A New Life
Chapter 5: Trapped In A Void And The Truth Revealed
Previous ChapterNext ChapterXavier and Twilight had just shaken off Pinkie's 4th wall obliteration as they turn around with massive confusing expressions on their faces. Stopping dead in their tracks they see every-pony in the group is standing there frozen solid like statues as they tried to process what just happened just like Rainbow Dash was trying too.
Twilight and Xavier were the first ones to speak up as they both had a tendency to recover from these sort of stunning situations so quickly, that by the time they realize they snapped out of it at the same-time their shocked again.
"Oooo! You two are like! Clones or something to snap out of your super duper wowzer expression at the sametime!" Pinkie grinned.
"We are not!" Xavier and Twilight say yet again at the same-time while looking at pinkie with disbelief but upon realizing they said this at the sametime yet again once more look to one another.
"Did you, How are we, Okay this is getting creepy, stop it! No you stop it!" Xavier and Twilight are saying all of these at the same-time as well, trying to say the first thing over the other.
As time slowly passes, Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy are sitting there alongside Rarity and Spike. While the CMC are just distracting themselves with a small game as they wait for those two to finish their talking, but yet again every single word they are saying is coming out at the same exact time as the other.
Rainbow hitting her forehead against a tree over and over again, Applejack just laying there on her side keeping an eye on the two of them. And Fluttershy is just sitting there herself confused. While Spike's eyes are twitching in pure annoyance at the moment, and the longer Xavier and Twilight go on with their awkward, creepy timing with saying the same thing ends up driving Spike to the edge to where he ends up shouting himself.
"Would you two stop it! You're giving me a headache! It's bad enough as it is with one Twilight around!" Spike shouts.
Sure enough it works but not in the way Spike wants it too. Xavier had given up seconds before Spike shouts, and began to proceed with walking down the trail again but falls downwards as one step ends up making him fall through the ground with a loud scream coming from him.
Twilight and her friends hearing this after Spike's little shout rush over towards the hole and look down deep into it, seeing Xavier having just impacted the ground quite loudly, making Rainbow wince a bit in pain as she heard it all the way up where she was at. Luckily the drop wasn't a fatal drop but definitely painful.
The lavender mare was the first one to go down with a firm 'pop' of her magic where she teleports and re-appears right next to Xavier's right side where he's groaning in pain from the hard impact.
"Oh my gosh! Xavier! Are you all right?" asked Twilight with concern in her voice.
"What does it look like? I impacted against the ground pretty hard Ms. Know it all!" groaned Xavier in a pained, yet quiet voice.
"Ms. Know it all?! I'll have you know I am not!-"
Twilight stopped in her tracks when she looked forward, noticing a massive stone door-way with ancient carvings and writings written all around the door she gasped in surprised, knowing exactly where they were. It must've been the ruins yet they were buried underground? Most likely due to it being around for so long or some other matter is what Twilight began to think, her excitement being ecstatic at finding a place such as this she darts forward and looks over the doorway, having left Xavier on the ground unintentionally due to that excitement of her's.
Still Xavier gets up on his own, his right arm moving over to his left side to lightly hold onto his injured waist, he began to walk over to the massive doorway as well while looking it over from a distance. He had a strong, a very strong feeling he was going to finally be able too return home, yet a part of him wasn't looking so forward to this mostly cause the feeling just didn't feel right too him at all he just felt like he was being watched by someone, something.
He wasn't too far off either, mercenaries were watching from a distance with their fire-arms ready to stun the others and take them yet they knew not to do so just yet, not until they were seperated.
"Hey! you guys alright down there?!" shouted Rainbow Dash from where she was standing up on the surface.
"Yeah we're fine Rainbow! We just found the ruins thats all!" shouted Xavier as he began to find ways to open the door himself.
"Alright! Me, Rainbow and the others will try and find another route down there!" shouted AJ as she ran around the massive hole and began to look for other ways in.
Rainbow Dash knew why AJ was trying to find other ways in, she didn't like it one bit but it was for the safety of the CMC and Spike, so she begins to follow Rainbow Dash and so do the others while Xavier and Twilight began to continue with trying to open the door. Eventually getting it open by pushing against a hidden brick.
Twilight and Xavier looked to each-other with a very victorious face upon themselves. Deciding to step through together they are greeted with just shelves of books, swirling giant blue spheres that seem still active and almost powering the place, staircases and many other door-ways which makes him groan, while Twilight was just purely ecstatically excited due to books and so on. Beginning to browse through the books rather than explore the ruins.
This just makes him roll his eyes as he goes to explore himself, and through his walk he's greeted with many more carvings along the wall, ancient scriptures and texts through that long, wide open spaced hallway.
Twilight start's getting confused however when the books she's opening are blank, blank, blank through page 1 all the way to the final page yet these ruins were supposed to be extremely old, but no dust build ups. It looked like as if this place was just created which gave Twilight a very uneasy feeling.
By the time she turns around she's shot by one of the mercenaries guns but not to be killed instead to knock her out as quick as a flash.
"Garlond said too kill her man. Not knock her out with our shock weapons" replied the second mercenary as there were only two of them.
"Oh relax, Garlond wont find out. Plus we might as well make our trap we had for Xavier a little more interesting don't ya think?" said the first one.
"What do you have in-Ohhhh you mean trap him with a pony! And he hates ponies! clever one! really clever one!" exclaimed the second mercenary.
The first mercenary just rolled his eyes underneath his helmet, the second one was just a complete imbecile even though he caught up on the plans very quickly, okay not entirely an imbecile but still dumb on some levels. Proceeding to drag Twilight's unconscious body through the ruins or more accurately, fake ruins as this whole place was meant to be a trap for Xavier, but the ponies being here as well was not part of the original plan.
