“SURPRISE!!” Ponies appear out from behind tables, chairs, and the display cases. All wearing party hats, some even have those blow streamers. Confetti blasts from somewhere and rains down, balloons and streamers dot the ceiling. Twilight, Pinkie, Rarity, Fluttershy, Applejack and Rainbow all stand in the center of whatever this is. Rainbow looks like she’d rather kill herself.

*What the fuck!?.. Oh, I see... They threw a surprise party for me… Do they think it’s my birthday or something?* “Um… what is this?” At this point, I don’t know what to do or say. Pinkie answered my question.

“I finally threw your ‘Welcome to Ponyville ’ party! Was it a surprise? Huh? Was it?!” She threw her front legs on my stomach and did her best to try to close the spaces between our faces. Her eyes bigger than normal, if there’s any kind of ‘normal’ in this world.

“It was… A big surprise. I just have one question though.”

“What?”

“Why? Why would you go through the trouble of throwing me a party just to welcome me?” Pinkie just giggles.

“You’re my friend! And I always throw a ‘Welcome to Ponyville’ whenever somepony moves in!” She removes her hooves from me. “Come on! Lets PARTY!” The music gets louder and faster and the ponies start dancing. I’m just left standing, stunned.

*She considers me her friend? I barely know her, or anybody around here. Why would she of all of these ponies call me a friend?*

“Ember? Are you alright?” I didn’t notice Rarity coming up to me. I shake my head head and face her.

“Yeah… I’m fine. I just… I just never...”

“Never what darling?”

“Why would Pinkie call me her friend. We barely know each other...”

“Everypony’s her friend.” She waves a hoof dismissively. “She just loves making friends.” The other girls decided to gather behind Rarity as she spoke.

“Why?”

“It’s just Pinkie being Pinkie. Besides,” Her face softens a bit. “if she considers you her friend, then I do too.” I look at the rest behind her.

“Why, you’re practically family to us.” Aj spoke up.

“You’re my friend, if that’s okay with you… If you want...” Fluttershy squeaked.

“You’re a good friend to me.” Twi nods firmly. I look at Rainbow and instantly I know I can care less about her, she wasn’t even paying attention to us. Aj smacks her behind the head.

“Ow! What was that for!?” Aj points a hoof at me.

“Don’t bother Aj. I can care less whether she thinks of me as her friend or not.” That set her off.

“Why you-!” She leaps at me. It feels like time slowed as soon as she was airborne. The girls looked shocked, should they be at this point? While Rainbow puts on a face of pure anger. Time returns to normal speed as I simply sidestep and let the blue bitch smack face first into the glass double doors. She somehow stuck to the glass and slid down until her body met the wood floor with a thump. Her wings just hung limp at her sides, making the occasional twitch. I step over to her and crouch down.

“I would stop doing that if I were you. It’d be better if you save whatever brain cells you have left.” I’m sure Rainbow can be a good friend, but until I see that side of her. I’m just gonna let her stay angry at me for no reason. “And I think you should try and get along with me.” She groans in response as I stand back up. “Now with that out of the way,” I face the remaining five ponies. “Lets party.” The girls cheer and run off the center of the room. Somehow some of these ponies cleared it to make some dance space. I was about to join them but I got an idea, again. *Is it possible if you can give me my phone?* It was a bit of a stretch, but this thing conjured two beds out of thin air. Kinda hard to determine its limits. The amulet responds by… I guess poofing?.. My phone in my hand, I turn it on and it is my phone! I have a Sly Cooper wallpaper. “I’ve said it many times and I’ll say it again. I fucking love the amulet.” I open my music and go to one of my playlists. “I just hope Vinyle will let me do it.” I say to myself as I walk over to the Dj’s setup.

“Hey Ember! Nice party huh?” She takes her shades with her magic and sets them atop her horn.

“Yeah, it’s pretty great.”

“Hey, what’s that?” She points at my phone.

“It’s my phone.”

“A what?” I thought she would know what it was. She’s using Turntables for fucks sake. IT would make sense if they had this kind of tech here. Then again, I’ve hardly seen any tech comparable to human tech.

“It’s basically a device that allows you to talk to other people anywhere.”

"That's awesome."

"Thanks."

"So, watcha want?"

"Well, I was hoping I could make a request."

"Sure, you’re the guest of honor after all." She motions me to stand with her, behind the table.

*Oookaay...* I step behind the thing next to her.

"So can that thing play music or somethin'?"

