Right Place Wrong Time.

Chapter 4 Freedom

Quick note I wrote most of this at 12.00P.M so don't expect the best work.

I turned towards and saw that she wasn’t there, immediately after I saw this I felt something hit me in the back of my legs, I have to say this now, it hurt. With only an ounce of strength in defense of it my legs buckled and I fell to my knees. I quickly tried to get up but then I felt a shock flow through my body and another spasm rack throughout my entire body. Her voice resounded through my ears and seemed to rock through my head “Sit.” Her voice was calm as it was before but I could hear an unmistakable layer of command in it. The collar was then detached and she started pacing around in circles around me in a slow pace which only made me fear her even more. My senses aligned once again and I could see straight again. I looked up and saw that she was standing directly in front of me and watching me with only quiet malice. The one message she was sending me this time was of she was my master. Her face slowly changed into one of smug dominance. My mind suddenly allowed for me to start thinking again and I had the good/bad idea to “disobey” her. I stood up slowly and easily towered over her she simply looked up. Her smug look did stay but dissipated to an unsteady look which then turned to a downright scared look. To be honest I am a pretty short person at about 5’1” her eyes were still wide with fear. I bent down and put my hands under her stomach and started lifting she weighed less than she looked, at least 50lbs her limbs flailed in the air making her look ridiculous yet the move itself was very effective, it almost made me drop her, when I had her all the way up to my chest, I took my face until was just mere centimeters from my face and I simply blew a raspberry right into her face which left a ton of spit on her face, most of it falling away in seconds.

This startled her so much that she literally leaped from my grasp and hit the floor and was out like a rock, at this point I couldn’t contain my laughter and laughed myself to the floor and was rolling at how unbelievable my life was right now for one I was in Equestria from a smartypants doll, trekked for days in the wilderness trying to get to Ponyville, end up get captured and made into a “pet” and finally here where I knocked a pony out with a single raspberry, I’d like to say it was all worth while just so I could knock out my “Owner”

I looked down and saw that she was breathing regularly and in good repetition, I pulled out my Ipod and saw that time hasn’t changed yet and was still at 5:45p.m and showed no sign of moving after watching it for at least a minute, I let out a sigh and was about to put the thing away but then I saw that the battery was full, hah the electrical charge must have actually gotten to the Ipod and charged it up. I looked up from the Ipod and saw that the cage door was wide open, my escape only feet away. I took a few steps toward it and out and strode down the wide hallway, when I way wide I mean as in the ceiling was literally a foot above my head.

I saw another cage to my right holding what seemed to be a monkey that was running everywhere and literally bouncing off the walls, I ignored this and looked to my left and saw a raccoon pacing in the shadows in the cell simply wandering around with no direction until it saw me. It strode towards the cage and started to paw the cell door and eyeing the look with curiosity while trying to fit an extended claw into it only failing simply because of it’s stature.

I couldn’t help go towards the cell and eye the little guy he still struggled with his attempts at the lock. The raccoon then stopped and started to stare at me again and this time with a pained look and I couldn’t help what I did next, I took my pocket knife out and got the bottle opener and started to prod the lock, the thing was nothing but a simple key lock yet I couldn’t find the right spot. I guess the raccoon gave up hope of me getting him out since he was in the pile of hay shuffling around. I bent the knife again and to no avail the knife didn’t have the capability to do this type of thing.” I’m sorry little guy I can’t do…it.” the raccoon was crawling towards the cell door with a hammer in it’s paws. I couldn’t help but look at the small animal with no small amount of curiosity as he offered the hammer to me. The bars of course kept him back but his forearms and of course the hammer could fit through the bars easily to give me the item of his freedom.

I took the wooden handle of the hammer and gave a few experimental swings to it, this should be easy I told myself. The hammer itself was fairly regular with the wooden handle and the head of the hammer was made out of some kind of blue tinted metal that only spiked my curiosity once more. Doesn’t really matter I guess if it works right, I took the hammer and swung it low and wind milled it for energy and hit the lock at the end of the arc. The metal rang out in protest but squealed when I hit it again quickly and I heard it hit the floor with a dull thud and metallic ring. I pulled the cage open and looked down at the raccoon who was eyeing me and with a cartoonish smile “Oh shut up.” The raccoon then ran between my legs and took a left when it came to the turn.

