Chapter 33: July 18-24
Hello Diary,
My name is Cloudy Skies, and I am an alcoholic. Woah, it’s pretty good about getting everything I say. No wonder Lonely Day likes doing this so much; this is way easy!
I guess I probably shouldn’t fill up this page with crap. Wouldn't put the page in if I did. Probably won’t anyway. Never met a pony more picky than that one. Pretty pony picky pony. It’s not my fault pony’s more fun to say than human! Human, newman, shoeman… That doesn’t even rhyme right, does it.
Sorry. This is a serious recording. I’m putting on my serious face. You can’t see it, but I’ve got my serious face on. See that, Day? I’ll take a picture so you can see just how serious I am. Everything is always so serious. Like instead of wanting a pretty pony, I get to be one.
I was only supposed to write if something serious happened. At least, more serious than life is for that pony every day.
Today’s serious stuff: the mean ponies who broke all my dirt bottles when they “cleaned” my room for me. I still haven’t said thanks for that. Maybe one day.
What did the mysterious ponies have to say? I didn’t record it or anything, and not everypony was there. Only Joseph and me. Been so long since we got time alone. Ever since that unicorn mare showed up…
How is that fair again? She hasn’t been here that long. She doesn’t even remember most of the time we’ve been ponies. So how come she’s not scared of anything, but I can’t even look Joseph in the eye?
I should really just say something. Maybe Day would listen to me. I wouldn’t be alone at least, and maybe two ponies could come up with something. Something more likely to get me where I want than what I’ve been doing. Which is nothing.
I guess anything’s better than that, huh.
Anyways. Anyways anyways. Sorry. The call was pretty short. “We would like to meet and talk in person.” Or something. Blah blah Doctor Whateverpants tried to be as scary as possible, but it was just us and I’m always pretty scared anyway.
Joseph thought it would be a bad idea to tell them we were weak. I just thought about what day seemed good, and the 27th seemed pretty good.
I asked the doctor what he wanted to talk about. Tried to sound as much like Lonely Day as I could. Pretended I was brave. I think he bought it. He talked about how having smart animals would be almost as good as shielding, since animals seemed to be immune to… to something. Something cool I guess? Something bad? Oliver says it’s bad, but it must not be that bad if it leaves all of us alone.
Maybe not all the way alone. I still can’t fly. Sun and moon in the sky, but I feel trapped down here. Can you even imagine? Ride the air currents, soar between the buildings, sleep on the clouds.
I’ll have Day make me some of those strawberry margaritas before I go. Too bad none of the others have wings. Maybe I’ll make some bird friends up there.
I already have some nice cow friends, and pony friends, and chicken friends. Dog friends seem like they’d be easy to make, but not many of those seem very nice. ‘Cept Huan. He’s keeping an eye on me while Day’s gone. I never thought about how soft and warm his coat would be. I bet it’s tons of work to keep him this clean…
I don’t think Alex is going to like my entry very much. I wouldn’t read somepony else’s diary, because that would be dishonest, but I bet if I looked back there, it’d be all business and boring. Probably lists. Maybe some diagrams. Spreadsheets. Powerpoints.
The others haven’t answered at all today. I hope they’re okay up in Oregon. Got a call when they landed safely, so at least they didn’t crash. I’m sure there’s a perfectly reasonable explanation for why they haven’t come back yet.
The meany on the phone says it’s gonna be hard to meet. The “pocket horses” are one of the sources for the mystery stuff. Mystery juice. Radiation? He says we can choose where to meet, as long as it’s got lots and lots of room for him to land all his machines. Even then, only one of us is allowed to go, and only if “they don’t have any extra parts.” Oliver won’t hear it, so that means we’re going to have to count on the fearless leader making it back in one piece.
Sounds kinda like a trap to me.
We couldn’t talk about it though, because our hiatus ponies are MIA. Possibly forever. Maybe it was just really overcast up there. Maybe Moriah is being a jerk. That’s kinda like her thing. Or maybe there just hasn’t been time to call us back, even about something this important.
We got the safe landing call. We know they didn’t crash. I’m sure they have a perfectly good reason for not checking in. Ten days from now, we’ll be meeting with the “HPI.” We’ll have our missing ponies back, and everything will be perfect.
Everything has been great. Everything is going to go great. I’ve got friends. I’ve got nice friends. Nice ponies. Alex will keep me safe. Huan will keep me safe. Joseph will keep me safe.
