//------------------------------// // My New Room-mares: Day 5 - Part 1 // Story: Back To Equestria // by DubleTruble96 //------------------------------// I slowly opened my eyes. Everything was blurry and kinda dim. I blinked a few times to adjust my vision. Something pink and blue slowly started to come into view. I blinked again and the image became clear. Pinkie standing over me with a huge grin on her face, nose to nose with me. I stared for a while. At first it was kind of startling, but then I sighed and blinked. "Can I help you Pinkie?" Pinkie nodded quickly and hopped off the bed, then ran into the other room. I sighed heavily and got up, rubbing my eyes. I wasn't in the mood for this. I just woke up and everything. I heard the pink menace call from the living room. "Austin!! Come on!" I shuffled into the living room and looked at the group of ponies sitting in front of me. "What's up?" I asked. "We want to play!" Pinkie said. "Play what? Video games?" "No! Just come over here and listen." I walked over and sat with them, still drowzy from my rather odd awakening. Pinkie tossed some toys onto the floor, which included foam swords, plastic shields and a few plastic balls. There was more, but I don't want to list them. I'm too drowzy. "So, what is all this?" Pinkie shushed me. "I'm not done!" She pushed a big box into the room and tossed the toys inside. "Okay! Hop in!" Pinkie sat and grinned at us. The ponies looked at each other but nodded and shrugged, then climbed into the box. Now it was a big box, perfect size for 6 fully grown mares, but not me as well. I sat there, kinda awkwardly. Pinkie seemed to be waiting for me to climb in too. "Well?" She finally said, motioning to the box. "Well what? I can't fit in there..." "Yes you can!" "No, I can't." "Yes you can!" "No, I can't!" "Yes you can!" "NO I CAN'T!!" "Yes you can!" I facepalmed and sighed. "Pinkie! I'm too big!" "Just get in the box..." I rolled my eyes and stood up. "Look, if I tear this box or hurt anypony, I'm not taking the blame." Pinkie didn't answer and just smiled at me. I walked over and peered into the box. Her friends were gone. "Ooookay where'd they go?" "Into the box." "No, I mean they're gone...And the toys too...Is this some sort of a trick?" "No." "I didn't even see Twilight teleport anypony..." I inspeced the box thoroughly. It was just an empty box...I lifted it up and looked at the bottom, but it was taped shut, and the sides were intact. There wasn't even any ashes or a black mark from a teleportation spell. I put the box back down, dumbfounded. "Would you just get into the box?" Pinkie started to sound impatient. "But...ugh...Fine." I stepped into the box and sat down. My head poked out slightly, and I saw Pinkie climb in with me. She pushed my head down and pulled the flaps down, closing the box. Me and Pinkie sat there in the box, quietly. Finally Pinkie giggled and called out for her friends. "Okay! You can let us out now!" "Okay nice...Trick the human...fantastic." The box tilted and me and Pinkie were dumped out of our cardboard imprisonment. I stood up and dusted myself off. "Yep, reeeeallll funn.....y...?" I stopped my sentence short when I looked around. We weren't in Canada anymore...We were...somewhere. I can't really describe it. It was weird. Me and the mane 6 stood around, and Pinkie smiled at me. Suddenly, the world changed and turned into a medival setting. I looked at the ponies and they seemed to be putting armor on. Armor made of...plastic. Pinkie tossed me a thin plastic helmet. "Suit up! We have to get ready for the changelings." "Changelings?! And this helmet is plastic! This would protect me about as much as a pane of glass!" "Just put it on!" I slipped on the helmet and the rest of the fake armor, and Pinkie tossed me a foam sword and plastic shield. "Get ready, soldier!" She grinned. I was about to utter another protest, but the girls seemed dead-set on whatever it was they were doing...They all charged toward a hilltop and, I, armed with my toy battle equipment, shuffled up behind them. I was skeptical..I mean, the changelings were defeated already. And this doesn't even look like Equestria. Not the Equestria I knew. There were no pegasi, no