Chapters flaming wings and a new life; part 2
beep, beep, beep, beep.
Am i dead? can't be, unless angels exchanged all there harps for beep machines. No, i think i'm in some kind of hospital. Well, time for an inventory check. Legs working? Check. Arms working? Check. Excruciating pain? Double check. Well, everything seems to be working. No, wait, toes and fingers? Nope. Can't feel them. Dam. Should have known that I'll not come out of a crash like that with all my limbs intact.
"Doctor, I think the patient's waking up." I was that obvies? Dam. I opened my eyes and turn my head towards the voice. My jaw hits the floor. Then I close it
so fast I bite my tongue. Bitten tongue? Check. Now your probily wondering 'why did his jaw hit the ground?' I'll tell you, but you won't believe me. The reason
my jaw dropped is because the nurse... Well she's a horse. And not just any horse, a Pegasus. Told ya you wouldn't believe me.
"Glad to see you awake," the doctor says as he walks in. Surprise, he's another Pegasus. "We nearly lost you for a second, and no wonder, it looked like you
crashed through a window at a hundred miles an hour."
"where am I?" I ask, starting to hyperventilate.
"Your in Cloudsdall." the doctor says frowning, "You must really be out of it if you don't know where you are. Cloudsdall? Never heard of it. Then again, I've
never seen a Pegasus ether.
"When will I be able to leave?" I ask.
"Not for another day or two to let your wounds heal." The doctor says.
"how long have I been here?" I then ask.
"2 weeks. What I don't get is how almost every part of you body is injured, but not a single feather is out of place on your wings." He Answers. Wait, wings?
Scence when do I have wings?
"Well, i got to check on the other patients." and with that, the doctor leaves. I raise my arm so i can see it. Blue? Well that's new. I lower my arm and think to myself, this can't be heaven or a dream because i'm in far too much pain.
I think back to the crash. First, the left wing of my plane catches fire, then it blows off completely. After that i hit the ground with enough force to go through the cockpit window. Also there was a flash of bright blue light. Could the light have possible been a portal? Don't know. I grab the clipboard (don't ask me how) lying next to me on the table. I start to skim through the past patients. As i do this i notice the names sound kind of funny. Sunny Skies? Blue Moon? Shooting Star? What kind of names are those?
Then it hits me. I'm in a new world so i'm lucky the names arnt that hard to understand. Also I'm going to need a new name to fit in better. I decide to go with the name Shadow Hoof. Just as i think of a name for myself, the nurse walks back in.
"Excuse me Sir, but i'm going to need your name to finish these medical sheets for your release" she says as she walks over and takes the clipboard from me. Well, this is as good of a time as any to see if my name works.
"My names Shadow Hoof." I answer. She writes that down on the clipboard.
"I'm nurse Silver Heart." She says. "I was wondering, who are the Blue Angels? It was on the jacket you had on when you came in."
"Don't know, the jacket used to belong to my dad." I lie.
"Oh well, I guess I can look it up at the library, and it's best if you get some sleep." Silver says.
"Yeah, that sounds like a good idea." I yawn as my eye lids suddenly get heavy. I then slowly drift of to sleep.
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"Checking out?" The mare at the counter asks, startling me.
"Yeah, why?" I ask.
"Shadow Hoof." I reply. The mare turns around and picks up a box and gives it to me.
"Have a nice day." The mare says in a tone that says she dosent care if I have a nice day or not.I leave the hospital to find... Clouds? The sidewalks, the
roads, heck, the whole ground was made out of clouds! I walk over to the edge and look over. I get dizzy as I see the ground far below. Who the hay builds a city
in the clouds? Then again, everyone here is a Pegasus.
I decide to back away from the edge before I fall. I head over to a bench near by and sit down to look at what was in the box. I pull out my Blue Angels
flight jacket and see that it is in a realitivly good condition dispute the crash that it had been in. My flight cap and goggles were also in the box, along with a small
pouch. I pick it up and dump the contents into the box. I gasp in shock as gold coins pour into the box.
"you must have really good friends somewhere to have payed for your hospital bill." Startled, I look up to see Silver Heart hovering in front of me.
"Oh, hi Silver," I say, starting to relax. "You startled me."
"Sorry about that. I just like to sneak up on ponies to see how high I can make them jump." she says, blushing.
"Really?" I ask.
"Yeah, and so far you've jumped the highest, I mean that was at least 12 feet!" She exclaims. I look down and see the bench far below me, then I look at my back to see my wings flapping. Well, that would not have been how i planned to learn how to fly, but at least it worked.
"Hey Silver, do you know where i can get something to eat?" I ask as I turn back around.
"Sure, best place to eat around here is Sugarcube Corner, follow me!" Silver Heart says as she darts away sudenly, catching me by surprise.
"Hold up!" I yell over my shoulder as i quickly stuff everything back into the box. I fly over to the waiting Silver. But as soon as i reach her, she flys over the clouds edge. I follow as fast as I can to keep up with her as we fly towards the ground. As we fly, I notice a small town in the distance. As soon as we get close enogh to see the indeviduall ponies, Silver stops.
"See that building over there?" She says as she points at a small shop.
"Yeah, why?" I ask
"Good, 'cause the last one there pays for the food!" she yells over her shoulder as she zooms towards the shop.
"Hey, no fare!" I reply as I try and keep up with her. To my surprise, not only do I catch up with her, but I pass her completely. I look behind me to see Silvers shocked expression. Then I fly straight into the shops front door.
"Who's there?" A bright pink pony says as she opens the door. Frowning as she doesn't see anyone, she looks left, then right, up, then she steps forward onto my face.
"HiI'mPinkyPieIdon'tknowyouandIknoweveroneinponyville!YoumustbefromCloudsdale-
"Pinky! Slow down! Shadows just flew into the door and had you step on his face. At least let him get off the ground." Silver says as she finally catches up. I slowly get up and rub my very bruised face.
