CH. 1: The Death

"Wow," I said, "You can really see the whole city from here." I was standing on the top of the staircase at Camels Back Park in the North End of Boise, Idaho. It was really the entrance to the foothills to the whole city, so It has a lot of traffic and a lot of old people doing cardio up and down the steps. It was the best place in the city to see the sunset, or just the city itself. Being a public park, It was open 24/7. And being me, who prided myself on staying up late, was up there in the middle of the night, when most sensible people usually slept. I loved nighttime city landscapes. The lights from the high-rises, and the lights from headlights on the interstate. There was a special vibe to it that I found intoxicating.

"Alright, I'm done." I said, ready to go home via taking the steps in the dark. It being the middle of the night, I mistepped and fell down the entire 55 steps and then tumbled down the rest of the unstepped hill. It still being the middle of the night with everybody asleep, no-one was there to watch me fall and then call 911. I sat there, at the bottom of the hill, in unimaginable pain, bleeding out of almost every inch of my body. I was thankful though, that I was rendered unconscious when my head hit the 14th step down. I finally died in the early minutes of 2:00 AM, a early riser and runner found my corpse lying there at 5:00 AM, checked my pulse, found nothing, and I was buried a week later. But, you might be wondering, "If he is dead, then why am I hearing this?" Well. After I died, I went to heaven, or so I thought. The afterlife above that I went to did not have endless clouds and angels playing harps or lyres or whatever they are. I went to a place that was slightly turquoise, full of stars, and had a 6 foot tall horse with wings and a horn.

Faust, Goddess of Ponies, Mother of Princesses Celestia and Luna, and Almighty creator of Equus, was disturbed by her beauty sleep by the pained yelling's of a mortal being falling down a large flight of stairs. Being a being who loved sleep like no other, was angered by this and immediately went to investigate and possibly smite whoever dared to interrupted her rest. What she found however, was a Human, who was usually under the jurisdiction of Yahweh/Jehovah, God of Humanity, Father of Jesus Christ, and Almighty creator of Earth. It was strange to see a thing she had no control over, disturb her from her sleep. Her angered personality quickly vanished to be taken by curiosity. She eventually decided, to task this particular dieing mortal with a task that she cannot do. But she was also very bored, and also decided that she would not tell him the task, which was to introduce Equestria to the Industrial Revolution. She also decided to give him the option to pick what he wants his body to be in his new life.

As I stood there in the starscape, the horse approached me, looked into my eyes and spoke.

"Hello David Lebowski. I am Faust, Goddess of Ponies, Mother of Princesses Celestia and Luna, and Almighty creator of Equus, though you should know me by a different but similar name, Laruen Faust." The apparent creator of the world I was currently a fan of, and writer of the show, said. I was in complete shock. I had a billion questions flying through my head. But I settled on one.

"Why? Why am I here and not heaven?" I said with a dumbfounded expression.

"I brought you here to complete a task. A task only you can do. I have instilled in you the knowledge and skills to complete it, and if you would follow me, you can "select your character" as you beings now say." She then started to walk away, which I quickly followed. "As for why you are not in your heaven, your noise from falling down all those stairs," I winced at the remembered pain before I blacked out, "was enough to rise me from my slumber, which is a feat in of itself. Now, please halt your questions for now. They all will be answered in due time. For now, come." We then walked through an ornate oak door that didn't exist until a second ago, which my brain just ignored in favor of more pressing matters, such as a single table, resembling those that people get for outdoor parties, the retractile table things, but smaller, with a simple wooden chair infront of the table and a computer sat on it. The computer was already on, and the screen resembled the character customization screen from a certain fan created game called Pony Town.

"Wait, is this something like those reincarnation stories the fandom likes?" I said.

"Yes. But unlike those stories, you get to chose what you want to look like, as opposed to letting fate dictate it."

"Oh, ok. I'll just go and do it then. But wait, can I chose to stay human?"

"No, not only would it cause a massive uproar in the place I will dump you into, but it just isn't in the games "code.""

"Ah. Damnit. Well, I guess I'll just go with my oc then." I said, before sitting in the chair and starting to create my oc. I started with a brown coat, with a orange mane and tail. I then went and made myself a unicorn, because in my opinion, its the easiest race to be in Equestria, with the magic they have going for them. I then noticed that there was no name box or cutie mark creator thing. I decided that was because that Faust wanted fate to have some fun. I then clicked the "Save Character" button, before realizing that she forgot to mention something very important.

"Wait, you forgot to mention what my task is." I said, a second before my body was swallowed by a white as fuck portal, and promptly loosing consciousness again.

Author's Note

Hello, me again. New story. Nice. Hope you guys/gals have fun reading the rest of my half asleep writing. K bye.