Xavier himself ends up walking through the hallways while occasionally checking out more rooms, some rooms giving him a few flashbacks of his child-hood which was the one thing he never wanted to share with any-pony or rather anyone from his own world. One flashback was purely painful for him however as that memory gets him to back up against a wall and move against it while growling in pain, his pupils dilating and starting to curse under his breath until the memory passes.
Quickly leaving the room he was in he ends up running down the halls looking for any sort of room that could bring him home and away from this world, he does come across a massive stone door again. His curiosity leading him to open it with a bit of struggle yet his instincts tell him not to go in.
When the door is opened he's grabbed by the throat by another mercenary, this mercenary was just a massive brute, thicker, stronger and taller than Garlond. He was about 8'5 in terms of height, his strength making the human in his hand squirm around until he tosses Xavier halfway across the room where his back impacts against a stone wall.
"Gah!" shouted Xavier as that one impact nearly almost broke his spine, still although it didn't break his spine it sure as heck made him want to stay down. That was another feeling Xavier hated, having the feeling to be forced to stay down.
Again Xavier is grabbed by the neck but instead of tightly, he's just lightly grabbed as Twilight is dragged into the room it makes him gasp and glare down at the gigantic human in front of himself, spitting onto this brute's visor he tries to speak as best as he can without some pain surging through his body, he never gets the chance to speak though as he's tossed through the portal.
Twilight being the next one to be tossed through the portal where the two of them collide in the pitch black void of time and space itself and as Xavier tries to run towards the entrance of the portal before it can close, it shuts down extremely quickly due to that brute having smashed the part of the portal that keeps it open.
Xavier stops in his tracks when this happens, completely shocked by what just happened he looks around for other ways out and starts to panic when he realizes just where their at, something that shouldn't in the slightest be possible yet here he was trapped with Twilight, only able to see her and himself because their colors stick out in the pitch blackness. That and cartoons never seem to actually make the character invisible, and guess what? He was a character in all of this madness and even that is what he also thought to himself.
"No way! No way this should be possible! No way! At all!" shouted Xavier and as time passed further in the void, hours to be exact Twilight finally began to wake up not noticing the place she looks around in a panicked fashion herself yet she was also excited because of the fact this sort of feat is impossible to achieve, she easily noticed Xavier though since he was pacing around a lot at the idea alone of being with a pony in here forever.
"Xavier? Is everything alright?" asked Twilight with a concerned tone in her voice.
"No! Everything is not alright! I'm stuck here in an impossible dimension with a pony! A pony! God I can't believe this! Why did I have to-" shouted Xavier although he was interrupted by Twilight.
"A pony?! That's what you're so upset about? Being stuck in here with me?" exclaimed Twilight as she was feeling angry and confused.
"Yes a pony, I wouldn't mind this place at all if it wasn't being infested with a single pony!" Xavier responded.
Twilight had enough of Xavier's rude nature, what was his deal with ponies when he never gave one a chance? Was it cause how they looked, the smell or just so hard to believe ponies could talk? Either way, Twilight finally lost her patience with Xavier she had treated him like she treated all of her friends yet this was the thanks she got? There was no way she was letting it slide, that and she felt this would be the only time and chance to figure out that mystery.
And so with her patience gone she shouted the loudest she ever has before in her life.
"What is your deal with ponies!? What's so wrong with us? And don't try to avoid the question either I have had enough of your attitude. So come out right now!" shouted Twilight, though the answer she got was one she was not expecting.
"Because you ponies ruined my life!...When I was a kid I watched your...TV show...and-" he's interrupted by Twilight.
"TV show?" asked the lavender mare with confusion.
"Yes! Where I come from you're a TV show! I watched your show when I was a kid and I was beaten, bullied and harassed because of you ponies, I only got a peaceful life because I decided to drop the show to fit in with everyone else okay?! Then I lost my family to your stupid TV show because I didn't want them watching your bull crap! So I got protective and forbade them from ever watching it, don't you get it? You all ruined my life, so forgive me if I want NOTHING to do with you!" shouted Xavier as loud as he could, having revealed the truth he has watched their show before and why he hated ponies so much.
Twilight sat there in disbelief mostly about the fact their world was a TV show out of all things knowing everyone from his world or mostly everyone is what she believed saw her embarrassing situations? How she became a princess? She wasn't all too keen that her private life was violated like that.
But him explaining why he lost his family to herself and her friends she just shook her head at this, she was so angry, so furious, so disbelief-ed that he was blaming her for this in fact in so much disbelief she ended up saying a few words as close to his face as possible. Her pupils like pinpricks as she spoke in another angry voice.
"You have no one to blame for that except yourself" answered Twilight then proceeded to lower herself to the ground.
Xavier stood there, his expression turning from anger to one of calm and sadness all together at the same-time, he felt like crying, he was just on the verge of crying. He knew Twilight was right, he KNEW he was the one to blame for that but instead of letting himself cry he turns his back with a scoff of...
"You ponies are pathetic" and with that he tried to get as far away from her as possible with his back turned to twilight and sat down quickly on the ground.
Twilight herself turned around and sat with her back turned to his, her own expression still being furious at his responses. It seemed like nothing she did or said was good enough for Xavier so she did something she rarely does being the princess of friendship herself, she gave up on Xavier finally agreeing with herself that there was no way he could learn friendship.
So they sat there, waiting, wondering, hoping if help would come to get them out of there....
TO BE CONTINUED....
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