The Fakeicorn

Chapter 6

Out on the Town

-October 17th, 10:00am-

"A DATE!?!" I can't even begin to comprehend what sort of game Angel's playing right now."You wanna go out on a date? With

me?"

"Well not a date per-say, as that's prohibited. It's more of, two friends going out and having a fun time! I've already got a good idea of what to do." Angel is acting like she's on drugs or something. I like her more when she's nice yet controlled and yelling at me because I did or said something absolutely stupid. But now she's as gitty as goat now, fuck that's a poor example. I let out a groan and rub my forehead with both forehooves."Why do I have a very very bad feeling about this?"

"Hey don't act all negative!" She raps me in the arm, or leg, still can't tell which is which."I know this great place we could go for lunch! They make the best sandwiches this side of Equestria!"

"Are you snorting coke or something? Because you're NEVER like this. And I'm not going out with a coke addict, not again." I groan and squeeze my forehead even more. I wonder if I squeeze hard enough that my horn will pop out? Angel pulls me out of the chair I was sitting in.

"No I'm not on any drugs! No honestly I just...feel good today, knowing that I have the entire day off do fuck all and the fact that I can drag you along and embarrass you even more! Kill two birds with one stone! So come on and lets get a move on, daylight's wasting." I let out a sigh, I guess I should play along. But I have a feeling that this date is going to go up in smoke like my actual love life. Wow thinking about that, that shit sounded depressing as hell.

"Ugh! Fine, what do you have in mind for today?"

"Well I was thinking going for some lunch, then go shopping for a while, then see if anything good is playing at the movie theater." Sounds fun and all buuuut...

"Not to be the barer of bad news Angel, but how do you expect me to pay for all of this? I'm more broke than I was back in college! And I doubt my soul is worth much here....actually scratch that I've already sold mine." Hey I was hungry and needed money for lunch. Angel nudges me lightly.

"Relax you paranoid little shit," Okay, ow didn't have to go there."I'll cover it all. Trust me, being in the Royal Guard does has it's perks. But come on, daylights wasting. And don't bring your hoodie."

"Why?"

"Because it doesn't look good on you so come on lets go!" I just realized that Angel has been stripping off her guard armor this entire time we've been talking. She...she doesn't look bad, dammit I'm gonna have to cross that bridge sometime soon. Angel drags me out of my room and into the hallway. Dammit this is going to be a trip and a half.

-Canterlot Square, 11:00am-

Damn this place is huge! This is honestly the first time in Canterlot, the city part. The train station was very close to the Castle that I don't count it. But wow there's so many buildings, shops, and restaurants in this place. Its bustling with ponies of all kinds. The majority of them seem of the noble type with how they hold their heads up high and are dressed in cloths fitting for a ball, or gala in this place. But even they stopped to look at us. This was what I was afraid of for the most part, ponies staring at me. What is it with Alicorns then? Okay, yes there are only a few that are publicly known to the world, but is it the combination of all three races? I have nothing to show for here, other than mixing a very good martini. I'm basically a fraud, shit I'm pretty sure I'd be arrested if I was posing as someone back in the U.S. But nah here I'm all good to impersonate royalty.

I start to stop and tense up when I see a few ponies take out their phones at snap pictures of us. But Angel puts a wing on my back and gives me a comforting look and continues to leads me along for this trip. We reach this large center area with a huge fountain in the center. There's several shops doting around the circumference of the fountain square. Angel leads me into this corner shop that looks reminiscent of this coffee shop that was near my house in Celi. It was one of the few places in Celi that was truly nice and beautiful. We enter the little corner shop and a unicorn mare dressed in typical waitress uniform. Her coat and mane are different shades of red and her mane is wrapped up in a ponytail.

"Oh hi! My name is Velvet and welcome to Grilled Grinders! I'll be your server so follow me." That name, Grilled Grinders. We are led to a table sitting right next to the large window, where everyone can see you and you can see everyone outside.

"So can I start you two off with something to drink?" Velvet lays two menus on the table for us to look through.

"Umm how about some lemonade?" I ask for and Velvet nods.

"I'll just have some coffee." Angel says and Velvet nods and writes down our order.

