Awakening

Prologue-

Let me start off by saying that I and my friends involved in this story are all bronies and have almost complete knowledge of the characters and episodes. Just to so I can clear up some confusion that may accrue.

You know when you wake up, but you're so tired that you wake up with your eyes still closed? Well that happens to me a lot, so I wasn't surprised when it happened again one morning. I tried to go back to sleep but I just couldn't. I felt something soft and furry on my back but I wasn't surprised because I usually slept with my dog in my bed. But what was strange was that it felt like the fur was sticking to my skin. I ignored it and tried to go back to sleep. Then I realized I had a killer headache. I sat straight up and opened my eyes. When I opened them I was looking at the sky. There were a few things wrong with that. Firstly, I went to sleep in my bed with a roof over my head. Secondly, the sky looked... wrong. It looked like it was... drawn more or less. I saw the clouds and realized they looked wrong too. It looked like... they were from a cartoon. I rested my hands on the ground. The ground too felt wrong. For one thing, it was grass and was really soft. And my "hands" felt wrong too. I was still busy looking at the sky, but it felt like my hand was constantly balled up in a fist.

Slowly, I brought my "hands" up to eye level. It took me a second to realize that the two brown ovals in front of me were my hands. And below my hands I could make out what were supposed to be my legs and feet. But to my horror, they were oddly shaped and covered in red fur. I could even see an orange tail between them. I was so awe struck, that I didn't notice the other figures beginning to stir around me on the ground. I finally broke trance with my hooves (even though I didn't realize they were hooves at the time) and looked around and saw... cartoon ponies lying all around me. I tried to stand up on my two legs, and eventually did. It was very awkward and I could only walk a few feet before I fell onto my front legs. I heard a pony sit up and heard it say;

"God. I've got the worst headache." The red and white pony said while he rubbed his eyes. "Wait, what the..." he had just noticed his hooves. "Holy shit! What the fuck!?" As he screamed I recognized the voice in disbelief.

"M...Mike?" I asked tentatively.

"What the..? Hunter? Is that you? I must be fucking dreaming."

"Must be." Came a voice from behind me with a slight chuckle in the voice. "It's still a pretty cool dream though right? Lol." He looked right at me. "Hunter, wow. And Mike? You two look pretty cool as a pony. Is everyone here?" He asked looking around at the sleeping ponies I finally recognized the voice.

"Carl?" Mike and I asked at the same time.

"You bet faggots."

"Umm... this seems a little real for a dream doesn't it?" I asked slowly.

"Well the ground feels pretty soft, but I've felt dreams before." he said with a shrug.

The three of use heard a noise and turned to a pony who we just realized was staring up at the sky. "Must be a dream..." I heard him say under his breath. I regonized that voice immediately.

"Zack's here too? This is actually turning into a pretty cool dream." Carl said from my right.

Zack looked at the three of us and said "Are you sure this is a dream? I mean, we're fucking ponies, but... I can feel the grass."

We didn't have the chance to answer. The two other figures sat up almost at the same time. The blue and red one took a look around and just screamed. Literally as loud as humanly (ponyly?) possible.

"What the fuck!?" He screamed. I recognized his voice too. His name was Justin. I realized my senses were becoming clearer and clearer. The other one was just sitting open mouthed at us.

"This a dream?" Justin asked dazed.

"That's exactly what I'm thinking Justin." I heard Carl say.

Finally, the last pony to talk just said; "You've got to be kidding me." He had a thick British accent.

"Josh." The other five of us said in unison.

For a little while we all just sat/stood there waiting for something to happen. I was the one to break the silence.

"Okay, there's no way this is a dream." I said determined. "This is way too fucking real."

"Well this is my dream, so I don't give a shit about what you think Hunter." Carl said with a scoff. "If this wasn't a dream, why are we ponies?" he said stating the obvious.

"This does feel pretty real..." Zack said.

"Well considering you're part of the dream, I'm sure it does." Carl said again.

I saw Zack try to stand up on two legs like I did at first, and then fall onto all fours just like I did. He trotted right up to Carl and punched him in the arm.

"Ow! What the hell faggot?" Carl said with slight rage in his eyes.

"Yeah. No way this is a dream." Zack replied to everyone.

"Okay," Mike said "This doesn't make any sense. There's Hunter, Zack, Carl, Josh, Justin, and me, and we're all ponies. There's no way it can be anything except a dream."

"Then how come we can feel everything like it's real?" Asked Josh.

"You can't tell me you've never felt ANYTHING in a dream before." Carl chimed in.

"And you can't tell me that punch to the arm didn't feel real." Zack replied without missing a beat.

"Okay, okay." I said starting to speak. "Let's just all recap the last thing we remember. I remember going on the computer for a while after school, then I went on Xbox and played with Carl and Mike, then I went to bed. Then I woke up here with freaking hooves, a tail, and..."

"And wings!" Justin shouted pointing with his blue colored hoof at my back.

I turned around in a circle a few times rapidly trying to see the supposed wings. To my surprise and disbelief, he was right. I had wings! I tried to move them but couldn't. It took me a few seconds to figure out how. They were pretty small when folded against my sides, but they grow considerably longer when I unfolded them. I tried flapping them for a while before tiring myself out. I was still really tired from waking up and I guessed from other fanfics and from the show itself that it took a lot of energy to fly.