"Who put that door there?" I ask dumbly. Pinky and Silver try as hard as they can not to laugh. Alas, in that department they were unsuccessful.
"Oh hardy har har. you still owe me lunch Silver." I say sarcastically.
"All right, what do you want to eat?" Silver gasps when she finally gets enough air to speak. I think over this carefully as we walk into the shop.
"Cinnamon bun." I decide finally.
"And I'll have the apple fritters." Silver says. As Pinky goes to get the orders, i notice that she doesn't have any wings. I frown. I guess not everyone has wings. Pinky comes back with our orders and sets them on the counter.
"That will be 12 bits please." Pinky says brightly. I watch closely as Silver puts 12 of those gold coins on the counter. So the money around here is called bits? Thats good to know as I didn't want to look stupid when I tried to buy something. I pick up my cinnamon bun and turned around. As we were about to leave the front door opens and a purple unicorn- wait, a unicorn? At this point nothing will surprise me. Behind the unicorn is a light blue Pegasus with rainbow hair. Great. Just great. I spent weeks tring to get that song out of my head. Now I'm going to be hearing Afro circus for a very long time.
“Looks like you finally got out of the hospital.” The Pegasus says to me.
“How did you know I was in the hospital?” I asked surprised.
“Because it was me and my friend and I that found you.” She replies.
“Well I guess that makes sense.” I say.
“Oh, I’m Rainbow Dash by the way.” She says to me.
“I’m Shadow Hoof.” I reply.
“I’m Twilight Sparkle.” The purple unicorn says as she reads from a book held up with… is that magic?!? Ok, now I’ve seen everything.
“That was some nice flying there Shadow, your almost good enough to join the Wonderbolts, if it weren’t for the that you crash into doors.” Rainbow says to me.
“Who are the Wonderbolts?” I ask. Everyone in the shop stares at me.
“How could you not know who the Wonderbolts are?!?” Rainbow Dash practically screams. Where are you from, Kirkwell?”
“Yeah.” I say, my face turning red in anger. Who was she to yell at me because I didn't know who someone was?
“Wow RD, guys berly been here an hour your already insulting his hometown.” A orange mare says as she walks into the shop.
“Come on AJ, how was I supposed to know where hes from?” Rainbow says.
“Sorry about that sugarcube, but Rainbow Dash’s mouth often runs without her minds permission.” AJ says.
Rainbow Dash, Twilight, and AJ go up to take there orders. Me and Silver go outside to eat our lunch. Then I think of something.
“Hey Silver, why did we come all the way to Ponyville to eat? Don’t they have restaurants in Cloudsdale?”
“Yeah, but Cloudsdale isn't known for its cooking, and most Pegasus come down here if they have the chance.” She replys. RD walks out of Sugarcube Corner and sits by me on the bench.
"So you've never heard of the Wonderbolts?" She asks me.
"Nope." I reply. RD takes that as her cue to jump right in to inform me on the Wonderbolts. When shes done, I conclude that they are an aerial stunt team simulare to the Blue Angels.
"Hey, whats in the box?" RD asks suddenly. I hand over the box so she can go through it. She opens it and pulls out my jacket.
"Who are the Blue Angels?' She asks frowning.
Don't know, the jacket used to belong to my dad." I lie. RD shrus her shoulders and goes back to looking at my things. Finally, she puts my stuff back into the box and hands it back.
"Well it was nice meeting you, but I got to et back to my job." RD says as she fly's towards cloudsdale.
"I just thought of something Silver, I don't have a place to stay."
"You can stay with me tonight." Silver reply's.
"I don't want to be any-" Siver cuts me off.
"Don't worry about it, I have a spare bedroom that no pony has ever used." No pony? Looks like the grammar here is different then back home.
“It’s getting late, we should be getting back to Cloudsdale.” Silver says. Together we fly back to Cloudsdale. As soon as we arrive, I see a help wanted sign. I look around so I can remember where it is. Tomorrow I’m goanna come back and try to get a job. We fly over to Silver’s house, about a block away from the sign. It’s a neat little 2 story painted a light blue.
“Well, here we are.” Silver says as we land in front of the house. We walk in and she shows me to the spare bedroom. I set my box on the night stand.
“Good night.” I say to Silver.
“See you in the morning.” She replies. I climb into bed, and before I go to sleep, I think that there sure are a lot of things I have to learn if I’m goanna live here.
a new job and a challenge from Pinky Pie
I wake up to the smell of cooking. I wrinkle my nose. If silvers food tasted as bad as it smells, then I was in a load of trouble. I get out of bed and open the door. The smell only got worse. I slowly walk down to the kitchen, dreading breakfast.
“Oh, you’re awake.” Silver says as I walk into the kitchen.
“I made breakfast!” Silver exclaims happily as she puts plates of blackened food on the table. I sit down and start poking the food with my fork. I spear something that looks like a rock cake and take a bite. Only, the cake is so hard it almost brakes my teeth. I spite the cake back out onto the table. I notice Silver hasn’t touched her plate at all.
“Do you even know how to cook?” I ask her.
“No.” Silver say, hanging her head. “The cinnamon buns looked easy on the box.”
“Wait, those were cinnamon buns? I thought they were rock cakes!” I say without thinking. Silver looked on the verge of crying. Oops.
“Here, I’ll show you how to make cinnamon buns.” I say more softly. I walk up to the counter and started to clean up some of the pans. I look in the cupboard and pull out some sugar and flour. I also grab cinnamon. I open the fridge and grab some eggs. I start mixing ingredients in a large mixing bowl. I shape the dough into cinnamon bun shapes and put the sugar glaze on them. I then pop them in the oven for half an hour.
“Where did you learn how to make cinnamon buns?” Silver pouts.
“Kirkwall.” I reply.
