing without getting the consequences delivering a harsh reality-check right into your face.

I found myself in a such a situation, and instead of panicking or feeling fear I felt cold and numb. Waking up in the unfamiliar place, with the wooden ceiling and very antique looking design of the interior was just the first jolt that made my heart beating far faster than normal. Looking around me and seeing things that wouldn't be out of place in some old Disney Movie made me want to move but my body simply wasn't cooperating as a stared at my surrounding in mute incomprehension. The empty and cold feeling in my chest, the sheer feeling of wrongness that was oozing out of every of my five senses that I possessed was pressing down on me, I was pretty sure I didn't blink for the duration of several minutes. While I wasn't the brightest mind there is, I wasn't dull and I knew that there was no way someone would kidnap me just to stage something like this out of the sheer amusement or something similar to that. I was a nobody, just a person who had a normal boring life that stretched out before me, rocking the boat was out of question and I had nothing else but to let the flow carry me towards what was my future. I was content, I had friends and I loved my personal space while also having a job and from time to time going out with one friend or the other for a good dinner at my favorite Grill Bar.

'... What happened?' I simply sat there and stared at nothing in particular while the cover on someone's bed were still hiding my legs and a nighty that I never saw before was covering my very modest chest.

There was certain value to people who can take on a calm approach to the problem and avoid trying something as stupid as simply rushing into things without the knowledge of their own situation.

Name: Jessica Soer/Moon Dancer
Occupation: The Gamer
Level: 1 (0/660 EXP)
Title: N/A
STR: 10
VIT: 10
DEX: 10
INT: 21(10+11)
WIS: 21(10+11)
LUK: 10
Points: 5

Money: 0 Bits

And then there was shit like this that left you with a very strong desire to bash your head against the nearest wall in frustration. I knew that I was about one freaking hair away from going hysterical, but in the same time I was mostly keeping myself immobile as I slowly and surely was processing the information that came with this revelation. My mind was running a mile a minute as it tried to grasp the implications of what was happening and how impossible such a situation should be by all accounts, I already pinched myself several times while trying to wake up from the dream only to open my eyes once again and see the same impossible scenery around me.

Did I get a new chance in life? This question would imply that I actually died while sleeping in my bed, but that wasn't something I wanted to think about as I simply sat on the admittedly soft and fluffy bed and blankly stared at the floating window. Dying sucked, and I wasn't sure if me being dead was a good or a bad thing. Coming in terms with the whole thing was something I was sure will kick in later one, after my brain will finish processing and digesting all the wild implications of what was happening around me. It was like waking up in the Wonderland, but at the same time it felt real and my own faith in the supernatural was so nonexistent that still hoped that it will be nothing but a dream in the end. Almost mechanically I lifted my hand and touched the name that was attached to my own, it was somewhat familiar and at the same time...

As soon as my fingers touched the name my brain suddenly felt a pulse of searing pain going through it as I released a silent scream. The edges of my vision blackened as the images flew through my mind and I collapsed backwards onto the bed. The sudden assault of information and almost crippling pain going right through my head were more than enough to knock me out, the last thing that I was able to process correctly before blacking out was the fact that my hair was red.

I sat behind the table and took a sip from a glass full of orange juice, at least Moon Dancer was good at packing enough food in her fridge to last her the whole week and everything stayed fresh. I was wearing a white T-Shirt and light purple trousers over my simple white panties and bra combo that was probably the only type of the underwear that I would ever find in this house. I grimaced at the thought of how I was basically body-jacking the body of an innocent person, stealing her life and everything that came with it. After my forced nap for two hours and then a very groggy awakening I was mostly going through the motions that Moon Dancer usually went through in the morning, relying mostly on the very basic autopilot that let me at least no stumble over my own feet while trying to adjust to the new body.

I almost tripped over at least twice as my reach was somewhat bigger than the girl with a horn and a literal pony-tail had, my own body was taller and I had longer arms and legs than the rather short and petite bookworm. I was about a meter eighty-five while Moon Dancer was about a head shorter and much less developed than I was, which led to me overestimating my own steps and coordination on several occasions. From me fainting with a legendary level of a headache came out at least one, but a very good thing that left me with somewhat damaged and a little bit foggy but still mostly intact memories of the previous owner of this body. I honestly felt as if someone shoved a whole damn log between my lobs and wiggled it around for some time, but I was very glad when the pain vanished and I could again operate as a person.

The first thing that hit me like a train was the fact that I was in the place called Equestria, the fictional Universe created for children and somewhat try to appear much bigger than it actually was. I knew the show, who didn't these days as the memes were everywhere and anyone who was familiar with Internet could recognize the iconic visages of the ponies that managed to worm their way into the hearts of children almost everywhere. This cartoon~ish show was like a dream came true for the parents as it was interesting enough to not make the little ankle-bitters leave and educational enough to make sure to leave some good moral lessons behind. I honestly only knew about it because I was a big fan of one of its FanFictions where it was crossed over with Prototype, out of curiosity I watched the whole thing and was left with mixed feelings. While it was childish and somewhat redundant as it tried to force the whole 'Friendship Solves Everything' mandate down the collective throat of the younger generation, there were some interesting themes going on and some jokes were actually funny.

