"Hey, get up!" Frank yelled, as I awoke inside my own head.
"Good god, it actually worked!" Frank practically screamed that out.
"What worked?" I asked, rubbing my eyes, then feeling a lot of pain.
"Me yelling at you from this cage for three hours" Frank casually said, I looked around, finding his head poking out from a purple cage.
"What the hell?" I asked, looking at the cage. "What're you doing in there exactly?" I asked him, poking the cage while doing so.
"Oh you know, being trapped by magic from a staff" he said, being a smart ass.
"Well how do I get you out?" I asked, punching the cage, only to hurt myself on it.
"Hmm, let's see....you could punch it more, or get the key while getting your sense in music back!" he said, pointing behind me. Turning around, I found myself in a locked room.
"He's awake!" Pinkie screamed in my ear, pretty much making my left ear deaf to all noise.
"He is?!" Twilight said, rushing over and looking at me. "How do you feel?" She asked, observing me.
"Like pain" I said, holding back the urge to scream in pain, my arms felt like someone had been biting into them full force, my chest felt like I had been hit by a truck twice in a row, and my head felt like something punched it with four arms four times.
"I wonder why" Rainbow said off to the side. Looking over, I saw her roll her eyes.
"So what're we doing in here?" I asked, looking around the tiny room, seeing the others looking at me, and Pinkie was reading a book full of equal signs.
"Trapped" Rainbow said flatly, this is when I noticed the little intercom talking about equality.
"What should we do?" I asked, feeling the boredom seep into my mind. Painfully.
"We could find a way to escape" Rarity said, while looking at the window curtains, trying to determine something.
"Or we could read these books!" Pinkie said, then a weird pulse like thing ran over her, making her mane flatten as she frowned.
"Those are.....ideas" I said, pulling my phone out with my earbuds. "My plan is to wait it out" I said, plugging everything into the place it needed to go, then started blasting some dubstep. I watched as the others talked amongst themselves, as I heard.....music I think? It definitely didn't sound like anything that made sense.
"Told ya" Frank said, that's when it hit me.
"That bitch is going down" I said, pulling my earbuds out, stuffing them into my pocket.
"Wait what?!" Fluttershy said, looking completely confused and scared.
"I can't tell if my dubstep is music or not anymore!" I said, blaring it out loud for them to hear as well. They all looked confused as to what they were hearing, even staring at me like I was a maniac for thinking this was music before!
"Human's are silly with their fancy music" Applejack said, I just sighed, stopped my music, then put it away.
"Yes, yes we are" I said, then felt a weird sensation go down my back, as I felt a pulse follow it. I felt normal for once. "What have I become?" I asked myself, as everything started looking more normal then before. I just sat down, closed my eyes, and fell deep into sleep.
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"Stop it! He can't lose anymore or he'll die!" I heard someone say, as I started to stir. I opened my eyes, only to meet that of two red eyes.
"What the hell?!" I shouted, as I rolled away from the eyes. Looking back, I saw that Fluttershy was once again a vampony. "Did she bite me again?" I asked, patting around my neck, searching for any blood.
"Yes, but you can't become a vampire again because of the moonsand!" Twilight said, pulling on Fluttershy's tail, keeping her from sucking me dry.
"Thank god! But how long was she biting me for?" I asked, Twilight looked at Rarity, Rarity looked at Rainbow, Rainbow looked at Applejack, and then Applejack looked at Pinkie. Then they all shrugged their shoulders. "I will take it that it was well over a while" I said, looking at Fluttershy with caution. Suddenly, she kicked Twilight, then flew straight into my chest, slamming me against the wall.
"All mine!" Fluttershy yelled, biting straight into my neck, bringing more pain onto my pain riddled body. She lifted both of us off the ground, up to the roof, keeping me in her grasp all the while.
"Hey!" Rainbow yelled, trying to get her off me without hurting her. Fluttershy pulled away from my neck, stared into Rainbow's soul, then went straight back to drinking.