unicorns...no ponies, no nothing! Just some empty stands, a few armor racks, weapon racks and a hill. When we crested the hill, I saw a huge black mass of changelings coming over the horizon. I immediately stepped back. "Are you girls nuts?! There must be a thousand...a million! A billion of those things!! And we don't even have the Elements! Just some...toys!" Pinkie gave me a look. "Are you kidding me? Do you not know the raw power of the foam sword? Do you? The foam sword is the most feared weapon in all of Equus..." "I'm outta here..." I turned and started to walk away, but Pinkie grabbed me and pulled me back. "Oh no...there's no going back." She grinned. I pulled away, but she had a firm grip. Wait...grip?! I looked at my arm where she had me. Wrapped around it was her tail, it's curls tightening around my arm. "WHAT THE HE-" Pinkie shoved her hoof into my mouth. "Shh...They come..." The changelings charged us and started to attack. The girls immediately set into combat, and I just hid behind my shield in a cowardly fashion. I saw a changeling raise his sword and bring it down on my shield. A loud metal clang erupted as the weapon met my shield, and I gave it a shot...I thrust my sword at the changeling and impaled it, spraying...confetti every...where. The changeling then collapsed, it's wound still leaking colourful bits of paper and streamers. The look on my face could only be described as befuddled. I saw another changeling lunge at me, and I stabbed it in the chest, and it sprayed more confetti. I pulled my sword out and caught on to what was happening...I think... Changeling after changeling met the foam of my blade, confetti sprayed the fields and swords clashed with loud clangs. Twilight was cornered by a large number of them, but within a few seconds, me and AJ had taken them down. Finally, after all was said and done, me and them walked the fields, finishing off any changelings that happened to only get small wounds. Take no prisoners. We set up a camp and dined on licorice Pinkie had brought. "A very good battle, comrades!" Pinkie yelled and the ponies cheered. Me, on the other hand, had a mouthful of licorice, so I just let out a muffled 'yeah' from the back. "No doubt those no good changelings will try to take this hill again but we won't let that happen!" The ponies cheered again. Suddenly, Pinkie went from 'hardened medival soldier' to 'bouncy party mare'. "That was fun!" The ponies laughed and nodded. I looked at them strangely with a mouthful of licorice. "Huh?" I mumbled. "What next?" Pinkie asked eagerly. Twilight thought for a minute. "Ooh! What about Rainbow Racing?" Fluttershy asked. "Nahhh, we did that last week..." Rainbow said. "I wouldn't mind going back to Diamond Hills..." Rarity said, her eyes sparkling. "We were there for 12 hours last time that happened, Rare..." AJ said. "What about Magical Kingdom?" Twilight suggested. The ponies all nodded and seemed to agree on it, meanwhile I walked over. "Whoa whoa whoa...What do you mean?" "We'll explain later! Next stop, Magical Kingdom!" Pinkie hopped onto a flying...cupcake-mobile and flew into the sky. The other followed closely behind with their own personalized flying machines, leaving me sitting there. "Uh...girls? Girls you kinda left me...behind..." I blinked. "Great..." I turned and went to leave, when I saw a motorbike with jet wings. I looked around to see if anyone belonged to it. Well, the only ponies around were either dead or a changeling. Or both. I shrugged and got onto the bike and drove off into the sky in the direction I remembered they left to. I managed to catch up and saw them in robes and capes. I blinked and landed. The scenery was now a large castle or dungeon. Torch stances dimly lit the stone cavern in a flickering light. The cobblestone floors were covered in moss and filth. I approached the mares who were dressed more like mages. "Where's my robe?" I asked. "You're wearing it." Pinkie said with a broad grin. I looked at my attire. It was a long purple robe with black trimming. "Whoa." The ponies smiled and were chatting. "Who wants to duel first?" "Me me me!" Twilight seemed quite eager. "Okay you can duellll.....Austin!" Pinkie pointed at me. "Whoa wait...WHAT?"