Convenient
Chapter 12
Previous ChapterNext Chapter"That went half as expected!" I shouted to Dash, attempting to defeat the ring in my head.
"How so?" Rainbow Dash shouted back. Neither of us could see just yet. Blurry, colorful silhouettes took each other's place. We could just barely hear each other.
"The bang, for one thing!" The ring had already started to die down. Second time around was much more mild then the first time. My vision was returning too. I rubbed my eyes to restore them back to their former clarity. "Secondly, those two are unconscious, thought that might happen. You on the other hand are awake for once." I said to Dash, who also seemed to be having a much easier round with the transition of worlds. Applejack, Twilight, Dash, and I were half laying and half sitting of the floor of my bedroom.
"Celestia knocked you out, so you have nothing to say about that!" Dash retorted with a abnormally loud tone.
"I was thrown across the room by your god-being!" I replied. "I have much to comment on that! This time was a lot more painless then last time though..."
"Yea, but still." Dash's hooves caressed her eyes for a few moments before dropping. Rainbow Dash gasped when she saw a clear image of me. "Dude, Jack, your nose."
I frowned and touched my nose to see what she was talking about. My hand pulled away from my face, covered in blood. That's not good. "Oh snap." My brother said. We turned our heads to see him standing in the doorway. "Shit just got real."
I looked back to the blood on my hand, I noticed that more was dripping onto my stomach. I felt a force approaching my esophagus. I reached for the trash can by my desk and violently vomited into it. "I take it back!" I shouted between heaves. "This is like ten times more painful!" I opened my eyes and saw that the vomit was about one-fourth blood.
"Hey, so, um... You left your dishes out from this morning..." My brother said, ignoring my situation and the other two ponies on the ground. "...When you get a chance..."
"Will...." I said my brother's name, trying to keep something in my body. "Your such a dick..."
"Flattery will get you nowhere..." He shook his head. He turned to Rainbow Dash, who was in shock and had no idea what to do. "You want to fill me in here, weirdo's? I would like to try to do something to help."
Dash popped up and stepped over the two other unconscious ponies to try to help me by patting me on the back. "We got into Equestria. Lots of things happened there. These two wanted to test if we could bring other ponies back here." She pointed to the two ponies on the ground with her hoof. "We can. I think that it was too much though for Jack."
"So what's with those two?" Will jerked his thumb to Applejack and Twilight. "Are they dead?"
"No-Huauagh" I was interrupted by another involuntary vomit session.
"Don't try to talk right now." Dash told me. "They should just be unconscious."
"That's good." Will stated. "So what's with him? What do you mean it was too much for him?"
The storm that was raging in my body had finally passed, hopefully passed without leaving scars. I turned from my hands and knees and sat on the floor. "We can teleport." I said with a smirk. "You jelly?"
"Seeing as you just had a oral period, I'd say no." My brother frowned with skepticism. "I also don't believe you. Teleport to my room right now."
"Can't." I told him as I slowly got to my feet. My abdominal was on fire. "We have to conserve our strength to see my friend."
"You just puked blood!" Dash shouted at me. "We're not going anywhere! You need to not... Move, at all!"
"Oh Dash, yes we are." I said to my blue Pegasus friend. "We are going to go pay Jeremy a visit."
"Your seriously planning on driving?" Will said, cocking an eyebrow. "After that." He pointed to the trash can with bloody bile in it.
"Yea, but I should probably clean that first." I picked up Applejack off the floor. "And we should wait until they wake up to send them back." I laid her down on my bed. I then hoisted Twilight up too.
"Jack, it can wait." Rainbow Dash protested. "We can do it another day!"
"Nah, I want to do it now." I said. "Seeing as you don't have any blood coming from you, I'm guessing that i'm the party that supplies the power. I think that four people was too much. Let's go and we'll try three."
"Your lugs just kind of came out of your body." My brother said. "You should probably listen to her."
"Nah, it's all good." I told them as I laid Twilight beside Applejack on my bed. "They'll wake up in like an hour or two, so be aware of them. Rainbow Dash! We ride!" I grabbed the trash can and walked past my brother, out the door.
"OK, but don't cough up a kidney in the car." Dash joked.
***
"I appreciate the concern, really." I told Rainbow Dash as I drove to Jeremy's house. "But I'm fine. What ever it was is gone, and I'm felling good."
