2. A Farewell to Hooves

[fourthgenerationprincess]

ACCIDENTAL VIDEO

[ CRASH. The video snaps on just in time to catch a fist raising away from the screen. Twilight's taken to setting an alarm in the morning so that she can get to the library before anypony else does; she likes the quiet of the early morning hours there. But this morning, she's in no mood to get up. She feels exceedingly woozy for some reason. So the snooze button sounds like a good idea.

Unfortunately, her alarm is on the same table as her journal. Hence the video.

The video shows Twilight's bed, and the (human??) fist extending from it. Twilight is a lump underneath it. After several minutes of incessant beeping from the alarm, she shakes the blanket off and her head emerges.

Her... human head.

At first she tries to go back to sleep. Then she opens her eyes slowly when she realizes something's off. Looks at her still-extended fist. Uncurls her fingers.

Fingers. ]

... what is GOING ON?!?

[ She flexes them a few times, and feels her head. It's so much smaller than she's used to! And yet she barely fits on her own bed now. The covers are falling off her to reveal a blue hospital dress, which she definitely wasn't wearing last time she went to sleep. Which was... how long ago?

At some point she notices the video is on, and pokes at it with a fist a couple times to get it to turn off. Still not used to fingers, yet. ]


ACTION

[ Twilight will spend some time still in the pony house and surrounding area, getting used to walking on two legs, examining her new fingers and toes, and recording everything she does. This is a moment of SCIENCE, after all. Disorienting and troubling as it is, she must record all of it.

Eventually she will move to the village, making a beeline for the clothing store to find something more suitable than a hospital gown, and the library to do as much research about humans and the anti-ponification thereof. Find her there, or wandering the streets, marveling at how tall she is now. ]


{{ Responses will come from manely_harmless }}

Comments

[manely_harmless]

Oh, it'll be fun! Come on, you've already got a headstart on me in the clothing department. Fashion gowns aren't exactly fashionable.

[doesntneedsaving]

Who cares. Honestly, you women and fashion. If you'd spend half your time on something productive instead of wasting time simply on what clothing to wear, you'd be surprised at what you'd accomplish.

[He doesn't mind not looking awful, but jeez. He swears sometimes females just spend an absurd amount of time with this.]

[manely_harmless]

It's not wasting time! Looking nice can make you feel really good! I think that's why my friend Rarity loves designing clothes so much.

[doesntneedsaving]

...I have never seen you wear a single item of clothing while in your pony body. [His eyebrow goes up. She's serious?]

[manely_harmless]

Well, ponies mostly wear clothes for special occasions. My coronation outfit came with me, for example.

Actually, Rarity would probably flip if she found out about humans, since you wear clothes all the time!

[doesntneedsaving]

Let me make it clear to you right now that I'm not human. [He's proud to say Earth is his home now, but he is not ok with being called a human.] I'm the Prince of Saiyans, so don't forget it. And don't ever lump me in with being human ever again, got it?

[He sighs. Let's just...get this over with. Maybe Bulla will be proud of him for this.]

Come on. Let's hurry up and get you something that isn't so exposing so you and I can be on our way. [This sucks.]

[manely_harmless]

Oh! How is a Saiyan different? Is it because you can blow everything up? [ She walks at an easy pace next to him and stares in curiosity. ]

[doesntneedsaving]

[Great galaxy does he really want to explain what a Saiyan is to Twi?]

I'll try to make this easy on you. Saiyans are the greatest and most powerful race in the galaxy, and as you already know that at their very fingertips they posses the power to wipe out entire worlds in seconds. We posses an undeniable thirst for battle as well, and become stronger after every fight. [And that is not an exaggeration Twi! He's actually learned to curb a lot of that want to fight. It took a long time though.]

And no, humans also have the ability but you'll find there are very few humans who can do this. [See that tree way off over there? Well, he makes sure to throw a low powered ki blast right at it- and it explodes into nothing.]

[manely_harmless]

[ She stares. ] Humans can do that, too? [ Twilight flexes her fingers and points her outstretched hand at a nearby rock. ]

[doesntneedsaving]

[Sigh. That's not how it works Twi.]

No no, you don't just point your finger and things suddenly disintegrate. Have some sense. It's something called ki, a force that every being posses but it requires a great deal of training to be able to control and harness.

I doubt you'd be able to use it anyway. You don't exactly look like the physical type, Twilight.

[manely_harmless]

[ She frowns, then shrugs and keeps walking. ] Well, it was worth a shot. I've been able to use magic since I was a filly. I'd like to try it more later, though... [ She makes a mental note to look up "ki" in the library. ] Maybe we could try fighting in the Battledome!

[doesntneedsaving]

It's not magic woman! [HE HATES MAGIC.] Besides, I don't think you'd want to spar with someone such as myself. If I so much as touched you the wrong way I'm sure you'd break in two. [He's...not exaggerating. He's held up skyscrapers before.]

But if you honestly want to try your hand with it you need to train your mind and body everyday until you can manifest your ki in your hand, or perhaps in your case...your horn. I can't imagine you could focus it anywhere else. [Maybe her mouth. He's known a few to use mouth blast attacks.]

[manely_harmless]

Can you use it for anything other than wanton destruction? That seems like a pretty useless power to me.

[doesntneedsaving]

Useless!? [What does she know of useless?!] You don't have any idea how useful it is! [THE NERVE.]

It's used for combat, and believe me when I say that you wouldn't want to be on the other end of one of those attacks without being prepared yourself to take it head on. Don't you remember the draft at all? I was taking out endless amounts of ships and droids.

[manely_harmless]

No, I wouldn't want to be on the other end. You weren't giving them much chance to get to land, were you? [ Twilight spent half her combat time neutralizing threats, and the other half making sure they were okay, i.e., not falling from a great height. ]