"What? How did you-"

"You said you were from another planet right?" I nod. “Then you don’t know anything about music here, right?”

“Riiiiiiiiight.” *She’s good.* She snorts in amusement.

“Come on, lets see if I can get that thing plugged in.” I hand her the device and she takes it in her magic.

“This may be a bit redundant, but do you have anything like my phone.” She nods.

“Yeah, kinda. ‘Cept it’s called the Mp1.”

“Really?” She nods.

“Mhm. Though it only plays music. Can’t really talk to anypony anywhere with it.”

*Well I’ll be damned. Didn’t see that coming.* A black wire floats up from behind the table, looks just like an aux cable. It even has the same jack to connect to my phone.

“Looks like it’ll fit.” Hearing that made my mind go right down the gutter.

*Fuck you perverted brain.* With an audible ‘click’ the cable plugs perfectly into the jack.

“It does fit! Awsome!”

*That’s what she said.* “Cool.” She hands me back my phone.

“Go ahead and pick the song you want me to play.” I go back to me music and do just that. I pick my song and it starts to play from the giant speakers right next to us. I place my phone next to one of the turntables and walk to the center. Predictably everypony, I’m starting to use their lingo, cool. Anyway, when they saw me walking to the center of the dance floor they backed up, giving me more than enough space.

*Party rockers in the house toniiiiiiight.* I sing along in my head. *We gonna make you lose your mind…* The rest of that night was spent with me dancing to whatever song happen to play. A lot of the ponies eventually got the groove and starting dancing. In their own, four legged way.

I have no idea what the time it is, maybe two, three in the morning? It doesn’t matter, I’m still having fun, even though I was dancing most of the time I was really enjoying myself. I’ve stopped dancing and now I’m just talking with the girls plus Chrysi at a table, A while back I got us all punch from a punch bowl and Vinyl gave me back my phone.

“Ah’ve gotta say Ember, you sure know how ta dance.” And they apparently liked my dancing, the rest, minus Rainbow, nod in agreement. “Where'd you even learn to do that?”

“I took a couple of dance classes when I was younger.”

“You seem to have done a lot of things when you were younger. Is that true?” Twi inquired, I nod. “Why?”

*Fucking shit.* I let out a sigh before I answer. “My parents wanted me to be their ‘ideal child’, to have me so talented there was no way I couldn’t find a high-paying job, and they put me in a shit-ton of extra curricular classes: Music, marksmanship, advanced math, advanced tech, you name it. And with them being the rich fucks they were, there was no such thing as ‘a class I couldn’t take’.”

“You say it as if it wasn’t a good thing.” Rarity added. “Was it really that bad?”

“Not really. I just didn’t like the thing where it took most of my childhood away from me, and I don’t like talking about it much.” She gives me a confused look. “With all the classes I took back then it took up most of the day to keep up with all of them. If it weren’t for that. I probably would’ve liked it.” Rarity looks to have understood. I look around and notice that almost all the ponies have left, it was getting pretty late.

“So you’re an egghead too?” Rainbow remarked with a sneer.

“If I was, then I wouldn’t of taken all those punches you threw at me how I did. And I wouldn’t be able to punch you back harder..” *Hopefully that shut her up.* The six ponies I’m sitting with tense up at my statement. Fluttershy was the first to recover.

“You don’t really mean that. Do you?” I shake my head.

“Of course not.” I place a hand on her head and scratch her behind her ears, quickly calming her down. I then stare directly at Rainbow. “Unless you want me to prove it. Do you?” Her eyes shrink.

“N-no.” She shakes her head.

“Alright.” I chuckle, removing my hand from Fluttershy’s head. *They have really soft hair. “It’s pretty funny how I can scare you so easily Rainbow.” She shoots me a scornful look.

“Bucking flankhole.” I hear her mutter. I just smile back at her. Y’know how hilarious it is when they curse in their own way here? Imagine Applejack screaming ‘ponyfeathers’ when she hits the sensitive part of one of her shins really hard. Looks like she tries really hard to censor herself all the time.

“Whelp,” I yawn escapes Aj’s lips. “ah gotta head home. Gotta wake early enough to start applebuckin'." I smile inwardly.

“Maybe I can come by to help?” She nods.

“The more the merrier. ‘Night everypony.” They all exchange goodnight’s as Aj heads out.

“I have to head home too.” Twi yawns out. “It’s getting pretty late.” And just like that, the rest of the ponies attending the party leave while saying goodnight to each other. Me and Chrysi were the last to leave.