"I'll bring them right out. Feel free to look through the menu. And we do have a special today. The Sunflower on Rye. I'll be right back." With that she walks away to get our drinks. We start looking through the menus."Wow they have a lot of deserts here...and a lot sandwiches. I honestly can't decide on what order."

"My suggestion would be trying something new." Angel shrugs and sets down her menu.

"Fuck it, I'll do the special today." As if on cue, Velvet returns with our two drinks. She sets them down on the table and smiles between us."So have you two decided on something or do you two need more time?" I look at Angel and she just shrugs.

"I'm ready to order if he is." Velvet nods and pulls out the notepad to take orders with."I'll have the Canterlot Two Sub Special with no pickles and with fries please."

"And for you sir?" Velvet turns to me.

"I'll just have the Sunflower on Rye, with fries also, please." Velvet writes everything down."Alright I'll get this to our cooks and I'll have it out to you two in just a few." She leaves and takes the menus with. Now it's just Angel and I, let the awkwardness begin. I take a sip of my lemonade, its actually pretty good. Nothing special but its pretty good."So I guess we should discuss something, don't know what but something I guess."

"Well I guess we could talk about our personal lives." Never would have I expected Angel to be the one to suggest that. hmm always expect the unexpected...dammit Monty Python ruined that phrase for me.

"Alright sounds good. Considering that I actually know very little about you personally." I take a sip of lemonade."So I'll just up and ask about family. Brother? Sister?"

"I do have a little brother, he lives out in Vanhoover with my parents. Only about 14 as of right now. But pretty soon he'll be grown up and out of the house soon. What about you?"

"I have a step-brother. He's a few years behind me but in a hell of a lot more trouble than I have ever been in." I let out a chuckle, that damn kid is probably gonna get himself killed.

"How so?"

"He's in prison right now for a gang related stabbing. Boy my dad was fucking pissed when he heard about it." I take another sip of my lemonade.

"Ouch, sorry to hear that." angel looks cute when she's sad, honest to god she is!

"Eh don't worry about it. I hated him anyway." I wave my hoof in the air. At this point I kind of notice that some ponies are slightly staring at us, but honestly I'm not worried. Still haven't gotten our food yet, and damn am I hungry."So could I ask you something?" Angel sips on her coffee before looking up at me.

"Shoot." I chuckle.

"I've noticed how you sorta stare at Ice Cutter. And consider one of the things you like to do in the spare time. I have to ask, are you like gay or something? There ain't nothing wrong with it but I was just curious." I chuckle at her in a 'laughing with you rather than at you'. This question has popped up in several conversations of mine. I've pretty much come to terms with my sexuality for years now.

"If you must know, I'd consider myself bisexual. I've been asked that a lot trust me. You afriad that I like Ice more than you?" That statement causes Angel to blush lightly, but white fur does fuck all for covering up blushes. Just then our stealthy waiter Velvet returns carrying two plates and shit does it smell good.

"A Sunflower on Rye for you," She sets a very large sandwich in front of me."And the Canterlot Two Sub Special for you, Angel." I guess she's a regular."If there's anything else I can get you two, please let me know. I hope you two enjoy." She walks away. I immediately grab the salt and ketchup and put both on my fries and my sandwich. I take a bite of my sandwich and dammit...why does this taste like an actual sandwich with MEAT on it?

"Mmmm this is good." I let out a small moan of delight and Angel giggles a bit.

"Told you it was good. So I was hoping to ask you some more questions if you're okay with that." I shrug while half a fry is hanging out of my mouth.

"You talk a lot about college. I take it you have a degree of some time?" I nod.

"Yep. Associate's degree in Biomedical Repair. Spent about 3 years in college working towards that goal. But I didn't start working in said field till a little over 6 months ago, and you know how that panned out." I let out a dry chuckle. Secretly I'm still pissed about that. I enjoyed learning what I did and now I don't think my degree is worth jack shit here. And I don't want to go through college again for the same things already did.

"Yeah I know, sorry about that by the way. But what other jobs have you had? You've said you've been around." She takes a
bite of one of her sandwiches.

"Well I've worked a few jobs. Dishwasher when I was 16. Worked at a Medical Equipment store when I was 19, that's also where my love of medical equipment came from. Then after starting College I worked at a near by gas station till I was 21. That's when I moved to bartending. Was a really good gig for a while. Spent a lot of good long years working as a bartender till I saved up the money to fix my grandma's house after she pasted." I smile, memories coming back to me.