I read enough Fics to know about the concept of being a 'Displaced' and I honestly wasn't thrilled in the slightest, while the show was childish and followed the absolute rule of 'Nobody Dies' Trope I honestly felt that the Villains here were highly underestimated. Nightmare Moon could move the fucking moon and had enough raw Power at her disposal that she could shatter the Elements of Harmony, the local equivalent of an 'Ultimate Anti-Doom Day Device', with a fucking stomp! Discord warped reality on a whim and lost only because he honestly didn't even try to bring his A-Game onto the table and was content with screwing around rather than actually doing something like teleporting the Main Cast or the mentioned Elements far into space where they will either die or be lost forever respectably. The only competent Villain so far was actually Tirek, and even he fell under the unstoppable power of Deus-Ex-Machina that is Friendship in this Universe, Starlight Glimmer came close second with Sombra taking the Honorable Third Place.

So, as long as I wouldn't be rising my head or making waves I could live a relatively peaceful life, with the exception of the crazy shit that Discord did with the world, the whole deal with the Invasion of Changelings with Chrysalis calling the shots and Tirek probably trying to suck out my Soul. I could feel my guts freezing over from the thought of someone as powerful as one these monsters coming even near me. I wasn't a fighter, my sole talent was in computers and writing Stories that I posted on the Forums and I knew literally nothing about how to even properly throw a punch. I was screwed, or at least I would've been in any normal situation without a very good bonus I received upon awakening here.

[Telekinesis(Active) LV3 EXP: 9.15%]
The Spell that lets you move items with your Magic and Mind, it's Power solely depends on the User and doesn't have any actual Limit of Volume or Weight it can be used to manipulate. The Amount of Mana used is proportional to said Parameters of the Targeted Object.
Passively Increase the Weight/Volume per Mana proportion by 3%
Passively Increase the Range by 3%
Passively Decrease the Mana Cost by 3%

The Light Yellowish Gray spiraling horn sprouting from the upper part of my forehead was glowing a Light Ceriseish Gray color of the energy coating it, the same was happening to several items that were floating on a stable orbit around me. When I first saw it in the mirror I honestly just stared at the damn thing, it was so absurd to have a Unicorn horn on your forehead that I just couldn't comprehend the fact of its existence until the second absurd thing snapped me out of my stupor. Right above my head I could see my name, or at least the name of the Character I replaced, floating along with a Level to it in a very familiar way that I was honestly more disturbed about than the horn.

Han Jee-Han made it look easy, he made it look like it costed him almost nothing to simply sprout out one new Skill after another. I was honestly very happy that in the damaged memories of Moon Dancer I discovered how to properly access Magic and how to perform at least one Spell. [Telekinesis] was one of the most basic Spells that were hardly even considered that in the first place, there simply weren't any limitations or even a criteria for the Unicorn to be able to use it as even newborns could perform such a feat without much of a problem. It took me three tries but was able to use it, [Gamer's Mind] was keeping me calm while in any normal situation I should've been freaking the fuck out and running in circles like a headless chicken. Yes, I was 'The Gamer', I possessed the 'Ultimate Cheat-Code' to the World around me and had literally limitless potential that made it pretty much impossible for me to ever run out of progress.

Korean Manhwa didn't do this particular Ability justice when it was explaining how it worked, I could actually feel how much Health and Mana I had left while the expected Bars were missing. And I certainly didn't have the full package of [Gamer's Body] as a small cut on my finger healed naturally instead of actually doing so instantly and just taking away my Health Points. This was honestly concerning, but on the other hand I was all but certain that the most important part about it still worked as after eating some bread I was as good as new. I honestly didn't want to test just how far I could take this particular Skill and there simply wasn't any real reason to do so in this particular instant.

Two other Skills that I actually got for free were more than welcomed as I saw the reason why I had such a good Mana Pool from the start. [Unicorn] was a very strange Skill that actually gave me more Stat Points and increased my Mana Pool with each Level I will gain, while [Cutie Mark] was basically a very potent Buff to any and all Skills that I would be able to create in the future. Apparently Moon Dancer's Special Talent was connected to Magic after all, no wonder she couldn't get along with people as her status as a 'Discount Twilight Sparkle' was plainly obvious even from her hairstyle. The matching tail, something I had to tug on until it became actually painful to proof the fact that it was real, also showed the basically same body-model for the Characters used by Twilight Sparkle in Canon.

My situation was kind of good, I wasn't a Main Character so most of the problems will walk around me and target those six girls that were now representing the Ponies from Canon. Well, there was always that Episode where Twilight will try to re-establish her 'friendship' with her acquaintances from Canterlot, but I was pretty sure that I will be able to avoid it by simply leaving to somewhere else for some time. I basically had free reign and no limitations that would lead to me ending Equestria as a whole, a vacation in all but name that came with a permanent settlement and even a house and paperwork. [Gamer's Mind] was keeping my fear and anger in check and was letting me think clearly no matter how much of those feelings I head tearing at me on the inside. Realistically speaking I was at a very serious advantage here as 'The Gamer' gave me basically an Ability to survive no matter what as soon as I will learn how to Teleport, one of the most useful and only once properly used Spells in the whole damn Series.