"Please......stop!" I said, giving a quick punch, only to be dropped to the ground.
"H-how....how could you!" Fluttershy yelled, flying straight down onto me, crushing me into the ground. "You hurt me!" She yelled again, punching my shoulder, a loud pop filled the room as I felt my shoulder be dislocated.
"Sorry about this then!" I said in pure anger, using my other arm to get her off, dealing a strong punch to her head, knocking her out cold. Everything was silent, all eyes on me, the pain was worse then anything I've felt before. Deciding to try to get rid of some pain, I popped my shoulder back into place. I sat there, looking at all of them, wondering what they will do to me. Pinkie broke the silence.
"Why?" She asked, tears forming in her eyes, as she curled into a ball on the ground.
"I.....I-I don't know" I uttered out, my words hung heavy in the air, I knew I was doomed against them.
"I thought you were cooler then that" Rainbow said, finding a spot, then ignored us.
"You didn't have to hurt her" Twilight said, turning away.
"That was barbaric" Rarity said, still staring at the curtains.
"I honestly think you could've done something else" Applejack said, lowering her stetson over her eyes.
"I'm........never mind" I said, looking at one of the windows. "I'm out" I said, taking Pinkie's hoodie off, then the note fell out of the pocket. Picking it up, I re-read the letter from the pink mare, then turning it over. I picked up a pencil off the ground, then wrote a goodbye letter to all the girls. Walking over to Fluttershy, leaving the goodbye note next to her, and setting the hoodie onto Pinkie.
"Farewell" I said, forcing myself through the tiny window space. Once out, I looked towards Starlight's house, anger flooded me again. "I'm coming for you" I said, walking towards it. The sun revealed itself on the horizon, as I stepped up to the door. As I stood there, about to knock, the door opened. She looked completely surprised to see me.
"How did you?" She asked, I just put two fingers to her head, then did something stupid.
"One inch punch!" I yelled, balling my fist from a finger space away from her head, then instantly thrusting forward. Due to stupidity, I forgot that I lacked the skills to do it properly, and pretty much just knocked on her head.
"Never mind, you're going straight back in there" she said, knocking me out with that damned spell.
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"Is he alright?" I heard someone ask, opening my eyes, I saw Party Favor in the locked room with us.
"Of course he is! He only ran off and ditched us!" Twilight said, sounding pretty angry.
"I was trying to take down Starlight" I said, standing up.
"Then why did you give back my hoodie and leave a goodbye note next to Fluttershy?" Pinkie asked, tears streaming down her face.
"Because I didn't know what I was doing" I said, then looked around for Fluttershy, only to see she wasn't there. "Where's Fluttershy?" I asked, then Party Favor looked out the window.
"She's one of them now" he said, I walked over, looking out, then spotting Fluttershy outside with all the other citizens.
"How many times do we have to tell you! It's part of our plan!" Rainbow said, her back towards me.
"Hold up, what plan?" I asked, they all looked away, giving me the cold shoulder.
"Why should it matter to you if you're just going to run off like that!" Twilight said, getting in my face, anger clear in her eyes. A tear ran down her cheek. "You scared me when I saw them throw you back in, because it looked like you were dead!" She said, turning away from me once more.
"You smell like it too" Pinkie said, tears still streaming down her eyes.
"Well sorry I smell bad" I said, guilt flooding my body. "I'm sorry for what I've done, but I'm only human, so I can't be perfect and nice like all you ponies" I said, grabbing their attention. "I just.....I don't know why I do violent things, nor will I ever figure out. All I know is that the mistakes I make, make me who I am" I said, giving what I believed to be an apology.
"You still need to apologize to Fluttershy" Twilight said, distracting herself, the others doing the same. Deciding that there was nothing else to do, I sat by the window, putting some 'music' on to distract myself. Everything seemed to speed up, passing by faster then school would. The sun set, and the moon rose, and I felt an arm touch my shoulder.
