bathtubs can never be trusted

by 85476376

the rules

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  Celestia's vision was blurry as her eyes creaked opened. The first thing she saw was the sun. 'Ah... beautiful sunlight, maybe yesterday was a dream?'. She shuffled herself until she was in a comfortable position, and the sound of music flowed into her ears. She saw what seemed to be the silhouette of a street musician. She could only see his instrument from around the corner, held quite hight in the air for a unicorn. She saw strange things like what seemed to be a pegasus high above the sky... advertising? Wait no this was no pegasus, it was some sort of sky carriage? Celestia gave up thinking about it, next she saw a train... hmm nothing really peculiar about that...

  'Strange..' Celestia looked around. 'How did I get here?' she pondered, as she took in more of her surrounding she realized this was not Canterlot, nor Ponyvile. Then, out of nowhere a claw landed on her head, electing a squeal from her, and keep hitting her head as if she were a alarm clock.

  "What in the blazes?!" Celestia directed towards the creature realizing it was no dragon, and it was definitely not a pony. It then looked up at her with bloodshot eyes and, shakily, she finally got a good look at it. He was obviously male and he looked to be just out of high school. The creature's eyes focused on her as it shot open in terror.

"What the actual fu-"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!" He was interrupted by Celestia's scream of pure terror that demolished any pattern the musician had going to the point that he fell of his chair landing on the sidewalk.

"You just talked?" It asked back in a raspy voice.

"Well yes. Of course I can talk, i'm not a cave pony!" Celestia accused, standing up to her full height. The creature snorted

"Oh I'm sorry I forgot horse could talk. Silly me!" he took the alcohol shards. "How drunk am I?"

"Hey! I am not a horse!"

  Celestia was trying to think of what happened last night as blurry memories resurfaced. She turned to see the man frozen in place, she then looked around to notice the entire life around her had frozen; the flies near the trash can, the musician had frozen while he was trying to get up, and the bottle shards floating in the air.

  She blinked, and saw a tall figure standing before her "DISCORD!? What did you do!?" She screamed bloody murder at him. He blinked and raised his paws in defense.

"Whoa... Whoa, whoa! Calm down Celly, I'm just here to explain the rules-"

"Don't call me Celly!" She hollered in his face.

"Sheesh, let me finish my sentence ok?" Discord said. "Good. Today sun-butt you get an all express paid trip to another dimension... Did I mention it last forever?"

"Discord send me home right this second!" Celestia shrieked.

"Oh come on! I went all out on this one! No? Nothing? Not even a thank you? Fine then, maybe I won't tell you where you are or why. All you get to know is, no magic and no flying."

"Excuse me?" Celestia said, venom dripping in her voice. "YOU ARE SO DEAD!"

"Excuse me?" The man recoiled at the loud outburst. "Sheesh, I didn't know you'll get so agitated from me calling you a horse."

Celestia blinked a few times. "Huh?"

"Well figment pony thing of my imagination, I have a stay-at-home job that I need to start in a few hours, so yeah. Good day to you." He then turned and headed for the strange city.

"Maybe if I follow this animal he will take to his abode and I could hide there while I figure out what to do! Genius Celestia! Genius!" Celestia thought as she scraped together a plan. 'Hopefully this place is nice, maybe he's rich... maybe he is extremely poor. I mean seriously who would fall asleep in an alleyway?

  She took off after him, silently following him through the street. She took notice of the sign on the street he was walking down as she peaked her head out of a empty garbage can. It was written in a strange language that looked like two upside down cups stuck together. The shop next to it was highly populated. There was a strange looking clown on the menu holding a sandwich? Below it said "Big mac super new deluxe size!" At least thats what she thought it said The language was write strange slightly understandable. Big mac? Sounds familiar...

  Celestia watched him enter and saw him grab a cup with a hot liquid of some kind(maybe coffee?). She then watched him spill it all over his suit, ran out embarrassed with a ton of napkins, and whipped his shirt.

"Maybe this wasn't the best creature to follow home..." she thought to herself. He continued his journey through this jungle of metal to eventually reach a apartment (that only catered to Celestia's disgust) and entered stomping.

  Celestia entered the house, surprised it was unlocked. It felt awkward pushing the door open with her hoof because she normally she used her magic. She took in the environment of the apartment. To put it simply, it was... smelly. Many strange technology rests around the room: A thin box with wires at the back, a 3-bladed piece of metal in a cage, and more.

  She walked around and saw a door cracked leaning into a room with steam coming out of it, she walked over slowly and cautiously. She looked in to see the same man... nude in the shower...

"AAAHHHH!" She screamed, a blush forming as she covered her head with her hooves. The man turned to see Celestia with her head turned away, the door slamming behind her. He stood dumb folded for a moment.

"What the hell?"

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