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// The Waking Dead 
// Story: Red Star's new Adventure 
// by Red_Star 
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"You just fall out of the sky and suddenly you think your better than me!!" Aeris screams with a very demonic voice. Red steps forward and says back, "I never said that! I don't know why you I'm so popular!" Aeris stomps his hoof into the ground and it cracks and lightning strikes his hoof, "LIES ALL LIES!!!" Aeris stares at Red and his hooves spark as electricity goes into the ground. The dirt cracks all the way up to Red and a large electric charge enters through his hooves. Red screams in pain and passes out. Aeris laughs evilly.  Electric bolts jump around Red's body. Scootaloo stands a safe distance and cries. Suddenly Red's veins start glowing yellow. He wakes up and gets up. He struggles to live and shoots all the lightning into the ground. He falls on the ground writhing in pain, and it starts raining. "Ha. Learn your place!" Red passes out. 

He wakes up back in a hospital bed, with a 'beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee' in his ear. He hears somepony crying and he looks around.
"He's.....*sniff* dead........."
Red Star looks down and sees an orange filly with purple hair, crying on his body.
"Heeeh-heeeeey......"
Her head darts up. She stares at Red and hugs him tightly. "Red.......... You died........."
"What? I'm still *coughs* here!"
Scootaloo looks at the heartbeat thing. "It's says your dead."
"Well I'm not."
Aero bursts through a wall, "RED!!! YOU'RE ALIVE!!" Red cringes in pain. "Yea I am."
"I thought Aeris killed you!"
"Me too." Red's body shocks with electricity. "Aaaaahhhh!"
"You still have electricity in you. I'm sorry Red." 
"It's okay Aero."
Heartsong walks in crying a little, then she sees Red alive and rushes to him. "Red! How is this possible?!" 
"I don't know! How long have I been out?"
"5 days."
"Wow......... What happened?" 
Aero speaks up, "Aeris happened. He/I was jealous because you seem to be so popular. I'm so sorry......."
"It's okay Aero, I- AAAAAAHHH" electricity bolts through him. When it dies down, he asks, "How long is this going to last?!" 
Aero thinks for a moment. "It seems until your heart restarts."
"What? How am I alive if my heart isn't working?"
Aero points to the dead line. Red Star sighs. Heartsong puts on a stethoscope and puts it to his chest. "He's right, your heart isn't beating." Red's body sparks again, catching Heartsong in the shock. The hospital is filled with a duet of screams. The dead line on the machine pulses once then goes dead again.Red Star feels a slight pain and his soul tries to detach from his body, but he holds on. While this happens, his eyes dilate and his fur turns slightly grey. When he comes back, his eyes fix and his fur goes back to normal. "Oh god I'm going to die......." They all look at him confused. "I think you mean 'oh Celestia'" Red star quickly remembers he's not a human and those terms are long gone for him. He shocks one last time and the dead line jumps back to life and keeps beating. Red starts crying tears of joy. "I'm alive! I'm not going to die!" The group hugs Red.

Over the next few days, they hold Red in the hospital. He feels a buzzing in his spine from the high voltage still in his body. When he leaves, he walks outside into the sunshine and smiles. A large group of fillies and colts his age run up to him. There is a long series of shouting and  Red gets hugged, pet, and over all touched alot. Then they pick him up and start running down the road. They run into a school house and set Red in the center desk and sit around him. Red Star slightly blushes from all the sudden attention. A purple and pink mare with smiling flowers on her flank walks up to the front desk. One of the fillies shout, "Miss Cheerilee!! We have a new student!!" And she points directly at Red. "Oh so we do! Why not you come up here and tell us about yourself?" Red gets shy. He looks around and spots Scootaloo and the crusaders sitting together, but no empty seats around them. "Excuse me little colt?" Miss Cheerilee looks at him with concern. "What's wrong?" 
"Well........... I'm a little shy......." Red buries his head on his desk. 
"Come on little guy, it's okay!" She gives him a warm and inviting smile.
Red gets up and slowly walks to the front of the room. He stands next to Cheerilee and looks out over the class. "H-hi my names Red Star......." Miss Cheerilee smiles and says, "Hi Red Star! Welcome to my school!" Red gives a half smile. "Why don't you tell us about yourself Red Star?" 
"Uuuhhhhhhh......."
"Do you want the class to ask questions?"
"Su-sure........." A bunch of hooves raise. "You." Red Star points to a blue filly.
"How old are you?"
"I'm 14." Red Star picks a colt. 
"How long have you been in ponyville?"
Red thinks. "About 4 weeks now." Red then makes the mistake of picking a pink filly wearing a tiara.
"What's your cutie mark?"
"Oh......" Red shows his flank and its blank. A large portion of the class starts laughing and Red Star gets really sad. Miss Cheerilee gets mad and yells at the class. Red Star sits sadly on the floor, his long mane covering his eyes as he starts softly crying. His second worst fear, being made fun of, has just happened. He hears 6 hooves rushing towards him.