“Later… buddy…”

With a gasp of air, I woke up. Instantly I was sitting up and panting hard, beads of cold sweat rolling down my back. My hand reached up to hold my head steady, elbow resting on my now raised knee. Only one thought dominated my brain at that moment:

“I’m… alive?” I voiced the thought aloud. “Was it all a dream? Did I survive after all?” My brain instantly focused as I jumped to my feet, looking around desperately. “Simon! Simon! Yoko! Boota!” I keep looking around, but.. I was alone. All alone. And… where the hell was I‽

Before, there was nothing but sand and dirt around us. Now, everything looked… green. Lots of green! I’d almost swear I was in a land of green! I looked up to see that big light bulb in the sky, using my hand to cover my eyes as I did. Still hurt to look right at that thing. Was nice to see it, though; better than any ceiling.

My gaze fell back to the land around me; nothing in every direction but green. Also nice to see, but it certainly wasn’t making anything better. If anything, it was even more confusing. Where was everyone? I could have sworn we’d won and should have taken that giant Gunman fortress. Did… did they leav-” I shook my head as soon as that thought rolled into it. “Like hell they would do that to the Mighty Kamina! I am the leader of Team Dai-Gurren! A team like that would never leave their leader behind!”

I had myself a mighty laugh at ever thinking they’d do that. Especially Simon; he’d never leave his bro behind. I taught him better than that. But then… how the hell did I get here? Where the hell is here? And more importantly, how the hell do I get back to my bro and my team‽

I sighed, scratching the back of my head with my eyes closed. “Well this sucks. No clue where I am, no team in sight, and I don’t even have my bro with me. Welp,” I stood straight, stretching out a crick in my back and my eyes pointed to the horizon, “Better get started then.” With that in mind, I trudged onward on a path back to my friends!

“Oh god I’m so hungry!” I whined, almost ready to collapse from my walking. My stomach was completely killing me, it was almost like that time I met that annoying prick Kittan. He’s still a friend, don’t get me wrong, but he was a complete prick. Hell, he tried to kill me when we first met! As if! “No one could kill the Mighty Kamina!” I shout to the air… before slumping back down. “So hungry!”

Damn my stomach, why do you require so much food to work? Oh but food is so delicious~. Like pigmole steaks. Oh how I could go for one of those cooked to perfect right now. Hell, I’d go for one raw if I could.

I let out a slight groan as my stomach rumbled even more, thoughts of food only making things worse. I looked up at the “sun”, as Yoko called it, to see how long I’d been walking. She said the lower it was in a certain direction meant it was getting later in the day. It was pretty high up there when I started so it should be…

“What the hell‽” I shouted. That big yellow ball hadn’t even budged! What a rip off! This place is just trying to piss me off, I just knew it! “When will the torment end, dammit!” I shouted, falling to my knees and hitting my fists to the ground.

‘Keep yourself together, Kamina.’ I thought to myself. Had to keep things in mind; I still had my little bro to find. Simon may need me, or Yoko. Aw hell! How are they gonna pilot Gurren Lagann without me‽

“I have to get back!” I instantly decided. “Maybe there’s something up ahead that can lead me back to them!” I jumped to my feet and took off running. “Don’t worry, Simon! I’m comin’!”

...Didn’t take long before that spike of energy was gone. This one was actually really stellar; when I was reminded of how empty my stomach was, I completely lost the spark and tripped over a rock (not my own feet, that’s unmanly!) and went tumbling into a bunch of bushes. Didn’t even see these before. Wait, bushes can have…

I opened my eyes and they shone brilliantly at what I saw. Berries! Loads of them! I chuckled a bit to myself before muttering, “Jackpot!” I was on those morsels like an animal, grabbing handfuls at a time and sending them on a one way ticket to my empty gullet.

“Aw yeah, dat’s da stuff!” I mumbled through bites. They certainly weren’t as filling as meat, but it would do. I had no idea what kind of berries they were, but I didn’t care; they tasted decent and my stomach wasn’t killing me more than that blasted gorilla was trying to.

I felt a sudden prick on my neck that stopped my little chow down. Mouth full of berries, I looked down at my arm where the prick was and saw a tiny little dart there. And like that, I was pissed.

With an angry glare, I shot to my feet and started looking around. I spotted something, no wait! Two somethings off in another pair of bushes not too far from me. I swallowed my mouthful of berries and started shouting at them. “Hey! It’s a coward’s tactic to hit a man while he’s eating! Come out and face the Mighty Kamina like a man!”

The bushes started to rustle and I grinned, seeing I was inspiring even wannabes. But what emerged caused me to blink and rub my eyes. It wasn’t human, and it certainly wasn’t beastman. If anything, I would have said they were tiny horses that took a bath in paint! One was completely brownish-green (think Yoko said it was called “Olive”) with a strange hat on and the other was red all over with an even redder mop of hair under an even bigger hat.

“What the hell?” I whispered. My vision started to blur, causing to make me rub my eyes, but that didn’t change anything as I started feeling woozy. I started to wobble on my feet, falling to my knees after a moment as things kept getting blurry. I looked up at the strange creatures that had approached me fully now.

“Wooks wike we got ‘em, Sammy,” spoke the olive one. He let out one of the weirdest chuckles I’d ever heard, like he was repeating “Ha” over and over again in an instant.

“That we did, Fudge! He’s gonna go for heeeeyuuuge bits once we get ‘im inta town!” Oh come on! The red one doesn’t even sound like he’s talking at all! “Lez git the varmint inta the carriage.”

I tried to back away with an angry scowl at them, but whatever that dart had in it was too strong. I was blacking out and then I’d be at their mercy. “Just… who the hell… do you think… I… am…”

Author's Note

So... my first try at writing a Your Human and You story... hope you liked it! I'm trying out a few things to see if I can back into the swing of things and I figured this would be an interesting way to start things back off. This story is just gonna be more of a comedy tale that I can throw ideas into as well as tell a compelling story. Hopefully you'll see more coming soon from... well, everything really. See ya next time; brony on!