What Do (Comment Driven Story)

by TwiggFace

Rating: teen
Tags: Adventure, Random, Alternate Universe, Human
Length: 2008

Human and Pony inhabited Equestria. You awake one summer's day to a beautiful morning, and step outside. Your mind is blank. "What do?"

Set in Equestria where there are both humans and ponies - the ponies outnumbering the humans by a fair amount - living mostly in harmony, but not always. Suddenly, after you step outside one day, you feel a humbling sensation, like you are at the will of anyone out there. What do you do?
This is a comment-driven story. Feel free to put a comment in the latest chapter saying what to do - I'll most likely include them in the next chapter. Silliness will most likely ensue.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2014-09-24 19:56:19 UTC

Chapter 1: What Do?

You're a human. You've lived here in Equestria, or, more specifically, by yourself in a house just outside of a town called Ponyville, for just less than a year. You're used to the place. There are a few other humans in the whole region - 100 to be exact, but the number has begun rising slowly. The genders are split around evenly, and they live all across Equestria. Canterlot, Manehattan and Detrot are the most highly populated places for humans. There are a few other places though, mostly just towns like Ponyville. Oh yeah - the amount of horse puns. The overwhelming majority of Equestria is inhabited by colourful talking ponies, three races of them. Earth ponies, with no discernable features as far as you can tell, Pegasi, who possess wings and can fly, and Unicorns, who can perform magic. Yeah.

Anyway, your house is a little ways out of the town of Ponyville. As far as you know, there are only 2 other humans in the place. A girl and a guy. It seemed like random people had been "picked" to be "sent to" Equestria, but these two were brother and sister, around the age of 16. You'd talked to them before, they were fairly nice people, but you hadn't seen them around in a while. Anyway, about Ponyville. The proud home of the Elements of Harmony, or something. You'd seen them before, and you were fair aquaintances with them. Twilight Sparkle, the Element of Magic, Rarity, the Element of Generosity, Fluttershy, the Element of Kindness, Pinkie Pie, the Element of Laughter, Rainbow Dash, the Element of Loyalty, and Applejack, the Element of Honesty, yada yada.

This was your, and 99 others', 302nd day in Equestria. You wake up, feeling drowsy and hungry. You feel like having a bacon sandwich. Unfortunately, meat is a rarity and is only got from hunting in the forest known as the Everfree. A few people've been caught by ponies doing this and there's a jail time for killing animals. It's become a bit of a drug-like deal. It's risky to try and get meat. You've only eaten it once of twice since you've been in the land, and you've developed some type of a craving for it. Best to ignore that, though. Time to get some breakfast. Luckily, ponies aren't vegans, just herbivores, so you scramble up some eggs and sit down to eat. As you are eating, you hear a noise in the back of your skull. It sounds like, you wonder, clicks. Like the clicks of a keyboard.

There wasn't really that type of technology in Equestria. There are projectors and things, yeah, but the humans who know a lot about computer engineering are still working on making laptops, or PCs, for that matter. Once you've finished up your eggs, you try to check what this noise could be. You look everywhere in your little hut. In the kitchen, (maybe you'd left your timer on?), in your bedroom, your bathroom, anywhere and everywhere. Nothing seems to be making a noise. You're probably just imagining it. Then again, you'd thought you'd imagined a lot of things around here since you got here. Floating cities, cities on the sides of hills. Hell, even the ponies themselves were a mind bending operation for you. Luckily, they were nice, though. After they realised we weren't gonna hurt them (although I have to say, a few humans weren't exactly nice to them), they accepted us and found out we had the same sort of intelligence as them, starting to help up build shelters and introducing us to their currency, their jobs, and so on.

You weren't much of one for the interaction, though. You got your house set up in the quietest town you could find, and went as far away from it as you could without being so far away you couldn't get anything from there. You sought out somepony to make clothes for you, who was Rarity. She made you clothes, in a very good way, since you weren't anything like she'd ever made clothes for before. But that was beside the point. She was the one who introduced you to her friends. "The Elements of Harmony". Apparently they were some form of heroes and had saved the land at least once. They were nice enough, but once again, the interaction side of it wasn't incredibly appealing to you. I mean, at least you didn't want to kill the ponies, but sometimes they could be a bit obnoxious. You hear a flap of wings.

Flap, flap. Knock, knock, knock.

Must be the mailpony. You usually didn't get mail, but every now and then it wasn't unwelcome. You open the door. A cross-eyed, grey pony with a blonde-yellow mane stood at your doorstep, holding a letter in her teeth.

"Hey, Derps." You'd taken to calling the pony named Derpy 'Derps', as you knew her fairly well. You took the letter from her mouth, and she smiled and replied.

"Hey! Nice day, huh?" Yeah. It was a nice day, actually. It had just turned summer again, and the warm air blew in on your face, the sun's rays beating down on your chest.

"Yeah, it is pretty nice. Thanks for the letter, Derps!"

"No problem, see ya!"

