Joseph Pov:

Dammit. I could barely hear Ryan and Tyler just up ahead in the plane and tried to get up and go after them, but my entire body was still recovering from the pain from the crash, I'm just glad my ribs are still intact.

When I finally find the strength to move, I grab a hold of one of the seats and use it to pull myself up. I feel something tickling my arm and look to see a large cut on it. Jeez what could've given me that?

Shaking my head, I give my eyes a quick rub before looking around at the back of the plane. "That kid better be okay or there's going to be hell to pay." I mutter as slowly work my way to the rear of the plane where I told him to hide earlier.

I nearly had a heart attack when I saw his motionless form just behind the last set of seats, but my fears were quickly put to rest when I noticed he was breathing. I quickly rush over and pick him up and walk over to a line of seats, raising the armrests and setting him down.

A little bit of blood was dripping from his forehead, he must have banged it or something while the damn plane was crashing, and I don't have any medical kits or anything right now.

I look down at him and smile slightly when I see him turn over in his unconscious state. Least he'll live, that's what matters, I'll just have to leave him in here for now and focus on getting help, then I'll catch up with those two idiots and sort them out.

After making sure the kid was comfortable, I get up and head to the front of the plane where I hear what I'm pretty sure was a gunshot. I didn't waste time and immediately started bolting for the front...

...and I ended up falling over because I didn't look where I was going. It was kinda dark though so it wasn't my fault.

After dusting myself off and recovering from my wounded pride, I get back up and feel a massive surge of pain shoot through my back. "Fuck! My back! Dammit..." I growl in frustration that this will definitely slow me down and decide to take it easy and slowly work my way to the front.

I can hear voices just outside as I got closer, sounds like a couple of girls. Wait, no one would dare come over here investigating the crash. Where's the police? They wouldn't let any civilians near here.

"Hey Rainbow, you okay?" I hear one girl with an accent ask as I got closer to the exit.

Great. They've already hurt someone and we've only been here like five minutes or something. I clench my fist and try and keep my anger in check, those two always had a knack for getting people hurt, be it on purpose or by accident. The accidents I was willing to overlook and forgive, but not if it was on purpose.

"Yeah I'm fine. Let's go and get those things! Whatever they are!" I hear a second voice yell out as I approach the exit. Ow, my back.

"Ah'm right behind ya Rainbow!" The one with the accent replies as I take a moment to recover from this annoying back pain.

"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!" A third voice speaks out.

"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..." A fourth voice, this one sounded slightly older and more elegant and...did she just say Ponies?

"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!" A fifth and very cheery hyperactive voice said, that one must be taking cocaine or something cuz no one could say all that so fast in one breath.

Finally reaching the exit, a groan escaped me as I straightened myself in an attempt to relieve my back of some of the pain. Upon making it to the open doorway I called out to the others. "Ugh...Ryan...Tyler...you guys there?"

I let my eyes adjust to the light before looking around. There was a crowd of colourful horses surrounding the plane, and I couldn't help but notice some of them had horns while others had wings. Horn and wings...right.

My attention was then dragged by the small group of horses just right below. One of them was a white coated one with a stylish purple mane and tail. There was a cyan coloured one with a rainbow patterned mane and tail. Weird. But the orange one with the Stetson hat took the cake after, it's not every day I see a horse wearing a hat. There's a pink one, and, that's all it is, just pink, so much pink in fact that I can't help but think of cake every time I look at it.

There was a cream yellow coloured one with a pink mane and tail, looking rather scared right now as it hid behind its mane, just barely avoiding eye contact with me.

...Holy fucking shit that one's adorable. It's so cute in fact that I just wanna beat the living shit out of anyone that would think about hurting it.

The sixth and last one was a lavender coloured horse, with both wings and a horn. It's the only one in fact.

Where am I anyway? Seriously I don't remember a single town or city that had a bunch of colourful horses near it. Did we crash in the middle of nowhere or...

