//------------------------------// // The Other Side of the Mirror // Story: The Broken Mirror // by Southern_Mercenary //------------------------------// Chapter four: The other side of a mirror Geoff's head snapped towards the stairs and his breath hitched in his throat for a second before he calmed some and began to focus. He backed up towards a wall and breathed calmly, Spike on the other hand had gotten out of the bed and headed towards Twilight. Geoff tried to will himself invisible for the time being, while he knew he could not he did however hoped to be not noticed. Time slowed down some as he waited hearing Twilight as Spike had called her coming up the stairs. Breathing in much the same way that he did while shooting at distance and waited. Seeing the dark skin of Twilight coming past he pounced. His jump force and mass forced Twilight to the ground. Quickly he turned her over onto the ground and put his hand on her mouth, her eyes wide with fear. "Listen I don't want to hurt you all I want is answers okay? Nod your head if you understood" Geoff said, several seconds later Twilight's head nodded. "Good I'm going to move my hand now don't scream." Geoff said moving his hand but keeping Twilight on the ground with her arms pinned. "What do you want to know?" She asked. "First where am i? "Ponyville." Twilight responded all the while Spike was inching towards the stairs to get help. "Ponyville? Who named this place a 5 year old?" "Ponyville has a long and rich history which includes several harvest seasons that beat all other records." She responded seeing Spike at the stairs and heading down them. "Whatever who is in charge of the town?" "Mayor Marian." "Whose never mind is there anyone over her? It is a woman right?" "Yes and there's the princess." "Princess? Who the fuck sets up a monarchy in this day and age?" "Princess Celestia has been the Princess for thousands of years." "Is that she tells you that she is some god? Oh boy the indoctrination must take forever here. What weapons and troops do you have? Any regulars or all militia?" "What no she has been ruling for thousands of years. She raises the sun every day." "Please the planet moves around the sun do to gravity and gravity wells. And since the planet rotates we also have day and night. Not some pretty little princess who likes to control people's lives." With that Geoff smirked in Twilight's face. "Yawl better not have insulted the princess!" Came a voice from in front of Geoff, Looking up he saw a tanned freckled face but in front of that was a raised boot. With a grunt the new girl kicked Geoff in the chest. Despite putting her full force into the kick Geoff only went a few inches as he fell off of Twilight. Landing on his butt he rolled backwards some of his own accord and stood up his fists in the ready position. Geoff would have started to fight the girls had it not been for the fact he started to float a few inches off the ground. And while he was floating it was not a gentle floating his whole body seemed to go in several different directions at once. Mainly back to the ground. He looked to see Twilight with an arm raised and fingers spread with a look of concentration on her face. "Now my question becomes how am I floating and why does it seem to be so hard for me to float. Or did I hit my head sometime within the last few seconds?" Geoff asked. "I'm levitating you until the everyone gets here." Twilight said. "Twi why didn't I buck him across the room?" the other girl asked. "Not sure Applejack his weight?" Twilight responded. "Or for some reason the physics causing my atoms to behave are different." Geoff responded crossing his arms. "How is that possible?" Twilight asked. "Alternate realities seem like a possibility though that is near impossible but the likelihood is that Applejack as you called her is as weak as a new born kitten." Geoff retorted. "Why I aughta." Applejack said rolling up a sleeve. "You know what girly girl come at me." Geoff said opening his arms wide. "Applejack stop trying to antagonize the poor man just look at the state of his clothes." Came a new voice that came into view as Geoff floated into the proper position. While Twilight looked like milk chocolate and Applejack was tan, the new girl was pale as could be with dark black tresses that looked purplish blue in the light. "Who the fuck are you?" Geoff asked turning away from the group. "You know what don't answer that just do what you want with me. Especially if you're going to tie me to a pole and slow roast me while I'm still alive screaming to god to end the pain." By the time Geoff turned back around all the faces where looking at him with horrified looks on their faces. The spell keeping Geoff up stopped and he dropped to the ground. "So I guess the idea of cannibalism doesn't appeal to you. yawl must have a good food source then." Geoff said dusting himself off and looking at the group. "Darling why would you think of something like that." The dark haired one said. "Because it happened…" Geoff thought for a moment. "6 days ago to a friend of mine right in front of me. Small place like this everyone seemed real friendly until the knocked us out. And tied my friend to a poll of course they stripped him first then they put him and the pole over a bunch of wood and doused both of them in gasoline. Went up like a roman candle, screaming pleading to die. All the while I could smell the burning flesh that was his at it charred black." "ENOUGH!" Twilight said her face showing her queasiness. "How could someone make a story like that up?" the newest girl said covering her face so she wouldn't vomit. "Made up. you think that was made up?" Geoff asked. "Almost." Applejack said steadying herself on a bookshelf. "Then I guess the scores of dead I killed again I made up in my head. The friends I lost I imagined the being eaten, devoured, or blown to bits rather than face the end. Yah I made that up." "Stop that's just horrible." Rarity said "So you think it's all made up. I got shot escaping that place before they could eat me." He said moving his shirt some to show the bullet wound. "Then I suppose this wasn't a raider." he said taking off the shirt to show the three bullet wounds in his gut. "So how do you suppose I go these?" He asked to the girls. "I don't know I've only seen scars like these after battles." Twilight said. "My brother has similar ones." "Lucky for him he probably had better armor than I did." Geoff said putting his shirt back on. "How…how…" Rarity asked. "How did I live? good medicine and good timing by my people." Geoff answered before he was blinded by a light that came from behind the girls. Shielding his eyes he attempted to grab a smoke grenade on his vest but realized he didn't have his vest on. After the light cleared stood a woman about a few inches taller than Geoff. Her wings spread wide looking at Geoff with a soft furry in her eyes. "Who the fuck are you?" Geoff asked. "I am Princess Celestia." she said to Geoff as the other girls where bowed to her. "Okay so?" Geoff asked unimpressed. "She's the princess." Twilight responded standing up. "Yes wings are a little odd but as far as I can tell either someone put something in my IV or I hit my head." Geoff answered. "Why does every person coming from your universe act so horribly?" Celestia asked. "Probably because…wait you said my universe, alternate universe?" Geoff wondered. "Okay that explains the shenanigans going on."