I should really stop. I’m just gonna ruin the journal if I keep writing. I can’t draw nice pictures like these. I’m gonna go. Maybe Joseph likes Monopoly.
—Cloudy Skies
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Dear Lonely Day’s Diary,
It’s not my fault I’m writing again. You don’t see me taking long trips and then vanishing from the satellite phone.
I probably would, though, if I got the chance. I’m a pretty useless pony. Four whole days and I still haven’t said anything to Joseph. Is that my fault? I don’t know what I’m supposed to do. It’s a horse thing, right? You’d think being naked around him every day would be enough.
Alex thinks it’s gross. Gross, cuz’ human sex isn’t somehow. Oh sure, it’s okay when primates do it, but suddenly you’re an equine and now it’s bad. No romance, no love, no families.
That doesn’t make any sense, since Day cares so much about not letting the “human” race die out. Can’t have your cake and eat it too, pony! Either we don’t feel anything or we reproduce, but not both! Unless you want us to have foals but be really miserable about it. You volunteering to go first?
Sorry. I’m only supposed to write important things. Important things like this is the fifth day and still no more missing ponies. No radio, no planes in the sky, nothing. Just an empty city that never got enough rain.
Well, not that empty. Dogs are still around. I don’t think there are very many, but they attacked one of the herd today. Packs, you know.
Must’ve been desperate, because the herd was together grazing like they always are. I wasn’t really surprised that they could get into the park. One of the heifers ended up with several nasty cuts all down one side. At least they didn’t get one of the pregnant ones.
A pack of dogs working together is pretty scary. Not that I was there. God, I’m so glad I wasn’t there. I just know they would’ve gone for me. Flightless chicks always get eaten first. Is that how that goes? Flightless foals?
Daisy and Alice and Betsy (I wanted to give them better names, but they insisted), were all close when the pack went for Angel. Didn’t go easy on those dogs, either. Killed one of them, sent the rest away pretty bruised. They’re lucky it took that long for the bulls to notice, or else they’d probably all have been trampled.
I wish we hadn’t killed any. Hopefully the dogs don’t come back for revenge. Dogs don’t do that I hope.
There really isn’t any other news, though. I wish there was more, as long as it was good news. My friend won’t be gone forever… that would never happen. Day wouldn’t abandon me.
Talking to this journal is pretty therapeutic, though. I almost feel like I’ve got somepony to talk to who won’t judge what I’m saying. Even though I know by leaving it in it’s kinda like writing a letter to Day, so it’s not just going to stay secret.
Maybe I’ll write one to Joseph!
Dear Mystic Rune,
I’m just writing to tell you I think you’re really great. I like how your mane looks, even when you don’t do anything with it and you smell like stallion. I like watching you do magic and feeling the glow on my skin. I like listening to your accent when you talk to me. I like being near you and I wish I could do it more often.
Big boss Lonely Day says we’re going to have to make lots and lots of foals if we want to survive, so we should probably start soon. I think you should really take me on a date, somewhere nice. I can drive us.
Love,
Cloudy Skies
Perfect. I’ll just not print this now and never show him ever. >.> Those things are way harder to make with this recorder.
That’s where I told them to meet us. I hate that stadium… so I couldn’t possibly feel worse about it! Buck you dad!
Hurry that stupid blue ass, Day. I need your help.
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... Welp, to the FUTURE!
Not sure what to make of Sky switching between the names for our other protagonist.
She's definitely on her own wavelength, like some Pinkie /Fluttershy hybrid.
Alright, more comment needed here...
WTF?
This... uh, what?
Apparently Sky has Daddy issues as expected and is a LOT more of an airhead and crazy than she lets off, I mean, I get that people are a lot more different when they write something down but I expected her to be professional, or informative, or something, but WTF?
Uh... explanation please to how exactly she became a mass zingnut?
Because this is like an ultimate flanderised version of Sky, halfway through I was convinced that it was Alex making fun of what he/she see's Sky as and writing it down, but is this REALLY Sky?
Well... it seems that my opinion about her being her doesn't stack up, this little rant about what she see's the world as is certainly entertaining I suppose... heh, ditzy and rant full and all. A number of relationships pointed out from Moriah being a rival/enemy, to a crush of Joseph/Mystic Rune.
Also a love/hate relationship with Day/Alex.
And willingness for pony sex.
Geeze, are girls diaries usually this scary?
