Somewhere, deep in Russia, a lone man walked alone in a snowstorm, the town was dead silent in the middle of the night. The man was walking at an angle to fight the speeds of the wind, the snow hitting his face and stinging ever so slightly. He slowly made his way for a tavern on the side of the street. It had a Russian name to it and the man pushed open the door and walked in. Snow blasted the inside with strong winds until the mysterious man closed the door behind him to make the bell ring. The man was wearing a large black trench coat and wore a thick black hat. The man dressed completely in black and even wore a black face mask, either to hide his identity, or to shield his face from the cold. The man slowly walked to the bar in front of him and took a seat next to another lone man. This other lone man wore a fall weather coat and a red tuque. He had a dirty unshaven beard and looked like he had been smoking for the past thirty years. He was dressed a little too lightly for this weather, which was rather odd to the other Russians in the room. The mysterious black man took a seat on a stool next to him and too off his thick hat to reveal snow white hair, it was cut short and somewhat spiked. He took off his facemask to reveal a man who had a dimple on his chin, a square jaw, and piercing yellow eyes. The man looked up at the television to see a news report on the man who saved the world from an unknown monster.

The reporter said, “I’m standing at the base of the mountain where the infamous unknown man shown here,” suddenly a rather blurry picture of Cole O’Reilly popped up beside her as she continued, “saved the world from a mysterious creature. Some people say that it was aliens; others believe it was the gods returning from ancient Greece. Also, no one knows the location of this man. He was never seen again after the incident. He didn’t even show up for his Victoria’s Cross the day after.”

Suddenly the man dressed in black said out loud in Russian, “Turn that shit off.”

The man next to him coughed a little before leaning in next to him saying in Russian, “What is your problem with this man?”

“I’m sick of that god-damn asshole not showing up for his own medal. He’s trying way too hard to be a mysterious superhero.” The yellow eyed man said to him.

“Personally I think he moved to an alien world, but hey that’s just me.” The man said between coughs.

The yellow eyed man turned to him with and said, “You believe in that? You know that that’s impossible.”

The old man then said after he took a slug of vodka, “Traveling to another universe isn’t impossible.”

Then the yellow eyed man raised an eyebrow and said, “Who said anything about multiversal.” Then he leaned in close to the wrinkled man and said now in English and almost at a whisper, “You’re not from around here are you?”

The wrinkled man laughed in his throat and said in English, his voice now completely different, it was deeper and more evil, and he said, “Neither are you.” Suddenly, the wrinkled man got up out of his stool, took his bottle of Vodka and smashed it against the table to use it as a stabbing weapon. He pointed it to the mysterious man with a trembling hand. He said in his evil voice, “I can’t let you leave.”

The yellow eyed stranger simply laughed while still in his stool, the room now completely silent as the man said, “Now I know that you can do better than a broken bottle.” Then all of a sudden, the stranger shot out of his chair and stuck his arm out at the stranger. At first the surrounding drunks laughed until they saw the stranger’s arm brighten with energy. Then like a gun, his arm exploded with energy as the wrinkled man was thrown across the room and made a crater in the wall. The wrinkled man stepped out of it as his eyes began to glow with energy, his arms began to change shape at the fingertips. Slowly they turned into sharp blades and formed one large sword on each hand. The bartender then took out his shotgun and fired it at the man. When the shot impacted with the wrinkled man’s head, it blew off a huge chunk of his face and he fell to the ground. The bartender then pointed the gun at the white haired stranger. In response, the stranger put his hands in the air but used one of his hands to calmly point at the corpse. The bartender and some of the patrons turned to see the corpse’s head begin to reform. It slowly got up as his face took shape once again. When he got back up, he looked almost as though he was never shot and he spat out a tooth.

The wrinkled man said to the stranger, “Die Equestrian!” and charged for the man. The stranger stayed calm right until his blade was inches away from his face, he then grabbed the man’s arm, twisted it, and threw him out of the door breaking the entire wall down with him and letting a huge gush of wind enter. The stranger stepped out after him as the super human got up and said, “Hope you can fly too.” Suddenly it’s back quickly sprouted wings and it took off. The stranger started to run after it as cops began chasing them both. The man then burst into a sprint so strong that the ground under his feet was thrown into the air. The white haired stranger than found a nearby car and used it as a launch pad to take off. He fired a blast of energy at the car as he was jumping on top of it and used the explosion as another step on an invisible flight of stairs to propel himself into the air.

The mysterious man landed on the beast’s back and spoke into his wrist saying, “It’s a harpy this time, were gonna need a few pegasi.”

The speaker in his wrist crackled a bit before it said, “On our way.” Shortly afterwards the harpy took to the sky as they climbed to a really high altitude. The white haired man turned around while now gripping the feet of the creature. He saw two small dots that were rapidly approaching him. When they got close enough the man could see that one of them was a white maned pegasus and the other one was a red maned pegasus. Both were dressed in black outfits where the only holes were for the tail and wings. The two of them approached the flying creature and began tying ropes around its hands and feet. They then grabbed the wings and managed to support the weight of the harpy and the stranger as they tied the wings with their last rope.