I looked back in the direction of the others and I saw them looking over themselves trying to find if they had wings as well. Mike found he had wings and did essentially the same thing I did when I found my wings. Justin and Carl found that they had horns on their forehead's (which I somehow hadn't noticed before) and Josh and Zack found no horns or wings.

"Hey. Two pegasi, two unicorns, and two earth ponies." Remarked Josh.

"Okay, okay, let's get back to where we were." I said trying to sound assertive. "Carl, what do you remember?" My question fell on deaf ears. Carl was completely focused on his horn and began to look like he was trying to poop. "Carl, what the fuck are you doing?" I asked trying to gain his attention.

He exhaled. "Trying to see if I can do anything with this horn." He turned his focus back to his horn and sucked in more air. He began to get the same face as before. His purple furred face turned nearly red as he held his breath longer. Finally, as it looked like he was about to faint, a small spark emitted from his horn.

"Holy shit!" He screamed. "Did you just see that!? I did magic!" He said gleefully.

"I thought this was all a dream." Zack said sarcastically.

"Well whatever this is, I wanna stay here!" Carl replied enthusiastically.

"Carl. What do you remember about last night?" I asked again.

He turned his focus to me finally. "Oh, I don't know. I played Xbox. Raged and got off. And I went to bed."

"Thanks Carl, real helpful." I said sarcastically.

"Well I just remember going to bed and waking up here too." Josh said.

"Me too." Zack chimed.

"Same here." Justin and Mike both said.

"Well I think we can all agree this isn't a dream." Zack said trying to calm everyone down.

I supposed before I go any further I should describe what we all looked like. Mike was almost pure white. His coat and mane were almost all pure white. His mane did have thick red streaks going through it as well, but besides that, he was all white. I realized that he even had a cutie mark. I looked at it closely and saw that it was three wings arranged in a triangle connected in the center by a small golden circle. He also had blue/green eyes. Carl was mainly purple with green hair which I thought was pretty funny. He had pretty much the same eyes as Mike. His cutie mark was the biohazard symbol. I turned to Zack who frankly looked ridiculous. He was a light pink color with black spiky hair. Even his tail was spiky. His cutie mark was a magnifying glass. Justin was a dark blue color with a red spot around his mouth and horn. The red spots perfectly matched the color of his mane which was a lightish red. He had two hockey sticks that crossed as a cutie mark. Josh was the most plain pony there. He had a dark gray coat, and a mane that was slightly darker. His cutie mark was a comb.

"Well we look just like background ponies." I said acknowledging the fact. "What do I look like anyway? I can't really see my cutie mark or anything."

"Well, I guess you can tell you have very dark red fur. And an orange mane and tail. And... It looks like your cutie mark is a... Flame?" Justin said trying to be helpful.

I strained to look at my flank (it was a little weird acknowledging that I had a flank and a cutie mark) and saw that it was just that. A simple flame.

"So." Mike said. "What are we supposed to do now?"

As soon as the words left Mike's mouth I could begin to see a small speck off in the distance behind him. Carl saw it too.

"What's that?" Carl asked pointing.

The three who hadn't seen the dot immediately turned their attention to it. As it got closer, we realized it was a dust cloud.

"Why is there a dust cloud when all around us is grass?" Asked Zack.

"Well there's mountains all around us. And... I think I can see a town or something from behind the dust cloud." I said actually looking around for the first time. "And this is a cartoon. So I guess cartoon things can happen."

"You think they're looking for us?" Josh asked. "It looks like they're coming right at us."

"Well," Carl said in an assertive voice. "If it is people-"

"Or ponies."

"Right. If it's people OR ponies we need to think of what we're going to tell them."

"Well, let's just tell them like it is. We woke up here with no memory." Justin said.

"Well if this is all real and it's going to be ponies coming from over there, we can't say we went to sleep has humans and woke up here as ponies. They'd think we're crazy." I thought out loud.

"Maybe we are crazy." Zack said depressingly. "Maybe it's just a bad drug trip or something."

"Well I don't do drugs..." Justin said rolling his eyes.

"Regardless," Carl said again trying to take charge. "let's just say we woke up here with no memory. I mean in a world with magic, why wouldn't it make sense?"

"He's right." I said reassuringly. "Let's just see what they think of us too."

The dust cloud was now very close. We could begin to make out shapes through the dirt. We counted five figures on the ground running, and one in the air flying. We couldn't make out any details, but it was pretty clear that they were ponies.
We just sat there, waiting for the cavalry to arrive, when we could begin to see the colors of the ponies.

"No way. Just no fucking way." I heard Carl said softly.

"I'm not sure if this is going to be good, or bad." Josh said rising to all fours.

I was still could hardly believe it myself. As the figures got closer we were all reassured about what we thought we saw. We all just watched the six ponies walked (or flew) up to us. Finally, they reached talking distance. None of us could move. The pony in the front trotted even closer to us. We were in awe.

"Hello. My name is Twilight Sparkle."
End Part 1

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