//-------------------------------------------------------// Dreaming, About The Fever Dream... -by IDK Dude- //-------------------------------------------------------// //-------------------------------------------------------// January 1, 2021 //-------------------------------------------------------// January 1, 2021 After emptying almost your entire wallet, you finally got that electric guitar you always wanted. An Imanez Jio GRG170DX. You carry it on your back as you decided to walk home because of the extra weight. You remember your first ever guitar as you continue to walk home. You remember how it felt to finally have one. You remember all those years you spent practicing on it. You remember... You are shortly cut off by a group of 7 ponies and a baby dragon. You recognize all of them from left to right. Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Twilight Sparkle, Spike, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Starlight Glimmer "Hello " greets Twilight. "I see you're walking now, what's up?" You mentally cringe at the last sentence. "Hey guys." you say. They all greet back at the same time. "Uhhh... I got myself a belated Hearth's Warming gift." you continue. "What is it?" Twilight asks. You reply "Can you guess?" "Let's see..." she says as you and the rest of the mane 6 walk over to the local McGronald's. "Is it the new ePhone?" "Could you be anymore wrong?" you reply. "Anypony else wanna try?" "Can't you just show us already?" Rainbow Dash says impatiently. "Alright then..." you say as you take the guitar off your back. You gently place the guitar down, you unzip the cover and show them. They all look at your newly bought prized possession. "Is that..." Rainbow Dash says. "The most expensive guitar ever?" you say jokingly. "That. Is. So. AWESOME!!!" she screams. You almost go deaf from the sheer amount of decibels that pride colored narcissist just produced. "Yeah..." you say. "Can I play something, please, please, please, please, please?" she whines. "WeLl i WaNtEd To Be ThE fIrSt OnE tO pLaY oN iT bEcAuSe I bOuGhT iT bUt SuUuuUUUuurrRre..." you say sarcastically. "Thank you so, so much." she energetically praises. You curse at yourself mentally as she carefully picks up Your guitar. She begins playing some chords on it and it slowly begins to fade into the beginning of Queen's: Don't Stop Me Now. When all of a sudden, she starts fucking singing. "Well at least it's something good." you think. You and the rest of the mane 6 except Rainbow are ordering inside the McGronald's. There is a very long line where the only register is. You and the rest wonder what the hold up is. You tell the 7 you'll go find a table. On the way you spot a Karen. It's Berry Punch. "She's probably just drunk again." you think to yourself. You find and save a table for you and the others. You go back in line and tell them that Berry Punch is the cause of this. Then immediately after, Fluttershy walks to go speak to her. But that's a story for another time. ==================================================================================================================================================================== After over a whole hour of Dash playing Queen songs in front of a McGronald's on the first day of the new year, everypony including you starts getting tired. Rainbow Dash on the other hoof, looks like she'll be here until morning. You just finished your hayburger and fries and said goodbye to them and stood up from your seat and walk to the door. While she's midway through Ponemian Rhapsody you interrupt her and say: "Miss Rainbow Ding Dang Darn-it Dash, while I enjoy your makeshift concert, I would kindly ask you to end your fun immediately and gently return my Imanez Jio at this very moment." you quickly say. "Alright then, fine." she answers sadly. "I'll bring it with me next time around." you say to her. You start packing up the guitar and put it back on your back. "You know the rest of your friends have been in there for over an hour having a good time." you say to her. "Why don't you, go inside, and order something. Hm??" "Oh, really?" she says. "I've been out here for that long?" "Y e s" "Oh." she replies You say your final farewells to her as she does the same. She goes in and you turn around and start heading back home. Again. //-------------------------------------------------------// January 1.5, 2021 //-------------------------------------------------------// January 1.5, 2021 You wake up and feel ill. You look at your alarm clock and notice that you have been sleeping for almost 10 hours. You do your daily routine and get something to eat. You finish your meal and go turn on your computer, opening your browser and start a live stream. You wait for the viewers to fill up and begin welcoming them to the stream. You begin to read the chat and they say that you sound a little different. You