YHaY: Side Note...

Orphan woke up inhaling to put air in his currently empty lungs, only to start choking on thus air after so. One coughing fit later his breathing became steady and he took a look around. Orphan was in a near pitch black room and it was tiny. He was able to hit all the walls before any of his limbs stretched out half way. The only source of light was behind his hind legs and hardly noticeable to begin with. Lying on something metal with holes symmetrically placed. Taking a whiff, Orphan smelled burned flesh, fur and ash. “Did they cremate me?” he asked no pony in particular.

“Yeah, that sounds like a good assessment.” A voice echoed through out Orphans head, in turn just made him smile.

“Why hello Evaelk.” Orphan said. “So, how long was I out this time?” He asked.

“Not even a day, half that in fact.” Evaelk replied as Orphan started pounding away at the wall beneath his back legs.

“Huh…” Orphan sighed. “Longer this time around.”

“Not really” Evaelk said. “You came back at least three times before now.”

“Oh?” Orphan thought. “And one can only assume why I don’t remember those three times.”

“Well I could hanker a guess.” Evaelk timed in.

“By all means.” Orphan said, still pounding away at the wall.

“Ok, first off the reason why I killed you…” Evaelk said sheepishly. “You out of nowhere said that ‘I think I’m actually ok living like this.”

“and you thought that was the trigger in killing me for good. Letting me think I want to live.” Orphan said, giving up on the wall by this point. Taking a breath. “You could be right.”

“Come again?” Evaelk asked.

“Well a ponies thoughts can change in less then an instant. Faster then that sometimes. Orphan said.

“So when you saw me lunge at you… you went from wanting to live, to thinking you’re finally going to die forever.” Evaelk said with clear disappointment in the echoes of Orphans head.

“Yup, and who knows when my thoughts will come back to that.” Orphan said as he started pounding away once more.

“Well, with that then, I’d assume you came back the time first on the train.” Evaelk started, going back to his guess work. “But some pony got spooked enough to blast you to bits, you know, thinking shit like ‘GHOST!.” Orphan rolled his eyes at that. “Then you came back on the autopsy table where another pony cut your head off or something thinking among the lines of ‘ZOMBIEPONY!” Orphan held back a chuckle with that one. “The Last time maybe was just before you got roasted. By that point you were just ‘A Devil”

Orphan then slouched, giving himself another rest. “And what of your day?” he said.

“Honestly, I don’t know.” Evaelk started. “after I killed you, I fled the scene, ended up in a back alley, which then I was found by a human I can’ understand… OH! That’s right!” Evaelk yelled, causing Orphan to jump, bumping his head on the roof. “Sorry, but did you know I can’t understand any Pony without you alive?”

Orphan quickly thought on that just to realize. “I did not know that? Interesting.”

“Turns out this human was owned by a lover of humans or something.” Evaelk said. “She tried hiding me from the ones chasing me at the time, didn’t actually know I was being chased. But anywho, This mare’s going to go to jail, hands down.”

“Why?” Orphan asked plainly.

“Because I’m an Idiot.” Evaelk said. Orphan just glared at nothing. “Hay, Hay. I know, sorry. But you think you can help us out here?” he asked.

Suddenly Orphan heard a metallic door being slid from beyond the walls of his confinement. “Right. Where are you then?” He asked Evaelk, starting to pound away once more.

“In a courtroom I believe.” Evaelk said. “Yeah ever scents you woke up I started understanding ponies again. It seems that ponies think she ‘trained’ me to kill you. Fancy that.” Evaelk kept going as Orphan heard a latch from the outside being turned. A light flooded the enclosed space as something pulled whatever Orphan was laying on out to a bigger room.

Blinking a few times Orphan quickly getting used to the sudden brightness. He looks over to find his savior was a cyan haired pegasus with a green jumpsuit, and he looked like he was abut to scream his pretty little head off. He quickly jumped on the pony, ash and soot flew everywhere as Orphan pinned the other pony down, one of Orphan’s hoof in the ponies mouth. “Bark and you’re dead.” Orphan said.