Okay, I want to go on the record at this point that I desperately want to hug Cloudy Skies until she feels better. At least we understand now a little of her past and why she's so determined to accept this new world and new way of life. I also suspect that she's more than a little educationally subnormal, given the patterns of her speech.
Oh, and either she's going into heat or she's just got strong maternal instincts.
Meeting with the HPI people doesn't sound like a good idea right now. I don't think that they're accepting the ponies as former humans and just want to either experiment on them or use them for labour. We'll see; maybe my pessimistic side is just reading too much into Cloudy's admittedly-scrambled attempts at clear thought and recollection.
Y'know, she really does more and more remind me of a certain pegasus of our mutual acquaintance.
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Hoping the HPI is at least somewhat decent, or at the worst, completely neutral to the ponies's plight. I don't think misanthropy would be that easily encountered amongst the last vestiges of mankind, if it ever comes to that.
6129688 Wouldn't that be "misanthroPONY?"
....I'll go sit in the corner now.
Sky writing a diary entry was interesting and a nice change of pace. Also scary and crazy.
I was going to point that she does insinuate that Alex is male, since "You volunteering to go first?" seems to imply for him to have sex with her first, but also for Alex to get pregnant.
Here's something I've learned. It's nothing to serious but it's something that needs to be addressed.
Buck should never be used to supplement a sware word. I mean, if so, AJ is the dirtiest speaker in equestria.
6129510 You always get someone wanting to see 'why' something changes on a world altering event. Often "for humanity" or other malarky justification.
That picture made me really sad for some reason. Cloudy is missing Alex, even calling him/her her best friend. I feel like all these ponies are more unstable then any of them lets on. Cloudy thinks day is always serious, super focused, and has a great plan. Day really wonders more, and thinks about their relationships and survival. I really hope we see more ponies write in the journal in the future. It helps us get to know them.
Oh no... I've got a bad feeling about this meeting. A really bad feeling.
They want to meet the 'fearless leader, alone' and the talk about animals... and I don't know if that's just Sky's scrambled writing or if the HPI really sounded as if they just had to take one shock too many and gone off the deep end, now seeing enemies everywhere.
And I want to give Sky a big long hug now.
The disappearance of humanity and becoming a pony seems to have been the best thing that's ever happened to her in all of her life. Ouch.
She seems to always have been wanting to just fly away, the one dream that so many victims of whatever personal hell seemingly tend to share... and now she finally could but yet can't. Life isn't fair.
If Sky's really an alcoholic, it'll make some sense why she seems to be super high while writing in Alex'a journal.
But then again, I doubt she really is one, given that her entries seemed...eccentric to me.
Ha, love triangle. Poor Alex, friendzoned. The girl you like, likes the jerk you can't stand. Such is the universe's sense of humor.
6129706 Die.
I'm pretty much indifferent to this chapter. It was good and I got to learn more about Sky. But I also didn't get a SHE'S CRAZY vibe from Sky, just that she's eccentric and openly talking, not listing the days obstacles out. The thing that confuses me though is how she likes Joseph(unless she was talking about Alex but Josephs' more likely). I'll never understand that, never liked lazy people, they're, well, lazy. But whatever.
Cloudy Skies has the journal! Abandon ship!
'Dirt bottles'?
Oye, more communication from the HPI and we're stuck with an even more unreliable narrator. It's a real shame Oliver isn't writing this, I suspect we'd be getting a more thorough description of events.
!
Hahaha. Cloudy is just lucky that Joe remains conscious around her, let alone actually making a move on her.
You kill a fighter of the revolution,you bring the revolution on your doorsteps.
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Sweet Celestia...
6129749 Applejack, champion Apple Seducer
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I think it's one of those words that's either dirty or not depending on the context. Like how it's okay to say ass if your talking about a donkey.
Gaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!!!!!!!!! Starscribe, why must you be such a troll???? There were so many times in this chapter that Sky was talking about Alex and if she'd simply said "he" or "she" we'd have confirmation of Alex's gender. Yet she never did.????? Why not?????
So Alex is apparently missing.
Ok the important thing is to not paniAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
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I don't like how the doctor dude described the ponies.
Cloudy is really channeling Fluttershy, though she's rather more scatterbrained. Given all the things she's trying to repress, it makes sense. If she focuses on one thing for too long, animals excepted, everything she has buried will catch up with her. No wonder she's a pegasus; how else will she outpace her issues?
