I Survived

I expected to get a pleasant dream, something that would make me feel all warm and fluffy on the inside, but instead I saw nothing but darkness. I looked around and couldn't see anything, I heard a whooshing sound. It sounded like I was underwater. Then I felt my head lifted and found myself above a tub full of water, being held by ropes on my hands.

"I said, will you slack off again!?" The man behind me said.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever man." I head myself say. "Wait a minute, I didn't say that." I thought. But I did.

I felt my head go under the water again and found myself surrounded by darkness again.

"Hey, wake up." I heard a man with a Russian accent say. "Come on, wake up."

I opened my eyes to see a Russian man next to me. I was surrounded by rocks, all the walls were rocks, with a hole leading out into an area that had an awful lot of chatter. I was laying on a bed that was pretty uncomfortable.

"Ah, good job Brendan. I knew they couldn't kill you." The man said.

"What happened? Where's Smith and Mason?" I said, again involuntarily.

"They're waiting out in the yard, think you can stand up?" The man said.

I nodded and got up, walking towards the door. I opened it and was blinded by the bright light outside.

I opened my eyes, for real this time, and heard someone knocking at my door.

"I'm coming!" I said.

I opened the door and saw Twilight standing there.

"Oh, hello Brendan. Are you okay?" She said.

"Yeah, why?" I said.

She pointed to my shirt and I looked down, I'd been sweating like crazy.

"Oh, um. I'll change shirts. Um, come on iiiiiiin." I said.

I walked towards my closet and took off my shirt.

"What's that?" She said.

I looked at her and saw she was pointing at my back, I went to a mirror and saw I had an eagle tattoo on my back, it's left side was red and it's right side was blue.

"When did I get this?" I said to myself. "It's a tattoo, Twi."

I stared at the tattoo for a while before walking back to my closet and putting my black shirt on.

"So uh, what is it you wanted to talk about?" I said.

"I came by because Apple Jack told me that you seemed to have remembered things about your past last night." She said.

"What?"

"Yeah, and she described something about you having friends and that bird on your back."

I thought about last night, nothing. I then tried to remember anything about my past, nothing. I just shrugged at her.

"Hm, well that's odd." She said. "Do you remember your dream?" She said.

"Yeah, why?"

"Tell me." She said.

I told her everything about what happened.

"Wow, do you know why those men were hurting you?" She said.

"No." I said. I thought about what a turn of mood this must have been for her, being the worst thing that could happen in this world is the entire pony population could end up hating each other. And even then nopony would commit murder or theft.

"Well, it's not much, but it's something. I hope you get all your memories back and find out who you really are Brendan." She said.

I nodded and she left, leaving me to think about the Russian in my dream. Who was he? Where was I? I decided to just ignore it and take a walk, get some fresh air and think about it later. As I was going out the door I looked at the pile of books I still haven't read, Oh well, I'll read them later. I do need to spend more time outside of the house.

I thought about going to visit Trixie, but it was still pretty early in the morning, so I probably shouldn't. I thought about visiting Rainbow to see those tricks she was talking about when Trixie came to town. But I didn't want to do that. I then thought about work, I'd been in Ponyville for a couple weeks now and have never worked, I think I should get a job by now. But where? I can't bake, I'm not very good at knitting, I can't fly so I can't work on weather, the only job I think I could do is help Apple Jack at Sweet Apple Acres. I walked to see Apple Jack and she gave me the job.

I wasn't really good enough to pick apples since I could only grab one at a time, so she gave me the job of putting buckets under trees for the apples to fall into, and when they're full I grab them all and put them into a wagon and take it back to the farm. I got good enough pay for my first day on the job. By the time I got home it was already night. I was actually pretty scared that if I went to bed then I'd have more nightmares, but at the same time I couldn't wait and went to bed straight away, hoping to find something out about me.

I laid down in my bed and hoped that I could dream about my past again.

When I finally fell asleep I was surrounded by darkness, I was pretty happy, hoping I could see another one of those dreams from yesterday. I opened my eyes and was quickly disappointed, it was one of the dreams where I'm flying over Ponyville. I looked around for anything that didn't seem familiar and couldn't. After a while I got to the part of the dream where Rainbow shows up and we race, we did, and I won. Heh, anything can happen in a dream after all, and this one was mine.

I turned to face Rainbow and expected her to nod at me and say 'congratulations' but it never came. She nodded at me and said something to me in a Russian accent.

"We will live on in you, brother." She said.

"What?" I said. I then heard a loud booming from behind me and turned around, I saw a ball of fire coming right towards me and flew out of the way.

"What's going on?" I said, dodging another ball of fire.

I turned to Rainbow Dash to ask what was going on but was quickly awoken by the sound of someone knocking at my door.

I jumped out of my bed when I woke up, but I landed on my hands and feet. I looked out the window and saw that the sun was barely up. I opened the door and saw Trixie standing there, her wagon was on the dirt road.

"Uh, hey Trixie." I said. "What are you doing here?"

"Trixie just thought that she should say goodbye to you." She said.

"Your leaving?" I said, I was kind of dissapointed, I was hoping I could have the chance to ask her about her travels.

"Yes, and Trixie just wanted to say goodbye to you." She said.

Trixie's horn then lit up and a piece of paper appeared and was hanging in front of me. I took it and it was a poster for her show, but it was signed.

"Just something for you, since your a fan." She said.

"Oh. Thank you Trixie." I said.

She tilted her hat and walked away, waving me goodbye as she did. I stared at the poster and decided to hang it on the wall, but where? I decided to just hang it near my bed. I looked outside and thought that I might be able to get a few hours of sleep in.

I decided that I should just stay awake while I was.

And again I was left wondering who that Russian man was that I saw in my dream.