Chapters Hey everyone! or is it supposed to be everypony? I really don't get this thing about the ~~not so~~ subtle differences between this world and mine... but enough about that! Let's talk about me.
I'm Anonymous. No. THAT is not really my name. I gave that moniker to myself for... certain reasons.
I'm your typical 24 year old man in a not so typical pony world. I'm kind of an introvert but it's alright with me. I don't like getting close to other people... or ponies too much. Though I did leave behind a Best friend of mine.
How did I get here you ask? Beats me. All I remember was this party I went to with my best friend Zane... he offered me the chance of letting go and forgetting everything and just have fun... I was going home really tipsy he offered me a ride but I really didn't feel like it so I walked home... next thing I know I'm being hold up by this purple pastel colored horse with a horn!
And this was how I got to this place they called equestria... where they love getting to all sorts of trouble... which means more trouble that I will get sucked into...
Why not have many friends? well... I just don't really like getting close to others.
Do I have a girlfriend? Uhh... this is a hard thing to answer. The right answer should be I 'USED' to had one... Until I know I wasn't really whom she had her eyes on, should have seen that coming huh?
But that wasn't the whole reason why I don't like getting into relationships. you see I'm kind of... a doppelganger. or at least that's what I call this curse.
how ironic isn't it? Anonymous the Doppelganger! I'm both Unknown and unsure of who I really am. this is why I gave myself the name Anonymous.
This power is controllable... ~~most of the times~~... it acts up from time to time but this power has a requirement... it only works to people I love! How Ironic isn't it? What? What does my power do? Oh right I never told you yet huh..?
Well this ~~Curse~~ power gives me the ability to change into anyone I like ~~well it actually causes the others around me to see someone else but... meh.~~! If they don't know me. the other side of this power however? the People I Love will see the one they most love, it could be a sister, a brother, mother, father, etc etc etc... Ironic really... without this power I'm just an ordinary person... with this power... I'm not even me anymore.
But the bad part of that is seeing the person you love... Call you as someone else. ha! most painful lie detector power ever.
Worse part it acts up from time to time causing me to activate it when I don't want to. Like the time I was going to propose to my ex-girlfriend and I rang her doorbell kneeling with a ring. The MOST WORST part of this is I never know when it acts up. She opens the door. Sees me kneeling with a ring and A sign beside me saying Marry me. The bitch actually jumped for joy and hugged me. she also said "YES! YES I WILL MARRY YOU! Give me a sec I'm going to break up with my boyfriend!"
Of course I was surprised flabbergasted and furious... I thought... she was using me to cheat on her boyfriend? and now she's going to break up with said boyfriend just because I proposed?! How fucked up is she?! but here comes the punchline, she came back saying
"Sorry Christian. Anon isn't answering any of my calls he must be out. Don't worry I'll tell him straight away once I see him." I was hurt. She wasn't using me. She was Cheating on me... I don't really know what's worse of the two... but after she said this I immediately knew the power acted up again... and in my anger I decided for the first time to show my power to someone else other than my best friend
"Hey Liz. You know your soon to be ex was rumored to have this strange power." it got her attention
"Really? Never heard of it. he was kind of normal and transparent everywhere he goes. he's a good guy but... he's really just so... what's the word? Creepy." I shook my head. My respect for this person getting thinner and thinner for each passing second.
"Well his power is this... he could copy anyone he wants. Also you don't have to break up with him."
"Copy anyone he wants? Even his power is creepy! Anyways what do you mean 'don't have to break up with him? You aren't proposing to me anymore?! We've been together for three years now!" she screamed. I wanted to scream as well... she and I, we've been together for five years and only now do I know this? I laughed at myself for being so dense and at what I was going to say and show her
"That's right. I'm not going to propose to you anymore. You're my ex after all"
"What?! What are you talking about?!"
"Here's what I'm talking about Liz." I controlled my power to turn back into being me... Anonymous. "I'm breaking up with you. You cheating, two-faced bitch." I glared at her as hard as I could... Pretty sure this spooked her out as she took a step back. this ring cost me a lot... but I don't want to reimburse it. I'll keep it as a reminder. I'll make these two rings into a necklace so I could always be reminded. "See you later Liz." I walked away but then I stopped and looked at her and said "On second thought. I hope I wont see you later." I walked away as fast as I could. I heard her calling me back. Too late... Three year too late to be precise.
well that's the main reason why I don't like getting closer to anyone... especially to the opposite sex. what's the point of loving someone when they see someone else as me?
well Enough about that.. this isn't the story of my painful memories... this is about how I get thrown from one predicament to the other ever since I got here... now that I've told you about me it's about time we get this show on the road...
The Story of the human called "Anonymous" with a strange power that makes him transform like a 'Doppelganger'... living in an even stranger world of Ponies and other magical creatures.
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"Hey dude. You sure you don't need a ride?" He ask me... or was it that chick from before I don't really remember anymore
"Sh... what? Psh. Course shnot! I can... I can take care of myhelf... Mom!"
"haha fuck you Dude. But seriously You're pretty Smashed you know."
"God Zane! I told you I can Do thish! Now go home already!"
"Hm... sure... You alright with everything else?" He was smiling, the little prick.
"Courshe I am! Shtuff like that wont even bother me nomore... See thish?!" I showed him the necklace with two rings "Thish means every Damn thing ish Hishtory! HAHAHAHAHA"
"Alright. if you're fine then you're fine.. I'll see you later. Stay 'Anonymous' dude." He laughed... he really is a little prick!
"Aw Fuck you man!" he drove away still laughing
"Now... which way wash home again?"
"Which way ish which... Whatever I Shay it'sh left." and on I go to my on the way home adventure but then I saw this weird person who was wearing a robe covering their body... going through the statue!
"Holy shit... I really am drunk... that cant be posshible!" I went near and touch the statue
"Shee? IMPOSSHIBLE! Who am I even talking to?" I sighed
"Whatever... got to go! What the-" My hand was stuck! "Shtop eating my hand shtatue! I already shaid thish ish imposshible! Let go! Let go!" I pulled and pulled but my balance really isn't the best right now and I slipped and went straight to the hole in the statue
All I saw... was white... my body felt like floating... I was like in a very very comfortable mattress...
"Hmmm Shoft..." I cuddled the pillow near me
"What the hay?! A human? How did you get here?! Let go of me!" My pillow is noisy and squirmy so I hugged harder to prevent it from getting away
"Ugh I've got no time for this. What once was here as you can see, will be gone in the count of one, two, three!" Then a blinding light suddenly flashed even on my closed eyes...
"Closhe the damn lightsh!" and they did close it... thank god!
"Hmm? My pillow ish misshing..." I didn't open my eyes. I just shuffled around if it was there but I gave up easily... need sleep
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"Shh. Be quiet Spike. He's waking up." Huh? I hear someone... must be the cleaning lady... god damn she's early as always
"I thought 'She' was kidding about this... I can't believe somepony actually got here from the other side!" Who the fuck is that noisy little annoyance... damn my head hurts, Zane didn't even stop me from drinking too much... daaamn
I decided to open my eyes trying to get my eyes acquainted with the light "Ugh... My head hurts... Note to self... Do no over drink."
"Uhh.. Are you okay?" by the tone of the voice this was definitely younger than the cleaning lady... oh and also the voice implies the owner is a girl but what really annoyed me was her question
"I can't fucking move... I'm one hundred percent A-Okay! How about yo... huh?" I was going to yell at her but then... I saw the most bizarre thing. A purple horse... with a horn... I must out of my mind
"Sorry about the restraints... it's for everypony's safety. Also can you please not curse? It's inappropriate." Okay. I really am out of my mind... SHE FUCKING TALKED!
"Wh... what are you?"
"Well... Obviously I'm a pony..." Yeah, that's logical... a talking horned ~~Hor..~~ Pony... that fixes everything!
"Ookay? what about that guy." I swung my head at the direction of that little purple and green colored lizard... bad move, made my head hurt more than necessary.
"Well... he's a dragon... but judging from the world you were from, I'm pretty sure you've never seen anypony like us." yeah... a fucking dragon,That makes even more sense than a talki.... wait what?!
"Excuse me... what do you mean by..." I gulped afraid of what I was expecting " 'World you were from'?"
"Well, You are currently residing in Equestria." Okay... I'm pretty sure that everything just broke down... I'm sure of it now... I've gone crazy...
Author's Note
So...? What do you guys think? The idea of this story came from reading lots of HiE fics... anyways tell me what you think...
Also... I'm pretty sure you guys know what that statue is :P
Also 30 moons doesn't seem quite much... but if we're talking about 30 FULL Moons... then that is a very long wait :v
Chapter 1: Meeting my imagination
"A. You're adorable, B. You're so beautiful. C. You're a cutie full of chaaaaaaarms~" fuck it. If I'm crazy then I might as well just sing like one! Besides I've been here for a long time and I'm stuck like this! Sitting in a chair not allowed to move unless it was a bathroom break. If I can't move then I'll try the next best thing. Annoying the hell out of Sparkly and Scales. Though Scales often help in annoying Sparkly so he's okay in my book
"Ugh! You are driving me crazy! Please be quiet for a moment. Just a small moment please!"
"Ahh but my dear Twilight don't you know the phrase 'speech is silver, silence is golden.'"
"Uhh that phrase means it's better to be quiet at times. What's the connection with that and me trying to make you quiet down except it being what I want?"
"Well Sparkly, annoying others is diamond, diamonds are forever and definitely higher than the other two!" I then proceeded to laugh like a madman
"That doesn't even make any sense!"
"That's right. It doesn't make any sense. What's your point?"
"Wha. What's the point?! The point is.. Ugh I can't handle this alone anymore! If this goes on I'll end up crazy!" She then galloped away to the sunset. Well not really, she just went and ran as far away as she could get. I love pissing people off. But these ponies or twilight at least makes a funny target, if all else fails me. Then annoying others is the best thing I could think of.
But what should I do now? This fucking world is missing something very very important.... Where the fuck is the meat?! All I see are fucking fruits and vegetables. She even gave me faux burger... Made from hay! Bleugh. Disgusting. People at my school may be trying to make me a vegan (and I don't hate veggies and fruits) but eating hay.... Is fucked up. Period.
"Hey scales! You there?" I called out to nowhere but got no answer. I sighed "great. Now what can I do?"
Apparently nothing. I was stuck in this stupid chair and this thing that's keeping me here is melded into the chair. God damn magic. I swear the next time I play an RPG I'll kill every magic using enemy I could find. Well with nothing else to do I should just do the next best thing. Sleep and wait.
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"I'm so glad you're all going to help me with this. I don't think I can last longer being alone with him." I might do something drastic to him if this lasts longer
"Wait. So let me get this straight. A pony from the other side--"
"Human." I corrected her but she just rolled her eyes and continued " 'Human' from the other side of the statue got here. How the hay did that happen?" I've been sighing more than I should these days
"It's about the time when Sunset Shimmer stole my Tiara. On the way here she got followed by a human and she teleported him away." I sighed again 'I really should get some stress reliever '
"Gee Twi, Don't you think yer just makin' this into somethin bigger than what it should be?"
