Affliction

My name is Anthony Feltus and I'm sitting in the chair of my 2-star apartment, sadly it was all I could afford to purchase. All the other homes for lease were in between 1,000 to 5,000, damn blood sucking real estate agents. Not to mention my shitty packaging job at the local Walmart. Having a 9 to 5 job is tiring and especially unrewarding for how many hours I put into it. But at least I have 3 days off, so I can get some sleep. Nothing on the television was even remotely good. Hehehe, remote. Usually, I'd watch some old shows like the Fresh Prince or Alf. Right now though, none of these shows are satisfying me.

"Ah, Fuck it," I say pressing the power button to my remote. I decided that I might as well just eat something and get ready for bed. I lazily lumber my way into the minuscule kitchen. It was nothing special, just a dirty white oven, cracked floor tiles, a dusty fridge with a broken light for the freezer and finally, a microwave so old and archaic that I think it's losing wattage. I reach into the freezer and go over my option. I have a lot of quality cuisine like fries, fish sticks and best of all, Hot Pockets. Ham & Cheese or Pizza flavor. Hmmm, pizza it is then, opening the 12 count box, I grab 2 and toss them on the little table behind me. Closing the freezer, I open the refrigerator door and grab a bottle of 7up. Unwrapping the Hot Pockets, I put them down on a plate that I pulled from the cupboard and put them down inside of my ancient microwave, set the time and press start. While I waited for the food to get finished, I went into my room, switched out of my work clothes and threw on some sweatpants and a simple tank top. Walking over to the mirror I take a look at myself. I was your average guy, I had a milk brown skin tone, dark brown eyes, and black hair. I was a little skinny but not scrawny. Eh,

*BEEP**BEEP**BEEP*

The sound of the microwaves electric alarm fill the house as I pull the handle. I take my finger and prod the Hot Pockets. No cold spots, let's eat. Carrying the plate over the table, I open the cap of the bottle of 7up slowly in an attempt to avoid it bubbling and spilling over.

*Hiss*

I stop twisting as soon as all the bubbles shoot up while they tried to escape from the bottle. Waiting for a little longer, I resume twisting the bottle until I hear it snap. Pulling the top off, I take a swig.
Man, that's good, now let's get to these pockets.

*2 Innocent Hot Pockets Later*

I lie in my hard mattress staring up at the ceiling. My life is pretty fucking bad and I know that some of you have heard or said this before but, this is not how I planned my life to go. Well, at least I've got a roof over my head. I still wish that I could change my future or get a new good paying job, sucks it's too late for that. I rolled over and closed my eyes. After a few minutes of lying there quietly, I drifted off to sleep. Then, I was jolted awake sweating like crazy. I threw off the sheets and look for the air conditioner. It was so dark that I could literally bump into a wall, I rub my hands on a wall near the kitchen entrance. I soon feel a block with some buttons on it. Pressing the cooler button, I begin walking to the bathroom. Once I see it, I open the door and flick the switch...nothing. Walking back to my bedroom, I try and flick the switch in there. Nothing again.

"Blackout," I say opening the window curtains only to see all the other tenants across from me with their lights on. "...Dammit." Before I could turn around and check the breaker. I could hear my tv give off static. Walking rather quickly to my living room, I see my TV is on while the loud static blares. Okay, now this is getting a little too creepy for my tastes. Switching the TV off, I turn and head back into my room. When I make it into the doorway, a bright light pops up on the wall. Turning on my heels, I see the TV is on but no static. Just white. Cautiously making my way over to the TV, I reach behind it and pull the plug. It didn't turn off, I was starting to panic. Being the totally reasonable person I am, I came to a conclusion. That green bitch Slimer had somehow wiggled his fat ghost ass into my TV. Walking over to it, I tentatively try and touch it. It was weird like I was drawn to the thing. Once I made contact with the screen, my hand immediately got pins and needles. Putting my other hand on the screen, the feeling was intensified as it grew to my shoulders, finally, I decided to put my head on it. Pins and needles surged through me, I went numb and collapsed. I wake up and find out that I'm falling into darkness, I attempt to scream but the only thing that came out was an aired out whisper. I can't breathe, every time I suck in air, I choke. A white light starts to grow at the bottom as I came closer. I shut my eyes and wait for the worst.

When I opened my eyes, I was staring at the sky. I looked from left to right to only see more sky. I didn't feel anything under me, am I dead?
Suddenly a cloud rises and flies above me. And another, then another. Oh, shit I'm not dead I'm falling! Now that my shirt is flopping around like a flag in a hurricane, I began screaming as I began my fall down, clouds pelting my face as fell through them. In the distance, I saw a large black mass, ah fuck! I tried to maneuver my body in a different direction but to no avail as I slammed into the thunderhead. Right as I made contact, I was immediately shocked. Convulsing from the onslaught of electricity as my mind went blank and only focused on the pain. My muscles were twitching and spamming out of my control as my body grew stiff, I could smell my singed hair. Then, as quickly as the pain came, it left as I fell through the cloud. I could not move, nor could I scream my nerves were shot. I just fall as rain soon followed and pelted my face. I can't even blink, I think I'm paralyzed. I see houses and a dirt road, this is it isn't it? I'm gonna go from a thoroughly electrocuted black guy to a red splatter on the ground. Well, at least I had one last meal before I go.

