Maximum Equestria

As I laid there in the darkness all I could feel was anger. No anger wasn't strong enough. What I was feeling was unimaginable hate for that damned experiment Maximum Ride.

But along with that hate was also self loathing. How could I have been so easily distracted? It was because of my own stupidity that I was now most likely dead and on my way to wherever it is that mutants souls go.

Just as I was ready to accept my imminent death I heard a voice calling out to me. It was female and had sort of an accent. Strangely enough it was also rhyming.

"You must wake now strange beast, for me to help you must open your eyes at least." (sorry if my rhyming sucks)

Help? Who would want to help a stranger? I was skeptical at first but if this woman was really willing to help me than who was I to deny her help?

So mustering up as much courage as possible I slowly manage to open my eyes. What met my eyes left me speechless. Standing over me was some type of zebra wearing gold neck rings and gold earrings. It's teal colored eyes were abnormally large and spoke of wisdom beyond the years. We stared deadlocked both of our eyes showing unbidden curiosity.

Then the real shocker came to me when the zebra actually spoke in the same voice I had heard before!

"I must say you are a strange creature indeed. It is a good thing I found you in your time of need."

It took me a minute to get over my shock before I could speak again.

"Ok. First of all, can you stop the rhyming. Its cute and all but it may get on my nerves after a while. Second, where in the holy hell am I?"

The next few hours went by quickly as me and the zebra who I now knew as Zecora, talked about this new world I was in and it's inhabitants. I was skeptical on most of the stuff she was saying but waited until I saw it for myself before judging. The real interest came though when I learned of her profession as a potion maker and herbologist. When I told her of my talent's in the same field's she was ecstatic to finally have someone around who understood her profession as well as she did.

I was beginning to trust this interesting zebra the more we talked but it was still a long ways away before I actually trusted her with any of my secret's. When I told her as much she completely understood which earned her some serious brownie points in my book.

"So Z what happens now? If what you said about this forest is true then I can't live in it. And if I head towards that town you were talking about I would more likely than not cause a panic."

She seemed to ponder this for a minute. I still think its weird to be talking to a creature who back on my world had little to no intelligence but here was actually very intelligent.

Her eyes then brightened as she looked at me and said, "you can come with me into town tomorrow. Once they see you are no threat they should open up to you and stay calm."

"I wouldn't say I'm not a threat. If one of them threatens me in any way I will not hesitate to rip them limb from limb."

She gulped knowing I was not making an idle threat. It also helped that in terms of height most of the natives would only reach to just under my ribcage. So I had intimidation going for me right off the bat.

"Alright Z I'll go with you tomorrow if for nothing else than to scare the living shit out of some locals. Right now I'm seriously hungry so I'm going to go hunting."

She didn't have time to say anything else as I quickly got up and left to go and hunt down some food. It doesn't matter what anyone else says because I am not giving up meat for anyone.

As soon as I got about twenty feet from Zecora's I already had the scent of something. It smelled like a big cat, a lion I would guess. The so called kings of the jungle. Pft, I had killed and eaten tons of these before so why should now be any different?

Following the scent led me to a cave. It was fairly large and the entrance was littered with bones. This didn't bother me in the least bit and only made me more anxious to kill the lion inside it's own den. When I stepped inside though I was thrown for a loop. Instead of a plain old lion like I was expecting instead was a lion roughly three times my size sporting a scorpion tail and bat wings. This would make the boys back at Itex go spastic.

Still the beast saw me and when it did it let out a deafening roar as it charged at me. Not one to be deterred by weird appearances I charged to beast as well while I changed into my pseudo eraser form. In this form I grew bigger and my muscles became bigger and more defined. My hair grew longer and more wild and three inch claws came from my finger tips while my teeth sharpened.

Meeting in the middle the beast tried to bite me in half. I grabbed it's top jaw with my right hand while my left grabbed the bottom. It then became a serious power struggle between the beasts jaws and my arms. I knew I couldn't keep this up forever so changing tactics I performed a cross motion and sent the beast tumbling on it's side. Figuring an easy kill at the moment I went to finish the beast with my claws but was instead speared by it's tail in the gut.

Liquid fire flooded through my veins from the beasts venom as I roared in pain. Using my strength though I rip the things singer out of my gut and snap off its tip. During this I had gone full out eraser and was now glaring at the slightly trembling beast. With a roar of bloodlust and anger I leaped at the mismatched lion. For the next ten minutes nothing but the sounds of breaking bones and splattered blood echoed through the forest along with the cries of an animal in agony.

When I finally arrived at Zecora's hut she nearly feinted when she saw me. I had a hole in my gut and was covered head to toe in bits of blood and meat. She forced me to take a dip in a nearby pond which I did so without question. I was too tired to argue anyway. After that and washing my clothes just to wear them again she patched up my wound while I laid on her bed and filled her in on what had happened.

