A Hero Returns
New Home pt.2
Previous ChapterNext ChapterAs I continue on with my epic journey to find someone who hates me, I start to sing a merry melody under my breath.
"Everywhere I go, bitches always know, that Markie C has gotta weenie that he loves to show, Bitch!, everywhere I go-OOF!"
Suddenly I feel three weights slam into my back knocking me on my face.
"Cutie Mark Crusaders Monster Hunters! Yay!" Came three loud, high pitched voices
"Get it!"
"Hurry!"
"Tie it up!
I start to feel rope binding my hands and feet together.
"What's happening!?" I yell in surprise.
A second later I'm sitting up with my hands bound behind my back and my feet tied together in front of me. I also see my captors, three very small fillies, a pegasus with very tiny wings, a tom-boyishly short, light purple mane, orange coat, and light purple eyes, a unicorn with an alabaster white coat, a two-toned, swirly, purple and pink mane, and green eyes, finally the third and final aggressor, who is currently standing proud like she had caught some big monster, was an earthpony with a red bow tied into her equally red mane, she had a yellow coat, as well as strange blend of orange and light red colored eyes. I am thoroughly humiliated that I let this happened but in my defense!...it was a really good song...
"Yay! we did it!" yelled the unicorn, wow her voice is really adorable...I think my heart is aching...
"Yeah we did, this thing never stood a chance! huh Apple Bloom?"
Turning to her friend and hopping off my chest, the now identified Apple Bloom puffed out her chest proudly "a'course, I mean look at what it was dealin’ with, nothin’ can defeat the Cutie Mark Crusaders!"
Getting real tired of being called an 'it', also, applebloom? Apples, southern accent… Huh, maybe she's related to the other apple related, southern horse I know? Whilst pondering this I watch the three little ponies look back at there flanks with big smiles on their faces, however, their cheerful faces quickly turned sour.
Deftly slipping my hands from their restraints as well as quickly stepping away from the three bandits of adorableness, I see that they still haven't noticed me, so I lean up against the nearest wall and see just how long it'll take for them to realize that I'm gone.
“Aww, we still didn’t get our cutie marks!” pouted the unicorn.
Cutie marks? Are those the weird little tramp stamps I see on everyone else?
“Hey! Where’d it go?” yelled the orange Pegasus
Oh wow, thirty seconds! Figured it out a lot quicker than I thought they would.
“Ahem” Clearing my throat to get their attention. Their tiny little heads turn towards me.
“There it is!” yelled, who I guess was Scootaloo
“Get ‘Im!”
Oh this is gonna be fun… I start singing a song in my head and dance around their clumsy attempts to ‘recapture’ me.
Scootaloo was the first to reach me, she leaped, trying to take me down high, I duck down and she just goes sailing over my head.
Next came apple bloom going for my legs, she tried to barrel through them only to hit air as I hopped over her tiny body.
Finally came the tiny unicorn, whom I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting, she stops right in front of me and begins to charge her magic, a light green aura surrounded her horn with sparks shooting out. I just stand still and wait, this is going to be good. I then feel two grips on my ankles.
“We got’im Sweetie Belle do it!”
“Yeah, take him down!”
Aww, how cute! They want to destroy me.
I look up to see immense strain evident on the face of the unicorn foal, oh this is precious.
Right as the green light on the tip of her horn flashes it’s brightest, which was pretty dull, a small bang echoed around and caused a small shockwave that blew away the three foals. I was too busy rolling on the ground trying to catch my breath.
“Hahahhahahahaaa! They flew back like ten feet! Hahhahahahhaha! That was great!”
I look up through tear filled eyes and see that all three were in heaps of their own groaning as the tried to get their bearings.
I pick myself up and gather up the three foals, I place them into sitting positions and kneel down in front of them waiting for them to regain consciousness.
Slowly I notice their eyes begin to flutter open.
