Lost and Searching

When I woke up, it was pitch black. I was already scared from the fact that somebody would knock me out. Now I was stuck in a dark room! When my lights started adjusting to the dark, I looked around at the shadows, hoping that there was a light switch in this room. There was nothing and I was worried. Maybe I was just too far away to see it. I didn't have any real time to think, because just as I started to get comfortable, I heard a hissing. I looked up and through the dark I saw a splitting green gas cut through the darkness. I was unsure of the substance, but whatever it was, it took hold of me quickly. I knew I wouldn't be conscious for much longer, so I ran up to the vent, attempting to close it. Luckily, I found a switch that closed it and did so instantly. It didn't help that the gas was still in the room, so I took off my shirt and wrapped it around my face for support. It wouldn't last long, I knew, but it had to last long enough.

I sat down on the bed that occupied the room. It was a fairly tall bed and when I dipped my head back to the wall, I was hit by something pointy. I yelped out and looked behind me, my pain turning into electricity. It was a light switch! I flipped it and the lights came on. All around me, posters covered the walls. Two book shelves accompanied the back wall, books pulled out and scattered across the floor. A night stand sat comfortably next to the bed, a radio with an IPod sitting on top of it, a lamp beside these.

The posters were all MLP related, only one being differentiated from the rest. It was a Doctor Who poster, with phrases scattered about it. A closet was on the north wall, open and, just as everything else was, dirty and untidy. Clothes were everywhere and game pieces littered the floor. The bed was plush, but a wooden board had been shoved beneath the mattresses, making the bed very painful on my butt.

I knew the instant I saw it that this was my room. It wasn't like this when I left. It appeared that it had been raided by somebody when I was gone. When I went up to go to the door, I found that it was locked, and the doorknob had been changed to make the door only able to be unlocked from the outside. I assumed it had been my mom, if that was even who she was. According to my visions, and what Lyra had said to me in the mirror, my mom was in Equestria. Right before her magic cut out, she tried to warm me about something, most likely my mom.

While I was busy trying to figure out how to unlock the door, a bright flash took place behind me, a slight zephyr blowing my hair to the left. When I turned around, I found Lyra standing there next to me. My eyes went wide with excitement. I was talking to myself! It seemed strange, but I didn't utter a word until she spoke, as whatever she had to say might be important. When she opened her mouth to speak, an ugly voice came out. Something must have happened to her.

"T...Trevor....Me....I need your help further. Y-you must gather the other p-ponies....I know you are me. Rapid F-Fire has sent an imposter, a changeling, to your world disguised as your m-mom. She h-has trapped you in h-here and you need the other p-ponies to break y-you out. Rapid Fire is p-planning to attack your world. D-do not let him win...."

Her image started to break up. Her voice was no longer understandable. She just ran up to me. As soon as her image would have hit me, she was gone. Her magic had obviously faded away. I never even got the chance to tell her anything. It made me disappointed but at the same time made me more determined than ever.

I reached in my pocket, relief washing over me as I felt my phone sitting there. I dialed Derek's number. I listened to it ring as I sat up, a piece of paper sliding off of my back and onto the bed. It read, "You had been passed out for four hours, dear. I took you home. Please be alright and wake up soon! Love, Mom." Typical...of course my "mom" would do something like this. All she cared about was keeping me away from Rapid Fire as he escaped. Finally, after six tries, Derek picked up his phone. His voice was quiet, and definitely agitated. It sounded as if he had been asleep. I instantly felt bad for waking him up.

"What the hell do you want, Trevor!? Can't you see it's two in the morning? It better be a good excuse...."

I felt shame take over my body. I had waken him up to tell him I was trapped in my room! What kind of a silly excuse was that?

"Dash, please listen to me. My mom, isn't my mom. She's some sort of imposter. I keep getting visions from Equestria and I believe I'm some missing pony. My mom has trapped me in my room with no escape and she tried to poison me back to sleep. I really need you to gather all of our friends and bust me out of here. Please, I don't want to die in here."

My voice was definitely faltering. Anyone out in the world could tell that right now, I WAS SCARED! He, at first, scoffed at what I was saying. I sat there for about four minutes before he finally answered back to me.

"Trevor, I don't believe half of the things you're telling me right now. What I do believe, is that you're trapped. You are obviously scared and you need some serious help. Personally, I think you're absolutely delusional. That doesn't change the fact that you're my friend and I'm going to help you. I'll be over in half an hour with everybody else."

The phone line went dead. He ended the call without allowing me to answer back. I was saved! The only problem was that the gas was finally starting to take it's toll on me. My vision, yet again, was going black. Once my body hit the bed, I was ready for another vision. This time, I expected it.

[Dream Sequence]

Trevor's mom and I were running. We wanted to make a break for Twilight Sparkle's help. She had to have some Alicorn magic that could help us in some form. We had escaped from Rapid Fire, undetected, back at my house. Now we were running for our lives while we were still free. On the way, luck was not with us. Halfway to the tree that Twilight stayed in, construction (Was that there the night before?!) was taking place, repairing some roads that had been broken apart. The only way around was to go two streets back and go around the construction.

We backtracked two streets, hearing the roar of Rapid Fire. It was obvious that he had discovered the absence of his prisoners. We cantered even faster, finally stopping quickly at the door of the town library. We didn't bother knocking, and just burst in. Twilight jumped back, a book being flung by magic right at us. Luckily, just in time, I caught the book with my own magic, throwing it down and yelling at Twilight.

"TWILIGHT HELP US! Rapid Fire is back and he's after this lady, who is from the human world. She is the mom of one of the missing ponies and we need your help to either contact him or bring them back or send her home. Rapid Fire sent a changeling to the human world to pose as his mom! Do you have anything!?"

She stared at us. She wasn't impressed and I thought she would kick us out. She sat there frowning and then levitated a book over to her.

"Rapid Fire is a dangerous villain. He will be upon us within minutes. I only have one spell. It will cast your image to this pony you found in the human world. You will only have a minute or two to explain to him what you need, then the magic will wear off. Does that sound like what you need? I really wish I could do more for you, but my magic isn't that advanced yet."

I just shook my head up and down like a maniac. There was no time to lose and I just rushed her. She lifted her horn up and cast her spell.

[Dream Sequence End]

So that was what had happened! I took out my journal amongst the litter of books and pulled a pencil from my nightstand. Recording this dream was fairly easy, now that I was used to it. I had just put my notebook down, when a rock came flying through my window.

"HEY PONY BOY! YOUR RESCUE IS HERE!"

I recognized the voice as that of one of my friends. It had to be Jason, as nobody else does that to me. I guess he was needed here, as he was Applejack. I looked out my window, diving my head back in as another rock, this time bigger than the last one, came crashing in. I yelled out at the ponies outside.

"That's enough!!! Stop!!"

No more rocks came through my window, so I peeked my head out. The whole gang was standing there, even.......Bon-Bon!!! I was so glad that she was here. She would comfort me, and hold me.....I needed to snap out of it! In Equestria, we were both girls! But that didn't mean....Shut up! I looked outside, and a ladder had been set up beneath my window. I wanted to climb down the ladder, but I didn't know if it was worth it. I would escape, yes, but what would I do once I escaped. I had absolutely no plan. "Mom" would find me easily unless I knew what to do once I left this room. Then the perfect plan hit me. I turned off the lights in my room, climbing down the ladder as I smirked to myself. My "mom" was going to get the ride of her life.