Twisted Friendship: An MLP story

Twisted Friendship: An MLP Story

Chapter 5: A new day

The sun rose above Los Angeles as morning finally arrived. As usual like any other day in a huge populated city, businesses were opened, families got up for another day at work, and children head to school for another day of education. Besides daily routines and completing homework assignments, what everyone around the globe does was to hear about the morning news from either radio, television, or newspaper. For today's news in Los Angeles was anything besides a car chase on the highway or a dispute over gas prices. The latest buzz around the state of California and the US was the apprehension of a possible murder suspect in Calypso's disappearance. KU7X Radio's DJ, Mason Wayne, was able to cover the story when word broke out of the arrest and made the announcement public around Los Angeles through every radio outlet.

“Good morning, LA listeners!” DJ Mason Wayne said on the radio. “This is Mason Wayne of KU7X Radio bringing you the latest headlines around the globe. If you are just tuning in, we have a really important news story that I'm happy to report. Last Night on KU7X News, our anchor Brian Fox told our viewers about a mysterious man, caught on surveillance, left Calypso Industries in one of Calypso's prized cars the Crimson Fury. He was last seen leaving a BP gas station until LAPD was able to arrest the man at his apartment minutes later. Police has released the name of the suspect as 25 year old Senshi L. Daniels. Senshi Daniels, as of you might remember, was a former stock car driver turned to Twisted Metal winner in Calypso's tournament. It was 8 weeks ago that Senshi and Calypso vanished without a trace after a night of partying at Calypso Industries headquarters during a robbery attmept and trespassing. However, there's still no word on the whereabouts of Calypso at this time being. We'll bring you more information as this story continues to develop. This is Mason Wayne of KU7X Radio signing off. Enjoy your day, LA!”

At the LAPD station, the officer's on duty reported to work as they checked in to file paper work, go on the streets for patrol, or do other assignments around LA. One of the officers from last night, Michaels, arrives at BF1 where the holding cells are located in the East Wing. He passed the security checkpoint and within minutes arrived at Senshi's cell. Using a key, he unlocks the door and enters the room where he sees the stock car driver brushing his teeth at the sink.

“Good Morning, Pony boy!” Micheals said in a mocking tone.

Senshi finishes brushing and spits in the sink while looking at Officer Michaels in the mirror. “Morning, officer. What's on the menu for breakfast?”

“A fresh bowl of 'get your ass moving' with a side order of 'polygraph test.' Part of a nutritious breakfast from us.”

“Doesn't sound delicious. I always love Applejack's cooking back in Equestria. She made the best pancakes and apple pies I had ever seen.”

Michaels let out a frustrated sigh. He can't believe that the man he caught last night is still talking about ponies and a ficitional world named Equestria. “Look, will you stop mentioning about some hoax that you discussed to the detectives last night? You're giving me a headache!”

The stock car driver lowered his head to the sink to wash his face with soap and water. “What hoax? I didn't make anything on the spot, officer. I was there when I met them ponies and dragons and ali...”

“ENOUGH! CUT THE BULLSHIT ALREADY AND PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK! NOW!!!”

“Again: what bullshit?” Senshi said as he turned  away from the sink to Michaels face to face. “I did not make anything up officer! I was there when...UUUFFF!”

Senshi was unable to continue his speech when he felt Officer Michaels swung at him with a slap to the face, grabs him by the shirt, and pins him to the wall.

“You say...one more word...about this!” Michaels said low, threatening voice. “I will tase you so bad that it will make your balls burn. Now put your hands behind your fucking back, Pony boy!”

“Okay, officer!” Senshi said without showing any fear. “Just be easy with me. I'll go take the test and get some breakfast. Am I right?”

The stock car driver turns his body around and does what Officer Michaels told him. However, the hot headed officer did not answer his question about breakfast as he tightens the cold, metal cuffs on Senshi's hand. The two exited the room and into the hallway that leads to the elevator, passing other cells that were either empty or had a few prisoners inside minding their own business like doing push ups, reading a book, or pacing back and forth around their room.

Senshi's Narration

Yeah...I knew they were skeptical about my story but hey, what can you expect from the LAPD? They won't believe in anything unless they were getting a raise on their checks and get a promotion.

By the way, Pony Boy? Is that the best they can come up with to describe me in general? I knew it was a stupid way to label me though at that time I let it slide like it meant nothing.