The harpy was thrashing its limbs madly and managed to make the stranger lose his grip. As e began to fall he yelled, “Well, shit.” He fell for about thirty seconds before landing on top of a three story building. He fell through each floor until he hit ground level inside a toy store. The room was filled with terrified children and parents who looked at him with horrified faces. The man brushed himself off as he got up and said to everyone in English, “Now I know this looks bad, but imma pay for this here,” he motioned his hand for the destroyed shelf of toys and other goods, “It was a crazy bar fight, so nothing too out of the ordinary here. Merry Christmas, or whatever you guys celebrate. Peace.” he then stuck his hands in the air making the peace sign as he walked out the door. The parents were looking at him with a mixed look of confusion and disgust. When the stranger exited he was surrounded by police.

The police were following them the entire time, and they were all pointing assault rifles at the stranger and said in Russian, “You are under arrest.”

The stranger gave an awkward laugh as he replied with his hands up, “Sorry, but I have to be home by eight or my daddy will beat me and take television away for a month.” (my apologies if that insults you) The stranger then disappeared into a cloud of smoke leaving the confused police officers there to wonder what he had said.

The white haired man reappeared somewhere in a warehouse, Russian language was everywhere to reassure him of his location and that he was at the right place. He looked to his right to see a cage there with the harpy inside it, its skin had gone completely black and it was in rage as the stranger approached it. When the stranger was inches away from the creature’s face it shouted, “Your powers are useless against chaos. Chaos is always close behind.”

The black maned pegasus who was standing to another human dressed similarly to the stranger said, “That sounds like either a threat or a warning.”

The white haired stranger in front of the harpy then said, “Well then we better not take this too lightly.” With that, the man’s arm turned into a blade and punctured the harpy’s chest, killing it painlessly and instantly. When the stranger got back up, his eyes changed from yellow to grayish green.

A lavender unicorn popped out of the crowd of people and ponies and said, “I seriously hope he meant another form of Chaos than the one I’m thinking of.”

Cole brushed his white hair aside and said, “I wouldn’t worry, these harpies are like the pawns, they will talk tough to make up for the power they lack.”

The lavender pony replied, “Well I’m going to worry, the fact that this is the fifth time in a month earth has been attacked means something is going on.” The lavender pony had a worrisome look on her face which made Cole think about the facts. He did notice how odd it was to have that many threats in a week, since the normal amount was less than one a month.

Cole turned to the group of ponies and people and said, “Job well done, go home and rest up. We need to meet up in the royal hall tomorrow at noon.” With that the group of people walked towards a helicopter and took off shortly afterwards. Cole and the three ponies remained. He turned to the lavender one and said, “By the way, how’s Dash been holding up?”

Twilight gave a swish of her hair before saying, “Good, after a few months of you in Canada, she got really excited to hear you’re coming back for the holidays and staying for a while.”

Cole smiled at her; she was the only one of the six ponies he remained in touch with after he took up the job of leading an elite team of Earthlings and Equestrians. Long story short, a few months ago Mike approached Celestia with the idea of forming a mixed team of ponies and people to help keep an alliance between the two and to help one another in times of need. Since Cole was the only one they knew that: a) was both human and a pony during his life, b) was capable of saving the world, and c) knew how to control his magic abilities while in human form. There was no other candidate that could match Cole in all three categories, so Cole was picked as the leader. Since then, he has been living in Canada, waiting to go back to his real home in Equestria. Cole and the ponies walked away to a form of gateway similar to the one Cole used while working for the agency. This time though it was perfected to follow them with Cole and the ponies that way it doesn’t have to remain stationary, it will simply travel into its own portal and will reform into a large crate. Cole walked the ponies to the portal, typed in the coordinates, and saw them off to their universe.

Once that was taken care of, Cole suited up and walked out of the building. Waiting for him outside was a helicopter that looked to be from the future, Cole boarded it and they took off in the direction of Canada.

*****

When Cole landed at the Ottawa airport in Canada, there were a few security guards waiting there. When Cole approached them one said, “Sir, your helicopter does not have a license, we’re going to have to hold you here while we contact authorities. Cole turned his head to the helicopter as it began to take off.

Before either of the security guards could react, Cole looked at them and his eyes flashed a bright white and then said, “What helicopter?”

One of the security guards rubbed his eyes and then said, “Uh… sir, you’re not allowed here, this is for military personnel only.”

Cole tipped his hat to them as he entered the building saying, “My apologies, I got lost in the airport.” He entered the door to leave the two security guards trying to remember what happened.

Cole absorbed everything he saw while at the airport, he enjoyed being a citizen every now and then, instead of living everyday a soldier. He loved to see the beautifully lit stores and the families that were coming back to Canada wearing Hawaiian shirts or carrying souvenirs from Disneyland. He enjoyed watching the families boarding planes with excitement for either a better life or for a vacation. Cole didn’t mind being stopped by security, but he always worried that if he went through a metal detector or an X ray that it will show is magic aura that surrounded him. Cole had to either be embarrassed in front of the military or have his junk grabbed by TSA, you can probably guess which one he picked for the sake of the human race (who knew that a guy grabbing his balls would save humanity from a dark secret) Cole took long strides as he passed by happy people and headed towards the exit. When he got outside, Canada was still in the middle of summer, and Cole had put on some proper attire for the season. He was wearing a white button up T-shirt with a plain white shirt underneath it. He wore nice denim jeans and black skater shoes and a baseball Cap to hide his hair. Cole walked to the nearest taxi and got in it. He said to the cab driver, “Downtown Ottawa please.”

