BOO!
Another rude awakening
Previous ChapterNext ChapterI woke up to what I expect is ten minutes later by being kicked in the head with a very hard substance. 'damn that Mario must have metal boots now... They almost feel like...' I pause in my thoughts for second. 'Oh, that's right, equine world.' I shake my head to clear myself of the mental smog and opened my eyes. I was greeted with fear from my mind.
I was staring at two stallions, both white coated pegasus with a blue mane and tail, body clad in golden armor. That and they are holding two spears at me with glares so angry they would have convinced me they had heat vision. Oh superman, you and your heat vision was so awesome. When I wasn't running away from you that is. Wait... OFF TOPIC! Damn it brain.
Anyways, I was also looking at the very alicorn. Alicorn? Meh, I'll figure out their true species name sooner or later, just glad I focused on human mythology when I had the chance in that other world. Right before I was chased by exorcists, priests, and self proclaimed paladins. I swear, the multiverse makes things hate me.
I tried to float up but hit a sturdy barrier, sending a pulse over an invisible barrier in front of me. Confused, I tried to transform into a bullet bill again, (new called 'classic' never dies..) and rocketed up, breaking the barrier. When I was about to go out of control, I changed into a chain chomp to restrain myself, wooden pole and everything, which seemed to kill two birds with one stone as I purposely flailed around the pole, getting a distance.
"So then, now that we have our boundaries set up, mind telling me why you thought trapping a boo was a smart idea? Especially one who can transform into a bullet bill and a chain chomp." I said, smiling the best smile I could on a chain chomp face. Nothing happened.
"What is a 'boo'? Is that what you are now?" The darker alicorn said, almost stepping into my boundaries
"Well, no, I am a chain chomp right now, and I recommend you don't enter the my limit, I might attack you on instinct, and while you may think your strong, a chain chomp will mess you up." I say. "Just look at these teeth, they are made to be able to crush diamonds without trying." The alicorn didn't move, but one of the guards from behind me did, and I didn't notice.
The guard, a unicorn stallion, rushed up to me with a spear that seemed to be made out of iron. I heard the ting of it, and instantly turned around and attacked the guard, ripping off his armor, mane, and parts of his coat as he tried to back away. He was left torn up, and I even headbutted him once, almost paralyzing him out of pain. He left the circle and I kept trying to tear him up for a second or two, before turning away and looking back at the alicorn.
The fear on everyone's faces was painstakingly obvious. They clearly never tried to take on a chain chomp before. "You see? That was on instinct, it took those few seconds after he left this land for me to come to my full senses. Don't let that happen to you." I said, warning and threatening her at the same time. To me, it was just a warning, but to her it was a threat.
Then she made the worst mistake she could have ever made. She attacked me with a beam. Instinct didn't even take over this time, my normally dark gray body turned a good crimson color. The princess didn't flinch in the slightest at this, thinking she could take me down. Boy, was she wrong. I lunged at her, breaking the post behind me. I smashed into her, and she tumbled pack and fell down. She quickly got up, shooting another shot at me but missing, letting me lunge at her again.
I tried to stop at this point but instinct drove me to continue. She flew away, and, knowing I couldn't do anything, tried to fly up. I jumped out of the tower and the rage I had started burning my chains. My metal body changed back into a sphere with a more boo like mouth and my pupils disappeared entirely. My chains burned away and four infinitely re spawning fireballs took their place. I had turned into a fire chomp. I flew up as fast as I could, which was actually pretty fast, into the now night sky. I spit a fireball in a random direction and it almost singed her coat. Seeing her, I chased after her.
The pegasus guards were on my tail as I chased after the alicorn, the spears hitting me but melting off of my thousand degree body. The pegasus guards were uselessly trying to catch me, one even burned it's hoof trying to restrain me. I almost caught up to the alicorn when she fired another beam at me. If it was supposed to calm me, which I could feel it trying to do, the thought of her attacking me in my phased mind just angered me more, and my flames turned a bright blue.
I spit another one at her, almost spitting a full fledged blue fire bar at her. She just barely got out of the way as the fire came back to me, and I spit three more fireballs at her. She dodged all three, just barely, and lost her air balance. As the fire came back to me, I decided I could scare her into that town. I flew up to her even faster, propelled by my fire, and I could tell that the guard had given up when my flames turned blue. I got right in front of her face and let my eyes burn like the sun, scaring her into submission.
She plummeted to the ground before I came back to my senses. She almost hit the ground before I transformed into a red bullet bill and homed in on her. I reached her just in time to catch her. Now, what people don't know is, bullet bills can be really soft or really hard if they want to be. I was soft so she would have a good landing, then I changed back into my Boo form instead of the bomb boo I am used to.
I let her down before multiplying into 41 boos, 40 to keep her in one place. I floated towards her in our boo shield and apologized.
"Look, I just want to say that I am sorry for what just happened. I tried to warn you about the fire of the chomp family, but you still attacked me. Once you did that, it was pure instinct on what happened next. I have a better control on those instincts now, but I still can't control it completely. I am truly sorry about what happened. I hope you can forgive me."
