Finding Family

Putting the Pieces Together

        Eddies pulse quickened at he looked at the ziplock bag on his living room table. His mother had been here, but when? He had arrived home after work at about midnight, gave Ruby that salmon he promised and went to bed. Nobody was here last night but his cat, but last night he had a clean apartment and no tree growing in his front room.

        “How long was I asleep?” Eddie wondered aloud. “When did mom leave this here for me? It looks like its been here a while.”

        Eddie had trouble opening the freezer bag, what with the fact that he now lacked fingers. He ended up putting the bag on the ground, placing a forehoof onto the bag and sliding the plastic zipper to the other side to get to the notebook that rested inside.

        Still struggling with his hooves, he managed to get the notebook and letters out of the bag and threw that to the side. “Probably not gonna need that again.” Eddie said to himself.

        The notebook was a simple,red, spiral notebook that Eddie remembered from his time in school. On the cover was written For Edward Murphy Only, From Shannon Murphy. “Mom left me a journal and some notes?” Each note was folded over a few times, with a number on each one, numbering from 1-3, and the words Read the journal first.

        Eddie sat down on his musty couch while carrying the journal the only way he knew he could, in his mouth. This is degrading, I’m not some dumb animal. I’ve been like this for 20 minutes and I already miss my fingers.

He opened the journal and started reading the writing inside pages...

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        My dear son, if you are reading this, it means you have come back. If you arent my Eddie, you know it’s a federal offence to read another ponies mail, right? Too bad there is no real government anymore to knock you down a peg for doing that.

        By this point, you are probably scared and confused, lord knows I was that day that everyone woke up as something not human, well… Not everyone was there to wake up. A lot of folks just disappeared.  There are a few ponies with me that are keeping me sane, including a nice young mare that you might like Hell, she lived a floor above you, I can’t believe that you two never met.

        You may not like your new body, but give it some time to let the magic sink in, it's super helpful, even for the Earth Ponies. We would never have survived without our resident Earth Pony, Shield.

        Ruby is safe. When I made it to your place, I let Ruby out. She has been with me ever since I saved her from a slow and painful death.

Now, you probably have a few questions, some of which I plan on covering later on in this notebook. But right now you need to know one thing, you have been gone for at least two years. I plan on coming back every year, and leaving a note, keeping you up to date on my life. As of the time of you reading this, I have been back 1,2,3 times. I come back every year from my new home in Alexandria, a colony that setup in the remains of Pairs, Illinois.

        There is a chance, that you may never show back up in my lifetime, and I have accepted that. Hell there's a chance that you might come back in Painted Prism's lifetime. Prism is your younger sister, no she’s not mine, but she needed somepony to take care of her. I go into detail later in this journal.

        What I need you to do it to get to Midway. There is a colony there that I help set up. They should be able to get you to Alexandria. I just hope that I am still around to see you again with my own eyes again, even though you wont look like you did the last time I saw you.

I hope this finds your hooves.

With all the love of a mother, Shannon Murphy, AKA Trauma Center

        Five years…

        Eddie had been gone for five years. and he's not the only one who this happened too.

        “I guess that explains the mess and tree.” Eddie muttered to himself.“I guess I need to get to the airport. Midway isn't too far from here. just a few miles.” He said to the emptiness of the room.

Just as he was getting up, Eddie's stomach rumbled. “I guess I haven't eaten in 5 years.” Eddie said to himself, letting out a slight chuckle.

Still unsure of his steps, he made his way to the kitchen to find something to eat. I hope mom thought ahead to not just leave a book and note, but some food I can eat.

Sure enough, Eddie found a strange box on the kitchen floor. It looked like a cooler, but had a smaller box on the side, with a strange blue crystal on the side that was glowing.

As he got closer, a strange shiver was sent down Eddie’s spine, making his wings shootout unexpectedly. “Dang, these things are bigger than I first thought. Can I fly with them though.

Focusing his attention back on the box, Eddie opened it up and felt cold air billow out with his still outstretched wings, causing them to twitch. Dang these things are crazy sensitive. I felt the cold on the wings before i felt it on my face!

Peering into the cold box, Eddie found fresh fruit and veggies, Devouring the first apple on the top.

“So, I need to get to Midway. It's only like 6 miles away.” Eddie started planning on how to get to the airport. He figured that the best way to get to the airport would be to just get into his car and get onto Cicero and and head north till 55th, an easy, straight shot down to the airport.

Eddie then proceed to find his backpack in his bedroom closet and packed the rest of the somehow cold food and some shorts with him, he was not about to put on another shirt after how hard it was to take off.

He grabbed his keys for the car, but before he made it to the front door, he realised that in the five years he had been gone, the cars battery would be long dead…

“Looks like I’m hoofing it to the airport.” Eddie said, before realising that he had unintentionally  just said one of the worst puns that he had ever heard. It was at this time that he realised that facepalming was a lot gentler that facehoofing.