Chapters into the wormhole: with josh (and landing)
when he finally came around to reality... or at least what he thought was reality he checked the damages of his equipment, then looked around and felt his head. As soon as he touched the already swollen bruise next to his temple and let out a small yelp.
"ow, i wonder how long i was out" he said as he walked to his universal clock.
"ok i left at 7:00 A.M. on july 12th, 2021 and its now july 18th 2021". *GULP *
"I slept for six days, wow", he then started bandaging his head and when he was done looked out the front window there he saw a place that looked alot like earth, except... it wasn't.
"where am I?" he asked himself. He went to his computer and started a scan of the surroundings,
"so I'm in the Dairomian galaxy,looks like i didn't even leave the atmosphere, I'm REALLY far away from home though." he checked the fuel levels, "1/4 ton, great... just enough to get to this planet and nowhere else, i see the power is almost out too and the solar panels are broken" He stomped his foot on the metal floor
"Great, a fifty billion-dollar rocket and i cant even bring it home" he quoted as he got ready to land on the mysterious planet, "that is IF you come home" he mimicked in his brother's voice.This time he made sure he had his helmet and all his equipment on, "and starting descent" he said.
He soon realized that he had landed in a forest and had to use the rocket to camp out in for a while, at least until he could regain his strength... The next few days he was eating his freeze-dried foods and just trying to remember his basic survival skills. After a few days when he had enough strength he grabbed his binoculars and a freeze-dried Neapolitan ice cream bar and went scouting the area. The ridge he went to he was overlooking a vast apple orchard then after being confused he went back and read a book, after he got bored with the book he used the ship's fire axe and went to the forest so he could make a fire. On the way he spotted a bear which he killed for FRESH meat, and found some logs on the ground which he picked up and put in his pack, he then struggled to drag the bear to his ship.
"I never realized a bear weighed this much" he groaned, when he got to his ship he started to skin the bear and cut its stringy meat off. He then set up a fire and cooked the meat, it took about an hour just for the cooking and about five minutes to cut."Whoa big guy, you are tough" when he cut a bite sized slice he tasted it...
"perfect, but i might have some pepper" he said jokingly. "I wonder why this place seems so familiar",
*Hello?*,
"What was that?" he asked into the cold afternoon air.
*Josh, can you hear me?*
He looked around and found his communicator "Yeah, I'm here"... Nothing, absolutely nothing. "I must've been hallucinating, i just haven't had any water in a while." he pulled out his canteen and drank a little, then found his harmonica and played his favorite song 'Take the long way home'. When he finished he doused the fire with sand from the ground he was sitting on and cleared the site. Afterwards he miserably layed on his cot and slept...
"It's as if I've seen this place before"
as soon as the sun rose Josh woke up, it had been a rough night for him, especially since he dreamed that he would be the loneliest person in the universe. when he got up and stretched he felt like taking a walk... North. Along the walk he saw a frog and a plump-looking butterfly with a round stomach and large blue eyes.
"okay, now that is just weird."
He hurried his pace to a jog to get away from that creepy... thing, but the only other thing that he was hurrying for is the feeling that something else was out there that he couldn't wait to meet. All the excitement made him hurry up to a full sprint he was very near the edge of the forest to a grassy field, he just about shot out of the forest as fast as his rocket. The light in the field blinded him for a few seconds, mainly because he was so used to the dark, cold forest.
"Whoa"
everything seemed almost exactly like Earth except he KNEW it wouldn't be his home... His theories were proved when a small-ish pink haired animal with... pink skin appeared next to him and said
"you're not from here are you?" and then very quickly after it said "I don't even know WHAT you are *giggle*"
for a few moments it seemed almost impossible for a... pony to be talking much less be PINK. Before he could even answer the pink-pony, it shot off in a colorful dash toward his right.
"What in God's name WAS that thing?!"
after he recovered from his shock he decided he was going to chase after that thing and find out what the hell it was, sure it wasn't the smartest thing to do, but it's better than waiting around for nobody to come help and eventually dieing a boring death. When he finally got to where the hoofprints stopped it happened to be at a small city, luckily there wasn't anybody there,
"I wonder where everyone is." he said to himself.
He swiftly and sneakily walked into town to find what appeared to be the town hall. When he arrived, since the shyness he had when he was young took over, he decided to climb the walls of the building and peered in through the top window. Looking through the glass, josh was surprised to see dozens of ponies of different colors and manes of strange varieties, ad they were all staring up at the stage to where a tan pony with a gray mane was speaking about something called a 'summer sun celebration' and then a light led up to a dark unicorn crossed with a pegasus, which he couldn't remember the name of... Alicorn.
"Why does this feel so familiar, it's as if I've seen this place and all these ponies before, if only I could remember... ow"
all the thinking was making his head hurt, he then realized that he was losing his balance and fell off the building onto the ground with part of the roofing causing a loud thud
he stood up and dusted himself off and noticed his arm got dislocated, and depicting by how loud the thud was he'd have to hide quick. He sprinted to the nearest bush that seemed big enough for him to hide in, but... he felt like he was being watched by something. He started to think to himself that it's the pink pony but was interrupted by lots of voices all trying to find out what made the noise, he curiously peeked through the bush.
"What do you think it was?" a white pony with a peculiar blue and pink hare-do asked a green unicorn.
"Look at the tracks bonbon, they're really weird.",
"no worries ponies said the tan one,"We assure you it was nothing"
"IT WAS PROBABLY NIGHTMARE MOON!!!" said a grey pegasus with a yellow mane and some seriously derped-up eyes.