“Wha-what happened?” came an adorable southern drawl
“I’m so dizzy, what hit us?” the voice of scootaloo came second
“My head hurts” pouted the unicorn, so her name’s Sweetie Belle.
As they slowly become aware of their surroundings their eyes fix on me as I give them a triumphant grin. They start to struggle but meet some interference, they quickly notice that I used their rope to tie them up.
“Hey let us go!” yelled Scootaloo
“No” the three foals stopped struggling immediately and slowly turned towards me
“You can talk” said applebloom, shock heavy in her voice.
“Yes I can, don’t really know how you could’ve missed my song, but that doesn’t matter, what does matter is the fact you tried to tie me up" I kneel down to meet their eyes, what I see makes my heart hurt.
Tears have formed in their eyes, their ears are flat against their heads and their bodies shaking.
“W-we were jus’ tryin’ ta’…”
“We didn’t do anything…”
“Please don’t hurt us!”
Oh my god I’m an asshole!
I scoop up the three fillies and hold them ripping the rope away from them as if it was a snake ready to strike.
“I’m so sorry! I didn’t mean it! I’m nice! I’m nice! Please don’t cry!” did I ever tell you I hate it when people cry? Especially kids…God I’m a softy
I look at their faces and where there once was fear there was now wonder, I had lifted them above my head and from that height they were well above the size of even Celestia, the view must have been pretty good for the usually very close to the ground fillies.
“Oh wow! I bet you could see everything from up here!”
“Is this what it’s like to be Rainbow Dash? Awesome!”
“This is great! I can see Sweet Apple Acres!”
Well they seem to be enjoying themselves.
After a while I lower them down and place them on the ground and kneel to meet them.
“See? Now please don’t cry…”
“That was great, thank you mister monkey” Oh god no, not this again.
“You can call me Mark, please call me Mark, Please!” I beg.
“Wait a minute…Mark…I think ah heard that name before…oh yeah my sister Applejack was talkin’ bout you last night”
“Oh really?” I start to smile, wait for it…
“She said you were…*gasp* Oh sweet Celestia!”
There it is.
“What Apple Bloom?”
“Yeah what’s wrong?”
“Applejack and her friends are in charge of him, under Celestia’s orders!” again looks of fear quickly spread over their faces.
“We are so sorry!”
“We didn’t mean it! Honest!”
“Please don’t tell my sister Rarity” Punk the brakes! This ball of cuteness is that ball buster’s sister? That’s insane!
“Please STOP! I don’t know how much more my heart can take!” I yelled doubled over in pain gripping my chest at the feels.
“So ya won’t tell our sisters?”
“Or Rainbow Dash?”
They all give me big pleading eyes.
“No! No I won’t! Just please stop!” I say shielding my eyes from their cuteness.
“Thanks Mark!”
“Yeah really!”
“Thanks a lot!”
The three of them rush me in a big hug, oh god I think I’m gonna pass out.
“It’s no problem, really, now I gotta go, wait, Sweetie Belle”
She turns to me, “Yeah?”
“You said your sister’s Rarity right?”
“Yeah?”
“Do you know where she is right now?”
“Well last I checked she was out with Spike…” She stopped briefly; I noticed a slight edge in her voice when she said that, probably nothing.
“But that was hours ago, she should be back at the boutique by now”
“Spike’s out with Rarity again?” Scootaloos’ voice rang out with the same edge as Sweeties’
I look over at Scootaloo and Apple Bloom to see Scootaloo rolling her eyes and Apple Bloom with a sour look on her face…strange…
“And where is that?”
“just keep following the main street all the way down, it’s the big house with the carousel on top, you can’t miss it”
“Thanks Sweetie I really appreciate it” I say as I start following the street.
The way they acted when Sweetie mentioned Spike was with Rarity, strange… maybe they… naw, there’s no way...