The cab driver turned around and said to him, “Sure thing, hey I know you from somewhere.” The cab driver’s eyes widened when he recognized who he was looking at.

Cole gave him a smile at the corner of his mouth and said, “Oh really? Where have you seen me?”

The cab driver then said in an excited tone, “You’re that Cole O’Reilly who saved the world from aliens!” The cab driver was beginning to freak out and was getting his phone to tell one of his friends who he picked up.

Cole laughed as he took off his hat and sunglasses to reveal white hair and yellow eyes and said, “Yeah I’ve been getting that a lot, unfortunately that’s not me. But man what I wouldn’t give to be as awesome as him.”

The cab driver, obviously disappointed that he wasn’t going to be driving a hero, turned around in his seat and pulled out of the airport onto the onramp. As they were driving, the cab driver looked through his rear view mirror to see the man looking out of the window as he sighed with relief. The cab driver than said to him, “So, you visiting family or something?”

Cole snapped out of his daydreaming and said, “Oh no, I’m coming home, and then leaving for my home town tomorrow.” Cole put his glasses back on and returned his hat to his head. He was suddenly beginning to have an interesting conversation with this man. He was going to try and say a lie and tell the truth at the same time.

The cab driver raised an eyebrow at what Cole had said and replied, “Oh, so where do you live?”

“Far away, I’d rather not get into details.”

“Come on, you can tell me anything because I also work part time as a psychologist.” The man then handed Cole his ID proving that he had a PHD in psychology.

“It’s… top secret.” Cole wasn’t going to tell this man where he really lives for the sake of humanity’s sanity.

“Tell me. I swear I won’t tell anyone you said that,” The man began, “I’m writing a story on the interesting people I’ve talked to, their all going to remain anonymous.”

Cole gave out a long sigh and then said, “Fine, if you really want to know then let me give you my backdrop,” Cole took in a deep breath and then said, “I was part of a military branch that was underground and worked to protect the world. One mission I was sent to an alien world filled with magical unicorns and pegasi and pink earth ponies that ate cupcakes 24/7. I lived there for a few days before finding out that the human race actually originated from that dimension and the creator of all living things was going to come and destroy us all. I fell in love with a rainbow haired pegasus and the two of us and five other magical adorable ponies went on an adventure to save the planet using a very ancient magic called The Elements of Harmony, I then defeated the creature by blasting the fuck out of it and sent it to the moon for a million years or until I truly need its powers. Then when I returned home I figured out that an old time enemy of the agency, Albrecht Freud, was a Neo-Nazi and was attempting to take over the alien world to rebuild Nazi Germany to then recreate the master race, using the habitants as slaves. I eventually saved the two princesses he was going to kill with a giant robot suit by spitting a suicide pill into his mouth and then I died. When I woke up one of the magical unicorns gave me my arm and eye that I lost at the cost of my hair color. Later I quit the agency and moved into the alternate universe with permission from the queen unicorn sisters and I turned into a pony. Recently my old commander met with one of the princesses to make a team of humans and ponies to help fight monsters and evil things on both planets. What I’m doing here is packing my shit and moving out to my original home with my pegasus girlfriend.” Cole then gasped for air as he finished that incredibly long story. He turned to the cab driver expecting to see his mind blown. Instead, Cole saw him just staring at him with eyes wide with suprise. Cole then took off his glasses and a bright flash of light zapped away the cab driver’s memories of what Cole had just said. The man blinked a couple of times before Cole said to him, “Did you get that?”

The cab driver blinked a few more times into the mirror facing Cole and said, “Did I get what?”

“My background story, I was born in Ireland and have been living here in Canada for the past few years. Now that I have made enough money as a salesman, I can move back to Ireland with my family.” Cole lied through his teeth, he absolutely loved to do that to people.

The cab driver rubbed his eyes and said, “Yep got it all on tape.”

Cole began to panic, the cab driver had all that Cole had said recorded on it. Cole then pointed to the road to distract the driver as he yelled, “Watch the fucking road, man.” The driver instantly swerved the taxi and Cole took the recorder out of his lap when he wasn’t looking and threw it out of the window.

*****

The taxi pulled up to an apartment building and Cole stepped out, he gave the man his well deserved money and the driver took off down the street. Cole turned to the huge apartment building and took his bag of clothes in his hand and began to walk in. Inside was a man waiting there t greet him, the man said, “Evening, Mr. Everfree.”

