“Really!?”

“Well, yeah. Might as well be introduced to Celestia and Luna like when I first got here. Plus it gives me something to fucking do around here.” I mutter the last part.

“What?”

“Nothing, lets just go.” Without a second thought I teleport both of us a fair distance from the main gates of the castle.

“Woah! What the hell?”

“Relax, I just teleported us to Canterlot.”

“You can do that?”

“Yeah, I can use magic basically the same way Twi can, I think you can too.”

“Really? Fuck yeah!” A few pish-posh ponies stair in our direction.

“Shut up, the ponies here don’t like cursing all that much.”

“Oh, ok.”

“Now follow me and say nothing.”

“Ok.” With Golden walking next to me we walk up to the main gates, the guards standing at either side tilt their, I think they’re called halberds, so the gate’s blocked. The guards look to me and stair for a second.

“Ambassador Ember. To what do we owe for your visit?”

“I just need to talk to Princess Celestia or Princess Luna, whoever is available.”

“What business do you have with the princesses?”

“I need to speak with them about a private subject.”

“Understood. Who is this?” The guard nods his head towards Golden.

“He’s just a good friend.” The stallions pauses.

“Very well, enter.” They bring their halberds back to a standing pose. Me and Golden, fucking odd-ass name, walk in.

“I hope I remember where the fuck to go in there.”

“Why?”

“It’s a bit of a maze in that castle.”

“Oh… Well fuck.”

“Are we there yet?”

“Ask that one more time and I’ll rip your head off. No we are not.” We’ve been roaming these fucking halls for what felt like hours. “Fucking halls all look the same.”

“Alright dude, fuck. And you know something?”

“What?” I’m a little surprised the soft clinking his feet make each time they hit the ground hasn’t driven me insane.

“You’d be less scary if you weren’t so calm all the time.” That got me to smirk a little.

“Heh.” We turn into a random hallway. “This might be it.” At the end of the hall is a huge set of wooden double doors. One of them has the sun and the other has a crescent moon on it.

“Fucking finally!” When we got closer I saw that there were two more ponies standing at each side of the doorway. And boy were they sporting some gear; full-blown body armor with a gold shine to it. All I could see where their eyes, one set was a dull grey and the others were a deep cerulean. They both look to me, then back to looking straight forward. Next thing I know one door is covered in a red glow, and the other is bathed in a soft white glow. Allowing us entry. I look back to the ponies and they nod ever-so-slightly to me. I nod back and we walk in.

“Come on Golden” The last thing I saw on the grey-eyed one were wide eyes. As if it didn;t expect me to nod back.

“Huh? Oh, yeah.” I roll my eyes and look back ahead. Celestia and Luna were sitting in their respective thrones at the other end of this huge chamber, I would’ve looked around if a certain memory didn’t make itself present in the forefront of my mind. And I got a little mad at that.

“Ember! What are you doing here? And who is that?” Celestia asked.

“Princess Celestia,” Might as well show them some respect, right? “Princess Luna, this Golden Streak. The second human to appear here.” I heard a little ‘phew’ when I introduce him to them.

“Another ‘hue-man’? But he looks to be of metal.” Luna commented.

“Trust me, he is a human.” I take a glance at him and see that there’s a bit of awe-struck look on his face. *He’s like a fangirls for Justin bieber… Fantastic.* “Celestia?” She turns her attention to me. “May we speak privately?” For a second she gave me an odd look.

“Alright.” She stood from her throne and walked down the small flight of stairs in front of it.

“Follow me.” I do so and she leads me to a door hidden behind the thrones. Said door lead into a small conference room. At one end sat a chair that was obviously meant for Celestia as she took her seat. I decided to sit a few chairs away from here. “What it is you wanted to speak with me?”

“First of all, I want to know why you decided to send me back to my planet, without, my, fucking consent.” My tone went really dark at the last part. I was managing a good poker-face, same couldn’t said for her though. Her ears folded and she looked down a little, with a mix of a sad, almost embarrassed look.

“Oh… Well… I… I thought you, wanted to go back.”

“What gave you that thought?”

