The Living {FIRST STORY, BAD ALSO DON'T READ IF YOU WANT}

by Miro MM

Rating: mature
Tags: Octavia, Suicide / Self Harm, Profanity, Rumble, Violence, Sex, DJ P0N-3, Anthology, Narcotics, Main 6, Gore, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Death, Alternate Universe, Princess Luna, Drama
Length: 2557

Inspired By The Works Of Roy Andersson: Ponies all around Equestria feel like a state of being stuck in a deep depression. The same dull lives repeat, Can something change?

In many parts of Equestria, ponies from all different walks of life take part in a series of short deadpan days and nights that rush past like bullets, A older Applejack remembers her time with Rainbow Dash. A mare has dreams about the good days. Ponies get drunk at a bar. A Couple break up because of cheating. A world of absurdist symphony through an orchestra of nothingness.

Published 2022-02-04 21:10:00 UTC
Last updated 2022-02-04 21:10:00 UTC

The Living

In Canterlot, Ponyville, Manehattan, and so many more across Equestira, everything now has become a lonely, sad, filthy world, nopony knows what to do anymore, and lives are boring and the dull, the world is dull and almost colorless, even the bright colors of ponies are darker in the light then they are in the shadows.

A mare is asleep on the couch, the room looks dull and colorless, the window next to the couch shows a dull looking canterlot outside.

The mare has a dream about the world ending, she shuffles in her sleep and groans as the nightmare gets more intense and worse

She awakens in fright covered in sweat, the mare breathes heavily rethinking her dream in her head

"Can't remember" as she looks out the window into the city

A couple sit on a bench in a Manehattan park seeming upset at each-other

"Cant you just fucking leave please.." She says to him

"Just Get lost, Scram!" In a more annoying tone

"What about all the bits, the apartment?" The Stallion responds

"Can you just get fucking lost already, Fucking bitch, Leave!" She responds with

"Well that's not very nice don't you think?" He try's saying in a nice way

"You Fucked that fucking slut from the streets, what do think I'm mad at? Moron.." while she starts getting even more angry

"I don't know what your talking about" he says In a fake confused tone

"Don't fucking lie to me, I saw you, fuck!" she almost lunges at him while responding "Can you just leave, please Fuck!"

She throws his hat at him causing him to get up

"Fine! don't need to throw shit at me..."

The stallion leaves her, and walks down the path to the exit

"Id rather fucking kill myself then live this life.." as she looks at a mare hanging from a tree in the park with police ponies around her

A strange stallion walks out from behind a tree that is behind her, and looks at her not moving not talking.

"What is this life anymore?" she says starting to cry

5 stallions and 2 mares are cooking in a restaurant in downtown Manehattan, for the ponies waiting for there orders.

The head chef looks out one of the windows looking outside, and sees a elder grandma pony with a walking stick, holding a dead chicken by a leash with its head cut of and blood pouring of it staining the sidewalk, he pays no mind to it and continues cooking,

Octavia Melody In Ponyville is playing, In her home

Vinyl Scratch walks into the room and looks at her, she walks back a couple seconds later.

A stallion in the house over is hearing it playing, and Is extremely annoyed

"why does she have to do it in 6 o clock in the fucking morning, like seriously bitch.. fuck me" he gets up from his bed and
walks over to a knife in the kitchen, and walks outside his house and starts stabbing the door into her house

Another stallion watches from a balcony at his house, not doing anything just watching. as he breaks into the house and runs inside, the stallion still doesn't do it and keeps watching.

"should I alert this to the law?" he says while smoking a cigar

The stallion and Octavia get into a fight as he gets punched and almost knocked out as he drops the knife onto the ground and falls down.

The Stallion walks back into his house off the balcony, as vinyl holds the other stallion down while octavia walks out to get someone.

in a bar in canterlot, every pony there is taking shots and drinking, and one mare stands at the counter extremely drunk.
the mare gulps down a drink and puts it down.

"Alright everypony, Last orders, order now and come back tomorrow" The stallion behind the counter who's serving says

the mare picks up the glass drink she put down and throws it at the stallion causing glass to go into his skin, and a piece of glass into his eye

"FUCK!!!!" he screams In agony as his eye bleeds

one of the other Stallion's attacks the mare as a fight ensues.

