Arrival

Chapter 2

The Party

Laughter. Why do I hear laughter? It doesn't sound like Twilight's or Fluttershy's. Is it one of their other friends? No, this laughter sounds familiar, almost evil.

"Come on, I know you're awake," the feminine voice sends shivers up my spine, but, that voice so familiar...

"You!"

My eyes snapped open as memories of the past two years fly into my mind. I looked at the source of the laughter, and saw the familiar pony on the other side of the metal bars.

I looked around my small prison and sighed, I had been locked up here for months in my small cave prison. I stood up getting off the small mattress, that was on the cold hard floor.

"Morning, hope you slept badly." said the pony on the other side of the bars, laughing.

"My sleep was fine actually, I had a wonderful dream. One WITHOUT you!" I shot back at my captor.

I limped toward the breakfast that sat on a tray in the middle of the room. On the tray was a cupcake that looked exactly like the first one I had ever tried here in Equestria and a glass of apple cider that looked exactly like the one that was served to me on the edge of Sweet Apple Acres. From being here for about six months I knew that the cupcake was not made by the Cakes and the cider was probably one of Flim and Flam's.

"Well well. We can't have that, can we?" Her horn glowed green and my mattress was replaced by... by the light blue blanket I had worn so long ago. "There you go, hope you like the 'upgrade'" she laughed

I watched her walk away laughing like a madmare. I looked at the food and then at my new bed. Tears were flowing down my face but i dare not make a sound, knowing it would only excite her .

I HATE HER.

My thoughts wondered to my friends back in Ponyville. From the awkward first meeting to the last time i saw them on Hearth's Warming. From the defeat of Chrysalis to my first Pinkie Pie party...

***

~Sugarcube Corner, Two years ago~

I looked up at the bakery, and groaned. Pinkie had be told me earlier about a welcoming party for me. She had pounced on me and said so yesterday when we first met, she also told me about a million other things at the same time.

Twilight and Fluttershy had convinced me yesterday morning about them being real. It didn't take that long to convince me, just a whole night of arguing. What finally did get me to believe was when Twilight brought up alternative dimensions and that some mutant dragon-pony-lion-bird-thing named Discord had switched places with me and my room. Although that worried me and her as well, there was nothing we could do about it.

"Are you coming?" Fluttershy said looking back with worry, interrupting my train of thought.

"Uh, yeah. Sorry just lost in thought." I said and followed her inside the bakery.

As we stepped inside the gingerbread looking sweet shop I noticed that all the lights were off. I was about to ask Fluttershy if we were in the right place but before I could say anything, the lights snapped on.

"SURPRISE!!!" the crowd shouted. I froze in fright for a second until I realized what happened. My mind had just started to calm down, when Pinkie came out of nowhere and tackled me to the ground.

"Hi! Were you surprised, huh huh huh?" Pinkie said her face inches way from mine.

"Pinkie Pie! Be careful, Twilight may have used a spell to fix him up, but-" Fluttershy started, scolding the pink ball of excitement that was pining me to the ground.

"It's okay Fluttershy," I said interrupting her "I'm fine." Turning to the pony on my chest I said, "Yes Pinkie, very surprised. but in order to fully enjoy your party I'll have to get up."

"Oopsy, sorry" she said getting off me. "I love surprises, the're soooo fun, I was really surprised when I found out a human was here, not as surprised as when Twilight came but really, really close. Oh you still have to met everypony, come on!"

She didn't even give me a chance to get up as she grabbed my leg with her teeth and pulled me along. I don't even know what the other guests are doing, Pinkie Pie robbed all my attention.

She introduced me to every single pony that was there. I don't even remember them all. I do, however, remember a few, like Lyra a light green unicorn who looked almost as excited as Pinkie. Almost. There was also Derpy a blue-gray Pegasus who was studying my head and feet at the same time. The last one I remember being introduced to was Nurse Redheart who, according to what Fluttershy had said yesterday, stitched me up.

After leaving the DJ booth where Pinkie showed me the DJ, Pinkie pulled me to a table that was along the wall, out of the way of the party goers. Six other ponies sat here eagerly awaiting something. Five of them were the ponies that I had met yesterday, my new friends, and the unicorn I had met earlier named Lyra.

"Hi, girls." I said to them after Pinkie Pie had pushed me into a chair.

The seven ponies were now staring at me when the peagaus with the rainbow mane, Rainbow Dash I think, spoke up, "sooo, you gonna tell us now how you got that hole in your side? You promised to do it today and the day's almost over."

