A Long Way From Home
Old Friends
Previous ChapterNext ChapterTime Turner woke as the moon was reaching a high in the midnight sky, he wasn't used to sleeping for hours on end like these equestrian pony folk, he typically slept for no more then 120 minutes but even before then he was fully rested. Time Turner crept down the stairs to the front door opening it slowly as he felt the nighttime air on his face. Looking up at the beautiful moon in the distance he could just imagine it traveling out there, in endless space.
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"Oh Koschei calm down." A blue unicorn with dark brown hair tapped a red brown stallions back, "He'll be okay."
"How do you know that Ushas" The Brownish red foal said nervously. "For all you know, he could be dead!"
"He would regenerate..."
"He could be injured!"
"Again regeneration, Koschei your working your self up. Theta's fine."
Koschei made puppy dog eyes at the unicorn then sighed giving up, and letting Ushas win. He flipped at lever on a large mushroom like mechanical machine with buttons and levers galore and a lit column that went up and down when he flipped the lever making a whimsical noise as it did so.
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Time Turner cocked his head as a wheezing and groaning noise erupted the silence of the night, it was a sound he recognized but any of the equestrian pony folk would take as just being the wind. He Galloped towards the direction of the sound. Screaming in the language no-pony knew. Turner stopped when he was close to the sound looking around franticly for anything that seemed like it belonged a little too much, nothing, the perception filter much have been too strong for even him to see through it, he even wanted to see the machine no matter what it was, so he was confused why he couldn't see it. Maybe he was hallucinating, wanting to go home so bad that he was imagining the impossible.
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The Machine jerked and bounced around throwing the two foals around the interior knocking the wind out of them making their hearts nearly stop of fright but as the machine came to a hurried halt Koschei got up wincing at the pain as he beat on his chest coughing while being surrounded in smoke, "Ushas! Ushas are you okay?" He asked generally scared for his friend.
A soft cough came from across the room, "Yeah I'm fine, lets get out of here before we die of smoke deprivation.
Koschei agreed and stumbled his was towards the door pushing it open ever so slightly so he could wiggle out of the machine room. Ushas followed closely behind pushing her way through the door and shutting it behind her coughing from the lack of oxygen in her lungs. She looked at the trees and the town moaning, they where on earth, equestrian to be exact, in the 21st century from the building and telephone wires hanging about, Great, she thought, Time to get made fun of by my accent it sounded like she was from the north and from the look of things she could make a logical guess that they where somewhere with an American-ish accent. She turned around to look at what the machine had turned into just so that she would remember, A lamp post, that's going to be fun to slide into later on.
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Turner perked his ears as he heard a quiet mumble and the creak of a door, he turned around, every building in sight had their lights off and no-pony would be wondering around at this time of night, maybe Princess Luna, but he highly doubted it. Then he caught sight of something that wasn't there before, a small lamp post with its light shining surrounded in smoke, exactly what he was looking for, Turner gallivanted toward the object smiling a huge smile and tackled a unicorn and earth pony that where standing below it. he stood above them grinning from ear-to-ear as he squeezed each of them tightly mumbling in his language and they seemed to understand what he was saying, "Ushas, Koschei, what took you two so long I tried calling for you ..."
"Theta your going to kill us if you keep hugging so hard," Ushas managed to say through being squeezing near to death.
"Sorry." Time Turner said as he let go of them, he was so pleased to see them he never wanted them to leave his sight again.
"Theta you know its hard to call when we are on different PLANETS!" Koschei stated it was almost the most obvious thing in he could think of.
"I know it- its just so lonely here, Imagine what these pony-folk would say if they figured out that I'm not from here, all they had to do was get me to go to a doctor and then BAM! I'd be locked up and experimented on."
Ushas backed up. "You have to go to the doctors later don't you."
"Yeah..."