"I hate Mondays" an old stallion responds with while watching the mares neck get cut open by shard of glass, as she starts to choke on her own blood while her wound oozes blood.

In a apartment building back in Manehattan, a stallion is setting up his radio

"Come On Work" He's a little frustated as he talks

"Maybe, if I just correctly put it in, and"

The radio turns on

"Yes, it worked, now lets see what we have" the stallion sits down and gets ready to play some music
He presses a button as the radio starts playing.

Back In Ponyville, Cheerilee is teaching her class about math.

"and that equals to 24, now which one of you can say what is 32 Divided By 4 Using long division?" she turns around and looks at her students.

All the students are asleep

"Class dismissed" she says as she begins to tear up

Cheerile cries on her table and sobs

Meanwhile in the crystal empire, the train stops at the stop and its a foggy day, as everypony starts to leave the train

The Train Conductor: "foggy day?" The Train Conductor asks Twilight Sparkle

"Oh yeah, its a foggy day" she responds

"cant see anything, and its snowing that's perfect don't you think Twi?" As rarity gets frustrated while talking in a mean but childish way

Inside the Crystal empire, Princess Cadence and her Husband Shining Armor and the rest of the Princesses and Families are waiting for Twilight and her friends to arrive.

"Can't believe the plates were gonna be eating on are over 300 years old, its gonna taste like ancient magic" Cadence giggles

"that wont be necessary" Luna responds

luna grabs onto the cloth below all the plates, food and glass bottles, and pulls it as everything goes crashing down as luna falls down, Getting injured by the glass hitting her.

None of the ponies do anything and just stare at luna or at the broken pieces as luna begins to bleed from her forehead.

Back in Canterlot In a very expensive restaurant, all the ponies sitting are singing

They get up and stand on there chairs while singing. Prince Blueblood walks by them slowly observing them all.

hours later its empty, and the place is closed, Prince Blueblood is on the telephone hooked up to the wall talking to Princess Celestia

"So you mean that luna destroyed everything? like all the plates and shit?"

"really? why would she do that?" he adjusts his chair he's sitting on

"I honestly don't know why my sister did that Blueblood"

"I don't know either' I wasn't there but you know what I mean, this was just random out of nowhere.."

"ok well gotta talk later, I got business to go to" she says

"Alright goodbye" he hangs up

And puts down the phone and walks out the restaurant,

Still in canterlot in a empty room, outside is pouring raining with thunder. the stallion with the radio is there, Vinyl Scratch, Octavia, Rumble, And the mare who broke up with her husband back In Manehattan park.

"I didn't learn your name, what is it?" Octavia asks the radio pony

"oh yeah, I didn't really introduce myself when I came in, name is Cherry Fizzy" he shakes her hoof

"and I'm Cloud Kicker" The mare who was dumped in the park responds

"well its nice to meet you two, very lovely" Octavia goes to pick up her violin

and slowly begins to play the strings on her violin

Rumble looks out onto the pouring rain

"never have I seen rain this strong before" the small filly says as he looks at the rain racing down the window

"Well since now that clouds move on themselves, and that us Pegasi cant control it anymore, it has been out of hoof recently" Cloud kicker responds and goes back to smoking

"I almost lost my wallet when I was walking due to the wind while I was coming here, and I almost tripped into a puddle, almost broke my radio" cherry responds with

All the ponies start playing there instruments, and cherry turns on some music to set the mood

In the bathroom of the concert place, a stallion is getting his dick sucked by a mare as he sits on the toilet

Outside of the concert at the bus stop, ponies sitting waiting for the bus to arrive, as the pouring rain is falling onto them but they don't seem to care.

Across the street, a mare and a stallion look into the rain, with the window open for whatever reason, thunder strikes closely but they don't even flinch.

In another part of the town, in a smaller restaurant ponies are eating and talking about the severe rainstorms. Fleur de Lis And Fancy Pants are eating.

"these rains are getting really annoying, like yesterday i was completely wet because of this fucking rain, its really getting on my nerves that's its happening so often" Fleur asks Fancy Pants

"well, the Pegasi have determined it will only happen for a couple more days, though it is very unpleasant to see that much rain just pouring down" he says while eating

He takes a drink of some wine, and fleur also takes a drink and smiles at him.