Cole gave the man a tip of his hat as he walked by him saying, “Evening, Carter” Cole headed for the elevator and pressed the button for the fifth floor, slowly the elevator began to make it’s way up to the floor and when it arrived, it made a ding that made Cole smile. Cole walked to his room, number 215, and put his key in the door. When Cole opened it he was greeted with clothes all over the place, Cole didn’t allow for anyone to clean his house for him due to the weapons and other things he brought back often. Cole jumped onto his bed but before he landed he gently held himself in the air for a few minutes, he levitated a can of Coke and his bottle of Disaronno to make himself a glass of Disaronno and Cola. He loved its cherry Coke taste it sported and the slight buzz it gave him. Cole levitated his remote to his hand and his X-Box controller to his other hand (No flame wars over consoles please), he turned on his television and X-box to see that his only friend, SpectrumSpeed233, was online. Cole put on his headset and opened up Battlefield 4 (give it some time, it will be here soon) and next thing e knew he was playing online with her. Cole said into the mic, “Hey, Spectrum, how are things going down there?”

The girl on the other end of the line said in an excited tone, “Ohmigosh, Colt? Wow awesome! Things are going great here and I can’t wait to see you. Damn it, some camper got a headshot!” She yelled into her mic with rage which made Cole begin to laugh.

Cole then calmed down and said into the mic, “Find me back at the base, I’ll be waiting in an apache for you!”

Soon enough, her character respawned back at the base and headed for the apache helicopter Cole was in. Soon after their characters took off into the air and Cole and Spectrum were mowing down the enemies together with the mounted minigun on the side and the missile launchers on the sides. As the were mowing down the digital soldiers, Spectrum opened up a private voice chat and said in a sad voice, “You see how good I am at operating this minigun? Imagine how good we would be together as a team in real life.”

Cole immediately said in a strong, but loving voice, “Speed, you know I’m just going to say no to you. I know how good a flyer you are but you crash into things a lot and under a lot of pressure you tend to mess up, no offence. Also, I can’t risk losing you like I almost did a few months back.”

Spectrum took a long pause as she was shooting the enemy avatars and said, “What if one day you did need me, imagine the feeling. I think someone from earth said, it’s better to have a person you don’t need than not to have one you do. I think that applies to ponies as well.”

Cole gave that some thought, after a few minutes of silence and tea bagging n00bs, Cole said, “We’ll talk about it when I get there tomorrow, actually in like another 15 hours, I’m getting sleepy now thinking about it. I might arrive in the morning f all goes well.”

Spectrum was squealing with excitement on the other end, she was so excited to see Colt846 for the first time in months and not on an X-Box game. Both Cole and Spectrum said their goodbyes and logged off. Cole looked at his alarm clock as it read 8:57 pm, Cole set the alarm for 6:00 am the next morning and went to bed. His eyes slowly closed as he filled with excitement.

Cole opened his eyes to see him talking to Pinkie Pie, she was her usual bouncy self which made Cole smile. They were in the royal Castle in Canterlot, in a room that had a large window facing Ponyville. The sight of his home made him feel good on the inside, but the good feelings quickly disappeared when Cole realized he was no longer in control of his body. He was watching Pinkie bounce towards a window as she overlooked it. Cole watched everything in first person as his body walked up to Pinkie and say, “You ever get jealous of Dashie and Fluttershy being able to fly? Or of Twilight and Rarity being able to use magic?”

Pinkie suddenly frowned and said, “Yeah sometimes I do feel a little jealous, why?” By now, Cole could tell something horribly wrong was going on in his dream as he watched his body slowly creep behind Pinkie, who was still looking out the window.

Cole watched himself as he walked up to the pink pony and say, “Maybe now you will get to feel like Dash.”

Pinkie’s ear twitched as she turned her head to say, “What are you talking about?”

Cole couldn’t look away, for some reason he couldn’t. He watched in horror as the person who was in control of his body ran up behind Pinkie and pushed her violently through the window, making it shatter. Cole watched in horror as he could see the look of betrayal and pain on Pinkie’s face as she slowly fell down towards her doom. For some reason he was following her closely as she fell and he saw her close her eyes and a tear roll out before she impacted with the ground. Suddenly Cole was seeing this from the ground as he watched Pinkie fall through the roof of a house below her. She was screaming not in pain, but out of sadness at how Cole betrayed her.

Before she died on impact Cole woke violently from his sleep, he was sweating up a storm. His hooves were glowing pure energy and had returned to alicorn form in the middle of his sleep. Cole used his hooves to wipe off the sweat from his brow as he levitated the clock towards him to read that it was only a few minutes to 6 in the morning. All of those horrible feelings left Cole as he remembered what was going on today. Cole used his magic to open his little fridge and chug down an energy drink to wake him up. Cole went over to his dresser, pulled out a months worth of clothes, and stuffed them into his old de-atomiser case he had received a few months back. In a matter of fifteen minutes Cole was ready to go. Before he left, he turned himself back into a human by thinking of the shape he wanted to take on, he used a photograph of him and Dashie to help him better picture how he looked. Before he knew it he was ready to go. He ran for the door and had put a mute spell on him to allow him to shout at the top of his lungs without waking up anyone else. Also the objects he touched would no longer make a sound as long as he was under the mute spell. Cole violently opened the door and slammed it closed, all without making a sound, and began to skip down the halls. He decided that it would be necessary to put on some music while he skipped merrily down the hall, he also figured it necessary to add special effects like a rainbow trail he would leave behind and pretty flowers that would shortly sprout and disappear where Cole had stepped. All of this together made it the manliest exit ever (in my opinion). Cole undid his spells as he exited the elevator to see Carter standing there.