"what the hell is wrong with it's eyes?" josh whispered to himself.
"I SEE IT!! IT'S IN THE BUSH!!" Shouted a blue unicorn.
Luckily his legs had gained lots of muscle from running around, so he took off like a bullet, right out of sight of them and kept running. He ran to the field and went about fifteen feet into the forest when he turned around and listened to the voices.
"the tracks end here." said a brown pony.
"Why do all of these horses have a tattoo of something on their ass', almost everyone is different...",
"Did you hear that?" said the green unicorn,
"It's probably just your imagination Lyra" said the one called Bonbon.
"Was not!" said 'Lyra'. Bonbon just sighed and without Lyra watching, gently shook her head.
"I saw that!" Lyra said,
"Saw what?, oh you must be imagining things." Bonbon said.
"note to self: do not enter the city through that side and also work on noise level." josh said quietly.
"Alright everypony let's go." said the tan one.
"everypony?" josh said acquisitively, "they have strange English, but what can you expect from alien horsies", *thinking* {Why'd I say horsies?}.
He watched them walk back in the direction of the city except Lyra had stayed... "It's ok, you can come out, i know what you are."
Suddenly he had the idea to sneak around it and scare it, instead he replied
"You do?",
he noticed that Lyra seemed surprised at his answer. "It's dangerous in there, why don't you come out?"
"Fine, as long as I don't attract anyone's attention."
He walked out of the shade into the bright warm sunlight, "you're tall" said lyra.
"And your small, why is that?" he asked it.
"you see, our world is only populated by ponies,unicorns, and pegasi, there's never been any human in equestria before you."
"equestria?"
"it's where you are now, away from your planet..."
he cut Lyra off short "I feel like I should remember, but I can't"
"It's probably that bump on your head.".
"I have pain relievers at my ship i could use",
"YOU HAVE A SHIP?!, CAN I SEE IT PLEASE?!",
"Sure, it's right this way", he walked into the forest with Lyra close by his side and walked to the JupiterVII. When they reached it he climbed on board and took his pills while Lyra was giving (her?)self a tour of the ship.
"Why'd you 'land' in the everfree forest?",
"I thought it would be safer and out of sight".
Lyra looked out the window while Josh waited for the pills to work, "Do you wanna stay over at my house?" she asked.
"why?",
"well i noticed you were running low on things like power and might want to use my house",
"Doesn't sound too bad, offer accepted", he said.
"We could head to the edge of the forest and wait until dark before we go, let me just grab my pack."
"Sounds good, let's go." at the edge of the forest Josh checked his universal watch, "9:40, ready?"
"Ready" They then ran off to Lyra's house.... only to be greeted by an angry and scared looking Bonbon.
"hello", josh said.
"WHO AND WHAT THE BUCK IS THAT?! LYRA TELL ME WHY THAT THING IS HERE AND HOW IT CAN TALK!", the ticked BonBon yelled at Lyra.
"He's not an IT first of all, this is Josh, he's my wierd friend", Lyra announced
"Why is HE here then?!", shouted the angry pony.
"Listen BonBon, he crashed and needs a place to stay for a while, so your going to have to get used to it." Lyra argued.
"Fine.", she said
Josh stuck out his hand with a smile, with which BonBon smacked away with a look of disgust and walked away.
He took off his pack and grabbed a binder and a pencil, he then started writing about his time in equestria so far, while humming the tune to Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.
Something knocked on the door and he stopped his activity, he squinted at the door and grabbed his stuuf , then dove into another a room and hid.
Lyra went and opened the door and opened it, "Twilight, what are you doing here?'
"Well since we saw that thing running around, we decided to go on a search for it, not a good idea but it wasn't mine to make, Mayor Mare wanted all the unicorns to join in the search."
"okay", Lyra said.
"Are you coming?"
"hmm... No", but good luck with that, bye" Lyra then slammed the door on twilight's face.
"oh, I can't wait to be the first human to travel out of the solar system" said josh,
"you have to be careful, you dont know what dangers could possibly be out there".
"calm down Jayson its a simple flight with their greatest equipment yet... It took them years to make this ship, all the problems were worked out..."
"but what if the ship has a minor flaw"
"listen, I'll be fine".
"josh, you need to go suit up now" said the head of NASA.
"Good bye big brother, go help mom 'till I come back" said josh,
"That is IF you come back" "don't jinx it"
"T-MINUS TEN " a man boomed over the speaker,
"here i go" he said as he closed the hatch and quickly strapped in.
"NINE ", by this time Josh started hoping this wouldn't be like the Apollo 13, "no, That couldn't happen, The JUPITER VII is a much better ship."
"EIGHT " "SEVEN " "SIX " "FIVE " "FOUR " "THREE " "TWO "
"ONE " "IGNITION: GO " The ground around the base of the JUPITER VII was covered in smoke as Josh was ascended into the air with eight-million pounds of thrust. Once he cleared the atmosphere and was far past the moon, it seemed like something strange was in front of him but very far out.
"What the hell is that?" he asked COM but noticed his communications were all dead, In seconds the JUPITER VII was shot forward at a high rate of speed, with that sudden jolt of force, josh hit his head on the wall which bruised his head since he wasn't wearing his helmet. He threw it on as fast as he could while he was zooming towards the object. He reached around 30 miles from it and realized something important...
"that's a black hole".
It felt as if he were being stretched, compressed, shredded, and bounced all at the same time, Then he passed out.