Saphrim goes to Equestria

by Delta04

-3- The Cottage

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"Oh yes, give it to me!"

The mare screamed happily as the shadowy stallion approached her chained body. He approached slowly...teasingly. The mare was dripping juices all over the already drenched mattress.

The stallion enjoyed watching it drip from her mare hood. He stood at the end of the mares body...slowly he bent his neck so he could get a good lick at her exposed-

You awake violently, in a screaming fit. You use your fingers to try and cover your defiled eyes but it does nothing to stop the images of pure hell. After spending a few minutes just rolling around whimpering and then a few more minutes just gathering yourself from the nightmare which you could tell was going to plague you for many nights to come, you calm down.

You spend the next ten or so minutes lying on your stomach, breathing heavily. Finally, you manage to gather the mental strength to pick yourself up and dust of the dirt that had gathered on your clothes. Looking around the lake area you see nothing of interest until you freeze. Standing about twelve metres away from you is a...thing. It looked like a lion had angry sex with a scorpion and a bat, and this was the abomination that was spawned.

You didn't move a muscle, hoping that it wouldn't notice you. It was useless however as it had been attracted to your screaming.

It took a few steps forward, seeming more curious than hungry. You didn't mind, you would rather be examined than eaten alive. The creature suddenly stopped walking forward, deciding it was close enough. It then sniffed the air in front of you.

The thing shat itself and then ran away into the forest.

You were startled by its reaction, and more than a little curious as to why it was so terrified. Lifting up one of your arms you took a whiff. Your stomach attempted to empty it's contents but failed because it had already done so. No wonder the poor creature emptied its bowels and turned tail. You STANK. That quick swim earlier had done nothing to make you smell nice. Deciding you needed to clean yourself before you kill off the population of the forest, you jumped back into the small lake and cleaned yourself off.

Jumping back out of the lake you ponder what you should do. You only just take note of the fact that the sun is high in the sky. Looking back the way you came, it was easy to tell which direction you had come from as there was destroyed trees everywhere, you shudder. Nope, definitely not going back to nightmare city. With that in mind you decide the best direction to go in is the opposite to the way you came.

You begin your trek, not bothering to play around with your Nanites. Instead you opted to just walk in silence. You continue through the forest, which you notice is starting to look more jungle-like, still cartoon-like though.

Speaking of cartoons, you decide to figure out what was up with the weird colours. First you needed to find some Nanites capable of intensive scanning. It took a while but eventually you found one that you could use, now you just had to wait for them to be manufactured. While you were waiting you decided to check your other Nanite statistics. Well, it would seem that you have 14000 Healing Nanites, 3000 Adhesive Nanites and 130000 Constructive Nanites. You just now realised you don't know what type of Nanite is accelerating your speed and jump height. You need to remedy that.

A little research tells you that the Nanites empowering you are Accelerator Nanites. Hmm, can connect to other Accelerator Nanites to form fibres that enhance muscle. Interesting. It would appear that you have 100000 of these Nanites. You immediately start producing more. They are definitely the most useful, not to mention the most fun.

You are alerted when your Specialised scanning Nanites are done. Returning your mentality to the real world you set about the task of scanning the surrounding environment.

You start with basic stuff, gravitational pull, magnetic fields, and air composition to start off with. The scans came back, leaving you slightly confused. The mass of the surrounding area should be creating much more gravitational pull than it was at the moment. Everything here seemed to have a fraction of the density it should. Even more befuddling was the readings from the magnetic scans. According to your readings there was virtually no magnetic field, with how weak the magnetic interaction was.

That can't be right. If the magnetic interaction of this planet is this weak then what is stopping the suns rays from incinerating the planet? Unless the sun has a lesser output of radiation. Unlikely, but not completely unbelievable considering everything else that has happened.