"Oh, yes, right, well..."

***

"...no colors anymore, I want them to turn black" The Rolling Stones sang from my iPod "I see th-"

What the hell? I pulled the earphones out of my ears and picked up my 'miniature jukebox' as grandpa likes to call it. "Dammit" I muttered. "stupid batteries..."

My mom and dad had taken my brother and sister to a doctors appointment so I finally had sometime to myself. I had chosen to listen to music while playing an old Spongebob computer game. It was nice to-

"Ow!"

What was that?

"Damn it Marty, would you be more careful, boss wants everything in perfect shape before we pawn it." said a voice. From upstairs. Of a supposed to be empty, except for me, house.

"Uhh, sorry Billy" said a second and deeper voice. From upstairs. Of a supposed to be empty, except for me, house.

"Nevermind, finish taking this out back while I go check the basement." said the first guy who I guess is Billy.

Shit! Couldn't criminals have picked a day when I'm not home to rob us?

Now, where's the phone? I looked over to the phone dock beside my bed. It wasn't there. Dammit Samantha, why do you always use my phone. Oh well, Cell phone? I pulled it outta my pocket. DAMMIT! Why do i always forget to charge everything!

I slowly walked to my bedroom door and opened it, coming face to face with Billy. He had a U-Haul baseball cap and what looked like a blue mechanics jumpsuit on. I stood there frozen looking into the green eyes of the Chuck Norris look-a-like.

Before I could even 'eep' in surprise I was staring down the barrel of a .40 S&W handgun.

I thought it before and i'll think it again. SHIT!

"Uh, h-hi" I stammered barely able to get the words out of my mouth.

A wicked smile came across his face, "well, well,well. What do we have here? Some fun perhaps?" he laughed cruelly. Smirking, he stepped closer to me, always keeping the gun level to my head.

"On your knees. Now!" He yelled jabbing the gun to the side of my head.

I fell down to my knees, a million and one thoughts going through my head. I looked up to see him doing the worst thing that had come through my mind. Oh god, he's unzipping his pants.

I just stared at him begging him to stop with my eyes, he just smirked.

"Billy!" yelled Marty from upstairs. I almost forgot about him.

The robbers head snapped to the stairs looking for his partner in crime.

Perfect! Thanks Marty. While Billy's head was was turned I quickly slapped the hand that held the gun away. Billy's head snapped back to face me only to be meet with fist flying into his face. His head snapped back and he fell backward from my punch.

After I had punched him, I ran back into my room and slammed the door behind me, leaning against it for good measure. Adrenaline took over as I heard a thud and a noise i'm pretty sure would never leave my mind. A Gunshot.

There was yelling from the other side of the door for a few seconds before it stopped, just like that, gone. I looked down, and saw blood slowly soaking through my shirt. My head was spinning as i stared at the red leaking through my AC/DC shirt. My attention was soon pulled past my shirt and onto the floor as bright lights flashed at my feet, shining through the slit under the door.

After a few minutes of various bright colors shining in my room everything had became extremely quiet. Well, quiet except for the loud ringing in my ears.

A voice had sounded from the other side of the door, but the ringing in my ears was to intense to make out anything. All I know is that it sounded southern. I slowly turned around and faced the door. My hand was shaking as I gripped the door knob. I pushed the door open and winced in pain.

My adrenaline had been replaced by wave and wave of pain that flew trough my body. God, I'm so tired.

The blood flow intensified and there was a puddle forming around my feet. The ringing had surprisingly stopped and I heard a faint gasp come from in front of me. I was about to look at the source of the sound but only got halfway before everything turned black.

***

As I finished my story I looked around the table to the faces of my new friends. They all sat there staring at me in shock of what I just told them. Fluttershy looked on the verge of tears and Pinkie Pie's hair looked less poofy then normal.

The white one with an ivory looking mane, named Rarity spoke up first, "Oh dear, t-that's just simply dreadful, I do hope you're okay, darling."

I smiled at her "Yeah i'm alright, If you think about, how surprised must those guys be at a whole room disappearing in front of their eyes."

That brought a smile to their faces. Pinkie's mane even went back to normal.

"Group Hug!" Pinkie yelled from beside me and in just a few seconds I found my self on the floor surrounded by the ponies. I hugged them and started to laugh. It wasn't long before we were all laughing like crazy.