No, Cole thought to himself. He may not have physical power anymore, but he still had willpower. He wasn’t one to break a promise. He saw the light, but didn’t move towards it, he would rather live in the dark with his love then go to the light as he died. With that Cole woke up. Cole opened his eyes, Wait I have both eyes, Cole thought alarmingly, Cole then reached up to feel his face for any robotics, but didn’t, all he felt were his hands pressed against his face, I have both hands. Cole then suddenly realized that that huge adventure he had gone on was all a dream, he woke up in his room down in the facility, dressed in the shock absorbing suit, the room as dark and as gloomy as ever. Cole reached for his pillow and began to cry. He never really met the love of his life, he will never feel her gentle breathing or her wings ever again. Cole felt like he wanted to go to sleep forever when suddenly, a door opened up. Mike popped his head in and said to Cole, “Hey Cole, you’ve got family here for you.” Cole’s face lightened up a little, he would finally see his family for the first time. Instead of seeing a man and a woman who looked like him, he saw a young woman, about the same age as Cole, with blond hair and a streak of rainbow enter the room, she was wearing what looked like sports clothes.

She sat next to Cole as she said with a warm smile, “Hey you’re awake.”

This woman looked so familiar to Cole, even her voice sounded familiar, but before Cole could say anything, an overly excited girl entered the room, this one had curly brown hair and wore a very bubbly dress (in the sense that it was cute) She stood next to Cole as the others entered the room. One was wearing a hat and overalls; the oddest one though, was the woman who decided to wear a dress to this occasion. The last one to enter was a woman who looked to be about thirty or so but had hair so fine that it swayed in the wind as she walked up to Cole. Cole then rubbed his eyes and said, “You know, you all seem familiar, this might sound awkward, but I had a dream where I fell in love with someone like you.” He pointed to the tomboyish girl sitting on the bed. Cole continued, “I dreamt I saved the world but then before I could witness my victory I died in your arms.” A tear then leaked out of Cole’s cheek. The bubbly girl decided it was now the best time to be rude and begin giggling. Cole hated when people laughed at his misery so he said, “Oh yeah you find this funny huh?”

The girl then burst out laughing, “You’re so silly, Cole!”

Cole didn’t understand what was going on, these girls somehow knew his name, when suddenly the older one chipped in and said in a calming voice, “What Pinkamena is trying to say, Cole, is that she thinks you would remember all that happened. Speaking of Pinkamena, you should have seen her once all of that energy was drained from her, she fell like a sack of bricks and slept through for a few days.”

“What are you guys talking about?” Cole then realized what was actually happening as the realization hit him like a truck. Cole stuttered for a bit, “Wait…”

The bubbly girl burst out laughing as the one with the glasses began to glow around the eyes. The girl sitting next to Cole began to glow brightly as her back sprouted wings. Her head began to change shape as she became Rainbow Dash. The girls around him weren’t actually girls; they were the ponies that he loved so much. The older looking one caught Cole by surprise as she turned into Princess Celestia. Cole gave Dash a big hug and pressed his lips against hers, her breath smelled like mints and skittle. (*puts on glasses* He tasted the rainbow) Celestia then softly giggled as she said to the now crying human, “We came here as soon as we heard from Mike that you were awake, Twilight here managed to fix you up as best as she could.” Celestia pointed a hoof at Twilight who blushed. Celestia continued, "It was Pinkie who thought it would be a funny prank to take the form of humans for when you woke up. It took us a while to learn to walk on our hind legs like a human but we managed."

“So you fixed my eye and arm, and my jaw?” Cole was surprised at Twilight and how she managed to do that safely.

Celestia then giggled softly again as she lifted a mirror towards Cole’s face she said, “There’s only one side effect to when you receive that much magical treatment.” She then turned the mirror to face Cole so he could see his face, he was ready to see a warthog’s nose, buck teeth, a third eye. It was none of those; Cole’s hair had gone completely white. Not white with a bit of gray or color, Cole’s hair looked like it was white as paper, his five o’ clock, on the other hand managed to retain color. Celestia looked nervous as she saw Cole staring at the mirror in disbelief, she said, “I’m so sorry, but not even dye can fix that.”