“That was some party wasn’t it?” Chrysi asked as we left the place.

“Yeah, it was. Hey where were you? I never saw you around.” She looks down a little sadly.

“I don’t know how to dance.”

“And that lead you to hide?” She shakes her head.

“I wasn’t hiding, I was just in the background.”

“You were a little shy?” She nods. “Why? If you did anything you didn’t want to do you could’ve changed your look right?” She nods again. “Then why didn’t ‘cha do that?” As I spoke I tried to not talk like an asshole.

“I couldn’t because I didn’t have enough magic to do that earlier.”

“You need to feed again?” She nods. Twi told me a couple of days earlier that changelings are literally powered by love: the more love they have, the more powerful they are. Apparently love has a physical form here.

“Do you mind if I feed off of you again?” She cautiously asks.

“Sure, as long as you don’t go too far.” Twi also told me that if they feed for too long in one session it could become fatal for the host. I may be from another planet, but the last thing I want to do is kill myself by making a stupid mistake. “Can you do it while walking?” She nods again. “Go for it.” As we walk down the path that leads to my home I can feel something leaving my body. Just like the first time she fed from me. A few seconds of silence go by and the feeling stops, a soft sigh of satisfaction leaves the changeling and she’s briefly engulfed in grey fire. Turning herself back to her true form.

*I have to go ask Twi if she has books about magic and its abilities.* All this magic stuff makes me think what my magic is capable of. Right now I only know that, with the amulet, I can create certain objects, I think no bigger than a bed. Without the amulet I can teleport and create the clawed gauntlets.

“Ember?”

“Huh?” I shake my head and look at Chrysi. “What?”

“What are you thinking about?” I guess she doesn’t like the silence.

“I was just wondering what my magic is truly capable of.”

“Oh...” Silence falls over us again. And it just got awkward.

“Oh! I’ve been meaning to ask. Can you only change form with your magic?” *Might as well strike up a conversation if she’s trying to.* Sometimes I question my own logic, but then again I am talking to a dog-sized bug-pony.

“It depends on the situation, and what kind of changeling you're talking about.”

“Care to give me an example?” She nods.

“Drones can only use their magic to change their look, while servants and informants can teleport short distances and cast low level spells. And a queen can be just as powerful as an alicorn.”

“Alicorn?”

“You know, a pony with both wings and a horn.”

“Oh.”

“And that’s pretty much it.”

“Really?” She nods again. “Interesting.” It kinda fascinating to learn about a another sapient race. I would’ve ask how their society is like but we arrived at my house. When we walk in Chrysi walks off to her room and I head to my room. It’s kinda weird how ponies make the basement of a house three times as big as any room within the actual house. I put that thought, along with every other thought occupying my mind, and settle into my bed and let sleep take over…

I stand in the middle of a never-ending white plane. No features dot the white landscape. In the distance four figures appear. One a little shorter than the rest. As they get closer I see that two of them are human, and the short one looks like a pony with grey fur, grey and red striped mane.

“Who the fuck are you? Where the fuck am I?” I say when they’re close enough to hear me.

“We are in your mind.” I feminine voice sounds out. “And we are you.” One the figures point to the smaller one. “Except for him.” I walk a bit closer to them and the image finally clears to reveal… Me. Three different versions of me. One looks like a woman, the other looks like me but covered in fire, and the other one looks like a perfect reflection of me. “To be more specific, I am your feminine side.” The woman, or my feminine side I suppose, says.

“I’m your anger.” The one covered in fire blankly states.

“And I am your subconscious!” The mirror image of me shouts. “And we are all part of you!” He points to the grey pony. “Except for him.”

“Then who are you?” I finally say. I know I’ve just met different parts of myself, as brain-splitting as that was, I’m currently more concerned about the pony with them.

“I am the Alicorn Amulet.” He speaks in a smooth voice. “And I’ve been responding to your questions.”

“Oh.” I pause. “OH! That reminds me. Is it possible for you to actually speak instead of those pulses?”

“I suppose. I would need to find out for myself.” He puts a hoof to his chin. “If I do find a way I’ll let you know.”

“Good.” I look back at the other me’s. “Now with that out of the way, why is it now that I meet you three? And shouldn’t there be other parts of me?” The female version of me answers.

“You basically make up the rest of yourself.” I think I understood that. “As for why we’re here. We really have no idea. Amulet said this was the only way he could talk to you.”

“And what was he going to say?”

