"Rise n' shine everypony! Get in a single file line outside! NOW!"
Shining Armor was gathering the Royal Guards for their early morning exercises, starting with the "Z" Cabin, but inside the "D" Cabin, another rude awakening is in store for Zeke. This time it would be much more harsh then any other time.
"You ready?" A bully whispered.
"Just do it already,"
"Ok,"
The bully shoved Zeke off his bunk bed landing face down on the floor. Another bully pulled him up off the ground and placed a bag over his head and started spinning him while pouring maple syrup all over his body.
"FREAK, FREAK, FREAK!" The bullies cheered. One bully searched through Zekes stuff and found something unexpected.
"Hey! Freaks got a picture of Rarity hidden under his pillow!" The bully walked up to Zeke and shoved it all over his face. "Thats right, Zeke kiss the pretty little picture of Rarity!"
Before it could get any worse, The bullies quickly backed off.
"Cabin "D"! Why aren't you all outside? We have been wai-" Shining saw Zeke on the floor with the bag on his head all covered in syrup. "Zeke! What the heck are you doing on the floor?" Zeke did'nt respond. "You three get out outside in a single file line! MOVE!
Shining turned to look at the pegasus covered in syrup. "Zeke, Princess Celestia wants to speak with you about something important, don't ask any questions just head straight to her," Zeke nodded and walked out the door. "Hey, Zeke don't forget to get the syrup off of your body!"
At the Throne...
"Ah! Zeke! Come in,"
"Did you need something, Princess?" Zeke was squinting at Celestia, "Zeke... Can you see clearly?" "Err... of course I can!" He stopped squinting at Celestia, "Ok then," Celestia started pacing, " I summoned you here for a very VERY important mission... Do you remember that flash of light in the sky that happened two days ago?" "Yeah you said they were the Wonderbolts moving around "special" clouds," "Yes, but it turns out it wasn't the clouds that made the light,"
"Oh?"
Celestia took a seat on her throne,"I've been getting reports about "Strange Creatures" roaming the lands, they look like these," Celestia levitated a folder to Zeke. The folder had "CONFIDENTIAL" stamped on it. "Uhh..." Zeke clearly had no idea what he was seeing, instead of telling Celestia the truth he just stood there looking confused. "Here, take these, I knew you had trouble seeing," Celstia gave him a pair of glasses. Perfect fit. "What are they?"
"Humans" Celestia replied.
"Humans?"
"The main reason why I summoned you was because I want YOU to go to the East, my sources have told me that the humans seemed to have-"
"-Whoa Whoa Whoa," Zeke interrupted. "Why do you want ME to go? Why don't you make your "Faithful Student" go to the East?" Celestia made a face, but then it hit her, "Twilight Sparkle cannot go because I have sent her two tickets to the Grand Galloping Gala, so she right now she is preparing for these festivities that are going to be held on the following week. Therefore she CANNOT go that is why I have you here." "Ok, fine I'll go," Zeke was about to leave the room.
"Oh hey! It might be dangerous there! Take this!"
Celestia gave Zeke some kind of device. "What is it?" "It's a communications device called a Pager! We found two of these things on a human that infiltrated the castle yesterday. We took the little time we had to see how these things work, let me show you," She showed Zeke how to use the Device.
Zeke now knows how to use the pager!
"Now go!" Zeke ran towards the window and jumped out.
Before he could actually go to the East he needed to check on his brother who is ill. This illness came to his brother not too long ago.
"Andy...wake up..." Zeke whispered. Andy was slowly waking up... "Zeke? hey dude-" Andy yawned "-why are you here so early?" "Listen little bro, I'm gonna be gone for maybe two days and during that time I want you to take the medication at the same time I give them to you, ok? It is very important that you take them, Andy," Andy rubbed his eyes. "Yeah, I wont forget,"
"Ok, I'll see you later then,"
"Wait!"
"Yeah?"
"Where exactly are you going? Are you gonna go with your friends?" Zeke stared blankly out the window and rembered the horrible events from earlier. "No, I'm going alone," Zeke looked at Andy, "I'll see you later."
Zeke walked out of his home, as soon as he closed the front door a VERY SPECIAL HUMAN bumped into Zeke almost as if he was being chased by an animal. "What the? Hey watch it buddy!" The person quickly ran away from him, almost slipping on the rain puddle.
"SO MANY PONIES!" The human shouted, "I THOUGHT THEY WERE'NT REAL! ARGH!"
