Sleepy…

That's what I felt like when my eyes opened and revealed themselves to the bright world. The cruel sunlight began to shine on my face, seemingly brighter than before, I rolled over to my side to try and hide from the light of the sun. I then kept my eyes shut to fall back asleep, I felt my consciousness slip away as my body began to recharge once more.

"What are you doing? Get. Up. You have to put in work and the hours to improve. And you can't do that if you're laying down, get up!" A voice rang in my head, I opened my eyes and I moaned. Putting my hands on my eyes, I rolled to my back.

"Shut up, Dwayne…" I said groggily, I pulled my hands from my eyes, and opened my eyes fully. The harsh light smiling upon me, I slowly raised my hand, not to block the sun, but to show it my fist. “Turn that light off, sun, or I’m gonna give you a knuckle sandwich,” I said as I rolled off to the side, I accidentally rolled too far and fell off my bed.

“Okay, you win, I’m up, I’m up…” I said as I went to my feet, I look at my messy room and I put my hands on my hips. "Huh, I should really clean my room, probably later, I need to go to school. I wonder what time it is." I looked around for my phone and saw it dangling from the side of my bed, attached to its charger. I walk towards it and pulled it from the charger. I turned the phone on with a smile on my face, however, my face slammed all the way down to rock bottom when I saw that it was 6:30, and the bus arrives in seven minutes.

"Well damn." I hopped towards my drawer and my eyes darted around as I checked all the drawers for clothes to wear. Black sweat pants, check, black socks, check, underpants? UNCHECK! 'Freeballin' this shit! No, wait I shouldn't.' I thought as I grabbed some underwear and slammed the clothes for my lower body down on my bed. I then jumped over the dirty clothes littering my bedroom and searched for shirts and jackets. First I grabbed my signature green jacket and threw it onto my bed. I then searched for a good shirt to wear. I picked a black shirt but I put it back.

"No, I'm not gonna be Ben Ten today, gotta be..." I turned to face my pet grasshopper, Jumpy, who was in a jar with leaves, water, and several holes. I look at him and noticed he had some brown on him. "Got it." I then grabbed a brown shirt and threw it on the bed with the rest. I then hug my clothes and pick them up with haste, I run into the bathroom that was in my bedroom and kick it down. I went inside and shed my skin, my clothes, and pick up my clothes for today.

Whilst I was getting myself ready, I made sure to put on deodorant and brush my teeth, multitasking is a pain in the ass. A real pain. After I got myself ready and put my coat on, I walked out the door and saw my bus zooming right by. I sighed and opened my phone, I put my headphones in the phone and put the earbuds into my ears. "I should have freeballed..." I groaned, I then put on my favorite song and get ready to walk.

It didn't take long for me to reach the shopping district of Manehattan. I was walking down a sidewalk, it was sunny out and I had a smile on my face. "Like the ocean needs to waves to take the tides away..." I sang to myself, I was then snapped out of my thoughts as I notice out of the corner of my eye, I see Aunt Orange, or Sweet Orange if you'd prefer, putting the flipping the 'Closed' sign to 'Open'.

"Yo, Aunt Orange, you just opening the shop?" I asked her, Aunt Orange turned to face me and smiled at me.

"Michael, did you miss the bus again?" Aunt Orange said, I gave her a chuckle and shrugged. "Well have you eaten anything for breakfast? I have a slice of orange cake that you can eat along the way." I stopped and looked at her, orange cake doesn't sound too bad.

"Nah, I'd rather lunch at school, despite the food being absolute DOG WATER! I really need to get there fast, I don't want to be late, sorry ma'am." I stopped walking and turned to face Aunt Orange, she gave me a smile in response.

"It's alright, Michael, but you really don't have to lie. You just want to see your mother do you?" Aunt Orange tilted her head knowingly, I paused and inhaled through my teeth.

"Yes..." I sighed, "I'm so very sorry, I'll see you later, Aunt Orange!" I waved her goodbye, Aunt Orange waved me goodbye as well.

"Goodbye, Michael, stay safe!" And safe I'll be, as I began to dance along to my music as I walked down the sidewalk. There was a familiar face walking down the other side of the sidewalk.