So Officer Michaels took me to some room in the HQ where I took my test. It was there I sat down on one of their cheap metal chairs as the sensors attached to my body recorded every move I made. Every question Michaels threw at me I answered back with nothing but the truth.

Most of the time it was the same exact damn question: “Did I go to this Equestria as I explained last night?” “Did I encounter talking, rainbow colored ponies?”

My answer to those questions:...YES!

“Did I kill Calypso?”

My answer:...NO!

What were the results? Well...let me just say...Michaels threw a fit with the machine and he called in a technician to find out if the machine suffered a glitch during the process. However, I couldn't leave for a lunch break cause I remained in that room for hours and redue the test again and again and again. In the end, I passed...and Michaels gave up!

Meanwhile, I heard that throughout my time in that room, Michaels' partner Lucas spent hours calling every hospital and national park within a 350 mile radius outside of Los Angeles for any records of my Death Warrant crashing into a tree and my bullet wound. Every numbered he dialed ended up with the caller at the other end saying the same answer to him: no records!

I feel bad for those two...though that's not saying much.

Later that evening, I went back to that interrogation room where I told my story the night before as I waited for Detectives Hoss and Cade to show up. As I guessed, Michaels and Lucas went into the other room to watch the show...oh...and I got my Pepsi with me as I waited.

As I said last night, I was getting to the best part...where I had a party...where I met more of them ponies...

...and I met the rulers of Equestria.

Oh, this will be a thrill...

It was 7:30 PM as the sun began to set and nightfall approached. Senshi sat in the room patiently while drinking his 20 ounce Pepsi and making little taps on the floor with his right foot. Within minutes, the door of the interrogation room opened from the outside and enter the two Detectives working on this case.

“Good evening, Mr. Daniels.” Detective Cade said as he approached the table in front of Senshi with the same file from last night and takes a seat in front of the stock car driver. “How are you tonight?”

“Very good, Detective.” The stock driver said all cocky with his hands relaxing behind his head. “How's your parter, Hoss? Did he cool his jets?”

“Let's not get into this kid shit, Daniels!” Hoss said as he took a seat in front of Daniels. “I'm still not in the brightest of mood from last night's session.”

“Oh? I thought you enjoy my bedtime story last night. What's the matter? Did you spill your warm glass of milk?”

“You are this close to get your ass canned, Daniels! You throw one more remark at me and I'll send you to Blackfield Asylum. There, you will spend the rest of what is left of your life behind iron bars and the rats will feast on your rotten corpse as you lay there starving. Got it?”

The stock car driver shrugged a bit while taking another sip of his Pepsi but at least he agreed not to insult the hot headed Detective.

“Mr. Daniels,” Detective Cade spoke as he opens up the file containing Senshi's information and documents. “As you are aware, you took a polygraph test this morning to prove your claims from last night's confession. We looked at your results...”

He pulls out Senshi's test results from the file and reads it. “...And we're amazed that you passed...forty times!”

“What a record!” Senshi cheered sarcastally. “I should get an award for that!”

Cade cleared his throat. “As I was saying, as you were taking your test, Deputy Lucas spent the whole day calling every hospital and park ranger for anything about a gunshot wound or destruction of private property as you said in your story. Unfortunately, Lucas was unable to recover anything logical.”

“In other words,  my story is true! I crashed Death Warrant in a creepy, dark forest, I was founded by a yellow shy pegasus, and I woke up in a hospital situated in world full of talking, colored ponies. Hell, if I wasn't found by that pegasus, Fluttershy, I would've turned into stone by a cockatrice. So for the record officer, I'M THE ONLY SOURCE OF INFORMATION IN THIS CASE THAT KNOWS THE TRUTH!!! ”

The calm detective let out a frustrated sigh but softly so Senshi couldn't hear. “Mr. Daniels, last night as you last said, you were in a hospital and had these...ponies...come into your room. Care to tell us the rest of your 'story.'”

The stock car driver took another sip from his Pepsi before calming down. “Sure, Detective. Last night as I recalled, I was having my dinner when Nurse Redheart introduced me to the ponies...”

“All finished with your dinner, Mr. Daniels?” Nurse Redheart politely asked.

“Yes, I am.” Senshi replied as he handed his dinner tray to the white furred pony. “Thank you very much. It was very delicious.”