*CRASH*

As I slipped out of consciousness, I could hear the sound of concerned voices making their way towards me.

"What is that thing?"

"It fell from the sky!"

"We have to go get Princess Twilight." Princess Twilight? Just where..the fuck...am I? Then the voices faded out of earshot, and silence befell me.

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The sound of an EKG machine is the first thing I hear. I'm in a hospital room, I try and open my eyes but my left eye is bandaged. Opening the right one, I take in my surroundings. The room seems normal but the other beds are small, is this a children's hospital? Wait, that doesn't make sense, why would they take me to a children's hospital? I pull my leg over the rail and then the other. My legs were so weak that they were buckling with every step I took. Grabbing the I.V., I hobble over to a door across from my bed. Why was the handle so low? Turning the knob, I walk into a bathroom. Like everything else I've seen so far, parts of the bathroom are either smaller than they should be or so low to the ground, that you'd have to bend down a little. Suddenly a door opens and 2 voices begin conversing with each other. I crack the door open to see the source of the voices. My eyes damn near fly out of my head when I see what's in front of me. 2 small horses, one in a doctor outfit and the other in a nursing gown.

"Nurse Redheart, what happened to the creature?"

"I don't know doctor, he may have gone to the restroom." They turn to see me just staring at them. "Come on out now, nopony's going to hurt you." Hold up, did she just say "nopony?" More importantly, how do they know English?

"No." The horses just look at each other, this time the doctor talks,

"You know Ponese?"

"The fuck is Ponese? Listen just let me leave and I'll stay out of your hair, er, mane."

"I'm sorry but we can't do that, you're a scientific breakthrough. You are evolutionary proof that life exists beyond our planet."

"Hate to burst your bubble but I'm not going to stay here. What city am I in?"

"Why Ponyville of course."

"...You know what I'm not even gonna bother. Just give me a minute so I can take these bandages off."

"But sir you must stay so we can run some tests."

"No way,"

"But-"

"No goddamn way, I am not going to get probed like some sort of demented lab experiment!"

"I'm afraid you don't have a choice, Redheart, alert the guard." Giving a nod she darts through the room door.

"What, you think a rent-a-cop's gonna stop me?" Precisely as I say that, a small horse with gold armor and a spear.

"Return back to your bed."

"Hey man, I just wanna leave."

"Sorry, but we can't allow you to do that, not until we figure out your motives."

"Wait I'm not a threat-" He puts his spear to my throat, cutting me off. Backing up I nearly trip and use the EKG to keep me up. When I touch it, I feel a surge of energy, it was like I had gallons of adrenaline pumped through my body.

"Get back to bed now!" He yelled, poking me with his spear. My arm instinctively moves on its own and grabs the spear. He pulls the spear from my grip and backs away while taking a defensive posture. I feel my hands start to shake and emit a gentle buzzing sound. I pull both hands up to see it glowing a blue light. When I opened them, I nearly stumbled from what I saw. In the center of my hands were 2 small levitating orbs.

"It can use magic! Nurse, Doctor get out of here!" The guard yells as the horses follow his order, leaving me with him, he steps closer, getting ready to attack. I stick out my arms,

"Wa-Hrk!" He must've thought I was going to attack him so he plunged the spear into my chest. The pain caused me fall to my hands and knees. While I bled out, the lights in the room began to flicker and dim. That feeling of adrenaline came back to me, this time it was overwhelming as the pain faded. I rose from the ground to hear the sound of crackling electricity. I took a look at my body to see that arcs of lighting were shooting up my arms. The guard just stares at me with wide eyes. All of a sudden, bolts of electricity flew towards my body in all directions. I absorbed them all and the feeling was amazing, it was like I was high on something. Snapping me out of my state of euphoria, the guard readies his spear and charges me. I react by thrusting my arm out in his direction hitting him with a devastating shock of electricity, he crumbles to the floor as the electricity wracked his body. I run past him and open the door to see the eyes of many small horses staring at me, I ignored them. Once I passed the main desk, I could see glass double doors. Pushing my way through, I see 6 more of the small horses. A purple one with a horn and wings, a butter yellow one with wings, a white one with a horn, a light blue one that also has wings, an orange one, and a pink one.

"What in tarnation?!" The orange one screamed I ran to the left, holy shit was I running fast, eat your heart out Usain Bolt. Seriously, though why am I so fast? I'm literally kicking up a plume of dirt as I speed off. Before I could go any further, the purple one suddenly appeared in front of me. Screeching to a halt, I was encased in a big purple dome.

"Stop right there you-"

"Monster?" I ask making the horse put on a surprised facial expression.

"Wait, you can speak our language?"

