“So… you know, have the ‘good’ stuff?”
“Indeed stranger, have a look at the –“
“Not that stuff, I mean the ‘good’ of ‘goooood’ stuff”
“…I believe I know what you are looking”
Zeppelin Sullivan has a problem, but not ‘that’ kind of problem if you believe, but is a problem that came with his heritage; which means said problem wasn’t his fault. He never asked and cared about his mental issue, he just shrugged it off by taking a certain medicine from the other side of the world, which by his luck didn’t have to pay anything for it for the reason that was an experimental medicine from Asiatic scientists who found interest on his problem.
Omitting that part; he passed his life smoothly to say at least, except for the days when he accidentally forgot to take his medicine.
However today was one of those days when he actually ‘forgot’ to take his pills, who are we lying?
He did on purpose because the COMICON was that day and he thought that going in such brute state would turn him into the center of attention; which he actually became the center of attention but in the bad but really bad way. Results he literally got kicked out from the con and banned till the last day and the next 3 COMICONS, in the bright side he can use the costume when he is allowed again and it was a good one and also cheap; consisting in a complete set of black tuxedo and a complete green sky mask with a big question mark on it.
He represented the option in every single fight games that existed, the box that only the experienced players or the brave ones used, the option that gives you the advantage of surprise in certain games.
The Random character.
“GOD DAMMIT, I SAID THE GOOD OF GOOD BUT THE GOOD OF THE REAL GOOD STUFF!! IS THAT HARD TO ASK?!” he didn’t even care if he actually said it correctly.
The merchant became irritated by his next ‘client’ behavior but he was a patient man; after all every single one fell into his trap. Though he never in his existence expected what Zeppeli had stored in mind or what his instincts told him to do.
*SMACK*
The merchant lay unconscious on the floor after receiving a full powerful blow from Zeppelin who aftermath immediately began to search for his good of good but the good of real good stuff inside the big backpack that the incapacitated merchant had on his back, item after items were scattered around them, gloves, plushies, swords, shields, helmets smaller backpacks and the list goes on; but he stopped his small ‘research’ after finding a completely normal stick not longer than his forearm, the stick was so normal that zeppelin got an itch from it followed by a session of cursing. The stick rose with the help of his strength and pointed to the obscured sky.
“The stick of truth is mine! May the power of the truthfulness accompany in this journey through the dangerous streets of this fair city while the lies scream in agony when I pass around them”
‘Lol’
He even was surprised for his behavior yet that didn’t stop him from giving a manly giggle; but when he glanced the body of the strange guy cosplaying the merchant from Resident Evil 4 he began to wonder if he will call the police though it will matter little thanks to his condition; but he should be carefully with that or he might end in an asylum for the better.
“If you are the merchant from Resident Evil 4 then you will come back and be like nothing of this happened….BYE BYE!”
By sprinting away he left the place, his ‘purchase’ might attract unwanted attention after all.
But something strange; something that was not common in a city, something that could even question his sanity!
FOG!
Zeppelin didn’t stop but became cautious with every step he gave despite he was running, the fog was too deep that he could only see himself and nothing more; the rest around him was white as clouds. With the stick on hand he went forwards never holding back.
After a while his surroundings started to get clear; the fog began to slowly fade allowing to his eyes get a better view but something was not in its place. For starters, the white color slowly was replaced by a light tone of green that become stronger every passing second, Zeppelin was confused and really confused but also felt a bit worried because he theorized that his mental problem become worse than before; making him to double the pace for get his medicine fast.
But then he stopped abruptly, like his feet got glue to the pavement or better said, grass?
He was standing on a vast field of grass, his right hand attempted caress his hair with combined shock and confusion, but you heard right attempted. His hair was gone, his hand only felt his bare skin.
‘Feels like baby’s butt’
“…”
‘FEELS GOOOOOOD’
“I need my pills, like right now”
He was shocked at first but after while he played along with everything, after all he didn’t take his pills so what was happening to him and around him was definitely work from his mental condition, though he couldn’t complain much; the view around him was pretty nice.
