No Friend

by Commander Joe


Prologue

I have many questions...

The most important ones being where the heck am I?! And what the **** are these things?!

Just a minute ago I had been at the table eating my dry cereal, thinking about how I was gonna pitch my newest idea to the boss. I'd been wracking my brain on this pitch for the past two weeks and was getting nowhere. The lack of feedback from my co-workers wasn't helping either. But hey, what's new?

Then I heard a knock at the door. Who it was I had no idea. No one was supposed to be coming over, and I didn't remember ordering anything? I opened the door, fully expecting to see a bustling city behind some door-to-door salesman.

What I got instead was the closest thing to the exact opposite you could possibly imagine...

Looking up from the impossible sight of a small amber horse my feet (seriously this thing is like half my hight!) I could see a herd of even more horses grouped up on my front lawn...very colorful horses...

"Wait that's not my lawn..." I thought.

And indeed it wasn't. On top of the...aliens? I could also see clusters of equally colorfull buildings behind the crowd.

Definitely a change from Portland, Oregon.

"Um...E-Excuse me s-strange creature?" The amber colored horse in front of me began to speak. I looked down straight at her, this only seemed to make her even more nervous then before.

Also why is this horse saying things?

"I-I just wanted to-to w-welcome you to our fair town! We've never seen somepony...quite like you before..." She breathed a shallow breath. Her smile seemed very strained. And that was definitely sweat running down her face.

Why does this horse have expressions?

"And...w-well the town was wondering...just what you were visiting us for?"

I didn't speak for...well I'm not sure how long. I'd heard what the horse said to me but I could hardly process it. And here I thought nothing could get to me anymore! How were my parents supposed to get home!?

Oh geez my parents! They'd been out running errands before! Now when they got back they'd find nothing but a pile of dirt! And with how much they could worry I absolutely knew they wouldn't take it quietly.

You know those times when your asked a question and you get the feeling that whatever you answer will change your life forever? Well that's what I was feeling at that moment.

It figures that my answer would be the worst possible response I could have given.

"I need a steak..."

And then the world ended.