“My sister, Luna convinced me it would’ve been ‘better for all of us,’ if I sent you back.” In all seriousness, I can’t get mad at her, or Luna, for that. In fact it kinda makes sense. How bad would you feel of alien with the same thought process and emotions like you were sent to the planet you live on, and then have them find out that they’re the only one of their species on said planet, you would do everything in you power to send them back right?

“Did you know that I was perfectly ok with spending the rest of my life here? Even though I would the only one of my own kind here?” She shakes her head.

“No, I did not.”

“Then I forgive you.” Her head shoot sup, both brows raised in surprised. “Just don’t do that again. Lest you a ball of fire head straight for you.” I say with a smirk, she smiles back. “Changing the subject to Golden Streak.” When I said that her face returned to normal with an inquisitive look to it. “His presence can mean a few things.”

“Like?”

“Like, you may be seeing more of us show up in the near future, there may an armada on it’s way to this planet to either colonize or conquer, and that’s all I can come up with at the moment.” Celestia’s eyes almost shoot out of her head at the mention of the ladder. “I’m really leaning towards the former. Can you feel it if a living being is close to this planet?” She nods.

“Yes, and I do not sense anything. Why do you ask?”

“Well… my people have kinda created a way to travel the stars.” She gives a serious look. “And I’ve been feeling a little paranoid whether or not they’re coming here or not.”

“I can assure you that I do not sense anything making it’s path to here Ember.”

“Thanks Celestia.”

“You are welcome. Is this all need to talk to me about?”

“Yes. Shall we go back to your sister and Golden?” A smile adorns Celestia’s face.

“Yes, we shall.” She likes to mess people? Huh… We both get up from our chairs and head back to the front of the throne. Golden and Luna seemed to hit things off really well. If both of their faces suggest that.

“Golden!” He looks to me. “We need to go.” His face falls a little.

“Aww… Ok. Will I see you later tonight Princess Luna?” Luna smirks a little.

“We shall see.” I couldn’t see Golden’s face at the moment, but anyone could see the child-like grin he was sporting. Luna and Golden shook hand-to-hoof and he walked to stand next to me. The second before I teleported us back to Ponyville Golden waved to Luna, a wave she returned. We appeared back at my house.

“I see you already made friends with Luna huh?” He nods enthusiastically.

“Yeah! It was a little awkward at first, but when I started to talk about the night and shit she immediately opened up.”

“Nice.” I say before I began to walk outside.

“Uh… where are you going?”

“To Sweet Apple Acres, hopefully Aj has some shit I can do.”

“Oh… uh… mind if I come along?” I look back to him, he’s looking a bit shy, and a bit embarrassed. And I think I know why…

-It only makes sense that he would want to stick next to you, seeing as we’re the only humans in this place ‘n all-

*True.*

“Ehh… Why not? Come on.” I wave a hand in a ‘follow me’ motion and I step outside with Golden in tow. Just then an idea forms itself in my head. “On second thought I got a better idea.” I turn to look at Golden Streak.

“What?”

“Want to find out what you’re capable of?”

“Huh..?” He thinks for a second. “Oh! Yeah! Lets do that!”

“Alright then,” I clap my hands, an old habit I never kicked. “lets start out in the field.”

“Ok, what do you think we should test first?”

“Uhhh… how about strength? You look like an android that can handle extreme weight.” I snap my fingers and a bed similar the one I sleep in appears in front of us. “Lets start with this.” I back up to observe. Golden doesn’t say anything and opted to try and lift the thing from the foot-end. And he lifted the damn thing! I’m more surprised that it didn’t break with the way he was holding it. “Wow… ok yeah you’re a strong fucker.”

“Yeah, I’m not even trying.”

“Seriously?”

“Yeah.”

*Note to self: Do not get him pissed off at you.* “Great,” I snap my fingers and the bed disappears. “Now to the fun part; magic. Since I’m not that great at using magic yet I’ll teach you what I know.”

“Ok, so what first?” I snap my fingers again and a small jar appears on my hand.

“Levitation. Just make a mental image of this jar in your mind. Imagine it floating. Once you feel a rush of something open your eyes.” He does is I instructed, a few seconds later the jar is covered in a yellow glow. And it begins to hover. “It might also help if you use your hands.” Just as I said that his hands raised and twitch a little. And the jar sits perfectly still in mid-air. Golden opens his eyes, and immediately loses concentration when he eyes the jar floating, the glow around the jar fades away and it drops onto my hand. “And you’re going to need a lot of practice.”

