That Was Just Your Life

Chapter Five

Alric awoke in the middle of the night for an unknown reason. He saw that he was still in the weird pony world. However, Alric knows that when he wakes, it's for a good reason. He opens his eyes just enough to get a look at the room. Empty. Slowly, and silently, he gets up out of the bed. Knowing that there is nothing much of a threat in this odd land, Alric only takes his USP and his KM-4000 from under the bed. He holsters his pistol, making sure that it is silenced first, and keeps his knife in hand. Now that he has all that he needs, Alric makes his way to the closed door.

Standing next to the door, Alric places his ear up to the crack between the door and the frame and listens for anything. Once again, he detects nothing that would disturb his sleep. The soldier looks around the room and spots a small circular window. He looks out the window at the snowy night. It was still snowing heavily, but not nearly as bad as it was before. What the fuck is wrong with me. There isn't anything around here. Alric momentarily thinks he's finally lost it but hears something out of place.

Finally. Now, I can kick whatever woke me up's ass. Alric doesn't sleep easily and hasn't done so in a while so naturally it leads to him being pretty pissed. He gets ready to open the door to investigate the noises. Alric opens the door and clears both directions, although he noticed that Twilight's door was slightly ajar. He shrugs it off as the ponies aren't too devious. Alric is just worried of anything that might have followed him and Dmitri.

         Alric quietly walks towards the beginning of the staircase. He spots a small light coming from the living room. Knowing that Dmitri was sleeping there and that all of the lights were off when he went upstairs, Alric prepared himself for whatever is down there. When he went upstairs to go to sleep earlier in the night, he made a personal note to himself on which steps were the noisiest. Following his instincts, Alric went a quarter ways down the stairs, skipping the noisy steps, to find the Twilight pony near Dmitri.

What the hell could you be doing? Alric had thought that the ponies were nice little single-minded creatures. He had really just expected a squirrel to be fucking with something. Instead, he found one of the ponies doing some sort of investigation on his friend.

Alric was pissed, yet confused.

"What the fuck are you doing little pony.?" Alric whispered to himself curiously. Fortunately, the lavender quadruped was far too involved in its documentation to focus on its environment. He sheathed his knife and climbed down the bookshelf that was built into the staircase as the rest of the steps were very squeaky.

Alric hugged the wall to avoid squeaky floor boards. Once he came to the edge of the pony's line of sight, he started to move closer to her right. Alric stayed a good three feet behind her to find out what she was investigating. While the tired and wounded soldier slept and snored on the couch, the pony took the liberty of documenting his hand. She was playing around with his hand and writing all of her findings down with her magic on a scroll.

The scroll included a rather detailed drawing as well as captions on how it moves. Alric wondered how he could sleep while their hand was being fondled. He passed it off as the amount of Dmitri's weariness.

Twilight hummed to herself quietly as she took note of the creature's fascinating attributes. She just finished taking notes on one of the pieces of parchment that calls Dmitri's hand a paw. Twilight had with her a candle, which apparently had a nullify spell that would make the light that it creates darker than usual, but just light enough so that she could see. Twilight really wouldn't want to wake, and possibly anger her new guests.

Alric walked almost next to Twilight without her realizing. Damn. These ponies really get engrossed with their work. I wish I could do that... Nah not really. Alric just noticed that the quill was floating in the air in a purple aura. Holy shit. Am I fucking high? He shook his head to clear his amazement.

Alric crouched on the floor and was about to tap on the lavender pony's shoulder when he saw that Twilight had been experimenting with Dmitri's gear. Thinking she was trying to reverse engineer so her pony princess could use it he became infuriated. He however subconsciously let out a deep growl from his throat while trying to keep his anger under control. Twilight gasped and turned around too fast, knocking the candle over. At the sudden change of light she charged her horn with her magic.

Alric, already jumpy, had pulled his knife just barely out of its sheath. He eyed her with as much caution that you can give to a crotch-high quadruped with a glowing horn. "That shit on your horn better not be fucking radioactive." Alric pointed with his left hand, to her horn.

"What? Why would it be radioactive?" Twilight looked to her horn, worried with the thought of being radioactive.

"Because it is fucking glowing, maybe? It's not even glowing green, but purple?" At this point, Alric knew that the pony couldn't be a threat so he re-sheathed his blade.

"Have you not seen magic before?"

"Silly pony. Magic doesn't exist. But radiation does so you should really have that horn checked."

"How could you think magic doesn't exist? How else could you possibly have these obviously very advanced tools?" said Twilight.

"Yes that reminds me. What the fuck are you doing touching our gear?" said Alric angrily almost waking Dmitri from his deep sleep.

"I'm sorry, I was just so intrigued I couldn't help myself." said Twilight apologetically wearing a sad expression on her face.

"Awww, little pony, you don't have to be so sad. It's certainly not even close to the worst way I've woken up." Alric smiled and patted Twilight on the head.

"Ok. I'll get back to sleep then." said Twilight blushing from Alric's reaction.

"Tell you what, you don't mess with our things and I'll answer some questions tomorrow. Who knows? I might even let you see some of our gear with us explaining it." said Alric.

"Really? That would be great, thank you!" said Twilight excitedly.

"No problem little pony. Now get back to sleep." said a still tired Alric.

"Okay. Sorry for waking you by the way." said Twilight already climbing the stairs.

Alric followed Twilight up the stairs and went back into the room he was previously sleeping in. Goddamn ponies and their cuteness. He looked out the window and realized that he and Dmitri might not be going home which left a frown on his face.

Morning

Holy banana that was a nice rest thought Dmitri getting up from the couch he had slept on. He stretched his back which emitted several loud pops due to a night on the couch. Just like old times relished Dmitri.