Cole slowly turned his head to Twilight as he said, “You have no idea how much I’ve wanted white hair!” The then managed to get everyone into a big group hug. Cole had never been so happy in his life, or relieved either. Cole then asked Celestia, “So I’m really sorry on the human race’s behalf, for wrecking Ponyville.”

Celestia smiled as she said in a calm, loving voice, “Every best construction pony in Equestria heard about how you tried your best to stop your own kind from taking over our world. Everypony was so inspired by that that they all volunteered to take time off and rebuild Ponyville. Now it’s as good as new.”

“Listen, about my own kind, I’m really sorry about that, were not all like that,” Cole said hoping Celestia could forgive an entire species for nearly killing her and her sister.

Celestia just raised her hoof as to stop Cole from saying anything more, “Cole, you alone showed me that there are good people in your world, just in bad situations.” She then rested her head against Cole’s.

“Oh by the way, what did you do with the other monsters and humans that remained?” Cole asked quickly.

“Just ask Luna, she could give you an idea of what happened.” Celestia then motioned her head to the morning sky, the moon still visible. Cole didn’t know what that meant, but he didn’t care, as long as Ponyville and the rest of Equestria was safe.

Cole then turned his attention to Dash, “So now what? How does Canterlot celebrate victory and stuff like that?”

Pinkie Pie gasped as she brought her hooves to her mouth she squeaked, “A party?”

*****

The royal hall was filled with people from all over planet Earth, the Queen waited there to present Cole with the Victoria Cross, only problem was that Cole wasn’t there to receive it. The Queen approached Mike as se said in an impatient voice, “Where is that boy, I’ve got more important things to do like fix the bridge after those beasts destroyed it.”

Mike’s phone rang and when he answered it he could hear Cole’s voice saying, “Yo, my apologies I couldn’t get to the ceremony for my medal, it’s just that I… hey give that back!”

Cole’s voice was moving into the distance when Mike suddenly heard another voice come over the telephone saying in a bubbly and cheerful voice, “So how do you know this thingy is working, am I talking into the box now? Ooh what does this button do? And suddenly the phone hung up. Mike could hear Cole laughing in the background as that happened so he wasn’t too alarmed.

He approached he queen and said, “Cole’s somewhere else at the moment.”

****

Cole was in an elevator with the mares, he was wearing his best and most expensive button up shirt, with a white T shirt underneath it, he was wearing Aviators and Black jeans and black shoes. The other ponies were wearing new dresses for this year’s Grand Galloping Gala, Dash turned to Cole and said, “You look 20% cooler in a button up shirt, you know, It looks better than that one with the hood.”

“Thanks, Dash.” Cole then pulled his aviators out of his shirt pocket and put them on his face, he was ready to party like he was in college. The elevator dinged and Cole got his pimp lean on. The doors slowly opened up and Cole stepped out shouting, “Let’s get this party star-.” Cole was cut off of his sentence, he could hear classical music, stuff you hear in the 1800’s. Everyone looked too fancy for Cole’s liking. Cole then turned to Dash as he said, “Plan B, Pinkie Pie?”

Pinkie’s face lit up when she understood what he was suggesting and then she said, “Party Pinkie Pie style!” With that she bounced into the air.

*****

The elevator doors opened up to another building, this time it had a very catchy song playing over the speakers as ponies partied their flanks off. There were streamers, balloons, confetti, games, and a lot of happy faces that cheered for Cole as he entered the room. Then Cole spotted it, he saw the kitchen. Cole remembered that he wanted to make a few meals while he was here, so he went into the kitchen where a few unicorn cooks were there and Cole said to them, “Alright, we need a ton of potatoes and some milk and butter, we are gonna have an Irish dinner." A half hour later Cole stepped out with a big copper pot that was steaming, all of the ponies ooed and awed as he plopped it on the table. They all gathered at the table, Dash and the other five were next to or across from Cole as he opened up the pot.

