Same World, Different Realities

by FSDomino

Rating: teen
Tags: Alternate Universe, Human, Dark, Tragedy, Adventure
Length: 1442

One night, Octavia has a fateful dream. One that may change the fate of Equestria forever.

One night, Octavia has a fateful dream. One that may change the fate of Equestria forever. Will Octavia and her friends be able to stop the tragedy of war. A tragedy that ended the race that inhabited Equestria thousands of years before? Or will pony society succumb to the evil that lurks in everything.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2013-11-27 20:20:03 UTC

Strange Dreams

Octavia watched as a large bipedal figure stood staring. There was carnage all around it. Broken Trees, Torn down buildings, dead grass, bushes, and animals. The creature stood there, watching, as if it was waiting for something. Perhaps another creature, only time would tell.

Octavia decided that now would be the best time to move around. But she quickly discovered that she couldn’t, it was as if the brown mare was glued to that one spot. She was confused, she looked down and realised that her hooves were free. But they weren’t hooves. instead, they were long and looked to end in a point, she couldn’t tell, because they were covered by boots.

So, instead she decided that it was her only option to see if anything would happen. Luckily, something started to appear by the creature, it was lying on the ground. The features slowly started to fill in on the face. She started making out what she could recognize, the creature obviously had a mane. That was easily identifiable amongst the other things. She could also easily make out the eyes, though they seemed a bit small compared to a pony, but she quickly reminded herself that they, in fact, were not ponies.

The other features were harder to fill in. She could make out the ears, but only because they were on the side of the head. The mouth was next, she could only identify that because it was the largest hole on the face. She could only identify that nose by process of elimination. Octavia tried to make more of the figure out. But she was slowly disappearing as the woman was appearing. Until, eventually, she was gone.

        Octavia awoke to the ring of her alarm clock. Why did she ever choose to be a musician of all things, she always had to wake early if she wanted to show up to rehearsals. According to many rumors, Octavia may have been prim and proper in the outside world, but at home, where nopony could see her. She was much different.

        Octavia had an image to uphold, but only in public. At home she was lazy and grumpy. Octavia hated waking up early. If it wasn't for her passion of the cello, she might never get out of bed. Her roommate, Vinyl Scratch, on the other hand, was lucky.

        Vinyl, made electronic music. Therefore, her image to uphold wasn’t an image at all. She had to be wild and crazy. Just like her music. That wasn’t far from it at all. Except for that fact that at home she was lazy. Vinyl could sleep as late as she wanted, and people would assume that she was just out the previous night partying.

        While people were waiting for Vinyl’s next album to drop. Octavia was waiting to perform at the biggest formal events of the year, most recently, The Grand Galloping Gala. Octavia had been performing at the Gala for the past three years. She had also been attending since she was a child. Her parents were very rich schoolers from Manehatten. They always attended the very formal events.

        Making her morning cup of coffee. Octavia started to think about the previous night's dreams. ‘What were those bipeds?’ Octavia questioned herself. ‘The world looked similar enough to Equestria, but those bipeds don’t exist to my knowledge. Maybe I can ask Fluttershy, she is the expert on animals here in Ponyville, perhaps I can ask her after rehearsal.

Octavia checked to see if the coffee was done, and sure enough it was. Octavia poured some coffee into a coffee cup. She took a sip ‘Yuck! I forgot to add milk. I hate black coffee’ Octavia mentally groaned. She would have to get up and get the milk.

Octavia opened the fridge. ‘Damn it! We’re out of milk’ Octavia cursed to herself. She proceeded up the stairs to shower. ‘Damn it, I left the fridge open’ She was having the worst luck today. Unfortunately, that luck continued to follow her. As she turned around to shut the fridge, she tripped over her own hooves. Causing her to make a loud ruckus falling down the stairs.

        “Oww” Octavia groaned, rubbing her head. Trying to pick herself up off the floor. As luck would have. She felt an excruciating pain in her front hoof.

