Fandom Psychosisby PeanutbudatrollfaceChaptersChapter 1 AwakenedChapter 2 Back to realityChapter 3: Changes Sweet ChangesChapter 1 AwakenedChapter 1 Awakened “ UUUG My head” I thought to myself as I came out of my foggy dream state. I surveyed my surroundings to find myself in a compact, quiet, sterile room with adequate light. I was laying on a thin yet surprisingly comfortable cot, with a warm, soft blanket. I raised myself to get a better view of the room I was in; upon further inspection I’ve found that I was in a hospital like environment. “ Wow, Danial must have swung that bat really hard, I never thought he would put me in the hospital.” I raised my hands to my face to wipe off what remained of my hazy state, although something was way off. I attempted to wipe the goo from my eyes, but I nothing came from my hand; I couldn’t even feel my fingers. I opened my eyes to take a quick glance at my hand to try to see the source of the problem. The image that I received was not of what I expected, what I thought to be a hand had turned into a brown, pastel colored hoof. “Wait, WHAT THE HELL?!” I quickly turned my head to the other arm, only to be greeted with the same image. I began to panic, scrambling around in my bed to find some reflective surface for me to glance at a full image of myself. After a bunch of mindless kicking and screaming, I was able to locate a jewel encrusted hand mirror on the table at the side of my bed. I hastily reached for it with my two hoofs, trying my best to hold it while it slipped around in my hoofs. The image I found in the mirror was not one of reassurance; my image was of a blue-eyed horse with a rugged, black mane. Seeing this I immediately dropped the mirror I was inexplicably holding, and began to struggle out of the cot, only to be stop by a sharp sting to my back. I turned to inspect the reason for my damage; to my shock I saw a brown colored wing, wrapped in bloodstained gauze. “ OHH Great, as if this isn’t freaky enough!” My mindless panic was interrupted by a knock at the door; I prepared myself for the worse. In walked a blue colored unicorn dressed in a doctor’s uniform, I ignored the cuteness to keep my panic state. “ Ahh your awake, surprising, I thought you’d be down for longer due to the severity of your accident. You must be a real fighter to be up and kicken after something like that, but none the less, you shouldn’t be out of bed.” “What? Awake? Accident? What the hell happened, who are you, and why am I a horse?! “ Well to start answering your questions, I am Dr.Heartfelt, I come from a long line of doctors, from my father to his father…” I stopped him before he went into a big rant. “ I don’t want your life story! I want to know what the hell happened to me! “ Calm down son, your in the hospital, the young lady that brought you in told me that “you were in a race and you slammed right into a tree.” “ That still doesn’t explain why I’m a horse instead of a human!” “ Well apparently you probably have become to attached to the dream world, because humans haven’t been seen in Equestria for thousands of years, and the proper term is Pegasus, you are a Pegasus” Hearing this caused me to collapse to the floor, “Great, not only am I never gonna see anyone I know again, I’m going to be stuck in a world with a bunch of talking horses and God knows what else.” “ All of this aside, I think it would be best if you’d get back to bed, you are in no condition to be up and about.” “ How can I sleep, I have no idea what happened, and I don’t even know how long I’ve been asleep already!” “ Well let’s see, your friend brought you here on Tuesday, and today is what, Friday, so it was three days.” “ There’s another thing, who is this so called friend you keep mentioning?” “ I think I remember her calling herself a miss Rainbow Dash.” “ If it’s only been three days, how come I can’t remember anything that happened before this moment?” “ Well, we think that the fall might had cause some initial brain damage that lead to a case of severe amnesia, we decided against running any tests until you came out of your comma like state. Now that you’re awake we can finally know for sure, but that will have to wait till morning. How ‘bout you; calm down, get back to bed, stop asking questions, relax, and go to sleep.” “ But… this can’t be true. Just yesterday I was with my wife Lorane and my teenaged son Danial, I was playing baseball with my son when all of a sudden the bat…” I paused at my sudden realization. “ Came flying towards my head. Now this all makes sense, this is just a dream; I’m probably just there on the ground out cold. Ok doc I’ll play your game, I’ll get to bed and wake up in bright sunshine.” Without another word I retreated back to the cot and drifted off back to sleep. The unicorn just stood there, looking as puzzled as I was earlier. I felt the darkness surround me, engulfing me into a dark pit of nothing, but then a light appeared. I began to rush towards it, then I felt myself and I could feel my eyes bringing me back to reality as they slowly began to open. I quickly began to realize that I had not come back to the reality I envisioned. I took a quick glance at the setting that I had been transported to, then I realized. “This is not the park. This is just my damn cell. Ohh well… at least I still have my fingers.” Chapter 2 Back to realityI raised my head from my extremely uncomfortable slab I was laying on to get a better look at the room I awoke in. An assortment of concrete and iron bars was the scenery I was met with. The cold iron bars at the front of my cell, the even less encouraging iron bars on the only one window I had to the outside world, along with the graffiti riddled walls of slurs and maddening proverbs, was reassuring that I had snapped back to what I knew to be reality. With the familiar setting aside, I had to reassure myself that I was human and not some pastel colored equine. I rose from my uncomfortable resting place to proceed to the mirror in what I called the bathroom area. My image was received by the walled, reflective surface and displayed the man I’ve known my entire life, myself. “ Young and beautiful as the day you were born.” I shared a chuckle with myself at the shear absurdity. My mind began to trail on the previous night. “ That’s the third time this month that I’ve had a dream like that, odd thing is that it was in sync with each previous dreams. First I arrive into some foreign land of magical talking ponies, I mindlessly walk through a dark forest filled with creatures I’ve never seen in my life, once I even exit the labyrinth of a forest I come in contact with some pink, hyper, pony with cotton candy hair claiming to be my best friend when I’ve never seen her in my entire life. After that I found my way to a little brick house that seem awfully familiar to the house that I lived in as a child. Turning my head aside I saw on the little mailbox that my full name was printed on the side, Samuel L. Nash. Since for all I knew it was my house, I decided to enter the household to see how I lived in this world. The house was small yet had a comforting, familiar aura to it. The living room was fit with a small plush rug with a green texture. The walls were painted an eggshell white with a smooth pattern of brush strokes. There was a tan couch with decorative pillows that look to be comfortable if you laid on them, along with a brown leather chair sitting in front of the old time television. Along with this furniture was a brick fireplace with an accessible bookshelf filled with a variety of books I’ve all read before. Being as tired as I was at the time I decided to take a seat in the leather chair and drift off to sleep. That was the end of the first dream. In the next dream a cyan colored Pegasus by the name of Rainbow Dash awakened me from the chair claiming that I was late for work. After a bit of talking I initially decided to take her word to heart and go see where I worked. I remember a conversation that took place while we flew to the place she was taking me. “ Darn it Nash, you’re supposed to be the one that’s supposed to be supervising me, but it seems that I’m the one who has to remind you to do your job.” Said Dash as she rolled her eyes. “ Hey get off my back will you, it was a long night last night and I forgot to set my alarm.” She smirked at my rebuttal “Well I hope your not too tired to move the clouds, because it’s supposed to rain by this afternoon, and as I am fully capable of doing this myself I have to string you along so I don’t get fired.” She began to fly faster at this statement. “ So try to keep up or you will fall behind.” I began to speed up with my best efforts, as I did this I thought to myself, “ If she was so capable I wouldn’t be here.” I eventually caught up to her and we began to talk while we were speeding. “Wow, out of all the stiffs I’ve had to work with, you’re the first one to actually be able to keep up with me.” I was even marveled by the speed I was going; even though from all I knew it was a dream. “ But don’t get too cocky with yourself, just because you can keep up with me, doesn’t mean you’re faster than me.” She then proceeded to speed up, leaving me in the clouds. Taking this as a challenge I flapped what I knew to be wings and flew faster then I ever thought I would ever go. In no time at all, I finally caught up to Rainbow. “Ohh so it is a race you want Nash? Ok first one to the Weather Depot wins.” Her speed suddenly increased to were it was just a blur and she left a rainbow trail. “ So that’s why they call her Rainbow Dash.” With my determined nature, I refused to be beaten by this Pegasus. So I started to strain myself to follow the rainbow trail that followed Dash where ether she went. I flew so fast that the moisture in the clouds started to hold me back as I sped, so I changed the tactics to avoiding the clouds and following hot on Rainbow’s trail. At last I finally saw the Weather Depot, but also did Dash. She turned her head to meet my gaze for I was flying right next to her. “ I never took you as a flyer, but nether the less I’m not going to just let you win.” She tried her best to speed up but to no avail, I didn’t allow her to get past me. It was the final stretch; the Weather Depot was just meters away from us, neither of us were allowing an inch to be given to our opponent. Closer and closer we got, it is undetermined who will win this great race, and I could taste victory on my lips. Finally we made it to the cloud that housed the Weather Depot, I forced my hoofs into the cloud to gain some leverage to help in my initial stop. Rainbow however was so stunned by the results of the race that she forgot to try to stop and smacked right into the side of the building. She just got up like it was nothing to her and trotted over to me. “ Looks like we tied Dash.” “Yeah… I guess we did.” “Guess I’m not as big of a stiff as you say I am.” “ Th..that was a fluke, I… I want a rematch after work. We’ll meet in the Everfree forest after work and settle this for real.” I noticed that her voice started to get a bit hoarse, so all I could say was, “ Ok Dash after we work, we’ll go to the Everfree forest and race, If I win you have to promise to handle the next big rainstorm we have, and if you win I’ll take over for the next storm while you can nap. How does that sound?” “ Sounds good, but don’t think I’ll go easy on you next time, I’m gonna bring my A-Game.” “Ok, enthusiasm is always enjoyed, but lets get to work before we both get fired.” We then proceeded inside the building. We we’re met with an assortment of clouds from different sizes and shades of grey in little glass jars. Dash lead me into a separate room where I was met with a long hall, I continued down it and Rainbow followed close behind. We entered a large room filled with three other pairs of mares waiting for their designated weather instructor. Finally an orange colored colt with a rustled, green mane and started to make his great speech to the rest of us. “ All right fillies and gentle colt. I hope you all got a decent nights rest, cause I’ve got word from the big men that we’re gonna have some crazy weather today, all around Equestria. First things first, Crunch and Sting, you need to make it hail in Manehattan …” He went down the checklist he inexplicably held in his hoof, and then came to Dash and I. “ And lastly, Nash and Dash, you are scheduled to bring the thunder down to Ponyville. Now, you all have your assignments, so grab your jars and get to work.” At this, everyone left the room in an orderly fashion. We went back to the main room we entered from to get our designated jar. It didn’t take long before we finally found the jar labeled “Slight Drizzle, With The Roar of Thunder.” “ If we’re going to cover the span of Ponyville, we will need three jars.” So I grabbed three of the jars, still pondering how in the blue Hell I was holding them. We exited the Weather Depot and made our way to the outskirts of Ponyville. The entire way I was still thinking about my upcoming race and how I was going to win. Finally we made it to the edge of Ponyville, border lining the Everfree forest. Dash told me to open the jars and begin setting the clouds over the town. When I opened one of the jars, three big, slightly grey clouds filled the sky. In order for us to move the clouds and move on, we needed to both push the clouds to their respected place so that they fit like puzzle pieces. After about an hour of backbreaking labor we made our way to the forest to have our race. We arrived at a cottage at the edge of the forest. “ This is my friend Fluttershy’s house. This is where I’m going to be waiting for you for an hour, while you’re still chasing me through the forest.” “ Just don’t get all sour on me when I beat you again.” “ That was just beginners luck, I won’t go so easy on you this time.” "Enough small talk, let me give you the rundown on how this is gonna play out. First, we’re going out about one hundred meters or so into the forest. Next, I will start the race on a count to three, and while your flying around aimlessly through the forest, I will be making my way effortlessly to the finish. You got all of that?” “ Yeah… let’s do this.” We made our way throughout the forest until we came to a small clearing. “ Alright Nash you ready?” “Yep.” “Ok… three… two… one… GO!” At the drop of the horn, we were off like two bullets shot in unison. The air was cold and damp as it flowed through my mane. I put all my power into my wings to go at top speed to keep up with my adversary. Then the thick brush of the forest began to oppose me, I felt I spent most of my energy dodging trees rather than racing. Rainbow however was swerving around them like it was nothing. Now was the time to step up my game, I started moving around the forest like it was a path I have run my entire life. I could feel the adrenaline flow through my veins as I went at top speeds through the foliage, when all of a sudden… BOOM!!! A bolt of lightning shot right at me, nearly missing me and hitting a tree. That was all it took for me to take me out of my funk and steer of course. Then I broke the number one rule to keep in mind while driving or speeding, I took my eyes off the road. Then… WHAM!! I crashed square into a tree, being knocked out instantly. And that was the end of my second dream. You know… with the weirdness aside… this is still a hell of a lot more entertaining that what I’ve been doing recently.” Chapter 3: Changes Sweet Changes“NASH TO THE FRONT OF YOUR CELL!!!” I snapped out of my inner monologue to face the source of the yell. Noticing it was one of the guards; I had no choice but to obey. “Hands through the slot!” “Why boss, don’t you trust me?” “HANDS THROUGH THE BAR, OR IM COMING IN AND CUFFING YOU TO THE TOILET AND BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF YOU!” “ Sorry man I’m already in a relationship.” With a smirk on my face, I stuck my hands through the small slot. I decided not to piss off the guards out of fear for my own safety. For the guards going down each cell to cuff each prisoner, something must be going down. “ All of you scum report to the main hall for a special announcement from the warden.” Well, that’s flattering, but at least I know the reason for the cuffs. As soon as my metal door opened, I scurried out of my cell. On my rush to the main hall, I paused behind a big brute that blocked my way into the hall. He towered over me with his six foot eight stature, and he had about three times my muscle tone. Along with this, he had a God awful blonde rats tail that hung three inches from his head, and he also had one last notable feature. His prison rags were missing their sleeves. I wasn’t sure if this was a fashion style or something for comfort, all I know was that he is my living definition of white trash. It shocked me that he turned out to have a Russian accent. “Didn’t your mother ever teach you that it is rude to stare tiny man?” I have no idea how long I had been quietly criticizing him, but obviously it had been for too long. “ Just trying to get to where everyone else is.” “ you best watch yourself tiny man, enemy’s are easily made and hard to lose.” “ I’ll keep that in mind, but for now would you kindly move?” To my surprise he actually obeyed my request, mumbling under his breath. I proceeded into the hall to join up with a crowd of chained up convicts. “ What is possibly going to happen now? Maybe we can finally get some decent food around here. Even better we could get some mattresses, those plastic slabs are hard to sleep on.” At last the warden finally came into the main hall and approached the podium. The crowd all joined in a Boo. He spoke in a tone of a southern gentleman, yet demanded attention, like a military general. He was a very fat man and he seemed to be proud of it “ Alright you maggots, due to recent knowledge that has come to our attention, there are going to be a few changes around here.” One random convict cut him off “Take away my cell mate, he’s dead!” “ Body bags cost money and I don’t like wasting it on trash like you. Anyway, as I was saying they’re going to be some major changes taking effect immediately. From now on there will be; cell inspections in three hour intervals of the day, anyone laying a finger on someone else will get three days in the hole, and most importantly…” “ Ohh boy, something tells me I might not enjoy the next thing I hear.” “ Instead of your normal hour in the court yard, you’re all going to report to the viewing room to watch the new generation of My Little Pony.” The second those words came from his mouth, I thought to myself, “ yep, I was right.” The crowd soon came into an uproar. “WHY!” “ THIS IS BULLSHIT!” “ I CRASHED A BUS FULL OF KIDS, BUT I DON’T DESERVE THIS!” “ If you have any complaints, please feel free to write them on a piece of paper and put them in the community shredder. Reminder, these changes are permanent and will not be changed. Which reminds me, it’s time to start the first viewing.” As I began to walk to the viewing hall, thoughts were racing through my head, “ Ohh God, the warden’s gonna start riots. What horrors am I going to experience in that room with my fellow convicts? With the previous monstrosities that were My Little Pony, will this new one make my eyes fall out? With no time to go out in the yard, will my already weak stature get worse?” I was very afraid of what was about to come my way. At last I made it into the viewing hall. I sat next to all the people whom I was about to experience great torture with. I saw the fear of God in each mans eyes. The last man took his seat and everyone else prepared for the worst. The warden then spoke from the projector room. “ Enjoy the show ladies!” At this he turned on the projector and the screen lit up. Now comes the girliest intro I have ever heard in my life. Every one in the audience was in an uproar, but the warden announcing the next person to outburst gets a day in the hole quickly stopped it. During the intro though, I saw something very peculiar. Rainbow Dash. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. A creature from my imagination comes to life before my very eyes. My mouth stood agape as my mind pondered how this was a possibility. A coincidence? Deja vu? Can I see into the future? I continued to watch as I questioned reality. The episode we all watched was one called “The Sonic Rainboom”, and surpisingly it was very well written. The show was very well animated; the characters were very well developed, had amazing voice acting, and had a good plot. The episode was about Rainbow Dash and how she had to persevere to pull of the impossible and save her friend Rarity with The Sonic Rainboom. Apparently I wasn’t the only one who thought the show was good, because when it was done, everyone stood up and clapped. “ GREAT!” “THAT WAS AMAZING!” “ I’D CRASH ANOTHER BUS FILLED WITH KIDS TO WATCH THAT AGAIN!” Now everyone began to fight over who was “ the best pony” or something. “ Fluttershy is best pony because she’s so damn cute!” “ Pinkie Pie is best pony because she’s so funny!” I have had enough of the arguing, and apparently so did the warden. “That’s enough out of all off you, get back to your cells!” We were forced to obey, due to the guards beginning to pile into the viewing room. When I got back to my cell, after I got the cuffs off my wrist, I collapsed onto my slab. I began to wonder why I had those dreams before this. Was it something that was preparing me for this? Will I have another dream that will continue from the last one? What is going to happen because of this? Then another thought came into my head. “ If I had got the chance, I think I would have said that Rainbow Dash is best pony.” It has been a month since we were forced to watch the show and the unthinkable happened. I didn’t have another dream that continued from where I left off. Instead the entire prison spit into six equal factions, each for the six main characters. I had decided to join the Rainbow Dash gang for two reasons. One reason was because most of the guys that joined were the toughest in the whole prison. The other was because I actually think she is best pony. If you told me two years ago that I would be in prison, and I will join a gang that worships a blue, flying horse, I would have called you a lunatic. Yet here we stand today.
Chapter 1 AwakenedChapter 1 Awakened “ UUUG My head” I thought to myself as I came out of my foggy dream state. I surveyed my surroundings to find myself in a compact, quiet, sterile room with adequate light. I was laying on a thin yet surprisingly comfortable cot, with a warm, soft blanket. I raised myself to get a better view of the room I was in; upon further inspection I’ve found that I was in a hospital like environment. “ Wow, Danial must have swung that bat really hard, I never thought he would put me in the hospital.” I raised my hands to my face to wipe off what remained of my hazy state, although something was way off. I attempted to wipe the goo from my eyes, but I nothing came from my hand; I couldn’t even feel my fingers. I opened my eyes to take a quick glance at my hand to try to see the source of the problem. The image that I received was not of what I expected, what I thought to be a hand had turned into a brown, pastel colored hoof. “Wait, WHAT THE HELL?!” I quickly turned my head to the other arm, only to be greeted with the same image. I began to panic, scrambling around in my bed to find some reflective surface for me to glance at a full image of myself. After a bunch of mindless kicking and screaming, I was able to locate a jewel encrusted hand mirror on the table at the side of my bed. I hastily reached for it with my two hoofs, trying my best to hold it while it slipped around in my hoofs. The image I found in the mirror was not one of reassurance; my image was of a blue-eyed horse with a rugged, black mane. Seeing this I immediately dropped the mirror I was inexplicably holding, and began to struggle out of the cot, only to be stop by a sharp sting to my back. I turned to inspect the reason for my damage; to my shock I saw a brown colored wing, wrapped in bloodstained gauze. “ OHH Great, as if this isn’t freaky enough!” My mindless panic was interrupted by a knock at the door; I prepared myself for the worse. In walked a blue colored unicorn dressed in a doctor’s uniform, I ignored the cuteness to keep my panic state. “ Ahh your awake, surprising, I thought you’d be down for longer due to the severity of your accident. You must be a real fighter to be up and kicken after something like that, but none the less, you shouldn’t be out of bed.” “What? Awake? Accident? What the hell happened, who are you, and why am I a horse?! “ Well to start answering your questions, I am Dr.Heartfelt, I come from a long line of doctors, from my father to his father…” I stopped him before he went into a big rant. “ I don’t want your life story! I want to know what the hell happened to me! “ Calm down son, your in the hospital, the young lady that brought you in told me that “you were in a race and you slammed right into a tree.” “ That still doesn’t explain why I’m a horse instead of a human!” “ Well apparently you probably have become to attached to the dream world, because humans haven’t been seen in Equestria for thousands of years, and the proper term is Pegasus, you are a Pegasus” Hearing this caused me to collapse to the floor, “Great, not only am I never gonna see anyone I know again, I’m going to be stuck in a world with a bunch of talking horses and God knows what else.” “ All of this aside, I think it would be best if you’d get back to bed, you are in no condition to be up and about.” “ How can I sleep, I have no idea what happened, and I don’t even know how long I’ve been asleep already!” “ Well let’s see, your friend brought you here on Tuesday, and today is what, Friday, so it was three days.” “ There’s another thing, who is this so called friend you keep mentioning?” “ I think I remember her calling herself a miss Rainbow Dash.” “ If it’s only been three days, how come I can’t remember anything that happened before this moment?” “ Well, we think that the fall might had cause some initial brain damage that lead to a case of severe amnesia, we decided against running any tests until you came out of your comma like state. Now that you’re awake we can finally know for sure, but that will have to wait till morning. How ‘bout you; calm down, get back to bed, stop asking questions, relax, and go to sleep.” “ But… this can’t be true. Just yesterday I was with my wife Lorane and my teenaged son Danial, I was playing baseball with my son when all of a sudden the bat…” I paused at my sudden realization. “ Came flying towards my head. Now this all makes sense, this is just a dream; I’m probably just there on the ground out cold. Ok doc I’ll play your game, I’ll get to bed and wake up in bright sunshine.” Without another word I retreated back to the cot and drifted off back to sleep. The unicorn just stood there, looking as puzzled as I was earlier. I felt the darkness surround me, engulfing me into a dark pit of nothing, but then a light appeared. I began to rush towards it, then I felt myself and I could feel my eyes bringing me back to reality as they slowly began to open. I quickly began to realize that I had not come back to the reality I envisioned. I took a quick glance at the setting that I had been transported to, then I realized. “This is not the park. This is just my damn cell. Ohh well… at least I still have my fingers.”
Chapter 2 Back to realityI raised my head from my extremely uncomfortable slab I was laying on to get a better look at the room I awoke in. An assortment of concrete and iron bars was the scenery I was met with. The cold iron bars at the front of my cell, the even less encouraging iron bars on the only one window I had to the outside world, along with the graffiti riddled walls of slurs and maddening proverbs, was reassuring that I had snapped back to what I knew to be reality. With the familiar setting aside, I had to reassure myself that I was human and not some pastel colored equine. I rose from my uncomfortable resting place to proceed to the mirror in what I called the bathroom area. My image was received by the walled, reflective surface and displayed the man I’ve known my entire life, myself. “ Young and beautiful as the day you were born.” I shared a chuckle with myself at the shear absurdity. My mind began to trail on the previous night. “ That’s the third time this month that I’ve had a dream like that, odd thing is that it was in sync with each previous dreams. First I arrive into some foreign land of magical talking ponies, I mindlessly walk through a dark forest filled with creatures I’ve never seen in my life, once I even exit the labyrinth of a forest I come in contact with some pink, hyper, pony with cotton candy hair claiming to be my best friend when I’ve never seen her in my entire life. After that I found my way to a little brick house that seem awfully familiar to the house that I lived in as a child. Turning my head aside I saw on the little mailbox that my full name was printed on the side, Samuel L. Nash. Since for all I knew it was my house, I decided to enter the household to see how I lived in this world. The house was small yet had a comforting, familiar aura to it. The living room was fit with a small plush rug with a green texture. The walls were painted an eggshell white with a smooth pattern of brush strokes. There was a tan couch with decorative pillows that look to be comfortable if you laid on them, along with a brown leather chair sitting in front of the old time television. Along with this furniture was a brick fireplace with an accessible bookshelf filled with a variety of books I’ve all read before. Being as tired as I was at the time I decided to take a seat in the leather chair and drift off to sleep. That was the end of the first dream. In the next dream a cyan colored Pegasus by the name of Rainbow Dash awakened me from the chair claiming that I was late for work. After a bit of talking I initially decided to take her word to heart and go see where I worked. I remember a conversation that took place while we flew to the place she was taking me. “ Darn it Nash, you’re supposed to be the one that’s supposed to be supervising me, but it seems that I’m the one who has to remind you to do your job.” Said Dash as she rolled her eyes. “ Hey get off my back will you, it was a long night last night and I forgot to set my alarm.” She smirked at my rebuttal “Well I hope your not too tired to move the clouds, because it’s supposed to rain by this afternoon, and as I am fully capable of doing this myself I have to string you along so I don’t get fired.” She began to fly faster at this statement. “ So try to keep up or you will fall behind.” I began to speed up with my best efforts, as I did this I thought to myself, “ If she was so capable I wouldn’t be here.” I eventually caught up to her and we began to talk while we were speeding. “Wow, out of all the stiffs I’ve had to work with, you’re the first one to actually be able to keep up with me.” I was even marveled by the speed I was going; even though from all I knew it was a dream. “ But don’t get too cocky with yourself, just because you can keep up with me, doesn’t mean you’re faster than me.” She then proceeded to speed up, leaving me in the clouds. Taking this as a challenge I flapped what I knew to be wings and flew faster then I ever thought I would ever go. In no time at all, I finally caught up to Rainbow. “Ohh so it is a race you want Nash? Ok first one to the Weather Depot wins.” Her speed suddenly increased to were it was just a blur and she left a rainbow trail. “ So that’s why they call her Rainbow Dash.” With my determined nature, I refused to be beaten by this Pegasus. So I started to strain myself to follow the rainbow trail that followed Dash where ether she went. I flew so fast that the moisture in the clouds started to hold me back as I sped, so I changed the tactics to avoiding the clouds and following hot on Rainbow’s trail. At last I finally saw the Weather Depot, but also did Dash. She turned her head to meet my gaze for I was flying right next to her. “ I never took you as a flyer, but nether the less I’m not going to just let you win.” She tried her best to speed up but to no avail, I didn’t allow her to get past me. It was the final stretch; the Weather Depot was just meters away from us, neither of us were allowing an inch to be given to our opponent. Closer and closer we got, it is undetermined who will win this great race, and I could taste victory on my lips. Finally we made it to the cloud that housed the Weather Depot, I forced my hoofs into the cloud to gain some leverage to help in my initial stop. Rainbow however was so stunned by the results of the race that she forgot to try to stop and smacked right into the side of the building. She just got up like it was nothing to her and trotted over to me. “ Looks like we tied Dash.” “Yeah… I guess we did.” “Guess I’m not as big of a stiff as you say I am.” “ Th..that was a fluke, I… I want a rematch after work. We’ll meet in the Everfree forest after work and settle this for real.” I noticed that her voice started to get a bit hoarse, so all I could say was, “ Ok Dash after we work, we’ll go to the Everfree forest and race, If I win you have to promise to handle the next big rainstorm we have, and if you win I’ll take over for the next storm while you can nap. How does that sound?” “ Sounds good, but don’t think I’ll go easy on you next time, I’m gonna bring my A-Game.” “Ok, enthusiasm is always enjoyed, but lets get to work before we both get fired.” We then proceeded inside the building. We we’re met with an assortment of clouds from different sizes and shades of grey in little glass jars. Dash lead me into a separate room where I was met with a long hall, I continued down it and Rainbow followed close behind. We entered a large room filled with three other pairs of mares waiting for their designated weather instructor. Finally an orange colored colt with a rustled, green mane and started to make his great speech to the rest of us. “ All right fillies and gentle colt. I hope you all got a decent nights rest, cause I’ve got word from the big men that we’re gonna have some crazy weather today, all around Equestria. First things first, Crunch and Sting, you need to make it hail in Manehattan …” He went down the checklist he inexplicably held in his hoof, and then came to Dash and I. “ And lastly, Nash and Dash, you are scheduled to bring the thunder down to Ponyville. Now, you all have your assignments, so grab your jars and get to work.” At this, everyone left the room in an orderly fashion. We went back to the main room we entered from to get our designated jar. It didn’t take long before we finally found the jar labeled “Slight Drizzle, With The Roar of Thunder.” “ If we’re going to cover the span of Ponyville, we will need three jars.” So I grabbed three of the jars, still pondering how in the blue Hell I was holding them. We exited the Weather Depot and made our way to the outskirts of Ponyville. The entire way I was still thinking about my upcoming race and how I was going to win. Finally we made it to the edge of Ponyville, border lining the Everfree forest. Dash told me to open the jars and begin setting the clouds over the town. When I opened one of the jars, three big, slightly grey clouds filled the sky. In order for us to move the clouds and move on, we needed to both push the clouds to their respected place so that they fit like puzzle pieces. After about an hour of backbreaking labor we made our way to the forest to have our race. We arrived at a cottage at the edge of the forest. “ This is my friend Fluttershy’s house. This is where I’m going to be waiting for you for an hour, while you’re still chasing me through the forest.” “ Just don’t get all sour on me when I beat you again.” “ That was just beginners luck, I won’t go so easy on you this time.” "Enough small talk, let me give you the rundown on how this is gonna play out. First, we’re going out about one hundred meters or so into the forest. Next, I will start the race on a count to three, and while your flying around aimlessly through the forest, I will be making my way effortlessly to the finish. You got all of that?” “ Yeah… let’s do this.” We made our way throughout the forest until we came to a small clearing. “ Alright Nash you ready?” “Yep.” “Ok… three… two… one… GO!” At the drop of the horn, we were off like two bullets shot in unison. The air was cold and damp as it flowed through my mane. I put all my power into my wings to go at top speed to keep up with my adversary. Then the thick brush of the forest began to oppose me, I felt I spent most of my energy dodging trees rather than racing. Rainbow however was swerving around them like it was nothing. Now was the time to step up my game, I started moving around the forest like it was a path I have run my entire life. I could feel the adrenaline flow through my veins as I went at top speeds through the foliage, when all of a sudden… BOOM!!! A bolt of lightning shot right at me, nearly missing me and hitting a tree. That was all it took for me to take me out of my funk and steer of course. Then I broke the number one rule to keep in mind while driving or speeding, I took my eyes off the road. Then… WHAM!! I crashed square into a tree, being knocked out instantly. And that was the end of my second dream. You know… with the weirdness aside… this is still a hell of a lot more entertaining that what I’ve been doing recently.”
Chapter 3: Changes Sweet Changes“NASH TO THE FRONT OF YOUR CELL!!!” I snapped out of my inner monologue to face the source of the yell. Noticing it was one of the guards; I had no choice but to obey. “Hands through the slot!” “Why boss, don’t you trust me?” “HANDS THROUGH THE BAR, OR IM COMING IN AND CUFFING YOU TO THE TOILET AND BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF YOU!” “ Sorry man I’m already in a relationship.” With a smirk on my face, I stuck my hands through the small slot. I decided not to piss off the guards out of fear for my own safety. For the guards going down each cell to cuff each prisoner, something must be going down. “ All of you scum report to the main hall for a special announcement from the warden.” Well, that’s flattering, but at least I know the reason for the cuffs. As soon as my metal door opened, I scurried out of my cell. On my rush to the main hall, I paused behind a big brute that blocked my way into the hall. He towered over me with his six foot eight stature, and he had about three times my muscle tone. Along with this, he had a God awful blonde rats tail that hung three inches from his head, and he also had one last notable feature. His prison rags were missing their sleeves. I wasn’t sure if this was a fashion style or something for comfort, all I know was that he is my living definition of white trash. It shocked me that he turned out to have a Russian accent. “Didn’t your mother ever teach you that it is rude to stare tiny man?” I have no idea how long I had been quietly criticizing him, but obviously it had been for too long. “ Just trying to get to where everyone else is.” “ you best watch yourself tiny man, enemy’s are easily made and hard to lose.” “ I’ll keep that in mind, but for now would you kindly move?” To my surprise he actually obeyed my request, mumbling under his breath. I proceeded into the hall to join up with a crowd of chained up convicts. “ What is possibly going to happen now? Maybe we can finally get some decent food around here. Even better we could get some mattresses, those plastic slabs are hard to sleep on.” At last the warden finally came into the main hall and approached the podium. The crowd all joined in a Boo. He spoke in a tone of a southern gentleman, yet demanded attention, like a military general. He was a very fat man and he seemed to be proud of it “ Alright you maggots, due to recent knowledge that has come to our attention, there are going to be a few changes around here.” One random convict cut him off “Take away my cell mate, he’s dead!” “ Body bags cost money and I don’t like wasting it on trash like you. Anyway, as I was saying they’re going to be some major changes taking effect immediately. From now on there will be; cell inspections in three hour intervals of the day, anyone laying a finger on someone else will get three days in the hole, and most importantly…” “ Ohh boy, something tells me I might not enjoy the next thing I hear.” “ Instead of your normal hour in the court yard, you’re all going to report to the viewing room to watch the new generation of My Little Pony.” The second those words came from his mouth, I thought to myself, “ yep, I was right.” The crowd soon came into an uproar. “WHY!” “ THIS IS BULLSHIT!” “ I CRASHED A BUS FULL OF KIDS, BUT I DON’T DESERVE THIS!” “ If you have any complaints, please feel free to write them on a piece of paper and put them in the community shredder. Reminder, these changes are permanent and will not be changed. Which reminds me, it’s time to start the first viewing.” As I began to walk to the viewing hall, thoughts were racing through my head, “ Ohh God, the warden’s gonna start riots. What horrors am I going to experience in that room with my fellow convicts? With the previous monstrosities that were My Little Pony, will this new one make my eyes fall out? With no time to go out in the yard, will my already weak stature get worse?” I was very afraid of what was about to come my way. At last I made it into the viewing hall. I sat next to all the people whom I was about to experience great torture with. I saw the fear of God in each mans eyes. The last man took his seat and everyone else prepared for the worst. The warden then spoke from the projector room. “ Enjoy the show ladies!” At this he turned on the projector and the screen lit up. Now comes the girliest intro I have ever heard in my life. Every one in the audience was in an uproar, but the warden announcing the next person to outburst gets a day in the hole quickly stopped it. During the intro though, I saw something very peculiar. Rainbow Dash. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. A creature from my imagination comes to life before my very eyes. My mouth stood agape as my mind pondered how this was a possibility. A coincidence? Deja vu? Can I see into the future? I continued to watch as I questioned reality. The episode we all watched was one called “The Sonic Rainboom”, and surpisingly it was very well written. The show was very well animated; the characters were very well developed, had amazing voice acting, and had a good plot. The episode was about Rainbow Dash and how she had to persevere to pull of the impossible and save her friend Rarity with The Sonic Rainboom. Apparently I wasn’t the only one who thought the show was good, because when it was done, everyone stood up and clapped. “ GREAT!” “THAT WAS AMAZING!” “ I’D CRASH ANOTHER BUS FILLED WITH KIDS TO WATCH THAT AGAIN!” Now everyone began to fight over who was “ the best pony” or something. “ Fluttershy is best pony because she’s so damn cute!” “ Pinkie Pie is best pony because she’s so funny!” I have had enough of the arguing, and apparently so did the warden. “That’s enough out of all off you, get back to your cells!” We were forced to obey, due to the guards beginning to pile into the viewing room. When I got back to my cell, after I got the cuffs off my wrist, I collapsed onto my slab. I began to wonder why I had those dreams before this. Was it something that was preparing me for this? Will I have another dream that will continue from the last one? What is going to happen because of this? Then another thought came into my head. “ If I had got the chance, I think I would have said that Rainbow Dash is best pony.” It has been a month since we were forced to watch the show and the unthinkable happened. I didn’t have another dream that continued from where I left off. Instead the entire prison spit into six equal factions, each for the six main characters. I had decided to join the Rainbow Dash gang for two reasons. One reason was because most of the guys that joined were the toughest in the whole prison. The other was because I actually think she is best pony. If you told me two years ago that I would be in prison, and I will join a gang that worships a blue, flying horse, I would have called you a lunatic. Yet here we stand today.
