Same Life, new Body

Jesus fucking christ. I live, again. Which means someone kept me from staying dead.

Why won't they just let me die? I'm pretty much saving everyone from hassle; I'm pretty sure I caused a lot of trouble burning my room down.

But seriously, who brought me back to life this time?

“Michael?”

Ugh… Of course it was her. Who else could it’ve been?

“Whaaaat?” I asked in an annoyed tone. Without bothering to see where I am either.

“Oh, thank Faust.”

Faust? Who the hell is Faust? Sounds like a girl name… Maybe she's their god or something? Eh…

“We believed thee truly perished this time…” I heard Princess Luna mutter.

“And you're saying that like you care because..?” I asked, still not bothering myself with moving my body.

“It is because we do truly care!” She snapped. “We know what it is like! And we will send thee home!”

Ok, hear me out here. Even though I heard this only a few times. At this point, it was really grating on my nerves.

And that was me justifying what I said to her at this point in time.

“I don't give a fucking shit about that.” And luckily for me, I was really calm about it.

Heh. I'm a psychopath. Yay.

“Wh-what?”

“You fucking heard me.” I said. “I. Don't. Care. I don't care about anything. I just want to kill myself and be done with all this bullshit.” I sighed. “I don't want to live anymore, I have nothing to live for. And I'm not going to see any of my family, much less anyone I knew. And you know it.” Another annoyed sigh left my gooey lips. “Ugh… I just want to die…” It was silent for a good minute. Then I heard a sniffle, hooves on stone floor. And finally, the opening and closing of a door.

Good, I can die alone now. If I can even pull that off in wherever I am. Hmm… Maybe I should open my eyes now…

I'm lying in the middle of a white, featureless, room. With a solid-looking metal door.

Oh fuck you princesses.

“He did what?”

“He set his room ablaze!” Luna whisper shouted. There was a short pause before Celestia found it within herself to speak.

“Where is he now?” She asked. Causing Luna to flinch.

“He is in thee… Blank room.” She admitted sheepishly. Celestia’s eyes expanded to resemble saucers.

“You put him in there!?” She shrieked. Luna cowered away a little.

“We apologize sister! We didn't know where to put him but there!” She said.

Celestia saw how her sister was reacting, how she was behaving; she was angry with her sister. She was never angry with her sister. Well, except for that time right before Luna turned into Nightmare Moon...

… She'll be having none of that.

“I'm sorry, Lulu.” Celestia said with a heavy sigh. “I shouldn't have let that little outburst slip.” She admitted, gaining a fearful glance from her sister; she was still a little afraid.

Celestia can be a terrible sister sometimes.

“C’mere.” Sunbutt wrapped Luna in a hug. Making her let out a little squeak. She eventually realized what Celestia was doing, and eased into the embrace. The celestial sisters stayed like that for a little bit before separating.

“We forgive thee for thine outburst, Tia.” Luna said with a smile. Celestia smiled back.

“Tank you Lulu. Now, how about you tell me what exactly happened?”

“That was… just it, Tia. He let his room be consumed in flames.”

“I know that Luna. But it there anything that happened after the whole ordeal? Did he say anything?” Luna’s ears folded back when she asked. Oh no…

“We… we tried getting through to him sister. We tried to tell him he will go home. He did not believe me...” She recalled while looking down. “He said… he said he ‘just wanted to kill himself’. To be done with... everything.” She looked back up, all misty eyed. “He said he wanted to die Tia. Why? Why would he say something like that. Why would any living being say that...”

Now, Celestia knew exactly why Michael said all of those those things. For she knew how he felt; living for a thousand years without your only family member can do things to an alicorn. But she didn’t want to tell her little sister that. Who knows how she would react in this state.

“I… I don’t know…” Celestia said slowly. “We promised Michael he would go back to his world…”

“Maybe he thinks it is a hollow promise.” Luna spat. Celestia noticed the little bit of anger.

“Lulu, is something the matter?”

“...”

“Luna?” Celestia scooted a little closer to her sister.

“Michael, he was angry with us...” Luna said, almost in a whisper. “Me thinks it has something to do with us repeatedly telling him we would send him home.”

“Are you sure?” Celestia asked. Luna nodded. “I see… Hmm...”

“What doth thee suppose we do Tia?”

“For now… We should leave him alone.”

…

“P-pardon thee?”

“Yes Luna. We should just leave him alone. Of course, we will continue giving him food and water. Whether he likes or not. But…”

“At this point, we are forcing him to live…” Luna said with a heavy sigh.

“Yes. At this point, we are… Maybe we should go and find out Twilight has discovered anything." Luna perked up a little at this. Though, there was a hint of anger in those teal eyes.

“Yes, let us visit Lady Sparkle.” Luna said before she disappeared in a flash of light. Celestia sighed and teleported herself to the only library in Ponyville.

Spike wasn't having a good day. Much less a great week. Ever since that thing showed up, and after the princess gave Twilight the task of sending the thing to its home. The mare ran herself crazy. It was really disheartening for the little drake as he watched his mother-figure’s descent into madness.