"I got this one!"

The cyan horse with wings just spoke. It talked. It talked?

It shot at me like a bullet, it's determined and furious gaze was all I saw before it slammed into me. I blacked out right then and there. Damn horses.

Ryan Pov:

I never really did care about how fucked up I usually got from time to time. There'd be days where I would get into fights, bust up some sad fuckers nose, get dragged to the ground and scrape my knees, tear my clothes a little, the usual shit that goes down when you get into a tussle with some fucker who'd come kicking your apartment door down just because you fucked his bitch.

Ironically enough, I didn't do that, it just happened to be some asshole who hated me and wanted me dead so he tried to have the big fucker do the work for him.

I was already waiting for him so by the time he kicked the door down, I jumped down from the balcony above the door and kicked his ass back out. He was really persistent too. I didn't bother trying to innocently explain myself, or tell him that while I didn't fuck his bitch I did steal his mail and weekly pay.

So after breaking a few fingers, a few teeth flying here and there, he finally backed down and ran off. I always love it when they run, because it just means they'd come back later with some reinforcements. The more the merrier they always say.

Now you're probably wondering what all this has to do with me washing my leather jacket in the river. Honestly it doesn't have anything to do with it, I just wanted to speak about it because, well, because reasons.

In all seriousness, I am actually confused right now as to where I am. If there's one thing I know about Earth, it's that it never has such a peaceful looking environment with colourful horses and a big white castle sitting at the side of a mountain. I mean come on, what the fuck?

"Wait...castle?" I look back in the direction of the mountain and...yeah it looks like there's definitely a castle there. Damn, I wonder how long it took the locals to construct that without it falling down.

After cleaning my cuts up a bit and giving my short brown hair a good wash, I get up and put my jacket back on before heading off in the direction Tyler ran off to. I play with the knife in my hand as I ponder on how I'm gonna kill this prick. He stabbed us in the back for money so...I'm gonna have to think of something, extremely painful. Maybe I'll burn him alive, throw him off a cliff, drown him, slit his throat, hang him from a tree, gouge his eyes out, stomp on his head repeatedly, break his spine, rip his d-

A loud flapping sound caught my attention and I looked up at the sky to see a bunch of white horses hovering above me. As soon as they landed, I was quite surprised when I noticed the golden armor they were wearing on their heads, bodies and hoofs. No joke, they were wearing legit fucking armor.

Aaaand they had spears...which were pointed at me.

"This is one of the creatures that came from the wreckage of the large machine!"

And one of them spoke.

Another tried to close in behind me but I glanced its way and stopped it with a glare.

They all backed away a few steps and raised their spears as one of them said, "By order of Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, you are under arrest! Put down your weapon and surrender immediately or we will use deadly force!"

I looked at my knife before giving the armored horse a puzzled look. "This weapon?" I said pointing at the knife.

It, or he, just hardened its glare at me and I couldn't help but laugh.

"Ah this is rich! I'm definitely not in Texas otherwise I would have came across a steakhouse or something!" I laughed.

Some of the horses just exchanged confused glances while others continued to glare rather hatefully at me.

"Oh don't worry, I already had breakfast and lunch so dinner isn't until a few hours." I told them. Now that I think about it, I wonder how colourful horses would taste. I hope they taste like chicken, because I could go for some chicken later.

"This is your last warning creature! Put down your weapon and surrender!" They warned me again.

I sighed and looked at my knife. "But I wanna keep it." Giving them a puppy eyed look. "Can't I just keep it?"

They've got balls.

I say so because one of them actually had a pair to actually jump me from behind and knocked my knife right out of my hand, with its fucking spear at that!

As they slowly backed away after taking away my knife, I look at the slight cut on my hand caused by the one that jumped me and glared back at the armored horses with a sadistic grin mixed with pure, absolute rage.

"Alright then..."