Carter’s face lit with joy as one of his most favourite and most pleasant guests stepped in front of the counter to say, “I’m gonna be gone for the rest of the year, so here’s my rent for the next nine months.” With that, Cole handed him a pile of money that made Carter’s smile grow even wider.

As Cole made his way to the exit, Carter waved and said, “It’s not gonna be the same here without you, Mr. Everfree.”

“Mr. Everfree” tipped his hat to Carter and said, “Life’s gonna be like this, it’s how my job works, and I just don’t want to come back to find out that my apartment had been rented out. This is my favourite place to stay after all.” Cole closed the doors behind him and as he walked out onto the sidewalk, a cab shortly pulled up in front of him. Inside was the same man Cole saw the other day; Cole looked at him and said, “Oh my god, what a coincidence! Well you know where I wanna go today don’t ya?”

The cab driver instantly recognized the white haired man and said, “Holy shit! Never thought I would see you again, hell yeah I remember where you’re going today, the airport right?”

Cole nodded his head as he got into the backseat of the cab and pulled away. The ride went rather well considering traffic is not so heavy at around six in the morning. Cole didn’t talk though, he pretended to sleep so he could imagine how exciting it will be to finally get back into Ponyville in time for the holidays. When they got to the airport, Cole got out of the car and paid the driver extra. He told the man to go buy himself something nice as he strode happily into the airport. Cole searched high and low and found a bathroom stall, Cole rushed for it and when he got in, he pulled out a picture of a cop’s outfit with Cole in it. Cole used his magic to turn his black jacket, button up shirt, jeans, and runners into an O.P.P. outfit. When he exited, he looked in the mirror to check for anything odd. After a close inspection, Cole walked out of the bathroom as a cop and headed towards the metal detectors, Cole did his best to keep his cool as he just walked through and showed them his fake badge as he passed through. When that was over, Cole headed for the airport hangar; he found the helicopter pad and entered that door. Waiting there was the helicopter Cole was in the other day. Cole quickly boarded it and it took off heading for the Rockies where no one would see him enter the portal. The automated driver instantly turned in that direction and began flying there. A half hour later the helicopter landed on a flat part of the Rockies and Cole stepped out, he walked up to the drivers side of the helicopter and put in the coordinates for it to return to the Agency Cole used to work under. Cole took the large metal crate off of the helicopter. It was still sunrise here in the Rockies and it reminded Cole of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Cole took the crate and pressed the button on it. Immediately it formed into a giant gateway and sprung to life. By now Cole had retaken the clothes of his casual self. Cole slowly stepped into the portal and the gateway was sucked in with him.

Next thing Cole knew, he was in some in between universe thingy, it looked like space, only it had no stars, just colors that remained in the purple section. Cole had always remembered to hold his breath to not lose consciousness, and before he knew it, he was taking shape somewhere outside Ponyville. It was only a small walk to get to the edge of town. The place was just as beautiful as ever, the houses were all made of wood and had a nice middle age feeling to it all around. Cole then began to walk towards Ponyville. When he got there, everypony was busy, Cole looked around to see if anypony would recognise him. Eventually when he went to the town square, he saw the six of them heading for Rarity’s boutique. Cole suddenly developed an interesting idea on how to present himself.

Inside Rarity’s boutique, Rainbow Dash was trying on her newest gown for when she met Cole today, everypony in the room was filled with excitement to finally see him. Suddenly the lights went out, Rarity began trotting for the matches to re light the candle’s when she started to cough and said, “Is something burning?”

Fluttershy began to panic as she squeaked, “W-w-what’s hap-p-pening?” She slowly backed behind Twilight who was getting ready for anything.

Applejack looked out of the window to see a bright light in the sky. She then shouted, “Twilight, you have any idea what that there thing is?”

Twilight approached the window to see the object moving faster and faster and she said in a nervous voice, “I have no idea what that could be.”

The ponies rushed out of the boutique to join the crowd that had gathered. The object was rapidly gaining speed as it approached the crowd, and when it got too close for comfort, the ponies in the way began to back up. The object was at breakneck speeds when it landed, it didn’t cause a crater, it just created a harmless shockwave that blew the manes of everypony near it. The object suddenly stood up as laser lights began to shine in every direction and heavy rock was playing. Suddenly, a large voice emanated from nowhere and everywhere at the same time saying, “Behold… the one and only… Co-o-o-o-o-o-o-ole O’Reilly” The object quickly stood up to reveal Cole as fireworks around him exploded in every direction. Cole raised his fist into the air as he transformed back into an alicorn, his white mane swaying in the air as he brought his hoof down. The special effects disappeared as Cole stepped down from the stage he created. He walked into the crowd to hear the cheering. To them, Cole was a celebrity, and not a stuck up one, he was generous and acted more like a citizen than he did a celebrity, often helping ponies out with their everyday stuff.

Cole trotted into the crowd to hear in the distance, “Show off!”