“Aesome. What else can you teach me?” I wrack my brains, trying to remember what else Twi taught me.

“Teleportation.” That got him to be like a giddy little kid in a candy store. “Close your eyes again, like that, now make a mental image of where you want to be, and imagine yourself standing there. You should feel the same rush from before.” And just like that, he disappears with a loud ‘pop’ and a bright yellow flash of light.

-I wonder where he went?-

“It doesn’t matter where he went, what matters is if he can teleport back here.” As if on cue a bright flash of yellow light signified his return. A wide, excited smile plastered on his face.

“Dude, this is fucking awesome!”

“Heh, yeah, I know.” Then a random question formed in my head. “Hey, you mind if I asked something personal?” Golden a little confused.

“Depends what the question is.”

“Did you leave anything behind before? Like friends? Or… family?” Golden puts a hand to his chin.

“I really didn’t have much in the way of friends. But familly...” His face fell.

*Oh fuck.*

=You got that right num nuts.=

~This is not good.~ Why the fuck did I have ask that stupid fucking question?

“Mom… Dad… Nikky...” Now I feel like a piece of shit. “They think I’m dead… They’s probably having a ceremony for me… Oh, god.” he sunk to his knees. And just stared at the ground. I’d bet he’d be crying if he could produce tears. I opted to sit down next to him and put a supportive arm around his shoulders. “I didn’t even say goodbye to them. *sniff*”

“Hey, it’s alright man. If it makes you feel any better, you’re not the only one on this boat.”

“What?”

“I was pretty much kidnapped and probably sent through some wormhole to get here. I might as well be dead too. At least you still got family to worry about.”

“Oh, wait… what?”

“My mother passed on her deathbed, and my father succumbed to a brain tumor a while ago.”

“Wow dude, that’s heavy stuff...”

“Yeah, it is… Anyway, back to you, it;s going to be ok. Alright? As long as got me nothing can happen to you. Got it?” Golden gave a small, warm smile. And then he hugs me, we stay like that for a while. He lets go after a few minutes.

“Thanks, I needed that, I really needed that.” I pat him on the back.

“Any time.” As I got up a light bulb lit up my head. “Do you… want to go back?”

“What?”

“Do you want to go back to your world?”

“Is… is that even possible?”

“Did I tell you that Celestia sent me back to my world for a day?” He shakes his head. “Well she did, and she brought me back here. I could probably get her to send you back if you want.”

“I… I would like that.”

“And that’s why I’m here.” After I left Golden with Chrysi I went to Twi’s and explained today’s events.

“Oh wow. Well, The princess has sent you to your planet tight?”

“Yes, that’s why I think Celestia can do the same for Golden.” Twi scratches her hoof to her chin. “Can you send a letter to her about this?” Twi thinks for a minute.

“Ok! Actually, we can go to Princess Celestia right now! The faster the better right?”

“I suppose… Wait.” I saw her horn lighting up. Before I could react my vision goes white, then a swirling tunnel of colors fills my eyes. I couldn’t gauge how fast we were going, I could feel gravity keeping me on some surface, I couldn’t move. I could say we were going light-speed. Before I can even registered what just happened everything stops and the setting changed. I’m standing in what appears to be the throne of Celestia and Luna. But that didn’t come to me at the moment. As soon as all that passed I immediately felt sick to stomach. Like a drank a few bottles of vodka before going to sleep, and right now I’m suffering the hangover. I don’t know how I managed to stand as long as I did, but I did eventually fall on my back. I couldn't even feel the pain from the impact. My vision started to fade black and I felt my eyes roll up. I heard someone call my name before I lost consciousness.

*Ooooh…. fuck…* I thought before I completely blacked out.

“Ember!” Twi called out, she galloped over to him, when she got closer she noticed something was wrong, firstly; there wasn’t a solid ‘thud’ a body like his would make. It was more like a soft splat. And the athro’s body seemed to gain a glossy texture and started to convulse, a lot. “Ember?” Princess Celestia and Princess Luna got up from their thrones, both a little confused and afraid for the only human they know.