Applejack said out loud, “Boy am I ever hungry tonight. Ah can’t wait to see what you’ve made us.” Cole then plopped a big white blob of goop onto her plate, put a small slice of butter on top and some salt and pepper, Applejack said to Cole, “Uh.. sugarcube, Ah know yer tryin to be nice and all, but maybe cookin’ aint yer thing.”

Cole laughed as he said, “You have no idea what you’re rejecting. My ancestors lived off of this for ages. This is only potatoes, some milk and butter. Take a bite, im sure you’ll like it.”

Applejack and the other’s took a small bite of it, Twilight levitated her fork to her mouth and when she pulled it out her look changed from nervousness to a somewhat trance, she then said, “Wow, Cole! This stuff is amazing! This is delicious, oh Celestia we missed out on so much.” She then forgot about her table manners and chowed down on her food as fast as she could, enjoying every bite of it. Applejack had to apologize to Cole for doubting him and begged to learn the recipe, even though she wasn’t well known for anything other than baking apple treats.

Suddenly, a few guests Cole never expected to see here arrived.

Celestia and Luna entered the room as Celestia said, “I smelt something incredible coming from here, I knew it had to be you Cole because nopony here is known for making anything that smells like that.”

“We were also wondering if we could celebrate with you.” Luna said shyly from behind her hair. Without another word Cole had sat them down in their own chairs and got them their white buttery blobs.

Both Luna and Celestia were a little grossed out at trying something that looked so barbaric when Rarity shouted from across the table, “I don’t care what my mane looks like, I want more! Oh my stars, Celestia!” Rarity then fixed her mane as she said, “You… Please don’t tell anyone in Canterlot about this.”

Luna giggled as she said with a smile, “Oh Rarity, don’t worry,” she then took a bite of her blob of white and her eyes went wide, she dropped her fork back on the table as she turned to her sister and said, “I change my opinion on humans, I am now jealous we didn’t think of this first.” Eventually Celestia was part of the pony party and she was enjoying her mashed potatoes (I don’t care what you think of this, I’m Irish and I fucking love mashed potatoes and gravy MMMMMMMMM).

The rest of the party was going extremely well, Cole walked out onto the balcony to see Spike there alone, Cole approached the little dragon and said, “Sup homie?”

Spike gave a long sigh as he began, “I’m a coward, I can’t even ask Rarity to dance with me.”

Cole then sat down so he was at the same level as Spike as he said, “Spike, you have no idea how wrong you are, you’re probably more brave than I was when I was about you’re age. You managed to avoid killer robots and even more cunning and deadly humans, you entered a monster infested forest and came to an unknown planet to find me. That takes some serious manhood.” Cole then patted Spike on the back as he said, “You’re the bravest kid I know, and if you think that asking a girl you like to dance is scarier than what you did earlier, then you need to see a doctor.” Cole then stood up and said to Spike one last time, “Just do it, I’m sure she will say yes.”

Meanwhile Rarity had her head on the table, a little glum, she was watching as a new relationship began between two ponies. It made her feel lonely on the inside, it reminded her of her “prince charming” that was a real douche to her. Suddenly she heard the chair next to her move as she lifted her head up to see Spike sit next to her and say, “Hey Rarity, I’m going to be honest with you, I was wondering if you would like to dance with me,” Then Spike closed his eyes as he said in one breath, “BecauseIsortofhaveacrushonyou.” (In slow motion that was ‘Because I sort of have a crush on you.’) Spike then got ready to be rejected when he felt a hoof oh his shoulder.

He looked up to see Rarity looking back at him as she said with eyes full of love, “Sure, dear, thanks.” She then gave Spike a hug as they went to the dance floor.

Cole stood against one of the walls when Dash trotted up to him and said, “What’s with you just standing around?”

Cole than leaned over and said, “I’ve requested the DJ, Vinyl Scratch, play a certain song.” Then Cole’s favourite song turned on. Cole felt his ears somewhat flick when he heard the robotic sounds start the song off. Immediately he took center stage as the lyrics began.

“1, 2, 3, 4..