Cole turned his head in that direction to see a familiar lavender unicorn standing there, beside her was a really excited pink bouncing pony, and on her other side was a blond maned horse. Beside Applejack was a white unicorn who gave a gentle swish of her hair. Beside Pinkie Pie was a terrified Fluttershy.

Cole turned to them and shouted, “PONIES!” and gave out a very happy sounding laugh as he began to charge them. As he approached them like a train, the ponies assumed defensive position and braced for impact. Cole tackled them and squeezed tightly. He lifted them into the air as he tossed them around in his arms, he then dropped them one by one as he said, “So where’s Dash?” Suddenly, his vision was filled with rainbows and hugs as a cyan pegasus charged into him at the speed of sound covering them in snow.

Cole could hear the pony say, “Finally you got your plot here! I’ve been so excited to see you!” When the rainbow was removed, he could see a loving and extremely happy cyan pegasus staring at him with her big purple eyes. Her weight pressed against his chest as she sat up. Dash had been waiting for months now and you can understand how excited she would be. Dash then planted a kiss against Cole’s cheek before she got off of him to let him breathe again.

When Cole got back up and brushed the snow out of his white hair, he said to the six overly excited ponies, “Hey, I got special permission from the princess to have you all come with Twilight and I to the conference. It’s going to be short though, it’s just a status report and then we’ll go home to celebrate the Winter Festival.”

Cole began to walk; from behind him he could hear a buzzing noise rapidly approaching him. It sounded like a motor but a lot smaller, Cole thought of what it could be when suddenly he heard three fillies shout, “Cutie Mark Crusader Snow-mobilers! YAY!” As soon as Cole said that, he was knocked from his feet and got his foot caught in a toboggan that was being propelled by a small, orange pegasus. Her wings were what was causing the buzzing noise as Cole was dragged for several feet in the snow, his shirt slid up his chest and let all of the cold snow come in contact with his skin which made Cole scream out loud.

A white unicorn that made Cole think of marshmallows turned around to notice the human being dragged in the snow, she turned her head to the driver and said, “I think the Cutie Mark Crusaders aren’t meant to ride snowmobiles.” The white marshmallowy pony frowned at the thought of not getting her ass tattoo yet. Same thing went for the other two fillies on board. When they stopped the sled and let Cole get up, he had a fragment of a rock stuck in his skull and most of his teeth were missing. The little fillies began to panic after they checked their flanks cause of the damage they had noticed the damage they had done to Cole.

Cole just smiled as he dislodged the 12” shard from his skull, instantly he began to heal there and within seconds he no longer had a single scratch on his head. He looked at the three relieved fillies and said with an encouraging smile, “Hey keep trying, and no hard feelings about the dragging. Just don’t try that again please.” Cole then patted them on their heads and walked back to the group. The crowd had already left to carry on their usual jobs so it was just Cole and the six ponies he ad shared an adventure he would rather not recount. Ever since that day Cole died, he had always feared adventure but wouldn’t let it stop him from having one. Now that Cole had magic that was only limited by his energy, he could do almost anything he wanted, anything but use magic to attack first. Cole approached Dash and said, “Shall we head to the palace?”

Dash and the others nodded with excitement, even Fluttershy was excited to be there. So Cole and the rest walked to Twilight’s library, along the way Cole talked about the huge adventures he went on while on Earth and was happy he could finally come home to celebrate the Winter Festival with everypony. Once they arrived, Celestia’s hot air balloon was already ready to go. But before they went, Cole walked up to Spike to talk to him for a couple of seconds, Spike said to Cole, “What do you want to talk about?”

“How have you and Rarity been since I left?” Cole asked the small purple dragon.

Spike sighed before he said, “Well, we kinda went for dinner, but I don’t think she liked where we went that much, I guess you’re supposed to pick a restaurant the ladies would like.”

Cole had a confused look on his face before saying, “Where did you take her.”

Spike lowered his head with shame for what he was about to say, he took a deep breath and said in almost a mumble, “Bucky Cheese.”

Cole sighed, he felt bad for the poor dragon, he was only a kid who was trying to hook up with a young adult mare. Cole looked at the ashamed dragon and said, “Legit? You actually took her there?” Before Spike could say anything Cole interrupted him, “No duh you’re supposed to take them to a restaurant they want. That way you will look like you care about what they like. And not only did you fail miserably at showing any consideration, you made it look like she was your mother by taking her to a kids place. Spike, I R disappoint.” He tussled the dragon’s scales on his head with no success before saying with a reassuring smile, “How about you come to the castle with us? Maybe you could apologise to Rarity for messing up.” Cole the picked up the cheered up dragon and hopped into the hot air balloon.

As they began to float upwards, Dash turned to Cole with a look of slight confusion saying, “How come we don’t just fly there with our wings, Cole?”