And as much as Spike wanted to blame that thing for all of that. He knew better. Besides, Pinkie made Twilight mess up in the first place. If there was anypony to blame, it'd be that pink menace.

And something blinded the purple dragon. What was that? Was it Twilight? Oh! Maybe she le-

“Spike?” Oh, it's just Princess Celestia...

Wait, Princess Celestia!?

Spike rubbed the spots from his eyes. Hey took a second to refocus. And when they did. He was able to see a worried looking Princess Celestia. And an indifferent-looking Princess Luna. He was about to bow but Princess Celestia spoke.

“Spike, do you know where Twilight is?” She asked.

“U-uh… Yeah.” The baby dragon stuttered. “She's in the basement.”

“Thank you Spike.” Celestia nodded before heading to the staircase leading towards the basement. Luna being close behind. Spike was a little curious about what they might talk about. So he followed them downstairs.

The state of this lower dwelling was truly appalling. The area was littered with random papers and items Luna couldn't even begin to describe. There were big boxes with lights on them as well. How odd, what was the purpose of those metal boxes…

Bah. Luna can’t bother herself with those odd boxes. She has a friend to help… Hmm… She has a friend to help. That phrase sounds nice in Luna’s head.

Oh, Tia cleared her throat.

“Gah!” The purple unicorn jumped from her slouched position. The fur on her back standing on end. She whipped around with a face that looked as if she was about to berate whoever disturbed her study. Only for for said face to shatter upon laying eyes on the princesses.

“O-oh! Princess Celestia! And Princess Luna!.. Uh… Why are you two here?”

“We wish to know whether thee discovered a solution towards Michael’s problem.” Luna spoke up. “Have thee found anything?”

“Who..?” She was about to ask who this Michael was, but a look from Celestia told her who that was.

“Oh… Uhm… Well…” Purple smart started. “I did find a reverse spell to the animation spell. I think if I cast it it'll send… Michael back to his home world.” Twilight finished.

“Thou truly believe this spell will work? Despite Michael having magic negating abilities?” Luna asked.

The room went silent at that. And Twilight’s brain was slowly spiraling out of control. Because seriously, how can any living thing not have magic in them?

“Excuse me?” Twilight asked back. “Did you just say… Michael, has.. Magic negating, abilities?” Princess Blueberry nodded. “Oh… well… that just made things more difficult…” She muttered that to herself.

Twilight probably shouldn’t have done that. Not in front of an alicorn, with an acute sense of hearing, at least.

She really should’ve stayed quiet at this point.

“Pardon thee?” Luna asked sharply. Twilight saw the building fury behind the lunar alicorn’s eyes and gulped audibly.

“I… Uh…” She couldn't come up with anything to say. Oh Celestia! She should've known to shut up! She knew alicorns are the physical embodiment of all three pony tribes! Oh, tartarus!

“Luna, please, calm down.” Celestia, however, was having none of her sister’s negative attitude. “I am sure there is a possibility the spell could work.”

“What doth thee mean, sister?” A somewhat red-faced Luna asked through clenched teeth.

“It is only simple magic that has no effect on Michael. Levitation is a will of the mind to manipulate magic. I theorize a spell will have an effect on Michael. Hopefully for the best of all our intentions.” Celestia explained. It seemed to have calmed down the Lunar Princess, somewhat.

“We see. Should we bring Michael here then?” Luna asked.

“I think it would save time to bring Twilight with us to the castle.” Celestia suggested with a smile. To which Luna grumbled a response.

“We suppose...” She muttered. Sunbutt nodded and teleported the four of them to right in front of the door to Michael’s new room. She went to open the door…

And he’s missing. How..?

Alright, this is kinda fucking cool. Turns out I can slip through tiny spaces like Mr. Fantastic from the Fantastic Four. Remember that one scene after they’re all exposed to radiation that Mr. Fantastic was able to squeeze his arm under the door? Yeah, I can do that with my entire body.

That’s good to know. For, like, future situations where I’m shoved into a loony room. But now, the thing is to find a way out of this place. Or maybe set something on fire. Whichever comes first.

So yeah, walking around; kinda cool, I guess. Well, it would be cool if I wasn’t hiding from the princesses. That probably explains all the groups of guards looking around the halls for something. Yeah… They’re really stupid too. They could’ve caught me, what, like five times now? Hiding behind curtains has got to make an obvious bulge.

They’re either really stupid, or they’re looking way too hard.

Also, I should probably pay attention to where I’m walking. I’m able to hide from the guards. But all that can come crashing down if I walk into-

“Oof!” And I just jinxed myself. Way to go, me.

“What in the name of Celestia is that!?” I heard whoever I ran into ask. There was clear disgust in his voice, and yes, I could tell the voice belonged to a he.

“Sorry.” I said nonchalant as I got up. I turned to who I tripped over and saw they were a white as snow furred dude with blond hair and blue eyes. And he was wearing the collar of a tuxedo. Weird… and why do images of hitler come to mind?

