The Twilight Horizon

What just happened? I don't know why I'm asking you this. I mean, this is a journal so your not even supposed to be reading this are you? No. You're not. Anyways, to answer my first question, I don't fucking know.

Every once in awhile when I want to be alone I go to the desert to rock climb. I try to make sure I'm always well equipped. So I usually bring my knife, phone, food, water, climbing gear, etc. I almost always have my phone in my pocket by the time I get out of the car. This time though, I only had my knife with me when I got out. I walked over to the passenger side of the car to grab my climbing gear. As I started to reach for the door it locked. In case you didn't know, cars don't lock on their own. Especially when the keys to said car are still in the car. Also water doesn't come out of the ground and go up to the sky, which magically gets darker. Stay in school kids. You'll learn these kinds of things. The water 'droplets' were zooming past me at a very fast pace. When I go rock climbing I where the same orange t-shirt and, for some reason, black pants. So as you can imagine it stung when the water hit my arms. By that point I was freaking out. It didn't help  that thunder and lighting's retarded baby thought lighting was supposed to be green. So I ran for my life. When I was about two hundred yards out a lighting bolt hit my car.

If you have ever seen a car explode you know it's awesome, unless you're running for your life. At least now I can be classified as 'cool'. If I had shades I would say," That was (romoves shades) explosive. YEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHH!!!!" Anyways back to running for my life. After a few more feet I was struck, but for some reason it didn't shock me. Instead the storm thought it would be funnier for me to be at a swirling rave. One second a cactus was green, the next it was purple. The sky is supposed to be blue? To bad, now its yellow. The ground is supposed to be tan?! Proposterous! It's always been pink.I ended up on my hands and knees throwing up. After awhile everything turned a solid white. In the middle of the white around me a black spot appeared and slowly started to expand to the left. I was just on my knees staring at whatever the hell was going on. After a few more seconds everything around me streched backwards then caved in. After that my vision went black.

When I woke up I was in a cell. A motherfucking cell of all places. My wrists were in shackles chained to the wall. The room was about 10 feet by 10 feet. There was a hole in the ground next to me that did NOT smell like tulips and roses. The bricks in the cell were a grimy black. The bars in the front of the cell looked like they were made of iron as were the shackles. My brown hair was matted and greasy from my sweat. I started to hear what sounded like a clopping coming from down the hallway. "How the hell are they riding horses in this narrow hallway," I muttered. The strangest thing happened next. A little horse, no, a pony came trotting up to the cell bars. He had a yellow coat with a fiery orange mane and tail that turned yellow as it went to the outside of them. For some reason the little guy had a brown vest on. It would've been cute if I liked to dress up animals. I then took notice that he had a read apple on his flank. When I looked back up to his face I noticed him looking at me. No staring at me with- is that a blush? His cheeks had turned a bright red. So just for funzies I opened my mouth and closed it with a sharp snap. He flinched back and did something I never would have never expected, he talked. "Hello there strange creature. Can you speak big guy?"

I couldn't speak even if I wanted to. I woke up in a cell after a freak weather storm and just found a talking pony. Or rather he, or they, found me and put me in a cell. When I finally regained my senses he was staring at me. So I said, "Um... hello?"

"Sweet Celestia you can talk!" He said with no small amount of surprise.

"Yes I can. Now can you tell me why I'm in a damned cell?"

"Oh, uh, right. My bad. We found you outside the town after a freak thunderstorm. I've already told my cousin and her friends about you so they should be coming down soon."

"Your cousin? Why her? And you can drop the act. I can tell your southern."

"Thank ya partner. Don't know why those nice townsfolk wanted me ta talk like that. Anyways, I told ma cousin because she's one of the elements of harmony. Along with the rest of her friends that are comin'."

"Elements of harmony? What the hell is that? And where am I?"

"The elements of harmony have saved Equestria one time by exorcising Nightmare Moon out of Princess Luna's body. The actual elements are artifacts that only the girls can use. And as for where you're at," he then proceeded to rear up on his back hooves and said," You're in AAAAPAAALLLOOSA!"

This guy is way to excited about his job. "So you called them to come down and see if they need to use the Elements of Harmony on me?" The pony started to go shifty-eyes and look everywhere but my eyes. These guys are fucking horrible liars. "Hey! Get your green eyes in check and look at me. I understand why you did it. A strange storm shows up in the middle of a damned desert and a strange creature is found where the storm was. I get it. Just don't lie to me. I hate liars."

He looked abashed for a few moments before starting to look curious.  "How'd ya know ya were in the desert?"

I can either lie about where I came from or tell the truth. Imma lie. "You have a ton of sand on your jacket. Plus you tracked sand into the hallway. Then you have the sand in your hair and coat, my bad, mane. So unless you take sand baths we're in a desert."

"Oh. Ah see that now. Anyhow we will let ya go once my cousin and her friends say yer good to go."

"Wait, what are their names? Your cousin and friend's names, I mean."

"Ma cousin is Applejack. Her friends names are Twilight, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash."

"Hm. Weird names. What's yours?"

"Braeburn. Yours?"

"Archer. Nice to meet you Brae. You got anything to eat?"

"Yes, ah will bring some food down for ya now. And Archer is a weird name too."

With that he left. About five minutes later he came trotting back in with a plate of apples balanced on his head. He passed them to me through a slot in the bars. It was a little. Hard to reach since the shackles were restricting my movement but I managed. He then sat down on his haunches and told me about this place called Equestria. How there's unicorns, pegasi, and earth ponies. He said he was an earth ponies. He told me how it was the alicorn race that ruled over most kingdoms in Equestria. It was a nice little history lesson that had to be cut short because Braeburn's cousin and friends had arrived. He ran up the hallway to greet them. I sat there and thought about how much I had just lied. I gave him a false name and told him I guessed we were in a desert. Oh well, hopefully these girls will have good hearts and set me free. I can only hope.