Lost & Confused
I awoke with a strange figure above me. The last thing I had remembered was being at my own rave. Even from my blurry and distorted vision I could already tell I wasn't where the gig was taking place. In fact it was bright out, I was udderly confused. Suddenly I heard a voice from the figure above me. I couldn't understand what it was saying, my hearing was too muffled.
I blinked a couple times, noticing an improvment in my sight, but to my amaze there was a pink horse-like creature standing over me. I suddenly tried to get up and realized that nothing felt right. In fact I couldn't tell what I was trying to move.
"Hey! He's awake!" I heard the horse-like creature speak. My train of thought went from confused to horrified in half a second.
Another horse appeared over me, this one was more of an orangeish colour. She had a strong Southern American accent and insisted to help me stand up. They went behind me as I felt them push me onto my stomach. I looked around more alert examining my surroundings. To my surprise my production equipment and most of my music-related belongings were next to me, in a pile. I stood up quickly when I felt like I was on my feet. Just then I looked down to see hooves and I lost it.
I shouted in confusion and disbelief as I withdrew from what I thought I could get away from. I ended up tripping on my own legs and falling back to the ground. Both the horses laughed at my random reaction. They had thought that I had known what was going on, when really I felt completely insane.
"What are you doing?" The pink one asked me contently.
"Where am I??!" I asked in shock.
"What a weird question! We're in Ponyville! The bestest place in all of Equestria!" The pink horse-like being that I now assumed was a pony replied to me with a cheerful tone. I didn't have the the sanity to even think it's answer over, it went right over my head.
"W-what happened to me??" I asked in disfavour.
"Well, ya see... We were hoping that you could tell us what happened" The orange pony replied.
I nervously looked down at my four legs, I was lost. I finally decided to get back up slowly, getting used to my footing, or hoofing.
"Umm, ya seem to be askin' a lot of questions... Did you hit your head or somethin'?" The orange pony asked me.
"I don't know, I was at my rave and then out of nowhere I woke up on the ground like... This!" I explained.
The orange pony looked thoroughly lost.
"So wait, ya weren't always a pony?" The orange pony asked wonderingly.
"No! I was at my own rave! Then suddenly I woke up in this body!" I replied.
"Okay, maybe we should take ya to the doc" The pony insisted as it stood me up and and began to walk with me.
"Wait what about my stuff! Won't anybody steal it?" I quickly reminded them.
"Anybody..?" The pony asked. I didn't understand her question, so I stayed quiet.
"Who would steal your stuff?" The pink pony chimed in.
"People who take things they cannot have under normal circumstances" I replied.
"People?" The orange pony asked again. Once more I had no idea what she was asking so I once again, stayed silent.
After a while I began to see more activity. Other ponies doing their daily buisness. A couple looked at me like I was lost. I continued to follow the orange pony until we got to the hospital.
We entered and sat down. I had to experiment with the ways to sit considering I wasn't used to so many legs. Finally after getting comfortable the doctor entered the room. The orange pony explained to him what was going on.
The doctor glanced at me as he returned to talk to the pony. He then came up to me and asked me my name, I had no answer. I couldn't even remember my own name.
He then asked me how old I was. I still had no idea, therefore no answer.
Growing increasingly interested he asked to see my mark.
"My What?" I asked concerned.
"Your flank..?" He rephrased.
I just looked at him blankly.
"Your rear!" He impatiently told me.
I asked why and he just gave me a look of 'Don't ask questions, I'm a doctor'
I got up and turned slightly around before his mood changing from interested to bewildered.
"You have a blank flank?" He asked me sounding even more baffled.
"What does that even mean??" I asked restlessly.
"A cutie mark should be there! It shows what you are talented at!" The pink pony quickly took the opportinity to inform me.
"Okay, this is rich. Wake up as a pony just to be told I'm talented at nothing. Amazing" I announced unamused.
"Not exactly! You just have to find what you're talented at!" The orange pony told me, quickly brushing off any doubts I had of myself.
"And how would I do that?" I asked.
"You could try using that stuff that you brought with yourself!" The pink pony told me.
"It needs power though." I told them both.
They both looked at one another. The doctor finally decided he was going to resume his work and to come to him if anything else should happen.
We left the clinic and both the ponies began to brainstorm where I'd be able to go. The orange pony off the bat said she couldn't hold me in her house because she had no room. The pink pony told me that I would be able to stay there but there wasn't room for my things.
Knowing that my stuff wouldn't last a day outside exposed to the elements I had to ask if there were any more options.
"Well... We could ask Twilight!" The pink pony suggested excitedly.
