Holding on to the Stars

by Omega Wing

Chapter 1: I'm in Hell

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Twilight, her friends and pretty much the whole of Ponyville kept their distance as the huge metal machine sat motionless just outside the local town. When what they first assumed was a metal monster emerged from the cloudy storm earlier, it was on a direct collision course for Ponyville.

It took the combined efforts of every Pegasus and every Unicorn using their magic just to divert the thing enough that it wouldn't crash into the town or blow up upon impact.

Most of it was intact, save for the large wings that were apparently ripped off as it slid across the ground upon landing, causing quite a bit of damage to the area, grass and trees ripped from the very ground they grew from. Thankfully it wasn't Sweet Apple Acres, Applejack could only imagine how much damage would have been done had the machine crashed there instead.

Whispers and murmurs could be heard from the crowd of Ponies as they continued to stare in shock, confusion and fear at the crashed machine, a fillies and colts daring to get closer forced their parents to drag them back.

Feeling their stares on her, Twilight knew some of the Ponies were waiting for her to do something, as she and her friends were known to have experience with, unexpected events such as these. Though for all the experience they had, they too were currently unsure how to proceed.


Ryan Pov:

Feel like someone took a fucking sledgehammer to my head.

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I used my hand to give my head a good little rub in hopes that it would relieve it of some of the pain. Yeah, right, of course, when does that ever work? Gonna have to get some painkillers when this is over and done with. Last thing I can remember was chasin' that bastard down and caught him in the plane he tried to get away with. Heh, fucker always thought he was smart.

I can hear someone groaning just ahead. Hope ye took the brunt of it ya asshole!

He's still alive though, might as well finish it now and bail before the pigs show up.

"FUCK!"

I shouted under my breath. I only tried to move my leg and my body was greeted with the screaming pain equivalent of gettin' hit by fucking freight train! Don't ask.

I man up and just curse 'fuck' over and over again in my head as I force myself up onto my knees, using one of the seats nearby as a support and...ah shit I got a tear at the knee of my jeans. Eh, I'll get it fixed later.

I open my eyes and let them recover from the blurriness as I attempt to regain my treasured sight.

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"...It's taking too fucking long." I mutter and decide to rub my eyes to help any.

Thankfully it helped, a little. Looking around, I just now noticed that the plane seems mostly intact, how the hell is that possible? If anything, the whole thing should have blown up as soon as it crashed and took us straight to hell with it.

I'm gonna call bullshit if that engine's still running.

Hearing someone coughing up ahead, I smirk and reach for my gun...I can't find it. Guess I'm gonna have to go with the knife.

Reaching for the knife in my leather jacket, I use my other hand to grab a hold of one of the seats to use as a support as I slowly get back to my feet. "How does it feel? Knowin' ye brought this all on yerself?" I said out loud, hoping he could hear me.

The asshole coughed heavily and dusted off his suit as he turned to glare at me. "You're a fucking psycho you know that! I could've made it big and you just had to go and ruin everything!"

I give him a maniacal grin before pointing my knife at him. "Y'know Tyler, I ain't exactly fond of the idea of me and Joseph havin' to go through hell just so you can get all the money ye ever wanted. Doesn't seem fair really, and what's more..." My grin lowers and I give him a murderous death glare. "I don't like it when people stab me in the back."

Tyler smirked at me. "Survival of the fucking fittest brother." He said, flipping me off before jumping for his gun.

"FUCK!" I jump behind one of the seats as he fires at me. "You're only holdin' back the inevitable!"

"Fuck you!" He shouted at me, firing a couple more times before turning to one of the doors. He kept his gun aimed in my direction as he kicked the door open. "The fuck?" I heard him mutter.

Seeing him distracted, I attempted to jump out and rush him but he saw me before I could close the distance even halfway and jumped into the light.

"What the hay?!" I heard some girl with an accent shout just outside as I got closer.

We in Texas? Did we actually get that far?

I reached the opening where the idiot jumped and growled when the bright sunlight burned my eyes, I seriously wasn't expecting it to be that bright. Seriously, that's a lot a brighter than it usually is.

Unfortunately, while I was stumbling about like a blind moron, I tripped up and fell outside.


Twilight Pov:

I jumped in surprise as a second creature fell from the machine and landed on top of Rainbow Dash as she was examining the first. I'm starting to wonder if there's more of them in there. I might have to check later, I have to check out these two first though.

They were biped creatures wearing clothing on their bodies with patches of fur on their heads, the first one had longer fur than the second. Their bodies were not that much different from monkeys either, though there were some differences that clearly indicated they were not monkeys. They must be some related species or something, but I don't really see how that's possible. If there was ever such a species then the archives would contain knowledge of it, but nothing there describes the kind of creatures I'm seeing right now.

This...this is amazing! A new type of species for me to study! I can only imagine what I could learn from-

"Ugh my head..."

The first one talked. It...talked. They can talk too?"

The first one slowly got up and dusted itself off as it shook its head. "Should of paid more attention..." I heard it mutter as he looked around, before slowly keeping its gaze on me and my friends.

"...The hell?" He, I assumed it was a he by the sound of his voice, softly muttered as he stared at us with a clearly confused expression.

"Fuckin' dammit..." The second one muttered out loudly.

The first ones eyes widened and started frantically looking around for something, his eyes landing on a small black thing I've never seen before. As he jumped for it, the second one swiftly got up and lunged after him. "No ye don't!"

Before I knew it, the two started wrestling about on the ground as they both tried to reach for the small object.