Hey (eh)

Forever

Hey (eh)

Forever”

Cole was swaying with the music, he didn’t know much about dancing , but he didn’t give a horse's (or a pony’s) ass what anypony thought of him. He just let the music control him, and it felt great.

“It’s you, and me,

Moving at the speed of light,

Into eternity (yeah)”

Everypony in the room gave space for Cole and his dancing, he mimicked the lyrics pointing to Dash when necessary, making her blush and giggle a little.

“Tonight, is the night,

To join me in the middle of ecstasy.

Feel the melody and the

Rhythm of the music around you (around you)”

Cole was acting along those lines, ponies were wolf whistling him, he didn’t expect to be cheered on like this.

“Ima take you there,

Ima take you there

So don’t be scared,

I’m right here, ya ready?”

Dash at first was a little embarrassed for Cole until she realised the ponies in the room were cheering him on, Celestia and Luna even looked entertained by this.

lign: center;"> “We can go anywhere

Go anywhere

But first, it’s your chance

Take my hand come with me”

With that Cole stuck out his hand and Dash didn’t wait a second to give him her hoof to become a duet. Cole and Dash were lost in their emotions while they were dancing; they were staring lovingly into each others eyes as they spun around. Cole said to Dash as he hugged her tightly, “Can I stay at you’re house for the night?”

Dash began to tear up as she tightly wrapped her hooves around Cole’s neck and said, “Yes.” Dash then pursued to kiss him deeply as the ponies in the room continued to whistle.

The rest of the party went incredibly well, Spike got to spend some time talking to Rarity and even told her of a few of his feelings for her, Pinkie Pie managed to set the dance floor on fire when DJ Pon-3 (that’s what her stage name is) put on some dubtrot music (OHMIGOSH they put something involving pony into everything possible apparently) Fluttershy stayed a little longer and talked about her adventure with some ponies in a quiet place. Twilight and Cole talked about all of the incredible things Earth and Equestria have in common. They also talked about the differences between Earth and Equestria, Twilight especially loved the idea of having a sub-universe to store all of the information and how it was called the internet. Applejack learned how to make some mashed potatoes and promised to make them for the next big celebration. Dash got the most exciting suprise of all, while she was getting a drink a familiar voice spoke from behind her, “Hey Rainbow Dash, we heard about how you managed to help save TWO worlds this time,” Dash turned around to see none other than one of the Wonderbolts, Soarin, he continues with, “It didn’t take much thought to decide we want you as part of our team. You in?” With that, Dash squealed with joy as she ran up to Cole and Twilight and gave them each a big hug.

When the party was over, and everypony had left, Cole stopped the Princesses and brought them to the side, he said in a grateful tone, “Thanks, thanks for changing your opinions on my race.”

Celestia gave a soft giggle as her hair swayed and she said, “You managed to show us that it may take every human, or every pony, to change a race, but it will only take one to prove it can. Now both my sister and I know why you pulled us aside.”

Cole nodded his head, “Just give me a second to say something to my former superior.” With that he left the two princesses and pulled out his phone. He punched in the number to the facility one last time.

Mike picked up the phone and said, “What is it Cole?”

“I’m just calling to let you know that I quit.”

Mike gave a long sigh, “I already knew that Cole.” Mike paused for a moment before he began again, “But I know the new you now and I know that you won’t leave Earth behind when we are in need of a true hero.”

“I would never.” Cole replied, “I’m just letting you know that, to make sure you understand that from now on, you can’t call me agent, my name is Cole O’Reilly.”

“Yes sir, and by the way I’m dropping you your Victoria’s Cross through the gates tomorrow at noon for you, I can’t believe you missed your own ceremony, the world has to know who their hero is.”

“Maybe my unknown identity will come in handy for undercover missions on Earth” Cole replied, he realized that no one on earth saw his white hair and a nicely shaven beard would further help his disguise.

“That’s true, so remember, you keep that watch of yours in the sunlight because it’s the only way to get yourself from each universe.” Mike said to him, before mike hung up he said to Cole, “Your parents would be proud I’m sure, Cole. Good job, and good luck with your love.” With that he hung up, Cole was crying when he remembered he never got to see his family yet, instead he got to see his love and his best friends (I’m trying to make a book for teens and that’s all I could come up with? Wow I’m bad at storytelling).

Cole returned to the alicorns and asked with a tear in his eye, “Miss Celestia, Miss Luna, it would give me great joy to receive your permission to stay in this universe, here in Equestria, more specifically, here in Ponyville.”

Luna giggled and said, “You don’t have to constantly treat us like royals, Cole. You can act normal around us.”

Cole wanted to just jump on that fucking adorable pony and give her million hugs. She’s so fucking cute your head will explode candy. Cole restrained the urge to go psycho on them and said, “Can I stay for maybe the next lifetime here?”

*****

Twilight and her friends were waiting at the library, talking about how much fun that party was when suddenly, the door burst open and there stood Cole carrying his dresser full of clothes saying, “Whose gonna be my roommate for a while, any volunteers?” Suddenly the room burst into energy, Dash jumped Cole faster than anything as she tightly hugged him and crushing his new ribcage. When that was over he approached Twilight and said with his best puppy eyes (they weren’t good), “Could I ask you to do me a favour?”

“Sure thing, what is it?” Twilight raised an eyebrow to Cole.

Cole got on one knee and began whispering into her ear, her eyes when wide and she backed away. Cole got onto both knees and then to her hooves begging. Twilight just replied, “You sure you want that? I mean, What if you’re stuck like it?”

“I’ll be fine, I’ll just get some of the scientists over on earth to whip up a device to change me back and forth every time I want it, unless all goes well.”

Twilight got the others to back away as she said, “Alright, if you say so.” Her horn began to glow and Cole could feel his body tingling. His vision was slowly blinded with light as he was floated into the air. He could feel the bones in his body changing and moving, but didn’t feel any pain for some reason. Before he knew it he was put back down onto his feet. He tried to take a step and immediately fell, he got back up and tried again, but to no avail. He shouted for a mirror.

Pinkie brought a mirror to Cole and what he saw next made him shout, “Sweet mother of jumping Jesus on a pogo stick.” He looked at himself; he could barely recognise himself anymore. His hair was still white as ever, his eyes were still the same color they always were, greyish brown, his jaw was still square, no dimple but that’s okay (no it’s not). Everything seemed normal, well aside from the fact he was an alicorn now (holy shit you didn’t expect that did you? Shut up, this is my first book). His mane was still white as ever like previously mentioned, his coat was a night black all over but the light made him glisten silver, he appeared to be significantly taller than the ponies surrounding him (a bit taller than Big Mac) and his horn was significantly longer than Twilight’s his wingspan was about the length of him from horn tip to tail end. He gave his wings a flap and it felt almost as though he had them since birth. His horn on the other hoof (now I have to say that because he’s a motha fuckin’ pony), was very sensitive still and he couldn’t do any magic yet. His mark on his flank (we are not calling it a cutie mark because he’s manly, so we are gonna call it an ass tattoo) was of a crest with a shield and two swords on it.

Twilight immediately recognized it and went searching for a book, later she came back with one floating in front of her. She opened it up to the correct page and said, “Not only are you an alicorn, which represents royalty, but you are the legendary guardian spirit, an immortal. You’re supposed to live in the castle with the sisters, where you belong.”

Cole snorted and said loudly, “Fuck that, Imma stay here with you, Dashie. Hey Twilight, do you have any odd spells for mortality?”

Twilight shrugged and said, “I don’t think so, usually ponies dont want to be mortal, but to help you, all you need to do is think of what you want and your magic will summon it.”

Cole then turned to Dash and raised an eyebrow as he brought a hoof to her shoulder. She said to him, “Are you sure you want to stay here with us lame ponies when you can live forever with the royal sisters?”