I jumped from the sudden touch, taking a few steps away from the window, I saw a certain vampony in the window. "Fluttershy you're back!" Twilight said, walking over to the window. "So what did you find out?" She asked, Fluttershy opened her mouth to speak, but stopped and looked at me, her eyes read it all.
"Not with him around" she said, looking away from me. Giving a sigh of defeat, I plugged my ears full of more 'music' as to show I wasn't listening. Fluttershy gave a nod, then started explaining it to the others, leaving me in the dark. They talked for a few minutes, then Fluttershy flew off, and the others went back to where they were before.
"Is that all?" I asked, they looked at me.
"Well, yeah, we gotta wait until mornin'" Applejack said, pulling the stetson down again.
"Why not just do it at night? Under the cover of the shadows?" I asked, thinking of how much better it would work at night.
"Let's see, I can't get my wings through, and Starlight is in her house" Rainbow said, looking a little down for once. Giving up, I decided I might as well get some rest, so I would be ready for whatever happens tomorrow. Laying down, I felt something soft land on me.
"You're going to want that back" Pinkie said, I looked up to see the hoodie back on me.
"Thanks" I said, sitting up to put it on. With the cuddly hoodie back on, I used the hood as a pillow, and closed my eyes.
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I awoke, the door open, and the others were walking out. Not wanting to be left in the tiny room any longer, I hurried up and followed them out. "Any pony want to join us this morning?" Starlight said, as we all got into a line in front of them.
"What?" I asked, not knowing what she meant.
"Do you want to be equal with us?" Starlight said, giving a small yet explanatory explanation.
"Oh right yeah.....no" I said, Starlight just gave a face that screamed 'of course you wouldn't.'
"I want to re-join you!" Party Favor said, running forward. "They tried to change me with their friendship, but I didn't listen!" He said, making a random face.
"I thought so, any others?" She asked, throwing us a smirk.
"You know our answers, now give us our cutie marks back!" Twilight said, I decided to insert my own words.
"And the key to Frank's cage!" I said, the others just stared at me in confusion, while Starlight gave a little smirk.
"Oh, so that's what that little red aura was?" She asked, then Double Diamond stepped forward, handing a jar of red to her. "How badly do you want this back?" She asked, then Frank intervened.
"Free me you bitch!" Frank said, a red head popping out of my head, scaring the literal shit out of every one else, almost including me.
"Holy shit! I didn't know you could do that!" I said, Frank's head went back in, then his arm flew out of mine, shattering the jar.
"You have no idea" Frank said, the red aura flying into me, then Frank's entire form walked out, clear for everyone to see. "Now hand over the rest of the cutie marks, and I won't end you now" Frank said, walking towards her. Then out of nowhere, Fluttershy flew up and dumped a bucket of water on her, revealing a cutie mark from under her fake one.
"Wait what?" Starlight asked, looking up, then covering her cutie mark with her tail.
"Nice one Fluttershy" Frank said, giving her a fist bump as she landed next to him.
"Same to you" Fluttershy replied, Starlight's face was riddled with surprise.
"B-but, you were one of us!" She yelled, then Twilight stepped forward, explaining a large and elaborate plan that I did not understand one bit. "QUIET!" Starlight yelled, her face was red with anger, and even Frank looked a little surprised.
"Wait a second, isn't that real?" Double Diamond asked, stepped forward, looking at her ass. "I thought you said we were all equal!" He said, sounding betrayed.
"Of course we are!" Starlight said, taking a step back.
"But none of us have our cutie marks, then how come you still have yours?" A random pony in the crowd asked, once more, Twilight said something nerdy about some guys artifacts.
"Then how did she remove our cutie marks if the staff wasn't magical?" Party Favor asked.
"It was my magic that did it!" Starlight said, anger once again clear.
"We want our cutie marks back!" The crowd started saying, Starlight backed away, then ran off into her house. "Come on everypony! Let's go get our cutie marks back!" Another random pony yelled, then they all took off towards the vault. I started running with them, since Twilight and the others were doing so as well.
