Riker started to come back to himself. He felt different and had a back pain, a voice was calling him.
“Commander?” It was Data.
“Data what…” He opened his eyes and saw a pony in front of him, his eyes were yellow and his skin was an unnatural shade of white, his mane was a perfect black. This pony was Data. “What are you?”
“It appears that the crew of the Enterprise was transformed into equines, most notably ponies and, in your case Commander, pegasus.”
Riker immediately looked to his back. Two wings were there, one on each side. They had brown feathers and popped through openings on each side of his uniform, which had also changed to fit his new body.
“Data, I am kind of afraid to ask but, what do I look like?”
“Well sir, your coat has an earth-brown coloration and your mane is pitch black. You have two wings which appear to be able to create enough lift to fly on their own and your uniform appears to have been altered to fit your new body.”
Riker was about to say something when they heard a growl from behind the security console.
“Worf! Are you all right?” Riker said, as he and Data walked towards the console. While Data didn’t seem to have a problem walking on four legs, it took Riker a few seconds to resist the urge to get up.
The Klingon officer wasn’t a pony. He was larger than both Riker and Data. His hair had changed, it was now a stripped Mohawk, but his beard was still the same. His body had black and white stripes as his hair. Worf was a zebra.
“Worf, are you all right?” Data asked.
“Yes, but my head hurts.” He took his front right hoof and rubbed the side of his head. Worf noticed the lack of fingers and took the hoof to his face. “What is the meaning of this?!?!?” He looked and saw that Data and Riker were ponies too, but Riker had wings.
“Worf! You are a zebra!” Said Riker, with a wide grin on his face.
“Fascinating. It appears that the fact that Worf is a Klingon has changed the outcome of the transformation.”Data said, in his calm and scientific tone.
“C’mon Worf. I am sure you will handle this.” The Commander said, with a smile.
“Ten Forward to bridge.”
“Bridge here. Commander Riker, speak up Guinan.”
“Why am I a horse with wings and a horn?”
“Q’s fault. We are in a parallel universe; Q mutated us in order to let us survive.”
“I should have know, could you make a ship-wide announcement? It will be much faster than me having to tell everyone that comes here what happened.”
“You are right, bridge out.”
Riker went to the captains sear, he realized that it wouldn’t be very comfortable to sit, as his body now had a completely shape. Perhaps I could talk to Geordi about a modification. He thought as he sat next to the chair and pressed a button on the side panel.
“This is Commander Riker. Q has kidnapped the captain and allowed us to come looking for him. We are now on a parallel universe and our bodies have been altered to survive on the new environment. I know it will be hard to adapt to our new bodies, but I am counting with everyone’s cooperation. Riker out.”
“Sir.” Data called. “I did a ship wide scan and detected all the mutations, it appears that all humanoids aboard the ship have mutated, but animals like cats and dogs are unaffected. There are five types of equines: Normal, pegasus, unicorn, zebra and alicorn.”
“Unicorns? And what the hell is an alicorn?”
“Yes sir, unicorns. And I took the allicorn name from the ship’s library; it is an equine with wings and a horn. There is only one aboard: Guinan.”
“This is outrageous!” Worf shouted. “I am NOT a striped horse!”
“Sickbay to bridge.”
“Bridge here.”
“I would like to run a small medical check up on the crew. I am curious about the new biology. The data I can gather would be invaluable to both veterinarian and humanoid medicine.”
“Ok Beverly, just out of curiosity: what do you look like?”
“Well, I am blue, my hair is still dark blonde, and I have a horn in the middle of my forehead. According to the tricorder, my brain can now channel psionic energy through it. But further studies are required to determine if I can now use telekinesis.”
“Ok. Riker out. Data, where are we?”
“According to sensors, we are in orbit of a Class M planet. I can’t scan for life forms however, as the precision sensor array overloaded during the passage through the space anomaly. Strangely, it’s rotation seems to be slowing down at a very high rate, it will stop completely in about 12 hours.”
“Don’t worry about that.” It was Q’s voice.
“Q, where…” Riker stopped when he saw Q. He had never seen this kind of animal before. It looked like the result of one of Arik Soong * failed genetics experiments that he saw on the star fleet history class. A perfect body for the chaotic Q. “What are you?” He asked, calmly.
