//------------------------------// // Dog food is surprisingly good // Story: Wrong Show // by PuzzledPegasis //------------------------------// "I think they're waking up." "What happened to them?" "I don't know I just found them in the park passed out." I grumbled and rolled over to my side. "Twilight?" I called out in a yawn. I heard a male voice gasp in front of me. "Look she's awake!" My eyes flew open, and I instantly regretted it. In front of me, sat five dogs with wide expectant eyes. Uh oh. I quickly shut my eyes and turned over with my back facing them. "Hey you okay?" A male voice asked. I growled in response and held my paws over my ears. So far this wasn't fun, I really hope this is just a dream.. "Hey! Are you okay?" A different voice asked with more urgency. I sighed and rolled over feeling defeated. This time I actually took the time to look at them. They were all of different breeds, not that I knew any of them, they stared at me with confusion and concern. Instead of the solid colors and unrealistic appearance I though they would have, they looked like real dogs, everything was normal except their large cartoon eyes which was creepy and cute in the same way. "Hey." I said blankly. "Um, Hi." said the dog I saw earlier today. Lucky. I stared back at him with large emotionless eyes. Meeting Twilight was one thing, but this was weird. I never wanted to come here. This world was almost the same as mine, so I saw no reason to want to be here, but now I am. Lucky seemed to be getting uncomfortable under my stare. Good. I didn't trust him. My theory on the alternate universes with sadistic murders could also apply with the Pound Puppies. You just take a bite of some dog chow- and then BAM, poison! I'm not gonna comply with these dogs until I know they're safe. "Is that all she can say?" I heard a male dog say impatiently. I looked over at him: small with big ears and wearing a spiked collar, maybe a Chihuahua? Anyway he seemed unfazed by my stare. "No." I replied coldly. I really don't trust this one. The rest of the dogs looked at each other with confused looks. "A-Alexis?" A voice from behind me called. I spun my head around to find Twilight sitting behind me on my dog bed. She was cowering in the corner, but had a look of reassurance as I gave her a little wave. "Hey Twi, It's seems we've gotten into a bit of a pickle here." She sat up and took note of our surroundings. "What happened?" She whispered. I just shrugged and looked around as well. It seemed to be the underground base beneath the pound I see in the cartoon alot. The celings and walls were made of dirt (seeing as we were underground) and there were various tunnels with dogs ducking in and out of them. We looked back at eachother and then at the dogs in front of us, not really knowing what to do. I leaned over to Twilight, "What do we tell them?" I whispered "They can talk?" She whispered leaning back over to me. "Oh yeah, I should have told you that. So what do we do?" "Do we tell them we're aliens?" "No, they'll think we're crazy!" "So what now-?" "Uh, were right here." The chihuahua said cutting us off, he looked unamused and slightly aggravated. Twi and me looked at eachother and then back at them. We were at a complete loss for what to do or say. I narrowed my eyes at them and placed my arm over Twi's bringing her into a huddle. "Twilight," I whispered low enough that they couldn't tell what I was saying, " We can't trust them. We don't know if they're hostile and stuff." She nodded and we broke the huddle to look back up at them. Still a bit confused. We huddled again. "Just make them think were harmless puppies. Introduce yourself. Act natural." She nodded once again and separated . I held my paw out. "Hello, my name is Alexis." I gave the best fake smile I could muster up. Lucky held out his paw and shook mine, "Hello, I'm Lucky." I nodded and he went on, "Well, let me introduce ourselves, we are the pound puppies," He extended his paw towards the other dogs, they stood up tall and gave us smiles, "We help puppies find their perfect human." I gave a really weak smile and so did Twilight, and right on time, her stomach grumbled. Before either of us could say anything, we were ushered up to the surface, which was just the usual dog pens. "You guys are probably hungry, there's some food over there." said the female dachshund. Another dog, the large scruffy one, slid over two dog bowls filled with what looked like dog chow. We both looked questionably at it. "Psst." Twilight whispered, "What's in this stuff? It smells really strange." I gulped and looked away from her. "Uh well. . . It's meat." I looked back up at Twi who had a look of disgust on her face. "Well, do I have to eat it? Didn't you say they're were vegetarian people?" "Well people-yes. But dogs? I don't think so." "Do you think they have any vegetarian dog food here?" "I don't think they would, the owner here doesn't care enough for the dogs here to get them anything but cheap dog chow stuff." I say remembering from the cartoon that the head dog catcher wasn't one of the greatest guys around. Twilight looked at her food and back at me. "What kind of meat?" I stared back down at the food and shrugged. "Hey what's wrong?" The scruffy dog asked. "Uh she. . . Doesn't like meat?" He looked at Twilight confused. My eyes darted around from each dog passing by. I hope we weren't acting too weird. "Psst." I got Twilight's attention and leaned over to her. "Try eating it, only a little. They look like they're getting suspicious of us." Twilight leaned over and sniffed it, she slowly leaned over and took the smallest bite she could. "Oh Celestia!" She yelped as she spat the dog food out of her mouth. She spent a couple of seconds coughing then lightheadedly sat back up. The scruffy dog sat there not knowing what to do. I darted my eyes between the large dog and the dizzy Twilight thinking of what to say. "Uh, she must be allergic to this kind of . . . uh. . . meat. Yeah, she allergic to most types of meat." I improvised. The dog looked confused, but he seemed to have bought it. "Well, uh. I'll see what other yummy food I can get you. In the mean time, just uh. . . eat some grass." He quickly dove into a tunnel and saw gone. Twilight breathed a sigh of relief and bent down to chew on some nearby grass. I looked down at my undisturbed bowl of dog chow and bent down to taste it. "Alexis? What are you doing?" Twi stopped me. I looked at her and back at the food. "What? I'm hungry. And besides I like to eat mean. Uh- no offense to your cow and pig buddies." I gave a nervous smile. She sighed once again and went back to eating her grass. I went back to my food and took a small bite. ". . ." "Alexis?" ". . ." "How is it?" "Umm." "It's not poisonous?" "It's actually. . . . good!" She rolled her eyes and went over to a patch of flowers while I dove into the rest of the food. I was almost done by the time the large dog came back with some marshmallows and a half empty jar of peanut butter. "Hey I got some stuff!" Twilight did a weird trot over to him, or as much as a trot she could do considering she was a dog not a pony. "Oh! Thank you." She bent forward to take a bite out of a marshmallow before I held my paw out to stop her. "Excuse me, but where did you get these from?" "Uh, the trash. Why?" I looked over at Twi and shook my head. She glanced up at the dog and turned around and began eating some flowers again. He looked confused but dove into the garbage food, eating most of it within seconds. I disgustedly steped back a few feet and stood next to Twilight. "You know your taking all of this surprisingly well." I said. "Taking what well?" "You know, getting ripped out of your universe, becoming a dog, having to take follow the instructions of a human who is now a dog." "I actually think I'm not really taking this in but, instead just going with what is happening. Mainly so I don't panic and loose my mind, I'm trying not to overthink our situation right now." "Eh, me too I guess. But I'll be completely honest here, I half think this is all a hallucination from spending too much time on my laptop." "I wish it was Alexis. I wish it was." ____________________________________________________________ A/N I Think it's going well so far. Also, expect this to be an overall long story. ~PuzzledPegasis