The Peacemaker

Rainbow Dash:

“I’m telling you Applejack, this guy was absolutely awesome” I told Applejack and she nodded as she pulled the wagon along towards the barn. “Mmhmm, ah’m sure he was spectacular” Applejack replied but she did so with a plain voice that made it sound as if she didn’t really believe me.

“You don’t believe me do you?” I asked and she looked to me and shook her head “Not really, no… sorry Dash but yah do have a tendency tah over exaggerate things” Applejack replied. “Okay so than how do you explain all my wounds when I was brought to the hospital?” I argued and she sighed “Well ah don’t doubt that yah were saved by a human ah just think it probably wasn’t a wild one, he probably had an owner” Applejack replied as she pulled the wagon up beside the barn.

“Javier, come unload this wagon” Applejack called out and the small Mexican human rushed out and began to unload the wood. “Listen AJ, this guy lives near the mountains I just know it. Wanna tag along? We could go ask him if he knows where my parent’s murderer is” I suggested but Applejack shook her head. “Sorry RD but ah have tah” she began but suddenly a scream of pain filled the air.

We both turned to see that Javier had fallen off the back of the wagon and his leg was twisted the wrong way. We both rushed over to his side. “Oh Ms. Applejack, I fear I may have broken my leg… please don’t be angry” he pleaded but Applejack gave him a look of comfort. “Don’t worry sugarcube, yah’ll be fine” she said, soothing his worry. “Sorry RD, but ah have some chores tah do before ah can go around gallivantin with yah” Applejack replied and I sighed to myself and took off, once again every-pony would probably say ‘Sorry Rainbow Dash but I have something to do’.

I thought to myself about how I could find this guy, it was getting very late and maybe I should just try in the early morning. With that thought in mind I flew up and landed on my favourite cloud. As I laid down on my cloud and curled up I wondered what my human friend would be like, we could go play pranks on ponies, he could teach me cool things about human stuff, he could help me out with things and carry my stuff. I cuddled up in the cloud thinking about how great it would be to have my own human, my thoughts were finally drifting away from getting revenge on my parent’s killer.

* * *

Usually I’d sleep in but today I wanted to get a head start on finding my human friend so as soon as I felt the sun’s warmth on my body I woke myself up, I quickly flew into Ponyville and bought a camera to take pictures of me and my human friend then quickly started to fly towards the mountains where I was sure my human friend lived.

As I flew towards the mountains I thought to myself how I should greet him then realized I’d first have to find him first but I still had no idea where he lived exactly. “How am I even going to find this guy?” I asked myself then came to the conclusion that I could simply just act like I was in need of rescue and he’d come save me then we could become friends. “Easy peasy” I told myself as I began to fly over the forest top and looked to the thick forest below and picked a nice place to land.

I swooped down and landed on the grassy forest ground and looked around. “Hey human… I need your help” I called out but soon realized it wasn’t ‘distressful’ enough. “HEY HUMAN GUY SAVE ME!” I called out but all I heard was the chirping of birds. ‘God how does Rarity do it?’ I asked myself as I began to trot through the forest thinking about how Rarity does her ‘damsel in distress’ voice.

I quivered to myself, never in a million years did I think I’d be calling out like a damsel in distress but desperate times called for desperate measures. In my best damsel in distress voice I cried out “Oh help me, won’t someone please help me. I am defenceless against the horrors of nature and I’m going to perish unless someone helps me” I called out. I stopped calling out and listened but still all I heard was the chirping of birds.

“WELL!?” I yelled out but still no one came to my fake rescue. “Hey, come out and rescue me already” I yelled but still no one came out. I mumbled angrily to myself as I began to trot through the forest and looked for my human friend.

Eventually I became rather bored and walked into a less thick part of the forest and sat down. “Hello… human guy… where are you, I need your help because I’m being chased by a bunch of guys with… shooty gun thingies” I called out, remembering what Redheart had called the shooty things.

As I waited throughout the day I became extremely bored and every so often I would give out a damsel in distress call but it never worked. “Hey human guy come help me I’m being shot at, BANG BANG BANG” I yelled out, doing my best interpretation of what a gun sounded like but it didn’t sound very real.

I laid my body over a fallen tree trunk and sighed to myself, the day had progressed and was easily noon by now. I let out an exhausted sigh, I had stayed up rather late last night and woke up rather early and my body was quite exhausted. I closed my eyes and figured I’d just let them rest for a second but soon it became a minute then before I knew it I was snoozing away peacefully.

* * *

I awoke when a twig behind me snapped under the weight of a hoof, or whatever it was called on humans. I spun around to see a human behind me but it wasn’t my friend, this one was smaller and had different facial features. He pulled out a small hand held gun and pointed it at me. “Bang” he laughed and my eyes went wide as I realized that my yelling had probably called the attention of every wild-man in the forest.

Using quick thinking I pulled a tree branch back and let it go, the branch swung forward and slapped the human in the face. He cried out in pain and dropped his gun and he grabbed his face in pain. I took no time in jumping up and I began to run as fast as I could, forgetting completely that I had wings.

I skidded to a stop in a small clearing and looked up through the tree tops. I was about to take off when a thunderous KA-BOOM thundered from behind me then I heard a ka-chuke sound and I turned around to see some human pointing a large gun at me. “Surprise bitch” he laughed, “You can’t shoot me” I stammered and he chuckled.

“Why not?” he laughed, “Well because uhm… my friend will stop you” I warned him and he laughed hysterically. “What the same guy that you were calling to for the last few hours. What’s wrong? Lose the human you enslaved… I wouldn’t blame him for running away from you, you’re an ear sore” he laughed as he lined up a shot at me.

I heard a clicking noise come from behind him. “I belong to no-pony but I will protect her always” said a voice then suddenly it was as if the man’s head exploded and the remainder of his body fell to a clump on the ground and behind where he once stood was my human friend, holding his shinny hand gun, wait was that what the small ones were called, hand and gun, it would make sense and the bigger ones were called arm guns because it had to be held with the full extension of their arms. Either way I’d just ask him later.

“Hey, about time you showed up I’ve been calling for the last” I began but he quickly ran up to me and grabbed me in his arms and began to carry me as he ran into the depths of the forest. “Hey where are you bringing us?” I asked him but he simply kept quiet as he rushed through the forest.

I heard several other humans scream from behind us but my fiend was easily able to lose them and soon we found our way to a small house by the bottom of the mountain. ‘Why hadn’t I seen this before?’ I thought to myself and he set me down. I turned to him and looked to the sky and figured we’d have at least a few hours before sundown to do a bunch of fun stuff. “Go home little one, it is not safe here” he told me in a blunt voice.

“Wait, what?” I asked, totally stunned that he wanted me to leave. “Little one, it is not safe to stay here, you must go before more men arrive to kill you” he replied bluntly. “What? No way, you and me are totally going to become best friends and are going to go on adventures and prank ponies and” I began but he cut me off. “It would not be best for us to be friends” he told me and I looked to him with a raised eyebrow. “Why not?” I asked and he sighed as he looked out to the forest and we could both hear the distant yells of the wild-men as they tried to find us.

“Because you are a pony and I am a human… a wild human” he replied and I simply laughed. “If any-pony asks just say I own you and that’ll keep us out of trouble” I told him but he shook his head. “Awwweeee come on pleeeeeeasse?” I pouted and he let out a deep sigh then looked to me and said “This is not the greatest of ideas”