want to say that you feel sick but you start changing the topic. You turn off your webcam, stand up from your chair and say: "Alright ponies of Equestria, I got something to show you all." Behind the scenes, you go to get your guitar and come back to your computer. "So guys, this is gonna be really dumb but..." you say. You read the chat and they start getting really impatient. "Anyway, I'm gonna show you all this." you say. You count down from 5 so you can turn your webcam back on. On 1 you show your stream the case for your "secret instrument". You hold up your guitar to the camera, posing as you talk about how hard it was to receive. Everypony in your chat starts spamming, waiting to see it. You slowly begin to open the case, staring at the camera until you remove what's inside. "Here it is..." you say, showing your new guitar to the audience. "What do you guys think?" The chat starts traveling at the speed of light as you watch the screen. You open our eyes widely as you mutter in amazement. After a few seconds you open up Steam and launch the game "Grand Theft Auto V". You go into GTA Online and begin the gameplay. During your playthrough of the Hayo Perico Heist, you start coughing and sounding more and more different everytime. After 3 hours of streaming your epic gaming, you start ending the stream and saying goodbye to your viewers. After ending your stream you still have the game running, so you invite your local Discord friends to come play with you. You somehow end up getting more than a few of them with you so that you can have your fun. Usually, only a small portion of your friends list would be awake at this time. You begin a call and ask them if they want to help you grind, in return you help them grind too, because they're all only on an average level of 7-19. After you take the poll results, most of which are yes, you start grinding off stream. ====================================================================================================================================================================== You start to feel tired again after all those hours you just spent on GTA Online grinding. You look at the time, 2:42 am. "Everypony's asleep now and you're still awake." you say mentally. "Maybe I should get some sleep myself." You go back to your bed, ready to settle down and suddenly there is a knock at your door. "Nopony visits me..." you say, "Especially at this hour." You fly downstairs and open the front door. There's nopony there... "Over here!" loudly whispers a random disembodied raspy female voice. You turn around to face your back door. "Can you let me in please?" asks a familiar sounding voice. "Who are you?" you ask as you slowly approach the metal door. "It's me." she says. You look through the peephole and it's too dark to see anything so you just unlock the door and you are met with a tired looking Rainbow Dash, complete with a pillow and blanket, with a screen door in the middle. "Hey , can I crash with you tonight?" she asks awkwardly. "What happened with your bed?" you reply. "Just open the door dude, I'll tell you when I'm warm." she says. So you unlock the screen door and let her in. "So what bring you here Dash?" you ask your guest. "Got a mosquito problem?" you jokingly ask. "Spot on bro." she replies. "I'm getting it fumed." "Alright then..." you say. "So where do you wanna sleep?" you ask her. "You got a guest room?" she asks. "Uh, no." "I'll sleep with you then." "..." You stand there without any idea of how to respond. After a few seconds of silence you speak up, "Alright, fine. But you stay away from anything." "Great! I won't disturb you in any way shape or form." she says. "Just get up there..." you say tiredly. Rainbow Dash flies up the stairs and you follow her. You think to yourself, "This is the first time she's ever been to your house and this is the first thing she does?" You lead her to your room and open the door and let her in. She immediately goes to your bed and snuggles up into her pillow. You walk to your bed, lay down beside her and think, "There's a stranger in my bed, I'm having a fucking headache." Unexpectedly, the mare you let sleep in your bed whispers to you, "Goodnight ." In response you say, "Goodnight Dash." //-------------------------------------------------------// January 2, 2021 //-------------------------------------------------------// January 2, 2021 You wake up, you feel a sense of positivity come to you. You still feel like a crippled pony. You quickly realize that you have gone to bed with Rainbow Dash. You also realize that you didn't tell her that you had some form of contagious sickness. You jump and hover out of your bed and go down the stairs. You find nopony in your kitchen and dining room. Predictable, Why would anypony be there at 2:00pm. You go towards your living room and find a sleeping Dashie laying on your