Wait, how did she—
... Well played.
Also, we may very well have a love triangle. Fantastic. And the HRI confirms that ponies are a source of dangerous radiation... I think. Cloudy isn't exactly the best journalist in the group.
This story has 666 likes... REPENT!
On the one hoof I'm hoping that A reads these entries and has a good talk with Sky cause they both need it, on the other side maybe not.
Also they meeting HPI while ponies are missing and having agreed to let one pony go in. Jip, that ain't gonna go wrong at all.
Sky dear, I'm not sure how this stuf is gonna work with polagmy.
Day: Fe/male
Joe: male
Oliver: Male
Moriah: female
Sky: Female
so if Day turns out to be female, somepony's gonna have to share.
two mares, two stallions, and from what I see, one more possible mare with day.
Hmm, out of all of them at this point, it seems more likely that Day would end up with Oliver.
I guess we'll just have to wait and see. 
idk, I have trouble seeing her with anypony else. if that happens, Sky and Moriah are gonna have to either share or duke it out.
Army man already sounds like he's got a pony prejudice.
looks like the air has become toxic to the few human left unchanged and they've been searching for more human and coming across the few people who transformed and seeing it as strange animal behavior.
I guess this is the first time they got to talk with any of the changed.
no matter how ya slice it, looks like humanity gonna be wiped out by this eventually.
But that's assuming those peeps are still human, looks like it.
I feel badly for ole Sky.
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I wonder what's keeping Day and Moriah, they either got captured my those weird peeps or something's keeping them busier than they thought they would be. I wonder if they found his family.
I'm guessing they didn't but I can't think of anything that would hold them up.
Hopefully nothing bad happened.
Also Sky is using pony words like crazy, she's really anjoying her new form.
The first pony on earth to use the anypony/anybody spoof.
Wow, Skies is a fruit loop. (Dunno if I can blame her; if that little aside about her father and a stadium is any indication, she's not had the most stable upbringing.) And apparently she's given Joseph his very own "pony name". Wonder if she's told him it yet? Likely not.
Now my birthday chapter will forever be known as the chapter in which Alex goes missing. Thanks, Star
Suddenly I'm not as keen on shipping Alex with CS. Or any of the current survivors.
Perhaps he/she can find his equal in future chapters. It would be a hoot if he did, and then we never found out the gender of his/her new BF/GF
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I use Mint when I want to revive a piece of old hardware. The laptop I happened to be using when I took that image is a piece of absolute junk, but I like the look and feel of Ubuntu. I have to use Debian at work, and my desktop is Windows because gaming with wine sucks and I don't really use it for anything else.
But the three weeks is three weeks of posted entries, not story time. I don't actually know how long in story time it's going to take. August 9th? That's more than a month, right? Whatever. About a month of story time.
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Having a talented artist, man. Zutcha's got a way of putting meaning into the pictures I didn't even think of. Like the code circle earlier in the story, that was totally his idea.
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Lonely Day never wrote anything about saying that, so it's probably some sort of exaggeration. I imagine that Alex during a conversation said something about how to sustain a population they would all each have to shoot for like four or more children, speaking an entirely academic way. I think if Alex had advocated some kind of breeding program it would've made its way into the journal. Given Alex's negative attitude about breeding in general, it's unlike a policy like that would ever be suggested.
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Sky seems to use the "pony names" like nicknames, and use real human names when she wants to talk about something important. Seems to me she considers their real names to be their names, deep inside.
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Well, it's been a few months, right? For many people, going without sex for that long would be difficult. Yes, this journal was absolutely written by Cloudy Skies, A wouldn't write it just to make fun of her or whatever.
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I realized too late that Cloudy Skies is a little like fluttershy. It's not like she has a special talent for animals or anything (they listened to Alex just as well after all), just that she's a farm girl and has involved herself with animals more than most people in her human life. Only, it was whatever abuses she experienced as a child that made her a little shy, not any inherent shyness.
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Yep, I do use linux! Several different distros, depending on the situation. I guess I have lots of old computers if my life.
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I think this actually is one of the reasons I do use it. By that logic, I also totally agree that Applejack would have a dirty mouth for Equestria. As someone who's spent part of my life with farmhands, they've got some pretty dirty mouths. It would be quite fitting for her to use language like that, I think. Heck, she's honest, so wouldn't she say what she really felt instead of hiding behind more polite words?
