How Did I Get Here, Seriously?
Chapter 2: Ponyville, or Whatever
Previous ChapterNext ChapterYou've been here for a good few weeks, and it's been mostly uneventful. You've figured out you somehow have teleported or traveled dimensions into Equestria. You've looked at Ponyville which is sort of close by and as far as you can tell, you're in Season 1 or 2.
You think it's actually around that one episode where Applejack gets really tired and at some point got lots of ponies sick, judging by the large medical tent thing near the middle of town. You wish you could remember the finer details of the show, but you hadn't watched it since it ended. Still kinda passed at the final episode, but really, it was probably the best way to end things. Maybe.
The past few days, though, you've started to realize that you truly could be stuck here... Forever. You've thought about your family, friends, your cats, pretty much anyone you care for. It's left you in this depressive mood, and as you stare out the window at the rain, you continue to have these thoughts.
"Ugh, what to do, what to do..." you say to yourself, palm holding up your hand as you sit at the table. Your new house is pretty nice, but there's pretty much nothing to do here. You snap your fingers and conjure up an apple, and bite into it. Mmm, juicy!
Maybe you could just waltz into Ponyville, but realistically, there's no way something bad wouldn't happen if you did that. But then again, you're just so... Bored, not to mention lonely. Usually you'd be talking to your brothers, your friends, anyone that would want to talk. You miss your friends and family already, you miss your house, your cats, your room, pretty much everything you had.
Huh,who would've guessed living in Equestria would be this lonely. Go figure, the only human to be in Equestria and you're afraid of scaring the residents of Ponyville.
Fuxk, if only you were a po- wait a damn minute, that's it! You can just use your magic to change into a pony! Hot diggity dog, this is the best thing you've thought up in a good bit!
Alright, time to do this spell. You stand up and snap your fingers, feeling the spell take immediate effect. You see a bright light around you, and once you open your eyes you're laying on the ground.
You try to stand, but your legs wobble and you fall over, hitting your face on the wooden floor.
"...maybe I should've expected that..." you mutter to yourself, mentally slapping your face, as you have a feeling hitting yourself with a hoof would be painful.
You attempt multiple more times to stand, but eventually you're standing, your legs wobbly but stable as long as you don't move. But, you kind of have to move, so you slowly walk over to the table, trying to figure out how to use your magic, which you figure out is just clapping your front hooves together once. You use your magic to teleport a mirror to you, and you start to look yourself over.
You look... Incredibly boring. Your fur is tan, with brown hair and eyes, like your actual self. The only thing that really looks somewhat cool is your cutie mark, which is... What the fuck is it? It looks like some sort of blue magic orb, with a couple circles surrounding it, the outer one a light blue and the inner one a light purple. It looks a bit stupid honestly, so you choose to ignore it. You're an earth pony, not really a surprise there, and all is set except for a fake name.
"Yeah, uh... What the hell would work as a name... Blue Orb, no that kind of sucks... Water Ball, fuck no... Come on, what's something that works with this cutie mark... Fuck it, I'm keeping my normal name, no use in trying to come up with a new name anyways" you say to yourself, giving up on this endeavor. Fake names are stupid anyways...
You spend the next few days practicing grabbing stuff, walking, sitting, running, the usual stuff anyone knows how to do. After all, it'd be weird if you came into town crawling through the town. You've come up with a bit of a backstory: you're from Manehattan, and you've come to Ponyville for a while for relaxation, and the reason you're living in the Everfree is... I dunno, the scenery. Not a fool-proof plan, but it's not the worst, you think.
You smile, walking out of your front door. Yeah, this'll be easy. Just go into town, meet the ponies, and go back home. Simple. You'll most likely not find someone to be close friends with, especially when it comes to the Main/Mane 6. Never got why people back home called them the Mane 6, wouldn't it just be easier to- ow!
In the middle of your thoughts, you walk into a tree, falling over with a bit of pain in what's known as a cranium. God dammit, even as a pony you're just as blind as you always have been-
You hear a noise from a bush behind, and you quickly turn to see... A chicken? Wait, wasn't there an episode of a chicken running out into the Everfree and they found a... Oh feck.
You try to get up, but you look down to see that your legs are already stone. OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT YOU CANT MOVE AND IT'S COMING HOLY JESUS-
These are your pathetic last thoughts as you're turned into stone, and as your stone body lays on the ground, the cockatrice staring for a moment with an evil smirk before walking away.
Uggghhh, your heeaadd....
You wake up, trying to stretch a bit. You notice you can't move... At all. Then, you remember what happened.
Fuuuccckkk... How was I so stupid to look for that long at that coca....cockah...dammit, thing. Now I've gotta wait for... Wait a second, I could be here for a long time. It could be hours, days, months... Holy catfish, I could die here you say in your head, starting to panic. You may never see anyone again, you need to get out of here!
Right as you think that, you're suddenly able to move, the stone encasing you crumbling. You hug yourself tightly, rolling on the ground while panting.
"Holy shit, thank you, thank you, thank you magic, I'll never take you for granted again!" You yell to yourself, kissing the ground you lay upon. You don't bother to question anything at the moment, as you stand up and wipe the small bits of dust off you. After you do this, you start to walk towards to town again, now with a pep in your step for whatever reason. Adrenaline maybe I dunno, but anyways you reach town in a good 30 minutes or so, taking in the sight of it.
It looks basically how it did on the show but with more detail, straw or hay roofs on the buildings, ponies walking around, and as it's around afternoon the market is open, but you don't have any money so you don't pay mind to it. The ponies around you give you a small smile as you walk past, something you give back. Wow, Ponyville truly is as friendly as it seemed on the show, at least to a certain extent.
There's that bridge that was commonly seen in the show but barely walked on, city hall, and if the layout was like it was in the show if you walk over here you'll see... Sugarcube Corner!
Author's Note
Sorry if the end of the chapter feels rushed, I tried to get everything moving in the story as fast as possible so I kind of rushed the whole getting stuck in stone thing.
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