"Puking blood is not a normal thing though!" Dash replied. "We need Twilight to look at this. It's too strong to be messing around with it! If we push this too much, it might kill you!"
"Sure, fine." I gave in, when a realization hit me. "Wait, why didn't we just do the mind thing to his house?"
"Because i'v never been there, remember?" Dash informed me.
"Ah, right."
"How are we planning on getting in his house anyway?" Dash said. "Don't most humans lock their houses?"
"Yea, but not Jeremy." I said.
***
He didn't live that far away from me. After a ten minuet drive, we reached his house. It was dark now, but I had turned off my headlights as I drove into Jeremy's driveway.
"This is going to be awesome." I said as I climbed out of my car. "You ready for this?"
"You know I am." Rainbow Dash chuckled. "Why even ask?"
"Com'on, let's go around to the back so there's a less chance that we wake up his whole family." I told Dash while I made a 'follow me' motion with my hand. "The front door makes a crap load of noise and it shakes the whole house when it closes for some reason."
"That's some quality architecture right there." Dash said sarcastically.
We walked around his house to the back door. I twisted the doorknob and it silently opened. I held the door for Dash as she trotted passed me. I slid through the door, slowly closing it behind me to make sure it doesn't make any sound. I turned back around to Dash. "He sleeps on the first floor. That's his bedroom, right over there." I whispered and pointed to a brown door on the other side of the room.
"OK." She replied in a hushed tone. We slowly tip-toed over to the bedroom. When we finally made it to the door, we paused. "What if he wakes up?"
"He won't." I opened the door and then casually walked in. Dash followed quickly. I carefully shut the door behind us. "Jeremy is what you would call a heavy sleeper." I said in my normal volume. Jeremy was sleeping in his bed a few feet away from us. I walked over and hovered over my sleeping friend. Raising a hand, I brought it down on Jeremy's forehead. Rainbow Dash gasped, fearing that he would wake up. Then cocked an eyebrow at me when she noticed that he was still snoring softly. "A very heavy sleeper."
"That's so cool!" Dash squealed. "Let me try!" She hopped over to the side of Jeremy's bed. She raised her hoof and poked his face. Seeing that nothing happened, she wanted to see how far she could go. She hovered above him and descended onto his chest. We both snickered as she sat on his chest, his breathing making her bob. "Should we wake him up for this or just do it now?" She asked.
"His mental presence is not a necessity." I said.
"I have no idea what you said,"Rainbow Dash informed me. "but it sounds like you want to do it while he's asleep."
"Indubitably." I said with a smile. "I don't think that Twilight needs her library right now, do you?"
"Nope!" She replied, grinning. "I hear she's caught up in a experiment."
"Nice." i snickered. I hopped and shook my hands, getting ready to make another transition of worlds. "You ready?"
"Yea." Dash said, cracking her neck side to side. "Let's do this."
After we were done warming up, I put my finger down on Jeremy's forehead. Dash still sat on his chest. We closed our eyes while we thought of the tree shaped library. There was another bang. Our vision and hearing left us once more. Only to come back a few moments later. Rainbow Dash and I looked at each other. Our senses returned almost instantaneously this time around. "That was easy."
"I wouldn't say that just yet." Dash pointed to my face with a concerned expression. "Your nose."
I rubbed my nose with my hand and saw that it was oozing blood once more. My action was stopped by the loud yell of Jeremy, who was rolling on the ground. I could't tell if he was yelling a word or just yelling to try to relive some of the pain. Dash and I hoping that he would recover soon. Also that his screams didn't attract any unwanted attention.
"What's going on!?" Spike hollered as he ran down the stairs. He saw that it was me and his eyes narrowed. "You again... " He saw Jeremy rolling on the ground covering his ears. "What's going on with your friend there? where's Twilight and Applejack?"
"We thought it would be funny to bring him here while he was asleep." I answered. "First time is always hard. Twilight and Applejack are still back in my world, their trip knocked them out and I don't think it would be good to send them back like that. Might mess with their head. I'll bring them back when they wake up."
"One more question: what's with your nose?" Spike asked, cocking an eyebrow.
"He's over-doing this. We shouldn't keep bringing other ponies with us." Rainbow Dash said. She had worry in her eyes "It's going to end up killing you."