couch. She seems to look mostly okay. "What do you mean by mostly?" you think. Well my friend, there is a 97.84% chance that you gave her your condition while you both were sleeping in the same bed. "What condition do I even have?" you think. "Now, that would spoil the surprise silly." says some cheery voice behind you. "Pinkie! Why are in my house?" you ask as you turn around to face her. "I'm just checkin' in. You know, seeing how you're doing." she replies. "How're you doing!?" "I'm confused..." you say. "What's happening?" "Me and Narry are just seeing how you do!" Pinkie says. "Do what?" you ask. The thing, boy. "What thing?" you ask more. "The question Peggy." Pinkie says. "That's not what my name is." you say. "It's your new nickname Peggy!" Pinkie says. "It's pretty clever if I do say so myself." "Why do I need a nickname!" you say so loudly that Rainbow Dash wakes up from her couch nap. "What frickname?" asks Rainbow tiredly. "Peggy!" answers Pinkie. Alright, I'm gonna tell you two to stop talking about Peggy being your name from now on. Just get on with the questioning. "Fine" you grumble. "Alright, Rainbow Dash, when you came here, did you feel sick or something?" "Mm, m-no." she tiredly answers. "Alright, so, when you woke up, did you feel sick, then?" "Mhm." she answers. "Are you just going to stay here or will you leave." you ask her. "..." Silence as her response. "Are you going to go home or what?" you ask her again. "No." just no. "Why?" you ask as a reply. "Peggy..." a concerned Pinkie tries to get you to understand something. "Now, now, we're talking here." you say to Pinkie. "But Peggy..." she tries again. "What in the Fuck could you Possibly have to say!?" you shout at her. "Um... You know fumigation takes a while right? Plus, she's sick Peggy. You wouldn't just leave your friends alone when they need you." she says. "fuck" you curse mentally. "Alright, alright I get it." you say as you turn back to the sickened Rainbow Dash. "So, you're really gonna stay here?" "Mmm." she "moans" "Fine, you can stay." you finally say to Rainbow Dash. There is an awkward brief moment of silence before Pinkie Pie says, "I'm gonna leave you guys to it. I'll be with ya when you need me." as she seemingly vanishes from your living room immediately when you turn around. "Well then..." you say. "I'm gonna go eat now." "Peggy. I'm here you know. I need food too." whines Dash. "I don't have much for 2 ponies. But fine." you say. "Thanks." she replies. ====================================================================================================================================================================== It's around 6:00pm now, you had your breakfast with your semi-friend Rainbow Dash hours ago. You did your research on fumigating. You have no idea why you had to be stuck with her for probably about a week. You also have no idea which disease you have. For some reason cornanavirus (CRVID-19) doesn't come to your mind. Rainbow Dash went back to your room after she had breakfast. You are just sitting infront of your Tv. You stare into your black screen of nothingness. What are you doing, huh, boi? "I'm thinking about that dream I had." you say. "I know that all dreams have meaning but what did mine mean?" Can't say brother. You gotta figure it out on your own. "Fine. But what about my illness?" you ask. Boi, I'm gonna be honest here... You're an idiot. "What" you say. "How am I an idiot?" Look man, I ain't got no time for your shenanigans, aight. This is ridiculous. I'm leaving. "Come back bitch!" you scream. You aren't getting a response. "Fuck you then." You take the weekend off your streaming because you have the sickness. The game you will be playing today is Minecraft, the old classic. You know that Rainbow Dash will wake up from your noise. You don't care, this is your house anyway dammit. You walk up your stairs, go into your room, you see Rainbow Dash in your bed, sleeping, and you turn on your epik gamer PC. You start up Minecraft and you play until you feel tired. ==================================================================================================================================================================== You killed the Ender Dragon less than an hour ago. It took a while and you also had to be very quiet because of Dash. Lots of coughing and rage but you got diamonds and netherite in less than a day. You exit the game, turn off your PC and prepare for the temporary slumber. You go downstairs and get a drink. During your rehydrating, you figure out that Rainbow Dash has been sleeping for more than half the day. You come to the conclusion that she is in a coma. But that is entirely untrue. "Why has she been sleeping for so long." you ask. Well, the mare in your room is most definitely conscious. She is just resting, you understand? "Resting from what?" you ask. Whatever the