“What?” The blondie gaped at me. As if he didn’t know what he was looking at, which is completely the situation. “Did you just speak? What filthy corner of tartarus did you crawl out of!?” Oh, so he’s that kinda guy; a fucking douche-bag. Alright then, might as well be a s quick as possible with shutting him up. If that’s even possible.

“Your mom’s pussy.” I said. The guy’s jaw quite literally fell to the floor. I kinda smirked and walked off, feeling good about my handy work.

But then something hit my shoulder. It felt kinda good, honestly. I looked behind me and saw that the blondie had has horn aimed at me, the tip of the thing smoking. So he fired some kinda magic at me? Huh, he’s really dumb.

“How dare you insult my mother!” He yelled.

“Because you insulted the way I look.” I replied without missing a beat. That seemed to anger the guy though; he fired another one of those magic things at me. And again there was that good, tingling feeling.

Hmm. So magic makes me feel good. Interesting… not really.

“How about you stop doing that?” I asked, kinda annoyed.

“You will bow to me! I am royalty!” He demanded. I saw were this was going and rolled my eyes. He noticed me rolling my eyes and got even madder. “I will have you thrown into the dungeons!” He another magic thing, making me feel good again.

Ugh… why did I..? Y’know, I’m just gonna walk away, it’s not like he do anything to me anyway.

“Hey! Are you listening to me!? How dare you disobey me! Guards!” Oh shit. Uh… ok, curtains it is again. Maybe I can slip out the window here. And why didn’t I think of that before?

Oh right, I wasn’t born in this body.

“There it is! Capture it!” Fuck, Dickhead McCuntboy found me. Better slip out while I still can.

O- shit, never mind. One of those idiots opened the window. And now I’m plummeting to the grassy ground, from a third floor window it seems. It also feels like time’s slowing down… Hmm…

I wonder if one of those things can drink me? I’d be digested and stuff… Yeah, not gonna happen though. As of any of those things would drink a goo thing.

*Splat* Op, hit the ground. AND lived, god dammit.

“There it is! Capture it!” And those guards are on my ass now, great. Just fucking great.

I also just realized, I’ve been saying and a lot.

“Halt! Creature!” I booked it as soon as I heard the guard shout. It was about zero point two seconds that those winged fuckers were right beside me, I saw them through my peripheral. Though, they didn’t get close to me, they just kept swinging close me. Those little actions made me steer away. While those one on my other side banked away from me. Why are they..? Oooooooh, oh, right, they’re trying to corral me like an escaped horse. How ironic; horses chasing me, a human. Normally it’s the other way around.

Oh good lord, I think I turned into an angsty teen. Fuck me through a straw.

Eh, screw it. I should be focusing on getting away anyway.

It seems I ended up in some residential district; houses as far as I can see. With no one walking around. Makes sense since it’s kinda late… Maybe I can find alley to hide in..? Yeah, one coming up on my right. Let’s see if these fuckers are really avoiding to touch me.

The pegasi guards flanking Michael were getting quite the workout today. Turns out the little speed demon was faster than they thought. It also didn’t help that they were informed to avoid contact with the creature. Their princess feared for them, for not even they knew what could happen if a regular pony were to even graze Michael.

Suddenly, Michael dove to his right, startling the pegasus flanking his right side. He managed to just barely not touch the creature before it disappeared into the alley. The two pegasi looped in the air, losing their moment as they did so, and landed in front of the dark alleyway. They stood there, watching, waiting, until the rest of their group caught up.

"We need a light spell, now!" One of them shouted as soon as the others stopped beside the pegasi. A unicorn nodded and shot a sphere of pure light into the alley. As the orb made its way towards the dead end, they group of guards saw nothing out of the ordinary; a few trash cans there, a few bags here, some litter. But the human goo was nowhere to be seen, baffling them. They cautiously entered, forming a circle, and looked everywhere they could. They looked behind, under, and even inside the cans and bags. But still, they found nothing. The guard were about to leave, but one of them spotted a downspout, it snaked up the wall connecting to a gutter. A stray thought entering the guard’s mind. He voiced his quickly forming theory.

“Maybe the creature went up the downspout?” He said unsurely while pointing a hoof towards the thing. The two pegasi flew up to investigate, and saw the creature running along the rooftop before it jumped down on the other end.

“There it is! It jumped down the other side!” The two shouted towards their comrades before giving chase.

Fuck, those guys are smarter than he thought. Damn those flying bastards. Now where is he going to lose them? Oh, if he remembers correctly, this whole place sits on the side of a mountain. If he can find an edge off this place...

Ah, here we go. Didn't take as long as he thought either. Huh, must've been a hellofa chase.

“We have you surrounded! Come peacefully!” Damn it, those flying pricks are blocking him from jumping. Wait…

“Stop!" He knew those idiots would back away.

Nopony can believe what they just witnessed. They didn't want to believe what they saw; the creature jumped off the ledge. It willfully just committed to suicide, right in front of their eyes. Not even the gepasi could help but watch as the creature stared at them indifferently as it plummeted towards the ground below. The pegasi watched on as the creature became the smallest of dots, and eventually disappear into the trees far below. They stood in shocked silence for an eternity before the pegasi recovered and went after the creature, or, possibly what's left of it.