"Who's Twilight?" I asked.
"Only one of our bffs!" The pink pony quickly answered my question.
I nodded yes and we began to walk there. During the travel I had to ask their names. The orange pony's name was Applejack, which didn't seem coincidence to her cutie mark of three red apples. Her pink friend's name was Pinky Pie, with a cutie mark of three baloons.
We arrived at her home, it was a huge oak tree that was carved out to be a residence, I was in awe that such a thing could even exist. Pinkie Pie ran to the door and rang the doorbell. It was a few moments until we heard someone coming to the door. The door opened up to a friendly purple eyed pony with a horn on her head and wings, as well as a small curious purple dragon.
"Oh hey ponies! How are you doing?" She asked cheerfully.
"Hey Twi! We found somepony in the forest passed out next to a bunch of stuff! We were hoping he would be able to stay here!" Pinkie Pie asked.
Twilight looked disturbed after Pinkie's introduction of me.
"Umm, well. We did find him in a forest passed out, but he says he's not from Equestria!" Applejack tried to clear up.
Twilight looked even more worried about the sanity of her two friends.
"So you want me to let a random pony you found in a forest passed out, claiming to be from a different word, to live with me??" She asked in disbelief.
"Well... Yeah! He doesn't have a home!" Applejack replied.
"Or a cutie mark!" Pinkie quickly followed.
Twilight semt a little more intruiged.
"Let's see then!" She requested.
After she seen that I had a blank flank she asked me all the questions that everyone else had. Finally coming to a conclusion that she simply had to see my belongings.
"So, I can stay?" I asked Twilight, hopefully.
"Well if you wanna know more about what happened to you-" She proposed. I quickly took her offer and agreed to bring my stuff aswell.
Applejack and I walked back to where my stuff was and to my amaze it wasn't stolen. Applejack told me she was going to go get a cart to put all this stuff onto.
While she was gone I looked through my items and came across my music, all on CDs, I was greatful beyond measure. Then I came across my production gear and laptop. I then realized I could use that to find out more about myself, only to realize I had no hands to even grab it.
Suddenly Applejack came with a cart. She rolled it up next to my stuff and then asked me to start loading. I quickly met her reqest with a horrified 'how?'.
"You're a Unicorn! Can't you use your magic?" Applejack asked.
"I don't know I've only been alive here for what seems like less than 12 hours!" I quickly replied.
"Umm okay, I wouldn't know either! I'm just an earth pony! My only guess is to just think of moving the object your lookin' at" She guessed.
I attempted and there was no effect. Then Twilight walked out from behind us.
"Need some help?" She asked.
"Yeah, and I think he needs to be taught how to use his magic" Applejack included.
"Yeah I figured he wouldn't know how" Twilight replied with a friendly snicker.
After about twenty minutes we moved all my things into Twilight's home. She then began her inspection, starting with my production equipment which seemed to her, a bunch of hard boxes with spinning platforms and slidey knobs on it with too many buttons to count.
She set all of my equipment aside until she found my controller. She investigated it mumbling to herself that Vinyl had something like these. I ignored her mumbling and continued to watch her expression to many of the objects she had found odd. Finally she examined my laptop and was about to put it aside until I told her urgently that it could possibly tell me everything I needed to know about myself.
She looked at me seriously and asked me what to do with it. I replied to her that she had to open it and press a certain button.
She looked at me oddly but opened it anyways.
"There are alot of buttons" Twilight replied, slightly curious.
"Okay, press the one that's near the screen" I told her.
Scanning above the keyboard she found the button amd clicked it, nothing happened...
"What's supposed to happen?" She asked me dumbfoundedly.
"It should make the screen turn on!" I replied hoping that it would do so after telling her.
She looked back at my disappointed face as the battery sign flashed a couple times before flickering off.
I sighed in disappointment and told her to close it. On the top it said 'Property of: Bassline'
"Is that your name?" She asked me.
"No, it couldn't be... Atleast- no, that's not a real name!" I replied to her.
"What do you mean it's not a real name?" She asked me.
"Well, Applejack and Pinkie Pie couldn't be your friend's real names!.. Could they..?" I asked.
"That's their names. I don't see what your point is" she admitted to me.
I just sighed and asked her if we could keep searching. She closed the laptop and put it down.
"Hey, but if you have an outlet for me to plug it in to charge the battery I can get onto it" I quickly mentioned.
"Uuh, okay?" She looked at me oddly.
"I need electricity! Lightning is electricity! That will make this work again" I told her. She looked at me like I was crazy.
