“Just Like Me”
Proofread by Flutter-Shy.
Chapter 1: Man(e)hattan
The sirens of police cars are being heard from the alleyway where two outlaws are running for their lives, one of them is a female around five foot four, wearing a short black skirt and a black pinstripe vest showing her rather curvaceous figure, her black evening pumps making her look taller. Her hair was blonde and made into short soft curls and her eyes were hazel colored, her name was “Hail Mary” Mary Hayes.
The other criminal was a male around five foot nine, wearing a full black pinstripe suit, fedora and shoes combination showcasing his strong stature. His hair was brown and very short and slightly parted, his eyes were as black as the sky above. His name was “Hal” Hal War-tun and he was a real Valentino. Hal carried a Smith and Wesson M&P .38 special he had stolen from the corpse of a police officer, and a grey duffle bag filled with thousands of dollars.
The criminals recently robbed a bank and needed a way out fast, cutting through alleyways seemed to work the best as the police cars were too large to navigate through the narrow alleys.The criminals began to panic as they heard the sound of footsteps rapidly approaching as they encountered a metal chain link fence.
“Oh no! We’re trapped, like rats!” Mary yelled in her soft New Jersey accent as they came to a grinding halt.
“By the time we both get over that fence the fuzz will be houndin’ our tails. We need a distraction and fast.” Hal said as he began thinking of different ways to get rid of their trail, thankfully, one was immediately obvious.
“Sorry toots.” Hal spoke softly as he raised the .38 slightly. Before Mary could react Hal had pulled the trigger, the bullet ripping through her leg causing her to collapse in agony. Given the chance to escape and with the knowledge that time was of the essence, Hal began jumping the fence.
The screams of his girl and the sound of police chatter put a smile on Hal’s face, he could get away with the robbery and keep her share of the money, some might say, he had his cake and ate it too. Alas his victory was short lived as he smacked into a brick wall, he was at a dead end.
“Shit!” Hal screamed, “I can’t go back to the slamma’ I just can’t.” Hal panicked and nearly broke down, he knew for sure that they’d rip him apart a in prison. Hal began praying to whatever celestial being would answer. “Please! You gotta’ get me outta’ here!”
Before his very eyes a swirling vortex appeared with hues of black, blue, red, and yellow. With wide eyes Hal silently thanked whatever had given him this opportunity to escape, and jumped into the vortex hoping it was actually an escape route.
Hal was thrown out of the swirling vortex and into the same dead end. Hal tried to shake the rising fogginess out of his head but failed, he sat with his back against the brick wall and had begun freaking out again.
“N-no! You c-can’t do this to me!” Hal stuttered, he raised his .38 with shaky hands and aimed it at the end of the alley. With an itchy trigger finger and rising paranoia Hal waited, expecting every moment to be his last. Time passed like treacle, slowly burning through his nerves -- amazingly, nobody rounded the corner. This calmed him somewhat, and he tried to listen over the pounding of his heart; was there actually anyone there? Hal began to calm down as no one had approached him yet.
“Maybe they left? I can’t be getting all scatterbrained like this, I still need a way out.” Hal muttered to nobody in particular before Lowering his firearm and drawing himself to his full height, Hal sensed something was off -- the buildings! They were... Shorter? It hardly seemed possible, but maybe he wasn't paying attention to his surroundings while running for his life. Everything was also slightly more colorful than the dark, grime filled streets he was at only moments ago.
Hal wandered down the alleyway observing his surroundings. Surely they hadn't been this vibrant before? Had the vortex made him taller and given him super-senses? Maybe he had superpowers now.
Hal tried many things to see if he had indeed gotten superpowers only to look foolish and stopped with a small pout. Hal finally jumped the fence and checked for any bulls, dicks, or any other type of law enforcement or investigators.
Hals mind began flooding with smoke and fog, he couldn’t think straight and something strange was happening to him.
A mare took an unfortunate route as she seemed to get stuck between a wall and some sort of big, crazy, hairless creature who looked at her in a fit of frenzy.
“What da fuck!” Hal yelled as this small technicolor horse with wings entered his sights, in a frenzy he aimed his .38 at the mare, but something had stopped him.
“Please don’t hurt me!” the mare said shockingly as the creature before her began yelling, “Here Take it!” she threw her coin purse hoping it would satisfy the creature like it would a diamond dog. “Take anything, just don’t hurt me!” she finished with tears forming in her eyes.
Hal began seeing more images in the fog of his brain, his body felt off, he felt stronger as a sudden burst of adrenaline had hit him, something else was wrong though as he stared down. Hal had pitched a tent in his pants with blood flowing fast through his whole body, Hal needed relief fast he felt as if he’d explode if he didn’t.
“Anything eh?” Hal said with a smirk forming on his lips. The mare began to look horrified as the creature in front of her began to undo the buckle and zipper of his pants, his smile ever widening showing his slightly sharper teeth.
The mare was in the hospital, it had been ten months since that beast had used her for his own needs, she never wanted to be in this position. She wanted to be a big journalist in the Big Apple, Manehattan. But one random gust of wind had thrown her down a miserable future, blowing those reports down the alleyway that ruined her life.
The mare was now at the end of her pregnancy, she never wanted this life, this child, the abuse, or even the attention of the news that she had worked so hard in to do what she loved. It was all gone now, she could never recover from this, but she sure would try.