Cole just gave his wings a shrug (oh he loved to do that sooo much) and said, “That would be a royal pain in the ass. I’d rather grow old with you than live forever alone.” Then Cole closed his eyes, he thought long and hard about something to do with mortality, but he couldn’t think of anything. Suddenly he saw it, he saw an image of him looking into Rainbow Dash’s eyes as they slowly passed away in each other’s hooves, they were old, but happy together. That, to Cole, represented mortality and his horn began to tingle. Before he knew it his horn’s glow disappeared and he just looked at Dash.

Dash looked at Cole with eyes full of worry, “Did it work?”

Cole just laughed gently brining her in for a hug with his wing as he said, “I know it did.”

*****

Next thing they knew Cole and Dash were saying goodbye to the five other ponies as they took off to her house. Cole was carrying his clothes in his mouth since they would no longer would fit him in pony form. He had learned how to carry objects with his mind to aid him in carrying his dresser with him (Why did he need that, no one knows). When they got there, Dash landed slowly on the cloud before Cole tried to land and failed, but they both giggled at it before they entered her house. Cole was amazed at what she had decorated her house with, it was incredible, she had quite the taste for somepony like her. When they got into the room, Cole set his dresser down next to hers, luckily it didn’t fall through the floor otherwise he might lose all of his clothes he doesn’t need (oh noes). Dash jumped onto her bed laughing and giggling madly as Cole joined her, they bounced and bounced on it until they wrecked the sheets enough for comfort. Then they had an awesome pillow fight, and talked a lot more about their past adventures. They had finally got comfy in their bed when Dash quickly kissed Cole’s lips; it felt right now that it wasn’t a human-horse relationship. When they were settled and Dash had wrapped Cole’s hooves around her she began to breathe slower until she was sound asleep. Cole on the other hand was still awake to see the moon shine through their big window in the room. It shined onto his face and Cole closed his eyes slowly saying to himself, “Perfect, just perfect.” He then kissed Rainbow Dash on the cheek as he began to drift off to sleep in what would be the first most comfortable sleep in his life.

*****

Meanwhile, somewhere in the middle of the Everfree forest, a soldier that managed to escape both Luna and Celestia’s wrath was running through the forest as fast as he could. He couldn’t stop for he didn’t know what would happen to him, his guns were out of ammo and he used up all of his emergency supplies on others that were on the moon by now. He eventually tripped over a rock and fell to the ground; the trip broke his ankle and his nose. His face covered in blood, he scrambled to his feet, what he tripped on scared him slightly. It was the statue of a monster, it had the head of a horse, the horn of a goat, and a horn of god knows what. It had one lion paw and an eagle claw for another hand, it had a different leg for each side of its body. The look on its face was of horror, as though medusa had turned it to stone. The soldier let his heart rate slow down until it saw there was a crack that was beginning to form on its chest. The soldier began to panic but was in too much pain to get up. The crack began to expand until it was covering the entire statue. Then suddenly its limbs began to move, and the statue exploded and underneath it was the beast it held captive for awhile. The monster emerged with anger and age in its motions. It stretched out its spine and shouted in a booming voice, “Oh, the Elements of Harmony have been transferred again. How exciting, and now that I’m free, chaos will not be taken lightly by those miserable ponies. Chaos will reap all of Equestria, and death will follow close behind.”

He suddenly focused his attention to the helpless man who tripped over him and the man said, “The fuck are you?”

“The god of Chaos.” With that it snapped its fingers and a bunch of hands flew up from the ground and the trees surrounding the man. The hands grabbed the man’s limbs and began to pull. The man screamed for help but could not speak for some reason. The hands kept pulling until the man could feel his insides being torn apart. Suddenly his left arm was torn off as blood sprayed everywhere where it was soon followed by his other arm being torn off. Blood was spraying everywhere as the man screamed in pain as the hands wrapped around his feet began to pull him in half. The man could feel his Pelvis being torn in half when he heard a tearing noise as blood began to spray as he saw his innards begin to spill out in front of him. He kept screaming until he had lost too much blood and was left there, mutilated and dead.

The monster then turned towards the castle in the distance and said to himself, “This time, Celestia, you will have to prepare for real Chaos!” He then turned into smoke and disappeared.