I continue my walk down the street, this whole town, from what I’ve seen is just like any other town I’ve been to in my life, men and women going about their day, couples enjoying each others company, children running around naïve to the real world, the elderly complaining about the high prices of food, and finally the single guy who just got a cold shoulder from a girl by the bathrooms…yeah the last one was me most of the time way back when…*sigh* memories, humiliating, painful memories.
I hear a big whoosh right above my head, when I duck I notice a fading multicolored trail leading away from me with a sound of “Whooooooooo!” on the wind.
My eyes follow the trail and eventually lead up to a quick-moving turquoise mass. The thing, who can only be Rainbow Dash from what I’ve seen, was moving so fast and changing directions at such high velocity it was impossible to track her with the naked eye… well for anyone else, my eyesight, while dulled can still follow her movements albeit with a lot of strain.
“Hey Mark!”
I see the streak stop as the proud Pegasus turns to look at me, how she was able to spot me from all the
way up in the clouds I’ll never know.
“Sup New York pride” I yell to her
“New what pride?” she yells back
“Get down here and talk to me like an actual person!” getting real tired of yelling like a maniac.
“Like a what?”
“GET DOWN HERE!”
In a second she was in front of me with her trademark smug grin.
“Sup monkey man”
“Thank you for gracing me with your presence and sparing my voice Rainbow” sarcasm oozing from my words.
“Yeah well I guess I’m just that kind of mare.” She says checking her hoof. This chick…
“Anyway what’s going on?”
“Nothin’ much, just practicing some of my sweet moves”
“Yeah your pretty quick”
“Pretty quick? I’m the fastest Pegasus in all of equestria!” she proclaims loudly.
I raised my brow at this, time to take her down a notch.
“Ok, if you’re truly as fast as you say you are, then you’d have no problem playing a little game to prove it” I say giving off my own grin
“ Pffthahahhahaahhaa, you think you can-can hahhhahahah!” she starts to laugh in my face, whatever, al that’s gonna come crashing down any second now.
“Ok ok, let’s get serious here, what kinda game do you wanna lose at?” I’m gonna take great pleasure in this.
“Do you know… your ABC’s?” I ask her with smirk
Her grin fades away, replaced by a look of confusion.
“Yeah, why?”
“Whoever can say the alphabet the fastest wins”
“That all? Pssh, if that’s how you wanna get beat let’s go”
“Ok on three ready?” she smirks, this is gonna be good.
“1…” her eyes get sharper
“2…” she licks her lips and takes a deep breath
“3!” and it begins...
“ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO!” wow she’s going pretty fast… too bad it doesn’t mean a thing…
“Alphabet” my smirk turns into a full blown toothy smile
“Rainbow stops dead in her tracks, she begins to think about the challenge her face went from proud to shocked in a matter of seconds.
“heheheh, I think I won” her entire body stood stock still, jaw dropped down to the floor.
“Should have been paying attention, oh that felt good, really good” it really did.
Her eyes were following me but she stood frozen.
“Oh my god wait…were you undefeated?”
Her head doesn’t move but the way her eyes dilate proves to me that it’s true.
“Oh yes! That makes this all the more sweeter, I mean I don’t usually brag but how often do you de-throne a champion, * sigh * afterglow”
Still stuck in that same expression, I gently close her open mouth and start to walk away.
“Anyway I gotta go get some clothes”
I hear a raspy voice behind me
“Why?”
“If your asking why I beat you it was just cuz, if it’s why clothes ask Twilight” I call out without looking behind me.
Author's Note
Ok first off, I do not own the rights to any song from hollywood undead...they just write good music. Second I am so sorry for not updating for so long, a lot of shits gone down in the passed few months, with work, college, and family to take care of it's a wonder how I even got this chapter out when I did but I did so now you guys can finally see what's happened next and I promise the next chapter will not take nearly as long as this. So our protagonist is meeting the people of Ponyville, who will he meet next? Who should he meet next? Gimme some ideas, again thank you all for your support and again as always feedback is appreciated Tlazocamatli.
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