"Wait! Our cutie marks are in Starlight's house!" Fluttershy yelled, we turned on the dime, sprinting towards her house. Upon reaching the house, the door was locked.
"Ah come on! Of course she locked the damn door!" I said, giving it a good kick. "Screw it, I'm busting a window!" I said, walking over to a window, breaking it, then climbing through. Unlocking the door, I was met with a bunch of un-amused faces.
"That was unnecessary" Twilight said, showing me a key she had.
"Where'd you get that?" I asked, finally noticing that my elbow was bleeding.
"Under the welcome mat" she said, then went up the stairs. I walked over to the mat, and kicked it off into the street. Following them up, I saw them go down a hidden passage under a bed.
"I've seen a trick like this before" I said, following them down the stairs.
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Emerging from the long tunnel, we watched as Starlight ran towards some mountains. "If she gets into those caves in the mountains, you'll never see your cutie marks again!" Double Diamond said next to us, appearing out of nowhere.
"How will we catch her in time?" Twilight asked, walking towards the mountains.
"You can count on me!" Rainbow said, flying into the air, only to fly slower then ever before. I watched as she struggled to fly faster, as Night Glider, Party Favor, Sugar Belle, and Double Diamond ran way ahead of us. "Oh come on!" Rainbow complained, as we all slowly walked towards the mountains. Finding it necessary, I plugged in some more 'music'. The walk was shorter then I expected, and a little interesting. I did see a bridge of balloons, wonder how that works.
"Look!" Twilight said, as some colored orbs flew towards us. They hit Twilight, Fluttershy, Rainbow, Rarity, Applejack, and Pinkie.
"Why no orb for me?" I asked, searching around for another.
"Because she still has your sense in music!" Fluttershy said, then they all started running towards the balloon bridge, bouncing across.
"Alright, I'll just walk then" I said, walking after them, thinking about the lovely weather.
"Shall I join you?" Frank said, stepping out of me.
"How in the hell did you get back into me without me noticing?" I asked.
"Simple, you don't turn around much" he said, looking forward, I saw the others cross the balloon bridge.
"Whatever, just go catch up with them" I said, he shrugged his shoulders, then ran forward at high speeds. "Now I want ghost powers like that" I said, thinking about how much faster things could be done at that speed. Reaching the balloon bridge, I went for a nice good bounce. "What doesn't kill me makes me stronger" I said, thinking about how these could be magical balloons that only ponies could walk on. With extreme accuracy, my theory was correct.
"SSSSSSHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!" I yelled, as my voice sounded like the weird cartoon-ish falling sound. Thinking quickly, I thought about how painful this would be.
"You really think we would let you fall?" I heard someone say, looking to the side, I saw Night Glider falling alongside me.
"Maybe, wait, aren't you supposed to be handling Starlight?" I asked, as we had casual talk during the fall.
"Oh they can handle it, it's just one mare" she said, then looked down. "Alright, grab my arm and don't let go" she said, holding it out.
"This is a normal thing for you, isn't it" I said, grabbing her arm.
"Not really" she said, using her somehow strong enough wings to carry us to a nearby cliff edge. "I'm gonna go check on your friends, just wait here" she said, flying off. Looking around, I saw there was nowhere else to go on this tiny ledge.
"Yeah I'll do that" I said, keeping myself as far away from the edge as I could. Looking around, I saw a light show near the mountains, with a red glow, random purple lights flying into the air, and a rainbow. "Looks like they're fighting, or coming to agreements and lighting some fireworks" I said to myself, trying to give.myself something to do. Deciding that talking to myself wasn't going to work, I looked up, observed the ledge, and decided on what to do.
"It's time to become, the Spiderman!" I said, turning to face my whole body towards the wall. Putting my first arm up, I grabbed onto a tiny ledge, then the other arm came up to grab a ledge just above it, then I pulled myself up. "Alright, now what?" I asked myself, as I kept myself hanging there, looking like a total idiot. "Just great, now I'm terrified to climb up, or drop back down" I said, feeling my arms growing weaker.