What was he planning was the only thing going through my head as I deposited the hammer into a pocket of my backpack that left it sticking out in easy reach. I picked up my pace as I walked down the hallway the raccoon had scurried down. The hallway only had a turn to the left so that’s exactly what I did. As soon as I turned I saw that the raccoon was standing right there pawing at a door labeled “Danger.”

What could be dangerous in Equestria? Whelp only one way to find out were my only thoughts as I put my hand to the metal handle. I turned the handle and felt it move then stop quickly. Damn it, must be locked. Well I guess that hammer is becoming a good door buster if anything. I withdrew the hammer from my backpack and hit the handle with a small amount of frustration only to feel my hand start ringing and going numb. Shit this one is sturdier than the other one, as soon as I thought that I couldn’t help but face palm. Why would they put a “Dangerous.” thing in a room with an easy to break lock?

I looked down and saw that the raccoon was also face palming or paw palming ( Now that’s a tongue twister.) It then simply started to gesture back down the hallway before trying again to get the door open. I took the hint and simply started back down the hallway slowly thinking what was happening to my life right now. Well for one I am in Equestria any brony’s dream and two I have trekked through the woods for at least a week with next to no food and plenty of water and finally now, I am breaking out of a pet shop with a strange raccoon as a partner. Or could he be the leader, seriously he has pretty much elaborated this strange escape and is now trying to get into a danger room. Well this seems to be going to be going pretty well for me.

Getting out my thoughts I saw that Blossomforth was not in my cell. My eyes started to dart everywhere around the hall and saw that the door to her office was wide open and was swinging showing recent entry. The hammer seemed to just appear in my hand with how paranoid I was. I slowly entered the office and saw that there was a desk and a small pile of paperwork scattered everywhere. The light in the middle of the room was glowing brightly and a moment later the light went out and then it started to glow again and went on to continue the pattern making the  room seem scarier than it  really was.

The light glowed again and I saw that there were papers lining the walls with pictures taped to them. Only 2 walls were completely covered above the right wall’s pictures was the word “Perfect.” in what seemed to be in green spray paint and the left wall had the word “Failures.” in red but not like the other green’s “Perfect.” this one seemed to be stuck to the wall in some kind of different paint or something. The pictures in the “Perfect.” section all had animals that all looked at the camera with eyes with diligence and yet had an obedient look to them like there stature was straighter and more confident. I noticed that these animals were mainly cats, dogs, and lizards.

The “Failures.” wall had pictures that had animals mostly like rodents like rats, raccoons and squirrels they all looked at the camera in an uncertain way and some of them looked angry, there was even a bear that was chained to the floor and staring at the camera with a look that can kill. I looked through the rows of the animals noticing how they got generally worse and how they were more feral than the ones in the beginning. I was on the last row looking at a caged parrot when I noticed the last picture. It was of me.

My heart seemed to come up in my throat as I saw the sleeping form of me laying on the table. I then heard footsteps behind me and quickly turned with my hammer in hand which was immediately met with another weapon. I felt something flow through my veins, no not adrenaline this was…electricity. I looked into the eyes of my attacker and saw a wide green iris meet my eyes. It was her I saw her changing mane and her pink fur. She was holding the rod with her teeth (Which I will admit would be pretty funny in a different scenario) her weapon was that rod. The noose seemed to have been ripped of it. I saw the reason to it immediately, the power still flowed  through the device but was held at the leftover end and was crackling with electricity.

“Do you know how much I hate this job?.” was the only thing she said as we pressed harder together for the winning position.

“I guess a lot considering you are attacking me right now.” was all I grunted. I heard a sigh escape her lips as she began her next sentence.

“I knew you could talk, the only question was how long would it take.” When she was talking I noticed 2 things her voice for one was cracking randomly and also was raising in volume in different intervals, for two I noticed that in the doorway was the raccoon standing there with a shadow behind him that was looming over him. The only thing I could do was buy it time.

“So explain to me why you hate this job please.” Please let this random question work.

“Oh let me explain that to you ok, I know for a fact these animals are not grateful for what I give them, do you know how much time I spend on each animal and do you know how many times they snarl and bite me. At least thousands. Do you know what the “New Owners.” do when they get the new animal. They Pamper the fucking thing till the animal doesn’t know it’s place!”