“I thought Kirkwall makes whisky.” Silver says frowning.
“We do make whisky, but we do other things too you know.” I reply.
Once the cinnamon buns were done I pulled them out of the oven. I got some plates and set them on the table. Silver looks at the cinnamon bun suspishly. Silver then looks at me as I eat my buns with a look of pleaser on my face. She finally takes a bite of her cinnamon bun. She suddenly looks mad.
“How come you can cook so well and I can’t?” She asks angrily.
“W-well how often do you cook?” I stutter in shock at her outburst.
“Almost never.” She mumbles.
“Well, how will you get better without practice?” I ask, my confidence back.
“You can’t.” She admits.
“Which is why you should practice. Aaand maybe read the instructions on the box.” I tell her. “Now I’m going to go look for a job.” And with that, I leave Silvers house and fly back over to the for hire sigh I saw yesterday. I take a closer look. Turns out, its an alcohol brewery. Apparently, they want someone with knowledge in brewing whisky. And like Silver said before, Kirkwall is well known for their whisky. Heck, my grandpa taught me to make whisky when I was ten, so this was going to be a breeze. I and by the front door and walk in.
“Hello, I’m here for the job application.” I call out into the almost deserted room. A door opens up to my right.
“Come right on in.” a tired voice drifts through the now open door. I walk into the room and see a large green Pegasus sitting behind a desk.
“Have a seat.” The pony says as he motions towards an empty seat. I sit do as he says and sit down.
“Do you have any experience in making whisky?” he asks.
“Yeah, my grandpa taught me how to make whisky when I was still living in Kirkwall.” I reply. The pony perks up when he hears that I’m from Kirkwall. What is wrong with these ponies about me being from Kirkwall?
“Kirkwall eh? Well in that case your hired.” The pony says. He opens a drawer in the desk and pulls out some papers. ‘What the hell? Did I just get a job because I’m from Kirkwall?’
“I’m going to need you to sign this paper saying that I’m not responsible for any accidents that happen to you.” He says as he hands me the papers. I give him a confused look.
“What? The last person that had this job took a sledgehammer to his leg and then tried to sue me.” He says. I couldn’t complain since I needed the job and if the guy didn’t want to get sued, well, fine by me. I sign the papers and hand them back to him.
“So, when do I start?” I ask.
“How about tomorrow at 9’oclock?” he asks in return.
“Sounds good.” I reply. After we shake hoofs, I leave and head back to Silvers house. On the way back, I run into Rainbow Dash.
“Hey Shadow, what’s up?” she asks.
“I just got a job.” I reply.
“Cool, where do you work at?” she asks.
“A brewery.” I reply.
“Funny cause I was just about to tell you, pinky pie has challenged you to a drinking contest.” Rainbow Dash says.
“Wait, what!?! Why?!?” I ask.
“Something about how she can drink more booze then a Kirkwall pony.” Rainbow Dash says as she shrugs her shoulders. Oh, it was on!
“What time?” I ask through gritted teeth.
“Tonight at nine.” Rainbow Dash replies.
“I’ll be there.” I say as I started to walk the short distance back to Silvers house. There was no why in hell that I was going to let Pinky beat me in a drinking contest. When I got to Silvers house, Silver was in the front yard.
“Hey Shadow, back so soon?” Silver asks me.
“Yah, I start work tomorrow.” I say. “Oh, and I have a drinking contest later tonight with Pinky Pie.”
“Oh, that’s wonder- A DRINKING CONTEST!?!” Silver shrikes. “WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU ENTER A DRINKING CONTEST?!?”
“I’m defending my honor as a Kirkwall pony.” I say nervously. “And can you take it down a notch? I think the entire neighborhood can hear you.”
“Drinking’s bad for your health! And you’ll kill yourself trying to beat Pinky Pie, she is practically immune to alcohol!” she says in a lower tone of voice.
“Well I won’t be able to live with myself if I don’t try!” I try to explane.
“What is with stallions and defending their egos?” Silver says. And with that, she turns around and heads back into her house. You stare after her in confusion. Sometimes you really wonder how man managed to live so long with the rage of woman.
It was two hours before the drinking competition with Pinkie, and here I was trying to talk some sense into Silver Heart.
“Silver, if I do this, I will forever remembered as the stallion who was too chicken to take on Pinkie!” I argued.
“You will not be remembered for a stupid drinking contest, no matter if you win or lose!” she argued back.
“Well if I back out now, then I could develop a bad habit of never finishing what I started!” I retorted.
“And how is drinking a good habit?” she asks.
“It’s not! But that’s beside the point!” I replied.
“That is not beside the point!” Drinking is bad for you, especially in large amounts at one time. Plus you just got out of the hospital yesterday, and you start work tomorrow too! So you really picked the worst night possible to drink, and how do you expect me to marry an alcoholic?” she demanded.
“When I make a promise I kee- w-wait, what?” I stammered as the realization of what she just said finally caught up with my brain. It also appeared that it had caught up with Silvers brain too, seeing as her face had turned scarlet. She just stood there trying to come up with something that might save herself.
“Um, i-I think the bathroom sink is running!” she stammered as she bolted into the house. What the hell? Did she just say she wanted to marry me? And made it sound like I wanted to marry her? I was going to have to deal with this matter later. Right now, I had to fly to Ponyville. It wouldn’t do at all if I arrived late.
I speed off into the gathering dusk, confident that I was going to beat Pinkie. I barely paused to wave hi to the few Pegasus that were still out walking or flying. Soon, I was passed the Cloudsdale city limits, heading as fast as I can to the distant town of Ponyville.
As soon as I arrived, I was greeted by Apple Jack.
“How ya doing there sugarcube?” Apple Jack asks me.
“Fine right now, but I’’ll be better when I beat Pinkie in the drinking contest.” I replyed.