Cole chuckled before saying, “It adds the drama when the hero takes his time to arrive.” By now they were really high and were moving towards the castle, Cole could see only white for miles on end. All of a sudden, three gateways opened up and three fighter jets rocketed out of them and into the distance. Cole could tell they were no threat to them or the Equestrians, when the planes were overtop of the castle, their wings began to turn upwards slowing down the ship and making it slowly descend in a straight line. It landed safely on flat ground near the castle as did the other two planes. Cole could faintly see three figures stepping out of the planes and he recognized them instantly, he turned to Twilight and said, “Can this bag of hot air move any faster than the speeds the wind is carrying us at?” Twilight simply shook her head, which made Cole just wrap a rope around his hand and he jumped off the edge. In mid fall his legs began to light up with a white light in a tetris format, the light pattern made his way up his body until he was engulfed completely. He then turned back into an alicorn and used his wings to propel himself and pull the hot air balloon faster than the speeds it was originally going at. Within half of the time it originally would have taken them, Cole and the others landed outside the castle. Standing in front of them were six humans dressed in outfits very similar to Cole’s old outfit he stopped Albrecht in. He walked up to the first woman standing there, who was wearing a lighter version of the suit, and said, “Taylor, great to see you!” He gave her a friendly hug.

“Great to see you too, I can’t wait to demonstrate the new weapons I’ve perfected.” She said with her eyebrow raised.

Cole walked up to the man standing beside her, he was wearing a suit that had an oxygen mask built in to cover his face, Cole smiled at him and said, “Kevin, glad you’re here!” They shook hands before Cole walked up to the next person who was wearing a very thick and bulky version of the suit, his suit was obviously made for heavy lifting and multiple attacks, inside was a man with no hair and an eye patch that left only one red eye with the ability to see. Cole gave him a handshake before saying, “Jordan, how good you’re here.” Jordan simply grunted as did Kevin. Cole then clapped both of his hands together and said, “Let’s begin the conference them. I’m sure Celestia is waiting right now.”

*****

Cole stepped up to the microphone now suddenly wearing a business suit (unrealistic you say? Tell that to the talking horses). When he was in front of the microphone he cleared his throat before saying, “Well, first off let’s thank Celestia for hosting our first conference here in Equestria. Round of applause,” Cole began to clap his hands for Celestia who faintly blushed. Cole then resumed saying, “enough clapping! We have something very important to get to. Our last mission ended with a particularly disturbing message according to Twilight here. Twilight, please enlighten us on why this seems like a threat or a warning.”

Cole backed from the microphone as Twilight gently trotted up and adjusted the height of the microphone with her magic. When she had her papers sorted out she said, “Monday night, at seven eighteen, a harpy was captured and brought to the hidden facility on earth, more specifically in Russia. Before the harpy was put down, the harpy said that Chaos is always close behind. From my studies over the years in Ponyville, and from personal experience, I believe that he was threatening us with a warning that the god of Chaos will return, or maybe has returned. If this is true, we can expect something much more serious than his last appearance. This warning has to be taken seriously and we must alert the citizens of Equestria and maybe Earth.”

From the crowd in front of Twilight, Celestia had a serious face as she said, “Not to discourage your ideas, but what makes you think that he’s returned?”

Twilight began to explain, “The last time Chaos had been released, it was because the Elements of Harmony had been transferred over to another wielder. When Nightmare invaded Earth, we temporarily gave Cole his ability to use the Elements to stop it. I think that he has been released again because we gave Cole the elements of Harmony and we broke the spell.”

Suddenly, a voice dark and evil filled the room. Its laughter chilled Cole’s spine as did everyone else’s, the voice said with a hiss, “Well, Twilight, you’ve been studying a lot now. You know, the last time I returned I only wanted to have fun, but you ponies broke my heart. Now that I’m back, the real fun shall begin.” It gave a maniacal laugh as a cloud entered the room, it began to take shape until it formed a creature that had a lions paw, an eagles claw, a snake’s tail, a horses head, an antler, a dragon horn, and a pair of bat wings. When the dust had cleared it stood up tall and said, “Behold, the god of Chaos! What’s the matter; no one seems excited to see me?”

“Discord! You know you’re going to lose again to the Elements of Harmony!” Celestia shouted out in anger, her eyes burning with rage.

“Well is that so? Well that wouldn’t be too fun now would it? Don’t worry my beautiful princess; those Elements have been hidden better than ever.” Discord had a devilish grin on his face as he teased them. From behind Discord suddenly stood a small harpy, its eyes full of pain as it cowered. Discord kneeled next to the harpy and said, “Oh and you have one week to find the elements of harmony, everyday after that, I’m going to wipe out an entire city. Trust me, I never lie.” He then snapped his fingers and the harpy began to scream, its ears were bleeding as it covered them. As the harpy’s screaming became louder with pain, more facial features began to bleed starting with the nose, the mouth, and then the eyes. Eventually the veins in the harpy’s head turned black as its eyes filled up with blood. It let out a gurgle and fell to the ground, dead. Discord’s face had become more sinister now as he said, “I’m not giving you any hints other than the next one. Good luck.”

“You’re a sick fucker, Discord.” said Cole, who was struggling to move due to Discord’s sudden spell.

Discord slowly hovered towards him, stepping over the corpse as he said, “Ah, you must be the protector they once told of in the prophecies. Well your powers of protection will be fun to tamper with.”