Tartarus you spread to her is what. "With what exactly?" you ask. You, have contracted a disease, that people have often got, and sometimes, when ponies get this condition, they expect a fair amount of possible death. "So I'm gonna die!?" you loudly ask. Maybe, maybe not. "You said maybe first, I'm gonna die aren't I?" you say. Well, we're unsure at the moment. We'll have to wait until that day for it. "What do you mean we?" you ask. "HI PEGGY!!!" screams Pinkie Pie from behind you. You nearly have a heart attack and die right here but we all know that she couldn't kill anypony, even if she did, they wouldn't stay that way. "THE FUCK PINKIE PIE!" you scream. Not even a second later, your Sumbasung SM-B105E Original Keypad phone starts ringing. You reach to grab it from the counter and you see that it's an unknown number. You answer it... "Language!" says familiar sounding somepony on the phone. "Who is this?" you ask them. "This is... The Language Police." the same squeaky voice says. "The language police..." you say. "Yes. We are going to arrest you." he says. "You can't arrest me." you say. "Oh, but I'm already on my way there." he says. "..." You hear a loud car pass by your house and disappear. Moments later you hear a car door unlocking and slamming through the phone seconds later. Over the phone you hear, "So Skeppy you ready to do some shopping." says the phone guy. "Wait... Skeppy?" "BAD, BAD HELP ME!" shouts a muffled, more familiar sounding voice. "What are you still doing in the car!?" asks "Bad". "I'M STUCK. I'M STUCK IN THE CAR WHY DID YOU ADD A CHILD LOCK!?" screams "Skeppy". "I'M SORRY I'LL GET YOU OUT-" shouts Bad at Skeppy before cutting out and ending the call. "Who the fuck was that?" you ask. "That was BadColtHalo and Skeppy!" answers Pinkie Pie energetically. "I know you know them Peggy." "Ohhh, those guys." you say. "Yeah I know them." "Yup. You used to watch them until you saw that British kid." says Pinkie Pie with a mock british accent when she says "British". "You mean Tommy?" you say. "TommyInnit Makes Equestria 1000% Funnier." You hear the same loud car that passed your house minutes ago. "BYE BAD!!! BYEEEEE!!! GOODBYE BAAAAD!!!" shouts Skeppy in the car. "SKEPEYY!!!" screams Bad. "THAT'S MY CAR COME BACK HERE!!!" You look out the kitchen window to see what happened. To your left, you notice a pony wearing a black hoodie with red outlines running after his car. BCH doesn't do face cam very much so you don't recognize him at first. To your right, Skeppy speeds off into the town. "SKEPPY!!!" screams BCH again. BCH stops about 3 houses down your's as he passes out from exaustion. You go "Oh shit." and open your front door and sprint to him. "Bad!" you say as you start poking him. "BADCOLTHALO!!!" you scream at him. He wakes up. "skeppy?" he asks. "No." you say. "I'm ." "Wait..." he goes silent for a bit, "You're the guy that was on the phone with me earlier." "Yes, and you just passed out and I don't know what to do, Bad." you say. "Can I get a water." asks Darryl. "Sure." you fly back to your house and get a water bottle from the refrigerator and fly back to Bad. "Here." "Thanks ." says Bad as he chugs down the whole cold bottle. "Alright good luck." you say as you turn around and fly back to your house. Not even a second later, Bad asks, "Wait. Can you help me?" "With what?" you turn around as you ask back. "My friend Skeppy stole my car." he says. "I don't have a car." you say. "I'm in debt right now." "I'm sorry?" says Bad. "Do you have any other mode of transport." "Me... I guess." you say. "I'm not carrying you though." "Oh, you don't have to carry me..." he replies. "But if you're really the only transportation I have, then you can go get something else." "I don't have anything else." you say as you turn around again to go home. "What the muffin. Come back!" he says. "I said I can't help you." you say. "Fine." he finally says. "Can I come in your house then? I'm gonna sleep." "You can sleep on the couch." you say to him. "Why? Don't you have a guest room?" he asks you. "Nope." you say. "You sleep on the couch, okay?" "Fine." he says. "Skeppy better be back by then." You and Bad go to your house. You notice that Pinkie Pie left a note on your dinner table. Bad goes to your living room and plops himself on your couch. You read the note and it says: Peggy, since you left to get BadColtHalo, I wrote this note so you can understand this better. You aren't alone in this story. We're always watching you. You aren't in trouble or anything but you need to know that you are really stupid. Seriously, why are you so freaking dumb? Anyway, Me and Narry are going to pop in once in a while, but you can't know what we're up to. Everything is real but you just don't see it yet. You can't fix the story, you might think that it's worthless but you have to understand that all you have done might seem