“Good luck with that, Pinkie has never been beaten in a drinking contest.” Apple Jack informs me.
“Well I haven’t lost a drinking contest ether, so it looks like tonight one of us is going to be losing their winning streak, and it’s not going to be me.” I replied with confidence. Apple Jack chuckles.
“Well then, you better get going, it’s almost time for the contest.” She reminds me. I thank her and head towards The Blue Moon where the contest is being held.
When I got there, I saw what appeared to be half the town crowding into the small pub. There were so many ponies in there that it was nearly impossible for me to squeeze in to get to the table that Pinkie was sitting at.
“Are you ready to lose Shadow?” Pinky asks as I take a seat.
“I think you mean, are you ready to lose.” I replied. While me and Pinkie were talking, the bar tender walked up to explain the rules.
“The drinking contest will not end until somepony pukes or passes out, whichever comes first. First pony to puke or pass out loses. Each round you will drink 3 shots of whisky. In order to go on to the next round you have to finish all the whisky. That is all.” The bar tender says before he brings the first round of whisky to the table.
When the bar tender gives the signal to begin, I down the shots as fast as I could. When I finished my shots, I was shocked to find that Pinky was already done with hers. When the next round arrived I kept my eyes on Pinky. To my total amazement, Pinky somehow finishes her shots before I could touch my own. I started to worry about my ability to beat Pinky. The next 5 rounds pass with Pinky finishing her shots before I could finish one of my own. At round 6, Pinky started to slow down, I was finally able to finish one shot before she could finish as of hers. But by this time I was heavily intoxicated, but pinky looked like she hadn't drunk a single shot! By round 8, I knew that it was a lost cause, but I decided to see how long I could last before I passed out. I made to round 11 before I puked.
“Pinky Pie is the winner!” the bar tender says over the loud cheering that has erupted from the crowd. Defeated, I stumble out from the pub and collapse on the ground. For the first time in my life, I had actually lost a drinking contest.
“Hey, are you OK mister?” a filly’s voice says right next to me. Startled, I start to answer her, when a sudden blue bolt of lightning hits both me and the young filly, knocking us out of equestrian into a new land.
blast to the past; part 1
“Doctor your computer thingy is going off again! Derpy yells from the main room of the Tartus. I put down my stick of butter and hurry out of the kitchen. I then take a close look at the screen.
“Indeed, it appears that a temporary rip in the fabric of this universe has transported two ponies out of Equestria into the humans universe.” I say to Derpy.
“Humans universe?” Derpy asks.
“Yes”. I reply. “But I do not know the where or the when. To find that, we have to go to the scene of the crime.”
“Where’s that?” Derpy asks.
“Just outside the Bluemoon pub.” I reply.
I open my eyes to see desert for as far as the eye can see, broken only by a small town in the distance.
“Where am I?” a small voice says next to me. I look down to see a young red-headed girl lying next to me. I raise my arm to see that I have hands again. The young girl looks up at me. Then see screams.
“What, do I have something on my face? I ask, jumping up. The girl gets on her hands and knees and tries to run. Then I remembered that there was a filly with me when I was hit.
“Oh, shit.” I say as I try to think of something to do. I decided to tackle the filly.
“Will you knock it off? You might attract something that we don’t want to attract!” that shut her up.
“Good, now tell me your name.”
“Applebloom.” She answers.
“Ah, well Applebloom, I’m Shadow, from Cloudsdale.” I tell her. I get off of Applebloom and stand up.
“Where are we?” Applebloom asks.
“The human world, somewhere in the desert, but I can’t be more specific than that.” I reply.
“But I thought humans weren’t real.” She says. “Oh there real all right, after all I was a human up until a couple of weeks ago.” I tell her.
“Wait, what!?!” Applebloom says in shock.
“I was born somewhere on this planet, I ended up in Cloudsdale after I crashed my plane.” I explain.
“Well then how do we get out of here?” she asks.
“I don’t know.” I reply.
“But you said you went from here to Cloudsdale.” She says frowning.
“I did, but I didn’t say I knew how I did it.” I reply. I started walking towards the town in the distance.
“Where are you going?” Appleblooms asks, jogging to catch up to me.
“To that town.” I reply. We continue on in silence. I reach into my pocket and pull out my small bag of bits and count them out. I have about 29 gold bits. As we got closer to town, I see a gold money exchange booth and I quickly detour towards it.
“Where are you going now?” Applebloom asks
“We need money, so I’m going to sell some of these gold coins.” I reply. I walk up to the guy at the counter. The clerk is dressed in old fashioned clothes so I’m starting to think that I’m in the past of my world.
I put the coins on the counter. The clerk puts them on an old weighing scale. He then takes out old 10 dollar coin coins that you would see in them old western movies. He hands me 14 of those plus 5 1 dollar coins.
“Have a nice day.” The clerk says as me and Applebloom leave the gold exchange store.
“What do we do now?” Applebloom asks.
“I’m going to buy a newspaper to see the date and find out exactly where we are.” I reply. I walk up to a newspaper stand and pay for today’s newspaper. The paper told me that we were in Dodge City, June 6 1889.
“I know where we are and when we are.” I say to Applebloom.
“Where are we?” Applebloom asks.
“Dodge City, 125 years before I end up in Equestria.” I reply.
“I’m hungry.” Applebloom complains. I sign. I look around. I see the old Dodge City Hotel.
“Come on, I found a place to eat and stay the night.” I say. We walk into the hotel and go up to the bar.
“Excuse me, but where can we find the owner of this here establishment?” I ask.
“That will be me.” The bartender replies.
“Well then, how much is it to rent one of these here fine rooms?” I then ask.
“5 dollars.” The bartender informs me. I give her the 5 dollars and he hands me a set of keys with the room’s number on them. I then order some food and drink and take it over to a table. As Applebloom starts to eat, I couldn’t help but hear the conversation at the table behind me.