Whatever it may be you decide to look deeper, scanning the radiation outputs of the trillions of singular atoms around you. Now you are completely confused. The amount of radiation being emitted from the matter around is low, very low. So low in fact that you shouldn't even be able to see it with your naked eyes. Something was actually altering the photonic wavelengths in between the molecules and your eyes. Looking for answers just gives you more questions.

Determined to get to the bottom of this mystery you dig even deeper, scanning on the sub-atomic levels. What you found only added to the continuing mass of mind fuck you were receiving. The thing altering the radiation emittance of these strange mystery particles that caledl this world home, were the radiation levels. The energy binding the quarks, found within the atoms, was much less than the energy being released by the atom from as ambient radiation. The sub-atomic binding energy that usually was used for just that, binding, was being used to alter photons as they passed through the atom. It only gets more confusing for you, as only a quarter of the energy is being used to manipulate light, and a quarter actually holding the quarks together.

The rest of the energy...you had no idea where it was going. And that worried you.

So, these particles are self-manipulating and are also feeding their energy elsewhere. Brilliant. You have a theory as to where some of the 'missing' energy was going, and you could put it to test relatively easy.

Deciding to test your theory of the mysterious vanishing energy, you stop opt to stop next to a water source the next chance you get. Fortunately for your curiosity, that isn't that much longer of a walk, as you come across a small river cutting through the increasingly dense forest-jungle.

Using your Nanites, you pick up some water and spread it out over an area open air. Something happens immediately, completely to your surprise.

The water had formed a cloud. Scanning the anomaly that you had to add to your ever growing list of anomalies, you discover something intriguing. The water molecules had become sub-atomically entangled. The quarks within these water molecules had literally left the atom shell and had just started binding with other quarks randomly, while still maintaining the same properties of normal water particles.

This was deeply fascinating. The amount of potential this could have-wait. Receiving new data from the Nanites currently buzzing around inside the water molecules, you discover that this cloud has extra properties. One such property was that the cloud became semi-solid if hit with close-proximity specific radiation.

Intrigued, you stick your hand out and touch the cloud. Two things happen at once. Your hand doesn't pass through it as you would have expected, instead it bounces off, as if the cloud was made of a springy sponge. Second, your mind gets blasted with data. LOTS of it. You collapse onto your knees and clutch your head in agony as your mind is assaulted by torrents of data. You squeeze your eyes shut while trying to make sense of the continuous stream of knowledge.

Eventually it stops, and you attempt to decipher exactly what it was your Nanites were trying to tell you. Ok, so you managed to piece it all together. When your hand came in contact with the cloud of molecules it reacted as expected, it took on a semi-solid property. What wasn't expected was the rejection you received. The cloud of spazzy particles had literally rejected contact with your hand.

Maybe it was the frequency you were emitting with your Nanites? Perhaps the specific wavelength you used stimulated the particles in such a way as to create a reaction in the cloud that prevented you from interacting with it on a sub-atomic level. Thus causing your hand to bounce off of it relatively unharmed. So different frequencies cause different effects. Interesting.

Before you could ponder on the subject any further something bizarre happened, and considering everything else that had happened to you that was saying something. The cloud suddenly had direct sunlight shine on it, creating an interesting bi-product.

You stared down at the small puddle of liquid rainbow at your feet for a few minutes, completely shocked. You absent-mindedly realised that was happening a lot recently. Snapping out of your stupor you decide to analyse the physical rainbow dripping from the cloud.

Bracing yourself in case of another flood of information, you sent your Nanites in. There was another stream of data directed at your over-worked brain, however this time it was no where near as bad. Slowly piecing the massive amounts of data into manageable bits of info, you found out what the rainbow was.

The rainbow itself was actually photons acting like electrons...only a lot weirder. Instead of seeking out a positive charge like normal fields of interaction should, these electro-photons were behaving wildly, clinging onto any molecules it could and then...

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What?... The electro-photons were binding with the quarks of the air molecules they had bound with... And then they... Were changing the composition of the quarks. Converting the quarks in a way that made them behave more like a wavelength than an actual particle.

