Chapters Prologue:
"See ya later Ben" My friend said as he quickly turned and ran to his family's car.
I glanced at my friend Aris quickly saying "Yea see you later to dude."
My friend then started running to his parents' car, my distraction gone I looked down at my Ipod and started playing a soundtrack that consisted of brony electronics and dub step. Right now football practice just ended and I had to wait about 1 hour for my mom or dad to get here, of course I usually leave in about 15 minutes from practice but from the combination of my practice ending early and of course me telling my mother to just get me at 6:00 pm. The clock on my Ipod said it was 4:45 pm the practice usually ends at 5:15 pm more or less but today they ended it early because of the game tomorrow. I was faking a leg injury to pretty much be part of club med which of course was nothing but water boys for the actual players. My plan was to have my headphones on under my hoodie and pretty much listen to my music the whole game while of course supplying waters to the others who of course were right out there playing there hearts out.
My reasoning with having my mother come at 6:00 is that simply it gives me time to go walking on the trails behind school which is what I rarely do, but when I can I get the option I take it and then some. The trail itself was just that a trail cleared by a lawnmower considering that there was still foliage sticking out of the sides that was simply there to allow the walker to feel like it was a nature safari. What it really did was just annoy the hell out of people with OCD. There was plastic bottles strewn about like it was a New Years Eve party including the empty beer cans and broken glass. Now there is small reasoning for these walks I take for one they help me think through my day and it's problems but what I tell people when they ask is that I use it to lose pounds, they would simply just look down to my stomach and just say "Good Luck." It probably would be the best if I did try to lose the extra baggage. (Which was about 30-50 pounds give or take.)
. So without a second thought I picked up my violin case and straightened out my coat and started walking in the general direction of the trail, my feet making small sounds on the ground as I walk by the coach's car and start walking into the school's trail that was dense with foliage that obviously not cared for much at all. As I started out on the path I could see the wonders of the forest along with other things that was littered about on the ground for example that big pile of trash that seemed to be filled with god knows what, but at the top there was one thing that was just...there it wasn't dirty at all, in fact it looked like it had been cleaned recently. Now I looked at the thing again and i could feel a slight pull towards it as in it seemed familiar to me but my mind couldn't place it, with my curiosity burning I moved towards the pile slowly as not to disturb the scene before me when I was close enough I quickly swiped it and turned to look at the front and what I saw brought a small smile to my face but before i jumped to conclusions i had to do one thing.
"Hey whoever is out there this isn't funny, come out now."
Not a single thing in the woods moved as I brought my eyes back to it. A Smartypants Doll, so innocent yet so creepy. A toy equine, made of brown cloth and button eyes, with added white spotted blue pants, right now held in my left hand. My other hand was busy holding my violin case. The doll in my hand was looking at me with it's buttoned eyes, one visibly drooping. It seemed to peer into a vast empty space.
I fucking hate dolls,' I thought. They always creeped me out, teddy bears too, there eyes seemingly innocent, only to look evil and imposing if really given a thought. The Smartypants Doll gave me a headache as I looked at it, a feeling akin to a bug, burrowing into my mind and tickling the back of my brain. A light ringing sound vibrated through the cool forest air. I can only guess where the origin was from as I looked to and fro, searching for the vile sound. The ringing only seemed to get louder as my thoughts raced to find out why a Smartypants Doll was in the woods, randomly placed in the middle of nowhere, looking exactly as it did in the show there even seemed to be a light layer of animation, only more textured and of course dirty. My teeth were chattering, both from the irritating noise and the cold that I was feeling through my military-grade sage trench coat and backpack. My eyes seemed to droop and a feeling of exhaustion assaulted my body as the doll fell from my grip. Other parts of my body were losing there tension as I felt my knees buckle and hit the ground.Confusion wracked my senses as I dropped my violin case, a dark shroud fell over my mind, as I only saw the the blurring image of green trees ahead of me and a hint of colorful foliage. Finally, I fell back, crushing any fragile items in my backpack. I was now able to see the bright blue sky that seemed to be sparkle with the colors of the rainbow.