“I will need help”
It wasn’t the first time that he experienced something like this; when he was a kid usually his brain started to recreate a whole new world around him of whatever thing possible the last he could remember was when his entire class instead of boys and girls were…something different , in other words his classmates looked anything but human.
So any strange thing that moves is defiantly a person, and when he explain his situation they will help him unless is a hooker or a mugger; either way he might receive help.
The time passes and he kept walking on the grassy field without a clue or where he is or where he wants to go, also he didn’t find anything to interact with except of the stick of truth that is doing what do best, being a wood stick on hand. However he found a dirt road; so he guessed that it could be another street, though he was before in other and didn’t see a road at all.
Still he was searching for help so facts like that can be questioned later when his brain is functioning correctly till then nothing is true, everything is relative.
The dirt road felt real to him, every step make the sound when a foot pass over it; but still his answer for anything that resulted strange was his problem, most of the time was his answer for almost anything.
“What’s this?”
Sullivan stopped when a small piece of paper collided with his face and stayed there like it was glued to him unless he removed it, which he did seconds later. His face contorted into a frown when he noticed that the paper have written something on it but the words were small for him, moving closer to his face he began to read and surely he never expected the text contents to be directed to him so bluntly.
You Fucked up man,
Nobody and I mean NOBODY can disrespect the merchant and get away with.
Your actions must be punished.
Zeppelin was confused to say at least, he technically made a enemy that might or not be powerful. But while he was deep in thought or attempt of thought he didn’t notice the paper start to glow with intensity.
“Well… Shit”
“…”
But nothing happened, the paper’s reason to glow with such intensity that appeared to blow up on hi his face was to deliver another message but with bigger words.
Prepare –
“I have no time for this weird shit”
Seconds passed, seconds turned minutes as minutes passed, and minutes turned more minutes, and those minutes from minutes passed and Zeppelin Sullivan didn’t find anybody around just the same dirt road that seemed endless and a average sized panel with
“Wait, panel?”
Indeed, from afar he caught the form of a panel which also seemed to have big words to point something of importance or just common publicity for some fake or shitty product. But for his surprise it wasn’t neither, instead there was a name….a terrible one.
“Ponyville”
“OMG, that pun couldn’t be any worse”
He stood there in front of the panel, reading over again trying to forget the terrible pun, yet that was a terrible but terrible method to forget something.
“Umm…excuse me?” Said a feminine voice from behind
Our friend finally found somebody; maybe is the other way around but at the end is the same; his objective had been complete so he could start with the second point of his personal quest to reach his department for receive his proper treatment and forget that the world around him ever existed, including the small pastel colored pony in front of-
‘Wait…What?’
Zeppelin immediately moved his gaze downward and surprisingly he wasn’t all that surprised to find a purple unicorn staring at him with curious but wary purple (a tone of purple honestly) pair of eyes. It had been repeating the same excuse over and over again, but his brain had created things stranger that a talking pony that obviously is a chick that saw him and became concerned about him.
“At least is not talking fruits”
“Well…Hello there! I was hoping if you could help in calling a taxi for me or at least tell where I could find the nearest cop station before something bad happens to me, if you wouldn’t mind of course”
Twilight Sparkle was rather confused at the sudden request, he…yeah it was defiantly a him for the tone of the voice that he poses, still he was unknown to her and her scholar knowledge about inhabitants of Equestria and also the world.
‘Maybe a different kind Minotaur?’ She asked to herself and began to wander her mind for information that might be useful so she could deal her current situation better, but she forgot the fact that she ignored was ignoring him.
‘Still there were no records about a minotaur without a hint of horns or green fur even less has a question mark on his face.’
“Hey I’ve asked a question. HELLO?”
“Oh! Excuse I was deep in thought” Twilight gave a faint blush of embarrassment, staying deep in thought was something that usually happened to her. “Well regarding about the taxi it might not be possible because their routes doesn’t go this far and about the cop station, I just don’t understand what are you implying. But I should assume that you refer the Royals Guards?”
She never noticed that she was left alone meanwhile she was giving her answer.
Zeppelin walked away when she said that taxis couldn’t reach his location because it was plainly stupid, he also overheard that she didn’t know what a cop station was.