“Hey Todd, what do you think, should we win or lose tomorrows horse race bet?” one of the men ask.
“Dakota, we won the last 5, so we need to lose. Hand me that sports almanac.” Todd says. I turn around to get a glimpse of the cover. It’s the Sports Almanac; 1850-2000. I then get a good look at the men’s faces. I walk over for a talk.
“Well I’ll be darned, it’s my good friends from the Blue Angles, cheating on tomorrow’s horse race.” I say, as Todd and Dakota look up in shock.
“How do you know who we are?” Todd asks.
“What don’t remember your old friend, Frank Martly?” I ask them.
“You’re alive?” Dakota says in surprise. “Last time I saw you, you were a ball of fire on the ground. While we were talking, Applebloom had finished eating and had wandered over.
“I thought your name was Shadow.” Applebloom says, frowning.
“I had to change my name when I got to Equestria because my real name would raise to many questions.” I explained to Applebloom.
“Equestria? Where’s that?” Todd asks.
“Well, when I went up in a ball of fire, I somehow survived and ended up in a weird place called Equestria, where everyone is either a Pegasus, a unicorn, or an earth pony.” I explained. “I had just lost my first drinking contest when me and Applebloom was hit by a bolt of lightning and ended up here in Dodge City.”
“Well, shortly after you “died” I bought this book and went on vacation in Fiji where I met up with Todd. We both where in my car when we were struck by lightning. When we next woke, we found ourselves here in Dodge.” Dakota says.
“Oh by the way, did you get a gun yet? It isn't safe in Dodge without a gun.” Todd says.
“No, I haven’t given it any thought.” I reply frowning.
“Here.” Dakota says as he hands me one of his peacemakers. He then takes off a gun belt and gives me that too.
“Thanks.” I say as I put the gun on. “It’s getting late, me and Applebloom need to get some rest.” I tell my friends.
“Come on Applebloom, I got some things that I need to discuss with you.” I say as I head up to the room we had rented for the night.
Blast to the past; part 2
It was late morning when I walked down to breakfast. By the time I got into the diner, Applebloom, Todd, and Dakota where already eating. Todd pushes a plate of bacon and beans towards me.
“Hurry up Frank, we need to get down to the horse races before they start.” Todd informs me. I quickly eat my breakfast and pay the bartender the rent.
“Got any money?” Dakota asks as we leave the hotel.
“Yeah, turns out, gold coins is the only form of money in Equestria.” I reply.
“About how much is gold worth in Equestria?” Dakota asks.
“It’s a gold coin just for an apple, I’ll just let you figure out the worth of gold there yourself.” I reply.
“Dang, if you run a small business over there for a year, then bring back the profits back here, you wouldn’t have to work for the rest of your life!” Todd exclaims. Soon afterwards, we arrive at the horse races.
“I’d bet on number 2 if I want to make some money.” Todd says as we reach the betting table. I put down the last of my money on number 2 and hurry to take our places in the stands. We sit down by what looks to be a doctor and his wife.
As the races got underway, I started up a conversation with the Doctor.
“So, who do you think is going to win?” I ask him.
“Number 2, I believe.” The doctor says.
“Are you going to be betting any money?” I asked him next.
“Oh, I’m afraid that I won’t be staying long, so I won’t be here to see the results and collect my winnings.” He answered.
“Why not?” I asked, curious.
“I’m looking for some friends of mine.” He answers before getting up and leaving.
We arrive early in the morning on June 9, 1889. Which means that the ponies that came here have been here for almost a day.
“Come on, I don’t know how much time we got, or if there even alive.” I tell Derpy.
“Do you have any idea where they could be?” Derpy asks.
“Most likely at the horse races.” I reply.
“Horse races?” Derpy asks.
“It’s where humans race horses around a track while other humans bet on the outcome.” I explain as we exit the taurtas.
All is quiet as we walk through the near empty town towards the racing fields. As we walk, I look at the humans who haven’t went to the field to see if any of them are acting funny. As far as I can see, there are no possible suspects. Shortly after we got to town, we arrive at the racing fields. I pay for the entry fee for Derpy and me and we sit down in the stands.
Just as the race is about to start, 3 men and a young girl sit down next to us. I scan the crowd in search of the missing ponies. I check every face in the crowd in the hopes of finding the ponies, but not one of them stand out. Just as I was about to leave, one of the men decided to start up a conversation with me.
“So, who do you think is going to win?” he asks me.
“Number 2, I believe.” I answered him.
“Are you going to be betting any money?” he then asks me.
“Oh, no I won’t be staying long enough to bet.” I reply.
“Why not?” he then asks me.
“I’m looking for some friends of mine.” I answer. I motion to Derpy that it’s time to go.
As soon as we leave, I tell Derpy that I didn’t have any luck.
“Why don’t we check the hotel to see if they checked in there? Derpy suggests.
“Derpy, you are a guinness!” I exclaim. I then head as fast as I can to the hotel to find the missing ponys.
ONE MAD DASH THROUGH TOWN LATER
We stop in front of the hotel and try to catch are breaths.
“Doctor, was it *gasp* necessary for us to run?” Derpy asks.
“No. I thought *pant* that we needed the exercise.” I reply. Once we caught our breaths, we stepped into the hotel and went up to the owner.
“Excuse me kind sure, but did two strangers arrive sometime yesterday?” I ask the landlord.
“Yes, but they just left for the horse races with two man.” The landlord answers.
“Can you describe them for me please?” I ask.
“One is a large man with short black hair and the other a little girl with red-hair. May I ask why you need to know this?” The landlord asks me.
“There my cousins from Georgia and I was sent to pick them up and take them to my ranch in Texas. And just needed to make sure that they were the right ones.” I reply.
