Traveling To Tumble Town

So let me tell you this, the saddle to ride the diregator requires one to lay down on one's stomach, but that's uncomfortable so screw that. So here I am, laying on my back, arms lazily hanging off the sides of the giant gator as it meanders forward. The alligator itself didn’t mind surprisingly.

We walked up the incline a while back and were now following the railroad south. We traveled for quite a bit of time, enough for it to turn night time. The environment changed quite drastically in a very short amount of time or at least it seemed short.

There was nothing around except sand, cacti, and more sand. Oh, I almost forgot the fuck ton of tumbleweed that will cartoonishly roll by whenever it got too quiet or somebody made a bad joke.

The big lizard just harrumphed and laid down, the big guy must have been tired. I hopped off him and took any supplies he had on him to make him more comfortable.

Using the firestarter kit I got from Mchawi I set up a small fire. That solves that problem, I pulled out a large piece of salted meat from my sack of many things and fed it to the big gator.

“Don’t eat me or something when I go to sleep,” I mumbled.

With our small camp set up, I had time to think. My thoughts turned towards my reading escapades. The information I got from reading was mind-boggling.

Turns out I was in a land called Equestria, pretty weird name but whatever. This land was run by ponies and several other mythological beings.

I had a small bedroll that I laid on. I stared at the wide and open sky and noticed the sky was lit with a beautiful and unfamiliar pattern of stars.

“So, I’m in another world.” The sentence itself sparked a sense of melancholy.

I went to bed that night feeling more uncertain then I had in a long time.

I woke up the following morning with a mild headache and a want for coffee. I got up and looked around, luckily the alligator didn’t eat me so that's good, I think. I got to packing all the camping materials onto the diregator’s back.

“So are you used to people are somethin’? It’s only been like seven or eight days since you were in the wild.”

The diregator didn’t respond it just lazily started walking alongside the railroad, I decided to walk this time instead of laying on it’s back.

A few hours passed without much happening the only thing worth mentioning was the odd amount of tumbleweed. They would just appear out of nowhere and disappear just as suddenly, then again this could just because I wasn’t paying attention.

My attention was actually on the horizon because on the horizon sat the outline of a town. The railroad seemed to be run right through the town so we’d be there eventually.

“So when I get there how am I gonna explain a giant gator, and how am I can explain what I am?”

My questions went unanswered, It should be known these questions did have a backing. See, the book only referred to Equestria and its dominant race, ponies. However, it did mention other races dominating other areas. I’m pretty sure humans are not among those races. I could probably just explain the gator away as an abnormally scaly and large dog.

“Guess I’ll deal with It when we get there,” I sighed.

After walking for a bit I heard the sound of a train rattling down the train track, it was coming from behind us. A billowing cloud of steam rocketed from the front car of the locomotive as it raced down the track at a surprising speed.

It would have looked cooler if said steam spouting car was not covered in hearts, actually that's kind of intimidating, nevermind. The train eventually started passing by us, as it did I managed to catch a glimpse of something written on the pink caboose of the train.

Friendship Express

“I hate it.” The alligator to my right huffed in response to my opinion, I'm just going to assume what it meant.

“I’m glad you agree.”

The train seemed to stop in Appleloosa for some time before continuing, we arrived at the border of the town just as the train was leaving and the sun was setting. Somewhere along the journey, I hopped on my reptilian companion.

The horizon outlined something I hadn’t paid attention too, there was a ton of apple trees on the southern part of the town.

I was a little too anxious to walk into the town yet, so I grabbed my camping supplies which were now incredibly low and set up camp just a little way outside Appleloosa. I made sure to feed the big lizard the last of the salted meat and set up the camp. Wait a minute, where did that zebra get meat? Oh, that's weird to think about.

I'll think when I'm not tired.

I rolled out the bedroll and laid down for the night.

“The sun sucks and It should be banned,” I stated as I stumbled into the morning routine of packing up the small camp.

Though it should be mentioned all camping materials were gone, no firestarter or food was left. Better hope the locals were charitable.

Since our camp was set just outside the border of the town I could observe what the town looked like. The town from my perspective continued off the railroad, while the railroad continued to the right of the orchard south of the town.

I was also able to perceive more of the town, a large red building with, what I assume was a clock tower, coming from its roof. A few other buildings were beside the noticeably giant building.

We marched towards the town in hopes of food, and hopefully not an angry mob. I can’t deal with torches and pitchforks well.

As we neared the town from the railroad the town became clearer, and I immediately started chuckling. I read a large advertisement outside the train station.

Big Bill’s Big Hat Stop to Shop

The advertisement itself was a picture of a small green shop with a large cowboy hat on its roof.

Though that may have been funny what was funnier was the ponies walking around the train station, some with comically large cowboy hats or bonnets.

“Oh my god, this is some kind of oddly specific hell.”

Author's Note

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