As Sunshine walked towards the bed with the other human, she snorted in disbelief. "This is the one called Dempson? What's so special about him?" She thought. Leaning near him, she said in a sickly sweet voice, "Time to wake up."

Dempson had been practicing this thing since he was ten. A friend of a friend's cousin, twice removed, told him about his friend's cousin's brother had this thing he said if anything not his alarm clock woke him up. After practicing, Dempson got to be the same, adjusting it to his life on Terra. As such, when Sunshine woke him up, it soon proved that those sleeping near him were in a bad spot.
"WHO IS THE INTERLOPER THAT DARES AWAKEN ME?!" Dempson shouted in a voice like thunder, blasting those near him tumbling backwards and giving them a very rude awakening.
Sunshine mearly gave a narrow frown. "Real cute." She said, stepping over the sprawled body of some unimaginable, horrific mutation. "Anyway, Richard sent me to wake you up"
"Really? Alright then." Dempson hopped up and walked out of the bed area, glancing at the rest of the recently awoken people embedded in the stone walls.

As they walked down the hallway, sunshine kept on glancing at him with a look of disapproval.
Dempon noticed this. "What's with the glare? I didn't know that my shout had magic in this world."
Sunshine sighed. "To be honest, I'm always like this around everyone except Richard and Crona. I just don't get what he sees in you."
"Another human?" Dempson replied. "I mean, look around. All these guys used to be ponies and what-not. He and I are the only humans here." Dempson looked forwards again, seeing Richard. "Speak of the devil, and he shall appear."

Richard walked forwards, saying,"Ah, I see your awake. I hope Sunshine wasn't rough when she woke you up?" Sunshine suddenly lost her frown, and grew a small smile.
"Richard, I'm going to go check on Crona. You know how he gets if he's left alone for too long." She walked off, and gave Dempson one last glare.
Dempson shrugged, saying "Well, what's the plan for today?" He said, chuckling mildly to himself.
"Get everybody set up here. Long term, expose Celestia and get something resembling normal lives back." Richard said, idly scratching where some of the oozing blood scabbed over.
"Well... Okay then." Dempson said, turning on his heel and delving deeper into the cave.

After some time, Dempson found Richard again. "Hey, I was thinking that while you set up a base here, I'll go scouting around and seeing if any ponies are nearby." He said, giving the cave entrance a glance. "Don't want to be discovered so soon after escaping."
"Sounds good." Richard said, also looking outside the cavern. "I'll send Sunshine with you."
"...Alright." He shrugged, making his way towards the hole, hearing Richard call to the needle-pegasus in question.

As Sunshine walked next to Dempson, she asked, "So, what exactly are you hoping to accomplish?"
"Well," He began, "What would you do if you were in Sun-Butt's gold plated shoes?" He said. "Would you just give up, or order every guardsman with the clearance to hunt us down?" Dempson paused to shake some leaves off of his shoes. "I just want to know if there are any settlements nearby that we need to be careful of."

With a impressed smile, she said "Well, what do you know? You do have something rattling around in your skull after all."
Dempson gave a toothy grin. "Humans didn't become apex predators by slapping things with sticks." He said, pointing to a far-off village in the distance. "And what the hell do you know? There is a town here!"

Sunshine looked at it with a suspicious gaze, and said "I have a bad feeling about this." She then rubbed her head and said "There's something g about this town I used to know. Oh, what was it?"
"Well, let's go tell the bossy boy, he'll want to know about this." Dempson said, turning on his heel.

" Okay, 'captain.'" As they started to walk away, they saw a mare with gray fur, a yellow mane, and wonky eyes. The moment Sunshine saw her, she froze, and just stared as the mystery mare was delivering letters.
Dempson waved a hand in front of Sunshine's face. "Hello? Sunny Side Up?" He said, confused. "Are ya there?"
"Derpy." She turned to him, and said "That's my little girl. Well," She said with a forced laugh, "Not so little anymore..."
Dempson looked at the grey pegasus as she looped around in the air. "...Well." He finally said, "We'd better tell Richard about this place. Come on, Sunny."
"Yeah. We should go." As she turned to head back to camp, took one last look at her daughter, and walked away.