"How did you survive a manticores sting Brad? You should have died from the poison," she said worriedly to which I just scoffed at.

"Beats the hell out of me Z. It may have been because of my rush of adrenaline it may have overpowered the poison and steadily pushed it out. All I do know is that I am tired and am going to sleep. Goodnight."

With that I passed out in exhaustion from todays events. Waking up in a new fantasy world and fighting a mythical creature does that to you.

Next Morning

I steadily awoke to the bright sun shinning into my eyes from a nearby window the morning after my arrival to this strange new world.

Putting my arm over my eyes to try and block out the suns rays I try to sit up but find the movement restricted. Looking down a see a sleeping Zecora on my chest.

Now I had never been embarrassed before in my life but this was the one situation that made my cheeks go a deep red. I didn't know what to do so I just stayed as still as possible and took the time to look around Zecora's home since I didn't get to yesterday what with my hunger and the talking.

Looking around I saw many tribal masks and shelves filled with bottles of various shapes and sizes. All of them contained some kind of liquid that must have been the potions she had created. Man I got to ask her to teach me how to make potions. It seems like a really good profession to me.

"If your done admiring my home maybe we can get on our way into town."

The surprise comment made me jump a little bit as the now wide awake zebra on my chest giggled. I glared at her as she hopped off and stretched with me following soon after.

Thankfully I while I was sleeping my attire had dried. Now it smelled like the forest we were in. Who knew nature was a great detergent?

Deciding to get some payback for the scare Zecora gave me I decided to tease her a little bit, "so Z mind telling me why you were sleeping on my chest this morning."

I was expecting a blush or at least a slight pause but instead all I got was a sly smile and her saying, "well first off you were sleeping on my bed. And second, you didn't seem to mind when you cuddled with me last night."

"T-that's not true!"

"Is it Brad?"

Now I was stuck. Somehow she had turned the tables on me and she wasn't even trying! Then another thought struck me, why was I acting like tis? I was a stone cold killer for gods sakes! I don't play childish games like this! So then why does it feel so good to do so? Was I losing my touch? No that can't be it! It's just shock is all.

Shaking away the foreign thoughts I wave the comment off and say, "whatever. Look lets get going I want to get this over with."

She nodded in agreement though she looked slightly disappointed at my response. The walk into town was uneventful and really boring. I wanted to fly in there with my wings but Zecora convinced me not to by threatening to turn me into a toad with one of her potions. I didn't know if she really had a potion like that but I wasn't willing to take the chance and opted to just walk beside her in silence.

Just then we heard a shout of, "ZECORA!"

That was heard right before something slammed into my chest with enough force to throw me onto my back and knock the wind out of me as well as giving me pain in my still sore abdomen. My mutant genes gave me excellerated healing so the wound from the manticore was more than likely just a scar now but it still hurt like a bitch! It didn't hurt nearly as much as it pissed me off though. I was about to rip whoever dared to attack me apart before the bitch was dragged off by Zecora and told about my situation.

As Zecora did this I was dusting myself off and trying to keep my anger in check before I killed whoever hit me.

I heard a quick, 'my bad,' before the sound of wings flapping drew my attention to a rainbow maned Pegasus taking off.

Looking at Zecora I ask, "was that one of your friends that you told me about? I guess she is Rainbow Dash?"

Zecora nodded in conformation and I took a last look at the fading rainbow trail before saying out loud to myself, "alright I am calling it right now that she is at least bi. But I wouldn't be surprised if she was really a lesbian."

The zebra chose to ignore my comment as we continued towards the town that was now clearly visible.

It was really awkward walking into town since as soon as I did everything stopped and stared at me and I at them. The staring contest got old real quick and was beginning to annoy me so I opted to shout out, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU ALL LOOKING AT!?"

Quicker than I could blink the street was cleared of all signs of life. Smirking in satisfaction I continue walking with Zecora mumbling something about a stupid stallion or whatever it was. Not like I cared what others thought of me. She eventually began to lead me towards our destination which so happened to be a big ass tree with windows and a door.

Normally I would have called bullshit on this but I'm learning just to deal with it. So taking the initiative I walk up to the much smaller door and open it before walking in.

Zecora quickly ran in after me and said in a scolding tone, "Brad! You do not just walk into a ponies home unannounced!"

"Then maybe they should lock their doors," was my curt reply.

Before anymore could be said I was hit in the head by a purple beam. The strike didn't hurt but I started to feel drowsy and fell on my butt as sleep started to overtake me. Turning to Zecora I manage to get out, "tell whoever did that, that I am going to tear them a new asshole when I wake up."

With my peace said I was quickly thrown back into the dark depths of unconsciousness where I was starting to really hate going against my will. Whatever divine being doing this to me was going to pay, of that I could be sure.