Ponies can swear never would have guessed

She went on with her psychotic rant  “Do you know why I got this job, my parents, they died and they left this place just for little ole Blossomforth and do you know how they died.” The raccoon moved away from the doorway to reveal what the shadow was… “ A Celestia damned lion, they were training it for a stupid circus where the lion tamer was too lazy.” He brought a god damn wolf well this is great “ They made it there final job in the business to tame that lion and afterwards the lion tamer still took it, didn’t pay a thing saying how he would have to do it himself even though the lion was already properly trained, my parents were good ponies, great ponies, so great they gave the lion everything off the bat so it would be “Quick.” well guess what buddy… ahhhhhhhhh!!!” The wolf had it teeth around her hind leg and was shaking vigorously making Blossomforth fall to the ground. The wolf relented as she hit the ground.

The hammer hit the back of her head with a dull thud and I couldn’t help but say “ Boink.” I didn’t feel bad about it, I only hit her hard enough to just knock her out basically just a flick of the wrist. Her head slumped to the ground and I saw that she was breathing raggedly.

The wolf’s fur was a simply gray and white, he strode toward me. Scared I swung my hammer as a warning. It simply stopped and sat down next Blossomforth’s limp body. It licked the blood of it’s lips and spat it onto the concrete floor. The raccoon soon appeared on top of his head and was wearing the look “Say it.” Sighing I reached my hand out and said or more like whispered “ Thanks.” Satisfied the raccoon patted the wolf’s head and the dog went over to the living corpse and started dragging it into the hallway and in the direction of my cell. There were few drops of blood following them but not enough to be worried about it. I looked to where she was previously and saw that the stun noose ( Now rod) was laying there.

Slowly I bent over to pick it up, the raccoon watching me through narrowed eyes. My hand darted out quickly and grabbed the handle before raising it into the air for inspection. The rod was actually made like a tazer mostly there was the difference of the dial at the bottom and for the weird panel that was under the dial the panel for some reason made me think of a solar panel I saw at the bottom between the dial and panel was a grip that if pressed activated the electrical charge.

The raccoon started to rapidly point towards the door and I got the point. I picked him up and plopped him right on my shoulder and he seemed to agree with it as he was pointing towards the door again like some sort of ship captain. Sighing I said “Fine let’s go.” I felt like I was forgetting something here and saw it. A desk was below the “ Failure” wall and had a case on it taking up most of the space. The tag on the outside said “Budforth.” This must belong to one of her parents I thought. I started popping the latches on the outside the case as the raccoon was pounding on my head “ Get over it.” I muttered as I went back to opening the case.

The last latch was popped as I flipped the lid and saw something that made my heart skip a beat. Right there was a violin and bow a note was on the violin’s bridge saying “  Blossomforth remember you don’t have to go down to the Heartstrings shop to tune this, I have gotten it enchanted so you don’t have to have another chore around the store while we are gone. P.S Remember to feed the animals on a daily basis so they don’t starve.”

How do you enchant a violin for no tuning? Well I guess I can take this you know how it goes “ To the victor goes the spoils.” and all that also she broke mine so I consider this compensation for my last one. I closed the lid and put all the latches into place again and picked up the instrument and walked out to see the wolf just sitting there licking it’s fur. Behind him I saw my cage was occupied by only one mare. Well I guess I only got a one night stay at the Casa De Blossomforth, well it was worth it.

“ Hey random question Mr. Raccoon are we taking the wolf with us.” The raccoon nodded sagely as if he’s gone over it a thousand times. “ Okay so on another note, where is the exit?” The raccoon simply pointed to the left down the hallway.

I walked/jogged down the hallway and waited for further directions when he hopped down and ran down the left hallway. The wolf and I simply shrugged and ran after the raccoon. I stayed behind the wolf in fear of it eating me and it seemed happy to be ahead of me. The raccoon then ran down the right hallway to which there was a sign hanging over the door saying “Exit.” In red paint like the “ Failure.” in the office. When he got to the door he simply waited for us to catch up.

When we first got to the door the first thing I did was take the sign down to check something, I smelled it and licked it satisfied I put it back up. The 2 were looking at me with quizzical stares and I said in a somewhat whiny voice “ What I was just wondering if it was blood.” The raccoon simply pointed to the door and in which I pushed open grateful to be helpful.

Holding the door open for them I saw the “ Danger room open and only bite marks on the lock. Note to self, don’t get the wolf pissed off. With that we all looked around to see nothing but forest and the one small building we came from. The violin swept against my side as we started walking forward.