“God dammit, I had to stumble with a chick high on drugs! “
“Me and my fucking luck I guess.”
“…”
“Great”
The layer of fog appeared once again and surrounded him but only for a fraction of time, and he was in other placer; instead of being surrounded of a field of grass and waling on a dirt road he was standing between lots of small houses of medieval appearance.
But he didn’t care at that moment; his focus went to the something that felt strange and weird on his hand where he held the stick of truth. Said hand was brought to meet his gaze and like the paper it became shiny tone of white, and the light began to slowly devour his hand.
“OH SHIT!”
Like madman he began to desperately shake his hand and his voice obtained and high pitch or squeak. But the light now was on his arm.
“AHHHHHHH”
Circles of foot prints were made by his own feet.
And his entire arm was gone, but it didn’t left there, oh no, it began to enveloped his torso.
“MERCIFULL GOD!”
Without a second thought he began to roll like a barrel on the ground staining his formal suit but the fact mattered little to him. His body became pure light and it kept going to his head.
“ GAME OVER DAMMIT!”
Then was darkness.
*Moments Later*
After the small commotion caused by him, Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash were both looking at his sleeping form.
“So what do you think Twi?” Said the Cyan pegasus
‘Give me a Y’
“I don’t know Rainbow, but he just seemed so… random when I first saw him” The lavender unicorn said with half closed eyes as she gave a preliminary look.
‘Give me a O’
“Random? That’s not a word I would hear from you” A surprised Rainbow Dash replied
‘Give me an L’
As response Twilight brought her right hoof in a thoughtful manner “You are right…. he is… unpredictable…. Yeah now it sounds better.”
‘Give me an O’
Rolling her eyes Rainbow sent another inquire “So what should we do with him?”
‘What does it form?’
“I already wrote to the princesses about this, hopefully she knows what he actually is or at least will know how to manage the situation”
“YOLOOOOOOO!!”
Zeppelin Sullivan without any kind of warning shot upwards, he felt realized. He felt awesome, incredible, powerful, happy, he felt a completely new man.
Every single thing just vanished from him, just like that.
Gone.
Poof.
Arrivederci.
Meanwhile both ponies were surprised by him at first, his outburst came from nowhere; they would be lying that they hadn’t prepared themselves mentally if he suddenly would become hostile but those thoughts died down when he stayed with a raised arm like a minute or two without moving an inch.
Rainbow looked at Twilight with a confused face, same did Twilight.
Both shrugged and began to make out on the spot.
*Dammit wrong script*
What really happened was that Rainbow got closer very cautiously at the immobile form.
“I ACCEPT YOUR CHALLENGE IN RACING YOU RAINBOW PEGASUS” He suddenly shouted confusing even more at Rainbow Dash without first giving her an almost heart attack.
“READY SET GO GO GO GO!”
And he sprint away leaving two very confused ponies behind.
As the competitive pony Rainbow is, she shook the confusion moments later “OH YOU ARE ON!” And she left her friend behind while she caught up with her challenger, not leaving a chance to Twilight to warn her.
The new Zeppelin turned his head back and saw how the Pegasus was getting near for every step he gave. His focus returned to the road ahead and became slighty serius.
“Random cube of speed!” He shouted with all his might.
From within the air a black cube with a white interrogation mark materialized in front of him only to be destroyed by his fist, the fragments immediately lunged at him and began to expand at the touch of his skin.
Rainbow was almost at his side by then.
She was so focused on wining that she didn’t see how his form began to drastically change, from how tall he used to be now he has the size of a foal, also all his limbs shortened drastically.
She only turned to see her adversary when she heard a powerful sound that had resemblance to the roar of a wild animal of the everfree; and she surely got a surprise at seeing his adversary new form.
“TO THE SKY WE GO!”
And once again Rainbow was left behind by a trail of smoke in direction towards the blue sky, how her pride was on the line weird things such as that will not distract her.
“Enough of warming, this is serious now!” So she doubled the effort that she gave in her flapps and followed him in direction towards the blue sky.
“Rainbow wait!” But she was late, Twilight Sparkle was left behind by a trail of smoke and a rainbow one.