And with that, the pegasus flew back off on her way to finish delivering her letters. You are about to close the door, but it might be a good idea to go into town today, or just walk around a bit. You flick the letter off to your dining table, ignoring it for the time being, and walk outside, picking up your keys on the way. You close the door and lock it. Suddenly, the clicking in your head gets louder as you feel your senses numbed slightly. You stop mid-step, and stand there. All of the thoughts of what you wanted to do clear from your mind, and you're left thinking only one thing.

What do I do?

What do you do?

Chapter 2: "Typical"

Seeing how every story must start with a typical day...

Go shopping for groceries like bread, milk, eggs, vegetables, etc. and a pie for the hay of it

You feel a sudden compulsion to go into town and get groceries. You walk down the path south towards Ponyville, ignoring everything on the way.

Once you've reached the edge of town, your eyes scan your surroundings until you find what you were looking for - the bakery. Time for some bread, bitch. You step inside, and the cool A/C brushes through your hair. The unicorn standing at the counter flashes you a smile and leaves you to look around. You spot a nice looking loaf. You walk up to the counter, giving the pony a warm smile as you point towards the loaf.

"That one, please."

"'Course, sir. Just a sec."

She floats the bread to a paper bag and closes it up, then picking up the bag with the magic and handing it to you.

"Thanks."

You walk out of the bakery, warmth entering your hands from the bread wrapped in the paper and the sun beating back down on your shoulders as you step onto the dirt road. Next, time to go to the grocery store. You walk in, and in the same fashion as before, get some fruit and vegetables as well as some eggs and milk for other food like..

Pancakes. Cleaning up the drool from your chin, you walk on to Sugarcube Corner, where you can get a nice pie. Pinkie is there, and she waves a hoof at you. You wave back and buy the pie. Walking out with a large tasty pie, you sit down to eat. It was delicious.

Eat Ice Cream until you forget where you live.

Pinkie comes running out of Sugarcube Corner after you.

"Hey! Wait!"

Interact with the townsponies, but don't be a jerk/bully (we already have plenty of "Assholes in Equestria" stories...) be kind (or at the very least, be politely neutral)

"Yeah? What is it, Pinkie?"

"I challenge you to an ice cream eating contest!"

"An..."

"Ice cream eating conteeeeeeeeeest!"

"I don't think.."

"Come oon! Stop being so booring, I haven't seen you for weeks!"

"Fine.. I'll have an ice cream contest with you."

Two large tubs of ice cream were laid down on the table in front of you. You lost your appetite as soon as you saw them, but you had to, for the glory of humans everywhere! It had started. You saw Pinkie digging into her bucket immediately, and looked around you. A circle of ponies were glaring intently at the competition. Bring it.

You started on the ice cream, matching Pinkie's speed.

Around 10 minutes later, you were near the bottom of your bucket, and Pinkie was almost finished too. You felt so full, you'd forgotten where you lived. Ugh.

"I give up, Pinkie. I'll die if I eat anymore..", you say.

"Yay! Nice effort! Hahaha!", she replied back, finishing off her ice cream. She pats you on the back and walks into the crowd who are all clopping their forehooves together.

Get a book from the library. Fortunately, the literature here is similar to the books back on Earth with the names and characters changed to animal puns: (The Horseback of Notre Dame, I Have No Snout Yet I Must Whinny, Of Ponies and Prejudice, etc.)

You got up, and decided to go to Twilight's to get a novel while you regained your senses. Stories in Equestria were, as the land's names were, full to the brim of horse puns, but fairly similar to Earth's books. Maybe you should brush up on your Equestrian history, and pick up I, Celestia. Hm, you already learned a lot about the world. Maybe another time. Maybe a horror, something like Lord of the Parasprites. Nah. You decided you should ask Twilight what was new.

Approaching the treehouse, you knock on the door. The top half swings open, and Twilight stands at it, smiling.

"Hey! Didn't expect to see you here, where have you been?", she says.

"Oh, I've just been at home most of the time.", you reply.

"Okay. Are you well? Want to pick up a book or two?"

"Yeah, actually. What's new around here? Oh, and I'm fine, thanks for asking."

"Well.. I just picked up The Maze Trotters, you might like that.. oh! Or there's All my Pony Sorrows, it's a new one. It's a tragedy, but a good read. And, there's also Somepony, it came in last year as I remember. Any you want there?"

"I'll give The Maze Trotters a go, thanks."

"Great! Always nice to see you come in for a book to read every now and then.", she says, as she levitates the book towards you.

By this time, you'd regained your memory of where you'd lived, and after saying goodbye and promising to come and get another book again soon, you left the treehouse and walked back home. Opening the door, the warmth of your house compared to the ponies' homes welcomed you in. As you close the door behind you, you notice the letter from this morning on the table in front of you, but you ignore it for now. It might be a good idea to go on a run.

Boring parts aside, after taking an hour long excursion around Ponyville and the surrounding areas in a jogging pace, you return home. Once again the letter beckons you, but now you're hungry and sweaty, plus a little tired. You might need to take a little rest or sit down and watch the TV you'd picked up a while back from the humans who'd started inventing items from Earth (although, to be honest, there wasn't much to watch in Equestria, as the idea of televisions were fairly new, so there were a few channels only). You sit down.

What do you do?