My alarm was wailing to drag me out of my peaceful sleep, as I needed to get to work early this morning. I got up and looking at my digital alarm clock, I realised I was an hour late.

"Oh shit! Fuck it, fuck it!" I scolded myself before rushing to find my work clothes.

I quickly pulled up my trousers, rushed on my polo top, threw on a random mismatched pair of socks, slipped on my work boots, grabbed my ready-made work bag and walked out of the door. I walked all the way to my car without realising that I didn't refuel it after yesterday. Shame I had a jerrycan in the garage.

I decided to walk and grab the train as I had no other way of getting to work. And the station was no-where near my work so I was lucky. I walked along the grid-gravel towards the train station that was in the middle of a forest, which was a great place to put it.

I walked inside to see a three-headed pony and I asked him for a return fare for the day.

"Esaelp stib net eb lliw taht." He said to me.

I grabbed three pieces of paper and put them through the uneven window hatch.

"Uoy knaht." He said again before evaporating.

I read about those ponies in the paper, they were pretty intriguing. I climbed aboard the seemingly infinite train once it had gradually stopped. I looked up at the giant clock in the station  before getting on board and I realised that I was now five hours late.

My boss was going to skin me alive. I hurried into the nearest car with an empty seat, which was a nightmare as some of them had no seats at all.

Empty cars.

Once I found one, I quickly strapped myself in and waited for the train to depart the station. Then I heard a muffled voice over what I could describe as a tannoy. As I listened in harder, I could start to make out the words.

"Next stop: Canterlot, Equestria."

Canterlot? I wasn't going there, I needed to go to that industrial estate where my work was...

...Where did I work again?

Nevermind, I'll find it tomorrow.

The train then started to roll out of the station, frightening me slightly. Why was I on this train again?

Oh for fuck sake.

I looked out the window and the landscape was going red and twisted. We must have been going through the Badlands. I twiddled my thumbs as I looked around, waiting for something to do. But as I sat there, bored out of my head, I saw a dark blue figure out of the corner of my eye peer around the corner and hide behind it again.

I looked towards that direction once again and stared at it for a good while, waiting for that thing to come back. Letting curiosity get the better of me, I got up out of my seat and walked towards the transition door that connects the cars together.

As I looked through the window, I saw that blue figure again, but it was leaving the car opposite. I climbed onto the next car and walked straight to the next door. And I could see that I was steadily catching up to that figure. I walked faster so I could close the gap quicker, as this blue thing was creeping me out.

Three cars later, I finally caught up to it enough to see it was another pony, but with hair that was on acid. It was spacing out and flying all over the place.

"Circuit." It said in a feminine-like voice before exiting the car with it's horn opening the door.

Circuit? I've heard that before, and not as a word. It was a name somewhere.

"Hey, wait up!" I shouted before running after the figure.

I entered the next car to see that the car opposite was missing. And they were about twenty metres long. As I walked closer to the edge, I could see the train tracks flying underneath me.

That would hurt.

I looked across the gap to see that figure stood majestically on the other side. I looked right into it's eyes, as it did to mine. I didn't break eye contact until it turned around, took flight and flew away from the train.

If I was going to catch up to that thing, I needed to make this jump. Twenty metres? I can make that. Easy.

I walked to the back of the car and took a long run up. My surroundings waved as I ran to the edge for the jump. When I jumped, the car I jumped from was gone.

I managed to realise that as I was halfway through jumping to the opposite car, somehow. I just wished that my feet would hit the floors of that car, and not the train tracks.

I closed my eyes as I awaited the impact and I landed on my feet perfectly...

...Mid way through the next cab.

I jumped over thirty metres and landed it...

I knew I could make that.

I continued to rush to where the figure was headed, and I now just realised that the train was now completely deserted. Not a single person in sight. All their possessions were still there, coats and phones included, just no people.

Must have got off at the last stop, I suppose.

In the next car, the figure was just stood directly in the middle. I caught my breath and walked closer after shutting the transition door.

"You're a fucking nightmare to catch up to, you know that?" I said.

"A nightmare indeed." It said softly.

"So, what's your deal? Why were you looking at me back there?" I asked, brushing my legs off.

"We want to know you more. You know Us." It said.

"I don't know you, I have not a fucking clue what you are. If I could guess, you are a pony with wings and a stupid horn." I retorted.

As I felt my annoyance increase, the world passed faster and faster for some reason.

"We are Princess Luna, and thou are Circuit Boost." It said to me once more.

"Circuit Boost? Who the fuck is that?" I demanded.

"It is you. Thou are in a dream." It said solemnly.

As soon as she spoke that word, "dream", the entire world bounced inward and flexed, similar to The Matrix.

Wait, I'm in a dream.

I pushed my finger against my palm and it stretched through like it was rubber.

Holy shit, I'm in my dream.

As the realisation hit me, my memories and subconscious rushed back to me. I knew who I was, where I was and what I had become.

I was a Pony-turned Human under the alias of Circuit Boost, living in the outskirts of Ponyville as me and three others figured out a way to return to Earth.

...And I was in my Human form.

Shit.

Wait a minute... If we know we are in a dream and have not yet awoken, I'm sure we have a greater chance of bending the dream physics to our will.