The newborn’s screams could be heard in the room as the doctors gasped and fainted, all except a doctor with a strange fur coat and yellow eyes, he calmly and coolly delivered the newborn. The sight disgusted the staff, the abomination that was released from the poor mares body. It looked like her attacker, completely naked, no fur, a short brown mane, black eyes, and short black wings. It was half whatever he was and half pegasus, it was an abomination, but the law of equestria forbade her of getting rid of the child as it was a male, a colt.
The strange ratio of male to female had now made her keep this child she never wanted, all because it was male. The mare knew life was going to be tough from now on, it was going to be tough because she knew no one was going to help her, she had to face this problem on her own accord.
As she held the newborn hybrid, she cried her eyes out as the snap and flash of a camera went off. She could see the headline already…
“Local News Mare Gives Birth To Monster”
Author's Note
This might take me a long while to complete. My cover artist and my proof reader seemed to have taken a year off, as I have as well. But now I guess it's just me. Anyway I hope you have enjoyed this chapter. The rest is on Gdocs and I have absolutely no internet, yay...
Author's Note
I've had some interference in this chapter, if the story somehow seems glitchy then I'll remove it. I've also taking the liberty just to do things on my Android phone, Errors inbound as always. Enjoy!
Chapter 2: Foalhood
Chapter Two: Foalhood
One long year had passed since the newsmare named Fast Learner had given birth to the abomination, She had done everything in her power to get rid of it, but Equestrian Law had forced her to keep it for not only was this “Thing” a male, but also of another species, his kind would be special and other countries would likely give praise for the birth of a new species. Fast Learner had read books, went to meetings and tried her best to learn how to advance in motherhood, true to her name she learned how to care for a foal, but her ability to care for the baby she now had was slowed as it was not a normal foal, nobody she could talk to would even consider it a pony in general.
Fast learner had been given a rough time through her life as the child had become even more difficult, almost every week the crossbred child would get sick and require medical attention, along with the being not able to digest some of the normal Equestrian food. The royal pony sisters had given the foal a special doctor, who could find out what’s wrong with just about any species of creature known to Equestria, but the foal too would prove to be most difficult.
Fast Learner had to pick a name for the foal soon after it was born, otherwise a name would be given to it along with not receiving benefits. Fast decided that Wild Ace would be an appropriate name for this creature, as she had no idea what this being was capable of. Wild Ace had become even more troublesome as the years had gone by, his diet now found by the specialized doctor, consisted of meats from neighboring countries as well as various fruits and vegetables, putting quite a taxing on Fast Learner. As time stretched longer Wild Ace had begun to fill out his figure more and more. He began to become taller, his brown hair becoming more grown and his wings too were getting full of black feathers.Out in the shadows lurked a bipedal figure who began to stalk the family. Every now and the Wild Ace would be calm enough for Fast Learner to rest for a while giving her some peace.Then came the day that any mother would be proud of, baby’s first words. Fast Learner felt happiness as Ace babbled out the word that resembled “Mama”. Fast’s feelings began to grow more as she grew with Ace, living became more easy for her as she slowly but surely a felt true feeling of maternal love for Wild Ace. Finally accepting that she was in fact Wild Ace’s mother.
Eventually Wild Ace began going to school, which was hard as the teachers had to be extra careful and wary with the “special” foal attending the school. Many of the other foals and fillies stayed clear of Wild Ace leaving him to a lonely first few weeks. The foals and fillies began to tease Ace for being different, sending him home crying to his mother who comforted him dearly. On many occasions this had happened and of those times Fast Learner had talked to the School Board to stop the bullying, but the Board had disregarded her pleas and instead focused on other matters. Fast Learner tried many times in the past to expose the corruption in the schools across Equestria, but witnessing it first hoof sent her overboard. Using her assets in the news industry she was finally able to get new ponies into the School Board to help Ace in the long run.
Wild Ace did not fare any better in Elementary School, if not worse considering he was the only one of his kind and was subjected to more bullying, cruel jokes, and even shamed by the “beautiful” fillies. One cruel joke involving Hearts and Hooves Day left Wild Ace in tears in front of the whole student body, where they laughed as Ace ran home. Wild Ace began reaching the “Rebellious Age” where his hair began covering his eyes, and wore darker clothing. Ace began to be mischievous and trouble some: staying out late, stealing, getting in fights at school, etcetera. There have been a few times that Wild Ace had been caught by the police vandalizing property and stealing objects. Fast Learner scolded Ace for his actions and also made him return the stolen objects and apologize for the vandalism.
At the age of sixteen Wild Ace had been called up to meet the royal pony sisters for an important reason. Ace, as a new species in this land had to become a legalized proper citizen or else he would have to be deported out of Equestria. The trouble making served as no help as the ponies of Equestria thought of Ace as a nuisance and wanted him gone Taking on this huge responsibility cast Ace out of his “Rebellious Age” and awoken something inside him. As time went by Wild Ace had started his path to citizenship seriously, no longer causing fights, ignoring bullies, not focusing on the blooming fillies. Ace was dead set on becoming a proper citizen, doing many community service acts and taking classes to become proper as to not fail, but mainly to not disappoint his mother. Ace knew this could be his chance to show pony kind that the foal who was considered an abomination could be the same as them and show them that they were all wrong.
He Needed to do this!
