Relentless Boundaries

I sighed as we left the library, I was still conflicting with myself why I wanted to go back to earth so damn bad. I mean like come on this place was great there was: peace, no wars (that I knew of), and everything or every-pony creature seemed to get along. We were walking through the streets but I didn’t see any ponies anymore “you think I scarred them all off?” I asked Applejack and she shook her head “doubt it” she assured me and we continued walking until we heard some feminine voice, like a stage actor or a stand-up comedian “Hail the great and powerful Trixie” the voice bellowed for all to hear, “great and powerful, maybe she can help me” I muttered and ran towards the voice’s origin “hey Ron where are yah goin?” Applejack yelled out from behind me, they were all following me closely “to see this great and powerful chick” I told her as I slowed down my run when a large group stood in my way.

I scrunched my nose and began pushing my way through the crowd “Sorry… sorry mam… excuse me… pardon me… don’t mind me…” I apologized as I moved my way through the crowd bumping several ponies and finally came to the front of the stage. “Behold the power of the great and powerful Trixie” she boasted as she pulled a rabbit out of her sorcerer’s hat “ohh cool” I yelled out but sevral other ponies booed and yelled things like “get off the stage you fraud” or “we all know it’s bogus”. I lept up onto the stage “hey, don’t say that this little pony is amazing” I yelled out and every pony gasped. “Little… you think The great and powerful Trixie is little?” she asked obviously irritated by my comment “oh sorry no offence… but anyway don’t judge her she’s actually really good” I yelled out, I mean the only real magic I had seen was Twilight levitate a book.

“Exactly at least this… one moment please” she yelled out as she put her foreleg around my neck and brought me down facing the opposite direction of the crowd. “Hey what are you?” she whispered, “a human why?” I asked “okay just go along with this okay” she ordered and pushed us back towards the crowd “for my next piece of magic I will cut this… beast in half” she exclaimed, “hey wait a minute I never” I began but she gave me a cold look and I nodded, I kind of needed her, if she was as magical as she said she was then perhaps she could get me out of this place. Every-pony in the crowd seemed to be bored and a few let out sarcastic yawns.

She levitated me into a box which I just barely fit into and closed the lid “as you can see my subject has been placed in this box and now I will cut him in half” she proclaimed and levitated over a saw and began cutting through the box, I felt a sharp pain as the saw cut into me “OWW hey that hurts I take it back let me out” I screamed but she simply laughed and kept cutting. “God dammit let me… OWWW FUCK” I roared as the saw continued cutting through my stomach and several ponies in the crowd gasped as blood began leaking out of the box and splashed onto the ground “GAH FUCK” I yelled in excruciating pain. “Stop this madness” Applejack screamed as she pushed through the crowd but she was too late, the other end of the box fell and my lower half flopped bloodily onto the ground. “GAH, I’M GONNA FUCKIN KILL YOU” I roared as I ripped myself out of the box and rolled onto the ground, unslinging my SKS from my back and standing up I put the gun right against the side of her head “stupid fuckin… wait a minute” I gasped and it seemed as if there was one big gasp as every-pony in the crowd looked at me.

I looked down and realized that I had both my legs and that neither my jacket nor shirt was torn, and on top of that I had no blood on me, well minus the blood on my boots from the blood on the stage. “How’d you that?” I gasped and she simply tossed her head to one side, swaying the hair out of her face “Magic” she yelled out and every-pony began to clap, “now for my next trick” she began but this time I swung her around “hey would you mind doing a trick for me” I asked she scrunched her nose “Trixie usually doesn’t do favours for other unless they do something for Trixie” she informed me and I rolled my eyes “okay boss, what’s the plan?” I asked and she thought to herself for a moment. “Hmm I will think of some way you can reward Trixie later” she said in a somewhat seductive tone.

I looked side to side “uhm” I trailed off, “we shall think of it later, let me do one more trick then I’ll do yours and then you’ll have to reward Trixie with whatever she wants from you” she offered, well I couldn’t really refuse I mean if her magic worked on me then I’d be gone back to my world and I wouldn’t really have to do whatever she wants and considering that I’m helping her out with this then I really don’t understand how it could really go bad. “Alright deal” I said and she extended her hoof “promise” she asked and I rolled my eyes and shook her hoof and we turned around towards the crowd.

She shot a smoke of dust between us and the crowd and when the smoke vanished there was a tall box in front of us “behold the power of Trixie” she boasted and I looked at the box ‘how the hell’d that get there?’ I wondered and Trixie began pushing me towards the box “get in” she whispered and I obliged and she closed the door. I heard multiple clinks and clacks and presumed that she was locking the door. “As you can see my subject is now trapped in this box with no escape” she began “and now The great and powerful Trixie shall stab multiple swords through this box” she explained. I kind of half expected like a trap door or something to open up for me to fall through but instead 8 swords stabbed through the metal box through little holes made to fit swords.

I cried out in pain as the swords sliced through my body, it felt as if they really did cut through me but as I looked down I realized that the swords, even though they looked like they were stabbed in me, really weren’t, or maybe they weren’t real but I really didn’t know. I let out more painful yells and I heard Trixie snickering and heard gasps in the crowd as I realized that the bottom of the box was filling with blood, my blood or probably not my blood.