"Umm I have no idea where you come from, but if you all managed to use this lightning to power personal things your civilization must have been high tech" Twilight commented.
"I guess you could say that"
After a while of searching through my stuff we finished. I sat down, disappointed at our failure of finding my identity.
"We'll show these things to Vinyl Scratch tomorrow. She uses stuff like this for her music. In fact, I think she'd be cross with me if I didn't introduce you to her in the first place" Twilight suggested.
"We're talking about person right?" I asked.
Twilight looked at me funny. I quickly caught my mistake corrected myself by saying pony. Twilight nodded 'yes' and then looked outside. It was dark out. She got up and pointed me where I was supposed to sleep. The small purple dragon who still had not introduced himself asked me who I was before I left the room.
"That's what we're trying to find out, but I guess you *could* call me Bassline, for now... What about you?" I asked him.
"I'm Spike. Twilight's assistant" He introduced himself.
"Nice to meet you, Spike"
"Nice to meet you too Bassline" Spike replied briskly.
I then asked if he'd like to go to sleep, he answered with a yes.
I was just about to go and lay down when Twilight told me.
"Y'know, if what you are saying is truth. We could be onto something"
I glanced at her and nodded slightly. She then continued up to her room. After letting them go to bed they put out the lanterns and went to sleep.
I laid awkwardly on my side trying to feel comfortable. I tossed and turned most of the night. Finally I managed to fall into a deep sleep. Hoping that when I woke up everything would be back to normal.
I awoke to Spike telling me it was breakfast. My eyes burned in the morning sunlight. I squinted in attempt to cover my eyes as I got up.
I walked a bit through the house to find Twilight, who had just made eggs and toast, along with a small basket of apples on the table.
"Goodmorning! Are you hungry?" Twilight asked me cheerfully.
I replied to her with a yes. As I sat at the table awkwardly.
Twilight asked me what I wanted and prepared my dish accordingly before floating it down in front of me.
I sat back and waited for her to start to eat. Spike was sitting in the background and I asked him if he was going to eat. My question was met with a polite 'no, thank you'.
Twilight sat down and looked up at me from across the table.
"How was your sleep?" She asked.
"Uncomfortable" I replied.
She shrugged slightly in answer as she stayed still. Waiting for me to start eating.
"Is anything wrong?" She asked.
"How..? Do I just bring my face down to the plate..? Or what?" I uncertainly mumbled.
"Oh, it doesn't matter to me. I just eat it however" Twilight answered my question once again.
"So, how would you eat that?" I asked her.
She looked down at her plate and put her hooves on the bottom edges of it. She then lifted the plate to her mouth and tilted it back. Sliding the whole egg into her mouth.
I laughed at what to me seemed like an unusual way of eating any meal. Twilight hadn't the slightest clue what was funny to me.
I followed Twilight's lead and ate my breakfast, feeling awkward as I did so.
"First things first! I wanna check my library for anything that might relate to mysterious ponies being found without cutie marks" Twilight announced to me. Just then she did that. Spike went along with her to help. It took a few moments but they came back with a large book.
"Mysteries of Equestria" Twilight read aloud.
She opened the book and went straight to the index. Scrolling her hoof down the topics as she mumbled each one to herself. After almost reaching the bottom of the index she read clearly.
"Mysterious ponies, no name, no cutie mark, no colour, and no clue" Twilight had an aha moment.
It says here 'There has been several occurences throughout time, all almost exactly the same amount of years apart' Twilight read to me.
"So there's more people/ponies here like me?!" I asked excitedly.
"Umm... No, it also says here 'each occurence happens about a hundred to two hundred years apart, each time just before a large evolution of our society' I'm gonna go on a hunch here and say that you are that mysterious pony, and that there's a good chance you'll revolutionize something" Twilight replied to me half disappointed to break the news of me being alone.
"What happened to these ponies after they had their affect?" I asked.
"Some disappeared, others lived out their lives" Twilight continued.
"Do you think that the ones who disappeared went back to their world?" I asked desperately.
"I'm not sure, but if so this could be your way back!" Twilight jumped to conclusion.
"So I just gotta host a lot of raves, and illegaly release music that isn't all my own, to the public?" I asked.
"Maybe not illegaly, however we'll figure that out. Second off though, I told you that we were gonna head to Vinyl's and show off your stuff. Introduce you both to eachother, she may even be able to teach a couple things to you and vice versa. I'm sure she'd be happy to meet you" Twilight assured me.
I agreed that we should and we began to pack my production gear. Rolling the cart out of Twilight's door and followed her lead to Vinyl Scratch's home.