Nurse Redheart smiled at the compliment. In the past, she barely received any positive feedback on the hospital food from most of her patients as some of them today complain and nitpick on what they want to eat and drink. Though her patient this night is a different species, it's great to see that Senshi didn't act like whiny foal demanding milk.

The nurse grabs the dinner tray with her teeth and trots away to the door, leaving the five ponies and the human alone in the room. There was nothing but complete silence between the colored mares and the nearly bald, Caucasian human. So quiet that a pin drop can be heard until Twilight Sparkle began to speak.

“So...Senshi.” The purple unicorn said. “You mind telling us about yourself?”

“Like...what, for example?” The human replied.

“Like where you're from, your hobbies, and your goals. You know, basic stuff.”

The stock car driver didn't know what to say to begin with. More so, he would rather speak to someone who was in charge of Equestria and tell him or her about where he came from and why he's here. Though, he glanced at Twilight and her friends and decides to just tell a little bit of information.

“Well,” Senshi spoke. “Like I said earlier to the nurse, I'm a human from planet Earth. I'm from a place called Los Angeles, one of the main cities of California.”

“Oh, how is Los Angeles?” Twilight Sparkle asked all interested in learning more.

“Umm...Los Angeles...is not that great.”

“What do you mean not that great?”

“It's just...not great. I'm sorry but I can't tell you how bad of a place Los Angeles is. So much drama and crime going on in that city drives me insane. However, I have to make the best of it.”

“Say Senshi, didn't you say you were athletic in school earlier?” Rainbow Dash questioned.

“Yes, I did.” The human replied. “Why?”

“Do you still do any kind of sports?”

“Of course, I do. To this very day, I'm a stock car racer of Los Angeles.”

“Um...what in tarnation is a stock car racer?” Applejack asked Senshi.

“A stock car racer is someone that drives automobiles, or cars, that are modified to race in oval tracks around the country. It is more like, my career so to speak. I do this because I need money to pay off some bills or buy car parts from Autozone.”

“I apologize to interrupt, darling.” Rarity said. “However, we don't understand what a car is.”

“A car is a vehic...er...I mean...a metal machine with a motor that runs on its own power for us humans to travel around certain places. There are over 1 billion of these things around Earth in several different shapes and forms that are made for any use of transportation like passengers, food, mail, and other special needs for us humans. However, the car I drove here is wrecked at the Everfree forest where your friend Fluttershy found me.”

“Oh...that thing that you were next to...was a car?” Fluttershy asked Senshi.

Senshi nodded.

“Oh, I thought it was some scary creature billowing smoke from its mouth and it bled black blood.” Fluttershy said.

“The black blood you're mentioning is oil.” Senshi corrected her. “It's not really “blood blood” but it's something like that. I mean, oil is just one of the two important liquids that makes a car function. It is used to lubricate moving parts in the engine, it cleans, cools the engine, and improves sealing. As for the second called gasoline, it is flammable liquid mixed with hydrocarbons that is used to power up a car to make it go anywhere though you have to make it go applying pressure on one of the pedals underneath the steering wheel.”

The ponies' expressions about what a car is and how it works sound rather interesting. For them, they have their own use of transportation to get around Equestria like hot air ballons, air ships, carridges, wagons, and trains. Though they'd seen it earlier in the Everfree Forest, they want to know how exactly does it work since all five of them don't quite follow.

Before Senshi can continue talking, the door to his room opened and a different nurse enters the room. This nurse pony had a light purple fur with white streaks in her hair, white freckles, and with an average body size. It was Nurse Sweetheart, one of the nurses that Nurse Redheart mentioned earlier.

“Alright my little ponies.” The nurse said. “Visiting hours are over and Senshi needs his rest.”

“Ahh come on!” Rainbow Dash protested. “I was going to ask about more about stock car racing!”

“You can learn all about...'stock car racing'...tomorrow. However, our new patient has to get some sleep and he'll be checking out first thing tomorrow.”

“Whoa, whoa wait a minute!” Senshi interrupted. “Check out?!? Umm...nurse, I...if I check out tomorrow, where am I supposed to stay at? I don't have home and I'm not even from here.”

“Oh!” Nurse Sweetheart said trying to think on what can be done. “Well...I don't know what can be done to solve that bu...”

“I have an idea!” Twilight Sparkle said. “I'll be delighted to have Senshi stay at my place tomorrow.”

