//------------------------------// // My Little Prologue - Existing is Fun! // Story: Chaotic Cute // by JazzyWaffles //------------------------------// Pop! That's the sound I made when I arrived. I didn't really arrive from anywhere. At least, I don't think I did. I just sorta plopped out from between the fat rolls of reality. And boy, did reality need to go on a diet of some kind, or at least get a check-up. Things were crazy out here! Rivers of what appeared to be Marmite-flavored soda (no, I'm not sure how I could tell just by looking) leaped over houses. The houses were floating upside-down. Also, they were made of what at first looked like candy but, upon tasting, turned out to be expertly crafted oat bread. Plus, they looked about a hundred years out of date. I had no idea what "in-date" was, but they definitely looked old. It was at this point that I realized I was floating. I smiled and giggled. It was a girly giggle. Was I a girl? Floating is fun! But eventually, floating got boring. I wanted something fun! And then, almost as if in response to that thought, a cute bunny appeared in front of me. A flying bunny! It had cute little moth wings that probably shouldn't have kept it afloat. On that note, when did I get this root beer float? Tossing it aside to enjoy some other time, I focused back on the rabbit. Chittering and making other noises I'm pretty sure bunnies didn't make, it flew circles around me. It was honestly pretty adorable. "Bunny!" It stopped in front of me. "Wanna play?" The bunny hopped up and down on thin air (somehow) and squeaked enthusiastically. The next few hours were filled with plenty of fun games like tag, catch, O&O... and also Monopoly, but we don't talk about that anymore. That one got heated. But eventually, the bunny had to leave, for his people needed him. And, after a whopping twelve minutes of fun with the bun, I was once again alone. How had several hours been crammed into twelve minutes? I guess time really does fly when you're having fun. Looking to my side, I saluted to a tiny winged clocktower, and it saluted back with its spoon arm. What a strange little creature. Had it appeared because I thought of time flying? I giggled at the idea. This world was pretty strange! Floating along a bit longer, I noticed a bunch of weird cute four-legged things running around in panic, being chased by plastic clouds with bat wings, giant sporks that rained ducks, and all other sorts of strange things. I wiggled my legs experimentally. I had four of those too! Was I a four-leggy thingy like the panicky ones down there? Could they float too? Did they flip-flop their way into ceasing to unexistalize, like I did? I needed to know! Seeing no reason why I couldn't, I decided to cease floating in the air, and instead exit the flower pot I was hiding in. I hadn't been hiding in it before, but I decided it'd be cool to make an entrance. Jumping out in front of a weird four-leggy thingy that seemed to be awful anxious about something, I beamed. "Hiya!" "GAH!" The four-legs jumped and yelled, before covering her mouth and looking around, all scared-like. "Whatcha all spooked about?" I asked curiously. "D-don't be so loud," she whispered, "they'll hear and then I'll have to run again!" Quieter this time, I whispered back, "Oh, okay... why are you hiding?" "Are you kidding? The world's gone completely crazy," the mare, still looking around, whispered, "and I got chased by a pack of fur-eating dinner plates. I am not doing that again!" Her eyes finally landed on mine, and they dilated like crazy as she backed up a couple of shaky steps. "Y-your eyes..." I tilted my head, blinking. "My eyes?" I looked around and was rewarded with a small mirror floating by. Grabbing it in my... appendages? I brought it up to my eyes. "Woah!" They were all purple-ish and swirly. "Pretty..." Actually, I was pretty. All pink and cute, with some nice violet-y hair! Hair. Mane? No, it was called a mane. And she was wearing some kind of hat? It had a spinny-flapper thing on it. Cute! I toyed with the spinny-doodle for a few seconds before the (relative) silence was broken finally. "Um..." The mare from before was staring. Mare? Yeah, that sounded right. "Whoopsie!" I giggled, tossing the mirror away, which plopped into the road and sunk to the bottom. "Sorry, I got distracted. Were we talking?" The mare seemed to relax a little. A small smile. "You're weird, but you're not half as bad as the other stuff out there." She held out her front-left leg. "I'm Aurora." I tapped my... hoof? To hers. "Hi, Aurora!" I smiled brightly. A pause. "Um..." The mare looked uncomfortable. I tilted my head. "What?" "Aren't you... going to tell me your name too?" My name? I don't have one, do I? Aurora was a pretty name. She also had a pretty picture of a rainbow and a sun on her back leg. Auroras were like rainbows, right? Maybe my butt had a name-picture, too! I looked back, seeing an image of a baseball, and a screw. "Uh... Baseball Screw?" I tap my chin. "No... no that sounds dumb. Ball... Screw... Screwball?" I smiled, turning back to the mare and jumping enthusiastically. "I'm Screwball!" The mare switched to a confused concern. "D-do you not remember your name? Oh, you poor thing!" I tilted my head. "I dunno. I'm only nineteen minutes old. I think I'd remember if I got named in the last nineteen minutes." I shrugged nonchalantly. Ooh! I like that word. Nonchalant. It has a nice Cadance to it... er, cadence. The mare's eyes widened again, like when she saw my pretty eyes for the first time. "W-what? I... you mean you can only remember that far back, right?" She gave a hopeful smile. I frowned, frustrated. "No? I mean what I said. Nineteen minutes ago the air went all 'ka-poof' and I finally stopped un-being!" I nodded definitively. The mare started shaking again. "Th-that's around when things went from kind of weird to just plain crazy... w-when all of the monsters..." Her breathing became ragged, and she stepped back shakily, eyeing me like a lamb would eye a wolf, if a lamb were smart enough, that is. "Y-you... what are you?" I could feel my ears droop as I answered her. "I'm... a whatever you are! I... I think?" The mare simply shook her head in fear and fled. I slumped visibly. "I'm sorry." I didn't really know what I was apologizing for, but I felt real bad for making her sad. I lie there on the ground, moping, for the better part of a few minutes. And then I heard a big, booming noise. Looking up, I saw a big rainbow of light exploding out from somewhere nearby. Everywhere the light touched, things started to look... normal? Definitely normal. I didn't know how I knew, but that was normal. And I wasn't normal. As the wall of light approached, I began to panic. Would it make me normal, like Aurora? Or would it...? I began to hyperventilate. I remembered what Aurora said. I started to exist when things got weird. So if things got un-weird... I turned and ran. I ran, and I ran. I ran until my legs gave out. I ran until my lungs stopped working. I ran until there was no ground left to walk on and then kept running. I ran until I hit a brick wall and then ran right through that, too. But I couldn't run fast enough. As the burning wall of death swept over me, I could only scream in pain as my body felt the wrath of existence reasserting itself on me. Darkness.