The Conundrums of Friends
Chapter 1 or prologue IDK
I’ve waited too long…... I have slacked off WAY too much, NOW I finally have the time to make the story! “HUAH!” I wake up in a daze looking around, I’m in my room.
“God that dream again… It's right though... Guess I should start on it now..." I walk over to my computer and hold down the power button. “Hmm, wonder if Lorenzo is awake.”
I turn to look at my clock. 11:30pm “Might as well check, I’ll never know If I don’t try! Or whatever that saying was.” I lazily wait for my computer to start all the programs up. First comes skype, then chrome, and finally…. Steam.
“Let’s see…” Types in lore into the search bar and name comes up under green saying he’s playing Warframe. “Oh good! He’s online I need to ask him for advice on when I should wake up in the story!” I Open the chat up and starts typing.
“Hey lore sup man I was wondering for your advice, I just started the story and I need a good time to wake up, when are you usually awake by?” Just a few seconds later he messages back.
“How about the dead of night?”
I start typing. “Dead of night are you su-“ I backspace. “Dead of night, SURE WHY NOT!” Lorenzo is tired so we say our good-nights and he goes to bed.
“Hmm wish he could have been here, he's really good at checking grammar and spelling. But if he needs his sleep, I can respect that.” I write a few more sentences before realizing I have school tomorrow, Along with homework, Shit.
“Well, I should go to bed, but if I do, I don’t get any homework done an-“ “SNOOOOORE” The next morning I wake up around 6:45am just before my alarm goes off “Well, that was a wonderful sleep, but that means I have only 30 minutes to get ALL my homework done!” I still have Math, Science, English and College and Careers!
“Oh man, what do I do, I don’t have much tim-“ As I say this my mom calls up to me.
“Jack, it’s time to get up! Take a shower and get ready for school!” Welp there goes my studying.
“Welp shit guess I’ll have to do it in class, I just hope she doesn’t ask for it in the car.” As I’m saying this I’m taking a shower and getting ready for school.
“I know! I can call in sick, and do my homework over the weekend!” I finish getting ready I’m dressed in my usual light ski jacket and hiking pants with very unwashed looking hair (It always looks unwashed whether I try for 2 hours at it or not) and steel toed boots. I’m the survival type of guy so I always carry around the essentials: A lighter, Matches, 3 knives, Lighter fluid (Also good for lighting a fire). What I carry around with me casually is my iPhone 6 plus, my iPad mini, a horrible entanglement of charging wires and earphones, on my head a pair of Bluetooth earphones, and absolutely no school supplies whatsoever.
“Moooooom!” I groan “I feel horrible!” My mom says back in a droning manner.
“Well what’s wrong?” I look at her like I’m going to throw up.
“My stomach hurts I have a sore throat and my nose is running!” I groan a little bit at the end for effect.
“Well let me take your temperature.” She says as she grabs an electric thermometer “Put this in your mouth for a minute once it beeps tell me.” She walks to the bathroom to get ready, I scowl as she leaves the room.
“Damn I can’t pretend to be sick if my temp is normal.” I try to focus blowing hot air into my mouth, BEEP, It finished and I give it to my mom without even looking, feeling proud of myself.
“You don’t have a fever so you’re going to school.” She says as I feel like my soul has been crushed. “Sorry but you can’t miss another school day!” She says as she leaves me to get ready “Be upstairs by 7:45 OK?” I slump to my room and pack my backpack.
“Uhg math is first so I have to do my homework without the teacher noticing...” I get in our silver Rav 4 feeling unaccomplished We ride to school and on the way my mom asks if I did my homework “Yes I did…” My mom looks at me seriously.
“Are you sure?” I look back at her sarcastically. “Pretty sure yeah.”
As we arrive at school she says have a good day and drops me off with some pocket money to order lunch I go inside the school and see my best friend Joel laying up against a wall on his phone
“Yo what’s up Joel?" I say as I go in for a high five.
“Hey man you finally get that computer working yet?" He completes the high-five.
“Not yet, I really do need to work on that though." He looks at me strangely.
“What’s been keeping you from doing it?" I look at him with a grin.
“You know what." He looks back with a slight grin.
“Really you like the show that much?" I reply quickly
“It’s the best show ever! I'm watching all of season 1-5 over again just waiting for the next episode!" He shakes his head in a joking manner
“I watched the first episode I didn't really get into it what's so good about it anyways?" I start to spew answers.
"Well It's got some of the greatest storytelling and storyline in general! Don't forget the lovable characters!" He looks at the clock on the wall.
“Well, enough fangirling! We’ve got to get to math class." I look at him shyly.
"What was homework again...?" I look at him with an awkward grin.
“Jack, don't tell me you didn't do your homework again~"
"Hey, in my defense, I couldn't just NOT play battlefield hardline!" We get to math class after walking up the stairs next to the front door and down a curvy hallway past an elevator. We arrive in class right after the teacher took questions from the first bit of homework.
“Ah! Jack, Joel, have a seat, please we were just starting." She says as she writes down one of the problems down on the board. I sit down at my usual seat in the back next to my friend Jonathan, who was already seated there.
“Sup Jonathan?" He looks at me lazily.
“Not much you?" I grin tiredly
"Nothing, just got as much rest as you did, what did you get? Like 30 minutes?"
"Nah, I got about an hour."
"Lucky you heh." The rest of algebra 1 is just me writing down my homework as the teacher answers students' questions.
Meanwhile in Equestria
because I can do that
Twilight "I've finally finished it! My transdimensional fusion portal! Do you know what this means dash?" Rainbow sighs.
"No, not really because you didn't tell me. Egghead."
