Nightshade Squad

by Grape Crush


Chapter 11: The One, The Only, Me. (Revised, for easier ways to tell who's speaking)

Sunlight, the damned sunlight. Every time I wake up it's directly in my eyes. Makes me want to go punch... Er... Something... I got up after my internal rant about the sun, not eager to start the new day, at all. After looking around and panicking for 10 minutes, I had finally remembered where we were. The thoughts about it being a dream had resurfaced and were instantly erased as the feeling of "you will be here, forever," came into play. After looking around the room I noticed Cat was still sleeping.

I opened the door as quiet as possible and made my way to the lower level of the library. No sooner than three seconds that I walked into the kitchen I was instantly greeted by two mares, a stallion, and a dragon.

"Hey guys, how's life?" I said in the calmest voice I could muster. (The way Tex looked at me, scared me.)

"Haha, well same with every other fucking time in the future you ask me, it's a living hell." Church chuckled and glanced over at Tex who had finally dropped her gaze from me.

"Why is your life so bad? I mean, I know you guys got turned into ponies and all that but still." At first I thought I had insulted them, but seeing as how he answered the question my fear dropped.

"Well, we were finally getting our lives back on track but then this happened. So yeah, give me around... Forever to get used to here."

"Oh come on Church, stop being a bitch." Tex replied readily.

"Who's the bitch?" Church smugly replied.

Tex grumbled and went back to her thoughts, probably wishing she never opened her mouth in the first place. A sudden question hit my mind.

"What did you guys do before you got here?"

"Nothing, I sat in a place called blood gulch and did jack shit. Until I learned I wasn't even real, that's when shit got interesting. Everyone in the room stared at Church for awhile before he finally elaborated on what he meant.

"I'm an AI fragment, meaning I'm like a computer. So this eating and going to the bathroom shit is weird." I must have looked even more confused than before, because I still had no idea what he was talking about.

"Look, since I'm not real, at least when I found out I wasn't real, I didn't eat ever. I hadn't even gotten the urge." Now it was starting to make sense, a little.

Everyone turned their heads as we heard a knock on the door.

"I'll get it!" Twilight said in a singsong voice.

Two ponies that I didn't know entered the room. The stallion being all black and the mare had a beautiful purple coat and pink hair.

"You realize this is a public library, no need to knock." Twilight scolded the two newcomers.

"Yeah, it's still the right thing to do right?" The stallion said in a calm voice.

"I guess, but still, for the future just come on, unless it says closed."

He nodded his head and both of them came into the room with us. I couldn't drop my gaze from the mare, goddammit I think she noticed. She gave me a glance and I quickly looked the other way. I then looked in her direction again, but this time I stared at her flanks, those nice and... Whoa back up the train from creepy town for a second, she doesn't have cutie marks.

"Hey Bullet, what are you looking at?" Twilight had caught my gaze and was giving me an awkward smile. I choked back my saliva that had been apparently forming on my mouth and thought of an answer.

"I uh... Um... Yeah, nothing." I said, looking very embarrassed. I looked at the wall while the others continued conversing.

"Well, today my gun appeared out of no where, I think it was because I got angry." Tom said, explaining to Twilight why they had come. He said something about family issues but I wasn't paying much attention. I was to busy staring at the mare. She was beautiful in everyway. I found myself once again staring at her flanks... Again... I wasn't noticed seeing as how I was basically hiding behind them all. They were all talking in a circle at the table. I was so entranced by... Her... I hadn't noticed she had turned her head and was staring at me. A bit of drool falling from my mouth had brought me out of my trance, I saw she had a devious smile on her face. She then quickly dropped it.

"Um, sorry, just wondering why you didn't have a cutie mark." I said embarrassed, she looked at me and smiled, not a friendly smile, but a devious one. I slowly looked away and stared at the floor.

"Well Tom, I'm not completely sure why magic had done that, but your magic seems to directly conflict with your emotions." Twilight said, she had been talking to Tom about his sudden magical appearance. All of it was gibberish to me, I didn't understand half of it. I mean, who would? Magic controlled by emotions is impossible, unless of course, something is wrong with their bodies. I can totally understand that if they are actually humans, I still have my doubts. I was still staring at the floor and then I felt a warm breath against my cheek. I turned up to look at who had done it, and I instantly met the mares lips. They were so soft, like a cloud, I never wanted to leave the warm embrace. I finally opened my eyes and I was staring into the other mares eyes, they were transfixed on mine.

"Melissa!" The stallion yelled. She instantly broke the kiss and turned around, behind her four very confused ponies were standing.

"Damn, I've seen some things in my lifetime, but that was not on the list. If only Tucker were here." Church was laughing in the background. Melissa was blushing, probably because she didn't want to be seen. I, however, didn't make it any better by standing there in mock horror. I could tell the heat was rising to my cheeks and I was blushing, hard. She then turned around and gave me a smile, walking up to me at the same time. When she was at my ear, she whispered something.

"To be continued," Her voice was so smooth and pretty, she then trotted back over to the four other confused ponies. I simply turned around and walked to my room, not sure how to take this. Yes, it was always my dream to be with another mare, but this... This was amazing. I had finally done it! Wait... She never said anything about being my marefriend... This is going to be a long day. I trotted up to my room intent on getting Cat's flank up and moving.