Wait colors of the rainbow? ' Why would there be a rainbow...' My last thoughts flowed away, before I drifted off to a gentle sleep. One that strangely was encompassed by a strange voice that I knew but couldn't place if anything it sounded like a story being told or if anything a lecture, but I couldn't help it, the sand man had his work cut out for him as I hit the ground unconscious.
Chapter 1
The ground beneath me felt like it was made of feathers as I slowly regained my consciousness and the world no longer saw me as dead. At this point my eyes felt like they had sand rubbed into them and opening would only result in irritating my eyes, but of curse I did, and just in time to see the sky above me to see that there was a rainbow arching across the sky begging for attention. Energy seemed to pulse through my veins as the rainbow reached the edge of my vision and then blocked by some huge trees, knowing that rainbows weren't supposed to move only fueled the fire that was burning in my legs to get up and find the source of this colorful stream.
I looked to my right then to my left and only saw trees and well nature at it's finest, no sign of civilization,no nothing. The moving Rainbow only made me think of one thing Equestria and that was the thing, there shouldn't be any possible way I'm in Equestria for one, it's just fictional and for two how does a smarty pants doll get you to Equestria. That doll would have to be laced with some kind of drugs and even then I would probably wake up and find myself back in the school trail with some stranger trying to do god knows what to me (this better be real or I will be pissed if that's the actual reality. . Whatever it was it made everything seem so real. I could FEEL the ground I could feel the plants and trees I could FEEL the lack of pollution, the air was clear. I doubt any drug can make anything feel like this, face it I didn't feel fitter, I didn't feel sharper in the senses, I just felt like normal. Running through all the foliage only made it feel more vivid.
At this point I would probably ask my friend "What do we do now?" If the guys back at school saw me doing this they would probably say something like "Just sit back and let me do it." and I would have listened. That's what I was mostly in these kind of situations a "Follower." Not that I didn't contribute anything to the group but I would mostly do the behind the scenes stuff like for example starting the fire while they hunt or they were to meet the locals I would probably tell them how to approach them but no I wouldn't do it myself. I mostly liked to see if they could make it or not with the little to no help from me. Then when everything crashed down I would be the only remnant left to be blamed. It was kinda funny really you would imagine after all this time I would change my ways but no, not really. But here right now i didn't really have anyone to turn to for help and it honestly felt great, I got to have my fun while also at the same time getting to experience a once in a life time opportunity, and others couldn't limit me, only I could. Now to see if this is real or not ,so by standard procedure I stopped to pinch my arm and hit myself in the head which only proved to me one thing, this is real I had no doubt now, I know drugs do weird things to you but they can't make everything seem So vivid!
My eyes scanned the sky to see the rainbow was following something, as I looked closer all I could see was a small cyan blue speck, that is all it took to stop me in my tracks, my mind instantly went to the 1 conclusion that I never thought would be possible. I was in Equestria, I don't know how my best guess was something to do with that rainbow, but I would question it no further as the rainbow then finished arc and went upward and stopped at a cloud bank. A frown was quickly formed on my face as I saw a small yellow speck falling from the sky near a largescratch that, huge assortment of clouds that seemed so big that it could probably fit about 3 small towns in it.And that would be Fluttershy, I guess I have nothing to worry about since animals saved her in that this episode? so I guess I can just leave her to her own devices. The clouds she fell from obviously formed Cloudsdale in all of its majestic glory and even though I was here in Equestria right now I felt a sinking feeling in my stomach, wasn't this episode based off of the past. Okay so this may have been about 6-8 years in the past but so what
I suddenly became weary of my belongings and right now all I had was my coat and the Ipod and the headphones that go with and of course a pair of worn jeans, Wonder where the rest of my stuff is *I turned around to see where I had landed to see my backpack and violin neatly placed next to each other, on top of the violin was my music folder that held all my music for over the past couple of years and would serve for many more if I could get into better living conditions as in like a lean to a house or any type of shelter that I could build *or that nice cave I was talking about? . I quickly grabbed the folder and stuffed it into the flap in my violin case and picked up my backpack and put it on my back and grabbed my violin by the handle and pulled out my Ipod and went through my camera to see myself and couldn't help but giggle because my face was now animated and so was the rest of my body upon further inspection, after my little showcase I looked through my few pictures to see the map of Equestria was still there ( I always liked to know where the events of the show took place in the show. The map wasn't very detailed but it showed major things like Canterlot, Ponyville and Appleloosa ETC. From there I decided to go by cartoon logic and used moss to find North and from there I started my walk towards Ponyville through the trees.**