I shook my head and said "I wish I was Applejack... I wish I was." Another sigh.
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"Alright girls be gentle with him. It's the first time he'll meet ponies other than me."
"Okay, but Ah still say you're just being like Rarity right now."
"She would get angry at you if she heard that."
"Well luckily for me she ain't here ain't she Rainbow?" they then laughed loudly... as in just LOLed... damn noise woke me up but at least I've got something to do now... I decided to act like I was sleeping. I can't wait to see the look on Sparkly's face after this
"So where is this... person from the other side." Hello? Right here damn it! Use your eyes! They're big as fruits aren't they?!
"Oh. Never mind I think I just saw it." I hear clip clops. They're almost near me
"He's asleep." Okay, southern accent - check. I want to make sure this southerner was wearing a stetson but nah. Making Sparkly's life miserable for a short while is much better
"And he's drooling." FUCK! I don't care whether it's dogs, ponies or human or whatever seeing me like this. Drooling is NOT COOL... ~~and it's embarrassing~~ okay. Time to play it cool... act like you're asleep and gently wipe the drool in your shirt. I can do this. There! Mission accomplished and they are none the wiser!
"Aw well ain't that cute? He's like a sleeping foal." I am not cute... I'm handsome and furthermore I am not a fool! She did say fool right?
"We need to wake him up. We'll have to explain to him how long it'll take for him to get back to his home and we also have to make sure he isn't a danger to other ponies around." Great explanation there Sparkly. Now hurry up and wake me up ~~wake me up inside~~ ahem. Now isn't the time for songs.
"Hey Biped wake up. I want you to meet someponies." I rolled my eyes inside my head at the name she called me. 'Biped' just because I can walk with two legs doesn't mean that you can call me that. Whatever. time for me to act
I slowly opened my eyes to see flesh? or maybe orange colored pony next to Sparkly and sure enough this was the owner of the southerner voice. How do I know this? She's wearing a stetson hat, either she's a cowgi... cowpony? whatever, either she's that or she's in a cosplay of doctor who. Great, I forgot to watch the last episode of the seventh series. DAMN.
And the other one was flying. Yup this is one crazy shit. I would say I'm high but I really don't do drugs, with my powers I would do shit I don't even normally would do.
Before any of them could speak up I activated the plan into action. Plan 'fake trauma' is a go!
"Please don't hurt me!" I hung my head low and shook my body for added effect "I-I didn't do a-anything wrong. I'm sorry!" plus the stutter effect. What else could I do.
"Uhh Twi?" Southerner is confused, she might hit herself due to confusion
"You mind telling us what exactly did you do to the person from the other side?" Oh my god.... my stomach! It hurts! Must. Not. Laugh!
"I didn't do anything! All I did was ignore his antics! I really didn't do anything!" They stared her down and the look on her face was HILARIOUS! It's taking my all not to laugh at her plight but alas. All good things come to an end as the two relented and believed their friend. They looked back at me sitting normally
"What? What're you all looking at?" three words. Smooth. As. FUCK. I acted as if nothing happened before and their faces was really the icing on the cake.
"I know I'm different, but staring is rude you know." the three ponies in front of me had different expression. The colorful blue flying one was between laughing and pissed, must be a prankster as well. The orange one was well... normal. How dull but it's fine. Sparkly's face. Shit. That's a face of rage. I've pranked too many people to know what that face is.
"Twi? You okay?"
"That's it. I needed a stress reliever anyways." She took a step forward. slowly and dauntingly. It's fucking working! SHIT!
"I had learned quite a few magic from a book and I'd love to try it out I hope you're ready." She's glaring at me as she stepped closer again. This may be my last but at least I had fun C'est la vie that's french for 'That's life' but that wont help me right now.
She's getting closer. I have three options. Option A - Beg forgiveness like a little bitch. Option B - Play innocently. Option C - Accept demise.
Fuck option A! A man never begs. I already chose option C but I should go with Option B.
"Hey Twilight. Got anything to eat?" as if on cue my stomach grumbled and somehow this threw her off course from what she planned but she recovered. Tch.
"I'll give you something to eat alright." She's still glaring at me. And that gathering light from her horn is no fucking joke. This is dangerous! My whole body is screaming at me saying this moment itself is dangerous!
Come on me! Say something! Anything!
Damn it I know I'm not a people person. I'm sure as hell that I'm not a pony person too!
Well... I'm fucked.
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"I hope you learned your lesson now." Sparkly was huffing as she trotted to the kitchen. I would make a sexist joke here but my mind is still stuck at what just happened.
It was like I caught a Firaja Spell of Final Fantasy with my face. I'm not dead, not burned, charred, scarred or anything. But I felt the feeling of being burned. I hate that feeling. New rule, Never mess with magical beings unless I can run.
"Well pardner, Ah'd say you didn't deserve that but to be honest, You sorta did." The rainbow one just kept snickering at what happened to me
The two followed their friend to the kitchen and I sat there mesmerized and afraid at the same time. three words stuck at my mind 'Fucking hate magic.' screw childhood memories! Those were just tricks! This one was painful and traumatizing!
~|(\_/)|~ Twilight Sparkle ~|\_/|~
I'm shaking. I can't believe I just did that! I wonder if something's wrong with him? It might be a delayed reaction. Or maybe it's something else entirely. I was snapped away from my thoughts as soon as I felt a hoof at my back. It was Applejack, apparently they found me shaking and asked me the reason why
"The magic I used wasn't ordinary magic. It was the same caliber of Nightmare Moon's thunder magic! It was a destructive magic. He... he might be hurt or worse just because I wasn't able to hold in my feelings. I don't want to be a killer!"
"Woah there Twi! He's fine. A bit spooked but fine. Besides your magic seemed to have failed since he didn't really feel anything."
"Y-You sure?"
"Absolutely. Now why don't we just tell him what we wanted to in the first place and give him somethin' to eat if he cooperates." I nodded, this was the best course of action for the time being
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The three of them came back all brandishing food... Well can't say I didn't expect this but, Damn this. This is just straight up cruelty.
"You mentioned to us before that you were hungry correct?" Sparkly asked me so I decided to answer. I'm not an asshole after all. Just when I want to be.
"Yes." Short and simple.
"Well as you can see we have some food." I know where this is heading but I'll play along.
"We need answers and this might just be your way of getting out of the bindings and getting food so how about it?" I nodded
"Okay. Ask away." I would play hardball but the event from before in mind. I'd rather not piss off this pony for now.
"How are you feeling right now." That question irks me but just to make sure I looked around at my body and try to notice anything out of the norm but I got nothing.
"Fine."
"No, Pain or anything?" Why is she being so centered on this? "No. but if it's about pain..." I decided not to continue. I'm pretty sure she knows what she did to me.
"'If it's about pain' what?" Why is she acting as if she doesn't know?
"Well the moment you used your 'Magic ' on me. I felt as if my head was being burned open and melted over with a raging fire. This is your magic so shouldn't you..." Her worried face suddenly brought me to thinking... It clicked on my mind SHE KNOWS WHAT IT DOES!
"You wanted to kill me?" asked as calmly as I could since I don't want a take two of the whole thing if I accidentally piss her off.
"I'm sorry! I let my emotions get the best of me and for that I'm really sorry!" Right there and then I wasn't able to help myself and I laughed. Of course this earned me questioning looks
"Oh wow. That was funny." This comment of mine earned me a glare from the pony in question but I continued "I've been chased. Threatened. And on many occasions Almost killed." I looked at Sparkly and she timidly looked away "But never have I got an apology for getting my just desserts."
"What are you implying?" The Rainbow one asked and I answered
"I deserved it. Plain and simple. But I didn't expect her to say sorry. But this isn't what you wanted to know so let's get back to the questions shall we?" at the word 'questions' Sparkly remembered what she wanted to do in the first place and asked again
"What is your name?"
"I have no name." I got three curious looks
"That's not possible. Even animals have names." she rebutted as she huffed
"I discarded my name long ago. Just call me 'Anonymous' or Anon for short." They decided not to delve deeper and move on to the next question thankfully enough
"Do you remember how you got here?" I shrugged as best as I could (being tied up and all)
"Beats me. If anyone here knows that'd be great. I could get back to my world and I'd be off of Sparkly's" She glared at me but I paid it no mind as I continued my sentence by saying "target practice."
"Well you see. About that..." Sparkly told me the truth. The Cold. Hard. Truth. If I could hold my head against my palms I would. This is quite hard to take in
"Thirty full moons? That would take years!" I'd be gone for a couple of years give or take but still, what will happen to the things I left behind. Wait. I looked down to my chest and saw the ring necklace. That's right. I have nothing back home either. What difference does this world make to the other one.
"Yes it would and that would bring us to the next two questions. One, for the love of Celestia, Why did you follow someone to a magical portal?!" Yeah I admit that was stupid but under the circumstances I was in that was pretty much the normal thing a drunkard would do. Like pick a fight with strangers, Sleep outside the street, Puke and drink some more alcohol. Hell Drunks would do everything they could!
"Well I was a little... disoriented at the time. A little personal problem. And as you remember the world I was from doesn't have anything close to magic." Explaining about all the advanced technologies that she saw in my world was really hard to do but it was manageable
"Okay I won't question your blatantly stupid reason for going in the portal but then it comes to question number two. Are you going to be a danger towards the other ponies in the area? And ponies in general?" I gave her the best deadpan look I could even as all three of them were glaring at me trying to size me up
"I can't even move against your magic. Do you think I stand any chance what-so-ever when it comes to a one-on-one tussle?" They relaxed at the obvious thing I asked them
"Yeah I guess you're right."
"So is the question and answer portion finished? Can I please have something to eat now?" and on cue my stomach grumbled again
"Yeah I guess you deserve it." She released me from my restraints and gave me... Fruits. Well I expected this but whatever at least I could eat and as a side note I'm free! "But we're keeping a close eye on you just in case." Damn it Sparkly. Okay scratch that. I'm not free.
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We made idle chatter (mostly them) while eating when I suddenly remembered the RPG thing and decided to ask "Hey Sparkly!" She glared at me again and opened her mouth as she told me "MY NAME IS TWILIGHT SPARKLE! Get it right already! " I rolled my eye at her obvious irritation
"Sheesh Okay Relax! Twilight. There you happy now?" she just made a 'Hmph' sound as she looked away but I continued with my question "Anyways, About that magic thing you're doing can you subconsciously use it or something?" But this question earned me a squeal of delight via Twilight. An annoyed grunt from Rainbow Dash Her parents are really original in naming. . And Applejack I've got nothing against her name, Apparently her family owns an Apple Orchard but she insists it be called a farm. Well they raise other vegetables too so I'll just call it a farm as well. just hid her face under her hat and stood still like a statue. I was confused why they acted like that but now I know why. God Damn Nerds. I don't hate nerds but please try not to diverse around the main issue.