"Whatcha doing?" I heard someone ask, has another voice joined my head.
"Oh ya know, just hanging from a cliff" I replied.
"Oh that sounds like fun! Can I join you?" The voice asked.
"Sure, why not. Let's all hang from cliffs today! Today is national cliff hanging day!" I said, as I saw a lot of pink fall to my right. "Oh it's not another voice" I said, turning.my head to Pinkie.
"Nope! But I have a voice, so that counts right?" She asked, I smiled.
"Sure, why not" I said, then I felt the last little bit of strength leave my arms. "Shit" I said, before dropping right onto the tiny ledge. "Huh, I expected to fall more" I said, looking around to confirm that I wasn't falling.
"Oh you're so silly Zach!" Pinkie said, landing on the ledge with me.
"Everything went better then expe-" I began saying, before the ledge shattered, and we started plummeting to the ground.
"Weeeeeee!" I heard Pinkie scream, as she was actually having fun in a death fall. "Why aren't you yelling Zach? This is fun!" She said, doing a frontflip.
"Because I ain't magical, I'm wingless, and I don't have your mysterious abilities!" I said, deciding to look like I was having, I pretended that I was laying on a bed.
"Oh yeah, I always forget about that" Pinkie said, swimming through the air next to me, pretending to lay down next to me.
"So how big was this cliff again?" I asked looking down, only to see that an oversized fan was keeping us airborne. "Nevermind, did you put that there?" I asked Pinkie, she gave a quick nod, before doing a frontflip.
"Yep! I set it up so we could have some fun!" She said, then it hit me.
"Yeah, it's fun, but what about Starlight and the others?" I asked, looking up to see that the light show had stopped. "What happened?" I asked Pinkie, she just giggled.
"Frank's chasing her back down the mountain!" She said, pointing at the red aura move along the mountain side.
"Oh" I said, watching as it went down the mountain pretty fast. "Care to explain what happened up there?" I asked, deciding to lay down on the imaginary bed above the fan.
"Hmm, let's see....." She began, putting her mind to work. "We crossed the balloon bridge to discover that the others had stopped her but she still had your sense in music and then Frank came charging forward and scred the living stuffing out of us and yelled something and Night Glider nodded and flew back and then he walked towards Starlight who was trying to escape but he stopped her and there was this big duel with lazers ans magic and I even used my party cannon!" She said, all in one large breath. "And that's why we're here right now!" She said, giving me a hug.
"That explains....a lot.....but, if he's chasing her, then she would surely have dropped the bottle by now" I said, looking around.
"Oh yeah! Here it is!" Pinkie said, pulling the bottle of grey out of her mane.
"Not gonna question it" I said, giving her a hug, knocking the bottle out of her hand in the process. It fell to the ground, and made a brilliant smashing sound. "Come to papa" I said, watching the orb fly into my face, as I started remembering my favorite songs.
"So you got it back now right?" Pinkie asked, breaking the hug. I grabbed my phone and earbuds to put it to the test. With the dubstep blasting, I felt the joy from music that I always get.
"Yep, sounds beautiful" I said to her, smiling.
"So how much longer are you two just going to float there?" I heard a familiar voice say.
"No idea" I said, turning around to face the red man.
"Well alright then, but don't take to long, they're throwing a party back at the town" Frank said, using his thumb to point behind him in the general direction of the town.
"A party?! Without Pinkie?!" Pinkie said, gasping.
"Calm down Pinks, we'll get there" Frank said, turning around and walking around. "Unless you float up there all day" he yelled back, and Pinkie didn't think twice.
"Let's go!" Pinkie said, grabbing my arm while pulling a cannon out if nowhere.
"Wait what?" I asked, but it was too late, we were sitting on it and she did a movement, firing the cannon while launching us towards the party. "I hope the party's worth it for this!" I said, holding on for dear life.