It was almost five hours since I first woke up here, and I was reasonably sure that I was mostly calm now and would be able to operate properly. The book, the empty cup and the small scroll that were circling me while surrounded by my Magical Aura were mostly there so I would be able to tell just how much Mana I was wasting on them and how long I would be able to keep this up. If I were to trust my Stats I didn't have that much Mana with by INT being kind of low, but with [Telekinesis] being a rather cheap Skill I had more than enough of it to keep these three objects afloat indefinitely. Perk of being a Unicorn maybe?

Next thing that came to me was the fact that with me being basically removed from the Main Plot-line I had no actual goals in mind that would've been even somewhat reasonably interesting or challenging. One was to get home, but it was a very long-term one and for even a moderate amount of progress I would need to wait for either Discord to be freed or for the Chrystal Empire to rise from under the ice. Discord was powerful enough to travel through time and it was a reasonable assumption that he had enough juice in him to tear a hole through the Veil between Dimensions, while the Chrystal Empire will be the easiest place for me to gain assess to the Chrystal Mirror. The problem was? I had no way to force the first one to cooperate with me, while the second one will need me to be someone akin of local Merlin, Starswirl the Bearded if my memory serves me right, to properly operate it and adjust it akin of the Quantum Mirror from Stargate's Series.

My thoughts drifted towards the fact that right now I was literally at the bottom of the barrel, I had no resources and no base to build upon with nothing but some Bits that Moon Dancer had from her own scholarship and the basic knowledge of how to perform Magic. There really wasn't all that much I could do right now, I had a house and enough money to live the life of a medium-level citizen right up until the moment I will die from old age. Well, I would have enough money if I were to find a regular source of income as the scholarship was only good enough for basic needs such as food. If I could I would've kissed [Gamer's Mind] as it was the only thing that was keeping me calm and letting me not fall into panic, without it I would've been as useless as any normal person in my situation could be.

I took another sip from my glass of juice, I was still internally freaking out about the whole thing but I kept my whole facade calm and collected just for my own sake. I knew that I was given tools to achieve something, 'The Gamer' was the most powerful Ability ever as it could evolve and develop and never stop as long as I wanted to move forward. I had foreknowledge about the oncoming disasters that could be avoided, some of them even averted with a little bit of interference on my part. While I had no freaking clue how to stop Discord, Chrysalis or Sombra I at least could prevent Tirek from rising to power without any effort as he was as strong as a newborn kitten right after escaping Tartarus. Could I stop Starlight Glimmer? I don't think so, she was far too skilled and powerful for me to even consider this an option so I would just leave her to Twilight and her merry band of followers.

Why would I bother?

Well, I couldn't be bothered to stop Nightmare Moon or Chrysalis as they are easily avoidable as far as I was concerned, but Discord and Tirek were just too dangerous and basically Omnipotent for me to hide from. The damn centaur could fucking steal Magic from Ponies, his getting out and feeding upon the whole population would be a disaster of a catastrophic proportions if he was to devour the Magic of Alicorns along with Discord's and other important Character's. Even Twilight couldn't stop him with her own Power severely Amplified by the Magic of Celestia, Luna and Cadance that she was gifted with for the sake of safekeeping, he just shrugged everything off like nothing and that was basically a stalemate. Starlight Glimmer was another can of worms altogether, her little go at the Space-Time Continuum and the following destruction of Equestria made me want to bash her face in for the retarded decision of preventing the fucking Elements of Harmony from manifesting! Dumb bitch had no fucking clue what the fuck she was doing and how thing would've turned out for the whole world if she was to succeed in her egoistical endeavor.

I absently closed the Window that told me that my [Telekinesis] have gained a Level.

So far I was sure that avoiding everything and everyone important was the best course of action, while researching my own way home and trying to stay behind the curtain as much as I could. The knowledge that I gained from Moon Dancer was mostly half-assed and some part were missing, she didn't know how to Teleport or at least I didn't receive any knowledge of said Spell that would've saved me so many problems in the future. This was my first actual goal, the acquire said Spell and make it my bitch because it's absolutely limitless potential would leave me with far more time to do what was needed to be done as far as literally cutting out a huge chunk of time that I would've spent walking around.

I finished my juice and made the levitating items return back to their rightful places, as far as Moon Dancer knew she didn't have any appointments today and therefore neither had I. This was the time right after that disaster of a party where Twilight ditched her and therefore her friends were giving her space just to let her come out of her funk after the whole ordeal. Well, at least Minuette, Twinkleshine and Lemon Hearts were doing so and I couldn't blame them, the poor girl really was hurt because of the whole thing but I wasn't her and this wouldn't be something that would stop me. This was a perfect excuse for me to simply vanish for a day or two, as far as I was concerned there wasn't any reason for me to stick around and wait for something to happen when I could do something productive.

'First on the List: Acquire the Teleportation Spell.' I stood up and suddenly a Window popped out in front of me, its sudden appearance made me blink.