After her 'Magic lesson ' was over, Rainbow Dash was sleepy, Applejack was back to eating and Twilight beaming with a smile. Gah! She's an adorable Nerd.
"Well basically Unicorns have the potent power to do magic. Why did you ask about it anyways?" I shrugged at her question
"I just find it cool that you can control such a high level magic. Makes me wish I was like you Sparkly." I grinned earning another angry chiding from the nerd but I got something worse
"I told you my name is... huh?" She was confused. I wondered why as I continue to look down at her (from my sitting height looking down was the only thing possible) but what made me more curious was the other two wore the same expression only with an added effect of wariness
And then I found myself back at the chair but only my lower body was constricted
"May I ask why I'm back to being acquaintances with Mr.Chair?"
"You tell us Anon. What are you?!"
"What the fu- Right no cursing. fudge are you three talking about?!"
"You're a changeling aren't you?!" Rainbow yelled out at my pants. Why the heck would she yell at my other head? Damn it Anon. Get your mind out of the gutter! They're ponies for pete's sake!
"I'm a human! What the hell is a changeling?" I asked a little more calmly this time
"They're bug-like beings in this world with the ability to change into anypony they want. Not much is known about them other than that. You transforming into me doesn't help you with this issue."
"Transforming into you? What're you..." and the issue sinked to me "Ah. Fuck."
"Anon. Watch your words. We've been through this before." I forcibly removed my power as I scratched my head and looked at them saying
"Question and Answer portion part two?" They nodded
"Fuck. My. Life."
Things never go the way you plan, no matter what you do or what you have, but I never expected things to be more favorable for me! You see, it went like this. Sparkly kept asking me question after question with Apple and Rainbow pitching in and asking questions from time to time... Granted that the questions started out as boring and was only there for information gathering.
"So what are those hooves you have for? You use your back hooves for standing but what about your fore-hooves?" Everyone, if you don't already know who asked this logical yet boring question, then I suggest you meet Twilight.
"Can you say that again in layman's terms?" All I got was confusion... If she doesn't hit herself I swear to god I will hit myself, and the feeling is approaching soon as I groaned and changed my question to a simpler form
"I mean can you tell me what you mean by hooves? you know? Repeat your question in human terms?" Sparkly still looked at me with the same expression and I couldn't hold it in anymore and I face palmed over the obvious predicament in front of me.
Oh! And on a side note they didn't put my arms in ropes or whatever was holding me to the chair, yes my lower body was still held in its place though. Something about, me, doing nothing if I can't reach.
"Why would ya hit yerself with yer hooves? Unless there's something ya ain't tellin us?" Ah, Applejack. Ever the honest and blunt pony, not very trusting though she was eyeing me but all I could think of was the phrase she said
hitting myself with my hooves? What is she even sayi... Right. Never mind. Pony world not human world I keep thinking of my own world standards and they of theirs. If I don't think even a little bit logical, this would end very misleading for both parties.
"Sorry, I just remembered I left the oven open back in my world." lamest reason ever. Do they even have an oven here? I hold my hands under my chin in a thinking position and thought about this useless but possible thing. oh wait. The pastries they were eating before are impossible to make without an oven. Maybe an open fire oven? while I was pondering this Sparkly cleared her throat to try and get my attention and it did.
"About the hooves thing?"
"Right, for starters. These..." I pointed at my bound feet "are called feet, we use them to walk, run, jog, stretch, and mostly anything related... You should know this Spar..." she glared at me "kle... You went to the human world right?" try not to aggravate your captor Anon. We don't want a different magick spell to hit you this time. She nodded, I would ask why she was asking, but I was sure the following trouble wasn't worth it.
"Anyway, these are called hands." I showed it to them, my palm, then the back of my hands, then the palm again. "Humans use these mainly to do everything our feet can't, let's say, holding a cup? Wait... no some people do that, how about... no that's possible to others too... Okay I got it! We use it to carry stuff whether heavy or not!" I know there are many other possible options that hands can do that feet can't but I really can't think of anything at the time
"Psssh, that's it? We can do that too! Look!" Rainbow snorted and went near a stack of books, about a foot taller than her and she carried it with her front hooves... Her hooves curved. I'm no horse expert since I'm more of a cat and dog person myself, but what she did? Was physically impossible for the horses back in my world. Bones would crack! Needless to say I was slack-jawed at the sight. But I was never one to give up on a challenge.
"Oh yeah? Can your hooves do this?" I grabbed a pen from my pocket and started twirling it why do I even have a pen in my pocket? Well it's a scout's duty to always be ready in time of need. "these appendages are called fingers, we can move each finger with precision... Most of the times." I grinned as I saw Rainbow's expression I won this round. Sparkly was studying the pen at my fingers with a gaze, Apple however looked at me warily
"What's that in yer hands?" She wasn't asking, she was demanding, I rolled my eyes at her question
"It's a pen. Humans use these to write." Before anyone else could get to say anything Sparkly all but squealed at the prospect of a new writing tool... what a nerd. Adorable, but still a nerd. I wonder what she looks like in human form? She looks cute like an animal but how about humanized? Why am I even asking myself this?!
"I remember seeing these on my trip to your world! How do you write with it? Do you use ink or some other substance? Or maybe you have some sort of magic or technology in your world to make this? Can you try writing something here?" She bombarded me with questions as she handed me a piece of paper via her magic... still wary I guess? I took the paper as soon as I could get it and decided to write something in it. They saw how I held the pen in between my fingers and Sparkly was writing something on her own accord as she was intently studying me.
"How curious, you write in the paper without using any inkwells but ink still come out. You sure there's no magic back in your world?" She studied the traces of ink on the paper as I played with the pen in my fingers
"Yeah pretty sure, look for yourself." I tossed the pen lightly at her and she levitates it near her and studied it, completely forgetting about the three of us
"Well, while she's distracted any other questions?" I looked at the remaining two ponies that were looking at me
"Well, back to the hand thingie, what else can you do with 'em?"
"Well I can do other stuff, heck I can even stand using them! We call it 'hand-standing' by the way." They raised their brow at the little info I told them "I can show you, but you see..." I gaze below and their stares followed my gaze until
"Uh-uh, I don't think so partner, we still have questions." Damn, I thought curiosity would work.
"Fair enough." We then heard a sudden yelp and when we looked at the noise we saw Sparkly covered in black ooze, not really that much considering it was a small pen, but it was enough to cover a part of her muzzle and some fallen strands of her hair and mane to drip wet and black, a few seconds of looking and we all burst laughing, except for the victim of course. The victim only glared at me
"Don't look at me! I did nothing to the pen! You were the one holding it!" She grumbled, but it was sound reasoning " what did you do anyways?" She looked away, looking at the ground
"We-well... I just wanted to see how it worked and when I opened it up, I saw this tipped end made of metal and I used magic to remove it and..." She didn't continue but I get the gist of it
"Well it's okay with me, it gave me quite a laugh, but how about you? You just destroyed something that could further develop the writing technology of equestria." She went wide-eyed at the statement, and trust me when I say this but, those are big eyes so I'm pretty sure she went wide-eyed at that.
"Oh no! You're right! What have I done?!" She was really panicking at this point and it was somewhat amusing... Something like being late on an exam and then finding out your pen doesn't work and you have no other pen to use... All right I'm not a boy scout, I'm just paranoid that the same thing will happen.
"Hey relax Sparkle, I still have two other pens, though I suggest you not to do the same thing to the one I'm going to give to you." I showed her two other pens. One was a normal HBW pen while the other was an artist's pen... A fountain pen. I gave her the normal pen.
"What's the differences between these two pens?" She examined the pen she got from me and the pen I was holding gently.
"Well the one your holding is more modernized than this one, but this one has some... Memories I hold dear... " they looked at me, like they were telling me to continue but I didn't want this current issue to be talked about so I decided it was time I changed the subject.
"It doesn't really matter much to me, but you should get a towel and a bath before the ink dries off on your fur... It'll be a bitch to remove if it dries." Apple and Rainbow glared at me while Twilight did the same but only for a moment as she hurried off to take the so called bath.
"What? It's the truth!" I told them in my defense
"Still doesn't give you a right to curse, even if we're all adults here." Rainbow told me, and as soon as she did a question popped out in my head
"How old are you anyway?" I would hit myself for asking a girl that question, but I assumed these two wouldn't be that bothered by it.
"If Rarity was here, she'd slap you and call you a ruffian for asking a lady such a question, but I never bother to act like one... I'm more of a daredevil myself after all, anyways, I'm 20 years old." We looked at the other remaining participant of this talk and waited for her to talk
"Ah'm 24, how about you partner? It seems only proper to tell us of yer age don't ya think?" To be honest, I was surprised at their age, I assumed they were years younger.
"Well I'm 24 years old as well, didn't expect you to be at the same age as I was actually." I chuckled at my thought
"What do ya mean by that Anon?"
"I actually thought you were around 17-19 years old... You look young for your ages, or maybe it just works different here?" I pondered at this thought
"I'm 19 years old if anypony is wondering." We looked at the voice and found Sparkly... No, we found...
"Twilight Sparkle, sparkles. Now I know why that's your name!" I laughed at her predicament but she seemed to take it as a semi-praise, semi-insult
"What's with the sudden question of age, Anon?" She deserves to be called Sparkly after her baths
"I was just wondering how age could be different from both worlds... Speaking of which, how many months a year do you have here?"
"Well, basically we have four different seasons, all having three different months, so all in all, a year has basically 12 months." I nodded " I see, so basically the same as Earth then."
"Oh? Can you elaborate on this? " I explained to her about the common knowledge I remember about the four seasons and the like
"You don't clean up the snow and ice? Or wake up the animals? Or guide the birds to their nesting place?" I gave her a bewildered look and told her "why would we even do all those? Sure, we sometimes remove snow from our lawn and chop away the forming icicles from the roofs, but the animals can take care of themselves can't they?" I asked them, but received no affirmation so I asked again "Can't they?" They shook their heads and then it hit me
"Wait so you're telling me that the animals of this world can't do much without any help?" They nod "how about the snow and ice? Don't those just melt once the sun is up?" They shook their head no "why?"
"You see Anon, the sun is there to give light to everything and help with the plants' needed sunlight for their photosynthesis but, heat and other temperature falls on the pegasi and the weather team."
"Wait, so pegasi control the weather?" They nod again "wow your world is doomed without you ponies then."
"What do you mean? Isn't your world the same?"
"No, not by a long shot. My world, is a world of science and for some a world of religion. I'll tell you about the religion some other time, science comes first," Rainbow groaned again, Twilight was ecstatic to learn 'science' from the other side while Applejack was willing to listen for a while
"You see, it's like this......" I told them about all the possible things that happen to weathers back in my place and surprisingly enough Rainbow was willing to learn! She even asked me this question "but then, what will happen to your kind during a drought?"
"Well normally when a drought is already on a critical level, we would go and perform something we call 'cloud seeding', a process in which we put silver iodine and dry ice in a container that we carry above a cloud and then drop it in the cloud, forcing the cloud to rain."