like nothing to you, but that's the point. You have to find the meaning in all of this nonsense. Cya, -Your friend Pinkie Pie :heart: https://static.fimfiction.net/images/emoticons/heart.png "Well shit." you say outloud. "Language." Bad quickly says. "Shut up Bad." you say. "And goodnight." "Nighty-night." he says. You go up your stairs and you hear keyboard and clicking sounds from outside your bedroom. You open the door quietly and you peek inside. As you suspected, Rainbow Dash is at your PC playing Minecraft. Well, not the Minecraft part but, the other thing. "Dash, I'm gonna sleep now alright?" you say to her. "So don't wake me up." "Okay." she says. "Just keep try to it down." you lastly say as you fall asleep. //-------------------------------------------------------// Jantember 2.5, 20+2001 //-------------------------------------------------------// Jantember 2.5, 20+2001 You feel tired and weak. Your sense of balance has been decreased, your body weight feels very heavy due to your diamond armor. You are out of food and arrows and your weapons have broken. All you have left now is a few ender pearls, a bucket of water, 4 beds, a few hundred blocks and a trident. You find one of the 10 pillars and stack up it. Once you're up there you throw your trident at the last pillar with the healing crystal. You use your ender pearl to retrieve your thrown trident at the pillar. You quickly pick it back up and put it in your inventory. You place your water bucket near the edge of the pillar wait for the water to fall a bit before picking it back up again. You drop down to the falling water blocks and keep swimming through the water while falling until you hit the ground. You walk your way back to where the dragon perches. You wait for Jean to come back over there but instead she flies above it for a very long time. After a while she finally comes back down. You use your 4 beds on her and her health becomes low pretty quick. She flies away at a quarter of her health. You hear the sound of thunder to your right, you see two ponies appear from the horizon wearing full netherite. They both sprint their way towards you, you recognize both of them. BadColtHalo and Skeppy. "Here, have this." Bad says while giving you a few notch apples. "Thank you." you say to him. "Alright, Where's The Dragon!" Skeppy yells. "She flew off." you answer. "You guys got a bow?" "I have arrows." Bad says. "I think Skeppy has one." "I have a cross." Skeppy says. "Cross what?" Bad says. "Do you mean crossbow" "No, I have a cross." Skeppy says as he throws Bad a regular bow. Classic Skep. "Whatever..." Bad says. "Take these ." "Thanks Bad." you say. You switch from your fists to Skeppy's bow and grab one of Bad's arrows and nock it. You draw your arrow and aim your bow at the dragon. Once she gets closer, you fire your arrow and it's a hit. You manage to hit the dragon's head and deal a lot of damage. You repeat this process until you run out of arrows. Jean perches a few seconds later. You stay put in the center of the bedrock structure while Bad and Skeppy try to attack the dragon but her wings fling them into the void and they both die. You switch to your trident and hit the dragon a few times until she flies of again. You know she has to be at low health so you run after her and quickly throw your trident at her head and sure enough, her body begins to emit light and and fizzle. Her final moments are spent flying back to the center before completely explode into orbs of experience. Also, the one and only Dragon Egg is on top of the bedrock structure. During your fight, you haven't noticed that Bad and Skeppy have returned to The End. You hear them both run up behind you. "That turned out well." Skeppy says. "WE LOST ALL OUR STUFF SKEPPY!" Bad shouts. "HOW DID THAT TURN OUT WELL!" "We get to start all over again!" Skeppy excitedly says. "We'll both have to get back to where we were all over again." "HOW IS THAT A GOOD THING!?" Bad asks while yelling. "Guys, lets just go already." you tiredly say. You, Bad and Skeppy prepare yourselves to go into the portal. All three of you jump in the portal at the same time. As you go through the portal, you see that your vision slowly fades to white. //-------------------------------------------------------// (Prequel) December 31, 2020 //-------------------------------------------------------// (Prequel) December 31, 2020 It's almost the new year. You're at home with your family, just waiting for this year to be over. Of course, this doesn't mean anything that happened in 2020 would be forgotten. Only 2 minutes left until we move on to the new year. You can't wait to say that you survived that horrible year. You've just finished eating your last meal of the year with your family and the television shows the news channel hosts having a party. They're all protected and following social distancing of