Zeke just stared at the human as he ran into other ponies before he got out of Zekes sight."I should leave now before Celestia finds out out im still here,"
High above what is now known simply as "The East", Zeke is looking down below him for anything suspicious.
"Argh! Theirs nothing here!" Zeke shouted, "Oh wait, I see something down there,"
Zeke wiped his glasses and squinted at the figure below him. "Ah, it's those three Crusaders, nothing wrong here," but he just realized something, how did they get ALL the way over here? Zeke flew for miles, nonstop. Zeke quickly flew down to the CMC.
"Hey! What are you three doing here? Don't you know it may be dangerous here?"
"It's not dangerous here!" Sweetie belle said. "The Hylians gave us this bottle,"
"It's a magical bottle!" Scootaloo said
"Hylians? Magical bottles? How did you three get here?" "We walked," Sweetie belle said. "Walked!? Equestria is miles away! How did you-" "-Wanna play spin the bottle?" Scootaloo interrupted. "With little fillies? No thank you!" "Not like that! We made up another way to play Spin the Bottle," Scootaloo put the bottle on the ground. "Look we spin the bottle then when it stops at somepony they have to do whatever the spinner tells them to!" "Isn't that fun!" Sweetie belle shouted.
"Sounds boring, I'm gonna leave you three alone I got stuff to do," Zeke jumped up and began flying away,
"WAIT!" The CMC shouted, "WHAT?" "Just one game then you could go!" Scootaloo said. "Fine! but NO physical interaction for any reason!"
"OKAY!" Applebloom Spinned the bottle
Please don't land on me...
Zeke saw the bottle glowing and it stopped on Scootaloo
"Scootaloo! I want you to fly for the rest of the day!" Applebloom knew she couldn't fly, so what the heck?
"Applebloom you know I cant fly! I could barely get of the ground!" "Well you gotta do it! you remember what happened the first time right?" "Oh yeah..." Scootaloo made a face and began to hover. "My turn!" Sweetie belle quickly spinned the bottle. "I think I should go..." Zeke was slowly getting up when... "Wait! The bottle landed on you!" "But I really have to go!" "Do you have a job?" Sweetie belle ignored Zeke and just kept on smiling.
"Yeah,"
"I want you to quit you're job and never return!" The moment she said that Applebloom and Scootaloo gasped. "No, I can't just quit my job!" "But you have to! its part of the rules!" Sweetie belle started whining "Yeah it's part of the rules, If you don't do it you will be forced to do it," Scootaloo said
"Yeah whatever i'm leaving," "Wait! You cant just leave! You NEED to do it!" Scootaloo shouted, "No I don't!" Zeke continued flying when his Pager started beeping.
Zeke, this is Princess Celestia, We don't need you anymore; We are dismissing you from this operation and you are also being retired from you're current guard position. You can keep the pager. bye now
Zeke quickly flew back to the CMC. "HEY! What did you three do to me!?" "Why?" Sweetie Belle said. "WHY?" Zeke quickly went up to Sweetie belle's face. "I just got a message from the Princess saying that I am now retired from being a guard!" "Well don't go blamin' us for what you did," Applebloom said "No! You made me play! and I can't just let you three walk away like nothing happened!" Zeke looked away. "What are you gonna do?" Scootaloo asked. "Something so dirty they wont know WHATS all over the ground when i'm done with you three," Zeke grabbed Applebloom and raised a hoof. "Don't you scream now," Zeke was about to hit Applebloom when someone shouted "PUT THE PONY DOWN," "What the?" Zeke let go of Applebloom and started looking around. "Who said that! Show yourself!" Then almost instantly Zeke was electrocuted by an unidentified being.
Zeke was knocked out.
Somewhere around the world, Zeke was now in a dungeon, he was slowly opening his eyes.
"Hey your awake..."
"Who are you? Where am I?"
"The names Traum and you are in Hyrule's dungeon,"
"Hyrule?"
"Yeah you're in a whole new country pal." Traum sat on his bunk bed, "Hyrule is only one of many other new places out here, right now you are approximately fifteen thousand miles away from Equestria, some random guy told me, don't know why though,"
"Dang! I was so close to getting my revenge!" Zeke turned his head to Traum while wiping the dirt off his glasses. "Hey you're a Bat Pony," "Yeah so?" "So..." "Hey I know my kind aint too friendly to yours but since both of us are in the same cage we might as well start working together so we can get the heck outta heck outta here, Okay?" "Yeah okay..." "Luckily for you, my friend is coming today to get me outta this place," "What? One Pony isn't going to be able to get you outta this place! just look at those locks!"