"Wait, you can fly?!" Rainbow yelled out and got near me as she could
"No! Humans can't fly. We simply built something that could fly and use that to carry ourselves in the air. You see Rainbow, my world isn't all fun and games, it's rules are 'eat or be eaten'. Not literally of course, but in the early ages it was! We had animals that's twice or thrice as big as we are, and somehow humans got to where we are, powerless as we may be."
"H-How?" Twilight asked still intent on learning the history of earth. Well this is somewhere along the lines of the BC era but I don't want to make this talk longer, maybe I'll tell her about different eras at some point in time.
"We evolve, simple as that. Humans learn from their past mistake and also we yearn for the impossible. As you can see we humans don't have wings nor magic. To save ourselves and to fulfill our desires, we want to know how a bird feels when it flies, we built a machine to carry us into the air, we want to see what it's like under the water, we built a machine that will carry us under the water."
"Wow." All three of them exclaimed but I only shook my head in disagreement
"Well those are the justified part of humanity, the ugly part of the truth however is simply because we're lazy." They were flabbergasted at the thought, but I continued
"We can't carry large amounts of food to bring back home, so we created the cart, a tool to make it easier, pulling the tool was very tiring and hard so we created wheels and added them to the cart to make it even easier, we grew even more lazier and wanted to make the carrying even easier so we created the engine, and the car, together these two would automatically go to whichever direction we steer it to, that's all there is to it." Actually there's also the part about survival and warfare, but that won't help my position right now.
We discussed about this sudden information I told them, and I even argued with Rainbow about how what I'm saying is true. This took a couple of hours until we had enough of this discussion
"Since you said your world was 'eat or be eaten', I wanted to know what the humans diet consists of." Oh boy... A topic i hoped to never reach, all humans by nature are born as omnivorous but some of the vegetarian ones see, eating meat as disgusting, and that's coming for a previous omnivore! How will they, as pure vegetarians feel about me eating meat? Well this would've come in sooner or later.
"Well... Uhh let's see, the human body needs a daily dose of potassium, iron, calcium and many other vitamins that can be found in food..."
"I see, what are these 'food' exactly?" curse you, Twilight and your insatiable hunger for knowledge! If I knew this would happen I would've told them about the wars instead!
"Uhh... Basic stuff really... Stuff like uhh... Fruits... Vegetables... Wheat... and meat" I mumbled the last part.
"What was that?" She stopped her writing as she looked at me, not hearing me apparently. Get the vibe already!
"Meat.."
"A little louder please, Anon." I grumbled. fine! You want to hear it? I'll tell you then!
"Meat alright! We humans eat meat too!" Le gasp~ I rolled my eyes at their obvious reaction, with Rainbow and Apple taking their defensive stance
"Yeah, blame me for my genetics! Hey I'm pretty sure there are more dangerous creatures here that eat meat! Why am I chastised?!" I held my hands defensively, Twilight however simply nodded and wrote what I said
"As you said, there are meat eaters in this world too, however try to understand our wariness, us ponies are made of 'meat' as well." She glared at me
"Hey so am I! What are the chances right? You don't see me eating myself bit by bit!" I scoffed feeling a little bit agitated, my safety is decided from this little question and answer after all.
"Yes, but how about us? The ponies who live here? Are we a target? Are we prey?" She asked a little more calmly this time, so I answered a little calmly as well.
"Look, all I want is my safety not to be compromised, I'll never eat a sentient sapient being, that would be creepy and horrifying, can you imagine it if I did that?" They dropped their stances but still looked at me warily
"Right, you don't understand... How about this, if marshmallows are alive and can talk, would you burn them alive to make them more delicious and chewy? Heck would you even eat them in the first place?" They looked horrified as they imagined the thought
"Exactly." I said smugly as I snapped my fingers.
"Thanks Anon. I might never eat a marshmallow ever again." Rainbow scoffed at me
"Well sorry princess, I was just trying to prove my point." I rolled my eyes at her remark
"Well then, another question about your diet. Can you survive on not eating meat? Or is there an alternative food you can eat?"
"I can eat fish. Please tell me that eating fish is okay." Thankfully they nodded
"Well, eating fish are mostly a pegasus thing, we need more energy due to flying and we gain it by eating fish. Though we don't eat fish often since they're sort of fattening." I raised my brow
"Oh? How about unicorns and the normal ponies?" Twilight answered my question intellectually by saying
"They could still eat fish, but the taste is rather unappealing and rather slimy and greasy for our tastes... Also they mostly taste nothing at all"
"Are you seriously saying that?! I'll bet you that I can make at least ten to fifteen ponies eat fish, regardless of what kind of pony they are!"
"We'll put that matter aside for now, so with this statement of yours we can assume you can use meat as an exchange for meat?" I nodded
"Good. That was really nerve-wracking!"
"Wait I want to add something!" They looked at me as I told them "I also love sweets."
"Well, I guess even in most worlds sweets are a must." Twilight giggled
"Speaking of sweets..." I suddenly remember a phrase often heard back in our world so I decided to ask a pony a very 'special' question
"Hey Rainbow! I wonder... What do you taste like?" In three seconds flat the girls went red in the face as they went back to their respective defensive position, leaving me wondering what I did.
"What?"
"Is that your way of provoking us or are you trying to verbally molest me?" Rainbow spat out at me
"Provoke? Verbally molest?! What're you even talking...." I played back what I said in my mind... what do you taste like?'. 'what do you taste like?'. 'What do you taste like?'. 'What do you taste like?'
I groaned at my own stupidity as I blushed at the fact that I did, somehow verbally molest her, but that wasn't totally what I had thought! I saw that going differently in my mind!
"Woah, woah, woah! I totally did not mean whatever you three are implying!"
"Oh yeah? Well you better explain yourself mister, before I kick your teeth clean off." She was still blushing but I can sense the venom of her words. I guess no matter how boyish she acts, she's still a girl.
"You see back in my world we had this sweets called 'Skittles'! I have a packet on me here in my pocket, let me just get it... Here!" I showed them the said sweets
"Okay? What does this have to do with your defense?" She was eyeing me, slowly encircling me and getting ready to beat the living day lights out of me for the sexual harassment.
"Well, I love this sweets and as you can see, the product is colored as a technicolor scheme! They form a rainbow! The catchphrase is even on the packet! It says 'taste the rainbow!' I honestly did not put any innuendos what so ever!"
I tossed them the packet... I'm sorry my skittles... This is for daddy's safety and well being.
"Will ya look at that! It does say the phrase!" Applejack laughed at the misunderstanding and relaxed
"Humph." Rainbow let the matter go, but I'm sure she'll hold this incident in contempt and try to get back at me... I'm sure of it... She's a prankster too after all, I know that look.
"Just for this very embarrassing and confusing misunderstanding of ours, starting today I'll call you skittles." She glared at me, but if she was going to prank me for something I didn't even intended to do, then I should at least get her angry before said prank.
"Now can I please have my skittles back? Not the whiny blue one, the small pocket of sweets one." Twilight gave me back my sweets and I held it in my grasp as I saw Skittles glaring at me for the jab I just made. I opened the packet and put two pieces in my mouth, god I love skittles. The sweets kind.
"Hey Anon!"
"Hn?" I looked at the girl that called me out, it was Applejack and she was grinning, something feels weird here, but I decided to let the feeling slide
"Mind if Ah 'taste the rainbow?' " She snickered and I laughed. Even Twilight giggled!
"Sure! Here, have some. How about you Twilight? Want to 'taste the rainbow?' as well?" Her giggles turned into laughter as she nodded and went to get some from me, Rainbow Dash didn't seem to like the jabs I did as she grit her teeth in anger and yelled out
"All right! That's it! It's go time Anon!" let me just say this... She fails as a prankster. Pranksters are something like a comedian, comedians don't get angry because they're ridiculed... They use those as more material to get more laughter, she has a long way to go if she wants to be a prankster.
"Whoa! Chill out Skittles! We didn't mean you! Here, why don't you relax with us and 'Taste the rainbow' s well!" She was about to pounce me but thankfully Twilight held her in place and I popped a piece into her mouth, needless to say the wonderful taste of skittles calmed her down.
A few seconds later when the skittles were all gone, they decided to go to the heart of the matter.
"Let's talk about the main story then, Tell us about your powers."
All the chumminess and laughter went straight out the window as soon as she said that phrase.
"I don't really want to tell about that..." Their glares made me think otherwise
"Anon, trust me when Ah say this but, normally Ah can see if a pony is easily trustworthy or not, you however, Ah can't seem to trust ya no matter how hard Ah try, and ya ain't helping yourself in defending." I merely chuckled at what she said
"What're ya laughin about Anon?"
"Sorry, it's just, that's how normally humans are when it comes to trust. No human is a hundred percent trustworthy, humans can turn on their own family just for their own sake. I only have one true friend back on earth! But if you really want to..."
"I'll tell you all I know about this power, but it may not help much. Well it's like this, ever since I was born, I've had this power with me. I didn't even know I had this power until one evening when I was nine years old, a thief snuck inside our house, I was home alone playing with my toys at the living room when I heard noise coming from the kitchen area, I went to the noise wondering what it was, there I saw a man with a mask on his face trying to ransack the house, searching for anything of value, now that I think about it he was kind of dumb, why start the search in the kitchen when he wasn't even looking for food right? Anyways, he was heading my direction and all the fears I had about him finding me was very traumatic, deep in my mind I searched for someone who can help me.... I dug deep on a memory I once saw on a show, a superhero helping others. My power just awoken like that and boom! The man shot me with his gun... Except he was hitting nothing but air."
"Wait, why is there a thief in your house? What's a gun?"
"Well like I said before, My world is a predatory world, you're either predator... Or prey, and the second question the gun... A gun is another invention of ours, it propels miniature iron pellets at high speed towards a receiver." Twilight gasped, the other two didn't quite understand what it meant since I tried to say what it does discreetly.
"Wouldn't that kill somepony?!" I sighed
"Well depending on who's holding it, it could easily be used as a defensive tool, or a deadly one. Let's just say the thief wasn't so friendly at the time."
"How did the pellets not hit you then?" They stared at me with rekindled curiosity
"You see this?" I gestured to my lower body "you tied me up like this simply because I looked like Twilight at the time right?" They nodded
"My power isn't 'transformation' but 'illusion', I don't change into something, I show something else to someone. Basically a young little me was showing the thief a big costumed super hero, it worked wonders since the pellets were hitting nothing but air, and the wall behind me. Seeing as how the gun wasn't doing anything to what he was seeing he just turned tail and ran!"
"Then a few minutes later my grandfather came back and saw me, or the superhero I projected at least and he tried to hit the superhero with a stick but then he suddenly stopped when I hugged him and I was crying in his pants, he found it weird how his pants was getting wet when there was nothing but the legs of the superhero there. He was the very best person a guy can hope for."