Senshi looks at Twilight with a concerned expression. “You really mean that, Twilight?”

“Of course. I have an extra bed for you to sleep in though I should let you know that my #1 assistant, Spike, snores really loud so I'm pretty sure he's not a problem to you.”

“Who is Spike?” Senshi asked.

“He's a baby dragon that lives with Twilight.” Fluttershy said to the human.

The stock car driver was amazed. “Whoa! You have dragons here, too?”

“Yup!” Applejack said. “Big ones, small ones; you name it! Don't worry about it, partner. Spike is one of our best friends so he won't hurt you.”

“That's great to hear as long as he's not dangerous.” Senshi said in relief.

“We'll see you tomorrow, Senshi.” Twilight said as she trotted out the door.

“Have a wonderful sleep, darling.” Rarity added as she, the other three mares, and Nurse Sweetheart left the room.

Once the room was cleared with no sign of any of the ponies, Senshi closed his eyes and drifted to sleep while laying in his hospital bed.

“...So I rested all night thinking about what my plans are for the next day in Equestria.” Senshi informed Detective Cade.

“And when you woke up the next morning,” Det. Hoss said. “What plans did you put into motion?”

“I...got up when Nurse Sweetheart entered my room and she wanted to introduce me to the ma...er...stallion...that performed the operation on me...”

“Senshi Daniels!...SENSHI DANIELS!!!...”

Senshi was awakened by the sound of a male voice calling out to him as he began to slowly open his eyes and sat up to see Nurse Redheart and another hospital staff member. It was a light brown, male unicorn with a cutie mark of a heart monitor, brown mane and tail; wearing glasses, a lab coat, and a stethoscope. Aside from meeting this new pony, something caught Senshi's eye is amazement. In front of this stallion was an x-ray photo of his fractured clavicle bone and brown file with his name on it...floating in mid-air by some sparkling aura! What came to the stock car driver's mind was how are these two things floating in front of him and who's doing it.

“Good morning, Senshi.” Nurse Redheart spoke smiling. “This here is Dr. Stable. He's the one that perform the operation on you.”

“So you were the one who removed the bullet out of my body?” Senshi asked the stallion.

Dr. Stable glanced at Senshi. “Um...bullet?”

“You know: the tiny, metal shiny thing you took out of me that caused the bleeding.”

“Ohhh that thing. Yes, though, according to your X-ray photo, how did it get inside of you?”

“Before I tell you, how is that x-ray photo floating?”

“Ahh, that's easy. I use magic.

Senshi raised an eyebrow. “Magic?”

“Yes.” The doctor replied. “Don't you humans use magic?”

“Umm...not really. Most of us humans have their own beliefs in magic. There are some that think magic is real and some that think magic is a work of fiction. No offense, doc!”

Dr. Stable wasn't pleased to hear on what Senshi just said about humans' taste in magic though he rather respect his own opinion.

“However,” Senshi continued, “I guess seeing is believing and I have a different view on what I think about magic.”

Now Dr. Stable was feeling a bit better. “Well, I'm glad you changed your mind, Senshi. As for injury, you should be healing later this week though you need to be a lot more careful and avoid any physical activity that will cause more pain to your shoulder. Now, tell me how did this 'bullet' got inside you.”

“I would be delighted to tell you that but I would rather speak to someone in charge of Equestria.” Senshi said. “I got some questions to ask and once I do get what I need, I'll explain how I got here in the first place. Do you know who is in charge?”

“Yes we do.” Nurse Redheart said to Senshi. “ That someone is our ruler of this world, Princess Celestia.”

Senshi placed his hand on his chin pondering. “Princess Celestia? Is she available?”

“Not that I know of but Twilight Sparkle will be happy enough to tell you. In fact, she is here in this hospital with Rarity and they're both waiting for you in the lobby.”

“Oh.” Senshi said. “Well, before I go, I need my stuff that you ponies took from me while I was unconscious and, I guess, my hospital bill, too.”

“Indeed, Senshi Daniels.” Dr. Stable said as he puts away the X-ray in the folder. “Come follow us and we'll get you your belongings.”

The stock car driver nodded as he got out of bed and stretched carefully as his body can still feel a bit of the pain from yesterday. Once he was done, he followed Nurse Redheart and Dr. Stable out of the room and into the hallway of the hospital.

'This is going to be a new day for me,' Senshi thought.