Wow, these rainbow electro-photons were acting remarkably similar to a retro virus. You decided to list the events in order to help soothe your aching brain. First, light energy passes through the ectoplasmic cloud. On its way through it is somehow altered by the atoms ‘manipulation field’. This altered energy would then cling to the nearest gaseous molecules and latch on, converting it into a semi-energy form in the process.

Rubbing your temples, you attempt to re-organise your muddled thoughts. So basically the rainbow is just liquefied low end energy. Pure, low concentration energy. You didn't want to imagine how radioactive this stuff must be. Seriously, the amount of energy this would release when in contact with water would be painful. Drinking it would be like drinking pure fire. It doesn't seem to be reacting with the solids around it though, you idly muse. It must be to low energy to cause a chemical reaction. So it has enough energy to create itself, in doing so it loses energy, and then just barely enough to react with certain liquids or chemicals.

One of your Nanites sends a brief burst of data. Huh, apparently one of the chemicals it enjoys reacting with is the same chemical found in receptors in tongue cells. You withdraw your previous thought, drinking it would be worse than drinking fire. You make a mental note to never eat the stuff so long as you live.

Deciding the river is becoming boring, despite all the brand new discoveries taking place, you decide to continue on your way. You think the previous events on this world had desensitised you to bizarre going-ons.

Standing back up from your crouched position over the rainbow, you begin on your original direction, the one you had chosen this morning. Walking along you notice dark it's getting, and not because the sun was setting. No, this forest was starting to look more like a jungle, while still somehow consisting of forest trees. You had taken note of this previously, but now it was hard not to miss.

It was really dark now, you could only just see. This didn't stop you though, you didn't care what lied in the dark as you had never had a fear of the dark nor the things that dwell within it.

Being bored in a darkened forest with nothing to do you thought about...things. You thought about what Droigan had said to you before you got sucked into the rift. Old fashioned. Thinking about it you were REALLY old fashioned. The newest bit of tech you had was the Nanite hives and they were outdated by hundreds of millennia, maybe even millions of millennia.

You should have gone drinking with him though, you were extremely anti-social. It's not that your shy, it's just that you enjoy your time floating through space on your own. Thinking back to it now you can't even remember the last time you visited anyone, besides Droigan on occasion. You hadn't even spoken with another human being face-to-face in over a century.

Something drew you out of your memories. It took you a while figure out what it was but once you did you felt like punching yourself. There was light up ahead. You had reached the edge of the forest. Rushing out into the daylight to soak up its warmth, you take stock of your surroundings.

You run straight into the forest to hide behind a bush though, as you see a couple of the colourful horses approach your position. You hoped they hadn't seen you. You didn't want them molesting you into submission. Letting out a shudder, you decide to stick to the edge of the forest lest any of the other creatures see you.

The walk was rather boring, with nothing exciting happening, but eventually you came across a small town. Deciding you didn't want a repeat of the last horse-inhabited location you chose to do some recon first. But not here, somewhere on the edge of town and close to the forest.

Walking a bit longer you came across the perfect spot. A small cottage, close to the forest you were in and far away from town. Looking around your area for a vantage point, you eventually see a decent sized tree, about twenty metres tall with lots of large branches attached to it.

Jumping up you land with grace upon the lowest tree branch. Not for long though as it snaps off and you land on your back. Blinking, you realise that you had forgotten that everything here was less dense than it should be. Struggling of your back, you take another look at the tree to chose a branch that most likely wont break if you touch it.

Jumping up a second time and bracing for the tree to topple over, you land upon a significantly bigger branch. After waiting for a while you deem it capable of supporting your wait so you jump again. For a second time you land successfully without the branch collapsing under your dense body. Looking down you see that the floor of the forest is further down than you expected, you were high enough to begin your observations.