“Ok then, I just needed to make sure that you weren’t highwaymen trying to rob them. And there they are right now.” The landlord says as he points to somewhere behind me. I turn around and to my surprise, the man that I talked to at the race had just entered the hotel. I quickly thank the landlord and head over to where they were talking to two other men.
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As soon as I entered the hotel, the doctor from earlier walks up to me.
“Excuse me, but by any chance, have you come from Ponyville?” he asks me.
“Yeah, but how did you know that?” I ask in astonishment.
“Because I’m here to take you back.” The doctor replies.
“How are ya ganna do that?” Applebloom asks.
“Because im the doctor.” He answers.
“Doctor who?” Applebloom asks.
“Exactly.” The doctor replys.
“Wait, you’re that TV guy who travels through time in a phone booth?” I ask.
“I’ll have you know that the TARDAS is NOT a phone booth. And it can travel through space too.” The doctor snaps.
“Ok, Ok, geesh. Let’s just get out of here. Oh, and while you’re at it, can you help my friends back to where they belong in the 21st century?” I ask him.
“Sorry but I can’t do that.” He replys.
“Why not?” I ask.
“Spoilers.” He answers, cryptically.
“Don’t worry about it Frank, we like it here. We can get up any time we want to and theres no technology to pollute the land.” Todd tells me. I sigh.
“Well, then I guess it’s time for us to go home Applebloom.” I say to her. With that, we follow the Doctor and his assistant outside and head out of town to the blue telephone booth/time machine. As we get in the assistant stops me.
“You do know you’re going to have to tell everyone the truth about you being human when we get back, right?” she asks me.
“Yeah, I’ll do that.” I grumble as I closed the door behind me. The Doctor activates the time machine and with a Whooo-whooo-whooo I was on my way home.
Woom, woom, woom! The TARDAS faded into existence. I and Applebloom stepped out of the TARDAS, and with a final wave good bye, the TARDAS left.
“There he is!” a female voice screams to my left. I turn around to see a bunch of frantic ponys surround us. Applejack runs up and grabs Applebloom in a tight hug.
An angry looking Twilight steps forward
“Did you really think you could get away with foalnapping?” she says in a dangerous low tone of voice.
“What are you talking about?” I ask confused.
“Oh, don’t act all innocent, you foalnapped Applebloom last week when you lost the drinking contest.” She accused.
“A week- we were only one since last night!” I argued.
“One, you’re a liar, two, you still foalnapped Applebloom.” Twilight says.
“I did not! We walked into a wormhole or something and ended up on a different planet.” I explained.
“How did you get back then?” she asks.
“Some doctor guy who apparently keeps a time machine in a blue phone box!” I snapped.
“Oh, so you’ve meet the Doctor?” a stallion with what looked to be big blue eyes and covered in random clothes asks.
“Well then we can just ask him. If what you say is true, then you won be in any trouble. If says otherwise, then you’ll be spending the next few years in jail. But you’ll still have to spend the night till we find him” Twilight says before she casts a spell which promptly knocks me out…
“OHHH” I groan as I come to. I put a hoof to the side of my throbbing head. I can’t believe Twilight would do that, let alone accuse me of kidnapping. Actually, now that I think about it, both me and Applebloom both fell through the same wormhole, and then were supposedly gone for a whole freaken week, so I can kinda see where they got the idea of kidnapping from.
I decided to look around the room where I was being held. It’s small, perhaps 12ft x 12ft, with a cot on one wall and a bathroom where everyone can see it. One whole wall is made completely out of bars, meaning that I’m in some sort of jail house.
Clip-clop! Clip-clop! Clip-clop!
The sound of approaching hoofs causes me sit up straight a gray stallion soon trots into view.
“You awake yet?” he asks me gruffly. I grunt in answer. He throws me a loaf of stale bread and a bottle of water and then he left. I grimaced as I choked down the bread and washed it down with the water. Soon after that the stallion returned.
“You done yet? Good, follow me.” He says as he opens the door to my cell. I follow him down a gray and dreary hallway to a thick metal door with a small window in it. I gulp as leads me inside. He forces me roughly into a chair behind a table and then leaves. The room is a stereotypical interrogation room. A table, two chairs, and a dim bulb is that’s in here. After a few minutes, Rainbow Dash strolls in and sits in the opposite chair. She then pulls out a pair of shades and puts them on.
“Why did you foalnape Applebloom? She demands.
“I did not foalnape Applebloom!” I yell exasperate.
“Then what where you doing with her?” she demanded.
“I told you, we fell through a wormhole into another dimension where the Doctor came and rescued us.” I reply through gritted teeth.
“That’s what they all say.” She replies.
“Really?” I ask.
“No.” She answers.
“I thought that Twilight was going to get the Doctor anyways.” I said
`”She is, but that guy is nearly impossible to find.” Rainbow Dash replies.
“How hard can it be to find a guy who lives in a blue phone box?” I ask.
“One, it can through time, and two, I ask the questions around here.” She says smugly.
Just then, Twilight walks in with the Doctor.
“The Doctor explained everything. Shadow was telling the truth.” Twilight announced
“Thank Celestia, I was losing my mind from boredom.” I cheer.
“But the doctor did say something about your past that you should tell us.” I shoot the Doctor a death glare.
“You need to tell them Shadow.” The Doctor says sternly. “Cause if you don’t them I will.”
I weighed my options in my head. In one hand, I tell them and I’d become an outcast on the other, I don’t tell them and they will hate me for the rest of eternity. I sighed. It was better to tell them. At least if I told them, then I would have been honest.
“Fine, but I want everyone here, meaning Pinky, Applejack, Silver, and you guys. I don’t want to have to repeat myself twice, and I don’t want any rumors going around.” I relented.
“I’ll go get everyone.” Rainbow Dash says as she leaves the room. The rest of us settled into an uneasy silence as we waited for Rainbow Dash to come back.
“Sooo, how long was I out?” I asked.