"Wait." I held up my finger and we were silent. Except for Jeremy, who was still rolling on the ground. I was waiting to see if I was about to vomit again. "See, I'm fine. I'm not going to puke again. I feel fine now." I said as I wiped my nose with a tissue that was on the table next to me. "Plus, when he gets up, it will be really funny!"
"Jack?" Jeremy called from the floor. "Are you here? What the hell's going on!? Did we just get nuked?"
I turned to Spike. "Hey can you help us out a little?" I requested. "He will recognize our voices, we need you to mess with him."
I looked at both of us and then down to Jeremy. He was trying to sit upright. With a blank expression he replied: "Definitely."
"Nice!" I sighed with satisfaction.
Spike walked over to Jeremy, who propped himself up with is arms. Spike was eye-level with him, even when he was sitting on the ground. "If you want to leave, then you better find out where you are. If you don't in the next five minuets, your not leaving." Spike said in his ear with a deeper voice then normal. Jeremy started to panic, his vision still hadn't returned yet and his hearing was bad enough that he couldn't hear Rainbow Dash and I laughing.
"Who are you? Where is Jack? I know I heard his voice!" Jeremy shouted with confusion.
"Your friend is here too, well, your friend was here. He had the same challenge, that he didn't complete." Spike muttered in his ear. He pulled away to join our laugh, I high-fived his scaly dragon hand. High-fiving a dragon is now off my bucket list.
"I can't see anything! How am I suppose to figure out where I am if everything's blurry!" Jeremy exclaimed.
"Alright, I'll do something I didn't do with your friend: I'll give you hints." Spike said with the creepiest voice he could muster. "Here's one: You've seen this place before." He stopped and turned towards me. "Right?"
"Yea, he watches the show all the time." I assured him.
He whipped around back to Jeremy. "Any Idea?"
"No, please, I haven't done anything!" He shouted.
"We should probably hurry this up, he's gonna be able to see soon." Rainbow Dash said through a snicker.
"You know what you did!" Spike shouted in his ear. "Here's hint two: This place is known for love."
"I don't kno- Wait, what?" Jeremy's expression of confusion deepened, but with a lack of fear. He rubbed his eyes and looked around the blurry room. "Is- this... Am I in Twilight's library?"
"Damn you love that show..." I chuckled.
"Jack? Jack, you bastard! Where am I?" His expression changed to anger. We burst into laughter, excluding Jeremy.
"You guessed it." Rainbow Dash said.
"What do you mean?" Jeremy squinted his eyes. "Is that Rainbow Dash?"
"Here, this might help." I walked over and brought my hand across Jeremy's face. A loud smack filled the room and there was a hand print of Jeremy's cheek. "Better?"
Jeremy yelped. "What was that for you dick?!" He shouted. He noticed that he could see better, he blinked his eyes rapidly. "Actually yes..."
"Glad I could help." I said proudly.
"Have fun?" Spike said from behind him.
Jeremy turned around and saw him. He jumped when who it was registered into his brain. He scurried to his feet. And observed his surroundings. "Jack, what the hell's going on?"
"Happy birth-mas!" I cheered. "Your in Equestria! By the way, this counts as your birthday and your Christmas present from me."
"Let me re-phrase that, what the hell are we doing here?" He said as he scanned his environment.
"Well, I just high-fived a dragon after pulling a prank on you." I said with a beaming smile. "What are you doing, sir?"
"Are we really in Equestria?" Jeremy asked, looking around faster. As if it would change if he looked quicker. "Are you messing with me somehow right now?"
"How would he fake this?" Spike asked, cocking an eyebrow. "How would one go about doing that?"
"How are we here right now?" Jeremy asked us. "What did you do?"
"We made a thing from that book we found." Rainbow Dash said. "Pretty easy to make too."
Jeremy thought about this for a while. "What's going to happen now? Jack and I leave and then everything's back to normal?"
"Pffft! Where would I be without my friend and his trusty, obnoxious friend!" Rainbow Dash said sarcastically. "We can come and go as we want, plus Jack and I have to be in that same world now. So get used to seeing ponies outside of your weird, drug induced fantasies.
I snickered. "Damn, that was good."
"Ugh... It's like she's your sister..." Jeremy sighed.
Dash and I remembered our method of utilizing the potion, and the means in which we achieved it. Both of our faces turned red. "Shut the hell up!" I shouted at him. "No we're not!"