"Sadly, when I turned sixteen years old, my grandfather had heart complications and he started having a heart attack, when he stabilized he called us, my family, to come to his hospital bed, he told us as soon as we got there that, he...." I choked... Trying to push the words out of my mouth... Twilight seemed to understand the pain I was going through right now and was going near me to stop me but I held a hand out towards her and said "I'm fine, let me continue." She nodded and went back to sit.
"He told us, that he feels his life will end in a week, seven days left... My family all cried at the absurdity of what he said, but he claimed that it will happen, he was sure of it. He was smiling, he was fine with it, he was ready. My father, my mother and my sister all cried, we all did, but none more so than me, I cried my heart out, I kept calling out 'who will I help me with my power? You can't go gramps, don't leave me, please!' of course he just smiled and said ,'everyone comes and goes at some point sonny, mine just went faster than expected, but hey at least I'll get to see that cute smile of your Grammy again!' he chuckled out. It made me sick, I hated myself for being childish, there I was throwing of a childish tantrum, and my grandfather never once said anything about grandma's death except on his last days in his death bed."
"I came in daily, visited him whenever possible, saw his body deteriorate until on the last day, me and my family was waiting for his final breath, he called us out one by one, telling us about things we need to do, to accept and lastly he called me out, he said I'm sad to have to leave you like this, but you're responsible enough now, I trust your decisions wholeheartedly, so go out there and be the best at what you can do. Do you have a picture of Grammy I can see before I sleep?' I shook my head no, and he chuckled weakly as he said 'too bad, I wanted to tell her in heaven.... That she grew very old and.... Wrinkly but I still.... Love her....' he then went into a fit of violent coughing and I shook him in his shoulders lightly and gently, then I told him, 'i have something better than a picture gramps.' I used my powers voluntarily for the first time at that moment without thinking hard, it happened naturally, I made him see the image of Grammy. And using the image I told him. 'rest now, you old coot, I'll be here watching over you.' he chuckled one last time and said 'Thank...you......' and his heart stopped beating soon after."
"My family saw my power and was afraid of the power I had and I became estranged to them they kept calling me a freak and other spiteful things, my grandfather left me some funds so I can live on my own, thinking back on it now he probably knew that would happen someday, I used the money he gave me and live my life away from my family, and now I'm here. Any questions?" I asked them with a nonchalant tone, not bothering to notice the glistening and moistured eyes they held, Rainbow Dash showing her back to us, I could hear her sniffling, Applejack holding her hat in the front of her face to not let the tears be seen and Twilight bawling her eyes out, sure it was a sad story and all but...
"It feels great to finally get that off of my chest. So am I free now or something?" No one said a word as Twilight suddenly relinquished her magic's hold on me, I stretched out clearing away the kinks in my bones and muscles and took notice of the girls still close together crying their eyes out, I sighed, Zane was the only one except my family that knew what happened, he was bawling like this too! I miss the asshole already. I went near the three of them silently, not wanting them to notice me and as soon as I got into arms length... I embraced all three as I possibly could, they squirmed, wiggled and protested at the sudden affectionate motion of mine but I held on tight and told them
"Thank you Applejack, Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash. It feels great to know, that you know how I felt that time, it really helps me, a lot!" I smiled at them as I let them go and even though there were still some sniffles heard, it mostly died down, and suddenly as if right on time our stomachs grumbled together signifying that it was dinner time.
"How about we get something to eat at the kitchen? Eating really cheers me up" they laughed and we decided to eat some dinner
happily enough they started to trust little ol' me, and if that isn't a plus, Skittles actually forgot her planned revenge on me! Win-Win situation is the best situation! The night went on normally, we talked, we ate, threw some insults, what normal friends do! And for the first time I can actually say, other than Zane? I have true friends here in this side as well.... Well it was a peaceful dinner if I hadn't remembered something in the back of my mind.
"Oh right! Twilight you said you went to earth right?" She nodded and asked "why? What's the matter?"
"Where did you end up to? And what did you eat at the time?"
"Well I ended up in this big building called a 'school' and they served the best Hay-burgers I've ever tasted! Why did you want to know?" I grinned as evilly as I could.
"I don't feel good about you grinning like that, what're you thinking about?! Tell me!"
"Are you finished eating?" I asked her, still grinning
"Yeah, why?" She was right on being wary of me and worried for herself, this will probably be the worst thing I'll do to her... But I can't pass it up.
"You just ate in a school cafeteria, they never serve hay-burger." I grinned even wider
"... Wait... Are you..? You mean..? I just...?" She fainted, if she forgets about this when she wakes up, I'll let it go, if not, then I'll just have to say sorry and tell her that what I said was true. I also noticed the deadpanned looks Rainbow and Applejack were giving me as they shakes their heads slowly
"What? It's the truth you know!" I laughed while fanning the fainted Twilight.
Author's Note
Note #1.In any case some of you hasn't or doesn't play final fantasy.... That is how the game spell magic. Anon is just referencing that.
Note #2. I used this as a reference for their age... I don't want to speculate so I used this. Here is the said post.
Well, here we are again, same old surroundings, same old library and same old questions. Why can't Sparkly allow me to walk outside of this library?! Sure, I can probably keep myself occupied for a while, I have my phone and solar charger for optimum music and game time, one small problem... Sparkly won't let me go outside! No sunlight, no charge. Also I need my fresh air, it's been a week since the initial 'interview' but it seems even though I'm trusted to not cause any mischief and trouble, my being here itself will do those for me, it doesn't help that I don't have anyone to talk to, since it seems that Skittles has a job to clear skies and stuff like that and Apple has her own job getting apples.
Question, after question, after question. Twilight never gets tired of this situation, I tried everything! Told her about wars, told her about different gods from different cultures, told her about fiction and how everything in this world was fiction in ours, HA! That face of hers at the time was priceless. Even tried scare tactics and meat eating, anything and everything I tried was fruitless and only harbored more questions
"Ugh, Sparkly, when can I see the outside?"
"Anon, I have a proper name you know? Can you please start calling me correctly?" she groaned as she continued writing some form of letter, she says it was for that princess Celestia person... er... pony
"When you let me outside, now can we please go outside for once? I promise to stay civil."
"We still don't know what kind of effect you'll bring to this world and unless we can prove to the other ponies that you're safe, then it's best for you to stay here, for the safety of both parties."
"OR I could copy Skittles or Apple and we can go outside."
"Anon, that's a... actually not a bad idea. How did I not think of that?"
"Next time Sparkly, more thinking, less writing." I huffed all my exasperation away with a slap to the forehead as I tried to remember what Apple looked like and soon there after, asked Sparkly if it was done correctly
"You really don't know if your own powers work?" pen and paper with her as she headed down from the second floor
"Well, if I use it myself, I'd know, but I never tried on ponies so it might not go well as expected."
"What about that time with copying me?" still writing something down, but hey, at least she's making the most out of that pen
"Subconscious, don't notice it acting up from time to time." I shrugged
"Well, you've got Applejack down for maybe except two minor details..."
"And?"
"Her Mane and tail are blonde, not... what did you call it? Skittles? and also she doesn't have wings." she pointed out using the pen which she levitated with her magic. Man I would pay a lot for that kind of thing just to help me find the remote. "But maybe this is better? You don't have to copy any pony and you'll have just have to think up a story for who you are, that way no one gets suspicious of how and why either Rainbow or Applejack were suddenly appearing out of nowhere... we don't need another pony like that." she silently groaned, must be imagining something?
I shook my head "No can do, unless I do it unconsciously or I copy someone else, or somepony else, the power will go haywire, using this consciously is harder than it looks if I can't see what my copy version look like, I might suddenly think of an afro or some poofy hair and POOF, my mind will unconsciously add that... It was added wasn't it?" she facepalmed... correction 'hoofed' as she groaned and nodded
"Your power is too random, you would be a great friend for Pinkie and that might be the scariest thing to happen..."
"Were you talking about me?"
"Uwaah!" I stumbled from my chair in the kitchen when a sudden voice popped out of nowhere from behind me, there was no one in this room before except for me, the space is small so I definitely would have notice someone sneaking up behind me, also adding the fact that the only way in here was through the doorway which Twilight just entered a few moments ago
"Pinkie, don't you know when to knock?!"
"Sorry Twilight, but that would ruin the surprise. Who's this?" she looked at me funnily as I tried to stand up from the floor followed by a small whimper from me because of the aching I'm feeling from my back, by the looks of it, my 'mixture' of the two ponies was the form she was looking at
"She looks like Rainbow Dash and AppleJack together! Rainbow Jack? Apple Dash? OH! maybe Rainbow Apple? Mmm... That sounds delicious... Rainbow Apples..." while she was fantasizing about her said 'fruit', I got the time to stand up and looked at Twilight's direction
"Well you see, Pinkie, she's uh... A cousin of Rainbow Dash.. Yeah! She's a cousin of Rainbow Dash who is now visiting to meet us, Rainbow's friends... yeah..." she roughly laughed while I facepalmed at her 'explanation' , granted that it was very on-the-spot but even a child could make up a better excuse, but the pink pony just guffawed at her and her explanation
"Sorry Twilight, I was just messing with you, I know he's not a pony, he's not even a she!" she looked at me and held a hoof out "Nice to meet you Mr.Anon! My name's Pinkie Pie, and you and I are going to be best buddies! This is the first time I'll be friends with a human! How exciting!" I shook her hoof with my hand as I concentrated to remove the illusion of the 'mixture'
"Pinkie, I know this is not the most logical solution to knowing, but I'll ask you anyway, how did you know all that?!" Twilight yelled out, her eye twitching
"Oh, that? I read the first chapter." Me and Twilight looked at her curiously
"What first chapter?"
"Well, DUH? The first chapter of this story of course! Look!" she showed us what seemed to be a diary of some sort, opened up to a page that simply told about a part of my life, including how I got here, I took the book from her grasp and looked at it curiously
"Where did you even get this?!" I yelled out, this is some serious stuff! How did anyone even know about all this?! as I tried to change it to another page, but it was quickly taken from me as she held a hoof in the air
"You can't look at the other contents! Even I don't do that! Well... not anymore, but still!"
"Why?"
"It'll ruin the suspense of course!"
"Okaay? Then what about all those nicknames? Why say them when you actually know who I really was?" I scratched my head a few times, this was both really weird and really freaky at the same time. What the heck is that book?!
"It would make things funnier!" she smiled which was really adorable and I could swear to god I heard this weird 'squee' sound when she did! The longer I stay in this world... The longer I feel my manliness flying away from me... Haaa I sighed
"What's the matter Anon?" she seemed to catch me sighing but I wave her off
"It's nothing, anyways nice to meet you too Pinkie." I held my hand out and she gripped it, into a handshake. Yes. GRIPPED it, I don't even have the energy to ask.
"Look Twilight, Pinkie here is fine with me, so shouldn't I be fine?"
"Negative Anon, Pinkie's is uhh... more accepting towards mishaps and other various events, but the ponies here are not."
"Well then, how am I supposed to get outside?" I pondered while doing a 'thinker' pose which for the few minutes I noticed Pinkie trying to imitate, I smiled I like this girl
"Hey, Twilight!" I grabbed her attention
"Yeah?"