We continue to eat in relative silence but I start to notice that ponies outside are looking at me through the window. Not like just looking as they pass by but like stopping and staring at us, mainly me. A few even take pictures. I hear one pony point at the seat and say something about 'blank flank' but I just ignore everything. Though being watched while I eat usually results with me yelling or threatening someone. It happens way too often for my liking, even back home. Pretty soon we finish our lunch and we have collected a small audience outside as well as inside. Most of them are just casually watching but at the same time I can see why Celestia kept me in the castle so much. Velvet comes back and takes our plates

away. Angel asks for the bill and Velvet eventually brings it over. Angel looks it over but looks up at Velvet."What's this? Why is everything crossed off?"

"That's because everything is free dear. Its everyday that we get to serve royalty!" Velvet gestures to me, and all I can do is sit here. Angel tries to protest but Velvet still says its free. I speak up.

"Angel don't fight it. If they want to give us a free meal, then let them." Angel gives me a glare but we get up and thank Velvet for a great meal. We get out of the restaurant and immediately swamped by ponies, fucking great.

-Canterlot Shopping Center, 12:45 pm-

After fighting through the small sea of ponies we finally made it to the shopping part of the square. Various shops line each side of the street. Pretty much every store from getting a new phone to buying a fucking refrigerator. But Angel is still dragging me along. I wonder what she's actually looking for. But she stops in front of one store. I look at it and my heart sinks to the pit of my stomach. My head snaps right at her."No."

"Aww you're no fun, but we're still going in. Come on, it'll be fun!" She drags me to the dfoor. The store in question was a...pornographic store. Complete with ponyquins dressed in sexy lingerie and long tube socks. Okay I'm oh so familiar with sex and everything but I'm more of 'buy it online' kind of guy. I'd rather have that shit marked on my bank statements than risk buying something from a shop and someone I know see me. I still get embarrassed when my friends pock fun at me buying dildos. We enter said store and thankfully its empty as hell. But the mare at the counter...wait a minute. Red unicorn mare with different shades of red, what? She sees us and springs up like we woke her up from a nap.

"Oh good afternoon to you two! I usually don't get many ponies at this time of day. What can I help you two with?"

"Well we're actually shopping for him today." Angel puts a wing on my back, my own wings fluff themselves in both nervousness and agitation. The mare giggles.

"Well what were you thinking about getting for him? What's your name by the way? I've...I think I remember seeing something about you in the news." Guess I should speak now.

"Kyra, ma'am. And you look familiar too. You work at the Grilled Grinders?" The mare giggles some more.

"Its a pleasure to meet you Kyra. And no that's my twin sister Velvet. I'm Rose by the way." We shake hooves, she doesn't seem like someone that wouldn't be into giving hand err hoofshakes."So what are you two looking for today?" Angel looks at me with a grin. oh this bitch is going to be the death of me.

"I was wonder if you have anything for...restraint and control." Oh fuck me, really? Now I see why she wanted to go shopping. To embarrass the fuck out of me till I think jumping off the side of Canterlot and see how far I fall. Rose gives me a sly grin.

"We may have what you want. Please follow me." With that Rose start's walking through the shelves. I'm drug along and this store has pretty much everything from condoms, movies, magazines, dildos, to more extreme fetish type stuff. I'm wondering why this place isn't more hidden away than sticking out like its a shoe shop. Man there's kids that could walk in here. Is sex really that casual? Jesus Poppy was right. We reach the area that holds all of the bondage shit. Angel puts a hoof to her chin as she looks through everything. Rose points out different things about things like spread bars and ropes and shit like that. Okay I'm fine with a bit of restraint but there is a line I don't cross. Meaning full body bondage and not being able breath out my mouth. Angel nudges my arm."Close your eyes. I want you to try something on."

"Ugh, fine. If it'll get you off my back." I groan and close my eyes. I feel things being put on my face while Angel giggles. I feel straps and metal jingling. What the hell is she putting on me?

"Open your eyes now." I open my eyes to see myself in front of a mirror, wearing a bridle. A bridle...a motherfucking bridle. Ugh goddammit Angel. This was your plan all along huh? To fucking embarrass me in public by bring me into a fucking sex shop and make me try on random things?? Really Angelic Shield? Really?"Its a perfect fit!" Thank Christ I can still talk.