"What the hay is goin' on here?" Applejack asked as she watched the two wrestle.

The two creatures stopped their wrestling to stare at the six of us, Rainbow Dash included as she recovered from breaking the second ones fall.

"Who said that?" The second one wearing the slightly ripped clothing asked.

Applejack raised a brow and waved at them. "Uh, ah did, right here."

It, or he, continued to stare at Applejack in confusion before opening his mouth to speak again. "Talking-"

He was cut off by the other one, who used one of his lower limbs to push him off before reaching for the small object at Pinkie Pies hoofs. "HI!" She said loudly at the creatures face as he stared at her.

"GAH!" He pulled away and pointed the object at her.

The other creature jumped up again and used one of its lower limbs to kick at the others limb holding the object and ended up throwing it into the sky followed by a thunderous bang that forced us all to cover our ears.


Ryan Pov:

I hope that bullet he was about to use was important because if so then I'm really happy I made him waste it when I kicked his hand. As the gun landed on the ground, Tyler backed away from me and glared back and forth between me, the gun and the weird colourful horses before turning heel and making a break for it.

"Where do ye think yer goin'? Get back here asshole! I ain't done with ye yet!" I shouted before picking up my knife and began running after him.

I only made it three steps, three bloody steps before one of those colourful horses had the guts to grab a hold of me.

"Hold it! Who do you think you-"

I didn't have time for this bullshit, so I backhanded the cyan coloured horse with wings and sprinted after Tyler.


Twilight Pov:

"RAINBOW!"

I was at Rainbow Dash's side in an instant when that thing hit her aside! I should just be lucky it didn't use that knife, I still can't believe I didn't notice that earlier. Though I was angry, I was more concerned about my friend right now than the creature that hurt her. If it was only capable of walking on the ground then finding it by flight would be simple enough.

"Hey Rainbow, you okay?" Applejack asked.

Rainbow rubbed a forehoof against her face and nodded as she got back up. "Yeah I'm fine." She glared in the creatures direction and wasted no time unfurling her wings to shoot into the air. "Let's go and get those things! Whatever they are!"

Applejack nodded. "Ah'm right behind ya Rainbow!"

I used my magic to stop them before they took off. "Wait you two! We don't now how dangerous they are! I already sent a letter to Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, we should wait until they arrive so they can help deal with this!"

Rarity looked at the shaking form of Fluttershy and said, "Well I do hope they hurry, I don't like the idea of those dangerous beasts roaming about hurting and scaring other Ponies. Just look at poor Fluttershy..."

"I agree! I was planning on throwing a 'Welcome to Ponyville weird monkey-like creatures' for them but one of them hit Rainbow Dash and anypony that hurts my friends doesn't deserve a party at all at least until they apologise then everything is all fine and dandy because they'll have apologised which means I'll get to throw them a party!" Pinkie Pie added all in the one breath.

I sighed and looked at the small black object, the source of that bang just a moment ago. I don't know what it is and I don't know what it does but I don't want to take any chances, I better lock it up or something for now and figure out what to do until the Princesses get here.

As I turn to speak to the others, I hear somepony groaning nearby, more precisely...

"Ugh...Ryan...Tyler...you guys there?"

I froze where I stood and I'm pretty sure the others did too as we heard a deep voice coming from inside the large machine.


Ryan Pov:

This fucker's got some stamina, I gotta give credit where it's due, he sure can run fast. That's fine, he's only gonna make things worse for himself when I catch him.

He's further ahead. I'm losing him. He already had a large head start, thanks to that one cyan coloured horse that held me back. I gotta admit, it felt really good to hit something with my fists again. I was reserving my punches for him, but I had to do something to get the damn thing off of me so he couldn't get away, not that it really mattered at this point.

Fuck. Fuck it all. I need to...

"I...I need to..." I take in a few deep breaths before shouting out to him. "KEEP RUNNIN' ASSHOLE BECAUSE WHEN I CATCH YA, YER A DEAD MAN!"

I hear my own echo in the air, and smirk knowing he heard it. As he disappears from my sight, I decide to sit down on the grass and take a moment to recover from the aching pain in my whole body. Running after him didn't exactly help any, so I should just take any chance I can get to rest.

Last time I remember havin' a good rest was actually just recently in the morning, hours before I went to the airport to go after that asshole. I'm pretty sure there were others on the plane too besides me and...oh fuck.

"JOSEPH!" I yelled out as I got to my feet.

Fuck! I was so focused on killin' that asshole that I forgot all about Joseph! Eh, then again, the guy's survived worse, I'm pretty sure he adapt here at the moment too.

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Where is here exactly?

The smoke from the plane could be seen just in the distance over the hill, I'm surprised I got so far so quickly. I looked around at the rest of the scenery, quite a lot to take in.

The entire field was all green with a few trees standing here and there.

Birds were chirping, and the river nearby was still and clean. In fact, that's probably the cleanest river I've seen in my entire life.

The sunlight only added to make everything even more beautiful.

Everything was so...peaceful.

It was breathtaking.

It was just so calm.

It was amazing.

It...

"Oh my god." I muttered.

The cute little animals...

The birds feeding their young.

The gentle wind.

The surprisingly adorable horses earlier. The magnificent tranquillity of this entire place...

"I'm in hell."


Author's Note

This is just something I decided to write with the little free time I had recently. I know, my shitty writing skills don't exactly make it look good, but I'll get around to editing those errors, eventually. In terms of HiE, I think I'd consider this my first Human in Equestria fic, not counting the crossover I did. Don't expect this to have a happy ending.

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