"Ayo man, dap me up!" I said, sticking my hand out, the pony in question, Snowpain. As she was rollerskating she stuck out her hand and dapped me up. "Ay, that's my girl, lookin' sharp man!"

"Thanks, Michael, you're a nice guy!" Snowpain said as she skated away, I chuckled and snapped my fingers rhythmically. I began to whistle to a new tune. As I dance I see a bunch of kids dancing with a music box, I then spin to them and smile. I then proceed to tap dance with my shoes, I smile as the kids look at me in awe, I then finish the tap dance with the slam of my heel. I then do a moonwalk backward and spin back to where I was going previously.

"Yo, that was sick, how did you learn how to do that?" One of the kids asked, I looked over my shoulder and smiled.

"School, apple juice, and a lot of broccoli!" I replied as I continued my walk, eventually, I reached the entrance to a hospital. Manehattan Hospital is the main hospital in all of Manehattan. I grab the door handle and pushed my way in, I found myself in the main lobby. I looked at the reception desk for someone who was free to answer my request and there was! Red Cross. I smiled at her, "Hey, hey, hey! How's my favorite reception desker?"

Red sighed and looked up at me with weary eyes as I strutted forwards and rested my forearm on the counter. "What have you brought for her today?" She asked me, I reached into my backpack and took out a drawing I gave her when I was four. "You know where she is, she's at 103 on the second floor."

"Thank you, Ms. Cross, I'll see you tomorrow." I pushed myself from the counter and walked to the left which lead to a corridor, I walked down the corridor and past several rooms. It didn't take long for me to reach the room that held my mother, I opened the door to the room and stepped in quietly. There I saw a nurse sitting on a chair next to the bed that help my mom, she was hooked up to a bunch of wires, and to a machine. (I'm not a nurse I have no idea what those are). A nurse was currently in the room watching over my mother, she noticed me and stood up from her seat, and left the room. I smiled at my Mom, Michelle Jackson. "Hello, Mom," I said softly.

My Mom's eyes were closed as she lay on the hospital bed, she had all of the beautiful hair on her head, she slowly woke up. Her eyes fluttered open like a bird, her eyes were beautiful, like gold. "Michael...?" She asked, her voice was hoarse and scratchy, I walked over to her bed and she smiled. "Did you miss the bus again, why are you here so early?"

I sighed and shook my head, "Well... Yeah, I missed but it was the bus' fault, it was too..." I stopped my joke before it landed and I kneeled down to her. I handed her the - now folded - drawing.

"What have you got for me today," Mom mused, she unfolded the drawing before smiling in amazement. "Oh, I remember this, you gave this to me when you came home from art class, the other kids threw it away but you dug it right up. That's my boy, have you made any girlfriends at school?" Mom asked, I smiled sheepishly. "Aw, come on, none?"

"Mom, you know I'm a loner, at this rate, I don't think I can even score a date to prom," I said with a chuckle, Mom took my hand, my smile fell flat and I looked at her in the eyes.

"Michael, my son, there is always someone to look after you, even in your darkest days. When I leave this earth..." Before she could continue on, I stopped her.

"Mom, don't say things like that, you're going to get through this. Remember when we got lost on that hiking trip? Who was the brave soldier with her eagle eyes who found our car?" I asked her, Mom smiled fondly at the memories.

"Ah, the Red Woods trip, perhaps the most scariest, and adventurous, journey we've been on as a family. I remember when you saw that raccoon, you though it was a monster about to eat me, so you grabbed a stick and charged into battle." Mom sighed blissfully, "But back to the topic at hand, Michael, I don't have much time left, and I want you to grow on without me. That starts with..."

Before my mom could make another word out of her pretty mouth, I walked away from the bed and to the door, "I gotta go," That was all I said to her, before I opened the door and left the room. When I closed the door behind me, I began to walk down the hallway in a huff. As I stomped off I felt something wet come down my face, I went to touch the source of wetness and found my tears. "Stop it, she'll make it, she'll be okay, it'll be fine. Don't worry about it, fucking moron." I mumbled to myself.

She'll be fine.

...

Right?