“This is what I look like here! I didn’t need to change but I thought it would be nice of me to show you.” He appeared next to Worf. “Worf my boy! Looking good, huh? I am sure all the mares will want a piece…” He said sarcastically, Worf growled, visibly anger. “Now, I am going to give you a hint, Picard is somewhere in this part of the planet.” The screen zoomed in a small area of the planet, close to a forest and with a few mountains by the west. “Good luck!” He disappeared.
“Commander, I am detecting the presence of a small village at the coordinates, how shall we proceed?” Data asked.
“Data, Worf. Get Doctor Crusher and beam down to the planet. Check if there are any zebras too, we don’t want to cause havoc with an alien. We may be in another universe, but the prime directive still applies.”
The two officers nodded and exited the bridge through the turbolift, heading to transporter room 1.
“Riker to engineering.”
“Engineering. Geordi here.”
“Geordi, could you modify the chairs of the enterprise to our new bodies?”
“I suppose so, why?”
“I feel silly having to sit on the ground all the time.”
“Ok, I’ll be on it. Geordi out.”

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Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Twilight Sparkle , Jean-Luc Picard and Spike were at the table, and they all looked at Picard.
“So.” Twilight started “You said Discord’s name isn’t Discord?”
“Yes. His real name is Q.”
“Q? What kind of name is that?” Said Rainbow. Applejack hit her.
“Ouch! What?”
“Be quiet, let the pony speak.” She said.
“Okay, So Discord a.k.a. Q brought you from another universe, why?” Twilight asked.
“Q finds mankind (My original species) to be fascinating, and for some reason beyond my imagination, he seems to like to put me through his ideas of a ‘joke’.”
“Wait a second there partner!” Applejack said, getting closer to him. “What do you mean by your ‘original species’?”
“I am not a pony, I am a human.”
Rarity raised an eyebrow. “Then why do you look like a pony?”
“Q changed me so I could survive in this universe.”
“What do you have to do to go back?” Twilight asked.
“I don’t know. I wish Q would tell me.”
A bright flash of light; Q appeared in its Draconequus form. Picard face hoofed once again, this time there was no residual dirt left on his forehead.
“Speaking of the devil…” Picard added.
“Oh! You were talking about me! Tell me Jean-Luc, what did you tell them? Was it about that time when I took you to meet the Borg?”
“Discord!” Rainbow Dash shouted “How did you break free?”
“I didn’t. I was never trapped for starters.”
“And what in ‘tarnation does that mean?” Applejack inquired.
“Applejack, my dear. If I wanted, I could erase this planet from existence. I simply allowed myself to be defeated because it would be more enjoyable.” He turned his attention to Picard. “Expect contact any moment now.” Then he vanished.
“What did he mean by ‘expect contact’?” Twilight asked.
“He probably brought the Enterprise, and they will start to look for me.”
“Enterprise?” Dash asked, with a frown.
“The starship which I am captain.”
“Wait! Starship?” Twilight seemed to have a glow on her eyes.
“Yes. My people have developed technology to travel through space faster than light. We discovered several alien species over the time, and now we all for an alliance known as the United Federation of Planets.”
Everyone’s mouths were hanging open. Except for Twilight, whose smile was so big that would make Pinkie Pie jealous.
“You-you can travel faster than light???” Rainbow Dash was amazed.
“Yes, the Enterprise’s top speed is roughly 2000 times faster than light.”
“Wait here!” Twilight left the room and came back with a few papers and a quill. “Tell me everything!”

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“This is boring. Ah don’t think ah want a ‘bird observer’ cutie mark.” Apple Bloom said, with a bored tone.
“Me neither.” Said Sweetie Belle.
“At least I can see Rainbow Dash with these binoculars.” Scootaloo said enthusiastically.
“Wait!” Sweetie Belle got her binoculars back on her face. “What is that?”
The two remaining crusaders got their binoculars on and looked where Sweetie was pointing. Out of thin air, an small blue light appeared, after 3 seconds, there were three ponies and a zebra there.
“Weird. I’ve never heard of a collective teleportation spell.” Sweetie said, scratching her head.
“Ah have seen Twilight teleporting a few times, and that wasn’t anything like that!”
“And why are they dressed? Are they going to a party or something?” Scootaloo inquired.
The strangers talked for a while and started to head towards Ponyville.
“I know!” Sweetie Belle said “We could investigate!”
“Yeah!”
“CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS INVESTIGATORS YAY!!!”