**Day 2 in Equestria
***This fucking sucks * no really it does suck because seriously I've had no contact with anyone and of course I'm used to this but still it's kinda weird having to depend on yourself entirely, if I had a group with me I would already be there and have a plan of how to approach this but instead I'm only about half way there and have no food, drinking plenty of clean water found everywhere and my best plan to approach the town is to simply walk right in there and hope for the best. My other plans so have been to sneak in and be there at morning so they would see me in their morning daze that allowed minimal brainpower, then another was to get into contact into 1 of the residence and convince them and in turn they help me win over the whole town, I of course didn't want to risk anything on the town's morals as in I doubt they wouldn't be afraid to beat the living shit out of me and only ask questions after when there shock went down. So my best plan was to simply stake out Ponyville in a camp and wait until I knew enough about it's habits before trying to befriend the inhabitants. But the worst thing that has happened so far has been that my Ipod is almost out of batteries so I was going to have to stop getting references from the map and stop listening to my music.**
**Day 3 in Equestria
My panting increased as I knew what was coming I needed to stop, I have still not gotten any food but plenty of water, my feet finally gave their last steps as I sat down in a clearing in these woods on top of a log that was infested with maggots...*Wait Maggots *
My feet gave me a spark in the form of a jump and landed on the ground immediately spinning around looking at the log I sat down on. The log was of course invested with the little bugs and I could see them literally falling off of my legs. My eyes traced over their little white frames as I looked at them with a look of utter disgust, my feet were already feeling week from just standing and so I of course took the course of sitting down cross-legged staring at the log with a feeling of curiosity so I quickly opened my bag-pack and went into my pencil box and got out some scissors and started stabbing the log quickly exposing the wood underneath and of course many more of these vile insects.
Again I looked through my bag pack and quickly grabbed my knife that was in a lower pouch I was very paranoid at school. and I tried stabbing one, to my dismay I missed and only hit the the log itself and only causing more of them to fall from their perches on the log. I sighed in dismay and this time I had the knife tip right on top of the bug and stabbed it, I rose the speared maggot to my eyes and was about to throw up whatever food I have left in my stomach at just the sight of the thing yet I was also inept to just see if I could eat it and stomach it. With this final thought I rose the bug to my mouth and popped it in, surprisingly it took very little effort to get it down and my stomach didn't seem to reject it, so of course I grabbed a couple live ones and stuffed them in my mouth chewing quickly as for me not wanting them squirming in my mouth. The taste they left wasn't the best it was like a cross between a piece of chicken and a nut. I immediately started to fool myself into thinking it was just chicken but of course the cold hard facts could not be ignored and at that moment I lost my stomach to the ground as it projected onto the ground, the maggots themselves were dead but they were still squirming for some reason. I looked at the log again to see much more of the maggots,
I looked at them and thought to myselfScrew this I am getting something good to eat. this thought in mind I pull out my knife and start to look around the clearing for something edible other than those maggots, the ground itself looks undisturbed so I simply look up at the trees to see a squirrel eyeing me curiously, to this I jumped back yelling " What the fuck!" The squirrel itself just looked at me more, to this I simply stared at it before raising my knife the air and hoped that this worked and threw the knife at it hitting square in the chest, the blood coming out seemed to be minimal so I walked up to my prey and saw that it was feverishly trying to get off the knife that was pinning it to the ground, i looked at it with a sullen look before reaching for and snapping it's little neck, the noise was muted considering it was a small animal and of course my hands were over neck but it still sounded like a disc getting snapped in half only muffled by some kind of cover. A quick look down at the squirrel would only show me that it was still twitching from the nerves. I held no remorse for killing this small animal, I was going to be smart about my survival, so I stored the squirrel's fur in a pouch in my backpack for further use the bones held no purpose for me so I simply just threw them into the forest.