        “Argh” She screamed as she collapsed back to the floor. ‘Great!’ She thought ‘I think that my ankle is Broken’ With the way her day was starting out. She was probably going to receive a phone call with some tragic new later in the day.

        Luckily, instead of a tragic phone call, it was just a grumpy roommate, who obviously was up too early for her liking.

        “Octi?” She moaned the name out with annoyance in her voice. “Why on Equestria, did you wake me up this early?” She asked, with her eyes still closed. Vinyl then opened her eyes.

        “Octi!” She exclaimed “What the hell happened?” She asked.

        “I’m sleeping!” She said sarcastically. Vinyl looked at her with a sheepish, rubbing the back of her head. “I fell down the stairs, I think I broke my ankle.” Octavia finally said with a sigh. “Looks like I won’t be able to do any shows for a while.” Octavia grumbled “Just my luck. This morning sucks” Octavia let out another sigh. “Vinyl, be a dear and get me some ice.” Octavia asked.

“Ask nicely.” Vinyl taunted. “That’s no way to make friends.” She responded to Octavia glare with one of her own.

“Vinyl” She started all too sweetly “Get me some ice, now!” Octavia screamed. Viny took the hint that now was not the time to be messing with Octavia. So she scampered off to the kitchen to get some ice.

‘Just what I need to start my day, A sassy roommate and a broken ankle’ She grumbled in her head

“Hey Octi” She moaned the name. Octavia knew something was up. “There’s no ice” She concluded. There it was. Sometimes Octavia wasn’t sure if Vinyl was right in the head. How hard is it realize that you need to make some ice.

“Then make some you imbecile!” Octavia shouted back.

“Sheesh Octi! I know you’re grumpy and all, but there’s no need to be harsh.” Vinyl yelled back, with a hint of amusement in her voice. This happened every time Vinyl was up before noon.

“Then get smarter!” Octavia shouted back

“Then get looser!” Vinyl retorted

“Oh you would know all about loose!” Octavia shouted, this time in enjoyment rather than anger. It was a moment before Octavia and Vinyl started laughing from two different rooms. Like Octavia said every morning.

A few minutes later, Vinyl came marching back to the stairs, where Octavia was on the ground and offered her a bag of frozen carrots.

“There wasn’t any ice, so I got you some frozen vegetables instead.” Vinyl said sheepishly.

“It’s fine, Vinyl. Thank you” Octavia sighed before glaring at Vinyl “Now if you wouldn’t mind, MOVE ME OFF THE DAMN FLOOR!” Octavia shouted. They shared grins, before bursting into laughter again. Vinyl picked Octavia off of the floor, and put her on her back. She was carried to the couch in the living room. Vinyl gently placed Vinyl on the couch, and put the vegetables on her hoof.

“Vinyl, could you be a dear and call Nurse Redheart please?” Octavia asked.Vinyl quickly nodded in agreement.

About an hour later, Nurse Redheart was on the home of Octavia and Vinyl.

“Now, let’s see, Miss Melody. How did this happen?” Redheart inquired.

Octavia gave Redheart a sheepish grin and explained. “Well, uh, you see, I was walking up the stairs, then I remembered that I left the fridge door open, so I turned around, and, sorta, kinda... Fell down the stairs.” Octavia explained, all the while maintaining the same sheepish look.

“Well, let’s take a look.” Redheart took a look at Octavias ankle. “Well, you’re lucky, it’s only twisted. Just tape it up a little and you should be fine.” Redheart explained to Octavia and Vinyl. “Will that be all?” Redheart asked.

“Yes, thank you very much” Octavia responded to Redheart. Redheart packed up her stuff and left, but not before leaving Octavia a roll of tape. “Now just make sure that you wrap up that ankle periodically.”

Octavia knew that she wouldn’t be able to make it to rehearsal today. So she decided that she needed plans. Once she knew that Redheart was gone, she started talking to Vinyl

“Vinyl. I had a dream last night. I need to talk to Fluttershy, could you please call her?”