Hopes in a Star

Slowly I wake up, surrounded by plants. I'm a human again, wearing my usual flannel over shirt and jeans. "Hello?"

"Hello Jacob." I look over, it's Sky.

"Sky? How are you here? How am I here?"

"It'll be obvious soon enough, but for now, just enjoy our company."

"Our company?" All of my closest friend come out of the plants. Jake, Mike, and Joe.

"Now then, I don't think we should be talking, we have a surgery to get done." She says, reaching into her coat pocket.

"Surgery? What surgery?" She pulls out a scalpel.

"This will only hurt a minute." The others surround me, and put hand cuffs on my feet and wrists. She walks forward. "Now then, what was that you said about it not working out? A human and a pony?" She puts the scalpel against my chest, and a heart pops into her hand. "Because I'd hate to inform you, but you're right." I stop breathing, I don't feel a heart beat in myself.

"W-why?" She walks up to me.

"Because this is what Remmer would have wanted." She rises the scalpel.

"No, no!"

"Write!" I sit up, breathing heavily with a cold sweat. I look quickly around the alley way. I see Sky and back up. "Write it was only a bad dream. It wasn't real."

"No, no you did it, you're her, you hurt me."

"Write, I didn't do anything. Listen to yourself, we've only known eachother for a couple of days, and I've been out of it for most of the time. Just, please, you don't have anything to be afraid of. I'm not the threat, that's Aviation Inc., please." I slowly walk back to the spot where I was asleep, and sit. "Do you need to talk about it?"

"No, it was just a bad dream. It was the dark side of my imagination, the side that doesn't think radically. Come on, we need to get back Remmer." I fly off, heading to the factory.

"Wait! Write! Come on, slow down!" I fly faster, and faster, then eventually onto a cloud. "What, what was that about?"

"Nothing. Come on, we're loosing time." I resume flying. I hear her yelling to me, but choose to just ignore her. Once at the factory, I break in. Sky follows and I close the hole.

"Write, wait, wait hold on!" I stop. "Look, if this is about the dream then I'm sorry. I'm sorry for what ever I did in your dream, but we need to work together." I stand there, silent.

"I want to go back." I whisper.

"What?"

"I said, I want to go back!" I yell, facing her. "You don't know what it's like. Having the pain from two different dimensions, having them inner connect. I can't keep going like this. Every day! Every day I'd have people come to my house to meet the mane six and to ask me a series of questions. At one point even the government integrated me! And this one person, I can't even think of it. But what happened with her is happening with you, and I'll be put in prison before I let that affect others. Having the weight of two different worlds on you, each one looking up to you and hoping that you'll be the hero they need, it eventually takes it's toll." I just stare at her. She probably doesn't understand, I never did tell her where I'm from. "Now come on, if I want to see anyone from Earth ever again we need Remmer." I walk forward, but stop when I see she isn't following me.

"I'm sorry."

I turn, realizing what just took place. "No, listen Sky. I didn't mean to yell, I'm not mad at you, I'm just sick of having to deal with things that no one else ever does. I just wish sometimes that I never asked to come to Equestira in the first place. I'm sorry I yelled at you, I just lost my patience."

"I, I'm from Earth. You know me from there."

I look at her. "I know."

We get to a set of doors. "Ok, this is the prisoner wing of the factory." I open the doors and we walk in. "I believe cells nine through twenty were empty when I left." I nod, and go straight to cell nine. The closer we get, the louder a voice gets.

"I didn't do anything, hah! They are making a mistake, a terrible, dangerous, scary mistake. Remmer Stream will make them pay, they will rue the day the put me in prison, rue! Hahaha!"

"Remmer! We're here to bust you out, just be quiet." I say, hoping he heard me.

"Quiet, that's what they said. But they aren't here. You are, and you're helping me, so ok, I'll be very, very, quiet." I buck down the steel door.

"Alright, Remmer, do you have any idea where the office of the person in charge is? Remmer?" I tap him.

"It's over here, but there isn't just one in charge, there are four. Four managers, hehe, fools. Almost nothing ever gets done."

"Four?" I walk to the set of doors at the end of the hall. I open them, and there sitting at a table is Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Twilight.

Rarity looks at us. "Twilight darling, I thought you said we were rid of these, things."

"Oh no, run. Run run run run run!" I yell. There is a blue hoof from one of the prison cells. "Rainbow?" I buck the door. "Come on!" We punch through the wall and fly to Fluttershy's cottage. "Fluttershy! Close the house up and get the animals to safety! The sky is about to fall!"