"I really, really, want to strangle you right now till you stop moving." I grumble.

"I think it looks good on him," Rose smirks at me."Have you thought about gags at all?" Oh please kill me now, please.

"Possibly. Depends on what you have in stock." Angel shrugs.

"I'll see what we have, I'll be right back." Rose walks away and I immediately smack Angel upside the head.

"Ow! The hell was that for?" She rubs her head.

"Oh you know damn fucking well what that was for! Was this your plan all along? I thought we were even." I try to taker the bridle off but fuck if I know how to get it off.

"Okay you caught me. I still wanted to get back at you. And guess what? I did! Now you look so docile and submissive! Really you do look cute in that. But hey at least I'm not making you wear it in public." She pats me on the head like I'm a dog or something. I grumble to myself and still try to take this stupid thing off my head. Rose comes back a few seconds later."Unfortunately we seem to be sold out of gags, which is really odd. Is there anything else I could help you two with?"

"What about reins? And also how much is this bridle? I'm really thinking about buying it." Angel helps me take off the damn bridle, I'm going to remember this for a long time. Rose takes the bridle from her."Let's go ring this up at the register." We follow Rose back up to the register and she rings up the bridle.

"100 bits. And we have a good selection of reins right over there." Rose points to one of the clothing racks. angel walks over and grabs one of things hanging there. Rose rings that up too."Total comes out to 134 bits, including tax."

"Alright. We'll take them." Angel pays for the stuff and we say goodbye to Rose. Leaving that place never felt so revealing. But thankfully the bag Angel was clutching with her wing was just a blank white plastic bag.

"I think we should head back to the castle then. Unless you're looking for something in particular." Angel nudges me and I roll my eyes."Maybe something to cover up your absences of a cutie mark."

"Hardy har-har. Very funny dipshit." I groan and rub a temple with a single hoof. I wish I had fingers to pinch the bridge
of my nose like I normally do."Is there anything piratical you need out here? Only thing I could think of needing is some
new shampoo. The one that's being supplied to me isn't working for me at all."

"Alright we could go get you some new shampoo, maybe some new body wash as well. I never cared for any of the hotel
quality toiletries supplied to the Castle."

"Agreed."

-Canterlot Castle, 7:50pm-

We spent along time out on the town. It was actually was quite enjoyable. I guess after letting Angel get that last one in over me, she wasn't trying to rub it in or anything. Like she was pretty chitcatty the whole time, like a 16 year old with too many friends and shit ton of gossip to go round. But we talked about life in general, well more like comparing not just personal lives but comparing me living as a human compared living as a pony. Granted I've only been a pony for about 3 weeks. Its...hard to describe what it's like for someone to be ripped away from one world and shat out in another.

But I guess it would have to depend on the individual in question. Angel asked me about why I never freaked out much, as I guess records suggested the few other human visitors did have moments of extreme freak outs, breaking things, you get the point. I've always had a good output on life, despite bad things happening to me before. My mom said it was probably my best trait being able to have a positive outlook on even the most disastrous experiences. I just called it not giving a fuck despite probably needing to give a fuck. Ugh thinking about my friends and family is bringing me down, should have gotten some boozes while we were out, but...I don't think sub-coming to alcoholism is the best thing for me.

In fact I don't think bottling up my emotions is healthy for me at all. I still feel a wide array of emotions, anger,
sadness, confusion, desperation. Then everything that has transpired in the past few days has confused the hell out of my subconscious and I feel as I may burst, in various ways. I need to talk to Celestia...or Luna about how I feel. Sometimes I find it extremely difficult to discuss what and how I feel. I honestly just feel awful about needing to just tell someone about why I feel angry or why I feel sad.

Lunar Star walks in, yawning. I was laying on my bed half listening to whatever's on my playlist and reading a book."Hey,
you doing okay? You look kind of down."

"Yeah...just thinking a bit too much. I should stop honestly. How are you doing?" I yawn.

"I'm doing alright. Hey I hope you don't mind me changing costumes last minute tomorrow. I'm going as a cop instead of a flapper girl. Just fits me better." I yawn again, just realizing how tried I actually am tonight, its been kinda busy.