Twilight looks at rainbow with a sheepish grin "Oh yeah, kind of glazed over that part heh heh~ Well, what it does is it allows me to view and observe other dimensions! Like looking through a window at another world!"
Rainbow Dash looks at Twilight sarcastically and rolls her eyes. "Wow, sounds like a lot of fun, well you do that and have fun with it, I'm going to go practice with spitfire on some new routines, catch yah later!"
Twilight tries to stop rainbow but its too late "Wait das- and she's gone, well, I guess I’ll have to do this on my own." Twilight starts to power it up “It will take a little bit of time because this requires a lot of power to start."
Back on planet earf “Alright class have 10.2 done by Wednesday and have a good day!" I sigh
“How many questions are in 10.2 like 30?" Joel looks through his book to find the chapter
"Yeah around 30 but she said they are easy if you know the material." He says while looking through the book
"Well it would be nice if I had actually LISTENED to what she was teaching but that's not my style."
"Well good luck with that." He whispers "Even though I know you have the answer books" He winks
"Hey I'll try first then turn to the answer books!" Joel chuckles
“DEFINITELY right?" I wink
“DEFINITELY." We both walk to science class talking about what we’re going to do over the summer
“So are you going to that water park thing?" Joel asks excitedly
"Yeah what about you?" Jack replies
"Oh totally I wouldn't miss it."
"Cool I’ll see you there” We walk into science class and I'm too lazy too actually talk about the rest of school but you get the idea. I say goodbye to Joel and open steam on my phone while waiting for my mom to arrive, I see he's online
“Sup Lorenzo just got out of school what are you doing?"
"Nothing much just watching a movie."
"Cool let's talk about ideas for the story later k?"
"K cya then” Just then my mom arrives and I get in the car
“How was your day at school"
"The same as all the other days?" I say sarcastically
"Nothing new?" She asks expectingly
"Nope." I say blankly
"Well ok want to get something to eat on the way home?"
"Nah I think I'm good I ate some pizza at lunch." We rode the rest of the way home in silence
We finally get home and I rush inside and run into my room and slam the door I instantly sit down at my computer and set up my other computer next to it so I can talk to Lorenzo and type the story at the same time
"Kay Lore I got my stuff set up so where should we go with thi-" I realize my internet isn’t on "Huh that’s a little weird" But with my paranoia I knew something was up I looked around my room but things looked normal.
"My router must have just shut off" I go into my dad’s office where the router was and turned it off and back on "There that should work" I walk back into my room and realize my PlayStation which was on is now off
"Well maybe it was a power outage for a second?" I sit down at my computer again and start typing the story but cautiously look around every once and awhile.
Meanwhile in Equestria. Twilight has powered up the machine "It’s finally working! Time to test it out." Sparks fly out of the side “Ah! Well, that wasn't planned, but it should be fine." Twilight gets into an oculus rift like contraption and straps it on with magic.
“Time to see what dimension it took me to." She looks around and she is on a curb next to a car and a house “What is this thing?" She moves towards the car and it disappears Twilight jumps back as it does so
“What happened to it? It’s gone?" She looks around but can’t find the car “Probably just part of the system." She starts going towards the house.
Back on earf. Jack hears a low humming noise “What is that noise?!" "Why would my parents be running the washer and dryer at this time." Turns headphones up to full to not hear the ruckus.
Meanwhile twilight is still exploring not knowing what she is doing in the process “Wow this world is so technologically advanced!" She walks into a kitchen and in doing so all the kitchen hardware starts disappearing “Uhg that’s really annoying, I'll have to fix that later, this is too fascinating to leave!" She heads up the stairs as jack starts to hear the humming over even his music turned on full volume.
"Okay that’s enough, that’s way too loud!" Jack gets up and heads to the door as twilight goes down the hallway towards Jacks room. Jack heads out into the hallway
“What is all thi- WOAH WHAT IS THAT?" He sees the gigantic orb sucking up half of his house
“My parents will never believe this destroyed the house... I’m screwed for sure” He doesn’t realize he's being backed into a corner as his room has no windows only skylights
Meanwhile twilight is confused “Is that a human? How lucky am I to get to such a dimension, I thought humans were just myths!"
As jack realizes he's cornered in his room it’s too late the orb has taken the rest of the house already and his room is being sucked up as we speak so jack decides to hide in his closet as a last resort as he grabs his mosin nagant for safety he doesn’t know if he’ll need it but it’s worth it.
“Well as they say the final stand..." He puts on his Bluetooth earphones and turns on This Means War by Aviators.
“ITS THE LAST STAND COME AT ME!!!" Twilight hears that from the other room “Oh that’s where he went, why is he in there?"
The audio isn’t as good as the video for the transdimensional fusion portal
Twilights orb comes through the door of the closet which is about the size of a small bathroom
"ATTAAAACK!!" Jack starts firing shots into the orb Twilight "What is that loud dev- WHAT?" Suddenly the bullet goes through the portal and hits the side of the machine and the machine starts sputtering
Twilight "Oh no no nononono NO!" The orb stops moving halfway between jack and the nothing that’s left of his house.
"Did I win? Did I do it? This calls for some victory fanfare!" Jack turns on the final fantasy VII victory theme song “AWW yeah!" As Jack is dancing twilight is struggling to keep her machine intact And finally gives up after realizing its impossible parts are flying off way too rapidly.
"I DEED IT HA- Wait what." The orb starts expanding at a rapid pace and envelops jack in it along with the part of his house that was left Jacks last words
"Aww no fair! I didn’t even get to the part where I earn EXP!" The orb implodes on itself with a huge BOOM leaving a large crater where his house used to be.