"Whoa, whoa, calm down. It's a joke, not a dick, you don't have to take it so hard." Jeremy put up his hands. and then came to a realization. "Wait a second. You wouldn't think that it would be a bad thing unless something happened between you two." Jeremy stared at us with disbelief in his eyes. "Jack, did you have a moment with a pony?" His blank expression held, waiting for an answer.
"No, nothing happened." Rainbow Dash blushed, looking away while avoiding eye contact with me.
"I think something did." Jeremy persisted. "I think your lying."
"They wouldn't say how they got here either. They just said something about a potion, nothing else about it." Spike added.
"What did you two have to do with the potion?" Jeremy questioned.
"I chose not to discuss it." I replied.
"You will discuss it." Jeremy demanded.
"We will not." Rainbow Dash said.
"That's fine. I'll find out eventually." Jeremy gave up. "Because i'm in Equestria now, the land of magic." He turned towards Spike. "You know anything that would help us find our what happened?"
"Twilight probably knows something." Spike grinned.
"Your not getting the chance." Rainbow Dash and I looked at each other. "Bedroom."
Dash hopped over and touched Jeremy's left shoulder while I grabbed the right. In an instant we were back in my house, in my bedroom. Rainbow Dash and I barley felt anything. We are just flashed with a blinding light for a few seconds now. Jeremy, on the other hand, was still new at this. "Damn it!" He shouted, clutching his head.
I noticed that Twilight and Applejack were no longer in my bed. "They're awake, hopefully, or Will is doing something weird."
"It's your brother, he's always doing something weird." Dash rolled her eyes. She then saw my face. "Jack, your nose is bleeding again." Dash said with a worried countenance.
"Ignore it. I'm fine." I said as I grabbed a rag off my desk. We left Jeremy to recover alone in my room while we went to go see how Applejack and Twilight were doing.
I walked down the stairs as Dash followed me, using her wings to hover. Once we reached the bottom of the stairs we came upon my brother and the other two ponies laying on the couch watching T.V. "Wow. Ponies take to human culture like a little kid to caffeine."
The two ponies instantly turned towards us, while my brother didn't move at all. "What happened? Why is your nose bleeding?" Twilight started.
"It's something we need you to look at." Dash told her. "This teleportation stuff is pretty dangerous."
"It's FINE! Especially this, when we brought you two over it was a lot worse." I said.
"It's not fine! You've lost a lot of blood!" Rainbow Dash argued. "That's never fine!"
"It's not that mu-"
"Can you keep this down, or take it into another room please?" Will interrupted me. "Thank you!"
"... Wow." I muttered.
"Ah know. He hasn't explained anything at all since we woke up. He's as stubborn as a mule." Applejack said. "Where'd y'all go? Ya weren't there when we woke up."
"We went to go pull a prank on his friend while you were out. By the way, Spike helped us on the prank too." Dash informed them. "That's why his nose is bleeding now, which we really need you to look at Twilight."
"Then we should probably go then." Twilight said. "You two want to help us with that?"
"We're going to have to do that one at a time now though." I said. "I don't feel like going through that again."
They hopped off the furniture they were laying on and walked over to us. Before we made a connection though, Jeremy came out of the stairs with a huge grin on his face. When his brain registered the other two ponies, he hesitated and almost tripped. Then resumed his beaming smile. "Hey buddy... Why so happy?" I asked him, a little worried, because I knew that the smile he was displaying was never a good thing for me.
"Two thing really." He said. "The first thing was that while I was blind and deaf in your room, I thought of a joke. What do you call a dog with no arms or legs?"
"What..." I said cautiously.
"It doesn't matter, he's not coming." He snickered.
"Nice!" Will burst out into laughter.
"That's terrible!" Twilight cried. "How is that a joke!?"
"It's his messed up humor." I explained. "What's the other thing." I asked my friend.
"Oh, the other thing was something I found!" Jeremy announced. "I was a little disappointed, really. I thought that I was going to able to be like a detective, trying to find out your guy's secret." Jeremy said, his smile growing ever bigger. Dash and I shared a look of fear. "But I guess you shouldn't leave me alone in your room with your secret either." Jeremy held up the green textbook, from where we got the instructions to make the potion, from behind his back. "Look what I found!"
Whoever said that nothing is impossible, obviously never tried to slam a revolving door.
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