Quest Alert
No More Walking: Acquire the Skill [Teleportation]!
Acquire the Skill [Teleportation] and return home until Moon Dancer's friends will notice your absence.
Time Limit: 24 hours.
Completion Award: 200 EXP
Completion Failure: -500 Reputation with Minuette; -500 Reputation with Twinkleshine; -500 Reputation with Lemon Hearts

Well, that wasn't ominous at fucking all. At least I knew that there was a chance of me being noticed, some warning is better than none at all I suppose. I pressed the accept button and walked towards the stair onto the second floor of the house, I needed to change if I wanted to actually get out and not be noticed outright. One thing I was thankful for was that my eyesight was fully fixed and I wasn't shortsighted as Moon Dancer was before I hijacked her body and probably killed her in some sort of a philosophical way. Damn if that didn't sound morbid at fucking all...

I had about three hours before the sunset, if I wanted to do what I was going to do and was going to it discreetly I would need to wait for Celestia to lower the sun and then rise the moon so the night will cover my little escapade. In the show I only saw several Ponies actually using Teleportation and that was Twilight and Starlight along with baby Unicorns and one very powerful newborn Alicorn and that was all Accidental Magic as far as I could judge from the explanations given at that time and was just forced to happen through Magical Surges, like in Harry Potter by much more frequent. I wasn't going to risk something like that, Moon Dancer knew about the Spell and that it required a hallelujah of an effort and Mana to pull of at the first time due to lack of Skill. She never actually learned it, there simply was no reason for it and she had no actual need or desire for such a Spell.

Well, this was about to change as I retreated to the second floor and sat in a cross-legged position on the carpet in front of the bed. I once again activated [Telekinesis] and this time I used it to life the big wooden bed that weighted much more than almost anything Moon Dancer had in possession short of a bookcase. I needed two more Skills that I was sure I could gain while grinding this one and also trying not to drain myself dry while performing such a heavy-lifting. I could only hope that this will be enough, I knew only one place beside the Royal Library where I could acquire such a Skill and I honestly didn't care that I would be technically breaking and entering to get it as nobody would even notice that it was gone.

Not for a couple of years to come at least.

Inventory was a wonderful things that could store an almost unlimited amount of things as long as they could be put into it and had a reasonable size to them, between my exercises and grinding I decided to raid Moon Dancer's house for any useful things that could probably help me in the future. The first thing I went after were money, there wasn't much by the local standards and I made sure to collect every Bit in the house and put them into my Inventory for future use. This was a reasonable amount for someone who was living alone and wasn't a fan of any excessive things like expensive clothing or rich furniture, I knew that if I wanted to achieve anything here I needed more and therefore I had to find a steady income that wasn't coming from the Crown.

Three hours of pure work and I managed to gain two Skills that will help in the the long run, one of them being the most broken Skill ever created and the most useful one to ever imagined: [Observe]. No matter how much anyone could coo and swoon at awesome Skills that could crush buildings and make you literally throw miniature suns at people, the Skill that can extract information with a single glance would always trump them all as it was basically an ultimate hack for the world around you. There wasn't many thing to use it on around me but I made sure scan each book I could see around me, Moon Dancer didn't possess any actual Skill Books as most of them were more theoretical in nature than practical in application. Well, I found one book that I instantly used to acquire a new Skill and that was the 'Beginner's Guide to Healthy Diet', which basically gave me [Cooking] and that was pretty much it.

It didn't even require any additional Stats to learn, so apparently it had no actual restrictions which made sense in its won weird way. It's not like anyone had to be strong enough or smart enough to learn how to cook, so logically even a person with all of his Stats being one could probably learn it and even excel in it. I looked at my Skill Window and suppressed a smug smirk, it wasn't such a bad result for the first day and if Han Jee-Han had the knowledge how his Power actually worked from the beginning then there wouldn't have been so much trouble for him to go through to grind himself some serious firepower in record times. I, on the other hand, had all the knowledge I may need and therefore I could simply skip the whole learning process and use this whole thing to its fullest right from the start.

[Telekinesis(Active) LV15 EXP: 19.15%]
The Spell that lets you move items with your Magic and Mind, it's Power solely depends on the User and doesn't have any actual Limit of Volume or Weight it can be used to manipulate. The Amount of Mana used is proportional to said Parameters of the Targeted Object.
Passively Increase the Weight/Volume per Mana proportion by 15%
Passively Increase the Precision by 15%
Passively Increase the Range by 15%

Apparently lifting bigger and heavier objects gave me much more Experience for the Skill, and while I had no actual measuring system for how much Mana I used there was a noticeable decrease in its consumption upon me making the heavy old oak bed float in the air as I sat on the carpet. It was heavier than me and therefore it was a good sign that I would probably be able to lift something of my weight easily enough even if not for a very long time as my Mana ran dry rather fast until I gained my other Skill.

