//------------------------------// // 'Cause the world might do me in... // Story: The Ponies, The Heart, and The Guardian Poltergeist... // by TheDisplacerOfEquestrias //------------------------------// ... Pain. That is all I could feel at the moment. Pain. Lots of pain... enough to make me go unconscious multiple times. Each time, I was able to stay conscious a little longer, though. The last time, though, kept me awake the entire time... ... unfortunately, I was unable to escape my "prison". I could see what was going on and what was happening around me, I Just couldn't escape. I could walk around, but when I looked at my hands, I saw gloves with bones on them, or patterns of bones, that is. I was scared, to say the least... When I spoke, I had a ghostly, echoing voice, obviously male, but, I sounded... vengeful about something. I tried to access my past, but I only found my name, my species, and what I could do... My name... Is Lewis. Lewis Pepper... odd. My species was originally human, but now I'm a... Poltergeist. I now have numerous abilities at my disposal, from Constructs Creation to Pyrokinesis, which is mainly Fire Generation and Explosive Fire Manipulation... I learned to control fire when a wooden wolf tried to eat my "prison". The result was me in my prison and a pile of ash, with my prison sitting on top of the pile of ash. I soon mastered my abilities, but, I became bored overtime, so, I created some "friends". The first one was named Mystery, and he already came with a BUNCH of powers. Too many to list. He was also a Kitsune, but had taken the form of a dog, for some reason... I try not to think about it. Next was Arthur, a human, and he had, for some reason, a mechanical arm replacing his organic arm, his original arm... again, try not to think about it. And finally, there were the Dead Beats, pinkish-purple ghosts with yellow hearts on their chests, with little cones on their heads. They seemed to be interested in singing... dunno why, they just were. Anyway, I asked them what I looked like, and the Dead Beats made a mirror to show me what I looked like... ... I was speechless. To say I was surprised was an understatement. Over the next few days, me, Mystery, Arthur, and the Dead Beats have been trying to find a way out, but... ... we haven't been successful. At all. However, during the day where we just lounged about, doing absolutely nothing, I felt something. I looked out of my "prison" and saw a yellow-furred creature with red hair and a bow in her hair starring at my prison, he amaranth eyes starring at it, before she picks it up with her mouth and begins to head to a farm, but I couldn't hear what she was saying... I then looked towards the others and said "Yo, guys, check this out." They came over and Mystery immediately said "Why is she holding our prison... in her mouth, of all places!?" "Well, she doesn't have any hands, so how else is she supposed to hold this damned place?" Arthur asked, making Mystery think about it for a second, before shrugging and going back to watching with us... Soon enough, we (the creature and me and my friends), reached a farm, but it was all grayed out, with a weird, unholy creature made up of many different creatures graying it out, as it's claw grayed out anything it touched, long with other creatures that looked like the creature carrying me and my friends... This time, the creature's eyes shrunk and she said, clearly and audibly, with a Southern accent, "Oh no..." The hybrid creature then disappeared and the creature that was carrying us ran to a tree house nearby, going up and into it, where two others like her sat, scared out of their minds and then some, but one has a horn, the other hand wings... (I'll give you three guesses on who they are.) "Sweetie Belle! Scoots! Y'all alright!?" The creature asked, as she sat us down and ran to her friends, hugging them tightly, making the Dead Beats let out some "D'awwww"'s... "We're alright, Applebloom, but we're scared... Rarity's been acting weird due to Discord "Discordnating" her, and Rainbow Dash has become disloyal to everypony... Including Scootaloo!" The horned creature, Sweetie Belle, said, quivering in fear... I raised a metaphorical eyebrow at this, as did my friends, but what I heard next made my nonexistent blood boil... "And now, Pinkie's become a jerk, Fluttershy's become an annoying Pegasus, and, on top of all that, Applejack is doing nothing! Twilight’s been trying to get them back to normal, but..." The winged creature, Scootaloo, said, before breaking down into tears, making my eyes glow a pinkish-purple color, and making my flame hair get bigger with rage, making my friends back away from me in fear, before I exploded into flames... ... the explosion then did something surprising... It cracked our prison. Something we've been trying to do for days... I smiled on the inside and I then seeped my flames through the crack, forcing it open more and more, until the prison was completely gone making me and my friends cheer, before I then reach my hand out and I feel my hand going OUTSIDE of our prison, before I then grin on the inside and I then, while the three weren't paying attention, grabbed the non-horned-nor-winged creature's leg, Apple Bloom, and I pull... The result was a scared Apple Bloom, yelping and latching onto her friends in fright and her friends letting out a pair of "EEK!"'s when they saw my hand. I chuckled and I grabbed onto the others and I began to pull myself out of the now broken prison along with my friends, as I soon popped my head out, gaining multiple gasps of fear, before I look at the three and say, awkwardly and waving at them with my free hand... "Um... Hi."...