"Me and Pinks here seems to hit it off quite fine, can I keep her?" I grabbed Pinkie and brought her up to face Twilight while still being carried by me, something like a kid who picked up a puppy and showed the mother about wanting to keep it, and better yet Pinkie was actually willing to cooperate
"Uhh, not sure if you noticed but... Pinkie isn't a cat or dog you picked up, she has a life of her own and she can take care of herself, unlike you however, can not." me and Pinkie both looked sad for a moment but when she and I looked at each other we both got the same idea. I am really starting to like this girl... she did say 'you and I are going to be best friends' after all... wait how was she so sure we're going to be best friends? sure we're friendly towards each other but... is this about that book?! I shook off the thought when Pinkie called Twilight back
"What is it now you two? I'm still finding a way to be able to get Anon outside without him using his powers." she saw the looks we were giving her as she continued "I thought I told you two that you cant already."
"No it's not like that, since I can't keep Pinks, we decided... She keep me instead!" Twilight's jaw dropped, if it could get any lower it would probably hit the floor but she shook it off as she sighed
"I'm tired of dealing with your shenanigans Anon, adding Pinkie to that is bound to be a headache so I won't even bother giving you a reaction." but even though she said this, me and Pinkie were already snickering
"Well, we got nothing to do, what do you suggest we do now Pink?"
"I don't know" she shrugged
"Got any games on you?" she smiled widely again and I still freaking hear that 'squee' sound!
"Do I?!"
~|(\_/)|~
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A few moments passed with me and Pinkie playing some board games that she got out of her mane. I don't know how she does it, but for me it's like a woman's bag.
When suddenly Twilight entered the room and told us "I found a perfect, but long and tiring way for you to be introduced here in Ponyville without the mass chaos." she still sounded despondent, I guess me and Pinkie together really will mess with her head?
"I figured that the best course of action would be is to let you meet the other elements of harmony bearers, we're kind of known as saviors but it's not really much, at the very least if you had us to vouch for you then you'll have a better chance of being accepted." she sighed
"Hey, that's a great plan! I met Skittles and Apple already, you and Pinks here makes four... so the other two are the mystery?"
"And that's where the problem might begin..." she sighed again, This is really either Sparkly being too over dramatic... or a very scary foreboding for me... I gulped... This could be a bumpy ride.
Off the my left Pinkie was reading a book when she suddenly clapped her front hooves together and said "OH! So that's why Twilight is so tired." I looked at her a little more focused and found out she was reading that same darn book
"Hey! I thought you shouldn't read the next pages?!" I tried to grab the book from her grasp but she just lightly stepped back from my reach and put her tongue out and grinned
"I was curious!"
"That's not fair Pinks! Let me see!" we started having a game of cat and mouse inside the library, Twilight just sighed again as she thought 'I just hope this goes well.'
Author's Note
I actually wanted to make Pinkie say
"Well, the author of this story has read a few cheesy stories about AppleDash and wanted to make a jab at the said stories" but decided against adding it... It will definitely ruin the plan I have for the story if Pinkie was too 4th wall breaking (mostly about story and author jabs) ... or I could make Pinkie not appear so much if she was a 4th wall breaker (like I said before)... but who doesn't like Pinkie?!
I for one Love her and her ability of breaking the 4th wall...
I've got a good news and a bad news. Good news is, I was finally able to get the hell out of that library and in the blinding rays of the sun, better yet... I was able to charge my phone! Bad news? My games were useless, no internet connection and more than half of my games are better left deleted... I was three days closer to getting that rare character and all of this was.... Excuse me, I went off on a tangent there, either way there was still some games playable, even though they bore me now, but on the brighter side, I can listen to my music. No real likes or dislikes. I can go listen to classical music one moment and then dubstep the next! And that is what I'm doing right now, listening to some good old 'Owl City', ironic how some of the songs I have in this phone pretty much tells a few of my experiences here, also... I wonder what her other two friends are like? On one hand we have Twilight, the nerdy librarian. Rainbow Dash, the tomboy who loves speed. Applejack, The calm farmer. And Pinkie Pie, the bubbly, happy and slightly random and weird... uh... baker? Anyways, I wonder what the two remaining ones are... I'm just hoping there's no yandere-ish type... I don't want to be caught in the target sights of a yandere...
As soon as we stepped out of the library, I quickly took out the charger and the phone to see if it still works, thankfully enough that it still does. Twilight kept asking questions about the device, in which I humored her and answered until the resounding tune the phone made reminding me that the charging was working! I quickly tuned out Twilight to take my earphones out and listened, soon enough I was already humming, a little while later...
"Am I home? Or am I simply tumbling all alone~" I sang, completely forgetting the pony beside me, who if I only looked closely was actually calling out to me.
Suddenly I felt a tug on the earphones I was wearing and removed one of them and looked at Twilight's direction to see a fuming pony who was clearly glaring at me.
"What?"
"It's rude to ignore ponies you know?"
"When have I ever ignored you?" She rolled her eyes and looked at me funny.
"Really Anon? Are you really asking that?"
"Yeah.... Never mind, what do you need anyway?" Shaking her head, she sighed.
"Well, when we were talking, before that device suddenly emitted that sound and you suddenly ignored me for no reason..." She'll hold a grudge against this huh? "I was asking you about that device, and how you're going to fare here in Equestria."
"Well, explaining about this device will take a long time so, let's put that matter on hold first, about me faring here is a different matter. I've been here for almost a week now, we've established that I'm not a threat to any of you here, we know that I can eat something else other than meat, all is good except one thing."
She wondered "What is that 'one thing'?"
"Clothes."
"Clothes?" I nodded.
"Yes, clothes. As a human being, we have this instinctual taboo where humans are required to have clothing on all times except for a few exceptions, although there are other tribes back in the world that doesn't see clothing as part of a necessity, but from where I'm from, we feel it better to wear clothes than not."
"I still don't see the problem here Anon." I sighed.
"Well... Let me put it this way, I grew up wearing clothes everyday and it would make me feel more out of place if I don't wear any. Sure I'm wearing clothes now, but it feels really weird to wear the same clothing for almost a week straight." Looking back at Twilight I noticed she was putting that pen to good use.
"And?"
"And seeing as how you ponies can easily go outside to anywhere in your birthday suit, naturally you don't need clothes right? Now I'm in a dilemma of where I can get some clothes." I sighed but she only laughed at me.
"Well Anon, you're quite in luck! The pony who we'll meet is a bonafide tailor! One of the best in Equestria if I do say so myself!"
"Wait, so you mean... I don't have to walk around on my birthday suit?" She nodded.
"HURRAH! Well what are we waiting for?! Let's go!" I ran straight as fast as I could before feeling a familiar and sudden tug at my clothes and seeing a purple glow around me.
"You're going the wrong way. I'll lead."
The other ponies around town were looking at me and were whispering to one another, I say let them, I'm too happy to know that I'll be getting some clothes in this strange new world and Carly Rae was not helping me in containing my giddiness.
You're right about that Carly, it's always a good time. I grinned as I let Twilight man handle me, or was it pony handle?
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Twilight has been looking at me weirdly for the whole time while we walked towards whatever destination we were going but, this is normal I guess? Even back at home people would look at someone else weirdly if the person was bobbing his head but, she's starting to irk me.
"What?" Twilight having not expected me to talk, stumbled for a second before clearing her throat.
"I uh... was just wondering why you were doing that with your head."
"It's the device, I'll tell you later when we get to your friend's place." she stopped and shook her head.
"You can tell me now. We're already here." she knocked at the door of the place near us.
"Uhh, Twilight? What was this place called again?" I asked as I walked towards her while looking at the building.
"Carousel Boutique." we heard someone from the other side of the door Figures it'll be another horse or pony pun... this place literally looks like a carousel ride! this thought of mine made me accidentally chuckle a little but, a voice soon talked, snapping me out of the thought.
"Who is it?" Oh... A snooty high-class type voice... good, not a yandere...
"It's me Rarity. I have something to talk about with you." Twilight seems to be putting something on her ears and if I wasn't mistaken those looked exactly like earplugs... damn it.
"Ooh! Is it a gossip? Do tell darling!" she quickly opened up the door and saw me three... two... one... "Kyaaaaaaaaaa!!!" I quickly held my hands towards my ears expecting this very reaction but... GOD DAMN! Her scream could easily shatter glass! she soon fainted though and we... Twilight and I, looked at each other.
"What now?" I was cleaning out my ears, which was still ringing by the way...
"For now, let's get her inside and wait for her to wake up so we can explain, also, try to hide somewhere inside where she can't see you once she wakes up so it will be easier to explain."
Her plan is good... but I have a different idea. I grinned, Twilight might have noticed as she was sighing.
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"Anon! You need to hide! She'd be waking up any second now!" Twilight was pulling on my shirt with her magic but I payed it no heed as I continued inspecting the fainted pony, snow white fur, posh and curled mane and tail and shiny hooves that looked as if it was manicured!
"Uugh... what in the world happened...?" she seems to be waking up as Twilight was now frantically pulling me away, evident by how she was now pulling on my clothes with her mouth instead of her magic.
As soon as she opened her eyes, the first thing she saw was a grinning face, no muzzle, just a face that was grinning. At her.
She opened her mouth to scream again but, I quickly put my right hand on her muzzle and my left arm around the back of her neck while using my free hand to scratch the back of her ear. I heard that horses like being scratch in that part among many other part but this is the safest part I can think of, this scratching thing is something akin to a dog's underbelly scratch if I'm not mistaken.
The mare struggled under my grasp but, I held on and continued and soon she was putty under my hands. "There, isn't that better? all relaxed?" she still cautiously looked at me and then looked at Twilight who said she will 'Explain' as they moved to another room, leaving me all on my lonesome... Time to fling some bird suicide.
~|(\_/)|~ ~|\_/|~
I quickly got bored as I rest the phone and charger near a window and listened to music, it was somewhere around an hour or two since they've spoken in private but, I'm really bored now with nothing else to do. Just listening to music. Waiting here like this makes me bored so I decided to close my eyes and get some rest, girls and their gossips always take too much time... or not? I suddenly hear their steps coming close... I should pretend sleep. and that I did.
"I understand completely darling. I am willing to cooperate! And who knows? This might even give me more ideas for my expertise." I may have my eyes closed but, from her voice I could tell she was giddy for this. Oh boy... well, this is for my clothes anyways so I'll just do what must be done.
I surrendered myself to the tailor slash artist pony in front of me and let her do her work, either way this is a win-win situation for me. Free clothes and new way to relax the ponies into mush... I don't know why Twilight was so tired about this meeting but I can already see the fun times ahead...
Author's Note
I just made a new story to get out of my block... thanks to that... we have this quaint little chapter here... enjoy
Meeting(?) with timidness.