[Meditation(Active) LV7 EXP: 67.57%]
A serene state of Mind and Body where you fully become one with yourself. It lets you faster recover from fatigue and wounds and Increase the Rate at which you Replenish your Spirit.
Regenerates per Second 0.35% of the Total Health Points
Regenerates per Second 0.35% of the Total Mana Pool

This one was actually a lot more useful than I imagined, it literally let me regain my Mana and Health at the rate that left me with a far lesser drain than before and with a far more adequate way to regain way to regain Mana rather than drinking a lot of water. Apparently liquids were the ones that let me refill my Mana Pool and Stamina while food work on my Health, and probably something else as honestly didn't think much about it for now and didn't try to eat anything so far beside that juice. It didn't quite left me with infinite Mana, but it made it far easier for me to regain it after my [Telekinesis] left me with empty tank. I still had to drink several glasses of water to fully recharge before going out, but it was more of a result of me trying to actually move the bed around the room to see if it will let me gain more Experience that way.

It did, but in the same time I found out that my mastery of it wasn't enough to not crash it into walls or other furniture. At least I managed to not knock that wardrobe down, but it was mostly luck with the bed flying at such a slow speed and the damn thing was probably lighter only by a small margin. Moon Dancer didn't have much when it came to clothes, but the furniture she had was rather old and heavy and with a lot of room in it for whatever reason that I didn't know. She bought it rather cheaply on an equivalent of a yard-sale from an old man that apparently was moving somewhere and didn't need it anymore, the secretaire and the kitchen table came from the same source. I didn't remember the name of that old guy, but he knew good stuff as these things were obviously old and put through some serious paces and still held together rather admirably.

'Time to go.' I put on a pair of dark blue pants, that ratty turtleneck sweater that Moon Dancer had in Canon over my white shirt and a pair of grey shoes and exited the house. While I had some good impressions about the Canterlot from the memories of my Host, there was nothing like actually seeing the equivalent of a bastard child of a Camelot and the Disney's Castle that went through some serious PR-work to appear and children-friendly as it could. The paint-job was kind of bizarre and I honestly felt as if Willy Wonka would jump out of nearest pickle jar just to break into song, Lauren Faust was on some heavy-duty shit when she came up with this whole thing.

The sun was already down and I had all the directions I needed, it was kind of a surprise that Moon Dancer actually knew where Twilight lived. The whole memory was kind of fuzzy, but I think that it was mostly due to the fact that the purple introvert was the student of the current monarch rather than out of actual courtesy. I knew that what I was doing was kind of wrong, but at the same time there really wasn't any actual reason for me to not use a very good opportunity to acquire something useful with a guarantied success rate.

The book that would count as an actual Skill book only existed in the Royal Library, as it was a limited edition and therefore was only printed in one dozen copies. Usually [Teleportation] was taught and then properly trained with a professional tutor as it was far from easy to actually utilize it efficiently. Twilight was fucking powerful, judging by Moon Dancer's memories the demonstration of effortless spacial relocation that she performed on a whim was the all the testimony anyone would need to see just how freaking huge her Mana Pool was. For someone like Celestia, Luna and Discord it was trivial thing to perform such a Spell, but for a Unicorn to hop from place to place with such an ease was something to be proud off. I think only Starlight Glimmer and Sombra could demonstrate something like that, with the later one being so freaking strong through Voldemort-esque means and therefore being only tentatively compared. Glimmer on the other hand was good, she actually was very talented and powerful enough literally fuck up time and space to achieve her own goal while flipping off this Universe's version of freaking Merlin in the process.

Then there was Tirek, he wasn't actually strong and all his impressive performance was only due to him literally draining a whole country worth of Magic to rise to such heights. While I honestly didn't care about the means but there was a general rule that was left behind the door by him that said: Always check for a Hidden Trump Card! He had everything in hand and all of it went down because of Rainbow-Ex-Machina, bullshit credit is where the bullshit credit is due.

Royal Library was out of question for me because of all the Royal Guards positioned around the place and because there was some kind of an alarm system tied to the whole thing, and Moon Dancer didn't know how to get around it. Hell, the only reason she knew was because it was taught during the History Lessons in school, it was told that it was placed there so nobody will try to use those Spells and probably get hurt due to simply not being competent enough to perform them. Spells can backfire if they are cast improperly and with some rather interesting results, it all boiled dow to how you screwed up and what Spell you were trying to perform in the first place. Again, Twilight's little performance during her initiation into the School for Gifted Unicorns showed just how dangerous these miscasts can be, she fucking turned her parents into plants and that was the smallest of her trouble with Spike growing to the size of an adult Dragon in an instant taking the absolute TOP.

Moon Dancer never bothered with the Special Courses like 'Art of Teleportation' and the 'Art of Defense', she saw no need in taking them and just concentrated more on her studies of a more academic subjects. Therefore I now have literally no Combat Magic and doesn't know how to perform Spacial Transportation at the drop of a fucking hat, it was a blessing that 'The Gamer' made my own capabilities so flexible that it simply didn't matter. If the knowledge I gained was correct then there simply wasn't any real limitation on who could perform the Spell that I was seeking, the Magical Capabilities only limited the Range and the number of times you could cast it before keeling over from sheer exhaustion. Even a rather average Unicorn had the capability to perform at least five successful jumps about twenty meters in length before severely draining himself, six if he were to push himself. Earlier I redistributed my free Points into INT to boost my Mana Pool at least somewhat, I agreed with Han Jee-Han that just grinding other Parameters was the right way to go about it with INT being the hardest to gain manually and therefore a prime receiver of the free Points.

