When in Equestria

"Hey I'll see ya later Nick!" I exited my friends house, leaving for the forest. "I can't for you to come over again , we really need to get some work done on that coding next time though." He and I had been designing and indie game, zombie survival stuff, real fun.

"Yeah I know, but VIDGA GAMES!" My friend Chris and I had a long running joke of mispronouncing our favorite words or activities...mine being video-games, deal with it.

Pulling out my trademark smokebombs, the kind that if thrown on the ground would explode into a cloud of smoke about two yards in every direction, I ran off his porch and threw it down, causing him to lose sight of me, he and I often shot air-soft guns at each other for fun, this was my defense against it. I was just getting out of the cloud when I heard the click of the gun, sweet got away without harm.

I had just gotten in the forest when I had a thought, had to be home by curfew, mum was strict about that damn curfew. I decided to take the shortcut through the forest, better to not take chances with her, be five minutes late and I would be grounded for ages. The forest like always was dark as all hell, good thing for excellent night vision. I began my trek down the hardly noticeable path, things had been going great for me, Alex and I got to hangout all day, Jordyn agreed to go to the school dance with me, and on top of it all, it was finally starting to become winter, my favorite season.

I began to hear odd whooshing sounds, not to odd, this forest always was just a bit different than others...as far as I knew of course, I did not really have any other forests to compare it to of course. I looked down, as I usually would to see where it was that I was on the path, I did not see it, this was new, my muscle memory had always just kind of taken care of this for me before, what was wrong about today, I turned back and began to walk, intent on asking my friend if I could use his phone to ask my mum If I could stay the night, more time with your friend would not be bad, and she would not be to mad.

I walked for at least twice as long as I had in my previous direction...what the flying fuck is up with this place? I began to get worried, lunar navigation had never been an exact strong suit of mine so that was out of the question. I began to look for familiar constellations...there were none, even the big dipper, which I looked at nightly out of habit was not visible. Okay maybe some clouds were covering it, some were out, and you are in a slightly different position than your normal viewing spot so things could be okay. I began to hyperventilate.

"Okay, deep breaths, calm your heart, breathe in the cold air." I took in more and more of the refreshing cool air, more and more steam was coming out of my exhalations. That meant that I was gaining more heat in my body, also not good. For me heat is...not bad, but I preferred to be cold. I took in a deep deep breath and held it in. This little technique had always calmed down in the past, it would have to here and now as well.

Slowly exhaling the breath I began to formulate a plan of getting home in my head. While casually slipping in an ear-bud connected my mp3 player, I walked an un-known direction...I'm not good with directions sue me okay! I selected my favorite song, then sped it up to be twice as fast. I needed my music to be faster, just sounded better to me that way.

I realized I had been listening to the song for hours when I looked up and saw the sun...shit I am so screwed. My mum is going to tear my head off...that being if I don't get lost out here and die or something.

*POV of Ponyville residents.*

"Have you seen the Everfree forest lately?"

"No, what's up with it? Oh please don't tell me a Manticore got out?"

"Ponies are talking about weird flashes of light and strange whoosh-y sounds coming from it, it's really freaky, as far as I know a Manticore has not gotten out, no, but hey it is the Ever-bucking-free forest. I guess something is going on in there, maybe some new freaky creature or something?"

"Maybe, hey lets go to Sugarcube corner, they're having a sale."

"Yeah sure, I could go for a cupcake."

(*POV of Nick*)

"What the fuuuuuck." I had never gotten lost in this forest before, this was practically my second home, I was always in here, yet here I am, with no idea where the hell I am...everything was starting to look weird too, the trees looked different from the usual ones, these seemed more foreboding and just kind of...evil or something. Even the ground too, usually the amount of foliage would be quite minimal here, and yet again the weirdness struck, the ground was covered in leaves and detritus. "What is happening here?"

"AAH HELP!"

Oh shit, someone needs help, well it's not like I have anything better to do. I charged off in the direction of the cry for help. The crashing through the now thick forest was not doing well for my jacket, hopefully I could repair it once I got home.

"FOR THE LOVE OF CELESTIA, HELLLLP!"

Well I was definitely getting closer, that's for sure, I ran into a clearing, the sun finally providing an adequate amount of light for me to see...a mint green horse...that was tiny...that appeared to be doing nothing but running in circles...away from another tiny horse that was like a really pale yellow? Maybe kind of a yellow and peach mixture? It definitely had a dark purple mane though. I did not see a problem...in fact it looked like the two tiny horses were having fun, now then where was the person who was yelling for help though?

"Lyra, would you stop running away, I can't get it out of your mane if you keep running!"..............Did that fucking horse just speak?

"Run faster Bonbon! It's MOVING UP MY MANE!" Okay, I am insane, it is official, I have gone crazy and am now seeing tiny colorful horses that can speak.fuck.my.life..... Maybe I should go help...Lyra? I think that is the little horses name?

I decided to go ahead and make my presence known, what's the worst that could happen? "Uhm, you yelled for help?" The one named...Bonbon? Stopped dead in her tracks when she saw me, however the one named...Lyra? Yeah that's it, just kept running, I don't think she actually saw me, well I assume they are both female due to their voices.

"What in Equestria are you?" That was Bonbon, obviously not friendly.

"It looks like a shaven minatour without horns!" That was Lyra, not appearing to give a shit if that was insulting...or maybe she was distracted by the bug in her hair...all she had was a bug in her hair? Really, that is her problem, a bug? I began a light jog, for horses they sure did not move quickly, then again they were only about four feet tall, from what what I knew horses were like five or six feet tall, that would affect speed to due to leg length, thus affecting how far their legs went out and how much ground they covered.

Upon reaching Lyra I took out my hand and grabbed the bug, a harmless little beetle...that had enormous mandibles. "SHIT!" It bit me, leaving an inch-ish long cut on the meat of my hand, that little drumstick looking area that is made with your thumb and the really thick part of your palm, it hurt like a bitch. "Ow, mean little dick." I drop kicked the damn thing...it wailed with pain...but it's to small to...but...how?

"Thanks...thing." That was Lyra, she appeared to be not frightened of me, whereas Bonbon was shaking some several yards away.

"Well, I guess I am gonna just...go now, hopefully these hallucinations will stop soon...glad to help I guess." Taking out ye olde smoke-bomb I threw it on the ground and exited out the side where neither of them would see me, thus getting away...unseen...no other way of describing it really. I began my way into the forest again, hearing them call out to me to wait, nope, not gonna go do crazy shit with hallucinations, no way.