Lil'o 1

Spike and Barley were running through the wooden hallway, blood spewed endlessly from the holes in the walls and into the floor. "RUN SPIKE, HE'S RIGHT BEHIND US!" Barley yelled. "I'M GOIN' AS FAST AS I CAN, MAN! MAYBE IF I HAD YOUR BOOT'S- "QUIT TALKING ABOUT MY FUCKING BOOT'S SPIKE, WE BOTH HAVE THE SAME PAIR!" They turned a corner and slowed down to catch their breath. "No man, your boots are better."

"How the hell are my boot's better?"

Spike was about to explain why Barley's boots were better, but then a figure appeared from behind them. Barley was the first to notice the figure and shot it, figuring it was just a zombie, but was horrified when the bullet ricocheted off of the figure's shoulder and into the wall. The figure was David Leatherhoff. "SHIT, SPIKE RU-" but Barley couldn't finish as David's knife went through his throat. Gurgling through his own blood, Barley fell to the floor and died. Spike was already running long before Barley told him too. He hid behind another corner and waited for his friend to respawn.

"God damn it." Barley's voice was heard through Spike's earpiece. "Hey Barley."

"What Spike?"

"I think you died, man"

"Shut the hell up."

Spike started laughing. "Do you want me to wait here or should I keep going?"

"Naw, just keep going, I'll catch up to you."

"Alright, see ya later man."

A few moments later, Spike looked on and saw that parts of the metal floor were missing, replaced with nothing but thin beams of wood. Below was nothing but darkness, fluorescent lights floating above the abyss. Barley was approaching from behind.

"Hey Spike."

"OH JEEZ!"

Spike took his knife and began stabbing at whatever was behind him. "AH, SPIKE IT'S ME!"

"Oh, dude you scared me half to death man."

"That's not an excuse to start stabbing randomly!"

"I was doing it to make your face prettier, man."

"I'll make your face even better."

For what seemed like forever, Spike and Barley were stabbing each other with their knife's, making inane comments about each other's faces. Barley was the first to stop.

"Anyway, why did you stop?"

"Up ahead, theirs nothing but thin wood we have to carefully balance on. I was waiting so we could play rock, paper, scissors to see who goes first."

"Alright then, knife is paper, pistol is scissors, shotgun is rock."

They closed their eyes, reached into their backpacks and grabbed the first weapon they felt. Barley pulled out a shotgun, Spike pulled out an SMG.

"SMG beats all, Barley"

Cursing his luck, Barley walked forward and began to balance on the beam, Spike followed behind. He saw that he had to jump to the next beam. He took a few steps back, and made his leap. He barely made it.

"Your turn, Spike"

Barley turned and took a few steps back, waiting for his friend. Spike jumped, but before he could land, Barley stepped just in time so he couldn't land on the beam. Spike fell into the abyss.

"You tiny man."

Barley couldn't contain himself and burst out laughing. "Sorry Spike, I couldn't pass up the chance"

"When I respawn I am so gonna ge- ... Woah."

"What's up Spike?"

"I ... I can't even explain it"

"What's wrong? You respawn in a wall or something?"

"I think I'm back at the forest, but now it's all colorful instead of dark"

"You're lying, Spike."

"You think I'm lying? Die and come see."

Barley contemplated dying to see what Spike was talking about, but then he remembered he would have go through that terrifying experience of getting chased by David again.

"No way man, I'm just going without you."

"You are a tiny man, you know that?"

Barley ignored the strange insult and continued on the beam. He saw that the next jump was back on the metal platform. Barley made his leap once again, but before he could land, David Leatherhoff appeared and blocked him.

"GOD DAMN IT!"

Barley fell into the abyss. He heard Spike laughing.

"What happened?"

"Fucking David Leatherhoff appeared outta nowhere and- Woah"

"I told ya, man"

Barley saw trees, it was indeed the forest again, but these trees were different. They were smooth and swirly, instead of dark and blocky. But unlike the forest, it was bright enough to see all the tree's instead of whatever tree his flashlight was aimed at.

"Barley, over here!"

Barley turned his head and saw his friend in the distance. He ran up to him.

"Where the hell are we Spike?"

"Hell if I know man, but there's a town in the distance. Let's go see if they can tell us where we are."

Barley, confused about this whole ordeal, simply decided to follow Spike into the strange town. When they made it to the border of the town, they looked around and saw no one.

Spike was starting to get nervous "I'm getting kinda creeped out here, man."

"Oh, so we go through a forest full of zombies, a parking structure full of zombies, a hospital full of zombies, have demonic hallucinations, get chased by an invincible man with a butcher knife, all the while in complete fucking darkness, and now, when it's bright and sunny, and we can actually see more than two feet in front of us, you're getting scared?"

"Well, it's really quiet."

Barley listened and, sure enough, heard nothing.

"Huh, you're right, that is kinda creepy."

Barley looked around and saw a really big tree, or at least, what he thought was a tree. It turned out to be a large building made to look like a tree.

"Let's go knock on that tree building thing over there and see if this a ghost town or not."

They walked up to the big tree and knocked on the door. After a few moments, the door opened and what Spike and Barley saw completely baffled them. There, standing right where they were looking, was a velvet pony, with a purple mane and red streak, and a horn on it's head, with bulging eyes looking just as surprised as they did.

"You see that too, right Spike?"

"Yes I do, man."

It was the pony's turn to speak. "Uh, hello?"

Spike took his knife and began stabbing the pony. She didn't feel pain, but out of panic, she grabbed Spike's neck with her magic and snapped it. His lifeless body fell to the ground. She was horrified by what she did and began to tear up, but when the same man respawned right where she killed him, she sighed in relief.

"How did you do that? I thought I killed you."

"You did, me and my friend have a power to come back after we die. We call it respawn. I was just making sure you were friendly"

"SO YOU START STABBING ME!? You could have just asked!"

Barley started speaking. "See what I have to deal with?"

"Just who, and what, are you two anyway?"

"My name is Barley, this is Spike. We're human beings. What's your name?"

"My name is Twilight. Where did you come from?"

"We're from a place called Earth. We're part of a paranormal investigation team, inspecting reports of an invincible man murdering people with a butcher knife."

"So you bring him here!?"

"Don't worry that's not him, our weapons our made so that they can't hurt friendlies. That's just Spike's way of saying hello."

"He needs to think of a new way to say hello"

"That's what I keep telling him"

"How did you get here anyway?"

It was Spike's turn to talk. "We don't know. We were just investigating like Barley said, but outta one of the times we died, we respawned out in the forest by your town."

"Hmm, the Everfree forest has had weird things come out of it, but they've only been strange looking animals, not beings from another planet."

"So, can you tell us where we are?"

"You're in Equestria, the town you're in is called Ponyville."

"Ponyville? Really?"

"What's wrong with the name?"

"Well, were I'm from..."

While Spike was explaining the absurdness of the name, Barley was trying to remember why it sounded familiar. And that's when it hit him.

"Oh god." He muttered.

Spike had heard him "What was that?"

"Spike, could you come here for a minute?"

Spike walked over to his friend. "What's up, man?"

"You know how, back in our world, there are those people called bronies?"

"You mean those weirdo's who watch My little Pony?"

"I have a little sister who watches it all the time, the town that the ponies live in? Ponyville."

That's when it hit Spike too. He looked back at Twilight and smiled. She smiled back. He turned his

head back to Barley.

"Today is gonna suck, isn't it?"

"Yep."