It was really weird to actually feel my Mana Pool growing a bit less than a quarter bigger, Unicorns were always keenly aware of their own Magic and from Moon Dancer's perspective it would've been downright bizarre to suddenly have her own Reserves expanded out of the blue like that. I knew what was happening, but it still felt weird to actually be aware of the whole thing happening inside of me, even a little bit creepy.

I carefully looked around, some people were still outside and hurrying around on their own businesses, the Summer Sun Celebration was one of the more grandiose events of the year and therefore the population tended to be a bit more exited about it. This World was a lot more peaceful and idealistic than the Real One and I could see how everyone here was in a far greater mood than normal and basically preparing for the parties to go out with a bang. It was also a good thing because nobody paid any attention to a scrawny girl walking down the road without a care, nobody even took a moment to look at me a second time as everyone who still was outside were trying to get to their destination as fast as possible. Equestria was a very peaceful and benevolent country, and the crime here wasn't as obvious or spread as it was back home so everyone's sense of danger was weak and dull.

'Thanks for that.' It was kind of weird that the first thing I was going to do upon waking up in a Fictional World was to commit a crime, but I honestly didn't care about anything other than my own hide and therefore couldn't give a flying fuck about the laws right now. It wasn't like my morals were gone or I was turning into an uncaring psycho that would kill people just because they weren't real, I just had very little care about the rules that were forced upon me without my agreement. Whoever did this, and I owned that person a very good beating and probably some missing teeth, obviously have gained something out of it. Well, I wasn't going to play by the rules anyway, my only priority was to get home and that was pretty much it from where I stood right now. If my actions were according to what was expected from me I didn't care as there literally was no way for me to know and therefore to avoid it, no point of trying to do anything about something that you have no knowledge about.

I stood in front of the doors that led into the former home of Twilight Sparkle, considering that there was no way she will be returning here I had several hours before somebody will start pocking around. There was a big chance that Celestial will send some Royal Guards to pick some personal belongings of the soon-to-be Element of Magic, but it won't happen until Twilight will announce her desire to stay in Ponyville in the pseudo-morning.

I took a deep breath through my mouth and then released the air through my nose and with a minor application of [Telekinesis] I opened the double-doors that led into the penthouse of the tower. Just opening them wide enough to sneak in I squeezed through and then closed them behind me, making sure not to make any noise as the slowly looked around.

The first floor was rather spacious, and obviously used as a living quarter rather than the study one judging by the small but well-equipped kitchen and a big bed. There also were som cushions lying around and some books on the floor, I instantly spotted the stairs that were leading towards the second floor where the library and other, less important, things were. Picking the books from the floor with my Magic I took a look at their covers to make sure that I won't miss anything vital or useful, all seven of them were mostly about Magical Theory and therefore didn't count as actual Skill Books but I still put them into my Inventory as there always was a chance that I will find something useful on those pages later.

I climbed on the second floor and my jaw actually almost dropped, seeing the whole place on TV is one thing, but to actually see the huge ass thing by myself was an entirely different matter. I was honestly not so surprised that Twilight ended up a little bit of a jerk, with the amount of rare books here I was pretty sure that Celestia had a hand in supplying them to her student around the board so to speak. From what Moon Dancer knew at least a tenth of these books were Limited Editions and costed a pretty penny on the market, which in turn made it really hard for me see how there could be any actual conflict in this Series at fucking all. While I could understand the local population's non-violent mindsets there had to be a limit on how freaking far it could go, Twilight leaving Starlight to fuck with the Time-Space Continuum instead of dropping her like sack of shit and only then questioning her would've been a far smarter decision than that whole mess.

I stopped in the center of the room and used [Telekinesis] to drag books down from the shelves, making sure to put them back after looking over the title and deposing some into my Inventory that had valuable information and weren't in Moon Dancer's possession already. I already had at least a dozen new ones, there simply wasn't all that much interesting to read here as most of the books were about how to actually perform Spells rather than actual instructions on how to do them. I managed to get 'The Guide to the Mastery of Telekinesis' written by Prime Twister, which held a ton of different exercises and explanation on how to perform different types of tricks with [Telekinesis] and they actually got progressively harder over the pages. The Author was actually really good from what Moony knew, but he tended to ramble a lot and described his idea in the most roundabout way possible which led to the book being as thick as my forearm.

'The Equestria Bestiary: Everfree Edition' also went into my Inventory, there was no fucking way that all the critters that were shown so far were the only ones present in that small patch of sane land in Equestria.

It took me about an hour to find the book, Twilight had them all sorted out in some strange and obscure way that I had no actual idea how to get through, it wasn't alphabetic or by content for sure so I had to just plow through them manually. I even got a Level for my Skill from the whole thing, apparently manipulating a lot of objects at once also counted as a strain and therefore I gained Experience pretty fast. I was kind of cheating with my [Gamer's Mind] that let me keep my cool and no strain my mind by manipulating so many things at once, [Telekinesis] could potentially stress out the User's mind if he or she would try to lift too many things at the same time. Twilight was very talented as she demonstrated in the show, but her aptitude was mostly towards the raw power as she showed while dealing with Ursa Minor.