“Arf!” Orphan heard Evaelk echo.

Orphan, annoyed but kept a frozen expression for the pony in front of him, whom nodded in agreement. “Good.” Taking his hoof off Orphan slowly got off Ritter whom then started to hyperventilate. Orphan just moved back a little.

“Feeling better?” Evaelk asked as Orphan shook off as much soot and ash as he could. “With all that out of the way, you think you can help me out here?” he asked.

Orphan just sighed. “So, filly, mind pointing me in the direction of the courthouse?” he asked looking at the pony in front of him. Ritter not realizing he was just asked a question. He just stared up at the old stallion that was supposed to be dead. “Hay!, Kid?” Orphan said a bit louder then before. “Court room? Now!”

“Y-y-ye-ye-yes…” Ritter sputtered. “It’s um, it’s up the stairs, out the front doors, and it’s the big ass building to your right!” he said whimpering near the end. “Please! Don’t eat my brains!”

Orphan stared at the cowering pony beneath his hooves. “You’re an idiot…” He said plainly, as he walked out the metallic door then proceeded to close it, leaving Ritter to cower in ignorance.

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In a court room there stood Valley Bijou in the middle of the room, being question by a persecutor, and a defender trying his flank off to help her. The pair of pegasi seemed like twins both tall and lanky, short manes, like a buzz. One had red fur and a yellow mane, while the other had the opposite. Evaelk sitting quietly in a corner, tied up, with six guard ponies holding the ropes tightly. Three on each side of him. Ponies riddled the galleries, and there stood Jigsaw and Pep-On in the back, next to the front doors. “Objection!” said the defender. “Whose to say that this…” he said pointing a hoof at Evaelk. “is in deed her human to begin with?”

“Oh, no no sir. He be mine then yes.” She said obliviously digging her own grave deeper and deeper.

The defender just slammed his head in the table in front of him. After a few seconds out popped his head and he shouted. “and how you know she’s just not saying shit?!”

The Persecutor chuckled. “Aren’t you supposed to be helping her?” he asked.

“Well it’s a bit difficult to do with that shovel of a mouth she haves.” The defender argued.

“ORDER!” yelled the judge on his bench. A unicorn stallion with shiny black fur and a bleach blond mane. “If you ponies would be so kind…” he said with clear annoyance in his voice. “to stop bickering and do your jobs. I mean the giant over there seems to be a Bucking kitten compared to the pair of you!” Everypony gawked at Evaelk for a moment. The human seemed to be just as oblivious as the mare on trial.

“Yes your honor.” The stallions said simultaneously.

Suddenly the doors in the front of the room swung open and Orphan came walking in. “What the Bucks going on?!” Orphan said slowly walking the aisle. Evaelk in turn started to bark and chirp at the sound of Orphan’s voice. The six guard ponies struggling to keep the human sitting.

The judge took notice. “So, this big guy’s yours then?” he asked.

“Yes, he is indeed.” Orphan said stopping in front of Evaelk. “Sit.” Which Evaelk then did, still chirping a little. “sshhh” he hissed. Which again Evaelk obeyed. Everypony flabbergasted at the sight. “I believe you ponies are talking about just how this mare killed me?” Orphan said causing the crowd to start murmuring with each other. “With my own human?”

“No! no no, sir he be my human!” Bijou blurted out, clearly vary determine in her deception.. Orphan just tilted his head at her.

“Order!” the Judge said. Glancing at Orphan then to Bijou. “I was just witness to evidence that just made Everything you told us today, Invalid…” He said coldly. “A Stallion just waltz right in and in two words… Ha, a word and a half, controlled this beast.” He said glancing over at Evaelk. “that essentially took us the whole, Bucking, day.” He said gawking back at Bijou. “and that was only because we had to tie him up.” He sighed. “And you sir?” he said, snapping his head at Orphan. Orphan at this time was staring at the human. “What’s your name?”

“Orphan your honor.” He said plainly. Causing Bijou to stiffen up for some reason.