"I'm surprised you can speak mine." The purple horse just stood there dumbstruck. "Hey, can you let me out? This thing is getting a little cramped." It just gave me a look of suspicion before answering,

"How do I know if you're going to attack me or not?"

"Look I only shocked that guard because I was defending myself." I shouldn't have said that,

"You shocked a guard?! But how can you do that, you don't have wings or a horn? Oh, I gotta take some notes." Promptly after she says those words, she sits like a dog and makes a quill and a notebook appear out of nowhere. Meanwhile, I'm just sitting there, staring at her while she scribbles some shit down in her notebook.

"Hey! Sorry to interrupt your little note-taking session but can you, I don't know, let me out of this fuckin thing?!" I say pounding my fists against the shield and while doing so, the lightning came back. I take a few steps back, and fire of a few bolts of lightning at the shield. She takes notice and tries to fix the shield. It's starting to crack, putting my hands together, I make a ball of electricity and lob it. The shield shatters and the gorse collapses, huh, weird. I begin running again, I see a small town approaching. Once I get past the first houses, I see something blue coming towards my general direction. I stop to observe it, man, that thing is fast...oh shit. I try to run past it but I wasn't going to get far. The mass slams into me and immediately, I was airborne. I'm not falling through, the thing is carrying me! I wriggle around like a worm pulled from dirt.

"Stop, moving!" It screams I look up to observe it. It had rainbow hair and magenta eyes. Fuck this, I pull the hooves from my waist and enter a freefall.

"C'mon, do something," I say flailing my arms as the ground drew nearer. I start shooting bolts to try and slow my descent. "Fuck, fuck!" I put my arms on my sides. I clamped my eyes shut, waiting for the bone-crushing impact that would never come. I open them to see that I was hovering a few meters above ground. "What's happening to me?" I try to move, yeah, that isn't happening. I just stood, or rather, levitated there while I thought of a way I could actually fly. "...Got it!" I scream as I position my arms backward. Sure enough, I begin gliding forward. "Sick, now to l-" A beam of golden light hits me on my back, causing me to plummet. I connect with the ground, resulting in a thunderous boom. Getting up, I turn over to see a huge white pony with wings, a horn, she has a tiara and her hair and tail seemed to be flowing.

"State your business, creature. My patience grows shorter by the second."

"First of all, don't call me creature because as far as I know, you guys are alien horses that have done nothing but attack me ever since I got here."

"YOU DARE CALL ME, PRINCESS CELESTIA, A HORSE?!" Holy fucking shit that was loud. I could physically see the sound waves come out of her mouth.

Then what do I call you?"

"Ponies, we are ponies."

"Ok, cool. I'm a human, now if you, excuse me I have to get going."

"I don't think so, Mr.Human. You have caused a lot of damage to Ponyville General. Not to mention, you electrocuted a guard. You are to appear in my court for your sentence."

"What time?"

"Now." Hold on, what? A blinding light enveloped me. When the light vanished, I found myself in a courtroom, along with the 6 ponies and the guard I zapped. Princess Celestia is sitting in the judge's seat. " Mr.Human, you are being prosecuted for damages done to Ponyville general and a 2 additional aggravated assault charges on my faithful student Twilight and my royal guard. How do you plead?" I had never been to a courtroom before, but I watched enough Judge Judy so I got an idea,

"Self defense?"

"Please explain how causing 10,000 bits in electrical damage to Ponyville General is self-defense."

"I didn't even try to cause all of that damage. This wouldn't have happened if that guard hadn't have tried to attack me with his spear."

"I do believe he was in the right. We knew nothing about you, so of course, he would attack you. He did not know if you were dangerous or not. But this clearly justifies it, because you caused 10,000 bits in property damage and knocked Twilight Sparkle unconscious!"
I look over to my left to see Twilight and her friends all glaring at me. The pink one sticks out her tongue and blows a raspberry at me. "Mr.Human, I think your self-defense plea has fallen short. I have three sentences you can accept. One, exiled to the Badlands, two, 2 years in the dungeon, or three, you can try to redeem yourself by doing community activities in Ponyville and making amends to Twilight and her friends. Which do you pick?" Well, the Badlands don't sound well and the dungeon is another word for prison. So it'll have to be,

"Number 3."

"Very well." She says as she puts chained shackles on my wrists, using her magic to connect 2 more chains to the wrist shackles to a shackle on my neck."

"Woah, wait for a minute. Why am I being chained up?!"

"Order in the courtroom! You are to keep these chains and shackles on until Twilight feels it is appropriate for them to be removed. The court is adjourned." Getting up I walk over to the group of ponies as they shoot me looks. All of them start to leave, the blue one says,

"C'mon you freak." While the white says,

"I believe that Celestia should have just given him the dungeon." Once we left the huge castle, the orange pony kicks me in the stomach with both of her back legs. I drop to my knees as she growls in my ear,

"That's for hurtin' Twilight." I wait for a few seconds to get up and continue following them.

This gonna be hell.