So about 30 minutes later I was eating cooked squirrel(boneless) I was only able to do this with the help of my knife and the flint that I always had around my neck and of course the laborious task of getting wood and tinder were there to. I looked up at the sky to see that the sun was still up and I could no longer feel any of my previous soreness so I simply kicked out my fire with dirt and started hiking through the woods once more to my destination of choice.
The Everfree Day 7
This chapter is pretty bare bones so please point out any mistakes or anything there that is wrong.
That squirrel was a one time thing for me here, I am starting to become hungry, but I just don't trust any of the vegetables in my path they all seem like they could hurt me in some strange way, all in all I can't trust anything other than meat. On Earth I was big on eating meat and wheat but I could never swallow the vegetables because every time I think I get one down I only throw up after the meal, I can eat some vegetables but that is only when they are all chopped up and not even noticeable I guess it just fools my mind and stomach. I've been noticing something strange with my Ipod, it's. Staying on the same time no matter what it's just stuck their even when I change to military time or even change the time itself it wouldn't move. May be it's busted or something, but I can still play music and play the little apps like slenderman ( I don't play it at night or in this dammed forest.) or Earn to Die and even Amateur Surgeon 2. The battery is always at 20% mark but I always keep it charged by rubbing it on my clothing but that does very little to keep it at it's charge. On a more positive note I now have the option to listen to music and my legs are numb with the pain from walking all day and night. On a more depressing note I am starting to feel very light headed and feel like I'm going to collapse any minute. The only thing keeping me awake is my music and the feeling that this forest is going to eat me alive any moment, at this point any time I feel my eyes to droop I hear a random crack or something that will only make me wake up. I swear to god that I have seen things moving right at the edge of my vision
A bright light, I can see it ahead wait, is that the town yes,finally I.am..here...and....out.....of ......that.......damn.........forest............
My body just couldn't take anymore and it collapsed and my mind went along with it as I fell into a deep sleep. "Oh what is this, oh it must be that blasted monkey again, believe that the pet shop can't take more care in there security on animals." The stallion slowly looked at the animal and looked at its clothing and the case it was holding and only came to one assumption "I guess the circus left one in town, well I hope Blossomforth doesn't mind taking care of another animal until they come back for ya" To be honest this stallion wasn't really the smartest when he was tired and could not see the weird contraption around it's neck and the wire running to it's chest. To be honest the stallion didn't care right now he just wanted to go and fall asleep on his couch at home. So without any grace whatsoever the stallion lifted the monkey with the strange baggage up and onto his back and started to transport him to the neighborhood pet shop...
??? Day ?
I didn't say anything as it is what I do anytime when I wake up. All I could see right now was a dim brightness that was probably a just the sun. I slowly opened my eyes to see something I didn't expect it was a light bulb. Why is there a light bulb outside, and furthermore why is it warm out here. I looked to my right to see only a wall and then slowly turned to my left and saw something that spooked me very quickly, in front of me stood only at the height I stood a full white pony with pink and green, and I couldn't see her cutie mark because she was STARING ME DOWN. I looked into her eyes and she quickly averted her gaze to ground, I did not feel sorry for the pony but I could see that she was surprised. I really wasn't having any reaction since over the days I have gone over the scenarios of my first encounter but none of them were this different, to be honest I was surprised to see that she was looking over me with a certain curiosity that I knew was close to that of Twilight and surprisingly she had the same mane cut as her. I knew there had to be some spark of intelligence in my eyes that was signifying that I was something more than the average animal, but of course she started cooing strange things that only babies heard when they are young. To be honest at this point I was close to talking to just get out of this but I didn't want to have all of Equestria all vying for my attention or even better put under and thoroughly examined A.K.A being cut open to see how I tick. So I looked at her blankly before letting out a small growl which I thought was the universal sign of get away or I will fucking kill you. At this point all I could feel a sudden pain around my neck as my body started waving about in confusion as my brain went into hysterics. I looked at her to see that she was holding a remote with only 1 button which was overly emphasized, " No, bad boy." I was now aware of some kind of collar around my neck and took my hands to it trying hard to tear it off. The only thing it earned me was another zap! Which coursed through my body only making me more awake and aware of my environment. " Now Mommy needs you to calm down while I turn down the charge", She then turned a small dial that was under the button until it reached a lower thing I presume.