“About 5 days.” Twilight replies.
“5 days! What the hay did you knock me out with!?!” I exclaimed.
“I may have over did the spell that I knocked you out with.” Twilight replies sheepishly.
“It’s, ok, just take it easy next time.” I tell her. I walked over to the chair to wait for RD to come back.
Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinky and Silver soon arrived just as I asked.
“Thanks you all for coming. I have something important to tell you all. It involves the truth about where I come from.” I pause to let that sink in.
“So you’re not from Kirkwall?” Pinky asks.
“I’m from Kirkwall, but the Kirkwall I’m from isn’t in Equestria, heck it’s not even on this planet.” I explained. Everypony gasped.
“You mean that you’re from another universe?” Twilight asks excitedly.
“Yes, I was born in Kirkwall, located in the United Kingdom. When I was 15, I moved to Haysville, Kansas where I joined the United States Air Force.” I tell them.
“So you moved to a place where a whole army division is made up of nothing put Pegasus? That’s so cool!” Rainbow Dash raves.
“No. there are no Pegasus on my planet. Or unicorns, earth ponys, alicorns and griffins. My world is dominated by creatures called humans.” I explained. “Humans can’t do magic, or fly naturally. But we are very advanced and have machines built that can help us fly.”
“A whole new race, and one more advanced than ours! This is amazing!” twilight exclaims.
“What other things do you get that we don’t.” twilight asks.
“Well we got machines that can make us travel on land faster, rockets that can carry us into outer space, and ships that can take us to the bottom of the oce ->”
“As fascinating as all this is, what does this have to do with the story?” silver asks. Both me and twilight turn a bright shade of red for getting off topic.
“sorry, now where was I. oh yeah, well shortly after I joined the air force, I was chosen to fly with the blue angles, one of the best Arial stunt team in America, At the end of my first season, My airplane went down and crashed. Somehow I was sent to Equestria were rainbow dash found me.” I finished.
“And where did you go with Applebloom?” applejack asks.
“We went back to my world except we were about 100 or so years in the past. We ended up in one of the most dangerous times and places of the united states history.” I replied.
“What was the most dangerous?” pinky asks.
“That would be the American civil war, which we missed b 30years.” I answered.
“Ok so you’re an interdementional extra-terrestrial form an advanced race that somehow broke the space time continuum not once but twice!” twilight asks me. Everypony stares at her.
“She said that you’re a time traveler who can travel between planets.” Pinkie explains.
“ohh.” The rest of us says.
“So how come you didn’t tell us!” Applebloom asks.
“well where I’m from if you said you were an alien, one of two things can happen; one, they believe you and the government takes you and preform experiments, or two they don’t believe and they stick you in a looney bine. So when I came were I thought that something would happen were.” I explain.
“We have had stranger things then you show up here in Ponyville. We would have believed you if you said you were from another planet, and we wouldn’t have put you away.” Silver tells me.
“Well that’s good to here.” I reply smiling.
After a few hours and a ton of questions about my planet, me and silver fly home. Along the way, silver informs me that I got filed from the brewery for never showing up. When we get to silvers house we had dinner, (bought back in Ponyville of course) we went to bed. Tomorrow, I had to go and get a new job.”
Flaming wings and a new life; part 1
"Get up! Get up! Big day today!"
Frank groaned. He tried to remember the pleasant dream he was having, something about a flamed-haired pony. Sigh, well it wasn't important, or was it? These days he wasn't so sure, and it seemed so real. He looked at the clock on the wall. It was six in the morning!
"5 more minutes." Frank groaned.
"No can do Frank." said Dall, captain of the Blue Angels.
"Big day today, we got a show for Wichita at noon and we got till 10 to be there."
i groaned again and put my pillow over my head. Suddenly, my bed got very cold and wet, very fast.
"I'm up, I'm up!" i yell as I jump out of bed. standing on the other side of my bed was Ben with an empty bucket.
"you'll regret that Ben." I tell him. Ben grinned.
"How bout you don't have to pay me them saw bucks you owe me and you don't do anything?' I think what he said over.
. "Fine, let's just get out of Dodge before the hotel manager makes us pay extra for the wet bed sheets.
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A half hour later we were packed and on the road.
"Hey Todd, you do know where your going right? We don't want to end up in the middle of no where again."
"Shut up Dakota, or I'll make you drive.
"Maybe I should."
"Heck no! You don't have a license!" Ben says.
"Would you two knock it off?" Ben asks, getting tired of Todd and Dakotas antics.
"Only if Dakota admits that I'm a better driver then him.".
"are not."
"Am too."
"Not."
"Am."
"Thats it!" Dall screams, finally losing his patience over Todd and Dakotas daily shows.
"Ben, you drive, and if you two weren't such great pilots I would fire you on the spot!"
Todd pulls the van over, it was the only vehicle we were able to rent, and it was a big change from the limos we usually hire. Ben gets out and takes Todds place at the wheel.
"As entertaining as your guys shows are, can you keep the fighting down to a minimum?" I ask.
" Its the last show of the season, and I want to enjoy it." I add.
"You sure do love flyin more then life itself." Ben says from up front
"What you planin on doin when the seasons over Frank?" Ben asks.
"Don't know, go back to Kirkwall and stay with my Aunt till next year." I reply. "How about you Dall?"
"I'm going on a cruise in the Bahamas." Dall says.
"Me? I'm ganna spend my vacation in Fiji." Dakota pips up.
"No way! That's where I'm going." Todd says surprised.
"Find your own island, I called Fiji first!" Dakota says.
"Stop right there or Ima turnin this van around!" Ben says, stopping the augment before it gets out of hand. We ride in silence for a while.
"Hey Ben, what are you ganna do when the seasons over?" Dall asks, braking the silence.
"I'm ganna go back to Texas an take over ma family's ranch." Ben says.
