Brave New World: Revival

While trying to maintain speed and safety while scrambling through the killer brambles of the less than idealistic forest, the three friends fought against nature in an attempt to find the source of the screaming person in distress. The thorns tugged at their coats, threatening to tear into them and do some damage. The lighting wasn't helping either, what with the sun slowly disappearing over the horizon and the fact that this forest was denser than an iron cannonball. The Professor regretted ever bad-mouthing it's blessed light. While they tried their best to conquer the ever more difficult terrain, the Professor reflected on how he had gotten to this bizarre place, how he had become a pony and certainly how he was completely naked running through a spiky forest.

1 day prior to the Ponification Incident

Location: Earth, Europe, England 14:32 GMT

"Are you sure this will work?"

Lilly stared up at the gargantuan machine that towered over her and Jake in the Professor's garage. It had been designed like a giant circular doorway, but really it looked like an unfortunate science project that had gone horribly wrong. Bits of metal and cogs sprung out of odd areas and wires and piping dangled down from the ceiling like old cobwebs. The Professor whirled his long leather trench coat behind him and fiddled with a large panel full to the brim with buttons, levers and switches. After he mashed at the controls, lights began to flash and alarms began to sound, signalling the coming of something any of them could comprehend.

"Most assuredly, my dear Lilly! This machine will most certainly work!" The Professor hollered.

"Just like your last one?" Jake queried.

"This will be my greatest success!"

Laughing maniacally, the Professor opened a slot on the console, and pulled a single red gem from his pocket and placed it inside the machine. As he did this, the gem lit up with a fiery light hat threatened to blind anyone within a 2 mile radius. Great cogs began to turn and the wheezing of machinery was almost deafening. Slowly and with great strikes of artificial lightning, a large deep purple orb opened in the makeshift doorway. Suddenly, without warning, the orb began sucking in all matter, whether that have been the Professor's desk, pens or his best friends.

Lilly had little time to scream as she was enveloped by the swirling purple madness. Jake followed soon after, along with the Professor's favourite leather chair that he had been clinging onto for dear life. Eyes wide and mouth agape, the Professor began attempting to reverse his attempts at making an artificial sun for use for his brother's 11th birthday party. While he battled with the controls, trying his best to force them to obey him, it did not last as soon the whole room was being absorbed by the mass of the sphere.

The orb's immense power dragged the Professor over his guard railing, threatening to pull it's maker into oblivion. As his hat flew off his head and into the void, the Professor made a mental note to always have a kill switch or a self destruct of some description if any of his countless failed inventions would stop working, turn against him or in this case, threaten to drag him into a black hole. Wires sparked and light's flashed as the crazed inventor slowly slid along the cracked tiled floor towards his inevitable doom. Many of his previous inventions were sucked in as the Professor himself screamed defiantly as his life was torn away from him.

"No! Godammit!" He yelled as he was consumed by the portal.

Present Day Equestria

The Everfree Forest

The white rabbit bounded into a clearing and pointed at a rather large looking Venus fly-trap. The trio stopped abruptly below it, staring up at it's bloated, dripping form. It smelled of sickening honey, it's stench as thick as fog. It's wrinkled mass had large, protruding thorns that stuck out at odd angles and were as red as the blood that had been spilt during the frantic scramble through the thorns and the brambles. It hadn't any eyes, but that didn't mean that it couldn't see. It moved it's head away from something unseen towards the Professor. It licked it's lips loudly, saliva dripping freely from it's mouth.

The rabbit bounded over to a small pink cloud on the ground with a slight yellow banana sticking out of it while the monster shot a tentacle out from the undergrowth straight at Jake. He was knocked from his feet, sending him several feet backwards into a nearby tree. The plant rose to it's full height and began to speak:

"Do. Not. INTERFERE!"

As it bellowed those words, it sprang forward, attempting to throttle both the Professor and Lilly with it's slender and slimy creepers. While the Professor was able to dive out of the way, Lilly wasn't fast enough, being caught all to easily by the monstrosity. As Lilly screamed for help, Jake had got back to his feet and had begun throwing rocks, sticks and pebbles at the plant, hoping to divert it's attention from what could become it's next meal. In retaliation, the plant grabbed Jake around the waist and yanked him up high into the air, trying to wind all the air out of his body.

The Professor tried Jake's tactic, throwing an all manner of rocks and debris at the plant, hoping that it would simply let his friends go. Instead, the plant, who was getting rather annoyed at this point, used a third stem-like grasper to tear the Professor from the undergrowth and up into the dark evening air to join his friends. Jake gulped loudly and Lilly began screaming again as the abomination opened it's terribly jaws wide, revealing hundreds of tiny, sharp fangs.

Granted when he had accidentally made a portal to... Where ever they were, it had not been the Professor's intention that they would be eaten alive by a giant venus flytrap. Still, trying to salvage the situation, he shouted for everyone to keep calm. While this didn't work, it did result in Lilly's screams reaching a whole new demitone.  All three screamed as they slowly descended into the belly of the beast.

"How dare you!?"

The Plant stopped itself before looking down at the authorative voice that had appeared out of nowhere. The Professor and his friends all turned towards the sound, which sounded very similar to the cries of distress that they had heard earlier. The voice appeared to be coming from another cartoonishly styled pony, this being of the light yellow variety with similar pink wispy hair to Lilly's. While from this height, it was difficult to see what gender the pony was, the face of rage and dissapointment was unmistakable.

"You should be ashamed of yourself! Trying to eat these poor, lost ponies, whatever would your mother say!?"

Jake choked back a laugh. Really? She was going to lecture a 15 foot killer plant? Fine, but it's her funeral.

The plant, amazingly, put the trio back down on solid earth, dropping them with a thump. Scratching his head, the Professor turned to watch the scene unfolding before him. This rather young looking female, he could now see, was taking on this plant in a psychological battle of words, guilt tripping him into submission. Besides, who wouldn't? She was rather cute with her delicate little wings and brave demeanour. Had this really been the pony in distress earlier? It seemed way too unlikely.

The Plant began to skulk off into the deep, unkept forest, leaving behind no trace of it's existance. While the premise that a plant had actually just up sticks and moved elsewhere baffled the sceptical Professor, he had more pressing matters to attend to, namingly this young girl who had just saved their lives from almost certain destruction.

As the trio approached her, she seemed to undergo a complete personality change, hiding her face beneath her silky pink hair and shuffling uncomfortably.

"Hey there! Thanks for rescuing us, we'd have been toast if you hadn't have showed up."

No reply.

"Hey... Are you alright?"

A tiny, almost inaudiable squeak left her lips.

The Professor rolled his eyes and looked at Jake, motioning for him to give him a hand. Jake replied with a "What do you expect me to do?" look. Lilly, tired of the boys antics, pushed them both out of the way and kneeled down next to the shy girl.

"Hey there, nice to meet you. My name's Lilly, what's you name?"

Finally a responce, the pony looked up at Lilly and whispered a single word.

"Fluttershy..."