It's late afternoon now. I turned off the music so as to save batteries for the night. It's called [Solar] after all. Anyways, we headed towards the last friend of Twilight Sparkle that she wanted me to meet. Fluffysky or something like that. I was just walking beside the small little creature towards our destination. By the way, the small little creature is Twilight. I try to annoy her from time to time while walking since I got nothing better to do at the moment.
"Mmm... stop it already!" Twilight knocked my hand away.
"What? I'm just scratching your ears. Sheesh."
"We have more important matters to attend to Anon. This is regarding to your temporary stay in this world!"
"Alright, alright. Relax, your highness. You're going to age fast if you keep getting stressed. Look at Pinkie, she's enjoying her everyday life." She glared at me with fiery eyes, seems she didn't like what I said.
"You two talking about me?" a voice from somewhere suddenly asked.
"Huh?" normally, me and Twilight was confused and looked around at who said those words.
"Up here, sillies!" we looked up and lo and behold, there was Pinkie Pie, with her trade mark smile and waving her hoof... she was flying through the use of multiple balloons by the way.
"Uhh.. Pinkie?" I know this is stupid... but I'll ask anyway.
"Yes?" She answers with the same smile.
"Three questions. One, why are you flying with balloons. Two, how did you know where we are and lastly, three, What are you doing here? Didn't you have something to do?"
"It's elementary my dear." She answers back.
"Okay? Well, that's not much of an answer."
"I suppose not huh? Okay, well, the cakes closed shop for today and the I know you were here because of the 'book' and for why I'm flying with the balloons? It's fun!" after her answer she suddenly giggled.
"I shouldn't have asked..." sighing as I face palmed at the somehow obvious answer that she gave. I popped her balloons with a pin causing her to fall flat on her feet... She has a good balance if she was able to do that.
"That wasn't very nice, Anon." I shrugged.
"Walk normally then, also... Give me that book!" I tried to grab her but she nimbly dodged me and the game of cat and mouse started again... Until Twilight stopped us at least.
"Are we still going to that last friend of yours? It's getting late soon you know. Maybe we should hold this off for tomorrow?"
"Whose fault do you think that would be?" she looked at me with the look that obviously said 'it's obviously you right?' kind of feeling.
"Alright, alright. Let's just go. You coming Pinks?" I raised my hands as I asked the sudden addition of ~~person~~... Pony.
"Of course!"
"Now that that's settled, let's go!" I point upwards and walked straight to the direction I was pointing at.
"It's this way, Anon."
"It's that way then!" I pointed and walked towards the direction Twilight told me.
"Oh right, come here Pinks. Since Twilight doesn't want an ear scratch, I'll give it to you." I received two different looks. One of curiosity and one of anger... Mainly a glare from the anger.
"It wouldn't hurt would it?" she looked at me expectantly.
"No, of course not. Now come here you!" I grabbed her and carried her in my arms like one would a stuffed bear and did what I did.
Man, their fur is awesomely soft. Like some kind of high class cloth!
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"Hmmm, a little... Little to the left plea... Yeeeess... That's the spot." Yup. Putty in my hands. Fingers and hands are awesome in this world... Though there is magic here so... Yeah.
"This... Is the best... The others should try this..." Pinkie looked as if she was on nirvana.
"You can put her down now Anon. We're here." I did what was told. Pinkie was a little regretful though.
Twilight proceeded to knock though after waiting for a whole minute, we got no answer whatsoever.
"Maybe she's sleeping?" Pinkie asked, exactly what I was thinking of as well.
"No, she often feed the animals at times like this. Let's try once more." she knocks again but we got nothing, or at least I first thought we did, until I heard a minuscule voice. As in really unnoticeable that I first thought it was all in my head.
"Who... Who is it?" Oh, there it is. I was right.
"It's me, Fluttershy. Can you please open the door so we can have a chat?" we heard an affirmation from the other side of the door albeit barely.
"Hello Fluttershy." Fluttershy as she will now be named, looked around and saw Twilight, Pinkie and then, me.
I'm not going to lie, I was expecting her to scream or attack or run or all of the above, what happened next however was not on the list.
"Oh my, is it hurt?" she looked at me worriedly while asking Twilight and Pinkie.
"That's just it Fluttershy, we'll talk about this inside."
We moved on towards the living room and I... Sat on the floor. Oh well, probably better for both ways.
"The thing we'll need to talk about is all about him." Twilight points at me and I looked all around the room.
"So it's a male? What do we need to talk about exactly? Did something happen to him?" she was genuinely worried about me and for one thing. Just like Pinkie, I already like this mare.
She walked towards me and touched my forehead to look for any injuries.
"He's okay, I need to talk to you about him exactly."
"What is it about Twilight?" after Fluttershy looked away, I immediately told Twilight what I was thinking.
"She's nice Twilight. I like her." Pinkie wasn't around now that I think about it.
Fluttershy immediately looked at me in surprise and I can see Twilight sighing. She's really stressful these days.
The mare in front of me said babbles of words before fainting.
Twilight and I looked at her before I said "Two of your friends were hostile to me on the first sight. The other two fainted and the last one somehow got an annoying book about me."
"I'm back, did Fluttershy faint already?" Pinkie came to the living room from somewhere, holding a bucket of ice.
"You knew about this didn't you?"
"Yup." she smiled again.
"Give me that book!" cat and mouse part three.
"You two together gives me a headache." Twilight sighed again while massaging her head.
~|(\_/)|~ ~|\_/|~
"I think she's coming to." as I pointed it out, the three of us looked at the p... pony in person. Wait, is this correct? Pony in person? Whatever!
It took a while before she fully regained consciousness as she stands up.
"I saw a really weird dream." she said as she was adjusting her eyes to the lights.
"About what?" I decided to humor her, or at least myself as I asked. She looked at me for a few seconds before running behind Twilight. She was even cowering!
"I think it's best I talk to her alone?" I nod. I can see Fluttershy was afraid of me so this was the best option. They went to another room leaving me and Pinkie alone. We look at each other before I spoke up.
"Get the boardgames out. I'm beating you this time." she 'squeed' again as she held out said games and put them in between us.
~|(\_/)|~ ~|\_/|~
"Dang it! How can you be this strong?!" I accidentally screamed out in frustration while Pinkie was giggling.
"I'm not strong. You're just weak!" she giggled again.
"Oh yeah?! Once more! Let's go!" she shrugged and set up the games but before any of s could take a chance of doing a move, Twilight came out with Fluttershy.
Fluttershy went towards me and spoke up. Weakly though.
"Uhmm.. I uhh.. I'm sorry. I heard from Twilight what happened to you."
"It's okay. I might have scared a few years off of you because of what I did so I'm sorry for that as well. Come closer." she was hesitantly walking towards me and as soon as she got close... I did what I do best in this world other than annoying someone.
"Hyaa!!" she was caught off guard at what I did but soon she was put in a relaxed state. Her body seems to be stiff though. must be from all the work she does everyday? I decided to turn the ear scratch into a massage. Something I'm proud of in the old world was that I'm good at massages.
~|(\_/)|~ ~|\_/|~
A few moments later and we're on our way back towards the library. I figured out that my massages has an awesome effect on ponies as well! Pinkie went home halfway through and now it leaves only me and Twilight going back to the library... Which begs the question... Why was she so worried about today? Nothing overly dramatic happened anyways.
"Whatever you were afraid of happening, didn't happen Twilight." she looked at me and thought about something for a second before sighing and chuckling after that.
"I guess so, but something else that is as troublesome came up."
She must mean the ear scratch thing? Well whatever, They like it. I like the soft touch of their fur. It's win-win in my case. We continue walking back and chatting with each other. One-sided but still a talk, before we got back and slept.
Author's Note
Hey everyone, I'm back. With a kick-ass laptop to boot! Gaming and all that was fun but It's time for me t update. Starting now, I'll try to write something before playing games... Anyways, Ever heard of moonlight sculptor and Tate no yuusha nariagari? Those two are awesome stories that has taken up most of my time before. I advice you to read those when you have spare time.
Also, anyone here play Wakfu Asian server? Cuz I do.
Something unexpected
My days here has been fun to say the least. Aside from the boring stuff of absolutely nothing happening, annoying Twilight was always fun, I try not to do it too much though. Don't want a repeat of what happened before... Nope. Definitely not.
As I was saying, everything was all hunky-dory... Until it happened. A stupid decision from a bored idiot. But at least something good happened right?
"Come on Twilight. It's fine if I go outside at night isn't it?" I tried to argue but obviously she was having none of it, she even sighed to show her thought.
"You know we can't do that yet. We still haven't started the plan to let ponies know of you yet. Me and the girls are talking about what we should do, just stay still, I promise that we'd think of something."
After saying that sentence, she was back to silence and writing. If she doesn't stop writing so much, that pen I gave her will run out of ink. Even I wasn't able to do that on my school life.
Well, that talk was a bust. What to do now? Hmm, I'm going to sneak out later. It's too interesting outside not to walk around. Sorry Sparkles, can't stop my wanderlust.
Saying sorry to Twilight, my plan was now in action, I just started it by lazily lying around waiting for night to come.
~|(\_/)|~ ~|\_/|~
I slowly opened my eyes, sit up silently, tip-toe sneakily. Doing everything I can to prevent Twilight from finding out my plan, lo and behold, the door to the outside, all I need to do now is to touch the door and open it and be free... For FREEDOM!!
I rushed towards the door and quickly opened it just in case it was going to creak, I'm bolting for it but contrary to creaking, it was actually silent. Huh, how anti-climactic. Oh well.
Though for some reason, there was this itch in my palm when I touched the door. They should clean that door.
~|(\_/)|~ ~|\_/|~
I'm out but there's nothing to do here as well. What a bust.
With that thought in mind, I just walk around, making sure not to go towards the homes. If I remember correctly, there was a forest near Shy's shack. Adventure Time!
With my 'New' plan, I went towards the direction in mind, hopefully this would be a good adventure.
~|(\_/)|~ ~|\_/|~
Found Shy's shack. To the left? Nothing worthy of note. To the right? My destination. If I remember something, it was called... Everfree Forest? Sounds like a forest for the now free human then.
With my fist balled up and held in the air like a boxing champ winning, I walked towards the forest with a smile on my face and anticipation beating in my heart.
I wonder what I can find here? Adventure, adventure! Now I know how that little girl Dora feels.
One step in the forest and instantly, a thought came into my mind.
Something feels... Different.
But I quickly took that thought out of my mind, this world is already the very meaning of different. And so am I.
"Hmm, nothing out of the ordinary, other than your typical trees in a forest. Odd, no forest creature in sight."
I look around the area as I walk tirelessly. Still nothing note-worthy happening.
Well, except for that hut I saw a while ago but I'd rather not enter it in hopes of finding pots to break. That's called breaking and entering, trespassing even. Especially at this time of the night, I'm no deviant you know... Then again I did sneak out when told not to but this and that are two different matters and... What am I doing?
I sighed at myself and my apparent stupidity of trying to justify my own stupid reason to myself. This sentence makes me look crazy. I should just get a move on already before I start to question my sanity.
