It was black. It was so dark that it felt artificial, unreal. I tried putting my hands in front of me but I couldn’t see them. What happened to my eyesight? Am I blind?

As if someone was listening to my thoughts, the world around me lit up brightly, allowing me to take in my surroundings. Everything was white, except me. I was such a contrast to the foreign area.

I tried taking a step forward, but soon realized it didn’t matter how fast I moved, my position never changed, like I was on a treadmill. Where am I?

“What are you creature?”

I quickly turn around but see no one, who’s speaking to me?

“I am not one to repeat myself.”

I take a note that the voice sounds feminine, but I think about it’s question for a second before answering. “I am a human.”

“Human? I have never heard of such thing.”

Never heard of... where the fuck am I? I take another look around and found myself still alone. Alone. I know the feeling all to well.

“Where am I.” I question with my eyes closed. I sit and wait patiently for my answer but never receive one.

“Where. Am. I.” I ask again, a bit more tone showing this time. I wait again but start to grow impatient, why won’t it answer me! Suddenly out of nowhere, and right on time, it has a response.

“This is your mind.” It replies to me, it sounded sad. Depressed almost, when they said it.

“My mind huh? How does that happen?” I ask before looking around in the vast emptiness of my supposed mind.

“Well, human, your asleep.”

”What are you, my conscious?” I look at my gloved hand for a second.

“No. You’ll find answers shortly. Now I must cut this conversation here. Farewell creature.”

And with that I’m alone again. I deeply sigh before I sit down. There’s not much I can do. I fidget with my hands for a minute before closing my eyes and thinking of a memory of mine. I notice behind my eyelids that my surroundings around me change, and I open my eyes quickly to find myself in my memory. I jolt up and see that I’m in the alley.

Oh no.

I shake my head and try to clear the memory from my thoughts but nothings worked. I start pounding the palms of my hands on my helmet, trying to cause some sort of change to take me out of this horrible nightmare.

I keep pounding and pounding until I hear it. A voice to a little girl asking if I’m okay. I turn around slowly and see her standing at the ending of the alley. Looking at whatever was standing behind me. Without thinking I take out my pistol and fire a shot into the air, but nothing happens. And the memory continues to play out.

This is torture. I need to get out of here. I close my eyes shut tight and begin focusing on something different. Anything different. There it is again, that change on the other side of my eyelids. I let out a gasp of relief and let my body relax itself for a moment before looking around.

I’m back in the SAS boot camp. I can see myself and some other poor bastard sparring in front of the Drill sergeant. He’s throwing rocks and such at us while we fight. I watch as one of the rocks hit the other person in the head and me taking that opportunity to deliver a quick heavy punch to his head, knocking him out.

I smile a bit at the sound of his jaw breaking from my hit. The Drill Sergeant calls for a stretcher and walks over to me, placing his hand on my shoulder. They start talking but I’m too far away to hear, and am too far past this to remember the conversation.

I clear the sound of a door unlocking and I look behind me to see a large oak door placed in the middle of the training grounds. Just a door, nothing more. I walk towards it and push the door open, revealing nothing but darkness again. I take one last look at the field before walking through the door.

~ 21:00 Everfree Forest ~

I can hear the sound of rushing water, and the sound of tree branches being moved by wind. I slowly open my eyes and see the sky, and judging by the mixtures of purple and red, I’m assuming it’s dusk.

I sit up and groan. I guess whatever happened in my head took a toll on me because I have a killer headache. I just sit there for a second with my hands on my helmet before standing up slowly, using a nearby stick as a cane. Once I make it close enough to a tree I discard the stick and lean against the large tree. I notice that it looks like something You’d see in a child’s cartoon.

I shake my head and decide to make way towards the sound of water and think about my issue after I freshen up. I walk to the small river and take a knee before it. The water is crystal clear. Not a single disturbance in the water. It looks heavenly actually.

I take off my combat gloves then carefully take off my helmet, placing it beside me. I cup my hands and grab some water before splashing my scarred face with it. It was ice cold, but I didn’t mind. I grabbed another handful of water and drank it. The icy liquid slid down my throat and I went for another handful, and another. I wiped my mouth before placing my helmet back on my head and the gloves on my hands.

I look at my wrist compass and decide to head North for a bit. I check and see if I have everything, and start trekking through the thick woods when I’m satisfied with everything I have.

~ A fair trek later ~

I feel like I’ve been walking for hours. There was a point where I had actually been walking in circles but found my path again. It’s late now, the forest being much darker then it had been a bit ago.

I sigh with slight relief when the trees start to clear up. And I feel even more relief when I see what looks like a medieval village through the clearing of trees. Sure they look like they lack modern technology but so be it. Maybe I can find out where I am.

I walk a bit faster until I reach the confines of the town. I walk between some homes and soon find myself in the centre of the Town. I see a fountain with a statue of a pony placed on it, I’m a little confused but mark it off as weird cosmetic choice.