She was silent for a long time, a very long time. She seemed to be thinking it over in her head. "I think I can forgive you if you say you couldn't control it. I have no idea about that species, and I was being arrogant about it." She said in a kinder tone than I had expected. "It was my fault that you had done that, I shouldn't have provoked such a violent species in nature." She finished.
"That is very good to hear. I don't think there are others in th-" I was cut short by a jolting pain in my body. A white wisp floating into my body. More and more happened before the boos around us turned around. They all started their maniacal laughter and staring at the newly gathered ponies around us.
"Is this species, I think you called it a boo earlier..." She started.
"Yes, a boo, this species has power in numbers. It is by chance the strongest undead species out there. They are grouped together, and when there is at the very least 15 in a group, they can combine into a form known as the boolossus. Then it increases in size exponentially." I split into 11 more boos, making the group excluding myself 50. 20 boos looked upwards and 30 looked at the ground. "I think you should calm down the ponies if you can miss..."
"Princess Luna." She ended for me.
"Oh, okay Princess Luna, try to calm down your ponies before they try to attack the boos again." She nodded, and flew up onto a stage.
"CITIZENS OF PONYVILLE!" She shouted. The name strung a string in me, but I ignored it. The boos all looked to her with their normal malicious smile. They were surrounding her, and the ponies were on the defensive of being in front of the ghosts behind them. We all looked on with intent.
"WE HAVE COME TO NOTICE THE SWARM OF THIS NEW SPECIES OF GHOST LIKE CREATURES IN YOUR TOWN. WE HAVE ALSO NOTICED THAT YOU ARE ACTING HOSTILE TOWARDS THEM FOR SOME REASON WE CANNOT GRASP!" She shouted among the crowd, ending off looking at the lavender unicorn mare that kidnapped me before. How did she know she did that to me? Must be a mind reading spell or something wouldn't be the first time. "WE WOULD KINDLY ASK YOU TO STOP ACTING HOSTILE TOWARD THESE NEUTRAL CREATURES, AS I CAN SAY WE HAVE WITNESSED WHAT THEY CAN DO!" All the ponies nodded, and the boos were absorbed by me again, leaving only me left.
I faded out of existence for five seconds before appearing onto the stage, fading in. I turned my voice to be understood by the ponies of which I learned from that yellow filly, and spoke. "I am but one boo of many alone, I am the only one here, and I wish to come in peace. Can you accept my peace, and can you accept my apology for what I have already done here." I spoke. The Princess looked at me a bit more kindly for apologizing, while the ponies looked confused.
I transformed into the shady koopa, and some ponies gasped. I then transformed into a bomb boo, and more gasped, while the lavender unicorn looked sad. I felt sad for her to, and I changed into a bullet bill again. The rest of the crowd gasped as well and a rainbow maned pegasus flew up to my in my face. I was still a bullet bill at the time, so I had no response.
"Yeah!? And just why exactly should we forgive you for what you did?" She said in a tomboyish tone. She seemed suspicious for some reason, but I kept my form.
I changed back into a boo to respond, inciting only a strange look from her. "Look, all I did was cause fear because I was trying to escape being unfairly studied on or kidnapped. I don't know here, but kidnapping another sentient species where I come from is a crime punished by execution. I only ran because of the peace faring place this is. Maybe I was wrong." I said. The Princess didn't even blink, and instead nodded.
I was surprised at this, but it must be confirming that this was a very high punished crime. Execution maybe, so I wanted to be sure. "But I will say this, I don't want you to be punished, and I would rather have a peaceful time here, maybe even have a bit of fun in an athletic competition." I said, and looked at her. "Maybe even a race..." I said, and she lost her attitude completely, changing into a happy one.
"You may seem suspicious but if you don't want anypony punished AND you like a good race, you can't be THAT bad!" She said, and flew away. The Princess giggled, while I heard a couple chuckles from the crowd. "OH and if you want to prove yourself, enter the iron pony competition next weak!" She called back.
"Well then..." The Princess started, unsure what to call me.
"Just call me boo, I am the only one, right?" I said, and laughed. Never been one for creativity, but hey, I am partially right.
"Okay then, boo, I guess that is your invitation to stay here. Where would you like to live?"
"That dank forest over there. Reminds me more of home." I said without a blink.
I got surprised looking looks from the crowd, but nobody spoke up. The Princess nodded, and I floated into the forest.
I turned on my tracker and looked for my friend manticore. It took a while, but I found him in a tree hut home. I walked in and I figured out it was owned by a zebra, I could tell with the pictures on the wall. I noticed my manticore friend in the corner, sleeping peacefully, and I floated to my own corner to do the same. I fell asleep soon after laying down, drifting into the nights embrace. While this happened all in one night and the fact I have not been up for that long, it was still exhausting. I fell into the dream world, nestled up in my shadowy corner.
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