I felt all the swords retract and it felt as if the pain completely disappeared, like it had never happened, “now mares and gentlecolts my dear subject could have never survived that brutal treatment” she yelled out to the crowd and unlocked the door. “Unless” she began as she swung the door open and every-pony in the crowd gasped “unless of course he was saved by The great and powerful Trixie’s magic” she boasted and every-pony in the crowd cheered like it was some great act of magic, actually it kind of was I had no idea how she did that but now I just wanted to get out of here but I was conflicted again of why I wanted to go back so badly, what was really waiting for me? A dirt shack? A crappy meal? Whatever it was I wanted to go home now.

“Thank you, thank you now if you don’t mind The great and powerful Trixie has to” she began but I cut her off “she’s going to pull off one last act of magic” I yelled out and she shot me a cold glare, “that’s right she’s going to perform a magic trick that will send me back to my home” I yelled out and Trixie gasped as every-pony cheered. “The great and powerful Trixie never agreed to that” she burst out and I heard laughing from the sky above us as a light cyan blue pony with wings, Pegasus I think was what they were called, flew down from the sky “what’s wrong Trixie not up to the challenge?” the Pegasus laughed, taunting her. Trixie stuck her nose up in the air “hah The great and powerful Trixie can do anything she wants” she boasted.

I had about enough of her crap “yeah well Twilight got me here so if you’re as good as you say you are you should be able to get me back right?” I challenged, and she gasped at my comment and looked into the crowd at Twilight “it figures that once again The great and powerful Trixie must save Equestria from this… Beast” she scoffed and I rolled my eyes. She stepped back and her unicorn horn began to glow and magical sparks emitted from it “try not to zap him with a bolt of lightning” the Pegasus taunted and Trixie lost concentration and a bolt of energy flew towards me, I was at this point really expecting to go home.

The bolt of magic struck me and it felt like a sledgehammer just slammed into my chest. My body was sent flying and I landed on the stage about 5 yards away from where I had recently been standing. “That’s not fair the one known as Rainbow Dash distracted The great and powerful Trixie” she explained hastily as I staggered up “you better not kill me or I swear to god I’ll come back from the dead to kill you back” I groaned and she readied herself again.

Magic sparks once again began emitting from her horn as she readied a blast and once again the Cyan Pegasus blurted out “lightning” and Trixie once again lost concentration but this time it was like a lightning bolt that shot out and I couldn’t have done anything to dodge it. The lightning bolt struck me in the chest and burned o hole right through my camouflage jacket and undershirt and left my chest smoking as the force of the lightning strike sent my body tumbling to the ground. Trixie and the Pegasus began arguing “I said not to interrupt me” Trixie screamed “well if you’re soooo good then a little distraction shouldn’t bother you” the Pegasus argued.

I staggered up but the entire crowd seemed to be fixated on the fighting couple. I unslung my SKS and fired it into the air. The air seemed still and every-pony starred at me and I was seriously pissed off now “alright Trixie I swear to god if you shoot me again you better kill me this time or I’ll kill you, and Rainbow Fast… STOP FUCKIN HER UP THIS REALLY FUCKIN HURTS” I yelled and her ears drooped down and her tail went between her legs as she shied away. “Now would you please do it” I asked with an irritated tone. Trixie nodded and took a large ‘GULP’ and readied herself once again and I gave her a wink of confidence. A magical blast erupted from her horn and I flinched, expecting to be hit by like another bolt of lightning or something. The energy blast struck me and I all I could see was a blue flash of light.

I jumped up in a strange bed in some shitty looking trailer, as my eyes adjusted I heard familiar voices “that is all The great and powerful Trixie has time for” Trixie boasted and I heard a cheer come from the crowd. “Fucking fraud” I muttered as I kicked down the door to the little trailer and ran up the backside of the stage. I pulled out my Bowie knife and cut through the curtain, which resulted in screams from multiple ponies, including Trixie.

As I ripped through the curtain I looked to Trixie “you fucking fraud, I just got transported to some shitty ass trailer behind stage” I yelled and she blushed in embarrassment as ponies began to boo her, damn right I was going to boo her to. Rainbow Fast started laughing “just like how you could defeat the ursa major right?” she laughed and Trixie began to cry and ran off stage. Okay now usually I was pretty cold and heartless but that kinda made me feel bad.

I looked to the crowd “That’s all folks” I told them with a shrug and a few ponies chuckled and the crowd quickly dispersed except for 4 ponies and the Pegasus plus the dragon known as Spike. “Nice way to put her in her place man” Rainbow Fast said “I may not have the same heartlessness as you do Rainbow Fast” I told her and she laughed “Rainbow Fast ha that’s hilarious, my name’s Rainbow Dash” she chuckled and darted off to the group that had stayed for the show. “Shouldn’t we like apologize or something?” I asked and the Rainbow one laughed once again “after all she’s done she deserves it” Rainbow Dash laughed. “Fine but I still feel bad” I told them and ran off in search of the unicorn that called herself… ah fuck the nickname I’ll just call her Trixie.