I took the book named 'The Guide to Magical Relocation and Spacial Transportation' from my Magical grasp into my hand.

This is a Skill Book, [Teleportation].
Would you like to Learn this Skill?

I pressed 'Yes' without a second thought, making the book dissipate in a flash of light that absorbed into my body. The knowledge that suddenly bloomed in my mind and instantly settled as if it was there all along made me flinch, it wasn't an everyday occurrence when you literally had a whole fucking tome shoved into your brain of the knowledge that you never even heard before. [Cooking] was easier to digest as I honestly had a far better grasp on the basics myself and the Skill Book only organized them and turned them into a Skill, without Moony's knowledge I would've been caught completely flatfooted here but wasn't and therefore I now had one of the most useful Spells even created as my Skill.

[Teleportation(Active) LV1 EXP: 0.00%]
This Ability lets you Teleport from one spot to another as long as you have a clear knowledge about you Destination and enough Mana to perform the Transition. You also can use this Skill to Teleport others or items around with the same limitations as yourself.
Passively Increase Range by 1%
Passively Decrease Mana Cost by 1%

I grinned and almost did a small happy dance, but decided against it as I still had some work to do before I would be able to celebrate anything worth mentioning. The knowledge in my mind was very precise and I easily could see just how far I could go before I will be running with an empty tank, Moony's house wasn't in range but the alley not far away was and it will leave me empty but still pretty much satisfied. And again I had to thank [Gamer's Mind] for keeping me calm and collected otherwise I would've been jumping around like a child that just go themselves a new toy that they always dreamed off. I still felt the fear and the panic from suddenly appearing in the World no my own, but they were mostly distant and I didn't want to act upon them without any good reason to. It won't change anything, and suddenly collapsing with slow and progressively more self-destructive mental breakdown won't do me any good if I wanted to actually make my own situation better.

Concentrating on my destination I activated the Skill and vanished in a flash of Light Ceriseish Gray light.

I closed the door into Moony's, now probably mine, house and released a sigh of relief while thinking about all the things I could now do due to simply having the Ability to pop from one place to another without problem. Yes, I would need to practice it to the point of it actually becoming useful and not draining me so much, but the point still stands that it was awesome and I couldn't even properly express it without looking like a child. My sense of dignity held me back from giggling and skipping around, [Teleportation] was one of the most generic Superpowers and always fascinated everyone beyond reason as they pursuit the means to acquire it.

Look at the original movie 'The Fly' from nineteen fifty-eight? That was one of the best introductions of this particular humanity's dream into the masses. Nowadays it was present almost in every Sci-Fi or Fantasy Movie ever made, but at the same time there was a sever case underusing it in some of them like in 'Harry Potter' Series for example. The sheer level of 'Fuck You!' it gave out to the audience made me even more glad that I saw all that was wrong with it before I had to waste more money on tickets than it was needed. Apparation sucked in the Movies, it was more like some weird form of intangibility and fast-travel based on the idea of turning yourself in a smoky... comet, I honestly felt the producers were just wanking on how much of the budget they could waste on CGI rather than trying to make it look closer to the book's description.

Quest Alert
No More Walking: Acquire the Skill [Teleportation]! - Complete!
Acquire the Skill [Teleportation] and return home until Moon Dancer's friends will notice your absence.
Time Limit: 24 hours.
Completion Award: 200 EXP

I closed the window that appeared informing me that I managed to finish my first Quest, now I just had to wait until the pseudo-morning will come and I will be able to depart towards Ponyville. I had no desire to interact with anyone there, nor I wanted to meet with the Main Cast, but at the same time I needed to go there so I would be able to reach another good place where I will be able to acquire more Skill Books. While Royal Library was closed to me at the moment, nothing happened to the old Castle of the Royal Pony Sisters, it was in ruins and nobody actually cleaned it in like thousand years but if Canon applied here then there was a very big chance that the library there was still intact and the books there will be incredibly useful. All I needed now was to wait until Nightmare Moon was banished, Luna being brought back and Twilight officially starting to live inside the Golden Oak Library, then I will only need to take one train-ride there and then a trip through the Everfree Forest.

While Everfree Forest could prove to be a problem to the most, I had a very effective way of avoiding all the dangers it held with just one Skill that I could create myself pretty easily. All it will take is some practice and some grinding and I will be set to go as soon as the sun will rise, I had about ten or so hours before that and therefore I had time to practice. Other people would probably say that I was rushing things and trying to jump well above my league at the moment, but at the same time I simply didn't have enough time on my hands to sit idly and do nothing about my own situation. There was nothing wrong with a bit of a healthy paranoia, you just needed to work it into a logical and low-risk plan to ensure your own safety of body and mind.

Through continuous logical and thoughtful decision-making your WIS has increased by 1.

Even my Power agreed with me!

I regained enough Mana to simply teleport to the bedroom and sit onto the floor in a cross-legged position, activating [Meditation] I grasped my bed with [Telekinesis] and levitated it into the air while opening Inventory and reaching for the book on the critters of Everfree. I literally didn't have anything other to do right now and therefore had the time to work with hole in knowledge that were present in my view of Equestria, the Series never showed us everything and therefore left us with one surprise after another. For example I had a very poor understanding of geography with the only source being that cartoonish map presented on the Wikipedia page, now I will have at least some sort of knowledge to stick the names I had to.