I look around for a house with lights on, or maybe someone walking around but judging by the silence, everyone must be sleeping. I shrug and start walking through the town, taking in more and more of the surroundings and making mental notes along the way.

I stop walking and freeze. It’s TOO quiet. And now that I think about it, I don’t feel alone out here either. I slowly take out one of my sidearms and rack the slide carefully, making minimal noise. I stand there still as a statue and wait.

I don’t hear anything. The air feels cold and off. I turn around and find nobody there. This place is unnerving. I holster my sidearm but keep my hand close just in case.

I find myself in a medium sized park, and keep walking until I find a bench. I take a seat and stare into the star filled sky. I’m a little wary of my surroundings because of what I felt walking through the town, but I still seem to get lost by absolute beauty of the sky. I can count hundreds of millions of stars, even being able to see the Milky Way.

The sight of the night made my jaw slack slightly and I start looking for constellations. I’m so caught up in the sky that I didn’t hear or see the figure approach me.

“Beautiful isn’t it.” I jump at the voice and turn to it with my pistol raised in matter of seconds.

“No need to get tripper happy October.” Says the mismatched creature. I furrow my brow and frown at the creature.

“I want my answers.” I say harshly, keeping the gun aimed at him. He looks at the barrel of my weapon unimpressed.

“I’ll answer your questions when you lower your weapon.” He responds. I keep it aimed at him for a couple extra seconds before reluctantly lowering my gun. I don’t holster it though. But that doesn’t bother him.

“Now. I promised you an explanation when I found you again. So what do you want first.” I think about this for a second and a hundred questions zoom through my head. But I go simple first.

“What are you. And who are you.” He smiles at this and takes a step back.

“My name is Discord, the draconequus,” he says with a quick bow. “The one and only God of Chaos.” He gives me a toothy grin at this, and I scoff.

I don’t really want to know why he’s a mismatch of animals so I’ll leave that question for a later day.

“Now, where am I?” I say waving my hand at the town.

“Your in the town of Ponyville of course. The home of the six Elements.” Elements? I guess he read my mind because he goes into a bit more depth.

“The Elements are six residents of Ponyville that have a special connection with these six gems. The gems are very powerful with magic and only work for whoever is connected with it. The Elements are; Loyalty, Kindness, Magic, Honesty, Laughter and Genorosity. The Elements have been used to save this world many times, and is basically Princess Celestias super weapon against threats.” He states. I shake my head at the information given to me. It all seems so surreal.

“Magic?” I say while looking down. I don’t think I’m on Earth anymore.

“Yes human. Magic. If you didn’t already know, you are no longer on your home planet. And unfortunately you never will be again.” As soon as he finished his sentence I lunged at him and choke slammed him into the ground.

“What the fuck did you say?” I ask him through gritted teeth. Never return to earth? Where was my say in this decision!

“I said! *cough* that you aren’t on your home planet!” He says through coughs and sputters.

“Why! Why did you tear me from my home! Where was my say!” I yell at him while squeezing a bit harder. I see him go and try and snap his fingers but I slam my knee down on his clawed hand, denying any movement. I see him wince in pain and I release some of my weight on his throat so he can respond.

“You have to understand that I was forced to do this! I wouldn’t have pulled you here without a way to send you back without a reason!” He replies quickly.

“Then what was the fucking reason!” I use my free hand to grab my knife and hold it close to his eye. He grips at my wrist with his other free hand and looks at me with a frightened look.

“Because I’m too weak to fend off a threat larger then this country! I’m dying October! And my powers aren’t what they used to be! I took you from Earth because you are the the seventh lost element of Disharmony! Your power here is unmatched!” The lost element? What is he talking about.

“I know of your past October. I know everything abo-“ I quickly shift my hand and forcefully stab the ground beside is head.

“Finish that sentence and I’ll tear the horns off of your fucking head.” I glare at him threw my helmet and he stares at where the eyes would be on my helmet. He searches the tinted lenses to try and find my eyes but is unsuccessful. He looks scared.

“I.. I’m sorry. Look we don’t have much time. The Ponies will start coming out of their homes soon and if they see you they’ll panic. You need to head to Canterlot, the city on the mountain. Find the Princesses! I’ll be there when you get there so nothing escalates. Despite what I’ve done, I am on your side October.” I stare into him for a while longer before getting off of him, allowing him to teleport a few feet away from me. He rubs his throat a bit before looking at me.

“I will answer anymore questions you have later. For now? Hide from the residents.” He says before teleporting to what I can only assume to be the Mountain city.

Just as he predicted I could see the residents start to leave their homes. When he called them ponies he meant actual fucking Equines. Perfect. I scoff and rip my knife from the ground before turning and running to the nearest tree line.

I guess this is a start to a new story. Wonderful. I frown before continuing my run.

Author's Note

Chpt 2 😐
Feedback would be appreciated so I can make changes where needed.