Zeke rushed over to the cells door
"That door doesn't have any locks,"
"Exactly! these are the most advanced locks I've ever seen!!!" Zeke started to panic
"Calm down! Whats your name?" "Its Zeke..." "Okay listen, Zeke, my "friend" is coming tonight he knows what to do i'll let you know when he arrives, got it?" "Yeah..." The moment he said that the cell doors opened. "Look Traum! We're free!" "No we're not, the doors opened because it's feeding time," "Oh..."
The two walked out of their cell and went towards the cafeteria,
"Hey Traum, why is there a cafeteria? I thought this was a dungeon?" "It is a dungeon, in this country they have a much more better system of jailing people compared to Equestria, but enough about the dungeon we need to go meet my other "friend", she's a bat pony from Hell," "Interesting... Is she in the dungeon too?" "No, She's just visiting" "Oh,"
After a few moments of walking, shoving, getting shoved and, getting touched somewhere from someone, they got to the visiting room.
"Okay! Zeke stand here and wait," "Just hurry Traum, that person thing is looking at me weird..." "Yeah yeah whatever," Traum went in the room and sat down when the bat pony came in and sat in the other direction. Zeke Couldn't here much or look at them.
"Hey! Are you a pony?" The human said
"Yeah, I am..." Zeke slowly turned his head to look at the human.
"You know I'm in this dungeon because of a pony!"
"Oh..." Zeke looked away, but ignoring that human wouldn't be the right thing to do in the dungeon. The human grabbed Zeke's neck," I hate you brightly colored horses," Zeke couldn't stand this guys breath. "You animals make me sick!" the human clenched a fist and was ready to punch Zeke, but before it got bad, Traum came. "Hey! Leave my friend alone," "Oh look, it's the wiseguy pony!"
"Just put him down or I'll tell everyone in the dungeon about you're little "secret" about you having a close relationship with a certain animal," The man looked at Zeke. "Ah Whatever!-" He let go of Zeke. "I can still kick everyone's ass in this dungeon! Including you, Glasses" The man left, pushing and shoving anyone that got in his way.
"You okay Zeke?"
"Yeah, he's full of rage,"
"I know, don't worry about him because we're leaving tonight,"
"Okay,"
The two made their way back into the cafeteria. The two got in a line to get some food which was different depending on Species, in other words, Humans got mashed potatoes, a piece of bread, and water. While the Ponies got an apple, hay, and some oddly colored liquid. The two sat at a partially full table.
"So, Traum, How did you get in the dungeon?"
"Ah well... it's not very interesting..." Traum looked down at his food.
"Just tell me,"
"Okay," Traum took a bite from his apple
"Four years ago, me and my friend, Andrew-" "-Andrew?" Zeke said, interrupting Traum. "I know it's a weird name for a pony but he's not the only one with a weird name, Zeke." "Oh, of course, Please continue," "Okay, so, Andrew and I had to go to an unmentionable place in the Griffin Kingdom and give a product of ours to a certain group of unmentionable Griffins. When we were about to go and deliver the product, Andrew decided to stay back while I delivered the product."
"As soon as I got to the meeting place, the Griffins framed me for something I haven't done. They kept me in their prison for a few months, during my time in their prison, I kept telling myself that, Andrew caused all this. A few days later, this random explosion in the sky occurred and weird creatures started appearing. Then one day the Griffins just decided to throw me over here to the new country and put me here in this dungeon... The end."
"And you're friend, Andrew?"
"Andrew? Well I hope he died in Canterlot Prison!"
"How do you know he's in Canterlot Prison?"
"I know because I told my buddy's to go and murder a few ponies AND light some houses on fire in Canterlot then I told them to go and frame, Andrew,"
"Well there's a high chance he's dead..."
"Yeah, now please lets just stop talking so I can eat"
"Sure," Zeke said. The finished up their food and went into their cell
Zeke sat down in the corner of the room while Traum packed his things, "Hey Zeke, you should sleep, my crew is gonna come really late," "Nah i'm good," "Okay," Traum sat on his bunk and stared at the wall.
The time is now 11:09
Zeke started getting drowsy when he heard some banging on the wall, it started getting louder and louder when finally the wall broke down and created a pretty large hole leading into a cave. A bat pony emerged from the cave.
"Traum! You in here?" The bat pony whispered.
"It's about time you two got here, c'mon lets get outta here," Traum whispered.
"Hold on, Glasses ain't coming, Traum,"
"He's coming with us, let's go!" The bat pony lead the way while Traum and Zeke followed them through the small cave.