At first you saw nothing, the inhabitant of the cottage either out doing something or inside doing something really quietly. After a few minutes one of the horse things came out of the cottage with another creature, you couldn't see what it was from this angle though. Once you saw what it was though you had to rub your eyes to make sure they weren't lying to your brain. Coming out of the cottage was a regular male human. Wearing a fucking LEASH and COLLAR-

“Oh, mister human do it there.”

“Yes mistress.”

You open your mouth to scream but fail to do so because at that time the tree branch decides to snap. On your way towards the ground though, your stomach decides to void itself of its contents once more. Because of your random descent your lunch flies in every direction, spraying trees and painting the floor with what little food you had. You shortly followed, thankfully not landing on your vomit. You were instantly winded upon contact with the floor but that didn't stop from trying to rip out your poisoned eyeballs. You failed to rip them out, the only thing you did was rip of your eyebrows which was pointless since your Nanites just healed them instantly, making your self-abuse meaningless.

After lying on the ground panting and heaving for...you have no idea how long, you hear a growl coming from behind you. Looking towards the source of the sound made you consider getting up. From your position on the floor you see an up-side-down wolf made of wood. In your dazed and shock state the only thing you think of is what would have caused a creature to evolve like that. Another growl later and you find yourself on your feet facing the wolf- wait, wolves. There is more of them. You briefly consider using your Nanites to de-atomise them but realise you wouldn't have the time or the mental capacity to take them all at once.

The answer is simple. You run. You run in the direction of the cottage, hoping the local knows how to deal with the wooden menace trailing behind you. You burst out into the open with speed, going so fast as to completely obliterate a small fence that was unfortunate enough to have been in your path.

You stop once you reach the front door of the cottage, thinking you had left the wolves behind. Nope. A wolf slams into your back while simultaneously taking a bite of your neck. The force of the wolf sends you smashing through the door and into a room filled with little critters. It wasn't filled with critters for very long as the wolf scared them all away. Or it could have been you, you weren't exactly sure.

The sound must have drawn the attention of the owner of the cottage floor you were currently being mauled on, as the same yellow horse from before came in to see you being mauled on her floor. Either she didn't want blood on her precious floor or she wanted to keep you alive because she quickly set about removing the offending piece of wood from your back.

What she was doing you weren't exactly sure, she was literally just staring at the piece timber lying on your back. Whatever she was doing worked though so you weren't complaining. You stood up and turned around to see the pack of firewood standing by the entrance of the forest. You were pretty sure they were trying to glare at you but you weren't to sure, it must be hard to glare when your face is made of wood.

Returning your attention to the small yellow horse that had saved some of your time as the wolf probably wouldn't have been able to kill you. You opened your mouth to thank the small creature but stopped when it flew up to inspect your neck for damage using wings that you only just noticed.

“Oh dear, are you alright, that timberwolf didn't hurt you too bad did it?”

From that statement alone you were able to deduce several things in between the time it took he to say it and the time it took for her to reach your neck. First, the wooden monstrosity that attacked you was a ‘timberwolf’. Second, you realised how shy the creature must be if she was speaking so quietly. And third, she was a female. Or at least you think it was a female, you could never be too sure.

The mare, or what you assumed to be a mare, let out a startled gasp once it got a look at your neck. You put your hand up to your neck to see why she was so startled and realised that there was no damage, the Nanites had finished healing your neck before the wolf even left the cottage.

“How did you not get hurt at all?”

You had to think of something quickly. Thinking back to the man you saw walking out of the cottage you stood upon gave you the answer.

“Uhh, my um...collar saved me...?”

Wow. That was a horrible lie. There was no way she would ever believe tha-

“Oh, ok.”

What, how could she have believed the steaming pile of bullshit that just poured out of your mouth just then? Are these creatures really that incompetent? Or did I just happen to come across an extremely gullible one. Perhaps this one is just extremely stupid. That still doesn't explain why she a human as a pet, unless he was even more stupid than this specimen. Oops, it looks like she was talking to you.

“Excuse me, but I just spaced out for a second there, what were you saying.”

“Oh, um I was just asking you what you name is, if that's alright with you.”