“He was gonna congratulate you for not using your amplified magic for ‘evil’ purposes.” I glance back at the newly named Amulet and see that he’s far too into his train of thought. “Anyway,” I look back to the only female here. They really need names. “it’s been one hell of a trip so far huh? Now especially with all this new magic shit?”

“Yup. You’ve been enjoying the show I presume?” She nods. “And the same can be said for you two?” My subconscious and fire ball nod. “Cool. Hey, uhh...”

“You can call me Embris.”

“Perfect. As I was saying, why is it that I want to fuck you when you’re literally a part of my brain?” She smirks.

“I could’ve made myself look unapealing, but I chose to look like this just so I can hear you say that.”

“I was a bit surprised when she first admitted that.” The mirror-me spoke. “And you can call me Sub.” He smiles. “Get it? ‘Cause i’m you subconscious!” He laughs. I chuckle turn to the me covered in fire.

“Emby.” He states.

“He likes that nickname Pinkie gave you.” Embris clarifies.

“Cool.” Before anything could done or said, the ground we stood upon started to shake violently and rumble. Almost knocking all of us to the ground. “What the fuck is happening!?”

“We’re being moved in your sleep!” Sub shouts out.

“Who-!” The ground suddenly stops and goes still once again. “Woah. Ok. That just happened.”

“Yeah, the fuck do you think happened out there?” Embris asks. Before anyone could answer everything started to get fuzzy. “I guess we’re about to find out.” I’m apparently waking up.

“See you later maybe?” All four of them nod.

“I’ll try and bring them with me so..!” Amulet shouts as I return to reality.

I open my eyes and immediately shut them tight. There was light shining right on my face.

*It’s too early for this shit. Wait… Light in my face!?* I bolt up from where I was laying and look around. *What..? I’m… in my apartment.* I can hear people and cars from outside. “I’m… back home?” I get up from my bed and walk up to the window and poke my head. “No fucking way…” I am back home. Back in Boston, the same old shtick with cars and people milling about bellow. “Why am I back home? Could’ve all of it been a dream?” I retract my head back inside and look around my bedroom. “No, it couldn’t be. It was all too vivid.” I hurriedly make my way to the bathroom and look at myself in the mirror. My eyes are yellow. *Mind turning my eyes back to red?* I had to know whether or not-

~Can do!~ My eyes turn red. *To be honest, I didn’t think I was staying.* A huge sigh of relieve leaves my lips.

“Oh good you’re still there. What about the others?”

-I don’t know how he did it, but, he did it. We’re all with ya Ember. Except Sub, he needed to stay behind to keep track of your mind.- Embris spoke out.

“What about Emby?”

=Here.=

“Good, now. What to do... And why the fuck am I back home?” I honestly think magic is keeping me from having a mental breakdown from all of this.

~If I may suggest, you could go out and find out how time has past here. Plus I want to see what your world is like first-hoof.~

“Fair enough.” Deciding to head out, I grab my hat I got from when I was in the army. It has all my info on it, reason being I use it to get free alcohol sometimes. Anyway, after that I make my way outside by jumping out the window and taking to the air. I then decided to head to the bar I used to go to: J. J.’s. It doesn’t take me long to land at the front and walk in. The barkeep was the first to see me.

“Heeey Ember! Long time no see! Whatcha been up to?” I take a seat at the counter works. This place is nearly empty, weird.

“Besides getting kidnapped, strapped to a table and got sucked into some kind of wormhole to another planet and befriended an alien race. I’m just peachy, Joe.” Joe laughs.

“Always the kidder with you. You want the usual?” I nod.

“Yeah.”

“Alright.” Joey hands me a bottle of unmarked alcohol. It’s amazing how many legal loops he has to jump through to do that. “You were kidding about all that stuff you said earlier, right?” I look to him blankly.

“Do I look like a man that would joke around like that?” He shakes his head.

“Can you at least prove it?” I nod and take a drink from the bottle. I hold it the air and let it go, the bottle is immediately covered in my red magic aura. Seeing that Joey’s eyes widen.

“Proof enough?” He nods as he regains his composure.

“Yup.” I grab the bottle and take another swig.

"You mind if spend the rest of the day here?" He.

“Sure, as long you don’t get too drunk.” He chuckles. I huff out a laugh.

“You know I ain't’ no lightweight.” I laugh out. “Thanks anyway.”

“No problem.” Joe walks off to go tend to another one of his customers.

