Friendship by Force

How long has it been, five hours? I never had to wait that long to be unblinded. This “prison” must be far away from Palmont. What makes it worse is that I have an itch on my nose, and I can’t move to scratch it. I internally scream in agony as the itch only gets worse and worse, and suddenly it goes away.

Well, alrighty then. I continue waiting when about ten or a thousand minutes pass I suddenly feel like I’m on top of something, not floating anymore. I still can’t move to find out what it is, though, until the lock on my torso and up comes off. I immediately stretch my spine, creating loud popping sounds. Once I’m done with that, I put my hands on the ground. It feels like cold stone. Well, it is a prison alright. Suddenly the blind comes off, making my vision go painfully white for a few seconds. Once it clears enough, the first thing I see is… Once again, small metal bars.

I can fully move again, and I walk over to the bars and give one of them a little stress test. It bends almost like butter, but before I do anything else I want to play weak and get a better look at where I am and what’s going on without causing alarm. Looking outside of the bars I see a wanted sign, with a picture of two humans. One is wearing a black jacket encrusted with… Diamonds? and the other is wearing a plain white labcoat. Scientist maybe? Whoever made the diamond jacket just wants to watch the person that bought it get robbed. And of course, there’s no picture of me on there. 2fast4them.

My attention goes to the left of the bars as a white guard pony walks up to my cell.

“Princess Twilight has sent me up here to keep watch on you,” It says.

My reply is simple. “That’s nice,” I say.

Seeing as there was nobody else in the cells on this floor, the guard just stands there, almost like a statue. That’s just creepy, I can’t keep my hand still without it knocking something over.

“So… That spear looks pretty sharp,” I say.

The guard does nothing, practically oblivious to what I said. Well, I tried.

I decide to test his reactions and bend one of the bars in the cell ever so slightly. The guard still does nothing. Surprising, but I don’t let it bewilder me that long. I bend the bar a little bit more. The guards eyes snap to my hand, has he even blinked since he walked up here?

“Stop immediately,” the guard blankly says.

“You’ld like that, wouldn’t you?” I respond. “You’ld like me stop like a looooooser. Walkin’ around the cell like a looooooser. Sleepin’ in the bed like a loooooooooser,” I continue, trying to sound like Markiplier, god that channel was funny.

The guard strangely has no reaction to that and says, “If you do not stop I will have to report the princess.”

I try to distract him while I’m bending the bar. Is it working? I can’t tell. “Geez, have you ever heard of words like don’t and I’ll? I hate it when people try to be all formal and stuff talking like a loooooooser.”

There’s almost a space I can fit through. The guard is giving me a cold glare, forgetting about the bar.

A space big enough to fit through is available. Now’s my chance to take him by surprise!

“Oh, and also?” I say as I slowly kneel down. “You forget like a loooooooser.”

I quickly slide through the space, the guard’s eyes widen. He calls out for reinforcements as I speed through the hallways, looking for other humans trapped. I spot a few, and apparently they didn’t try the bending bars trick because they were laying down on the floor being bored. I free them.

As me and my scrap team look for the exit, I start wondering how all of this started. I could be like my crazy uncle and say it was God’s will, but I’m not that kind of person. I was overhearing how apparently some two assholes went to Equestria first, and when the ponies discovered the conditions on Earth, came over here and started the “Good of all humans.” I don’t think that’s how all of it started, how would humans get to Equestria in the first place? We don’t have the technology to even get close to that!

Well, I do have an idea, but it’s so ridiculous that it goes back to middle school days. Before I was a street driver…

My thoughts trail off and my running slows. I hear one of the people calling after me to go faster. My thoughts clear, I shake my head and resume running full speed. Although, I would like to stop and think about this.

(*ALERT! I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I’M DOING!*)

My ridiculous idea goes back to middle school, but I’m not sure if it was or if it was in high school. *Cue flashback moment*

I had just left lunch and entered science class, and I had sit next to Maliki and Judith. John and Isaac sat together, as usual. People always joked how they were inseparable, but anyway, the class was going to make a baking soda volcano. Yes, I know it was in middle or high school, but it was one of those things where they inspect it and explain how it works. The teacher had put a video on, explaining how to create the volcano. It was one of those old-timey, puppet animated tapes, nothing new from the school. Judith had just put the baking soda in when suddenly something exploded, and John and Isaac disappeared. Everyone thought they had set off a smoke bomb or something and ran away, but they never came back. Police searches were everywhere, but they were never found. It’s amazing how the brain can put together things like this, but it’s probably a coincidence.

I realized that I was already out of the prison and somewhere else, none of the other people were here. I daydreamed a lot, but it’s never been this severe! I take a look at my surroundings and see that I’m in some sort of city. Interesting, I continue to look around more.

Suddenly, I feel a huge pain rip through my back. In shock, I fall down and notice that I’m bleeding badly.

Before I black out I hear a voice say, “Tommy, check his pockets and get anything that's useful. Don’t bother trying to save him, you horrible shot.”