"Well, were ganna miss you big guy." Dall says. When the conversation was over, Ben turned on the radio, Todd and Dakota started to play there PSPs, Dall
put some headphones in and started to listen to his own music, I pull out a pillow in the hopes of finishing that dream.
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"SHADOW THIS NO TIME FOR JOKING AROUND!" Spitfire yells over her shoulder.
"O come on Spitfire, I'm just trying to have some fun." I complain.
"Get up sleepy head, this is not the time for a nap." Spitfire says. I frown. Spitfire was starting to sound funny. Suddenly a violent tremor goes through my
body. I wake up to find Dall standing over me. I yawn.
"Were here, show starts in 2 hours, and there are a lot of things to do before then." Dall says. I get out of the van to find Todd and Dakota tring not to laugh.
"Whats so funny?" I ask.
"I'll tell you what's so funny when you tell me who Spitfire is." Dakota says. I suddenly feel my face warm up.
"Golly Frank you're redder then a sun burnt tomato." Ben says. Todd and Dakota, unable to hold it in burst out laughing.
"Shut up!" I yell.
"Leave Frank alone. If he wants to dream of an impossible girlfriend then that's his business." Dall says. Todd and Dakota laugh harder.
"Your not helping." I say through clinched teeth. Suddenly we all here a yelp of Paine.
"that's how we roll!" we turn around to see a midget jump into the back of a truck that's full of midgets. We look down to see Dakota curled up in the fetal
position, groaning in Paine.
"Dude, did a midget just kick you in the nuts?" Todd asks. Dakota can only nod. We all laugh at this new turn in events.
"OK, OK, fun times over, we got a show to do." Dall finally is able to say.
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"OK everyone, the planes are full and the maintenance is pretty good for 75 year old war-birds, so I want you all suited up and ready to fly in 20 minutes." Dall tells us. I do what he says and put my air pressure suit on. Over that I put my Blue Angels flying jacket and pants on. I then put on my boots, and to complete
the WW ll look, I it on one of those old fashioned leather flying caps and goggles on. I check my watch. 5 minutes to take off. I hurry over and get into my TBM.
One by one, my comrades get into there planes with Todd being the last one.
"All right, let's go." Dall says over the intercom. I reach over and turn my plane on. The old planes roar to life as one by one, the war-birds take to the sky.
"Yee haw!" I yell. I never get tired of the feeling of rising into the air.
"Both hands on the joystick Frank, these old planes like to pull them out of your hand." Dall says over the intercom.
"Thanks for the tip Dall. I reply. For the next four hours we do all kinds of crazy stunts for the people of Wichita.
As we come in to land, the show being over, there's an explosion right outside my hatch. I snap my head around to look to see what happened. My left wing was engulfed with flames.
"Bail out Frank!" Dall yells over the intercom. I reach over and pull the cockpit release hatch when to my great horror, I find that my hatch is stuck.
"The levers jammed!" I yell in a panic. There's another explosion, this time the whole wing blows off. As the TBM starts to spiral out of control, I have a sudden flashback to just before the season started.
"Promise me that you'll come home for the holidays." me mom demands. I sigh. My mom and her silly promises.
"I promise that no matter what, I'll come home for the holidays mom."
A tear rolls down my face as I realize that I wont be able to keep my promise.
"I'm so sorry." I sob as my plane hits the ground. The force of the collision sends me through the window and the last thing I see before I die is a flash of blue
light.
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"Hey Dash, what are you planing for your next prank?" Gilda asks. Rainbow dash frowns.
"what's that over in that cloud?" she asks. Indeed, there appeared to be something sticking out of a cloud in the distance. As Gilda and Rainbow Dash fly
closer, they were able to see that it was a dark blue Pegasus stuck head first into the cloud.
"Gilda come over here and give me a hoof." Rainbow Dash asks.
"Uh Dash, we've got a problem." Gilda says.
"What?" RD asks.
"I don't got any hooves!" Gilda says holding up her claws.
"You know what I mean." RD says angerly. Gila laughs as she fly's over to help. Together, they manage to pull out the stuck stallion. As they do the gasp in shock as the see the state the he's in.
"Oh my Celestia, I- I think he's dead!" RD says. Gilda puts her ear to the stallions chest.
"No he's alive, but barely." says Gilda after a minute. They layed the injured Pegasus on top of the cloud.
" I'll go get help, stay here and keep an eye on him Gilda." RD says as she fly's away. Gilda sighs. Looks like I'm stuck with looking after an invalided. Out of complete bordum, Gilda takes a closer look at the Pegasus. He was dark blue with a black mane. He's eyes were a emerald green and he's cutie mark was a
cloud of dust. He was also wearing a jacket. Gilda leaned closer to get a better look at the logo on the front.
"Blue Angels? Who are they?" Gilda says to herself. Just then, Rainbow Dash arrives with the medics. As they load the injured stallion on the stretcher, you hoof over a bag of bits.
"that should cover the hospital bill." Gilda says to the doctors.
"Thanks mam, I'm sure he'll apricated it." one of the doctors say as they fly away.
"that was really nice of you Gilda to pay the dudes bill" RD says in surprise.
"Yeah, Yeah, don't tell anyone." Gilda reply's. And with that, Gilda and Rainbow Dash fly towards Ponyville.
Greetings, loyal readers, I am Undeadponylord. this is not a chapter an endnote. I am here to inform you that this book has come to an end, but the story has not. there will be a sequel which will come out sometime this summer. Also, if you guys have any ideas for the sequel let me here them! I will be working on a new story called A Changelings Life which will be about a young changeling that is raised by Shining armor and Princess Cadence. Oh, and if any of you can guess what country i'm from, you will get a small part in A Changelings Life. If you can also guess what territory/province/state that i live in, you will get a major role. the contest will end on the 25 of this month. Goodbye and good luck!