Down the street in the Canterlot boutique, only a couple ponies are there trying on the clothes, and seeing how they look in them

Sassy Saddles measures a handsome stallion and sometimes eyes his crotch, while measuring which can fit him

"Im to horny right now, and its nearing heat season the next day, keep control of myself" she says in her mind

back at the bar, there's less ponies due to the rain, and mostly everypony behind the counters are cleaning

"The Thunder is like nothing I've seen before" A random stallion says to himself

Years after Years, it gets worse and worse, Ponies not satisfied with there lives, wanting to have fun in a world where the light is darkness now, and the shadows are beautiful places, they want to have fun and live good lives, and yet it seems impossible in a world where its normal, a future of unending tears, the past keeps getting brighter, but the future gets a little darker everyday. there was a joke once, a Stallion goes to the doctor, says he's depressed, doctor says go meet the great clown that comes to town, I'm sure he will cheer you up. the stallion chuckles and sobs, but doctor, I am that clown.

Good joke

Everybody laughs

The red curtains close, roses thrown, a brighter past filled with darkness, but at least it was better.

Right?

The Good Times Are Nigh

The memories are somewhere there, most ponies cant even remember the good times, most born in the new times, become dull, black tears in there eyes, sparks of joy only in the elders, maybe it can be fixed, doubt it.

A old applejack walks down the stairs in her farmhouse, she sits down on the table and remembers her time with rainbow dash, enduring the memories is hard, she remembers her death, targeted because of homosexuality, the stallion was never found until years later, found raping a young filly, Diamond Tiara, who had been missing for almost a year before he was found, she never forgot that place, he been found of murdering and kidnapping multiple young mares in his time.

The part always kills applejack, she doesn't want to remember that time, but her mind makes her remember, out of fear?

Mind like a sadist

let all those emotions flow over like running water

The good times wasn't it?

Suppose so

meanwhile in canterlot, a band is marching through the city, while most ponies seem happy, not many are. most are just watching as Celestia and the Princesses get carried through the town

At a barber shop down the street, a stallion is getting his hair cut by a mare

"good day isn't it?" The stallion getting his hair cut asks the mare cutting his hair

"Might be" she says in a depressed tone, almost sobbing

"um, Alright?" The stallion responds and thinks about how boring and forgetting time has become by now

Back in ponyville, in Sugarcube Corner, Pinkie is sitting tearing up as her husband, Cheese sandwich just died a week ago

"Good times" she says in a whisper to herself

"The good times worse, but they were better" Pinkie takes the knife and thinks about wether she should do it to not, but then she remembers life is precious, even in the bad times... Right?

Back at the bar, Cloud Kicker, Octavia, Vinyl, And Cherry Fizzy are all there drinking and talking

outside the bar, its pouring raining. rumble is dancing in the rain happily, seeing his joy for the first time

Octavia plays her violin trying to make the ponies happy, as everypony starts to smile as they all recognize the tone, of when it was the nice times, as Octavia remembers the good days of this life, not this joke, this parody that it has come to at the longest point, and the ponies start having fun as they Dance along slowly to the music, swaying back and forth, and remembering.

Twilight flys over a float over a once-prosperous, beautiful city, she remembers being crowned the princess, and getting her wings for the first time and all her friends

Apartments start flying and houses as they start floating into the air, ponies grab on and get on as they start to smile
Celestia and luna look out the window and see this happening as the castle starts to float

Twilight sees her friends, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, And Fluttershy all elders now, and Twilight is a a much bugger Alicorn, and they all smile.

"I love you all" as she begins to sob and cry, they all hug each-other in a group, and cry to themselves letting all the bad come out, and cherish there time together.

The Princesses all do the same, as Celestia remembers banishing her own sister as they all cry into there hooves, even the guards outside start tearing up

Applejack sees that the farmhouse is floating up into the air as every house and every building starts lifting into the air

many other ponies start flying without wings, as they all smile and laugh, as it rains slightly

Fluttershy sits on the grass watching the buildings float as her cottage starts flying into the air also, she remembers the animals she took care of, she remembers the bunnies, the bear, the frogs, as she outstretches her wings and flys into the air too

multiple creatures, dragons, changelings, and more look into the skies, seeing everything floating. they all start smiling one by one, slowly but surely, everything starts coming together like a puzzle that's been broken for so many years, a piece that fell into the right place, a game of chess, victory

Love

Friends

Memories

What would it be without?