“What is happening Twilight?” Princess Celestia asked. The princesses stopped at either side of Twilight and just stared in mild astonishment and disgust as the human’s body changed shape, texture, transparency, and size.

“I don’t know! This has never happened before!” By now Ember’s body gained a see-through look to it, and his limbs shrunk into his body and it shrank into a grey-colored blob of what can only assume is slime, and the convulsions stopped. Silence befell the Princesses of the Sun, Moon, and Friendship/Magic. Luna spoke up after what felt like an eternity.

“What has happened to him? He looks to be of... slime.”

“I don’t know sister.” Princess Celestia’s horn light up and the same glow showed up around the mass of grey slime. The glow faded when she was done analyzing the blob.

“Ember is still there, don't worry Twilight.”

“What?” Twilight looked to Celestia, her puffy, blood-shot, teary eyes stared at the sun diarch.

“I can sense his consciousness in that… mass. Right now he is in a comatose state.”

“B-but how did *sniff* happen?” Twilight turned back to the blob of slime that used to be a human. Luna leaned over to her sister and whispered.

“What do we do sister?”

“The best course of action we can take right is just wait.” Celestia whispered back, she then stood back up a walked over to Twilight. Resting a wing over the purple pony’s withers. “He will be alright Twilight. Right now I need you to be strong.”

“But I can’t!” Twilight snapped back. Catching both Celestia and Luna off guard.

“What?”

“I should’ve know better than to teleport him with me! Spells react violently when directed at him! Oh how can I be so stupid!” Twilight sagged to the floor, her forelegs covering her face as she sobbed. Celestia looked to Luna, the lunar goddess could only shrug in response. At this point, Celestia couldn’t think of anything what to say that wouldn't make things worse. She knew Twilight well, she knew whatever she would say, Twilight would respond negatively. So She decided to help Twilight anyway she can. “I wonder if he’ll even want to talk to me again after this.” That was what she needed to start.

“I’m sure he will forgive you Twilight.”

“*Sniff* You think so?” Celestia nodded.

“I know so.” She said with a motherly smile. Twi smiled back. With that Celestia walked closer to the blob.

“We need to bring him out of sight. We can’t let anypony see him in this… state.” Once again her horn glows yellow and the blob is picked up in her magical grasp.

“Where do we take him sister?”

“Lets take him to my room.”

Oooooh fuck I needed a fucking coma. No kidding, I could finally change my sleep schedule, if that can even happen at this point. I wouldn’t be surprised if I finally meet the big man above, or end up wherever the fuck you end up when you die. Seriously! I should be dead at this point!

“Uuugghh...”

“Oh! He’s waking up!” I heard a familiar voice shout. Now that I think about it, it felt kinda weird when I groaned. I roll my tongue in my mouth. Yep, definitely weird. Everything felt my slick, like nothing had texture anymore. Get your fucking mind out of the fucking gutter right fucking you dirty mother fucker. “Ember? Can you hear me?”

“Yeah… I can… Ugh fuck I feel like shit.” I can’t even feel my anything. I crack open my eyes slowly and see that I’m staring straight at some ceiling. My sense of touch returns to me and whatever I’m laying on feels like a fucking cloud. It was an amazing feeling. I tried to move one of my arms, nothing. “Uh… why can’t I feel my arms, or my body for that matter?”

“Oh… Well… Uh… Who do I say this… Uumm...”

“You were somehow turned into a ball of… slime.” That got my full, undivided attention. As it sparked a nearly primal reaction… I may be exaggerating it, but I still bolted up to a sitting position. Using my arms for leverage. I was a really fancy-looking room with Celestia, Luna and Twilight. All of them looked to be really shocked to see me.

“What?”

“Take a look at thyself.” Luna responded. I look at questioningly, but obliged her. I look down and my brain froze up. When I looked at myself I saw that I was completely made of a grey colored, semi-transparent slime. I still had my upper torso, a blob of grey slime represented my bottom half. Now, I would like to say that I DIDN’T pass out. But seeing yourself as a literal slime-person, that fucking broke the last of my mental reinforcements. I fell back onto the bed and passed out for the second time of the day.