The other thing I had took from Twilight's house was the book about how to properly make Magical Shield, while it was mostly theory about Defensive Spell-Casting and how it worked in general I will have at least something as a base to work with while trying to recreate one later. Han Jee-Han was right about making a proper defense, and while I wasn't going to be a pure Mage-Type Character there was a very good reason to know how to protect oneself with Magic. There is no 'Art of Taking Hits', but it also doesn't mean that I will forget about basic Physical Defense as well. I will be sort of going after all the 'Types of Growth' at the same time while trying not to slow myself down and not to limit my won progress, my goal was to be well-rounded and tough-as-nail heavy-hitter that could bring a lot of Magical firepower to bear. Something akin of a Paladin in World of Warcraft that went into 'Retribution' Branch of combat, but with a little more Long-Range Spells.

Considering the potential dangers I would be facing there is literally wasn't anything that I shouldn't improve upon.

Through continuous logical and thoughtful decision-making your WIS has increased by 1.

And my Power agreed with me again!

From the memories I got from Moon Dancer I knew that not far away from here there was a Gym that was a a part of a Fitness Center, I would normally have to spend money on getting the reservation but if the next Skill that I was planning to create will work out as good as I hoped it would... Well, there won't be any monetary concerns for me in the future, at all. Right now my main priority was to get my most prominent Skill as a Unicorn up to snuff, [Telekinesis] was the basics of the basics and every Unicorn with a functioning horn knew it like their second nature. Well, and the image of me doing a very good impression of Tatsumaki also tickled my heart in a funny way that urged me to giggle like a little girl.

I also was going to use this time reading to also consider what to do about Moony's friends: Minuette, Twinkleshine and Lemon Hearts. I could just cut off the contact I had with them, basically repeating the same thing that Moony did in Canon and just isolating myself to have more time to study and prepare, but it wasn't Canon and I wasn't Moon Dancer. Yes, she was hurt when Twilight blew her off, and I was honestly thinking how hypocritical she was when she became 'Princess of Friendship' and managed to actually hold onto that Tittle long enough for it to become a thing. How Celestia missed the obvious signs was a mystery to me, the girl literally had no actual friends and what we saw in Canon could be literally called abuse when it came to her relationships with Spike. While she improved in the later Seasons, it was really strange and I strongly suspected that someone having basically what amounted to a tunnel vision was to blame for this whole fiasco. Well, I honestly didn't care one way or another about Twilight and her friends, they had their own adventures and until a very distant future I won't facture in them one way or another.

Moony had a very nice house, a small two-story building that looked like it came out of the old book with a very small land around it surrounded by a small fence and with a big tree growing on the left side of an entrance. White walls and the red-tiled roof, it was hiding between two buildings on one of the Canterlot's main living streets. A better place I couldn't even wish for, there literally was a plot of land that I legally owned now and I could do anything with it as long as it won't disturb the neighborhood.

'And nobody will hear the screams.' I snorted at a bad joke, which came out a bit more horse-like that was normally humanly possible.

I mentally went over the list of things that I would need to accomplish or to acquire during my stay here, if the Canon will stay true to itself then I will be mostly picking up the pieces of what will remain after the adventures of the 'Mane Six'. Seriously, they left so many vulnerable things behind that I had to facepalm when I mentally made a list.

The huge hoard that the Dragon from the Seventh Episode of the First Season left behind would've been worth whole fucking ton of Bits! I mean, seriously! The overgrown flaming gecko just took off without as much as a satchel on him, leaving all that gold there because... reasons? I knew that Ponies were naive and basically amounted for downright idiotic in some cases, but there is simply no way that nobody would be coming to claim that huge mountain of treasures! The second Dragon's hoard from the Twenty-Fourth Episode of the First Episode, I'm honestly thinking about looting both and basically getting myself settled for a very long time.

I shook off the lingering thoughts about the whole thing and concentrated on the book in my hand, my Magical Aura suddenly appeared around it and I released it as it started floating under the Power of my [Telekinesis]. Anything can be used for training, I just had to grind the Skills I could properly until they won't be such an issue and I would have a Mana Regeneration good enough to actually outpace my loss while not using the [Meditation] as a supplementary Skill to regain it. I still had some ideas about how I will be grinding [Teleportation], but most of them were basically me just flashing around like Kurt Wagner on an overdose of caffeine-rich energy drinks. It will be very wasteful in terms of Mana, but I honestly had no better ideas so far. Maybe something will appear later on, who knows?

'Now, what do we have on Manticore?' I looked at the headline of the book, this will prove rather enlightening night.

Author's Notes:

Okay, I was gone for some time, but now I'm back and this is what I brought with me.
While this is a Self-insert in a rather strange setting with even stranger motif, I think I'm going to make this work simply because it will be a rather fun idea to see how far I can take it.
Be warned, some things may come out a bit different due to the fact that Ponies here are Humanized, and the Plot-Twists may be handled differently for the same reason.
As always, please give me your Opinions, Comments, Criticism and Suggestions in the Comment Section below!