Ages beyond Equestria: ponies out of time and place

There are many time's in Gorri's life that Gorri wishes he hadn't been so dumb.

This is one of them.

"So, where do you think we are?" Lore-Lei  asked, looking around at the pink nightmare all around us. "It doesn't look like any towen I've seen in a travel book."

"It doesn't look like any town you'd ever seen anywhere!" Miss Mocha agreed, staring at her surroundings in disbelief. "It feels like one of those little kiddie play lands you used to find in old-time amusement parks."

The girls have quickly recovered from their shock of finding their anatomies altered, and had begun to question their surroundings, as well as our whereabouts. Looking around in a panic, the stressed out Nevermore finally turned and pointed an angry hoof at me.

"Damn you Gorri, this is all your fault!" The infuriated Pegasus yelled at me. "If you hadn't put that magic fuel into the tank, none of this would have ever happened!"

"Now stop being so mean to mister Gorri, you big bully!" Rose Petal yelled at her, coming to my defense. "How was he supposed to know the car would go crazy, and we'd end up here?"

I appreciate her defending me... but Nevermore is right. I never should have just dumped that stuff into the machine's engine, without reading the label and consulting with Miss Mocha first. This is some reward I gave to the mare who gave an unemployed Minotaur a chance, giving him a job sweeping the floors of her cafe and her sister's art studio. I was nobody who had come to  Manehatten with only a few bits in my pocket, and really big dreams. But no one would give me so much as a job scrubbing out bathrooms. But the Mocha sisters were the only ponies who were nice to me, and this foul-up is how I repay them!

"Hey everpony, look!" Vanilla pointed a hoof out of the car. "It looks like the natives have taken interest in our arrival!"

It was then that Gorri noticed several ponies emerging from their houses, looking around and staring at our odd little group curiously. After a few of them talked among themselves for several minutes, a pink one with balloons for a cutie mark came trotting up to our motorized wagon.

"Hello there, everybody!" She greeted us warmly, a big smile on her face. "My name's Pinkie Pie, and I'd like to welcome all of you to Ponyville!"

"Wait.. Pinkie Pie? Ponyville?" Nevermore stuttered in disbelief. "B-but I thought... Great Celestia, this can't be happening!"

"Keep it down, Nevermore. Let me handle this." Lore-Lei walked up to the new arrival. "Hello there, Miss Pie. It's a pleasure to meet you. Did you say we were in Ponyville?"

"That's right, Ponyville! The kindest and friendliest town in all of the land!" the pink pony declared, as two of her friends trotted up. "And these are my friends, Rainbow Dash and Sparkleworks!"

"Hello there, darlings! It's so wonderful to meet you all!" She circled our whole group, looking over all of them except for me. "Oh, my word! You could certainly use some new outfits, Darlings! And I'm just the pony to help you with that!"

"You're Rainbow Dash?! Oh wow, you are totally NOT what I was expecting!" Rose Petal's grin suddenly spread to twice as wide as it already was. "You're three times better! I'd love to go back to your dress shop with you for a new outfit!"

Without a word to me or her fellow mares, Rose Petal immediately followed the blue earth pony away from our group. The other mare spoke up, greeting us with an energetic wave of her hoof.

"Oh hi there! My name is Sparkleworks! I'm the towns repair pony, I fix stuff all over Ponyville." She slipped on a pink construction helmet with a butterfly painted on the front and a red bow on the back. "If you need you need an appliance fixed or a door or window repaired, I'm your pony!"

"Great, then maybe you could help us to get this jalopy fixed." Lore-lei commented, pointing a hoof back towards the horseless carriage. "It was knocking around a lot when it started to run out of fuel, and I think that stuff was so strong, it might have damaged the engine."

"Wow, that's a sweet looking car!" Sparkleworks declared, as she motioned for one of the other ponies to come and help her. "Scooter Sprite! Sparklesnap! Come and give me a hoof, would you?"

The two other ponies immediately got behind the 'car', as she called it, and together they all pushed it away to some kind of garage on the other side of town. Lore-Lei trotted after them, before turning back to face us.

"I'll stay with the machine until it gets fixed, then I'll come and tell you!" She waved, before turning and trotting away. "See you later, girls!"

I was about to point out I that wasn't a girl like the rest of them, when another pink mare with a mane the color of toothpaste came galloping up to us. She circled around Miss Mocha a few times, staring at her cutie mark, before opening her mouth, and having everything pour out.

"Ohmygosh! Are you a cafe mare?! You do have that look about you, and your mane smells just like coffee!  My name's Cotton Candy, and I run the town's coffee shop, the Cotton Candy Cafe! It's named after me, of course, but you probably already figured that out." Cotton Candy giggled. "Wow, if you're a coffee mare, how'd you like to come and work at my shop? I need a mare to handle the night shift- cause, you know, I can't stay up both all day and all night!"

"My name's Vanilla Mocha, yes I'm a Coffee mare, and sure I'd love to come to work for you!" Miss Mocha replied quickly, barely able to get a word in edgewise. "By all means, lead the way!"

The two ponies trotted away, leaving Nevermore and myself simply standing there by ourselves.

"But Miss Mocha... everyone.. shouldn't we try to stay together?" I sigh, rubbing my temples to try and get of my migraine. "Well Nevermore, I guess it's just you and me now."

"Huh? Oh no, I don't do that friendship thing!" The goth pony declared, flapping her wings and flying away. "Being around you loseres has messed my life up enough, I'm outta here!"

And so the red eyed pony flew away, leaving me all by myself.

*Sigh* What is it with these ponies, have they no common sense? Do they have a pathological need to make friends with everything that moves? I can't wait for they day one of them tries to make friends with a predator, and ends up as an afternoon snack. Why can't they be more sensible, like we Minotaurs, or the griffons, or the trolls? We all understand that gold, status, and wealth are the most important things in the world... you don't see any of us of the monster races making friends with folks we just met. I expected more common sense out of Miss Mocha.

With a sigh, I sit down on one of the town's park benches, and contemplate this latest bout of my misfortune.  My father warned me not to get involved with ponies, but I just HAD to go to Equestria, just HAD to go to Manehatten. And now here I am, stuck in this pink nightmare land without a friend in the world. It what I get for wasting my time with a bunch of frivolous useless pony females and their useless, girly ways. I swear there is something miswired in their feminine brains, that's the only reason I can offer for the way they ran off gossiping with strangers after everything that's happened.

I still cant believe this has all happened to Gorri!

"Hey there, you're looking mighty glum." A voice came from behind me, as I head a set of four hooves come trotting up. "Ah reckon y'all could use some cheerin' up!"

l turn to face her, and see a red mare with a green apple cutie mark looking at me curiously.

"Lady, you don't know the half of it." With another sigh, I just turn back, and slump in my seat.