??? Pov:

As soon as I came to I could feel my entire body aching in pain and I just wanted to scream and cry right there. The last thing I can remember, was boarding the plane early while my adoptive parents were digging around in their bags to find their passes to show the lady at the desk. They just told me to take my own pass and get right on the plane and would catch up with me in just a second.

But only a minute after I separated from them, I heard guns. I know what guns sounded like and I immediately panicked. At first I tried running back the way I came but I saw the man with the gun was heading for the same plane as me. I could only run and hide in the plane so that's what I did.

I ran at the far back of the plane and hid quietly behind the seats, when he got on he shouted at the flight attendants to get off before holding the pilots up at gunpoint and telling them to take off.

I made an attempt to get out but before I could try, the plane had already separated from the walkway, that and a second man with a gun came flying in just as the second tried to lock the door.

A third and older man made it in as the plane made it to the runway and began to take it. The three of them engaged in a gunfight, the first man taking cover near the pilots cockpit while the other two were halfway down the plane taking cover behind the seats. One of the bullets nearly hit me then...

Next thing I knew, there was a lot of turbulence and I was sure we entered a cloudy storm that caused the plane to shake about uncontrollably.

Through it all, I tried to move up the plane but the older man saw me and yelled for me to stay hidden. I did what he said, he looked like he was big and strong enough to lift a car.

What...what happened after that?

I think...I think one of the turbines came off or something, and the plane started falling towards the ground.

As soon as it collided with the ground, the sheer impact threw me into the wall, hitting my head against it in the process which must have been the cause for my unconsciousness.

I try to sit up and regret it immediately, feeling the aching pain coursing through my body.

I roll over and fall off the seats I was on, that just hurt a whole lot more. I just wanted to cry right there, I didn't even know what was going on, I didn't know where I was right now, I was all alone. No friends, no family, no one. J-Just me.

Curling up into a ball behind the seats, I sobbed quietly as tried to think of what would happen to me now.

Footsteps.

I'm sure those were footsteps I was hearing right now.

But it could've just been one of those men with the guns. I didn't care at this point. I didn't care if I lived or died. I just wanted to go home. I just wanted my mommy and daddy.

The footsteps were approaching me, getting closer and closer.

By the time they stopped, I was positive the source was just a step or two away from me. I could feel a comfortable warmth though, one that I didn't feel until just now.

A soft gasp filled my ears, followed by a voice. "Hello little one, are you okay?"

T-That voice. That angelic voice. So sweet and gentle and caring and...it reminded me of...

"M-Mommy...?" I sniffed as I wiped my eyes and found the confidence to look at the woman who spoke to me.

Only there was no woman, only a tall white horse with wings and a long horn, wearing golden pieces around its neck and hoofs, along with a...crown on its head?

I return to my sobbing, my mommy wasn't here at all. She wasn't here.

Suddenly, a feel something warm covering me, something warm and soft. I open my eyes slightly and see the tall white horse sitting down while holding me in its forelegs, its wings wrapped around me like a cocoon and kept me warm. "There there..." She cooed, her sweet voice filled my ears, I wanted nothing more right now than to just keep hearing it. "Everything is okay now, no need to cry little one."

I tried to stifle my sobs before slowly moving my arms around it. No, her. I held onto her and hugged her much like I would my own mommy, because that was all I wanted right now.

"M-Mommy..." I couldn't help but let it slip, wherever she was right now, I just wanted my mommy.

As I continued to sob into her chest, the aching pain in my body settled in again and I found myself sinking into darkness. I could barely make out that faint angelic voice once more.

"I-It's okay my young one...mommy's here. F-Finally..."

Author's Note

Well I just decided to post this right away because, well, because reasons. That and I just noticed it made it to the popular stories section. That's quite a shock, I didn't think people would actually like it that much. Oh well, I ain't gonna complain. In case you have any questions or whatever then it'd probably be best if you just waited until certain parts of the story, some will be answered soon enough. If you still want to ask, feel free to leave them in the comments.