Continuing on my walk I hear some rustling coming from some tall grass to the left. I instantly froze on the spot, sweat started pooling in my back and getting cold feet to continue walking.
Shit.
I looked towards the rustling and out came a... Chicken..? What the heck?
Though I was startled at first, seeing a chicken in a forest seem weird... But strangely relaxing.
Damn it, getting startled by a chicken, this forest is good at making one feel on edge. I might come back here for more some time.
I shoo'ed it away but it refused to budge and only looked at me... Staring, unblinking.
I was starting to think that something was wrong with this creepy chicken but it soon went closer and pecked my feet, after a few pecks and it walked towards the location it came from.
I looked at it warily but it kept coming back and forth, like it was trying to tell me to go with it. I couldn't really think of anything else of why I shouldn't do it so I went with it. Of course, the creepy staring helped in making me follow.
I soon entered the tall grass and a thought instantly came to my mind.
Hopefully, no monsters exists in tall grass, I don't have my starter and I definitely don't have repels.
I chuckled at my own thought, thinking about games and music tends to be relaxing at most times.
Even though I was following the chicken, there was this feeling that's creeping in my mind that someone, somepony or something is watching me.
Don't turn around. Don't turn around. Don't turn around. Damn it, why is it so hard to stop this cliche?!
Inevitably, I looked at my back and found nothing. Cliche indeed. I looked in front of me again but horror soon covered my visage. No, not because of some scary ghost, not some kind of demon, not a monster as well. It's way worse. I got lost in an unknown forest, the tour guide chicken no where in sight...
DAMN YOU CHICKEN!!
I frantically searched around for the clucking menace but found nothing.
Should have never followed that chicken!
Grumbling at my own stupidity, I try to remember the way I came from.
Well, that was at least until I heard a...
"Uwaaaaaaaa!!"
A scream, high pitched too. Luckily I was far from the voice's owner or I would've been deaf for a few minutes... Wait, this isn't the time for this!
Shaking the stupid thought I had away, I ran as fast as I could towards the area where I heard the scream, not taking notice of the things I stepped on or the places I moved to... I soon then found who it was and why that pony screamed.
"Holy shit." I couldn't stop my self from saying that... I mean, look at that thing! What the fuck is that?!
Lion head, scorpion tail, it even has those scary looking fangs and claws... It was chasing after three little ponies.
Fuck.
I want to help those children but... What the fuck can I do?! My power is useless! All it does is illusions! Nothing more nothing less! Fuck. Fuck... Fuck... What should I do? There's nothing I can do here, need to find someone that can help. please, no matter what, try to stay alive you three!
I turn around ready to ran as fast as I could, but... Is leaving them to search for someone really the right thing to do? Aren't I just leaving them to die? Then again, there's nothing else I CAN do. Fuck, I'm sorry children.
I took my first step away and before I could start running, I heard another scream.
God damn it. I'm gonna hate and love myself for this.
I couldn't do it. I couldn't leave them alone to die. As a responsible adult, I guess this is the right thing to do.
I saw one of the three ponies couldn't get up, must have sprained herself or something, also, the big creature was swinging its claw down, no more time to think I jumped straight in between the claw and the pony and quickly grabbed the pony away before we both get squashed.
The other two wanted to go near their friend but apparently, they were still wary of me, I let the pony in my arms go, and told them to run away as far away from here as possible, and also, to go get some help.
It didn't take them one moment before they left the area, muttering words of thank you and be careful.
The creature, now looking more angrier than ever apparently from the lost 'dinner' it was going to have now set its sight on me.
If I ever survive this... I will never fucking go back to this fucking forest.
That is, if I still survive...
Author's Note
Hey guys... Uhhh, I'm back? Yeah. Sorry bout the long wait, had stuff in real life and things like that which got in my way and I'm just rambling now so lets just stop here.
Totally not my day.
Never really liked those 'Hero' shows after I grew up. Just didn't seem real to me anymore. Something like that happening in real life would never happen, but even more than that is the whole "I'll save you!" cliché. Let me stress it out even further. I DON'T LIKE THAT. More than the hero thing, a normal person saving someone seems even unlikelier to happen but here I was now. After I oh so Ironically 'saved' those three... uhh... Children, let's just call them the way I used to for now. I found myself in a situation. Goes to show that heroism really isn't a good thing, at least for the 'savior'. Just wasn't my day that time. Why you ask? Well, let's just say that things happened one after the other. Either that or lady luck just decided to hate me for some reason.
"Alright, just you and me now ugly." I don't really know if it understands me but I'd say it does according to the slowly getting louder growling that it's doing. Maybe insults are not the best idea right now.
"Woah!" The massive thing went straight for me as it pounce! No warning whatsoever... Or maybe the growling was the best giveaway, I was never good at that kind of subtle clues... Or any type of social cues for that matter.
"SHIT!" All I could do now was dodge with my whole body every time it tries to pounce me or swipe at me with it's humongous claws. Now might not be the best time to think of stupid things.
"Didn't your mother ever teach you not to pick a fight?! Or at the very least, pick on someone your own size damn it!" I can't really continue dodging, I'd lose energy faster than this thing would. That would not end up as good as I would like to think.
"GAH! Fuck! We are not the same size!" Shit. Got grazed a little, here's to hoping there isn't any poison on it's claws or that's game over. No save points.
"That's it. This can't keep up like this." My stamina is almost at an end. It's now or never, got to use my hidden skill!
"Come on... A little closer... Try and pounce me one last time you bastard. I'll show you." I can't really do the secret skill unless he's airborne and distracted so I have to wait, hopefully he does it soon before my stamina runs out.
"NOW! RAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!" Seeing the chance to do it, I immediately went and did my hidden skill, 'Running the fuck out of here.' ... What? You'd expect me to challenge something like that without weapons and armor? Like hell I could fight something like that. I have no 'Determination' to die. I'm pretty sure there isn't even a redo if I did.
"See ya later sucker!" I always get the last laugh... But maybe I shouldn't have did that.
*GROOOOOOOOOWL* Shit. That sounded too close for comfort. Don't look back. Don't look back.
"Shit." Why did I even look back? That overgrown monstrosity was right on my tail and it does not look happy. Now I know what a mouse feels like.
"Need to hide, need to hide!" I kept looking left and right to find any place I can hide to away from that overgrown cat... Scorpion... Whatever it is that definitely should be burning in whatever hell it came from that's chasing me.
"God damn it. Are you seriously kidding me right now?" I was surrounded by forest before and somehow there was no good place to hide seeing as that hell spawn knew every time where I was and was following me and the next thing I see is a cliff? What the hell kind of place is this?!
"A river... Hmmm... Yeah, I don't think so." Jumping from a high place? Sounds fun... If I had a parachute. No way in hell am I jumping this.
*GROOOOOOOOOWL*
... Then again, I always did want to try that Leap of Faith thing from that one game. I looked back once more towards the beast, if I'm gonna die, might as well taunt the enemy.
"Fuck you!" Ahh, that felt good... The wind feels nice as I fall. I kinda feel like I'm on a bungee jump without the harness, I didn't expect things would end like this but... Whatever.
*Splash*
"Gah!" I accidentally drank water as I hit my back on the water surface. Note to self, never go flat when diving also, never back dive... Never dive on high places in general.
I quickly swam up to look if it followed me, luckily it seemed to be just looking here. At least I'm alive and even better, safe now. Or not.
"Why am I putting out flags one after the other? Shit! Gotta hurry!" The fuckin thing went and gunned it! It freakin jumped the cliff to catch up with me?! It wants to keep chasing me?!
"What the hell did I ever do to you damn it?!" My whole body is aching. This is the most exercise I'm getting in my whole life. I thought this world was all sunshine and rainbows?! I haven't gotten any sunshine and the only rainbow I got was a snarky, show-off. I WANT A REFUND!
*Scene Break*
Found a cave of some sort. Can finally relax. I think I lo... NO! No more danger flags or death flags. Stop thinking and relax me!
"Guhhh, this sucks. What kind of crappy vacation was this?" The first thing I found in this forest was a chicken that in my opinion should be roasted alive, three ponies that got way over their adventuring boots and that hell spawn. Whoever or whatever decided to make this forest, the hell spawn and what other monstrosity living here should seriously get beaten up. Lots.
And right then at that moment, my stomach just had to grumble, I guess I got relaxed after all. Sadly, I didn't have any food on me and with me being a prey to that damn thing, foraging for food might not be the best idea.
"Hay-burgers!" I suddenly remember Sparkly's remark about the delicious 'Hay-burgers' of the school cafeteria. I'm starting to think hay wouldn't be so bad right about now.
Just then my stomach rumbled again. Damn it Sparkly! Even now, her voice is taunting me.
"Just you wait Sparkly, I'll get my revenge." Well, I know it's wrong to feel like this but for some reason I just had to remember her at the exact same time when she mentioned food. It can't be a coincidence.
"This day sucks so bad."
*Scene Break*
"Huh? How long have I been out?" the sudden 'exercise' must have took a toll on me more than I thought if I slept without knowing it.
*Grumble*
"What was that?!" I looked around me, searching for whatever made that noise... I should probably get out of here. That overgrown cat should be tired of searching for me now.
*Grumble*
"Again?! What was... Oh. Damn it." I got scared by my own stomach noise. How can that even happen? I should go look for food instead of thinking about stupid stuff like this.
Fearing for my life, I slowly inch towards the cave entrance to see if I'm still being followed.
"Ok. Coast is clear, now where the hell was the location I came from again?" I surely love getting lost in the big out doors... I miss my internet... And fast food.
Foraging might be the only way for me to eat. "Foraging... Good thing I used to be a boy scout. This should be easy as long as nothing decides to say hi."
*Scene Break*
"Alright, that should be enough. Quite a haul in a short amount of time if I do say so myself." the 'haul' is a collection of weird looking flora, fauna and fungi, which is fancy talk for flowers and or plants, animals and mushrooms... I think?
Fish looks good, something I'd find anywhere else so this should be safe. The mushrooms... Are weird. Might not be the best idea to eat any of these but I still grabbed anything that looked edible so... Maybe I should risk it... No, bad idea.
Plants are... Normal. Huh, Didn't expect any normal plants from this stupid place but guess I was wrong. Some potatoes and carrots... At least I think it's a carrot. It's brown and looks like it has arms and legs. Weird little thing but the weirdest thing I got is definitely that luminescent flower.
"What the heck could this be..." It was a beautiful almost neon blue flower. Smells amazing too. This could make a good addition to the food smell wise... Or a perfume or something.
*Scene Break*
"Ahh that was a good dinner if I do say so myself." I was so hungry that I decided to risk it. Unexpectedly, the weird looking mushrooms tasted the best out of everything!! That carrot though... Scares me. Never have I ever seen a carrot that not only secretes red fluid but also silently screams... It SCREAMS! Though it didn't do anything else and was more or less no danger when eaten...
"Full stomach, and semi safe and semi warm cave. I should camp here for the night..." With that thought in mind I decided to drift off to sleep. I never expected what would happen next though.