“Orphan?” the judge repeated.

“Yes, and presently, the way I see things at the moment, this meting is a fiasco.” Orphan said panning through the room, from pony to pony, ending at the judge.

The crowd went in a soft uproar at that. The judge just smirked. “Order!, ORDER!.” He yelled. “You know, I totally agree with you.” The crowd then went all out, screaming, yelling, pointing every which way. Everypony trying to be heard above the rest. Both Orphan and the judge sighed. “ORDER!” the Judge yelled, banging away with his gavel.

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Jigsaw and Pep-On sitting in the back, next to the front door.

Jigsaw feeling like the conversation up front seemed to be going nowhere. “This is a Fiasco!” she mumbled.

“So, you don’t think she did it, do you?” Pep-On whispered.

“I can safely say, she’s a moron.” Jigsaw said. “No Pep-On. She didn’t do a thing.” She said as the defender slammed his head on the table in front of him.

“And that’s why you wanted Ritter to check out the morgue?” Pep-On asked as the defender popped his head off the table.

“Yup,” Jigsaw said. “We definitely missed something… I don’t know what it is, but something’s been off ever scents the chase.”

Suddenly, as if on queue, the front doors slammed open and in walked a Light gray stallion with a crimson mane and tail. Looked old as dirt but built like a rock. “What the Bucks going on?!” he said as Jigsaw went wide-eyed.

Pep-On saw her distress and glanced at the pony walking up the aisle. “wait, and that is?” he asked no particular pony.

“That’s the dead pony from this mourning Peps.” Jigsaw said as the giant human obeyed the pony that just strolled in.

By this point the undead stallion and the judge were quickly becoming friends, the last thing she heard before going off into her own world was “Fiasco…” She needed to think on this current predicament.

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“Ok, I’m here.” I heard as another sound of a pony slamming his head on wood. “How’d you like to proceed?” Orphan asked me.

“I am a dog.” I thought as Orphan swung doors from afar, open, which I then proceeded to bark and chirp as I saw fit. Wiggling around a little too, for extra effect. “What the Bucks going on?!” I hear him say. He was clearly annoyed at the situation we where in. The one I put us in. “Sorry friend… I did say I’m an Idiot right?” I thought.

“Yes, He is indeed.” Orphan said to the judge, but I knew it was aimed at me.

“So. What’s your plan?” I asked knowing full well he couldn’t answer me directly.

“Sit” Orphan commanded. I did just that laughing under my breath. “sshhh”

“Yes Papa.” I thought. I then just let the scene play out without me interrupting Orphan. Well, Up till I heard a mare in the back blurt out.

“What about the note?”

An awkward silence filled the room for a longer moment then I thought should’ve been. “You wrote a note?” Orphan asked openly.

“No…” I said questioning that. “I didn’t write a note… I can’t write!”

“Oh, that’s right, there was a note found at the scene.” The Judge said.

“What about her then?” I said, turning my head towards Bijou.

“Miss” Orphan started. “Did…”

“No no sir, we not scribble a thing to say.” I heard her say. She seemed afraid of something all the sudden. Afraid of Orphan? “I can’t rite in ur tongue. No no. sorry.”

“Judge…” Orphan started. “Clearly, ALL of THIS…” he paused for a second. “Is pointless… I vote to end it now, Let her go, she clearly didn’t kill me… Also my human is a bit denser then the typical human.” He verbally jabbed me in the gut. “And as for the note. That’s not related to this at all, well, not related to the point at hoof.”

“Agreed” said the judge. “Valley Bijou, you are released from all charges made directed at you today,” She just giggled. “However, you miss, needs help. Go to the psych ward soon or I will force you to go, I release the human in the custody of one Orphan,” I then felt the rope around me loosen and fall down to my lap. “and all evidence shall be dealt with accordingly. I find this meeting over.” He said banging his gavel once and stood up. It was a few seconds later when he spoke again however. “Oh. And if I find a single one of you in my court again. I will arrest you for wasting my time… Good day.”