“Oh fucking hell.” I he says as I hear the front doors open. I pay no attention and just watch the epic game of football going on from the tv mounted on the wall. “Hey Ember.” I look over to him.

“Yeah?” He points to the front door and I follow his finger. A group of about six dog anthros wearing clothes have walked in. “Oh for fucks sake, he has his gang now?” Joe nods.

“Ever since your last ‘meet up’ with him, he’s been hanging with those guys. They ain’t nothing but trouble, so watch out. And try not to break anything if you start fighting again.” He pauses. “He’s coming over here.”

“Thanks for the heads up. And no promises.” *Turn my eyes red again.*

~Gotcha. What’s going on?~ Amulet asks and I can feel my eyes changing color.

-Ember has some, ‘history’, with this guy. He’ll tell you more later.- I turn around on my chair and face the apparent leader of this group.

“Corey, long time no see fuck face.” I say with a shit eating smirk. Corey keeps a straight face, though I saw him flinch for a split second. “What’s this? These your new fuck boys?” I wave a hand at the other dog anthros behind him. All of them having neutral faces.

“Shut the fuck up and get the fuck out of here. This is my territory.” He pulls a pistol out and points it at my forehead. I just chuckle in response.

“Funny,” I say as I get up. Now he points the gun at my chest. “‘cause if I remember correctly, I believe I kicked the shit out of you last time.” He face contorts into anger and his arm holding the gun shakes. The smirk on my face grows into a wide smile.

~He looks really mad.~

=You have no idea.=

“Get… The fuck out… Before I… I blow your head off.” Corey starts to breath heavily. My smile quickly fades.

“Not without a fight.” In one split second, I knock the gun off his hand sending it flying into the air. I reach out and grab it before anyone else could and point right at Corey’s face. “Unless the fight’s already over.” His little gang pulled out various types of guns: An AK47, Assault rifle, a Twelve Gauge Double Barrel shotgun, Micro SMG, Desert Eagle, and forty four Magnum. I look calmly at all of them. *Can you teleport my Winchester Model twenty one in my hands?*

~What’s that?~ Embris quickly explains what it is. ~Oh, yeah, just give me a sec…~ I can only assume that he has to search my memories to find where I store such a gun and teleport it to me. With him doing that I calmly hand Corey back his gun. He takes it back with a triumphant smirk and points it back at my face.

“Good boy. Now leave, and never, ever come back!”

~Alright, here it comes.~ I grin slightly.

“Didn’t you hear me? I said-!” His sentence dies in his throat when my Winchester appeares in my hands. I cock my gun and point at them.

“Drop your weapons.” They don’t budge. “The shell loaded in this gun is spread shot. I can take you all down with just one sho-” I’m interrupted as a loud gunshot sounds out and a bullet rips through my left shoulder, followed by a hailstorm of lead. I grunt in pain but still managed to hold my gun at them. “Shield, now!” A thick red transparent shield forms in front of me, effectively blocking all their bullets from tearing me to shreds. Luckily there wasn’t any other person standing behind the group in front of me, so I had no problem pulling the trigger. “You asked for it motherfuckers.” A deafening boom emanates from my Winchester and they all fall to the floor, crying out in pain. I cock the gun again and let amulet teleport back to my apartment. I then walk over to them examine the damage when the shield dissipates. They’re all screaming and writhing in pain. None of them dead surprisingly. I turn to Joey who has a mortified look on his face.

“Joe, call an ambulance.” He nods quickly and grabs the phone off the counter. *Mind healing my shoulder? It’s getting kinda sore.*

~Already on it.~ He says and I felt a rush of magic run to my shoulder and it immediately felt better. I look down at Corey and crouch down to get a better look at him. He looks back me with the angriest expression I’ve ever seen him give.

“Ya done fucked up.”

“Fuck you… How did you take all of that?” He asks me with scorn.

“I was in the military, remember? I’ve also survived World War Three. Don’t you remember me telling you that before fuckboy?” He doesn’t respond, his eyes are closed and his body’s limp. He’s still breathing despite the amount of blood leaking out of his body. “Hey Joey? How long it’ll be before an ambulance gets here?”

“Sh-shouldn’t be another few minutes.” I nod.

“Good. I need to go home and wash the blood off. See ya later.” I wave as I take my leave and head home.

Author's Notes:

I can't help but feeling his chapter was a bit fast pasted.... Eh, as long you guys keep liking it. Also! It would be very much aleaciated if any of you can poiny out flaws in my story. That'll be all!