I walked out of the building with a lollypop I got from the front desk in my mouth, I opened my phone to check the time on my phone. "Really, 11:34? Damn, the walk here plus my visit with my mother, sucks man. I'm super late, I think I'm on fifth period, if I run now, I think I could be there by at least lunch. Well, at least I'll be there for seventh period."

"STOP CRIMINAL!" I heard someone yell, I looked up from my phone and looked to my left, then my right. I saw a man in a lab coat running from two police officers, I heard some sirens and looked to my left, there I saw a police carriage holding a human and two ponies trotting. It was obvious that the people in the carriage weren't going to catch the criminal.

The criminal began to run past me, so I stuck my foot out and tripped his ass. The criminal fell flat on his face and busted his nose, the police officers lunged down and restrained the man. One of the police officers looked up at me, "Nice trip kid, thank you." I smiled in response.

"It was no problem, really." I chuckled, the restrained criminal fought back and headbutted one of the officers in defiance. he then glared at me.

"You idiot! Do you have any idea what you've done? You've doomed all of Equestria!" He yelled as he was cuffed and pressed onto the ground.

"Doomed Equestria? What're you smoking, my guy? One criminal down is a family saved, so check yourself... Mr..." I went to look at his name tag when I heard a car beep. I look towards the beep and saw a limousine, the door opened, and out came someone who looked like the embodiment of America. He has slick blonde hair with a business suit and a red tie, his shoes were black, and he looked sharper than a knife. His eyes were ones of blue and he seemed to be about six feet tall, I gawked at him in astonishment. It was Aurum Avis! The CEO of Sky High Industries!

Mr. Avis had two bulky minotaurs flanking both of his sides, right and left. They marched down towards us with rhythm, I swear if I wasn't freaking out right now, I would salute. Mr. Avis looked towards the officers and nodded, the police officers pulled the criminal up to his feet. "Mr. Bunker, I expected more from you, stealing from my company is a big no-no." Mr. Avis spoke with a disappointed look on his face.

"Ah, so that's his name, Bunker, er, his last name, but at least I got a name." Mr. Avis turned towards me and my heart froze all the way down to sub-zero.

"And who might you be?" He mused, one of the police officers walked up next to me and pat my shoulders.

"This guy just saved our asses, he tripped Bunker when he was least expecting it. He was smart with it too, he was minding his own business and everything when all of a sudden he tripped the bastard. Without him, we probably would have never caught him." The police officer said, I chuckled with a grin on my face, thank god I wasn't white, my face would be so red right now.

Mr. Avis turned his head towards me, eyes sparkling in curiosity. "Really? Well, I daresay, you are a hero in the making, you not only helped us catch a thief, but you also helped us get back a very expensive and rare item." Mr. Avis walked next to me and in a matter of no time, reporters and news anchors were showing up. "What is your name?"

"My name is Michael Jackson, Mr. Avis sir, like the singer." I was still grinning like an idiot, my eyes were glued to Mr. Avis' as we were lit up with camera flashes.

"Well, Mr. Jackson, how would you like to be an intern at Sky High Industries?"

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...

Man I'm dead. "YOOOO! NO WAY!" I yelled, I clutched my head, my mouth was agape. "NO SHOT MY GUY! NO WAAYYYY! Really?"

Mr. Avis smiled, "Yeah, really, you know what? You're going to be a super intern. I'm gonna allow you to gain access to all of the rooms in the building, with a guide of course." Mr. Avis winked at me, my heart can't take this.

"LET'S GOOOOOOOOO!" I couldn't contain it anymore, I was jumping up and down. "LET'S GO! YO! YO! Yo, when do I start?"

"We can start today if you'd like," Mr. Avis offered, I calmed myself down and took deep breaths.

"Okay, uh, I gotta go to school first if that's cool with you guys, I gotta get my education, you feel me?" My grin wouldn't leave my face still, Mr. Avis nodded.

"I completely understand, do you have a ride? If not I can drive you to school and drive you back to the company if you'd like." Mr. Avis offered, pointing to his limousine.

"Thank you, you have no idea how much you made my day just now, oh my god man, you're the best. I will not disappoint you, you have my word." I said, holding my hands together and doing a little bow. He smiled.

"Perfect, let's get you to school, shall we?"

Author's Note

Sorry, it was a bit speedy, I didn't have much to go off of.