Gummy the alligator was a quiet being. He, quite contrary to his pink owner, never moved much. He mainly travelled by clinging onto Pinkie Pie with his teeth and was only ever seen blinking. The expression on his face - he never seemed to be aware of what was going on around him and, hell, he didn't even blink simultaneously. Like all things in life, there has to be an explanation. So, let's hear it then...
Professor Gumtooth Alligaton had been born into a well educated, respectable family of alligators. He studied hard in school and eventually became a strong and beloved lecturer at one of the leading alligator universities. He was liked by his students both as a character and as a teacher, and his classes had a very low fail rate.
After teaching for a good dozen years, he left the school to join the alligator army. His intelligence quickly saw him through the ranks until he became a general in charge of a large squadron.
However, the problems with him now all started back in the war - the war between ponies and yaks. His species wasn't dramatically effected, but some volunteered to fight for the ponies. Of course, in fear of being unintentionally dismembered by careless hooves, the alligators and ponies never fought in the same trenches, but together they pushed back the yak scum.
And it was during this great battle that General Gumtooth Alligaton had to lead his men into battle. At the start of the battle there were 5,000 'gators at his disposal; by the end there were only 36 left. He'd witnessed men being mown down in combat like cobwebs in the wind. WHOOSH. SMACK. OUCH. DEAD. And the sight of 'gators taking a catapult blast to the chest before staggering backwards, dropping any rock ammunition they had been carrying and just falling with a SLAP before just lying there in a pool of their own blood. The General had seen it all. Good men - good friends - removed from this world by a rock to the temple or a twig through the belly. Not to mention slip-ups from their pony allies: sometimes a unicorn's magic blast would become astray and inadvertently take out a few alligators, or a meathead pegasus carrying an alligator would drop the poor bastard, causing the creature to fall to his death or into opposing trenches.
When poor Gumtooth had witnessed outside of the trenches wasn't the only thing that had messed him up; he had witnessed a lot of things inside the trenches he wished he could forget. As you may imagine (depending on how dirty your mind is), sexual tension was high. Females were not allowed to fight at the front line, so the only way for the pent-up soldiers to 'let off some steam' was to use each other. Gumdrop had seen everything. Massive lines of alligators doing a really messed up conga, and some others having a happy little - 'shake' - off at the side, watching, large-eyed. The General had never joined in himself but couldn't deny that it was rather hot to watch.
The worst part, however, was when ponies from allied trenches came over to care to their own sexual tension. They might have been prickly, but to anypony who really needed it, alligators were just the right size for shoving up their... area I cannot mention in writing rated T.
And the alligators and ponies won the war, and Gumtooth was a high-ranking general, he was left with nearly nothing for a long time in the next few years of his life.
He kept on having nightmares every night (Princess Luna didn't visit the dreams of non-pony entities). It got so bad that he had to sleep in a different room to his wife. He had to visit his psychiatrist daily and had to take 4 different pills at three times a day. It got so bad that his wife threw him out and started to shag another 'gator daily. He had no family members to stay with so he ended up living on the streets.
His years on the streets were difficult ones. He found refuge under railway bridges, having to move weekly, if not nightly. He soon became addicted to heroin and had to rob a few ponies to pay off his dealers. He kept living like this until the police ponies found him in the middle of Sweet Apple Acres, heating some powder on a spoon over a fire he'd started. However, he was trippin' major balls as he thought the officers were dragons after his dope. He pelted them with apples he'd somehow set on fire until he got shot in the abdomen.
He awoke three months later, remarkably not craving drugs from lack of use but still suffered from depression. It took him three months before he could walk again and a further four weeks for him to run. He was, thankfully, luckily enough to make a full recovery, but one day he was mugged and hit in the head with a mug - literally, mugged. He'd had dopey eyes for a while at that point, but this was the incident that left him unable to blink with each eye at exactly the same time. The veterinary ponies told him that his drug abuse and war horrors had caused him permanent damage, and the mugging had triggered the effects. He couldn't talk any more, not even to fellow alligators.
The ponies at the veterinary clinic decided that he would be able to make a semi-recovery under the care of Fluttershy. He went to live there until the pegasus decided that he had recovered to an extent, but spending three years in a veterinary bed, only being pushed around in a wheelchair occasionally had left him unable to move properly. He only moved when he felt like it and never showed any emotion. His ordeal had left him immune to pain, though, so he could cope with it.
One day, a friend of Fluttershy had expressed a lot of interest in him during a visit, and ended up taking him home, where he happily lives with the pink party pony.
However, unknown to anypony, he is constantly pondering deep, thought-provoking questions about time and space, and has don so so much, he now has the ability to see into alternate dimensions, the future and even alternate futures. He may be the most advanced being in existence, but nopony will ever or can ever know, for it will cause unmentionable things to happen to the very fabric of space and time.
Author's Note
In case t wasn't obvious enough, this story is is clearly a trollfic. Please understand this before giving a thumbs up or down. Please give a thumbs up or down. And maybe a comment.
