In the Tundra

"Run!!" I screamed as I galloped as fast as I could, a huge grizzly crashing through the snowy Alaska forest after me. This had all started about twenty minute ago when I accidentally came across a bear and her cubs. I ran back to my truck and scrambled into the elevator arm basket and started raising it higher so the bear would leave me alone. "Go away! No body likes you!" I half screamed half cried at the bear. The grizzly just snarled in response and started stalking around the truck and would occasionally try to climb up it, but she couldn't get very good traction on the cold metal so I was safe for now. In case you were curious, my name is Jim Hallsy, and I am a power line repair guy. You know when the power goes out in the winter? I'm the guys that goes out and fixes that. Anyway, I seem to have been changed into a clearish pony thing. That's right clearish, like I'm made of glass or some BS like that. Does anyone remember the movie Brother Bear? This is some weird freaky spirit shit like that, except I don't remember killing any bears or whatever.

Back on topic though, I am a dark grayish-green color and my hair is white. I'm not that old, jeez. I also have this little yellow lightning bolt on my butt. Like, what the heck is up with that?! What even caused this? The bear started to rock the truck from side to side, trying to knock it over but the stabilizer legs are down so there's no way this truck is going anywhere. Buuut, I'll hold on just in case. As the sun goes down the bear is still walking around trying to find a way to kill me. "You suck! Just leave already! Every second you annoy me, your babies are out there on their own! What if something happened?" I had been reduced to yelling insults at the bear out of boardum but the bear seem to react to that last comment and started to look around for her cubs, seemingly realizing that she left them to chase me. She ran off into the forest in what seemed to be panic and I just stood there in the elevator arm with a blank expression, "If I had know it would be so easy I would have done that a long time ago."

I lowered the arm cautiously and climbed into the cab of the truck and tried to start the engine....darn keys. I left them by the telephone pole when the bear started to chase me. I got out of my truck again and started trotting through the snow, one of the interesting things is, after my body change I didn't really feel cold outside anymore. Also my "coat" is very strange, it seems hard like diamond when you hit it against something, but when you just kind of pet it it seems soft and fluffy like a dog or cat's fur. I can't even think of how to explain that. As I neared the familiar power pole, I glanced around to check for any problems and I thought I saw the bear coming back or something silly like that. I reached down and grabbed the keys with my mouth then jerked my head up and saw the the bear was actually really running at me again. I nearly peed myself and turned tail to get back to the truck but I tripped on a snow covered branch and got face full of snow. I knew that was it, I was all tangled up with myself and by the time I got my hooves under me again I would be having my spine chewed on my a 400 pound bear.

I curled up, waiting for the pain of teeth ripping be apart to become my world, but all I felt instead was a incessant nudging from behind. Maybe she thought I was dead, hmmm, I probably should not make her think otherwise. I held my breath and waited, but suddenly I felt one of the paws on my side and she started to push down on me! As the pressure increased I couldn't help it, I started coughing and wheezing as the air was forced from my lungs. As soon as that happened though she stepped off me and nudged me again. "Please don't eat me!" I whimpered pathetically. While flailing a hoof at her. I couldn't reach her though and I was too scared to move away, I was at her mercy. She pushed me again and I finally opened an eye to see a look of concern on her face. Wait, expressions on a bear? Maybe I wasn't the only thing to be changed after all. I slowly started to get up, careful not to make any fast movements yet. That's when she started motioning for me to follow her. I mean it. She started making gestures for me to come with her.

I had no idea how to react to that, so I started to follow her as to not make her mad. Now I knew that this could be some sort of trap or something and more then likely would result in my death, but I really didn't have any other choice unless I wanted to get myself mauled. "So, what do you want? Where are you taking me?" I don't know why I asked a bear a question, it just kind of was a habit I guess, just to start up some small talk, but she looked at me anyway and huffed, kinda like she wanted to say something but didn't know how. By this time it was completely dark and I couldn't see anything except the bear next to me. I was getting kind of tired and was starting to slow down, but the bear kept urging me onward.

We finally came to a cliff and I could hear noises from over the edge. I looked and there were the two cubs, sitting on a little outcropping and looking back up at me. It was too steep for them to climb up and their mom couldn't reach down there or climb down there because she wouldn't fit on the ledge and would fall the entire 60 feet the to bottom of the cliff. I looked back at the mom and could see what she was saying now, "Save them." I started to consider my options, it would take some time to go back to the truck and get something like a rope. Maybe I can use a branch? I started to look around for a suitable branch, I spotted a branch that looked about the right size and called out to the mother bear, "Hey! Come here real quick." She hurried over and stopped next to me. "Alright, see that branch there? I need you to go see of you can rip it off the tree, okay? I'm going to lower it down to your babies so they can climb up to us." I pointed at the branch and she nodded and started to climb up the tree. Good thing that my truck was made of metal or I would have been a goner for sure.

The mom reached the branch and then started to jump on it until the sound of splitting wood was heard and she grabbed onto the tree as the branch fell. I started dragging the branch toward the cliff as she shimmied down the tree and joined me. "I need you to tell them to get to the side while I lower this down there. I don't want to push them off." She started making bear noises and the little cubs huddled to the right side of the ledge and I lowered the branch until it was propped up to where we were. Now remember, I'm doing this with minimal light, so it took me a minute to make sure everything was good. "Alright tell them to come up here." I said to her and braced the branch so it would not tip over while they climbed. The cubs climbed up and finally reached the top where they ran to their mother. I smiled at the sight (although it was dimly lit) and started to follow the tracks to get out of here. As I walked though, I hear them start following me and I turn around, "Uh, w-what is it?" The mother came up to me and licked my face (ew).

I tried to get them to go, but they had made their minds up. They were coming with me. I was able to get them on the truck and I finally had my keys again and we started to head back to civilization to get some help.

When we arrived in the town of Buckland, we found it completely empty. There was no one to be found at all. I let the bears, who I named Big mama, Cody and Nipper, into the store to clean out some of the meat while I gathered as much food as I could an loaded it in my cab. I like meat a whole lot, but all the meat in that place was rank! On other topics though, we can't stay here in Alaska. Or at least I can't. The supplies will run out so we're heading over the Canada in my truck and then down south until we find a good place with plenty of resources. I don't want it to be too hot where we go, but we need to get somewhere where stuff I can eat grows more often.

I got everyone into the truck again and we started driving east, Big Mama apologized to me about chasing me around yesterday and I apologized about all the mean stuff I said about her. It is really strange to think though, that a day ago I was a human and bears didn't communicate in simi sign-language. But to tell you a little about the cubs, Cody is the larger of the cub brothers and seems to have more energy then Nipper and I bet you can guess how Nipper got his name. Both of them are a light brown and are about one and a half feet tall right now. At least I'm not alone out here, but I hope I can find other people soon.

Author's Note

So this is the first Crystal pony character so far in the PAP universe I think. Anyway, love to hear from you guys, I'm running low on ideas right now though so updates may come a tad slower.

Here's a picture of Jim's truck: