Pastel Meltdown

Where one belongs, others may not

In a record breaking time, the entire street was devoid of all inhabitants other than Bill and a lone tumbleweed going across the road.

"Well, this couldn't have started off better. Maybe if I have enough bad luck, they'll form an angry mob and try to torch me up."

Sighing, Bill started to look around to get a better idea of the town.

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In no time at all, every single inhabitant of Ponyville was in front of Twilight's doorstep; Mayor Mare was banging furiously at the door with everyone yelling Twilight's name.

In no time at all, Twilight had rushed to the door. When she opened it, the ponies attempted to file in as fast as possible.

With a surprised "Wuagh!", Twilight was dragged to the back of her home as ponies filed in and tried to fit into every inch of the small home.

"What the heck is going on?!" Twilight yelled over murmurs in the crowd of ponies as she tried to move around the room.

"Monster! It just walked into town. You have to do something!" A few of the ponies forced out in partial unison.

Twilight cocked an eyebrow and replied: "What did it do? Was it hurting anyone?"
"Uhm, it just sorta........walked into......town," a yellow colored mare said sheepishly, with a nervous grin.

"Then how do you know it was a monster?"

"It was covered in blood!" One of the pegasi in the back of the room responded.

Twilight started to think of what could have been so frightening, then she remembered the hydra and what happened to it earlier. With a nod, she got a paper and quill and began writing a short letter. After it was done, she called for Spike to come downstairs.

"Spiiike!"

"Coming," Spike responded in a sleepy tone, "What is it Twilight?"
"I need you to send this letter to princess Celestia, if it's as bad as I think, then we're going to need her."

Spike wasted no time at all and took the letter from Twilight, sending it off."I'm
going back to bed...” He grumbled.

"But it's only six?"

"I know, I should have been asleep thirty minutes ago."

Twilight rolled her eyes and decided to go looking for whatever it was that roamed into town.

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Bill decided to start wandering around the town so at least he could get a good idea of his escape route if need be. Before he knew it, he had arrived at a small park of sorts. They had all the fine elements to it, except that the cement sidewalks were small dirt paths.

Bill decided to stop there, thinking: 'hmmm, If i'm right then they should be starting to form an angry mob and should soon be hunting for me.' He stopped his thoughts for a minute before continuing them: 'or they are just hiding behind something until I go away.'

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-Princess Celestia-

After finishing up with court, Celestia went to go about relaxing; this was the first day she had any free time and she wanted to reacquaint herself with the piles and piles of books just sitting on the shelf in her room.

She was just about to enter her private quarters when a note appeared in front of her in green flames. 'I wonder what my student has learned this time.' She thought to herself as she magicked the scroll to a proper reading level.

A quick once over of the letter and Celestia's cheery face turned to a worried expression.
With an "oh dear," she left for Ponyville on one of her carriages.

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Twilight had left with her friends to search for this 'strange' creature, worried it might harm somepony. She looked high and low; what started as a lone search for the odd being, ended up being a large planned out survey with each of her friends searching different areas.

About an hour later, Rarity had found Twilight as she searched through another alleyway. Twilight was worried something had happened when Rarity ran over to Twilight, screaming like it was the end of the world.

"Rarity?! What happened?! Did it try to hurt you!" Twilight was frantic and scared to death that Rarity had some untold horror done to her or at the very least, somewhere along the lines.

She calmed herself before responding "No darling, it didn't see me! That's not the problem though. This is THE.Worst.THING.EVER!" She punctuated her point by flailing her hooves around and pulling a therapist couch out of nowhere, where she jumped onto and laid there, over dramatizing the situation.

"What is it then!? What happened!?" Twilight was starting to get worried and nearly went into meltdown mode; Until she heard what Rarity had to say.

Taking in a huge gasp of air, she exclaimed: "He wore the most dreadful outfit dear! Anywhere that wasn’t covered in dried blood was the most tacky green color! And it wasn't just one, it was all kinds of tacky greens that made it look like he was a giant deformed bush!" She said as she somehow added a handkerchief to add even more drama to the over dramatic moment.

Frowning, Twilight glared at the white seamstress before responding "That's it?" She paused for a second to make sure it was. "THAT'S IT?!"

Before the white unicorn had a chance to respond to that Twilight facehoofed. "Sorry, just, get everyone together and show us where he was."

Nodding, she left to gather the others. After about thirty seconds of peaceful silence, Spike came in with a scroll in his hand.

"Twilight! The princess responded to your letter!" He gasped for air as Twilight levitated the letter over to herself to read.

She dropped her jaw as she read over the parchment, then read it again, and again. "The princess herself is coming to try and take care of the situation." She took another moment to gather her thoughts. "She says we should quarantine it to make sure it doesn't try to hurt anypony."

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Bill stood there, at the lake in the park, contemplating his life, past, and everything that lead up to now. He looked back at all the zombie's he had killed, how much of the impossible he fought just to end up out of the storm.

"Heh, the calm before the storm all over again." He sighed, "taking the locals longer then I thought to find me. How long does it take to find an over sized ape?"

Just as he finished his musings over such trivial things, the sounds of rustling grass were getting louder. The sounds of hooves were steadily creeping towards him.

"Finally, I was getting impatient over here." He muttered to himself, sitting down on the grass.

His muttering went unnoticed as the figures started coming into sight. Three mares faded in from silhouettes and surrounded him, each displaying mixed forms of nervousness.

As the three mares closed in on the sitting human, three more came into view, but only barely. Nervously, the three mares started to close in a bit more steadily on him as Bill just sat there, staring out into the rest of the park in front of him.

"Beautiful time of day, ain't it?" Bill said, not moving but an inch.

The mares stopped and looked to each other even more nervously, until a purple unicorn walked ahead of the rest.

"Uhm, h-hello sir. My n-name is Twilight," the mare responded nervously. She probably had no idea what Bill was and, as expected, had no idea what to expect.

“That’s a nice name there, young lady, kind of a bit out there for me, but whatever, still nice; what are you doing here anyway?” Bill asked as he thought of how silly it was that the entire town sent six girls to deal with this problem.

“Were you the one that hurt that hydra?” She audibly gulped and fearfully looked around.

“It was me or him. Sorry but I have never planned on becoming a light snack for an overgrown lizard.”

The group of mares glanced around at each other again, each with worried glances. After five minutes of silence, the yellow one decided to speak.

"I-is t-t-that blood from the hydra?" She asked as she stared at Bill with puppy dog eyes, mouth shaking at the possibility.

Bill stared down at his clothes and then back up at the group of mares "What? This?" he pointed to his shirt, "no, this is from before; same reason applied with that too. Don't ask what kinda thing it was, you'll sleep better if you don't."

The yellow mare went back to her spot and promptly hid behind her mane.

"Well this chat has been fun," Bill started as he got up, "but if you don't plan on killing me I have somewhere to be."

Bill started to leave when a shadow passed over him. To his surprise, it was a flying carriage of some kind.

"Well I be a monkey's uncle..." Bill muttered to himself as he saw it land.

To his surprise, a horse thrice the size of the ponies walked out; adorned upon her was both a horn and a pair of wings. Following the overgrown pony were a rather sizeable group of guards armed with some type of spear that has been heavily modified. The guardsmen (guardsponies?) wasted no time in surrounding Bill and holding their weapons to him.

One of the guards spoke up as he jabbed his weapon threateningly towards Bill. "Stand back! This creature could be dangerous!"

“Or a completely sentient alien from some other place entirely and is marooned on this planet,” Bill deadpanned.

Silence reigns over the group of ponies and human standing there eyeing them.”Look.” Bill started, “I don’t mean to..” he reached to his back pocket, meaning to grab his road flare.

The same guard narrowed his eyes at Bill and yelled an order “Appendages where I can see them monster! I said: appendages where I can see them!”

“I just..” Bill began, but found himself being brought to the ground. His road flare flew from his hand and with a sickening ‘crack’; The flare hit the side of a rock, igniting it.

“Oh shit.”

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The three survivors were hidden by the side of the dirt road in a group of tight, dense, bushes. They had yet to relax but were silent the entire time after Bill had left. Worry ate up each of them; it had gotten so bad that Francis had just stayed silent. No comments of how much he hated the world or the many things within it, that’s what scared them all the most.

The survivors heard a loud ‘cracking’ sound in the distance. Turning, they saw a bright light coming from the small village.

Quickly grabbing their weapons they rush off into the village of miniaturized, pastel ponies. With a final grunt from Francis, they speed down the dirt path.

A/N: sorry for the wait a lot has been going down for anyone following my blog. of course i hope i made up for the wait with the chapter length (for now) it was tough for me to get it because of a lot of writers block. Thanks again to nobrains for helping me through it.