Discord hissed as he slithered over top of Dash saying, “Oh and I read you’re thoughts, I know how much she means to you,” Discord said as he slid his finger down her cheek, she gave him a disgusted look as he resumed, “it’d be a shame if anything happened to her.”

“You so much as give her a bruise and I swear to my own God I will use your burnt skin as a napkin.” Cole hissed, his eyes glowing a dark blue.

Discord’s eyes began to glow a blood red as he said, “Oh I promise nopony or nobody will hurt her.” He gave Cole a menacing look before he said, “Good heavens, look at the time, I was lying all along! The chaos commences tomorrow and there’s nothing you can do about it. Enjoy finding your precious elements, and remember. Good luck.” Discord gave an evil smile for the last two words before he disappeared.

Cole turned to Twilight and said, “We’ve got a serious problem now, we have a psychopath wreaking worldwide havoc on two different planets. If we’re lucky, he won’t throw both worlds against each other.”

Cole turned to Celestia, Cole opened his mouth to speak but Luna interrupted him, “Go, now. We need you, Cole, now more than ever.” With that Cole turned to his group of men and ponies and said, “Congrats, AJ, Rarity, Pinkie, Fluttershy, and Dash, you five are now part of the Equestrian-Earthling protection, we leave in five minutes to god knows where looking for god knows what while god knows who is doing god knows what in god knows where to god knows who. Where in god’s name are we going, Celestia?” Cole turned to the pony gods (god this god stuff is not too godliness goddamn it).

Celestia immediately replied with, “There is one place, The Fountain of Luck. That fountain is said to bring the best of luck to anypony or anybody for that matter. It will grant them one wish, but only if their worthy.” Then Celestia and Luna stood up, Celestia turned to the forming group and said, “You better hurry though, it’s on the other side of Equestria.”

Cole gave a loud belly laugh as he said, “No problem!” Cole then stuck his fist in the air and said with a stern tone, “Group, grab my face!” every member was slow at first to grab Cole’s face, but when everyone had latched on Cole threw his arms to his sides as he said, “ADVENTURE!” What Cole expected to happen next was to shoot into the air with a rainbow trailing behind him, after all that’s how it worked on memebase.com. But instead of a rainbow, Cole got a quadruple rainbow as he shot into the air. Quick at first, Cole began to slow down and tire out before he even got to the roof (which was very fucking high), eventually, Cole tired himself out and fell to the ground saying, “Well, shit.”

Celestia looked at Cole with thinning eyes as she said, “First of all, Cole, I don’t like the language that you are using, I can understand when you were facing Discored, but please try to restrain yourself while under the palace. Second of all, I don’t understand why you can’t just teleport everypony to The Fountain of Luck.”

Cole dusted himself off as he got up and said, “My apologies, Tia, the language is unnecessary. The reason I can’t teleport everypony to the Fountain is because I have no idea where exactly it is, and because if I do teleport a group of 11 to the other side of the country I will have tired myself out so much that I would be out cold for weeks. And with Discord running rampant through two worlds I cannot be missing.” Cole walked up to Celestia and bowed to her before he loked up and said, “Now if I may ask, do you have a map of all of Equestria?”

“Why yes I do, hold on a moment.” Celestia summoned a guard to go and fetch a copy of the map and within seconds, the guard returned with a copy of the map. Celestia gave it to Cole and said, “Here you go, and good luck to you all. This is serious business now, we cannot fail at this otherwise it’s doomsday for everything.”

The fact the princess was saying such brutal words made the ponies shudder, Cole on the other hand just shrugged (when you’ve dealt with terrorists who’ve said that they will create doomsday on a regular basis, it get’s pretty old) Cole wasn’t too afraid, after all, Discord was probably bluffing. Cole turned to the group of ponies and said, “Pack your clothes girls, were goin’ on a cross country trip.”

With that said, the ponies dashed out the door heading for their homes to pack up. Cole and the humans stayed back, Taylor walked up to Cole and said with an eyebrow raised, “You think that bringing along those ponies will be helpful, like I understand the lavender one, and the cyan pegasus is a maybe. But the others seem useless, like the pink one is gonna make me snap. The yellow one is scared of everything, the white one hates adventures unless she’s carried. The orange one just seems too… She wears a hat for Christ’s sake!” By now, Taylor was getting pretty annoyed by them.

Cole just laughed in his throat and cracked a smile as he said, “All were doing is going on a road trip to find a fountain, we’ll get high off of it, wish him gone, and Boom! Discord gone!” Cole seemed pretty confident that this was going to be easy. But remember folks, if the adventure were that easy, I wouldn’t write it, would I? (maybe, after all, your plots doo seem a little cliché) Oh shut up. (I’m just saying, if this were turned into a film, everyone would think of Michael Bay but with less screaming) I said Shut up, sorry people, I’m just getting into an argument with my other personality, he writes all of the intense action sequences, I (try to) write the comedic parts. (He gets his jokes off of Memebase.com) GO PLAY CHESS. (You really shouldn’t make insults, you’re only hurting yourself) Whatever, you’re stupid. Anyway, Cole thinks he’s going on an easy adventure. Boy is he wrong! (No shit he’s wrong, you know what? I give up; call me when you need someone to write the good stuff.)