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There are lots of advantages to not living in a tropical area, though. The least of which is that some of them have some real farming experience, but if they go too far south then they'll lose the benefit of it, because the sorts of plants they can grow there would be totally wrong. Not to mention diseases and the constant heat.
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At least she's got a pair of working wings, and the prospect of being able to fly one day.
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I don't think she's really an alcoholic. She probably just thought that was what you were supposed to say into a microphone. Clearly not very culturally aware, this Cloudy Skies.
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Dirt bottles are one of the aspects of character that never really come off because of the way the story's structured. She's talking about one of her hobbies, building these: thescienceclassroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Complete-jar-side-view-612x1024.jpg . Day just never talked about it because it seemed totally unimportant that Sky was making them.
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It just never worked out. Depending on your interpretation, this next chapter may have something for you in it, though.
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No, she's not. This story would've been almost impossible to read if Cloudy Skies had written it, I think.
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We must have, because it got too more before I could respond. The day is saved!
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Yeah, I don't think Lonely Day is actually going to advocate any kind of breeding program. I think A was speaking more hypothetically, because anything stronger probably would've made its way into previous entries. (and probably unknowingly revealed the sex, too). Sky's language does seem a bit strange; I don't see any way she could have come up with those words in a vacuum. It really makes no sense to just replace words like anybody. The question we're left with then is what taught her to speak this way?
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Alex might come back! We don't know!
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That might be too cruel, even for me. But I won't commit to saying I won't do it!
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I think with the leading them on line, they're referring to this:
I think so, anyway. It seems like some of the meaning has been lost in translation to a transcript.
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It's not about not having sex for a while, it's about EVERYTHING going... weird, compared to her usually demeanor.
It's like Maud whistling jaunty show tunes while tap dancing in a too-too to 'The Real Slim Shady', it's THAT weird.
Completely out the left field.
6131679 I never said he'd not come back. I was saying that he officially went missing on the eighteenth of July.
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In the show AJ actually does have a bit of a dirty mouth, she's constantly saying stuff like "What in tarnation". It's pretty well disguised for kids, but that is the next best thing to saying "What the hell".
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Maybe it was something to do with the vision circle????? IDK
Alex = Lonely Day, Joseph = Mystic Rune, and then there's Cloudy Skies......
Oliver's pony name should be Olive Garden. "Olive" because it fits his real name and "Garden" because he's a gardener. it would also just be damn hilarious. As for Moria, maybe "Turbulence" I guess, because she's a pilot. IDK
CLOUDY SKIES IS A SLEEPER AGENT
no idk
She's a lot more interested in flying and uh, hornier than I thought she'd be. I hope A...xel McBuffMan Human-man Tough-guy is okay. She's not going to take the loss of her family well. Plus Moriah doesn't exactly have a stellar flight record... even if the evil robot Martians pretending to be human didn't snatch them up, they could be in a lot of trouble.
You know, I'm surprised none of them have thought to check out footage on any of the active security cameras that should be around the city to get an idea of what happened. Gas stations at the least would have been open when the Event happened and considering that it's a large city there would have been other things open as well.
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"what in the entire nation?"
but yeah, Rainbow Dash is actually the one with the foul mouth. She says "what the Hay is" just about every episode.
AJ says "patootie" sometimes, and tries her "darndest" but not much swearing that I can see in general.
6132450 Tarnation is another word for damnation.
6130382 (S)he's in Oregon, looking for his/her family.
Hello Cloudy.
I wonder if she gets her 30 day chip today?
6132303 I'm sorry to say this Mr.(Mrs.?) Ferret, but....I'm afraid the Alex that you know and love isn't a man. She's [insert dramatic pause].....a woman. *gasp*
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You should've really got this in yesterday's chapter.
Cloudy...no. You haven't even moved to your permanent location. There is no time for foals right now. Also who are you kidding everypony knows it's Cloudy x Day otp (regardless of Day's gender).
Just sayin'... I reckon, in terms of making a good story, you made the best possible choice in terms of 'who likes who'. Joseph's feelings have been obvious for a while, yet because he'll never act on them Alex is still able to have hope... I guess? I dunno, just... good job.
Why do I suspect that Cloudy Skies was a pony all along? Her behavior and mannerisms scream that she was a pony before "the Event" and she hasn't picked up that everyone else wasn't one before. It bugs me that they haven't picked up on it yet.
I think I'm right about her ... she knows entirely too much about Pegasus capabilities for one quick vision ...