"What are thou, Circuit?" It asked me, snapping me out of my thought process.

Which I thought was complex, as I am already in a dream.

"You really don't want to know the answer to that question." I deadpanned, wiggling my fingers around.

"We are intrigued. Please talk to Us." She said politely.

This was the first time I had ever spoken with Princess Luna, and she wanted me to open up about everything. To hell with that.

"No. Why are you in my dream?" I asked her through gritted teeth.

Luna then looked down. She knew she was intruding in my dreams. And I can guarantee that the Purple Slut told her that I went a bit mad the other day.

"We knew of the incident that occurred, and others were concerned. Thou needed to be investigated." Luna spoke softly.

I was furious now. Investigate me? I caused a ruckus, nothing more! No pony was harmed in the stunt, me and Star made sure of that!

"By invading my personal world!? I don't think so!" I shouted.

I balled my hand into a fist slowly, but I could feel the train slowing dramatically.

"Leave my dream. Now." I said, dead seriously.

Luna simply closed her eyes and slightly bowed her head.

Before I could do anything, my surroundings were flying by me like I was in tunnel vision, until they stopped dead after a few seconds.

I was no longer on a train. I was in the middle of Ponyville on the day when me and the guys strolled into town.

However, Luna had not moved either.

Like before, I couldn't react. The world was thrown again and we were in the clearing where we all woke up. I looked around I could see all four of us on the floor.

The bitch was progressing further into my memories!

One more memory jump and we'd be back on Earth, and I could not allow that to happen. So I did the most logical and sane thing a human with no magical abilities would do.

I ran straight for Luna.

And I punched her as I hard as I could under the horn.

She was stunned, and took a few dazed steps back, putting a forehoof to her horn which has completely fizzled out.

I still stood there, balling my fists.

As I looked as her, she started to fade away into dust. Until there was nothing left of her.

Cracks of lightning then filled the sky and the clouds grew a deep shade of red.

"NOPONY STRIKES LUNA AND LIVES!" A familiar Canterlot Voice boomed across the forest.

Luna then rematerialised in front of me.

"NOPONY!" She boomed for the second time.

Well, shit.

I was now facing Luna in my own dreams. This was mere instances from becoming a nightmare.

If I wasn't there already.

Wait a moment...

This is MY dream. I control it.

I lifted my hand in front of Luna and proceeded to slowly clench my hand. The trees then began to bend and warp, in the direction of Luna, stopping her charge, that probably would have made me brain-dead.

The stronger I tensed my hand, the more trees and fauna encroached on Luna's position. She may had been ready to turn this into a nightmare, but I could alter my dreams.

I lowered my head and focused all my concentration into hovering myself above the ground. And when I opened my eyes, I was.

I was over three metres from the ground, suspended by my bending of reality.

I then thought of another idea, which was to open the floor beneath me as the woodland began to trap Luna. Before she began disintegrating them with her horn before my very eyes.

I brung my hands together and slowly pulled apart. The resulting effect was that the floor started to crumble and crack. I pulled harder and a small gap started to form. I kept pulling and it soon looked like a small crevice.

But I forgot she could fly, and she tackled me with her wings before I could react.

As I scrambled to my feet, she blasted me with something that made me feel very weird. As if I was in two places at once.

I was here, in this forest with Luna. But I was also somewhere else, paralysed.

I focused as much as I could to block the other world out, and after a few moments, it faded.

This was fucked up.

I mean, really, fucked up.

"Just stop!" I shouted, lunging at Luna and pinning her to the floor with some sort of force-telekinetic-thingy.

"You'll never take Equestria! NEVER!" She screamed, thrashing to move.

"I DON'T WANT EQUESTRIA!" I shouted back.

But that hit me. Hard.

She thought I was an invader, come to pillage her home, take all the power for myself. And all my actions recently have justified it thus far.

"I-I don't want... I don't want any of it..." I trailed off, as I felt my body go numb.

I released the hold-thing I had on Luna and collapsed to my knees.

I was sobbing. No, crying.

I was on my knees, and I was weeping.

"I just want this to all be over..." I sniffled, looking at my hands.

"I miss home." I uttered.

Luna just stood up and looked at me.

I looked up at her with tear-flooded eyes. Those eyes she looked at me with kinda told me that she knew what that felt like. I stood up and made the world around us dissolve and fade, until we were stood on nothing, surrounded by darkness.

"I don't want any of this. We never did." I mutter, as I looked into Luna's eyes.

Luna did nothing, but close her eyes and power her horn softly.

My world then started to fade away for the second time, until I was surround by white. And then it was too bright to see and I had to close my eyes.

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I was groggy.

And I had one hell of a headache. It was worse than a hangover, it was that bad.

"Yo dude, you okay? You were twitching and mumbling shit in your sleep." Armstrong said from his chair opposite from me.

I looked around and I saw that I had fallen asleep on that train ride to Canterlot.

Was that a dream? Real life? I have no idea, and it is sketchy as it is.

I just knew that I was still on that fucking train ride towards the three Princesses.

"Dude?" Armstrong said, snapping me out of my daze.

"I'm good man..." I said as I looked out the window to see Canterlot approaching fast along with the sunrise.

I'm good.

... I hope we remain to be good on the train back.

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