Wait a minute how did she know I was a guy and where does she get the right to call herself mommy for me. Her calling herself mommy for me was enough to push me into nostalgic thoughts of my mother and my family. I did care for my family of course and I wanted to let out a cry for them to help of course this would do nothing, I kept my face still as these thoughts tumbled through my mind and out the other ear. I am happy that I can forget things in seconds if I try because If I couldn't I would have probably let out a whine or a tear which would make this mare alert to my emotions.
As these thoughts left my head I looked straight forward and saw two things, one my arms were shackled and would keep me down if I were to try anything and two my clothes were gone as soon as I saw that I was fully nude, my face started to heat up as I struggled against the bindings to cover up, of course again i was shocked but it was so smaller that it only shook my head. To this she only undid my shackles and tugged on a rope attached to my collar, when I saw the rope I started to bite on it and only came to one conclusion, this stuff was as flexible that my movement wasn't impaired Now I know how my dog feels. my bite only left a small mark and even then it faded quickly . She didn't even look when I bit on it, she only tugged harder, and seeing as their was no other option I simply followed, she led me out of the room that was all white with hardly any design other than a poster protesting animal abuse. I wasn't really surprised to be where I am right now. The mare (At least I hope so, her voice is very high if its a guy. quickly turned around and shoved me forward while at the same time undoing my collar with moves so fluent that it was obvious she was used to dealing with the likes of me.
Where I landed was soft but now comfortable, all I had was a small pile of hay and a bucket filled with clean water, there was also a patch of thick carpet This is probably supposed to be my bed . Near the hay were things that made my heart skip a beat, she gave me all my stuff back and with nothing touched either. I was quick in putting on the clothes and jacket and also put my headphones around my neck for future use. I looked back and saw that the mare was slowly walking (Trotting?? away. To be honest I had no idea where I was but I knew it had to do with something involving pets, may be a vet, yea may be they thought I was an animal and was sick considering my little fall down earlier at the sight of the town. My backpack was here also with my small possessions like my knife and a binder for holding like 5 papers for a project in school. My kindle was also in there but I had no thought to be reading right now. I noticed something was missing and quickly saw that my violin was gone from the pile. I looked down the hallway and saw several doorways in that were aligned, I was in what seemed to be a "Special Cage." I guess they want to pay some attention I wonder where they took my violin? As if some unknown force knew what I was thinking and decided to give me the answer in the form of sound and a pretty bad sound too, it is true that over the days that I have been neglecting to tune it and resin the bow but even I knew that violins were never supposed to sound like that. Suddenly after that I heard a loud crashing noise followed by what I thought to be wood cracking, suddenly the mare that escorted me here came right over to the bars and threw me the shattered remains of my violin
"Stupid piece of crap anyway!" Whelp this sucks I get kidnapped and then she breaks my violin, well...this is great.
I looked down at the remains of my violin and only let a small sigh of anguish as I remembered all the music I played with it, to be honest i liked the violin but only to the degree of which where I thought it was fun to play and listen to, I didn't really admire the violin itself only the noise it created, right now I took the violin pieces together in my arms and looked down at it. While looking at the remains I didn't noticed the figures coming towards the bars and looking at me
"Ohhhhh look at it mommy it's so cute."