"Almost there," The bat pony said
The four quickly came out of the cave and ended up in a swampy area.
"Here we are! Your free now, Traum!"
"Yeah thanks," Traum looked at Zeke. "Your free to go Zeke, Equestria is that way I believe if you want you could fly there,"
"Yeah I will, Thanks for getting me out of that dungeon, see you around I guess,"
"Oh wait! I almost forgot-" Traum had Zeke's pager "-Here, this is your old Pager right?" "Yeah It's mine..." The other bat pony burst out laughing. "What are you laughing at?" Traum said.
"Well it's because he still uses Pagers!"
"So? Like if your Pager is any cooler than mine,"
"We don't use Pagers anymore," The bat pony took out a strange device. "This is the Mobile Cellular Telephone!" "What a mouthful friend..." Zeke said. "Shut up! It's ten times better than that piece of s-" "-That's enough! you can go now, Zeke."
"Okay, Thank you, Traum."
The two went their separate ways...
Zeke is now in Equestria
He notices that some Ponies are talking to that Mobile Cellular the Bat Pony had, It made him want one just to fit in with the others but he knew that those could end up being completely worthless. Zeke took one more look around before going home.
When he arrived, he saw his house was boarded up, there was graffiti all over his house. Some graffiti read:
THE END IS NEAR - CROSS FAMILY TERRITORY - THE MOON IS WATCHING YOU
"Wait... ANDY!" Zeke ran to the front door to see if his younger sibling was still home, but instead he found a note on the front door which reads:
Zeke, It's happening! It's finally happening! The new leader of The Black Puddle has been chosen! Come to the hideout IMMEDIATELY!!! -Mirtis
"I guess they might have, Andy..." Zeke took one last look at the house before he went to the old hideout.
The Hideout was basically a cave filled with helpless Pegasus that decided to join The Black Puddle, the gang is not as big as any other gangs and is close to being out of business. They also have a small history of being the only gang NOT to have a leader. If one were to ask where the name came from, they will get a death sentence immediately.
Anyways...
Zeke arrived at the hideout, the place felt abandoned, Zeke knew the others were at the Meeting room, that's where they have all the special events. Zeke got closer to Meeting Room, as he got closer the sound of cheering could be heard on the other side of the door, it got louder and louder as he moved in. Before he went in, he stood there and listened to what the other Ponies were cheering about,
"Today! This marks the first time The Black Puddle participates in the taking over of Equestria!"
The crowd instantly cheered.
"I Sunset Shimmer, will guide you all down the right path!"
Zeke pushed open the doors to go inside when all of the other Pegasus turned to see who came in. It got quiet.
"Hey! Why aren't you all cheering for me!?" Sunset said, angrily.
"Zeke! Hey! You finally came!"
Zeke looked at his chubby friend, Mirtis as he came running towards him, shoving everyone in his way. Sunset saw Mirtis and Zeke, talking.
"You two!" Sunset pointed with her hoof at the two friends. "Front and center, now!"
Zeke and Mirtis went to the other side of the room. "Why have you interrupted my wonderful speech?" Mirtis swallowed. "Who is this pony?" "My name is Zeke, I came here because i'm looking for Andy, he's my brother," Sunset looked at Mirtis and Mirtis looked at Zeke. "Andy? I thought he died two years ago..." Mirtis said. "What about the rest of you!" Zeke shouted at the crowd. "Anypony?"
Nobody answered. Zeke took his glasses off and covered his face so that nobody can see him crying. "All of this because of those three young devils!" Sunset walked closer to Zeke. "Hey, Zeke forget about him, this gang is all you have left now, so from now on you will do whatever I tell you to do, got it?"
Zeke wiped his face and replaced his glasses. "Okay..."
"Tomorrow, we will all go to the Twilight World, don't you dare ask me how I came about knowing the existence of this world or how we will get there! Everyone you are excused to go to sleep!"
The crowd quickly went out of the meeting room to go to their rooms, Zeke followed the crowd but Sunset Shimmer stopped Zeke with her magic. "Zeke, You're going to sleep in my room," Zeke had a dirty thought. "Don't start thinking bad, I want you there because I feel that you could become a great partner of mine," "Okay?"
At Sunset's room...
"You are going to sleep on the floor on that side of the room, okay?"
"Uh... yeah can I at least have a pillow?"
"No,"
"But you have like twenty on your bed!"
"Yeah whatever, I'll wake you at twelve, goodnight!"
"Okay, fine!" Zeke curled up on the floor, he took one look at Sunset before he finally fell asleep.