course. You wait until the timer counts down to the final minute. "Only a minute left and the year we all hate will be over." one of the news hosts says. "I can't wait another minute." replies the other host, jokingly. "Oh, but I'm sure everypony's thinking that." replies the first host. Before they continue, the clock has only 30 seconds left until 2021. "So what are your new year's resolutions." says your mother. "Probably get a marefriend as soon as possible." you reply. "I'm sure you can find somepony to spend your life with." replies your mother wholeheartedly. "Hopefully" you think to yourself. Before you know it, the T.V. starts counting down from 10. "10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1," "HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!" ==================================================================================================================================================================== You say goodbye to your family and start opening the door. You realize you almost forgot to put on a mask. You grab a new mask from the mask box and put it on. You go back to the front door and say goodbye once again. As you return to your house you decide whether you should buy something for your belated Hearth's Warming present or continue flying home. "Should I or should I not..." you think. "Well, I need something important to me." You start heading to Ponyville to get the new ePhone 12. You look for the Epple store and on the way you notice a new music shop next to your friend, Vinyl's house. You go in and the place is full of plenty of instruments to choose from. Pianos to glockenspiels, guitars to banjos, and accordions to stylophones and many, many more. And with plenty of instruments comes plenty of customers. You notice that your friend Vinyl Scratch is at the counter. You walk over to her and say: "Hey Vinyl. You work here?" She replies: "Yup, I actually own the place." "Really?" you say loudly. "I didn't think you of all ponies could handle an establishment like this." "Well, Mr. One job, I have been thinking of buying this place ever since I moved here." she replies. "It's been bugging me for years that this dump was just rotting away." "So you stole the place?" you ask. "No..." she answers questionably. "I bought it from the guy who lived here." "How much?" you ask. "A few thousand bits. Plus the repairs we needed, so that's a bit more, and all these instruments I had to get..." she rambles. "Anyway!..." you interrupt. "What's the best guitar you got?" "The top one on the display over there." she points to a shelf full of other electric guitars. "I want an offer though." "What kind of offer?..." you ask as you lean over to the counter. "Well it was a little expensive to even get it." she continues. "How much you want for it?" "How much you thinking?" you ask. //-------------------------------------------------------// Jantember 1.5, 20+2001 //-------------------------------------------------------// Jantember 1.5, 20+2001 CHAOS EVERYWHERE Ponies blowing up, rivers of blood and bone raging down Mount Chiliad, motionless bodies of the weak, Los Shaantos littered with guns and corpses. There are on-going explosions in the background, loud thumping from the bodies hitting the ground, gunshots flying overhead, planes and helicopters exploding. Everywhere you look, there's a damaged vehicle or some dead guy. It never seems to stop until, all of a sudden... silence... Nopony left alive but you. Your ears start ringing from the noise of absolutely nothing. Nothing can save you. You are unable to move. Your vision starts turning gray, every bit of color you just saw is gone. You are empty-handed in the middle of the road. With no chance of survival. You ears finally stop ringing, but your vision begins to blur. It blurs to the point that you can't even make out the simplest of things, such as your own hoof. You begin to feel your heart beat rapidly in your chest. It feels as if it pushes against your rib-cage with force. You feel weak. You feel the sense of dread rushing upon you. As though you have done nothing important with your life. You feel dead inside. Every single tiny bit of your hope is lost. Forgotten. Like it never existed in the first place. Every time you breathe, your chest feels more compacted. You hear the quiet whispers of a female voice. You manage to hear some words in between unintelligible sounds. "... can't fix ... , ... worthless ... , ... have to ... , ...find the..." You start feeling warm again. Your vision begins to clear, your body strengthens, your heart slows down to make you fell calm. Your breathing becomes clear and you feel relieved. Everything you just saw had just vanished. Regular looking ponies start walking around the streets of Los Shaantos. You start walking into your Maize Bank Office and your vision fades to white as the cutscene starts.