"Richy my boy!" Dempson shouted, getting the bleeding suit of armor to look at him. "Have I got news for you!"
"Oh really, what would that be?" Richard replied "Also," he said, almost like an after thought, "Don't call me Richy."
"Well, Bossy Boy, we found a town not too far from here. A few hours walk, if that." Dempson said, grinning. "I was thinking of hitting it up during the night, seeing what's around there."
"Cool. Mind if I come with you? I mean, I like spending time with my blood siblings, but I can only take so much of them at once per day."
"Go right ahead." Dempson replied, maintaining his grin. "Let's see if we can't find out any information about this place."
"Alrighty then."

As Richard stood up, a pale looking pony with a pink mane and a black robe seem to come out of no where.
"Hello, Crona." The first time he had met Crona, he couldn't tell if they where a boy or a girl. To this day, he still didn't know.
Dempson whirled around and looked at the newcomer. "Hello there?"
Crona looked at him, then looked at Richard. Repeating this several times, he finally said "Did you make a flesh golem again?"
Dempson doubled over laughing. "Sweet... mother of... God... in the heavens!" He said, out of breath. "No, I'm not a flesh golem. I'm a human." Dempson said, after quieting down.
"Ah, okay." He turned to Richard and asked "So, where are you going?"
"Richard and I are scouting out the town that-a-way of us tonight." Dempson said for him, pointing in the general direction of the town. "Best get to packing. Don't wanna be caught unprepared."

Night fell quicky, and as they reached the town. Richard looked over where the town was and said "So this is it, huh?"
"Yep." Dempson replied, gazing at the town. Ponies were asleep, so it was unlikely they would be caught. "Let's check it out!" He said, falling on his back and log-rolling down the hill towards the village
As Richard walked down the street, he saw a huge tree with windows. "What the hell did they do to that tree?"
"It seems like they took a living tree and magic-a-poofed a house inside it." Dempson said, gazing at the tree. "And yes, magic-a-poof is a word now because I say so." He looked at Richard, seeing the sign on the door. "Library. Wanna go in?"
"Let's go in. I love libraries." Richard pushed open the door, and saw rows upon rows of books. He gave a manly squeal and ran towards the history section.
"Egghead." Dempson chuckled, before giving a quiet squee at the science books and dashing over. "Got a bag we can put these in?" He asked, looking over the texts.
Crona appeared with a huge cloth bag, and said "Here you go." He then saw the comic book section, and said "I'll be right back. I have to go look at those. For science."
"Where did he come from?" Dempson asked, glancing at Crona who was busy sifting through scientific magazines called 'Power Ponies' "I don't remember inviting him along..."
Richard walked over and said "He's blind in the usual sense, but he can see auras and teleport. He can also harden his blood and make it tough as steel."
"Yeah, and don't you forget it." A strange, black creature had sprouted from Crona's back.
Dempson's eyes took in the oily creature on Crona's spine. "...Kill the leech!" He shouted, swinging a particularly heavy book at the organism.
Crona simply said " Stop." A cut on his hoof opened up, and a series of tiny, black needles ripped the book apart. He then motioned towards the creature on his back. "This is my partner Ragnorok."
Dempson stopped, stared at the parasitic a looking creature the thing called its partner, turned around, and said "Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope," and he kept saying that as he gathered the science books and left the library. Turning around, he saw the lights on upstairs. "Shit..."

"Hello?" Richard heard someone say sleeply. A sandy colored mare walked down the stairs, and looked around the room.

Author's Note

Sorry if this on isn't as good. Was rushing to get this out, and I am still an amateur writer.
Rate, review, etc.
Side-Note, CLIFFHANGER! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!