"Go for it, I don't mind. Hey I hope you don't mind if I turn in early for the night."

"Nah go for it. Tomorrow is going to be hell anyway so get as much shut eye as you can." I smile and slide underneath the covers of my bed. Honestly its better than the piece of shit bed that I had back home.

"Thanks Star. See you tomorrow night, or in the morning, depends on when I wake up."

"Night Kyra, hope you sleep well." I lie back and close my eyes, realizing how heavy my eyes were already.

-Dreamscape, Unknown-

I open my eyes to find myself in an empty house. I don't know where I am. I get up and look around to only find no one. The house is abandoned and decaying. Walls are crumbling and it smells like mold and mildew."Hello? Anyone out there?"

"Afraid to be alone again hmm?" I turn around to see, well me. Well human me, or the original me, ugh this is confusing.

He's sitting down in a lone metal folding chair in the only spot lighten up by an unseen light."Ya know I'm actually kind of disappointed in you kid. You seem so eager to just throw away everything we've worked on for years, just to live out your diluted fantasies from a fucking cartoon!"

"You do realize you're just shouting at yourself right? Why are we even having this conversation?" I just sit down and
cross my arms. My otherself just groans and pinches the bridge of his nose.

"This is exactly why! What happened to you? Are you so eager and ready to just throw away your...our humanity?"

"Well no-" He jumps up off the chair and gets right in my face.

"THEN START ACTING LIKE IT! These ponies are corrupting every sanctity of your mind and soul! Pretty soon I'll be nothing
more than a fever dream while you go off and play king!" I shove him away.

"Why do you care then! Its not like we had much back home anyway! Why go back to the dull life we once lived instead of starting anew! Don't you see it!? This is our chance to restart everything! We can still remember our past but we can develop a new life here!" He just starts to laugh.

"Then what of our friends and family!? They are probably worried sick about us yet you refuse to find a way back. All you want to do is sit back and play games and watch as our dear memories burn into nothingness! Heheh...if you want to play games so bad...then so be it." In a flash of light he disappears and the whole house brightens up. But...things feel familiar now. Windows are boarded up, white chalk outlines on the walls, the distant moans coming outside, the fact that I now hold a pistol in my hooves.

"REALLY!? FUCKING ZOMBIES!? REALLY GODDAMMIT!?" Fucking hell he legitimate wants to play a game with me...solo fucking zombies from Call of Duty. I need to change games to like Minecraft or something, Jesus Christ. Not two seconds later a few zombies bust through the window. They're all me...but just dressed in different clothing, hey one has a top hat! Their eyes glow a blood red color and I'm forced to start shooting. Firing a gun, even in a dream, is something I haven't done in a long time. Yep this pistol sucks as bad as in the actual game! A few undead fall and I realize I can just pistol whip them to death, seeing as I have no knife on me. After smashing a few more with my gun I quickly realize that either the rounds have just sped up or something worse is coming as pistol whipping them is only pissing them off.

"Do you really want to fight me like this? Just by sending out familiars at me!? Fuck!" I get bitchslapped by one and my gun is knocked out of my grasps. Way to go Kyra ya fucking moron! I put my hooves up and I start swinging just to keep them off of me. Shit there is too many...

-Canterlot Castle-

I jump straight in my bed. I'm panting and I'm in a cold sweat. What the fuck was that? I have no words to describe what happened inside my head. Is this like a sign of me losing it all now? Shit... I rub my face with my hooves, wiping the sweat off my face. I see Star is not in the room, must be out in the hall. I check the clock and its 2:40am. I let out a sigh and just stare off into space. I honestly need to talk to someone soon. I can't now but...fuck I can't deal with a nightmare like that. They were all me, is this a sign? This has to be a sign of some sort. Ugh I hope if I fall back to sleep that I don't dream at all.

Wonder if 3 am drinking is a good thing right now??

Author's Note

First off thank you all so much for the support on this story. It means a lot to me. I hope this chapter wasn't too bad as it was very dialogue heavy. The sex shop bit was more of a shameless throw away. But the whole inner dilemma and the dream zombie attack kinda came to me, ironically in a dream. But once again thank you guys so much for all the support and stuff for this story. More will come I promise.