I looked up to see a little pony with a sea foam green for the body and a mixture of both that same green and a shade of white and of course the little horn poking out from it's mess of hair. The other figure quickly strode forward and let out a gasp " What is that thing mam." to this I was confused I could see that the little one seemed to be jumping up and down staring at me the whole time.
"Yes miss?" she was there and I could see that she had the collar ready to go.
"I was just wondering what this..this...thing was."
To this I simple pulled up my jeans and simply turned around letting out a grunt to show my displeasure in being called a "thing". The "manager" slowly lowered the collar to he side and took a breath to say
"To be honest miss I can't tell you what he is, my best guess is that he is a shaved monkey that got out away from a circus but i checked with several companies and they said they have no records of escaped primates over the past couple months."
The mare then drew another breath and said "All I know is that he is 50 bits and he's yours." I now could see what I was to these ponies I was some kind of pet, being sold to anypony who has the bits
"What are those things that he is holding." to this the owner simply let out a sigh and said with good flow " When he was found he tried to fight back with that violin, didn't hit the stallion but hit a tree and the thing broke." To this I looked into the mother's eyes and pointed at the violin and then pointed at then pointed to the owner and showed her playing the violin ( badly) and then with a grunt of frustration pretended to smash the pieces over my knee, and then i literally threw them at the guilty party and finished my little charade. The 3 looked on in awe as I was able to think that much but they weren't surprised as i haven't really shown any real intelligence " It seems to think that he thinks you broke it out of rage." I then put both my thumbs up and nodded up and down while pointing at the culprit
"He does seem to think that does he, but do you really think that.. thing really knows what he is implying." I looked at her in a strange sort of respect, Fancy wordplay indeed, this round goes to you I suppose, * Fucking, Bitch!*.
"So do want him or not." the mare was obviously trying to get rid of me and to be honest I had had enough of her as well.
"No, we only came to look for some bird seed for Lyra's little Miss Eversteen."
The mother was trying not to look at the little filly and for a good reason too, the little thing was making it look like she would die if she didn't get me. This did little for my self esteem ( Which I have given up on a long time ago.) I saw the mother look at her daughter really quick and it seems that these ponies actually are worse with the pleading look than we are"Okay, you know what I will be back in a week and will pick this.. monkey up."
Right after she said this the mother looked to the little filly and then said in a stern voice "Lyra you will have to be very responsible for it, so if it makes a mess you will clean it up and if it needs to be fed, you feed, and you will take it out on daily walks."
Damn laying the law down on the little one. and Hey wait who said that I would make a mess, I 'm not that bad...am I, well my parents still have to tell me to clean my room so I guess that's not that good and the last REAL MESS I made was about 10 years when I was still an infant. next paycheck so that was a good hint that the mother wanted more money for when I came into their home. The owner couldn't help but smile on outside of course, I bet she hates the fact that she has to feed one more mouth here for one whole week. The mother finally had some last minute questions " Is he trained to behave well around ponies?" To which the manager replied in a rather ominous voice "Oh he will, when you get back of course." and then there us my challenge for the week, stay " Untamed" the next question came quickly afterwards,probably because she had something better to do. The two left very quickly as not to have the owner pest them with any further offers. The mare quickly went to her back room and got a broom and dust pan and swept up the pieces of the shattered violin before going back to the back room or what I am guessing, her office and deposited them all in the room. She silently returned to my cage door and hit it several times to get my undivided attention (Which she already had. ) When she had it she looked me in the eyes and gave me the scariest face i have ever seen from any fan art, the show or anything and said in an oddly unpleasing tone while pulling some thing from under her wing "My name is Blossomforth and I would like to welcome you to "The Grand Emporium of Wildlife." She then opened up the cage and started cooing again at me in that obnoxious way again, and what she had under her wing was something that I would have liked to dodge it if I could, she had the collar and leash again. This time she wouldn't stop until I was trained in every single way, and the only thing running through my head at that moment was she just made this challenge a lot harder. With that the noose fell over my neck and I knew I was in for a rough ride.
Sorry for that huge wall of text at the end, I just couldn't think of a way to organize it into paragraphs.
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.