“Its fine, my name is Saphrim and it is a pleasure to meet you miss?...”

“Oh, um... my name is Fluttershy. ”

“I'm sorry, what was that?”

“Um...my name is Fluttershy.”

“A little louder please.”

“Fluttershy.”

You could just barely make out what she said because of how quiet she was, also the fact that she added a little ‘squeak’ sound at the end didn't help. So her name is Fluttershy. You wonder if all of these creatures names’ are as ridiculous us this ones.

“If you don't mind me asking mister Saphrim, um...might I know where your owner is.”

What? So that man you saw earlier was a pet. That annoys you slightly but you make sure that the little equine can't tell that. Deciding to activate bullshit mode once more, you give her your reply.

“Um, he lives in that forest over there-you towards the forest you just emerged from- and ah...we got separated, its ok though because...I...ah know where he lives, yes, that's it I...um know where he lives...yes.”

You seriously need to get better at lying, because there is no way she gonna believ-

“Oh, um...ok I guess?”

She sounded slightly suspicious but let the subject drop anyway. If you had to hazard a guess you would say she doesn't socialise very much. Still probably more than you do though. An awkward silence filled the room, which you noticed had started being repopulated by small animals, well smaller than the intelligent one. She only came up to just above your knee caps.

Fluttershy decided to break the silence and asked if you wanted some tea.

“Tea would be lovely, thank you for offering Fluttershy.”

She left the room and headed towards what you assumed to be the kitchen to prepare your tea. Sitting down on the closest chair you tried to absorb the information you had learnt from your expedition. Your attempts failed, however, as an annoying presence made itself known by tapping your foot repeatedly. Looking down you see a tiny white rabbit wearing a small frown upon its face, looking somewhat more intelligent than the other animals in the room.

“What do you want?”

His only response to jump up and down and wave around madly, which you had no clue as to its meaning. Deciding to ignore the pest and get back to your mental ‘filing’ you start categorising- he's at it again. Looking down once more you see the tiny annoyance glaring at you. You return his glare with as much ferocity as you can, a stare that probably would have killed lesser animals on sight.

The white fluff didn't even budge, instead he bent down and went to take a bite out of your ankle.

“Don't you dare.”

The stupid rabbit didn't listen to your warning and proceeded to bite the mid-section of your shin area, his teeth going straight through your pants.

“Son of a bitch!”

You yell in gritted teeth, making sure not to alert your host. The vermin looked up at you triumphantly. You stood up and kicked the damn thing as hard as you could, then watched as it sailed out a conveniently open window into the distance. Walking over to the window you were a able to see the unfortunate creature skewered on a tree branch on one of the trees in the forest, its innards plopping out onto the floor beneath it. Not for long though as a group of timberwolves walk pass and snap the branch right off, earning a delicious raw rabbit kebab. Aw man, you could have eaten it.

“Your tea is ready mister.”

You turn your attention back to the doorway and see the little creature walk in, balancing a tray of tea expertly on her back. She walked over and placed the tray down with some fancy neck manipulation. She looked around the room briefly before turning her towards you.

“Have you seen my bunny, Angel?”

Angel? Who in their right mind would name that little devil Angel? Still though, you needed an explanation as to the rabbits sudden disappearance, the other animals looking about ready to pee themselves.

“The little rabbit? He left a while ago, chasing some random she-rabbit into the forest, right guys?”

You finish your statement with as big a grin you could handle, exposing your sharp canines for all of the animals. Your pretty sure you saw a rabbit piss itself in the corner.

“Whelp...I gotta go, you know, uh...master looking for me and all and...stuff.”

The poor thing looks extremely befuddled but you don't give it time to reply as you are immediately out the door and speed walking away.

You don't get very far though as you are stopped by a wall of pink. You find yourself on your back without even registering how you got there in the first place. Looking up you see a pink horse-ling smiling down at you.

“Hi, my name Pinkie Pie!”

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